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TI-WEEKLY EDITION. WININSIBORO, S. c *ZOYVEMBER 1,18.ETBIHD1% Happiness. In the peace of June's sweet weather Up the~bilhrqvesetSrt, - . Andia pathways bleid togelber In this summer of the heart. Larks are nestling in the clover, Blackbirds chatter lond and long, And a iobin Sying over Tells love's secret in his song. - She is shy, and fitful blushes diomeiand-go upo'n her face, Like a brood of startled thrushes When we near theiinesting-place. Downcast are her eyes, and lower Droop the fringes of each lid, Waen he bends his hiad to show her 0ero thie w's nest is hid. Dwn the rocks, they stop'see Hose thseyellowsimnhine crinkles Al thripleoldenly. "Wooing! wooing 10 sings thewater, As it laughs and leads away, And again his eyes have caught hei Blushing like a rose in May. Then a silence comes about them For a time, until it seems Earth has gone its way without them, Leaving them in land of dreams Happy land, where lovers linger, Where they find their dreams come true, And love points with rosy finger From the old world to the new. A Fortunate Casualty. A sweet Yoice conies lilting down the stairs, light footsteps trip along the ha l to the sitting-room door, which opens, while a face with mischievous eyes, with floating curls falling all about it in a lustrous shower, looks in, to start back in amaze at the sight of her mother in tears, and her sister doing her best to sootheher-her own face not wearing its usual ealm expression. All the sparkle dies out of the pretty face as Passy enters and goesto her mother's side. what is it, =other dear? Has any -ing happened?" But the old lady sobs on, and it is Sarah who answers, holding a letter to Pussy to read. "It is this that is the matter. Mr. Elbermarle,._throgh his agent, tells us that we must pay up the full amount of the mortgage withintwoweeks or leave the house." Pussy's eyes dilate; she knows the slenderness of the home exchequer, and that to paygsich a large sumnupon suck, is olig in wealthr! tuher es teideilyyet anxiously uponL the pretty, indlignat face; she evidently h somehing to say which does not come easily. " You are the one who can prevent sha disaster, Puesy," she says at length. "One word from you and our feele mother wii! not have to leave the boiiie she loves so well.'' " Ican help it-how ?" Sarah-evades the upturned, question ing eyee. "Mr. Law was here this morning, * Pussy, and-he wants to marry you." S The last words came in a great hurry, as though the ,speaker were glad to have them over and done with. With a gesture of dismay Pussy hakes her long ringlets about her face and ninks dowin ~a little heap upon the floor. "That old man wants me to marry hi:m, and I am dinly seventeen ! Oh, Sarah, could you honestly harbor such an idea for a moment?" a world of re proach is in the young voice. Sarah's hand falls gently on the bowed head. "I know it is dreadful to even think of.. But, Pussy, what other way is there ? Think of mother - of her feebleness, which has .always . kept me -tied to her side, pre venting my even thinking of obtaining anylemployment. If we have to leave the old home it will surely be her death. Look at her now." Pussy glances up. The invalid's face is covered with both her hands, while through the thin fingers the bitter tears are steaing. "Pussy, come here." She rises and goes to her mother's side. " edo not heed what your sis tergvsagiShe means it for the best, buffaih as thought only for me. Surely you do not think your mother would purchase comfort at the expense of her child's happiness." All at once Passy's resolve is taken, though she says nothing then to her mother, only presses a silent kiss on her dear gray head. But a short while later she appears at the door bonneted and cloaked, with a little basket on her arm, and beckons Sarah out. "You said you wanted sugar and eggs from the village, Sarah, and I'm going for them now. I wanted to tell you that rye thought over what you said about Mr. Law, and rye come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be so bad a lot after all to be a rich old man's darling." Compunctious tears spring to Sarah's eyes as see stoops and kisses the inno centyoting face, and watches as, out wardly light-hearted and cheery, Pussy starts out upon her long wintry walk. Her brave words and manner have not deceived her sister. "I ought to be ashamel to think of allowing her to acrifin her young life," she thinks, as sh turns back ; "but it is for the dear I-'r. mother's sake, and what