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? * SgBgBgg5ggSgg*^gggy85gBegggi h riiw'if'Ti'wncj'rrii L muv-ftiryr^ymwrnW, ttmm i. vi' iii ??gjhni7^r>ijiw^ii.ii WEimMa^iyi^rMnnii;>n7jjWljiii_rrig?jjgj<^BBBfli^ iygaaia*?*wM|^gagaM^?^ww? __________ ,, ... ?- i>j?. .? ?... c? 1 a^?nn inn i mm 1 n mm?f VOL. XLII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1885. NO. 15. Free. Frcel -what dors it moan to be free? Is freedom a tangible object that we can all see. Or is it a measure created by mind. By laws invisible, weighed and defined? Free! Is this a term whose limit and rule Has ever been fixed by schedule, or school? Has its birth been traced in the annals of time. Or its sounding: been taken by plummet or line? , Freedom of self, or freedom of land. Means frrowth of the spirit?the power to ox?.pand? ^ The knowledge of needs in life here on earth, 4k And the solving of these by a standard of ,"5* -worth. To be free is to throw off the freightage of fpflrs To petition for truth, and when it appears, p. Though startling in form or strange to the r sight. To welcome it frankly in name of the right. , To bo free Is to stand at the ccntcr of being and pray That our own inner Jives be attuned in a way That the chords of consciousness answer and 7 thrill To the touch of the Infinite hand and the In Unite will. ?Ella Dare. ADVENTURES OF A LOITERER. '?1 Leonce tie Nerdnn was a delightful fellow. He was 25 years old, had a beautiful black beard, elegantly trimmed, a coat cut in the latest style, an income of 15,000 francs, a law licentiate's diploma in a drawer, plenty of V 11, UIUUU OWU-?WJUiauvv? V* ? WW... ? and an honorable name. Having nothing to do, he was good for nothing. And how could he amuse himself? When a man is poor, the efforts necessary to him, his humble discouragements and joys, his disappointed hopes, arc occupation enough for this mind. But it is quite otherwise to the man who lacks nothing. Agreeable lodgings, excellent meals, rides in the Bois rmd a box at the opera, are r all a man want, but they are not very satisfying. To begin over again every morning, and turn the same mill all day every day, makes a pretty poor life. So thought Leoace, as ho tapped the pavement with his heels in a melv sncboly fashion. Chance, however, gave him an idea, and rescued him from his heaviest monotony?that of living by himself. He found the unexpected, which is even more difficult to discover than the real. " He was mechanically following the -long arcades of the Rue de Rivoli, one day, when he heard two full, joyous, amusing voices. He saw before him two rotund, solid men, with happy ) faces. From the conversation, he soon learned that they were provincials. Happy men! How they did enjoy themselves, and everything and * t everybody! And what plans they were making! For that dav, the mor row, the next day, and the day. after that- They did not hope to have time to see and do everything, but they were i*oing to try. An idea flashed into Leonce's mind like lightning. "1 do not know what ?- lo do," he thought; "I will do just what these men do. Perhaps it will - be interesting, I will follow them all day, and will be the voluntary slave of two men who do not suspect their Leonce did as he proposed, and at the cid of the day he was surprised to_ g- ?'fhfd that ifc frnd- really unjuyCCL iumW' v.- self. He had seen in. the very Paris ^ y where he had been born a host of ^ things of whose existence he had never *7 ' areameo. i The day having proved one-^f the most agreeable in his life, Lco?e resolved to repeat the same method of * procedure as often as possible. Every morning about 9 o'clock ho went to lounge in the Kue de Kivoli, and as soon as he saw a provincial of attractive appearance he gave the direction KJo Iitn ir\y tJiof ii??r hie ImnHc. Ul U1J iliv iVl VUUU M?kl MAW We must acknowledge that Leonce soon preferred the ladies to the gentlemen; because, to be sure, the iady l brought him more amusement than the gentleman. The woman is immensely superior in imagination; her caprices have infinite variety, the unexpected ha3 a larger part in her existence; she i 1. in/v ??n/l r?/-kMlir?tr f 1- I "V XJLlUdl OCW C1C1J buiu^f MUU ? | rtigues her; she is enterprising, ingenious, curious; in short, she is a woman. Leonce, then, preferred for his purpose families in which there were women. One morning he had good fortune at . : the very outset. He was a man about 60 years old, square built, rubicund, and wrapped in an ample cloak; on his arm leaned a woman of 50, tall and thin, with a remnautot beauty. W ""il. Dulaurier," said she, with not - the least caution not to be beard by ^ the passers, "we can truly say that we have a beautiful sight before us." "You are right a thousand times, Mrue. Dulaurier! But there are the girls far in advance of us!" "Louise! Louisctte!" called Mmc. . ' palaurier; and: two young women, w who preceded I heir father and mother : by a few stops, stopped and waited. 1 Louise was evidently older than her sister Louisctte. She was tall and imposing, like her mother; she loved linen of dazzling whiteness laid in order in great oaken presses. She was a ^ woman of strong mind. Louisctte, on the other hand, was slender, fair and naturally elegant, _ though she wore an ill-made dress. She had small feet, and her long, slen^ aer hands sought the green ribbons of ^ her hat with a gesture instinctively coquettish, which did not escape Leonce's all-seeing Parisian eye. 6c thought her charming, but awkward, and he began to follow the four with a special attention. About 10 o'clock they all entered a cafe for breakfast, and Leonce took a seat at the table near so as to face L Louisette. In a few moments he riskJ; ed a glance at the young lady, who did not- turn away her eyes. He attempted still more, and threw all the mag , ^ netism possible into ins eves; Due tius i time the girl blushed slightly, leaned f to speak to her mother, and did not > look up again. 1 After breakfast the strangers took the cars for St. Cloud, still followed ;by Leonce. After an hour's walk through the long alleys of the park, under a scorching sun, they began to feci K greatly fatigued, and Leonce heard . Aiaaame Uulauner e.xdaim: "I wont der if we shall never come to a drop of water! I am so tired I am ready to drop!" __ This was Leonce's opportunity, and ^ he went straight to Madame Dulauricr, hat in hand. f "Madame," said he, "1 should never k forgive myself if I did not come to your aid. I know this park thoroughly; and I can show you the fountain of Sainte Marie, renowned through the country." 