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Show TI1E HOME SKXTIXKIj. Two Shillings I IML i O M IlM. RV Til K P. O J llx The jxjTe t with .sin-jin- R:I IN, laua;tr. 'Uh, T. J T- - 5? . a latye boJruoin tilled binK. ha-- - Thomas 15. the principal-hi- h.is ju-- t rostjmed p of the Macon (Ga.) academy. a position he has held for fortv-o:- Mo-- s Luck. John Ran. ills he tueiiioi rs can his John Albert, son, sljs because it will le inconvenient to tho Mr. Gladstone.' queen and allowing yet it is hard to say why Gans, the tailor, since she Amh.ik should have been quitoso poor. 1 or abandoned literature for art, in said to from necessity have used her own ticiiro as the model he was sober, not only as horn's. as was he on but principle; lor her sculptured production-!posing the dav. and us steadvand as punctin front of a mirror. ual as the clock of Sant albur Pnrsu k IIknkv of Batten berg may II is only ailment was hunger his soon become duke of Inverness the only weakness ami extravagance title of duke of Kent, which his mother-in- centered in the sickly little girl whom -law desired for him, being vigorwife had left hint when she ilead his ously opposed as exclusively royal. carried nlltheluek lie hud ever known Mu. Miybkh K (Stephen Adams), aw ay. Mis little girl had gone to a hungry the popular English singer, is much distressed iit the death of his brother sleep, while lie. in his bare attic, was and the sentencing of that brother's mending a pair of pantaloonsby the wife for murder and has canceled all light of a candle end. And they engagements for a year. were no common pair of pantaloons. John II. .Si aim r has just had Ms For they lmd been intimately aclife insured at lialtimoro. In the ap- quainted with the limbs of no less a plication blank he wrote opposite the personage than Elias Levis himself; question as to what caused the death and yet they lmd wanted so much She was murdered by of his mother, mending that (!ans wondered, in the the United States government. midst of all his anxieties for his lien, that so rich a man should (ireti Bayako Tavi.ou was ambitious to have suit It a pair of pantaloons lie known as a po d, but his misfortune itched instead of thrown a". ay. was to be, known as a traveler one wliosueceedel in seeing Europe with And perhaps that very wonder conlittle money. He complained that the tained the secret of his own poverty. chief merits accorded him were, not If I was as rich as llerr Ievis, passion and iuriginution, but strong he thought, if such vain imagination legs and economical habits. could he called thinking, Td keep biand-neGen. Albert 1ikk, the head of the tin trade going by having a wear never and suit in rite every this country, year, Scottish Masonic is in its K itli year, lie was born in an fild one; and I'd have the bet Boston, was graduated at Harvard, doctors for Gretehen; and when she wont west in served in the Mexiquite well, and ns straight and gas can war, and was a eenfederate brigatis pretty as her mother, I'd givet'ie dier in command of the Cherokee In- finest hull thnt ever was seen; and dians. lie is an old newspaper man, diamonds feathers but bias been practicing law ia Washhis Hut thread snapped: and with ington for many years. his thread the very beginnings of his At the Elyseo t ho shah 'met M. dream. Feathers diamonds when What kind of pict- Gretehen was moaning even in her Carolus Ihiran. ures do you paint ?" ho inquired. Are feverish sleep with hunger, and her Anithey landscapes or animals? father had not a penny in prospect mals, your majesty, and most ferocious for for even tho price ol Yes, I reones,'1 replied the artist. had been paid member, rejoined the smiling king, liis present paltry job and in spent before it was advance, you p lint handsome ladies.1 Eater on Gen. Havoust was presented to him. earned. Jhivoust? All, yes. the won of the I'd sell my very soul, said he, ns great soldier of .Napoleon I. I am ho turned the garment ankles uphappy to make your acquaintance, ward to get at the frayed edges, to and ho shook him warmly by tho be certain of getting the childs crust hand. pubii-- h g, !, j 1 w for another day. Almost ns lie spoke something Gen. Boulanger, like a great many noted men, is superstitious. ' He is jingled at his feet upon the floor. careful not to get out of heil on tho left Thinking it might be one of llerr aide and if his path is crossed by a Levis metal buttons, lie went down black cat ho does nothing of political liishnnds and knees to find it, hours, llis upon importance for twenty-fou- r the with help of his candle end; and, followers recall thnt ou the day of his altera good minutes search, snw, sentence he recklessly went under a in a crack bet ween the board's, stuck Portin of in front house his ladder land place. It is rumored that he is a a solitary gulden, well nigh as much firm