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MI BR0TI1EIMX.LA1T.
'I knowed last summer, when do comic
una m gui, uui h meant setlerin : and
ie ouer nigni, wuen i fotoh in do col
lard for to cut up, I seen suflln' layin
obcr 'ginHt de moon 'bout da size of i
cnuo, ana i knowed it were gwine to
happen now. And, sho' 'nough, dat
Ulght the star fell."
And "Aunt Lyddy," the cook, wagged
her turban with great solemnity, and
flaliod in her pocket for her pipe. '
And "Mammy," the faithful old nurse,
lcepcd furtively back at the dark cor
ners of the kitchen, and remarked :
108, I fools it is in Of bono: nn.l
last night dey was a ravon sot on de Dint
. i t- . r.
ui uo ruoi oour ho young mas rs room for
an hour, niornin and dat sign nober
lulls. Vey s been a mighty lot o'-whin'.
wils, around, too. and dat is miirhtr bad
sign dey sey," and Mammy reached for
ner uoecake in tne nre, and dusted the
ashes rrom it, a proceeding that J
watched with much interest, having sto
len down to the kitchen to share
it with her. But while I held my hand
for the crisp, brown corners that she
broke off, my appetite suddonly loft as
out uncie Aeoucnaunezzar raised his
snowy head and spoke in his sepulchral
voice :
"Oh, my children, be ye also ready,
for ye know not do duy nor tho hour
whon the Lord shall come in his
glory. De time am fast approachin,' do
wise Kin rcau ue signs, uaoyion is fal
len, and do awful trump shall sonn"fore
Lnclo eb is laid to rest.
uo uo you iuidk it win be very
soon?" 1 asked, scudding into Mammy's
1 IL'II
lUp, UDUIllUlUg IIlVIUCO.
"Yes, little missy, it won't be long
now, lor ue ouer night wnon i was car
ryin' de las' loud of cotton to de gin
house I hoerd a sort of singin' fru do air.
an' when I looked aroun' dur was do star
fullin', eomin right towards me. An I
stop de oxen and went down on my knees
and told de Lord dat Uncle Nob was
ready. Glory to his name! lint it
worn't for de old man arter nil, for it
went on an' busted over in de pino woods;
dey foun' de pieces yesterday. But
honev, it am a sign de Lord's messen
ger dat he sent to warn do faithful to be
ready for his coiuin'; an' if Missy says
her pra'r every night, and waits for him,
she will go to do right han' wid do faith
ful." "But won't we be all burnt up?" I
asked, poeping from my hiding placo.
"Dat's only fur do sinners, chilo, de
righteous won't feel de Hume. Don we
must try to save de unbelievers wid all
our might."
Nettie, the pntty quadroon lady's
maid, shook her curls and cried scorn
fully: "You niggers are in an awful hurry
for the Judgment Day. Don't you 'spose
the signs mean the Yankees coinin'V"
"Dey say do Yankees' jescnU down de
darkies like cotton weeds; jes' eats 'em
up clean," said Muniuiv, hugging me
tightly.
"No, they don't," said Nettie. "They
are better to the blacks than the white
people; but, my gracious, what should
we do if they'd come?"
At this juncture the door was thrown
open and a picture formed that can never
be forgotten. There was the great,
blackened old kitchen, built in a country
where plaster and whitewash are too val
uable for common use, with tho beauti
ful "fat pino" fire leaping and glowing
up the huge chimney, the little group of
blacks outlined against it, and in the
open door a tall, queenly girl, her brown
Lair falling carelessly down her back,
lier eyes and cheeks glowing with excite
ment. She glanced about until she saw
me, still curlod in mammy's lap, and
called out:
"Come Lottie; come quick I want
you!"
I reluctantly obeyed, still expecting to
hear the crack of doom if I stirred.
She led me into the parlor, and once
inside, my terror was forgotton in the
"joy of the picture it presented. Loung
ing upon the old-fashioned crimson vel
vet sofa, in the light of the tire that
crackled upon the marble hearth, was a
tall young man in a gray, uniform, worn
nnd tired, and with a bandage about his
forehead.
Springing forward nvith a joyful cry, I
was caught in his arms and kissed and
carressod, while my sister Addie sat
close beside him on the sofa.
He was telling Addie of the devasta
tion that the dread foe was making as it
advanced, and advising her to take me
and fly, before it was too lute, to Europe,
he said, and then she would bo safe.
