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J WINN^BORO, S. C., ^ ^ ^ ' . A Dear Little SehooIOIa'am. "With her funny little.- passes you'd have thought her very v.-ise If it wasn't for the laughter that ivas peeping from her eyes: Just the queerest and the dearest little schoolt - ma'am ever known. Yi'hcse way of teaching boys and girls was certainly her ov,n. ^V?v~i "I give my brightest pupil," in a pleasant tone she .said, "A little corner by himself to show that he is head. And, to spare the tender feelings of the dullest boy. I put ffigj-- AH the others in a circle so you can't tell which is foot. ^ P "Whenever any pupil in his lessons doesn't I cncoarage his endeavors with a penny sut^ir-kiss: And, since this slight upon the rest might too severely fall. l I take the bvx of k:' ;.*>~tfrKrvi;r.nd 'em round to all. jOtk -gjjjpfo asked them what they'd like to be a dozcn times cr more. And each, I Hud, intends when grown, to keep a candy store; So, thinkimr that they ought to have some knowledge of their trade, * I've put a little stove in, just to show them how it's made. "Enthusiastic? Bless you, it is wonderful to How interested in such things a little child can be:. And, from their tempting taffy and their luscious lollipops, Tm sure they'll do me crcdit when they come to open shops." And, with a nod that plainly showed how free she was from doubt. She deftly smoothed, the wrinkles of her snowy apron outJust the queerest and the dearest little schoolma' am ever known. Whose way cf teaching boys and girls was realiy her own: ?Malcolm Douglas, in St. Nicholas. riBTIJ,"!. 1 l^iT.L II I1? ONLY A YEAR AGO. "But you have known me so short a time?only six weeks?how is it possible that you can love me?" ' 'How *is it possible ? Rather ask how it is possible to avoid loving you? And besides, is it really so very incomprehensible, Avis? Yon have known me just the same length of time, and yet? yet?I have ventured to hope that you ?that yon love me, dear. Oh, Avis, is the sweefe hope false? Have I deceived myself? Or will you indeed confirm it by promising to'be, some happy <#ay, iny wife?" He would have caught .and clasped the fair ^irl in his arms, but she, keeping him oack by a gesture of her little hand, while her great dark eyes were iixed with beseeching earnestness upon his face, answ'ered: 4 - "It is not what I wish?or even what -T-rtn -n-JoVi mrtc* "Kn rvf ^TV Boy, but your mother?your mother, who lias been like a mother to me also, so good, so generous. What would she say *' Sfc A voice, tremulous, yet stern, inter^ ruptedher?a voice that made them Wy'x'- start and turn in confusion. ' '-She would say that you are right in remembering her. Avis, and that she -. is glad of this proof of your gratitude; |p". -"-for the rest, Roy Livingstone's mother ip;-;. Viooks farther than her own family circle, and higher than to a poor dependent, however good or fair, when she seeks a bride for her only son and a future mistress for the The Laurels. Leave us, Avis. I do not blame you, -child; forget this folly, it has been no k fault of yours. I will speak to youfur^a* ?wait in.m>- room. r -'-'And. so,'' she went on, turning to her son,* when Avis, silently weeping, had left them?"and so this" is the re-sult of your artist folly. You would paint my pretty companion's picture, forsooth, 'and* while so doing have stolen her heart and lost your own. Xi might have looked for this; I should have been more careful. But do you .hope that I shall tolerate such folly? I overheard you ask the girl, just now, to be your wife.'1' 'You did." The young man answered gently, but with a resolution that was unmistakable. "I; love her, and will marry her." "Without my consent? Without your mothers blessing? Is this the affection?the duty of my own child?" He put his arms around her. "I shall never set you at defiance, mother, and least of all for Avis's sake. She is too good, too ardently attached to you to do aught that could wound ; you. But will you not have compassion for us, also, mother? We love. Avis has been to vou as a daughter al -J.*, 1 : "Wuys^ let it uc uumu tu iif<nvc ucx ov/? indeed. Where could you ever find a (Child so truly yours?whose heart and soul you knoW?whose mind is of your own pure training? I love her with a love that will not change. Unless you give me Avis for a wife, I shall not inarry." "Absurd!" Mrs. Livingstone's eyes flashed scornfully, "When our guests arrive to-day you will find many *far superior to Avis. A foundling! It is not her poverty?we are rich enough? but her birth.'' "We know nothing of it, and I care nothing. It .is herself I love." "Listen, Boy." The lady's proud face softened as sfce ;aidone wmtenaua on her son's shoulder, while his a?ra stole around her fondly. ''You are my SjpT only child; all my hopes are bound up . in you. Let us not quarrel about this foolish, girl. She is dear to me, also. Let us take time to think. Compare the girl with others. When oar guests are gone, if you are in the same mind, we will see what is best for- all. Will rou promise?" "To wailrfor your consent until our guests are gone? Yes, I'can promise that." "And meantime not to speik of this to Avis." "'JQhat's harder, mother. But if you will tell her that you may consent, I will obey you." JL >Y JO-i IC11 HCJL ? ?? ViU cuau passed betvreen us," said Mrs. Livingstone. And slie meant to keep her promise. But Avis was not waiting for her, as she had expected. The giii had ffone to her own room, sending to Mrs. Livingstone a piteous little message of excuse. Her head ached. Might she be allowed to keep in her own chamber? Kt The lady smiled. Wm~~ "I will set her heart at rest to-morrow," she thought. "There is no time now." For her expected guests were arriving. And when Roy looked at her inquiringly, as he missed the girl, "She wished to keep her room tonight," she whispered. "All will be ^ well to-morrow." But when to-morrow came a sad surRn prise came with it. Avis had disapR peared. HKk "That I may not cause you grief cr Si^ pain?you who have been'to me a true KfigjJE mother?I fly from a temptation that K would prove too strong ii I remained. & When lam gone your son will soon K forget me. 1 pray God that he may? HS for his sake. But 1 shall not forget, K nor cease to love you.?Farewell, dearMMLcst friends. Forgive your little I*. . AVIS. ' Chat was all; and she had gone? ring no trace, makir g no lurther Bbain Roy sought for her, even with 9B w W~' ft I me ueio 01 aercctives; havingleft