44 A fkAnnAm) r>!? '' \f a ?T3l tUUUdilUU. IUAUAO, Oil) 9UiU 1U.U" I ^ dam Dulaurier, surprised and charmed by the young man's grace of manner. I He offered to show them the way to I r the fountain, and with much gayeiy and kindly feeling they set out together. Louise and Louisctlc walked a little ia advance of their parents and Loon ce. "Do you not think," snid Louise, "that this gentkman resembles won derfully the one that was in Uie restaurant with us?" "Why certainly not!" replied Louisette. "All Parisians look alike." But she blushed as siie spoke. When they reached the fountain they were already acquainted, and were mutually pleased. They would soon be friends if circumstances favored. "Oh! father," said Louise, "instead of returning to that tiresome Paris, let us stay here till evening." "Till evening? My dear, it is impossible. We do not know the ways. and we have no place to dine. " "If that is all," L-jouce hastened to say, "I am subject to your orders, i can take you aeross to Clam.a*:, where I know o: a pretty restaurant, with arbors, tluwers and fountains. where we can dine even better than in Paris. It may be that my society is not airreen?tirc cir mil tli-if. of I UUiU IU \ V>U, UU'. ...... these ladies is so much to my t.istc that i 1 shouid be very sorry to leave you." Maic. Dulauricr, more and more charmed at Leonco's mauncrs, replied insiantly: t "I accept ou my o".vn authority, at the risk of encroaching on my husband's rights." "I must at least, then, introduce myself to you in a more regular man ner. I am the Viscount Leoncc dc Verdun." "And I. sir," said M. Dulaurier,' 'am Adolphe Dulauricr, old notary? these are my wife and our daughters." In an hour they were seated in the j arbor promised by Leoncc, and were ftlfA/vAfI-.T.nnnAft | ?. w xi ivuuo. wowuvv vw ( cepted with warm gratiiude aa iavita- j tion from Madame Dalauricr to visit | tiiem at their Flemish village home. j "Do you not think," whispered Louj isc to Louisette, "that father and mother became friends very easily and quickly with this stranger?" "Why no," replied Louisette; "it is perfectly natural." Two months later Leonee alighted ?:t ) AT III. I Lit; ruii>v;iy tauuu, jl/uuiu, uuu xix. Dulaurier offered his hand in welcome. He now had time to appreciate M. Dulaurier's nnaffected kindliness, and strange to say the provincial, who had seemed to him slightly ridiculous in Paris, sefcn at home appeared to the young man as he really was?simple, natural, sympathetic and goalie. Leonce was received with the most demonstrative joy by Mine. Dulaurier, with a cordial salutation by Louise, I with an odd little smile by Louisette. It was ncariy i o ciock, ana ?u. ualaurier rose, saying: "Since Van der Yelde is not in yet, let iiim run after his partridges, and let us dine without him." The repast was a real French din ner, witn an tne meais, poultry aau game possible, an enormous quantity of beer, an4 ill the wines one could think of. After dinner, -which was prolonged i quite into the evening, M. Ihilaurier, ' ; in consideration of his guest's fatigue, conducted him to his room at once. T 1 n" O". gof himcolf io _ oponing liii* trunks and portmanteaux. At length | Vio Hr?w -frnm n nrvrt.fnlin a Ifttter daint- I ily folded and perfumed, and began to read aloud, as follows: 4'1 love you Louise! Sweet and charming as you are, who would not love you? It is for this reason that I left Paris; it was to tell you this. For two months I have thought only of you, and of the happy day when I traveled with you, the day that determined my life. Oh, Louise! Louise! if you only loved me!" "It is very good," said Leonce to J himself. "I never expressed a note more suitably. Now the. question is how to convey it to that lady. The simplest way is the best, of course. I'll put it under the doo- into her j room. But where isherroum? That i is the question." He then began to smoke a cigar, attentive, however, to every sound in the nouse. ?ie naa not long to wait, ne soon beard light steps in the passage, the rustle of a robe; he rosci quckly and opened his door with the greatest caution, just in time to see Louisette's delicate ligure enter a room on the left at the end of the gallery. Our hero allowed a few moments to elapse, and then, stepping like a cat, visited the door through which Louisette had disappeared, and adroitly slipped under the door the. letter he had prepared. "Good!" he thought; "my letter will be the first thing she sees in the morning." Then he went to bed, humming a tune, and slept the sleep of the just. At 7 the next morning he was awakened by a very lively sensation in his n ?rv\ *-? r-? i4> < > a j-J lx/v/vn t ?!* 1 *? aim, it xl nuu. uvt'u g i uoijou by iron pincers. Standing by his bed and holding his arm was a sort of giant, fully six feet tall, with the frame of Polyphemus, only this Cyclops had two little .round eyes, which wero flashing fire; and he had a loud, hoarse, guttural voicc. "Get up, Parisian!" he said, "I am Van der Velde!" "Very well," said Leonce, half asleet> and comDlctelvstupefied: "what shall I do about it?" But the other lifted him by the arm, like a feather, and sent him in the middle of the room. "What does this mean?" cried Leon ce. "Ihis means that I am going to cut your throat, Parisian!" "But what for?" | "No explanations!" howled the giant. "Yes; but " "No explanations! dress yourself and follow me!" J AT-U- _ - T 1 Yivu uet Yuiue, seizing Jjeop uy the arm, dragged him after him down a retired stairway to a deserted street. At the end of a few seconds he knocked at the door of a house and eutered, with Trf?onor> cti!! in ?r\v\ Leonce found himself in the presence of four meu, who were introduced to him, two as his own witnesses, and two as those of Van dcr Yeliie, and who were all acquainted with the mikp f\f tho Hnol ?ic Von explained. "But/' objected Leonce, "men do not tight thus without a motive.?" "Ah-ha, Parisian! Perhaps, then. | juu aiv; a? j Leonco was brave enough, and did I not allow Van der Veldc to linish his ! sentence. ! "I follow you, sir," lie said quickly. At the end of :i few moments' walk they came to a little ijrove. One of the four witnesses carried the swords. The four wi lesses chose a spot, and set the giant and the young man in their places. Leonee was a very pretty fencer, and parried the first blows very successful- , ly, even swvriiing his adversary's hand. Tiic Cyclops, furious at li s wound, falling upon L'.'Oiic.; witii l!:u force of a wild bull, pirri-ni ?ii:: young man's arm through :;n.i ?i.