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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION- WINNSBORO. S. C. APRIL 17, 1883.
By AND nBr.
There Is an angel over near,
When tolt and trouble vex and try,
That bids our fainting hearts take cheer,
And willapers to us-"By and by."
We hear it at our mother's knee,
With tender smilo and love-lit eye,
She grants some boon on childisti plea,
In these soft accents-"By and by."
What visions crowd the youthful breast
What holy aspiration high,
Nerve the young heart to (do its best,
And wait the proniuse-"6y and by."
The malden sitting sad and lone,
Her thoughts half uttered with a sigh,
Nurses the grief she will not own,
And dreams bright dreams of--"B3y and by."
The pale young wife dries up her .ears,
And stills her restless Infant's cry,
To catch the couitug-step, but hears,
How sadly whispeted-"By and by."
And manood, with his Rtrength and will
To breast lite's tils and fate defy,
Though funje and fortune he his, still
has plans that lie in-"3y and by."
'1 IE BULLET-PROOE' MAN.
A bright, burning summer day on
the border of the Sabara Desert; the
huge bare cliffs of the El Kantarah Pass
hanging like a cloud on the northern
horizon; a quivering film of intense
beat along the line where the rich blue
of the cloudless sky .met the hot, life
less, brassy yellow of the desert; and in
the fore-ground a group of Arabs, en
camped beside a tiny stream, in the
shade of the clustering palms tIat over
hang it.
8 njo ws re .iulhing halifuls of
p.iche.1 corn, others Wero lying ,fast
asleep, while one dried up old scare
crow with one eye, and a itad like a
worn out serubbing-brush, was droning
out some interminable Easttrn legend.
The story did not appear to get on
veiy fast, however, wlhiqh was not sur
prisig, itamnioh at, the whole of it,
front beginoing to end (if it ever had
any), was pretty much in this styl.-:
"Now when the Princo sclim (.Un%y
his name be honored forever) anmo up
to the gate of the palace-a gate higher
thun the dome of the Kaabah (holy
place) at Mecca, and built all of marble
wh;ter than the whitest milk-lot there
stood beforae it a giant, mighty and ex
eetding teirible. Then was the Prince
of GIjlittani sorely amazed, aud said,
"Never since 1, s8ehm, son of Mah
Moud, son of Savid, non of Ali, first
wore a yatagi an (salre) have I beheld
such a monster as this!" -
Aud so on for another half-hour,
keeping poor Prince Selfm waiting at
the gate of the palace.
But on a sudden an exclamation of
astonishment broko from one of the
group, and ail eyes were turned to stare
at a spectacle quite as wonderfni to
them as any of the marvels to which
tht:y had jut;t been listening.
Sauntering leisurely over the burning
plain, as composedly as if he were
lounging adong the boulevards of Paris
or St 11'tersburg, instead of traversing
ono 01 tho most dangerous spots in the
whole noth of Africa, was a solitary
man, coming slowly toward them.
True, he wore the white mantle and
huge many-folded turban of the East,
but he was none the less a European,
as his fair complexion, well-trimmed
board, and the janntiiy out pantaloons
sufliciently showed.
instantly the universal listlessness.
cbangett to) bustle and excitement. The
sleepers wvoko up, the lunch party for
sook their dautes and( corn,- the s
teller ai his hearers started ~ er
feet tog<-thor, and all alike hirs ac for-.
ward to meet their strang amator. n
Bunt to their unop aameen
the strange visit97*OOE no notice ol
them whautever oeyond a slight bow
and the una.ssi "Peace be with you!"
spoken mi good Arabic, though with an
unOantaikably .French accent. Stepping
-into t,he sh'ade of the palms, he bent
down to the stream, took a long draught
of the coo'l clear water, and then seating
lhimself upon the bank 'took off' hia~
turban, and began to fan his hot face
with a f allen palm leaf, as if wishing to
show his coolness in a double sense.
The Arabsm were completely taken
aback. They had seen men look pale,
and try to run a way from them; and
they had seen men look tleree, ann rtsn
at them pistol in hand; but a man who
paid no attention to them at all, and
who hardly seemed to know whether
they werer there or not, was a thing
which th/y had never seen before, and
they dignot know what to make of it.
In if~ like most men of their class,
theAlomentL they encountered .a man
y.im they c ,uld not frighten, they at
nee began to be frightened themselves.
At length the chief, seeming to think
7himself bound to sot an example 01
courage to his followers, waikod jigli
up to the stranger, while the test ap
proached more cautiously, very adehc
as a man approaches a strange dog
which may epf'ing up and bite him at
any moment.
"Peoace be with thee, my brother!''
said the chief, in a voice not quite so
steady as it might have been,
"With thee be peace,. .bh, sheik
(chief) of the children of'the desert!''
replied the unknown.
