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THE DARLINGTON HERALD.
VOL. I.
DARLINGTON, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24,: 1891.
NO. 42.
CHURCHES.
Presbyterian Church.—Rev. J. G.
Law, Pastor; Preaching every Sabbath
at 1H a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath
School at 10 a. m., Prayer Meeting every
Wednesday afterno on at 5 o’clock.
Methodist Church. - Rev. J. A. Rice,
Paator; Preaching every Sunday at Ilf
a. m. and 8 p. m., Sabbath School at 5
p. in., Prayer Meeting every Thursday
at 8 p. m.
Baptist Church.—Kev. G. B. Moore,
Paster; Preaching every Sunday at Ilf
a. m and 8:30 p. m., Prayer Meeting
every Tuesday at 8 p. m.
Episcopal Chapel.—Rev. W. A.
Guerry, Rector; H. T. Thompson, Lay
Header. 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. Breckmgton, Pastor; Preaching
every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m.
Sabbath School at 3:80 p.m., Prayer
Meeting every Tuesday evening at 8:30
o’clock.
COUNTY OFFICERS.’
Sherihl—W. P. Cole.
Clerk of Court.—W. A. Parro.t
Treasurer.—J. E. Bass.
Auditor.—W. H. Lawrence.
Probate Judge.—T. H. Spain.
Coroner.—R. G. Parnell.
School Commissioner.—W. H. Evans.
County Commissioners.—C. B. King,
W. W. McKinzie, A. A. Gandy.
Iprofcssicmnl €ati>s.
F. DARGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BROTHER, AWAKE!
Brother, the dawn In the east is arising.
Sparkling and bright from wild oceant
embrace.
See how her blushes new beauties awaken;
See what a tender light beams from her
face!
Eos, fair Eos, her fleet steeds are waiting.
Eager to speed in advance of the wind,
Longing to bear thee away on thy mission.
Cheering and blessing the hearts of man
kind.
Brother, awake, for the sun hath arisen I
Dazzling is he in his gorgeous array;
Golden his palace, and golden his armor—
Wilt thou not welcome the king of the
day?
Helois, Helois, thou art majestic!
Daily thy duty is patiently done;
Brother, thy duties demand thine attention—
Wake, ere day endeth and night is begun.
Brother, awake! Awake, O my brother!
Moonbeams are gently caressing thy brow;
See, the moon peeps through the darkening
shadows;
Soe her sweet smile as it lights on thee
now.
Selene, Selene, stars round thoe glimmer;
Dost thou ne’er linger to gather a gem?
“Why should I tarry, or turn from my path
way?
While I have peace, I’ve a rich diadem.”
Brother, O brother, awake from thy slum,
her.
Open thine eyes while ’tis yet called to
day!
Vain is thy dreaming, for not it availeth;
List to thine impulse, be swift to obey.
High be thy purpose, aye, heavenward
reaching;
Firm thy endeavor, persistent and true;
Faith be thy watchword, and hope thy com
panion.
Peace will not linger but hasten to you.
—Lillian Stiles We&sfer,
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BY ASNA SHIELDS.
It is a fact too well proven to need
comment here that mental excitement
will produce upon the human counte
nance a change m re rapid and lasting
than even physical pain. But it would
have scarcely seemed possible that oue
hour could have made a beautiful,
blooming face so pallid and deathlike as
that of Isaura Gardiner became in that
brief time one June morning, when all
nature was in jubilant mood.
She was young—not more than twen
ty—and had been Julius Gardiner's wife
a little more than one year. They had
been married at a time when the firm
employing Julius had wished him to un
dertake a prolonged Southern and West
ern trip to collect outstanding debts,
and the young couple had made this
business errand their wedding tour.
Early in March they had returned to
their home, and a few weeks later a wee
blossom had come to hind the parents’
hearts in yet closer bonds of mutual
love, a little daughter they named for
Isaura's long dead mother, Bertha.
After the baby came tr gladden her,
Isaura found her time so filled with ma
ternal cares that she had never availed
herself of her husband's permission to ex
plore the old homestead, until the Juue
morning already mentioned.
