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i' ' ' . ' - M VOL. XLII. WINNSBORO, 3..C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17,1886. NO. 33. J Oh. n Vittjics: i- " ' . ;<ino. That jrrnv.'s t.*i: Nor a IV-:; r ao;-- i: ;h;: cr the s:<,ri:!. As it Iik?* :i iiir.L' :.) i: - pri'lc. T?"- ??< Ml! mr. i:::r A:nJ *::? *u::-5 :'n I.:-:'j:ehes may nvc: li'.ir it m?:::?;> ! : i-< k ?'!*' a :ir buy, (>ra liviti Vwjt.'ii i:eVr be:: s!a\*e. Oh. a so Towfiii t! ( < > !he ever-infc:1. pine That jr.-ous i:: th-* sweet s:ni!i!i:r vale. ]t inuriiiiirs forever:: low. phijrjMvt? son;; That n-sci::!.a J'?v< r"> wail. It stretches iss >tr.:n;r. sh:<?lv branches abroad Ami it si<rhs to the llmvi's below. Arid if t> lis o!" - s.:rrvw e..rr<vliti;r its heart To the bree;:- :;vrr.:,y Mow. Oh. a hort'.it i t:! i? the ever-jrreen A oat f?n?w< < i iiv r: i s It shelters the v.-ov?.il?iH. triv'-s shade To the (leer. And makes eheerfn! <nir fcouso, far and Willc. I Then honorcsl an! I?vc.l be the ever-green pine Th:?t fears neither ii. htninjr nor pule. And cherishf : st':!l !> the sorrowful tree That mVL> ;t the sweet smiiiiv-r vale. ?M. J. ltiordan. SOi35 :Cii V i LLK. ' Oil. Te<idy. ; yon get any more apples than this? I'm s';n? I couid if I were only cried the girl standing wiiI: up-'.tirne! raee under an old apple i:w. from which a small boy | was trvinir in vain t<> 'f-tiln-r a iVw ai>pl?s. "I know you could. Do conic up, Llew. There I.-: no one lu ;v to see, and I won't tell." Why. Toddy Ciicslcigh! I am eighteen years old." with indignant emphasis. "Well, I didn't suppose you'd do it. But there is a bough of daisy apples, right Jic ie:icc. You might roach UliU. 'I vru.." sii<' replies. after u moment's hesitation. "Here iro.-s." ami looking around to assure herself that no one was within sight. she toss-.-d down her hat and mounts with nimMe >leps thy rickI ety old fence, -catching the branch, heavily laden witIi delicious fruit. "Oh, Teddy, they aiv elegant!'' she I _ exclaimed, with a gay little laugh. || disclosing a row of white, even little teeth. |? She makes :i perfecPpieturc there, her uplifted arms forming a frame for the bright, laughing face with its crown of bonnie brown hair, which the wind I. recklessly about. ami her slender Bjure, in a close-fitting dress of soft. Kinging gray, standing out in bold reKef against the blue sky, while the wind fcirowing the dress aside, shows a pretty ftttie foot anil a slender little ankle. Clutching the branch lightly in both little brown hands. she gave a vigorous shake, when looking down to note the result of her shaking, she sees, much to her liowor, a young gentleman, equipped for hunting, standing not far off, whom she immediately recognizes as one whom she had met during the .?<- A 1 il.l 1 ? UilVt it,*. -M ? . With a little gasp she turns her crimson face up to her brother with a reproachful glance, but, undaunted by her indignant ^ looks, the shameless The gentleman turns toward the more friendly-face and addresses a few remarks to him about the apples, thus giving Llew an opportunity for descendin 2" from her exalted position. sitfHs again u:i the ground, she fries in vain to smooth her hair, which is blowing in dire confusion all over her lace. The gentleman now raises his hunting-cap, and smilingly offers his hand, savins:, "Miss C'hesleigh, 1 be"Yi-s,*' she answers, her face bright with blushes, as she hesitatingly holds out a little, tanned L.md. "Am I not speaking to Mr. Del marry?" "At your service. I must beg pardon. Miss Chesleigh, for my untimely intrusion," with a smile still lurking in his darj^eyes as he looks at the still-con I "I grant it, but I wish to assure you that I do not do such undignified things often," but the fruit did look so tempt"Let rac congratulate you on j our success," glancing at the goodly number which lay on the ground. "I used to be quite an expert in such matters, and have come into this .country to renew* my skill, and as :i beginning have started* out to hunt, but awkwardly broke j my gun at the lirst attempt to use it." Then Llew calls to Teddy, who is gathering up the apples, and adjusts her "Come. Teddy, it is getting late, and auntie will be worried about us. Besides it is tea time." Then she says to plr. Delmarre: * ! must say good-by for I*OKl?y,J?yt -x you spenu me summer here we will bo .such near neighbors : that we shall probably see each other "Allow me to walk with you, as I go this way and am beginning to think it ! is supper time, also." Then, as silence gives consent, he walks on with tfiem, ! helping Teddy earn* the fruit. The con- J versation is carried on chiefly by Teddy 1 and Philip during their short walk, for Llew has not yet quite regained her 1 When they reach homo and Mr. Delmarre has left them Teddy receives a severe scold in sr. but. as usual, proves Invulnerable. But Llew succeeds in jxtortiu? a promise that he will never, lever tell. For she knows her Aunt Vlary, a sedate spinster of uncertain igo, who lias presided over the* houselold since tiie death of their mother, vould be utterly shocked. Hor father is a middlc-a<rcd 2*entlc Hnian, almost too indulgent at times to ?his motherless children. He seldom Sllgoes away from his farm, but Llew spends several months of each winter raivith her fashionable cousins in Albany, JsBwhere she had nn*t Mr. Delmarre. BBran Adjoining the Chesleigh farm is the >1:1 )^marre.* * as lie is Mliom none of liis neighbor' know e.\Hrpt by sight. lie is the uncle of Phil Helmariv. who is tin: old man's favorIll), ami as wo have said iic ha<I come Suspend the summer months with his BHfThe summer months passed quiekly j|?rj women !:: ia-i seen, and women, IKo it was not strange that one day j Biile on one of their numerous excur- j |>ns,and while Teddy had gone farther Iwr. the river to lisk. he should take | s most excellent opportunity of mak- j m Llew acquainted with his great love J F her, and olil-r her his heart and j pLiew, taken by surprise, replies, in ie nsual way, that she is sorry, but oes not care enough for him to marry Im, etc. Only one consolation does ie ET'.ve him. and that is that she loves j no one elie. S<? Phil Is comforted in a drgivc, thinking that some day he may be a oh: to win her love. lit; h aves her there and wanders down the banks of the river, for i:i his great disappointment he can hardly bear to see her. ivauueuiy lie hears :i sharp cry anu nis heart ainiost stands still, for it is Llew's voice. Can she have fallen into the water? learning himself for leaving her there alone ami so near the water, he rushes hack ami sees Llew standing on the b:s:sk wringing her hands while in the water he discovered Teddy. Without hesitation he throws off his coat and leaps into the river. lie is a good swimmer, but Teddy has become unconscious and is very heavy, and it is not-without difficulty he gets him to the bank. Lli;w is standing m rfectlv motionless, but this moment has brought her to the knowledge that .