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MOTHER'S MENDING BASKET.
Over and under, and in and out.
The swift little needle flies;
For always between her and idleness
The mending basket lies;
And the patient hands, though weary,
Work lovingly on and on
At tasks that never are finish >d;
For mending is never done.
She takes up the father's stocking;
And skillfully knits in the heel.
And smooths the seam with a tender touch,
That he may no roughness feel:
And her thoughts to her merry girlhood
And her early wifehood go,
And she smiles at the first pair of stockings
She knit so long sgo.
men snespeaKs to rut* uiue inaiuen
Learning to knit at her side,
And tells her about those stockings
Uneven and shapeless and wide?
"I had to ravel them out, my dear;
Don't be discouraged, but try.
And after awhile you'll learn to kuit
As swift and even as I."
She takes up a little white apron,
And thinks of the woeful face
Of her darliug when she came crying:
"Oh, mamma, I've torn my lace."'
So she mended the child's pet apron;
Then took up a tiny shoe,
And fastened a stitch that was broken,
And tied the ribbon of blue.
The maiden has wearied of workiug
And gone away to her play;
The sun in the west is sinking
At the close of the quiet day.
Now the mother's hands are resting
Still holding a stocking of red,
And her thoughts in the twilight shadow
To the far off future have fled.
"Oh, where will the little feet wander
Before they have time to rest?
Where will the bright heads be pillowed
W"Vion flm K??/iocf
?? jucu vuv ittvuuci a ivs>iu? uitwu
Is under the spring's blue violets,
And under the summer grass,
When over her fall the autumn leaves,
And the storms of winter pass?"'
And a prayer from her heart she utters;
"God hless them, my dear ones all!
Oh, may it be many, many years
'Ere sorrow to them befall!"
To her work from the mending basket
She turns with a heart at rest;
For she knows that to husband and children
She is always the first and best.
?.466c Kinne, in Ledger.
A FAWN THE PRIZE.
A FIGHT BETWEEN A GRIZZLY AND CALIFORNIA
LIONS.
Undoubtedly the grizzly bear is a grass
feeder. Although his main source of
food is roots, herbs, acorns and such nuts
as are to be met with in the countries
through which lie ranges, he nevertheless
greedily devours the carcasses of any
dead animals that fall in his way. No
doubt the so-called "monarch of the
Sierras" is often very meat-hungry. By
stratagem lie may sometimes capture .
small animals, but. lie is too slow and |
clumsy to overtake deer, elk or antelope, ;
unless he shall happen to come upon
these animals when they are badly
wounded. Mountain men have often
wondered how the grizzly bear manages
to subsist at that season of the year when
there are no berries, and but few pine or
other nuts to be found. That the "monarch
" is not above highway, or rather,
high Sierra robbery, will be seen by what
is recorded of him iii the following
sketch:
"Tii October last, in company with a
West Virginian named Richards, I went
up into the high Sierras for a two weeks'
hunt. "We went to hunt deer, but were
well prepared to encounter a grizzly bear i
or anything else shootable that might
cnmfi in nur wsiv Wo liorl v.-'ili 11c I
a mule on which to pack our blanket*,
^provisions and camp utensils, which latter
Richards, for some reason unknown to
always called the i'herring fixing."
we led a regular camp life, which was a
reminder of our old prospecting days.
Richards declared that this was almost
good enough without hunting, but combined
with huntiug it was the next thing to
being in heaven. As Richards can play on
,110 instrument except the jewsharp,he was
probably much more at home up in the
mountains than he will be when he
'pitches his tent in the New Jerusalem.
After spending a few days in the
neighborhood of Hope Valley, we struck
ill w est oi IjUKC lauoc, among tik; iriu-i
utaries of the American river. This is a !
region justly celebrated among hunters, j
Along the creeks, about the springs, and j
in the great dark canons, are to be found j
deer, grizzly and cinnamon bears, Cali- |
^fornh lions, lynxes, and many smaller j
animals.
,-f The d&y after wc made camp in the
new place Richards was unable to go out
with me, he having sprained his ankle
the evening before in leaping across a
small stream,therefore I struck out alone.
I traveled for nearly three hours without
seeing any game larger than a grouse
or a woodchuck, when I came to a large
and deep canon that led down toward the
American river. Along this canon were i
many lateral ravines and gulches, bordering
which were numerous small steep
valleys. In one of these dingles I presently
saw among some low bushes a herd
of four or live deer, all quietly feeding.
By descending the slope of the mountain
a few rods to a line or ledge of rocks
that projected from the side of the canon
I saw that I could get as near to the bend
as I cared to be?even nearer?for I i
would not again come out in sight of the
deer until at the edge of the vale in
which they were feeding.
Moving cautiously along the edge of ;
the ledge of rocks, which formed a sort :
of terrace on the side of the cannon, and j
carefully avoiding the starting of lose
atones down the precipitous slope, I at I
last reached the bank of the little j
ravine on which was situated, some j
thirty feet below me, the d?*U wherein j
were the deer. I not only had the shelter
of the ledge of rock several feet in |
heighth, but also that of several small j
trees that stood on the bank of the
ravine and grew out from among the j
lower rocks. i
With my Winchester in my hand, I j
peered around the corner of my sheltering
rock and saw the deer still feeding, ancl I
only about fifty yards away. Among !
them was a noble buck, llis antlers
spread like the branches of an aged re- |
dar. He stood facing me. I could see :
every wink of his eyes. I raised my
rifle, aimed at the centre of his forehead,
and was just pressing my finger to the
trigger when lie suddenly wheeled about,
gave a snort and bounded away, followed
by all the others of the nem.
