Fur.ar w-r. In nMt ol wavlnj foil.
I hehr th- ul' fU'llliK tyineuui lui,
Wtnl uirnU limec' onlii airu u f. .1 1
lhi!r ntu mi-ilk-fi Li Iij ppi I'ttt.
In funf rrraror clover. h'le n1 pink,
Hum li';llin b-f, ail ilr wr witn rertume;
Arid, In tno orclmril, one Willi lo d Ink
brt-t llie npoM of lwllltH' ilmuijr f lcom.
Th" Ktr.il rkr '( In the timber pine,
Upcm lnt talil'ldn deanlale and luii;
And lu l!i miod, lliruugb Ubjrln haof vine.
U biatd the brjoi.oi'. U-plu mjuolaue
WbUl) mnoy rarcrni erholnt, rrpat;
W'blltu'ur tnj Hi. la UDd r rbt;er. 0 iwi
Muiuiur. u, m 1 Uk-uk ud iirmiKt If meol
1 lid mtile nuMe do mielcUu kuowi
x K K MunliUrlea lu len'ury tor AuguH.
ALBIOS'.S FALL.
Iu the country town of Conntycorn it
used to be custom for tbe lads and
basics to enjoy horseback ride to
Powder Hill ouo May morning. Noth
ing ever prevented a general assembling
of tho young people but a downright
storui, when the "excursion was post
poned till the first fair day.
Looking toward the hill, which com
mon led a fine view of the surrounding
country, two old farmers were watching
a company of riders rotnrning from one
of the annual expeditious. They were
doing the home stretch in splendid style,
the foremost leaders speeding abeid side
by aide, and without break for some
dihtanco.
"That colt of Stickney'e is a One 'nn
thin in tbo neck and thick in tbe flank,
and those long hind legs give him a pow
erful stride. See him git over tbo road,
rill yer? Jinny's old roan is hard
pusho 1 to keep up, but she'll make him
if alio can. Hue ain't goin' to be beat if
she kin help it."
It was a cold, raw morning, and the
old farmer drew his cout sloevo slowly
along under his none as be looked admir
ingly down the road. Ilia companion
shrugged bii shoulders before answering
advisedly.
"It's mighty risky riding, Rannels,
that's what 'tis. Tbo colt ain't half
brokc.no more than the ono that's riding
it. lint Stickney can't help it, I sup
p'ose; yonng folks will bo risky."
And now tbe cavalcade rode gaily up
and drew rein by the speakers.
"Well, Mr. Runnels, what think you
of our mount this year" cullod out one
of the party.
"Fust rate, fust-rate, and no mistake;
a good turn-oat, that's a fact. Albion
here looks as if a leap over Baddy's
Gulch wouldn't be not hi a' to him or liii
nag," said tho man addressed as Run
nole. "Uome on, imys, let's go homo thut
way and try it,' cried out tha leador,
ball turning in his saddle and starting
forward. The others followed laughiug.
"What on air th d'ye want to put that
in bis heid for, Runnels? lie's wild
enough to try it."
"I guess not. lie knew I were only
jokiu'. But, thunder and Mars! Tbey
aro tnrnin into Raddy's Cold but they
won't try ill No no they won't bo so
foolhardy! Albion's only goin' to scare
cm.
Still, the man looked aflor the retreat
ing forms a littlo anxiously, while the
o'. her declared "tho yonng 'un's blood
was up he'd, ilaro anything."
rrobablv not one of the merry group
anticipated aught but sport as tbey rap
idly 11 eared tho ravi no just outside tho
village known as Raddy's Gulch, when
suddenly tho Stickney colt and rider
essayed tho leap across, and would have
been successful but that the opposito
bank, which bad been frozen, proved an
insecuro footing, and gave way before
the colt could scramble up the Bides.
Nonn too quickly did tho reckless young
man loosen his foot from tho stirrups.
In tha fierce struggles of the colt to re
gain a firm footing, ho was homo to tho
ground. The gulch was not very deep
or very dangerous, and the colt, sliding
and slipping hulf way down, soon ob
tained a foothold, appearcntly unhurt;
but his rider was picked up and carried
Lome in an unconscious condition; no
ono know how badly he was hurt. And
thus the day which had begun so
brightly closed for some with gloomy
forebodings.
For months Albion was closely con
fined to tbe house and carefully nursed
by his devoted mother. Tbero were
those who taid he nover would walk
again.
