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u. Special . .!■ wriiag tl tl&ll wra d¥» yoor oatM S. ArtioUa for poblicatlon ahoold bo writtMi is • clear, kf Ibto han<l, and on oalj om aido of tbo page. 4," All cbaagw i> adrertlarmeDU aait raeb at on Frirndy, Bool oeti kffera and lo be ynb^Mied abcold rate abeeta, and tba object ofaaeh indicatad by woeaaary note when VOL. VII. NO. 6. BARNWELL. C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1883. 82 a Year. WAITING FOR A LETTER. Tba peatman** boor draw* near, And into tke quiet atreet ,—. _ Throng h foeanpaer curtain* peer Two viatfnl eye* and awcat. Tor many weary morn " She baa kept her station there, That brave little heart forlorn, That nerei; will quite deipair. r . Slowly aha turn* *w»y, The eraahed heart murmuring still “it hac noteeaae to day To-morrow I know itwQL” The poetmac know* her tala, And it makes hia old heart bleed ; Those b'uah-roM cheek* grown pale Art pages a child might read. “No, I don’t expect te,” replied the lieutenant. “I game dbnt the third fire I’ll plump a shot into him. The first may go over and tbf Mcond under, but the third’ll fetch Urn I” Mr. Gale waa no bonstbr, and aeldom undertook more than behoould perform. The privateer waa gofcf very steadily, with but little rise and fal of the deck, so that the occasion was favorable, but still, even a big oeventy-fotr-pounder at a distance of two miles e<ft£d be no very on ooiiraging mark for a angle cannon ball. ' In those days, the big gtna were not fired as now, by means'of percussion |Mkg6fl »Cullu nalglib remtl. | nrea B® lltrWj uwirmiv. VFl ^yCAl'llMAUM Ah ! letten enough he bring*— anps; but s man stood by with s slow- — A miwranlmmm KIwa mwr) flrr I TTY. I • a * ^ XA — *.1 X X Cheat circular* blue and grim, Slight feminine scented things— But never a line from him. - - ' Slowly she turns away, - -f ‘ The ernihed heart mhrmnring *til), “It hat not oome to-day— To-morrow I know it will." at-tat! to the door ibe Hie*— Oh, rapture keen and dumb I Oh, eloquent cheek* and eyes! Her letter baa come—has oome! f Oh, postmen pocket the gold— Pull well thou beat earned the fee— And treasure tte thanks untold. That are better than gold to thee 1 Flow, happy fountains, flow, bweet fount* that have long h-en dry! Borrow may tear* forego, But rapture must weep or die. Rev. F. LasosaiDOE. THE CRUISER THE T()M. The Tom, of Baltimore, waa s saucy hermaphrodite brig, whose men took grtet,pride in the tony forty-two pound er which she carried amidships, and en tertained also sn exceeding admiration for the skill of their first lientenant, Mr. Gale, who in all oases of emergency took upon himenlf the immediate direction of that destructive engine. One extremely foggy night, off Ber muda, the Tom found herself in the midst of what seemed a fleet. The slips of a convoy always carried lights aloft after dark, in order that each might know the whereabouts of the others; but upon, this occasion the air was so thick with mist that no light would show unless very close st hand; so that it was only at intervals that the crew of the privateer oonhl detect tbo glimmer of one; yet the fact that they could occa sionally do so proved their unknown neighbors to be much nearer than could have been wished under all the uncer tainties of the case. It appeared prob able that some of the strangers might lx. merchantmen and others men-of-w&r; but, of course, no definite conclusion itch and clapped it upon the priming at the word. $R\ Gale took unusual pains in sight ing the long forty-two. Onoe or twice he was upon tie very print of giving Hie order to let drive, but hesitated and sighted again, be ma with the match all the while ianding with arm out- «tretched and be bright coal glowing Now a little father, and again a little lower; was broght the muxxle of the huge cannon, a the lientenant squinted slong the iron till the lookon-on be came impatienlcr Be flash and roar. “O, never mkl the first shot,” said Ibe captain; ‘ton’ll have to try a good many times befce yon hit the fellow I’ “I know it, ddMr. Gale, still againt- iug intently an never looking up; “but I want to comes near as—oh, there ! a little lower t bant to oome as near as Fire!’’ Down came to burning match, and the whole vessqhook at the roar of the forty-two. Fob moment the smoke wns blinding—4 wliq} a smell of burnt powder there wiobont the deck I r “Isaw a gray reak,’’ said the captain; •srd a mighty oaght.one, too 1 but I didn't see wherq (mded, for the smokt was in my way.’ “If the bull fl struck the water,” said one of the oers, “we should hav seen it skip, I tk. I had a glimpse of something beten us and the enemy, bnt I don’t knovhat became of it," Every ouo lc»d anxiously toward the seventy-found in a minute or twe some operatioi were observed on lioard of her wh made the excitement intense. “Hello 1” excaed^ Captain Brown “what does th meanT They have lowered their herards and are hauliut up their foresail My soul ! they mus* Imve got that shthrough their fore mast! They’re id the mast will go over, and rfXe getr in all their head- sails as fast as pole! Look at the hands going -up forerigging f And could be arrived at in this respect. there they start t fore-topsail sheets 1 As therifYSn at the moment an almost entire calm, the relative ixwitions of the vessels could be changed but very slow ly, if at all; bnt the men of the Tom keeping a careful silence, her proximity remained unknown to thejjlhers, what ever they might be. Now and then a light would show faintly through the fog, seeming tc lie close to the privateer, then becoming wholly obscured by an increasing density of the mist. The weather was precisely in that state which is*apt to keep sailors at work shifting studding sails from one side to the other of their vessel, in order to profit by what ever light air there may be, as it comes now from starboard and now from port. Occasionally a boatswain's pipe was Heard; and the hollow'atmosphere per mitted even the words of command on board of some of the strangers to be made out with great distinctness by the primtew's BMUb. The sentences were tt mewhat like these: “Lay Volt, ’are, and give a pull h’on . that mixxen-top-sT-'alyard! The yard’s M gged—get it h-up w’ere’t beftmgs !” “H’in with them larlioard stunners’ls!” “Small puU h'on the weather braces 1’’ “Oome, h’up with the fore and main tacks and h’ease h’aff sommut h’on the . sheets 1” “H’eightbells ! Call the watch there." The nationality of the strangers could no longer remain in doubt. In the morning, after the sunbeams had dispersed the fog, it was found that tbs float consisted of three West Indis- man and a seventy-four-gun ship. The man-of-war immediately gave chase to the Tom, then about tfuss miles off, and, as the pursuer had tbr best of the breeae, the privateer's-mei saw themself** in a position of no litth peril. Bnt, after the king’s ship had succeeded in decreasing the distance by s third, she ceased to grin. The chase was continued in this manner fora nnm ber of hours—for the American captain, finding that the breeae had become steady, and consequently that he could sail three miles to the enemy’s two, slung s drag under the Tom’s bows in order to deaden her headway and give the Briton such nope ot overtaking her as would cause him to continue the chase until he should be widely separated from the merchantmen. Ere long the West India vessels were L go far off that their top-masts could Bcoreely be seen above the bending and now the Tom began to You’ll see the ysifve with men in a minute!” By the time thds were clewed up, those who were tql them were lying out on the yard long dark rows. With that numeicrew there was a simultaneous hang of foresail, top- sail,, topgrilantsriid royal—as, in deed, would have I the case with ri^ the canvas upon gup had necessity required it to be taoff; and even she would have had a 1 force to spare. *" Bnt just as the had been hand somely stowed unthe gaskets, the masts began to wavFaster and faster it inclined to leewaien, suddenly, as i! the weather riggitself had given away, down it went all iU hamper, broken short off byleck I It was a startling spectacle^owermast, top most, topgrilantmaryalmast, yards, men, and all, plungUahing into the water. There was a mowly scrambling among the wreckers and rigging where the namerotlows who had been aloft were sea so many en gulfed rats; but, as fterward ascer tained, the easurityre fewer than might have been e)d—only three men being lost, a]jh four or five others were somewlnred. From the loss of ay head canvas the seventy-four wafed to take in all her sails on the n also, as oth erwise she would no«r her helm. She, however, kept 'thing set ou the mainmast, and, hg her broad side to bear on theteer, sent the round shot whistliick and fast. Nevertheless, the dit being some what too great for ks, the execu tion dona was very 1 Mr. Gale repeate<fire with the forty-twa-pounder in or twenty times, but could not din bringing down another spar,ah he evidently hulled her more that A number of her own shot reaoe privateer; one of them rolling the deck, wounding a marinehe foot, and bringing up the oppank-sheer. A few of them went ig poet with great force, while o*H short. This is time