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PITTSB01lO CHATHAM CO., N. C, MAY 22, 1884.
J tract will be nisde.
Distance Lends F.ncliutitmi'iit.
Longfellow.
R"o inier not niiig like him wlrwo hT8
loinlii'il tlic ureil wiiiIiI'b limit,
lint we run Inr u i'Iitcii lew , n il.ntn nt liit
(Mil Hllt
Ami we iiniy wur-liip ut tin- -Initio ticniiis Inw
re Hi' I tor him,
n roie tin' li'-'lit nl' n It (.rn-at iniml nil other
lights fiinw iliin.
Vlic i-liylli'iiie ni' lii'ly of llioiqlit wliicli timl to
Iliin li id given,
1'nn liml ihm iiiiiiIi -iji'iit on eintli, ieivhnnce it
lll'l) ill lll'IM'll!
I. ill a .V. t'mhman.
Her Engagement Ring.
Fannie rrard had been engaged
to be niiii Tied to young Dr. Harry
Raymond, the n;ili-v of it wealthy
New Yolk phys eiau. whoso ext"iisivo
practice wns experteil to soon tlescend j
to hi- young relative. In the iiienn-;
time Harry went off mi along sea j
voyage with an invalid frietul, leaving j
it betrothal ring on the little white
hand of Hi.' lovely girl who had prom
ised to be his wire when ho returned
borne.
The ring w r. handsome and uniipio,
with i's splendid solitaire, and their
combined initia's in tiny diamonds itn
bedded inside tin- gold. II hoop; and of
course Faurre valued it for its beauty
as well u-i for the love of which it was
the pledge. Hut when news came to
her that the ship in which her lover
sailed bad not been heard of for many
weeks, and that it was eonsidered lost,
having enter southern lati
tudes, where atrr'fie hurricane had
done I'e.ir: ill damage, I hen the ring be
came a Kite red thing to her as the la-t
gilt id' the dead.
Fate ha 1 brought other trials to the
poor girl since the loss of her lover.
Her father bad died, and subsequently
her mother's money, upon which they
were almost dependent, had been
swallowed up in a bank failure.
It became ncce-sary for Fannie to
eke out the small remaining income by
turning her accomplishments to ac
count. It win then that the thought of
parting with her precious ring ccuir
ed to her fur tin- lirsl time, although
all her (thT jewels had gone long
a m e. Tin' idea came to her with a
sharp pang that was almost an agony;
but having oiu e come to her, it was it j
semeo purpose. ' you now.
"1 need no reminder to keep me : ( ih, Fin sorry! But never mind!
true to his menii.ry," she murmured, ! )ril(, j t, ,.Vening and have a
while heay tciirs overflowed through ,' ,. hat. ;0od by, for the present! Do
the long, curling lashes, and fell, gilt- j lighted to have met you."
ti ring rivals, upon the diamond which And Jack disappeared around a
she raised to he lips and kissed again ; corner, savagely condemning his "long
and again with passionate fervor.
Having made up her mind to sacri
fice it, Fannie put on her drooping
hat ami tie 1 a black veil tightly over
her sensitive face; then, with rapid
steps, she left the house and haste'.ed
to the jewe'ry establishment around I
the corner, at the windows of w hich
she had often stopped to admire the
darling contents.
"Is it your own?" asked the old
ninn, with it searching look in his
keen gray eyes at the young girl, who
ha l mado ber request in such low and
trembling tones.
"Oh, yes," she answered, simply, un
conscious of suspicion. "It was my
engagement ring." and she colored
faintly, then paled again with painful
thoughts.
It is it very valuable one for you,"
paid the jeweller, slipping it on the
fust joint ol his linger, and glancing at
Fannie's neat but decidedly shabby
raiment.
"The gentleman was rich and so was
I then," she answered, quietly, cheek
ing her rising indignation with the
self-control which experience had
taught her.
"The gentleman to whom I was en
gaged to be married went away on a
long voyage, and was lost at sea," she
eaid, "and then my father died and
left us poor, so that I have been oblig
ed to sell my jewels. I kept this till
the last. Will you please buy it,
sir?"
