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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
BILL ARP
On North Carolina Towns, Prohibition,
Tobacco Factories, etc.
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special contract, we resume their publication
In the Sunny South under the copyright.
Everything Is lovely now. All na re is
dressed In living green and adorned wita flow
ers. She has banged her hair with blossoms and
fringed her pantalettes and clustered her swel,
ling bosom. It Is a full and gorgeous costume-
not too short above nor too long below, but
modest and bridal and lovely. No decollette
nor line of demarcation, such as Miss Cleveland
and other women are writing about and trying
to explain. I never read about this decollette
business, these low-neck party dresses, but the
word decoy seems to fit right well, for they are
made to decoy somebody and set a snare. It is
a poor, pitilul business when ladies have to take
a measure for the line of modesty and discuss
in the newspapers where modesty ends and im
modesty begins. But then these fashionable
folks have got nothiDg else to do, I reckon.
North Carolina is excited now and there is fire
all along the line. Prohibition is the question,
and you can hear of it wheiever you go. A hun
dred times have I been asked bow it works in
Georgia. I met Governor Colquitt on the tralD.
He waB just from Washington and was going to
Kalelgb to speak on prohibition, and from there
to Durham. Raleigh was excited, aud so was
Durham and Goldsboro, for the friends of tem
perance have become bold and aggressive.
Everywhere 1 think they will be defeated in all
these places, but they will rally and fight again
until they do succeed. Public opinion is gradu
ally drifting that way, and sooner or later
whisky must go. It may be that wine will come
In as a substitute over here, and it will be a
happy compromise If it does. Domestic wine is
the Dest thing to fight whisky with in North
Carolina, for inis whole country is planting vine
yards. Acres upon acres may be seen from the
cars all along the railroads, especially the Ral
eigh and Gaston railroad. You are hardly ever
out of sight of a vineyard. Most of these grapes
are grown to sell and ship, but there are thou
sands of gallons of wine being made, pure wine,
and it is found to be more profitable than any
thing else. I visited Captain Garrett's vine
yard near Enfield, and was amazed at its extent.
Just think of ninety acres in Scuppernong
grapes, all arbored over, and as you stand on
an elevation and look down, it seems one luxu
riant carpet of living green. Captain Garrett
makes 60,000 gallons of wine every season, and
sell"* it in New York for a net price of one dol
lar a gallon. Besides this be has twenty acres
in other grapes that are made into sberry and
champagne. The process does not seem to be
complicated or difficult, and anybody can suc
ceed If they are reasonably intelligent and
watchful. This was a model farm I visited, tor
while grapes and wine were the main thing,
there was a splendid farm in a high
state of cultivation and a number of
silo pits rbat Captain Garrett says is the
salvation of his farm. There was a fine herd of
Jersey cattle and a dairy; and above all, there
was an elegant refinement in the household and
a welcome hospitality that makes one feel like
be was living again in the days of the old plant
ers and patriarchs whose beautiful homes adorn
ed the hills and the groves of the South some
thirty years ago. The diversified agriculture
and horticulture of Eastern North Carolina is
bringing their people to the front very rapidly.
It is not all cotton uow, nor is it all turpentine,
as it used to be. Why, even the small fruits are
realizing a handsome return for their cultiva
tion, and you will see at every station on the
Coast line large stacks of strawberry crates
awaiting the express train for the Northern
markets. Tobacco is now a leading product,
and every town has its warehouses and auction
houses that buy and sell aud store the weed.
The town of Durham has now 5,000 inhabitants,
and the majority are in the tobacco business. 1
visited the immense estab'ishments of Duke &
Sons and Carr & Co., and was bewildered at the
extent of their uusiness. There is now in Dur
ham ten million pounds of leaf tobacco awaiting
manufacture, and it comes in every day by the
train load from all the surrounding country.
The tobacco manufacturers of Durham pay to
the railroads over one million dollars a year for
incoming freights. They have over 2,000 opera
tives, more than half of whom are girls. I saw
five hundred girls in one factory. They were
all setting at little desks making cigarettes, and
they were singing one of Sankey’s songs when
we entered. Cotton factory girls look pale and
measley, for they have to staud up all day, aud
the poor things do get tired, awful tired, and
they look careworn and weary. They can’t sing
for the sound of the machinery. But these girls
looked rosy and neat, and were as merry as
larks. The doctors say that the tobacco busi
ness is the healthiest business tir the world,
and that these girls are never sick. They all
work by the piece, and many of them make
two dollars every day. Most of them make one
dollar and fifty cents, and even the little tiny
chaps make from seventy-five cents to a dollar.
