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. K, WINNSBORO, S.C., APR1L 6,1899. PATIENCE Wi 'Sweet frieni. when thou and I are gnie Beyon-i earth's weary labor, - Whben sma:1 h:il be our need of grace From corar:wle or from neighbor; Passed all the strife. the toil, the care, And clon, with ail the sighing What teadtr ru;h shall we have gained, Aab3! >y simply dying? Thn lips too chary of their praise W ill t-r:l our mnerits over. A u.1 -yes too swifi, our faults to see .:al::::-i:eFect discover. Th'n h'n ai that would not lift a stone t eru stnnes wert. thick to cumber tr stee:' hill path, will scatter flowers A erillwed slumber. B N bPRH F "step this way a moment, if yot please, Miss Chadbourne." Mr. Vaughn had opened the lette: book and was looking at it with a puz zled air. He spoke quietly, but hi! tone caused the young stenographe: to start fro:n her chair and approa.3 him with trepidation. Wtat do you call that figure, three or a five?" he asked. As she c.rght sight of the blurre' r 'ess copy of the letter she had take* :rom 0 :t.tion and sent to Marshall Ho'.-s the evening before, she fiusher guiltily and with a premonition of ap proa,hing trouble. Mr. Vaughn's leai forefinger was poi-ti:tg to the fourtl item in a long column of figures, quo 'tations of prices furnished to one o the firm's best custoners, and Mildret Chadbourne suspected that the tran3 action involved was one of unusua importance. To hide her confusion she bent for over the page and anxiously scruti nized the indistiaot c.?py; but to d4 her best she could not decide whethe that fourth item was thirteen or fifteen Late on t'.e previous afternoon Mr Vaughn had dietated this letter to her slowly and wi_h extraordinary pains chargia- her touse all possible care it gettind the figures down correctly. H had se.>ued to her quite unnecessaril1 delibe:-ate,for she was impatient to gc home that she might finish a gow she was making, and she had plaine to leave a few minutes before the cus. tomary closing hour. When the dictation was complete: behad_rushed-&E.ie train,althougl "'first charging ner to wn1te, copy an( post the letter that night without fail Inwardly rebelling,she had rattled th< important communication through th writing machine at railway speed, aui then, as tt. office boy was invisible she had undertaken to copy it herself -It requires care to copy a letter as i should be copiel. If the tissue lea upon which it is to be impressed bi .not wet enough, the result will be faint copy; if too wet, a blurred one and in that case the original sheet wit sometimes be so badly defaced by th< washing of the ink as to be almost il legible. Mildred had rushed the lette: through the copying press with quits as much haste as she had put into thi fypewriting of it. She had passed dripping brush over the leaf and thei had neglected to absorb with a blot ting p)ad the superfluous moisture. It consequence, the copy had turned out a slovenly one, and the original ha< been seriously defaced. She knew then as well as she kuet afterward that haste ha-1 made waste antd that her plain duty would hav< 'been to do the woru over again fron beginning to end; but the letter wa: a long one, 6 o'clock was drawint near, and just then the completion o her new party gown wvas of more imn ~portance to her than the business con cerns of Theophilus Taughn & Co. .Moreover, if she wvere to send th :.-etter off as it was, probably she neve would- hear from it agailt as for th 'copy, that might be a mnattar of litti importance. Not half the copies ii the letter book ever were referred to They were put there because it was busi~ness custom to preserve them,bu they seldom proved to be of vital con sequence-that she had discovered ii her experience thus far. So she had crowded. the "water logged" sheet hastily out of sight ix an envelope and sent it away. Nowv 24 ho-urs later, it had occur'red to Mr Vanghn to glance over the copy, ant a time of reckoning 1.sd come. "I can't make it out, sir," she said desperately, after keeping silence a long as she dare,l. "I1 can't tel whether it is a five or a three. I wil look *at my notes and see what i ought to be." "I know perfectly well what i ought to be," he commented, dryly "It ought to be a five. What I an anxious to learn is what it is."' "I have it a five here, sir," said th girl, who had been consulting he shorthand notes. "The point is, did you get it dowi a five here?" her employer returned Mildred's spirits sank,and she dare: not