believer in palmistry aiid takes the worse for wear as the pantaloons stock ia tho words of a gypsy who from whose recesses it had fallen. examined his hand and told him that 1oor (Ians sighed. It was too his chief ambition would 0110 day bo cruel ft jest of Fortune to tnoek him satisfied. in liis distress with the sight of another mnns money. A wliolegulden! It is authoritatively announced that "Why, it wns wealth to a man who Princess Victoria of Wales is engaged lind nothing, ami but there, there was no use of thinking of it, when it to the hereditary prineo of Ernest, born in was no more liis than any portion millons. So he set his of llerr September, 1 Still, a lieutenant of dra- teeth ami finished his badly goons iu tho Prussian army. Ho is enough, but as w ell as ho job, could, and tho only sou of tho prineo of then laydown in a corner to rest, and liis mother is n with his waistcoat for a pillow, in which he had stowed tho gulden for daughter of the late prineo of so ho is nearly related on both salet v, and. though he eont rived to sides to tho English Koval family, bleep, the sense of the guardianship through tho Huehess of Kent, and ho over a whole gulden nil at onee disIs a first cousin of the German empress, turbed him with strange dreams he liis family is not very wealthy, but ho dreamed that, lie was Herr Levis, and that llerr Levis was Gans possesses largo estates in liis prinei-'p- Mohr. and Gretehen wns no better the next residence is in the sehloss of her tcver had grown. morning; in Wurtemburg. Gans, too sad and hopeless even to sigh, made up the pantaloons into Robert T. Lincoln, the new Amer- a bundle, felt that the gulden was ican minister, says tho London Star, safe, and set out to restme both to possesses a good many advantages liis employer, a master tailor, with He is more tho a shop in a good quarter. over his predecessor-It was a fine morning, but the typical American. Coining from tho of thesunshine onlyntade w brightness corwarm itli him its he west, brings him feel nil the more diality and heartiness of manner. Ho What a shame it was to seemiserable, so many is rather a tail man, with brow n hair and happy children laughing healthy and bluo eyes, liis face expresses and romping on their way to school, much earnestness and honesty, ami he and to think of his Gretehen, posi- has a low, agreeable voiej in conver- tively dying before Lis eyes of her, sation. Mr. Lincoln will bo ably as- who ought to be the healthiest and sisted in his social duties by Mrs. Lin- merriest ot them all ot her for coln, who has had a large experience-- whom there was neither school, nor socially, and is both charming and full play, nor even food. That gulden, of tact in her manners. Every one is of which lie thought so much that felt terribly little, after all; delighted at tho idea of a young lady night, if spi nt it it- was not enough in the American minister's household. evenmakeheGretehen well again. to Miss Mary Lincoln is very pretty, with That gulden! It was not till he h own. Nho r of a strong individuality was nearly half way homo has the pale, smooth American com- that he remembered that it wasagain still hair in his waistcoat pocket that la lmd plexion; a quantity of silver-gol- d that soft, light hair of pale gold, with cicai. (ergot ten to return it with the the high lights ail in silver. Her eye- pantaloons, lb? was vexed with himbrows are dark and piquantiy arched, self, and all the more so inasmuch and she has a charming smile. Then us he was very weak, and hungry tired. AYell.it did not matter she dresses like a Froah woman; so and rich if man lmd to wait a day or a Miss season next are that the chances two for a gulden. Nav Lincoln will be an acknowledged belie, would it so singlemuch matter if he very than and the American embassy gayer laid to wait for such a frille a week At has been for years. i ' g, ll-ine- a. , al I.ang-eubtt- rg . j j , J matter v s a:'nt tie-re'- ! j , Loin-ingeti- x big-GV- n, IlohcnUihe-Langenbur- a hundred la-hin- year-- . u in connection therewith weighed upon liis mind un.uvount-ablweighed swing that it was so And what was still verv small. worse, lie had got no good bv it. A hatever he bad spiit it in, it had poor let him and Gret ieui jiit as ns ever, and with s u tiling uncomfortable besides which made poverty a little, a very lilt:, harder to bear. Go-si- p was in tall flood when an ire cam- in with a paper. 