home and come to the city for that purpose: i while his mother, no less anxious for j the safety of the lost girl, made what j excuse she could to her assembled ! guests for his absence. After a month -of weary searching he returned, heartsick and discouraged. "Xo news," he said, in answer to his 1 mother's* anxious "questions; "nor will t there ever be. I have lost all hope" of finding her." * v * * * * I A year has passed since gentle Avis disappeared, and once more a gay par; ty of merry guests made The Laurels bright and cheerful, foremost among ' them Rose Brandon, the beauty, and l. 1 aeirt'ss, unu ueiiv;. A great favorite was she with stately Mrs. Livingstone, and there were not wanted those who named her as the future mistress of the splendid but gloomy house which her beauty and joyous* laughter made so bright. Even Roy Livingstone's brow, on which the cloud of disappointment and regret had grown habitual, cleared , somewhat as his artist-eyes took in her fresh proud loveliness; and as he listened to her animated talk, the smile r that had grown so rare stole to his lips, and shone like a light in his eyes. His mother, watching him, -smiled, too, well pleased. * "Is she not beautiful?" she whispered to him. "She would make a fair and gracious queen fur The Laurels, Rov. Sut the gloom came back to his face as he answered sadly: "My queen went into exile, mother, a year ago. I have a constant heart, and cannot transfer my allegiance." nrt-v -r>Tt r*Y*T*V JLW V . WilUU iiuv vx'cox uivn ? ? VAVV of Hose Brandon?"Roy,*hav9 you given op painting? Yon used to be so ambitious. Only a year ago, I remember, you wire enthusiastic about some picture that was to bring you fame. What has become of it? Are yoxz an artist no longer?" "I painted the picture, but never put it or. exhibition. My mother has it in the library. I have never painted since," said Roy gravely. A kind of chill fell on the company; instinctively they felt they were on dangerous ground." Even the beauty's happy voice took a softer tone as she que-tioned gently: "May we see the picture, Roy?" He arose without a word and led the way to the library, the guests all follow"^vv/v T\i*o-n/lr\ri T.nc?f r\f oil J XiJgi K/J HVCU V* UAA came Mrs. Livingstone with her old friend. Mrs. Grey, a fair sad woman .with silver hair. Mrs. Grey was a great invalid; an unconquerable grief had preyed upon her heart for years and broken down her fragile body. She leaned* heavily on Mrs. Livingstone's arm. "What is this picture?" she asked her. "The portrait of one whom I reared and loved as my own child, and whom we urfcccountabiy lost, owing to an unhappy misunderstanding. She was a lovely creature, and was to have been Roy's wife. Sometimes I fear he will j never mam* now." -By this time they had reached the library. Of the many paintings on the wall, one only was concealed by a heavy curtain; Boy"drew the crimson foldsaskle.-? ? ?f. . " An exclamation from Mrs. Grey and Rose Brandon, ar.d a murmur of admiration from all the rest, bore witness to the loveliness of the image that was disclosed. Mrs. Grey pressed forward eagerly, > "her weakness seeming for the time forgotten. The portrait of a graceful girl, fair as a lily-flower; the lovely, wistful eyes, with a world of loving tenderness in their midnight depths, looked out from a face of exquisite beauty, but as ivory, clear and pale; a tender, dimpling smile upon the scarlet' lips, a trailing sorav of scarlet blossoms in the blue-. black" hair, soft and gloSsy as the raven's wing?a simple robe of white, and on one lovely snowy arm a curious golden bracelet. This was all. Mrs. Grey stood like one entrnn^od, her agitation visible to all. Hei .elicate hands were tightly locked together, her breath came ?.n quick gasps. ' How like!" she murmured; "how strangely like! In Heaven's name, who is she?"' "My adopted daughter," Mrs. Liv. ingstone replied,-for Roy had turned aside in s'ience, overcome by the sight cf the beauty he had loved and lost. "Twelve years ago I took her?then ?ive years oitt?irom a poor out nsnermai? down on the beach, three or four miles away. He had rescued her Iron the sea on the night of a great storm, two years before, and had cherished ind eared for her tenderly: but finding sickness and old age fast robbing him Df health and strength, he sought to Gnd a friend for his little girl in me. "Imagination cannot picture anything lovelier than the child was then. I loved her at first sight, and have loved her always. I adopted, educated her, and brought her up as my own. I have the clothes she '"ore when she was found, but they furnish no clue to her parentage, but on her arm, clasped firmly above the elbow, was a bracelet; { it fits her slender wrist now; you see j she wears it in the portrait; upon it is I a single word?the old fisherman tool it to be her name, and so called her; w never changed it. 'Avis' was the word, and 'Avis' she is called " A cry from Mrs. Grey interrupted her; she sank upon her knees before the picture with outstretched arms. "Avis!'f she cried. "My child?it is my child! Fourteen years ago the cruc 1 sea washed her and iier father from my. arms. The waves restored him dead, but she was seen no more. Where is she--oh, where is she? And the clothos she wore?" She sank back in Roy's supporting arms speechless, almost insensible Mrs. Livingstone hastened from the room, but returned immediately with the little garments. Weeping with leve and joy, the longbereaved mother identified them all. "Blessed be the merciful Heaven thai has kept her safely, and restored her to me after all these years. And you, my friend," turning to Mrs. Livingstone, "how shall I "thank you for your ; love and care! Oh, bring her to "me. f Let me clasp her once more in my I arms. Why do you hesitate? I am 1 strong enough, joy does not kill. What ! is i' ?" she continued wildly, gazing I with growing fear upon the pale averted faces of mother and ^on. "Has harm I befallen my child? Havel found her ; only to lose her? Avis, my daughter! j Where is she?" Rose Brandon rushed to her side. "Be calm," she cried. "Avis is safe : and well. No harm has come to her. , Listen to me, I can tell you where to ! frnd her." l'ou!" it was Roy who spoke. "Yon know Avis?" "I know her well, but I have never known, until this moment, of her connection with this family. Why have you kept your loss and grief a secret, Roy? I could have helped you, had I" ! known your troubles, long ago. "It is