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TI-WEFKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S C., MARCH 19, 1895. The watch trust has been wound up. fow will this affect the hands? Ex-Governor Hogg will start a dail paper in Dallas. We look for grea' things from this Hogg pn A Chicago clergyman calls on his con gregation to "help to hold up the hands of all good citizens." There is too -much "holding-up" done there now. A Cincinnati amateur poetess read over one of her own productions and died. More encouragement should be given to such'poetical work as that. An Indianapolis man has disappoint ed four wedding parties within the last two weeks. At the last moment ho deserts his would-be bride and backs out. This -is a bona fide case of "heart failure." The defense of Hayward, the Minne ?polis man charged with the murder Df Miss Ging, claims that he is insane. "Insane" murderers whose insanlity is not even suspected until after they commit cr!me can be most useful to society on the dissecting table. New York Matrimonial Club, UAmour, taxed Mr. Rothschild $5 ini tiation fee and 50 -cents a visit. 1le was to be introduced to a $150,000 heliess. The lady proved to be a pretty servant girl at $8 per month. Mr. Rothschild, being a lawyer, made L'Amour refund his money. Love laughs at locksmiths easily, but never safely monkeys with lawyers. . New York could have better spared nany better men than Ward McAllis ter, the geniali conceited, good-hearted. foolish bear leader of Gotham society. He made himself a unique place In con temporary history ty his tying of cra vats and his construction of salads, by his knowledgeof who was who, and his inspirations ab",t which was which. None can replf- him. He was a Na pjeon of the ball-room, a Wellington of the club, a Leo XIII. of the boudoir. His encyclicals were iufallible. H menus were dogmas of faith. The Armenian outrages appear to be rather Armenian than outrageous. The onsstLable Turklas been viewed by the special correspondent in Arme nia and Is said to have been more sinned ngainst than sinning. It ap pears that the Armenian revolution Ists have had a cheerful habit of ex ploding eartridges in the bodies of dead Kurds to provoke further barbarous maltreatment -of their own women and children, that the conscience of Christian Europe and America might be aroused. Further than this. it is charged, the assassination of a couple of American missionaries was plotted that the United States might be drawn into the fight. The Armenian idea seems to consist in inducing the loathe iy opposition to rais6 Cain. Statutory assafits on the high ha will not be taken serigmsly by those who wear it, and it will continue to 1:o - worn so )ong- rs fashion so decrees, "Let me make the fashion in hats and [ do not care who makes the laws," i.s ~s applicable in this matter as In soma other matters. Theater managers have the right under general police reguhat ions to protect patrons in a clear view of the stage in their playhouses. No - - w~oman, when requested to remove an abstructive hat, would hesitate to do so or leave the theater. Many under prevailing coiffure would. prefer to leave the theater. becaaise the hair has to be dressed one way to support the high hat and another way is more titting when the high hat is off. Man igers hesitate to ask removal of tim hat, because they fear the fiscal effect af seeing a number of women quit their hiouses rather than show unarranged ar deranged- hair. The solution of the question lies with women themselves. [f they vajue a confection of millnery mnore than the equity of sight of a theater stage for others, they will in * alidate any statute aimed to aceomn plish the object in viewv. No sensitivo or thoughtful woman wvould wish to rob any one of what he had bought and paid for. Nor do sueh woiueu require statutes to enforce an obvious pro priety. ____________ Charles Dickens was assailed for casting off, as -it was alleged, a helpless brother and his family at a time when the novelist's position was such as to enable him to be generous. It was also -a cause for mysterious wonder that in his notable reading tour in the United - States he obstinately refused to come to Chicago, notwithstanding that in ducements were offered exceeding those he was willing to accept for places less important not remote from this city. The stigma of neglect of his kin Is removed in a story appearing in the Herald, which also explains why Charles Dickens would not read in Chi cago. The story Is only another il'us tration of the raoral strength' of men who refuse to make defense against unjust accusation, when