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8ft-! Cjjhafftam Record, H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOR AND rnorP.IETOB. Vtf J If fIJH -K Bates or ADVERTISING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION i vime )-ure, one Siuertlon, OoaajoBie, two luseiitonn,. Ooeajnare.nm' nioiiih, L0 I.M One en y, one yenr, Oneeopy, six mouths One copy, Uirce uiuu'.hs, i 1.00 VOL. VI. I'lTTSHOItO', CHATHAM CO., X. C, MARCH 13, 1881. JO. -7, serkdTeitlaemont(UbralcovUat9lD '(lie I'le'l'iid liuoil. Ji if flrti'H Im nilll llli:. lilffl ..(. lll'il' llU'.-llt I' ll' llll 'llii-clt liii h imit. own mmm-i -nke. I (our I li iir Inslonh my h.itiil mil tiike- II' .-liimM I I'm. Si nn- Jiiy tu linil (nil, imiiii U gt nil'i; lo licni ') It- -.1 ret nr..- r.mislir-tl, never in ivliiin; The hitler (iii li in l.-:tt n 'III . I I Innl "inmi In pliz.i I' mi nimi li. iiii: must .. mmr iihht wise, 'llnnuli lilimlini; Ki iel Uirnmli Imimiig I en i ( I'liliimiii tl.t.-c will Ii ar-' 1 oi ihmieji, in yiiur ill ,ir run. A i ti i i - uli (hi'il ilniilin uii'lci hi. 'lluil Truth .i.. ho lew'- -.i rviliir, I'liith i liii'l'iiiiiiistiT ; 'till nil ii iv mhiI h nlniUi'ii inl i ilmilit I I nlil l l" . HI. tl .ID nilll'Kll This pill l ine jiriinii' l. I lui' nit' llim no UI'HC Let nil In' ii- Im I'nii. A TELEGRAPHER'S TALE, "Ami must you really go away ami r -to tin all night in that nasty old box of yours, and leave your Little Hose bud to Imagine all sorts of horrid things happening to her poor old boy? Couldn't you stay at home just for this one night V" "Couldn't possibly do it, my love," Bald I, struggling into my overcoat. My wife lingered by the porch, follow ing ino with her eyes ; and so long a:i the house was in sight I could, on look fng lack, free her white dress in the light which streamed through the open door. At the time of which I write I was Telegraph Superintendent on a line of railway. One of the clerks who was on night duty had been taken suddenly ill, and 1 bad taken his work myself until such ti.r.o r.s bo shoul I recover. 1 had only teen married a few months, nnd was by m means reconciled to leaving my wife to pies the night in that "nasty old box," ns Mug called It. Hut it was a necessity, and no grumb- ' ling of mine could mend the matter. 1 A drive of about eight miles brought me to my por.tj but on that night my j mind was idled with a ;uo iudellna- ! ble fears, for which 1 tried In vain to ' Recount. Tim night was clear and .windless and away in the north-western ' sky tho aurora borcalis was Hitting to ! and fro in a thousand strange fantas- ' i tic shape.?, j On entering tho telegraph station. the clerk whom I ha 1 come to relieve ! was ready to go. J "You won't have much work to- : night," said ho. Tho instruments are) unworkable; no si jn i!s have been re-1 reived for the last Hire" lnuus. "Good 1 uight." When I was left a! :ip I found that ! It was ns he had said. I drew my chair ! to the .tovo, and, taking down a book ' which I saw on a shelf, 1 tried to in- ; tcrest myself in the story; but it had no power to quiet ray wild, wnndering j thoughts. While I was turning list-1 li'3-Jy over the leaves the stillness was j startled by the sharp, quick clanging 1 pf the electric boil, tho usual signal to j prepare to read oil a message. "With i ii shiver of alarm I turned quickly to ! the instrument; but soon perceived that i tho hell had lee.i rung by no earthly j power, for the vibrating needle. made no intelligible sign, and 1 knew that i the sound had been produced by a cur- rent of ntmospheric electricity acting j upon the wires. Smiling at the ner vousness which caused me to start, 1 turned frgan the desk and again sat flown by the lire. 