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Vox.. XVi 3 BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C, s JANUARY 1, 1891* r. ^,-vjw *~ r V r BARNWELL, C. H„ & 6. —Wood Worker^ and Dealers, and Manufacturers ef 2 — ; Sash* Blinds; Newels, Balusters, Brackets, Seroll-Work. Builders Hardware in Stock; —ManUfaehifers of— Th««e Wagons are Guaranted lb i>e EQUAL TO ANY MADE In tke United States, and as.to Prices, will be soldwgainst all competition. Lumber cf all kind> kept in Stock, dr the Yard. TWIUGHf IN BORDERLAND. Th* sky is s<rW with the Basset iight. He bes poured his gold orer tower &od tree. And scattered his diamonds upon the sea. Propped his casket of pedrls on the robe of Night, And his terns oa the flowerets pick and white. Yet 1 leave them, mother, add fly to thee. Over field and woodland and dark rtvino My spirit ht borne on it) pinions fleet, , Till I clasp your hand and our glad eyes meet; Then we wander away-tn a glorious dream v And float, and float fn a mystical sheen. To a realm unknown to mortal feet ' We hark in that wonderful region of light ’ „ We ore filled and thrilled with lore's sweetest „ tone. While we drink of k bliss to sense unknown. Oh, wliat do they know of pure delight, Whose souls never stretched out their wings In flight • ' Who never have found anti embraced their own? —Elisa Lamb Martyn. J±S23SS~m forward, with aa itnpethbsft^ thi She glanced BUCK CROSS. Nouelty Wsathsrboartling 6 Speciallli. 6. Dungan Bellinger, Wm. McNabi President. - Secretary. J. B. Hair, General Manager* dacll-tf # McNab, Walker & Co. === = -:-Arc too Blisy to Write up 0 Many Worded ' > Advcrtkcment ofGlishitig ond Glittering Gcnerai- ties, but the.V Will be VerjrGlad to see and Serve THEIR MAKY FRIENDS -AND-^ THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH G-oocL GrOods. '■ ND- -A Golden Rule Treatment Ouf Stocks of ]Vlerchapdise -ARK— Have Large ai)d Goipplete —AND— Beeh Selected With the Closest Care. Aa * FtEY WERE BOUGHT RIOflT AND Will be J hld right. We do not exi>ect to w .gttt .ldCh tbia saaeoa tw trShsact tot* of hnainFWgt reticle, low proflt*. tVe fwl very mire that we anil a!' good U*U*h and satiHfy all sellable judgment Up5‘n that plat form we before the people and risk their trade. All in favor of buying the BEST G^ODS at the FAIREST FIGURES and of Sellfm at the best quotations arfc cordially invited to tfy M C NAB, W/lLKER & 60., Dealers iq Geqeral Merchandise. Cotton Buyers. Barnwell C. S. C. -J* fTtvInj^ discontinued the srilfe 6f Li- quors since the New Your BEN DAVIES AS bbett btf.ly \h Select fog And col* leletjtfng lectlnea stock of GENERAL MEK- DlSE that wifi suit theVpeople >y its completeness qnd please \their ockets by the moderation' of iw prieali. The public generally and the ladieA S iartlbttlarlv ate invited to call; efc- mine goods arm fcomprire prices with hose quoted elsewhere. Apd don^t you forget That you may be happy yet. If ybd buy at BEN DAVIES Store, Where you’ll furely get ifro're hood* ffTf ttmtfffdne’t th ah atefftahl i sh- meiiii tHat promise a heitp and perform hottiftig wdrth talking about, BEN DAVfts, Samwen C. II., S. C. feb 1$- tf i.i ■ . ■ ■■ ■ ■ .p- i. , • - i Laid For Sale. * • • A tract of 300 acres, good clay sub- $Ml, 4 miles from Barnwell, TOO acres In Wood, 60 acres cleared, 40 acres in ham- m6^k, one framed tenant bouse, good trell of Water. ^ Part cash. Balanhe on time. Apply l» _ A. T. WOODWARD. M0NJ-.Y TO Siso-odo. At 9*>4 to 10 per cent. Interest. One to live years time, secured by farm mort- tagtoS. For further particulars apply to « n „ ?ATI KRSON, Real Estate and Investing Agent. - jtttyll-tf Barnwell. SC.** Dr. j7 H7E, MILHOUS, Dental Surgeon, filackville, S. C. JVill have regular ap'fjoinUnfits as follows: At Barhwdll, C, it from',!