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i a t f: i 1 r Ai f ai ' ' .." , :. a , Y, Y $ ,. 'r. t k 0410, A 404 VOL. XIV. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Cleopatra. Dea!h lurked in the velvet of ler cheek, Ano !n the myriad tangles of her hair, And in her eyes, whic h drew men to des. pair, And on her lips, whose thrill mado strong men weak. Yoa, tll the honeyed accents she did speak To men, death-liden wore- but unaware Elnwrapt they listenled, heeding not tho snare Which caught their manhood in wild pas sion's frenk. Iravo Antony i whono'er 1 pause to think Of 1l-thou wert,and all thou nigbt'At havo beon, Thy roulenmeshed and over on the brink Ot cnreloss woe, whe bound by Egypt's - Queen Fromu tears of pity I can toarce refrain That in h -r arus did melt such soul and brain The Playmate Hours. Dawn lingers sitei' in the shado of night, Till on the glonming llncby's laughter rings. :Then snriling day awakes. and open flings Her goldon <doors, to sperd tho shining flight Of restless hours, gay chiliren of the light. Each eager playfellow to Baby brings Sone separate gift; it ifil"ttig bird that sings With her; a waving branch of berries bright; A heap of rustling leaves: cach trifle cheers This Joyous little Ifo but Just begun. No w eary hour to her brings sighs or t ears; And when the slndows warn the lettering son, With blossoms in her hands, untouched by fears, slo softly falls asleop, and day is done. -St. Nicholas. A LOST CHANCE. It was mid-summer, and Lilian Ferguson had itover seen a fairer scene than the billows of blue hills that lay stretched out below her, with here and there the flash of a half-hidden lake, or the ribbon-like glitter of a tiny river. Site stood leaning against the rustic post that formed the support of the booking office of the smnll rural sta tion, while her modest little trunk and traveling bags were piled up at the r'r. "Don't fret, miss," said the station master, porter, and booking clerk com bittod, who was bustling in and out. "Th oinibus will be herQ soon." . :Oh, I am in no hurry for the bust" said Lilian, plcasantly. "I could stand and look at this beautiful landscape all day." "Ain't that strange now?" reflect ively utterod the official. "We never think about it at all." "Is the omnibus often as late as this?" said Lilian, glancing at her neat little silver watch. "Not generally," said the station master; "but to-day they're waiting at the Rectory for the deaf-and-dumb gentleman.'' "For whom?" said Lilian, in amaze ment. "For the deaf-and-dumb gentleman, miss," exilained the statt'on-master. "A cousin of our minister's. He's been down hero for treatment; but dear me, there ain't no treatment can over do film any good. As deaf as a stone, miss, and never spoke an intelligent word since he was born. But they do say lie's a very learned man, in spite of'all his drawbacks." "I'm afraid he won't be a very lively trateling companion," said Lilian, smiling. "No, I suppose not," said the sta tion-master, in a matter-of-fact sort of way. Just at that moment a wagonotto drove up; the driver handed out a va lise, and assisted - a young lady to alight. ,. "1-as the omnibus gone?" she cried, flinging aside her veil, and revealing a very pretty brunette face, shaded by jetty fringes of hair and flushed with excitement. "You're just in time, miss,'' said Mr. Jones, peering down the windino road, which his experienced eye couldF trace, when no one else's was of any avail. "'It's a-coint' now!"' 4 l.t Liliatn Ferguson, who had been gazing at the no0w comer earnestly, nowv canmo forwvard with an eager smile and an outstretched hand. ''Surely I am not mistaken,'' said she, "and this is Ellen Morton?P" ''Lilian F'ergutsoil!'' Oh, you darl ing, I am so gliad to see you!' criedi tihe stranger. "Blut whore on earth did you come from?" Anti thus met the two lovely girls who had palrtedl jutst a yeatr ago at Madame t. Tfoturntaire'sa fashionable boarding-s .hool in Scarborough, and who had not soon each other since. Just at this moment, however, there was no time for explanations. 'Te p)onderouls omnibus rolledl up, with creak of leathern curtains, tramp of horses, and a general confusion of arrival, to the broad wooden steps of 4- the station. TIhe su.n was already down. In the twilight, Ellen and Lilian could only .discover that the vehicle contained but 01n0 other occupant, a man,. whio leaned back in the far corner, with the ton of his face, partially hidden by a lai-ge, ,wido-brimode hat, and its lower part wrap)pod int the folds of a Persian silk pocket-hantdkerchief. Hie inclinedl hi head courteously as thtey entered, and movetd a h andsome traveling case whiich lay ont thte middle seat,.,as if to make room for thtom. "'Is there another passenger?'' saidl Miss Mortotn, wvith ia little, nervous 'start. * "It's only a deaf-and-dumb gentle man,'' Lilian oxp)lainIed, her eyes full of