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Th__ TRI-WEEKLY EDITIOI WINNSBORIO, S.C. 25, 1898E THE PRESENT WORLD. This world's a pretty good sort of world, Taing it altogether. n spite of the tief and sorrow we meet, In spite of the gloomy weather. There are friends to love and hopes to cheer And plenty of compensation For every ache, for these who make The best of the situation. -Josephine Pollard. A DOCTOR'S STORY. B- Y B. MZ. Ni-LL. When Mi. D-.was tacked to my-name, I bowed at two shrines, my profession and-mny Angelina. Her name was no-t Ange'ina, but my wife being a 2modest little la:ly, desires she shall not be dragged before An inquisitive public. Let, thrn,Angelina represent the real woman. Of courie I had a rival; name, Yitiritd omers; age. tw;ntv-six; ra-apydaace,stricing au l ha:id some; charater, very bad. i'eith.r my afection for this gentle man nor his affection for me woul,l have aa sed a conflagration on any fiver of which I know. We dislik ed each other heartily from the first. Being a much haudsomer man than myself, he might have been a dang3r ens ri%a!. However, he saved me all trouble. He committed a forge,y which was discovered sooner than be' expectcd. He was arrested for the ofeuse, tried and convicted. I was one of ':ne principal witnesses against him. Whea the sentence was passe I J upon him, ha requested a moment's conversation with me. I shall ne' er forget the look of hatre:l upon h's face as he hissed out: "ou.have ruined my love and my life. Renember that, and fear me!" I attael4ed but little importance to his threat. I thought it simply the bluster of a self-defeated and disgraced rival. Shortly after, Angelina and I were narriea, and for two years I heard nothing of Somers. His sentence had been a cmparatively light one-a year and six months. After his discharge from prison, however, I neither saw nor hea:-d of him. For so yo-ung a man, I had been -ery su+ccessint as a physician, prin cipally due to my strict attention to practicer No matter how late, or dark an._storny, might be the night, I f K -ompt:y attended to all summonses '?13: bedside of suffering. ngt a little while before the of rietiring, the door-bell rang, >shortI afterward a. man entered ogia where - we were sit ' e oaw;prepossessing. His. 4 sn'and. hick,: and the 'e ofhiaeItt$e"3 illainou's, entlean,''he said, "had broken 1 seg. thought it a pity that, if the gen ei.an were anything- like his mes ny r, he hadn't broken his neck. I : not tell my wife where I was going, for it was a distant part of the town, and in anything but a respect -- able ne'gbborhood. .. I did not wish tot make the little woman nervous. t- On our way, the unprepossessing man was very une:>mmunicative. He anz ewered my inquiries about the injured gentlemnan in surly monosyllables. He was apparently in no haste, for hie walked very slowly-more slowly, I thought, than was consistent with the welfa-e. of iny patient. At last.we arrived at -our destina tion. It was la very dark-looking hoase, in a very dark street. My-'nide led me up two flights of very dirty and rickety stairs, that cr eaked objeztions to our weight upon -he-n. In the third story, we stopped before a-door, which, to my surprise, my companion opened with a key which he took from his pocket. Was he afraid thtt a man with a broken leg~ would escape? I was still more surprised when.on entering the room, I found it empty! He motioned- me to a chair, and, re marking he would return soon,left the room. For-the first time I was somewhat merr-cus andl suspicious. The empty ~~ - room---th4-last action of my guide his carelessness,on our way, as to the health of the supposed injured man the lonely ho)use and neighborhood Il combiaed to make me suspect foul -play. I stepped to the door, only to find it locked from the outside-to the wndow, only to find escape impossible there. It was many feet from the groundl. My sutspicions were now certainties. I was trapped. None of my friends, not eve:i my wife knew where I -was. * I might be murdered in this dent and my death re-nain a mystery. SI supp~ose I waited about an hour be'o~e I heard the key turn in the dIo. The 2, to my dismay, half a do'zen men entered. When nature made the jail-bird who had led me into this trap, she did not break the mould. These men were of the same pattern. All wore the same hang-dog, murderous look. One of them raised the light in the roo2. * which had been burning low. With hardly a glance at me, they took seats upon the floor,. n ea opa cards. *adbgnt a Soon the door opened, and another -' man entered. I hardly had a hope as I looked at hirn,for I saw the exulting face of my enemy-Dick Somers! At a glance he saw