Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SUMMERTIME. Tis summort.'ra?. 'tis summertime, The year is agin? fast, The erst vou'iir child has reached its prime Its prattling days are past. The smiling babe, with promise born, Is now a babe no more; Now manhood's looks mature adorn Where childhood's graced before. 'Tis summertime, 'tis summertime, And tarth is gay and bright, All nature dons a garb sublime TVw vntrifK canco onH G1 oilh And warmth and g'ow o'er all abide To lord it while they stay; The days pass on, comes wintertide, And then, oh, where are they ? 'Tis summertime, 'tis summertime, The years are rolliug fast, With man and month alike speeds time Till old age comes at last; Hence of the sumn ertime of life, Whoso may be possest, While it is theirs with pleasures rife, Should make of it the be^t. ?Hal Berte, in Free Press. CROSS PURPOSES. "Well, if you cau't get your own consent, Mrs. Deery, I suppose you can't," aid Mr. Perrin, his reproachful gaze fixed upon the fly promenading the widow's pli\mp wrist. "I had hoped on reflection, you'd come to consider my proposal favorably, but it seems you think you couldn't be happy with me." "I couldn't.be happy with Roxanna," responded the lady, impetuously; then, checking herself, she flushed like the ? JV! - 4. i. I f.. J J * 1 i. wuuuujuc lit iuu wxuuuvv, anu iu ncrturu {fazed down upon the itinerating fly. "Oh, if you refuse me cn account of iater, .Mrs. Deery, I really can't take'No' for an answer," cried her suitor, looking up with an encouraged air. The widow's gaze never swerved from ths insect, now chafing its stiffened little legs upon her thumb. "You'd have no trouble in getting on with sister, I'll wage-," pursued th;; ager wooer. "You rarely see anevenertempered woman." "i'es that's just it, Mr. Perrin. Poxanna's too perfect," broke forth the lady, brushing away the fly with startling en- ! ergy. "It would fidget me to death to live with her. She's a chosen vessel, and I'm only common clay." The widow Deery common clay, indeed ! Mr. Perrin would have divined j i the contrary unaided by the officious sun- j beam whicn darted in at that instant to 1 point out her manifuld attractions. Be- ' tng deeply in love, he took advantage of 1 his opportunity to pay a handsome com- 1 pliment and to renew his suit. For one intoxicating moment his fair ^ listener wavered, but the moment passed. ' "flush. Dlease. Mr. Perrin I Don't sav I ' __ any more about it!" cried she, with a ' wilful toss of her bewitching brown curls. ^ "I might care for you"?the tremor in ' her voice was very nearly his undoing? 1 "I might care for you, but I goulan't i | breathe with Roxanna. Think how my ^ little toy would worry her! She wouldn't ' ipeak an unkind word, but every time he 1 left sticky finger-priuta on a door I should 1 feel that she was wishing that he and I 1 his mother had staid away." "I might?" Mr. Perrin pau?ed, | ihocktd at his base impulse. Had he j actually been about to remark that he ! might provide sister with another home? Sister, who, but for devotion to his interests, might now be matr?.nidng a household of her own? Dear, faithful Rox- ; ! anna! Could he ever requite her for j those weary years of watching beside the I couch <of his helpless, dying wife! The j1 lull measure of her self-sacrificc he had i1 i ..4. i.i>~ i: k..i ! nut IVJLlvJYYu at IUC WIIIC, uut UC 1JUW UUU | do doubt that for Climena's sake and his : he had discarded Joel Kirby. No, no; j sister should never be requested to vacate , the dwelling over wh.ch she had ruled so long and so well! An i to Mr. Perrin's t credit be it stated, that in the ardor of his passion for the little widow he closed I his lips upon the disloyal words that per- ; chance might have won her, and strode 1 forth from her cottage a rejec ed lover. "If Kirby should want Roxanna now { as much as, according to accounts, he | wanted her before he went to California, why, it might straighten things," mused "6<S7:plodding despondently along the path through the fields; "but they say he has his eye on his cousin Martha. Naturally he would be looking for somebody younger than sister: she has f. ded. There's an od Is in women." And the | lover's thoughts reverted to the buxom j widow, little younger than Roxanna, yet j no more faded than a morning-glory at sunrise. Mr. Perrin's feet had traversed the meadow and ascended the slope of the I pasture adjoining the highway ere his j mind caught up with them. Then he j murmured, half audibly: "1 wonder j whether Kirhv did rail this aftftrnnn-i? When I saw his team coming over the ' iddge, it struck me I miuht as w.'ll steal off through the orchard. Considering | he's in the neighborhood looking up his I old friends, he can't civilly pass by Rox- | anna; and 1 wouldn't be a hindrance in : case?" His soliloquy merged in a low whistle , of satisfaction. He had reached the bhrs j opposite his own gate, and at the gate, | his fore-feet deep in a hollow paw.d by | their impatience, stood Mr. Kirby's gay : orrel. At the spectacle" Mr. Perrin's heart - bounded within him, and he clutched tbe topmost rail lor support. Should he lead the forgotten horse away to the stable, or should he by so doing appear to take too much for granted? He doi.. "u. :i_li. i-_ j ? ? j._ l- i uvu iu uu a nu uesirca 10 we exceedingly hospitable, but be must not convey the impression that he was overcealous for a brother-in-law, and thus annoy Roxanna. Sister wa; so fastidious! In unprecedentfd excitement the habitually easy-going man deba'ed within hin.sclf regarding the course of conduct befitting this exceptional occasion, and tina ly judged it best to interfeie with the probable wooing in no particular. Acc >rdingiy "it crept quietly around to the porch dooi, with a