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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
VOL XXXIX.
OUR ONLY DAY.
Were this our only day,
/>!<■! nof our yesterdays and morrows give
Ufo hope and memory their interplay,
How should we l>ear to live?
hot merely what wa ar**,
Hot what we were, and wluit wc are to be
Make up our life ; the near <5nys each n star,
The far <lnys nebulas.
At oneo would love forget
ft* keen pursuits an ! eoy delay* of bllsa,
And its delleioun pan .'s of fori I regret
Were thereno day but thii*..
And who, to win a friend.
Would to the seeretj of hi* heart invito
A fellowship that should begin and cml
Between a night nn I night?
•Coal Kinney, in Chieinnati Tribuno.
A HAMMERFOM) ROBBERY.
g V’q (, ^ a moot point
try ? 'ji/Mi | f Inr >' 1H to ] > n r 1,( *
ffi *\ '
t r. V considered
'> . ~***V/U . f V>" H1>ort a trft,le as ur a
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r/ - rigid tuque is scarcely
its claims ■r^ enough and
to bo considered an art are
vitiated by the .mercenary clement that
qualifics its triumpliH. On tho whole
it set ins to be most justly ranked as
sport, a sport for which no rules are
id present formulated, and of which
the prizes are distributed in an ox
tremely informal manner. It was this
informality of burglary that led to the
regrettable extinction of two promis
ing beginners at Ifammerptmd Park,
The stakes offered in this affair con
fasted cluelly of diamonds and other
personal bric-a-brac belonging to the
newly-married Lady Aveling. Lady
Aveling, as the reader will remember,
was the only daughter of Mrs. Mon
tuguo Pangs, the well-known hostess,
Her marriage to Lord Aveling was ex
tensively advertised in the papers, the
quantity and quality of her wedding
presents and the fact that the honey
moon was to bo spent at Hammer
pond. The announcement of these
Vftlnnblo prizes created a considerable
sensation in the small circle in which
Mr. Teddy Watkins was the undisputed
leader, and it was decided that, ac
compuniod by a duly qualified assist
nut, he should visit the village of Ham
merpond in his professional capacity.
Being a man of naturally retiring
nnd modest disposition, Mr. Watkins
determined to make this visit incog.,
und, after due con 2 -*dilution of the
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“ i.Mfitum»ng a nafnPrtf Smith.
precec in us assistant, who, it was
l as, * V a f* ernoon ’ H C)U * o J,° Ins 1U stay Uln at ou '- Hammer- v 0,1
pom . on, the village of Hammer
pom is ]>erliaps one of the prettiest
l eeornoi s in Sussex ; many thatched
louses si I survive, the fliutlmilt
\ ! U * "/ * lts s l >ire nestling nu
n ie i on n is one of the finest and
i eas restored in the country, and the
thrmurh°wl,iA) Vi 1 b T ktil ‘ P"‘o Ies
U , r ? runa to f lie
er.M.t I,n„ . , y ri ? b 1U , W bat
v .,i .V 1 UUl1 i Photographer i .
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k s i .. mt iir. . \\ v at ... Kins, on Ins arrival . ,
W! h two vjrgia canvases, a brand-new
case . a paint h»x, portmanteau, an
ZTZ, “ ,°
racte.^l,.,„ I Hi to,' UI, 0 CtarlM 111 Its iCj) ict), uoti- Lav
bar and wire coils, found himself wel
Z7lu" l " d^^'n / ‘^ !lsl other ° uan 'j brethren l some curiosity of the
, s rendered the disguise he
had , chosen unexpectedly plausible,
but it intlioted upon lnm a
a > t ftino.in o .e-tntiio conversation
or w no 10 \> as very imperfectly pre
’
Have von exhibited very much ?”
sanl aoung 1 orsou in the bar-parlor
A on< ' b nnd ^ orses » where
xr Mr. \\utkms was skilfully . accumulat
ing local information on the night ol
his arrival.
\ ery little, said . Mr. Yiatkins; _
“just a snack here and there.”
“Academy?”
“In course. Aud at the Crystal
Talace. ”
“l )ui they hang you well?" said
1 orsou.
“Don ( t rot, said Mr. Watkins; ^ “I
don’t like it/’
“1 moan did they put youin a good
place ?
“Whadvcr mean? said Mr. Wat
kins suspiciously. “One ’ud think
you wore trying to make out I'd been
put away.
