The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, March 17, 1883, Image 1
1111WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. MARCII 17. 1883. ESTAILISIIED 1848
ODD SAYING*.
As bitint 8is a beetile,
As sha1rp as a laCe,
As grave as preactiltg,
As gay as a dance,
AN late as the gloaittti',
- AA l1ke ts tWo peas,
As crook'il as a ram s horii,
As routlit as a cieeme.
As flat as t flotider,
As sticky as gitit,
As wille ai a cotulonl,
As fight as a tirtait,
As white its a mIfiller,
As black as a crow,
As lean as a greyhiounti ,
As bett 118 a bow.
As frail as a baudbox,
As stollt as aij oak,
As qt1eer as a Quaker, *
As gaine as a cock,
As ettle as a lawyer,
As square as a (ie,
As keeii as a raxor,
As waitri as a pie.
As drutink as a pipr,
As sober as a judge,
As clean as a shaviig,
As 1tlihy as smitidge,
As swIft as an arrow,
As slow as a sitall,
As blithe its it inet,
As right as the imatt
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SAVE!) IN SLEEP'.
A clear, sweot voice was singing a
senseless ditty, with many mocking
variations, and operatic trills.
A young man swinging indolently ii
a hammock, underneath the - open win
dow, laid asido his book and tossed
away his unfinished cigar, as he listen.
edito the merry trills and quavers.
He has come down to posterity a
model of wisdom; the curo was as suc
cessful and completo as it was unique.
"1," said he, "will arise and do like
wise."
He arose slowly; the voice and its
lovely owner had uprooted settled pro
judices, and overthrown firm convictions.
Moreover, an underlying fear that lie
was about to commit thle second great
folly of his, life caused his heart to tremi
ble and his feet to lag.
Nevertheless, Straighit as thle needle
to tho polo, tended his steps towards
that upper room, and he musical dis
turber of his vence.
She was ~minlding Mrs. Latrobe's
baby, as usual.
Mrs. Latrobe was a presumably.yonug
widow, somewhat wanl and faded as to
beauty, which must once have been re
markable--nomewhat scriumed a to
worIdly possesions, yet strongly bent
upon making the w:ost of her second
chance in life.
In pursuance of which design she
displayed the vigor ai*t- tirelessness of
sixteen leaving her inifant, meanwiuile,
either locked up in the profound slum
ber born of soothing syrups, or to the
tender mercies of some obliging fellow
boarder.
It may have been the latent mother
liness in hr nature, or something she
saw in the pitiful drug-darkened eyes of
the child, which ma-lo Marie Devoll
often care for the neglected little one
during the absence of its mother.
Harry Raymond was not the man,
having made up his mind, to brook any
unnecessary delay.
He went straight to tile side of the
surprised singer, who had supposed
hin a dozen miles distangt, and the,
baby being somewhat in his way, caught
it from the arms of its surprised foster
mother, and, with a dexterous fling,
sent it flying through the air into the
very middle of a great, soft Persian rug,
lying before the window. .
Miss Devoll uittered a startled cry of
S pro test.
The child, contrary to all precedent,
alighted from his airy flight, shrieking
with laughter, and Jay clutching at the
sunbeams, a jewel of it baby. in a golden
"Miss Devoll," said Harry carnestly,
S "you know, as do all my friencds, the
story of my early folly.
"Years ago, 1 loved aii unworthy
object, and ever since I have walked the
earth bind to all womanly goodness,
purity and truth
"Through a beautiful woman I lost
S my ight; through a beautiful woman I
S found it again.
"Tell me, Marie," his voice' trem
bling with earntettness, ''if this love is
to be tI'o crowvn andi glor,y of my life, or
its secont folly?
"1 wish that I might bring you clean
hanris1 and a pure heart.
"I can only offer you an unworthy
one, but full of a love that is true and
abiding-that shall last for ever,"
Th'lere was no nteod of words; lie read
his answer in her sweet, downcast lace,
and tender eyes; lie sealed it on her
quivering crimson lips, and wvas con
tent.
Thej1 baby laughed, and with a great
crash of wheels, and flutter of silks,
the baby's mother returned.
So these twvo, as needs must, came
back to an everyday world, that looked
all the brighter and better to themi for
their brief journecy into the beautiful
land of love.
Marie Devoll settled her lace in un
breakable calm, and Harry lounged
about with even more thtan his usual
nonehalanice.
Nevertheless, the widowv, who was
wise in her dlay 1nd( generation, saw more
than they supposed, and picking up
her neglected oil-pring, left the room,
with a sigh for the dreamns of a lost
youth.
She had returned from her drive be
irothed but instead of the raptures and
radiance of first love, her soul was filled
with vague doubts-an uncertainty as
to whether she might not, by loniger
waiting, have donie even better for her
self.
But no such doubts disturbed the
youthful lovers.
* Their days passed as a happy dream;
the course of true love ran smoothly
towards the deiightful consummation
*of an early marriage in the fall.
