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CEDARTOWK. GA,. MARCH 8, 1883
, .NEW SERIES—VOL V-NO. 13.
THE BAD FATE OP ANNABEL LEE.
a year hn gone down In the tide
» Teetlree, rolling sea,
_ and my newly-wedded bride,
”»e beautiful Annabel Lee,
mwt on oar bridal railroad ride,
That was so disastrous to me.
i "&&
Since l a
I Mid my Annabel Lee;
. . X bad the mn and she had the tongue,
^ - And thev who were there to see
Bnttl ieh maroon of that hectic noon
> her cardinal hair,
• my beautiful Annabel Lee.
knd sb&went into business then and then,
My unfortunate Annabel Lee!
She i
and doughnuts, and
and
And I thought it lucky that
Hud been invested In me,
Topay for filling my queen of queens,
My beautiful Annabel Lee.
She looked no love, she spake no speech;
With her *twas a matter of silence and reach,
Until I began to be
A little afraid, and compelled to beseech
My darling, my darling, my sweetheart, my
To let up on the g-r-n-b 1
And that is the reason that years gone by
My beautiful Annabel Lee
Went for a piece of railroad pie,
And slid up the f-l-u-m-e,
For she was human, and her gastric force,
Though good, wasn't that of a thoroughbred
horse.
Or a steam e-n-g-i-n-c.
And so it happened that on that pie
My darting, mv darling, went up to the sky,
My beautiful Annabel Lee.
Ana oft^ in the night tide I tarn on my right
And curious dreams come to me,
OMnv darting, my love, in the realms above,
ing that tough p-I-e.
—Drake 3 » Traveler?
Important Agriculture Statistics.
A writer in the International Review,
who seems to have drawn his facts and
figures from official sources, furnishes
some interesting and important informa
tion in regard to the increase of various
crops in this country. He says that in
the loot fifteen years the production of
wheat and barley has trebled; corn, cot-
, ton and tobacco more than doubled; hay
increased more than one-third, and oats
almost 140,000,000 bushels. Here are
the statistics: In 1865 the wheat crop
was 148,653,000 bnshels; in 1879, 448,
756,000: com, in 1865, 704,427,000 bush
els, and in 1879, 1,544,899,000; oats, in
« 1869, 235,252,000, and in 1879, 364,253,-
000, rye, 19,544,009—22,646,000; bar
ley, 11,891,000—40,184,000; potatoes,
101,632,000—181,369,000; hay, 23,538,-
000 tons—35,648,000; tobacco, 183,327,-
000 pounds—to 384,059,000; cotton 2,-
229,000 bales—5,020,000.
, The writer attributes the increase in
cereals to the increased population and
development of the Western and North
western States. He says that during the
present gentiration the com has been
transferred from .the South to the'West,
and the wheat centre from the Middle
States to the far West In 1842, 59 per
cent and in 1859, 52 per cent of our
cam was grown in the Southern States. 1
In 1877, 850,000,000 bnshels came from
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska. The product of
all the rest of the Union was only 494,-
658,000 bnshels. The tobacco increase—
100,000,000 pounds from 1870 to 1878—
has been, of course, mainly in the South.
Hi the same section and same period
cotton has increased from 3,012,000 to
5,216,009 bales, Arkansas and Texes
being the leading States in this ad
vance. In the former, 111,000,000 pounds
were raised in 1870, and 318,000,000 in
1878; in the latter, in 1870, • 157,000,000
pounds, and in 1878, 500,000,000.
Only about 9 per cent, it is said, of
the national grain crop is exported, in
cluding 24.76 percent of the wheat, and
6.49 of the com. The total exports of
all grains were 39,000,000 bushels in
1868; in 1878 they had risen to 189,000,-
000. The exports are likely to increase
with tho production, though in a far
■mailer proportion; and the time is not
far distant when the United States will
be the dominant power in the grain mar
kets of the world.