other way is there ?" Pussy walks on, a pretty picture in her dark suit with its scarlet pipings, and the lovely face whose brilliance no heart trouble can quite quench. It is very cold ; overhead the sky is gray, and the wind skurries the clouds along at a rapid rate, and plays many a prank with Pussy's hai now blowing it forward intor the rosy face, and now backward into disheveled, curling, bronze brown masses. . A steep incline is before her, and it is one-long dazzle of ice. "Oh, dear," thinks Pussy, "I shall certainly fall." The- thought has scarcely passed through her mind when, with an ex clamation of dismay, her feet slip from beneath her, and down she goes. Some one sees and hastens to her assistance ; but masculine boots cannot always tread dangerous spots in safety any more than the tiniest of feminine feet, such as Passy's-and there is ex clamation number two, as, with a de cided thud, her would-be deliverer sits down by Pussy's side. It is a frank and very handsome face which meets hers, as his dark eyes look into< blue ones with an irresistible, mirthful laugh. In a moment the gen tlemanis on his feetand Passy, with his help, soon stands beside him. "I hope you are not hurt," the young man says, as he lifts his hat, his voice grave, though his eyes still brim over with fun. "Not at all," Passy answers; " but I am on my way to the village, and I am afraid if I go on I shall fall again. I think I will turn back." "I am going to the village myself, and if you will allow me, will accom pany you as far as you go." "Oh, thank you," Passy says, "I shall not be at all afraid of slipping com ing back, as it will be up hill." And so they walk off together, and be fore long, with the bonhomie of youth, they are chatting together as though they had known each other weeks in stead of moments. They part at the postoffice, which likewise is the reposi tory of all the neediuls of life, such as sugar, teas, needles and pine, and such 3 like commodities. "I am ever so much obliged to you, Pussy says, earestly, raising her soft, innocent eye to the handsomE face ci . . . . . . .---- - - Pussf eyes, n&he repliesdeurely "All the same, 'Ido thank you, and I am equally glad that you escaped.any serious injury from your fall," empha sizing the "youi" very palpably. As the door closes upon the girl's elight figure a faint smile curves the gentleman's mouth. "What alittle darling! iIam not by any means sure that I have escaped a serious injury after all," he thinks to himself. "See here, Gray," he says aloud to a gentleman who is just passing, "I have a question to ask you. You have lived around here long enough to knowa something of the poople. Can you tell me who the young lady is you saw me with just now ?" " Of course I can, though I am not acquainted. Why she's the daughter of--" Turning, the two gentlemen move on, while the crisp wind carries away what they are saying. A couple of hours later sees Pussy home once more. No one is in the sitting-room, and as she runs up the stairs she sees that the par lor door is open and hears voices. Pussy's face blanches and then flushesI again. "I am sureit is Mr. Law," she thinks, turning to flee, but she jp not quick enough, her light steps have been heard; and at Sarah's call, the girl goes with a fierce, resentful feeling as of some hapless animal caught in a trap, to face, as she thinks, the detested suitor she has determined to accept for the sake of her mother--to prevent her being turned in her old age from her home. But when she is once within the room, Passy pauses in amazement, for there, seated on the sofa, in easy conversation with her mother, she sees the gentle man who had so kindly come to her as sistance a few hours before. "Pussy, this is Mr. Elbermarle," Sarah says, " and he has been so very kind as to offer to let us keep the home stead at a very low rent. Please, sister, join with me in telling him what a load he has lifted from our minds." The gentleman rises, and as Pussy lays her dimpled hand in his, he says: "How cruel you must have deemed me, Miss Goldthwsite. I must confess it-though it is to my shame-I leave my business affairs much too entirely in my lawyer's (Mr. Gray's) hands. He acted quite on his own responsibility in1 this matter. I have learned a lesson; henceforth Iwill be my own agent. Can you forgive me for causing you all so! much distress ?" There is a thrill of earnestness in his tones more than thejoccasion seems to require, and something within Pussy's breast responds to it, though uncon