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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1879. . NO. 4. VOLUME XXV.,
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A Sninmcr Mood.
iVe said, when wan November days
Had burieil all the flowers,
Tlie world no longer wears the charm
Ot April's sparkling hours;
A subtle change, a nameless spell
Has turned the bloom to mold,
The days are dark, the nights are drt>ar,
And we are growing old !"
But when the vivid foliage woke ! ;
Beneath the solt spring rain,
And from the maple boughs we heard
rhe robins sing again, I
With the first note our hearts grew light,
Our lips no longer cold,
Grew glad with kindred melodies?
Can this ke growing old ?
Rare meanings, radiant prophecies j
Each day and evening gave, ( '
All fairv land revived again
In verdure, sky and wave.
The violet on the river's brink,
The river us it rolled, j |
Sparkled in sunbeams at our Icet, 11
And smiled at growing old !
i (
Then listening to the woods' low stir, i j
The rapture of the birds, j j
In the warm light oi nature's smile !5
More eloquent than word?, ,
We cried?" Efe ours the heritage
So joyously loretold? i?
Our youth but slept; our souls are strong, j s
There is no growing old !" j 1
Jh, friend, have cheer! within the breast ?
Eternal summer lies, *
Our childhood's vanished rose is wet ; '
With dews ot Paradise.
The river of our joy runs deep
And flows o'er sands ol gold, j
We drink the wine of youth divine, J
We never shall be old ! j5
?Frances L. Jllacc, in Portland Transcript. 1
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THAT UNLUCKY QUOTATION, j
A STORY OF " PLVAFOllK."' t
They would have made a very pretty j i
picture on a painted tile, its they sat oil j {
the porch in the vivid afternoon light. 11
The cottage itself was as trim and com- 11
plete as a toy house; its color was a solt I
gray. The late sunshine was goldenly j
clear, and all the green world was shining,
fresh from a shower. Auntie Trib [ i
was sitting in a bright red rockinpchair, j j
and her pretty old face was as pink and I
white as a hunch of roses; and as for | '
Sallie herself?well, ask any critic in
Rockdale, from the oldest inhabitant j
down to the tiniest toddler, and you will
hear a more enthusiastic comment than
any which I can supply, llockdale is a j.
neat little New England village, Jar .,
away out of the world, in a rocky, hilly- j i
and-daly district, where the direct do- i i
scendants of the Puritans still hold their ,
sway.
Auntie Trih's son, Free Grace Hill? j
called "Free" for short?made his name i 1
good at an early age by snatching his 1
liberty and marching away " to town " :'
?never mind what town; wecftn call it !
L . lie verified his mother's title at j1
the same time, for she became indeed an 1
embodiment of tribulation; but Free j
disappointed her agreeably, for he found |
a good situation,! and worked in it faith- J1
fully and steadily. He was now a never- ,1
failing source of pride and delight Avhen j'
on his brief visits he dazzled Rockdale j '
with his 44 town-made" garments, hisj*
dainty mustache and general air of j
"style." |1
His last visit, however, proved an |1
epoch in thehistory of Rockdale, and al- i j
SO in uil* instuijr ui ma liiu uti/ic ui |>ii.in
ccusin Sailie. lie brought with him an j1
older friend, employed in the same house 11
with himself, but in a more advanced i1
position. This personage, whom he de- j1
sisnated as Jack Arnold, immediately '
sent poor Free into the shade, and cast j1
him down from that pinnacle of fame '
which he had mounted at the cost of! J
many a pair of highly-polished boots i'
and much studied elegance. j j
I will not attempt to describe the effect ;
which young Arnold produced upon the {j
" simple village maidens." Every pretty '
tfile which had formerly been directed j1
toward the fortunate son of Auntie Trib !1
was now. leveled at his friend, with a '
force and energy that produced the effect j '
of a bombardment. Ere long, however, ,'
it was discovered that the new-comer !]
was proof against every species of attack. '
Not that he was invulnerable?far from
it. The truth was that he had fallen '
m under the very first shot. He had not i'
been beneath Auntie Trib's roof twenty
four hours before he had succumbed un- j1
conditionally to the force of Sallie's ;1
charms. The little Puritan maiden, i1
with her cameo face and her steadfast : '
gray eyes, stole at once into his heart? ; I
an honest heart, for there is no villain in 1
this unpretending tale?and from hence '
forth he was her liege knight for life. It |'
was not by passionate pleading and great '
deeds that he undertook to win her for ;i
his own: no, the task was but easy, after j
all. He was fair, good-liumoied, tall ;
and handsome; Free snid he was a capi- ''
tal fellow, and Sailie had great faith in ; i
Free; he was devoted and unreserved in '
expressing his affection: what more i
could maiden ask ? Before his vacation '
was over lie had bravely made known his '
love, and was shyly but readily accepted; ' j
and when he anu Free left Rockdale they i
bade a tender farewell to a happy little '
damsel with a rins upon her finger. .'
All this did not happen long ago, but
in this very year of 1879. Rockdale was i 1
nestled away far and deep among the j'
hills; it was not very near the town of | <
D , and L itself wa? not a great
city. How should Rockdale know what!
was agitating the world beyond? By : 1
newspapers, of course; but women do I
pot often read the newspapers carefully,
and the two wonrrn of this narrative '
seldom looked into them. Especially i j
did they, in their Puritanic rigor, neglect i
the amusement columns. After all, why 11
read of operas, plays and concerts that 11
one cannot see or hear? When anything >
was "going on"in Rockdale itself, all jl
the village was on the alert; but no one j'
cared what the fashionable folk stared at 1
through their opera-glasses in the great i
cities. So this1 year, wnen "n. m. ;
Pinafore" sailed jauntily, with colors i
flying, into American waters, many of i (
* the inhabitants of Rockdale reeked not! of
it, and this simple fact brought con- !;
storaation to the house of Hill. The ! I
" saucy ship " found its way to L , ; <
anchored there long enough to set a few j
enthusiasts to singing " Little Butter- 11
cup" and "The Merry Maiden and the ;:
Tar" (incorrectly, of course), and not j
finding quite so warm a welcome sis in j :
some of the larger cities, soon set sail : i
again for a more congenial haven. But j
the mania for quoting the libretto? <
especially the " hardly ever'' epidemic? I
spread in that region, as it did every- ! 1
where.
Our friend Jack Arnold went to see I <
the performance, and of course he j <
thought of Sallie all the evening, and j
envied young Hill, whose lady-love was ! i
? in the Dartv. The two voune men were !:
meditating a brief visit to Rockdale, and : I
hence it was, perhaps, that .Tack's ;
thoughts were too far away to allow of i ]
his giving full appreciation to the incom- j <
parable little opera. All the tender |
music filled him with thoughts of love. ! ]
from which the irresistible jingle of the 11
merry choruses beguiled him only for ; 1
the moment. Therefore, when the day i <
came for the journe'* to Rockdale, and j i
he found himself at vst in the presence j of
his beloved, his Tiiind was quite ab- <
sorbed by the .joy < ?f it, and he had no 1
- leisure for such tr fling matters as the i
discussion of a pretty new opera. So j i
Sallie was left still in her benighted ig- 11
norance; she knew nothing of "Pina- j;
fore."
They began to talk of mundane mat- j ]
tiers, however, on the second evening, ;'
when they were all seated together.
"That poor Laura Beamiit" Mid''
- . -> .. >
'''t
Auntie Trib, compassionately,
you know she'd got back. Free?"
" Laura Beamis!" uttered Free, a
laugh, and glancing at Jack, who 1
a trifle conscious. "You had a fl
"Yes," interrupted his mother;
they do say shes been jilted by
town young man to a degree
made her a poor, broken-hearted
sumptive."
" Dear me!" exclaimed Free. "
and lungs gone at one fell swoop!
is going into the dying business v
sale."
This irreverent comment was re(
by Auntie Trib with much repro;
indignation; but Sallie sat mute, v
wildly-beating heart. Gossip hac
ried to her ears the tale that !
Beamis had claimed a former acqi
mceship with Jack Arnold. Til
Fortunate girl had gone to live wil
lunt in L , and had returm
?: :n
scriuus lii-utmiiii, cm* icauit, it
)f a disappointment in love. Free1
svas peculiar. Could it be?