Before I had time to even conjecture
what had frightened the animals?indeed
simultaneously with their first bounds?
a large California lion darted from a
clump of bushes, leaped upon the neck
of a fawn that was in the rear of the
herd and dragged it to the ground. The
fawn gave one or two piteous bleats,
when the teeth of the lion rent its jilgular
and silenccd it forever.
Being unable to see the animals distinctly
when they were on the ground,
on account of a patch of bushes two or
three feet in height. I climbed to the top
of the ledge of rock, which was about
ten feet high.
I was now after the lion. When I
reached the top of the rock he was in
plain sight. He was tearing at the neck
of the prostrate fawn. I was about to
move a little further up the ledge in order
to get a shot at the lion's fore parts,
when a large grizzly burst out of a patch
of chaparral on the opposide side of the
little valley. With a snort and a growl
he made at the lion.
The new arrival rendered the situation
somewhat complicated, and I lowered my
rifle, concluding to await further developments.
When the bear came up the lion retreated
a few paces, and then stood snarl
1 1 1" * a _ 1 !i.L
msc anu lasnmg 11s muus wiui an Hilary
tail. The bear?which was evidently very
hungry?paid 110 attention to the lion,
but at once began gnawing at the neck
of the fawn.
I supposed this was the end of the affair
between the two animals, and was
beginning to thing of putting a bullet, or
two into the grizzly. This I might have
safely done from my perch upon the rock,
and with two or three trees at hand which
I could easily climb should the bear attempt
to scale the ledge. But while I
was still considering the chances I observed
the lion flatten itself to the ground
and swiftly glide round behind the bear.
Suddenly?like a flash of yellow lightning?the
lion bounded through the air
and landed on the back of the bear's neck,
raking him over the face and eyes with
its sharp claws.
The bear gave a snort of pain and rage,
stopped eating, and for a time stood?
or rather sat up?on the defensive. While
the bear was thus on guard, ready to
strike o\it with his huge paws, the lion
stood off snarling and lashing its sides
with its tail;but the moment he attempted
to resume his meal the lion quickly
circled about and again landed on his j
back?bounding away, however, as soon !
as the bear began striking at him. The '
fight had now become so interesting that i
I determined to await the result. The at- j
tacks of the lion were evidently far from j
painless to the bear. He bawled lustily i
under the sharp claws of his agile enemj-.
He soon grew cautions, and, hungry as
he was, endeavored to keep his head conQtnntlv
turned toward the lion. This
the clumsy beast was unable to do, as the
lion circled about him very swiftly, and
crept so low as to be continually ready
for a spring. Beside, while the bear
was turning in one direction his more
nimble antagonist would suddenly whirl
about, circle in the opposite way, and
make his leap; and at each leap he made
the fur fly at a lively rate.
"When the bear stopped eating and stood
on his guard the lion stood off and
snarled, but the moment he put his nose
to the fawn his alert foe was upon him.
Finally the bear gave up trying to eat,
and lay down by the carcass, twisting
himself into such a position that he had
the use of both of his paws.
Had the lion then leaped uponthcbcar j
he would have found himself in a death-1
hug. The battle now seemed to be a |
sort of tie or draw. Neither animal could |
touch the prize over which they were i
contending.
Matters were at this pass for nearly five i
minutes, when the lion elevated his head j
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ticrec answering cry came from across the
main canon, and soon another lion came
bounding up the ravine into the little
valley. The bear noted this accession to
the force of the enemy, and arose nnd
seated himself upon his haunches in boding
attitude. The two lions then began
circling about the bear, by turns darting
upon him. raking him with their j
claws, and then bounding away. It re- j
minded me of two cat-birds persecuting
an owl.
Presently, while the bear was wheeling
about to strike at one of the lions, the
other made a rush and dragged away the '
carcass of the fawn. He was hauling it [
oif toward the bottom of the big canon, j
some fifty yards away, before the bear j
had recovered from his surprise. Even
when he comprehended what had happened
the bear did not dare to at once go
to recover the carcass, as the lion that remained
behind still circled around him,
crouching cat-like, and threatening to
sjmuf;.
Iii a short, time, however, this lion also
left and went down into the canon, the
bottom of which I could not see from my
perch on the ledge. The bear looked j
thoroughly beaten, and, as I thought, not j
a little ashamed of himself. He sniffed |
about the ground where the carcass of I
the fawn had lain for a time; then, elevating
his nose, snuffed the air in the
direction of the canon, whither the two
lions had gone with the prize. This prize
he had h'.'ld just long enough to fairly
arouse his appetite.
After snuffing the air and licking his
chops for a time the old fellow moved
slowly toward the canon. He did not
advance as if he were going to awake the
battle anew. Both spirit and flesh seemed
weak. When within about twenty yards j
of the bottom of the canon he sauntered j
out upon a point of rock, sat upon his I
haunches anu looked down toWSrd where i
the two lions were feasting.