sciously. Otherwise, why does her lovely face color so charmingly ? Mr. Elbermarle leaves the occupants of the Goldthwaite home with far brighter hearts than he found them. And when, a day later, Mr. Law-the rich old man who has coveted his neighbor's lamb-comes for his answer, he goes away with more of rueful ness than his demeanor usually pos sesses. Three months of education does,.not make a scholar; nor yet would the sime number of months of toil for the " foot of all evil" bring the desired wealth; but three months of love-making can be made to count for a good deal,-and so finds Roger Elbermarle. The winter is over and spring is here; the month when the birds choose their mates and build their tiny homes, and men's minds turn instinctively to thoughts of love; qgd one afternoon, just as the sun is setting behind great cloudy bars of crimson and purple, Roger draWs up in his phaeton before the litth, gate of the Goldthwaites' cot tage. "J will take the best of care 6f her," he says to Sarah, as he lifts :Pussy's slight figure into the carriage and!jumps lightly in beside her. Sarai's face softens as she looks after them. "The darling! it's easy to see what is coming. Oh, how could I ever have thought to let hersacrifice herself-and yet, when it was for mother I Well, she deserves everything of the best." The two young people drive along with but few words for a little while, drinking in the beauty of the scene about them; the low-lying valleys are bathed in a golden haze; the "green 4 things growing" have already begun to clothe the roadside with verdure, and over all the sky throws its gorgeous mantle. In a short time the sun will bave set, the twilight fallen, and all will be quiet and gray; but just now the earth seems like a new and glorified phere. Suddenly Roger turns and looks into t is companion's sweet face. t " Do you, remember this spot ?" he 0 sks. e A smile chases awaythe gravity which a Pussy's face has worn for the past few A noments. c "Yes," she replies, "it is the scene of t yur easualty." . " That fortunate casualty ! I see you N lo not mean-me to forget that I lost my e )quilibrium as well as you. But, Pussy, n ardon me, I always call you so in my 9 oughts, you are only right in saying 9 our,' for my heart received an injury 8 1atday from which it has not yet re- c ,yeed, and nevergwill unless you say eelittledioreto'valit I am.going to s small:hid he iasiAigly taken pos iession of trimbles visibly. "Pusyanswer me-wiltyou be my little*ifer - ThaL P"$y says "yes" may be in ferred, for one month later she stands a 1 blushing, beautifil bride by her hus- i band's side in the liatle parlor of the homestead, which, the paper Roger< presses into his mother-in-law's hand later in the day, states is henceforth< hers and her heirs, forever. It is not often that such a thing can1 be affirmed, but for once a casualty can umistakably be called fortunate. Two Noblemen. Among the passengers of the steamer Scythia, on which I returned from Europe, was an English earl, a quiet gentleman, in no way remarkable or in teresting, who comes to our country almost yearly to hunt in the West. The obsequious homage of the captain and officers of the ship in the presence of the little great man, andi the painful, cringing deference of the stewards were almost as disgusting as was the ineffablei silliness of one or two American women, who became oblivious of the commonest rules of good breeding in their raptures over the presence of a live earl. There was another gentleman among the pas sengers, a nobleman in the highest sense, but urntitled, and of the people-] Samuel Morley, a member of parlia ment, a grand man, a philanthropist I finding his happiness in work for the race. His charities are unbounded, his contributions to the temperance work ofi England alone amounting in some years 1 to $25,000. But while officers and< stewards gave to him, as to all passen-i gers, the most courteous attention, there was in their manner an utter lacki of the fawning and self-effacement sot conspicuous in their behavior toward the earl. One was an hereditary noble man by birth-the other, every inch a nobleman, without a title-a'nd this made the difference.