£t. Monday vor sales-day) in each month to Wed nesday evening. Office at the Matter- son House. * __ A. A U. R. R., from M Monday in each month to Wednes- da 5r^ en ' n ^ ° fflce Rt Price’s Hotel. WlTI be at his homeoffloeatBldckville etert F / ld /l>A nd Saturday frort Jst of *ebru«tvfy.40ih 8e|>teml)er inclusive, and Tfitirkday, Friday rih’d Saturl d«y^ from lit October to 31st January Inclusive. . IVill make appofntmentsVlth patients to meet them at either of his offices at any time. Patients will find it mote etffhfortable to have their work done at the office, though If desired%«i call on them at their residences anywhere within thirty miles of BiackrWo. - A black cross had t>een set against Judge Hawkins’ name. Why it is not for me to say. W r e were not accustomed fo explain our motives or 4o give rea sons. for our deeds. The deeds were enough, and this black Cross meant death and when it had been shown us all th^yre needed to know further was at what hour we should meet for the contemplated raid. A word from tho captain settled that, and when the next Friday came a dozen men met at the place of rendezvous ready for tho ride which should bring them to the judge’s solitary mansion across th^mouutains. I was among them an<l in as satis factory a mood as I had ever been in my life, for the night was favorable and the men hearty and in first rate condition. But after We had started and were threading a Certain wood I began to have doubts. Feelings 1 had never be fore experienced assailed me with a force tliat first, perplexed and then astounded me. I was afraid, and what rather wonted sensation was-the fact tliat I was not afraid of anything tangible, either in the present Or future, but of some thing unexplainable and peculiar, which if it lay in the skies certainly made them look dark indeed, and if it hid in the forest, caused its faintest munu.ur to seem like the utterance of a great dread, as awful as it was inexplicable. I nevertheless proceeded, and should have dime so if the great streaks of light ning which now and then shot zigzag through tho sky had hiked the kIiai* °f words and bade ns all beware. 1 was not one to be ^daontod, and knew no other course than that of ad bailee when bnce a stroke of justice had been planned and the direction for its fulfillment marked oot. I went on, but 1 l>egan to think, and that to me was an experience, for I ha<l never been taught to reflect— only to fight and obey. The honso toward which we were rid ing was built on a hillside, and* the first thing we saw on emerging from the for est was a light burning in one of its dis tant windows. Tins was a surprise, for the hour was late, and in that |*art of the country people wore accustomed to re tire early, even sucli busy men as the judge. He must have a visitor, ^nd a visitor meant a possible complication of affairs; so a bait was called and I was singled out to reoonnoiter the premises and bring back word of what we had a right to expect. I started off in a strange state of mind. The fc^r I had spoken of had left me, but a vague Shallow remained, through which, a* through a mist, ! *aw the light in that far away window beck oning mo on to what I felt was in Some way to make an end of my present life. As 1 drew nearer to it the feeding in creased; then It, too, left me, and 1 fohnd myself onco more the (hiring avenger. This was when I came to the that be rayed my presence. She glanced quick- r ly toward the window, and fleeing me turned, pale, even while she rose in height till I felt myself shrink and grow small before her. Thrusting out her hand she caught from the table before her what looked like a small dagger, and holding It up, advanced upon me with blaring eyes and parted lips, not seeing that the judge had risen to his feet, not seeing anything but my face glued against the pane, and starihg with'an expression that must have struck to the heart as stmdy as her look pierced mine. When she was al most upon me I turned and fled. Hell could not hay# frightened me, but heaven did; and forme that woman was heaven whether she smiled or frowned, grazed upon another with love or raised a dag ger to strike me to the grohnd. " * How soon I met my mates I cannot say. In a few minutes, doubtless, for