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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
TlIf: niiOORLYS DinNE>S SUN .
DAY SUN DA Y SER MON,
Subject: “How to Treat Company.”
" Given, to Hospitality." —RomaM,
Ih • r* jc that tha multiplication of
i rp anil commodious hotels in our
a,MI vil H' w ‘ wil * " tt " rl r extermi
„ * rw '‘\ ' vl , ll< h Abraham exhibited
X Sl riit. rtamel the angris. and which
h I*.;; : 1 "' ", 1,0 for quests at
, Kate of the city, and which Christ recoz
m/x-i as apo itivo re.|ui,ite f ur enterinz
heaven, wh■„ he ,ir -ldre 1; *1 Wil , a stranz .?
and ve took Me in.” g r
I t,, s ,,. Hk this morning of the trials
nnd icwards of Christian hospitality. The
1 ,r ' al "D* l * corner in the whim and ec
ntricity of the guest himself. There are
re many excellent people who have pro
wl- ranees ~t disposition, and sharp edges of
temp l ament and impliabiiity of character,
win h vnakf them m iv#* nuisance in any
liou.se where they stay. On short iioiiwmt-
? n fV „ v Wll * ,K ’K in to command the houso
hold affairs, onler the employee to unu-ual
wr\ ice, keep 111 ;s* a.sonable hours, use narcotic*
m places offensive to sensitive nostrils, put
iheir feet at unusual elevations, drop the ashe*
of their Havana oil costly tapestry, oiien
Inmans they ought never to ton h. and pry
into things tliey ought never to **■ •, and to
come ini|H rvious to rousing tolls, and have
all the peculiar i lien of the gormandizer or the
< ysjs'ptic, ami make excavations from poor
dentistry with unusual imj.lcinents, an 1 in
a thousand ways afflict the household w hich
j>ro]xjs sto take care of them. Added to all,
they stay too long. Th have no idea when
ui-ir welromo is worn out, and they
Would tie unmoved oven by tin- bless.ng
winch my friend Gerrit Smith, the philan
thropist, asked one morning at his breakfast
table, on the day when he hop and that the
long protracted guests would depart, saying:
1 * I-'U'd, bless this provision, and our friends
who leave us to da- !” Hut, my friends,
then- are alleviations to to nut on their side
of the scale. Perhaps they have not had the
pun* refining influences about th--in in early
life that you have had. Perhaps they have
inherited eccentricities that they cannot help.
Perhaps it is your duly, by example, to show
them a U tter way. Perhaps they are sent to
be a trial for the development of your
patience. Perhaps they were to be intended
as an illustration of the opposite of what
you are trying to inculcate m the minds of
your children. Perhai it is to make your
home the brighter when they are gonev
“ hen our guests are cheery, and fascinating,
nnd elegant, it is very easy to entertain
them, hut when we find incur gusts that
w hich is antagonistic to our taste and senti
ment, it is a positive triumph when we can
oliey the words of my te.cj and lie “given to
hospitality.”
Another trial in tho using of this gxa.ee is
in the toil and exfienso- of exercising it. In
the well regulated household things go
smoothly, but now you have introduced a
foreign element into the machinery, and
though you may stoutly declare that thev
must, take tilings as they find them, the
MnrMui will break in. Tho ungovernabio
stove, the ruined dessert, the joint that
proves to Ik) uninast ieablo, the delayed mar
k> ting, the perplexities of a caterer, the diili
cuity of doing proper work, and yet always
proson table. Though you may say
there shall be no care or anxiety, there will
be cure and there will bo anxiety, in lfi'.H
the ( aptain General provided a very grand
entertainm--lit, and among other tilings he
had a fountain in his garden—a fountain of
strong drink. In it were four hogsheads of
brandy, eight hogsheads of water, twenty
live thous mil lemons, thirteen hunredweight
of Lisbon sugar, five pounds of grated imt
nug, three hundred toasted biscuits, nnd a
boat- built on purpose was placed in the foun
tain, and a boy rowed around it and filled
the cups of the people who came there to Lie
supplied. Well, you say that was a lux
urious entertainment, and of course the
man had no anxiety: lint I have to toll you,
tlial though you had, or propose, an enter
tainment like that, you have anxiety. In
that very thing conies the Divine reward.
o were bom to serve; and when wo serve
.fillers we serve God. Tho Hash on that
woman's cheek, as she bends over the hot
move, is as sacrisl in God s sight as th i flush
mi the elioek of one who, on a hot day
preaches the Gospel. We may s rve God
w ith plate, and cutlery, and broom, as eer
tainlv ns we can servo Him with psalm book
and liturgy. Margaret, (,)ueen of Norway,
and Sweden, and Denmark, had a royal cup
ol ten lips, on wnich was recorded the names
of tin- guests who had drunk from this cup.
