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The Aiken BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAYJ DECEMBER 13, 1881. YOL. I. NO. 9. INSURANCE ON A SOLID BASIS. Tb* undersigned would cell attention to tbeir fbeilitiee for Insuring’ I^roperty Against (Ire in companies of unsurpassed repu lation and at fair rates. In case of losses oc curring, their friends placing business in tbeir hands can rely on their personal attention to their interests in settlement of claims. They ask a call from property owners before placing their insurance elsewhere. Terms as low as any reliable, flrst-cla eompaniee. E. J. 0. WOOD, SIBERIA OTT. INSURANCE AT Representing Die Insurance Oo. of Nortli 'America, assets $7,000,000; The Star Insurance of New York, asset* $1,000,000; The La ^ance, of Paris, France, assets $6,500,000; e Association of Philadelphia, asseti ); The Virginia Homo Insurance Go., ■ond. Va., assets $400,000. rj, slocks, dwellings, barns, stables, livs mills, factories, gins, cotton, an I all rber insurable property insured at the lowest rent rates. insure dwellings st % per cent, per an* Dwellings insured for one y«-ar, or oo ? year plan, as oar patrons desire, jeaemiitablyadjostod and promptly paid. *rs of inquiry promptly answered. MIXON & CO., General Insurance Agents, WILLISTON, S. O. HENRY BUSCH PROPRIETOR OF THE BUSCH HOUSE Cor. Richland Are. k York St., AND DEALER General Merchandise, LAURENS STREET, AIKEN, S. C. GASTON HOTEL AIKEN, S. C. This house, formerly known as “ The Pint's, i» situated in a very desirable portion of the Tillage of Aiken, is now open for the accommo dation of transient and regular boarders. WILLISTON, S. C. livery stable attached. Board for the winter months, from $9 to $25 per week, according to location of room, etc.; $2 to $2.50 per day. Children and serrants half ppce. JOH1V T. O ASTOIV, PROPRIETOR. D F. McEWEN, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER —AMD DKALJUt lit— Will receive monthly daring the season, on consignment, all of the new styles of Jewelry in solid gold and rolled plate, and will receive orders—subject to refusal—for any goods not in stock in the line of Watches, Diamonds, Solid Silver or Meriden Silver Plateleea Cele brated Wi SUMMERVILLE HOUSE. H. A. SMYSER, (Formerly of Aiken, S. C.), Has a fine large house and cottage for the acoommodatioD of boarders in the beautiful vil lage of Summerville, near the city of Augusta. Oa., finely situated, with splendid drives ami pleasant walks. Street cars within three minutes’ walk. Churches very, convenient to the house. The house is neatly and comfort ably furnished with everything necessary for comfort. Rooms and balls well ventilated and heated. Mails delivered daily. Terms mod erate. Apply to H. A. SMYSER, Baud Hills, Augusta, Oa. SWISS AND AMERICAN WATCHES, SMYSER HODSE, Cor. York St. Sc Rich laud Ave., Has been thoroughly renovated and completely fu rn isb od throughout every department. Upon examination it will be found that its eligible Friend T that shares tby man Who Is Thy Who is thy friend ? The pleasures In banquet hall or beauty’s witching bowers ; He that will dance with thee to folly’s measures. And make no reckoning of the squandered boors— To whom the revel and the game is all ? These are the friends that help men to their fall. Who is thy friend The man that shares tby pride. Thine hour of glory, or thy dsy of gain ; Who stands in every triumph by thy side, And never finds that triumph false or vain, But shapes his doctrines ss thy humor goes ? These are the friends misfortuns turns to foes; Who is thy friend ? The man that for his winning ; To power or place bath need of thine or thee . Who will not fear thy risk, or blame the sinning, So it but speed his fortune’s growing tree ; Whose praise is large, whose promise larger yet ? These are the friends that fail ns and forget. Who is thy friend ? The man of truth and trust. In gladness near, in sorrow nearer still; To thy faults generous, to thy merits just, Thy help to every good from every ill, Whose love for the world’s hate might make amends ? Alas for it 1 this life hath few such friends. Who is thy friend 7 Tho best, the least re- garded, In faith unfailing, and in love unchanged Through all the changeful years, though ill rewarded— * Give Him thy heart, so long and far estranged. And from the broken reeds of earth ascend. To seek in heaven thine everlasting Friend. —Frances Browne, Blind Irish Poetress. DANGEROUS COMPANY. “ It is verj remarkable,” said my uncle, as Mr. Gregory left the room. “ It is very mysterious,” said Lily, with strong emphasis on the adverb. “ To me,” observed an elderly lady- >oarder, “it appears to be something worse than mysterious; and, without making any assertions, I would at least caution you, my dear, against any closer intimacy with one who seems so often -o be possessed of information in a manner of which there is no conceivable natural explanation.” i‘ It reminds me most,” said the Rev. VIr. Briggs, “ of certain cases, un doubtedly well-authenticated, in which the existence of the so-called ‘ second sight ’ has been demonstrated in a very singular manner.” ^ “ And,” added my Ttacle, “ although many of the professors spiritualism have been proved imposbws, it by no means follows that all—” ' )R KING’S COV/JINATIOJt A JMylC YE-O LASSES. )ds warranted as represented, and ranted to give satisfaction. reel, AIKEN, S. C rGEORQIA CHEMICAL WORKS. Mannfacturers of All Kinds n| Fertilizers. M. 0. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. , A — . ‘Yce, yes,” broken* our laly friend, location, pleasant surrounding* and neat, sunny “ butlwe alLknow that jjeonlefctien haJr* TEAL ESTATE Also Houses and Rooms to Rent. — APPI.Y TO — FI- Main Street, D. 8. Henderson. fSIVEITH, AIKEN, S. C over by Mrs. H. M. WOOD WARD, the former proprietress, and Mre 8. L. RICHMOND, late of tho Augusta Hotel, who feel confident of their ability to furnish a pleas ant home for any who may desire to spend tho season in Aiken. S®' The table is strictly first-class. IF ire Insurance! London Assurance Corporation (Fire). Char tered 1720. Assets, $5,000,000. Germania Fire Insurance Co. Chartered 1859. Assets, $2,000,000. Hanover Fire Insurance Co. Chartered in 1852. Assets, $2,000,000. La Confiance Fire Insurance Co. (Paris, France). Assets in United States, $729,000. CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Agent, AIKEN, S. C. New Goods! E. P. Henderson* H ENDERSON BROS., Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. I am receiving my Fall stock of and United Statei [pr courts for South Carolina. Prompt attention given to collections. > A. EMANUEL, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. O. UilL practice in all tho State and United s Courts. Special attention paid to collec* and investments of money. IES ALDRICH, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. 0. _ r AOticos in the Stato its for South Carolina. and United Statei Comprising all that is called lor by an epicure. Quality and quantity guaranteed. BY THE QUANTITY AND FOR CASH I will sell for the Lowest Possible Prices. I will sell for the Lowest Possible Prices. I will sell for the Lowest Possible Prices. Give me a call before you go to Augusta. W. TURNBULL. ESTABLISHED 1846. 'j.C. JORDAN. 1 J ORDAN .V NORRIS, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, 8. C., w. nokri k. S. P. T. FIELDS, the State and United State Court* Corner of Laurens Street Richland Avenue, M'IS, at Law, 8. C. so Courts of this Circuit, len to collections. ' Sheppard, j. w. dcvore, Edgefield C. H. Aiken C. H. S HEPPARD k Pr.VORE, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Stato and United States Courts for South Carolina. VARIETY BAKER, CONFECTIONER & GROCER. ALL KINDS OF BREAD, ALL KINDS OF CXKES, ALL KINDS OF CANNED GOODS. Thew Nectar, tho Finest Flavored and Leaf Tea ever offered to the public. LARGE VARIETY OF CANDIES. R S. AGNEW, • Trial Justice and Notary Public, Aiken, S. C. Deeds and other legal doenments written with neatness and dispatch. enr Wedding and Party Cakes supplied at short notice. Sugar, Coffee, Rice, Grits, Meal, Butter, Lard and very variety of Family Groceries, together with the finest brand of Flour in the market. DR. JOHN H. BURNETT DENTIST. MUD —DEALER IN- — omcE AT — GRANITEVILiLE, Aiken County, S.C DR . B. H. TEAGUE, DEISTTIST. — OFFICE on — Richland Avenue, (CINCINNATI AIKEN, f». C. TYPE FOUNDRY, 201 Vine Street. C. WELLS. Trees, The type on which this paper is printed ii from the above foundry.—Ed. STAPLE AND FANCY STAPLE AND FANCY STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GLASS, CHINA, CIGARS = :and? tobacco, r Laurens Street, £- . spirit . __ never could find any proof (hat kind of thing had ever ceased, and therefore, as I said before, I very strongly caution yon—” “Hush 1” cried several voices “Hero he comes.” My uncle, my cousin, Lily and I were staying at a boarding-house at the seaside, and among a somewhat-nu merous company was a certain Mr. Gregory. Wo had made his acquaint ance on the night of our arrival in a rather comical manner. He was pass ing onr r^om just as Lily was calling to me in a tone of woful despair that she had broken the key in the lock and could not get out. Through the key hole he had volunteered his services as an amateur lock-picker, and released ns from our imprisonment. This intrcKluction had served quite as well as a much more formal one would have done to inaugurate what promised to be a pleasant seaside acquaintance. Now on first sight he certainly presented very little appearance of being a sus picious or dangerous character. He was a young man of some twenty-five years of age, with a bright, frank ex pression and a gleam of mischief in his eyes. He was t-xceedingly intelligent and well-informed, and though rather retiring in the mixed company of our establishment, coaid, we discovered, sing well, read tfell, and talk well. Without intruding himself upon rs, he had made himself very agreeable to us two girls; and we bad surmised that he was a young professional man suffering from overwork, who had come down to recruit his health. But we are often warned against judging from appear ances, and he had during the past few days manifested a very remarkable power of clairvoyance or second sight, or whatever else you like to call it, which had created a great sensation among us. On the previous day, for instance, my uncle had met a