nearly a year since she came to i us, in answer fo an advertisement for a ! ; music-governoss for little Ida. Mother i : was sick when lirst she called, and con- i 1 sequently I received her. She was so : I beautiful and innocent, and yet so sad | j and friendless, that my whole heart | went out to licr from11 the first. She j told me the simple story of her adopj tion here, and of Hoy's love and hers, i but without mentioning a single name, j so that I never thought of you. She : had left, she said, Tn order that he ' might forget her. She gave me, as a 1 reference, her own former musicj teacher, who, while answering for Avis j in every way. declined to tell anything ! that the girl" had left concealed. So? I she came to ::s. and has dwelt with us j ever since. and. sad, poor child, ] but safe and kindly cared for. X left her at home with Ida and mother when } I came away. She is there now." j Roy Livingstone caught her hands in ] his, and press d them to his lips. < "God bless you, Rose!" he cried, j hoarse with emotion. "You hare given ] me back happiness and love. Mrs. < l Grey, I will bring your daughter to you. ] I go by the train that leaves in halt an \ hour; before nightfall you shall fold ] her in your arms. Adieu, all V and lie < was gone. < ? * * * * ^ The dusky grey of an autumn twi- ( light filled the lonely schoolroom that ] afternoon, but occasionally Hashes of ] light, from a small but cheerful fire, j fell on the slender girlish figure that sat before it in a low armchair, her i soft pale cheek supported by ono little i hand, her eves fixed on the glowing i ? * ? ? coals. * 1 S -J? 1 1 J J I A worm oi iongmg iovo aau ioiiu iu- i grct was in those great dark eyes, that saw not what they gazed upon, but were looking far away into the past. Thinking of Hoy?always thinking of Roy. Where was he? Ho v.* fared he? Had he forgotten Avis? Alas! poor Avis couid not. forget! Hark! what was that? A footstep In tho hall outside the iloor. Nothing in that to make the .eyes so bright and the pale cheek flush to vivid crimson! Ah. but it had I sounded like Roy's footstep. Roy's | footstep here?what idle dreaming! | What strange tricks fancy played her I oftentimes.. j She couid close her eyes, and hide i her face in her hands, as now?now, partly for shame at her own fond folly ?and fancy, oh, such things! Fancy The Laurels her happy home once : more, and Mrs. Livingstone her kind ? adopted mother! Jt'ancy Koy.s tenacr ? smile and losing look"; recall the very 1 words he spoke?his earnest tone?his t sigh. ; What was that ? Th at was not fancy, surely? She sat quite still?her face still covered by her hands?and listened; a sigh had sounded close beside her, breathed like the very echo of her dream; and now a voice?oh, Heaven, what voice!?whispered her name: "Avis! Look at me, Avis!" She turned, she rose, gazed for one moment in his face as 5 bewildered; then, with a cry of love and jov unutterable: "Roy! my beloved!1' sprang to the arms, sank;oi? the breast of her true ??"Yon r T VmnT,> ",ha * "You have' found me!" "Never to lose you again, Avis? never again!" "And your mother?" Her great eyes searched his face timidly, anxiously. "She will welcome you as I do. We shall part no more. You will, learn, dear, that she never meant to part us. And another waits for you. Oh, come, love, come to the heart that aches to orm c rvf TWHT AW71 I JVU VV - w- true mother." - i * * * * * Z ? Only one month later, a brilliant ] bridal party aroused to joy and mirth i the slumbenng echoes of The Laurels. ' And who so fair as Avis, the sweet ^ bride, with her troop of lovely brides- } maids, of whom Rose Brandon laughed' t and blushed, the merry chief? Who so ? rich, so proud, so happy as Avis now? t Avis, the foundling, found, indeed, at t last, and by her own true mother. Avis, t the lost, restored to all who loved and t mourned her; Avis, the joyful bride of g the generous noble lover who, in the s days of her poverty and namelessness f ?in spite of time, and absence, and si- i Ience, and desertion?loved her faith- i fully and truly to the last. s r The Crown Prince of> Russia. J \ Grand-duke Nicholas was born May i IS, 1SG8, at Czarskoe Selo (Czar's Yil- c Inge), an imperial summer palace, fif- r teen miles south of St. Petersburg. { This spacious palace stands upon the t Neva bank, over two hundred feet -v above the water, and is surrounded by I extensive grounds so perfectly kept s that you can hardly find even a dead i leaf upon the lawns. T . Crown princes have so much to learn c that they must begin early and lose no time. Until his ninth year the educa- s tion of the young Grand-duke was su- t perintended by Sladame de Flotow,one of the kdies of honor who had followed s the Princess Dagmar from Denmark to f T>.1 CT7 titoo rriT7Pn \ Xli J.IJC I (/iiV OUUlpU fj ^?*v~ | x to Lieutenant-General Danilovitch, who f has arranged the Prince's hours of in- i struction in accordance with those of c the military gymnasiums. His regular 1 lessons are from eight in the morning s till three in the afternoon, hut with sucn e intermissions that they never exceed a five hours a day. His* afternoons are s spent in walks with the Emperor, ?r in s outdoor sports,?riding," swimming, t fishing, fencing, gymnastics.?of all of- j which he is very fond; and his evenings t are devoted to preparing for next days t lessons, reading, and keeping a diary, c ! He-is an excellent scholar and linguist;- \ ! enters into his studies withmuphspirit, . and speaks fluently Russian, Danish, t French, German, and English. The crown princes of England and Germany 1 may study if they like at the universi- t ties, but the heir of Russia must be ed- i nwtfiri hv private tutors. a Last May, upon his sixteenth birth- j day, the day on which the Prince be- < came of ?ge, he renewed his oath of adherence to the orthodox church, the e ceremonies taking place in the chapel of the Winter Pal ce at St. Petersburg. \ As licir to the Russian throne, he ac- t companied the Emperor and Empress c to their recent meeting with the sover- \ ei<?us of Germany and Austria. fc In person tho Prince is slight and f delicately formed, with fair complexion i and auburn hair; and he usually wears 1 a sailor costume, which suits his slend- t er figure.. He is a member of the Preo- c brajensky (Transfiguration) Guard, the p famous regiment founded by Peter the t Great; and by birth he is Attaman (chief) of all the Cossacks of the em| pire. It is his privilege to wear the i ! uniform of any regiment he pleases.? \ Edna Dean Proctor, in St. Nicholas. t - . ?