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IN NOTKK DAME, 111 A. D.
, :r .; ,ti,i j perceive yon—when take
, o't i- now so <leep in heart and brain
11 ” ' .*,311 not efface it, nor the greed
‘ >r fate destroy, nor scorn, nor pamV
-tinisners hack I trembled to the vision
■ , r i'rt‘n N'.autT—a delirious sense
. , u loved might hold in like derision
1 i . r heat eu, or sin or innocence.
„ , art of heart*, while outwardly
■ i. nor guarded glance my dream
aped my lip., glad and afraid. !
■ ■■ no fear was: for lo.*the gift
A ould not purchase it! was mine. !
1 , ho W swift we went adrift
A. c.et waters, warmer hued than ,
r - are dizzy with delight
>!* tU t care*^c^ —Peace, my heart! ■
’ ' \. vt X •<> wild for lies to-night
- ‘ t.jo ihiinv hitter leagues apart.
* I will talk to you of her,
' . Vti- iin "my verse recur,
1 ■*' 1 ‘ t Y;; doe- fealty to your ;
. T .. . ’. an deep ©r ;
Jl3- ,t straight and !
" UvetV. i. I lining eyes! her
* v , ,i the warm gleam of the lustrous
it * -- dusk bv r ight, the day lets in
- .f emerald—thus those eyes of
•a et' f.the moulded chin
whose least kiss heaven's
t*. j - ;i —ah, that now my heal were laid
v. rn: n that nestHng-place!—But heart be
l-r r* nm, and break my dreams, afraid
T stir the yearning I cannot fulfill.
1. .vc, in the not them light of r.rittany!
iiear you no voice divide the night like
~"‘r : , p 'il'ru v ‘l/V Current.
KU GIl SAM. I/AVNEK.
IU Keiciiknble Story of His Eventfnl
I.ire.
! ovine- dispatch, received last
ays the Chicago Time* of
'- light the first information of
w - is to be an inexplicable niys
s. Aug. 21—The liody of a Fle
. ■ ntly nimdered. was f.iund near
.< hi<ra_ to 1.. ljtpkowich." The
. through some defect, breathed
, s; ii whose Ikxlt has been found
?i, nioAt noted of the century
and ti- and 1 f tae medical profession".
ha i roomed with Mr.
. On Sutulav, two weeks ago,
■\; —-d his intention of going to
f .... 11.I 1 . He hastily packed up all his
s started bn that point. The
s visit . inre was to make a set
: • : possible, with the directors of
, , V bich failed some time ago. He
. 'j'. lep isited iii the bank, which
id saved in nineteen months.
H soi Ii 'ilul spirits, and promised
>:■ —i ipkowlch, to whom he was en
, • - he would marry her as soon
I. Nothing was heard of him
- lavs. His friends were growing
w hen a letter was received by
a* <l, dated ai Philadelphia,
ml ine-l her that he was in a hos
r . The story of his experiences
i.iog this city was somewhat
. lie had not '-'one to Erie, as it
i < • —ary t*> do so. On the train
l :a • and made the acquaintance o! one
dirt tors of the defunct hank. Lav
■ related the objeetof bis trip to Erie,
uml the director sit once consented to give
in *27.'>. Lav ner accepted the offer,
ing only too glad to do so. and he went
n hi- way. so ho says, rejoicing. Ho
thenT —'!\ed to g<> to New York, where
wished to look after the arrangement
‘‘ business matte’ -. Atone of the sta
, .ns on the road hi got off to secure some
t : iv-hnieuts. He was attacked and bru
taily beaten by two men. who evidently
v i-h. I to seeitre possession of the money,
v . , he carried ofi his person. He found
,it ■ i -uld not proceed further, as he
■ lei (i uch from the injuries inflicted
v hi- .—admits. lie went to 'VVaverly,
: ut there also he could not find any eoiit
! t. Fearing that his injuries might re
- .t’.daily, he went to J’ldiruiolphin and
I i.iet-i himself in a hospital. He was
*o.. ing. !. • alleges, when, at tie ear
r >t - licitation ol soma persons who
claimed to ’ e his friends, he went to New
Yelk and was placed in what be supposed
t •. spital. A woman was in cor.-
stant a:' nuance upon him. He had been
in tids place several days, when he made
t. discovery that he was not in a hos
pital but that he had fallen into the
hards of a gang of thieves, who had
i ' and aim of the $27,000.
T - a*iove is the story which the first
milt to Misv Lapkowich. <n
viav last another letter was received
.. i.fid a still more harrowing tale.
I . in, hiutself almost penniless, Lavner
‘ •!. £ud and to visit the Roumanian Consul
i New York and make arrangements for
i reception of a large sum of money
-of expected from Uoumaula. The
•. .. which was to come was sll3,<h-0. On
visiting the Consul's otiiee, so his story
found the former absent, hut his
tr a-urer was in. To the treasurer he
la:;known his name and business.
• re • i ame to this country, he stated.
7 :i large vineyard in Koumania,
i: country he was a native. lie
-vita a young lady, the daugh
> - t v ol thy merchant, aiul his aflec-
U n-. a. ho thought, being reciprocated,
1 hie engaged and subsequently
wedlock, llis father-in-law
. >\ou himself to lie a very unamiable
i- and was not satisfied with being
• sole himself, but used every ef
'■ t to make bis daughter quarrel with
nl. In this object the father-in-
U-.v \ - iccessful, and as a result Lar
lis v ifc became estranged. Lav
' >nie to this country, and. going to
” j~n.ii ,t n, secured a divorce from his
>V| While in Washington he learned
L ...s father-in-law hail taken forcible
! " —ion of his vineyard Ue brought
' ■ >ver possession of tlit property,
ii:, h alter prolonged litigation, he was
'• s. He obtained judgment for !
1 l.avner notified the Koumaniau
1 - -in New York that he bad won his
* ur - : i made a demand that the vine-
- <! and $113,000 sent to him. Of
1 •. the ex-father-in-law was notified
maud, and he immediately start
t. - - : mis country, lie armed iit New
' -i >ut the same time us Lavner.
1 ' - i' the story that Lavner related ;
-• < usul's treasurer, and wnen lie 1
■ !. his ex-father-in-law was >
i into the apartment in which he i
treasurer were* seated. The ex- ;
a iw produced a roll of bills and
-vei lred his intention of getting down to j
at once. He counted out sll3,- j
J*-* :1 1 ndered it to Lavner, but the lat- i
■ r. na ming there was something wrong.
: i n,e money. He alleges that he 1
■ red they were bogus, j
L ' * x-taii.; r-ii'.-iaw. finding that he could ;
1 . t biHu-.v ;t k Laviii r. said to the latter: i
** °\ 1 "O n,, t take that money, we will j
uer ki. you or drive you crazy.” Lav- !
far states in the letter that he did not
> inesi- threat-, us he believed the |
a y wouid be paid to him on Oct. o,
™ - uit due. This is the last informs
■i: received from the deceased
JD -d the above dispatch was flashed over
the wire.
'* nether Lavner was murdered or not '
*' a mystery, and will probably remain
~ 1 - Lapkowiches are positive in their '
assertions that he was perfectly sane !
' Jen he started for Erie, and that he had !
„ s-nowii any symptoms of insanity, i
, had roomed with them for 6ome
, ‘ and always bore himself in a gen- ;
manner. When visited last
i. m : iiy a reporter for the Timet, the I
' ; - ..idy to whom he was engaged ex- !
