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jack tar and the needle.
W ,IIK OF THE WOMANS DEPAUT.
ment os a MAV-OF-WAH.
•Tin' sailors lse Sewln® Machines
t„ r Their Clothes ail Erahroitlcr
Their Own Collars—Very Expert
~il Alai.in Tillies anil Laces—The
%el-A\orh of the Hopes Tells Them
How to Haniile the Slieins of Col
ored Silk—The lowa, Massachusetts
siiil Indiana Forbidden to Sen.
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Aug. 27.—1f you
mention needlework aboard the good new
battleship lowa or on the Indiana or the
Massachusetts, you will be received with
s silence of a deep marine hue. Needle
work. that art dear to the sailors of by
gone days, has been forbidden to the sail
ors on the new cruisers.
The navy has new rules and new regu
lations, and with its new routine co;mes
a regular dress that forbids embroidery,
an l even gives the sailors no time to use
th- needle If they would. •
But this is only on the newer battle
ships. The others still have Jack Tars
as familiar with the art of sewing as
with the pulling of ropes. They conduct
woman’s department On a battleship
and turn out work aa clever as any wo
man's.
Over on the receiving ship Vermont at
th Brooklyn navy yard, on the glorious
told Constitution at Portsmouth, N. H„
,and> scattered on board ships which ap
pear in the Naval Register as “receiving
ships,” or an “unserviceable,” you can
find gnarled and knotted old sailors who,
with huge bowed spectacles and bands of
curious Fitape, knit tidies, turn out fancy
embroidered mats, and will spin you in
terminable yarns of the time they made
a tablecloth for the captain’s table so
many fathoms long and so many fath
oms wide. He insists on making his own
clothes also, as all good sailors used to
do. lie has a poor idea of a sailor who
cannot do a piece of embroidery as neat
ly as my lady in her chamber.
He mourns over the degeneracy of the
service, and will tell you, “In my day,
sir, the lay alongside
the liible on the capstan every Sunday
morning, and the crew were piped to
prayers us regularly as to grog.” He
he,g little use for the modern sailor, and
believes in the old-fashioned, swearing,
lighting, drinking, knock-down-and-drag
out kind, who was handy with his knife,
his lists, his grog and tobacco and his
To ( (lie—a curious combination, and yet one
which carried the flag of the United States
victorious over every sea.
Of all the accomplishments of the old
time sailor that of doing fancy work was
the last to be given up. It began to go
out with the boarding pike drill, which
was clung to in the navy of the United
States long after the navy of every, other
civilized nation had abandoned it as ob
solete. It was ten years ago that the art
of embroidery and knitting, the making
of fancy mats and the art of tailoring,
carried to its apotheosis, began to be
dropped in the navy of the United States.
New ships, with the different sort of rou
tine; new regulations as to clothing and
shorter cruises were the causes of it.
The old sailor was “sui generis”—so is
the new—but he is of different type. A
navy sailor is, has been and always must
he, "fa race apart. The sailor is born
of the exigencies of the sea service, and
os those exigencies change so does he.
Vt, in all the ages the true sailor must
he a different sort of creature from a
landsman.
The change from the sort of a sailor to
another sort was sudden in the United
Stabs navy, because the building of the
new navy was a tiling conceived and car
ried out in so short a time. In the old
navy a sailor used constantly to handle
i c complicated mazes of the rigging of
he wooden ships. His eye was trained in
lucking at a network of ropes to see just
® function each one had in the whole
* 11 me, and the threads stretched over a
l. mu for making a piece of fancy work
W‘i.. fever more complicated than the
ma s of ropes aloft on a full-rigged man
or-war. it was a part of his trade to
not ‘ : * -“Plioe (as it is to some extent
now, h ;; nothing to what it used to lie),
I'iid m his leisure moments It became easy
"i aim to make the most delicate and
• imii and pieces of fancy work. Yet to a
an* sin.in it was the most incongruous
thing imaginable.
Tin writer remembers once seeing an
-mlor, hardened and seamed and
I the survivor of many a well
g.u l ittle of the civil war, for nearly
' ‘1 ■ 1 nuiry tossed about by every sea
,i h r ” ,, : ‘ n d his face furrowed by the
■ . K 1,1 weather” of every clime, come
■ ' -i iteroom of an ofttccr on a man
•ar and say, In a voice that rumbled
" r, “ underneath the ship’s keel:
" a pair o' tidies I made ye, sir,”
~<• ~m putting down two beau
ri.i - lanc ' work would have
heart of the instructors of
, k„,,| W , ln a >nnng ladies' lioardlng
-1 ' . J. •‘‘l not seem possible that
r 1 . ' 'U’uulln Jack" had made these
tVH ' h “ hUli '
fUmself il in r " al “i!? r uw<l rantit t 0 K'orlfy
I u~. ,i i his embroidery. Sailors
I U lie;} ,‘J 1 ,ke th<lr own clothes and em-
I hi m with the most elaborate
li,. ' " ful needlework. Around the
li,I i, ,‘. >i ,'' r,at * he openings of the little
I : n 'he breast, In the corners of
|lr'.,..'vs.?, nd 0,1 ,he upper part of the
I'ixu i 'rousera, ingenious in de
■,i ‘ et i, ? '"ilring much time, patience
lb hl ‘ 1 1 Produce. Then the sailor
■ i , \ ;‘Pi “"d In the center of Its
■bi ... '"‘'"'“hlcred again with great
lin h profuucnesa.
