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VOL. VII. NO. 6. BARNWELL. C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1883.
82 a Year.
WAITING FOR A LETTER.
Tba peatman** boor draw* near,
And into tke quiet atreet ,—. _
Throng h foeanpaer curtain* peer
Two viatfnl eye* and awcat.
Tor many weary morn "
She baa kept her station there,
That brave little heart forlorn,
That nerei; will quite deipair. r .
Slowly aha turn* *w»y,
The eraahed heart murmuring still
“it hac noteeaae to day
To-morrow I know itwQL”
The poetmac know* her tala,
And it makes hia old heart bleed ;
Those b'uah-roM cheek* grown pale
Art pages a child might read.
“No, I don’t expect te,” replied the
lieutenant. “I game dbnt the third
fire I’ll plump a shot into him. The
first may go over and tbf Mcond under,
but the third’ll fetch Urn I”
Mr. Gale waa no bonstbr, and aeldom
undertook more than behoould perform.
The privateer waa gofcf very steadily,
with but little rise and fal of the deck,
so that the occasion was favorable, but
still, even a big oeventy-fotr-pounder at a
distance of two miles e<ft£d be no very
on ooiiraging mark for a angle cannon
ball. '
In those days, the big gtna were not
fired as now, by means'of percussion
|Mkg6fl »Cullu nalglib remtl. | nrea B® lltrWj uwirmiv. VFl ^yCAl'llMAUM
Ah ! letten enough he bring*— anps; but s man stood by with s slow-
— A miwranlmmm KIwa mwr) flrr I TTY. I • a * ^ XA — *.1 X X
Cheat circular* blue and grim,
Slight feminine scented things—
But never a line from him.
- - ' Slowly she turns away, - -f ‘
The ernihed heart mhrmnring *til),
“It hat not oome to-day—
To-morrow I know it will."
at-tat! to the door ibe Hie*—
Oh, rapture keen and dumb I
Oh, eloquent cheek* and eyes!
Her letter baa come—has oome!
f Oh, postmen pocket the gold—
Pull well thou beat earned the fee—
And treasure tte thanks untold.
That are better than gold to thee 1
Flow, happy fountains, flow,
bweet fount* that have long h-en dry!
Borrow may tear* forego,
But rapture must weep or die.
Rev. F. LasosaiDOE.
THE CRUISER THE T()M.
The Tom, of Baltimore, waa s saucy
hermaphrodite brig, whose men took
grtet,pride in the tony forty-two pound
er which she carried amidships, and en
tertained also sn exceeding admiration
for the skill of their first lientenant, Mr.
Gale, who in all oases of emergency took
upon himenlf the immediate direction of
that destructive engine.
One extremely foggy night, off Ber
muda, the Tom found herself in the
midst of what seemed a fleet. The slips
of a convoy always carried lights aloft
after dark, in order that each might
know the whereabouts of the others; but
upon, this occasion the air was so thick
with mist that no light would show
unless very close st hand; so that it was
only at intervals that the crew of the
privateer oonhl detect tbo glimmer of
one; yet the fact that they could occa
sionally do so proved their unknown
neighbors to be much nearer than could
have been wished under all the uncer
tainties of the case. It appeared prob
able that some of the strangers might lx.
merchantmen and others men-of-w&r;
but, of course, no definite conclusion
itch and clapped it upon the priming
at the word.
$R\ Gale took unusual pains in sight
ing the long forty-two. Onoe or twice
he was upon tie very print of giving
Hie order to let drive, but hesitated and
sighted again, be ma with the match
all the while ianding with arm out-
«tretched and be bright coal glowing
Now a little father, and again a little
lower; was broght the muxxle of the
huge cannon, a the lientenant squinted
slong the iron till the lookon-on be
came impatienlcr Be flash and roar.
“O, never mkl the first shot,” said
Ibe captain; ‘ton’ll have to try a good
many times befce yon hit the fellow I’
“I know it, ddMr. Gale, still againt-
iug intently an never looking up; “but
I want to comes near as—oh, there ! a
little lower t bant to oome as near as
Fire!’’
