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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. Statisticians estimate that tho world's stock of silver coin amounts to ?4,000,000,000. The Yermont State prison is a self sustaining institution. "Every State prison should be," maintains tho New port (B. L) Herald. , i ? i , i, , . Si the Nuremberg Chess Tourna ia (?at, the young German, Dr. Loskar, fairly earned the honor of being tho greatest living player of tho royal game. _________________ An optimistic livery stable-keeper says that the use of the bicycle will, die ont. Hope, springing eternal inj the human breast, and, in the estima-' tion of tho San Francisco Examiner, bas seldom ? ven a more sprightly ex hibition than this. ! A thoroughly Dutch scheme for the defense of Acheen in Sumatra is pro posed by au honest citizen of Delft. It is to surround the district, which comprises 15,000 square acres, with dikes that can be opened in ease ol attack, flooding the country around. A Ger man. physician says that Stan ley owes the fact that he alone of those who made np his party has sc long survived the most dangerous oi ins African trips to his having sub mitted five times to a transfusion ol African blood into his veins, which is believed in Africa to be a great aid to acclimatization. , ^ It is not generally known, except I)y certain persons whoso office it is tc learn of such matter?, that the im mense enm of $9,500,000 is annually expended in oharity in *he oity of New York. That, at least, is the approxi mate amount, estimated as closely at ^circumstances admit of on the part of experts. There are about 5000 fam ilies who ?re l?8te?T"givers" to char ' _ / > A London servant appeared in a hat whioh v's an exact imitation of her mistress*, and was at once dismissed. She brought suit for a week's wages instead of notioe and won the suit. Judge Lushington held that a mistress had a right to object to a servant's ap parel if she chose, but she was not justified in dismissing her without notice merely because two hats were very much alike. The accident insurance business in the United States has been of rapid grov-th.^ It is hardly more than twen rt- -timi -tl-I_U_H<?J?JIIIIJW.IHI[1IIII< 1 Tt ^AiM> 1 Wt?BjJJlllB i>y a pingle company as an experi ment, but there aro now ten large stock companies and many more mu tual or assesssmeut companies in the field. Last year they received nearly $7,000,000 in premiums, and paid out iibout $3,000,000 in losses. In 1895 ;i:en of the leading mutual companies .carried $301,539,750 bf risks, received 3(933,397 in premiums, and paid out #441,172 in losses; the loss ratio was -47.2 percent. In the same time the ten stock companies carried $1,261, - 274,617 in risks, collected $5,752,623 in premiums, and paid $2,515,350 in losses; their loss ratio was 43.7 per cent. _'_ ( In San Francisco the telephone com pany is pntting in what it calls kitchen telephones at fifty cents a month. Fox ' this sum the subscriber may call up and talk to one other subscriber as often as he chooses. Bat he has no bell by which the other subscriber may call him np. The kitchen tele phone is connected usually with the . grocery. For fifty cents more the sub scriber may have a telephone connec tion with his doctor, or any other per son. He may call np any subscriber to the general service of the city for five cents. The company does not say that this service can be given with profit at the rate named; it expects to recoup by getting the people into the habit of using telephones, knowing that the telephone habit is a hard om to break. Tho action of the German Govern ment in passing a law by which the Government is to exercise control over all stock exchanges ' will doubt less result in a similar attempt in the United States, predicts the New York Commercial Advertiser. It is the purpose of the German Government" to exercise severa control over the stock exchange transactions and the issue of stocks and bonds by now com panies, with a view to lessening spec ulation and protecting the public from fraudulent or uncertain financial and commercial enterprises. A com prehensive law to this end has just been adopted by tho Reichstag by an overwhelming majority. It is likely to cause a revolution in the present stook exchange