Tho old man, a Scotchman, said:
"I'niph, tiiiiph!" and polished his
spectacles, murmuring, "l'uir lassie!"
Then he told her he would value
her ring, gavo her a receipt, for w hich
she had not thought of asking, and
told her to come back in tho morning.
About 10 minutes after Fannie
Gorrard left Dugald Bhiikie's store, a
young man walked up the avenue
with long, rapid strides, watching the
passers-by and the objects with a half
curious, half-familiar and wholly
vleased attention.
He entered Mr. Bluikie's store and
drew out his watch.
"I wish you would be good enough
to examine this watch of mine," ho
said, pleasantly, "Something has gone
wrong with it all of a sudden. Xo
sowt do I arrivo home safe and
sound than it became refractory after
serving me faithfully through hair
. i adtk 'scapes by Hood and Meld es-
peclally by flood ? I hope It is not om
inous. And the. returned traveler laughed
as lie hand 'd tho timepiece to the old
man.
'Nothing more alarming than a
broken main-spring," replied Mr.
Bl.tikie, smiling. "We will have it
ready for you to-morrow, sir."
And then, us ho watched the strang
er go out, with his youthful, swinging
stride, his in i ml recurred to the girl
who had told him of the lover "lost at
sci," and ho sighed over his work.
Harry Raymond had not gone far
before ho was a -costed by the ring
ing voice of an old friend.
Hello, Kaymond, old fellow! Whore
in tin-name of all that's wonderful
j have you sprung from? Why, dear
I boy, every one believes you long since
I at the bottom of the sea. fir blown
away by all sorts of simooms, or ty
phoons, or whatever vou call 'em!"
i "Blown away as much as you like,
j old boy," laughed Raymond, wringing
! his e.'iiipaui'in's hand heartily,
I "but not under water yet, as you see.
libit, coiiie give me some bind news,
! won't y i? This is my first day in
' the city, md I haven't seen anyone
I yet. How is -everybody ?"
I "Well, much as usual, 1 gupsfi. I!ut
come over to my rooms, and maybe I
I fan be more definite,"
; The young man slipped his arm
I through I ;.t.v in itii I'h, and they saunt
! ered on together.
"Oh, by the way," said .lack tiordon,
I suddenly bursting in on one of his own
j speeches, "you have just turned up ill
i time to lie t. jo late for the marriage of
. an old sweet heart of yours- Fannie
j d'errard. Married an old chap with
i heaps of money, too.
"What what did you say?" asked
I Ir. Kaymond, clutching the arm that
I lay on bis, and stopping short in the
j street.
j "1 Sitid that your old (lame, Fannie
j Oerrard, was married yesterday to
, old Mr. Huberts, the millionaire. Why,
what's the matter? What aro you
I staring at? Vou look iu if you bad
seen a ghost!"
Doctor Kaymond drew bis hand
t across his facj once or twice before
, he replied.
"1 b. g your pardon!" he said. "I
have just remembered an important
engagement!
I I will have to leave
tongue," hihI thinking all kinds of hard
tilings of tho girl who could so soon
forget a fellow like liayin aid.
Harry llavmond walked on with
head bent ami downcast eyes. All the
animation and brightness were gone
from his face all interest in his stir-
roundings banished by a few careless
words.
"Married!" he repeated "married
to another, and my heart true to her
through all! Oh, lickle, faithless heart
of a woman.
And, w ith a harsh, bitter laugh, he
drew bis hat over his brow and strode
on, he knew not whither, until night
found him in his own rooms, worn out
by fatigue and misery,
And so passed tho first night of
Harry Kaymond's return home.
When Fannie (icrrard entered tho
jeweler's store next moining, she was
somewhat embarrassed to find a young
gentleman talking to Mr. Blaikic, and
withdrew shyly to the furthest end
of the counter.
The old gentleman, recognizing her
at once, bowed pleasantly, and iu a
few moments came to wait on her.
