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Since then I have used only two and a half
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Respectfully, E. ELLEN PATMAN
Lexington, Ga., May 12. 1878.
Miss Ellen Patman is my daughter, and
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D. W. PATMAN
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THE SHAKERS.
description of a settlement
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Many More Women than Men—Silent
While They Eat—Separate Stair
rses for the Sexes—
Their Songs.
“ When I visited the Canterbury settle
ment in New Hampshire a little over a
year ago, * said a lady to a New York
reporter, “I found three families,
who live and are governed separately.
They worship in one church in summer,
but in winter, for convenience, occupy
halls in their separate buildings. The
family I visited was the first, or ‘church
family.’ My daughter was with me.
“We arrived in the evening at the
society’s office. A cheerful looking
woman, who we afterward learned was
Sister Elizabeth, opened the door wide
to our rather timid knock. She wel
comed us kindly to a sitting room and
bade us be at home. Her costume was
like that of all of the women. A gray
pongee gown, cut with a plain round
waist,. loosely fitted her figure. The
full skirt was plaited in small uniform kilt
plaits. A large white handkerchief was
folded about her neck and across her
breast in some wonderfully pretty way,
which I could never afterward imitate!
A close little cap of lace, like a milliner’s
bonnet frame, covered her blonde hair,
which was combed straight back and
fastened in a flat knot behind. The
shaker costume, though ugly in itself,
made Sister Elizabeth took very sweet.
It just suited her quiet eyes, her gentle,
smiling mouth and reposed manner.
“The Shaker women wear a hoop of
some contrivance which extends the skirt
with a straight, gradual slope from waist
to hem. It gives them a stately look.
The women, with rare exceptions, are
thin and pale, with a sober and sometimes
severe countenance. We saw no plump,
happy faces. Even the children look old
and staid, and speak with a something
which sets them apart from one’s
sympathy.
‘‘l spoke of the women first, because
they interested me most, and besides i
they outnumber the men as five to one.
They are remarkably refined and intel-!
lectual for their class. The men, with
the exception of the ciders and a few |
others, are inferior to the sisters in all
respects. They are, however, extremclv
kind and courteous to the women. The
sisters look after their wants with mother
ly care, each of the elder sisters having
charge of the clothes and general well
being of one or two brothers.
“The Shaker settlement is very pros
perous in a worldly sense. There are va
rious buildings belonging to the society;
homes, a school-house, a workshop for
the men, aud also one for the women
and another for the children. There is
a printing office, an infimary presided
over by an elder sister, and containing a
full equipment of drugs nnd medicines. I
“Of course the mam support of the
colony and its income is from the farm,
which is large and under a high state of
cultivation. It is well stocked with
horses and cattle, but they do not raise
either. Pigs there are none, and pork is
Erohibited as unclean food. Some of the
orses are fine stock.
“The house in which we were enter
tained belonged to the first family. It
was large and square. The halls and
staircases were on opposite sides of the
house, one for the men and the other for
the women. The floors were of dark
wood, stained and polished. The doors
and casings were stained a peculiar yel
low throughout. Nothing poor or mean
was used in either the furniture or dec
orations. Everything was simple. In
our room large, handsome rugs of soft
wool, made by the Shakers, lay upon the
floor. They resembled Smyrna rugs. In
opposite corners were two white beds,
and in another corner was a little cast
iron wood-burning stove, plain and
smooth. In it a fire crackled cheerfully.
These stoves are in every room. The
curtains in all the houses were most
dainty and novel. They were of white
linen, suspended by brass rings on a
bright brass rod. 'When the curtains
were down each side looked like a half
open fan.
“A tall, old-fashioned clock stood at
the head of each staircase. The clocks
are as old as the house itself—one hun
dred years. Meals are served to guests
in a room and at a table by themselves.
This hardly seemed hospitable, but Sis
ter Elizabeth explained that the Shakers
always ate in perfect silence. The
brothers and sisters sit on opposite sides
of the table.
