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VOL. XIII. NO. 24.
TIOKESTA. PA., SEPT. 1, 1880. $1,50 Per Annum,
Lend n Hand.
Liie is made oi up and downs
Lend a Imnd ;
T.ila fa made cf thorns and crowns;
It you would the latter worn; ,
Lilt eomo crushed heart from doRpair
Lend a lmnd.
Crow .is nre not alono of gold!
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t Diadnns nio bought and sold;
Bat the crowns that good mou own,
Come from rohledcedf alone--
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Many crowns that ninny wear
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Never in tbe sunlight glare;
D!am6nd norer in them thine,
Vet they hold a lii;htalivioc .
IO iid a hand.
Hold a lifchi that ne'er shall lade
Lend a hand; '
- Beauty, aitlwLh never made;
For theso crJwis lhat good men wear,
Evorlittling are, as rare
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Would you own so bright a crown ?
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When you see a brother down, '
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Pliioe him in tho morning light
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AIDING THE ENEMY.
" I can't, I won't, I'm not going to
so there 1"
To a person unacquainted with the
Gregory lamily, the above singular pro
testation would seem not only very
cross and impertinent, but decidedly un
called for.
Grandma Gregory, in the most melli
fluous of tone, and with her sweetest
company smile, was simply suggesting
to her daughter Gertrude, the propriety
of potting up her back hair.
"But you are seventeen years old,"
tbe ltly urged, to all appearance quite
undisturbed by her companion's reply.
"Grandma, I shall ? ot be seventeen
I M ' f 1 , . I - 1J
mi n,exi oaiuraay, mu young iany an
swered, with thisbing eyes, ."and it don't
make any difference bow old I am
When I Went to Mrs. Graham's party, I
said that my hair would never get top
o( my head again unless it went there
itt-elf. My head aches now "with those
old long of hairpins that that hair
dresser Muck through my scalp. I wish
my brnd was as bald as old Mr. Tom
lir sn iV; then 1 should be let alone."
" You are very tall of your age, my
dear," g hnrlma began again, in the
same unruill 'd manner, "and for cer
tain occasions such, for instance, as
Carrie Slielville's wedding to-morrow
night the arrangement of your hair, a
you own good taste will tell you, should
oirrespond with your dies?. There
must be harmony in these things, else
we might as well be barbarians."
'"There'll never be any harmony
about me, grandma, inside or out, if I
have got to be badgered all tho time
about ray back hair, and how I enter
and leave a rrxmi nn 1 how I behave
when I go to those hateful dinner
parties, which nobody but an antedi
luvian can enjoy, why, then, grandma,
you might as well give mo up, lor I shall
never do you or papa the least credit."
"Just consider a moment, Gerty,"
grandma began again. " Do you think
your hair, arranged as It is. now, in &
Braid at the back of your neck, will be
in keeping with your white silk dressP"
" No. grandma, I don't suppose it will ;
but I'm not to blame for that. I wanted
a blue silk, or a white muslin, such as
cirls ot mv ace wear: but vou bought
tut: wuue . nuu nudi luuiu a uui
The discrepancy will bo in this grandma
that my dress will be oid enough for
a lady twice my age, and my hair will
be iust as old as 1 am."
Grandma's pitience did Beem of the
elastio kind, for even now, after all this
provocation, she proceeded to argue the
case in her most cheerful and smiling
manner.
" I only care," Bhe said, " to have you
dress as becomingly as possible. You
look a veritable lull-Hedged young lady,
my dear, and the costume that would
bd suitable lor many girls of your age
would bo in very bad taste for you. I
hope you will acquit me of aay responsi
bility for your outgrowth of short skirts
"and pinafores, mv dear."
For a moment Gertrude did not speak.
Sbe stood before the library lire, looking
down among tho glowing coals, appar
ently in deep thought.
.Finally she said, with a keen glance at
her grandmother!
" 1 heard you and papa talking about
Court Bently. last night."
' Yes, my love," the old lady replied,
giving the last smoothing touch to a
new lilac glove she was trying on.