-Mary 4. Lirer " Don't Mention It." A citizen of Detroit entered a Michi-L gan avenuegrocery the other day and said he wanted a private word with the proprietor. When they had retired to the desk he began: I " I want to make confession and rep aration. Do you remember of my buy ing sugar here two or three days ago ?" " Well, in paying for it I worked off a counterfeit quarter on the clerk. It was a mean trick, and I came to tender you good monoy." " Oh, don't mention it," replied the grocer. "But I want to make it right." " It's all right-all right. We knew: who passed the quarter on us, and that afternoon, when your wife sent down a dollar bill and wanted a can of sardines, I gave her that bad quarter with her change. Don't let your conscience trouble you at all-it's all right !"-I Dermi Free Press - CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. Only onehog in 10,000 is afmicted with triehina. A Paris clothing house is running its sewing machines by electricity. The people dare not even move their lips when the Japanese emperor passes by. The arrival of foreigners in the United States during the last decade is counted at 2,813,000. Four barrels of the water of the Great Bl1 lake will leave, after evaporation, nearly a barrel of salt. At a temperature of fifty-six degrees Fahrenheit Dr. Kane kept his men in good health by devoting a part of the long night of the Arctic regionsto bur lesque and pantomime. A process has beeft discovered lor making- flour from 'tie seed of the broom corn, to the extent of one-half ts weight, leaving the other half a valu-I ible food for the cattle. Fluting irons, or poking sticks, as hey-were then called, made of steel, n order to be used when hot, were first ised in Queen Elizabeth's time. Be ore then, setting sticks of wood or* >one were used for stiffening ruffs, etc. A Seraben carpet, ordinary size, say welve by fifteen feet, contains nearly :,500,000' stitches. The weaver sits vith the reverse side of the carpet to vards him and weaves entirely -from aemory. This fact will account for the rregularity so often found in Persian arpets. Industries of Sweden and Norway. Although in Norway and Sweden here are many mines and mills, most of he people gain their living either out f the soil or -the sea. The farmer in ither country is a marvel of industry nd thrift; he would live upon what an. anerican farmer wastes, and live more omfortably than our farming popula ion do, as a rule. The amount of labor erformed at the'special daifim, hich cattle are driven in summer,en rally by girls, would aiden; but the Swedish-ard o ian girls thrive on it, ood health, and consequent ppine till more exactings the home care ittle in winter, when muchof o Lust be specially pre yil that rera ould Umeries. The maritime, statisti ountries, and of Norway in Lre simply staggering. Lasty han a thousand Norwegian vessels mtered the port of New York, and ieven times as many were busy else w'here. More than sixty thousand sail >rs man these vessels, and yet Norre gian sailors are numerous in the mer ~hant navy of almost everno . About a hundred and twenty thousar Sorwegians are engaged in the fisheries. rhe author minutely describes the great Ishing stations of Norway, and here, LB elsewhere, is struck by the attention ~aid by the government to all its re ;ources. Every fishing station has a ~uperintendent, appointed by the gov-j ~rnment, and the date of beginning thoi ;eason's work, the time of starting out or the day, and even the places ini yhich the fish are prepared for market, Lre determined by him; but the ofli ~er's duties seem to consis'. principally n preventing confasion or bad feeling. No liquor is sold at fishing stations, nd yet the men, who are directly in he path of allthe " American weather" hat crosses the Atlantic, are a remr~rk- e ~bly healthy and vigorous set of fel ows; they wear good clothes, too, a yhich is not done by fishermen in gen- a ral. To their abstemiousness must be s ttributed the lack of strife; during ap ong visit to the fishing stations theip uthor saw no fighting, and did net f iear a single oath. No fishing is pe d nitted on Sunday. Drunkenness add s; >rofanity are rare everywhere in Scans.i: invia; there seems to be absolutely~it to idle, non-producing, dangerous si :lass, such as is the main-stay of vic~ s n every other European country. A. g airs and feasts there is a great deal o a: rinking. but the period is brief, ani1 a he fun never culminates in fighting.