There on the rock he sat for so long
a time?twisting about 011 his haunches,
snuffing the air and licking his chops*?
that I became satisfied that he would not
renew the contest. As he sat there,
wrinkling and twisting his nose, the
mark he offered ine was too tempting to
be resisted; beside, he was liable at any
moment to drop down upon all fours and i
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mUK(! Oil. 1 IC.YL'HIll IUV I I 111' 1U1 JIIB iitau,
and at its crack the great boast pit died {
headlong into the canyon and rolled to
the bottom, causing a great crashing of
chaparral and carrying with him about a
cart-load of loose rocks.
The sudden apparition of the bear i
coming in such a headlong and tumultu- j
ous manner evidently look the two lions ;
by surprise, and for the moment demor- 1
ali/.ed them. Roth bounded into sight
on the opposite side of the canon, and !
did not halt until they were ten yards j
above its bed.
Evidently the animals had not observed
the crack of mv rifle, or if they had ob- j
served it they probably connected the rc- j
port with the impetuous charge of the !
bear, for soon one of them leaped upon a 1
bowlder and began stretching his neck
i and peering back into the canon where
j the bear had fallen. As he thus stood he
afforded a fine mark, and, taking careful ;
; aim. I brought him down.
j This time the remaining lion undoubtedly
heard the report of my gun. and
comprehended the danger of its position,
for it bounded away down along the
rocky slope of the canon, and T saw it
no more.
Descending into the canon F found
the bear lying across the carcass of the
fawn.
I built a tire, before which, on sticks,
I placed to roast, several venison steaks. !
while I employed myself in skinning the
bear, cutting up the meat and hanging it
out of the reach of foxes and coyotes on
some alders, to be packed away the next
| day, when I expected that Richards
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would be able to assist me. When I had
taken the skin off the bear I did not much
blame him for giving up the fight with
the two lions; indeed, I felt not a little
pity for the poor old fellow, whose
hunger had made him endure so much.
Their claws had scored him terribly. In
several places, particularly about the
shoulders, the cuts had gone quite
through the skin into the flesh. In fact,
the skin was so cut up that I preferred
to pack home with me the skin of the
lion?which was a large one?and leave
that of the bear to take its chances along
with the meat until the next day.
Richards cursed his luck high and low
when I returned to camp with the saddle
of the fawn and the lion skin and told
him what a spirited and remarkable fight
I had witnessed. He declared that he
would not have missed such a sight for
$500 in gold coin. Indeed, he became so
excited that, he forgot all about his
sprained ankle, and "patroled" in front
of me, when he could have heard my
story quite as well by remaining seated.
?Dan Dc Quifle, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Criminals and Tlielr Ways.
Criminals glide back to their old
haunts and their old companions with a
fatal facility. There may seem the
fairest hopes of reformation, but at the I
first fire of temptation the frost-work of
new habits melts away at once. There is
a story that a man bought one day, in an
j old curiosity shop in Rome, a ring with a
| secret spring, in which poison had been
j imbedded ever since the days of the
Borgias, and the ancient venom had still
sufficient strength to poison him. There
| is the story of a girl of Indian blood who
was thought to be fully reclaimed to
civilization. "When some offense had been
given her by her mistress, she tore up her
clot ties, squatted on tne ground ann
howled. Keen insight into human nature
is exhibited by Victor Hugo when he
makes Jane Valjean, even after the forgiveness
and generosity of the good
bishop, rob the little Savoyard of his
two-franc piece. It was the temporary
assertion of the tyranny of depraved
habits. '*Now, here is a remarkable case
for you," said a great prison authority to
me one day. "I knew a man who lay under
sentence of punishment of death. It was
either for murder or for burglary, for the
sentence was passed a little while bfffore
the death penalty for burglary was abolished.
If for murder it must have been
with extenuating circumstances, for the
extreme sentence was commuted into
transportation for life. He went out to
Western Australia, and there behaved so
well that he departed for another part of
Australia with a free pardon. He came
to one of the great Australian towns and
became a constable, and by degrees chief
constable. Then he thought he would
come over to London for a time. He did
so, and had not been in London many
weeks before he met with eorae of his
old pals in the Strand, got rpixed up in
some of their evil ways ancj sent back
again to Australia as a convict, I can
tell you, sir, we see some very queer
things, we who are conected with the
convict system. In this very room where
we are there were two men talking one
morniTio- Tim one was the old Marouis
of Westminster and the other was a re- I
leased convict. The Marquis did not
know it was a convict, and the convict
did not know it was the Marquis. "I
think the convicts have' not so much to
complain of, and enjoy an extremely
healthy -air at Portland," said the Marquis.
"I agree with you, sir," said the
convict, "for I happen to have spent a
rood deal of time there myself."?All the
Year ltoan1.
Hie Shop-Lifter's Muff.
The French muff is the latest device of
the female shop-lifter, and by those familiar
with its construction and perfect
adaptability to its business it is conceded
to be the neatest thing known. Until
the advent of the French muff the ladies
who lived by pick Vug ;.p valuable laces,
silks, "lid. fancy articles in the large
stores had no particular comfort in their
calling, but with the new device they
have been able to reap a harvest despite
the lynx-eyed professional counter watchers.
