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The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
IJouglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
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Parties traveling on the railroml will fintt thin place
vory barmy to visit nunng tne stWiln(,' u tneuain
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Homa Hade Furniture
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UPECLSTFRY, SPMS' MATTRESSES, ETC.,
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Oakland, Oregon. ' '
III CI LAUD TEOIIAS, Proprietor.
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nd almost forgotten in tao old
Picpvia eoractry, on the ouikirt3 of
Paris. Yen few tourists ever ask to bo
shown i!ip;v, m.l when thev do ms
tho reiuest re. to io cn being told
that they would bo compelled to drivo
thror g i narrow, crooked strcci s,entiroly
dsi rted save for tho few solemn and
gloomy-looking convents which line tha
w uy.
WOMAN A1TD, HOME.
The Management of Husbands To
- Succeed in Dressing "Well. ,
IL the Children Gooi- Xlgbt
Children's C.othes Home
Helps Faxnlon Xotes
of All SSorts. " "
Many all-wool suits are combinations of
two inaterials, one plain and the other of the
most elaborate description.
The modem drawing-room, to be acoepta-
ble, should bo made to represent "fashion
able cpnf u-sion" in all itselence and sumptu-
rid?snaids, accoi"din:r to The Boston
Gay'tto, should be selected with reference to
good looks, though not too good, unless the
bride ij a erUoher.
Flat, crossway folds hangln j like tacks on
the skirt is one of the novel ties from abroad.
These are well adapted to materials unsuit-
abltj for fall trimanngs.
Somebody ha3 brought home from Europe
an opera cloak made of white fur and lined
with quilted satin. People have no idea what
a nice garment this is until they hear it cost
$2,300. . . - "
Pretty and seasonable correspondence cards
have autumn leaves .embossed ; in the upper
left hand cornor and the day of the week
stamped in gold across the cluster. They are
a "Boston notion." . V "
Oriental parlor carpets are already declared
to be out of date, and the old-fashioned
bouquet-patterns of a quarter of a century
ago are revive! in all their own and fnacn
original new glory.
Not only ; the bride, but the bridesmaids
now carry prayer-bwks at church wedding
ceremonies, and the books are an ecclesiasti
cal present from the not always excessively
religious bridegroom.
Ye girl of ye period's muff is decorated
with humming birds, kitten and pigeon
heads. , They look just Vtoo nice for any
thing,", and " should be put up in the parlor
cabinet with other curiosities to be admired.
In after-dinner coffee cups something new
in material and pattern is of glass ornamented
with storks engraved on the side. The glass
is warraivVni strong enough to withstand the
heat and not break, spoiling somebody's good
clothes.
hmbrolrtered pulow-3hams now nave on
one "Good night" and on the other "Good
mornins.'' the work verv exquisitely done in
colors. Some ought to be made with the fol
lowing worked conspicuously in the centre:
f 'For goodness' sake, stop snoring I"
A quite modern arrangement of the neck-
trimming of the bodice is as convenient as it
is elegant, namely, that ,of so adjusting the
corsage that it is suitable either for the day or
the evening. Most bodices are now made to
open with chemisette or plastron.
You must have a tabland chair and a pair
of huge stag horns In your hall now, the old
1313 hat-rack and stand being entirely out of
fashion. The umbrella-stand must be of
china, hand painted. People going to house
keeping are kindly requested to bear these
facts iu mind.
The waistcoat is more popular to-day than
it has been for years. There is a variety of
ways of forming this jaunty vest, but the
old continental mode ranks first in popular
ity with its buttons down in front, elabor
ate braiding, or hand embroidery In silk at
each sid1, arid showing pocket-flaps over the
the hips, also adorned with buttons and em
broidery or braidwork. The favorite colors
now are gra$rs In sort,-uarK snaaes; a new
green, gunpowder blue, cigar brown ana a
bright goLkn brown The now green is a
cross between mvrtlo an l Iwttlo cram. In
one lielit it looks like sajre, and iu another it
resembles the more bluish tiut. Very few of
the new costumes are made entirely or one
material. Combination is the order of the
day. Brocade and velvet, broche and cash-
nwre and velvet, vicujrna and brocade, are
all combined.
On 31 aliasing Ilasbands.
See that your hustiand is properly fed and
the chances are that he will take pleasure in
seeing that you aro properly clothed. The
exieriment is worth trying anyway.
When any of your husband's relatives come
always give them the spare room. If you
should . tiive up - your own apartment and
sleep in tho spare room yourself j ou might
catch j our death of cold. , -
J udge a man not by great deeds, but by the
little attentions of daily life. If he nightly
brings -an evening paper home to you, be
sure Uiat although older and more careworn
than whoa ho married you he is your ardent
lover still.
