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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1879)
' - r i 5 Itijlfrrf 4f iir0f ; l & r r 4 & &U Ci r i ez.-M ' THE 1ED CLOUD CHIEF. K. I . TBOJUS, Pablhkcr. fKEDCLOUD, - - NEBRASKA. rsr THIS SIDE AND TEAT, The rich man sat in hla father seat rurplc an' llnnn, an a' thine fine J I, K, The pulr man lay at hlegutc I' the n w cufra an' tatters, an' weary plnel street. To the rich man's table Ilk dainty comes ; Mony a mantel sl frae't, or loll; The pulr man lain wad hae dined on the crumbs, Hut whether he got them Icanna tcIL Servants prood. Balt-flttlt an stoot, Stan by the rich man's curtained doors; Slalxterleas do? 'at rin abot Cam to the pulr man an' llcklt his eorcs. The rich, man deed, an they burled him Kran' ; In linen fine his body they wrap; ISut the angels tulk up the bpsar man. An' laid him doon in Abraham's lap. The Kuid upo' ttiii side, the ill upo' that file was the ilch man' waeaome fa'; Uut his briihcra they eat, an they drink, an' tney cnat, "An carcna a strae for their father's ha'. The trowth's the trowth, think whatj-e will; Ahl jotno they keunu what they wad be at; ISut the beggar man thought he did no that Wi' tne d-gs o this side, the angels o that. George Mac Donald. m m i THE ZIIREE WISE COUPLES. Tin en wi-e old cmiplcs were they, were they. Who went to keep house together one day. lTp--tairniuid down t-talrs one couple ran, lie with his ulhter, bhe with her fan. " 1'iesh air!" cried the wife, "is the thing lor me." Shut the windows I'm freezing!" said he. Thu f-ecpnd couple, with basket nnd gun, M'ent huutlng for spiders, one by one. Into thecorner they poked and pried; ' There's one ! I'll shoot him 1" tlic husband etied. While his v. ife e.claimed " When the bas ket's lull, J can .sell the spiders' webs for wool." lint the wisest couple of all the three ?aid' " H'e will a traveling circus be!" "" 1'ou," cried the wife, " the boar must piny, Up on the ladder jou ought to stay. "'And I'll curry the cluh, because, you know, ' Til have to beat you, yourtricks to show." V Fo the man in the ulster was Iro.en still, "White his wile did nothing but fan and sniff. The hunter u as stung by a eros old spider, A lie very Imprudently sat down beside her. And his wife, who was gathering webs for wool, Used hint to make up a basket full. I'.ut the man w ho learned the bear to play Lived oil the ladder for many a day. lie stole the cluh and ho wouldn't come down, bo his poor wile carried him through the town. And all the people nald " Lot's go To the hear and the circus-show!" Mrt. E. T. (AnlcU,tnSt.mXichnJniifitr May. KETUHAII KIDDLE'S COURTSHIP. Clump! clump! went Former LazicrV boot :ilonr; the brick walk leading to Mrs. Selehow's dairy, and "Here ye be ! " be said in his sharp falsetto, a min ute later. " Yes," said Mrs. Sclchow, looking up from the milk she was skimming. Walk in, Brother Lazier." Brother Lazier walked in. He was a small, dry man, so stiff in the joints that he progressed by a series of jerks sug gestive of Mrs. Jarley. He had a dus ty complexion, a miniature desert of Sahara on the top of his head, sur rounded by clumps of sandy hair, and his very voice seemed to have dried up and cracked. lie sat down upon a pile of empty butter firkins, with a preoccupied air, but immediately rising, crossed the room, alternately taking a few steps " and then stopping short.like a robin. At last he remarked: "Uncommon dry spell we are having." Mrs. Selchow assented cordially; and this subject being disposed of, a silence ensued, during which Mr. Lazier and his green cotton umbrella continued to mount guard. How's your mother?" inquired Mrs elchow, making a skirmish toward conversation. "Mann's considcr'ble poorly, I ex pect," replied her son; "and that's what I called ter speak about; that is, I meant ter say " ere Brother Lazier grasped his umbrella convulsively, and paused. "She ain't so young as she once were," he resumed, " and it's hard on her to take the heft of the work." Another pause, during which our brother wiped his brow with a pic toral handkerchief illustra'iug scenes in the life ot the Prodigal Son. "Yes," said Mrs. Selchow, foresee ing what was comiDg, and anxious to help her visitor out "Yes, you need somebody there that can takerighthold and go ahead. Your mother is getting on in years, as you say, and the place needs a younger woman to see after it." "That, now, was just what I was a-comingto," responded Mr. Lazier, much gratified. " I've been a-thinking, this some time, whether or no Scripter wa'n't about right, and I've come a-pur-pose to ask you if so be you'd be so good as to pick out some likely girl for me. You see, a young man like me feels kinder diffodent round