" - herself positively that ahedid not |
•s vi that Lavner was dead. It he was ;
f -he did not believe that he had been
*f‘| *L f ni the contrary, she Was in
• t iiink tnat he had gone crazy ]
- expectation of receiving such a j
v •aravunt ol money and committed
V ■ -Although his stories of his ex pc- i
’-•-‘i- -with the persons who assailed
b*ib and the thieves in New York seem 1
imevvnat incredible, they are given a
m ' -’r.ce "f truth by the suspicion that
ma n has been murdered. It is proba-
I ble that the wounds which are supposed
I to have caused his death were those in
dieted after he receimd the $27,000. Up
to last night the Lapkowiches had r,ot
made up their minds whether or not .to
have the body brought to this city.
Although Lavner was only 27 years old,
his experiences had been most painful.
Nine years ago he was traveling m Rou
mania in company with his three pros
pective brothers-in-law. He was to have
been married on the following day to the
woman from whom he was afterward
forced to separate, owing to the tyranny
of his father-in-law. The party were jour
neying toward ins vineyard, when they
were attacked by brigands. The brigands
largely outnumbered the small band of
travelers, and the bloody work began.
One by one Lavner’s comrades were mur
dered. His time came, and he was stab
bed in the back. Not satisfied with this,
the murderous villains cut his throat.
The work of plunder began, and was very
soon completed. Before leaving the bri
gands discovered sorile signs of life in
Lamer, and they, to make sure of their
fiendish work, hung him to a limb of a
tree. In this position the body remained
for two days, when some traveler passing
by cut it down. Even then life was not
extinct, and, as there was a surgeon in the
party, the mutilated man received imme
diate attention. After great effort, signs
of life begau to return, and finally con
sciousness was regained. He was re
moved to Vienna, where he was placed in
an hospital under the immediate care of
one of the most noted of the Austrian
physicians. For some time little hope
was entertained of the ultimate recovery
of the patient. I.avner showed wonderful
vitality, notwithstanding the fact ihat he
could not swallow any kind of food, liquid
or otherwise. Tubes of every description
were placed in his windpipe, which was
severed, but these did not seem to have a
beneficial effect. Asa last resort rubbei
tubes w r ere used. These were found to
work lietter, and the injured man slowly
improved. In a little time he was able to
move around, but, although the physician
in attendance upon him desired to heal up
the wound in the neck, he could not do so.
The idea was conceived of making tubes
of various sizes. Two dozen tubes were
made and the smallest placed in Lavner’s
throat. As soon as the throat healed
somewhat, this tube was removed and a
larger one placed in its stead. Thus it
was that Lavner managed to eke out an
existence. After a little while, he mar
ried the young lady to whom he was be
trothed. For seven years he remained
under the care of this noted Austrian
pbvician, whose name cannot now be
n .’ailed. Nineteen months ago he came
u> this country, after having visited Eng
land. where he exhibited himself to the
wondering medical men. In this country
hv aiso exhibited himself in the prominent
colleges, and thus succeeded in amassing
the $2*,000. This sum he placed in the
Erie bank, which was compelled to close
its doors by the questionable practices of
Adam Brabender, who, being discovered
in his defalcations, fled to Ohio, where he
was captured and returned to face the
clamoring creditors. The largest and last
■f the tiil>es was jn Lavner’s threat at the
.inn of his death, and in a few mouths be
would have been aide to breathe without
ilaaid.
DU lilts NOT FASHION ABLE.
To bo Succeeded by Quietly Dressed
Vouug Men of stately Mien.
PhiUolelph a limes.
“Tbe dude? The dude is N. G. He has
gone out of fashion,” said a fashionable I
tailor yesterday. “The correct young j
u.un this winter will be stately, intellee- j
tual-loohiiig and quietly dressed. We are
going to approach somewhat to the ele- |
gance of manner and apparel of the old
school. The dude really remained in
vogue longer than any other type that 1
have dressed during my experience witu
worsteds and tweeds. I ascribe that to
the fact that the ladies really doted on
him. Young men used to come to my es
tablishment weary of the old inane type,
but lacy hesitated to abandon it because
they were afraid of losing the admiration
1 of the ladies. But I tell you some of my
> die ie customers were great as owners of
•For example?”
“Vv ell, 1 made one of them thirteen over
• coats and two ulsl?rs in one season. He
nad bis bead full of something he called
; harmony of color andclrcumstauces. He
j used to wear certain colors on dark dacs
a. and other colors when the bun saone.
i Fin n he was always very pailicula 1 that
; ais overcoat should harmonize with tbe
• co!.>r of his trousers and coat. He thought
| it absolutely necessary, too, to wear an
i oxi rcoat if a certain color when he went
j out to dinner and one of a different color
• in . • simply matte a call. True, he too*
' the coat when he reached bis destina
u-m, but all the same he had the notion
. that a certain color ougui logo v, itb a
• a lieulai occasion. Fuat was one of the
:h figs be tailed tbe ha< aio-jy o* ci-euni-
I stances. Another customer of mine, the
| son of a man who had made millions and
millions during toe war, told me that he
had three hundred and twenty suits. Two
rooms in his lather's house were used
: solely as store-rooms for his dry goods.
: All the same he had no more idea’of what
i good dressing was than a H ttentot. His
| dad -temedto me to always wear the same
j old-fashioned suit, 1 ut looked at least like
a man with a level head.
“My best dressed customer was a vouug
man who never got more than three suits
' a year, and was not fool enough to pay
op-notch prices, either. He Had the eye
\ and ihe taste of a gentleman. Besides
i that, he had a genius for combination.
lit could make last year’s trousers go
I with this year’s coat in a way that made
1 the arrangement appear as if it ought to
■ be the fashion if it really were not. He
j uidn't have much money* but he went in
i swell set. and there was not one of the
: sens f millionaires with whom ue associ
ated that could come within a block of
i>i;n as a well-dressed man. It is the taste
■ ulicr of the customer or the tailor that
must tell. Any experienced tailor, if he
i is allowed to have his own way, will
>nake up lor the want of taste in a cus
j vomer an,l make his patron look at least
' presentable. Badly dressed men have
| only themselves to blame. They haven't
i iin first idea of taste, but they neverthe
; less insist on having their clothes made
according to their own ideas, in such a
! case it is the business of tho tailor to
: obey orders, even if he knows that h : s
| customer will look like a fool. If you
have any doubt as to your ow n ability to
choose that which will be at once fash on
able and handsome, leave everything to
the tailor. He will turn out the proper
thing.”
THE FLOATING F PKF.
A Sailor’s Varu of the North Atlantic—
He Saw the Kockg.
AVic York Tnlj i.ru.
. “Did you ever hear of the floating reef?"
ask. and a sailor with an air of superior
knowledge, as he cut a piece ot tobacco
off a plug so large that it was difficult to
tell which was the piece and which was
the plug.
••1 never did," answered a reporter; “tell
me about it."
“Well, I reckon you've heard of ships
as sailed out of port'and never eame hack,
or made any other port. Some folks say
one thing happened to 'em, some another;
tut I kuow what happened to’em; the
floating reef happened to’em. You ask
any old shellback and he'll tell you jest
as Ido. T'want squalls, nor sea sarpents,
nor infernal machines; ’twas the floating
reef. This reef is something that sailors
dread more than anything else. It dodges
about in the North Atlantic ocean, ana is
never in one place long at a time. It
never comes anywhere near shore, but is
always away out at sea. It isn’t very
often'a ship sees it and comes back to tell
the story: but there have been ships as
have sighted it and escaped running on to
it. 1 hate seeu it with these very eyes as
plainly as I see that binnacle lamp n
burning there —as plainly as 1 sec that
mast. It was on the ship B—, in IStH. I
was on the lookout and had somehow
almost fallen into a doze. I was brought
wide awake with a start by the second
mate shouting—
‘“Forward there.’ ,
“ ‘On deck, sir,’ I replied.
