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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-9-3, Page 2;Vs overneet Wife The neatest woman M town Volks say EVe get fOr And what folks soy is gospel truth; Inds time, you be your lice ; Ketwah 13rown, sho Wats 41° w°'44 Qn bakinbread an' pies Sut her best holt is fightia dirt An' cireninventin" Her temper's like her elo.orhst• which They're both uncommon short; An' the' Da free-ann-oasy like Sometimes she makes nue snort, There ain't no some in liavile things So tinned, 4,11 Used net Nor sayin' ev ry time 1 step, "ow Zeleel, WiP0 your feet," . I can't set down in our leist room, It is so slick an' spruce Fact is, 'most everything we've got's Too good for common use. Tbotigh not to godlinese the book Puts cleanliness, I'm bound To say Returales mighty ti,pt To run it in the ground. There ale% no use in kickixe ; Prdpared to bear my cross. Some day, perhaps, wear my OrOWII ; Keturales she caut boss Things rounn in heaven. An' since we're told Tbu t there nor moth nor rust Comes to corrupt, 1 guess it's safe To bay there auet no dust. 13ut oh; what will Keturah do Within those pearly gates, If sho no longer Mid the dirt TIii.t she' so dearly hates? O'er shadowed heaven itself will be, Engulfed in awful gloom, When my Returah enters in And cannot use a broom. —Portland Transcript. THE SISTERS CHAPTER XIV. IN THE WOMB OF FATE. On the Thursday immediately preceding the opening of the exhibition they did not go to the library as usual, nor to Gunsler's for their lunch. Like a number of other people, their habits were deranged and themselves demoralized by anticipation of the impending festival. They stayed at home to make themselves new bonnets for the occasion, and took a cold dinner while at their work, and two of them did not stir outside their nooms from morn till dewy eve for so much as a glance into Myrtle street from the balcony. But in the afternoon it was found that half a yard more of ribbon was required to complete the last of the bonnets, and Patty volunteered to " run into town" to fetch it. At about 4 o'clock she set off alone byway of an adjoining road which was an omnibus route, intending to expend threepence, for once, in the purchase of a little precious thne, but every omnibus was full, and she had to waik the whole way. The pave- ments were crowded with hurrying folk, who jostled and obstructed her. Collins street, when she turned into it seemed riotous with abnormal life, and she went from shop to shop and could not get waited on until the usual closing hour was past, and the even- ing beginning to grow dark. Then she got hat she wanted, and set off home by way the Gardens, feeling a little daunted by noise and bustle of the streets, and g she would be secure when once green alleys, always so peaceful, were But to -night even the gardens sted by the spirit of unrest and that pervaded the city. The were not quiet now, and the elated isolation in the growing more formidable here instead ardly had she passed through he Treasury enclosure than ous of being watched and ge men, who appeared to place; and by the time Gardens nearer home s forced upou her that ividual was dogging th an intention he was bold, easily wrought s danger, of tally inexperi- ves. So that dly pattered d an occa- , she sud- us pedes - Paul's words con - oh, er an can be no harra in our being 90 withont an eseort, We shall be Panel/ happier by our- SalYea." "Much happier than with him," added Patty, sharply. _ And they went on With their preparatiens fOr the great day that had, been so long de- sired, little thinking what it was te brief; forth. CHAPTER XV. itiazAnbent inefloS A ruiMi-D, They had an early breakfast, dressed themselves with greet °are in their best frocks and. the new bonnets, and, each carrying an umbrella, set forth with a cheerful resolve to see what was to be seen of the ceremonies of the day, bliss- fully ignorant of the nature of their under. taking. Pard Brion, out of bed betimes, heard their voices and the click of their gate, and stepped into his balcony to see them start. He took note of the pretty costumes, that had a gala air about them, and of the fresh and striking beauty of at least two of the three sweet faces ; and he groomed to Wok of such women being hustled and bettered, helplessly, in the fierce crush of a solid street crowd. But they had no fear whatever for themselves. However, they had not gone far before they, perceived that the idea of securing a good position early in the day had occurred to a great many people besides themselves - Even sleepy Myrtle Street was awake and active, and the adjoining road, when they turned into it, was teeming with holiday life. They took their favorite route through the Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens, and found those sylvan glades alive with traffic; and by the thne they got into Spring street the crowd had thickened to an extent that embarrassed their progress and made it devious and slow. And they had scarcely passed the Treasury buildings when Eleanor, who had been suffering from a slight sore throat, began to cough and shiver, and aroused the maternal anxiety of her careful elder sister. "0, my dear," said Elizabeth, com- ing to an abrupt standstill on the pavement, "have you nothing but that wisp of muslin round your neck? And the day so cold— and looking so like rain ! It will never do for you to stand about for hours in this wind, with the chance of getting wet, unless you are wrapped up better. We must run home again and fix you up. And „I think it would be wiser if we were all to change our things and put on our old bonnets." "Now, look here, Elizabeth," said Patty, with strong emphasis "you see that street, don't yon ? "—and she pointed down the main thoroughfare of the city, which was already gorged with people throughout its length. You see that, and that"— and she indicated the swarming road ahead of them and the populous valley in the opposite direction. If there is such a crowd now, what will there be in half an hour's time? And we couldn't do it in half an hour. Let us make Nelly tie up her throat in our three pocket -handkerchiefs, and. push on and get our places. Otherwise we shall be out of it altogother—we shall see nothing." But the gentle Elizabeth was obdurate on some occasions, and this was one of them. Eleanor was ckilled with the cold, and it was not to be thought of that she should run the risk of an illness from imprudent exposure—no, not for all the exhibitions in the world. So they compromised the case by deciding that Patty and Eleanor should run" home together, while the elder sister awaited their return, keeping pos- session of a little post of vantage on the Treasury steps—where they would be able to see the procession, if not the Exhibition —in case the crowd should be too great by -and -bye to allow of their getting farther. "Well, make yourself as big as you cap," said Patty, resignedly. "And, whatever you do," implored Eleanor, "don't stir an inch from where you are until we come back, lest we should lose you.,, Upon which they set off in hot haste to Myrtle street. Elizabeth, when they were gone, saw with alarm the rapid growth of the crowd around her. It filled up the street in all directions, and condensed into a solid mass on the Treasury steps, very soon absorbing the modest amount of space that she had hoped to reserve for her sisters. In much less than half an hour she was so hopelessly wedged in her place that, tall and strong as she was, she was almost lifted off her feet; and there was no prospect of restoring com- munications with Patty and Eleanor until the show was over. In a fever of anxiety. bitterly regretting that she had consented to part from them, she kept her eyes turned wards the gate of the Gardens, whence he expected them to emerge; and then e saw, presently, the figure of their good us and deliverer from all dilemmas, Irion, fighting his way towards The little man pursued an ener- course through the crowd, almost covered him, hurling himself Elizabeth th had, ceaeed to eee er care for e great spectp,ele that she had been se Manxious to witness.. Moment mount ent hy nt the crewd, about her grew more dense and (legged, 'more pitilessly indifferent to theei cnfert of one another, more evidently minded that tine fittest Amnia survive in the fight for existenee on the treasury stone. Rough manVushed her forward and backward, and from, side to side, treading on her feet, and tearing the stitches ot her gown, and knocking her bonnet awry, until she felt bruised.' and sick with the buffetings that she got, and the keen consciousness of the indignity of her position. She could scarcely breathe for the pressure around her, though the breath of all Borth of un- pleasant people was freely poured into her face. She would have struggled away and gone home--couvinced of the cotatOrting fact that Patty and Eleanor were eafely out of it in Paul Brion's protection—bat she could not stir an inch by her own volition. When she did stir it was by some violent propelling power in another person, and i this was exercised presently n such a way as to completely overbalance her. .A. sudden wave of movement broke against a stout woman standing imme- diately behind her, and the stout woman, quite unintentionally, pushed her to the edge of the step, and flung her upon the shoulder of a brawny terrain who had fought his way backwards into a position whence he could see the pageant