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. A Hiver Drenun Hie bine, blue sky above, The blue, blue water under, Two eyes more blue, and a heart that's true. And a boat to bear mo with my love To lands of light and wonder. The sunny fields around, The river rippling by us, A smile m<-~e bright than noonday light, Onr biows with meadow gurlands crowned, tAndjnevor a care to try us. A drifting with the tide, |* A wind that whispors greeting, r An isle of rest in the fudod west, i With only the waves on tlio shore beside ' Aoitw> 'loafts fondly bo it 111.5. ?-jrf. E. Boulton, in Cassell's Magazine. The Princess Philippine. nv MTtS. A WTK A I'nry'l'HM The Princess Philippine dwelt in an ancient, gray, stone castle standing on the banks of a small river that divided a beautiful green valley in northern Germany. Broad, fertile fields and green pastures, dotted b)y herds of the i^-.-iamou^ black cattle and by flocks of snowy sheep, with here and there a | peasant's or a herdsman's cot, lay each , side the stream. On either hand deep forests stretched up the sides of the high mountains that sheltered this fine estate,.of which the Princess Philippine was sole heir, from the rough blasts of winter. The Princess Philirminfl' r? 01 f 1\nr fot lmr m#\f ap mwva JL.C* * j ll4V/tlIV?I| brother nor sister, but she had an indulgent guardian and when a mere child had been betrothed by her parents to his son, the brave, young Prince Basil who lived just on the other side the high sheltering mounI* **f^tains. With such charming surroundings it would seem as if the young princess ought to have been a very happy little . maiden, but I am very sorry to relate ^ that she allowed her life to be made A .miserable by her uncontrollable and unreasonable fear of spiders. Spiders love the dust-tilled crannies of a vast old castle like that of Castle Philippi, I and why should the spiders that had held' possession for more than 700 years be put to rout on account of the whim of a chit of a girl? Btobe-Prince Basil asked the princess ^Bething of the kind on the occasion ^Bneof the frequent calls he made at ^E> castle, accompanied by his lady H>ther. The Princess Philippine was ceedingly angry at this question, Hying that he had no regard whatever Br her fine sensibilities, and she was Brprised to see that his mother sat by Knd smiled at him instead of chiding Bm for his rudeness. So, sad to say, >e young couple had their first quarBl, and the young prince rode home in Bgh dudgeon, declaring there was no Bason in a spirited young fellow being ftied to a girl who would not walk In the park, sail on the river or ride in the forest on account of her silly dread of spideis, who even would not walk about the saloons and galleries of her own fine castle unless she was enveloped from head to foot in a sheet-like \vrap of glazed white linen. 4,I have danced attendance upon a ghost as long as I can endure it," he said, "and now I am going away to see the world." And so he went. The parents of the young Prince Basil were greatly chagrined at this es- j trangement, for in Germany betrothal has always been held almost as sacred as a marriage, and they said: "We will leave her entirely to herself for a Reason and see. Perhaps she will come to her senses enough to realize how foolish it is for her to set herself up as being different from all the rest of the world." So with one accord all ner* neighbors and friends declared, . "We will leave her alone with her morbid fears." Philippine now shut herself up with her attendants In her own apartments, that were all hung with pale blue satin, and passed her time in maksure no spider of any kind inva' ded her premises. Naturally enough, now that there was no supervision by her friends and guardians, everything went at loose ends about the castle and tho estate, and the news therof want ohrnuH nn nno /ton 4-/?ll V.Am the world. One morning there came riding up | to the castle drawbridge a knight in armor mounted upon a milk-white charger and followed by an attendant | whose steed was as black as coal. The I knight demanded to see the Princess I Philippine, and when after much de| lay he was shown to her presence he I , informed her he was her cousin, six K times removed, and proposed paying her a long visit. "Very well/' she said, "I never have heard. of you, but that may not be ?strange. Pray make yourself comfortable and give orders that the rooms you may choose for your own may be thoroughly swept and d listed and made free from spiders, for I suppose there is not in the world such another spider-invaded