methods. In the first place, it is intended to discourage stock speculating by forbidding cer tain borsen-termin-handel (exchange time contracts) for grain, as well as ptocks and bonds. The Government will assume a certain control over the stock exchange business, with special reference to listing on the steck ex change of new issues of stocks and bonds or. paper of now companies. It will endeavor to maintain less fluctu ating and, as the agrarians hope, higher prices for grain and mill pro ducts by forbidding all time delivery contra?is being made on 'change for such grain sud products, AN ELDORADO. LEADVILLE THE CENTER OP THE MINING, INDUSTRY. Millions Have Been Produced Strange Tales of the Pinding of Unexpected h ort unes br impe cunious Prospectors-. "T* EADvILLE, writes Frank O. C Carpenter in the Washing J_V ton Star, is one of the great treasure vaults of the TJ?ited States, Within the past seventeen years Uncle Sam has drawn upon it to the extent of more than $200,000,000, but it has to-day more than one hun dred producing mines and its unde veloped riches are incalculable. It contains some of the richest gold and some of the most wonderful .silver minea of the world. The territory surrounding it is being reprospeoted, new mines are being opened and some of the old mines are BO wonderful in their production that their owners do not want them mentioned in the news papers. Such a one is th -J "Little johnny," which now bas an output of $10,000 wcrth of gold a day, and which, I am told, could be made tc produce, if the owners wished it, $59, 000 in gold daily for years to come. In one of the banks there there is about a peok of specimens of the pure, gold which has been taken from it. The gold in the vein is in the chape of or dinary gold ore, but in places there are flakes and scales of pure metal, and every now and then a rioh pocket ia struck in which it lies in lumps? The daily output of the "Little Johnny" is now about 200 tons, and tho aver age value of the ore is nearly $50. There are now six shafts o? the prop erty) the two deepest of which are 750 feet. Gold is struck about SOO feet belo re- the ground, and it is said that the whole area of more than 100 acres ?B mineralised, Leadville is one of the greatest sil ver camps of the United States. Mill ions upon millions have been taken out of the earth back of the oity and scattered broadcast over the world. The city itself ie underlaid with pre cious minerals. ?bcct a yeax ago Major A. V, Bohn struck a silver mine on the edge of the town* tte oro of which averaged 100 ounces of silver, with now and then a jump to as high os from 800 to 1000 ounces. It has been found that this vein extends right under Leadville, and it is question now as to whether Leadville cur. hold its silver or whether it is to go to others. If Leadville gets it it will be the richest city in the world, and sin gle pockets of ore under the streets will probably pay more than th a city debt and leave a big surplus in the treasury. Leadville claims that the streets were dedicated to the munici pality, and that all that is under them belongs to the city. The original own ers of the land are now claiming that they gave the ground only as a right of way, and so the question hangs in the coutts; ville are so rich That they can be Worked at a profit, hotwitstanding thc low price of silver. In tho Moffat and Smith mines there are 550 men on the pay roll as miners, and it takes about three men to handle and caro for the ore to each miner. There are 8000 men at work in the Leadville mining uL. ict, and laborers get from from $2 THE FIEST H0US22 IN CEEEDE. .to $3 per day. The Wolfton mine hos recently struck an immense body of ore, neither end of whioh has yet been found, but in whioh 106,000 tons of silver-bearing rook have been blocked out. This, it is estimated, will pay at least $8 a ton above all expenses of handling and smelting, making the ore in this mine alone worth at least $864,? 