- '" ii rper's Magadiu. Tele'graphlc Lines. In 1844 Professor Morse laid the fir~ elegraph line between Baltimore an Washington. To-day-there are 500,0( 9' niles in use in the United States alon. 3reat Bntain uses 114,000 miles of line 3ermany has 150,000 miles, and mo: han 3,000 miles of underground cabi c: British India has 50,000 miles; Frinc ib KN [15,000 ; Belgium, 15000 ; Spain, 2b )00 ; Denmark, 65,000, and Norwa a 0,000 miles, which are used chieflyi .he management of her fisheries. Tm 0: 3mperor of China has allowed 1,2) q niles to be built during the past ye'd Persia has 6,000,and Egypt 9,000, Russ das 130,000 miles in use, Australia 11 L5,000, and New Zealand 10,000;So america, with the exception of a tras-1 :ontinental line from Valparaiso e~ Buenos Ayres, and a short line betw bI ispinwall and Panama, has no 1 ines. There are nearly 10,000 mil u :nilitary telegraph lines in our Wes rerritories ; 20,000 miles in Can md 7,000 miles in Mexico. Be Laud lines, it is estimated thatx are 104,000 nautical miles of imb' sable now in use, and niew lines 25 projected. Why Autumn Leaves Fall. It is A curious phenomenon this an nual fa of all the leaves from almost all the trees in Northern climates; and yet use has so dulled us to. its strange ness tat we seldom even think about its 6i'gin or meaning in any way. In deed, uMtil certain late investigations of the iertiary floras by M. Saporta, Mr. S. Gardiner and others, it is doubtful whether anybody had ever asked him self any question upon the subject at all. But these investigations have shown pretty clearly that de ciduous trees are quite a modern novelty upon our planet, things of the last twenty or thirty millennia or so, entir4y due to the immense cooling of the eath's surface, which began in the early tertiary period and culminated in tLe great glacial epoch. They are a special product of hard times at the pe, like the white bears, the woolly rh-ir ,the mammoth andthesnow b In the tropics all the trees are evergreens, or at least suffer no regular periodical loss of their foliage; but in the North we have few native evergreens except the pines and firs, with their needle-like leaves, and the two- or three hardy, broad-leaved t exotie evergreeens cultivated in our I gardens or shrubberies, such as I bhe rhododendrons, the laurels and the bay trees, together with our own '-amaller holly, box and privet, hardly suffice to convey a notion of the greatSouthern forest trees, clad all the c yearround in thick green, such as the mangoes, the star apples and the sand- i boxes. Up to the beginning of the ertiary period, however, large ever- t Kreens of what is now the tropical type !overed the whole of the world, as far f Ls the very poles themselves. Green- s andjand Spitzbergen then supported a -the same general char cter ' - ch now -spread over - Brasi y archipelago. But s t . ; - of the eocene on- g on of astronomical n such as those t] g and A. R. Wal- t< " o a general chill- tj at either pole. a r wholly due, as y 4o ,Wthe eccentricity ri idthe precession ti itwasfarther o: by the fc tn ranges tl became ortirau .to p eage up to the cImate of the erth colder, th' change being of Be most marked at eilher pole, an east noticeable in the equatorial ch--PuMall Gazette. ~he Place Where Cats Can't Live. mjTownsend, of Lundy, has been t mking ~sbme'experiments with an r onary dos~estic cat. It has 'been | rebeatedly stated that a cat could not | t Liie at an altitude of 13,000 feet above | tle sea. Mr. Townsend has demon- c sated that such is the fact. On Mon- I Jay last he and another gentleman made | tie ascent of Castle Peak, which is a | itle over 13,000 feet high. They took | gith them a cat-Thomas-that was a sear old, and had lived at an altitude f 6,000 feet with no symptoms of dis-1 ase. Mr. Townsend had the cat in a box, and as they went up he took ob-h ervations and noted very carefully its very movement. When the summit ~as reached they pitched their tent. c 'his was about 2 o'clock in the after oon. The cat partook of some food, l5 nd, after playing an hour or so, fell g sleep and did not wake up until near i iidnight. When it did recover con iousness it set up a howling and ap- t eared much distressed. Ton-send a itied it and endeavored ' to make it Siarombut of no use. It kept pits constant moanings and displayed 14 ymptoms of having fits. When morn- l ig came the cat was offered food, but refused to eat and acted even more :rangely than during the night. Town md says it would open its mouth as if asping for breath; would jump about, b ad then go to sleep and wake up with start. All this while close watche as kept and every movement noted. d t 5 o'clock in the afterroon the cat ied of exhaustion. Tin Cans. Who can assign bounds to the demand; r tinned or canned oysters from Bal more, lobsters from Maine, salmon w em Alaska, peaches from Florida and [aryland ? One petroleum firm in theh ty of New York is said to cat up 600 axes (thirty tons) ci tin plate daily. o less than 1,600,000 boxes are already? asorbed yearly by the United States, ore than three-fold the consumption p the continent of Enrope, of which iantity a fnll tenth goes to p~ack sar ~nes at Nantes.