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' ? : ITOTNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY30, 1884. ' - ' s|3j ^ Lafo and Death. j 0 solemn portal, veiled in mist and cloud, r Where all who've lived throng in. an endless j line. Forbid to tel! by backward look or sign What destiny awaits the advancing crowd; Bourne crossed but once, with no return al. lowed;.- < . L. Dumb, spectra] gate, terrestrial yet divine, . j Beyond"whose arch ail powers and fatee com SP Dine, Pledged to divulge no secrets of too shroud; Close, close behind -we step, and strive to Some-whisper In -tbe dark, some glimmering R Through circling whirls o{ thought intent to nMR| snatch 88bKBE& A drifting'hope?a faith that grows to sight: ! Hbbt And yet assured, whatever may befall, BF* That must be somehow best that comes to all ^ s?C:P.CranchintheJaneCenmry. 3Pro. and Con When ships come over the sea, my love, ? Come over the shining sea. Like maidens walking a minuet, ; Whito-wflmefcted daintily? Oh, what aothey bring' under each white ; k wing, What songs do the sailors sing; t-*-- ' Bh While the breezes frolic along the deep, them sweep, j When ships come over the sea, my dear. Come over the stormy eea^ -.^-. The cordage creaks in the whistling winds, -'-H w . And the sails flap dismally; gk And tiie sailors-swear till the raw, damp air To visihJv tinned with a saloharons glare, ; And the seasick passengers faintJy groan, | And the sea gul's scream and the wild wind? moan. As oyer the so a, tfcarstona-swep fc sea, The ships como laboring wearily. ?David L. ProudSt in the Manhattan. THE XAST STRAW. ^ "It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back," said Lucy, bursting into clears. ' The pleasant June sunbeams came -] peeping into the cool, stone-paved dairy, where pans of milk and cream were ^ranged in, orderly 'array; great jgQ^e^pots jstpqd under the shelves, and a blue-painted' churn was already S* placed on the table for service. Mr. Bollenden was justly proud of his dairy. Not a chance guest came to t tho house but was invited down to see it; not a housekeeper in the neighborhood but secretly envied its many conveniences and exquisite neatness.' ^ "And it isn't tne dairy aione," triumphantly remarked Mattliew Bellen- I den. 1 'And yon may go through the house from garret to cellar, and you'll never find a speck of dust or a stain of rust .-'There never was such a-" house-. Jw keeper as my wife!" :''^p Mrs. Bellenden was young, too, -^ffl^aj^ireerand-tweaty. She had f SeedvJtelssfeareil ani quite jgnoi isnt of ail'iiie/machinery 'of domestic nntai she jnarried Matthew BellenTcry..stracge?1' Lacy had written to her father. "The farm is beauVnn noroT cotjr cnr?K mftflstmna - old elm-trees, aor such sape-b roses, and the meadows are full of r ' clover, and the strawberries shine li' ^wels on the sunny hillsides. Bu. ^bodysketches or reads. I don't think there is a copy of Tennyson in the whole neighborhood, and no one ever heard of Dore or Millais. All they think of is ^ how many dozens of eggs the hens lay, W and how many cheeses they can make i "in a year. And the woman who has a new pattern for patchwork quilts, is I the leader of society." Bat.presently young ''Mrs. Bellenden I Serseif caught the fever, and became a ! model housewife. Example is all-pow- | ezful^ and Lticy began to believe that ! "the whole end and aim of life was do- | mestic thrift, money-saying, and the ; treadmill of work." ./ J "My dear,"" said Matthew, "if you thought you could get alon? without a servant this year, I might be able 'to' afford that new reaper before the oatcrop edmie sin. ** : 1 j "I'll try," said Lucy. j And after that she ro3e before day- j break, and worked later in 'the night j y"- than ever. "What is the matter with your hands, Lucy?" her husband asked, one' day. They arc yot so white and beautiful as BHl they, usuu ta be." yT** Lucycolored.as she glanced down at the members in question. >; U ; * v "I suppose it is making' fires," she said* ~ j, jta And then she took to wearing kid gk>rea>at her sweeping and dustings . and digging out of ashes. , "Myeosfcis getting shabby," Matrthew one day remarked. '' "/'Why don't yon-buy another .one?'1 asked his wife. Matthew laughed a short laugh. "What do you think Mrs. Biggins has dime?" said he.'' "She ripped up - ; her husband's old suit and cut a pattern by it, and made a new one and F saved nun two pounds." <*I could do that," said Lucy, with sparkling eyes. "I will try it" 7 "You can do anything, my dear!" said Mr. Bellenden, admiringly. And Lucy felt that she had her rich . reward. < s* WM ; VOiUpttUJT uu V/Vxu.o oo owu aa nice weather set in. * I , - All the Affectionate relations of Mr. Bellenden soon discovered that the mjf farm-house was cool and shady,, ?that f. v Lucy's cooking was excellent, and that |8p the bedrooms were neatness itself, Some of them were even good enough to invite their relations as well; and so L the house was hill from April to Deft. cember with visitors who brought their i carpet-bags and valises with that faiti in human hospitality which, is one of r lifeVbost ?ifts. > Wts TRATTAndpT^s wr#>rtt. ahroftr? I among the Dorcases of the netehbor^ hood in the matter ol butter and cheese; she took prizes' in the domestic departl meats of all the agricultural fairs, and >, the adjoining, housewives took no trouble to male things that they could borrow of Mrs. Bellenden, 4'just as lip well as not'1 sal And one day, when poor Lucy, under life the blighting influence of a horrible ?iAe/^a r?^ A two a nn/)/\ATf/\ 11L strain three' or four gallons of milk into B the shining pans, 'the news arrived that her husband's Uncle Paai was coming to the farm. "Another guest!" said Lncj, despair And then she uttered the proverb | S|P^ that heads our sketch- i MK, "Oh, it's only Uncle Paul!" said Mr. i Bellenden. "Don't fret, Lucy! He's ! f the most peaceable old gentleman in ; the world. He'll make no more trouble ! than a cricket;' John's wife thoughtj she couldn't haveliim because she has i k no servant Just now " ^ "Neither have I!" said Lucy, rebell- ; gigjfe iously. IlL **&nd Sarah don't like company." Ilk "Ism supposed to be fond of it!" i llplilih observed Lucy,, bitterly. A *?And Seuten's girls don't want old ff folks staying there. It's too much trouble, they say," added Matthew. 