000. Mr. Moffat told me iu my inter view that his best mine had b sen tho "Maid of Erin," for which he had paid about $100,000, and out of whioh him self and his partners had made $5,000, 000. This mine is still being worked, tiiil ?here are other great silver mines here which are shipping ore. I paid a visit the other day to this five-million dollar maiden. The Maid of Erin silver mine lies on tho hills just above Leadville. It is surrounded by mountains of waste rook, and it hoe immense frame buildings, something like those of a great factory. A look at it gives you some idea ef the enor mous oost of silver mining. The en gines whioh moves its machinery have ten great boilers, and its furnaces are so largo that ten men are constantly shoveling coal into them to keep the fires alive. They eat up from twenty five to thirty tons of coal a day, and tho coal bill for tho furnaces alone amounts to $150 daily. Five hundred dollars a day is paid for wages to the miner*, and the maohinery is of the most costly description. After dress ing in miner.-' clothes I went down in LEADVILLE'.' to the shat. Stepping on the eleva tor I was dropped hundreds of feei, past tunnel after tunnel running oil in o the vein, until I was at last more than a thousand feet below the surface. Running off from the shafts are these graat pipes or tunnel;, out of which have been cue tho silver and lend. They are lighted by electricity. They are driven this way and that, so that they form a labyrinth like the avenu? ia the Catacombs of Borne. You could lose y oan elf in this tr.i ne. It con nects with tho great Henrietta mind, and yon might Wander about from tun nel to tunnel without finding your way to the shaft. This is a wet mine, and it takes an enormons amount bf money to wall it with timbers; Many such mines con tain forests of great logs, and it is es timated that there is more tban $7,000, 000 worth of lumber and timber need in the mines of Leadville alone. Eaoh of these tunnels is roofed and walled with big pine logs, and the stopes, or coves, cut away from the tunnels in order to get the silver out, have to be almost filled with timbers, for fear their sides may cave in. Nb one who has not gone through a great mine eau appreciate tb^ amount of water which flows into it. In the bottom ol the Maid of Erin streams of ice-cold water flow through the tunnels like so many mountain brooke. >> Overhead are pipes for steam and for compressed air to run the drills. There is a railroad traok in each tun v MAID OF ERIN M: nel and boards upon whioh you can walk to keep out of the stream. The water is taken out o.' the mine by enormous steam pumps. Nine hun dred feet below the surfaco of the ground I found an immense engine room, a largo part of tho machinery of which Consisted bf pomp's, whioh work away there day and night. Thoy oarry out of the miue 900 gallons of water a minute, or 51,000 gallons an hour. If they were stopped for two or throe hours the mine would bo filled, and it would ?ost a fortuno to open it again. Standing on tho damp of the Maid of Erin yon get a good view of Lead ville. It lies in a nest in the Bookies and it is surrounded by some of the most picturesque scenery of tho Uni ted States. Imagine an amphitheatre, the walls of which are snow-capped mountains, and in ono side of the arena thero is a mass of dust colored houses. Let there bo buildings of red and yellow brick, log oabins covered with dost, wooden shanties and com fortable homes, all dusted with yoi lo Wi put mountains of broken rook here and thero through it and let.im? MtA?S?lNfanne A>rrirrri?|ife," whic?f*mark | the sites of smelters, show ont below it, and yon have a faint idea of the oity of Leadville as it looks to-day. lt is a city of schools and churches, a city.of wealth and manufactures, a town of gold and silver and lead. It contains about 12,000 pooplo, bat it does moro business than a town of three times the size in the East. It is tho highest town of its size in the United States. There are parts of it which are alive with brimstone and when you drive in the direotion of the smelters yon have to cover yonr nostrils and mouth with your handkerchief ia order to be able I "to breath. The brimstone comes from the sulphur in the ore, whioh is liberated by tho terrible heat of the Smelting furnaces. Mixed with this B nell is the dust, which, when the wind blows, fills all parts of the oity. The gold and silver ore is hauled to the smelters through the streets in enormous wagons, each of whioh is drawn by four horses. Thero is an almost continuous procession of these wagons going through from daylight until dark, and