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legislator: Columbia, December 16. 1888 ie drawing to a General Assembly , 22d until early whether hold ori ?.. > adjourn tin* d?, i?- jMp8>a The Legielatur^ue8 ofmftm ~ unknowns* low here;. Popolfemtumn In the circling ?Tw and palm tree* ware on jj( such an atmosphere, -n >f a northern sky . . *?: no not Joy, bu^xw^ad - that mjumlfr kindt glaciers round mo rpioad, body i lost tbo mountain's haul, sum m >o baffled cyo c#p? .ufathomablo bed. f." ?Joseph John Murphy. !J, THE OUTCAST. ' v - /A J,}' i treed emigration" of Slinks e City occurred because tl? grown tired of having Slinks was & failure at ^but slinking. His walk, his npnearance and rniniry, all conspired to his and had not only robbed and? credit, but even of placo. Ho had slunk into ^^ ^ ^HBity, no person know oxactly when ho slunk out of it, ... Kin uio sotuomont Who at .tho years of render" apprised of his going, j moro onterprising citif appointed emigration ollowed him. c? scS, tho undosirablo man on twonty-four hours in o up his affairs and placo do twee 11 himself and ,iativo community. In I slinks, thoro woro no afis thn miles away, and as e had but littlo faith in idestrian, a littlo proccsited men had left Prairio links, round shouldered ?cd looking, riding ahead, ue was reached, uo disnopolis was aboiww milo t to Prairio City, and tho asonod that Slinks would thus savo a clear milo's o wo air" said Long Jess hey reached tho lono jack ond tho county boundury. you know the penalty, do." . previous cxperionco lind ami liar with tho unpleas;>ostowed upon a "runout" vithiii tho county confines rpiration of his timo of an ho hod dismounted, ? slouchingly away, d-by, Slinks," called Long ....... ?*?--Stwtficg department, at b.ll t? amend an Act entiv j,L- ~ J im the soft, undulating carpot of eon His hat drooped dejectedly, Hs boots woro run over, and bis gor Bents seem undecided whothcr to fall ^Rff or stay on. There wqs less color 111 9 B his fiu? than usu^l.ond tiio tuduy Rear B I on check was more marked by tko SS. r~ ^r(| on ms checkcsliowcd, less B EST'&o#'niy. , , j mm .'Flowers, and a run out Man? maw 1" ho muttered, with moro I L.J,)r?y than ho had displayed for p Hie cnmmiUrm wn^^hjnTtrliHlQ B Br ' H1ocr> but they were gallopin;; toward B F rairio City when ho naif turned and B <?zed after them with a lo< >ki that Ayas V hnost, wistful. T. None of the horsemen spokd Tor W^m wverol minutes. Then Col Sonter, tho H self elected wit of tho settlement, rcB I'markcd, with a profatory "wal:" B /' "Good riddanco to bad rubbish, as I Bp told 'cm when tho bttwl dorr w?? -i ?? ? n " 440 np committee scarcely grinned t and I | long Jess Masters did not appear to f hear. This inattention upon tlio part f of tho olongatcd citizen W03 all tho more depressing to tlio humorist bc1. , cause Jess was usually tho tiret and J 4 loudest to laugh at his c-Jorts. ,1 "When a man's got to go, w'y, ho's -/ pot to," Jess said, presently. "An' L rwhen I10 gits so's ho sets around till ho , Ft /mighty nigh grows fast, an' sneaks fi j around till everybody is tired o' seoiu' ' , / him, an' borrys liis tohacco, on' never * I buy? nuth'u', an' pays 110 taxes, an' won't' vote, an' never does nur says .1 huth'n' to help tho boom along, on' j ~ 'lows it's nutli a' to him whether tho , railroad comes yero or goes to Boom?poli??v/'y, when u man irWa <?. * o iur -w gone, I .'cckon lie's got, to go, or" y "Or bo buried," interrupted Cal. j J "That's it," Jess wont on. "Prairio J City h'ain't got no uso fer that kind o' people. Put, somehow" _ "Wliat's that over thar?" interrupted another committeeman. A covered wagon, drawn by a pair of skinny horses, rounded tho slopo of \a slight "riso" half a milo distant. _ "Must corno midcUin' fur by tho way tho toam crawls," said Jess. * "What air they doin' outyoro, away off from any roail?" ? Changing their course, tho commit-? teo galloped towards tho slow moving f! valnclo. As they ncarcd it they mado m u discovery. Thoro seemed to bo no in driver, ana tho reins woro dragging. The skinny team stoppod as tho borso- 1ch man ,camo up. Xong Jess lifted ono of ?" tho tattorod curtains and looked into ,of, tho wagon. > .. "Oh, have you found my boy I" a P/i \ faint voioo quavorbd, eagcrty. \ Tho other members of tho commitJpQpeored into tbpwagon. Awnm?? I Pi tnttffivac tVliito "hair about licr I** I wrinkled face, that was wan and *?" \ tuJ?1() 5cr d?