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VOL, XIVO- PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMB3ERI1.1M~ The Poke Bonnet. How much I admiro the bewitching poke bonnet, Whicl ha f hides the roses that bloom in her Why, Cupid, I know, has his throne there upon it, Concealed in its trimmings of mull or of lace. The style isn't now, for our grandmothers wore it, And they were not wanting in beauty or grace; Their granddaughters love it, the young men adore it Tho atlarming poke bonnet that hides a sweet face; The ravishing bonnet, the exquisite bon, net, Bewildering bonnot, that shades a sweet faqe. The fair, shapely head is half bidden within And part of the beautiful- face disappears-.. How often I've kissed the lips glowing warm in it, The while the coarse fibres were tickling my oars. Away with the hat with the fonther upon iti Within my irection 'twill n;'r have a place. Oh, give me- t mull-tri,nmed, the coarse straw poke bonnet, The heart-snaring bonnet that shades a sweet face; The beautiful bonnet, the exquisit bon pot,t The ravishing bonnet that hides a sweet face. -Sonerville Journal. ] CRUEL KINDNESS. "Martha!" I called, hearing a step in the room next my own sleeping- 1 room, where I sat readiug a letter just i received. "Yes, ma'anm," was the prompt an- I swer; and Martha came in--a quiet, middle-aged woman, who had been in I my service twenty long years; who had nursed my children, now lying in the 1 cemetery, had been my own devoted nurse when my'Lusband's sudden death e prostrated me for weeks. A servant, t but my most devoted friend as well. "Martha," I said, "I have a letter from Mrs. Joyce." Martha waited for further informa tion. "Miss Bertha," I said, "wants to I come here, and have Dr. Preston opor ato upon her eyes. Dr. Preston says the operation will be a difficult and dangerous one, and the result very i doubtful. But Miss Bertha, who has been so resigned to her loss of sight, so submissive and patient, has become A restless and irritable, and Insists upon I the operation. What I called you for Martha, was to ask if you will take the 1 care of her-take her out, sleop in her 1 room, devote your whole time to herP" "Gladly, ma', . The poor aillicted darling!" "And will you go to Castleton for 1 her? You will be glad to see Mr. Fred." The old woman's faco brightened. Fredrick Stevenson, my husband's nephew, who had been our adopted son an well, was the very idol of Martha's I heart. To believe her was to believe Mr. Fred the model of manly perfec tion, physically and mentally. . It was only natural that my sister should make her house a second home to him, and I was fearful from her lot ter that it was some hastily spoken opinion of his that has caused Bertha's c sudden resolution. For ten years, I since she was a child of eight, she had I borno the loss of si rht-caused by ill- r v ness-without coim atint, and had felt I It as little as a family of devoted broth- C ers and sisters could mako her. She was the darling of all of them, from t Susie,. who was two years older than I herself, and was foot, hands, and eyes r to her, down to baby Johnnie, who t carefully led her to her seat in the house or garden as gently and as sue cessfully as Susie herself. Nobody was ever too busy to wait on Bertha, and she had oflen laugh.ingly said her at- 1 fl'ction gave bior a throne she never in-~ 1 tended to vacate. Never shall 1 forget the first inter view we had with ut. Preston. I hadi asked him to call in a (lay or two after Bertha's arrival, wvishiing to give hert the Opportunity to rest after the jour- t ney. Bu it shoe had not beeni an hour in ~ the house when she asked mno to ajndi for 1im, or take- her to his surg -y. She was trembling wvithI excitment, and ( her very lips were whiIe, so that I did not dare to take her out, andl sent for 1dm. She was not still a moment until ho came, pacing uin and dIown the long I parlors, her shakihig hands outstretcl?- I ed before her, or standinug at the win dow, as if she could wvatch for him. Every few moments she did what I had never seen her do before In all the tent 4 ~ years of darkness, opened her eyes I -wide, to their fullest extent, and strain- I odl them in a stare that was sickonine to see. It was quite in vain that 'I y b tried by every loving device to win her f to sit quietly beside me, to talk, even to play for me. She could not rest. When at last the doctor entered the t room, she wvent quickly to hhn, crying: I "D)r. Preston, I must eol I must! L * ~You will openl my eyes fo~,eo" ie took both her extended hands In his ow~n, and led her to a seat. * "Every hour of this excitement less ens your chance," he answered. "You e are in a fever now and I can (do noth-d ing." And indeed the poor child's chocks r were crimson, andl the veins uphonl hern tom plos throbbing visibly.r "You will look at them? You willr look at my eyesP" she p)leadedl. "It .will be so obedient, so patient, (looter. You will not refuse mueP"r "1 will not refuse you," lie said; "but I can do nothing