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- T ZT r ■-.. . \ "„ . ^ • ‘ ? ; • > ’T ‘ ' i W*L^.jC r M sss VOL. VIII. BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1885. At Niche. I. s' Hark! how the Winter’* wind doth whittle ■in 11 And 'tralnct the fro«ty pane doth sharp 1m- pel His warlike mimicry of shot and shell with all the Btreiiifth of an unoonquered wllL The fcttth’ry pines with glitt'ring store are bright. And all along the maples' slender limb* Hun veins of silver—suddenly there gleams Through a cloud-rift—one fair, faint beam of light. The thwarted sur s good-night. Now drops night's psdi. ' ina win far. Hear the lo m And once mom Alice found herself repelled. Aunt Froderica came daily to the boose, and sat solemnly la Judgment on the bride’s new theories of house hold management Miss ed in and out like a shadow, herself markedly to Cherry. Darling gild* tw, attaching aiy There was a decided counter-current in the house, which Alice could feel rather than sec; and, as the days went by, she began vaguely to fancy that even her husband was different from what he had been. One morning, sitting st the window, she saw a carriage loaded with trunks drive up. “Dear Felix,” she cried, running to where her husband sat in the library, “have you invited company^” Colonel Fountain reddened a little. “Company!” repeated be. •Oh yas, I see. I intended to have mentioned it before. The fact ia, dear, my sister Frederica is coming heie for a few months. You are so young and inex perienced that I thought, perhaps, it would be better for her to take charge of the housekeeping, for the present, at least.” Alice’s damask-rose complexion deep ened into scarlet “Have I in any way failed to your wishes, Felix?’ said she, stilled voice. “No, no; but Frederica though “Ido not want to hear what erica thought,” said Mrs. Fountain quickly. “And Cherry is getting so lawless, and Willie is positively ungovernable, and Frederica says that the house needs a firmer hand to rule it,” went on Col onel Fountain. “Do you think so, Felix?” ••I? Well, no. not exactly; but yon know pet, that you are voung to be at the head of a household like tnis.” A1 ice bit her lip. “Why did yon not think of that be fore you married me?’*said she. “Now vou are getting childish. Al- said her husband gravely. "I Frederica is I wind swirling from ice-fields And io! bchi.ft out-twlnkllhg, star on star. The lights of homr far shine with rays all magical. How blest beyond alt knowledge, love, were wo If but one light might glow for thee and me. II. Unheeded then should be the storm-swept sky, Unheard the wind, the rattling of the sleet Against the pane, for oh! thy presence sweet. Thy hand—thy voice—thy fond, approving eye Wonld make for me « May In mid-December. I should not mind the landscape bleak and chill. The shrouded plain, the drift-encumbered hill. I should forget the Winter to remember. Alas! Alas! that bliss may never be; The Winter with Its gloom will puss away, And here, before this window, llow'rets gay. By south winds kissed, upleap—but oh! for me, Inth e snd Winter of love's discontent I must lorever dwell in languishment. —Ada Iddiiips Gu!c, In The Current. THE NEW WIFE. ‘•‘Miss Cherry, Miss Cherry, it is time to come in!” The old stable-clock struck six as Nurse Nancy stood with her hand shading her eyes—the sun was sinking behind the fringe of willows that out lined the river, and the dead leaves iliittcred to and fro upon the brick- paved walk that extended beneath the csimlier of pear-trees. And Cherry Fountain, sitting in a low rustic chair on the river-bank, nev er stirred. "Mi.-s Cherry,” reiterated the old nurse; cold yourself, you might have sonic consideration for Master Wil fred.” "Nancy, don't interrupt,” cried Cherry, petulantly; “we are happy here. Willie and 1. Why can't you let us alone?” “Dut your papa is asking for you, Miss Cherry. Ho lias come home, he and your mamma.” “He and his new wife, you mean," said Cherry with a enrl of her lip. Hut little Wilfred jumped up and pulled eagerly at ids sisters dress. “Lot's go in. Cherry,” said ho; "I love papa. And 1 want to see my new mamma.” Cherry rose slowly and reluctantly, but before she could pick up her books and shawl, a light ligure, dressed in some glistening white material, came running out to the river shore. "Where are the children?” said a soft voice; “I want to see the child ren.” Willie, an affectionate little fellow of eight years old. run into the arms of ids