And every t ’hrist ian woman has a royal eup,
on which are written all ths names of those
wlio have ever been enteriaineil by her in
* hristian style names not cut by human
ingenuity, but written by the hand -of a
Dunn- Jesus. Hut, niv friends, you are not
t" t >il unnecessarily. Though the fare to
plain, cheerful presidency of the table, nnd
cleanliness of appointments will to good
enough for anybody that ever comes to
your house. John lb-ward was invited (o
house of a noblein.u. He said: “I w ill
com on i-ue condition, and that is, that
'■mi ln \ ,’i in” ) ut potatoes on the table.”
l'.io requisition "ascnmnSi.il u i ii. ■’> rns,
K m ; ■.t IV; sia. under! he same circumstances,
proscribe l that on the table there must be
nothing but bread. Of course th se were
estiva:, s, .jit they are illustrations of the
t u t Hut intro depends upon the banquet-‘rs
than neon tlio banquet. 1 want to lift this
i tea of Christian entertainment out of a posi
tive 1. ~ lan.' into a glorious inducement.
K.ei v elVort you put forth, and every dollar
von give to the ent'rtainmem of friend or
foe. vo i give directly to Christ. Suppose it
were announ .'1 that the Lord Jesus ( hrist
would come to this place this week, "hit
woman in this house would not Iteglad to
wash for Kim, or spread for Him a bed, or
bake bread for Him ! There was one of oi l
who washed for Him. drawing the water
from the well of her own tears. He is com
ing. He will bo hero tomorrow “ Inasmuch
as ye h ive done it to on -of the least of these,
my brethren, ye have done it to Me " In pact—
lire galleries we have often se-n representa
tions of Walter Scott and his friends, or
Washington Irving with his associates; but
all thus*' mi tracings will fade out, while
through everlasting ages, hanging luminous
and eoaspieu >u<, will be the picture of you
a id your Christian guests.
You see we have p isso 1 out from the trials
into the rewards of Christian hospitality;
f nil I, glorious, and eternal. The first re
ward of ChrCti m hospitality is the Divine
lienedietiou. When any one attends to
tins duty. God's blessing comes upon him,
upon his companion, upon his children, upon
his dining hall, upon his parlor, upon his
nursery. The blessing comes in at the front
door, and the back door, and down through
the skylights. God draws a long mark of
credit for services received. Christ said to
Ills disciples: “He that receiveth you. re
ceiveth Me; an! he that giveth a cup of cold
water in the name of a disciple shall in no
wise lose his reward." As we have had so
many things recorded against ns in heaven,
it will lie a satisfaction to have written on
unfailing archives, the fact that in the
month of May, or June, or September, or De
ceiubor. lss;, 'y,> made the blissful mistake
of- ip osing that we were entertaining weak
ni'ii Ike ourselves, when lo! they showed
their pinions before they left, and we found
ou th. it they were angels unawares.
\n ; ocr reward comes in the good wishes
a'i 1 prayers of our guests. I do not think
o:i >'s house ever gets over having had a good
man or woman abide there. George White
iiel.l use.l to scratch ou the window of the
room where he was entertained a passage of
Scripture, and in one case, after he left, the
wh >;e household was converted by the lead
ing .if that parage on the window pane. The
woman of Sir mem furnished a little room
over the wall for Elisha, and ail the ages
have heanl th ‘glorious consequences. Ou a
cod, stormy winter night, my father enter
ta ne l Trueman Us .orne, the evangelist, and
through all eternity I will thank God that
Trueman Osborne stopped at our house. How
many of our guests have brought to use con
dolence. and sympathy, and help! There is
a legend told of St. Sebald, that in his Christ
ian rounds he used to stop for entertainment
at the house of a poor cart wright. Coming
there one day, he found the cartwright
and liis family freezing for the lack of
any fuel. St. Sebald ordered the man
to" go out and break the icicles from
the side of the house and bring them in,
an 1 the icicles were brought into the house,
nud thrown on the hearth, and they began
to blaze immediately, and the freezing family
gathered around and were warmed by them.
That was a legend; but how often have our
guests come in to gather up the cold, freezing
sorrows of our life, kmdliug them into illum
ination, aud warmth, and good cheer lie
who opens his house to Christian hospitality,
turns those who are strangers into friends.
Years will go by, and there will be great
changes in you,' and there will be great
changes in them. Some day you will be sit-
THE -MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, GA„ TUESDAY. .SEPTEMBER 27, 1887.—EIGHT RAGES.
ting in loneliness, wat -king a bereavement,
an ! you will get a letter in a strange hand
writing, anl you will I-x>k at the post -office
mark, and say: "Why, 1 don't know anybody
h ring ;n that city;" anl you will break the
envi-iojie, and th-re you will rea-i the story
of thanks for your Christian generosity long
years before, an l how they have heard afar
off of your trouble. And the letter will be so
full of kindly reminiscences and Christian
condolence, it will tie a planter largo enough
toy aver up all the deep ga-hes of your soul.