of the street to his satisfaction, The larrikin half turned, struck her savagely in the breast with his elbow, demanding, with a roar and an oath, where she was a -shoving to; and between her two assailants, faint and fright- ened, she lost her footing, and all but fell headlong into the seething MOM beneath her. But as she was felling—a moment so agonizing at the time, and so delightful to remember afterwarcls—someone caught -11 r round the waist with a strong grip an lifted her up and set her safely on her' feet again. It was a man who had been stand- ing within a little distance of her,tall enough to overtop the crowd and strong enough to maintain an upright position in it; she had noticed him for some time, and that he had seemed net seriously incommoded by the bustlirreal scuffling that rendered her so helpless ; but she had not noticed his gradual approach to her side. Now, looking up with a little sob of relief, her instant recognition of him as a gentleman was followed by an instinc- tive identification of him as a sort of Cin- derela's prince. In short, there is no need to make a mys- tery of the matter. At half -past 10 o'clock on the morning of the first of October in the year 1880, when she was plunged into the most wretched and terrifying circum- stances of her life—at the instant whelitehe was struck by the larrikin's elbow and felt herself about to be crushed under the feet of the crowd—Elizabeth King met her happy fate. She found that friend for whom, hungrily if unconsciously, her tender earth had longed. CHAPTER XVI. " VTERE NOT STRANGERS, AS TO US AND ALL IT SEEMED." "Stand here, and I can shelter you 'a little," he said, in a quiet tone that con- trasted refreshingly with the hoarse excite- ment around them. He drew her close to his side by the same grip of her waist that had lifted her bodily when she was off her feet, and, immediately releasing her, stretched a strong left arm between her ex- posed shoulder and the crush of the crowd. The arm was irresistibly pressed upon her own arm, and bent across her in a curve that was neither more nor less than a vehement embrace, and so she stood in at condition of delicious asfonitmlic tingling blush from head to foot. It wo Id have been horrible had it been anyone else. "1 am so sorry," he said, "but I cannot help it. If you don't mind standing as you are for a few minutes, you will be all right directly. As soon as the procession has passed the crowd will scatter to follow it." They looked at each other across a spaoe of half a dozen inches or so, and in that momentary glance, upon which everything that mutually concerned them depended, were severallyrelieved and satisfied. He was not handsome—he had even a reputation for ugliness; but there are some kinds of ugli- ness that are practically handsomer than many kinds of beauty, and his was of that sort He had a leathery, sun-dried,Weather. beaten, whiskerless, red monetached face, and he had a roughly -moulded, broad-based, ostentatious nose; his mouth was large,. and his light gray eyes deeply set and small. Yet it was a strikingly, distinguished and attractive face, and Elizabeth fell in love with it there and then. Similarly, her face, at once modest and candid, was an open book to his experienced glance, and provisionally delighted him.. He was as glad as she was that fate had. selected him to deliver her in her moment of peril, out of the many who might have held out a helping with ea velocity that was out hand to her and did not. proportion to his bulk ; and from "1 am afraid you cannot see very well," time she saw his quick eyes flash. he remarked presently. There were sounds other people's shoulders, and that in the distance that indicated the approach king eagerly in all directions. It of the vice -regal carriages, and people were eless to expect him to distin- craning their necks over each other's shoul- the sea of faces around him, but nit in the human tide that rose hove the level of his head, he ely for a footing on a higher so doing caught sight of her way to .her side. Oh, here claimed, in a tone of relief. anxious about you. But ty ? Where are your 'she responded, " you up to help us as soon and I am so thankful had to go honie for meet me here, and I come of them in this ey to come ?" he ut the gates are ," he said. They will right. You think I can' omised I d I must ed., or ders and standing on tip -toe to catch the first glimpse of them. Just in front of her the exuberant larrikin was making himself as tall as possible. "Oh, thank you—I don't Want to see," she replied hastily. "Bat that was what you camelhere for— like the rest of us—wasn t it ? "1 did not know what I was coming for," she said, desperately, determined to set To be eared for