"What seeks the Frank (lauropean)
chief among the warriors of the tribe of
Bien-Asyr?"
'll am a magician," answered the
stranger, quietly.
The Arabs looked at eaoh other with
ndisguised trepiidation. A magions
mnong thern, and a Frank magician at
thatl Who can tell what he might d<
to them? For every Arab had heart
the fame of the mighty soircerers who
could make wagons run without horses,
ships go without sails, messages flv
along a wire through the air swiftW
than an arrow, little scraps of papel
serve as money, and other scaps of
paper, no bigger than a true believer's
turban, show the whereabous of all the
wells, rivers, hills and caravan tracks
over an area of thousands of miles.
Evidently this unknown gentletnrn was
no, a man to be* trifled with. '
"I am a magiciant" repeated the mys
terious guest, before any one could
speak in reply, "and I have come to
see if in the tribe of Ben-Asyr there be
another magician like myself, and to
try my power agahist his."
This chal-enge was followed by a
gloomy and general silence. But sud
denly a cunning twinkle showed itself
in the ohief's small, rat-like eye. Per
haps this strange man was only boast
iug in order to frighten them. At any
rate, it might be worth while to see
what he was made of, and how much lie
could really do.' Bo*th chief made a
very polite bow, and said:
"We are far from the tents of our
tribe, and none of our great magicians
are with us; but let the wise man of the
Franks show us his power, that we may
behold it, and honor him as he - de
serves.
fThat will I do, willingly," answered
the stranger, with a readiness which
rather disconcerted the worthy chief.
"Look all of you upon this c->in"-and
he held out a silver fianc-"which
I have marked with a oirole, as ye see.
Thinkest thou, 0 sheik of the Ben-Asyr,
that thou canst hola it too firmly for
me to take it away?"
"With the blessing of Heaven and of
the Prophet, I can," replied the chief,
confidently.'
"Let us try, then, said the stranger,
pressing the coin into the Arab's ex
tended hand, which inApntly closed
upon it as if meaning neo'er to let it go
again.
'PrestoI pass!" shouted the magician,
in a high, shrill voice; and the chief,
opening his baud, found to his un
feigned dismay that it wan empty.
Amid the general silence and bewild.
erment, the stranger pointed to a huge,
overripe dato that lay rotting on the
ground at some distance, which oLie o'
the Arab's instantly handed to him. One
stroke of a knife laid it open, and out
tumbled the marked coin.
There was a visible movement of
surprise among the Arabs, and even the
chief himself looked not a little discom
fitted,
"For a warrior of the desert, thou art
easily conquered," said the Frenchman,
jeeringly; "but it is no wonder that ill
fortune should come upon the tribe p
Ban-Asyr, when their ahief him h
follower of the Prophet, carret for
him the liquor which the f
bade." 4the Oiet
"What mean you?" t
fiercely. dhe other, as,
"T/dI," answere2 the sheik's wal
thrusting his han'jo the horrified eyes
let, he held faiall flask of unmistaka
of the banii4ne.
ber~ja,rankI" roared the sheik,
p.al atience, "do you dare to try
four magical .tricks upon a true believ
ar? Take that!1"
He' snatched a pistol from his girdle,
md~aimed it full at the conjurer's face;
but It only flashed in the pan) and as lie
:lshed it furiJusly to .the. ground, his
tnmoved ~opponent laughed- disdain
rully.
"Do you ibiak, then, that Iam to be
hurt by mortal weapons? Try it again,
if you will; or rather let me loed a ih
tol for you, and you shall see whether 1
am bullet-proof or no."
Hie drew .a seced pistol from the
girdle of the sheik, who was too much.
astounded to object; and loaded it be
fore the eyes of the whole baud, mark
ing the ball. with his knife just before
dropping it into the barrel,
"Fire!" cried he, putting the weapon
i' iuu nuem s nzanu.
The chief fired, and for a nioment
the smoke hid everything. When it
cleared, the stranger', with a mocking
smile on his face, was seen to let fall
the marked bullet from his month into
his hand, and hold it up for every one
to look at.
The dark faces of the Arabs turned
perfectly green with terror; but before
anybody had time to say a word a loud
shiout was heard from behind, and up
slashed three mounted French officers
with a score of light horseman.
Instantly the Arabs took to thieir heels
with a howl of dismay, nevei' waiting to
see whether the new comers were real
men, or phantoms called up by the ter
rible magician, The spot was deserted
in a moment, and fa out on the plain
might be seen a confused whirl of arms,
limbs and white mantles flying along
lle dust drivern by the wind.
."Reually, M1, floudin, you must be
more careful," cried the French Colo
nel, excitedly. "To think of .your yen.
turing alone among all those out-throats
What a fright you've given us1"
"And somebody else, too, seemingly,'
said Robert Hondin- -for it was, indeed
the famotis sleight of-hand artist
glancing slyly at the fdying Arabs
'Wlen I 'first came ujP'o te I knew
it was no use running, so I decided ti
face it out, and scare them a little in
stead. The next time you make a rai
through t8ese parts, Colonel,'take a fi
epnjurers with you; they'll be worth i
whole battalion of infantry, take m3
word for it."