>he loves Phil Dolmarre with all iier heart, and that without bin.* her future life would be a dreary blank. Who:: Piiii reaeho.s the bank with the jueonseiotLs boy in his arms ho carries him to his uncle's house, which is not far away. Llew follows, silent and unremonst rating. and they soon reach the place where' Mr. Poimarre is enjoying his morning cigar on the perch, and as the procession noared the steps he called out to Phil in a gruft' voice: "Hello! What's up now? Looks as if you'd boon near the river!"' "Yes. We've had an accident,'' renliixl "Phil still hnlilim* tlit' hov in his arms. Here t ho old housekeeper macie her appearance, much to the relief of Phil, who began lo give orders for her to prepare a bed for his little charge, and for once she did not wait for her master's bidding, because the distressed looks on Llew's face, who was standing by, touched the heart of the old woman. When Llew was left alone with the old gentleman she summoned all her courage and walked up to his chair and stood before him, much to his surprise, for all the neighbors had looked upon him as an ogre, and no one had ever before been known to speak to him unless it was absolutely necessary. "Mr. Delmarre, I am very sorry that we have been obliged to intrude upon vour quiet household, but it was quite ? :.i .1.1.. 2 T ?,l.. uiki\un;;iuit\ ;niii jl t'iui vui\ nu|;o wu*. | stay will be as short as possible.'1 She stood waiting for an answer, but received none save a deep grunt, which very nearly made h.-r jump. Just then Phil came out, his dripping garments being changed for a dark suit that was very becoming to him. You had best go to your brother,'" he said in polite tones, leading the way. "Yes, but let me first endeavor to thank you for the great service you have " but here she was interrupted bv Phil. - - r ^ * 1: 4-1- t ~? "LjCZ Ub I1UI lUSCllN* WUU. X iUil IJUW going for :i physician. There is the room." ami he hurried away. Llcw and Mrs. Smith made Teddy as comfortable as possible, but when he recovered from his sleep lie was delirious. WheZL-EMI v?r<t rt"? ' *"*> Ml' sleep. The good old doctor pronounced him too ill to be moved for a week or two, to Llcw's great horror. To stay a week with that horrid old man! Xone knew what the old man thought, for he kept his thoughts to himself, and sat most of the day on the porch with either a cigar or paper. Piiil next went to Teddy's aunt, but Teddy would have no one near him but Liew, so her aunt packed a few things ; in a valise and sent them to her. It was not long until the whole town j had heard of the accident, and one and all declared that "it was the strangest tli.M- K.,,1 I.roi- liooril /if iViif- filil 1 John Delmarre would allow them folks I at his home.*1 Mr. Chesleigh, Aunt Mary, anil the doctor paid regular visits at the farm, and Teddy improved slowly under Llew's tender care. She seldom left his bedside, and her newly-discovered love grew stronger as she learned more of Phil's noble nature. He was the light of the house, kind to everybody, but his great kindness to Teddy would have won Llew's heart alone. At last the day lias come for Teddy's j departure, ami preparatory to this jlicull as persuaded him to take a nap. She is sitting near the lounge, her deft tin? gers busily employed in putting the finishing touches to a smoking-eap for Mr. Delmarre, Sr.. whose heart she has won by making herself necessary to his comfort in a thousand little ways, such as reading his newspapers to him and making dainty dishes for his luncheon. Tri lu>r lhr>n<rlifs nr<? with Mr. Delmarre, Jr., whose heart she had won lonir ago. Suddenly the door opens and the oi>jeet of her thoughts comes into the room. With a pretty gesture she places one finger on her lips for silence. Thinking himself unwelcome, he is tiptoeing his way out or the room when he lie.vrs his name, "l'hil," pronounced in soft, low tones. Turning with a surprised glance he retraces his steps and comes to her side, and is still more astonished to see her' piAjUvtU.1, U'JIIb 1V? V/*Ui ??v/?.?> and covered with blushes. "Phil," she i*epcats. with one swift, shy, upward glance, "do you remember that once I said I could never repay you for saving Teddy's life?" her voice trembling slightly" "I beseech of you not to allude to that day," for he remembers another incident of that very day?one* that brings painful thoughts to him. "But I have changed my mind, and will give you a very worthless gift, but one that you once :iskt*dfor, ami?.mil," ?then breaking down :md covering her faee with her hands. 4,Oh, Phil! Don't you understand! Must I propose to rou?'' "Oh, my darling!'' But just at this junction Teddy raises upon one elbow, and is watching these interesting proceedings with two large eyes fr^m which all signs of sleep have fled. "Well, Llew, I always thought you had lots of cheek, but I didn't think you'd have the gall to propose to a fel low: "Oh, Teddy!" cries Llew reproachfully with burning; checks, while Phil breaks into an undignified roar, at which Llew's face grows rosier still, as she beats a hasty retreat, but rushes into the arms of old Mr. Delmarre, who, noiuing iier ugnuy. marcnes into me room. "What's up now?" he exclaims with a smile that has become quite common to him during: Llew's stay. When Phil's explanation is given he says to Llew. "So I'm not to lose you after all? I had quite decided to ask you to remain here, if this scamp didn't,'" nodding toward Phil, "for you have become quite indispensable to?^tixe family. Then, taking the hand of the confused girl, he placed it in Phil's and i gently pushed ; hem from I??? room. From I hero they go 11 i; > .he Utile garden. Here we will paus.; for lack of space and leave our readers to imagine what took place in the garden. How Women Temper Justice. "it is a sin^mar laei, nuu .u;r,m .