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y+. , LXIV. PICKENS, 8. C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17. 1885. A Mighty Monarch. a ini richer than Croesus of old, to my mInd, I htve treatsures nmost varied id rare; I IIIve Ships wh- "'ip t."ture elpotds on no An i kilow natittgihot hurdtensoluc care. ; rtloutres til tntnntbrrc I clim as my own, wI'Ihout, tenant' to ilko them11 a bore; hti' hvo songs which are written for tuy car ailole, A tl have picturoa and books by the scoro. I havo lor is andut cattle and birds of all elitnes, Qucer tiRhus that swint in the soa; I have bells tnado of silver, whose inusloil chlites Are runtg oat to please only inc. I ri, un(t.tprtted, acknowledgo no poor (tho' tty subjects arte oft known to scold). Fo' Ilt King or tho nursery, andt wiat Is Quc sr, I'nm oul7 about two years old. -L. II. Mansbach. 1urple and Fine Linen. 8ht . . a al robed in splendor, fair as dawn V nItrat Io bares lila forehead In the N%ast; , itl ncring satit fell It softest folds, . a.v 't robe, fit flor a kimuly feast, Andl lace that wams historic, ilne us frost, Tite tracery of its pattern, trailing down O'er s >Ways of blossosms, caught with jewels No faIrer sight in nl the goodly town. Yet "t!zod she ott the splendor cold as death, Yet lookel she ott the picture still and white; Tle flasling jewe,s caught. no answering flashi in eyes that. erst were brighter than their light. No warmth froInt ruby hangings could light up Thle cItill of thuIt ret face, its silent tlere slm t honFhlt upon the radliance of her life uiven for the radiance of this pageantt fair. -LottIo Tyng Griswold. IHER. MATCH-MAKING. " Well, do you like him, Kitty?" "Oh, very much, Sally, dear!" "His lovely mustache and his big, blue eyes! Did you notice, Kitty?" "Blue! Why, they'ro a sort of green ish-grey; and his mustacho is decided ly stubbly."' "Stubbly!" Al its Sally Wilson dropped th-1 paper in which she was twisting her hair for the night, and turned upon her friend with a gasp. "Stubbly! For mercy's sake of whom are you talking?' "Why, of Mr. Beadle, to be sure Mr. Alfred Beadle, the great bondhold cr, the hero of the eveling; of whom else?" Kitty pulled oil one small white slip pt-r, and stood twirling around upon the other and laughing gleefully. Sally watched her in dismayed sil ence. "Mr. Beadle!" she said, reproach fully. "You know I mean lloward Ben nott.'' Kitty paused in her giddy revolutions and sat down, with ier rounded elbows on the bureau, and her lovely, flushed face in her hands. !"Dear me!-no I didn't-," she said, fixing her soft eyes wonderingly on Sally s troubled face. ''But, come to think of it, he was rather nice-look Sally groaned. Was this the reward of all her love schemes? Was this the way in which her dreams were to be realized-her hopes to he fulilled. Miss Wilson was a very romantic young lady. She had always boon, and rejoiced in being. As regarded herself, she had long since cotne to the conclusion that any romantic enditg was, if not quite im possible, at least most unlikely. Sise was not, in ttn first place, of the proper appearalce. She was not imposing enough for the glneenly sort of heroine set forth in her favorite novels, and she had not the niecessanry raven locks and haughty mUannuer; and( the petito atnd babyish style was eutally out of the question. Site had not a retrousse t:ose, nor leaodinrg, bhII eyes, and hter stock of im uiples was extremely limited and otnly tmade visible by p)aintful contor 'I hens her circumtstanscos worlo very no seb against hser'. Sall wasanthiress, [and( her par entIs being. diead, site was livitng wvith alt aunst whlom she had raised ft'om tho obscurity 'of dressmaking to preside over the beautitul htomo to which she hsad recently roturnted from boarding school. Nobody could erer love hter madly for hnerselIf alon11( -recach across a bar rier' of p)overty, anid msarry her' in thse face of a disapprovitng wor'ld. Sally sotmetimtes regr'ettotd that her father htad beets thte htighly successful railway cotntraetor thsat Ito had becen. Heros very na:me was discousraging. Sally WVilson! Whto could conceive of aniy thitng inster'esting htappetning to a persont with so htorribly prtosalic a tsnm? hut Kitty! It was all very diWleroent witht Kit,ty. Sally's r'osmntic sott htad ithrilled witht pt'ophetie delighst thte mo menut shso hadl sett her- --si ttitng on one foot in oneO of Madamso Lavinoe's schtool r'oomt windows. Kitty htad hotbe ten ctoed by a bachso lor unclie. Shte was beauttt ifutlI and pelt niless--the 'very qusa lilicationts for a heiroinse, Sally~ I had rsllecteod. She had tatkon Iher undet' her winig, as it wVero; and( no0w that schtool was over, shie load broutgh thIemr homse with hser for sa long-visit-- the chief object, of whlicht was thtat Kitty and Ilioward B3enntett miighst be broughtt together. Sally htad smet hiti whtilo at htotme on her last vacation, andl had immediately cons5in'fod htim in her boeart to Kitty. M tcould lbe nmore fittittg, ioro dlelighitfulP Ioward was fair, Kitty bruntetto---whtich was just as it shoul'd be. lloward was calm, lansguid, and slightly pentsivo; Kitt-y was gay arnd vivatcious.