The mero or sas Jacinto.
An old comrade ot 1-imuel Houstor
writes as follows: When I first saw Gen
Houston his second term of ofileas-Pres
ident of Texas liad not long expired. 0
course I had heard of him. There wat
not a human being in Texas who was no
familiar with his name, and froin my very
infancy I had been taught by my father to
honor and love him. When. therefore,
one morning, as I was trudging along t<
school, I heard General Houston was In
town I determined to see him. The city
of 'Houston was at that time the proud
possessor of one biek buinding, known to
all as "the brick offile." It was a sinal]
one- story house, containing two rooms,
the front one being used as a lawyer's of.
fice. Inquiring as I went along of every
one I knew, I soon learned that my itro
was at the brick office. A. little child ig
an unusual visitor in a lawyer's office, but
I knew this lawyer very well, and when
he asked me what I wanted in his genial
way, I answered promptly .
"I want to see tUeneral Houston."
"But the Geuetal Is engaged j,ist now
and I don't think you can see him." But
a voice, rich, sweet, sonorous, called out
from the back rnom: "Who is it wants to
see me V' "Only a little girl, General."
"Certainly I will see her,'' and as he spoke
the realization of all my dreatus-Roland,
hayard, Wallace atid Washington. all in
one-ppeared In the doorway and came
toward me with outstretched hands. I
introduced myself. "Ah I the daughtc
of my old triend-my good friend I am
very glad to see you."
"I said: "My father published a song
about you." "Indeed I .Can you sing it ?"
"Yes, sir; I came here to sing it to you."
Several gentlemen had followed the chief
from the inner room and my ingenuous
confession was greeted with a ltighter
which mortilled me no little until, quickly
looking up into my hero's face, I saw there
oily a pleased expectancy wtich convinced
me lie only spoke the truth when he said:
"I am very glad. Come, now, sit on my
knee and sing it all through.'' which I
(lid. It was only an adaption of "I3ructs
Address" to our own circumstances and
began:
"Texans I who with Sam Houston bled,
. Toxan I whom Rusk has ofteu led."
and was sung by an untaught l le girl;
but if I had hen Sontag or Rlahbran anti
the Eong had been the most famous of
ariaq, no more profound homage could have
been rendered than I and my simple pare
dy received. Proud, happy, intensely
tatterea, I prepared to go. "Won't you
be pnuished for being late at school ?"
asked the lawyer. "I reckon so, bu,K
seen Ueneral Houston I" was the p4on
whereupon the friend of JacksVinhessee,
gresman and ex-Governor Aidet of a
hero of au Jacinto and Pd give 1Im his
Hepublic, asked soin9t%; with you, lttle
bat and said: ,j,, your excuse,'' and
dauglhter, ant I'me tO the 6chool house
actually wepi' ready pardon for my late
and obtp
ness.., -not see him again for nearly two
j# when I met him on the street one
y and was instantly recognized by him
and greeted by name, - All the circum
itances of my vi3it to him were recalled
as freshly f's if 1 were a person of import
ance and he had had nothing else to think
of since. C-annot the reader see n these
two instances some of the causes of his
unbounded popularity I He never forgets
a name nor'a face. At the time of my
second meeting he was on his way to mu8
father's house whore he was always a wel
ome and honored guest, and the evening
of that day, sitting on the front veranda,
he himself taught me with bits of colored
paper how to make a Texas flag.
On a subsequent visit he told me the
legend of the origin of the name "Texas,''
as ho Lad it from an Indian chief. I wish
[could give his very words instead of my
memory of them. "A long time ago.
when the 8paniards overran and plundered
Mexico, some of the red men left them andi
came towards the risin g sun. They crossed
the ilo Grande, and not knowing what lay
before them entered up.on the g#eat salt
marshes. They traveled many days and
found but little sweet water or game.
The weather arew hot and the little
alreamns dried up and the grass withierea,
and many old men and wonmen and child
ren died of th'iirst. One day, after
ninny weeks of weary walking, a party of
young braves, who had been sent ihead to
rdeennornt.re, came runnilng back and said :
"We have found water ; come on l'' This
good news put new life into their veins
and alth:>ugh nothing could be seen but a
.driy, flat prairie, the scouts were standing
stul, callhng and beckoning to them and
pointing toward something apparently at
At length they reach the spot where the
braves are staniihng. Faftyvteot below themi
the limpid waters of the Clorado sang a
mneledy to heaven. Beyond, far as even
un Indian vision could reach, stretched a
green expanse. The tall, mesquite grass,
yielding to the breath of the gentle south.
wind, rolled In vast billows of verdure
uinder the ar,:ent summer sun. Little
"islands'' of mnesquite trees dotted .thh
grassy sea, ant h&rds of b,ualo and dcei
grazed in peccful ignorance of an enomy't
approach. Forgetting hunger, fatigue anmi
even thirst in this dclleious vision the ret
men fail upon their knees and cry out:
"Tehs Tehas I"
* Tehas" is the nearest approach I cain
make in 1English to the correct pronun'cia
tion of Texas, and it means--so the nairr
tor exillalned to ime--aradse.