“ ‘What’s that on the starboard bow ?’
“It was just before sunrise, and in the
gray light of the early morning I saw a
reef of black, jagged rocks, with the water
dashing over it. It was about a mile long
and oval in form. We were within a
quarter of a mile of it, and it was ap
parent:}* drifting right acroes our bows.
‘••Breakers on the starb* ard bow!’ I
shouted. -Keep her off! keep her oft!' 1
was the worst frightened mac you ever
saw; so much frightened indeed that the
dressing down the mate gave me for not
keeping a sharper lookout was a positive
relief to me. We cleared the end of the
reef by about 100 yards and soon left it
astern. *
“At the time this happened we were in
the middle of the Atlantic, and in the
track usually followed by sailing vessels
from New .York to Liverpool. I have
sailed over that very place before and
since, but have never seen the floating
reef except that one time. Don’t tell me
it was a tide-rip—l saw the rocks.”
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1884.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
Anniversary of Col. Drake’s Discovery
of Petroleum—The First Vein of <>H
Struck at Titusville Aug. 28, J 859,
and More than #400,000,000 Invested
Since.
New York Times.
Tit usvillk. I’enn., Aug. 27.—Twenty
five years 4*to to-morrow was ushered into
existence the most distinctively American
industry of petroleum producing. Petro
leum and its illuminating properties had
been widely known for centuries before
on the banks of the Irrawaddy, in British
Burmab; in Afghanistan, in Persia, in
Turkistan, in Sicily and elsewhere, but it
remained lor the United States to produce
it nd place it among the great articles
of the world’s commerce.
Few industries are so little known, even
by Americans, as the petroleum, vet for
interesting, one might almost say roman
tic, surroundings there are none on the
face of the globe to compare with it, not
even fishery. Moreover, its history is
longer, more marve'ous and exciting than
anything in the California days of ’49 or
what followed Hargreave’s discovery in
New South Wales.
The first oil well ever drilled wa9 put
down near Titusville just without the city
limits. Travelers on the Buffalo, New
York and Philadelphia Railroad know the
long, woody hell gorge through which the
train winds on its way through the Oil
Creek Valiev. This ’gorge, at no point
very broad, widens near this city into a
plain in which Titusville lies. At what
may be termed the mouth of this gorge
the first oil well was sunk in iS.i9 by Col.
Drake, of New Haven, Conn. From the
old Indian days petroleum, known as
Seneca oil, had existed in the vicinitv.
Large quantities floating on Oil Creek bad
been gathered and used for medicinal pur
poses. From 1854 to 1858 producing ope
rations ol a crude nature were carried on
by Messrs. Bissell & Evereth. Trenches
were dug into which oil oozed and was
afterward pumped into vats. In 1855 these
gentlemen sold one-third of their property
to some New Haven capitalists. The
Pennsylvania ltock Oil Company was
lormed and Col. Drake engaged to sink a
well on the artesian principle. Work
was commenced May, 1859, and the first
vein of oil was struck Aug. 28—25 vears
ago to-day—at a depth of 09 y 2 teet.
The production of the well"at first was
10 barrels a day and sold for 50 cents a
barrel. In September pumping apparatus
was applied to the well and it yielded for
along time between 20 and’4o barrels
daily. Such is a very rough sketch of the
celebrated Drake well, by which the pos
sibility of producing oil direct from the
rock was demonstrated. But it was, of
course, only the beginning. The tools used
were, compared with those ot to-dav, of a
primitive, rlmost Adamite type. ’Wells
were then what is called “kicked down”
by the teet. The use of steam was an
after-thought.
Col. Drake’s success revolutionized
things in the little Northwest Pennsylva
nia hamlet. I,ike some enchanter he had
raised his rough-hewn derrick in the for
est solitude and conquered a strange long
pent-up genie from the earth’s interior.
The birth of anew light—rare enchanter’s
work indeed. In a short time on the level
lands around Drake’s well and along the
banks of the shallow rippling Oil Creek
and on the sides of the neighboring hem
lock-clad hills resoutided "the rap of the
hammer and the rumble of the wagons as
derrick after derrick arose. The race for
wealth, with the accompanying mad spec
ulation in land, had begun. Titusville
was in a few years a city of 10,000 inhab
itants.
The next step in producing was the
drilling of wells down to the third sand,
where a much larger production was
maintained. In September, 1801, the fa
mous Phil! ips well on Oil Creek was sti uck
and did 4,000 barrels iu the first day. This
was followed by the Emnire and other
wells. In the meantime oil was selling
all the way from 10 cents to s2l) a barrel”,
though the average price was $4. There
is no need to trace the extension of ope
rations. the opening of new fields in Ve
nango, Butler, Clarion and McKean coun
ties. in Pennsylvania, and in New York
at Ricfiburg. The total production in
creased rapidly from 82,000 barrels in 1859
to !*,000,000 in 1870. Then came ;he great
Bradford field, and the tallowing year the
production jumped to 13,000,000. Since
then the yearly increase has been about
5,000,000 barrels. The greatest production
was obtained in IS>2, when it reached the
enormous total of 31,789,190 barrels.
Petroleum was shipped to market at
first in.barges down the Allegheny river,
and by teams and rail. In time the trade
outgrew these modes of transit; speedier
anil, above all, cheaper means were ne
cessary. Then came the pipe lines, which
to-day are connected with 21.0(H) wells,
receiving from them dailv 65,000 barrels
of oil. In addition thev hold, stored in
iron tanks, over 41,000,000 barrels, repre
senting the surplus or accumulated stock.
To transport and store this enormous
quantity of oil about 5,000 miles of pipe
line and over 1,600 iron tanks of an aver
age capacity are neeessaiy. Besides the
5,000 miles of branch pipe lines in use in
the region, there are 1,200 miles of trunk
line for piping oil to the refineries at the
seaboard in Cleveland. Buffalo and Pitts
burg. Between Olean, N. Y.. and New
Y rk city nearly 20,000 barrels of oil are
piped daily. Most ot the tanks at present
jug built are of 35,000 barrels capacity.
Tneae huge cauldron-like structures stud
the oil regions from end to end bv hun
dreds. They are uniformly 28 feet high
and 90 feet in diameter. Their average
cost is SB,OOO. The enormous stocks (41,-
iOO,OOO barrels) are the oil man’s bane,
keeping prices at times below the cost cf
production. The oil is represented by
pipe line certificates, negotiable in any of
the great money centres of the country.
The oil in stock bears a daily charge for
tankage of 41% cents per 1,000 pounds.
The export trade has kept pace with the
production. In *852-3 it was 600,000 gal
lons. In 1883 506,000,000 gallons were ex
ported, valued at $14,000,000. Our prin
cipal customer is Germany, and the next
best is England. Perhaps the most mar
velous feature connected with petroleum
is the enormous and steadily increasing
amount of speculation done in it. The
volume of business in 1883 on four Ex
changes was as follows:
Barrels.
Oil City Exchange 1,821,098.000
New York Petroleum Exchange.. .1.045.475,000
Bradford Exchange ...1.272.141,000
lb tisburg Exchange 1,2t : 3,54a,Q00
Total .... 0,004,263,000
Taking even the lowest price of oil in
1833—83 V, cents per barrel—the reader can
get some idea of what amount in cash the
foregoing figures represent. Indeed, the
speculative interest has attained such
proportions that it overshadows and rules
the entire trade, greatly to its detriment,
and efforts are being made to curtail it.