- ! It is stated that William Thaw, of * Pittsburg, is worth $25,000,000. It will be a cold day when Thaw sets left. BARBER PHILOSOPHY. Why Men Don't Shave in Winter. "They say, you know, that saloonkeepers and barbers .g?yci\ see dgil :imes," remarked a street "bai^ jcr r.s he made several " preliminary ;lips at the. reporter's^ fotelock^-?Vbut [ am telling you.' different "W^e have Dur ups and downs just lite thie hardwire and dry-goods men. In summer, ,:or instance, we generally shave 200. do a a, day here, but to-day I have bad )nly about seventy-five in," and I don't ;uppose fifty more will show up before .ve close. For the next six or seven nonths we won't average more than ? - J T?*. ? Lou customers u uaj. o l u, xmvi.%* ligher, please. There now, st-e-a-dy." The reporter settled himself in his acw position, and the man continued: "Lots of men begin to let out their jeards about now. The middle-aged nen want to be comfortable, and a Deard is a big protection to the throat shaving cleans off the dirf, and4 hair, ind dead skin from a man's face and eaves all the pores of the skin open, ;o that when he goes out cf a hot fcarDer-shop into the cold air he is bound ;o catch cold in spite of all the bay nm you can put on. More clean.;haved men have throat trouble and jatarrh than those that grow beards in ;he winter. The. young dudes who ?an raise beards let them out so as to ook stylish and Englishy. The very atest tony thing, you know, is the VIother Hubbard beard." The reporter interpolated a gasp of .vonder in the barber's stream of conversation as he questioned, "What is ;hat?" "If you want a Mother Hubbard vhisker," continued the knight of the razor, "keep your sides and chop whisrwy-n +<-> wifTlin ftn ITIfih md a half of jour chin, where you let :hem grow long. Then train and trim ;his long part into the shape of an inrerted half-moon; fix the long ends so ;hat they- point abont for your armpits, md. you've got a Mother Hubbard Deard. They are the swell thing among ;he London dudes for this winter." "Are full beards to be the fashion :his winter, do you mean?" "That's about the size of it. I guess [ have had more young fellows asking ne about how long their beards would ;ake to grow, whether I had any invig>rator to help out the hair just below ;he lips, or how to train and part whiskers, than I ever had before. Here's a French'arrangement I got in a week igo for training beards when they are starting," taking something resembling i David's sling made of rubber from :he shelf. "I have sold ten of them since they got here from New York." "How do they work?" "The rubber, you see, is made to fit ;he chin and jaw. mat seam m me niddle goes right up and down where rou want your beard to part. When a nan uses this he must first put a little vax.on his chin whiskers when they're ibout one inch out and then fit that ;eam down the middle of his chin and ihroat. When he goes to tie those strings behind his head the rubber itretches and pulls back tho hair so ,hat it sets towards his ears, just in the ight shape for a dude whisker. .If a el low follows these directions for five w-aLx-nT^kts he will?htrcTEc 'Eaar' oa, . lis face fixed so that -it won't lauling, and pulling, and brushing into: shape. Besides, a man by using this lan look respectable with only s twoveeks' growth on his face, and his jeard will appear to- be a full.-growth mt back." "I should think that the strain on a nan's chin would be too tiresome for ;he machine to be practicable." "Oh, no. Just put one on for a few lights in succession and you can sleep vhile your beard is bejng trained. It ;aves all the pulling that ruins a beard, fou get the habit of pulling and twistng your whiskers when you're starting em, and you will never get over it. fou'll keep on pulling ana twisting till rou split the hair out at the ends, and ;hen your whole beard will ^et ragged md stubborn like a gambler's musache. Too much trimming, oftener; han once in two weeks say,, makes. :a? leard.stiffj while too much combing or ingering splits the hairs and stops their' growth. Lots of men say to me after having off a' beard they have been ussing with all winter: 'what makes oy face so sore? Ever since I shaved nv neck chafes/ etc. 'Your hair is plit,' I always tell them. They have ubbed and twisted the hair together, -ou see, till it is all split up so that vhen they shave it back into the skin- . t splits before it can grow out and turls in under the skin. Half of the nen with chafed necks and broken out aces can attribute their trouble to just his cause. Oh, this French business fill be ah A1 thing after people get told of the notion that it is as much of l business to raise a beard as it is to nake shoes, or?or?" and the barber ??.nsf?r? fnr breath while he tried to Sub lue the reporter's unruly scalp-lock. "What did you mean when you poke about a gambler's stubby musache?" "Well, you know these phrenologists ay that they can tell what kind of a ellow they have hold of by feeling of tis hair. If it is silky they call him reined, bat if it is rough they .say he is 10 good. Now? I say I can fell a good leal about a man by the way he keeps lis whiskers. A nervous man nearly tlways has-a short, stubby, and chewtd-up mustache. Gamblers' mustaches ire abotat always that way. Watch ome of 'em at a faro or roulette table ome time, and you'll notice, that when he double-nought green scoops theif >ile or they copper the ace at the wrong ime the mustache has to catch it. If hey're in hard luck they keep one hand >n the chips and the other at their vhiskers. Do you ever bet?" "Yes, when I've got a pretty sure hing." "Well, if you want to make a slick ittle bet some time, mind what I'm e'Jling you. Ask some fellow how many nustaches he would bet there were imong a hundred men passing some >lace. How many, now, would you juess?" "About fifty wvouId be a pretty libiral figure, I should say." ' There it is; everybody is just so rild. Now, I am telling you gospel ruth when I say that on an average lighty-five men out of every hundred rear "mustaches, and you can prove it >y counting. Is that all to-day?"careully plastering the inverted "arch of iair. "You better buy one of those Tench"?but the reporter had fled hrough the side door to hide his ashes >f roses shoes from the eyes of the im(ortunate bootblack.? Chicago Triune. An aeronaut named Pricc was half a nile high when