-iri,um bri?ut* in?, onfld cyos, full of a pitiful, unroason 1^?'1 Wll ^fcnea yl improved bead to Slinks'acquis!- uu, lint b: The sick woman did not look so B A Iftly, (h.-'iiLs );> the I ii.'l oflices of and .lorry, who had ad nmistorod H HLie of the brandy that the latter had M^^^B^rrht^fro^ _City. and lwul dbw ?" I |? J.'""wiK>nr' nar iarnt voice pipea, us vung ' Jess looked into the wagon. "He'll bo yoro right soon, gran'maw" he answered. , "I saw him jest & little t?t ago." Her crinkled faoo lit up witHsuch -' a look of gladness, that for.pn instant Jess' heart smote him $t the thought of the deception they were about to practice upon tho sick woman. "But it's for tho best," he muttered, an ho turned awav. "It's a shame, but it's tho best wo lcin do." JSvery fape in the circle that gathered about tho outcast was hard and storn. In a fow pointed words Long Jess told tho stofry. "If she don't find her boy right soon, sho .never will. If sho thinks for a few weeks sho's found him, wo reckon sho may pull through to health an' be. oblo to go on. wtyh her search. Slinks, you look nearest uv any uv us iiico nor son's picture. , You look like trim, an* if you don't act liko him, we'll?wal, you understand I" Only Long Jess accompanied Slinks, tho outcast, to the wagon. "Well, yer boy's come, gran'maw," ho said, and turned away. It was evident that tho deception was a success, for tho committco heard tho faint, glad cry of tho old woman as tho outcast bent over her. "Paul I My boy! my boy I" Then tho committco turned their hacks .and walked away out of hearing. No ono said anytliiiig for sevoral moments. Presently Cal spoko, gravely: , "I never 'lowed Slink* had no fccTin's, but?did you seo his facof" "I saw it," answered Long Jess, shortly. After nearly a quarter of an hour had passed, Jess went to tho wagon. Ho was gone a long time, but'when he rqjoined tho group Slinks remained at tho vrUgon. "Boys," said Long Jdsa, 'Ht'll work! You ort to havo scon tho gladness in her olo wrinkled face 1 I reckon sho'll live to find her boy yit. But I havo the idy of tho timo when wo'vo got to tell?wal, maybe wo'll fiad him 'foro that."' "An' Slinks?" questioned Cal. "Ho's got feolin'si If I hadn't aknowed, I'd a-'lowed ho found his olo | mother. Scar on his check must bo softo liko tho ono on her boy's, for bIio was a-noticin' it, an' a-sayih' sumthin' 'bout Bessio's 'mombcrin how Paul'd saved her lifo at tho risk of his own. When sho had said that, I'll swear Slinks' eyes woro full uv tears I He's got fcolin's, Slinks lias." It was nearly a wcok latert after tho si ok woman had been provided with comiortablo quarters in Prairie City, whcro sho was rapidly improving under tho son liko ministrations of Slinks, tlio outcast, tbat tlio emigration committeo wero holding a meeting in tlio shade of Marshall s "general storo." ! "I bclifevte Slinks is sick," Jjong JoajL ( was saying. "Not Jul t * pe works ^?works 3 iko- ^ doeverjrtilij.ti in t) ?- - i vke tho sicr wotnan happy. _ e by, ho acts so V>hitned queer so it like ho'd be'n cryin1. Don't pay fao Mention to what a body says to him 'less it's tho olo lady. Buo don't linfto much more than wnisper be tore -ho hqnw her." "Sick, I reckon," agreed Cal. "But if I could git liands 011 that thar shore enough son that stays away an' leaves hteWthor to tlio ltcor.liv Slinks Pd make him sickcr^p Blinks is 1" ^ "His tracks wouldn't stop this sido hunt for ' TftITr~ Wlien she\ \ched tho end of the railroad it took X best part uv licr littlo money to titif tho team an' wagon. No idy wliur to llnd him. No word from him in many a long day; hut sho started with tho determination, woman liko, to look all over tho west to find her boy. Took sick an' - -kcpt-a-gStm' worse, but kept right on in tho hunt for h*r boy. Then tho balanco is a blank tcr. her. Got out of her head. Don't know wliur nor how long tho team wandered or'iuid. But ; now she's liappv, thiijlcin' kt last she's found her boy. IM could git u-holt of tho feller?roamin' around in tho west at his ease, whilo his olo mother's poro an' needy, and bi-cakin' her heart for him?I'd" A fimirn ????,?? ' " 0 vumu arouna tiio corner. I It was Slinks. I "Maybe lie did not Jcnpw )iow bad her condition was," ho said, abruptly. "Perhaps, when ho left, misfortuno had not taken the most of her property, Perhaps, discouraged, heartbroken, ho had gone west, where misfortuno mot