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THE r.MW AM) THE SOLDIERS.
Jtor;tf nii.l irii'l.v tlie troopers riile,
Croat tr u li .1 in. mi willi h-.vor.ls ly sile;
They li.i 1 nl Ion Ions, they have ridJen
harl.
Thryii'' t r ivt l-tuiiiiil and hattle scarred;
TLtlAi l ;;riu!i'l shakes with their martial
it i"p,
AnA C" i e is the laugh of tho men of the
- ; cainp.
TVIc' ii Ii a l t whore a mother standi,
T. n I. .thy 1 i;mu- its little hands,
La .bin:; aloii'l at tin- pil out night
Of th iii'iiintud soldiers fresh from the fiRht.
Tb Car'ai" laughs out: "I'll give you thia,
A band In! id koKI, yo.ir baby to kiss."
Buiik-8 tin- i!iot!i( r: "A kiss can't be sold,
But Rladlv he'll ki.is a so dier bold."
IIelift- iijith'i balie wilh a manly prace,
And covi rs with kiss' s its smiling face,
I ftrouy cheeks, and its dimple 1 cha-ma,
. And it ernvs with delight in the soldier '
jinn i.
' : -4
"Not til f t the Captain," the soldiers call;
' llie.baby, we know, has akiss for all."
To the HuMiei's breasts the baby is pressed
By the strong, rough men, ami by turns ca-
reps, d;
And louder it laughs, and the mother fair
Smiles with imhU- joy as the kissei they share.
. ',Tr.t: eh a kisi." d ies one trooper grim,
"When It'll my boy 1 gave t hisil;"
"An I j is' sn -h a kiss on the parting day
1 gave t ) my girl as nsUep he lay."
Such wi re the words of the soldiers brave,
Vtflt'xir eyes wci'o moiit as the kiss they
Clurnqo ledger.
I What Came of it.
TUART WILLARD
was a kind hearted
loy, frank, generous,
honest and truthful,
but so lazy that his
mother despaired of
ever seeing him
amount to anything.
She' w is :i widow, with no one to
help her train hor son, and neither
advice, e.vpostu'ation nor argument had
any t il'-t upon him. He studied no,
ir re than was actually necessary to en-
fl" q him to kjop up with his classes,
1. no iiiuliitiou to b at. the head of
any of them, iind worked as little as
possible :i'h nit the house, though love
and consideration for hi mother pro '
veuto 1 hint from ever shirking his regu
lar ihtfi"s, such as milking the cow,"
' -otittiii;x wo 1 and bringing water. But
hestiiieil at her aghast when she pro-
-. poscl t T i : " he should take entire charge
'of the garden, devoting to it his time
before and after sdio 1 hours, thus sav
ing the expense of hiring hlp.
"O mot Iter, I never could," he said,
"the weeds would 1h? higher than my
' head in a month's time; I'm no hand at
a Take or a hoe."
' "You'i" no hand at anything, so far
as I can see," said his mother. "There
will have to he a radical change in you,
: Stuart, if you expect ever to win money
or position."
"I don't know that I care for either,"
answered Stuart. "I'm not one of the
pushing kind. A epiict life suits me
cst."
fAtid you'll be content to see all your
Lirtlids get ahead of you, I suppose."
Now, mother, don't worry" ami
Eiiiait looked really dis .v-sed. "I'll
come out all right never fear."
."There'll have to be a miracle worked,
- then," said Mrs. Williard, sighing.
"Laziness is the one fault of your char
acter, and it will keep you down all
your life."
.. Though adverse to exertion of any
kind, Stuart was a fun loving boy, al
ways ready for a frolic, and not apt to
think, until repentance was too late to
be of any a vail, of the right or wrong of
t"gool time. And he had three par
ticahir friends, who, in boy parlance,
"pever stuck at anything" when there
was fun ahead.
-They ;ill considered old Simon Peif
fer,.tln richest man in Westville, fair
game, for it was well known that ho
hated anything in the shape of a loy,
and never spoke to or looked atone, lit
tle Or big, without growling like the
rough old hear he was believe ! to lie.
He was an old bachelor, and lived
with a housekeeper and half a dozen
servants in a handsome house in the sub
uibs of the town, and he might have
thoroughly enjoyed his large gronnds,
fine orchards, and well bred live stock,
bat for the boys of the town, who mis
ehievously milked his cows, stole hia
fruit, tished in his trout pond, broko
down his fences, left his gates open,
and ma le themselves generally obnox
. iouB .