soft p)ity. "yIhe station-master told me about him.'' "What a nuisance!'' cried Ellen. ''I had hopedl we shtould have the drtve to outrsolves. But now, (lear," as site settled herself in the most comfortable corner, "toll me what this uOpce encounter meatn." "It means," said Lilian, with a shty smile, "that 1 am going to 1be nursery ~ovv"toss at Chossington Hall, thtat is, fiu1.ive satisfaction. I was engagedl by a utter a w'-k ago." "W hat a vcdsintgular coincidencoe" said l\ iss Morton, shaking her cherry colored bonnet-strings. "And I am going to be comupanion to 01(1 Mrs. Grove, of Grove Rookery, the very next place to Chessitngton Hall. HlowlIdo envy you, Lilian." "Envy me, EllenP" "Yes. Hlaven't youtlteard about itP" said the brunette. '-Thte Chessington children, your future charge, are motht erloss, don't you knewP Thtey are *nder tho care of an aunt, so Mrs. Gi'ove told me; and there is a hand some widower and an interestin~ youtng bachtelor at Chessingto Hall Lilian coloredi hotly. "Neither of whom I expet to mot," said sho~. . "It will be onm. owxm f.al iy don't" observed Miss Morton. "Why, my dear, here is your career all chalked out for you. Sentimental widower, with lots of money-pretty governess mutual fascination-growing devotion -finale, a wedding! Hoyt presto, your fortune is made!" "Ellen, how can you talk so?" cried Lilian, flushing and indignant. "1 am not on a husband-hunting expedi tion; I am simply trying to earn my own living." "The more gooso you, to neglect such an opportunity as this," said Ellen, laughing. "If you don't try for the widower, I shall. Grove Rookery is only half a mile froju Chessington Hall, after all; and a rich husband would solve the problem of my life at once." "This is too ridiculous, Ellen!" said Lilian. "I could not respect myself if I were to plot and plan like this. I know it is unjust, but you have made me dlisiike Mr. Chessington already." "The more the better," said Miss Morton. "They say ho is very hand sonic; and one could easily send the children away to boarding-school. I can assure you, I'll have no old-maid aunts and inteideriug uncles about tho premises." "Ellen, let us talk of something else," said Lilian, resolutely. "Tefl me all that has happened to you sinco we saw cach other last." Ellen laughed out a merry, ringing laugh. "Well, if you must know," said she, "I've been trying my best to get a nico husband, but without any suc cess." "Is matrimony, then, the end and aim of all the worldP" said Lilian, with queenly disdain. "As far as I ani concorned-yes," aeknowledged Miss Morton, with charming frankness. "Pardon me, Ellen," said Lilian, "but It seems to me that you have do generated frightfully since those dear old days at Madamo do Tournairo's. Miss Morton yawned. "How tedious all this is!" said she. "Miss Ferguson turned. lecturer, ohP How 1 wish that poor follow in the corner wasn't deaf and dumb! I'd flirt with him, just to aggravate you, Lily!" Lilian made no answer. She leaned her head out of the window, and watched the purplo dusk creep up the hill sides, counting the stars as one by one they shone out. Anything was better than Ellen's shallow chatter! Grove Rookery was soon reached, and Miss Morton bade her old school mate an effusive farewell. "I see that the old lady has sent the carriage to meet me," said she. "Good by, Lily! You must be sure to intro duce me to the charming widower when I come over. Au rcvoir, darling -au revoir!" The deaf-and-dumb gentleman left the omnibus very soon. Miss Fergu son watched with some interest, but no carriage of any description seemed to be waiting for him. He disappeared into the woods like a shadow, and vanished from her sight. "I suppose, poor fellow, that he lives near here," thought she. "How dread ful it must be, thus to be cut off from all companionship with one's follow beings!" But oven while these reflections passed through her mind, the omnibus stopped again, before a glittering facade of lrghts, half-veiled in swavng summer foliago-Chessington Hall! "Hero you are, miss," said the driver. Through the summer evening dusk, Lilian could see the marble-raifed ter race and the broad carriago drive, while two child figures danced up and dowvn, and uttered joyful exclamations of welcome-little Blanche and Alice Chessington! "Are you the new governess?" said they. "Are you Miss Ferguson? Wel como-wvolcome! We are so glad that you have come!" And in an instant their arms woero twined around Lilian's neck. At the end of p month Lilian Fergi' son felt completely and thoroughl' home with her nowv pupils. They had ranged the woods, a tedl all the grottoes and cascad lhad surrounded her with a, phiCe of the sweetest affection Mrs. Hlartleigh, their n 3qually kind; and Alfred liar' intero lag young uncle, h Lakon her into his confide' beautiful bride ho was p liome soon. But it certainly w Lhat she never had see ngton