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o THE FIG TRADE.. Where Figs Come From and How They Are Imported California Has a Substitute for the Turkish Fruit. ■*•1 would not give a fig for it.” Tim ia an old expression. You hear it every day. It was evidently first used by some one who had the idea that a fig was not a valuable article. One fig is not worth much, but when you realize that the people of the United States pay about $1,000,000 for the figs they consume in a year you will realize that a fig is worth something after all. Nearly all the figs consumed in this country are imported from Smyrna, Turkey. They grow in clusters on a rather email tree with spreading branches, which, when laden with fruit, often touch the ground. The figs arc picked by hand and dried by a process of evaporation. They are then dipped in a solution of sugar, dried again, paced in boxes that con tain from ono to twenty pounds and then arc ready for ship ment. These are the better grades of figs. The cheaper grades are shipped in bags and baskets, and after reach- ing this country are used by candy manufacturers and dealers, who steam them and sort out the best, which they pack into quarter and half-pound boxes. The refuse figs—those not fit for anything else—are ground up and made into “fig paste” and other stuff of the kind. There is also a manu factured fig, which is made out of ground-up figs, glucose and sugar. ■The only things figgy about them are the seeds and the green leaves packed in the boxes with them. The seeds are genuine—the leaves are .pot. About fifteen figs make a pound, about five and a half millions are rted into this country every year. fs cost the importer from ind according to sells them idvance 10 r i ipui Tricks of Shoplifters. An old trick, which is now too well known to be practised safely, couaista pi carrying around a ladies’ hat box half of the cover of which is hinged so that it can be lifted up and stolen articles thrust in. A common trick today is to pick up an empty paper bag, such as is used in the store, and distend it by blowing into it, so that it has the appearance of being full. The air is replaced with spoils at leis ure. The shoplifter’s pocket is a well- known device. It is made of muslin and was originally so big that, when fastened under the dress at the waist^ it reached below her knees. There is a long opening through the dress just below the waistband, sometimes big enough to thrust a baby in. This opening is covered from view by a flap of the waist, which, however, can be lifted up. Sometimes these poc kets are found with almost enough merchandise inside to start a small shop. Large pockets are seldom used nowadays, because most stores are so carefully watched that professional shoplifters are perforce contented with smaller daily hauls than formerly. Besides, modern fashions do not per mit of the safe gathering of much bulk about the person of the shop lifter. What cto shoplifters do with their spoils when they are so loaded up that walking is uncomfortable? De tective Cults, who has had a large ex perience in one of Netv York’s big gest stores, one day followed two wo men who, he was sure, had been shoplifting for several hours, yet so cleverly that he could not gather evi dence enough to warrant their arrest When they left he followed. They went up a side street and entered one of those side entrances to a saloon leading into a small room partitioned off for women. Quick as a thought Dectective Cutts ran in the front door and said to the bartender: “See here, you know me. Lend m© your apron. I want to wait ou those women.” Tying on the apron the detective answered the call of the women and ved them with beer. He waited a nutes, and then went in to find .put all sorts of merchan- into bundles. any more LADIES' DEPARTMEST. THE WOMAN THAT HAS ARRIVED. The thin girl has come to stay. The thinner, the more meagre and at tenuated she is, the greater her charms. Thin as a match applies to her every time. She will never wear an ounce of superfluous flesh, and she eats her meals standing, because com fort superinduces fat. As she walks along the street she looks like the shadow of her brother, with her divided skirt, cloth gaiters and nobby jacket. She is straight and athletic; may break, but never bend. Do you know her?