his balloon burst, at Nevada, Mo., and for most of the dis;ance he fell with an awful velocity; but ;he bag happened to fill with air it ;uch a manner that the descent was regarded for the rest of the distance, and :he man was not fatally injured. C A Practical Joke. v - * One Chicago man h^is had enough of practical jokes.. Jones and Jenkins arc partners. Jones is a Democrat and Jcnkics is a Republican While the excitement over the New York count was at its bight, Jones invited Jenkins over to'his house to spend the evening Thinking." to-havfc'a little fun with his partner, Jones got an American fiag a picture of Blaine, and a stuffed eagle and* fixed them up very gracefully on his front-parlor mantel. Then, to make the thing more.binding, he got a friend to write, a message" to himself, purporting to come from New York, stating inac uoc count naa Deen nmsaea ana that Blaine had the state br 7,000 majority. ' : ' When. Jenkins arrived he was greatly pleased with the demonstration made. by his" .Mend, and took' great sat-' isfactioEL in. reading.and rereading the telegram containing. the good . news. After supper--he became uneasy, .and about 9.0 clock he excused himself and went * away: J ones. was: immensely pleased with tho sucgess.of his game. "I fryv-to rub it on-tliescJeHeiB,-'' he said fcTfcis.wife.,, /tXow .this thing.has. been hanging % ihe;j?Wsajoqg ifoat: it won^jOTflt thc^TrrwX'-ta'Ifet jroV but let gomust.; ^I^fhOugh't^J-just1 raise h^hppessky-high and-dash them to the ground".- You see he-s gone home now,rtbld3dng tire-country is safe, and' to-mcrrow morning he'll want -imountain t^^pa^him,^.. ^ TheTEtext diry Jories was-' afr his office bright and earlj' irtlt Jenkins did not appear.*? Noonlcame,-- and- still he * was-, missing."*' Jones ^elepSonea up'to' his" partner's -boardmg-piace, i)u?-nobody had 3eeir him .there.;'- Then he became troubled and sat;de>WAto meditate. He was iust revolving half adozenschemes in his mind when"a telegraph boy camo in with a dispatchda?ea at some town down in the country where both men used to>live, and whiclrran as follows: "Took night train lor home and have drawn our balance-at sight this morning for betting. "Woods full of chumps here;wio want to. bet two to one on Cleveland. '-'-All the money up on Blaine, and want more. Borrow what you can and telegraph it to mc before -the office closes.1?-- - ; "GerieraTJackson and all the proph"etsi" yelled the unhappy Jones. "Suffering Moses! Four thousand dollars up on BlainC, and every dollar of ready cash-blown in! Hold.on here, you .boy! Hold on!" Come here "till I write an answer to this infeiyial idiot." Then he wrote briefly, but pointedly: . "Hedge; Tiedge, hedge, or we're ruined. My:;information was wrong. Double rm-oiivourself. Conner it. Bet on Cleveland, 200,000 majority in Texas, or something else that's safe." Tftien the boy had gone it occurred to Jones that Jenkins had no money to hedge with, and that he must do that part of the business himself. Securing a fat Toll of bills he made frantic haste for the^pool-rooms, and arrived there just in .time to see a big crowd reading a bulletin that the official -count had been completed and that Cleveland had 1,100 plurality. Ota his'way back to the office he stopped/ in at his bank and was in-, formed "that Jenkins had telegraphed ail? for an advance of $500 and that thev t * l1 lo tV 'tilting his'draft for-the full amount of "the firm's deposit. "Of course if s all right," the cashier said, "but you know what the rule is and you'd better fix up the little balance as soon as possible. We don't usually permit overdrafts." Jenkins got back in the course of time, and he explained that he supposed Jones' pointer was from the inside, and he thought it best to make all he could on it. Jones smiled in a sickly way, and talked a good deal about suing somebody in New York for damages, but privately he is a chastened man. ?(Jfiicago nerma. Ladies1 Costumes in AfricaThe only primitive costumes we saw, writes one of our' correspondents, was on the first drEy'Ieaving Assouan on the left bank?the country of the Kalabseh ?where the young ladies simply wore round the loins a fringe composed of thin leather strips. The married ladies were clothed to the feet. Curiously enough, the*woraen on both banks hate or dread being looked at through a glass. One I saw run away, screaming as hard as she could; others at once cover their blanching faces .with their .hands. It is a fact not generally known that dark-skinned ladies blush white. Others again -anathematize you according to a fashion all over the East, even among the Greeks of Constantinople, by holding up their hand, palm outward, .and. jerking it toward you. This, I-am told, means May five devils seize you! -If they wish to emphasize the spell they put up ten fingers. Others say this is a protection against the evil At some village*. cucouraged by the soldiers who biscuits from the decks, lad> anJ girls ran frantically, along the banks scrambling for them, to the. great indignation of the.landowners oYer wbese crops they^ran riot. In vain these colored gentlem'en1 stood in the way, Hying mud and stones'at theirr. They scrambled by, a^d continued the chase a.-; long as biscuit was flung or until dead beat.- London NCWS. - r <>-*-???-? The Reason. "Look here," said a judge to a juryman, "I do not desire to wound your feelings, but why don't yon put on a clean shirt?" "Because my wife has been very busy for several days and I have had no one to sew on buttons." ' ^ * "Hasn't your wife had time to sew on a button?" "No, sir," "What's the matter, children sick?" "No, sir, children somewhat dirty, but in good health." "What is your wifo doing that kocps her so constantly employed?" "Well, you sec, several days ago, our minister came around and said that by such a time he had to have 200 pairs of breeches to send to the heathens, and my wife?good soul . that she is?has koan VineTT ??T'fli- Wfllt. llldcf? uug; WW ~ J till she gets through, and then I'll come around and dazzle this court with the whitest shirt you ever seed."?Arkansaw Traveler. ? ?* All the animals were sitting around quietly after the afternoon'performance, and the giraffe was thoughtfully observing her colt snufling about the lamps at the top of the center-pole. "Young man," she said at last, as he thrust about eleven and a half linear feet of neck through an opening in the canvas to look out upon the world, "telescope yourself in out of the damp October air" A colt with a swallowing thing like a telegraph pole has no business tampering with the croup."