until you have conquered this excitement. You must ' be tranquil, or I cannot operate." "I will be. Give moon0 ray of hopoe, and I will be quiet!' It was p)itifuil to see how she tried,c even thou, to control her restless fin- 1 gers lld quivering 1hi%. The doctor motioned mie to follow him and call I Martha. I sent Bertha to her own -room with the dloctor's orders to lie down for an hour or two. "I will perform the opieration, Mrs. Stevenson," he said to me, "because your nileco will have it done by some one clso if I refuse. But I tell you frankly, It is not advisable." "'.There is a chanoe, though?" I ask oed, almost as eagerly as poor Bertha herself.t "Yes. But what has so changed ~horP" "I dare hot ask myslf," I said sad .iy. "I know nothing." "I will soe her again to-morrow. In the meantime I would strongly advise you to call In your family physician, to I see if he can control this feverishi ox oltoment. She scorns on the verge of brain fever." I followed his advice, and Bertha sagorly obeyed the doctor's directions. She understood that the operation must be delayed until her nerves wore calm ad; and it was pitiful to soo how she 3trovo to be tranquil, and how the very Difort seemed to defeat its object. It was nearly three weeks before Dr. Preston was willing to undertake 'tho operation, and in that time I was too sorrowfully convinced of the cause of poor Bortlha's anxiety to regain her aikht. Every day, for hours together, Bihe would listen to Martha's long do cri ptions of my nephew's perfections. More than once I saw Bertha steal into his room and gropo about there, touching the objects with which he was associated. She had Martha tell her wvhere he usually sat, which was his fa vorito chair, and she had taken his "hotograph to her own room, delight 3d to pass her lingers over the flat sur ace, no doubt fancying she could trace ,ho features. I wrote my sister, and the lotter con irmed my fears. Governed by the ten ior sympathy any true man must feel or such afilictions as Bertha's, Fred ind joined the family in their devotion ,o the blind girl. Not dreaming of the iarm he was doing, he had been ever oady to guide her, to read to her, to ioscribo for her the scenes around hem, and most innocently he had won woman's heart, where he had thought t was but a child's affection offered to lim. The operation performed by Dr. reston was successful as far as he ould judge, but Bertha's eyes were nost carefully bandaged, and every >recaution taken to keep out every ray >f light. She was much calmer when lie ordeal was once massed. but it iained me to see how palo and drawn for face had become, how slowly and anguidly she nnoved. Summer weather was coming, when ine morning as 1 sat in my little sitting oom. Fred came in. "How I startled you," 1he said, 'laughing at the jump hie gave; "you lid not expect me. But I must tell you ny good news myself. You must con 'ratulato me first." I looked up, but did not answer him. . strange dread of what was coming :Opt me silent. "I have won my wife," he said, gai y. "Did you guess from my letter inat loved Susie Joyce?" It was not I who spake. A low, vailing tone was in the voice, and we )oth started as Bertha came in, her annds, as usual,outstretched before her. 'red sprang to meet her, and took the ittle white' hands in his own. ''You will be my dear little sister," to said, so utterly unsuspliciouts, that, f he had had any doubt before, it was ;one then. ''Yourlittle sister! Yes," and then, eforo I could stop her, she threw oil he bandaoe from her eyes. Widely training tem, she cried "I see you! I see you!" and fainted way. For nine long days she raved in wiid ist delirium, revealing the secret of her uro, young heart seeming to see Fred's ace constantly before her. His sor ow was very sincere, as he realized, at ast, the mischief he had so innocently ommitted. "She seemed such a Child," lie said o me, "and her atllictionl seemed to set fcr apart from the thought of love naking. I never even dreamed of his." The fever left Bertha at last, only to ncreaso our fear. Utterly exhausted, vithout will or power to rally, we knew lie was dying. Her mother and Susio tad come to me, anid ho1ed to nurse icr, and many bitter tears poor Susie lied as5 the pitiful cries to "see Fred inco" told her the secret of her sister's Ilness. "Only once!" she wvould cry; but af er the first removal of tile bandage lio sight wvas hiopelessly gone. Th'lo clicate, dangerous op)eraition might ave been successful, but tile rash act hat let a noonday glare fail upon tihe yes wvas fatal. Bertha sawv Fred once, ,nd again thi niight of blindness fell pon her. Hie stood besidoe her, one of our sor owvful group), as she passed away. She ad taken tile Holy CommlIunlion~for the ast time, had listened to tihe prlayer of 'ur good minister, and, knowing the mnd was near, asked1 for Fred. He took lhe little hand she stretched out ais she eoard his step, and11 b)ending over, ressed his lhips upon01 her forehead. ."Good-byeP'" she whispered. "You till think of mo sometines! I ami lad it'is Susie you Jove." He spoke a few words only Bertha card, andi then made a hasty motion e us to come again to 1101. H1olding~ is hand, hearing his voice, our poor1, lind child had p)assed away. Curiosity of Medhical Life. An English paper gives some of tho uriosities of medical life. It is the uty of one (looter to take lunch every .ny at a great castle belonging to a Lobl'b lord. The housohold is Immense, .nd there is just the chlance that there ay be seine ease of indisposition do manding attention. Hie gets some1 of 1h0 best complJany andl best lunches in anglandl, andi only chiarges a gulinea or each attendance. 