Forson was a gentlemanly young
man, even for an artist, and he did
not know what being “pmt away”
meant, but he thought it best to ex
plain that he intended nothing of the
sort. As the question of hanging
seemed a sore point with Mr. Wat
kins, lie tried to divert the conversa
tion a little.
“Do you do figure work at all?”
“No, never had a head for figures, ”
said Mr. Watkins. “My miss—Mrs.
I moan, does all that.”
She paints too!” said Forson.
rt Tlmt’s rather jolly.
'G ery, said Mr. Watkins, though
he really did not think so, aud, feel
ing the conversation was drifting a
little beyond his grasp, added, “I
came down here to paint Hammer
pond House by moonlight.”
“Really!” said Porsou. “That'.
rather a novel idea.”
“Yes,” said Mr. Watkins, “I
thought it rather a good notion when
it occurred to me. I expect to begin
to-morrow night.
“What! you don’t mean to paint in
the open, by night?”
“Ido, though.”
“Bnt how will yon see your cauvos?”
“Have a bloomin' cup’s—” beyau
Mr. Watkins, rising too quickly to
the question, and then realizing this,
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18. 1894.
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thing called a dark lantern," he said
to Person.
«*tw Hut its about i new moon, now,
*
it) mi j be the house, i ,, said ..
kins, “at any rate. n \ *h° 1U ’ i*7i’ U
pa 4 ^ i i e r8t and th °
moon , ; afterward.
“Oh!” said l’orson, too staggered
to continue the conversation.
I hey do say, said old Durgan,
the landlord, who had maintained a
respectful silence during the technical
conversation, “as there’s no less than
three p’licemen from ‘Azelwortli on
dewty every night in the
count of this Lady Aveling ’n her
jewelry.”
toward sunset each day Mr. Wnt
kiln, virgin canvas, ear-el and a very
considerable case of other appliances
in hand, strolled up the pleasant
pathway through the woods to Ham
merpond Park, and pitched his appar
fttns in a strategic position command
I tlie house. Hero he was observed
by Mr. Raphael Sant, who was re
I *turning across the park from a study
<.f the chalk pita. His curiosity liar
been liretl h y Por3 ° u ’ H account of
j the now arrival, he turned aside with
the idea of discussing nocturnal art.
Mr. Watkins was apparently aware
of his approach. A friendly conversa
tion with Lady Ilammerpond’s butler
had just terminated, and that individ
tial, surrounded by the three pet dogs
which it was his duty tako for an air
ing utter dinner had been served, was
receding in the distance, Mr. Wat
kins was mixing colors with an air of
great industry. Hatit, approaching
more nearly, was surprised to see the
color in question was as harsh ami
brilliant an emerald green as it is pos
sible to imagine. Having cultivated
an his extreme sensibility to color from
earliest years, he drew the air in
sharply between his teeth at the very
first glimpse of this brew. Mr. Wat
kins turned round. He looked un
noyed.
“What on earth are you going to do
with that beastly green?” said Sant,
Mr. Watkins realized that liis zeal
to appear busy in the eyes of the bnt
ler had evidently betrayed him into
some technical error. He looked at
Sant and hesitated,
“Pardon my rudeness," said Sant;
“hut, really, that green is altogether
too amazing. It came as a shock,
What do you mean to do with it?”
Mr, Watkins was collecting his re
sources. Nothing could save the
situation but decision. “If you come
here interrupting my work,” he said,
:
Sant retired, for he was a humorist
and a peaceful man. Going down the
hill he met l’orson and Wainwright.
“Either that man is a genius or he is
a dangerous lunatic,” said he. “Just
go up and look at his green.” And
he continued liis way, his countenance
brightened by a pleasant anticipation
of a cheerful alfraj’- round an easel in
the gloaming, and tho shedding of
much green paint.
But to Person and Wainwright Mr.
Watkins was less aggressive, and ex
P laiued tbftt the f? reeu was intended
to be the first coating of his picture,
It was, he admitted in response to ft
remark, an absolutely new method,
invented by himself. But subse
quently he became more reticent; he
h0 W ;T n0t Ml
every particular passer-by style, , the and secret added of hia some own
scathing remarks upon tho meanness
of people “hanging about” to pick up
such tricks of the masters as they
could, which immediately relieved him 1
of their company. I
Twilight deepened; first one, then
another star appeared. The rooks
amid the tail-trees to the left of the
house had long since lapsed into
slumberous silence, the house itself
lost all the details of its architecture
and became a dark gray outline, and
then the windows of the salon shone
out brilliantly, the conservatory was
lighted up, and here aud there a bed
room window burnt yellow. Had any
one approached the easel iu the park
it would have been found deserted,
One brief, uncivil word in brilliant
green sullied the purity of its canvas,
Mr. Watkins was busy in the shrub
bery witli his assistant, who had dis
erectly joined him from the carriage -
drive.