The shoplifter's muff is outwardly
above suspicion, there being nothing
about it to betray its capacity for concealing
plunder. It is covered with any
kind of fur, just as honest muffs are, with
the significant exception that, instead of
being padded with cotton, the fur rests
upon a framework of wire. Between the
fur covering and the wire supporting
C A * w I
frame the space usually filled with cotton
is left vacant, thus providing accom- '
modfttion for quite a stock of valuable 1
lace, articles of jewelry, gloves, or anything
else small and valuable.
In the bottom of the muff there is a
small slide on the inside, worked by the
hand of the wearer, who, after introducing
the article stolen into the muff,
presses back this slide and drops the
plunder in the cavity between the frame
and the fur. "With one of these muffs
shop-lifting is so easy as to be success- |
fully practiced by novices, as not one
store-walker in a thousand would suspect
that his counters could be worked through
a muff worn as these are when in action.
The operator rests her hand, with the
muff 011 it,on the goods which she proposes
to sample, and a moment of diverted attention
on the part of the salesman or
saleswoman is ample for her to transfer
to her ingenious warehouse such samples
as she can conveniently and quickly pick
up with one hand. The movement of
concealing the stolen articles is istantaneouslv
executed, and however well the
muff may be stuffed, it can not be bulged
out to attract attention, like a cloak or
dress.?Chicago Neics.
Hendricks and his Foot.
During Mr. Hendricks' serious illness j
a couple of years ago. I went into his
room one morning and found him looking
at the afflicted foot with an amused
smile on his face and the familiar sparkle
in his eye. "What do you find so interesting
in that contemplation, governor?"
I asked, as I took the hand stretched out.
to me. He pointed to the foot wrapped
up in numberless bandages and elevated
011 the footboard of the bed at what !
seemed, as Mr. Hendricks was a tall man, I
a good distance from the head. "Doesn't j
it. look like a rabbit sitting 011 a log?"he ;
said, and with two ends of the bandages j
accidentally exposed on either side like
cars, it certainly mu. -?cn, m- vuu- |
tinned, "I've been thinking, though T j
haven't shot for a long time, that with a '
good gun I could hit it, and it' 1 sue- !
ceeded it would at least have the efleet of j
changing Thompson's everlasting ques- i
tion of "How is the loot doing,' to i
'Where in the deuce has the foot gone?"' |
Thompson was the family physician, to j
whom he was much attached.?>7. Louis I
Itcpublicau.
The remains of the distinguished
French officer. Major L'Knfant, who
j planned the city of Washington at the
J request of the immortal George himself,
i lie buried in a garden on the Riggs es!
tate, in Maryland, unmarked by any
I monument.
I
FOR FEMININE READERS.
A Japanese Nurse.
There is at last something new under
the sun. One of the fashionable mothers
up-town has brought home with her
from abroad a Japanese nurse for her
little one, and the sight of the odd-looking
creature going about the streets of
i New York with her infantile charge is
indeed a novelty. She is clad always in
her native costume, and is as much of a
curiosity as was Mrs. Langtry's famous
Japanese "tiger'' who attended her upon
the occasion of her last visit to America.
The child seems much attached to her
almond-eyed nurse, who, in her turn,
appears to be perfectly serene and happy,
as though she thought her lines had
fallen in pleasant places. It goes without
saying, however, that this new importation
is not regarded with high fa
vor by the others of her guild.?JSew
York World.
A Loaf from Baby's Diary.
To-day I saw papa sticking knife and
fork into a chicken, and the chicken
never moved. So I took a fork near me
and stuck it into the kitten, lying on my
'lap; the naughty kitten sprang on the
table and upset the gravy-dish over the
cloth. Everybody jumped; some caught
the kitten, some the dish, some wiped
the cloth. I never saw so much excitement.
I never created so much excitement
as that kitten did. Now, if they
had fixed that kitten on a chair as they
fixed me she never would have jumped
on the table. Everything was taken
away from me then: so I played with a
button on my bib; the button came off,
and I, trying to find out how it tasted,
swallowed it. From that moment everybody
left the table in a great hurry.
Mamma took me up. turned me on her
knees, face downward, stuck a linger in
my throat until I thought I should choke
to death. After she had half killed me she
began to cry, and screamed; 'Send for
the doctor!' Everybody looked at me as
they expected me to do something; but I
was so scared that I couldn't do anything.
Then the doctor came, and he
laughed, and, as I couldn't laugh, I cried.
My mother asked ever so many questions
of the doctor, but he only shook his head
and smiled, saying it would be all right
in the morning. I never heard any more
about it, so I suppose it was all right in
the morning."
Producing BloomWitlioiitCosmetics.
It takes from three to five visits to
make the "rose" permanent. The treatment
is painless, and the girls seem rather
to enjoy it. The young lady who was
being operated upon during the reporter's
visit was a pale-cheeked lass from
up-town, whose face needed but the l'oses
to make her interesting. She was undergoing
the first course. Under the 1
impression that the visitor was a student, 1
she made no objection to his presence.
The doctor began his operations with a
soft, dry towel, with which he rubbed <
both cheeks of the patient until they
glowed. Then he alternately patted and ]
rubbed the cheeks with his bare hands ,
until the blood was brought sufficiently
near the surface to make the girl look as
is she had been standing over a hot fire
cooking a dinner.
