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t VOL. I. DARLING-TON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1891. NO. 32. CHCBCHES. Presbyterian Church.—Rer. J. G. L»w, Pastor; Preaching every Sabbath at llj a - ,n - an d 8 p. m. Sabbath School at 10 a. m.. Prayer Meeting every 'Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Methodist Church. - Rev. J. A. Rice. 'Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at 111 «. m. and 8 p. m.’, Sabbath School at 5 |). tl , Prayer Meeting every Thursday at 8 p. m. Baptist Church.—Rev. G. B. Moore, Paster; Preaching every Sunday at 111 a. in and 8.-30 p. m., Prayer Meeting- every Tuesday at 8 p. m. Episcopal Chapel.—Rev. W. A. Guerry, Rector; H. T. Thompson, Lay Reader. Preaching 3rd Sunday at 8:30 p. m., Lay Reading every Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock, Sabbath School every Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Macedonia Baptist Church.—Rev I. P. Breckington, Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. in. Sabbath School at 3:30 p.m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock. COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff.—W. 1*. Cole. Clerk of Court.—W. A. Parro.t Treasurer.—J. E. Bass. Auditor.—W. H. Lawrence. Probate Judge.—T. II. Spain. Coroner.—R. G. Parnell. School Commissioner.—W. II. Evans. County Commissionf.rs.—C. B. King, W. W. McKinzie, A. A. Gandy. THE WEAVER. iprofcssional Carte. w. F. DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Darlington, C. H., 8. C. Office over Blackwell Brothers’ store. E. KEITH DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Darlington, S. C. N ETTLES & NETTLES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Darlington, C. H., S. C. Will practice in all Stale and Federal Courts. Careful attention will be given to all business entrusted to us. P. BISHOP PARROTT, STENOGRAPH ER AND T Y P E-WRITER, Legal and other copying solicited. Testimony icported in short hand, and type written transcript of same fur nished at reasonable rates. Good spelling, correct punctuation and neat work guaranteed. Office with Nettles <fc Nettles. Q P DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT : LAW AND TRIAL JUSTICE, Darlington, S. C. Practices in the United States Court and in the 4th and 5th circuits. Prompt attention to all business entrusted to me. Office, Ward’s Lane, next to the Dar lington Herald office. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. —ALL KINDS OF— \ MARBLE MONUMENTS, j MARBLE MONUMENTS, TabHds and Grave Stones furnished at 8 my it Notice, and as Cheap as (an be Purchased Else where. Designs and Prices Furnished on Application. ’ All Work Delivered Free on Line of (i A D. R. R. i DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON, S. C. FIRE! FIRE! I Represent Twelve of the most Reliable Fire Insmance Comps nies in the World—Am ing them, the Liverpool and Lon don and Globe, of England, the Largest Fire Campany in the World; and the Aitna, of Hart ford, the Largest of all Asseri- can Fire Companies. Prompt Attention to Business and Satisfaction Guaranteed. • > • F. E. NORMENT, DARLINGTON, S. O. Office between Edwards, Norment <fe Co., and J07 A Sanders’. J stood in the room of a weaver, Then watching the shuttles fly. And tne colors as they blended, Like a rainbow in the sky. Ilis eyes were fixed on the pattern, As ho wrought the figure fine, fco wonderful iu its beauty, Bo marvelous in design. How earnestly be is looking; He turns not to gaze away From the figure he is weaving. Or the shuttles in their play. He knows if a thread is broken, Or a color be misplaced, It would mar tho costly fabric. And could never be effaced. I watched, and watched, uor grew w^aryj And thes^thoughts came to my mind; That we, all of us, are weavers. And God has made the design; Has draw’n a beautiful pattern, For us to work by each day; Is helping us with the shuttles, Is guiding them in their play. But there oftentimes come moments A\ hen we tiiv, and listless stand; Grow forgetful of the pattern. And seek not the helping hand. Only a moment we turn back, Then cry out with grief and pain. “O, Father! see the broken threa ts We cannot make whole again.” When our weaving is all finished, And our looms stand idly by; When our work, its imperfection, Is seen by ihe Master’s eye, May we hear these words, rejoicing: “Though many threads are riven, And mars and stains thy fabric bears* For these, thou art forgiven ” —Home Magazine. COUSIN CASSANDRA. BV HELEN FOIIKEST GRAVES. The .March winds were Wowing