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THE OMISH. A Peculiar People Found in Sev eral States of the Union. Their Curious Habits, Dress and Religious Observances. la the rural districta of several states in the Union there is a religious sect —the Ornish—about which little is known. Where the sect originated, or etatistical information as to the growth and number of its communicants, may not be as interesting as a little sketch of the character, dress and habits, as well as the religion, of these people. In the extreme lower part of south ern Pennsylvania, following closely the Mason and Dixon line, a colony of the Ornish has thrived in a country that was once barren. The weird and almost inaccessible mountains, through which the Casselman river flows with its mauy picturesque curves,’ have, by the industry of these people, been transformed into a fertile region. Where once stood the tall pine and the knotty oak, with countless thickets to hide the light of day, there are now handsome cottages and huge barns, smiling fields of grain and heavy laden fruit trees. Ju the valley the whining cry of the Wild-cat has given way to the hum of the buzz saw, but in tne mountains the rattlesnake still exists. The Omish, while strictly honest in -nil their dealings with each other and with others, are exceedingly frugal. Most of them are even penurious, to which fact may be attributed their prosperity in so forbidding a country as they inhabit, iu their dress the men are obliged by their religion to wear something plain in color, and in most cases black home-spun cloth is •used, but they are not restricted to any particular color, so long as it is severe. The men’s coats are always made ▼cry short, which may be due to their strict observance of economy in dress, as in everything. No buttons are al lowed to be worn, hooks and eyes, al most invisible,form the only fasteners by which the two edges of the coat are brought together. This rule also ap plies to the women, who fasten their plain dresses with hooks and eyes. ' The men wear no beard on their upper lip, thongh they are allowed to have dain and generally broad iu rle. fsunbonnet of calico, anc^heir dresses are as plain as they can be made. They are of calico, usually in black, above which their fair faces shine in the contrast. With these people divorces arc un known. They live happily and con tented and seldom marry persons of a different religious belief. In fact, in termarriage has made them a typical race, just as it has of the Israelites, whose manners and customs the Omish follow in various ways. Their form of worship is not unlike that of the primitive Christians. On the Sabbath the men aud women at tend services, to which they take all their children no matter how large or .bow small they may be. No regularly ordained minister ad dresses the congregation^, but mem bers with sound lungs and contrite hearts generally exhort the faithful to lead a pure life, to fear the Lord and to follow the example of their Saviour in all worldly affairs. Each year during the harvest season love feasts are held, when everybody takes a foot bath. The sisters go down reverently on their knees and with a pail of water, soap and towel begin the washing and drying of each other's feet until the entire congrega tion, including the men and boys, are ready for another pair of hose; then follow much haud-shaking and kiss- iu£- The men kiss each other and the women do the same. This is done to atone for any unpleasantness that might have occurred between any two members of the congregation, and by this ceremony peaceful relations are re stored, after which the Lord's Supper is taken. Cooking utensils arc on the grounds of the church property, aud often, at all-day services, meals are prepared at the church. Brotherly love predominates to an extent not surpassed by the Quakers. — [New York Sun. Ladies’ Wraps for Fall. The tendency of fashion for the coining season still points to the ser- Ticeablc and sensible jacket or short coat as the leading staple and popular garment, the clothes used being, out side of plain beavers and kerseys, rough diagonals, serges, whipcords, etc. The length of the ordinary iacket will run about twenty-eight inches, but the fine trade will use them thirty-two inches aud longer, and no woman of high social standing will accept any