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\ ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER!* OCTO/S&K /G, = BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WAEDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAItCII 1, 100S:- NO. 39. VOLUME XXYI. 1 ' I I Mir i i mil TIT VTHw An Old Wire's Valentino. The old wife stool at her garden gate The eve of St. Valentine's day: She watched for the pi s', that like a I'.itc Just stopped and tlu ii galloped away; Just stopped, and then, in tlie waning light, Passed over the hill and out of sight. Her grandchi'd tugged at her shawl and gown And her dimghti-r called, sweet and clear, "Mother, omo ii\ f->r the cakes are brown, | And the k.ys an l father are here." "Ah, yes,'' s?ls-"? sail, "and the night is cold; I I quite forp<-r that I'm growing old." At break fa-t liv at the father's place A letter a* white a* the snow; He looktvl at it with a curious face, * An<l said, "Now l want to know !" _ The l>ovs all smiled: the mother grew O'er face ami throat a crimson hue. f He opened the dainty letter then, ^ And lo ! iu its satiny fold Was {tainted rose, and forget-me-not, ^ And lilies with hearts of gold; | And, under the whole, just one sweet line? . "Forever, forever, thy Valentine." ^ He touched :he note with a tender eare, R And he went to his sweet wife's side; He stroke"I with his hand bcr snow-white hah ? And he kissed her with loving pride, Saving, with smiles and mistv tears, s " Mv Valentine through fiftv years." r " Oh, hovs," he said, with a youthful pnde, b "After fifty years of life, O _ If you find in your home, and by your side, t< A ?.,,1 o fojttifnl wiffl 0 Count your life lucky, as I count mine, And loyally kiss your Valentine." ?Mary A. Itarr. A Short-Lived Triumph, b e Tbe grand opera-house at Newtown J' was crowded, from the undesirable situatirns immediately behind the orches- f] tral stand up to the still less desirable Otiar ers, to be scoured for a trifling turn, . in the lofty elevation of the fifth gallery; . that gallery bnilt and reserved in ante ?. bellnm da}s tor the slaves who attended i 0 their masU-rs hither, but now only w peoj lfd, when, in the attiaction of pepxilar favorite or rising star it was pco- .r pled at all, by the slaves of that harsh- J, est, mort severe of all masters?impecuniosity. The paiquette and dress circle held, , as usual, representatives of tho wealthy, 11 more cultivated and richly dressed in J? habitants of the city, most of whom 1 had come here, as they went elsewhere, merely to wile away an idle bour, and sr were as wearilv indifferent to the throb- i Wl bing heart-pulses of" the exquisite .. melodies a1? they were to all else in ' life, exccpt their own gratification. a Bnt in the less aristocratic, lowerpriced positions, nn oddly contrasting clfss to thef-e spoiled children, nauseateel with their own good fortune, had , to-night found its way. Men to whom "r the price of this evening's indulgence !!1.' ' meant a day of hard, unin- ?! terrupted labor; women to whom these !l, short two hoins of respite from care and worry in novel suiroundings and ar under the exciting influence of the mu - 0 , ni sical strains was arevejanon, anepisoue to be remembered through all the JP coming jears, and alluded to as, "That : evening when I went to tlie opera- ' honse;" and Lalf-grown youths and ar maidens to whom the whole seemed like aD a poeiieal driara of fairy-land, from which they must soon awaken to the 81 dull prose of their daily lives, with only ,, a fierce resolution beating itself into V. heart end brain to get back into this 1 blissful life to do something, to be jVJ somebody! These members of the middle class, ?n these met, women and children, who in intellect and nature were on par with their richer, highly-favored fellowmortals in the upper seats at this wondrous banquet of sound, but who had r been crushed and bent down to a lower level by the iron heel of poverty, bnd 8? drunk in ihe musical strains from the 711 first low notes of the orchestral felec-1 finn down llironch the intervening I numbers on the delicately scented programme, with an unquenchable, everincreasing thirst, until now, as the third number from the close wa3 at hand, their excitement reached its culmi nation, and forgetting all their trou- j1? ble and pa;n they glanced firs-t at each oiber with smiling lips and flushed, -p icdiant fac.p, ond then back to the Btage with eager, expectant eyes to watch for the tirst appearing of the eveniug'? debutante?the young violinist. SP ^ And then she came ?a radiant vision, in sheeny kilt and flattering, cloudy j lace - this girl who had dwelt among j p these pocr, hard working people?now t P m aJ rtliin /v nn f Vi laco in. I ua> wet nmu m*\.n i/ivauuwco iuterest, since the early days of her child- 83 hood, whose su. ny face and cheery , laughter hsd been to them all, in their distress, as the snn's own cloud-dispersing beams; whose wonderful music had fo often poured forth for them, now 811 a merry roundelay to heighten the fe mirth of wedding or festival; now a sofr, ;, * mournful strain to carry balm to griev- ' 1 ing snul ; or. again, a crooning lul- | labv to still the sobbings of boiuo fret- fa ful child. j "Oar musician/' they had called her, 1 ? 1 with evident pride in the possession, j since the timo when the small hands j bad iirst drawn toe slumbering harmony . from her father's priceless instrument, ., and had watched the hu Iding genius ; , as it put forth leaf after leaf, form- 1 ing the gracious flower that now could ; could give delight to all who gazed f,a upon it. i All this had been the work of time, 1 ? however. More thaD fifteen years had I, elapsed fcince the day when the father, | ? himself a gifted German artist, mad- j , dened by jealousy and the unfaithful- I . ness and harsh criticisms of erstwhile ,in friends, I ltter to death against a rival ! u violinist whose fame soon threatened to 1 f eclipse his our, and crushed by the j j? loss of his young wife, had seized the I two treasures still left to him?his t^o- ^ year-old child and his violin?and with : . them had fled awav from all old aspocia- 1 tions and buried himself in one of the j obscu-e sheets of an American city. L| Here he had eked out a scanty pit- ! , tance by teaching his mother tongue to ! . ^ those who would learn, and here he j. trained his daughter his one music j pupil, for he steadily and obstinately [ refused to impart aught of his skill to others from the time the baby fingers could clasp the bow ; and, in aiding her '' ]-?n /I 'nrnrA+f nn onm/iTrV?nf / ?f : " vgiconj ucva jui oumu w uat ux his own trial. Bnt the wound still rankled. j n "Leibcher," he would say sometimes I fij to Marguerite, ai she carefully laid j j( away his old violin, after hours of i 0] practice, to busy herself about house- j ^ hoid matters ?"Leibchen, thou goest jj bravely. Only see, I will tell thee a ^ secret. Some day, when thou playest to the great peoplo and the critics," | ? and the old eves would flash v*>ith scorn and the old voice tremble with bitter- j ^ ness, " play not these inspirations of | _ the old masters. Make thy violin to I ^ speak, whistle like a bird, bark as the i _ dog, or scream as a bad child. That is I what these critics will like, that will ' ^ bring the fame.! Tricks, not mnsic, ! 0 seeat thou ? Only, not on my Cremona," ; ? hugging the old instrument in his j t wasted arms: "that would be a Drofa-! i nation !" his voice deep and inpreesive i .. as a roll of thunder on the last word. j n Margnerite would assent to all ho . ^ said, her mind entirely blank as to the | 0 brilliant career he seemed confidently ! a to arrange for her,* her thoughts wan- | j( aering away to ttie qnief, iiappv homo- j j life the levin# words of a young mechanic had pictured to her as their \ blessed future At last a change came into the girl'y | e uneventful life I it A great pianist in his rambles about, i a the city chanced to hear the girl-artist i as she practiced, and, presto ! the road j i * to the stagfe which had hitherto seemed j / barred against her progress now opened 1 clear of all obstacles, allufing, enchant- i j ing. s blattered, coaxed, petted by the per- ! i sons whose very name had hitherto filled 1 her with awe, urged on by poverty and 1 by the thought that f-he might win < back the fame that had once cast a halo around h?r father, it wa-i nothing to bo wondered afc that her innate vanity and ' slumbering ambition awoke to life ? that she forgot her lover and his happy l-lanuing, that she consented to in1 taken under her discoverer's patronage. " I must," she urged, in reply to all ronng Earlston's arguments. " Don't rou understand, Fred? Vutercheu is ?n old man, he needs rest and comfort?. rr? i:? ^;*i, tit* WtllUUt* ll>c nnu uiu i . vhat else cau I do to care for him, tn seep myself when he is gone ?" ami . he ooked up into the frowning young ace above her, her blue eyes filled with