A bid had boon arranged for him in
the sitting room, to be handy to tho
kitchen and mako the work easier for
tboso who had to wait on him. He ap
peared to hnvo very little interest in
every day affairs, but onco ho spoke to
Lis mother ns she sat by the window
aewiug, and asked her if Jennie Burr
bad ever heon into seo him.
"When yon were first taken," was tho
answer. "She's coming down the road;
been np to neighbor Abbott's with somo
eggs, I guess," she added.
"Call her in, nnther; call her in. I
want to see her," he said.
Mrs. Htickney lookod at her son cau
tiously, put down her work aud went to
tb door.
The girl, upon being spoken to, caroo
up the walk slowly, and her plump, rosy
face did not lighten when told that Al
bion wanted to see her "
"Yon go right in, and I'll look after
my kitchen tiro first and then follow
. i
yon.
Mrs. Htickney bustled away, and
went alowly into the sitting room, where
after exchanging the usual greetings, she
at down near the door.
"I reckon ye don't miss me mnoh,"
said the sick man. "I heard you were
out riding with EJ Barton."
"Oh, yea, we do we all do," Jinny
aaid, hnrridly.
"I suppose ha thinks it's too bad for
yer to be tied to a fellow like me, aud
it'a more than likely that you think ao
yourself,'' Albion continued, bitterly.
Tbe girl wound the fringe of her shawl
in and oat between her fingers, and did
not look un.
"Well, he baa hinted, and perheps
jou don't mind," she said, vaguely.
"I do mind it. Jinny Burr; but if
you're let him hint, that's all I want to
know. Too may have him if you want
him, for 111 have no girl 'round me
that'a aweet on another man. But what
if you had got hurt and I had treated
you ao?"
Tbe excited voice, with ita tons of
feverish pain, reached tbe mother's
oars. Bhacame hastily into the room
and began to pat down the abides.
"There, Albion dear, do keep calm.
Ton'd better not talk any more to-day;
it'll put yon back."
Jinny, with a look of relief, went oat,
as Albion's f!:ili(d face, changing to
white, nuuk back upon the pillows,
"Mother, mother, mother, isn't it
hard?"
Thus appealed to, Mrs. Stickney com
forted him as only a mothe r can.
About this li'joo tho district rchool was
to lo lengthened by the ingenious dovico
of b wrding tbo teacher around in those
families who sent children to school.
The Sliokney boys an I girls had long
been lond in their praises of the teacher,
and when she came to their home the
overworked mother did her lcst and
tnovt to make her welcome, but foil ill in
doing; it was too much. The teacher
proved equal to the cmorgoncy. hue
madd tha worn-out woman go to bed,
and waited upon her faithfully before
and after echoed hours. Minna Stickney,
the eldest girl, had told her Albion did
not v.iah to see any strangers, so she did
net mean to go iuto his room; but one
day Minna carried with his dinner the
wrong sauco for tho pudding. It would
be spoiled, and alio hail taken so much
trouble to muko it! Without thinking
how she looked, sho rushed into the sit
ting room just as she was, her sleeves
rolled ui). and a big spron up to her
nock and down to her feet. "Don't look
ut me," the said, "but you've got tho
gravy for the meat, child; here is tho
ngLt sauoa for tho pudding; ana, malt
ing tho exchange, sho ran oat into the
kitchen.
"Who is thai?" Albion looked won
ileringly after her.
"Mis Motley, our trachor. Isn't she
good to take right hold so? Mother
think everything of her already. I
told her you didn't want to aeo her, aid
that why sho told you not to look," said
Minna, naively.
"Wuat did yon tell hor that for? Whut
must sho think?"
"Oh, she don't mind. Sho says we
must take folks as we Q-d them. But I
do wish you'd let her come iu and look
after you to night. We wont to go
down to Chirley Drake's; ho'a going to
have ajpopcorn party, and she could
take care of you aud ma too, if you'd let
bnr, and we children could go, 1 gucsa.
Won't yon, Ally?"
Tbe children went to tho party, and
Mr. Stickney in search of help. His
wife lav in blissful rest, quieted and as
sured by tho energetic teacher that
everything was going ou right, and there
was no caufo to worry; tbo more site
gavo up and rested tlyi sooner she
would get back ber strength.
Carrying in tbe tea and toast, Bhe no
ticod there was not a book or paper in
sight, and ao asked him if he would not
like to look at some illustrated maga
zincs she had.