their trumpets down Shegauk Valley, as only March winds know how to blow, and the daffodil glow of sunset lay over the brown fields, streaked here and there in shady corners with bars of late lingering snow, as Patty Greer came tothc kitchen door to shake the crumbs off the table cloth. ‘•How pretty it looks down the valley!” she thought. “I’m glad Grand- lather Greer built this house just here, instead of under the rocks. One gets such a view! Ido believe the maples along the edge of the swamp arc begin ning to redden already. And there,” with a flush on her cheeks which almost rivaled the red of the maple copse, “is Arad Temple—at least, I think it’s he— coming by Old Mill! I shouldn’t a bit wonder if he were coming here.” > She stood a moment, watching the black speck against the daffodil shine; a moment more, her lips apart,her brown eyes strained! “Patty 1” called her mother. “Why on airth don’t you shut that door? The cold draught comes in like a hull pack o’ wolves!” “I—I—was—only looking,” said Patty, as she closed the door with a sigh. The black speck had disappeared; it did not reappear again. ‘ ‘I thought so, ” said Cousin Cassandra, a lean, high-shouldered woman, with a tuft of scanty flax-colorcd hair, hair- pinned on the top of her head, and a checked cape drawn across her narrow shoulders. She spoke so close to thi girl’s ear that Patty gave a little jump. “Thought what?” said she. “That he’d gone into Lewis Hibbard’s store,” nodded Cassandra. “The youtij fellers tbey’rc all dreadful partial t< Lew’s store seuee they putin the billiard tables. Dear me! dear me! I do wonder what this world is cornin’ to!” The red m Patty Greer's cheeks wa genuine peony color now. “I don’t sec what harm it is, ” she re torted, “if he lias stopped in for a min ute.” “I do!” said Miss Cassandra. “Any thing but a dissipated young man!” “He isn’t dissipated!” cried Patty. “Well, p’r'aps lie ain’t,” said Cassan dra. “I’m sure I hope so. But then ain’t nothin’ would induce me to marry i man as there was the least doubts of!” “What a comfort it is that you have never been tempted in that way!” said Patty, vindictively, as she folded tht tablecloth in a series of jerks and put i 1 into the closet. ii And then Patty went up to her own room and had a good cry. “I do tliink,” she said to herself, “thai ] Cousin Cassy is the most spiteful creature I ever knew! But, all the same, Arad might have come here to-night. He knew I was expecting him.” AVhen her eyes were dried at last and her new frill satisfactorily adjusted, Patty came down stairs. But the wistful glance she cast into the room was unrewarded. No one was there but her mother, piecing patch work, on one side of the chimney-corner, and Cousin Cassandra, knitting a pre posterously long stocking of blue yarn, on the other. And the subject of conversation had apparently remained unaltered, for Cousin Qfttpaodra was still hammering away oc Lewis Hibbard and the new billiard tables. “It’s what I call a snare for souls?” groaned she. “Them balls a-clickin' about and tbe doors always opened wide, for every loafer in Shegauk to stray into I I allays did despise Lew Hibbard—a lazy, shiftless erector’, like ail the Hib bards afore him! They do say he druv I is first wife into tier grave, and his i-vooud only lived two year, out of pure grit. Parsoo Pooley he says, if the women o’ Shegauk would only take a stmd—Oh, Patty, is that you? Well, I've put the dried apples in soak for the sass to-morrow, and the meat is ready to chop for mince pies.” Patty had seated herself at the table and listlessly taken up a book. “I dgu’l want to chop meat to-night,” said she. “To-morrow morning tyll do just as well.” “Dlaapp'ihfedi” whispered Miss Cass andra, behind her hand, to Mrs. Greer, who was slightly deaf. “Sort ’o cal- c’lated on Arad Temple bein’ here to night. Wa!, njebbc it’s just as well. Arad he's too partial to Lew Hibbard’s place." — Patty could have murdered Cousin Cassandra. She jumped up aud went to the door to let the cat in. “Why, Arad!” she exclaimed, as pussy darted in, and a tall figure ap peared in the background. Cousin Cassandra opened the inner door and craned her neck forward. “Well, I never!” said she. “It’s you, arter all, ain't it? We sort o’ reckoned, me and Patty, that you’d found your way into that new store 0’ Lew Hibbard’s.” it would fake, Patty, for a dress foi me?” The girl opened her eye* very wide. “Why, Cousin Cassy,” said ail»f “are you going to be married?” Miss Cassy gave a spasmodic giggle. “Why, yes,” said she, “I am.” “To Parson Pooley t" gasped Patty. Miss Cassandra shodk her head. “He's too bigoted,” said she wouldn't hcv him!’’ “Pelcg Rudder!" ' “La’, no! He’s poorer’n turkey.” ■. , “Who is it, theni’* “He’s a good, well-to-do widower, "said Cassacdia; “and a man that feds billed two wives will know how to take care ol 0 third; and m his business he needs n stirrin’, active helpmate.” “But you haven't told me who it is, Cousin Cassy?” persisted Patty. “Hain’t I? La’ me, how forgetlui I be!” simpered Miss Cassandra. “Why— it's Lewis Hibbard?”—Saturday Ni/jht. “I job’s “I did stop in there,” said A rod, cool- ■j- Miss Cassy shook her head. “I knew it,” sail she, “jest as well's if I’d seen ye with my own eyes.” Mrs. Greer lighted the fire in the best room, with true maternal solicitude. “What’s that for?” asked Miss Cassy. “Ye don’t s’pose, do ye, that they'll hcv anything to say that we can’t hear jest’s well’s not? I wouldn’t let Patty keep company with any man that goes to Lew Hibbard's place, cf 1 was you, Sarah; it’s a reg’lar well of iniquity!” “I guess Arad Temple’s a pretty steady young man,” said Mrs. Greer, timidly, as she adjusted the best duplex lamp on the table, and set the big family Bible and the new photograph album straight. Cousin Cassandra stalked grimly out of tie room. “Don’t say I didn’t warn youl” said she. Patty came to her mother that night _ just as tile big kitchen clock was strik- _ing eleven. “Mother,” said she, “Arad Temple has asked me to be his wife.” Mrs. Greer looked quickly up. “What did you tell him, Patty?” said she. ‘ “I—said—yes! Oh, mother, why shouldn’t I? He is so good, so nice— and he loves me so dearly!” “Butyour Cousin Cassandra thinks—” “Mother,” whispered Patty, n .-stling her head down on her mother's shoulder, “I did say something about Lewis Hib bard’s store. I made believe I was an gry, mother, and lie looked so hint, -and he let my hand fall so, mother" (with a pretty little piece of pantomine), “aud ho said, ‘If you can't trust tne iu every thing, Pally, don't trust me at all!’ Aud I said Pd trust him, mother, to the very end. Did I do right?” “Well,” said Mrs. Greer, tenderly en folding Patty witli her loving arms, “it's just the answer Ishould have made your father, Patty, when ivc kept com pany; that’s all I know. And your Cousin Cassandra—” “Oh, let C'ausin Cassandra mind hei own business!” said Patty, coloring up. “She always was a medding, prying, dis agreeable old maid, and 1 think she grows worse every year.” Miss Cassandra Greer heard the news of the engagement with an ominous shake of the head. “It’s a dreadful resky thing,” said she. “I wouldn’t run the chance, tha! I know'” Patty had it on the tip of her tongue to retort that it was extremely unlikely she would be called upon to hazard am such danger, but she thought better ol it, aud didn’t. She was so happy that she could af ford to he magnanimous! “Me and Mrs. Squire Rudder and Miss Befsty Hall and some other of the churcl ladies,” said Miss Cassy, “we're gwinc to try aud get that place of Lewis Hib bard's shut up I And I don’t think nont the more of Arad Temple for his goin' there so much. But law! Patty's com pletely infatuated with him, and there’s no use talking’ to her ’bout it!” “Patty," said young Temple to hil fiancee, the week before the wedding, “you have trusted me, aud you’ve done right. But I don’t like to see th< troubled look ou your face whenever that old meddler gives tongue on the subject of Hibbard’s store. I have been there t good deal lately, but I’ve never spent 1 cent. I've been earning money instead, at my trade, putting up a new barn ami line of sheds at the rear—and that wa< my business there! But I wouldn’t please Cousin Cassy so much as to tel! her that. Isn't it strange that people can't mind their own business?” “Oh,” said Patty, laughing, “Cousin Cassandra never could!” Patty was sewing the last fleurettc-ol white ribbon on the unpretending wed ding gown of snowy albatross, when Miss Cassandra came in, rather flur ried. “White may do very well for you,” she said; “but for a woman o’ my years, I sort o’ tliink dove color would lie more suitable. How many yards d’ye think SyETER-LIFE. THE QUEER EXPERIENCES OF A TRAVELER IN NORWAY. Passing a Night in n Hut Among the Cliecse-.Makers High Up ill the Mountains—Amus ing Etiquette. Indians Fram a Western Point of View. “All this talk about the ludims sup porting themselves comes pretty near being what you newspaper men call rot,” said Seth W. Whedbee, of Lincoln, Ne braska, at the Park Avenue Hotel. “The Indians always will be dependent. They