I tor tn.jn>hi'L^ a> * a * h, P wo ul<l he at sea
Btvorv u 1 "me upon occasions, and
■ tog waH a lun* one. When the
■ h “i • 1, s ! ,! P' h work was over the
lit„. 1 ‘' lu > of time for fancy work,
■ In l? 8 ’ of "I"ruxton's Vlc
■ l.' ,hf ' '"i<mere a Frigate Bold."
■t,i , . ’ " " w day* from port to port,
■•ft , '7* , 111 an l ''lean up after It,
■ s , i 'fightWork all t ite time, when
I*. r J,, wl,t ' lh, ‘ g ,ln A or torpe
„v, other new-fangled no
■if 1 ' great floating machine
m fw.
, n J. 1 n al or does not make his own
■taro,:.. . '"" supplied to him from
■•r , !'* " r I'F 'he tailor atei.ird ship.
■•' t 1 r,fl "’"re fancy embroidering
■m ~,, ,u" 'rousem or Ids cap—the
■Vti.ro, ‘ ri! l it-,in must iw unl
■'•"t v. .' 'I" 11 * " name. Appreo.
■*hlni v 'light to S'.w at lire
B 1 *' ii ~ ,u UI """ *" “-1 f hat Is left
B' ,t,’ , '*"■ sailors’ lost art, which
'' i niossomed on in n-of.
B * ,
B~ ! " '" *rr wear fancy „m
--, .. " ,y e slopped doing It; ns
S' 1 ,J ' f r ihem, It,, y have
■ ' > fussing them themselves „•
9, 1 , Vw h"'* hours ft, r leis ire
B ° f ‘-Wwl'Mhs. tidies
H, , " nu longer **ercie
K , , I'I’* 1 ’* • these ways
* i,"J. 1 " 'sptsln s gtg may
... .•“• •’* luek fr tlie
H ** o* xe's into th boat,
* r, ‘l *>ur and wrnii.
H ,i j * •" 'H •• well,
SB l, *‘ *** ft** Maess, b esetls
B #Mat list toil
COLORED DIAMONDS A EAD.
Smart Society Women Are Soornitig
A\ lite Stones.
Colored diamonds are the very latest
fad. Nearly everybody is wearing the
white stones and what once becomes com
mon in the way of a luxury is apt to be
deemed vulgar soon. Of course, blue,
green and pink diamonds are very costly,
but expense is no object to the people
who compose the meringue on top of the
upper crust of the fashionable pie in the
metropolis, says the Boston Transcript.
Colored diamonds, by the way, contrib
uted largely to the beauty of a remark
able utensil that was given to a fashion
able ehurof, the other day. This was a
communi6n chalice composed of gold and
precious stones. There w’ere 180 stones in
ail, intruding diamonds, sapphires, emer
alds from the Ural mountains, garnets
* r .>m Nevada, zircons and ehrysoberyis
from Ceylon, green tourmalines from
Maine, rubies, carbuncles from Siam, peri
dots, amethysts, ehlorastrolites and mol
davites—the last a rare green volcanic
glass found in Moravia.
Speaking of colored diamonds, it may
be mentioned incidentally that the excep
tional values attached to these fancy
stones when of large size and of first rate
water place them altogther beyond the
reach of persons who are not actually
multi-millionaires. The iinest green dia
mond in the world is in the Green vaults
of Dresden. The De Beers company has
in its office at Kimberley about a dozen
very- beautiful colored diamonds, some of
which are deep blue. One, of considerable
size, is a flawless stone of an intense rose
tint, which is believed to be the finest
pink diamond in existence. No money
can purchase it.
Another fashion coming into vogue is the
engraving of diamonds. Work of this kind
is now being done for the first time in this
country. The fad is an old one revived.
Mary, Queen of Scots, is said to have pos
sessed a large diamond engraved with her
ooat-of-arms, which is now owned by a
private collector in England. At the late
Antwerp exjKisition were shown a tinger
ring and a cross, each cut out of a sin
gle crystal of diamond. The cutting is
performed by means of a very small re
vloving drill, similar in its action to a den
tist's drill. The tool is manipulated wi<h
the lingers like a pencil, the operator dip
ping the tip from time to time in a mix
ture of oil and diamond dust. The work
is extremely slow and requires the utmost
patience and skill. It spoils the brilliancy
of the stone almost entirely.
The system of inspection at the South
African diamond mines is almost incredi
bly minute, and yet from 10 to 15 per
cent, of the total output is lost by theft,
as reckoned by the companies. Most in
genious ruses are adopted by- illicit deal
ers for conveying stolen diamonds out of
Kimberley. The boundary of the Trans
vaal approaches within a few miles of
Kimberley, so that thieves can quickly
get across it and be safe. Recently one
of them, a very- notorious person, was
seen leaving Kimberley on horseback for
the Transvaal, lie was seized on sus
picion by the police on the border and
was thoroughly- searched. Nothing was
found on him, and he was perforce al
lowed to proceed. No sooner was he well
across the boundary than, while yet un
der the eyes of the detectives, he deliver
ately shot and cut open his horse, extract
ing from its stomach a large parcel of
diamonds, which, before starting on the
journey, had been administered to the an
imal in the form of a bolus.
Necessarily the illicit diamonds buyers
depend upon the workmen at the mines
for supplies of stolen gems. The laborers
are watched all the time by- the hawk
eyed guards, to see that they do not se
crete any stones. They- are hired for a
certain term, during w-hich they are in
prison, when not actually engaged ln ihoir
laltors, in a compound surrounded by a
high wall. On returning from each day's
work they are obliged to strip. They pro
ceed to the searching room, where their
mouths, hair, toes and armpits arc sub
jected to elaborate examination. Then
they go to their rooms in the compound,
where they find blankets in which to wrap
themselves for the night. During the
evening the clothes which they have left
behind them are carefully and minutely
searched, being restored to their owners
in the morning.