The Perils of Pearl DlTingr.
The number of shells is not any guide
to the number of pearls, and even the
roughest average which the diver may
make of the value of the season’s collec
tion is, therefore, liable to be utterly
wrong. The shells themselves are, how
ever, of greateommercial value, and often
yield a larger revenue than the season’s
find of gems, so that the diver really
never goes down in vain. The diver has
always encouragement in perilous labor;
and to the lost, even when he takes his
Altai dive to the waiting shark, he has
«t-n the fascination before him of a pos
sible prize that shall send him home to
live at ease for the rest of his life. So
he calls ont to the shark-charmer to
charm his best, and, with the delusive
■pell ringing in his ears, plunges down
torieath. But the monster of the deep
that has been lying waiting for him for
under the shadow of the boat, cares little
for exorcism or enchantment, and so the
diver is never seen again. His comrades
in the boat feel the rojie suddenly slack
en and as suddenly raised; the lessened
strain tells its grim story at once, and then
the empty bucket comes floating up to
the surface, a message that the diver is
deed ha the vast majority of cases,
however, the divers grow old at their
toil, neither meeting with sharks nor
King’s ransoms in their gropings along
ahell-strewn banks, and toe
apeak of it as a monotonous and labor
ious means, of livelihood, and one in
which they seldom earn a competence.
| (The surroundings of their work are
squalid, almost revolting; for toe shore
ieheaped with decaying masses of oys
ters, a sea breeze perpetually blows toe
■mell of them across the encampment of
the fishers, -which lie sweltering under
m terrible sun, and but poorly provided
with even the few toiqgsthat go to make
tiie Oriental oomfortable. In Ceylon
are but little better, as far ae
toe divers are personally oonoemed, and
in China and Japan this industry is one
that attracts only the lower orders. Prom
these sources most of toe gems of our
markets are derived, but toe pearl oys-
teria of such extensive distribution, a
nrwof every share, that nearly all
toss contribute pearls to toe general
L—Xoridon Tel
Arid Republican: The majority of
Americana, when they come to Europe
for the first time, are always amazed at
toe expense of foreign traveling. They
had always harbored the impression that
the cost of everything an tins side of the
Atlantic—railway tickets, hotel bills,
eto., were at least only one-half what
they were in America; but, on toe con
trary, they find it eerie much maze to
travel here than it does at home. In
the best American hotels the price of
three and four dollars a day seenm ex
travagant, but they cannot comprehend
why it is that in a first-class foreign ho
tel, where toe price of a room is only
three or four francs a day, and toe other
charges seem ao moderate, their bills
foot up to irih high figures.
While taking my breakfast one morn
ing at the Hotel Chatham in Paris, five
Americans entered toe dining-room and
seated toemuelves at a table near me.
There waa toe hither and mother, a son
of about 14, and two daughters about
10 and 12. From their conversation 1
learned it waa their first trip to Europe,
and that they had oome directly to Paris
on landing at Liverpool, and had no
had a "square meal” since they left
home. After canvassing among them
selves as to what their appetites craved
and demanded an the bill of fare, toe
head of the* family gave toe
waiter toe following order: Five .plates
of melon, which were then very ex
pensive, five fried soles, five pots of cof
fee, five ham and eggs, fried hominy,
five beefsteaks, hot rolls, five fried pota
toes, butter, radishes, etc. If they had
ordered two dishes of a kind, so gener
ous was the supply, it would have been
more than enough to satisfy their appe
tites ; but they were “Americans,” and
evidently thought toe reputation oi their
country, in the eyes of other strangers
in toe dining-room, dAm.niWl nothing
less than a full complement to each per
son. As near as I could figure up their
account, that breakfast cost in toe neigh
borhood of $16. The table d’hote din
ner at night was at a fixed price, and, if
their lunch, at 1 o’clock, corresponded
with their breakfast, no wonder surprise
is manifested at the high rates of living
in foreign hotels.