A Inn we take people into our houses as Chris
tian guest.-. etak- them into our sympathies
for ever. In Dort. Holland, a soldier with a
sword at his sid<- sfopp-1 at a house, desiring
*° Iging and helter. The woman of the house
at first refused admittance, saying that the
men of tin- house were not at home; but when
he showed Ids credentials that lie had been
honorably discharged from the army, he Was
admitted and tarried during the night. lit
tin- night time ther - was a knocking at the
front d<xr. and two ruffians broke in tode
sjxiil that hous hold. No sooner hail they
come over to ■ il >;• sill than the armed guest,
who had prim'd his pie-e an l charged it
w ith -big-, met them, and telling the woman
to stand Itik. lain happy t> >av. dropped
the tw o a-s uiUing desperadoes dead at his
feet. Vv ell, now there are no bandits prowling
around to do..troy our housx: but how often
it i 1 hat we fin 1 th- -e that have been our
go. tile onie our defenders. We gave them
-hel'er fir-t. and then afterward- in tin great
e.iifli. fs of life they fought for our repu
tation; they fought for our property'they
fought for our soul.
Another reward that ■ om s from Christian
h f ihty is in the assurance that we shall
i.-ive ho itulity shown to us and to oars. In
Die up-tiir,-lings of this life, who knows in
what city or what land we may l>e thrown,
and how much we may nee lan open door?
There may come no such crisis to us, but our
children may be thrown into some such
strait. He wiio is in a Christian manner hos
pitablo has a free pass through all Christen
dom. it may f>e that you will have been
dead fifty years before any such stress shall
come upon one of your descendants; but do
you not suppose that Go 1 can remember
fifty years? And tho knuckle of the grand
child will lie heard against fhe door of some
stran 'or, and that door will op -n: and it will
Ik- talked over in heaven, and it will be said:
“That man's grandfather, fifty years ago,
gave shelter to a stranger, and now a
stranger's door is open for a grandson. ”
Among tho Greeks, after entertaining and
being elite tained, they take a piece of lead
and cut it in two, and the host takes one-half
of the piece of lead nnd the guest the other
half as they part. These two pieces of lead
are handed down from generation to genera
tion, and from family to family; and after
awhile perhaps one of the families in want or
in trouble go out with this one piece of lead
and find the other family with the corre
sponding piece of load, and no sooner is the
tally completed than the old hospitality is
aroused, and eternal friendship pledged. So
the memory of Christian hospitality will go
down from generation to generation, and
from family to family, and the tally will
never be lost, neither in this world nor the
world to come.
Mark this: the day will come when we will
all iV.' turned out-of-doors, without any ex
ception—bare-taint. bare-head, no water in
the canteen, no bread nr J.to haversack, and
we will go in that way into the futuie rv:. -Ad
And I wonder if eternal hospitalities will
open before us, and if Tve will loe received
into everlasting habitations? Francis Fres
cobalil was a rich Italian, and he was very
merciful and very hospitable. One day an
Englishman by the name of Thomas Crom
well appeared at his door asking for
shelter and alms, which were cheerfully
rendered. Frescobald afterward lost all Ills
property, became very poor, and wandered
up into England; and one day he saw a pro
cession passing, an lo! it was the Lord Chan
cellor of England; and lo! the Lord Chancel
lor of England was Thomas Cromwell, the
very man whom ho had once befriended in
Italy. Tho Lord Chancellor at the first glance
of Frescobakl, recognized him, and dis
mounted from his carriage, throw his arms
around him, embraced hint paid his debts,
invited him to his house, and said:
“ Hero are ten pieces of money to pay for the
bread you gave me, and here are ten pie es of
money to provide for the horse you loaned
me, and here are four bags, in each of which
are four hundred ducats. Tako them and to
well-” So it will be at last with us. If we
entertain Christ in the person of His disoiples
in this world, when we pass up iiito the next
country, we will meet Christ in a regal pro
cession, and Ho will pour all tho wealth
of heaven into our lap, and open before
us everlasting hospitalities. And O, how
f nue are the richest entertainments we can
give on earth compared with the regal mu
nificence which Christ will display before our
souls in heaven! I was reading tho account
which Thomas Fuller gives of the entertain
ment provided by George Neville. Among
other things for that banquet they had three
hundred quarters "of wheat, one hundred and
four tuns of wine, eighty oxen, three thou
sand cap ms, two hundred cranes, two hun
dred kids, lour thousand pigeons, four thou
sand rabbits, two hundred and four bitterns,
two hundred pheasants, live hundred
pari ridges, four hundred plover, one
him ire 1 quail, one hundred curlews, fifteen
hundred hot pasties, four thousand cold ven
ison pas! ios.fo ar thousand custards—the Farl
of \\ arwiek a-t ing-as steward —and servitors
one thousand. O, what a grand feast was
that! But then compare it with the provision
which Gol lias made for us on high: that
gi'tat oan iuot hour; the one hundred and
forty and four thous,mu g-m sts: all the harps
and trumpet s of heaven as the —testr-a: the
vintage of the celestial hills poured into the
tankards; all the fruits of the orchards of
God piled on th' golden platters: the angels
of the Lord tor cup bearers, and the onoe
fold sl starry banner of the blue sky filing
out over the scene, while seated at the head
of the table shall be the On ■> who eighteen
centuries ago de -lard: “I was a stranger
and ye too'; Me in.” Our sins pardoned,
may weal; mingle in those hospitalities!