The producer realizes that his interests
and those of the speculator clash, and t hat
something must be done to protect his
capital. It is estimated that in the last
25 years over $100,000,000 have been in
vested in oil-producing property. Within
that time 38,003 wells have been drilled,
of which 2,400 were dry. The prime cost
of drilling these wells was $170,945,100,
and the value of the product obtained
therefrom $425,000,000. For tho last 10
years about $10,000,000 has been invested
annually in new wells. The average life
of the wells since Bradford was opened
has been five and six years. The average
daily production of new wells is 15 bar
rels. The eost ot sinking a vreP, say in
the Bradford field, is between $2,500 and
$3,000. This, of course, does not include
the cost of the land. The depths ot wells
vary from 1,000 to 1,800 feet,’though a few
have been drilled between 3,000 and 4,000
feel.
The present financial condition of the
oil trade is far from satisfactory. For
years there has been over-production, the
stocks increasing at the rate of 5,000,000
or 6,000,000 barrels a year. It seems that
the only way to permanently reduce the
stocks is to increase the consumption of
oil abroad, especially in Asia and in Cen
tral and South America. Both of the great
political parties stand pledged by their
platforms adopted in Chicago to increase
and foster American trade abroad. An
important step in that direction was taken
by Congress in tlie treaty with Mexico, in
which petroleum was placed on the free
list. The President has also appointed a
commission to inquire into hindrances to
American trade in North and South Amer
•‘ca, and it is believed the interests of the
petroleum industry will be among the
leading topics which will engage their at
tention.
A Quiet Citizen iu Mexico.'
New York Times.
A prominent citizen of Mexico returned
from’a trip into South America last week.
He had been gone three months. “Elected
anew President since I’ve been gone?*’
he asked of a friend. “Oh. yes.” “How
many?” “Only one.” “Any revolu
tions?” “Only three.” “What’s become
of Miaz?” “Ob, he was shot last week.”
“And Za-ual?” “Transported.” “And
St. Badier?” “The same as when you
left.” “Is that so? I’m surprised that
he should be at one thing so long. He
was a very enterprising sort of a man.
i Where is he?” “Dead.”
SHE SUMS UP THE SEASON.
j A Belle’s Breezy Reminiscences of the
American Watering Places.
Nsir York Morning Journal.
DkakMacd: When we parted in Lon
don last May I said I would write to you
and tell you where I had been and what I
had seen during the summer, but I have
been so busy enjoying myself that I
haven’t had time until Just now. This is
a regular Newport day, rainy and windy,
and, as ma says I cannot go out, I shall
write to you.
Dear me, I’ve had oceans ot fun this
summer; but that’s slang, isn’t it? You
know, in June we went up to the Thou
sand Islands with a real jollv partv, and
it was perfectly delightful. We only took
one trunk between three girls, and I wore
my white flannel or my blue bunting all
day long. You needn’t tell anv of my
fashionable friends in London, but I de
clare 1 felt awfully comfortable, even
when I’d been fishing all day. I got nice
and sun-burned, too. I had’ a delightful
beau up there, but of course 1 had to leave
him, aDd ma wouldn’t let me speak to him
after she found out he was only a clerk in
a bank. She said before that, though, that
he must be a gentleman and very wealthy,
because be took me boating every day.
Well, from the Thousand Islands we
went to Bar Harbor, Mount Desert,
Maine. You know, that place is exceed
ingly fashionable nowadays, although it’s
a long way oil' from New ’ York, but ma
says the very fact of its being away from
that city makes it all the more select, as
poor commoners can’t afford to come to it.
We took a cottage there, Maudie, and it
was almost as delightful there as the St.
Lawrence. There are so many lovely Queen
Anne cottages there and lots of blue-book
Bostonians, and the boating and fishing is
delightful.
Along in July we had quite a visit from
the Hon. James G. Blaine, who is to be
our next President, you know. He came
there to stump the people, 1 believe, or
that’s what Drexel Montague told me,
and he is a Democrat, so he ought to
know. He brought Mrs. Blaine and his
two handsome sons with him—Emmons
and Walker—and the havoc they made
with we girls was awful. You know, of
course, 51 an die, my dear, that we’d like
to have married them, and I really think
Emmons would have asked me* if his
father had stayed longer, and then I’d be
just as high here as you would if you’d
married the Duke of Edinburgh or the
Prince of Wales.
It was perfectly delightful. Emmons
used to take a half dozen of us riding in a
buck-board—you know, I told you what
that was—and we’d go bouncing over the
country in the loveliest way. We used to
trim Emmons up with poppies and dai
sies, and bring him home like a jirince.
Marion Langdon and Miss Kane, with
Bar Harbor just after the Blaines
. myself, were the belles there. We left
and went to Long Branch. It isn’t an
ultra fashionable watering place, you
know —not for our set, of course. Still, 1
must admit, there were lots of pretty girls
there. Miss Haas, who is now at Sara
toga, was the belle of the place, and she
received oceans of attention. I enjoyed a
lovely’ dinner and dance at Mr. George
Childs’ cottage. He is a Philadelphia
millionaire, and the dinner was iu honor
of 51 rs. Sartoris, of London, Gen. Grant’s
daughter. I thiuk she is a much sweeter
woman than she was a girl. 1 almost fell
in love with a young Hebrew . iiere, but I
knew I better not. He was extremely
handsome and w ealthy, too, and hail the
loveliest little dog-cart. Tho girls go in
bathing there every morning, and it is
jolly fun. 1 learned to swim, and now, if
the Cunarder I’m coming to you in next
November should sink, 1 could swim
across. Wouldn't that be lovely?
We had to go Saratoga the first part of
this month. Pa insisted that he had to
take Hathorn hot, so off we went and put
up at the States. There were quite a num
ber oi fashionable people there, strange to
say—the Twombys, Lissie Stewart, that
handsome blonde who leads the german,
you know, young slr. Schuchardt, 51r.
Lydig, slr. Harriott and, the best of all,
E. Berry Wall. Ue is a young man very
much like your cousin Lord Percy, but
ma says Americans are so vulgar they
can’t appreciate an aristocrat when they
see one. Well, 1 went to the races with
Berry, hut he didn’t stay much with me.
He was down-stairs betting. He took a
$5 pool for me on his horse Wallflower,
and I won $95. Just think of that. 1
bought anew lace handkerchief and a
lovely parasol with it. Wasn’t it delight
ful for me? it was the first money 1 ever
earned iu my life, and 1 told pa if he died
poor I could support myself. We played
tennis and went to one’or tw.o hops, and
then ma and 1 went off to the Kaaterskill
House in the Catskill Mountains. 51a
heard the President was there—President
Arthur, you know—so off we went. 51a
got acquainted with the poor man some
how or other, and I danced with his pret
ty little daughter Nellie. Miss McElroy
hasn't enough appreciation of money,
rank and dress to please me, but I’d like
to be her if I could. She and little Nellie
seemed to tak# all our fussing and atten
tions with indifference or as a matter ot
course. But then I suppose they became
used to it in Washington. There was an
awfully handsome young man there, but
ma wouldn't let me dance with him be
cause his father made his money out of
tobacco—the idea! If it had been his
great-grandfather she would not have
cared a bit. You know, most of the aris
tocracy of our country had grandfathers
who were fur dealers, tobacco merchants
and tanners. But they look down on such
things now and gamble in sVall street.
Oh, dear me! I’m getting sensible and
moralizing to you, slaude, and that is too
silly for anything. If ma should read this
letter, I believe she’d have me put into
an asylum.
We went to Lenox last week and en
joyed a very pretty dinner at slrs. Bui ton
Harrison’s. She has a lovely villa there,
and slrs. William Woodruff has another.