himself, the fa' Little p)upils. Until one pleasan ust as she had con ifiss Morton, who ha huo Grove Rookery c:o ~all, handsome gentle room, with Mrs. Hartl, "The deaf-and-dun Lilian involuntarily ext "P~oor fellow, so it %Iorton, who adlvanced ut the i lit muslin hress. "How ho does "'Ladlies,'' said th entleman, "you are ucar andl speak, to. inybody. I should youi a month ago in I luidl not been for the eumnstance of my to the dentist and liai broken in the cxtra, Loothi. I poerceivedi t taking mue for my, ir. Decntoni, a (leaf iear here; but lhe he tintil the next dlay, and( w' andl agedl face it wvas impsib)SS) .1mo to ipeak and explain matters.'" Ellen Morton's face glowed scarlet. Bho literally knewv not what to say. But Lilian Ferguson stoodl calm and unmoved. "Then," she said smiling, "all our sympathy Was thrown away up~on you. lie inclined his head. ''Exactly,'' ho said. "'I found the~ next (lay that it was necessary to p)ut myself under the care of a surgeon, so that I have been a sort of exile for a few weeks. Pardon my being so late to welcome you to Chossington IHall! But the welcome is none the less warm because it is tardy!" Ellen Morton never name to Chess Ington Hall again, nmt oo.il sh - much as think of her conversation it the omnibus that night, without, hoi inlignation at horself. "What a fool I was!" she criod. Mr. Chossington, however, much a he liked and admired Liliae Ferguson, never asked her to marry him. "When I was widowed once it wai forever," he said. And Lilian never coveted the prizc of his heart; perhaps because she wa engaged to n rising young clergyman. "If only I had Lily's opnortunities!" said Miss Morton. "'But I wrecked m3 chances when I spoko out my mind s( freely before the deaf-and-dumb gentle man!" Morning-Glory Girls. In the pages of a novel the girl who has a morning call alwavs comes trip ping into the parlor, dressed in a soft, fleecy gown of white, or a rose-colored cashmere with a girdle of br ight rib. bons, or a neat house dress of some shimnering gray fabric. She puts away her soft brown hair from her un troubled face, amtt her eves have the rested brightness of immortal youth, and mnch more of the s:ane sort ad in finitum. '1his is in a book. Now take the young lady of real life. Sh.e has breakfasted and is amusinz herself with a book when a caller is announced. If it is a young gentleman, and she does not expect him, she sends word that she will be "down immediately." Then she tears a bandage from her queenly brow, which looks as if it had been cemented together, and picks out the b:ndolino. bas-S. Then hurried toilet ablutions. a wimite Mother Hub bard with a pink satin bow and should or knot, takes the place of the waist and skirt which were "good enough for home." The old slip-shod slippers are replaced by pink hose and opera ties. There is a hasty skirmish with the powder puff, a christening dash of cologne, and with an em%roidered mouchoir in her hand the young lady descends to the parlor and finds her younger brother on intimate terms with the caller, who is no other than her es cort of the previous evening when she was arraytd in purple and line lace. He does not realize that she is en mas querade just now as much as she was then; that he is the hero of a scene in real life, and that if he had met her in the h"ll as she appears in the bosom of her family he would probably have mistaken her for her own maid. He could scarcely, with this vision before him, be brought to understand that her young lattyhood is so completely a mat tor of personal adornment. It would be almost a safe thing to as sort that out of fifteen young ladies of leisure only five could be seen at a morning call without the required wait of half an hour. In many families where the daugiter is a social belle there is as much preliminary hurrying and scurrying to get her into presonta ble shape for an unexpected call as if it were an emergency of fire. And this is not duo to any poverty of wearing apparel. The young lady can have anything she desires to wear-has, in. deed, quantities of beautiful clothing but what is the use of making an elab orate toilet if there isn't anybody to see it? In this case father and mother, sisters and brothers are all nobodies. A waist of one dress and a skirt of another, both shabby and soiled, a di. lapidated fiehut, hair cn papillote, last night's powder still visible in streaks, and a general yaw-aw-yaw-aw yaw-aw of weariness. What is this a descrip tion of-a farmer's scarecrow? No! A modern belle, who begins life at the wrong end of the (lay. A judicious mother who brought upl alone and unaided a family of daugh ters, all of wvhom fill honored ulaces ir society, never allowed her girls to ap. pear at the breakfast table in a social undlress. They must be fresh, cleau and with a finish of collar and coiffture, or back they wvent to their rooms. There was no rtunning away when