meet Mr. Vaughn's gaze, but stoo< before him hot, silent and thoroughl; uncomfortable. "These quotations," he proceeded indicating the column of figures, "wer< furnished to Marshall & Hobbs a their teqjuest to enable them to submi a bid for a large contract-an unusual ly lar'ge one, I infer-which they ar hoping to secure shortly. They aske< for bed-rock figures, and I gave then our very lowest. Now those casting there, which I intended to quote at fif teen cents, they are going to wvant great many of-thousands, in fact-ant at fifteen cents we should make on ent profit,,.vbile at thirteen we shoult ' a correspondinz TH THE LIVING. Sweet frierd.perchance b,tb thou and I, Ere Lovo 's past rorgiving. Sboul- take the earnest lesson home B. patient with tht livicg. Today's repress.d rebuke may =ave Our blinding tears tomorrow: Then patience. e'en when keenest edge May whet a nameless sorrow. 'Tis easy to be gentle when Death's siienea shames our clamor, And cacy to discern the best Throuh mne:n'ry's mystic glamour; But wise it were for the and me. Ere 40-, i= '"tst for ivin'_. To take the tt-a"ler lesson home Be patient '.th the living. --r om the fLston Watchman. I GCKN ELL. t back t,f our tig-are, aud-well," he conclude],siguificantly, "it will make a difference to us." "Ies, sir," assented the girl,in faint tones. "That's a wretchedly poor co:-, Miss Chadbourne," he remarked after a few seconds of uncomfortable silence -unco.nfortable to her, at least. "You must speak to George. He is gcttiug to be un ardonably care'ess. Hfe's thinking too much about his own con cerns, 1 fear." " Y-yes, sir," stam:nered Mildred, - reddening fu iousl-. "I will-I mean -Mr. V,aughu, to tell the truth, George didn't take that copy. Ho happened not to be about, and so I took it." 1"Indeed!" said her employer, witi an accent that caused her to rush stil more; but to her relief he made no fur ther comments. "Well," he coi-. eluded, shutting up the letter book, "I don't see what we ctn do about it now. Thirteen is held to be an un lucky number, and it would be partic ularly so here. Let us hone this non desc:ipt blotch stands for a five." Mildred went home that night al most wishing she had never been born. Neariv a mouth now she had been with Theophilus Vaughn & Co. -it was her first situation - and sLe had begun to flatter herself, with rea son, that she was giving satisfaction. At the end of her first week Mr. Vaughn had gone so far as to tell her so. "I rather think you w'i suit us," he said. "You are quick urate,and " --rnank 'ou, sir; I hope I know something abunt spelling.' was her wondering response. "rhe young lady who preceded you t knew something about spelling," pro ceeded Mr. Vau;i_r, with a queer shrug, "and proved the truth of the familiar assertion that a little knowledge may be a dangerous thing. "See here!" and opening the letter book he showed her the copy of a letter of about a dozen lines in which he had under scored with a pencil three misspelled words, and words not usua'ly consid ered "hard" ones, either. "I shouldn't want to employ a sten eographer who was obliged to consult Sthe dictionary continually," he went I on,"but one who didn't know enough Sto look in it when she ought I wouldn't ihave at any price. A girl who can't -spell, or who can't learn to spell, Smisses hetr vocation when she starts tout to beco'ne a sienographer. S"iou would perhaps be surprised at the number of such eases there are, -Miss Chadbourne," he proceeded. "Girls who have had only a common :school elucation and have neglected Stheir opportunities at that, whose Sknowledge of spcliing and grammar is wofully deficient, and who couldn't fwrite a presentable letter to one of -their own friends to save their lives, -and yet who expect to do the corre spnec in a business counting roo:n A stenographer who has to be watched continually,.lest she send out so.nie:hing like this thiing here-a let ter t hat any- reputable house wvould tblush for -such a stenographer - well. I have no use for her.'' Now, as she took her homeward tway, Mildred retlected upon ibese -words of her employer, realizing with ishame and cjntrition that she had been gunil ty of sending out on one of -Theophiluts Vaughn &z Co.'s letter iheads a "thing for which any repu ,table hous~e would blush." There w2re no misspe!lel words there, the I g~'rmmar was faultless, the sentences properly constructed, and every figure in it. with the poss:ible exception of Sthe blurred one, ha] been set down i correctly; yet to send off such a letter l-a letter that looked as if it had been aleft lying out overnight in the rain was a discourtesy towvard the firm's correspondents that barely fell short .of an insult. 