tho precious dirt under foot is ground to powder. Speaking of gold dust, placer min ing is still done near Leadville. This has boen ono of the greatest placer mining camps of the world. California Qulcb, which lies just below Leadville, has produced tho enormous amount of $35,000,000 worth of gold. This was the great gold mining camp of 1850 and 1860, when the words "Pike's Peak or bust" should have been "California Gulch or bust." Tho work was then dono in old pans or rocking eradlos and the stories of tho gold nuggets and the gold duet found were carriod all over the world. Two million and a half dollars' worth cf gold were taken out of this gulch in 1860. The men who panned it noted that there was a heavy black sand mixed with the gold, but thoy did not realize that this sand was carbonate of lead until years afterward, when it woe discovered that tho had was rich with p'lvor and the roiuing bogan which made Leadville ono of the grea;er.t silver camps of the world. One of the first big Bilver mines opened was dis covered by the Gallagher Brothers, two poor Irishmen, and another was I ?open ed by Fryer, from whom Fryer Bill, one of tho most famous miring districts hore, was named. Flyer livod in a squatty little cabin on tbe sido of the hill, and he was looked 3 ORE TEAMS. upon by his neighbors n3 utterly I worthless and good for nothing. Ono day he went into tho ?dues buok of his cabin and dug a hole. Ho struck oro almost at the grass roots, and opened up a mine which yielded moro thau a million dollars. Another famous mino was known P "Dead Man's Claim," and the mau who acted as grave digger ona certain occasion became its owner. A well known miner had died, and his friends, who wanted to giro him a good eend off into th? other world, hired fi man to dig his grave for $20. It was iii the midst of the winter. There were ten feet bf snow ou the ground, and the grave had to go six feet below that. In order to keep the deceased in proper condition until the grave was dug he was laid away in the snow for the time. Nothing was heard of the grave digger for three days, and then the boys, wishing to carry out the remainder of the funeial, went out to see him. They found him digging away with all his might, but they found also that he had put np the stakes and gone through the ceremon ies whioh guvo him a miner's claim to all the land about the grave. In go ing down into the earth he had struck pay ore? r.ad the rock which ho get out was Wort li about SCO ? tod; Th? mourners at once staked but claims adjoining - his, and the deceased was forgotten. He remained iii the snow baiik until the spring sun thawed him oni, when ho was awarded an ordinary [NE, LEADVILLE. .burial in another part of tho camp. Mining has never been done EO care fully as to-day, and scienoe bas never done so mach to make the production of gold and silver cheap. Take the Creede camp, whioh has made so many men rich; Creeds was a poor pros Sector when ho discovered the "Holy [oses," whioh, in 1892, netted more than one and one-.ialf million dollars. Creede sold it for 810,000. He made other strike?, and he has now an in come-'of a thous:!nd dollars a day. Still he tramped tho mountains for twenty yours befo::e ho made his big strike, and he was fifty before ho be came a millionaire. He made the balk of his fortune oat of the Amethyst and other mines, and the great re ceipts of the Holy Moses went to Dave Moffat and his partners. A man named Benniger was riding through the mountains about Creede on one A CAB OT? SILVER BOCK. of thoso little- donkeys known as burros. He had another bnrro to ofirry his piok and prospeoting tools. Ho was a grub staker, that ie, somo man had furnished him.tools and gro ceries ?Jr a certain timo with the un derstanding that the capitalist should have half what he discovered. Ono night, whon Rc nniger camped, his barros strayed away, and ho spent days in finding them. Whon he did find them ho lookod at tho rooks upon whioh they wera standing and saw that tboy contained silver. Ho looatod on that spot what ls known as the "Last Chance" mine, which paid 3250,000 in dividends from its sarfaCe production, and whioh has produced fortunes, Near thin mino Creede, now n partner of Moffat, discovered the "Amethyst" raine, which, lu 1892, produced $1,490,000 