^iii!y w-iundcd him in the brca-:. H?>r::oi\* puie, Le- ! ? *..n ... ; ,-i i. uuw AV.Xi KJ tin; u.n UI. Van dor V?!.|.! rushed in iis side, | and examined ii is hurt M.ti anguish. "Maladroit tii.it 1 run! e cried, in ! a trembling lour; "1 m.*ant oniy to touch his arm, and his breast is wounded!" Leonce hold out his hand. "Why the devil, then, did yuit write love letters to my wiie?" cried Va:i der Veldi*. "And what ;; .-iiiv action ' to throw the letter into her room! I j picked it up myself." "What!" murmuredLeonce. 4-Louise your wife! You the husband of a girl" 17! Well, sir, I congratulate you; your wife is tho prettiest blonde I ever saw." "Blonde! Poor boy; he doesn't know what ho is saying. My wife is quite dark. She is 26 years old, too. Ke is confounding her with his sister, Louisctte, who is altogether too fair." "Your sister, sir! lint my letter was ' for her. I saw her go mto lhat room, I and?" "ludeed! Another mistake of mine! | My sister did foiiow my wife to her ; room to bid licr good night, and remained there but a few moments." ' Then, sir, you are not the pretty girl's husbami! I can forgive you my wound." T ho/1 Irwf ! tl f 1 hf> j fainted. When consciousness returned Monsieur and Madam Duiaurier were busj ied in earing for him, Van der Velde was weeping at the foot of his bed and I Louisetie was watching him with a pale and anxious face. "Ah!" murmured poor Van der Veide, "lo think tliat 1 should have supposed?but it was not my wife." "No explanations!" said Luouce, extending his sound hand to ihc giant. "No explanations!" And this is what a man gains by ninuing after the country loiks; he finds a wife, which is the best fortuue 1 can wish you. *0. Tulips. As in the case of hyacinths, the sin/rln nf iIipsk forco earlier and better than the double ones. Tulips require the same soil ami treatment as hyacinths, only that several roots should be potted together in one small pot in order to forma good group. Roman hyacinths :ire valuable on account of their e::rliness, as they can, if uotted in September or August, be easily had iti liowor in November. They arc useful for decorative purposes if potted or planted pretty thickly, but being scentless, and otherwise inferior to the common hyacinth, they arc seldom grown after the latter comes in. Both snowdrops and crocuses force early and freely, and should be potted thickly.in pots or pans in about four inches of soil, and forced very gently as soon as rooted,under the same treat meat as hyacinths before potting. They make an effective display in a coo) house between Christmas and April, during which period they may be had in flower by introducing batches from f the cool framo dap-QT SO. j The-polyanthus narcissus of different sorts have always been favorites for forcing, but of late the daffodil section has become popular for this purpose, and very handsome pot plants they make: and the beautiful N. bulboco j dium, or small iioop petticoat aanocur i is one of the best. It does better in pots | than out doors, as a rule, and stands j a good, while in pevfcction. There are I no neater subjects for pot culture, and those who grow it once will grow it always. The small bulbs should be potted early in the autumn?say August or September?kept cool till rooted, and then forced into llower in gentle heat The whole of the daffodils force in this -j way. N. Horslieldi is one of the best j 1 arse-flowered sorts for the purpose as ; it flowers very freely, does not grow tali, and is one of the very best of its class. The large-llowcred. single N. maximus is also good; so is the common double daffodil; and the little N. nanus makes almost as neat a specimen as N. bulbocodium. The larger kinds must hare pots from six to eight ?nr?iio? in siz". .and the small varieties will succeed well in four to five-inch ones, and in any common soil that is light and sandy. All are extremely easy to force, and the bulbs are comparatively chcap.?London Field. Commercial Intelligence. Sam Bennet, of San Antonio, had a large lot of perishable groceries he wanted shipped to a point on the Sunset route. If the goods did not arrive ~ 1'nATTT f Nof V? Ck TXT/Ml I r? Iaco UU LI UiC, caul IVLlt 17 I.UMV J-IV, .1 uuu .i/gv several thousand dollars. Of course he could sue the railroad company for damages, but be also knew that no merchant ever got bis money back by suing the railroad company for damages. He felt sure that, owing to the usual Jelav, the goods would not ar ? ? r?. rive on uluu. xt nus ui uu use iu wi^ar en the officers of the railroad, so ho was in a quandary what to do. A happy thought occurred to him. Seeing Gibbs, the general freight agent, Sam Bennet said: "Gibbs, you've got the slowest road in Texas. I'll bet it will take a week for my goods to get from here to Andrewsvillc." "What will you bet?" "I'll bet a basket of champagne; but I know I'll win it, for you can t make more than fifty miles a day with a freight train on your road." Gibbs was exasperated. His professional pride as a freight agent was touched. He callcd his witnesses to the bet, and made a. memorandum of it. and he won it too, for the way Sam Bennet's goods were rushed over the line was a caution. Sam Bennct put up the wine, but he didn't mind it, as ho saved the expenso of delay and the worry of a lawsuit ? Texas tijlings. War o.'i the Cijraret. Cigaret smoking (says a New York paper) has become such a geueral nuisance that small signs have been printed and are kept for sale, which read: "No smoking allowed in this office." A man who sells these says: "The greatest demand for them l\.