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VOL XLII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 1886. NO. 34. ^ Mollyhoelcs. A J!a::ntiT;jr. jrroceloss flower. you say? a_ ?" :!. i" in iy so: Ami i' ?: < ::> out yesterday. - That inf>rn::!i* Jons?So. I almost - ;h'- coit:'sf' yet. TV.^ .. .. ?.itw] Mrot. A light-v... w-.-: i>rceze sailed gently by; The !ark*s eh :m:f afar. Thro' the blu " -yaci's of tic sky, ' Slid like a fat.j'V.r star. X never saw h< r look so i.iir: Ah, if I told i-or. would she care. ( Within a hollyhock, A po!le;j-laden bee, i). cp pluissinir, m:ule the blossom rock. Sfc;- tlashed i. smilo at mo. *?? And with a motion swift and liarht gm She caught the silken r?.-t:.is tight. ||| Loud humu^d the l?ce with angry wing? Tho sweets von sousht.poor foolish thing'," ? S!h- s:iid. **rre ::!! niissp"iir I" My heart ?! up to h?:ir her speak; A sudden couivjre dyed my cheek. jala < "Darl?n;r!'* I ciod, let bini fly, v' W?i. And take me in his piace? Fast prisoned i.i your heart could I gg&P Ask any sweeter jrroco'i I eouM not struprs'le to be free. wk So dear a jailer holds the key." ' ' Ker eh'-ek flushed like an o'p'ninjj rose, X<> word her l.ps di'l say? T saw !:or iiltlc band unclose. The s'lart t?"f t'f.v nwny. -Mi. m?>: 'iv.us forty y:?rs :\-ro? My hftjr i- jrr.iy?yet "ti.is I know: I've roamed thro" many sr.irden bowers 'And BcMs siiice then? In sninra^r.wi id-wood jnuhercd llowers. And i:i the mountain srlcn Pulled b::rt'bcils from the moss-grown , IT IV .A, . -v Yet n:osi 1 lovod the hollyhock. ?Mary A. P. Sinnsbury. i LOVE TO RESCUE. we'll take you in/' said Betty, with n patronizing air that was quite new to her. "because you have bnen so kind, f am: have crot us all the bottcrhs to decorate with. But you mustn't tell any, ' . body. Cwrire. Mr de V aux and I want i "V HIV Wll.'w ........ j ^ ]t was (j?*or?e Ivnox for whom she opened t'.e door of tbo now barn, that marvelous .structure of Mr. Sprague's. an outgrowth of fancy farming; on large cai)it:tl. There it stood. like a palace of agriculture. painted pure white, with lattic^ oil windows of emerald-green, and an r airy observatory at the top, surmounted ^ by a gilded weather-vane. Tiie barn had just been iinished that summer, but the crops were all in and half threshed when Betty made up her mind to have a harvest-home. There * - xl_ . was plenty or room ior uanemg m me wide area between the mows, when, the farming imph ments and machinery f* were moved out of the way. "Walk in. Mr. Knox." said Clarence de Vaux. wit's the air of one to the manner born. "Miss Betty and I have been * doins: the decorative inside/' George winced at the constant asso^ ciationr of his name with Betty's, and ||k_ looked jealously at the girl's fair face, jte^H^vhich had never seemed farther from R never care for me," George v. with a desperate look at :uids and homely clothes, >y contrast with the dainty into the^barn marvelling, curbed to him that he had Affile beauty of that inh he had loaned his team whole day cutting boughs ;g tlowers for Betty at tier comuKiiiu, without even knowing what she was going to do with them. .' Doesn't it look pretty?"' Betty demanded. as they stood inside of the barn, and she took a few giddy turns with De Vaux over the well-waxed floor. , "This is Mr. de Vaux's doing. He is quite an artist, 1 assure you." "Ah, now, .Miss Betty!" cried De Vaux. pulling his mustache. "Spare _ my biushesl*' r<" " ? '"It looks beautiful," George said simply. And for a moment his honest eyes cluinn w?tri lil(irunr(>. The scene was a vcry pretty one. All around the walls ?vere arranged impromptu seats; the walls were hung with green boughs and autumn leaves, with fruit and grain, and farm implements gaily decked with ribbons. Chinese hint rns depended from the rafters, and a chandelier, made of laths clewrly naik-d together, supported a hundred wax candles. -You wiir have to be careful about *" tire/* suggested George mildly. "With rail that hay in the mows, the least spark would make a blaze in a minute." "There wrn't be any danger, I guess," Betty said carelessly. "Would - YOU i:KW to ? ) lljj !;? uie UUJJU1U, vjwi There's a lovely vi"\v from there, "ion can S'.'e Ranko's hill and the mill-pond quite plainly. Won't you come up, Mr. tic Yaux?" -No. I thank you *' De Yaux said r lazily. -I am too tired for stairs. If Miss Butty, I'll wait for you below.r" ^ A look of pique came over Betty's face, but she managed to hide it, and went on up the staircase with George. There wa* a lovely view up there: but lie luut no eyes lor it. tie uaa Deen longing so for a moment with her alone that he pressed close to her side, and _ ^ looked down into the witching face that had broken his peace for ever. -Betty," he said, in a voice that - trembled from very love, "what is the matter with yon lately? Yon are not the rsanit; to my as you used to be." ' Why. nothing!'* she answered in feigned surprise. "You're full of notions. George. ' -No. I am not."' he said decidedly. "I know when you are kind to me and \ _ when you arc not. Betty, yon know rtiuit I love you with my wnoie soul i have never asked you to be my wife, just because your father is a rich man, and I am only a young farmer who has x his way to make. But if I thought you | could care for me a little Oh, Betty, do you think you could?" ; He had seized her hand, and was looking wistfully into her fair face, ? with a great hunger on his lips to taste L zL the s\veelm\ss of that tempting month so own. IT., wos m fino fnllnw onrl Rr>f+v Vt?<vw Pit. He had never looked nobler than he did at that moment; but DeVaux was a gentleman with invisible means of support: his hands were white, and he could dance the lawn tennis quad *I am sorry, 'George," she said hastily. "I am very fond of you, but I?I don't thin'; I could care for you in that way." lie dropped her hand instantly, and a strange whiteness came over his bronze skin. -Is it this De Vaux?" he asked huskily. "Are you engaged to him?" :" ??\ A ' IVltK O TT* o i*m ouui 4>vu v ttitu ??? uu xau-O-J.