hsid Captain Brown. “ You haibled her, Mr. Gats—good tor yon we have no farther business he “* BUre °* the West Indiamen fd I am going after them forthwiti The wind had frecend the Tom ocean; and now me rom oegan w try . - T hm great pivot-gun upon th* seventy- was put in chase oterohantmen. four. It was longer and heavier than ] They were more thlty miles eff any of the enemy’s guns, and, although the distance WS* two mltog Lieutenant Gale had strong hopes of being able to mark about the ishmain. you won’t hit him at the first ■rid Captain Brown, tke om- but it was soon disediat they had tost the breeae whk helping the privateer; and, oori with them near sunset, she o*|ll three. UpomrirrtWiqWS, the Tom, tub the same oflf before, and with many of bar i *ka upon rounding a bluff which sheltered a little inlet, her captain discovered a Gwineaman lying oorily in the basin, and, going in, dropped anchor within * cable’s length of her. Mot a soul appeared npon her deck, bnt on her stern were read the words, “Gambia—Liverpool,” which gave the Yankee commander all the information he desired. A boot was manned, and the vessel, which was a large square- rigged brig, token poosession of; stil) without arousing any flbe to call thii summary proceeding in question. Lieutenant Gale, who was in com maud of the boat’s mew, want into the cabin, where he found the English cap tain lying on a transom fast asleep I He had his hand on a book, whfoh lay partly open, and the reading of wMeh had prob ably been a powerful odjimet to d»w- ainesa. At all events his slumber most have been very profound, to have suf fered no interruption from what had tieen going on so near him. Opening hia eyes, he stared in astonishment si the American officer, whose undress uni form had a suspicions look. “H’indeed, sir!” he said, “’ow i* this? Who are you, sir, if a man mav h’ask?” ‘ —-s “I am a naval officer,air,” replied Mr. Gale. “Ah, yes! Iseel One of’is Majraty’t bine-jackets, I must ’ope, sir?” “Not quite that, sir,” replied Mr. dale. “The majesty I serve is called "The Sovereign People.’ I am first lieutenant of the privateer Tom, ot Bal timore, to which vessel your brig has become a prize ! I am sorry for your misfortane, but it is our business to make war on England's commerce, as it is her policy to distress us.” The English captain yielded sadly tc his fate. His officers and men, he ex plained, were all gone on shore, and he himself, having hod no partioolar busi ness on hand at the moment, had sat down to read in the oauih, and to iVudn asleep. The Gambria proved to be one of the richest prizes ever captured by an Amer ican privateer. She was of about three hundred tons burden, and Usd almost completed her cargo for home. Ita balk consisted mostly of palm-oil, tamarinds, sod valuable wood; bnt she hod likewise an unusual amount of gold dust and ivory, with sn abundance of ostrich feathers and various kinds of choice gum. She was, beside, a line new vessel, npon her first voyage. ' —-— The British crew, upon coming down to the shore, were mnoh surprised to find their brig a prize to a Yankee privateer, and would not pulloff to her. The cap tain, at his own request, was set on shore among them: all the private effects of himself and his men being restored, and several hundred dollars in gold also re turned from the cargo, in .order to re lieve the mariners who had thus lost tf><4T fWting home. The arid that himself and men would, remain at a Portuguese station at a little distance down the eosst until an opportunity should offer of getting homo. Banning along tbp coast of Bencgsm- Ms, the Tom fell in with s ship of three juindied sod fifly^toBe thereabout, wril-armedand full ot men To the surprise of the Americans, hoisted a black flag I She was * pirate, in search of prey; end the captain, rightly believing that the privateer mast have a good amount of gold on board, engaged her in a very spirited manner. The buccaneer was considerably super ior in force, but his men were ill-disci plined, and their gunnery was wretched iu the extreme. It was now that Mr. Gale’s skill with the forty-two pounder was again turned to account. After a number of broadsides had been exchanged, he suc ceeded in patting s shot into the pirate’s hull several feet below the water line. This was done as the enemy rolled in the heavy swell which happened then to be running, thus exposing s part of hia hull which in smooth water would have been hidden. a—^ i or other matter the privateer, and they vers well man- aged. She hod a strong crew, and, beside, many of ber numerous passengers also took part in the battle, so