The culprits always managed in some
way to escape detection. Well did they
know the t riible example that would
-be made of the first hoy old Simon
caught. He openly declared that he
wonld show no mercy, and would know
how to deal with the offender.
We never know how our most trifling
impulses, if acted upon, may affect the
lives of others. When Ben Hopper
i '.Topped one May evening at the gata of
the little cottage tit which Stuart lived,
and asked if he didn't want to go out to
the old mill on the Creek road to hunt
squirrels, no intuition told him that he
waft doing something which was to lead
to.an event that would influence all the
rest of st mut'.s life. Stuart accepted
theimitation, of course, and on their
way out of tow n the boys were joined by
Tom Ilalpine and Luke Wright, who
were quite as fond of squirrel-hunting
". 13 were Stuart and Hen.
For at least half a mile after leaving
the town the Creek" road was lwunded
"on one side by a pasture belonging to
Mr.' 1'eitVi r, and so generously did it
abound with chestnut, persimmon and
crab tipple trees that the boys were
familiar with every rod of it.
But it was not the season now for
chestnuts, persimmons or crab-apples,
and the squirrel hunting party would
have gone whistling and shouting by,
had, not a handsome brown horse, quiet-
ly grazing the short grass, raised his
head at sight of them and whinnied
BofUv.
"I know something we can do a sight
'ier'n squirrel hunting," said Luke
T 'ier'n squirrel hi
Ight, stopping sh
V-o a ride '."
M in in for it " a
? "1 don't hel
"What do vou
in for it." answered Tom Hal
"I don't believe we'd iind anv
I'f -Is anyhow. They';
' I 'ey don't come aroi
JtW-y used to."
re gettin' so
round the mill
The brown horse had probably boon
feeling lonely, and was glad of com
pany, for lie made no objection what
ever when Stuart let down a pu r of
bars, and going up to him, took hold of
his forelock and led hiru into the road.
But he objected very vigorously to
having four lnrys on his back at one
time, and kicked and careered until he
succeeded in ridding himself of all four
of them.
"We'll have to take turns riding,"
paid Ben Hopper. "Each fellow can go
as far as the bridge, and then turn
back."
They had made a bridle out of a rope
Htuart had in his pocket and a piece of
wood they picked np in the road, and
the horse allowed himself to be guided
very easily. He seemed spirited but
very gentle, and had evidently been
trained to trot.
The lxiys acted on Ben's suggestion,
and took turns at trying the animal's
" must hnrf one more ri'leond I shall be
with th? rent of 'you.'"
paces, enjoying themselves so much
that they were loath to end the sport
when it began to grow dark.
"I mut have one more ride, and then
I will be even with the rest of you and
we can go home," said Stuart, as Luke
came trotting up and swinging himself
from the horse's back.
"Wouldn't old Simon be in a rage if
he should happen along now," said
Tom, as he helped Stuart to mount.
"This is about the best fun he ever
furnished us," laughed Stuart, . as he
rode away, "and he'll never be any the
wiser, either."
He went clattering up the road at a
good pace, and the bridge a rough log
structure was reached all too soon.
"I guess I'll go a little further," ho
thought. "There's no telling when I'll
get another ride, and I'd better make
the most of this."
But he went even a shorter distance
further than he intended, for, half way
across the bridge, the horse suddenly
stopped, gave a wild snort of terror, and
began to back. Stuart saw that the ani
mal M as frightened by an old tree which,
blasted by lightning and deprived of its
bark, stood at the other end of the
bridge like a ghostly sentinel, looking
almost snow-white in the uncertain light;
but, unaccustomed to horses, he did not
know what to do, and in his excitement
and alarm pulled too hard on one rein.
The horse reared, gave a wild whirl,
and the next instant went plunging
over the side of the bridge into the gulch,
nearly thirty feet below.
Strange to say, Stuart escaped serious
injury, being only stunned and bruised
by the fall, and at the expiration of a
few minutes was able to get up from
the bod of mud into which he had fall
en. But the handsome brown horse
did not move; he lay among the
weeds and stones with a broken neck.
Stuart could not lielieve at first that
the animal was dead; it seemed too hor
rible to be true. But all his efforts to
rouse the poor creature proving futile,
he sat down, sick and white, upon the
nearest stone, and shouted to his com
panions for help.