1|P|P Lucy bit her Hp to keep back the ; words she might have uttered, and j said, instead: - "Where is he to sleep? The Ueifords ; F have the front bod-room, and your Cousin Susan occupies the back, and i |j^~ the fourMiss Pattersons's sleep in the I two garrets." She might have added that she and Ler husband, and the baby had slept in ; a hot little den opening from the kitchen for fonr weeks, vainly expecting | Mr. and Mrs. Belford to depart; and : that she had never vet had a chance to I invite her father to the farm in pleasant weather. But she was magnanimous, and held her peace. j ?"Oh, you can find some place, for him!" said her husband, lightly. "There's that little room at the end of tho hall where the spinning-wheel is." "But it isn't furnisheaP'' pleaded Lnev. f ."You can easily sew a carpet together out .of those old pieces from the Bel" ford's room; and it s no trouble to put up a muslin curtain to the window, and lift in a stump bedstead; and you can just tack together a mattrass and whitewash the ceiling, and?What's tthat, Luey? The cows in tho turnip "field!" Dear me! everything goes wrong if I step into the house for a moment. -?nc? really, Lucy, these things are your business, not mine!" he' added, irritably* _ _ . r Lucy could not help laughing, all by herself, as her husband ran up tno stops. But it was a very sad little laugh, and soon changed into a sigh. "I wonder,'? said she, in a whisper, "if my poor tired-out ; ghost would haunt the'se stone pavements and scrubbed shelves if I were to die? I never hear ! of a ghost in a dairy before, but I should thing that it migit very easily be." But the little bed-room was fitted up, for^ll that, as. fresh as a rose, and Uncle Paul arrived, a dried-up, yellowcomplexioned old man, with an oldi fashioned cravat tied in manv folds [ around" Ills neck, and a broad-iirimmed, 3bV-araa&d&a&^ iine. gold-headed cane. ~ He had the polite way of half a century ago, and Lucy tfioug'it she should like him very much, if only she had time to get acquainted with him. But she was churning ten pounds of butter a day, and there was the baby, and the company, and the young chickens, and the baking to do. She was almost too busy to sleep. But Uncle Paul was watching her quietly all the time. He came out, one day, to the barn, where his nephew was putting a new handle on a sickle-blade. ' 'Pretty busy times?eh, Un cle Paul ?'' sag? ther JtomSr^scarc&ly taking the leisure to look ui '"'Aye, "absently answered the old man. "Did L'teli you, nephew Matthew, about, the reason 1 left your :?oosm Joseph's^ "Not that I remember," said Matthew, breathing on the blade, and polishing it with his silk handkerchiet "Dorothy died?his wife!" Oh, yes," said Matthew. "Low fever, wasn't it?" "No!" bluntly answered Uncle Paul. "It was hard work. That woman, nephew Matthew, did the housework for eight persons. Joe didn't even let her nave a woman to help with the washing and the ironing!" "Must have been a regular-going brute," said Matthew, tightening the handle a little. "All the sewing, too," added Uncle Paul?"the dqending and making. She never went anywhere except to church. Joe didn't believe in women gadding about." "The old savage!" said Matthew. "She was fond ot . reading, out sne never got any time for it," said Uncle Paul. "She rose before sundawn, and .never lay down until eleven o'clock. It was hard work that killed that woman, and Joseph coolly declared that it was sheer laziness when she couldn't drag herself about any longer. And when she died he rolled up his eyes and called it the visitation of Providence." "Why didnt' the neighbors lynch him?" cried Matthew, fairly aroused to indignation at last. Uncle Pan! took off his glasses, wiped them vigorously, and looked his nephew hard in the face. "Why don't the neighbors lynch you?" said he. Matthew dropped the sickle, and stared. 4 'Nephew Matthew," said Uncle Paul, impressively, "thou art the man! Are you not doing the very same thing?" . maT* 11 J I "AT gtu>yvu -UtttiH-UCVY. "Your wife is doing the work of a household of sixteen people," said Uncle Paul. "She is drudging as you could get no stranger to drndge. She is rising early, ana lying down late; she is offering up her life on the shrine of your farm and it3 requirements. I hare seen her grow thin and pale even A OTTO T f"iOTTA I UlUiiig UUQ iW TV U*JO A MVVi* MW?V? | I have seen her carry up Mrs. Belford's breakfast daily to her room, because i Mrs. Belford preferred to lie in bed; and cooking dainty dishes for Helen Patterson, because Helen wouldn't eat what the rest like. No galley-slave ever worked as she doe*. And you, with you? farm hands?whose board only adds to her cares, and your array of labor-saving machinery, stand coolly by and see her commit 'slow suicide. Yes, nephew. Matthew, I think it is a case for lynching!" Matthew had grown pale. 41?1 never thought of this," said he. Why didn't some one tell me?" ! "Whare were yonr eyes?" said Uncle | PaxvL Matthew Bellendon rolled down ] his shirt sleeves, put on his coat and went into the house. He told the Belfords and Pattersons j that it was inconvenient to keep them j any longer." He gave Cousin Susan to j understand that her room was neededHe made arrangements to hoard out the farm hands, and engaged a stout dairy maid, and a house-servant to wait on Lucy. And he telegraphed to her father to come to Silvan Bridge at once. "She deserves a treat," he said. "He shall spend the summer ttith us." And then he went to tell Lucy. f"-- v-J it.. Duo n&a xamuju juuuiig mo ua^ci- j cups, picking strawberries for tea. Poor little Lucy! The machinery had utterly refused to revolve any longer. His heart grew cold within him. 'She .will die," he thought, "and I shall have murdered her." 3ut she did not die. She recovered her strength by degrees. "It is better than any medicine." she said, "to know that Matthew is thinking of me and for me.1' 3 And Uncle Paul?"the last straw," as she had called him?had proved her salvation. "I didn't want her to go as Joe's wife did," said Uncle Paul. A flower has been discovered in South AmnwAO Anlt? ttiO>K1 a fno O . mWAV? HM4VU U WiUJ I lOiWiu TT UVU VUv wind is blowing. The shrub belongs to the cactus family, and is about three feet hteh, with a crook at the top, giving it tne appearance of a black hickory cane. When the wind blows a number of beautiful flowers protrude frora little lumps on the stalk. A Greeley Reminiscence. Ben Van Houien, Greeley's old bellboy, is driving a milk wagon in New I Jersey. He was 6 feet high when in I the Tribune service, and he had eyes I like jyoo^les and a hand like the hand of Providence. "Bub," said Horace to him, as lie entered his sanctum one night, * ?