think it beneath them to do physical or manual labor and are essentially a lazy people. An Indian has a certain native dignity that keeps him aloof from the whites and causes him to view himself as n superior being. Hence the Indians are slow in adopting the customs of the whites except to drink ‘firewater - and use the rifle. They are a cruel, cowardly people. They take great pleasure in torturing anything from a cat to a man, and in war know no mercy. “Indian agents crooked? Oh, yes, many of them; and some of the men put in as agents never saw an Indian before going to their posts, know nothing of his habits or customs and do not know how to deal with him. Wo, in the West, favor military rule for the Indians. Let them be made to do something, aud let the army authorities be the teachers. In dians are taught from their papoose stick to bo fighters and -they have more respect for even a private soldier than for the greatest civilian iu the country. Let the army have them for a while and see what will happen.”—New York TtU- yrdm. Ths United States Marine Corps. The Murine Corps dates its origin from November, 1775, when the Conti- nentul Congress voted to raise the First and Second Battalions of American Ma rines. It was especially provided at that time that no persons should be re ceived as officers or men “except such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with military affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required.” Its first commandant was Major Samuel Nichols, who served until July 12, 1798, when he was succeeded by Major William W. Burrows, who resigned on March 6, 1S04. Then Lieutenant-Colonel Frank lin Wharton became commandant and continued until he died, on September 1, 1S18. Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Gale was the next commandant, but he was cashiered and dismissed from the service on October 18, 1820, aud was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel Archi bald Henderson, who died on January 6, 1859, when Colonel John Harris became commandant, and lived only five years. Colonel, afterward Brigadier-General, Jacob Zeilin was then appointed com- mandaut, and was- succeeded, upon reaching the retiring age, November 1, 1876, by Colonel McCawley.—Boston Culticator. Big Crop From Two Kernels of Corn. A Kansas paper says the entire supply of Jerusalem corn in that State came from two kernels. These produced the seed from which five bushels were raised the following season, and the next crop amounted to 500 bushels. The plant grows to the height of about three feet, aud resembles broom corn or sorghum. The grain is while and answers every purpose which is served by Indiau corn. It makes sweeter and better bread, and is delicious when boiled, after the manner of oatmeal. In wet weather it runs to stalks and grows six feet high, without any grain to speak of. It produces best when the season is dry, and after the plant gets a start it is said to lie absolutely impervious to the influence of drought and hot winds. The farmers of Western Kansas are preparing to engage in its culture next season to a large extent.—Jfeto York Daily Conti nent. Electricity Catches Eliphants. A novel application of eleclricity l.as recently been made in elephant catching. At a recent capture of forty of these animals, when the last of their unwieldy bodies had passed the entrance into the Khedda, the signal for barring their exit was given, instantaneously and without a word spoken, by menus of an electric wire. It is only a short time since pe troleum superseded native vegetable oils for lighting throughout the bazars and villages of India. Electricity is now taking the place both of petroleum or coal giuTin the great spinning factories, for which it is peculiarly suited in a hot climate owing to its coolness and absence of srrcl!.— l on don Tim**- I found myself at Aanstad, a posting station in tbe Otta, prepared for a long walk over the fjelds, writes a traveler de scribing his tramp through Norway. My trusty Baedeker informed me that I should find a well definc'd path leading over tho hills to Molmen, fifty miles off, and that I could get a bed at the Ny- sseter, half way; so, nothing doubting, I set forth, armed only with a knapsack, for my solitary expedition. I may mention that a safter is a hut, usually two-roomed, situated high upon the mountains, whither the valley in habitants drive up their cattle for two or three months in the summer. The charge of these cattle is usually deputed to girls, who occupy themselves in com- pounding cheese