"I can't bear to think of your staying
in this lonely place, dear, whon I know,
as you do not, the horrors of their com
ing. Whatever northorn people are,
their soldiers are perfoct devils,"
"There is no one to stay here but mo,
and I shall not leave," replied Addie.
"By the way I heard that you had been
flirting with some of the Yankee officers
in town during your visit."
"I only made him love for the pleas
ure of telling him how I hated him."
I interrupted the conversation pres
ently. "There are so many whip-poor-wills to
night, and Mammy says it is a bad sign.
Is it, Percy?"
"No, no, child. You musn't believe
what the blacks soy. They are full of
superstition."
"I have noticed them, too," said Ad
die, going to a 'window and pushing
aside the heavy damask curtain.
"Yes," said my brother, throwing up
the sash. "I can notice the difference in
their tones; they come from different di
rections; there is -one quito near the
house that seems hoarse. There, did
you hear it?"
"Yes, and now the call is answered
from all directions. But your moments
are too rare here to be spent listening to
night-birds; come and talk to me."
"Miss De Forest.I I am looking for a
confederate soldier, or rather a guerilla
chief, who is named, strangely enough,
Percy De Forest. I was directed here.
Indeed he is known to be here. But,
perhaps, there is some mistake, but I I
must search the house for form, you
know."
"You shall not! Leave the room in
stantly 1" said Addie, looking like a queen
as her eyes flashed and her face grew
pale as death, while she stood proudly
up and defied the foe.
"I am under orders, Miss, I can t help
it, and they've been picking off our men
for weeks now, he and his band. W e
must defend ourselves. If he is not
bete of course no harm will be done."
"But you needn't have come into the
ooutii, Captain lirocklehurat, and yon
would have needed no defense. You
usvo come uuwu io uutcuer us at our
own firesides.
Then coming to him, she laid her lianJ
on his:
"Howard, he is my brother ny only
urumer, auu ue was ueienmug us mo
spare him."
The young man's faco crew white too
"Duty is stern, Miss Addie; I dure not
uisoDey my orders.
"But, Howard, listen. Last week
I 1 1 T ... . . ,.
rcmiMHi your jove x aid not bonove in
it. If you do love me prove it. Take
mo now my love my lifo-and save my
uruiuer. rur iny suite, sparo nun:
Her soft hands were upon his neck
her beautiful faco against ' his. The
young man trembled from head to foot,
ihen ho whispered something that
could not hoar. Addie left him and sat
down, lie signaled the three Dion ontsido
the door. They entered.
"It is plain there is no one iu this
room," he said to them. "Will you
please unlock this door, Miss? There is
no one in this closet, cither! See, I have
turned all the things out. There are
blankets on this upper shelf. Now, will
the young lady load the way to the rest
oi the house? Ihero is a suflicient guard
outside never mind the door."
The other day I heard Howard say to
Fercy, who came for a visit:
"There isn't a man in the citv who
paid so much for his wife as I did for
mine. Nobody can imagine the struggle
of those two minutes, but I think I made
up to Uncle Sam for the enormous crime
oi not slaughtering my f uturo brother-
in-law, by four years of good service
"But I must say that I am amused
when I think of my introduction to my
wife s family. My first glimpse of her
sister was her curly head peeping from
unuer me sola, wmie i know of her
brother's proximity by those long rebel
legs among the blankets.
The Red Xan.
Learninsr that Miss Hattie MoCav. who
had been laboring in one of tho Mis
sion schools among the Indians in In
diun Territory for several years, hod
returned to ner nomo in tlie tast find, a
Commercial Gazette reporter yesterday
culled at her residonce on Penn avenue.
The lady was found at homo seated in
front of a glowing coal fare, which strug-
m . . . .
glod fitfully with tho polar blusts of old
uoreas. alio object of the nowspaper
man was to get some ideas regarding the
habits and customs of the noble redskin
from one who had been brought in con
tact with him in an educational capacity.
In response to inquiries Miss MeCay
stated that for tho past four years she
had been located at the, Indian Mission
Boarding School at Tallahassc, in the
northern central part of the Territory.
This school is for the benefit of the
Creek Nation, and it is seven miles from
Muskogee. It is supported by the Creek
Nation the salaries of the teachers be
ing paid by tho Presbyterian Board of
Missions. A veck ago last Sunday,
said Miss McCay, " our schol
building was entirely destroyed by
fire, and that is the reason 1 .am at
home. We had ninety-seven Indian bovs
and girls as pupils, and taught them the
common English branches and algebra.