'We!!, one down and another up; luck for som od , said he. 1'he Town Lotterys drawn,, and l.ere's tin? list prizes. Good Lord I onlv wish 1 wer No. 4 What what's that? cried Gans, coming from the table to the floor almost as if he had been shot Liya hut in small, that lie had no oeeas-- I spring. How min i), do you mean? Twen-tv-fiv- e ion even for an tiinberella. Hut the S thousand guldens, the the lie of alter pantaday morning 1 s it well. Ah. seemed t suppose home came loons prize.. everything to go crooked with him ia tie most gone tosoniehodv with more than lie Its always the' unprecedented wav. Ill the tirst wants already. themselves the way. pantaloons 'ice, that not to have 4,;t2l thofigurosliad been brand- were so thrown them away was a waste of ed on Gans Mohr's brain ever sincemonev. Then, having overslept lie lmd spent upon it that single gulhimself, he cut his chin in shaving, den which, all in a moment had been times. and. being unused tostn-- treatment, muhplied I'm faint, he said, feebly, I could tirnl no sticking plaster; liis watch tiad stopped; and lie felt a de- must go home. cided tw inge iu on of his toes. man; He was not an chapter lit. but lie telt thnt for once, lie had Gretehen would be indeed. Now, for complaint against well and good cause nav. an heiress with happy liis the universe: and so daughter a after by the worth looking dowry bertha being tin onlyrepresciitative Yes, it of tile universe present at that early hst burgher in Lulenhurg. ill now, very ill; telt she was true of sins for the hour, she lutd to pay over her, Gans the watch and the razor, as well as hut as he stoopd lilies the sun, nioonand stars. Fortunnte-l- seemed already to set thesallowroses. into of cheks her turning was she as she was as gentle pretShe scarcely recognized hint us he ty: and she was the pret tiest girl ill kissed her; but that would tome Lulenhurg. So gentle wa- - she, and so bright be- right now. He would go out tit w ho atsides, that, helped by his collee, she once and fetch the physician himself. the tended burgomaster was making him forgot even the I!ut even be 'ore that he had to sit twinge, when lie suddenly turned and rest until liis heart ceased beatpale; and. alter a rapid search of all ing ipiite so painfully. Twenty-fiv- e liis pockets, exclaimed: ft: l!And thousandgulden 4: It only wanted that! I wouldn't all k v gulden; and lir of one because thousa for not have lost that no, All because all because of what? and! King up everybody, Bertha ol liis having been a thief, a rascal; nevermind what they are doing beetnt.se he was unworthy to have that must be found, if it takes all all kissed Gretehen, or to touch the dav! bertha turned pale too. What is hand of tin honest man. He thought and thought till his it. father? What has happend? was cold with sweat, and still a hrotv a Its its gulden A gulden? she asked, in sudden d.trk mist stood between him and it wns just tts if he alarm, not at the loss of n gulden, Gretehen. Why, Levis of twenty-fiv- e Herr robbed had her father the hut tit thought that of money hangthousand a. unpieces had gone crazed alter way not ing to him nnd dragging at him like common with millionaires. Yes; a gulden. lie cried, turning so many millstones? It was dreadiul thntfortuneshould out liis pockets. The tirst gulden I ever earned, when I was poorer than have come to him in so cruel a form. never dreamed that lie would Job; the gulden that I was prouder He hadwin a prize; he had bought a of till ever Ive really than and gladder made since; the gulden I got on the lottery ticket instead of bread just and beday I first saw your poor mother; becausea he was desperate, seemed cause nil me only single gulden the thegulden that brought rest; the gulden thats never been enough to throw awiy; and because because lightly come lightly gon. out of my pocket for thirty years; the gulden no wonder watches stop And now he was rich with Herr aiid razors cut; and toes twinge, if Levis money while Herr Levis himwas a ruined man. thats gone; and bertha Im not selfHow llerr Marxwouldhavelaugh-e- d I'm nob without thntguhien. myself Mohr! Gans at not a a superstitious man; Im fool; But I doubt it even llerr Marx but Id give the thousand guldens to would have laughed at poor Herr have that one back again. with his lucky Nor wns bertha Superstitious: but Levis, who had lost, not only his fortune and creshe set to work and led the search to gulden, his whole faith in human dit, but satisfy her fathers whim, as diligent- nature, for lie had treated his ly as if the trumpery little coin were treacherous cashier as if he had been brains and a missing diamond. own son. memories weiN'cmlgeled; the most un- liisWhat was the use of it all what likely papers were ransacked; every would ever be the use of anything turned was insideoutofevery again? How could he begin pocket the garment Herr Levis had ever worn. world nt old, fifty years nearly again A good many long lost things came too. which he had learned to light, but not the gulden; and a world, he did not understand? He, that off set to had to last at Herr Iavis such a pattern his office without it, arriving there who thought himself betbeen later than had ever happened since of prudence,a had nnd nothing a fooL And dupe his wife wns buried. It is