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R -WEEKLY E ITIO WINNSBORO, S.C. JUNE 9j 1898,ETB18E14 MARY, KNITTING. ' hen ;ry sits a-kiiitting Beside the cozy fire, 4r buna ig fade s happy With mothernood's desire. make" the room sewm holy. A con-c-sted place, With God's smile in the fire-light Igat :iele3-on her face. The elicking of the needles, , r~nib'tb of the coals, sko stieh afuiet inu'sic 'oour-two quiet sours! Ahwhen the little-mother: Spreads out the garments small, The look. the touch she~gives it Like saintly blessings fall. We sit until the twilight Her snowy weaving blhrs; And in the creaking shutter A little-tight-wind stirs. Then Mary's face sinks lower Unto the little gown. Tntil.she seems to kiss it Befoie she lays it down. .'- -Harpers Baza- . AIA.RENDAYEED .I They used to make fun of him at t*he o! e. He was a aneer old fellow, wit F o;iemu.frce and what we thought ar culousiv polite. ways. He would tako o his h't when he came in and eay - Gocda norning, gentlemen. :Itrust I see ,o't all in good health this fine day ctsame of thellovs would ncd and snnuei* an-t to anything; but I nwver.onld-.help-..standing up and bow, ing perhaps -because I knew that other w irdbave said I ought to do it. And,' y see i was gentlemanly of hini I saidi; and if -he was a little cretuiri With a queer little wig, why, he lEidd'sTehinglik'e gentleman, too. s said so ofice toN;i-riale, next des1 inee but-well-I didn't try. r-ale was up to every es elegantly, $neered at almst, .and I'd comea from tr town and. be- wa; a city w As down on "Old Dumps" especially after he made us. elahaut- enr conduct to. the ade4he speech you know, a,Iei-rivale who had said the y came in to-look at him. ma:-Mtho:ealls a blush to the aonan by. look or-tone ave forgotton his mother," said Wfen that lady asked l- u endrh she ' on her ~at "Von wer gentleman, sered idc sn'sioks you" are what eI rest. hers always 4an who honors no dishonorable .in his ae, and, ~rs,i walked out into e. I heard Grab and tover and Carberry laugh, but Merri '\ale gave a furionSlook and stood, 4ite to the lips, looking after us. "Mr. Dumps," said I, "I thank you for your confidence in me. I deserve it-'n this, at least; but it seves my hesi t from breaking titder this dis-. grac How shall I t'ell my mother?" "D n't tell her yet," sal he. "Wit- Others shall think of 1 as t o o k m 0 h i s w n o i , iv h e r e h e kept b ch or's hall. He made tea ror me an 1 served me with sliced .potted beef.and thin bread and butter. And it wa not until we had done tea that he sA id to we, very apologet ically. after A had called him M: Dumps: "Mr. FoVreit~t, excuse me, but I am not named - umps. That is the name by which t .ie vonng men at the store consider it witt.v tt call ine. I confess I could ;r"t sei the wit, but it rather hui them t1\an me. I saw by your manner that. y n had made a mis take. My name is A ams." I was so much _ 1si med h aving used the nickneuiedan cently as I did it. that I tould have 'e 'ed. . But my old friend c mforted me. One day he came to me, flushed with -triumph, and took both m hands and shook them hard, and sait "My dear boy, it's all i ght; watched_befote and had L&1 a clew. Your character is cleared. \rbe firm Welcomes you back with regr .ts that .they should have suspected 3 on, and the real culpit is fouud. The r al cul pit is Merrivale, and Stover is ' is ac eomplice." And so it really was. They had doctored my books -and ie-ddled \ith my pr:oofs. I went back to my situaition and Iive got on well ever since; but there's more of my story. Think of my dea . Old Dumps turning out to be -mp uncle-my mother',town brother-and neither of is guessing it. Long ago other people l=.d quarrele and so separated these two, who were always friend-. Think of the little man in the sl-abby wig and coat proving to be quite.rich and going down into the country to live with his sister for the rest of his life. In vacations and holidays I go to see them. - They are happy together, and.the little table is set with the old china, and there is potted beef and jelly, and I'm petted like a child. Ar.d in my uncle's room the miniature of the young lady hangs on the man tle-piece as it did in his lodgings. .nd nce he told me its sweet, sad y and I knew why the <7 jnt, in the office had a mo gallaiit"y 'o iv r n: friend and more perfect t.an the young fops who from the high