Latin and history. These pupils were
also taught housekeeping and farming,
and they were as adopt in acquiring
knowledge as tho average white child.
The Crook Nation, which now numbers
about 14,000 souls, have reached a
marked degree of civilization. They are
domestic in their habits, being devoted
to farming and grazing, and are vory
anxious that their children shall receive
all the advantages of education enjoyed
by those living in the States, lho school
has been in operation for thirty years,
under the pnncipalship oi tho Rev. W.
S. Bobinson, and it has accomplished a
wonderful amount of good. The Indians
made an appropriation of $50 annually
for every pupil, and many of the Indian
youths after leaving ns have been sent to
colleges and universities in the States to
complete their education. One of these
Creek boys, Albert McKiUop, took the
first prize at Wooster (Ohio) University
two years ago. At present they have
seventeen boys attending colleges. I
cannot say now whether the school will
be rebuilt, but I have every reason to
think they will decide to do so.
There has boon much said about the
natural beauty of Indian Territory and
its wonderful fertility that is of an exag
gerated nature. While the soil along
the rivers is suitable for farming pur
poses, when you leave the streams it is
sandy and subject to protracted drouths.
Reporter "What is the character of
tho soil?"
"The land is mainly high, rolling
land, and is more suitable for grazing
purposes. The stories of the agricul
tural wealth of the Territory are for the
most part the invention of unscrupu
lous railroad agents, who are seeking to
pass through the Torritory. The Indians
are mainly governed by their own laws,
which are made by the Council of the
Nations and a House of Kings, which
meet every October. No whiskey is al
lowed on the Croek reservation, but tho
soldiers smuggle it in. The majority .
the Indians have abandoned )fjejr
old heathen faiths, and have becn C0Q.
verted to Christianity being mamiy
Methodists and Baptists. As arnie tuey
live in log huts, and are very.frngai anj
industrious. While the Ind;ang are gfn.
erally of fine physique, jet WUen at.
tacked by disease they losj, aii Uope( an(i
die suddenly. The moft jevosting dis
ease among them is . pneumonia. At
present all tho IndiorB in ti,e Territory
are very much exerc.j over the jnva.
sion of their ie9crvation Ly railroaders
and the Okluhama coionists. The chief
men among them; are earnest in their
protestations, and wiu use every en-ort
to persuade the Government to protect
them in their rigl They want to Uoi j
the land and in time onjoy aJj the bene
fits of civilization, ftnd ,rom my elpe..
rience among them j ttm convinced that
if they are protectee in tueir rjghtg tiey
will become gd citi2.em) 0f the u;ted
States."
Reporter Has there any trouble
among these Indians Iatey9"
"Oh, no; they are very traceable, and
a blanketed Indian or ;arrior jn full
toggery is as much a eanj to the
younger Creeks on the res-erTation as he
wonld be to a white child. Last summer
a year ago there there was sv,me trouble
among the colored people livjn(r on the
reservation on account of oile 0f their
number being accused of stealing horses
from the Cherokees, but this was tottled
amicably. There are great many ool
ored people living in the Territory, and
they are mamiy the descendants of the
slaves owned by the Indians prior to the
war. Many of the Indian farmers ami
grazers at that timo owned as high as one
hundred slaves. When the colored
people were emancipated, those in tho In-
uiuu icnuvrr wito buuiumhi iu equui
privileges with tho Indians in many re
spocts. They are very numerous out
there. One peculiarity about the trials
and punishments of murderers in the
Territory is that if a white man kills an
Indian, ho is tried by an Indian Court,
and if found guilty, is shot through the
head; but if an Indian kills a white man,
he is taken to one of the Government
trailing posts and tried according to
United btutes law.
Reporter How about tho climate?
"Well, the climate is much milder
there than it is in this section. The win
tors are mild and opou, with a late fall
and an early spring. They can raiso
strawberrios in Anril and Mav. The In
dians, as I said (mfore, are industrious
workors, and they are very much
troubled over the proposed in
vasion of their Territorv. They sai
that the Government reserved the Terri
tory for their especial uso. in considora
tion of their having piven us possession
of their lands in the Southern States;
and now, that they havo improved thoir
tana, and made homes lor their children,
they believe that it is only an act of ins
tice that their rights to the land should
be protected by tho strong arm of tho
uovernment.
Reporter Are there manv white peo
pie in the Territory?