- Australian meat craves' iever-increasing supply. while British scuits, mustard and gunpowder range ,bright canisters all over the world, d he home consumption is variously esti ated at between 500,000 and 750,000 th >xes per annum; but the returns to the >vernment have not been ample and I ieserved enough for any accurate fig es to be laid down.-Saiturday Revijew. There are many sheep ranges in Hum >dt county, Cal., of from 2,000 to 6,000 wi res each. The' country contains over 500,000 acres of land and nearly Jcc n~0 sheep.a dr LAIDIES' DEPART3rNT. Advice to Young Wives. There is nothing like their own home for married people, and especially for young man 'd people, even if the wife shall have to cook and sweep the floor and clean the windows. If she be aI healthy girl the exercise will do her I good-and no young man who has to I labor for his living should marry a girl that is not healthy, strong and -willing 4 to do her own work while they are too ! poor to hire a servant. This thing of marryinga girl that you 2 have to hire another girl to take care of is not a wise thing forapooryoung man i to do. He should look out for a girl that is broad shouldered, strong in mus ole, having of course other virtues. The ideal girl, the consumptive, tight-laced, party-going, piano-playing, French-talk Lug, fashionable girl, can be no proper wife for him. This language the girls nay think unkind, but it is not. It is setter for girls that are not fitted to be 6 poor man's wife to remain with their ?arents than to become such. It wil I ye better for their lovers, too, and bet er for society. A girl then that does not know how o cook fairly, or who would not when t iecessary cheerfully cook for her hus- I and, ought not to marry any but a rich r nan-and no poor man should marry p ier. If, then, girls without a dowry are la ontent to marry young men who have sa nly their fond hearts, their good ti Lame, their strong arms, their ambition ei o make their wives happy, and their li Lope to work up to a competence sa brough frugality and industry, these irls should know how to cook-and fe hey ought to be ashamed to marry any a I ch man until they have learned the d rt of cooking. dr For such a girl to marry such a man an rould be neither more nor less than a , Dcial fraud, unlessaShe shall before en- ve agement inform him fully of her ig orance on this subject. It is well, th 2en, to have these schools of cookery th which girls whose mothers have not . Lught them the art can go aiid learn ad we hope the day is near -hand len girls that are candidatesfo6 t mony wiUl pride -themselves ,eir ability to cook a goofa a their ability to daliingl >ol.away precious time on less -se ings. Tenhe orld bel habettr.a A New Zealand let~O af VewSays: A geod clergymaW rorking amongst the natkePopulati as anxious-to estas t aectito - sarriage among them.- Aionr othe rA ho were candidates for the rites asjat auch-married aboriginal named Ngata-: rapara. On arriving at that clause of he formula where candidates for mat-. imony are directed to join hands, a rage scene occurred. No sooner had1 a he direction been given than a whole i evy of inamoratas sprang forward, two r three hanging on by the hands and se rms of the would-be Benedick, with li n equal number clinging to his legs. t [e was completely besieged, pinned W and and foot, and confusion was made ,ro rorse confounded by a hugging and fiu agging by which the unfortunate fel. th >W was in imminent danger of dis- 1l iemberment. Seeing the turn things SC ad taken the priest naturally enough te aused and looked on in dismay. "Go ," cried the hapless bridegroom, "or m't you see for yourself these abom table wretches will have me dragged mb from limb ?" Still the reverend A enteman hesitated, seemingly at a co ss what to do under the circumstances. of If you don't get along," cried the p an, "and bring this kind of thing to an finish, there'll be aziother dozen of' , s iem here in less than no time, and bo hen they find I haven't. got a flopper ing ft to hang on by they'll drag off the ba st shred of blanketing I have over an: e." th: The situation was now perplexing in los e extreme, and there was nothing for fra but to* hurry over the service, and rel ing the comedy to an end. The b quel to the story