"It is nice to have so much time to
read," she said, smiling brightly, and
did not wait, but went at once and
brought tho books.
Albion had nover thought before of
anything nice being possible in his con
dition. Sue had aroused a little inter
est. IIo fonnd himself wondering what
she would say next. After awhile, as
they becamo better acquainted, she
asked him if ho had studied into his
case, aud if he were not interested in
physiology and anatomy. She told him
sho had a cousin who was a physician
and Hurgenn, an l she would like his
opinion. Ho might suggest, possibly, a
more strengthening trcatmout.
Sho succoodod in arousing Albion to
courage and hope from iodifforenco and
almost despair, and from time to time,
in a quiot way, loaued him text-books.
Tbeso engaged his mind, and in ha bo-
enme stronger, occupied more and moro
of his attention.
One afternoon, his day's labor ended,
Mr. Stickney sat on the piazza, watchirg
his boys huishing tho chores. luo
toucher sat near him, busy with somo
work. This man had not failed to enter
tain her with his grumbling, as ho did
every ono who would listen. IIo consid
crod himself an ill-used, unfortunate
person. Why a son of bis should do so
foolish a thing as to spoil his prospects
for life and latno a valuable colt, was
more than ho could seo, and right at the
beginning of the ploughing aud planting
season tho worst timo in tho world. He
was sure none of his "creatur's" ever
would kuow anything.
His a ifo heard him uncomplainingly,
and so ('id tho teacher t nco, but sho did
not mean to again. Sho would givo him
something else to think about, and so in
quired wliat was tho highest wages he
had ever paid a hired girt to do his
housework for bim.
"Three dollars a week," was tho an
swer. "And thon she did not do aa we'l as
your wife manages, I presume?"
"Bless ynu, no; 'twould tako a smart
one to coma up to Humor; sho ran turn
off work without wasting nothing."
"And di.1 you ever find a hired girl
willing to wait long for her pay?" was
tho next innooent query.
"No, that's tho plaguo on't; always
want their money soon as their work is
done, and be gl ul to git it afore, I'll war
rant." Mr. Stickney gavo a grim chuckle as
he tilted hii chair backwards.
"Why is it tlia fanners' wives should
Imvo to wait so long for their wages. I
should rebel if I were one," Miss Motley
said, demurely.
"Farmers' wives! They don't have
any wages," he said, surprised.
"They ought to, then," was the quiet
refponae.
Tbey have all they want food,
clothes, and git carried to church
and stores and camp meetin'. What
more can a woman waul?"
"A feeling of independence such as
the possesion of even small wages, if
paid regularly and cheerfully, alone ean
give." was the firm rejoinder.
"Well, I never heard my wife com
plain." "But don't you think she might have
a cause for complaint, Mr. Stickney?
Doesn't she ever say anything abont the
books the children are needing, or the
shoes that ought to be mended? There
are so many tilings."
"Li! children are always wantin'
something but aa for Harner, she knows
bow to wait. I have to wait for my
money."
"But when you get the cash for a load
of hay and potatoes, does she share half
and halt with yon?"
"Of course she does. Who pays the
taxes and all the store bills, and works
on the road, and keeps things going gen
erally?" "I.n't that offset by ber keeping the
have noticed sometimes, when a man in-1
creases the number of lis hired men, he
never thinks of supplying additional
help indoors, although the work has
been all the woman of tho bonne could
well do beforo. Then she gets sick, and
extra money is paid out, which, if ap
plied before, might havo saved much
suffering."
Mr. Stickney was getting uneasy, and
Ellen Motley know when sho had said
enough, anil now carried bor work into
the house,
"I tell ye what," said the farmer not
long after to his wife, "this 'ere school
ma'am beats all a talkin' to mo. She
says I ought to buy an orgin for Mia."
"She has been S3 kind a to give the
child miiMj lessons, and says sho has
qnite a tusto for it. Don't you think it
would be hotter than buying tho land of
Westcott? Wo havo land enough, now
Albion can never bo a farmer."
Tho gentle suggestion did not at onco
appeal to tho practical sense unused to
luxuries.
"Seems to me you're, gottin' to have
expensivo tastes, Harner. Thcso wim
roin folks'll be tbe rnin of roe. Why,
t'other day I was p'intin' out the place I
thought of buy in for Albion against his
marryin' and set tlia down, and teliin'
bow he wouldn't need it now, and sho
up and Bays ho would want the money
that tho farm would have cost to pro
pare him for a different situation than
the one ho dreamed of; and I said I
dunno 'bout his succeeding in anything
dsn, but she stuck to it ho would."