"ihore is a lorco number, and. except
ing those who have a right there as Gov
eminent agents, storokoepers. soldiers
and other proper peoplo, the whites ore
or a very mean order, raukinir far bolow
tho Indians. This class is composed of
reprobates from Texas. Ono thinir is
certum, and that is, if these Oklahoma
emigrants persist in invading the Terri
tory, they will cause trouble."
Galileo ana Its oiirronndings.
Let us examino this world-historio
stage, upon which an idyl so dear to
humanity was uow being performed,
somewhat more closely. Tho western
shore of the Lake of Genesarcth is about
fourteen and a half milos long, and is
dividod into a narrow southern and a
broader northern half. Tho wholo south
ern half, about ten miles long from the
outflow of the Jordan, consists of a nar
row strip of land between the lake and
the declivities of the limestone plateau,
which descends precipitously to the lake.
Only in tho middle of this strip of
shore did room remain between tho
mountains and tho surface of the water
for a fair-sized town, tho now Tiborias.
which was built a mile and a half
to the north of the warm springs of Em
mans. The wall-like mountains then
run for a good throe miles toward the
north, close along tho lako: then they
st' '" cjly recede far back at.Magdala (el
Meuieii, and allow room for a fresh
green plain, three miles long and a milo
and a half broad. This meadow land,
running three miles along the lake, is
tho celebrated plain of Gonesareth. At
the preseht Khnn Miniyoh (which is iden
tified by somo with Dalmanutho, by oth
ers with Capernaum) the limestone
mountains again project to tho lake, and
follow the northwestern bend of tho
shore to the plains of Jnlias, through
the marshy ground of which tho Jordan
flows ints the lake.
Upon this northern narrowor strip of
Bhore lay Capernaum, close to the lake.
according to tho gospols, and on the
great Caravan road. Important places
which lay further on were Julias, Ara
bella and Tiberias. Julias lay to the
north on the Jordan, before it flows into
the lake. Pliny reckons this town among
the most pleasant of this district. It was
now creation of tho totrarch Philip
who during his own life time built his
sepulchre here, in which ho was just
laid in the year 34. To the south, upon
the steep, hmestoned rocks where num
erous hawks built thoir eyries, did Ar
bela, tho rohlter's nest of evil fume, mon
ace, with tlie caves of Herod in the
heights of the valloy opening out at Mag
dala, which forms the sallyport of the
robbers toward the lake. Of the osten
tatious Tiborias we have already spoken.
Probably, more frequont than horo, tho
fishermen of Capernaum visited Tarichioa
in order to sell thoir fish, which, picklod
in barrols, wero thence sent far and
wide.
The appearance of the lake as a whole
is not without charms. The blue snrfuce
of the water lies deeply depressed be
tween tho yellow walls of limestone. To
tho north, the mountains of upper Gali
lee rise, ond in tho background Hermon
majestically rests. The western bank,
with its fruitful terraces, sloping step
wise, and the green meadow carpet of
tho plain of Genesarnth, is the scene of
Jesus' ministry to which the dense popu
lation pronged. On tlje.t.iWn bank
the wf y3- washed a narrow strip of level
BiT2ud, behind which rise barren preci
pices of rock and steep mountain walls,
outworks of the inhospitable Gaulanitis.
There is Jcsns' asylum from the throng
of people, where he sought and found
solitndo when tho obtrusive curiosity of
the Oaliloan? drove him away from Cap
ernaum. At the time of Jesus the plain
of Geuesareth especially was a smiling
garden. "On account of tho luxuriant
fertility," says Josephus, "all kinds of
plants grow here, and everything is cul
tivated in the best manner possible. The
mild air suits the plunts. Walnut trees,
which need cold, grew in immeasurable
abundance near tho palms, which require
heat, and fig and oHvo trees, which a
more moderate temperature suits. It is
as though there were a contest in nature
to unite the contradictory at one point,
or a happy contention of the seasons,
each of which claims tho land as its own.
The ground produces the most various
fruits, not once a year alone, but at the
most various times. The royal fruits,
grapes and figs are supplied continuously
by it for ten months in the year, whilst
other sorts ripon the wholo year
through." A History of the New Testa
ment Times, by Dr. A. Hansrath.
Gambetta, as he rises to speak io the
tribune, is described as a clumsy, dull
visaged man, dressed in ill-fitting and
shabby clothes. But after a few moments
he seems another being, his face lights
up, his gestures are telling and his voice
has the resonant tones of a man of power.