One night Harry, grown strong in his
new love, determinect to destroy every
reminder, of that first mad passion of
his youth, so letters burning with ar
dent devotion, costly keepsakes- and
trinkets wore r4thdessly destroyed.
~ Eaving once belonged to that falso wo.
man, they were unworthy, and theii
value could not save them.
With a pleasant consciousness ol
woll-doing, lie slept the sleep of the
just, and wakened in tine for a long
early walk with his betrothed, from
which they returned, radiant and glow
ing as the dawn, yet truth to tell, some
what damp and draggled.
In the doorway they met a woman,
a now arrival, a gloriously beautiful
woman, not an everyday pretty woman,
but a livig, breathing dream of per
fection.
At sight of her Harry stopped, and
grow white to the very lips, then quickly
recovering himself, greeted her with
manly dignity, presenting at the samec
time his companion.
"I must be a fond of sympathy bo
tween you two," said he, with a sudden
dash of bravado, "for this," with a
courtly bow towards the fair wonderful
woman. "is one of my earliest friends,
and this is my betrothed."
It would have been perfect, only he
rather overdid the thing.
However, the beautyi flushed with
vexation.
Site was not used to having her vic
tims flaunt their freedom in her face,
and to make it worse, Mario, who was
only a woman. although an exceedingly
nico one, could not help laughing a
little as she sped away, and her laugh
had in it more of malice than she was in
any wise aware of.
The days passed on.
The beautiful woman. who, besides
her natural charms. had the added grace
of widowhood, trailed her sombre splen
dor all over the great country house.
making ;ther women look faded and
common place by comparison.
Mrs. Latrobe and her unpleasant baby
were well-nigh anniihilatect.
Even pretty Marie Devoll seemed like
a wan field flower beside this gorgeous
Eastern lily.
Harry, to do him .juit-ice, shut, hit
cyes persisteit.ly.
Ie wats blind and deaf; butone night,
when Mario was indibposed, the widow
captured lImni.
It wa4 in the great garden.
Tho moonlight was entrancing, aiid
the red-hearted rotes hung heavy with
(low.
Perfume, aid night, and the wonder
ful woman held him spellbound, while
the perfect lips told him a secret; a
little story-a something that changed
the current of his being.
The mad love of his youth-fought
against, dead, buried, was in that hour
revived into a sudden and vigorous life.
Tihe woman he had loved and hated
stood before him-tearful spotless, a
victim of nucontrollablo circumstances.
A sufforer like himself-like himself,
wronged, deceived, betrayed. '
P,r hiq sal 5hhd falrfe uncom
plainly the burden of unloving wife
hood.
Reconciliation had been the dream of
her widowhood, and lie had met her
with scorn-almost insult.
The man cried out against fate in)
that hour.
This woman, who had been all the
world to him in the old days of his
honest youth, was more than that now.
In the flood of that terrible reaction
lie would have sacrificed honor, truth,
life itself, for her, but she would have
naught of him.
She had suffered, and in her heart and
life suffering had wrought itv perfect
work of patience and contentment.
Now that she stood clean in his eyes
her desire was accomplished.
No other woman's heart should bleed
as hers hnd dlone--no other womanm's
life through her be blighted.
Beautiful dissembler!
Pe*rhaps t3 e sight of Marie might
have been a safoguard to htim in those
(lays, but she was quito ill, confined to
her room, and with the perversity of
fate, steadily refused to see him, and
meanwhite the evil love grew and flour
ished.
One evening he and the widow were
alone in the room that op)ened out of a
tiny coniservatory.
lie tI row honor to the winds, and the
woman, wvhether she wvould or no, was
fored to hear burning wvords of passion
and mad love,. and in the midst of time
resistless torrent of his woo the door
opened and a nm' entered.
He wvas tall, massive, amnd grandly
bearded-a Sauxon giant, of horcumlcan
moulId.
He took in the scene ini a moment, and
laughed.
"0Oh Lura, Lural
"'Will you never have done with your
fOlgreat light flamed ito her face.
A sudnen beauty flashed over it.
A smile liko that might pave thme way
to death for any man, and lie walk glad
ly in it.
"Oh, Roy, Roy!" she cried, and1 rush
ing to thme straniger, flung hier perfect
arms about his neck.
''This is my lusband," she cried,
''my dear husband I"
She loved this man.
You could not look in her radiant fauce
and doubt it.
"Mr. Raymond," said she, "I was
only redressing old wrongs, and opening
bliuded eyes.
"lNever think agaih to fight a woman
with her own weapons.
".My husband and I will leave you
now, to make your peace with your
betrothed.
''She is ini the conservatory.
"I made sure of that befort - played
this lhttle farce."
The stranger struck off the clinging
arma of his wife, and step)ped to the
side of the doa,d unhappy man.
"'I will not offrer you my hand," said
he, "because 1 know that you had much
rather throttle me than grasp it.
''I canmnot ask you to forgive my wife,
for I know that she must have done youm
a great wrong.
