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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER.
BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA.
TREATING THE GIRLS.
AHmibome Young 9bu> Encounter with
a Denf Cashier.
People have noticed that one of the
handsomest young men in Burlington
has suddenly grown bald, and dissipa
tion i9 attributed as the cause. All, no;
he went to a church sociable the other
week, took three charming girls out to
the refreshment table, let them eat all
they wanted, and then found he had left
his pocket-book at home, and a deaf man
that he had never seen before at the
cashier’s desk. The young man with his
face aflame, bent down and said softly:
“ I am ashamed to say I have no
change with ”
“ Hev ?” shouted the cashier.
“I regret to say,” the young man re
peated on a little louder key, “that I
nave unfortunately come away without
any change to ” n
“Change two?” chirped the deaf man.
“ Oh, yes, I can change a five if you want
it.”
“ No,” the young man explained in a
terrible pentrating whisper, for half a
dozen people were crowding up behind
him, impatient to pay their bills and get
away. “ I don’t want any change, be
cause—”
“ Oh, don’t want no change !” the deaf
man cried, gleefully. Bleegcd to ye,
bleeged to ye. Tain’t often we get such
generous donations. Pass over your
bill.”
“ No, no,” the young man explained,
“I have no funds—”
“Oh, yes plenty of fun,” the deaf man
replied, growing tired of the conversation
and noticing the long line of people wait
ing with money in their hands; “but I
haven’t got time to talk about it now.
Please settle and move on.
“But,” the young mangnsped out, “I
have no money—”
“Go Monday?” queried the deaf
cashier. “ I don’t care when you go
You must pa”’, and let those other peo
ple come up.”
“I have no money!” the modified
young man shouted, ready to sink into
the earth, while the people all around
him, and especially the three girls he had
treated, were giggling and chuckling
audibly.
“ Owe money?” the cashier said. “ Of
course you do; $2.75.”
“I can’t pay!” the youth screamed,
and by turning his pocket inside out and
yelling his poverty to the heavens he
finally made the deaf man understand.
He then had to shriek liis full name three
times, while his ears fairly rang with
the halt-stifled laughter that was break
ing out all around him; and he had to
scream out where he worked, and roar
when lie would pay, and lie couldn’t get
the deaf man to understand him until
some of the church members came up to
see what the uproar was, and, recogniz
ing their young friend, made it all right
with the cashier. And the young man
went out into the night and clubbed
himself, and shred his locks away until
lie was bald as au egg. — Iiurlington
1fair keye.
New Styles of Jewelry.
Like all other branches of toilet and
costume, jewerly is subject to the
changes and the vagaries of fashion.
The red and dark yellow gold are the
most fashionable colors for ladies’ and
gentlemen’s wear. The first is made of
gold and copper, with a tenth ot silver
for working, whilst the second is an
alloy of gold, silver and copper. For
red or yellow gold. Whilst turquois and
blue jewelry will only he worn by
blondes and persons of light complexion,
coral will be in fine demand and much
‘worn, particularly the light and more
delicate shades. Diamonds, as usual,
will continue to be worn by the wealthy,
there being n6 depreciation in the value
of fine stones. In gentlemen’s jewelry
the same varieties and combination of
gold al.tu.dy mentioned will be fashion
able. Watches will be flat eased in led
gold with monograms enamel and studs,
and chains will be of various styles in
either red gold or red gold and platina
combined.
How to Keep a Subscriber.
An indignant farmer recently entered
the office of the Elizabeth News and or
dered his paper stopped, because he dif
fered from its editor in his views regard
ing the advantages of subsoiling fence
rails. The editor, of course, conceded to
the man’s right to stop his paper, but
he remarked coolly, looking over his list:
“Do you know Jim Soivders, down at
Hardscrabble ?”
“Very well,” said the man.
“Well, he stopped his paper last week
because I thought a farmer was a blamed
fool who didn’t know that timothy was a
good thing to graft on huckleberry
bushes, and lie died in four hours.”
“Lord, is that so?” said the astonished
granger.
“Yes, and you know old George Erick
son, down on Eagle Creek?”
“Well, I’ve heard of him.”
“Well,” said the editor, gravely, “he
stopped his paper because I said he was
the happy father of twins, and congrat
ulated him on his success so late in life.
He fell dead in twenty-minutes. Thnu
are lots of similar cases, hut it don’t
matter. I’ll just cross your name off,
though you don’t look strong, and there’s
a had color on you nose.”
“Sec here, Mr. Editor,” said the sub
scriber, looking somewhat alarmed, “I
believe I’ll just keep on another year;
’cause I always did like your paper, and,
come to think about it, you’re a young
man, and allowance ought to he made;”
and he departed satisfied that lie had
made a narrow escape from death.
How to Sow Small Seeds with Success.
Novices in floriculture make frequent
failures with minute seeds, like those of
the lobelia, the mimulus, and the cal
ceolaria, and even experienced florists do
not always succeed with every sowing, as
such seeds are very delicate and germin
ate only under the most favorable con-
Hans Christian Andersen and His Father.