that I recognized -him. With a malicious leer, he stepped forward.and, quoting his own words of t wo years before, said: 'You have ruined my love and my life. Remember that, and fear me!" I saw in his face, at once showing ~'his revenge and desperation, that noth ing could tigrn hiin aside from his pur pose. "Somers," I siad, "I know that you hiave trapped me here for the purposeI of reve;ging yourself upon me, but i'emeuiber, sir, that I have friends! Remember law and justice!" "I fear nothing," he answere 1. "I defy man and God! IFe -enge oil you is dearer to me than li'e; an_1 though for me the bottoniless rit were yawn iag, I world have it." I-saw it wa, us:less to appeal to hi-n, and I srllenly waited for w see:ned fate. At his command. ans searched me. One o o ap pea-:ed to be kiad of - for the gang, secured my wat :l pocket bo.>k. -Then th-y tied me with stout iopes to a chair. Somers di- not. address.ne again, but sat upon the' floor and gambled Wiih the rest. Prese.;tly he rose,and, saying he would return by daybreak,I left the ioom. Hee.idently felt I was in his- powe .and seemead ii no hurry tb:com ,lete his ;ecea VfnIa he had go:ie the card-playing was kept up for a couple of hbours. Then the men all stret:hed themselves upon the floor and slept. The door opened inward, and across it was the b,urly form of the treasure". In spite of the apparent liopele sness of the trial, I set about devising some plan of escape. The first thing to do was to free myself. I have large wrists aid small hands. In tying me they had not taken this into coisiderat:on. With out much difficulty I liberated my hands; then, of course, it was the work of but a few minutes to entirely free myself fro.u my b:>nds. Taking the precantion to p!ace the ropes in such a position, that, should the gang waken, I would still appear to be bound. I thou;ht upon my chances of escape. They certainly appeared very few and small. The fact of the men upon the floor beiug asleep, seemed little in my favor. I could not move the ruIVan who was sleeping at the door without waking him. Es,ape by the window was itm possible. Every plan that suggested itself,bad insurneountable objections to it. r-had almost given ap schem ing in despair, and concluded to-adopt some hopelessly desperate measure, when I thought of the ccnteuts of a bottle I had in my pocket. In seirching me, the ruftians' had not distarbed it, thinking it of no im portance. It contained chloroform. I also had a sponge in my. pocket. In a moment I resolved what to do. Draw iug the bottle from my pocket, I soaked the sponge thoronghiy with its contents. Slowly, painfully (I could hear my heart beat), with all the -caution that a man uses w;hen his life. ay depend upon the slightest noise, I -stepped to the side-of the nearest-rufa'n. I plaoed the 'stua td sge-"to. lis iiithrene of the vapor. From man to man I stepped. One by one they were made senseless, helpless. The man at the door was the last. I drew him away, ' first securing my wtch and pocketbook. I also found in his possession a blackjack, which I took the l:be:ty of appropriating. Then, opening the door, I stepped out into the hall. I still moved cautiously, feeling that all danger was not past. I thought there might be a watcher there, but, to my relief, I saw no one. I de scended the first flight of stairs, and reached the second story in safety. I had gone about half way down the second flight. My heart stood still, for I heard some one enter below, then, in the muttered oath, I recog nized Somers' voice. I crouched down upon the stair next the wall, hoping he might pass me. But, as he came up, his hand brushed my face. In a moment he had me by the throat. I knew him to be by far' the more powerful man, and it was not a time for scrules. Quickly, it being so dark he could not see the action, I raised the blackack -I had held it since I left the room-and brought it down heavily upon his skull. His hand left my throat, and he rolled down stairs. I found him att the foot, que still. I made good my escape, not stopping to see if I had killed him. I do not know to this day whether he is living or dead. I never saw nor heard of him again. When I arrived home,I found a very frightened little woman, but I did not tell her till long afterward the history of that night. I have never since been in such a-fix, and1 if discretion and a reasonable supply of tim-dity cau pre -ent it,never wvill wvill be ia the future. -Saturday Night. Mlartimonuial Coincidenice. Mr. S. E. McMillan, who has re entv moved to Charlotte from South Carolina. give4 an intere.stiug account of a matrimonial coincidence that oc urred in his family last year. About the first of last July Mr. Mc Millan received a letter from his brther in Lake End, La., saying: "I wvill be married on the F'th of this month. Meet us at Nashville. Tenn., and join us for a trip to Colorado Cit." At the time he received this letter Mr. McMillan was making arrange ments for his own welding, which ws dated for July- 9, and at this time he sxtys lie wais living in the sand hills of South C'arolina, the soil t.here having become proverbial for its )0ver'ty. On about the 10th of .July he re eived a letter from another brother. 