>nlrc Tlw> fniintr mpn btwino -...V j vw"*0 who make deposits and carry messages for business firms arc mostly all addicted to the vice of smoking cigarets. There is something about the smell of burning paper and poor tobacco that is excessively anuoj'ing to some men. It is almost poison to them, and I found j that when I began printing these cards i they had a ready* sale. Now nearly j every bank, lawyer's office, and rail^ r>n li.ic f\w*\ rvf tlinm nrrm-\lnont? j W.IU iiao v* ly displayed. If I could have patented | the idea, 1 might have made a fortune j out of it." ? I CASTLE GARDEN. The Proposed Summer Garden on the Battery. . -j The elevated railroads in New York not only make the upper part of the city easily accessible from the lower, :? V ^ i.t_. :l? ,l?,Fn. y IJ'.ll muy US Ullll? UM-IUIIII UU>1U- j town. This is so pleasantly and con- " vcniently done by the new aerial pas- fj sage that the Times suggests that the told pleasure resort at the Battery may. be again turned to good account, and if not the prime of State street?the "glory of Smithlield"?yet that the musical attractions of the Battery for the up-town resident may be restored. The Jkarge Office, as a depository of all personal baggage arriving lrom r* nn,\ o l^Ui upe, IS LU vjxJ UIOLUIIUUUUU, 4 w la VA c? huge hall will be available for some popular purpose; and why uot, says the shrewd journal, for great popular concerts? Why not a marine summer garden? And the elderly New-Yorkers who recall Jullien's concerts at Castle Garden and the summer night opera at Castle Garden will echo, "Why not?" The saunterer along the broad and orderly walks of the Battery to-day on/? lfton imnn fho JUU* UUb tu |;uudu auu ivuu uj^vu t.uv railing above the water, enjoying the pretty spectacle and breathing the ocean air, and to ask himself, as he considers Castle Garden, what could be pleasanter, on an August evening when the moon is full, than to sit upon its outer wall and to watch the lovely scenery in the coolness, and listen to the well-modulated orchestra within? Central Park is charming, and to sit under the trees and listen to the band . is delightful. The Casino is a gay summer resort, and in the city squares the occasional music is most welcome. Tint if Romeo and Juliet emerging into the evening air anywhere about Twentieth street, should weigh the various solicitations for a pleasant evening at a reasonable pr;^c and at an easy accessible spot, would they not find the concert in the refreshing air of the bay more alluring than any rival? Thev would be wise if. deciding for J " ~ - - o the Battery, they should avoid the old prosers who remember those Jullien concerts, and that opera, and the great concerts of Jenny Iind. That old building haunts the memoir of the proser as the attic of Beranger tilled all the poet's rearward musing with pathetic music. If the young peopio are not very wary, the proser will berr'<n <-/-> t/il 1 t tmrv> 1-li rt e C r?f t h f-Afpn i n <r O1" LV/ ??vm?Mv?v?.j v. Q when between the parts of the concert in which for the lirst time Jullien played the "Katydid Waltz." he was taken across the Battery to State street, and into the house that was the latest occupied of all that tine row facing tho bay, each with a lofty triangular balcony. and there for a moment tasted the festive hospitality of a day which was already past in that old-fashioned street, but which was never kinder or heartier than in its latest surviving drawing-room. Of the thousands native and foreign-boiu who daily pass along the broad curving Battery walk upon old State street, how many know that it was. the selectest street of rcsirir?nr>t> in \Ti>w York of SlXtV and seventy years ago? How many of them, also, remember that in Castto,Gn?don Jonny.Liu <1 m u n ;; lor the^f?STft?ro"Tn America? In both concerts-she sang "Casta Diva," Who sings "Casta.Diva11 at a concert now? Bayard Taylor wrote the last song, the "Farewell"to America;" Otto Goldsmith. who was to be her husband, composed the music. When she came on to sing it, Jenny Lind carried a boquet of white roses, with a Maltese cross of red rosebuds iu -the center. Take care, Monsieur Romeo, and you, Mademoiselle Juliet, or the incorrigible proser will be protesting that lie sent those precious flowers; and "should he say it, who could authoritatively gainsay it? Who, indeed, but some other old prosor, whose memory nas fallen into decrepitude, ami who mumbles and maunders about Mali bran. It was a smaller New York to which Jenny Lind sang, and Stelianone and liosio and Trulli aud Benedetti. They all warbled in yonder garden, where other birds sing now. Thomas had not come then, nor waved the enchanted baton whicli lias opened to us a new * * "r? T IT __ I realm 01 music, run ouuicn pia^eu pretty waltzes anil tuneful overtures, and patted and puffed and panted as he directed, and then sank into his chair with a droll air of exhaustion at the end. "Yes, 'twas a garret, be it known to all," as Father Prout makes Beranger sing. It was the day of smaller things. But how pleasant they were! It was a smaller New York. But ask the old proser, if you canuot escape him, who' 1 ? ? ? ?? ? !.?? wl.rtt K/VH if wno n Af WllS JUUUg UlUIJ. <TIICI<1<UI 1? >f ?? tnju quite as good a 2scw York as the roaring Babel of to-day. Besides the ocean air and the moon upon the water, Romeo and Juliet can readily sec that the summer-evening concerts at the Battery would have a little setting of tradition, a background ' 1. ? ? ? A T? ,3 no I OI LL1 (J LUUSIU U1 U111U1 UU}3. ?'liiu no they enrich their enjoyment of to-day with that pensive echo of yesterday, possibly Juliet will admonish Romeo to beware lest when his day has become yesterday, and he talks of the music he remembers, he too, like the old gentleman whom the Easy Chair warns them to avoid, should become a itr.-nj /X.. proser. ? ucorgc ir???w \su/ no, w? Harper's Magazine. William Gilford, Editor of the "London Quarterly." Perfect harmony subsisted from first to last between editor and publisher. Gifford soon became, moreover, and ? ' * i?j ** 7_ winic lie uvea remaineu,i>i.unay s cuiui literary adviser and confidant, whom lie consulted 011 every occasion. Nor was the ex-editor of the Anti-Jacobin and seemingly merciless satirist of tho Baviad and Majviad at all a narrowminded or an ill-natured man. A few years after the establishment of the Quarterly lieview George Ticknor (ajtat. 