surreptitious glance at the sitting-room in passing. A brisk fire of chips revealed to him his rather prim blonde sister seated in a low rocker before the hearth, and Joel Kirby leanincr a<?aiust the mantel near her Toliibly discoursing. "They've opened the ball without me, I guess," mused the skulking ho9t, facetiously. as he hitched his chair along to the kitAen stove to warm his feet in the oven. "Seeing that it's the lirst visit, I must say Joel stays it out well. Unquestionably he means busiuess. "WT.at's to prevent? He's a first-rate fellow, and '11 make a kind husband. If I wasn't lure of that I wouldn't consent to bis having Roxanna. I should hate to have him take her out to California. I hope it's true that he has bought back tlf,vl 1 m&ll tirAiili)n'f me uiuuuuicsicau. it cu, nou, nvuiuu v I like to be a little mouse in the sittingroom wall about this time?" Couid he have had his wish, a most aatounded little mouse would the worthy man have personated. "You are the most morbidly console tious person, Roxv, that I know of," Mr. Kirby was saying, with a frown that scored his forehead with horizontal wrinkles like the staff in written music. "If 1 could only convince you that it was your duty to be my wife, I should stand some chance of getting you; but, unluckily for me, you've cherished this notion th it you ought to keep house for your brother till you?" "i rother needs me," murmured >Ii?9 Roxanna, tears swelling in her eyes of baby blue." "And don't I need you? Haven't I some rights? During your stricken sister's illness I consented to waive these, I i. ? ? ~ T wnnf TTA11 " UUl IIUW 2?iic 13 uik\A x juu, "Don't Joel, don't!" "I tell you I do, find I can't help it," cried Mr. Kirby, with grim humor. "When I couldn't move you by letter, I resolved I'd come and speak for myself. You used to say you loved me, Roxy. Can't you?" "You know plenty of' other ladies, Joel, younger and more pleasing," faltered Miss Koxanna, nervously smoothing the pale ^ilJing of hnir that framed her temples in a Gothic aroh. "They are nothing to me, replied the gentleman, curtly, almost as if he esteemed the fact a matter of regret. Assured of the favor of more than one pretty girl of his acquaintance, was it not a little hard that the full curreut of his bang must needs set toward this un? ,i'ATin n ^ ? Tf nvuiuu Ui luinj i aw uuu | been ever thus with Joel Kirby from his perverse cbildlio -d. when, if lie wanted cake, 110 human power co.ild induce him to nibble g!ngerb:e:id. ' 'No, Iioxy, there's only one woman in the world for me," he continued, in a softer tone. "Your brother is of a different temperament. Has it never occurred to you that he may uiarry a second time ?" "Brother marry! Oh, no, indted, he'll never marry?nerer /" cried Miss Roxanna, rooted and grounded in the belief that her brother's heart was entombed with the dead Climena. "No, he could not take another wife, Joel, and you see he has only me. I couldn't be so cruel as to leave him." To all Mr. Kirby's subsequant pleadings she made this same reply, but it soothed his chafing spirit not a little that she made it with faltering and that she pa ted from himself with tears. As the sound of his rapid wheels died in the distance she hastily dried her eyes and hurried into the kitchen to see about t-i.i.j *4- i) ?*:n tuc ui'iaiuu ftujiper. Jir, renin, sun gloating over castles in Spain, looked up with the roguish purpose of greeting her is "'Mrs. Kirby," but, dismnyed at her troubled countenance, remarked instead that "the days were getting shorter"?a fact that she had observed before. He felt as if he had received a blow. For him there was, there could be, but jne interpretation of his sister's nnwonted amotion. She loved Kirby, and Kirby 10 long :r cared for her, Poor girl, she lad dr< amed that a man's affections were like granite boulders,incapab'eof change, ind she was awakening with a shock. Hapless Roxanua! i*he too had her trials. Keenly sympathetic, the magnanimous brother, concealed his own disappointment as best he could, and lavished upon his sorrowful sister au excess of tenderness. ''You have the knack of spoiling me for other folks' cooking, little woman, that's the truth," said he at tea time, ostentatiously heaping his plate with cream toast. "IIow should I ever get along without you?" "That'll make her feel that I appreciate her, if Joel doesn't," he mused, benevolently; while she, on her side of the table, was thinking: "It's just as I suspected; it would kill brother to lose me." "Oh. you'd manage somehow. Maybe wa??V1 nrrrr c-V? O VOnfll rnfl tlTTrt Jfl 1^7 ?1. most hearing the fluttering of the lost Climena's wings. ' Poh! poh! sister, nothing seems less likely," answered her brother, in a voice so sad that Miss Hoxanna chided herself for having opened his old woui.d afresh. But she had done it for Joel's sake. She owe I it to Joel to m ike sure that there coul I be nrt misunderstanding. The October days with their noonday patches of sunshine and their heavy borders of twilight came and went. In a spasm of hope that the charming widow might yet consent to share thi domestic sceptre with his sister, Mr. Perrin made a second proposal, only to receive a second decided, though flattering, refusal. Mr. Kirbv reneated his cull upon Miss Roxanoa, and departed cursing fate, and l?y no means loving Mr. Perrin, whom he supposed perfectly acquainted with the relations between himself and Roxanna. Overtiming Mr. Perrin one day walking home from the postoffice, Mr. Kirby with inward reluctauce asked him to ride. With equal relu.tance Mr. Perrin accepted the invitation, reflecting: "If I ain't civil, he'll take it that I'm mad because he doesn't renew his offer to Roxanna, and I won't humor him." "Heavy frost last night,''growled