~ Opposite qutalitbes were al ways tecessary for perfect happiness. TIhe imo had arrived for the fulfill mntt of hser htopes anid scomsos.. Sally had giveni bor first reception, and from her posit,ioni as hostess hsad noted thle progress of affairs breathless 1l'. Shto had wvatehoed theoir mnoeting and( thoir subsequenst intercourse asnxiously; .sihe had contrlved1 that they should g-> -ins to suppetr togetheor, though that hmad boost no eaisy matter. Mr'. Alfred Beadle--tho roputedl millionaire, non corning whom overybody w'as so ridicu lously stirred up-havin shsownt dan gorous Intentions of taking her him self, andl Howard htaving bon so ob tuse as to ofWer hsis arm to bis hostess. But those diloulies, and a few sim ilar ones, she had bravely surmounted, and had waited eagerly till the last guest had gone, to h6ar Kitty's verdict. "Rather good-looking!" sho ropeat ed, despairingly. "Why, he's a per foct Adonis, Kitty!" "01, well, I don't know!" said Kit ty, comnposodly. "Iioward," she went on, dreamily, "lie looks as though his name was Howard; all the Howards I ever know were big and fair, and rather soft, and--" Sho stopped suddenly; she had caught a glimpse of Sally's face in the glass. "I'm so sorry, dear! I suppose he's a great friend of yoursP" she said apologetically. "But really I didn't think him so entertaining as Mr. Beadle, and he hasn't half th'e money, you know," and Kitty laughed wick odly. Mr. Beadle again! Sa'.y's heart sank. She might have expected some thing of the sort. Kitty was so totally different from herself. She could never be made to see things as Sally saw them; she was distressingly matter-of fact. Sally sat pondering seriously, with the lights turned low, after Kitty, lushed and tired, and happy, had fall en asleep. Surely things must come out right. Howard must be backed and encour aged, and Mr. Beadle must be snub bed, crushed, and annihilated. Sally was not quite clear as to how this latter was to be accomplished but she went to sleep with renewed hope. "I suppose we shall be flooded with alls, shan't we?" said Kitty, as they sat in the parlor the next o% ening, talk ing over last night's festivity, with oc cr.ional yawns. ''I.suppose so, dear," responded Sal ly, gazing at her in fond admiration. Kitty was at her loveliest. lier red lips wore a smile of pleased ex pectan cy, and her dark eyes were bright with anticipation. "By the way," she said, pcering in to an opposite mirror and patting her hair; ''Mr. Beadle said something about coming to-night. Dear me! how do I look?" Sally groaned inwardly. "I presume Mr. Beadle will not no tice much,'' she said, severely. "Hlo is past those things, I should think. Ie must be forty at least." "About that," said Kitty, sweetly. The bell rang at that moment, and the subject of t'hcir conversation was ushered in, followed by a tall form, with a fair head, none other than How ard himself. Mr. Beadle pounced upon the chair nearest Kitty; Howard sank gracefully upon the sofa at Sally's side. "1 hope your duties of last night have not quite worn you out," he said, look ing down at her tenderly. "Oh, dear me, not at all!" responded Sally, rather sharply. '1'his was all wrong; but what was she to do? "It was a charming affair," Howard continued, moving a little nearer to her. "Thank you!" said Sally, abstract edly. She was watching the pair opposite, with rising uneasiness. Mr. Beadle was leaning forward at a :langerous angle, talking with horrible volubility, with his eyos fixed on Kit ty's face. Sally felt a wild desire to see his chair roll backward and land him on the floor. Howard looked a little hurt by her brevity; but Sally was oblivious. "Don't you think her lovely?" she said. Kitty was venturing a remark at the moment with a coquettish little laugh. Sally could gladly have shaken her. "Very," said lloward, rather vague ly, and without looking aroundl. "iIe is jealous," said Sally to her self. "Poor fellow!" "She is always pleasant, like that, to everbody," she said, aloud, with sympathy andI reassurance in her tone. "She dloesn't mean anything by It." "IndeedP" said Hloward. But lie did not seem quite to under standl the force of the remuark. Mr. Beadle was beggrin g Kitty to sing; and now wvas Sally's chance. "Dod dear!'' she urged; "our new' wvaltz song. Do you know itP"' she ~vent on, turning to Howard. "Mr. Bennett will turn your leaves, Kitty." Howvard followed Kitty to the piano obediently, andl Mr. lloadle joined Sal ly on the sofa "IIow extremely well-suited they are!" Sally observed. "They seem inade for each other. Don't you think so?" "Really, I had not noticed it,'' re joined Mr. Beadle, stroking his mus tacho with sudden gravity. "Stubbly!