they had stolen after me bad had de tected me running away from the win dow. I was forced to tell my tale, and I told it unhesitatingly, for di knew 1 could not save him—if I wanted to—and I knew I should save her or die in the attempt. “He is alone there with a girl,” I an nounced. “Whether she is his wife or not 1 cannot say, but there is no cross against her name, and I ask that she be spared not oufy from sharing his fate, bnt from the right of his death, for she loves hint" t This froni me! No wonder the cap tain stared, then laughed. But I did not laugb in return, and being the strong- est man hi the band and tho surest with EOlt AND t " Sister iuri brother for maar • year. - Kdto and I; Sharing bright weather and facing the drear, . ’ . . •.< Edfeapfll. ^ • Keen ie our love aa * aword free from rust. Time welds tho closer our absolute trust. So shall it be Ull w« tot* are but dust, > EdleandL Just to know this, that we sorer shall change, Idle aa«l I; Merer grow formal and distant and strange, r Edie aad L Loremnay /ado like a comet's brief flame, Friendship is often but friendship In name, Come what come may we dfe alwiys the aamu JEdleaudL Brother and sister an3 heart within heart, Edie and I; Chaos nor death cannot drive us apart, Edie and L Steadfast as those who have died for a creed. True to each other in word and in deed. Never to fall in tho hour of need, Edie aad I. —Ernest McOaffey in Chicago Herald. ON APPROVAL “What bn earth d’ye call that thing?" 1 asked, poking with my stick at a bunch of grapes poised airily upon a brass stand. “That thing,” rvplie*1 my cousin proud ly, “is the very latest Parisian fashion in bonnets.” I sank back into the little lounge that ran along the rido of the rochh- -yeti couldn't insult anything so dainty with the name of “shop”—and gazed upon its >wnor with an exclamation more pro- ’ane than appropriate. It most at once be confessed that she was a charming object to gaze at wicked to tb**ui, so 6»t I retreated to mv post my rifle, he did hot trifle long, bnt lie- Fhere was an expression of tened to my plan* *ind in part consented amusement in her large gray eyes, and the black gown she still wore in mourn ing for her husband—poor Jock Hender- lon, who was killed in tho Sondan—set sff tho lines of her slender yonng figure, snd threw her gulden hair and fair skin at the gateway with something like con fidence, while he, approaching tho door, lifted the knocker and Tet it fall with a resounding clang that must have rung like a knell of death to the hearts witbm.—Prafctiiy into relief. log everything for notoriety and money.” “Hear, bear! Your sentiments, mad am, are mine. But I don’t think they should be wasted on the mere fact that some other woman has made a hat like yours." “She hasn’tP cried Nina indignantly, v “Lady Loddingtdn wps wearing this very bat! Listen, Fu tell you the whole story. The same afternoon yon called a lady came in beautifully dressed and asked to see some hats. I saw who she was, though I’ve never met her, I don’t want to meet her,” savagely; “one sees quite enough of Her in all the shop windows." “One does,” I remarked, sotto voce. , j “Sho wanted a hat the color of this one; so I brought it but and showed it to her and tbld her the price, and explained why it Was so expensive. "JOh, I don’.t „ piind giving that for the hat,’she said, •it ia well worth it. I am quite in love with it. Mine. Destrier, bnt I daren’t buy it without letting iny husband see tt He Li so very particular about what t wear. Could I have it sent round to night for him to look at? I would let you know some time to-morrow whether I would take it or not.’ Of course:I said I should lx? glad to send it, and she gave me the address, and tho hat went rounj there thkt evening. Last night sho sent it back and said she won very sorry, bnt Lord Loddington didn’t think it suited her: I thought it looked aliltle tumbled, but one has to run those risks when one sends gbbdfi on approval. She had de termined to have that hat jnst to wear for the one day, and sho was too meauto get it honestly.” “Of course you'll have it ont with her —you’ll expoee her?” I said. I was as nngry and disgusteu a? Nina, who stood opi>osito me, with lief pretty eyre and cheeks flaming with honest in • dignation. “My dear boy, Iwcmld if I dared, hut I can't afford to. It wimld drive half mv customers away from me, and t binst THE, SECRfif MOOftfNER. They tore blm onto bi* grate fa* the fcawflef Ct# m € • For th© judge knew our it in bis fopcjEhen he roae to hi* feet^ and he had nb hope, for we hHd never failed in onr attempts, and the house, though strongly built, was easily assail able. ' . * * a , ' While the captain knocked three mea had scaled the portico and were ready to enter the open windows if the judge re fused to juu-ley or offered any resistance to what was known as the captain's will. “Death to tho judge!" waa the cry, and it was echoed not only at the door bnt around the hoase, where the rest of the men had drawn a cordon ready to way lay unsrpne who sought to escape. Death to the judge! And the judge was loved by that woman and would l>e mourned by her till— Dot a voice is speaking, a voice from out that great house, and it aeks what if wanted and what the mean ing is Lf these threats of death. And tho captain answers short and Pull yourself together, my dear boy, ’ ibfl continued, opening the door of an rid carved oak carnet, “and! will show you something that eteh your crude male intellect will appreciate. If you h>n’t aay it’s lovely FU never let you in side the shop again. You may flatten your nose against the window, or stroll disconsolately up Mid down the street in vain! No more chats, m more teas in the back room!" Bo saying, she lifted gingerly from tho ihelf a a largo hat, and planting it upon her pretty head turned triumphantly to ward me: It was lovely—quite lovely— a sort of arrangement in amethyst vel vet and feathers tq match. . Doing only a miserable and ignorant male of course l can't dencribfl it, but it was uncom monly becoming, and made Nina look tike a Gainsborough picture. I told her so and gushed over it sufficiently to sat- ; iafy her. “It’s my own idea, shape and all, and , there isn't another bke it in tho world. ■harp: “The Kn-Klux commands, but never [ UU1 ' t^hly $op? it, but I’m not sore, explains. What it Coiflhifitiiis now is for ^ depends upon who buys it. How I wish yuu were a woman, RonaldT she sighed regretfully, “and I would make you buy it for Ascot to-morrow?" “I wish l were, my dear. Bat why don’t yon go and wear it yourself?'’ “Gracious! and leave the shop frr a tvhole day at this early stage of its ex istence? You guardsmen have no more idea of business than a baby. No, I can't go; but I hope you’ll have a lucky day and a good time, and Ronald dear, if you were nice you’d just look in one day soon and tell me what sort of day you had. Oh, and be sure you don’t for get to notice what hate and bonnets peo ple wore." ’* i jifomised to do my best, and * v ook mf Judge Hrt^kin* id come forth. If ho ‘■hrinks or delays his house will be en vied and burned, but if he will come out and meet like a man what awaits him h!s house shall go free and his family remain unmolested." “An«l what it* it that kwflita him?" put- sued the voice. “Four bullets *roni four unerring rifles,” returned the i Jiptain. “It is well; he will code .forth,” brled the voice, find then in a huskier tone: “Let me kiss the woman I love. I will not keep yon long." And the captain answered nothing, only counted out clearly and Steadily, “Oue—two—three,” up to a Hundred; Aad with furttre foMtteps f« r , tbsoDay blm dowa; Tho okoumeri, many owl sad—though thagJKerfl.. there owe ami sfl, i , The tears that fell were a* Bought to miae, that - ooukl not Call • * V .