Mr. Kirby. "Very," assented the other, conscious of an inward chill. "Winter is upon us. Shall you spend it in Maine?" "My plans are uncertain,'' snarled Mr. Kirby; aiding, mentally: "Thanks fc> you, s'r." "Of cou se you can choose your own climate. There's tiie advantage ot naving plenty of money, and no family ties.'' "No family tic3! Whose fault was it Ihat he had no family ties?'' mused the irate bachelor, making rapid passes over his long beard as if he would mesmerize the pain in his breast. "Might notRoxanna have been his wife years ago but for the necessities of this seltiish brother?" "Though I've lately heard it hinted, Joel, that you are thinking o." marrying," Mr. Perrin blundered on, in his erabarrassm -nt saying the very thing he had resolved not to say. Mr. Kirby snapped his whip, and transfixed his companion with a glance so frigid that pcor Mr. Perrin shivered as if lie was impaled on an icicle. ' Your cousin is a fine girl, Joel?an uncommonly fine girl. I?I congratulate you," he stainmere.l, wishing it would do to get out and walk. "You arc too kind, Perrin?too kind by half," sneered Mr. Kirby, letting go the reins of his anger. ''You've robbed me of one bride, sir, and now you want to make amends, do you, by choosing me ano her/" "Why, Kirby. what are you raving about? When have I ever interfered with your concerns?matrimonial or otherwise." cried Mr. Perrin, in a tone of injured innocence. "You are laboring under some strange delusion." "I)o you pretend it's a delusion of mine that but for you Roxauna would be ray wife?" "Oh, he's twitting me on old scores," mused Mr. Perrin, aggrieved. He blames me for letting sister give up her prospects ill iuc ivi vuuiuua o oaav. kjioivi nvuiu do it, and ahe never told me there was anything between her and Joel. ' 'When a man is in a tight place, Joel, he's apt to realize his own needs better than the needs of his brethren,I suppose," he said, aloud, after a moment's pause. "But I'm ^sorry if you bear me a grudge." "Tight place! Do you call yourself in a tight place, Perrin?a strong, hearty fellow like you? You ought to be independent of your sister. You ought to ? ^ t 1 J 1 nire a uouse-Kcepsr, anu ici. nu??uuu go." "Let Roxanna go! Where?" interrogated the befogged Mr. Perrin. "Wherever she prefers to live. I should let her decide that after we were married," replied Mr. Kirby, impatiently. "The main point is to get her away from you. She says you say you couldn't live without her." "Yes, I did say it?I did say it; but I take it all back," cried Mr. Perrin, fairly blinking in the light that suddenly illuminated his darkened mind. "I see things clearer than I did, Joel. I won't stand any longer between you and Roxanna." "Your hand on it?" "My hand on it, Joel. I shall be glad ?p'roud that is?to give sister to you; and if you are going on up to the house, you can tell her I said so." "Thank you, Perrin?thank you. And if I've spoken sharply, I beg your pardon," cried Mr. Kirby, smiling like a Santa uiaus. "Oh, it's all right. Everything is all right," replied Mr. Perrin, too happy to keep it to himself. "Drop me here, Kirby, please; I have an engagement to m ike. And maks it to-diy I shall and I will, God willing," he added, beneath his breath, as he dismounted before the door of the widow Deery.?Havper''? Bazar. Dealings in Gold Dnst. Gold-dust buying in the mining towns was a very profitable business in the early days of California. What was called black sand, composed principally of iron, was always mingled to a greater or less degree with the dust when it was brought to the h jyer. This had to be blown out, and often the finest particles of gold were kliititr> Tnifti if TVnia in nn rtffirfi where a large quantity of dust was bought much of the fine gold would be scattered around the room. The dustings of a buyer's counter and sweepings of his floor were often worth hundreds of dollars a month. Sometimes the buyers were suspect d of cheating in a more illegitimate manner by slyly appropriating some of the gold while they were shaking it around and examining it in the blow pans. Once a miner, who believed a buyer had swindled him, got even in a rather peculiar manner. He had a pair of brass stirrups weighing two pounds. Every time he sold dust to this buyer he filed a portion of the stirrups among it till he h'id palmed off the whole of them for gold dust. The Chinese have always been the most successful manufacturers of counterfeit gold dust. Many a lot of brass or iron filings, plated with gold, has been sold by them to unsuspecting buyers. Of late years this has been less practiced, however, because of the fact that buyers almost invariably test the dust with acid, op hum it Rv Ruhipctinp1 it to an intense heat the gold is not affected, but any other metal that may be mingled with it is soon dissipated in vapor. A buyer was once purchasing some dust from a company of Chinese miners. His balance scales were on an open counter before them. Suddenly he noticed that one of the Chinamen had slyly touched the balance in which the dust was to bo weighed. Quickly looking under the bottom of it he found some object sticking to it, which proved to be a small piece of sticky substance, like beeswax. It weighed half an ounce. The wily Chinamen had intended, of course, after the dust was weighed, to remove the wax as deftly as they had put it on. Marks ou the bottom of the balance revealed the fact that this trick had often been successful. Thus this company, and perhaps others, had gained half an ounce on the buyer every time they sold him a lot of dust. This trick and others of a similar character afterward led almost all buyers to put their balance scales in glass cases, instead of having them open on the counter. In the early