It was a very large, rambling old
country hause, the legacy of three gen
erations of Gardiners, to the last survivor
Julius, and I«anra was sure that it was
tilled with treasures of past occupants,
though its owner laughingly assured her
that he was quite sure she would find
but little to reward the thorough ran
sacking she threatened to make.
When she was first engaged to Julius
Gardiner, Laura had thought she would
bring him a fortune equal to his own
patrimony. She had been from infancy
the supposed heiress of a maiden aunt,
who bed a moderate income under bci
cwn entire control and no heir hut her
niece. But, from some unexplained
freak, the venerable maiden, upon her
death-bed, left her home and money to
found an asylum, bestowing upon her
niece her clothing and jewelry, the one
much the worse for use, the other of but
trifling value.
Isaura had been sorely disappointed,
but Julius had laughed at the long face,
assuring her he had ample means for
both; his private fortune and large salary
combining to make a handsome income.
So Isaura had forgotten the temporary
trouble very quickly.
On the June day, already referred to,
she had at last explored some of the long
closed rooms, and entered one early in
the forenoon, her lace bright as the
June sunshine pouring in at the open
windows, her checks rivaling the blush
roses clambering over the wide porch
roof to nod at her, her eyes as clear and
blue as the summer skies arching over the
old homestead.
In one brief hour she came out again.
But the pretty pink flush was gone from
her cheeks, leaving them as white as new
fallen snow, her eyes were heavy and dull
as lead, gazing vacantly forward with an
expression of utter misery; her step was
slow and feeble, and she trembled as if
unable to support her own weight. She
seemed to have aged years in that one
hour of anguish passed in the room en
tered with such a light step and happy
heart.
Slowly she went to her own room.
Baby Bertha lay in her dainty cradle
sleeping profoundly in a morning nap,
and the young mother, sinking upon hei
knees beside her, found some relief from
her agony in a passion of tear* and sobs.
Again and again her husband’i name
mingled with the moans wrung from her
white, quivering lips, till the violence ol
her grief wakened the sleeping child,
who broke into wailing cries. For a
moment the mother forgot her own grief,
as she soothed the little one with all
love’s tender caresses, kissing the velvet
cheek, and whispering soft worls of af
fection.
But wheu the child lay quited in bet
arms, the shadows fell again over Lau
ra's face, and her tears dropped fast upon
the little face nestled against her bosom.
The burden of grief was not lifted,
though the first wild paroxysm was over.
Laura Gardiner was a fair woman, tdi
but slight, and possessing much beauty,
of a purely blonde type, rippling, golden
hair and blue eyes, with a soft, delieak
complexion. Her disposition was gentl
and loving in a remarkable degree, suit
ing well the exquisite beauty of face an
form.
It is no exaggeration to say that she
actually lived in her affections, and these
were centered absolutely in her husband
and child. Orphaned when only ten
years old, she had been under the guar
dianship of her aunt, passed from one
boarding school to another, spending
even her holidays in the care of her
teachers, unless invited to visit a fellow-
pupil.
It was during such a visit in the vil
lage that wa~. to become her future home
that she met Julius Gardiuer, and her
heart, starving for sympathy and com-
pansionship, sprang at once to answer
his warm avowal of deep, sincere love.
She had never known what it was to re
ceive such affection as her lover gave her,
and she gratefully returned it. And in
her love she had found only happiness.
It was Julius who had consoled her when
her aunt died, leaving her alone in the
world. Julius who had urged a speedy
marriage, that he might have the right
to comfort and protect her. Julius who
had made a bridal tour of his long busi
ness journey and given her every leisure
hour to explore all the sights of the many
new places in which they sojourned.
Julius who had watched her tenderly
when her life seemed going from her,
after baby came, and gave her new life
by his loving voice and gentle caress.
She had thought their love perfect—
as strong in his heart as in her own. But
ou that June morning, all this happy cer
tainty had gone from her, and her heart
seemed breaking at the loss. She took
no further interest in the exploring ex
pedition through the old house upop
which she had started so merrily, but
rocked her baby in her arms, and mused
over the one appalliiig discovery she had
already made.