Arts ot the B4tiDt'laM?r.
In spite of her seeming cantine of
clothing, a bAllet-dancer does ntit aiTcr
from cold. Under her silk or cotton
hosiery every ballet dancer, without re
ception, wears padding. The padded
tights aro hoolless. A strap of the
stockiuct of which thevwere wovon ex
tends under tho hollow of the foot.
The webbing is finely ribbed around
tho ankles, and not padded bolow the
swell of the calf, or where the calf
ought to swell. The padding is of tho
fluost lamb's wool fleece, knitted, with
tho fleece thrown up liko plush on the
nndor side into tho web, which is of
cotton, strong and uot too elastic.
Tlioro is no padding around the kuoe,
and none around tlie hips. Tho thighs
are wen padded, l ew mon or women
havo small, well-proiwrtionod knee-
joints, and oven when thev havo suf
ticient flesh, it is not so distributed as
to produce perfect symmetry of form.
Those padded goods are tliurcforo gen
erally niado to order. This is necessary,
for no two persons have tho same pro
portionate length of thigh and leg.
Again, many havo good calves, and tho
rest of tho log very poor or thin
Others havo thighs and not calves:
others havo both thighs and calves
with sutliciout flesh thereon, but it is not
in the right places. How is all this rom-
odiod? Why, in the directcst and shortest
manner possible The lady or gentleman
who orders a pair of paUdod thighs is
waited on by a sidesman or saleswoman
who understands his or her business. To
the customer a pair of unpadded tights
of perfoct shape is first given to put on.
Then he is measured, first orouud tho
waist, then around tho hips, then around
the calf, and then around tho ankle.
Next along tho inside of tho log. Tho
measurer then carofully notes and jots
down for tho manufacturer's guidunco
tho deficiencies in tho person's figure.
In about a week tho garmont ordered is
finished. If tlioro is too much padding
at any point it can bo seen at a glance
and clipped off. Padded shirts or bodies
for both men and womon are also meas
ured for when ordered in a similar man
lier. When tho cntiro tights extended to
tho waist are not needed, calf-padded
tights extending only a littlo over the
knee can bo ordered. Theso aro worn
with trunks.
Tho fact that tho domand in Now York
for theatrical goods of this kind is suffi
cient to warrant tho erection of a factory
in Brooklyn, and the importation of tho
machinery and the weavers, knitters and
embroiderers from Enropo to carry it on
is proof of the extensive use of these ar
ticles. In fact, they aro not worn by
theatrical people alone. Numbers of
men and womon who daily nromcnado
tlie streets, who drive in the park and
aro seen at balls, theaters, receptions and
the opera, wear padded hosiery, with fine
silk hosiery over it. From a distance,
too from tho Far West, from tho East
and South paddod hosiery is ordered in
immeuso quantities. Tho circus-ring
owes no small part of its attractions to
ttie wearing of theso paddod goods.
Whoever has seen a boat-race or athlotio
games, and obsorved the almost Bern-hardt-liko
sparencS. of many of the host
athletics, and the wani of proportionate
development in others as oompred
the tonus and limbs ot tho gymnasts ir."
the athlotics, tho equestrians and thd
trapczo performers of the ring, must lie
convinced of the truth of our assertion.
In fact, tlie training noccssary to make a
uonianti or a iiosa of tho Rizorolli
brothers must reduce the human form
divlno in the same way that training a
race-rose does. The racor is beautiful
only becnuso our eyos are wonted to a
conventional taste which associates his
spareness with his flcotnoss. Whon it
comes to gruco, that is quito a different
thing.
Another illusion is that of tho ballot-
dancer's standing on the tips of her toes.
She can always easily perform that feat
with a little proctico in a pair of paddod
ltauau bauot-uuncer a suppers. It is
shorter than the foot by tlie length of
the toes. The too is supDlomouted.
however, by a stiff leather or cork pad
ding, hollowed out, into which tho great
too fits, and is thus supported under
neath as above, so that tlioro is littlo or
no strain except on tho tendons of tho
instep and anklo at tho moment when
the dancer comes diagonally down tho
stage to the footlights, with her arms
extended, hor lips parted in asmilo, and
walikng on tho tips of hor big toes.
These ballet-slippers all come from
Italy. They have no heels, and the up-
tors aro aro of rose-colored satin of tho
best quality, which does not crack or
crumple whon drawn over tho rounded,
hard -padded box-toes. N. Y. Sun.
A Harrying Magistrate.