All these precautions being taken, it
seems amazing that even a single diamond
of small size could be stolen from the
mines. Nevertheless, not long ago, a ne
gro laborer of Kimberley managed to se
cret and carry away a lump of earth about
the size of his fist, on the surface of which
were forty-five diamonds of good size,
the largest weighing about sixteen carats.
This kind of earth, bluish in color, is the
matrix of the diamond, and if it were as
valuable throughout as the lump referred
to It would be worth $6,000,000 a ton. The
lump is now the property of a diamond
dealer in New York city; there. Is no tell
ing how many big gems may he Inside
of it.
The native who stole it was murdered
shortly afterward by somebody who ex
pected to find the proceeds of the sale upon
him. Many of the Kaffirs who work at
the mines have a very virtuous object in
view. The wages are very high, and in a
short time they can get money enough to
go home and buy a wife from their chief.
All tjie women are owned by the chief,
who sells them to the men. In this way
the chiefs exchequer is maintained.
It is related that once upon a time there
was an honest negro employed at the
South African mints. He was engaged in
loading a cart with blue mud when some
thing shinging atira .-led his eye. The
notion that a diamond in the rough is not
brilliant Is one of the most absurd of (iop
ular errors. The man puked up lhe stone
and hid It. Maybe his purpose was to
steal it, but he deserves ihe benefit of the
doubt. At all events, possibly deterred by
the difficulty of geiting away with It, he
delivered It a few days later to the man
ager of the Jagersfonteln mine. Asa re
ward he receiver $7.Vi In cash and a horse
and saddle. The stone proved to ite a blue
white diamond, faultless except for a
small spot In the center. It weighed near,
ly half a pound avoirdupois, being three
Inches long. Iwo and a half Inches wide
and one and a half Inches thick. No ac
curate valuation h is Item placed upon it,
inasmuch as it is by far the largest dia
mond ever known.
SILENT KOIt FI FTA TEAR*.
Miss fiiiiifnrtl Wouldn't Tnlk When
Nhe t’nuld, mid Now She Couldn't tt
Nile Would.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
There la possibly no other women In the
world like Mias Experience Guilford of
Blue Hill, Mr. It Is proverbial that a
woman's tongue never stops, but Miss
Guilford's is' Is an exception to this rule,
and for hslf a century she has held her
pence, Not one single word or audible
sound has this woman allowed to pass her
lips for a perks! of fifty years.
The original reason for Mbs Guilford's
spetchlessm s was auger because she
canid not marry the man of Iter chot< r
Winn ahe wa# it years old she fill in
love with W'lllisra Himpson. the village
schoolmaster They were to |h married
on June |*. IM7 One of Mias Guilford's
rejected auttora told tales about the a hol
master, and Miss Guilford * parents stop*
I ted Ihe wedding Miss Guilt .ft there*
upon said; "i swear 1 will not apeak a
word, though f live for flfljr year*, unices
1 merry title man **
pc. gei,i her pledge. Her parents died ,
and Che went to live wnn Met married j
brother When M died ehc made per
MMM 1< • Meter, and dit*# u* tiaivi g I
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1807.
death she went to a camp in the woods
and kept house for a brother with whom
she Is now living. All this time she per
formed her share in the household work
and did not show any regret for having
made the von .
When the fifty years of silence expired,
a short time ago, she was visited by a
large number of relatives and friends,
who went to the camp for the purpose
of being present when she was at liberty
to speak. Soon after the midday meal
MDs Guilford dressed herself in the gar
ments which she had not worn for half
a century. At 2 o’clock she stood before
the people, smiled, and opened her mouth
to speak, but though she tried hard, and
got red in the face trying, she could not
utter a sound. Her vocal muscles had
become atrophied from long disuse and
refused to work.
When Miss Guilford found that she could
not %peak, she sent to Bangor for a phy
sician and took to her bed. The doctor
gave no hope of recovery ef speech, but
suggested that she be sent to a Boston
hospital for treatment. As soon as Miss
Guilford gets strong enough to take a
journey she will make another effort to
retain her speech. Her father left her a
good sum of money at his death, which
has beeen growing every year in a savings
bank, so that she is well able to obtain
the treatment she requires.
Although Miss Guilford never could be
induced to talk, she did not avoid society
and always attended the village dances
and parties. She would join in the gen
eral merriment, and was never sensitive
over any allusion made concerning her
strange vow. None of the young men of
the village would ever think of asking her
a question, and when her company was
desired in a dance by any young man he
would simply walk up to her and lead her
on the floor, and she was always quite a
favorite with the beaux.
The only time she has been known to
show any indignation about her peculiar
ity happened about a year ago, when a
formal invitation was sent to her to par
ticipate in proceedings of ihe village de
bating society. After this Miss Guilford
secluded herself for over a month, hut
after that she was again seen in social
circles.
When Miss Guilford's mother was dying
there was great excitement in the town.
Many persons foil sure that when the
mother died the daughter would speak;
but they were disappointed. The end
came, and the daughter's grief was deep,
but it was silent.
There were cases like this in Institu
tions for the insane. Pretended deafness
is common. A refusal to speak is unu
sual. A celebrated case is that of Rose
Barueat and her husband Ralph, who
lived in Terre Haute. They were a loving
couple. Both disagreed over a trifle one
night. “When you come to me with an
apology, I shall speak to you," she said.
“When I come to you with an apohtgy,
you will be older than you are now*’ said
he.