garment shorter than the last mentioned length. Long capes for those looking for a novelty will be much worn, and the demand is already far exceeding the expectations of those houses which have been producing this style of gar ment. The capes are made up very elaborately, many being heavy beaded or trimmed with handsome passemen terie or crochet trimming. One espe cially novel garment which we were shown was a combination of a long jacket with cape over and running full length of the jacket. Newmarkets are not by any means dead, either, the prophecies of certain manufacturers to the contrary not withstanding. Orders are being placed for fair quantities already, aud many houses are showing good lines of this sensible aud very necessary long garment. Plush jackets and long garments are very quiet at the present time, but the majority of the parties whom we have seen seem to feel that the usual demand will be extended to them as the season opens. In fur garments, the popular skins, aside from seal, will be astrakhan, skunk, mink, martin etc. Shoulder capes will hold their own 'against all comers again, and dealers look forward to a very heavy season. Astrakhan-trimmed garments, while going fairly at present aro not looked upon with much favor by the trade, and one leading manufacturer prophesies that they will be a dead letter within sixty days' time. A few weeks hence will prove whether or not he is mistaken. Manufacturers are looking for a heavy fall trade, factories arc work ing full time iu turning out new goods, and salesmen are all out for orders, which, as far as the novelties are concerned, they are largely book ing to be made specially.—[Dry Goods Chronicle. LADLES' DEPARTMENT. RfFFLES WHIPPED OX. Ruffles of washable mulls or mus lins, gathered to tapes by what are called whipping stitches, are frequent ly basted inside collars and the wrists of long sleeves and down the front edges of vests and waists. They arc lightly clear-starched and then kuife- crimped. Many tasteful women pre fer such ruffles to the more expensive ruchings. — [Philadelphia Record. WHAT HATS ARE WORN? All sorts except those with straight brims. Everything in head-gear must have a twist to it. These hats lend a charm to any face. If it be straight, Grecian-featured, the little dents sof ten the lines and beautify the tout ensemble; if a piquant, irregular one, the contradictory indentations and shell-like twirls in straw give a more bewitching enchantment. Wreaths of wild flowers and ivy vinos twined around the brims are the favored styles of trimming. — [New York Recorder. The Dreary Winters in ftewfoandland. The isolation of life in the distant parts of Newfoundland during winter is extreme. Outside the peniusula of Avalon there are hardly any roads, and even if they existed snow and ice would render them impassable. Out to sea stretches a vast icy pavement, through which it is often impossible for even a steamer to ram its way. So all the long winter months the little hamlets lie surrounded by the great snow blanket, and cut off from com munication from all mankind save those who inhabit their little settle ment. Should the store of provisions run low the situation is perilous, for there is no possibility of getting sup plies unless a “lead” opens in the ice and allows a steamer to get along the coast; or if she be not icebound at too great a dis tance perhaps some of the men go out over the frozen sea to meet the vessel and carry home food to their — ; e<PinrcilIUC3 Ul ivcu TO Cat their dogs, of which several are usu ally kept in order to draw home wood from the forests on sleds. So great is the difficulty of communication during winter that a clergyman relates that on one occasion, as near to the capital as Trinity bay,$10 had been demanded, and $6.25 was ac.ually paid, for the conveyance of a single letter overland to the city by a cross-country guide. While the coast is icebound tho direct steamers from England do not touch at Newfoundland, but the mails are brought up from Halifax in a small wooden steamer expressly built for facing the ice; but even this vessel cannot always manage to get in, and mails have to be carried ashore seven or eight miles over the ice on men’s backs.