defense, while exculpating the accused, would subject others to shame or humiliation. Dick ens preferred to let himself be vilified as unnatural. par-si monious, heartless, even criminal, rather thau, by breaking~ his silence, to lift the cover off a sitaia tion he could neither prevent nor con done, and for which he was wholly blameless. He died without defense or explanation, probably indifferent to any defense in connection with a re. proach that must have stung the roer" deeply because of its untruthfulcess and his helpiessuers. There is a good deal of cheap it about hugging girlIs in the waltz, but Ls a matter of fact, when a man hugs WE TWO. Just we two, love, only we twa, To drink the honey wine of life And never taste the rue. To find the sunshine ever fair, The sky a tender blue, And rich with joy the balmy air, And love forever true. ,ust we two, love, only we two, To let the mad world swing along As it is wout to do. To see within each other's eyes The happy thoughts pursue, A perfect faith our paradise, Each day of love renew. Just we two, love, only we two, To make of life a summer bright, Where storms can never brew, My heart to be in all the years A shelter warm for you, &nd May sun's drink the April tears While yet the skies are blue. Just we two, love, only we two, No matter if the world forgot Our world would still be true. For love would guard the holy spot, The oak and not the yew Protect the sweet forget-me-not, And love forever woo. MRS. BLACK'S PROPOSAL "Oh, dear!" cried Mr. Coates, furtive ly mopping his forehead, "whatevei car it mean?" He knitted his brow and gazed firs at the ceiling, then at the floor, an< finally took out of his pocket and reat for the fifth time the following note: "Dear Mr. Coates-I am deeply sen sible of the honor you have conferre upon me in asking me to be your wife and hasten to say that to nobody coult I so confidently give my hand an heart. I quite agree with you that w( are both pas the nonsensical age, an shall be happy to conform to youi wishes as regards the absence of undu( ceremony. If you are really bent on th( twenty-eighth I will try to manage it Yours affectionately, "MATILDA BLACK, "Myrtle Cottage." Mr. Coates buried his face in hi. hands and subjected himself to a se vere metal crdgs-examination. 'What did happen last night aftel that innocent little festival? I remem ber taking Mrs. Blace home, but I'l swear I didn't speak ten words all th way. The weather, I know, we touch ed upon, and I think I made son? slight allusion to the moon. Beyon that I'll take my oath nothing mor( passed-most certainly nothing of th< alarming nature insinuated.. Egad though, I don't remember the parting at the gate' It is possible-but no! I1 is impossible-preposterous!" Mr. Coates mused for a few moments then he broke out again: "Of course, I've nothing to sa) against the woman-as a woman-she' a nice, decent little body, and If I wan ted a wife I'd as lief pitch on hei as -any one. But I don't want to mar ry. I've knocked along in single bless t-dness these forty years come Michael mias, and have never felt the need of n wife. Moreover, Martha understand: me like a book, and I doubt if there': her equal in all Thorubury 'for cheese cakes and delicious muffins." The mention of his handmaid seem ed to offer a suggestion to Mr. Coates and ringing the bell, he requested IIar tha to give him the pleasure of a fey minutes' conversation. Martha was a jewel of a cook and'i nice housekeeper. She had made it he: special object in lirfe to minister to Mr. Coates' comfort; It needed but half am eye to see that she had not been unsuc cessfuil. She had but one complaint the smallness of the field she worked in. In her own words, she wanted " larger spere to hoperate in." Martha had long desired to see Mr. Coates married; and although she knew her position too well to try to in struct her master, she had by various gentle hints conveyed to him her wilU ngess to be under the superintendence of another. All these hints had- proved unavail ing, though as Mr. Coates called her to his study on this particular night, sev eral of the aforesaid were presented to. his ferbrish ignagination in their true significance. "Take a seat, Martha. please." Martha dumped herself into tho near est chair, rubbing her floury hands the while, and Mr. Coates proce.eded in as off-hand a manner as he could com mand: "Let's see; what time did I come home last night?" "Why, sir, I should say about ten o'clock-mebbe a quarter past." "Ah, to De sure; you see, my wvatchl stopeCd last night, Martha, and I-er have reasons for wishing to know the exact time." "To be