"I will buy your ring for fl.r0," he
said. "Will you part with it for
that?"
Fannie's face showed her disap
pointment. "1 thought it was worth more than
that intrinsically," she said. "Two
hundred, at least,"
The Scotchman shook his head and
pressed his lips together, for although
he was interested in the "puir lassie,"
he did not forget that "beeness is
beencss."
She looked at the ring with longing
eyes, half tempted not to make tho
sacrifice at all, when she was startled
by a voice beside her:
"1 will buy the ring for ,VM, since
the lady is so anxious to obtain a good
price for it!"
Well did Fannie ( if rrard know that
voice, though never before had she
heard it ring with contemptuous scorn
as it now fell upon her ear.
With a strong inclination toscream,
which she suppressed to a gasp, she
turned and inv, luntarily held out
both hands, wH'Ie a look of mingled
amazement, delight and love shone in
her lace. Then, meeting nothing but
a strange smile of scornful bitterness
upon the features that had become
to her those of a saint, and where,
hitherto, she had seen naught but
glowing tenderness, she drew back as
though titling.
One piteous look she gave toward
tho old mail, who stood watching his
strange patrons with absorbed inter
est, then she shuddered, reeled, and
would have fallen to the Hour, had not
Mr. Bluikie caught her in his arms.
He bore her into an ad joining par
lor, and calling his daughter, left the
fainting girl in her care and returned
to where Mr. Ilaymond stood, with a
pale, set face, gnawing his moustache,
"Is the young lady better? J am it
physician, fan I be of any use pro
fessionally?" "So you are her lovcr-the lad who
was lost at sea?" sa'd Dugald Blaikic,
not noticing the question.
"What do you know about me or
her?" Kaymond asked, sharply,
"Fnoiigh to know that you have
fit used sullieieiit trouble ami grief by
your absence, without breaking the
bairn's heart altogether, now that
you have come back. Ilech, num."
continued III gald, falling into broad
Scotch, under the inllueiiee of excite
ment, "na lad ever had less cause for
cauldiiess or su-peecioii!"
Harry lta moml's lace Mushed and
his lip tremble I.
"Vou do not understand," he said.
"She win my betrothed wife, and I re
turn to find her married!"
"Married ?" echoed Dugald, blankly.
"Ves; married to a wealthy dotard,
and anxious to get rid of that ring
lest she should be disturbed by unpleas
ant associations."
And as he thus expressed this sug
gestion of his fevered fancy his voice
Wits raised iu resentful passson.
The bewildered girl beard the
words, ami standing in the doorway
with a face of marble pallor and her
slender figure proudly erect, she said:
"Vou are strangely mistaken; Dr.
Kaymond. 1 inn not married, nor ever
have been. I w ished to sell my ring
because I was in absolute need of
money. However, it is your's with
out any equivalent!"
And with si haughty bend of her
head, she would have passed him by;
but Harry suddenly turned and caught
her in his arms, and before she could
protest, she was seated on the sofa iu
good old Dugald lilaikie's parlor with
her repentant lover at lier feet.
"Oh, forgive me, darling pray for
give me!" he pleaded. "I wits hasten
ing to fmd you immediately on my ar
rival, when I wiis told thitt you were
recently married! But I was mad
wicked to doubt you, and throw my
self on your mercy!''
And he seized the little hands, ner
vously clasped together, and covered
them with kisses.
"It was my cousin," she answered,
reproachfully.
"Ah! but I knew naught of her, and
tome, sweet liea rt, there is but one
Fannie (ierrard in the wide world.
The Itluck King mul the While Pasha.