young stepmother, and overwhelm ed her vyth kis>os, which were most cordially received, but Cherry hung back with defiant glances. “Come here, darling,” said Mrs. Fountain. “Why. yon are nearly as tali as 1 am. Papa,” turning archly to the bridegroom, who had followed more slowly her flying footsteps, "you never told us that tins Cherry of ours was almost ayoun^ lady. ” “Because I didn't realize it myself,” said Colonel Fountain, caressing one of Cherry’s long brown curls, and think ing, even at that inauspicious moment, how much like her dead mother she was growing. “Cherry, this is your new mamma. You must be great friends witii her!” The tears brimmed info Cherry’s eyes—her lips quivered. Mrs. Fountain’s quick eye saw it all, but she had too much tact to interfere. She only kissed Cherry and clasped her hand tenderly, and then began to talk about the beauty of the river, all reddened in the sunset,glow. “They arc beaut.fit!children” shesaid to her husband that night. “I am sure I shall love them if only they will let me!” “I don’t think there will bo any trouble aliout that, darling.” said the colonel fondly. Nor would there have been, if Cher ry’s frank, generous soul had been left to its own impulses. But the neigh bors had condoled with her too sym pathetically. Miss Darling, who would herself have been glad to console the handsome widower, had said plaintivo- “You, dear Cherry, must remember your mother's memory, although your father seems to have forgotten it.” And Aunt Frederica, tne elder sister of the deceased lady, had ostentatiously come to the house to remove all the personal belongings of the late Mrs. Fountain, during the absence of the colonel on his wedding-tour. “I dare say your new ma will be for flinging all these in the fire.” said she. “I only hope she will be kind to Willie, poor 6hild!” ** “If she is not,” flashed Cherry, “she wHl have me to settle with.” But Aunt Ftederica, only groaned and shook her head. And it was in this spirit that Cherry was prepared to meet her father’s sec ond wife. Small wonder that Alice Fountain found it well-nigh impossible lo win her love. “This was your dear mamma’s favor ite flower-bod. Cherry,’ said the bride one morning. “Willie told me aa You and I most make it our care to keep, the place always bright and loyely ” Cherry blushed « little as she glano- ed down at the weed-grown parterre. “There is no occasion for troubling yon,” said she. “1 can take care of it 1 shooktUkie toMelpyou, dear, I am so fond of gardening.” T to do it myself,” said Cher- prefer! ^‘Mrs. fountain looked at her wistful- S , hsflUeaid apthing sure joat then. In «afternoon she earn# to the little “ thinks i etmU rntth-yo* end “Mamma is always right.” echoed Cherry and Willie, showering caresses on their recovered treasure. For, by some magic spell, Alice had contrived to convert the whole family at last It was never “my stepmoth er” again, it was always “Mamma Alice. ’ What Is a SavageT No one wonld call the ancient Brah- meet in a Fred- man’s savages, and yet writing was un known to them before the third century B. C. Homer, quite apart from hw blindness, was certainly unacquainted with writing for literary purposes. The ancient inhabitants of Germany, as de scribed by Tacitus, were equally ignor ant of the art of writing as a vehicle of literature; yet, for all that, we could not say with Gibbon, that with them the nobler faculties of the mind had lost their powers, the judgment had become feeble, and the imagination languid. And we find that the use of let ters is by no means an indispensible ele ment to true civilization, we should ar rive at the same conclusion in examin ing almost ever}’ discovery which has been pointed out as a situ qua non of civilized life. Every generation is apt to consider the measure of comfort wbicli it lias readied as indispensable to civilized life, but very often, in small as well as great things, what is called civilized to-day may be called barbar ous to-morrow. Races who abstain from eatinj' the flesh of auimals are apt to look on carnivorous people as sav ages; people who abstain from intoxi cating drinks naturally despise a na tion in which drunkenness is preva lent. What should we say if we enter ed a town in which the streets were neither paved nor lighted, and in which the windows were without glass; where we saw no carriages in any of the thor- onghfares, and where,inside the houses, ladies and gentlemen might be seen eating without forks and wearing