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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1880. NO. 28. VOLUME XXV.-%^
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Good-lire, Old Year.
Oh, good companion, stand hand last awhile;
We've walked together many a pleasant milo,
And I would catch thy last, Jaint, parting
smile,
And say) " Good-bye, old year."
Here at the glowing hearth let me retrace
The snlendid tokens iif thv flpptino
Thy ever open hand and smiling face,
And say, "Good-bye, old year."
The January bells and gifts?the snow,
The flying sleighs, the skaters all aglow,
The glancing eyes, the whispers soft and low?
Ah, well! good-bye, old year.
The Febrnary joys, the splendid play,
The witching opera, and the ballro- m guy;
The shopping, and the flirting?welladay!
Good-bye, good-bye, < \.l year.
The pleasant skies that camo with March
again.
The park's gay drive, the gallop in the lane,
The planning and the dreaming! I would lain
Live over them, oil year.
But, oh, the April hours! when happy trees
Grew green with gladness in the warm south
hrwzp.
And all the birds came singing o'er the seas,
Singing lor joy, old year.
The glory of the May, the warm, white
showers.
The orchard blooms, the goldeu-tinted flowers
The building nssts in all the woodland bowers?
What memories, old year!
And the a the roses in the month ol June,
The balmy ireshness ot the busy noon,
The silver splendor ol' the young spring
moon?
All these were thine, old year.
As were the July skies, the scented hay,
The dreamy languors ot the summer day,
The drilting boat upon the calm blue bay;
Can I lorget, old year ?
Or hope to hear again a song so sweet
Afl xehf*r\. nnp nic*it_ with fllnw onnaftntim*
7 ~ ?~ B? m'J
feet,
I walked with love amoug the August wheat;
Oh, love's sweet song, old year.
Ita echoes haunt the shady, scented place
Where brown September met us face to face
And crowned us with the vineyard's purple
grace;
Oh, grapes! ob, lovo! old year!
Oh, wine, and corn, and fruit, and little Bihs!g
Oh, misty splendor ol October skiee!
Oh, Indian summer caught in lover's eyes!
Oh, sweet still days, old year!
Oh, blazing hearth! oh, home! oh, comlort
rare
Of dear November with its pleasant care,
Of grateful Thanksgiving and dainty fare,
And heart ol love, old year.
Thus did we dwell together, thou good year,
'Till hale December brought the Christmas
cheer. '
Now shall wo part ? Old Iriend, there is no .
fear; ,
Thou shalt thy strength renew. ,
Yet ere this charmlul circle pass away, !
Turn the lamiliar lace?one moment stay \
While love and gratitude find space to say,
Good-bye, old year, good-bye. 1
I
TN THE CLIFF CAYE, '
"This is my friend Mr. Vaughn, Miss ,
Belmont," said Clarence Richmond, as J
the werry ran her prow between the <
rocks, into anchorage, almost at Miss (
Belmont's feet, where she sat sketching. (
She had known that Vauehn was expected,
hut slie had not dreamed of be- f
ing thus taken unawares, and she gave .
the least little.start, dropping her eyes ^
till they met his, waiting below.
"Good alternoon, Mr. Vaughn," she {
said, almost, you might have thought, ?
as if they had only parted in the morning.
" Have the skies fallen, that we .
catch larks?"
" No. but the tide has," he returned,
his gaze still commanding hers. "We
ha<i intended to keep on down the river, 1
and join General Fogg's yachting party; s
but with this dead wind against us, they *
would be out on tue Atlantic oerore we
could overtake them." Mr. Vaughn bad
the air of cllering an apology for intrud- 3
ing a* he spoke.
"Oh, I thought that had been gi ren
up," said Pauline.
" Yes," replied Clarence, " we gave it
up Inst night; but as we came down the
river Vaughn was suddenly attacked
with a loDging for 'a wet sheet and a
flow in <r sail.'"
" And now ycu have a *wet blanket
instead ?"'
"This maritime interest only struck
him,I'm free to confess,after I had given
him the names of our guests, and he
found tha-, the great heiress wasn't
among them."
" Oil, indeed! Not complimentary to
jiie rest of us, Mr. Vaughn."
" 5fou have heard of seamen's yarns.
Clarence is a veritable jacky tar in that
respect. What is an heiress to me, or I
to an heiress?"
They had climbed the rocks by this
time, and walked up the lawn together,
still chatting, to the piazza.
" She takes to him as a fish takes to
water," thought Clarence. "Jove! one
would think she had known him since
the flood. She's almost too self-possessed
and civil to strangers."
They had tea under the apple trees
that night at Mrs. Richmond's, and the ]
moon came ud behind thet 11 sycamores
and mapped the scene in a tender at- ]
mosphere, which was half dusky and I
half luminous; and later they all |
strolled down to the rocky shore and took <
the tide to the beach, lighted a drift- 1
wood tire and forgot the hour. Mr. 1
Vaughn had spoken of leaving on the j
following day, but the da?s rounded ;
into wc.eks, ana still he delayed. He
might be going to-morrow or the day >
after; in the meantime he was at the
Terraec, aDd the Terrace was simply a ;
suburb of Eden. He could leave at a ;
moment's notice; what was the use of i
woafircr wl>n! hnr thinirintr n.hnnt'. I
itP Eacn? Well, yes, till Gildersleeve
came?Gildersleeve with his debonair
assurance, his eyes like " lights which
do misiertd the morn," and that vo ce of
his ring ig out on their moonlight excursions,
with its flexible tenor, pathetic
as the cry of the whip-poor-will,
sweet as the breath of honeysuckles in
June, as "sad as death, as sweet as
heaven.' Pauline used to sit wrapped
in a cloud of melody, so to speak, on
those still summer nights. She was
trying to make up her mind about
Gildersleeve; to make believe with herself
that she already belonged to him
heart and soul, and had no eyes, or
thoughts, or regrets, for another; not
that she was bound by any promises;
and perhaps, if Vaughn had gne on
General Fogg's ipariy, Gildersleeve
might have found the course of his true
love somewhat smoother. Though
Vaughn sang never a note, and had no
iangubhine dark eyes with which to inveigle
hearts, yet when .che met his
glance, Gildersleeve's chances waxed
beautifully less. Promise to love and
obey him, indeed! As long as this man's
very look commanded her whole being,
how could she so perjure herself? While
Gildersleeve flattered himself that his
affair was drawing toward a conclusion,
that Pauline was sure to surrender be
fore the season ended, she was beginning
to 6ay to herself that such a thing
had not only been impossible, but would |
remain so, as long as Ralph Vaughn existed,
in this world or the other.
In the meantime Vaughn was more or
lest impenetrable; if he hung over her
t-o-nisht. tender as a lover, he was quite
likely to freeze into respectful indiffe
ence to-morrow; yesterday he was i
near her that they were almost or
in thought and wish and purpose; t<
day, perhaps, he was as far away as ti
farthest star. She could not translal
such alternations of temperature.
One afternoon the gentlemen had gor
trouting or gunning, and a handful <
the guests lounged on f e piazzas or i
fVio hommnol'D anH rrr\acir?nH attov fliD
UttUilUVVlik?) (IUU V T VI tuv
fancy-work. Ada Clemart was teacL
in? Pauline a new 8titch, when si
presently remarked: "Oh, do yo
know, girls, something happened to rc
yesterday, and I must tell it. Nothin
ever does happen me, you know, and
consider this a special godsend."
"Is it a ghost story?" naked Ne
Daight.
"Oh, very like a ghost story," sai
Ada. " Do you know, yesterday aftei
noon I went out with my pony alone o
an exploring expedition, and it grei
very warm, and the pony began to limj
and presently found that we were on
cliff overhanging the river, with gret
pine trees shaking their plumes abov<
and coral mosses spreading under-foe
and along its ragged edges, and blac
crows cawing overhead, and a sa
stealing up the river as silently as
phantom?"
" Ada got that out of a book, I know.