and 'protected was new senss.tion, and, though the had hed to bear anxione responsibilities for hermlf and others, she had no natural vocation for in. dependence, Many a time sine() have they spoken of this Arst half hoar with pride, boasting of bow they trusted each other at sight, needing no proofs from experience like other people --foolish boast, for they were but a man and woman, and not gods. " took you to my heart the first moment I saw yon." he says. "And I knew, even as soon as that, that it was my own place," she cahnly replies. Whereas good lick, and not their own wisdom, justified then. He spoke to her with studied eotoness while necessarily holding her embraced, as it were, to protect her from the crowd ; at the same time he pat himself to some trouble to make conversatien, which was less. em- barrassing to her than silence. He remarked that he was fond of crowds himself—found them intensely interesting—and spoke of Tha.ckeray's paper on the crowd that went to see the man hanged (which she had never read) as illustrating the kind of interest he meant, He had lately seen the crowd at the opening of the Trocadero Palace, and that which celebrated the completion of Cologne Cathedral ; facts which proclaimed him a " globe-trotter " and new arrival in Melbourne. The few words in which he described the festival at Cologne fired her imagination, fed so long upon dreams of foreign travel, and made her forget for the moment that he was not an old acquaint, mice. "It was at about this hour of the day," he said, 'and I stood with the throng in the streets, as I am doing now. They put the last stone on the top of the cross on one of the towers more than six hundred years after the foundation stone was laid. The people were wild with joy and hung out their flags all over the place. One old fellow came up to me and wanted to kiss me—he thought I must be as overcome as he was." "And were you not impressed ?" "Of course I VMS. It was very pathetic," he replied, gently, And she thought " pathetic " an odd word to use. Why pathetic? She did not like to ask him. Then he made the further curious statement that this crowd was the tamest he had ever seen. "1 don't Pall it tame," she said, with a laugh, as the yells of the larrikin and his fellows rent the air around them. He responded to her laugh with a pleasant smile, and his voice was friendlier when he spoke again. "But I am .quite delighted with it, unimpressive as it is. It is com- posed of people who are not wanting any- thing. I don't know that I was ever in a crowd of that sort before. I feel, for once, that I can breathe in peace." "Oh, I wish I could feel so !" she cried. The carriages, in their slow progress, were now turning at the top of Collins street, and the hubbub around them had reached its height. "It will soon be over inured encouragingly. "Yes," she replied. In a few minutee the crush would lessen, and he and she would part. That was what they thought, to the exclusion of all interest in the pass- ing spectacle. Even as she spoke, the noise and confusion that had made a solitude for their quiet intercourse sensibly subsided. The tail of the procession was well in sight; the heavy crowd on the Treasury steps was swaying and breaking like, a huge wave upon the street ; the larrikin was gone. It was time for the unknown gentleman to resume the conventional attitude, and for Elizabeth to remember that he was a total stranger to her. now," he mur- "You had better take my arm," he said, as she hastily disengaged herselfbeforeKit was safe to do so, and was immediately caught in the eddy that was setting strongly in the direction of the Exhibition. "11 you don't mind waiting here for a few minutes longer, you will be able to get home comfortably. She struggled back to his side, and took his arm, and waited; but they did not talk any more. They watched the disintegra- tion and dispersion of the great mass that had hemmed them in together, until at last they stood in ease and freedom almost alone upon that coigne of vantage which had been won with so much difficulty—two rather imposing figures, if anyone had cared to notice them. Then she withdrew her hand, and said, with a little stiff bow and a bright and becoming color in her face—." Thank you.,, " Don't mention it," he replied, with perfect gravity. "1 am very happy to have been of any service to you." Still they did not move from where they stood. "Don't you want to see the rest of it ?" she asked timidly. Do you ?" he responded, looking at her with a smile. '� clear no, thank you) I have had quite enough, and I am very anxious to find my sisters." Then allow me to be your*Sebit until you are clear of the streets' did not put it as a request, and hebegatt th descend the