him at every turn, till > ho sunk?sunk?well, perhaps tho thoughts of homo served still rnoro to dishearten him, and" "Wouldn't thoughts of his mother an' of Bessio" "Bessio died before ho left homo," . ] said Slinks, gravely. "Sho was hi* i sweetheart in thoso old, happy days? ( Well, lie was unlucky, heartsick, dis- < couragcd and sank" 1 "Do you reckon ho'd try to lift^him- ? self up if lie had a olo mother \m' a t *nrfr uv friends, which pailg kain't t irecisely express all their t'eehn'a, >ut" "IIo would try," said Slinks earicstly. Long Jess put out his hard pa,w. 01 "Paul Kmery," was all lio said. a? Tho members of tho emigration com- fc litteo shook hands with Slinks, tho fo utcast, fpt tho last V "Boys," said Long Jess, "I a-'lo^cd, f littlo bit ago, that Slinks was sick. JJ ut lio's dead, now an' " "Ho will never riso again I" said ** xul Kmory, gravely.?T. F. Morgatx 801 Frank iieslie's. * *' ^ g pleading, slowly from qnp to aYther of tho bearded faces as they J ^ked dowh upon her where Rho lay, a rudo bed of quilts, ill tho bottom ^ tlio wagon body, ' "Ilavo you found my "boy yet?" she x-d, feooly, with eager l>csecching. Enj >h, have you found him?" <*re 'Wo hain't"-? began Carl Son tor. 'Hush!" whisperon Jess. "Wo oi:t to find hint sobn; gftin'maw. Ho _ n't bo fur off," uo oddod, soothOh, I am so glad I" tho sick woman ' isperodL "I was afraid that sonftt-d i?>'. 1 ff * rhis; & Wo'n try," answered Jess. She's cloet to fly in', I'm ?feard,M bo , when tlio committee hud vm via u short distal)oo from tho wnl k consultation. "Out of her UP t# gration committeo was i: wtfrds Prairio City aa fast as his horse could carry him. "Mebby her boy lives somowers yer^bQUts,', suggested Carl Bshter. - -"Haye'you found himF-tho faint voice quivered, as tho bearded faces looked mto tho wagon again. # ? ""What did you say his name was?" questioned Jess. 4 4It sortoisl toped poo.n"' "Paul^ and her voice dwelt lovingljr upon the name?.4 rhul Emory, 't Tha shaggy heads wero solemnly j consultation. 4Tm afeard she'll never seo herbSy. mighl55??r>" m, 4 4 Wonder if wo couldn't sorto find him, anyhow," said Cal. ,f "Mebby ahe couldn't toll" ^ '^'Twouldn't make her no worse," OJJURO u?>9i im 11 micfiii"?;? . Tho others grasped the idea. Again tho bearded faces looked into tho wagon. . "Know him at first sight?" questioned Jess. "Might have changed a good deal." The sick woman babbled on a little while of how she would know hor boy ?her Paul. Then sho produced a battered tintype from beneath Iter pillow. "That is Paul, my boy 1" sho said, eager! y-?-"PttiU 1" . Tho picture dimly* revealed a slender young follow, honest faced and beardless. Tho sliaggy heads were gravely shaken. , . "The scar don't show much in tho picture," tho . sick woirthn piped, weakly. -."The doctor rsaid it'would always remain thoro. And Betisio Said sho never wanted it to fade from his check, bccdusc it would always bo a reminder of how he had risked his lifo to savo hers. Bossio" Tho committee, hoard no more. They had hastily withdrawn. * * "I'll stay ycro an'wait fur Jerry," Cal Senter said, aftor a fow moments' confcrenco was held. "Take my boss. Wal, Ircckou"?rr Tho rest of tho committeemen were galloping away, md ho was olono be biuu LIIU wamn. '.'hooks like imposing on tho pore woman," ho muttered. "But, it wo koin't find tlio right sou wo'vo got to do tlio next best thing. Uo'll look something like her Paul when tho boys hev got through with him." Slinks, tlio outcast, lay stretched faco downwards in tho shado of a few scraggy persimmon trees, near tho head of a littlo "draw," two miles beyond tho spot wlxero tho committee had left him. There was mbw,qfi despair in liis faco than any citizen of Prairie City had ever seen there. But when, aroused by tho hooi beats, ho found himself again lb tlio bands of tho emigration committee, tho old and almost expressionless mask fell over his face "Again. v f '*, \ v Ho mado no comment when ordered t? "pile J^^^Qilia-.horse, and tho eavalca|^took the back track towards Prairie ^-ty nt a headlong speedy But onco, Lo^j^^oss, closo at hand, n?a^ him right, anyhow. NobodyTl | th^ijiptcr, squatting in tho shade of troon^Koman s ?gon, saw tho little andciHL aquarflrof a milo away, her "Blamed imposition on JoriflPltftlie best we kin do. passed by the cavalcade, iWm l 1 -i N ] Vfvi'r r"T ' 'hinds and rxvb-/>*?, -rt ^v?wrt.WlO, It >Vft> evident that lie