-good gracious, yes!" said Sally to herself, wrathfully. "I shou.4d hardly think so," he add ed, wvithi some asperity. ''No!'' said Sally, frigidly. And they relapsed into silence. That wvas the first of a long series of sumilar occasions. Hfoward1 and Mr. Beadle called in cessantly, and Sally's anxieties in creasedl accordlingly. Things were very discouragin g for the most p)art. Mr. Beadle was plai ly enamored of Kitty's manifold charms, and was dleterminedly deovot ed. Kitty was gay, anid careless, and hoewitchming, and Hloward was as Ian gumid as ever, and rather more pen siv e. Sally wvas convinced that this was duec to unhappiness, lie was grievedh and angered by Kitty's inidifference; he was ai prey to hopeless yearnings and jealous paiIoni. Thelm only drawback to the theory wvas that Hlowardl seemed sometinies ridicu lously and unexplainably attentive to herself. Bint that was pride, of course-pique. Sally lived in momentary expectation of havimg a tale of wounded loeve and blighted hopes poured Into her sym pathetIo ears. ,The (lays and weeks rolled by; Kit ty a visit wvas' dIrawing to a close, amid everybody was looking forward eagerly to Mrs. Sm ytho's masquerade. Sally herself forget her schemes and anxieties In the flutter of preparation. .Kitty was to go as a gipsy, In a. brIght sIlk bedloo, a gaily bespangled petticoat, and a highly-eolored and -ighly-becoming turban-things which: no lpsy has ever been known to wear. onywas to appear modestly as a peas ant of doubtful nationality, with a tucked waist and abbreviated skirt, and her hair in two braids down her back. Sally's hopes had somohon risen rather high. This was almost tlw end of Kitty's visit, almost the last time that she and Howard would be to gether, and something must happen. The fact of their approaching sepa ration would come home to them both; would bring them nearer together; would strike down all obstacles hither to existing, and bring matters to a Mr. B le was. of course, the chief obstacle. Mr. Beadle had shown a profound interest in the occasion-a positive enthusiasm, which Sally con sidered revolting. "A man of his ago!" she had said to Kitty, indignantly. "It is absurd! He will probably come as Infancy." "Undoubtedly!" Kitty had respond ed, gaily. "And Mr. Bennett as a lamp-post or a lightning-rod-ho is so amusingly tall!" Mrs. Smytho's rooms were a blaze of light and a scene of whirling gaiety. Sally gazed upon the scene, bewilder od, from the retirement of a sofa. She had lost sight of Kitty, and in the present state of confusion could not be sure of knowinn her aoain. A stalwart Highlander, with a fero cious mask, paused before her, and ap peared to be examining her intently. Then he came nearer, and stood re garding her critically, with his head on one side, folding his arms and crossing his scantily-clothed legs with a satis fied air. "Ho thinks I'm somebody else," said Sally to- herself, amusedly, and forgot him in a new excitement. She had caught a glimpse of a red waist and a twinkling skirt; of a gay turban and a flying mass of dark hair. Kitty was in a low chair at the fur ther end of the room, her bare, round arms, with their silver bands, gleam ing white, and her smiling, rod lips, just visible. A distinguished-looking individual, in the costume of Louise XVI. was perched upon an ottoman at her side, gazing upward in an obvious state of admiration and bliss. Sally craned her neck. Surely it was Howard! Only the top of his head was visible behind his exaggerated ruff; but surely that limited portion bore a striking resemblance to How ard's. Sally felt a thrill of exultation; this was exactly what she had hoped for. The music struck up; the IIighland er offered his arm promptly, and away they whirled. 'Their steps were eminently suited. Sally's cheeks began to glow behind her mask, and her eyes to sparkle. Suddenly the music ceased; the waltzers paused; there was a little hum of excitement, and then a simul taneous removal of masks. Sally looked around eagerly. Kitty and Louis XVI. stood near-Kitty smil ing and giowing. Louis XVI. strok ing a stubbly mustache and beaming down upon her. Sally looked up at her partner in amaze, and encountered the affection ate gaze of a pair of blue eyes, and a smile from beneath a blonde mus tache. "It is rather warm here," said the Highlander, softly. "Shall we step outside?" And Sally went. Half an hour later, when the rioting within had reached its wildest point, they were still standing out -under the stars, with the music floating out to them soitl1-. HIoward s fair head was bending very low, and Sally's long braids fell over his arm. "'But---it is so peri'Zel t luexp)ected,'' she w'as saving, in a subdued way. "I had ntever even thoug~ht of suc thing.''"c ''No,'' said Howard, in an aggrieved tone-"-o~ve ry body coulId see that."' "You see, 'said Sally, in a meekly apologetic way, "it was always Kitty I wvas thinking of. Dear me!"' and she laughed. II'alf an hour ago, she would hardly have laughed at this knowledge of the Ignominious failure of her pilanls. It was quite unexplainable. * * * * * "'I could hardly wait to tell you!' criodl Kitty. She was sitting on the side of the bed, her (lark hair in charming con fusion around her shoulders, her silvom bands in a pile beside her, her red tur ban on the floor. "'I could hardly