gentleman at the station and .and had brought him home to dinner. We saw them walking slowly up tho garden together in conversation, and Lily had exclaimed. “ Who on earth is this ?” Mr. Gregory looked and said: “ His name is Smith, and he is return ing to town by the midnight train.” “You know him?” I said. “ Never saw him in my life before,” was the answer. Sure enough his name proved to bo Smith, and he returned to town that night after a long private interview with my uncle ; nor had he, he told us in answer to our inquiries, ever seen or heard of Mr. Gregory before. On Saturday morning also the Rev. Mr. Briggs, taking a walk on the beach, meditating on his Sunday text, had en countered Mr. Gregory, who volunteered information as to the said text, with chapter and verse all correct, to the petrifaction of the reverend gentleman. On another occasion, when our elderly lady friend mentioned that she had been out making a small purchase, Mr. Gregory informed me sotto voce that a bottle of hairwash constituted the purchase in question. This com munication was very unfortunately overheard. Its correctness was not at the time definitely established, but it was shortly after this that she first pro pounded her own particular theory on the subject, which she put forward with renewed confidence in the conver sation given above, after a fresh dis play of the unholy phenomenon as she called it. This was the occasion thereof. Mr. Briggs had been seen coming up the walk in great glee with a parcel un der his arm. “ What has he got there ?' said some one. “ All the works of Josephus for ten- pence,” replied Mr. Gregory. Immediately afterward Mr. Briggs entered the room and said to the com pany : Pure “ What do you think I have just bought ?” to which the general response was: “ All Josephus for tenpeuce.” It turned out that he had just fer reted it out from a second-hand book stall. When questioned abont his mysterions powers Mr. Gregory always became very serious, and gave no information, but changed the subject as soon as possi ble. In consequence of all this, interest, curiosity, uneasiness and even alarm, were in varying degrees excited in the breasts of the several members of our company. Most of the ladies declared that they were daily expecting some thing serious to happen. That those expectations were not Altogether un fulfilled will now be mad# plain. There were two new arrivals on the day on which our story] opens. Onr company had hitherto been pleasant and select, but the lady and gentleman who now came among us, and who were named Mr. and Mrs. OrJce, were ex ceptions to this. Showily Idressed, an loud in their conversation” they ma3e great efforts to mix with ease in our com pany, and for som-r inscrutable reason seemed to make special endeavors to become intimate with our own party; Mr. Grice attacking my unpie, and his wife devoting herself to We were at no pains tw conceal our aversion to their ill-mannered and offen sive intrusion, but they seemed deter mined to accept no rebuff. lily said that we had met here the most pleasant and the most unpleasant persons whom we had ever seen in our travels. The former class,! presume,mainly embraced Mr. Gregory. Ever since Mr. Smith’s visit on tho previous day, my uncle had seemed to .>e unusually worried and anxious. Something had happened at the office, it appeared, which caused him very great uneasiness, and he kept a constant watch for the post. Lily and I were troubled about it, but were hardly pre pared for his sudden announcement at lunch the next day, npon receiving a letter from town, that we must pack up at once and return by the first morning train. Wo had no objection to escape from the Grices, bnt in spite tof Mr. Gregory’s ill-repnte for his mys^fio: were very sorry to leave h nothing of the abrupt and ui termination of onr holiday. The Grices wore sitting n when my uncle made this an ment, and I saw a peculiar look 1 nificance pass between them. Gregory was sitting at the othe: a long dining-table, and quite earshot, but he came up iram after wo rose from the table, and “A very sad thing, thjs sudd< parture of yours 1” “Mr. Gregory).I replied, “y perhaps aware thafcyon i i 1 '!* wmf "M powers of darkne. proof ? How tlpuld know ?” “ Oh, ill news travel fa laughing. “ But it is a ve: noon; what do vou say to ing ?” Lily here squeezed my arm vigorous ly, but I answered: “I fear my uncle will not let us go out of his sight. He feels it his duty to keep special guard over us while we are in such dangerous company.” “Never mind,” he said, “ I will read to him as well.” We were now in tho corner of the drawing-room, near a window looking out on to a covered balcony which overlooked the garden. My uncle came up and returned Mr. Gregory’s courteous greeting in a manner which was, I fear, not very gracious. “ May I trouble you for the paper after yon, sir?” he said. “ Certainly,” was the answer. “ But may we not all enjoy it together? With your permission L will read aloni to the company.” My uncle looked considerably aston ished at this unusual proposal. Lily looked up with open eyes and curious expression, this being net exactly the kind o reading she had intended. But the offer was seriously made and