Down came to burning match, and
the whole vessqhook at the roar of the
forty-two. Fob moment the smoke
wns blinding—4 wliq} a smell of burnt
powder there wiobont the deck I
r “Isaw a gray reak,’’ said the captain;
•srd a mighty oaght.one, too 1 but I
didn't see wherq (mded, for the smokt
was in my way.’
“If the bull fl struck the water,”
said one of the oers, “we should hav
seen it skip, I tk. I had a glimpse
of something beten us and the enemy,
bnt I don’t knovhat became of it,"
Every ouo lc»d anxiously toward
the seventy-found in a minute or twe
some operatioi were observed on
lioard of her wh made the excitement
intense.
“Hello 1” excaed^ Captain Brown
“what does th meanT They have
lowered their herards and are hauliut
up their foresail My soul ! they mus*
Imve got that shthrough their fore
mast! They’re id the mast will go
over, and rfXe getr in all their head-
sails as fast as pole! Look at the
hands going -up forerigging f And
could be arrived at in this respect. there they start t fore-topsail sheets 1
As therifYSn at the moment an almost
entire calm, the relative ixwitions of the
vessels could be changed but very slow
ly, if at all; bnt the men of the Tom
keeping a careful silence, her proximity
remained unknown to thejjlhers, what
ever they might be. Now and then a
light would show faintly through the
fog, seeming tc lie close to the privateer,
then becoming wholly obscured by an
increasing density of the mist. The
weather was precisely in that state which
is*apt to keep sailors at work shifting
studding sails from one side to the other
of their vessel, in order to profit by what
ever light air there may be, as it comes
now from starboard and now from port.
Occasionally a boatswain's pipe was
Heard; and the hollow'atmosphere per
mitted even the words of command on
board of some of the strangers to be
made out with great distinctness by the
primtew's BMUb. The sentences were
tt mewhat like these:
“Lay Volt, ’are, and give a pull h’on
. that mixxen-top-sT-'alyard! The yard’s
M gged—get it h-up w’ere’t beftmgs !”
“H’in with them larlioard stunners’ls!”
“Small puU h'on the weather braces 1’’
“Oome, h’up with the fore and main
tacks and h’ease h’aff sommut h’on the
. sheets 1”
“H’eightbells ! Call the watch there."
The nationality of the strangers
could no longer remain in doubt.
In the morning, after the sunbeams
had dispersed the fog, it was found that
tbs float consisted of three West Indis-
man and a seventy-four-gun ship.
The man-of-war immediately gave
chase to the Tom, then about tfuss
miles off, and, as the pursuer had tbr
best of the breeae, the privateer's-mei
saw themself** in a position of no litth
peril. Bnt, after the king’s ship had
succeeded in decreasing the distance by
s third, she ceased to grin. The chase
was continued in this manner fora nnm
ber of hours—for the American captain,
finding that the breeae had become
steady, and consequently that he could
sail three miles to the enemy’s two,
slung s drag under the Tom’s bows in
order to deaden her headway and give
the Briton such nope ot overtaking her
as would cause him to continue the chase
until he should be widely separated
from the merchantmen.
Ere long the West India vessels were
L go far off that their top-masts could
Bcoreely be seen above the bending
and now the Tom began to
You’ll see the ysifve with men in a
minute!”
By the time thds were clewed up,
those who were tql them were lying
out on the yard long dark rows.
With that numeicrew there was a
simultaneous hang of foresail, top-
sail,, topgrilantsriid royal—as, in
deed, would have I the case with ri^
the canvas upon gup had necessity
required it to be taoff; and even she
would have had a 1 force to spare. *"
Bnt just as the had been hand
somely stowed unthe gaskets, the
masts began to wavFaster and faster
it inclined to leewaien, suddenly, as
i! the weather riggitself had given
away, down it went all iU hamper,
broken short off byleck I It was a
startling spectacle^owermast, top
most, topgrilantmaryalmast, yards,
men, and all, plungUahing into the
water.