— [Chicago News. FASHIONS IN SLEEVES. The abnormally high sleeve is passe and a few very new French tailor gowns show a close coat sleeve lightly trimmed on the top of the arm, with a corresponding trimming at the wrists. A puff' is very popularly used around the armhole, aud this is always pretty upon slender women , and children, and is likewise far more becoming to even stout figures than the distended leg-o’-mutton sleeve. These graduate to a point at each end of the puff which reaches under the arms. They cover tho seam made by joining waist and sleeve, and, after being shirred, they are easily adjusted.—[New York Post. WOOL FABRICS LIGHTER THAN USUAL. French gowns imported form Paris tailors for yachting and for seaside resorts are iu lighter wool fabrics than are usually chosen for gowns of this description. Materials such as monsscline de laine, albatross cloth, English serge and camel’s hair show rich blue grounds, polka-dotted with white or red spots of various sizes, or else barred or striped with red or surede color. These aro made with full English skirts or with gored ones to suit various tastes and figures, and there is a Louis jacket of plain goods with a deep rovers color of the figured fabric, and a blouse vest of plain silk the shade of the coat. This has a soft turn-down collar, with a loose flowing sailor tio of foulard silk, which re peats in coloring the shades in the lies. Should the ship fall to eome l dothuL jraol ski-tA t>i<le hew. y —rrrr- turned' upMli 'the outside and piped with the plain jacket goods finishes the edge of tho skirt.—[Chicago Post. A Famous Financier. Henry Vi Hard is one of the famous men in the world of financial opera tions. It is not that he is always suc cessful, no man in financial specula tion ever is. His peculiarity consists iu maintaining himself in the faith of his friends and supporters in the face of his reverses. He* has had great de feats in the fields of speculation; nevertheless he is there still, and with possibilities in his future, at least iu the estimation of his followers. He lias by all accounts lost millions, but he is with us still, and his backers still believe in his powers of recuperating himself and lifting them out of tho slough of past reverses. It is a curious illustration of a faith that seems al most a superstition. They believe iu him, not so much for what he has done in tho past, but for what they thiuk he can do iu tho future. — [New York Commercial Advertiser. Saved. “Tho water here is more than 400 feet deop," said the oarsman casually. “Mercy!” exclaimed the timid lady of the party ; “and we can't any of us swim. Do, for Ileavcu’s sake, let us get nearer shore.” “The water here is only twenty feet deep,” said the oarsman a few minutes later, and the timid lady of the party exclaimed: “Thank Heaven, we arc safe!” — LSomerville Journal. A Carious Calculation. One concern at Waterville, Me., made 18,000,000 yards of cotton goods last year, aud a Maine newspaper figures that the cloth would cover 370 acres ana hold all the people of Maine, Now Hampshire and Massachu setts comfortably scaled, with a ring i of 168 acres in the centre. In that ring the 84,000 horses of Maine could bo exhibited at one time without crowding.—[St. Louis Republic. EARLY LIFE OF THE EMPRESS OF GER MANY. The German Empress, like the Prin cess of Wales, is one of those ladies whose “destiny to wear a royal crown” comes after a childhood and early youih passed iu a very simple, almost bourgeois home. The three Danish princesses, of whom the Prin cess of Wales was the eldest and most beautiful, were their own dressmakers in their youthful days; the father of the German Empress. Priuce Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, was too poor to keep a private carriage, and according to an interesting article on “The Girlhood of the German Empress” in a recent number of Good Words, “when a drive became a ne cessity it was taken in an ordinary hired equipage.” Tho prince aud princess themselves undertook part of the education of their children, which was very carefully looked after, but, “amid all these provisions for mental culture, physical education was by no means neglected. Early rising and systematic bodily exercise formed a part of each day’s duty; every species of self-in diligence was rigidly avoided, and the prince was in the constant habit of taking long walks in all weathers with his daughters, who were the very models of blooming, stately young maidenhood.” The