Julius found her so when he came in
to his dinner, and anxiously inquired the
cause of her woe-begone lace and red
eyes. But for the fitst time his tender
sympathy met a repulse; not an angry
one, but one that was equally puzzling
to him, it was so full of mute reproach,
and no entreaties could give him any ex
planation of the cause.
For days, this atmosphere of gloom
and mystery hung about Isaura. She
neglected all the little household duties
in which she had delighted; she would
sit for hours in silence and idleness, her
face white, her eyes fixed mournfully
on vacancy.
Julius was distracted. Loving his
wife with all the fondness of a tender,
true heart, he was grieved and angered
to see her fretting constantly, yet refus
ing to give any reason for such excess of
sorrow.
In vain he tried by every tender de
vice to win her confidence. She only
kept a more profound silence, while yet
most evidently doubting the sincerity of
his professions of love and regret.
At last, the result Julius dreaded fell
over Laura, and she was prostrated by
low nervous fever and became very ill.
The pbysicisu hinted at some mental dis
turbance, and prescribed quiet; and the
husband,thoroughly aroused by fear, ex
cited his authority with some show ol
harshness.
“You are nursing some chimera, ”b<
said to poor, pale Laura, “and I iosisl
upon knowing what it is.”
“Oh, Julius, don’t he angry!” sbt
moaned, pitifully. “Perhaps I may die,
and then you cau marry Magdalene.”
“What upon earth are you talking
about? ‘Magdalene!’ Who is Mag
dalene?”
“The woman you love. I am sorry,
Julius, that I have stood in the way so
long. It would have been better to have
been frank with me and told me the
truth before we were married.”
“She is insane,” thought poor Julius,
bursting into a cold sweat of horror;
“she has been nursing some delusion till
it has turned her brain and made her a
monomaniac!”
All anger was gone fiom his voice as
he bent low over his wife.
“Darling,” he said, “do not think of
such things. You cannot doubt my love
for you I”
The blue eyes that had grown din
with excessive weeping searched his faci
eagerly. Then, as if nerved to a desper
ate effort Isaura took a toldcd papei
from the drawer of a table beside her
bed and handed it to her husband.
“Read that,” she stid. “I found it in
the room up-stairs that you told me was
your room while your parents lived. It
was in the drawer of a bureau there,
with other papers. You told me I might
overhaul auythiug I pleased, and I rend
that.”
Wonderingly, Julius opened the paper,
while Isaura scanned his face, watching
for the confusion of detected guilt. To
utter amazement, Julius, after reading
the paper, burst into a fit of laughter,
clear, ringing and hearty.
“Oh, Laura,” he cried, when he
could catch his breath, “the sins of my
youth are being visited upon my head
with a vengeance. Oh, it is too good I”
And another paroxysm of mirth fol
lowed.
“I don't see anything funny about it,'
said Isaura, crimsoning with anger.
Julius read aloud, with mock em
phasis ;
‘'Dear Dice —You utterlymistake both
my heart and principle if you imagine for
one moment that I will avail myself of th<
itiful excuse of Isaura's loss of fortune tc
reak our engagement. Dearly as I love
Magdalene, bitterly as I regret the tie that
binds me, I will never, never so disgrac;
my manhood as to desert, the fond heart that
loves me.
“Isaura knows nothing of my mad infat
uation for your sister Magdalene, my hope
less love for one I may never seek to win
She trusts the professions of love I made be
fore I knew the secret of my heart Sh<
loves me! Aud I who sought her whet
she was a supposed heiress, consider it a
point of honor to keep my faith with her
“Guard soy secret from your too fasciu
ating sister, from my promised wife,
and ”
Here the paper was torn and the con
fidences of the lover brought to an ab
rupt conclusion.
“Oh, Laura,’’said JuTTua, who had
.ceu interrupted by frequent spasms of
aughter, “have you really been fretting
yourself sick over this balderdash?”
Then, looking into the pale, wan f tcc,
Julius became grave again.
“If you had only looked further,
dear,” he said, “you would have dis
covered page after page of just such
stuff. For you must know that one of
the delusions of my youth was a settled
conviction that I was a great literary
genius, a Wilkie Collins and Charles
Dickons of America, born to astonish
the world. And this is part of my first,
last and only novel.”