days of California life specie was not plentiful enough for the needs of trade, and gold dust wa? used almost entirely as a medium of exchange. The miners carried it in long buck9kin purses. This compelled all kinds of business houses and shops to have scales with which to weigh the dust. What little coined money there was in circula tion was eagerly bought up by the gamblers, who by pih'ng it up in their banks could make more of a display with it than they could with the gold dust.? San Francisco Post. ' Barroom Gorgeonsness. Barroom gorgcousness in the metropolis is shown in the fact that $250,000 has been spent on high art in half a dozen saloons. The principal works of art in the Hoffman House barroom, with their cost, are thus givon: "The Ejjg Dancer," statue by Ball,once owned Dy uaKes Ames $4,uuu "Eve," a figure in marble, by Romanelli, one? owned by Carman, of Carmansville, who paid for it 8,200 "Pan and Bacchante," once the property of Honry Hilton, and bought for 50Q 'The Diver," marble, by Tarrachi.... 2,500 "The Moorish Slave," supposed to-be 2,000 year9 old, once owned by the Astors, and bought for 2,000 Gobelin tapestry made for Napoleon III., and bought for 5,000 A Haarlem clock l/KX! Two pendulum clocks 600 Paintings?Bougereau's "Nymphs and Satyr," valued at $25,000, but cost only 10,00C Falero's "Vision of Faust" 5,OOC Chelmonski's "Mail Carrier" 5,00( Sadler's "Palm Sunday" ; .... 3,00( Corregio's "Narcissus'' (bought for a snnirk Worth ?00.000 if crenuine. and valued at $15,000 while" unauthenticated 15,00( A resume of the figures representing the money value of the collections is seven places will surprise even the best informed student of the subject. Th( grand total is $251,000, and the tota! for the barrooms is more than a quarter of a million. The items are as follows: Hoffman House barroom $75,000 O. F. Wildey 66,006 Theodore Stewart 50,000 ' The Studio" 20,000 Farrish's (insured for more than $15,/vw\? Ort IWl i-nsu; w,v>/v "The Bank" 15,000 Qermania Hall 5,000 Total for barrooms and chop houses..$'251,600 Model Financiering. An Ann Arbor, Mich., young man resolved that every $10 bill coming into bis possession he would put into the bank; every $5 bill would go toward a fund for buying clothes, etc.; every $1 i (bill or coin) should go for board, wash ing, elc.; every twenty-five and ten-cenl. piece to an icecream, soda water, and so forth fuud for his girl, and the pennies for church collection. At the ena of six months he balanced up, and found $6.27 for the church collection fund; $65,35 expended in the icecream-girl fuad; h? was three weeks behind with his board on the $1 fund; had accumulated just $30 for the new-clothes fund, and hadn't \ red cent in the $10 fund.?EochetUr , Chronicle. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. Boots for dogs that have sore feet ;ire kept for sale in New York. Jay Gould's income is saia ro ue i;ea cents every time the clock ticks. A Minneapolis man says that in China red iji thought to be a very lucky coloi, and that is the reason why Chinese laundry men in this country use so much red pair.t and so many red curtains. An association of pharmacists in Pam has been discussing the old question of the influence of plants in bedrooms upoi the health. The conclusion reached is that plants are beneficial, especially to consumptives. A New Jersey railroad conductor says that a ngwspaper folded lengthwise and tucked down the back under the coat, so that one end shull project up against the back of the head, makes a most comfortable and thorough rest for a tired traveler's head. A Nortt Carolina guinea hen had a nest in a hedge row. A crow discovered it, and nftar trying in vain to break an egg with its beak clutched one in its claws, and, flying up forty or fifty feet in the air, let it fall, and thus accomplished its purpose. Though it had been long believed that Britain "was an inland, it was not until the time of Agricola, the Roman Governor, that this became fully established. Agricola sent ships from a place supposed to have been Sandwich. Haven, and they sailed on and all around the north ol Scotland, discovering the Orkney Islands, till they returned to the same place from which they started. The older civilized people, the Greeks and Romans, loved city life; that was their ids?a of civilization. People who lived in. the country were rustics, and quite on a lowor level. Another name they had for those who did not live in cities, but in villages or hamlets, was pagan (from the Latin pagus, a village). The word afterward came to have another sense. The ancient Germans hated cities and loved to live apart. It has. been found by Dr. Tait that the ear in women can perceive higher notes ?that h, sounds with a greater numbei of vibrnt'ons per seeond?than the ear of men. The highest limit of hum:m hearing is somewhere between forty-one and forty-two thousand vibrations per second. Few persons have equal sensibility to acute so :nds. in both ears, the right ear usually hearing a higher note than the left. The lowest continuous sound; have about sixteen vibrations per seeond Remarkable Garments Worn by Dudes. The colored-shirt mania is becoming acute and is ranidlv getting beyond con trol. The proudest man in town to-day is the one who parades Broadway with a liberally exposed shirt bosom formed of a background ol! sea green, spla hed with red roses, and occasional arrows of a light shide of pink, with a high white collar and a p.:rple tie. Thi? gentleman feels that he can defy all comers. The only ri^al to this particularly violent specimen of misdirected energy in the matter of color is Mr. Berry Wall's waistcoat. It was built for him at vast expense, and would be the pride of Mr. Wall's friends if it weie not for