gar ments that had never been washed? And yet even in Paris no street was ; pavsd before 11H6. In London Hol- ! born was tirst paved in 1417 and Smith- ; field in 1614, while Berlin was without ; paved streets far into the seventeenth century. No houses had windows of f 'l&ss before the twelfth ccntnry, and as ate as the fourteenth century anything might be thrown out of the windows at Pam after three times calling out “Gare 1’eau!” Shirt* wore an inven tion of the Crusades, and the tine dress es which ladies and gentlemen wore during the Middle Ages were hardly ever washed, but only refreshed from tine to time with precious scents. In ice, shall begin to believe that right about your temper!” Mrs. Fountain could endure no more. She turned aud left the room. Colonel Fountain looked earnestly after her. Like most men, he hated scenes, but nevertheless, his conscience pricked him a little. He half rose, as if to fol low her. and then he sat down again. “Frederica says 1 ought not to give way to her in everything," said lie. "And perhaps she is right. Frederic* tlduks the children should receive a little more of my attention. I’ll g©,,,,„ ,. and walk through the garden w u h , J, 650 aro L ther * in them now. Of course the poor j 1 M -1 * b o “p™ than cenriages liuifs ought not to be neglected because on ^.. on ? !,, Jf Queen, the other I have ninrriod aernin ” I Diane Poitiers, and the third to Rene de Laval. In England coaches iso called from the Hungarian kossi) date from 1580, though whirlicotcs I have married again. Half an hour later Alice looked out of the casement and saw her husband coining out of the greenhouses with Cherry fondly clinging to his arm, Wil lie trotting on before, and Aunt Fred erica following with both hands full of the rare white grapes which the old gardener partca with so reluctantly. “ 1 hey are happy enough without me," she said lo herself, with a sharp sudden pang at her heart; "I am only an intrudornere.” When Colonel Fountain came up stairs to dress for dinner, he fouijd the room empty, but a little note lay ou the bureau. “I>i auksr Fklix,” was what lie read on tearing it open,— ‘1 hope vou will not blame me lor leaving your house. But I have de oiled that 1 cannot live whore 1 sin not loved and trusted thoroughly, if you and Cherry can be happier with Miss Frederica than with me, 1 cheerfully abdicate In her fa\or. One tiling Is certain—there cannot be two niistrestn-s in a home. And I will try to he as happy as possible with mv Uncle Wiiloinrhby in tne meantime.—And please do not forget that 1 am still your loving Alice.” Colonel Fountain's first impression was that of hot anger, bis second a dull despair. But Auut Frederica pursed up her lips. “Depend upon it, Felix,” said she, “the girl is tired of you. I do despise these chits that never know their own mind!” “Be silent,” said Fountain hoarsely. "You have ruined me! Is not that enough?” A week of Aunt Frederica's rule com pletely discdchanted the whole family. Cherry burst into tears one day when the old lady was especially exacting. “I wish I had my mamma back again,” said she impetuously. “Your sainted mother, dear child,” groaned Miss Frederica, “is iu heav en.” “But I mean my mamma Alice," sobbed Cherry. “I do miss her so dreadfully! 1 believe she really loved me. And—and 1 do love her, and I wish 1 hadn't behaved so horridly to her. There!” “Can't wo bring her home?” shouted Willie. “Nobody remembers to help me with my sums, or to cut out paper ships for me, ’bow that mamma is gone!” “We will bring her home,” said the Colonel, who was just then particularly exasperated at discovering that Miss Frederica had been transforming Alice's boudoir Into a bedroom for some fourth cousin who was contemplating an ua- invited sojourn at the house. And Alice, sitting solitary atid alone, like “Mariana In the Moated Grange,” was astonished that very day by the unexpected vision of Cherry herself. “Mamma,” said the girl, half bash ful, half eager, “dearest mamma, will irt back to the fourteenth century. So far as we know, neither Dante nor Be atrice used forks in eating, and yet we should hardly class them as savages. — Max Muller, in Uu KxneUentk Century. said she. * / Kald kaipvTMKiayoor vou forgive us all, and particularly me? Will you come home to us again? W« are so lonely without you, and papa lays ” But Alice had sprung to her feet and dlaspcd hertfepentnut stepdaughter iu her arms. “Will you really love me, dearest?” said