ears. " Rely on me, Marguerite. Trust to ne," the man answered, firmly. " Do ou think that I would ever let you ufier, dear? Come tome now, you and our father." The girl moved away from him, her ace almost sullen at this overthrowing >f her own good reascn, with which he sought to blind her own conscience nd tLe eyes of others, for wishing to eave her old monotonous life. She ralked slowly over to the window and ooked out to where the lovely old elms rere being despoiled of their fresh piing foliage by an innumerable host >t small black worms with which "all ;reen things ".were that year infested; ;lanced from them in their writhing, rearving hideousness, up to where a warm of gayly-colored moths, newly eleased from the groveling life and rief prison, were flitting and flntter - ?1 I Lit; 1U lilt? DU1JBIJ111C7, K1CU IUIUCU uuift I 0 the humble room with its one waiting ccnpant ngain. "Fritz." she said, goiner to him and lying a hand on each of his f-houlders 11 will tell you the truth. I am tired, esperately tired, of this ftupid life, -ill die if I remain in this awful stagnaion longer," passionately. " I have een crawling and held in check long nough," with a backward glance out at lie marauders. " Now I, too, want to y my wings, to flutter about in the imshine for a time. It is cruel, cruel > keep me here!" "Liebchen," he answered, calling er by her old pet name, though a kind f despair shone from his eyes?" Liebien. I cannot keep you against your ill; I cannot even ask you to stay 3w." and he took the slender hands om bis shoulders and held them close 1 his own strong palms for a moment, and so good-bye to you?and hapiness." "But I will come back," she urged, urriedly, frightened now at her own ork. " I will come back to you some ?? mo. " les," ne answerea, wun a oiucr Qile, " as the moth returns to its own ays." And then he left her, feeling that the ^ht had gone from his life, whilo she, ter one day of fierce anguish; had ;ain been soothed and stimulated by >r new friends to forgetfulness of all se but the thought of her new career. All during the spring and summer ie practiced more earnestly, more asSuously than ever before; strong res, .ution lending her physical strength boundless ambition guiding her fingers rough the intricacies of scale and peggio. In the early fall came the eventful ght. 'The spacious opera-house, with } rows upon rows of upturned faces? e faces of those upon whose smile or jwn hung the success or failure of her tist-life: the idle, lack-luster faces of insement-seekers; and above and bend the dear, familiar faces of her rlhood days. As she stood looking down upon them I, for one moment she hesitated, a til, aching fear paralyzing every nerve d muscle ; then the opening notes of e accompaniment fell upon her ear, d clasping the precious old Cremona her fair arms, she stood awaiting the jnal for her playing to begin, lost to i save the love of her art. And how she played ! Surpassing her patron's wildest hope! irrying her whole audience as one al spellbound into the regions of diiest sound ! All her father's old skill; ightened and refined by her own ; tmanly intuition and talented grace. One, and only one of all the vast as- i ' jibly lelt his he^rt sink, as he saw : e flattering attention and heard the ' unders of applause that broko fortq ain and apain as soon as the last note ! d died away, and the girl turned to | ive the stage. Standing far back in e shadow of a huge column, young irlston watched tho slender form as it ; ssed off between tho wings ; watched | e flush of pleased excitement, the i arkle and flash of the blue eyes as j e returned in obedience to the en- i usiastic recall ; watched the triumlant mien of the old Vaterehea as he j eped from the curtains of tho mana-1 :r's box, and knew that his last hope ofj ving her from this life was dead. A fixed purpose now shone from his ;ep pr y eyes. Working his way rough interminable corridors, through j asses of machinery and avennes of un- i ?htly scenery, he at length found him- j If at her dressing-room door, and! urd her well-known voice bidding I m enter. Marguerite sprang to her feet as she w him, her eyes still feverish bright, j ir mouth still smiling, the violin still isped in one arm, while the other1 Id a huge mass of the loveliest flow-! s? a perfect incarnation of triumph. Earlston sprang toward her with a y of delight, but with a little laugh she trust forth the violin, and so held him r. ' Yon will spoil my flowers," she j id, with a playful pout. "See ! arn't ey lovely ?" " Yes," he answered, starting back, j I would spoil your flowers, and so 1 ive come to say a real farewell.*' " Why? You are not goiug away?" ie asked, a troubled expression comg into her face. "Going West," he answered,abruptly, j Perhaps I, too, may tome day break j rth from my chrysalis ; at all events, j will find something more to do? j imething beyond this every-day plodncr frnnfl-bve !" and without waiting i **0' ~ W I r an answer be was gone. In the corridors he fonud old Vater- j jen, his face " one vast substantial j nile," his broken English pouring rth in wild attempts at oratory, ehak;g hands with every one?on the very ipmost pinnacle of happiness. " What! you go," exclaimed the old jntleman, seizing Earlston's unwilling m. " Nein, nein, that makes not,' i i the young man attempted to offer an tcuse. " We must hafa little of good mes,a?sliolly celebration, nichtwhar." But Fred slipped away at last, and ishing forth into the night soon lost ght of tho brilliant lights, heard no >nger the elattcr and laughter; saw : nly the awful blank in his future; j eard only the voices that called to him om the awakeniDg powers of the j 7est. All that winter the fame of this Mar-1 uerite, this German daisy, was sounded 11 over the length and breadth of her dopted conntry. All that winter the oung girl lived the restless, uneasy, issatisfying life of a public performer -a popular favorite. All that winter raterchen felt himself growing daily eaker and weaker, the strong current f excitement preying upon his old, ,'orn frame, uutil with the coming of ho June roses he grew tired unto leath and lay down for a long rest. Then Marguerite realized the loneliess of her position, tho isolation of ier new sphere, as never before. Cut ff from all old pssociations, placed in n unreal atmosphere, surrounded by ealousy, rivalry and flattery, she longed or "Ti.r. tnurOi nf a vanished hand. For the sound of a voice that wan still!" During tbo Bummer she wandered ibotit from oue secluded watering-place o another, finding everywhere those vho were eager to claim an acquainttnce with the successful violiniste, but lone who cared to befriend tho lonely >irl. The opening of the season found her igain in the litfnl maelstrom of professional life, the novelty worn away, all imbition, save to requi- the ones who bad drawn her out of obscurity, to pay the debts that necessity had incurred, 3ead or dying in her. Then came the sorrowful ending. One December night, after au unusually brilliant ovation, as site stepped out into the icy street, holding her violin in her firms as she always would, s trusting no one else with its care, in the short space intervening between hall anil waiting carriage, her foot slipped and she fell heavily to the hart! ^ pafc-euient. Even in tho act of falling, j | however, the old instinct enabled her j to hold her beloved instrument out, c-f j harm's way, but the act cost her dear ; | for her in-lit arm received the full I force, of the shock, and was mangled I and crushed into an almost shapeless . i mass. i Who can tell of tho dreadful struggle that followed?the fierce rebellion ^ against the skilled surgeon's hard de- J cree ? " Oh! I cannot, I must, not lose it, , doctor." the poor child screamed in her 1 terrible agony. "You will not be so *; cruel. There must be some way to save it. There must be." " My clear," answered the kind old man, touched by her hopefulness when all was hopeless, ' I wish?I only wish 11 for your sake tbat there was." 5 " Then let me die," she urged, passionately, burying her face in the pillows. But death when so entreated seldom comes, and so a few weeks later JIar- f? guerite sat in an easy reclining-chnir * looking out on the passers-by, her fair ? face pale and worn, her empty Rleeve concealed under soft draperies by her 5 loving maid, her bonnv blue eyes filled with despair. E1 Suddenly the door opened. There ? was a rush of fresh, invigoiating air, a thrill as if some strong presence had r<; entered. Ul Tbe girl turned her hen! slowly, m languidly, unintcrestodly, and saw her P! lover, unchanged save for the more f resolute, manly bearing. P1 " Fritz!" she called, half doubtingly, "j and then sprang toward him. P " My darling," he answered, as he clasped her close. " But how did you know?" she asked, a moment later?" how did you know where to come to me ?" " Tho goings and comings, the haps sc and mishaps, of noted persons, like P3 yourself, ara all choice it-ms for the ie press," he answered. "Away from all news and habitations where 1 have been, ( those ubiquitous sheets do not find ^ their way frequently, but when I saw? a I came." P1 TVfovfrnnrifq lr-nn inf n liia I g( face for an instant, then softly moved * a way from hi m and said, with her old M despair creeping slowly into face and ? voice: ' " I sent yoa away when I was strong 8F and well. You come back to find me P1 maimed and helpless. 