amongst the girls," he added, stroking his hay colored goatee, which was plentifully streaked with gray. "Not but what there'd be a plenty of 'em that would jump at the chance," he resumed, glib ly for, the bars once down, Mr. Lazier .felt perfectly at case "but, you see, ' t hero are so many Ican't make up my tuiud, and I want you to sorter tell 'em over, so't I can chalk 'em off. You see, bister Selchow, I want a master-hand to work. She must be able to hetchel round ; can't have nopoor weakly crea ter. But then, you see, the smart kind are apt to be topping. I can't have that. She musn't be a trying to usurp .authority nor nothing; I'm particular about that. She must be obliging bo willing to help about the chores, and that'll save my keeping a boy. She must be ekernomical, and know how to live on plain vittlc, and not be a-wanting a new caliper every little while. I want she should be able to make fust-rate butter and cheese. Mother is falling off a little on butter; I didn't get as much bv 10 cents as I'd orter for that last box. And if she has a few hundreds in the bank, it would come handy, for, you know, our place has a mortgage. Now, you see," he added, " I ain't particu- jar; but these 'ere few things I do insist upon." " H'm," said Mrs. Selchow, watch ing the milk "as it dripped through the skimmer. "Perhaps Widow Yoas jwold suit you." "Number one,1' said the bachelor, in a business-like voice, producing a lump of chalk, with which he proceeded to make a mark on the dairy floor. 442iTow let's see," he went on, assuming a ju dicial air, " Widder Voas is as spry as a cricket good-tempered too ; but then I never took much stock in widders, and I'm a little skittish of 'em. They're always a throwm' of it in your face how that you ain't a-doin' so well by 'em as their first husband did. I guess we'll crowd her out;" and he stooped to draw a line across the mark: which rep resented -the unfortunate widow. w Miranda Brown," suggested the mentor. "Mirandy is a good girl; sne'd make a fort-rate of a wife; bat there's her father, being took down with paraljsis so, he's liable to live for years. That spiles her;'1 and another cross decided t&eaestiayof Miraaea.- i" "Ja&eTMktr," prompts 'ike inde fatigable Mrs. Selchow. - ' Number three," asserted the pros pective lover. "Jane is a'most too wuj. a. uusuiuii sue a isvvu a-junu out for this chance for some time; shell asked after marxn's rheumatism twice now within a week, and I make no doubt she's all prepared to step in. I won't have a woman that don't wait to be asked," said Mr. Lazier, decidedly, as he canceled Jane's hopes. "Well, now, there's Ketnrah Kid dle," exclaimed Mrs. Selchow, running her finger round the edge of the pan to loosen the cream. "She's as good as gold, and neat as a pin. There aia't a better housekeeper in town, and she can sing like a lark, and hain't any in cumbrances either." "And they do say she has a pretty little sum in the bank, too; but then she is oncommon humbly," objected Mr. L., rubbing his nose reflectively with the handle of his umbrella. " Handsome is that handsome docs," returned Mrs. Selchow. " Keturah has a great deal of sound good sense, and her butter took the priz? at the cattle show last fall." "Well, here she goes number four," reluctantly admitted Mr. Lazier. "I'm a great mind I'll go and see her if it wan't for her bein' so prodigioas plain featured. Well, I'm grctly obliged to you, Sister Selchow, and I'll da as much for you some time," said the bachelor, with an innocence which up set Sister Selchow's gravity, and with it the pan of skim-milk which she wa3 emptying into the pigs' pail. The un conscious author of the mishap was al ready ambling peacefully through the Selchow garden, bright with phlox and poppies, with a rear-guard of melons and cucumbers. " Hezekiah Lazier! " said hi 3 mother, a few hours later, "I do declar' for't, "if you aia't a-growin' deefl I've blowed the horn e'ena'most times enough to bring down the walls o' Jer icho, and here ye be out behind the house all the while! " "Sho, now," protested her son, "1 concluded you forgot to blow the horn. I was a-calculatin' whether or no 'twas best to buy another cow," he added, in an explanatory tono. "I don't see but we shall have to, if you keep on at this rate ; here you be a-helpin' yourself to butter again when you've got three pieces on your plate a'ready," remarked the old lady. "1'voagret mind I'll go and sec her this afternoon the cow, I mean,"" hastily added Hezekiah, putting salt in his tea. "It's right on the road to Jones's," mused the same individual, after din ner, as he leaned pensively over the pig-pen chewing a straw. " It wouldn't bender much, as I know of, and jest now I may ketch her