- Want to write for an hour or two, and I don't want to be bothered. Keep ail the bums out of my room." "Yes, Mr. Greeley," Ben replied in a hoarse voice, for he had a voice like . a bull of Basham. I Within half an hour Ben Bruce, Dennis McLaughlin, and several other po! litical gadflies tried to buzz their way j to the old man's room, bat were sum I manly squeicnea Dy iseii. rinjuiy, | Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachul seets, entered. He had been on a campaign tour in Indiana, and he wore the ; dirtiest duster and slouehhat. that had i been seen in New York since the dei parture of the Pendleton escort in 1868. I The Senator dropped his carpet-bag ! and advanced toward the open door of j Greeley's sanctum, whence ne was con! fronted by Ben. I "Where aro vou eroinz?" blurted the i watchdog. "I'm going to see Mr. Greeley?" the Senator replied. I "Not much you hain't," roared Ben, | elevating his voice so as to make him! self solid with Horace. "Git right o* ] here, or Til help you out" General Wilson was dumbfounded. ! His face, usually red, w^j made redder | by Ben's manner. "1;:* I " "Won't you be so kind as to take my i name in to Mr. Greeley?" he asked.': ' Ben looked hard at him and asked ! his name, "Wilson," was the reply.' "Well." said Ben. "I'll sro in and see ] if he wants to see you*M ? He returned in forty seconds, more aggressive than ever. -rv.-.y.ir.r. . It's just as I told you," he roared. | "He won't see you; now, d?n you, git j out o'here." Wilson turned to Amos Cummings, j night editor, who lay back -itfTUS : chair, bursting with suppressed emo ! tion. * ~ ' > "What's the matter. General?" he I asked. Senator Wilson,, explained^ while Bea ; looked on in astonishment. f "There must be some mistake," the i night editor remarked, "and I'll take J you in and introduce you to Mr. Gree! ley." i They entered the great editor's sanc: turn together. Horace sat at his high j desk, with eyes close to the manuscript, i scratching away like a hen on a fresh ; sand-heap. "Mr. Greeley," said J^nos,. ?'^sre's ! S#>nnfrir "Wilahn.-. Yon refnaed to : sea | him justriow1.^ 'M& There was a moment of silence. Horace scratched away without looking up.* v "W ell." hei, piped in^; shrill alto, TOtljoutreproving. h*.J?C.. **he .boy sald^mCt'a d-^.ojd bwa^aamed._3y'il scm^^^.tope Illusions 3?J&ejPB?&zxj3i, . ' r.,~ ' - - j i - *?-!XhoJIorfh. American Bevi&o. publishes a paper treating of the illusioas of memory. The subject "is l?idled la a masterly manner, telling1 of the strange; impressions we sometimes feel in loo&: ing out over a landscape never before ; seen by us, yet, suddenly there comes ! a flash of indistinct" recollection"as if, ! years ago, back to which time memory i refuses to travel in a direct line, we. j looked upon the scene. Some inve3tij gators have thought that a man during | a certain mental condition, can look at ' - i^- -i --?i 1. a strange ooject sua uiai> uiuy uuo uDiu* [sphere of Ms mind receives the impression. Suddenly the other hemisphere receives it, and still retaining the impression taien by. the first .hemisphere, he remembers to have seen the object before. No man has satisfactorily explained this illusion, but there are ! illusions of memory which oan be ex} plained. For instance a man goes i Rome after a. day of toil, and says to. his wife: I "Saw our old friend Jackson to-day. Looking fine. Said ho was never * in better health in his life. Asked about you. If business don't go better, I don't know what we are.going to do. By the way, Isaw our old friend Jackson to-day. Looking fine. Said he would like very much to sec you. I am tired. Such a rush of business that I haven't had time to sit d9ws. Whom do you suppose I saw to-day?" "Jackson," replies his wife rather severely. "What! did he come up here? Said he would like to see you. I want to get down town early to-morrow. I forgot to tell you that I saw our old Prienri .Tar'tann," " This illusion of memory has not baffled scientific research. The gentleman is drunk. There is also an illusion of eye-sight, where objects take double impressions. Any one thus | afflicted is also drunk.? Arkansaw Traveler. Facetiousness of Furniture. **I must have ;some rest this summer, V said the clock; IfTxnl all run down."-J?L ~ "I think I need a country seat/" said the easy chair, leaning, on Ms elbow. "I'm fypftlnfy r>ln.vp.r? r>nt" said tha piano; "a little fresh air would be a good thing for me." i "That's what I want," said the sofa; "s. little fresh air at the springs." | "I should like to go with the sofa and loungeln the woods," said the foot-; stooL "If ray legs were stronger," said the table, "I should go to the country ior | some leaves." 4"Country board Is always so plain," growled the sideboard; "nobody that is knobby or polished there." "Let me "reflect," said the mirror; "they have very plain-looking lassies there, too, do they not?" "You make me plush," said the di? vau?and here the housemaid closed the folding-doors and shut them all up. A Few Answers. What is a sage?" "A sage, my son, is a wise man who knows exactly when to buy or sell stocks. We btirv abont a dozen np.r month in this country, but the supply still equals the demand." "What is a successful financier?" "Why, a man who scoops $3,000,000 out of the bank he runs, and drops the sugar in Wall street" "What is a philosopher?" "He is a chap who loses his wife's money in buying silver stock, but increases his own by taking a deal in pork." What is a financial prophet?" "He is a gentleman who states to an interviewer on Wednesday ni?ht that J the times are prosperous and l)uginess solid, and on Thursday night fails lor I seven or eight .million dollars."