is worth adding. In; ga >urse of time this much-married man lat ed, as did the seven-times married.re oman of the Gospels. The question.m en arose as to who was his lawf ly- Isee arried ,wife. Some five-aud-twenty jand aimants appeared before the judge of i dre Le native law court, and the question: as] be determined was-had the wortan we: bo~ got hold of deceased's hand pre- 1 deuce over her who merely tugged ati by s legs. As there was considerable. thi operty left behind counsel were em- fro oyed by the respective claimants, boi td it is said that their fearnedi dis an< itations on the repective imporisnee kn< arms and legs left the urnfortunato ext dge in the dilemma of the man with- for t a leg to stand apon. era Fashion Notes. i Borderna cheviots are shown amongth ess fabrics. u Large beads are a favorite finish to e brims of new bonnets. Englith embroidering stands next to He ce as a popular trimming. citi The Mousquetaire or Bernhardt glove nos es precedence of all others. the Many of the handsomest midwinter 'sp are lined throughout with plush. Satin, moire and brocaded velvet are the mprised in the handsomest bridal for the valley mingle together in the hand somest bridal parures. Feather bands will be worn as dress trimmings as well as on hats and bonnets. A New York house has introduced the iashion of maing dress waists with the seams sewn like those of kid gloves. The favorite decoration at present for ;he throat is a necklace of amber or real -oral beads, both of which are in great equest. The new poke bonnets are very high nd very narrow about the ears. The ,rowns are mostly of the Mother Hub >ard shape. Last year's surtouts may be turned nto polonaises by putting a plait into he back of the skirt, and adding puft d lraperies to the side. Importedatoiletsare exceedingly bouf ant in effect, and the fashion is qnite iispleasing to short, stout women, to rhom it is very unbecoming. Tartan plaids and Roman stripes are iow shown in cheviot materials, and iake very stylish street dresses trimmed rith plush of monochromo color. Real silver, and also new steel but ons are displayed, oat in facets which 1 parkle like diamonds, and look very I ich upon street jackets of velvet or lush. ' ' I The embroidered pongee gowns of at summer were so pretty that they -e imitated in surah. The skirts have 2 iree deep flounces, all bordered with r nbroidery, and the scarf drapery and I ttle shoulder cpes are finished in the me way. Many of the new round hats, and a w of the mitigated poke-bonnets, have rall of Spanish lace at the edge just 'ep enough to shade the eyes. This apery is very becoming to most faces, d as the fashiln gains ground and the dth of the lace grows a trifle deeper, Us will be quite superseded. For boys the court valet costume is estyle, Itis asquare coatf-tted in e back, high.in the neck, and fastened th small buttonsof -cut steel down&the )t tothe waistline, whereit is ate to theback,showing s compa'ively iwaistegat, pwithu el dhttone The plain sleeves retim r~ fe -or six iotheF rench fanay i to owns withsoidveilingof gli Sor iridescent beads, -which in the ilight or gaslight have a -very brl- ft Lut -ffcct. Checked and striped woolen goods, a nousine are the most fashionable ma rials for an'.unmn walking costumes, iieh are invariably madle -with short C und skirts, cither laid in very broad, .t ec x i Lits from belt to toe, or with ~ re~e strsight flounces put on in hol- 0 w niaits. In the latter case a wide d Lrf is draped over the skirt and knot i loosely, low on the left side. al Bus.hels of Confederate Xoney. , a. Griffin (Ga.) correspondent of the w anta Casututdion writes as follows el uerning Mr. y. W. Corbin, a citizen pl Griffn: S me years ago he took a jar muliar notion that Confederate money i bonds would some day be worth |cc nething; so he went to work and I)b ght them up in large quantities, pay- |to y cash for a consilerable amount and |ti 'tering meal from his mill for the bal-| w e. He gave a bushel of meal for a jis usind dollars, and many a wagon-| ti ad of that food has been hauled away jti m hsdoor. Many people, of course, ~arded the notion as rather cranky, |g. t to those Mr. Corbin gave no heed, Iri ing right along and buying eveg dol -he could rake and scrape. There is lly no telling how much Confederate a :ney he has. Those who know, or n m to know, say he has between seven I eight millions, beside several hun- h< dthousand dollars in bonds. When! ~ed at a bank how much his bonds re worth he replied: " Well, I have ~5,000 in ore box, and that isn't all, |(c a lot." And so he has gone right on I b s way for years. He has had letters Ine m all over the country, and he has Ith ight the stuff right and left, from far |es I near. As already stated, no one I d ,ws just how far e-xactly his freak has |th ended, and he may have $50,000,000 |2 all I know. Mr. Corbin is consid- it bly stirred up by the recent demand ler London, and seems satisfied he is on Iof Sright track to an immense fortune.