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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. - PALMETTO POITEM POSTMASTERS' SALARIES. Annup.1 Adjustment.-An Index of Prosperity. The annual adjustment of pres! dential postmaster salaries is often re garded as perhaps the best index of the prosperity of our towns and cities. Possibly it is not an unfailing index. The adjustment announced at Wash ington, to take effect July 1st., em braces the following particulars for North and South Carolina. The Arst set of tigures are those for 1894, the second those for 1895. North Caro linia: Statesville is advanced from the thir 1 to the second class. Changes in salaries-increases:Eden n, $1,200 to $1,300;Gastonian $1,100 $1,200; Greensboro $2,400 to $2, 00; Henderson, $1,500 to $1,600; .Righ Point, $1,500 to $1,600; Kinston, $1,400 to $1,500; Monroe, $1,100 to $1,300; Morganton, $1,200 to $1,300; Salem, $1,500 to $1,600; Shelby, $1,100 to $1,200; Statesville, S1,900to $2,000; Washington, $1,500 to $1,700. Decreases: Salisbury; $1,800 to $1.700; Winston, $2,800 to $2,500. . South Carolina: Barnwell is reduced from - the thiud to the fourth-class. Changes in salaries--increases: Beaufort, $1, 500 to $1,600; Bennettsville, $1,200 to $1,400; Darlington, $1,300 to $1,500; Georgetown, S1,300 to $1,400; Spar tanburg, $2,100 to $2,200; Yorkville, $1,200 to $1,300. Decrease: Marion, $1,100 to $1,000. Three Cotton Mills Have been heard from at Charleston. One wants a charter, another is ready for business, and the third wants to increase its capital stock to an equiva lent of another mill. The commission for a charter came from Marlboro county. The corporators of the new company are A. T. Manship, H. H. Newton, P. B. Moore and B. D. Moore. The company is to be known as the Marlboro Mannfacturing Com pany. The factory is to be located near Alice, in Marlboro county. The capital stock of the company is to be $10,000 at the outset. The stockholders 6f the Langley Cotton Mill Company by a unanimous vote decided to increase the capital stoel; of the company from $600,000 to $700,000. Nhe Norris C.-tton Mill, at Central, reports that it has complied with the law and desires its charter. The capi tal stock of the company has been taken. The directors were elected as follows: T. L. Connor, D. K. Norris, S. M. Norris; J. H. Doscher, J. F. Lav, J. P. Smith and W. U. Clayton. The directors elected D. K. Norris, *'resident and treasurer and J. P. Smith, secretary. Death of the Oldest Baptist 3Minister in South Carolina. The Rev. Henry W. Mahoney, the oldest Baptist minister in the State, died at hip home, near Packsville, Clarendon county. last week. He was in his 91st year, and had labored in the work of the ministry for seventy four years. He was born in Marlboro county, December 23, 18$04. He labored in the counties of Sumter, Darlingten, Richmond, Kershaw, Wil liamsburg, Clarendon and Georgetown. He d'ied in perfect peace and con sciousness. Greenville's Second 3Zi11. Last week ground was broken for the foundation of the Poe Cotton Mill. The mill will have 10,000 spindles and $250,000 capital. It will be completed in the early part of 1'9. coming winter. It is located nearly opposite the Samp son Mill, which will make that part S of the city a strong annex. This is the second of the five mills Greenville will build this year. Advertisements for contrads for the third mill may be ex pected in a very short time. SpartanbuIrg to Ihave Soap Works. Spartanburg is to have a soap fac torv. Work has already been started, and within thirty days tho building will be completed and the machinery in and ready for v.ork. The name of the works will be the Carolina Soap Works. Thc extension of the Seaboard Air Line from Cheraw to Columbia will probably be made during the~ year, as the Seafboard people have at last ob taine l possession, by purchase, of the 20,000 acres of timber lands along the proposed line that they have been negotiating~ for for several months. Chestertield county voted $50,000 to this road. The people of Cheraw have an offer of $75,000 towards a proposea $150, 000 cotton mill, provided that they will raise the other $75,000. As a re sult of this spirit of progressiveness things are looking up in theat town and new life is being taken on. The Cheraw Knitting Mills are now working on futll time and turning out a class of goods the eqnal of any on the market. ________ south Carolina at Atian=. - Those at the head of the movement to have South Carolina represented at 'the International and Cotton States 7.Exposition to be held at Atlanta are still hard at work pushing the