These people lived together for thirty
years. They never interchanged a word
directly. Communications that they in
tended for each other w-ere sent through
an intermediary. -A guest at dinner was
likely to hear something like this: “That
was what Martha was saying to my son
the other day. and 1 told him that she
should go right ahead and do as she had
figured out, but she told my daughter that
it would cost $25, so I give m.v son a check
for the amount, and she is satisfied now.
Isn't she. my son?”
Stiles. Phelps and Armstrong, clog danc
ers, celebrated in their day, traveled to
gether for twenty years, during fifteen
of which Stiles and Armstrong never ex
changed a word. Phelps was the recipi
ent of all necessary communication be
tween the two, and his life was made mis
erable.
NEW ISE FOR ELECT RIC'IT V.
The Driver Prettsen n Hutton, tlie
Current Roc* the Rent,
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Electricity has been put to anew and.
so far, successful use—that of conquering
a balky or lazy horse. In one case a
very high-spirited and valuable animal,
but extremely vicious and balky, was
cured in one hour with the aid of a three
volt dry battery.
The officials of the Western Pennsyl
vania Humane Society were notified some
time ago that Thomas Rodgers of Avalon
was using the dry battery on his horse,
which was as bad as a valuable high-bred
horse could be. Superintendent Thomas
M. porti r investlg tted the case, and Fri
day he gave Rodgers a hearing before
Justice William Griscom of that place.
Rodgers said his horse was worth SI,OOO
to him, if he could be cured of balking,
and one or two other vicious habiis. He
had offered 'ssoo to any one who could
manage Ihe animal, and at last consulted
Dr. T. C. McNeil, the city veterinary.
The doctor advised Rodgers to trye elec
tricity. and he bought a three-volt stor
age battery, and by means of three wires
connected each side of the bit and the
crupper with the battery. The horse was
hitched to a roadcart, and at first refused
to move, and at UTAONI N0..N0..N
to move, standing with all four feet In u
braced position.
Mr. Rodgers then had the wires connect
ed to tlie battery, which was placed In ihe
carl, and at the first push of tlie button
tlie horse Jumped, snorted and then mov
ed off. Each tlay for a week he went
through the same lesson, and Is now Ihe
pride road horse of Avalon, and never
balks, bites or kicks.
That was the testimony brought out at
the hearing, and, as the veterinary and
squire thought three volts was not a
sufficient shock to hurt tin animal, Rod
gers wa- discharged.
Superintendent Porter had a similar
case some months ago. He found that
one of the rich suburban resident era was
using the fluid battery on a lazy horse In
cultivating his summer garden. After
several unsuccessful attempts to catch
tlie gardener using tin horse, he was at
last rewarded one bright sunny morning
hy latching tlie gardener weeding the
potato patch with tfce hors- hitched to
a harrow. The superintendent went to
the. driver, and, after Introducing himself
and Informing the man why lie visited
him, he was shown the contrivance.
Btrspfped lo tlie backhand was a small
fluid battery, with wires running from it
to the martingale and crupper. A s[nge
was fastened to th*- wire at each place,
and kept moist by the In at of the horse’s
body. When the animal got tired It would
atop, arid by pressing two button* together
the circuit was formed, and the horse
would move on for several hours. Porter
tested the full strength of the battery on
hfniself, and found that the sensation did
not go ntiove hi* elbows, uni that tlie
voltage was only a fraction over two lie
said he thought II was better and more
humane to use a small amount of elec
tricity on a horse than to whip it, and
was satisfied It was not a • w of cruelty,
lie has written to several of the best
known horse doctor* in the United States
asking their opinions on ihe subject, and
1* waiting for their replies with a good
deal of interest.
I Day’s Hunt Try lug lo Earn Food.
Waiter A. Wyckoff in fh ribnrr'g.
It was nearing noon, and I waa very
hungry, fit* question of- anting a tn*i
was no hanger sn In 1 er* *1 log speculation,
hut a pressing tide •salty. I turned ail
my attention to that. A large iron gate*
way leading Into a cemetery attfai ted
me, AeVefal ragged, low lu i led cllll
dren were playing aoout the lodge tine
of them told me that has is'n* t was lu
•ole, and Me w.o, o'ed the genet at direc
tion of th* tombstone a I found th* dig.
Sf sweating limit lit bgif-AMgfctst
MllliVnil'O Female Cure is indeed a
mull Tull tl 10 womankind. That.
w ii vii v t j re( j feeling pains in back
and loins Quickly relieved. Mnnvon s Heme
fifes, a separate cure for eack g ■ **
disease, for >ale at ail drua: wU if C
tfists. When in douht. write to I’io' Kunvon
ETUnm A 1 EST in contldume, to IMKS
* Bmr ?Arch street, Philadel
phia. l a for free medical advice.
grave, and instantly ofTenM my he’.p as
a moans of earning a dinner. The grave
digger was an Irishman. Ho loaned at
ease upon his spade, and soberly looked
me over, and then declined my offer. Ho
was polite, but not at ah oommunicative,
and he nut my advances with the one re
mark that his “old woman" was not at
home.
A little farther on I saw three women
in pursuit of a hen. I eagerly volunteer
ed my help, and asked for a dinner in
payment. They quit the chase, and stood
confronting me with serious faces, while l
eloquently pleaded mv readiness to help
them. Nothing in the situation seemed
to strike them as strangv or irregular,
but they touched upon it with short, grave
speech, until I had the feeling of some
thing momentous, and I accepted their
refusal with a sense of relief.
At last in the outskirts of the village
of Westport, 1 found a man mowing his
lawn, and he was willing to give me a
dinner for completing the work. My final
success in getting an odd job was a splen
did stimulus. I urged the mower over
the lawn with a vigor that surprised me.
and the dinner which l ate in the dim
corner of an immaculate kitchen was a
liberal return for the labor.
