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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XI.
NO. 18.
HIDGWAY. ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1881.
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Song of tlie Reaper.
My grand father was right little and old,
And crooked and worn was he j
Cut his teeth were good, and his heart was
bold,
And he swam thu waves of a sea of gold,
Hut ho conldn't keep up with mo mo me
Couldn't koep up with me.
Then hie 1 away to the golden plain I
Wo will crash and dash through glistening
grain,
And gather the wealth of earth and sun,
And the world wildcat when our work is done.
My father he was bent and ean,
But a widespread hand had he j
And his fingers they wcro long and clean,
And ho swung his broadsword bright and
keon,
But ho never could fight with me me me
Never could fight with me I
Then hio ! away where the Bunlight sleeps,
And the wide-floored earth a granary keeps ;
Wo will enpturo its bushels, one by ouo,
And the. world will cat when our work is done
The grain stalk bows hla bristling head
Aa I clatter and clash along,
Tho stubble, it bends beneath my tread,
The stackers' yellow tent is spread,
And tho hills throw back my song my
sosg
The hills throw back my song !
1 hen hie 1 where the food of nations glows,
And the yellow tide of the harvest flows,
As we dash nnd crash and glido and run ;
And the world will eat when our work is done I
Will M. CarMon, in Harper's Weekly.
MY FRIEND HARRIS.
" Thorp, Emily, I had nearly forgot
ten it I" I exclaimed, as I arose from
the breakfast -talilo. "I have invited
an old friend to dine with us this even
ing. Let us have those ducks which
were sent here yesterday, done in
cookie's best style."
" George, you are the most incon
siderate man ! " returned my wife, witli
a rebuking smile and shake of the head.
" Where my heart has gone my head
has followed," I replied, reseating my
self. " You've got both; I've been be
side myself ever since I married you."
I would here say to the reader that
this was the first week of our house
keeping, and that we had just ended
oar wedding tour.
" You are not always beside yourself,
sir. You are frequently away from me,"
Emily declared, recognizing the fuct
. that she was indeed my better-half.
" But I can't think of any one but
yourself, or I would before this
have told you of my meeting Harris, a
dear old friend, whom I had not seen
for live years. I know you will like
him. 1 wus in a great hurry when 1
found him, came near passing him, but
a well-remembered limp he has made
me stop, lie was much changed in ap-
Eearanee; he wears a full beard now, but
is eye had the Fame merry twinkle. 1
asked him when he had got back from
Europe, but didn't aw ait his answer, nnd
commenced about yon, and then gave
hi in our address. He'll be here to
night. You've heard mo 6peak of
Harris?"
" You've so many friends, George '
" Well, you'll like him, any way, anil
now I'm off. Business detestable
business!"
Upon my walk home at four in the
afternoon my memory was employed in
furnishing mo with anecdotes in which
my fri nd figured; that sleighing party
ha I ha! in which Harris had proved
himself a hero; that escapade of his on
a fishing excursion.
But as I arrived within sight of my
house my purpose was changed. I
would uot do any talkiug save so far as
to draw him out. He had a fund of
humor which could not fail to delight
my wife. I must make him speak of
his European travel ; how well his old
talent ot mimicry would serve him in
describing oddities he had met abroad.
Above, all, I must not let him leave
without getting a pencil sketch from
him of my darling Emily. Among
other accomplishments Harris was a
very clever draughtsman.
Emily met me with a kiss, as was her
won, but immediately left my side to
tmperiutend preparations in the kitchen,
and after a change of my attire I
entered my parlor, where I soon became
interested in the pages of a new book.
I was roused therefrom by the ringing
of the front door bell.
I rushed at once to welcome my
friend. Despite my novel dignity as
householder I had no thought of stand
ing upon any ceremony with him,
Olusping both his liands in mine I
fairly dragged him into the parlor, and
then thrust him into my easiest chair.
" You must pardon my leaving you
so soon yesterday. I had an imperative
engagement when I saw you. Gracious,
niau ! how bald you have become ?"
This final exclamation of mine was
oocasioned by my visitor's removing his
hat, for which he had had no previous
opportunity.
"Care, dull care," returned my friend,
ia a melancholy tone, and I then was
nearly guilty of a surprised remark on
the seediness of his attire. His linen,
which he had concealed as far as pos
sible, was ragged and even dirty.
Hud Hurris run through the large
fortune which he had inherited ? Some
mischance had evidently befallen him.