matter along. In response to a call issued by Governor Evans, who is the chairman, a special meeting of the State executive committee ic~ charge of the exposition work, was held in the executive chamb er. Among these present atthe meet ing were State ommissioner Roche, and Messrs. J. Hemphill, of Char leston; W. A. Clar . of Richland, and LeRoy Springs, of'* Lancaster. After the m'eeting Governor Evans repeated -his announcement : '-"You can say that South Carolina will shave an exhibit that will be most creditable in every THE CONSERVATIVES' CAUCUS They Issue an Address to the People of the State. A conference of conservative lead-. :ers, composed of ex-State Treasurer E. R. McIver, Senator Eltamont Moses, of Sumter; Editors Gonzales, of Columbia; Williams, of Greenville; Garlington, of Spratanburg; Langston, of Anderson; Osteen,Sumter; Hollock, of Cheraw; and others, was held in Co lumba Friday night. The purpose of the conference was to perfect plans for an organized fight in the constitutional convention campaign and the formation of the conservative democratic party in the state. The sentiment is against all compromises with the reformers and a complete and final division of the whites of the party in the state is advocated. Encouraging reports have been received from many counties respecting the formation of the new: party. The following address was issued by the Conference: To the people of South Carolina: On the third Tuesday of August a convention will be elected which will meet at Columbia in Sep ember to make a new Constitution for this State. This election will be as important to you as that of 1876. The men who will repre seat you in this Convention will have more power than any offleials provided for by our laws. They will create law. By their action all the Legs.latures, the State and county offices and Judges will be governed hereafter. All your personal and property rights and those of your children, your liberty and your children's liberty. the honor:aud prosperity and peace of the State will be in the keeping of that Convention. ' If the day of election for delegates find you. disorganized, undecided. divided by factional differences, personal preferences and local interests, the politicians who control the party organization and the State election machinery, the patronage and all the official influene, will easily secure absolute control uf the Convention which will have such enor mouls power over you and yours. We believe you have too much love for your State. too much respect for your own libcrties and rghts to surrender such power to m-a whose only interest and apparent purposes to secure for themselves permanent place and rule regardless of the results to the people and of the will of the people. Tie Conscrvative Democracy is the only political organization in South Carolina not controlled by the politicians who are now in office. For that reason it will offer its active aid and -o-opration to all citizens who sin eere!v desire that the new Constitution be made by freemen who will represent, respect and guard the interests and feelings of the people regardless of the ambitions and needs of politicians, such men to be lhosen by ami cable a.;rtement and common consent,if pos sible.by a straight anji-ring tight if necessary. The ~executive conmittee of the Conserva tive partv.therefortein accordance with reso litio's unaninously adopted. respectfully urges all inmmbers of that party to proceed immediately to oc~aiza clu:>s in each town ship of the'State, and on or before July 6 to meet in county conventions and elect county xecutive committees and a member for each county of the State executive committee. The present county chairmen. or persons to be appointed for the puriose by the pres ent chairman of this committee.are requested to begin the work of orgar ation without Ldav. The chairman of this committee is in structed to call a meeting ot the now execu tive committee to be held in Columbia not ater than July IG6h. J. L. Carson. Chairman. A. B Williams, ActiLg Secretary. DISPENSARY "IG '1RES. The Profit Consists of Stock on Hand. The quarterly report of the opera tions of the Sonth Carolina State dis pensary has been summarized in _the report of the Legislative committee that has already been published, but some additional and interesting facts are given in the report to the St'tte Board of Control by Commi.