There was a mowly scrambling
among the wreckers and rigging
where the namerotlows who had
been aloft were sea so many en
gulfed rats; but, as fterward ascer
tained, the easurityre fewer than
might have been e)d—only three
men being lost, a]jh four or five
others were somewlnred.
From the loss of ay head canvas
the seventy-four wafed to take in
all her sails on the n also, as oth
erwise she would no«r her helm.
She, however, kept 'thing set ou
the mainmast, and, hg her broad
side to bear on theteer, sent the
round shot whistliick and fast.
Nevertheless, the dit being some
what too great for ks, the execu
tion dona was very 1
Mr. Gale repeate<fire with the
forty-twa-pounder in or twenty
times, but could not din bringing
down another spar,ah he evidently
hulled her more that A number
of her own shot reaoe privateer;
one of them rolling the deck,
wounding a marinehe foot, and
bringing up the oppank-sheer. A
few of them went ig poet with
great force, while o*H short.
This is time hsid Captain
Brown. “ You haibled her, Mr.
Gats—good tor yon we have no
farther business he “* BUre °*
the West Indiamen fd I am going
after them forthwiti
The wind had frecend the Tom
ocean; and now me rom oegan w try . - T
hm great pivot-gun upon th* seventy- was put in chase oterohantmen.
four. It was longer and heavier than ] They were more thlty miles eff
any of the enemy’s guns, and, although
the distance WS* two mltog Lieutenant
Gale had strong hopes of being able to
mark
about the
ishmain.
you won’t hit him at the first
■rid Captain Brown, tke om-
but it was soon disediat they had
tost the breeae whk helping the
privateer; and, oori with them
near sunset, she o*|ll three.
UpomrirrtWiqWS, the Tom,
tub the same oflf before, and
with many of bar
i *ka
upon rounding a bluff which sheltered a
little inlet, her captain discovered a
Gwineaman lying oorily in the basin,
and, going in, dropped anchor within *
cable’s length of her.
Mot a soul appeared npon her deck,
bnt on her stern were read the words,
“Gambia—Liverpool,” which gave the
Yankee commander all the information
he desired. A boot was manned, and
the vessel, which was a large square-
rigged brig, token poosession of; stil)
without arousing any flbe to call thii
summary proceeding in question.
Lieutenant Gale, who was in com
maud of the boat’s mew, want into the
cabin, where he found the English cap
tain lying on a transom fast asleep I He
had his hand on a book, whfoh lay partly
open, and the reading of wMeh had prob
ably been a powerful odjimet to d»w-
ainesa. At all events his slumber most
have been very profound, to have suf
fered no interruption from what had
tieen going on so near him. Opening
hia eyes, he stared in astonishment si
the American officer, whose undress uni
form had a suspicions look.
“H’indeed, sir!” he said, “’ow i*
this? Who are you, sir, if a man mav
h’ask?” ‘ —-s
“I am a naval officer,air,” replied Mr.
Gale.
“Ah, yes! Iseel One of’is Majraty’t
bine-jackets, I must ’ope, sir?”
“Not quite that, sir,” replied Mr.
dale. “The majesty I serve is called
"The Sovereign People.’ I am first
lieutenant of the privateer Tom, ot Bal
timore, to which vessel your brig has
become a prize ! I am sorry for your
misfortane, but it is our business to
make war on England's commerce, as it
is her policy to distress us.”
The English captain yielded sadly tc
his fate. His officers and men, he ex
plained, were all gone on shore, and he
himself, having hod no partioolar busi
ness on hand at the moment, had sat
down to read in the oauih, and to iVudn
asleep.
The Gambria proved to be one of the
richest prizes ever captured by an Amer
ican privateer. She was of about three
hundred tons burden, and Usd almost
completed her cargo for home. Ita balk
consisted mostly of palm-oil, tamarinds,
sod valuable wood; bnt she hod likewise
an unusual amount of gold dust and
ivory, with sn abundance of ostrich
feathers and various kinds of choice gum.