1 cannot accept 1 the noblo sacrifice?ifc shames me so. su I am unworthy of you J" "You are still Licbchan, my darling!' oc he answered, drawiug her back into his 01 strong, loving arms. W( The Chinese at Home. TJ E. B. Drew, commissioner of Chinese an imperial maritime customs, in a recent wi lecture in New York, on tho "Chinese of at Home" said: The chief characteristic wt ot the Chinese as a nation, is industry, nc Their working day begins at dawn and t< lasts till sunset. Schools open at sun- si$ rise and do not close till r. m , there in being but one shcrt recess during the mi day. The emperor and his court rise we soon after midnight, and court audi- ad ences are given between 5 and 8 o'clock go in the mornine. This same industry is ini exhibited by all classes. After sunset in< very few people are in the streets, tho as Chinese, like domestic fowls, retiring soi ?arly to rest. There is no day corro- stc sponding to Sunday, and only a few holi- his d^ys during the year. Busily as they in toil, these people are never in a hurry, vie are never nervous, and are not given to in worrying, but are steady, cheerful and up sober. They rarely quarrel, and even inj if they do, seldom come to blows, cos there will be a little queue pulling, coi some calling of hard names, and the nr bystanders will quietly separate the of* combatants It is not physical timidity, ho but a sensitive ccnsciousuess of the dis- str grace of lighting that keeps them from wb engaging in brawls. That they are not Vii cowards is well proven by the fact that ro] they submit without flinching to the Ja< most severe surgical operations withou* a e ever using anaesthetics. They maintain th< that it is very injurious to tho health to tlri be nervous, to worry, or to give way ba< to anger. an As a people the Chinese do not desire an a voice iu the government. The com- no mon people are not public-spirited and lej are not only, through ignorance, indif- bu ferent to beneficial reforms, but they is oppose them strongly if they are apt to in increasb tho taxes. Tho government < f su China is not nearly so aristocratic as an foreigners are accustomed to think it is, hi: but when the popular voice is once go arnnsflrl it, is snro to have crt'iit force, on Iii any case where there is a conflict res between the mandarin or governor at cf a district, and the people, if the ev people are patient and commit no acts th of violence, the mandarin either yields uj; or is removed by the government, fei The people luve the profoundest rospect for precedent, and are in fact an constitutionally conservative. Although aij in the main they use the same imple- va ments and materials known to them th for thousands of years, yet their religion wo itself is an importation from India, and th they use foreign watches, needles, kero- 0tl sene, sulphur matches, cotton fabrics, ha etc. They are, as a people excessively th polite, and their ceremonial of social ati intercourse is to foreigners uainfullv W elaborate. It is au error to suppose, 8ic however, that iliey are a cringing race; pi; they asseri their rights vigorously in enough when occasion calls. nil They are not a truth-telling people. | They give false evidence in trials, furnish false statistics; and even ofticiids an present reports that are tissues of false- tei hood. It is impossible to shame them cr by exposing their untmthfnlness. th Thoy are not addicted to thieving, how- 'pi ever. There is much said about the hi* gross immorality ot this people, la hi| China at least, if it exists, it is not Ca seen. There are societies for tho "T suppression of immoral books. The rpi faciei! writings contain not one indecent word and their painting an.I sculpture tei arc perfectly pure. Vulgar language Co is never heard above the lower classes. l? All Chinamen drink some wine, a native hi: beverage made of rice, bat drunkenness Ve is asboiutelv unknown, so that there 0f are none of the evils c t intemperance tb there so c uumon here?wife beating, th brawling sn,d violence of all kinds. co The habit that earses the nation, opium- m smoking, enervates the physical, men- ja tal arid moral natuie but does not lead co to violence. "i 1,1 of V Natural Ant Trap. 0 Mr. J. Harris Stone describes in JVa- of turf, how he found in Norway one of the tli j catchdies busily trapping aunts. Last m June he was staviug at Husorn, in the ti Lferdal Vallev, Norway, whore he ob- h< ! served on the almost precipitous sides tl j of the valley a. number of the red Ger- 01 : man catehlly. The plants were grow- A ! iug luxuriantly some one thousand si i feet above the bed of the river, ami bc I we re showing a gorgeous :\rray of l?los- oi ' soms. On plucking some of the flowers ti he became aware of tho most unpleasant k: | stickness around the steins, in some ai i instances the glutii-om secretion being p ! powerful enaugli to support the o1 j wholo weight of the stem when he B ; inverted and opene.l his hand. On h | examining the plauts he was surprised ii I at finding on quite ninety tiv-> per k | cent., either the (lead bodies of a l;;rge si species of ant or individuals in all p ! stages of dying. Some floweiing stems u I lind only one dead or dying ant upon h each; others had two; other had three; d ! while others had as many as seven or ti i eight Some ants, had as it were, sim- g ! ply laid down m the glutinous matter b and succumbed without further strug- b ! gling. Tho heads of others, firmly im- fi bodded in the treacherous gum, with the d rest of the body stiffened and suspended ii in mid-air, testified to violent and ti prolonged resistance. Some ants again s had the body, arched up, as if to avoid y contact with the stem, and tho legs g were only fatally caught. The gluti? r nous or sticky tracks lay around the d stem directly beneath the holes, and r wero about half an inch or mora in t! depth. I ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. itrausi'ly IntcrcNtiiig C'nreor ol n Yonng American? Becoming: a Kins'* Knvoriip. , A Stuttgart (Wnrtembnrg) corretpondent writes: Almost like a fairy ] ale reads the recent experience of | lichard M. Jackson, late consular clerk f ,nd vice consul in the United States . onsulate at Stuttgart, Germany, wh >se ndden transition frntn the dull routine . f labors in a consul's office, to lie not i-nlv flm nn'vr pnnncnlnv lmf. f.ViA fnvnr. "V I" ' 'J ..... .t.W to aiul intimate companion of the king ( f W.iriemburg, has bceu a nine clays ? ronder, and haa probably caused more ( alk and speculation in the kingdom of c Vurtemburg, and in fact throughout ^ 11 Germany, than any event that i as happened for years. That this 1 svther strange procedure on the pari of r lie king to select for such an important I nd trasty position as that of privy coun- i slor a young American, an almost en- f ire stranger, should have created an e nmense amount of comment, and en- t endered much feeling and jealousy in German society, was but natural, for a lie position was of that high order, as i Durt minister, that it was coveted by t lousands of aspiring Germans?Ger- a lans high in rank, high in social posi- r on, and Germans <?ith the blue blood r I royalty flowing in their veins. Be- g )re proceeding further with my story short biographical sketch of Mr. q lckson will not come amiss at this tint. He is a nativo of Steubenville, 5 hio, and is thirty-five years of age. o [is father, who was a farmer, was a t il'itivn firef r>r f?nnsin Thpliovn n t the famous Stonewall Jackson. Like 1: ,ost farmer's sons young Jackson o issed his early years on (he old home- a ead, tilling the soil during the sum- ti er months, and in tho winter attend- g g the village school, where by close ap- h ication to his studies, he became an ex- c illent scholar, and laid the foundation of fi hat promisf d to be a brilliant and useful S fe in the future. He afterward entered f< io of the Ohio universities, and con- li uued his studies with tuccess for a o ason, but, haviug a great passion for ei usic, and wishing to visit Europe, he h ft college without graduating, and il .me to Stuttgart, in Germany, where y 3 entered the conservatory of music, h hich has made tho Wnrtemburg capi- c ,1 so famous. Here he mnde rapid A ogress as a pianist, and by hard, dili- ti :nt study soon acquired the German t< nguage so to speak it fluently and to i: rite it without hesitation. ^ It was in April last that the king p st, through tbe medium of a corre- k toudence, invited