Mr. Depew and the English Lord.
Apropos of English lack of liumor,
the following good story is told of Ben
Buttevworth on the Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew:
Depew was visiting London on one
occasion, and was entertained at a din
ner of the lords of the realm. Being
called on for a speech, he began by say
ing that he arose with much embarrass
ment before such a company for the rea
son that his friend, Gen. Horace Porter,
who usually wrote for him the remarks
he made on such occasions, was absent.
He then went on to make the best of the
situation, and made what lie thought
was a fairly funny speech: but not a
sign of appreciation was given, and he
sat down feeling that he had made a
failure. His feeling was verified when
he heard the presiding lord express sor
row that Mr. Depew was deprived of the
assistance of his friend, for they had
understood he was a capital after-dinner
speaker.
Two days later he met the presiding
lord, who said:
“Oh, Mr. Depew, do you know that
I have come up to London expressly tp
say to you that I did not see the humor
of your speech until the day after the
dinner. I am sorry we were all so
stupid, but now we all agree that it was
a capital speech, and that we wasted our
sympathy in taking your reference to
your friend Porter as in earnest."
“My lord,” said Depew, “did you
ride to London on a freight train
“No. Oh, no,” said the lord, in a
tone of surprise. “I came on the pas
senger train. I never ride on freights.”
Four days later Mr. Depew was as
tonished to see this lord in Paris.
“I have come,” said the lord, “ex
pressly to tell you that I never saw the
point of your question about my riding
to Loudon on a freight train until the
next day; why, sir, that’s a finer bit of
humor than the other about your friend
Porter.”
Mr. Depew was satisfied that to
scatter humor among the English was
unsatisfactory.
It lias always seemed to me that there
is a lot of nonsense in the rule that our
charities—incomparably the loftiest du
ties and the sweetest pleasure of man
kind —must be formed in the dark. Tc
do good is the thing. The doing it in
! secret does not make the action finer.
woman's would.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Eloquent Silence.
A lover orv-e pond re lan amorous plea
For many a day,
Resolved that the tale of bis passion should to
Told in a neat way.
The tend rest terms of the language he
sought,
And conned them till all were arranged as
they ought.
“I'm perfectly certain what I'll say” he
thought,
"Oh, what will she say?”
Yet, strangely enough, when he knelt bv her
side*
It chanced to befall
That none of the eiu jueut speeches he tried
Would come at his calk
His cowardly tongue could say little, at tost,
Hut his brave eyes said much—-and a kiss
said the rest.
While she only hid her fair face in his breast,
•Saying nothing at alii
—Tid-Bits.
An Energetic Girl.
Everybody has seen the hams that
hang in front of the butcher shops and
grocery stores. Heat and cold alfect
them not, nor are they injured by intense
humidity. They look like the genuine
sugar-cured article, but they arc only
sham hams, stuffed with Sawdust.
“Who makes them ali?” a West side
butcher was asked.
“Many ure supplied, like prize pack
ages, to their partrons by large ham-bag
manufacturing houses,” he replied.
“Some are home made. In this neigh
borhood, however, most of them are
bought from an energetic young woman.
Her father used to be a butcher, and was
well liked. About two years ago. he died
suddenly. The girl, his only child, was
left practically penniless. As she
couldn’t find any other work, she set
about making dummy hams. She had
made several for her father. Knowing
her circumstances, the dealers around her
encouraged the girl by taking the hams.
Her trade spread, and it has become so
large now that she has two young girls to
help her. She makes a good living, and
is laying a little money by, I guess.”—
Nieto York Sun.
How Margaret Drew tlie Line.
Our pantry is next to our kitchen,
where Margaret received the visits of
her Mickey. One evening I went down
to the pantry for something, and while
there was an involuntary eavesdropper
on poor Margaret. She had confided to
iY.\? only a.U ,r days before that, shortly
after Lent, we wom’u 1 have to look out
for anew girl, and we consequently re
ceived Mickey with more good wilt' than
before he had declared his
although we were sorry to think we
would lose Margaret. Ou the evening
in question Mickey was in the kitchen,
where Margaret was finishing up her
work. After the rumble of a gridiron
falling to the floor had subsided, I heard
the following dialogue:
“No, Mickey. No, you cannot.”
“Ah, Maggie, dear, gi’ me one kiss
from those sweet lips.”