1. D. McMillan of Cataline Island, off the west coast of California, saying: "I was married on the 8th of this moth to Miss - ."In contrast with the sand hills of South Carolina, Cataline Island is one of the most fer tile districts in the world. All three brothers married on the 8th of July and it was impossible for them to have any concerted plans about the date as they he.d not heard from each other in mionthm.-Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat. - THE THUMB TRIGGER. A New Device Doing Away With the S*ervirig or A G:dd: h ow to avoid the slight swerving of a rifle at the moment when the trig ger is pulled has long puzzled the gnu maker and anuoyed the marksman: An e:+pert gunmaker has invented a ride that is intended to solvetheprob lem, and, in the opinion of those who have tried it, it does so. It is mod eled on a principle entirelynew to gun making, the trigger being worked by the thumb axd placed on top of the iide, instead of underneath, where all triggers have been placed since guns were first made. A one-armed man c.an use this new rifle, the action is so simple and the mechanism- so free from complex machinery. The rifle can be taken apart and put together in a few seconds, so few are the parts of which it is constructed. There are no screws except the one that joins the stock to the barrel. The simp!e remaining mechanism fits to gether without screws. The firing sec tion of the gtn consists of only five parts, The mechanism of the gun is as follows: When the hammer is drawn back to cock the gun the nose of a lever is pressed upward. This lever presses on a spring formed of a piece of bent steel, the curved end of -which, when the gun is cocked, rests against the rim of the cartridge, hold ing it firmly until the gun is fired. The trigger,which is pressed by the gun in order to release the hammer, protrudes from the upper surface of the stock and is .simply a steel plate, which, when pressed down, does this Into a slot that is depressed, the ac tion releasing the hammer and dis charging the gun. Until the gun is cocked, this depressed "lug" pre vents the possibility of the gun being fired. The shell is extracted automatically by the drawing back of the breech block. When the block is drawn back the steel spring that plays such an im portant part in the simple mechanism of the gun is thrown by the drawing back of the hammer against the rim of the cartridge, and when the block is drawn back the spring cocked,this de pressed "lug" prevents the gun ready for reloading. It is impossible for the gun to be fired while the cartridge is being in serted, for, as explained, the "lug" must enter the depression before the hammer can be released by the nose of the lever,and as this can only be done by deprssiug the trigger, which cannot be depressed when the "lug" is not over the slot,it:will be seen that an ac cident through the 'premature ais charge of the shell is; imposs& * 1eitherfis itpossfi - the cartridge; for-- as it enters the slot through the depression of 4he trigger it engages the rear of the slot and is held -firmly until the gun is dis charged. This is all the mechanism of the gun. It is so simple that anyone not accustomed to the handling of firearms might doubt its deadliness. Elevating the Elevator. "Little boy," she exclaimed, "you. ought to be at school instead of trying to run an elevator." "I'm not trying to run it," was the answer. "'Tm running it. And if you wish to ride I will be happy to accommodate you. So far as any obligation to be at school is concerned, allow me to remind you that this is a legal holiday, and I am exempt from attendance at,an institution where I am pleased to say I am at the head of most of my classes." "iou have no business trying to run that elevator, anyhow." "iou couldn't very well run it for yourself, could you?" "i'd rather try it than depend on von." 