" Well, grandma," said Gertrude, "if
Coait Bently comes to this house to
mike a visit, you needn't think I'm go
in to be poiite to him. I believe Graud
m i Gregory, that the reason you have
ta ten to talking so much about my back
hair, and my style generally, is because
you want me to look sufficiently mature
for that traveled gentleman to take pai
ticu.ar notice of. It won't work worth a
ceat, grandma, because I shall tell him
my age as soon as he sets loot in the
house, and 1 shall wear my hair down
my b;tck, unfettered by braid, ribbon tr
. comb, and I shall endeavor to look and
behave just a much like a wild Indian
as possible."
"ALkw me to inquire, Gertrude," and
now th! was a triflir-g chance in the
. . i . 1 1 j i j r jo
olo-lady's manner, as he carelully arew
the glove lrom her shapely hand, " why
you thould tingle Mr. Bently, outof our
large circle of n iends and acqaain'.ances.
lot ths ava?e exhibition you speak of P I
con fi ss to sumo curiosity, ttrange as it
may seem?"
, luu fell 17)J11CLI, TV1LU
blush of vexation, " you and Dana have
tiiked so much about Court Bently's
perfections, and Court Bently's fortune,
and, when you have grown very much
interested, have looked me over so crit
ically, for all the world like a milliner
when she is selecting the shade best
suited to one's complexion, and then
your talk for the last few months about
the bnauty and safety of early marriages,
combined with your anxiety about my
back hair all theso things I have put
together and added up, and my figures
tell the truth, and you know it."
" I shall give you an opportunity soon
to be ashamed of yourself," said the old
lady, quietly, "when I inform you that
the gentleman you sneak of is engaged to
a lady in Berlin. You will perhaps see
the propriety of doing your sum over
again, with a view to correcting its for
mer rnistakc3.V
"Oh, Grandma Gregory!" Gertrude
exclaimed, lirswect face radivit with
delight, " you may rig me now just as
you pie -se, and you can hoist my back
l. air to my eyebrows, and fasten it on
with spikes, and I'll never say a word,
and I'll forgive you for ever planning
about inc. you nauehty, designing
grandma, becauso I know you did, and
papa, too."
At this juncture a servant entered and
presented a card to Mis. Gregory. With
a critical glance at her granddaughter,
wh had thrown herself into an arm
chair by the fire to think it all over,
the old lady ordered tho -visitor shown
in, and the next moment a gentleman of
most distingue appearance entered the
room.
Grandma's greeting was very kind,
and the visitor seemed sincerely glad to
see his ohi friend again.
"This," said Mrs. Gregory, leading
the gentleman to Gertrude, " is the little
girl you used to tease so long ago, and
who, I suppose, has quite outgrown your
remembrance. Mr. Bently Gertrude."
"Indeed, no," the gentleman replied,
as he shook hands with the young lady.
" She has Rrown quite tall, to bo Bure,
but I should judge, Mrs. Gregory, if 1
may be pardoned the remark, that your
granddaughter has not outgrown her
mischief."
" Quito correct," said grandma. " I
think not."
Gertrude replied, with a blushing
smile:
" I do not remember you, Mr. Bently,
though, if you will excuse me, I should
not bo afraid to hazard the remark thai
yon have held on to your fun also."
Court" Bently was twenty-nine, and
looked twenty-five, and Gertrude, as she
conversed in her unaffected and ladylike
manner, was not quite, seventeen, and
lcoked twenty.
Grandma was tho pictura of serene
contentment aa she listened to the
pleasant chatter ; and once, as Gertrude
surprised a peculiar expression on the
old lady's face, all her old suspicion re
turned for a moment ; but as she had
never known her grandmother, with all
tier tact and diplomacy, to tell a false
hood, she dismissed the thought as un
worthy, and gave herself up to the
pleasure of entertainment.
The next evening Gertrude, in a
while silk drcs9, her hair a la mode, was
escorted to the wedding bv Mr. Bently.
