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Leave your orders at the HERALD STATIONERY STORE. Potxru. rHE CAPTAIN'S DAUGIITEt She has eyes like the starling, My one only darling, 'he wee, bonnie lassie so precious to me; Sue was born on the water, My fair little daughter, 'hen tempests raged madly and wild wa: the sea. Near Scotland's green border, When all was disorder, took thee, sweet babe, from the arms of m3 wife, The fair, blue-eyed fairy Alas! My poor Mary ave up, for her darling, her own preciou: life. Her grave is in Scotland; Her spirit-ah! what land Tould suit such an angel but heaven above Yet we still are true lovers, For Mary now hovers round us in gentleness, beauty and love. The captain's fair daughter, Though many have sought her. till roams with her father the wild ocean o'er; And in bright sunny weather They visit together he grave on the border of sweet Seotia'i shore. {tlteteb tory. uis Five Mothers-in-Law, -- A REAL TRUE STORY. --o A!ost husbands and wives, if w( nay credit all they say, find il ifficult to live in the same hous< vith a mother-in-law, but 'Ok iol B-' (as be was commonly :alled), of Boston, dwelt in peact nd comfort for several years witl ive ladies bearing that relation tc uim. When I first knew that old gen leinan he appeared to be aboul ifty, but was in reality aboul ixty-eigbt, and had a charming vife who was then twenty-six ,nd two lovely children, a boy ,nd a girl, one seven, the otbei ive. His children by his first rife were all married, and some f his grandchildren were alsc aarried, and themselves had chil ren older than Mr. B--'s twc oungest. On the first day of my visit al is pleasant home not many milei romi Boston, as 1 took my place t the dinner table with Mrs 3-, 1 was surprised to see fiv< ld ladies come into the room to. ~ether, and to be introduced t< ach of them as follows."M wn mother, Mrs. B-, senior ay next mother, Mrs. Henry ; my bird mother, Mrs. James; my ourth mother, Mrs. William ; my ift b mother, Mrs. John.' Mrs. B--, senior, who seemet: he youngest of the old ladies aughed aloud at my look of con ternation-a melodious laugh foi ne of her years-and every on miled but Mr. B-, who in oked t be blessing with his usua ~ir and led the table talk on dif erent topics. That evening ir be parlor, young Mrs. B- gav s5 some music, and the old ladiei etired early one after another he 'own mother' going last, whe: he was tenderly assisted up stairn ~y her son. On his return Mr 3- said to me, with a smile o: musement : 'I see that you are, as the ladice ay, 'dying to know' what all thi: neans. I purposely did not tel you that I have five mothers-in aw, because 1 always like to seo ~he effect produced by my house ~old on other people. You, fo: nstance, live so differently, al lono; how do we appear to you 1 'Harmonious and happy ; but aave seen you together only very short time. What is you avery day experience ?' 'Much the same, especially sine my dear wife came into our house rold. I had all the old ladie when shie arrived.' 'But where did you get them al hey cannot all belong to you ?' 'Yes, every one of them. I hav four mothers-in-law, and as mi own mother is my wife's mothec in-law, of course that mak es fly mothers-in-law in our house. Nov as my wife is just going to b~ little one's nursery I will tell yo about my old ladies. 'When I married my first wife her mother, who was a widov~ ,anr to jive with us. She was good creature, and had seen pretty hard times, having supported her self by school-teaching and sewing for several years, and she seemed to greatly enjoy my comfortable home-I was always a thriving man of business. So one day I said to her, 'Now, mother, there is no reason why you shouldn't make your home with us always while you live; you can bring your own furniture, if you choose, or you need not ; the room you now occupy shall be your own al ways, and beside what my wife may do, I will give you fifty dol lars a year for your clothes (that was an ample sum for a woman to have all to herself in those times). You can teach if you wish to, or do anything else to earn money if you wish to; you will always be welcome to our table and parlor, or, if you prefer, you can cook for yourself in your own room Only one thing I will expect in return-you must never make any mischief nor quarrel with anybody in my house about anything. And if sometimes you are displeased you must go to your room and pout it out alone, only join us again when you feel