stool and the wind ckname kdaround an<a.edfr ut you have one already,' said ung man in authority. want t wo,' said the Austrahian, obliging fellow scribe supplied d- The scene which therenlion baffles description. for the col gparasting the p)ile of envelopes equal lots, be.gatn c.opying the by wijtinsg simultaneously 1an2ds. So runs the legend,~ n d, fut rthermnore it is averred pidity w as sitch as to put ers' to shame. Fifty pens raom the nerveless grasp of b)ut a minute before had ng agaitist time and as if e. A hundred eyes were onishment on the unknown resently the young aversee erintended the labors of many h-to .be his grandfather rose lv said he would consult 'the 'The liatter arrived, and tion being .explained, the was turned into a loose box elf and, fed with another or.so of envelopes. At this ~earned enough in two or three o enable him to last out cam f till his remittances arrived, went .home and- Schmidt's m no morei We .asked the a lemnan who told- us t.his yarn his pipe ai,d have another cup fpr we thoughmt he deserved CnCsoir Her Hair to 5ny Bread. een'ml an east London church er, in her daily rounds of visita wvent to see a woman who was ing in; the deepest poverty. While they weie engaged in conversation the door was suddenly flung open and a oung girl rushed into the room, ex claiming. "They won't buy it, mother!" The visitor. turning aroun?d, noticed that the girl's h~ead was closely shorn, and in her hands was:Zan -abundance of beautiful hair,which she had been un-. successfully trying to sell in order to procure bread for her mother and her-1 self. A VETERAN'S REM!NISCEN1CES. Civii War Experiences Witi Tents of Various Einds and with Nore. 'T hen we stai-tecl out;' ssitd civi' va: v'etean-. "our regiment had tents urnished by the state, just as many ether equipments besides were in those days at the outset to volunteer regiments. and as I suppose t'ey will be not. ir e tents wei' made to liolt tid men each. We had five of them on ea% h side of the company street. The- had a ridge pole sup- r ported by a centre pole, forming a sort of great T. The tent was drawn over the ridge pole from which it sloped down all atound to the groiind; 1 Whers it *is pegged down- The guns Were stacked around the centre pole. t In these tents the men slept. lying f ,ike the spokes of a wheel, with their i feet toward the centre, though in cold weather they would often lie closer to- r gether, spoon fashion, to keep warm. With ten men in a tent the-'e was no room to spare. They wer(n:ade td i hold that iiniber and no 'more, but f the-e wAs likely to be somebody our on guard duty or away for one reason 1 and another, and so these teats were not always crowded. There was some- f times a little spare space. It was a X mighty little3 buf as compared with f nothing it *As room. This spare space *hen it did exist wa9 variously utilized. In the tent that I was in, with one or two men out, we used the 1 space for a stove which we built of t bricks and some pieces of iron that s we got from a dismantled br.itding t near where our camp was located,with t a chimney of tomato cans, which for r some reason we cottldn't get to draw. r "When those first big tents were e worn oit. as they were in a few months, r they were not renewed. From the e time of leaving the state we hal -f ceased to draw supplies from the state. t We had become actually a part of the a army and we drew army supplies. e When we needed tent : we drew from t 6he quartermaster's depart:.nent the Igulation A tents, wedge-shap ed,and It out seven feet square at the. ease, e an made to hold four men, or I'e on t at Pinch. I remember very well the I 3rst\camp we had with our new tents. s We r ade a new camp ground at a lit- l tle dis,tance from.the old, and pitched f tne ten\ts there. They were brand c new, ota uniform whiteness, and they t certainlS- did look slick and handsome j and busi . slike. "We li '>d these tents better than the old onJ s. Vith four men in a c tent, in a sN ttlsd camp, it was possible t to. build rated bunks for two men a each, a bunitn each side of the tent, a with a little n\angway between, where t could sta. d, or put your feet. if 8 with four in a tent I rate bunks, one on i bunks one above r iddle. Then there c gangways and each c e bed. The beds t "ourse, but any sort d at thing, and an A v as a house. inies when all we had t ts, half of a