> Clerk MeCleary, "but nevertheless true, that nine out of every ten women w!:;> have their husbands arrested, or make information against them ior cruelty, either withdraw the charge or pay the fine. Only last week we lnul a ease of a .nan who was habitually drunk and known as a wife-beater. The wife brought the suit and then wanted to withdraw it. but was not allowed to do so, as some of the neighbors told us that it would be a blessing if-the man was sent to the workhouse. The man was finor] SI0 mill fnsrs. or thirtv da vs. Now after that woman and a number of neighbors had testified to the many acts of cruelty the dutiful wife paid the line. She had not a cent in the world, but said when she paid over the money that she lyul borrowed it. from fourteen of her neighbors, in one case getting only 20 cents. There wore tears in her eyes, but I don't know what caused them. They might have been shed on account of parting wit!* the money, and it might be she was sorry her husband was going home with her. There's no {el'iiiig what a woman will da" At the Central station a few nights ago a woman had her husband locked up for b.eating her. She followed the officers, and when the iron doors closed with a bang she changed completely, and begged piteously that he be allowed to go home with her. Iler ?rits wvr nnt heeded. At. the !r.ar:n<r the llext morning she wns present. n< 1 ;!?? payment of :i 810 1 i:i?? ?'or tin* that ii:!d struck her seemed lo uiea.se her ns much as a new toy does :i chilli. The police officers are always very careful about arresting a man who is complained of by his wife, for the woman will seldom appear against him. "Never interfere in a family quarrel."' said an old officer. "The only time I was ever beaten was through trying to save a woman from being beaten by her husband. It was on lhe South side. I was passing along the street and heard the shrieks of a woman, in a yard in the rear of a house w;us a big Irishman beating his wife. I jumped over tin; fence and dragged the man oil' and handled him pretty roughly, as ho j fought me. As soon as the woman tl??ir !ior hnsh.-i;;;! \v:is in lhe clutches of :m oiliecr slu: came :it inc. ami between both 111:111 and woman I was badly beaten and my uniform ruined. Never interfere in a family i quarrel until it is reasonably certain , that one of the parties is too far gone to | fight yon/' Once in :i long while the- usual order ! of things will be changed, :is it was on the South side 0:1 Monday. A woman named Magee was arrested at the in- j stance of her husband, who said she] was continually drunk and that he j could do nothing with her. The man beared Aid. F!aeh_j.o__2iye his \\jfe a. | -1 sober. At the hearing the man told how his wife got drunk and abused ! him. So the alderman gave her thirty days to the workhouse. Magee departed perfectly satislied, but a couple of hours later returned and begged for the release of his wife;. It was too late, however, and nothing could be done, for she had been receive I at Clarcmont.? PilUbarg Times. Re-:; .vakcnctl 3Icinory. Two years ago a yoijn? man living in a Vermont village, having linishcd his ftlllK.Mfifl!! \V:!< Vi\'>(l V {O I enter college. But just before the (lay appointed for his examination lie was taken ill. After several weeks of suffering he slowly recovered his health, but discovered that his mind had lost the knowledge acquired by six years of hard study. Latin, Greek and mathematics, nil were gone, and his mind was a blank in respect to his preparatory studies. His doctor prescribed that he should rest his mind and familiarize himself with a few simple details of light work. He obeyeu the auvice, anu found in his old habit of doing things carefully the schoolmaster that brought back liis old knowledge. Before his illness the young man. in order to earn a little money, had taken care of the village church, sweeping it out, cleaning the lamps, and doing all the work of a sexton. He now resumed this work, and hy the physician's advice tried to keep his mind from puzzlmg itself about its loss of memory. Several wcek? went by without bringing any change in his mental condition. On Sunday evening a stranger entered the church, and. as the .sermon was a dull one, gazed carelessly around until his attention was attracted by the lamps 0:1 the wall. H;; noticed iiiat all tlx; wicks were so carefully trimmed that there was not an irregular ilame to be seen. He wondered as to who could be the careful sexton, and. happening to be in the place the following Sunday, he again noticed the same uniform trimming o? the w'eks. Passing the church the next day and seeing the door open, he walked quietly in and saw the young sexton sweeping out the central aisle. Looking closely at the young man, the stranger said: "Do you do :ill tlit* work about the church?" "Yes, sir." "Do you trim the lamps?" "Yes, sir." "Why do you trim them in such a pe cntiiir wayr "I don't know what you mean." "Why, the flames :ire all alike." "Oh, but they on^ht to he. You would not have them uneven, would you?1' "No," answered the stranger with a smile, "but it speaks well for your carefulness. Why. I should think one of the flames would lit all the others exactly if it were superimposed on them." "Superimposed? Isn't that word used in jjwuiuuj r "Certainly. If polygons. having equal sides and angles?" Before the stranger could finish his sentence tin; student threw down his broom, rushed frantically out of the church, ran across the street and into the house, where he a>tonished his mother by exclaiming, in tones uf triumph: "Mother. 1 know that the square of the liypothenr.se of a right angle triangle is equal to tin; sum oi tin: squares oi tiic other two sides!" In a moment his school knowledge had come back to him. flashed into his mind by the mention of the superimposed figures.?Philadelphia Call. A student at the University of Texas, whose home is at Brenham, was about to start home to enjoy the Christmas holidays. A friend remarked: "You haven't got your watch on. You ought not U) go home without your timepiece. "What do I want a watch for at Brenham? There isn't a pawnbroker shop " +/-vrt-n " 7/<V/7v* tiffin/tc AJLL IU^ tV""* CELESTIAL HUMOK. The China ikciiw published :i collect-inn nf ("Jliinpsft humorous anecdotes, se looted from the "Hsiao Lin Huang." or "Book of Laughter," some of which are I interesting because they arc identical with stories familiar to western civilization. while others have a peculiar Celestial accent: Two persons standing over a stove on a cold day. warming themselves, were overheard indulging in the following dialogue: No. 1, apathetic, and given to verbiage, addressed No. 2." reputedly hot-tempered ami decisive, whose clothes he noticed smoldering, as follows: "My dear friend, there is something I would like to speak to you about: I have seen it for some time, and all along have wanted to tell you. but. as people say your temper is fiery, I hesitated; on the other hand, if I do not speak you may be the