Put down bed-room carpet late in the day,
when it is too ; dark to see where you drop
your tacks. " When your husband gets up at
night and goes searching around for the par
egoric he will find them and perhaps pick
them up for you.
In a family of children it usually happens
that ono or two are bad tempered and very
hard to manage. Nover lose an opportunity
of reminding your husband . that they do not
bear the slightest resemblance to any mem
ber of your family. This will keep him from
fancying that they take after you.
It is very necessary when a business man
Comes home after a day of harassing care
and continued struggles with powerful com
petitors that his mind should be distracted
f rom such subjects. The best way to accom
plish this is to spend the evening telling him
about the incapacity and impudenco of your
servants.
Always keep th a love letters your husband
wrote you before marriage in a well-locked
iron box in the darkest corner of the attic.
Nothing puts a man in suchatomper as to
stumble across his former effusions and read
a few pages of them. Some men under such
circumstances have been known to kick
themselves down stairs and be seriously in
jured.
Always be in some far away part of the
hous when your husband comes in and let
hitu hunt you up. If he finds "you in tho lum
ber room covered with dust and dirt, slashing
around with a wet cloth in your hand, he will
know that your are faithfully doing your
"dooty." If you should meet him in the hall
with neatly-arranged hair and a smiling, up
turned face, he might imagino that you had
been lounging in tho parlor all day reading
French novels.
To Succeed In Dressing Well,
Nine-tenths of a dress is in the fit; if it is
good it will redeem a 25,-cent l ep; if poor, it
will ruin a satin do Lyon, lae best way to
get a perfect waist is to patronize a man
dressmaker or a fashionable modiste, whose
services may be secured for $18 or $25, ac
cording to the fabric used and the style of
dress desired. If the aid of these artists is
beyond the reach of tho average woman,
there L one ttipg she can do go and buy a
patteni, put her wits to work, and persevere
until the bodice fits. The task is not a dim-
cult one if she will but remember that she
v. ill have to have dresses all her natural life,
ar.d or.co a fit is secured the trial is over.
It majr be advantageous to Know that for a
ftuv dollars a tailor will take her measure and
draft her a waist pattern Uiat can be relied
ou, and as the fashion changes a woman who
knows how to sew can eo modify it as to suit
the passing fancy.r This tact will" have cost
some time and temper, bat it will be a saving
m the end and enable a woman to look like a
queen in a ou--cemv twill ana alxora tnree
times as many dresses as she previously wore
when she paid $18 for having an $3 cashmere
made. - -i
On the subject of a woman's good and weak
points little that is practical can be written.
To succeed in dressing well one most not only
study the styles, but study her figure, and, ff
mistress of herself, she knows better than any
milliner or modkte what she can wear. There
are some figures that cannot wear large pat
terns, sensational combinations of color, or
circular draperiesand what may convert a
tall, angular form into a veritable scarecrow
will enhance the woman proverbially bunchy.
A tall, spare frame, hollow-chested, long-
iwaisted, "2ra way-armed, and flat-breasted
woman, if robed in-thick material, with short
waist trimmed with braid, binding, or relief
collar, has the angles broken; and the surface
may be more generally covered if thft goods
w slightly figured or ribtped and is dark in
color, but not black, as that is usually fin
ished and tends to polish down the contour.
The taller a woman the shorter in parts her
suit should be cut, while a short waist
cets depth when the eye is forced
to take in the length of a basque,
sav from the collar to a line be
low the hips. A full figure, if pronounced,
can be neutralized by plain waists, long,
scantily trimmed skirts and draperies that
fall vertically. In colors black, plain sur
faced light shades and fine, indistinct pat
terns in colors will influence the reduction,
Let the buttons be small, thoi collar low and
avoid broad banded tiimminors. A multi
plicity of petticoata will counteract the most
persistent efforts on the part of modistes,
who recommend but ono underskirt, the
weight and warmth of which must be suited
to the climate. The opposite will aid a
woman of six feet in being reduced to lower
terms.
Bustles are an abomination,, but most
figures require some pouf , especially where
the bins are prominent. This effect can be
secured by making two little cushions of,
say 5x8 inches of cured hair or moss; sew
them to a narrow band and attach to each
dres skirt belt. These will counteract all
flatness caused by the slide or fall of the
hravy skirts, and insure to the wearer more
comfort than the best organized bustle in the
markets
Kiss the Children Good Sight.