When tiordon I'asha was taken pris
oner by the Abyssinians be completely
checkmated King John. The King re
ceived his prisoner sitting on his throne,
or whatever piece of furniture did
duty for that exalted seat, a chair be
ing placed for tie1 prisoner considerably
lower than the seat on which the King
Silt. The first thing tho Pasha did wif
to seize this chair, place it alongside
that of His Majesty, and sit down mi
it; the next, to inform him that be met
him as an equal and would only treat
him as such. This somewhat discon
certed his sable Majesty, but on re
covering himself he said. "Do you know,
tiordon l'.isha, that 1 could kill you on
the spot if 1 liked ?" "1 am perfectly
well aw are of it, your Majesty," said
tho I'asha. "Do so tit once if it is your
royal pleasure. I am ready." This
disconcerted the King still more, and
he exclaimed, "Wha ! ready to In
killed!" "Certainly," replied the I'asha;
"I am always ready to die, and so far
from fearing your putting me to death,
you would confer a favor on me by so
doing, for you would be doing for me
that which I am precluded by my re
ligious scruples from doing for myself
you would relieve me from all the
troublesand misfortunes which the fu
ture may have in store for me." This
completely staggered King John, who
gasped out in despair, "Then my power
has no terrors for you?" "None what
ever," was t he Pasha's laconic reply.
His Majesty, it is needless to add, in.
stantly collapsed.
Too Many l.olireH.
"Oh, for a bulge in some vast w ilder
ness!" quoted Mr. Splat terly, the other
day, vt hen he was feeling in a poetic
mood.
"Should think you bad lodges
enough t" said Mrs. Splatterly. "Vou
are out now four nights in the week
to lodges, and if you had another in a
wilderness, I don't suppose ou would
be home at all, except to cat." Miil'llt
toicu 'l'ruumrijit.
Till: 110 UK IMMTOlt.
A towel foh(l several times and
dipped in hot water and quickly
wrung, ami then applied over the seat
of the pain in toothache or neuralgia
will generally afford prompt relief
Headaches almost always yield to the
simultaneous application of hot water
to feet and back of the neck.
Dr. Wilson says in the Snuthnt
H i. ( that it is a mi-tal.en idea t hut
no fruit should be ea' n at breakfast.
In the morning there i; an acrid state
of ih' secretions, and nothing is so
well fa', ulated to correct it us peaches
apples, The siikiII s led fruits,
such iis tigs, blackb. n ies. raspberries,
and st 1. 1 w berries, may bo classed
among the Inr' fruits atel medicines.
The Mii;in. iu jei'i i ; nutritious, tlm
acid purifying, and the seeds laxative.
We slu' ild I ink more to our gardens
for our medicines, and less to our drug
st-Ucs.
The ( 7e.i. i pi it:t!it reci ninn rids
the lo'low ing icmedy for severe scalds
ami bu i n.: cover the injured parts
freely with soft soap. If the luir.i be
severe, apply soon after I meed oil.
with a .li nlilul die-sing of limn'. This
caki s, ami fresh oil and Ib'tir can ho
added. hen this covering falls oil a
new kiu w ill have formed, aid no scar
left. The saiim journal says carron oil
is one of the best remedies where the
skin D unbroken, care of course being
taken to exclude the air from the in
jured part.
Dr. James Fihviit Briggs. of New
York has contributed to the .! -
Tri'.itii' an article on catarrh ami its
sequences, containing suine facts
which are important for everyone to
know. lie says indigestion ami
fatigue are the principal causes, though
inborn scofula is not to be lost sight
f, and the vaccine poison is a frequent
anse of (he l.lu id disorder which
eventually results in chronic catarrh.
Where there is the most vaecinnatiou
there is the must catarrh." In the
way of hygiene he recommends that
"the f I dioiiM he plain, the amount
iiioderat1, ami over-eat ing is to be
dimmed its a prolific sour. -e of mischief.
Due-fourth of (he food usually taken,
md frequent lyjnore iliin that, can be
iniitted with advantage. ''. I'mih'n
ILnUk M:,tlil:,:
All lili'xplienMe use.
In an article on "The Will and its
D'Tangeiiiont,"piililisheil in the Youth'
i'imiiniu. Dr. W. A. Hammond says:
I had once under my observation the
use of ji gentleman who could not sign
his nam unless he lirt rose from his
chair and turned round three times.