the fact that the sight of it plunges them into a condition of blind, unreasoning, and violent envy. The body of the waistcoat is white, snd over its surface are embroidered countless miniature represenls.tioiis of Mr. Berry Wall's great race horse Wallflowejr, with a jockey on his back wearing Mr. Wall's colors, blue and white. It would be proper, perhaps, to observe that the word <-crreat," as used in the foregoing sentence to describe Mr. Wall's ho:se, is purely complimentary. It is not a bad-looking horse and it had the reputation of being rather fond of its master, the King of the Dudes, but it never win?. It is a ctir!ous freak which makes the most extravagant combinations admissible as. far as the shirt-bosoms and cufls are concerned, but rigidly prescribes a \vh:te collar. Of all the fashions that have afflicted the town this is by Ion,? odds the most absurd.?Brooklyn Eagle. Fainting. It is surprising how everybody rushes at a fainting person and strives to raise him up, and especially to keep his head erect. There must be an instinctive apprehension that if a person seized with a fainting fit fall into a recuraber t position death is more imminent. Always reraembir this fact, namely : Fainting is caused by want of blood in the bi-ain. The heart ceases to act with sufficient force to send the usual amount of blcod to the brain, and hence the purson loses consciousness because the i'unc tion of the brain ceases. Restore the blood to the brain and instantly the person recovers. Now, though the blocd is propelled to all parts of the tody by action of the heart, yet it is still under the influence of the laws of gravitation. In the erect position the blood ascends to the head against gravitation, and the supply to the brain is diminished, a* compared with the recumbent position, the heart's nnlsa tion bcintr eoual. If. then, you I " O * ' I ? place a person sitting whose heart ha-; nearly ceased to beat, his brain will fail to receive the blood; whi!e if you lay him down with the head lower than the heart, blood will run into the brain by mere force of gravity, and in sufficient quantity to restore consciousness. Indeed, nature teaches us how to manage fainting persons, for they always fall and frequently are at once restored by the recumbent positition into which they are thrown. Gi>ats. Apropos of an attempt being made by a society in England to popularize goats, the London Standard says: As most of our finest French glove9 are made of rat ikins, it is not necessary to enlarge upon the value of kids as furnishing the raw material! of these hand coverings. Nor, though the best Morocco leather?the art of softening, which is still confined to Muley Hassan's Emnire?is made from goat skins, would it repay anyone to keep a flock for that purpose. Hut as an occasional change of food, goat's flosh is not to be despised. The old animal, we admit, is not a delicacy. In "Wales it is salted and dried, and eaten under the nume of ''hung venison," which is strongly recommended for soup. In some countries it is even preferred to mutton, being 1 stronger food," and * n,..? *i.? uiLMUiurc mure uuiuiiuus iuuu iuc uccia of sheep. However, unless one's palate has been educated up to goat, the feeling after a dinner on one of an uncertain age is that of the backwoodsman who supped on a crow. He could eat crow, but he failed "to hanker arter it." No one hankers after goat any more th?n he does after mule, or alligator, or the.t fricassec of donkey, regarding wkich, the theoretical gourmet so oftenenlarges. But the kid ii admirable wkils a lucklinor Tf wrrmprlv dreBsed if is far su - ?o- ? r"'r?j ? -??? ? ? ? peri or to lamb or veal, though fit is not often ' -tat one has a chance, oc 1 of Italy ?r g]. ia, to test its qualities. WOMAN'S. WORLD. PLEASANT fUKtSAL FOK DEM* IMNE READERS. A Georgia Woman's Fortune. / A few years ago Mrs. Rachel Francis, of Atlanta, Ga., concluded that she could make money by going into the dairy business, and managing to get a few dollars together, she bought a cow and began business. It was on a small scale, but she prospered, and after a time she had bought a dozen or more cows. The work was done by her. She was up early and late. After milking the cows she would prepare the milk for market an:l deliver it to her customers. In two years after Mrs. Francis engaged in the dairy business she was known by nearly every citizen. She wns strictly business and went wherever her business called her,no matter where that was. Mrs. Francis invested her money as fast as she made it, and her inves ment* always prjved good ones. Mrs. Francis died a fe.w years ntm lfiivinrr mti natftfp Vfthir'il nt sUft.OOfl. o ?~ * T --J 1 including a dairy farm of seventy-five acres, well improved and stocked, near Atlanta.?Baltimore Sun. Tattooed Women. Those who think tattooing, as most people do in this part of the world, a custom of semi-civilized countries .