steps before she could mike up ner mind how to answer him. So she found herself walking beside him along the foot- path and through the gardens, wondering who he was, and how she could politely dis- miss him—or how soon he would dismiss her. Now and then she snatched a side. long glance at him and noted his great stature and the easy 'dignity with vehieh, he carried himself, and transferred one by one the striking features of his countenance to her faithful memory. He made a powerful impression upon her. Thinking of hime she had almost forgotten how anxious she was to find her sisters until, with a start, she suddenly caught sight of ,them sitting comfortably on a ben& in an alley of the Fitzroy Gardens, Blom& and Patty side by side, and Paul Brion on the other side of Eleanor. The three sprang up as 80071 as they saw her coming, with gestures of eager welcome. " Ah 1" said Elizabeth, her face flaming with an entirely unnecessary blush, "there are my sisters. I—I am all right now. I need net trouble you any further. Thank you very much." She paused and so did he. She bent her head vvithout lifting her eyes, and he took off his hat to her with profound respect. And so they parted—for a little while. CHAPTER XVII. AFTERNOON TEA. When he had turned and left her, Eliza- beth faced her sisters with that vivid blush still on her cheeks, and a general appear- ance of embarrassment that WAS too novel to escape notice. Patty and Eleanor stared for a moment, and Eleanor laughed. "Who is he ?" she inquired, saucily, " I clon't know," said Elizabeth. "Where have yen. beeia, dears ? " How have you got on ? I have been so anxious about you. '- " )13116.WhO 18 he ?" persisted Eleanor. " I have not the least idea, I tell you. Perhaps Mr. 13rion knows." " No " said Mr, Brion "He is a perfect stranger to me. " He is a new arrival, I suppose," said Elizabeth stealing a backward glance at her hero, whom the others wore watching intently as he walked away, " Yes, he can have but juS€ arrived, for he saw the het seven weeks ago, He has come to see the exhibitionp probably. He seems to be great traveller," "Oh," said Eleanor, turning with a grimace to Patty, " here have we beea mooning ahOut in the garden.,, and she has been seeing everything, and having adven- tures into the bargain !" It is very little I have seen," her elder sister remarked, "end this will tell you the nature of iny adventnres "—and she Showed them rent in her gown. " I was nearly torn to pieces by the crowd after you left. I am only too thankful you were out of it." "But we are net at all thankful," pouted Eleanor. "Are we, Patty. ?" (Patty was !silent, but apparently amiable.) " It is only the atiching that is undone—you can mend it in five minutes. We wouldn't have minded little trifles of that sort—not in the least --to have seen the procession, and made the acquaintance of distinguished travellers. Were there many more of them about, do you suppose ?" " 0 no, replied Elizabeth, promptly. Only he." " And you managed to find him! Wily shouldn't we have found him too—Patty and 1? Do tell us his name, Elizabeth, and how you happened on him, and what he has beeu saying and doing." "He took care of me, dear—that's all. I was crushed almost into a pulp, and he allowed me to—to stand beside him until the worst of it was over." "How interesting !" ejaculated Eleanor. "And then he talked to you about Cologne Cathedral?" "'Yes. But never mind about him. Tell ine where 111r. Brion found you, and what you have been doing." Oh, we have not been doing anything— far from it. I wish you knew Ins name, Elizabeth." "But, my dear, I don't. So leave off asking silly questions. I daresay we shall never see or hear of him again." "Oh, don't you believe it ! I'm certain we shall see him again. He will be at the Exhibition some day when twe go there—to- morrow, very likely." "Well, well, never mind. What are we going to de now ?" They consulted with Paul for a few minutes, and he took them where they could get a distant view of the crowds swarming around the exhibition, and hear the confused clamor of the bands—which seemed to gratify the two younger sisters very much, in the absence of more pro- nounced excitement. They walked about until they saw the Royal Standard hoisted over the great dome, and heard the saluting guns proclaim that the exhibition was open; and then they returned to Myrtle street, with a sense of having had breakfast in the remote past, and of having spent an enormously long morning not un- pleasantly, upon the whole. Mrs. McIntyre was standing at her gate when they reached home, and stopped them to ask what they had seen, and how they had enjoyed themselves. She had stayed quietly in the house, and busied herself in the manufacture