Mr. Jackson to be a S ember of the royal court of Wnrtom- tl lrg. The proposition was a great ti irprise to Mr. Jackson, whose only a innninfonpn wiliiq mniestv was bv f( :casionally meeting him in the streets e: 1 in the parks, on which oc- S sions he would politely raise t( s hat, and his majesty rr Duld as politely return the salute, tf ae proposition, although so tempting id accompanied with the king's earnest " .shes of its acceptance and the promise tl many coartly favors in the future, ti is at first hesitatingly entertained, ii ?r was ifc accepted until after several st ;eks of careful deliberation, and the fi jning, on the part of each, of sundry tl ipoitantand carefully worded docu- oi 3ut?. Several personal interviews Ii sre held in nmkiDg arrangements, in 01 dition to the correspondence that was (a ing on, at each of which the king's tv ;erest in tho young American rapidly te ireased, and, to secure his presence ti member of this court and as a per- y< aal companion, ho was willing to be- w iw on him the highest honors of Ii i realm. Of couri-e it all ended st Mr. Jackson's resigning his $4 se-consulship and his clerkship e^ the consulate, and at once entering on a new carecr. One pleasant morn5 in May last, one of the royal w< ??V?Aa t*r\m lrincr'fl cfnlilAQ wi -JT UVUi VI1V7 UIUQ w ? iclimen and footmen resplendent in yi fal livery, was Been standing in front dt Mr. Jackson's modest boarding- Ti uso. A large crowd gathered in the bj eet and on tho sidewalks to see for bt 10m it was in waiting. Was it for the pi lg himself or some member of the e^ ral family? In a few minutes Mr. te 2kson makes ins appearance and takes tl. leat in the coach, the footman closes ta 3 door with much ceremony, the iver cracks his long whip over the m cks of the handsome blooded horses, or A the young American?who is now fii American no longer, having re- tr unced his nationality and sworn al- as fiance to the king of Wnrtem- m rg and the emperor of Germany? tl borne away to liis new home se the royal palace. An elegant tb ite of live apartments, luxuriously ar d splendidly furnished, are awaiting th m. Footm n, valets and servants, id rgeous in their scarlet liveries, with ar Id and silver lace trimmings, are in li' ldiness to wait upon him and to run 0 every beck and nod. Surely was pi ery fairy tale moro fully realized thai? ar is ? And Mr. Jackson did not enter uj 11..- I ? ?r IUII lllltt IltJW II lU IUI Ik luff Uftjo m tx ML w weeks or a few years, but for life, vr th a handsome annual stipend guar- T. teed?more than sufficient to meet w< i his requirements. There being no 01 cancy in the court of Wurtemburg w e position of "reader to his majesty" hi is created, to meet the emergency, for cc e first time in this court. But two se tier of the crowned heads of Europe cs ve court readurs?Queen Victoria and a e emperor of Germany? and the ere- Ci :ng of this new office in the conrt of urtemburg for Mr. Jackson was conlered an exceptional honor and comiment. He had not been long installed 01 his new position before court recog- h< tion? ,ind favors began to flow in d< on hiui. sc ThekingofHollaud, a life-long friend ci d brother-in-law of the king of Wur- ai mburg, presented him tho "Knights il oss of tho Golden Lion of Nassau"? tj e ord.v of the house of Luxemburg. 10 king of Saxony, who was visiting | la s royal colleague in Stuttgart, was so ! bi glily pleased with tho young Anieri-1 H n that ho bestowed on him tho I lu Cni(?ht's Cross of the Albert's Order." j dt le Emperor Franz Joseph, of Austria, ! pi 10 was staying with the king of Wur- h< mburg for a few days at tbe latter s [ di untry palace at Friedrichshafen, 011j of ike Constance,becamo so interested in ! p: 3 royal friend's protege that ho in- i hi stedliim with the very ancient "Order j sc the lion Crown of Austria," one of | sv 0 highest and most honorable gifts j T at the Austrian monarch can m nfer on a subject. During the j oi onth of August the king made Mr. | hi .ckson his privy counselor, audh< inferred upon him the title of1 fa Geheimer Hofrath," and on the 11th id September?the birthday of Queen ci lga?he gave him tho "Kuight's Cross h the Crown of Wurtemburg." Since tl lis last gift Mr. Jackson has been fc ade a baron. Tho list of orders and w ties already given anil conferred stops Vt sre for the present to what numbers tl ley will increase in the future, time p llv will tell. Seldom, if ever, has an t( merican received such honors and ich marks of royal favor. Mr. Jack- t< ra's duties in his new position arc not o lerous or burdensome. Most of nis li mc he spends in company with the j si ing, and during his (tlie king'b) walks ; h id rides is his almost constant com- o auion. When his majesty makes long f( : short visits to his country palaces at s: abenhausen, Friedrichscbafen, Wil- n elma or Berg, when ho goes on hunt- a ig excursions to various parts of his I ingdom or out of his kingdom he is t ire to bo accompanied by his now a rivy counselor, who has become as v inch attached to his majesty us b is majesty has to him. He t< ines with the royal family, and his s raveling expenses are paid wherever he n oes. Certain horses in the rr.yal h?u- j v les are at his command, and h? has 1 ut to express a wish to havo it graii- 0 ed. At the volhsftst iu Stuttgart, uringtlie month of September last, an j nmense concourse of people gathered 0 witness the sports, and also to get a ight of the emperor of Germany, who v ?as to be present. On entering the rounds of the race course the kiEg ^ ode with the emperor in a carriage rawn by six blafck horses, with outiders in crimson livery. Following 1 be royal carriage was another drawn y four elegant horses, with outriders in the same livery, seated in which was Horr von Jackson, with three oftirers high in rank in tlie Got man array, ? in frill uniform. In addition to the shifts of orders and titles Mr. Jackson lias frequently received from tho king , testimonials of his fri.ndRhip in the ] ihapo of rare and beautiful books, j paintings and diamonds. , How lo Make an Orange Grove Pay. < A man who owns a full-bearing grove )f 1,000 orange trees, coveiing twenty 1 teres of land, has a perfect independ- ' mce for himself, for his wife, and for his ' jhildren who live after him. It Is clearly f vithin the province of any man of ' noderate means and energy to secure J bis great boon. The quality most * leeded for such a venture is patience. \ i man who wants an orange grove must c nake up his mind to wait ten years be- I ore he can realize the promise of his r tnterprise. As to the cost I submit some igures given me by Colonel Murkham. [ Said he: "A man should not start u orange grove and depend on making fc support him while the trees are ma- r urirg. Tne orange region is not worth cent for anything but oranges. A man a nay raise his vegetables, but he can do Y lothing with corn, grain, cotton or * rass." " " What money would you say was re- e ?:_~.i 0 ui i en : " No man ought to start with over ft 00 trees unless he intends to hire some a no to help him. This is all he can atend to, und this .will maker him inde- ? iendont for life when he gets it in full J? tearing. A model investment, and " ne that could not fail to bring wealth ^ nd prosperity, would be this: Let him ? ake SI,000 and buy twenty acres of, " ood orange land at 850 an acre. Then n ;jt him get 500 young trees at fifty n ents each. It would cost him twenty- *( ive cents each to set them out, or say 500 for the trees and planting. Tlren " or 81,000 he could build a pretty good a, louse. This would represent 82,500 c' utlay for his home and grove. To be 11 afe make it ?3,000. Then he should ? ave in cash 86,000 to support his fam- " y for six years. In the fifth and sixth ears he might hope'to get some return " rom his grove, but he should not 0 ount on this as part of his support. ^ .11 the revenue from the grove for the 8 rst five or six years should be demoted " 3 putting out new trees and in fertil- ? sing, and improving his place. With " hat vegetables ho could raise, and j* oultry, etc., he ought to b eep his family very well on the ? 1,000 a year. He might supplement " [lis by working at a profession or * 'ado when able, but he would need ^ 11 his cash. This would make 83,000 >r his investment and 86,000 for his ? spenses, or 80,000 in all. Now, add 1 ,\nn ! -. I ll 1,UUU lur eAl^ciiiucn uuu UIUUD wo )tal 810,000. This is as iittle as any ^ lan ought to start with and feel cer- af tin of getting through." al " But," continued Colonel Markham, n see what be would have when he got "j irough. He would have five hundred ?' rees in bearing and good for 82,000 lcome for the seventh year and a ^ :eady increase until it reached 84,000 af om tho five hundred trees. But rt( iese five hundred trees would only " :cupy about eight acres of his twenty. ? i tho meantime ho should have set ** at, say one hundred new trees a year ^ ,t seventy trees to tbo acre, tho trees P1 penty-six feet apart) until on peven- c: en acres of his twenty he had one ^ lousand trees ranging from seven jars to two in age. This property JjJ ould then bo worth 825,000 at least. * q three more years, or ten jeai s from arting, if, would be worth probably " 10,000. and would increase in value J 'ery year." ^ What would it represent?