I wore my sea-foam satin and point-lace,
with Nile lilies, ancl made quite a sensa
tion. There are lots of nice people at
Lenox, wealthy and belonging to our set,
but more literary and artistic in tbeir
tastes. Then we went to Narrasransett
Pier. The girls there care for nothing but
swimming. 51iss Urquhart, of New Or
leans, a sister of our lovely Mrs. Jimmie
Brown Potter, is there, and is ODe of tbe
best swimmers and quite a belle, too.
We reached Newport iust in time tor
slr. Bennett’s reception on board the Na
mouna, his lovely yacht. 51a sajs
Newport isn’t anything’untilMr. Bennett,
or Commodore Bennett, as they now’ call
him, reaches there. He lives in a lovely
gray stone house, with big owls on the gate
posts, and in the night-time the owls are
lit inside and look awfully cute. He gave
us a lovely luncheon, and each girl got a
big bouquet as she was going home. The
season here has just begun. We are go
ing to have some lovely balls and ger
mans, and several weddings—Carrie
Astor’s, 51iss Dickey’s and sliss French’s.
Dear me, 1 must close this letter and go
see polo played. I’ve ever so many dresses
just come from Paris. Pa raves over the
bill, but ma says I must create a sensa
tion and get married this winter, and I
suppose I’ll have to. Farewell, and give
my love to Lord Percy. Tell him he ought
to come here next winter and see New
York society and go to Delmonico balls.
One of my dresses is a lovely white crepe
all embroidered in marigolds. Lovingly,
Ethel.
P. S.—l forgot to tell you that I just re
ceived irom New York a lovely black lace
dress over pink. E.
A Queer Siberian Disease.
London Medical Record .
The person affected seems compelled to
imitate anything he hears or sees, and an
interesting account is given of a steward
who was reduced to a perfect state of
misery by his inability to avoid imitating
everything he heard anil saw. One day the
Captain of the steamer, running up tohim,
suddenly clapping his hands at thesamc
time,accidentally slioped and fell hard ou
thedeck. Withoiithavingbeen touched the
steward instantly clapped bis hands and
shouted; then, in helpless imitation, he,
too, felWis hard and almost precisely in
th same manner and position as the Cap
tain. This disease has been met with in
Java, where it is known as “Lata.” In
the case of a female servant who had the
same irresistible tendency to imitate her
mistress the latter, one day at dessert,
wishing to exhibit this peculiarity, and,
catching the woman’s eye, suddenly
reached across the table and seizing a
large French plum, made pretence to
swallow it whole. The woman rushed at
the dish and put a plum in her mouth,
and, after severe choking and semi-as
phyxia, succeeded in swallowipg it: but
her mistress never tried the experiment
again.
Advice to ffioiners.
Mrs. Winslow’s soothing Syrup
suouia always be used when children are
cutting teeth. It relieves the little suf
lerer at once: it produces natural, quiet
sleep~by relieving the child from pain, and
the little cherub awakes as “ bright as a
button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It
soothes the child, eoftens the gums, al
lays all pain, relieves wind, regulates
tha bowels, and is the best known remedy
tor diarrhoea, whether arising from teeth
ing or other causes. 2d cents a bottle.
THE FIELD, FARM AND GARDEN.
We solieit articles for this department.
Hie name of the writer should accompany
the letter or article, not necessarily
for publication, but as evidence of good
faith.
Cultivation in Dry Weather.
Bulleti l No, 6 from the Missouri State
College Farm brings lurther reports of
tests made by Prof. Sanborn to determine
the movement of moisture in cultivated
fields during the growing teason. Two
sheet-iron six inches in diameter
were driven into the soii to the depth of
six inches, one of the pipes with its earth
inclosed being furnished with a wooden
bottom, driven under it from outside after
the pipe was fixed in place, the soil in the
other pipe being without such “cut off”
from the earth below. The tests were car
ried on during the months of September
and October, the weather being generally
rainless.
By repeated weighings of soil taken
from the upper two inches and the second
two inches, and dried by artificial heat to
determine the per cent, of moisture each
contained, it was shown that in every case
the surface contained more moisture iu
the early morning than in the previous
evening, and also that in every case but
one (a very foggy morning) the upper two
inches contained less moisture than the
second two inches. The inference i9 that
the surface soil of a cultivated field is con
stantly giving up moisture in dry weath
er, nignt and day, and that the moisture
is drawn upward by capillary action from
the soil beneath. In evidence of this it
was found that the earth in the pipe with
a board bottom in no case lost so much
water by drying as the earth iu the pipe
having nothing to interrupt the upward
movement of the moisture through the
soil.
These tests appear to contract the old
theory, sooften advanced, that cultivating
a soil deeply in dry weather keeps it damp
by attracting and absorbing the humidity
of the atmosphere during the night, it
would seem, therefore, that when the
housekeeper’s clotnes hung upon a line to
dry during the night, are found iu the
morning to have given up their moisture,
or a portion of it, to the surrounding at
mosphere, the earth, too, has been giving
up its moisture to the air, anil that under
such conditions the deeper and more fre
quently a soil is stirred in a dry time, the
dryer that soil will become. The pre
ventive measure, as previously recom
mended by Pfof. Stockbridge, is’ to culti
vate the surface only in a dry time, say
one or two inches deep, in order to keep
the ground covered by a thin coat of soil,
so thoroughly dried that it cannot readily
conduct off the moisture Irom below.
Stirring the surface lightly disturbs cap
illary attraction and prevents the moist
ure from rising to the surface to be ab
sorbed by the night air. Deep cultivation
in dry weather, it is claimed, exposes the
earth to the absorbing action of the air.—
New England Farmer.
Cotton Picking.
Cotton picking will engage much of the
farmer’s attention during September. It
is hardly necessary for us to remind the
reader of the importance of keeping up
well with the cotton as it opens—getting
it in before the fains have soiled and in
jured the libre. We were exceedingly
skeptical as to the possibility of inventing
a good cotton picker; but from examining
one of the little arms of the South Caro
lina cotton picker, and from the accounts
which have been given us by reliable par
ties, we are encouraged to think that-sucli
a machine is practicable. If perfected,
as we hope it will be, this machine will
do away’with the difficulty of keeping up
with the cotton as it opens—its capacity
being estimated at from three hundred to
six hundred pounds per hour; and one
machine could readily pick out the crops
of several small farmers. The young
farmer is not apt to appreciate fully the
importance of sunning cotton which is
damp either from dew or rain. The man
ner in which cotton is ginned will often
make half a cent difference in the price
at which it can he sold. And damp cotton
can never be ginned well; tho fibres will
stick together and leave the gin in little
knots or “knaps,” which interfere much
In its subsequent working up into thread.
All damp cotton ought, therefore, to be
sunned before it is put away in bulk. A
good rule is to sun in the afternoon all
that is picked in the forenoon. Putting
cotton in bulk and allowing a very slight
heating, rather improves the quality of
the lint; and nice planters in olden times
were accustomed to pack away their cot
ton so as to secure this improvement of
libre. But since the war it is a dangerous
practice to keep large quantities of tin
ginned cotton in bulk—fires are too nu
merous. The better plan is to gin as fast
as picked. When packed it can be sold
at once, or stored in tire-proof warehouses,
or scattered here and there about the farm
so that all could not be burned up at
o nee.—Non them Cult ivator.
A Contrast.
In a trip lately over our State I could
not help taking notice of the much belter
appearance of the people and country
wliere grain and stock were raised than
w’here cotton was cultivated. G rass, grain
and stock pay the farmer much better
than cotton and is certainly a much easier
and more pleasant business. 1 haVe been
for years trying to solve the problem of
this “all cotton” theory, still I am atfault.