sure, sir." Mr. Coates nerved himself up for an other effort. "Dy the way, Martha, you didn't no ti(c aniythiing extraordinary in my con duet' last night, did y-ou?" ".xtraordinar'y In your conduct, siri No, sir, that I didn't, and the chap as means to insinuate-" "Stay, Martha, I didn't say that any one had ben insinuating. I merely wished to know from your lips that my cond(uet last night was just the same as on ever'y ot her night. -Can you assure me conidenitly that such was the case, Mathan "Yes, sir. excepting--" "Exepting what? Speak out, Mar t. Don't be afraid." "Welf, sir', you sang just a little bit nt boisterous, sir. nor rowdy like; but just low and sweet, dr, as if you WereC r?frad of being overheard. In fact, sir, it vis q~uite a treat to hear you." "'I sang. Martha?" echoed Mr. Coates, La genuine amhazemnent, knowing fulJ in twenty years. *Are you quite sure of that, Martha?" "Perfectly, sir." Mr. Coates thought long and deep for trayed his worst apprehensions. "Perhaps you can tell me what I sang ibout, Martha-the words, I mean." "Why, no, sir, I can't say that I re. member the words, but it went some, thing like " 'Happy the wooing That's not long a-doing.'" - "Wh-at!" gasped Mr. Coates. Martha slowly repeated the lines, Mr. Coates groaned. "You-you're quite sure of that, Mar, tha?" he feebly asked. "Perfectly, sir." "That will do, Martha, thank youl you may go back to your duties. And, -by the way, I shall not require my teni till late to-night, as I have important business to attend to." "But the muffins, sir; they'll be spoil ed," protested Martha. "Hang the muffins!" roared Mr, Coates. "I beg your pardon, Martha,'t he said, softening; "I mean save tho muflins. I really am not myself thi4 evening. I trust you will excuse any -oseeming rudeness on my part." "No offence, sir," replied the unper tuitd Martha. "But you'll have a cup o' tea, ai-, before you go?" "All right, Martha." And Mr. Coates departed to his dress. ing-room, where he made a hasty toilet.. descended for his tea, and two minute. ifter was on his way to Krs. Black's. Could Mr. Coates have but stepped back to his hearth and home, he woul4 have been shocked at the antics of hi1 housemaid Martha, who, taking- by ths Paws -the sleeping Tang, danced hiug 1round the kitchen on his hind legs, worrying him with such queries as: "What d'you say to a new mistress, Tang? Eh? What? Can't you speak? Although Tang could only bark, he seemad to understand there was some thing very interesting In the wind. . * . . 4 0 1 Cold, damp, and in anything but an amiable frame of mind, Mr. Coates found himself at the gate of Mrs. Black's cottage. Once within the gate, however, and walking up the path, lie found his anger suddenly transformed into a kind of nervous dread. Several times he was on the point of retreat ing, arguing that the morning would do as well; but his sense of duty prevalled; and .rehearsing for the last time the speech he had prepared on his.journey, he walked up to the door and knocked, -- hoplngthaf the lady.mght-be out, His worst fears were realized. 'Enter," called a soft, musical voice from within. The next moment Mr. Coates found himself in the little kitchen and parlor "ombined, vaguely conscious of rows of shining pans. a bright fire, and last, but not least, a trim tigure meeting hin hah way, and drawing him toward the warmth and light. "Good evening, Mr. Coates," said Mrs. Black, in accents of genuine pleas ure; "thisis indeed a pleasant surprise. To what must I ascribe the honor of I this timely visit?" Now was Mr. Coates' time to deliver his carefully prepared speech. * But theo utmost he could do was to gaze about him in a dazed way tis he stammered: "The note, Mrs. Black. I-I-called about the note." I"Ah, to be sure-you got my note, then? But really, Mr. Coates, what a tremendous hurry you are in!"' "I assure you, ma'am, there is nq hurry. at all. I was only joking when~ I said there was-if indeed I ever did say there was. I can easily wait six mondis, or a year, or--" Ten years, Mr. Coates had almost said in his eagerness. But he checked himself, reflecting that such heartless indifference was hardly camnpatible with an affianced husband's passion. The lady smiled sweetly. 