“The children are well advanced in
reading, arithmetic and particularly in
mnsic and singing. Even the smaller
children read music readily. The pro
ficiency in music is owing to the fact that
the teachers themselves have obtained
the best possible instruction. The whole
family, at times, when the farm work is
light, drill in singing for two half hours
daily. All sing, and it is remarkable
how many fine voices there are. Their
religious hymns and anthems have been
written entirely by Shakers, and are
therefore peculiar. Most of the hymns
are choral, and are sung with great
spirit.' Like the Moravian sacred songs,
there is much repetition of words and
music.
“The Shakers show wonderful physical
strength when they sing. They sit and
sing, march and sing, and they kneel
and sing endless verses, the last note al
ways as clear and strong as the first.
There is a ring of triumph and victory
about the hymns, though many are tender
and sweet. Singing is indeed worship with
the Shaker. We attended a Sunday ser
vice. In closing, they united in a hymn,
repeating one verse many times; then,
kneeling, still singing, they repeated it
yet again. At last, closing their eyes as
in prayer, they sang it for the last time
very softly. These were the words:
“Watching and praying I find you,
Oh, my beloved, my own!
Trusting a Fathers rich promise,
I will not leave you alone—
I will not leave you alone.
Though through the desert I lead,
Or apart in the mountain ye pray
For strength in the hour of need,
I never will answer ye nay—
I never will answer ye nay.
“ I shall never forget the looks of ex
altation in the pale faces of the women,
or the strange feeling of awe that came
over me as I held my breath to catch the
last faint lines of the hymn.
“The service, which had consisted of
a short scripture reading, a brief address
by the minister, Elder Henry, and re
marks by several members, was mostly
composed of singing. Elder Henry
Blinn, the minister, had a frank and
open face, and was the spiritual head of
the familv. He was very agreeable and
cultivated, and an entertaining conversa
tionalist. The women attended services
bare-headed, except for the little lace
cap, leaving their bonnets outside. They
marched in, and all remained standing
through the first part of the service.
After the ssim-in they mure bod about In
a sort of figure, singing and waving, or
'shaking 1 ' their hands, with upturned
palms. ' There was uothiug indecorous or
undignified about the movement. Their
fervor seemed like true exaltation cf
spirit and found full expression in their
singing and in their faces.”
Newspaper Advertising.
I -liould judge, that the jrople of this
country expend at least thirty times as
much money in newspaper advertising as
they did thirty years ago. The vast" in
crease of population ana newspapers ex
plains a considerable part of this, but it
mostly comes from the more general and
freer use made of the advertising col
umns by the general public. All class: s
have come more and more to believe that
the newspaper is the most impersonal,
self-respecting, and effective way of get
ting before the public with what any one
wants to say to it.
Thirty years ago a man who should
spend $2,000 a year in the newspapers
would attract attention as a large adver
tiser; now there are houses expending
almost as much monthly, right along
through the year, without attracting at
tention. Mr. Robert Bonner, wnos
undertakings in all directions have been,
characterized by breadth, boldness, pre
cision, and success, was the first to make
the public familiar with large advertis
ing applied in the most original
manner, to buikl up the circula
tion of his Ledger to a point
never attained before or since by any
journal in this country. Although Mr.
Bonner’s largest newspaper advertising,
was done twenty-fine years ago (for lie
rapidly made his paper successful, and,
having accomplished his purpose, cut
down his expenses in that channel), still
no one has come up- to the “splendid au
dacity'’ of an order for an iusertion of an'
advertisement to erst over $60,000. And
yet in pecuniary matters he is a very ex
act and careful mam
It agrees with my experience that news
paper advertising is profitable. As I look
back over the considerable number of
those whose advertising I have done I do
not recall a single one who judiciously,
pcrsevcringly, and freely pushel good
articles, of whatever kind, in the news
papers, and did not make at least a fair
success, while a great many have gained
ample fortunes. I will not mention
names in support of this statement, as I
could easily do, but the list is a large
one. Indeed, it has been my observation
that it is easier for large advertisers to
make money than to keep it. Often it
comes in so fast that the head gets turned’
and lavish personal expenditures and un
profitable mvKstments swallow up the
fortunes which, had they been longer in
making, would likely have been more
permanent.—J. H. Batek.