But his shouts were so faint that it
was a long time before they were ans
wered. Then the bovs came running
up, frightened at his long absence, but
utterly unprepared for the dreadful
news Stuart had to tell them. They
were terribly shocked, and gathered
about the dead horse, uttering many
expressions of dismay and sorrow.
"I don't know how I shall ever tell
old Simon," groaued Stuart. "Boys,
he'll just about kill me."
"Tell him !" exclaimed Tom Hal pine.
"You're surely not going to be such a
fool ! What's the use of telling him ?
WTe'll take away the bridle, and the old
fellow will never know but that the
horse jumped the fence and fell over
here by himself."
"It wouldn't he right to let him think
that," returned Stuart. "No, I've got
to tell."
"And bring all the rest of us into the
muss, too, I suppose," said Ben Hop
per .
".No; I'll promise not to mentiou any
of you. There's no need of it that I
can see."
"And I can't eeethat there's anything
to lie gained by telling reiffer," said
. Luke. 'It won't bring the horse to
life again. What's the use cf being
such a saint, Stuart ?"
"I don't pretend to be a saint," ans
wered Stuart, "but I'm not a coward.
I shall tell reiffer if he kills me the next
minute. It's all I can do."
"Oh, you'll think better of it," paid
Luke, as he removed the rope bridle
from the neck of the dead horse. , "A
night's sleep will cool you off."
But the night brought no sleep to
Stuart, so tormented was he by thoughts
of the lieautiful brown horse lying dead
among the weeds and stones below the
bridge, and when morning came it found
his resolution unchanged. He was, as
he had said, no coward, and he intended
to confess what he had done, irrespect
ive of con? c piences.
That Mr. reiffer would be very severe
he did not doubt for a moment. Per
haps the old man would give him a ter
rible thrashing or put him into jail. He
was sure to mete out a punishment
equal to the offense, and Stuart knew
the offense was very great.
He looked so white and haggard when
he came down stairs at 8 o'clock that
his mother uttered an exclamation of
alarm.
"You're sick, Stuart," she said; "yon
can go straight back to bed. I'll attend
to the cow."
But Stuart shook his head and went
out to the stable to attend to the cow
himself, He had not told his mother
about his misfortune, for he did not
want to worry her. It would be time
time enough to tell her when he had
seen Mr. Peiffer.
That she mignt not suspect that some
thing had recurred to trouble him, he
tried to eat his usual allowance of grid
dle cakes at breakfast, but every mouth
ful seemed to choke him, and he had to
give r.p the attempt in despair.
As soon as he rose from the table he
put on his hat and went out, despite his
mother's prophecy that the sua would
make him feel worse, and turned his
steps at once in the direction of Mr.
Peiffer 's beautiful suburban residence.
He had prepared a little speech with
which he intended to begin his confes
sion, but every word of it fled from his
mind when he entered Mr. Peiffer's
grounds and saw the old gentleman
standing only half a dozen yards away,
and an angry look on his face and his
eyes glaring at a young negro who stood
before him looking sullen and deliant.
'You needn't deny it, sir," were tho
first words Stuart heard. "I wouldn't
believe you on oath. You're the dullest
fellow I ever had around my stables,
but I did think you had sense enough
to put the bars up when you turned a.
valuable horse like that out to pasture !
You're discharged, and you needn't ask
for a recommendation, for I won't give
it !"
With a heart that seemed like a lump
of lead in his breast, and hesitating
footsteps, Stuart approached the angry
pair.
"Mr. Peiffer," he said, in a low,
shaken voice. "I want to speak to you,
sir."
"Well, Speak, and be quick about it,"
was the rough rejoinder. "You wantj
work, I suppose, and big wages. You
may as well leave, for I haven't any
work to give you."
"No, sir; I don't want work," stam
mered poor Stuart. "I want to tell you
that I took your horse out of the pasture,
and and it got frightened and fell
over the bridge."
For a moment, it seemed much longer
to Stuart in his agony of suspense, the
old gentleman stared at him m utter si
lence, his face fairly purple with rage.
"You yon young reprobate !" he ex
claimed at last. "You ought to be
shot !"
"Yes, sir, I know it, "answered Stuart.
"I was never so sorry for anything in
all my life as I am for this. But we
only wanted to have little fun, and
never thought of hinting the horse."
"You were not alone, then i" baid Mr.
Peiffer.
"No, sir."
"Who were the others ?"