" Don't break the thread of my dis
course, child. Where was I? Oh, a
tnc sail-boat. lea, ana some oars wer
dipping in and out the water somewher
?invisible oars, pliccf by Nereids,
guess?and somebody whistled an ai
from Traviata. It came on the win
' like horns of elfland faintly blowing
from heaven knows where?but I foun<
out afterward. I just tied the pony to
tree and took out my pencil; but, good
ness! it needed a Saivator Rosa; and
couldn't get the sounds in anyway, an<
presently they crystallized into words
and somebody was saying,' And so voi
eloped together, eh?' Oh, you'v
dropped a stitch, Polly!"
' Bother the stitches!'' said Nell
" Do go on. I'm worked up to concer
pitch "
And even the practical Anna Rich
mond remarked, "How romantic!"
"'And jo you eloped together?'"re
peated Ada, delighted with herself ant
her audience. "The voice made m:
heart stand still, it seemed so near, anc
yet nobody in sight. I held my breath
JTUIiy, JfUU UiU iu:i&.lllg i* rncao Ui juu'
work ?"
"And what did the lady reply?" asket
Polly.
" I never said there was a iady in th<
case."
"I don't see how there could hav<
been an elopement without one," per
sisted Nell.
"Don't pump a story-teller, Nell
We were both very young,'the othei
person answered. 'The night was Ux
splendid to waste over German verbs
We had driven fast for an hour, having
eluded the teachers and the servants anc
the watch-dog at the Lambert seminary?"
"That's where you graduated, Miss
Pauline, isn't it?" drawled Mrs. Daight,
" I never graduated anywhere. I was
a dunce."
'"We never dreamed of pursuit, yov
know,'" repeated Ada, picking up the
thread again; "'in fact, we had nc
definite object in view but the moment's
happiness. I stopped to bait the horse,
fn the mean time we strolled into a
shabby old church where a wedding
was going on?a simple affair. When
the bride turned away irom the altar
we stepped forward: it was the inspiration
of the moment. The clergyman
began the service. " I forbid the banns,"
some one cried from the doorway, and
the principals, male and female, confronted
us. It ended there. Her uncle
sent her to a nunnery in Quebec. I accepted
a situation as civil engineer in
Jalifornia. Unless she cares for your
lark friend, it is my duty to propose,
lon't vou think?'
*.* 'A pleasant auty indefd,' replied the
irst speaker. 'Duty? No, not unless
rou Jove her. She has probably recov;red.'"
"And?what did the other?person
inswerP" asked Folly, very deliberately,
icd stopping to pi k up a stitch.
"' You think so?' he asked, as if tha
dea was new to him."
"And then?"
" That was all. One of them began to
whistle from Traviata again. They
ipoke about the lisliing and the tides,
ind I came away, hugging my romance.
tVasn't it nice and oad, Polly?"
" hut why were y ou not discovered at
?our eavesdropping?"
"Why? Just because it wag regular
tavesdropping. you know. The speakers
vere under the cliffs in a boat."
" Yes," said Nell Paight, " I Know
he place. Clarence took me there once,
t is the Cliff cavr, where they fish; it
uns under the ledge the length of this
)iazza; and there's a fissure :.n the rock
>verhead through which you can see a
trip of blue sky and birds wheeling
tcross it. To one sitting above, voices
vould reach easily from below."
" I barely escaped falling through the
issure once," said Anna Richmond.
' Some day the whole mass will crumble
iway, and plunge into the river. 1 hope
[ shan't be there."
That night, when Vaughn met Pauine
in the garden, sho asked: " Has the
ishinz been tood to-day?"
" Wp wpnt shoot,in<r" hp rPnlipH ''we
ished yesterday."
" In the Cliff cave?"
"Ye3, but we had no lack. We rented
)n our oars, lighted our pipes?"
"But Clarence was with you? Wasn't
ie voluble? What did you talk about?"
' About auld lang syne, Pauline."
" Oh, that is too stupid. Auld lang
syne is a bore. There is nothing in the
past I care to remember."
"Nothing, Pauline??nothing? Then
[ will resign you to the present and Mr.
Sildersleeve,' as that gentleman joined
.hem; and Mr. Vaughn lighted his
cigarette and strolled toward the fiverbank.
Mr. Vaughn would have lelt the
terrace behind him, as well as the girl
he loved, on the following day, buc Mrs
Richmond's horses took fright on the
way to the station, and while the coach
man broke his arm, Vaughn came ofi
with a bad sprain of the ankle. Could
anything be more commonplace and less
romantic? he asked himself. Reclining
on Mrs. Richmond's piazza and watching
Gildersieeve and Pauline togethei
was discipline enough to prepare hirr
for the seventh heaven. Such a trivia
thing as a sprained aidde to defeat hin
thus! But sometimes lovers, as well a:
common folks, mistake success for de
feat. Mrs. Richmond's red-shirtec
mowers in the hot fields yonder migh
envy him his luck in being able to~li<
in the shadow with tiis bandaeed yikli
and his novel; but they would?fiav<
learned that nature knows how t<
equalize lots could they have known tin
arrows of outrageous fortune by whicl
he was wounded daily a3 he watchei
Gildersieeve putting off in the boatwitl
Pauline alone, at sunset or moonrise
and heard their lauehter and son
echoing far into the night. Pauline wa
very gracious to the invalid, to be sure
just as she would be to a hopeless crippl
or beggar, he thought. She fetched hi
books, she heaped his pillows, she evei
brought him strange wild flowers whic!
she and Gildersieeve had surprised ii
the woods; but she only stayed bes:d
him long enoueh to pass the jest, to giv
a parting shot, a bit of badinage?onl
long enough to exasperate. Gildersleev
developed an unhappy [faculty of lay in
claim to her when Vaughn fancied thu
he 1) ad secured her.
But even a sprain does not last foi
ever. He might travel any day nov
the doctor said; and he was surprise
to find that he was loth to leave. Aftt
all, the pain had been flavored wit
pleasure. Looking backward he coul
recall many thrilling moments whic
had made his pangs endurable. Hov
ever, he waa to depart in the mornin
and to-night, as one and all were lookii
Wp
r- for their bedroom candles and exchang?o
ing good nights, he suddenly rememie
bered Mrs. Richmond's Tennyson, which
3- he had left in the hammock in the grove ,
ie at the foot of the garden; a shower '
le might come up in the night and deface 1
it. The garden was dark and dewy, and ]
ie full of fantastic shadows and sweet \
)f scents, and the prove was darker still, ^
n wim a ffjeaoi 01 uiu river uh ilic uiucr
ir side, and the aspens quivering like pat- ?
i- tering raindrops. In the scmi-iiarkness J
ie some one moved toward him, some one
u whose white drapery brushed against ?
ie his hand. What sudden impulse was it *
ig which made Vaughn stretch out a de- ?
I taining arm towurd this llying shadow, -l
while Tie whispered: "Pauline, Pauline, '
II you were mine once, heart and soul." ,
" And now," said Pauline, in her clear ^
d tense tones?" now I belong to Mr. Gil- ?
r- dersleeve." j
n Vaughn dropped his arm idly; he had j
tv forgotten how her hand trembled in his j
), own an instant before; he only knew *
a that she belonged to Gildersleeve. 1
it It was, perhaps, two years later when, ?
2, strolling aimlessly through an art gal- ?
>t lery in Europe, Mr. Vaughn came face
k to face with Ada Clemart. ^
il " Well met, Miss Ada," he said.
a "Mrs. Gildersleeve, if you please," *
contended the little lady.
" " Mrs. Gildersleeve!"echoed Vaughn. .
5- "I thought?I?ahem!?I lifd not 7
it heard?"
e "Oh. don't be afraid to say it. You ?
e thought Polly was wearing my shoes,
I eh? I wa> awfully afraid she would, ?
r too. I knew they'd pinch her. There!
d cive me your arm and let me confess. p
,' You were so brimful of your own affairs '
d at the Terrace you never dreamed that I a
a ?well, that I had made up my mind to a
marry Mr. Gildersleeve myself. Isn't v
I it Thackeray who says if a woman a
J ..makes up her mind to marry a certain ?
