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Senator Wade Hampton's Daughter.

A contributor to the Brooklyn Eagle,
who writes on New York topics, says:
Another woman here, and one quite as
remarkable in her way as Miss Thomas,
and also pale, slim and dark eyed, is the
daughter of Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, famous as both General and
Governor. She had no need 10 lea, hel
home, where there was both money and
love, but she tired of the inane and inac.
tive existence of a woman without cares
or responsibility, and despite the horri.
fled entreaties of her conservative aunts,
determined to come to New York and
take up the career of professional nurse.
For two years now she has been hera
studying in hospital and her career ha,
been very unusual one. She has won
a srecial medal for her rapid Advance.
ment and proficiency, and is now tho
chief, assistant in the surgical ward.
In this department woman with
special qualifications is needed. She
must be. ready, quick of eye,
cool and steady of nerve, must keep all
the necessary appliances at hand and
stand prepared on the instant to supply
to the operator the sponges, bandages or
restoratives needed. There is nothing
the operating physician so resents as q
nurse who thinks herself capable of
making suggestions to him, and the first
lesson the nurse in this ward must learn
is to hold her tongue. But the other day
Miss Hampton who was standing by dur
ing a most delicate performance of
most difficult operation suddenly leaned
forward to the physician and made a
quick suggestion in low voice. He
made no rep,y, but instantly acted upon
it and the nurse did not know whether
she should be reproyed for her temcrity
or not. Later when this physician found
himself in the company of the surgical
ward nurse and the full staff of the hos
pital he took occasion to publicly thank
her for her valuable suggestion and the
assistance she had rendered him. Miss
Hampton will take the entire course of
training here and then return to the
South, where professional nurses with
scientific knowledge of their profession
are extremely rare. There in her native
State she will endeavor to waken an in
teres.: in the matter and devote her at
tention to the founding of schools for
technical instruction and both open
new field of labor for her own sex and
supply soreiy needed institution among
her own people. Filled with this ambi-
tion, she has abandoned every indulg-
ence and luxury and spends her time
amid scenes and sounds of suffering.
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dile and scared them off. The bull was
weak and evidently had been badly
hurt.
Let one travel On foot through the
most populous district IN the United
States and one would not see single
house dog or cat where we saw three
jaguars along the Orinoco. There was
not one hour during daylight for Pc
riod of three months that thsse creatures
were not around us. and most of the
time one or more were in sight. When
ever we ran along close to the banks we
saw them crouched down on food wood
or moving through the forest, and when
ever we came to sandy beach over
which the tie crawled jaguar could
surely be counted on for every half
mile. In the three months we killed up
ward of 200 of these animals, and in al
mostevere instance saved the skin. In
only one case was any of US in danger
from this cunning and ferocious beast.
The steamer had been tied to the bank
and we had been making excursions
from that spot for three or four days,
when one afternoon. when only one of
the young men was left behind at the fire
on the bank, ..aguar crept up and
sprang upon him. It was a wonderful
spring, as he afterward discovered. From
the spot where the beast crout he'd to the
place where he alighted on his victim
was just twenty-six feet. The young
man was kneeling down and bend
ing over a specimen which he was
examining and the jaguar fell on his
back and seized him by the right shoul-
der. The man weig ghed almost $50
pounds and was q muscular fellow, but
the jaguar trotted off with him as if he
had been a shoulder of mutton, not lift
ing the body entirely from the ground,
but dragging it along. Fortunately for
tie victim, the forest was very dense
just there, and the beast had to take one
of the several paths leading through it.
He had not gone above 800 feet when he
met one of the party on his way back
to the boat. The jaguar sprang for g
limb ten feet above his head, still hold
ing to the man, and such was his won.
derful muscular power that one of his
forepaws actually touched the limb.
When he dropped back it was to receive
a bullet in the head. In dying he in
]icted several severe wounds on the
young man with his claws.-Neao York.
Sun.
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A Good Reason why.

They-had been talking of the sharp
games played on innocent people by
sharp men, when Green looked up and,
said: -
"Gentlemen, I don't .brag about my
wife being sharper than razor, but I'll:
tell you what III do. I'll write note,
sign it with my own name, and ask her
to deliver my Sunday suit to bearer for.
repairs. You may send it up to the
house, and I'll bet you So she'll be TOO
sharp to let the clothes 60" z,
"We'll take that bet, !" called two or
three voices, and there being FIVE of
them, they: Clipped in dollar apiece.
The note was written and signed and
despatched by messenger boy. half
an hour he returned, empty handed as
to clothes, but having q note which
read: =. .2tlt5. = 81 -: -
'Come off the perch. All the clothes
you have in the world are on your
back" ~ -. - e. -
"Gentlemen," said the winner, as he.
pocketed his fver, sflet me recommend
it to you as something which always
wins, and as I must meet man at
$ o'clock, will now bid you good
day." Z
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The Yellow Breakfast.