'Thioro is a vealthy man near a great city who annmot bear to boe left for tihe nig'ht. 'here is a phlysician of great ability vhio dirives out of towvn nightly to sleep .t huis residence; he is consequently do. marred oi dng soie(ty, and( if lie goes 'ut to dhiinn'r hlas to leave his frionuds mofore wvino. ie lhas to charge hlis pa lent ?1,000 a year. One young doctor as a stand1(i.o engoag'ement of .C400 a 'ear to look after the health of an old tidy. She had to be insuceted three imes a day, was strong as a hiorse, .nd so solfi and p)erverso that lhe had1( :reat trouble with hier.-Tr.oy Times. The best cocoanuts come from Con ral and South America. Thiey are not dekkod nor shaken from the trees, but vbien ripe fall off themselves. From 10 o 20 per cent. aro lost ini tranlsplorta Ion. yh'loso partly spelled are made ato cheap confectionery; the others are urned, shell and all, and ground u >) ato what is called spice mnixtur,wic~ Ii * used to adulterate pepper, cinnamon, llspice, etc. There is thus but little ems or damage except to the con ninnce. QUARtTZ JEWELRY. An Industry Confined to the Stato o Calif'ornia. The making of quartz jowelry is peeu liarly a California industry. Its mar: ufacture was begun in the early day following the gold discovery. 'l'houg quartz fit for the art of the jeweler i found all over California, tho best i that coming from the mines 'of th Grass valley. It is not often the mine conies across rock which would lin-t : sale among tho jewelers. The gold ha to be evenly distributed and not lumpy so that it has passed through the nec essary sta!es to prepare it for sottin the spots and seams are well scattercehog h ok Teqat hc throutgh the rock. TIhe quartz which miner t hus procures is sent down eithe to a bank or an assay office, and fror there tue jeweler receives notice that consignment is ready for auction. Th bids then depend entirely upon th state of the iock held by the dilleren bidders, and should a jeweler happe to be in want of gtuariz, the amnoun paid wou:d be dottule that which h wo::d pay on anty other occasion. As a ru:e the j.!weler pays muc highor for tie rough quartz than woul one who desired to purchase the gol to tmelt. The quartz as taken by th jewe:er is brought in lumps weighin front oie to ten ttounds, and in thi Condition it is hianided over to a m< clhanic for the purpose of being cil into slabl.. 'The process is an easy on and nearly sitila r to that followed b the marble-cutter4. ''hte saw by whic this oper:tit is prformed is circula and miade of sheet tin a1, ch:arged wit water and etmerv. The gnartz is hiel up to it, and in its revolutions it divide the qtartz. The slabs in which th quartz is cut do not, generally excee one-eigltIi of :n inch in tlickness Tile preliminary work is then ovel It is not till the jewely is made, th littings, as it were, that these slabs ar a.rain cut, then litted into the gold an cenentell. It is then grotund oil leve with the -old an)d finally polished unt it assumes that br'ightness as when ex posed for sale. 'Ihe co:orin of quartz is extremnel rich adli t varied, be ing found in th same sect ion of coutrittv int whiite an black anl pink and ~ blue. liithert there has been lie preference expresse by the buyer for the color of the quart in the trinket. Perhap; this has bee obviated bv the j -we,r, wio, in th manufaeture of evven the smallest art cle, never fails to ive as varied an m sortmtent of quartz as is possible. 1hl method of the valnation of quartz roc is peculia:r. It is first weighedi as an other material, and then under watei as rock weighs n:"xt to nothing wheo under water surface. T1'he amount o gold imbedded in the rock can by thi process be determined. There h:tve not been men wantinj Who have attempted to make artificia. quartz to be used in the manufacturc of large goods, in the way of card ta bles and similar articles, but d1ecide< failure has followed each and every at tempt. Whether quartz jewelry wil ever become fashionable is a qluestiot which the business meni of this city givt no long thought. They declare thoi inability to use quartz fantastically, of to suliciently fine it down so as to cu it itnto delicatc flowers andl leaves There is an air of substantiality aboul all the trinkets made for ladies, which, though handsome, have somewhat of a clumsy look. And the jeweler has t< contend against a