she. “Oh, Cherry, Cherry, if yon could bpt know bow I have pined for ydurlover’ Bo she came home again, this than In An undivided kingdom, for Mies Fred erica and her sisters had politely been tnraed out of doors: the boodhtr was ttsslf again, and Colonel Fountain eras waiting on the threshold to wsleo— her hack. “My dear,” said he, 1 have made a tool of mynelt 1 see it aU now. ft, shall not happen asnoond time,” •‘Did 1 do righi Feiixrsbe t«t, oM> was so Professional Dlgnltj. Doctors are fond of talking about the dignity of the profession, and do their best to uphold it. An eminent London physician once told me, in conversa tion, that he makes a point of never thanking his patients for his fee when he takes it, but simply pockets it as a matter of course as his due. I presume he would similarly disdain to ask for it should the patient depart without of fering to pay. They sometimes do this. A friend of the writer, who was once treated thus by a lady richly at tired. stopped her just os she was mak ing her exit, and in tln» blandest of terms begged to be allowed to look at the prescription again for a moment, lie looked at it for a few seconds, and then, tearing it across, threw it into the tire. “Ladies ip silks and satins,” he said, “call generally afford to pay,” and calmly rang his bell for his servant to nsher in the next patient. Doctors occasionally get the worst of it, though, when they stand too much on their dignity with patients. A local ractitioner in a country town was one ay sent for to visit a child in the fam ily of one of his patients. On arrival he found his little patient had been ail ing for some days, and asked wby he had not been called in before. “Oh,” said the mother, “we have been giving it a bottle of E——’s stuff,” mentioning a patent medicine prepared by a veteri nary surgeon well known in the coun try, and a bottle of which she had ob tained at the chemist’s. “What!” ex claimed the doctor, “expect me to at tend after a horse doctor?” and he marched off in great indignation. The father of the child was a baker, and A SAT> PPNmu SSMAN. Is Slowly Writing; lllmortf to for His ComrtltiMsnta. supplied the doctor’s family with bread. Next day no bread was delivered at the doctor's house. The doctor's wife put on her bonnet and shawl and went out to call on the baker, respecting the omission. On entering the shop she saw the baker’s better-hall, and polite ly intimated that she had called to sav that no bread had been left as usual, and shs wonld b» glad to have some sent. “Oh, no," was the reply, “your husband won’t attend us as a doctor, so we sha’n’t supply him with bread,” and thev didn’t The doctor was forced to deal with another and Inlerjor baker, as similarly the baker had on the previ ous day been forced to send for another doctor. v. I— • • A Cleveland (0.1 machine company has the first and only auger ever manufactured that will bore a square hole. lt| application is ordinary and works on the same principle as ronnd- hole angers. Its end, instead of having a screw or a bit, has a cam motion which oscillates a cutter mounted on a steel rocking-knife which cuts on both sides. In order to prevent the splint- ering of the wood the ends of the cut ter are provided with small semicircu lar-shaped sawe which help ia cutting out penectly square corners. It is es timated that this new proems will save the labor of three men who work with chisels. An Ohio mu was the Inventor. _ A Moatana man comes to the front with a story about finding a save fall ■Tt petfCfiod rattlswahas Whan tho 4 whiskymake* a fellow see'em petrified, jtauethunf a ohrnBtor atmjHjr awful. CMw(AsA> “It isn’t nil tlm norfume of flowers and the sm > m „( fair women to be a member <» i-i i-ress. We don’t feed on locusts and vv Ud honey and sleep on down,” n-ii,) a weary member as he tilted back in his chair and brushed aside th>- h tip of letters piled upon his desk. 11c had a haggard look in his eye, and hi* right hand hung limp at his side with a pin between his fingers. “If anybody thinks it's clover, let him try it! I started out with the idea that it was mv dutv to answer every letter I got. Wall. I liaxe involved myself in a problem rof geometrical progression,” aad he t ointed in a despairing sort of way at the desk before him, the adipic waste basket by his side and the floor about him—ail full of letters. “They are accumulating every day. Everv oq,e I answer brings two more, and 1 answer them all. Just think of it! It makes my head swim. When