the door bell of that house rung. Thec y oung ladies weore always fit to be seer in~ their nicely laundried ruflled ' mn. *1 y .d as ly ,ow Ti.c air or a roomi ny (. . gas Is heated twenty times as much as if it were lightted to an equtal extent by in candlescont electric lamps. WVhen arc lamps are used, the compnarison is still more in favor of clectricity. You will be suirprised to know th at our old friend, the tallow candle, and even the wax candle, is far worse thtan gas in the prop)ortiont of air vitiated1 and the heat p)roduceed; and you will- be disposed0( to believe it. But the fact is, that so long as candles were used, light was so ex pensivo thtat we were obliged to be con tent w ith little of it; in fact, weo lived in a state of semi-darkness, andl in this way we.ovadled the trouble. It is only since the tronoral introduction of gas and petroleum that we htave found what an enili it is--Tim~ Re'niaru Enuincer. on FARM TOPICS. gr Spontaneous Combustion the Cause i of Burning Barns-How to - to Savo Corn Fodder. Fe ca How Best to Increase the Growth of M Meadows-How to Italianiso wi Bees. gr th THE BURNING OF BARNS. It is noticeable, says the bcienifo ve American, that a larger number of burnings of barns are mentioned by the periodical press in the summer that at any other time, Some of the fires are I undoubtedly caused by lightning, th If moist vapor from the uncurod I hy hi making a favorable conductor for t o o electric fluid. But there are barn fires be which cannot be attributed to lightning, na to lighting of matches, to light from a lanterns, nor to the invasions of care- hi loss tramps. It may be that the spon- is taneous combustion of hay is as possi- ex ble as the spontaneous firinc of cotton ki waste. All fibrous material, when Cc moist, and compressed, and defended in from the cooling influences of the out ward air, is subjected to a heating simi- in lar to that of fermentation; and in some th instances the degree of boat is sufficient to to cause actual, visible combustion. In i' the case of recently "cured" hay this l danger is as great as, in similar cir- go cumstances, other materials may be. Pl I Frequently the grass is cut in the early in morning, while wet with dew; it is 81 turned twice, and gathered and packed sO in the "mow" or "-bay" before night- P fall, with perhaps a sparse sprinkling of w salt. Such a compressed mass of moist, to fibrous matter will heat. How far the go heat will go towards generating com- a b'ustion may be inferred from a foolish or trick which the writer witnessed sever- bu al years ago. A large meadow of hay had boen cut, kn cured, and cocked, previous to remov- be al. A shower threatening, the cooks In were covered with caps of canvas and 8e left for the night. While engaged in T getting the hay in the next day, one of w the workmen dropped an unlighted nc match from his pocket into a cock of C hay, and in a few minutes it was ablaze. It afterwards was ascertained that ho had spoken of the warmth of the hay as he lifted it on his fork, when a com panion remarked that it might be hot enough to light a match, on which he put a match in.- the rick, and before de tihey had passed on five minutes the w rick Was on fire. Everybody conversant with farm life f where hay is a permanent and impor tant crop, knows that for weeks after PI getting in the hay the barn is warm when opened in the morning. There c is an amount of heat that is absolutely t unpleasant when the thermometer out side reaches 50 degrees, but whieh Is t11 quite welcome with the outside temper ature at 40 degrees. The barn heat is undoubtedly from the moist hay, com- b pacted and enclosed. The cure for the 0d possible danger of possible spontane- It ous barn burning would seem to be the I thorough curing-drying-of the hay a before it is housed. We dry all of n our herbs and some of our vegetables n without injuring their peculiar and in- t dividual qualities. There is no reason a why hay or othorfodder material stored a in larffe masses should not be rendered o oqualIy innoxious to the influences of otc heat by thorough drying. in HOW TO SAVE CORN FODDER, of The complaint that stock will not eat b corn fodder well, or over one-third or r one-fourth of it, arises from our moth- of od, or lack of method, in securing it. Most of our corn Is allowed to stand as t it greow, and to have its nutrition wash- a cdi out of it, andl then it is fed whlere it CC orowv to cattle roving through the field. 