?Burling ton Hawkeye, - - . FEMALE TOOTH PULLERS. Hd\t a Girl's Sleeve Around a Man's Neck Will Knock Spots Out of Laughing Gas. The country seems to be slowly but surely drifting into womanhood. If things continue to go as they have been going for the past two years, future grammarians will have a license for swearing that the world belongs to the feminine gender. Everybody is getting to be female, government offices, stenographic positions, attorneys, physicians, barbers, and woman, the glorious creation and embodiment of all that costs money, has at last stepped I Doiuiy into me aentiss s omce anu 01fered -to trade off $100,000 worth of pain for fifty cents spot cash. If more women adopt the practice of dentistry, there will be less howl floating about the "home of the brave and land of the free'*' than there is just at present. It is a very strong-willed man indeed, who refrains from letting off a concatenation of wail from the time he strikes the bottom stair of a toothpulling factory, until the dentist stands over ins senseless remains,, flourishing liisjawand a fragment7>f^S#tootfi in theairT%demanding a.dollar and. a half , for his . kindness for . noi; polling the whole front of his head (iff. People wio" live next door to a dentist, and are obliged to go down to the boiler factory. when they want to enjoy some .sleep, .. can testify to this. Woman will put more bravery into the frame of a man than any other negotiable article in the country, excepting, perhaps, poor whisky. Man in the presenee of man is weak, but beneath the soulful and belladonnaful eyes of woman - he's stronger than a ninety-foot derrick. We speak from experience. From this argument then, it will be readily seen that, where a man should howl loud <nough'to hail a ship in the A'driatic sea, when he was > - - it - 3 J ! TT_"I * Having a tootn puiiea ay a man. in jxaiamazoo, put a woman with .a force attachment on to the same tooth and a fellow would hire a. deaf-and-dumb" man to do the talking for him, while he -lav ana quietly gazed up the sleeve of the fair murderess,- who was trying to pull his boots off over his head. The only objections to female dentists arc, that they are liable to render the male portion of the population of the United States toothless, eventually, and ' that the laughing gas, ether and chloroform traffic will suffer. When a fellow goes to a female dentist, who carries a fair amount of sweet lips, pearly tooth, azure eye, peachy cheek aud'-sylph-like form, it. is hardly safe for a friend_to"jsuggest to him that it would be a good idea io hide behind an anaesthetic, nine times out of ten he won't know what the word means, and anil von of oallinc nflmfts. or else he will become suspicious that you have an idea that he is'nt brave, and couldn't set and have his lungs and several internal equipments extracted _ by a woman without making some large disturbance. Let the woman place her left arm-around a fellow^ head and a peculiar sensation is immediately bivouaced along his spine; she bends . low down, her eyelashes tickle the cheeks of her patient; the forceps steal into his yawning abyss, and in,the excitement of the moment, he don't pulled his tooth. There isn't a fellow in Christendom who has ?rot common sense that will say that there is anything about laughing gas that will knock the feeling so tcetotally out of a fellows make-up, as a girl's sleeve around his neck and her breath playing over his face. Woman may usurp man, but she is doing much to supplant miserv with pleasure.?St. Paul Eer- . .aid. Grant at Fort Doiiclson. From an illustrated article on "The Battle of Fort Donelson," by General Lkjw Wallace, in the December Century, i tvc take the following: "There were in , attendance on the occasion some officers of great subsequent nobility. Of these Ulysses S. Grant was first. The : world knows him now; then his fame was all before him. A singularity. of the volunteer service in . that day was ; that nobody took account of even a first-rate.-record in the Mexican War. < The battle of Belmont, though indecisive, was a much better reference. A story was abroad that Grant had been tlm lost, man to take boat at the end of that affair, ar.d the addendum that he had lingered in the face of the enemy until he was hauled aboard with the last gang-plank, did him great good. From the first his silence was remarkable. He knew how to keep his temper. In ha* tie, as in camp, he went about quieily, speaking in a conversational tone; yet he appeared to see everything that went on, and was always intent on business. He had a faithful assistant adjutant-general, and appreciated him: he preferred however, his own eyes, word,- and hand. His , aides were little more than messengers. T:i dress he was plain, even negligent; in partial amendment of that his horse was always a good one and well kept. At,the council^-caliin<r it such by grace ?he smoked, but never said a word. In all probability he was framing the orders of march which were issued that night." v Exigency, Not Charaoter. "There is character in every step a' person takes," said a man who thought he knew it all, so far as the science of gait was concerned. "When I saw you pass our house the other day, Miss Clara, I was impressed by the easy, independent freedom of your walk. Such firm yet gentle strides betrayed the dominant unconventionally of your. ^ character.51 He was a Doctor of Divinity, and I didn't care to sass him, but I felt bound in Christian honesty to ask him: "Was I wearing my brown and black plush suit?" He believed so. "Then I was making a special effort to take long, swinging steps," I said, "because that is the only way I can make the confounded drapery swish ?? ?T- a. 4- -n/\f rtl>or_ rignu JLiiiiL) UVU V/iiOfcacter. See me in my new dark-blue street costume, with its narrow skirt and internal strappings, and you'll say I'm a mincer from Minceville."