| zo is not considered at all shaky in the |it; per story by his friends, though they rm Lot, c f course, understand his strange lar rination about Confederate money. Iar has always been considered a solid pl zen, and is in good circumstances pr v, but will be the wealthiest ma'a in Iai South, if his dream is ever realized.| w< ~he agricultural department gives tii butter product of the United States| a 1880 at 1,000,000,000 pounds, and the to ese product at 300,00O000. ti The Lights o' Londo.s. The way was long and war But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road. The night was dark and stormy But blithe of heart were they For shining in the distaie The lightsof London:la Oh gleandug lamps of London, that gem th city's cromr What fortunes lie within you, ob lights of London town. With faces wom and weary, . That told of sorrow's load, Oneday a man and woman Crept down a country road. - They-sought their native village, Heart-broken from the fray; Yet shining still beyond them The lights of London lay. Oh cruel lamps of London, if tears your light could drown. our victim's eyes would weep then, oh lights of London town. .-George R im.. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. When is a girl like a musi Ebook ' When she is full of airs. Follow the example of trees-Reep somo-things in the shade. The paper men are now runningtheir msiness into the ground by nmannfia-' - tiring paper coffins. The farmer that ".ran rapidly through is property" wore a red shirtand had As brindle bull behind him. A Syracuse maiden has promised to narry five different men. Thepapers efer to her as "a proming society "Six Girls "is the title of the lagst tovel. It is expected thas ase3l utitled " Our Broken -Oate"wii isued soon. Theyasked him if he was thebes nan at ihe wedding. "No," he sed I don't know as- T was the tbest, b was as good as any of,'ed" A Philadelphia man, who had been lied bya wideMoathed girllad &Aer ible revenge He sent-h7w sfb ing brush ofe ";Isn't your husband sked one Id~ioh~ eclares o b-hieo n aywhen she gets one also, d enly discovers it tobeaspbretty as m be. The father of a St. Louis bride pre mted his son-in-law with 80,000 hei Scattle. "Papa,.dear," exlaidaed Mis aughter, when she heard of it, "that as so kind of you; Charley's awfully mad of ox-tail soup." " Who did the churning last week7 - iked Farmer Fouroclock. ."I did," idBill " Then you doit again this eek," said the old man; "one good mn deserves another." Covert ex ressions of joy by all Bill's brothers i'Isisters. "Fellow-citizens," said the street >rner orator, standing on a dry goods > amid the glare and smoke of many relhes, "my position upon this ques m is a peculiar one." And just then ben the box caved in and let him down the shape of a letter V, gripped by e neck and heels, the browd rathe~ ought it was. She (bewitchingly)-" Oh, I am so ad you're going to see me to my car age. Mr. Browne!" He (flattered) Indee 1, and masyI ask why?" She Oh, because the girls are so jealous, - id I want to rprove that I do not onopolize all the good-looking men " rowne satisfted, but not so happy as aexpected to be. Spontaneous Foresta. A writer in a West Virginia parer mbats the opinion, held by many ar riulturists, that an open country is sver converted -into a forest throligh e operation of natural cause', and, as tablieing the fact that such c'aange ies sometimes occur, brings for*nrd e case of the Shenandoah Valley. hen first settled, abont.160 years ago, was an open prairie-like region coy ed with tall grass, on which fed herds - deer, buffalo, elk, etc., and having timber, except on ridgy portions of but in consequence of its settle 3t, the annual fires were prevented a trees sprang up almost as. thickly d regularly as if seed had .been anted. These forests, having been eserved by the. farmers, cover now a ege part of the surface with hard >od trees of superior excellno rse facts would alsoseem to substazt te the theory -that the treeless a ter of the prairies of the West'i ae the annual burning' of the gassa b y elIndians.