All that long summer afternoon T went
from house to house, asking subscriptions
for the magazine. The rack would have
been easier upon my feelings, but 1 was
eager to discover some ready way of ap
proaching people. Not even the loafers at
the station were in the least inclined to
share their company with me, At night
fall I earned, by sawing wood for an
hour, a supper and the right to sleep in
an unused barn.
:MK MOSI HIS OF UKOHOH I’I.\BOOV.
liitercnt ing It ciiiiniNcenccN off n
C’oHMiu, >mv In Charlestown, >1 inn.
From the Hoston Evening Transcript.
When George Peabody, the eminent
banker and philanthropist, was, by th
death of his father, left an orphan at the
age of about 10 years, he, his sister and
their mother were given a home by th
mother’s brother, Eliphalet A. Dodge, of
Georgetown, then a part of Rowley, .Mass.
The daughter of the generous-hearted
brother and uncle, Miss Amanda Dodge,
Is now temporarily living in Charlestown.
As she is the youngest of a family of
thirteen children, she has, of course, no
recollection of her distinguished relative
before he was a man of mature years.
Her father took great interest in the
lad and predicted for him a successful
career, not because of any early predilec
tions for industry, but from the fact that
he once observed literally the injunction
about killing two birds with one stone, a
feat which he accomplished with one
throw of the little implement with which
one valorous David laid low the mighty
Goliath. When the proud lad picked up
the trophies of his remarkable skill with
the sling, he expressed ns much satisfac
tion as he ever did over his marvelous
feats in the linandal world, the results
of which were so lavishly distributed
among the objects of his liounty. IP* not
only showed little inclination for labor as
a lad, but he exhibited a marked ten
dent v for Id ess, and his uncle used to
tell with great glee how' he sent the boy
into a field overrun with sumrie with In
structions to clean it up. He did so, but
in his own way; for instead of cutting
the bushes close to th* ground, he left
the stumps as high as his houidors, being
too indolent, as lus uiWle beiieve'd, Ui
stoop. He got bravely over this inclina
tion to shirk before he reached his 15th
year, when he left the hospitable roof
that had sheltered him during his years
of helplessness to become a clerk in a
grocery store.
Miss Dodge first saw her cousin in the
early sixties, when he visited the home of
her father, who was then living in the lit
tle village of Post Mills, a part of Thet
ford, Yt. Mr. Peabody was on ills way
from the Thousand Islands, in the HI.
Lawrence river, where, in company with
the sons of his sister, Charles and Single
lon Daniels, he had been fishing for sal
mon, a sport of which he was excessively
fond, as he was of all outdoor diversions.
The young men’s mother awaited at her
uncle's home the arrival of her brother,
and when he came he was greeted by near
relatives numerous enough to make a
party of thirty. It wa regarded as most
remarkable that so small a village should
be the home of so many members of one
family. There was also present George
Peabody Russell, u son of Mrs. Daniels by
her first husband. Jeremiah Russell, the
favorite nephew of Mr. Peabody, to whom
he left the greater part of hfs immense
prop* rty. Mr. Russell was accompanied
by his wife.
So pleased was Mr. Peabody with the
hospitable manner in which he was en
tertained, and so grateful for the many
kindnesses he hod received from his uncle
In his youth, that a.* a compliment to him
he gave the village a public library, send
ing most of the books from L 'd m, ac
eompanied by a fund to sustain it and add
to its treasures, and a jiortralt of himself,
similar to the one which was part of his
gift of a library to the town of George
town Miss Dodge speaks enthusiastically
of her distinguished relative as “the
grand old man," six feet high, finely pro
portioned and of noble presence. Dignified
and impressive in his manner, he was
• isily approached even by strangers, and
genial am\ pleasant to all. Miss Dodge
Isars a remarkable resemblance to Mrs
Peabody and would be at once recognized
as a near relative.
There Were Plenty of Huu.
From the Detroit Journal.
There Is a summer visitor In Detroit
who knew Mark Hanna when he w r as a
young man, and liefore he left his country
home to try his fortunes In Cleveland.
“Mark was always practical and outspok
en.” says this authority. He was inclined
to express his opinions when he felt call
ed upon to do so. and under such circum
stances he was apt to disregard the con
vent lonalitlea. One thing that be did In
my presence I have always remembered.
If whs m small matter In itself, and yet It
showed a characteristic of the man for
will h he has never received full credit.
He happened to be a guest at a house
where I was visiting, a widow and her son,
who was very intimate with Mark, con
-thutlng the family then t home. We
had poached eggs for breakfast, amt when
we wi re helped there was but on#- left on
the plate. This evidently troubled the son,
who was fa slid lo us in his tastes arid had
a really lavish dDpnsliioti as a host.
Twice he suggested to his mother that
they had better have more eggs and *h*
passe i th* m ttlet over with a great deal
of tad. My own Impression Is that there
wera no m*re eggs In the house Once
more the Hun returned to the subject, and
before the old lady could reply Mark put
further discussion out of the question
“There are eggs t trough her# and one
to spare. Quit bothering your mother and
Is Ip • niertatfi your company," said th*?
future President-maker, and tt ph a** 1 trie,
though I was h woflftftjs, frith a
carefully cultivated sense of propriety.
Mark was always considerate of hi* *Jd rs
and kindly disposed toward those in
trouble. Tbit fact leads me to believe
that he Is never hard or tnconstd* rg4* Mi
dealing with the titan hi Ills employ
Where ha had perknowledge of a
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MALARIA AND ‘SKEETS.‘’
\ \\ Kl l -lv NOW \ ENTOMOLOGIST
I HU Eh THE CONNECTION.