} "1 am not exactly engaged to him, but "I understand. Shall we so down now?" They came down in silence, and found Clarence de Yaux smoking a -cigarette. ' You ought not to light that in here/' goij (_x'J orgo sternly. v "You'd better rthrow it away."' -Sir!" said Clarence, giving him a prolonged stare. "I smoke where I choose. ' "Then you had better choose such places as can not be jeopardised by your folly," said George curtly. "Betty, I wouldn't let him smoke in here." "I don't see any harm" in Mr. de Vaux's lighting a cigarette if he wishes," she said with a resentful flash oC her dark eyes. "You must not allow 1 your personal feelings to provoke you to j rudeness, Mr. Knox. ' I had no intention of being rude, ' i George said quickly. "But I warn yoa that if yon are not careful to-night this barn will be in ashes to-morrow." "You are a prophet of evil,'' suid Betty carelessly. "If you arc ready, Mr. de Vaux, we will go in. Are you going, George? Weli, good-bye. "I suppose we shall see you to-night?" "I hardly think-so," George answered. And. lifting his -hat, he left them to walk back to the house together." The evening brought with it a tine September moon, mellow and fulL The ladies and gentlemen were all in costume, and Betty's dress was wonderfully becoming. " . " * > - *' ~ "You look like a poem incarnate," whispered Clarence de Yaux, as they glided over the floor together. "Won't vou give me a few moments in the cupola when this is over? The moon is perfect, and the landscape is divine tonight" "Oh, dear!" cried Betty, as a breeze swept through her curls and drifted them backward. "How cool it is up here! I wish"I'd brought my shawL" 'Shall I get it for you?'' DeVauxsaid, devotedly. ' ' "If you will be so kind. It is a white cashmere, hanging on a peg by the door." He started down again with alacrity. The band was playing a -merry tune as he made his way to where Betty's wrap was hanging. It was just slightly above his reach; but he jumped for it, and succeeded in bringing it down?only something'else came with it. A Chinese lantern hanging near was caught in the fringe of the shawl, and flitted off the wire, falling over the beam right into the midst of the haymow. " ? In an instant the plaoe was1 in flames. Like magic a conflagration seemed to be conjured up, roaring around the hu'-e rafters and breathing forth a choking mass of smoke. There was one wild scream. The mus^ic ceased with a crash, and every individual rushed towards the one door, Clarence de Vaux among them. They had but one thought?to escape from the burning structure. Betty, alone up in the cupola, was all unconscious of her danger until the smell of smoke sent her to the staircase. A few steps down, and she was confronted by the fire, which shut off her passage completely. With a wild cry for help, she ran upstairs again, and'clambered out on the roof. But there was no helD for her there. The barn was gabled, and its slanting roof made it impossible to take a step without immediate danger. They saw her below, and a shout of agonised helplessness went up to meet her cries of terror. Down on her knees Betty dropped. "Oh. God. helD me!1' she oraved; And then she heard a voice that had:, always carried comfort and security to her heart - * & "This way, Betty," George Knox cried. And then his strong arms threw about her a heavy horse-blanket, whose wet folds protected her from the flames while he bore her through their midst down the fiery stairway and out in the ! cool night, where she was safe once more. Betty never knew how they made that perilous escape, for when she came to herself, they told her George could not see her. He was horribly burned?poor fellow! ?and raving wildly. Clarence de Vaux had vanished. Public opinion, condemning him for his base desertion of Betty in the hour of mortal peril, had branded him a coward, and he had left town in a hurry. It was some weeks before George Knox again opened his eyes consciously on i he "world, and saw Betty wringing out the soft linen cloths that "had cooled his burns and slowly tempered the ragI in<-r fpvpr in his *'BettyP' he whispered.- "Are. you safe?!' * j_?"Yes, dear,11" she answered with a smile whose gladness George felt in every part of his being. "Yon saved me. ><ot a hair of my-head was hurt." "Thank Heaven!'' he said softly. "I tried to spare yon. Betty. I loved you so!" "I know you did,'1 she said kneeling down at his side and taking one of his i?v>r h:inds in hers: "and I ioved you too, George, though I was not quite sure of it But I am now," she added tenderly, "and, George dear, if you will take me now, I will marry you whenever you like.*' "Oh, Betty!" he cried. "My darling, arc you sure?" She bent over him with a look which there was no mistaking, and then George felt the lips he had coveted pressed to his own" in a fond willing kiss. "Yes, dear," she..answered. "I am quite sure." f ?* jl.i Ul Mr. Sprague's barn was in ashes, but people said- he was .a rich man and' could stand it r;e was very fond of George Knox, to whom he looked for the practical realisation of all his own .-brilliant schemes ??n/l Ft/i t4?UV& nu^u. UV v?M> it was the "barn fire,"' as it was known afterwards, which gave him his son-inlaw, he said it had paid. Greely and Melville. Lieut. Greely is a tall, slender, not robust-looking gentleman, whbse 'eyeglasses and long Dundrearyish whiskers and nonchalant manner give little indication of the resources and -pluck. ?' 1-- L * to WIl;WI LU5 wm sijwuu iuojjuw. UI,U the last man in the world one would have selected, judging from-his physique and temperament, to go into the frozen regions of the north. These wiry, nervous organizations often develop more power of endurance than more robust and sturdy men. Engineer Melville is the very opposite in every respect of Lieut Grcelv. He is sturdy, broadshouldered, deep-chested, heavily-bearded, long-haired, rough-and-ready, and looks as if he would not be happy or flourish anywhere else than in the polar regions, to which he is so anxious to return.?New York' World. George Lester, the minstrel manager, who has recently employed John L. ; Sullivan, lined that gentleman $888 for j getting drunk. He says: /"He kept pret j ty sooer until last weeK, woen ne was ! drunk four times. Just imagine Ajai j drunk and trying to defy the lightning. I wouldn't have said this about hiax if j ha hadn't be^un talking me." THE BANISHED BANG. ' History of a Fashion?Its Popularity and How It Originated. It is frequently noticed as a cnrioM fact that a monument in ..ruins or a custom in decadence is apt to attract more attention than when both were in their prime. There is something about a ruin' which attracts" 'the moralist as there is that in a practice falling into desuetude which draws the student of life and history, and both arc more carefully noticed when it is certain that both are rapidly- passing away than either would-have been uad ft- given promise of long continuance. In accordance with this well-known fact the female bang is now exciting the interest and