'For what reason?" "Because you are too young to know anything about it." "-Madam, allow me to reassure you. This elevator is operated by hydraulic pressure, the principle relied on being that water exerts pressure in propor tion to the height of a column rather thaui in proportion to the diameter. In making use of this characteristic, water is admitted into a cylinder, the pressure being regulated by the use of valvea, and a stable equilibrium being made possile by an ingenious system of counterpoises. I could go further into the minutite of this par Iular machine, which,of course, has its xariations from other models," he added, as she gasped in astonishment, "but I doubt if you could follow the technical terms whose use an accurate description wouldl necessitate. But I wish to assure you that if, after what I have said, you think you know more about this elevator than I do, you are at perfect liberty to step in and take its management out of my hands. - Boston Journal. A Bag Full of'Breath. The "pnumatophor," an Austrian invenitior. for enabling miners, firemen, 'te., to breathe when surrounded by fter damp, smoke or noxious fumes f any kind, consists of an air-tight rnhber hag containing a steele bottle a pure oxygen at a pressure of 100 liters, and a metal protected glass bot lie containi'ng a 25 per per cent so lution of caustic soda. The oxygen an be admitted by a hand screw into the bag and drawn into the mouth through a rubber tube, the nose being closed by a clip. The turn of another handscrew breaks the glass bottle, allowing the caustic soda to fow out and be absorbed by a knitted network in the bag to absorb the car bonic acid exhaled, allowing the oxy gen to be rebreathed, the apparatus being capable of furnishing oxygen enough to last from thirty to ninety minutes, as has been attested by nu marnna eamrimnnt FIRM1 H ATERS . FOR FIVE CENTURIES TI G ESE HAVE LOATHED. S. ulblic sentinent in Po) Ats Unieflv of Dorestation Next Door N ighbor3 - The g Is Kept Alive Principally b en. "I was astounded whe ' that i alle in about Portugal to '.iurn the Spanish fleet aw the Cape Verde Islands," sni s o p)olitan looker-on i i Nety a Sun man. 'What struck so impossible about it was t an aliianlce between Spain a gal. "Why, I hi e lived in d mixed with the people, a oav that they could stand alm better than that.. Portu~ ti: ment-the sentiment of th .at large, of 'Autonio e Mar ?ists chiefly of hatred to the d's. They may be indifferent er matters, or divided in fee e of them are Migaelistas, .ti mists, some are heartily a to the actual dynasty; many in ies --most of all in Lisbon-a bli cans, but the one unifying nt. of the people is the anti S en tinent. "When you come to con hat their history has been I do ow they could have been oth ey have altogether five gr nal heroes, Dom Enrique, wh to neer of all European explo the Atlantic; Vasco da Gama, bas tian, "the Faithful Prin is the centre of various poe ds; Dom Joao, and Gil Ea a. It is safe to say that mo lain people of the whole coun lit tle or nothing of the first ese beyond their na:es. As f ith ful Prince, many of the ly, are not quite sure whet a real historical person nly mythical. But every ee 'avrador,' from the Min cent., knows Dom Joao, drove the Spaniards all i Aljubarrota, in Portug os; in the middle of Spain hjk who beat them' at Vat same yea". Those two ne. and the Wallacesof th e but there is this differ the Scotti.h and-,the.Po worship, that the.one ter of historici appride is part of a'living force. "fhe fact. is Brazilanfedl $F i. Le r.,e%na o. when they broke loose - m the .ing= dom of Castile and. Leon in :the eleventh century,aud ever since then, except for a couple of generations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centur ies, they have existed as a nation under the continual threat of absorp tion into Spain. The house of Bragauza stands to the Portuguese people for no good thing but the re volt of 1640, by which their country was redeemed into independence. And the people feel that the price of..inde pendence is perpetual hatred of Span iards. We can understand the feeling only by imagining what it would have been in our country if the original thirteen states had been collectively much smaller than Great Britain and separate.l geographically from that ctantr'y only by a line on the map. "Nobody who has lived in Portugal can fail to have noticed the signs of this undying hatred on all hands. Do you know, for instance, the true mean ing of the saying. 