After a rest of ten minutes the process
was renewed, and before that was over !
there was a spot on each cheek that
glowed like a burning coal. This had to
be toned down, and the toning was done <
by application of an ointment rubbed 1
into the skin with a piece of soft sheepskin,
so that when this was done the j
young lady who came in pale-cheeked
and colorless left the office with a pair of
roses that will be the admiration and j
envy of her uninitiated companions. This ,
proccss is continued for several suecesHitfil
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mancnt.?Philadelphia JVeics. j
Love-Making in a Newspaper.
There lives in New York, said a recent
importation from the East, a newspaper , <
man who is a striking; illustration of what I '<
love-making through the papers may ac- '
complish. He is now a grey-bcarded
man of leisure, but years and years ago
he was a struggling young editorial <
writer on a Western paper. He wrote i
with a good deal of- earnestness on sentimental
topics. Having conceived an ]
earnest, devoted, absorbing love for a .
young lady, and knowing that she was ,
greatly interested in certain lines of work
and thought, he managed to put his heart
in his editorials for her benefit. I do not
mean that he did not write for the public,
but that he wrote for the public better because
of the warmth in his heart to- 1
ward the woman he loved.
At the same time he was carrying for- ^
ward an ideal character in a series of
sketches. He had pictured this young 1
lady so plainly that many recognized her J
as the heroine of his romance. But
so tenderly, so delicately was the character
handled that any one might have felt
flattered at all that was said. In fact, 1
the lady herself was in the habit of say- i
ing that she whs content to be regarded i
as the character so finely pictured. But <
in time the heroine was carried toward i
the hero of the story in a way to leave
open the question of her regard, and
there the sketches were broken off. At j
this time the writer was the bluest man ]
I ever saw. ,
He told iric that he had come to a <
crisis in his affairs, lie had carried the
discussion in his editorials to a point
where he was in danger of showing to
the public: his attachment to the ideal
who had inspired all of his work on that j
line, lie could not take the story of his !
sketches any further without hinting at a !;
denouement that might be very offensive
to this lady who had been kind enough
to be pleased with his picture of the ideal
woman. There was only one way out of
the trouble, and that was to tell the object
of his love how highly ho regarded
her. He did this in one of the most
beautiful letters that I have any recollection
of, and in six months his ideal
woman was his wife. ? Vhicayo JitterOcean.
A Southern Girl's Gift.
<lI tell you, boys,'' said an old Southern
army oflioev at St.Paul the other day,
' Southern girls for rich beauty and loyalty
take the cake. You've got pretty
girls up here, ihu mere isn l uuu m .?
hundred of thorn that takes a cent's worth
of interest in the financial condition and
political phases of the country. Down
South it is different. Especially in war
times was it so, and a soldier, whether he
was of low or high birth, so long as lie
wore the uniform of the Confederacy, was j
at once tendered the wannest, favors of;
the Southern ladies. I remember once j
we were encamped on the Rappahannock <
and 1 had been invited to dine with a !
widow and her daughter at a neighbor- !
ing house. We had been on a long march ;
and I hadn't an opportunity to wash my
shirt for four weeks. It was the only I
shirt I had, and I concluded to wash it J
in the river before going to the. dinner, j
1 went down and washed it., and in the!
middle of the stream T noticed a rock.and I
I thought it would be a capital idea to j
lay the shirt on the Took to dry while I
swam around and disported myself in the ,
water. I did so, and when I went to get
my shirt, thinking it would be dry, I
found.that the wind had blown it off the
rock and it had disappeared down the
stream. Here was a pretty mess. A splendid
dinner staring me in the face and no
shirt to wear. But a good dinner in
those times was not to be lost, so I put on
my military coat that buttoned high up
around the neck, and, tying a handkerchief
around my throat. I gave the impression
that I had a boil on my neck
and went to the dinner. A beautiful
yonng lady got opposite me at the table,
and after a few moments' conversation
with her I noticed that she colored up
and looked confused. I didn't understand
what the trouble was and began to
stir myself to find out. Happening to
glance down I saw that the front of my
coat was unbuttoned. The button-holes
were well worn and the buttons had
slipped out. I knew then the reason of
the lady's discomfiture, and, without a
word buttoned the coat and went on talking
as though nothing had happened.
The lady soon recovered from the shock,
and I spent a delightful afternoon. Just
before I took my departure the young
lady left the room, and. as I stood in the
hall bidding her mother and sisters goodbye,
she came down-stairs, and, handing
me a package, requested me not to open
it until I reached camp. I pledged my- j
self and went to camp. When I reached !
my camp, with no little curiosity I opened i
the package and found a neatly-laundried
lady's night-dress. You sec the girl had
taken in my condition, and, in her eagerness
to do something for me, had given
J.l_* A. 1. * "L ~ ^"U ~ 1 4. sx
mc mis garment, wiucu was ijiu ul-su sue
could do. These are the kind of girls we
have in the South, and any man who
wouldn't honor and respect them should
be shot."?Chicago Tribune.
Fashion Notes.
Bodices remain long waisted.
This is emphatically a velvet season.
Homespun is meeting with great popularity.
Cuffs as well as linen collars are again
fashionable.
Small plush wraps will be worn again
in the spring.
Beaded woolen costumes are supplanting
braided ones.
Corsages will be shirred on the shoulders
in the spring.
Young girls should never wear trained
or demi-trained dresses.