* f" It would -represent ten years' 1* Drk and an investment of 810,000. " alf of this would be invested the first w >ar, the other 85.000 would be used iring the first six years as needed. (lis expenditure might be decreased j an active man, and the result might ' Vtt o eV?*nrorI T^n f T Q' 3 liCUlClCU UJ U DU1U1TU UUOi X?UV JL it tlie figures at a fair average, and ? ren at this I do not think $10,000 or n years' time conld be put anywhere . ittt it would pav better, or more cer- J1 inly." 8( ColoneJ Markham's cantion against a ^ an without capital undertaking an ango grove is a wise one From the :st day of planting the trees need cul- ?( ration from the day they are planted J11 long as they bear A great many " en with only capitnl enough to buy e ground und put out their trees have ^ tiled in Florida, and wasted two or a1 iree years, only to see their trees dies ?! id themselves return to the homes 11 * - ? 1 5 I? it - fl.1 iey leic. iney were misien oy me ? ;ea that thoy conld scratch the soil P, id it would "laugh a harvest, and live ? ke princes by hunting and fishiDg. * f course, failure has overtaken all such r.ple. A number of poor men who ? e carpenters or mechanics have built d fine properties by living cheaply ^ id sticking out a few orange trees J' henever they had a surplus dollar. '? liero is plenty of work for almost any w orkingman in Florida, and every ^ ango tree ho brings to maturity is 11 orth from ?50 to ?100, and will give n m from 85 to $10 every year. As they 3 >st only lifty cents for three-year-old edlings, any hard-working, economi.1 mechanic ought to put out fifty or hundred a year.?[Lake Hirvey (Fin.) 0 orrrxpondence. Cl w Serving a Sultan. - . . _ , . i IT Solomon was an oriental despot, ana " it of his self-knowledge wrote, " the aven for height, and the earth for 3pth, and the heart of kings is un- tc jarchable." Two anecdotes, one aeso- 6' ated with the late snltan of Morocco, id the other with the present despot, lustrate the " unsearchableness" of a rannical despot's heart. The lute sultan, having'a passion for ! b' ndscape gardening, surrounded a j ? ?autiful lake with a charming garden, j c was in tbe iiabit or rowing .on tne ~ !;e with the ladies of bis harem. One e? iy tho boat capsized and every T ;rson in it would have been drowned id not two xuen, working in the gar- P1 ?n, rushed into tho water at tho risk " ! their lives, and saved tho whole irtv. A European monarch would tc ive rewarded such services by a hand- ei >me gift or a pension for life. The C( iltan took a different view of the deed, ho men had seen their high and m ighty ruler in the undignified position J? : floundering in the water. They id also seen the ladies of his houaoaid, and possibly their unveiled a ces. Such men, according to oriental leas, ought not to live, and he was in- ji,1 ipablo of gratitude; so tho brute in ^ 1 ' ? ? t d( is natnro nau lis way. immeumieij , ie two gardeners who had been so ueirtunate as to save their ruler's life ere walled up in a room in a palace. 7hile soroo repairs were being made in '-1 10 building, on the occasion of the sc resent sultan's accession, their skele- ?: >us were found. . The present sultan is brave enough ) lead his troops into battle. On one y ccasion,-when engaged with a rebel- '' ous tribe, his army wan routed. The ultan's horse had been shot under 1:1 ? .1 1--S ?1? i c im, ana me nismoumeu ruier wtn vortaken by an enemy, while running ^ ar his life. As the man was abirat j1 triking tlie snltan down, Taieeb, a " oval officer, galloped between them 81 nd with one blow killed the assailant )ismonnting from his horse ho assisted ? he sultan to mount and guided him to " place of safety. A civilized ruler 0 . oulil have knighted and promoted the 8 rave officer on the spot, and have seen ri o it that he should not want means to upport his new state. All the recogition this sultan took of tho brave act y rus to give his deliverer a horse. Hi dear to my heart is Iho torturosomotutor r i'liat measured' our backs with his applebough Hvriteli, hat dodged t'very morning the plenteous bean- \ shooter t. And oft sat him down in voneerings of pitch; t'hosc countenance glimmered with newspaper " fractions 8 We soaked with Solivaand volleyed pell-mell, b .nd how he discouraged that worst of our actions That gavo him a souze in the pit of the well I j, 'hat torturesome tutor, that tongno-tangled i, tutor, That takcn-in tutor we spilled in the well I v <?Romt?knlin?l THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN. Simple nw i < the (Jnrdoii of Eden?1The .Inpnnrpc nt Home. A Yeddo (Japanese) correspondent writes: "The Land of the Rising Sun" has been visited by many foreigners during ;he past fifteen years, and no one bus ret been di appointed in what he lias ;'onnd either in the people or the 1 jonntry. Many have an idea that the Japa- 1 jese and Chinese are much alike, but I i 1 I iiiey areioiuiiv miiei\-ui>m wen ^uuiuv;er and habits of life. The Chinese are i filthy, cunning race, who lock npon ; he foreigner with suspicion as an infe- ior beir g. The Japanese are the clean- ! iest and most polite in the world. The )oorest coolie has his hot bath every j lay, and if they have not too much jodliness they thoroughly practice tbe 1 lext virtue. My first trip into the interior, after >eing a year in the country, was to the ! lot springs of Ifcav?the Saratoga of apan. I had previously engaged ' ooms at the best hotel. The first day . hem t fru-morl anmfl nlpasant acanaint- 3 nces with a newly-married couple, J rho occupied the adjoining room, the ; rife of a former governor of Yeddo, or tokio (one of the handsomest women I c ver saw in any country), and many . there; for they are very glad to know nd converse with foreigners who speak ? little of their language. j Japanese wives do not go into society, ut devote themselves entirely to tbe appiness of their husbands at home. r 'hey receive very little education, for . 3 know more than enough to reckon on heir machines called sarabans, and to E e able to read the novels and daily ews would be to make them proud and ngovernable in the opinions of their )rds and masters. If a husband be- f omes dissatisfied with his wife, to send s er back to her folks simply constitutes s legal divorce. Until their id^as are i hanged and woman is restored to her a ue place in society, these people can B ever attain to such progress and posi- * on as they desire. c They have no idea of profane or filthy c inguage. To call one, a fool simply, c r a beast, is the greatest length to a 'hich they can go. They have no re- d ard for the truth, often on accDunt of 1 ieir extreme politeness, for the same k sason that-a large part of our most re- F ned society consists of delicate flat- ^ s\tlnn fl-io r\TlO #1 iflOPTri- Cl -,lj, ? . Ie the most adroitly is considered the 1! lost genteel lady or gentleman. So it ^ i to a greater extent with the Japanese. ^ f yon ask one whether ho thinks it ? ill rain to-morrow, and he believes * lat you are anxious for fine weather, v 0 is snre that it will be line weather, n ad he can point out half a dozen infal- c ble signs to prove the correctness of r is opinion. If you are in a hurry, and 0 *k the time, he will tell you that it is c a hour or two earlier than it really is ither than cause you any worry or un- r appiDess, even if it may be the means P 1 causing you great injury, for another 8 oif n( flim'r fliftranlpr is TlflVP.r to an- h cipate the future. Instead of saying d > we do: "Never put off till to-mor)w," etc., they have a maxim, c There is always a to-morrow." " o they are rover in a fret and 1 arry for the future. In this respect ? mericans can learn of them some 11 rofitable lessons, or if they and we c juld strike the " golden mean" both ould bo benefited. They have another 1 ippy faculty, too, of smoothing over ' le sorrows j:nd misfortunes of the past. P hey expel all such unhappiness by the S ? ? ' -1- ! f. mplo expression " saaiaganai, wuicn * terallj translated means, "this is past; c, am sorry for it, but it cannot be * elped," and this banishes it entirely. P young student came to me one morn- 8 ig and told me that hi? father died v le day before. I began sympathizing P ith him, but he stopped mo with the e smark, "Skataganai; he was very old.' hey have the greatest regard for the c Id and young. At a funeral I never iw a tear shed. They have no fear of 6 eatli. They believe in the transmiration of souls. They cannot conceive j *( ow missionaries come to tnem irom " leir homes thousands of miles away 61 ist on account of tlie love for their ^ )uls; so