1 That evening occurred the party to which for weeks she had been looking Sforward with the liveliest anticipations :of pleasure; but her regret over that unfortunate letter,joined to her anxiety Sconcerning her future standing with .Vaughn & Co. ,h d brought on a head Iache which of itself would have spoiled I her enjoyment effectually. So, after Sa dismal attempt to take part in the gayety, she left early and came home ,ready to cry with disappointment. SThe next day chanced to be a holi t day,and the one following it was Sun tday. Forty-eight hours of greater ap -parent length Mildred was sure she Snever had passed. On Monday she I probably would learn whether or not iVaughn & Co. were to lose several shundred dollars by her blunder-if - blunder it was; meanwhile the sus t pense she was being kept in seemed I intolerable. SIf the firm were called upon to bear Sthe loss, wo'uld Mr'. Vaughn visit the - de that he had no o unfaithful a st:enog might be the avant she was forced to tctmit that she ae served to lose her situation, that she no longer merited his confidence, and thus, with unhappy doubts and self questionings,the two intervening days dragged slowly by. Earlier than was her custom on Monday morning Mildred reached the office. As she was removing her out of-door garments her glance fell in voluntarily on the pile of mail matter that George had brought from the postoflce and laid ready for Mr. Vaughn upon his desk. It was a large pile, so large that the upperpart of it had slid backward so as to reveal the edges of some of the lower envelopes. She caught sight of a printed name in the left-hand corner of one of them: "3Marshall & Hobbs." She would have given a week's salary to open that letter, but taking such a lib erty was out of the question. Mr. Vaughn arrived late, and in so leisurely a manner did he open and read the letters that 3ildred began to wish she had taken occasion to place that from Marshall & Hobbs on top of the heap and thus saved herself many long minutes of torturing susper-se. Finally, when he reached it in due course, he showed the most exaspc. sting calmnessin makingac:juaiutanop with its contents-quite as if the los= iog of several thousand dellars were a matte:- of no importance whatever. While pretending to be busy herself, Mildred watched him with tremulous anxiety. His face, however, was ut terly inscrutable, and after having held the open sheet in his fingers for ifall five minutes-or so it see.ued to her-lie turned and extended it toward her, remarking briefy, "This may in terest yon." She seized the letter in what came near to being a frantic clutch and re seating herself, for she felt too weak to stand, began to read: "Your valued favor of the 20th inst. has been received and contents noted. The letter has been somewhat defaced in the copying-probably from a too free use of water by your office boy but we think we have been able to make out all of it excent the estimate given for the No. 1009 castings. We are in doubt whether the figures in tended are 13 or 15. Please telegraph the correct amount on receipt of this, as we cannot delay much longer in submitting our bid." "The moral of that seems to be," said Mr. Vaughn, quizzically, "if you must make a mistake make such a very bad one that nobody can decide what on earthyour driving at. No, Miss Chadbourne the proper figure is fifteen. ,t'repay the charges, and hrve the message re peated, so as to make sure it is right. Do you understand, and can I trust you to do that?" "Yes,sir," the girl answered,blush ing at wnhe fancied to be a covert sarcasm. "A.d, Mr. Vaughn," she though iL best to add, "I want to tell you how sorry I am for my carelessness in copying that letter. You may be sure such a thing will not occur again." "I trust not, indeed," was all the response he made, and she left the of Iflce in some uncertainty as to how her apology had been taken, but as he did not refer to the matter afterward she was finally encouraged to hope he had not lost faith in her entirely. She never really knew whether that Iimportant iigure in the hurriedly writ ten letter was a three or a live, but she never allowed herself to be trou bled with any painful doubts as to her figuire s again; one escape from disaster was enough. Thereaft:ri