The year has opened with a series of i The custoeas of Slate disners at the
terrible warnings of the fragmentariness White House are somewhat changed un-
of human life. "The old year Uniform- ier President Arthur. Formerly the
ly dismissed without regret aa wean- neat East Boom waa not much used on
some and disappointing, if not down- these occasions, the guests being re
right unlucky. The new year is hailed ceived by the President in theBlue
with eager haste as one that may be des- Parlor, and thence escorted to the State
tmed t<> stand out in human memory Dining-Room- Now* however, the
The Courteous lawyer.
Ton recognize the courteous lawyer i
once. He jdaoea a ^ chair gracefully ft
Telegraph,
A woman who has four sons, all sail
ors, compares herself with a year, be
cause she Jias four seasons, —Ao/;omo
fHbune,
his client, whether the client is an ele
gantly attired lady to sealskins and
diamonds or a clumsy bumpkin to home-
spun and liquor. He smiles sweetly at
his opponent, and bows to the jury in a
deferentially familiar way. He pays the
fees to toe clerk before he has toe
trouble to ask for them, and draws tho
bills ont of his pocket book slowly, one
by one, as gently as he would lead a
belle from her carriage to the ball-room.
His bow to the court is almost an apology
for haying come into the profession con
temporaneously with his Honor. He
handles a witness as though he was toe
frail golden setting and his testimony toe
gem he was trying to remove. His tones
are carefully modulated, and he appeals
for a reply to the kindly sensibilities of
the witness. “Be so good ” is the cap
tivating exordium, and “ thank Von ” toe
palliative peroration. If he wounds with
a question, he binds up toe sore toe
next moment with the liniment of polite
ness. To his opponent he overflows
with generous waivers and admissions,
and if by chanee be interpolates a re
mark, he does it as though he was put
ting a boquet in his adversary’s button
hole. He thinks he understands toe
court. He hopes he does not misappre
hend his learned friend. He trusts the
witness knows what he means. In ad
dressing toe jury, he unbosoms his ap
preciation of toeir intelligence and
ability. He lays his arguments before
them with respect amounting almost to
reverence, as though they were pro
pitiatory offerings to a deity whom he
wished to placate. To the court his
whole demeanor is redolent of respect
The court is most honorable; toe judge
most distinguished He is, in short, so
filled with human consideration for every
thing and everybody around him, that he
finds excuses for toe jury that beats him
and for the court that nonsuits him. It
is true, he has been know to revile an
adversary in private, to curse surrepti
tiously, and to sneer at toe judiciary in
toe social circle. It iaalso true that he
can wreDch a fee from a client in a rath-
less mpment and take a snap judgment
when he thinks it safe. Bat these little
trifles only show that he is human, and
he knows that men are not apt to believe
that a head with such a halo of polite
ness around it can have for its pedestal a
cloven foot
How Ladles Dress ia Persia.
She wore n bright red satin skirt,
richly embroidered with gold lace; it was
very full and short, barely reaching to
her knees; a loose jacket of blue velvet
also much trimmed—this time with sil
ver lace; the sleeves were made of cash-
mere shawl buttoned by about twenty
small buttons. She wore several neck
laces, most of them very massive, stud
ded with fine turquoises. On her head
toe wore a white shawl, with a band of
jewels round her forehead, and at one
side a large pearl star. She had on both
arms at least a dozen bracelets—some
handsome ones, some only bands of col
ored glass. Her feet were covered with
coarse white socks; her shoes green
leather with scarlet heels. Some .of toe
ladies wore bright red trousers, reaching
to toe ankle; bnt this was quite the ex
ception. They wear a long veil, reaching
from head to foot, generally made of some
■mart print of muslin. I ought to men
tion that every lady ware a small leather
case around her neck, containing some
earth from Mecca and verses from toe
Koran. The faces of my hostess and
friends were much decorated, the eye
brows broadened and carried quite across
toe nose. Some had small designs tat
tooed on toe cheeks. The hair is veiy
long and thick, generally died red; it is
worn plaited in many thin tails, twisted
with gold thread. The hands are well
shaped, bnt naila and palms are stained
a dark red.—Tinsleys Magazine.