In the town of West Aloxandor. Pa..
twolve milos from the Ohio, and two
miles from the West Virginia line, lives
a magistrate who is reputed to have mar
ried 1H00 couplei within two years, and
to have built 5.fitl0 house with- wed
uiCJE ICC'B. His popularity urises from
the fact that the laws of Pennsylvania do
not require a marriage license, while
those of tho two neighboring States do.
Ue will marry a couple without their
leaving their carriage, or he will allow
them to remain all night and take break
fast with him, charging judiciously for
board and lodging. His regular charge
for marrying a couple is $;i. He some
times has from three to five couples at a
timo waiting to be made one, and all in a
hurry from fear lest those who pursue
will catch up in time to forbid tho banns.
Sometimes an outraged father or torriblo
big brother of the bride arrives after the
ceremony is over, au.l proceeds to vent
his rugo on tho winds and make dire
thrcatcuings, and even offer violence. In
an emergency such as this the magis
trate's son, who is his father's constulde,
lays the serious charge of disorderly con
duct against them. At one time a rela
tive in pursuit of a bride wus bo violent
that it became impossible for the consta
ble to arrest him, when the wholo town
rose en masse and put the offender in
jail. The place is popularly known as
"Uardscrabble," and when John Norris,
detective of Springfield, Ohio, from
whom the Cincinnati Gazette gets the
facts, inquired the reason, he was told
by an inhabitant it was "because it was
such a hard scrabble for runaway Couples
to get there before the paronts canght
OP." m
Boston Post: Leap year Is ever.
There! Now we hope to get a minnto's
peace!
A rode of Card Etiquette.
Tho card should be printed or writton
very iwuiy.
White cards, without any cuibclish
niont, are rt'Wdod as in the bust taste;
avoidWtre0,8insif'
The gentleman md """"''l contain
nothing except thb" nomo aml address
of tho cellar ; in gen.,'rtt, ou"' the ad
dress. Tho titles of "Hon.," "Mil-i "Esq.,"
etc., are not allowed on calliujr f i"ds.
"Mrs." or "Miss" are admissible P1? la
dies' cords. Professional titles, such as
"Vr" "Iter." and "M. V." etc., are ad
niissiblo on gentlemen's cards.
A military title, such as "Lieut.,'
"Capt.," "Gen.," "U. 8. A.," "U. S. N.,"
etc., is also admissible.
Tho handsomest stylo is that which is
engraved; next is that which is beauti
fully written; next comes the printed
card, in text letter.
At a hotel, whon calling on any one,
send your card and await a reply in the
reception room.
If two or more ladies aro in tho
household, tho turning down of a cor
nor signifies that tho card is for all tho
ladies.
Cards may lie left immediately where
a death is known, but a call of sympathy
and condolence is not to bo made until a
week after the boroavemont.
The lady iu mourning who may not
desiro to make calls will scud mourn
ing cards to her friouds instead dur
ing the season of retirement from so
ciety. A gontitiman calling on a lady and she
being absent, or not at home, but her
daughter being in the house, the gentle
man will send iu his card, instead of call
ing, as it is not customary for young
ladies to receivo calls from gentlemen
unless quito intimately acquainted.
It is well to havo cards iu readiness at
overy call.
It is quite woll to send in your card by
a servant as the mispronunciation of the
nomo is thus avoidod.
If a lady is not at homo, it will also
serve to show that you havo called.
Tho hostess should, if not dosiring to
see auy one, sond word that sho is en
gaged wheu the servant first goes to tho
door, and not after tho card has been
sent up.
It is admissible, when a lady doos not
desiro to see a caller, to instruct tho ser
vant to reply that tho "mistross is not at
home," tho understanding being that,
whether in th house or not, sho is
"not at homo" for tho reception of
cullers.
A business card is iniulmissiblo as a
calling card, unless tho call bo purely
ono for business. ,
In making New Year's calls it is cus
tomary to present a card to each of the
ladies who recoive with hor, as woll as to
tho hostess.
In taking a letter of introduction to a
lady in the city, if you send it to hor by
the servant who answors tho boll, also
sond your card with the same.
The card being loft m your absonoo is
tho equivalent of a call. A call is now
duo from you to tho person leaving the
card.
In leaving tho city for a pormuncnt
rosidenco abroad it is customary to sond
out cards to intiniuto friouds, adding Li
the name "P. P. C." Presents Farting
r mnlimAiita
After rfiVyn'K Su invitation for, or
attending, a largo purty or ball, it is cus
tomary to call soon afterward on the
hostess, making a brief stay, or leaving a
card.