Tho organ was bought one of the
many innovations that alinoit impercep
tibly introduced a new and better way
of living in the Stickney family. It was
set np in tho place of the sick-bed which
had occupied the sitting room for so
long a time, and no ono seemod more
pleaded than Minna's father to hear ber
performances upon it. He would stretch
himself upon the loungeand tell her "to
play away and rest him a spoil,'' and say
the sound of the musio rippling off from
her finger tips was liko tho dripping of
rain upon a tin roof.
About a mile from tho littlo country
village of Countrycorn, somo fiftoou
years lator, a stout woman was toiling up
the hill leading to a farm-house. It was
after ton in the evening, and no moon.
Sbo hurried on alone, aud at last came
to the door, where sho stopped almost
breathless. Entering the kitchen, a
lamp on the tablo revealed tho figure of
a man oozing in a chair by the stove, pipe
in hand. She touched him, and be started
up, exclaiming, "Jinny, is't you?
Where ye bin to onneyway? Never
knew ye to bo off so loner at night."
"I've bin down to the town ball, Ed,
to a lecture didn't know of it till I got
over to Slocom s. Ibey was all goin ,
and I went along. The hall was full,
and who do you suopose lectured? You
wouldn't guess from now till tho middle
of n:xt week. Dr. Albion Stickney?
Yes, tir. And his mother was there
with a new bunnit on, and his father
dressed up in his go-to roeotiog clothes
as much as to say, 'ilea my son; I
rawed him.' Lor'I ye never saw such a
change in anyoue so slim and tall. I
never could hive believed he'd grow so
good looking Albion, I mean. After
it was through they all went up to speak
to him. I didn t go: I cams home. His
wifo was there, too. She used to teach
school here. Her hands didn't look
much like oiino."
Tho woman's eyes restoa on her own
hard hands, largo and brown with toil
"Sho," eaid her husband, "you don't
telll That fall of his was the mikin of
him, instid of tlo evcrla.stin' ruination,
as somo said. You know thoy had it
lioM better have died than livo to be a
drag all his lifo on other folks. Strange
how thiugs turn out, Jinny; but I'vo
heard 'em say as how old Stickney says
his son a wife is the smartest little worn
au in tho country." Woman's Journal
lteflnlng Metals.
As the pel feet performance of this
work is very dillloult, requiring a thor
ough knowledge of chemistry and metal
lurgy, and the utmost carefulness of
operation aud calculation, so on the re
liability of its results depends the sue
cestui operation of a reduction estab
lixluucnt.
Tbo first process of the operation is
what is called "sampling" the various
grades and kinds of ores, in order to do
termiuo not only their vtluo, but the
proportion of fluxes necessary to secure
tho extraction of the liner from the baser
metals aud rock mixed with them in the
ore. Tbe fluxes principally used
aro limestone, lead ore anil iron
ore, tho iron ore being more especially
to take up the sulphur in the other ores,
nud all are used in quantities according
to kinds and proportions of metal in the
ores to l)d reduced, tbo object 01 tue
fluxing being to fuso the undesirable
portions of tho ere, so as to enable the
separation of the motal from them. In
order to iustire the application ol proper
character and proportion of the fluxing
material and make the operation com
plete, the ores must beanalyxad, so as to
determine the kind and amount of all t ie
materials composing them, and thus the
character and proportion of tho flaxes
required.
In sampling ores for this purpose, tha
ore, as it comes from tho mino, is passed
through what is called a "crusher" and
broken into pieces of the average size of
a hickory cut. Fur tha purpose of
sampling, a small portion is taken from
the mass ia such a way as to best secure
as nearly aa possible a fair average of
the whole. This, iu turn, ia ground ia
a sampling mill to a fine dust or pulp.
A portion of this pulp is weighed, about
one-tenth of an oanca being usually
taken for an assay, mixed with granu
lated load in a fire-clay cup, and then
placed in what ia called a "muffl," a
tile-ahnped oven surrounded by a coke
fire. This melts tho lead, which collects
all the silver id the ore, and forms what
is called a lead "button," usually of
about half an ounce woight.
This lead button is then placed in a
cupel, or little cop made of ground bono
ash moistened and compressed into a
monul, and then replaced in a niufln
and submitted to nearly a white beat.
