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VOL. XXXYIIL* CAMDEN, S. C., SEPTEMBER 25, 1879. .. NO. lOf A
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CAMDEN, S. C?
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C. G. ALEXANDER.
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. Over the Wires.
^ ^ 1 hear a faint, low singing,
Dike the sound oi distant choirs;
'Tis ai message gleefully -winging
Ove^ithe telegraph wires.
And want are the glad wires hamming
As Jhey stretch in the sunlight away ?
"I at? coming, coming, coming?
I am coming home to-day !"
Anci now I hear a sobbing,
' Vj J} Like some soul sitting alone,
"" With a heait that is weary throbbing,
And lips that can only moan.
Oh ! what are the sad wires sighing
As they reach through the darkness ot
night ?
v-v " Ho is dying, dying, dying?
, \ Come on the wings of light!"
The titillation of laughter *
Next falls upon my ear,
And a burst of mad mirth after,
' Like the sound of a distant cheer.
And what is the gleeful story
That the round wires spread afar?
" Our Nine is crowned with glory?
IL'p, hip, hip, hurrah !" ,
Oh ! what are the wires relating,
Morning, and noon, and night?
"The market is fluctuatifig !"
" Reports of the Senate light!"
' Cashier S a defaulter !"
" Arrest a man named Brown !" ,
"Jones died to-day by the halter !" * :
"Wheat went suddenly down !"
" Dead I" " Born!" "Going!" "Coming ?'
"Delugo"' and "Drought!" and
"Fires!"
Singing, aud sobbing, and humming
Over the telegraph wires.
? _ , - , **' ?Ella Wheeler.
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A MOUNTAIN Km.
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Of course \vc girls all pitied Rachel
Tinkham, hut we never quite made her
one of us.
She was such a shy little thing, and (
blushed if you spoke to her, and acted
afraid ot her own voice, and wore print
dresses ah the time, and never was invited
to our partus. :
She lifrcd in a tumble-down old house
which had been a very grand mansion
once.
The Tinkhams had been great people j
in my grandmother's day. Nothing was
left of their grandeur now, however, for i
there had been wine in one generation, i
and whisky in the next, and delirium
tranai$ in the third. '
Ray's father was the third. She had 1
a wretched time keeping house for him. ;
Her mother was deaa.
" We" were the girls of Mrs. Bland's '
private school. . r <
A dozen of us were out upon the ?wf I
verandah one morning. We were all 1
? ia.iu.iug at once. Some one, it seemed. 1
had said the high school girls were bet- '
tf>r aphrilars thin wp wavo ' I
" Very well. So they are." ? J
This was Kate Avery. -jmkMSIH; was t
standing up by the lattice where ?>"
morning-glory vine*'cr.?2T' ?na wnere a
bnn'ir a.tauiters ot little bells swung 1
-^-orCt^TTTue and purple and rose-pink. If <
Kate was anything, she was honest. '
though she was handsome too.
"We have music and French conversation,
and Lou has a phaeton, and 1 I
have two donkeys, and Queeny has been 1
to Europe; but," lowering her voice. <
"it's an awtul secret though it's the i
' truth. The high school girls are miles I
and miles beyond us in Latin and mathematics."
" Indeed they are," said I. " I'm what i
mademoiselle calls an 'idgif' in arithmetic.
I really suppose that two and ?
two make four, but if one of those girls <
were to tell me that they made five, I j
shouldn't dare dispute her." .
"The fact is," said Kate, "little Tinkliam
is the only one of us who is sure of <
' her multiplication table. But then she ]
doesn't really belong to us She would j
not be here if it wasn't for sweeping and dusting
to pay her tuition. There she is ;
tlijs minute."
A small, tired-looking figure in a coarse ]
dress came in sight round the corner. It i
was Rachel with Iter load of books in i
her arms. I
"She 1..13 worn that dress every day 1
for three months," said Lou "Stecuuan;
" I verily believe sue goes to bed when .
it is done up."
" My dear, she can't. She lias to wash j
and iron it herself. Oh, there is Queeny!"
cried Kate. It was such a gentle, grace- <
ful girl who came walking fast to over- j
take Kay. caught step as she overtook |
her, and began talking pleasantly. ,
"Doesn't she look nice in that seal-brown J
suit? Ard isn't it just like her to carry .
Kay's books for her?"
Queeny's real name was Alice You ]
would have known why we called her
Queeny if you had seen her walk beside .
little Tinkhani that morning, open the
gate, and stand still, erect, with UiatT
grand way of hers, for the girl to pass
through. I believe we all rather worshiped
Queeny. ]
Kate met them with her forehead all :
tieoup into hard knots, and asked Ray.
"didn't she'want to be an angel,'and :
help her with those dreadful fractions?' !
So they two sat down on the doorstep,
and the rest went into the school- !
room. Then Lou called out to Kay to
come and dust her desk. She said "it
wasn't half dusted." Queeny said:
" lluy is busy, I will do it;" and she,
silent and looking prouder than ever,
dusted Jxm's desk herseli.
? It was this morning, Friday, that
Mrs. Bland told us that to-morrow
would be " Mountain day."
All the schools in our town drive to
the mour.tain once a year. Our day
always comes in September.
This time Mrs. Bland couldn't go, so
she sent along her cousin to matronize
us. She was a fidgety person, afraid of
spiders, and no good any way.
"We are to start at nine o'clock,"
Queeny said. " Ray, can you be ready
so early?"