Send the little ones to lx;d in a happy frame
of mind. It requires some discipline and
self-denial on the part of a weary parent to
answer all the foolish questions and attend
to the many wants that mnltiply so f ast as
the hour of bed time draws near, but it is a
labor of love that will bring a large recom
pense. Children never rorgec iney wiu
carry with them through life's long and
weary pilgrimage the remembrance of the
face that bent over them at night, and that
was associated in their immature minds with
heaven and God. And the little tiresome
last questions mean so much to them. What
if we should not answer them and they never
awakened here? Unanswered questions and
unanswered problems have followed men
and women through life with harrowing per
sistence.
And never give a thoughtless answer to a
child's question. Never tell the little ones
that tho thunder is the voice of God I Think
what an idea they must form of such a God.
Do not tell thorn petty vague stories that will
mislea 1 them into tangled paths. H.ood says
pathetically of his own childhood:
"I remember, I remembor
The fir trees dark and high.
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky.
"It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm further otf from heaven
Than when I was a boy."
No ono can so gently and kindly prepare
the little ones for the perplexities and disap
pointments of life, which are inevitable, as
the fathers and mothers to whom their edu
cation should be a first consideration. The
moral lessons taught at tho mother's knee or
by the bedside can never be forgotten, nor
can the father shirk all responsibility in the
matter of homo tutelage. That is a child to
be pitied who is afraid to ask its father any
question which arises in its young mind; who
dare not climb to the parental knee and
challenge the world to dislodge it. Dr. Hol
land, in his fine poem of Daniel Grey, wh'.cb
is said to typify his own father, says:
l-fa liof crmia nnt.l.-ina rhnf riln Tint, lmrtt-rttro
him,
He never kissed his children, so they say."
We feel sorry for the children of a father
so austere, but we can afford to pity one who
lost so much beauty and value out of ins own
life. Then kiss the children good night and
good morning and answer all their questions,
and you will find that in such work two are
blessed one in giving, the other in receiving.
iood Hense About Children's Clothes.
There is very likely no conservatism more
difficult to deal with than that displayed by
the young boy in regard to any change in his
apparel. "If I must wear these cuffs," said
an 8-vear-old boy, on .Sunday morning, "I
am not going to church." The cuffs in ques
tion were entirely unobjectionable in tho eye
of man or woman. They were probably uu-
noticoatiie, aiso; uut tno ooy discovered a
morbid dread of appearing in them, a3 they
were not a usual addition to his toilet He
confessed, in confidence to his- mother, as
they walked along, that ho dreaded the re
marks his Sunday school class would make
upon them. How little consideration is shown
for the feelings of children. 5
How few parents realize- that the child's i
world, only, as John Brown, of Edinburg,
says, "aDout tnree ieec mgn," uas its trage
dies and comedies, its fear of blighting, ad
verse criticism. eo many times, when gar
ments are cho:en, when the question is not
of expenditure, but of taste, tho children
themselves might be allowed to choose, within
certain limits, what they will have.
Who has not seen this sight; when all
the happy boys in the neighborhood are
wearing knee-pants, one small and weary
soul appearing in pantaloons tho exact coun
terpart of his father's and reaching t j the
heels of his shoes I This life is made a burden
to him, and then and there ia begotten an un
easy consciousness oi sen that will require I
years of thought and experience and of reso- '
lute care to overcome.
The consciousness of being well and suita
bly dressed, so aear to tne nean oi woman
and so conducive to her ease, is just as con
soling to a child, and is no more likely to lead I
to a morbid fondness lor dress than is the
discomfort occasioned by tha consciousness 1
that there is something wrong about his
clothes.
The Secret of the "Home Look."
Tnore ait) certain"; principles o be ob
served in a room if it is to imprc-s the vis
itor with a sense of comfort or beauty. For
one thing there must bo a variety in it It is
net necessary to buy a whole set of furniture
alike, but there should bo ono prevailing
color, a solid basis on which to build. There
should also bo care taken to furnish the wall
spaces. : It is an admirable plan to pull a sofa
out, but if in doing eo a great empty space
left, the room is mado bare. In such a case
the sofa could" be turned eo as to break
the stiff line. and vet remain
against the wall. But the great
mediate effect of pleasant living is in the
making of corners! What does an open fire
amount to if an easy chair does not stand in
front of it, or a lovely, view from a window
of the curtain has to be drawn up and tho
visitor stand to look out! No; what we want
is the chair by the fire, the light on the tablo
and the lounge pushed near it; the easy seat
by the window where a good light falls, all
ready and waiting.
It is all in vain to put baskets of bright
wools about, r magazines, or portfolios of
engravings, to give a " home iook," it tne
convenient and comfortable seat is not added.