1, person, be she huncL^acked, or queer in L
a her lei?s, or what not, let him look to ?
e himself? or words to that eflectP Well, jj
Gildersleeve and I were traveling com.
panions on the way home after the sum- .y
t mer ended at Mrs. Richmond's. Do you j1
know, by the way, they have lost their ]<
- money, and sold the Terrace? Too bad! 11
Polly had gone already. Traveling was v
- I never so divine an employment before. | c
1 I would gladly have kept on, like the ?
j Wandering Jew. Mind, I didn't know a
1 that he was engaged to Pauline, i sup- p
. posed it was a flirtation; and just to en- h
r tertain him I told him all about you and a
Pauiine; your elopement when she was n
1 at the Lambert seminary, and you were d
only twenty, and how you were inter- "
3 rupted at the altar." Sl
" Ana how did you happen to know b
3 all this, Mrs. Gildersleeve?" The name a'
- was like a sweet morsel on his tongue S1
now?so strangely do tastes change.
" Now ;you are angry, but you ought b
r to be grateful. How did I know it?
> When jou have a secret, don't tell it in C
. the Cliff cave, even to Clarence. I was h
r overhead, near t!,e fissure, eavesdrop- "
1 ping you may call it if you please. I ^
. told the story to the guests on the tl
piazza, next day, for a sensation. I 0
5 didn't give any names, you know?I'm d<
, not such a fool; but you ought to have bi
. seen Door Pauline. She knew the story fc
better than I; it was as good as a play. Si
If I had omitted that part where you }t
| said, ' It is my duty to propose,' Polly it
' would never have given Gildersleeve a di
1 second thought. lie has told me since ce
1 that he wrote the very nicht after I had tr
civen him the facts, and broke his en- di
easement. It didn*t break Polly's heart.
The Gildersleeves are a high and mighty
race, you know; all his old mus'y
ancestors would turn ' in their earthy
beds' if he had married a girl with a tt
history, so he married me. Doesn't that w
Madonna yonder remind you of Polly P of
She follows you with her eyes just as j cf
Polly follows you with her thoughts, as
KnAlr f/v A Mr Vollffhtl n n f 1 I
vjru uaun iu /xuicuvu) iixi* * uu^uu, MUM
marry her.'* cc
"I believe I will," said Vaughn, "if y<
Polly will marry me." pi
And ahe did.?harper's Bazar.
? m
Dancing: Girls from India.
There arrived recently in New York jj
a troupe of dancing girls, musicians and u(
jugglers from India. There are fifteen
persons in the company, five women and
ten men. . he women are some of the
principal performers of India, and be- ?
long to the only class of women in that Q?
country who are taught to read and j
write. The oldest is called Bhooribai,
and is twenty-six years old. She is one W
of the principal dancers. Sahebjhan,
the chief dancer, is eighteen, and is one q
of the greatest performers in India.
These two belong to the famous temple
dancers. No Maharaiah ever entertains ^
n truest without giving one of these fc.
dancers. The Nautch~ dance, as it is ft
called, is also a feature of all religious
and holiday festivals. The other
women are Vageirbai, age fifteen; Ala r?
Bundi, aged fourteen, and Oondabai, the .
youngest, age twelve. These women
Jive in different parts of India. They P(
speak no English, and are the first
Mohammedans who ever came to the
United States from India. The men are
Abdoolally Esmailjee, manager of a ^
Bombay theater and manager of this
company during their visit; Goolamhoosan,
Oomerkuan; two Hindoos?the
only ones in the company?by the name
ot Balaya; Imambarkha, Khajoolalla,
Subrung and Moobarie. Oomerklian ie
one of tne best of Indian jugglers. Ons
of the Balayas is a knife player. He jug- tb
gles with long knives, keeping a large
number circling about his head at one
time. Subrung is a very fine singer.
Imambarkha is a snake charmer. He e\
brings with him two cobra ai capeJlos, to
a scorpion and a iittle animal called a
mongoose, which is used to stir up the
snakes, it being very hostile to them. Sl
One of the Balayas cooks food for both, cr
as Hindoos will not eat Mohammedan
lood nor will Mohammedans eat Hindoo
food. These men never dance, but they
.sing and play upon their native instru- ?
ment3 while the women go through
their peculiar movements.
i The beauty ol tiiese women is a mat- ai
ter of taste. In India they are considi
ered very handsome. Sahebjhan is the
[ darkest, but is greatly admired in her
own country. Three of the women are V
i married. They all bear themselves m
modestly. They wear a satin vest which b;
E is fastened behind. They wear also
I satin trousers reacuing neariy iu mc
i ankles. Over all they throw the
j "Sahri," a long gauze cloak. They fc
- wear rings on their lingers and toes,
: strings of pearls about their ears and j;)
i anklets and nose-rings ot solid silver. jr
1 They wear m diamonds, as these stones ^
i are not fashionable iu India. It was S(
5 very difficult to get these people together p
- and to persuade them to leave their jjj
1 country. Just before starting they con- jj
L ceived the idea that they were coming
2 to America to be sacrificed at a festi- p
a val, and almost refused to comc. They ^
2 were gathered from the neighborhood a
j of Aliahbad and some other Indian y
e cities, where there are great bathing t]
i tanks. Their chief duty at home is to j,
3 participate in festivals. The first rank 0'
i of these women is never permitted to a
, leave the temples without the permission j,
? of the priests. They all reverence as c'
s their special patron and protectress the a
i, holy mother, Bhowanee, who is -up- p
e posed to be the most beautiful dancer in j,
s the paradise of the Hindoo religion. u
n Their dances do not resemble what ^
b Americans call dances. They consist of
n lithe and graceful whirling, marvelous
e in its quickness, and also of mystic
e weaving and subtle pantomimic contory
tions explained by their songs. Their a
e dances fiave a meaning, and the sentig
ment of them is always made plain, a
it They cover a wide range of subjects. 8
They have one dance which represents r
r- a railway train, and the clatter of the c
r, engine is heard all through it. The best (
d of these women are chosen from the (
'r highest caste of Indians; the next in j
h rank are of the Sudra families, or mer ]
Id cantilc caste. ]
:h ' <
7- The boy who wants a situation at the ]
g, poulterer's is a brave lad. He is ready <
lg for the hen counter.
*
Tiie Discoverer of Oil*
There are but few Pennsylvanians
vho have not at some period of their
ife heard of the late Colonel Drake in
tirifli mir nil (ipIHq Clnlnnpl
3dwin L. Drake was the son ol Lyman
^)rake, a farmer of Greene county, New
fork, and was born at Greenville, that
iounty, March 29. 1819, and was conloquently
sixty-oneyearsof age. While
ourneying from New Haven to TitusMile
on business, his attention was first
sailed to Oil creek, and he immediately
>ecame interested in the matter. He
aw the oil used as a lubricator on the
ournals of a large circular saw, making
,200 revolutions per minute. It was
ilso used in torches to light saw mills,
^s a lubricator he found it superior to
perm oil. As a lubricator alone, he
:new there was a fortune in this oil.
le also saw that it could be refined and
loublcd in its value as an illuminator.
)octor Ebenezer Brown, now a banker
,t Titusville, took the colonel to the
pring from which the oil used iD the
aill was taken. The doctor spread a
> anket upon the pool and gathered it
ip in a few seconds, drippine with some
lark fluid, from which lie wrung half a
lint of the oil. Half a bucket or more
if the oil was thus secured.