unaware. Wa'al, anyhow, I can call, and if I don't con clude to take her, I'll go and sec Jones's cow, so 'twon'tbe wasting time." Half an hour later larmcr Lazier and his green cotton umbrella might have been seen wending their way along the road. " I'm e'ena'most a mind not to stop to-day," murmured Mr. Lazier, as he caught sight of the white cottage with its porch covered by morning-glories. " I don't know as I'm afraid to go in , I don't know as I be," he pursued, wiping his face with the Prodigal Son. While he was deciding this question a bnrst of song floated through the open window. It was an old fashioned hymn ; the words were homely, the tune was common-place ; but the soul of the woman who sang seemed to fill and overflow both song and words. Un consciously the listener drew nearer; before he knew it he had passed up the little walk bordered by verbenas and clove-pinks, and reached the dazzling row of milk-pans set to dry upon the porch. "I'll ketch her unaware," repeated the bachelor, with a triumphant chuckle. But slas for his precautions ! his green cotton umbrella slid out of his hand, and, with a cfah worthy of one of Jove's thundc-olts, knocked down the whole row of pans. " Why, Mr. Lazier, how do you do?" said Miss KHd'.c, coming to the door to send away Mr. Jones's dog, as she sup posed, and looking somewhat surprise! to find the intruder of a different ordor. Y'es, it is an uncommon dry spell," remarked the isitor, absently. The kitchen had not a suspicion of dirt any where, the dinner dishes ap peared to have been washed age3 ago, the stove shone like a star of the first magnitude, and Miss Kiddle herself wore the most immaculate of calicoes and white collars. She was plain, but her face was full of character and good ness, which even Mr. Lazier could not help feeling, and his small soul seemed to shrink, as he looked at her, till it al most rattled within him. "What charming weather we are having!" said the hostess. " Yes good for punkins," admitted our utilitarian friend. " How is your mother now?" asked Miss Keturah, trying to keop the con versational ball rolling. . " She means business, sure enough," thought the bachelor, with internal con sternation. " She ain't so young as she once were," he answered aloud ; after which remarkable announcement he relapsed into silence. He was surmising what Mr. Kiddle was worth when he died,and calculating how much, at an interest of seven per cent., it would amount to by this time. Miss Keturah attempted to insert an other conversational wedge. "Mr. Lazier," she began, " are you calculat ing" Mr. Lazier gave a guilty starfc-r "are you calculating to raise many melons this year?" t " No," said the farmer, looking much relieved. " Melons are going to bo a rather slim crop this year, so far as I know." " I have a few vines, but thoy haven't done much," pursued Miss Kiddle. " I find it troublesome to get a man to do my planting when it ought to b3 done, they are all so driven right in planting time." " There ! " thought Mr. Lazier, feeling in his pocket for the Prodigal Son;" "she means that for a hint women are so. suspicious." "I've let my land out on shares this year," went on the unconscious Ketu rah. " Mr. Jones has taken the gar den, and I have all the vegetables 1 can use." Our wary friend felt that it was high time for an explanation. " "I was jast a-going by to look at Jones's cow, and 1 thought I'd stop in a spell and see you, too, and I gaess I must be getting' along now." " It's lucky none of ,the neighbors happen to be going by," he thought as he walked out of Miss Keturan's door yard, ignorant that at that very instant Cornelius Jones, Jan., was sweeping the horwoa with a spy-glass from hi father's bara-wiadow. " Well, it's plain to be seen she's all ready to jump at the chance," joliloaked Mr. Laer. "I beliere tbf woui hare nade -mei a pro posaiJMNlf il 14 staid there five min utes iafjw It's lack? I rot away when Mil baft to tell ber it was Bat it wont 1 do; ike's too plaia-farored. It's hard om ber, tkooeh ; it's evident her Blind is sot me. flowsomerer, I doa't know as I'm beholden to make each a sacri fice of my feelings." He reached this conclosioa aad Mr. Jones's barn-yard siznultaaeoosly. The only visible occapant was a bantam rooster, which crowed valiantly at Mr. Lazicr's approach, to whose over wrought imagination he seemed to be saying, "Ke-fa-u-rah!" The farmer threw a stick at the fowl, but, adroitly dodging it, he reiterated, "Ke-te-u-rah!" " I'll Keturah you!" exclaimed aloud the irate bachelor, seizing a milking stool. But barn-yards f ura sa footing a3 treacherous as the polished floors of palaces, and Mr. Lazier found himself on his knees in an emerald-hued pool, while the