shelter y e of cotton cloth about v ,th by thiree or four' a Two p)ieces fasten ed I1 a tent, or rather a shel en. SometiL.es a man eep alone under his own t ~ged up the best way y othat he could crawl - a to lie straight and f nder it. Ant~ then there f en men had ~tentsi at t eto piteh them, and when ] ~ply~lay down without ere glad of the chance, s aman might have or be t ays hung on to his rub- y New York Sun. r for Honduras- a en wire fencing, the j tsburg factories, v:il. a to Honduras, where f estab)lish boundarier o b,e ons farms of the in- n abitants of Ce tral America and act t s a deterrent tthe roaming of the a outherners' cat~ and sheep. The a ~rder is said to be ji -of its kin~d b ver placed with a loca concern, and b the quantity wanted is reported to ex ~eed any former qua tity asked for a y a Central American customer. di The conti act calls f r about 5000 s ons of the v.Are produ ~t, all of -whichb s to be shipped ~withi; three weeks il fter the pfacing of thelIorder. ..n The order is the outebme, it is re- s ~orted,of a meeting of c ttle mien,hield l t San Piedro last Jam ary. At this a athering the influenti4l and exten- s ive owners of cattle a nd sheep re- c orted that great troubl had been ex- 1 erienced in keeping the cattle within s the inclosure. Several of the maem- s bers of the body said t at the wary a new among the animals 1ad lifte.1 the g rails off the fences an thus estab- t] ished an opening, thr. "h which all a the other cattle could e and roam t] Lhe unclaimed territory .suit theii a will. A radical change i the method t] f fencing was, therefor , necessary, t was decided. -Pitt g Dispatch. E Disadvanltage of W altht. b "The possession of gree t wealth has t) been demoralizing to .the Osage In- t] dians," said Mr. O. Mi. Ba s of Okla- t. oma. r "Every year they are ge .ting more fi orthless and more unwill. ug to ex- e ert themiselves in any ui. eful way, a here are only 2000 of them b)ut they i< >n over 1,000,000 acres .f fertile land. have S9.000,000 in 'ust with fi the goverument, which alio- s them t< five per cent. interest, and li e lands I leased to cattlemen and farm rs thai c: bring them in a handsom~ evenue. P Each family of the tribe s ovei o 5000 acres. and about 000 it; t1 oney. The Indian isn' nature ii ach of a worker, and a he hasi d suh a 'soft snap' ar Osage~ 2 have, it is no wonder -degen- o +ra into a chronic 1Ati IE ENHANTED IESA. RACES OF HABITAtION FOUND ON THE TOP OF KATZ!MO. !r. Irele Found a Few Shafts and stone Weapons, but ,thie toe1y 'iesa top Ilae Beeff Swept. Eare, by Many Stnrma -Once the Homce of Indians. Mr. F. W. 'Hodge of the ethnologi al bureau writes for the Century an ecount of his "Ascent of the En hantel Mesa," made last September. ir. Hodge says: The rocky floor of the mesa-top had een swept and carved and swept gain by the storm-demons of cen uries- since the "ancients" of the !ecting forms iwesaw on tbe roofs in he mio:-n'ight of the night before had !ecene^ed t.eladder-trail in the early acru of that fa efuil day. Althcugh the afternoon was still -c'ng, 1 at once saw that the remain ag hours of daylight would not suffice or a tbcroitah examination of the ummit. T;ig the two Lagunas >elo-. to g - :_gether our blanke,ts na a sufficient-supply of provisions or a corple of meals, a reconnoissance cas begun, and' in a few moments a " g a_ent of greatly .weather-wor3i afi ient pottery was picked up. The storm of the previous day, hich diove the - Indians from their eligions ceremonies, and gave birth o the glittering little pools in the ercant valley below, afforded facili ies for observation on.f .summit bat otherwise would. o-have been ossible. Here and there in the ockv floo "pot-holes" had been rode.1 by wind an. rain, and were ow fille i.with water; but nowhere se on the entire summit had the rain )und .a reiting-place. Over the rink it had poured in scoies of catar -ts. carrying with it stones and such arth as it managed to - gather from be scauty :tore yet remaining. The me a a-top was onca covered with fairl ri-- vegetation, pinons and clas predonina ing; but most of he now stand gaunt and bare, or ie prone and decaying on the bleak urface. their- means of subsistence aving been long washed away. A se dozen more storms, and the thera must inevitably perish. But be exa nination of the 4urface of atzimo was not essential to a deter ination of the