“Mickey,” replied Margaret, in astern
voice, “you must own the bowl before
you claim the sugar.” I recommend
Margaret’s views to the serious considera
tion of young ladies -who are unable to
decide what is the proper conduct for
engaged couples without writing to the
newspapers. — St. Louis Post Dipatrh.
A Live Stock Reporter.
A New York letter in the Philadelphia
Press says: A striking figure on the
thoroughfare is Miss Middie Morgan,
tall, angular, dressed in women’s clothes,
yet -with a man’s taste as to cut and ma
terial, and wearing a smile as kindly as
her figure looks severe. She never fails
to wrest from all strangers the tribute of
the inquiry: “Who is she?” The an
swer is as surprising as well could be
imagined, for she was once the master
(or mistress) of the King's stud in Italy,
and is now the best posted authority on
live stock in America. She is not only
interesting, she is remarkable. Those
who are so? fortunate as to know her
apart from her business speak of her as
both brilliant, charming and feminine to
a degree, and in her vocation—the most
difficult, in some places, for a woman to
undertake —she exacts admiration as well
as respect. Whenever I hear the empty
head argue tli.t lovely woman would
not be respected if she cm -e<f politics,
trade, or certain of the profession-- j al
ways think of Miss Morgan going
after day, year in and year out, up to the
cattle pens by the river and out upon the
stock farms and making the wisest men
in that line forget her sex in the admira
tion of her genius.
Flowers in the Hat.
It is the custom in the Tyrol for a man,
when he is engaged to be married, to
wear a bouquet in his hat. The damsel
gives him, every day or two, a fresh
bouquet, picked from the flower pots in
her window. Should she prove fickle,
and jilt the swain, the other young men
of the village assemble under her window
and throw down the flower pots.
A stranger wonders, on seeing so many
men with bouquets stuck in their hats,
why they did not marry, especially as not
a few of them are what we call “old
bachelors.” The explanation is that the
village commune will not allow any per
son to marry, unless he can show that he
has laid by a sum of money sufficient to
support a family.
A lady traveling through Tyrol in a
stell wagon—a cross between a diligence
and an omnibus—overheard the driver
talking to a man at his side on the box,
and complaining of his occupation.
He had worked hard for many years,
he said, to get money enough to marry;
but the sum was far below what it must
be before the commune would give him
permission to marry the woman to whom
he was engaged. It increased so slowly
that he did not know if he should ever
get the coveted permission.
The lady's heart softened toward the
poor fellow, and she gave him a large
pour hoire, or drink money, as the fee is
called.
Sometimes a dozen or more of engaged
young men and women, despairing of
ever getting money enough to secure
the commune's permission, go on a
pilgrimage to Borne, begging their way
on "foot. When there they are married*,
but on their return to the native village
they are fined as a punishment for break
ing the law.— Youth's Companion.
A Lady's Adventure.
Clara Belle, the New York correspond
ent, tells this story: A genuine adven
ture was enjoyed by a lady whom I know.
It proved that the babies of enormous
wealth could tell strange stories if they
could talk. My friend went in pursuit
of a cook. She chased this animal to a
lair in East Sixteenth street, where, in a
towering rear tenement house, dwelt u;
counted families. She had pass.-
through a paved court, in which a drip
ping iiydiaut had formed a hideous pool,
and about the slimy edges played dirty,
miserable children, grimy, unkempt
Utile hoodlums; bnt in the arms of one
of the biggest and filthiest, a girl oT a
ddzeri years, was a sickly child of as
many months that attracted lmr atten
tion. It was an aogcl-fair little creature,
and the pale gold hair shone in that db
mal court,- so carefully lied it been kept
The tiny fingers that lay listlessly on the
grimy old rag of ri petticoat were un
sullied, and altogether the baby was an
exotic among weeds. Tli ■ lady wondered
as she picked her way through the of
fensive place and climbed the stairs to a
murky little room on the fourth floor.
The hunted cook had gone to see a place,
so her sister said. As the visitor stood
talking of the cook's probable return,
she saw on a bed a magnificent cashmere
embroidered cloak, a little cap of rich
lace and a pile of lawn and flannel baby
petticoats. The incongruity of this out
fit with tile squalid room struck her as
forcibly as the pale flower of a child in
the court-yard below,
‘•She's shine to be home by foive,
mum,” said the sister, and the lady
agreed to return at that hour.
Going out, she asked the child nurse
in the yard who the baby was that she
carried.
“It’s me little brother—fwat are ye
giving me?” returned the hoodlum, and
the lady fled, frightened at the impudent
remarks of the gang. Nevertheless at 5
she ventured to return, and as she went
up stairs she overtook a much dressed
and very much flushed young woman
bearing the blonde baby on her hip.
