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1 - - - T RI-WEEKLY EDITIO,2 WIN'NS8BORO, S.C. DECEMBER 22.1898%SALSHD14 The midnight is passed, An d the Christmas is here; 0 solemn bells, ring Through the night hushed and clear; As angelio hosts bronght the tidings of old, Let nowthegladnewsby thy de.p tonguesbetold 0 joy to the word, Forget sorrow and fearl The midnight is passed, And the Cbristmas here. -ACXVS CHRISTMAS FAIRIES.A Dy Edith Sess.1ons Tupper. P to his ears n mis chief all the time was Jack, yet he was the dearest, roundest, r osie st little lad imagin able. He was a picture of happy boyhood that after. noon, three days before Christmas, when, in his smart e o a t, trimmedI in the most delightful : military fashion with bands of Persian Iamb and black frogs, and his jaunty I cap set on his fair hair, and his fit I hands protected by far-trimmed gloves, i he went into the park with his sled for a romp. He ran and shouted and i pranced until his eyes glowed like i stars and his cheeks shone like apples, I and everybody who saw him said: 1 "What a handsome boy!" .lack, of course, was looking forward to Christmas, just as every boy and I girl who reads this is looking forward i to that day of all days. He expected to have all sorts of fine things in his I stocking, and with very good reason, < for Santa Clans had never neglected E him. yack's father was rich. Grand- f mamma, who was richer, was coming z to spend the holidays, and Santa Claus I bad been telephoned on the subject I i hes, rfims, games, swords; guns C d t~ sn lt was every I it at Jack's omebi Irv- 44' y full in have1 ers or sisters, atrifleelfish. But s a manly, kind-hearted little for all that, and so, when hewas gh with his play and was drag r.'gg his sled homeward and came upon a scene on a street-corner which roused is sympathy he paused to find out wat it meant. A crowd of rough boys were tor renting a poorly-clad IMite girl, wTios wan, haggard face spoke too -lainly of misery and poverty. She was. frightened and almost crying as Ja'k came up. "Here, now!" said Jack, with sturdy determnination, "you stop that or I'll call a p'liceman." Fortunately at that mom2ent a blue-coated officer came in sight, and the hoodlums fled with one wild de parting yell. "Thank you." said the little girl, timidly, "-those boys allus are pickin' on me." "What is your name?" said Jack. "Susie Greene." "Well Susie," said Jaok, with an sir. of 'bisiness, 'you look cold and sick"' "I an'b'ery strong" "And 'hungry," continued Jack. Susie-burst into tears. That was enough for Jack. "Get right on my sled," said he, de- I te- sinedly, "and I'll take you down I -- tonmy house and you'll have some thin~g to eat." Susie obeyed, and the officer saw t with grim pleasure the young heir to g - sari CrAUs wAs TEPEo3.D. l Mr. Newton's millions dragging off the'. little waif to his home, a block away.i "Ho do be a foine chap, he do be," remarked Policeman Mulvaney,. Jack took Susie into the kitche~n< and gave orders she should . be fed forthwith. Then he hurried up to his mother's room. She was there with his grandmother, and in a few words 1 he told them about .the little girl he I haa rescued.. "She's poor and hungry, and she's got no decent cW4' . Y norz can't< HOW SANTA CLAUS GOE TWENTY-F His mother looked at him a moment, then asked, quietly: "Jack, would you rather have this little girl made com fortable or have a big Christmas your elf?" Jack hesitated. He thought of all fhose presents he was e:pecting; then be thought of Susie thin dress and bursting shoes. "You can take the money you were oing to spend on my Christmas and Ex her up," he bravely said. Then bis grandmamma, a stately old lady, hn black satin and white lace cap, salled him to her and kissed him, with ;ears in her eyes. Jack sat bolt upright in bed and -ubbed his eyes very hard. No, he ras not asleep. There was the open ire, there his clothes on the chair, ;here the door into his mother's -oom. It was Christmas Eve. Jack had iot hung up his stocking, for he did iot-expect any presents. Susie had yeen 'warmly clothed and her vretohed bome had been brightened y the visit of Jack and his mother. Che boy was satisfied. He had made iis choice and expected to abide y it. But, marvellous to relate, as he ooked towards the fire, he saw a owd of tiny people hurrying nd fussing about on the fur rug be ore the fire. Three or four had a iniature ader which they were )tting up against the side of the fire >lace. Several others had hold of one f Jack's long stockings. When the adder was in place, a little man, with Ifish 'eyes and spider-like legs, limbed the ladder, dragging Jack's tooking after him, and V.ng it on a E ET o T oo an hecoig onpt i ans "n i hips yn suvyei i ror wih)rastifct. "Tha's hat cal agoodjob" h ai."o ur p o ok n raok ad fthn broing wn, prugt hi ase on nhis fthi wods.ee i "IThat's whate Iall ay,"odheob,"d, aid.kinow urr uhedgesol and s eave yo pgaetsr thee nutsfore te icwhoas ets alog." e. The quairy aitter fairy imbed theou adreng and p inhiprsnt.chee" aset comf clear from the oodso eIBlace workesd all Gerany,"h sid eaves "to gather thse utso for th'e icy who was kndo asiedo" oo Ate qainto little firy." criu beg gowairyca approached, wa"cp ave blcm car from he borer of i "Fromac thes n Gftersettn, she ai,o bring thofeig muibo o th n'ae oce who was n ood ahaedto."o Aferpor little mair cime The wasr hauite aupi a eaul-o word fai aprhed.ad wasgh from. etntdand adk. Tenathere ukl owdsn blc th agd eole onfi "Fromd wth landsu ofhc settn sun >ruhav rome, tadhe." ma Isce. 