“Why,” raked a governess of her lit
tle charge, “do we pray Qod to give us
our daily breed? Why don’t we ask for
four days, or five days, or a week 7"
“Because we want it fresh,” replied the
j^ganini^B
brighter and happier period, in
which the depressing influences of un
foreseen calamities and economic dis
asters may be avoided. Eighteen hun
dred and eighty-three, however, has
dawned with leaden skies and portents
of evil. In France toe greatest Repub
lican has been stricken down, ana his
death has been followed by many signs
of political incapacity, social agitation
ana national despondency. On the
Continent the floods have borne devas
tation and miserv in their train. From
every quarter there are tidings of dis
aster. The hotel fire in Milwaukee, the
circus catastrophe in Russia, the railway
accident near Tehichipa Pass, the loss
of two staunch ocean steamships, and
numerous other disasters on sea and
land, are not only appalling horrors, but
omens of depression and gloom. Men
are already saying in their hearts: “ It
will be a disagreeable year, if nothing
w.use!”
Before the agencies of s'eam, elec
tricity and toe public press were multi
plied! the effect of sudden catastrophes
was confined to the localities in which
they occurred. When the tower in
Siloam fell, there was no lack of talk in
the neighboring villages, and the rumor
of the disaster was carried beyond Jeru
salem into the hill-country, but the
world outside did not know what had
happened. The collapse of the great
chimney-stack in Bradford a few weeks
ago was telegraphed instantly to the
ends of the earth, so that it was known
simultaneously in Calcutta, the Eu
ropean capitals, San Francisco and New
York that sixty men, women and chil
dren had suddenly ceased to exist in the
workaday world. But outside Bradford
there was scarcely a single point of hu
man interest in tha calami tv.
g nests are received in the East Room,
and spend some time there before go
ing to the State Dining-Room, promen
ading slowly down tire broad hall as
they pa s from the reception-room to
the tables.
The details of these State events are
quite interesting. The table in the
State Dining-Room in the White Honse
will seat, by close crowding, thirty-six
people: Th s, then, is the limit of toe
number invited, and usuriiy there are
not leas than thh^Ml them occasions.
Where it is convenient tq do 30, as
many ladies as gentlemen are in
vited. though at diplomatic dinners,
where all the foreign Min
isters here are to t^e present,
it is found impossble to seat as many at
the table as this plan would require so
that the rule is not always followed.
The table is usually very handsomely
ornamented w th flowers, a huge floral
design of some sort appearing as a cen
ter-piece. and smaller ones near the
Jekiag eu High Olympus.
It waa a bright afternoon, and toe im
mortals were sitting en high Olympus,
watching the cremation of same insane
Anwrican, who thought there wasn’t
land on this continent to bury
in, when the blue-eyed maid re-
Archi-
tects may have been warned against
sacrificing the principles of security to
hapely proportions, and life insurances
canvassers may have obtained a new
fact to lay before working people; bnt
the human suflering which had been
caused left no impression upon toe
minds of readers at a distance. Thrde
hundred people are trampled under
foot or burned to death in a circus in
Poland; but the fact excites no more
emotion in the heart of an American
reader than the footings of a table of
mortality statistics. Four hundred
emigrants and sailors are suddenly
swallowed up by the sea. There is a
short controversy respecting compart
ments in a ship’s hall and a momentary
curiosity to learn what excuse the com
mander of the othersteamship can offer
for not attempting a rescue; but the
agony which was caused in a single in
stant, when hundreds of these quiet and
simple peasants and working people
were brought face to face with their
doom, is only a vague generalization.
In a week it is forgotten hy the general
public.