difliculty which lies on the opposite side. Quartz cannol be had in stiliciently large pieces tc use in the manufacture of objects of use anid ornamiientt. Sonic years ag~o a jewel-causket was made in this city for the wife oif a cer taIn rich jtidge, whtich ini itself wvas v marvel of beauty and elegatice, it beino~ of solid gol d aniid quaartz, hiavinhg fott p)anels, each live itnce in lengt.h anid thtee in wvidth. Thle cost inicttrred in this wvork was enormous and th< amoittnt of labor incredible. Sonmc slight estimate of the trouble may bc formed whlen the ma ker of the caskel Ihad to enmploy au man who traveled foi two en Lre monthIs through the minet in search for quartz of suflicient size tc execute the order. After dliligent itnquiiry atmong several workers it was estimtated thtattiot ovoi $I5,000 wvorthi of quart z jewvelry is dis. posed of in this city during a year anc not $25,000 wvorthi is bottght for peopl< to wear ini Satn Franiciseo. ---San Fran cisco Chroniclc. The Keystone of' a Gent 'Tower Lidt TIhree hutndredt peopile, with upturn ed faces anid staritng eyes watchiod flu monis&er marble koystonte of the arcl of thle big tower of the Putblic Buiilding aut Ph-iladelpia: as it swung in air. slight board railing kept the crowi ftrom getting tinder the stone. Sletnde1 two-inch steel cables, looking hardl3 strotig enough to bear a workman' weight, held the mai:ss. A tall mian, wvith rth dli wItiskers, matde the sig. tal to "huist awvay,"' antd a black giaut arm stretching ot front above the mar. ble top 190 feet itn the air, gathieredl iin the slender cords. T1hie figure of r wvorkman, seemuing~ as though viewed front thle large end( of a telescope, wvalked out upontt the giant's arm anid looked dlowni. Ibtieath the steno ii mauson notichialatly clhpped away wit h ham mer and chisel at a marble block. VTe grimy gianit's arm ma:do a s9weep and stopped over thle aiperturoi. where the six ts of miatrble were to lod ge, From the courctyzttd belowv the immense block looked as though two meni could lift, it. Aero0ss Pennil Squiare thle b)rass hiandIs et thle I iroadi Str-eet Stat ion clock noted the Ilight of two Iturs he fore the keystonie wais itn place. "The hieavies:, stone in the tower Is thet coveiin icece ini thle ecrlo form inig bte lower front of the towe . It wveighis thiirty-twvo tons,'t said FK'-manu Lawrence. "I ex pect to have all the s toniework cotmple! td by thle end of the se asoni of 1881. 'lThe ighit of the tow er' thon whi be :310 feet. Fromi that elevation the iroin work comminenices anid goes tup I105 feet high~ler, until, to the cr-owni of William Pennut's haut, the heigh t o f 535 feet is reaiclied.''-hl. delp!ha Tanoos. Thle young tian who trn away with Signor lMoros inii's dlatighter should h be shot--n-tot for the eloemet, ot, for reviving the coachimati joke in 7,000 nnwshnr,m,r. American Literary Women. f The death of Mary Clemmer Hudson Is the latest broach in American author ship. She was at one time the most - attractivo writer on the Independent, - and Bowen has never boon able to fill s her place. The most intoreting fea t ture, however, in her life, is her inti S macy with the sisters Alice and Phobo' s Cary, whose memoirs she gave the ) world in a very attractive form. The r Carys were the most remarkable pair ti of sisters New York over contained. s They came hither poor and endured great privation while building uip a - reputation, which eventually brought a r competency. They lived, however, I long enough to win the admiration of % the best intellects of the day, and bore. r an important part in founding Sorosis,i i which is the most admirable c'lubin this % city. To return to Mrs. Hudson, ono o Is reminded by her death of that bril 3 liant array of female writers which has t so recently passed away. Among these i may be mentioned Sarah Parton (Fan t ny Fern), the Cary sisters, Miss Chub o buck (Fanny Forrostor); also Amelia 13. Welly, Mrs. Osgood, Anna Corn fi Mowatt, Elizabeth Oakes Smith and I Lydia Maria Child. It may be said I that Mrs. Hudson was one of the few e female writers who won a position in Washington, and commanded the re s sp ect of the highest dignitaries of the N ation. t The success of these clover women o should not be mentioned with-a view of y leading others to depend on literature. li Without going into details, the painful r fact is everywhere apparent that both li Journalism and book-making are too I crowded to allow any encouragement. s Coming down from literature to other o employments, the female population in I this city is so disproportionally great that even the struggle for existence be comes intense. A few days ago a o crowd of women thronged a public o building to a degree that excited gen Ii oral inquiry. It was explained by the 1 kct that an advertisement for a girl in 1 an oflico appeared that morning and a situation which hardly yielded a mea ger living was sought for by hundreds, y all of whom, with but one exception, e were disappointed. It was a sad spec I tacle, but such is the reality. The poor > shop girls, or ''white slaves," as they I are sometimes called, may be objects s of pity, but not more so than the book i binders, vest hands, cal) makers and 3 iollowers of a score of other employ ments. Type-writing is a very neat - kind of work, but is entirely overdone. ! Telegraphy probably pays the best of iall female employments, but there are a hundred applications for every va cancy. The only kind of employment i that is not overdone is housework, and fI we all know that American girls are 3 above the kitchen. What a nity that this ridiculous notion of taste should be a bar to usefulness!