re peated, and my nncle, who dearly liked being read to, gave a dubious consent. Miss Lily, with filial affection, made him particularly comfortable in an arm chair, and Mr. Gregory commenced reading a long, prosy article on French politics. He read with anything but his usual spirit, and in a soft, low, monotonous voice. The consequence was—as had possibly been not wholly un- forseen—that my uncle was soon enjoy ing his accustomed afternoon siesta. The reading, having become gradually slower and softer, now ceased, and the reader, looking up, suggested by a slight gesture an adjournment to the garden. Lily and I tried to smother our laughter and look shocked, but we adopted the suggestion. A book of poetry was soon produced, and I found that there is a difference between hear ing French politics read in a stuffy drawing-room to a middle-aged gentle man, and hearing “ Enoch Arden” read in a cool, shady alcove, to a pretty, dark-eyed, lovable maiden, with tender bosom heaving in sympathy with poor Enoch’s sorrows, especially when the reader is a handsome young bachelor, with an exquisitely modulated ' oice, able to do full justice to the harmonious numbers of the laureate. At the end of half an hour I was startled by an exclamation from Lily. Looking up, I saw in the garden below, sitting on a seat under the trees with their faces toward us, our dear friends, Mr. and Mrs. Grice. The gentleman was keeping up, ap parently, a desultory conversation with his wife. They waved their hands on catching onr eye, and beckoned to us to come and join them, which we did not do. Mr. Gregory, instead of going on with his reading, continued to regard them intently, and asked us whether we knew them. We said, “No.” “ But they -.eem to know you,” he said. We explained how they had favored us with their attentions. To our dis appointment he could not be induced to go on with his reading, bnt he con tinued to stare at the couple before us; and when at last they strolled off in dif ferent directions he said that he must apologize for having an engagement, and he left us abruptly. “ A strange young man, indeed!” we thought, and we were still more surprised when in at hour he returned and asked my uncle to be allowed a short private conversa tion with’ bim My undo seemed ;1 id at this request (and so, by th e lid Lily), but after a short pause he\)ed the way into an adjoining apart- te conversation which ensued, as ibeequently learned, was as follows: am about, sir,” said Mr. Gregory, efer to yonr private affairs to an it which will surprise you, but I to be able to render yon a service will be an ample excuse for my siou. You are, I believe, returning >wn to-morrow?” Tes.” he cause of your return is, I be- connected with the forgery of a certain check in your name.” ~ r, how ean you possibly know tbaA?” hat check was brought to you for inspection three day* ago by one from the now is bank, a Mr. in your posses of 4he clerks Sm ; th, and it sioii.” — l£y x nole was speechless. “ Hear me further. The accuracy of my statements hitherto may claim credence for what I am about to affirm. Unless I am greatly mistaken, there e now in this establishment two per- who have been employed to re ion at all costs of that paper. They suspect that you it, and already your room and daughter and niece’s room have searched and it only remains te search your person.” y uncle turned pale. ‘I is known that you are leaving to ri w morning, and the attempt will ude between now and then. Will •low me to offer you my advice ?” ill not attempt to describe my re- 1 uncle’s condition of body and at thiit-part of tho interview, suf- to siy that the pi6fiered advice timately adopted, that evening my uncle declined to pany us when, an hour after din- ■he house emptied on tq the prome- Mr. Gregory was ajso missing. iad not appeared at dinner. The i'lr. Briggs took us under his care. le was already nodding in his aa we went out. Twenty minutes aid two of the compahy softly re- the room, ^his I had from an itness. Their names \t(ere Mr. and Grico. Mrs. Grioe stood at the d her husband advanced gently 'the floor to where m(f uncle lay n his chair, snoring audibly, his erchief over his head, his* coat u open, and a pocke^book just g in his breast pocket. Grice crept up to bimj, abstracted k with a practiced hand, pat it own pocket, and turned to go ' e rocrossed the room he had ro a large loungij, with long 1 ront, and he wias, perhaps, rised to find) his ankles m grip of a pjair of hands ly fromi under the his amia)blej?artner "BameThonS through the pocketbook, sir',” said utives. } In,” said my uncle. “ It ing in it, but I am glad tb have again.” A and Mrs. Grice were removed at ^another public establishment in 2Jhborh:>od, where the company °ry select,, the hours very regular, J ke maintenance very cheap—a style lablishment • which it was subse- otly proved they had frequented in moAe than one part of the country. Afraid considerable excitement we pro uenaded late that night. My uncle saii : “ Yon have rendered me a service, sir, which lays me under the deepest obli Ration to you. I have no doubt that\ the original delinquents, of whom thesjo creatures are only the tools, will be brought to justice. Finding