'A bad Spaniard makes a good Portuguese?' Of course, there is the Spanish' interpretation, which is the obvious one. But there is also the deeper Portuguese inter petation, and that is, that any bad frie:nd to Spain is by that very fact a good friend to Portugal. "You can see evidences of the feel ing, too, in the very langpage of Por tugal, which its speakers seem to have purposely developed in such a way as to make it as unlike Spanish- as pos sible. Written, it looks like Spanish, but spoken it sounds much more like Polish or C3ech. It is a curious fact that no self-respecting Portuguese woman would be seen wearing a man tilla, for the mantilla is the Spanish woman's headgear. And during the last reign it used to bd remarked in Lisbon that only two ladies there ever smoked, t.he queen, Maria Pia, mother of the present king-an Italian--and the Dachess of Palmella-this, again, because the habit of smoking had .long been distinctive of the Spanish among all other womiankind. "I believe this anti-Spanish feeling has been kept alive all these centuries very largely through the perseverance of the Portuguese wornen. Perhaps they remember that it was a woman who cast the die for the anti-Spanish revolt in 1640 by pronouncing the mem orable sentence, 'As for me, I would rather have death as Queen of Por tugal than a long life as Duchess of Braganza'-although,it is true,that woman was a Spaniard. - "Once I asked a Portuguese girl if she really hated all Spaniards. She said of course she did. I reminded her that the Christian religion com manded us to love all men. 'Yes,' she said, 'but that was a fong Time' ago, before ther e were any Span ards'" His Centle GrIef. Ella-I see that Bella got married yesterday. I wonder why she had such a quiet wedding. Stella-It was on account of a recent death in the family of the man-she married. Ella-Who d.ied? Stella,--is fist wife.-..Town Top csq IN DARKEST INDIA. Miss Newcomb Pictures the Suffering of the Natives. The following dreadful picture, of India was given by Miss Helen New comb at the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary convention in Syracuse the other (lay : When I went through Bombay over half the population had locked their doors and fled,and the desolation alone of the streets was terrible. The plrue which raged in India is supposed to be that which attacked the Philistines of old, and shows many symptoms of that dread disease. The natives have a dread of the foreigu hospitals, and - believe that they are carried to them in order that their livers may be ex tracted, to be used in some foreign medicine. I was told not long ago by a wom. . that she was sure the terrible pictures which had appeared of the Iudian famine were not true to life. Suffer ing by famine cannot be exaggerated. The horrible picture of skeletons of children lying along the roadside, de sorted by parents who crawled on per haps only a few yards before they, too, were overtaken by death-this even the camera cannot do justice. You wonder why India, with its fer tile soil and under British rule, should come to this condition. In the first place the people work one day and rest three. They do not prepare for the future. In the >econd place, we must remember that the crops are en tirely dependent upon the rainfall. Should the rain fall once it place; them in bad condition. Should it fall a third time famine is inevitable. Thu government relief work reaches some, but cannot reach all. The native mer4 chants, too, are a set of rascals. If a scarcity of food is hinted at they go out to the fields and buy at mod, erate pri*es from the unsuspecting farmers what they later refuse to sell except for fabulous prices. The mis sionaries themselves often buy what they can at such times to sell at low prices or give away later, as: the casd may demand. After six years spent in India, in which time I have made a study par I ticularly of the women, I cannot bring to you the brightness I would desire. The idol worship and the hundredd of dan ing girlis plunged into degra dation from which there is no escape *. orma sorrowful picture. If the :,-voen of this country are se, they may arn :in a enioy, of istene,.- hich 'she must er for hereafter.- The more she suffers here the less tiere is to come, so that the- hard labor, insults and degradation she endures are almost unlimited. There is no possible es cape for her to anything happier or better. The pariahs are another set of unfortunate wom'n, who labor f:om early morning until late at night to provide for the family and buy their husbands opium. -New York Tribune. --The Wild Cattle of Char.ley. Some account is given in Nature Notes (English) of this famous, herd of cattle, which belongs to the Earl of Ferrers. The theory that the breed is indigenous appears to be supported by their h'bits at the present dhy. When alarmed they start off at a full gallop for a short distance, then turn and face their foe in a semicircle, with the bulls in front, the cows behind, and the younger animals and calves still further in the rear. If further ap proached, these tactics, which are clearly those of wild animals, are re