She had kept, her promise to her grand
mother, but she felt altogether over
dressed and uncomfortable.
Her own ideas in regard to what she
should wear on all occasions were ex
cellent and her taste unexceptionable,
and now she grew more distrait and un
happy.
Her companion, noting the change in
her manner, whispered laughingly to
her as they took their seats in one of
tho front pews in the large church :
"xou seem out ot tune, Miss Ger
trude. Is it envy of the .bride, or dis
satisfaction with your escort""
Gertrude's eyes flashed they had
been ail ready to flash ever since tho
hairdresser finished his work and re
plied, considerably above a whisper:
" You are all that is desirable, Mr.
Bently at least, I suppose so though I
have not had enough of attention from
gentlemen to really be able to tell. And
as for Carrie Sheville, who is going to
marry a man ever so much oldejr than
she is, just for his money, I don't think
I ieel anything just now but contempt
for her."
"She may love him, Miss Gertrude,
notwithstanding the damaging fact of
his fortune," Mr. Bently venture! to re
spond a little satirically. '
" Fudge I" said Gertrude, with a curl
o( her lip.
" Since you are satisfied with me, and
not jealous of tho bride, Miss Geitrude,
may I inquire why you appear so
so "
" Cross P" his companion interrupted.
" You had better ask why I came to this
wedding, Mr. Bently."
"Well, why did you?"
"To show off my new dress and the
arrangement of my top-knot, sir, and for
no other reason in the world, unless in
deed it might be that Fwasexpected to
come."
" Oh!" said the gentleman, with a pe
culiar mystification ol countenance and
tone, which, for the moment, seemed to
quite restore the young lady's good
spirits.
An hour later, at the reception, Gor
trude, who was sipping a cup of coffee
and chatting gayly with her new friend,
heard her father, who, with her grand
mother, had seats directly behind her,
remark cautiously indeed, the ears they
were intended for scarcely caught the
low ton' s :
" He says there isn't the slightest
truth in that report we heard."
Mr. Bently went to get an ice for his
companion, and on his return Miss Ger
trude was nowhere to be seen.
" She has gone to have a chat with the
bride," Mr. Gregory explained; but the
gentleman's manner of looking about the
room seemed to Mr. Bently to contra
dict the statement. .
However, there was nothing to do but
wait, and this Court Bently proceeded
to do with an excellent grace. He talked
European politico with an elderly
Englishman, and chatted with a
matronly French lady, introduced by
Mrs Gregory, in the lady's own lan
guage, much to her del ght.
When it was time to go, Mrs. Gregory
went in Bearch of the .truant, and Mr.
Bently did not see her again till be of
fered her his arm to the carriage.
Grandmother had been lecturing. That
was plain, for Gertrude's cheeks were
painfully flushed.and her hand trembled
as it touched his arm.
Mr. Bently wondered what it nil
meant, as who would notP but he said
pleasantly, as ho took his seat beside
her:
"You saw the bride off, I suppose
Miss tiertruder"
" No, I didn't," she rnswered, per
versely, and then, leaning forward to
address her father: "Papa, do you
know that Carrie Sheville I mean
Mrs Knight lacks a month of being as
old as I am."
"She looks quite mature," Mr. Gre
gory reblied.
"And I suppose you think that is
enough," Gertrude resumed, in a higher
key. "Mr. Bently," she continued,
"what do you think of the way girls
are driven into unsuitable marriages in
these daysP"
"I thought. Miss Gertrude, in these
days that young ladies did about as they
pleased," the gentleman answered.
" I am not talking of young ladies,"
was Ihe petulant reply, " but the girls
of my age."
" Pardon me, Miss Gertrude," said
Mr. Bently, " but I was not aware that
girls went into society in New York."
This was a hard hit, but his com
panion was equal to the situation.
"Well, they do," she replied, "if
they happen to talk and look mature,
as papa says.. A girl might prefer to
play with her dolls to going into soci
ety; but that wouldn't make any dif
ference if her folks had reasons of their
own for pushing her out, and she hap
pened to be tall enough to hitch a train
to, and unawkward enough not to break
her neck with it."