that we are bn their track, they have made this effort to destroy the proof of their guilty, and prevent ns from submitting it to experts. Thanks to you, they have failed. I can only say how welcome will U»e any opportunity of making any returns to you, however slight.” “ I shall certainly take you at your word, <sir,” was the answer. “ And now, Mr. Gregory,” continued my uncle, “ will you pardon our curi osity if we beg you to tell us the means by which you were able t > divine the intentions of our departed friends ?” “ Oh, Mr. Gregory,” cried Lily, “you must tell us. We are on thorns* to know, and will do anything in the world you like to mention if you will tell us. “ On those terms I consent,” said he. with a curious look at Lily, which made her suddenly blush very much, as I could see even in the moonlight. “ You may have.noticed,” began Mr. Gregory, “that I am somewhat deaf, acd I have been much more so. In con sequence of this I have acquired the art, which I believe almost any one can acquire, of reading the movements of the lips in the same way that the deaf and dumb are taught to do, so that I can always understand what people say if they are only in seeing distance; and my seeing is very acute. I need hardly say that I avoid over-seeing conversa tion, if you will allow the expression, as much as I would over-hearing it; but I frequently see people speak a few words on a«cidentally glancing at them. I think that what has puzzled yon will now le plain. Perhaps I ought to con fess (hat I have yielded a little to the templation of mystifying the company durirtg tie last week, especially in the case it Mr. Briggs, who has, like many people who have lived a good deal alone, a habit of talking to himself as he gees along, which he is scarcely awart of. This afternoon, however, I watcicd the Grices in good earnest. I was fery much astonished at what I saw. Your sudden departure had dis arranged their plans, and they had a full discussion of pas. and future op- eraticBS. It was not at all a bad idea to hold their deliberations before your very flres, so as to keep up their watch on y«ur movements and disarm sub- piciot but they had taken no precau tions against being overseen. The rest you k»ow.” “Bit how about the purchase of the hairw^h, that sad proof of occult art ? ’ I said “Ox that bad nothing to do with it. I wa< in the shop being shaved and I saw tie transaction in a looking-glass.” Lat$r still, when my ancle had gone *»eard him quietly say: “So you whatever I like to mention ?” e words were not addressed to I judged it best to fall into the id having no gifts of clairvoy- ;self .1 cannot tell you the rest conversation. I can only add that our return was postponed, and that shortly after these events Mr. Gregory again requested a private conversation with my ancle; and that he had again some revelations to make concerning conspiracy of two, male and female, in this case also; and that shortly after the first pair of conspirators had been “sen tenced for life” by one of her majesty’s judges, a similar sentence was pro nounced npon the other pair by the Rev. Mr. Briggs. How Rags Are Made. How many who stop to admire the show windows of onr carpet dealers know how the rag is made ? That ii is woven somehow is all that is apparent as it lies there, warm, soft, bright, with a dozen colors, and attractive in its pretty design of flowers, fruits, birds or figures. The rug is twice woven, and this is its history: First, the border and center that is to form the pattern is designed; then painted in straight lines npon paper containing a ruled scale, and in the proper colors that are after ward to appear on the rug. This paper rug is then cut into strips, each con taining two spaces of the scale, and these papers are the pattern that the first or weft weaver has to follow. In weaving weft a warp beam of say two hundred threads in width and a wheep beam of one hundred threads in width are required. Two threads of the first and one of the second pass through the same split in the reed at regular in tervals of say one-third of au inch, the intervening splits of the reed being empty. The paper pattern is fastened to the middle of the work, and the weaver follows it exactly as it is painted, that is the pattern may need six threads of crimson, two of black, twelve of eern, ten of green olive,, and so on, the weaver filling the “spot” exactly as to length and color. Having woven the full length of tho paper as painted in the left-hand space the paper is begun again and the painting on the right- hand space is followed, and when all the papers which, laid side by aide, form the rug have been thus gone over, the weft for the rng is finished. The roll of weft-cloth is then run through the cutting-machine, a ten- inch cylinder, aronnd which a contin uous thread of knife-blades is wonnd. This cylinder is revolved at a high rate of speed, and the weft-cloth, passing within range of the knives, is cut into strips by them. These strips do not unravel, because in weaving the wheel- thread is twisted about the two warp- threads and the filling is locked in. After twisting each strip V> change it from being a flat thread into a round thiead, it is wound upon a bobbin and