that, alto gether, she was a rsolly formidable antag onist. One of her shots, striking the Tom on the starboard quarter, went into the cabin, where it; tore throng the captain’s beeth, anfl, fcoidg across to the port side, lodged to the lienteusnt’s mattress. Bat the Tom’s forty-two-poander made sad work on baArd the Townsend, cutting np her hull sad span and spread- ing dcstraotton among her defenders. At length, when thafz oagfriw and a num ber of others were kitted, the English men struck their eokag First, however, they thew overhead the ship’* mail, in order that the Ametioans might not profit by any information or that it captained. It was not euttoiptty heavy to sink immediately, and the privateer's men, perceiving it m it Hotted, lowered their boat and secured it. A proposition was how made, by Hie officer whom the deefi .of the English captain hod left in command, to ransom the ship in order that she might proceed on her voyage; and ' the arrangement was presently effected the snm paid be ing forty thousand dollars, which, con sidering the value of the ship and cargo, was not excessive. A romantic incident occurred in nsotion with the battue of this One of the Tom’s yonder officers sh Wioh kindness to an Jtoglish. lad, who, although only a passenger* had token a brave part in the battle, and received severe wound. The English youth re membered the kmdkgwrted American, and a year afterward m tte West Indies, whan peace hod been declared, the two again met. The American, who was a young gen- tlemaa of good jMtfSjlhflfrgg!; j fine education, become introduced to a sister of the youth he had befriended, and a mutual attachment sprang.up between them. Six months later they were mar ried; and their subsequent life, spent partly in the Barbadofes and partly in the United States, was A prosperous and happy one. So the voyages ot American privateer’s- meu were not riwtth without asancla- tions which were softer th^n the roar of cannon or the call of the boatswain’s pipe. Thaee was sometimes a rainbow of this deseription resting upon the very smoke of battle. J Few privateer* were more active than the Tom, and Yaw hod more of romantic novelty in their ocean record. Her ap pearance is arid to here been jaunty and rakish in the extreme; end one would, ndeed, be apt to gosss us much. oon- A Canal Through Palestlae. At a meeting of the London Balloon Society, Captain Moles worth, B. N., delivered a letter upon the subject of the proposed Jordan Canal. The idea was, he said, to cut the canal twenty-five mile* from Acre to th* valley of the Jordan. It would be about thirty- three feet deep, so as to accommodate the largest ship. It would, moreover, be about two hundred feet wide, which would be sufficient to allow vessels to pass each other. There would be no necessity for looks, because when the water was let in the water of the Dead Sea'and the Mediterranean would prac tically flow on tba same level 4o the Akaba Gulf of the Bed Sea. The cutting of the canal seemed to present no great engineering difficulties. A company had been got np, and that company spoke of the expense as about £8,000,000; bnt if it could be carried out for £20,000,000 the advantage would still be largely in favor of the ship-owner. Somediacusrinn followed, in the eourse of which doubt was expressed m to the financial success of the scheme, owing mainly to the fact that if earned oat it weald flood many miles of valuable fer tile land on either side of the river. The' general opinion was in favor of tl^ can al and ultimately the following rseolntion was adopted: “That in the opinion of this meeting the canal which is proposed from the Mediterranean through the River Jordan and the Dead Be* to the Gulf of Akaba is absolutely necessary for th* growing commerce between East ern and Western nation* of this hemi sphere.” ^ ^ The Constantinople correspondent of the Standard says that Admiral Sir Edward Inglefidd, who is now in the Turkish capital to represent the interests of tiie English syndicate for cutting a channel for a water way through Pales tine, has had a very favorable recaption at the palace, for which Muourus Pacha had jSWved the way by his wanwjtoom- meudation.