worth of diver, and whioh ls now capitalized at $6, 000,000. This mine now bolongs to Senator Wolcott and others. It ls very rich. Not far from Leadville- is the grout mining camp known os Aspen. It ls in Pitkin County, ont of whioh ba? been dug moro than 040,000,000 worth of silvor ore. Aspen produced, in 1891, 310,000,000 worth of silver. It is sit uated on an onormous silver lode, whioh is said to ho from eight to twelve milos long, and whioh, before silvor droppod, was producing tho white metal at the rato of 31,000, - 000 a month. At Aspen ls ibo famous Mollie- Gibson sliver mine, the avor ngo oro of which is worth 8600 a too, and of whioh single onr loads of ore have netted more than ?00,000. There is ono mino at Aspen which has taken out more than #7,000,000 from nn aron of about half nu aero of ground, tho works of ibo mica going clown noorly 1700 feel below tba Burfnco, Blockaded by Pumice. A floating barrier of pumice stone, nineteen milos long,'over 1000 yards wide and fifteen ieet deep, dosing a peaport to nil vessels as ol?eotually as a boom could do, is not the sort of thing one is likely to forget. And yet that was one of tho results of tho Krakatoa oruption, the port being Telok Bebouug, in Sunda Strait?. Formed in a fow hours, it would al most seem to bo tho supremo effort of nature in tho pumioe making line, wero it not thr.t suoh immense quan tities aro found nt tho bo?:oinol tho nea. A queer placo for puraico stone, but pnmioo when produoed is really heavy ; lt is only tho air cavities in it tlmt rankes it light, aud as it floats it bocomes wator lofiged, and down it pocs. _ Over 52,000,000 worth of counter feit Itnlinn notes were recently uo eartkod by the police of Naples. MODES OF THE DAY, LATE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WOKLD UF FASHION. Fashionable Shapes and Colors In [Millinery-Broad Hat of Whlto Crinoline-Broadcloth and Braiding-A New Veil. T" ARGE hats are very general, j * (* and the generality' of these I V are wider from side to side, and rather shallow in front, and the back is invariably tnrned np BECOMING .and filled ia with flowers or ribbon bows. Of the hats in qaiet tones, black and white is extremely fashion able, the shape either in white rice straw, or chip, bound with black vel vet, stretched quite tight in the old fashioned style, or a dead white fancy ~~'uoline with irregular scalloped edge. Obere is a new shape, with round and high "jam pot" crown, which ia f very striking when sparingly trimmed, and this is a favorite in white chip, with broad band of black velvet, and a big buokle in front, the edfce wifh narrow velvet binding, and on) large cluster of tall black plumes at the side. More becoming is the id white crinoline hat shown here this with an edge of fancy black white crinoline. The brim may [carved or bent, to suit the wearer, hats are worn quite straight and HAT OP WHITE CIUNOUXU. very forward, and the back turned up and filled in to meet the small coil oi hair. The hat shown in the accompanying illustration can be kept to black and white, with pink roses at the back; 01 a white hat is charming with dahlia OJ heliotrope ribbon, a black plume, paste buokle, and band of blaok velvH round the crown. A black hat with t white edge is also effective, with sho! rose and crimson ribbon, blaok plume, and pink roses ; and tho style of thc trimming can bo copied in any of these combinations. The band round the crown is cut or the bias, and in forming the ribbor loops eaoh end is pleated up separate ly and tied round with ttout cotton OJ fine wire. The plume is sewn to th< baok and the crown, and should bf high and stiff. -Homo Queen. BBOiDCl rjOTH OH LADIES'-CLOT I. \ Broadcloth or ladies' cloth is alway.? HANDSOME WAIST F in fashion when braiding is revived, and, as has been already stated, braid ing is very largely to be used. Evet on velvet and camcl's-hair serges there are rows of braiding, while Hu smooth cloths aro fairly covered wit! it. From SI 5'J upwards ladies' clot! can be bought, which is wide, and i j well sponged, is a most natisfactorj . material; but in buviug auv of the* smooth cloths it is well not to ch GO-: o too heavy a weighs particularly if thd Shirt is to bo braided ; weight docs not mean warmth in cloth or woolen materials, and. that we have only