--Ncw York Lct ter in Utica lera"l. - Two Peeps at Siam. It is not a long circuit from the gate of the Captain's garden to that of the famous temple, but even that short distance shows us a few sights which would be sufficiently amazing in any other part of the world. A native houso is gravely coining up the river by itself, the father steering it with a long oar, while the children watch its progress from the ladder leading down into the water from the veranda. Under the shade of a hugo banyan tree, hal* a do:zen bare-lim ned, dusky Siamese boatmen are playing a kind of aborigi nal lawn-tennis, using their foot in stead of their hands to kep IIi the bail. Just beyond themi, a small na-. tive child, wvith nothing on but tile or linmontal wreath wihich encircles thle bristly tuft of black hair surmuountint# its otherwise shaven head, is admirin"o a magniificnt butterlyv, almost as larSr as a sparrow. A little farther on''a group) of amnphibhious youngsters are p)laying ia the tick, greasy, soap-eol ored watu', as Western chlildIren might play on land, while just across tihe river we espy a flotilla of light canoes laden withs fruit anid vegetables, and manned by Siamese masrket-women, Iwho keep ill a poerpetulal clamor of bargaining as shrill as a chorus of an gry p)arrots. But the momenit wo pas the (leep, lowbrowed gatewvay all this vanishes as if it had never been. With one stride we go from thle present to the pat Trho mighty ruins thlat start ill through masses of clinging foliage, in the depths of tile Java forests, could hlardl ly look more lonely and forsaken thlan thlis strantgo 01(d fortress of Eastern su perstitioni. Upon every foot of its dlamp, slimy coulrtyard, its gafyed, crunmbling walls, its stormi-worn pil lars, its (lark, tom b-like galleries, its voiceless cells andl shattered lmag'es, lies tile bjrandl of grim and irrovocablo dlesolation: "Thle gatow aIRe of the Ilarmeecide aro choked with fallen ilav,'0 And( in the halls o~(f A zamaIt her1 web) the1 '1,td 01r weaves; The1 jackal and the11 11lerpenllt nowv their mid. whiere Nadi r, lordt of E:ast aind wVest, onlcet reved and1 (ran1k dleepi.., IIosteon Slan;g. "De)ar, dear, where hlave you been girls,'" said a lBoston moilther to he(r~ daughters, whoe returInedt late from ant on tertinmeIInIlt. " We've' beeni S'l crill ing the mnunicipiality,"*' 'giggled( tile voiertn the( femlale to ani extraor dlinary (cevation11."' chlimed:l in the tild.t motlher inl< xpotulatory tolles. '"Therc's ( fourth' "'everythIing is aliibo, and1 thle fowl, wh'lose eniekl ing w:lI the salvatin of lime, is r sspeliiledh at an1 alt itud11 hlithlerto un:knownl in 0our expeience." r' E'xlanail tory Chart Ts' ai ntinrg thlO town roll. tSeeinig thle elephiant. tWhooping1 lher' up. SECverythling is lovely andi: tihe goose hangs igho. C HSomerville Joura . I' An Arkansas man:0 thlinkis he has cx hu11med thle petri Iied' hl11 of a fauiry'. The0 suppos)0ed fossil is about tile sizle of a large walnut. TIhe features of tIle humnul face-eyes, nose41, 111outh. fore hoadi, cheeOks [and cin-may all bo0 dis cornedl. Tile lipitish hlave records of 225 earthquIlakes in the last 556 years, andi t.he ialnsanra still thee Becoming yearly Moro Popular Among Those Wlo Can Afor( It. "So you think hotel life is gaining in popularity?" ventured a JournalC3 re porter to Mr. Welch, of the St. Nich. olas. The conversation had turned on hotels, their conve,iences, the guests, and the strange sights hotel men see. "Yes, sir; for those who can afford the comfort and conveniences of hotel life it is growing more popular year by year. In a well-appointed, first-class hotel people can live undisturbed by the various ills that housekcoping is heir to, and the time will come when half the well-to-do peoplo of the city will inhabit its first-class hotels." ''And if you woro asked the cause of the Zrowing popularity what would you say?'' "I would give two reasons promin ent among the many that I might name. The richer class of people, who divide their time :among the south in winter and the northern watering places in siunler, varied with an oc casional trip to EAirope, find that their c0111 1s and %oilng's can be done with much less discomi fort and less expense by living in a hotel than if they were maintainin;; anl establishment of their own. With such peoplo comfort and convenience, the avoidanceo of unneces sary bother and :1t-Viravating delay, enter more into their ealculation thian does expense." "You mention two reasons?" "'.'he other is tlat the male members of families living in hotels are generally men inl active blisiness pursuits, only home at meal-tims and in the even ings. They do not wish to have their wives burdened with the innumerablo cares of a household, the troubl and vexation of servantts, and the exactions of the family cares generally. To such a separate establishment, as rents go now, is more ex1ensIve and less com fortable. 