He had already been satisfied as to
he value. The sole question now was:
'Can the oil be obtained in quantities
ufficient to introduce it as a lubriatorI>"
This question he speedily anwered
in his own mind, and decided to
tore lor it. He could not, however,
ersuade men to work for him, as he
?as regarded sis a lunatic. In great
istress he drove to Tarentum, 100 miles
way. Here he entered into a contract
rith a salt borer, agreeing to give him
t least 1,000 feet of boring to do. The
alt borer was to come in August; but
ic didn't. The colonel went down
gain, and the. fellow promised to come
a September. Aeain he disappointed
he now thoroughly vexed colonel. He
pent the 100 miles once more. While
a the hotel at Tarentum he accidentally
?arned why the fellow had disappointed
im. He never meant to gotoTitusille.
He regarded Colonel Drake as
razy, and " thought the easiest way to
et rid of him was to make a contract
nd pretend that he meant to come."
Lfter ransacking the country lor weeks
e at last found another salt borer, who
greed to commence work for him. This
* -- ' 1,?
lan goi jia uir 21a x insuuig, nuuwuv
ied. It was now in October, late in
je season. Lewis B. Peterson, Esq., a
lit manufacturer at Tarentu.m, iiad
Rcome interested in Colonel Drak<3, and
dvised him not to do anything until
jring. Quite unwillingly he removed
) Titusville, housed his engine and
oiler, and did nothing until spring.
In April, 1859, Mr. Peterson advised
olonel Drake that he had a man for
im, whom he' employed. This w:is
iTilliam A. Smith, o! Butler county,
rho brought with him one of his sons
le two working for two dollars a day.
n Saturday night, August 29, 1859, a
spth of sixty-nine and a half feet had
sen reaclled. Work was suspended
?r the Sabbath, b' it on Sunday old man
mith walked out to the well and found
full of oil. He dipped up a barrel of
, and Colonel Drake's insanity was
issipated in an hour. He had been snotssful.
He spent all his means in conibuting
to the wealth of the State >n>d
eu ioov.~PiUsbur(j Chronicle.
Ess and Esses.
"So you bavc finished your studies at
ic seminary? I was much pleased
ith the closing exercises. The author
that poem?Miss White, I think you
tiled her?bids fair to become known
) a poet."
"We think the authoress will become
flebrated as a poetess," remarked the
>ung lady, pertly, with a marked emlasis
on two words of the sentence.
"Oh!?ah!" replied the old gentlean,
looking thoughtfully over his speccles
at the young lady. " I hear her
ster is quite an actress, and under Miss
osmer's instructions will undoubtedly
:come quite a sculptoress."
The young lady appeared irritated.
"The seminary," continued the old
'ntleman, with imperturbable gravity,
is loi tuuate in having an efficient board
manageresses. From the presidentess
>wn to the humblest teacheress unlual
talent is shown. There is M'ss
arper, who as a chemistress is un[Ualed,
and Mrs. Knowles has already
reputation as an astronomercss. And
the department of music Jew can
[Ual Miss Aeuogg as a smgercsa.
The young lady did not appear to like
le chair she was sitting on. She took
ie sofa at the other end of the room.
"Yes," continued the old gentleman,
if talking to himself, "those White
sters are very talented. M>iry, I unsrstand,
has turned her attention to
tinting and the drama, and will I soon
jcome famous as a painteress, andurcly
i a lecturess."
A loud slamming of the door caused
ie old gentleman to look up, and critic?
s and grammarianess was gone.
Words ol Wisdom.
He who thinks his place below him
ill be below his place.
Good temper is. lise a summer day,
ie Gweetner oi toil and soother of disrietude.
It sheds a brightness over
'ery thing.
It is to be doubted whether he will
rer find the way to heaven who desires
' go thither alone.
False friends are like our shadow?
;eping close to vis while we walk in the
inshine, but leaving us the instant we
oss into the shade.
No man is bora wise; but wisdom
id virtue require a tutor; though we
in easily learn to be vicious without a
aster.
Strong minds, like hardy evergreens,
e most verdant in winter; ivuen leebie
ies, like tender summer plants, are
atless.
Tlie modern majesty consists in work.
Hiat a man can do is bis greatest ornaient,
and lie always consults liis dignity
y doing it.
Jute.
(jdk. of the most promising new fields
>r farming in the Southern States is
ie cultivation of jute. As a fiber it is
jgely taking the place of flax and hemp
i coarse products, and it is also said lo
e much used in much liner goods,
jme ol the handsomest carpets being
artly of jute. There is no doubt but
ie demand is to be large and to steady
increase. *
Jute is as cisily raised as corn, and
lantc ) in March or April, it may be
arvested in June, July and August,
Iter cotton has been laid, and at a
me when there is no special call upon
lie farm force. The labor of cultivation
i light, as its growth is so rank as to
vcTshadow everything else in the field,
nd its yield is simply enormous. There
i a very wide field of industry in jute
ultivation, and one which will eventully
become very profitable. The imortations
of jute during the year ernlng
June 30, 1880, were over $7,000,000,
11 of which can easily be produced at
iome.?Rural New Yorker.
The Fable or the Smart Man.
There was once a very smart man,
aid he met a man who was not smart,
ind said to him: "See here, I am an
iwful smart man. I know everything
md can do anything, yet my pocket,
ny purse and my stoxach ari3 a trinity
>f emptiness?three in one, and I'm the
me; while you, who are not smart, go
;lothed in purple and fine linen and
lave your ribs regularly adiposed.
Sow tell me, why is this?" And the
nan who was not smart answered and
jaid that he did not know, but he supposed
it must be because the market wa&
jveretocked with smart men. Moral'
riioro is. none.
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. i
(
' Their Number and Distribution?The 1
tillage of Art, Agriculture, Science, and
I of Piety.
The twelfth annual issue of the
; American Newspaper directory gives
the names of 9,723 newspapers and peri'
odical- publMiea in the United States.
| Eight hundred and forty-three are daily j
' rif'OTunnnpr.tj. Sft arf> t.ri-WPfiklv. 129 semi- .
weekly, 7,590 weekly 43 bi-weekly, 123 !
' semi-monthly, 868 monthly, 14 bi- (
i monthly, and 55 quarterly. The six (
States credited with the largest number ,
; of publications are scheduled in regular
order:
States. Dailies. Weeklies. Others. Total. ,
New York... 113 804 322 1,239 1
1 Pennsylvania. 87 611 137 835 '
1 Illinois 67 650 115 832 ]
Ohio 48 519 86 653 1
Iowa 28 442 30 500 <
Indiana 36 248 31 415 <
The six States credited with the
! smallest number of publication are:
1 {
States. Dailies. Weeklies. Others. Total. '
Delaware 4 18 . 22
, Nevada 13 11 3 27
Florida 3 32 3 38
Rhode Island. 7 28 5 40 '
Oregon 7 54 6 67 1
Vermont 4 62 4 70 J
The number of newspapers printed in
the United States in foreign languages
is iis follows:
Germ in 445 Bohemian 9
French .'!0 Portuguese 1 '
Scandinavian '.'.7 Polish 2 ,
Spanish 24 Hebrew 2 ,
Ilollandish 9 Cherokee 1 !
Italian 4
A , Tntnt /ififi
* I . . .
The German newspapers are distribu- l
ted among the States as follows: i
States. Dailies Total. ?
Arkansas 1 1
California 1 12 I
Colorado 1 (
Connecticut.... 1 4 (
Delaware .. 1 ]
Georgia 1 (
Illinois 9 56 t
Indiana 3 22 ]
Iowa 3 20
Kansas 1 7
Kentucky 2 6 ,
Louisiana 1 2
Maryland 2 6 \
Massachusetts 1
Michigan 2 11 (
Minnesota i iu i
Missouri 5 20 (
Nebraska 7 j
New Jersey 2 14 j
New York 11 65 i
Ohio S 46 ,
Oregon 2
Pennsylvania 9 66
Rhode Island .. 1
Soutli Carolina 1
Tennesec . .. Is
Texas * 2 9 t
Virginia 2 2 t
West Virginia 2 E
Wisconsin 3 38 ?