'Jut Btnile as I would, and n ason as l might, I felt I was succumbing to vague feelings. Thinking the at 11103 there of the room, close and hot, might have something to do with my pecu liar condition of mind, I flung open the door and, stepped outside in hope that the cool air might scare away the phantoms of my brain. As I crossed tho threshold the midnight express crashed past with a f peed and force which shook- every timber of tho build ing, and uttering a loud shriek, disap peared into the tunnel at the summit of which my station was placed. "When It had gone thero wa3 stillness, still ness broken only by the sighing of the air passing along-the wires, heard even in tho calmest cf nights. From that my mind reverted to the earnestness with which my wife had asked me to remain at home that night, and her manner when sho bade mo good-bye. What could be the meaning ( it all? But I resolved to stay where I wasi and get through the night as best I could. "If this goes on," said I to my self; as I turned inside again, and poked up the coals with more noise than was necessary "if this goes on much longer I shall have to consult a doctor, that's plain." I Idled my pipe nd lit it, but the weed had lost its tranquilizing power. Again the bell rang sharply; but, as before, no intelli gible sign w;n made by the needles. 1 leaned my elbows on the desk, and with my head between my hands watche I their unending motions. An hour might have passed thus, when .m e more I was startled by tho clang of the bell. This lime it was louder and more urgent, and, it seemed to me with a peculiar, unearthly sound, such as I had never heard before. It seemed as if there mingled with the metallic ring the turn of a human voice tl e voice of one 1 knew. The needles. I now observed, began to make signs which I limit rst I; and slowly, as if some novice were working the instru ment, the letters, "e o m i" were sig nalled. No sooner had I read o IT the lin.il e" than, to my amazement, and terror, I saw distinctly the handle of my instrument, although I was not toilehing it at the time, as if grasped by Rome invisible hand, move rapidly and make the signal, "l.'ntlerstood," w 11 h the receiver of a linkage trans mits at the end of every word. A cold thrill ran through me. I fell as if every drop of 'blood were leaving my heart. And now I could perceive that another word was being slowly spelt out. JItit so terrified was I that I failed to catch tho signs. Again my handle moved, and this time made the tiiiiivil "Vi.l l'..,l..r-l 1 ' w;tl. I overwhelming feeling of awe, 1 watched the dials intently whil the let. ters were again signaled, and this time 1 read "11 o in e." There was a cessa tion of all motion for a second or two. I stood petrified with fear and amaze ment, half believing I was in a dream, for reason refused to accept the evi j dent c :!' sense. Could that be a mes ' sage fv.r me? If so, what hand had. sent it? The bell again sounded with a clangor still more loinl and unearthly, and alter a few uncertain movements, the magnets repeated the Words "Come home come home!" the handles moving as before. 1 could remain at my post no longer. Come what might, I felt I had no alternative but to obey. I ran to the house where the clerk ; live I, and on rousing the inmates and j gaining admission told him he must ' take my place immediately, as I bad ' bet a suddenly called away. In a min- ! ute or two I w:is dashing along the road on horseba"k in the direction of ! homo. I shall never forget that, ride I Although 1 urged my horse with whip j and voice until he llcv rather than gal- lopi tl, the pace was far too slow lor my excited mind, and at last, breathing and panting, we clattered up the long street of tlie village near which I lived. Suddenly a horse .;n I rider appeared at the other cud of the street aril a hoarse voice uttered a cry "Fire!" At the same in -taut the church bell was rung violently, and at mice the whole villago started into life. (ireat Heave n' my worst fears were realized. It was n.y own home. I thoked down the ag 'try, and arrived at the scene of the lire. The house was a large, old one, aiid when I reached it sni. ike was issuing in thiik murky, voliiii.es from the windows of the sec end llat, while, lieree t ingiies tif (lames were alrcad leaping; along the roof. A croud of men were hurrying confused ly about with buckets and pails of water, ".dy wife" I exclaimed, as 1 rushed forward, where is she??" "God knows, sir," said mm of the men. Without uttering a word I entered the house and ran along the lobby the wood work on each side w as one mass of blaing and crackling ilam lie f re 1 had taken three steps I fell back Minded, half-suffocated with the smoke. Two men caught me in their arms, and tried to restrain me by force. "Let go, you cowards!" 