All will and do acknowledge that raising
cotton at the present price don’t pay as
well as grain and stock, and yet they keep
on. Sometimes 1 thiuk it is pride; that a
remnant of the idea of glory that hung’
around the ante-helium planter still ex
ists, and that the planter thinks it does
not look so dignified to sell beef cattle,
bogs or sheep as to haul a load of cotton
to town for sale. If you think so then it
is a mistake on your part. The cotton
planter of to-day stands the lowest in the
agricultural classes. Poverty, in these
days, is the only sin the world recognizes,
and the cotton "planter is the poorest of
all. 51any men have thought, and con
tended, that the cotton States were not
fitted to raise stock—hut more especially
were not good for sheep raising. But
Stewart, in his Shepherd's Manual , says:
“For fine-wooled sheep, there are few bet
ter localities than are offered in the South
ern States. The climate is very similar
to that of countries where the merino has
attained its highest excellence. North
ern Africa and southern and central Eu
rope have been the homes of this sheep for
more than 2,000 years, and our Southern
States not only offer an equally favorable
climate, but possess in their native grasse;
equally as good if not better pasturage.”
In our Southern States we can grow green
crops upon which sheep can graze all
winter, and then we have cheap cotton
seed upon which they can be kept in good
order at one-tent’n tbe cost that is required
at the North.— T. 11. Moore, Arkansas.
Bermuda Grass.
Last winter I received from the Agri
cultural Department at Washington some
Bermuda grass seed of which 1 sowed in
April. This grass is now about six inches
high with no seed stems yet formed. 1
pulled some of it and was surprised to
find that, instead of the cane-like roots
that all Bermuda I ever saw had, this
grass presented fine roots like crab grass,
and tbe grass was much tenderer than the
kind 1 had known. When all form seed
stems l some of eacti kind to
Prof. Agricultural and .Me
chanical of 511ssissippi, for iden
tification.
I have rear seventeen acres
of red have a fine catch; also
have a sm of Alfalfa clover that is
doing am certain that if every
farmer in the South had one acre of Al
taifa for each horse and cow on his farm,
that it would furnish plenty of food for
twelve months in each year. In regard
to the Bermuda grass I think this thing
should be investigated. J. 11. sloore.
Arkansas Post, Ark,
Florida Fruit Growers’ Association.
There are some very important matters
to be considered at the special meeting of
the association at l’alatka on the 14th of
October, among which is the desirability
of the association arranging for a State
Fair. It was thought by many at the last
fair that the association had best abandon
the idea of a State Fair under their aus
pices and make instead an exhibit by the
“Florida Fruit Growers’ Association” of
their products at some accessible and cen
tral point, at which could be brought to
gether exhibits of the products of its
members and at the same time have the
annual meeting and reading of essays and
discussions of questions appertaining to
their industries. At the Palatka meet
ing, also, must be considered wliat action,
if any, as an association, must be taken
in regard to the Exposition at New Or
leans.
J. S. Woodward, of Lockport, N. Y.,
says that he has grown early lambs for
market for years, but never succeeded in
making any money from them until he
began growing a supply of roots for feed
ing the ewes 60 as to make a free flow of
milk. He prefers mangel wurzels to either
I turnips or sugar beets in part, because the
mangels will keep in good condition for
l feeding until late in winter,
Foreign Grasses.
A gentleman in Alachua county, Fla.,
writes as follows: “Of the introduction
of foreign grasses, there is little show of
encouragement. Numbers of experiments
have been made, many promised well for
a time, in their early growth, but lost
their vigor before half matured. Our nat
ural grasses form to-day a close green
sward and ai e kept low by cattle, there
fore they are inviting and probably, if
i rotected and encouraged, would make
excellent pasturage. * * *
There really seems to me to he no great
trouble iu making a pasturage from our
natural grasses in the i>ine'woods. Every
roadside shows 3ome variety that sur
vives both our summers and winters.
They are eagerly eaten by stock. Have
you paid any attention to "these?”
Farm and Stock Notes.
slr. George H. Lee, Greece, N. Y., has
averaged 35 bushels of wheat per acre on
a 100-acre field, and sometimes on smaller
surfaces harvested as high as 43 bushels
per acre.
Don’t neglect to pinch off the sprouts
which appear on the stock where you set
grafts this spring or budded last season.
Throw all the vital force of the stock into
the new growth.
The heaviest fleece so far reported was
taken from the celebrated rain “Lane,”
owned by John Bell, of Tekonsha, Mich.,
and is of the almost unparalleled weight
of 44% pounds, at 364 days’ growth.
The nurserymen recently held a conven
tion in Chicago and agreed to make large
exhibits at the coming Exposition at New
Orleans. Edgar Saunders, of Chicago,
was elected President of the association
and D. SV. Scott Secretary.
A farmer with only 3 acres living near
Lackawanna, N. Y., cleared $560 from his
farm last year, the products being onions,
strawberries, raspberries, currants, seeds
and herbs. Besides that amount quite a
large number of cans of fruit were put up
for family use.
Pastures ate frequently reduced to less
than half of their natural production by
being eaten off too closely. If the ground
be too bare it dries out until the blades
anu roots of the plants are scorched. If
enough grass be left to protect the soil
and keep it damp, the pasture will he
much more productive.
A Western dealer gives the following
figures showing the weight of different
varieties of the apple: Ben Davis is light,
weighing only 40 pounds to the bushel;
Vandevere, 43; Winesap, 44; Rome Beau
ty and Rawles’ Janet, 47/ Baldwin, 48,
and Little ltomanite, 49. A bushel of
large apples weighs more than small ones.
At this season of the year it is some
what difficult to keep eggs in good condi
tion. One reason, perhaps, is that the
fowls allowed to run at large pick up more
of their living and, getting less grain, the
original quality of the egg is not so good.
Careful attention to feeding anil giving
plenty of pure water are as important now
as at any season.
The raising of carp has become very
popular among gentlemen farmers anti
even among the owners of small country
residences around the suburban part of
Philadelphia. Almost every pretty little
secluded place has its pond stocked with
carp. They are easy to get, as the United
States Fish Commission supplies them
upon proper application.
A writer in the Mirror says skillful
milking not only means gentle, rapid and
complete extraction of the milk from the
udder, but it means more than that. 51uch
butter is ruined before the milk has left
the barn. Cows should be brushed clean
before milking. The tie-up should be kept
always clean and always well ventilated,
so as to be quite clear from foul odors.
Many colts are stunted for life because
their mothers are poor sucklers at best,
and poorer still if required to do hard
work on the farm as well as rear their colt.
Such colts should be trained to drink cow’s
milk. A little trouble will get them in the
way of i and put SSO on their ultimate
value. If the cream is needed give skimmed
milk. There is no better market for it
than the colt.
E. G. Partridge, of Wisconsin, present
ed a suggestion at a meeting of the sliu
nesota* Horticultural Society relative to
employing two sorts of staminate straw
berries, one early and the other later, to
fertilize the pistillate blossoms which
open early and afterward those which
come late. The absence of late pollen is
believed to be the reason of so many small
and imperfect berries lrom the late blos
soms.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man says that in 1882 the Baldwin trees
in a small orchard were nearly all pro
fusely filled with blossoms. From three
trees' which were more abundantly tilled
than the rest, all the blossoms were
sheared. Last year these three trees
blossomed profusely. The correspondent
is firm in the belief that the bearing of
fruit trees may he changed at will by the
shearing plan.
It is asserted that milk from a cow suf
fering from tuberculosis is nqj only liable
but absolutely certain to produce that
disease in the human being who drinks it.
It is believed that there are many cows
so afflicted in New York, and that they
are responsible for many deaths occur
ring from tubercular consumption. How
urgent a subject this is, may be inferred
from the fact that the deaths in New York
city from tuberculosis hist year numbered
5,280.