The pink tea has now dangerous
rival in the "ycllow breakfast" At a
recent Washington yellow breakfast,
served, by the way, at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon, the table linen was of yellow
and white damask; beautiful scarfs of
yellow china silk were draped effectively
over the backs of the dining-chairs. The
floral decorations consisted of daffodils
and narclssus, and the hostess herself
wore a gown of buttercup-yellow plush,
which almost lost its identity in billows
of filmy lace. The pale yellow lights of
the lamps blended in perfect harmony
With the golden sunlight of tie after
noon, and illuminated an effect as strik-
ing as it was novel and picturesque
('h'.ago Tri6une.
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The Latest Thing in Wells.

The newest thing in wells, says New
York letter to the Kansas City Journal,
is a strip of fine wire gauze. 1t is as
delicate as the dainty silk affairs which
women persist in pulling down over their
nose, and much less injurious to the eyes
'han the dotted or figured net so common
upon the street. In appearance it does
not diiTer at all from the ordinary veil,
except perhaps it may be thought less
flexible. The wire gauze veil is not in
the market, but women have brought
few from England, where they are Ee-
ginning to be used, chiefly because they
are better respirators than silk, which
persists in choking ones breath and
plastering itself down upon the face if
the air is ever so little damp. A veil of
silver thread is very ornamental.
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New York Swordswoinen.

Fencing may be regarded as the COM
plement Of dancing in u course of aesthetic
phys cal training intended to develop
the carriage and general grace of the
body, as we'll as its muscular vigor.
Actresses have long recognized this fact.
and profited by it, and in all schools of
acting the young ladies have their
fencing classes. 1t is only within the
last year or two. however, that the
exercise has reached the status of q
regular feminine accomplishment. The
Fencers' Club, started five years ago by
a number of gentlemen we'll known in the
artistic, literary and social circles of New
York, now gives certain hours weekly
for class Of ladies exclusively, and the
opportunity thus afforded is much
appreciated. Captain Nicholas is the
instructor; and his fair pupils are able
to give, at the pretty quarters of the club
in West Twenty-fourth street, exhibi-
tons which are charming in their
animated grace and skill. .-Fraak Leslis's.
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THE OLD WIFE.

By the bed the old man, waiting, sat in vigil
sad and tender,
Where his aged wife lay dying, and the
twilight shadows brown,
Slowly from the wall and window chased the
sunsets golden splendor,
Going down.
els it night" she whispered, waking (for her
spirit seemed to hover
Lost between the next worlds sunrise and
the bedtime cares Of this,
And the old man, weak and fearful, trembling
as he bent above her,
Answered: YES"
Are the children int" she asked him. Could
he tell her? ALI the treasures
OF their household lay in silence many years
beneath the snow;
But her heart was with them living back
among her tolls and pleasures,
Long ago.
And again she called at dew. fall in the sunny
summer weather,
"Where is little Charley, father! Frank and
Robert-have they Gomez"
"They are safe" the old man fa!tered; I'd
the children are together,
Safe at home"
Then he murmured gentle soothings but his
grief grew strong and stronger,
Till it rhoked and stilled him as he held her
wrinkled hand
For her soul, far out of hearing, could his
fondest words no longer
Understand
Still the pale lips staumered questions, lula
bies and broken verses
Nursery pratt,e all the language of mothers
loving heeds
While the m 'dnight round the mourner, left
to sorrows bitter mercies,
Wrapped its weeds
There was stiffness on the pillow-aud the
old man listened lonely
Till they led him from the chamber, with the
burden on his breast,
For the wife Of sixty years. his manhooi's
early love and only,
Lay at rest
Fare you well!" he sobbed, "my Sarah;
you will meet the babes before me;
Tis little while, for neither can the parting
long abide.
For you viii come and call me soon, know
and Heaven will restore me
To your side"
1t was even so. The springtime, in steps of
winter treading,
Scarcely shed lis orchard blossoms ere the old
man closed his eyes,
And they buried him by Sarah. and they had
their diamond wedding"
In the Skies
Church Union.
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Grandfather's Advice.
Iremember how my grandsire,