following is one of the stories aud anecdotes iu the same article, which is not as widely known as some of the rest: “Between the aged em peror and the youthful consort of his favorite grandson the bond of affec tion was one of the closest and most tender, from the moment when the gallant old warrior received the grace ful bride into his family circle until that sad and fatal hour when, admit ted after long entreaty to the old man’s dying chamber, the weeping princess cast herself beside the historic camp bed, and tenderly embracing the fee ble form, sobbed out, “Grandpa, grandpa, they would not let mo come to vou!” SALARIES OF GOVERNMENTAL WOMEN. The salaries of ladies employed in clerical positions of the public service iu Washington are, iu some depart ments, about the same as those paid to men who do similar work. In others they are smaller. Two women in the Treasury Department, Miss Van Vrankeu of New York and Miss Seavy of Tennessee, receive $1800 a year, after 25 years of faithful ser vice. Miss Tanner has the same sal ary, and five others in the same de partment receive $1600, three have $1400, a hundred have rom $900 to $1200. Many who hve been long employed, and who mje been pru dent, are now the posselors of com fortable fortunes on il Joines which most men would • consie;.* inadequate to their needs. Some I the elderly women keep neat little jjirriages and daily drive to their bus ness. In the bureau of engraving ^ jud priutiug women are poorly pai ( while men earn good salaries. Th ,noney print ers earn $5 a day, whil ”.heir women assistants, often fully ;j.ble to take charge of presses, ou get $1.25. In the Government prii Jug office men have $18 and $20 a uweek, while women are paid $10 foi precisely the same work.—[New Orl^us Picayune. i FASHION nq: ‘s. Fancy slices do r t find favor among women of best I *3te. p i jet nailheads ;s and wraps. Creamy white satin t ledding gowns are trimmed with frills and soft drap - ings of chiffon. Narrow silver combi for the back- hair have perforated - 1 jps, the silver being bright cut. Jet belts are a nove^ature,pointed in the centre and ’"^dered with a graduated fringe. Small jeweled P 0< ®ie3 for fasten ing velvet bonnetthe back of the neck after crossinglthem in front. The long skirts are biingiug draped overskirts into vogu< i These are looped with bows of c mtrasting rib bons. Pleats and wide II FOB THE HOUSEWIFE. Borders of graduate on skirts, basques, s!ee appear in the latest Pai ,'s importations for dinner, carriage inganan kilts or chnrch to fashion- stead of a natural t iu remarkable' th white ostrich soft coarse white hape with acorns trimmed with gowns. ^ Flower wreaths fqr low-neckcd gowns arc of white hyajeinths, lilacs or forget-me-nots framed 'in fine, droop ing grass. \ A pretty dress seen In Paris was a pale gray and pink flolwered muslin, with black ruches a^J a big black Rembrandt hat. ^ * ^ The silk-striped ^ing^ am9 ai '° tl10 most costly and sty^givof a ll Hie cot ton goods, and couid ,almost be mis taken for an all-silk fabric. With thin summer presses, cut low at the neck, all kinds fcf^p.etViaces are revived, from baby’* coral to tho pearls and diamonds^! royalty Leghorn hats are able as ever, only i shape they are be form and covered plumes. Hats are worn of straws pinned into or iKorns roses without lea petals sometimes ar^ “Cobweb veiling lines of a cobweb over the mouth an the eyes. This is. and more novel thaj Necklaces made pearls and turqaoi, with a pearl bet phires strung betwe gold balls, are new a The new cotton ve handsome in appear varieties, their colorit superb; and they are, cheaper and more sa dinary wear. A decided novelty tips. They are intend but appear to have a rious as copper toesj They are covered with and are adjustable, can be worn on numbe five. A Paris letter says jewels are worn coiffure iu tho kept small apparently not rise above the c with the hat, and it resort to a low twist, mer. Handsome hat .and now among the things fashionable toilet. T and the bow knot, espe are the most graceful, number of novel devj bird’s wing, insij kinds, colored pearlsr coral in oblong shapes INK STAINS. Bicarbonate of soda mixed with water will sometimes remove ink stains if they are not of too long standing. If one can get new milk as soon as linen Is ink-stained and wash the spot, it will soon