"My grief ! it's an awful thing,'
;inued Auntie Trib. " Slie was en
to him, I think, and he went off
svheres and came back engaged to
jthcrcirl. My! the poor thing lo<
if she had one foot in the grave a'l
It's really dretful, ain't it, Jolrn?"i
sudden appeal to the silent listen
"Very?very, indeed," said Ai
'I?I knew her."
"You did? Well, I want to kr
;aid Auntie Trib. " Why didn'i
say so before? Wasn't she pretty,
hinir. before :'-he got so low-spirite
"Who was the man?" asked f
suddenly.
"Very pretty, I think," said
mswering Mrs. Hill's question
lid not mean to ignore Salfie's, bui
iroke in with a torrent of liveh
sense, and the conversation drifted
from Laura Beamis and her troi
sallie was slightly uncomfortable
he had confidence in her lover, an
lot allow herself to indulge, as j
auselcss suspicion. Auntie Tril?,
>ver, recurred to the foraier su
ivhich had distressed her simple,
liental old heart. She exclaimed,
atively:
" My! ain't it dishonorable for a
;o behave so!"
" If 1 knew him," said Sallte, Jo
ike a youthful prophetess, in her
lusterity, "I would never toucl
land again?no, not if lie had bee
>est friend."
"What! so severe?" asked Jack
lalf-amused remonstrance.
"Whew! Look out, Jack."
Free. "You never did anything
lonorable, did you?"
, " Never," answered Jack, readil
juietly enough.
This was irresistible.
"'What! never?'" asked Free,
intense significance.
" Well,4 hardly ever,'" returned
lervously rubbing his chin, appai
;he very embodiment of guilty
fusion. Then they both uttered
little evasive laughs, and Free ch:
;he subject.
The truth was, they had both
the joke so often that it could no 1
raise a hearty laugh, and they di
'efleet that the quotation wasv'n
nnxtr trv thnir 1ip??vpi*c tmlpv tnlkf
ignorant of the overwhelming
which their words had produced.
Auntie Trib was seriously alarmec
began to think that she ought to
inquired more closely into the )
nan's antecedents. She resolve
question Free at the earliest opporti
out how could this be aceompl'
since the two friends intended to
Rockvillc at an early hour on the fo
ing morning? She decided to w
most urgent letter, and sift the mat
the bottom. But how was it
Bailie? The little incident was, t
narrow and innocent mind, a '
formation strong its proofs of holy >
Tack was evidently ashamed of
thing in the past; he had been co:;
ind silent when Laura Beamis wa
mussed; the events tallied; yes, til
sumstantial evidence was strong.
Iiad said, "You had a flirt?''
flirtation with her," he had intenc
ontinue, when his mother interr
liim. But what if J.-ick were inn
in the case of Laura and her b
Heart." ac least lie uau openiy
tradicted his iirst denial of having
mitted a dishonorable action. " H
?ver," indeed! Did he think she?
would marry a man who had ever
11 it ted the faintest shadow of :
honorable action? Never! not tl
lier own heart broke, like Laura's.
All night long poor Sal lie lay t<
>n her bed. working her foolish
brain into a state bordering upon ft
She revolved the matter in her
until she lost all power of eorrec
tranquil.judgment. The more vio!
die excited herself, the more cone]
to her thinking, became the pro<
poor Jack's baseness. At lenirtl
i-ould lie there no longer; she ros<
l>y the faint light of the winter daw
wrote a brief but decisive letter to
dipped her engagement ring int
?ime inclosure. sealed the envelopi
wrote his name upon it. Fain
weary with lier long conflict, she
ibout to lie down again, when s
membered that it was near the
breakfast hour appointed for tin
young men. and that she had proi
to iissist Jerusha in her preparatioi
die dressed hastily, with trem
fingers, and crept down to the kit
Had she obtained an hour's sloe
would have awakened with a <
sense of things, and the unfortunat
would probably have been desti
But now her wearied and overstimi
brain continued to ponder upoi
,-ause of her distress, and magnify
gigantic proportions.
"For the. land's sake, child,'
slaimed Jerusha, " you do look p<
ful bad!"
" I couldn't sleep," said Sallie, sh
"There. Jerusha, the table's set
there's plenty of time for me to g
rest a while now." And'quietly 1
the note beside Jack's plate, she In
back to her room.
Her lover glanced around with
Ince pvps wlipn tif mot Frp<? and A
frib at the breakfast table. lie hn
believed that Sallie would elude
this morning. He seated himself,
anxiously drawn brows.
"What? why, here's a letter!"h
claimed. Then, examining it, he re;
word " Private" beneath his own i
:ind flushing hotly, he slipped il
his breast pocket. "From Salli<
said, quietly.
4i What ever does the child m
cried Auntie Tnb. " Ain't she up
rushy, go right up and cet her."
41 Ol. ~ 1
out? min ii?> nuw mic ii urn
awake," said Jerusha, " and she w
rest a spell."
"Well, you go along and tell 1
;orae," said Mrs. Hill.
But Jack called out: " Don't di
tier if she's asleep."
Jerusha went up, and presently
Mattering down again. "She's as
>he said as she entered.
Poor Sallie had indeed dropped i
troubled slumber, and Jack woul
idmit for an instant the idea of ro
tier.
" It would be cruel," said the
liearted fellow, "Free and I wil
town here very soon again."
He .was disappointed and doleful
lie hoped the letter would explain
ters. "The ring had been dropper
Ihe fold# of Ihe paper, and its
jould not be distinguished throug
:hick envelope. Poor Jack won
iirlinf fl*Q 1lOtv3 cilhcfnnpo V
3ould be, but the re:il state of the
never dawned upon him.
As he and younjj Hill were wr
together to the railway station lit
the note from his pocket and tore it
It was brief, mysterious, decisive.
" Queer enough," said Free, " for
lie to give us the slip in this way.
like you not to wake her. Six
tuad enough to? Bless me,
what's the matter?"
$
" Did For Jack had stopped short, wil
violent exclamation. His face was ]
vith a pie, his eyes blazing with wrath
ooked pain. He held up the ring before Fi
irt?" astonished gaze.
" and " What in the name of?" began F
some But he was unheard; Jack tui
that's swiftly, and ran like a madman t
i con- to the Hill cottage.
Sallie was walking the porch in
Heart agony of doubt and trouble. Her t
That rest had cleared her perceptions, bi
rlicle- had not yet freed her from the stai
mingled perplexity and stubborn
:eived cision into which she had worked
tchful setf* She was not yielding, but she
vith a wretched and regretful.
1 car- Suddenly Jack appeared before
Laura flushed and glaring, his excitable t
naint- perament roused to its highest pitch,
e* un- "Arc you insane?" he cried, sei;
< i I Vin," Viv t-lin nrm " Tin von w
;n nor "j ? . , ? j?
?d in to drive rae to pedition with your wic
i said, cruelty? In Heaven's name, exp
s look yourself." And lie fairly panted
breath.
' con- " ^oti me g? " she uttered, sternly;
gaged not have you to toucli me.
some- dress me as if you were at least a i
some tleman."
)ks as Jack was goaded to frenzy, and
n,j,T swered ' intern pcrately: so the mi
-with able quarrel raged high. Noexplana
er. was given: mutual recriminations paj
nold. back and forth. At last Sallie taui
him with an allusion to his flirta
low!" with Laura Beamis.
t you "So it is for petty jealousy that
, poor treat so?" he cried,
d?" 44 No," she answered. " It is beet
Sallie. I know you to be dishonorable."
At the word Jack's heated face tui
Jack, Pa'e a3 death. The two foolish pe<
lie were now white heat.
t Free " is ft lie." said he, in a voic
j non- ominous calm. > And she, as sternly
away quietly, sent him from her, with on
iibles. never to return. So he turned upon
*, but heel and left her there, and their b
id did whs broken.
ret, in After tin's the days went on qui
how- enough. Night succeeded day with
bject, morseless regularity. No one knew v
senti- Sallie Hill suffered; no one knew v
niedi- she would have given to recall herbi
words. She had cast Jack away witl
man counting the cost; she had leamei
last that she could not afford it; she
oking !l bankrupt in happiness. Gradually
sweet slim, haughty figure grew slighter
! his less erect; the proud little i.iouth s
n my cried, and let fall words of piety \
greater readiness than of old. She
, with growing meek through pain.
month changed her as a year might 1:
cried done.