?Clara Belle, in Ike Cincinnati Enquirer. m > m Fair Philistine?"Yes, tfe've just returned from a visit to Antwerp, and of course we saw Ruben's great picture at the cathedral. I don't like it a bit I never yet saw any picture by him I did j like."' Artist (more in sorrow than in i anger)?"Perhaps you have not come i across the best examples of that great i master." Fair Philistine?"Perhaps i not. Bv-the-bv, there was one Kubens I ? T 55" A-*:.,*. tllCFU J. ilKUU* auidt ^uiuui ivu^twi ? ' All! there was one. I'm glad of, that." Fair PhiI;,; ;?"Yes; it was a picture of his deatu, painted by somebody elso"--Judy. . ' .' : - I''. ' ; ? ' * ^ :* ? ? - 'i. '.V English Snobbery. There is, however, in England, as in every other country, a disposition to greatly exaggerate the advantage which the United States enjoys in possessing so much cheap land. I was told, only yesterday, but that for this we might be as backward as any country. - To. which I replied: "Do "you really attribute our prosperity to land alone?" "Yes," was the "answer. "How, then, is it that Russia, with so much productive soil, is a land of miserably poor peasants?" "Ah! the Russians are a very different people from the Americans." "There,"'I said, "at the very first question you change your argument from the land to the character of the inhabitants." Adam Smith has shown that, in fact, the worst land in any country is generally the first set tied, it is- not understood, nere, or elsewhere in Europe, that the truest, elements of prosperity in $ country are freedom, equality, justice, and education. Add to this free exchanges without much extravagance, few paupers, and very few immoderate fortunes, and we should have the chief elements . of material prosperity,-. Jli seei&ke, ..let as. say, one thousand'men, aadsetfie thenf anywhere, there may be found for everyone his work..If tbey^oaaprodsco: more than they can consume of any fabric or .material, let them sell it to another eominunity. But if we iotro-" duce to this commerce a millionaire^ a lord, or any person who will keep a large train of half-idle servants, and establish extravagant standards ofL liyr ing and wants beyond tne reacn or tne majority, we at oneebring m that wbich; results in indolence, poverty land rice.' An aristocracy did greai-goed and fittie harm during the middle -ages; now the conditions are" exactly reversed* The point was long since passed in' America when .this became geneialfy understood. Here in England we a$e: just getting to it. Half .tne world axe, still more than h^lf convinced of the" trqth of the oouplet: . " ' ' Let laws andTearniag or religion die, But^. oil I preserve our old not^liyi, ,s while the other "half, are beginning to believe for every grain of independence and culture in the aristocrat there Necessarily results ounces, ii not pounds of flunkeyism and degradation in> Ins -de-, pendents and admirers. I. have spoken of the rapidly growing, prosperity of England and the manifest improvement in the education and appearance of the lower class..Just in. ^proportion, to this is the growing impatience -at the prestige of mere rant .and inherited, wealth, and 'the * -wtger that such' beings as flunkeys, and servile follower# and dependents should be regularly trained and made, so to speafc, to disgrace the name of Englishman. Thack>~ eray was the first to snow what a* niean snob and slave an Englishman coukL become by being a servant and ? parasite, and now the higher the lord was, the lower the lackey became. I believe that to his< works more is due than tcr any other, cause that the educated - ami more intelligent people of- Great Britain have of late 'separated themselves from the titled classes, and begun to speak less kindly of them. Twenty years ago people laughed - at James' yellow plnsh, and scorned the snob; now they^are^begi^ing. to jaajc why Once they would kill the snake to punish him for being one; now they would do it to prevent future snakes from coming.?C. G. Leland, in New Orleans Times-Democrat, 'Jen. O. F. Smith at Fort Donclson, From General Lew Wallace's illustrated account of the capture of Fort Donelson, in the December Centurvywe quote the. following: "Taking Lauman's brigade General Smith began the advance. They " were under. fixe instant ly. The guns in the fort joined in with the infantry who were at the time in the rifie-pits, the groat body of the . Confederate right wing being with General Buckner. The defense was great- _ ly favored by the ground, which subjected the assailants to a double fire from the beginning of the abatis. The n.en have said that 'it looked -too thick for' a rabbit to get through.' General Smith, on his norse, took, position in the front and center of the line. Occasionally he turned in his saddlo to see how the alignment was kept For the most part, however, heheiJ his face steadily toward the enemy. He was, of course, a conspicuous object for the sharpshooters in the rifle-pits. The airaraundhim twittered with * minie- . hnllol-c no if nrt review, he rode on,- timing the gait of his horse with the movement of his colcfts. > A soldier said: 'I was nearly scared to death, but I saw the old man's white mustache over his shoulder, and went on.' "On to the abatis the regiments moved without hesitation, leaving a trail of dead and wounded-behind- There the lire seemed to grow trebly hot, and. there some of the men halted, whereupon, seeing the hesitation,General Smith put his cap on the point of his sword, held it aloft, and railed out, 'No fiinchiag now, my lads!?Here?this is the wav! Come on!'. He, picked a path through the jagged limbs of the trees, holding his cap all the time in sight; and the effect was magical. The men swarmed in after him, and got through in the best order they could?not all of " them, alas! On the other side of the obstruction they took the semblance of re-formation and charged in after their chief, who found himself then between the two fires. Up the ascent he rode; up they followed. At the last moment the keepers of the rifle-pits olambered out ami fled. The four regiments en gaged in the feat?the Twenty-fifth Indiana, and the Second, Seventh,-and Fourteenth Iowa?planted their colorson the breastwork. And the gray-haired hero set his cap jauntily on his head, pulled his mustache, and rode along the front, chiding them awhile, then laughing at them. He had come to stay. "Later in the day, Buckner camc back with his division; but all his efforts to dislodge Smith were vain.11 Twenty acres of land at the northwestern extremity of Manhattan Island were sold recently for $75,000. Historically this property possesses great interest. Irving,in his ' Knickerbocker's History of Xew York," refers to it as "the promontory which projects into the Hudson," and from which the valorous but unfortunate Van Corlear? the favorite trumpeter of old Peter Stuvvesant?attempted, "in spite of the devil," to swim across the dark andstormy waters of the