Mingled with my desire to offer him
sympathy were saddened reflections
upon the impression he was likely to
make upon my wife, an impression so
different from that I had pictured to
myself. I hastily strove to turn the
current of my thoughts by the remark:
" Well, I believe baldness improves
you you have a portentously intel
lectual aspect because of it. I have
another reason for being pleased with it.
I see more of you. But come, tell me
about yourself."
" Not just now, please. I had rather
hear you talk of yourself."
I proceeded to oblige him, but "was
constantly disturbed in my narrative by
singularities and even vulgarities of
manner on his part. How Harris had
changed.
Poverty and presumable low. associ
ations had evidently demoralized him.
I was fairly beginning to think of some
decent excuse for ridden myself of him.
I did not wish to present him to my
wife.
But before I could excogitate a plan
mmiiy came in.
I rose hastily, and stammered as I in
troduced him.
" I have heard so much of you, Mr.
Harris," said she.
"I can return the compliment, mad
am," he replied, seating himself upon
the edge of his chair. "Fine weather
we're having I"
r My wife glanced surprisedly at me,
and my mend, allecting ease, threw
himself back, so that his body and legs
made a straight line at an angle1 with
the floor.
And this was the man whose refine
ment I had lauded 1 Harris was un
doubtedly under the influence of some
drug.
A full minute of silence succeeded,
and our guest again spoke, as to our re
lief he assumed a more becoming posi
tion " It's a very long time since your hus
band and myself were together," he
said, with what was now to me a repul
sive smile.
" You have been a great traveler, I
understand ?" Emily responded.
" I may say I have been in every State
in the Union, North and South, East
and West."
"I thought Europe was the conti
nent you loved best to roam in ?"
" Been there, too Africa and Asia
but I have never met before so beauti
ful a lady."
Such gross flattery was as displeasing
to me as to my wife, who replied:
" Is it possible, sir, that not even
among the Hottentots exists my equal?"
"Madam, I assnre you, not even
there," returned Harris, with serious
ness. "Emily, dinner must be ready," I
interposed, disgusted with the vanity
of my friend, whose intellect was truly
under a cloud, but whose eye visibly
brightened at my suggestion.
" I will Eee," said my wife, as she rose
to leave us.
When, with my friend, I rejoined her
at the table, I was as depressed in spirits
as he seemed to have been. Now, how
ever, there was decided animation in his
expression and movements, certainly,
in the way he plied his knife and fork.
He was voracious, and pity for him
succeeded to tho vexation I had ex
perienced. He ate like one who had
fasted for a week. The seediness of
his attire, too, was conspicuous under
the brilliant lights of the table.
Emily's eye met mine with an expres
sion of interrogation and compassion.
Conversation flagged.
I determined to broach the subject of
his altered circumstances as soon as we
were alone together, but was forestalled
by himself, to whom a plentiful dinner
had furnished courage.
As we entered the parlor, he said :
" I suppose I have surprised you by
my appetite?
"I was glad to see you enjoyed your
dinner."
" It's the first square meal I have had
for two days." He now drew closer to
me, and continued : " Can't you lend
me some money?"
" I'll write you a check at once for
fifty, if it will serve you. Is it possible
you have run through your fortune ?"
"You've not heard, then, how I lost
it ? I supposed you knew all."
"I've heard nothing. You were re
puted worth a million."
" All gone with the smash-up of a
bank Bowling Bros. But I have
promise of employment, and will repav
you."
" I will write the check at once."
With these words I entered the
library, leaving him alone.
I sought my wife before I returned
and explained the situation of my un
fortunate friend, concluding with the
remark that he had certainly suffered in
his wits by the loss of his property.
She refrained from expressing a single
word of the abhorrence with which he
must have filled her, and was profuse in
kindly sympathy.
"Don't come in for a few minutes
after I have brought this to him," I
said, in conclusion, showing her the
cheek. " When you do, we will trv to
make him forget his losses by asking
him to sketch your portrait, he admires
you so extremely, and yon will wonder
at his skill."
He started as he again saw me, and
seemed even less at his ease than here
tofore, turning toward me with both
hands in his pockets, while his wan
dering eye refused frankly to meet
mine.
But as I presented the check he scru
tinized it eagerly, and then was almost
nauseous with thanks.
Ho did not resume his seat, but
almost immediately stated that he
thought he had bettor leave, it was
getting late; and he muttered some
other unintelligible words.
" My wife will be herein an instant," I
answered, to detain him; and, as I
spoke, she appeared. "1 have prom
ised her that you should show your
skill as an artist," I continued.