(]js. j Talking one day with Laura Beai
I who was growing stronger and n
y and cheerful, she looKcd down at her r
less finger with deep dejection,
' T * 1 ?-?
| i^aura, ioiiowing jilt ejrea, sjmu, :
with ilt'nly:
" Sallie, I hoped you would have ?
Jack, Jack Arnold. I knew him in Lrcntly
'ie >s suc^ :l 600^ fellow! He an
con- <mL'e had a little innocent flirtation,
cold fore?before?well, when I first
aiiged Rockdale, and I have always s:
thought of him as a friend. You're
t.p.wi engaged to him?"
' " No," replied Sallie, in a tone wl
forbade inquiry.
t; I % "So that was all!" she thought,
i nn believe I have lost all for nothingeffect
n?th'ng! But it is too late." Still
For Pr'('e nevcr dreamed of bending.
1 -mil ^ut further revelations were to co
have l;ist a "Pinafore" company vis
un" Rockdale, and Sallie, seated by a ru
' i swain, who basked in the colli ligli
initv 'ier rare sm^e3? heard with lanjc
; . V pleasure the inimitable opera. Sud(
leave Jest of a mocking fiend, tl
illow- ')rn^e uPon 'ier oars the fatal wt
fn " which had helped to destroy her pe
ter to e" What! never?" " Ha;
with cver*" Strange words to be assoei:
her w'th heartache and misery! Yet,
? surd as it may seem, they were,
.. ." Sallie's ears, freighted with a drea
s Jne SP t'lan t'ie a"?*ent cabalistic n
ifiiswi t01''n?s of witch or wizard, or the f
j. ful utterances of the oraclefc. For t
' -j." this mere quotation, this idle joke.
Free ',!W* wrouS'lt herself into a state of vi
i A ? ous indignation and angry suspieioi
11 . the man she loved. And she lost li
uoted Tk!s was tke h>tterest touch; yet n
nMonr was to come.
roken When she reached home, Auntie 1
met her with a rueful countenai
fnnil " My grief! Sallie," she exclaimed;
- J?" don't b'lieve you treated Jack An
she- "glit. Here's a letter from Free sa
~ Jack's down with typhus fever, or so
id is- r'''n' an(^ he says you've ki
mn'i' him, and that we must come dowi
lougn L right off But> ]ftW me, what,
thinkin' of, wantin' you to run your 1
little 'nto ,l contiguous disease!" (Au
Trib's words were often changed at bi
I'^e the captain and Ralph, when
t and sl)0^c 'n haste.) " Why, you migh
I *1 | well face small-pox as typhus?not
f I what I'm sorry for Jack; but of coi
! we can't go."
ii in. i " Go!" cried Sallie, who had snatc
oml Itk<> letter. "Trv to keep me, that's
i l ] I must go to-night?to-night! It's
i.w.i-* I phoid, not typhus^auntie. Oh, if I c<
7il?'|t:ike it find die! Uh, .Jack! .Jack!"
^ <?uiot. dignified Sallie broke down,
t .'in<1 wailed like a child.
, W-IS They could not go that night: tl
lie re- W!LS no ^ra'n till daybreak; but S:
earlv ,na(^e rcady for their journey with fe
j two energy. Iler uoor bewildered r
^jS0(i remonstrated feebly, but in vain;
,s.' so was whirled off in the early mori
biiii" 1'slit, and sat in a dazed condition
cherf t'lft tra'D' w't'1 'ier ^3est bonnet all av
it she :inc^ bailie's white inflexible
le irer Reside her. gazing straight forward,
f note :i mournful Fate. How the young pr
oyed Heart had been humbled that nigh
llated Pray?r and tears! Would the joui
i the I ^'y4 cuvi;
it to en(^e(^ l''st; and .Tack, who a
I am bound to say, not quite so i!
t p Free had represented, awoke from s
aw or- t0 lending over liim?not the
avenging goddess of his late troul
' . dreams, but the sweet woman whou
ort,y: loved. Of course he forgave her:
, ana (.ourse jlfi recovered. What would
o ana expect? He was tender and vehem
:iy\n? and grief and perplexity and rem*
lrneu , j1!W| broken ]jjm down; but he was
orous, and joy and confession and
rcf. j giveness restored him. Of course
Limtie | ^n(nv fr()m the first how the story wc
id not en(|. jt js j3Ufc :t trifling tale of a tern
; 1,'") in a teacup. But Sal lie had learne
Wlt" lesson which she never forgot.
IIow Jack laughed when he heard
explanation! "As 'Pinafore' was
:wltne eauge 0f our despair," he said, '
name, * Pinafore' express our newly-recov<
J ,,,n.t0 happiness."
lie And he began to sinz, feebly and
p? correctly, but still heartily,
>?*Je " ' Oh, joy ! Oh, rapture unforeseen !'
Free and Auntie Trib stood by lil
layin' "kindly chorus," smiline benevoler
ent to " I H never be so foolish again," i
poor Sallie, meekly.
ler to "What! never?" hissed Free, ii
stage whisper.
isturb " No, of course she never will," c
Auntie Trib, failing to recognize
ioke. although it had been explaine
leep," 'lor a fjreat""many times. With wl
exhibition of innocence the old 1
nto a "brought down the house" as Cap
<1 not Corcoran himself could never do.
using you see her audience was so very haj
?Harpers Bazar.
soft- , =
1 run Dr. Keith, of Illinois, asserts that di
theria comes from potato eating.
I, but Keith claims this notion to be the re
mat- of his own experience as well as tha
I into his father, extending over twenty-i
shape years, and embracing eleven hunt
li the cases of diphtheria. In all of these c
dered the patients were potato eaters. Pen
ritliin who eschewed the potato escaped
i wise diphtheria, though residing in them
of an infected district. It "may
ilking sumed that this sweeping char^ <
; took not apply to healthy tubers, but onl
open, those affected by the pouito rot.
Sal " How do you tie a love knot?" as
Just Laura, toying with a bit of blue ribl
;,11^ be "Oh, any way," growled Tom, bef
Jack, his newspaper, "just so it will pull
easy."
th a FOR THE FAIR SEX.
pur
an,rt Wash Dreaae*.