Great care haa to be taken to properly
regulate the heat, lest tbe metal itself
be destroyed with tbe lead. Tbe air is
admitted, which burns or oxidir.es the
lead, the oxide is absorbed by the bone
ah of the cup, leaving the silver. As
this process goes on the purification ap
proaches completion, the silver rounds
op into a little globule, emitting a yel
lowish white light, and as the last traoea
of the load diappear, the pure silver rap
radly brightens and shines out like a
mirror. It is then pure 100J flue.
When gold is fonnd with silver in the
ore it still remains in the bullion but
ton. This is aeportod from the silver by
a process called pt.rting. To ascetain tho
relative proportioj 01 goia ana suver
in the button, ia assaying, tbo button is
subjected to the action of nitric acid,
K-liii-li riiKaolves the silver, leaving the
gold ia the shape of a tlao black powder,
which is careiuiiy wasueu, anou ana
weighed. The weight of the bullion
button being known, a subtraction of the
weight of tbe eilver it ooutained, and a
comparison of the weight of tho two
metals thus nroduced with the weight of
the assayed gives the proportional
amount ol each to the oro 111 us sampieu
and assayed.
The Bunko Swindle.
The caro and skill with which the
bunko swindle is conducted is illustrated
by the experience of a visitor who said
bo allowed Uimscii roped in for lun. A
sweat-boar.l was introduced in the usual
manner, and a stool-pigeon lost a fdW
dollars. IIo wished tho visitor to play
for him with his money, und the latter
firs twon, but afterwards lost. At length
he was told that ho was indebted on his
account to tho extent of $300. "I hsva
not tho money with me," ho replied.
"Then givo mo a check," was the follow'
sutfgesliou; "I suppose you have a bank
account; or won't that be convenient?"
It occurred to tbe visitor that to feign a
check would cost nothing, as I could go
immediately around to the bank and stop
payment. A blank check was produced
and he filled it out. The gambler scru
tizized it and then dried tho ink with a
newspaper in lieu of a blotter.
The stool-pigeon had beo quiet for
a while. Now he suddenly broke
out: "Jhi.i is 0 friend of mine," he ex
claimed, savagely, "and I won't see him
swindled; he shan't let you have his
check for a ceut." Ho grabbed th9
check, tore it into bits, and threw them
on the floor. "Como,"nnd he seized the
visitor by tho arm; "let's got out of this
den." Thoro was an excited protest by
tbe other chnp, says the narrator, but wo
went out nnhindered, and I parted with
Dan on the corner, receiving his con
gratulation on having escaped un
scathed. Ou returning to the hotel I
gave to the detective there an account of
what bad happened, explaining that I
intended to stop payment on tho check,
but that no such precaution was now
necessary. "Dou't you lose a minute in
going to the bank," ho said, "or they'll
get there with the check before you. It
wai destroyed? Not a bit of it. A news
paper lay on the desk, didn't it? and he
put the check between ita folds, face
downward, as if to blot it. Then the
stool pigeon snatched out, not tho check
itself, but a blank one that had been
previously placed there. This dummy
was what Dan tore np, anil tho real
check was left safo and Bound. That's
tho way they prevent their victims from
stoppiug payments."
Other World j than Ours,
An incredible story is Beriously given
in some of tho journals abont tho dis
covery of a sword which was found in
an nerolito. A certain physiciau in tho
btato of New York wai attracted by a
very brilli.iut shooting star which fell in
the bed of a creek near where ho wai
riding. Subsequent investigation cn tho
spot where it loll discovered a sword
of peculiar shape, which bad evidently
been wielded in battle, and which must
have been used by ono who would have
been deemed a "g'ant among the sons of
men" in this world. Of course tho pre
sumption would be that this sword bod
fallen into tbo clay of a river, which was
subsequently metamorphosed by heat
into solid rock. in tue course of
ages a volcano devoloped under this
rock, which projected tbo imprisoned
sword into space beyond tbe attraction
of the planet from which it came. In
the course of time tho wandering aero
lite in the into: stellar spaces becamo en
tangled in the atmosphere of the earth,
ami fell into the creek, the impact break
ing aud setting free the sword. This
reads like another Cardiff giant story,
but it is very ingenious; and it is pos
sible that some day or other wo may
have positive proofs of tho existence of
life and intelligence in some of the myr
iads of planets which inhabit space. A
microscopic examination of metoorio
stones at Berlin revealed tho fact that
they oontain some sixty varieties of the
outer shells of coral insects, which of
course. fs!ablishcs tho fact that they
were attached to coral insects which
lived in warm oceans of salt water. Tbe
water must have contained lime, and
islands must have been built np above
tho ocean as thoy are on our globe. But
that is, so far, thj only trustworthy in
dication we have that there ie anything
on the other worlds approaching to the
samo kind of lifo wo have on this.