Andersen said that his wife was like a
beautiful fairy tale, and he was un
doubtedly as.happy a man as has lived.
His success was so great and so precisely
adapted to his desires and temperament
that he tasted it all the way down, as his
world-wide diocese of young folks would
have said. His father was a kind and
tender soul, who had such strong poetic
susceptibilities himself that he filled his
boy’s mind and life with gentle fancies,
and preferred to tell him fairy tales, and
take him, when he could, to the theater—
a delight to which his slender purse was
seldom equal—rather than to insist upon
tasks and studies. The child is father of
the man, and in this instance the man,
also, in the same sense, was father of the
child. The father was a shoemaker, and
his son says lie was not happy in his
trade, as the son certainly would not
have been. The glimpse that we get of
the intercourse and relation of the parent
and child is very pleasing, and is just
what the poet would have thought the
a er relation. And since heaven sends
children as it will, and not such as
parents might choose, it is easy to im
agine the intense delight of the elder
Andersen in finding that his own secret
dreams and shy fancies were shared by
the young, ancl that when he had done
stitching and hammering in the shop, lie
could stroll boundlessly in fairyland
with his child. How strangely the pic
ture of the lioy Andersen and his father
contrasts with that of John Stuart Mill
and his father! AU that either had was
left out of the childhood of the other;
and the impression of Andersen’s whole
life is as sunny and smiling and happy as
that of Mill’s is sober and almost sad.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
Science and Farming.
One of the principal requirements of
the practical farmer is to known the
causes as well as the means whereby
useful nutritive substances present in
the soil, but not in a form available for
nutrition, may be rendered diffusible and
capable of doing their work. The pres
cnee of moisture, a certain degree ofheat
and free access of air are the proximate
conditions of those changes by which the
nutritive substance in chemical com
bination are made available for the
roots. As the smallest portions of food
cannot of themselves leave the spot
which they are firmly fixed by the soil,
we can understand what influence must
be exerted on tiie fertility by its careful
mechanical division anti thorough ad
mixture. This is the greatest of all the
difficulties the agriculturist has to over
come. If the field is to produce a crop
ditions. Have the soil in the pot, pan or ^ t ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
box, (a shallow box is best,) composed of! corresponding to the full amount of foot!
lent mold and clean sand, two parte of | p resen t j n ;t ) the first ancl most impor-
thc former to one of the latter, sifted, or \ tant condition for its accomplishment is
otherwise made very line. Make the
surface even and smooth, and press
slightly; then sprinkle it by holding a
wet brush over it and drawing the hands
across the bristles so as to throw a tine
spray upon the soil. On this prepared
surface sow the seed, and scatter over it
the slightest possible sprinkling of fine
clean sand. Now cover the pot or box
with a pane of glass, and keep it in the
shade, watering when necessary with the
spray from a brush as before directed.
The soil must not be permitted to get dry,
nor must it ever be deluged with water.
If the seeds be sown, as is generally the
ease, on a loose surface, and then watered
from a watering-pot, they arc mostly
carried down with the water so deep into
the soil that it is impossible for them to
ge minate.
THE WII.l) GOOSE PLUM AND ITS COUN
TERFEITS.
The wild goose plum has lost favor in
some quarters on account of a host of
spurious varieties disseminated under its
name. We have frequently spoken of
the Wild Goose—we wish it had a better
ladies taeteti jewelry math; imo jjeuil-j nuiuc—a« a most desirable plum, and we
’ necklaces will be much j have spoken from experience. We have
said also, that, while wo highly ivcunv
worn. This is made of eitiicr the reti or
yellow gold, and is in some cases com
posed of alternate pieces of gold and
platina—a material which is largely used
nowadays in the manufacture of ladies’
goods. Bracelets will lie worn very nar
row, and in form will lie square edged,
roui?d, oval or half oval, while neck
mend it, we do not wish to convey the
idea that it is equal in quality to n'gage.
Till we cau mote readily circumvent the
curculio, we cannot have the gages with
out more trouble and expense than they
are worth. Lacking them, let us be
thankful for the wild goose, even with
laces arc made with pendants or facted' its absurd name, for though not exactly
balls and crosses. These and "
lets are made in either
or red cold with platina
laines of gold in. Etruscan, variously
ornamented in Japanese and other styles
of work, including red gold jierforated
work, and watches to match, are a de
cided novelty. Earrings will be worn
larger in size, and are like all other jew-
eiry of the period, facted and of either
from a nurseryman of established repu
tation.—Rural Carolinian.
Cookies.—Two cups sugar, 2 eggs, ]
cup butter, 1 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon
soda, flour to make soft dough; roll thin,
and bake in a quick oven.
that its physical state he such as to per
mit even titc finest rootlets to reach the
spots where the food is to he found.
The extension of the roots in every di
rection must not he obstructed by the
cohesion of the soil. Plants with their
delicate roots can not grow on a tena
cious, heavy soil, even with abundance
of mineral food. None of these three
important constituents of food (potash,
phosphate of lime and ammonia) exists
by itself in a soluble form in the ground,
and none of the means employed by the
agriculturist to make them available to
his plants deprives the soil of its power
of retaining them, or, if dissolved, of
withdrawing them from the solution.