Mr. Watkins was inclined to be self
congratulatory upon the ingenious do
vice by which he had carried all his
apparatus boldly, and in the sight of
all men, right up to the scene of op
oration. “That's the dressing room,”
he said to his assistant, “and, as soon
as the maid takes tho caudle away and
goes down to supper, we’ll cail iu.
My! how nice the house do look, to
be sure, against the starlight, and
with all its windows aud lights l
Swopme, Jim, I almost wish I was a
painter chip. Have you fixed that
there wire across the pmth from the
laundry ?’ approached
He cautiously the house
until he stood below the dressing room
window, and began to put together his
folding ladder. He was much too ex
perieneed a practitioner to feel any
unusual excitement. Jim was recon
noitriug the smokingroom. Suddenly,
close beside Mr. Watkins in the bushes
there was a violent crash aud a stifled
curse, Some one had tumbled over
the wire which his assistant had just
arranged. He heard feet running on
the gravel pathway beyond. Mr. W*at
kins, like all true artists, was a singu
larly shy man. and he incontinently
dropped his folding ladder and began
running circumspectly through the
shrubbery.
i was indistinctly vare of two
people hot upon his heels, and he fan
cied that he distinguished the outline
’ of his assistant in front of him. In
I another moment he had vaulted the
low stone wall bounding the shrub-
leap, i:i
U cloSe chase in tbe
through the trees Mr Watkins-was r.
m £’ f n '^ 10 R^ned hand-o\er-hand
upon the hoarsely panting figure in
rc J.? '
e \ tber 3 J )oke , ’ Lnt * a3 Mr • Watkins
pulled M up alongsde, a qualm of awful
doubt came over him. The other man
turned his head at tbe same moment
and gavo an exclamation of surprise,
“It’s not Jim," thought Mr. Watkins,
aad simultaneously the stranger flung
I himself, as it were, at Watkins’s knee,
, and they were forthwith grappling on
the ground together. “Lend a hand,
Bill,” cried the stranger, as the third
1 man came up. And Bill did—two
hands, in fact, and some accentuated
I feet. The fourth man, presumably
' Jim, had apparently turned aside and
made off in a different direction. At
any rate, he did not join the trio.
Mr. Watkins’s memory of the inci
denis of tbe next two minutes is ex-
1 tremely vague. He has a dim recol
lection of having his thumb in the
| corner of the month of the first man,
and feeling Milieus about its sufetv,
and for some seconds at least he held
the head of the gentleman answering
to the name of Bill to the ground bv
the hair. He was also kicked in a
great number of different places, ap
pareutly by a vast multitude of people,
Then the gentleman who was not Bill
fot his knee below Mr. Watkins’s dia
phragm and tried to curl him up upon
it.
When his sensations became less en¬
tangled lie was sitting upon tho turf,
and eight or ten men—the night was
dark, and he was rather too confused
to count—standing round him to re¬
cover. He mournfully assumed that
he was captured, and would x^robably
have made some philosophical reflec¬
tions on the fickleness of fortune, had
not his internal sensations disinclined
him to speech.
Ho noticed very quickly that his
wrists were not handcuffed, and then
a flask of brandy was put in his hands.
This touched him a little—it was such
unexpected kindness.
“He’s a-comin’ round,” said a voice
which he fancied he recognized as
belonging to the Hammorpoud second
footman. •
“We’ve got ’em,” said the Hammer
pond butler, the man who had handed
him the flask. “Thanks to you.”
No one answered this remark. Yet
ho failed to see how it applied to him.
“He’s fair dazed,” said a strange
him.I voice; “tho villains half murdered
to re
better
grasp of the situation, He perceived
that two of the black figures round
him stood side by side with a dejected
air, and there was something in the
carriage of their shoulders that sug
gested to his experienced eye hands
that were bound together. In a flash
he rose to his position. He emptied
the little flask and staggered, obse
quious hands assisting him to his feet,
There was a sympathetic murmur.
“Shake hands, sir; shake hands,”
said one of the figures near him. “Per
mit me to introduce myself. I am
very greatly indebted to you. It was
the jewels of my wife, Lady Aveling,
which attracted these sooundrels to
the house.”