?Wall Strut News. | {INSIDE FACTS ABOUT HAIR. | A Dermatologist Tells What He ? Knows About Human Roofs. "Do ladies ever grow bald?" a Bos ton Globe reporter, askod a well-known dermatologist. "Do they ever grow bald?" Well, I guess so." They do not, however, usually grow bald so early in life as men. There are very few ladies that do not wear some false hair, and it is : very easy for them to coyer up any incipient baldness with it or with their i own hair. One thing they are veiy netrlitrent about: Thev do not, as a ! rule, pay sufficient attention to the cutting off of split ends. If this is done, say three or four times a year, the growth of the hair . will be greatly increased, and it will be far less liable' to break off or pull out when tangled. .1 have a number of?what shall I say? patients, who have followed this prac-' ' tice for a number of years and have been greatly benefited bvit" "Do you believe in singeing hair?" No, I do not By" so doing a little | bulb-shaped cinder is formed at the end of the hair, which interferes with the combing out It is not wall to use cold water on long. hair, because the, I water evanoratinff takes with it the natural moisture of the hair, and is liable, in warm weather especially, to' sour the hair. It can, however, bo used with impunity, perhaps benefit,,, on short hair, * Salt water is good for' the scalp; it hardens it, though it is not-. well to put it on long hair, Decause it evaporates, leaving the salt in the hair, and making it unpleasantly sticky." < "Are strawberry blondes made by washing hair in champagne?" "That is all fiction. I do not believe it will affect the color of the hair a ! particle. Blonde Hair tnat is not madeby nature is mado by bleaching liquids' containing pr. oxide of hydrogen.. Hair dyes are generally injurious, theinstantaneous ones containing nitrate; of silver, less so than the slower-working so called restoratives, which contain black sulphur and sugar of lead. I .donot.believe in the use of clear oil, clear bay rum, nor pomades, but a dressing containing a little.alcohol and. /oil may. perhaps. be used with benefit, . as some. scalps require a little oil'to keeD them in a sufficientlv moist con dition: and a slight stimulant mayprove of benefit, romades, as a rule, are injurious to the hair and scalp, and are now comparatively but little used. There is nothing better, I think, to prevent hair from felling off than a preparation containing quinine. "The custom, of ladies to save their combings is now general, and Is to be commended. Many a lady can save enough hair in this way to make all the switches, puffs, etc., that she wants, and she can keep in style and say truthfully: 'I . .'have not & hair on my head that did not grow there.'" "How do you account for so many men being bald? Is it intense thought?" "Well, nerbaps that is the cause, in some cares. IdTany men become bald by wearing their hats too much. The derby and silk hats, such as are now worn, fitting, as they do, closely to the. head, interfere with the circulation of the scalp, and cause the hair to fallout. With some, of course, the tend- 1 ency to baldness is hereditary, and in others it is the result of sickness or high living." "Is there anything that will make } hair grow on a baici neaar" "Nothing. Wo can only assist nature, that's all. The bald heads that have "been covered by the use of restorers have been covered?on' paper, nowhere else. I am positive, however, that if hair is taken in time it can frequently be saved by developing all the vitality of the scalp by brushing, rubbing with the tips of the fingers, fre' quent cutting-of the hair, shaving, etc. The trouble is, most men are so engrossed with business that they brush tnoii* Vrnfr Vint nnoo s. Hfiv in tliA morn. Log,,and that is about all the attention ' it receives. It is not possible to resurrect a single dead hair, any more than it is, a corpse, but; if a.hair has any life ' in it, that life can, with proper care, be preserved for a long time* as the life of a human being by careful nursing, or the life of a plant by judicious pruning. As a solace of bald-headed men I will say this?what I heard an old barber say the other day?'I have never yet seen a bald-headed fooL'" i mi?f 9 C* J11 4 A Gambler on. His Profession. A recent writer, who is himself a gambler, is not inclines to believe tnestatement that professional gamblers have.a high standard of honor among themselves. He says they arc a very suspicions body of men, whose bond takes the form of collateral security. The two chief component parts, he says, that go to make up the professional gambler are cupidity and laziness. These two characteristics predominating result in the complete demoralization of the man. He sums up the whole matter this way: "A business that is illegitimate in itself and draws'to its support criminals from -11- J i. * BT^ry WJUJi. m uxiut) iii.ua u UI11UJ ajmjo ua demoralizing. I do pot attempt to say that every gambling room in Boston is the constant and only resort of criminals, but I do wish to be understood as 83ying that, there is not a game in this or any other city that would exclude a man on social or moral grounds. Cash, no matter how obtained, is the 'open sesame' in every instance.- The conclusions arrived at in this article have their foundation in solid fact, and the deductions and suggestions are the outcome of mature thought, by one who has made the subjeet a study, 4 ?,4 ^ Jniil 1XUII1 tilt? VOUWgU ^iUUUU VI l/iiv UOll" er's chair." The Party Call. "Don't you think 'germans' are an awful boro?" asked young Pilkins, after a silence of ten minutes' duration. | "Sometimes," sighod Miss CotUIion, with an oh-do-take-him-away look in her deep blue eyes. *2ave you been to many?'* "I've, ah, led about sixteen this winter,'1 answered Pilkins, in an off-hand way. r " "How appropriate." said Miss Cotillion, drowsily. "Just one for every year of your a^e;" and then there ensued another long, delicious pause, while the young man regarded his patent-leather shoes and the clock deliberately counted eleven.? Life. In a recent trial on the Thames : an electric Iannch fortv feet loner, www a storage battery, a speed of seven 1 knots an hour was attained. The speed ( of a steam launch, with engine, boiler, j water and coal Sufficient for a six hours' run, would have been from one j and a half to two miles an hour great- er. Comparing the electrical system ] with steam, the advantages of electric- J ity are entire absence oi noise, great ' cleanliness, and verv small room need- 1 etTfor machinery; and vrhtn once I! ckai^e2 it is ready" in a moment 11 9 j Ir :? Breakfast Table Lecture. i An old gentleman, the other morning at the breakfast table, looked up a$ his'; daughter,- & tail girl with an effort at dreaminess, and remarked: "Louise, .I was at the theatre, last I night,, rand just as the curtain was aboutio%o'down at the end of the first act, I saw yen and a kinkey-headed yocEbtg fellow enter, prance along the aisle, and finally, after, inuch onnoyaijce to those who happened to be in thegaeighborhood of your s'eats, you and yenr delicatp companion succeeded' in ceasing to attract the attention of the wfiole house." . "Wiy*.how you do talk, pa." . "I m3?state facts. Why were you so late?