ee1s
The soft cotton stuffs used for ws
'rec. dresses have very little dressing,,and
ned quire very little starch when they i
>ack laundj-ied; if made stiff with starch til
do not produce the effect of being n<
i an and fresh. Ginghams and mummy clc
>vief have found most favor for such dress
lit it The ginghams are in plaids, bars
te of stripes of gay colors, or else in the pop
de- lar seersucker patterns of two shades
her- gray-blue, and the mummy cloths tl
"?? lili-nrl nil runt fjvHpH-f
colors in stripes, with a chintz patto
her, of palm leaves or flowers between. T
era- entire dress is most often of one fabr
instead of choosing plain tcoods for t
sing lower skirt. *The mummy cloths are
rant the thickness of satteens, but instead
:ked having a closely-twilled lustrous surfa
lain there are woven roughly with rais
for spots and dots. The skirts of tin
dresses are invariably short, as tli
" I form a walking suit for summer we
Ad- and the kilt skirt is used more offer
;en- than a plain round skirt. The kilt sk
has a very deep yoke coming far belt
an- the hies, and tliekilting is adaed in vt
ser- wide plaits, deeply folded but quite :
tion apart, and held in place by a single r<
3sed of tapes sewed underneath half way 1
ited tween the yoke and the foot of the (ire
tion 'These plaits hang easy and careless-loc
ing, and it is not intended that tb
you should be stiff and prim, consequently
is not difficult to wash and iron the
luse With such a skirt a short bunchedpolonaise
is worn in what is called t
Tied Marquis style. The fronts round op
ople just below the waist, and are caught
in a single cluster of plaits, or else
e of bunch of shirring on each side and in t
and middle of the back. The plaits are 1
ders low the hips, leaving the plain Mi
i his guerite effect in the back, ana there m
ond be a cluster of long loops of gay.ribbc
on p.anh sifln where the bunehine 1
etly gins. To edge this polonaise soi
i re- of the fashionable cottage la<
rhat are used, either Russian or e
rhat ecru yak lace. In other cases kni
itter plaiting of the material is edged wi
lout heavy Italian Valenciennes lace that
i at very narrow. Sometimes solid-coloi
was cotton Chambery, either red, jmle bli
Jie olive green, or ecru, is laid in kni
and plaitings and put beneath the lace-edg
soft- frill, and is only seen as a facing,
vitli, when the friy of the material is blo\
was' up. When the polonaise is not used, I
One waist is a panier basaue bunched up
tave the side seams and also in the middle
the back. The overskirt is then a pan
mis, round overskirt made with a gorea frt
lore and side breadths, and full back caus
ing- up in either three or five places. Wh
and the mummy clotli has an ecru prour
>ud- the polonaise is lined as far as the hi
with ecru batiste. Sometimes the frc
nar- represents a vest, and a revers outlir
?; the vest on each side. Pipings of r
d I Chamberry and ecru lace trim the ec
be- mummy cloth polonaises. In one po
left naise the ecru ground has dark myr
ince green stripes, while small olive lea\
not are on the ecru part. With this garmc
long looped bows of red and crea
lich colored satin arc on the side seams of t
back quite low on the hips, also on t
" I sleeves* in the middle of the back at t
-for neck, and as,a cravat. Such polonaii
her cost $25 without a lower skirt, and t
to be worn with a silk skirt, of da
me. brown or of myrtle green, or else wi
ited the short black silk skirt that still fori
istic the foundation of many useful toilett
it of The expensive Scotch ginghams a
ruid the lighter qualities of zephyr Fren
Ipn- gingham are made up similarly a
lere trimmed with white biaid lace, or elsi
>rds scant rullle of Hamburg-work in shoi
ace, open patterns. The American ginghai
rdly are made up in suits, trimmed wi
ited Smyrna lace, and sold for 810; a para:
ab- to match is furnished with suits sold
, to 812. The blue-striped seersucker gir
rier hams sold for twelve and a half cent
lut- yard are perhaps the most satisfactory
ate- the domestic ginghams, both in reg:i
his, to washing ana wearing well. They j
she made up with a belted basque that is r
rtu- lined and with a long apron overski
l of A bias band is stitched on the basq
lim. and overskirt in preference to the km
lore plaited frill. The only trimming is t
deep kilt flounce on the short lov
rrib skirt.?Bazar.
nee.
' New* and Motcn for Women.
vln' Fiye towns in Michigan want refoi
schools for girls.
The New York Cooking School 1
j t0 had two hundred pupils since Janu:
s lie first.
lead Anything for a sensation. The n
ntie mania among the English ladies is 1
rth, collection of old watcli-cases.
she The Chief Justice of the Supreme Coi
t as 0f Wisconsin has decided that the wc
but "person" does not include those of t
urse femaie sex.
. 1 Airs. Fawcett, wife of Professor Fa
'"J?{ cett, the. blind member of Parliament,
lecturing once a week at Oxford, to
)uld HUl^ence Indies, on political econon
Jin(| Mile. Mari# Vanzandt. a bright Amt
and cnn daughter of MadameVanzan
well Known in New York musical cirel
|)ere has made a decided operatic success
ljjjg London :is Zerlina.
ver- IVIiss Kate Lupton received the dezi
...-j. nf Moetm* r\f A rt-a frnm VanHprhilt IT
lUllb *?? v . ?
she versity at the lute commencement, 1
ling cause, as the chancellor said, she " li
i on won it in a masterly manner, havi
rry, p:issed most satisfactorily all the exam
face ations to which the young men wi
like subjected."
oud Women as physicians have lately coi
t in to the front, and at the commencenu
ney exercises of the Woman's Medical Colic
Hospital, Chicago, a large and fashic
vas, able audience assembled to see the ct
II aa ferring of degrees by Dr. Byford. Ma
leep of the graduates have already a lai
fair practice. Mrs. Gross, M. D., lias an;
aled come of 812,000 a yo.ir, and is the wife
i he a well-to-do physicianj*and Mrs. Sal
; of Smith makes $15,000 a year, and is t
you wife of the manager of Stewart's who
cnt, sale store in that city.
orse -
vig- Who Should not be a Wife.
vmi ^la3 that woman a call to be a w
>uld w'10 ^'inks raore 'ier 8^k dress th
J", ? her children, and visits her nursery
d a oftener than once a day? Hits tl
woman a call to be a wife who cries i
, a Cashmere shawl when her husban
the notPS are being protested? Has tl
, ; woman a call to be a wife who sits rea
i ing the last new novel while her husba
stands before the glass, vainly trying
I pin together a huttonless shirt bosoi
Has that woman a call to be a wife w
? expects her husband to swallow dilut
coffee, soggy bread, smoky tea a
ke a watery potatoes six days out of seve
itly. Has she a call to be a wife who flirts wi
said every man she meets, and reserves 1)
frowns for the home fireside? Huss
n a a call to be a wife who comes down
breakfiist in abominable curl-papers,
ried soiled dressing-gown and shoes down
the the heel ? Has she a call to be a w
d to whose husband's love weighs naught
rich the balance with her next door neig
ady bor's damask curtains or velvet earpc
tain Has she a call to be a wife who wou
iiut take advantage oi a moment 01 conju<i
>py. weakness to extoit money or exact
promise? Has .-sne a call to be a w
who takes a journey for pleasure, leavi
iph- her husband to toil in a close office ai
I)r. have an eve when at home to the servar
suit a?d children? Has she a call to be
t of wife to whom a good husband's socic
line is not the greatest of earthly blessinj
ired and a house full of rosy childern its b<
ases furnishing and prettiest adornment?
sons Health and Home.
the ?
idst Iler lie^e lord had a bad cold, and si
ore- though she is perpetually nagging hi
toes and even wishing him dead, goes
y to tears to confide to a friend the gloon
apprehensions inspired by her poor dc
husband's hacking cough. "Ah, n
iked dear," she concludes, "I shall immet
)on. ately call on the best medical talent t
lind directory affords, for if I were to 1c
ou*. . my husband I know I should go wild
I " After wlicmsaj s her friend.
* Eccentrics."
The youth with the white duck v?5si
and heavy gold chain never buttons his
I coat up.
re. No boy is tender-hearted or sympa
ire thetic enough to feel bad when nis
[Cy teacher is sick and has to stay at home
3w The worst of a short crop with a retai
(th dry goods clerk is that if won't enabli
es. him to hold his lead pencil behind liii
or ear.
>u- No man can walk along Broadway
of without meeting an acquaintance?tha
iat is, if he happens to have on his ok
>ut clothes.
'P Fame should never open its goldei
,Pe portal to the being who will attempt t(
}c' burnish his silk nat with a olacKing
hef brush.
01 * ?.?n
0f 1111U1 Uiiu iin v ui ten ? nitu A.H&U ui ai
ce> axiom he possesses when he carries i
e(j Chinese laundry check around in liii
Jse pocket.
ley When you have rheumatism so ba(
fir, that you can't stoop you are pretty suri
ler to discover a three-cent silver piece lyinj
irt on the sidewalk.
)w a fact. .
>ry She sits and smiles
p,ir By the window-sill;
She's sweet as a rose
In a valley still.
And no one knows it better than herself.
ss*
,^1 At a picnic it always seems to be th<
ey fate of the man with the pearl-colofe(
\ ^ trousers and white vest to be called upoi
m_ to ascend a tree to adjust a swing for {
Up stout girl who chews gum and speak.1
llt! ungramatically.
icrt No pen will ever correctly describe th<
up sensations which thrill a man when h<
a raises his hat on meeting a young ladj
lie on the street?that is, when his hair il
je- cut so close to his head that lie can'
tir- touch it with liis hand.
ay No matter how great a poet may be
ms no matter how fur his fame extends, n(
>e" matter how much lie is admired anc
lie courted by society, lie is never eecentri<
!os enough to attempt to wash his face witl
'sc his hat and eye-glasses on.
J" NOW.
Now the lilies-of-the-valley
\ On the montlepiece are wilting,
. And now the golden butterfly
j.0' On dandelion's tilting.
'Tia now the morning sunbeam gilds
l?d Tlio coleus and onion;
01' Tis now the clumsy croquet ball
vn Doth seek the tender bunion.
he Jt is .argued by philosophers that th<
in h.ardpsfc-enrT.pd triumnhs are alwavi
.?* sweetest. This miy be, but it can't b<
ier aid to be the wise when ft man, in at).nt
tempting to open a knife, almost rips hi:
I'16 thumb nail out by the roots.