She was, beside, a line new vessel, npon
her first voyage. ' —-—
The British crew, upon coming down
to the shore, were mnoh surprised to find
their brig a prize to a Yankee privateer,
and would not pulloff to her. The cap
tain, at his own request, was set on shore
among them: all the private effects of
himself and his men being restored, and
several hundred dollars in gold also re
turned from the cargo, in .order to re
lieve the mariners who had thus lost
tf><4T fWting home. The arid
that himself and men would, remain at a
Portuguese station at a little distance
down the eosst until an opportunity
should offer of getting homo.
Banning along tbp coast of Bencgsm-
Ms, the Tom fell in with
s ship of three juindied sod fifly^toBe
thereabout, wril-armedand full ot men
To the surprise of the Americans,
hoisted a black flag I She was * pirate,
in search of prey; end the captain,
rightly believing that the privateer mast
have a good amount of gold on board,
engaged her in a very spirited manner.
The buccaneer was considerably super
ior in force, but his men were ill-disci
plined, and their gunnery was wretched
iu the extreme.
It was now that Mr. Gale’s skill
with the forty-two pounder was again
turned to account. After a number of
broadsides had been exchanged, he suc
ceeded in patting s shot into the pirate’s
hull several feet below the water line.
This was done as the enemy rolled in
the heavy swell which happened then to
be running, thus exposing s part of hia
hull which in smooth water would have
been hidden. a—^
i or other matter
the privateer, and they vers well man-
aged.
She hod a strong crew, and, beside,
many of ber numerous passengers also
took part in the battle, so that, alto
gether, she was a rsolly formidable antag
onist. One of her shots, striking the
Tom on the starboard quarter, went into
the cabin, where it; tore throng the
captain’s beeth, anfl, fcoidg across to the
port side, lodged to the lienteusnt’s
mattress.
Bat the Tom’s forty-two-poander
made sad work on baArd the Townsend,
cutting np her hull sad span and spread-
ing dcstraotton among her defenders. At
length, when thafz oagfriw and a num
ber of others were kitted, the English
men struck their eokag First, however,
they thew overhead the ship’* mail, in
order that the Ametioans might not
profit by any information or
that it captained.
It was not euttoiptty heavy to sink
immediately, and the privateer's men,
perceiving it m it Hotted, lowered their
boat and secured it.
A proposition was how made, by Hie
officer whom the deefi .of the English
captain hod left in command, to ransom
the ship in order that she might proceed
on her voyage; and ' the arrangement
was presently effected the snm paid be
ing forty thousand dollars, which, con
sidering the value of the ship and cargo,
was not excessive.
A romantic incident occurred in
nsotion with the battue of this
One of the Tom’s yonder officers sh
Wioh kindness to an Jtoglish. lad, who,
although only a passenger* had token a
brave part in the battle, and received
severe wound. The English youth re
membered the kmdkgwrted American,
and a year afterward m tte West Indies,
whan peace hod been declared, the two
again met.
The American, who was a young gen-
tlemaa of good jMtfSjlhflfrgg!; j fine
education, become introduced to a sister
of the youth he had befriended, and a
mutual attachment sprang.up between
them. Six months later they were mar
ried; and their subsequent life, spent
partly in the Barbadofes and partly in the
United States, was A prosperous and
happy one.
So the voyages ot American privateer’s-
meu were not riwtth without asancla-
tions which were softer th^n the roar of
cannon or the call of the boatswain’s
pipe. Thaee was sometimes a rainbow
of this deseription resting upon the very
smoke of battle. J
Few privateer* were more active than
the Tom, and Yaw hod more of romantic
novelty in their ocean record. Her ap
pearance is arid to here been jaunty and
rakish in the extreme; end one would,
ndeed, be apt to gosss us much.
oon-
A Canal Through Palestlae.
At a meeting of the London Balloon
Society, Captain Moles worth, B. N.,
delivered a letter upon the subject of the
proposed Jordan Canal. The idea was,
he said, to cut the canal twenty-five
mile* from Acre to th* valley of the
Jordan. It would be about thirty- three
feet deep, so as to accommodate the
largest ship. It would, moreover, be
about two hundred feet wide, which
would be sufficient to allow vessels to
pass each other. There would be no
necessity for looks, because when the
water was let in the water of the Dead
Sea'and the Mediterranean would prac
tically flow on tba same level 4o the
Akaba Gulf of the Bed Sea.