.How Lon,g ia a Mile?
A nautical nrile, or an English admi
ialty knot, is 6,080 feet. The Umte<
States Coast Survey, always most ao
curate in such things, has aaoptet
1 0I58.248 metres, ,or 0,080.27 feet al
tie standard mile, which is populare
"a minute of latitude,'" but more 'acen
rately the sixtieth part of a degree oi
the great circle of .a sphere, hose sur
face Is equal to the surface of ther earth
A minute of lati ude, according to th
head, of the Coast buriey, would. b
1,861,655 motors at the poles, an
1,842,780 meters at the-equator. On
minute of the equator would be 1,845,
848 mieters. or 6.087.15 foot.
A Div4e0 Li ft.
"I first began divi in 1803." ae
Captain Anthony Wil ams. It was <
r shipboard, 6oming froaf Kingston, Jami
, ca. "I was a wrecker-then and was rai
Ing a sunken ship 9ff (the lssachuso
coast. I had workilit or me a diver wl
seemed a very lazy, ca less sort of folio1
I was paying him by t day and onc
after being under wate for a long time, I
,came up and reported aery little progre
in his work. I was a ry and expreas
myself strongly. He torted with, 'TI
it yourself if you can any better.'
"All right," said I. et me have ynt
diving dress and I will y it myself.' U
thought I was only jok g. but I "wasn'
Re doffed the dress, I p It on and wim
r diechargea nm 1came up at
have been doing m. own diving ev
since. I
1.sumequently, how ter, I placed m3
self under the instructi nof a diver name
Scott, When he thou t me proficient h
said to me one day: ' ny, I think yoi
have learned about alij can teach you
Now I am going to Pu on to the test.
Taking from a canv ag five dollars i
small silver coins he t4 rew theml into th
sea. 'Now go down an bring those up.,
"As every schoolboy nowe, a dime o
a half dime under wate looks as la-ge a,
trade dollar out of ato, so I (lid no
consider the task a ve afficult one. Dowt
I went, and up I e presently witl
every coin, whereupo Scott pronouncet
my diving educatio - lomplete. Pool
fellow, he was drown ,about five yearl
ago while bathing in t 0,river Magdalen,
n British Columbia.
"Did you ever see lying dress? 4o I
Then I will put mine and give you an
idea of one," and the plain retired to hie
state room, whence h resently emerged
in tull divinr costum except the heavy
cast iron helmet, wh several of the
company raised from a deck and placed
upon him, thus maki his outfit com.
plete. The dress is ally two dresses.
one Within the other, ph of India rubber.
The stockings, pants and shirt are all
made togetner as one rinent, which the
diver enters at the a 'feet first. The
hands are left bare, wristbands of the
rubber shirt-sleeves ghtly compressing
the wrists. There is copper breastplate,
bearing uon Its o ro convex surface
small screws, which ( adjusted through
holes in the neck of skirt, which, by
means of nuts futene on the scre We,
Is held so firmly in pl to render the
entire dress, from t eck downwards,
absolutely air and w r:tight. Fitting
with equal closeness to' 9 breastplate is
the helmet me. tIoned bove. it com
pletely encloses the hea nd is supplied
with three glafses, o' front and one at
each side, to eg1.tLie ver to look in
any direct-la . r of., ry thick leather
shoesa -
e,ad I, ci tAiil,hen is
rolmet had been remoied, after every
body had ample time to criticise his ap
pearance in it, "it takes about fifteen
minutes to put those togs on, and when
he diver is rigged in them all but the
ieslmet tnere are placed acrois his shoul.
ders ropes, sustaining two leaden weights,
ne hiuging at his back, the other at his
ipre..st. nl then goes down a ladder into
Lhe water up to his armpits, and then the
helmet is placed on him, the glass in front
is screwed in place and when everything
is ready he is made aware of the fact by
blow on the top of the helmet. 1I1 then
goes down by means of a rope previoully
lowered, hard under hand, to the bottom
of the sea. Sometimes, in - very strong
currents, it is neeessary to make the
weights extraardinarily heavy in order to
hold tue diver down, notwithstanding the
ract that the dress alone weighs h,ear.y
two hundred Dounds, and yet I do not
r eel the weight of it down among the
in~hos any more than i do that of an ordi
nary suit of clothes out of the water. It
-vas invented in Switz'rland biy a nat,ive
of tnat country, named Bauier, who spent
.a sall co.ipentency in having it paten ed
andl i trying to bring It into use, but lie
dliedi a disappointed, hieart-broken pauper,
leaving others to reap the beuiefit of hisi
invention, "
"Uan you breathe as freely in your
diving dress as you can out of it?