—[Detroit Free Press. OACZT FABRICS IN MILLINERY. Shirred hats and bonnets of tulle and other gauzy fabrics are constantly gaining in favor. Even the sturdy, matter-of-fact little sailor hats are being made of point d’esprit net in black, white, gray and tan color. These hats have the first row of gold wire placed so near the edge of the brim as to leave no ruffle, such as is always seen ou the edge of garden- party hats; thus they preserve the stiff and straight appearance of the brim of the regulation sailor hat. A very pretty model of this sort is of delicate cream white silk net figured in small white dots, shirred on gold wire. About the very low square crown is a roll of green velvet ribbon | and at the back are high-standing wil- i low sprays, heliotrope blossoms, and i many loops of green velvet ribbon.— ; [Chicago Post. WHITE HAIR FASHIONABLE. A rumor announcing the revival of white hair as the fashionable color of the future may be reasonably credit ed. Women who reject blondine and dyes as vulgar, yet crave effective con trasts, are eagerly seeking means for bleaching their locks altogether as soon as the first touch of gray puts in an appearance. There is no doubt about it, white hair lends a look of distinction, and rather tends to fresh- en the complexion than otherwise. An artificial youthfulness is also gained; but be not deceived, uothing is so wearing on the possessor’s taste as absolutely colorless hair. In time its owner grows to hate it, and unweary ing care is necessary to maintain the immaculate purity and precision of arrangement that alone makes whi lair tolerable [Illustrated A prettiest new bodices foi ginghams has a round sei ami jacketlike front. It isl a fitted lining of white s| kinds of ribbons arc used lawus ot lie as back [made ovei ;eeu. All [for trim ming summer muslins—fa ille, royale. satiuand velvet.—[Harper' a Bazar. FASHION NOTES Open jackets are the lulling shape of bodices. The new pinafore frockslare pretty on slender figures. Silks with changing olors are greatly appreciated. Skirts are made narrow! than ever at the top and round the v; dst The newest bridal bo quets are simply one or two long am} ’ull sprays of flowers. The new bluebells- f-Scotland shade is trimmed with jet in prefer ence to anything else. Yokes of black gnipui ( intended for silk and lace caps arejst Mded with “jewels” of different colon Jeweled nailheads resen bling dif ferent stones for sewing olver sleeves, revers, vests, collars, girdles, etc. Pointed girdles, of bead* and cord, edged with a deep fringe i* gilt, steel and silver effects, with a A1 edici collar to match. Light-colored cloth cape ail over with stat s, compos' flat-cut jet beads, stlrro smaller ones. I One of the leaders of) fashion in Paris is wearing a diadem of dia* mouds, with a row of jbear-shaped pieces of pink coral statilling up all around it. Most of the new French skirts are gracefully shaped and ma le without foundations. They are sPnply silk- lined and have a pleating fef silk in side the hem. j “Life belt” brooches.'bearing the name of a favorite yacht iki small dia monds, and across the centre a rests, with a gold chord tiyined around the whole affair. Many of the corsa dresses take on tit are studded dof single itided by k. Louis court forj; is not likcd,^ ful princf The for brides’ fashionable e coat back >rtion iu grace- fimported are ire expensive, fof palest gold <uart collar with fold beads. An- crepe de chine bnd made with ris the newest p a pale fawn J iug, of ifcrdid- V with green, ■^reading over Rcrepon. The fVith the bead- ffrns lies in the liformly plain. Lomeut is for Its, short and ^os cut in new le top of the faped iu two ^he armholes [ 'ea falling on ion for snow- rs. ter,and not prove most King of wo- pale or very s of the bead- |oI should be better still, iming shou’d he most ef- itral shades, not commend I some of the t iu basket ilk. A new is the bell (cd smoothly the silk is t ie foot by a ce bordered design. A P nd yellow is of pale xllght, night by the known of in according to I Gregorio iie- is no uncom- •ita reclining k in her hand in the G’ossa , between 12 truing. Sig. flee planter, accompanied in-law. on a Hers reached re registered tel. “There ! this country i f . ,, ! r e in Guate- anter’s wife j at certain j o bright that ^ i during the rican poets ! ugust moon, ‘ a moon in |e it is full, j pmething to I’—[Chicago , t RELIGIOUS READING. HOEING AND PRAYING. Said Farmer Jones in a whining tone, To his good o d neighbor Gray. ‘•I’ve worn my knees through to the bone, But it ain’t ho use to pray. “Your corn looks just twice as good as mine, Though you don't pretend to be A shinin’ light in the church to shine, An’ tell salvation’s free. “I’ve prayed to the Lord a thousand times For to make that ere corn grow ; An’ why your’n beats it so and climbs I’d give a deal to know.” Said Farmer Gray to his neighbor Jones, In his quiet and easy way, ‘•When prayers get mixed with lazy bones They aou’t make farmin’ pay. “Your weeds, I notice, are good and tall, In spite of all your prayers; You may pray for corn till the heavens fall. If you don’t dig up the tares. “I mix my prayers with a little toil, Along iu every row; An’ I work this mixture into the soil. Quite vig’rous with a hoe. “An’ I’ve discovered, though still ia sin, As sure as >ou are born, This kind of compost well worked in, Makes pretty decent corn. “So while I’m praying I use my boe, An’ do my level best, To keep down the weeds along each row. An’ the Lord, he does the rest. “It’s well for to pray, both night an’ morn, As every farmer knows; But the place to pray for thrifty corn Is right between your rows. “You must use your hands while praying, though, If an answer you would get, For prayer-worn knees an’ a rusty hoe Sever raised a big crop yet. “Ah’ so I believe, my good old friend. If you mean to win the day. From ploughing, clean to the harvest’s end, You must hoe as well as pray.” — [Selected. TRUSTING A BOY. It is an axiom of common life that one way to drive a person to untrustworthiness is to distrust him. Conversely, the throw ing one on his sense of undivided personal responsibility is likely to increase his effic iency in any form of work committed to him" A certain clear-headed, true-hearted mother, who thoroughly understood how to help her boy by showing her confi dence iu him, was one day reassured in her attitude of confidence by bis saying to her: “A fellow can’t do anything wrong when his mother trusts him so.” Many another boy would feel that, even though he did not quite say it, if only he were granted the op portunity to feel what it means to be trust ed.— [rhtladelphia Sunday-School Times. STEALING HOPE. Infidelity comes to men and demands of them to surrender their religion and hope of the future, enforcing the demand by endeav oring to bring into contempt the source from which they get their idea of God and justice. But it never brings forth anything to supply the vacancy caused by the departed hope, which once held the storm-tossed soul to the distant shore of the great unknown. He who creeps into my yard and steals mv horse is called a thief, and the law de mands that he should be punished. And he, who by wicked endeavors and low cun ning, surrounds a man with false logic, and by sophistry, bewilders him and steals his hope of Heaven and the blessing of present re ligion,is a thief who steals life’s greatest bless ing, and ought to be shunned by all lovers of Him who planted hope to spring eternal in the human breast. The worst thieves in existence are those who steal the happiness of mind and soul— who prowl around the land robbing mankind of the dearest treasure to which men are heir. Men who are so destitute of moral principle that they can blaspheme God and the Bible, and assail pure and undefiled religion, would, naturally, if not prevented by civil law, in- AiaWc.iu anything which their brutish erty are only saved from such men by cmT law vigorously prosecuted. BAKER & CONFECTIONER, AND DEALER m CRT GOODS, SHOES, ROUGHS UD GROCERIES, AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. TOBACCO AID CIGARS lit Great TarietT. Toys, Firtiorls, etc., la Stock, Laurens Street and Park Ivanna, Aiken, S. G. The Waverly House, C. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. In the Bend of Hmgr Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Large and Comfortable Rooms. BATES, $2.50 PEB DAY. T. M. H. O. T. S. T. HARRY OATES & 00., 831 BROAD STREET, /VUGIISTAl, gkeorghl^. AGENTS FOR THE WORLD-RENOWNED Wilcox & White Organs. -ALSO THE- A. 6. Chase, Behr Bros., Peek & Son and Lester IFI-A. SUT\ I>^.Y - SOHOOI^ SHEET MUSIC ONLY IO CENTS PER COPY. Send, for Catalogue* PEARLS OF THOUGHT. COURTESY TO SERV.V.T8. The servant’s right to be politely treated is just as absolute and indefeasible as that of the Queen. She is a child of the great King, and to her applies the royal law,according to the Scripture, “Thou shall love thv neigh bor as thyself.” That law, which is the highest of all, surely includes politeness. If we are bound to love our neighbors as our selves, we are bound to treat them cour teously at any rate. That is