she madec sure to have every letter she sent out exactly right in all p)articuilars before it left her hands,and she was never again kiio'.n to neglect her employees' interests for her wn pleasure or convenience?, as she clearly recognized she had been guilty of doing in the case of her '"un profitable hurry. "-Youth's Compan lon. -QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The screw was one of the mnechani cal powers known to the Greeks. A minister at Pulaski, Penn., has been dismissed by his congregation because he insisted in a sermooa that the rainbow existed before the flood. Church attendance in England. early in the seventeenth century. was eni forced by law. An act of Parliament imposed a fine of one shilling up~on every adult who missed chur':h ser vice on S-unday. Somie time ago the water of a wel not miany miles from Berlin, Germany, began. to inste of petroleu'n. Though cleaiued repeateily, it got worse, and at laitest accounts 75 per cent, of the liquid was petroleum. A newspaper, printed partly in Eng lish and partly in the Cherokee lan gage, named the Phoenix, was pub lished at New Echota, in 1828. The types used were finished by the Unitedl States government. A London plumber was arrested the other day for stealing two houses. He w as two mnonths at work tearing them down and taing away the material witho:at any one interfering with him. It was only wvhen the ownuer went to look at his houses himself that he found they were gone. The principle of the telescope was described by Roger Bacon in 1250, and in 1537 Leonard Digges arranged lenses so that he could see very dis taut objects. In 1608 telescopes were constructed by Lipperhey and Jensen. A description of these enabled Galileo. in the following year, to construct an improved instrument, with which, in 1610, he discovered Jupiter's satellites. Two Sorts. Hostess - Please play something classic, professor; play something pretty. ~ P'rofessor-Vich vill you haf ~virst, ma'am?-New York Weekl,y. [FOR FARM AND GARDEN Green Bone for Hens. The feed of sliced bone for hens is much more than so much grit in the gizzard to enable them to digest their food. It is itself food of the very best sort to make eggs, furnishing the. geia tine for the egga and lime for the shell. Dried,cooked or burned bones are not nearly so good, as the gelatine has been expelled froi the bone, and its lime is also in less soluble condi tion than while it is in the green state. But a hen's gizzard i; equal to the task of grinding up almost anything. A diet of green bone tnd whole wheat is probably the best of all for egg pro duction. Keep Horses' 3Nangers Clean. Much dust and soiled food is apt to accumulate in the horse's manger, and as he is all the time breathing over it.the manger-quickly becomes so offensive that much food is wasted. Much of this feed will, however, be eaten by cattle, as they will eat freely after horses. Even the horse excre ment is not so offensive to them as to prevent them from picking out bits of hay mixed with it. But the horse has a more delicate taste than any other farm animal except a sheep. W hen cows pick over the piles of horse man ure for the hay, they are probably in need of salt, and are attracted by the saline taste of horse brine. Tegging Ewes. As the time for la-ibing approaches the coarse, dirty wool about the ewe's buttocks and udder should be cut away and saved. This should always be done before any succulent feed is given to the ewes to make them give milk. Usually this tegging in the olden ti:.e was done just before the ewes were turned out to grass. But if the ewes have silage or roots it is i:iportant that the tegging be done early. In many ewes the wool grows over the udder, so that the lamb finds it almost impossible to reach the teat. We have seen many a lamb get bold of a piece of wool, often only a teg. and suek away 'intil completely dis gusted because it did not find the nu tritious milk it was looking for. ard and Seft Bristles. There are few br;stles on the hogs which all good " .merican farmers better G u a of Russia and German furnish most of the bristles that the world uses. It is doubtless the cold climate of Russia that makes the bristles hard and stif, for the wild hogs of Spain,in southern Europe, have b.istles that are not much better than those of American hogs. We can well afford to let Eussia keep the monopoly it, has in growing bristles, for the hog, which has stout, hard bristles is very little good for making