during their sojourn in the s.Tters, as the cattle look after them selves for the most part, and only re quire to be driven old in the morning, aud called back in the evening. It was a steep climb up from the val ley, and the sun was really very hot; luckily I had many excuses for a halt, as the views became finer at every step. The mountains seemed to spring up on all sides, but looked especially grand to the south, where the Jotunheini district lies. In a walk of nine 01 ten hours I saw no living creature but a stray bird or two. The path, of which Baedeker had so much to say, soon became noth ing but a name. I pushed steadily on, however, aud soon came upon a little mountain valley witli a turbid stream rushing down it, and, to my joy, several little huts scattered about on its bank. I felt convinced that this could uot be the Ny-saeter, but the fact that it was a human habitation was quite enough. Outside the first hut was a man cut ting logs, so 1 summoned up my best Norse and accosted him. He speedily informed me that I had missed my way altogether, and was now miles from tho Ny-sieter—in fact, three hours’ walk from anywhere; so, as it was then 8 o'clock,the only thing was to try and get a bed where I was. My Iriend told me that he could supply my wants, and pro ceeded to introduce me to his hut. It looked masl unpromising from out side, but proved to i>e clean, though ter ribly stuffy, within. The whole estab lishment really consisted of only one room, as a kind of little pantry, into which 1 peeped through au open door, was consecrated entirely to milk pans and pails of various shapes and sizes. The effect of tin larger room was excecd- ingly picturesque. All was of wood, of course, except the huge cavernous hearth, which was con structed of stone. Over this hung two enormous caldrons filled with milk in process, I imagine, of being turned into cheese. Everything in this mountainous region, where the winds of winter must be terrific, has to be uncommonly strong, and the vast beams that supported tho roof looked as if they could resist any sort of weather. But they had other uses than merely to sustain the fabric of the house. They seemed to me to com bine the duties of wardrobe and store cupboard as well, for all manner of things were hanging from them in the most picturesque disorder. 1 sannot tell what various kinds cf an- ptirel I distinguished; but among articles of an edible nature 1 detected what looked like strips of dried meat, and, I think, onions also, but I could not be sure of the latter. At any rate,'when the lady of the house appeared and gave me my supper, which took some time, as her astonisment at my appearance and condition required a quarter of an hour or so to evaporate, I got nothing but fladhrod, a kind of light oatcake, and milk. However, the milk was delicious, and the fiadbrpd, if uot very sustaining, was fresh and crisp, so 1 did not regret the strips of meal. After supper 1 began to think of my bed, being rather tired after my day's march, but my experience of sueter-life were by 110 means at an end yet. The inhabitants of the various huts iu the neighborhood had heard of my arrival, and all trooped in to investigate the stranger. I was really quite au event in the hamlet and fully appreciated the honor of my position. They seemed a very amiable set of peasants, and I did my best to comprehend aud answer their various questions. I was rather amazed at their eti quette; the men all came up and chat tered away volubly enough, but the women and children evidently did not permit themselves such familiarity, 01 perhaps it was my appearance which overawed them, for they only sat ou a bench by the door and stared. After a time all the visitors except one retired, and he, my host, and I sat and smoked over a glowing wood fire for some time. It really was a strangely beautiful scene; the deep shadows in the roof lit up by au occasional blaze from the pine logs, the huge old hearth aud the quaint figures sitting over it made quite a Renibrandtesquc picture, and the whole thing was delightfully cosy aner ray ramoie over tne bleak fields. My hostess seemed quite to have dis appeared; where she slept I cannot im agine, but at any rate the one room was left to her husband and me. He made himself a shakedown in a corner, and I betook myself to the bed, which, though only hay, with a sheepskin thrown over it, was comfortable enough, at any rate for a tired wanderer like myself. The next morning 1 was up betimes, being awakened early by the woman, who was pouring milk from ono