comprehended tlio sit untion, for ho said, addressing himself, "Looks lileo a great-shame, hut mcbbj it's tlio best tho boys kin do." Slinks' look of stolidity changed to one of mystification and astonishment eoOn after Prairio Oitv .wasf reached. Ho was htirried mto Ihp barber shop and thrust into a chair, and, in response to a stern command from Lon? Jess,tho knisjht of tho razor trimmed tho outcast's hair and removed his beard with a celerity that threatened to rob him of his cuticlo at tho same time. While this was ofoing on sovoral of the committeemen wore rushing about, to tho intense mystification of tho unofficial I citizens, who aslrcd a htm?h. ^cations, and were shamefully snubbed oach time. Whoa tho "rushing" resulted ih tho producing of a misfit suit of clothes, into which Slinks was hustled, ho was hi a stato of open mouthed wonder. As all hands wcro mounting, Slinks heard Old Man Berry inform a neighbor, in a mysterious but very loud whisper, that it was his belief that tho committee hud captured Slinks red handed in some atrooity, anil were arraying him decently that tho outcast might make a presentable looking corpso. Tho neighbor nodded a convinced head, anil Slinks, for want of a more pleasant solution iU> ftio mystery, was fotfocd to accept too direful thei V : Sn 1.^-1 t wan uecn tiio cliango in tho lutcast's nppcaranco, resulting from j lis experience with tho comuiittoo , md tbo barber, fhat which tbo * littlo < roop reached tno wagon Cal professed j o bolievo tliat thoylind added n now g -i..i y ? t Study Hour tot Children. Aooording to Dr. Newell, "for children f 10 6r 13 years tho capacity for bright id. voluntary attention is exhausted by ur varied lessons requiring mental ef>rt of half an hour each, with intervals Q| relief in the forenoon. Ii> the of temoqn k, iv ^ApicitV In _ __ ?one-nair. Two _j >ur8 in the forenoon and ono hour in ^ o afternoon is as long a time as ohiiSo.r ? -?*- to $ Dr. -Chancellor supports this view, and ^ v oca tea eighteen hours a Week as the jg, lit for school children under 10. ginekey, author of a German wotk on ^ tool hygiene, takes the wiuo view, and demonstration of its effectiveness it is iu. ;ged that half time pupils in the cjr glish schools learn as much asthechll- cat n who are in school tho full number Sji, lours.?.Hall's Journal of Health, Th? "Public" of Loudon. jj\{ I single bar. tfcwr ta the "bav onrh ttlo and jug department,'*and One fir f.. other rooms, somtiraea named, some- ^ ,o not, I'rqe lnnohes arotiOfc in order. fjr/ Inpcb at jWyu?'-i?A a %i? ^Qflfl VBIQHTS 3EEN IN STOCKHOLM. . Group of the Cirdlo Dni-Ut?to?BccRnrV Ctabe?Other Curiosities. Man/ hronta statues to Swotfen's kings stand m the \ arious squares and "parks, and there is 0110 bronze group that holds the at tention longer than any of these. JtJa placed hi the grounds of tho National museum, and' is tho inasterpioce of tho Swedish sculptor Moleri, the group if thie girdle Duelists. According to the ^*"uy wi. 0u CU'tom in Scandinavia, provided vritli knives, and allowed to fight out the duel until ouo or both had fallen. This group is wortlrf-of the; antique Pior the' siflendid physiquo of' the actors and fearful interest of tho strife. .Each has seized with his left hand the 1 J - : " t'gutt noun ui ilia iw, 1VUJUU gCUSpS IIIO murderous short knife, and both wrestle for life wi?h terrible energy. It is Baid that these combats wero so universally fatal that women carried winding sheets with them to the banquets, whcro their husbands might bo slain. H Four bos reliefs on the pedestal with Runio inscriptions show ouch a scene? two men drinking together, whilo the lovely wif s of ono of them stands by. The jealoe i auger roused by some unduo attention on tJ?o part of tho guest, tho wife 011 her knees endeavoring to prevent tho <jua'rel, and lastly the poor thing weeping alone by tho gravestono of her husband. A memorial such as this of ancient customs has always an' interest independent of its artistio value; and this internet attaches to a great many objects in the collection of the Northern Museum, an institution devoted to tiro preservation ofi.