losei*, so I have corns to the conclusion at last to ask your permission to do so." "Out with it,*' said the other. "Well, your clothes are burning," mildly continued No. 1. "Why the deuce," eried No. 2 in a passion, as he observed considerable damage already done, "could you not speak at once?" "It is true then what people say; what a temper he has got," muttered No. 1, as he lazily moved off. A woodcutter was at work iu concert with his son, while his little grandchild played near them. The old man accidentally cut his son's finger, whereupon the .1 a\ ? H.1 1.:, 11'IllC MUU'lCi UHlt'U liitiiVL t* viiuvi old fool. "You son of a dog!11 cried the little boy, "how* dare you abuse your father?1' The following is told of an incorrigibly idle offspring of a literary father: A youngster, having a great disinclination to study, was shut up in a closet, with strict injunctions to apply himself. Stealing near- the parent, the parent, to his delight, heard the boy droning over his book, and was presently still more pleased by hearing the supposed student exclaim, "I understand it." The excited father rushed in, crying out, "I am proud, my son, that you have at last mastered that work." "Yes," said the boy, "I always thought books were written, but to-day I have discovered' tlicv arc printed." "Come home to dinner," cried a good housewife to her husband at work in a field. "All right," he shouted, "as soon as I have hid my hoe." At dinner his wife remonstrated with him for- shouting so loudly about hiding his hoe. "I am certain," said she, "the neighbors have heard you, and someone has already stolen it." Struck with the remark, the man returned to the field, and . * sure enough the hoe was gone. On returning to his house, and impressed with the wisdom of her previous caution, he whispered into his wife's ear, "The hoe is stolen." The following impromptu, though consequent on a-iail, can not be looked on as the outcome of delicient under"? * 1.1-.1 1 X-ll scanning, a mail sumiuicu uuu acii. Trying to rise, lie again fell. "Hang it," lie cried, "if I had known I was to fall again, I would not have tried to get up.1' dU~am ?~sA ?At.n<,0 neighbors why she fanned a dead man in the middle of the winter, she replied: , "My husband's hist wftrds were, 'Wife, wait till I am cold before you marry ! again.'" ( The feminine propensity for conceal- . ing age, and resenting impertinent > questions in regard to it, is common to all times and nationalities; but this does ! j not detract from our admiration of the trick by which the truth was got at in [ the following instance: A man, newly married, thought, when his wife unveiled for the first time, that she looked rather old and wrinkled. Telling her so, he asked her real age, when she replied, "45 or 4G.11 "You wrote in the marriage contract 38 years,11 said he, "but you look even more than 45 or 46." At last she admitted 54. The husband ? il? iUU ttuiiuum, SU iiV UClUUUgUl U.UUself of a stratagem for getting at the truth. Jumping up he said, "I must cover up the salt before going to bed, or else the rats will eat it all before morning." "Well," said his wife, laughing, "I.have heard of and seen many strange things in the sixty-eight years of my life; but I never saw or heard of rats eating sait oeiore. A spirit about to be re-embodied was, < at the final interview with the lord of < hades, informed that he was to be born < into a rich family, and would become i very wealthy. "I don't want it,'1 said ] the spirit; "just give me enough for food and clothes, that is sufficient." ( "No, no,'1 was the reply; "you must < have a few thousand dollars; it would never do to let you have too easy a j life." ] A noted liar once told a friend that he had at home three precious things?a bullock which could run one thousand li a day; a fowl which crowed at the beginning of each watch, day and night, and a dog that could read books. The < friend intimated that lie would lose no time in seeing, with his own eyes, these marvels. The man did not expect this, as his house was somewhat distant: so he went home and told his wife that he 1 was caught at last, and that to-morrow the man would arrive and he would be disgraced. "Never mind," said iiis spouse, "leave that to me; it will be all right; only you must keep out of sight" Next morning the visitor arrived, and, being met bv the mistress, asked where her husband was. "Kc has gone to 1 Pekin," she replied. "When will he be back?" "In eight or nine days." "Why, how can he be so quick?" "He has ?one off on our fast bullock, and can do j it easily." "I hear you have also a wonderful fowl," said the visitor, and, behold, as he was speaking, a small cock crew. "That's it," said the wife, "he of fliftflrinrtm/r r\f I V/1UMO ai tuv Wi. v?vv?? >iM?wa?Tl and also when a visitor arrives.'' "I 1 would also like to see - your learned j uog,"5 he said. "Ah," said she, "I am i sorry; but yoe see we arc very poor: so he keeps a school in the city." A doctor opened a drug store, but for a long time had no customers; at last rmr> fiisfnmor fiama When SUOt>lvin<? his wants, the vender observed that the drag was full of weevH>. "What is this?"' said the buyer. "Xiang tsan" (medicinal larva;), replied the doctor. "Kiang tsan are always dead." "Yes.11 said the doctor, "but you see they could not remain dead after eating my medicine." A doctor, as a punishment for causing his patient's death, had to pay ten burdens of wheat. While carrying the grain he was met by a man who asked him to come anil treat a sick member of his family. "All right,'1 said the doctor, "I will be there shortly; but in the meantime you may be getting your barn cleaned out." A barber shaving a customer's head drew blood, and put one of his lingers on it. Again he made a cut, and put down another linger, and so on till lie had no more fingers free. "Ah," said lie, as he paused in his work "a barbers is a difficult trade; we ought to have a thousand fingers." TYRTVR-WHIST. ! &. Game that k-t Taking the Place of Pro. grcssive Euchre. - Drive-Whist is racing1 in the East as progressive euchre raged in the West hst season. It has been introduced in a limited number of Detroit homes by Itdies and gentlemen, who practiced it while visiting Boston. New York, and Philadelphia friends. Drive-whist is not very unlike progressive euchre in its general form. Any number of tables may be brought into the game; one hand is played, and then the couple .