wvait! Oh, Sally, canJOu ~ucssP'' "I s r eadio, I su1poseP" said Sally, resigndlysregndyha Kitty stared.reindyta "D1ear me!'' she cried delighitedly. "I thought so all along. WVas I right after aflP Jt is Mr. Beonnett, I sunp poseP"* "'I-I'm afraid so," said Sally softly, Why the Congregation Smilled. At the dedication of Pilgrim Chapel, Buifalo, William A. D)uncan, of Syra cuse, the State Sunday school Secre La ry, was add(ressing the children in his usual vivacious ma~nnor. ''Now, I am going to dlivide your school into three >)arts," said lie. "There are b. b.'s. Vhat are the?"' "Big boys, 'was the ready response. "Good. Thlen there are the b. g.'s. What are they?'' ''Big girls,'' shouted forty voices. "Rlight, again. And last of all there are the I. e. 8." "Little kids!'' exclaimed a shrill voiced urebin, without, waiting for the qjuestion. The conigregationi snmiled vociferously. I tica UJb:;c, vr. Editors have their pecutliari ties as wvell ais other pleIl. Thecy practice andi inclcalCte brevity, wvhich is a vir tue. T1hey are absent-minded, which is a failing. It is not stranlge, thteni that one should send a note to his lady love like the following: "l)earest;I have carefully analyzed the feelingv I entertain for you, and tile result is sub stantially as follows: I adore you! W ill you be mine? Answer."' Then, after a moment of thought, ho added, in a dlro-imv, absent way: "Wrhte only on one side of the piaper. WV ito p)lainlly and give real name, not no mssarily fot publbcation, but as a guaran ec of goot faith."--Bioston Courier OFFICI 1f St'Y LEM IN 11ATS. People throughout the country ex press from tiet to time the greatest so curiosity to learn the styles in ollicial pt life, writes the Wash i~ng.tonn corres- its pondent of the Now York orwld. It is ah always a sourt of gIeat :tisfaction to dc a nunher of patriotie c:tizens to know ra' that they are d:e.cse. like "-the rulers of th the country.'' At the beginning of co this summer a good de:l of interest de has been awakened over tho disouission ra as to what was the proper hat to be th worn. sil The president is more conservative p than any moenber of his cabmlnet. ie th wears a closely buttoned Prince Albert to coat always, and, after. the pwoper th fashion, a heavy black silk hat with it. al A white hat would be ultogether too (1 undigniiled - althoui h President Ar- h< thur affected themu--and besides it h would not suit the President's com- M plexion. He will probably wear the d( black silk tile all summer. IIe wore a N wide-brimmed soft hat up in the Ad- ei, irondacks last summer, where-accord- p ing to the export Dr. Ward--he caught in more trout with a worm for bait than re the doctor got with his carefully-se- in lected Ilies. Alr. Bayard, however, has dgclared th for pearl-gray. as it is a style much re approved by his grandfather. Pearl- co gray hats have always been worn in us Delaware by fashionable statesmen, si and he has no idea of parting from the bl tradition. Ar. Bayard is of that lym- 10 phatic temtperment and complexion, pc moreover, to which the whito hat is peculiarly suitable. His tile looks as ti if it must have been built in Wilming- rc ton and by the son or nrandson of thce ex same hatter who supplied the first of of the Bayards. W Mr. Manning has ademocratic straw w hat. It is a Mackinaw, flat-topped by and sailor-shaped. IIe wears it over J< his right car, with the dashing grace m; of a young naval officer. Mr. aan- wl fling transferred his straw hat from Al- og bany here. To climb that steep hill sc from the Argus oilico to the capitol of p a hot summer day a man wants about tic as little on him ats decency and good ti< breeding will allow. When half way m up the hill a man generally takes oir ov his hat and uses it as a fan the rest of It the way. The advantage of a straw tu hat is therefore obvious. tli Mr. Whitney wears abroad-brimmed tr silk hat, covered with a mournin"- ti1 band. It is easily the most stylish tiYe wi of any worn in the cabinet. It is a tc New York hat from the curl of the bi brim to the swell of the crown, and in fc thorough keeping with the tout ensem- t< blo of his well-dressed figure. Proba- si bly the secretary would change it for a o: sou'wester should he go to sea; and, o should the vessel be John Roach's )ol- p phin, lie would doubtless provide him- tI self with a "wide-awake" and life-pre- p server as well. The country cannot af- si ford to have its eflicient naval seere- b tary take any useless risks. o Ar. Endieolt adit,res to a largo brinmed silk hat, which he wears ct slightly upon the back of his hcad. It ec is emphatically a Boston hat, and may fi have been worn for a season or so ti back. It is conservative in style, ag- L gressivo in its eminent respectability. Beacon street has hundreds of such; Fifth avenue or liegeut street never a one. Alr. W. D. Il>weils might easily have takcen Secrctary Enidicott as his a model of Bromhield Corey in the cur- w rent novel, "The Rise of Silas Laph- tc am." 01 Ar. Lamar supports Air. Bayard in Pi wearing a pearl-gray eassimecrce. It