" And I have brought With me paper
and pencils 1" she exclaimed, extending
them to him.
But his hands again sought his pock
ets, as he bowed and stammered:
" I I am entirely out of practice."
"Only my wifes likeness. Come,
now, it won't take you five minutes,"
"Impossible, impossible!" said he.
" I could never do such beauty justice."
"Well, then, sketch me," I demand
ed. "I really could not at this time.
Some other day. I really am not in the
mood, not feeling well, in fact. You
will excuse me. I I am delighted
with my visit, but I'd better go now.
You will soon see me again;" and he
passed into the hallway with these final
words.
I followed to give him a farewell
shake of the hand, and then watched
his limping gait until he passed out of
sight.
1 then saw Emily beside me.
" Poor fellow I" said she.
"I could not have judged such a
perfect change possible," I answered.
" Would you believe that that man was
once the light of the social circle, a
wit, the glass of fashion almost our
Admirable Crichton V"
"I could not, indeed," she replied,
demurely.
We returned to the parlor, and I
lighted a cigar. Emily at once pro
ceeded to the mantelpiece to place be
side me a silver ash-receiver which
usually stood there.
"George, where is it?" she soon
asked, with a startled look.
"Where's what? Cousin Tom's
present? Oh, upstairs, I suppose," I
replied.
" It was certainly on the mantelpiece
when we went to dinner," she returned,
and then advanced to the center-table
beside which I was sitting.
Afier a rapid glance thereon she com
menced turning over the books and
other articles it held.
" And where is my gold card-case,"
she now exclaimed.
" Emily, you are too suspicious," said
I, more in response to her expression of
face than of words.
But the two presents were still miss
ing, when a week after I encountered an
old chum of both Harris and myself.
" Poor Harris 1" I exclaim ed. " How
he is changed! Have you seen him
lately ?"
"Seen him? No! How could I?
He's in Paris, lucky as ever. I had a
letter from him yesterday. He informs
me of his approaching marriage with
the only daughter of his father's former
business partner, a young lady whose
debut in society recently made a sensa
tion, and she is as amiable as accom
plished, and as accomplished as beauti
ful. WTiat do you mean by poor Har
ris ? Why, he's about to secure another
fortune equal to his own. Here's his
letter."
I stared at it and read with wonder.
but was wholly unable to respond to my
menu s query.
There was another in niy mind which
I propound to the reader: "Who was
my friend Harris?"
A Love-Lorn Hermit.
Thirty years ago Gilbert Francis Vert
zen, a Frenchman, drifted into a small
French colony, about three miles west
of New Albany, Ind. He was unhappy
in the society of human beings and
found a cave in a contiguous wild re
gion called the " Knobs." Ho procured
a chair, a box for a table, a pewter
plate, a tin cup and two quilts, and
moved into the cave and became the
" hermit of the Knobs." How he lived
no one knew, as his only visible means
of support was picking berries and sell
ing them in the town during the sum
mer time. It was observed that when
ever he appeared in public he always
carried with him a small leather sachel,
strapped to his side and closed with a
clasp. The use of this leather pocket
was not apparent to any one. Curiosity
sometimes took people to tho neighbor
hood of his cave, but he seldom ad
mitted any one, and was averse to con
versation. The only communication
he held with anybody else's thoughts
was through a few old French books,
which he read constantly when at
home. About ten years ago, however,
a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles
got a little ways into his con
fidence and gained from him some par
ticulars of his life, which were printed
at the time, but have a fresh interest
now that the hermit, is dead. He was
born in Versailles, France, in 1810, of
good family, and went to college.
Yhile finishing his education he fell in
love with a girl "above his estate in
life, although in his veins ran noble
blood." The parents of the girl, who
was well inclined toward the student,
put a stop to the association of the
pair, which was ripening for matri
mony. When he knew that she was
lost to him forever he had nothing
more to do in the world. He left col
lege ungraduated, and scraping together
what money he could he wandered
He drifted on the current of time Rome
years, and finally lodged at New Albany
and thence to his cave in the Knobs,
where every beat of his heart for thirty
years was a rang. He had not been
seen much of late, for the weight of his
years and sorrows was heavy upon him.
The other day he was found dead in his
cave by some chance-callers at his open
door. The secret of the sachel was
revealed. Within its clasp, wrapped in
thick paper folds, was the picture of
the beautiful French girl, whose loss
had blasted his life fifty years ago.
Cremation la Siain.