"\es, indeed. When ten or twelve
fathoms under water my breathing is as
wholly devoidi of eff rt as it is when I aim
walking about on dry land. You knowt
that by means of an air puimp, workedl by
two men, the diver is supplied with air.
Tbrougn ai hose this air passes hut', thet
bac3k of le, heulmce,, an~d iaear it.s piace of
entrance is a spring vaive for its escape.
T'his valve can be controlled by the (liver,
but he usually sets it bi fore gning into th<
water and seldom disturbs it afterwards
Thbe pressure of the air being greater t,hait
t,hat of the water a surplus of the formne
readily escapes. When this valve is nol
auffiotent the diver ca'n open in his breast
plato a similar spring valve, intended onlt
tor such an emergency. Ele c-in alat
regulate thie amount of ir l)umpedC( to) inu
by sigtnais upon the air hose to the a
engaged in pumping. One 'pull npJin thi
he.ae a.eans iiore air; two pulls, less air
aind two pulls and a shake, 'I want ti
come tip.' The signals on the air-hose ar
generially used by all diverb, but eiach,on
of us hia.s his own private code of signal
on the lite- line, which he always fastenei
to time diver's waist, and by means (
which he is drawn up out of the watem
Fhese sinais ech diver wrttea down ver,
carefully and gives to the mian in claarg
ol thli fe line. By means of these w
can send upi for t,ols, material.'etc. Who
a lenigthmy commitiniicati ns is to be mati
we seL md up for a slate and write a4-#
wanit to say. it, is juist us easy to re'id mum
write uuder water as ouit of it.. One Cea
see very plainly, all ohj-.cts being greaui
magnified."
'D.2es a diver have any unpleasat
sensations while at worFk U'
"None, save a druuiiingin the ear
and this will somuetiares d.st'roy tho Piea
lug af the diver remains too long bekot
I ouur nour4-two in the morning and tw
in the afternoon-constitute.a day's Wo)rl
and if the diver restricts tiliseif to tb
limit, there is little or no daiger of hls.b
coinlng dleat; but if lie gobs (uch boy'ott
I i, he in pretty sure to mjure';his bearing,
once remained under waier for nips h'6iU
ad aS a constqence ca))upmotlf .loat ii
ituse of mny left oar .for, three nionthp, du
ings which time I suffered agony with'e
ache. Eventutally, however, mny hearli
I beamo normal again. Mi.ide I roil thI
the sensations are delightful, andt {
just as well, happy and contented g t
bottom of the sea as I ever can under an:
ld circumstances. While engaged in raisin
the sunken schooner Dauntless in King
ston, Jamaica, on the 18th of August
1880 1 became so disgusted at the stupidi
of the men above in answering my signat
o that I took a book which I found in tho
10 captain's cabin, and sitting down, read i
* for nearly an hour. I once knew a diver,
Tom Brintley by name, who, though a
1 thoroughly competent man and a goo(
d follow, was a little too fond of stimulants
,d On one occasion he went down with i
y pretty good cargo of spirits aboard, an(
the men above,not knowing his condition
ir became seriously alarmed when severa
LO h,urs passed by without their recelvinj
any signals from him or any response t
rhou* they made to him. ¬her dive1
r was seht down to look for him, and fount
,r him lying on his back on the bottom oj
the ocean, sixty feet below the surface,
fast, asleep.
"What Is the greatest depth I ever de.
scended to? Well, about ninety feet, and
it takes me about three minutes togo down
that tar."
"Must not a diver be a practical ship
builder, also "
"Oh, yes, the diver who could do
nothing but dive would be of very little
use. He must be both a ship carpenter
and a boiler maker as well, that he may
repair sunken shipa. The holei must be
patched and the water pumped out before
a ship can be raised.
"8harkal 1 have often seen large
schools of them. They would advance to
within a feet of me and would then stop
and look at nie in apparent wonder, as
though trying to make out what manner
of strange creature they were gazing at.
They are a most cowardly fish, however,
and the slighiest menace on my part
wo,ild frighten them away. As I was re.
pairing the schooner Shepherd in Kingston
one day. I felt something tampering with
my left-hana middle finger. Looking, I
found a baby shark, evidently much too
young to leave its maternal parent, trying
to nibble it.
"rho pay of a diver? That varies.