the first and most rudimental of our duties to them. Your servant, dear madam, is your neighbor—the nearest of all your neighbors. She has a right, then, under this royal law—which is itself the spirit of all just laws—to be courteously treated by you. Ic is no more condescension for you to use respect and gentleness in your Inter course with her, than it is for her to sweep your floors or to build your fires. You are entitled to no more credit for speaking kind ly to her, than you are for not stealing her pocket handkerchiefs. If you do not govern yourself, in all your conversation with her, by the same laws of courtesy which you observe in your conversation with the callers in our parlors, you are a very vulgar person. The maid in your kitchen is a woman ; the guest in your parlor is nothing more. Will vou give to silks, and feathers, and a purse, what you deny to womanhoo l? 1 hat is the very essence of vulgarity. Do not say that the guest never tries your temper as the servant Goes. You know that many of those whom you greet with smiles, tell lies about you when they are beyond your sight. The laws of good manners lead you to treat their deceitfulness with forbearance. Should they not require equal forbearance toward the ig norant servant girl in our kitchen?— [Hearth and Home. . don’t hear everything. The art of not hearing should be learned by all. It is fullv as important to domestic hapji iuess as a cultivated ear, for which so much money and time are expended. There are so many things which it is painful to hear, very many of which, if heard, will disturb the temper, corrupt simplicity and modesty, detract from contentment and happiness,that everyone should be educated to take in or shut out sounds, according to his pleasure. If a man falls into a violent passion, and calls us all manner of names, at the first won! we should shut our ears and hear no more. If, in a quiet voyage of life we find ourselves caught in o-.eof those domestic whiri winds of scolding, we should shut our ears as a sailor would furl his sails, and making all tight, scud be fore the gale. If a hot and restless man be gins to inflame our feelings, we should con sider what mischief the fiery sparks may do in our magazine below, where our temper is kept, and instantly close the door. If, as has been remarked, all the petty things said of one by heedless or ill-natured idlers were to be brought home to him. he would become a mere walking pin-cushion stuck full of sharp remarks. If we would be happy, when among good men we should open our ears; when among bad men shut them. It is not worth while to hear what our neighbors say about our children, what our rivals say about our business, our dress or our affairs. The art of not hearing, though untaught in our schools, is by no means unpracticed in society. We have noticed that a well-bred woman never hears a vulgar or impertinent remark. A kind of discreet deafness saves one from many insults, from much blame, from not a little connivance in dishonorable conversation.—[Treasure Trove. An assessor at Backtown, Ind.. called at the house of an old woman whose furniture was valued at 50 cents. Under the law he had to fix the value at $1, which would make her tax a fraction over 1 cent. Before leaving he discovered that the old dame was the owner of six dogs, on which she was assessed $11. A Good Bite. A nine-foot shark in the harbor of Charleston, bit at a dead horse floating on the water and cat off piece of meat estimated to weigh 150 pounds. The little chap who acts as bank teller and thinks he owns the earth would hardly make a tooth-pick for such a monster. Ho is the best discerner of other spirits who is most completely master of his own. The simplicity of the sege is a vpry different thing from the simplicity of the simpleton. When the soul sees itself beauti fully adapting just means to noble ends it.is happy, he nails; his example should be the ham mer to drive them home. A goody is a person whose attention is so absorbed in his being good tha he becomes good for uothing. Man should repent of bis sin, atone for it, and forget it; not constantly recall it to torment conscience afresh. The highway of science is paved with rejected theories. Errors are stepping-stones over which Ignorance travels to truth. “Adversity, in exetveising her power upon us,” Landor says, “loses her name and features.” That is, by the reactive virtues which the experience develops in us the affliction is changed to blessing. $30001 A. YEAR t I undertake to brief!