By this time Mr. Bently was nearly
convulsed with laughter.
This girl or whatever she was
pleased to call herself was certainly the
most original and straightforward speci-1
men he h id ever met. lie knew that
her father and grandmother were burst
ing with rage, and this only increased
his merriment.
" I sometimes think Gertrude con
siders herself a martyr," Mrs. Gregory
remarked, in her most indifferent man
ner. By this time they had reached home,
and Gertrude's "Oh, grandma!" was
the beginning and end of her indignant
reply.
Sheknetr, and so did Court Bently,
that tbe old lady had planned this
moment for the delivery of the few
words which were intended to deceive
him in reference to her granddaughter's
opinion of her own grievances..
The next morning Gertrude appeared
at he breakfast-table in a light-blue
cashmere, trimmed girlishly with vel
vet, and her magnificent brown hair
hanging loose on the back, as she had
threatened, only she had managed to
fasten it on the neck, so that its wander
ings were considerably circucum3cribed.
The effect was fine and almost start
ling. Court Bently was afraid he should
make himself obnoxious by his frequent
glances in her direction; but in all his
travels he had never seen a prettier
picture, and Court Bentley was very
appreciative of the beautilul in Doth
nature and art.
Grandma Gregory did her best to be
social, but the figure opposite was evi
dently too much even tor her serenity,
and the old lady's breakfast was not a
success.
" Will you be very much vexed if I
pay you a compliment this morning,
Miss GertrudeP" Mr. Bently asked.
Mr. Gregory and his mother had left
the dining-room, and he and Gertrude
were alone.
" That's according," she replied, good
naturedly. "Well, then," k the gentleman re
sumed, " I am quite in love with your
morning toilet; and if I wero in your
place I would wear blue dresses and my
hair on my back all the time."
"Do you like this?" Gertrude in
quired.a comical expression overspread
ing her face. "I'm sure I didn't think
you would," she added.
"Then you must have considered me
a man of very poor taste," Mr. Bently
replied. " If rwere a little nearer your
age, Miss Gertrude," he continued, "I
might infer trom your words that you
had made your toilet this morning with
a view to my disliking it."
Gertrude looked very much amused,
and with a curious glance at her com
panion, said :
" One would suppose you were an oc
togenarian, Mr. Bently. '
" I presume I must be nearly twenty
years older than you, Miss Gertrude,"
he answered, gravely. " I am twenty
nine, and, calling you twelve pardon
me if these figures are too large you
see there wouldbe seventeen years dif
ference, and that is a great deal."
" Well, I declare!" the young lady ex
claimed, with flashing eyes and scarlet
cheeks. "You must have a singular
opinion of my father and grandmother
it you think they would allow me to
wear a train, and my hair top of my
head, as if I were only twelve years old!
I shall be seventeen to-morrow," she
continued, making a low obeisance;
" and what induced you to think I was
only twelve. I'm sure 1 can't under
stand." " I beg your pardon," the gentleman
replied, carelessly; "but I presume I
received my impression from your re
marks last evening as we returned from
the wedding."
Gertrude had no time to answer, for
just here her lather entered the room,
and shortly alter the two gentlemen
started downtown.
" Well, Gertrude," said grandma, as
they found themselves alone once more,
"what is your programme to-day P
Will you stay at home and play with
your dolls, oi may I have the pleasure of
your company on a shopping tour?"
This was too much, and Gertrude
walked out of the room without a word,
and was seen no more that day. The
next m'ining the yeun lady's hair was
knotted at the back of lier pretty h'.ad,
and Mr. Bently thought her even more
bewitching than the morning previous.
" I made several inquiries for you last
night, Miss Gertrude," Mr. Bently re
marked, as ho was once more left alone
with his young hostess; ''but no one
seemed to know anything about you.
If you had not undeceived me about
your age, I might have thought you had
gone to bed like other children."