1 cried as soon as 1 could speak; and with the strength of madness, dashed ihein aside. I rushed up the stairs, and this time-rcached tho first landing in safety. Tho room which we used as our bedchamber led off a small parlor on this llat. ("rop ing my way through tho smoke, I found the door, but, to my horror, it was locked! 1 dashed myself against it again and again, but it resisted all my efforts. Despair gave mo strength; and lift ing my foot, I struck it violently against one of the lower panels of tho door. Another blow and it was driven in. "Maggie! Maggie;" I shrieked, "where are you?" but no answer was returned. Crossing the parlor I gained our bedroom door. To my joy, it was open, and stretched on thetloor 1 found tho apparently lifeless form of my wife. 1 bent over her, and on placing my hand on lit r heart 1 found it still beating. 1 lifted her gently and carried her in my arms to the window, which I broke open. Of what followed I am only dimly conscious; 1 have a confused remembrance of men bringing a ladder nnd strong arms helping us down, and tho peoplw cheering; but it is all very vague. My next recollection is that of lindin.T myself in my father's house bruised und wt'ii't, with my wife bend ing over me. We had been burned out. On tho evening of tho next day, when the winter twilight was closing round and the snowflakes were falling, Maggie drew a stool close to the couch on which I lay, thinking over the strange events here related. I lal saitl nothing to anybody regarding the warning which I had so mysteriously received. "Willie," said the soft nice of toy wife, '-if you had not come " 'Hush, darling; don't talk like that " "But it might have been. And oo you know, Willie, I had sin h a si range dream that awful night. You remem ber," said she, drawing closer to me, "the evening you took Mary and me into the telegraph ollice and told us all about the batteries and things which we couldn't understand, though we pretended to do so, list you should think us stupid?" Teriectly." "And you remember how, when 1 said I should like to sen I a message with my own hands, you made me take hold of the handle and then you guided it, while sent a message to your brother who was in the ollice at Lowe-toft then? Ami the end of it was, come home--come home!' which 1 re peated over and over, until 1 could do it without your help." 1 turned quickly round, but she did not perceive my startled look. "Well," .she continued, "the night before last, when you were away, I couldn't sleep for a long time after 1 went to bed; then 1 dreamed - such a horrible dream! 1 thought I was in your ollice ag lin; and 1 had lle l there because 1 was chased by some terrible thing. I did not know what it was but it was close behind me, and nobody could save mo but you. lint you wero not there, so I seized the handle and signed the words, 'Come home!' as you had taught me, thiuking that would be sure to bring you. Then, when you did not come, I felt its hot breath on my neck, as if it were just going to clutch me in its dreadful arms, and I screamed so loud that I awoke. Tho room was all dark, and filled with smoke so thick that w hen I jumped up I fainted for want of air. And, oh, Willie, if you had not eome just w hen you did I might---" "There, Maggie, don't let us think of it. I'roml Colliders, Years ago, there was in New York city an old shoemaker w ho had beeoiiii! wealthy through his trade and invest ments in real estate. His daughters, ambitious to move in fadiioualdu life persuaded him, aft'T much leasing and coaxing, to set up a carriage. They then asked that a coat-of-arms should bo painted upon the carriage door. "Yes," said the old n an, with that grim humor characteristic of the craft, "you may have a coat-of-arms, but it must be one of my own de.