I first came here 1 used to go out a little. I went to the theater occasionally, or to an entertainment, or to a reception, or to see a frieud. Now I go nowhere. Each year I am more closely confined. The walls are closing in around me, and, like the man in the Tron Shroud,’ lam waiting for them to close and crush me. I’ve stopped going oiU- I leave my oommilteo-room at the capitol only to go to mv desk at home. I swallow my dinner whole, as it were. I write late at night—later each night. The progression is working out, and my mail’s bigger each day. Presently I shall have to ait up all night; then re duce my meal* to five minutes; give up smoking. Write, write, write! Oh— weli—think! ’Tis a terrible doom; slowly to write one’s self to death. The pile of letters is up to my n;ck. Soon it'll he over my head -daylight will he shut out—and—then —! “No, sir: wo don't live in clover.” And he drew in a long breath and settled himself down in his chair as if resigned to his impending doom. “Why, it started this way—it always h is a start; any member will tell you— it started tiiis way: As soon as I gut to congress I got a letter from one of my constituents congratulating me upou my election, and saying that he knew now there would be some legis lation; the constitution should not be violated; I must introduce a bill iu the house to prohibit fishing in mv dis trict witii three hooks to one line— ’twas unconstitutional. 1 answered that letter, bewailing the utter disre gard of congress for the national fish eries. and explaining the utter useless ness of attempting class legislation. 1 got four letters from that neighbor hood by returning mail, and they kept on increasing until tho entire popula tion was represented by autograph let ters. My promptness to answer any and all fetters was heralded all over the country, And I was asked to pass all sorts of bills, from one to regulate the length of prayers to one for the suppression of kissing at pound parties. One man wanted to Know whether the rope Guitcan was hung with was hemp or cotton. I referred this letter to the department of justice. The attorney general indorsed it to the warden of the jail, who returned it to me with a minute official description of the rope —the material, length, and manner of make. This contributed largely to in crease my correspondence. Everybody wiio had something to write about that no one cDe would notice was told my address, with the assurance that 1 loved to write letters. A large num ber of my letter* now are applicants for places under the new administra tion. One man want d a place that would take him to Canada. He did at par;:cuiar place. His not know w doctor toid him that it would benefit his heiritn to iivu there, and if 1 would just look around and tiod a place there for him with it pretty good salary at tached lie would like it. But, by tb* way lie had children just growing up. I might take this into couaider&tiou, and get him located where there were good free schools. “Another fellow wrote that he would leave it to me to ulck out his place for him, but I mustn't get the salary be low $1,300. He thought I’d be a bet ter judge of good places than be was. “Some men may refer these letters to the waste basket, but it don’t do. They must be answered. I must write; good-by. I mustn’t waste more time talking. I’ll have to sit up late to make up for it I must write. The walls are dosing around me.” “Well, mv good fellow, what can I do for you?” and he turned to a sup pliant m soldier clothes, who stood at his elbow with persistence in his face and a glased cap in his band. “I’m an American by adoption. In ’59 I married an American woman with a mule—her grandfather left it to—” But at this point the petitioner was thrust aside by a Mexican pensioner, who wore three medals and bad been a personal friend of Win Scot*’ wanted his pension increase^. ington Star. ^ Cuffs and Collars in the Weet. CHAMOIS. SoaMthlaS Afcsnt Hm Alptns Ants top*. That chamois are capable of passing places that even a eat would hesitate at is well known to every one who has wandered much among the high Alps. A few months ago l was in the -wild and desolate region of Pis Vail red. where it overhangs the great Grialetsch Glacier in the Canton des Grisons. From thu glacier I traced chamoia-tracks, high up over some very steep snow slopes, to where the slopes ended, at an absolute ly vertical wall of rock. This wall pro jected like a buttres*. and was proba bly fifty or sixty