'akin, rent, the cost of fine furniture, and the expense of a corps of servants, there is no comparison be tween the two modes of living." "Yes, but that class of guests must be very exacting in their demands at a hotel. "There's where you and probably others make a great mistake. Of all the people who use hotels they are the least troublesome and cx'"ting. Inl fact, they are the easiest to please. They are accustomed to good living, a well-served table, finely furnished rooms, obedlient and obliging servants, and when they find all these at their command that is all they ask. They know just what the servico of a first class hotel is; they know that thero is somebody alvays ready to satisfy their least want anti that every convenience of the house is at their disposal. Oh, no, we never have tro'iblu with them.'' "'Then who are the people that do give trouble?" "Well, probably the most trouble some are peoplo from the country ln used to stopping at hotels. They have an exaggerated idea of their own im portance, and think that everybody tbout the house inmust dance attendance )1m them. They seem bent on giving, 1ll the trouble they can, and make .hemselves and others uncomfortable. But should they stay at the hotels a uontlh or so, it's wonderful to note the h1ange that takes place. They soon ind out that their comfort and conven entieneo are the two things m11ost hought of by the proprietor, and they all right into the groove and find that hey have sipl11y to go on living and )e happy." ''Is there not some danger that the nbeeasing populairity of the fashion vit wi resuilt i nj uriouisly to the tot els?" "I think not. Ini the first placee, the spnense of lii ing in these stylish upartmitent1-houses is nmtehi greater. In lie bJest of them suits for a family ant:ge from $2,000 to $l0,000 a year, tuid this mean s the hare wvallis-no urnutiro andilt nmals. Still, they are ts the besi hioteli aire losing none of nir weathiy gu est s, J cani only stur n)ia that the11 nlumbeuulr of p)eop)le a'ble to Livo in these hiouses and ini hotels in the city is receiving constantl accessions."' "Dlo 1peop10le arr'y from their hotel?" "'Why, certainly; that's on10 of thlo natural concomitants of hotel lift). And how much pleasaunter it is! The groom has butt to give a singio ordter to the pr'oprietor specifying jusit wvhat is watted, and atn army of servants are ready to carry ot t he arranigem ents withoutt a hitch. Ilotel wveddlings are oetting to be commiont il faut-so much so that I know of two to come off this rall where thle parties htavoj their own iouses, but , pretferiing thte thorotugh tysteum of a hottel, have gi ven me thIeir >rdlers."'-N. .AlIorning J/ournall. Blood a is set downu on F"ahren eit. triern< eters at 98 dlegtees, bet, tore care fuil iunvesti gation lhas shown hat, thte t 11mperturo of i a 1I healthiy per oni is between 10:2 and 103. Onue-ntalf degree either way indIicates an ab ornmal condulition, whijo I degree below 'oldt ma~ke 1 dlocior shiake hIs huead imiinouisly. W"heni a fever senids the nyPerturl Il to I1)01'o 107 it dhepends tibrely upon t.tte amiount of fuel on ar i howv ltong 'he lire will tcontitiu to ':a. Tlhue tinitr ini the b)lotod mtay be rinved befo:oe the miaciniery is hburni di out and thi hires smiothetred, or the itatlity mat:y b,e kp upi tuntil the t ither :tall coztinsed and the fires go~ dlown' ft teitr own atctcordo. l--'ittshury his A wvihd mian, captutredl in O)ehceeco wampiil, near (hat tahuoce, antd ear ietd to JTallaha:sRe, hadt beent siim uing in O.chieeeee Lake, fromi islatnd to est itute of clothin lg, t,maeleatedi andt ntt.irely co)vered w ith -a ph enomenat il rowlth of htair, lie coubll give nto atc ouint of himself, atnd the thteory is hat lie e.seape<t from ano asylum in omoe othier stabe. At Mulaldrid a few d aysltgo) ani opera an ageri r.ebukted a d anseuse for' iak nga mtsste p, r'emartk ing: 'Yotu da:nco ike a chiickttn." Th 'e dancer' s hutsbIanld lcmlandled an apology, buit the mnanager lenied htavingo insulted the lady. The loUsband thoCrctupon pluniged a (lagger into the heart of his wife's tradcmm. A Persian Spoon, A sherbet spoon is from one to two feet in length; the bowl, cut from a a solid block, holds from a claret class c to a tumbler of the liquid. This bowl t is so thin as to be semi-transparent, and is frequently ornamented with an t inscription, the letters of which are in t high relief. To retain their semi- r transparency, each letter is undorcut, so that, although standing up an eighth h from the surface of the bowl, yet the whole is of the same light and delicate texture, no >art thicker than another. One-half of the surface of the spoon-bowl is covered by two cleverly applied pieces of carv ed wood, which appears to be carved from one block, But this is not the case-they are really cemented there. These pieces are carved in such a dell- I cato manner as to bo almost filmy in appearance, resembling lino lacowork. 