“Very glad to make your lordship’s
^quaiounoe." M ul Teddy Watkins
”1 presume you saw the rascals
making tor the shrubbery and dropped
down on them?”
“That’s exactly how it happened.”
“You should have waited till they
got in at the window,” said Lord Av
eling. “They would get it hotter if
they had actually committed the bur
glary. And it was lucky for you; two
of the policemen were out by the
gates and followed up the three of
yon. I doubt if you could have se
cured the two of them—though it was
plucky of you, all the same.”
“Yes, I ought to have thought of
all that,” said Mr. Watkins, “out one
cannot think of everything.”
“Certainly not,” saidLord Aveling.
“Tam afraid they have mauled you a
little,” he added. The party was now
moving toward the house. “You
walk rather lame. May I offer vou mv
arm?” ‘
And instead of entering Hammer
pond House bv the dressing ento?ed room I
window, Mr. Watkins it,
slightly intoxicated, and inclined now
to cheerfulness again—on the arm of
a real, live peer, and by the front !
door. “This,” thought Mr. Watkins, j
“is The burgling “scoundrels,” in style!” j !
proved seen by gaslight,
to be mere local amateurs un
known to Mr. Watkins, and they were
taken down into the pantry and there
watched over by three policemen, two
gamekeepers with loaded guns, the
butler, an’ostler, and a carman, until
the dawn allowed of their removal to
Hazlehurst paolice station. Mr. Wat
kins was made much of in the salon.
They devoted a sofa to him, and would
not hear of a return to the village that
night.
Lady Aveling was sure he was brill
iantly original, and said her idea of
1’nrner was just another rough, half
inebriated, deep-eyed, brave and clever
man. Some one brought up a remark
able little folding ladder that ha 1 been
picked up in the shrubbery, and
showed him how it was put together,
They also described how wires had
been found in the shrubbery, evi
dently put there to trip up unwary
pursuers. It was lucky he had escaped
these snares. And they showed him
tho jewels.
Mr, Watkins had the sen«e not to
talk too much, and in any conversa
lionsd difficulty fell back on his
nal pains. At last he was seized witn
stiffness in the back, aud yawning,
Everyone suddenly awoke to the fact
that it was a shame to keep him talk
niter hia affray, so he retired ^o
iDom “ rttu
The dawn found a deserted easel
v • u •
f uUU q qq a:nmer p OIK q £[ oase j n comrno
tion# But if the dawn found Mr. Teddy
Watkins and the Aveling diamonds it
did not communicate the information
to the police. —Pall Mall Budget.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
There is constantly in all Japan ar
average of two earthquake shock i
daily.
Wasps rank next to the higher
classes of ants -in point of insect in¬
telligence.
Powdered , . aluminum , mixed , with . ,
biuoxid of sodium constitutes a power
ex pl° s ^' e *
Electricity is now put to use in run
ning sewing machines and turning
clothes wringers. ‘
A singular discovery Corners of the planet
Neptune by two astr working
independently was m ule in 184G.
JZnt T]ip illumination n t the ^ summit vSeiu nt
‘ wa s
the whule of Xorth-ru Switzerland to
distance of a hundred kilometres
It is said that a man iu Philadelphia
has a collection of minerals second
only to one in the world, that of the
British Museum. It is valued at $30J,
000 .
The brain of man i ! the most highly
convoluted of that of any animal iu
the world. The lower the animal iu
the scale of intelligence the smoother
the brain.
The Bulgarian Government has
brought out the tenth number of its
collection of works on national science
and literature, which his been carried
on now for five years.
The head and face have eighty-three
muscles; the neck has forty-nine : tho
thorax, seventy-eight; the abdomen,
thirty-three; the back, seventy-eight;
the upper extremities, ninety-eight;
the lower, 103.
Borocarbide, a new material recent¬
ly prepared in the electric furnace by
the French chemist Henri Moissao, is
a compound of borax and carbon, and
is excessively hard, cutting diamonds
without difficulty.
The root bulb of every hair has five
or six small white filaments, which
are to the bulb wfUvt the roots of au
onion are to that - 'egetable, the means
of collecting and 1 -ringing to it the
proper nourishmu .
l£or the last foi v y years the Academy
o1 Rkiifrdelphia 1 been
mak,i ‘ 2 ' a UiAUU^iii
which now nnmb.4s .well up into the
thousands, It is ttie finest collection
of its kind in the world.