*> ' v ’ s." at We knredi each other dearijr, iaadajr thatis tu* ; toot now, But somethin# pot to hi* oar, aad he seddsniy changed aomebow— A someth in; got to his ear, I never ooukl gather what— Add ho kept away from tbeoce, aad hit leva tat mo was not. s t I hid my grief In my heart, and bore it as best f might; There was never dartacas yet bat had some re- lierlnj light; And l fooft.I* halm in the thought that, although . _ *J*ls luVO waa gono. - ■ J^te^==gcr|; I could follow him aucretly, nod in aacraS ati.l lovo on. Ami this I've done through the yean that have come tti*d pone Kiue-e thou .t (fio far the love of wonteu surpasses the Tors of ■ men); ’ jjSst I've hung on his track to tho Lot, for 1 ot^f ceased today, ; ’ 0. Am! from hi* grave in tho town I turned Hi isgr " woe away. Ear'll now looks lone ia my eyes, yet I am aot Sit cant dowfl; '* 1 have firm faith that at last I shall somewhere, grasp Love's crowu! That wlico the end shall hare cooea, whatever Is good and tnio_| Will recaflre its just reward, and a lore like mine iU^luu. a — James Dawson. -—-—yr-f £, CJIycerinc as a Wool Preservative. In order to make wool tisroe* wafcflr proof inunnfacturer* have to expeae thfl fabricTo temperaturee as high as 266 t> 284 q* g*. Fahrenheit, and it has beea found ihni the. tiwmo thus treated Imes all its resistance. Up to 230 (legs, there i* no clunge in wool or- woolen goods, but when heated td 260 dega. or above both tnrn yelldW and show evidences of combnstion. By » aeries of cxpcrimcnW Mr* J. Perzng, an eminent French ha, Jm M think of Hugo and <hlre. Thew drm^ ' aly0c5r~ch«mrrt; Tim discovered anew xnst. Jtiach.whilo- they mw wneb-timru, * propshw by mipuub nf wiii^'1l^ uuff'fliffldi' forit of thu-hHt Trad discovered I had FuT forgrt7Vlowl-T--rrprrTed rrar!- rnrTifmrurr'" nrt;T ^* lftr,,TCT ’ bomret. then he r*jiused, turned and lifted his relucUnUy as » large and portly hand; when instantly onr fonr nfles' matron, gorgeotiriy arrayed, and whose rose, and at the same moment the dpor. ^eatofes umxi'lstakably Strayed her Se- with a faint grating sound I shall never J 011 tic origin, sailed m and demanded a a few stepk more to take. The honse, which had now become plainly visible, was a solid one of stone, built, as 1 have *md, on the hillsjde.' It faced the rood, as was shown by the large portico dimly to be discerned in that direction, but its rooms were main ly on the side, and it waa from one of tlteso that the light shone. As I came yet nearer I perceived that t e rooms were guarded by a piazza, which, com municating with the. portico in front, afforded an ^pcU road to that window and a clear sight of what lay behind it. I was Instantly off my horse and npon the piazza, and before I had time to real ize that my fears had returned to me with doable force I had crept stealthily toward that uncurtained window and looked in. ^ > What did t see? At first nothing but a calm, studious figure bending above a batch qf cloeely written papers, upon which the light shone foo brightly for me to perceive much of what lay behind them. But gradually «n influence, of whose workings I waa scarce conscious, drew thy eyes away, and I began to dis cover on every side strange and beauti ful opjectf, wliich greatly interested the, Until suddenly my eyes fell Upon ft virion bf loveliness so enchanting that I forgot to look elsewhere and became for the moment nothing, but sight and feeling, It was a picture, or so I thought in the first instant of awe and delight. But presently 1 saw that it was a woman, living and fnll of the thoughts that had never been mute, and at the discover/ a sudden trembling seized me, for I had never seen anything in heaven or earth Bke her beauty, while she saw nothing bnt the man who was bending over his papers. There was a door or something dark behind her, and against it her tall, strong figure, clad in a cloee white gown, stood 6ut with a distinctness that was not alto gether earthly. But it was her face that held me and made of me from moment to moment a new man. For-in it 1 discerned what I had never believed in till now, devotion that hadr no limit and love which asked nothing in return. She seemed to be faltering oh tho threshold of that room, like