It : s only in exceptional instances that
these tragic occurrences leave any per
manent impression upon the public
mind outside the immediate localities
where they occur. The facts are known,
but suffering is not brought close to the
emotions and sympathies. A day
passes, and men are thinking of some
thing newer and pleasanter. A month
goes by, and 1883 is not considered
especially unlucky, but only an average
year, with startling occurrences now
and then, but with the usual outcome
of peace, prosperity and security. A
year rolls by, and there is a vague feeling
of disappointment and depression ana
an eager jiope that another year will be
cheerier and brighter. There is in
variably a speedy reaction from the dis
couragement and sense of insecurity
caused by the vicissitudes of human
destiny.
It may be that the world as it grows
older is becoming more and more ac
customed to the conditions of its being.
Certainly the impressions of helpless
ness caused by catastrophes like those
which have been recently recorded are
only vague and transitory. The thrill
of horror excited by such recitals is felt
only momentarily; the sense of insecur
ity and the feeling of unrest soon pass
away. Men learn to expect catastro
phes and to make allowance for them
in the Providential scheme of the uni
verse. Yet they can not explain them.
That seventy weary travelers and hotel
servants should suddenly be exposed to
the horrors of an agonizing death, that
three hundred men, women and chil
dren should be wrenched out of life
with tortures unspeakable while enjoy
ing a town-show in Poland, or that four
hundred emigrants seeking their fort
unes in a new land should be drowned
before they have fairly lost sight of the
old country, is as inexplicable to-day as
the death of the thirty victims of the
Tower of Siloam was to the Jews of
old- The question is no longer asked,
as it was then: “Have these men sinned
or their fathers, that they should perish
so miserably?” But it is no easier now
than it was" then to reconcile the vicis-
si mlcs and mysteries of human fate
with an orderly scheme of government
for the universe.—N. Y. Ttnounc.
—The colored population of Tappa-
hannock, Va.. are excited over the dis
ci; line recently employed in the case of
a colored female scholar by C. A. Yancy.
Principal of the colored graded school
The girl pleaded a headache for tardi
ness. and the teacher adopted the fol
lowing novel remedy to cure both: A
bov was sent to tire druggist for castor-
oil and on his return the teacher then
and there attempted to make her swal
low it After a long straggle he suc
ceeded in tying toe hands of toe girl,
and administered the oil—Chicago
limes.
New Carrots with Cbeam.—Trim a
quantity of the smallest new carrots that
can be obtained, and bad them in Baited
water. When done, drain off the water.
Melt one ounce of batter in a saucepan,
floor. I»P-
of pow-
quantity of
cream. Put in the carrots, simmer jjea-
tly a few^ninutee, and serve.
Meu one ounce oi Dutter in a sat
add to it a desert-spoonful of flan
per, salt, grated nutmeg, a pinch <
dered sugar, and a small qnan
branch
haps a dozen candles apiece, occupy
places on tbe table, one at either end of
the floral center-piece. These contain
the Jinest of wax candles, which are
lighted just before the dinner tegins.
Near the ends of the table are stnaller
candelabra, with perhaps a half-dozen
candles apiece, each having a little
pink-lined shade at toe-top supported
by a silver rod, which clasps the candle
near tbe bottom.
The plates are place I “right side up
with care” about thirty inches apart
around the table. On each plate the nap
kin is laid, and on the napkin the bouquet
—for the ladies a flat corsage bouquet of
rosebuds, and sometimes lilies of the
valley; for the gentlemen usually a sin
gle half opened rose-trad. Beside
these is laid a card, one on each plate,
and on it the name of toe person who is
to sit at this place.
The head of the table on these oc
casions is not at tho end, bat in the
middle. The seatoccupieu by the Presi
dent is half way np the side of the
table, at the side next the door at which
the guests enter. The lady whom he
escorts to dinner sits at his right, and
the honored guest on the occasion sits
directly opposite the President, with his
lady on his right Those who arrange
the table, and the order in which the
guests sit, of course, arrange so that
S ntleman and wife do not sit side by
le under any circumstances.