The Pigs and the Weather.
Of pigs, I have heard it said, very fre
quently—
“ When swine carry sticks.
The clouds will play tricks
but that- -
“When they lie in the mud,
No fears of a flood.”
first of these couplets is of twofold
interest. I have watched them for years,
to see what purport this carrying of
sticks and bunches of grass might have,
and have only learned that it has noth
ing whatever to do with the weather, or
at least with coming rain-storms. The
drought of summer Is so far a conven
ience as to throw* light upon this habit,
as it did upon fhe uneasy cows. Pigs
carry sticks as frequently then as during
wet weather, or just proceeding a shower.
Furthermore, these gathered twigs arc
not brought together as though to make
a nest, but are scattered out in a per
fectly aimless manner. For some cause,
the animal is uneasy, and takes this cur
ious method of relieving itself. The pro
babilities are that it is a survival of some
habit common to swine in their feral con
dition, just as we see a dog turn about
half a dozen times before lying down.
In an interesting paper on local weather
lore, read by Mr. Amos W. Butler be
fore the American association for the ad
vancement of science, during the Philadel
phia meeting of 1884, the author has an
other version of this saying: “Whenhogs
gather up sticks and carry them about,
expect cold weather.” This is wholly at
variance with what I have observed, for
memoranda record this almost wholly
during the hot weather, and this must
necessarily be the rule with New Jersey
swine, or the local weather prophets
would not have coined the verse as I have
given it.
As to the couplet, it is about as near
meaningless as any saying can well be.
Some rustic rhymer, a century ago, may
have added it as a piece of fun, but it Ins
stuck most persistently. As it stands
now, it has stood for quite one hundred
years. —Popular Science Monthly.
Pies and Civillzat on.
Henry Ward Beecher is credited with
a remark to the effect that pie is the
great sign of civilization. “Where there
is no civilization,” he says, “there is no
pie; but where you find civilization there
also you will surely find pic.
“This is undoubtedly true,” said a
gentleman who ought to know, he being
connected with one of the largest pie
bakeries in the city. “At any rate, in
Chicago, one of the world’s greatest cen
ters of civilization, you find pie in un
limited quantities.”
“Last year we made and sold 1,583,-
842 pies of all kinds, and now can turn
out, if nec-es-ary, 12,000 per day. Apple
pie is the favorite, closely.followed in the
season by whortleberry and in the winter
by mince. Cranberry pie is also a great
thing in winter, and pumpkin, squash
and custard arc in great demand. With
the exception of apple pies, which are
good all the year round, the people de
mand as complete a change of pie as
they do of clothing.
‘ ‘The pie business is. a great institu
tion. We have eighteen wagons out all
day long, and our bam contains forty
five horses. Orders are taken by our
salesmeu from their customers for the
next day’s supply, and the pies are, so to
speak, cooked to order, so that no stale
ones are left on our hands. We employ
about thirty-five men and girls in our
factory, twenty-five of whom board in a
house we have erected for that purpose
on the premises.” —Chicago Ihraid.
A Blade of Grass.
“Gather,” says Ruskiii, “a single blade
of grass, and examine for a moment,
quietly, its narrow, sword-shaped strip
of fluted green. Think of it well, and
judge whether, of all the gorgeous flow
ers that beam in summer air, and of all
strong and goodly trees pleasant to the
eyes or good for food, there be any by
God more highly graced, by man more
deeply loved, than that narrow point of
feeble green. Consider what wo owe to
the meadow grass, to the covering of the
ground by that glorious enamel, by the
companies of those soft and countless
and peaceful spears.”
Learned men tell us that in Latin the
word editor means “to eat.” In United
State# it means to scratch around like
blazes to get something to eat. — Dun*-
piUt Jheau.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A butterfly—a creature supposed to
Hve at most only two or three days—was
last year kept alive in a glass cage in Eng
land for 121 days, its age at confinement
being unknown.