+ioner Mixon and his expert bookkeeper, Mr. Scruggs. Mr. Mixon reviews Mr. Traxer's report and says: "'The error in arriving at the profit wats made by computing the State's profit on goods remna ning unsold in the hinrds of the various county dispensers. A vast an linconceivable amount of work, in the shape of overhauling the books of the State dispensary from the beginning of oper ations to th a close of the last quarter, was necessary. in order to present an intelligible, comnprebesive and business-like report to yur honor able hoard at the close of this quarter. And when you take into consider ation the fa st that I had the undivided time of my present chief bookkeeper for only the last month of the quarter in the prosecution of this work. I feel confident that you will conclud? that the amount of work accom plishied is immense. As before stated. I am now turning my attention to an adjustment of the disputed balances which my predeces sor claimed was due by the various county dispensers when he turned over the business to me oni February 1, and hope to be in apo sition bv ihe close of the summer to report a cominpete and satisiactory adjustment or th e same. It is a work that requires painstaking care; and you can gather an ad equate idea of the largeness of the field to be covered in order to reach this adjustment when you are reminded that in every item in detail of each county dispensary must be examined into since the beginning of opera tions of the dispensary.' Mr. Mizson approves the work of the recent Legislative Committee, who examined the books and closes by say ng: "Desoite the fierce and relentless warfare so constantly and vigorously waged against the dispensary by its imnpiacable enemies, it has withstood the ordeal well and has come forth from eh confict stronger andI more vigorous. It is rapidly gaining in linancial strength, and by the close of my first year's service as commissioner I hope to see every obligation ine .rred liquidated, the Legisla tive appropriation of 650.000 refunded to the State and every future fina ocial transaction codctedl uoon a cash boasis. After paying all indebtedness incurred from the beiinning of operations to the close of the quarter ending 31st of January last (eighteen months) the balance of cash to the credit of the dispensnry was $9,453 37. The total indJebteduess unpaid from the be -inning of onrrations to the close of my csin uater '(A pril Z0) is S44.033 95. The csinteStata Trsaery to the credit of the disnensary $75.52$ 75. making a balance of cash'on hand, atter paying all incurred iodebtctzets of i31.489850. Simonton- Sends Three Constables to Jail. Atgharleston in the United States Cort on Friday Judge Simonton sentenced three dispensary constables to jail for contempt of court. They are charged with seizing liquor sent into the State for private use against the injunction granted by the court. Th constables are sentenced to two months imprisonment~and will be con fined thereafter until the seized liquor The Conservatives of Marion counti held a conference at the county seal on Monday, 17th inst. The township. were represented by tbree delegate: from each, and a few spectat+ors wh< were invited to participate in the bus. iness of the conference. The conference was organized foi business by the election of R. P. Ham er, Sr., chairman, and J. V. Leati secretary. A permanent organizatiot was effected by the election of B. F. Davis president; A. F. Harllee, vice president; Fred D. Bryant, secretary and treasurer, and an executive com mittee of one in each township. The. executive committee was in. structed to enroll all Conservative townships as early as practicable, to the end that the exact strength in the county may be known. Resolutions were adopted favorable to an equal division of delegates with the Reform faction to the Constitu tional convention in case such propo Eition were presented, each faction to select its own delegates. It was the consensus of opinion that a State organization should be effect ed as speedily, as possible, that there might be concert of detention among the Conservatives. A Prosperous New Enterprise. A bighly interesting and encouraging report is riade of the conditions ant prospects of the new knitting mill a Cheraw. The little factory, itis stated, is now working on fulltime, with forty operatives, and is turning out a class o goods e(qual to any in the market. At old established firm in Philadelphii has pronounced the goods. indeed, tc be "the best they have ever seen,' which is accounted for by the fact thal the machinery on which they are mad is of the latest and niost improvet pattern. The company has more or ders than it can fill, night work will begin at an early day, or night, an( the output will then be doubled. The venture has proved a success beyond all expectation, and the pronise is nov that