pork economically. Some of the southern wild hogs have quite good bristles, and when two or three years old they will not weigh more than a wellied pig should do at seven or nine months old. Small Fruitr.and Ornamental Shrubbery. No town lot should be so small and no farm should be so large that there is not room for some small fruit and t least a shrub or two in the way of oram~fentation. In the pioneer days of Illinois it was a rare thing to see a new farm o ened up without a lilac bush and at le~ast half a dozen currant bushes plated near the house. Now there are hosts of home buildings in both the older states and in newly settled regions that think it too much bother to fuss with berry plants or berry bushes, and as for a bit of shrubbery just for looks, that is out of the ques tion. It should not be so. No mat ter how small the homestead let there be berries of some sort, and at least a fewv currants. The farm of forty acres or more should have at least a quarter of aa acre devoted to small fruit, in eiding grapes, blackberries, rasp berries, currants, gooseberries and strawberries. These should all be planted in rows running the long way of the land devoted .to tbe purpose, so as to do the cultivating as much as may b3 with horse and cultivator and save the labor of hoeing. A southern exposure with rows run ning north and south is a good loca io. Let the grapes be on one side; if the rows are longer than the space o wish to devote to them fill out the row to blackberries. Continue the rows one after another far enough apart to allow of horse cultivation, as suggested, till the space on the side opposite the grapes is only as large as you wish to devote to strawberries, then plant them. If your rows are so long that you have only one row of straw berries, at least every third plant must be a staminate, or your crop will be a failure. If one feels he cannot put out a full assortment of fruit this year, a begin ning at least should be made, and v e recomend the setting out of currants, gooseberries and strawberries. and it will be well to select the stock now, using the catalogue of some reliable nurserman or dealer in small fruit plants as a guide, a nearby dealer hav ing the preference, other things being equal. As to shrubbery-if you have no Dreferece as to what and how much you want, consult your wife or daugh ters. or if at the old home where mother is, consult her wishes. If, ini addition to a bit of shrubbery, a plant or two is desired,get it. The pleasure and satisfaction given will more than repay the money outlay, and the look o added thrift and comfort about the place will enhance the money value of the farm or town home much more Ihan the eananditure These suggestions may come to the eye of the dweller upon a lot which contains less than the quarter acre mentioned as small enough for the farmer. In that case we suggest that a grape vine or two be trained against L the lot fence; if not these, a few black berry bashes. Set one-half dozen currant hushes, two or three goose berry and a dozen raspberry bushes. Vary this selection as suits your taste, but put out some.--Farm Field and Fireside. A Cow Home. I notice a disposition in the dairy districts toward a change in barn bailding and an avoidance of the huge half basement structure, with its mas sive underpinning and great hay mows. It is proposed to build so as to get sanitation as well as room. The advent of the silo has made it possible to eliminate the oldtine meadow hay; hence great storage capacity in the barns is not now iniperative. To-lay the few acres in corn, rapidly put into the silo, is an economy recognized everywhere, and is generally being adopted. All that is needed now are a hay barrack for the clover hay and a silo. The cow stable can now take the place of the barn-a structure for cows alone. No overh:ad storage for hay and straw; wide so as to have two rows of cows with ample passage ways, possibly thirty-five feet in width, the double roof overhead being the ceiling as well. There she'll be cement floors; no cobbledup plank and ti,nuer floors; plenty of windows on the sides to admit sunlight, the stable being built north and south, so as to get the m, st suushinepossible. There is no neea for wide alleys in which a horse sled may be driven; for a single overhead track, and a manure-box suspended, so that when filled it can be run out and overturned upon the sled or manure vehicle to be taken at once to the fields, are far better than a