Louisiana has the lead in French c
newspapers. She prints fourteen in- r
eluding one daily. Massachusetts is t
next, with five weeklies, and New York c
is third, with two dailies and a weekly, s
Illinois heads the Scandinavian list, *
with twelve weekly and monthly publi- t
cations. Minnesota has five, and New c
York three. New York leads the Spanish
column with eight newspapers. New
Mexico is second with five, and Texas 1
and California each have four. The I
I ?1_ o :_K ,i ?: l ? Of.,fOQ I
ULiiy u^jnuiSLi uiiiiy in biiv; uuntu utuivj
is printed in Sun Francisco. Of the t
nine Hollandish newspapers, six are f
published in Michigan, two in Iowa, and t
one in Wisconsin. Three of the four c
Italian journals are print d in Califor- 1
nia, and three of the four Welsh in New c
York. The two Polish newspapers are o
credited to Illinois, and she claims three
of the nine Bohemian journals. The s
only Portuguese newspaper in the
United States is printed in Erie, Pa.
The directory gives the title of 421 t
religious newspapers published in the f
United States, distributed thus: a
Alabama 2 Missouri 20 P
I Arkansas 1 Nebraska 1 ?
California 11 New Hampshire ... 1 C
Colorado 1 New Jersey 3 v
Connecticut 3 New York 71 E
Delaware 1 North Carolina....II! b
Georgia 7 Ohio 43 n
Illinois 35 Oregon 4
Indiana 5 Pennsylvania Go
Iowa G South Carolina 8 q
Kansas 3 Tenuesseo 13 j*
Kentucky 13 Texa* 9
Ixtuisiana G Vermont 2
Maino 7 \irginia 10
MaiyJand 10 West Virginia 1 P
Massachusetts 23 Wisconsin .) ii
Michigan 8 Now Mexico 1 f>
Minnesota 2 Utah 2 1)
Mississippi 2 1
Tiie scale of piety is indicated by the |
number of religious newspapers pub- 11
lishcd in the cities: n
7V/V I JVn Y
Now York 50 Dayton 8 ?
Philadelphia 38 New Orleans 6 ?
Chicago 29 Nashville 6 P
Boston 20 Richmond G P
Cincinnati 18 Milwaukee 6 $
Si. Louis 15 Detroit 4 $
San Francisco ... .10 Dallas 4 g
Louisville 10 Oshkosh 1 f<
Baltimore 9 Brooklyn 1 ^
Cleveland 9
The following table shows the relative
strenetli of the peculiar forms of piety in C
the United States as indicated by the b
number of newspapers published by each b
denomination: I
JVumber q/' jDenominations.
Publications. w
Catholic G2 j]
Evangelical 49 _
Baptist 47 i,
Primitive Baptist 2 ,,
Seventh-Day Baptist 1 1
Free Baptist 1 13
Methodist.... 42 u
Methodist Episcopal 13 c
Methodist Protestant 2 e:
Presbyterian 35 li
Cumberland Presbyterian 1 p
uongregauouiu o ?
Congregational Methodist ... 1 g<
Lutheran 13 jj
llelormed Church 10 _
Relorrned Dutch Church 1 j:
Unsectarian 21
Non-sectarian 2 9
Anti-sectarian 1 *
Episcopal 18 91
Protestant Episcopal 7 ^
" ' J 1 ! h
ivoioniii-u ? Protestant
1 ii
Anti-Romanist 1 o
Jewish 11 tl
United Brethren 9
Christian 5 ei
Church ot God 5 C(
Disciples . 4
Primitive Christian 3 ^
Florida and Nevada arc the only
States in which religious periodicals are
not printed. The only religious journal
published in Arkansas is devoted to the d
interests of the Metuodists. In Ala- n
bama the Universalists and Baptists are tl
apparently struggling for the possession ti
of the State. The Presbyterians are the b
only denomination who print a news- u
paper in Colorado. Connecticut is given i:
over to the Baptists, Catholics and Con- p
ereeationalists. No Methodist, Baptist, t!
Episcopal, Universalist or Presbyterian a
periodicals are printed in either J)ela- i;
ware, Indiana, Minnesota or West Vir s
ginia. v
Forty-four religious newspapers are ti
printed in foreign languages. b
Other periodicals mentioned in the a
directory are devoted to the lollowing t
interests: o
Agriculture, horticulture and stock raising. 132 v
Medicine and surgery 98 a
Education 162 t'
Amusemont and instruction of children.... 44 t
Commerce and finance 198 t
Insurance 20 t
Real estate 14 j
Science and mechanics 108 c
aw 41 t|
Printers and publishers 16 j
, Sporting 16 r
Music 25
Fashions 23
' i Woman suffrage 3 I
: Free Masonry 17 1
' Odd Fellowship 12 Temperance
36
1 Knights ot Pythias 7
! Ancient Order ot United "Workmen 12 >
Knighta ol Honor 3 (
Drrier of Dmids 2
Drder ol Harngari 1
Military and naval 9
?New York Sun.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Sir Henry Bessemer has ?aken out no
e3s than 114 patents. The freedom of
:he city of London has just been con
ferred upon him. Before his steel pro
?ess was introduced into Sheffield the
entire make of steel was 51,000 tons a
year; now it is 830,000 tons.
According to Liebig, tea and coffee
[lave become necessaries of life to whole
nations, but especially essential to the
poorer classes, supplying a void not
readily filled up by the limited supply
af good meats and wholesome food generally.
The Baptist Weekly remarks %, itL con3iderable
subtlety that the brethren who
tiave been able to attend political meetings,
gaze at torchlight processions and
3o considerable shouting besides, cannot
3onsiatently plead the risks of night air
is an excuse ior aDsence irom prayer
aieetiDgs.
In Russia, all the sons and daughters
Df princes inherit their title. They are,
consequently, as pleatiful a3 sparrows,
ft is said that there is a village where
3very inhabitant is a Prince or Princess
Grallitzen. The title of prince in Russia
is about equivalent to that of esquire in
England.
The old apprenticeship system has
seen revived by a manufacturer at
Springfield, Ma9s. The boys bind them
jeives lor twelve years, ana are to receive
from live cents an hour at the beginning
;o tweive at the end. In addition two
jents an hour will be placed to their
credit, and paid on their discharge, thus
jroviding for each about $400 for a start
)n his own account. The employer
itipulates for tifty-eight hours of work
i week, and nine of study.
That eccentric person, George Francis
["rain, occasionally turns un to public
lotice in New York by some original act.
riie Central park commissioners revived
a-petition from him the other
lay, asking for permission to put his feet
>n seats in the park. He stated tbat the
jolicemen had denied him that privilege,
md wished to know what law prevented
lim from enjoying the liberty if he
:hose. The communication was placed
>n file.
The Scientific American urces the
idoption oi the telephone on the battleield
as a means of conveying informaion
and transmitting order9 rapidly
ind accurately, without exposing the
;eneral in command to the fire
>f the enemy, and thus imperiling
lot only his own life but possibly the
iltimate result of the campaign. Of
mirse special modifications are neceaary
to render the telephone available
or 3uch use, but these are quite within
he power of the inventor and mechaniian.
Many clergymen in the United States
lave lately received a circular from a
xjndon dealer in secon .-hand sermons.
Ie offers sermons "lithographed in a
old, round hand," so that those who
iappcn to see them would suppose that
hey were manuscript, for twenty-five
ents each, or $20 per 100. Ho has a
ine of cheaper sermons in print at ten
ontq nnipp.p warraritfld orthodox, and
ithers a little more expensive, which
lave "a pleas uitness, yet an awful
ok-mnity about them."
Miss Kate Field, who has spent much
ime abroad, says to a Boston reporter:
low easy it is to write a heavy leader,
nd how difficult it is, as all newspaper
eople know, to write briiliant, epirammalic
paragraphs. Thi3 is the
hief attraction of American newspapers,
rhich distinguishes them from the
Inelish journals?their capacity for
;een and witty paragraphs. It is not
;ecesaary to put people to sleep in orHor
o impress them with the importance of
lie subject. The London Times freuentlv
devotes a column to what might
e condensed into a dozen lines.