1) rl'he bleached stuff is little liked and tn little eaten. A few cut it and put it in- w to large shocks but not unt,il after the m corn is dead ripe. It should be cut iv /while the stalks are yet quite green,r the corn being in the latter stages of to /tho dough state, or before the kernel i9 c too hard to crush easily in the lingers, " and before it is dry throughout. It or should be p)ut into shocks made from c four hills square in place of the old six- i teeni hills square, and bound around n the top by rye straw, twine or a green th corn stalk. It is wvell to bend the tas- o sels downx, binding the tops under, thus turning the rain. In the course of two )1 to four weeks, depending upon the P weather, thoe small shocks may easily so be husked out and( the corni cribbed. . Th'le bandh ill not have to be reraoved Ii nor the shock taken dIowa in husking. di After husking the hills of corn aroundco which the shock is made, as fast as the 0 skoek is wanted, may be cut, and thet( fodder of the shock may be quickly and easily, by one man, passod to the wag on for stacking, the band around the shock always remaining on. T.lhus treatodl it will be tender, more p)alata blo and more nutritious, and, whoa fed wIth clover, cotton-seed meal, or mid n'i'gs, wvill be nearly all eaten. It will wih a:so be handled from the start at loss let 0xpense5 than by the system of sixteen hiri hills square shocks. ont ie CATTLE IN~ MEAlDOWS- nel (ld mioadows from wvhich crops have pi Leoni gatho red will soon have consider- bul able aftorgrowth under the influence ofyr favoral I rains. Whileograss on p)astuire hxin fields is shortened there is a strong tha templtation to graze meadows. If no hiin injury would follow of course adivant- om ago migh t be had by pasturing thomn, dto but inijiy des follow. Th'le best way for to incrt aso the yield of meadows that sig do not .comoi up to the standiard is to he permit the aftergrowth to remain as a Ye winter plrotection to the roots of the "P g rassos. It is true, growth may be so dlot heavy as to defeat the p)urpo~se in vIew. yoi lin such case the grass, failing closely Nei uplon the roots in a thIck mat, may smother them in winter to such a do- 'i gree as to rodiuco vitality and interfere Jou with full p)roduction the following sea- ph3 son. When this aftorgrowth is too whi large moderate palsturing Is beneficial, pea but close grazing Is always injurious to reg meadows, esp)eeially when tho grass is tha in a large proportion timothy. As a Ish substitute for m'a' when the af ter- "p! growth is larxgo moing can be dlone, seti the knives set to run thtroo or four mi<* Inchles from the ground, and the crop can be raked up as rowen for feeding' ealves and shoop. lBut if not raked it ph will wither and droop dIown without ill th< effects. In any case care should be ist taken to keep the cattle off from the be meadows in late autumn, hean. not sir ough profit can be derived from azing to compensate for the injury re to follow. As a rule too little ro is given to grass lands, not only those in pasturage but for Ineadows. rmers get off all growth that they n, and the natural tendency is to I akon roots of the grasses, especially ion this is done late in autumn. If azing must be done lot it bo early so at the season may bring farther owth to shield the roots from the so rities of winter. s IHOw TO ITALIANIZE BEES. I First, secure a good queen from a re oblo breeder. When the queen arrives, your boos are in a movable framo ro, commence on one side and take t one or two frames and shako off the os so as to be sure the black queen is >t on them. Now put the frames into new hive and sot it in place of the old vo, which, with the remaining boos, put six or eight rods away. Then . amino each frame carefully, find and it the black queen, or make a now lony by giving her half of the frames the old hive. Queens are mostly sent in a cage one ch thick and four inches square. Lay f a cage on a framo of brood, near the p bar, and with a sharp knife cut a uco of comb just the size of the cage. nmovo the two tacks holdina the tin .te, but do not let the gate sTip out of ace. Slip the cage into the hale cut the comb, with the gate down; be t ro the gate is in the right place, the queen cannot possibly get out. ace the frames in the hivo just as they n ere, and then leave them from thirty t forty hours. Then remove the tin o to, but leave the cage in position, 1 d with a sharp, thin knife, givo two three cuts just below the opening, t do not removo any comb. Now close the hive and the bees will tow their way out; but before closing ' careful to destroy all queen cells. about live days open the hive and li o if all is right, and remove thocage. ,ic above plan is intended for those V [lo have had but little experience and >t for the practical apiaria.