*' of the scheme. The Bolton, it is said, views fsvor the project in question, which, ■JjT opening np a water passage into the Itaf Bos, would render Turkey independent of Suez Csnri, over which His Majesty noiK^ , eroises only ibe most nominal oontrtfl- THE VELVET PERIOD. A NOTAAIJI H BA MON IN TUB UVB OB BVBKY YOUNO MAN. Haw || Miroah a Cltlmaa aaS tba Caaroga M B««alr«4 la rat tt aa-Wky ha Ciavs tt Away. A couple of old fellows were standing in front of the Plankintoa Home, smok ing five cent cigars, one evening, when a young fellow pasted along with a vel vet coat on, and before he hod got oat of sight, sn eld fellow about sixty years old passed the aAme place, and he had on a velvet coat. One of the two old A id seas, T JE PEOPLE, Bara well C. H.. S C. Fifty Ye&» Af*. Edward H. Ludlow, The Arctic. The steamship Arctic left Liverpool, bound for New Task, on September 20th, IflM, and on the 27th of the same month daring s dense fog off Cepe Baoe, came in ooUtokm with the Fteribh iron pro peller Vesta. Copt Luce, supposing tbs propeller to be badly injured and in daagaroC sinking, while he bettered his own ship uninjured, mods a pvperfioial examination of the loiter and then aeot off foor of hto own Imato to took for the Vesta, which meanwhile, badly disabled, was heading for Halifax, which it suc ceeded in reaching safely. In less than half an hoax after the boats had gone. Captain Lnoe discovered that his own steamer was leaking very badly, and the conviction was forced upon him that she must soon go down. Guns woe fired and other signals seed to recall the boats, bat they were too far off to re spond to the signals for aid. The re maining boats were hurriedly launched, but they were iumfleient to accommo date one-third of those on the fated steamer. In the midst of the confusion the vessel went down. OapA Laos had As the spot wis again instantly sub merged, of course a perfect torrent be gun to poor in through the hole. Mr. Oslo knew what hod been done, for, in spite of the smoke, he had seen where his great cannon-ball had struck. ^ The pirates, finding their vessel irf danger of sinking, hurriedly ran inboard all the guns on that ride, st the same time running oat these on the opposite side—hoping by this expedient to so careen the ship as to bring the hole oat of water. But the moment that so much weight was shifted, over she went 1 The hatches being spew, the ship filled :, and in less than live min- she sank with her whole crew 1 The Tom bad due man killed and two wound ed in the engagement. The same of the pirate ship vrsa never ascertained, nor was that of he* captain; bat that she was sn enemy of most gloomy and threatening front the privateer’s-men could well attest. Standing to the northw«rd until in th* track of vessels from Europe to the West Indies, oar patriotic adventurers next descried a heavy ship which proved a more worthy foe, if a leas desperate one. She was the Townsend, a mail arms, the vessel into the vortex. He whs des tined to be saved, hoAever. He rose to the surface with hie little son, and had thrown one arm around a floating spar, when,apiece of the wreck come to the surface, toppled over, and killed the boy in his father’s arms. Gspt Luce, with several others, wvre subsequently picked up end brought to peri Of a total of 430 persons on board 807 were lost. packet, sailing between Falmouth and dead. The The English captain, foaling that 1m bed mnoh at stak?, used every exertion to defend the property entrusted to hie The ■< A lady while engaged in the pursuit of her domestic duties encountered s moose in the floor barrel. Now, most ladies, under similar circumstances? would, have uttered a few genuine shrieks and than sought safety in the garret; bat this one pomsJsd more than the ordinary degree of rienuine courage. mat servant and told U%ke She summoned the him to get the gun, call 'The dog, and station himself at a convenient distance. •Then she clambered half way up stain and commenced to pifeh the flour bar rel made the floor. Tbe dog stones want in pur suit. The bu ciamuereu umu wmj uj l commenced to pittch the Hot with a pole. Preaently the de ita appearance sbd started msn’flmd afi| the dog dropped be lady fainted and foil down the stairs, and Ac man, thinking that she woskdad, and footing thot be woo Id be arrested for maxim, disappeared, aud hw sot hMfl flop 1^94. fellows knocked the abbas off his cigar, end said: “It catches them all, sooner or later.” *“What do you mean?” asked the - other, as he borrowed his friend’s cigar to light his own. “Why, the velveAf^tont period,” arid the flnt men, as he took his and puffed on it to keep it going. * man, some, time in hia life, either or man, sees a tuna when he thinks tbs world will cease to reuolv* on its axis if he does not have * velvet coat, end he is bound to have one if he has to steal the money to bay it. It is bed enough for a boy to have the period oome on, bat it is infinitely womelriesoop* it in youth and have it attack s man in middle life, but it always hits them. Now, you