enlisting the services of social philosophers. Xbe Dang nas oeen long with us, and now that it is gradually vanished up the forehead of the fair, ana being lost in the luxuriance of "tophair, it is acquiring an interest which, in its palmiest days, it never possessed-. It is true that this interest is mainly of an antiquarian character. Men are perfectly willing to" see it depart, and, in fact, some excellent persons have been known to express the hope that it would go soon, in order that they might once more see the whole of a woman's face. But now that it is going, public curiosity is beginning to be much aroused" in ascertaining a reason why it ever came. So far as can be seen, it was neither useful 'nor ornamental; it did not keep off the sun, and did con ceal a most expressive portion of the countenance.? It was troublesome of arrangement^ constant source of anxiety when arranged, injurious to the eyes, trying; on the temper, and when of any considerable proportions gave its wearer the half-scared expression of a rabbit peeping out of a brush-heap. Some writers on the subject are inclined to assign it a Turkish origin, being under the impression that it was a sort of substitute for a veil, but this is sufficiently negatived by the fact that it io found Upon the front of. her who is the .'best able to take her own part in any kind qf controversy, ana so, m aespair, must, <n the theorists have fallen back upon the notion that it was a "freak;" an illustration of the fact that the will of woman is not to be hampered by any dictate of judgment nor her costume by any canon of good taste or common sense. ? r ,< . While this theory certainly has points in its favor, there is a fatal objection. It is not scientific. In the light of science nothing exists without an antecedent and a cause, and to suppose that a bang sprang into being without either pattern or motive is U> suppose a piece of scientific nonsense. So ther? must have been something from which it was eled, as well as an excuse for its. inven^ ?'* lion,' xor even ;i uiuu?uuaivy 10 oviuuui without ja. predecessor and reason .for existence. At the first glance, an effort at classification of-bangs appears impossible, for a grouping of objects of the same class implies properties in common, and a scientific*-examination of bangs discloses the fact that although the ignorant may consider them as all equally odious to good taste,' the trained observer will see so many and feo wide differences in length, in glossiness, and iq disposit;UM3L.to get put .to lixihat every -particular bang.evem* as "one star differs from another star in glory.1' Taking, howevefi'arrangement as a basis of differentiation, b^ngs will divide themselves into three classes; the frizzly bang; the curly bang, and the saucer bang. . : ? A caremi Historical cuase 01 uie oang through many countries finally locates the frizzly bang as a .native of Africa, the ladies of that continent having advantages for producing this style of hirsute ornament which their sisters further north never possessed. Established as a fashion in Africa, it lost no time in Dassinsr over to Asia, the Afri can slaves assisting in its transit. But the capillary attractions of Asiatic ladies were by no means suited to HselAfrican style, and ...all efforts at frizzing their hair proving ."failures, the curly bang was evolved as the nearest approach to the African style.: Thus did the^ bang traverse thousands'miles,. and so adapt itself to circumstances that some ethnOlogists.havo'sfediqasjY maintained its;Asiatic' origin. Exactly when - the bang came inJo Europe is matter of doubt, some placing its advent in the, latter days 01 the Rojn^n- empire, while others-insist that it was brought back from the cast by the., crusaders; but wfieneverit can;e, it found that the front hair of European ladies was aa intractable as their tender, and so, the hair-dressers being unable either to. curl or to"frizzle;' ttiq saaecr ban?,''stiff, 8tfa5^ht,''soaped/""and p^asterecf down, as hideous as a nightmare, was finally evolved..-This being settled; there rewoiinc tKn rtrvn/>lnflinor innilirV. til tUUJ V*4 M bliv N. %tvw "*"1 J T whence eartie^'th^Tiret'^of?' "T&e most formidable oi the animaf kingdom is the much drg^ed gorilla. Xhis beast, among othet'attraction^ carries" a head of Short, bristly-hair, - -and one* of; the animal's preparations for battle is to pass the paw rapidly down the crown of the hemd to the eyes, thus bringing the front Ji^^t&ight out. and T7gi$ng an aspect^^^ppity that never fails- to in^irfe'tto^tfaiadstterror.. So well;uhderetood is th& gesture that amcng the gorilla's.fellQW-^cOTat^i^n it is'tbe signal for an instantaneous and headlong; scamper from ^"spotf ^nd.' "as- tSe. "female gorilla. ^'defence ot^heE young is even worse Uh*n the mate,:certain- 'African dialects hay#-an; expression, 41a -female gorilla with hfer. hair down,'-1 to indicate-"the extremity of ferocious bearing. In time it came to pass that when African ladies were abused by their hn^fcvnds they adopted- 4he same gesture^ and, so far as the hair was concerned, ariththe-saaaairesalt Then, certain wives,to indicate;their readiness for battiest all seasons, took to wearing theiriair d^awn oyer their foreheads, afiti tife tasSlon * rapidly spread to young ladies, who wore their hair in this style as insinuating .their* resolve nox'o-r ?r> enl>mif. tn matrimonial tvran ny. The idea . spread,- and the bang flourished alike in African deserts, on the. basks of the Ganges; of the Thames, and of the Mississippi. Thus does scientific research shed lighten social topics, and even the monstrosities of female costume are shown to have their origin in intelligent action; for nothing is more reasonable than that, as one animal taught man how to build his house and another how to catch .his dinner, his Wife.-from a third should learn how to dress her 'hair.?Boston Times. An old .man in Stojighiori, Mass., descriWd as "stajwart,- robust* and .