-dgning. You may paint a lapstone supported by an awl and a hammer." The shoemaker's da ugh ters con ti n tied to ride in a carriage nut decorated with a coat-of-arms. Hut what they would not idlow their father to do -to tell tho story of his business upon his carriage a London shoemaker did do. 1 1 is name was, .lames Lackingloii, and ho added to the profits of his cobblers stall by selling a few second-hand books. Abandoning shoe-making for bookselling, his success was such that in a few years he was owner of what he called "tho cheapest book-shop in the world," in which half a million ot volumes wero offered for sale. His method of doing business was peculiar to himself. "I found the whole of what I am possessed of," he said, speaking of bis fortune, "in small profits, bound by industry, and clasped by economy." "When be set up a chariot," as the phrase went in thoso days, he put this motto on its doors: "Small profits do great things." To the remonstrances of his friends, he said: "Tho first king of llohemia kept his country shoes by him to remind him whence he was taken. I have put a motto on my carriage-doors to remind me to what I am indebted for my prosperity." When a man who has risen into fame or wealth feels ushained of hav ing risen from a lower strata iu so ciety, and is anxious to kick into oblivion the ladder on which he has mounted, he shows a weakness that de tracts from the respect which his suc cess and talents would othei wise com mand. To Speak lljr ke Card " To "speak by tho card" means to "be as precise as a map or book." The "card" was a ilocuineiit iu writing con taining the agreement made ' jtween a merchant and the captain of a vessel. Sometimes the owner pledged himself, ship-tackle and furniture for due per formance, and the captain was bound to deliver the cargo committed to him in fcood condition. Hence, "to speak by the card" is to speak according to the indentures er written instructions. This old saying is often improptrly used in tho sense of speaking with authority or in possession of reliable iutoruiation. TIIK ART OI' HL ittiLAKV. Moral and Mthoil of an Kiilei irl in lluii.rlii-ritkrr. "Never kill a man save in self-defense; get caught rather than drop a man," was the prudent method of a celebrat ed cracksman. '-It's only the tyro or the bungler who iloiirishes revolvers ami quickly appeals to the bludgeon." "What is the prime quality in your busine-s?" "Nerve nothing else." "What is the b-.-t method?" "Itolilness. Many a job have 1 done right before the eyes of the people; done it just as though it was the reg ular thing, Ad I was just where I ought to be. I have had my pal tak -ing things out of a house when a coll ide of cops were walking by, and I stood with ii pencil iu my hand keep ing tally of the things. They thought it was all right, as 1 looked right at thein. I tell j on a person w ants to keep perlectly cool, and know what he is doing, and w hat he is going to do, every time. "The rigid kind of men are some how lacking. They are either too timid or too rough. It wants a line man, a real Damascus blade, to do .i neat job, There are plenty of oppor -Utilities, if ther" were only the men to fill them. I'.ut 1 was speaking of chances. The people are asleep; you are awake. They are timid; you are perfectly cuol. Yon know ju-t what totlo. You know jiist what they will tin if they w ake up. They don't know how many are in th" hoii-e, nor where you are. Most people are cowards in the night. Without any odds yon could get the best of them, but in the night, with the bugbear and the reali ty of a burglar in the house and they have spent all tho years of their lives in working up a dreadful fellow in their imaginations in such a plight, a man's house is like a foreign land to him, and he is a perfe-t stranger to the situation in his own Imun1." "Then you trust