pleasant. For I won't be worried, least of all will I have my wife worried by anybody. Now, mother, what do you say ?' She only said, 'You are a good man, Solomon B-, and the Al mighty will reward you, and I thank you from my heart. I will do my part." So I never had any trouble with her. We all lived together twenty years, and then my wife had an attack of pneumonia and died and soon after that my own mo ther was left a widow and came to live with me. My mother is only sixteen years older than 1 am, and being so lively and smart she seemed quite like a younger sister to mother Henry, and they got on easily together, But after awhile, when the children were all about grown, I got so lonesome that I coaxed a real nice, sensible lady of Philadelphia, not hand some. but just as good as gold, to marry me ; I told her all about my old ladies, and found she bad two mothers living with her, her own mother and her husband's mother. They had neither of them any property, but she owned a house and took boarders in it to support them all. Well, .[ made the same proposi tion to her old ladies that I had made to my mother-in-law, and they both agreed. Then I went home and built an addition to my house, and soon brought my sec ond wife and her mothers there. WVe had some occasional pout ing at first, but I always held two points without yielding-I was the mast.er in my own house, and would never let anybody worry my wife. So, pretty soon, my four-in-hand learned to travel smoothly together. 'Ab, me ! I looked forward to a happy old age with that dear wife, but in two years she was killed by a railroad accident. I was with her on the train, and was badly hurt, lying for weeks in a state of' unconsciousness. Whben I recovered, my dear wife's grave was green. I felt so bad, and my health was so poor, that I did not care for a woman again until all my children were mar ried and I was left alone with my four old ladies. r'Then I met a pretty little ro mantic widow, whbo was 'so sorry' for me ! She wrote poetry and painted pictures, and was dying all the while of consumption that scourge of our city ; and I thought as she had a struggle to take care of' herself and her hus band's mother, I would smooth her passage to the grave. - So I married ber and her mo ther-I wean-well, you know what I mean. I treated her mo ther-in-law just as 1 did the other old ladies, and that wife lived seven years after all. I made her so happy that she adored me, and rwe had the sweetest baby you ever saw ! Oh, what a lovely crea ture that child was-a little an gel ! She lived on ly three years, and then faded away. But 1 have ,several beautiful pictures of' her, n ainted by her mother.' 'And did you have no troubl with that mother-in-law ?' 'Not while her daughter-in law lived ; she was always taking car< of her sick child and grandchild But when Emma was gone and al seemed quiet again, the old lady wanted to marry me.' 'What ! Emma's mother-in-law? 'Yes. She was a handsome .vo, nian still, and she knew it; about my age, and no relation what ever; so she set her cap at me.' 'And that made a commotion it the house ?' 'Well, yes. Yes, it did. I never knew my mother to get into u real rage till then. She was mad i She told me to go right off am. get a young wife-the younge the better! Then I got mad! . stormed away at all my old ladie together ; threatened to break UT housekeeping and turn them out upon the world, away from the pleasant home which they ha enjoyed so long that they really believed to be theirs. 'Finally, I declared I would have them in it, to fight like Kil. kenny cats, while 1 would live at a hotel in the city. And I kept my word. I lived at one hote after another, but always went home on Saturday- nights to gc to church the next morning at usual, and take my old ladies fo a drive in the afternoon as usual so that the neighbors should not be gossiping about us. 'How good they were to me then ! They lived together like z nest of kittens. But my motbe: assured me that peace would not n last if I lived at hom e w ithout 4 wife ; so when I met a pretty lit tle orphan girl who had not relative in the world I told hei all about my affairs. and the swee1 creature, with tears of pity in he: eyes consented to marry me an be good to my old ladies. And she kept her word, both in lette: and spirit, and I am thankful thal life has given me so many bless ings l' Just then, young Mrs.