^ii.adin^vian,jn(ics and curiosities. Y^Utsoo hero C f^rrf rt tb<Tt rdl pikes aud battlo axes so formidable of old?cruel, murderous looking instruments ten foet long, their blades and heads rusted as if < with the blood of enemies; ancient swords 'and helmets, together with innumerablo articles of mora peaceful household use; rudo looms that might liavo woven tho garments of the Vikings, and tho odd hand mangles used for smoothing linen? heavy pieces of wood, polished 011 tho under side, and elaljqrately carved above, with handles usually representing horses. It BcemS impossible that such flat irons should have been very cfllcacious, but hero thoy ug by tho hundred. Odder still aro tho kubbestols?chairs raado of tho trunks of trees?or kubbes (whence our Mstul>s," I suppose), tho edges of tho scats ornamented with, of nil things in- the world, human teeth, driven into tho solid wood. Thoso are not relics of battle, as one might suppose, but the teeth lost by the family of tho owner of the Chair, preserved in this manner as a charrii against future toothache. -Littlo white milk teeth mak<) on agrccablo variety with huge mOThrs thut cvi ac'ix&: enougii before fliey come to this end. Qern, too, is . another relic of ancient manners?1 beggars' clubs. These formidable weapons were given to uuygitfB w enaoio mem to outam relief rt tho next htmso thoy cam^iftrr?What Aoomfcrtable thing it wouldIxs if ono of ua could get rid of an importunate tramp bv giving hint n chib to compel our next neighbor to.ebiertain 1dm! Yonder ia a Jaundleof Ronto Btarea?canes or long carved with runes, orsenI tonccs a^n rlnri"*?usually quoted from onTT^^-Wy^g^vVhetlier I ' I learn. L: tin iu compartments, 1 0nor^^~"" ^jSp] lnhd; or' Iceland pel hai>e; Svilh- Hfe size 9 figures in appropriate costumes, sur rounded with tlio very furniture and poti tery brought from rach houses, all in r some interesting position. A man receiving an message brought by ? an envoy in ono of the old "bud stikker," or message sticks, which ho in his turn is bound to parry for a certain distance, . and if no one is ftt hand-to tako it, to stick it in tho earth until some ono comes along, as if our mail bogs should be laid on a rook' nt a certain place and left for the next passer to tako charge oft Another group shows a girl receiving presents when the bans of her marriago are proclaimed; a third, a Lapland family mourning over n dead child. All the figy^ee are voiy lifclilto. But timo would various museums antf Ihcir treainires. =1!t' ftyj. Ban Rrauoiscq Chronicle, . , ' I SmQ^Ung I'reclomvfitonfli, Ono of the favorite .places wherein to hide precious stones arq in tho small tainCI*Anaa ?1 * ?IJ>?U in connection With tho master's sc.'tnnt. Tho glasses are unscrewed, stones packed necyrcly in the cylinders and overytlnng replaced. But few cu*? tome officials would venture to trouble a valuable ecientifiO instrumont. I Another method is to -havo a malacca Jtick borod out, through tho wonderfully skilled hands of Chinese mechanic, Tho spaco is then flUedin with precious stonea }_ packed in cottotj, the Joint replied tut detection is almost (mpossible; ] I xm sh6w you a boot' heel' tuade of IrQim^> which is attached an iron clauip. ! ? * leather heel Is removed, then the Iron' mo, filled with diamonds, is secured to he clamp. It is on old trick, but might i jave passed muster, except thai tho ( imuggtcr's courage failed and his ner'<70?nYW,b?'rayed him. The government ras richer by $0,000 duties in gorn com. -New Ydrk Star. ^ Wiltl Dos* ox Amu. vxru. jl ? ) a ,, uoiuv?r aopp run wild, as in.AttS1 -alia and in India, they show many f the characteristics of wolves. They }1; ftvo a similar habit of hunting h? ti icks. Tlio people of Assam tell won- vi jrful stOrio.1 of tho cunning ankl sa- p? icity Of there witd hounds whqn in ^ mailt of game. f th They say that when a pock goes out jn hunt, an old dog goes in front and pa srcltes fbt fr6sh scent of A deer. j[n ivinjr found this, ho starts off alone, d wnen ho lias ascertained tho fQ] lereabouts of the quarry returns to 1 ? ^ truou uu tucD disposes id ,a t tes etc of a mile in diameter round it; ^ ,h member of the pack has a part ,nG Dttcdtohim. - * I . of ; Thjesa , precautions having ibeen fou on, the old g moral starts alone 1)r0 ;e tporo in seirch ofthe victim, ^ ho rest of the pack. \ ajritfping tliadog, flfljjj0 "J?" |i? Jciiiy mot in frontm" ; "ft fro Of0 QUIET AFFAIRS. Pawnshop* TThloh Do Not Hug Out tha Tlireo Hlgnlfloant Dalit. e3 Iii my rambles around this great & metropolis I have been surprised at the ?