learned; many Of ?", through hard er* perienco. In boats and tight-fitting waists the smooth cloths are more bo coming than the rongh ones, for thoy seem to fill the fignre botter, probably on account of being more closely woven. But this year it is not safe to say arbitrarily that either one is the only possible material. All the diff?r ent shades of bine, brown, green and gray, besides black, ore fashionable, bat black leads all in the smooth FALL CAPE. cloths. In tho mixod cloths there is a pepper and salt combination which is immensely fashionable, bnt not be coming to everybody^ as it really has a gray shade which needs a pink end white complexion to bear well. This last material for hard wear is simply unsurpassable,- and is being used by a great many women1 for both bicycling and shopping, made in one jao??et waist with two skirts, Ode short ?.nd one long-really two gowns ont of one. -Harper's Bazar. HUADY'S KEW VEIL. ? new veil is in town that will in terest all American women who have reached the veil age as well as those who ask the aid of misty dotted (ace webs only for coquetry's sake. For general wear there aro few tis sues more generally becoming than the dotted mousseline de soie and chif fons that have been ?avored all sam mer; Used with straight edges they aro hardly in tito list of dro?s voile. bis nejv-.'arrisajjb^wev3i,i..baa. tito? its place as a dress veil. It Ca:i ne worn any time, np to 6 o'clock. The effective form tho new an ival has taken is a yard and an eighth length of white mousseline de toie, covered with largo black dots. Around tho bottom and ends is a two inch frill of tho samo material. Whero the frill joins tho body of the voil a quarter of an inch band of black rib bon velvet covers the seam. A similar bit of ribbon velvet edges the frill. It is a very coquettish veil, as the frill hangs below tho chin, and the \ veil ia not drawn up tightly at tho j back. A similar veil is all black, or j black dotted with white. The waite, with black dots, is mo3t fetching.-? New York Journal. KEW STYLES IN PETTICOATS. The petticoat of lawn, cambric ot batiste, which for a while has been rather under a cloud, bas como back to fashionable-favor, and that this should be carefully chosen to harmonize with all else that is worn is proof of the growing thought and taste of modern dress. Some very well dressed woaieo, however, never wear anything but a white petticoat of very fine fabric, fearing the effect that rho greater thickness of a satin or glaco taffetas might have upon the close fit below the waist of the present fashionable skirt. The petticoat of white or colored cotton is best suited to wear under light dresses, with frills o? flounces around tho bottom. A MANIA FOB "ll?NCaiSESS." Fashion designers seem to be afflict ed with n manii for ia e, loops, lap pats, bows, bouquets and buueuiness. \V*herever a fabric can be puffed up or OK CONCERT OR PARTY. , looped up, or wherever there seems to be an excn?e for massing in ma:,erial, i thero are ruffles and putts and pompa , doun gathered together. Of course, 3 it depends much on the artist whether i or not these things aro beautiful or i otherwise, lt requires great sitill to f create really elegant things, even r though ouo may have One materials to e work with The Remarkable Performance of a Lady of Denver, Among tho women of pluck and en? orgy in Denver is a dainty little lady, Mrs. Ebinehart, who is surprising the MUS. RHINEHAKT. world at largo by her wonderful ex ploits upon the wheel. Mrs. Ehir.a hart is the wife of one of Denver's lead ing photographers. She is a native oil California, having lived in Colorado but five years. On September 20, 1895, Mrs. Ebinehart took her first ride, and; finding that she enjoyed it, she invested in a wheel. December l? she made her first century, and when April arrived she had ridden throe centuries, and, in company with her husband, had toured old Mexico upon her wheel. Up to the present date Mrs. Ebinehart has ridden forty four centuries in all, and during July gained a world-wide fame by riding ten centuries in ten consecutive days, She followed that July 22 with a doubla century, which she accomplished in twenty hours and twenty minutes, riding the last forty miles in darkness, mud and rain. Feelicg confident that she could