rooster, perched upon the gate, triumphantly proclaimed, "Ko-tu-u-ia ah!" There was a sort of smothered ex- Elosion somewhere overhead in the arn, but Hezekiah was too busy with his own meditations which were not so pious as his attitude to heed any thing else. "I swan! " he ejaculated, which pe culiar expression might have bien Eng gested by bis acquatic adventure, lie was hastening from the scene of his misfortune, but, a he turned the cor ner, ran plump into Mr. Jones, who ex claimed, "Hello, Lizicr! come to see her, eh?" Mr. Lazier's intellect, never over-robust, was becoming decidedly confused. He stammered, " Well, I've jost come from that is, I've been to see " " Ke-tu-u-rah !" added tho bantam, helping him out. Mr. Lazier turned very red, and looked first at the milk-ing-stool and then at the splashes on hii pants. "Co-boss! co-boss! co-bo.' ''called Mr. Jones, oponing the gate uich led into the lane. Presently griddle-cakc-colored Aldcrney made her ap pearance, and walked solemnly toward the two men. Mr. Lazier proceeded to punch her ribs in a scientific manner. " How many quarts does she give now? " ho inquired. " Not much of a milker, I judge. Aldcrneys never arc," he added, wiia-the scpraful -air of in difference whicfi becomes the experi enced bu3'cr. " She's a first-class milker, sir," said Mr. Jones. " Eight quarts a day, or you may have ber for nothing. Then, you know, an Alderney's milk is half cream, anyway; so if you want her for butter- making, she'll be woitn more to you than one that gives more that isn't so rich. Why, we never put any carrots in her butter in the winter just as yel low in January as June. Why, fir, her butter took the prize at cattle show." "So Mrs. Selchow said," rejointd Mr. Lazier, whose mind had slightlj' wandered. " Mrs. Selchow!" repeated Mr. Jones, in some surprise, for he was conscious that his last statement had been fabri cated for the occasion. " What does she know about the cow?" "Cow? oh no! I meant that is, I must have been thinking of something else," blundered Mr. Lazier, looking uneasily at the bantam, which Never fllttlnp. never fllttlnu, Still witti sitting, still was sitting, Just ubovc the barn yard gate. " Now, sir, you know what she i3 worth. She is worth more than the value of the money, you can see your self. You can't do any better than to take her. Of course it don't make any difference to me, but if you know a good chance vrhen you sec it, if you know what's for your own interest, you'll take her, and she'll never disappoint you." " If she wa'n't so humbly," murmur ed Mr. Lazier, absently, for, by this time, "his eyes were with his heartland that was far away." "Hey! what are you talking about?" asked Jones. " Ke-tu rah!" cried a voice overhead, in imitation of the bantam. "Kc-tu rah Kiddle!" There was no possibility of mistake this time, it was Ketnrah Kiddle and nothing else, and it certainly was not the bantam. The shipwrecked adven turers in the enchanted island of Pros pero were not more distraught by the strange noises of that isle than was Mr. Lazier by this rcrial voice. He dashed wildly out of the barn-yard, with Mr. Jones's dog Towzer in hot pursuit. " Hezekiah,'" said Mrs. Lazier, at sup per, "I'd as lieves you'd go down to the corners and get me some molasses and a cod-fish to-night." " Wa'al," said Mr. Lazier; and half an hour later his green chariot and one eyed horse drew up before that institu tion known as "the store." The chron ic group of loungers which were form ing a sort of fence around Cornelius Jones, Jun., could not have drawn on more funereal countenances when Mr. Lazier entered if he had been a sarco phagus; and the silence was unbroken until he asked for his molasses. Young Jones sauntered carelessly up to a keg of butter which stood upon the counter. " 'K. K.' Whose butter is this ?" he asked. " That butter," said the store-keeper, coughing, "was-made by Miss Kiddle." " Kidale? What! the one that lives on the cross roads! over our way?" in quired Cornelius, gravely. Mr. Lazier began to regard a string of button-molds with deep interest. v Well, now," resumed Cornelius, "I heard -some bidy say that she got more for her butter than any body else in town, and her cows are not Alderney, either. By-the-way," addressing the au dience in a general way, thev do say Miss Kiddle's f ither left her about two thousand dollars. If I was a marrying man, now, I don't know but what I'd try my luck. Doa't know bat what I shall as it is. I want a wife that is smart enough to smpport me, and Ketu rah oould make a handsome living if she was tied up in a meal-big. When I was mowing pat west lot I used to go by her house every, morning about 5 o'clock, and. I declare if she wasn't out weeding