place as this same old Castle Phiifppi." Day by day the knight made himself at home about the premises, giving orders to the servants and managing as if the estate was his own, but when he began to make free with all the secret drawers and papers in the great library, sitting over them until far into the night, the old servants shook their heads and said, one to another, "Ah, his presence here bodes no good." After some weeks he demanded another audience with the princess, who by this time had almost forgotten his so taken un wa3 she in watching to ascertain if indeed a spider had taken a tenement under the embrasure outside her bedroom window. When shown into her presence the knight informed her in a stately way that he had found papers that established his claim as rightful heir to the estate, that he had already taken possession and would like her to deliver the keys immediately. The princess's manner was as formal nn Anin nn.l Un- no 1<n>lnkf? ao xi 13 iswiiy auu uci twuo ao when, after a little pause, she replied: "Sir Knight, doubtless thou art not aware that in the possession of the crown prince are papers showing that with this estate goes a signet ring. The ring is always in possession of the rightful heir and that ring I have." The knight was exceedingly angry, but he brought all his arts of fascination to bear upon the princess, thinking to induce her to show him the ring, but all in vain. Quite out of patience, at length he told her if she did nnt nrivf? nn t.h? rinor 1 mmpilint\plv lip would set every person on the estate to gathering spiders from field, forest, river, and castle and would fill her apartments, her clothing, nay even her couch with them. The princess quaked with (ear at even the thought of this, and enveloping herself in her linen wrap preceded the knight to the arsenal that was high up in one of the western towers. Here behind a coat of mail that was hanging upon the wall she touched a spring that opened a secret drawer within which was a small golden key. With this key closely clenched in her hand, and the wily knight close at her side, she proceeded to the great picture galler}*. There behind the life-size portrait of her own beautiful mother she found nnnthflr SPnrnt rlrnwor and tolrinrr therefrom an ivory casket she unlocked it with the golden key, disclosing the coveted prize. "Let me examine it, please," entreated the knight. "Never," cried the princess, now that the ring was in her hand, impressed by the instructions regarding it she had received from her parents, and dismayed at her own weakness in being frightened in her own castle, amid her own people by a stranger. The knight, quite forgetting all his assumed courtly ways, sprang to take it from her, when, quick as thought, she threw it out of one of the deep narrow windows that the knight had opened on account of the closeness of the air, in the long disused gallery. It flashed like a coal of fire in the sun j light and was gone. "Mad girl!" shouted the knight, angrily. "It has fallen into the moat!" and leaving the princess he rushed down the staris. I With her heart beating wildly, and j her eyes sparkling with excitement, j the young girl leaned out the narrow ! window and looked far below to where the gray walls of the strong square tower were rellected in the still black waters of the moat. "Ah ! what is that?" she cried, for just below her, even within reach of her hand the signet ring hung securely caught in the meshes of an ancient, closely woven spider's web. Although the spider was close by. curiously regarding this singular prey, the princess did not mind, but reached down and secured the ring without fear. As she did so, standing there in front of the portraits of her parents, she seemed to hear their voices, explaning once more the significance of tbe ring, and setting forth her duty to all the dependent people living on her estate. "To whom much Is given much shall be required," she said half aloud. "Dear me! how selfish I have been/* ?and securing the ring to a chain fastened about her neck, she, too, ran down the winding stairs, quite regardless of her linen wrap that lay forgotten on the dusty oaken floor of the gallery, and astonished her servants by dispatching a courier with a letter to the crown prince. TKi, Irniokt mAnnn.k<1? 