^j1 What makes even a good-natured mar
I ' wild with rage, while running past tlu
' t ferry cashier in a crowd is, after laying
down a trade-dollar, to attempt topic!
v j up the ninety-seven coppers which constitute
the change without being knockec
1 down.
tie IX JD-VE'
,es The dandelions burn
Amid the wavy lern
m By the stream.
j " Ah! these balmy, golden days,
J1R "With their robin-roundeluys,
j,e Like a dream
he Steal upon us, and elnto
iCS Make our bosoms, while sweet Kato
ire With Sir Launcelot eats n plate
,rk 01 ice-cream.
itli
Heat and Cold.
ml We find the body capable of resisting
cli a temperature sufficient to d?compos<
ntl (lean nmuer. Aninmis as wen as nun
e a have been exposed to a degree of lieat ex
,vy ceeding that of boiling water, and with
ms out injkry, when at the same time a ther
ith momPter placed under the tongue liai
sol indicated an elevation of a few degree.1
for only above the natural standard. "Tin
ig. power of resistance is of short duration
s a for the nervous influence is exhausted
of so extraordinary a demand. Chemica
ird agents come into play, and matter is re
ire solved into lifeless form. As regard;
iot cold, the same law prevails, the limit;
rt. are the same. However great the powei
ue may be of resisting it, as soon as thi
fe- nervous energy is exhausted the systen
he is subject to injury.
rer I have witnessed the effect of cold to<
long endured upon the little postilions
who are barbarously exposed to it in tin
winter season at St. Petersburg. Tin
lads bear it for a time, as they sit 01
their horses clapping their hands am
singing to keep up their courage; bu
l?is this fails them by degrees, and finally
ll'y benumbed, til ?y fall from their saddle
in a state of torpor, which nothing bu
e?w rolling them in snow will overcome
lie There is seldom a fete given at St. Peters
burs: in the extreme "old weather tha
Jrt occurrences of this sort are not record'"
)r(l In very cold n;gbts the sentries are fre
lie quently frozen to death, if not relieved a
short intervals. As long as nervcus ex
citement can be kept up the resistance o
W{1 cold is very rrreat. General Piroffsk;
in 'nf?rme(l me in the expedition t<
Khiva, notwithstanding the intensenes:
v of the cold, the soldiers marched alon;
r'- singing, with the breasts of their coat
('k> open, hut only jus long as they wen
L!s* Hushed with the hope of success.
in Where there is nothing to excite, anc
where exposure to the cold takes plae
ree only under the common routine of parable
ni- its depressing effects are lamentably fel
be- by those long exposed to it. In the tim<
ad of the Grand Duke Constantine, a regi
ng nient of horse was marching from Steins
in- to St. Petersburg, a distance of twelv
?re miles and upward. He marched atthei
head at a foot-pace all the way. He ha<
ilie well-wadded himself, and smeared hi
nt face over with oil.
?ge It was a gratification of a whim to ex
)n- pose the soldiers to a ereat degree o
m_ cold. They arrived at. the square be for
ny the palace, "and were dismissed to thei
(re barracks. The following day one-thir<
in- of the reaiment were in the hospital, at
of tiickod by a nervous fever, of wliicl
)in many dieil. There was no stimulus o
,]ie necessity in tills case, but the moral feel
]e- ing aggravated the physical suffering.Sir
G. Lcfevrc's Apology Jor the Nerves.
,The Grasshopper Pest in the West.
ifr A letter from Dakota says: Grass
!in hoppers are hatching out in innumerabli
no myriads on the prairies west of the Mis
iat souri River now, and unnum beret
myriads have been hatching out foi
['s quite awhile. The ground is black witl
,!lt tliem. They hang upon the grass lik
d- bees after a swarm. But this is not sur
n(' prising, for they hatch out in the sam<
t(? wav here every year. I have been fa
J1 miliar with them for the past ten yean
ho and see no change in them at all; possi
0(] bly they are a little bigger, for under thi
n(i laws of evolution they ultimate in tin
n kangaroo. On the plains they are ai
t" homo, they are healthy and vigorous, foi
ier gr;vss is their natural food and as long a!
'lfi thev feed upon grass they thrive, hut le
to them give up their natural food ant
!l forsake their native land, the arid plains
.'d- and go upon our wheat farms and luxVG
uriate upon the rich, highly conceiv
m trated food of cultivated grain, and dis
e;isesets in, gangrene of the vitals is th<
j? result, and the grasshopper perishes
Three crops of wheat will destroy anj
>!" one invasion. After passing three sumft
mers in cultivated fields, an epidemic
"e (worse than dyspepsia; produced bj
high living, will carry them off entirely
and no more will be heard of them unti!
lts some one situated like myself on the frontier
will report from their recruiting
'ty camps that tliey are preparing for anothei
raid.
It is my opinion that the frontiei
'? farms will always be subject to these
rlpcnlnfnrv inctnsinnD rf/im rrrnQulinn
pers.'but as the tidefof empire rolls Westie,
warn the grasshopper will go with it and
im finally he will disappear, and like the
in locust ot Egypt he will only be terrible
ay to read about. In the meantime he will
ar continue to make disastrous raids to the
ay East, but the distance he will or can go
li- will be limited, and the fear often exlie
pressed that. ?-ome day he will continue
ise his flight to the far East and become a
Hcoiu'ge to the Middle States is altogether
groundless.
THREE-CARD MONTE.
j A Few Reminiscences of tile Great Thre
Card Monte " Sharp,'' " Canada Bill
who Reaped a Harvest of 1100,000 1
Haking Victims of Unsophlstlcati
3 Travelers on Railroads.
Three-card monte is a swindling jran
1 at which it is impossible to beat tl
2 operator, and it has been so thorough
5 exposed"that there oueht not to be ai
victims. Nevertheless the monte spide
(- seeking human flies of present wealt
t dexterously handling his cards and ski
1 fully talking the while, makes his li
ing about as easily as he did in the da;
of the war, when money so plenty. A
old railroad conductor, now a passeng
agent for the Chesapeake and Ohio roa
but who ran a train on the Baltimo
and Ohio road during the war, relat
1 that he knew " Canada Bill" to gath
1 in $8,000 in one train from Martinsbu
3 to Baltimore, a distance of one hundri
miles. "Canada Bill "is a name w<
1 known to the gambling fraternity, f
2 though he who was known by thr.t tit
; was some years ago laid to rest. H
death, which cut off from the earth tl
smartest operator of three cards th
ever was seen, took place when he w
a trifle more t.ian forty years of ag
"Just as well to die now," sajd he,whi
told that medicine could not save hir
" Might as well cut the game, becau
j biiu ureuiu ui tin; iuuulu new uceu att.ii
1 med. There won't be another- wa
1 and they ain't going to build no mo
1 Pacific railroads, ana it's hard for me
3 play for ten when I used to Catch a hu
clrea twice as easy." When his la
? minute came he sat up in his bed ar
i called out: "Fifty doHars to ten y<
f can't pick up the ace," and then he f<
i dead.
t That is the story told of his last m
ments, and may be true if the old sa
ing has no exception that the ruling pa
j sion is strong in death. Bill's gre
1 boast was that lie liad beaten a mini
3 ter. Chicago newspaper reporters <
, the year 1874 remember of the excit
ment the city editors of the papers ther
except one, were thrown into by the e:
elusive publication by that one of tl
st^ry of a well-known minister who b
ca.ue a victim to " Canada Bill's" wil
on a train on the Chicago, Rock Islar
and Pacific railroad. He had lost near
a thousand dollars. Canada Bill d
not bear the reputation of having be<
the most expert dealer, but he did th
, of Laving been the most skillful operate
5 In the slang!of the profession, " he cou
; rin? in suckers better than anybody
and here is a sample of his proceedrnj
j that came under the observation of tl
writer a lew years ago: me unno
State Fair, held at Decatur, was ju
| over, and the Grangers weie tilling tl
\ trains, homeward bound. Bill, wearir
' cowhide boots and coarse clothes, gi
L into the ti'ain just moving from the st
[ tion and attmcted attention by sayir
in a loud tone, "Well, no farmer has
show with railroads. They kill his stoc
and laugh at him when he want9 pr
forit." "What's up?" asked his clevi
capper, and Bill related: "I brougl
three head of Durham calves down he:
from Winnebago county and I got pr
miums on all of them. I was havir
them put on the cars to send home"
by this time the attention of every gra:
gfir in the car was attracted?-" wlu
the consamed fools let one of them brer
a leg on the bridge from the cattle pt
to the sto6k car, and they had to kill
to put it out of misery. I wouldn't ha*
> have taken $200 for the calf, but tl
; railroad tells me I was shipping :
1 reduced rates and ain't got any claim
The conversation that ensued and tl
* statement that Bill had made put hi
" on the best possible terms ana in tl
3 confidence of all the Grangers, ar
3 so when he presently spread nis ove
* coat and said first, " I'll sue the roa
* anyhow," and then, " I found this litt!