is w hall covered with a black imournin w. band. The lississippi state;nnnu does r niot spend many hx ours oni his costanRie, r. that is clear. In hxis abstraecd mio.. mients hxe, hiLte Secretairy Enxdicot t,somxe timeits tip)s his hax t ove the114 back oif his Il hxead. He4 wear his hi xair. lonig, anxd 1no I hxat woo.d 1a -k, styli.,hl withl tha t comnbi. natio in. H ..or \ atters ii andh Senator L:unar;xL w tie -oth 4)nce at tentive to af di.tinpugi:...i i.uy. U.e lost the sena- W tor s Ilom:i. -iy Ioeer i.wxntn the jeal otis Kenix .Cy c, x:tr told Mlr. Lamiar thant this lady had spoken of hixm as "'Old Soapi-Locks."' The attorney geixeral is the oxnly one1 whxo has declared for the cream-color- C( ed hat which is strugglinig to be faish-p ionable. Th'le cam color is shiowni in a Manila straw which lie put on at the E beginning of the hot weat her. Thiiis e liat is broaxd-brimimed -nxot at all fash- a ionable, but is very comfortable. Mr. si Garlnd wvears a turn-down coIllar, andh h the lowv-crowned hat is very suitable. ti The oiie lhe wears is ini the shape of a comxpromxise between the Derby of the ic east and the sombilrero of TIexas. Arin kansas, it will be remxembered is about nudixway. tI Post miaster General Vilas still weoars the siik hat whliich lie purlcha:sd in tj Maildisoni somxe two or thxreo years ago- n It is a little rusty aixd not exactly inii the prevatilIinig shia pe, but it is mu ichx better thxan the average hiat worn by WVashin gtonx states mixn. Thol wvesternx political leader rat hxer allect s those hxats of a fashuion two or thlreo years back. Just why, no miain canx tell, but, Seina tor~ Voorhiees, ori Beck or Shxermain, or HaIurrison or Logax was iiever kixown to wVear~ a hait of thxe prievalenit fash in. x, It is nt becomixin vini a stat esman to '' take up pr'oxmptly with inniovations. it seexmes to be the aiion)i of all fi young wives to look well wheni ainy oniic calls. A younxg b,ride hieard a ring at ix the fronit door. T'het midtt was out, anxd w shie ruxshed uip-stairs to "tidy" a little before aidmuittinxg the calh-r. Thecre was a miomlent of Iixlihting workL xbfore tie w dreossing-table. QuxickLer thIaix it takes p to tell it, aL ribbon was instened to) her tlI throait, a Ilower stabbied intlo her hxair, O( a flash of powder oii lier face, andxi shoep :was at the door- ill Isi les andh bh sihs. ;til The "genxtheman'' said ho hadnt thxeit cheapest clothes-props that could be i al bought for the mxoney-.t A correspondent writos that the Af- wV ghans cat onions as thle Ameoricans (10 c apphles. Our readers will therefore at on1ce uderstandl the cause of the recexnt attack by the Ruissianv. Thecy weroe obliged to use their guns to keep thoe Afghanxs from coinig within hxailing distance. And now we can easily be-u lieve CJol. Marvini's stateent that tho inhabitants of Afghanistan are a strong race andi long-winded. They never got out of breath.-,\cw York Tribusne 2 Silk-iRaising in American. The silk industry, which has become large an Interest in this country, is rely a manufacturinu one, getting raw material altogether from road, duty free. The umanufacturers not expect nuch result from silk ising in America. chiefly because they ink silk cannot be well reeled in this untry at any satisfactory price. A mand fot protective duties on tho w material would also tend to reduce D margins for manufacturers, should k-growing become an interest of imt rtanco. it is stated that the girls in a French filatures earn only from one one and a half francs (twenty to irty cents) a day, and in those of It ' sevo.tty-fivo centimes to a franc fteon to twenty cents) for fourtouon urs' work, while equally skilled labor ro should return nearly a dollar. reover, silk valued at four to fivo liars per pound can be brought to 3w York from Japan at from three to ht cents per pound freight. The omising field for American silk-grow in America seems, therefore, to bo stricted chiefly to that of a subsidiary lustry for women and childron, who Muld not otherwise be at work, and On under the disadvantage of "house cling." Whether the production of coons, not for reeling, but for direct o by the growing industry of spun k manufacture, might provo protita e, is very questionable, in view of the w price (about seventy-five cents per >und) paid for cocoons. Nevertheless, a "Women's Silk-cul-1 ro Association," one of the indirect stilts o the Centennial Exposition, ists in Philadelphia, with the purposo promoting silk-culture as profitable >rk for women. This was organized, th "purely philanthropic" purposo, Phil iadelphia ladies, headed by Mrs. hn Lucas, in April, 1880; it has per anent offices at 1328 Chestnut Street, mere reeling is taught, silk-worm gs, mulberry-trecs and hand-reels Id, and books of instruction, which it iblishes, supplied. Two silk exhibi )ms have been held, and the associa n boasts twelvo auxiliaries in as any States, and has had, it states, 'er thirty thousand correspondents. is hoped ultimately to open a fila re. Its prospectus, in presenting e claims of "America's now indus