The past forty years have witnessed a
rodigious growth in American farmig.
In 1840 the grain product was
15,000,000 bushels; ten years later it
ad risen to 802,000,000; ten years later
,238,000,000; ten years later yet to
,387,000,000, and nine years later, or
ist year, to 2,431,000,000. These anual
cereal products have risen from a
alue of 84,000,000,000 in 1850 to one of
11,000,000,000 in 1870, and probably to
no ol ?15,000,000,000 or more in this
ast year, 1880, and the surplus, after
aying wages and expenses, was over
2,000,000,000 in IB7U, and pernaps
3,000,000,000 in 1880. Mr. S. B. Rubles
has been collecting these statistics
)r the Chamber of Commerce in New
rork, and they are noteworthy.
There has recently died in New
rleans the last of Lafitte's celebrated
and of buccaneers, Jacinto L?>
irano, whose life extended over nearly
00 years, and may be truly charactersed
as an eventful career. Lobrano
ras born in the city of Naples between
lie years 1783 and 1766. lie became
sailor and made several voyages heween
Gibraltar and Havana. Daring
314 lie saw Napoleon at Elba. Lorano's
first visit to New Orleans was
lade in 1809. He subsequently became
onnocted with Lafitte, ove; whom he
xercised considerable influence, being
ireely instrumental in persuading the
rivateer to side with the Americans
gainst the British. The old veteran
2ems to have taken a prominent part in
[ie battle of New Orleans, having been
resented by General Jackson with a
andsome sword, which he cherished as
no of his most valuable possessions,
ts blade is of the finest temper, and of
uch rare steel that it will bend double
rithout breaking. It is said that Lorano
participated in the Texan war lor
idependence, and among the trophies
f his exploits is a lance which he Cipjred
from one of the followers of Santa
Lnna. Mr. Lobrsno was at one time
gaged in the slave trade and other
Dinmercial enterprises. He finally
ittlcd in New Orleans, and has since
>d a quiet and retired life.'
E nrs^
Large ears hear things in general, and
enote broad, comprehensive views and
lodes of thought; while small ears hear
liings in particular, showing a disposiion
to individualize, often accompanied
y love of the minute. Large ears are
sually satisfied with learning the usual
icts of a case, with the general princiles
involved?too strict an attention to
lie enumeration of details, especially
11 repetition of the more unimportant,
i wearisome to them. People with
uch ears like generally, and are usually
rell fitted to conduct large enterprises,
o receive and pay out large sums; in
uying or selling would prefer to leave
, mar?in rather than reduce the quiin
ity of any sort to the exact dimensions
f the measure specified, and in giving
pould prefer to give with a free hand
,nd without too strict a calculation as
o the exact amount. Small ears, on
he contrary, desire to know the par
iculars of a story as well as the main
icts; take delight often in examining,
land ling or constructing tiny specimens
it workmanship; are disposed to be ex
.ct with respect to inches and ounces in
raying or selling, to the extent, at least,
if knowing the exact number over or
inder the stated measure given or re
eived. People with such ears would,
n most cases, prefer a retail to a whole
ale business.?Phrcnoloqical Journal.
Five of our foreign ministers were at
various times in their lives editors of
jountr.v newsDnpew.
t
ADULTERATIONS.
Cheap and Inferior Subntltutei-- How
They are Mixed With Batter, Sugar
Laid. Etc.i and Sold lor the Genuine
Article.
Nearly every article of food that is
sold cau safely be said to be more or less
adulterated. Not that the pure article
cannot be bought or that all dealers are
dishonest, but that the purchaser must
know what he is about or he will in
many instances be given adulterated
substances. Indeed, in some cases, it
may be said that the customer prefers
the adulterated to the pure article, so
depraved has his taste become by the
long continued use of the former. Instances
are many where people have bemn
HA nnminf Amo/) 4- n /t/\
WLUU OU OV^UOLVLUCU tU U1 llliV UUUCC
mixed with chicory, peas and the like
that they will send back to the store as
inferior in taste the very best Java. This,
however, is no excuse for deceit.
Adulteration has now become a fine
art, and in those articles on which there
is but a small margin of profit when
sold legitimately it is carried on with
skill worthy of a better cause. For instance,
a firm, whose manufactory is in
South Brooklyn, is making and selling
| as butter asubstance which has not even
the merit of oleomarge arinto recommend
it. Oleaine (the oil of fat), lard
and good butter are melted in a tank
and thoroughly mixed, when it is put
into new Welsh tubs and sold to shippers
as butter. Such little butter as is
used in this process is really of a fine
grade, but it is only used to give color
and flavor to the substance. Of course,
much money is made by this deception.
Sugar, however, is more largely
adulteiated than any other article, as is
well kno n. Ultentimes tne legitimate
profit on this article is very small, and
then the disreputable dealers resort to
" ways that are dark" to increase their
returns. For instance, grape sugar
(made together with glucose from corn)
is used as an adulterator. It .is ground
very fine and then mixed with refined
sugar. The manufacturers of this substance
do not refine their own sugar,
but purcha5e it lrom the large refiners.
The latter latterly refused to sell to
these dealers because the sale of the unadulterated
article interfered with their
own business. The mixture costs about
three and a quarter cents a pound,
while the cheapest sugar cannot be purchased
for less than seven cents, and
there is consequently a large profit. It
is understood, however, that the manufacturers
of this mixture have now no
difficulty in purchasing refined sugar,
and are prosecuting their business with
success. It is difficult to detect the
adulteration, but grape sugar has no
grain and will leave a sediment in the
cup.
New Orleans molasses ie aido imitated
by mixing glucose, worth about fortytwo
cents a gallon, and " black strap,"
at twenty cents a gallon, and other substances,
creating a syrup of a rich amber
color, which i3 much sought after by
many buyers, who imagine they are
purchasing the best. Those who wish
the real genuine syrup should buy that
having a very dark color. The adulteration
is put up in second-hanr. New
Orleans molasses hogsheads, the dealers
paying thirty-five cents apiece more for
these than for new barrels of a different
make.
Again there is what is known as a
Scotch process of edulterating sugar.
Many persons are complaining nowadays
that they can no longer sweeten
their coffee or tea Where they Jormerly
pnt in only one toaspoonful they
are obliged now to increase the quantity
threefold. The reason can soon be explained.
The makers take good imported
ailrrar and rnhnil if. Thfi avnin ,
thus made the? mix with yellow sugar,
making the brown, damp, soggy sugar
so large y sold at the corner groceries.
The difference in price between it and
the best white sugar is only about two
cents a pound, but the latter contains 100
percent, more sweetness; so that the
latter is really the cheaper article. In
making 1.600 barrels of this su?ar about
fifty barrels of syrup are upo<*?
Lard is b loo -Juitwated, espemally so,
it io arttd, for the Cuban market. The
stuff sent there i3 said to be made up of
iard, tallow, and what is known as "gut
lard," besides other things which need
not be mentioned. Why this stuff should
be so largely exported to Cuba, while
only the best refined lard is sent to South
America, is a mystery, bu t so it is. The
continent of Europe also imports a fair ,
quality of lard. Our home consumption ,
consists mainly of the natural lard,
unrefined.
And so through a long list of articles J
do adulterations extend. That the
Chinese color tea for the American '
market, though they do not drink it
themselve?, is well known. The holds' '
of ooftre vessels are swept and the leav- i
ings are preserved, cleaned slightly, and I
then sold as a sort of combination coffee;
but any one knowing of what the combination
sometimes consists would be (
slow in purchasing any more.?Jsew ?
York Commercial Bulletin. <
J
What Some JVords Mean in Law. (]
" Eggs " are not " meat" nor " poul j \
try'' within a statute prohibiting the
sale of such articles when unsound.
Boring through a floor with an auger {
constitutes a burglary, says the Alabama
supreme court, in Walker against State.