(except in the case of sailors), will probably be astonished t? learn that there are two sisters belonging to one of the most prominent families in Washington, socially as well as in official circhs, whose grandparents on both sides were also for more than a generation back similarly situated in the National Capital, who nre really tattooed. Both the sisters are young, and one has been married for several yea s, and the other is betrothed. When scarcely in their teens these girls, just for the fun of the thing, being of a lively, daring temperament, allowed a sailor at the naval station, where they were with their parents, to tattoo their cheeks with red, and it has remained in the skin ever since, making the cheeks wear always a peculiar brick-dust hue, that no one has erer been deceived into believing natural, and wonder has often been expressed that these young ladies paintca their fuces in so glaring and inartistic a manner. Few know that they are tattooed, and that they have dou6tless often regretted utterly the freak of their early youth.?Washington Letter. Jewelry Now Worn. Bangles are now of a larger style than formerly and are jeweled in rococo style. Little gold mushroom3 are now worn as pendeloques on bracelets. What next? A pretty pin for fastening the bonnet string is composed of a cat's-eye set with diamonds. A solitaire pearl set in a dark blue enamel ring is the most fashionable engagement ring. Amber will be worn with rich black costumes this season, and when it is combined artistically it is pretty. Garnets have again become the fashion in clasps, pins and buckles; for fastening the corsage these stones are quite effective. The four-leaf clover is the most fashionable form for pins and pendants this season. The -wings of Mercury are also a favorite design in jewelry. Among the novelties in jewelry are gold crochet hooks and knitting needles tipped with small stones, pearls and brilliants being mootly used. The fashion of wearing ornaments in the hair is steadily becoming more pronounced, and many odd and beautiful designs are now shown in jeweled combs, spears, da.-gers, etc. Some pretty combs have several l.Tge silver or gold balls at the top. These are arranged among the coils of the hair with becoming effect.? New York Mail and Express. A "Wrinkle in Millinery." The dear girls have a new wrinkle in millinery?or. perhaps, it is an old wrinkle just being found out, says a New York letter. Bonnets trimmel at a fashionable establishment cost from $10 to $50, somewhat according to the style, and a good deal according to the prevailing idea of the wealth of the parent or husband who has to pay the bill. On the lining of each is printed or pasted a l;ibel with the name of the fashionable estabment. The dear girls dearly love that label, because it is the first thing each of them looks at when they inspect some other girl's new bonnet. The dear price which the dear girls have to pay for these dear hats, however, breaks the feminine hearts along with the masculine pocketbooks. They know they can trim their own bonnets just as pretty as the fashionable milliner can, and their inge 1 f ho muus uiwe uuuus u<i>5 gut uivuuv. ...? difficulty about the label by treasuring up their last year's headgear and working the linings with the high-priced label into the new, home-made millinery. The result is a bonnet that even the envious female eye cannot tell from a "boughten" one, except that it generally looks better. An incidental variation of the scheme allows the fair one to increas her supply of pin-money by collecting from papa or hubby th; old. accustomed price for her "new bonnet." In ju tice to the Indies, however, it is fair to say that few I ?' i.i~~T+'a Ti-rvrtVi rrmrp fr> U1 tUUIll UU vun, itg nviui w... -them in the long run to be able to refer occasionally to "how much I saved, my dear, by trimming my own bonnet this spring instead of going to that awfully expensive Madame Blank." It's a poor coaxer who doesn't work this little plea for three or four times the cost of one of Aimc's bonnets before the season is orer. Lucky and Unlucky Days. The following doggerel is a very old Scotch rhyme that is not often quoted nowadays. The idea of Wednesday being the best day for a wedding is all that now remains, but it will be seen each day has its own peculiar trait. The first | three days of the week being 01 gena omen and the last three ill-omened. The lines run thus: Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all: Thursday for crosses Friday for losses, Saturday "no day at alL In Judca a rainy day has always been considered unlucky for a wedding. The objection to solcmni/e marriage in the merry month of May, however tit a season for courtship, is borrowed from the Roman pagans. The ancients have given us the maxim, Malic nubent Maia, that it is only bad women who marry in May. The parties to a marriage may select the nnrl iliiv nf its celebration. but it is rather a ditHcult task to choose the day of one's birth. Yet these, too, hare a meaning: Born of a Monday, Fair in Fate; Born of a Tuesday, Full of God's grace; Born of a Wednesday, Merry and glad; Born of a Thursday, Sour and sad; Bom of a Friday, Godly given; Born of a Saturday, "Work for your living: Born of a Sunday, Never shall want; So there's the week, And the end on't. The idea of Friday being an unlucky day is almost universal, and in many civilized countries it is known as hangman's day, from the prevailing custom of set-. ting it apart as a day for executions. Yet in Scandinavia, Thursday, or the day r>f Thnr nr Thunder, is considered the day of bad omen. Saint Elroy, in a sermon, warns his flock from keeping Thursday as a holy day. Dean Swift, in a letter to Sheridan, rhymes Thursday with cursed-day. It is a well-known fact that Thursday was an unlucky day for the English house of Tudor.?New York Mail and Express. Fashion Notes. Snowballs make a lovely trimming for a tulle bonnet. For children's dresses canvas haa no rival in popularity. Perfumed reticules and pockets are among late fancy novelties. Yellow and heliotrope are the leading London colors this summer. Black, white and scarlet are the preferred colors for tulle bonnets. "White frocks are not so much in favor this year for festivals as formerly. The new peach color combines exquisitely with gold shades of yellow. Zephyr cloth, because of its good washing properties, is much favored. Leaf coral in a primrose tint lends effective aid both to bonnets and hats. The London turban is a favorite for seaside, mountain and traveling wear. Spangled crepe fans in iridescent effects