highway through the stables. These stables should b, fully 100 more feet in the clear inside, so as to give cach cow 500 feet or more of air space. Ventilation is made ample by running two ten-inch shafts of galvan ized iron from within a foot of the floor, u above the roof. and with a simple little wind wheel on the top of each, with pitcher pump valves in thenm and connected with the wheel. The floor air of the stable is then pumped out, and the nice warLZ air in the top of the stable left. The pump ing will bring in air from the outside without the necessity of cuttin : cat ho. in the sides. At one end of the ": ?lIII = s can ve and :~t the other end of the . hay barrack can be put up. an old barn utilized or the like,and the stable will be complete at a total cost of a few hundred dollars, whi'e the great barn-admitted to be most imposing ecsts ite thousands. This long stable can be built of 2x6-inch stul. and so covered as to make dead air-spaced walls and will be frost proof. I Tn the summer the g:ass wiudows cau be taken out and fine nettiag of some sort substituted to make them fly proof. The sanit:tion of such barns can b-, made complete, because they are light and airy, and the sun lig7ht covers the entire interior. The floors are always dry, with no chance to have oools of fifth under them, and so can '>e kept clean. There is no chanco for the odors, vitiated air, etc., to go up, and, b)eing absorbed by the~ hay and fodder, be in tun consumed whien this material is used as cow feed. This is too practical an age to build barns just for show when less monev will give us a far better struc ture and one more ia accordance with the 1899 wants of the cow and the economical production of milk.-Newv York Tribune. Turkeys Tracked by Dog. The wild turkey in the Ozarks isI now hunted with a slow-tracking dog, and whole flocks are often killed in this way. Till the trainei dog was employed to follow up the wary bird this game fowl could ba'i:e the most skillful hunter. Now when a flock of turkeys is found ihe sportmnan has little difficulty. A good dog will tol low ia turkey track that is thbree or four hour., old, and set the birds when overtaken, just as the pointer does the quail. After the turkey has been chased awhile it hides in a tree or under a log, and stays there, until the hunter guided by his dog, comes with in his range. It is asonishing what tine instinct a good turkey dog will develop after a fewv months of training in the woods. He will followv a flock of turkeys for hours just uhead of the hunter, and in dicate by unmistakable sig~ns when the game is neir. After a turkey has re eelved a fatal shot it may fly half a mile or nmre. A trained dog will go straght to a wounded or dead turkey with the same precision with which he tracks the game.--Chicago Record. In the Tap Root of an Oak. I remember a curious incident con nected with the tap-root of an oak, says Rider Haggard in Longmnan's 31'aazine. This oak, a good tieeo perhaps 200 years' growth, was being felled at Bradchami Wood. when the woodmiau called attention to something peculiar~ on the tap-root. On clearing this of soil we found that the object was a horse slhoe of ancient make. Obviously in the beginninig an acorn must have falllen into the hollow of this east shoe, and as it grew through the slow g-nerations, the root filled *up the circe, carrying it down into he earth in the process of its increase, *til at length we found wood afrd iron thus strangely wed edl. That tap)-root is now~ cr used to be a paper-weight in the vestibule at Bradlenham Hall. Whe~n von find a man chuckliug becase a neighbor has been caught n evil, watch him, and you'll catch j ri nezt. FOR WOMSAN' BENEFIT. j New Women in Norway. Women in Norway, says a recent traveler, have been fcr some time em ployed in the railroad and postal ser vice, and now they are receiving ap pointments as supervisors of the rail way stations as well. They receive reports from conductors, answer ques tions in German, and English, call out trains in the waiting rooms, ring the sta:ton bell at the departure of trains and telegraph the departure to the 1 next station. They perform the duties of government telegraph operators as well as those of postmasters and bag gagemen. Secret Engagement Eings. A new style of engagement ring called the "secret" ring has a secret compartment in which is inscribed any sentiment it is decided to keep confidential between the giver and It looks like a gold belt of even width, lapping over with a buckle near the end. This heavy part is supposed to be the top of the ring. There is nothing in sight to indicate that it can be opened, but the end of the belt lifts up by means of a secret spring hinge, and reveals an inner space, engraved, or even decorated with the name of the sweetheart in aised letters, around which there is plenty of room for a short curl of hair.