"There's no use in telling that, sir,"
answered Stuart, true to the promise of
secrecy he had made. "I was the one
who was on the horse when he fell over
the bridge, and it was all my fault. I
ought not to have tried to cross the
bridge. I might have known he would
lie frightened at that old tree."
The angry flush left Mr. Peiffer's face,
and a very peculiar look came into his
keen gray eyes.
"Nevertheless, you had lietter tell mo
the names of the boys who were with
you," he said. "It will be wise for you
to do so."
But the covert threat con tained in
these last words did not causa Stuart to
waver an instant. He was very gener
ous as well as brave.
"I told the boys I wouldn't, sir," he
answered respect fully.
"They didn't offer to come with you,
I suppose '"
"There was no need of it, sir."
"Well, am I to look only to you to
pay me for my horse r'
Pay him ! Stuart stared at the old
gentleman aghast. The thought of
laying for the horse had never entered
his mind.
He knew payment was out of the
question. He had not a dollar of his
own in the world, and it was only by the
strictest economy that his mother man
aged to make her small income cover
their necessary expenses they did net
indulge in luxuries of any sort.
"That horse was a thoroughbred,"
continued Mr. Peiffer, his keen eyes
still fixed on the lioy's white, distressed
face. "I paid six hundred dollars for
him the day before you broke his neck."
"Six hundred dollars !" gasped poor
Stuart, his face growing whiter still.
"Oh, Mr. reiffer!"
"I can show you the receipt for the
money if you want to see it. I have it
here," tapping his breast pocket.
"Costly fun you had, eh V
Stuart tried to speak, but his tonguo
clove to the roof of his mouth.
"Yon haven't any money I suppose?"
said Mr. Peiffer.
"No, sir; not a dollar."
"You must work it out, then. Aro
you willing to do that '"
"Oh, yes, sir!" cried Stuart, the color
coming back to his face. "I'd be glad
to do anything to pay you."
"Very well; report to me to-morrow
morning at my factory. I'll see what I
can do for you."
Mr. Peiffer turned away, and without
another word went into the house and
closed the door.
With a feeling of profound relief Stu
art went home and told his mother all
nbout that piece of costly fun, its tragic
ending and the bargain he had made.
' want to tt'H you l ok y ur korM! Oht of
the rts.'uce.'"
"Mr. Peiffer is the man to get the
worth of the horse out of yon before he
lets you go,' was Mrs. Willard's first
comment, "but you did only what was
right in going straight to him with tho
whole story, my son. It must have re
quired a great deal of courage, and I am
proud of you."
Stuart was deeply touched by his
mother's praiiie, and the consciousness
that he deserved it made him almost
happy, in spite of the load on his
.heart.
It was a load that grew less with ev
ery day; for he soon became very useful
in the factory, and as he wrote a good
hand and was quick at figures, he was
put into the office and taught how to
keep the books and invoice goods. In
this way he learned every detail of the
business.
It was very hard at first, of course,
for Stuart's great fault stood in the way
of his progress. But no one could le
lazy very long where Mr. reiffer was,
he was such an energetic, industrious
man himself, and he seemed to take
particular pleasure in pushing Utuart
along. ,
Stuart ascribed this at first to malice,
and a desire for revenge; but bethought
differently when he knew Mr. reiffer
better. He found that a kind heart
beat under that exterior, and that the
old gentleman appreciated at their full
value the virtues of truth, sincerity and
manliness. ;
It was two years before the subject
of the debt Stuart owed his em
ployer was mentioned between
them. Then one day M Peiffer
called tho young man into his own pri
vate office.
"I've been expecting for some time
that you would speak to me about that
six hundred dollars you owe me, Wil
lard," he said; "but you have not men
tioned it."
"I felt sure yon would tell me when I
had worked it out, sir," replied Stuart.
"If I say I consider the debt paid
now, you will lie wanting to l jave me, I
suppose," said Mr. Peiffer.
"Not if 3rou want me to stay, cir. I
shall not go to school again. I am 18
years old, and it is time I begau to help
my mother. I'll stay here if you want
me to do so, sir."
Mr. Peiffer gave a short laugh.
"That's modest, Willard, when you
know as well as I do that I couldn't get
nlotitr witboiif von now Tim ilnv von
came to me like the brave, hones't bov
you are, ami confessed that you had
killed my horse, I mado up my mind
that you were the boy I needed here.