The cutting of the canal seemed to
present no great engineering difficulties.
A company had been got np, and that
company spoke of the expense as about
£8,000,000; bnt if it could be carried
out for £20,000,000 the advantage would
still be largely in favor of the ship-owner.
Somediacusrinn followed, in the eourse
of which doubt was expressed m to the
financial success of the scheme, owing
mainly to the fact that if earned oat it
weald flood many miles of valuable fer
tile land on either side of the river. The'
general opinion was in favor of tl^ can al
and ultimately the following rseolntion
was adopted: “That in the opinion of
this meeting the canal which is proposed
from the Mediterranean through the
River Jordan and the Dead Be* to the
Gulf of Akaba is absolutely necessary
for th* growing commerce between East
ern and Western nation* of this hemi
sphere.” ^ ^
The Constantinople correspondent of
the Standard says that Admiral Sir
Edward Inglefidd, who is now in the
Turkish capital to represent the interests
of tiie English syndicate for cutting a
channel for a water way through Pales
tine, has had a very favorable recaption
at the palace, for which Muourus Pacha
had jSWved the way by his wanwjtoom-
meudation.*' of the scheme. The Bolton,
it is said, views fsvor the project
in question, which, ■JjT opening np a
water passage into the Itaf Bos, would
render Turkey independent of Suez
Csnri, over which His Majesty noiK^ ,
eroises only ibe most nominal oontrtfl-
THE VELVET PERIOD.
A NOTAAIJI H BA MON IN TUB UVB OB
BVBKY YOUNO MAN.
Haw || Miroah a Cltlmaa aaS tba Caaroga M
B««alr«4 la rat tt aa-Wky ha Ciavs tt
Away.
A couple of old fellows were standing
in front of the Plankintoa Home, smok
ing five cent cigars, one evening, when
a young fellow pasted along with a vel
vet coat on, and before he hod got oat
of sight, sn eld fellow about sixty years
old passed the aAme place, and he had
on a velvet coat. One of the two old
A id seas, T JE PEOPLE,
Bara well C. H.. S C.
Fifty Ye&» Af*.
Edward H. Ludlow,
The
Arctic.
The steamship Arctic left Liverpool,
bound for New Task, on September 20th,
IflM, and on the 27th of the same month
daring s dense fog off Cepe Baoe, came
in ooUtokm with the Fteribh iron pro
peller Vesta. Copt Luce, supposing
tbs propeller to be badly injured and in
daagaroC sinking, while he bettered his
own ship uninjured, mods a pvperfioial
examination of the loiter and then aeot
off foor of hto own Imato to took for the
Vesta, which meanwhile, badly disabled,
was heading for Halifax, which it suc
ceeded in reaching safely. In less than
half an hoax after the boats had gone.
Captain Lnoe discovered that his own
steamer was leaking very badly, and the
conviction was forced upon him that she
must soon go down. Guns woe fired
and other signals seed to recall the
boats, bat they were too far off to re
spond to the signals for aid. The re
maining boats were hurriedly launched,
but they were iumfleient to accommo
date one-third of those on the fated
steamer. In the midst of the confusion
the vessel went down. OapA Laos had
As the spot wis again instantly sub
merged, of course a perfect torrent be
gun to poor in through the hole. Mr.
Oslo knew what hod been done, for, in
spite of the smoke, he had seen where
his great cannon-ball had struck. ^
The pirates, finding their vessel irf
danger of sinking, hurriedly ran inboard
all the guns on that ride, st the same
time running oat these on the opposite
side—hoping by this expedient to so
careen the ship as to bring the hole
oat of water. But the moment that
so much weight was shifted, over she
went 1
The hatches being spew, the ship filled
:, and in less than live min-
she sank with her whole crew 1 The
Tom bad due man killed and two wound
ed in the engagement.