The girls can beat the boys at this business,
for their fiugers are more delicate and nimble.
They make 750 ooo cigarettes in one day in the
Duke factory. Just think of iti Nearly a mil
lion 1 And all to be burned up into smoke and
ashes. I casually inquired where all these ci
garettes and all this smoking tobacco went
to, and the general manager handed me
a lot of bills of lading that had been sbipped
that morning. They were to Hamburg, Hono
lulu, Singapore, Madras. Antwerp, Rotterdam,
Montreal, Aukland and Sourabay. Tney have a
large trace in China and Asia and India and
Arabia. Durham and Duke tobacco are now
known all over the world, and their proprietory
have to eularge their products every year in
order to supply the demand.
Tobacco is very low now because of the over
production of last year, and the Durham manu
factory have bought very largely at very low fig
ures. I was shown a pile of 150 000 pounds that
cost 2>j cents a pound, but it was very common
indeed. Nevertheless, P is worked up and fla
vored with a little New England rum ana sells
very well. Then I visited a small factory of
Messrs Pogue & Cameron, where they make a
specialty of a very fine smoking tobacco, the
Queen of the South, that tbey say is the finest in
tne world. They have to pay a high price for
the leaf that is put in this tobacco. Durham!
Well, you can smell tobacco all over Durham.
You live in its atmosphere and breathe it, for
these factories are cutting it up into powder
with machinery that drives the dust out into the
air and the wind wafts it all over town. But it
is not at all unpleasant, and they say that one
can breathe it until he does not care to chew it.
It is like the old, fat and greasy cooks, wbo in
the old times hardly ever ate anything but Just
kept fat and slick from the odors of smoking
and frying meats.
Before I forget it, let me tell you that there is
buried in the churchyard at Tarboro a colonel
of a Georgia regiment—what regiment I do not
know, but the colonel’s name was Mercer. He
was killed near there and his grave has some
canuon balls around it, and his name penciled
on a board. Governor Colquitt told me that he
knew his father well and that this man was
when a young man sent to West Point, and was
a very young and brave officer. If any of bis
kindred desire to know more about him they
can write to Mr. David Pender, at Tarbora.
I am now on the border of tbe Dismal swamp,
that horror of my childhood, where I supposed
were hidden bears and panthers and crocodiles
and anacondas, and was lighted up with Jack
o’lanterns. Tbey say it is peaceable now and
quiet.
HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES
Some of the Houses and Spots
about Washington that Re
call Interesting Histori
cal Incidents.
The Old Davie Barns Cottage—The
Church where Washington Wor
shipped and the Sickles
Residence.
There are few localities in the United States
more largely invested with historical Incidents
than its Capitol, although its existence began able tragedy ending in the death of Phifipitar-
with the commencement of the present century, ton Key. at the hands of Sickles. The resi-
and almost a generation after the exciting dence °' F
events of the Revolution, which culminated in
tbe right of tbe people to have a Capitol. Here
are still the old landmarks, that stand as living
evidences, in affirmation of the traditionary
stories, personal and political, of the public men
wbo have been prominent figures in sbaping the
country’s destiny, and here are still living,
scores of people whose memory reverts back to
those trying scenes following the invasion of a
public enemy, when tbe torch was applied to tbe
Capitol, and other Government buildings, while
the army that had attempted to defend them lay
helpless and defeated. While Boston and
itol to the White House, and was nearly the en
tire distance a deep morass, literally covered
with elder bushes, which were cut through to
the Executive Mansion. But two really good
habitations, that of the Carrolls and one owned
br Notlev Young, a land speculator, met the eye
of the visitor, who also found tbe streets in
every direction muddy and unimproved, even to
the extent of the primitive plank sidewalk. The
colored quarter, which now may be said to per
vade all parts of tbe city, was then a distinctive
settlement, whose population was composed of
slaves who performed about all of the field and
domestic tabor in and around Washington. The
Capital, too, was a slave mart, that gave to tbe
Abolitionists tbe text for those mighty sermons
upon the consistency of a nation whose states
men were Invoking the Goddess of Liberty,
while in the shadow of tbe Capitol’s dome, the
auctioneer was selling men, women and children
to the highest bidder.