As he occupied a position of trust, and
one which reqiiir. d him tontlix hissig.
nature to papers very often in the
course of the day, the circumstance
caused him great annoyance. Thedis
order was developed very suddenly'
and quite unaccountably. Be was
one night, after a day of excitement
and fatigue, about to sign a check
which ho had just drawn up, when he
found, to his astonishment, that he
could not form the letters of his name.
He pushed the check aside, and began
to copy some words from a book which
lay on the table before him. He did
this with his usual facility. But the
moment he attempt cii to write his
name to them, he was powerless.
Alarmed at what he thought was it
symptom of some serious brain disease,
he threw down the pen, and rising
from his chair, walked several times
up and down the Moor, trying to ana.
lyze his feelings. There was no pain
in his head, his thoughts were collect,
ed, and there was no excitement except
that developed by tho curious circum
stance which had just occurred.
Determined, if possible, to overcome
the diMiculty, he again essayed to sign
the check, and, to his great relief, ac.
complishcd the undertaking without
the slightest apparent effort. Km
boldcncd by his success, he tried a
second time to w rite his name, but a
second time he found it impossible to
do so. liellecting upon the matter, he
recalled the fact that it w as only after
he had paced the Moor that he had
been able to write his name. So he
walked across the room two or three
times, ami then found that he could
make his signature with entire ease.
Further experience showed him that it
was not the walking that was necessa.
ry, but that it wits essential he should
turn round three times. Without
these preliminary gyrations it was im
possible for him to write his name,
though perfectly able to write page
after page of other matter. The con
dition existed for about a mont h, and
then by my advice he stopped writing
altogether and took a voyage to
Furope. He remained absent several
months, during which period he never
put pen or pencil to paper. On the
way back a subscription was taken up
on the ship for some charitable object,
ttuu be was requested to sign the
paper. Without reflecting for if he
bad, be would not have made the at.
tempt he took the pen held out to
him and wrote his name without the
slightest hesitation. After this he had
no further trouble. Such cases are, in
the present state of our know ledge, ab
solutely inexplicable.
Salmon FMiIiii; mi lailtindoi' ( oust.
One of the mast important of the
Labrador fisheries next to the cod is
that ol the salmon, tho.igh they are by
no means as extensive here as in the
low i r Cana li;n provine-s, especially
of Kcstigoiie ie and the Bay of f haleur,
on the south)sidp of the liner St. Law
rence. The salmon go up the river to
spawn; returning, they are found in
thi adjacent waters of th river along
the coast, in the late summer and ear
ly fall, The number of fish annually
captured is immense. The best, ami
in fact on 'y real, -ea-on for capturing
C'ifse ti .-ill is a few Weeks ill the caily
autumn. They are caught in t;ill nets,
large or small, with a regulation mesh
of six inches. The nets arc placed
alongshore nt the m .nth of the river
or across some channel of the stream,
and i-iited even day. The fish en
tangle themselves in the meshes, which
are made sufficiently large to allow the
the young li Ax to escape by pasdlig en
tirely through them, and are held
until th fisherman comes and sccim.M
his catch. The lish arc then cut open
from head to tail, and carelully clean
ed inside and out, all the black skin
being peeled off t he bat k bone. They
are lien soaked iu fresh water, then
in salt brine, and linally packed iu
barrels. There are seldom more or
less than twenty-three li-h to a barrel.
As each barrel brings about $12 cash,
each lish is valued at lifty cents.
This is, of course, the first cost of the
lish.
Niluioti-fishiug is only in its prime
for about four weeks, between, say,
July Jo iind August 25. 'I his lishing
is plentiful all along the rivers on the
coast, and there is seldom one that ha
not sjveral lisherics upon it. I should
say that a barrel of salted salmon will
average about I'mi pounds in weight.
Salmon are, other than above, preserv
ed by drying, smoking, and canning.