'Shue, aIia' hurry but be wanted o ing" oherid, "to the yuck per lacbewhas ohar. Aerr lite aingreen inbedf >header, haliingn pf beltsu toy wrdic dwn he hmneygh croed gAd fos vry Jacry Taihe thereptly. owdano the goas eopleangin ereand withsentrum wih he hcabl ndrrugh frown the Ehmer ad sle o ain himef. "tyback efohie Ineth midom oathis -e.iement AROUND THE WORLD IN OUR IIOURS. "So they've .been here ahead of me!" he observed. "That's a greai idea! I never was left before. Well, no matter I There are a few things they've forgotten. Here are the skates, the games, the box of cara mels, the books," and as he talked he piled the packages up on a table near the fireplace. Jack's eyes were so heavy he couldn't hold them open. He shut them for an im tant, and when he opened them agiin it was Christmas morning. He sprang from his bed and rushed to the fireplace. Yes, there hung his stocking full and running over, and ZACE PXBBED HIS IS. the table near by was loaded with gifts. And, if you were to argue forever. you could never make Jack bliee tharDirere is no Santa CTaus or such things as-fairies. "I know better," he says, with a decided shake of his curLy head. "I know better, for I've seen them." Christmas Fan. Those mothers who wish their chil dren's Christmas fun to. be fun pure and simple, eschewing fashionable dances and other unsuitable diver sions, will find the following sugges tions useful: A tissue -paper candy bag, hung from the chandelier, to be struck with a light rod or switch by each child, Iblinafolded, in turn, till the lucky one breaks the bag and the candies may be scrambled for, is sure to cause jollity and laughter. This is an old game, but a never-failing one. Forty years ago it was described and pict ured in juvenile books, yet, once good, always good, is a true proverb. Another mirth-provoking device is a sawdust pie. Cover an ordinary washtub with bright paper, having a frill around the edge. Pat in a layer of sawdust, then some trifling gifts, another layer of sawdust, and so on. Smooth the top into a. shallow cone shape, to resemble a pie, lay over it a brown paper cover, with darker spots here avfl there, to imitate the scorch ing of the crust, and fasten some lit +l' ornament at the apex. which will lift the cover off as by a handle. Have a sheet spread underneath, provide the children with wooden spoons, and let them dig for "plums." Of course the amusements indicated are for the youngest members of the flock. Older children may enjoy get ting up a Brownie party, a Japanese party, etc., in appropriate costumes. Or they will greatly enter into the spirit of making a number of poorer children happy, by packing a large basket or hamper with attractive little parcels, which they have prepared themselves, then passing them to the shabby little guests. .The finest spir its are those who do not lose sight of the fact that Christmas is a time for making others happy, not a season for getting all one can and keeping all one gets. _________ After Christma. Mrs. Buffer-"That's a nice shoe bag of yours. I had a present of one like it--" M1rs. Maffer-"Shoe-bag? That's a photograph case. Mrs. Greey, who gave it to me, told me so." Mrs. Buffer-"Horrors! And I thanked Mrs. Greely for a shoe-bagi I've a mantel drapery like )fours, too." Mrs. Muffer-"Is that a mantel drapery?" Mrs. Buffer-"Certainly; Mrs. Spriggs, who gave me mine, told me IMrs. Mufer- "And I thanked Mrs. Spriggs for some petticoat trimming!" Both (in tears) -"Well, home-made presen ts ought always to be labeled, anyhow! Below Zero (and the Belt). Ten Broke (after the refusal) I"How cold it is to-night. My hands are chilled." Gwendolen-"Well, I have made you a Christmas present of thenuitten. That ought to keep them warm" Wrhe Yelow Bookr. If I Were SantA Clans. If I rere eai Santa Clausi 0 Arl SanIta Cians MIas me; I'] sho w to him just what a good O !::nta Claus I'd be. I'd always bring the kind of toys And stOry b00os for him; IiId hiS stockitLg cvry year, An;d Ml! it to t~ie bn. This year P1 bring a book or so - On ho e conqudd Spain, Or how a boy pursced his foe Aeros. the Kloudike plain. 