-vigorous," -has; .bathed' every; morning-for years in a cold spring hear* his * hous& The baths were not ofnitted .recently when the therfnometer' ' was 18' below zero. He says'the' custom cured" hini * oi catarrh, and is thepanaeeaior. all ills. Miniature silver barrels, filled, with the best Minneapolis 13'otir, are the gifta I which the Danish people of the northwest sent to their friends in Europe. Death Valley. The San Francisco Call, in answer to a correspondent who wants to know the true history of Death valley, gives the following information: Death -valley owes its ns me partially to its frightfully desolate character, being for the most part destitute of "everything necessary to support life, artid partly to the .number of persons and animals that perished there. The vallej is 100 miles-"T6ng by twenty wide, though only about forty miles in length and eight or ten in width is embraced within Inyo county. In 1852 a large party of immigrants perished from thirst within its limits. Its level is from-100 to 400 feet below that of the sea, giving it a greater depression than the Caspian and nearly as great as that of the Dead sea. It is, -says Cronise, probably the bed of a former lake, the waters of whieh were strongly charged with sajt and soda. For forty-five miles in length and fifteen in width along its -center it is a salt marsh, in which the Aw>-iT*rr/?-7o /nr riv?>r sinks, find \V. / T ( whore a thin layer of soil cover? an tinknown depth of soft mr.il. For miles there is no water fit to drink, and, although springs are numerous, they are intensely alkaline. Saline efflorescence <md mineral incrustations cover a great portion of the surface, which, except within the limits of the marsh, is composed of an ashlike earth, mixed with a tenacious clay, sand, and alkali, so soft that a man can not travel over it in the winter time without difficulty, and for - - >- J* : ui? animais it is emueiv .it ,ui ? season. In spots where there is l"ss moisture the surface is so porous that a horse sinks into it luilf-wav to his knees, rendering travel slow and laborious. Water can be obtained by digging down a few feet, but it is so saline and bitter that it can be used by neither man nor beast. With the exception of a few clumps of worthless shrubs the plain is destitute of the slightest traces of vegetation, nor are any signs of life to be seen upon it, except a small black gnat, which in summer swarms in myriads, entering the eyes, nose, and cars of the traveler, and persecuting U.-i rr C*ino UlILL ? i LII IU5 |/Xjv;uil44.t ijr lUiUUiii^ cwii^. The heat is fearful during the summer. An exploring party in 1865 found the temperature in January?the coolest month in the year?as high as 90 degrees Fahrenheit. When there is no Breeze through the long canyon the air becomes so dense that respiration is painful and difficult ' During the spring terrible gales of wind fill the air with salt, gravel, and sand, in clouds as black as coal smoke. '1 he whole surface of the valley, except the marsh in the center, is scarred in all directions with deep grooves, which appear to l?ave been made by freshets caused by heavy storms and the bursting of waterspouts. AltogelhwoLis as dismal aod dreary a place as can be imagined. Conditions of Success in Life. In a recent address before the Georgia State Medical Association. Dr. Searcy stated that the physiological conditions of success in life depend mainly upon a vigorous, healthy action of the brain and nervous system. It follows, therefore, that the structural integrity and functional capacity of the brain are matters of the deepest importance, and their . preservation and improvement are of vital moment The author believes that much would be accomplished, could we discover the ways in which the brain capacity is increased and lowered. The problem is a most delicate one, for np to a certain point the receptivity of the 4c /lir/.rtf-K- mvMiArfinnn 1 tn strain already brought to bear upon its capacities. An even balance between the brain functions is an essential element. The superior man must have the ability, not only to comprehend, but, in an equal degree, to discriminate; he must be able to select for a purpose. Besides the ability to learn, a man, to be successful, needs the power to verify his learning, to deduce his own conclusions. and to execute his purposes with persistence. - 'A simply cmdite man is not necessarily successful. On the contrary, he is ofteq. rfcct failure, for braS*%e^$^-'<j||ne;itoed noJieeducaten to the addition of c-dncaticm'to -such iiatural gifts that b^ngs.-dwtinction. ItdsVaot an exag^i?s^^io.^,^.tbat maafcayman of e^^em^i^^jd;uoccasi<Hi to envy his IfflSterd ihe possession of would lava- gi verbis own attainments a greater -avrnLoSHify. Nature apparently requires-a certain amount-of the , concrete., to maintain a mental equipose. The man who can learn, reason, and execute with equal facility possesses the "elements of success, even though his qualities be of but an inferior order; I while one,who has any of these faculties. ^P^bimany^deyeloped at :^xjxpsnse of . ^the.otheis will always be ?nppiea Dy tne absence of the essential features of a successful life.?Scientific Ayzerican. - * g r?? A Sweet Smuggling Dodge. i ZSm . . ' - " - <ai' * Sir John A. Macdonnld, theCanadian statesman,.was the teller of a clever girl's trick. On-his arrival herefrom Europe, a few days ago, he talked about international laws and usages, and the collection of customs along the Canada border was mentioned. , A visitor remarked that he then had on a fur overcoat that had-come from Montreal withouipaying^duty^i ? | ? | '^The.funniest case of smuggling I ever heard of, "-said; Sir. John,-41was the . business venture?and "a successful one for a time?of a remarkably bright and 1 TJor WDfhA/1 COEQKIJf youug nviuaik jjn-i juvuv- ...? to load a lot of valuable, compact goods under the seat and robes of a sleigh, in which she and a man would seat themselves in the guise of mere pleasure riders, and then the disguised load would be run right through a town where a customs officer was stationed. He would stop the sleigh for the usual :?.