oho who would like to eater but does not dare, aad in another moment, with smile that pierced me through, she turned as If to go. Instantly I forgot everything but my despair, and leaned shrinking figure of the judge appeared. We did not delay. One simultaneous burst of fire, one loud quick crack, and his figure fell before onr eyes. A sound, ft cry from within, then all was still, and the captain, mounting bis horse, gave one quick whistle And galloped away. We followed him, bnt I was the last to mount, and did not follow long, for at the flash of those guns I had seen a smile Itcross our victim’s lip, and my heart was on fire, and I could not rest till I had found my way back to that open doorway and the figure lying within it. TherO if was, and behind it a house empty as my heart has been since that day >t A man's drees covering a woman’s form—and over the motionless, perfect features that same Smile which I had seen in the room beyond and again in the quick glare of the rifles. " t had harbored no evil thought con cerning her, but When I beheld that That woman in a flower bonnet! J hope, poor soul, that Nina saved her from herself. “What *n you going to do this after noon, Ronaldf’ aAked my mother, three days latch*, “r wish you to come and call with me on tho Vandferdeckens.” “Can’t, my dear mother. Promised to go and see Nina." Virions of Miss Vanderdecken, rich as Crcesus, but ohf so deadly dull, hastened my movements, and I was half way tq Oxford street before my mother could call me back. I found Mme. Destrier, as my cousin calls herself, just parting with a customer. Tho hat was in her hand. *Tve sold it," she cried gleefully; “jnst sold it to that nice girl for five guineas.” “Awfully’ glad, Fm sure. But, my dear girl, Fve a shock in store for you. I saw the very model and marrow of that hat at Ascot the day before yester day,” “Yod couldn’t, /cm couldn’t! Wfco smile now sealed and fixed upon her lips I found the soul I had never known that , . . , . , , . I possessed until that day .-Anna Kathe- f WM wc * nn « itr * he cned riae Green in Philadelphia Times. 1 “° nieof onr rpifTTlin “ nrnfww ^ maT Cremation at Hi Ian. ' The 'Italian clergy, unlikp ^hfl clergy of France—and for the most part bt Eng land—have never made any objection to cremation, and at Milan, where ffearly 2,000 bodies har*e been cremated during the Kst thirteen years, and where at the present rate of increase cremations will so6n reach an average ofoohe a day, the same funeral service, is performed, whether the corpee be destined for slow corruption under the earth, or for rapid incineration above ground. Two systems* of cremation are followed at Mil*n — Westminster Review. . ij —-— ! Wanted Some Steve Teeth. 1 | The other day ft wamaa not over 30, but minus her teeth, called on a promi nent dentist, and asked him if he could not rent her a set of teeth to wear to a party that evening. She told tho dentist that site supposed that false twEh were kept in stock and that* people fitted Ives.-Waterbary American, t Digestiqii would be greatly fromoted if rest could be taken for half after a meal. A gentle walk with the chest thrown out ia excellent even in- -doorn. When a walk is taken in the house the hands should be slasped a; the back* One of our reigning professional beau ties—Lady Loddington.”*’ “Lady Loddington!" gasped Nina, catching hold of the chair behind her. “Ronald, are you sure you aren’t mak ing any mistake?” “I sweftr I'm not. She had on a frock the color of the hat, and she looked sim ply ripping. I paid her all the compli ments I could think of in the five mih- ntee I was tailring to her.” - ‘^The cheat, the swindle of it!” cried my cousin, white with anger. “My dear girl, calm yourself! Fm sorry for you, hut great minds, as you know, will jump, and some other clever woman has had the same idea as you.!