y'," says: "It can be prosecuted by e feebler members of the family, amen and children, or aged- persons, whom the soverer country life is a irden, and the compersgtion is sure; r if our country is sending annually foreign lands $18,000,000 for raw 1k, there is no reason why this amount money cannot be divided among our vn American culturists. The crop or oduct is not perishable, like much of c farm product, and the trees, onco anted and grown, yield a perpetual ipply of food for the silk-worms, care eing taken only in the annual picking the loayes." The production of 60,000 pounds of )eoons was reported by correspond its of the association in 1883, largely omi southern New Jersey and from e South. -From "A Siik Dress," in arpcr's .lUgazine for July. lcturnel to 11is WIgwam. Edwin Forrest was onco laid up with severe attack of rheumatic gout, hiich rendlered Iin about as pleasant come in contact with as an Indian t the warpath. A friend of his drop tg in just as the eminent tragedian as seized with a terrific twinge, met ith a dec:dedly warm velcome, as gards unsaint-like expletives. Heing ther a facetious individual, the friend claimed: "'Hello, go vernor! What are you uighing at? I never saw you so tick d before."' in his fiercest mianner, inte)rsp)ersedl ith dlee ptonied grunlts and someI pro n ity. Forrest growled: "G( et out, ill you? I won't see anybody. Let e alone, confound you.'' A littlo while after the snubbed iendi might have been seen inlCI conver .ton with a small specimlen of a bloot ack, whloso stand was in front of tho >tel wvhere Forrest was stop)ping. Th'le mnfab, accomplanied by a series of initomimic gestures on the parlt of the mtleman, which were clearly dupli ted by the bright-witted shiner, last i some fifteen minutei s, when the bov, broad grinl illuminating his exp)ali ve counteniance, startedl to ascend the >)tel stairs, receiving a parting inmjumne aln: ''D on' t you stopi pouinding until lhe ts you in.'" 'This admnoniitioni wa:s strictly carriedl it, wvhereup)on the door was violently irow open~l0i, and Forrest anlgriliy (de an ded the cause of so inuich commo10 on. Striking an attitude a Ia Meta mora, the tutoredi bootblack declaimied a pip)ing treble: "You sent for mie. I have come. If u0 di unot want mue, I will go back to my 1':wam. "Poil ningl upon0 the boy, Forrest rowel out1: "Y~ou young imp, you! (re, f 2 ihis,'' to.sing him a qbuar'ter, h.- ded, ''and go tell that----"' eigni'latingf his facetious friend by uno1 andl a few additional adljectives) to commo upl I want to see him.'' As tIme dboor closed upon01 the apt little otblack a roar of Iaughter issuled 01m Forrest's room, whichi seeimd to ive a beneficial offeict upon01 his ail (:n1, for wvhen his friend a1ppeared lho as in quito a jovial frame of mind. An Eastern Ihoulsekeeper says ihe best my to destroy umothis is to take dIry >wd ered salt and sprinmklIe it all over o carpet, hart icularly along tho e's; theni sweep it thioroulghly. Re at thtis abou11t on1ce a imnthi in imoth une, and you will have no0 trou ble from at destructive insect. Th'le salt imay so be spr~1inklud on alny wooden furn i re and( b)rushied off with a whisp oomn. It is perfectly harmless and Il help to cr io,o and preservo the blr of theo wood. From the persistencey wvith which the eceasedl-Wifo's Sister bill is boine gitated in England, it mmay beoinforrea lat tIhe Englishman cannot b)o happy atil he gets an opportiumty to marry s wife's sister. As we have heard othing of a D)eceased-Husband's rother bill theo conclusion. is Irrosisti.. he that his wife thinks one member of family is oenou gh-if not too much. rnr,i.elann lIkraid 11111 Nyc's Vision. Night before last, after I had regis tered at the hotel and been assigned "the last room in the hotel"--I use the language of the hotel clerk--I went in to the dining room to ten. It is not my custom when traveling to smile on one in whose heart, a hopo muitrhtspring up to be dashed to the earti by my departure. If 1 have caused pain in that way I did not intend to do so. I can joke and carry on and have a real good time, but I do not wish to :Inspiro In any breast hopo which may be blast ed, alh, alas! too soon. It was not long before I discovered a beautiful blonde of the female sex at the farther end of the room beneath the chandelier. 1Ier skin seemed to be of a delicate sea-shell color, and her hair was corn-colored. 11er clothes also were entirely new, I should judge, and made especially for her. On her lingor she wore a diamond ring with perfect ease. She knew just how to work that linger in order to get the most possibje glit ter out of her dia mond. Every little while I would look over there and revel in her beauty, and I thought that she was not entirely in sensible to my charms. All that evening she was in my mind. I dreamed that :i : that I swooped down upon her and carried her away to the remotest boundaries of the world in a special car. 