they look upon missionary ^ ork with suspicion. It is only the e >west class who become converted, and 6 len only when they aro poor and need >od and clothing. Almost no progress ! A as been made toward Christianizing k le Japanese. A They pray to Buddha, whom they elieve to bo the God-spirit. There ^ re images in their temples, which we n ill idols, but they do not pray to the P lols nor believe them to be divine, ? tv mnra fclian wc do the beautifully 11 ainted windows in our churches. ivery day when they go to bed and hen they rise thoy bow theii heads in C lent prayer to the Supreme Ruler of Cl Leaven. Without doubt, before foreigners in- " oduced Western ideas and customs, jey were the happiest people on the c' ice of the earth. They had few wants, S hich were easily supplied, their coun- ^ y being well cultivated and the cli- u iate never rigorous, except in the far D orth, where the JSmos live, wlio ure aite a different people. The empire of Japan consists of five trge islands and many smaller ones, 'here are 40,000,000 inhabitants, most f whom live upon the main island, illed Nippon, which is the Japanese ord both for Japan -and Japanese. There is no more picturesque scenery * i the world (always excepting the Yojmite) than is to be found along the ii nld pnn^R nnd all through the inoun Linoti8 interior, where the roads are ri enerally foot-paths, and the modes of mveyance are upon the backs of ^ orses or cows, or in a basket borne pon the shoulders of two coolies, one :ottipg before and the other trotting 8 ehind. In this manner and frequently opping to change shoulders, they n avel two or three miles an hour frotli lorning till sunset for four or five cents ji ich mile, c Tujijamn, the sacred mountain of | ipan and the highest peak in the em- j, ire, is tho most majestic mountain in j; 10 world. It rises a solitary truncated me from the very shores of the Pacific . t a height of 13,000 feet and is cov ed with enow throughout the year ex- c jpt during July ami August In tho mountains of tho interior are ! 0 any natural hot mineral springs, !13 ** * ?i.-i i.? i Jncn are mucr. iretiueuieu n_>' me uu- i ves during the hot summer months. ' h ho princii>al productions are rice, tea a: id silk. The Japanese produce a mild distilled ti luor from rice which they call auke. , n verybody drinks this sake with their lily rice, and socially when they meet Cl ii pleasure. ts It is, however, a very rare sight to ;e a native intoxicated. When ho has (> ,kon too much ho is never quarrelime, but very merry and simple, and i . alv wishes to get home, where be cm j !eep ofl the effects. It is considered a j gn of great weakness to get thus af- j a cted. Opium is never used by the upanese, the authorities having always | 0 iken great eare to-prevent its importa- j on anil nse. A Japanese nouse iia.suu ? hairs, beils or tables. One's boots or s ooden clogs aro removed at tho door s nd water brought for washing the feet ^ efore ontering upon the soft, thick t! traw mats, which serve alike for lloor, a ible, beds and seats. When friends n leet they never shake hands, but bow, i in a room, to tho floor several times, f r if in the street, they bow very low 0 everal times before passing, each time s ?"-> mn f/irrool anlntntirmu I ,1 Many of their expressions lire very 8 eautiful, and show the extreme and H elicate politeness of the people; for \ xample, when they part the expression t 3 "Sayonara," which means. "If it q atist be." The fast train between New Yo:k and J Washington a few days ago was brought * 3 a standstill by two elephants playing | r'ith the bell cord. This shows concluively that their trnnks should havo ( een checked.?Boston Transcript, r ?? H The new London journal for women f i called the Fan. Englishmen have t ann7 ideas abont naming papers for romon to read. A fan can bo up. J -Chicago Tribune. f FOR THE LADIES. A Womnn of Endurance. Living in a town in New Hampshire is an Amazon, not in tbe sense of ap- ' parent masculinity, but in actual r strength and agility, and her enterprise c is eqnal to her endmance. It was re- n ported in the papers oi tbe county that h she picked and marketed 400- quarts of f blueberries tbe last feason, Sbe as- a sured the writer that the quantity was a much larger than reported. These ber- f: rice she carried on foot two miles to the o village nnd peddled them out to the w residents. Recently she wheeled a n wheelbarrow two and one-half miles t: over a rough and hilly road, and re- o turned with it, trundling homo two tl ?ood-sized pigs. She performed a feat a a few weeks since that few men would care b :o undertake, yet she accomplished it w tvithout ado or difficulty. Having pur- b ihased at the village an outside dwell- v* ing-house door, ont and one-half inches v ;hick, she placed it on her back and t< jarried it in that manner to her home, d i distance of two long miles. Yet she p s slender in form, and agile and elastic p is a deer. She is often seen walking in ai he street engaged in knitting, her ingers and feet moving as if in vi^or- b jus competition with each other. When a lot incumbered, in passing to and from tl he village, she frequently strikes into jc i run, sometimes maintaining it up the h deepest hills and for most of the dis- " ance. Occasionally she essays journeys ii >f ten or fifteen miles on foot into the w leighboring towns, if not at a cor- T esponding speed, yet at one surprising st o people with ordinary powers of loco- yi notion.?Boston Journal. a* tl Sprlnar C'otron tiooiln. fc Fresh importations of cotton fabrics w or spring and summer dresses are ~ hown each week at tbe wholesale tores, and many are exposed for sale ai n tbe retail shops. Chintz patterns C( ire fouDd among these both in light m md dork colors, and with borders or P' without them. The percales are espe- f1 ially pretty in their cobweb patterns, m white grounds with web-like lines, 81 ?n which gay figures are thrown. There ^ re also many in Watteau colors and J? lesigns combining blue with pink, or ose with gray, and showing birds, w caskets of flowers, tiny landscapes, or P' tipe?, shepherdess hats, and flowers a. ionnd up with ribbons. The polka ?. lota prevail, however, in all the soft fin- dl shed goods, and come in all dark m ironze, brown, garnet and blue shades. . ?he Madras cloths are the popular ? ephyr ginghams in all the old-fash- Yc oned checks, bars and stripes that Wi rash and wear so well, and in many 0t ew* contrasts of color besides. The ?] heviots are excellent for service, and epreaent the twilled and plaid effects ^ f the Scotch wool cheviots. English alicoes, heavier than percales, come in rt be chintz patterns that they always " epeat from French calicoes, and in the opular polka dote of white on dark pc rounds; the latter are particularly f0 iked in black and white for ladies ^ ressing in mourning. ^ fiat.inpff A ifl a. aaw /*nfi.nn f.Viof , """" g( an scarce^ be distinguished from fou- ja ird, as it is " silky " even to the tonch. fr, 'his has a costly twilled surface, is not m early so thick as the nsaal cotti i? sat- (0 ies, and is brought ont in most ait stic t0 olors and designs, with plain satinuito d match the ground of each pattern. m t comes with a cream ground strewn ritli Marshal Niel rose-buds, or pale ink with deeper pink roses, or blue [j, rounds with either pink or yellow ^ oses. To make up with these oliveolored plain eatinette will be used with lie cream ground, or deeper blue with ^ iale blue, or they may have *ho same _ round throughout. Dark brown, green, a rine color and purple are shown in the lain shades, and these will make ex- m ellent foundations for the satinettes in h, 1 stained-glass " designs, as those are ailed that cover the fabric with figures, w eaving no single color for the ground ; ^ imilar designs were used last year in g, julards, and were sometimes employed w :>r the entire dress, though com- fa inations with olive, dark blue, sal brown or bronze shades rj 'ere found to be very effective. CJ 'or lighter colored dresses these satin- m ttes hive white, gray, pea'rl or pink r rounds strewn with carnations, nastur- f0 lurns ot natural size, baskets tilled with r owers, bouquets without baskets and g ird patterns of most varied coloring. jn 11 these pretty designs are repeated in Wi beer batiste of most beautiful quality jjj aat is handsome enough to be made w; p over silk; fifty cents a Tard is the ^ rico of the satinettes and also of the ew batistes. Fine cambrics and shirt- .K igs have blue grounds with white n? gures,- or white with colored figures, jj 'he new pattern for these is called the w; tomet of 1881, and represents two omets crossing each other, one blue j.e le other red, or some other contrast- n( ig colors. There are also anchor pat- y, ?rns, rings, squares, stripes, bars, the re nrvA/1 lir?n nf hnonfv fnrmincr f.Vin lafiai* i, horseshoes and polka dots so small fe tiat they arts mere specks of color grad- ir uting up to those like great balls or CJ loons.?Jlarpcr's Bazar. 