most to bewilder ment and fear." "Xn, we don't. A good j ib means getting in and out again without stir ring things up. It it comes to the worst, then the dread and fear and fon fusion which we cause al! help us, :md .sometimes the more fu-s there is ihe easier we i an get oil." "How do you feel when you are ah ne in a house at luiniilght running such terrible risks." "There, now, you have got about as. much nonsense into laat question a they usually do. In the first place, midnight is not the usual hour when n house is worked. Things are not so tpiiet then as they are two hours la ter. And then, if it were midnight what of it ? Midnight, except to cow arils, is not different from any other hour, only at it is a great deal safer for those like us. Alone in a house-' It is a little shaky at times, but gener ally safe enough; but that, isn't the way a house is generally Worked. There sin uM be two, and three are better. Terrible risks? We don't think of it in that light. There is something always fascinating in the risk, and it isn't considered objectiona ble. What do we think? How do we feci? Xow, look here, there isn't much time nor occasion for thinking ami feeling outside the job to be done. Your sentimental chaps don't want to be prowling about nights on any of these delicate 'rackets. Tho man who is going to stop in a bedroom of a strange house at 2 o'clock at night to consult his feelings had better keep out of that bedroom. The man who proposes to enter this profession wants to run slow on the thinking and feel ing line, especially when on duty." Myths About Stones. According to one theory it was a precious stone in Paradise that fell to the earth at Adam's fall, and was then lost in the slime of the deluge till il was recovere I by tin; angel Gabriel. It was originally a jacinth ot such ex treme whiteness that it dazzled people's eyes at the distance even of four days journey, and only gradually became black as it now is from shame and sor row for the sins of the world. Hut ae cerding to the better opinion it was not merely a jacinth of Paradise, but the actual guardian angel, who, having been sent to watch over Adam therein, was at his fall, and as a punishment for not having more vigilantly execut ed his tru.-.t, c hanged into a stone, and driven from Paradise, but destined to resume bis angelic form when the days of the wt rid are all numbered and lic islu'd. lioth Germany and Fiance still bear vestiges of the same capability of thought. In the former you may still be shown upon a certain heath a large stone, embodying a bridal pair and their followers, who were thus transformed because the musicians who attended them continued to play festive airs, though a thundcr-sbum broke over them as they were driving over the heath. You may btill learn a lesson, too, from the petrified form of a girl who, when once gathering llax on Sunday, swore she Would be turnei' into stmie sooner than go home ; or from two great stones, which are leally boys, so transfixed for quarreling over so sacred a thing as a piece of bread, the gift of God to man. Health Hints. Never sin .re. Never begin a dinner with pie. Never sleep in your overshoes. Never sleep on the lloor in winter. Never ride a thin horse bare-back. Never walk fifteen miles before breakfast. Never cany a barrel of potatoes on your head. Never put your feet in the lire to warm them. Never sw allow your foo l before you chew it. Never jump out of the window for a short-cut. Never sleep with your feet higher than your head. Never drink more than you can carry comfortably. Never give a tramp your summer clothing iu the winter. Never jump more than ten feet to catch a ferry-boat. Never go to sleep at night with al' the windows open. Nevt r leave the gas turned on when you retire at night. Never strain your eyes looking for faults in your neighbor. Never sit by a red-hot stove w ith a seal-skin cap and ulster on. Never thrust your l.nile more than hall-way down your throat. Never wear eye-glasses to improve your personal appearance. Never break