* many methods of making a living. Dl writes a Now York correspondent of P" Tho Detroit Tribune. Certainly if onohalf tho world do not know now the " other lialf live, they just as little know 81 how tho other half mako their living. ?T There is on Fourteenth street a plaoe P1 i which gets its patronage from tho very P1 swolicst and most exclusive oiroles of , society. Tho placo lias no sign, noth- ff ing to givo it away as a pawnbroker's * shop; but such it is, notwithstanding ?! its handsome ontmnce and liveriea ? door tender, who ushers the visitors or * patrons into an ologantly furnished drawing room, decorated with rare ^ bric-a-brao and choioe paintings. Tho w woman Who keeps it, for the propriotor is a womanl is dreflBod in the latest stylo, and receives her customer as if a guest. It is not until after the usual jr exchange of morning salutations that P she asks: u "What can I do for madame this 11 morning?" ^ Tho madame displays a sot of jew- P elry, diamonds, pornaps. or bnc-a- . brae, on which sho wisnos a loan. Sometimes a note is givon at tho rate of 15 or 20 ixsr cont Theso notes, PJ however, solaom go to protest, for tho * givers do not coro to have thoso trans- 04 actions known to their husbands: but, P. apart from that, they c&ro but little, V. as it is generally understood that a A1 woman frequently exceeds hor allow- . anco and mukcs it up on the next, wliilo tho obliging broker makos a good profit from tho necessities of & fashionablo women. , Tho "duplicate gift" woman who ;I calls at tho handsomoi "brown front" houso just after a fashionablo wed- ?' ding is known to the neighbors, who see ner descend from a carriage or bar " roucho only as a caller, but she makes quite a living in buying up tho dupli- ? cato gifts. Every one knows that the wedding gifts of a season run in p grooves, and that most brides, on ? looking over their possessions, find a ? largo proportion of thoir gifts dupli- Y catcd. Tho brido who wept herself ill on finding that sho had sovon buttor H dishes, every ono alike, with a cow on " tho cover, uad not the advantage of r; tho bride of today, who calls to her aid tho buvcr of such duplicates. Ono of tho popular brides of last sear H son found among her 700 wedding ^ proscnls 15 silver plated candlesticks, ^ 3 bronrn busts of Shakespeoro, 4 etch- ? ings of Millot's "Angelus," 10 silver P hand mirrors, 3 ongrav?ngs of one pic- jf -lure, 8 fiali kuives, 23 picklo and olivo forks, 16 fans, 14 jowol boxes. 8 bon ^ bon boxes and 7 table crumb knives, j] What did sho do with them? The ex- 5* change women came to her aid and ? took most of tho duplicates off her ^ hands. Of _ courso they wore disposed gfc-At asacrifteo, jmkI tho young larido worried for wooks for fear the trans action would leak out, but what could X dot Sho could not litter-up her J rooms with duplicates. I think it ^ would bo ft good idea, whon ono is Q| sending out invitations for a fashion- ^ able wedding, to odd to each what ono is desired to present, or elws to do away & VVrith gifts by saying, Gifts not do- ^ " Jam sure either method would ^ j^mu^^^nnoyance to both ^ reilvoa 1 liiimls induhii u-uitj we&itn ot Peru niiuT , Bolivia which was their curso from tho time of Pizarro to that of modern Chili.. Guano has been exported sinco 1840 from Peru, and tho annual ship zncnts aro said to have amounted to $20,000,000 and $30,000,000, whereas tlio whole population of tho country was not greater than Pennsylvania. Tho epidemic of riches broke both tho government and the people, and brought in foreign enemies. How ' much better aro wo off in some parts 1 of this country with all our riches and ^ so little fortitudo 1 The guano ruining 1 down, nitrate of soda was found in the < deserts, and Chili came in to get this, ' and destroyed Peru. It woe discovered in 1833, in South America, by an old Englishman named George Smith. They say it d will take eight or ton centuries to dig h -it away. Nobody knows ltow the nl- o l trate was formed under tho sands of d this desert Shovelino- nfP ?