The latter process is rarely, if at all,
employed in Labrador; the other two
seldom. They are smoked much as
herring are, and dried in the sun much
its codfish on lishilakes. Salmon are
caught with the hook ami line by
those w ho care to angle for them, and
as the rivers and bays are quite full
at ttie proper season, it is a work of
pleasure and prolit to practice the rod
with this king of lish in hi native ele
ment and at home, when he Is most
abundant.
Marrying Knrlj.
The New Vmk F.vening ZW says
obs'Tvatioii among one's a qu.iintauees
' shows the fact to be that pi ople do
not marry early nowadays, and, in
deed, as a general rule, do not marry
early enough. In many cases that
I event takes place as a result of pru-
detie:' and calculation.
The New Vm'k l.'l;i ' rejoins: We
cannot iigree with our contemporary
in regarding time as so important an
element in marriage. A girl can af
ford to wait t great in my years
rather than marry any one but the
right man; while, on the other hand,
it may be wise for a man to marry the
right girl as s on as he is sure he has
found her, no matter how early. As
Derrick sang, so he may say to him
self: "tJntliiT vi" ni-i'-liit'ls while i inn ;
lllil Tunc i-still ,i living.
Ami lliis sunn' flower III il -miles I.e. Inv,
To-iiiii iii will I"' ill in.;.
"Tlinn li. not cny, lull u-e your lime.
Ami while ye miy, n.i iinriy ;
For liiivin l.i-t Imr mice your ii'iiue,
Vmi ni:iy I'.iiovor miry."
Our contemporary speaks of pru
dence and calculation iu the same
breath, as though each was equally
objectionable in the selection of a wife,
but we cannot go so far. Surely pru
dence should hu an element iu every
matrimonial arraiigcm cut.
('o Slow nt First.
Burdette says: Learn to walk, young
man, before you try to prance. Don't
hunger and thirst for a boudoir car
w bile you arc the jniiiorjclerk, and have
to sweep out the store and sleep under
the counter. If you are a young phy
sician, don't expect to make it all in tin
first year. Your father rode four or
live horses to death before he was able
to put iin axmiiiister on the oilice Moor,
ami lean back in bis shvpy hollow
chair and announ-e that he would an
swer no calls after i? p. in. If you are
practicing law, remember that t lie old
attorney whose oMiee you are sweeping
out, wore w lute hair, and not much ol
that, before he began taking whoh
farms for single fees in small cases
And bear in mind, too, that they didn't
spend every cent of it as fast us they
got it.
ji.tiit ii v Tin: ton.
athril fni in 'I miy J Willis s n inr nt II
It mill it Wi IkM In I. "I'l.
"Human hair goods ure wotn more
now than t li y ever were," said a Bos
tori dealer w bo does a large business
iu such articles, "AH classes of ladles
wear it - young, middle aged and old
- some for use, bat iii"ie for ormoiu lit.
Men wear w igs only w hen they cannot
help it. Women wear false hair to
add to their charms. Short hair is in
demand now, in the form of Lisbon
and sea-foam waves and frizzes, and
the favorite color is chestnut brown.
The golden shade, so much in fashion
a few yeiii's ago, lias fallen .'i'l percent,
iu price. There is a great deal of com
pel it ion, and all kinds of hair goods
.'lie cheaper than they used to be.
Swili hes, especially, can he had at a
low price. Ladies formerly paid SI'i
to Nju for a good one, but they can get
an extra nil e s'yle at Inuii V to 4-10
to day."
"Where dues the supply of artificial
hair come from ';"
"Nearly till from Frame and tier,
many, with a little from other parts of
the continent and F.mrlaud. The
largest quantity ami best quality is
from France. It is ii"t the hu;r of
dead person i. as many imagine, but
comes from the heads nf living peasant
women and girls. It is gathered by
peddlers, who buy it for il trille- a
silk kerchief or some other triMe which
ph ases the fancy. Jt is taken to I'arr
an I sold to manufacturers, who ussor
il in lengths and shades for cxprnt to
Amei ica and other countries. Here
tiresome boxes with hair whi'li ha
imt yel sen liht in this' louutry. 1
will opin o,ie. There, you see the
form in which it comes. Little roils,
which I will pull out so. and you see
what will be pail of a Lisbon wave.