The principal end gained hv the means
lie employs is only a uniform distribu
tion of the food throughout the soil so
as to put it within the reach of the roots
of his plants.
Chicken Cheese.—This is so nice that
every one who eats it once likes it again.
Boil two chickens till tender.take outall
the bones and chop the meat fine; season
—Why He Sighed.
I do not mourn, sweet wife of mine,
because those ruby lips of thine—
Shat marble brow—
Were kissed l*y one who might have iteeii,
Had I not chanced to step iietween,
Tby husband now.
I do not grieve because thy heart,
Ere Cupid touched it with my dart,
For him would beat ;
Nor ifiui the hand which owns mj ling
Once more his gift, a “Mfrjwh” tiling—
It was but meet.
I sigh not that his arms were placed
some score of times around your \\aM,
So sweet anil siim.
All 110, my luvei the woe vou see
Is mine because you wedded me
Instead ol him.
Thoughtfulness for others, generos
ity, modesty, and suif-respect are the
qualities which make a real gentleman or
lady, as distinguished from the veneered
article which commonly goes by that
name.
A little while the roses bloom.
A little while the soft winds blow,
A little while the baby laughed.
A little while—from hud to snow.
But after all the rose is sweet.
And after nil the winds have blown
And after ail the baby blessed,
And after all it is our own.
If in our thought the rose remains,
And winds arc sweet in memory,
Why should not then the baby gone
Forever be a babe to me?
—October Atland:.
It is true that we are continually in
spired, and that we do not lead a gracious
life, except so far ast\e act under this
interior inspiration. But how few fed
it! how few are they who do not annihi
late it by their voluntary distructions or
by their resistance!
When the last rose of summer,
Is failed and gone,
Anil the blue bottle hummer
Lies dead as a stone;
When the inudbugs and stingers
Take umbrage and go;
Oh, tell ns, why lingers
This wild mus </ui to?
Bbave Col. Nash scorned brandy
smash, and good old gin was all two thin;
but the tempting bait of a whisky
straight revived his soul with the flow
ing howl. Alas for man, when corn-juice
ran! Then comes the dregs, and tangled
legs, and nodding posts, and grinning
ghosts, ghosts dressed in blue, “ I came
for you”—and the pleasant “ smile” ends-
in durance vile.
here is a young woman of Lynn
rown up so excessively thin,
When she wears her pull-back
She seems all flesh to Jack,
Amlher bonnet seems stuck on a pi n.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Pork Cake.—One pound pork, chop
ped very fine; two cups sugar, one cup
molasses, one pint water, one pound
raisins, chopped, not very fine; one tea
spoonful of cloves, one nutmeg, one tea
spoonful soda. If it is iced, it will keep-
some time.
Cocoaxut Cakf.—Two cups sugar;
half cup butter; cup sweet milk; three
and a half cups flour; two egg-; two
teaspoonful cream tartar; one teaspoon-
ful of soda, put in the milk, stir the
cream tartar in the flour; then stir alto
gether without beating the eggs. For
frosting use the whites of two eggs. Make
the cake in six thin layers, putting frost
ing ancl cocoanut between.
A New Eldorado.—A dispatch from
Washington says: People some years
ago smiled at the idea of paying $7,001),-
000 for Alaska, upon the ground that the
possession was valueless. From recent
reports to the treasury department, from
the collector at tfitka, it appears that the-
possession promises to be a very valuable
one—that is, if the recent reports are
verified. The most important of the re
ports forwarded by the collector is the
one made by a practical miner, who has
been exploring Alaska. He reports that
U> uudeivUL salt, peppersne! b«n*r uour I he has found a very rich silver mining
i: J ...... tv m i district—one oi tr.c richest u* the werM
natural imiicaium*. TIL :vp;u-s.
in enough liquor tnev am '»n!cd in
make moist. Mold it in any shape you
may choose, and when cold turn cut and
cut into slices. It is an excellent travel
ing or picnic lunch.
Fowl Stewed with Oysters.—Fill
the inside of a young fowl with oysters;
put it in ajar or tin pail, tightly closed,
and put it m a kettle of water. Boil au
hour and a half; there will be a quantity
of gravy from the fowl and oysters; add
to it a little flour made smooth in a small
quantity of water, some butter, season
ing to taste, and more oysters, with their
liquor. Serve this with the fowl, which
will be very white and tender. All the
fine flavor lost in ordinary boiling will be
preserved.
very ample in its details, and gives a
most glowing description of the untold
wealth of this newly discovered region.
The discovery of these mines involves
also an international question; as since
then some British Canandians have come
in and squatted upon the territory,
claiming that it lies within the British
dominion. The collector of the port at
Sitka is decidedly of the opinion that the
mines lie in American soil. This latter
point has been submitted to the state
department for investigation. If the
mines are as rich as represented, no
doubt there will be a struggle over their
possession, as at present British subjects
have them in their possession.