the plant will soon be enlarged s( as to employ two hundred hands 0; five times the present number. Th new canning factory will begin worl in a week, and the people are nos moving for a $150.000 cotton factory The plan of "self help" is workint well in Cheraw. . It will work we wherever it is tried. He is Not DAisturbed. When asked what he was going t do about Judge Simonton's sendine the three constables to jail, Governo Evans said: "Take the constables ou of jail uhder a writ of hIbeas corpu before a jrstice of the United State supreme court." The governor said that the justic before whom the application had beei made had been decided upon, bu that he would not give his name yet He said it wasnot Chief Justice Fuller The governor said that he was sur< the constables would be released undei bond until the appeal from Judg< Simonton's decision could be bear< next fall. "We will reverse Judge Simonton just as we reversed Goff," the govern or added. The principles in the twc cases are identical and the decision o the higher court will be the same." It is announced that even if th< onstables have to spend their day: 'i jail there will be no trouble to ge thers to fill their places and continu< he seizures for the $2 a day they rr aid while at work or while continet in jail. A Bull igher's 1;usy, Day. Guerrita.th-: famn.ue .S:tnish ihmil lightes distinguihe' imlrt by~ ati-inting at thre different bull flhts mi.ui: &ni G. ecently.I whic:h he i:ilied nin ..nells emd heIlped tou.i' pateh as many mr Wager, of m:ore tam 2:, .0 aJ workmen the iron, eok an~ltx 'i industries hav been adlviaii wi!inrry day-. in a batth' flar LX:.:.a-:g ; Ex pinted a .Trt: r~cide. August Be~~m wa $inhot an'd kille; his brother .Julius in 3tirin". N. .J., in qurel ove sin- i n -yl on Jianuary 19 18'. wa- h:t d at 31 ,rristo)w . Taig e~muti9:a \\.. p w:u--m:-l by Jamne. Tan fin-c. a proxsioa:t! nau.t.uan, of New ark. the g~illo~v ysi-ia: erAPed in a yard ii the rear of the pirir->u. Down a Smxoke-tack to a Furnace. While at wourk on the to of a smiokestac] sixtyfive feet high at Swede Islau:1 Penn. Harry McCool. age I twenty-two years slipped down tiae tin: inside of the stack int< an iron furnace. He w.n- instantly burnec to ashes. Two Schooib~oys Drownedl. Thur wood Ayer. anl A1 kbnr Mwyers, sec.~ol boys, were drowned in an artiflejal pond at Rockaway, N. J. The children ha I beer forbidden to swimi in the pond, but Ayer: and MIeyers stole awany fran school at the noon hour. Mey rs, who coul l not swim. stepped int< deep water. and Ayers triel to .save him, bui wa dragged under by his complamion. Chile's Coinage Scheme. Chile is to coin 10,000,009 silver dollars pe annum and issue gold in 610 and a20 pieces Silver is not to te a legal tender in amount above $50, but the mint will e.:-ihange goli for silver. Gold on the Ocean's Bed. Gold is said to have been found in p'aying ~untities at the bottom of the ocean nlea the western end of S-in Clemeunt's Island Galifornia. Effert of Cauneries on Seals. The canneries in Southern Alaska hav gone far towvard det:roying the salmon c those waters. This diminlahes the food sup ply of the seals anI onequn-:ntly their num The Rtoschery Minis try D)ere:rtedl. The Rosea-ry Aiuntry was dIefeatedl in th British House of (Commnos o'n a :nuestion C BVKNES' METHODS. Icnidents in the Career of the Do teative. Thomas Byrncs, who recently re tired from the head of the New York police force, was born in that city June 15, 1842. -ie learned the trade of gasfitting and worked at it until he went to the war in 1861 with Ells- 1 worth's Zouaves. He joined the po lice force on December 10, 1865, and was advanced by successive stares to; the superintendency in 1892. One of the first orders he put forth was one prohibiting any man in his department from opening his mouth about police business. Every story of crime and crime detected which caime from the Detective Bureau was told by Byrnes himself. He made it his business to teach criminals that certain kinds of crime m.ust not be committed. Highway robbery, bank burglaries, or important burglaries of any kind, systematic forgeries, coun terfeiting and a lot- of other crimes were prohibited, and, to the credit of the system which Mr. Byrnes created to suppress them, haqe never been allowed to gain a foothold in New York. Byrnes was a man of force and not finesse. His business was to check the actions of certain thieves and other criminals. To do this lie made it his business to know criminals. He did not go out in the streets to talk to thieves, nor did h6 have them calling upon him as honored guests, he has explained, but when they - were brought in to him as suspects each day he made them tell what they knew. - / ' EX-CHIEF OF POLICE THOMAS BYRNES. 