In Paris they are wearing jersey-cloth
costumes trimmed with fur.
Walking skirts are as long as possible
without touching the ground.
Round waists and belts a la Josephine
are by no means out of fashion.
Honey-comb satin trimmed with swansdown
is the proper thing for babies'
capes.
In Paris the new underskirts have detachable
flounces to correspond with the
dress worn.
Buttons continue large, but on the
most lady-like suits the largest sizes do
not appear.
A garland of natural flowers about the
svaist is a fashionable garniture for an
evening dress.
Young girls arc especially favored tms
season in having materials made purposely
for their use.
Even some of the long cloaks have
cushions under the plaits in the back to
form the tournure.
Childrens' pinafores must be ample
now, quite covering the dress, and being
very richly trimmed.
Notwithstanding the rage for skunkfur.
astrachan comes second on the list,
seal being the most popular.
Cord ornaments are shown. They arc
heavy, and are worn with best effect on
the coarse, rough materials now in
vogue.
Since the hair is worn high again, the
opportunity is afforded of wearing flowers
ind feathers to complete the pretty
coiffure.
Among the novelties is a trimming in
which iridescent beads mixed with
chenille are so arranged as to be worn
edgewise or perpendicularly.
Muffs are said to be larger this season,
but it would be quite impossible to And
anything smaller than some of the suit
muffs capable of holding two hands.
So arbitrary is the fashion for wearing
different materials in the same color, that
hereafter gray astrachan alone must trim
plush, velvet, corduroy and rough
i. !1 ? ' ni.nr frmiT C 111 fine
millennia in LUU IIUIT giuj
No matter what the age, beauty or
liomeliness, grace or uncouthness, of a
woman, the hair is at present worn off
the neck and high on the head. The effect
is sometimes beautiful, but more frequently
frightful.
Set pieces of soutache embroidery or of
silk cord and jet can be purchased ready
to sew on vest fronts, collars, sleeves, and
tabliers and panels of costumes. These
make handsome additions to a plain
dress, and the various pieces are easily
applied.
Ladies who wear black from choice or
from motives of economy must bear in
mind that many contrasting colors cannot
be worn with black, and that, quite as
much as any other color, black must be
suited to shades, or the eye of the artist
will be offended.
In almost every line fashion has been
very comprehensive?variety in color,
tut and material. In every small detail
there was never so much variety, and in
gear for the feet there is 110 lack of styles.
The Parisian shoes and sandals are marvels
nf exquisite workmanship, and the combination
of lining, buckle and style arc
quite dazzling.
Youthful Army Officers.
The Bulgarian army, which, to the surprise
of everybody, has been greatly distinguishing
itself against its supposedlytnnni'inr
fops. is. CUHOUSlv CllOUgh,
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commanded by mere youths. There is no
officer in the tield of higher rank than
that of major, and the senior of these
passed his iirst military examination as
recently as 1874. The commanding officer
of the artillery is only a captain, and |
passed into the army in 1878, and the I
battalions and squadrons arc commanded
by lieutenants and sub-lieutenants. The
oldest officer in the Bulgarian army is
only thirty-live, and the remainder average
about twenty-seven. Prince Alexander,
who has the chief command, is but
twenty-eight.
Patio nee at a Window-Pane.
"Patience on a monument smiling at i
grief' is a poetical picture, but impa
ticnce on a window scat, with her nose I
pressed against the window-pane, and j
Iier ear strained to catch the sound of a ,
footstep,
Gathering hor brows like gat hiring storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
as she waits for her husband coming
home from the club at 1 :1 "> M.. is a
more imposing picture, and a much more
familiar one in real life.?Buxton Co>rri'r
LORDS OF LUCRE.
MAGNATES WHO ARE POSSESSORS
OF MANY MILLIONS.
Some of the Enormous Private Fortunes
of Europe?Wealth of Foreign
Rulers?Some Rich
Americans.
For many years the richest individual
in all Russia was llerr Steiglitz. When
j he retired from affairs in 1860 he held
I property to the value of $9,000,000. But
1 the richest men in the land of the czars |
j at the present time are the two Noble
j brothers. They are of Swiss origin.
' WV>?ln fTOTTnlinit in inf/>rinr T?n<3Sin tllPV
saw thousands of acres of land aglow
with the light of oil-gas. They at once
purchased entire districts of the apparent- j
ly worthless fields, sunk oif wells, and
now control more petroleum than anjr
concern in the world. Their wealth is
really beyond calculation, though the
London Times correspondent thinks that
$400,000,000 is not an extravagant estimate.
It is to the Rothschilds, however,
that belongs the honor of being the rich- J
est among men. Their united properties
?and their properties must be considered J
as united, from their peculiar family and
business relations?pass even beyond the
millions.
In the past twelve years they have
I loaned to certain European governments
| nearly $475,000,000. Their lordly power
is shown in a modern instance. In 1866
the Prussian government demanded an indemnity
of $2.'5,000,000 from the city of
Frankfort. The head of the Rothschild
house in that city sent word to Count
Bismarck that if an attempt was made to
force the levy, he would break every
bank in Berlin. And Bismarck was compelled
to give way. Of course it would
have been different if it had been a question
of hogs, when Bismarck would have
felt himself right at home.