* rru^. ywvtitO/i tVimT eXUmilliVLIUU. JLUC wuyiv, VUVM anxiety under a merry, careless manner, would object good-humoredly to the delay on the score of the cold weather. :Do you think I am a smuggler?' the girl would laughingly exclaim. Then, with a shiver of her form, a chatter of her white teeth, and a pretty leaning of h'erself'snuglv against her companion, she wouldjufd: * 'A smuggler, indeed! . -InJthis weather Td rather be a snug' TKn -J/vb-o or>rl tViA inlrpr rarried a glCA* ? Ailv JV'fcv ? ; cargo safely along unexamined a dozen | times at as" many points, for who could ' disturb the pretty creature; but at length she undertook to go over the same route ; twice and got caught"?Cor. Chicago ' Tribune. The 10-year-old Emperor of China ia a tpifa I jflh l?' I 1 Ml I AV4 M I1MVI PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE. It is Promised a More Popular Season / _ This Winter Than Ever. This winter the interesting game of progressive euchre promises to be more popular than ever, and hundreds of parties are organizing to play in many partsx>t tho country. Its fascination is independent of that which, to some persons, "belongs to ordinary euchre, and consists in the briskness and range of the ! competition, as well as in the merriI meat-and physical activity which it in' variably provokes. In order to give a just,idea of the game let us describe a particular instance in which it uas playejl with success, not bccause this instance is in any respect remarkable, but because being a fair average one, it will represent 'many others. The host or hostess, then, standing in tne cirawingrooni in the presence of, say twelve,, sixteen or twenty ladies and gentlemen who-have been invited for the evening, holdo in one hand a number of pieccs of past'/t>oard to be drawn successively".by the Indies, and m the*other hand a similar 'nnmliw tn hp drawn hv the men. Supj>ose the number of players is sixteen, or four at each one of the four small tables, which have been placed diagonally across the room, and on ' cach of which has been laid a card representing.one of four geometrical figures,say a square, a circle, :i parallelogram, or an octagon. Each of these cards has two duplicates, which, after being cut in two, are hold for distribution in the hands of the host or hostess. The ladies proceed to select each a piece . from, eight pieces held out to them, t he gentlemen select in like manner from another eight held out to them, and the fun begins by their attempting to match the pieces so selected. A gentleman, for instance, who has drawn half a square, goes abound to find the lady wily uus ura.wu.a- suuuoi ?uu f?ot- when found, becomes his partner :!iat particular table'on which lies a -irer In like manner, ~ two other :a vers are selected for the same table, aiakiiig the usual .euchre party of four. The table on which lies a circle obtains its sitters:in a similar way, as do also the tables on which are lying respectively the parallelogram and the octagon. | The table nearest the front dool-is. said to-be At the head of the row, and the corresponding one at the other end of the ropm is said to be at the loot. The players being thus seated four at a table..one of those at the head table strikes a bell, and the game begins. Everybody plays as fast as she or he can, and the excitement is great until the sound of the bell announces that a couple at the head table have finished tlieir game, lmmeaiaceiy an mo ouier players stop playing, and the winners at each table change places and take the tablejieyt above them, the ultimate oojecTbemg to ^ et at the head" table. The losing couple at the head table go down to tne foot, and at every table the partners change, so that your partner in the previous round becomes your enemy in the/round now beginning. The delightful haste and confusion caused by this sudden change and energetic effort to advance are accompanied By much laughter, and the spirit of competition"is soon in fall swing. The couple at the head who have won a game take from a small box containing wafers in the shape of red stars, one of the stars and stick it to their card to indicate the fact of their triumph. The more stars any player has on his card the more success he has won. Jtfut the couple who lose at the lowest table of all are compelled to indicate their disgrace by affixing to their card hall of a little red paper seal like that adjoining signatures in legal documents. The more of these wafers or seals any couple has the greater is their ill-repute. The game continues in this way until the time previously chosen by the host or hostess had expired. This time is " - ? -- ' 1 1 - usuany two nours or iwo nouis auu it half, when the final reckoning is taken and the prizes awarded. To the lady and gentleman who have won the most points a prize apiece h awarded, and this may be of any description *. . cost, although good taste socms to dictate. that its pecuniary value be not large?. To the .lady and gentleman, on the other hand, who have lost the most while sitting at the lowest table, and on whose card therefore, is the greatest ^ number of half-seals, a mock prize [apiece is awarded, consisting, say, of a cheap doll fantastically dressed, or other |ludricous exponent of unsuccessful effort. ^The presentation of these prizes is often accompanied by humorous speeches, in which the real or affected merits of the successful or unsuccessful prayers are dilated upon in serio-comic fashion; and when the persons selected to make the speeches of presentation is apt for the fjtsk. thr> merriment often becomes hila rious. Supper is thea served, and dancing may follow, or the game may be renewed. Most young people, however, prefer to close the evening with some fresh sport. To any person who has never played progressive euchre, the pitch of excitement to which ov<->n our grandmother and grandfather.-, often succeed in elevating themselves would-be almost past "belief, but everybody at all familiar with this festive game knows that the physical-activity and the buoyancy of spirit created by its requirements are uncqunled even by blind-man's-bluff. The intellectual conditions under which progressive euchre attains its happiest consummation are of a high order also. Euchre, like checkers, is an intellectual game if played in the right way. It is a mietftVft tn crmnnsp that whist or cheSS has a monopoly of the intellectual element There is as much difference in the methods of players of ordinary euchre as in those of the players of ordinary checkers: and when, to the usual conditions, those active and jovial ones .of progressive euchre are_ added, the pleasure is immense. ? tlarper's jsazaar. The general principles of a lock found among the ruins of the great temple at Karnack, and which was in use more than forty centuries ago. has served for the foundation for most of the inventions of recent times. The locksmiths of China, we are told, had, centuries before the birth of Christ, perfected a lock out of which a sharp bamboo thorn would dart and strike the hand of any one wrongfully tampering with it. The fl\AVn Tt'O Q cfiVAnOrl CLIU VI UliO 1/A1UWV kuvxu H4W in a poisonous decoction, and should tire luckless thief escape death he would be marked for life. But this story is hardly entitled to full belief, for the reason, as the Chinese themselves claim, that as gunpowder was manufactured by them at the time a Celestial sate-Diower couici easily render the thorn lock harmless by the aid of a few grains of powder. The Chinese minister at Washington is Mr. Isas, Jr., though he is considerably over 60. His wife is only 29. The only English sentences the minister can ,1? " ube sue jlluv* uu ^vu \x\jy uwu-vj, and "Champagne is good." Some members of the legation are careful buyers of fine <rems. Emperor William's First Lore. The second volume of Mr. Treitsebke's "German History.