3 Armed with power uniter the law to make arbitrary arrests, to lock men, or women either, in the cells under the headquarters building, and to keep them there for twenty-four hours, not even admitting their pres ence there, or permitting a relative or friend to approach them, he was able to get almost any information out of a criminal caught in his net that he wanted against an associate or against themselves. Byrnes himself is authority for the manner in which he forced a con fession from the man Unger, who murdered his friend and afterward cut and sawed up the body. "I was criticised for what I did in this case," lie has said, "but I was prepared to defend my actions. Un ger was a big, stolid, heavy jawed fellow-as stubborn and reticent as' Iany man I ever sawv. I could get nothing out of him, and I did not seem to be able to make any impres sion upon him. So I got the bloo'i stained lounge upon which lie had ,cuft-up his-friend, the knife, the saw eand the hammer with wvhich lie killed ihim, and put all of these things ini the little, narrow cell with him. Well, in thirty minutes he was try ing to break out of his cell to get Saway from these things. He was welt ready to confess." Jhyrnes treated the thieves brought before him with the utmost con tempt. Hie spoke to them as if they Iwere the dirt of the streets, and of Ilhem as ''contagious diseases on the highways.'' "I1 never let them feel as if they. were as big as a dlouble ace," he has said. "When they come to me whining about their intention to lead honorable lives.I say: "None of that here. You are a thief and you know it. Staa all you can and get away with it if you can, but if you try it in New York I'll land you where you belong.'" If it happened that a thief of any note came to town and did not report to him hie would send for him, ask him how he dared to come, and what he mzieant to do, and con front him with his record. "I'd make him feel that'he did not amount to as much as a fly buzzing at I he window,"' the late chief has He kept a co:-s of stool pigeons c onstantly in the employment of his departlmnt to make time acquaint ance of and to betray thieves. It was to keel) track of all the di fferent kinds o f professional crimni nals that Byrnes organized his force. One lot of men looked after one class of criminals and other lots of the other sorts, each lot of detectives having its specialty in crime and criminals. Be't ween Byrnes and his men and the thieves there grew up a feeling not unlike friendship. " They know what their business is," said Byrnes. "They speak of me witih a term of endearment which would not look well in print, but they usually add that I am 'sauare with them.' 'Byrnes wants to send every body to jail.,' they say, 'but as long -as we don't steal in New York he dont bother us, and lie don't take what we've got, except by process of law.' I don't molest them unless I Jwant them. or somebody else wants me to get them. Otherwise, if they:. leep out of the way I've no cause t .rouble them beyond keeping an eyi on them f~oin day to day." A professional thief had few right: left in Mr. Byrnes' eye. It was upo this principle that he acted upoi each of the occasions of great gather ings in New York since the funera day of General Grant. Upon eacl occasion he issued a proclamatioi warning criminals that if the: were seen upon the streets on any o these days they would be summaril; arrested and locked up until the shoN was over. If magistrates discharge< the prisoners after he had keg then the time allowed by law beore at raignment, which is anything les than twenty-four hours, lie threat ened to rearrest the men at one on the sidewalk outside the cour houses. The Trotting Queen. Alix stands fifteen hands high ani weighs 950 pounds. She has an ex ceedingly bloodlike look, and he head, neck and shoulders are per'ect She is vride across the forehead, wit] a beautiful, beaming, intelligent eye Her great peculiarity is that she i not fond of the opposite sex. She i; exceedingly fond of the ladies, and bonnet, with a good looking face un derneath it, has only got to appea at her stall, when she will imme diately go to meet the visitor. Sh will put her head down appacently t kiss the hand of the stranger, bu in reality it is only her fondness fo bonbons and sugar, which her lad; visitors, who know her weakness are always ready to give her. In ti; respect she is much like her owi sex, whether equire or human; sli is fond of the sweetness and liurie of life. She