the ice to take a bath dining the winter months. Never kick at an infuriated bull-dog when you have slippers on. Never jump out of bed in the morn ing before you hear the first bell. Never let your clothes dry on you when you are caught in the rain. Never put your head under the grate when you want to blow the lire. Never leave the kerosene-can where the cook may have free access to it. Never test the edge of y our razor on your thumb-nail or strop it on the palm of joiiz hand. Never walk into a parlor at a recep tion and ji ii t voir feet, on the mantel piece. It will cause the blood to run to your head. These hints will be found thorough ly trustworthy and reliai'le. Therefore the invalid would do well to cut them out and paste them tin the inside of his or her cranium. An Odd Washington Cliiiractrr. Caleb and doe Willard are among the wealthiest of Washington's most wealthy men, says a correspondent. They came here when they were boys, and worked at odd jobs until they to gether leased a tavern w here Willard's hotel now stands. Here they kept ho tel and made t-ceans jof money. due Willard is one of the char.n ters of Washington. All sorts of stories are told of him, and he is often deiiiiic.i nated the hermit. lie lives on Four teenth street, near the F.hbitt house, in a great brick house of dirty wh.te, which looks like a tomb w ith its tightly-closed blinds and its forbidding ex terior. He lias a wife, but he neer goes into society, and he is thought by many to be a man-hitter. A negro servant always answers the door, and it is impossible to gain admittance. Heceiitly I called on him at his busi ness den. Going through a narrow passage over an uneven and dilapidated lloor, I was shown by the negro jani tor up a pair of sleep stairs, and soon stood in the presence of .loe Willard, the millionaire. A qin er looking man with a big head covered with the w hit est of white hair and tho blackest of black eyes that ever looked iiuo mine, rose from an old chair as I entered. Tall, dignified, and rather good look ing. 1 thought him, and 1 noticed his great bushy white brows overhanging his eyes, his big nose and his strong jaws, lie was beyond a doubt a man of character. Ho was in a talkative mood, and, like many other rich men I know, bis hobby was making money. Ho discoursed for an hour on .lay Gould, Yanderbilt ami others, giving me interesting passsges in their ca reers, and intcrladiiig his remarks now au l then with a metallic laugh. Joe, W illard's ollice is a peculiar place. Its walls Is cracked and the old est of broken furniture stands about the room. Aerate of blaing coal is (rained in a wooden mantel, and on this stand in a row lilty or sixty glass ink bottles, which cost, when luil if ink, pirliaps live cents a piece. An old hi i k or two lies on one table, a broken horseshoe on another, and the lloor be neath has neither carpet nor rug, and age shows many a crack. On the wall above the mantel are numerous news paper clippings about wealthy men and how they had acquired their millious It is a curious tfea," PEAKI.S OF HIOIUHT. Flattery is a sort of bad money to which our vanity gives currency. There is no b'tt'T excess in the world than the excess of grat.tude. Animals feed, men eat; but only men of intelligence kmw how to eat. The truest mark of being born with at ijllillici is being hoi U without lllVV Poverty destroys pride. It is dilli- cult, for an empty bag to stand up- 1" i 1 1 1 . Whatever you dislike in another per son, take care to correct in yourself by the gentle reproof. Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as olten trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. Li tters of introduction are not al ways siicces-: ul to get a man into so ciety, any moie than eloquent obitua ries to get a man into heaven. Many are ambitious of saying grand tilings, that is. of being grandiloquent l.loqu' iice is .