Queeny was a new scholar. She
didn't know that Ray never went with
us to such places. !Now she flushed and
replied:
" I don't think I can go to the mountain
?
"Certainly, you are going." Alice
said it in her queeniest way. " If you
can't eo to-morrow we will put off
going. * *
"Saturday is my (lav to clean the
school-room." Ray answered.
" \Ve will clean it. Let's begin this
minute," and off came Queeny's cuffs !
and Kate's, all the cuffs, 4a faot. We |
' went to work, and had fuoh' iun 8Weep- I
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ineand scrubbing. Just imagine Kate
and Queeny washing the floor. They
did it well,"too.
44 Now, remember, Queeny -said, the
last thing, 44 everybody is to wear her
oldest dress. Ana, Ray, would you be 1
kind enough to bring hard-boiled eggs :
fo^your luncheon? One apiece for us
all round ?"
Ray looked bright ail overhand said ,
yes. ' # !
Now I think it was just beautiful of
Queeny to think of that. She knew Little
Tinkham couldn't bring frosted
cake and French rolls as the rest of us !
did. i
So she spoke of the eggs. We all remembered
that Ray had wonderful i
chickens. I am sure the word about old
dresses, too, was meant to help her. ]
The next morning Obed Taintor came (
round with his uncovered omnibus and <
his two great horsey and jricked us up.
We- went for Ray last. She was stand- <
ing in front of the old house, beside the ;
tumble-down gate, with her basket of <
eggs in her hflnd. i
She looked perfectly happy, and her 1
dress was so clean and smooth Kate
whispered to me: 1
"That dress has been washed and
ironed since last night. Just think
of it!" I
It was a clear, warm morning and j
every one was in such a glow ofgood t
spirits. I think we were all glaa we
had Rachel with us. 1
But if it hadn't been for Queenv Ray 1
would never have gone, and if Ray hadn t
gone the rest of us would never have ]
come home, and this story?for there is (
a story?would never have been told. ^
It is eight miles td the mountain and (
there is a carriage-road to the top. The t
last two miles are very hard and steep, r
because you rise nearly a thousand feet
above the Connecticut river in that dis- '
tance. t
But Obed was a steady, good driver 1
and his horses were steady, good horses. 1
We always drew lots for the seat be- 1
side Obed, and it was one oi our treats t
to get him talking about his " team," as
he called it. s
"What are their names?" asked i
Queony. " 4
" Well"?a pause. Obed was a slow 1
talker, but he had a great deal to say.
" The off one there is Cnesar an' the nigh a
one lie is Alexander." I
" Are they afraid of the cars?" 6
" Aint afeard o' nothin' in natur.l' f
Obed paused for us to think this over, t
and then went on:
" Know too much, them creeturs do. 1
They've carried a load to the mountain }.
four times a week nil summer. They'd '
take ye 'bout 'S well ef I wa'n't along. 1
They know?well?beats all what them c
mimals know. Understand't I'm talk- }
in' 'bout 'enf this minit's well's you do.
They're used to being talked to. My wife
she thinks a sight of 'em. Beats, all! '
She'll go out to the barn, and she'll r
carry 'em apples, and she'll be all over
'em; an* one week when she was si< k, |
an' kop' in the house, you c'n b'licve it !
or not, l;ut it's ajact that tlym creeturs [
lost flesli. She braids up their front *
liair for'em, and ties it with a red rib- c
bin one day, an' then the next day she ,
upbraids it, and it'sjamjMHh all in the
r:ushion1j^'h-?rtTCt5fand. As
?<~7nrrrrto a party tv-uay, they ve got 1
dieir hairs crimpod."
Put atas for Caesar, and alack for '
Alexander. It was a terrible piece of '
work tliat you came near doing that r
1..,, 4 n.11 ,tra liflff/lr cllall fnol (
4tlJTf ( iiUU^II It V/ ?,1110 Itvr vft OlIHii IVVI
hat you were much to blame. 1
You see this was what happened.
"We v;ere all tucked into the wagon as 1
.ight as tigs in a box, that afternoon. J
ready to start for home, when Lou called '
>ut that she had left hjr parasol. She '
nust get out, and run up to the tower to
;ct it. ' 1
' You just keep y'r sittin\" said Obed.
Til fetch yer uraberilland he started
"or the tower.
It was about ten rods ofT. The tower '
ind stable are built in a small cleared
>paeeatthe top of the mountain. All
iround and helow are thick, old woods
md great rocks.
Obed had just gone out of sight when i
^ueenv gave a little scream, and put her t
nana to ner eyes, oomeuung uassiung j
aie," she.said, and tJien, that instant, j
while we were all looking at her, it happened.
The horses both reared, then gave a
plunge, the onulrbus seemed to rise from
the ground with a great leap, and sooner
than I can tell it, we were all being
borne, at an awful speed, down that narrow
rocky road.
I glanced toward Ca;sar ADd Alexander,
\nd saw a terrible pair of wild animals.
[ looked toward the girls, and saw two
rows of white, frightful facu-s.
The reins were dragging on the ground.
Some of us were shrieking, " Whoa!" A
[ew were getting ready to jump. All
this in an instant, and then, suddenly,,
ibove the noise of the wheels and of
everything else, we hearc. a voice ring
nut clear:
" Sit still, girls! I think I can stop the
horses."
It was Ray Tinkham, of all people, in
eyes.
I must explain here tha: theroad from
the tower runs down a gentle slope for
half a mile, and there comes a sharp turn.