is a model traveler, ani as soon as she gets into her car lay down and has no fear. As a cam paigner she is fearless, resolute an, game, and is in every respect th beau ideal, the dream and the reali zation of the perfect Americdn trol ter. Death for Train Robbers. A bill has passed the National Con gress of Mexico regulating the manl ner in which train robbers will here after be dealt with in that country The new law provides that if durin the assault on any train there shoul result a case of robbery or the deat of one or more passengers, the crirr inals, if apprehended, will then an there be condemned to suffer th death 'penalty without any othe formality than the drafting of th minutes regarding the execution b the officers in charge of the force effecting their capture. Those whose capture shall not t made at the moment of the commi. sion of the-crime will be tgied by th authorities adjacent to the spot < their apprehension in the peremptor period of fifteen days, and be mad to suffer the death penalty. The Lively Turtie. Philadelphia has swiftly caught c to another turtle. It is said a lan turtle that without fail for twent; six years has regularly appeared the home of Michael Mackey, Parker Ford, Chester County, camz to time a few days ago, and is beir proudly exhibited around P'ottsdow~ by Mr. Mackey. That gentlema asserts that there can be no mistai ing his turtle. as the initials o[ hi name are emblazoned on its she] He :ays that its training has been well developed at his home that:a the sound of the dinner bell it com< into the dining room to receive i alloment of food. It sta~ys aroun the Mackey premises until Septen ber, and then goes oil to its wint' quarters.________ To Please the Eye. Here are some of the paradoxes architecture. If a column whic supports an entablature is perfect] straight, it appears to lean outwart therefore the architect makes it lea inard. The perfectly level edge< a roof appears to drop about the mit die, therefore it must be -raise slightly at that point. A taperin monument with straight sides al ers to be concave, therefore th sides are swelled a little. Corner are made to look squ.are by beingi truth a little broader angled. Al chitects discovered ages ago that to hman ey e was prone to deceive an they have humored it ever since. Centers of Paper Wheels. The centers of paper wheels ar made of successive layers of palp and glue firmly pressed together b hydraulic machinery, and a steeL c iron plate is then bolted on each sid of this paper center, and a steel tir is secured to the plates and center i the same manner as in a spoke-ece ter wheel. The centers of wheels of these de scriptions are practically indestructi ble. The steel tire, of course, wvi wear out in time, but all thati necessary is to put a new tire on th center, and thenm the wvheel is as goo as new. Light by Reflection. A manufacturer in Europe did nc find satisfaction in any of the usua methods for the lighting of his clot mills. He tried gas jets, arc iight and incandescent lamps, all of wvhie failed to satisfy him because the either did not give light enough, o too much light, or cast shadows. H nally painted the walls of his roor white, and beneath a certain numbe. of ar lights suspended reflectur: This threw the light up to the whit ceiling, from which it was refiecte to the room below, and this metho of lighting is reported to have been > WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. .. A HISTORICAL HOIME SOLD. I Clovernook, the historical home of I the poetical sisters, Alice and Phoebe I Cary, near Cincinnati, Ohio, was sold 7 under foreclosure a few days ago. The f Bri-gs-Swift estate bought it to be F preserved as a historical literary cen V tre and put Warren Cary in charge. Chicago Times-Herald. 1 - PROGRESSIVE QUEENS. European Queens are. progressive with the rest of the world. The Em press of Austria has ordered one of the t newest bicycles, and Queen Margaret, of Italy, has applied the phonograph to a new use-that of imprisoning for her the melodies on the piano which I she can improvise with rare skill but -whih she has difficulty afterward to r recall.-New York Times. A FANTASTIC FAN. A fantastic and novel fan is known S as the "Mandolin." Its panaches are s shaped as the musical instrument and a decorated in imitation of it, forming a case for the leaf which 1rotects it from injury. Another odd idea is the fan with convex panaches which en close entirely the folded leaf. Quaint 0 decorations upon fans promise to be pcp:nar this season. One such depicts r the joys and sorrows of apple steal Y ing, another shows the delights of bi cycle riding.