'am afraId you say that entirely Iout of consideration for myself," she murmured. "But I won't be selfish; and', besides, I (can manage very well. Miss Milnes tried mie on this afternoon, and she has promised the dress faith fully by the 25th." Mr. Coates fairly gasped at the auda cious manner in which his objections wer, overruledl. "H-owever," contined Mr-s. Black, suavely, "business will wait I think, Mr. Coates. aiid I'm sure you've had no tea. Yon'll have a cup of tea, of c(urse?" Tea with this little woman, in a lone house, and in a lone part! Mr. Coates9 shuddered at the thought. And, be sid~'s, would it not be a sort of tacit compliance? He would have protest ed. but his tongue again failed him. Vacantly he allowed bimself' to b~e 'uarZ e ced in the old arm-c:hair. while Mrs. Inackc, with a bewitchming smile. in which a shade of triumph might have bxen detected, seated herself opposite -and poured the tea. And here another surprise awaited the already bewildered Mr. Coates. To his right he found a plate literally stacked with muffins, while at his left rose5 majestically a plate of-and his eyes sparkled-cheesecakes! Hlow in the wfld did Mrs. Black know of his fondness for the particular dainties? IHe looked at his hostess for an ex planation. That astute lady, antici pating his query. murmured something *atbout studying the wishes of those we love, and for the first time bvran to blush furiously. Mr. Coates wasted no iurther time, hut fell to. "As good as Martha's, every bit," he murmured, as the first cheesecake dis "So glad you like them." AMore cakes disappeared. The guest waxed sociable. "Really, Mrs. Black," he exclaimed, "your cheesecakes excel Martha'b." Mrs. Black smiled modestly. She thought it quite superfluous to inform loan that twey were uartna's; that. i t :jt, they had preceded his advent '.ut a few uinutes. "All's fair in love and war," she ar gued; and gazed upon his feat;res with a scrutiuy almost borderlng;on rude 11ess. It was now Mrs. Black's turn to 'ap. pear embarrassed, and she excusel herself to clear away the tea-things. Mr. Coates' eyes wandered -arounA the little parlor, and he was obliged to admit that he had never come across a neater or cosier room. Everything wa. In perfect harmony. even to t6e diminu tive canary in a pink cage,: hangin. against the spotless curtains. Once more his eyes fell upon Mrs Black. Singularly enough, now he came to think of it, he discovered many charming peculiarities, and divers ster ling qualities, all of which he failed to notice previously. "Really," he mused, as he watched the play of her fingers among the cups and saucers, "she is a charning crea ture. I-well, I might do a reat deal worse. And now I think of ItI've fell lately that single life is apt to be lone ly. I shouldn't know what to do If my old Martha were takenand she can't live forever." Naving bustled about as 14tg as con. venient, Mrs. Black ret-rdd to the .charge by asking Mr. Cotes if he would like to see-r-the dfes-or ai least a picture of it. Mr. Coates, now prepared for almost anythiig, readily acquiesced. Skipping upst:irs she retiined with a ladies' journal. I "Of course," she explained, as she rapidly turned over the leaves, "It's noo the- usual thing to consult the-the bridegroom"-with a blush-"but we've grown so confidentialthat Efsel I must confide in you. There!" she elmed, as she found the page, "thaVthe dres4 -white, of course, and there'ii be , wreatli of orange blossoms passlng around here, and another bunch at the throat. I hope you like It." M.' Coates expressed his admiration of the dress and his approbaition of her choic', though he could noVor his life detect thi difference beti&4n It and any of Martha's kitchen gdwns.- He was now. so infatuated tha$, heeuld probably have proceeded to*xpre9s ad. miration for the lady of theouse, had not the clock begun to strIr1 "Dear me!" he exclaimed "I reall) must be off, Mrs. Black. no Idea how late it was. How -time. has down to be sure! You S contin ned, beamingly, "Martha be waft Jur-np for eAng _8W her feelings in my-my new-found happi. ess." Mrs. Black held out her hand an-l called up a becoming blush. "If you must go," she murmured. Mr. Coates took her hand in his and held it a moment "*-must thank you before I go," he said earnestly, "for the pleasant even ing I have spent In your company. I -hope we shall spend many more to getlier." "I trust so, Mr. Coates." He still held her hand. "Good-night, Mrs. Black," he said softly. "Good-night," she replIed. Still he seemed dissatisfied. HeTt glanced toward the street-all was dark and quiet Mrs. Black was visibly em barrassed. He gave another glance round the parlor. There also perfec~t qufiet reigned; it was Impossible that ny one could be spying. MIr. Coates lesitated no longer, but, yielding to his sudden impulse, lie clasped the widow round the waist and kissed her-upon the nose! and, setting her free, scam pered dtqvn the garden path with all the ardor of a schoolboy. "I've had tea, M1artha," he shouted, a 'ew mi mtutes later, as he bounced into the kitchen, having run all the way. "Don't want the cheesecakes-eat 'em yourself, or A1Ve 'emi to the first tramp." Not until they were married and on their way to Switzerland for the honey moon did Mr. Coates muster up cour ge to ask for information regarding the manner of his proposal. At that mo ment, however, a lovely bit of scenery laimed the bride's attention, and Mr. oates was too happy to press the :uestion. Lastly Martha, aider and abettor ot the nefarious scheme, also shares the universal contentet, for she has at ast acquired a considerably larger, and ilso steadily Increasing, sphere in which to "hoperate."