creek to the West-. Chester shore. During the revolutionary war it was at different times occupied by the contending forces. The railway up * esuvius oas already paid for itself; the trains which ascend night and day, are well patronized by native and foreign sight-seerg, all strangers ascending nowadays, whereas formerly a foot ascent was so irksome that only the daring undertook the ron"d trip ? <;LKA3HSe&: Six millions oi dollars* worth of sH ver is used in this. couafcy-eTery year for manufacturing and decoraiavo par poses. Fqrty years ago there, was only om daguerreotype galley in New York City. Now within three mflesoftfrMojC Square there- are not less than 500 photograph galleries. The town of Newington, N.EL, has no store, no saloon,^? debt, na lawyer, * no doctor, nobody in the almshouse, and "no one to molest or make one. ' afraid." It has one. .churchy. It is estimated that more^than, 3^000 people have moved aWayfram. Portland, Ore., during the last year, and . the town is uncomfortably fu& of va cant residences ana store-rooms. Ten pounds of normal alcohol have been made from six pounds of watermelon, pulp. Free sulphuric acidWas added, the mixture was. warmed, and ? * the sugar was changed info glucose. This product ferments direct^. " ? The number of mecfo^ cone^ea _u ' inhere is less blood in (^-bkwyled than in wanr-blooded. anrnais. . The about a gallon and a half of bfeiQ& equal to one-thirtieth cihis-weight. , '"Rn^wTimow mBfth' iltfafer iff. tervaiS than A rng|n/>An?-wry -ta The fanifbor' dav, and msome pf the baronial halk_ iri England the tables-'are spread for meals, at intervals of four hours during the day and evening,; i ^Polographk" is.rthe naiae of. a new. iciene^jnst introduced.m.Jamce^ It-. is. the, act of discriminrting clmracter :bf thebeard, dose-growing- tear indicates a vigorous temperanasatr eo?rsohiir obstin acy; - fine -hairr-refinement; curly beards, "brilliancy;-etc.- ~J ' General Joe Johnson who-is now 7? years old, does not 2oc^;o^.6& - He :is as straight as^an arr&Wj. awl^pn^, sign of age is seen .in" :h3s' sSiy.gray, -hair, which flows in sQverycurls almost to his shoulders, and in his: full gray : beard. Otherwise he might pass for. a young man. A new clock has been' invented, and coming into Use in Europe, which is warranted by its manufacturers to run for five years without either winding; or regulation. The Belgian ^Government .placed one in a railway Station, in1881, sealed with the Government ?Cal, as&it k nas kept perfect 4din? ever since. ' Massachusetts . has r, more- - railroad travel than any ;other. State in. ion. The number of passengers car ried By the roads last year-.was 53,000,OOOl Penns5ivan?;com?s 50,000,000, and New Yorfena^Vwith. 44,000,000. Illinois, New. Jersey and Ohio follow in the order named* . The citizens of La Grande, W. T~ hare posted tlie following notice: "Tinhorn gamblers, - opimn Sends and stranglers are hereby warned to iaav? this camp within twelve- hours. . Their. . A comparison made in fcheLondon meteorological office of Atlantic temperature returns from ,^bo?fc :SB?ntpeight ships, containing 4i&-Jeceat ob-. serrations, with data. for piayjaar years, reveals the fact that dqpi^g-last. summer thcoceanin the Gulf. Stream's coarse was abnormally wartsi. The streets of Wrnmpeg, Manitoba, es. languidly stare at dawtily-dressed ladies of fashion Stolid _ half-breeds walk back and forth with toes turned in, while "Indian squawj trudge along with their infants strapped to boards on their backs. Mounted police . in. scarlet coats and white helmets add AAIAV fVrn oAAnn ' . ' VV1V1 KV W40 OVA/UV* A few days ago some-, dry sage on the battlefield of Missionary Eidge, near * Chattanooga, Tenn.,took fire and the flames spread with ^reafc rapidity. A stump soon blazed v. a and In a Jew seconds a roar like launder, reverberated down the valley, and the stump was blown intoten thousand pieces. Investigation developed the fact &s& three shells were imbedded in the stamp : and exploded from the heat: The old Schuyler mansion inAIbany, now to be raised, was built in 1700 oy V the wife of General l'hilip Schuyler, and was a marvel of grandeur in its early days. Franklin ,LafayettevAaroQ Burr, and Rochambeau were, among; its guests. Here Burgoyne . was .^heST a prisoner after his" surrender at r Saratoga, and in 1781 a desperate effort, was made by Tories and Indians to capture General Schuyler. Gatheringjiis itmU ly in an upper room he stood seige ua?.. til relief came. The grown-up.3iormons axe exoeodingly hard to convert to anjlihjng^lilsa orthodox Christianity.1 But tie teach cis duu juuadiviuuwa mv ?j-i-^ ?w evangelize Utah are - at work on- the children, who are plenty in- that conn-. been built aFa cost of nearly $!l$,000l and a dozen or more schools are held in rented buildings. There ars about 7,500 Mormon children ..mider-antiMormon instruction, and &ey are said to make good scholars. In a case of extensive burn unhealed, after six years, Dr. FrankC. Wilson, of Louisville, Ky., in .the says: "I made use of ; three ..different-. kinds of skiu grafts, namely, fnom 4he . skin of a young rabbit, fromthe hu- ' man skin, and from the inner membrane of a hen's perfectly fresh egg,**-' > ' Of , the three, he much preferred, the ! egg membrane as t>e;ng muca - mors readily obtained, and one egg will sujr ply any number of grafts nev&pd.. The great cathedral in the eity of Mexico is e largest in America, and j cost nearly $2,(XXMXX)* It yr?^cca&iimeneed by the Spaniards in, <573, on . the site of the old Aztec temple,. or.gw? _ _ amid, and finished in 1667. lis facade . is beautifully carved- Against - its western wall leans its celehrate4.grt?en?r-- - * dar, covered with hieroglyphics,.-a?4~:. weighing twenty-five tops*, J&kgajfo which the Mexican Government is at present engaged in: taking, willbe exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition. At La Canada, at Los Angeles, Cal-c: ifornia, what is known as.".cani grass," a wild kind of pampas^ is very abn?v. dant. During the spring and summer it is green, fresh, and abundant, growing to a straight height of -frost nine to ten and a half feet. Yet the stalks aw small, also the roots, but they a^. ?^ tViof o -arinrl rv?nlH not hlrtW tb?m an iota from the perpendicular. Eat i& the fall and winter tiua.grojrgi b?*. ? comes stiff, with a strong ?bre? amS.with proper application?there an? many acres of it?would" make better > paper than straw or c'ac&is* -^jk ^sssgt >^0