A well-known writer tells of seeing
thousands of small fish migrating across
land from one lagoon to another, in tropi
cal America. He says they moved as
deliberately and as unconcernedly as
though they had been accustomed to the
overland route all their lives.
Experience on French railways has
shown that the double poppy is the best
plant at present known Jor consolidating,
by the interlacing of its roots, the loose
soil of an embankment. The usual
grasses and clovers develop slowly, but
the double poppy grows enough is two
weeks to give some protection to the
slope, and within three or four months
its roots, ten or twelve inches long,, retain
the earth far more firmly than those-of any
grass or grain.
With a lens made of rock salt it may
be possible to photograph in the dark!
The Photographic Nmr.< states that Abncv
has succeeded in preparing plate; which
are sensitive to the rays lying beyond the
red end- of the spectrum—the dark heat
rays—and with such plates used with a
rock salt lens there should be a possibility
of photographing bodies which possess a
high temperature, although that tempera
ture may be far below that needed; to
render them- self-luminous.
There can be little doubt th: tt the piki
is decidedly an exception to the rule thui
fish have little or no intelligence. Even
the size of his brain is worthy of respect.
Its proportionate size, as compared to the
rest of the body, is as 1 to 1,300; in the
shark, whose intelligence has so often
been vaunted, it is only as 1 to 2,500;
while in the tunny it is but as-1 to 3,700.
The only thing that dulls the pi Ice'slntel- i
ligencc is his greed; but even this may
perhaps only be caused by an over
weening confidence in his own gastric
juices. Like many other voracious ani
mals, to swallow seems to be- his only,
joy;, palate he has little or none.
Anew American process for rapidly
drying timber, hides, wool, grain, and
other substances surcharged, with mois
ture, has been attracting considerable at
tention in Englaud. It is-called the cool
dry air process, and consists in passing
through thechamber containing the mois
ture-laden material a continuous current
of furnace-dried air having a temperature
between eighty and ninety degrees Fah
renheit. The moisture is absorbed by
the ail- in so remarkable a manner that
oak logs are reported to have been fin
ished in nine days, although natural dry
ing would have required three or four
years. The temperature is- so moderate
that.delicate fibres, fabrics and chemicals
are not injured.
A curious feature of the National mus
! eum, in. Washington, is the zoological
i section, or the department devoted to
birds’eggs. It has about 42,000 birds’
j fggs. packed away in little trays placed
in cases along the walls of the building.
The eggs in the collection vary in size
from that of the tiniest humming bird to
that of the giant bird, whose remains are
found in Madagascar. There is a little
egg of a tiny humming bird lying in a
diminutive nest. The humming bird
that made the nest and laid the eggs is
the smallest bird in the world. The lit
j tic egg has a length Or long diameter of
I three-tenths of aft I rich, and a short di
ameter of three-hundredths of an inch.
The nest is one-twentieth of an inch
across, one wav, and ninety-two- one
hundredths the other.
Fifty Tears Ago.
A stray copy of the Christian Advocate
and Journal and Zion's Herald gives a
strange glimpse of the world in 1832. It
is dated August 10. Cholera raged in
New York, and carried off one hundred
persons a day. A subscriber in Edin
burgh, Scotland, complains of the postal
authorities, who so detained his papers
that seven copies came to him at once,
for which he was charged £1 11s. lOd.
postage. A little colony had daringly
departed for “the remote river of Ore
gon,” by wayof Vera Cruz and Acapulco.
The report or a fight in Texas stands un
der the heading “Foreign Intelligence.”
Tie paper has several allusions to “the
ente prise of modern times;” and con
denses a report recently published by
Congress “on the use of steam-carriages
on common roads.” Anew vehicle is
described, in the use of which accidents
from explosion are impossible; and the
report closes with the statement that
“railroads, except in very peculiar situa
tions, are behind the age,” and the “de
cided opinios” that “those who embark
capital in constructing them will be great
losers.” But the changes indicated arc
not all secular. The contributions re
ceived by the treasurer of the missionary
society during the preceding week were
$53.27(1), and among other articles pre
pared for the edification of the devout is
one entitled “To Pious Dealers in Ardent
Spirits.” —Christian Advocate.