23) arrived in London with lettn fJ-iflrnr/i nmnnc lUla VJk 1UUVUU^"VU ~ o others, and the young American thus recorded the contrast between what he thought to have found aud what he did lind the Aristarch of the Quarterly Review. "Instead," Ticknor writes, "of a tall, handsome man, as I had supposed him to be from his picture, a man of sour and bitter remarks, as I had good reason to believe him for his books, I found him a short, deformed, aud ugly little man, with a large head sunk between his shoulders, and one of :iis eyes turned outward, but withal one of the best-natured, most open, and well-bred gentlemen I have met." Giftord was from a iirerary point of view the severest and strictest of editors, writing little or nothing; himself, but stern and sometimes trying in his revision of his contributors' articles.? F. Espinaise, in Harper's Magazine for September. A curiosity at Rjckford, I1L, is a young negress with a luxuriant growth 1 ei auDura nugieus. Wijstrinjjton Dudes. He was handling -sora* ruystgnous little parcels At the toilet counter of a fashionable drugstore. "l'Utwonble you to send it'to my quarters, if yon don't mind. You'll end it early? thanks, awfully!" Then with a few languid strides he carried himseii to the door and strolled down, the street, throwing his heavy horn-handled cane tight across his path at every step, then dexterously jerking it away just In time to let himself by. J "Vanilla cream," said the Star man, tossing a nickel on the marble in front of the soda fountain. The druggist looked amused as he djjflw the water and stood smiling at tfid -scribe as. he \Usnosed of it "What is it?'* asked the scribe. "A dudo," was the reply. "0,1 thought it was something the matter with the water," and the Stat man finished his glasa freed o4 an awful suspicion. '- He's one of 'em." ggrha^do you think he buys? Ton coM^i't guess.1' Then he went over ana/whispered in the Star man's ear. MVliat?" "Kouge. les, rouge, for the cheek3 and lips, and face powder, too, and he wears corsets," replied the druggist, in a hoarse whisper. Then he proceeded to .let out some astonishing secrets.. "There are lots of them in this city, more than anywhere I have ever been, and I've stood in drug stores in most of the large cities. We sell more cosmetics to men here than to women. Comparatively few women in Washington paint and most of them have pretty good complexions. It's the men. They buy all the fa::cy French, pow ders and paints, color their checks and lips and pencil their brows. I cculd stand at the door a few minutes with you and point out any number who do all this, and you can sec for yourself, if you take the trouble'to notice, that they all wear corsets. You didn't know that? Pshaw; it's a common thing amon^.thesc fellows, who don: t have anything to do but fix themselves up to please silly girls." "But what kind of fellows are they?" asked the scribe, becoming interested in the new discovery. "They arc mostly young men whoso fathers have made some money and then died and left them to spend it. Then there are the?Here his voice sank to a wliisper. "Do you mean to say??" exclaimed the scribe. no; I wouldn't tell anybody for the world," broke in the druggist. "I only imply it;imply it?that's the word. Of course, it's only the young ones. None of the men who have seen service would do such a thing. But you know some of;these young fellows who are on duty;Jiere and spend their time in ladies' society get very effeminate. I suppose if we should have a war they trniiM rrckt Ami* if a** rAciern. Dnn'f, mention it, please?Then the druggist became more confidential. "But they do use lots of powder," and then he laughed at his own joke. "Yes,'Vie continued, "it is sad to see how men use cosmetics. They seem to care ??r?-about looking pretty than, school gift* "do. Why, even the girls themselves get ashamed of it and declare they are disgusted and will depend upon long waiks, cold water, and llannel for their complexions, and will stop using powuer or any kidu. j.nere are lots of them who never use a bit, and there's where they are sensible, Tue best thing for the complexion is exercise and flannel underwear. Flannel stimulates the skin, brings about a healthy action of the blood, which is essential for delicacy and clearness of tint Frequently those who have the best compiexiou bother about it most." ? Washington Star. A Spoiled Child. I wonder whether the following story, which I have come across in the Presbyterian Monthly Visitor, is quite correct. That Mrs. Spurgeon should have had a longing for a piping-bullfinch and an onyx ring is remarkable, but stiii more remarsaoic is it mat incontinently, these two incongruous .wishes should haye at once dropped down from heaven for her delectation: "During an illness of Mrs. Spurgeon, before Mr. Spurgeon left her room for the journey he was contemplating, she remarked that she hoped he would not be annoyed with her for telling him what had been passing through her mind. She made him, however, promise that he would not try to procure the objects for which she had been longing. She then told him that she had been wishing; for a piping-bullfinch and an onyx ring. Of course Mr. Snnrcrpon exnressed his willingness to get both, but she held him to his promise. He had to make a sick call on his way to the station as well as call at the Tabernacle. Shortly after reaching the sick person's house, the mother of the patient, to hi* amusement, asked Mr. Spur^eon if .vl.rs. S. would like a piping-bullfinch, that they had one, but that its music was trying to the invalid, and they would gladly part with it to one wno would give it me requisite care. He then made his call at the Tabernacle, and after reading a voluminous correspondence, came at last to a letter and a parcel underlying the other letters The letter whs from a lady unknown to him. who had received benefit from his services in the Tabernacle, and as a slight token of her appreciation of these services asked his acceptance of the inclosed onyx ring, r\a/?L-lnf orirl r>r<i fr?r whif.h she UUU WiUVViVKW) ? had no further use. This intensified his surprise, and he hastened home with what had been so strangely sent; went up into his wife's sick room, and placed the objects she had longed for before her. She met him with a look of pained reproach, as if he had allowed his regard to override his promise, but when he detailed the true circumstances of the case, she was filled with surprise, and asked Mr. spurgeon wnac he thought of it? His reply was characteristic: I think you are one of your heavenly Father's spoiled children, and He just gives you whatever you ask for."?London Truth. Bishop Turner, a prominent colored Georgian, urges the young men of his race to seek homes on the government 1?' ~c ?"?-* inpfnoi? /%]i n rrir> or tA iilliUS UL LIAU ? i ilO Ui ? the eastern cities and engaging in occupations too often servile. Says the bishop: -You migiit take the brightest young man in Georgia and let him come out of Harvard or Yale with a diploma as large as a bed-sheet, but after he has blacked boots for three months at a hotel his manhood is gone for life." tm > "O? " ?