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Show . THE WISH. BY M. N. ATTIE EVERETT was one of the prettiest girls In the city. She knew she was pretty when she looked In the glass she saw the reflection of her rose-bu- d beauty In the admiring faces of chance passers. And yet, withal. Mattie Everett was not contented. She vanted to be rich. She yearned for a peep into "fashionable society. She was tired of the commonplace existence which she led every day, and longed for an adventure, of some sort a streak of romance to dapple her life! For Mattie was only a dressmaker's apprentice, learning the trade under the auspices of Uadamo Genevieve. So natters stood, when Miss Bellefonts wedding order came In. "Wheres that little blue-eye- girl d you sent to my house to alter my white cashmere morning robe!" said Miss Bellefont to Madame Genevieve. "Let her come again.' She has a capital Idea of trimming, and her lit Is excellent Augusta Bellefont was not unlike Mattie herself a plump, fresh complex-lone- d girl, with blue eyes and pale hair and after, she was gone, Mat-ti- e heard the full particulars of the case bow Miss Bellefont was to be married the next month to Major Carlyle, who had more money than he knew what to do with. "Shes a lovely girl, Im sure," said Miss Garrett the forewoman, as she cut off yard upon yard of bias white satin for the trimming. "And for all that they say there's a young fellow, without a penny in all the world to bless himself with, that Bhe loves to distraction." Uh.how delightfully romantic, cried Mattie, with sparkling eyeB: and Bhe worked away, thinking of Miss Bellefont and her two lovers. "One has her heart, she mused, the other will have her hand. Dear, dear, what a world this is! Two or three days afterward, Mattie Everett took a big paper box of half completed dress bodices to the pretty little brown stone house on Creuaa Park, where Miss Bellefont lived. The servant 'showed her Into the library, where the beauty sat, picturesquely posed In a sleepy hollow chair, with her satin slippered feet on an embroidered And leaning against the fCQtatool. oppBSlfoigindow stood a tall, handsome man, whom Mattie recognized at once for Major Carlyle. "Hallo! cried he. In his way, "Is that the milliners little girl? Pretty as a daisy, Isnt she? "I told you she was pretty, said Miss and Mattie smiled and Bellefont, blushed and dimpled, and scarcely knew which way to look. "Major, I shall have to leave you for a few minutes. I dare say you can amuse yourself very well with the books and magazines. Little one, come with me. And then Mattie was ushered into a satin hung boudoir, of whose splendors she had never before dreamed. "Oh, Miss Bellefont, she Bald, "I should think you would be so happy! "Happy! said Miss Bellefont, carelessly. "Which of us is really happy yet-lo- w off-ha- "Ready? she cried, glancing at the little malachite clock on the mantle, as the last summons came. "Surely it la not time yet I wont dress till I am obliged. See here, little one, to Mat-ti-e, Ive an Idea of seeing what I am like In this line bridal garb of mine. You are about my height and build. You shall put on the wedding dress and vail, the white satin slippers and the wreath. "I, Miss Augusta? "You. Why not? Quick! Off with that sober brown gingham, that makes such an Insignificant brown sparrow of you! And half laughing, half reluctant, Mattie Everett obeyed, not altogether averse to decking herself, even though It was In jest, with the brilliant robes and resplendent pearls of the heiress. The reflection In the mirror brought the rosy carmine to her cheeks. Involuntarily she dropped her eyes. You are charming, ma petite, cried Miss Bellefont. "But stay the bouquet from the other room. Wait half a second and I will bring it. Oh. Miss Bellefont, let me go! "No; Ill cut It in a minute. And away she flitted. One minute went by, two, three, four and five, and still Miss Bellefont did not come back. Mattie began to grow uneasy, and ventured to peep into the room beyond. No one was there. The girl's heart gave a great jump at the same moment the bevy of bridesmaids fluttered Into the room. . Come, Augusta, are you ready? The groom is waiting the clergymans . come, and Why, Miss Everett! Mattie grew scarlet She made me put it cn! she faltered, conscious of the awkwardness of her position. "And where Is she? demanded