wouldn’t think, to look ri me, that I ever had the velvet coat fever, bat I had it onoe in its meet violent form. “About twenty yean ago, ri tbs time of the oil excitement, I Blade a little money in oil, end I got to thinking how I could show how I was no ordinary son of man, and all ri ones it struek m6 that s velvet coat could do it for me, and had a surveyor measure me, and had a velvet coot mode. I was anxious to hav* it done so I could put Hon and go around among the boys, but when it was done and had been brought home, I oil ri onoe lost my grip, end could hardly get up courage to put it on. I let it lay .for week, until my people got to making of me about being afraid to wear tt, me finally I put it on and ogre it downtown after dark. Only a te* people saw it, and l went home feeling satisfied that i the wont was over. Whet I wanted was have the oommu «Mt to my office on be busy, so I knew I wouldn’t have to go around town. Affeethe boys'in the office got so they ootild witness ay feet without going behind a partition to bag h at me, I concluded t&jnar it om the street, / “Well,'there wag *n affan-grinder with a monkey, dot on the sidewalk, when I went oat, and the beastly ItsliaB Had on an old velvet aoat, like stipe, only aoiledt , *h* monkey was jumping abound, picking up peonies, and all st oneethgsaw ma. I the jkOfesakawon that monkey’s foes. been requested by a portion of his craw who had seized a beoi to save himself, but hs nobly refased, wad, with hb [which a wider thread can be gradually TittTe son in his arms, went down with dropped along. When the outline is trowel in a sort of thick “re*^ The leaves are afterward careMUy re moved with a pin, and when the “re sist” is dry tile fabric can be put in the dye-vat and the leaves Inade of their natural color. On# of th* aaori curi ous processes to wetdhis when the artist employs s sort of bird-lime, instead of thread, to outline his design. He takes a small piece of this glu tinous mixture on a skewer, touches the print where he wishes to begin, and drswa a thread of convenient lengtii. Placing the middle finger of tbe left hand under the fabric, he can let the ductile thread drop to any part of the stuff, and to go on fanning the design even to suet minute details os the stamens of flamers. This sticky substance can be drawn out to any length, like candy sugar, and kept an even thickness if necessary. When tt is desirable to increase the bnsadth of the lines, a conical tube of oiled paper filled with the mucilage is used, •go real estate broker fas New York 1888, testified mittee tori twenty loaned on per cent., while now the (ions at* content with 4 to 4j per coni. in the value ri money ought to prodam dseieem hi rents, but it has not, " . Will yon compare th* social state of ong ago with that ri to-day^M Senator Blair. I am prejudiced, to* witness said, “for you know that old fallows think th* greet dsri the beat oM tr not so more ooutiartsbly 1 hundred thousand dollars rich man then, for pftpolation did not like to venture on t .Who JivedJn-Mfli now, more social, everybody, sad indiv obted as well as ] “The general comforts ( ri life were greater than now. Ass less emulation, end more shupHetty. People dremed jaoro for to be aatiefled with tuner tore* mgshn ernes and one silk gown, fleam eld Knickerbocker femOfes still live as Jb toe good old days hut thoj •*• Tury taw. Ladfoi but silks end dressed like a Ikmaires vis with one another fas i to display \brir wealth and she* tottr foreign manners. Love of shew is car ried beyond < mokes the well- tar oer millionaires, and thapsor strive in their tun to equal the well-to-do, Every elam is earned fay this evil spirit ri' ‘ ▲ two-year-old child of Frank Smith's and James Haney's thren-yeer cM Child wem playing together hi Bntith’s tot yard a law days shim, to Eldrsd town- Prlating Fabrics 1a Japaa. The ifceans employed for figuring fab rics would, to our mechanical manufac turers, appear so ridiculously primitive and round-about as to only produce laugh. "Yet these fabrics have the subtle charm ri handwork denied to our correctly-printed designs. No doubtum machines are marvels ri scientific ad justment, bnt to the commonest Japa nese ootton the tiresome uniformity we studiously aim at k on principle avoided. Stenciling k largely employed, and in h great variety of ways mid variations ri manner. A printer will cut oat a series He aefthed to toka pm for hk ri leaves in paper, and lay them on his olterlyj^lked that kk master had material, then bury them bjOtaeans oI [ procured a new coat without asking the about afoot long to tts baud,with wfckh tt was giving occasional bison en the ground. 