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VOL. XV. HICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 4. 1886. - NO&: ., - The Ever-green Pine. Oh, a valiant treo Is lthe ever-green pine, That grows o.n the bleak mountain 1i10; Not n fear does it feel of the wind or the stormn, As it standls like a king in its pride. Tho lightnings mny flash 'ronind its tall way ing crest, And the wind 'mi i.s brunches mtty rave: >rut it atands in Its str"un!th like a lion at bay, Or a hero. who'll ne'cr 'o it slave Oh a sorrowfutl tree is the ("v--r-green pino That grows in the sweet smiling vale, It nurmnurs forever a low, pluintive song That reseiniles a 'torn lover's wall. It stretches Its strong. shardy branches abroad A' El it sighs to the flowers below. And it tells of imo sor-row corrodling its heart To the breezes that merrily b>low. Oh. it beautiful tree Is the ever-green pino That grows on Ihe hii11s slop1r11 side; It shelters the wooulblid, gives shade to the doer, And makes cheerful our house, far and wiie. Then honored and loved be the ever-green pine That fears neither lightning nor gale. And chertshed St1ll inre be the sorrowful treo That sighs in the sweet siniling vale. -M. J. Riordan. SUMMERVI4LE. "Oh, Teddy, can't you get any more apples thtni this? I'ml) sir I could if I were only up there," c'ried the girl standin with up-turned face under an old apple tree. from which it small boy was trying in vain to gather a few ap ples. "I know you could. )t) come tip, Llew. 'T'here is no one here to see, and I won't tell." "Why, Teddy Chesleigh! I am eigh teen ,ears ol1." with indignant em phasis. "Well, I didIn't sup)pose you'd do it. But there is a bough of claisv :apples right near the fence. You might reach that." "I will," she replies, afler a moment's hesitation. "lere goes," and looking around to assure heiself that no one was within sight, she toss'd down her hat and mounts with nimble steps the rick ety old fence, catching the branch, heavily laden with dtliciotls fruit. "Oh, Taldy, they are elegant!'' she exclaimed, witi :a gay little laugh, disclosing it row of white, even little teeth. She makes a perfect picture there, her uplifted arms forming a frame for the bright, laughing face with its crown of bonnie brown hair, which the wind blows recklessly about, and her slender figure, in a clo.e-litting dress of soft, clmtmn gray, standing out in bold re lief against tlie blue sky, while the wind throwing the dress asiile, shows a pretty little foot tal a slender little ankle. Clutching the branch lightly in both little brown hands, she gave a vigorous shake, when looking down to note the result of her shaking, she sees. much to her horror, a young gentleman, equipped for hunting, standing not far off whom she inmediately recognizes as one whom she had met during the past winter at Albany. With a little gasp s'he turns her crim son face up to lie' brother with a re proitchful glance, but, undaunted by her indignant looks, the shameless youngster sits grinnilg in the tree apptrently enjoying the situation im miensely. The gentlenian turns toward the more friendly face and addresses a few re m to him about the apl})es, thus givfng Llew an opporttlnity for desecend ing from her exalted position. When she is again on the ground, she tries mn vain to smooth her hair, which is blowing in dire contusion all over her face. The gentlemian 11now raises his hunting-Cap, and :,niligii i oieris hiis hand, saying, "Miss Cheslig, I be lieve?" "'Yes,"' she answers, her face bright~ with bluIsheis, as she hiesi tat ingly hohls out a Ii ttle, t annedl't hatnd. " Ami I niot speaking to Mrt. D ehniarre?"' "'At your service. I mustit beg pardlon, Miss Chiesleight, for' my int imiely intru sitn,' with at smile still lurking in his dark eyes as lie loouks at the still-con fused midt(en. "I gratnt it, but I wish to assure you that I (10 not do suchi undignified things often, but the fruiit did look so tenmpt ing." success,'' ghme:iig ait the goodly number which lay on thle groulnd. "'I used to be qutite ani expert inl such matters, atnd have comlie illto t his (countr iy to renewv my skillI, and as at beginnIling'hiave statrt ed1 ot to i..ant, bult awkwatrdly broke~ yhien L,lew catlls to T1eddy, wvho is gathlerinlg iu lth)ppes, andil ad(justs her hat. "'Come, TJeddy', it is getting late, aml~ auntie wyill be woriedct about us. lie sidles it is tent time." 'T Iheni she says to Mr. D)elmarre. "'I miust say gtood-b)y for to-day, but if you sp)endt the smmer here we wvill be suithI near ne i ighbors that we shall probaly see eaeh other eften."' "'Allowv me to walk wvithi you, as I go this way andl211 on boaninrg to thlinik it is supper itime, als'o."' Tlhuen, as sileince gives conlsenit, lie walks on with t-hem, heOlpinlg'Je Teddy carr th Ile fiuit. Thue COnl versation is carried on ciefily hv Tleddy and Pilip during thieir' shtor't walk, for Llew has not yet quite reginedlc her Wh len they reachi hionmi tad NMr. D)el mrehas left thuemi Te'ddiy rece4ives a seeescolding, but, as tisutal, priovets inlvuilnerale. itt Llew suic'eeds inl extorting at promiise that lie IvilIl ntever', never tell. F'or slut k nows heri Aunt. Mary, a sedaite~ spi,isiet of tiiei'itl ago, who hlas priesided over' the house hold since the death11 of