The visitor who coming in finds an easy chair
by the fire, and noar it the little stand with
f hA ttiOnoriiin Atirlii1A. . TPQ if trlT a TOW
moments, bccaiLse he feels that his welcome
has met him. The chair b the winduw, tue
fjMi ready "io be picked up; the bench under
the tree, the seat on the porch, are the suc
cesses of hospitality. It is not given to every
one to appreciate pictures, or to feel color,
but every one delights in being made com
fortable, i
Care of Little fiirls' Hair.
It is tho opinion of several down-town doc
tors that women not only rob themselves but
their children of the best part of their hair,
simply because they don't know how to use a
comb or brush. When the hair is loose and
smooth use the fine end of the comb and let
each application touch the scalp. Comb the
hair in every direction right, left, up, back,
rl rH7n rVrim flta i-w-Jl nn.l qq ro trti'ixm T-1 nnrfl
ing it at a dozen different lines from ear to
ear. J. he brush may be of metal or bristle
so long as it is in intelligent hands. Have a
towel at hand and wipo off the brush after
every few applications. Brush little tresses
at a time, if you would keep less hair In the
brush than on the head. While short it is
better to let the hair hang loosely. When
started for tho final growth braid it in one or
two strand?, but not tightly. Always fasten
the ends with combings, as a string,
cord or elastic will certainly cut the
hair. Dont try to crimp your lit
tle daughter's hair. To be sure it
has the appearance of just doubling the
thickness and tickling the vanity of the little
girl, as well as warming the pride of her
mother, but at the same time it breaks off the
individual hairs and keeps them of an uneven
length for years.
The heavy heads of hair that many little
girls are made to carry, just because it is the
fashion, or because some proudmother "hates
to cut it off," is not frequently the cause of
nervous diseases and general ill health.' Eight
. or ten Inches of hair is too hot in summer, too
great a strain on the nerves in the winter,
and in nineteen cases out of twenty so impov
erishes the hair cells that the product is ever
afterward very frugal. Medical works on
the subject are full of instances in which
twitching of the facial muscles, Saint Vitus'
dance, weakness of the nerves' of the eyes,
and various nervous troubles can be traced
fo a heavy mane which some little one has
been burdened with through the weakness of
her father and the vanity of her mother.
Old Maids,
The highest type of old maid has made no
sacrifice, nor is she in any sense a victim,
for marriage as a state is not necessary to
her idea of happiness; but she has none of
that antagonism toward half the human
race which Miss Priscilla makes her boast;
nor is she ono who has set herself aeatnst
maniage, or whom no man has ever wished
to marry. Sho is the woman who has never
met with her ideal, and who has never been
cunningly persuaded to accept anything
short of It
Stray Items.
Go west, young girl ! In Texas they are
paying servant girls $20 a month.
An Indianapolis woman who wears, a No. 1
shoe claims to have had sixteen offers of mar
riage on account of her foot
The ladies Of Cleveland hold an annual
doll show for a charity called "Tho Open
Door." Their last one netted $4,000.
10m xiiumo s poor mue widow is in a
lonely bad way. She has been shocked so
often by sudden deaths in her family and
then by the Milwaukee fire that she wonders
phe is'nt dead.
Escape tho Old Follyf
Let our girls have as regular daily duties
a3 our lxys. . Let idleness be forbidden them.
Let recreation be indeed recreation, at proper
times and in proper quantities. Let us open
more numerous avenues of femalo industry,
and let ever women be clothed with the
dignity of a useful lif a Can such a reforma
tion ba brought about? My dear madam, be
gin it yourself. Rule your household on this
principle. Have the courage to defy fashion
where it opposes. Be a bold leader In this
reform, and you will noon see a host of fol
lowers glad to escape from tho old folly.
It rah m in Women.
Cut off from air intercourse with their fel
low creatures, and unable to read or write,
the life of tho Brahmin women can be easily
conceived. Married at 10 years (for spinster
hood is abominable), mothers at 12, they are
faded and oil at the beginning of their fifth
lustrum, and di j of sheer age at about AO.
Their time Is passed most aimlessly in the
care of their children and the mysteries of tho
toilet.
Women as Druggists.
Six ladies having graduated with honor
from the South London Collegoof Chemistry,
mean to begin life as druggists. They de
serve to succeed. Pharmacy is a profitable
field of employment, and is one well suited
to women, being neat and cleanly and deli
cate, and there is no doubt that female drug
gists would bo more accurate and reliable
than male.
Household Art.