This was where the prisoner bored a
hole through the upper floor of a corn
crib, stopped it up with a cob, and afterward,
on a separate occasion, drew the ,
shelled corn through the hole into a '
sack underneath the crib. "Brass ]
knucks" is used in the statute as the i
name of a weapon, without reference to ,
the metal of which it is made. There- j
fore a conviction of unlawfully carrying IJ
" brass knucks " will not be set aside
because it was proved that the weapon i
was lead or pewter. "Terms cash" is
not equivalent to "received payment." i
'Terms cash" on an unreceipted bill of
goods, sent by a wholesale to a retail
dealer, cannot be held as a matter of
law to imply that the goods were paid
for before they were shipped.
A farm overseer is not a "laborer" <
within the lien law. Notes, bills, etc., |
representing money loaned on interest j
n pnmnratinn. are " nronertv " liable i
to taxation. A railroad depot is a ,
"warehouse" within the statute of ,
burglary. j
A Sundaj-school is not "divine wor- i
ship;1' but a building for the sessions of ;
a Sunday-3ehool and religious lectures j
is for a "religious purpose," although 1
occasionally used for fairs and other i
benevolent purposes. The court said j
fin a.Pennsylvania case). "The Sun- (
day school rooms and the lecture room i
of a modern church are as essentially ,
used for religious purposes as the body .
of the church buiidinsr itself. The Sabbath-schools
are an important auxiliary
of every Christian church, and indispensible
to its life and growth. That
the services in such schools are in the
main ot a religious character is too well1
known to be seriously disputed. So of
the lecture room. It is used for the
mid-week evening lectures and other
services, when the attendance is not
largo. The expense of lighting and
healing the main church building is
thus avoided. But the services upon
such occasions are as truly religious in
in their character as the sermon upon
the Sabbath."
A supervising arehi ect is a person
performing " labor," although not a
"laborer," within the meaning of the
mechanics' lien law. A widow keeping
a boarding-house, with a female friend
residing with her, and female servants,
besides the hoarders, is the "head of a
family." But a single man who keeps
house and has no persons living with
him than servants and employees, is :
not the "head of a family" or a "house-1
keeper." And an unmarried man, who ;
does not keep house, but supports his
mother and unmarried sister, who
board with his married sister in another
town, is not the " head of a familj."?
Albany Law Journal.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashionable Fan.
The variety in furs is very great this
season, and there are many changes and
novelties to record. beaisKin remains
the favorite far for sacks and cloaks,
and squirrel-skins for lining, but aside
from these there is nothing absolutely
decreed by fashion, and it depends
entirely upon individual taste and style
whether the biack fox, beaver, chin*
chilla, spotted leopar i, or tiger-cat shall
be chosen for the fur set or for the trimmings
of dresses or cloaks. Experience
proves, however, that the beautiful chinchilla
in its light gray shades is more
becoming to blondes tlian brunettes,
while sealskin softens all complexions;
thattbe rich black fox fur cannot be
well worn by very small ladies, or by
those with a short neck, as its long thick
fleece is too heavy, and gives a full highshouldered
effect, but that it is the stylish
choice for tall and stately figures; also
that the tiger and leopard skins look
best with brown costumes, and are
especially suitable for very young ladies.
Many of these lanciful furs are colored
Ktt ov? ar\A it ia tho foaVnrktt r\f thfl fimp
to prefer these to those of natural hues. |
This coloring is so skillfully done that
the furs do not crock, or at most ruh off (
but slightly, and these stylish colored
furs are bought by people of wealtli who
can gratify every wish. Indeed, so
popular are they that they replace tne
most valuable sables, which are now left
in the furriers' care for safe-keeping all
winter as wall as in the summer. Nevertheless
fine sables still hold their own in
price, costing as much money as before
they were laid aside for fancy furs. In
regard to the care of furs, dealers say
they must be kept in a cool dry place,
and must not be dried by artificial heat
after having been exposed to Tain or
snow. This is especially true of seal
skin, which has its fine pile flattened,
marked and matted*when dried by a fire
or by furnace heat; it should, instead,
t i - it 1 1 J J
t>e exposed to tue air OI a com ruum, wiu
should he well spread out when drying.
The seal fur is less liable to be eaten by
moths than manv other furs, and has
been spared by them when sables in the
same camphor chest were ruined
Camphor is most generally commended
as a preservative against moths, and to
this maDy ladies prefer to add pepper,
finally wrapping the garment hermetically
in pa^er or in linen. The gum
camphor should be wrapped in tissue
paper, and stuck about in various places
in tbe box, and not allowed to come in
contact with the sealskin, as there is
danger of fading it. Perhaps the m^st
important thing of all is that the fur
soould not be worn too late in the spring,
and that it should be well beaten by
rods, and thus thoroughly cleansed,
before it is put away for the summer.?
Harper's Bazar.
Fashion Rote*.
Shell trimmings ate much used to
head flounces.
Leaf-shaped nieces are used to trim '
the border of bj-aques.
P .D31 is not effective in black, and
velvet is prefer ad to it. <
Satin bows : re worn at the throat 1
with plush cos! ime?.
Both tfowns and bonnets are very
eavy this year.
The materials strewn with small dots :
ar i "ailed pointillis.
The new chenille cords used for drap- .
ing are as thick as ropes. * ,
Olive green is the fashionable color in
reception costumes.
Tie hoods worn with the rich plush |
morning costumes are of lace. i
Jackets of cloth and velvet are worn
in the street this winter. <
It is in the stuff and not in the cut of ?
the gown that its novelty must lie this s
vfjir. J
One long looped bosv at the back is
preferred to any other fastening for y
bonnet strings. \
Cuffs turned over, like those worn by c
children, have been adopted by young i
Indies.
Little birds are often perched on the .
knots of flowers that milliners send e
home with gowns. s
Basques of iheap brocade are made up ^
to wear with woolen gowns left over
from last year. p
Bright linings are used in all plaitings *
that are in the least likely to fly upward r
and show .their under side. (
New York dressmakers use the stosk
inet stuffs for making street jackets, t
with satin piping, and without any of t
the Jersey effect. (
Girls' pilgrim suits are often made c
with a little cape, which is laid loosely
wound the shoulders and fastened in I
front by two tassels. h
Sarah Bernhardt')* Costume*. 2
In the play of" Adrienne Lecouvreur,"
Sarah Bernhardi makes no less than five ti
changes of costime, which has caused s
lier version of it to be called " The Play y
in Five Dresses." The first one which p
jbe wore at Booth's theater, New York,
was a grande jupe in rose color satin
iver a chenille gauze embroidered with
pld. Another was |a grand Turque in _
white satin embroidered in variegated
colors, very ancient. Then there was a.
jrand Mauteau of white moire with gold
aouiuets. The chemisette of Turkish *
*auzewas impoited from Constantinople ?
expressly for her, and was gathered in &
it the waist with a rich girdle of wnite
Dearls, turquoises, and other precious
itones, presented to her by the Prince of tl
Wales. In the same act she also wears S
i jeweled cross studded with diamonds, v
\nother of her costumes was a rich robe t"
)f white satin, with bouquets of roses f<
md other ornaments, in the style of the
fxmis XIV. period. A grand train of p
;ream-colored satin over a tablier of a
alue satin was the leading feature of d
mother costume. a
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The Indians.
The number of Indians in the United
states, exclusive of Alaska, is reported [
;o be 255,938 all of whom, except about t
18,000, are more or less under direct con 1
;rol of agents of the fiovernment. The 3
civilized Indians now in the Indian Ter ^
ritory numoer w,ooi?, ana me unciyn w
ized, 17,750. There are, in round num
bers, 25,000 Indians in Dakota, 23,000 in s
New Mexico,21,000 in Montana, 17,000 f
in Arizona, and 14,000 in Washington c
Territory. It appears that there are r
upward of 5,000 Indians in New York f
State, and more than 10,000in the State 1
of Michigan. The following table shows
Ihe substantial results of Indian labor I
during the year: 4
BY INDIANS, EXCLUSIVE OF FIVE CIVIL- t
IZED TRIHES. t
Number of acres broken 27,283 ]
Number oi acres cultivated 170,841 i
Number of busLels of wheat
raised 415,777
Number of bushels of corn i
raised 666.430 ?