Indignantly Mrs. Bellefont "Gone for the bouquet They made Immediate search for her, but, as the reader will probably conjecture, Miss Augusta was far away, and only a note, which Clara Mordaunt, the second bridesmaid, found slipped into the window casing, gave an idea cf her whereabouts. "Good-b"I it said debonnalrly. love Harry Fisk and have gone to marA. B. ry him. And In the midst of the melee Major Carlyles tall head was Been, towering over the rest like Saul above his fellows. "Gone, has she? said he, with a composure which was quite wonderful, "And I am under the circumstances left to ''ear the mitten. But who is this little ghost In the wedding robes? Mattie Everett lifted her pleading eyes to his. "I didnt mean to do wrong, she said. Oh, believe me, sir, I knew nothing of all this. Major Carlyle looked gravely at her. Here la a bride, he said, "and here is the wedding feast, the clergyman and the guests and, last of all, the groom! So I think it would be a pity to lose If Miss Bellefont does the wedding. not care for me, that Is no sign that Come here, little others may not. Mattie Everett will you be the bride? Mattie looked In his face a minute, and then she said: "Yes. It was a strange wedding, but It was a wedding, after all. And Mattie Is happier now than she ever dreamed it possible to be. She has gained her wish she Is a rich and fashionable lady now, and orders all her dresses from Madame Genevieve. Mr. and Mrs. Fisk are living In Paris, happy and Impecunious, and Major Carlyle Is just as devoted to his pretty young wife as If he had never had any other love. y, by Colored People. Sun: The only Baltimore the From cotton mill In the country ,it is claimed, owned exclusively by colored people, Is now approaching completion at Concord, N. C., and the last brick will be laid before the close of the present year. The mill la to have from 7,000 to 10,000 spindles and from 150 to 250 looms. The building Is a handsome three story brick structure, 120 feet Besides the long and 80 feet wide. main building there are also engine and boiler houses and a tower for water purposes. It Is expected the mill will be put In operation by the 1st of April. The colored people of Wilmington alone have put 4,000 In the mill, which promises to be a monument to the enterprise and thrift of the colored people of the old north state. Owned HERE IS A BRIDE. In this world? Come, let us try on the emerald green satin, and then we shall be through. Day after day Mattie Everett came until the wedding drew near. Sometimes she saw Major Carlyle.sometimes she did not. But the oftener she came, the oftener one fixed fact became evolved from her inner consciousness that Augusta Bellefont was, or ought to be, the happiest girl In the world. Yet there was an absent look In Auexgustas great, blue eyes, a troubled the forbade that mouth the of pression inference of perfect bliss. "I wonder what It is that Is wanting in her life? said Mattie to herself. "Oh, if only I was In her place! shimLights and blossoms and the In Miss ushered satin and silk mer of Mat-ti- e Bellefont's wedding evening; and was there dimpled, smiling and eager to help. The bridesmaids were ready all was Bellefont ready but the brid. Augusta and full capricious had been strangely sometimes laughof vagaries a!1 day. --.v sad. si sometime ing, Saltish. HARD FOR POOR MEN. OLD SOLON CHASE OF MAINE TELLS WHY. An Era of Cheapness Is Fadermlnlng Whoever Bays Property GeU Stuck More Money and Enlarged Consumption tha Solution. Everything Tis a hard winter for poor men. Under the effect of the existing gold standard, restricted consumption has become so intensified that there are twice too many cotton mills to meet the present demands for consumption. The calico kings, have paid their debts In rising money and sold their goods In a falling market until it Is claimed their mills pay no dividends. The cut In wages comes at a time when there ought to be a rise In wages to meet the increased cost of living that comes from a bread famine abroad. An era of cheapness is undermining the Industries of the country. The producer has no confidence In his own product The merchant buys only to supply present wants. Consumers are curtailing their purchases In every possible direction, and money lenders have hard work to find solvent borrowers. Productive property that employs labor was