*' which has just appeared, contains an interesting episode in the life of William L The most beautiful an*! accomplished of all the young ladies of Frederick William Ill's court was the Princess RadziwilL Prince William was passionately in love with her, and, although it > 1 [ -migm; nave oeen nujuugeu u. syjcuum | match had the parties been born in a cabin, objections were raised against it by the royal family 011 account of inequality of birth. Notwithstanding the fact that the Radziwills was one of the oldest and wealthiest of the noble families of Prussia, and that in the days of Frederick the Great a Hohenzollern had married a Radziwill, the law in relation to royal marriages had undergone a change <? - 1 -? - , sinpe his time, it navmg Decomt: me rule that only the daughters of reigning houses and those of former sovereigns shonld-be considered equal-born with the sons* of eroperorsand kings.? For five long years every effort was made by the relatives of both-sides to meet the objections raised against Prince William's happiness. At the request of Prince Radziwill, the celebrated attorni'v Eifthhorn wrote a lesrai opinion in which the equality of birth was made plain, but his opinion was opposed by many eminent legal authorities on the other side. The proposition was considered that Prince August of Prussia might adopt the Princess Radziwill as his daughter, but live oi tne ministers rcpueu xiuu n was their* duty to declare that such adoption did not change the biood. In the. meantime, Frederick William III/s third sou, Prince Karl, had married a princess of YViemar, and the grand ducal court of Saxony now made it known that if Prince William persisted in his intention the children-; of Prince Karl would insist upon their prerogative of royal succession. Affai-rs were assuming a serious aspect for the royal lovers, since a dispute in the succession might, involve the permanency of the Hohenzollern dynasty. At the urgent and repeated entreaties, of his counselors, Frederick William III. reluctantly consented to . use his kingly authority in the matter. This was in 1826, when the present emperor was about 29 years of. age. In a letter filled with fatherly and tender sentiment the king represented to his son that inasmuch as every reasonable effort had been made, and made in vain, it become his painful duty to ask him to sacriiice his noble sentiment of regard for the young princess to the interests of the royal house of Hohenzollern. Upon the receipt of this letter Prince William was profoundly affected, but, as a dutiful son, when he had sufficiently' recovered from the shock, he iufopaed liisiji&oF-that he was ready tQ.-eomply with his request "What is the Right Thing To Do? The idea of marriage as the object of life?an end for which girls are to be trained?appears often to be the very stumbling-block in the way. If they are allowed to grow up thinking of marriage only as a possibility, as an incident in their lives which may or may ? ?"?-r-vV-?^V> T-rri 1 7 fVl/kl' V?/-> Kflffrtl* 'rVtV>_ LLUl ??iJI LI l\sj li\JL *> V WV/H.V4 Jk/* pared for whatever fortune lias in store for them? Freed from' that anxiety about their future which characterizes many young women now unconsciously influenced by the popular idea that marriage is the only suitable destiny of woman, there would seem to be' a chauce that they might be trained to be happy, whether they were married or single. While acknowledging that a well-assorted marriage is without doubt the truest and best life for both man and woman, can it be denied that an unhappy union is the greatest of sorrows in a woman's life, to say nothing of the train of evils which it brings upon others! If this idea that marriage is the great object?the necessity of woman's life?could be removed, there would certainly be more suitable and fortunate unions and fewer of the hasty, ill-considered, unwise ones. So long as two people who know little of each other's t.ief/?^ tmil 11 *i Ki f c ot*/1 I UUrtLilUlVJl, 141CIV.O iinvi li.uyiic, UIIM nothing of each other's antecedents will rashly join themselves for life after an acquaintance of a few weeks, so long must we look for the horrors of the newspapers, the scandals of the divorce courts and the life-long' martyrdom of those who bear the ills that they cannot fly from. If girls did not learn from those about them, from much of their reading, from the very atmosphere of society that they were expected to marry somebody. they would hardly deem it possible to take such a risk as that of marriage without due consideration. They would wait for the certainty that it was the right thing to do, and that the right persons for them had appeared. Let them feel that the end and aim of their lives is to be lit to be women and to fill their nlaccs as such in the world that so much needs both good women and good men. and there-is no fear that they will not be quite'equal to the situation, if they lind it best for their happiness to marry.?Henrietta Davis, in Good Housekeeping. A Lawyer Baffled. Jim Mc Snifter was being, tried in San Antonio for trying to brine a colored witness, Sam Johnsing, to testify falsely. "You say this defendant offered you a bribe of $50 to testify in his; behalf?" said Lawyer Gouge to Sam Johnsing. "Xow repeat precisely what he said, using his own words." "He said he would git me $50 if I?" "He can't have used those words. He didn't speak as a third person." "No, sah: he tuck good keer dat dar was no third puSson present Dar was only us two. Defendant am too smart to hab anybody listenin'when he am talking about his own reskelity." "I know that well enough", but he spoke to vou in the first person, didn't he?" "I was de fust pusson, myself." "You don't understand" me. When he was talking to you did he use the words, 4I will pay you $50?'" "No, boss; he dicln't say nuffin about you pay in' me $50. Your name wasn't ? i-!-?' /"Inf U/\ +/\1a W> A LL1ULIllUJ-1 WTU, UCpuii u.iiL LVIC JLUC \ix eber I srot inter a scrape dat you "was de best lawyer in San Anlone to fool (Is judge and jury." "You can stop down."