Another of tbe historic buildings of Washing
ton is tbe handsome brick dwelling on the west
side of Lafayette Square, wherein resided Gen
eral Daniel £ Sicaies at tbe time of the lament-
* ohltt f i*o nrnH XT untiinrr in fhn fianfh DK.lin >
THE OLD KINGSAND QUEENS.
Brief Biographical Sketches with Por
traits of the Crow ned Heads
of England.
ENGLISH HISTORY CONDENSED
DAVID BURNS' COTTAGE.
Philaflelphia have their Cradles of Liberty, and
Independence Halls to mark tbe epoch of the
Revolution, Washington stands almost alone in
retaining remembrances of tbe invasion, and
devastation wrought by tbe land forces of the
mother country, the very walls of the then un
finished Capitol being still Intact, and repeating
the stories to thousands of visitors to whom
WashiDglon is a sort of Mecca.
The advent of real estate speculation at the
Capitol, was contemporaneous with that of the
Government, so that no sooner were the streets
and squares laid out, than the operations in
desirable corner lots were commenced. Of
the most prominent of those who thus
early invested in tbe landed property
were Daniel Carroll and David Burns, both of
whom became wealthy, as the world then went,
but Carroll ultimately became embarrassed
THE DUDINGTON HOUSE,
by too much overreaching. The spacious “Dud-
ington House,” which was built especially for
tbe residence of the Carroll family still stood in
nearly its pristine substantiality,on North Caroli
na avenue, until this spring, the lot upon which it
stood having joined that upon which tbe Capitol
was located. Taking advantage of this fact,
Carroll exacted enormous prices for his lots,
and sold to other speculators largely unon time,
taking promissory notes in payment. Of course
tbe purchasers held the property at au advance,
and those who reailv desired to settle were com
pelled to go to the Northwestern portion of tbe
city, which has ever since maintained its posi
tion as the most populous, as well as the most
desirable residence quarter of the Capital.
David Burns, on tbe other hand, wbo owned large
possessions tu tbe Northwestern quarter, dis
posed of his lots at a reasonable figure, when
the demand for them first set in, so that in a
very short time he was enabled to announce
himself as not only the richest Scotchman in
America, but, with the exception of Stephen
Girard and Astor, the wealthiest citizen of any
nationality. His residence was a rude, uit-
painted cottage (still standing, though nearly in
ruins) near the river, and in close proxlmi’y to
the grander one ot his son-in-law. “Davie,” as
he was called, was one of those self-willed, cho
leric old fellows who never agreed with any
body save as a matter of dollars and cents in
bis own pocket. It is told of him that when the
Government was negotiating for the transfer
of land for reservations, President Washington
called in person upon him at his humble bouse
to explain the advantages of the transfer. The
surly Scotchman, on one of these occasions, re
marked to the President: “I suppose, Mr.
Washington, you think people are going to take
every grtst from you as pure grain; but wbat
would you have been if you hadn’t married rich
widow Custis?” It is said Washington lost bis
temper at this sally, but it is not probable that
that made any difference with crusty Dave, who
finally had his own way by getting Pis own price
lor his property.
dence of Key was diagonally across the square,
from which be received from Mrs. Sickles
the handkerchief signals that were witnessed
by those who informed Sickles of his wife’s infi
delity, and confirmed bis suspicion as to tbe de
stroyer of bis happiness. It was at or near the
southwestern corner of the square that Sickles
met Key and confronted him with the charge,
and though Key begged for mercy, shot him
twice, either wound being siiffiaient to produce
death Sickles was at the nine a member of
Congress from New York, while Kay was toe
United States attorney for the District of Co
lumbia. Tbe high social standing of tbe parlies,
together with the fact that Mrs. Sickles mingled
at all times in tbe highest circles of
Washington society, gave to the tragedy
an Interest more intensely sensational
than anything that the criminal annals
of tbe country had previously furnished
THE SICKLES HOUSE.