“Oh, Julius!” Laura gasped. “I
thought—I was sure—''
“There, don’t cry, love; don't! Never
doubt me again, dear. I cannot imagine
now how you could have taken this for a
genuine letter. I never knew a Dick or
Magdalene.”
“How did I know that? Aud Laura is
such a very singular name.”
“So it is. But you sec, dear, just
about that time this singular name stood
in my heart for all that was charming,
good and lovable in womankind. I was
desperately in love with an Isaura, and
as ray heroine was to embody all female
perfection, I gave her the uamc of the
woman who had full possession of my
heart.”
“And then the loss of fortune—my
aunt, you know—”
“Bless me, yes! I (orgot nil about
that. It does look oddly like truth,now
don’t it? But if you will explore the
drawer still further you will find a
couple of hundred pages explanatory of
this precious document you so unfortun
ately selected.”
The doctor, coming later in the day to
visit his patient, was astonished at the
wonderful effect of the simple re medy he
had prescribed, and still more at the
rapid recovery that followed. In less
than a week Isaura was singing about
the old house, a busy little matron,
happy in her husband’s love, her baby’s
beauty.
But she has still one regret: All her
entreaties have failed to persuade Julius
to complete that beautiful novel, “A
Point of Honor," which lies unfinished
in Isaura's care, ami which she is firmly
convinced would, if published, place her
husband at the very pinnacle of literary
fame.
But Julius will not agree with her, de-
clariug that that precious composition
has already made sufficient mischief in
the world, since it caused his wife weeks
of misery aud a fit of illness, and there
fore it is with him a point of honcr to
it consign to oblivion as speedily as pos
sible.— The Ledger.
A Child’s Twelve Grandparents.
Elsie Chase, (laughter of Charles and
Clara Chase, of Yarmouth, has more
grandfathers aud grandmothers than any!
child in Massachusetts, all of whom are
now living. I give below the names.
Edward and Mary Chase, grandfather
and grandmother.
Charles and Emma Ellis, grandfather
and gn ndmother.
Charles and Jane Ellis, great-grand
father and great-grandmother.
Jerry and Cordelia Chase, great
grandfather and great-grandmother.
Matthews and Ruth B. Gray, great
grandfather and great-grandmother.
Adeline Nickerson, great-great-grand
mother.
Jerry Walker,great-great-grandfather.
This is very remarkable; six grand
fathers and six grandmothers, and all
living, making a collection that has no
equal in this country. — Cape Cod (.Mat.)
Item.
Single Eye.
In a case of cyclopia, or single eye, re
ported by Dr. A. Bruce to the Royal
Society of Edinburgh, there was a single
lozenge-shaped socket for the eye in the
middle of the base of the forehead. The
socket had two pairs of eyelids, and the
nose was represented by a short process
of tissue and skin attached to the fore
head above the eye. A microscopic
section of the socket showed two rudi
mentary retinae apparently springiug
from a single optic wsicle. —TVaaLn
(-Y. J.) American.
RICH INDIANS.
EACH MENBEIt OF THE OSAGE
TKIBE WORTH ABOUT SIS.OOO
Ihey Have a Big Fund in the United
States Treasury-How It Was
Acquired—A Millionaire
Redskin.
Speaking of a visit to the Indian Ter
ritory some years ago, United States
Senator Platt said recently “When I
was at the trading post of the Osage
Indians I was much amused to see an In
dian buying a barrel of good flour for
himself and a barrel of cheap flour for
the white man who worked for him.”
The Osage Indians cau afford to be
luxurious. They are the wealthiest In
dians in the United States. It is esti
mated at the Indian Office that the Osage
Indians—men, women and children—are
worth $15,000 each in what ought to be
as good as cash, i. e., salable land and
the Government's promise to pay. So
great is the interest on the sum held by
the United States to their credit that the
Secretary of the Interior will not pay
out all of it at one time, and a gradual
increment is adding to the millions al
ready credited to the tribe on the books
of the Government.