"It is not the first time, it will most
likely not be thme last, and yet I love
her.
"Suffer as you mauy, young man, you
do not suffer alone."
Then he was gone, and his fair false
wife followed.
Mechanically Harry stepped through
the half-onan dnorinoen com ornvatiry
A bowed, crushed figur- leaned againt
a half-opened window.
A drooping goklen head, a covore
face.
That was the woman he ha promise
to love and cherish until death.
He could not speak.
Softly, and as though he touched th
dead, he stooped, and kissed her brigli
hair and so lie left her.
Early in the morning the inarrie
widow and her husband went away.
- He breathed more freely, feeling tha
she was no longer under the same roof
During the forenoon he received
message from Mrs. Devoll.
Mario desired to sco him.
Like a culprit he went to the mecting
He had no hop of a reconciliation.
Mario was too much of a woman t
ever overlook the utter humiliation int,
which he had fallon.
She reoived him with a wan smile.
He hardly know her, crimson-noset
watery-eyed, and swollon-faced. as sh
appeared.
"I told mamma this morning that i
was my duty to see you," said sie, ij
muffled tones.
"You must know before it is too lit,
what a hideous being even a slight col
will make of me.
"I went downstairs last night, think
ing to give you a pleasant surpriso.
"I went into the conservatory, an
the heat and perfume so overpowere<
me, that I opened a window, and like I
caroless girl, fell fast asleep beside it.
"Look at me, Harryl Look at in
w(ll.
"Do you think that your love couh
survive many much attacks?"
Mario had been asleep, actually asleep
A great flood of gratitude rolled ove
his soul, as, with a rapturous cry o
"My darling!" he caught her mn hi
arms.
He covered her swollon I aco with pas
sionate kisses of thankfulness and af
fection.
"What devotion" sighed Mrs. Devoll
whose own married lile had been soei
thing 01 a mistake.
"Wats ever girl so blessed?" though
Mario, little dreaming what that sleol
had saved her, little knowing that thi
cold which lio deplored was a blessitg i1
disguiso, for Harry, grateful and repent
ant, yet I believed-" Iwhere ignorance i:
blits, it is folly to be wiiso."
I~ d
Tm Yout.i rrom Yale.
Was there ever, asks a writer a nort
remarkable creature than the younp
man of to-day? He is a study. I do nol
wonder at him when he wears hats sc
low as to be almost 1iat aind shoes sc
sharp as to be simply t,ragic. but it iE
when ho talks that i find. mysolf mos.
amazed. I tad the pleasure of sitting
a car on thz wct side elevated road
in New York, recently, when a youth
from Yale strode in and discovered an
aquaintance in the persou of a young
New Yorker %% ho sat opposito me,
"Well, for charity's sake!" yelled the
youth from Yale, "when d' you olow
in?" He was tall, was the youth from
Yale, with a sharp nosc, very tight
trousers, a microscopic mu stahe, a'very
short coat, and an Rmiglish hat. "One
one's left the door ope ii," he continued
looking around with at broad and com
preliensive smile at the passengcrs,
"and this curiosity has blown in."
This brilliant sally was received by
the New York young man with a grin of
delight. He retorted with epigramma
tic brilliancy:
"Ai, go chase youraclf around your
feetI"
Upon this they shook hands warmly,
made furti.yo blowvs at each other's ribi
and sat down together. They both
stared at the passengers for some timoe,
expcctinig them to go nmto transports oi
merriment, but somiehow the passengers
did not look joyful, but gan'id at each
other sadly and wvith app)rohiusion,
"OQh, you coy dlarIlig!" piped the
New Yorker in a voice supposed to mim
ic femininity. "Why have you not
written me? Morn, nc on, and eve have
I longed ior a word f ronm thee, gentle
Joe.",
"'Yas, an' you got left Orlando."
'"When d' yu cunm down?''
''Last eve. ot on an awful bat with
the boys, and went to bed at 14 o' clock
A. M., with a head the size of a~ biallooni
jib on a noblemnw's yacht. When I
ioll ont of bed for breakfast this miorn
ing what do you s'pose I got?'
"Got left."
"No, no deat soin; .1 got a iiote from
a gay <teceiver asking me to call around
an' take her un' her miammna to the polo
ground to see the foot-ball miatch."
'"D.' you taae her?"
"Ict chier sweet life I didn't. Sont
noto sayin' Tm'n no hog. I'll take you,
but I draw the line at the old woman.'
"'Nothui'mean about you, if you ai-e
beautiful."
"Weli, shte msu.:L think I'm a blcoom
in' chump to lug thie entire dtomestie
establishment to the game. ]3y the
way. Rosalind, get .onto this hat, will
you?"
Einlt, FoIiten.
To think that the more a man eats
the fatter and stronger lie will be
come.
T1o believe that thie more hours chil..
dreni study at school the fastor they
illh learn.