Mr. Bently, do you want me lo de
spise you P" Gertrude inquired, looking
her companion straight in the eye.
"Miss Gertrude!" Mr. Bently ex
claimed, with a start, not all assumed
" Because, if you do," the girl went on,
"you can keep twitting me of the past!
I nave plenty of that to bear with grand
ma. I don't believe you thought yes
terday morning that I was twelve years
old, when you said so, so innocently;
and I don't think that was very nice of
you though, I suppose, it was quite
smart, and just what I deserved. I do
think I have been pushed forward too
much, Mr. Bently, and I do believe in
girls being allowed to enjoy their girl
hood. I shall never wear my hair
stringing on my back again, though!"
Then after a pause, which her com-
Eanjon could not sec his way clear to
reak. " Papa said, Mr. Bently, that
you wanted mo to go to tho opera with
you to-night. I should like to go very
much, thank you "and extended her
hand " if you won't make fun of me. I
think I shall like you very much; and I
don't see why we cannot be good friends,
notwithstanding the tremendous differ
ence in our ages."
I don't think that Mr. Bently could
very well resist kissing the fair little
hand she extended so frankly, and as she
didn't make any fuss about it, I don't
know why we should.
A year afterward, on the young lady's
eighteenth birthday, grandma inquired,
with a peculiar smile about her still
handsome mouth, "Then you don't
think, Gertrude, you are too young to be
engaged to Court Bently? You will
have to leave your dolls, you know." -"
Grandma," said Gertrude, with the
old ominous flash of her beautiful eyes,
" that is a very aged and a very stale
joke. Don't you think if you sat up a
night or two you might produce some
thing original?"
Grandma laughed and said no more,
for, had she not carried her point P
Capturing Hamming' Birds.
The following is an account of the
method in which humming birds nre
caught:' Let us follow little Dam, the
oldest and sharpest of the humming bird
hunters, as he goes out for birds. First
he goes to a tree called the mountain
palm, which replaces the cocoa palm in
the mountains, the latter growing only
along the coast. Beneath the tree are
some fallen leaves fifteen feet in length;
these he seize3 and strips, leaving the
mid-rib bare, a long, slender stem'taper
ing to a point. Upon thi3 tip he places
a lump of bird lime, to make which he
had collected the inspissated juice of the
bread fruit and chewed it to the con
sistency of soft wads. Scattered over
the savanna are many clumps of flower
ing bushes, over whose crimson and
snowy blossoms humming birds are
dashing, inserticg their beaks in the
honeyed rorrollas, after active forays
resting upon some bare twig, pruning
and preming their feathers. Cautiously
creeping toward a bush upon which one
of these little beauties is resting, the
hunter extends the palm-rib with its
treacherous coating of gum. The bird
eyes it curiously but fearlessly as it ap
proaches hi3 resting-place, even picking
at it, but the next moment he is dang
ling helplessly, beating the air with buz
zing wings in vain efforts to escape the
clutches of the treacherous gum. Ma
ture. 1 he Proposed Sahara Sea.
' A difference of opinion exists among
European engineers in regard to the
practicability of establishing a sea, as
now proposed, in the great desert of
Sahara, in Africi, the chief problem
being, it would seem, how to keep it up.
It is argued that, supposing the sea to
be created by means of a canal, it will
lose an enormous, quantity of water by
evaporation every day, without the in
troduction of an equal volume of fresh.
The water evaporated being renlaced by
a supply coming through tbe canal, the
whole body will soon reach the maxi
mum of saturation; and thus, the
evaporation still continuing, a deposit
of salt will.be, formed which, in time,
must fill up the whole space of the in
terior sea the salinity of the water
being such that no animal life would be
possible in it, and the ultimate result
being tdmpjy the accumulation of an
immense deposit of salt. On the other
hand, the projectors of tho enterprise
claim that the presence of this water,
and its evaporation, must produce copi
ous rains, which will in a large measure
return to the sea, and thus pot only ac
complish the object referred to, but also
convert a sterile wast8 into a fertile
country.