0I ol Fashion Noicm. Bonnets grow a little smaller. c8 The rage for old gold is on the wane, ti The name for new sateens is sati- ac etto. ^ I'ercales show pretty cobweb pat- ^ cms. ! The capote, of good size, is the com- e( ng bonnet. b! Shrimp pink and shell pink will be ir luch wcrn. m Peacock feather embroideries enjoy igh favor. m Tiny landscapes appear as figures on !* ome of the new printed cotton goods. Broad moiro sashes aro seen upon tt jany stylish winter cloaks and visitee. The new organdie muslins are woven w 2 large plaids, bars and stripes of pure bt olors. b( Dark ball dresses, lighted only by a cc unch of bright flowers, are worn in tl jondon. ii Scotch ginghams show tbe same . eather mixtures that appear in the new heviots. ?* Large red rosebuds in chene effects 0n a ground of shrimp pink aro amo^g ,-J ew sateens for spring wear. The first importations of spring silks ave moire grounds with geometric nd flowered damasse designs. co Fringe or folds of plush are used to 'im all pointed waists, except those ad tade for the most slender women. Colored stones set with diamonds are ansidered more fashionable than solilires or onyx incrusted with the gems. High Elizabethan collars, closely avercd with facetted pearls, are very ishionably worn with elegant evening )ileta. m Scarfs, sashes, plaited side panels nd Watteau tunics, made of Roman ?? triped merveilleux, are much worn . ?i i e in \t?r (iruttset* Ui u muuuv:uxuuic v.uiux. Pink, a leading color this season, is ~c rought out in any number of tones and hades?sea-shell, primrose, flesh, ar hrimp, coral, geranium, laurel, peri- W( ,-inkle, and, most fashionable of all, p( lie exquisite pink tint shading to gold, nd known in the Aesthetic world by the etl ame of aurore or dawn. A unique style of evening dress afectcd by many young ladies is a costume ? f white nun's veiling, with black satin andals over black silk hose, embroi- cj iered with crimson star flowers, elbow C; leeves, with very long black Suede ci axo gloves, high-standing fraise and e, >erttia ot old spamsn lace, ami garm- n ure of artificial Jacqueminot roses, fa lelicately perfumed. If Many ladies in Now York citv are tl rearing velvet, silk or satin toilets, with gi ho ljng-trained skirts entirely plain, bi mt adorning tho corsugo with costly ace garniture?a bertha of point, luchesse or other valuable lace, with j ufiles or turn-over cuff* upon the a; leeves to correspond. Whero this n ashion is adoi ted the fabric composing p he dress is of a superior qnality. b f Adversity borrows its sharpest nting torn our impatience. y POPPING THE (JU1HT1UJ. k Sorioud Matter ;Considered Comically. A modern essayist has written that 1 of all positions in the world there is lone that demands a greater exertion >f eelf co.itidence than a proposal of narriage." From the big, brawnylanded son of the soil to the most efeminate specimen of the genus known s the society man, the masculine lips re sure to tremble when they come to rame that simple but most important f till questions: "Will you be my rife ?"' Men who will face the cannon's louth with coolness, calmly start on rips to the most uncivilized portions f tho world, or undergo privations of be most painful character, will shrink t the rustle of a girl's dress, or tremle before a weak, delicate woman, i 'hen they are going to request her to ' ecome a partner for life. And though ! : re cannot give tho uninitiated any | ' aluable advico or information on this I 1 jpic, a resume of some of the many'] rolleries connected with it will 1 robably be interesting, both to the1 ersons who " have been there as well' ' 3 those who want to be. Let us suppose that the lady has i een out daring the evening before to 1 party. The gentleman might say * mt she looks fatigued. On her re- J lining that this was a foolish thought : e will get an opportunity of saying, I Not fo lish, Emily ; I feel too much * iterest in you to permit my own j ishes to mil counter to your welfare/- 1 his is properly called the magnificent ;yle of beginning. But very often the oung lady is considerate enough to ssist her bashful lover. For instance, lere was once a timid fellow who was >nd of borrowing John Phoenix's jokes; hen she asked him how he felt, he renged fiimself according to the hcenix plan of being very definite, id said he felt about "eighty-eight per int." "Indeed," she said, with a deure look, "are you never going to ir?" And she got in her work that rening. Another young man w?.s sayg, as he scratched a lucifer on the de of the house, "I like these housss ith sanded paint nice when you want strike a match, you know." "Is at so?'* she asked, demurely; "I ish I lived in a house with sanded lint," and then she looked unutter )le. If he had asfctfd, " wnat lor r < ie would have hated him. But he ] dn'fc. He took the hint, and the < atch waB struck then and there. < This method of " giving a hint" has < ;en put poetically in this way : ' t >ung Fred, a bashful, yet persistent swain, is very much in lovo with Marv Jane. ie night she told him in lior tenderest tono, j :t i* not good for man to bo alone." id Fred, "Just eo, you darling little elf; ( re often thought of that same thing myself." ' len saiil the lass, while Fred was all agog, ' foil ought to buy yourself a terrier dog-" Tho purely business-like kind of pro>sal is occaeionally met with. A Calirnia paper, some months since, told o story of a scene that ocqprred in iameda county. A respectable old mtleman of fifty accidentally met a dy five years his junior. They had equently heard of each other through utual friends, but had never met face face. The following conversation ok place: Gentleman?Madam, wliat is your ime? Lady?My name is . Gentleman?My name is . I 7e in Livermore, where I own a ranch, hem ! How would you like me for a aaband ? Lady?Well, really now, I don't , sow. I've heard your name, Mr. ( ?, but how would you like me for wife ? Gentleman?Madam, the sight of you ore than does justice to what I have ( sird. Will you be my wife? The lady assented. The gentleman ent immediately to Oakland to get a cense, and twenty-four hours after the < rst meetiDg the couple were man and ife and started for the new husband's ,nch at Livermore. Every now and then we read of mar- , acpH bv telecraDh. Here is a true "O ? t! ' ise of a proposal of marriago being ade in the same way. Miss Maria cop was married in Boston under the llowing ciicumstances: Captain oop, a distant relative, who sailed an giisb ship, visited Mr. John Bocp's, St. John, New Brnnswick, on his ay to Peterboro, Nova Scotia, and met fate in the person of theyonng lady ho finally became his wife. He re,rned to New York and began to load r Java. He wrote to her and proved that she meet him in Boston the >xt week, marry him and sail for Java, is boat was on the shore and his bark is on the sea, or loading at the wharf, id she must decide at once. The letr was received in the morning and had >t been read more than half a dozen nes (Such letters require a great deal of adiDg, it seems) when a dispatch is received to the following ef- \ ct: "Please answer my letter t f telegraph?yes or no." Any girl ] in promptly say yes or no to the offer t : a hand and heart, but where such | ler is coupled with three days' notice ^ id a voyage to the East Indies, the f ise requires a little more conaidera ^ on. She took time to consider, and j 1UCU OUCilglU ?/V liiV V oman who considers is lost, for, when j le afternoon of the same day brought ? er another dispatch, which was sim- ^ ly " Yes or no?" she went to the tel- ? jraph office and wrote "yes" on a ^ lank. The operator, knowing noth- j ig of the vast importance of that ( lonosyllable message, placed it on file \ >r transmission, and tho most s \ 'ious t an in New York was soon made happy t y its reception. The lady left her ? omo at once; was married in Boston, 1 id started on her wedding tour around j 10 worl-1. i Then there is the urgent proposal s here the man loses all sense of em- j irrassment in the fear that he will not j ) successful in his suit. A young s tuple were occupying a rustio seat in i to park one summer evening, engaged c i deep and pleasant converse. " Oh, do be mine," he said, attempt- f g to draw her a little nearer his end s the seat. t She made herself rigid and heaved a t ?h. n I*' I'll be a good man and give np all ] y bad habits," be urged. a No reply. a " I'll never driD * another drop," he q ntinued. ^ Still unrelenting sat the object of his s ioration. " And give up chewing " No response. "And smoking." I Cold as ever. i " And join the church." \ She only t?hook her bead. j " And give you a diamond engage- j s nut ring," ho added iu desperation. r Then the maiden lifted her drooping c es t-j his, and leaning her frizzes on g s shoulder, tremblingly murmured i to his ravished ear : t "Oh, Edward, you aro too, too I >od." < And thero they sat, until the soft i ms of night?that dusky nurse of the i Drld?had folded them from sight, j 1 )ndering, planning, thinking, she of, i ie diamond ring and ho of how on ! I irth he was to get it.?Brooklyn Kejlc. i At a meeting of the Itoyal society, j i:_i 1. iv. 11 T HumiUnn i >?