When the arrange mentor seating is
completed, and each person has been
assigned to his place, a card is prepared
for each gentleman and placed in an
envelope oearing his name. On one
side of this card Is a plan of the tab’e,
with each seat numbered. On the other
side is the name of the lady whom he ie
to escort to the table, and the numbers
of the seats they are to occupy. These
envelopes are handed to the gentlemen
as they enter, and as soon as the gentle
man has “shed” his outer garments he
examines his card, curses or blesses the
fates which have consigned him to an
uncongenial or a congenial partner for
the evening, and hies him to the East
Boom, where, after paying his respects
to the President, he hunts np his lady,
and prepares for the evening. Mean
time, the famous Marine Band has taken
its place in the vestibule.
After a half-hour spent in conversa
tion in the East Room, the President
gives the signal to an attendant, who
passes it on to the band, which strikes
ut> some appropriate selection, and the
President, giving his right arm to the
lady whom he is to escort to dinner,
leads the way to the dining-room. The
others follow, each gentleman giving
his arm to the lady designated by his
card. The President usually takes to the
table the wife of the Secretary of State.
The promenade down the long hall
to the dining-room is very slow, and is
n striking and beantifnl spectacle. The
ladies, of course, are in evening cos
tume—the handsomest that money
and ingenuity can provide—and toe
gentlemen in dress suits; the lights
brilliant, the hall lined with flowers and
tropical plants, and the music entranc
ing. Arriving at the table the gnests
are seated in their order, and the din
ner, which is usually in twelve or four
teen courses, with a half-dozen differ-
ent wines, occupies fully three hours,
and, it may be added, is good.—Wash
ington Cor. Chicago Journal.
Wen u Wire by Ills Teagae.
A frisky old bachelor who lives above
Willow Ranch commenced a correspond
ence with a girl living in the east a
short time ago, and finally proposed to
her that if the would come ont to Cali
fornia he would marry her. She oan-
mnd he remitted tire money to
her. She arrived in Beno, Nevada, and
stopped over a few days to rest. While
there she heard had accounts of Modoc;
was told that toe elevated portion oi the
country was buried under ancrw, and the
low-lands were deep under water; that
flour and sugar there were none, and
when the son seta tire natives go to bed
on account of not having lights. The
vile wretch who slandered (?) Modoc to
her had an ax to grind. After thoroughly
scaring her oat of the idea of coming to
Modoc County, he proposed marriage to
her, and was aeoepted forthwith, she
deeming it more sensible to marry a
young man and live in a pleasant home
than take such desperate chances out
here.—Modoc (CaL^IndependenL
Bx kind to tire soap agent. He has a
father, perhaps, and a mother, who knew
him in his mnooent youth. Perhaps
now, in some western village, fond
hearts are beating for him and sweet
lips breathe love’s dearest prayers for his
welfare. Therefore lay him down ten
derly, fold his hands peacefully on his
breast and does his eyes gently ae yon
put him to rest under tire branches of
tire weeping willow, where the birds
all through the summer days their
soft song. But plant him c
him deep:—-PwtSrayNett*.
“'—The act — -*
warded as a i
jncsvuue-
“Mara.”
The Colonel hastily folded up his map
of the lava beds and slipped it into his
pocket
“Speak, Minerva, the class is up. Go
ahead with the oral”
“When they put a man into toe crema
tory or retort, or whatever they call it,
what figure of expression does it remind
you of?”
The Colonel scratched his grieved shin
(now don't ask ns what it was grieved
about, or we will tell you it was grieved
about to the knee, for we are in no hu
mor for nonsense), and presently he said
he wasn’t much of a scholar on raw gram
mar, but he believed it was a kind of
erysipelas, “something left ont, yon
know.”
“Well,” said the goddess, “but what
ia left out?”