theCir miothert' woutld 1be utterly shocked. Her fiathIer is a mliddle-a:ged gentle man, almost too inulttlgent at timies to his miothter'less cildren. He~ 8seldom goes away fi'om his farmi, buit Llew ends severnl months of each winter with her fashilonable couIsins in Albany, where she hadt( meit Mr'. Delmarr'e. Adjoinling thle Che'eigh farm is the ~lanid of "'oldl Johnt D)elnarre,"' as he is generally called, a crutsy o1l)bahelor, whom none of his neighlbor"s know ex cept by sight. lie is tf i ucle of Phil D)elmarre, who is the oldl manth's favoir Ite, anid as we haive saidi lie hadtt Come to spnd1 lt Mluinnet'r miont hs with his 'rhe summner nmonths paissedI quickl,y by, and1( Plti, ill spite of all the beautd ftul women lie hatd seen, anid wVomenC, too, who had14 bes'towced onl himt thieir' 84iot mih's fell hm soa m with this little manuo, whose Indiffer ence to all his attentions only made bor more charming and desirable in his oyes. So it was not strange that one day while on one of their numerous excur sions,atid while Teddy had gone farther down the river to fish, he should take this most excellent opportunity of mak ing Llew :'cquai'nted with his great love for her, and offer her his heart and hand. Llew, taken by surprise, replies, in the usual way, that s ho is sorry, but does not care enough for him to marry him, etc. Only one Ctonsolation does she give him, and that is that she loves no one else. So Phil is comforted in a degree, thinking that some day ho may be able to win her love. lie leaves her there and wanders down the banks of the river, for in his great disappointment he can hardly boar to see her. Suddenly he hears a sharp cry and his heart almost stands still, for it is Llew's voice. Can she have fallen into the wa ter? Blaming himself for leaving her there alone and so near the water, he rushes back and sees Llew stan(ling on the bank wringing her hands while in the water he discovered Te(Idy. Without hesitation he throws off his coat and leaps into the river. He is a good swimmer, but Teddy has become unconscious and is very heavy, and it is not without ditliculty he gets him to the bank. ,lew is standing perfectly motionless, but this lmonlent has brought her to the knowledge that she loves P hil Delmarro with all her heart, and that without him her fitur' life would be it dreary blank. When 1'i l reaches the bank with the unconscious boy in his arms he carries him to his uncle's house, which is not far away. Llew'follows, silent and unremon strating, and they soon reach the place where Mr. I)elmuarre is cnjoying his moriing i;cigar on the porch, and as the procession nea edl the steps he called out to Phil in a grul" voice: "Ilello! What's up now? Looks as if you d been near tie river!'' "Yes. W%e've had an accident,'' re pliel Phil, still holding the boy in his :'uIU.. IIero the cldl housekeeper made her a)pe:aracuo, nonch to the relief of Phil, who began to give orders for her to pre pare a bed for his little charge, and for ence she diI not wait for her master's bhiding, Iec:aoe the dii tressed looks en I.lew's face, who was .taiding by, Iteheed tlie heart of the ohi woman. When Llew was left alone with the old gentleman she summoned all her courare aId walked up to his chair and stood lefore hin, much to his surprise, for all the neighbors had looked upon him as an o" re, and no one had ever before been Inownl to speak to him nll less it was absolutely necessary. ''Mr. leltmarre, I am very sorry that we have been obliged to intrude upon your quiet household, but it was quite unavoilable, and I can only hope our stav will be as short as possible." She stood waiting for an answer, but reecived none save a deep gruniit, which very nearly made her jum1p. .Just then 'liil came out, his dripping garments being changed for a dark suit that was very becoming to him. "You had best go to your brother,'' le said in polite tones, leading the way". "Yes, but let me first endeavor to thank you for the great service you have " b--' ut here she was interrup)ted by Phil. "I.et us not discuss that. I am now going for a physician. There is the room," and he hurried away. Llew and Mrs. Smith madlike Tedldy as comfortable ais possible, hut when lie recover'ed from hiis sleep lie was delirious. When Phil andi the doctor caime lie was ini a rest: s'leep. 'T'he good old doctor p)ronounced him too ill to lie moved for a week or two, to Llew's great horror. To stay a week i with t hat horrid ol man! None knew what the old man thought. for hie kept his thioughts to himself, and sat most oif the day on the porch with cit her a ('igaur or paper. Phlil next went, lo Tedidy's aunt, but T'eddly would have no one near him but blew, so her aunit piacked a few thiitga in a valise and senit thenm to her. It was not long until the whole town had heard of the aecident, and one and all declared that ''it was the strangrest thing they had ever heard of that old ,Johni Dehnlarre woul allow them folks at hig home. Mr. Chesleigh,. Aunt Mary, and the doctor pamd regular visits at the faram, iaiid ITeddy imiproved slowly under lIhmy's tenmder care.. She seldoni left his bedisidle, andmi heir newly -d iscove red love !rew st roe r as she learned more ofi Phiil's nobie anature. lHe was thle light of thle hiouse, kind to) everyb)odv, hut