pail to another in the most assiduous fashion. After some more fladhrod and milk 1 said good-by to ray amiable host, whom I had sonic .lifficulty in persuading to accept any money, and hastened down the valley to Hobiet, iu the Gudbiands- 'lal- _. LADIES’ COLUMN. CURIOUS FACTS. Artificial eggs are being made. The cashmere shawl industry is de clining. Tho word “milliner" owes its origin to Milan. The bodyguards of Queen Victoria, of England, are called Beefeaters. The sister-in-law of a pauper in the poor house at Glasgow, Scotland, has bequeathed $70,000 for church purposes. A quaint clock, owned by Louis Philippe, of France, when lie taught school iu Boston, Mass., is to he seen in one of the shops of that city to-day. In fencing in the 17,000 acre sheep farm in Botetourt County, Virginia, 100 mill of fencing will be necessary, the farm lieing divided into 3000-acre lots. A man in Birmingham, England, re ceiving a letter February 6rh, 1891, which had been posted in Stafford iu July, 1856, a period in transit of almost thirty-five years. A big idea in New York City is to convert Castle Garden into an aquarium, which shall be, as nearly as possible, a complete exemplication of animal and vegetable life in the sea. An Indian father drew the Imdy of his dead child on a hand-sled thirty-six miles across the upper end of Lake Mioh igan in order that it might be buried from the Catholic Church. There is a curious grapevine at Haber sham Park, Ga. It grows from a large oak tree abcut five feet from the ground. The tree is perfectly sound and no roots of the vine arc discernible. The City Council of Sau Antonio, Texas, is said to be seriously contemplat ing the creation of the office of City Aeronaut and the selection of a compe tent balloonist for the place. Iced oysters on the half shell are en tirely obsolete. People have learned that the process eliminated the flavor. Now the thing is to keep them on ice until time to open and serve them. It is said that Daniel Webster was the first editor of the first college paper pub lished in this country, the initial number appearing at Dartmouth in 1809. These journals now number 190 in the United States. The Finn belongs to a race which was active and civilized before the Greek or the Indian, the Hebrew or the Persian was heard of; a race one of the branches of which worked iu metals, built Baby lon, practiced the arts of magic there, and enacted laws in favor of women's rights long before the first Semitic king took his seat. SUICIDES BY LITERARY WOMEN. Frokcn Minna Telenius, from Finland, who the other day committed suicide at a Copenhagen hotel, is the third author ess who within some two or three years has taken her own life in the Dan ish capital. The two others were Ftu Victoria Benedictsson, the well-known Swedish lady writer,better known under her nom de plume as Arnst Ablgren, and the young Danish lady, Froken Adda Roonkildc. Literature not having brought them the fame or the success they expected, they were unable to bear the disappointment. None had, how ever, shown more determination than the young Finnish lady who ended her life the .other day. She had arranged everything with wonderful coolness and dressed herself in white before taking the deadly poison.—CAienjo Post. t'nnsia is the name of new soft shaggy cloth, nuch resembling French camel's hair. Very large plaids and wide stripes bid fair to b. 1 more popular than for many years. Of all the novel boas the most unique is the rose leaf, made by threading rose leaves on a pink cord. Violets and other field flowers are treated in the same way. A biscuit-colored doth was the going away dress of a recent bride. It was trimmed with black, velvet and jet and gold ga Ion. The hut was of doth,lined with black velvet. The coat was made or black velvet with blue and black matclesse sleeves. FUN. CAPES FOR SPRING WEAR.. The canes for spring wear are made quite long. Many of them arc finishc 1 without a yoke, the fulness being adjuste 1 in a neck-band,to which the Medici collar isfastoned. By some ingenious method the cape is slightly raised on the shoulders, and there is a pretty hood lined with a color, which gives style to what would otherwise appear a common-place and somewhat childish garment. The cape is lined throughout with silk, and rib bons to match fasten it at the throat. At present light colors are most favored, and arc likely to remain popular. The Henry IV. cape is one among the many revivals of the modes of past centuries. It becomes youthful women who are tall and slim, but it is not by any means a garment suited to mature people, and 011 a short stout figure, though the wearer be young, the cape is decidedly unbe coming.