- Our 0 mcntry Home. a The Telephone Used at Sea. If there were but one wire on the rface of the earth, says Alexander raham Bell, the inventor of the tele- t iono, in an interview with the Phila ilphia Press, a man might talk all tho ay around the globe. Tho multitude I disturbing influences - telegraph ires, atmospheric disturbances, mag- 3 ltic influences-overcome the tele- i ionic action. I have already over me as much resistance as would be icessary to send a message around o world. I have talked through the 5 idies of thirty persons standing with t eir hands joined. Among the papers that I will read fore the Association for the Advance- p ont of Science is one on a now moth of signalling between vessels at sea. is done by means of the telephone, d 1 cannot at present foretell what actical results it may load to. Sig Is were successfully exchanged bT- c 'on two boats in deep water a mile a d a quarter apart. In one boat was t telphone, with one of its two termi- il ls hanging over the bow, and the her trailing in the water over the u .rn. Tho arrangement was the samo b the other boat, except that, instead b a telephone, it contains an electric ttery, with an apparatus for inter- c pting the current very rapidly, as ten as 100 times in a second. Every c " no the battery was connected with o water the latter brcamio charged, d when the current -.ras interrupted ased( to be so, and a musicalnoi tc was educed in the telephone of the dis uit boat. These results were obtainedi e ith a very imperfeet applaratus. Tiho n usical note couldl be p)roduced at ill, at different intervals, and we ar-.. nlged an alphabet. A skillful opera r could roadl a mossago iommlun i tedi in this way wvith the greatest n so. In connection with this discov y I may say that the credilt of the (his very is not-altogether mine. If Prof. ow bridge, of H?arvard College, had t had the idea of a galvanomotor, in- mU and of a telephone, and of charging j1 water with a dynamo-ehectric ma- b no in a similar way, the idea of apl- a ring the telophione for that purp~hoso a ght not have occurred to me.'~ Thel a ofessor thought that in this way yes- a s might dhiscover their proximity to e, ah other in a fog. Nearly all vessels ti ye dynamo-electric machines to pro- y, no the electric light. This machine al ild be used to chargo the water when c( steamer runs into a fog, such as fe always finds off the coast of New- c< iidland, and would give an electric et nal to any vessel dangerously near it "I Wanted( That Badly." t. citizen of f amilton, Harris county, oso nam" is 'Teel, has witten a long er to Governor McD)aniel askina 1 to p>lease send hinm a diivorce at th ic. feel says lie Is in (leep distress, of and( his wife have p)artedl and will Ii.< !Or live together again, lHe has aip- ,th ad to the justice courts down there, .or can get no relief. He says the law- 'to s want him to pay them $2!> to write fic a divorce, and he is unable to do PI t. lie asks the governor to send h< two divorces, one for himself and1( ril for his wife. If the governor can't B: anything, lie wvants his ease laid be- k( President Arthur. lie says Arthur .d( is his nmamo "'Chester Arthur,"' and1 sp understands his postoflico is New cu 'k. 'Teel closes his letter .' follows: :M Ions sea about this rite off~ and de nt wato until aifter I am dad bofoor M let me hoar fromi you.'"-~-Aavafnah M ho Pacific Medical and .'urgical ly rnal gives thi imcrease of Californip or: sicians at 24() per an num, a number lo ch the Stato cannot suppihort. It ap- gr rs that Los Angeles has a hundred pr ular physicians. Thoe editor says n< the doctors are ambitious to flour- la in the large cities, and wvill endlure os diosohical starvation'' rather than to be in some thriving town where they dii ht ultimately do woelh. p, rho following are some of the eu- h, nious names of the sleeping ears on st Canadian Pacific railroad: Kamin- b' quia, Qu Appelleo, Wauapitao, Nas- bi Disin g, Wabigoon, Kananiskis, Nipis- h~ g. Madawaaka.d OUR C[CAZY QUILT. so L Paris Novelist who Charges Hit Is Hosts.-Aro We a Nation of Horse. ou Men and Women. ha in low to Make a Stocking-Bag.-Orna- sp mentatlol:or Table Cloths. ce liv DINING OUT ON TERMS. The following story was quoted by th ho author of tio Paris letters in 'I As. th enlcc Nationale as an episode that ri ctually occurred shortly before. Some ml lays since a manufacturer happened to re dining with a magistrate. All the uests were greatly enjoying the lively alk of a novelist, who also works for of ho theater, and, by the way, works an xceedingly well. That evening ho was till of fun; his wit sparkled like a dis hargo of fireworks. The dinnor went i fl' like a flash of lightning. ('I'his,you s )orceive, is a French way of writing )riskly for the country newspapor. )h Vhon they had left the table the man- bi ifacturor took the novelist aside and 'i vith a low bow said: "Ah, monsieur, how much you have n ;ratificd me!" "Monsieur!" ei "Yes, really; you have a great repu- ci ation for talent, but I did not expect to o find you so very amusing." "But, monsieur!' al "Monsieur," continued the manufac- i Lirer, "my wife is indisposed.'' i "Ahi" fc "For some time past she has been ill p nd out of spirits. Would you have ei .io goodness to come and dino with me si no of these daysP You will amuse m or." "You believe that I will amuse your e( rife?" ci "I do, indeod. Do come." ne "Very well, monsieur; but