-hnnorA t-!lilac nrlr.anmno' in rotation. as in progressive euchre; only in drive^hist the same partner is kept throughout the evening. Then, again, it is more social, because each couple must iu the coufse of the evening meet with sTnd play everj other couple in the room, i*less, of course, there are more couples there are hands played; >.ut u. "possible to play from thirty to thirtyf-ve hands between tlie hours of 8 and 10:30 o'clock, the last contingency is ri.-t likely to arise. Players asseit that t':e game is very fascinating. To play drive-whist, the host or hostess must procure score cards in sufficient number so as to provide each r>nnnlf> with ruin Thfisn spnro nurds are maile like dancing programmes lo be fastened by a cor<], and give a space at the top for the lady's name and address, and opposite, the gen ' man's name whose partner she is. Below the card is ruled in spaces so that there is one column for points won, another for points lost, and a third for the names of your opponents. The manner of choosing partners for the evening is left to the ingenuity of the hostess, and different ways are adopted. One is to write the gentlemen's names on the score cards (one name on each card) and then let the ladies draw one card each. When partners arc once selected they are kept throughout the evening. The ? ? ? ? */! A?A 1 \ ? ? vwl ? c rvlor*A/'l VdlUSI U1C UCSUl/ iXUKl lltlllU. iO pitij vu* At the end one couple at each table has won a number of jx>ints and the other couple has lost. The gentlemen then make a record, each on nis own card, of the points won or lost, with the names of the other couple. The losing couple at the table then change places, cach going to the next table, and the losing couple at the head table going to the vacant place at the foot Another hand is dealt and played, another record made, another change of positions follows, and the game goes on At the close of the game, when the number of hands previously decided upon have been plavcd, each couple adds together *L ?. nr?/1 oil lrtcf orwl f Jilt IJUi; [AJiillS Wim ?tiivi aii avoi, tuiu iu>o determines the difference. The couple that has won the greatest number of points is entitled to the head pi*ize, and tife couple that has lost the greatest number of points gets the foot prize. The prizes are provided by the host or hostess, or if a club meets to play it procures prizes from its club fund for that purpose. The score cards are given to the ladies at the completion of the game. ?N. Y. World. An Indianapolis Journal correspondent at Washington writes: A person outside of Washington has no idea of the immense amount of time the President and his cabinet are compelled to waste almost daily in writing autographs. The senators are comparatively free from this nuisance, when one compares the requests made of the President and his cabinet It is almost a system, the making of autographs at the White House, and the President has been compelled to adopt some method, or otherwise he would have to refuse the requests altogether, or else be interrupted every hour. The doorkeeper at the cabinet-room is made the custodian of all autograph books sent to the White House. He piles these dainty little volumes on a shelf on his big desk and lets them rest there until about five o'clock in the afternoon, when he opens eftch one at the proper page and then carries the pile to the library for Cleveland s inspection. The President rarely looks over the books, but takes up a pen and dashes off his name in a rapid manner and passes to the next. Then the doorkeeper carries the pile away. The President generally, during this hour, writes off a number of autographs on small cards, with the words "executive mansion" printed on one corner. These are sent away by mail in answer to the hundreds of requests that come through [Jncle Sam's carricr. Some one suggest ed to the President that lie let one of his clerks write his autographs, but he replied: "I am still able to use my right hand and arm, and it does not take long to sign my name." So the change was never suggested again. She Cherished No Animosity. A remarkable case of woman's con stant love was Drougui to ngnc in ims city recently. A young man?a hardworking young man, by the way, and one whose time is too much taken up in nobly earning his bread and butter by the sweat of his brow to indulge excessively in the va ?aries of jealousy and retributive differed with his wife in certain matters affecting domestic felicity. This matter-of-fact young man, instead of firing into a passion and ap _ ~-Ui~ *1 pearmg 111 Ull UHUUVjauii; m mc Police Court, quietly proceeded to get a divorce. He got it. Time passed on, and after a while the young man's affections joined hands "with the affections of a young lady of this city. They engaged themselves to marry. The divorced -wife heard of it She offered to superintend the arrangements for the approaching wedding, and the offer was accepted. The room in which the ceremony took place was decorated with evergreens by her hands, and with forget-me-nots and other tenderly expressive flowers. But she did not stop at that point. The witnesses to the cere mony were surprised to see her acting as bridemaid and subsequently wishing the couple a happy, prosperous and pure journey through life.?Stockton (Cal.) Mail. He Wanted a Canal Dug. A few days ago an old chap from northern Michigan paid a visit to Bos ton for the purpose of organizing a company to dig a ship canal from the head of Saginaw Bay to Pentwater, straight across the State of Michigan. He came over to New York in deep disgust, and when asked how his project got along, he replied: "I'm going home. You eastern folks are no good any more. That 'ere canal could be dug for $27,000,000. I'd agree to act as president of the company for $5,000 a year. We could raise $15,000 worth of celery along the banks every season. I've got five sons who'd act as bosses for $3,000 apiece a year. We could cut $50,000 worth of ice every winter, and we could raise $75,000 Torth of geese and clucks every*summer. But nobody'll take hold. Don't seem to be any backbone down this way."