The poor thing’s face was smeared with
dirt, and its little hands bore evidence it
had been creeping on the green and
reeking bricks of the courtyard. Into
the cook’s sister's room bounced the girl,
and while the lady talked to the prospec
tive servant the child xvas hastily cleaned
and put into the rich clothes that still
covered the bed. In the shadow of the
inner apartment this operation was per
formed, while scraps of conversation
about the presence of Tim Kelly and
Andy McGee at Jones’s Wood informed
the lady that the nurse girl had been to
a picnic. My friend hurried away, and get
ting into her coupe, bade the driver never
[ lose sight nf the girl and baby when
; they should come out. In a few minutes
the chase began, up avenue A to Twenty
third street, behind a cross-town car to
Madison avenue iu the rear of a stage,
till the girl climbed out at Thirty-seventh
street and ran along a couple of blocks
to a stately mansion and disappeared in
to the basement. The excited lady went
up the steps, and when her summons
was answered by the portly butler, she
asked to see the mistress at once. The
wife and mother soon hetyd the story.
It wss a fine situation when that nurse
girl was called up and asked about her
afternoon. She had been in Central park
all the time—let her tell it—had had the
baby in the donkey carts and watching
Ghe scups, and then rode down in the
Broadway cars. No words could express
the thanks bestowed ou the informer.
But for the discovery they were going to
take the faithless .creature to Europe.
Time and time again when this delicate
child was supposed to be taking the air
of the parks it had been stripped of its
fine clothes in order to keep them fresfr
dressed in dirty thin rags instead of
warm flannels, and left to contract dis
ease in the foetid courtyard of sicken
ing ent building.
Fashion Notes,
and stripes are popular in cotton
<1 mss matork'r' ' u- -
Fancy shoes in great variety are made
for seashore wear.
Among the newer dress trimmings are
metal embroideries.
Silk is worn more at present than for
several seasons past.
It is said that polonaises and redingotes
are to prevail in the immediate future.
Simplicity and daintiness is the charm
of a toilet. Ladies should remember this.
Wide sash ribbons take the place of
drapery on many of the light summer
toilets.
Jerseys seem to be restored to all their
old-time favor. They are not so plain as
formerly.
Narrow mohair braid will decorate the
basques, panels, wristbands and collars
of autumn costumes.
Silver belts and girdles were never
worn in such large numbers in this coun
try as at the present lime.
Tea-gowns have become universal and
arc made in all the fabrics, from lawn
batiste to satin and velvet.
“naulet--; appear on many of the im
ported a. .... New York dressmakers
are using aV oi mo.oiac.j.
Cotton gowns oi butcher-blue arc m.ta„
with white waistcoats, having straps of
the blue crossing the white.
Black should be worn three months
for a dear friend, and ne year for a
parent. For a busbar wife there is
no set time nam
Gray is th lor for tailor
made gowns. es are relieved
in the majority oi by a red hat or
bonnet or red parasol.
Dresses of checked material are now
so draped that all the checks fall diago
nally. This arrangement is particularly
becoming to tall figures.
While in mourning, jewelry should
not be worn, with the exception of the
watch, which may be, providing a black
silk guard is worn instead of a chain.
Masculine fashions are adopted by
ladies in walking and other dresses for
outdoor wear, and many ladies find these
fashions more becoming than any other.
Plain dress skirts are the order of the
day. To hang well they should have a
foundation skirt. In fact, their good ap
pearance may be said to depend entirely
upon this.
Flannel, serge, faced cloth and cheviot
are employed in the making of misses’
riding habits, and they look pretty and
appropriate when finished with braid or
machine stitching.
Fancy cream canvas is a popular dress
material. It is made up with full bodices,
crossing over vests of moss green velvet,
which is also used for collars and cuffs
aud upon the skirt.
It is predicted that long velvet redin
gotes, with satin skirts, will be exten
sively worn this coming fall. Indeed,
many velvets are now worn, notwith
standing the torrid weather.
An odd shade hat was of coarse straw
worked all over with white wool. The
crown was very pointed, and the sole
decoration was a wreath of corn flowers,
which were carried across the sharply cut
brim.
Misses are wearing dresses of pure
white book muslin, with row upon row
of quite narrow white silk ribbon. The
bodices are trimmed with rosettes of the
ame, and loops are carried round the
neck and waist.
For traveling purposes, especiallv an
cean voyage, there is nothing sfirpass -s
ue camel’s hair in beige, dark fawn, but
ernut and dun brown shades, and the
navy blue serge, cheviots and flannels,
and traveling costumes are mo-tly of these
materials. __
THE PEACH CROP.
MOW THE FRUIT GETS TO THE
NEW YORK MARKET.
f arly Feaches—Annual Crops From
New Jersey and Delaware—
Parkers, Growers and
Commission Men,
all the fruits that come to tlic New
York market during the summer season,
peaches are probably the most highly
prized. They come from widely different
sections. The first supply comes from
North and South Carolina and Georgia.