fact that it was.for erly mantled with a thick ste3.tum f earth; the talus had- already Aold he story that on the very site of their illage the inhabitants of Katzimohad n abundance of material with which a make the balls of adobe mud de= a by one of the S ist remnants of their hous toether rith the fragm ts of their". .tensils, save st.h as we fouu S ver the brink renerations ago; ne may still -.d ai abundance of Lie latter scar sred through the etritus which ir..la:es is piled half -ay up the mesa s'sides. We built a huge fire around one of ae gaunt specters that stood about us -ith outstretche.l arms: soon there -as a mighty blaze, and a' shout of pproval reached us fro-n the two sagunas below. The ne-t morning, while aiding Iajor- Fraat iu making a surrey of de sesa-top, I was not a little sur -ised to tind three Acoma Indians :ong us. They were by no means :iendly at first, for, having seen our re the night bde,e they had come the t-p by means of our ladders to earn the cause of this unusual burst f flame from their ancestral home ite, andao oust the~ intruders from e haight. The leader, who was the -ar chief of the tribe, and a medicine an, asked our business. We told im. The natives became interested, ud said that their people had feared -e were after their land. Being ssure:l we had no desiie to make our atur-e home on their dry sand-dunes ' drier mesas, but that we were ierely looking for pottery fragments, e chief expressed serious doubt that n relics could be found, inasmuch s many ages had -passed since is people lived on the great table,and e believed all evidences of former coupancy had been swept or washed way. The interest of the three In ias was quite apparent when I Iowed themt the fragment of pottery icked un by Major Praat the even ig before,' and they manifested no nwiligness to search for other pot aerds when I made the suggestion. hey were engaged in this quest only short while when they returned with aeral fragaients of extremely an ent, greatly worn earthenware, a irge projectile-point, a portion of a 2ell bracelet, and parts of two grooved :one axes, all lichen-flecked with age, ad still moist from contact with the. round. Thoroughly satisfied with 2e outcome, I decided to bring the ork to a close as soon as the survey, e photographic work and the ex nination of the general features of 1 mesa's summit were concluded. :ow Cigars Are Sent to the Klondike. There will be cigars to burn and to e burned in the Klondike as soon as ie dog sledge pack trains can get rough the Chilkoot. One hundred aonsad Canada-made cigars have cently gone on their way to the -ozen-in city of gold gilionaires, ach box of' 100 cigars beiug placed in water-tight- tin box and enclosed in 'ts of 500:) in a strong wouden case. Each case has rope handles and will t readily on the dog sleds which ar-e carry the goods over the Chilkoot ass The purpose of placing the as in waterproof tin boxes is to revet damage to them in the event the shipments being dumped into ie rapids. The cigars were boug.ht Canada to escape duty and save ificulty with the customs authorities. he express 'charges on this shipment E100, 000 to Victoria alone amounts $3ov...-new York Journal. ANGLO-SAXONS GREAT WRITERS. Astos h!n Facte About the Pestal Busi ecSs df the World. Two thirds df .ill the letters which pass through the postoffides of the world are written by and sent to people who speak English. There are eubstantially 500,000;000 persons speaking colloquially one or another of the ten or twelve chief modern lan guages, and of these r.hoi twenty e- f oer cent., or 125,000,000 pei suuh , speak English. .. About 90,000,000 speak ;ussian, 75,000,000 German, 55,041,000 French, 42,000.000 Span ish, 5,000,000 Italian and 12,000.000 Portuguese, and the .ba'ance Hun H garian; Dutch; P61ish. Flemish, Bo hemiian-Gaelic; Eouilanian; Swedisl; Finni, --Danish and * Norwegian. Thuswiie only one-quarter of those wrho. mpJoy the facilities of the postal deparrm",uts of civilized governments speak zs their native tongue. Eng lish;-Swo-thirds of those who corres pond-do so in the English language. This situation arises from the fact 1 that so large a share of the commer cial'bbsiness of the world is done in English, even among those who do not ,speak English as their native langukge. There are, for instance, more than 20,000 postoffices in India, the buisiness of which in