is ready for the second weaver, who is called the setter. Ths warp of *the rug is black flax; and tlu*^a4t£r uses two shuttles alter- natflU^ ii-).v., one, containing a bob- *\ree ply flax, and a wlefoy bobbin oi weft. A white thread on each ^ide and one in the middle of the black warp are the guides to the setter, who sees that certain parts of the warp-thread come under those white threads before he presses the weft in. Each bobbin weft will weave about three inches of the rng; so, if the nyj is one yard long, it will require twelve bobbins, which mean twelve pieces p! weft-cloth, to complete it. But th^se twelve pieces, having each been cat up into ninety-six iden tical strips, will make ninety-six similar rugs. Therefore, should the weft- weaver put in, say, eight threads (one- half inch in length) of a wrong color or shade, the error would appear in ninety-six rags. The setter having finished the ninety- six sets of twelve bobbins, the rags are ready for finishing. The machine through which the,* pass cuts the sur face off evenly, and brushes them free of fragments of the materials used. This treatment brings out every detail of the design and heightens the colors. Most of the rugs made here are’ of flax and wool; others are of silk and shoddy silk. The weft tor the silk rugs has eight stripes to the inch, and to cut requires 288 knife blades, each one of which must have a razor edge. The weft cloth and the blades must be set to a nicety, since the variation of the sixteenth of an inch would make the knives cut the 288 threads instead of the filling between the thread-". There is a firm in Glasgow, Scotland, who manufacture for the royal houses of Europe such elaborate designs as the Lord’sS upper, the weft-weaver, injsome cases, using four hundred different shuttles.—Philadelphia Record. The Mysterious. t He is a man with a light beaver over coat on. He drives a white horse and a top buggy, and all of a sudden he stops in the middle of the street and looks fixedly at his horse. In two minutes fifty people line the curbstone. “ What’s the matter?” “Balky.” A man steps out to seize the bridle and start the horse, but tho driver shakes his head and motions him away. “ I’ll bet he’s an ugly brute.” “ Of course he is. Look at that wicked eye of his I” The crowd has now increased by fifty, and several vehicles have stopped. “ Anybody hurt ?” “No; balky horse.” “ Why doesn’t some one whisper in his ear?” Four men stepped out to give ad vice, but they are hastily motioned back, and a livery stable man in the crowd observes: “ If that horse doesn’t kill two or three men here I shall be mnch mis taken.” Three minutes more and the crowd numbers 200. The man with the gray horse looks up and down the street, braces his feet, takes a firm grip on the lines, and softly says : “ Come, Peter.” * And Peter drops his head, dangles his ears and moves off as slowly and softly as a river of grease. “ Wbat was it?” calls a man who has run four blocks and is puffing like a whale. Bat there is no one to answer him. The crowd has dissolved like a handful of sugar in a barrel of water. It is very mysterious, and the crowd doesn’t enjoy the climax at all.—Detroit Free Press. DIPHTHERIA. SUNDAY READING. R*1m for ft* Frrveaifon anH Trentairnl. The Massachusetts State board of health has issued rules for the preven tion and treatment of diphtheria, which are applicable to any locality.* [They are as follows: In the first place, ss diphtheria is _ a contagions disease, and under certain circumstances not entirely known, very highly so, it is important that all prac ticable means should be taken to sepa rate the sick from the well. As it is also infectious, woolen clothes, carpets, curtains, hangings, etc., should be avoided in the sick room, and only such materials used as can be readily washed. All clothes, when removed from tho patient, should be at once placed in hot water. Pocket handkerchiefs should belaid aside, and in their stead soft pieces of linen or cotton cloth should be used, and at once burned. Disinfectants should always he placed in the vessel containing the expectora tion, and may be used somewhat freely iu the sick room; those being especially useful which destroy bad odors without causing others (nitrate of lead, chloride of zinc, etc.) In schools there should be especial supervisions, as the disease is often so mild in its early stages as not to attract common attention; and no child should be allowed to attend school from an in fected house, until allowed to do so by a competent physician. In the case of yonng children, all rea sonable care should be taken to prevent undue exposure to the cold. Pure water for drinking should be used; avoiding contaminating sources of supply; ventilation should be insisted on, and local drainage must be carefully attended to. In country towns, privies and cesspools should be frequently emptied and disinfected; slop water should not be allowed to soak into the surface of the earth near the dwelling houses, and the cellars should be kept dry and sweet. In cities, especially in tidal districts, basins, baths, etc., as now connected with drains, should never communicate directly with sleeping-rooms. In all cases of diphtheria