A prize essay on corn recommends farm
ers to plant on rich sod land, making the
soil very fine. Plant with the horse
planter in drills, a kernel every foot.
Drag with a Thomas harrow once before
the corn is up and twice afterward. Cul
tivate every week with a lino implement,
hut never deeper than two inches. Cease
cultivation when it becomes difficult to
get tbe horse between the rows. Cut up
when the corn is glazed and bind with
fine enameled wire. •
Taklngthe best specimens of steers, says
the lowa Rqn&tcr, it is found that by. the
best system of feeding in the first year a
calf or steer can be made to improve 1,335
pounds. The second year the steerwill gain
835 pounds, third year 702 pounds, and
fourth year 577 pounds. Thus it is seen that
in the average for the three years after the
first the increase is not half what it was
the first year, while the animal partakes
of twice as much food and represents
twice as much capital.
Peter Henderson, the gardener and
seedsman, of New York, says he has sold
S6OO worth of early cabbages from a single
crop on one acre; , that be followed it with
a crop of lettuce, which brought $l4O, and
the lettuce with celery, which brought
S6OO. As this is equal to $1,340 from one
acre it shows what may he done under a
high system of culture, and though it is
not to be expected that many persons will
lie as successful as Mr. Henderson, yet
there are opportunities for much larger
returns from one acre than is usually se
cured.
Prof. Levi Stockbridge advances some
interesting ideas concerning the “dew
theory,” as formerly held and the later
views on that subject. The earth is al
ways some ten degrees warmer than the
air! Moisture is always going from the
earth to the air, even when it is frozen.
This moist air is condensed as it comes in
contact with the colder air immediately
above it, and it is found upon the grass
and plants, and we call it “dew.” Inves
tigations have been made lately on tbe
high and low Alps in Switzerland, and
4fce same results were obtained as were
reached at Amherst in the speaker’s ex
periments a few years ago. The reason
why there is no dew when it is cloudy in
the morning is because the clouds act like
a comforter or blanket, and prevent the
lower stratum of air from cooling suffi
ciently to condense the moisture when it
rises from the ground.
A well regulated garden cannot he con
sidered complete unless it contains a se
lection of some of the principal varieties
of sweet, aromatic herbs for soups and
other dishes. Some of them are really in
dispensable, and almost all herbs are ser
viceable in various culinary operations.
In most gardens the herbs are found to
occupy some out-of-the-way situation,
smothered with weeds and grass, and it
is very fortunate if a variety or so can be
found when wanted for use. Although
herbs in general can be grown in almost
any soil or exposure, they should not be
placed under trees or in shaded situations.
They love a moderately enriched, deep soil.
Along the sunny side of the garden fence
is as good a situation as any. A little
patch of a tew plants of the principal !
kinds will furnish an abundance of fresh
herbs for an ordinary sized family.as well
as a supply for use in a dry state*. To se
cure them in the greatest perfection for
the latter purpose they should be cut on
a dry day, just before they commence to
blooin, tied into small bunches and hung
up In the shade to dry. When dry rub as
fine as practicable and pack in" jars or
bottles, corked as tightly as possible to
exclude the air.— Practical Farmer.
The organ of hearing is generally dou
ble, but not always located in the head.
In the clam it is found at the base of the
too’; some grasshoppers have it in the
fore legs, and in many insects it is on the
wing. Lobsters and crabs have the audi
tory sacs at the base of the antennse,
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
Rosa Water is a peculiar flavor for a
| sponge cake, but it is highly recommend
ed, especially if the cake is to be served
with ices.
Wbt the top of a dish of masked pota
toes with miik and 60t it in thcovtnto
brown. Let it stay there until there is a
brown crust over it.
Cucumber Catsup.—Take fair-sized
cucumbers, such as are sliced for table
use. Feel them and grate. To two quarts
of grated cucumber put eight onions
chopped fine, two tablespoonfuls ol black
pepper, three tablespoonfuls of salt, one
tea spoonful of cayeune pepper, one pound
of white sugar, and bottle, corking and
sealing up tight. Cover with vinegar.
A good kklish to take with a lunch i9
made of ham. Pound some pieces of ham
in a mortar, just as flue as you can. Sea
son it with pepper and spice, and moisten
it with clarified butter. Put this into a
mould, or earthen bowl, and press it in
very tightly. Put it into the oven for half
an hour. Let it get perfectly cold. It can
then be cut into thin slices* It is nice ii
used for a filling for sandwiches.
For some uses, and in some places in
a room, a square shelf—that is, one that
is almost as wide as it is long—can be ad
mirably adapted. Cover it with felt and
put a band of velvet around the edge of
the lambrequin, which should not be more
than a quarter of a yard deep. Fancy
stitches of silk above the velvet are very
pretty. The edge may have tassels.
These seem to be preferred to fringe at
present.
This Receipt for Ginger Cake comes
from an English cook noted for tho excel
lence of her work: Put one pound of but
ter into one pound of flour; add half a
pound of finely-powdered sugar, the rind
of a lemon grated, two tablespoonfuls of
ground ginger and one grated nutmeg.
51ix them together; then heat one gill of
sweet milk, or warm it rather, stir into it
half a teaspoonful of bi-carbonate of soda.
Roll out, cut in square cakes and hake in
a moderate oven.
One of the novelties and luxuries
of the period is banana cake. Take one
cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup
of water or of sweet milk, three eggs,
four cups of flour, three small teaspoons
of baking powder. slix lightly and bake
in layers. slake an icing of the whites of
two eggs, and one cup and a half ol pow
dered sugar. Spread this on the lajwrs,
and then cover thickly and entirely with
bananas sliced thin. The cake may be
flavored with vanilla. The top should be
simply frosted.
To Preserve the Large Plums that
have tough skins, it is necessary first of
all to remove the skins. This may be done
very easily by dropping a few of the plums
at a time into hot water, then with a very
sharp knife removing the skins. Cut the
plums in halves, drop them into a syrup
made of sugar and water. The plums
should he weighed and an equal quantity
of sugar should aside for tbe syrup.
Let them cook so gently that they will
keep their shape. Take" them from the
syrup with a skimmer, put them into the
cans and pour the syrup over them, hav
ing first removed the scum from it.
Oatmeal Drink.— lt is one of the best
recipes printed for gratuitous distribution
by the National Health Society. Put three
tablespoonfuls of coarse oatmeal into three
quarts of cold water and boil it for half
an hour; while hot sweeten it to taste
with brown sugar. slost people prefer it
strained. This is very good with cocoa,
about half of each, as a hot drink, or it
can be flavored with cloves and lemon peel
boiled in it. If it is to be drank cold one
half ounce of citric acid may be put to
each two or three gallons. Lemon juice
is preferable to the acid, but is very much
dearer. Rice or barley drink can be made
in the same way. using broken rice or
barley instead of oatmeal. Any of the
above* are excellent drinks for the harvest
field and very cheap.
Cabbage Salad.—One small head of
white cabbage, sliced fine with a keen
knife; chopping bruises salads of the
green kinds; one-half cup of vinegar and
the shine of boiling milk; one tablespoon
ful of. butter, one beaten egg, one table
spoonful of white sugar; pepper and salt
to taste. Scald the milk in one saucepan,
the vinegar m another. Put into the lat
ter. when hot, the butter, sugar, pepper
and salt, boil up once and stir in the shred
cabbage. Cover closely and draw to the
side of the stove, where it will scald, but
not boil. Pour the hot milk on the beat n
egg. Return to the fire and stir until it
begins to thicken. Turn the cabbage into
a bowl, pour the hot milk and egg upon
it, and mix thoroughly with a silver fork.
Cover the bowl while the contents are hot
ancl set away where it will cool suddenly.