The Osages came to their wealth
through the sale of their lauds in Kan
sas when they were moved to a reserva
tion in what is known as Oklahoma Ter
ritory. One Indian abandoned his tribe
and clung to his Kansas land, and it is
said that to-day through the apprecia
tion in the value of that land he is worth
a million dollars. Ho is perhaps the
richest Indian in the world. Nothing
is known of him at the Indian Office be
cause, having abandoned his tribe, he
has ceased to be a subject of solicitude
to the gentleman in charge of Indian af
fairs at the national capital. The laud
belonging to the other Indians was
bought by the Government and thrown
open to settlement.
In the deposits to the credit of the
Osage Indians there is one item of $8,
147,515. The annual interest on this is
*407,376. There are about 1500
Osages on the reservation in Oklahoma.
The exact number mentioned in the last
annual report of the Indian Commissioner
is 1496; but this, of course, varies from
T
time to time. The members of this tribe,
men, women and children, are joint
sharers in the interest money. As it is
paid to the tribe it is divided equally
among them. It is drawn by the head
of each family for himself, his wife, and
his children. The Indian with a large
family draws a goodly sum each month.
Even the amount to which the single In
dians are entitled is large—for an Indian.
It has been the policy of the Secretary of
!he Interior, acting for the President,
who, under the law, is the trustee for
the Indians, to pay to the Osage tribe
only a part of the money to which it is
entitled. The amount paid annually
was, for a long time, $250,000. Two
years ago the payment was increased, at
the request of the Indians, to *300,000 a
year. That is less than seventy-five per
cent, of the amount due the Indians,and
the other twenty-five per cent, goes to
ward swelling the amount with which
the tribe is credited on the Treasury
books. What will be done with this
slowly increasing capital and the corre
sponding increasing interest on it is a
question with which tho Government has
not yet Iroubled itself.
Occasionally some of the interest
money which is due to the Osages is
expended for their benefit by the Secre
tary of the Interior, within his discre
tion The Indian Oflice has on hand now
plans for a *30,000 building to be use!
as a dormitory and school in connection
with the education of the Osage chil
dren. The council of the tribe re
quested the Secretary to make this ex.
penditure. The Governmeut looks after
the educatioj of the Osages and a spe
cial fund is set aside for educational pur
poses. The Government supplies them
with agricultural implements aud a great
many other things which the Indians
could very well afford to buy for them
selves. They do buy a great many lux
uries. Very few of them save any of the
money which is paid to them by the
Government. The trade- at the agency
gets a greater part of it within an hour
after the payment has bceu distributed.
The Osage tradership is regarded as the
most valuable in the United States. Oth
er traders have more Indians to deal
with, but not so much money.
After the provisions of the recent
treaty with the Chippewa Indians have
been fulfilled they will be the second
wealthiest tribe In the world. They
number about 5000. Their wealth is
represented by the value of some rich
lands bordering the small lakes in Min
nesota, which the Chippewa Commission
persuaded them to sell. The Govern
ment has paid to them this year *200,
000. Next year they will receive $91,-
000 advance interest, an I probably a
much greater sum iu the annual interest
will be due them. The Cuourd’Alene
Indians will receive a payment of hall a
million dollars this year.
It it not with any degree of willing
ness that the Osages allow their principal
to increase yearly. They object strenu
ously to the policy of the Secretary of
the Interior iu refusing to pay to them
all of their annual income. Each year
they send to Washington a representative 1
of their tribe to beg tbe Secretary to
pay over to them the accumulated inter
est. They are not to be satisfied with*
the full amount new coming to them
annually. They want the back interest
which was withheld from them paid
over in a lump sum. They have been
told again and again that when they be
come civilized they will receive the money
which is due to them; but this promise
seems to be no inducement to them to
adopt the ways of the white man. They
continue to retrograde year by year in
stead of improving their condition.
They are very much averse lo sending
taeir children' to school, and the report
of the Indian Commissioner shows that
of those who have been sent to the train
ing schools and educated a very small
proportion prove in any way useful mem.
hers of society —.Yew Fork Sun.
The Advertiser, of Lawrens, 8. C.,
realizes the important bearing the expo
sition to be held at Raleigh from Octo
ber to December 1st of the present year,
as well as those which preceed it, upon
the subject of immigration. “The South
feels the need of more people and more
capital to occupy unused territory and
unapplied resources; more experience,
more skill and more money than she her
self possesses, and therefore opens hfr
doors to that class of immigrants who
shall best aid her in the work of develop
ment. She calls for no colonies or
bands of unassimalablc people, no Goths
and Vandals, no Huns, nor Poles, nor
Bohemians, no assisted pauper immigra
tion, no expelled criminals, no fugitives
from European justice, no organization
of assassins, no helpless and no paupers.