of meringues and lemon ceeese-cakes—hav- ing, she explained, superfluous eggs in the larder, and a new lodger comiug in ; and she evidently prided herself upon her well -spent time. And if you'll stay, you shall have some," she said, and she opened the gate hospitably. "Now, don't say no, Miss King—don't, Miss Nelly. It's past 1, and I've got a nice cutlet and mashed pota- toes just coming on the table. Bring them along, Mr. Brion. I'm sure they'll come if you ask them." e'fo be Continued Quartermaster-Generai. The &miler proverb, " what is good for man is good for t,his beast," is fully under• stood by all horsemen from ‘the'turf to the farm, from the stable to the saddle. Very high authorities on the subject of horse and cattle ailments, concur in the opinion of General Rufus Ingalls, late Quartermaster - General, U. S. Army, who says " St. Jacobs Oil is the best pain -cure we ever used. It conquers pain.' This department has the custody and treatment of %riny horses and mules, and thousands are treated. A Fact at a Glance. The Alps stand in six different States. London employs 500,000 factory hands. Half of the surfrce of Russia is forest- olad. Pepper cost £15 an, ounce in Henry VIPs. reign. The avenge age that women marry at is 22, men 26. A rabbit can jump nine clear feet on level ground. Photographs were first produced in Eng- land in 1802. The annual drink bill of the world ex- ceeds £1,000,000,000. Doctors say that the left leg is usually stronger tkan than the right The flower trade of London exceeds in value £2,000,000 per anmum. A sewing machine works twelve times as fast as the hands. An ostrich's egg weighs about four pounds —equal to forts hens' eggs. A sunflower in a season will produce 12,- 000 seeds, while a poppy bears 32,000. The third-class railway fares in Hungary only average one penny for six miles. Covent Garden has been in the possession of the Bedford family for 300 years. Cashmere shawls are made of the hair of a diminutive goat found in Little Thibet. mile of railway' permanent way, with herself right in his eyes. I never saw two sets of rails, takes up 12i acres of land. auything like this before—I was never in a crowd—I did not know what it was like." Five thousand advertisements appear "Some one should have told you, then." sometimes in a single issue of the London "We have not any one belonging to us to tell us things." Times. According to a cycling paper, blacklead " Indeed ?" is the best thing to lubricate the chain of a "My sisters and I have lived in the bush bicycle with. always, until now. We have no parents. , We have not seen much yet. We came outThe now or It. this morning, thinking we could stand How poor, how rich, how aloject, hew together in a corner and look on quietly— august, how complicated, how wonderful, is we did not expect this." man ; and it might be added, how "marc "And your sisters ? " - so " is woman. With her peculiarly deli- " They went home again. They are all cats and intense organization, she is the right, I hope."tap erlative degree of man. Even in diseases "And left you here alone?" ,she excels him, having many that he has Elizabeth explained the state of the case not. She has, however, found out a grand more fully and by the time she had done o , remedial agent, for the cure of her diseases so the Governors' carriages were in sight. in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrition • a , The people were shouting and cheering,: the medicine suited to her nature, made for the was dancing is and, down in his boots, and bumping heavily upon exprees cure of those diseases which affect at shielded her. Shrinking from her. It is especially effective all weak. v her feet ba,ck another inch or nesses incidental to motherhood,while it is ich the right arm 9.8 well as also a potent restorative tonic for the feeble and debilitated generAlly..3 is folcle round her. A/td end , her front harm, the Ele—I see by the papers that a girl read , eart upon her shoulder,the as her gradtmtiug essay a paper on "How heated breathing in her ti of the involuntary and to keep house on $1.2 a week ;" do you of the situation tould think :rat could Iteep house on $12 a week, by these things. , S lig ah ne —. Oh, George) this is too suddels 7 us excitement coin - he been cast upon other arms than" Yab°40:42i11:ve t:8136.eak to mother. b ts —To build an fi up a hansom ca cos imply insupportable right. Ile said y uncomfortable, —The Duke of Elf° is always mcasted traelict him, she for his neckties. i her primitive storie pub to the 13tulding of Cologne Cathe. 