? Wall Strict Ncuis. New Ideas for Arranging Parlors. Mme. tie Stuve, the wife of the Russian minister, who was such a wonder- . ful woman in every way, set a fashion ; liere of breaking up the Ions: saloon | parlors into subdivisions and nooks. ^ The minister took for his legation the j typical furnished house with one long ] parlor, with light walls and carpets and j i. ?1 iff taw nf ri.d furnitnrn set around tli(> parallelogram. The household genius 3 put a long sofa opposite the middle ] door, and set a group of tall palm, ( orange and rubber trees at cither end 3 of it, letting them run out into the room ^ like capes of land. Jt was easy enotigu then to put other sofas against this hedge of greenery, scatter the chairs, the low tables with lamps, and the hassocks about. Lots of pillows for the sofas and a soft bag of feathers in old brocade for each of the larger chairs, gave the room a most luxurious and comfortable and ihcrc "as irregu larity ei.ough to make the general cfi'ect supremely artistic. Not every one has a Russian woman's i passion for palms and orange trees in the drawing-room in winter, and the ill nlnnts rm<1 sin nil trf'OS llir.t. ;irf> siifh effective and inevitable decorations of , European parlors are not in tlm same " favor here yet. The American house is j crowded with palms :it great expense j for one evening party, but a single graceful tree is seldom kept to delight j the eye of the family all the while. Sev- , oral women who can not carry out j Mme. de Strave's prettily arranged drawing-room with the palms have broken the length of their saloon parlors with arrangements of screens, and made 4-lwv aha An<l AP +A J cili; JJiJlll iiuin uuv; ViUVi. vyx tJi^ x\j\jxxk L\-r ^ another a tortuous one, in and out past the angles of screens. Some familiar ^ drawing-rooms arc so changed in this ( way that one linrtlly recognizes thorn in ^ their new guise. One lon^ and awkward parlor that I useu to know is ^ broken into three cosey nooks, each , with its own little decorative arrange- j mgnts and central idea, and cach beau- j tilied by a tall brass lamp on the iloor, j or by large table lamps. Another fancy of the day for tiiose j who have two small parlors, both with ^ doors opening into the hall, is to close ^ the hall door of the front parlor and set r the hat-rack or card-table against it. ; This gives a much better chance to ar- J range the furniture of the front room ef- ( fectively, keeps oft' draughts from the open front door, and gives the room the cosey, shut-in look so comforting in winter time. A diplomate's wife was the iirst to set up this fashion, too, after ^ she had struggled with and solved the j problem of the.se narrow Amorican bouses with small parlors opening so nearly on the street door. At one liouse here where the front parlor door has lately been shut, 'the aoor of the second parlor is back under the hall stairs, and the servants had an amusing encounter with a deaf caller, who insisted that he did not want to go to the dining-room if the family was at table. He had supposed the ladies would be in the parlor on that day and at that hour. ? 11 'ashinglo n Cor. in St. J/v?/4a J} i 'o.i iff ^ ^ ???n?Bg? ?. A Domestic Episode. "We have a good deal of trouble late- ^ ly with servants,'* said a family man J the other day, "particularly with gov ernesses. There seems to be no place * in the American household for the gov- ' ern ess. We have only one child, and it 1 hardly pays to have both a governess and a" nurse, and so we endeavored for 1 a time to get some one who would com- * bine the two functions. Finally we ad- j vertised for a nurse with enough education to teach a child the commonest 3 ,-1 Silin Mmn rmrl wa ^ A>u?ilOii IJiauwivo. ~ 1 supposed we had at last found a valua- c ble domestic. Last night my wife ran c around the corner to her sister's. She I came back and brought a lot of people I with her, and they all trooped into the * parlors. * "The nurse was there. She wore a 1 placid smile, which was directed toward a large and cumbersome gentleman who might have been a trackman or a. coal-heaver when not in society, and who sat with an appearance of so- f lidity only equaled by one of the piers ^ +l?r> TT.jof- viv.if nil rmisionl \JL IHV/ iJUCi. X J 1 V i. vnvi^v v. ?? ^ chair which my wife's uncle brought t from Paris last Fall, it is a delicate bit t of furniture, made of bamboo, polished t like ebony. Lilies, roses and storks g have been artistically painted on the j chair by my wife. The music box is so arranged that when one sits upon the ^ chair strains of melody tinkle softly. ? The spectacle of a large, fat. unshaven j but agreeable coal-heaver sitting with a j nine-inch smile of uneqnaled delight to the shadow song from "Dinorah!" ? Dircctly opposite of him was his hostess, j| the nurse. She wore a brooch, a cameo * which my wife's mother had left her, and which she prized very highly, it t was :i eti arming picture. \\ jicn my v. ixe ^ ordered the ]>:iir out of the room the coal-heaver went good-naturedly, but the nurse had her head in the air. "This morning at breakfast she was ^ on hand to have an explanation with me, as my wire was too ii! to go down stairs. She began by saying that she j believed a lady was a lady, no matter how she was placed. 1 told her we ^ didn't object to iadies in general, but ^ when they assumed the prerogative of my wife and look to entertaining large ( and heavy laborers in the parlor, we . felt that it was necessary to give the .1 olionf>? T fhon listened to liVUO^llVlVl W VilUUVVf - V..W.. a long harangue about ladies and their rights before 1 discovered that the nurse considered herself a governess, despite the plain explanation I had had with her when she came to the house. In trying to explain to her that she was a nurse and not a governess, 1 succeeded in insulting her so grossly that she gave me notice on the spot. 1 paid her up to the end of the month, and she is, by tMc (inw f Well out of U1V llOUSC.'" ?Philadelphia Xorth American. | t A correspondent of the Albany Journal writes: A very bright young lady i who has been living in Boston several ( winters was invited to hear a lecture on ( ' Glaciers" at the Natural History rooms. ( All the Harvard professors and seientific s people were present, and after the ? "Glaciers" a paper on Paleozoic insects c was read by >S. II. Scuddcr of Cam- c bridge. Mr. Scuddcr is an enthusiastic entomologist, and he rushed through a long list of scientific technicalities, de- ' scribing the difference between the Pale- ozoie insects and the insects of the pros- : ent day, their gradual evolutions from t period to ])criod, and ended by stating that cockroaches were the only insects r which remained unchanged and as 1 primarily created. In fact, they were tiie oldest specimens of insects known -f to man. When Mr. Scudder concluded, i a Harvard professor smilingly -asked I this young lady how si;y had enjoyed the lecture: "0. very much," was the response. "I don't understand much < ; ?limit 1>i]ts_ but it i.s verv interesting to > know that cockroaches old as sonic of our lies." Mk Doctoring Royal Pat ients. It was a matter of wonder to many persons in Paris that Dr. l'auvel, the < preat French specialist in throat (lis- I