feet broad, and 400 feet to its base, while all al'ove was nothing but overhanging cliffs. On ti a oilier side of the buttress the snow-slotie was continued, and here the tracks recommenced exactly on a level with the other one*. How had the chamois passed that wall? That they had pass ed it was certain. If it was by a leap it must have been a terrific one, and in their flight they would have bad to de scribe a horizontal curve like a bow. The more likely explanation is they found cracks in the face of the rock, for their wonderful feet, though even with the aid of a good field-glass I was unable to detect the presence of the slightest lodge in the precipice at that spot In spite of their surefooted ness, however, these animals do sometimes come to grief. Mr. Why super, in his “Ascent of the Matterhorn,” relates how he found a chamois in the neigh borhood of the Stockje, at the head of tho Zmutt Glacier. The animal had slipped on the upper rocks, rolled over and over, down a slope of debris, with out being able to regain its feet; and, its horns catching in a notch in the rock, it xvas unable to free itself, and had starved to death. Recently I met a hunter with a cha mois of forty pounds over his back, toiling painfully down the lower slopes of the Aiguille Y'ert, near Chamounix. He had been on thu mountain for two days, the result being tho one animal, which lie had only recovered with great difficulty after he hud shot it, as it had fallen over tho precipice. This is a common occurrence, but it is seldom a hunter will leave ills quarry behind him. Three years ago some Germans mountaineering iu the Bernese <Iber ian d found tho decomposed body of a chamois rostlug on a lodge of rock about fifty feet below them; aad a few moments later they were horrified to observe the body ot a man on a grass slope several hundred feet lower down. By making a detour they managed to reach the spot. The poor follow was Iving on his back, bis gun-barrel bent (fouble, and the stock smashed to splin ters. His body was terribly mutilated, and the face was decomposed beyond all recognition. flis bony hand still grasped the lock of his gun. The posi tion he was lying in, and the chamois up above, told their own story. He had shot the chamois. It bad rolled over on to the ledge, and in endeavor ing to recover it he had lost his footing and moat have been lying for many weeks where he was found. If once the sentinel buck of a herd of chamois catches sight of a man, all hope of coming up with them that day is at an end. Under such circumstan ces a hunter will often follow the tracks over snow and ice all day, pass the night in the shelter of some rock, take up the trail again on the following morning, when possibly patience and perseverance may bo rewarded. One of the number is alwavs in ad vance, and another one soma little dis tance in the rear. These are the ad vance and rear guards. Occasional they stop, sniff the air, and aean the mountains, and at the eiightest indica tion of danger they give the signal and tho whole lot go bounding away as if they had been caught up by a whirl wind. If they happen to be on a gla cier or snow-flela whon startled they almost invariably make for tho roc ho. This is probably the result of some in* stinct which teaches them that theft tawny color renders them less liable tc be seen amongst the dark rocks than on the snow.—London Graphic. The San of • Woman’s Lifts. “Don’t talk to me of the West,” ex claimed ayoung man on an East-bound train. “Tne West makes me sick, and I’m getting back to Boston as fast as I can go. No more of the boundless, blooming West in mine, if I can help it, and 1 think I can.” “What’s the matter with the West?” “Matter enough. Have last come from a Rule town in Western Nebraska. Had a store ont there. Laid in a big stock, and fixed things np nice. Ex pected a booming trade. If I do say it myself, I had the nioe>t store in the county. The people osme in to set bat wouldn’t buy. The few that did buy anything would eye me suspiciously and never come back. Couldn’t sell $fi worth’of foods a day, and had to make an assignment. And all this be cause—guess it if you sab.” “GH» It m.” “Because I wore cuts and a staod- oellar. Ike man that wears suck togs can’t da business behind n counter out in that country. They won’t stand H, He might as well ex- peet to stop a kilaeara with i finao.” —' Oaring a CeM In the The commonest type of cold is that ct-llcd “cold in the hesd,’’ to distin guish it from “cold on the chest.” This “cold in the bead” has certain well- marked symptoms—a feeling of jrtner- al inalatH ts- exporicnoed. often ac companied by a slight feverish sickness. Then comes a sensation of fnlness in the head, there is snoozing, a profuse flow of tears, an irritating and copious discharge from tho nose. This means thst tho mucous membrane of the nose is inflamed, and if this spreads down the back of the throat, the sufferer be come.