--New York Sun. e SAVED BY PUFF SLEEvES. s A carriage belonging to J. D. Tweed j was being driven down a hill near his s home, at Steubenville, Ohio, when the - horses ran away and tumbled over a h hank. Two of Mr. Tweed's sons were e in the carriage, and one jumped to catch the horses, while the other held - the lines. The carriage rolled over several times before reaching the bot tom of the bank. Two of Mr. Tweed's daughters were in ihe back seats, and although the carriage was damaged they escaped uninjured, an& attribute their escape to falling on their large puZ sleeves. -New York World. d h1 JE!wELS IN FASRION. L, Enlish women are showing an in d clination to bedeck themselves with e jewels in daytime, which they admit r is bad taste, and with which little fail e iug they have long accused Americans y of giving way to. At the invitation s concert of the Strauss Orchestra, at the Imperial Institute, London, soci e ety was out in great force, the names - of those present including almost half e the peerage, and diamonds in the-ears > of the ladies and around the neck and y in brooches were in unusual promi e nence. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg-Gotha and the Dake and Duchess of Connaught were among those present. -New York Advertiser. n d A wmOw's WEDDING GOWN. r- What is the correct wedding dress x for a wi'dow bride? asks Lady Violet .t Greville, a literary belle of London. a Shall she wear white, corresponding g with her maiden sisters, or must she n take refuge in cold gray, soft blue or n sky blue? Hitherto white h'as been -tabooed as the emblem of girlhood. S Now all this is changed. A fashiona . ble woman, marrying for the second 0 time, wore white satin, trimmed with t sable, at her wedding, a few days ago. ~S But in place of veil and orange blos ssomns a dainty coronet bonnet of white d lace with satin bows was worn. The 1- tradition is broken, and other brides r will probably follow suit. MIme. de Barrios, now Sencra de Rode, wore at her second wedding a gown of pale green silk trimmed with white lace, jeweled with emeralds and topaz. As > the marriage ceremony was performed h in the house, she wore nothing but an y aigrette of jeweled feathers in her I glorious dark hair. >f F~voRTIE FnowEns oF l'nEiSIDNT~'s wIVES. *The ladies of the White House have d always been much interested in the g beautiful ilowers grown either in the Sgrounds or conservatories of the fine e old mansion, and each has shown a s decided admiration for some partien 'lar flower. Mrs. Hayes was extreme ly fond of rose and apple geraniums; e so much so that a special house was ddevoted to the cultivation, for her, of these old-fashioned fragrant plants. For the short months during which Mrs. Garfield held sway, her preference was for orchids. Afterward, in Pres e ident Arthur's time, when the White r House was a bachelor establishment, Y there was no lack of appreciation for r the flowers, though President Arthur's e liking was more for decorative plants, 'e and. he took the greatest delight in iarranging and rearranging the ferns and palms in the differe~nt rooms. In fac t, it of ten happened that after the Igardeners had spent an afternoon in decorating the entire house, they would find, the next morning, that the Pres s ident had amused himself by changing S everything comnpletel]y, to obtain d unigne and pleasing effects in the com-' binations of color and foliage. When Mrs. Cleveland was first in the White House h.er greatest favorites , were pansies, and huge beds were .1 grown for her personal pleasure, their i sofi hues of purple, bronze, arnd gold s showing in masses under her windows. b Though these are still prime favorites y with her, she now has a iancy for the rCape jasmine, which is extensively e grown. a Mrs. Harrison's p::cference was de r cidedly for the orchids, and she took .so great an interest in the collection e that it was enlanged at her recinest. I uring the very exacting life whwhi is the lot of the mistress of the Wnite u House, chinia paint ing was almnost her tne nlues orenias as iuvw-LLL --, artistic reproductions of them with her clever brush.