Divers generally work by the job, and
-when the do that they sometimes make it
pay very well. A diver will go down,
look at a vessel and then 6tate what he
wil chargd to raise her. *1 raised the
schooner Dauntless in two days and re
ceived $750 for my time and trouble. The
steamer Meredith, ashore at Jeremie, In
Havti, I repaired with iron plates and
raised her in fourteen days, receiving
$7,500 for the work, but I had to employ
two assistants. Frequently, however,
divers are paid by the day, and then the
average compensation Is about $10 per
day of four hours, clear ot all expenses,
the diver being furnished with first-class
board during the period of his employment
But soine divers are not nearly so well
ment receiv4 only te'n shillings a day.
"Instructions in diving I You will ex
'berince great difficulty in finding a diver.
who will give you any instruction in the
art. Most of us want to mike all we can
and we don't want our occupation to be
cone too crowded. Divers, as a rule, are
very much opposed to taking apprentices.
If you want to learn diving put on a dress,
go down into the depths and learn for
yourself."
I tootgear Of ACtroesen
"Talking of stuall feet, ' said a dealer
in ladies' fancy and theatrical shoes, re
ce)ntly, "I am niaking now two of the
smallest pairs of shoes that were seen
upjn a public stage. They are for the
Midgets, one pair tor each of them. They
wilt be No. 51, infants' size, and will cost
$13 a pair.
"Toat will be rather more than $5 an
inch, won't it "
"Yes, the shoes will be about as long as
your finger."
"Hlow small a size did you ever know a
full grown actress to wear 1"
'1 tLmiu a No, 18 iq about the smallest
shplper that I ever had the pleasure ot
selling to be flourished over the heads of
an orcihest,ra."
"'What are the favorite shoes with
feminine stars just now ?"
"Brocaded satin, either boots or slippers
and made with high Lonis XV. heels.
The boots cost $25 a pair and( the shppers
$12. Then there are band painted slippers
inported from Pa,ris. I dd not think that
these, however, will stand utage use very
well, and they are not likely to be per
inanently popular. Just now they are all
the rage. The~n we have rdal dressed seal
skin low.quartered shoes, wiin arc quite
popular. It makes very little difference
wvhi.t character a lady assumns, she will
generally prefer a stylish moderni boot to
one perhaps more hlstorlcally correct.
The Sultan's wife and the Utah settler's
daughter are each bound to comte on the
stage in the latest French slippers, tor the
reason that these look much smnaller and
prettier and withal cause more palpitasuon
mn the regIon of the lr:mt tow of the par
queitts. F4or gentlemen, where the char
acters assumed willailow it, the gondola
6 slippers are ve-y showy. They are maae
'of builr allhgator skin and in the shape of
a gondola. Rob-on and Crane bought
U gondola4 when they wore hero for the
* "Two D,oimios.' lbbson takes a No. (3
e whfahl is small aor him."
"Ilow can the poorly paid subordinates
and chorus-girls afford to buy $28 satmn
ba ste, which will quickly soil and spoil ?"
" they do not. T%.oy buy. white canvas
or jeans b'>ot,s, which can tnon be c >veredi
e wiha silk, or even cambric, as desired
" i'ho canvas shoes will outlast several coy
C e-rigi', and iheir first cost is onily $2 or
'a "What do you cons&der a small foot for
aa large woman 1"
Y"A large wotnan who cao' comfortably
wear a L'o. 8 may bQ said to have a smnall
fool. 1 ae howevbl, seein such whc
only take a No. 1. A inediumn-slzed
' woman, 'to have a small foot, would re,
quire about a No. 2, and a small womat
-a No. 1 or No. 11. li you take the
0smalles~t ladies, as they. averuge, and no
op on h hundred can *ear t No. 1. 11
eis not once a *eek thatswe have a call fo:
Sa e4o. 1 and vety rar'ely indeed is a No
13 wanted.
n' Avarice is generall the last paesaiou
r. of those lives of which the first part ha
ir beed squandered in pleasure, an th
ig second devoted to ambition., qth
a, shiks under the fi.iRR of p6ttim
A Macaront Mint.
Six Italiais assist Signor Scalcht in I
micaroni manwactory on Baker street, b
low Seventh, Philadelphia. Three of .
him hds are women, and four or five babl
3 are usually stacked up promiscuously in
corner ot the second floor back, where t)
pasty sticks are made. Schalobi has tI
reputation of making macaroni that- nev
I can by any possibility be mistaken for t
imported article. ie produces cheap|
and pays his employees about twelve con
a day each. liis macaroni is of the moi
uncrthodox character . and quite unli
t what usually passes under that name.
never gets beyond the Italian quarter
the neighborhood of Carpenter stree
Scalchi once, imbued with the idea of i
creasing 4s business called on a wholc
sale grocer In this city and unfolded
bag of samples of the best macaror
he could make, carefully selected ft
its symmetry and whiteness. He has nev
since known exactly how it was, but h
found hinself on the sidewalk, sampk
and all. That one kick, besides bruisin
him, knocked away all his enterprIse, an
he now carries on a desultory sort or trade
euploylng no drummers.