Beyond that is Long hill, the steepest,
most dangerous part of the way. Kate
seized my hand and whispered:
" If the horses are rot stopped before
they get to the turn, we 3nall all be
killed."
Ray was climbing over the driver's
seat." She always could climb anywhere,
like a cat. She didn't pause an instant,
but she called back to me:
"Natty Brock, put on *he brakes.
The rest of you sit still. Only pray as
hard as you can." ? <
I sprang to the driver's serft, and 1
jammed down the handle of the brakes. :
I prayed, too. I believed I should <
never pray again. :
I saw and thought of a hundred things 1
at once. I saw tne great tree trunks and <
the huge black rocks close upon us. I 1
remembered the clematis over the front
door at home, and wondered who would j
tell my lather that I was dead. i
Meanwhile, Ray was over the dash- i
board, and down with her feet over the
wliiffletree.
How she did it, I shall never know,
but the next we saw of her, she was
creeping along the pole between the
horses, steadying herself with her hands
on their backs.
The horses went tearing on like wild
horses, their manes flying, and their
great bodies quivering all over.
Every instant the girls were becoming
more excited.
Queeny was holding Mrs. Bland's
cousin with both hands, to prevent her
leaping out. Kate cried:
"We are almost to the turn. What I
# '
is Ray doing? She will Irighten the
horses worse than ever!" and she covered
her eyes.
The brow of the hill was not forty
feet off. Far behind, we could hour
Obed's voice screaming to the horses to
stop. The kepper of the tower was flying
toward us.
But they were too far away to do any
good. There seemed not one chance in
a thousand for us. But that very instant,
when we all believed we were lost, we
looked at Ray.
We saw her reach forward with one
hand, and grasp the reins which joined
the heads of the horses together. Just
where the connecting straps crossed one
mother her fingers clutched them.
One sharp, fierce jerk of those great
heads backward, and the horses 6lackjned
their speed, and in an instant more
stopped.
The wagon stood still, although the
creatures were snorting and plunging
yet. But that small hand of Ray's held
m with a death-grip, and in a moment
nore Obed caught the horses by their
leads.
His face was as white as it ever could
je, and he spoke one word only. It was:
" Hornets!"
The horses had been stung in more
;han twenty places. They were unharlessed
at once, and we were all out on
die ground directly.
We laughed and we cried, and Sirs.
Biand's cousin distinguished, herself by
"ainting away. ?
" I dbn't blame the horses in the
east," Queeny said. "Onesting is bad
?noueh," and'she showed where her eye'
vas beginning to swell. "The hornets
ame swarming out of the woods
;here." As for Obed, he was a humiliited
man.
" But I was the one to blame," he said.
' I thought the horses would 'a' stood
ill the'rnides dropped ofPn the'rribs;
iut I tell ye ther' never was the team
litched un yet that 'ud stan' hornets.
Blarst the cree*urs!" lie added, in underone.
" But Ray Tinkham!" cried Kate, and
ihe went up to where the little thing
vas sitting on a rock, looking pale.
'You saved us all, you blessed child,
low did you ever think of doing that?"
" My grandmother stopped some runiway
horses in that way once," gasped
lay. " I didn't know whether I could
top these, but I knew somebody must
lo something, or we should all be dashed
o pieces."
" Well," spoke Obed, "I've known o'
hat thing's hein' done just once afore in
ny lifetime, but it was a hoy that did it.
There's a sayin' 'mongst teamin' moni
hat, when, you haint got the reins, you
?n stop a runaway if you walk out on j
he pole and* grip hold o the bridles, but
taint every horse that'll stand it."
" Bui;wasn't it splendid of Ray?" criedxm,
going over, and putting her arm
ound her.
" Never knew a girl c'd have so much
duck," answered the driver. "If she"
ladn't, 'a' been light on 'er feet, an' level
n 'erhead, she never c'd 'a' done it. I
ell you if these horses MpnTbeeri-dn ommon
good horses, irothiij^u^111 V*)
vouW V f ]
ungjcsrory of it, but I must tell you !
hat we gave 4era party soon afterthis.
Ul the lathers, and mothers, and brothts
went, and we earned her a carpet for
kt room and a new chamber set, am!
lice new clothes all through; and a few
>f the gentlemen gave her a bank-book,
vhatever that may mean. I only know
hat she was to have the income of cer*
"?' ?? -v > v>/I i 4- Timo I /\
am liiuJirjy ?iun uiut iu Wiio (v>
iducate her thoroughly. We had the
iest time that night, and Queeny's
uther took Ray out to supper, and she
lat at his right hand, and everybody
reated her as though she had been a
princess of the blood.
I do believe there never was a happier
rirl on earth than Rachel that nignt.?
Youth'' s Comwn ion.
American Honey Abroad.
Twelve months ago no American honey
n the comb was sold in England, al,hough
a considerable quantity was exjorted
from New York to Europe inglass
ars. Now the trade is a large one, and
lie New York Commercial Advertiser
ells how it has been worked up by Mr.
;Ioge, a well-known bee and honey man.
Vfter contriving means to ship the proluct
without breaking the combs Mr.