The same of the pirate ship vrsa
never ascertained, nor was that of he*
captain; bat that she was sn enemy of
most gloomy and threatening front the
privateer’s-men could well attest.
Standing to the northw«rd until in th*
track of vessels from Europe to the
West Indies, oar patriotic adventurers
next descried a heavy ship which proved
a more worthy foe, if a leas desperate
one. She was the Townsend, a mail
arms,
the vessel into the vortex. He whs des
tined to be saved, hoAever. He rose to
the surface with hie little son, and had
thrown one arm around a floating spar,
when,apiece of the wreck come to the
surface, toppled over, and killed the boy
in his father’s arms. Gspt Luce, with
several others, wvre subsequently picked
up end brought to peri Of a total of
430 persons on board 807 were lost.
packet, sailing between Falmouth and dead. The
The English captain, foaling that 1m
bed mnoh at stak?, used every exertion
to defend the property entrusted to hie
The ■<
A lady while engaged in the pursuit
of her domestic duties encountered s
moose in the floor barrel. Now, most
ladies, under similar circumstances?
would, have uttered a few genuine shrieks
and than sought safety in the garret;
bat this one pomsJsd more than the
ordinary degree of rienuine courage.
mat servant and told
U%ke
She summoned the
him to get the gun, call 'The dog, and
station himself at a convenient distance.
•Then she clambered half way up stain
and commenced to pifeh the flour bar
rel
made
the floor. Tbe dog stones want in pur
suit. The
bu ciamuereu umu wmj uj
l commenced to pittch the Hot
with a pole. Preaently the
de ita appearance sbd started
msn’flmd afi| the dog dropped
be lady fainted and foil down
the stairs, and Ac man, thinking that
she woskdad, and footing thot be woo Id
be arrested for maxim, disappeared,
aud hw sot hMfl flop 1^94.
fellows knocked the abbas off his cigar,
end said:
“It catches them all, sooner or later.”
*“What do you mean?” asked the -
other, as he borrowed his friend’s cigar
to light his own.
“Why, the velveAf^tont period,” arid
the flnt men, as he took his
and puffed on it to keep it going. *
man, some, time in hia life, either
or man, sees a tuna when he thinks tbs
world will cease to reuolv* on its axis if
he does not have * velvet coat, end he is
bound to have one if he has to steal the
money to bay it. It is bed enough for
a boy to have the period oome on, bat it
is infinitely womelriesoop* it in youth
and have it attack s man in middle life,
but it always hits them.
Now, you wouldn’t think, to look ri me,
that I ever had the velvet coat fever, bat
I had it onoe in its meet violent form.
“About twenty yean ago, ri tbs time
of the oil excitement, I Blade a little
money in oil, end I got to thinking how
I could show how I was no ordinary son
of man, and all ri ones it struek m6 that
s velvet coat could do it for me, and
had a surveyor measure me, and had a
velvet coot mode. I was anxious to hav*
it done so I could put Hon and go around
among the boys, but when it was done
and had been brought home, I oil ri onoe
lost my grip, end could hardly get up
courage to put it on. I let it lay .for
week, until my people got to making
of me about being afraid to wear tt, me
finally I put it on and ogre it downtown
after dark. Only a te* people saw it,
and l went home feeling satisfied that
i the wont was over. Whet I wanted was
have the oommu
«Mt
to my office on
be busy, so I knew I wouldn’t have to
go around town. Affeethe boys'in the
office got so they ootild witness ay feet
without going behind a partition to bag h
at me, I concluded t&jnar it om the
street, /
“Well,'there wag *n affan-grinder
with a monkey, dot on the sidewalk,
when I went oat, and the beastly ItsliaB
Had on an old velvet aoat, like stipe, only
aoiledt , *h* monkey was jumping
abound, picking up peonies, and all st
oneethgsaw ma. I
the jkOfesakawon that monkey’s foes.
been requested by a portion of his craw
who had seized a beoi to save himself,
but hs nobly refased, wad, with hb [which a wider thread can be gradually
TittTe son in his arms, went down with dropped along. When the outline is
trowel in a sort of thick “re*^
The leaves are afterward careMUy re
moved with a pin, and when the “re
sist” is dry tile fabric can be put in the
dye-vat and the leaves Inade of their
natural color. On# of th* aaori curi
ous processes to wetdhis when the artist
employs s sort of bird-lime, instead of
thread, to outline his design.