Origin of Social Games.
The city of Salem, Mass., is celebrated
for her witches, and their persecutors,
and her East Indian commerce in the
past; and for the Indian museum and
“oldest church” at the present day, and
to these we may add the honor of pub
lishing the first modern social games that
achieved any considerable popularity in
this country. In 1843 Miss Annie W.
Abbott, of Beverly, a clergyman’s
daughter, offered tor publication to Mr.
8. B. Ives, of Salem, anew game of cards
which she called “Dr. Busby.” Although
.he price asked was very low, there was
no recognized demand for such merchan
dise and the manuscript was declined,
but. later Mr. Ives decided to undertake
its publication, which proved an immense
an 1 unexpected success. This game will
be remembered by many of the parents
of the present day as among the earliest
ever learned and po sibly played at first
on the sly, fearful of a reprimand should
the report reach headquarters that they
were “playing cards.” —Good Housekeep
ing.
A Strange Disease in China. "
A form of hysterical disease or mania
among adult males at Chang Chow is ob
served. The patient acquires the im
pression that his abdomen is inhabited by
some animal, often a rat, whose excur
sions cause violent pain. Unheard of
efforts are made to expel the intruder,
and often the savings of a whole family
for a lifetime are wasted on bonzes, sor
cerers, doctors and other quacks in hope
of obtaining relief for lt is
reported that in many cases death results
from suffocation in the course of a vio
lent convulsive puroxysm. The patient
leads a double life, marked by the use of
two vo ces of different timbres. Asa
rule his disposition alters in correspond
ence with the change of voice. Moral
ly and mentally he is a different being in
the two states. Whatever occurs during
the period betnkeued by the unnatural
voice is totally forgutteu during the nor
| mat period. ~B<m Fruncimi Hutktin.
A CATTLE ]UN<TI.
i
LIFE Of THE COWBOYS Wtto
GUARD THE HERDS.
The Process of Rounding Up thr
Cattle—A Night Stampede
of Catflfe- Haring a
Theodore Roosevelt, wbo has a cattle
ranch near Medora, on the: Northern Pa
cific railroad says:
“The cowboy is not sympathetic, I am
sorry to say. If a man cannot ride a
horse, he gets little comfort whe* thrown
to the ground. The cowboy (Brides hu
manity into two classes, the sheep-and the
goat#, those who can ride bucking horses
and those who can’t. He doesn’t ear*
much for the goats. At the round-ups
and daring hard periods of work theeow
boy is generous, full of good-fellowship
and brimming over with courage.
“The great round-ups usually occur m
the spring. All the cattle in a certain
section are gathered together, separated
and branded. This is where the hardest
work comes in for the cowboys. My
round-up extends along the Little Mis
souri river for about is about
twenty-five miles wide. Each ranch
owner has a wagon and relays of horse*
for his cowboys. In prosecuting the ar
duous work some sixty or a hundred cow*
boys are in the great drive and each ha*
seven or eight horses. The wagons with
the loose horaes move down the river soma
six or seven miles and establish a camp
there for th* day and night. Then these
hundred or so cowboys stretch across the
cattle region and drive toward the camp.
The line usually converges to a given
point, driving all the cattle into the se
cured section. The bunch of cattle gath
ered are then watched or held together
during the night by a few cowboys. The
rest go to- bad after eating dried pork
and beans, The bed to which they retir*
is very primitive in construction and ii
frequently th* bare ground. About 3
o’clock in the morning the voice of the
cook can be heard: ‘Time for breakfast,
boys; turn out.’ Then there is bustle
until the mount is made for the day’s
drive. Sometimes one cowboy will use
four or Jive- horses in one day. He not
only has to gallop nearly all the time, but
frequently put his horse at full speed.