come among other novelties in this line. Poniee combined with plaited surah 1 makes a pretty and inexpensives summer dres^. Gathered panels take the place of plaited ones on summer wash fabric A tulle bonnet should be the lightest, most cloud-like piece ot head-gear imaginable. The Mikado Jersey has a white or tinted waistcoat, coverel with Japanese designs. There is a new and delicate shade of peach color that takes the bloom off every other shade. Large Gainesborough hats are again in vogue, but they have very large, high, conical crowns. Elegant bended brocadc velvets are of very light weight, and will be used foi cool day wraps. A new silken canvas reminds one of a shower of golden snow, dashed with pink ] and blue and cream. j Black Jerseys, with white corduroy 1 and fancy waistcoats buttoned in, are j selling at very low priccs. One of the prettiest hits for missel I takes the name of the Priscilla. It hai a bell crown and flat, ratner wide, Drim. Plain black surah is again in grcal favor, made up with white and black plaid surah, similar to the design given for pongee. Tulle bonnets?white, . black, gray, scarlet, all shades of red and rose color, blue and heliotrope?are worn for fulldress occasions. A miscalled straw from Bahama, which is a plait either of palm leaves or wood, appears in shades of cedar, feuille morte, absinthe and crevctte. Notwithstanding the edict of the Queen, the birds are worn more in London i than in France or this country, where j good taste is potent and there ia no royal j will to bow to. I j A new fancy is to have the cover of i i rain umbrellas in some gay color, such as bright red, blue and purple. When these are removed a plain black or brown umbrella is disclosed. The most beautiful parasols seen tins season have been in the retail house? devoted to jewelry and silverware. These have proven quite an attractive feature with their gold or silver mounted sticks. In veils there is a variety of small and larger spotted tulle in all colors, and there is a most fairy-like fabric in flesh ; color, cream, olive, etc., called poudre I de ri tulle, and another in a different pati tern called spider's web. The larger spot is slowly taking precedence of the tiny, dotted Niniehe net. A Turkish Bath. A man who has not indulged in a Turkish bath has missed much of the evils of this life, says Luke Sharp, in the Detroit Free Press. I know that it is customary to speak of a Turkish bath as a great luxury. This is a grave mistake. It is a luxury in the same sense that getting a tooth pulled or a limb sawn off is a luxurv?you feel a sense of great relief when tne operation is over. First you are put into a room tnat is insufferably hot. There you endure all the tortures that are popularly supposed to be reserved for a large and influential class in futurity. Then you go into a room thit is still hotter. After that you arc mauled and maltreated by a ruffian in prc-Raphaclite costume who twists your muscles and nearly wrings the flesh off your bones and Anally beats you black and blue. The men employed at the Turkish ba'hs are people who are soured at the whole human race and who wreak the vengeance they would like to have oa the community at large on each unfortunate individual who is brought before them. When a person loses consciousness from the treatment he receives he is sponged off, after being forced to swailow half a pound of soap in the form of lather, and then dried and placed on a couch in an adjoining room until he is sufficiently recovered to have strength enough to put on his clothes and find, a dollar in one of the pockets to pay the man at the office. He is then allowed to escape. A Hairy Family. Mr. Farini has made us acquainted with strange personages; but, assuredly, none more strange thau those whom he is now exhibiting in one of the chambers of the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. This party consists of "The Burmese Royal Sacred IJairy Family." On the abdication or expulsion of King Theebaw his dependents were scattered far and wide; and among the deposed favorites were a mother and son, who are held to be sacred simply from the fact that they are covered with hair from head to foot. There is 110 possible imposture about this fact, for uny visitor is permitted the close3t inspection. From the forehead to the feet the hair is in thick profusion, especially over the face (which resembles that of the Skye terrier), where it has to be divided in order to allow the human eyes?for human they are?to see or be seen. On the man's face the hair is enormously thick, and measures in length over seven inches. The woman, his mother, who is sixty-throe years of ago, is also completely covered with hair, which is now growing gray.?London Standard. \ 7 *** >; v *'i HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Baking Bread or Cake. The baking of bread or cake is 8om?? thing that will not take care of itself. The old notion that you must not look ?t anything in the oven is erroneous; and until you have learned by experience just how to regulate the fire and oven, and me many xests oy wnicn every guuu determines wheD food is done, look at it aften. Bake bread according to the /. clock from fifty to sixty minutes. Better bake ten minutes too long, putting a paper over the top to prevent a burned crust, than not long enough: Bake it brown, not black, nor pale whity-brown, but brown all over. Rolls are often brushed with milk just before and after baking, to give them a richer brown color. Rubbing over with soft butter while still hot makes a crisp, delicioui crust. When well baked, if tapped with the fingers, a hollow, empty sound will be emitted from a loaf of bread, the crust feels firm, and, if broken apart, the inside rebounds instantly on any slight pressure. Label and Use with Care. On a oftn so.arftslv be too careful in dandling and placing strong or poisonous liquids. We have warned our readers many times regarding this matter, but at just this season the following words from the Cleveland Leader may-prevent accidents in house cleaning and other preparations for summer: There are two or three volatile liquids used in families which are particularly dangerous, and must be employed, if at all, with special :are. *.