never so cheap, but whoever buys It gets stuck. Farms In New Englf land can be bought for of what would be considered a fair Insurance value of the buildings, but whoever buys one of these cheap farms and makes two blades grow where there was but one before doesnt get 40 cents a day for his labor. The small manufacturing Industries have ceased to pay dividends long ago. Now It Is claimed that the millions Invested in the cotton mills of New England are paying no dividends. How a cut In wages will help the calico kings no mortal man can see. What good will It do to block the market with goods that cannot be sold at the cost of production with cut down The most of the goods that wages. now go Into consumption come from bankrupt stocks. The existing gold standard has brought the cotton mills of New England where under existing conditions It seems that restricted production is a necessity. The strikers who refuse to travel longer the road that leads to wooden shoes and barley bread are restricting production, while the manufacturers propose to continue production and diminish consumption by cutting down wages. It would seem that the strikers show more sense than the manufacturers. Wby not shut down the cotton mills and let some of the goods on hand go into consumption with a fair profit to the merchant. The bankrupt stocks that now block the market work Injury to the1 manufacturers, the wage workers, the merchants, and indirectly to tbe consumer. All our Industries, the saw mills, tbe shoe shops, the woolen mills, the paper mills, tbe brick yards, the lime kilns, are resting on the same, volcano that broke loose In the cotton mills. The prosperity that was promised by opening the mills haB not come. If we should open the mints what would be the effect? The existing single gold standard would vanish In a night as the Ice goes out of a river. Silver would be primary money In competition with gold as it stood throughout the ages until 1873. There would be plenty of legal tender dollars of less purchasing power than the present equivalent of gold. When the law is repealed that bas enhanced the value of gold the gold dollar wont buy so much calico as now; The appreciation of gold (which has been a wolf In sheeps clothing for a decade), would stop. The dollar of today would be as good as the dollar of tomorrow and may be a little mite better. Property would rise and business men who are now on the brink of bankruptcy would become solvent borrowers Instead of the market blocked with bankrupt stocks; goods would go into consumption with a fair margin of profit to the producer. Productive property that Is now shunned would be sought after. All our currency would go Into circulation. There would be no profit in boarding money, but there would be profit in spending money. Producers who are now paying their taxes from the savings of more prosperous times or from their capital would pay their taxes from their profits. The working man would buy two pair of overalls where he buys one pair now, and his wife would buy two calico gowns where she buys one now. Enlarged consumption Is the solution of the problem that now confronts the cotton mills qf New England as regards both operators and operatives. SOLON CHASE. one-ha- Brown "You owe as much as that! I dont understand how you can get so far behind. Now, as for me, it Is alA notheir Fallacy. ways a pleasure to pay off a debt "You cant fool all the said: Lincoln o selfish In you to give Black Sort but I am about the all time, such It? can I to Indulgence, isnt people way he was that mistaken. Blge never feel that I persuaded that way. say truly Boston Transcript Eddy. We suppose that tbe necessary coEasily Explained. rollary of tbe good Mr. Hannas arguShe "Why Is a girl said to be of age ment ("God reigns, etc.) Is that If when shes 18, when a man reaches his he bad been defeated the Republican party would have been a cold, unpleasmajority at 21? because He Perhaps its girls born ant corpse, and God would have re18th birth1877 signed. Stockton Mall. are their In celebrating this year. day ESTori of X NOT B COLDBUd. SbnMB Liucoli iid not yITH , Golll Monopoly, When the wrllr of this article cut to Washington A the winter of 1814-6- 5 as senator fram the new stats of Nevada, he wa Deceived by President Lincoln in the wst cordial manner. Mr. Lincoln su idl I am glad 4iee you here, representing