' game that'll be funny for the Winnebru
1 folks, anyway," he had no lack of liste:
" ers and interested watchers, and affo
' that is accomplished the work of tl
3 three-card monte man is easy. Hum:
r nature, rich with avarice, does the res
2 Bill drew out his cards and proceed)
i to tell how he had won $530, after losii
860, "just :is easy," he went o
> " as this. Now, here's the money," ai
. he pulled out a pig-skin pocketbook, ti<
J up with twine, which lie undid and e
s posed a pile of notes to the amount
1 several hundred dollars. " No discoui
1 on that; easier made than turning a loi
t furrow." His capper asked for explan
? tion and Bill told him all there was
s it and lost forthwith ?20 to his aceor
t nlinp. Rv this time h:df a dozen nockr
hooks were out and beta came in freel
- In half an hour the train reached Tolon
t- whore passengers change lor Chieag
and Bill, about 8200 ahead, got up. r
- marking: "Well,gentlemen, I'mgoii
1 to Chicago to see a lawyer about reco
- cring for that calf. Good night." Ai
f before the astonished Grangers cou
f realize the situation he had disappear)
3 through the door. Half an hour afte
5 ward he was seen on the north-bom
S train, dressed in the height of fashi<
s and looking like anything but tl
B coarsely-clad man on the Wabash roa
It is said that Canada Bill mai
1 $100,000 during his career as a ca:
e thrower, but when he died, in Coun<
Bluffs, Iowa, he left just enough of mon
t to give him a decent funeral. Like mai
e of his profession, he found at the Jfa
- table Ins greatest pleasure, and his wi
a nings went from him more easily tin
e they came. He wjis a great player
r draughts, ana won much money th
1 way. Of his early life not much
3 known. He was born and lived f
some years at Peekskill, N. Y.. on t
" Hudson river, just below Poughkeepsi
f lie was often arrested, but never stay
e long in prison. AltPr the war his fie
r of operations was mostly on the Pacil
1 rai roads, west of Omaha.
Himself a man of during and person
J. courage, he often had to face men mo
? desperate than himself, but his presen
of mind never deserted him. and win
" everything else failed he was as rear
with a weapon as his adversary. I
never drank to excess and had no i
tiniate friends. Some years ago he visit
Philadelphia. It was in the days win
" faro flourished here and the strict orde
3 of the police had not substituted pok
j in private for faro in gambling room
Bill came with $5,000 in his pocket. I
r was the guest of a well-known Sanso
I street snorting man, and Bill remarki
3 to his host: "I'm only going to lo
$o00 a night, so I'll stay ten days." I
3 went into a Ninth street room til
evening and left the entire $5,000 on tl
i table in less than two hours. For
I month or two he operated in this \
3 cinity. Every week lie would come b:u
f from his trip with $200 or $300, and
c every visit he left it all before the bo:
'' One night he put out $700. and when
* had gone lie turned in his chair and sa:
, to the owner of the house: "Lend 11
$100; I'm going to Chicago." Hesei
' the money back the next week, with
letter which read: " Much obliged f<
tho money. Chicago is good enough f<
Canada Bill."?Philadelphia Times.
t """""
' A Sheep Butts ft Mirror.
Quite a commotion occurred in a fa
: mor's house n short distance out (
' Rome, N. Y. They were cleaning lious
r and left open doors leading to all par
I of the house. In one of the rooms was
large mirror, reaching to the floor. C
: the premises is a sheep whose head
* graced witli horns, and which is vet
tame, entering the house whenever ;i
* opportunity is < presented. This wool
1 animal got into the house unnoticc<
When first discovered it was standin
* face to face with the mirror, shaking i
I head fiercely. Before it could be read
' ed it jumped back for a good start, cn
1 flmn rtlumrnrl ihi lm-irl infn t.hp mirrn'
I Instead of coming in contact with son:
s other animal, as it expected, it demo
i ished a fifty-dollar mirror. The eras
so frightened the animal that in i:
i endeavors to escapc from the scrcarr
. and attacks of the women of the hou<
it found a place of exit through a Frenc
window.
TIMELY TOPICS.
?- _ A Viemia journal says that when startl?"
ing for Livadia, the Russian Czar went to
'J the station in an ironclad carriage, escorted
by about 400 mounted guards. The
station was surrounded by military and
ic police, and entrance was strictly proie
liibited. Similar precautions were taken
ly at all stations along the line. A train
*y full of police andi guards preceded the
!r, emperor's, and no one for twenty-four
ll. liniira wns nprmHtpd nvpn tn nnnrna/'h
il- the rails.
v
ys There are certain comparisons between
in the vital statistics of France and Prussia,
jr in a recent-report to the Academy of
Sciences of Paris. Thus, it appears that
re in France 100 marriages.give about 300
e9 children: in Prussia, 460. It is also
er shown that in France the annual inr?
crease in population (births over deaths)
is 2,400 for each million of inhabitants,
y while in Prussia it is 13,600.. At this
J, rate the population of France should
:!e double in 170 years; that of Prussia in
forty-two.'
The failure of a jury to convict the
.0^ XUUf&UlU uxuiuuig Ul UlUlUtli Aywavftw
jq field, Cal., displeased the populace. A
n mob broke into the jail at night, and
gg one of the prisoners was quickly hanged
Q_ to the bars of his cell, a noose being
v thrown over his head, and the rope
j.g pulled through the grating. Then the
to lynchers went to the other's cell door,
n_ and found that he was fettered to the
at floor. As they were unable to enter,
1(j they tried to lasso him, as they had
)U done with his brother, and then choke
?22 him to death by pulling at the rope,
but he dodged the noose successfully".
q_ So they killed him with their revolvers,
y_ firing so recklessly that two of their own
number were accidentally wounded.
at
s- A new method of breaking in horses
of by means of a galvanic battery was
e- the subject of a recent patent in Enge,
land, and exception was taken to it as
x- being ineffectual and cruel. "It apic
pears, however," says the London News,
e- "that when properly carried out it is
es not oniy effectual, but the reverse of
id cruel, as the animals are so iwtonished
ly at the power displayed by their masters
ia that they quickly become docile and
>n tractable. The experiment has been
at tried by the General Omnibus Company
t. of Pans, and the scientific experts apld
pointed to report upon the method de,"
dare that it is more effectual and less
?s cruel to the horses than the ordinary
le practice."
is
st " A six-penny phonograph" is the
ie latest invention, emanating from the
'S brain of a Mr. Lambrigot, a French genot
tleman. Phonographic impressions are
^ first taken in stearine, which is then
electro-plated and matrices made of hard
* metal. Into these lead wirc-s are pressed,"
so that the impressions made by the viLy
brations of the diaphragm in the stoarine
are perfectly reproduced on the lead
11 wire. Half a dozen of these wires, each
re containing a short sentence, are then
e" fastened to a small board. The rest of
j? the apparatus consists of sixteen incnes
ofleadwireto one end of which is attached
a hollow pasteboard cone, oneand-a-half
inches in length, and to the
J* other end si small pasteboard disk. By
." moving the disk along one of the wires
^ fastened on the board, words are made to
ip issue from the cone, as in the ordinary
^ phonograph, only with less distinctness.
je The life of the seeker for precious
m metals is not an easy one A gentleman
le who recentlyi.went with a party of
capitalists to Leadville, Col., says:
;r_ "' Prospecting' is about a? near like
gambling as any downright honest hard
le' work can be. It requires genuine pluck
,0 to go out upon the mountains at or near
n_ timber line, where the nights are always
er cold and snow falls nine or ten months
ie in the year, to live alone in a rude cabin
tn without even the necessaries of life, to
it. say nothing of its comforts, and to dig
?(j day after day and sometimes month after
month without even an indication of
n> 'pay dirt.' And yet this is the life of
1(j the 'prospector' year after year. One
man in a hundred, or a thousand perx
haps, makes a 'strike' and obtains
of wealth which he rarely knows how to
nt use. The remainder are always poor,
lg their best luck being when lliey can ina.
duee some one to give them a 'grub
in stake,' that is, to furnish them food for
n- a share in their mines if they find any."