She invites the Saxon blood in all its
branches—the Scandinavian, the Ger
man, the Hollander, the Belgian, the
English, the Scotch, the Irish. These
she already knows: from them she is de
rived ; to them she owes her best charac
teristics, and for the same reason she
wants the people from the North; they
are not strangers. But for miuy reasons
they do not know as well as they ought
the magnitude of the South’s resources,
its variety of productions, salubrity of
climate, and what is more important,
the happy adjustment of social condition.
The Southern Exposition will present an
astonishing and intelligent compend of
all these things. The assemblages of the
people themselves from all the United
States will be the enlightening lessnn in
relation to the social feature; and the
presentation of all that is the gift of
nature or the Iruits of industry, will best
anil most satisfactorily illustrate how
much the South can offer to (he new
comer. Then he will learn at a glance,
or by inspection, what otherwise he
could not learn except by patient search
and costly travel Irom point to point.”
Why an Amputated Limb Pain*.
A very singular form of neuralgia is
that affecting the nerves of amputated
limbs. It not rarely happens that after
an amputated stump has healed the
nerves of the stump, being compressed
in the scar, becomes exceedingly painful.
Curicusly enough, the pain is not felt in
the stump, hut seemingly in the extrem
ity of the limb, which has prolnbly been
buried for a yeai or more. In one case
coming under the uotice of tbe writers
man whose arm had been amputate]
above the elbow often referred to the
pain he felt in the little finger of the
severed member for yeais after the oper
ation. An old, one-legged soldier, ap
plying for an increase of pension, said:
“I have more pain iu the foot that aint
than in the one that are.” This was hia
terse way of saying that he continued to
have pain in the foot which was lost on
the battle field years before.
The explanation of these curious phe
nomena consists in the fact that the ter
minal filaments of a nerve are its most
sensitive parts; they are the “feelers," the
points from which the sensations start on
their course to the brain, where they give
notice that something is wrong with the
outlying districts. When the nerve is
injured in this continuity the sensation is
often referred to the terminal ends.
Everyone who has struck his -‘crazy-
bone”—the point above the elbow,
where the ulnar nerve is very superficial
and easily injured—must have uoticed
how much the sensation was affected in
the little finger, the pain being often
greater than that at the point where the
blow was struck.—St. lesuis ItepublU.
Soldiers Not Anxious for War.
A party of infantry reserves were seca
at the Friedrichs-itrasse railway station
the other day. They were waiting for
a train ti take them back to their homes
fine of their number, an elderly man,
was indignant with the newspapers for
talking so glibly about the coming war
and the aggressive policy which it was
Germany’s duty to adopt. “I fought at
Koenigsgratz and Sedan,” lie said, “but
that was mere child's play to what the
next war will he. That new rifle which
wo have just been testing is almost too
horrible a weapon to use against any
enemy.” The old Landwehrman said
the new rifle carried a bullet which is
scarcely an inch long, and about as thick
as a good-sized cigarette, which will
pierce earthworks of seventy centimeter
thickness at a distance of 150 meters.
At 170 meters distance it made a passage
through live full knapsacks placed in
echelon. Fired from a distance of 2000
meters the bullet will penetrate a human
body.—Chicujo Herald.
LADIES’ COLUMN.
FRIENDSHIP (AXES.
Friendship canes are to be the fashion
with the young women who take long
tramps “over moss and fell.'’ The best
friend ol all gives the cane, which is long
and like unto an alpenstock. Around tbe
top is tied a ribbon with the name cf the
cane donor thereon, and the date of the
first trip upon which the cane did duty.
Each successive walk is marked by an
other ribbon, which, in turn, hears the
date of the trip, and the name of the oue
who pleasantly beguiled the journey. In
time Little Bo Peep's crook comes to
wear as many colors as were in Joseph’s
coat. When the cane becomes “suffi
ciently suffancified” with ribbons, it is
laid away with the scalps of the seisen,
and a new one is obtained to take its
place.—Picayune.