his great kindness to Tfedd'y would hiave won blew's heart alone. At .ast thue dayt~ has comoe for Tfeddy's dleparturel', andi p)reparatory to this blew lhas perisuiaded luni to take a nap. She is sittin near' the lounge, her <h- ft fin :ers husily employed in putting the Iiiushing touches to a smoking-cap for Mr. I )eh iure, Sr., whose heart she hans won by meaking herself neocessary to his comifort in a thlouisand little ways, suchl, as readinug his newspap)ers to him and miakinig (lainty dishes for his lunch eon. in tihe mfeatiime her thoughts are with Mr. Il enarire, ,Jr., w hose heart she inul won'i long ago.3 Suddenlmy the door opens and the ob jet Iof her thlouight s comles in to the roomii. WithI a pretty gesture she p)laes one( Iinlge'r on he liii ips for silence. Th'iniking~ himselIf unwelcome, he is tipi toeing his way out of the roomi when hei htears his namite, ''hil,"' pronoun2 tced in soft, low toun's. Tu'irn ing with ai51 urprised glance lie retraces his steps and comes to her side,t antd Is still moen astonished to see her piquant face benit low er~'i her work, anmd coveredl with blushes.1 ''Phil,"' she repeats. with one swift,t shy, upwaVlrdl glance, '"do you remember< that one I aid 1 couldl never repay youi t for e .ving Teddy's life?" her voice tremblingllslihy. "I bescech of you not to alludle to thati (ay," for lie remlember.s another ic- I dent of that very dlay-onti that brings I painful thioughuts to him. ."But I have changed my mind, and will give you a very Worthless gift, b)ut one that you once asked for, andt-and," -than~ hreakm~,n . dow itu .xvrn h. ' face with her hi'inds. -Oh,I', Phil! Don't you understand! Must I propose to rou?" "Oh. my dar lill:'' lit just ait hI junetion 'Tl1dv raises tlpon one ('1bow, andt is wy.t 'h1in thcso mntere.tim!g prtot'elin~s Wit!) two ] y es from wh)ieh all :ign:; of -lep have ife'. (1.:~'f o I v "Well, Llew. I always thOh::l)t you had lots of cheek, but I (bi'1't thiinlk you'd have tie gall to p rope I. a l. low!" "'Oh, Teddy!" cries L.lewt r,pe-h ; ,ul lyI with bu;rinig cheeks. while Phil breaks into an nliignitid'(t ro:r. at which Lll's fat'e( glrowi rsi'er still, as she hats a hasty retreat, but ri'!he's in to the armls of ul Mr. D)e!lmarre, who, holding hte" tighily. llarc"hes ilto the room. "What's up now?" h' he exclaims with ci smile that has bec(;lme quite common to him11 (luring Ilew's )tav. When illil'' expi:ulatill is ;'ivo1n he says to llew. "Sio I'ml not to lose tiou aftter ali?' I had <quite de(cidid to s); vuci to remain here, if this )+(:atll d1i 't,"' 1odd(in,r toward Phil, "for you h:lve'I-m' quit' ind(Iispecnsable to - the famuily. Tn,tatkin_ th ( hand ,'of -hm con rused girl, h:- phaecd it inl l'lil's .:tl( Zrenltly pu'dhed thlem fr"oml ;te roomu. Promu thelre tlO-.,- 4; intto the little arden. Here we w ill i:us' for lack of space tud leave our readcrs to imlagine whlat Look plact: in the g:retlnll. A Story of Storrs. "Yes, the lat' Ltev A. Storrs was a Tharacter, sure nl 1111i,- remrked an ittornev who had -, rtown gray in the iervice. ':tHl :tn("i( lot("s have been told of his v coir'fu1l tai("tt for word ')ainting atndi rift of r."parutce', but noth img I have't elEt hta'.d <luite el:(ltt the 'fl'eet on mec of .t little spe'"ch h- mladle the first time I saw himl, a fiull score of rears ago. .le Ipre- 'lted the plailtifl IIm SOll' COmllllonpilae action, and the lawyer for the tlh-femhant was a vilnng mn:tn just branehing out. '1 he suit, ' Chink, was for breach of contract, or (omnething similar". Tlhe budIdinlg attor aey, who shall bo ni:ameless herc', was well aware of Storrs' ability, and al' ordingly prepared his case with the reatest eare. After the evidence had til been heard he stood before the jury Itd delivel'(rl' a me'1m1triled sp'eclI, yhich alts about U') degrees Iiigher :an the slbject. Storrs followed him mld said: I'If the court pleau-es, gentleman of he jury: I am sure that I voice the comt rnon sentime"nt of 41 all---Judgec, jurors, lpe'tatol's-when1 I say that the address )f the gentlel:an who has just spoken as been to us a great delight. I have ikelned it in y13" own mind to some r'at edifice--sOun lllagniticent work of urebitecture. But. 1 am puzzled to dc ('rnine the particular school to which t belongs. It is not Dorie; it is too >rnate for that. It ii not Corinthian; it s not ornate enolgh :or that. It is not onic; it is to') strong and massive to he (1nic. At this very moment, gentle nel, a story omlles to m11y meiomory that olves the problem. You all remember .he old gray church-the Second Pros >yterian, Dr. Patterson's-which used .o stand on Itihe ('or"tn' of Wabash lvellie and Washingon tr eet. It was i beautiful edifice, with its masonry of nray, its great decorated windows, its ,astellated towers. One 'lay an old ian and his wife came for the first time 11rom1 their counlry home to see this rreat city; tley walked up and down nd marveled as they saw the busy itreets, the ('ourt-Ilouse, the stores, th ,varehouses o the rive, and finally hey stoodi betfore tile old gray church'el armsil alkimblo fihe)' gazied upjonl it in si ent. awe; but then thle old genltlemlanl, urinig one eye 01n his wlife an1d hold(1ing he edifico fast by the other, saiid: 'Naln :y, wlhat a slenidt specime(n of enthartic