To conclude that if exercise is health
ful, the more'yiolent and exhaustive it is
the more good is done,
To imagine that every heur taken
from sleep is an hour gained.
Tio act on the presusmption that thec
smallest room in the house is large
ensoughi to 8100op in.
To argue that whatever remedy makes
you feel immediately better is good for
thielsystem, wvithiout regard to ulterior
elrocLs.
To commit an act which us felt in:
itself to be prejudical hoping that some
how or other 1t may be donse in your
case with impunity.
To eat a hearty supper for the pleas.
uire experienced during the, brief time
it is passing down the throat, at the
expense of a whole night of disturbedl
sleep and a weary Weking in the morn
ing.
A Doap trato Gamuir.
An occurence Ias ltely transnpire<
1 at Nico, France, which is near Monaca
the groat gambling centre of Europe
1 A notorious habituo of the Casino w<i
had made his money principally there
had set up an English vehiclo, a pair o
0 horses "tiger" iind all, and cut quito i
t swelldriving through the neighboritiod
One day he was ridirg in the ouvironu
of town upon tho ftino roads, his serv
ait sitting upt n the raised box bohind
whoi has been fooling somewhat uneas,
at not receiving his wages for som4
It time, seeing his master quito alom
ventured to ask him througii the bac
window if he would not make it colvo
niiont to pay him. The ntister wais ii
a good humor, and asked,
6 "How much is it, La Pf6ur?"
0 ''One hundred and twentlfy five livros
may it please you, ionsicur."
"-Verv well, boro it is, said the mias
I tor, opreuding the sum in paper curren
D cy uponl the seat of the vohiale. "Now,
La Flour, have you a pack of cards wit)
t you?"
I "ertainly," answergd tho obsequi
ous lackoy, "I always carry them, mon
3 sicur," produclug the cards at once.
I "That is well. Now I will be bankoi
and you shall play against ino. I will
- take the front seat, the back one shall
servo for our table, you can looh
I through this back wiudow.
1 The lackoy assented to this, aniusei
t at his master's condescenion. Luck
was rather on the master's side, bu
3 both men becamo quito eager iln thc
game thinking of that and that only.
I Little by little the footman's moucy
Wias going Until all that wIs left of Iun
wagus was five hvres. He began tu
r feel anxious when luck turned and he
won the whole sum back with every
sou his master Lad about him.
Piqued at his loss thomastor wagered
- a iorse, which the lackey won, then its
- mate next the harness, and lastly the
carriage itsolf. Luck ran all one way,
and the servant, La Flour, won overy
- thing. The master took out his watch
and put it down against a given sum.
The cards were 3huffied, the lackey
Won.
.l1 have nothing more, La Fleur; you
have cleaned me out,' said the half..
- desporate gambler.
The servant was ii high spirits at his
strangeo run of luck.
"Here are a hundred livres, monsieur,
I etake them against your position, it
you win they are yours. It you lose
we chango seats."
"Agreed."
Then the cards wore shulled ind Lai
Flour won. The vehicle returned tu
Nice with his former master sitting in
the servants box behind, La Flour in
side.
A Utirone rido,
On ahghting from our carriage,
says a correspondent who is writing
of a v;sit to Cairo, we were hastily coin
ducted across a large covered court, in
which tabl(s were spread an' hired imiu
sicians wcre perforn)ing, and were shown
up to the women's apartments, passing
through a nunher of narow, ,vnding pas
sages-it was, I was told, a real oI. fash
ioied Turkish interior-and traversing a
number ot rooms furnished with a curious
mixture of tle splendid and the tawdry,
until we came to the room where the bride
sat to receive the final compliments of her
her friends. She was small-framed, deli
cate-looking person, with fairly regular
features and beautiful eyes and teeth, but
the former, notwithstanding that her face
was thickly painted white, sllowed traces
of tears, and she looked and evidently was
tiredt to death. "She lias been crying all
day," whisperedi the French governess to
us confidlentially; "she hias never seen
him, of course, and hass got an idea that
she shan't, hike him; the fact is, she aid
not want to be married at ali,but of course
her family wvould not refuse --- Pasha's
alliance." Tlhie new bride's ap)artments
have been returnished in her honor. and
were bestrewn w'th yellow satin chairs
andl fautemils, which most of thle women
carefully avoided, prefering to sit coin
fort ably on the carpet or on the lowest
foot-stool they cold fInd. The b)ride Rat,
like a little nmage on a chair raised on two
steps in one corner of the room; her hands,
mncased in tight white ki(t gloves, were
crossed onlier lap, andl she never moved
at all, except that she acknowledged our
courtesies, as strangers, with a slight,
grave incliation of the head. The other
women kept uip a pretense that if was all
very deClighitful, and occasionally stroked
her dIress smileng in passig, or rearranged
tile heavy gold fringes of the veil. bhie
had put oif a magnifIcent brIdal diress of
white satin Oil entering the house of this
husband whom she "had never seeni," and
was now arrayed in pink satin heavily em
broidered with gol, having on her head a
veil of tulle and gold ornamented with
flowers and diamonds,whitle large diamond
brooches and bracclets glittered on her
diress and wrists. The long train of her
(dresse, made in European fashion, was
spreadl ostentatiously halt across the floor.