WOMEN rN NORWEGIAN CIVIL SERVICE.
The question of the eligibility of
ladies, who have passed the requiste ex
amination to public offices, etc., is at
present receiving much attention
in Norway, where the matter s
before Parliament. A bill has been in
troduced that ladies who have passed
certain examinations should have the
same rights as incu, and this hill has
been referred to a committee. This com
mittee views with favor the movement
for widening the field for women, hut
the majority is of opinion that the
change may not be too sudden an-1
sweeping, but should be brought about
gradually. The majority of the com
mittee is of opinion that the inter ists
both of the women themselves and of
society at large are best consulted by
advancing step by step, as experience
may teach. The whole of the committee
is agreed that the matter should he more
exhaustively investigated, and ha«.
therefore, decided to remit the case to
the Government. There cau. however,
be little doubt that the question will
he soon further advanced.— Chicago
Past.
FEATHER TRIMMING'.
Feather trimmings are wide ar.,1 im
portant, and many varieties of coquc
feathers seem to be newer than ostrich,
hut still edgings of the ostrich flue and
mossy ruches of ostrich arc much worn
ou dinner and court gowus and on the
best class of mantles. Peacocks' plumes
appear iu many of the feather trimmings,
notwithstanding popular prejudice.
With regard to ribbons, very wide,
soft short silk find favor for hats aud
four-inch width for trimmings. Tinsel
embroidery appears on the solid colors
ol several sizes; but the charming little
pompadour sprigs on satin grounds are
the leading ideas, while the favorite
flowers are the cowslip, the polyanthus,
cornflower and the buttercup, ami fruits
are preparing for the latter season.
Brocades on gold gauze ribbons are much
worn, and shot silks, which often dis
play brocaded forget-me-nots and pansies
and shot spots of large size, are around
and sometimes elliptical. The favorite
combinations a:e brown and blue,
lemon colored and sky blue pink and
yellow, yellow and green, black and
gold.— Chicago Newt.
FASHION NOTES.
The fairest of the fair now wear
yellow, and look even prettier in it than
the brunettes.
Although the fastenings of dresses are
mostly invisible, many new buttons have
been brought out.
A charming new lace pin has made its
appearance. It is a small spray of maiden
hair set in emctalds.
All the sun umbrellas and parasol'
have long handles. The parasols are of
medium size and quite curved.
Pleats and wide Hungarian kilts ap
pear in the latest Paris importations for
dinner, carriage or church gowns.
A seamless skirt straight in front, with
a bias back seam concealed in the full
ness, is much used for wool dresses.
The figures in the now brocades are so
large that not more than three or four
are to be seeu in a yard of material.
The “Mercury'' is a new bonnet iu
spired by the Greek god, and is made of
blue and gold straw, with gold wings at
the side.
Traveling ulsteis of mohair, poageo
and brilliantiue have quite put out of
countenance the old fashionel linen
duster.
Many gowns are trimmed about th-.-
bottom of the skirt with a deep flounce
of black lace. This is very pretty and
graceful on a light weight black silk or
on any of the fancy black ground «um-
mer silks.
The black grenadine gowns, which
promise tu be favorites the coming sum
mer, are certainly much richer than the
usual black lace or net costume A full
frill of soft surah, made to resemble
feather trimming, makes a simple and
pretty trimming for a grenadine gown.
The Czar Laughed.
A Russian newspaper publish" 1 and
the press censor overlooked a joke about
the Czar recently. The momri’i hap-
potiod to read the |-j»pcr, laughed
cartily, ami sent the no Mpapei <- litur,
the wriur nt the joke, aud the careless
censor to Siberia. All three are sen
tenced for lift —Chicago Timet.
I CURIOUS FACTS.
I The oldest reigning dynasty is that ot
Japan.
A horned rabbit is the curiosity of tha
day at Akron, Ohio.
A gum-moistening apparatus for post
age stamps is also an invention.
There are within the present city
limits of Milwaukee 30,000 lot* which
are unoccupied.
Hay thirty-two years old has been
found and is said to he well-preserved,
i bright and sweet.