1 would laugh heartily. wodSd bend itaJme down end something with its head. Then toe stiek would be brought into «m the oonvtfttm mirth of tk follow. dropped along, flnkhed the odors are added. The fab ric k then steamed, and the outline re moved by being rinsed in fresh water. If the ground k to be dyed, toe paintings are covered with a “resist” before im-, mersion. In piece* of silk, no matter what length, and even where the tern k repeated, th* outlines ire by' » pet- done. France Decs plea Tbe troaty of peace Vhioh the French hove imposed on Annam is really a treaty of occupation, and looks like the bagin ning ri a French “Tsdian Empire^ When the English in India formerly ap pointed a “Resident” near a native ruler, that was only a prelintinary to annexa tion. The French are to have “Resi dents” atoll important points in Armsm, and these officers are to have the protoe tion of troops. A Frepch envoy k to help to regulate not only the customs dues, but the general taxsa. The Freneh are to build forts. They at* d*o to keep out the Ohinese. treaty does not-eperify thk, but the treaty will not be of much account BO* Ism th* Chinese ore kept out A roBser firs in British Orinmb is ex ploded a powder atilt Evsey pens of glass in s village near by was broken, and everybody mo ktimedi “Why, havi the —KrtftU nr* nod oasin V’ If!* , ' 7~ procured i consent of hk little brother. Then was u look ri pain, as though the * felt hurt that such duplicity had practiced on him, and then the mtinkex would took st the clothes in whfoh A* was dressed up wittfrantempt, and than be youUHook at toif east with .envy. I never felt so sorry fel * monkey to ell my life. I could stand tt to hear stronger* say, as I passed by, 'What fori is that,’bnt to see that poor monkey grieve over the style Y was potting on was too much, and 1 resolved tt I ever got that cost home I would put it where it could never be seesjhigain. The organ- grinder became alarmed at the actions of the monkey, and jerked on the chain, causing the monkey tp tarn a beck sum mersault, and the poor animal earns up standing in front of hk He looked at Urn, and seemed to be st onoe reassured, and to feel that the apparition was only a horrid drsam, and then he looked over hk shonider toward wfcfpfl I had stood, to nfeke sure, and there I was in all my glory, Thta the monkey was mod and began to make us faces at me, and I got out of JbgkflBfl went home, with shouts of the monksy’s audience sounding in my ears, aft* I tooBoff that ig|t and gave it to toe Bum that took o»re of my horse, sod I never see s vel vet coat, either on a boy or man, but 1 think ri What a confounded fori I made of myself in my Oscar Wilde days. If you have a boy, teach him to go through the velvet coot period young, and he will thank hk stsm.1-/ > «>*’« dun. walked tttt to w\mrs they She *ps horrified at i rottkaoshs wafted The make toys* fen OVA to/ time it' run out tts locked tonga* and st sight ri ohaogsd* coil without which it sounded ita rattle. Mrs. to the children to eon them, and they ri its way. Mrs. Sutith killed •tick. BbUhstt faint found yeans titan & the and the two The snake was over four had seven rattles. toft* Danger Lerkteg ta fleet. A physician qf Philsdslphfe two remarkable surgicA) ess lew day*. Ou Tuesday a Tw# Curley Thtogs. it dsnhle prianod taeto to they used for fastan- ing down matting. On the pofatis ww barbs that caught and retrinad thtir hold upon the fleslfe She had An Iflfe where the staple-lid hefiesma tooBS. On Monday mooing another earn une under hk netks, that *f Elton Brady. Her esas fully tba foregoing She ehftig odd boiled beef on Booty afefl* anfl the hook to the bmoI beooatiAg fend in tbe epiglottis she sufieted groat agony all night. In toe BMantog aha wont to the doctor, sharp printed They said it stance that two men from New York, tiro from Boston and two from Philadel phia should au meet at the asm* hotel in Colorado. In fact, the six sot to a row on the verandah, all smoking, whan a native cam* up and said: “Gentlemen, I have discovered a new silver mine which beak sntohtog to the country. There are a thooSad tans ri ore in sight, and the sessyer says it’s ft percent, pure quill. I want to get my dying wife cot ri thk chmote, and I’ll sell the mine to any ef yen for fl6,00fl. N T’hew thft mmwirmm tfcty V< T Not one ri the six men' Not one of them even looked a the Man terete foiled; pened. s word. up. Not one ri toem seemed to oontinenttol whsttMT hk ftt ere i IS or W par oent. They had a!) "fciB “MYeAWkj to a lawyer, that! hit him. not Nett, out ri that)!