?Texas Si/tings. Said Judge Isoonan, of San Antonio, to a convicted malefactor: "It has been proved that you burglarized a house, stole a ham. and forged another man's name to a note.'' "Slaybe so/' "You have also been sailing under the false names Smith, McMullen, Goodrich, and Perkins while you were committing your crime." "Well, judge, you didn't expect me to allow my own honest name j to be mentioned "in connection with such villainies and dragged through the mire?"?Texas Sifting*.' i Baby's English. Many infants talk at a surprisingly early age. Instances have been known of babies yet in their swaddling-clothes who would discourse on all manner of topics. To be sure, the drift of their reA J 1-Vrt. VvTt rt rJ UiaiA.5> ilitu IU UU lilLUipiCLVViV UJ ?* mother, but no one would dare say that baby didn't talk. I "myself heard a vear-old child say a great many things the other day. I was calling on a friend whose son was just a year old. '^Can he talk any vet?'' "Talk!" exclaimed the fond mother, with an iniured look. "I should think so! He can just say . everything, can't yon, ducksy daddie?" "Boo, boo, bwe, ye, ya!" screeched baby, growing black in' the face with the effort. ' . "Hear him!" cried the proud mother. "He said, 'I guess I can talk!' " This information surprised me a little, but I discreetly held my peace. "Now-tell the gentleman your name," said ba^bvrs mamiffit, coaxfnglv. "Boo, boo. da, da, boo! "Charles Edward Jones, just as plain as anybody could say.it, you little sweet!1' cried the triumphant mother. My surprise increased. "Now tell mamma whom you like best in all the world." "Boo, boo, bwe, da. da!" "Rnwcnnninor!" T ovolnim "Tin means 'papa,1 don't it?" "Mercy, no! Didn't you hear the litttle blessing say that he liked the gentleman best. He meant you." I am flattered, of course, and amazed at mv own stupidity. I thought I was familiar with the "king's English," but the English of this little king is new tc me. "Now, say 'Sing a song o' sixpence' for the gentleman.'' "Yee, yee, boo, baa, bo,'' sputters baby. "O. no. dearv!" savs mamma, renrov ingly. "That was 'Little Bo Peep." Xow say the other.*' "Zee, zee, boo, baa, be!" "That's it, that's it! You blessed old "boy! I knew you could say it! And to think that the gentleman asked if you could talk any yet! I guess he won't ask it again." I guess not, too. Either that baby or I cannot speak the English language in its purity, and I am adverse to' displaying my possible ignorance.?Philadelphia Press. Not Used to it. A well-known real estate dealer of Detroit has for several ye:irs driven a slabsided old horse before one of the worstlooking buggies on wheels. The harness is never greased, tiic vehicle never waished, and the iong-haircd equine hasn't Becnjtickled with a curry-comb for years. T!nM>thcr day some friends of the agent dcculfcyj on an improvement The rig wasfa-k.cn from in front of his office to a livery stable, where the horse was brushed, the iiarftie^j- bjaekened, and the buggy washed and oiled. Tt w.os then returned without the owner being any the wiser. Along towards night he came out of his ofhee, started for the horse,stopped and looked around, and presently ea?lcd a policcman -across the street and asked: "Do you know mv rig?'' "Yes." "T)irl vnn sap nnrnnp drhv nff with it?" "No. This looks like your horse: He's been here for two hours." "I declare, but this is my Tom, though I don't remember the briery." "Why, sir, it. looks as if somebody had been cleaning the whole thing up for you," observed the officer. "So it does, but I don't thank 'em for it I wish people would mind their own business. When I want my buggy washed I'll give orders myself." He untied the horse, climbed in, and started off, but all of a sudden the ani trial snooK ms neaa, mace a Dreas lor the sidewalk, and the buggy brought up against a hitching-post with the loss of a?wheel. "Luckily for the a^ent, someone caught the horse before he could do further damage. "Now, then, somebody has got to pay for this!" shouted the man, as he climbed down. "Even-body knows this horse to be as gentle as" a lamb, and I've had this buggy fourteen years. A gang of scoundrels go and meddle with the rig, and this accident is the consequence! Til put the detectives on 'em within an hour, and Til make the whole caboodle wish they had never been born!"?Detroit Free Press. Lamont and Cleveland. An Albany correspondent writes: In the interesting sketch of the life of Col. Daniel S. Lamont, the president's secretary, published in Harper's Weekly the rvthpr H.iv. it is rfiporded that Mr. Clevo land said to his faithful assistant, who had expressed some doubt about being able to go to Washington with him: "Well, Dan, if you don't go I won't go, and that's all there is about it." Up here where the circumstances occurred the tale is told somewhat differently. It is said that Mr. Lamont had been aware that strong influences were being brought to bear on Mr. Cleveland for the. appointment ot someone eise | than he as private secretary. He had put in no plea for the place, and he was not certain that he could afford to leave Albany should the governor be elected president, but he naturally awaited events with interest. The president has said since that he never had auy doubt for an instant as to what Dan's fate was to be. He had discovered that few men in politics are possessed of as wide a knowledge of men and public affairs, or a shrewder judgment, than the young journalist, who, if not bis right hand, was at least seldom far away from that member. On election day, at the earliest moment that it was safe to make the announcement, Mr. Lamont entered the governor's presence and said: "Well, governor, you're elected.'' "Well, then you're elected too. Dan, and we have got to go to Washington together." That was how Col. Lamont got his appointment as secretary to the president. rnc Philadelphia Times reports an in terview with an oiU colored woman (Aunt Mary Smith) who was found in the third story front rcfom of the tenement house Xo.308 Lombard street Aunt Maiy was alone when the reporter entered by an invitation from a rather strong voice within. "Did I ever see George Washington? Laws, yes. Seed him and waited on him, too. He visited de house often, and whenever he would cum he'd say: 'Whar's my good-looking j little nigral?" And I'd cum in and j curtsv and sav, 'Here I is. massah;' when j 1 --1J -* 1 ... T Qe WOUHl SKIV. ~?UU Miun ? Itui J. ?ituu?, don't you?" 