* hoarse. The best way to treat this troublesome complaint is to take a “hot drink.” An orange sliced and put into a large cup with a little sugar sprinkled over it. and boiling water' poured tipo i it, and then drunk as hot a* possible, is both pleasant and bene ficial. Tho feet should bo put into hot water, with or without a little mastard. Tho foot-bath should be taken at the bed-side; tho patient should be well wrapped up, and a blanket placed across his knees should be drawn out side the bath, so as to confine the steam. After keeping the feet iu the water for from five to ten minntea, .the pationt should lose no timo in getting into bed, where he will probably derive great benefit from the general feeling of warmth, and from the flow of per spiration which has been induced. If possible, at this stage, the patient should remain in bed for two days, with a fire in his room, which should be n ell made up at night, so ns to keep alight till morning. But keeping iu bed will do little good if the patient persists in holding a newspaper or a book to read, for thereby he is more dangerously exposed to the cold than if he were up, dressed and going about as usual. The main point is to keep thoroughly wrapped up and constantly warm. Even an uncomfortable de gree of heat may be beneficial. A small piece of camphor chewed and sucked, is very good. So is the inhalation of sulphurous acid gas—« remedy which was fouad to be in con stant use by tho weavers of Kircaldy, who had it among the materials of their work. Buy two ounces of snlpharoos ncid (dilute) from a chemist, and then take out the cork and inhale— through the nostrils only, of oourse—the pun gent gas which Is given off. Some use Furrier’s snuff, and find benefit there from ; but it must be used cautiously, as it contains a powerful drug—to-wft: morph a. Ten or twelve grates of Dover's powder taken in gruel at bed time is good for an adult, but should not be administered to chlldrea, as it contains opinm, which should sever be given to them without a doctor’s pro scription. To avoid an unpleasant excoriation of the noee end upper Up during the course of a cold is the beau, thev should bo often washed thoroughly with soap and lukewarm water, and a little vaseline should be applied. If the throat feels sore, a chlorate of potash lozenge should be suoked oeoasionslly. — The Family Doctor in Household Words. Au occasional personage in toolety is the young woman who does not In the least care for the oompanionthip of other women. To her an afternoon tea or a “hen lanch” is like soup with out salt It does not at all matter that the women may be bright and clever, leaders of fashion or notables in a worldly wav; after all they are but wo men, and all the bright talk, all the ready smUes, all the grace and charm of manner that are current coin at such gatherings, are but awful wastes of raw material. If she is a person decking in refinement she does not nearly disguise her impatience, her sb- soiqte weariness, her conviction that hourt spent with them are lost And even if she is tactfnl it is often appar ent that her Mode and manner intend gnurious patronage, and the gentle en- dunnoe of a boredom that she cannot am*, dtfhen the men come in it it ko the theatre by elec tricity. All the dimly guessed at femi nine attractions flash into view. There are smiles, laughter comes readily, re partee is ouick, and archness most arch. To this young woman the mac is as a glass of champagne He is Ut* erally and figuratively the sun of her existence,—Acw Orleans Times-Demo- ml. * mm m ■ , — Hanging Makes the Masclee Rigid. The htiycl r**r Co., last wKk no South CwwihM the I Catholic Knights ot. in New Yoct tort wt Tenetr rep remits I -At Qrayeen. the exploeton of gl stove works, three kfHed and two were bedtyr t —▲ apodal from ‘‘The levee -at Woodiaum fM DOOW DCTwp MM PWMBf MM v tation and pert ot femrat M» merged.” —A reduced Statue of liberty' World has been fbcneilj the Amerieaft resldeete capital to the i —The President has appal C. Tanner, of