There is as much art in cooking a rich cake i
as there is in molding a piece of clay, and
there is as much skilled delicacy and artistic I
fancy requu-ed for an exquisite piece of em
broidery as there is for tho making of a Mes-1
soinier portrait
To ItenoTC Warts.
A writer in one of tho medical Journals
says he has found tho application of a strong
solution of chromic acid, three or four times
a day, by means of a camelV hair pencil, to
be the best and easiest method for removing
warts.
Charles Lamb: I shall begin to believe i
there is some such principle as chivalry in
fluencing our conduct, when more than ono
half of the drudgery and coarse servitude
of the world 6hall cease to bo performed by j
women.
Kissing under the mistletoe, an old custom.
is going to be revived iri fashionable society
this winter.
'Ladies in
ments. .
Nevada wear hop but' for Orna-
UEXIOAK POSTOrFICE METHODS.
Postage Peculiarities fa Monterey
-Vo City Delivery. Xo Stamps Sold,
STov Accommodation.
Ingham Ward in Pioneer Pre.
same plaza, . Is an institution of the most
aggravating character, conducted strictly on
Mexican" manana (to-morrow) principles.
Although Monterey has now many foreign
residents, there is not a clerk in the office who
understands a word of any language, or can
read other than Mexican names. As the
Spanish alphabet does not contain all the
English letters (for instance, it has no W, its
T's are all Fu, and its I's are Y's) the mistakes
thaji perpetually occur are enough to make an
angel weep. Of course Mexican ladies never
go to the postofflce, and if an "Americano"
ventures to do so, perhaps she will be waited
utsoii in course of time, after having been
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premise's are first attended to.
There is no drop-letter system, and no city
delivery. If you desiro to communicate by
letter with a person in the same town, no
amount of persuasion or number of postage
stamps will induce the powers that be to to
put your missive into his- box While post
age to the United States, Canada and Eu
rope is only 6 cents per half -ounce, it is 25
cents to any part of Mexico, if only across
the lino from one state to another; and very
particular they are in weighing, to get in
another 25 cents if possible. Mexi
can postal cards are 3 cents each, good
for any part of the world, except in Mexico
but may not be sent from oni town to an
other within their own borders.
In Monterey (if you look particularly hon
est) they will sometimes sell you one or two
postage stamps to carry away with you but
never more than two; while ia other Mexican
postofflces they will not sell you any. Why,
heaven only knows, except that it is one of
the many "rules of the government" The
postoffice is frequently closed, for hours at a
time, while the postmaster and all his clerks
are enjoying a long siesta. As there is no
outside box for depositing letters, even if we
had stamps to put on them. I am afraid that
this institution is responsible for considerable
profanity, especially on the part of those who
have been accustomed to better treatment in
Los Estados Unidos del Norte, as they insist
on calling our 'United States, in contradis
tinction to their del sur.
Examples of Prodigious Memory,
A conductor must have a prodigious mu
sical memory if he can, as Herr Richter usu
ally does, conduct such a score by heart,
never forgetting to beckon to any instrument
at the very second wanted. I say a pro
digious musical memory, because the faculty
of remembering is by no meaus a general,
but a special one. One man may, as Richter
for instance, know a number of scores by
heart, another may be able to keep an in
credible number of figures in his remem
brance, and not be able to retain the smallest
musical motif. The Emperor Napoleon III..
who never forgot a man he had once spoken
to, could so little remember a musical theme
that you might have played the same thing
twice over to him and given it two different
names, and he never would have known it
An example of the most astounding mem
ory is the winner of the national chess tour
nament, Mr. Zuckerf ort. He is capable not
only of playing a game of chess by heart, i
a, without ever looking at his board, but be
ing told his adversary's move, instantly re
plying with his countermove and keeping the
position, however altered, in his head; but
further, he played sixteen games at the same
time in the same way, that is to say, before
each of sixteen tables sat a player with a
board, and they informed him after each
other of their respective moves; he replied
and never confounded one position with an
other, never made a false move, but twice de
tected, where on purpose false moves were
made to test him, the wrong direction. He
performed an especially curious feat in the
house of a friend where there was a ' whist
party, playing a game of chess by heart with
some one in the adjoining room, and when
the cards for whist were dealt,;he looked once
through his cards then put them away, and
each time his turn came he mentioned the
card he wished to play, all the while continu
ing his chess game, and never keeping either
ins cness or ms wnisc partner waiuns one
minute for the necessary move.
Iake illichigan Dooming.
My mend stopped to snace hands with a
stoic in a slouch hat, taking the rain as it
came, but this time I retained, tho umbrella.