-Was it because the young man did not get here in time?" "OVM; he came hero in plenty of time^ ~ v" . . "Well, was it because you had seen f.tia rvfivliolnrn ?nrl -frmnH it nhip^Hrm. able?!* ; ' ' "Nb; sir. " " "Why, then, wero you so late?" "O&Via,. .you don't understand Comu^ir'peppIe:go?~ earijg ?tf"Jknow. but ^bcBare apposed to knowgomefc^^ro-xio^-in^sQC^-grhnrry,'' | "Sppiws^dlo^ow' sometEing,'' repjieifthe fatner^ y^^ry good, but like. I ^e oot of ten suppositions, is incorrect/." Tou.iaay!thurkj&at to studiously enter a-theatre at^a late hour?and a few weak-minded . people'' may a<*reo WTi-\**_JLia o -m-fi r"tr yvf rr/\r%d V>"r -n rr niuu-jvu?rw a* WA. r^yy>?- ui.wu.iu^t but ni^rnthsit fe;"Tiidcni&ss, if not ao tually "Vvtflgar;" ;cIiako" noticed that yoa-had a wad of gum in your month, a quid. ^Ano&er-mftrl^^gTOii^r'eedmg, I -snpnqs&:^^B^Bfe5^i'haYe a great deal3i? learn* andmuatiorget many of yoxafpresefit ways, "before you can properly.^peaf in'socifi^ ' Yoa &eem to fthinfc-tnat :&lavish mixture oV bright wlo^1?nd"a g^udy flower constitute tl'dall it rig, for I cjMi tMak of *116 "better tem. Xan think- that these in wfcckyoubesi agpegr^but. yon make a xmsTake) Xoa. are a;handsome girl, irb&fljyva 'are;. ?atjiral,-* bat. when you arcra^jro^T^mind iSer'of L>a",cheap( chromo.: "Whan youare' at "home' yoi^^ress .neatly, and,1!, think, are fiercaft^ctive.." Don't you timk that thms raptor pretty?" holding up a ^r^:. y^'.Ttaa <*?" ?' ?v.>wc>- it*?-?. -TJWtw, we" rr see-uow mis miuiuvca it, spinel he tied a strip' of[. red flannel around the'stem.. ~ t'Think it helps the lily's appearance?" ;*'0h, pa!" ~y*Q{course not, but it reminds me of anfcoYer-dressed woman." *4But, speaking about the theatre, I Sheard. ma say that she and you often went; to the theatre and arrived late." r \~ *?That can be explained." SSow?"-' * ,^/Tour mother and I were fools, child, and now recognizing it, I wish to warn you."-^-Arkansaw Traveler. ?? ? 7. Ringing: the Baby. r;jThcre is one young couple in this C$7, Kais-tba Bfttroit Free Press, who we i?ady to open an exchange wfiore theyAay get rid of some superfluous jewelry they have on hands, or, rather, haven't on hand, because the hand is quite too small for the jewelry. There is a new baby in the family, and before it was a week old they received a small box from California, and upon opening it found a tiny gold ring with "Welcome little stranger," jengraved on the inside. , ' 3 * V < ? 1 t? V.?V.w S> JLLLUU11 l/UU X\Ji. ivchuj and not quite large enough to fit me," said the youn? mother, plaintively: but on the principle that it would keep she put it away, and dictated a letter of' thanks to the sender. 7 ^ . The next day the baby's aunt sent it a lovely little ring set in pearls, with~"Our pet" marked on tiio inner circle. Then it's grandmother sent it a ring made out of a piece of gold found in dear grandpa's pocket after his death, and it had two sets of initials and a Biblo text inscribed on it But the next ring was from a school friend, and was a wide band of gold with a quarter dollar bangle hung" bv a tiny chain, and the sentiment "Or such is the kingdom of Heaven," was condensed into it, quite discernable with a microscope, however. Then the baby's uncle got home from New York, and when he had kissed the new arrival he took something out of his vest pocket: "I couldn't see a thing to get the kid : except this," he said, as he opened a 'tiny bos? "I knew nobody : would think of giving such a little ; shaver a ring, so I got one. Hello, sis, what's the matter! The young mother had fainted. But -I. i _ ij 1_ 1 tney resrorea nor in one 10 see u?r dear old Aunt Letitia, who had stopped ; over on her way to the Pacific Coast to ' see that blessed baby. "Not a ring on her dear, sweet little hands," said the old lady, severely; "Aunty Lishy didn't forget her tootseywootsey." And she slipped a cameo circlet on the smali red finger. It had ? n-AAl- *TTA?/? An/wntTO/1 An if I Uf VZIUOiX nuiu VTA* AW Y? i^AVy** means "Hope." "There's the postman's ring," said the nurse one day as she looked out of the window. "He's bringing another off-ring to the baby; I know it, ' said the pale, young mother. But they carry them to another room now, where they are numbered, sorted vomiloT vutt auu uuu an 0^j iu v*uva| shining mementoes of the awful want of originality, which is usually possessed by the friends of a first baby. The Boy With the Long Coat. The half-clad boy that wears a frock coat, cast off by some larger member ! of the family or perhaps by a stranger, is a serio-oomic spectacle. The tails of the garment almost sweep the ground, the ragged"pockets dangle against his ans-ies, ,anu we pauu.au siiuuiueis ma the little fellow appear to bo almost : twice his actual size. The long sleeves are rolled back, and on the bulge, the little fellow wipes his nose, leav- : ing a glaze on the seeve's ragged lin- 1 tog- ' "Why don't your mother cut down Idiab wait ou 11 w juu: sumc uuo wao. "'Cause I ain't got any mother," ho replies. "My mother's dead." ,] His playmates scout and call him ; old man. Merchants tell him to move on away from their doors. Simpering ! girls giggle at him as they pass. His ufe is lowly and he is acquainted with ' sorrow, finally some one leiias nim a ; helping hand, and in after years when 1 people point to an institution of learning and ask the name of the founder, . some old man, after giving the illus- . trious name, says: 4'X knew him when, . is a boy, he used to wear a" long rag- i *ed coat."