1 1 1- -11 jlno nui^uu ujoauttiii'q iltiu ciut ail the laborers about the estate to draw the water off from the moat and search the muddy bottom for the ring. While they were thus engaged with the knight in the greatest excitement and followed by his servant, pacing bach and forth across the drawbridge, ( company of horsemen arrived whe had been sent from court. The Princess Philippine met them in the gar - ' > ' * ) . _ ments, laces and jewels of her beautiful mother and on one dimpled Ongei sparkled the signet ring. The grand old courtier who bowed I over her proffered hand, said: "Youi i face and your bearing establish youi I identity for I knew your parents and i grandparents, but this signet ring substantiates your rightful ownership to the estates beyond a doubt." The designing knight and his ser vant were banished from the country, i Young Prince Basil was sent for and most gladly returned home. The crown prince and princess and a great retinue from court came to the wedi ding and the feast surpassed anything that had been in the castle for hun? i dreds of years. At the wedding dinner the PrincessPhilippine found an almond with two kernels. "These stands for you and me," she said to her husband; "you shall have one kernel and 1 will have the other." "Thanks, my love," said the prince. "Ijet me have the kernel that reprecon fa xrAiiPQolf anrl 7 will tvoot* if f JXSWVfc* J- V/VtlUV/il IIUU JL U 111 *1 C?l 11| turn you may never again be lost away l'rorn me " "Here is your Philippine," said the princess, "and with it I give my signet ring, that stands for all my possessions. for since I threw it away and it was saved for me by a spider, against all whose kind I have all my life waged war, it humiliates me every time my eyes falls upon it, and I think I ought to pay some penalty for my foolishness and for my ill-treatment of yourself." "But (lid I not cry 'Philippine,' my dearest one! the moment my eye fell upon you on my return," said the prince,?"to show you that I never held anger against you in my heart." At this all the young people who found double almonds began to eat them with some chosen friend, and since they all had not signet rings to bestow, it came to be a custom that the one who should first cry "Philippine" after an absence should receive a gift, and the custom continues among young people in all countries to this day.?Springfield Republican. South Carolina's Phosphate Deposits. A member of a New York firm who has received an order for dredges for use in excavating phosphate in South Carolina reports that industry as especially prosperous, and that 500,000 tons of this material is now being dug ~ 1 r.A AAA J_ lOOO u|f cia a^aiuai tuna iu loot). The phosphate rock bed of South Carolina now supplies the world with the chief part of all the phosphate of lime used in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers, and this industry was unknown there until 1868. The greatest length of this phosphate bed is about seventy miles, the city of Charleston being about the center of the most accessible deposits.?It crops out at the surface in many places and is found distributed over large areas at the bottom of many of the rivers. It is mined in three ways?by open quarrying and digging in the land; by dredging and grappling with powerful steam machines in deep water; by hand picking and with tongs in shallow streams. Its average price is about $6 a ton, and the State levies a tax of one dollar a ton on all that is shipped, making it an important item of revenue. These phosphates are the remains of ancient animal life, and fragments are brought up not only representing the tapir, horse, elephant, and mastodon, but amphibious ones, such as the seal, dugong, walrus, etc. "Churning" for Clams. Two-thirds of the clams are got by "churning." The clam gang wadea out over the bed and shovels up mud and clams and everything that comes along" into big wire baskets, which, when about full, are lifted out of the water, and a rinsing and shaking washes out the mud and leaves the clams. Two men and a boy attend to each basket, one man shoveling in the mud, the second getting out the clams, and the boy "culling" them. Churniug can only be done at about halftide, when the water is two or three feet deep, as, by the time the workman has to put his head under water, when he bends over at shoveling, he soon has to give up the job. The suction on the shovels is tremendous, and they are made exceptionally strong. When there are good tides, on the full and change of the moon, the clams : may be raked out after the manner of the non-professional digger; a shovelful of mud is turned up at a time, and the clams it contains are raked out with a clam-hoe. Consideration oi either of the above methods is suffici> ent for a true understanding of the happiness of the clam at high water. [ The clam ordinarily lies in the mud . from two to eighteen inches; a clam i that wonld bury itself much deepei > than eighteen inches is not to be looked upon with favor.?