Returning to shelter, ho said: "That man is
ft character. He lives down the Illinois Cen
tral about 150 miles, and is pretty well off, as
they say there. The last time he was in Chi
cago there were freshets throughout the
state, and all the streams were very high.
On his return home his neighbors asked him
how the lake was, and he said with great
positiveness, 'Booming. The rains filled her
plumb full, and the water off by the crib was
ten feet higher than I ever saw it before.
And the worst of it was ms reniarK was
quoted in the district school for months
after to prove that the waters in . Lake
Michigan went up and down with the fluctu
ating water courses."
THE COWBOY'S TALE.
'Are there no real good Injuns!"
The cowboy raised his bead,
And glancing at the tenderfoot
He turned to him and said:
"I rode the prairies, pardner,
Ten years in rain or sun,
But as to real good Injuns,
I hain't met more'n one.
A swig o' that horse hnimont,
And then I'll try to place
This A 1 virtuous redskin
That for goodness trumped the ace.
Twos at the bar of Mack's Ford,
A lot of boys one day
Got to making things quite lively
In a ball and cartridge way.
I banged around about me
And didn't count tho odds
I'd been soakin' clectricisty
Like fifty lightning rods
When suddenly the sheriff
And his gang came bounding down,
And the boys took to their cattle
And dusted out o' town.
But something was the matter
With my head works, I dare say,
For I stumbled by the roadside
And couldn't find my way.
And the next I can remember r
It wa night and pitchy black.
And I tried to strike the trail from there.
Tl . . i 1 1. . I..". . . ,
And I was mighty dizzy,
And I felt 1 should have died,
v nen standing just before roe
An Injun's sbarie 1 spi
He held his hands out t
iiutdidn t sav a word:
And when I tried to Lad him
He ntither spoko nor stirred.
" And then I slipped in somehow
Between each sturdy arm.
And he let me down so gentle
Without a bit o' harm.
Afcd T lay there quite contented
And slept until 'twas day,
And woke to find him watching
At my side the same old way.
So I climbed upon my uprights,
An l a word 1 couldn't say,
But 1 looked the red man iu the face,
And then I sneaked away.
'We parted. But, as years pass by,
I wender more and more
If still that real good Injun stawls
At Mack's tobacco store.
The Wardrobe of the Stable' Roman.
It ia' surprising that the apparel of
the Greeks and Horn an 3 so long main
tained its simplicity of form. The prim
itive dress of both - nations was a single
tunic, falling from the shoulders to the
feet. Above this there was afterward
worn u sliorter tunic coming to the waist,
and to this was added an outer cloak or
tunic for oat-door wear or for journeys.
The shape of these garments permitted
several to be worn, one over the other,
when the : severity o.f the weather re
quired. Each of them had i;s reason
for being, and they were all simplicity
itself in form and material. :
, When Bome became luxurious, they
were sometimes expensively ornamented,
with gold, jewels, and embroidery, yet
their ancient cut was but slightly modi
fied from the earliest period. Collars
and cravats were to the noble Roman
an unknown barbarism. Even when
the tailor gave his tunic shape he left
the neck bare, showing the line way in
which the head was set upon tha
shoulders. For this reason, as well as
because the outer tunic, or toga, showed
striking outlines of the figure, statuesque
attitudes were easy, and no sculptor
had to go far to find models for Jupiter,
Apollo, or Antinous. There was little
to be considered in this mode of dress
besides the cut of the tunic. .'
The Roman might wear a helmet and
gauntlets in war time, but gloves were
not for his hands in time of peace, nor
did he wear hat or cap, except when ho
went on a journey, which was not of ten.
Sandals fatenedwith thongs covered
part of his foot and ankle, but stock
ings were effeminate, and he left their
use to his wife and daughter. Shirt,
in the modern sense, he had not, and
o have incased his manly limbs in close-
fitting pantaloons would have been an
insult to his personal freedom. Yet
each separate portion of ancient dress
contained the germ of , an article of
modern apparel. The inner tunic cor
responded remotely with the shirt, the
shorter one above it survives in the
modern vest, while, the outer tunic is
aintly represented by the coat. When
a Roman wished to protect his neck
le drew the folds t of his toga closer
about it, and sometimes threw the gar
ment over his head when the sun or
rain was troublesome, after the manner
of an Arab burnoose.
Wendell Phillips' Reminiscences of
Fanny Kemble.
Some time since it was my good for
tune to be present at a private luncheon
when Wendell Phillips was ' the only
other guest. The great orator was in
he best of spirits, talking, as few men
can talk, of things past, present and
uturo. Some chat . of theatrical mat
ters started him upon reminiscences of
the days of 1 anny Kemble.