(! 11 1 uiuuur^ii, j-/i. xs. v w? _ iperon tiio circulation of tho c rptis* | 08 of th 3 blood. Tho rapid g iding j ntral motion of the colored c rpuses and tho slower rotational p-riph al moticn of the colorless corpuscles ! ere, ho held, to ho explained by the ct that the latter wero specifically piuer man me oluuu jiiasmu, \winei ie former were of tho mme specific i ravity as tho fluid in which they were Drue along. Newfoundland is the oldest of the Iritish colonies. It is nearly as larce j England. Agriculture is much , eglected, end her flour, oat-meal, eas, potatoes, hay and straw hare to o imported. , Alas, tho idol i? *h?*ttar?d ; 0?oot > Filde aaor?p. ' lir.Al.ilIl Ill.nn. When cooking you often burn your fingers or arm->, and there is not time to turn to lie thera up. Take a piece of h-rrt snap, and dipping it in water rub it over th<> spot. Continue to do this two or three times until the surface is thoroughly covered. It will be found to afford a gnat relief. Or von may dip your burned hand in the soft-soap bucket and holl it there a few minutes, and -?7 you will experience the same relief A writer in the Nineteenth Century V: says that contagion consists of minute solid particles and not gaseous dissemf-, 'Sfcj| nations. If this is true we can readily understand that a person who breathes only through the nose will be much less likely to catcb a contagious disease in a sick rooin than would a mouth breath-. ^ Br. Free ventilation, perfect cleanliness and frequent changes of clothing \ ' afford the best means of remuving the sontagious particles given off by sick. jgSL.persons.? Dr Footed Health Monthly. ? m It is a great mistake that a morning walk or other form of exercise before > :> breakfast i3 healthful; the malaria-. 'which rests on the earth about sunrise in summer, when taken into the lungs * * * 19.1. ? ii?avun; ana Btomacn, wmcu are eyuauj' ucuuitated with other portions of the body V. from the long fast since rapper, is ver/ readily absorbed and entSrs the circulation within an hour or two, poisoning :ho blood, and laying the foundation for troublesome diseases; while in winter the same debilitated condition of these vital organs readily allows the blood to be chilled, and thus renders the system susceptible of taking cold, with all its varied and too often disastrous results. ;jSome of the best medical minda in J ;he world, men who have spent a quar- . ;er of a century in examining the lungs )f the dead, state to U9 this important, svery-day fact, that few people die, titer xorty, wno cave not in ine junga :he signs of having the consumption, without ever Laving had the slightest . suspicion of the existence of the disease, and who finally died of maladies laving no approximation toward it in rnture. These signs are scars of va*ious lengths, little excavations or cavties or pnckerings of various sizes; ill very small it is (rue, but still showng the great fact that decay once existed there and that the lungs may perfectly heal after having been divided )r broken or pierced, as numerous lases bear witness in the perfect recov;ry of men who have been stabbed in ;he breast or 3hot through the lungs. The Fortune of the Barings. ' The Barincrs have been among the no at famous of English bankenr. They ire of German stock. There is a kind )f ecclesiastical flavor about them. Fheir English founder was a Bremen pastor, settled in this country. His grandson ma'ried the niece of an Snglish archbishop. One of his defendants became bishop of Durham. The money was originally made in the rich profitable clothing business in the vest of England. Ashburton gave a :itle in the peerage to the chief of the aouse c f Baring. It has been a rule in ;he house that when any one of them aas got a title he goes out of :he business. Sir Francis Baring, the first gieat banker, who, lying in 1810. left a fortune of $2,000,300, and had three sons ? Thomas, Alexander and Henry. Thomas sucseeding to the baronetcy, gave up the business. Henry had a ratner romantio reputation as a lucky gambler, who was frequently able to break the bank of a gambling table. He was the amazement - ? L.L.1J 1 ?* LU ueuuiuera wueu IIO wuiuu otv umvu ou i gambling table at the Palais Royal?before such tables were happily abolished., ?with piles of gold and notes before him. The reputation of a successful gambler was barely suited to the intense respectability of the firm, and Mr. Henry was induced to retire from the business. Alexander Baring, often known as > " Alexander the Great," sustained and extended the fortunes of the house. He went to America, and the richest banlrer in England married the daughter of tho richest citizen of the UnitedStates. One of his gigantic transactions possesses a historical importance. After * the conclusion of the great European war lie paid down a sum of ?1,100,000, by which France was freed from the oc- ^ jupation of Russian, Austrian and Gernan armies. "There are six great pownrn in TV.nrnno " Kft-fl tlift Dtlfi dfi Riche ieu: " England, France, Russia, Ausria, Prussia and Baring Bros." In 1835 le was made Lord Ashburton. Two of lis sons held the title, and each sacces lively retired from the business. The lead of the firm, Thomas Baring, be:ame chancellor of the exchequer in jerd Melbourne's nr stry, and mother member, Lord Northbrook, haa jeen governor-generU of India?LonIon Society. A >'ei> York Bank President. The New York correspondent of the Jtica Her.Id, writes. One finds out hat nothing is accomplished here un* i i.'.-ii -g i-T. ~ I*.' ? ess DJ Close application ui me uiguoou lowers. All oui great mea WQrk hard. 3ere is Moses Taylor, for instance, the retoran bank president. He is seventy-. Ive and jet works as hard as his powers V vill admit. Up to within u few years ? 16 was as industrious as any of his ^ jlerfcs, but closo application has impaired his health and he now has to ibate. He has been a worker for sixty * rears, and is as eager to make a dollar is ever. He began as n clerk in the M jreat shipping house of Howland & As- i linwall, and afterward opened business >n his own account. His success has leen uniform and rapid, as some would j hink, though probably hardly satisfactory to himself, since lie has only made i half dozen millions, while others lave done much better. Still he is Nodding on in the path to wealth, and s the oldest business man in \>au itreet He hss for thirty years H ^resident of the XUity bank, and his ^ ibility h shown by the fact that its J ihares are now worth 240. Tbe house vhich he founded is conducted by his ^ ions-in law, Percy Pvne and Lawrence rurnure, who were formerly his clerks, ind are hrst clats business men. Such . ire among the instances hi success .* rhich occasionally mark a commercial -\,: ecord and whii;h show that hard work .? well as genius is requisite. New fork is a place not of luck but of labor, & nd that too of the most arduous charcter. In tho battle for wealth it re- JT [uires rare concentration of genius and hysical strength, aud the weaker are oon crushed. Jliuinsr by Avessincnt. , "No, no hoisting works?not if I ;nntr it. You can fool awav r* good leal of good, hard coin on hoisting porks." How in the deuce do you ran our mine.' " On the assessment plan, ir. That's tno latest and mo3t improved nethod. When wo have a good map >f the lower workings we don't need tnv works to speak of. I keep a man n Virginia at ?t50 a month to superin:end the location and write weekly let,ers, and stay In San Francisco in my jftice on Fine street, and levy the assessments every sixty clays; that's as often js tho law allows, i am the president, ward of trustees, secretary, treasurer mil everything?more especially the treasurer. 01 course I draw salary for ill the olliees, and when I get through 1 rawing salaries I turn the rest over to :he agent in Virginia to pay off the [lands. By not employing any hands, lie saves enougli to pay himself. This is what I call scientific mining, tir. You get the silver out of the pockets of the stockholders and leave the vast argentiferous und auriferous deposits fiir vonr children, who IU JUUl * - . # can go right ahead and develop the mino just as soon as the public quit j putting up, which isn't at all likely to J happen. As long as people are being born iu Nevada and California my mine will ruu on like a chronometer clock." "But," said the Utah man, "my style of mining keeps lots of men at work." " So does mine," quoth the Golden State chap. "Thousands of men are working night and day to pay the assessments. It keeps the country as busy as a ben hive," aud the speaker sauntered to the telegraph effleo to t?rder assessment No. 38.?.5en?<:r jS'*vc9> J