~ fo 1 f fr\ f l\n aai*a oy SUrtiUg it UU9UU1 UL MlbVU kUV UV1W a Fayette County, Missouri, farmer believes he has succeeded in keeping his ! average of twenty-live bushels of wheat to the acre maintained for j | years. A TIRELESS INVESTOR. Prof. Bell'? Latest Production of Genioa? His Great Mental Energy. Prof. Bell, it might be thought, after having given to the world the telephono, would be coutont with his scientific conquests, but lie is still actively at work upon problems of sound and electricity in a way that promises an iuvention of far greater importance, scientifically and practically, than the telephone itself. His laboratory is an old-fashioned two-storv house on Con ncciicut avenue, near N street, in the neighborhood of the British Legation, Stanley Ma'.iiew's house, and the residence of Mrs. John Davis. Ho also has a private ami secret laboratory o ,r in Georgetown, where at present !k - a most skillful workman engaged upon the forthcoming instrument. What it is is known only to ?>o n IVMA \f/wLr i ri rr 1 1UJ. .11JU mv, iu.111 ti Iivy JO 1? vt 4*.* at the idea. The great inventor lias said to his friends that if he^sue'eeeds his new idea will yijldhini gEeatct ictnrns than the telephone has. It is snspceted, however, by those who have jriveu some attention to the eoursc of Prof. Bell's thought upon the subject, that it is the photophonc, or tlic use of rr tn \VAll 11 f*n nVf*V fh/> WlTf** ViV> Ubl iViUJ fcV * Vf/* vv??.vw w . v? ...W .. . wthe image of the person speaking before the instrument. Prof. Bell is a man of prodigious mental energy, -anti he is constantly developing new iddas and now applications of electrical force for the production of useful machines. He throws them off as easily and carelessly as yon can fancy. For instance, lie made not long, ago an instrument called the audiometer. Perhaps not a dozen of them have been made. It consists." of magnr linden prnduatcd to each other. These cylinders will indicate uy measurement how much sound it is possible for a dc::f person to hear and it' they can hear at all. Although it is an important instrument Prof. Bell allows any one who wants to get one of his modelmakcr, and himself asks no return for it. Prof. Beil has also devised an instrument which mi^ht be WtUlCU LliV OU>/iU?U >UV iVXV^/UVUVf WJ which can be ascertained from the echo from a sioae dropped upon tue bottom of the bay or river in which the craft may be floating just what depth is at that point. . Prof. Beli id gradually growing ont of ail Dusiness pursuits una uevouug uimsclf to the improvement of the. (leaf. He is constantly giving more and more time to bis littie sciiool on Sixteenth street, whore lie has perhaps a score of pupils, most all of ihem wholly deaf, to whom he is teaching the art of sight 1 tf- ?i: ianguage. xie is ttiuuiug wiusw nine children so that they cau distinguish from the lips and face of the person speaking what they say, and teaching them to imitate the proper arrangement of the lips, teci.li, aad tongue so that they may articulate sounds. A gentleman calling upon Prof. Bell the other evening tells me that while he was there one of liis workmen came in for instructions. The man sat there for four hours, while Prof. Bell appiied Uimc/ilf uni nr?rrimf pH I v tn nftior m-it ters which he had in hand. At the end of- that - time he ^heeted"abdut ia WrfifcuT; and begaa t0.4a3k to. the workman. "I never heard a man talk so in my life. Every sentence had the compact result of hard tuinking and carried to the mind of the listener a complete scientific idea. In half an hour he had indicated to the man a new and great invention, and the workman said if we had known this two months ago we might have saved niAnftio' 1-ihnr ft. (lomnrelrdffl/l UiVUUU^ to me the wonderful versatility of the man who, in his far-advanced studies on the subject of sound and hearing, could pass to utterly diverse subjects instantly and with perfect mastery of each." it is understood also that Prof. Bell is at work upon the probiem of resolving heat at once into electricity, a result, if it can be obtained, that will greatiy simplify and cheapen all uses of electricity.? Washington Cor. Fdtsburg jjommercial-1iuzctte. * ? Outwitting the Ghost. But, if primitive man knew how to bully, he also knew how to outwit the ghost. For example, a ghost can only find his way back to the house by the way by which ho left it. This little weakness did not escape the vigilance of our ancestors, and they took dheir measures accordingly. The coffiu was carried out of the house, not by the door, but by a hele made for the purpose in the wall, and this hole was nvMvn/] 11*1 o a enrm o a t hO UUlCxUlljr 3LU^WU 1.1 ?7 Ito ovvw ?*?v body had been passed through it; so that, when thi ghost strolled quietly back from the grave, he found to his surprise that there was no thoroughfare. The credit of this ingenious device is shared equally by Greenlanders, Hottentots, B?chuana>. Samoieds,Ojibways, Algonquins, Laosians, Hindoos, Thibetans, Siamese, Chinese, and Feejeeans. These spccial openings, or doors of the dead," are still to bo seen in a village near Amsterdam, and they were common in some towns of central Italy, as Perugia and Assisi. A trace of the same custom survives in Thuringen, where it was thought that the ghost of a man who has been hanged will return to the house if the body be not taken out by a window instead of the door. The Siamese, not content with carrying the dead man out by a special op: f/% mol'A occnronpp UUIU^, UUUUiU Ul, wvy liiituu doubly sure by hurrying him three times round the house at full speed--a proceeding well calculatcd to bewilder the poor soul in the coilin. The Araucanians adopt the plan of strewing ashes behind the coffin as it is being borne to the grave, in order that the ghost may not be able to find his way back. The very general practice of closing the eyes of the dead appears to have originated with a similar object; it was a mode of blindfolding the dead, that he might not see the way by which he was earned to his last home.?James fi Wrnrpr in t'mrular Science Monthly for September. There is still much debate as to the extent to which iron and steel should be strained when testing for manufacture into boilers, girders, bolts, etc., but a sort of general agreement has been arrived at that the test stress ought not to be less than one-third or more than one-half of the ultimate strength of the material. The large office of the secretary of the navy opens through windows that reach nearly to tue floor