It was worth more than six hundred
dollars to me to Iind some one on whose
truth and honesty I could rely implic
itly. If you stay with me, Willard, I'll
allow you a good salary from this day
"Jf I tny I consider llw, MA paid now, you
will be wanting to leace iie."
forward, and there'll lie nn excellent
chance for promotion to something a
good deal lietter."
Of course Willard stayed, and the
"something a good deal ljetter" proved
to lie a junior partnership at the end of
eight years' service.
So you see Stuart had reason to be
thankful that the principles of horiesty
and truth, instilled into him by his
widowed mother, led him to make the
confession which resulted in curing him
forever of his great fault, and placing
him in a position of honor and trust.
Examiner.
She Cot the Cloak.
When Mr. Montgomery came home
the other night he found Mr. Mont
gomery crying. Great, salty tears chased
one another down her fair cheeks.
"What is the matter, dear?" he ask
ed, as he placed a new clove in his
mouth and prepared to kiss her.
"Oh, everything is tho matter, " she
soblied as she placed one arm about his
neck and laid her head down on his
shoulder. "I want to die."
"Oh, no yon don't, dear," ho remon
strated. "Tell me what is the matter.
Now do."
"Fergy, she questioned, "do yon
love me as much as you did when you
married me ?"
"Why, of course I dc. What put
such a question in your head ?"
"Are you sure that you do ?"
"What do you mean, Ellen ? You
know that I love you as much as I ever
did, and more if anything."
"Don't lie silly, Fergy. How am I
to know it ? The minister was here to
day and said that a loving husband was
continually showing his devotion for his
wife. He always bought her everything
that she wanted and did everything she
asked him to do."
"Yes. What are you driving at ?"
"It pained me when I heard that, and
I have been crying all day."
"Have I been unkind to you ?"
"No o-o, but then t' ' minister went
from here over to that hateful Mrs.
Brown's, and I know that he said the
same thing to her."
"Well, what of it?"
"Nothing; only Mrs. Brown is going (
to have a new sealskin cloak, and she
will go around and tell what the minis
ter said. Then she will tell how much
her husband loves her and hint that you
and I are going to separate."
Mr. Montgomery ordered the new
cloak the next morning, and incidental
ly put out a story about the minister
having lost a great many friends, and
that he had lietter look for a different
field. Minneapolis Jonrw I.
He Needed Rrst.
First Omaha Youth W hat's tho mat
ter? Got a day off? .
Second Omaha Youth No, I've re
signed. " What for?"
"Nearly worked to death. The store
tvas always crammed full of customer's,
md it just kept me on the jump all day.
Couldn't stand it."
"But what are yon going to do now ?"
"I shall try to get a place in some
store that don't advertise.
OrrowruNiTiEs are like vacant lots.
They must bo improved to be profit
able. "
The shoes of an evening dress are
ilways correctly made of the materials
af the gown.
Telegraphic Ticks,
Masked men robbed a
pouches near Gibb, La.
coach of rr.ail
Fire destroyed the large wholesale
grocery house of Porter fc McRea, No.
3G1 Front street in Memphis, Tenn.
Immanuel Presbyterian church, one of
the finest edifices in Milwaukee, Wis.,
was totally destroyed by fire.
A large portion of the town of Hieks
ville, Ohio, includingthehandleand stave
mills, was burned . Loss 100, 000. There
is much suffering among the homeless.
A powder magazine explosion at Aloy,
China, November 21, destroyed one
fourth of the buildings in the town,
blew fifty' soldiers to atoms and killed
several hundred of the inhabitants.
A collision on the Utah and Northern
Railway, near the city of Dillon, Mon
tana, killed one engineer and seriously
injured several firemen and brakemen.
All the employees of the Union fJlass
Works, of SonuTville, Mass., in
number, finished up their work on Satur
day morning and left, refusing to accept
the manufacturer's list of rules for the
coming year.
The bridge across St. Mary's River has
been rebuilt, and through connection is
restored between Savannah and Florida
over Wayc ross Short Line.
The loss by the recent fire iu the town
of Houman, La., was 150.000; insur
ance, $17,800. Many families did not
even save their wearing apparel.
The freight employees of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company have demanded
an ad vance of wages for over time. No
trouble is anticipated.
Win. Herrig, of St. Francis, Ark.,
who shot his wife and her paramour and
burned his house, has been lynched.