South CaMti Consul of the United States nit*. Tanner was a CooMi under Hampton, and insitaii ■H dier. —A disastrous ira occurred at 1 trace, Tenn., on Ttieeday ntgtl •tores and their con toots Two persons alooplwff in poo •tores are missing. Loos Sous to $40,000. —Some negroes ia relied over a game ot eardto< ensued ia which kitivee n were freely need. It ia i*M fire of the party wan kUMd^ are wowadadi Khartonm, is, aeaarflag te~ reived by aouse of Vienna, stfll alive and a El Mahdi’s heads. —Owing to Great Falla aa near Hoekii ». C., will Two hundred i be tfa row e-oat —Nearly every one crofters erfao oattioi Richmond eooattaa. have returuod to fhi change ot ettawfea a done of lift aroiooj —In Pika last, white elope with tered Frhakl the melee «fc stabbed —Ou ta(l einetroU crushing tfie i V •S v » spirts wflTbe Honor* to tlie Dead In * When a man dio*, the first Care ot Us friends I* to place at the door ot the house a cup of cold wntof, a custom for which no satisfactory reason is ed. Then a suit of reuMy good ol< must bj burned, together with moot df the de.id man’s wardrobe—his and shoe*, bed aud beddin pipe, horses, houses, sedan chair,' aad any other possessions which he la likely to oare to have with-trim, tor be Wffl require all thess things la die world, and his reception there nonsMerabiy better if he entree well clothed than it would be should, ha appear in beggarly want It la con sidered that genuine artfoies should be sacrificed for i-is original outfit, though paper representotloet are equally dto cr.cious later. For the same reason It is most Important that all funeral arrangement* should be the vary that ean be procured; and the survijppe often impoverish themed res for yeans to provide what I* considered a decent burial. The eorfwe mast be arrayed hi new clothes, witii a cap and matin (nucha dress as the docraied would have hired for (he day had bo been gm ing to attend a feast.) Tbs ooflin, tub, mast bo handsome and expensive, This, however, is so very important that per sons who oan posstbly afford it pur chase their coffins dnring their life; and the most acceptable gift which a duti ful son oan offer to his parents is a fiat solid set of “longevity boards,” that they may have tho satisfaction of super intending the making and varnishing of their own coffins! In like manner the provident Chinaman iikee to secure bis grave and that of his family during hi* lifetime. 8o e ftoomaneer is em ployed, at a high rate of pay, to ascer tain at what spot the Fang Shut is nosh favorable, and there land is vaults are prepared, aad a a the shape of a horseshoe lb erected above each grave. It k of the utmost importance to secure a spot weH shield ed from the baneful, lighting iafiuencee of the north, but fully exposed to aff skeet influences from the south. Booh a grave is so well pleasing to the dead family bold- assured.— Quarterly Review. -Thu i can Tl Yoek volutoes y*»by trust «o^ flsusnl teat r a a grave is so wen picanng u that the prosperitv ot She fa ing such ground la almost The British Quarterly Revies It is strange bow a little steady prase- ore on the windpipe tffeots people. Ot course It chokes them, bnt that is no reason why they shouldn't be able to move their limbs. They seem to las' all control over their muscles and give right In. I remember a ease that oc othred In Brookville, Mm, when 1 was a young man. A woman, the wife of a wealthy sea captain, threw a skein of yin ovwr the top of an open door one day and sticking her hem) through the bight that hang down doubled op her knees so her feet oould not touch and remained In that position notil she choked to death. Oae woeM 'natural ly think that when she became m- eeosckms her muscle* would relax sad allow her foot to drop to the floor, ha) tot thb case, Hanging Ot Iff ftftfcfeA ’MMr as iron.—fltofeu OJefe. A romantic young waiter-girl at a hotel ia Ontario,Caa., came bear lesfaff her life the other day by trying a footitii experiment She haa heard an old say ing that any girl who swallowed, a chicken's heart raw would have for a husband the first male person the shook hands with, and, believing the proverb, attempted to swallow a chicken’s raw heart, bnt failed. Tt-e heart Vtttsk in her throat and would at* move cither way, down or up. A doctor was ealfed by choking. Some of oar adopted the new ciety news” ask to Mrs. Attar's looked la fit Mm. etc., let’s tea and so In M i Thbfearane ooadltiot ~ •dthaftr onaBObl wMIfi’ day ffct' oiwmMsh' : s WnM