of course ei ou know the terms?" tll The manufacturer stared at the novo- be st. da "The terms!" ho repeated, like a man po 'ho trios to understand what is meant. tol ''Certainly," replied the other with- t ut hesitation; "when 1 dine out-with th manufacturer-that's 500 francs." "Alit' da "To be sure! You manufacture dr homicals, or cotton goods, or beet su- th ar, or heaven knows what; you sell st hose things and get your living by hem, don't you?" b "Yes, but-" "I," continued the author, "work my rains and I live by what I can spin ut of them; that's my merchandise, br on understand. When a gentleman gl nvites inc to dimner to amuse his wife, in vho is dull, that's 600 francs.'' th "What a capital joke!" dI "No .joko at all. Jiadamo-vour m; rife-is a little low. Eh bion! send me m hie cash and I will come and divert tl r."a The dinner has not yet been re- kn orted. ed BREAKFAST ANI) LUNCHEON. an The ornamentation of table-cloths )r breakfast and luncheon is moro oc laborato than ever in worked flowers m( rid fruit of colored thread with fringes th( >nmateh, which display t he service of Ow )lored Bohemian and Venetian glass 'ha the Japaneso and Chinese porcelain '"1u (ed for informal meals to the best ad- sti iitage. The plain white damask ta- lax le-cloth is always used for dinner, al- wa iough innovations have been attempt- ol . to substitute napkins laid at each to late instead of one large cloth, as they ist In b) more easily removed for dessert wi 'ithout disturbing the service of the sh 'lver, crystal, and Sevres porcelain la( Ihich is used. F"or liqueur /lacons, as of 'eli as for oil and vinegar cructs, the th; ird kingdom has beenz extensively in- CO: aded to furnish mlodels. Birds of ed rysta:l, mxounted with goldl or silver, ing r'o used as uwell for toilet -sets. 'The pC mallest specimnls, like anaries and inulto p)arro(luets, are piretty for this i rpose whUIle wa nd pigrensar ore in vogue for' table servic.- to meric'an Qucen. vo ani FlRE sCRtEENs. WC A very handsome fire screen can be co adoe of peaceock's feathers by the fol-," wing process: IInve a frame of wvire th mt into a half circular or fan shape, wl 'ad covered with coarse muslin. 'Th1 an ire shiould be twisted into at handle li id made to fit tighitly into a small jo 00(1en stand weighltod wit,h lead. TIhoe thi 'e feathers are first glued on around tie .o edge, stand(ing Out a good (eat De- sh md it; then a second and1 third row, wc 1(1 so on, afterwvard filling upl as the lie nter is approachedl with the smaller waB athers. Procure, if possible, at pea- be. >ck's head, and glue or tack it with a >arso nioedlo andl thread to the center. thu y'ou can not get the head, fill tup we Ith tiny feathers. Cover the b)ack withI Tfh incy plaper, redl or goldl.-B?oston 11cr- (qu sai FAsIONAlIE IIORs5EJDACK IDING*.sa TIhe fashionable ridin'g-mastors say On at wVo are becoming ns great a nation I I1 horsemeni and women as the Entr- sai h. The amount of ridiing done hie sp i summecr would senm to bear them yo t. 'The drive in the afternoon is (lot- tot Lthroughout its length by graceful ~ures on horseback. Dru. Paneoaist, of ] iladelphia, has four splendid saddle 001 rsas. Hie and the Misses Pancoast, thl lo with great (daring and skill, Miss he uker, the (laughter of Alfred G. Ba- str r, tIhe,Academy's aggressive Presi- as nIt, rides with her brother, andl so -m codlily that her long, old-fashioned be rls are sent fly intg out on the wind. chi iss SeligniMin, the New York banker's oc ,ughter; Miss Merritt, Miss Stiels, zy rs. Colonel Worth, of New York; N. iss Field, of Brooklyn, and Miss An- of ews, of New York, are all dashing or dI graceful riders. Grooms aro rare- as seeni can terimg after the youngiladies mn the (drivo nowadays. It is said that fri ve aff'airs betweeii my lady and the mn oom became so common that pruident 18 pas took frIght. IL is the fashion lia av to have a riding master accompany w dies who have no escort from their d< vn set. Blassen, the fashionable acher, often spends fourteen hours a ty in the saddl10 in his ofilco of comn- w union, lio beg Ins sometimes as early g: 5 o'clock in the morning, for .many p: urdy young horsewomen amuse them- al lves with a canter of ton miles before ti 'cakfast. The master does not ri'do mlhindl, but immediately at the right of is eharge. He wears no livery. He O: resses elegantly, na i. nnioas haim. 0 me a figure.as any on the not expeoted to say anythinj argo for his service is aboufP ting. It must be grant&ahe ndsome and fashionably d-e g-master would be more likely Ire a passion in the bosona d$, ptible young woman than a pi* ' ,oried groom. The gain to ace of mind, however, conies ? fact that one master ma roe dozen young women6 so y. k of a mesalliance is immenself nished.