wonderful ter than what a trifle will sometimesthrowan Berth- aNo, he must not think of her; or otherwise sensible man out; how lmteh more than a big thing with rather he must think ot her. So he closed nnd locked the door of the which habit has nothing to do. Wheres Herr Marx? he asked, elaborately comfortable his for a little w hile gloomily, when he missed from the which was still liis so that cashier. his thoughts might usual desk longet, principal We thought that he must have not be disturbed. There was an ancient maxim been with you, sir, as you were both He among merchants, long ago ex ploded, late, said one of the clerks. that a merchants, solvency was ns has not yet come. That was unlucky, too. but when sacred ns a soldier's honor, and that dinner timecnnie without Herr Marx when it was gone there was only one hut with a pressing demand supposed tiling to be (lone. And when one has to have been long ago settled, from lost all one's faith in ones faith, in an important firm, there seemed to one's self, and in one's kind, ruin he something beyond about ceases to lie a mere question of monthe absence of the most punctual of ey. Yes Bertha would be the betcashiers. With as much trepidation ter off for being rid of a lather who ash lmd turned out liis pockets, wns both a bankrupt ond a fool. Herr Levis explored the hooks; and There lay the razor with which he there was no doubt of it, a horrible had cut liis chin only the other day. chaos of fraudulent entries mndeone Why laid itnot slipped a trifle lower? thing clear, that Herr Marx had ab- From the chin to the carotid artery sconded with all the assets and left is not so very far. He drew his finger along the edge; the bankers nothing but the liabilities; and the worst of it wns that it was sharp enough now. One painless moment; would it not bean easy Herr Marx had got off just in time that the search for the guidon had price to pay for an escape from it all from liis dishonored self, and a made all the difference between being in time to he saved, and only in time hateful world? The thought became a taseination. to be rained. Gans Mohr, the tailor, it was who had palled down the Presently he took off his coat and great bank which was the prop and folded it tip carefully. Then he unbuttoned the collar of liis shirt nnd glory of Lulenhurg. Naturally, nowhere in the whole left his throat bare. No fool he city was the crash of the house of might he, but not such a fool as to Iicvis more earnestly discussed than live when there was nothing to live for. There; it was all ready-- -o in the workshopoftheex-niillionnire'- s tailor. It is true that the hill he Now! Was ill luck never to leave him? owed there was but a trifle, but that was held to he a chief cause of his Could he not even die at will? Bedownfall. People who run up large fore lie could give the mortal gnsh hills with their tailors, and never Bertha was railing him through the pay them, invariably ilonrish, as all door Father! Here is a man who wants the world knows, oven though noto see you body knows why. Tell him to go away. Tell him It seemed a wonderful thing to Tell him Gans, as he sat cross-leggeand lis- to come I have told him. Buthe tened to the gos-i- p of 'his fellow saystlmt workmen, that the last garment of he must see you: that he can't go; I think von Levis see must Herr had passed through his that him, fahands. ( if course there was nothing ther. He says Yery well. I suppose anybody really odd about it, swing that it must have passed through som- may say must to me now, said ebodys, but it seemed odd to hint, Herr Lewis he could not kill himself and be would have contributed the with Bertha at the door nnd with coincidence to the gossip, -s an in- some commonplace trouble downteresting item, had not a tftaia stairs. He would get rid of them ears? Of a more than make Would it f just gul den's difference it lie should wait for it to the day of judgment! The coin CHAPTER I. began to feel quite Lot as lie thou gilt; Cans Mohr was one of the very hetook it out between his fingers in the thumb: it actually burned them, poorest of all tailors, not only And more he where just then town of Kulenbtirg, tin thing as if it were a of Grasping in much so but d. than half stnrvt if treated net i h which would the world as wears clothes, and not ilelieatelv, he darted into a htt'e Of course, shon which had can lit ids eve; and only in poek-- t, but in skill. h had leit it is always a mail s own fault when w hen lie came out again him. It is honesty coin and the favorite tin lie is a failure; that was tie doctrine of llerr Elias rmrriai n. who tiuaneier. ami banker great Eulen-burII, rr Levis, the great banker, was could have bought up half and even proverbial-- I so and therefore must be true; but Iv. invariably, in great things onlv not lucky, for lack of skill even -- j j v bed-roo- k . d h th as quickly ns possible, and then be his own master again. So, to avert suspicion, lie htd awav the, himself careful!.' razor, ami went downstairs with dignitv, as became a man "ho was about to see the la- -t face he should look upon hiinse.l alive, lb would have.