'he handlo of the spoon-at times twenty inches Jon g- is formed in p separate picco, and inserted Into the edge of tho bowl in a groove cut to re ceive it. This handle is also elabo rately carved in delicato tracery, and a wonderful efrect is produced by the rhomboid-shaped handlo, at times four inches broad at the widest )art and only a tenth of an inch thick. The groove whero the handlo is inserted in to the edge of the bowl of the spoon and the point of junction aro hidden by a rosette of carved wood, circular in shape, only a tenth of an inch thick. This, too, is carved in lace-likd work, and it is cecmented to the shaft of the spoon. A kind of flying buttress of similar delicato wood-work unites the back part of the shaft to the shoulder 3 of the bowl. The spoon which, when it loaves the carver's bench, is white, is varnished with Kaman oil, which acts as water proof and preservative, and dyes the whole of a fine gainbogoeollow similar to our boxwood. The weight of the ( spoon is im the largest sizes two ounces. e 'Ilhe tools used by the carver are a t plane, a rough sort of gouge, and a common penknife. Each spoon is of a separato and original design, no two I being alike, save when ordered In pairs 1 or sets. 'I'lTe priee of the finest spool mens is from 5 shillings to 15 shillings each. These sherbet spoons are really works of art, and are valued by Orion tal amlateurs. Many of the merchants are very proud of their sherbet spoons, and being wood, they are "lawful;" for a metal spoon, if of silver, Is an abom intation; conse(uently, the teaspoons in Persia have a filigree hole in the bowl, and thus can be used for stirring the tea only, and not for the unlawful act of conveying it to the mouth in a sil ver spoon. Of course, those high-art sherbet spoons are only seen at the houses of the better classes, a coarser wooden spoon being used by the lower classes. he spoons at dinner servo as drinking vessels, for tumblers are un known; and the metal drinking cu)s so much in use are merely for traveling, or the pottlo deep potations of the irre ligious.--Chambers' Journal. How to FunrniMh Bedrooms. Bedrooms are more luxurious thaia ever in the modern American houses, and this is altogether the wrong place for luxurious or sumptuous furnishing. A bedroom should have as little furni ture as possible beyond what is abso lutely esscnial. No draperies which can hold th dust, no stufled furniture, and no carpets other than soft rugs for the feet.l French bedrooms are fI-nish ed1 much in this way, and are only used1 as sleeping apartments. A boudoir leading elY the chamber may be as lux urious and temp~ting as possible, but the bedchamber should not be a loung ing place ever, lest the air becomes vi tiated. An English brass bedstead is alwvays a most, admirable picco of fur niture for a bedroom, since it coimbincs cleanliness and duarbility. These bed steadis are not costly in the ond, and are easily kept bright. An open grate iirelplace should bo in every chamber in thio house. Thio floor should be of hard woodl, wvith a smooth surface, or, if of pinie, it, shotuld be p)aintedi or shel lacked and varnished. Thore should be no hiaiigings over the bed or at the whlow. If the bedroom Is to be at trac(tive, its attractiveness should be in its siimplicity and extromio cleanliness. There are otber rooms in whIch It Is )o.Si ble to e'xhiblit as much grace and Sisto as inclination dicetates, but the r. ursery and bedrooms should have no pretenions aside from healthful and comnfortablo fittings. -San Francisco strf,Onutt. - Ganthering GArapes. It is somet,imes reconmmndned that the grapes shiould( be gathered as they ripen, by going over a vineyard two or three times and p)icking off not only buniiches that are ripe, leaving the green ones, but even picking off separately three or four grapes frein each bunch where it, is not evenly ripened; andi this - is tihe practice that is followed to-day in makimg tho great, white wines of France and Gecrmany; but it will cr tainlhy not be adopted in California whlileI labor is as dear and wvine as cheap) as it, is at p)rosenmt. Insteadl, that practice will be followed( wvhich is roe olmmened( by those writers wvho advise that the grapes of each variety be loft on the vines till they are all fairly ripe, and that they ho gathered clean at one pielking. Where, however, diflorent vairietics are p)lanited in the same vine yard, which ripen at different periods, those only shiouild be picked'at the same tincm whiich ripen1 togethr.