-p' .iking out, a quality few e.dceiii and fewer aim at. A more glorious n tm-v cannot bf g.inod over another man than this, that wlnii the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. Wolds of praise are almost as neee sary to waim a child into a genial life a; acts of kindness and affection. Jn- tlieioiis prai.-.e is to children what the sun is to ilovvers. Geie rosifv is tie' wealthiest feeling . .ii-i ol tlie litan. i cci as you woiuu.ii'i sulTering if you could, and you will have nearly all the self-satisfaction that, you would have had if you really had relieved distress. Jehu Willie Hoot It's Associate-. A gentleman in Washington has re- eei cd a number of inqiiiri-s by peoide ' wanting to kimw what became of the four conspirator in the assassination of ' Abraham Lincoln, w ho were sentenced to imprisonment at the Dry I'orlugas, Fl'Uida. After a diligent inquiry re cently, he h i i been aide to partially furnish th" lie.-ircl information. It will h" fris'i news to a good many people. IK vituuol .. Mu Id was the m.'sl p-.' .iiiii-.eii! ot th" four. -He was ti ne who set I'.ootli's leg, and fur-. nished w hat was believed to be false! information to throw liooth's pursuers off the trail. Samuel I'.. Arnold, a wagon-maker, provided certain vehi ' cles that were to be used ill carrying out the plot. Ldward-pangler. astage carpenter, bored a hole in the box oc- . ' copied by President Lincoln through , which Hooth could observe the Pn si- dent's position. Michael O'Laughlin ' was the youngest of the !o"l being a ' mere boy. lli exact connection with ii .1...... ,,.,( .mi,... ii' tn it 1 cnspnvy noes let appeal, "in from certain vry conspicuous cireiim- stances he was convicted of complicity, They were all scniin.'id dune :i'i, 1'. to imprisonment at I My Tortuga. Mudd and Arnold for lifean-l pan,'ler and o'Lauglilin for six years. o'Luiighhn was made ill by the fright and excitement of his arrest and i trial and never rallied, lie died at Fort .lefft r..on, Florida, in !-e; teiuber, lSi7, two year- and three months alter being convicted, tin February Id, 1m';i, the President issued a.t order that his re- mains be d. liveied to his motlcr, and they were ! rmight North and interred, lust before his retirement President Johnson pardoned the r.-sl, Ur. Mudd on the h of January, I ''.. and Ar- Hold and f-pnngler mi the 1st 1 1 March, lsi'i'.i. President Johnson in i. is proc lamation of pardon sets forth the rea sons why it was gr.uitel. While at Iny Tnrtug.is that pa't of Florida was v isited by the scourge e-f Vellow fever. IK Mudd vv is a ll. ces tui physician. 11" ha I had long expe rience in treat im! the disease, and had been Very successful all thr-ugh the ' plague; he was untiring and ctlicient in his efforts to relieve the ictinis o I the disease. The po-t iiic.lic.il officer .was stricken and died. hr. Mudd im mediately took charge of the hospital, and served most lao hi'iilly until the plague had abated. Arnold and Spanglcr made thcm-elve useful as nurses. They worked nigh and day. and strangely enough none of the three took the fever. Their n met during the epidemic was eonsi I. iv.l as a goo I and sufficient reason for their pardon. Ir. Mudd ret limed to his home near Surrattsv ille. M l., where he resumed bis practice, and died about a year and a half ago. Arnold awl Spanglcr din- appeared, an I have never been beard fru.i since. i I - j White toilets of all kind. appear U; .be mure than ever thn rage in Ibn ' I fashionable world; cn-aui. snowdror J . and ivory being g;.'npr.iiiy prrfrrml to : the crv trying l luirh of jn-nrl white : Khadca. Of white dresn fahrica thcr ' are an elegant nnd almost endless I ariety. Sunset. WViir Aiiiniii's iiiIip, iiiilil lifter nic , Nmii" in. limit -i .it-it. rule! Ilie wcti'tn ky. lll-.iivhiiii; III.. Mil.lilll iMtll .-il. ll l ii'll ll''ly II iii.iI ui'.iM 'l ill iilireini'llilli'leil liljlll, I llll il Willi I -il'lil III.: M:lll:l-i.lillli.'l! Illicit. Ilinl wn iilil mtcw li-.,Mleiteilii'H'i)ii lii'll, In I. 11 Ihe lin-il wml'l I'l.illlinHH ll;ill UOt lie. W hich lir.t II).. eh- .'c nl iiii.iiii-f ilnl imlile. j ,.,. ,.),. likm -icei-Uuc i-imcicr, : 'Im. eii'Ti-nl Mniui him-loi'ini' limn nl'nld. An I. n- the .Iriiwii-iionl ol one iiiiiieil Inl M.n-I,b ih.,-e .) . ,,,-.,, p.