-WVaverly Maga tine. He Never Went There Any Mfore An' unfortunate young man of that l:ss of :mngs who finds It impossible to keep their fingers still called on a youngz woman the other evening. HeI waitedi for her in the drawing-room and drummed nervously on the Louis Quze table for awhile. Then he knocked a Chinese idol over, and finally his eye was caught by a tiny basket of gilt wire filled loosely with violets. He pulled a violet out. It came with dif ficulty, but that merely spurred the young man on to fresh efforts. In ten minutes all the violets were out, and then the young woman entered the room. She greeted him cordially, and then her eyes fell upon the scattered violets. "Oh,"' said he, following the direction1 of her gaze, "I beg your pardon. I didn't realize what I was doing. I'm afraid I've emptied your flower has. ke." "Flower basket!" she echoed. "It wa" n: opera bonnet"-New York World. Only Fairly So. Hardluck-So you are prospering at la, eh? Sufficiently so to be able tu keep servants? Strckitt (on the lookout for ths .urth within a month)-Er-nfo; -ly - THE CUTE 'POSSUM. Oletinctively American, and Sonrce of Great Joy to Their Captors. - -The opossum is an animal found onlb in America, and mostly in the Southerr States, where it is held in high- esteem by the colored people, who delight in hunting it and eating the flesh, which Is like young pig. They are cunning ani. inals, making fierce resistance to cap ture until they are overcome, when they will lie still and pretend to be dead, hence the phrase, "playing 'pos. sum." 'Possums can be found, in the winter seasoU, in all the large Northern mar kets as game, and it is quite the fash ton to entertain guests with a baked 'possum, dressed with hig'hly seasoned ingredients. The favor with which the Southern -darkey looks upon this fav Drite dish may be illustrated by the OPOSSUM AND FAMILY. story of the two darkies who were rid ing along on a pair of mules., "Dey's gwine ter hab roast 'possum, aer old woman an' do children is, yum. rum."' "Gosh-er-mltey," answered the other one, solemnly showing the whites of 1s eyes. "Yas-roast 'poss'm, an' taters, an' rravy, an'-" "Hole up, dar," cried the other darky, txcitedly, "dere's some' tings I ain't rwine ter stan'. You say anuber word tbout roast 'poss'm and I falls off di' rear mule." isa The opossum Is a very 'harmless lit., lie animal and has many things to rec >mmend it. for, although not consid tred a great delicacy, its flesh is very ?alatable. and its fur, which the In. Hans formerly used in-many ways, en, :ers more fargely into, the * industries )f commerce than is generally known. :to peculiar method of rearing its young n bilateral pockets, cointrived cunning y by'nature in its own fur, commends t to the scientific Inquirer as an inter toting subject for investigation. It has L wonderfully tenacious hold on life. 'oT. although It maybe ppgnded with tand stones antl'every~ bone is iiokafi, ft'wilrawi aiij if left inmolested, and soon resume its wont td habits. HOW FORTUNES ARE MADE. Sy Acute and Enterprising Minds Be Ing Brought to Practical Conditions. The largest fortunes of the preseal lay have been acquired by applying an tcute and enterprising maind to the imi. >rovement. of the conditions of life, some of the largest among them may )e traced to the extension of the rail, -oad, telegraph and telephone systems :o the sewing machine,-to the applica ion of electricity to mechanics, and to iew applications of chenmistry to man. ifactures. Henry Bessemer, who discovered a ray to convert carburetted iron inig tel, was a type. He rendered it posi ible to gridiron this country with steel -ails, and, of course, he became a mil. lonaire. Any young man who will de, rise a method- of making an article of general use at less than the present :ost, or of making it better in quality it the same cost, will make a fortune is he did. The article need not be an mnportant one, so long as It Is generally :onsumed.,,,,, , A ibog an'!.me .laster. A dog was ones the cause of r. rep. esentation of King Lear coming to a irecipitate end. In Garrick's time logs were not so rigorously excluded 'rom theaters as they are now; and on :his particular night there happened to be a fat beadle in his wig, accompanied by a bull-dog, sitting close up agitinsti the stage. The beadle had sat thro)ugh tour acts and two scenes of the fifth, ut, being more affected by the heat :ban by Garrick's acting, had fallen in :o a peaceful slumber. The point In :he third scene had been reached when Lear enters with Cordelia dead in his rmls, and exclaims, "Howl, howl, howl, nowl! Oh, you are men of stone!" and so forth. Garriek had deposited the prostrate Cordella on a couch, and was rroceeding with his lament, when the Puke of Albany was perceived to he choking with laughter. A mom~ient la ter the Earl of Kent was simnilairly af 1eted. At the same time all the by tanders began to t.er and giggle, and( even King Lear h'.mself stoppe)d in his speech and was observed to smlle. Mfeanwhile the dead Cordelia opeued ner eyes to see what was happening. r.nd immedisately was so overcome by what she saw that she Incontinently rose from her couch and left the stage, clorely followed by the Duke of Albany and the Earl of Kent. who were unablo any longer to control their counten'an ces. Yet all that had happened w:i merely this: The bull-dog had becom', interestedl in the progress of the play, and had got up on his master's chair, placing his forepaws onl the orchiestra': rail. Therc lhe 5tt0(d, .very g;ravely awi earnestly watching Garriek. Mean while the beadle, feeling the heait more and more, had taken off his wig, and, still half asleep, had placed It on the nearest support within reach-h is diog's head. The bull-dog, quite undisturbe1, ontinued to concentrate his attentionl >n King Lear and Cordela: and it wve he- appearance of this canine spectator in a beadle's wig which upset tue al('. ors at a scritical moment and~ neark A JUG-POISiNG MAID. the Pretty Spanish Fashion of 17and ling the "Old Oaken Bucket." With downcast eyes, figure straigl is a Western poplar, motion undulai Ing and gliding like the skip of shadoi above tangled grain, she comes softl humming a light refrain. You will se her in any Spanish town, tis girl wb carries the jug of fresh water upon he o N. A SPANISH WATER CARRIER. dark and straggling hair. Little recki she of the weight, for she has long bees .rained to poise this shifting load upoi ber sinewy but graceful neck. From childhood the Spanish girl goiN to the well with the sweet smelling ju of ancient design for the fa mily suppl. of water. It is the "old oaken bucket of Spanish domestic affection. The well is often the gossip center o the village. There maids and.matron meet to recall - the small talk of th home. To them It Is what the glass clinking tavern is to the men. Th. maid whose face and figure the artis here has caught mayhap has just ex changed confidence with another ma about her dark-eyed lover and is goins home, with a flutter In her-little heF.r that beats against its sash-covere prison. Y. M. C. A. Building, Cticago. The largest Y. M. C. A. building II .he world, recently dedicated in Chi I - er of Christian actielty and infiuence, GHOSTS OF IMAGINATION. Specters That Are the Offspring of Disordered Mind. To many persons at some time and t< some persons several times come ap paritions that are considered out of thi usual, or scientifically unexplained, an< are thus relegated to the domagin of th< supernatural. It may be as well to ad mit that the ocular sense sometimea sees these spectral appearances. But It does not follow that they are not one and all explainable on othe: hypotheses than as wanderers fron the mysterious ghostly shores, recon eyed by Charon on his return tril across the Stygian tide, to Inspire the timid with fear and terror withou substantial consequences. Of all the tens of millions of menta .nachines that arc running at all stage and in all conditions, It is not .supposa be that they can all he run with suel precision as not at some time or oth~e to be subject to allusive action in thei. workings. What peculiar phantasmagoria of tel comes in sickness and what is knowi as delirium tremens, weird and horri mental pictures that present themr selves to the wakeful brain, but whici is Involuntary ratiocination. althougi produced by abnormal physical bral conditions. It Is more than probable that muec of what Is known as phantasms is o this character-a temporary touch o unconscious mental derangement. Those are wonderfully peculiar .ant illusive pictures that are presented t< us in