The muscles of the hand reach their
highest perfection in man; no other
animal has a true hand; the muscles
of the eyes, ears and nose show that
several groups, which in the lower
animals are very highly developed, in
man are in au almost rudimentary
condition.
In health and during exercises the
average man has about twenty respir
ations a minute and forty cubic inches
are inhaled at each respiration; in an
hour 43,000 cubic inches of air will be
inspired ; in twentv-foiir hours the’ 1 152 -
000 cubic inches or about cou
tents of seventy-eight hogsheads.
The htat use for as a
mbslitate for lithographic J stones. Its
thfofchpr nnp hind h, , r
On °
i ,
Khino-°as f or surgeon’s tools is o-raduallv dimin
it benls so easily ao 1 oi-i
no wi t with ,?^ unv kiown fo' allov b> im L ^
anitd e UO ° the purposes mrnoses , r,
Poisoning hy the Platypus.
The Australian correspondent or the
Lancet writes: “The platypus has
always been a most interesting animal,
occupying, as ii does, an intermediate
position between reptiles, birds and
mammals; on the hind limb of the
male is a boll ’ w curved spur commu
^mating with ji gland in tne leg in
ranch the sameway as the poison fang
of a snake is connected with the poKon
producing salivary gland. At the last
meeting of the Victorian branch of
the British Medcal Association Dr.
Lalor male a pr.-hminary commumci
tioQ suggestive M the fact that the
?haud of the platypus also secretes
P°^ son> narrated the case of a
1] ^ an wb o was warn Jed in the hand by
3-hisspur of tne platypus and felt stung,
Cellulitus of the arm followed, and
acn 3 e blood poisoning. Ihe subject
3s to be fart er investigated, but, of
course > it is;quite possible that the
®y m pf°ra3 cai.be accounted for by the
inoculation ol-i single wound with the
orc ii nar y mien-organisms oi septi
cae mia.
Wood Oed as Food.
“Did you eve hear of wood being
used for food?’ inquired Amion L.
Yandervate, of lensaeoia, Fia., of the
corridor man atthe Lindell last even
ing. “I travel*! rather extensively
through Siberian few years ago aal
found that a mug the natives along
the northern cost wood in a certain
form is a most ommon and constant
article of diet. The natives eat it be¬
cause they like i.
“Even when fish are plentiful ii
usually forms prt of the evening meal,
as many cleanl stripped larch logs
near every hut festify. These people
know by experinee that the fact of
their eating wo 1 arouses ths svmpa
thy of stran 0 er, and shrewdly use it
to excite pity a-1 to obtain gifts of
tea and Z apaeo. They scrape off
tick layer r. . i: mediately under tK
bark the 1»2 I and choncing r i it fine
mix it with . It is then boiled
in a kettle. ietimes a little lish
roe, milk orlbi’er is mix-d with it.
—bt. Louis Democrat.
korea is governed.
THE KING, ALTHOUGH A VASSAL
OF CHINA, IS SUPREME.
Queer Laws Regarding the Monarch’s
Sanctity—Torturing Witnesses to
Bring Out the Truth.
1 ^ HE of Egypt same China King relation does of that to Korea the to the the Khedive Sultan bears Emperor the of of
Turkey; ho is the vassal of the Chi¬
nese ruler, and this fact, much to his
disgust, is set forth in every public
document that is promulgated, and is
proclaimed to the world far and wide
with the lack of modesty and consider¬
ation for which the Chinese nation is
noted.
Notwithstanding this encroachment
upon the dignity of this high official,
he is surrounded by an exhaustless
ceremony that accounts for the ex¬
travagant estimation in which he is
held. He is very holy, so holj, in
fact, that when people speak of him
they simply say him, and when they
want to be very subservient they say
it, but they never say Li Shi, the
name under which this gentleman
suffers. This name is apparently only
given to him to use in public docu¬
ments, for no one ever lias the temer¬
ity to use it in addressing him, and it
is never mentioned aloud anywhere in
the kingdom. If any subject wishes
to practice on it he goes under ground
and does it by himself; to utter it
above ground is sacrilegious, and the
guilty man is cut up into eight pieces
and a pieco sent into each province.
law to further sanctify the head of the
State; this law provides that any per¬
son who touches tho King with any
implement or weapon of metal shall
have some horrible thing happen to
him. It is impossible for me to say
what the punishment is connected
with this, because the punishment for
jach offense, as enumerated in the
jriminal code, becomes progressively
worse as the crimes are described, aud
as boiling oil is tho most merciful of
the entire lot it does not make much
difference what the others are.