-en. mid 1 p,,. 1 (ill innl. 'ii-eiih Ihe ii'iiel ! '.veiling Slur llll- yl.Ml le il'tt e ill-.- I'llt ill!n III l b II, i mil 'I .VllllMe. JIFMOIMM'S. Cold wether A ib ad lam. A t h mi steal Taking a bath. Head beats I he stopped ( lock. A maiden elfm t -The fust leap-year pn I'osal. The man who takes me lieinegoes in for internal improvement. A man never sees th" last of a pair of iv i ly-in i c bo ils b-ilght for him Young la lb s are painting pictures of lings. Tiny aie so suggestive of b ap yi ar. lla el . rg.ins are t.l't"ii accompanied by two it. inks i, ne on the end and tin other standing behind. Micbeli'l writes that "woman is the salt of man's life." There i ;a proverb t Ii .it every time you upset the salt. t'-eie is a light. A timid voiing man has married a , , l l 1;. w oo. I- weight Vi rges cl 'S' ly U'Oli .'no pounds. "My il ii'.' be says to her, '--ball I help ynii over the fence '' No,' : ays she to him, "help tie f.'lee'." When a ladv living in ('In Isea sent I " !' ti'bu It a d.cti.r. she apologize I f-r a -king him to ,,.m.' such a d. lam-e. "Hoii't speak of il." replied the M. H. -I happen to have another , pat .cut in the neighb.-i h.l, and can ! thus kill two birds vv itii one .-lone." Mi I ,.h'- e.u I ..!.!' -'I.l'- nl' I ll ll .llllll- i.i .1 iiii'Ki n -hi. .link . I I H . lienll l.' . h,. I I:.' II. I -IM Il 'I "i.'C - Il .illl.!- IU.. .Il-I.ltll tli'iil.l": . A young woman who was maniid three lii. 'illis ago. W.I- asked how she was "citing iil iiig with the mysteries of housekeeping. "h, I'm learning verv fa t. Win, would Veil believe it. ,v!n day 1 exclaimed. '! hemmed a wclinvstll in six houisycstcr- lloiiks nail I yes. For more I ban a tlozeii yi ar the inau.ilael are nl hooks and eyes for women'.-and children's dresses may be said to have been ilea I, butt .mi bav in" s:iiei-se de l t ln-nt. lint, there are in- , , j , ,.,,. inll, ,, . ,.at , ., (,,ll,i . j ,., :vl,,. ,.Ni,..,'. this i hould prove I i j j,,. ,,, ..( ,vl!1 a ,,. th,-In arts J ,,f ;i,,mi. wi, ,;m. picsorvi d their ma- ' ,U,rv Irmn t e scrap In .in. Thiitv ! veal's ago the sta'e I' ConiU'i'tieilt had in. inula "tories within her territory that produced these liltle articles to tin- value of -il i Jo it aniiMaily at lil tetn cents a gross. Previous to 1'i0, or thereabout, hook an I eves were , made by hand, and s. ld at if per gross. i The n.a bines for making hooks and eyes are quite iiigenii.ii.. those for the hooks being capable of making itiuely per minute and those for the eyes one hundred and twenty per mini, te. That for making the hooks takes the wire frmn a reel through a straightener, cuts oil the w ire to the exact length, when a blade strikes the piece ill the middle of its length, and tw'o side blades moving simultaneously bend the wire double, laying the two halves el its length close together and paral lel. 'I ben t wo pins rise, one on each side of the cuds ofthew iie, to form the eyes of Cue book, and two semi-ro- fating pushers bond the ends around the pins, making the eyelets for sew 1 ng the book on to the fabric. The unfmishe hook is stiil perfectly llat, : when a horizontal pin, and a vertiea bender winking upward, curve the double end of the hook, and a pressei ' flattens the end to a "swan bill." The ! -''" s binned in another machine, but 1 h "f i"lai' appliances. F.rass wire is used for silvered hooks and eyes and iron w ire for the Mack or ja panned goods. Thesilver coating ! ' made by mixing an acid precipitate of silv' r with common salt and tin : t ream tart.i of commerce to pretdu-1 n pa ie. criain proportions oi im- I'aste ami of the brass hooks and eyc. are placed in a tumbling barrel, and by attrition and allinity the brass and silver unite. The articles, at thev come from the tumbling barrel, are of ' alusterless w hite, but are polished by lieing placed in cotton cloth bags with bar soap and rubbed with hot water under the vibrating arm of a wa.shiuj UlUChiDC,