'tI he next morning I awoke hungry, for I didn't eat much suppor the night before. I went down to breakfast, waiting and fooling away my time, hoping that she would coloi while I was in the breakfast room, and I would till inyseif up with the beauti ful vi:ion aid a cup of cotl'ec. Anon sle c:une. She sailed into the room with calm disdain and an air of hauteur, and such things as that. Tho head-waiter waved his hand like a self acting duke in i theatre and gave her a seat at my table. A thrill passed up through tle and I laid down thie vulgar sausacro whielb I was ::hout to feed my self w1henl she dawned upon mel(1. I ventured then to look across tilo table at her inl the full glare of the new born day. The tirst thing that I dis covered was that sl haidn't put her yellow wig on straight. It was a little higher on one ear than the other,which gave her tho air of a ymnng mnan who has over-mncakeyed w;it the Ilowing bowl. This show ed to the asual spec tator a glimlpse of her own amlothI-eaten, sage brush hair I cnping out like the fadled tail oi al ohl bul'alo robe. Then I knew that we could never be more to each other tlh:an friends. I1er nose was red also, al shel had not been properly calciin tied. in the hur ry of dressing she had tissedt her nose with the powder-rag and that organ meaniig, of course, the nose, not the powder-ratr-loomled up robust and purple in tio ghastly waste of cheek bones and other osseous formations. Ala, what a pain it gave 111 to see my beautiful vision fato thu3 before my eyes! Then I thought ho,w 1 had smiled on bor the evening before, and how, perhaps, a now hope had sprung up in her heart, and I fe:.r td that when sho knew it was all over het ween us the shock, at her time of life might kill her. I left my hot pancakes, with the ia ple syrup all over thlema, and lIed. Out ilto the din, the hurry, and the tre loss rush of the mad, mad worli, try ing to stillo the memory of that broken heart. Should she sce these lines I hopo sho will not think bitterly of 111o. I still admire her as a well-preserved ruin, but love in such a case would be a hollow moekery.--Milwaukec Sun. Senator Shleranu's Stalge-Rticle. Senator Sherman enljoyed1 a break nte'k ride downl Siskiyouas Mouantain on his stage journey between Rtedding atndt Itoscherg, OIregon. The Ohlio statesman had pre-empted a se'at withl the dIriver to get a better view of the splendid 80eon(ery oni that c1 evattedl divide. Tholl pace from the sumn mit was a tearing onie, and thle steep, narrow gradoe mlade the ride appear p)articullarly hlazardotus. '111 Senator suggestedl that ho could view thlings better at a slower g alt. "Giot to ma1ke time,'" replied Johu, bru Isqueltiy. "'I asstaro yout thlat I amit in no hutrry at all,"' excl aiamed ,Johln, casting his eyes downt the pr1ecip)itouas, crooked roadway. "lhat I am," retorted the r'eckless wipi, as lhe let theo nags out anohe Shlerml1an was scared. le had reason to be. Others hiact beeni scared before him a, anId more are suare to limlt thlem selves int thle saamo lix. A second later: "Driver, pull1 up. I jucst as leave-ina fact, I prefer', to waik clown this "No yotu doaa't, Seantor. I've got threae mtaincates to i'eachi the valley aand l'mu goinag to ma ke it or break a leg."' 'hlicv e ly .six brcnico t eamn sped reck lessly ahiead., Shaercman hoilinlg oan with maighat and mtaain. Tun in g a sharp ccurive, theo swing c poice suddenily' snaappced. For a fewv aao mIelnts tiings looked sually. A single lurch might send the coach ovetr a 30)0 foot precipico. "'Keep yotur seatt," criaed tho joehu, whoa( with tarake anId reins qutickly braoca h hvaLiis team1 to( a st andcstilli. A. lit tle later Shiermiana was hIolding the lines, ihis foot braiecd onl thle ''hold( back,"' whaiio thec driver was (down amaoang the catttle splicing thoe broken swinag-bar. All was in ordeor again p)resently, anid the Senator reasstured ast to the en tire safety of the twelve-mile-an-hour c'an ter dtown a forty-iive-pitch grade, kept his plae to the bottomt without a qmcaver. Th'iinking it over' nowv, Sherman says it wais the most exhilarating" stage ride hIe ever experaeced, and( lie would(n't mindtc miaking thle tr'ip overland from: California a second( time just to take in that interesting piecco of star-route cx ped(iting dlown t he Siskiyous.-1/clena (AM. TI. ) JCe ruld. An Athlens man, whean he asked his wife to marry lhim, prlomaisedl hier that if h:e ever got too poor' to pay for the fanily washing hae wouid scr'ut) the coltes hlimself. lie has reachled that point of p)over'ty, aand thae lady holds hiat to his word. Every washl-day ho may be seen with his coat off' at work over the watshtub.--Suuanniah ((Ga.) WIT AND HUMI. A woman may be as true as1ei'. but then you know some steel ist.' highly tempered.- Yonkers B4atesnses. A New York policoman has just been sentenced to imprisonment for life. People will now have the satisfaot1Xi of knowing where they can find hin " when they want him. Judge-"How old are you, madam?" Witness-"I have no personal knowl edge of my age, and hearsay testimony, I understand, is not accepted in this court."