dreams, and yet they are closel: allied with the occasional wvakeful spec ters, lacking only the Intensity nece~ sary to b, projected on the vision o wakefuiram. But another ordier o spectral ap'oaritions may be of alte gether another character. It is just poascible that the seemingi; spectral form is the result, in a sina way, of what is known as a mirag as much an-1 as clearly so as the Fata Mrana often seen In Italy, and othe mir 3Ts c -vi seen elsewhere. I w \ec.' real and varitable illudomi yet a little study enables us to trace out that they are reflections, although objects are sometimes represented- of whose existene we know nothing. t The reflection in a mirror, so faith, ful to every minute detail, is of an illu 7 sory nature, but the ca-, 'e and the ef y feet being both near and closely relat e ed, we understand the phenomeno: o .which.then occasions no surprise. V What else could these apparitions be - than what on these and other similar grounds is explainable? The. forms alt leged to have been seen are as well animal as human, sometimes neither, and too grotesque to 4llow. or meunta reproduction in describing them. The Image in the mirror can mike pantomime, but it can make no voice; it cannot utter a sound. Being only an apparition and not a feal tangible entity, its scope is thus restricted,-and the spectral apparition is Invariably lacking in Intelligence because it i only the mirage-only the semblance of something. NEGRO HEADDRESSES. 6iud Ornaments a Popular Fad Among the Africans. The African puts ornaments In his bair as we more civilized mortals do. but his taste is different. For where we decorate with gold and silver ping and combs he proudly uses little bali and disks of clay, hanging to tbe end of his braided locks or long braided beard. Sometimes he plasters a greal All TWO ECCENTRIC COIFFCEES. t crescent-shaped lump of clay back o - his head and one old prince, partfeul I larly vain and loving of ornament, soll* ed his entire beard into a ball and so plastered It with mud that it hung a great clay ball from his chin. Just fancy how pleasant it must have beel to wear a five-pound weight on ene's chin! It would be a great dscourage of conversation, for one certainly woukM not wish to lift that weight any oftener than was absolutely necessary. Some of the women with-long hair weave It over and around little reeds stuck in at right. angles to the head; sd that it finally looks like's giiat straw hat or basket all aroan& their faces, much like the old poke bounets that our grandmothers u'ed to vrear. The ladies of the lower Congo, whose hair is more woolly than that 4A the other tribes, part their hair In three great thick locks, one on each side of the face and one in front. These they grease and twist until they look Uk& wire, they then curve -them until they look like cows' horns sticking out on both sides and in front. TLLe natives of Rua braid their hair in two or three long plaits right on top of the head. IThese they stiffen with clay until they stand upright exactly like the funny little horns the unsociable snail tucks Iout as he saunters along with his house on his back. . - RENTED A CHILD TO BEG. a Pretended Blind Man Makes sa Easy Living in New York. For many weeks past, persons who walked along, Fifth avenue, In New York City, have seen a man wearing green goggles '~ho played a whieezO organ, while a 'pretty, golden-hairedl little girl asked for alms. Many have Sbeen moved to pity when the grights looking child has come'up to them 4 pleaded that they give the poor old - blind man (her father) a few pennies. On receiving the money the child al ij ways gives It to the blind man. r . 5 Officers were sent to see the blind . - man the other day. The man's actions 3,made them suspect that he was not at together-what he M'~'and lifting i the green goggles suddenly, they tofot~ e the man had very good eyes. Man and~ BEGGED WITH A BoRtowED CHII.D. girl were taken to the station house, Swhere he described himself as Eugene r Bast, 32 years of age. The officers went to his house and dis l cover'ed that Bast was a bachelor and lived with his married brother, Law -rence L Bast. . .The child .was Mary - Hlarreman, 4 years of age, a daughter of Eva Harreman, who lived with the r Basts. For her, Bast paid a regular r monthly rental. Mrs. Harreman was -arrested, and Bast, the little girl, and Harrenman were arraigned..: Bast did Dot even pretend that he Gas blind, Hie 1 said that he had found -begging very ,profitable, and had'supp~orted'ftve per ~sons comfortably. While ~aTi--ere ~ standing before the bp.g ryander ~gave a pe'nny to thd ifilefil. ehe