The enormous wealth of the Rothschilds
is doubly remarkable from the fact
that the familv was totally unknown a
century ago.
Inferior only to the Rothschilds are the
Baring brothers, who have <lat instantaneous
command*' $300,000,000. It is
noteworthy that the Barings owe their
commercial rise to an American, Mr. "Wm.
Bingham, of Philadelphia, who many
years ago had the house appointed the
American agency in London.
Glaus Spreckels, "the sugar king of
the new world," as he likes to call himself,
is said to derive an income of
$5,000,000 from his sugar plantations
in the Sandwich Islands. In his domain
he wields the most .autocratic power of
any monopolist in the world. His home
at Honolulu is like the dream of a Sybarite.
His wants are served by an army
of negroes.
Among the richest of moderns is the
czar of Russia, who enjoys from his personal
estate an income of $10,000,000.
The sultan of Turkey is allowed for the
support of his court $6,000,000; in addition
to this he has a private income of
$4,000,000. The emperor of Austria is
granted a yearly allowance of $12,000,000,
and as wiener-wurst and beer are
not expensive, he continues to save a few
dollars for his children.
Queen Victoria's personal estate is estimated
at $30,000,000, and her lands and
? i.illir ?1 " Ortrt flflfl mnrfv
estuics are ?uuu muj ?
But there are several noblemen in England
with wealth greater than that of
their sovereign. The dukes of Buccleuch,
Devonshire and Norfolk, and the
Marquis of Bute have each of them rent
rolls of $2,000,000 per annum. The
Duke of Portland, who died recently, left
unentailed property of $10,000,000, and
this, too, after a long life of the wildest
extravagance. The greater par; of his
palace was constructed under ground.
His banquet-hall, ball-room, riding-gallery,
and any number of superb guestrooms
are veritable tunnels, decorated in
a fashion so splendid as to seem when
described like a story of the Magi.
Richer even than any of these titled
millionaires is the Duke of Westminister,
who undoubtedly has the largest income
of any individual in tne worm. jtns iurtune
lies largely in tlie diametrically opposite
regions of London known as the
West End and Seven Dials. He owns
acre upon acre of the most aristocratic
domain of London, and his tenements
cover miles of the worst slums in the
world. His income quite passes the limit
of the credible, and is said by some to
amount to $50 a minute.
Among the richest American estates
ever gathered is that of the Astor family.
Efforts are made to conceal the enormous
figure that would express the worth of
the property, but it is probable that $80,000,000
is not an extravagant estimate.
The estate of William H. Yanderbilt was
$200,000,000. A. T. Stewart was worth
at the time of his death fully $60,000,000,
a large part of which has gone one
way or the other, but mostly the former.
Jay Gould may be credited' with $100,000,000,
and just as much more as
he pleases to make. Armour, the Chicago
hog-packer, is worth $15,000,000.
Mackay, whose step-daughter, the child
of a California camp-barber, married the
prince of the ancient house of Colonna, is
worth at least $20,000,000, and Fair, his
former partner, has fully that amount.
Edwin D. Morgan, the heir of the exgovernor,
has $30,000,000. James Gordon
Bennett, one of the richcst of the
vounger men of America, has a fortune of
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$15,UUU.UUU, ana so nas rjjuuuci.i. mum.
Miss Catherine Wolfe, the richest spinster
in the country, has nearly $1.1i.000,000,
slid is the last ot' her line.?Philadelphia
North American.
His Name was Immaterial.
A New York letter to the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: The police captain or
sergeant, behind his desk in the station
house, is no small personage,
though his stronghold is performing
routine work with precision in respect
to required details that are not required.
For instance, the man's true name is of
very little account in most cases. An
occurrence will serve to illustrate. A i
young blood became hilarious in the
street at an hour when all soberminded
citizens arc .supposed to be in
bed and asleep, lie was taken in by a
policeman.
"What's your name.'" the sergeant
asked.
Henry ." the prisoner began, but
he *hiid sobered up enough to recollect
* i fSa.il tf>
Tliar ins lamiiy liugui not w pi.ni.n.? ,
see hi< name in :i police court item in
their paper, and he hesitated.
"What's the rest of your name:" the
sergeant demanded.
"Oh, that's immaterial," faltered the
youn<; blood.
Henry Immaterial,'' repeated the sergeant,
as he wrote. "IIow old are you,
and where do you reside?"
The prisoner gave as his place of residenee
a street number that would have
located the house weli out in the North
river, and the next morning he was arraigned
as "Henry Immaterial," and tilled
the usual amount for being drunk and
disorderly. He considered himself in luck
and [?aid up cheerfully. '
TO-MORROW.
"You'll come to-morrow, then;" light word^'
lightly said. j
Gayly she waved her little hand, gayly lUr
bared his head.
"You'll come to-morrow, then," and the ra&
on his errand went,
With a tender prayer on heart and lip, yet OT>
his work intent.
The woman a moment lingered; "would h*
turn for a parting look?"
Then with half a smile and half a sigh, h?P
household burden took.
"You'll come to-morrow, \hen," and when itu?
morrow broke, i r
n_i_ i? i.i. 3 a .4
raieups an lae crowuea city, ui uiu nun /
accident," spoke;
A strong man in a stranger's home, in deaths
dread quiet lay,
And a woman sobbed a full heart out in A
cottage a mile away.