The Princess Suntariat, one of the
favorites of the king of Siam, and her
infant daughter were drowned last year
about forty miles from Bangkok by the
upsetting of a large barge. The remains
were embalmed and , kept about nine
months, when they were cremated with
imposing ceremonies at an expense of
300,000 in decorations and tho pres
entation of gifts. A correspondent of
the Louisville Courier-Journal says that
the rite took place in a cross-shaped
building, '200 feet in length, covored
within and without with gilded cloth.
All the principal people and the foreign
representatives were present, and fine
quarters and a free restaurant were pro
vided. The fire was lighted by the
first king, the second king also being
present. After the funeral pyre h&d
been consumed there were fireworks,
athletic sports, etc., for ten successive
nights. Among other representations
was the lotus dance, participated in by
fifty men swinging colored lanterns.
During the entertainment each day,
limes, a species of lemons, containing
small silver coins and also tickets to a
lottery, were scattered freely among the
spectators. Many beautiful prizes were
drawn by both natives and foreigners.
The Buddhist priesthood were the prin
cipal gainers by this cremation. One
hundred thousand dollars were distrib
uted in gifts to these gentlemen of the
yellow cloth. This was done to " make
merit " with the hope that some might
reach the spirit of the dead Princess
Sun-an-ts-rhat, as she wandered through
the long travail of births and deaths
that await her before she can find rest.
When the crematory ceremonies were
over the ashes and a few charred bones
were tenderly gathered up and placed
in a golden urn prepared to receive
them. This urn was made almost en
tirely of the jewels of the dead princess,
and a smaller one received the remains
of the royal babe.
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
The mayor of Quincy, Illinois, is very
fund of fifteen-ball pooi ; and his sister
is trying to wean him from the game.
She went to the billiard saloon when he
was engaged in it, the other day, and
gave him her opinion of him, of the
game and of the company in which she
found him, and, this proving ineffectual,
she dropped upon her knees in prayer
for her sinful brother, whereupon the
mayor fled through the back door. Even
mayors are mortal.
Tho movement in the industrial
world now seems to be toward obtain
ing substitutes for wood. The disap
pearance of our forests is feared to be
an event of the near future, so that
any substance that can take the place of
wood is welcome. Jt ia proposed t o re
place wooden sleepers with steel; slate
already has largely usurped the place of
shingles; cotton refuse is compressed
into building blocks; gum is made into
a substance resembling black walnut;
sawdust is pressed into a form which
only experts could distinguish from the
original lumber.
An ingenious farmer, sticking a few
nails into a clothesline to keep his
neighbor's cattle out of his pasture,
went about his other business thinking
no more of the matter. A sharp fellow
came along, saw the rope and began to
think about it. He evolved the " barbed
wire " fence, and the very farmer from
whom the fellow got the idea has to pay
him a tribute for an article which ho
himself originally designed. And the
income of the monopoly is estimated at
$100,000 per month.
Dr. Janie", of Harvard college,
brother of the novelist. Henry James,
Jr., is lecturing to the medical students
on the use of alcoholic drinks. He
thinks the evidence, on the whole, is iu
favor of total abstinence. Alcohol takes
the place of fond by temporarily reduc
ing the normal demand for it, but "this
effect is not desirable" or consistent
with perfect health. The effect of
alcohol on the circulation is to create an
illusionary feeling of warmth, while a?
a n atter of fact the thermometer shows
a decline of the bodily hat. Any task
requiring more than half an hour can
not be done as well with alcohol as with
out i. As an assistance to digestion
its real value, he says, is that of a flavor
which may be equally well secured by
the use of fruits.
An excellent charity has just been
established in London. An organiza
tion has been formed of benevolent
women to provide homes in the various
districts of the British metropolis for
girls and young women who are earn
estly striving to gain an honest living,
but who are homeless; at the same time
to afford them profitable recreation,
and above all to surround them with
healthful influences and friendly guid
ance at the most critical period of their
lives. The rent of a bedroom com
prising the use of dining and reading
rooms, supplied with books, magazines
and newspapers, is from sixty-two cents
to SI a week. Board, consisting of
breakfast, dinner and tea (Sundays in
cluded), is charged at the rate of 1.12
a week, while separate meals are pro
vided for those who do not require the
full weekly accommodation.
A Canadian paper, whose editor prob
ably believes that Friday is an Unlucky
day, prints the following paragraph':
" Are not such facts as these enough to
make ono ask, WThat's in a name?'