A reporter recently picked his wa
among Italians who were picking rail
and, by a circuitous route reached the step
of the house where is the Scalci tonelent
A curious bundlo nat on the necond stel
and the reporter strode over it and was be
gimLing to go up stairs when the bundl(
arose and began to talk female Italian
On the stairs were other bundles, VIicL
snored and swore. After a time a doo
was reached on which was painteda (-yi
dently with a finger dipped in ink) thc
legend: "13. Scalchi, Macarni Saloon."
8calchi himself Jumped up as the re
porter entered the room. le is a smal
mnan, with a black beard and diminuti<v
eyes. Ills myrnitlons laid down theli
work and stared vacantly, with oyLs fand
mouth wide open. Like a flash he grabbec
a broomstick behind the door and brought
it down with a sounding thwack on the
shoulders of a miserable little Neapolitan,
who seemed only too glad of an opportun
ity to be idle.
"Worka, cobblestone, boarding house
dam, he shrieked, or words to that ef
fect.
'L ie effect was magical. The figures re
sumed their occupations. It may be here
stated that an American hanger-on of the
establishment subsequently explained that
Scalchi's sentence was supposed to mean:
" Work, you leather-souled sons of Italy I
This is all the English Scalchi knows and
he makes uso of it from the fact that his
people think it a terrible imprecation.
On the iiddle o the flour was a large
crok of a sticky material, like paste.
From this Vie macaroni was being fash
ioned. The process In use was primitive
iert visIore linger-marks, and commenced
to beat it about with two ittle sticks.
Then a child, apparently not, moro than
eighteen inches long, who looked like a
round ball, caught hold of a siall pair of
bellows and began working them for dear
life. The air pumped by. the bellows had
passed through the stove and was hot.
Next the artist bt-gan to build his stick of
macaroni lengthwa3e from the m1outl Ot
the tube, and as tho hot air touched It it
became hard enough to retain the neces
sary shape. Tho pastry pipo had, of
course, to be constantly moulded by the
handa to prevent its blowmig out iito all
sorts of eizes and figurcs. The process re
sulted in bundles of unequal and badly
shaped macaroni tubes, such as are never
seon in groceries. It was impossible to
find ont the exact composition of the paste,
but, it ap)eared to be made of coarso flour,
with a mixture of some thick meal. A
pan of muddy look!ng water, in which a
proportion of gum arabic had been
mingled, was what, t,he meal was moiatenecd
with. Scaichi was, of course, unable to
explain the virtues of the different articks
or describe them by name, but he danced
around and grInned as If cxceediing;y
pleased with his own ingenuity, every intw
and then stoppilng to give a playful anock
with the broom handie to his associates or
break over their heads aiiy shamefully
"'botched" pIpe of his national food.
in the i'imidst of the work, while thc
leader ,of everything was putting ashes,
stale potatoes andl other rubbish ini ti<
stove mostead of coal, there was a resound,
ing yeil iad the child who mnampulated thie
tiellows tumbled headforemost in to thei
paSte. For ai hiappy, sol tary moment th<n
boy stood perpendilcular, wrong side up, ii
the heavy mass, then hie topplhed over up
setting overything on the floor. l3caleh
host, his Bolf possession for a secondl, bu
wvas soon hiimseif again. Th'le small bo;
sat in the nidic of .the areni with eyes
mouth, ears and l ace plasteiod with dough
'ITie thick paste traveled slo wly buit, surel;
over the grimy boards. Scalohi uttered al
immortal yell, waved his b,roomstick, right
od the creek and in a minute every livinj
thing In the room, except the reporter anm
the boy, was scooping up the paste am
tossing it into tihe earthen vessel. Thi
stuff which adhered to the infant wit
carolfully scrapedl off and thrown in wit
the rest.
Before leaving the ropom ter was show
six large boxes of macaromi the color c
cigar ashes, There is very little romnane
about maclar-imaking, and S3calchi is thm
most uninteresting 'parson in the worki1
Lt appeared that thme persons who make tlh
farnincous articeo of food have to stud
long and tediously b)efore they can succes
fully work by Scalchii's miet,hodh, which
said to be one oh thu earliest kinds.
A Ohtirintg 4Onetotu.