Snnic murine in Enrli—lf Wo Pro
tect Ourselves From Mosquitoes
We Mh> F.Ncupe arnlnrly! Dlsenses,
Tle Jersey Mosquito.
Hy John R Smith, Xew Jersey State En
tomologist.
Docs the bite of a mosquito ever cause
death?
I might answer that question by either
n “yes’* or a “no" and would be both
right and wrong in either case.
If the question means whether the mere
puncturing of the skin of a human bch *
and the introduction of the usual quan
tity of poison by a mosquito can of itself
prove fatal. I should say so. Hut if it
means whether a mosquito bite might not
from other onuses result in death, I would
sa\ y >•, most assuredly.
How do I explain that? Well, you see
the poison of the mosquito is in itself not
particularly virulent, and is very minute
in quantity. It is rarely a very minute
drop of acid saliva not even visible to the
naked eve. Introduced beneath th* 1 skin
by a lancet finer than the point of a cam
bric needle. It has no power to increase
in quantity, it is not one of the ptomaines
or 1 oxalbumins, and it can set up only a
little local irri’ution, which help* the ln>avt
to secure blood. In a healthy organism this
inflammation is entirely local and does
not last long; but sometimes, in extremely
sensitive people, considerable swelling re
sults. Now. If that harmless “bite" he
scratched with dirty finger nails until it
bleeds ever so little, any quantity or va
riety of bacteria or ot her micro-organisms,
may be Introduced into Ihe wound, that
may set up lockjaw or other forms of blood
poisoning. Death thus may result In con
sequence*, but not as a result of a mos
quito bite. Or mosquito may have been
feeding on an animal Infested with an
thrax or some like disease, and some mi
cro-organisms adhering to the beak may
be introduced Into a healthy animal with
fatal results; but that can rarely happen,
as I will show you later. In either case
it Is not the bite a one. but the addition
to it, that is the real cause of death.
Oh, of course! Mosquitoes differ in the
virulence of their poison. Vve have not less
than ten or a dozen species in New Jersey
and no two of them bite alike. Yes, that
is litera ly true! There is as much differ
ence between the moftth parts of mos
quitoes as there is between those of the
different kinds of dogs or snakes. ’Home
work very deliberately and give you lots
of chance to kill them before they get
fairly to work; others tend to business at
once, and you feel the bite almost before
they have settled on the pain. Hornetimea
you won’t feel one of them biting until
she is all done and Is off. filled with gore.
She? Oh, yes. that’s all right! All the
mosquitoes that bite are females; the
males cannot bite and keep themselves
very much concealed under ordinary cir
cumstances.
Certainly! Put a man into a cloud of
mosquitoes or tie him out among thm
over night and in* will fie-dead or mad be
fore morning. A sensitive- person expos
ed without clothing to modfyuito attack
and unable to defend himself would go
mad in a couple of hours, h is a case of
“many mickles make a vnurklc," and the
numerous small centers of inflammation
would set up a fever in no time.
Yes, sir; I have been driven out of woods
and swamps when collecting, because
with all methods of protection the mosqui
toes were simply unendurable.
Well, there are several ways of keeping
them off other than with netting. The
following formula serves me as well as
anything, hut some claim that the remedy
Is worse than the disease Oil of tar, 2
ounces; oil of pennyroyal, x k ounce; aweet
oil, H-, ounces; total, i ounces.
This mixture applied to exposed parts
will, in ordinary cases, sernire compara
tive freed from attack.
Malaria and mosquitoes? Yes, I b*jl!eve
there is a very real connection between
the two. The filariae. which are characte
ristic of malarial trouble, arc developed In
swampy localities, undor exactly tin* con
ditions favoring the mosquitoes, and we
know jHjsitiv. lv that the mosquitoes are
infested in all their stages with these
same filariae. They can be very easilj
transferred from mosquito to man, and if
In a susceptible condition malaria develops
in the victim at once.
Exactly. Many a man suffers from ma
laria because a mosquito hit him. On the
other hand, keeping ofr mosquitoes and
avoiding them as far as possible has sav
ed many from serious illness. It is re
corded of one African traveler that his
companions made much fun of him and
Ids mosquito netting and other precau
tions, but he was th* only man that es
caped fevers, and, without doubt, iri great
part because he avoided mosquitoes.
Of course the mosquito sucks blood? Oh,
yes. I know a paragraph lias Uefi going
the rounds of the press in whit’h it la
claimed that it doe* riot, but if you an- at
all ui doubt about It just hold still when
the next mosquito alights on th* hack of
your hand. You can watch It gradually
fill up ami Increase in size until the body
is more than twice as large as it was be.
fore, and ff you carefully take it off be
fore it flies away, crush It g* fitly on a
glass ftjkle and examine the r.suiting
blotch with a microscope, you will speed
ily be free of ad doubts on the subject.
How do they g**t the blood? Let me ex
plain:
Inside of a mosquito's head you will find,
if you diasect It carefully, a structure
shaped Ilk** a sugar s* oop without the
handle, and from the tip of that a long
trough extend*, which is covered by a flat
trip to the tip. The scoop serves as a
protection to a sort of bulb-ilk* swelling
of the throat and for the attachment of
muscles. Ho w have a *ort of arrange,
merit like one of theso rubber syringe*
that work with a compression liulb, and
by means of this h* blood Is pumped
through the covered trough into the atom-
HOtl.
Ami thni l hy nu nu im* all. You **<• also
this iiltio Imfili r*lH*i' mrueturo with a
v< ry fine tula-—lmw lino?