in the garden, with all her milk pans drying. I believe she makes her bed before she gets up, and washes her dishes before breakfast." Mr. Lazier never thought of the cod fish till he was half-way home. "As the horse turned into the door-yard and stopped in front of the dilapidated barn, his master's meditation came to a sud den ead, aad he exclaimed, "I've got it!" Scrambling out of the buggy, without stopping to unharness, he rush ed toward the barn, umbrella in hand. "Jf it falls over toward the calves' sta ble, I'll do it," he said, placing the IdidlMPfl OUJHliSillMf I, i rreea cottoa oracle Up dowsward po the floor. He let co of it wit a treea- bliae baad. It toppled over and fell with a 4cjt ta4 vfon the very tarcs kold of Um calrea stable. I'ca a-going dowa to the store to- night to set jour cod-nik. V'aaxx erealag. Hezekiah, on the following iww j - .- thought, " so' to make sure of it." While Mr. Lazier was kagiln over the price of kls fish, for, like Mr. Gilpin, " although on pleasure beet," he had a frugal mlad," h heard a remark which arrested his aUeatioa. A voung Atlas who was suppsrting the doorway asked, ia an unnecessary I'll vat ir fit r th war. Uoad voice: "Do you calkrtiate that Jones iunior and Keturah Kiddle will conclude to make a match oa't?" " Wa'al, it sounded that way, from what Jones slid here the other night. Pretty good haul for him," responded one of a couple of caryatides who were hokling up the posts of the piazza. Mr. Lazier pricked up his cars like a war-horse. He grasped bii nmbnJla, and the touch of that oracle of his des tiny seemed to iaspire him. " I can tell you as much about it, 1 s'pose, as any man," he said; "and I can tell you they ain't a-going to make a match on't, nor nothing Tike it. I calkerlite to marry her myself. SIib aia't so handsome as some, but I can overlook such things. You tell young Jones 'there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip;' " and the prospective bridegroom walked awaj wiih light ning in his eye and the cod fish under his arm. As soon as he caught sight of Mi KtddlVs cottage hi pace slackened. " It's too late to back down now," he soliloquized; "I've let the cat out of the bag. If she wa'n't so Wa'al, she'll appreciate what it in to get a wi-ll-favored man more than if she was one of the handsome kind herself. It would be a drefful disappointment to ber if I should fil her at this p'int;" and Mr. Lazier walked up to the door feeling the good Samaritan, and entirely un conscious of the incongruity of the cod fish. Miss Keturah was at that moment put ting on her shawl to go to clas-mcct-ing, and met her suitor on the threshold. " Miss Kiddle," ne oegin, impress ivcly, I've come to" ho oaa nearly you some trood nt-ws" said, "tell "I've come to sec vou on business. I'm a man of few words, so I come to tho p'int at once. I won't detain you long" speaking very fast, IcAt his mind should chnngc. " I've heard such good reports of you that, thinking of it over, I've como to the conclusion that 1 couldn't find a woman better calkcrlaUid to suit me than you." Miss Keturah looked as if a meteoric stone had fallen at her feet. " Why, Mr. Lazier," she said, " tbn is really very unexpected. I " " Oh, of course it's natural you should be fiustratcd at first. I oughter have broke it to you more gradual; but you needn't try to put it into words. No matter if you don't know what to say, we've got an understanding now, and that's enough," interrupted the lover. " Oh, as to knowing what to say, I know just as well to-night as I ever shhll, and I'm obliged to you for your consideration, Mr. Lazier, but I really must decline your proposal ; " and Miss Kiddle pinned her shawl more closely around her, as if no more remained to be said. " Now you know you don't mean it," remonstrated her admirer. "I know women ; they always say no when they mean yes." " But I mean no," said the crael Ke turah. " You don't know your mind," per sisted Mr. L. " Yes, I do," said Miss Kiddle, firm ly; " and I know it won't change about this matter. I am in earnest." " Ob, now don't! You can't mean it. You don't know what you're a'doing," cried the rejected suitor, in consternation. " Don't say no. I'd sot my mind on you from the first. You are just the one for me. You're just right in every way. I can't never find your equal," cried Mr. Lazier, his blessings brightening as they seemed about to take their flight. He tried to wipe his eyes on the cod-fih, under the delusion that it was the Prodigal Son. "I am sorry to cause you any un happlness ; but I have several reasons, any'one of which I consider sufficient," said Miss Kiddle. "What be they?" entreated the bachelor, with a vague suspicion of Jones floating through his