Dcmorest's Monthly.
SkobelofTs Sister.
Tho belle of tho ball after the Empress
was certainly the Countess De Beaubar
nais, bister of the late General Skobaloif;
not an absolute beauty, but one of tliosa
big-eyed, dark-haired, attractive faces,
with a marvelous figure, for whom meu
commit follies and women invent (cau
dal. This lady was dressed in a Russian
dress, the cut of which datea from early
in the sixteenth century. It was low off
the shoulders, with long, banging
sleeves plaited to to the elbow, with a
pointed stomacher.aod akirt opening be
noith over the under petticoat. The
fabric, heavily brocaded and embroi
dered, looked like chased metal, as its
long train fell around her feet in singu
lar folds. Her kakoschnik waa festooned
with pearls, diamonds and huge round
emeralds; while round tho entire corsage
pearls and emerald medauoos set off her
pretty shoulder to perfection. A aim-
pie veil of tulle was fastened with gold
plsquet behind the tiara. Other cos
tumes were equally attractive without
being so perfect in ensemble. White
satin and deep black furs, maroon bro
cade over cloth of silver, embroidered in
Bysantine patterns of every kind, pale
gray moire trimmed with rare lace, fan
of every rarity, bat above all para res of
jewels eclipsing every court in Earopo
or Asia. I never imagined there were ao
many enormous emeralds above ground,
while diamonds in turas. riveres, collars
and monograms at last aeemed number
less. London Newt,
A Chapter on tandy.
"Have you any potatoes?" asked a
lady who, elegantly dressed, stoid at tho
counter in tho candy department of a
prominent grocery store.
"No potatoes to day." said the "swoct"
clerk, who was filling a box with goodies;
"but we have Abbott kisses and apricot
slices, ond all the nut creams and
caudles.
"I don't like Abbott kisses, they uro so
sweet and large; but I dote on jiotutoes.
Give me a mixed box with plenty of
marsh-mallows and Venetian walnnts."
"What 010 Abbott kisses? end why are
yoa out of poratoes; mere most 00
plenty iu tho marae:, astfed omi sug
gested a representative of Tbe Test und
Tribune to tho good-looking proprietor,
who had ono cfo on bis customers in
side of tlm storo and the other on two
ladies outside, who were trying to upset
a bnggy on the Campus Martins.
"Did yon ever r.eo our potato patch.'
hd inquired pleasantly, when he had
reconciled his visual organs. "Corae up
stairs, and I will show yon how we grow
our potatoes, and how Abbott kisses "
Then the voice ueeame indistinct, ana
the elevator being brought into requisi
tion, the visitor was takeu up into the
third story into a "sugar room," whero
tho interesting process of makiDg candy
was fully explained.
It was on a large scale; somo dozen or
mora of copper boilers, over hot fur
nace, were simmering with sweet de
coctions that gave out fragrant odors,
and men in linen clothes and paper caps
were ladling out tho sweet stuff into
shapes and essences. At a row of long
tables stood pretty, clean, modest look
ing girls who were "sugaring off" or fin
ishing off all the delightful pink, white
and chocolate creams that are indispens
able to those who have a sweet tooth.
Trays and trays by the dozens and hun
dreds were loaded with the dainty bon
bons. A sheet of caramel substance was
laid on a striped measuring table, and
tvitb a machine cut into squares of geo
metrical precision. Other girls wrapped
tho single caramels one at a time in
little fquare pieces of white paper called
parailine.
"Here are our potatoes," said the. pro
prietor, taking up some small brown
balls. They were white within and brown
without; soft enough to bito into, cinnamon-flavored
and delicious, with some
quality that prevented them from pall
ing on the tasto.
"And the Abbott kisses?"
Mr. Hull discovered a tray filled with
triangles of sugar and cocoanut in irreg
ular sections. They tasted so much bet
ter than they looked that the name
seem accounted for. Then there were
Spanish kisses and a delicate but Fa. her
nnsubstantial Hweet called the "Langtry
kiss," a sort of elusive, sublimated,
ethereal thing with sugar coating.