\jProvidena Journal, . ' i . : LADIES' DEPARTMENT. The VlvaclouK <?lrl*. They are of two kinds. She of ' mock vivacity laughs at, everything, no matter how trivial, and says, "Oh, r how funny you are !" at every remark ^ she hears. She can swim, and ride, ' play lawn tennis?all of which accom1 plishments, in the face of her tightlylaced waist, (ill one with a real admir' ation for her prowess, in spite of her odious manners. She is always trying to say something witty; is addicted to ! the punning habit; talks of learning 1 to box; is so glad "girls nowadays have some spirit"?-as much as to 3ay, "You see before you a complete specimen of the admirable creature I de suiuc, nuu is, geuuiuuy iouu, suiiigy, and egotistical. 1 The genuinely vivacious girl is as sweet as a rose, and as restful, after 1 the other sort passes, as a rainbow 1 after a tearing rain-storm. There are indications that her sort is going to be fashionable again. Let us hope so. ?Uoud Cheer. A Quartet, or No Wedding. They are twins, and their possession of witchery is quite sullicient for two. Keally and truly nice girls they are, anil 1 wouldn't for the world say one blessed word against them; but I would like to smash their mamma into smithereens?the old ghoul. .She wants to husband her daughters, and tiiey are willing to be husbanded, but she imposes such an absurd condition that tliey may just as well settle down for old maidenhood. They must go together, for on no account will she divide them. They walk, sit, eat and sleep side by side. The latter arrangement is the only one of those I have mentioned that the old women is willing to break up, for she insists that they shall be courted, engaged and married simultaneously. Whenever a single wooer approaches one or the other he is shooed olT by the mother. Fellows must come in pairs to get a courting chance at these girls. Once this season they had two simultaneous beaux. The old dame smiled until her false teeth feli into her lap, and her wholo skeleton threatened to tumble into view, too. The wooing went along with celerity for a while, but at last one chap withdrew from the lists. The other popped the question, and the chosen maiden was willing to say yes, but a maternal mandate compelled her to dismiss her lover, because the other twin hadn't caught on. So these sweet things are handicapped, and 1 sympathetically call attention to their case, in the hope that twin brothers?or any two fellows with preciselyl similar tastes ? may the hint.?Clara Belle. Til the Middle A ice*. In those old days it was possible for a woman to purchase a royal license to marry "whom she would," always granted with the proviso that it was not to be one of the king's enemies. Widows very often had recourse to this measure; maidens more rarely. With the former it might denote either an attachment to some particular person or a mere desire not to be forced into remarriage, but a spinster who was not a nun was never heard ol in the Middle Ages. ^ There were a very few old bachelors?rare phenomena? but an old maid was never seen outside the cloister. The nearest approach to it was in the case of a few ladies ditlicult to please, who delayed marriage until middle ago was reached. It was rarely that this could be tne case, since they were seldom allowed I to ulease tliemselves. The color which was pretty certain not to bo worn at a wedding was white, for white was the deepest possible mourning, and was worn by widows immediately after bereavement. Medieval education was a very different thing to that of the present day. Among the higher classes, both sons and daughters were sent into tho service of a gent leman or lady, and educated in tne necessary duties of gentle people. Why they were not taught at home is not quite clear; probably a better discipline was i secured under stranger guardianship. A girl was thoroughly trained in housewifery, med icine, and some slight surgery, if fortunately placed, needlework i?f,r sometimes to read and to I write, also. The boys were trained in warlike arts, to ride, to shoot, etc.; I most frequently the reading and writi ing were omitted in their case. Royal I personages were obliged to study both reading and writing, and the royal I signatures are interesting and often ; characteristic. Henry VIII.'s Land is ; very characteristic; doubtless, as Isaac , Disraeli has said of him, "he split i many a good pen/' Mary wrote a pretty