We saved all our money, he said,
"to bay tickets. I was in the law
school, and some of my friends sold
everything they could lay hands on,
books, clothing or whatever came first,
to raise funds. Then we walked in
from Cambridge ; we could not afford
to ride, when tickets to see Fannie
Kemble were to be bouccht. I went
nineteen nights running to see her,
Sundays, of course, excepted. - After
the play we used to assemble where the
Parker house is now it was the rear
entrance to the Tremont theatre then
to see her come out. She would be so
muffled up that we could not even see
her figure, but we used to find great
satisfaction ' in seeing her walk by on
the arm of her escort up to the Tremont
house. Then we would give three
student cheers for her and walk out to
Cambridge to bed.
Such audiences as she had, too! If
you'd nut a cap sheaf down over the
theatre, you would have covered about
all Boston had to boast of in the way of
culture and learning Webster and
Everett and Story. Judge Story nsed
to bo so enthusiastic that - he d talk
about her all the time of the lecture.
Next morning hed say, rniiiips or
somebody else, as the case might be
were you at the -theatre last night?
Well, what aid you .tmnK of tne per
formance?' I said to him once: 'Jud-'e
Storv, you come of Puritan ancestors.
How do vou reconcile all this theatre-
going with their teachings ?' 'I don't
try to reconcile it,' he answered, strik
ing his hands together, I I only thank
God I'm alive in the same era with such
a woman!'" I
Wllkie Collins Rheumatism.
Wilkie Collins writes most of his nov
els with his own hand, but now and
then rheumatic gout gives him such
pain that he cannot hold a pen, and
then he employs an amanuensis. The
greater part of " The Moonstone " was
dictated, and Mr. Collins savs it is the
only one of his works which he has
never read. The recollection of the
agony he suffered while dictating it de
ters him. "For a long time, while that
book was writing, lie says, " I had
tne utmost dinicuity in getting an
amanuensis who would go on ',' with his
work without, interrupting himself to
sympathize with mo. I am much like a
beast in many wavs if ! I am in pain. I
must howl; and, as I lay in the bed in
the comer yonder, I would often break
forth in a yell of angnish. Then my
amanuensis would urge? me to compose
myself and 'not to write any more. Be
tween the paragraphs would go along
nicelv enough, having in my mind just
what I wanted to say, and these- inter
ruptions would drive me mad. Finally a
vouncr erlrl. not more than 17, offered to
heln me. and I consented that she
should, in case she was isnre she could
let me howl and cry crat in my pain
while she kept her place at the table.
She did it. too. and 'The Moonstone'
finally came to an
read it never."
endi But I never
Old Hags for Glucose.
Sugar is now manufactured in Ger
many from old rag.s. ; me rags are
treated with sulphuric acid, and con
verted into dextrine. iThis is treated
with a milk of lime, and is then sub
jected to a new bath of sulphuric acid,
which converts it into glucose. The
glucose obtained by this process i3
identical with that of commerce, and
may be used in the same way for' con
fections, ices, etc. i
TTMeii la s..
Honestly 1
Cider. . ' .
"GathV I !;.rj 1 L ..:r.
I observe, for-the-bene& ct yotart:a-?or-lco
element ia Ohio," for wtoeo sc-tri.:ty I
have great respect, tLat tha r'aia" eld Ger
man sects the Ifenaonists, the Duckera, &c
generally keep little d.
not appear to Lave been fif ty years Ego
theory that a utile whisky was death la
t
pot vSometunes these distilleries are bu
It Cf
stone, and are of odd shapes, with overhang
ing caves. Again they are two storks Vz,h.
and built of brick, to store tho liquor after ft
is distilled.
Said I to my man: "How did they distill
liquor in thosa little places?"
Why, they first ground tin the gram ia
the proportion - they wanted and then let it
soak in a hogshead until it fermented. Then
it was put in a mash-tub and 'boiled until ita
vapor went over into another place and came
out whisky." -
Do you make - any whisky in this region
now?'
" Yes, it is said we make the . best east of
the Allegheny mountains perhaps tha best
anywhere. I know one man up here near
G-reencastle, Pa., who has about one thousand
barrels on hand. Last year he would not dis
till any because the corn was too wet Every
parcel that man sells he takes a sample from
and labels it Some time ago he sent a barrel
to New York and he got the sample back
from the barrel, and said he, that whisky was
tampered with on the way. It tasted to me
as if an old iron nail had dropped in it"
My driver then remarked: "The whitky
you get in cities is not fit to drink. Our old
distillers in this region, of whom there are
some left, are just as honest in making
whisky as If they made cider or put up canned
peaches. Their fathers made whisky before
them. Almost every miller had ft little still
down by the spring-house." ' J
baid I: "What do you thiak about taking
off the internal revenue taxes and having
free whisky!"