Irsmember how my grandsire, .-
When I was little lad,
Saw me whiting with my Barlow,
The first knife I ever had
was only making litter,
Whiting sticks and time away, O.
And he shook his old head wisely, ..
"Don't do that, my boy, pray.
"It you've got a Yankee notion
To make Something OF your life,
Working out your plans is easy,
With the aid Of stick and knife.
"When you whittle, whittle something;
Take this, sonny, for your rule,
If tits only match or toothpick,
It will show that you're no fool. ..
"Some men whittie for a lifetime,
And when Death shuts their old knife.
Nothing but heap Of litter
Represents their useless Life"
-Ts1ds SIftiBgs.
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The poet In front Of the editor stood
And said, with little cough: s.,.
II thought would bring you little thing
a thing have just dashed off,"
The editor rose from his ivory chair.
With passion his features wrought:
81 want no things that are Just dashed off,
1 want the results Of thought"
He closed with snap his ebony desk,
The poet he rudely grippsd,
And bearing his load, to the street below,
The editor blithely tripped.
He staggered beneath the weight he bore,
But bravely kept his feet;
He carried the bard to the lower floor
And dashed him into tho street.
A stranger passing, the act Observed;
why, what is the rowa" said he;
The editor said: "'Tis little thing ~.
go I have Just dashed of, you see."'
Boston Courier,
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| were suddenly aroused BY the appear.
| ance in their bedroom of three masked
men. Two of them stood at the head of
the bed, with revolvers cooked and
pointed at the temples of the bedfellows,
ordered them to lie still and save their
lives by so doing. They complied with
the request while the third ruffian began
to explore the room. His bulls eye
lantern being awkward he took candle
from the bureau and lighting it began to
ransack closets, drawers, boxes and
bureaus in the room. While 80 engaged
he carelessly let the parafine taper drop
in swift succession lot drops all over the
floor. The housewife, though bound to
the pillow by the muzzle of a revolver,
could not restrain her impulses despite
the blood-curdling threat of the burglar
at her side. She half rose in bed and
cried out:
''Shame on you. Don't you see that
you are spelling my carpet2"
An unintelllgible grunt was the only
answer.
"Now, look here, you viilaiu," again
cried out the housewife. 81 want you
to stop spelling grease all over my car
pet"
"Yes, MN, I will do it, seein' as how
we can't take it with US" he gently re-
marked.
The scoundrels at the bedside only
chuckled. At that moment an alarm
clock set up its call for an early rising
servant up stairs. The thieves became
suspicious at once. They snuffed out
the candle and threw big bag contain
ing their punder over their shoulders,
closed the door behind them, and stole
down the stairs, out of the front gate,
and decamped
And then it was that the good house
wife fainted.-New York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Not Much Of a Girl.

An Austin mother was very much
discouraged at the dirty condition of her
boys cap when the children came home
from walk.
"How did you come to get your hat
so dirty9" angrily asked the mother.
"A bov pulled it off my head in the
street and threw it in the mud"
That's not so, ma; he threw the cap
in the mud hlmself,' interrupted his
little sister.
"Well, I am q boy, amt II If I am
q Girl I'd like to know it."-Sytinqs.
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Beauty in Parasols.

Some parasols are of striped forescent
silk, the three colors of the ground and
the pattern making lovely play of light
aud shade; and with the covers of
Escurial lace, or the lighter Spanish
lace, with many point stitches in the de-
sign: some of Madras plaids, gay enough
for a creole, and some sober, costly and
substantial in dark, plain colors. The
sticks are of light wood, artifcially
veiucd in alligator patterns when fiat
or-in designs suggesting the joints and
fibres of reeds when round; and some
look like Japanese fan cases, some are
curved like shepherds crooks, some are
billiard cues, and some terminate in
large carved balls, big enough if they
were hollow, which they are not, to hold
a handkerchief and pocketbook. The
silver handles are very dark in cclor, and
are Japanese or early Italian in decora.
ton, and some are ornamented with
ribbon bows, some with cords and silk
pendents, and some with cords and
chenille balls. Horn tips on the ferules
are new and are expected to be more
durable than metal tips.-Bo'ton Tran.
script.
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the boys, and went to bed rather lateI
Blamed if, when I woke up, my feet
weren't en- the pillow where my head
should have been" -
"That was rather strange 80 st
ssBut that wasn't the strangest thing
about it. All during the night suffered
with headache, when really there was
nothing the matter with me except that
my corns hurt.'-Sittin5s.
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Almost Given Away.

Prospective Buyer-"You're sure
there's no malaria here2'
Real Estate Ageut-"Not a s-s.sign Of
it."
''No chills and fever"
"Ain't b-b-b-been none in t-t-t-t lex
cuse mel twenty year. ="
"Look here, my friend, what makes
you tremble so:"
Agent (as another wave Of shakes
passes over him)-'I was a.a-afraid you
were e g. goin' away without b-b-buyin',
sir"
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He Got 1t Right.