Italian hand, but rather sprawlI ing and irregular. Never could any , lady write a more beautiful hand than the early Italian one of Elizabeth; and , I hope no lady over wrote any uglier i than the liorrlfHe scrawl of her queenl) \ eait. The food, cookery, and med J ? ! *: ' . \ icino of the Middle Ages were alike in respect that they were most elaborate and astounding concoctions, often repulsive to the last degree. Only iron constitutions, it would seem, | could sustain such fearful admixtures I of indigestible and unlikely food; yet j our forefathers and mothers throve! and grew hearty upon them. l-'auhloii iVotm. Pendant or drop buttons fasten many bodices. Old-fashioned pearl picot edges for ribbons are revived. Jilack and white lace have the pattern outlined with tinsel. Plastron waistcoats of beads ar< shown among fancy fall novelties. Fine wool stockinette jerseys are (lotted with tiny points of chenille. Jackets made of silk or woolen lace are again revived, after a ten years' rest. Lizards, spiders, butterflies, mice ! and ravens are some of the odd fancier ' in jewelry. Turkish and Indian embroideries | aro very much used for trimming canvas dresses. White vests are made of Turkish ' toweling, and buttoned with small j pearl buttons. Many overskirts are slashed only on j one side, but the slash extends all the ! way to the waist. Human sashes and those of wide, watered ribbon are worn with jerseys and round waists. Cream and white lace are worn over i foundations of chartreuse, amber, , orange, pink and blue. I Curled mohair and astrachan bor-; ders appear on wool novelties for fall j and eariy winter wear. Byzantine designs and colors are novelties, and they will probably be extensively used for trimmings. j Colored plastrons covered with black j tulle or lace are used with black co3- j tumes, but are not intended for street wear. Some of the handsomest fancy j woollen cloths show very dark green interwoven with two shades of blue, ' describing a small check on the dark green ground. Wood, lead, porcelain, glass, and gold beads of large and various sizes i are used to make passementeries, J inotifTs, braids, and galloons as decora- ] tive as possible. The detached dog collar of velvet to I be worn with any dress is made very ! high, and trimmed with handsome Irish crochet or old Florentine cut. work falling over it at the top. New Jersey jackets have seams just like any other jacket or basque, and the waistcoat is the almost invariable cature in the latest importations and productions of these articles. Rich silk princesse dresses have sashes folded and tacked around the J waist and arranged in a deep point In front, below which the skirt slants back like tho basques of a redingote. Hurricanes at Houolnln. "Talk about tornadoes and cyclones," .said Reserve Officer Stark. "People living in this section of the country don't know what they are. In the neighborhood of the Sand wich islands, and particularly off Honolulu, which is at the head of the landlocked harbor, is the place for hurricanes. The mountains back of Honolulu are sawshaped and they have a queer effect on I Vi a nt.mn?nhpri/i fiirrontj TliAra is no anchorage outside the harbor and vessels that don't care to tonch at Honolulu usually 'lay off and 011,' as the sailors have it, while they send a boat ashore. I have seen a halt' a dozen ships lying off Honolulu within hailing distance of ej?ch other?one in a shower of rain, another in a dead calm, with a bright sun shining overhead; a third in a smooth breeze, and a fourth in such a gale that everything had to be close-reefed. "Different air currents are so close together and so sharply defined that I have been standing on the deck of n vessel with the sun shining brightly overhead and not air enough moving to fill the sails, while within ten feet of me on one side it was raining big guns, and not twenty feet the other way blowing a regular hurricane. I never shall forget one incident. It was about noon and I was leaning over the port rail amidships. Th6re wasn't air enough blowing to lift a feather. Suddenly I heard a roar and knew that a tornado was passing by the ship. It was so close that when I stretched out my hand the wind struck it with such a force that I was whirled completely around. Our port anchor, which weighed about a ton and a half, was hanging on the rail forward, and the same gust struck one of the flukes. It tore loose the fastening, whirled that anchor through the air like a bit of thistle down, and left it hanging on the main yard-arm. It put us to a heap of trouble to get