On the face of it this law about
touching a king with a metal weapon
boomerang element about it that
worked rather disastrously a few years
ago. irv° V !U
Onnc* 0un o , an nn pnrlv eaily cpnt century luler, was
taken sick with an abcess on his neck, ;
and cried loudly for relief. All th
great doctors of several nations there
about were gathered together and
| , o-ssnecd that all there was to do was to
knee W I BB-TOfe 1 ^tcuchiug
ffiff. ,
‘r- V th a ra -l‘*'’ 7s eaP ° n '
altv?’ alty for ichL such an Srf o.Iense, r 1 ‘1 and d"»u ther e P<!n was '
tors all, singly and collectively, re
fused to be dropped in molten lead
for the mere purpose of saving the life
of the ruler, and so Tieng-tseng-Tai
Oung died in horrible agony.
This inconvenient law also prevents
the King being shaved, and as the
true Oriental is too much occupied
with the thoughts of the welfare of
his people to do anything for himself
the Kings of Korea wear full beards.
On the other hand, for the King to
touoh anybody is considered such an
extraordinary honor that very serious
obligations ever after rest upon the
person so touched. The most formid¬
able of these is the necessity for
wearing forever a brass plate over the
spot touched, but the subject is exempt
from wearing more than one plate
over the same spot if the King hap¬
pens to touch him twice in the same
place. The King’s wives are living
castanets when they walk.
It is worthy of mention that while a
king’s name is sacred during his life
time immediately upon his death it
becomes common property and is
banded about with the most reckless
freedom. As soon as the present ruler
dies his successor will put up monu
ments to him all over the country and
they will be plastered with Li Hsi.
All his present subjects will then criti
cise his good and bad actions, and
will sneer or applaud ' as they may feel -
disposed. No penalty is attached for
libel on a dead ruler. Doubtless the
reason is because every known penalty
has been attached to libels on a live
one.
The law courts of Korea are perma
nently as exciting as the recent strikes
were temporarily. The only differ
ence between the witness and the prin
cipal in a Korean lawsuit is that the
principal frequently gets off unscathed,
while the witness is invariably maimed
and frequently crippled for life. The
principals show their cleverness by de
clining to testify in their own behalf,
for as each witness comes forward he
is warned by the judge of the terrible
penalties of committing perjury, and
to still further impress it upon him
his legs are beat with clubs, his body
is cut by cords being drawn rapidly
back and forth across it, his shoulders
are dislocated,, or he is suspended by
his arms from the ceiling. The judge
then addresses him very kindly and
says something to this effect: “Now,
yon see what we can do, and what we
will do if yon don t tell the truth m
this case and if you want t o escape it,
you it honestly. want touted Truthfulness all yon know, and tell _of
is one
!eLX«ct re n character. a e“ “
>o salary is paid the officials, but m
view of this economical plan for con
ducting government no restrictions
are placed upon those in office in their
exercise of blackmail and extortion. It
is noticeable that all the officials oe
enpy elaborate residences and live in
comparative luxury. The Seng-ei
tsieng, a minister answering to our
Secretary of S-tate, receives a salary
equivalent to about $1000 per year.
At one time tradition says there
were books published in tho Gamese
language -which were more or less read
and seemed to hold out some promise
of imparting a reasonable amount o!
information and intelligence to the
people, b-it the Government very soon
learned of this, and while th&y shrank
at the thought of prohibiting l.U-ra
ture entirely, they mado it a law that
jooivs should thereafter be printed
upon marble, and bo at this day, if
some daring Korean should waut to
translate ‘ Fhe Heavenly Twins,” the
stors would bo engraved upon slabs
of marblo. each two slabs having a
piece of velvet between them to pre
vent friction, and so the six hundred
and odd pages in tnat delectable book
would make a Korean farm look like
a graveyard it any one cared to read
^ m°T*^.
I lie Korean language consists . mostly
of \oi\els, there being eleven in their
alphabet and therefore the words are
short and not unpleasant in sound.
The nouns have nine cases and verbs
eleven moods. I here are thirteen
dipthongs and fourteen consonants,
No one thoroughly knows the alphabet
or the language. There are no nows
papers, no railroads, no steamboats,
no telegraphs, no postoffices. Only
the very highest people are able to
write; no one else is able to read,
Their religion is Confucian; they have
great regard for the devil, and really
mar him more than they rely upon
Confucius. They regard snakes as
holy in some way, and salaam when
evertkev meetoue. Snakes lead about
the only happy life to be found in
Korea.