mind. The hard - hearted Ketnrah tated. "I would rather not them," she said at last. " I insist on hearing one of persisted Hezekiah, thinking. hesi give 'em," "She can't have any objection to ?nc." " Well, I suppose yon will consider the one I am going to give as one which no sensible person would be influenced by, and will' call it a woman's reason,' but the fact is. Mr. Lazier, you are really too homely. I am not at all handsome myseli, and I consider that one plain-looking person in a family is enough. Good-night." Mr. Lazier is still a bachelor, and to this day dreads to go to the store, where he is liable to be reminded that " there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip ; " but Keturah Kiddle has lately married a well-to-do mill-owner, and lives in a manufacturing town, where she evolves mission classes, sewing schools, and temperance clubs to her heart's content, and I am told that her husband is not only an excellent " provider," bnt a re markably fine-looking man. Harpzr's Bazar. A Chickea Case. fc. A complicated chicken case has taxed the legal acumen of one Judge on the Georgia Bench and two ex-Judges on the floor. The party of the fir.-t part owned, or assumed to own the hen, and the party of the second part was chirg ed with having stolen the same. The hen was introduced in evidence and duly identified, out while the two ex-Judges were arguing the case on its merits, she laid an egg in court. As sooa as lier cackle had advertised this new compli cate oa, the party of the first part claim ed it as the product of his property; the party of the second part put in a coun ter bid; the Judge on thebanch was disposed to regard it as a judicial per quisite; aad the jaaitor mumbled some thing about the nine points. A very old table-cloth, which ceroid onlj be tolerable in a house jn which an airy daiatinew pervaded ercry thing, has threads drawn so as to deSne squaraa, ia aach of which a flower is worked, and this flower appears ia the decorations of the flowers and in the flowers. Strips of embroidered linen are laid on some dinner tables, and the fruit is placed upon thzm in baskets trisamed with bright ribbons. ? m a i r Dried beef can be cut off with a plane in the thiaaest shaviaga, aad is much nicer than witaany other method. risMMX itr&k f From ft rale Hemzkiy tor Kf. Cooaiderixg that faahkm is potod apow a pivot, aad has ao aree stability taaa the wiad, k atast be regarded as fortonate taataaaHUi tartaa are yfeUis aad easDy traasfstred. The paaier, tcarcek more than hlatvd at thrre month ago, has developed like a poli tician's pet akeascre, aad takes Ha pkc without so stack as heskatlag for thu ftvor of acceptance. It Is siaiply f fasMion, aad the rct goes without say ing. The extent to which the paakr m reprateated is kit entirely to the iadi vidaal ; for it U chiecy, aad, in a Urge proportion of cacs, produced by drap ery, pleats, and trimsiiags, it Uterftrw but little with model or design.. Bssqaes are finished off with wide re vers aad higk pockets which ealarge the hips, or, in the case of grenadine, they are supplied with a drapery sewod in under the vest-front quite smoothly, and lifted at the sides in two or three curtained or f&stooned loops. Upon the back of a grenadine basque a pleat ed width b added as an cxttisnoa to the center, and this b looped Into a pauier, trimmed with lace, ribbon, or jels. Fine crinoline b required to stiffen pauier draperies ot grenvdtoo aad tis sue, also for many f aacy fabrics of crepe, or delicate silk and wooL A handsome basque for the above meatioced ma terials has pleated centers both at the front and back, and the sleeve is made to correspond. The general outline of this design b square, but the sides arc cut up high above the hips In order tv show the looped drapery of the over skirt beneath. Vests arc seen on al most every basque this teason, and when this is not iacluded in the design proper, the center-front of the basque i tilled up with a showy jabot of lace, which may match the trimming ot the drojs, if that b lace, or it may be a de tached article of lingerie. The first named style b most admired. Princes.u dresses, more than other designs, may be conveniently provided with pauier effects. The drapery b easily arranged hijgb upon the hips, and a short apron b cut pointed at the sides, and shirred up to half the depth in the center-front, Thcte additional aprons are reallv mere matters of trimming, and are add" od often to any princcssc design which is smooth over tho hips, and has drapery folds or pleats dbposcd across the foot. Polonabe-, so far from being rejected favorites this season, are much admired for their adaptability to new ideas of drapery. Those that are originally closed in