Irehitecture't!'" "Th'le jury' was11 conivulsed1, 11h0ecil'ect >f 11h( other1 speech utterly deCstroyedC, andt Storris wlonl hiis ease."' A Mer'cil'ul Man. "The merciful mian~ is mereiful to his >calst."' Yet ho0w many1l farmners, anId cspeci ally falrmior'4 boys, after' heatin11g a eamn in driv'ing to tile village, thlink no hing of letting them standi about the treetsq for' hourlis at a timle, perhapils with 1ot een a bilnket, wilIe they arec gos ijpig near a wlarm11 stov'e orl taking ex crcise atboult their' ordinai'y business. A citizen of Kalamazoo, Mich., got a lIappy thought and, beiing a humllane nan, acted onl it. Noticing the e'xposuret >f teams11 comning to the city, e'sipecial ly n1 cold! andl stormy1 weather,. hie deter nined to give farmer's all oppor1tun1ity' to nlake the;'r hiors05escomfortable dulrinl' heir stay. le purchelased lanld just oIi' ho pr'incipal strleet amtl prloceedetd wiVth 11 is undertaking. II was imadet tIle sill cet of mniy jokes(' fr'om1 11 all uarters for als "foolish enterprise," bult he wVent onl andi carriedl out his plan, and1( to-dlay hlero is nothing iln Kailaazoo so popuI ar with country) people coinlg to theo city on business as the farm'iers' shiedls. ['hey are described as follows: obes, amtl apartmnenits for Itdies' wra'lpS ; iln miothler roomi 10 ar itbls andt a restaurant; 8 ytou pas into the( yard is a tanlk of watIer or hlorses. You dive uCip to thle platrtorml of hei wiinig-rooim, you1 ind your011 ladit's tut 110 takes y,oucr hitrse andit buggy to an~ milpt y stall tol standi ittitit yotI eall,g viligt hiln .1l needed atteintion). Give two dimellts, and ii either case yttu are enitiuted to the priv'i Ot's oif t,he wait iner 'om, whaliht in.ce ablets where ytu inty parItake of ytour ownI miichi, frete, or foir a low rate you hlavo 11s .mlelt a bIll of fitre tt chioSo fromn as you zay desire. When you choose youl and( o:go out on theO s rtt, transact your tuilleiss, (do atll yttiri e'rrmuids, andit retuirn to) he shied wait inmg-roolum. Sundays these sheds are filled. Ladies0 arrange their toilets, leave thirl elxtral vriips, and1( on their r'eturn' fr'om cZhurc'th hey take ai warml 111soapstone', get thor' ughlly w~ar'm, andO lintd it much01 pleaits mter'l thian formerly, before thtese shed'ts vere) offer'ed. A p)ortionl of these shieds Iilae door's and1( locks, so if a m:m i colles a anti desi res perifect safety froml thIievets 0 enn 1 have it. Whyll shloutiI not aul >r'inclipall Ivillaige's have those ihmillanile cips to the comlfort of farmerc's ihor'ste? Dr. OJliver Wenditell 1101hnes is still a requenJIt visitor' to the Old Corner B3ook New Ideas for Arranging Parlors. Mme. do Stuve, the wife of the Rus. elan minister, who was such a wonder- I ful woman In every way., sot a fashion 1 horn of breaking up' the ]on- saloon I parlors into subdivisions antf nooks. The minister took for his legation the I typical furnished house with one long parlor, with light walls and carpets and a stiff row of red furniture set around the I parallelogram. The household genius put a long sofa opposite the middle door, and set a group of tall palm, orange and rubber trees at either end of it,letting them run out into the room I like eapes of land. It was easy enough then to put other sofas against this hede of greenery, scatter the chairs, the low tables with lamps, and the has- i socks about. Lots of pillows for the sofas and a soft bag of fat(thers in old 1 brocade for each of the hilrger chairs, gave the room a most luXurious and i comfortable air, and there was irregu larity enough to make the general etlect t supremely artistic. Not every one has a Russian woman's passion for palms and orange trees in I the drawing-room in winter, and the tall plants and small trees that ire sueh I effective and inevitable decorations of s European parlor; are not in the same I favor here yet. The American house is I crowded with palms at great expense I for one evening part3ty, but a single graceful tree is seldom kept to delight I the eye of the family all the while. Sev- r eral women who can not carry out t Mine. de Struve's prettily arranged drawing-room with the palms have broken the length of their saloon parlors with arrangements of screens, and piade I the path from one end of the room to t another a tortuous one, in an out past the angles of screens. Some fanuliar i drawing-rooms are so changed in this way that one hardly recognizes them in I their new guiso. One long and awk ward parlor that. I used to know is 9 broken into three cosev nooks, each r. with its own little (leeorative arrange- 1 ments and central i(lea, and each beau- I tified by a tall brass lamp on the floor, 1 or by large tr.ble lamps. Another fancy of the day for those t who have two small p:arlors, both with I doors opening into the hall, is to close i the hall door" of the front parlor and set ] the hat-rack or card-table against it. This gives a much better chance to ar range the furniture of the front room ef fectively, keeps ofT (laughts from the open front door, and gives the room the cosey, shut-iii look o comforting in I winter time. A diplomate's wife was I the first to set up this fashion, too, after I she had struggled w%ith and solved the i problem of these narrow Ainer ican houses with small parlors t opening so nearly on the street (loor. t At one house here where the front Iar- 1 for loor has iately been shut, the door I of the second parlor is back under the I hall stairs, and the servants had an t anmsin& encounter withi a deaf caller, wt"ho insisted that he did not want to go to the dining-room if the family was at table. lie had supposed the ladies would be in the parlor on that day and at that hour.