[logo set himself to get it introduced on
lie royal table. Accident suggested a
dan to this end which onlv American
nterprise would have ever dared to carry
>ut. Mr. Hoge, white dining in an Engish
chop house in London, took up a
x>itle of sauce, and on the label found
;hat the condiment was prepared by one
vho liad been high steward at Windsor
Uastle. "There's my man," thought
Mr. Hoge. and away he went in search
)fhim; ultimately succeeding in obtatnng
ar introduction to the inventor of
;he sauce. The merits of the sauce was
)f course the firstf thing spoken of, and
he American praised it. to the utmost.
He then mid tint hj^ phiai1 "'Ir*
tuan UlirwimT was to introluce
the sauce into the United States,
vhere of course "it would certainly have
l large sale through the New York house
vhich had sent him to England.
Arrangements were made to have
,he jauce introduced here, and
;he ex-liigh steward was in good
lumor. This Was the time to inroducc
the real object of the visit, and
;he American said: Now, I want you
.0 do a good turn for me. Can you not
;et a case of American comb honey
Maeed on the Queen's table? The honey
vill tell for itself afterward* as you will
ind when I send you a case for your
>wn use." "Nothing easier." replied
;he ex-hieh steward; "I am well acquainted
with the present high steward
:>f Windsor Castle, and he will do any:hing
I request of him." The next day
1 case of the best honey was sent to the
3x-high steward's house, and soon after
< ' 1*t,?
UHJIIier one waa ill tt inuaui ..im
beautiful coiqfcaJM^pc*"placed on tjie
Queen's tahjj^lna ner grandchildren,
the daughtew-oCthe late Princess Alice,
were no pleased with it that the Queen,
gave orders that ten eases should be at
once purchased for the use of the castle,
meaning, of course, her own table. The
fact of this order having been given bv
the Queer., soon became known through
the enterprise ot the American, and the
London press took up the subject o:f
American comb honey, praising it to
the utmost. Even the BritishBc.c Journal
took hack all it had said against the
honey, and was loud in its praise. The
result w:is that the American comb
honey was to be found in a very short
time on every " fashionable" person's
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CHOIC, :mu US suwra m UICIH inuniu
as ured. An order lias been received to
ship nt once 500.000 pounds of the new
crop, to bo followed by n- like quantity
at a later period;
TIMELY TOPICS.
At the close of last year there were
81,841 miles of railroad in operation
in the United States, with a population
of about 38,000,000. The number
c'miles of road in operation in Europe
was about 94,000, for a population of
something over 300,000,000. The United
States thus has a mile of railroad to
about 464 inhabitants, and Europe one
mile to about 3,323 inhabitants; or, in
other words, every inhabitant of the
; United States has about seven times as
! much railroad as every European.
A congress for the improvement of
: thecondition of the blind lias been held
in Berlin. Foremost among the questions
was that of the printea or written
character to be nsea by~t ie blind, and
the congress decked .that the system of
writing and printing by combination trf
raised points, first introduced by Louis
nrauie .in ibm, snouia De anopiea in
Germany without modification. Another
important decision was that the practice
ot uniting the blind and the deaf in
the same institution was highly objecttonable.
The congress also recorded
the fact that in the experience of German
institutions rope-making is one of the
best trades there practiced by the blind.
The funeral of Herlig, a Socialist master
turner, was the scene ot a great Socialist
demonstration at Dresden. Several
thousand sympathizers followed
the body to the grave, but the police
took advantage of an old Saxon law
against the public exhibition of repulv
lican emblems to forbid the wearing of
political ensienia. No funeral oration
was permitted, ana wnen a woman
stepped forward and spoke a few words
an order was given to- arrest her, the
execution of which was, however, rendered
impossible by the closing in of
! the crowd. Several wreaths were thrown
on the coffin, but not before the police
i had insisted on the removal of the red
silk ribbons with which they were tied.
1 A great business is being done this
year in the importation of iron from
I Africa for use-in American manufae
Jorios. The great reason for preferring
African iron to native ore is, of course,
its cheapness, but It has the further advantage
of bein^ remarkably free from
phosphorus. .1Jas ore has been imported
to some, j^jCvShtTor two or three years,
bgl^fc^ff'snfch quantities as "now.
bn^&KuOrrty rsjtjjjuiting that two'hundred
thousand tons will be shipped to
New- York this"" year ..and half :xs much
to Philadelphia,, the latter for uscatthe
iron "\eorkn in Bethlehem and Johnstown
and by the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
Another notable 'feature in the
iron trade is the.importation of Bessemer
; pig, of which forty fiv9 thousand tons
are known to be under contract for the
Uuited States. TherdTiave been no iinportationk
of this sort before
The great-diJtportaofee which oslrh4*
ufamiing has, A fr
j^.'aaw w" Trim an ost.non auction
recently held at Middleb.urg, Uatffe
Land. The lowest price paid for-dilic
pair of these birds was ?180, SS^d several
pairs fetched ?285. A few years ago
ostriches, were obtained by hunting
only, ana nt that time a good bird could
be bought for a menagerie or a zoologi,
cal garden at a moderate price. But
! since their domestication and the dovclI
<-vv.rvmr.t- nf net,-w.il f.irtninnr na nn influx.
W|'I&ll?ll V/'
try their price lias risen enormously.
At present the Zoological Garden in
Ixindon owns not one living ostrich.
From the Cape of Good Ilope 2,207
pounds of ostrich feathers were exported
in i860, at a value of ?19,261; but in 1873
the exportation had risen to 31,Sty
pounds, at' a value of ?159,679, and recently
a bunch of picked bloods were
sold at Port Elizabeth for ?67 15s. a
pound?that is, about 15s. a feather.