;t
y. Unit(|l States Senator Carpenter, ot
o, Wisconsin, has smoked himself into illo,
health, as the following statement, tele-.
e- graphed from Chicago, makes manifest:
ig "The announcement that Senator Carv
penter luis been advised by his physician
id to go to Florida for his health was a
Id genuine surprise to his friends in Milsd
waukee. Few supposed him to be in
ir- other than the best health and spirits,
id -A p<Tsonal friend of the Senator said:
>n ' I tell you no man can smoke twenty
ne Havana cigars a tiny, ana Keep up mc
d. practice without encountering certain
death. It is a hazardous tiling to do,
I'd and Matt Carpenter is doing it. You
Jil observe the consequence. Matt is a slave
ey of tobacco, and it is killing him slowly,
*y but surely. He is wasted so that his
ro limbs have become emaciated to the
n" semblance of pipe stems. They call it
rheumatism, but it is tobacco and noth?f
ing else that has wasted him away to
this extent, and it will continue its
.is work until death steps in and claims
,or another victim.1"
he
The recent sinking of several men-of
war together, in South American waters,
i(i recalls the battles ot the classic age,
&c when the recognized mode of fighting
was to " ram " tne enemy s vesac-i mm
ft' a heavy prow of iron or brass, and the
re sinking of at least half the beaten fleet
ce quite a matter of course. Modern warj'n
fare, however, contains not a few strikJy
ing instances of the same kind. At the
*e battle of Sluys, under Edward III., an
n" English crew, feeling their ship settling
L'(' down, boarded and carried the nearest
?n Frenchman just in time, their own vesrs
sel sinking the moment they had quitted
Pr her. Sir Richard Grenville, in 1586,
performed a similar feat, floating him*e
self in a raft alongside the heavy Span
ish galleon whose guns had shattered his
light cruiscr, and captured her while his
J0 own ship sank unheeded. A fjpw yews
later the same h?#o kept at bay fiftyilt
three Spanish sail for a whole night
ie with his single ship the Revenge, sinking
.a four of them, and at length bidding the
gunner blow up his vessel with all
hands. She sank, however, before the
^ order could be obeyed. In one of the
x- I errant, son. fifflits of the last century, a
'j* French and an English ship went down
side by side before the grappling-irons
10 could be cast olF, and very few of either
crew were saved,
a
JJ When the Duke of Argyll, father of
the Marqu's of Lorne, Canada's Governor-General,
arrived in New York, on
a Cunard steamship, lie was interviewed
before he could land by the ubiquitous
r- reporters, one of whom described the
) Scotch nobleman and his family as fole.
lows: " Then came a pleasant, somewhat
ts stout gentleman, with red hair, gray
a whiskers and slightly freckled face, who,
in it was whispered, was the Duke of
is Argyll. lie wore a dark, mixed summer
y v ercoat, standing collar and black
in cravat; and although he had three or
ly four servants in attendance, wsis littered
J. up with the small traps of a traveler,
i" On the Duke's arm w:is his eldest draughts
ter. Lady Elizabeth Campbell, a tall,
delicate-complexioned blonde, with light
id auburn hair and pale face. She wore a
r. black cloak of some plain stuff, with a
le black fur collar, over an ordinary travel1
ing-dress. Behind this couple came Lord
1. Walter Campell, a younger son of the
ts duke, and almost an exact picture, savis
ing tliat he looks younger, and that his j
<e hair is redder, of his brother, the Mar- i
h quis of Lorne. Lord Walter wore a j
bluo flannel yaehtmnn's suit, a blue i
chccked shirt and black tie. He escorted
liis younger sister. Lady Mary Campbell,
a pretty young woman of eighteen
or twenty, with wavy auburn hair, who
was dressed like her sister in travelingdress
and plain black cloak."
THE NEWSBOY'S GIFT.
?
A. Crippled Cincinnati Kemboy Preiruti
the City with a Library--Story of Ills
Life.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
Down in the old museum building,
at the corner of Third and Sycamore
streets, in a narrow back room with a
single window, lives John King, the
veteran newsboy. For ten years that
cramped and comfortless room has been
his solitary home. He has all this time
done his own cooking and washing and
mending, and, through industry and
economy, has at last placed himself in a
position to become a public benefactor.
The history of the man, borne down as
he has been by frequent and severe
calamities, and of his noble benefaction
?that of 2,500 select volumes to the
public library?are worth here recountf'he
history of the collection and of its
i. r.,11
rdJtJIll/ UYVnet 19 Jiu.ll U1 lliicicob. IJUUU
King, though still a newsboy, and the
efficient secretary of the Union, is now
thirty-nine years old. His pleasant
countenance is familiar on Fourth street,
where he stands, papers in hand, and
supported by a crutch, from five o'clock
until eight o clock in the morning, and
from four until six in. the afternoonHe
was a farmer boy by birth, and had
fate been kinder, he would, no doubt,
have still been a tiller of the soil in Cass
county, Michigan, where his father's
family still reside. But at the age of
seventeen a kick on the left thiirli crippled
him for life. For three years he hoobled
around on crutches, when he was attacked
by rheumatism, and his limbs so
drawn up that he could get around only
by crawling on his hands and knees.
One' day, while crawling about the
room, he struck his knee against a sharp
object, which, with the help of a
blundering surgical operation, stiffened
the limb for life. Both legs were now
useless, and for five years the poor boy
was bed-ridden. It was during this
time that the passion for reading was
begotten- There were but few books in
the neighborhood.
\\ ^at there were he greedily devoured,
and mentally resolved that should it
ever be in his power he would have a
big library of choice books which should
be all his own.
At the age of twenty-five he got off his
bed and for three years hobbled about
the house, but coula do no work. Then
he went to Detroit, and in the summer
of 1868 came to Cincinnati, a total
stranger and a cripple for life in both
legs. A situation was obtained at
Spence Brothers' tobacco factory, but
hardly a fortnight had elapsed before he
was taken down with the smallpox,
which kept him in the pesthouse for six
months. He states that during tkis
period his courage droped, and he cared
very little, if life was to be so hard, to
longer live:
After leaving the pesthouse he went
back to Spence Brothers1 factory to
work, and began living in the little,
fnmiolio/1 rnnm in flip hlliMinc
at the corner of Third and Sycamore
streets, which is still his home. The
work he had in the tobacco factory w;is
such as is commonly done by children,
and three dollars a week was all that he
could make by the greatest industry. It
was with difficulty that life could be
sustained in that time of high prices on
so small a sum, and King's necessities
soon drove him to look for other work,
when he became a newsboy.
In the new vocation life becam^easier.
The work was lighter and the rewards
more generous, and he conceived the
idea or laying up money enough to buy
him a home and a library. To that end
for ten years every energy was bent.
Whenever he saw a book that he thought
valuable and that could be bought cheap,
he bought it. Some of them lie read in
his leisure hours, and others he laid
away for that far-off time when, in his
own little home and -with enough to live
on. he could sit down for a " big read."
The ten years we have referred to
saw but one interruption to his work as
a newsboy, and that came in the shape
of another misfortune. A blind man,
who was a broom maker, prevailed upon
him to go to Sabina, Clinton county,
this State, and with his savings, which
then amounted to $50, buy a broom machine,
which he claimed they could
operate together with a handsome
prolit to botn. J.111S was aone, nui in ;v
short time the firm failed, 8150 in debt.
Kins then came back to Cincinnati, and
in time sent back to Sabina the full
amount of the claims there existing
against himself and the blind man. His
earnings were about $1 a day, and up to
the time of the Adae failure things went
along quite smoothly. By that failure,
however, $600 was lost, over and above
what he is likely to get back.