-C(aliornsia ihnefl JlIss. Thmo most expensive thinmg andl the hardest thing to gret in Europo is pure water. At, the hotels ovomn In Switzer land, where tIhe ice-crowned Alps are in sight, they charge you for ice-water to drink. There is no water on the cars, aind at, the stations they look at you in am:vzemnent if you ask for it. Toronto (J!l,>. The German soldiers are the proud est in Europ)e. The army Is considered a school for its 500,000 young men, 'l'hey are never compelled to dlo menial work. A Prussian officer who would compoel a soldier to do the work of a servant wvould be cashiered. Some of the rich German private soldiers keep servanta of their own. GLEANINGSL. Empress Eugenio's long black oloak nd black cane, on whfch she leans onstantly, attract the deepest sympi. by of the gay world at Carlsbad. A nogo witness in Macon, Ga., tes ifying in a bicycle case, gave this an he result of his obpervations: "If you ide slow you turn overyourself; if you ide fast you turn over somebody else," The Walnut Street Theatre, Phila lelphia, seventy-five years old, Is the >ldest theatre in America. it was orig nally built in an outskirt; it is now fn he center of wealth, life and fashion. Lhe building of the theatre was begun a 1808. A dog in the neighborhood of Los ingeles, Cal., is passionately fon4 ot toney and to gratify his taste he robe tives whenever an opportunity offeri. 3o has grown quito export in the busi sess and can extract the sweet stuff with great dexterity. A philanthropic London lady has bought land in Manitoba of the Cana dian Pacific Railway, and is to estab. lish a colony of deaf mutes. She will ?rovido an instructor in farming, and s to expond a considerable sum of mon. y in that experiment.. The paper with the largest circula. ion in the world is the Petit Journal of aris. It now circulates 750,000 copies >or day. Its direcotor, Mr. Hyppolte darinoni, is the inventor of the Marl. toni perfecting presses. He was origi tally a cattle herder. China is losing the services of the oreign ofilcers in her army and navy Lust when she needs them most. The wormtans are being called by their Gov. rnmont, which is just now cultivating riendly relations with France, and the nglislh oilicors seem to be resigning "oluntarily. While the elderly Baroness Burdett. :outts appears always in public dress d in the quietest black, her compara ively young husband, Mr. Bartlett. 3urdott-Coutts, is distinguished for his lressing in clothes of the extremest asiionable cut and of thunderously oud colors. A returned missionary says that the ulus in their native state are one of he finest races in the world. All the non are honest, and all the women haste. But as soon as they are con ,orted to Christianity, and begin to vear clothes, they generally become ricious and dissolute. In Martha's Vineyard the ratio of leaf mutes to the population is one in ivery 150 porsons, a ratio greater than n any other portion of the country. * L'wo centuries ago two cousins in the layhow family woro married, from which can be traced a hereditary line >f deaf mutes. Walt Whitman, alluding to the re. sont earthquake, said the other day: "I elievo with Kant in the unsubstantial ty of thin,s. It iv doubtful if what we ice around us has any real existence. verything is delusive, evasive 'and laky." Walt must have been dab. )ling in railway stocks. When it rains in Mexico it pours. At 'achuca a number of men were passing bridge when a storm began. One of hem ran uder the bridge for shelter. rho river rose so quickly that he could tot escape, and was swept down the tream many miles, being torn to pieces in the trees and stones. Yakutt girls all smoke. There is but >no pipe for a family. The members ako their turn, and the visitor has his :baSe along with the others. HEADACHES Are generally 1nd4ee4 by Indigestion, Foul Stomach, Costiveness, Deficient Cireulation, or some Dorangemen of the Li rer and Digestive Systee. Sufferrs wll find relif by he o Ayer's Pills to stimulate the stomach and produc, a regu iar daily moevement of the bowels. By their action on these organs, Avun's PILLs divert tho blood fromt the brain, and relieye and curo all forms of Congestive and Ne.rvous IIcadache, Bilious Headache, and Sick Hecadach:o; and by keeping the bowels free, andi Preserving the system in a healthful condition, they insure immunity from fue attacks. Try Ayer's Pills. 13UPAl3ED 5T Dr.J.C.Ayer&o.,.owlI1,i,s Sold by all Druggists. A HOME DRtUGGIST TESTIFIES. Popularit, at home is not alwy the best tat o oth'obu we point proudly to tefc such universal approbation inite own city, state, and country, and among al1 5aople, as' Ayer's Sarsaparila. kThe following letter from one of one best. knon Mavrsaljre DruggIsts shouald be of RHEUMATISMs a"'t.m' Yere that I could not move from thebdo dress, without help. I tried several rue dies without mueli If any relief, uatAIto AvEa's SAasAPAnILLA by the use o bottles of which I waJ eomp1stel) ewred. Hav sol large qatte ryuS A i th bea boomelcneyw rs public.E.'H u. 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