'Yes. sir,' I'd say: 'brandy and water.' Den I'd curtsy again. De Gcnel didn't think that anybody could fix him his brandy and water like me;" and the old woman tossed her aged head in a proud way and her dull eyes gleamed with ^.hcwjI lijrhu I WIT AXD. HUMOR. Punch has a clever little sketch labeled "It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.1" representing a number of cats contemplating muzzled dogs with unconcealed manifestations of delight . A Louisville preaebcr^who has no late night work away from .home, calls for a tax of $100 on pistols. 'A ; better^ SCneme wouia oe iv r?is? -me jjikjc uj. whisk}- to $100 a drink.^LonismlleCourier-JournaL j tersest-" * "What's the fare on the cable-cars?" demanded a wild-eyed man at the entrance to the Brookiyn^bndge. "Three cents.1' "Gimme a ticket,'' he shouted; "gimme a ticketvand I'll put an end to. my miserable ^xistenbe.^?7. Times. An exchange speahs of the "vitality of frogs.r We know something rfBOutr this. We heard a singer twenty yeaTS ago. He had a fro^,m his throatr: We heard him n p-:ijq Jast ^jp-pV- The frog was still allve. ^Iusk:ians- say this- is not at all unustifci?JPucJa . . u * - f^L H . . The importance of systematic giving ~ as a part of worship was urged by Dr. ' / Park hurst yesterday. "A single dollar," he said, 4ipiay look large, tilt when spread out over a year it is too thin to lie down upon and pray Tliy kingdom come."?-V. Y. Mail. 1L Pasteur, who inoculated the four Newark boys who were bitten by _an alleged mad dog, pronounces them cured. As none of the dogs bitten br the same animal, and since chained up,- < have gone mad, we suppose it is safe to pronounce them cured, too.?Norristoicn'Herald. Do I understand you to say, Mr. X., that you cannot' take'^ffils note up2" -Exactly, sir; exactly." "But what am I to do with it, then?" "Well; if yon haven't got a place to keep it in for a little while, give it to me and 1*11 take care of it for you and won't charge yon storage."?To-day. Poinpano?"I think we had better get a dinner set of 14*4 pieces." "Mrs. Pompano?"Nonsense. Too many by far.. f oil oil rrat runrn tlion A .THU-IA IiW .AiWiV V4AW4* ? VJ pieces." Pompano-"On. second thought, my dear, you are right Mary Ann will make up the 144 pieces in -less than a week."?Philadelphia Call. Small Brother?"Where did you get that cake, Annie?" Small * bister? "Mother gave it to me." Small Brother ?"Ah! she always gives you more than me." Small Sister?"Nevermind; she's going to put mustard plasters,on us when we go to bed to-night,'arid t il ask her to let you have the biggest."?Hotel Mail "0, boys, tell me what was I drinking last night? 0, my head, my headr:. moaned a commercial traveler in a 2*ew Jersey town. "Rye and water,1*" replied'one who had come out of the syi%posium in better shape than thereof. "What terrible water they do have '' here!*1 was all the sufferer could say.? N. Y. Tidbits. "There is another cold wave coming," " remarked Mr. Fangle to.his wife last night "Where from?1' asked the lady. /'Irom the Northwest, where they "all ccme from." "Why do all the eoLcL^ waves come from the., Northwest, mw ??m p n MBB 9-s* Dining with the Minister of Finance, a remarkably fine carp was placed'bpposite Talleyrand, but the fish' was 'al- , AAI/1 O cnlAriHi/^ " WAU. J- l-Ll*, U AsJ CV Ck/lWVliU V<*J.?/9 said "the financier; "how do you like it? It came from mv'estate of Tisur-Aisne." "Did it?" replied Talleyrand, adding slyly, "but why did you not have it cooked here?'?Good Cheer. / , The patriotism of Brooklyn boys develops early, and they take a lively interest in public affairs. This .dialogue . occurred at the breakfast-table of one jof our prominent lawyers a day or two ago: "Is it true, father, that the Dolphin is a success?" "I believe that is the decision, my son." _ "Then ^hy don't we declare war'i11?Brooklyn bagte. A thief, having been tried and found guilty on a certain charge, cried out that great injustice had been done him. He saw among the jurors a man whose reputation for honesty had more than once been questioned. '-That may be true," calmly replied the judge, "and I will sentence you only on the opinion of ' the other eleven. I'll give you four years at hard labor'*'?Detroit Free Press. "Want your sidewalk cleared off?'" .lie asked of a citizen of Woodward avenue. "Just got a man." "Have any b?txlges " -? on?'' "I believe he has~five or six." "Then let him keep the job. I'm a. tramp and hard up but them roller- skating champions has got to earn a living somehow, and I'm "not the man to stana in tbeir way. They are entitled to public sympathy and assistance."? JJCLi UCO JL' / C-C- JL / C?>0. Clerk in a Missouri stare (to customer)?"These boots are worth $5.'' Customer?"They are not worth that much.1' "I say they are.*' "I don't believe it" "Give me85." "I won't." "But you will." "I will not Who are you that you can order me around this way?" "I am Frank James." "Why, how do you do, Mr. James? Please wrap up these boots. Five dollars, you say? Here's your money. Good day." / Ar/ca?isaw iravcter. . > ^ The Sunday-school teacher was telling * her class the story of the Good Samaritan and the lessons which should be drawn from it. "Now, Johnnie," said she to one of the boys, "if yon should have found one of your playmates, whom you did not liko> as this Good Samarin, Tattt ttalll^ rall iau xvuuu cuv vvn, niiuv . ??j vv? have done?" "Golly!" replied Johnnie earnestly, "you can bet your life I'd climbed on the fence an' hollered 'Goody?goody!' if I'd got a lickin' for it the next minute.'*?Merchant Traveler. The other night on an Arkansaw railroad train a passenger called the conductor and asked: "Are'we on time?" "Yes." "Glad.. Are we on the track?" "I don't know, but Til go forward and ask." He went awav, and, returning. said: "I am informed that we left the track about five miles back. We are now running on the' county dirt road, and if we don't meet a vcagon we'll'be all ri^ht You see that there is a big bend in the road back here and tve save lime by taking a shortcut"?Arkansaic Traveler. A clerk having invested more or less money for several months in playing the game called poiicv, and having failed to make a single striKe. one aay seizeu th? owner of the policy-shop by the throat and denounced liim as a brazen robber and his game as a swindle. "Gently, my friend." remonstrated the other, "all the money which you have -? blown in here has been taken from your employer's till. It is not you who has 1KJC" I, i;ui ? VIU said the clerk, after a moment's thought, "my deep interest in my employer's financial welfare is tlie very reason that induces me to pulverize you. I can't stand by and see him deliberately swindled".'*?Detroit Free Press* ^ >_