?Arkansaw Traveler. ( i Keeping Hotel in Mississippi. Three of us walked into the office o rt hotel in a little town in Mississipp one night, and when the landlord hoc been aroused from his n3p behind th< stove, a big dog kicked" off the onlj bench in the room, and the smoking I lamp turned up so that we could set j each other, he sized us up and said: 4 'Gentlemen, T m a poor landlord bu a truthful man. In the first placc, FI have to put the three of you into on< bed- In the next place, it's a bed sc dog-goned mean tnat you'd a heap bet ter lie on the floor." "Can't we sit up in the room?" askec one. ; 1 . :r-: ; "Don t beiieve- you. km. There s j dozen panes of glass gone, the roo: leaks, and there's no show to build i fire." "What sort of a tavern do'you keep, anyhow?" "Poor?miserably poor. I'm nc landlord, my wife runs all to poetry, and the building is mortgaged fo> "mor'n it's worth." "How About breakfast?" : ."Well, voncan counfeon. bacon, 'Raters, and "hoe-^kej with mighty pool coffee.' The table-cloth is fafi o holes, we never use napkins, and maybe there won t be forks enough to go round. "See here," growled the drummer, "you'd better get out of this and give room to somebody who can keep a hotel." "I know it?I know it; but where and how shall I go? I couldn't raise sis bits to save my neck, and what-town wants me? I haven't got no trade, am too weak to labor in the fields, and this keepin' tavern seems to be the only opening for me." "Got any whisky?" "Nary." "Any good -water?" "Well, it's creek water, and ptirty sandy just now." 4 'Any more wood to keep up the fire?" "Not a stick, but I'll cut some in the morning." The four of us stood looking at each other for a long minute, and it was the landlord who spoke first He said: * .r*I * "V "4,* ' . 1. brents, it s no use 10 kick, lm sorry,"and thafs all I can do. Til light another lamp, bring out a pack of keerds, and we'll play seven-np while the hired man comes in and fiddles for us. It's only six hours to daylight and eight to breakfast, and a shilling plu^ of tobacker pays the bill for the hull three of you." But when we loft the next forenoon he wouldn't even take that. He said our society was recompense enough.? Detroit Free Press. Miser and Speculator. Your miser starves himself and does no harm to others. Your banker who gambles into great schemes dresses and lives like a gentleman?like a great many gentlemen put together, ana all of them very rich?and when he falls he drags down with him thousands of well-to-do individuals, and along with them the business and other legitimate interests which give employment to thousands of laboring men and women. Everybody holds the miser in contempt. but evervbodv admires the prince of the great scheme. The latter has stables crowded with horses which ho never sees. Hi* different country and city establishments arc maintained at a cost of thousands of dollars a week. His family'select their attire from a home storehouse as large as an average dry goods establishment His pleasures are paid for in diamonds, and his path is strewn with gold. When the miser dies nobody is injured, and his grave is soon forgotten; but when the prince falls, there is wailing over a wide space of territory, for his ot-h-otto nnnca flnrl fall Viavo t.filrAn t.via bread out of many children's mouths. It is held, and perhaps properly enough, that the law must not say to any maD, "You have enough; you must be contented with that; you must not only live, but let live; you must curb your rapacity and permit others to have .their fair share of comforts and luxuries*" What, however, shall be done to check the passion for great and unearned wealth which has taken possession of so many men, who are otherwise worthy of respect? This passion has uprooted many of the old systems T+ Ii O C? oo^nfr VI u uouitoo. JLU uu>g uvgxivjeu &*. and put public and private confidence on the raclv Ii threatens a bfeaking up which 17111 do an uncalculable damage. Most certainly there can be not many more cases of wholesale scoundrelism on the part of men in positions of trust without creating a panic whose melancholy effects may ran through several years. The gentleman miser must be checked. The avarice which moic+t iinrtn milliona fr\v nrirato riCA must be "stopped. Lorenzo Dow told of an avaricious farmer who, given the whole world, wept beeausa he had not a patch outside to plant potatoes in. Sad the farmer been located in Wall 3treet^ or at the head of a bank, nobody to-day would find anything extravagant in the character. ?New York Graphic. "God Bless the Baby." . . A Dig man ana a smauer one wen* intd Mr. Harrington's store late last night and asked to look at 3ome clothing. Mr. Harrington himself waited upon the visitors and was showing them various lines of goods when the door leading to his residence in the rear of the store opened and in came on the run a baby daughter of the Harrington family. The little one came In hurrying to escape her mother, and fell over a box. Mr. Harrington left the customer and went to the rescue of the baby. After the little one was quieted and m tVin flnnr Vin rocnmflH Tiis nrJS mess, but in a minute she fell over another box and apparently hurt herself. He left the customer and again looked after the child. At this the man turned to his companion and said: "Letfs go out of here. I ain't looking for & nursery." The proprietor heard the remark and was not slow to respond. He said that he had lived fifty-two years and done twenty years of business, and had had OA AAA AiictAmAro linf. ViqH tU,VW ^U^i/ViUViU, WWW AAV uuv*. M.VI va ?? but two Harrington babies, and this was the only one left He could get along without the customer and the sale of a suit of clothes to him, but ho couldn't get along without the Harrington baby, ana he didn't care how soon the customer "skipped." The man, who was looking at the proprietor with a mild astonishment at first, when the story was finished had bis handkerchief out, was wiping his ayes and reaching his hand out to Mr. Harrington exclaimed, "Partner, God 1 1?"1 TT? MA..1 A A frtA uxesb uits usuy. xitj uuuiuu i> uu iw ipuch, and it is needless to say they parted as friends.?Cheyenne (Wy. T.J Sun. The charter which Napoleon ILL rode at the battle of Sedan has become 9> pensioner, and as such has been ^ Mflo4n?a VMmmififi* UUb IU L/ADIUiQ M/i ?UV DfMsmr ? V _ .. J The Cost of High Speed. * Sove experiments have been made i lately upon the Bound Brook Route to i