The Anthracite Conl Fields.
At the meeting of the American
Science Association in Saratoga P. W.
i s nearer, 01 I'otisvuie, irenn., spoKu <u
the anthraci te coal fields of Pennsylvania
and their rapid exhaust ion. Hesaid:
The work of mining anthracite coal in
that State was begun in 1829 with 365;
now 20,000,000 tons per annum are produced.
Mr Sheafer asserted that only
one-third of the coal goes into consumption;
two-thirds are wasted, lost in the
mines and in preparation. He put the
maximum product at about 50,000,000
tons per annum, and at the present rate
of increase this limit will be reached in
the year 1900, and in 186 years, say in
the year 2065, our anthracite coal fields
will be exhausted. Then we must fall
back on our bituminous coal area, which
reaches the enormous tocal of 200,000
square miles, say over 400 times the
area of the anthracite. Mr. Sheafer said
that the competition between our several
coal companies and by them with the
| bituminous coal will always keep the
: price moderate. He doubted if fir
111 il lin 11will ? "" 11 1,1 H 1 1111
reilUl'mtmsprodUCt of 136,000,000 tons,
yet at her present rate of increase she
win oylionet- imr rn.'il?sihove 4.000 fee
?in about the time in which our anthracite
output will cease. But she has no
200,006 square miles, as we have in the
West.
Czar Peter and tl?<e Wig.
Peter the Great was lialf-savage in
his manners. ,He never had pleasantry
i enough to play a joke, though some of
' In's rudenesses had a very comical effect:
On his second visit 10 a town in Holland,
he and the burgomaster of the
place attended divine service, when an
unconscious action of the czar almost
upset the gravity of the congregation.
Peter, feeling his head jprowing cold,
turned to the heavily-wigged chief magj
istrate at his side and transferred the
! wig, the hair of-wliij?l. dowed down over
| the great little man's shoulders, to his
own head, Mid sat so tflr the end of the
i.uervlee," ^fnfcifchejtrelurned it to the in
sMted^tfrgomaster, bowing ms tnanKs
The great man's ftiry was not appeased
till one of Peter's suite assured him that
it was no practical joke at all that his
majesty had played; that his usual custom,
when at church, if his head was
cold, was to seize the nearest wig he
?ould clutch? Belgrariia.
It is estimated that there are in the
United States 400,000 railway cars of alj
kinds, also 16,000 engines. These engines
i .? >/! /??!? ?} in h*OTTolinop ntrnr fho rnft/lc InQP
i annually between 4.000,000 and 5,000.000
i of,nuts. These will weigh over 1,500.000
pounds, and their cost is between
$30,000, and $40,000, and this loss is
j continued from year to year, saying
' nothing of the nuts thrown in the scrap
j- heap, with their bolts worthless from
I the use of the jam nut, also the liability
j to accideclfrom loose huts.
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Incompatibility. f
j At Inst, 3inco thon art all my own, a
I My love, my lilo, my promised bride!"
IIo murmurs softly, sinking down ^
Clarinda's peerless lonn beside. (
Let's figure, sweet, how we'll,begin t
Our married state that is to be." a
" Yes, love. To out a figure in
The world is all my wish!" says she.
" For house," says ho, " what better than
A tiny cot by ocean's flow 7"
! " 'Twould do." shesavs, behind her lan,
"If marble lronts were scarce, you know!" ^
"Ahem! And we might well engage t
! One maid-ol-all-work, stout and neat!" S
. " Y-e-e-g! and a lootman, cook and page,
And coach and pair!" she murmured sweet, ?
" Why, really, dear!?but words are air?
With lovb lor guests at home a field,
Our food shall be the sftnplest fare,
Our driuk the dairy's snowy yield!" y
" Y-e-p-s! with etceteras rare and blest," I
She coyly adds: " that money brings?
Fishj game in season; wines the best;
Broils, stews, fruit cake, ice-oream and *
* things!" " ?
" In Midas'name!" he cries, with look,
{ And tone and mien from rapture tree,
" Dost, deem a millionaire to hook, j,
Ambitions girl, in wedding me J" t
" Whv. not at all. Sir Stineiness!" ?
She quick responds, with scornful shout; n
" But just remember none the less, a
As servant I'm not hiring out!"
They sover?she with angry look
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That never bids him pause nor stay; ^
He clutching tight his pocketbook, * .
And p recious glad to get away. g
" Dissembling might have done with tact, II
'II not too soon betrayed," says she; ' , *
" How lucky that to sober lact
I brought her ere too late!" says he.
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.vf: " Fashions of the Season. a
Among the new dress goods in siik ^
and wool mixtures are found some P
novelties in the form of welted striped a
{pods, the stripes running across, not 8
engthwise the goods, producing a cor- a
duroy effect; and upon this surface,
whose ground is eithpr gendarme blue, a
bronze, plum, dark green, brown, or
black, bright silk threads produce a.'?
flowered design in jardiniere effects, the l!
figures being for the most part small set a
I designs. This stuff is intended for the 31
paniers, back draperies, cuffs, revccs, P
and collars of costumes whose under-- 'l
skirts, sleeves, and minor narto^are com- '
posed
^^rrT^ods of tints anfUk?-^,7^r,'<!: B(
sponding ^v^l]JJJ-?-^a^^Isof the figured
cC<vti?r--Tirtne plain goods intended for _
the underskirts the welted stripes are s:
al?o cross wise-tlm good?. ^ .u
Other fancy silk and wool mixtures :l
have narrow alternate stripes of plain s
wool and figured silk, the silk stripes in
small bright arabesque or armurc designs.