-pare- d a last sight of Bertha, but thnt could He had no not. be helped now. of up his design: liis thought giving last art should be One of " ill. asked a humble mannered little man, who stood before him awkwardly, hat in hand. 1 am Gans Mohr, sir; the person th.it mended your last pair ot pant He spoke in an odil way loons. as if afraid of liis own words. I youve Oh. Ami stippos brought your bill? I in afraid you must send it to my creditors I m sorrv tor vou: but My hill? Oil, no, sir; that was Ib-r- r Levis? paid thunk you, sir long ago. I've won the prize in the lottery thats all. And vou want metobeyourbank-ertusked Herr Levis, grimly. How mueh have you won? Not exactly my banker, sir. Hr lmd made a little speech on liis way; but somehow the presence ot tinman, with the prestige of ruin about him. sent the words out of bis head, nnd lie half blunted, half stammered Ive got a bit ot money, sir: twenty-thousand gulden it is; which live is no use to me. hut quite the oilier wav, and if it's any use to you and the young lady, llerr Levis, sir, to welcome to it kindly vou tire, indeed. Are you crazy, my good man? Are you so rich that you can go about making presents of twenty five thousand gulden? And if you are, why to me? I don't understand the worid: I want things explained. That was the worst of it it things had to he explained? loor Gans felt himself struggling deeper and deeper into f he quagmire. You must take it, sir, he said, If you dont I willing liis forehead. shall have to find somebody that will; and tlimi that won't do. 1 will not take it. What nonsense is this? Take my advice. Go and spend it, or bury it, ornny thing you like; but trust it to nobody in the world. It isn't mine, sir. Its yours. There. And sooner than keep it 1 J ? Thirty Years Ago and Now. In spite of the fact that the crino-liwas in vogue in lN.'O, there is u close resemblance between the fash, ions of that time ond this. the popular color for the pn-- t ytl!r or two, was then in great favor a:ij continued so to he until it "as proved by chemists that the dees tin used gave rise to arsenical poisoning. Alter that, an interdict was laid on green. W'taps coveted with braiding a favorite decoration last winter were fashionable at that time, and the Russian astrakan, valuable for oold weather garments, was not more appreciated six months since than BO years ago. Ifel;s, hands, girdles nnd sashes ot all descriptions were much admired at that time, lor then, as now, the round waist was in vogue. of sashes "ere often trimmed with triage, a feature of the incoming season, experienced modistes predict, bombs, large and small, "ere then worn, and aigrettes, feather clusters ami velvet or ribbon bows among the fashionable hair ornaments. Any one of these the belle ,t today might select to complete her Marie Antoinette fichus, coiflure. which cross over the chest nnd tie at the back, nnd Charlotte Cordav fichus, which drape the shoulders and are knotted in front are among thehigh-chu- s novelties of the present season. They were a feature of iS.V.f. parasols which are now held to be finer than ever before were equally elaborate and expensive .'!() years since. They wer. made of moire, one of tlm fashionable coverings ot and some were edged with a pink ruche, a favorite trimming for tins season's parasols. Elegant lace covers and quantities cf lace trimmimr corn- pond to the novelties of today, and handles, though not so long as at present, were of equally expensive materials. Gray hoots were worn in the Rummer chestnut brown had just gone out of fashion and patent leather tips and trimmings ornamentally stitched were considered extremely stylish. Slippers, tod, had large bows and buckles on the toe, the nearest shoe store window will give an example of them. A Zouave, Figaro or Greek jacket of today found in the wardrobe of most girls. Thirty years ago they and the Kistori, so called for the famous Italian tragedienne, wereequnlly fashionable. The enormous collars which are iust creeping into tavorwere at that time ne Gr--- Tin-end- s w.