letters and papers aggregates more than 300,000, 000 parcels a year, and the business of thse offices is done chiefly in Eng lish, though of India's tOtal popula tion,'ilich is nearly 300,000,000, fewer than 3)0,000 persons either speak or understand English. Though 90,000,000 speak or under stand Russian, the business of the Russisipost,lepartnent is relatively small, the number of letters sent throughout the czar's empire amount ing to less than one-tenth the number mailed in Great Britain alone. though the papalation of Great Britain is considibr less than one-half of the populifion of Russia in Europe. The|uthern and Central Ameri can cointries in which either Spanish or Portguese is spoken do compara tively little posteffice business, , the total number of letters posted' and collected in a year in all the countries of Sou,h and Central America and the West Lidies being less than in A s tralia.- Chili and Argentina are, fact, the only two South Anmerican countrits in -which any important postal business is done, and most of the letters received from or sent te foreign countries are not in Spanish, but in English, . French, German or Italian NewYork Herald. !o,!L'Caater. -. d doess n Chicago. This is pat 1 ticularl eabfe in the way the citi zens of that metropolis enter a build .ng I a man approaches a building Seie he entranlce con ists of tw % gi u a doors, he will invariab y reach o t with his left hancl.puli o,en the left; hand door and mak a wi-ti dash to et iuside. running the risk ot collision with anyboy.v who: reme:n bers that to g. to tle right is the first law of navigation on land. Thelaziestanddcirt:est people in the w-or'i have rendyA b,e'-a discovered in the Caucasus. Tfhey are the Svan tians, who live in an inacce:n:ible mountain range betwen the .B-ack sea and the Caspian sea. and as they were 0500 years ago. so they are to dar. It is their invariable rule b: ma~ke four- days a weei~ holidays, with saints' days as extras. The Petit Journal of Faris,says that nothing is so curious and instruxctive as to observe the Englishman when traveling as compared with the Frenchman. The former is calm. punctual, precise and with only the necessary quantity of bagag. He will journey through China with mere ly a valise. He loves travel; it is to hinm an inclination and a felt want On the other hand, the Frenchman when journeying is restless, nervous. impatient. bored; the entire time lhe spends looking furtively at his watch, or consulting the railway time-table. He is always crowded up with parcels in addition to his portmanuteaux. He is, as a rule, encumbered with many useless articles. In fact, he dislikes travel, which he finds an ennui and a fatigue. ______ ___ Victim of Thirteen. The late Woolf JToel, the many times millionaire, who was murdered re cently at Johannesburg, was noted for hs abstinence from anything in the shape of "blue verbiage" in his speech. Hrahrprided himself, says a Lon don correspondent of the New York~ Mail and Express, on never m.ing an oath except in serious tempesEhud he was very seldom, if ever, out of humor. A curious fact has transpired concerning him, which wiil interest :the Thirteen club. He arranged for a party of fourteen by way oi a fare well dinner just b.efore he sailed from England. One of his guests was un able to attend. Mr. Joel remarked on the common superstition, and added that as it was generally supposed that he who rose first from the table would be the first to die he would take the isk upon himself and take precedence in moving from his seat. He did,and vou know the rest. x.ove-Ltte'r 'rorture. There is a very amia'ble lady whoi uses her love-letters to, score oftf her husband when op)portunity occurs. It is her cutioml when her husband says anything disparaging to her to fetch out one of these relics of court ship days and reel off the glowing tribute to her virtues which is therein contained. These letters originally numbered somewhere about 200, but owing to sundry successful raids which the poor, perseented husband has made upon them, the number has been considerably reduced. When he penned the tender missives, little did he imagine what instruments of tor +ne they would in late years becnme, t.t,gliter of a .Japane- Nobie. One of the students of the College of Music in Ciiicinnatii known as Katherine Agnes Gulick, is said te be in reality Suma Matsu Honjo, the