*? Benzine, ether and strong ammonia institute this class of agents. The two first-named liquids are employed in cleaning gloves and other wearing apparel, ind in removing oil stains from carpets, curtains, etc. Thi liquids are highly volatile, and flash into vapor as soon as the cork ot the pniai containing mem is removed. Their vapors are very combustible, and will inflame at long distances from ignited candles or gas flames; and consequently they shou.d never be used in the evening, when the house is lighted. Explosions of a very dangerous nature will occur if the vapor of these liquids is permitted to escape into the room in considerable quantity. In view of fhe great hazard in handling these liquids, cautious housekeepers will not allow them to be brought into their dwellings, and-this course is- commendable. As regards ammonia, or water of ammonia. it is a very powerful agent, especially the stronger kinds sold by druggists. An accident in its use has recently come under our notice, in which i young lady lost her life from taking a rl~nna fVirrtiirftl miahftlcA It n UlVJ/O Breathing the gas, under certain circumstances, causes serious hirm to the lungs and membranes of the mouth and oose. It is an agent much- used at this time for cleansing purposes, and it is unobjectionable if proper care is used in its employment. The phials holding it should be kept apart from others containing the medicines, etc., and rubber stoppers to the phials should be used. Oxalic acid is considerably employed in families for cleansing brass and copper utensils. This subst ince is highly poisonous and must be kept and used with ^rcat caution. In crystalline structure it closely resembles sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salts, and. therefore,' frequent mistakes are made and lives lost. Every agent that goe3 into families | imong inexperienced persons should be J kept in a safe place, labeled properly md used with great care. Recipes. | Baked Cucumbers?Pare the cucumoers, chop them fine with a small onion; put them on with very little water and itew for ten minute?. Prepare a rich ? dressing, as for poultry, of bread crumbs with herbs and yolk of egg; p;>ur off all the water from the cucumbers; add the iressing and one tablespoonful of butter, ind bake in a d. ep dish. Cold Deviled E"?os?Boil a number >f eggs very hard; When cold remove the shells and cut each egg in half. Take nut the yolks and pound them in a mortar with a few boned anchovies,pepper, salt ind a pinch of dry mustard, moistening with a*little butter. Fill the empty wmtes cut in halves with this mixture and arrange in a dish garnished with parsley. Sabdine Sandwhiches ? Take two boxes of sardine: and throw the contents into hot water, having first drained away all the oil. A few minutes will free the jardines from grease. Pour away the water and dry the fish in a c?oth; then | scrape away the skins and pound the sarI dines in a mortar till reduced to ijaste; j add pepper, salt and some tiny pieces of j lettuce and spread on the sandwiches, which have been previously cut. The lettuce adds very much to the flavor of the sardines. Canning Sweet Corn?One quart ol water to three quarts of com. Let the com come to a boil. Add one teaspoon* ful of tartaric acid to each quart of corn. Boil fifteen minutes. When wanted for use, add one teaspoonful of v L - * If cfani? soda to eacn quart ui wiu, ?v? < ??? one hour before cooking. Grape Butter?Stew tlie grapes and stew out each pulp from the skin, removing the seeds; keep the skins in a small thin bag; to each pound of pulp allow one pound of sugar, half pint of cidar vinegar, teaspoonful of cloves, one of cinnamon and one of nutmeg; boil this very slowly, putting in the bag of skins tied securely; when it jellies by . dropping in cold water, it is done. Put ?way in jars; for an ornamental dish it can be heated over and put into molds to jelly. Lemon Pie?Firat prepare and bake the crust, then make the filling?the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one :up of sugar, two eggs, saving the white of one of them for frosting, one teaspoonful of butter, three even teaspoonfuls of flour wet with a little cold water. Mix all together. Add one cup of boiling water and cook until thick. Fill your cru-it with it. Let it stand until cold. Then beat the white of on? egg to a stiff froth, stir in one tablespoon sugar, spread over the pie and set in the oveu iu uuMi ti. Tkey Cage Their Girls. Consul Griffin, at Sidney, New South Wales, contributes to the State Department an interesting description of the inhabitants of New Britain, an island in the South Pacific Ocean. One of their curious custom?, he says, is that of confining their girls in cages until they are old enough to marry. The cages are made of twigs of the palm tree*, and the girls are put into them when only two or three years of age. These cages are built inside the houses, and the girls are never allowed to leave the house under any circumstances and are only taken out once a day to be washed. The houses themselves are closely fenced in with a sort of ' j- A. wicker worK muuc ui iwuo, i iuum.iv. under the circumstances is made rery difficult. The girls are said to grow up strong and healthful in spite of those disadvantages.