"I don't know much about it," said the
driver.-candidly. "It seems strange that in
a country as big as ours, and so full of grain,
we can not have any honest liquor. It must
be from these revenue laws. When they put
a tax of $1.50 to $2 a gallon on whisky, which
only costs 50 cents a gallon to make, there
wul be adulteration of it
"I suppose they
didn't hava the drunkards
forty years ago
that they do now, nor tho
new diseases that
you hear about"
'How much does that man up in Pennsyl
vania ask for whisky P
"He asks $2.50 a gallon now. The internal ,
revenue system gives our humble, old-fashioned
distillers a good deal of trouble. The
Lws are so minute that a plain man can
hardly understand them, and they also In
crease the cost of making the liquor."
Attractions for the Crowd.
Walking through "Wall sffeet I noticed tha
workmen laying the foundation for the
Washington statue. A Crowd was watcliing"
the job. How easily a crowd is gathered
here I The reason is found in the fact that a
large part of the pepuhvee is composed of
those who tramp the streets without appar
ent purpose, and are always ready to stop
and gaze. Fourteenth street is the biggest of
such idle gatherings, as there ia a window
there-(in the third story) in which ridiculous
marionettes are exhibited. ; These little toys
are only fit for the children, and yet" they at
tract great numbers of grown people, who
stand on the opposite side and gaze with
strange intentness on the silly performance. .
The juke of the thing is that the latter is only
a bait for an advertisement . The showman
has hired the window for this purpose, and
while he attracts the public he also parades
bis business.
A crowd of fashion- worshipers is always '
found at Arnold & Constable's immense '
corner window, where a half dozen wax
figures display the fall styles in the most gor- :
geous manner. Rich and poor mingle in this
circle of admiration. Here one meets an ir
resistaabie denial of the Idea that "beauty
unadorned is adorned the most1 No, - no!
Beauty (wax and paint beauty, at least) re
quires a $3,000 dress to do it full justice, ?
There is always:, a crowd at the bookstands,
where so many stop, though not ono in fifty
makes a purchase. When one sees the words,
'Your choice for 25 cente," how natural it u
to halt and look! Each one gazes a moment
or two, and then passes on, but some one else
is ready to take his place. These facts iow
Uiat though street life has a hurried aspect,
a large part of It ia composed of listless wan
derers. '
. An Unknown Hero,
What a small world we live in, after
alll And how round it is, toot Here on
the heights, alone, save for the many
beautiful babies born to- him since he
sat down under his oaks, bnilt his house,
and planted his vine and fig tree many
vines and many fig trees, in fact 'I find
i a dear old sailor, a fellow world builder
of the far west. A dozen years ago oi ;
so he found this spot with the encircled
city below, the Potomac" far away; yet
m his very dooryard, with many ships,
the old Roman arena before him, aye,
the very wild beasts devouring Uhm:
tians over yonder at the capitol finding
all this before him, I say, he sat down
j here, would go no more away, but gave
! up his commission and has heen here
ever since, planting grapes, growis g
figs, looking dowrr into the president's t
dooryard. And this silent little man,
too modest to let me mention hi3 name,
is the very man, the humano and gal
lant soldier who went out unarmed, all
alone, some fifteen years ago, and
brought in more than a .thousand
armed Apache Indians; a feat that
startled the country at tho tiine, I re
member. NED'S SUGGESTION.
Louise R. Smith in St Nicholas. . .
"Where did you buy her, mamma P .
Asked 3-year-old Ned of me,
As he leaned o'er the dainty cradle
His "new httle sister" to see. -
"An angel brought her, darling,"
I answered, and he smiled,
Then softly bent his curly head, . . ; :
And kissed tho sleeping child.
But a sudden change came over him,
And he said, "If I'd been you.
While I was about it, mamma, '
I'd have caught the angel, too P
My own experience tells me that a m.v t
can always do the work for which his Lrs.ii i
is fitted if he will will give himself the Lali i
of regarding his work as a normal condition
of his life. -1 therefore venture to ad vi
young men who look forward to aether,)
as the business of their lives, even whea th-'
propose that tho authorship shall 1x3 c " tX i
highest class known, to avoid ecttu:. .J.
rushes with their pens, and to seat Cuern:- Iv i
at their desks day by day a thoujrt: V,. '
were lawyers' clerks, and so let tU .:i si
until the allotted task shall bo accomplish
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