An Anecdote or Davy Crockett.
"J. B. II.," writing ficm tho "Old
Stone Fort," at Nacogdoches, Tex.,
relates a circumstance which transpired
there in 183B, between the late. Colonel
J.S. Forbes and Davy Crockett, then a
tresh recruit to the cause of Texan in
dependence. Colonel Forbes, who was
Sam Houston's commissary general at
the battle of San Jacinto, was in a
room in the "Oid Stone Fort," when
Colonel Davy Crockett, on his way to
the Alamo, called to take the oath of
allegiance. Forbes was commissioner,
alcalde, and recruit ng officer, and to hiu.
appeared Crockett, coonskin cap and
all. H stood up, holding in his left
hand " Bitsy," his gun, his right hand
raised to heaven. When Forbes, read
ing the oath, came to where it said, " I
will support any government that may
be framed by the people," etc , Crockett
indignantly objected, and taking the
blank oath inserted "jfpubliean" after
" any," to make it readaud mean that he
would support " any republican, govern
ment" that might be formed hereafter by
the Texans, but none other. He then
picked up "Betsy" and went and died
with Travis and Bowie at Alamo.
FOB THE FAIR SEX.
Fall and Winter Fuhloni,
The colors in which tew goods are
shown nre, first, various shades of pur-
Ele, such as eveque or bishop's purple,
eliotrope shades, pansy, plum with
much red in it, and prune-color. The
blue shades retain tbe peacock and gen
darme hues. Very dark red is shown
in wine and garnet tints; but it is said
that dull reds will be introduced later,
similar to the cinnamon shades Worth
has used during the summer. Olive,
bronze and moss green are shown, and
one of the novelties combines the yel
low olivo green with clear blue green
like the dark green of myrtle leaves.
Seal brown is shown ; but tho newest
shades are more like the old-fashioned
ashes-of-roses and felt drab, with much
gray and yellow in them, rather than
the red of seal brown.
Stripes of plush or of velvet are shown
again for the skirts of costumes. The
handsomest are plush stripes with very
long pile on satin of the same shade.
Very little of the satin stripe is seen, as
it is quite narrow, being intended merely
to show off the pile of tbe plush stripe
as it falls over upon it. Velvet stripes
are shown with double narrow stripes
of satin between. Heliotrope, peaaock,
myrtle and prune are stylish in these
stripes, and plain velvet is imported to
match for the overdress. Other velvets
have half-inch stripes alternating with
satin stripes of the same width. For
dark costumes are mixed stripes of
brown and gold plush on brown satin.
For coats and basques to wear with
plain velvet or plush skirts are gay-figured
velvets, with stripes and sprays of
light colors on dark ground.' Ti.ese
have small blue or olive figures bro
caded in lines or stripes on rioh red
or blue ground. For other gay jackets,
and for trimmings, there are lozenge
shaped balls of dark velvet, with a tiny
chintz figure in each ball, combining
olive, peacock blue and dull red.
A few silks are shown in the new
colors very softly woven in twilled or
basket patterns, and strewn over with
brocaded,figures or quaint Egyptian de
signsjars, lotus leaves, and Jiiero
glyphics ; there are dark green vases on
pale blue ground, or on the new cinna
mon red; pale blue is combined with
drab, and olive with peacock blue. The
black satin de Lyon has a novel combi
nation of brocaded patterns, or part
of it is thrown into broad relief, while
near it the same design is impressed or
sunken in the fabric, like the chasing on
silver. Large tern leaves, mammoth
daisies, roses and other single flowers
are preferred to the small figures for
rich and elaborate dresses. For street
costumes smaller figures are shown,
such as linked rings, triangles, leaves,
etc.
Plaids ore revived in the first woolen
goods imported for autumn. These are
not the tartans of Scotch clans, but are
fanciful plaids that show .French taste
in their daring yet well-blended combi
nations of color. Moreover, these plaids
are not meant for entire suits, but for
the borders and trirnmings of plain wcol
goods to. imitate the handkerchief de
signs worn in -ginghams during the
summer. They will also be used for
skirts beneath plain overdresses, or for
jacket basques with plain skirts, and for
the hooded mantles of pilgrimage tuits.