Sickles gave himself up to the law, but the cir
cumstances of the case were of such a charac
ter that the public deemed tbe defendent entire
ly justified, and upon trial he was acquit
ted. General Sickles is still living, alter
bavlDg re married his wife, who died some six
or seven years goa. Mrs. Sickles was of Span
ish extraction, and remarkably beautiful both
iu form and feature. Opinions as to her own
moral culpability and her relations with Key,
have been divided, though the fact that her hus
band again received her to bis home and family,
would indicate that be, at least did not believe
that her offense was beyond condonation. The
house, of which tbe above is an excellent illus
tration as it now appears, was then conspicuous
from its novel checkered front, the bricks in
the walls being alternately of a brownish red
and cream color. It was among the fiuest of
the fine residences of the Capitol, and furnish
ed in a style entirely in accord with tne high
social position of its occupants, whose hospital
ity was simply unbounded. Recently the man
sion has been completely reu odeled externally,
leaving no trace of tbe peculiar appearance by
which ihe stranger formerly had no difficulty in
identifying it.
Few people vis’t Washington as sigRTSeers
who do Dot include a visit to tbe old Christ Epis
copal church, in Alexandria, in which Washing
ton worshipped, and to which, when at home,
be was a constant attendant. This old church
was built and dedicated in 1865. the bricks en
tering into its construction being brought over
from England. The church in external appear
ance is not unlike hundreds of other churches
in our country, but the interior is decided’/ aov-
el, aud strikes one as having been arranged es-
ecially for tbe discomfort of the congregation.
be pews have high backs, doubtless intended
to restrain that female curiosity that ignores
tbe pastor’s sermous to examine tbe head-gear
of the sister parishioners. On Sundays the peo
ple were in the habit of gathering about the
door of the church, and there wait until Wash
ington and his wife arrived, when with uncov
ered beads they paid their rustic homage to him,
who was even then first in the hearts of all the
people. The family pew in the old church is
still preserved. It has three seats, one of which
The Foar New Bishcps.
The new bishops who were ordained at Rich
mond yesterday have long been regarded as
bright and shining lights in Southern Meth
odism.
The Rev. Dr. William Wallace Duncan is a
native of Virginia, and is now forty-seven years
old. He is president of Wafford college, at
Spartanburg, S. O., and is considered one of tbe
ablest ministers in the church.
VAN NESS MANSION.
The Van Ness mansion—which Is another of
the prominent reminders of the good old times
of the Capitol City—though in the last stages of
decay, gives evidence of the aristocratic tenden
cies of its owner, Gen. John P. Van Ness, who
came here from New York as a Congressman,
and became a resident of Washington by becom
ing the busband of Daild Burns’ daughter Mar
cia. He first lived in ihe old cottage, but oDly
long enough to see the completion of what was
then the finest residence in the country. The
mansion was planned by Latrobe, one of tbe
architects of the Capitol, who was directed to
spare neither pains nor expense in the rearing
of this palatial abode. The grounds were, and
still are, enclosed with a brick wall, and there
was no eDd of flowers, shrubbery and other
adornment, not excepting costly statuary, foun
tains, etc. For many years this macSion was the
Tne Rev. Dr. Eugene Russell Hendrix was
born In Missouri in 1847. He accompanied the ,
Bishop Marvin In his tour around the world, resort of tbe distinguished people of thecouDtry,
For several years he has been president of Cen- and few of tbe eminent statesmen, including Pre-
trai pniiooA Miaennri sideuts. who resided in Washington, did not
deem the mansion a retreat for any and all oc-
tral college. Missouri.
The Rev. Dr. Charles B. Galloway is a native
of Mississippi, and for the past four years has
been editor of the New Orleans Christian Advo
cate. He is a young roaD of about thirty-seven.
The Rev. Dr. Joseph 8. Key is a Georgian.
He graduated at Emory college in 1848, ana has
been engaged in pastorial work since tnat time,
b-ing now stationed at tbe First Methodist
ebureb in Columbus. He is a man of distin
guished learning and piety, and bis elevation to
the college of bishops Is highly gratifying to the
Methodists of Georgia.
From every quarter comes expressions of the
strongest appropal. showing that the choice of
casions. The only earthly memento of this once
proud family, save the nearly ruined mansion,
is the magnificent tomb at Oak Hill Cemetery,
in imitation of the temple of Vesta, which was
erected at a cost of $30,000. The death of Van
Ness, according to legendary lore, is duly cele
brated on each recurring anniversary by his fa
vorite troop of six white horses, which make a
ghostly midnight gallop around the old mansion
whose walls give forth those supernatural
sounds that would naturally accompany the gal
loping of six white horses.