-New York Herald. New Shirt Waists. The new shirt waists are not so very I dificrent from those of last year, after all. They are made of deeper blues, < pinks and lavenders,and broad stripes have taken the place of the hair-line effects of last ycar. The inch-wide stripe is seen, but much smarter are the half-inch wide stripes of color alternating, with hair line stripes of color divi'iing an inch wide stripe of white. Fine, firm madras is the best ma terial for well-made waists, but si k and linen, mu.lin and gingham a e used. The baeds of most of the new waists are entirel: devoid of 'ullness, and some dispeuse 1-:ith the ecoming yoke, popular for so many s, isons. In design there is- .litLte change frera last year. Perpendicular tucks or piping that stand out:igst,ad of ly ing lat on either side o tie tcont are pretty for slim figures and mn -suit able to stout wearers-than the ;oad, crbWwst? LicXo which thcy word persistently lisf siluer - Shirt waist sleeve-have not suffered in the general redaction. They are just about the size now- that they were when these cool bodices first took the world of women by storm. Mrs. Astor's Truuk. .,au's ingenuity has at last pro vided woman with a trunk in which she can pack and ship her expensive gowns and hats with the certainty that they will ar: ive at their des;iuation without being crumpled or crushed into shaulessners. A nualbe. have been made for New York society women, among them Mrs. John Jacob Astor. They are ex pensive-costing from $8i5 to $100. Inside the truuk is a sliding skele ton frame with erossba-s and hooks, so that as many as 4 gowns miay be placed in mn hi thec same manner as in an improved waitrdrobe'. Each gar ment is held secnrely in place and cannot "'muss up" with any other. The extreme height of the tru nk makes it unneen'ssary to fold skirts, so that they cannot possibly be creased or wrinkled. In some trunks theie are compart mets for hats as wvell as dresses. One tyle, even, is made for nothing hat headgear. In one of these :30 or m ire ats and bonnets can be stoweJ] away, shiled across the conti:neut aud re turned without a feather insured. The trunks nmu:t either stand on end or lie flat downward. The sides are rounded so that if an unkind ba gage-smasher tries to put it on its side it will by gravity alone roll over to the position it should have. 13er Curiosity Wa' REwarded. Two ladies called at the house of a well known physician the other day. While one of them was consulting the physician in his pr.vate room, the other, prompted by curiosity or some kinred impulse. proceeded to investi gate the contents of a large case of bottles, jars, etc., in the outer apart ment. Between the two ap)artmnents was a glass door, over which was a paer shade, which, however, was torn across one corner. so that it was ossible to see from one room into the other. Hearing a rattling among his hot tes, the physiciaa step?ped to the gla.ss door and looked through to see what was going on. He discovered the lady in the act of taking down one bottle after another and smelling the con tents thereof. At length she got hold of something which evidently pleased her. She smiled again and again, and each time it was apiparenit that she was more pleased than before. She then poured some of the liquid into her hand and smelled it again. This time her entire satisfaction with the result of her investigations~ was evident, and she hastily rubbed the liquid upon her nose and por'tious of her face contiguous thereto, re placed the bottie and took her seat. as she heard rustling in the inner roo:n, indicating that the consultation was at an end and the consulting p'arties were returning. The p)hysician, knowing what the result would be. detained the la* conversation for several i fore the end of that t a om-. a warm st ,orL ns of her face began to turn " leepo e color, and before she de larted t ey had assumed a beautiful )ark brow She had mistaken the loctor's favo hair dye for perfum ir's fav a invalid and did not ~ry. She was\' s e tme-Trenton 'eceive calls for N. J.) American. A Woman Gold