* ? v... Uia bunu. tl you como to a course of sun baked al clay, and under this is a bed of white fe material, liko molting marblo, and soft b< ns choeso. It is about four or five feet o< thick, and is broken up by crowbars G and ground. A solution from it is to run into vats of sea water, and crys- in tallizutiou is caused. The ultimate re- sk suit is an iodiuo of commerce costing set as much per ouuco as tho saltpeter pe brings per hundred weight Tho high- th> est grade goes to tho powder mills, the va ?vt <ho chemical works, and tho trc ?. iio fertilizer factories.?Cin- voi J mquirer. of all JK- - "VrDat Cigarette* Arc Made of. gjJC For some timo past Tho Chicago ?I Tournal and Tho Evening News liavo >een wagingvigorous warfare against A iigarottos, Tho Journal has printed a cha cries of articles showing tlio largo in a lumber of cigarettes that were sold py ver3 mall shopkeepers to the pubho school ^ upils, and lias had interviews with ho principals of the various schools nd with physicians, showing the exmt and injury of tho cigarette praeco among young boys. The News as been investigating the composi- ho" on and effect of cigarettes generally. be 1 71th this end in view a number of ickagos of each brand ? wuiiuuiuy End tea wero purchased and stripped of Her o boxes, cards and every distinguish- bott g mark. Each kind was put Into a whl steboard box, the lid of which was case 3cribed with a letter. These were ken for analysis to Professor Do 1a- ftn(j itaino, a well known chemist Ho found that the cigarettes he {Me< ted were generally made of to- 8 2co "imperfectly fermented,** which o?.p ana that an unusually large amount peel nicotino was present in them, lie ^ md that nearly all had an unnatural (portion of insoluble ash, that sev- t 1 kinds were steeped in an injurious A Stance, and were impregnated with Tenn I in varying proportions.?New Oben fc Tribune. my p tton o . ' i - atMit reduo Dead* Their Kum PnbUoly. phyal. no of the most sueoessful ministers Per* ur whole connection has inaugu- " I I the following practice in taking Low Lift BbmImm in Pull. Nomadic Russians, with beetling rebrows, shaggy hair and a generally reaay appearance, may sometimes bo sen wanaering in droves along the riliiant boulevards. They look like sasants or Moujiks out of tn? dramatic laptations in French of the works of le Russian realists. You are often irprised to see these children of tho low ana the steppes so far away from omo, and are apt to wonder at their Lisiness in the most expensive city in io world. Some interesting particukrs, however, have just bsen pub shed respecting tho low life raembon f the large Russian colony in Paris is "mnoction with the registration ol wreigners W uawii ! - -Taking place t the prefecture of police. They foroathor, it seems, in tho Latin quarter, 'here they have a kind of poli tical pope, r patriarch in the person of Peter avrof, an old nihilist, who has been cpelled from Russia. His room in io Ruo Saint Jacques is piled from oor io ceiling with books. This place i tho rendezvous of tho mail* and felalo students of Russian nationality, ho are attending lectures in the Paris tedical schools, and thoy delight in io/niccm/w *-**-?! ?* 111.?.1?-? - - ' * lovuaaiug JAJil HV^O, ilW)n(lUR). HlWU* ino and mathematics with tneir pa iarchal compatriot Lavrof has had 11 eventful career. Ho was born at 'skof in 1823, and went through a aurso of studies in the Russian scnool f artillery, in which ho succeeded tetrogradsky in the professorial chair, a 1860 ho was arrested in connection ith tho Karakosof affair, and was nprisoned, but escaped in lb70. After aving lived in Switzerland and Eng land bo came to Paris in 1877, and is ow busy with a tremendous eatiso on modern thought All 10 students and refugees gathrcd round Lavrof, work nard t teaching, translating and copylg in order to support themselves rhilo in Paris, and nearly every ono f them has a sovero strugglo in order > mako both ends meet Thoro is Iso a largo colony of Russian and 'olisli students who attend tho leclres, but who depend to a great exu 11 on the- assistance given to them y the Allianco Israelite. Most of le poorest students, male and female, vo in community in an establish* lent in the Rue Flatters, where there re separate dormitories for tho sexes nd a common ?oom for study. They ike their meals in a kind of co-operavo restaurant in tho Avenue des k)belins, whore they act as their own ashiers. cooks and waiters. The rices of tho meals are reduced to the linimum figure, only horsetlosh being ansumcd. with cheap bread, vegeibles and tea or coffee, wine being as igidlv excluded from the repasts as if 10 Muscovite wanderers wero momera of tho Blue Ribbon movement.? ondon Telegraph. Ralslna on the Paclflo Coast. The raisin industry of tho Pacific last is growing rapidly, and grape using is, as a consequence, profitable. . vineyard of good average bearing ill yield six