-- 1'ashinglon ('or. in St. Lou(i (Globe-Dcmocral. Cleveland and Autograph Collec tors. An Indiananolis Journal correspond ent at Washi~ngton writes: A person outside of Washington has no idea of 1 the immense amount of time the Presi dent and his cabinet are compclled1 to waste almost dlaily in writing nuttogr:aphs. t The senators are comparative:y free from this nuisance, when one compares I the requests made of the 'rciident and his cabinet. It is almost a system, the y making of auitograiphs a the Whit I House, antd the Przesidenlt 1'us been coim- c pelled to ad(opt somne ieIl oil, or other-. o wvise lie wouild have to lefuse the re- Ia quests altogether, or else be interrupted I every hour. T1hec doorkeepwr ait thle r' cab)inet-roomi is imado thle culstodian of fi all autographl books sent to the WVhiite House. IIle p)iles these (dainty litt.le v'ol times on a shelf on hiis big desk andi lets them rest thiere until about. live o'clock ini the afternoon, when lie opens each one at the p)roper' paige and then carries si the pile to the library foir (level an d's in.. e1 spection. The President rairelv looks V ovcir the book', but tazkes up a 'pen and o dlash1e ois his naiie ini a rap)id maiinter n1 antd pass5es to thle next. 'Thieni t he door- t keeper carries the pile aw:iy. Thie Presi dent generallyi, during this hour, writes r off' a number of autoigraph)ls on smai:ll il cards, with the words "executive mian- f aion"i' printed on one corneri. TIhiese are sent away b)y mail ini answer to the V hundreds of re<pousts that, come thiroughi UJncle Spim's carrier. Sonic one suggest-- d ed to the P'res idenit that lhe let one ofi hiis au clerks write hiis autographs, but he re- t >l ied: "Iq amn still a bile to use my right i I inid and( armi, and1( it doies inot take g long to sign my naniw." So thle cha~ngeo was n1ever suiggestedt a;:ain. A corresp)ondecnt of the Albany JTour nal writes: A ver,y bright yoiing ladty who has been l ivmtg ini Hoston several wvinters w'' mv ited to lieuar a lecture (oni "le at the Natural I listory rooms. All ite Harvard professor-> aml s'ienitiftic pple wer'e present, am: t after thle "Glaciers'' a paper on Paileozoic insec(ts t wvas read by S. II. Sembder of ( am-- . bridge. Mr. Scudder is ani ent husiaic enitomiologist, and lie rushed t hroughl ia long list of scientific ti ('hniicaulities, de iscribing the difference bet ween the IPal' 0'zoic inisectsq and( the insects of the p: I) ent (lay, their gradhual evolutions firomii period to p)eriod,. andi endiedl by statin g thaut cockroaches were thle on lv inseetli wvhiichi remained unchanged' and us primarily created. In fact, t hey werei the Oldest s tecimenis of insects known i to man. v lien Mr'. Sceiil'r 'onldeltid, a Ilarvaird pr'ofessor sminigly 'askedl thiis younzg lady how she had 'eiijoyedt the lectuire: "O0, vei'y much. , was t he response. "'I don't uniderstandi miuch about bugs, but it is very intereistinig to kno1w that cockioacehiesare abnilost as. old as somie of our best Uostoin fami- Ii l ies. el A student aut thei U;niversityv of T('xas, a wVhose hioime is at Breniham11, was aboui)tt h to starit hei to eniijoy t he ( 'is-t nias li holida,vs. A friendi ieinmtked: ''Yonu haven't got your watch oni. You ought n9 not to go hiomeit without your' timiepiece."' a "'What do I want a wautch for at Bre'n ham? T1hiere isn 't a pranbroker shop in the town."-r- e':.. Sfinq. DRIVE.WHIST. & Game that Is Taking the Place of Pro. gresv. Euchre. Drive-whist is raging in the East as progressive euchre raged in the West last season. It has been introduced in a limited nunber of Detroit homes by ladies and gentlemen, who practiced it while visiting Boston, New York, and Philadelphia friends. Drive-whist is not very unlike progressive euchre in its general form. Any number of tables may be brought into the game; one hand is played, and then the couple change tables, advancing in rotation, as in progressive euchre; only in drive whist the same partner is kept through out the evening. Then, again, it is more social, because each couple must in the course of the evening meet with and play everj othber couple in the room, unless, of course, there are more couples than there are hands played; but, as it is possible to play from thirty to thirty live hands between the hours of 8 and 10:30 o'clock, the last contingency is not likely to arise. Players assert that the game is very fascinating. To play drive-whist, the host or hostess must procure score cards in suflicient number so as to provide each couple with one. These score cards are laide like dancing programmes to be fastened by a cord, and give a space at the top for the lady's name and address, and opposite, the gentleman's name whose partner she is. Below the card is ruled in spaces so that there is one column for points won, another for points lost, and a third for the names of