'And bcxir.g gloves-and, say, I guess A Distol u-cnidrI be great To KMondike with. And then-oh, yes, A wheel for ninety-e*ght. I'd bri::g a leatiier sait. and hat Tha kind that cowtbcys wear. Of bowie knives and things like tiat Ho'd bave a lot to spare. I'd fill his stockiug then with all The candy it would hold, Ad where the packages were small i'd fiI In round witL gold. And when they saw htic good I was, How happy folks wrnd be If 1 tere only Santa Caus And Santa Claus wa"cm. - Er- Christmas Sta-:kings. "She was the prettiest and blight est. girl we hadl at our house party that -winter," related the smnling old lady who loves to dwell upon the holi diay festivities when she was a-girl. I "She was a great favorite with the men because of her dashing ways and the ir of good comradeship that she always carried about with her. Yet we could never see that any one of her suitors was favored above anothec, and often wondered if she would fill the appointed destiny of woman. "In the party was Harper Allison. We always called him Harpy. He was big, athletic, good-natured and good to look at. but we never thought of him as a brilliant man. It was as plain as could be that-he was in love with her, and men of his type- are so persistent. They lay siege, -at.--ro matter what may come, they continue the siege. "I know that he proposed-to her a score of times, but he was always put off with the laughing assurance that, she was not to be won by any of the stereotyped methods, and that if he ever did find a lodging place in her heart he would see a sign. "Christmas Eve we all hung up our stockings outside our doors, :Ust As a lark, you know. In the morning we all had presents to show but Haly. He pretended to be disconsolate se yond consolation. He had put out a Great long pair ol woolen stockings, knit in black yarn and tipped in red by a fussy old aunt in Maine, who al ways feared that Harpy never, dressed warmly enough. He hadanct only been slighted by Santa Clausbut the stockings themselves were goue. "After dinner there was 47sleighl ride of.tho old-faqshione_&I..Z.s the big sled, we all saw tlft over her dainty shoes she wor' heavy woolen stockings, and the es were red. 'Now I know what I got,' shouted Harpy, and before s all he tossed her into the air, caught her as she came down and kissed her in definitely." Yule-Log Sparks. About $120,000,000 is spent on Christmas gifts yearly'in this country. The custom of making gifts is wid est spread among the Germans. Snaparago~i, a one-time favorite game ait Christmas, is again coming into favor. Skating over thie frozen marshes was a favorite holiday pastime among the Knickerbockers. Theo custom of giving the tarl-ey the first place on the bill of fare at Christ mas is gradually giving way to the old English plan of providing a huge round of beef. A pretty conceit for trimming Christ mas trees is a paper star with a can dle in the center. They are made after the manner of tha "pin wheel" and commemorate the appearance of the Star of Bethlehem. To feed Greater New York on Christmas Day it is estimated that it will take among other things, 1700 head of cattle, 7000 tons of poultry, 1700 barrels of cranberries and three carloads of celery. The best bag to use for the Christ mas pudding is made of thin un bleached muslin. Be sure that it is well scalded before the pudding goes in. Keep a sapply of clean, strong, white tape for pudding strings. When the Ueart Grows Warm. Santa Claus might reconnoiter in an air ship. It is time now to begin to remem ber not to snell it "Xmas." To get the right height and measure of Christmas in the stocking feet is by no means a bad plan. The young people are not alarmed at that anti-Santa Claus movement. They are preparing to turn the hose on it. If the weather clerk will send a lit tle snow for Christmas he will not be required to put it in the hanging stockings. It will be appreciated if it is left outside. Helping Santa. There is nothing slow abbat ,Tohn nie.-From Christmas Life. WFR OMiAN'S BENEFITS Solid Colored Fabrics Popular. Solid colored fabrics will prove the universal choice this season, so at the risk of appearing of one idea I musb advise ladies' cloth or the nvwer Vene tian for a "dressy fall suit." Belt, collar and yoke of velvet, overlaid with an embroidery of silk cord and spangles would be pretty, if your dressmaker is equal to the work, as these embroideries are done by the sewe::; if not, have your accessories of taffeta silk with a tiny fur edging, or band of cord passementerie with jew els. Select a warm brown, an army blue or a light gray.