upon a massive granite portico. This is surrounded by a heavy balustrade. Secretary Whitney has utilized this portico dur| ing the recent hot weather by stretching awning screens across the entrance ''""f With n ffw rimt-v rof?kinor-ehairs ; Aiuuw. j e and armchairs ho has a very cozy little I retreat When he wants to have a confidential chat with a visitor he invites him out on the portico. where they can talk undisturbed Things to Know. That it is easier to retain health than to regain it a hat serious headaches often come from ill-fitting spectacles. That tin cleaned with paper will shine better than cleaned with flannel. That cistern water may be purified by charcoal put in a bag and hung in the water. That powdered rice, sprinkled upon lint and applied to fresh wounds, will stop bleeding. That salt will remove the stain from ailver caused by eggs when applied dry with a soft clotlT. That hot, dry flannels applied to the face and neck, is a very effective remedy for a "jumping toothache." That fruit or rust stains on table linen or other white clothes may be removed by soaking in a weak solution of oxalic acid. That hard waters are to be preferred to soft waters in. the leapot, as the hard "waters dissolve less of the tannin of the i - i leaved. That after tea has been steeped in boiiing water for three minutes, a large proportion of the valuable constituents are extracted. That the most effectual remedy for slimy and greas/drain pipes is copper? as dissolved and left to work gradually through the pipe. That plaster of Paris_ ornaments may be cleaned by covering them with a thick layer 01 siarcn, letting it ary thoroughly and brushing with a stiffc brush. That"a room crowded to discomfort with furniture and ornaments, no matter how costly, is never restful and homelike,-, and always suggestive of the shop or the museum. That old feather beds, by putting them upon a clean grass plot during a heavy shower, permitting-them to.be thoroughly wet through-and then dri&d and beaten with'light rods, will freshen and enliven the feathers. TKof o ^ a rlr onrl rrlrwvYYYtr rAAm AUAb t* UAL A. auu QiVUiUJ 4VVU& ' MMJ be brightened by placing ebonized shelves over the doors and windows, grouping scarlet, yellow or gilded fans upon the walls, and placing pretty bric-a-brac and vases in positions where they will be brought into relief by a cheerful-background. That by acting on the following instructions a nice Summer drink may be made: Cut a lemon into thin slices, ! put them in a jar or pitcher, and add a j heaping tablespoonful of sugar and a I rkinf. of hnfc w.itATv let it stand until. cool; strain into a bottle; place on ice until wanted-?Good Housekeeping. A Bat That Cost $12. Lieutenant Farnan, of the Southern. Police District, has a pickled leatherwinged bat. He didn't buy it, bnt he says the bat cost him a considerable sum, and he intends to keep it His story is as follows: "One of my little boys, who sleeps in a room next to mine, called me about 12 o'clock one ni^ht and said something had struck him r>n the head. and I saw a bat fl? ing around the room. I closed the front shutters, and, taking a bed-spread' struck at the "bat. 1 didn1t kit. hiiru ' JrStrTjck agaln&iveral times and didn't" ^et him. Then my boy said: *P:ipa, have you got him? I could have caught him myself in this time.' Then I got mad, and I slung the spread around at the bat again, but instead of bitting him I knocked every ornament off the mantlepiece and broke the globes on the chandelier. Then I was madder than before, and 1 tried to fall on the bat as he came near the floor, and I fell over a chair and broke that All the time my wife was saying, 'Tom, open the shutters and let the bat out, and don't tear the house down.' That made me still worse, and making a desperate plunire I got the spread over him and*floored him. The bat squealed, and I was afraid to put my hand under the spread and take him out. Finally, I got my wife to bring me an old buckskin glove, aad I got him out and held him in a bucket of water until I drowned him. Reckoning damages, I suppose that bat cost mc about $12, and I intend to hoid on to it until some fool is willing to take it off my haDds at cost."?Baltimore American. An Annoying Position. A traveler stopped at a toll gate and asked the keeper if lie had any good, cool water. -Tftlin " oairf the keener, turning to vv? ? 'T ? Q bis son, 44fetch me the gun?the one loaded with buckshot." "Hold on!" exclaimed the traveler. "I meant no harm." "Well, then I'll letyou off." The traveler rode on, wondering why the question had caused offense. He stopped at a house and asked a man if ho could tell him why the gate-keeper became angry. "Yes, I can tell you. He has to carry water about a mile and a half and it is always warm by the time he gets home with it. Every one that comes along asks if he's got good, cool water. He scarcely hears anything else from morning until night The man who kept the gate last year went crazy, but this fellow seems to stand it better. He is rather even tempered, and alf hnnch 1m has kent the cate several ? sr ~ ' o ? - months he has only killed two drumniers and crippled a boy. I kept that gate once." "Did the people annoy you?" Not much. I only had to knock down one man and stab another one, but I only kept the gate a week." "Why don't the fellow dig a well?" "Nnw look here, a thousand men have asked me that question. Stranger, I reckon you'd better mosejv'?Arkansao Traveler. Arctic Exploration. There will be a general acquiescence in the opinion of Lieut. Danenhower in focrie/%fr. f-n thfi rvractieabilitv of further ? r * Arctic exploration when he says: "After naving served with one Arctic expedition, and having devoted seven years to the study of the subject, as well as to the watchful observation of the numerous efforts and the comparative insignificant results attending sacrifice of human life and treasure, I unhesitatingly record myself as opposed to further exploration of the central polar basin with our present resources. The gradual extension of observatory sta lions in the interests of meteorological, magnetism and other scientific branches should be made, but national support should not be given to another polar expedition." Lieut. Greeiy and other explorers take an opposite view of the matter, and the question is one which will probably be much discussed, but the result of the recent expeditions point strongly to the conclusion that the game is