Pompous Old Teacher Ito class in sa-
cred history)-"What weapon did Sam
son use to kill the Phillistines 2"
No one remembers.
P. o. T. (who believes in suggesting
answers, touching his chin)-" What is
this z" .. .... T..
Bright Boy (who takes the hint and
remembers it all now)-"The jawbone of
an ass, SIR" .,.. ...... ~.
Circus, in which P. o. T. and B. B.
are principals. s.-JuGge.
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What Would Stop Them.

A particularly vigorous speaker at a
woman's rights meeting waving her long
arms like the sails of windmill, asked !:
IF the women of this country were to
rise up in their thousands and march to
the polls I should like to know what
there is on this earth thst could stop
them 2" And in the momentary silence
which followed this peroration a still,
small voice remarked:
GA mousep'
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Rurelars An ger a Housewife.

An amusing illustration of the strength
of involuntary impulses was recently af-
forded by the visit of burglars to the
home of q certain well-known official of
Washington City, who lives just outside
the District limits, in the country. About
3o'clock in the morning he and his wife
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His Literary Occupation.

Literary Young Lady" You have
travelled considerably, I believe, Mr..
Flagpole2"
"Yes, I have"
"Have you met many authors in your
travelsG"
"Yes. In fact, I'm an author myself"
"Indeed2 How delightful. 10 you
belong to the realistic SCHOOL,"
eyes"
"Name some of your books, please. !"
"Why, I compiled the last city direc-
tory for one. ."-Omaha World.
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The Linen Folders Of Anjou.

The women of the ancient town of
Aniou, France, have acquired world
wide reputation for their proficiency in
folding linen for all purposes. Their
hinge linen-presses show some marvellous
masterpieces in the way of folded table
linen. At vast table cloth folded into
o trough, twenty-four sheep formed of
Medina napkins are supposed to be
drinking, watched by a large napkin in
the shape of shepherd, and half-a-
dozen doylies fringed taking the forms
of dogs. Others ore in the shapes of
castles, mitres, towers, windmills, pitch
ers, jars and boots. Among the elabo-
rate ornamentation of linen in various
kinds of embroidery. that of the coat-of
arms. crest, or monogrm, is considered
the more elegant, always considered that
the coat-of-arms is inherited, and not
purchased. In these luxurious days of
ours, the doYlies are made of the softest
creamy India silks, others of finest linen
exquisitely embroidered. Napkins of
the finest linen are elaborated with drawn
work, and Others for fruit have ex-
quisitely tinted borders.-Neeo York
Press.
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Innocence Imposed Upon.

Caller Ito Bobby, in his first trousers)
-"Those are nice trousers, Bobby, for
little boy" .....
Bobby (proudlD-"They amt boys
trousers. Ma says they are regular
mems trousers"
Caller-'tAre they"
Bobby-.''Yes, indeed; they're made
from an old pair of pas. ."-NtU York
Sun.
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IndispensabIe,

Indispensable.
~ hear that they are going to have a
donkey party at B-'s," said Parson-
vile man to his neiglibor.
$50 I understand" was the reply;
care you going 2"
"Of course 1 am" said the Parsonville
man; "they couldn't have the party
without me-" .. ...s
And he couldn't quite make out what
the other fellow was laughing at.-&.
Albans Messenger.
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He Will See It Later.

Clerk-"I worked off some of that
packed butter to day."
Grocer-'.Indeed! Whom did you
send it too?"
Clerk-''Mrs. Blank, around on Dash
street." .-.
Grocer-"Great guns! Why, I board
with her. ."-Detron Free Press.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Compensation.


"Who hesitates is lost"
Is an adage old,
Fearful lovers, to their cost,
Learn they must be bold,
But, since nothing new can be
Underneath the sun,
'Tis as old and true that she
Who hesitates is-won.
-Kenlper Bocock, in the Century.
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A Great legal Victory.

During lull in the trial of a case in
Kingston the other day several lawyers
were relating their experience trying
cases. One of them told how he tried
case in the country against another law
yer.
"What success?"
"Oh, I beat them" ~
Chow much judgment did you geta I"
"Not any,"
"How did you beat them, then7"
"Umph! Ny client beat them on the
execution"
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Too Busy for That.

Brown-"How is business with you,
Dumley2"
Dumley-"slow, very slow; nothing
doing at all"
Brown-"How about that little bill
sent you three months ago9"
Dumley-"Well, to tell the truth, I
haven't had time to look it over."-
Iid6its.
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A Peculiar Case.

A.-sI was never worse fooled in my
life than I was last night"
B.-"How so2"
{" had been out Oh q little toot with
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES

A Cold Day-He Will See 1t Later
Innocence Imposed On-Two
Busy for That-Etc., Etc.