The small excursion steamer that car
ried nine persons to their doom at Gait
three years apo was named the Empress
of India. The excursion boat that
went down in the river Thames, at
London, England, in the fall of 1878,
with about 000 souls on board, was
known as the Princess Alice. The ship
which foundered off Spithead in 1872,
and swept 000 passengers into the other
world, was called the Royal George;
and last, but not least, the steamer Vic
toria, that parted to carry desolation
into thousands of Canadian homes and
drape our land in mourning, bore the
name of our beloved queen, upon whose
birthday the boat gave up the ghost, in
sight, we should also say, of the sister
boat, the Princess Louise. Strange
fatality! Strange enough certainly to
put serious thoughts into one's head."
A couple of boys in a New l'ork town
learning that the odor and noise of sev
eral pigs were disagreeable to the
owner's neighbors offered for a small
sum to abate the nuisance. Whether
their offer was accepted or not does not
appear. At any rate they proceeded
to business by buying two papers. With
these they properly prepared the apples,
potatoes and other garbage which was
fed to tho animal with most successful
results. The swine went into a rapid
decline and had to be slaughtered. The
parents of the boys were obliged to set
tle with the owner, but the neighbors
felt relieved. Of course the reader will
be curious to know what two papers
are useful in killing hogs. For if once
known there are stray curs and mid
night cats enough to insure them a
large circulation. To know also where
they are published, and whether they are
daily or weekly. Perhaps without giv
ing names it will be sufficient to say
that one was a paper of pins, the other
of tacks.
About the Alphabet.
The Sandwich Islands alphabet has
twelve letters; the Burmese, nineteen;
the Italian, twenty; the Behgalese,
twenty-one; the Hebrew, Syrian, Chal
dee and Samaritan, twenty-two each;
the French, twenty-three; the Greek,
twenty-four; the Latin, twenty-five;
the German, Dutch and English, twenty
six each; the Spanish and Sclavonic,
twenty-seven each; the Arabic, twenty
eight; the Persian and Coptic, thirty
two; the Georgian, thirty-five; the Ar
menian, thirty-eight; the Russian, fortr.
one; the Muscovite, forty-three, tie
Sanscrit and Japanese, fifty; the Ethi
opia and Tartarian, 202 each.
Tellers of exaggerated stories are
known in business ciroles as yarn mer-
conn is.
FOB THE LADIES.
DrpRKliiK lh llnir.
A book that should give the full his
tory of the feminine headdress would
be a book full of interest. How many
long and patient researches its author
would have to make to give even a
glimpse of the thousands on thousands
of transformations that the natural
ornament of the human skull has un
dergone at the bidding of taste and of
caprice I
During the epoch of paganism the
priestess of Bacchus appeared in public
with flowing tresses, while Diana and
her nymphs are represented as knotting
their hair on the top of their heads. The
coiffure of the ancient Greek ladies, as
also of the Roman dames, was of an ex
treme simplicity ; they parted the hair
on the top of the head and braided it in
long plaits falling down the shoulders.
Very often they made with these plaits
a twist behind the head, which Was kept
in place by means of a bandelet. The
Roman ladies, whose slaves were counted
by thousands, employed many of these
solely in dressing their hair. Woe to
the slaves if the coiffure became dis
arranged ! Patience was not one of the
virtues of the fashionable women of
those days. They diverted themselves
by thrusting long pincers into the flesh,
of their improvised hairdressers.
. Even at that time the hairpin was al
ready in use; for we know that Flavia,
by way of insulting the corpse of Cicero,
drew a hairpin from her locks and thrust
it through the tongue of the illustrious
orator, as though thus taking vengeance
for the sarcasms that tongue had hurled
at her. The use of hair powder was
also known, since Poppeo, the second
wife of Nero, never allowed herself to
be seen by her lord and master until
she hod first covered her locks with a
powder of gold.
During the middle ages fashion did
not get any further than the plaits and
bandeaux until the Crusaders left an
Oriental imprint on the art of hair
dressing. Toward 1G60 a revolution
suddenly broke out among the ladies
who set the pattern of elegance. Curls
became the fashion and graciously
shaded the charming features of the Le
Vallieres, the Sevignes, the Maintenons,
the Ninon do l'Enclos and the other
beauties who adorned the reign of Louis
XIV. A little later the pyramidal head
dresses come into vogue and grew to
ridiculous heights. So absurdly high
were they that ladies going to the ball
were forced to kneel down iu their car
riages or to thrust their heads out of the
windows. In caricature of the period
hairdressers on the way to the houses
of their patrons are represented as carry
ing ladders upon their backs.