--Boston Beacon. "Dear me," said a lady in Fifth avenuo the other evening. "How the china craze is growing! Here's a New York club that is paying $8,000 for a pitcher. "-Albany 'imes. Matilda's lover to her little sister Come, Myrtle, give me a kiss, only one. L. S.-No, I won't; you asked rildy for just one, in the parlor, before dinner, and you took two. Col. J. Armov Knox of Texas Sift. ings lectured in New York in behalf of ,> the Bartholdi podestal fund. Among other bright remarks ho said: "The English have something which passes current for humor and which is not, I assure you, to be laughed at." "I soo you aro building a now house, Mr. Brown?" "Yes, you are right." "Made the money out of whisk, I supposO?" "No." "Why, you are a liquor dealer, are Tou not?" "0, yes; but the money 1 m putting into this house was made out of water I put in to the whisky. Every cent was made out of the wator, sir." A California girl has been discovered with two mouths, one in each cheek. This kind may do very well in the Far West where girls are scarce and it is conveniont to have those who can kiss two fellows at once, but they would never be popular in the East where there are not enough follows to go around. Fogg-"There's that odious Mrs. Fawnatail. How I do dislike that wo man!" lrown-'"O, conic now, you're prejudiced. You're not acquainted with her yet; you've only seen her two or three times; you'll like her better after you com to know her; she'll grow on you." Fogg--I"The deuce she will! Vell, sir, I hate parasites." You want to know why it is called the Englisi sparrow, do you, Ethel? Well, (Fear, it is because it is very En glish in its ways. Making more noise than any other bird of its si-ze, quarrel ing all the time that it is not eating, and seeming to think that this great universe was created for its especial benefit. That is why it is called the English sparrow, Ethel.-/osten Post. Almost from the tinie man is born he is anxious to see his name in the newspaper. A little fellow of some six years came in to his mother the other day and said with a good deal of excitement: "I'hn going to have my name put in the Palmer Journal. I've licked two follows, and I want lily namo put in the paper." And ho proceeded at once to writo a note to the editor. A well-known physician of this city claims to have caught a two and one fourth pound trout the other day, and now we learn that the same day a small boy seining for minnows in HIale's brook netted a similar fish. It is a strange coincidence, surely, and if we did not have the utmost confidenco in the boy we should think the doctor had been iishing with a silver hook. Burlington 1"ree Press. Shakspoarean chestnut: "You do not love me any more, John. When we wce first married you did*'not dash away in such a hurry after supper and you never forgot to kiss me.'' "0, well, ehild, don't fret. I'm as fend of kissing you as ever, but I'm in a big ger hurry. I'm only like Brutus." "What do you mean?" "Why, you know that it was not that lhe loved C' seize 'or loss, but ho loved t' roam more." Englishiman-"'I, aw, see, aw, that the divine Mawy Anderson is to reside in England p)ermnanently dontoher know?'' Anmorican-"So I h ave heard." "Could't leave deah old England, --- know, after she got acquamnted, ye know.'' "Oh, that was not It." "It was not?" "Oh, no: she has deter minled never to marry, and wants to keep out of temptation; that's all.' PhuladlIlhia Call. "'It is lmy unalterablo decision, Clara,'' lie saidl firmly: "I cannot walk on the avenue with you if that poodle is to aecompjaniy us. You must choose between imn and me. It rests with you, Clara, If our en gagement shall be broken off." "Oh, George!" the gli-l relied, andl her face assumed an ashen hue; "this is all so sudden. You must give me time to think it over. One week, Georgo, and you shall have your answer." A 10-year-old Rochester boy on the cars comning to T1roy, the other day, be came hiungry about 11 o'clock, and be. gan an attack upon the bountiful lunch that had been prepared for him. A geoitheman who sat behind him was moved to remark: "My boy, if you oat much now you won't have any appetite for your dinner." Tio which the smart little fellow replied; "Well, I guess If I hiaven't ang appoetito I shan't want any. dinner." ?ho gentleman had no more to say.-Troy J.Times. D)r. John C. Spencer, of New YQrk, whlo was arrested for shooting three poet eats belonging to a neighbor that keopt his Invalid wife awake and other. wvise disturbed her by their nocturnal.7 caterwaulin gs, has been acquitt4 .4 T'his is as It should be. A man e ownus cats and dogs that disturb h'o neighborhood shou ld kill them; ifh... does not, any 0one else who does thba public and p)hila.nthropie act should b protected by the law.--ochester Der A good old deacon In Conneet( J was very pious and fond o Whbn once upon a time ho att4d ~ a Rhode Island clambake he o - his Capacity, and was sorely di But his faith in prayer was Ua~~4 Leaving the party, andl goim his kndbs behiind a tree, iiw to suppicate: "For ve a this greatasin of gluttony '4 health, and I will asgg olams." Then, aftex ,jn lt "Veryfw, if any.