W.-H, you ran no It if you •triarx* It
flvf humlrfl (llamHi'r* nivl l.iok < low ly
-am! thi* 1* th' niuiarnlu* Ihal fnrrm
th* iiol.on Into th** wound. Tim n rom.
the I'lemlnx Ixncrtx to malf a hola. and
there ari' two *•( of th.ro On. ~;ilr hit*
a sword *lia|>"l tip with smooth ••d*c,
h oth.r pair Is furnish'd with hooks
ait I Imrh* to !**>' th* ils.ii. anil roak* tli.
hlooi] flow. All of ih.M' <l*ll<’*! strip'-
tori'* ur *h*lt*rsd In it loiik hmk, which
Is ordinarily r-onstd* red to hr thr mouth
of thr inxrct.
Many prrsopN auppnm* that I h*- who!*- of
this mai'hlnt'fy 1* itiw rted. toll *s a mat
tor of f't only th latp'td* urr. If you
walr.h a mosquito sil'll It finis you will
ItO'p* tnat th'- la-afc, whl' h I* oprn In
front, la nds In thr roiddlr. and thr lao' < t
air ifutd*d hy thr til”* only flo you ***
tha hlHna apparatus of a in's—pill lls ipUt#
a ' Omplit atad mwhanlam.
I'sri mo*<iul'o*a vrr I* ctsitrtjiM? Cry*
tairily, and tin- task la not vro a dirtti i.t
tail, though very i k p*ndvr, No 1 don't
mran dr a* on (10, nl you hr—d a
osw vartsty that will fly at nifht and Mr#
In th* woods during tha day I tn-an
that th* work saw h* den* try dr.mioa
and dltrhfnx th* hn sting p‘a * af th*
os—tulto*s and itatkiAf alt tha drain*
with .sn.t) hah.
flunk a plan. I .'ortauW, atwM . ro.a ah
unit I tmmim, ah'! i IhH flssn* M wiM
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tlie fact that this'is “The Preferred Store” of the
people. The best goods at the very lowest prices is the
backbone of our popularity.
Notwithstanding the jjreat advance in Linens, our
present large stock goes on sale at old prices. Your atten
tion is particularly called to the offers in linens this week.
Fine Linen Damask worth 51.39, now 98c
Pure Linen Napkins worth $2.50, now $1.69 doz.
23-inch Pure Linen Crash this week 12c.
Extra large All Linen Towels special 19c.
75c Black Imperial Serge 49c
75c Colored Imperial Serge 49c
50c Black Mohair Lustre 35c
54-inch Black Ladles’ Cloth 59c
54-inch Colored Ladies’ Cloth 59c
50c All Wool Cheviots 39c
29c Ail Wool Tricots 19c
50c Moire Ribbons now 25c
25c Ladies’ Fast Black Hose 15c
All our 25c embroideries 10c
$2 Ladies’ Shirt Waists 75c
Yard wide English Percales 10c
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Good Heavy Canton Flannel 5c
Full Size Bed Spreads from 59c
11-4 White Wool Blankets $1.98
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Ready Made Pillow Cases 9c
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$5.00 Figured Brilliantine Skirts $3.98
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$3,00 Ladies’ Bicycle Skirls.. .$1.09
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In our Wholesale Department all goods by the piece
or in dozen lots at very lowest prices.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO.
!>i risorted to at some time? In the fu
ture. To exterminate ttie Jersey mosquito
will cost millions of dollars, but some day
a network of canals ami ditches will nt-
Iraet all the surface water 111 the marshes
and the Ashes will prevent the development
of the mosquito larvae. I cannot say,
however, that I expect to live long i nough
to see It!
dl KKK I'lllKOti I'tMII.V <>\ \ Sltll*.
I'Vnilile Until* Her Muir SH mi the
I*l ft Us 11 ii r i iiV tlae Voyage.
From tin* Halttmore Han.
On tiourd the Neptune liner Delano,
l'apt. Janies, whlrh arrived yesterday
from Hotterdam. is a clear case of petti
coat government.
When the Delano left Hotterdam a pair
of pigeons were occupying a loft on the
vessel. On the voyu# across the Atlantic
two eggs appeared In the nest, over which
there was ii real pigeon chuckle that
drew the attention of the crew, and In
vest lyntion proved that a family was ex
peepd. Great cure was taken by the
sailors in wild weather to see that the
matin r and her eggs were not rolled out
or washed by the seas.
Th< ii the sailors discovered that there
was more petticoat government visible in
the treatment of the male by the female
than was recognised in the ethics of the
married men who were on hoard. As an
Instance it was seen that after the mother
bad taken a "dog watch,” keeping the
eggs warm, sin* would catch her better
half by thi collar and drag him Into the
nest and make him take her place on the
eggs. No sailor would stand such treat
ment as that without complaining to the
British consul or the board of trade. The
male pigeon performed Ids duties without
a murmur, and the eggs in ihe ru st prom
ise to yield a sea crop of pigeons.
Again lln female dragged the male Into
tin nest and made him take his place on
ihe eggs, Then she stood outside the nest
and spruced her plumage, which she had
disregarded at sea. Then, looking sev
eral time, Inin the hums and seeing that
everythin# was nil right, site raised her
wings and Jlew 11 way. At tea time she
had not returned, and ('apt. James p<
bothering Ills head as to what In* will
<lo with the orphans If the father follows
the mother. He hopes ttiat immigrant
Commissioner Hohlnson will not put him
under the same bond that he does when
stowaways escape from ships.
I'll Kill I)K4T*M M4MB.
4 < lerk Whose Only Business Is to
Stun I’iipc i* Pur the I'reslileot.