Large and conspicuous plaids are im
ported ; in some instances a single plaid
covers the entire breadth of goods forty
eight inches wide. Less extreme de
sifcni are. however, more largely
imported in the English homespun
cloths that will be worn for undress
suits this winter. This cloth is loosely
woven and smooth, like the bunting
flannels now used, but is of heavier
weight.
Dark plum and prune colored grounds
are most seen in these plaids, with large
stripes and bars of peacock blue, olive,
red and white. A nother plaid has olive
green ground barred with peacock blue,
and lines ot bright maize color. 'Rose,
scarlet and narrow pale blue lines are
on plum g-ounds. Instead of old gold,
the yellows how used are brighter, such
as straw color or maize. Olive green
grounds are plaided with dark myrtle
green on which are red and pale blue
lines. Begular Koman Btrir f s are crossed
to form plaids on peacock blue ground.
More quiet colors are drab grounds with
two shades of green in the bars crossed
by light blue lines. Bazar.
(trla aa Housekeeper.
Begin withyour own things and your
own place. That is what your mother
will tell you if you rush to ber enthusi
astic with great intentions, and offer to
relieve her of halt her housekeeping
Don't draw that little bucket of cold
water to have it poured back upon your
early zeal. Reform your upper bureau
drawer ; relieve your closet pegs of their
accumulation of garments out of use a
month or two ago. Institute a clear
and cheerful order, in the midst of
which you can daily move; and learn to
keep it. Use yourself to the beautilul,
which is the right, disposing of things
as you handle them, so that it will be a
part of your toilet to dress your room
and its arrangements while you dress
yourself, leaving the draperies you take
off as lightly and artistically bung, oi as
delicately folded and placed, as the skirts
you loop carefully to wear, or the rib
bon and lace you put with a Eoft neat
nesi about your throat. Cherish in'
stincts of taste and fitness in every little
thing you have about you. L'Hitgrow
impossible to you to put down so much
as a pin-box where it will disturb tbe
orderly and pleasant grouping upon your
dressing-table, ox to stick your pins in
your cushion" ev n at all sorts of tipsy
and uncomfortable inclinations. Ibis
will not make you "fussy" it is the
other thin that does that tbe not
knowing except by fidgety experiment
what is harmony and the intangible
grace of relation. 'Once get your knowl
edge beyond study and turn it into
tad which is literally having it at your
tingeiV ends and order will breathe
hb ut you, and grace evolve from com
monest things and uses and belongings
wherever you be; and "putting to
rights " will not be lep&rate task-work
and trouble, any more than it is in the
working of the solar system. It will gp
on all the time, and with a continual
pleasure.
Take upon yourself gradually for the
sake of getting them in hand in like
manner if for no other need all the
cares that belong to your own small ter
ritory of home. Get together things
for use in these cares. Have your little
wash-cloths and your sponges for bits
of cleaning ; your furniture brush and
your feather-dusters, and jour little
broom, and your whisk and pen; your
bottle of sweet-oil and spirits ot tur
pentine and piece of flannel to preserve
the polish, or restore the gloss where
dark wood grows dim or gets spotted.
Find out, by following your surely grow
ing sense of thoroughness and nicenesp,
the best and readiest ways of keeping
all fresh about you. Invent your own
process ; they will come to you. When
you have made yourself wholly mistress
of what you can learn and do in your
own apartment, so that it is easier for
you to do it than to let it alone so that
you don't count the time it takes any
more than that which you have to give
to your own bathing and hair-dressing
- then you have learned enoffgh to keep
a whole house, so far as its cleanly
ordering is concerned. Ladies' Floral
Cabii et' '
Facts About Coins and Coinage.
Some facts of interest not generally
known were presented recently by Mr.