your opponents. The manner of choos mng partners for the evening is left to the ingenuity of the hostess, and differ cnt ways are adopted. One is to write the gentlemen's names on the score cards (one name on each card) and then let the ladies draw one card each. When partners are once selected they are kept throughout the evening. The cards are dealt and one hand is played. At the end one couple at each table has won a number of points and the other couplo has lost. i'he gentlemen then make a record, each on his own card, of the points won or lost, with the names of the other couplo. The losing couple at the table then change places, each going to the next table, and the losing couple at the head table going to the vacant place at the foot. Another hand is dealt and played, another record made, another change of positions fol lows, and -the game goes on. At the close of the game, when the number of hands previously decided upon have been played, each couple adds together all the points won and all lost, and this deternines the difference. The couple that has won the greatest number of points is entitled to the head prize, and the couple that has lost the greatest number of points gets the foot prize. The prizes are provided by the host or hostess, or if a club meets to play it pro cures prizes from its club fund for that itrpose. The score cards are given to the ladies at the completion of the game. -N. Y. World. He Had Consulted Ills Directors. A large proportion of the cotton-mill >rn"operty in Spindleville is, as everybody knows, in the hands of the Ilaughton family, who got it through the marriage of one of the daughters of the family to the man who started the mill business there. When he died the property, through a series of perfectly natural steps, passed into the control of the IIatightons. Daniel IIaughton, the head of the family. was a man of great na tural shrewliness and strength of char aeter. Ilk two brothers, ,Jaeob and ,Jehiiel, were alwatys associated with himu; hut, whi ile hiis busi ness pro)eed( in gs were tind(erstood to be with t heir advice and1( 'onIsent, Da:niel ailways held a sort of veto power over his brothers, and1( not hingi was ever passedl over his reto. lHe is (lead no0w, buIt the story of lie way in w hichi he used to ''consult his directors"' is still told in Spindle v'ille. One (lay a cotton-broker called at the otlice of the mill of which Haughton was treatsurer, andl offe'red him a big lot of cot ton aIt a certain p)rice. "T1his is so large a contract," said Ilaughiton, "t hat I really ought to con su!it my directors about it. They're in side, and I'll just step in and'consult them.' Jact(ob and .Jehulel were in the inner otlice. D)aniel went in and explaineud the l'prositioni to them anid said: "W~ell, lirot her .Jacob), (do you think we had better buy that cotton?'" "'No, I don't I iinik wve had Brother D)an ieb not at thIiat price." '"Well, llrothier 'Hliel, what (10 vou thin k we had better (do about it?'' "I1 shouldn't buiy it, Brother Daniel; not. ly ali vinicanls. "'Oom!'" said D)aniel. Hlaughton wvemnt b)aek to the outer oliec, where the cotton-broker was wVaitinlg. "Well, sir,"' saidl he to' the man, "'I've conlsultedl my (directors, andl I'll take that cotton at the price you nedi!'' Tlhere is a story of a similar touchl of natture iln tihe case of the senior partner of the cotton-mill at, call it Bloothy, Coon. After his dleath one of the e)xo enitors found it necessary to consult some of the directors. lie accordingly asked Mr. Parks what action the board of dliretors were nccustomed to take uin der certain circumstamnces. "I (1o not know," said( the (lirector. "Whyv, yes,'' said the mledC lawy'er, "y'ou must be able to tel nio something. A dIirector' for manmy years, you of course uattended the meetings andi assisted in the proceedimigs.'' G;rowinug nmomntarihy morec (embar last amnd frankly explained: "'All trtue; I ought to know, but the fac(t is I uLsually got notice of a dlirectors' meetimg the daiy aufter it hiad ta ken Hagley (coiiden ltiaully to pickpocket rn the back 1)1atfom) -''My good fel low, I wisb you wouldn't try that.'" dir'.i Why, 1 --- Hagly (soothingly) " ''here.t here, dloll't apIologize,. You'vye beenl trying to pic k my~ poet*, and I thinik it lmy dluty to telli you that the wal let youi a re'I igering is illedl with bills wich l've heen tryin,v to c'ollect fr ix mioths, and l < (fm't believe oul catn do aniv burtter."'--- I/i/ale/phiia l'al Doctoring Royal Patients. It was a matter of wonder to many ersons in Paris that Dr. Fauvol, the roat French specialist in throat di lases, had not been summoned to attend he King of Spain at the mmence- 1 nent of lii malady, especially as Dr. auvel had always attend d Queen Isa >ella and her children durin, their rosi lence in Paris for any troubfes of that ature. But such a proceeding was for )idden by the strict rules of Spanish tiquetto, which prohibits one of the oyal family of Spain from being at. ended by any physician who is not a 1 Spaniard by birth. At the time of the last. illness of the t roung Queen Mereedes there resided in dadrid a German doctor who was espe ially famed for his treat ment of tv >hoid ever, the disease fron wich the Queen vats suafl'ring IIe~ hadl re'enitly saved he life of Mrs. J. 1. Lowell when she vas suffering from a violut attack of hat terrible malady. A few days be 'oe Queen Mereedes breathed her last icr Spanish doctors sent for their Ger nan colleague and requested him to >rescribe for their patient without seeing ier. This he positively refused to do, aying that he niust examine into the >hysical condition of the Queen before >rescribing for her. But that could by I to means be perlitted. "Then," he said, "let me merely see ere----let nie go to the door of her room mnd look at her without crossing the i breshold. Even that concession w:as refused. 