The number of these is very small, not
more than five or six hundred baskets a
day being shipped at the height of the
season. The gross receipts from this
section of the country would not amount
to the aggregate sent by some large New
Jersey or Delaware grower. This fruit
is generally out of the market before the
Delaware and New Jersey peaches make
their appearance.
From along the Hudson river this
year the markets have the first crop they
have had from that part of the Country
for a number of years. Owing to changes
in the atmosphere or peculiarities of lo
cation, it is only once in four or five
years that a crop is received from this
section. The farmers are planting a great
many peach trees, and are making strong
efforts to develop the industry in that
part of the State. This season, for the
first time in ten years, the western part of
New Y"ork State has had a good peach
crop.
From nearly all places peaches are
shipped in baskets; from some stations in
Delware they are sent in crates. A basket
is supposed to contain half a bushel,
though the size of the basket differs,
those sent from Delaware being larger
than the style used in New Jersey. A
crate holds about a basket and a half.
Individual shipments during a season
will vary from live hundred to ten thou
sand baskets. There are some large
growers who ship as many as from fifteen
to forty thousand baskets.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
peach crop ‘may be formed when it is
stated that last year Delaware sent about
2,500,000 baskets. New Jersey in the
neighborhood of 2,000,000.
The regular peach grower engages
pickers in the early part of the season,
paying good ones from $1 to if!.so a day.
When the fruit is gathered it is packed
in baskets, then taken to the depot in
wagons, and put on board the cars. It is
consigned to some commission house in
the city with whom the grower has al
ready been in correspondence, and they
expect its arrival. Each basket is
. marked,sometimes with the grower’s full
name and sometimes with only his ini
tial. The rate of freight to the city will
vary from 10 to 15 cents per basket, ac
cording to the distance from the city and
railroad competition. The cartage across
the river from New Jersey is 4 cents per
basket. The peaches having been sold
by the merchant at the ruling market
price, he takes 10 per cent, commission
for Ills trouble, and returns tlie balance
of the money to the grower. Settlements
are made wiGb the growers weekly, al
though the commission merchant may
not get his returns iV.- .fl/teen or thirty
days.
Up to tlie present time the growers
have exacted from the commission mer
chant a certain fh-.iiosit on each basket, >
as a guarantee of its safe return. The
commission merchant, in turn, has ex
acted the deposit from his wholesale
customers, and the wholesale customer
has demanded it of the retail grocer. At
the end of the season, when the “basket
account” was settled up, it was generally
found that between these various parties
many baskets had been lost. All the
same the grower had to be paid for
them. This year the retail grocers (many
of whom are thrifty and fat -seeing
Germans) passed a resolution to the effect
that they would no longer pay any de
posits on baskets. Lately the commission
merchants notified the growers that they
would sell the peaches at a fixed price,
basket and all, and that no deposit
would be paid and no baskets returned.
The raising of peaches for the New
York market is a growing interest, and
is increasing, particularly in the State cf
New Jersey. The men who engage in it
do not, as a rule, pay any attention to
the raising of anything else except grain.
Peach trees begin to bear in about three
yea.s, and the chances of resisting the
destructive influences of warm weather
arc as good as with the smaller fruits. So
far as its producing qualities are c
cerned the tree is short-1’ 0,1 „ * iCe . r an
orenrtra r ;„i,ka three or four times
it is destroyed, and a second lot of trees
cannot be set out on the same land for
three or four years. — Harper's Weekly.
llouse-Boats on the Thames.
Summer life in a boa’-house on the
Thames has become, during the last
twenty years, a rage among some thou
sands of well-to-do people. There is an
undeniable charm —at all events as a
novelty, and in fine weather—in the mode
of life. The vessel is fitted with the in
ternal accommodation of a yacht—ac
cording to size—and contains saloon,
sleeping-berths, kitchen and “domestic
accommodation” (as a euphemism). She
is moored under the shade of trees, and
has an awning over the deck (or roof ).
She has her tenders, in the shape of one
or two rowboats or a punt, or a steam
launch, or one or all. She incurs no
rates or taxes, subject to the “registra
tion fees,” 'which are at the present date
propounded in the latest draft of Thames
conservancy by laws, now awaiting the
order of council. She is a cheap substi
tute for a riparian residence, and is handy
as such for a city man who has business
avocations. In 186 J there was, so far as
we cm recollect, only one of these craft
for pleasure residence on the river, and
she belonged to a Bond street perfumer.
There are more than GOO such vessels now
used as habitations on the upper river.
Most of these contain an average of six
i or more residents. The effect of this pop
j ulation on the purity of the stream was
very evident at Ilambledon, below Hen
ley. There was a line of these floating
houses, about a mile and a half in length,
extending pretty nearly from the Begatta
island to the open bathing-place in the
M argrave direction. —London Spectator.
The Oldest Paper Money in Existence.