Trhose of her relations who had come with
her were also very smart and very modern,
11cr sister, In addition to a pair of high
heeled slioes, had advanced to the civilized
length of wearing tight stays.
A Little More,
One of the stockholders of a now Wes
tetia railroad was a farmer who had ac
cumulated his money by hard toll, and
when lie had put In appearance at the
meeting to elect a B3oardl of Directors lie
felt It Is duty to remark:
"Gent,lemen, as I uinderstand this thingl
we elect the Board and the Board elects
the ofice rs."
$omno one said he was right, andi he con
1inuedl:
"I[ don't go a cent on high salaries, and
I want that understood, I am In favor of
paying our President a good liviuig salary,
and no more."
''How much do you call a good living
sala.1yt"' asked one of the crowd.
"Well, $2 a day is the going wage,
but-"
hlere the meeting began to roar, and it
was two or three minutes before the orator
had a chance to conclude:
-"But of course we want a man who can
run an engine, switchl a train, handle
freight, keep books and lick ainybody who
want pay fare, and so I shall not object to
$,0a day."
Protection r,c the Un1id.
It is exocedingly disngro able to have
the hands rough, swollen flI sor(, e8
pecially if one wishles to write or sow ;
yet I never could wear gloves nucccs
f fully about my house-work, as many
-A,house-keelpor" do. Even when doing
cold, rough work iu which mittens or
gloves seem indispeisablo, I often find
myself casting them impatiently aside
as I murmur to myself the titne-worn
proverb about a cat in gloyes. They
scol clumsy and in the way. Neither
can I spare my bands by use of the
"'dish mop" so landed by an occassional
ponj. It may possibly be owing to the
force of lon1g-continued habit that I
can not wash my dishes satisfactorily
with other than a linen or other soft,
easily-wrung and easily-kept clean dishi
cloth.
Thero are a few tasks in which I find
mittens or gloves a veritablo necessity,
and one of theso is the blacking of
stoves. Not only is the blacking itself
diflicult to remove, but it actually seent
to poison the flesh. Old, easi.-off gloves
will not answer, as they are always
more or less out at the finger-ends, as
well as short in the wrist. Gloves or
mittens about as good as any for this
purposed may be mado of coarse, thick
cotton cloth ; or canton Ilannel uiy be
used, but this does not wash so easily.
They should be made to lit tue hanids
comfortably, with long wrists, to conic
well up over the sleeves. Thius pre
ared, with a big apron from top to too,
t thiuk turban over your hIir, a brush
for puttig on the blacking, andanother
long-handled one for polishing, tho
blacking of stoves is not the most diua
greebile work inl the world. Still, it
is better to turn it over to the men cio
your household if 3 ou can. 'hey will
do it in half the time, and, the proba
bilities are, with uore satisfactoiy re
sults.
Another thing for which mittens or
gloves are important is the hanging out
of clothes in cold or frosty weather,
They will save much aching of lingers,
if not, indeed, some cols and soro i
throats also. A pair should be kept ex
clusively lor this purpose, for if allowed
to be used in other ways they are sure
when wanted to be so soiled as to spot
and blacken the clothes. If you cain
knit or crochet, gloves or mittens of
lino white yarn are very desirable,
though a pair made either of fine canton
or real flannel will answer every pur
poso. The seams should be stitched on
the machine; then pressed open, andI
"cat-stitched" down by h.Lmd.
But most important of all ire gloves
or mittons for handliig wood and keep
ing winter fires, and especially when
stoves are used for burning chunks or
, g wCot, which ofte;i has to go un at
the toi. if the hands a'rd at all dOli-I
cato or sensitive they will, unless pro
tected, be continually rough and soro,
not only from contact with the rough
wood, but also from the action of the
undue heat upon the flesh, Mittens of
yarn, or any woolen materhi I, scorch
too easily and not suitable. Mittens of
stout canton flannel will answer, though
a pair of s-nall-sized men's gloves of
some soft, stout leather, with dlcep
gauntlet wrists, are best. The ex-I
iJenso is not great, and they will more
t,han pay for themselves in one beason,
if you Ive many fires to build, in the
greater comfortableness and smooth
ness of your hands.
The cattle i'angite comt.
Until recently little has been postiveiy
known of the origIn or true diagnosis of
thic catt,le lahgue, iuch is necessary to
its successfull treatmenit anti eradication.