The revolution of 1789 was a terrible
blow to the ortirts of the profession,
ind the disuse of powder and of wigs
forced them to sensibly modify their
art. It was at this time that u hair
dresser named Michalon invented and
brought into fashion the practice of ex
hibiting different styles of headdresses
on the heads of the wax figures which
still ornament the windows of his suc
cessors. The reigns of Louis XVIII.,
Charles X. and Louis Philippe con
tributed nothing to the history of hair
dressing, except fashions that nowadays
would be considered eccentric.
With the advent of the Second Em
pire we enter the domain of modern
hairdressing. Felix Escolier, hairdress
er to the Empress Eugenie, composed
for the wedding of that sovereign a
coiffure consisting of two bandeaux in
front; the one in the Marie Stuart style,
the other rolled, beginning at the top
of the head and falling gracefully down
the neck in little curls. This dresser
of crowned heads was before everything
else an innovator. For many years he
created tho new styles. His profes
sional brethren could not succeed in
imitating him, and they employed all
sorts of stratagems to discover his se
crets. One day as he was dressing the
hair of the wife of a great tugnitary of
the Empire he perceived one of these
rivals who, disguised as a valet, has
entered the shop to spy out the new
style, in order to employ it on the head
of one of his own clients. Felix, pre
tending not to see anything, dressed
madam's head in the most laughable
and grotesque fashion that he could de
vise. As soon as his rival had gone
away he undid all that he had done and
constructed a scientific and novel coif
fure. As for the rival, he imitated with
implicit confidence what he had seen
Filled with enthusiasm, he dressed tho
luir of his client, a lady who was to
pass the evening at the Tuileries. Her
entrance into the imperial ballroom
ivas the signal for laughter and jests on
j.11 sides. It was the ruin of the un
lucky huirdresser.
Fanhion Fancies.
Dotted mull scarfs are much worn.
Red parasols are striking novelties.
The fashionable parasol is very large.
There is a rage for tan-colored
gloves.
The obelisk is a novelty in rough
straw hats.
All sleeves are half short and all
gloves very long.
Red abounds in summer dresses, hats
and bonnets.
Box-plaited aud shirred corsages grow
in popularity.
The obelisk hat has a tall, tapering
orown and a wide brim.
Plain black grenadines, trimmed with
black laces, will be much worn.
Corsage bouquets of pure white
flowers are the fancy of the passing
moment.
There is a decided tendency to make
skirts fuller and theii draperies more
bouffant.
The wearing of a frill of lace around
the edge of the brim of hats and bon
nets is revived.
Obelisk hats are trimmed profusely
around the crown with long, rich, heavy
ostrich plumes.
There is a revival of black and white
striped silks for parts of costumes and
for underskirts.
Fancy bracelets and necklaces and
pins, mounted with insects and odd de
signs, are much worn.
PaJe tlstcd mull muslins are as much
worn as white nd eream, and make
more dressy toilet .
White jonquils and stock ginyfl .were
are worn for corsage bouquets by ladies
in second or half mourn i g.
Ntw scrap bags are shaped like a
great tase, and tri i.med with acorns,
bows, and I alls of many colo s
Tale rose, bine, and cream white s a -side
zephyr clo hi will b) sg.in us d
for inexpensive and garden-party
dresses.
Chair stripes, sofa pillows, mantel
lambrequins, and tidies of blue satin,
worked in bright colors in silk and wool,
suit any kind of furniture.
Decorative needlework designs on
table scarfs, piano covers, curtains, val-
arces, tidies ana maw n me iuvoiidsi
fancy woik of wo nen ot leisure lor ine
summer.
Fretty and easy fancy work for sum
mer afternoons is that done on linen
doylies, or linen or moinie cloth strips
and sauares. in outline designs, stitches
with blight red or black or varicolored
silks.
An eccentric fashion is to put white
and black ostrich plumes on opposite
sides of tHe brim of a black chip hat,
separate 1 by a bow of whits satin over
white Spanish lace, while tho brim is
lined with white satin and white Span
ish lace frilled in and held down with a
row of large cut jet beads.
Ntvinwl fronds are used bv tin best
dressmakers as trimming rather thin to
form any important part of the dress.
They make the flounces, which are half
concealed by the Greek fret on the
border of the overskirt, they form the
plaiting about tho neck and sometimes
the cuff, but they do not make the dress
too gay.
A Quiet Hoarding House.