* Nina wfls past taking any notice of the insulting suggestion. She seemed thor oughly upset by the ctjpcidence, and looked as if she were going to cry. “Why did I ever gr* into business?” she cried miserably; “it’fl simply awfnt to get behind tbs scenes liks this snd find out (how mean women—well bred women Who ought to know better—can be. We were all brought up with' the old fashioned noblesse oblige ideas. Ron —you were too—and it seem* to me ^ now ***** fliere ** hardly any one in so ciety who has a notion of honor and dig nity, as we used to understand the terms. Society! After all Fm thankful Pm more or less ont of it It's just a herd of people, poshing,’ struggling, sell- hut I want to give them every advan tage, the darlings, and I was left so bad ly off, and tbe business is jin»t beginning to pay so well. I daren't run tbe risk of exposing Lady Loddington’s meanness." j “I had forgotten your chiLlren. No, j I see it wouhln’t do. , Trust me to give her a mauvais quart d’henre, if I get the chance. ” “Promise you’ll bo careful. Think of the boys!" *T won’t injure the dear little chaps, you best of mothers." “Well; in that I only hope fort- fine may favor you." Fortune did favor me nt last, hut she kept me waiting till the autumn, like {He fickle Jade &be always is. My chance came in thLs wise: My uncle asked me up to his place in Scotland for shooting, and I went Tho old gentleman is a very connoisseur of beauty, and every pretty woman of note is bound to bo asked up to D. sooner or isler. I got there in time to dress hurriedly and ap pear in the drawing room jnst ns my uncle was telling every one whom they were to take in. I was introduced to some girl—I haven't a notion who she was, but I gave her ray arm and took her down to dinner, murmuring com monplaces on the way. The truth is, 1 was half famished with my journey and my oue idea was dinner. It was not till I was well on with the fish stage that I looked at my left hand neighbor. It was Ltdy Loddington herself. “I haven’t seen you since wo met al Ascot," sho remarked pleasantly. She certainly is a meet lovely woman, by the way. I stared blankly, and she keht on, with an air of t well acted re proach: . “I believe yoh hare forgotten we ever met thefe." Herawas toy chance; I seized it. “Forgotten!. Why, I repaember every you said, the color irf your gown, and even, the very hat you wore—the loveliest and most becoming hat I ever saw in my life.” The complijinijnt told. *T don’t believe you do,” she pouted. “Upon my word I do. It ytue a sort of big affair of amethyst velvet and feathers to match. I remember it with double force because I made a cousin of mine quite angry with tho mere descrip tion of it. I don’t kn<*w if yon have ever inet her? She has gone into millinerv, tike everybody else. She calls herself ‘Mjne. Destrier.’ ” . ^ I looked Lady Loddington. fall in the fflee, and laid a peculiar emphasis on the mime. - I never saw any one so thoroughly caught in my life. 1 knew in a moment that she knew I knew, as Punch would put it. She turned perfectly scarlet to the roots of her hair; and then quite white, and didn’t speak for at least a moment. Then she pulled herself to gether as only a woman can, and adroit ly changed tho subject. But she has been monstrously civil to me ever since, mdeh to the surprise o? my friends. I am plain and uninterest ing; I am not a personage; I haven’t a farthing—not even expectations—and they can't make out whew the attraction lies. They had better ask Mme, De strier, of Oxford street, to enlighten them'.—London World. prop and fabrics may be made to retaia their durability and original resistance under high temperature during the process -ot manufacture. . Acting npon tbe established fact that glycerine greatly prevents evaporation, of hnmidity. Mr. Perzog saturated some woolen fabrics with a solution contain ing 10 per cent of glycerine, and ex-, posed them to high temperature* The fabrics thus treated showed not the slightest change under a temperature of 2*4 (legs. Fahrenheit, and they retained 13 per cent of the glycerine. The dis covery of this simple principle resnores one of tho greatest difficulties wRh which manufacturers of ■ waterproof fabrics have had to contend.