peated, or the adversary is charged and attacked. Again, they conceal their young in fern or long rushes, and the cows, when calves are bo,rn, become exceedingly fierce and dan gerous. The food of the Chartley herd con sists of the very coarsest graeses, n ini winter of the coarsest hay, rushes, and dried bracken, provided for them in open sheds, which afford a slight shelter from the cold winds which blow across the open park. The home of these cattle is situated on high ground which wvas enclosed about the year 1200, and forms a portion of Chartley park, some five miles from Uttoxeter, the nearest town. -The ex tent<f this wild tract of table-land is about 1000 acres, covered with coarse grass, rushes, stunted bilberries, and heather, and p)atches of luxuriant bracken fern, with a few clumps of old weather-beaten Scotch firs. and birch. Among the other denizens of this wild primeval tract are herds of red and fallow deer. Hinmdoo Pursuit of a Treasure. The following incident occurred re cently in.*one of the largest hotels in Calcutta. It appears that an officer of the Gordon Highlanders arrived in town on his way home. He had a large sum of money with him-about 2000 rupees-and the usual jewelry of an English gentleman. These were all locked in oiie of his trunks, Rie turning from the dining saloon to his room one evening, he was just in time to see some suspicious-looking natives bolting down the corridor. On enter ing his room he found, on examina tion, that all his trunks had been forced open and the contents thrown about; but strange to say, not a piece of his money was missing nor any item of jewelry. He believed that the burglars were Afridis, and the object of their cupidity a copy of the Koran belonging to the Mad Mullah, which they somehow learned was in his pos session. The book was rolled up in an old singlet and thus escaped the searchers, who appear to have tracked the officer from the front.-Londog M What May Be Looked For. Blne, gray and yellow are among the most prominent colors in the summer goods. Blue with black crossbars ap pears in sash ribbons by the hundred, and the ribbons are made to go with blue muslin gowns. Tilt of the Hat. The tilt of the hat counts more than the hat itself at present. Every elab orate piece of millinery is meant to be worn in a particular %vay, and it is seldom that a woman gets anything like the intended effect without com- c petent instruction. Be sure you know-: how or else stick to the pretty,straight - brimmed shapes trimmed with ribbon and clusters of flowers. Sweet Bags for Scenting Linen. Every self-respecting housewife likes to have her table and house linen smelling of sweet aromatic odors, so I am giving a recipe for making these scent bags economically. Take equal quantities of powdei-ed cloves, -mace, 1 nutmeg and cinnamon. Powder the t dried leaves of mint, balm, southern wood, ground ivy, laurel, sweet mar- ] jo:-am, hyssop and rosemary, so that 1 they form an' equal weight with the i above. Then add half as much of c chips of cassia, juniper, sandalwood 1 and rosewood, also powdered root of angelica orris. The mixture will be I 'completed by quarter as much amber- s gris and musk. All these things i should be well mixed and then put up ] in little bags of sateen, which should t be placed between the clothes in the i clothes press.._ _ t Sashes in High Favor. Sashes are in high favor this season. f Nothing adds more grace to an already a graceful, slender figure .than.a sash t tied around tie waist, with long ends i at the side.or back. The hand 4t. nes r lace set -in 'straiigh: p and , straight across or zig zag, aDd' .ra finished with accordion plated ciiffon. White surah 'sashes with ends .o Roman stripes are also much need, and so are those'of taffeta in delicate a shades. A surah sash has oie distinct b a jvantage over all others-it washes i beautifully and takes dye better than s any other silk. ( . 'The Princesses of Spain. The daughters of the Queen Regent of SiPain are brought up much more simply than was formerly thought right for Spanish infanfas, and they , are allowed more liberty. Their royal highnesses are often to be met walk ing on the public promenade in Mad- C rid, with their attendants, among the other frequenters of that favorite I walk. The princesses are almost al- 3 ways accompanied by their greatest friend, the Donna Sol, the only i (laughter of the Duke and] Duchess i of Alba. The duke and duchess, who I have precedence of all Spanish nobles, take their place immediately behind the princes and princesses of the bl~ood royal, and their children have always been the favorite companions of the little king of Spain a,nd his sis ters. The