—New York Post. HAIR, HAT AND SHOE OF ENGLISH GIRL:-. One of the funniest sights in Loudon at the present is found in the hats worn by the young women. At various times the hat of the New York female lias dwindled to humorously small propor tions, but never has it faded to the atomic size of- this present hint of head covering now fixed upon the head of feminine London. An abundance of hair is also fashionable at just this time, and, with the small, butter plate arrange ment slapped at a sharp angle precisely on the front of a groat bush of frizzled locks, the young women seen about are better than anything in the current bur- lesquc. Another peculiar feminine fosli- ) ion of .the day is that of the low shoe, i The choicest giris in Mayfair wear only (tie low shoe in the sloppiest and coldest weather. The sensible walking shoe of the British maiden is one of tho myths that are so plentiful in the records of the English, for she makes a sadden ing attempt to utilize the high French heel and pointed toe, which, considering the national failing, is a very large job lor her to successfully accomplish. Th ' hair, the hat and the shoe of the West End beauty arc the only conspicuous distinctions that exist between her and her American cousin. Her garments are similar to, aud as attractive, as those worn by the belles of Murray Hill. — Chi- cayo Herald. A Broken Bank’s Rare Experience. In 1877 the Third National Bank of Chicago failed for nearly $1,003,000. It had a capital stock of $750,000, aud all its cash ou hand,amounting to $200,- 000, went to the creditors. J. Irving Pearce was President of the fated bank. Huntington W. Jackson was the receiver of the closed institution and has had the management of its assets since that time. The stockholders were informed that the stock was worthless. Some sold their hcldings for a song aud others kept what they had because nobody would*buy it. A meeting of those holding stock was held recently, at which the receiver an nounced that he had been offered $1,- 000,000 for real estate near Jackson Park, supposed to he comparatively worthless at the time of the wreck of the bank. This sale will be made unless a higher price is bid, aud the money dis tributed among the stockholders. The deceased bank was alss the owner of considerable real estate in the town of Cicero, which could not have been sold then for more than $150 or $200 an acre, but it is now worth $3000 or $4000 an acre, and which will swell the asscsts | enormously. If any other town iu the t country has a bank which failed and went out of active existence fourteen years ago but is worth more now than it was at the highest tide of its prosperity let tho facts be produced.—Okicayo Jour nal. Ths “Latin Union.” The “Latin Union" comprises France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. It was formed in 1865, to last twenty-live years. Any nation can now draw out at will. When formed silver was at a premium of three per ceut. over gold. The Union was a combination to maintain the ratio ef 15) to one, each nation obliging it self to exchange its gold for silver coin, ar vice versa, on demand, at that ratio. —New York Voice, CHICAGO WOMEN LAWYERS. Chicago is especially kind to women who practise law, and some of them hold high places in the profession. Judge.!. 11. Bradwell presided at the recent din ner of the Illinois Bar Association, and his ideas on the subject may be gatherc 1 from the fact that his wife, Mrs. Myra Bradwell, lias beeu for over twenty years tlic editor of the Chicago Legal News, aud ids daughter, Mrs. Bessie B. Helmer, lias studied law, and has assisted her father in editing twelve volumes of the Appellate Reports of Illinois. The Legal News is a prosperous and well-arranged journal. Mrs. Helmer, Judge Bradwell's daughter, was married not long ago to a young lawyer. She is President of tho Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mrs. Mary A. Ahrens, another female lawyer of Chicago, answered to the toast “Wo man in the Learned Professions” at the banquet of the State Bar Association. Governor Fifer and Judge Lyman Trum- hull had preceded her as’ speakers, but she had sufficient self-confidence to make a graceful though modest speech. A. few seutences of her speech were: “Wo man in the learned professions. As a pro,ichcr, we know that she is eminently qualified to stand by the coffin and speak to those who sit broken-hearted and mourning by tho side of their beloved ones; wc know that out of her heart she will speak words of comfort and cheer; we know from the past that she no longer shrinks at tho sight of blood; she is able to bind up the wound, yea, strong enough to use the kuife and cut out that part which is infectious, and if not removed is death. In tho profession of law she comes last, but she will not be tho least: she comes among her learned brethren witli humility enough to make h-r a willing pupil.”