ascertain the difference in the consump* tion of coal between an express train f running on schedule time and the same j 1 train run at a very low speed, but oth 5 erwise under the "same conditions, the same five cars and precisely similar engines being used The trains ran in 1 each case from Philadelphia to Bound 5 Brook and back, a distance of 119 > miles. The slow trip was made in 9 hours 23 minutes, 4,420 pounds of coal i being consumed. The train stopped at I" tne same places as the regular express train, tne only unusual leature of tbe t trip being t?e funeral pace, averaging ? a little oyer 12J miles an hour. When i running on schedule lime the consumption was 6,725 pounds, agreeing close, ly with the usual consumption on this route with the regular five-car express > trains. The saving effected in coal by .. running the train at a very slow pace ?" was 2.805 nounds. The nercentao-e of saying may be expressed in two ways: as compared'with the eonsimiption at the nomal express speed, the slow ' speed shows a saving of 34-2 per cent, > while the consumption at the high > speed shows an increase over that at 1. the low speed of 52.1 per cent These figures show that high speed is not so expensive as is generally im- i . acincd. The sDeed of 12.5 miles an i hour for a through passenger train . making few stops is, of coursc, imprac: ticable, for various reasons. Probably . the difference in coal consumption between the lowest speed practically . possible under ordinary conditions and a high express speed is even smaller than the figures given, which represent a lower speed than is ever attained on an ordinary railroad. High speed to a certain extent diminishes both the number of men and amount of rolling stock, necessary to carry a give a traffic; and this saving must to set _against the Increase in coal consumption and wear and tear. In the case under notice, at a slow 11 q J 1? Dpcvu, iiiv iuu \jl XIJ nines wuuiu iliaixo a fair day's work for both trainmen and train; whereas, at the normal speed, allowing for the necessary delay at stations, switching, turning and ' loading engine, etc., quite double the mileage might be made in a day. As enginemen are ordinarily paid by the trip, this would not reduce their wages unless some ch^n^e were made in the practice, but probably some change would be made if runs which now require six or seven hours were reduced to four or five. Double the amount of foiling stock being required, the round houses, etc., must be larger and the C in ere fn urln/?h StATA t.hp MFQ TriTlfffi , oe longer. The interest on t':e additional rolling stock and plant would thus amount to quite a large figure. In some cases the slower train might actually be the more expensive to run, leaving on one side all questions as to the convenience of rapid traveling and its effect in increasing the volume of travel On the whole, the result of these experiments seems to be strongly in favor of high speeds for both passenger and freight trains.?Railroad Go-. zeite. . /_ An Impressive Effect for a Bridal Scene. "I went into Quaritch's book store one day, and among other curious books i picked up an old, black-letter volume. It was a work on "Ceremonies," with four large illustrations. I went into the shop to spend four or five pounds; I spent eighty-four or five, and earned off the ulack-letter book on Ceremonies"?all Italian. I was at the time preparing "Much Ado" for the Lyceum. In the picture of a wedding ceremony I saw what struck me as a wonderful effect, and of the period, toe?the Shakspeare period. The effect was a mass of vergers, or javelin men?officers of the church, I should say. They were dressed in long robes, and each carried a halberd. I pressed these men at once into the service of ! Shakspeare and his cathedral scene at Messina, and got that impressive effect / i 1 _ _ __ ^ 1 A 1- - 1 1 JJ oi xneir entrance anu me DacKgrouna of sombre color they formed for the dresses of the bridal party. And it is right, too?that's the best of it. Not long ago I was at Seville, and saw a church ceremony there, where the different parties camc on in something like the fashion of our people on the stage; but we never did anything so fine in that way as the entrances of the visitors at the "Capulets" in "Romeo 2 ' At.c ?uu uuuet ?luc -aiiicreub uviupauies of maskers, with their separate retainers md torch bearers."?From Irving'1 s "Impressions of America. An Alleged Cure for Head r ches. . James Carley, of this town, a jour hatter, recently suffered for a week with severe headache. Every possible remedy was resorted to witnous reiiei. Finally one of his shopmates informed him that D. B. Wilkes, living in the upper end of Kingstreet District could cure it without faiL According Carley set out to find the man who possessed the panacea that could relieve him from his untold suffering. Mr. Wilkes, whose occupation is a farmer, received him cordiallv and at once assured him that he could cure his headache. < He requested Carley to accompany him to the old cider-mill, which they entered, and Mr. Wilkes pulled out from beneath the press a box covered with a coal sieve. From the box he took a live black snake and wound it around Carley's neck. Strange as it may seem, almost instantaneously the 'pain left his head and has not returned since. Mr. Carley and his friends vouch for. , his cure. Mr. Wilkes also cures sprains and swellings in the same way. j ZH3 wxpiaius me uiatujr uu me prmui pie of animal electricity, which he sup- ( poses that the snake possesses. If a , tore is effected in this way the writer \ thinks that the pain is frightened out of the patient by the horrid application. Banbury (Conn.) News. A lady writer in the Sural New York- ! ex savs: "A mother -who allows her J boys to grow up ignorant of wholesome \ cookery and the tine art of sewing fails : in her duty. Henry Ward Beechcr's I, ( mother taught him at an early age to sew; and,for lads full of activity, who cannot be kept quiet, sewing is an ex-' ] cellcnt pastime for discipline. If boys < sewed more and romped less, the girls sewed less and romped more, the gain < would be mutuaL Then, too, If every < member of the family knows how to < prepare a meai cue rcnei to tne moiner < or wife is almost immeasurable." 