There wero bairels of white sugar
standing about everywhere, and tho vis
itor thoughtlessly asked where tho glu
cose and flour were kept.
"We don use them," said Mr. Hull,
and we can mako all the money we waai
withont either. Ours is the only cundj
manufactory open to the public Any
one can see, the process and what we
mo."
A. very "sweet" girl was dropping
pink cut-creams from a knife into cun
ning little shapes of regular size and
beauty. Tha best candies are not mixed,
but go into tho cases each kind into a
separate division. It is tho enstomrr
who decides the mixing.
It is the way the ladies dissipate.
They go to the public library and get a
novel. Then they stop r.t the candy
counter and get a pound of sweets. On
Saturday nights it is like Macy'a bargain
counters in New York. Men, women
and children waiting thtir turn. The
variety of tbe candies is endless; so is
the variety of customers. A3 a rule a
man asks for a "box of your best can
dies," and the clerk asks him if he will
havo n one-pound or a two pound box.
Then he stops to think. If he is middle
aged with a bald spot on the top of his
head, he says one pound; but as a rule
ho is not middle aged, or if he is, his af
fections are not. The clerk knows his
easterner. Ho gives him a box with lace
edges on the inside, a two pound box,
and he crowds in the best and choicest
sweets. Very likely he knows "her"
tastes, and ho makes the box of candy
weigh two and a half pounds, and there
is not a word of complaint.
Tho dashing young man buys a pound
unless ho is very much in love; then he
aants a cornucopia filled or a fancy
basket with a ribbon bow on the corner,
and gotten np "regardless." The cheap
yonng man with a small salary and large
ideas sometimes makes the mistake of se
lecting a cheap candy for a sub-stratum
wi h big fat creams and rose walnuts for
a top layer, and if his girl is sensible she
will see through his pretenses and buy
her candy henceforth.
The father of a family may be known
by the way in which ho selects his half
pouud and stows it away in his coat-tail
pocket. It would nevei do to approach
his domicile with the package in his
band. When the children havo gone to
bed he takes it out, and afiev ho surfeits
himself the mother takes what is left up
to their dormitory and leaves it where
they will see it in the morning. If the
father gives it to them he tells them
it is sure to make them sick, destroy
their teeth, spail their comTlexions.raake
them cross, and take away their appe
tites, all of which is arrant nonsense and
he knows it.
"It is a great mistake," said Mr. Hall
as he stood at the eandyconnter and com
mented on the crowd, which now includ
ed a prominent lawyer and doctor of
divinity, "to snpposo that men do not
like candy. They are really fond of it,
and nnless they have impaired digestion
eat heartily of it whenever they get a
chance. I know a yonng man in this
ci'y who spends one evening in every
week with some excellent young ladies,
and he always takes them a two pound
box of candy, and they explain langb
iogly, that Mr. waa so fond of tbe
candy that whea he brought them a box
heat it nearly all himself. Detroit
Font and Tribone.
Ex-Empress Eugenie is thus pictured
by a writer whe saw her four weeks ago:
"A rather stately-looking woman, in
deep black, not a bit of color anywhere,
about her eyes the twinkling ripples that
years make, around her mouth the deep
er drawn lines of sorrow, a callow face,
hair with gray in it.
A tailor's goose the dado. Boston
Sar.
KTolntlou of the Bathing Suit,
Interesting as it is to watch tl.
cesses of evolution, it is nnqnesti. Z
tho duty of the conscientious ,b
sound the note of alarm when hs Ii
that evolution in any case is fraochi
disaster The time ha, come X
public should be warned that the evoln 1
tion of the bathing dress lm9 reached I '
point where it must be permanent!
chcck.d, or else our seaside resort, S
be abandoned by every sensitive man
Ten yours ago the female bathing drV..
consisted of a pair of blue flannel
trousers gathered close around ttl
ankles, a long blue flannel gown, a ni!
of canvass shoes, nnd the largest and
nghest straw hat ever invented 1,. -L1
biino rag-picker. Nothing uglier than
this dress could havo been devised but
it was a perfcclly safe ono. It reduced
nil women to the samo level of innocuon.
hideousncss. u
About tho year 1675 tho first visib'e
change in the female bathing dress an.
peared. The trousers ceased to be
gathered ut the ankle, and were ma.lo to
reach only abont half way below the
knee, nhilo stockings wero used to cover
tho gap between the trousers and the
shoes. A year later tho straw hat began
to be superseded by the oil-cloth can
and in the fall of 1877 a distinguished
scientific observer met with the first
specimen of a short sleeved flannel
gown.