-Ladies' Home Journal. One More Colleno Open to women. The directors of the West Penn Medical college at Pittsburg, Penn., have finally decided to admit women as students, and the first to enter was a Jewess, Miss Luba Natalia Robin, aged 20 years, who came to this coun try three years ago from Russia, Dr. Lange, the distinguished dean of the college, in expressing his gratification over the late decision of the directors, said: "Women always lend a digng' to any school. I neyer knew a woman attending a medical college to fail in an examination, and usually they lead their classes. The principal reason that the West Penn college has been induced to open its doors to women is that they can attend medical schools in practically any other city in the United States and abroad.-Philadel phis Inquirer. Furs for the Season. Even furs are made Bayadere style this season and the lustrous stripes ofJ mink run around instead of up and down the cape which covers my lady's shoulders. The smart cape falls to the waist and is finished by a frill of fur. It has a high, flaring collar and revers, which turn back and fall in ripple folds, like the satin or velvet revers of the gown. The short jackets of sea and Per sian lamb are modeled after the same designs as those from which the cloth jackets are made. T!hey fall three quarters in length in the back, or a bit shorter, but are short in fr6nt, rounding up in tapering lin'es over the hips. They fit closely in front anr. have high collars, usually lined with a lighter fnr and broad, flaring cnffs. Buttons of cut steel are used. Pe A 7ib~~ith the blue fos, ermine aid. white for anaisijdaub and er mine are very fashioniable combina tions. The Evolution of a Paris Gown. The Paris gown that bursts full blown on the eye of the client is not, as the public believe, a creation of the great dressmaker himself, nor is the great dressmaker responsible for the fashion. This model gown is the result of an almost infinite collabora tion. Up in the garrets of the criss cross streets live a modest class of artists that make projects. They get their inspiration fromn old portraits at the Louvre, at Versailles, from ele gant women in the driveways of the Bois, or from some hazard. They modify, develop, combine, following a drift which they do not control, till they have produced anovel idea that the phblic is likely to accept, and that is therefore salable. Their projects are fixed in sketches and they are known as marchands de croquis. Others of these specialists make up their projects in cloth, and are known as mnarchands de modeles. These oc cnpy a more important rank than the first,isince the models form a demon stration that the ideas can be realized. The model merchant is in relation with the manufacturers,- who provide her with the new materials they have imagined, and whose interest it is to have their "truck" presented to the great dressmaking houses and so launched on the market.-Scribner's. White Gloves Good Form. The woman of moderate means thinks usually that the game is not worth the candle in wearing white gloves, but the excellent effect they give when kept in good condition is really worth a great deal of trouble. White gloves are to be worn for every thing this year. Chamois gloves will be worn for ordinary street wear, white glace gloves, with black stitch ing, for handsome street costumes. and white giace or undressed kid for evening. There will be some womien who will wear the pale tans and grays to match the cloths of these shales which are so popular this year. But there is nothing prettier than a rea sonably clean white glove. It gives a trim effect to a woman's whole cos tume. It is really worth while to buy hand forms, and, with a good cleaning substance and a fine flaunel, a glace glove can have the spots re moved each time the gloves are worn. Chamois gloves are not as cheap as many people think, nor easy to keep clean, but. to speak of their gocod qualities, they are not as clumsy inow as they have been, and the band looks very well in them. The first cost of the chamois glove is inconsiderable, but it must soon be washed and it pulls and needs mending, and with the best of care it is not long before it is past mending altogether. But it can be kept clean, and by washing iu naphtha and taking pains, it is a glove that is worth while.-Chicago Times Hei ald. The Dowaa.r Empress of China. The very intelligent minister of the Chinese government to the United States, Mr. Wn T.ing-Fang, says that the timne honored story of the Empress Dowager of China having been a slave girl has no foundation in fact. Doing this Mr. Wu destroys some 01 the romance which surrounds this re markable woman; but there is still leit enough to make het career a wonder to her sex. The empress dowager was not a slave girl, but she was the daughter of an 6bsouri offcial, and today she is the actual, as for mauy years she has been the virtual, rifler of the great Chinese empire. The first straw pointing the way of the wind was a royal decree degrgdihg a fabinet officer whose position corre sponds to that of the secretary of the treasury at Washingtofi. This man had been in high favor with Uid em peror, and it was not to be rposed that be would have been rememed nn less some power