Patrick O'Brien, of Iowa, was picked
up dead drunk in the streets of
Cincinnati, Ohio, with if 8.000 in cash,
6,000 in lionds, Insidcs valuable jew-
elry, in his pockets.
The engine-house of the Equitable Gas
Works in New York was blown t J pieces.
One man killed .
Perkin, DuPee & Co., stock brokers of
Boston, have failed. Liabilities $!K, -25ti.
They offer GO cents on the dollar.
The cashier of the Herkimer New York
National Bank has absconded with s0,
00() to Canada.
.Tone's Shoe Factory, at Stafford. Mass.
was burned to the ground. Loss SO,
000; insurance 35,000.
Near Ilarrsburg, Cabarrus County. N.
C, a negro named White shot and killed
Green Johnston, colored, wilha revolver.
Three men in Rutherford County, N.
C, named Alexander, all brothers, set
upon a white man named Cox Robbins
and stabbed him fatally.
Rev. Geo. S. Williams, of Nashville,
Tenn., has telegraphed the congregation
of the Raleigh Baptist tabernacle his ac
ceptance of its unanimous call to the
pastorate, J
The Newbcrne, N. C, jieojde are quite
dispirited in regard to the recent decis
ion of the supreme court in the matter of
the election on the question of the $100,
000 subscription to the Wilmington,
Onslow and East Carolina railroad.
Deputy Sheriff Whittington brought to
the penitentiary at Raleigh, N. 0., from
Greensboro a negro girl named Mary
Hairston, who is sentenced to one year's
imprisonment for throwing stones at a
train at Greensboro. She is the first
woman ever arrested in the state for that
offence.
A few nights past there was an affray
at Shaw university, colored, in Raleigh.
N. C, lictween two students. P. P.
Strectcr and AValter Scott. Strtcter's
brother took a hand. Scott seized a stick,
with which Strectcr had attempted to
ti ike him, and struck Strectcr on the
head. Strectcr died. It is claimed that
his death was due to pneumonia, and not
to the blow given by Scott.
The executive committee of the North
Carolina Teacher's Assembly met in
Raleigh last week and arranged a pro
gramme for the next meeting, w hich will
be held at Morchead City next June. The
assembly now has a memlw rship of 2,000.
It was decided to lay the corner stone of
the assembly hall April 2nd. That cere
mony will be wincssed by several schools
which will make an exc ursion to Morc
head City.
investing Ren Franklin's Monrj.
In 18D0 will end the term of 100 yean
during which the cities of Boston and
Philadelphia have cadi enjoyed the reve
nue from a bequest of $5,000 made by
Benjamin Franklin. The money was to
le loaned out to young married artificers,
and the trust has been executed, although
the lapse of the century requires a new
disposition of the funds. It is significant
that while in L'oston the $5,000 has
grown to nearly f :J2tM.'00, in Philadel
phia the $5,000 has become only $10,-
000, and that in both cases the amount
is less than Franklin estimated it should
be. But as the natural philosophers of
Franklin's day generally fell short of
the sage in ingenuity, so too the succes
sive boards of trustees have been far
from equal 1 im in bi sincss ability. It
is interesting to note, however, that the
twofundstll exist, and that art of
the l'oston lecrve goes in the purchase
of a public recreation ground to be
known as rrank ia Turk. ELciricJ
Interesting 1o Wymen.
A philosopher may hold forth on tho
immutability of T me, the indestructi
bility of Cosmos, the popularity of the
equinoxes, the d integration of the
Iiclva Lockwood party or the differentia
tion of female suffrage, but he can't in
terest the average woman one-hundredth
part as much as a cut in the price ol
hairpins or a four-line announcement of
a remnant sale. Binghamp'on RepvMiean.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
The hat pin grows in size ar.d novelty
of decoration.
Passementerie and peltry stand first
among wrap trimmings.
Cloth bonnets to match the costume
are very stylish for street wear.
Braided felt is made to imitate fancy
straw. It is fashionable and new.
Dotted tulles and colored blonde lacca
are favorite fabrics for evening wear.
Miss Ellcrs, M. D., receives $18,000
for prescribing nice things for the Queen I
of Corca.
Brown and white is still a favorite
combination particularly for little chil
dren's garments.
Rolled bands of fur instead of flat are
the fashionable freak in trimming furs for
outer garments.
Belt clasps are oftcner used thar
buckles, they being more convenient and
quite as effective.