Pennsylvania Avenue, which is uow justly de-
, o «nvivv * | A CUuoyivauia aiuuuc) vvuivu to uu n luamj uu*
the general coulerence gives complete satisfac- nominated the fiuest thoroughfare in the world,
tlon * 1 at this early period extended only from the Cap-
CHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA.
is against the wall, and was occupied by the
General, wbo always sat “bolt-upright,” be
cause there was no other way lor him to sit.
The other seats faced each other, and of course,
some of the family must have fumed their backs
upon tbe respected rector. The structure has
undergone in past years maDy repairs outward
ly, but tbe inside of Ihe church is substantially
as it was when Washington attended it as ves
tryman. The determination to keep it in its
present 'condition as long as it is possible to
do so, will be commended by all.
What Was the Rose Of Sharon.
The “Rose of Sharon” has loDg been a disput
ed point. Tbe Hebrew word khabotseleth oc'
curs only in Canticles ii., 1, and Isaiah, xxxv.,1;
the revised version reads “rose” in tbe text and
“Autumn crocus” in the margin. We are ol
opinion that the narcissus (A'. Tazetta) is in
tended. Tbe scene of tbe Canticles is in the
Spring, when the narcissus would be in bios,
som; it is very sweer, has long been and still is a
plant of which the Orientals are passionately
fond; Hasselquist noticed it on the plain of
Sharon ^Tristram in cultivated land and lower
bills from Gaza to Lebanon; Mr. H. Chichester
Hart in tbe districts between Yebdna and Jaffa
(Plain of Sharon.) “Some low-lying patches,” he
sajs, “were quire white with It.” The October
Quarterly Statement (Palestine Exploration
Fund) contains a valuabie paper by Mr C. Hart,
entitled "A Naturalists’ Journev to Sinai. Pe
tra. and South Palestine, made in the Autumn
oi 1883 ” The Autumn crocus has do perfume,
and would not be in oloom till late in the year.
The narcissus is a bulbous plant, which is ap
parently Implied in pan of its Hebrew name—i.
e.. betsel, a “bulb,” an “onion.” But quite a
different plant has very recently appeared as
the true claimant to the honor of being tbe
"Rose of Sharon;” an Assyrain plant is intro
duced to us by Dr. F. Delitzsch. Among the
names of different kinds of kanu, “reed,” and
of objects made of it, occurring on a tablet in
the British Museum and published in “The
Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia,” men
tion is made of one called khabat stllatu, which
in souDd is identical with the Hebrew name in
Canticles and Isaiah, so that Dr. F. Delitzsch,
without a moments hesitation, upsets all other
floral aspirants with one decided blow and reads
"reed ol Sharon,” “the desert shall rejoice and
sprout like the Teed.”—Edingburg Itevieu-.
if t:\ tcY i.
After the death of William Rafns, Robert
of Normandy was the heir to the orown, not
only by right of birth, but according to the
terms of agreement between the brothers.
That Prince was absent in Palestine, where
his valor and prowess had won him mnoh
glory. He was jnstly popular cn account of
the qoalities of his oharaoter, combining as
it did, gentleness and humanity with the
most ohivalrons bravery. Bnt his younger
brother, Henry, was ambitions and daring,
as well as polite, and above all had tbs ad
vantage of being on the spot. He took his
measures with mnoh promptness and with
dear apprehension of the difficulties that
lay before him. Adopting a conciliatory
tone towards the priests he won them to his
side and through them be soon brought
about the proclamation of himself as King,
During the time that he felt his position in
seoure, he made many graoious promisee,
none of which, however, he afterwards kept
He farther attached the English to his gov
ernment by marrying Matilda, a nieoe of
Edgar Atheling. But just as he began to
think his throne firmly established every
thing was thrown into confusion by the ap-
pearanoe upon the scene of his brother
Robert, who had been for more than a year
slowly making his way from the Holy Land.
Many of the nobles flocked to the support of
this Prince, and Henry began to be appre
hensive not for his authority only, but for
his life. Had Robert been as enterprising
as he was brave, he might have won the
kingdom withont any protracted struggle.