disappear. If this is impossible, rub wet salt on the stain, and let lie in the sun; wash the salt off after two or three hours aud repeat the process; it may take three or four applications to remove a deeply sot stain. —[Prairie Farmer. ART OF MAKING AN OMELET. And now you want to try your hand on an omelet. This is no easy undertaking, but I do not see why you should be less successful than others who have tried aud come out victorious. First of all have a good, brisk fire, and a frying-pan well heated. Break your eggs into a basin, add a little pinch of salt and a tea- teaspoonful of cream (or milk) for each one. Whisk them until whites and yolks are mixed; it makes the omelet light. Put a piece of butter (very fresh) the size of half an egg for every three or four eggs into your pan, aud when sizzling hot pour in your eggs. Be quick now, and shako your pan with one hand, while with the other, holding a silver fork, you turn topmost the egg coagulating. When every part is equally cooked and creamy, you al low the .eggs at the bottom to get firm, but not brown. To prevent the latter you have to keep shaking the pan, and with it the omelet, which mast stay creamy on top. Then with the spatula you turn one half of the omelet over the other half, and, plac ing a hot plate over your pan, you toss yonr omelet upside down into the middle'of the plate. Thus yon will have the omelet “charnue et dore” (fleshy and golden yellow), of which a French poet sings.—[New York Trib une. IRONING IN SUMMER. Ironing at best is hard work and hot work, and yet, with the exercise of a little judicious planning and pur pose (o make it as easy as possible, even 4his work can bo done with a de gree of comfort undreamed of by many a housemother who gets blind and faint over her ironing table. There is an oil stove whose crucial top has places for three irons at once, suggests New York Sun. It costs $2.50 anaNffl ti n a\i & of oil ia ton hours It (akee up only about a square foot of space and can be setou a bare table re. It is wise. -togetl eveningl Telling Age wit^ The latest “fad” in is telling one’s nge withj not new, but an old fadj revived, and it is generi horse, the hair being t;>J tail, although on hut “works just as well.” T| “Suspend a gold ring fij hair over half a glass ol aud (ho ring will begin] and fro nntil it hits the glass. It will strike thel a horse, or, if it bo a pe^ the person upon whose li^ — [New York Dispatch. Mice on Sheep Many of the sheep rj friesshire, a county in overrun with mice. TI nearly as large as rats, at plants from the roots, tl future growth impoj plague is attributed to tl by keepers of birds tha^ mice, ou the plea that eggs of grouse aud ot —[New York Recorded . IB 1 . W-AJRflSriEIKIIE BAKER &. CONFECTIONER. AND DEALER IN DRY GOODS, SHOES, NOTIONS AND SBOCEBIES, AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. TOBACCO AND CIGARS In Great Variety. Toys, Fireworks, etc., in Stocfcj Laurens Street and Park Avenue, Aiken, S. C. The Waverly House* C. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. In the Send of King Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. Large and Comfortable Rooms. BATES, SS.50 FEB DAY. NO NEED TO WAIT! TUI UHGEfc TOD DEUT WE MOB KOUIM SHEET MUSIC, GUITARS, BANJOS, , MUSIC, BOOKS, VIOLINS, DRUMS, ACCORDEONS, STRINGS AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. WRITE FOR TERMS AND CATALOGUES. T. HARRY OATES & CO., Augusta, Georgia. Flowers in London Markets. The sale of flowers by auction is one of the sights of Covent Garden, says Good Words. The stands in the wfiolesale maifetA ait f'iviwAbnd over night, and the building is open for private buyers at 4 o’ '~'*k v next morn- $3000 mg, bat all their bus tis over at 9 d< A. Y R A ft f 1 undertak* to bneftj I teach any fairly intelligent person of eithatt sex, w ho can read and write, and who, after instruction, will work indoatriooaijr, ^ _ _'how to earn Three Thousand Mine* a Yearin theirown localities, wherever they live.I will alsofurnislk the situation or employment'll which you can earn thatemouofe. No money for me unless succ essful at above. Easily and quickly learned. I desire but one worker from each district or county., X have already taught and provided with employme^ntpa largo number, who are making over iMO#Oa year each. It’s jRIR W and SOL.'nfr.'rctfrpvt'i IS. JJ^ox AS