"I have come in answer to your adver
tisement for board," said a nervous old
lady to a pert miss of thirteen, as the
latter showed her into a parlor of all the
comforts of a home establishment on
Henry street. "And I won't come here
unless your house is perfectly quiet,
now remember that."
"Quiet I well, you may smile," replied
Miss. "That noise you hear now is the
dentist in the basement, pulling out a
tooth, but he'll get it out, if it takes
him a month. How much can you af
ford to pay ?"
"I think I hear some one upstairs
shouting," said tho old lady.
"That's only a young lawyer practic
ing a case. You'll get used to him.
Nobody liked it at first, but we've all
got used to it and don't mind it now.
Got any children ? We don't take chil
dren, because our babies fight 'em so."
"No, I haven't. Who's that yelling
in the next room ?"
"That's the landlord trying to collect
the rent. You know pa is very deaf,
and you've got to howl at him. You'll
have to pay in advanco if you come
here."
"Good gracious ! What's that ?" ejac
ulated the old lady, as a furious din
swept through the lower regions.
"I guess the cook is driving grandma
out of the kitchen with the clothespole.
She often does that. Have you got
much baggage ?"
"Sakes alive ! Somebody is being
murdered upstairs ! W7ho is it V"
"Oh! that's a literary fellow on the
top floor. Whenever he writes any
thing he squeals like a pig. But he
generally writes at night, and you
needn't pay any attention to him."
"What are your terms ? good heaven,
the roof has fallen in I"
"No, it hasn't ; that's a college pro
fessor, and that's the way he goes tip
and down stairs. If you listen you may
hear him break his neck ! Can you give
any references ? Anybody know you ?"
"Certainly ; if I was that a gun ?
"I guess so. My cousin has got a
prairie down cellar where ho hunts lu
dians and buffaloes and things. Some'
times he's a road agent, and then he
robs us on the stairs. o always allow
for it in the board, so it evens up. Got
any money of your own ?"
"Never mind whether I havt t not
I don't think I want a room hc-u, any
way. Let me out, please.
"Couldn't let you have one, anyhow;"
retorted miss, preparing to slide down
the balustrade. "There's only ore
empty one, and that's too high-priced
for you ; besides, you don't wear very
good clothes, and we prefer not to have
you around. Aud down the slide she
went with a whiz-z, while the old lady
pattered off after another home-like
house. Brooklyn Ewjle.
A Nevada Snnke Story.
Probably there is no animal on earth
so intelligent and humane as a Nevada
rattlesnake. A little girl, four years
old, belonging to a farmer, was run away
with in the mountains the other day
while her father got out of the wagon to
get a drink at the spring. As she was
one of twelve daughters he hated to
spoil the set, a id so pushed on after
her, but with little hopes of overtaking
the frightened animal. Presently he
found the horse right on the edge of a
precipice unable to move an inch. One
end of a strap had caught around his
fetlock, the other end around a tree,
and held him tight. When the farmer
went to pull on the strap he jumped
about ten feet, for a rattlesnake was
holding the horse. It had wound his
tail around the horse's leg, its neck was
turned three times around a sapling
and its teeth were fast in the wood. It
was twelve feet long, for the farmer
measured it. A few pounds more strain
would have snapped the snake clear in
two. The snake wasn't over five feet
long really, for when the farmer took
the strain off it came right back to its
natural size, for a snake is a very elastic
animal. The child wasn't frightened in
the least. This story must be true, be
cause the farmer was there and saw it
all, and says it is true. He wanted four
copies of the paper the Carson Appeal
--if it published the item, to send to
his relatives in the East. We take the
liberty of extending the information to
his acquaintances in the other parts of
the country. Those who know him
best and admire him most will be glad
to bear that he is dung so well out in
Nevada. Detroit Free Pre,
Volets or the Mght. -
It was late laHt night when yon retired t"
"Yen, papa," I "'. wftt ?an
Uehind my fan, " fur the hoiTtd mau
He Just tnlkod on and ou.
Tbo mor I hinted the more he stayed;
I knetf jnrt wcie wakeful, too,
And I told him so; but ho would not go
And what conld a pot girl do ?"
"It was very late when you retired C
" Ycj, jmpa 1" I frankly said,
"For the man, yor. see, just talked tome,
Tliongh I yawnt.d till my eyes were red ;
And I went so far, when the clock struck twolve,
As to count the strokes all through;
Hut tho stupid 1 he just wouldn't see
And what could a poor girl do? "
" It was worse than Into when yon retired I"
" Why I tell yon, pa 1" I cried,
" If I hinted once to tho tiresome dunce,
'Twas a hundred times beside f
Why, I oven said you'd boon in bed
Tor at least five hours I knew;
But he tipped his chair, and still sat there
to what could a poor girl do ?"