/ I teach any fairl/ inteHigri-iit person of eitb** sex, who can read and write, and who, after matruction, will work ii.riuatrioaafy. ^ _ _'how to earn Three Thounand Dollar* a Year in their own localities.whereverthey live.I will aleofumtolh the situation or employments which you can earn that amouaf. No money for me uoleas successful as above. Easily and qolckl/ learned. I desire but one worker from each district or count/. 1. have already taught and provided with employment a lersc* number, who are making over USOOO a ^••“■eAch. It’s WKWr and MOHLI I>. Full particulars FREE. Address at oae*t E. C\ AIaEJEN, Rox 4*0, AqgwMH Mml—> l! A Weed Good to Eat. One of the most abundant and most toothsome plants is the homely weed called pussly, says a writer in the New York Herald. As a table vegetable it is not to be despised. The succulent stems, with their leaves, are boiled tender and dressed with butter, the same as spinach. The French market gardeners cultivate it regularly and have different varieties. The young plants arc used as a salad and are very good when served with a bacon dressing and ono or two hard-boiled eggs, chopped flue and sprinkled over the salad. Pussly flowers arc some times called wax pinks. When the plant is full grown the thick, fleshy stems are stripped of their leaves, tied into bunches and served as asparagus. The leaves are cooked as spinach and by many are considered superior to that vegetable. A story is told of Benjamin Le Fevre iu connection with pussly. At his Ohio home the genial ex-congress- man had a vegetable garden, which the more he cultivated the more luxu riantly grew pussly. Ue finally gave up the attempt at gardening and per mitted the pussly to monopolize the premises. He wasone-day bemoaning his ill luck at trying to raise vegeta bles from government seeds, and was roundly accusing the Agricultural De partment of putting up packages of pussly seeds instead of beet seeds, when a friend informed him that as an article of food pussly was more valuable than the beet. Whereupon the distinguished gardener telegraphed to his head man to weed out the beets and cultivate the pussly. The order was carried out, much to the surprise of the man of all work, who had never before heard of any ono eating pussly NURSERIES, JPOMOIV^A* TV. O. Are knoxtm by their a* thew are testifying for themselves all through the Southern and horde* States and giving flattering reports^ Every fruit that is known to ceed in the South is being added from all parts of the globe. Over 300 acres in actual nursery etoel* Some of the specialties are the Kel seys, Japan, Baton and Satsumm Plums. The Lucy Duke Pear and all the new fruits, as well as the oUL Evergreens, Shade Trees, Roses and everything usually kept in a first* class nursery. Four large Green* houses. Chrysanthemums, Cama* , tlons and many Greenhouse Planta. Rose growing a specialty. Planta from Greenhouse ready to be put out in April and May. Descriptive Catalogue No. 1, Fruit Trees, Vinaa^ do., and Greenhouse Catalogue Was 2 will be sent free to appllcanta. Special rales to large planters. Cor respondence solicited. Address Pomona Hill Nurseries _ _POMONA. N. C. NEW ARRANGEMENT. AUGOSTA HOTEL RATES. $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 Par Day The Best Table Board Can be Had at MAI Fer Week, in Clubs of 8 or 10. tiVRooms at Very Low Summer Pat* Omnibus and Rorter at every train. B. S. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor. 90000.OO a y+*r h» being marie by John BL Goodwfn,'lrojr.,N«Y. t at Morlc for u*. Uemdmr 9 you niH,v not 'make as much, but vre cm k teach j‘>u quickly how to earn fruai S& bat F 910 a liny at th« start, and more as yosa (on. liot'h hvi^s, all ages. I«r any part o£ ^America, you can commence at host**, efr*- fitig ail your-liiiu?,or spare raotnente oaly Car r ' “VBtffte the work. AH Ibnes*. Grept pa/I every workec. We atari yqp, faymatrim •veivH.lnir. LAbiLY. *>l'fcfc£lLY laarmX rAirTk'l LAX’» FUIOJ. A<ftfoma*ma% STINHO.N A tO., IWBTlktftB, BAIHL WRIGHTS HOTEL S. L WRIGHT a SOIS, Prop. COLUMBIA - - - 8. CL MONEY can be earned at our 5CKIT line of work, ose of rapidly and honorably, old, by th either sex, youncr or old, ami iu their own looalitiea,* berever they live. An/ one ran tie tha' work- Eaa/ to lehm. We furnish every (tang. We start you. No risk. Too can dfrota /oar spare urnmeme, or all your time to tfeo woefc- . 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