So lightly our thoughts leap onward, AO /
lightly we hope and plan,
While Fate waits grimly by and smiles, towatch
her plaything?man?
Discounting the dim strange future, whil?
his blind eyes cannot see,
What a single flying hour brings; where
next step may be.
And love floats laughing onward, and at hit
side glides sorrow,
While men and women between them wall^
and say, "We'll meet to-morrow!" *
?All the, Year Round. .
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
"Well connected?A train of cars.
Preferred creditors?Those who will *
not dun.
A miser in the middle of his wealth is.
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ukc a uy 111 muiussc* tiiut vhau l vuw
It shows great family affcction when a
man continues to draw his pension several
years after his death.
When an impecunious man marries an
heiress he celebrates his golden wedding
on th? start.?Maverick.
Appropriate sign for church in need of
musicians: Wanted?singers; in choir
within.?Hot Springs News.Jones
must have been pretty sea-sick
going to Europe when lie threw up his
engagement with his girl.?LouM
Citizen.
Though a musician may move in the
best society, he is still on terms of thf
closest intimacy with all of the sharps.?*
lioxbury Advocate. ::
Letting a boil pursue its course
Is like tracing a river to Its source,
Thoueh each mav prove quite troublesome,
At last unto a head they come.
?St. Paul Herald.
Rabbits are selling for fifteen centf
each in Sussex county, New Jersey. For >'
ninety cents there the amateur sportsmen
can have a good deal of sport.?8otmt?
ville Journal.
A man never appreciates how supremely
blessed a married life is until he has
to hold the babv while his wife works &
pair of braccs for the new minister.?
Fall liner Advance. '1
Sum Jones says: ''Live so your children
may put their feet in your tracks
and be honorable." That don't walk
all over the road on the way home nights;
Itochcster Post-Express.
A tramp wen tinto a house in Missouri
and spit on the parlor carpet. Th?f
woman was sick in bed, but she got up
and broke his collar-bone aud ran mm to
the woods.?St. Louis Post.
A new kind of cheese is made, which,
is said to appeal strongly to a man's imagination.
That may be so, but w?
never heard a man's nose called by thai
name before.?New York Graphic.
He's a rude ignoramus, au unpolished churl
Who says it (defend him who will),
That a sealskin saeque looks on a corpulent
the seal it were still.
?Boston Courier.
It is said tliat the real name of Stepniak
the nihilist writer, is Krawtschinsky.
A name like that could never go "thundering
down the agesit would have tostop
and sneeze too often.?Hartford
Post.
The best time for a young man to taktf
1 -1 ic rlnrinrr a 'MriinnC^
Ills J^iri ait'Jtiuiu^ 10 uuitug u ^
snow storm." lie can use both hi9 arms
to hold his girl in the sleigh, and let tho
snow storm do the "driving."?Norrutoicn
Herald.
"You arc growing fat," said a West
Lynncr to his grocer. ''How much doyou
weigh?" "Oh, that depends on
business. Some days I weigh a ton, and
some days I don't weigh much of anything."?Lynn
Item. ,
Outside of a minister's tent, in Idaho,
a rcd-shirtcd man was searching for his
tin cup. Not finding it, he observed:
' Some infernal thief has stolen my cup.*
Then sticking his head into the tent, liftasked:
"Any of you gentlemen got itV 4
?Puck.
Butcher (to lady with dog in her
arms)?"What will it be this evening
mum?" Lady?"Send a pound and a
half of calves' liver in time for breakfast,
and?let me see, Carlo won't
eat liver?and half a pound of porterhouse
steak."?Life.
Tom Bickson is a San Antonia youth
of about seventeen who has not yet grown
a mustache. He is also very small physically.
He has been paying ccmsidcrabl?
attention to a young lady and finally h?
proposed: "Miss Mary, I love you," h? ,
said, sinking down on his knees. ''You
had better speak with your pa and see if
he will give his consent," was the cutting
reply.? Siftings.
The choir had kindly volunteered to
sing the favorite hymns of the members
of the congregation. Each was requested
to write his choice on a slip of paper and
hand it in. Easily recognized as tho
chirograph}- of the butcher, was, 4'Wo
shall meat on that beautiful shore."
The opulent plumber chose, "All for m^"
The favorite of the baker was, "I knead
thee, every hour." The young lawyer
who had just hung out a sign for which
the painter was dunning him, handee ir* ;
' Just as I am, without one plea."?Samy
the Sairamuiirh.
Making it Plain.
A Georgian tells how a colored parson
in his State once made clear even to tfca
dullest of his flock the difficulty of treading
the straight ami narrow path as contrasted
with th<' descent on the spacious
-
hiyhwov leaning m mu m HVi Ulli;^iivu? I
Before In* was well started in his discourse
lie ran down the pulpit stairs ami
proceeded to suit the action to the word.
My brethren," he cried, "the road to
heaven is like this" and lying flat on the
banister he began to jhi II himself up, hand
over hand, as laboriously as a boy climbs
a greased pole. At last he reached the
top and got on his feet again, happy ir^
his Christian victory. Then, having
taken breath, lie exhorted his hearers to
look at the road to hell, doubled one lcs I
under him and slid down the rati, in n
half sitting posture, with a rapidity'and
grace that betrayed a juvenile familiarity
with this route. \