The upper classes frequently wear
clothes, and the lower classes occa¬
sionally try to imitate them upon some
grand occasion, but grand occasions
that are sufficiently so to call for such
a marked change in the national cos¬
tume are limited to the death or ac¬
cession of a ruler. There is a severe
law against polygamy. Paper is the
only article of merchandise manufac¬
tured, and every citizen makes what¬
ever implements or utensils may be
necessary for use. —Mail and Express.
WINE WORDS.
An artificial man is a misfit.
Idleness is first lieutenant to temp
tation noth
impulses may spring from very
bad soil.
W e could use most of the advice we
£ ive awa y
A lie ig the hardest thing iu the
world r j to keep i.. mA wi with 4 K in n bounds. n rmTlf i sl
There ls fl deal more in o dollar
sometimes than , a hundred cents.
A man is either a fool or a knave
who spcu U! more thru he
°"P' d *® tUro ' v "V
fo^»“ t 'h"^a«icr'vitl>c»sh :
'j’Ue man who loves most never has
time to stop to see if people love him.
0ne S ood woinan can turn “ ore
steps heavenward than forty , preachers
cau -
It is sheer laziness that would re
move all the uphills from life’s path
way.
You always make more enemies than
money talking politics on the street
corner.
To make progress along the road to
success, you must rise early in the
mornino'
The man who never reads tho papers
may be happy, j A J but ho always lives a
, ,
can’t get rid of the lightning- .
If you
rod agent any other way give him a
thunderstorm.
The man who considers buying on
credit an easy way to get things is not
a safe man to credit.
The real happiness of , life cannot be
bought with money, and the poor may
have it as well as the rich.
3f the grumbler would only
straighten himself out he would find a
great deal less to complain of.
Onlv one man can take a woman’s
heart away from her, whether or no;
jf another gets it, it is of her own giv
i U g. °
The man who thinks he can do any
thin^ finds it difficult to do something,
and generall v winds up> by doing noth*
i n ° ,T. j
Many Clockk-ss People.
Liberia, in Africa, uas neither clock
nor timepiece of any sort. The reck
oning of time is made entirely by the
movement and position of the sun,
which rises at 6 a. m. and sets at 6
p . ra ., almost to the minute, the year
round, and at noon it is vertically
overhead. The islanders of the South
Pacific have no clocks, but make a
curious time-maiker of their own. They
take the kernels from the nut of the
candle tree and wash and string them
on the rib of a palm leaf. The first or
top kernel is then lighted. All of the
kernels are of the same size and sub
stance, and each will burn a certain
number of minutes and then set fir®
to the next one below.
The natives tie pieces of bark cloth ‘
at regular intervals along the string to
mark the divisions of time. Among
the natives of Zingar, in the Malay
Archipelago, another peculiar devic®
is used. Two bottles are placed neck
and neck, an 1 sand is placed in one
of them, which pours itself into the
other one every half-hour, when the '
bottles are reversed. — Newcastle
Chronicle.
Han to cimTnTl .to, '
Sneezing . may be averted by press- ,
ng firmly upon the upper lip with the
ringers. The “why” of this is that by
so doing we deaden the impression
made on a certain branch of the “fifth
nerve, ” sneezing being reflex action
a
excited hv some slight impression
made upon that nerve. Proof of this
is seen iu the fact that sneezing never
bakes place when the nerve mentioned
is paralyzed, even though the sense of j
smell be fnliy retained.—Atlanta Goq
stitution.
NO. 36
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS,
j .
I HOW TO BROIL FISH.
Though every cook will proclaim
that to broil a piece of iish is an ex
ceedingly easy matter, it is more
often done badly than well. If not
cooked enough the fish is extremely
disagreeable to the taste, and if cooked
too much it is hard and dry. It is al
ways best to have an exact rule as to
the time it shall be cooked. When the
fish is put on the fire look at tho
clock and tako it off as soon as it is
done.
j A split fish, such as white shad,
white fish, mackerel, scrod or blue
fish, should bo timed according to the
I thickness. If the fire be bright and
h°L 11 fish au inch thick can be cooked
j u twelve minutes. If two inches thick
it will take twenty minutes. Of course,
when the fire is dull it will take longer,
Always season fisli with salt and
pepper before cooking. A fish with
the skin on should bo broiled with tho
skin side from the fire until tho last
five minutes of cooking, when that
8 ja e can be turned to tho fire, but it
must be watched closely or it will
, burn. It is only dry halibut that re
quires the butter and flour before
broiling. Many people prefer to dip
the slice of fish in olive oil rather
than butter. If the oil be used it
must not be heated, and it is well to
app i y it to the fish an hour before
poking.—New York World,
TO REMOVE FRUIT STAINS.