"Well, the Joemses-gosh I was you np all
night l'r
" Why, papa 1" I humbly plead,
" Don't thunder so t there's a man below;
And he's sent you his card, and said
That the reason why he stayed all night
Was, that he wanted to seo yon, too,
That he might ask for the hand I give
For what could a poor girl do?"
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Out of season An empty spice-box.
'awcob Strauss.
The retired theater star is always an
ex-acting creature. lloston Transcript.
Love lightens labor," as the man
said when he saw his wifo doing his
work for him.
When a man applies for a situation
as a policeman it is supposed he has a
taste for a club life.
Sore financial distress When you
haven't got money enough to buy oint
ment fur a wound. Xeus l'ork News.
A canal differs from most things in
ono respect it is always filled before it
is opened. Syracuse Even ing Herald.
Gate posts should be set out firmly.
A great deal moy hinge upon them as
your girls grow up. New Havet. irgi-
t(T.
Some one has said that parks are the
breathing-places of a city. No one has
said that parks are the spaikiug-places
of a city.
"When yesterday I asked you, love,
one little word to say, your brother in
terrupted us ; ao please say yes ter day.
Toronto urip.
A woman requested her husband not
to associate with a certain man who was
a hard drinker. "Why," he exclaimed,
'he's my boose'ni fnend.
An Irishman, wJ i was found guilty
of stealing coffee, as asked by the mag
istrate what he did "with it. "Made tay
with it," was the Hibernian's reply.
An exchanre says that "the coming
girl is to be prettier than the kind wo
now have." Impossible ; there can be
no improvement upon the original arti
cle.
Wasn't it rough on Ella, just as she
was telling ireuencK, at luncn, now
ethereal her appetite was, to have the
cook bawl out: "Say, will ye have yer
pork and beans now, or wait till yer fel-
er s gone t
'Which side of tho street do you live
on, JUrs. luppie ? ' asKeu a counsel,
cross-examining a witness. "Uh, eitner
side, sir. If you go one way, it's on the
right side ; it yon go the other way, it s
on the left.
The best runs for poultry are where
grass and gravel are plentiful. Grass
runs are of crreat value where they can
be had, but they must be large if fowls
have constant access to them or the
grass will soon cease to grow.
A lawver's brief is very long,
And" Jlr. White is black J
A man is dry wiien bo is green,
And when he's tight he's slack.
A lire is hot when it is coaled,
A lump U heavy, though it's light ;
A shoo is bought when it is sold,
A man can see when out of sight.
A Loudon servant cirl is represented
as saying : "Hard weather, indeed, sir.
I wish the Lord would take the weather
in his own liands again, instead of trust
ing it to them Yankee probability men.
We might then get something fit to
live in."
A school-teacher, discharged for using
tho rod too freely, applied for employ
ment in a dressmaker s establishment.
"Have you had any experience in sew
ing?" asked the dressmaker. "No," was
the reply, "but I have a thorough knowl
edge of basting." Somerville Journal.
A sleeper is one who sleeps ; a sleeper
is also a place where a sleeper can sleep ;
and a sleeper is, too, a thing over which
runs the sleeper iu which the sleeper
sleeps ; so that the sleeper in the sleeper
sleeps while the sleeper runs on as well
as bometimes leaps off the track. Wit
and II induni.
HEALTH HINTS.
English physicians report the obtain
ing of purgative effects from the exter
nal application of castor oil over the
abdemen.
Rare-cooked fresh meats are far more
easily digested, and furnish much more
nutiiment than those well done. Habit
will make one enjoy the rare-cooked
steak as more juicy and palatable, and
it is certainly better as food.
If the skin of the head becomes very
tender during confinement to the bed
make a narrow pillow, cylinder-shaped,
aud unite the emh. The head can rest
on such a pillow and the ear not come
in contact with the surface. The ears
suffer most when the skin of the head is
tender.
Sprains are always promptly relieved
by allowing the coldest water to fall
upon the part steadily, until no discom
fort W experienced. Repeat as often aa
necessary; keep the sprained joint ele
vated, if about the hands, and horizon
tal if about the feet, so as to promote
the flow of blood from the parts by
gravity; and live for a few days on fruits
and coarse bread oi&inlx.
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