He takes a small piece of this glu
tinous mixture on a skewer, touches the
print where he wishes to begin, and
drswa a thread of convenient lengtii.
Placing the middle finger of tbe left hand
under the fabric, he can let the ductile
thread drop to any part of the stuff, and
to go on fanning the design even to suet
minute details os the stamens of flamers.
This sticky substance can be drawn out
to any length, like candy sugar, and kept
an even thickness if necessary. When
tt is desirable to increase the bnsadth of
the lines, a conical tube of oiled paper
filled with the mucilage is used,
•go
real estate broker fas New York
1888, testified
mittee tori twenty
loaned on
per cent., while now the
(ions at* content with 4 to 4j per coni.
in the value ri money ought
to prodam dseieem hi rents, but it has
not, " .
Will yon compare th* social state of
ong ago with that ri to-day^M
Senator Blair.
I am prejudiced,
to* witness said, “for you know that
old fallows think th*
greet dsri the beat
oM
tr
not so
more ooutiartsbly 1
hundred thousand dollars
rich man then, for
pftpolation
did not like to venture on t
.Who JivedJn-Mfli
now, more social,
everybody, sad indiv
obted as well as ]
“The general comforts (
ri life were greater than now.
Ass less emulation, end more shupHetty.
People dremed jaoro for
to be aatiefled with tuner tore* mgshn
ernes and one silk gown, fleam eld
Knickerbocker femOfes still live as Jb
toe good old days hut thoj •*• Tury
taw. Ladfoi
but silks end
dressed like a
Ikmaires vis with one another fas i
to display \brir wealth and she* tottr
foreign manners. Love of shew is car
ried beyond <
mokes the well-
tar oer millionaires, and thapsor strive
in their tun to equal the well-to-do,
Every elam is earned fay this evil spirit
ri' ‘
▲ two-year-old child of Frank Smith's
and James Haney's thren-yeer cM Child
wem playing together hi Bntith’s tot
yard a law days shim, to Eldrsd town-
Prlating Fabrics 1a Japaa.
The ifceans employed for figuring fab
rics would, to our mechanical manufac
turers, appear so ridiculously primitive
and round-about as to only produce
laugh. "Yet these fabrics have the
subtle charm ri handwork denied to our
correctly-printed designs. No doubtum
machines are marvels ri scientific ad
justment, bnt to the commonest Japa
nese ootton the tiresome uniformity we
studiously aim at k on principle avoided.
Stenciling k largely employed, and in h
great variety of ways mid variations ri
manner. A printer will cut oat a series He aefthed to toka pm for hk
ri leaves in paper, and lay them on his olterlyj^lked that kk master had
material, then bury them bjOtaeans oI [ procured a new coat without asking the
about afoot long to tts baud,with wfckh
tt was giving occasional bison en the
ground. 1
would laugh heartily.
wodSd bend itaJme down end
something with its head. Then toe stiek
would be brought into «m
the oonvtfttm mirth of tk
follow.
dropped along,
flnkhed the odors are added. The fab
ric k then steamed, and the outline re
moved by being rinsed in fresh water. If
the ground k to be dyed, toe paintings
are covered with a “resist” before im-,
mersion. In piece* of silk, no matter
what length, and even where the
tern k repeated, th* outlines ire
by'
» pet-
done.
France Decs plea
Tbe troaty of peace Vhioh the French
hove imposed on Annam is really a treaty
of occupation, and looks like the bagin
ning ri a French “Tsdian Empire^
When the English in India formerly ap
pointed a “Resident” near a native ruler,
that was only a prelintinary to annexa
tion. The French are to have “Resi
dents” atoll important points in Armsm,
and these officers are to have the protoe
tion of troops. A Frepch envoy k to
help to regulate not only the customs
dues, but the general taxsa. The Freneh
are to build forts.