The olde-t bank note in existence is
said to be one now preserved in the
Asiatic Museum at St. Petersburg. Its
date corresponds to 1399 B. C. It was
issued by the Chinese Government. As
early as 2697 B. C. so-called bank notes
were cun-ent in China under the name of
“flying money." This note bears the name
of the Imperial Bank, date and number of
issue, and the signature of a mandarin,
and contains a list of the punishments
to be inflicted for forgery of notes.
This relic of 3,2**0 years ago was probably
written by hand, as the earliest record of
printing among the Mongolians was 160
A. D.. when the use of wooden tablets
was introduced into China.
HUNGER S MUSIC HOUSE
Masonic Temple, 96 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga.
Largest Wareroom and Most Complete Elegant Stock of
Pianos and Organs!
No Low Grade or Shoddy Instruments.
All Pianos large scale, full 7t octaves, genuine ivory keys, all modern improvements,
elegant finish and fully warranted. All Organs in Solid Walnut Gases Elegant Oosigns.
Fine Finish, Strictly First-das and Fully Warranted. Special Catalogue of Sheet
Music will be Sent Free to any address. If you want anything in tlu- Music Line, send
in vour orders and they will be promptly filled.
All Sheet Music, Music Books & Small Instruments
STIR.XOTXj'X’ C-£>-SXX.
Pianos and Organs sold on long time with monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or vearlv
payments, without interest. The scale of uniform prices adopted by this house are tlie
lowest ever ottered on superh, first class instruments that are cheap enough for every
body and good enough for anybody. Address all Communications to
M. L. MUNGER,
96 Mulberry Street, MACON, CIA.
ATETTNION
FARMERS!
Me make a specialty of your trade, and are anxious to increase our trade in your
county. We cordially invite you to call on us and arrange to do your future business
with us. We keep in stock
BAGGING AND TIES, BACON, LARD, CORN OATS,HAY, BRAN,FLOUR
MEAL, TOBACCO, CIGARS, SYRUP, COFFEE, SUGAR, ETC.
We sell on time to farmers cheaper than any house in Middle Georgia and besides
our regular stock, we sell on time
lilies, Wagons, Cotton Planers, Dry Ms, Boots, Sloes
and in fact anything needed. We otter these extra inducements so as to make it con
venient for you in trading. We have every facility for these outside items, and will
sell as cheap as any one. We have just received anew lot of
Georgia Raised Rye,
Georgia Raised Barley,
Texas Rust Proof Oats.
FERTILIZERS! FERTILIZERS!
We are agents in Middle Georgia for
GEORGIA CHEMICAL WORKS, of Augusta, Ga.,
JOHN MERRYMAX & CO., of Baltimore, Md.
LISTER’S PUKE BONE FERTILIZERS, of Newark, N. J.
MACON OIL AND FERTILIZER CO.,
(Of the latter only Cotton Seed meal.) \\ r e call special attention to our
“SOLUBLE BONE DUST,”
which is the highest grade Phosphate for composting ever offered. We
pay highest price for Cotton Seed.
ROGERS, WORSHAM & CO.
XX i k '■ itl” - ’"six ca
Yill always find the best ready loaded shells and all our shells by machinery.
,nd every shell is accurate to a grain of J > s P e< ’ ,al l”’“ l ordt;r -
A NEW DEL HTURE!
Pins Studs, Ladies Sieve Buttons, Ear Rings, etc. etc. These goods are in latest stj lu>.
narked at reasonable prices and guaranteed as represented. . M
We are always pleased to show and price goods. Very respectfu.iy,
S. F. BECKHAM.
NEW STORE, NEW GOODS!
LOW PRICES!
W. E. DKISKELL & CO.
HAVE OPENED A FULL LINE OF
FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES
Will Reopen Monday, SepiL, IW~ 188'L
THE Departments of Literature, Science, Music, Drawing and Painting
are in charge of the best teachers, under the bfest management.
Those in searcli of a good school will please apply for Cattalogue to
R. T. A,SB UR Y, President.
Or I. R. Branham, Secretary.
W. H. SPENCE, -
AT COLE’S WAREHOUSE
Corner Hill and Taylor Streets,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
IS THE ONLY PLACE THAT YOU CAN BUY THE .
STUDEBAKER WAGON,
WHITE HICKORY WAGON, COLUMBUS BUGGY,
Jackson G. Smith Buggy and Dump Carts.
also whips and harness.
1857. 1887.
CLOTHING AND HATS!
WINSHIP & CALLAWAY,
368 SECOND STREET,
MACON, GEORGIA.
a a yea RS ago thu House began business in this city, T en to give
OU their C; -.miner- the
Best Goods for the Least Money!
Their stock for this season i- I M MKN.SK. and well worthy the attention of the c loj >n j e _
buyers. They return thank-to their many old friends in Monroe, and extend a gen*
invitation to all to call and see * |Sng a
“The Leading Clothiers in Middle Gorgia!"
You can always find big drives on their bargain counters, llig stock of bo\
young mens clothing now opening.