Washington Cor. New York Kvenlng Host,
An account has recently appeared In the
New York newspapers of the task which
Channel y M. Depew, as president of the
New York Central railroad, had lie.for*
him In signing Ihe newt 11(11,009,000 Issue j
of bonds. It Is said that Mr, Depew will
have to write Ills name Pm,(on times, since
tin* denomination of each bond Is | bum, ,
and that his present plan Is to sign live j
hundred iKtHde In two hours of each day i
for the next two hundred working days.
Win ii Ihe land toffies was established lit I
the *f, congress authorised the nomina
tion of a clerk, to l* confirmed by the
deflate, whose sols duty It should be to
sign the* name of the President of the
('tilled Htates on the tot. t warrants Issued
by the Mover am, fit Mine# the oris usi law
was infestsi the provision i<q< mng Ihtit
the President's selection nho old toe e„n.
turned toy the he lisle Its* burn abolished.
'
Lad 1* s’ Mus-litt Draw* rs 290
La*'f' Trimmed Cherub***? 250
Ladles’ Cm-. t Covers 13cx
Ladles* White Skirts .’IDo
Tardies’ Night Dress* s 490
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Fancy Linen Squares 4<>o
Yardwide Soft Rleach 501
' 10** Bleach Shirting 7a
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fiOe Linen Towels !2f>ci
fiOe Turkish Towels 25a
50c Ladies’ Vests 25(9
25c Ladles* Vests .15a
Children’s Rib Vests 40
25c Gauze Veal A ..12Hd
Infants’ Black Socks \ 15a
Infants’ Tan Socks 150
I’ure Linen Dollies.., Chi
Turkey Red Damask. .....19a
Cream Ta yfe- Damask 200
25c Black Hose lfia
75c Black Lisle Hose 39a
750 Fancy Lis!*' Hose \ 36d
Men’s Block Half Hose 12%4
Men’s Tan Half Howe VJ%<3
Men’ll Work' Shirts 25a
Men’ll Night Robes s?a
Mari’s Suspenders 15a
Men’s Linen Collars .....10a
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Men’s Gauze Shirts ISkj
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Petroleum Jelly 3a
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Large Hay Bum 10a
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day's work shown that Mr. Depew, if ho
In • ps up the rote of two hundred and flftjn
an hour, will well maintain the ordinary;
ratio of effectiveness between the govern-'
merit's servants nnd those outside. The
government’s signer affixes the President'*
name ulunit one thousand times a week,
which would la* four hours' work for Mr,
Depew, except that the President’s repre
sentative has the additional tusk of In
dieting his own name beneath. With th*
fall name signed, whldh Is customary,
this would make eight hours’ work for Mr.
Depew. The recorder of the general lamf
office, also signs hla name on each war
rant, and. In addition, has general over
sight of the working force of hi* office.
Fit KA KB OF FOHTI SB.
VV liiilinll- 'Mint i'nine to Some People
( lie V peeled I y,
From the Boston Traveler,
While most people tlnd It very hard tig
acquire even a modest competency, other*
are more lucky, and to them fortune*
come without even the asking. Several
such Instances have occurred of iat*
years, some of th<m of an Interesting!
character. It was only a short whil*
since that a poor ragpicker In Birming
ham suddenly found himself a man of
wealth. By dint of working from daw*
till late at night he had been In the habll
of making the not very exorbitant Iticom*
of s2.ijo per week, tine morning he hearif
from a tirm of solicitors In lamdon, whtf
requested him to cad, he would lean*
something to his advantage. He found
that a long-lost brother, who had mad*
money In Australia, had recently dlctf
there, leaving him a sum of IS,OOO.
At Tamworth, Kngland, a tobacconist
tins unexpectedly found himself the hrl*
to n baronetcy. For some time past li*
has been In receipt of 21s 6d a week, hav
ing served as a sergeant In the Huffoll*
regiment; but finding this sum inadequat*
he took a tobacco shop at Tamworth, antf
was apparently contented with his lot,
win n In awoke to rtnil himself a baroneO
of the Frilled Kingdom.
A schooner which went ashore off th#
American coast with !,2UO tons of coal, be
ing abandoned by her owners, was soht
for t7a, Home tm ton* of coal had been
got out of the hull, when suddenly thw
vessel sllil off the rock and sank In deed
w.it'r, only however, to Iloat again th*
next morning, and drift with the tide rlxhf
Into port. It seems that sufficient coal
had rattled through the holes In her bot
tom to h t the hull come again to the sur
face with some *> tons of coal still In It.
A- tho vessel then stood she was wort*
tt.'itw or more to those who bought It fo*
$?o.
A couple of Itn ky domestics have lately
Come into possession Of a considerable suns
of money through the death of their mis
tress. nn old lady of *6, who left them fu *
entire fortune The sum to be divided i*
sl2) ini, aid It I- bequeathed to thm i*
re* 'ignition of their long grid faithful a#r.
vl e, one of them having been twenty.(ly to
and the other eighteen year* with the ladyi
In question.
The effects plodm'id by suddenly ■-
■lulled weal'll ure sometimes start ling lit
the -Efrems’. A suburban Parisian, whig
lately Inherited tix.oo from an elder,y|
sum, at units began to look about fog
some outlet for spending the money
quickly At isngih the erase for I'Utidlfi#
speculaiton seised him. Slid he buJI•
Ho went on in tltia way fur asiw lime*
• hen ilia mind I*m au- unuwigmi. and t>*
was found one day walking around hi*
newly built bouses, fftuig stoats from •
!■*** levuivsr si imsgirvsry n —tss, it*
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