Other striped cloths have particolored
grounds of bronap, French gray,
cherry, garnet, peacock, gendarme and '
navy blues, and shades of stone and 0
arilnise or slate color. y.
Plaid Jacouard is a genuine novelty, 1
the large plaids being produced in a L'
variety of novel and striking designs c
and sharply contrasting colors woven in :l
a Jacquard loom, and, while they imi- 11
tate the size and colors of tartans, are r
very unlike them. Broken blocks, 0
squares, and dashes of color are pro- 7
duced in the midst of the wool mixtures 11
by bright threads of silk thrown in, the y
predominant tints being old gold, sap- ?,
phi re and turquoise blues, cherry ami
other shades of red, and bright shades of ?
green on dark grounds. j'
In plain all-wool goods, in addition to '!
the camel's hair goods, cloths, flannels 1
and cashmeres ot last winter, we arc ?
i shown a new material called loile dc 13
I cnnnlier This is nlain woven, hilt lias ?
ft rough surface, and resembles bunting a
m ade sufficiently heavy to serve for warm ^
winter dresses. J
The ready-made suits, thousands of ij
which are sold every season and sent all 0
over the world, are shown this fall in s
dark cloth colors in the new shades of y
amaranth, Rembrandt green, gendarme ?
or duck's breast and navy blues, dauphin ?
and dark French grays, Burgoyne and !
golden browns and black, with garni- 1
tures and parts of the costumes of trim- ?
ming satins, plain, plaidod or striped, c
silk plush, Jacquard corduroys or welted f1
stripes, wide woolen braids and Scotcli 11
and Jacquard plaids, or other trimming y
goods of silk and wool mixtures similar 11
to those described above. ..-? HI
The greater part of these Sfe c
made up in the form of a coat basque, ^
v-ith^oinled^v^^^ in ^ ;in('a ^
( oat it is given a stomacher like a plas- |
tron, which is pointed below the waist, j ?
and consists of two revers sewpd together |
down the middle, extending from the ?
neck down and tapering gradually na*p^wer
to the waist. Under this plastron i a
waistcoat or stomacher the basque is J1
fastened with small flat buttons. The q
plastron may be either of plain cloth or
satin, or it may be covered with parallel
lines of zigzag braid set on crosswise in ?
points. The nostilion backs are some- *,
times pointed, but oftener square, and are
given flat box-plaits beaded with fancy ^
buttons. The skirts are short, trimmed
with the usual flounce or flounces, in the
usual variety of kilt, knife blade and boxplaitings.
Paniers appear on ipany of
these skirts,or scarfs arranged t o produce
panier effects. Wide bells arc seen on 1
many of the basques, beginning in the a
seam under the arms aud fastening in c
front. Other basques are half double- (
breasted. and others again have surplice c
plait?crgathers in front; and blouse ef- t
iee\6 are also popular in basques, fasten- 1
ing down with three-inch wide belts, to i
which the side pocket is attached. The 1
buttons on the waistcoats are smaller <
than those on other parts ot the costume. 1
Few outside pockets are seen, but some- t
times a long square or pear-shaped np- (
pendage of this kind is attached to the
lower edge of a basque, and made very 1
effective with trimmings. Plaid silks 1
and silk plush of the same shade as the 1
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wool material ot tlio aress, arm ?en- .
colored Jacquard corduroys, also of the |
shade of the woolen stuff, are used for 1
trimming cashmeres, toilc des Indcs,
camel's hair and loile dc sanglicr cos- i
tumcs. These ready-made suits range in i
price all the way from $20 ro $75 and
$100. . *
Large and small bonnets, the first very <
large and the second very small, are seen i:
omonor ihp imnortations of millinery I
I goods? ?be large bonnets are eitlieV j
J pokes with clos? 8ld'*> direotolre bpr^ |:
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tets with square crowns and flaring
irims, or Rabagas bonnets that frame
lie face like a halo. The small bonnets
xe close 'ottage shapes, or are square
xowns and almost brim less, such as have
leen worn at Saratoga and Newport
luring the summer, and the favorite
barmen bonnets with greater breadth in
he back. Other shapes serve as either
l round hat or a bonnet, and English
urbans, Derbies and large Tyrolean hatB
xe all among the new shapes. The
lainesboroughs and other fanciful, picnrnsnnA
tihnnpq are not bv anv means
liscarded.
All these shapes are brought out in
mootli soft felt, silk plush and fur
>eavers, with pile an inch long. Soraeiraes
the crown of the hat will be of
ilk and the brim of beaver_pr the reverse,
and sometimes/, felt brim*' are
pven fur or silk crowds, or felt crowns
ire seen with plush or beaver brim#.
The feather felts which were introduced
ast season appear again this seaspn in
^renter numbers, and in the delicateeeru
ind beige tints and cream and pearl
vhite, which show that they will be
ised lor the richest fu^-dress occasions.