It appears from tihe recordsa of the Agricul
tnrali)Depart,ment that attention was lirst,
called to the existance of this disease in a
dangerous or epidemic formu (luring 1869,
and that dluring that ycar the danger t.o be
apprehended from its spread from cont a
glen was recogmized and mneabmnres adoeptced
to meet the ctonmgency. Bly references
to the rep)orts of the (Coinnmissioner of
Agriculture it is foumnd that an appropria
tion was recommended by the Con.imis
sioner, andh adhopted by Congress. for theI
expenditure of a sum that seemed adedluate
for the occasion, and a commission, whose
duly it was to report uipon its nature and
extent, was appoitd to mnvestigate the,
cause andl recomnmentd measures for its
treatment. Dluring that and the suceced(
lng years of l870 and 1871 t,he stun of
$12.09b (60 wats expeid( in a careful
zmanner in these investIgations with ro
suits that are of great ir.iportance whien
viewed in connection with the vast inter
est involved m Its consideration. A recent
estinate places thme losses occurring an
nually from the ca*tle plague at from two
to thiree milloiis of dollars at the p)resent
tune, which, if estfiatedt at five per cent.
imakes a total ot' from $40,000,000 to
$60,000,000, which is itmperiled by the
consequences, with a prospective inicrease
of many ihens.
E,mn,atect Tu'rkish WVe ue.x.
One result of the British occupation
of Cyprus, accordling to an American
observer, has been to revolutionize the
status of Turkish women in the island.
The emancipated Turish woman, lie
says, is niot only to be found in Cyprus,
but she has been emancipated so rap)id Jy
that, in his opinion, the hiaremi system
will not. long survive in Egy pt or any
other country whore a British garrison
1s stationed, In Cyprus, according to
his account, the Moslem woman "has
openly thrown off the y oke and claimed
her indepenidence, and wibh a vengeance
too. TurAish husbands, fathers,
brothers and friends are frantic with
despair at the turn affairs have taken,
and should a Turk come here from any i
other part of Island lie would not be- I
hove his own eyes." The wvomen go
about univeiled, walk arm-ini-arm with1
the infidel, give coffee parties to Eng
lhen, attend cafes chantants, and ini
some case h'ave oven taken to dIrinking,
Thme Woman's Suffrage Society should
lose no time i starting a branch in Cy- 1
prus, for mf drunkenness auf. the can
can are the first fruits of female oman
olpation in the island, thore is certainJ
to be a severe reaction before long, in
which the Turkish husband is likely to1
como to his own again unless due pro-4
cautioDs are taken by the liberators of
the other sex
iso inteed Upo lall 'rivilegoit.
The other day a lank young man from
the country, accomlianied by a good-ook.
ing young woman, ariived in the ci,y and
M'opped at our largest hotel. "I want you
to do the best you ken for us," said the
young man to the clerk. "'We've just.
got mariie(l, and want. to splurge a little.
Down ill my country I'm the bo.w. I ken
lift afgi any uman in the community, and
I ken qpll more rails inl aday thai any
body sepenter knock-keed ihll, the ohl
(Armen nigger what works on the Lime
Stndets plaec. Tell us where our room
is, please. But. I reckon we'll take the
range of the big room whar all them big
lookin' glasses il a shinia'.1,
"LDo you mean the parlor ?" asked the
clek, twisting one of his diamond shirt
"Yes, the pcriir."
"Certainly, sir. "
The young mnan and his wife followed a
grinning negro and ascended to the parlor.
Shortly afterward the clerk, while passing
the parlor door, saw lube throw his arms
arottind his britle and kiss her.
"11ere," said the ollicial, "none of that.
If you stay i this roolil you'v got to be
lihve yourselves."
''Ain't I got a right to kiss her ? ' asked
the young ianl.
'Yes, bluit not here."
"I've got a ri;ubt to kiss her here or any
whar else. She's min, ain't you J tile ?"
'"Yes, fiube."
"Didi't the J ustice of the leace say
that you iutst cling to me ?''
"Yes, Rube."
"And you are gUi' to cling, aini't
you ?'
"Youknow I am It ibe."
I hat settles it. 'ut her thar, " a1d
ptckering up his mouth lie receivcd a lond
resounding smack. "'he law of Arkan
saw says 3ou can put her tiat, and put
her thar agin, Jule. Xw lmister man-"
Aut the clerk hat vanished, and itube,
turning to his wife, sai:' "Arter a while
you'll lird out that I i a hero and a bJoss.
l'ut her tWar ogin, Jule,"
Ilow Appio. Aro Suad I tirgland.
There are five auctioneers in the buhi
aciis inl Liverpool, and all the apples re.