-- re turned, and though I observec through the evening that he: manner toward her husband wa1 more that of a beloved and loving daughter than of a wife, yet sh< appeared more serenely happy tban any woman I remember tc have seen. This story is from life, excepting that I have changed all the names Sol. B-- has been dead some years; the will he left was as jus and manly as his other acts. FOR THE HERALD. New York Fashions. Stylish Eccentricities-Jewelry-A Prophec3 of Spring-New Features in Dress and Business. - STYLISH ECCENTRICITIES. A short time since, a well dressed lady came toward me, but she seemaed to have forgotten her bonnet. Not trace of i, was visible. Regarding her, therefore, with atLtntion, I ob served as she passed that a swal something hung at the back of hei ead. It was her hat. The samt day I saw another and yet anothei lady wearing a hat suspended in lkt manner, which so far as a front visior went, served in no wise the legitimat< purpose of a hat. Of course ther< were no strings, for that would havy transformed these decidedly useles; appendages into bonnets. At presen the ight is no longer a rare one Now and then may be seen what il all probability might be termied. winged hat. Specimens of this specie are made entirely of wings. Qait, small ones are used and you may ium agine the nu:nber required. The tur ban shape is preferred for a display c these remarkable efforts of milliner; skill and the wings project out il every direction like so many thorns o1 a briar bush. A finishing touchi given by a bird (sometimes quite; large one) and the wings are of ever; possible and impossible color put t gether. Yet such a hat does not at tract any very great attention. On does not turn to look at it, for ou eyes have grown used to anything i Ithe way of birds and birds' plumage The other evening a lady appeare wearing a costume adorned with a ils to dozn differently colore birds; most of them quite large al not a few with wings extended. B some were quite small; notably the corsage where ten humming bit were placed on one side, against o l larger bird on the other. A little bi was perched on each sleeve at the bow (where the sleeve ended) and o was at the back of the neck. In JEWELRY the latest thing is the 'kerchief pi which owes its origin, rise and pr gress to the silk 'kerchief craze whi< has overtaken us this winter. Alme every lady you meet wears a silk 'ke chief tucked in around her neck, ar now the seekers after novelties a superadding an ornamental pin, .ju such a pin as gentlemen have for long time worn in the:: neckties-th is so far as the fundamental idea goe But here, as elsewhere, when a woms takes a matter in hand we find chang for the better. Men remained sati fled with all sorts of heads wakir wry faces at you, skulls and cro bones, or if they ventured away fro these things, contented themsely with tobacco pipes, whips and repi sentations of like character, behevih them quite beautiful. Now we fl the loveliest devices in the way of tit bouquets of flowerets, minute and fai fern leaves, frosted bells and fifty oth such pretty notions. A PROPHECY OF SPRING. Cashmere ideas will lead next sur mer. "Cashmere" thus used, has n thing to do with that highly respe< able material, so.called, and which generally understood to belong to t family of merinos. The word "Cas mere" in this newer sense is deriv from the vale of Cashmere in Ind and is used to signify Oriental ide in many differing varieties, but bea ing general resemblances which i immediately recognize. Cashmue materials have been among the min elegant used this winter, both in m linery and costumes, and now t latest agony is Cashmere stocking All this is excellent. We Weste people stand first where sewing in chines, pianos and such like are c cerned, and we electrify the wor with our electric lights, but for mu. that is beautiful, we must acknowled the Orientals as our superiors ai therefore we do well to copy aft them. Writing of pianos, remin me of the fact that some of the m< elegant New Year's gifts made he were Haines Bros. pianos. All th< instruments are excellent and of sui rior workmanship, but a special c mand seems to hive arisen for the uprights, which not only embody the latest and best ideas, but ha special features of their own. An i portant on-e is that their uprights ha three strings, while those of oth makers have only two. Their numb is 124 Fifch Avenue. A NEW DEPARTURE. Among original devices the pu lishers of thatiwell known periodic Ehrich's Fashion Quarterly, have 1 upon the idea of offering