front are sometimes left open at some distance above the hem, and the depth carried up in deep folds, or ploats as high as the figure may re quire, makes an extremely handsome tffcet. When a center-front b closed and happens to beshlrred, the extra length upon the hips b also shirred, and carried higher. The modeb of polo nabes are not changed by varieties of garniture or draping ; ladies wear them as they are, quite as frequently as other wise, and it must not be supposed that any revolution in fashion has taken place because a greater effect of puffed drapery b suggested, for unless the pauier is becoming to the figure, it b by no means adopted. Overskirts arc now sharing the general liking for handsome draperies with trimmed skirts which always have the advantage as re gards convenience. The co west designs are exceedingly dressy, and show quite as much elaboration as the basque be longing to the costume. All designs which open more or less in front are classed as curtain overskirth, and thco are admired because they admit of an ornamental panel being placed upon the skirt beneath. Thb panel matches the vest of the basque, or where a jabot of lace takes the place of the vest, tho same garniture fills up the open space on the skirt-front. Fashion still com mends overskirts which are draped in dependently of each other on the sides. For instance, the right side will show its depth takon up by pleats laid in a cluster, while the left side has simply lines of shirring uniting the sides and back. A stylish design for grenadine mixed with daraaj see silk has paneb, similar at both sides, and the front b made dressy with widths of grenadine carried across, in festoon shape, and each trimmed with lace and looped ribbons. The back b Euffed, and made longer than the front. f there b a favorite mode of disposing of the extra length of polonaises, over skirts, etc., thb season, it b by shirring : and thb b carried into rest-fronts, and even into sleeves, made of grenadine and other diaphanous fabrics. Unlined sleeves for the street are not admired ; lengthwise-pleated and shirred designs, not too full, and yet Bade with sufficient width to protect the arm, are more pop ular. Very many new dresses show fichus made of the dress material, hand somely trimmed. These are cut in half handkerchief shape, and laid in easy folds around the neck ; the ends are carelessly looped below the bust, or they are precisely held in place down the front by three straps elaborately trim med, or else embroidered and sprin kled with jets. The fichu b particularly employed for grenadines and soft sum mer silks, and fancy crepe-like mixtures called rnummy-silks. Skirts are occu pying more than their ordinary share of attention thb spring. Trimmed tkirts prepared for the street are not over three yards in width, and the same rule applies to house dresses. Walk ing skirts, when plain, are made from two to two and a half yards wide; the kilt-pleaded addition to the yoke of such a model affording all the room that b required. Vests separate from he basque appear to be necessary thb season, and these are of every imagin able material. i SIsgvlarKH TSkac. The Valley of Hot Water is at pros- entm a moroogn state ox exciiemeni over the larpe run of genniae shad in the Washita River. Tats river u situ ated only eight miles fross the Spring, and is the only one flowing into the Gulf of Mexico in which the shad have been found. The fish first saade their appearance in these waters about two years ago. The first seasoa but few were caught. Last year about SO or 40 were brought in, but this present season -there has been aa isasasjsse raa, and wagon after waspa load of this delisioas fish are mow being brought into the val ley. The fish will weigh f rojo two to four pounds. Eti Springs (Ark J Dis patch. Baked Rice Paucing: Boil together ia a saucepan 1 pint ol xaUk aad the grat ed peel of s. small lenaon. In another saucepan boilaleacupful of rice until ! teader, aad, when doae, draia off all the water. Beat 4 eggs tail light, stir them in the milk, with 1 ounce of fresh but ter, a i of a aeand of stoned xakias, a i of a pound of sugar, a little crate! ; nutrasg, and 2 tabltapoeafada ef rose- water. Aua tne rice, sar au weit a gether, and bake ia a buttered tin aa iour. J AfeUiM-are trm Y4. The cam of Mr. 5R IL Craa of Wtaerport, M , who &4 a few 4y Co, s fcw a kh raeaarkaie pmr el a peooci aatkt nitala eoajlitiuai u cadsra abs&aeac treaa fe4 Six week ajjo h s trkhta 4ew waa paraJyib of la ri$ht t aa4 howl, the kit kfcta Scjj oattrWy aaaW.d The sught fcefcxe fcb atckaeaa a a a rvry hearty svpper. a4 afterward. 