This is the I test quality of hair. There
is also an inferior kind, not much used,
which is trathereil from a-di barrels and
dust heaps of Paris and Italy, and
! assorted hit I lengths iiud shades. It is
the cheapest kind ol h.iir. Dealers
pay from to if p.! a dozen for the
switches, and sell t Iiimii at .! and !?2
ca. h. We see s .ine raw hair ill this
j country, but ery little. It comes
j nearly all from the iiunuerie I do
! not lliilili there Would be .V pounds of
il ill the half a t n of hair which 1 buy
i in ;i year. There are some inferior
! grades made by New York jobbers.liiit.
iilllhego.i l hair comics froin abroad,
i There are in Franco regular 'hair
raisers' that is girls who have their
i hair cut for sale everv four vears."
"What is the most expensive kind of
hair?"
"Natural silver white, like this, is
worth il "i or Wan ounce; sn, you
S'-e, it is worth more than its weight
j iu gold. Bleached white hair is worth
I only i an ouin e. Natural hair of or
' dinary shades i.; worth from $'i to fjii
' n pound, except the hair collected by
rag pickers, wliii h I rings only ftom fl
to t i. The value of different colors of
' hair depends mi the fashion. Yellow
I hair, not golden, i ! almost iiiides-t to
Us,"
I "1 suppose there have been gie.it im
: provemeiits in your art of late years.-''
! "Yes, indeed. You ( Id tell the
' old fashioned wig a mile off. but now I
can make it wig which will defy tie
i tectum. A great many top pieces are
j worn by men like these."
Here the hair dealer, greatly to the
siiipri-eof the reporter, lifted up what
: was to all appearance the natural hair
on top of his ow n head, and disclosed il
i cranium as hare sis a billiard ball."
i "Now," siiid he, "here is what we
I cull the Lisbon wave for ladies. It it
1 in the fashionable shade, but it is worn
lover natural hair of any color and
wholly conceals it. A great deal of
1 hair is required to niiike a g I wig.
The hairs have to be drawn through
! meshes one by one where the parting
is, iind at that part the meshes are
! made of white hair woven in pieces of
j different lengths and widths. Here
I are some of them."
I A few thin packages lay in a small
j desk drawer. They looked like coarse
muslin.
"There are is.'ii 0 worth there," said
; the dealer. "You can shut your band
: on iloii worth. A good wave costs
: from sf'i to i"iH, according to quality
' and color. Ornaments for the hair iu
latest style have Khine stones in them
; to sparkle at night. These cost from
'2-i cents to ijai each. Do I make falso
, eyebrows? sometimes, but it is hard
to do good work with them so they
i cannot bo detected. I do not make
falso mustaches for dudes."
j "I suppose you sell a good many
i light colored waves to dark haired
ladies?"
! "Ah, you may see many a pretty
' blonde on the street with black eyes
I which she cannot hide and black hair
which she can. Fashion rules all.
' Just now t lie color is medium brown,
but there tire constant changes in stvle,
enough to keep one 'on the go' all tho
lime." Huston Mole.
; 'J'lie nil- m-i- oil III-. I cm
. li- lele :i . w hile ellll !".,
llul never .me ill tin' Iniili'.i'
j A- while lis Ui.' 'nil" nt -cA.
j Ali'l the l i'lll'ls 1 1 1 . 1 1 1MOWII the IlloimlilillS
Willi W mul c.iMilcliylU.
I J'i.i ii mi-i..l, Ki'iiy iin-l mi l :i"'r
l:e..e v. . :iii li .li h lis I," ihl.
I
Str.li-h an-l I II I' the M I I
I'll .1 . ...hi - i...' ne ii urn h.-i. ii ;
I Si il. ll ....'I j; I I In" li..i..liliill.
I VVhe-e lu.'illht IM' Illi.) III'ViT tl.'liell.
' 'li I i -t:i in ' tie ill den ell. Il.llltie-S.