After a little fighting however, and mnoh
parleying, he agreed to resign his claim to
the orown of England for a pension of three
thousand marks, it being agreed in the
treaty that each Prince was to pardon the
adherents of the other. Henry paid as lit
tle attention to this stipulation as he did to
his other promises. So soon as he felt him
self ont of danger he brought some oharge
against every Baron who bad taken sides
with Robert, and had them either banished
or put to death. Soon after this he availed
himself of an invitation from the Norman
Barons to interfere with the affairs of that
Dnohy. He won over many of his brother’s
subjects by bribery, and after a while pass
ed over the channel with a large army with
whioh he invaded that oountry. He follow
ed np each suocess with snob vigor that in
two campaigns he completed the conquest
of the whole provinoe, making prisoners bis
brother and his brother’s son, the former he
held in custody for the remainder of his life
the latter escaped from his power, and re
ceiving the oonntenance and support of one
prince after another, was able to give his
mnch great annoyanoe. While Henry
was thus successful over his enemies in the
field, he was not so decidedly triumphant
in hisoontes's with the Pope and the priest
hood. In common with most other tempo
ral sovereigns of that age, he had to yield
when he mme in oonfliot with the spiritual
powers. The favor of the olergy stood him
in good stand at more than one orisis in his
history, bat he found in eaoh instance that
he had to pay for their aid by giving np
some of his power.
After the conquest of Normandy, the im
prisonment of Robert, and the settlement
of his disputes with the Pope, his good fort
une seemed nnmixed. Bat about this time,
bis only son, who had barely attained to
man’s estate, was drowned while in the aot
of crossing the channel. His second wife
brought him no children, and he sought to
take every precaution against a disputed
succession by having his daughter, Matilda,
the wife of the Emperor of Germany, rec
ognized as heir to the orown. The latter
years of his life were spent in peace and
quiet, much of the time being spent with
his daughter and her children, for whom he
entertained a great affection. He died in
Normandy in 1135, from a siokness brought
on by eating too heartily of lampreys, be
ing then in the sixty-seventh year of his
age and the thirty fifth year of his reign.
He was a Prince most accomplished both
in the arts of peaoe and war; but like all
others of the Plantagenet line—his charac
ter was greatly marred by oruelty and pride.
TRAVELLINGS JAPAN.
Extracts from Gorman’s Tour Round the World in 1884.
Jefferson Davis-
[New York Star.]
Will you hear a word from one who was an
abolitionist, open and avowed, and resident in
the South long before and duriDg the war—ever
a bitter foe to pro-slavery and secession? It
concerns the abuse heaped on Jefferson Davis
and his admirers. There is a base, low-down,
contemptible spirit in some men that is never
content with physically beating an enemy, but
would enslave his soul as well. This is shame
fully manifested bv those who persistently per
secute Jefferson Davis, and endeavor to magni
fy every speech of his at Confederate reunions.
It is the spirit of cowardly tyranny that ever
fears the beaten foe, and cannot understand
tbe generosity that still clings to tbe creed of a
vanished time. A triumphant people should
take pride In the manliness of those they de
feated. They honor themselves in doing so.
The “cause of the South” is a thing of the past.
But so long as human souls give decent burial
to their dead, and tender sentiment survives,
and memory is not deadened by the glare ot
material prosperity, just so long will the noble
YRDQuislicd hold in tender respect s lost cause
for which they suffered and bled and their broth
ers died. And wherever man is not a mere
brute, he must admire this in former foes as
mnch as he prizes honor, truth and sincerity
above the worship of present success. We bury
onr dead with tears, and annually honor their
memories; and we return to the duties of the
morrow better men for indulging tbe sentiment.
Of Mr. Davis let me say as one said of Napo
leon:
“In splendor on bis throne
I saw him, and passed on.
Amid the clamorous throng,
I scorned to wake my song;
Unskilled to falter or to sting,
incense nor outrage would I bring.
But when the luster splendid
In sudden darkness ended,
Rose with a start to pay
The tribute of my lay.”
—Holt.
“KNOW THYSELF oy reading the
Science of Life,” the best medical workever
published for young nnd middle-age men.