Eat cold.
BITS OF SCIENCE,
A solution made of a tablespoonful of
saltpeter to four quarts of water is one of
the best antidotes for the rose-bug and
currant-worm. It is also death to the
cabbage-worm. Apply with force pump
or garden syringe.
There is less blood in cold-blooded than
in warm-blooded animals. Tbe larger the
animal the greater is the proportion of
blood to the body. slan has about a gal
lon and a half of blood, equal to one-thir
teenth of his weight.
Ten quarts of normal alcohol have been
made from six pounds of watermelon pulp.
Free sulphuric acid was added, the mix
ture was warmed and the sugar was
changed into glucose and levulose. This
product ferments directly.
The toad, frog and chameleon capture
insects by darting out the tongup, which
is tipped with glutinous saliva. The boa
constricting serpents crush their prey in
their coils before swallowing, and the ven
omous snakes have a poison fang.
Luminous water-proof paper may be
made from a mixture ot forty parts pulp,
ten parts phosphorescent powder, one
part gelatine, one part potassium bichro
chromate and ten parts of water. It can
often he used where luminous paint can
not.
A German invention, it is said, will pro
tect iron from rust. Ordinary oil paint,
mixed with 10 per cent, of burned magne
sia, baryta or strontia, as well as mineral
oil, neutralizes the free acid of the paint,
and the alkaline reaction protects the Iron
from rust.
It is now claimed in the Scientific Amer
ican that dogs may be used in mines not
only to draw small earts but to patrol the
mines and detect the presence of gas.
They can be made to go through the mine
and return, and the latter will be a favor
able indication.
An engineer in siichigan has invented
an attachment to steam cylinders which
condenses the waste from the steam cock
on starting the engine. It does away with
the hissing noise which frightens horses
and worries men. Tbe engineer has been
offered $47,000 for the patent.
Workmen in the St. Gothard tunnel
were affected with a peculiar disease,
which seemed to be caused by minute
worms. The same malady has been ob
served among brick makers. From the
latest Researches it appears that the
worm® develop in muddy water, which
tlr* workmeu carelessly drink.
A cement which resists damp and firmly
attaches labels to iron and. tin work con
sists of a paste ot rye meal and a little
solution of glue and water, to which as
much Venetian turpentine is added as
may be required. Ordinary flour paste,
when we!! made, and some glycerine thor
oughly incorporated with it, does very
well for fixing printed label 9 on tinned
sheetiron boxes.
A possible clew to the sudden fatality
produced by chloroform in some eases,
even when administered by the mostcau
tious experts, is furnished 'ey tbe just
published experiments of M. Dubois, of
Paris, who finds that this agent acts witn
extraordinary rapidity on criminals after
the introduction of alcohol into the sys
tem, and terminates in death with start
ling abruptness.
It is found that the seaweed known as
“zostera marina,” or wrack, can be made
to yield, by treatment with mineral acids,
a substance quite resembling horn, capa
ble of being manufactured into forms and
of receiving color irom pigments. This
substance is called algin, from alga, the
generic name of one common species of
seaweed. The crude material is obtaina
ble in large quantities on all exposed
shores.
Plies! Piles!! Pile*!!!
Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itch
ing Biles. One box has cured the worst
cases of 20 years standing. No one need
suffer five minutes after using William’s
Indian Pile Ointment. It absorbs tumors,
allays itching, acts as poultice, gives in
stant relief. Prepared only for Piles, itch
ing of the private parts, nothingelse. Hon.
J. M. Coffenbury, of Cleveland, says; “1
have used scores of Pile euros, and it
affords me pleasure to say that I have
never found anything which gives such
immediate and permanent relief as Dr.
William’s Indian Pile Ointment. Sold
by druggists and mailed on receipt of
Erice, sl. Sold by O. Butler, Savannah,
dppman Bros., wholesale agents.
gottgtirg.
KM~ CAPITAL PRIZE. 573.000. -yfr
Tickets only 85. Shares In proportion.
L,S.L.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO.
" fte do hereby certify that we tujyrrisa fils
arrr.nymT.mis for all the Monthly and. Seuti-
Atmval Dravnnqs of the Louisiana State Lottery
aid < i j trson onwy* and control
the Drawings tkeviselres, and that tie sons ars
■■ nd to.*\ honesty, fiti-mess, ant m good
faith toward ail parties, and toe authorise the
Company to use this certificate, with facsimiles
of rifnaturt* attached, in in -
rnsnU.”
COMMISSIONERS.
Incorporated in IS6S for 25 years bv the Leg
islatnre for educational ana charitable pur
poses—with a capital of % 2,000,000 to which a
reserve fund of over SSSO„OiX) has since bees
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise was made a part of the present Stats
Constitution, adopted December 2, A. D. 1879.
The only Lottery ever voted on and in
dorsed by the people of any State.
It neper scales or postpones.
Its Grand Sixole Number drawings take
place monthlv.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A
FORTUNE.—Ninth Grand Drawing, Clas*
I, in the ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW OR
LEANS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 8. 1884—172d
Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE 875,000.
00,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each. Frac
tions in Fifths in proportion.
list or PRIZES.
I Capital Prize $ 75,000
1 Capital Prize 25,000
1 Capital Prize 10,000
2 Prizes of SB,OOO 12,000
5 Prizes of 2,000 10,000
10 Prizes of 1,000 10,000
20 Prizes of 500 10,000
100 Prizes of 200 20,000
800 Prizes of ICO 80,000
500 Prizes of 50 25,000
1,000 Prizes of 25 25,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of $750 $6,750
9 Approximation Prizes of 500 4,500
9 Approximation Prizes of 250 2,258
1,967 Prizes, amounting to $265,500
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the cilice of the Company in New
Orleans.
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ing full address. Make P. O. Money Orders
payable and address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
POSTAL NOTES and ordinary letters by
Mail or Express (all sums of $5 and upwards
by Express at our expense) to
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New Orleans, La.,
Or M. A. DAUPHIN,
607 Seventh street, Washington, D. C.,
Or JNO. B. FERNANDEZ,
Savannah, Ga.
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ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY,
(A GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION),
Drawn at Havana, Cuba,
EVERY la TO 14 DAY'S.
Tickets, $2: Halves, sl.
See that the name Gould & Cos. is the on
ticket.
Subject to no manipulation, not controlled
by the parties in interest. It is the fairest
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-For information and particulars apply to
SHIPSEY CO., Gen. Agents, 1212 Broad
way, N. Y. City, or J. B. FERNANDEZ, Sa
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smohittg uTobarto.
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GIVEN AWAY
To SMOKERS of Blackwell’s
Genuine Bull Durham
Smoking Tobacco.
This Special Deposit Is to guarantee the
payment of the 25 premiums fully described
in our former announcements.
The premiums will be paid, no matter how
small the number of bags returned may be.
Office Blackwell's Durham Tobacco C0.,1
Durham , IV. C., May 10, 1884. i
r. A WILEY, Esf.,
Cashier Bank of Durham, Durham , IV. C.
Dear Sm:—We inclose you $11,950.00, which
please place on Special Deposit to pay premium*
for our empty tobacco basu to be returned Dee.
loth. Yours truly. 3. 8. CARR, President.
Office of ihe Bank of Durham,)
Durham, If. C„ May 10,1384. J
3. S. CARR, Esq-.
Prest. BlackweiVe Durham Tobacco Cos.
Drab Rib:—l have to acknowledge receipt of
*11,950.00 from yon, which we have placed upon
(Special Deposit for tbe object you state.
Voutb truly, P. .A. WILEY, Cashier.
None genuine without picture cf BULL on the
package
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7 7 particle of Mercury. Potash, lodine, Ar
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