3eived aro sold by them. Tho tale is
blohl in a largo amphitheatre, in the
'ontre of which is a largo table, on
wiiich i barrel of itch mark is poured
>it as a sample. Each auctioneer sells
ror three.piuarters of au hour at a time,
And the sales contine, if necossary, till
10 o'clock att night. Apples tre sold in
lots of twenty barrels each. The un
lerstanding is thatt the appies shall be
:ourfectly tight in the barrel, whenl such
.ring 23 shillings per barrel . "shakers"
,r tliome not tightly packed, will bring
I shillings less. The noxt grade im "wet
ud wiasted," which brings only haltf
"ie prico of the bwst, The Baldwin is
Aho only variety sold to any amount ;
it is tho only one which can b obtained
En Blicot quaty to Bell by tho
shousand barrels. Retail lots and odtids
tnd ends are not wanted. ides are
lid three days in a week. The trado
iates from about ten years ago. When
L became apparent that New England
.o1ld raiso apples enough for its own
,onsuipt ion, the New York growers
egan to ship. .ll packiig, a basket of
ugh-colored and Imedimiii-sizod si.
anmus are placed in the Iottom1 of the
jairrei its close its possible, with tho
items till down, and the barrel is sloken
is often as a basketl is pit in. It is
illed half an inch above the chimes,
,he head is pressed in by means of a
icrow, and([ the barrel is then turned
>ver and mtrked on the fitce head, so
hatt, whenl Opetied it ilovs tin Iveni Itil
iniform surface. Apples thus laced
vill Iltring from twenty-live to fifty cents
nore itan thiose not facedl. T1ho is
rery litt,le dlemand for sweet tipples.
Spples tire somet imaes slhip)ped success
uilly In warm weather, when later ship
nenuts, m cooler wetather, will decay.
A book aIccoiunt ctan be assigned so
hat t he assignee cain sue thereon in his
A master maiy recover the value of
lie aprienItrce's service for the unex
djieti tertm froini o.e wvho abhiicts him.
'The ownier of landls is responsible for
laimages arising froni an tares unipro
e'fted opetnmg into a putbl ic footway.
TIearimg off the seals of a mortgage
>r even its entire tdtstruction, by tin
intuthoizetd prsonI will not cancel it.
An tassignmient of' rent after it is dhue
vill not convey any rIght of suit to the
ssigniec, nor dhivest the lessor of his right.
Untying and removing a horse from a
tublic hitchinig post, whiein (lone b)y any
)fe without atnthority amounts to Itrcspass.
If a persBon intoxicated felh asleep mn his
,vagon andl hIs horse ran away, he would
>C lhable to till dhamatges arising terefromi.
1t is a tdebatable pomlt of law, whether
inking a horse attachedh to a carriage in
Nhtich ia person is sitting is tin assault, on
,bo person.
A female canniot be0 arrestedh in a civil
mnt im this Stte for fraud, hut she may
be attached for contempt for nion-payment
if costs.
A p)erson whose goods are unlawfully
listrained for rent dio0s not forfeit or
taive tiny legal right by not, claimIng tho
foods when the aistress is made.
Trho owner of a steatm boiler, which he
ias in use on hIs 0oun property, Ip not re
ponsible in the absence of negligence for
he damaltge (lone by its burstIng.
A bank Is not liable for loss by the bun
~lary of valuables dleposited In the vault,
If the ba'ik, anid nto compensation iti
heeoe when the effects of the bank
r0 IC0I pin tao same valilt,.
Traa is,roai'An Age.
Dunring the oxcavations in tho .Piazza
littorio Emanmuell, in Rorme, the work
non hava foiud a nepulohro of Ihe
>ronz'io ago. It is a hole (lug in the tufa
ma( lined with rough stonos, tl'o wholo
)ting six feet long anti three foot wide,
so ashecs wvoro found, and the other
'nmins proved it to bolong to the
ransition period between the stone age
ndl t,he bronizo age. The whole space
>etween the Via Merulana and the
ailway station is oyered with similar
traves lying deep under the ancient
~sq uilno. 0 onsidering the number of
omamns discoveredt (uring the last
welvo years, and those recorded by
mla writers, it is prob)ablo that a town
vas founded ont the site in the bronize
age,
NE NWS IN BRIEF,
--Her husband and ba)y traveled
with Madamo Albani.
-Missouri is sending acorns to
Europe to improve I he forests.
--A negro who is alleged to be 138
cari old lives i: Warren county, Miss.
-Tho ialaries of t'e oflicials of all
the bouaina mines have beei reduced.
--Nearly 46,000 immigrants came to
tile Unifed States in the month of Oe
tober
-pFeng Ying Wang was the namo of
the person who introduced printing-mn
1A, China.
-The total cost of the new capitol
of the Btato of New York to diato has
belln $14., "222,993.
The nuliber of suall pox pitivits
under treatment at Baltimore is 163, in
a I)Opultiol of 400,000.
--Wm. PF. Cody, hetter known as
lIufililo Bill,"1 is sIfflinitig fr.om penu
llollia at Newburg, N. Y.
-The Young Ment's Christi m Assoca
tion of New Jersey gained 2226 new
miemrs during tho iast year.
--There are 69,000 colored Baptists in
Tcmie-ssee, with 150 churches.
--There have been 2,100 divorces
deareced in Maino durmg livo yearii,
aking at ratmi of one separahon ini teii
malrriaiges.
-Mr. Stephlen A. D-ng!as, soil of
the "Little Giant., ham been an invalid
iml Chicago soveral IlontimIs, but is now
able to ride out.