As the fruit season waxes it becomof.
burdensome to keep delicnto drapery
spotless. Who has not beheld with
dismay one’s favorite damask hope¬
lessly—it would seem—discolored with
peach, cherry aud berry stains? Soma
suggestions culled from that best of
teachers—Experience—aud that ara
not generally known may be of assist¬
ance in remedying the mishap.
In the first place, do not wash the
linen before applying other remedies;
to do so sets the stain almost indolibly,
and it theu lias to pass through all
stages until time and laundry leave
but a pale yellow reminder, which con¬
summation does not follow usually un¬
til the fabric is threadbare. For berry
stains have some one hold the cloth so
, , ,
^ wpll j f ^./the J mil
9m , hoM un we t spot-a
lighted match will answer; the snl
phurous LT Y gas b usually does the work, ^
the stain ■ gradually . ,, disappearing
But there are some that like Lady
Macbeth s “damned spot, will not
° ut peach stains, for example.
““cV T gVS Sf
leave a hole in lieu tire stain. By
&ste e r .» carefulness in its use, how
e ver ... not day°for do sucii “the dire CWil
Take asunny task; first
moisten the spot and then rub on a
tery little of the salts of lemon; lay
the lmen 111 tbe SUQ for two or thrca
minutes and then wash thoroughly
with soap and warm water. Success
nearly always follows.
Other stains, like iron rust, are more
easily removed. After washing the
article, squeeze lemon juice on the
spots and then cover thickly with salt,
Lay in the sun all day, wash, and if
rus ^ no ^ entirely removed re
P™t the application. This is equally
K 0 ° d
An excellent washing , . fl fluid, ., that ,
closely resembles the celebrated Javello
wafcer> ig made afJ fol i ows .
Have ready two gallons of boiling
water; stir in thoroughly a pound of
sal-soda and a quarter of a pound of
unslaked lime. When it is settled and
perfectly cold, skim well aud let it
boil again m Take . from , the fire aud
when settled pour off the clear fluid
into bottles or stone jars.that can be
tightly corked. Use in the proportion
ua ^ a er. CU P. U e , roi ? a ree ar ^ ress. uc ie 11 °
RECIPES.
Black Strap Pudding—One cupful
molasses, one-half cupful butter, one
cupful sweet milk, four cupfuls flour,
one cupful chopped raisins, one-half
teaspoonful soda, one-half teaspoon
ful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful
cloves, a little salt. Steam three hours.
Cheese Straws—Grate three table
spoonfuls of any kind of cheese. Add
three tablespoonfuls of flour, a little
red pepper and salt. Add to dry in
gredients one tablesjioonful of melted
butter, one of water and the yolk of
an egg. Pvoll thin as for cookies, cut
in strips five inches long aDd one-half
inch wide. Bake fifteen minutes,
Serve on plate and fringed doily,
Build the straws up like a log cabin,
They are delicious with salad,
Delicate Cabbage—Slice half a head
of cabbage very fine; put a little but
tgj in a frying pan and with the cab
bage, cooking it several minutes. Re
move from fire and make a dressing of
yolk of one egg, half a cupful of milk,
scant teaspoonful of flour, a teaspoon
fnl of sugar, tablespoonful of vinegar
and a little mustard, half a salt 3 poon
ful of salt and a pinch of pepper. Stir
all well, adding the vinegar iast; pour
over the cabbage and let it boil up
once.
Potato Chowder-Cut half a pound
0 f salt pork into thin slices, and fry
licrht i v> Lay thPm m a kettle, while
yoU f ry s li ce d onions a light yellow
color in the fat. Now have a quart
P«ed and sliced potatoes,
and put them iu the kettle with alter
nate L s of the ork and onioD> sea .
6onin „ each layer with pepper, and
dred ri ng with flour. Cover with two
quarts of water and simmer forty
miDut es, or until the potatoes are
done. Just before taking from the
fire throw iu a tablespoonlul of minced
parsley, or celery tops, or both. Pour
over toast.
Pearls are sometimes found whose
outer layer is discolored. These stones
i^ay be skinned and thus improved.