“What they all dread is the blizzard
at night, which frequently causes the
cattle to stampede. I remember the last
round-up. We had all turned in for a
good- night’s rest. About midnight the
alarm was sounded for us all to turn out
and mount. The fierce blizzard was
sweeping down upon us; rain, hail and
wind# There were about 2,000 head of
cattle in the bunch. It was a wierd
sight. The boys, with waterproofs on
and hats drawn down, were seated like
specters a few feet apart, just in front of
the herd, with their backs to it. The
dark bunch of cattle were as close as they
could get to each other, their long horns
striking together like castanets and their
tails pointed to the wind. The bunch
was fan-shaped.
“In front the cowboys spread out
far enough to overlay either flank of the
bunch. When the cattle would get too
restless the cowboys would turn their
horses and try to drive them into the
bunch. The blizzard increased in fury.
There was a mad bleat from the terror
stricken animals. The cowboys whooped
and made one desperate effort to keep the
bunch together. It was like rushing
against the dashing waves to keep them
back. Roaring, with tails erect and nos
trils distended, they broke through the
cordon and rushed on in every direction
with the fury of the wind and the storm.
Each man was for himself then. With
spur and whip, over rough ground, in
the darkness, lit up by great sheets of
lightning, we dashed after, each cowboy
"selecting a bunch and following it until
day. The bunch I followed carried me
seven or eight miles from the camp.
When I drove it back the next day I had
to saddle a horse and start again. I was
thirty-six hours in the saddle. Just that
experience cenvinced me that the cow
boy’s life was not a path strewn with
roses. It might be supposed that many
accidents take place in stampedes and
cutting our cattle from bunches. I only
remember one that was fatal. The cows
and calves have to be cut out every even
ing from the main bunch and put in a
corral, where the calves are branded.
Cutting out is hard work. A cowboy
rides in the herd and slowly drives the
cow out. When he gets her separated,
then he dashes at her and drives her away
as rapidly as possible. Frequently the
cow suddenly turns and rushes back. If
the cowboy is on a trained horse, it turns,
too, without guiding, and heads off the
cow. One of the cowboys was cutting
out a wild cow riding at full speed. Cow,
rider and horse went against a steer,
rolled over, and, well, the neck of the
cowboy was broken. I rode up and
looked at Mm, as did the other cowboys.
‘He was a good'un;’ ‘Never Hunkered;’
‘Dead shot;’ ‘Dead honest,’and ‘Sorry
he is gone,’ were tha eulogies passed by
the cowboys. They see a good deal of
this thing, and of course cannot give
much time to bewailing the many fatal
ties that occur. When cows and calves
are put in the corals the branding be
gins.”
Horrible Treatment of Children.
Some horrible disclosures just made at
Chalons, in France, ought to remind
those who are in the habit of bestowing
charity on child beggars in the streets
that too frequently they are, in point of
fact, giving money to and encouraging
infamous characters who martyrize the
helpless children in their power. The at
tention of the police of Chalons
was lately attracted by a little
boy with one arm and another phild,
a cripple, wheeling himself about
in a small wooden box. Both children
appeared so utterly miserable and pain
stricken that they were taken to the sta
tion house, where they told a sad story of
suffering. About three years ago, it
transpired, the boys, who are cousins,
aged respectively eight and ten years,
were living with their parents in Barcelo
na. While returning from school
t ogether they were accosted by a man and
woman who enticed them to the railway
station and brought them to Perpignan.
There, and subee |uently at Chalons, one
of the boys was made onc armed, the
other a cripple, the limbs it was requisite
to suppress being bent and strapped up
in a most cruel manner. After a time the
little lad who wheeled himself about in
the box was cut about the loins
with a knife, corrosive liquid being
poured upon his wounds. His logs were
further attenuated by ropes tightly
wound round them; in short, for upward
of two mouths the little martyrs were
operated upon daily, and success having
attended tho horrible process they were
sent out to beg in the streets of tho vari
ous French towns. —ltrooklgn tingle.
One of Uncle Barn's mail hags at Gross
Valley, Cal., was destroyed by the gnaw
ing of some rata, which had a strong
scout for wcd ling cake.
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gimme a dose of salts. Everybody that
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Rambler.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GREENESBORO, GEORGIA.
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