tons of grapes to the sre, with a value of $20 a ton on tho ines, or $120 an acre. Older vine artls produce from eight to ten tons, ad the fruit brings a higher prico ion tho product of younger vines, as is better adapted to the larger or unch styles of high priced raises. hus a forty acre vineyard in full inrinfY f> 1 jgqyJjJufc f C rail tu 8ce ^I'crcin tho , A'wcen1. _ ?f $0,000. Labor, however, is vorv higl and growers liavo found it difficult i obtain a full complement of hands 1 euro a crop needing such prompt attei tion. This difficulty will bo lessenc as newcomers thicken. Californi produces in quantities only the raisiji that compete with tho famous Ifbdag varieties. Tho Pacific raisin crop c 1888 is expected to approximate 1,000, OGO boxes. Somo or this has uijpni ibroad, owing to the small crojw o Malaga this year, and tho latter fac will nelp to distribute the domesti( rrop through this country.?Leslie'i Newspaper. llyglcnlo Aspects ot Hypnotism. Upon tlie hygienic sido wo find the iscussion of tno prohibition of public ypnotio performances. Tho Academy f Medicine of Belgium held a long iscussion upon tho question, and nally voted to recommend a law Ixfiisning it. Tho chief advocate in ivor of tho exhibitions was M. Dclxoif. Belgium thus follows tho ition of Austria, Italy, Denmark, ermany and most of the Swiss can* na. Trie people hnvo been rtw"1 ? -6V iijrosjsea with tho dangers of an unified use of hypnotism, and a healthy j ntiment to have it rostricttxl to exrtsprevails. At tho last session of o French Association for the Adncemcnt of Science, M. Berillon induced a similar measure, and it was ted as tho sentiment t>f the section hygiene and public medicine that public exhibitions of hypnotism >uld be legally prohibited in France, tevue de l'Hypnotismo. l dozen trees planted each year 10*+ nge the appearance of a farm 7" , generation and lead along tor me, T satisfactory, as well. / To Save Life iquently requires prompt action. An ir's delay waiting for the doctor may attended with serious consequences, acially in cases of Croup, Pneumonia, other throat and lung troubles, ice, no family should be without a lor of Ayer*s Cherry Pectoral, eh has proved itself, in thousands of s, the best Emergency Medicine discovered. It gives prompt relief prepares the way for a thorough , which is certain to be effected by *?hftiftuisri no* H. Latimer, M. D., Mt. Vefnon, says: "I have found Ayer's Chorry oral a perfect care for Croup in all i. I have known the worst cases red In a very short time by Its use; I advise all families to use It in sudrinorgenbies, for coughs, crotip.&e." ? J. Bldson, M. D., Middlctown, Jf1 r ., says : , " I have used Ayer's M GO y Pectoral with the best effect ijr , iractiee. This wonderful nrepwf " nee saved my life. I had ty? period t cough, night sweats, was/-' r>r, N pd In flesh, and given, u .. , slan. One bottle and a*y . ' ?ec,l see ral enred me." ^'dmhle cannot say enough."".1 B * Cherry Pectora^MjJtf|^^^^^^^H ^UARY ===== -^A' PIEDMONT AIR LI ME fe ' RICHMOND & DANVILLE ~ RAILROAD. r, W c GREENVILLE & WLUMBJA DIVJEJO*- 4 i CONDEN^^V^ s In efffloi f .J&t'a? Ad Sr-^ t^uroh, at i (Trains run on "V^mained a co^elgtaat n r?- mm rmmmm * 1 murriod iAal!>'i;l as MM Mhe ni>oond M?MMO$??^W i ?.WI* if u.'e y _ . ifcyJ^Mdnuc, ?nd ,,oc?cd * . ' iVSSS^^UiiS 1,cr children. Arrive Alston .. 11-22 a. , t. Aeave Alston .. 11 26 p. m. <t?.of tha , Arrive Union 1 26 p. m. 4 26 p. m. . Arrive Spartanburg. 2 60 p. m. 6 46 p. a. ,os' Tryou w " Saluda '80 " Flat Rook, V "'?! " Hendersonville... c. 1 " Asheville 7 00 p. m. " Hot 8prings rc Pomaria 11 66 a. m. , ir'rive Prosperity... 12 22 p. m? ? Newberry 12 89 p. to. " Laurens...... u ? Ninety-Six... 1 46 p. in. *" J " Greenwood...., 2 27 p. in. , v J Greenville...... 6 80 p m " Abbeville 8 66 p. m. " Anderson 4 26 p. m. " Seneca 6 46 p. m. Walhalla 6 46 p. m. . * Atlanta 10 40 p. m. * SOUTHBOUND, No 66^ N?. Leave Walballa..... +'? 00 ? ? , V'11 ' Seneca 8 00 a. m. >CT\TER p aV ? Anderson. .... 9 85 a. m. _ \ LR- 1 M " Abbeville 10 80 a. m. ' " " Greenville..... 8 40a.m. ftflyfllTin ' Greenwood... 11 66 p. m. villi I I IU " Ninety Six.... 12 40 p. m. ? Laurens if Na?,hai-i. o i r. _ ? J- - p. ?<. > '? Prosperity 2 40 p. ?. *s Arrive Alston 8 25 p. m. ^ Lcave<Hot Springs. *6 60 k m Leave Asheville 8 25 a. m " Hendersonville < " Flat Rock...... 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