--Lieutenant Colonel AleDougall, of
(Weliph, hatts beenft elected to command
the Canadian artillery team at Shoebury
Iss during the coming Beason01.
- British architecti appear to concedu
that plumbhiig and other sanitary ar
rangements o Amerietan houses arc far
better than those of the English.
--Mrs. Johl Jacib Astor is sail to
lie the only lady in New York, or anly
other city, wl:)so cartily possessioes
inelude i tdinmer servico of solid gold.
--One of t.he passengers on the trial
trip f .F'1ulton' stoariboat, Mr.. Sally
Sniithi, died not long mincai at Edgar
town, Mamssacllusetts, agod linety-two.
.- Out of nearly 37,000,000 of people .
in the Unik.ed StL-tes atbovo teln years of
age, 5,000,000 nro reported unable to
reaid, anld over 6,000,000 1unable to
write.
-A Marino and MeIbauical Exhibi
tioi will be opened in London next
July, and it will contain practical Ox
ml)ies of gas, hydraulic and electric
engiueering.
--The Princess Louise hts sent to
Ridean ull, Ottawa, a large number
of Lduan and Chineso vuro.ities pur
ubased by her during her tour through
British Columbia.
-'rofessor Robinson, whose alleged
icresios ma.11do 111Ch conunotion in MiC
3cclesiastical circles of Scotland, has
ecepted the professorship of Arabic in
aibridge, jnglaniid.
--The yield of wheat, for the year
[879, 1881 and 1882 m t.h United States
a given as follows : 1879, 450, .170, 503
musliels ; 1881, 380, 280, 000 busels
[882, 502, 798, (it'll bushels.
-A bounfire, which hascommunicated
with a bed of coal beneath, is said to
)e ftill burning oi a hill nealr Troy,
New York, having I)eln lighted to cele
)rate Gen1erILl (lirlield's election.
--Nancy McCoib, at very aged col
>red Wonnin, who died, at week or two
ince, in Millcdgeydle, Georgia, was
.he conk wvho pn Intreil General Lafa
,'otte's dinner when h'e visited that city.
-LJouis 13hmo left :20,000 franmes to
Larisian childreni whoi ha ve, beenl doser
edl by the:ir pairenits, Theli deserving~
>f each year' are to receive savings bank
)ooks with l1t) lrimes ret down to their
~redit,
--Ini thle K hoy ra district, Inidia, whIich
iomprises a considerable p)ortioni of theo
umtoiIr bunds, lnore than11 litty p)eople
~imiber-cuttmug and collecting in the
unilgle-woro killed by tigers during the
anst official year.
-Water for dlomeistic uses is so scarce
in Augusta, Me., that many famiIilioni
ire having iec in large blocks hauled
t'rom thle river to t.heir doors iad melt
inIg the ice for drininiig, wasing anld
nm1umry purposes.
-The Londoni Fire Brigade has but
fifty steamn engines and 500 firemen.
Thle estimaiite<d valuei of the property to
be p)rotected in $6,000,000,000, and
Londono,rs 11ay ani insurance premliiumli
>f 120th partI of 1 per cent,
- The I>rlgh 1, yellow tint of mnany
[apaneso vases has never been suicess
uily imlitated( by EulOanl artisanis. Its
pop)ulaLrity in Japan is no doubt owinig
to the fact that irom timo immnemorial
milIroni tint hasl been considered lucky.
--John (I. Whittier recently received
rrom a Chicago lady 200 engraved yisi
hmg cards ith a request to write his
illustrious name on each of them, as
lie writer was to givo a rocop)tionl to
ier friends aind desired to presunt them
w'ih somne memento of the onit.
-A pice of Plymiouth Rloek, eight
nchlos long, three inches wide and1( four
hick, has been forwarded to the Rev.
Lb.ory Allen, of Mission Chapel, Isling
on, Leaden, to be 1,uilt into the front
>f then chapel pulpit, b)y the Pilgrim
ocety of gl1ymnouth, Massachusetts.
-According to the Journal de F"ab
r'icants do ~Sucre, tihe p)roduction of
>oeteroot sugar in Europe this year
umounits to 1,920,000 tons, an increase
>f 137,500 tons over last year. Germany
.s still Lhe greatest producer, hading
he list with 075,000 tons ; Austrian
[lungary ranks next with 450,000 tons ;
h'rance third, with 410.000 tons; Polish
LRussia fourth, 275,000 tons.
-Krupp's works, at Essen, now eom.
>loy seome 432 steam boilers :456 steain
mngmes, with an aggregate horse power
A 18,500; 81 steam hammers, .varying
n1 weight from 200 pounds to 50 tons ;
11 rolling mills ; maehiites for making
~ools, 1,622; furnaces, 1,550. of wich
[ourteen are high furnaces; 25 locomo- , '
bives, and five.propellers, with a tonnage
:>f ab~outi 8,000,. Antiual productiov,
300,000 tons steel and 20,000 tone lron,