The felts, beavers and plushes^come
n the same variety of colors and tints
his season that they did last, or even
neater. The new tints of cloth shades
hat are seen in the dress goods appear
n the bonnets and hats, showing plainy
that costumes will require a hat or
lonnet to match this' winter, and at
east an attempt will be made to revive
hat fashion. For the new shades, colors
ound in felts and other millinery goods,
,ew names are given. Rembrandt is a
, new name for a dark bluish shade of
eacock green. A new red with a dash
I purple in it is Amnrantn, ana uic om
Jgyptian or Pompeiian reds are now
leux rouge. Japoniers is a new green
>lue, and gendarme blue takes the title
i Douariere and. duck'aJareast blue,
olden brownMs ^anaijue, and the most
isbionabloTshade or plum brown is
kirgoyne. Old gold is as fashionable
s ever, and the ciel blues and rose
inks, the befge tints with cream, ivory
nd wax white, are all in demand equal
a the supply.
Fancy feathers will be used to excess
gain m trimming bonnets and hats.
Vhole and half birds, tails, wings, pomous,
and feather fringes and ruches are j
II seen in the millinery stores. Long
ray ostrich plumes of the natural color
re also to be revived, and tips, deraiMprnutio.
And willow plumes.
re ali to be worn.
The fall wraps arc for the most part
lantelet visites similar to those worn
ist spring, but ulsters, round cloaks
nd close jackets will be wQrn as the
wison advances. Most of the fall suits
ow in the hands, of tlie dressmakers*aye
a jacket Of the III il i I I 11 m| '1 11111
nd jin lil iif li ' 1 . ' ' R'ppk
lUlllhl in abundance in all the
ouses where ready-made garments are
aid. Wlipn the jacket is a part of a
ostume it is trimmed to match the
ime, but the independent jackets are
n trimmed ..save with rows of stitching
nd effective buttons of ivory, horn,
Hell or metal.?New York bun. ,
Position in Sleep. ,
Position affects sleep. A constrained^
r uncomfortable posture will often
ent repose. Lying flat on Llie back wath
lie limbs relaxed would seem to seeUre
lie greatest amount of rest for the rriusuTar
system. This is the pdsmon
ssumed in the most exhausting aise?s< s,
nd it is generally hailed as a token of
evival wlien a patient voluntarilylturns
n the side; but there are several^lsad- ,
antages in the supine posturWjwhich F'
mpair or embarrass sleep, l&us, in '
weakly states of the heart ;uid bldod ves- j
els, and in certain morbid conditions of
he brain, the blood seems to .gravitate
o the back of the head and trip produce
roublesome dreams. In portions Who
mbitually, in their work or rait, stoop,
here is some distress com&quent on
traightening tlie spine, ijphose who
lave contracted chests, espanally per-;
ons who have had pleurisy&nd retain
dhesions of the lungs, do nwsleep well
n the back. Nearly all who#re inclined
o snore do so-when in thip^posiiion,
ecause me suji pni>uc mju pTus>
n the tongue, and that orgaji falls back
o as to partially close the^'top of ttoe
windpipe. It is better, therefore, to lie
n the side, and in the abseaoe of special
hest disease, rendering it desirable to
ie on the weak side so as to leave the
lealthy lung free to expand; it is well to
hoose the right side, becausc'when the
tody is thus placed the food gravitates
nnrp pnsilv nut of the stomadn into the
ntcstines. A glance at any plate ot the
'isceral anatomy will show
flferftfTa'p artTcu lar side;
flxfiTpossible, the right side should be
hosen, and tne body rolled a little forward,
so that any saliva which may be
nrrpi-pd shall run easily out of the
aouth, if not unconsciously swallowed,
tgain, sleeping with the arm thrown
ver the head is to be deprecated; but j
his position is often assumed during
leep, because circulation is then free in
he extremities and the head and neck,
.nd the muscles of the chest arc drawn
ip and fixed by the shoulders, and thus
he expansion of the thorax is easy.
Thechiot objections to this position are
hat it creates a tendency to cramp and
old in the arms, and sometimes seems
o cause headaches during sleep, and
Ireams. These small|matters often make i
>r mar comfort in sleeping,?Medical j
roumal.
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ilk kJIIIIU V II a>vv
The other morning a citizen called at a j
lardware store on Woodward avenue I
ind said lie wanted a key to a certain j
loor in his house, and he toa%up and I
sarried awayalmost the first key handed j
>ut to him. On his way down town af- j
or dinner hi. stopped and exchanged the j
coy /or another, explaining that the first!
vouldn't fit. These.changes took place I
wice a day for the next four days, the j
utizen being unabl| to get hold of a key
o fit. On the sixth day he drove tip to
;he store with a door on a dray, and
:alling to the proprietor he said:
" Bring your box of keys out here and
fve'll get a fit to that lock. Here I have
iecn runnine back and forth for about a
tveek, and I might not have got a fit for
i whole month if my wife had not suggested
that I bring the door down heie
Some of these women are mighty smart.1'
" Put whydidn't you take the lock off
ind bring it down in your pocket?'1
isked the dealer.
The buyer looked at liisi in a vacant
way, staved hard at the door, and sat
Hip eurbstone with the re
mark:
" It's a wonder that the whole family
wasn't sent to the fbol-house ten. year's
ago."?Detroit Fret Frets.
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Astronomy Made Easy.
Ili-diddle-diddle, .6
The Sun's in the middle, ^
AnH nlunnfs nroniiri him so errand
Aro swinging in space,
. Ileld forever in place \\:
In th* Zodiac girdle or band.
^Hi-diddle-diddle, " <v '
1 The Sun's in the middle,
And Merdury's next to the sun;
While Venus so bright,
. Seen at morning or night,
Comes second to join in the lun.