1"T'hen, goitlemen," he declared, "I an do nothing. I will not, attempt to I w)'eribe fur a patient that I have not Veil Seen, lie withdrew frol the palace, and It OW days later the yoting Queti was h-ad. But the saered law:4 of Spanish ei.al ethellat' had b1)en p reervedi with >utl infrage ,rnent. A 'imilar" all':air, but r;b n diti"r,en' < hnou.'mn t, took place odinany year- ago ini liis;ia. Thei a*o l1 a \yt:1r' a( nR s.i. T e: 'rin:a, thi m)oth er of the presenlt niwror of Itss;ia. was, slhor"tly after wsr mlarriagec, :attattked with a 'serious ilicertion of thc" sttomach. Up, to that inte iio physician ("tobl appoach the >id 1' of one of his hilv patients of the mt+rial family nearer'than ten feet, 'he l:implress grew wor1e1 andt became lrlmingly ill. The 1Ermperor Alcxan- I Ier gave orders that a famous physician alied Btotkin, of whose skill in such uses lhe h1:11 hiea:rd, shouihl at1 onc(e h)e ent for. Bsotkinl came, atnd, to the ho)r or" of his colleagut's, he walked straiglt, ip to the beside of the lm(>Iirts :nd ook hold of her wrist to feel her pulse. to was instanlitly hurri'd from the room mad was1 loudly relinnntrated with oin he impropriety of his conduct, heing' old that liL imperial patient was to be I ooked at from a distance, and that he I uulst not ap~proach lher, ininieh less touieh ter. Botk iii listeiwd inl silence to all hat the other detors had to say, but vhen the report of the consultation was Irawn up he refutld to sign it. 'T'he Emperor. who was exceedilgly anxious respecting Blotkin's opinion, sent at m)ee for the report, ain on noticing that the name of the new doctor did lot appear in it he caused him to be 3uiiiiiioned at oIICe to his preselnce. 'You'r Majesty," qunoth Botkin, frank , "I can not pt'eteldt to treat a patient hat I amii1 not permitted to examine. c L'he Emipress is, I learn, in a very criti- 1 al situation. I think I can save her, >ut to.do o I must ho allowed to go t' ,vori in my own way." The Emuperor rose from his chair, ook Dlr. But kin by the armt and march d with him into the sick-room of the lpress anld straiglit up to her bedside. - There,. Doctor," he said, "examine our11 pat ient, and1( if ainy one pre'4tends1 to anterfere withI you r'emieiiber' you are L beying miy comumnds."' Thli cour11se o f tr'eatmient prescri bed byv the great e hlysic'ianl proved~ suicessfl. TIhie Em- v re'5 s:ws sav~edl, an tl1hat par'ticutart tlie of ImpiJer'ial ('t iquet te ~ was abraitedl I >r'ever'. -- rs. Jloope's 'ars Lete in IC J'h iladelphaia Te(('lera/:. Hhto Chier-ished No Anlimosity. I A iremartkable ease of woman's eon aint love was brought to light in this a ity re(cen1tly'. A young~t muan-a hard..1 'oirkmig young aman, by the way, and ne w hose t imue is too inoch'l taken up inl * obly earning his b)re:al aiint butter b)y ic sweat of hIis brow to indulge e'xces ively in the vagaries oif jealousy an 1( etriibtive spite-- d ifli'red withI his wife i certain mlat ters aItl-et inig dlomelstie ~ elicity. This miat tir (f-f act ,ytoung mani, istead of tIflyn inito a1 >assioni and1 ap liee ('ourt, qjuiet ly pro'uee&d toi get a nd( after' a while tIhe yun g manlI's all'e (inS joined'' h:uii. w'.ith the ahi-'t ions otf aigtd them'ilve'.' to iair.iTe dIi 01rced wift lwtard of it . Iahi alli-red to aprmen the~ arir:mgenwn uttslfor t I pyriatoahing wehin'g. anothii anor -a*st ae11pted. Th ai- ei.rornwh the lo 1'rei(llmon lokl ghe wat deorted whi(tht rllgrietn' ther s hand-'(', an wit1 h for- lili1 it t-otheadi"hr t11(mblg-roh(ns- 1( (i poiin.bihe lt's to the cek- I onyk wereic sri :d opse ht r actlit'ri a h)ridV,ai and1 oo ruhoia,'pwtly wulihi"g tw ha(ouiil h- - a aty, i(i proeriu and pu1re mrnt thosugh' life. /liigt' n (i/.) i One of the augte fis. iza..t tI 'Iithey Stllant ogies a amulsilling ta h 'ount ofi the vli4. w,hr)ohr 2n t i Anth'oni's punct1f'lililiousaout date. o MISSING LINKS. Rustem Pasha, the Turkish Ambasa for to England is one of the most exper, iflomen In Europe. M. Horvo, the, "fathor of opera )oufro," now lives at Folkestone, and ian become a naturalized British sub ect. Salvil smokes only cigars that ho timsolf gets from Naples, and his son ays they are frightfully bad and coat fnly 1I cents eacht. The Prince of Wales now wears a ,lack silk ribbon as a watch-guard, and about the first of next July the Anglo nanliac in this country will affoot the anie style. Asbestos. cloth has been chosen as the 'jacket" for the boiler of a new loco notive built for the Boston & Albany lailway. This will not char, as (x' wood, and will retain more heat. A platinun wire too fine to be seen ,vith the naked eye is said to have been nado by 11. T. Read of Brooklyn. It is o be used in telescopes