the bit mining state of Nevada. I haeatched with solicitude the developBityit of tbe mines of gold and silver la (he west during all the time we have Bren taxing the resources of the country to the last extremity to prosecutd the war. The fact that when the output of gold appeared to be declining the great silver mines of Nevada were discovered seemed Provident!: The people can hardly realise the rest support which the mines of the vest have already been to the credit the United States, and I believe we ay reasonably which tlcipate from the Is taking In t at region that our mines will not only antlnue to furnish a basis of credit, will greatly rat. lleve the burdens of ke people in ing off tbe national e real views and When ire contrast oln with regard sentiments of to the iie!n and sliver as efforts to money andivii slst In deve: and silvsr mines of the west we are shocked to read the orations delivered on his birthday. It Is assumed that he was a friend of Wall and Lombard streets, and in favor j of destroying silvsr money and redaclng the world to ths single gold sndard under the false pretense of maintaining the credit of the country. It Is painful to contrast the sentiments constantly expressed by the leaders of the Republican party and the gold press towards tbs mining regions of the west. Wher. Lincoln waB president the miners of the west wJf treated with kind net a and conslderJilon In every part or the country. ll'j one then denounced sliver miners V robbers, to get sonetmhg for nothing; no one theiTsaid that they were "silver barons, attempting to swindle The fact that the the government. goldltea have found it necessary to ahuBe and slander the pioneers of the west can only be accounted for by that element In hjxman nature which leads men who have wronged their neighbors to speak ill of tbem to Justify the wrong. The miners of the west need have no hope that the goldites of Wall and Lombard streets WgAjgEglve them must for tbs Injury done remember the SpaplslfrQverb, which la as true now as tt Wss ji'hen first uttered, that no man evelfforgives another for the Injuries blftias Inflicted upon him. William M. Cowart. 5 1. j 1 pay-eb- as-go- ld -- tl'We Plaata. Rjjft Very iuitrcz:iug experiments hard) recently been made at Cornell Uolresw shy by Professor Atkinson on the ef-- i of the os growing plantq sad seedlings. So much has been said! or the injurious effect of these rays oi tbe human body, when exposed to tbem for photographic purposes, that) Professor Atkinson was prepared to: see his plants seriously Injured la thq experiments; but tha results ahoweC that even delicate seedlings, after ani exposure to tbe rays of many hours,, rere entirely unharmed. Sensitive plants, like the mimosa, exhibited the same indifference. Among the photo- -, graphs showing the Interior structure-oplants were pictures of the seeds of hickory-nutalmonds and peanuts taken through the unbroken shells, and of pens and beans still enclosed within the pods. ft X-ra- ys s, AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting In the court our right to the exrlniilve pho iif the word CASTOKIA.,, end FITCH KH S CASTOH1A," as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Sumtr-- Pitcher, of Ilyannls, Massachusetts, wus the originator of PITCHER'S CASTOHIA." the same that has borne and does now bear the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This la the Jrlglnal PITCHER'S CASTOKIA which has been used lu tbe homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look carefully at the wrapper and see that It la the kind you have always bought. and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No one lias authority from me to use my name exsept The Ceniuur Company, of which Chas H. Fletcher Is President. March 8, MW. SAMUEL PITCHER, K. XX fac-slul- lp About 22,000 vehicles pass over London bridge every day. To Curs Constipation Forevar. Take Casosrcis Candy Cathartic. 10c orCto If i Cl C. falls to rum. druggists refund money ho promises to marry is a person. Every girl miss-tak- en w Mrs. Window's nothing Krmp nu. Far rfcllSnn tealfc Inx.aoftaa Ilia (duaea autlun, sUajri palu, earua wind eelie. Mosaic a boltl. The miser is known by the money ho keeps. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company haa improved its freight facilities in Philadelphia very materially during the pastycar. A new pier, No. 23 South, which was completed lu December 557 feet long and 140 feet wide, and is said to be one of the finest in the city. Vessels of tha deepest draught can tie up on both Rides of the pier, thereby affording every facility for the prompt haodling of freight. The piera and sheds arc lighted with improved incandescent lights, and well paved driveways have been provided. This improvement enables tbe B. and 3. to handle about three times as much business as formerly. The different freight yards throughout the city have been improved by the laying of additional tracks, and arrangements have Why Walt y been made with the Pennsylvania L gc Warehousing and Safe Deposit ComI looked across the counirss gone, And saw upon the fadgj shores of pany by which the 11. and O. handles time grain, flour, hay, straw, canned goods The wrecks of things thatfvere. I saw and other merchandise through their a dawn warehouses and elevators. A vision of a coming, litter clime The best company at a Thanksgiving Break on those shores. 1 1 saw arise is a turkey. sublime. Above those wrecks, the ream of tbe NEW SLEEPING CARS to be. I saw, from Its long caifler of crime, To Danvcr, Omaha, It Louis, Chicago and Boston, The human race, still Bungling to be A Rio Grande railroad Denver The free, Strive up into thy light, drlnest liber- Scenic line of the World announces new and important additions to their already ty. well arranged sleeping car service. In the IL future, this popular line will run through I saw the present; and Die insolent weekly Pullman Tourist sleepers to Omafew ha, Chicago, New York and Boston, also to Ruling the millions wii a rod of St. Louis without change. These can gold, will start from Portland, Oregon, thus I saw tbe millions toiling neath the giving benefltof through service on Oreblue. gon Short Line, as well as from all Utah Kissing tbe rod that sDote them; points. The excursions are personally wealth untold conducted and furnish all the conveniences Piling up, though it enflhed them; of regular Pullman sleepers at less than half the cost. The St. Louis car will leave till they sold Their rights, their very sou, for leave O. S. L. ttations every Thursday and n via Rio Grande Western railway, to toil: Until I cried, My God, rlist we be- every Friday morning. The Omaha, Chihold cago, New York and Boston sleeper will This thing forever? Hast these no leave O. S. L. stations every Wednesday and Salt Lake eyory Thursday evening, smile? And for Thy poor on earth alts there thus affording the inestimable privilege of a twelve-hou- r in Salt Lake City. no better Isle? For rates and all details, write to B. F. HI. Nevins, General Agent, or IL M. Cushing, O, ye who wet your crust th sweat T. P. A., D. A R. G. Railway, Salt Lake and tears; City, or any Oregon Short Line or Rio O, yc. who toll and suffeand are Grande Western ticket agent. strong. Opium is obtained from tha unripe fruit Ye unto whom the thorny si (I appears of the white poppy. Along lifes pathway; ye h av8 borne wrong. FAST TIME TO CHICAGO Piled on by tyrant hands, nd sufla Rio Grande Western Railway, fered long; Ye tollers of the earth, to youl speak. Commencing February 5, the now time To you whose names have srce ap- card of tho Rio Grande Western goes into effect. The Atlantia Express leaves Salt peared In song. As though too vile; why wait l1? Rl Lake City at 9 a. m., arriving at Denver end break at 9:80 a. m. the following morning and The chains tbat round you cl;k and Chicago at 9 ;13p. m. the third day; makbind and gall. Awake! ing connections with limited trains from Chicago to New York. The evening train J. A. EDGEFfON. leaves at 7:40 p. m., arrives at Denvor at 9:15 p. m. the following night and Chicago Proving It. With half the mills of New Inland at 8 a. m. the third day, makingdose conshut up, because the workman not nections with tba fast morning trains for New York and Boston. Both of these Yedvced for work pay, the RepilHcan ough trains are splendidly equipped newspapers ot that plutocracy-rseall latest appliances and conveniences ih country nre busy demonstrating fat a id Pullman Palace and Pullman carry tariff Is a good thing anl the high cam as well as free ReTourist sleeping single a better.Cars. Ticket oE jo, No. 108 Chair clining tins Donnelly. West Second South street. 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