Arriving at Nagasaki, Japan, we pushed to
shore iu a sampan, in which we found great
comfort and cleanliness, but without eyes iu the
bow. As soon as we bad lauded a dozen
Inslklsha men backed their little carriages for
a drive. The men are a trifle shorter, but stout
er than the Chinese—all bottom and muscle
They are more neatly dressed, wearing a broad
brim hat, straw shoes and tights, with a loose
blouse falling below their hips. Somebody has
said it looks like the Japanese coolie has been
melted and ponred into bis trousers. They open
at the bottom. * * * • *
These men trot like horses; they never scare
or tun away I When they come to a bridge they
look behind to see if tbe wheels are on all right.
If you leave one standing he becomes a monu
ment of patience. There are regular livery sta
bles in Tokebama aud Toklo, where tbe men
take the places of horses. You see the little
carriages standing in front. * * *
One evening we made three miles in eighteen
minutes by the watch—extra Imchsheesli. We
done ninety mtles In two days once with the
same meD, travelling on the Tokaido from To-
kio to Nikko, the burial city of the S ioguus. It
was a memorable journey, full of study and sur
prises every day. There were two men work
ing taDdem to each carriage, who made an av
erage, over macadamized roads, of five mites an
hour. At the eud ol each stage or hour, they
stopped for chow chow, rice and tea. Every
other day they bought a pair of straw shoes, and
we paid them off at night.
DAVID DAVIS’ FORTUNE.
His Money Made by Wise Invest
ments in Keal Estate.
[Washington Latter in New York World ]
David Davis, who is reported to be dying
at his home in Bloomington, is worth near
ly four millions of dollars. He has lived in
Washington for noarly twenty years. He
oame here soon after Abraham Lincoln's
eleotion, and was one of Mr. Lincoln’s first
appointments to the Supreme Court. He
held very dose and confidential relations
With Linooln daring the war. There will be
found among the jadge’s private papers
mnoh interesting historical material bearing
upon that period. Mr. Davis has never been
a speculator. He has made his money by
investments in real estate. He has made it
the rnle of his life from the very first to save
something from his inc jme every year for
investment in real estate. He has had great
confidence in the rapid advancement of this
oonntry, and through his investments has
become very rich. His largest property in
terests are in Ohioago. The judge was born
in Maryland. He studied iaw in the now
fashionable town of Lenox, Mass. He lived
at that time in Stookbridge, Mass., and was
an associate of the fonr Field brothers, who
afterwards reached such prominent posi
tions. Mr. Davis’ rale for securing a com
potency is one that is followed by many pub-
lio men. Some of tbe most substantial for
tunes in Washington have been built np
through the advancement of real estate in
this city dnring the last twenty years. Ex-
Senator Yulee made tbe bulk of his fortune
in that way. He bought large tracts of land
in the northwestern part of the city before
the system of improvements here was began
and now it has made him very rioh. Land
in the neighborhood of Dapont Cirole ten
years ago was worth fifteen or twenty cents a
square foot. It now sells in the neighbor
hood of four or five dollars a foot The ad
vance iu values has been equally remarkable
in other parts of tbe city.
A BURMESE FAIRY STORY.
A King's Desire for a Hair from a
Giant’s Head.
[Good Words.]
Fairy tales are popnlar among the Bur
mese, and there is one whioh comes from
over the border in Siam, whioh was told ns
by a Siamese. The exaggerations all hang
together artistically, and are in the same
key as it were : “There was onoe a king
who heard that there was an enormous giant
in a far oonntry, and he declared that he
should never rest until he had a hair of the
giant’s head. So he sent his fleet, and they
sailed and they sailed and they sailed for
weeks and weeks and weeks, und at last one
day in the afternoon it became suddenly
dark, and they stuck fast and could get
neither forward nor backward. Now, the
fact was that they had got inside a hole in a
sort of oarrot, the smallest vegetable in the
giant’s kingdom. And behold, the next
morning the giant’s ohildren went ont to
fi3h, and as they went they picked np two or
three elephants on their way for bait, but
they were only able to catch a few of the
very smallest fishes in the oountry—‘some
thing equivalent to your minnows,’ said the
narrator. And as they were going back they
saw the oarrot growing by the water’s edge,
and palled it up to pat it into the carry, and
inside it was the whole fleet. After they got
home tbe giant threw the fish and the oarrot
into the pot in order to boil them, when tbe
fleet rose out of the root to the top of the
water with all the men in it. ‘What are
those carious insects?’ said the giant, peer
ing down into the pot. Then oame a good
deal more whioh the narrator had forgotten.