Since that time evolution has done its
work steadily and rapidly. Th flmnel
gown grew shorter and 'shorter until it
became a belted blouse, reaching not
quite to the knees. Tho sleeves became
first rudimentary, and thon utterly dis
appeared. The trousers shrank until
they became invisible under the skirt of
the blouso, and the stocking lengthened
inversely as the trousers shrank.
At this point several scientific persons
becamo alarmed and at least one of them
publicly expressed his fears, withont,
however, receiving any attention. In
1881 these fears were fully justified by
the disappearance of the oil-cloth cap
and the simultaneous discovery of a new
species of bathing dress made of a mate
rial lighter than flannel and clinging
closer to the person. Last year the
stocking and shoes began to disappear
and this summer they Lave been found
wanting in hundreds of specimens of
bathing dresses. Thus at present tbs
female bathing dress is a short sleeveless
blouse and a pair of invisible trousers.
Only those and nothing moro. Is it not
time for prudent men to ask . w bat is to
be the next change which the bathing
dress is to undergo?
It is already believed that tlto sleeve
less blouso is to be superseded by a
sleeveless "jersey." This may perhaps
prove littlo more dangerous than tbe
present blouse, but whatever the next
change in the bathing dress may be,
there is only too much reason to believe
that it will have tbe effect of driving all
but the boldest and hardiest men from
tha beach. Already nothing but devo
tion to science enables a man of ordinary
courage to study the femalo bathing
dress with any closeness of observation,
and though science will neyer lack devo
tees ready to win the crown of martyr
dom by going down to the beach unpro
tected even by colored spectacles, tho
prospect that men will be compelled to
lleo from tbe sea shore to the mountains,
and that excursion steamers with male
paisengtrs will bo forced to avoid the
neighborhood of beaches as carefully as
tbey now avoid dangerous leefs, is one
which no sincere philanthropist can con
template without terror and dismay.
A Warning.
The young man who attempted to kill
himself by getting under a railroad train
at Orange yesterday was a type of a large
class of unfortunates, most of whom,
however, bear their suffering in silence,
or at least do not obtrude it upon tbs
public notice in such a startling way.
The story of this young man onght to be
a warning to others who may come into
similar circumstances and be tempted to
do the Eame rash act that led this person
to attempt suiciJo. It seems thatEr
hardt was sick somo timo ago nnd was
nursed by a servant girl, to whom, in
that Btato of eemi idiotic gratitudo that
returning convalescence sometimes
brings, he made a promise of marriage.
When ho got well he discovered that
gratitude, although an cdmirable senti
ment, is not the best capital to get mar
ried on. Most young young men, on
making this discovery, would have
promptly broken off the engagement;
but Erhardt was doubtless terrified by
thought of a suit for breach of promise,
with damages enough to keep him poor
for the remainder of his days, and he
chose suicide in preference.
It is well known the yonng woman
wl,o nurses a man through a fit of sick
ness is even more fatal than the land
lady's daughter, if that be possible. No
young man who values his peace of
mind can safely board with a lady who
has a daughter. If he does he deserves no
pity; for he has gone into the trap with
his eyes open. But a sick man is not
responsible and is taken at a terrible
disadvantage. Even then a sn pre ue ef
fort of tho will may keop him from pro
posing to his norse, but there are few
young men strong minded enough to
exercise such will power. This particu
lar young man is not of the strong
minded sort. Let his fate prove a warn
ing, and many an unhappy marriage
with no other foundation on one side
than a gratitude that soon wears out may
be prevented. N. Y. Mail.
Japanese Cremation.
A Japanese cremation costs about $1.
One shilling's worth of fnel is the
average consumption required for each
body. Granite supports aro laid in pairs
along the earthen floor, and on these tbe
coffin-chests are placet! at 8 p. x., when
the well-dried faggots beneath are
kindled. The Crea are replenished from
time to time, and at G a. m. the man in
charge goes round tbe building, and
from each hearth collects and stores in a
separate urn the handful of a-shes which
alone remains. Some wealthy families
secure the service of B a. Id hist priests
to watch all night bei-ide these funeral
pyres, but this is considered quite a
work of snperroga'jon. After the
religions service in the house the farther
attendance of the priests ia optional; bat
in many cases they return on the mor
row to officiate at the interment of tha
aab.es.