lnwl imt l^nnn cnmmrmrMl tnntfp.rui ;he King of Spain at the commencement of his malady, especially as Dr. j ETauvel had always attended Queen IsaDc-lla and her children during their rcsiience in Paris for any troubles of that , mature. But such a proceeding was for- ' Didden by the strict rules of Spanish 't jtiquette, which prohibits one of the royal family of Spain from being at:ended by any physician who is not a 1 Spaniard* by birth. At the time of the last illness of the 1 roung Queen Mercedes there resided in 1 Madrid a German doctor who was especially famed for his treatment of typhoid fever, the disease from which the Queen i Evas suffering. He had recently saved :he life of Mrs. J. R. Lowell when she ' pras sufficing from a violent attack of :hat terrible malady. A few days before Queen Mercedes breathed her last ; ier Spanish doctors sent for their Ger- \ Man colleague and requested him to : Drescribe for their patient without seeing iier. This he positively refused to do, , saving that he must examine into the | physical condition of the Queen before ' prescribing for her. But that could by j 10 means be permitted. \ "Then," he said, "let me merely see ier?let me go to the door of her room md look at her without crossing the ( i ? ? ( .nrusuoiu. Even that concession was refused. ' "Then, gentlemen," he declared, "I 1 ;an do nothing. I will not attempt to 1 prescribe for a patient that I have not ;ven seen.11 : He withdrew from the palace, and a ' :ew days later the young Queen was < lead. But the sacred laws of Spanish J regal etiquette had been preserved with- ; >ut infringement A similar affair, but vitli a different denouement, took place i i good many years ago in Russia. The ] ate Czarina, the mother of the present ] Emperor of Russia, was, shortly after * ler marriage, attacked with a serious ] * ~i- 1. TT_ 4.^ 4/U mecuon 01 xue sioiikicji. up iu tutu, j ;imc no physician could approach the j Deside of one of his lady patients of the f mpcrial family nearer" than ten feet ( rhe Empress grew worse and became j alarmingly ill. The Emperor Alexanier gave orders that a famous physician . jailed Botkin, of whose skill in such ;ases he had heard, should at once be >ent for. Botkin came, and, to the hor- , :or of his colleagues, iie walked straight | jp to the beside of the Empress and ^ :ook hold of her wrist to feel her pulse. ( Ele was instantly hurried from the room t md was loudly remonstrated with on , ;he impropriety of his conduct, being ^ Did that his Imperial patient was to be j ooked at from a distauce, and that he A- Kaw 1 J1USL nut appilKUJU iici, mum tvuvn icr. Botkin listened in silence to all ] hat the other doctors had to say, but ? vhen the report of the consultation was I Irawn up he refused to sign it. The Emperor, who was exceedingly anxious s especting Botkin's opinion, sent at ?r >nce for the report, and on noticing 'j hat the name of the new doctor did . "Your Majesty," quoth Botkin, frank- 1 y, "I can not pretend to treat a patient ( hat I am not permitted to examine. ( rhe Empress is, I learn, in a very criti- 1 ;al situation. I think I can save her, c :>ut to do so I must be allowed to go to ] York in my own way." The Emperor rose from his chaiiy I ook Dr. Botkin by the arm and march- s :d with him into the sick-room of the t impress and straight up to her bedside. 1 'There, Doctor," he said, "examine $ rour patient, and if any one pretends to r nterfere with you remember you are t jbej'ing my.commands." The course 1 >f treatment prescribed by the great i >bysician proved successful. The "Em- j >ress was saved, and that particular j uie of Imperial etiquette was abrogated t orever.?Mrs. noopcr a vans j.cacr in ( he Philadelphia Telegraph. t * v lie Had Consulted His Directors. r A large proportion of the cotton-mill >roperty in Spindleville is, as everybody 1 mows, in the hands of the Haughtcn I amily, who got it through the marriage 1 >f one of the daughters of the family to ! he man who started the mill business : here. When he died the property, j hrough a series of perfectly natural ' teps, passed into the control of the ' laughtons. Daniel Haughton, the head 1 >f the family, was a man of great na- v ural shrewdness and strength of char- * ictor. His two brothers, Jacob and a Teliiel, were always associated with ; lim; but, while his business proceed- * ngs were understood to be with their ' idvice and consent, Daniel always held ' i sort of veto power over his brothers, 1 md nothing was ever passed over his 1 elo. He is dead now, but the story of s ho way in which he used to ''consult c lis directors" is still told in Spindle- ^ iile. s One day a cotton-broker called at the >filce of " the mill of which Haughton s vas treasurer, and offered him a big lot 1 >f cotton at a certain price. < "This is so large a contract," said c 3aughton, "that I really ought to con- i ;ult my directors about it. They're in- s side, and I'll just step in and consult 1 hem." * i Jacob and Jehicl were in the inner i >llice. Daniel went in and explained 1 he proposition to them and said: i "Well. Brother Jacob, do you think : vn liirl linv til fit. ontton?" I ( "No, I don't think we had Brother < )aniel: not at tlsat price."' 1 "Well, Brother 'Hie!, what do you 1 liink we had better do about it?1* * t "I shouldn't buv iU?Brotlwr Danieiu^ iotJu^M^-m^ans-''. ^ ! 'KDom!'' saia? l>aniel. Haughton ^"cnt back to the outer )ffiee, whesW^ cotton-broker was raiting. "Well, sir," st[dd he to the man, "XVe :onsulted my tbJirectors, and I'll take hat cotton at th<\price you named!'' There is a story Ibf" a similar touch of lature in the case o\*he senior partner )f the cotton-mill call it Bootby, 2onn. After his deatl\one of the exe- j ,'utors found it neeessViy to consult ome of the directors. Hfc accordingly usked Mr. Parks what actioto the board >f directors wore accustometfyo take tinier certain circumstances. \ ' I do not know." said the director. "Why, yes," said the puzzled Vawyer, 'you must be able to tell me something. 1 uirecior ior many years, youoi ctnusc ittended the ma-lings and assisted^ in he proceedings." \ Growing momentarily more emb-;ir assed, the director leaned forward.! at ast and frankly explained: * "All true; 1 ought to know, but'^he act is I usually got notice of a directora'J : ueeting the day after it had taken * dace!" t t Jean Cohen, a native of Poland, a < single woman, aged sixty years, has 1 Teej^^ut to the Stockton (California) < m^dum. Her mania is of the ] ? ? i !1J .1. I * ruer, as sne lias a. wiiu ue- i tery man she sees. < MISSING LINKS. ...3r Rustem Pasha, the Turkish Ambassa- : ior to England is one of the most expert^ riflemen in Europe. 