their Maa zine free to all who may subscribe other magazines through their agen< Thus a reader of Harper,~ Lippinco the Atlantic Monthly, etc., who i sires to renew his subscription I only to forward the usual price of t periodical he may..wish to Messi Ehrich, and receive in return not or the magazine but the Fashion Qu; terly as well. In this way a ve popular Fashion Magazine is placed the disposal of every family free charge, and the result will be a migh increase in the already vast subscri tion list cf the Quarterly. The fli sare now also issuing an entirely na tpremium list, such as books for you - nd old, laces, fancy goods and a h dred other articles, which may be < a tained for the trifling laboi of et e vassing for subscriptions to a Mas zine worth double the money chargt Messrs. Ehrich promise to send ti Spremium list free to any address. Among new overskirts we find t SAlethea, which is extremely styli and pretty. The Aspasia polonaise also quite navel and very graceful, 3 !not more so than the Cressida, whi is likewise a polonaise. The T chette is a new costume for girls from fourteen to sixteen. LUCY CARTER. SFour hundred thousand perso ,are employed upon the railroa g of this country. d My heart is its own grave. ut yn Some Interesting Facts and Figures About this Great Invention-Money for the South. 2C rd Atlanta Constitution. In writing recently of the re. suits of the experiment of the proprietors of the model little yarn mill at Westminister, S. C., we were led into making some ap Q, proximate comparisons of the 0- amount of money that would be b saved to the planters and to the St South, if each neighborhood work ed its cotton into yarn before id sending : to market. In the very re nature of things, the figures we St used could be only approximately a correct, but they were based upon at the results of the Westninister s- yarn factory, which are unde n niably correct. Thus, tor instance, es the yarns are spun from the seed s- cotton. This fact, which is a fact, io annihilates, the cost of cotton-gin, ss packing, screws, bagging and ties. m Annihilates, did we say ? On the es contrar' the cost-the expense of e- keeping the gins in order and of g employing labor to run them, the d cost of bagging and ties-is in a Y moment turned into ready cash, ry which the farmer retains in his er pocket. This is the first and im mediate result of the new process. Let us, in this connection, present a. some more figures that are at least o. approximately correct. At the it- very lowest estimate, the services is of one hundred thousand gins are se required to aid in preparing a crop h- of 5,000,000 bales of cotton in ,d market. We will assume, thei'e fore, that there are 100,000 gin as houses in the South, and that r- these gin-houses are worth $750 ve each. Some are worth more and re some less, but we will roughly es st timate their worth at $750, which il. makes the value of the Southern le gin-houses $75,000,000. How of ten does this property have to be r renewed. We can give no figures a- here, but it is sufficient to say that from the 1st of September, ld 1874, to the 1st of September, ~b 1875, the newspapers of Georgia echronicled the burnimg of 146 gin id houses. The chronicle was kept er by two papers, the Columbus En ds quirer and the Savannah Aews, st and the first made the number 146 re and the latter 136-if we remem ~ir ber correctly. Add to this those e- that were never reported to the e- newspapers and we have 136 gin ~ir houses burned in Georgia in one dl year. From February, 1872, to re September, 1873, according to a .tolerably careful list kept by one ve of the editors of the Savannah er News, there were 157 gin.bouses er destroyed in Georgia by fire. This is a terrible record, but every suc ceeding year has added to the list, and scarcely a day passes that our b- exchanges do not chronicle the destruction of one or more gin ait hous3s. It must be obvious, there a- fore, that to any estimate of the to value cf thbe 100 000 gin-houses in Sthe South must be added the cost tt of renewing them more frequent e- ly than any other species of prop ase:-ty. This may be called the risk, 2e and amounts to a considerable -.pcn.of thbe $75,000,000, thboughb how much we shall not undertake rto say. Another fact to be taken ry into consideration is that this aproperty is in ueoanaverage Sonly one month of the twelve ty which is equivalent to paying a P year's interest on a sum of money m for the privilege of