The newest lace pins are of oxidized
silver, with mountings of antique,marine
and military subjects.
The use of soutache braid in two
widths is very effective and is seen on
costumes and garments.
Green velvet short wraps are made
with string sleeves and -arc as stylish as
anything in colored velvet.
A woman, Mrs. A. H. Holloway, has
been given a five years' contract to clean
the streets of Buffalo, N. Y.
Miss Mary B. Coleman is Register of
Deeds for Clay county, 111. One of the
first women to hold 6uch a place.
The tiny edge of ostrich feather nich
ing which is used on hats or bonnets is
becoming and makes a pretty face trim
ming. Gobelin blue is still one of the most
attractive colors of the season and is
combined with almost any dark, rich
shade.
Miss Annie Whitney, the sculptor, has
won high praise for her bronze statue
of Lcif Erikson, recently unveiled in
Boston.
Shirts of lace, sown lengthwise with
ribbon between, alternating with bands
of silk embroidery, are stylish world
without end.
Half-sleeves of silk or moire, longest
on the inside, are worn over full sleeves
or lace or close one3 of velvet and are
abnormally ugly.
Lizzie Bell Sinclair, of Everittstown,
N. J., celebrated her twelfth birthday
recently by completing a bed quilt that
contained 11,210 pieces.
Pnncesse gowns .jol two fabrics have
the fronts of the different materials, the
right lapping far over the left, which
shows as an under-waist.
Fancy stripes in velvets make very
pretty petticoats for young girls, and at
any age they miy be worn this season,
for bright plaids and gay stripes rule the
day.
Except in jet, beads are giving pla?e
in dress trimmings to metallic threads,
which are used for appliques or other
embroideries, either alone or mixed with
cord.
The serpent ring is most worn as the
ancient symbol of eternity. A jewel in
the head does not harm the significance
and adds much to its effect. An emer
ald h effective.
Shot stockings are shown to wear with
evening gowns. Some of these h;ve
openwork stripes in relief, which run
from the foot to the ankle, then cross the
leg horizontally.
A Louis'ana lady of aristocratic rear
ing, who was once famous for her wealth
and the number of her slaves, now earns
a few cents a day by picking cotton on
the plantation that was her own before
the war.
The parures and skirt decorations in
artificial flowers arc very elegant and be
coming, and arc imported in a variety of
beautiful trailing buds and blossoms, the
jessamine being among the newest and
most graceful.
Silken fabrics were never cheaper than
at present, and being light in weight and
comparatively durable, it is little wonder
if they continue to attract the majority,
particularly as this is a fashionable sea
son for silk of all kinds.
Passementerie in which there is a
metal thread is very stylish and can be
made into a very appropriate trimming
for an outer jacket orelrcss trimming
either. It comes in sets for vest, collar,
and cuffs and sometimes revers.
At a church entertainment in Wash
ington recently, boxes of luncheon were
sold to the vounir men. and in each box
was the card of some young woman who
was pre cnt. The purchasers were sup
posed not to know what names were in
the boxes they bought, and each was cx-
pected to share his luncheon with th
girl whose name he found in the box.
One of the most prominent and lieau
tiful society women of Chicago takes
all the exercise she gets in her room.
The major poit'on of this consists of
quick and graceful movements of limbs,
performed before a fine large mirror,
each movement being repeated a score of
times, until the whole series (fifteen) has
received due attention. Then she
"rests," at which she is also an adept,
and risrs reinvigora'eel and refreshed.
In has pies fancy has not merely run
riot, but gone to seed. They are of all
conceivable shapes, sorts, sizes, colors
and combinations. Some have a round
bick, over which the draperies button;
others, tho well-worn and venerable
postillion, yet others leaves of . two or
even three materials overlapping each
other, whi'c the fronts are even more
various. Three pleats eich side the vest
narrowed to a point at the waist line is
new and stylish to a degree, but any
combination of vest rcver or lapping
front that the mind of woman can con
ceive is good and high fashion.
A Clock Without a Tick.
A curiously considerate invention has
just been produced in the shape of a
noiseless clock for sick room. In place
of the usual jcndulum, the hands arc set
in motion by the unrolling of a chain, the
cnel of which is fastened to a buoy float
ing in a tank of liquid, this t'uid es
capes at a uniform rate, and ean be
uti.izcd to feed a lamp-wick, thus giving
the apparatus the double character of
clock and lamp. When the lamp is
lighted the necessary eUminution of
liquid takes place by combustion, at
other times bj a carefulljr regulated
dropping.