greater than the em peror's had wrought the chafrge. The only power which is above the em peror's in China is that of the em press dowager. Since. the removal of this official the empress dowager has come out openly and reassumed the regency. There are really no ogres in China, as we commonly undestand the term. There are servants under oontract for a number of years, as our appren'tices are bound to masters until they reach their majority. In some families these servants are treated as daughters. Sometimes the master of the house takes a fancy to the girl and takes her for his concubine, or second wife. If she bears him candren she is raised to the position of wife. -Harper's Weekly. Keeping a Husband. "Every married woman, unless she has been so unfortunate as to marry a brute, holds her happiness under God in her own hands and the keepers of it are love and patience," says Mrs. Moses P. Handy in the Woman's Home Companion. " 'Never reason with an angry man,' said the Eastern sage. It does no good under any circum stances, and when the man is your husband it is worse than folly. What will it profit you, even though you have the-best of the argument? There fore,in everything, unless it be a mat ter of consaienc,it. is generally better to yield than to contend. Not that the wife is to be slavishly submissive; I no man can restect a woman who is lackingl* self-respectand every mar ried woan ras her rights. But the best way in which to secure these rights is not by doing aggressive bat tle for them. Let them be taken as a matter of course, taking it for granted that your husband's first wish is always. for your comfort, as yours always is for his. Never forget that your in terests are, or ought to be, identical, I to cnvince.him that his wife Ak s-ilbest friend and safest con i da*te To that end never repeat -anything which he tells you of his own or of other people's affairs; and if he makes disparaging remarks of any one, keep the knowledge strictly to yourself. Even Lhe law cannot compel a woman to bear testimony against her husband; she is a fool if she does so voluntarily. Let it be your chief object to please your hun band, and count nothing too much trouble to this end. It seems almost an insult to urge neatness of person upon any self-respecting woman, yet there are many wvives who come short in this respect, who fall into the griev Ionis error of tLaning that John doesn't matter. John does matter much more than anyone else,and it is many times more important that you should look well in his eyes than in those of .all the rest of the world. The task of keeping a husband is to the full as difficult as the winning of him, and is far more necessary." Fad and Fancy. Long coral neckchains are still in fashion and coral jewelry is gaining in. favor. A curious niovelty originating in Paris is a striped cloth gown with checked sleeves. It is hard to improve upon the beauty of a plain sealskin coat, but a pretty jacket of the fur trimmed with chinchilla is attractive. .A new departure in pressed velvet, which promises to be as much of a fa vorite as the alligator-skin style, is a tangle of slender crescents. One of the latest novelties in silver is a silver frame for pumice stone for the washstand. There is a little sil ver ring attached by which it can be hung. Long lace scarfs are passed twice around the neck, tied in a bow in the front and a'e held up by a white sik band to which they are fastened with fancy pine, back and front. The solid gold round bracelets are still attractive and the bracelets in the same shape in iligree work in gold and set at intenvals with precious or seii-prcions stones are beautiful. Popular fur trimmings are of sable, mink, or martcn tails hanging like deep fringe from yokes or square sailor-shaped c:>llars of Lyons velvet overlaid with silk cord and bead ap pliques. The style still prevails of using black with color, as, for example, a princess dress of Russian green or plum color, with trimmings of black f; r and passementerie ornaments en applique. The coats with long rounded backs grow prettier and prettier as the sea son advances. What could be pret tier than a black velvet coat of this kind with a collar and big, broad: lapels of rich brown sable? There is nothing to which the woman so easily accommodates herself as to the styles. Patterns in jet are very handsome on black cloth and velvet gowns where they are put on so heavily that they. must add much to tho weight of the: garment. Black jet is seen on white, but there it is put on less heavily. Here and there a rhinestone buckle is seen, enough to show that it is in: evidence. A LAY 09 THE COt-F LUNK5. t's up and away from our work today, For the breeze sweeps over the down; ad it's hey for a game where thegots blossorms flame, And the bracken is bronzing to brown. With the turf 'neath our tread and the blue overhead , And the song'of