it down again." ?Philadelphia Times. THE TALK OF A DENTIST. How All Work on the Teethi Has Been Perfected. Nearly a Ton of Gold Autmally Burieil with Dead People. "A ton of gold goes under the groand nearly every year," said a prominent Philadelphia dentist, "buried In the teeth and plates of people who have at ono time or another been in the dental chair. The repair and refurnishment of the teeth has got to be a profession of the highest skill and proficiency. High standing in the profession is repaid with richest reward!. The establishment of the university department of dentistry has given a great impetus to the study. Scores of able and expert young men matriculate annually. They come from all parts of the workl?South America. Cuba. Mexico, the continent, auil Japan. This city i.s foremost in dental operations and dental surgery. Some of the work turned out here iswonderfully perfect. Many men and women prefer false teeth to the natural ones, if the latter are the least bit defective, and few people have a perfect set of teeth. "ln?trnmoniu9" Wlut *? MW?. ?.it*viivu , 11 iiJ, JGOf 1/11*3 1LIstrumentation of a first-class dentist is comprised in several large cases, like that," pointing to a series of handsome rosewood cases, and pulling out drawer after drawer, tilled with delicate steel probes, chisels, borers, and forceps. The manufacture of these is a great trade in itself. There is the dental engine, one of the.greatest inventions in the profession, indispensable now, with its flexible screw. The electric mallet, another modern invention unknown to the old-fashioned toothcarpenters, is used by nearly all dentists and requiring a battery to run it. The rubber dam or appliance placed over the tooth and mouth of a patient to prevent moisture and saliva reaching the part operated on is the greatest of the modern discoveries. Anyone who has been in the dentist's chair under the old plan, which necessitatted packing the mouth of the patient with napkins, and since under the rub1,,. .1 u<;i nam, \jc\u aoc ? iirtt 1 liiiiiilis luiiuro this scientific adaptation has relieved him from. "Twenty thousand dollars a year. Yes, therS are dental surgeons in this city who make that much by their profession. A clientage very often includes a whole family and the care of the teeth of each from infancy until adolescence and beyond. American dentists have the highest repute abroad?Dr Evans, for instance, whose patients in Paris and elsewhere were empresses, kings, queens, and princes of the blood. ' Gold is the best material yet found for filling teeth. Silver and composition of various kinds, being cheaper, are used, but the royal metal is the only one which ought to be used.> The manufacture of gold foil or leaf for our business is immense, and hundred ol thousands of dollars worth are consumed every year. leaves of a big oak ti ee the boy sa? I Into eternity.?Oregon Reporter. ) I The Japanese rake is formed of I wood or bamboo, the teeth being made J by splitting the end into the requisite dumber of prongs and bending them H in an arc. 'The teeth should be looked to often by a good dentist Individual care early in life saves much dental work and expense. It used to be the idea that the deciduous teeth, as they were temporary affairs, needed no attention. They should be treated with greater attention than the second set. They are not filled now as much as formerly, but extracted when caries attacks them. The bibical expression, 'skin of the teeth,' is true. There is a delicate enamel, resembling epidermis in its microscopic delicacy, and covers the teeth with a beautiful mosaic, which is susceptible of a perfect polish, which you may see glistening on the teeth of some young people and Africans. Acids go for this and once broken in upon caries ensues. Good and bad teeth are hereditary, but early care and professional skill will do much with even a bad natural set of teeth. A Philadelphia father I know?client of mine j ?has in each of his children's rooms / over the lavatorv th? fnllnwin?r mot.t.rv I Say your prayers; wash your face; I comb your hair; brush your teeth.' It /!.. is a good one."?Philadelphia Times. I A Poetic Tall. / A thoughtless boy with a shining / pail went singing gaily down tJje dale,/ to where a sad-eyed cow with a briny die tail on clover sweet did herselJ regale. A bumble bee did gaily stJ over the soft and shadowed vale, /I where the boy with the shining pfjf , was milking the cow with the briijf/' tail. The bee lit down on the coy 1 right ear, her heels flew up throy J the atmosphere?and through I J