not worth the candle. Nothing bothers a modest but hungry old hen so much as when sho has made a hearty breakfast off an old shoe Jace and finds the unfortunate shoe still at the end of it?Fall River Advance. MISSING LINKS. Patti is "writing a book of memoirs. v Mrs. Maekey's sapphires are the finest worn in England. All the relatives of ex-Vice President Whesler have died during the past ten years. Copperas mixed with the whitewash put upon the cellar-walls will keep vermin aw.iv. Miss Nellie Arthur is said to be growing prettier and more charming every day. A daughter of E. P. Roe, the novelist, who is yet in her teens, has already begun to write stories. It has been ligured out that 5,400,000,000 passengers were carried by the world's railways in 1882. Prince Louis of Battenbergis a practical printer and frequently uses the ,stic^^nd rule for amusement Henry Irving agreed with an English . photographer not to have any pictures ^ taken during his American-tonrs> Margaret Weston, Dakota's weather prophet, is one hundred and ten years of age. She is old enough to know bet ter. According to an eminent Southern authority on barbecues it takes ten J hours to" roast a whole ox to perfec- " tion. Sarah Bernhardt is.sjid to. be seized with a laudable desire to. get -out of . debt Sarah is evidently,becoming a* real good girJL ' " A Philadelphia woman, one hundred and eight years-old, is cutting a-new . " set of teetii and has recently regained ; Jier eyesight. Museum managers are tempting-a Wisconsin girl to exhibit -.the ;horns .which are concealed by a .careful ar rangement of her. hair. ., "' Ed wai<?" Everett Hale says "lie. has cured eight of his children of-whooping cough by taking, them to the gas ; tories of South Boston. Beny Wall, wEo is caHed "King of the Dudes" in New York? manages , to . spjpnd an income, of $50^000 aryear,5a keeping up that reputation. . Lady Coleridge, thehride of the Lord Chief Justice of England,' is a blonde, with a rather pretty oval face, and is said to be musical in her tastes. Figure-heads for ships and steamboats are going out of use. Where In ; . -iOOU mere were iu .uusguu bia. vaituh of these heads, now there is only one. The best way of sobering up is to r bathe the head and wrists in cold water, and take a potion of bromide .fit potassium and aromatic ammonia or valerian. * a* That old device of novel arxffflFama, a blotting pad that retains an impres ? micsinor dnnnmest. has actual iy turned up as evidence in a real California lawsuit There is capital to the amount of $100,000,000 invented in the watch and clock interest in the United States, and the Jewelers' Circular wants a school for horoloaisls established. The firSknbwn painting of Niagara t Falls isi^Si?-rbe'at?-^?&ontk--'Kens- ?1? ington It wafc fainted by a Massachusetts man named Wickers, * from whom it was stolen, sold to au Englishman, and lost sight of. It hdS some merit as a painting and a good 9 deal as a historic record of the appearance of the falls before houses wero UUIib JLl I'Ul. LLiUUJ . A San Francisco coj^spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Dcmocrat writes. that, in his declining years, the late Murk Hopkins built a huge Gothic cas- + tie on the very summit of Nob Hill. One day, walking past, the house, he' looked up at it, and, turning to an attendant, growled out: "Who is the fool that is putting good money into that ugly house?" He had .forgotten his O ?/ O v. _ own place. It is said that when Lord Beacons field, out of office, solaced himseii by publishing "Endymion" and made one of his characters, Waldershare, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the position then held by Sir Charles Diike, " he evidently intended^to picture the statesman who has suffered a partial and saved himself from a total n/?linc? Kt* tlio novmnnt nf S1to the injured lord of a lady. "To meet the requirements of a classic figure," says a writer in the Indianapolis Journal, "a lady should be 5 feet inches tail, 32 intfhes bust measure, 24 inches waist, 9 inches from armpit to waist, long arms and neck. A queenly woman, however, should be 5 feet o inches tall, 31 inches about the bust, 26* inches about the waist, 35 . over the hips. 11J inches around the ball of the arm, 61 inches around the wrist Her hands and feet should not be too smalL" It is said mat jurs. ?arioris, u-enerai Grant's only daughter, will make a short visit to Eugland thi- Fall, and will then come buck to this country with her children for the purpose of educating and bringing them up as Americans. It was the wish of General r< 4. HI vjriiiiit LUiit tiiu uuuunjii ouvum w ov cducatcd. Besides this, Mrs. Sartoris is anxious to be with her mother for some time at least. Mrs. Grant wishes to have her children about her. It is said by old prospectors that there is not a mouutain-peak in Colorado on the tip top of which there is not a tin can. Tourists and mountainclimbers have a habit of taking up with them a tin can to be left at the summit for the disposition on slips of paper of the names of all who ascend the mountain after them. It is also said that one mav wander to the uttermost depths of the wilderness into places where the foot of mortal man has apparently never trod, and there will bo found the inevitable tin can. Indeed, it would seem that the can, rather than the ax, is the pioneer of civilization. "We have many queer experiences in the practice of my profession," saia the doctor, as he deftly dusted the powders on the little papers spread before him. "Only the other day I drove over to Ossian, seven miles away, to visit a patient, an old gentleman suf-. fering from an incurablc disease that I had been treating for some months. Tying my horse I walked to the house and entered the sitting-room without knocking. Judge of my surprise to see lying on a stretcher the dead body of my patient clad tor burial, and His coffin upon the bier awaiting its oc<yipant I had just time to note these things when the wife came in, and simply saying 'Good-morning,' she slipped to a cupboard, and taking out an envelope containing money emptied it upon the coffin-lid, and counting out my fee handed it to me, replaced the envelope in the cupboard, and left the room without saying a word. I had often been uaid in the presence of my recovered patients, but never before with the stiff, stark evidence of the inj effectiveness of my favorite 'pathv' j staring me in the face. I fled."?Ear j per s vazar. - Aa