The Actress as a Klfle Marksman.
The charming actress, Mrs. Scott-Sid-
dons, is dovotod to a rather unusual pas
time for ladies, being a most enthusi
astic sharpshooter. With tho duoling
pistol she excels, and with cartridge rule
ler performances are a matter of wonder.
The lady has a very fine assortment of
weapons, and she never ncglocts an op
portunity to practice. It was the fortune
of a Post-Dispatch roportor yestorduy
afternoon to attend a littlo riilo soiree in
the shooting gallory undor the Laclode
Hotel. The fair actress, hor agreoablo
husband, Harry Sargont, her energetic
managers, and a couple of reporters,
composed tho audience, the doors being
closed to the rogular run of oustomors.
The porty being iutroducod, and having
disposed of theweathor and mud and the
success of the performances at Pope s,
Mrs. Siddons stated that she was ready
to mako a rooord and would shame Ira
Pain. The lady was" attirod in a rich
walking suit, aud wore the jauntiest of
little fur cairn, which did not inter
fore with hor sight in the least. A
number of rifles wero ollorod for hor in
spection. With the air of an export, she
closely examined each of them until
suited, and thon said:
"Diana is ready for the chase. Quite
an improvement this rifle must be on tho
bow and arrow of her timo."
Evorybody smiled, and thon Mrs. Sid-
donsln-ttopd hcrsolf, squinted along the
glittering barrel, and was greotod with
applause as tho sonorous ring of the bell
indicated a bull s-cye. There was noth
ing unusual in the scone, except n
looked very odd to seo a handsome and
richly dressed lady blazing away at the
targets soventy nve foot away, and mak
ing one bull s-eye after another with a
precision that awakonod the interest of
tho keeper of tho gallery, and evokod the
most profuse commendation from Man
ager Sargent, who is himself a crack
shot. Mrs. Siddons, after some very
good shooting, making seventeen bull's-
eyes iu a possible twonty, and the misses
being vory close, was introduced for the
timo to the globe-sight rifle. She soon
got the hang of it and after fifteen min
utes practice fired ten shots at the no. o
target, making eight bull's-eyes and two
elevens. Mrs. Siddons explained that
she had always beon fond of pistol shoot
ing, but only roecntly took to rifles, with
which she is delighted.
Miss Jank Dark, who had tome
reputation in her timo as tho Maid of
Orleans, was not of noblo family, and
did not como from the Town of Arc,
for the sufficient reason that thero
was no such town. The printing of
bcr name us Joan of Arc. or Jeaono
d'Arc, is totally erroneous. She was
in French simply Jeanne Daro, and
io English her proper name is Juno
Dark. Let us slick to plain words
even though they may be the ruin of
the old poets, Southey among the
number.
Waling tbe Wrong Xan. 9
Tho fact that every business has its
particular lingo, which is a dead lan
guage to people of other professions,
was never more clearly shown that in the
following article by Bill Nye in the
Chicago Tribune:
One night about half after 12, 1 judge,
I hoard somobody step along to the win
dow of my boudoir, nearing it that
timo of night, I reckonod that something
was going on, so I slid out of bed and
got my Groat Blood Searcher and Liver
Purifier, with the new stvle of center flra
and cartridge eioctor. and slid nn to th
window, calculating to shove a tonie
into wboover it might be that was pick
nicking around my claim.
I lookod out so as to get a good idea
of whero I wanted to sink on him, and
thon I thought before I mangled him I'd
ask him if he had any choice about
which part of his vitals he wanted to pre
serve, so I sings out to him:
"Look out bolow thero, pard, for I'm
going to call the mooting to ordor in a
minute. Just throw up your hands, if
you please, and make the grand hailing
sign of distress, or I'll half matilate
you ! Just show me about where you'd
like to havo the fatal wound, and be spry
about it, too, because I'vo got my brief
costume on, and the evening air is chill 1"
Ho didn't understand me, apparently,
for a gurgling laugh wollod up from be
low, and tho party sings back :
"lU'LLO, FATTT, IS THAT VOU ?
Just lookiu to see if you'd fired up yet,
You know I was to como around and flag
you if second seven was ont. W ell, I've
been dowu to the old mail's to see what's
on tho board. Three is two hours late
and four is reported on time. There's
two sevens out and two soctions of nine.'