—New York Tribune. FASHION NOTES. A new shade of violet verging toward gray is called petunia. The brim of a black straw hat is square in front and the crown is only lace. A cloak of Russian sable of the best quality could cost scarcely less than $25,- nno The gilded youth is simply fashion plated.—Chi. ago News. Horticulturists always use flowery lan guage.—Pittsburg Dispatch, , Some girls arc like a violin; it takes a beau to make them talk.—81. Joseph News. Many people would take advice if they could just do it before it is offered to them. It is dangerous to let a horse rear; he is then on his last leas.— Binghamton Bepubliean, The man who helps himself will be well taken care of—if he is caught.—El mira Oazettc. When telegraphers strike they don't always hold the key to the situation.— PuHimore A meriean. “I think I’ll take two or three days off,” remarked the month of February. —Detroit Free Press. Victim—“Doctor, I’m troubled with cold feet. What do you suppose causes them?” Doctor—“Cold weather. One dollar, [ilease!—Eepress. “No,” said Bjeuks, “it doesn’t take me long to make up my mind, but st often takes me a long time to make up my wife’s mind to agree with mine.’ — Somerville Journal. Tommie—“Papa, why do they call very rich men millionaires?” Papa— “That refers to the number of poor rela tives who rise up to contest their wills.' —New York Herald. “Have you read my last novel, my dear friend?” “Certainly.” “Well, and how did you like if?” “I laid the book down with tho greatest satisfaction.”— Dry Goods Chronicle. “Wasn’t it dreadful to listen to tho whistling of the bullets in battle!” “Oh, not so very. You sec the bullets never whistle any of the popular airs of the day.”—New York Sun. “One thing I ought to tell you before you make up your mind to marry my daughter; site sits thewholeday at the piano.” “O, I don’t mind that at all, if she doesn't play.”—Fliegende Blaetter. Miss Winthrop—“Poor Jack has now been a full-fledged architect for six months, and he hasn’t had a single com mission. He designs beautiful houses. — Mr. Townes—“Mis s Winthrop—Rosalie —can’t I persuade you to let your brother design a nice country house for—for us?” Chicago News. Book Agent—“I should like to meet vour husband, madam, aud show him this valuable book on—Heavens a'-d earth! Listen to that I There is a mad buil loose in the street! I ’ Lady of the House—“Oh, no! That is my husband roaring about having to pay bis dog tax. He will sec you in a few moments, and ” Book Agent—“Good day.”—Afunsey's Weekly. The Electric Car's “Cow Catcher.” The advent of the cable and electric car into street-railway traffic with their higher speed of travel has necessitate'' greater care being taken against ncci dents to the public. Among othc; things it has been found that the guar ! hitherto employed does not hang low enough to prevent a prostrate perse 11 from being caught and dragged over the pavement. Au improved guard has beei) invented, which is suspended close to the track by means of vertical arms depend ing from the car bottom. The point of the guard has a small junction wheel journaled so ns to engage the roadbad or cable track. The guard frame is pressed downward by bow springs bearing on each of its inclined bars. Directly below each bar of the guard is journaled a roller which forms the bottom of the guard, and these rollers coming down to within an inch of the track will not allow -picc for a person to get beneath. Should a car run against n prostrate person the acute inclination will brush him aside, the roller allowing of a rotary motion,so that the subject of the accident is rolle I off with the least chance of being bruised, which would not be possible in the guards formerly used.—Chicago Sew<. Soap for All Purposes. Agent—“Madam, 1 am introducing a new kind of soap ” Madam—“I don’t want it.” Agent—“It costs but half as much as the old " 'Madam—“I don't want it. Get out." Agent—“Of any other kind, and is excellent for the complexion.” Madam—“How much is it?”—New York Wcekig THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM. I.