The men tried to shout to the giant and tell
him what it was they wanted, bnt their
voices were too weak, and he oould not hear
a word they said. At length he lifted them
np to his ear in his hand, and a whole boat’s
crew marched in at the bole and went ever
snob a long way up inside, and then they all
Bhouted together and told him they had
come from their king to ask him for a hair
of his head. So at last he was able to hear
what even then seemed to him only a whis
per. Unlike his kind, the giant was appar
ently as good-natured as he was big—he
gave them the hair, lifted them baok co the
sea, where the hair, when put on board the
fleet, nearly sank it, after which he puffed
out his oheeks and gave a tremendous blow,
which carried the fleet straight home hun
dreds of miles at one go.”
Horstord’s Avid Phosphate,
Beware of Imitations.
Imitations and counterfeits have again ap
eeared. Be sure that the word “Horsford’s”
s on the wrapper. None are genuine without It.
BRIC-A-BRAC.
An Old Key,
[Chamber's Journal.]
Last night I found an old, forgotten key.
Deep in an nnnsed drawer; and quickly tears
feU.
As in mi hand 1 took it tenderly—
For ah! I knew toe story it would tell
Of a familiar door, a “vanished hand.”
A cheery “click” by eager children heard—
“Papaisbo e!”—Ah. little loyal band!
How oft onr hearts grew sick with hope de
ferred .
In the time i ftsr! for “papa” went forth
And rame not back. Then dawned some dark
some days;
The cottage home was sold, and we came North,
To a gay city street, to flowerless ways. ... j
On the bright steel green spots of rust had
grown—
“It would not turn so easily as then,
(IthoughQ.and Boseiank’ is no more my own—
I have no claim to enter it again.
“Maybe its door has now a different lock—
And oh. if even I could venture there,
What should I find? my misery to mock—
Ghosts of the dead—strangers’ carel ss stare.”
I took the key and laid it ont of sight;
“Since thou caust no more ope the di or for me
Of that dear home, thou r e- dst not see the light;
For only doors of tears are oped by thee.”
The Woman’s Journal tells of a little
Boston boy, questioned when on his way to
sweep office floors and bnild fires before the
stars went ont in the sky, said:
“My mother gets me np, bnilds the fire,
and gets my breakfast and sends me off.
Then she gives the other ohildren their
breakfast and sends them to sohool, and
then she and tbe baby have their breakfast.”
“How old is the baby?” I asked.
“Oh, she’s ’most two; but she oan talk
and walk as well as the rest of ns.”
“And are you well paid?”
“I get two dollars a week, and my father
gets two dollars a day.”
“How mnoh does your mother get?”
With a bewildered look he said: “Mother?
Why, she don’t work for anybody.”
“I thought yon said she worked for all of
yon.”
“Oh, yes, for ns she does; bnt there ain’t
any money in it.”
King and Beggar-Maid.
I. II. ELTON.
TFrom Time.]
Still«nd pale and wistful sits the maid,
With a world of visions in her eyee
Of the conrtley granden* half afraid.
Like a captive under foreign skiee.
Ciown in h«nd the monfrch eyee her face,
Waiting, watching vainly for a smile.
Will not all the glories ot the place
From h r lonely thoughts the maid begnile?
King, the heart that splendor cannot reach
Still of all ear h's treasure is n ost rare.
S xin. perchance, the world ite tale will teach,
Then yonr beggar-maid will not be fair.
A few days before Easter a gentleman di
rected by his better half oalled upon a well
known milliner far his wife’s new bonnet.
“Really,” said the milliner, “it isn’t ready
yet. We are so crowded with work I don’t
know what we will do. Can’t your wife wait
nntil the rash is over?” “Wait?” said the
gentleman, "of oourse she can. She has
fonr or five hats at home now.” The next
morning the store had hardly opened before
the same gentleman rnshed in : “For good
ness sake,” he exclaimed, “get that hat
ready right off. 1 have been married 23
years, and I never before knew that my wife
had a temper. WhewT'—Indianapolis Jour
nal.
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