There ss a cus',om .prevaiitig among tLi
inhaaitants of the Banmdeiimn island
which may throw a light upon the civilizi
use of wedding cake. When a native gi
whose exceptional beauty hams brought hie
many suitors is knocked down with a cmn
and carrIed off by her acceptedl suitor, Ii
wedded pair, within forty-eight hottrs
wedding, send a cup of poison dIsthIll
frtom the hiulahula tree to each and evel
one of the bride's former admirers,
any. rccip!cnt feels that lie cannot hecan
reconciled to the marriage, hie (l4htks ti
poison and dies; but if he dlectdes that)
will survivo the loss of his intended 'wif
k ho thirows away the >tmson1 and foe
5 bo,nmd ii lhonog never to onw the slight
Ssigin of dl,s.appojattment, , By this adini
able systemi lte husband is spared t
pangs ofl,alotsy, andl 'able to -live
..iriendly trms,wtt the survvbfg admitt
FOOD FOR'THOUGHT.
ils The only jewel which will not decay
e- is knowJedge.
le It is not a profession, but fruit that
es glorifies God,
A sanctified heart Is bettor than a
1 silver tongue.
3r Enterprise loses strength if Its efforts
1c bear no fruit.
Happiness is not confined to any
sphere of life,
Rather be beaten In. right than sue
Lt ceed in wrong.
To laugh at roguery makes. the ao
.tion doubly dihonest.
Love does not impute evil designs or
a t1loughts of others.
Gratitude, says some one, Is the
r memory of the heart.
The greatest truths are the simplest;
so are the greatest men.
4 Other men's sins are before our eyes,
I our own behind our back.
That mn alone is worthy of a wo.
man's love who has judged her worthy
ot hin respect.
Those who come to you to talk about
others are the ones who go to others to
talk about you.
If We expect to achieve anything
worthy in this life, we must set about it
with resolution.
Love is never lost. If not recipro.
eated, it will flow back and soften aud
purify the heart,
To be able to bear provocation is an
argument of great wisdom; and to for.
give it, of a great mind.
It matters not whether home is clothed
in blue and purple, if it is only brimful
of love, smiles and gladness.
Never refleot on a past action which
ws (lone with a good motive, and with
the be8t judgment at the time.
Whatever exception occurs, it is a
great truth that man's body must be
sound if he Is to be sound in mind and
in body.
Solitude is a powerful aid to refleo
tion and imagination. Te brighter
faculties necessarily dwindle in a perpet
ual buatle.
Nothing is easier than fault-finding
.No talent, no self-denial, no charater,
1u required to Rct up the grambling
but inces.
Hnvy is a littleness of soul which
cnnot be beyond a certain polnt, and
if it doos not occupy the whole space,
fels itself excellent.
and not dimples.
There is nothing nobler In a man
than courage; and the only way to be
courageous is to be clean-handed and
hearted, to be able to respect ourselves
and face our record.
A good womuan is the loveliest flower
that bloomtis under heaven.
Whatt we know here is very little, but
what we are ignorant of is immense.
The silence of a person who loves to
praise is tt censure sufficiently severe.
It is best to have your cake, says an
old ldag-, while you still have tooth to
cat it with.
The man who can say all lie has got
to say in a few words is an ugly oUP
toimcr to handle.
Use no hurtful deceit; think Inno
cently and justly; and, if you speak,
speak accordingly.
Those who blow the coals of others
strife, may chance to have the sparks
fly inI their own faces.
Tihe man who lives in vain lives worse
than in.vamn. He who lives to no pur
pose0 lives to a bad purpose.
Men will wrangle for religion, write
for it, fight for it, die for it-anything,
but live for it.
Christianity proves itself, as the sun
is seen by its own light. Its evidence
is involved in its existence.
There is much safety in the absene
of the bottle; and the abstinent father
is not a tempter of his child.
Whatever the weight of a reasoii
I against fermented lhquor, it is weightier
still against distilled spirit.
(Choorfulness makes the mind clearer,
gives tone to thoughts and adds grace
and beauty to the countenance.
Misfortunes come to man through
cxcessave love of self. He misjudges
things'just good, and beautiful, through
thinking lie ought always to honor
whalt belonga to himself in preferenen
to truth.
a Rejoice not when thy enemy fasleth,
and let not thy heart be glad when lie
a ustumbleth. A beuievolent eye, humil
f ity of spirIt, and a mind free from pride
a characterize the true disciples of Abra
o huam.
-When yott have learned how to live
0 well, you will know how to die well.
Y' Be not sorry If men do not know you,
but be sorry If you are Ignorant of men.
s Not to correct your faults is to commit
new ones.
I am constitutionally susceptible of
noisos. A carpenter's hammer, in a
o warm summer's noon, will fret me into
i,more than midsummer madness. But
d those unconnected, unset sonds are
ri nothing to the measured malice of
r music.
bTho old .iu religion dies, the old
10 error, theol dtapeznsation, the old an.
erstition,bu~t not the old rteligion.
dVhaeis a orevey~ new and forever fresh.
F or this there Is no decline, u decay;
Zor it is the life of G'd lathe an
Fah'uith gritefully aid' reveettyac
,knowledge and useithe past, bu she
Ssets her dtee tonad the futTXO 'Rho
~soutward toir o~
e 6aun f MItidw 4~oe A
c1essedo 6i