fully as great care should be taken in disinfecting the sick room after use, as in scarlet fever. After a death from diphtheria the clothing disused should be burned or exposed to nearly or quite a heat of boiling water; tho body should be placed as early as practicable ;n the coffin, with disinfectants, and the coffin should be tightly closed. Ohildreu, at least, and better adults also in most cases, should not attend a funeral from a house in which a death from diphtheria has occurred. But with suitable precautions, it is not nec essary that the fnnerai should be pri vate, provided the corpse be not in any way exposed. k Although it hr not at present possible to remove at jonco all sources of (1 emujoisease, "yet me frequent visit tion oi snch disease, and especially its continued prevalence, may be taken as sufficient evidence of unsanitary sur roundings, and of sources of eickneps to a certain extent preventable It should be distinctly understood that no amount of artificial “disinfec tion ” can ever take the place of pure air, good water and proper drainage, which cannot be gained without pi ompt and efficient removal of all filth, whether from slaughter-houses, etc., public buildings, crowded tenements or private residences. In the opinion of the board this is likely to be done properly only through independent local boards of health, the appointment of which in all cases we most respect fully, but earnestly, urge upon the citizens of the State. New* and Net ML In the last ten years the number of churches in Chicago has increased from 166 to 218. There is a congregation of colored Catholics m Marion county, Ky., with 179 communicants. The members of the Presbyterian congregation of the Rev. A. B. Mack ay, Montreal, have given, the past year, $140,000 for theological education. The Episcopal diocese of Pittsburg reports forty-eight clergy/ seventy- four churches and chapels, and 5,888 communicants. The oon Urination* dur ing the year were 416. It is said that boys and girls who have walked a distance of eighty or ninety miles to attend the Telugu Bap tist schools ia India have been regret fully turned away for lack of accommo dation. The Lutherans are very strong in Missouri. They have 630 ministers, 818 congregations and 225 “ preaching ing stations.” Last year 18,735 chil dren were baptized, and 8,380 were con firmed. The Free Baptists of New Bruns wick have added 344 communicants and received $25,000 for church purposes during the past year. The increase in commnnicauts daring the last ten years has been 3,500. | The Methodist Episcopal South has eleven mission stations along the Rio Grande and the Mexican bor der, with sixty one preaching-placjs, 447 church members and 373 Sunday- school schools. The report of Ihe American board shows an increase of seventeen mission* aries, 10 ) preaching-places, 2,500 com mon school and |300 high school scholars, and more tnan 2,000 additions to the mission churches. The California Methodists have be gun to raise a “ Haven memorial fane of $10,000 in memory of the late Bishc Haven, who died in Oregon, for perhf ing the library, cabinets, etc., of tli| University of the Pacific. Tho fiftieth annnal Episcopal Dio? cesaa convention of Alabama reported twenty-seven clergy and 3,615 coytt icants. Tho confirmations of year number 216 and-vtoj U»pflfius\259. The total of contributions was $47,'546fc- A Lutheran Ecumenical council is now called for. The Lutheran Visitor believes that such a conference would be perhaps one of tho greatest meeting ever held, and asserts that, instead a few million of Oalvanisto oj Ar iaus.it would represent 60,000,000Lu| erans from all quavers of the globe, A Less Ronnd ey$ much in Phrenology, is-see mnoj boa Fish as Food. Sitting Boll recently served as mate on board the steamer Key West at Fort Buford. The crew deserted the boat at that point and Sitting Bull volunteered to unload it. He wore the mate’s cap and directed the work. The eyes of the master will do more work than both his hands. A doctor writes in Good Words, an English magazine, as follows : Pound for pound fish is fully as nutritious as butcher’s meat. It may not seem so satisfying, but that is because the sense of satisfaction which we experience in eating is the result of supplying the stomach with food and in no direct or immediate way related to the nourish ment of the organism as a whole. Very few of tho solid substances we eat are digested, even so far as the stomach is concerned, in less than an hour, and nutrition cannot commence until after digestion has proceeded for some time. It follows that the feeling of satisfaction produced by solid food during a meal must be due to the appeasing of those cravings which are set up in the stomach rather than the supply of the needs of the system. Inasmuch as butchers' meat is less easy of digestion than fish, and it gives the stomach more to do, it is easy to see why it seems, at the moment, more satisfying. Looking to the ultimate purpose of nutrition fish is the better kind of food; it is more readily and completely re duced in the stomach, and it nourishes the organism more thoroughly, and with less physical inconvenience, than the flesh of warm-blooded animals. A common