Number ot bushels of oats and g
barley 222,43-1 i
Number of bushels of vegetables s
raised 370,145 f
Number of tons of hay cut 56 527 t
Number of cattle owned 78,812
Number of sheep owned 864,i37 t
BY THE FIVE CIVILIZED TItlBES. ,
Number of acres cultivated 314,398 I
Number of bushels of wheat f
raised 336,424 I
Number of bushels of corn
raised 2 346.042 f
Number of bushels of oats and '
barley 124.568
Number of bushels ol vegetables s
raised 595.000 L
Number of bales oi cotton r
raised 16 8.10 i
Number of tons of hay cut 14'U'OO ?
Number of cattle owned 1.97,<>4<> ?
Number of swine owned 4ihj282 t:
:i
The youth who permits his b weetheart ii
to rule him i? a mis?jruid?<i young man, g
"mjftkt I I I IT - *!
Sleep. x 1 .4.
When the evening bUadows creep ' .
Stealthily, ? "
Hiding every hill and dale, * , >.J
Hiding all tainga with their veil,
When the shining day doth die.
Sweet is sleep. ,
When the evening shadows creep
Stealthily, , ' ' I'-i
yY,
To the baby in her nest, *
Longing for her quiet rest,
Hushed by loving lullaby, ? *
Sweet is sleep.
When the evening shadows creep ; ?
Stealthily,
To the weary be trt and brain
Bringing tranquil peace again;
All onr cares and sorrows fly? .
Sweet is sleep. , ."t
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RUMOROCS. v * >
The place of wos?The stable..
" I'm down on you," said the incipient,; *"
mustache to the dp.
Sundries?Almost everything that.is,
exposed to its rays. ' ^ r
One rea on Chicago is not wealthy
because the country around it is alwass- ' J\
III. -'v. t
T is not the only letter of the alphabet:
crosscd. Great seas are often crossed, .
too.
This is an apple year; but thisnot
prevent a great many pairs at the : ~
altar.
Lovers often differ, although it seemfc '
write that they should correspond.Statesman.
.
To check is to stop, except in case of '
a traveler's baggage, which ifl^bheckcj
to make it go:
Sage advice is applicable' when yon
think of " stuffing " somebody.- Metf*
den Recorder. ' v
The fellow who picked up the hat 4'
ponny originated the remark. "All th# *
glitters is not cold." - ' ;
There will not bo much kicking down*, .>
stairs in that household. A Nashville
bride and groom have one leg apiece.
Ic was the cat. In a quarrel at Ithaca,. *
a young man was knocked senseless-by .
i cat in the hands of his opponent. v . ' '
"The Parlor Cattle Car Compato*
has brcn incorporated in Cincinnati, and -f
" Boud?>ir hog cars" are expected n?xt.
Although a woman may ride alone'
in a wagon she can never be lonely,
because she always has felloes on each
side of her.
"That fellow is just like a tele3Cone,T 0
said a dashing New York girl. "You
can draw him out, see through him, and
shut him up again."
Newly-married couples are so thick In. * *
Washington hotels that the other gutsto :
require no sugar in their coffee or syrup / t;
on their griddle cakes.
A New Yorker is named Stealing, an!
he hates the name; but he took the carse^ oft
:t for his daughter by making her* 7
Christian name " Worth."
" A Blighted Life*' is the title of the
latest English society novel, but the
name of the lady who failed to get the '
sealskin sack is not given. .; . 1
It's wonderful how many thingi a'
boy can hit with a coal scuttle on his :~way
dcwa cellar wnen he has hid his
feelings ruffled.
Many a young lady is perfect in pressing
autumn leaves, who leaves all tb^
on ssing of her clothing for her ajted
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moiuer mj peuuiui.? irutc/wv wwwf.
A man was around yesterday who ?- '
:ould grind scissors in lour languages. '
Some of his remarks were shear nonipnse,
and some very cutting.?Mcpregor
Veto*.
Consoling: Poor author?" IJeavens
ivhat a pain there is in my head!" His
vife?" Complaining of that! You
>ught to be thankful there is anything
n it."
"Foiled by a Woman "was the title
?f the article, but the printer, who
tvidently didn't go much on the poetical,
et it up " Boiled by a Woman!"? v
Ileriden Recorder.
A Philadelphia man has perfected a
>lan for bringing coal out of the cellar
without exerting any of his muscle. He
oakes his wife cart it up.?Philadelphia.
Vironicle- Herald.
A Chicago srrocer sells soap, every
? At- -1- -i ?u:_u
enui CftKU UI WiilUU uuutams iu 1 to wuer
a cold dollar, and the citizens of Chicago
are getting to look tolerably
lean.?Boi-ton Po&t.
During one month last summer the *
'hiladelphia mint coined $600,000, and
iow they all got past us without our
eeing one of them is what astonishes us.
Turlington Rawkeyc:
"How shall I have my bonnets
rimmed," asked Maria, "so that it
ball agree with my complexionP" "H
ou want it to match yoar face, have it
lain," replied the hatelui Hattie.
The statisticians wonder how it hapens
that lightning strikes twice as
lany men as women. We suppose the
eason is there are more conductors
mong the men.?New York Graphic.
Time does not stop because a man's
ratch runs down No more does a
ewspaper because one man loses his
ead and orders the paper discontinued
o his address.?Fond du Lac Reporter.
Now is the time to organize a " Shut
tie D >or Club," says the Albany Argus.
uch an institution will afford ttioso
rho are charitably inclined an opporunity
to promote a much needed r?- .t.
arm.
When a man asks a favor at a r.ewsaper
office and slates that he^ has been
. suosurioer ior a uuwuci ui jtm a, a
lenial bccomes an impossibility. The
rgument is clinched, and he can have
he entire establishment for the asking.
-Oil City Derrick.
A girl in Dublin struck her croquet
lartner on the head with the maliet;
>rain fever set in, and the young man
learly died. The girl was kept under
Lrre9t until his recovery, and when he
[ot well she married hin), and now he's
orry he didn't die.
"Did you break that window, boyP"
laid the grocer, catching hold of the
Ippinc iirnhin. "Yes. sir." " What^.
I'ye mean by running off in this man-*
ierP"' "Please, sir, I was running
lome to get the money. I was 'fraid if
[ didn't run quick I might forget."
A heavy-weight magazine writer asks
icr readers the following conundrum:
Why is there so much wickedness in
his beautiful wor.d of ours?" We
eally don't know, unless it is because
washwomen always send men's stocKngs
home wrong side out.?Middlctown
Transcript.
"Why is a woman more afraid of a.
nousc than a man?" inquired young
smartboy of his best girl. " Ob, I aslure
you," was ber reply, "a mouse is
uuch more dangerous than a man,'* and
the leaned so heavily on his arm that he
or a moment really irnieined be a as a
nan.?Acw Ilavci flo/itler"
What do you eat those horrid mu*L ooms
for, Matilda?" asked the dai ty ,\T"
Augustus. " I don't see how you can .*
K'ar them. They're nothing but a nasty
uncus, anyway." "That's just it,' re)lied
the fair Matilda, balancing a bit
xf t'je libeled food on the end of J er
ork; "l eat them for fun, Gus."?J3o t.n
Transcr-yt.
People who go into business by the
ide of men wb&have a large business
>uilt up by cdRtant advertising, and
lever advertise a dollar, but depend
i. on the drippings from the neighboring
auctuary, are like boys who go out to
i pigeon shoot and try to get enough
> rds for a mess from tho*e who aet
.way from the regularsport?rn<:n Such
* life, and the piv-h>interi???U>n yo Run,
ry .'?MHurnuktc Nun
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