1 The roc was the boss bird of his day. ] 4'Sinbad, the sailor," knew something : of it?In Ms mind. Marco Polo heard 1 of him in Madagascar, and declared < : that it was like the eagle, measuring i i sixteen paces from wing to wing. But 1 i the Persian authorities give the wildest s account They represent him as car- 1 rying an elephant in his beak and one In each of his clawi ' < GXiEAXDfGS# The King of Siam has 263 children. Rowell has made $80,000 out of Walking matches. - A Georgia paper extols "the natural : advantages" of the Fort Gaines Cezne! tery.. When a man boards a wrong train ! of thought he is liable to run off the tracK. Mrs. A. T. Stewart is eighty-four | years old and the "richest widow in the j world: At the Carlisle Indian school there I are at present 455 pupils?825 boys and j ISO girls. 1 Paper is now used in Germany in* : stead of wood in the manufacture of j lead pencils. These are the mornings when the roses kiss the girls on the cheeks and . -A i forget to go away. Two new Cunarders are now being I uuiii. wnn me ODjeci 01 tteaung au pre- . vious records in crossing' the Atlantic. Robert Griffin, of London, says the world will not be large enough to told the population, in: a thousand years from now. Wail street is an attractive place where a man can lose .$9,000,000 in four years without half trying.?Norris- 7 town Herald. There are 124,000 miles of railroad in the United States, or seven times ' as many miles as there are in" the "^United Kingdom of Great Britain. The stained-glaSs craze in fashionable households is < wanin/y. and the opinion of intelligent people is that wholesale imitation killed it. r . Darby Green is a Connecticut Yankee who was seven years old when the Declaration of Independence wasr signed. He is still vigorous and isappy.: The Kentucky House of Representatives has passed a Mil prohibiting bicyclists from using* the public roads of most 01 Xae cpoaiwea buai/U. n. New York's Legislature has exempted from taxation the- property oI disabled ministers and priests over 70 years old, to the amount of $1,500. : Charles Beade knew that death was coming and refused absolately to meet it at Cannes. "No," he said, "I feel ' myself breaking up and I wish to go homo to die." Ecclesiastical clocks for -bedrooms are the newest They are made of olive wood in the form of a cathedral, v > r ; and in the steeple in the clock, sweet chimes designating the hours. Lady Ripon and Lady Hobart, Mf?a' Eye and Miss McPherson, have aided upword of ten thousand men, woman and children to emigrate from jEngjfim ro tnc coiomes or mis country. Chinese laundries are springing np with wonderful rapidity in all the Southern cities, and the competition which they have excited has, in many instances, resulted in street brawls. Matthew Rankin, of Lewiston, Me., has been confined to one chair for * - - x. thirty-three years. He has a combina- \ ^ tion of mirrors by which he locks out of the window without moving his The Astors own certainly a sixteenth of the real estate of New iork. Aid ? gs they are the very best of landlords. Their prices are moderate* and they never refuse any reasonable demand -/~a for repairs. Allen Gilford and wife, of Eastern, /..*> Washington county, will celebrate at Christmas the seventieth anniversary of their wedding, if life is spared to them till then. He is ninety-three years old and she is eighty-nixie. In LeiorTi Richmond's advice to his ' daughters, he wrote: "Girls, be cheerful, Dut not higglers; be serious, but not dull; be communicative, but not forward; be kind, but not servile. Be- ; ware of silly, thoughtless speeches." A gentleman who has given a good deal cf study to the subject says that . while Philadelphia has a greater number of benevolent institutions than any city m tne country, tne percentage ot pauper3 to the population is alsp larger, * A New Haven man has invented a new kind of a parachute, which is fastened around the center of the balloon itself, and it is expected to bring \be MM whole sffair, including the aeronaut down safely if any accident happens to the balloon. Statistics show that among 1,000 dootnrs the number of deaths anrmallv ranges between fifteen and twenty-five. At tnis rate the number of deaths annually among the 90,000 medical men of this country would be, on an average, 1,800. Mr. Case, a watchmaker of Franklin, _ Pa., has completed a locomotive and tender six inches long all told, that has every part complete that is found in a working engine. It is made of gold, silver and steel, ana is aestinea. ior me New Orleans exhibition. Last summer a Philadelphia gentleman dug out a sand crab on the Jersey shore, which he took home and put in his cellar. Up to date he says it has caught 112 rats. The rodents smell its breath, and when they go to investigate they are nipped and held until the dog arrives. Most of the ice used at Calcutta is aow manuiacturecL up to xour or nre fears ago it was shipped from Boston. Although the manufactured' Ice only Lasts half as long as the natnzal ice, it can be made so much cheaper that it has driven the Boston ice out of the market. ' Henry Labouchere, who is not only editor of an influential London journal but a member of Parliament as well, has been gojng into uncomfortable mathematics by showing th&t the cost of the royal family, about $1,000,000 annually, would give a meal to 00,000 children on 400 days in the ye?. ; At Monte C;irlo it is tfee custom to fill the pockets of suicides with bank notes so that it mar be-seen that they iid not kill themselves on account of [osses. They tried this trick on a presumably dead Irishman a short tune ago; but ho was not dead at all, and skipped off with the money in.the most lively style. It is said that the inventor of the process of blenching elephants, results which arc seen in the menageries of Barnum and Forepaugh, claims that it san be applied without injury to colored people, and that it furnishes a complete answer to Job's famous inquiry as to the possibility of whitening in Ethiopian. Mrs. Lambert, of San Jose, CaL, is a physician and a firm believer in wo- :: M T?;<rVit? Tn a criminal trial she tvas called as a witness for the prosecution, but she refused to go on the stand, saying that as she wag denied ;hc right of citizenship she would as ume none of its duties. The court !ailed to accept the reason given aa ralid, and sent the witness to jail for "v. "5