using it one ~Wmonth. gThbe thoughtful reader can make estimate fitted to his infor'mation. b- Wye have merely given the cue; -but any estimate must show a a. terrible array of figures to offset dthe profits of the cotton crop, and athe waste is worse tban the drain. Just here the Westmninister pro. he cess steps in between the planter sh and his gin-ho uses, and by abol is ishing the latter and rendering et their renewal useless, lputs seven Sty-tive millicons in the empty pockets of the South. But this is! of not all. At a low estimate it costs the planter $1.50 to prepare his bale of cotton for market after it is ginned-to dress it in an appro ns priate suit of bagging and bind it ds with ties. Let us say, then, that the bagging and ties of a crop of 5,000,000 bales costs the South $5,250,000 in cash or its eqniva lent. In the present condition of things it is a cut that is absolute and inevitable, and to annihilate it is to add the sum it represents to the profits of the cotton crop. This, according to the testimony of eye wiltnesses.is what the West minister mill does. The cotton is taken from the baskets as it comes from the field and converted into marketable yarns, far more val gable for all purposes of trade and commerce than the cotton that has been ginned, baled and com pressed. At a rough estimated, 100 per cent. has been added to the price it will fetch the farmer, so that with all the cost of gin houses out of the way, the vast cost of bagging and ties, the loss in sampling and stealage, the cost of weighing and storage, and the thousand and one commissions annihilated, the farmer has his cotton in the shape of yarns, and, leaving out of sight all the saving in the costs that are done away. with. it is worth 100 per cent. more than the cotton that is pre pared for market in the old way. We must confess that we are in clined to be enthusiastic in regard to this new process. There can be no sort of mistake as to what it accomplishes, and we believe it is a solution of a problem that has long vexed the South. In our opinion it revolutionizes the pros pects -of this section and opens up to us a future of unexampled prosperity. Are we too sanguine ? This depends upon whether the Westminister mill can accomplish these results with which it has been credited by those who have seen it. We have been told that some prominent mann facturers, after looking at the ma. chil:ery of the mill, have doubted the accuracy of the reports that led them thither. But they were dvceived by the very quality wbieii gives the mill its value namely, its simplicity. Used to po1deruus machinery, they could not conceive how such simplicity could Produce such wonderful re suIts, but they were convinced ai' ter witnessing the operations of the mill. Howbeit, no one need make a mistake in this matter. T'ne Westminister mill and others of the same kind are all easy of ac cess. No one who has any though t of investing can go asryor be misled by anything that may be said by enthusiastic newspapers. The process is open to inspection. We look forward to the day when the bulk of the Southern cotton crop will be turned into yarns on the plantations or in the farming neighborhoods-when every set tlement of planters shall be trans formed into a manufacturing town with its churches and its schools when the South will be as rich and as powerful commercially and intellectually as the North and the East-when her thrift shall be as widespread and her- industries as numerous as those of New En. gland. Capital is always on the alert, and it will need no formal invitation to invest in these yarn mills if the facts are 'as represent ed. The most hopeful feature of the new process is that it is ingx pensive enough to allow our own. peop)le to invest in the necessary machinery, and in every neigh borhood the smallest farmers can, by co-operating with each other, set one of these little factories in profitable motion. From every point of view the matter is well worthy the ser'ious attention of the South. Hardly do we guess aright at things th at are upon earth ; and with labor do we find things be fore us; but the things that are in heaven, who hath searched out. We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes which have at tended others, that there is no thing singular in those which be fallI us. The present world is called night because it is f'ull of darkness and dreaming. Felicity, not fluency of lan guage, is a merit. Self-praise deprecates.