-Long Branch LeWr. STOCKING BAG. Take a yard of blue silesia, two ys>l blue satin ribbon an Inch de, a iall piece of white flannel, soxce.,ti$ steboard, and a spool of blue silk. the pasteboard cut four cfrcular ces, each one measuring sevef inoh. across. Cover these four pieces ioothly with blue silesia, and over. ng the edges of the two together with uo silk, the remaining two to be done the same way for the opposite side. to pulls should be a -straight pieo4 ensuring sixty inches long and twelve ches wide. 'Tis is to be gathered ch side to fit round the edge of the rcular pieces, leaving a space at the p of the circle three inches for the >ening. The puff is now to be sewed 1 round the edges of each circular eco, except the place left for the op iing, thus forming the bag. Make r the outside of one of the circles a ecc of the same size and shape, and ubroider or applique some little do n upon it. Then cut from the flan ;l several leaves the same shape, but nallor, button-hole stitch or pink the ges and fasten them to the top of the rele on the baa, as the leaves in any cdle-book are fastened, then sew the abroidered cover outside of this at e top. Where it is fastened place a w of ribbon. This is for holding the rning needles. On the circle the op site side a piece of silesia is gathered and bottom to cover a little more in half the circle, for a pocket. In 3 casing at the top run an elastic, d in this pocket is kept the yarn for rning. The satin ribbon is used to aw the puff together at the top, and e interior is the receptacle for the ickings.--American Queen. edding Blunders and Eeccntrio itles. The most common mistake of the ido is to take off only one of her Dvos, whereas both hands are brought to requisition in the service. As for o men, they commit all kinds of blun rs and bunglings. I have known a An, at that very nervous and trying ment, follow a clergyman within o communion rails, and prepare to ko a place opposite him. I have own a man, when a minister stretch out his hand to unite those of the uple, take it vigorously in his own d give it a hearty shake. Sometimes more serious difficulties cur. Some ladibs have had an al )st unconquerable reluctance to use word "obey;" one or two, if their n statements are to be accepted, ve ingeniously constructed the word obey." The word, however, has i to be formally admitted into the igungo. There was one girl, who s bein,r married by a very kindly l clergyman, who absolutely refused utter the word "obey." The min 2r suggested that, if she were un lling to utter the word aloud, she aild whisper it to him; but the young iy refused to accept even this kind a compromise. Furthor, however, mn this, the clergyman refused to ao nmodato her; but when lie was fore to dlismiss them all without proceed any further, the recalcitrant young sion consented to "obey." I'hoe difficulty, however, is not al ys made on tihe sido of the ladies. one occasion the bridegroom wished dleliver a little oration qualifying his w, andi in describing in what sense d to what extent ho was using the rdls of the formula. He was, of irse, given to understand that noth of this kind could be p)ermitted. e was one man wvho accompanied formula with sotto voice remarks, ich must hkyov beon exceedingly dis reeable to the ofliciatin g minister. initerpolated remarks after the fash of Burehell's "'Fudgei"' "With ring I thee wed; that's supersti a." "With my body I thee wor p; that's idolatry." "With all my rldly goods I thee endow; that's a " It is a wvonder that such a being s not condIucted out of church by the 1'his rpats one in mind of an:.aecdote t is told of a man, who, in his time, s a membher of the British Cabinet. era was a great discussion on the stion wvhether a man can marry on 'oc hundred a year. "All I can say," d tho great man, "is that when ' I di, 'with all my worldly goods I thee low,' when all my dobts were paid, adl 300 pence." "Yes, my love," a his wife; "but then you had your ended intellect." "I didn't -endow iwith that, ma'am," sharply ro. ted the right honorable husband. ti. Deligny, who has under him 40, operatives in the copper mines of > province of Huelva, Spain, of which has been chief engineer since 1848, stes that he has never been able to 3ertain that any one eng aged in the ning industry with wich he has en so long connected had died of olora The health of the mining p)ulation is excellenit, and deaths from motie diseases are rare among them, . Doligny also mentions that people rank and wealth at Madrid and oth. parts of Spain have engaged every ailablo lodging about the C0opr nes. Ho stated that the inmmnnihy >m cholera in the Swedish ooppoz Incs is so notorious that in 1884 and 65 the royal family and court wont WO o~ in the Ph alun mines, whore 'tiloe Is not a single death from the 4 Oi mic. _ _ _ _ _ Deadly weapons are taken fr6m ho carry them into the Glo imbling and drinking houses; ' oye gives checks for then,, and'~i -c returned on their owner' a During the last fiveyes 'win Paris purchase&7,88 paintings,