daughter of a Japanese noble, who married an American, Mi Emma Ty ler, a relative of the president of that name. Handsome Women uises Not Wanted. The St. Louis Republic says that all handsome women who wish' to serve their country in the present crisis will have to do it 'as spies, as commanding officers invariably prefer plain and middle-aged. women as nurses. In a circular distributed by the superintendent of nurses in 1861 women-under 30 were informed that they need not apply. Idaho Is Gallant. It would seem to be unnecessary for women to go to the Klondike to find husbands when women are so much in demand in Idaho. It is said to be hard to keep a school teacher single out there. 'An instance of this fact is found in the three Misses Busch, who went, one. at a time, to "Gcvensville to teach,.and when a sec on1t term expired all three were mar rieti. -New.York Tribune. How to Press Emlroidery Properly. In all cases of embroidery on linen the work should be carefully pressed when finished, and it is important for every embroiderer to know how this may be done in the simplest and saf est manner. The proper way to press the finished work is to lay the em b roidery face down on a. clean cloth spread over an ironing blanket or two or-three thicknesses of flannel. Place a thiu, dampened cloth on the back of t:e article to be pressed and then .use a hot- iron.-deftly on the wet\str face until-it rs-erfely dry. Asteam by t a embroidgren,Ilen ered smooth, and the effectiveness of the work much enhanced. - Women Jurors Try a Woman. A case in which a woman was tried by a woman jury was heard in Weiser, Idaho, a few days ago. Mrs. George L. Smith had done some sewing for Mrs. Abshire and was to receive some jars in payment. When she went for them she was told they had been given away, whereupon she helped herself to some other property in lieu. Mrs. Abshire protested and was slapped by Mrs. Smith, for which she had the latter arrested. It was de termined that a woman jury should try the case, and the town became greatly excited over the matter. Six of the foremost ladies were impan elled. After being out three hours, they returned with a verdict of ac quittal af 10 o'clock at night-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The New Colors. There are ten new colors this sea son, each of which is produced in a variety9 of materials. Sevres is a new blue which is much lighter than navy blue and not so in. tense as d.elft. It is a creamy blue with a touch of gfay in it. Another new color is old blue, "vieux bluc," as it is styled on -the placards. This blue has less gray in it and is almost as deep as purple in shaded lights. A.very pretty sea green is volga, which also partakes of gray. Arti choke green is a brighter, happier green of spring that will be very popu lar. Argent is, as the name implies, a rich gold. Sultan comes in two colors-sultan yellow and sultan red-both showy shades. A popular color for either house or street is parme, which is violet, bor dering on the blue. Iodine is a red between cardinal and crimson, and is used a great deal for trimmings. *'9- Perils of the Lace Veil. ~The New York World's illustrations df the "deadly lace veil" might be cut out and pasted in every woman's hat, tm ~er eyesight's advantage. But 411il foolish women ever abandon their spotted, meshed lace veils for so tri fling a cause as the preservation of vision? What is blindness to one a la mode? The oculist bugaboo has failed to .frighten fashion, and so every woman says her eyes are not affected by a veil. Some other woman' s may be, but hers are strong, and, besides, how she looks without this coquettish screen. which also serves to keep in place the big, flower-laden hat. One of these days a pricking in the eyes annoys her. There i:s pain and dis comfort when trying to read print, and lots of other signs that the optic ni-e is kicking at the treatment it receives several hours in the day. Oulist and optician profit by these "becoming" lace veils, but though their bills are large the hardest pay ment is made to vanity when eye glasses, and even spectacles become the only saviours of the sight. On the ivhole it seems worse to be spec taled than to go withou.t the becom ing veil. But where is the girl who 77 a . can believe what her elders tel her? Experience is the penalty she pays for ignorance, and if it is unpleasant experience it ir, the dearest 'thing in her possession.