Duke of Aiba is a nephew of the ex-Empress Eugenie, his niother having been the sister of her majesty. The present Duchess of Alba, who is a great sportswoman,has the reputation of being the proudest woman in Spain. She holds the post of lady of the palace to the Queen Re gent, and has unbounded influence I with her royal ,mistress. . Selecting Kid Gloves. ] In selecting a kid glove for wear] chioose a fine, but not too fine kid. Examine the inside of a glove. It is i important that the glove be dyed on the outside only. Wherever the color of the dye has struck through the leather there the glove will be found tender. This is because the strength of the dye necessary to color leather is always strong enough to make it tender if it strikes through it to the inside. Sometimes the leather will only show the color at the seanm on tire inside. Such a glove will pull out at this seam, It is wise to select a glove of nentral dark tint. Black .gloves as a rule do not wvear as wvell ;as dark colors. Browns wear well; so do dark grays and the pretty putty and erru tints now so fashionable. In. mending a glove, avoid using silk exeept to darn dlown a piece ofj dress silk the colorof the glove on the inside of the glove to hold a rent together. In this case, darn the parts together with invisible stitches on the outside. Always -sew over] ripped seamis with cotton the color of I the thread used in making the gloves.i Do not use silk to sew ripped seams I of to dlarn withi except when it is i stronger than cotton. ~ i Etique.tte of Mourning. English mourning, considered by i smart mantnamnakers to be in the best i taste, is heavier than before, but is 1 worn for a shorter time. A widow I should wear her crape. henrietta cloth t or bonibazine and 'her widow's cap for n yar. After ihat +ime she will t tssume all black without crape of !ap, and at the end of the second year >ut on- whatever eolor she-may desire. e A daughter wears "crape mourn" ng" for six months, all black' for .8ix nore, and then, if she wishes, pat- on olors. The same rule applies to a sister,while a distantrelativeor friend' rears "complimentary mourming," all _ >lack, for three months. The stiffly crimped net which at one. ime was worn at the neck and~ wrists >y widows is- no.longer used. In. ite tead fine lawn cuffs and collars,quite'e,tecfsavg.hmsmaui ng half an inch, whilethe hem- of the ollar is a litfae less, are basted.in-the_ = 4leeves and neck after the fashion "f >ld "turnover" 'collars and cuffs:i Chese, it must be remembered, . area -' yorn exclusively by widows, and- the.: hree-cornered cap is made. to match.. -U 'f course, the friends andaquaint-, ies of the bereaved- should cleave. :ards at the door with their condol ;' nces written upon. them, but only= hose connected by ties of blood.r he most intimate friends should ev " ask to see those in grief. -Thef aet tome,- and many women, restrined y their acruples of truth and our esy, are forced to s ee thoughtless allers, when it is far from pleasant, if tot absolutely painful. All cards of inquiy are recoginzed ry a return card, black. bordered, .and: hould be sent within ten days aftery he recetion of the card of ainqu3o. - '. etters of condolence have al-mosten irely given way to personal crds hose in grief are "notexpected "or nswer sech letters ecept by-tshe arn of pasteboard. ,English nus 4 ; equfres a special black bordered - c . oi- this purpose engravedso w re ? s follows: -"Mrs.' Blank w ank you for ithr kini o'' aggnquirien u on hem, u o h cours s of b hile crape o n yomei ndiony wmea ,re gi yteir -culs ftrt n cu When erai is far p a ltered paper.goes fitnfi . as regular numbers; brthad e,ands aughters and sisters rs known nque-. x tationers as No. 1, by a mothe -: nof as l jeowrdis wiof -tss f Daintys rpibb ick garde rders~ oe tis purpose, eree colo'rs. - Checklos: "ppear tobei th leadin tayu for-ess silks,swelaso Boiqre fabrie, y he yard or bnortin rb ati erns regea Whviencrae mon sumerres.ma Leredapels. tbt asriegulainuhmbs;regreatl used; fo ayadteresps and larsids inon rib taons a sho.1 inylarg monte,the nowne for go.n and whie attero for' Courng andunuveves_n_ra re - fahoal,his Paclor semngt ashifontawmn hasaewo- wt - Dainty rirdbons wilthe goods orderd rom wholale firett ios,lanf tys, forc dress augls arell fors for upeckti siks th-alo a- ut voerwldsed fbrcsn.yeel yardhe oinotd n roematters,iabe grealr evurene aoen sumrdrs a einahl nwmaeiasshw Paigeablandnpish opls, dhipa oriped glingharmsure etsed foete eiap dePrsadpai aqad.I xtree seties ae plaids inyade onds, a silade woolcltis,wth aise siok gonsridk and othe trso ildnistuas. 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