the lark in the wbin; There's the fhag and the green, witq the bunkers between _tz will you be over or in? The doctor may come, and we'll teach Mm to know . tee where no tannin can lurk; The adIdicr may come, and well promise to show Some hazards a soldier may shirk: The statesman may joke, as he tops- every stroke, That at last he is high in his aims; And the clubman will :tand with a club In his hand That Is worth every club in St. Jamesr. Ihe palm and the leather come rarely to gether, Gripping the driver's haft. And it's good to feel the jar of the steel And the spring of. the ickory shaft. Why trouble or seek for the prise of a clique A eleek here is common to all; And the lie that might sting is a very small thing When compared with the lie of the ball. Come youth and come age, from the study' or stage From bar or from bench-high or low! A green you must use as a cure for the blues You. drive. them away as you go. We're outward bound on a long, ong round. And it's time to be up and away; If worry and sorrow come beek with the morrow, At least we'i be happy today. -From A.Conan Doyle's "Songs at Action. HUMOROUS. Smith-It is the unexpjected that always happens. Horrigan --Yis; un less we are lookin' for it. Quizzer-Is he so tery intelligent* Guyer-Yes, indeed. They refused to let him serve on a Jury. "Do -you own your own house, Tweedles?" "No; we've had the same cook for seven years." Uncle George-So yoa really.think you love the girl? Harry-Love her? Why, I actually enjoy her mother's company. Tommy-Paw, how did lead get its name? Mr.Figg-They tried to make nails of it, but fouind that it could not be driven. The wind across my chimney Wakes no depth of joy i me; For I know that its wild singing. Makes my coal bills bgger be. "No; I never carry 1my business into my home." "What is your busi Less?" "I am the proprietor of an intelligence office." He-Idon't beli e you*Acantel. ho You haven't asked me yet."- And what is more he didn't. "I hear that you, have got a job at - last, Billy." "I have becured a posi tio, Jim." "How much pay do you g a day?" "My salary is $1.25 per diem. "The Chuzzletops beat the world in economy " "What do. they -do?" "When Chazzletop has a cold he doesn't get his prescription filled until his wife gets a cold, too."' "Mr. Yabsley, may I ask why you aways dip your knife in your glaes of vater before cutting your steak?" ".it is a little trick I learned from a fellow who worked in a.rubber factory.'' Wheelmen are fast, but iu wit they are slow,, Although I can't say they're sedate. A. tack In the road is a joke, you know, But they don't see the paint till too Late. "Irvould die a thousand deaths for - vou"5. said the villain in his most ilken tones. "I fear me much,"said the heroine, whose angel's love was growing cold, "that the piece will not run that long." "I say,"' said Fuddles, who some times thinks he is smart, "what .sort of fruit can you raise on an electric plant?" But Faddles, who also thinks he is smart occasionally, promptly re plied, "Currents.". Two ministerial candidates named Adam and Low recently 'preached in a Scottish church. Mr. ILow preached in the morning, and took for his text, "Adam, where art thou?" lie made a most excellent discourse, and the - ongregation was much edified. In the evening Mr. A dam preached, and took for his text, "Loa! here I am." A recent advertisement contains the following: "If the gentleman who keeps the shoe-store with a red head will return the umbrella of a young lady with whalebone ribs and an iron handle to the slate-roofed grocer's shop, he will hear of something to his advantage, as the same is the gift of a deceased mother now no more with the name engraved upon it" A Chlnaman's Xernory. "The intellectual capacity of the C'inese may. rank with the best in Western countries. Their own liter ary studies, in which memory plays the important part, prove the nation to be capable of prodigious achieve ments in that direction. It is stated in Macaulay's Life that had "Para *aise Lost" been destroyed he could have reproduced it from memory. But even such a power of memory as he possessed is small as compared with that of many Chinese, who can repeat: by heart all the thirteen classics; and t s as nothing to that of some Chi eese, who, in addition to being able to repeat the classics, can memorize a large part of the general literature of their country. "A Chinese acquaintance of milie was able at the age of sixty-five to re produ-e, verbatim, letters received y him in his youth from some ofs his' iterary friends famous as stylists. When pitted against European stu dents in school or college the China -an is in no respect inferior to his Western contemporaries, and,whether n mathematics and applied science, or iu metaphysics and speculative thought, he is able to hold his own against all competitors."-"China in Transformation, by A.R. Coiquhoun.