4sr Isg the cstirc ix wevks of h &, he dk! act tak amrikafat aitocrtacr to this aasoamt of half a tracvp fall He Ucgcrrd alocg la thb wsy, tsaVriag very Xiillti pals satil Um Utt t r aoara of hi life, aad ressaisd pcrfecllj coa ckmt uatll hit death. Tho eoapotfitor who was to!4 k Bright, whei settlag sp aspweh, laer: " loud applaase" or " capers.' la er der to fill oat the lis, was saasawil j discharged whea he ssacU the appllc Uoa general aad et up aa oblta&rr so tice, as follows: The aaaoaacemeat was a&ade yesterday thai oar highly respected titlasa, Mr. , fell 44 ia the street" Goad applaaae. etc) A Wert t ia Crfala. lfitrl ot rttrUs erHj m sa he.w mtl coe&Uo&. aiaj Pc5 af erremitmt&i coatlifem! R u rr4t ot helUt. u4 j kje&t t&U rctcM Us. U iafpfar H once uprctcx! ot W4c tsjartev. 8ju"Ut to rraaoa frats te Ii pouUcm l&Al f At t aa rridc&cr of httOu K 1 aot crrllac tl Cbrjr tbottlti, Tery 6tlr, JaJ Ulo 11 rnvr os tttppoti&c iai hh txeai pnMCMtac pref crtio capable ot reicJfc eorpukecj 'voU tiroYc Injtariout to tfec bealUt. KotOc. hocTr, I mm W rUoti! feuta, tat b a due ikrOAUlos fa!, cmwUtaU&f otwallr, ! vox a beill&j it a matiM coedlttao, tt U qultr a salcra) tor u to arrirr at lat oppo ilcrpacluk&, i. ., hkb If laUirnxl bj n:o rlrncr aolobarrrUon, that the rt!Bclfo& ot fat la riKi ot cerpalesj k tavarUMj toitoM b; an Smjirotcnu-st f Uajrtb, arirRa aa4 f pity ileal curaforta. AllatiS AaU-Vat wilt t. tluce a la: fMB twta 3 to i foesiU a wL , Smu IT unizuma. Fre-e-31 ltrtrlla Vre .VUKa! Lfti lit? Utfr ot a t PropWr of 7U per. It cintaln Xhr Wocrafhr tf 11 the rteakl--a ta ol Uw tB ! Statra,Irvn iA-' U-gUti to Ifaytt 1th thrlr portrait (19 in alt) rucratrd rxprcaaly lorlhU work: alv12 por trait of Cacattlatt nuUliillllra. Siumiat Lift will be arnt to anr aillrra, by mall, oo freest of 3c aunp. II. k- STETtsa. BoaUm, Man i Ckw Jackaoa'a Beat Bwtrt Xary ToKaeoa. IN THE I.Ul of MrtUrlnrt thrr iiitvr itmvnr it rurtte ItretMi. l-Jrliht", ! -. KMtw?. H4Mr 4 WHOLE nU.vns KiNKiir WW WKVBBBV ttnJ inwu M"" - i-ii. in t. tLu-t of Ij4n. kiwi a!t lt'ka ut Us Mi!iwi. lUaddrr ant t rtruii ! Ilulrua. rrr-crtt- HUSf'H KKMKDV. NrtJ tor pamlkl, ' . . W U K.CLAKKK. hwMm. U. I DR. JOM IULLS Smith's Tonic Symp FOR THE CURE OF FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLS and FEVER. Th propriatar of tab caUbratad aedidsc jattly chunt far it a iapariarityoTar allrrsa diet arer offered to the public far the SAF, CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERM AKES T cera ihortorloarttandiBr Hcrcferate til tntirtWeiUra sad Southern conn try to bear him tattimony to the troth ef tat aattrUos that in no caie wBatcver will it fail to care if the direction! are atrictly followed and errid out. Is a great many caeea atinjle date faaa beentofflclent for a cure, and whale faailiee hare been cared by a tingle bottle, with a per fect restoration of the general hsalth. It 1, howeTer.prndent.andin eTery caie more cer tain to euro, If itt nieii contisned in amtlWr doati for a Week or two after the diaeaae has been checked, more especially in diflreit and lonr-itandinf caeea. Vi&ally this aedidse willnet rehire any aid to keep the boweli la food order. Shoaid the patient, however, Tt. qsire a cathartic u edicine, after kari ; taken three or fcrar dotes of the Tonic, a liar ledeaeef BULL'S YE6ETAJLE FAMILY PILLS will bo mScient. ThefennineSMITtZ'STOiriC SYltJP matt haTe DR. JOXK 1 WLL'S private ataap es eaeh bottle. DR.JOHKlULLonlykathe right to nanufactore and eell the original JOHH J. SMITX'S TONIC STRUP, of LotiiivllU. Xy. Examine well tho label on each bottle. If my priyate stamp is not on each bottle, do not purchase, or jn will be deceived. Manufacturer ana Vender of SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP. BULL'S SARSAPARILLA, ULL'S WORM DESTROYER, The Popular Horrieeilea ef ths Oaf. Prlarlpal OBw. 819 H1d M.. IMl'MjlUr, XT, 3UGoWbJJ.10c CS-CartOa. XarJr Owtn. $3009 Year. CrurApentasaakeiU New (kMt coz.yo5;aco,ttwA. SOOA rCHlXTAlsit-K..aa sea -c i(v.ir..MnivH(Oy PIMI085r-T Xal2abrl'a tea ! P""' "f rtuhU ia At1ca IXao In -rui' .vi, kuaa ruC0L,Sir.l3tsent..i. ml pgi im ir-. m.f.w .-. -. -j --- 9 i f. ."Ulalll,icloaly inTcstI In ) IV 9)WrVrlJ!t.UriUyrwtatVai ter fbPtatUa4 tnrtaan -rrT . jUH aa !- prrcratAzr t prnCu try tb t fafCaliaacwsi fr"m t4 afraUns la Mm, rail r4na' oa mrtraiinn n leuu. Urtraa k Ok bsnarrs W -i tkttdXXAr OCCIDENTALISM The tr-ttt aaorem of tHH tktu-ttr t tbm rwr- of aB reaaeoIcaraDKtaatoJaBcUenddiBtart-ancraiBjrdM or Wtmnn, frxn mne Amr, Hiitari. lrpree. Vt m, Mltew, Mnatt a 14un lrm--K fea tmArrC Um JTop(rtn Somas it awr ammttUt aawra ftil te?dtaierofprraatfialHaafaitalai ttrfarr ma tafJ&svft aad iIImi lint nil tag VtaMte H oKhrattrcn8aamaaKaaTaacarasSMtaat KeoKafeaa a tejwrtawa twlaeaar. 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