A Liberty County (Ga.) man has
found oysters growing at the bottom of
his sixty-foot well.
Indiana's building at the World’s
Fair is to be constructed of all building
materials found in the State.
A resident of Parkers’ Ford, Penn ,
is said to have a ring dove which is
twenty one years old, and has been in
one cage all its life.
A large fox tried to steal a goose from
a barnyard near Butler, Penn., the other
day, but the fowl fought so bravely that
she killed the would-be thief.
A cow licing driven through the streets
of Hannibal, Mo., charged on a red coat
hanging on a post, entangled her horns
in it. gave a bellow and dropped dead..
Since it is rumored that marble man
tel-pieces arc coming into fashion again,
these pieces of interior decoration which
have been criticised as vulgar and inar-
tistic are now called --perfectly lovely.”
A monument will be erected shortly in
Tutlingen, in the Black Forest, to Max
Schneckenbergor. author of “The Watch
on tbe Rhine.” The fund for this pur
pose is $9000, aud contributions are still
solicited.
The father of shoemnking in this
country is said to have been one Abraham
Lovering, who came ovet in the May
flower, bringing with him a number of
pelts to be worked into footwear for the
colonists.
A prisoner escaped from the Browns-
towu dud.) jail by cutting a hole
through the roof, after which he walked
ten miles to his home. Failing to secure
a hail bond, he returned to jail. He was
not missed by the sheriff, and he re
entered by the hole through which he
escaped.
While an Indianapolis citizen was rid
ing on a street ear iu that city the brake
handle slipped from the driver’s grasp
and struck a pistol in the driver’s breast
pocket. A bullet from the weapon killed
tin pasi-cngo* instantly. His wife has
recovered $5(J0i) damages from the car
company.
The humps of camels arc mere lumps
of fat, and not. provided for in the frame
work of the skeleton. When the animal
is in good condition the humps are full
and plump. 9n a long journey where
food is scarce the humps are entirely ab
sorbed. the skin covering them hanging
over the (lank like ;1 u empty box.
Gold, while in circulation, is handled
less tham euy other medium. It is
usually kepi in vaults of banks for de
mands rarely made, and for this reason
the loss by abrasion is but one-half of
one percent, in twenty years. In a $20
gold piece, the standard weight of which
is 516 grains, the Government allowance
foi loss by a hr.' -ion is 2.53 grains.
A bbe k water snake, which was dis
sected at the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege the other day. was found to contain
the bodies of four fishes. One of these,
which was about four inches in length,
had partially swallowed another fish
two thirds its size. It was, however,
not quite equal to the task, and the snake
had captured both. This curiosity will
he preserved in alcohol as a museum
specimen.
Lite Convicts at Sing Sing.
The thought of the conditiou of tho
women life-convicts is harrowing. No
wonder thoughtful minds prefer hanging
or even deatli by the dynamo to life im
prisonment. The pale, furrowed faces
and mutHed voices of those women is a
sight not easily forgotteu. To piolonga
conversation with them would he cruel,
unless one was in a position to help them
get out. The one ray of cheerfulness in
their desolate, monotonous lives is the
consideration which they get from the
officials aud matron.
After a worn in ha« been there ten or
fifteen years -he is regarded as a member
of the family, so to speak, and if she
proves obedient she gets many little at
tentions and privileges not granted
short-term women.
All the life prisoners have two cells at
their disposal—one for sleeping, aud the
other nicely fitted up with carpet, chairs,
pictures and curtains, is used for a sit
ting room. Outside the cells of the
long-term prisoners many pottei plants
were to lie seen. The e eaalincss of the
cells, tiers, both lower an 1 upper, in
male and female pris > is was remarkable.
—Brooklyn Standard t'nion.
A PreluaUriS Lenotsry.
About Ihrci miles east of I’arkeisburg,
West Virginia, well-diggers recently
stumbled upon a pri-lu'torii- cemetery,
abounding with tin- n-lii-rof an unknown
nation. Nearly a bushel c>f trinkets ot
shell and hoiie were found tu three
graves. All tin skeletons, thus far dis
covered, were facing the west.—He*
Turk i'oiie.