B. V. Head, assistant keeper of coins in
the British museum, in a paper read be
fore the Bankers' institute, London.
Twice only in the history of the human
race was there an effort made to intro
duce theoretically perfect system of
weights and measures. The Babylon
ians were the first to make the attempt
to refer all the designations of quantity
and extension to one and the same unit.
Not less than 3,000 years elapsed before
the next experiment in the same direc
tion was made, and the credit of it is
due to the French. With all the agen
cies at the command of people in the
nineteenth century of the Christian era,
tbe introduction of the metric system
into general use has been painfully slow,
and it may easily be conceived why the
Babylonians did not make their unit
standard a permanent success. As to
the coining of money, the Lydians are
believed to have invented that art about
700 B. C. The earliest coins were com
posed of electrum, a natural combin
ation of gold and silver found in the
washings of the river Pactolus. This
coinage lasted for about 150 years, when
Croesus introduced a bi-metallic cur
rency of gold and silver, which became
general throughout Asia until the time
of Alexander the Great. The ratio be
tween gold and silver was fixed at 1 to
13.5. European Greece had a silver
mono-metallic currency until the dis
covery of the rich gold mines at Philippi,
in the reign of Philip of Macedon, when
the currency of that monarch was made
bi-metallic to keep up the price of gold
as compared with silver a device which
proved futile. Alexander returned to
the old system, but though gjid coins
were still made, they were regarded
simply as bullion, and monometallism,
hencelorth, was universal even in Asia.
The change from a double to a Bingle
standard in Asia was rendered possible
by the sudden depreciation of gold con
sequent upon Alexander's dispersion of
the hoarded gold of tbe kings of Persia.
The Korwegiau Horse.
The horse was one of the prettiest,
most docile creatures imaginable. But
I had done with it. I loved the animal,
and like the Irishman with his cow,
could I have sent it over to England in
a letter, it should have bid a long fare
well to its wild mountain life. It was
grazing quietly about a hundred j ards
away. Then,- catching sight of U9, it
knew well enough vhat the invasion
meant, and pricking up its ears, and
arching its neck, gave a slight neigh and
began gently trotting up and down, its
fine white mane and long tail fluttering
in the breeze. It answered the master's
call as obediently as a.dog, and followed
gently at his heels up to the cottage.
We were soon ready and once more on
the way. Now began a long, toilsome
climb, which lasted until seven o'clock
at night. I had never yet gone through
anything ot t he kind on horseback. I
am not sure that I should care to at
tempt it again. Without ever encoun
tering actdal danger thanks to the sure
footedness of the horse we wore often
in what appeared such imminent poril
that more than once I regretted the ad
venture and devoutly wished myself
back again. For the pedestrians there
was not even the appearance of riBk, be
yond the possibility of stones loosening
from the heights and rolling down upon
them. From the very beginning I
noticed how wonderfully the horse
piloted himself over the rough places
and through impossible difficulties, ex
ercising a skill and discrimination far
greater than that of his rider. . At
length I gave it up to him and allowed
him to take his own course. Tho
sagacity Qf the animal was marvelous;
the manner in which he would pause a
moment at a troublesome spot, seem to
pick out his way mentally, and then
boldly taking it, never hesitate until it'
was over. 'J'he' ArgQty.
Traveling' in Arabia V'
Came!s and dromedaries are amaz
ingly adapted for traversing the dry wd
parched deserts of Arabia: for they aro
so formed that they can throw up tbe
liquid from their stomachs into their
throats, by which means they ran travel
six or eight days without water. - - The
Aomalfe tisiiallv nrro NllolnminI weiirht.
upon their backs, which is noi tukent-ff
during the whole ot the ouraey; tor
they naturally kneei down to rest,' and
in duo time rise with tha load. The
dromedary is a small camel, with two
bunches on its back, and remarkably
swili. Itis an observation among the
Arabs that wherever there are trees the
water is not far oil-; and when they draw
near a pool, their camo.s wilUm -11 at a
great distance, and set up their lttbt trot
until they come to it.