lower her record for 200 miles, Mrs. Bhinohart started out on the morning of August 7 at 3.25 and in seven hours and fifty minutes cor? ercd a dib ta nco of 102 miles. After resting, thirty minutes she started once more, and accomplished the second%102 milos Ju nine hours and forty-five minutes," making the entire 201 miles in seventeen hours aud thirty-five minutes, Mrs. Ebinehart's record is one that is not equaled by many male bicyclists, and probably by no lady rider In the country. She rides purely for pleasure. She has never cared to break any reoord ar.d has refused to enter contests. She is an easy, graceful rider, averaging thirteen miles au hour, coming out fresh and untired at the end of trips that few cordd endure. Her fastest jtidiflg ia altajfl done neat tho fir "When she began riding Mrs. Shine hart was an invalid. She is now the picture of health, and laughs most heartily over the dismal prediction that she is killing herself riding. She is a slight young woman, with large brown oyes, golden hair, and is a per feot gypsy in color. Her riding eos tumo is a short divided skirt, sweater, golf hoBo and low shoos. Daring her long rides ehe is particular that her olothing shall be very loose, so that evory muscle may have full play. TENT AND CAPE CO II DINED. A \ovolty for the Use of the United States Army. Army officers are greatly interested in a new utilization of tba shelter tent, whioh is carried by tho soldier SHELTER TENT USED Ail A CAPE. in tho field. At present this shelter tent is made of very unsatisfactory material and is by no means water proof. It io of no other uso than as a shelter tent, and beyond that is an inoumbranco to the soldier, adding to Iiis burdons on tho narch by about throo pounds. Captain Edmund Hico, of the Fifth Infantry, stationed at Fort McPher son, Georgia, has made a suggestion which moots with considerable ap proval among military experts. He proposes to make of the shelter tent a cape which may be worn by the Foldior in inclement weather. This uso of tho present tent may be readily acquired by simple strapB which will fasten the oapo about tho nock and waist. Tho doable uso of tho shelter tent will bo appreciated by tho trooper and is in the lino of modern military equipment, the idea hoing now to economizo in tho number ns in tho weight of articles onrried by thu soldier, and to make oacb article do ai much 6orvico ns possible. In some of tho services the ration can, for in stance, when separated, furnishes the cooking utensils of the soldier. Tho meat-ration can of the foreign army, when taken apart, supplies a frying pan aud plate. A snuff box sold nt a recent London auction for $9000. lt was of the Louis XVI p?riod. ?j MOTHERS READ THIS. i The Best I Remedy. 1 For Flatulent Colfc, Diarrhoea, Dys en ter.j, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In fantum, Teething Children, Chofera Morbus, Unnatural Drains from the Bowels, Fains, Griping, Loss of Appetite, Iidlgestion and all Dis eases of thu Stomach and Bowels. PITT'S CARMINATIVE . 4 Is the standard. It carries children over the critical period of teething, andi ls recommended by physicians as the friend of Mothers, Ad ulta and Children. It is pleasant to thc taste, i and never fails to give satisfaction.. A few doses will demonstrate its su perlative virtues. Price, 25 cts. perl bottle. For sale by druggists. , HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, LAUXDERIXG SILE VESTS. The very popular Water .anita whe? a ot worn with a regular shirt waist often have only wash or china front?, as a fin sh, particularly if the enies th e ms o! ves are of cotton or linen deck, or grass linen, and as these soil quite quickly they need frequent laundering in order to preserve the desired dain tiness of appearance. Too often, how ever, they are ruined by careless wash ing and ironing and are useless there after. A very simple and pretty front is made of wash silk curved out at the throat lines and basted on a stiff col lar, about whioh a ribbon is tied, finishing in a bow at the back ; the silk is long enough to hang a little full at the waist, a thread is run about* two inches from the bottom, drawing the fullness into the front, and this ti tucked nuder the band of the skirt and held firmly in placa by the belt of leather