This sum was half the savings of ten
years, which had been so religiously set
apart for a little home and a " big read "
in his old age. The loss of so much
money, while it did not discourage him.
made the realization of his hopes much
more uncertain, and at the very best
placed them many years further in th<*
future.* The building in which he lives
is an old rookery in which there are
fifty families. The thought occurred to
King after his loss by the Adae failure
that the building might burn down some
night and his books with it. lie had
always intended to donitehis books to
the public library at his death, and now
that death was likely to come before he
could read them at his leisure, iis lie had
desired, he concluded to make the donation
to the library safe by giving them to
it now.
Mr. King is of a cheerful and hopeful
disposition, and sis would be expected
from what has precided is well read.
Since the organization of the Newsboys'
Union he has been its secretary, and he
has found much satisfaction in helping
to lift the boys up. He states that the
newsboys of Cincinnati are an entirely
different class from what they were six
or seven years ago. The boys of that
time have disappeared, and those who
have taken their places have been much
better cared for and instructed, and
show it daily in their conduct.
A Man-Eating Horse.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle says:
We have information of a terrible
affray which occurred in Anderson
county with a vicious horse. .Tolin
Coward, the young son of widow Coward,
and a member of the mercantile firm
of Worthington & Coward, went into
the stable where there was an old family
horse, which had been known to be always
as gentle as a dog. Suddenly the
beast was seized with a fit of viciousness,
and pitched upon young Coward. Hefore
he could getaway from the ferocious
animal lie was almost literally eaten up.
The horse had bitten almost all the muscles
and flesh loose from both arms
above the elbow; had also bitten him
furiously in the sides, on the hips and
other places. Dr. Coward, uncle of the
young man, was summoned and gave nil
jthe surgical assistance and relief possible,
but the wounds were of a very dan
gerous and serious nature, and it was
feared he could not survive. A negro
boy went into the same horse iftenvard
and was also set upon by it and pretty
roughly used, and it was with difficulty
lie was rescued. The horse was never
known to be vicious before, and its conduct
could not lie explained. Young
Coward wanted it killed, but nothing
was done about it. The horse seemed
firally to get over the spell and was
taken out and worked in the plow the
same day.
Gen. Henry Lee was the author of the
phrase, " First in war, first in peace, first i
in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." I j
wm in a series of resolutions ore- :
Minted to the National House of Repre- |
pentatives, December, 1799. I
- 1
Beware!
X.
Keep wakeful eye and ear, my friend,
For all mankind;
Thou canst not know nor tell, my trilt
What larks behind
Tho flattering speech, the gracious smile?
How little truth, how mnch of jiuile,
Is hid within the heart the while.
Beware !'
II.
Remember, e'en thyself, my friend,
Hast cralty grown;
Consider how deceit, my friend,
Erst deeply sown
Within thy breast, alow led upon
Its kindlier nature, until won
Thq victory o'er thy peaco undone.
Beware!
nr.
Ah, life's a losing game, my friend,
A taunting blank?
When love itself is tricked, my friend,
By wealth and rank;
Take council of thy wit, and seek
No lavors that thy leelings pique?
Of both the fawning and the meek
Beware!
i
Trust him who makes thee pay, my frievd
And squarely, too,
For all he grants; 'tis he, my iriend,
Alone that's true.
Ho hath no subterfuge, no plan
To cheat or cozen; such a man
Thou canst respect, and waive this ban
Beware! /
?Erratic Enrique, in Puck
ITEMS OF INTEREST. .
The hair crop is very short this swu
son.
Oil-wells vary in depth from 100 to
1,100 feet.
Walkinz skirts?The garden's mar
ginal path"
Sticking to the bitty end- Chewing
rhubarb root.
There are sixty-eight women preachers
ip the United States.
London has 220 dry days in the year
and Dublin but 150.
Kansas .expects to raise 32,000,000
bushels of wheat this season.
The Indian possessions of Great, Britain
have a population of 241,000,000.
The very latest is fish flour for domestic
use, made from dried codfish ground.
The Bank of England was the firs
joint-stock bank established in England.
Father Time has but little credit in
this world. Two-thirds of the people
" take no note of time." ' _
The Japanese government has just
purchased in New York State 200 Me-.
rino and Cotswold sheep.
The dearer and more gaudy the silk
handkerchief the further it is ailowed'to
stick ou of the coat pocket.
A woman in Mt. Sterling, Ky., eightteen
years of age, has been married sc:
years and has three children.
It is very dangerous to mate up your
judgment concerning a young lady's
weight hy measuring her sighs.
A small boy in New York was brought
to life after having been at the bottom
of the Hudson for eight minutes.
An article in an exchange h called
"A Woman After All." insatiate female!
would not ten thousand -or so
suffice P She may be after all, but it is
hardly probable that she will catch them.
?Norrislown Herald.
An earthen bowl filled with rice and
fish, with four lighted candles stuck
into it, and the whole surmountecj by a
calf's head, was found on the stoop of a
New Orleans house. Somebody had undertaken
to put the inmates under a
voudoo spell.
^ilanUnnf fair nf Tnrlifi an
XIICKl^au vatpuouv iMu v? ?...? .. ....
nually held at boneooor, on the Ganges.
Thousands of horses and hundreds of
-elephants may then be seen, and the barcain-driving
and deceit of elephnpt-sellers
seem to be fully as great as the tricks
of horse-dealers at home. The price of
elephants ha? risen enormously of late
years. In 1835 the price of elephants
was 8225 per head; on the Bengal government
requiring seventy of these animals
in 1875, the sum of $700 each was
sanctioned, but not an elephant could l>c
procured at that price. Seven hundred
and fifty dollars ig now the lowest rate
at which young animals, and then chiefly
females, can be bought. Tuskers of any
pretensions command from 84.000 to
$7,500, but the Koomeriah, or best strain
of elephant, will fetch almost any price;
$10,000 is not an unknown liirurc.
A Midnight Duel.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Journal waites: Among the
many bloody duels on record as having
been foug't by Congressmen was one in
which James Jackson, of Georgia?who
had been and who was afterward a
United States Senator?was the diallenged
party. He was an Englishman
v.., Kivtli hut-.Iip wpnt. tn Savannah when
a lad, studied laffigjfflfe a leading Fivemason
and foughTgallantly in the Revolutionary
war. He killed LieutenantGovernor
Wells in 1780 in a duel, and
was engaged in several other "affairs of .
honor,'" until he finally determined to
accent a challenge on such terms :is
would muke it his hist duel. So he prescribed
as the terms that each party,
armed with a double-barreled gun
loaded with buckshot, and with a hunfing-knife,
should row himself in a skiff %
to designated points on opposite sides of
the Savannah river. When the city
clock struck twelve each should row his
skiff to a small island in the middle of
the river, which was wooded and < overed
with underbrush. On arriving at
the island each was to moor his skiff,
cfoml it- inr tun and then ITO
about on the island until the meeting
took place. The seconds waited on the
main land until after one o'clock, when
they heard three gun shots and loud and
angry cries. Then all wis still. At
daylight, as had been agreed upon, the
seconds went to the island, and found
Jackson lying on the ground, insensible
from the loss of blood, and his anfaironist
lying across h;m, dead. Jackson
recovered, but would never relat-- his f
experience on that night, nor \y:i he
ever challenged again, lie died in this
city, while serving his second term :is
United States Senator, March li),
Words of Wisdom.
A hopeless person is one who deserts
himself.
Ignorance has no light; error follows
a false one.
A tine coat may rowr a i?oi, diu w\ n
conceals one. .
There is no grief like the grief which
does not speak.
ITe who blackens others does not
whiten himself.
Genius is sometimes arrogant; knowledge
is alwavs diflident.
We are never so proud and so humble
as when we are praised.
What is styled timidity is probably
nothing but the fear of showing t<><? little
merit.
A good constitution is like a nnwy
box?its full value is never known i.i!l it
is broken.
.. . . ..
liooa lasit'isuic muiuvi.> ...?
that is why it cannot be cither imitated .
or acquired.
In {general, there is no one with whom
life drags so disagreeably as with him
who tries to make it shorter.
It the shoe of a monarch could do as
much as the monarch himself, the court
would be divided between his majesty
and his shoe.