-r- to-da- cut my throat What? exclaimed Herr Levis, starting at a threat which came so near home. Yes, sir: nnd if it must out, out it must sir it was 4 .5 21; that mueh affected. was the the grand prize and and Housekeeping of tho Future, There, thnt will do. said llerr From the F Drum. Levis, sadly. It's quite natural you Iu cities and villages the kitclun should be a little offyour head. Youll soon come right again. Good day. and cooking stove and the hired girl Ilease hear him out, father, said are nil to be banished from the Bertlyi, who saw something more in soapmaking, starch, the tailor's face tlinn tiie result of work, coffesudden good fortune. making, laundry Thank you, Miss , nnd Id ebrowning yenstmaking, butter-makinbought it with a gulden; and that all are gone. Send after them widen Im dreadfully sorry and or rather say that organized indusashamed I stole it out of those very is And on try already now, taking along with pantaloons youve got it seemed all right then, but I these the remaining work of cookcouldnt bear it when I dont know ing and cleaning. This state of how to say it, something came tome thnt my little one had better be dead things is coming as sure as fate; and and buried1 than grow up to have a when it comes the deliverance will be so great that generations yet unthief for a father Herr Levis looked at him in a way born shall rise up to bless the workthnt silenced him; and the look endu- ings of this beneficent law. red forlong so longtlmt poortremThe city of the future will not bling Gans thought it would never build houses in squares, giving to end. Let mesee, said Herr Levis, a every house an individual kitchen Its a matter of busi- and prisonlike backyard. It will last, slowly. ness, after all. You owe me one rather build them all around an. gulden, which you let us say, bor- open square, and tho part now disrowed. 1 owe you the most precious figured with the kitchen will be given or thing that villian Marx robbed me over lor a household sitting-rooof my belief in honesty. I said I nursery, opening inf o a great green wouldn't have lost that gulden tor a space, where children shall play in thousand; its well lost for my whole safety, and through which the free s fortune. And he held out his hand, air of heaven shall blow into while tears came into his eyes, and In it. every surrounding no man kills himself whose eyes have square will be found a scientifically not grown dry. constructed building, containing a But Elias Levis, the banker, giving laundry and agreat kitchen, supplied his hand to Gans Mohr, the tailor! with every modern appliance for No the world does not come to an skilled and scientific cookery, and end, iu that fashion. So, instead ot also for sending into every diningtaking it Gans just put into the bank- room any desired quantity or variety ers palm a scrap of paper marked of food. The individuality of 4,.52- land the home table will be There! lie exclaimed, with a deep preserved, and the kitchen smells, and sigh of relief, as he held up his head, waste, and hired girl will all te manfully. And now now I ran banished. kiss ray little girl before she goes. g the-hom- But if the reader thinksthat Bertha let Gretehen die, or that llerr Levis did not find courage to face the world again, and win, then is that reader dull, indeed: as dull as if he were to doubt that the lucky guilden is still knocking nbout the world, and that happy is lie into whose pocket it never conies. Postal Kates on Grapliogrnms. From Hip Sarnimcnto Special. A Sacramento business man has lately been in the habit of using a phonograph cylinder in transmitting information between this city and Chicago. The cylinder was sent by mail and it staggered the postmaster to determine what rate of postA age should he charged. machine was merchandise,talking from one point of view and personal communication front another. In his perplexity the postmaster appealed to the authorities at Washington and they have rendered an opinion deciding that grnphograms are personal communications andsubjeetto postage rates. first-clas- s Judge Hilton was a poor law clerk when A. T. Stewart picked him out for his legal adviser. Ililton is row worth $20,000,000. Salt for Moths. For moths salt is the best externa' nator. The nuns in one of the best hospital convents have tried everything else without success, ami their ?xperienee is valuable, as they have 30 much clothing of the rich who go there, and strangers, when dying there, often leave quantities of full clothing, etc. They had a room of feathers, which were sent there for despillow making, and they were in pair, as they could not exterminat' the moths, until they were advised to try common salt. They sprinkled it around, and in a week or ten days rid of they were altogether They are never troubled now. In heavy velvetcnrpets sweepkceps ing them with salt cleans and of them from moths, as particles remain in the carpets and corners. Salt is not hurtful to any one, and has noliad smell. Here is a little hint I add. which, perhaps, every one does not know: For cleaning wash basins, bath, etc., use the sum0 an thing, common dry salt. Bub ot tie of the salt with your fingers the basin. Oiten a sort of scum noticed in the basins in a mar wash stand in the bathroom; salt takes it off easily, and len 'j3 basin shining and clean. rhuaoe phia Press the-sal- -- . t |