or ribbon. To launder thit all that is necessary is to rip it off tho collar, let ont the drawing thread,, wash it thoroughly in warm soap suds',* rinse in cold water and while still very we'; pin it, stretched tightly, on a lap-' board or any smooth surface. When/ dry it will be as free from wrinkles at if ironed and as soft as new silk? It is a great mistake ever to iron tbiv silk, as, if done when damp, it become*' fis crac?ly as paper, while if allowed to partly dry first, it is almost impos sible to entirely remore the rough dry appearance, unless a very hot iron ic used, in which case there is danger ol scorching. Hot irons are not alway? convenient things to obtain when not . in one's own home, and a knowledge of how to obtain satisfactory result! without them is not to be ignored. Delicato handkerchiefs, if carefully rashed, and while very wet, spread on a mirror or window pana and left there till perfectly dry, will look as though beautifully ironed. i * Chamois gloves should be washed on the hands, all the seams pushed into their right places, and the glove* part ly dried with a soft towel before being gently removed, stretched os when new, and left to complete the procesa in the fresh air. Before wearing they should bo rubbed s!ightly[to take away' the stiffness, which is characteristic of chamois after being wet A good scheme for freshing the ap pearance of white silk parasols, or any silk that will stand water, is to wok them thoroughly all over, open them and lei- them remain so until dry. All wrinkles are done away with and in stead of a mussy, half-worn looking' article one has an apparently new parasol with all the beauty of .its pris tine whiteness restored.-St. Loni/ Star Sayings. Ow APPLES. 4 . Few fruits are so generally loved ar' ?ie apples, and few can be eaten io large quantities with suchperfeot im punity from disagreeable after-effects. From the time when the sweet mealy "harvest apples" fall, to the frosty day when we pluck the last round juicy globe whose crimson oheeks glow with the fresh crispness concealed within, wo enjoy this bountiful gift of natnre ; and what a number of appetizing ways there are of preparing this fruit. While delicious in its natural state, unlike many others, it is actually im proved by cooking. To apple-loving housekeepers the following recipe, handed down from our grandmother's day, a relic of her large, sunny old fashioned kitchen wheie were pro duced wonderful goodies, which ap peased our childish hunger. j To Preserve Apples-Pare an J weigb ten pounds of apples, put them into a .pan to stew, with one pint of water; when all are dissolved, putin the same weight of sugar, two ounces of gronnd ginger, with the juice and grated rind of four or five lemons. Boil rathei more than half an hour, stirring ali the time. Pat away in preservo jar.? or stone crocks. 1 Boiled Apple Pudding-Make a bat ter crust or a eu et one, using for a moderate-sized puddin;; from three quarters to one pound of 'Hour, with the other ingredients in proportion. Butter a basin ; line it with paste ; pare, core and cut apples into slices, and fill the basin with these ; add sugai to taste, flavor with lemonpeel and juice, and cover with crust, pinch th? edges together, flour the cloth, place it over the pudding, tying seenrely, and put into plenty cf fast-boilijg water. Let this boil from one and a half to two and a half hours, accord ing to the size ; their turn out of tho basin, and send it to table quickly. Apple puddings may also bo boiled in a cloth without a basin ; but, when made in this way, it must be eeived without the least delay, as the crust so soon becomes heavy. Apple pud ding is a very convenient dish to have when the dinner hour is rather un certain, as it does not spoil by being boiled an extra hour; care, ho a ever, must be taken to keep it well covered with water all the time, and not to al low the boiling to cease.-New Or leans Picayune. Horses in - straw Hat?*. A couple of horses wearing straw hats were seen attached to a hand tome landau in London the other day. lt is said that horses suffer from the heat when their heads are exposed to ibo sun* -- - . - EUNICE SMITH of Lake View, N. H., undoubtedly holds the clover record of New England with 41 four leaf and 14. five leaf and 014e seven leaf.