-Demorest's Mag azine. comFIES Fot SMIE Anything new in the art of hair dressing is of special interest to the woman who delights in change of any sort and, especially in arranging her hair according to the very latest mode regardless of the contour of her face' and the becoming effect. All kinds and varieties of coiffures are con tinually replacing one another, anJ any style which distinguishes a womam from the prevailing fashion seems new simply because it is not in general use. And now the woman who would be indisputably stylish must dispense with the parting she has taken so much trouble to cultivate and adopt the later fashion of rolling the hair back from her forehead a la Pompa dour, as her less conservative Parisian sisters have been doing for some time. There is a certain fitness of things in the combination of Pompadour hair, fichus, wide collars and deep' ruffs, and the parting must go, or the wold-be up-to-date woman will be entirely out of the race. American women adopt a mode with great unanimity after they once approve and take it up, but they are slow to act on the first suggestion of change' The modern Pompadour is not so try ing and severe in outline as the old, for the hair is first waved, not frizzed. all around the head in deep soft waves, and a few short tendril-like curls are brought down on the fore head to make it becoming. The ideal coiffure is always'the one which im proves rather than detracts from the appearance, so it is wise to copy the French women again, and always modify the fashion to suit the indi vidual. Almost any mode of hairdressing is in order, from the high knot on the crown of the head to the ugly big Bath bun worn by English women low in the neck, providing it has a touch o' style in the arrangement. One thing noticeable in the latest coiffures is that more hair is worn, and sborb curls are sometimes added to the knot in the back. Fancy side combs have disappeared from the front and top of the head, and are more often worn at the back. When the parting is vastly becoming, as it is to long and perfectly proportioned oval faces, the hair is waved loosely down over thd ears or combed back to stand well out at the sides, and arranged in soft coils and loops at the back. All sorts of devices are invented by the hairdressers to supply all the de ficiencies of nature, and furnish real curling locks that will not straighten out under the influence of sea air or betray their secret, and they have learned to conceal their art so cleverly that fringes of all kinds are purchased by women with abundant hair just for the c->mfort they afford when the at mosphere is moist. Fringes are made to cover the head, so that the tire some 'process of crimping the hair with hot irons is no longer necessary', Another ingenious arrangement sup plies Ifew little careless curls to fall over the ears in the most natural man Tortoise shell ornaments are to be worn more during the summer than the jeweled ones which have reigned t~rough the winter-New York Sun. FAsHION NOTES. Spotted esprit net in both black and white is used for neck ruffles. Rose-pink and gray are used to gether, especially for evening and dressy costumes. Black was the prevailing color at the Drawing Room, and black now seems to be the fashion everywhere. Light kid gloves are still worn, and white, maize and lavender, stitched with black, are the prevailing tints. Colored linen and duck gowns, made in the coat and skirt style, are to be as much worn as they were last year. The women are mostly wearing sim ple white straw sailor hats and plain overcoats over the plainest of riding habits. Some of the latest modes in skirts have a very pliable steel wire run round the bottom which holds them out beautifully. A dress of white broadcloth, with all of the seams trimmed with very nar rowrchings of pinked-out and plaited taffeta is one of the novelties. Silk crepon with pompidour figures is extremely dainty for waists, as are also intaglio silk crepon, in which the crinkles are deeply sunken, and gauf fre crepon, showing chine figures. Hand-painted satins are one of the latest novelties, and they are used for bodices, parasols and capes ; and hand painted ribbons are already imported for various purposes of trimming. The Princess is slowly coming into form again, but it is made quite mod ern by the addition of epaulettes, cape effects, and all sorts of, collars, such as appear on other gowns of the usual cut. One of the novelties in fans is Ishaped exactly like half of a hand kerchief anid has square corners in stead of round ones. It comes in every shade of gauze spangled in jet, steel rand gold. Very natty bathing suits are made of bla:k alpaca, with full skirts and trousers, and full waists with a square yoke outlined with white braid, and short, voluminous sleeves that would do credit to full-blown evening dress. Buttons play a prominent part in fash:ons of the season, and are used chiefly for ornament, extcept in tailor made gowns. Large buttons of thine to, and dainty mnnstures are seen, while tiny bisek si and smnall oud~ pearl buttons are sen n on inl