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
HUMOROUS NOTES CLIPPED
FR03I OUU EXCHANGES.
He Read a Piece. She "Will Make
11 im Tir.Ml. He Wanted the
House. Not "Worth While A
Willing 31 art jrr, etc., etc.
A WIND IXSTRUMSNT.
Socialistic Orator: Yes, my down
trodden fellow sufferers, the time has
come "
Crowd: Hooray I
BROKEN CP.
Wife? Why, James, where have yon
been ? Your clothes are torn, your face
is scratched and your hair in confusion.
What's the matter?
Husband Oh, nothing. I just tried
to pass a shop where fall opening of
bonnets was in progress.
HE KNEW BETTER.
"I tell you what it is, Gus; Aramin
ta's father can't appreciate us. He has
no soul."
"Oh! he hasn't! eh? Well, if you'd
been in my place last night you'd have
thought he was all sole."
CARRIED HIM OFF.
Judge. What excuse have you to
offer for this violent assault ?
Prisoner. I was carried away by an
uncontrollable temper.
Judge. Well, I'll see that you are
carried away by the Sheriff.
BOSTON AWAT BEHIND.
Teacher Now, children, I am going
to tell you aliout the prophet Daniel,
who, though cast into a den of lions
New scholar (fresh from New York)
Ilavo you only just got on to that here ?
Boston Record.
ENOCCiH IS A FEAST.
Old Man (with emotion) Do you re
alize, my dear sir, that you are asking
me for the only daughter that I have ?
Young Man (calmly) Yes, sir; but if
you had a dozen I wouldn't want but
one.
A DIFFERENCE.
"Uarp" says that most ot the folks
that make a success in the city come
from the country. The rule works loth
ways. When a city man buys a farm
he raises cabbages at $5 a head, which
no farmer is ever able to do.
ADDING INSULT TOO INJURY.
Mr. Oldboy (a bachelor) It's all
over, Gussy, my boy. Miss Smith has
refused me."
Gussy I suppose she let you down
easy by promising to be a sister to you?
Mr. Oldboy (bitterly) No, b'thunder,
she said she would be a sister to me!
THE LATEST.
A North Side matron bought a roll of
oilcloth at a neighloring store.
"Shall I have it delivered.'" asked the
merchant.
"No, thanks, was the reply. "I
shall carry it home, and all the women
on our street will think I have the very
latest thing out in the way of a pocket
book.
A MASHER.
Smith Don't you think I could be a
masher?
Jones Certainly, you conld.
Smith How shall I begin?
Jones You've already begun; I not
iced the baby put a ripe tomato in the
chair before vou sat down. Omcifta
Herald.
ON THE PLATE.
She James, do you know yon put
three buttons on the plate in church to
day ?
He I knew w hat I was alxmt.
She James, lierhaps you elon't know
(hat I bought those buttons yesterday
for my new dress and paid 50 cents
apiece for them.
ONE FOR THE MICROBE.
Mrs. Noseup has always contended
that her husband's tobacco habit was a
vile thing.
"There," remarked Mrs. Noseup, as
she turned from the scientific journal,
"it says here that there are no microbes
to lie found in tobacco."
"That's where the microbe shows his
good sense, said Mr. Noseup.
A GOOD TIME TO QUARREL.
A man went to the house of a neigh
bor to get him to indorse a note for him.
The neighbor, however, refused, say
ing: "If I was to pit ray name hll't ye wad
get the siller frae the bank, and when
the time eaine arooud ye wadna 13
ready audi wad ha to pay't. sae then
you and me wad quarrel, sae we mae
just as we-l qua? rel tho noo as lang's
the siller's in my jiouch."
HE WANTED IT.
Real Estate Agent I'll le honest
with you, sir, so that if you rent this
house you will have no reason to com
plain. Prospective Renter Well, what's the
matter f"
"There's a general belief among tho
neighbors that this house is haunted."
"The deuce you say! What sort of a
ghost?"
"A woman with long black hair, who
goes from room to room at midnight,
passing through doors and walls, and
finally vanishing."
"Just name your figure for that house,
and I'll move in to-day,"
"You're not afraid '("-
"Afraid ! Why, I'm running a dime
museum at Kansas City, and a card like
that would paralyze the town. I'll lasso
that ghost or die, Nebraska State JquT'
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