! SI ill ll.'I'l ill I'l.V llli'lde veil
The -Inn (.I'Imi-i.iT iiii.iiiilniii-.,
; 1 he ylciilil ol ill.' l'ur-otr-;el.
! HI MOICOl s.
I
'rut out the gaV called a lady to
her bu-baml who was being talked to
death by a bunk agent. D hurl his
feelings so much that he shut up bis
q illieii pages and retired,
'Ye., my wife is a good poker player,"
-ays a farmer. And then he added'
"Mio is al-o just as handy with the
tongs."
There are some iiKl' i iues which re
mind us of the poor fellow wlu said,
she couldn't get :t husband, and I
ouldn't get a wife, so we got IIUII'
lied." ' M lf.inade im n are not "born locom
: maud," because they are not made to
; order.
The e.irlv bird sometimes catches a
liody full of shot.
A private affair -the drill.
Much needed -g 1 bread.
Waiting for a ris.-The young lady
who hangs on a strap iu a horse sir.
A workman is known by his chips'
itul a barber by his shavings.
"Don't you think 1 have a good face
for the stage?" a-ked a lady with bis
rioiiie aspirations. ! don't know
llioiit the stage." replied her gllltnt
oiiipanion. "bill you have a lovely
face for a buss."
The proboscis of th bee." says a
cii'iit iiie writer, "has to be thrust two
md a half million times into the dow
n's of clover-heads to make u pound of
uiiiey." si range what :i difference
here is in the bu-iness capacity of the
;.vn opposite cuds of a bee,
Do you suppose eating angel cake
will make iin angel of me?" asked a
MiMphie young lady of the worldly
lining man. "I've no cimilit it, will,"
ie answered, "if you only cat enough
if it." Then she giggled and said
Why?"
A mother has miraculously cured
ut youngest hopeful of smoking !'
he laying on of hands.
When ii bachelor sjiv-s he is single
Ir.uii choice, it makes him mad to ask
din why the girl made choice of soin
)t her fellow.
Rxtent of the t ar's Kstute.
One may form some idea of the ex
ent of the possessions belonging to
, he Kussiau Fiiipcror as property
immediately attached to the (.'row n
when we hear that the Altai estates
i!..m vM'iiu area of iiMiiin.iioo des-
jatins, or over 17' '." square miles'
being a' out three times the .size of
Lngliind and Wales. The Ntrtdiinsk
estates, iu Pastern Siberia, are estima
ted ut about I s,i ii ii i,i ii hi desjatins. In
the Altai estates are situated the gold
and silver minis of Barnaul. Pauley.
Mnijov and LoMjepp. the copper
foundry ,it s.is.iim and the great iron
works at Oavrilov, in the Salagrov
District. The receipts from these
i norm. his estates are in a rediculously
pitiful ratio to their extent. In the
year ssj they amounted to 'i.'iii.n HI
rubies, or . i little more than V.'.i ;
while I'nr ss;I the revenue v as esti
mated at I s, than half (his sum, or
about iiiiMiuii rubies. The rents, o.,
gave a surplus over expense of admin
istration of about a million and a hall
of rubies. Hu the other hand, the
working of the mines showed a deficit
of over :i million; hence the result just
indicated. A partial explanation of
tills very unsatisfactory state of things
is to be found in the situation of the
mines, wlii- h arc generally in places
quite destitute of wood, while the
smelting works were naturally situa
ted in disl ricts where wood abounds,
sometimes as much as lHMt or 700
kilometres distant from tho mines.
The cost of transport of raw materials
became considerable in this way. By
degrees all the wood available in the
neighborhood of the smelting works
became used up and it was necessary
to fetch wood from districts of even
over 0i kilometres. Formerly the
mines re really penal settlements,
worked by convicts, who wero partly
helped by immigrants, whose sons
were exempted from military service
on the condition of working in the
mines. But since tho abolition of
serhloni this system has been quite al
tered, and there Is now u great deal of
free labor on the. ord'nary conditions.
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