a e. The field of gold mining as een leeply invaded by women. - mit imers in the Territories must bat one or two young women iave been brought up in mining cam nd have had practical lessons in pros ecting and knowing pay ore when hey see it have been eminently suc :essful in this pursuit, which was 'ormerly occupied by men exclusively. )iss Nellie Cushman is possibly the nost famous woman gold miner in rizona. Ex-Senator Whitson of Tue on said of her recently: "Miss Cush nan is as accurate an expert in gold mud silver mining as we have in the erritory today. Just now she' is ex ?erting a group of mines at Congress or a company of St. Louis people, Lho have apparently put more con adence in the young woman's skill md honesty than theyhave put in the se veral men espertrthey bae- em >oyed. Miss Cushmanis a wonder ully plucky girl, - f is about nine -ears now s ee she first came to T-e. ;on. She -was from Dodge City; Kan., tnd could not have been more than 17 rears old. She got to examining the )re as it came out of the Tucson nines, and was soon as good a judge )f its value as her brother Jim, who was foreman and mineralogist in one - f them. The boys in the Tombstone ocality pretty soon began betting. on ier judgment, and found that she was thoroughly good guesser and hit it lose about every time. Her fame pread, and miners,who,as you know, =v tre always superstitious, got an idea hat to have her around and get her ood opinion some way brought luck. he knew where to dig for ore, too, tud some of the ore in the Contention vas found by following her advice in unning a drift. "over in Graham county she made hit one day in copper, and when she vent to Tombstone afterward. she ,assed her judgment on some mines here. Bill Wiggins sold the Excel-. or and Grand View mines on her ad ice, and the only dividend. they;ever Fielded was the $15,000 he got from them. Other mines were bought after she had examined and repovted_favor muly on them. They are good petso properties now. "In Tombstor e, Bisbee .Tuesfn louses for,the miners. She was also L business at Castle Dlo'e. She is ' is adventurous in pushing forward to i new region as any miner. No soon r does she hear of a new camp than the starts for it. She has had so much 3sperience that she almost invariably urns it to good account, getting town .ots, placer sites and lode claims for iex to nothing,and unloading at great >rofit. At first she did not get out of he camps soon enough. Consequent y she has been luauy times rich and oor. She has indomitable -pluck, hough, an't if she goes broke in one ,lace she soon makes a turn and gets p again. It is phenomenal how non ~halantly sh -takes a reverse. She is nst as level-headed, serene and .self ~ontained as if she had made a for une. It makes no difference so far s appearances go. "Miss Cushman i. a rather tall,dark yed girl. -She is somewhat angular n appearance and has brown hair. Go g out among the mines or climbing he hills for outecroppings, she wears .e:vy shoes and strong bloomers, isaally covered with a cloak. She is t rapidl walker and a quick talker. hie reads a great deal. She was the irst woman in the camp of Harqua [Jala, where there were over 1500 men na no other woman."-New York Gleanings from the Shops.~ .Tapaese morning robes of -dark ~ouard. - Wool and silk dress materials in - :ough canvas weaves. Many cheviot shirt waists showing ~hecks, dots and stripes. Allovers composed of alternatiig *ows of open embroidery and pique. 3fany narrow ribbons can be shfrred i the top or through the centre. Enamelled brooches in four-leaf ~lover, heart shaped or butterdy de signs. fibbons. gauzes,organdies, foulards ud silk grenadines in Watteau de sig::s. .'uch violet and gray stationery with gold or silver monograms and :res t. Double breasted spring coats for~ N~ yrls with deep braided or strapped teves. Long, full neckscarfs of liberty with printed floral designs carried out in Puritan hoods for evening wear~ made of fur and satin with long fluffy boa attached. Silk and satin stock collars with prettily trimmed chemisettes and re rers attached. - Navy blue and black serge skirts trimmed with black rudied ~ribbon in Lovers-knot design. Windows of banded Alpines in all colors, with and without guille, at nd-o-the-seasonl prices. Green, Napoleon-blue, white and pink foulards with convenational de igns carried out in black. Detachable fronts of delicately col ored~ chiffon.showing consecutive rows j ~ f ruching edged with satin cord. L