1 —There are niore than 2,000 Sraithe in recoft fortabla dral', and that was not Mere than elk or ' the London Direetory. ose two arras stretched li ce c.'ausht on the Fiyo " I have been a great Asthma, sufferer f Asth- ma and severe Colds every Winter, and last Fall my friends as well as myself thought because of my feeble condition, and. great distress from constant cough- ing, and inability to raise any of the accumulated matter from my lungs, that my time was close at hand. When nearly worn out for want of sleep aud rest a friend recommend- ed me to try thy valuable medicine, Boschee' s Ge 'in a it Gentle, $yrup. I am con- fident it saved my Refreshing life. Almost the first Sleep. dose gave me great relief and a gentle re- freshing sleep, such asI had not had for weeks. 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Do not put toe much on at a time, but rub it well into the roots of the hair. Repeat this application every third night for about two weeks, anil your hair will become strong and glossy. De not cut off broken ends, but singe them off for if cut the hair will "bleed," as the hair- dressers say. The hair must be kept clean and free fronn dandruff if it is to be kept healthy. The very busiest people—women I mean—ought to wash the head and hair at least once a, month. Always wash the hair in rain -water or distilled water. Hard water will make it harsh and likely to break off. Use plenty of warn soapsuds with a few drops of ammonia' . in it, or borax if you prefer it. After washing it in water, if there is much dandruff on the scalp, rub it well with the beaten white of an egg, then wask it with another soapsuds water and the dandruff will all come away. Then rinse the head and hair with clear, warm water, and finally with cold water, for its excellent tonic effect upon the hair and to avoid taking cold. Last, rub the scalp with a little whiskey or pure alcohol, for the same reasons. Two Queer Epitaphs. , This unique epitaph is found in Cali- fornia: "Here lies the body of jeemes Hambrick, who was accidentally shot on the banks of the Pecos River by a young man. He was accidentally shot with one of the large Colt's revolvers with no stopper for the cock to rest on. It was one of the old-fashioned kind—brass mounted. And of such is the kingdom of heaven." The following epitaph is in Lariesboro, "Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble -cutter. This monument Wag erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of his work. Mona- ments of this same style, $250. Conscience, or "What? "Conscience doth make cowards of us all," says the poet But it is just so with the nerves. When a man's nerves are un- strung, through indigestion and torpid liver and impure 'blood, what wonder that he feels depressed and nervous! He starts at every little unexpeoted sound; is afraid of his shadow, and feels like a fool. Let such a man go to the chug store and get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the great Blood -purifier and Liver Invigor- ator. This is the only blood -purifier and liver invigorator guaranteed to benefit or cure, or money will be promptly refundecL It cures Indigestion, or Dyspepsia, and front its wonderful blood -purifying properties, conquers all Skin and Scalp diseases, Salt - rheum, Tetter, Eczema and kindred ail- ments. All blood -poisons, no matter of what name or nature, yield to its remedial influences. Isolated. Wagg—We had a terrible thunderstorm as I came up in the train this afternoon. Wooden—Weren't you afraid of the light- ning? Wagg—No I got behind a brakeman. Wooden—Behind a brakeman? What earthly good did that do? Wa.gg—Why, he was not a conductor. Two Views. Miss Emersonia Russell, from Beacon Hilt —Don't you think Mr. Bowles' countenance would arrest the workings of the interior mechanism of a horologne ? Miss Calumetta Porcine, from Michigan avenue—I don't know. But I think it would. stop a clock.—Jetve/ers' Circular. That is, Most Men. Brooklyn life: " There are two social functions that a man always attends, no matter how many previous engagements he may have." What are they ?" "His own marriage and his own funeral, of course." Malting Criminals Conspicuous. Rochester Hera/d ; Rochester has cov- ered patrol waggons, and they are both SOH - Bible and decent vehicles for conveying prisoner's. Nothing is gained either for the criminal or for Society by making erind- nals conspicuous. . A London shoe dealer recently reeeived . an order from Russia to furnish sixty-four pairs of shoes for the daughter of the Grand Duke Paul, a child less thati a year old. _ . Old NTS. Hayseed, reading from a nevi's- paper—Li the new play at the Third, Avente Theatre, New 'York, the heroine of the piece wears nothing but a siMple roSo- bud in her hair. Mr. Hayseed—Gosh —Great Britain consuMes one.third of tli� world's crop of cotton. —The Opera House of Paris covers near/7 three acres of ground.