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1 Hi-diddle-diddle,
The Sun's in the middle, *
* And third in the group is our Earth;
While Mars with his lire,
r - So warlike and dire. '
' Swings around to be counted thelourtb*
Hi-diddle-diddle,
The Sun's in the middle,
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While.Jujpiter s next alter Mars;
And his lour moons at night
Show tho speed of tag light;
Next golden-ringed Sctura appears. . -
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Hi-diddle-diddle,
' A The Sun's urine miaaie,
After Saturn comes TTranua tar;
And his antics so queer,
Led aatronomei-s near
To old Neptune, who drives the last car.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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An imperious Qsesar?The sheriff.
An indescribable uncle?(Carb-uncle
Sound logic?Arguing through the
teleohone.
How many passengers will a train of
circumstances carry?
Mount Stanford, in the'Sierra Nevadas,
is covered with red snow.
a AAnlnvn/1 Ktmcnlf fn Ko In
A 111 ftU W1IU UW1IM1.U uiunu vv? uv
toxicated with music was considered airtight.
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A new.Morinon temple now in course
of erection at Sal< Lake City is. to cost
$5,000,00b.
To use the now machines or the oldfashioned'washboards?
Aye, there's the
rub.?Picayune.
There-are now in Texas over 5,000,000"'
sheep. Last year oxer 11,000,000 pounds
of wool were skippW out of the State
In Tennessee. South r*in ntiini jiniJ
Delaware i Ti 11 urn n ,i| ii, n w' i
tobejatfi*? "'l,W ,,ki
A Black Hills correspondent states ;
that he believes the development of the
mineral resources of the Black Hills has
only begun.
Miss Porter, of Detroit, paid a hack
min less than he"demanded, ana lie
angrily struck her. She drew a revolver '
from her satchel and shot him dead.
Samuel Nussbaum murdered his wife
at Girardeau* Missduri, and. was stopped
jn an attempt io kill himself onrthesDot;
but he was determined to. die, and'has
finally accomplished his purpose by
starvation. _ ' *
The French lfave been trying, "with
some success, the plan of towing canal ^
boats by locomotives. A railway is laid <^L
down on the towpath, about one meter
(39 inches) from the side of the canal,
and on this ara run small .'ocouiotives of
|our or more tons, according to the
yireiglil to be pulled.
Queensland, the youngest of the Aus i-oii-.n
r?rnim neeuDies the northeastern
quarter of the Australian continent and
stretches from the northern boundary of
New Sfeuth Wales to the Gulf of Oar- .
penturfa. It is twelve times the size of
England, twice the size- of Canada and
half as large again as England, Ireland,
Scotland. Wales. France and Spain combined.
It is rich in gold.
MISS BAXG8.
Tho beantcous, buxom Bertha Bangs Is
one ot our divinest girls;
trlie |>nng3 the doors ?nd bangs the chairs,
And likewise !?u. js her uuhnrn curls.
She bunj;s on tho pianny, too, /,
And lmngs upon the light guitar?
But, oh, of till the bungs she bangs,
' She mostly bangs her auburn ha'i".
Oh, banging, bouncing, buxom belle,
'' The poet's lyre with rapture twangs?
,Bes|ton8ive to the influence
Of thy beloved and benuteons bangs.
?St. Louis Times-Jour mil.
An Afroljfb,- 1 Hi
?^?wwMrtTffi" p'2e(TIi oefore the scientists,
at Saratoga, dealt mainly on those
heavenly bodies called meteors, and
which, according to Prof. Xewton, of
Yale College, are so numerous that no
fewer than four hundred millions of
hum pntt r the earth's atmospherc^very
year. Fortunately for us, it" is only the
largest of these meteoric stones?and
these arc exceedingly rare?which do
not become wholly-dissipated before
reacning the ground: from all others the
air is, as Prof. Newton expresses it, " a
shield to protect us from an otherwise
intolerable bombarding." One oftbese
few has, strangely enough, brought up ?HS9|
an entirely new question of property H
law in France. One night not very long
since a peasant crossing a field saw a
?n^por of unusual magnitude, which
with a great noise and touched the
nd witliin a few yards of his feet.
>vored from his fright, he went to
spot and unearthed a stone of considerable
size, which, in scientific language.
is called an aerolith. It occurred
Withe man that what had dropped down
tdlirini from Heaven mu&t be a rarity
aritf might have a money value.. After copsiilting
the schoolmaster ofiiis com
mime, lie took the mysterious suuswuice,
of ip terrestrial operation, to the Issouduu
Museum, and there received in exchasigo
it tlic, to him, wonderful
sum of ?25. Short-lived was his joy.
TI16 proprietor of the field visited by a
product of the skies, who lives in Paris,
rea4 in the newspapers an account of the
celestial transaction, and strong in a
ma$m prevailing in France to this
day?that property in land extends from
j 4,hc|?'en above, to hell beneath," instructed
a county attorney to bring an
j actioi:* He claimed either the restitution
EM the aorolith which fell upon his ? .
| land; or 82,000 damages, which he judged .
to bt the value of it. The case lias not
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j yet been tieciaea, ana inrrau iia iu u.?b
I its weary length for some time to come.
It has, however, been pretty ckarly established
that the damages claimed are
excessive. There is a regular tariff of
i the value ol nerolitbs at the Paris Mil*
j seum, and ?25 is a high average price.
! Eminent legal talent is engaged on both
J sides, and thus, far the peasant is believed ,**
j to have the bfettter of the Parisian.
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