as a substitute for the spider's web usually employed. .lIm simgle town of Besancon in .witzerlami, employs over 1T,000 per ons in watchiaking, and the annual )roduct approaches 600,000 watches. A overnment horologicaal school is main itined there. In St. Petersburg there are men who ako about hot tea in largo metal pots overed with felt, and sell it to hack lrivcrs and coachmen, who have to vait for long hours In the cold when hero is a party. Archdeacon Farrar is telling English imdiences that during his long journey brough the United States he saw less Irunkenness than in a single walk in .ondon. IIe thinks America is far ihead of England in temperance work. The French have looked with alarmn ipon the steady export of Perehoron forses to the United States; but the nost prominent breeders there now ay that the progeny of these horses aaised in the United States are an in >rovement upon their sires, and that it s profitable to reimiport. It is known hat Napoleon 111. used to import Per heroni horses from Vermont for the >ost chaises which he used so much. )r. Gould, the astronomer, is shocked t the progress America has been mtk ng during his fifteen years absence 'toward practices and fashions which re not the normal ougrowth of Amenri :an institutions, but an aping of foreign ays and usages, an acceptance of so ial and other standards which belong o En gland or continental Europe. 'Let them that the fox-hunting cap its," says the Boston Transcript, "put t on." 'I'he French papers have been filled vitht stories more or less apocryphal ibout the late Mr. Vanderbilt and his )urchases in Paris. One tale is to the affect that onl one occasion, looking at a uperb exlibit of arnamental iron work shiown at the Palace of Industry at an innuaal fair, he inquired the price of the lot. "The whole is worth 50,000 franes, if it is worth a penny," proudly said the >wner. "I'll take it,'' said Vatnderbilt; lehiver it to ite after the exhibition Is >ver." And he went away. The deal r plucked at the sleeve of the gentic nan aceomip:aying Vanderbilt and in luired in :a whins pr: ''Is your friend all 'irht. in the hl'ad?" investigation shows that the limit of ccmul'rature at wh"l"ich nl can work de s 11)o11 thI' I;'ngtIi of theirexposure, he :ttnomail. of exertion they put forth, heir condition, and the nature ot the uimo.'pheri, part iiula rly as to its degree f moisturie. It is stated that men haivo een emplj oyeds on rail ways at 104 de rees, ml nonles~ -till' er very favorable1 l)nd(itions -at 1I: d?)ceg., and are satid to 'ork ccaisioniallyv in ithe stoke-holes of ro nieal sten ml(ers at I:>G deg. Priofessor' Pu>I ois is repoted to ha :ve est imated lit a templjeraturul' of 1 22 dleg. can he nduhtred when the air is as dry ats possi Ic, but that even 1 04 deg. is likely to e fatal ini anl atmiosphlere saturated with loisture. It is also conisidered certain mat mleni cannlot becomie accustomed to tandu for aniy cons%iderale time a high. r tempera Iture thana from 1 45' deg'. to 6i5 deg. cel veniwhe thliey keep peet''lyl till iand are ini <iite puriie air. A le'tteri in the Pittsburg Dispat'h ays: "('ol. Inugerisoll is the kiinde si tarted man I c'ver saw. Rid ing' all aty with iiim bet ween Onmha uand Ch'ii ago I satw a little iniden(ht that will lustrate thiiis. On the train was a pale, lekly-lookiniig womaun, with a fre'tful aby. . The wtomianu was in simbhhy mulrnmag and( wats almost worn t 'ith th le cryi ng and wvorrying of hieri ttle one. The passenigers were very mtehi aninoyc(d arid kept looking aromiud nmd frowning at tIhe woman, who was' r'idenitly doing her best to quiet the iilbi. imnally Mr. Ingersoll, who hadl (eln readinhg, noticed it. Getting uip, e stepped aceross to theO woman aind >0k the habe, telIling her to take a little ost aind lie wvouhl taike care of the chiild. he little one stopped crying at once, laying with hmIii watch and chain while and finally nestled Its little head )wnl oni his armi and went to sleep. lie tired miothier also diroppIedl to sleep. ad the C oloiiel c'arted for the baby for p)wardis of a hundntredh miles before the othier awa zked and relieved him."' The D)ublin F"reenso says: '"ThIe rincess Beatrice is beginning to dlerirt >mio little benefit from her~ miage'ii.. p till now slit has ne~ver b{een peniit !d to pay a1 visit onl her ownl accotint, ) atny hiouse not even to hier own) relb ives. It seni, however, she is to be llowted in thei course of a fortnight to :o to Sandrlin ghami with htur husbtiland nid spendc it few day3S with the Prince of Wales. lut. :is whe all know, the fe's ive Pin ce is v-ery ('at holie ini his sym.l mti hies, an miisociety at hiis hiouse, though lel ightfuil, is a lit tle 'mixed.' Pri ne li'nrir o fa attenlberg, being' a periso,n of :ubiouis birth, i's na:turally a foarfIul tick ler~ foirO tique an' Id standt(s on is oy:iI (ignhity, mnow that he lhas by umar higel' attined'( somie ini Engumland, it theo nly demanded~c'( that beftore hiis wife ia lowedl to visit hler brother a list of all 0 per'sons who are to be1( in the hOnsn4 irinig theiir visit. shl be h submiittedI to im. You see some artlist, sonme actor, literary nimn, odlious~ id(dle-class rRon mlight het. there and come betwveen 0 wtindl and1 tihe morganautic nobility the vottthu hattenbboro."