1L Herve, the 'father of opera . iiouffe," now lives at Folkestone, and " lias become a natuialized British subject. .Salvini smokes only cigars that he ' tiniself gets from Naples, and his son 4 says they are frightfully bad and cost . only 1.} cents each. . I The Prince of Wales now wears a black silk ribbon as a watch-guard, and.f itbout the first of next July the Anglomaniac in this country will affect the eame style. r ? , 1 1 ?? ' ..ISUCOlUS LIVLU XIuvea cuuacu M uic ^ \ "jacket" for the boiler of a new loco-: motive built for the Boston & Albanyttailway. This will not char, as doe&c _* wood, and will retain more heat --* A platinum wire too fine to be seen . with the naked e%g_is said to have been made by H. T. Ilead'of Brooklyn. It is to be used in telescopes as a substitute^ for the spider's web usually employed.s The single town of Besancon in-; Switzerland, employs over 15,000 persons in watchmaking, and the annual-: product approaches ouu,uuu watcnes. -A-, government horological school is main-/ :ainecl there. In St. Petersburg there arc men who akc about hot tea in large metal pots covered with felt, and sell it to hack-"4 Irivers and coachmen, - who have-to" wait for long hours in the cold when / here is a party. z Archdeacon Farrar is telling English \udiences that during his long journey hrough the United States he saw less Imnl'/innncc flton in o ein/yl/i irr?llr in . iuuAtuuwo liuklx ail vv ?Yaia ui London. He thinks America is far ihead of England in temperance' work. The French have looked with alarmlpon the steady export.of Percheron. lorses to the United States; but the nost prominent breeders there now ;ay that the progeny of these" horses raised in the United States are an improvement upon their sires, and that; it s profitable to reimport It is known :hat Napoleon III. used to import Perjheron horses from Vermont for the post chaises which he used" so much.. Dr. Gould, the astronomer, is shocked . it the progress America has been mak- ' * :ng during his fifteen years absence 'toward practices and fashions which ire not the normal ougrowth of American institutions, but an aping of foreign vays ana usages, an acceptance 01 so;ial and other standards which belong :o England or continental Europe. 'Let them that the fox-hunting cap its," says the Boston Transcript, "put t on." ... The French papers Iiave been filled vith stories more or less apocryphal ibout the late Mr. Vanderbilt and his mrchases in Paris. One tale is to the iffect that on one occasion, looking at a uperb exhibit of ornamental iron work ihown at the Palace of Industry at an ~ jj gj innual fair, he inquired the price of the'";fr ot. "The whole is worth 50.000 francs, f 't. o rjAiinv ?? eoij nmHw !eTivenn^5^B|KnBK?^H| i i >ver.'' Ana ne went aiuwPUiu1" &&& ''? ;r plucked at the sleev<^j?" ??' nan accompanying Vc&BT juired in a whisper: "Is all right in the head?" *} W CEXr * In a paper-read before the Public lealth Association, Dr. D. E. Salmon aid that the ravages of ho<* cholera vere unusually severe and widespread ast year, and cost producers nearly 80,000,000. Referring to the sanitary ispects of the question, he said:. "The lisposition of the million carcasses of logs that have died from this disease is i matter which affects the health of our icople. Sometimes they are left to mtrefry, sometimes they are thrown ino the ponds and streams which furnish Irinkin^ water to our cities, sometimes he law is rendered from them, and vhat finally becomes of this product is tn interesting subject for speculation." Investigation shows that the limit of cmperaturc at winch men can work deHinds upon the length of their exposure, he amount of exertion they put forth, heir condition, and the nature of the ittr.osplicrc, particularly as to its degree >f moisture. It is stated that men have )eon employed on railways at 104 derrecs, in mines?under very' favorable - . V 3 ^ onditions?at l'Jo cieg., ana are saia to vork occasionally in the stoke-holes of ropical steamers at 156 (leg. Professor Dubois is reported to have estimated hat a temperature of 122 deg. can be mdured when the air is as dry as possi)le, but that even 104 deg. is likely to )e fatal in an atmosphere saturated "with noisture. it is also considered certain hat men cannot become accustomed to itand for any considerable time a higher tcmperaturc'than from 145 deg. to .65 deg. even when they keep perfectly .till and arc in quite pure air. * - A letter in the Pittsburg Dispatch ;ays: "Col. Ingersoll is the kindestuvirtnd man I ever saw. Ridiner all lay with him between Omaha and "Chicago I saw a little incident that will lhistrate this. On the train was a pale, sickly-looking woman, with a fretful j a by. Tiie woman was in shabby nouming ami was almost worn out yith the crying and worrying of her it'.le one. The passengers were nuch annoyed and kept looking arqsappSW ^ md frowning at the woman, videntlvdoin^ herj^flgff^iet the mm. rinany -u^jpfrgersoll, who had jcen reading, n^gccd it. Getting up, ie steppetj^fffross to the woman and oo^affuzibe, telling her to take a little r-1?st and he would take care of the child. The little one stopped crying at oncc, playing with his watch and chain awhile and finally nestled its little head down 0:1 his arm and went to sleep. Tlu: tired mother also dropped to sleep, and the Colonel cared for the baby for upwards of a hundred miles before the mother awaked and relieved him." The Dublin Freeman savs: "The ? n ?A' iina-ws oeaince is Dcgmmng to derive sonic little benefit from her marriage. Up till now she has never been permitted to pay a visit on her own account, to any house?not even to her own relatives. It seems, however, she is to be. allowed in the course of a fortnight to go to Sandringham with her husband and spend a few days with the Prince of Wales. But. as we all know, the fes ..i.v. uiut; is >?ry camonc in His sympathies, and society at his house, though delightful, is a little 'mixed.' Prince Henry of Battenberg, bein? a person of dubious birth, is naturally a fearful stickler for etiquet and stands on his royal dignity, now that he has by marriage attained some in England, in the most amusing manner. He has accord's crly demanded that before his wife is iliov'pd to visit her brother a list of all :he persons who are to be in the house luring the.:~ visit shall be submitted to rim. You sec- .-ome artist, some actor, >r literary odious middle-class jersun migni up mere and come between he wind and A he morganatic nobility >f the youthful Battenberj." N