They at* d*o to keep out the Ohinese.
treaty does not-eperify thk, but the
treaty will not be of much account BO*
Ism th* Chinese ore kept out
A roBser firs in British Orinmb is ex
ploded a powder atilt Evsey pens of
glass in s village near by was broken,
and everybody mo ktimedi “Why, havi
the —KrtftU nr* nod oasin V’
If!* , ' 7~
procured i
consent of hk little brother. Then was
u look ri pain, as though the *
felt hurt that such duplicity had
practiced on him, and then the mtinkex
would took st the clothes in whfoh A*
was dressed up wittfrantempt, and than
be youUHook at toif east with .envy. I
never felt so sorry fel * monkey to ell
my life. I could stand tt to hear
stronger* say, as I passed by, 'What fori
is that,’bnt to see that poor monkey
grieve over the style Y was potting on
was too much, and 1 resolved tt I ever
got that cost home I would put it where
it could never be seesjhigain. The organ-
grinder became alarmed at the actions
of the monkey, and jerked on the chain,
causing the monkey tp tarn a beck sum
mersault, and the poor animal earns up
standing in front of hk He
looked at Urn, and seemed to be st onoe
reassured, and to feel that the apparition
was only a horrid drsam, and then he
looked over hk shonider toward wfcfpfl I
had stood, to nfeke sure, and there I was
in all my glory, Thta the monkey was
mod and began to make us faces at me,
and I got out of JbgkflBfl went home,
with shouts of the monksy’s audience
sounding in my ears, aft* I tooBoff that
ig|t and gave it to toe Bum that took
o»re of my horse, sod I never see s vel
vet coat, either on a boy or man, but 1
think ri What a confounded fori I made
of myself in my Oscar Wilde days. If
you have a boy, teach him to go through
the velvet coot period young, and he
will thank hk stsm.1-/ > «>*’« dun.
walked tttt to w\mrs they
She *ps horrified at i
rottkaoshs wafted
The make toys* fen
OVA to/
time it'
run out tts locked tonga*
and st sight ri
ohaogsd*
coil without which it
sounded ita rattle. Mrs.
to the children to eon
them, and they
ri its way.
Mrs. Sutith killed
•tick. BbUhstt faint
found yeans titan &
the
and the two
The snake was over four
had seven rattles.
toft*
Danger Lerkteg ta fleet.
A physician qf Philsdslphfe
two remarkable surgicA) ess
lew day*. Ou Tuesday a
Tw# Curley Thtogs.
it dsnhle prianod taeto
to they used for fastan-
ing down matting. On the pofatis ww
barbs that caught and retrinad thtir
hold upon the fleslfe She had An Iflfe
where the staple-lid hefiesma tooBS.
On Monday mooing another earn
une under hk netks, that *f
Elton Brady. Her esas fully
tba foregoing She
ehftig odd boiled beef on Booty afefl*
anfl the hook to the bmoI beooatiAg fend
in tbe epiglottis she sufieted groat agony
all night. In toe BMantog aha wont to
the doctor,
sharp printed
They said it
stance that two men from New York,
tiro from Boston and two from Philadel
phia should au meet at the asm* hotel in
Colorado. In fact, the six sot to a row
on the verandah, all smoking, whan a
native cam* up and said:
“Gentlemen, I have discovered a new
silver mine which beak sntohtog to the
country. There are a thooSad tans ri
ore in sight, and the sessyer says it’s ft
percent, pure quill. I want to get my
dying wife cot ri thk chmote, and I’ll
sell the mine to any ef yen for fl6,00fl. N
T’hew thft mmwirmm tfcty V< T
Not one ri the six men'
Not one of them even looked
a
the
Man
terete
foiled;
pened.
s word.
up. Not one ri toem seemed to
oontinenttol whsttMT hk ftt ere i
IS or W par oent. They had a!) "fciB
“MYeAWkj
to a lawyer,
that! hit him.
not Nett,
out ri that)!