-Boston Eetsa Very Brifft 8id Gloves. - Gloves are no longer anobtrusive The hands are well out in the fore ground of color, and all the iibduec colored gloves are put'out-in stacks e the commonplace counters, where people to whom a glove is a glove,-eb' it will be well$ tting; may make their choice contentedly, . The exclusive, the high-priced,. and.the most songht' after gloves are of unmistakable tints and stitchings, showing out ini down right blues and greens . and' e0ary color which might be termed glaring VIor the fne tone and finish of the' skin. Gloves in 'glossy - kid -, of bright, unhesitating blue, a cross. be Wrc.the sky. blue and indigo .blue, have ornat s titchings of cream.iik distinguish thai nd bindings of. the same tint about*the top .-sdet biner gloves are stitched and finished twiss ' salmon pink. A pair of metallie greenI gloves have black furbishings, and a purplish plum colored pair are :elab orated with just a hint of green. Light pearl gray gloves and those of a darker tone of gray as well,- have embroidery stitching-on the back and ,. wrist bindings 'of brickdust red. Vivid canary colored gloves have staring - black stitchings,and so on all through the calendar of contrasts and- colors; However much popular opinion may have- discountenanced bright kid gloves in the past, and notwithsta ing the disfavor that-the first" advance guard o_ gthese brilliant- hand ccter ings met ith in the winter whan the: were first foisted on the pb , they have ejlgid themselves in n to stay,. .astore that has, to ,du wYh -etti e n e tltSfa great m ori of-dszliiligseies4a -ak (ing gles are ise counter, can only be upiosteddhtl tulio -beds and parterres of gay spring blossoms in a flourishing garden...De veloped in ordinary common kid,these heyday hues would be unbearable,but they come oily in the best selected skins, as the saleswomen will-tell you, skins of which a two-clasp glove sel's for $2.10, and the soft lustre recon ciles you to the brilliant hue.--New York Sun. Fashion N otes. The fashionab le garter harmonizes with other lingerie. Purple is one of the eolorslmert fre quently seen in the new gowns. Artificial flowers sewed on narrow ribbons made an effective trimming for evening gowns. Chatelaines continue to grow in popularity, and they are to be de rigour before long. Gauze haircloth is now being used to give the stability necessary in a fashionable garment. One of the new dress fabrics has a poplin ground with a jacquard figure. It closely resembles crepon-bu.t is less expensive. Costumes. with jacket bodices i:1 be more in favor than ever this - sea. son. The blouse will still be worn and the bolero will probably be popu lar. Ribbons are in changeable colors, gray shot with red, etc., stripes,and plaids, some of them entirely of gauze and others combined with. silk and satin. Vetvet ribbons are also in use. Striped velvets are coming in, te stripes being small, dark colored vel vet, alternating with light colored silk. Printed velvet is also seen, and is employed in trimm.ing woolen gowns and in making entire waists. Lace gowns will be.much wrni this season, and lace will be in great de mand~ in all *departments of dress. Lace acsoiswill be much used. In lace and net dresses an interlining of silk will be introduced between the principal material and the silk foun dation. The ruffed skirts which Paris adopted to a limited extent last year will be a boon -when one has an old or rather shabby skirt. Be its color what it may, it need only be ruffled from - - hem to waistline with ruffles of black net, edged with narrow satin or vel vet ribbon. Violets, velvet and Venetian lace trimmings are so fashionable on bon nets and toques worn in Paris, and sent to this country, that notwith- - standing that these flowers decorate s.vn-tenths of the headgear wvorn here, they are likely to be elected by a large portion of our best,. dressed women as garnitures for their spring hats and bonnets. Braiding* in- .vermicelli, French arabesque, G~reek key, trefoil, clover, floral and purely conventional devices, appears on many of the very stylish imported garments, redingotes,. jack ets and small. pelerines just brought to view, and the ndw effects produced by this grieefnl :form -of- decoration arouse quite as great a degree q'~a miration as .if this were the uta ;~-~ eason of Has vona