error in regard to the use of fish is the failure to recognize that there are two distinct classes of this staple, looked at as food. In one class, which may be represented by the mack erel and the salmon, the oil and fat are distributed through tho flesh, while In the other, of which the cod and whiting may be taken as examples, the oil and fat are found almost exclusively in the internal organs, notably the liver. Now the oil and fat are necessary, and if tho fish is not cooked and eaten whole, or nearly so, these most important parts are wasted. In cleaning fish, as little as possible should be removed. This is a point of the highest practical mo ment. Fishmongers and cooks need to be instructed afresh on the subject. To omit any portion of tho liver of a cod in preparing the fish for the table is to throw away a great delicacy. A cod’s liver properly dressed is a dish for a gourmet. It is inexplicable how any thing so nauseons as the “ codliyer oii ” of the chemist and druggist can be pre pared from anything so nice as the liver of cod. Housekeepers and those who purvey for the table should take care that nothing edible in a fish is sacri ficed. For cooking purposes it may be assumed that fish is not only good food, bnt food of the best description; well able to supply the needs of the system, and particularly easy of digestion. It is equally serviceable for the weak as for the robust, the young as the old. The Baptist denomination in Ver mont has abont one hnndred churches, with a stated membership of 10,000. Cornwall, Vermont, has furnished irty-six educated clergymen. more intensely. It will be obieiwed that the eyes of children are open and round. Their whole life is to receive impressions. It is only when childhood is maturing toward man or womanhood that thought comes, if it comes at alL But what is it that most leads to reflec tion? Experience. Oar errors, our shortcomings, our failures, these teach us to think before we act, to consider each step, to weigh every motive. When, therefore, tho upper eyelid—for it is that which has the greatest amount of mobility—droops over the eye, it indi cates not merely reflection, but some thing painful to reflect about. Hence the length or drooping of the upper eyelid betokens confession and peni tence. Tho drooping of the half of the eyelid from the outer angle to the center indicates the disposition to confess one’s faults to parents or seniors, to a “ father confessor,” or to the Supreme Being. The drooping of the half of tho eyelid from the inner angle to the center betokens a dispo sition to repent, and to “ do works meet for repentance.” Closely allied to these signs are those of prayerfulness and humility. The former is indicated by the muscle which turns the eye directly downward, as represented in the pic tures of Madonna. Prayerfulness is usually large in connection with the sign of confession, and humility in con nection with that of penitence; the reason of which is that between the faculties of penitence and humility there is tho same close connection as between con fession and prayer. One who has more prayer than humility has the eye turned habitually somewhat upward, so that the upper part of the iris is a little cov ered by the upper eyelid, and so as to leave a slight space between the iris and the lower lid. The reverse is true of one who has more humility than prayer. The faculty of truth—that is” the love of it—is indicated by tho muscle which surrounds the eye, can-ing folds and wrinkles. Justice is indicated by the muscle which causes perpendicular wrinkles between the eyebrows. Full ness an i wrinkles under the eye, for which some persons are remarkable, indicate the love of mathematical accu racy; and wrinkles carving upward from the outer angle of the eye and eyebrow indicate probity and personal truthfulness. There are three degrees of the faculty of justice. The first is a kind of exactness or strict honesty In small money matters, which some peo ple would call closeness, and is indi cated by a single perpendicular wrinkle or line between the eyebrows. Tho second is the disposition to require justice in others, and is indicated by two perpendicular lines or wrinkles, one on each side of th: center—a very common sign. Tho third is conscientiousness, or the dis position to apply the rule of justice to one’s self, and is indicated by three of more wrinkles or lines, especially no ticeable extending above the eyebrow when the muscle is in action. The love of command is indicated by one or more short transverse wrinkles across the root of the nose, exactly between the eyes. It may be seen in great mili tary commanders, in masters and teach ers, and in those generally who are fond of exercising authority. In those who are wanting in the power to command, and have no desire for responsibility, this sign is also absent. The faculty of command frequently acts with that part of justice which reprimands, or requires others to do right, and both together prod cee that frowning and lowering brow which is so terrible to evil-doers, or to those who love to be approved rather than e tdemned.—Phrenological Magazine. An American Protestant Episcopal church, it is said, is to be built in Dresden.