Skinney'U titko ont first seven and
Shorty'll pull hor with 102, It's you and
me for second seven, with Limber Jim
on front end and Frcnchy to hold down
tho cabooso. First five is wrong side up
in a washout this sido of Ogallala, and
old Whatshisname that runs 258 got his
crown shoot cavod in aud toloscopcd hla
headlight into the New Jorusalom. lou
know tlie littlo Swedgo that used to run
extra for old Hotbox on the emigrant for
a while? Well, he's firing on 2.rH, and he's
undor three Huts and a coal oil tank, with
a break beam across his couplor and his
system moro or loss rclaxod. He's gone
to tho sweet subsequently too. Rost of
tho boys are moro or less demoralized
and sidetracked for repairs. Now,
you don't want to monkey around much.
for if you don t loom up like six bits and
go out ou the track, the old man'H give
you a timo check and the Oriental gornd
bounce. You hoar tlie mollow thrill of
my bazoo."
Then I slowly uncorkod the Great
Blood Purifier, and, moving to the foot
lights whore the silvery moonbeams
could touch np my dazzling outlines, I
said: "
"Pardnor, I am pleased and gratified
to have met you. 1 don't know the first
ding busted thing you have said to mo,
but that's my misfortune. I am plain
minor, and my home is the digestive arv '
naratus of tho earth, but for. tllJ pro
fessional melody of 'he chin you
corto'nly toko the cake. Yon
ftlfton'Hake the laskot and what
cold pie tlioro is on the dump,
iuy namo is Woodtick Williams. I dis
covered the Feverish Hornet up on the
Slippory Ellum. I am pVoud to know
you. Keop right on gotting more and
more familiar with your profession, and
bye and bye, whon nobody can under
stand you, you will be promoted and re
spected, and you will at last be a sloep-ing-car
conductor and revol in the big
gest mental calm and wido, shoreless sea
of intolloctuol stagnation that the world
evor saw. You wijl
But he was gone. '
Thon I took tho pillow-sham and wiped
somo of tlie pulverizod crackers off the
soles of my feet, and wont to bod in a
largo gob of gloom.
A Bonanza Dinner service.
Tiffany has just completed an elegant
now silver dinner service, wholly Ameri
can, for Mrs. Bonanza Mac key. The
confer piece is of oblong form and is in
two divisions. The lowor one has a tray
for flowors, resting on sloping sidos of
looking-glass, which are set on an elab
orate silver framework of floral design.
At ono side on the looking-glass is Mrs.
Mackay's monogram in silvor lotters.
The uppor division rests on elephants'
heads, six on either sido, the tips of the
trunks touching the flowers of the frame
work below. The uppor division is set
in a broad band of massive silver, elab
orately wrought in rich floral devices
in Oriental style. It consists of a sooond
tray for flowers, surrounded with
sockets for candles. The wholo is sur
mounted by a four branch candola
bmm of small size. The richness of
tho workmanship and its delicate elab
oration are beyond all praiso. The
stylo of the wholo is thoroughly East
ern in character, recalling some of the
flue picus of silver among tlie Indian
magniflconoos of the presents offered to
the Prince of Wales during his travels
in India, and exhibited at the Uni
versal Exposition of 1H78. The ele
phants' hoads in particniar ore most
beautifully wrought. Tho character
istic corrugation of the skin of the fore
head and trunk is admirably repro
duced, as aro also tho various details
of the rich tasscled and embroidered
head stalls wherewith the heads are
adornod. Tho whole structure, which
rests upon twelve elephants' feet in
silver, is of immense weight, and will
tax the strength of two men to lift it.
Isaao C. Porker. Judgo of the United
States District Court at Fort Smith, Ar
kansas, enjoys the reputation of having
sentenced moro men to the gallows
than any dignitary that ever wielded the
judicial power of tho Federal Govern
ment, wiion no was appowieu .ihuko
of the District Court over five years
ago, the Indian Territory and the bor
ders were infused by desperadoes. He
set to work to enforce the law, and in the
five years of his administration has passed
sentence upon some forty murderors.
Now doth tlie small boy take his
chubby little sister by the hand and wan
der forth in search of the frozen ice
patch in the meadow, and passoth the
afternoon's sunshine in drawing her over
the slippery surface on his new hand
sled. N. B. The above is a lie. You can
neithor hire or drive a small boy into
drawing his sister on a sled. He'd sooner
fall through the ice, take cold, and be
sick all winter. -New Haven Register.
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