—Philadel phia Record. A Ixtat Torpsds floats. Tbe fieri jqqflt important thing to! speed ill a torpedo boat is the quir’; turning, aad for this purpose the larger Nonuand, firbican Ond Yarrow boats have two rudders, one in tbs usual plan* nt the stent and one under tho bow. Mr. Thorny croft has another dsvica. He puts two curved rudders hear tho stent and tho propeller is between them, so that when tbe ruddeya *re turned to gether, the water which the propeller is driving astern is turned a little to one side nw 1 helps to push arbutul tho’boat. THo latest idea in torpedo boats is to have their launching tabes mounted on turn tables on dock instead of being fixed in the bow.. With this improve ment a boat will not have to steam straight at her enemy, stop, launch its torpedo and then turn to run away; bat it can train its tube on the big ship as it the tube were a gun, and launch the tor pedo while rnabin£»past at full speed This would be loss dangerous for the torpedo bout, for It would not afford the men, on tho ship p gnort aim at her.— John M. Ellicott, U. 6. N., In 84. Nich olas. •Sfo-"** * Alt Otl«l Coincidence. l , An old friend (call him W.) relates >h6Wi whilo ho was In Florida, his watch stopped. Since ii was a. very good watch and had never stopped before, and Imd been duly wound the evening before, W. was much surprised that it wouldn’t gq. By and by the head of tho house (call him B.) came in. “Will you pleaeo give mo the time?*! said W. ^Oer- tatoly,” said B., and pulled out his watch. B. had a timepiece which wafl entirely trustworthy, not" given to irreg ularities of any kind He pulled it out of liis pocket “By J over ho exclaimed,, “my watch is stopped; that’s queer." They compared the two' 'watches, and they had stopped at tho same hour and at tho aamo minute, and why they had stopped neither man was able to discov er.—Boston Transcript ' Only Partial ftatiafactlon. Another incident of the wheelmen’s excursion over to Europe we overheard one morning. They were riding along through Germany when a German boyj threw a good sized club out in the road to see them run over it. Unfortunately, the club struck a wheel, broke out four j or fire spokes and caused a ridef to take a header. They al! distnonnted and made for the boy. The parents put in an appearance./ Between English and German it was difficult to Tiyikfi ffidrn understand what tho boy had done. .. J Finally the affair was illustrated by » the production of. the club and the wheels Then the old man turned on thfl boy and gave him a terrible whipping. When he got through the wife continued on in a socoud edition. All efforts to fndpc* payment for tho broken wheel were in vain. They were willing to pomui the boy, but had no money to ia* * pair damages.—West Chester (Pa.) Rec ord. * -' • * • '%• , A Clever Youngster. . .. Little Kitty Clover is tho most brazen of beggars! ‘ Grandma, will yon please lend me your gold beads?" she asked, for perhaps the seventh time that week. ^ Grandma patiently took them from the drawer, and said, with her nanal mildness, as sho gave them to this child; . “Try not to ask for them any oftener than you can help, Kitty." “No’ni," said Kitty, adding, aa d clever solution of the difficulty occurred td her, “If ypu don't Tike to lend'en^ grandma, you could give 'em.to me and then I needn't ask!"—Youth'* Com* panion. J Pint Settler* of Virgin to. _ Dr. Stephen B. Weeks, of Johns Hop-, kins university, has made a special study, of the early Virginia* settlements under Sir Walter Raleigh. He maintains that it can be shown by legendary and his torical evidence that tho earliest Enf glish settlors in the now World wars not massacred, as is generally supposed, out wero absorbed by tbo tribe of Croa-. tan Indiahs, and their still to be ff>un£ in Nqr^i Carolina,— Baltimore % l * •• “Misfit photographs tor sale!” if ten up over the door of a < rapher’a Why “misfits! be more mcliwed td art mis take;!- Judy. ■(