The Colonel hesitated a moment, and
■aid he hadn’t considered in regards of
that, and Hermes remarked 'that it was
probably an interpolation, because toe
man was put in.
Vulcan, who happened along with a
new hinge for the front gate, asked if it
wasn’t botology.
Juno didn’t thinkitcould be tautology,
because it wasn’t always toe same man;
indeed, it never was toe same man.
“It’s the same man this time, isn’t
It?” asked her husband, cautiously
throwing up his elbow to toe level with
Ganymede, the barkeeper, said he
thought it was a hyperbole, because it
was awfully extravagant; $35 per man at
the Washington (Pa.) Crematory was toe
regular charge for every barbecue.
Saturn, who came up this afternoon,
it being Friday, with a string of fish,
■aid he thought it was synedoche, bnt on
being asked what synedoche was, frank
ly confessed that he didn’t know, and
went down three.
Apollo thought it was a bit of trochaic
meter, because the man was put in his
It took the Immortals a long time to
teh on to this, and then Jupiter re
adied that they weren’t running a col
lege infirmary up there.
“ No,” said his amiable married sister,
“no, pharmacy’s sake, don’t talk doctor-
& What do yon think it is, Miner
The blue-eyed goddess turned down
her place in Emerson, adjusted her eye
glasses and said, with great precision:
- “ Why, the retort scorches. Does not
it strike yon that way?”
But after a moment of silence toe Col
onel said he wasn’t np. to this new
fangled pronunciation very well, and the
immortal Jove called to Ganymede to
bring him a “light one,” at toe some
time holding up all toe fingers on one
hand behind his wife’s head.
laughed all the godj; the heavens with laughter
And wiia Minerva thought 'twas at her joke.
Trees in California.
A correspondent who has been visiting
the grove of big trees in Calaveras
County, Cal, writes as follows:
It has always been so difficult for me
to form any conception of toe size of toe
mammoth trees from given figures, but
when I went into toe grove and saw them
■tending, end climbed twenty-six steep
steps to reach toe upper side of a fallen
sequoya end became dizzy oh looking
down to toe ground I realized toeir im
mense proportions; one of the gentle
men of toe party reached his arms at
foil length and it took eight measures to
span one of toe smaller trees.
Visitors have toe privilege of naming
any of tire lng trees, and placing a mar
ble slab with toe inscription thereon.
One noble great tree was called toe
“Mother,” another the “Father,” the
“Three Graces,” “Henry Ward
Beecher,” “General Grant,” etc., etc.
In this grove there ore ninety-nine
trees within eighty seres. We took*
horses and rode six miles to toe “Son”
where we saw the largest tree in the
world, “Old Goliah.” In this grove
there are thirteen hundred and eighty
trees, none measuring less than six feet
in diameter.
We rode ear eight horses into toe side
of one tree that had been burned out;
the guide said there was room for ten
mare, sod we could well believe it, for
we did not take up one-third of toe
room; end vet the foe had not affected
the life of toe tree;, there was enough
vitality to grow on unconcerned. . In
tins grove many of the big trees were
named for States, which seemed more
Changes in Jerusalem.
A wonderful change has taken place in
Jerusalem of late years, and it is proba
bly now a more oomfortable residence
than ever before- in its history. Mr.
Schick, who holds the appointment of
Surveyor of Buildings in toe Holy City,
has lately issued a very instructive re
port He tells ns that ruined houses
have been restored or rebuilt by indi
viduals or companies, and bnildmgs on
tbe Peabody plan have been erected by
associations. Tbe streets are now
lighted, kept, for an Eastern city, most
exceptionally dean, and toe aqueduct
from the pools of Solomon has been re
stored, and water brought thence to toe
city. Tanneries and slaughter-houses
have been removed outside toe town.
The sanitary department is under the
control of a German physician. Bethle
hem and Nazareth are eagerly emulating
toe progress of the capital. In the
latter place windows are becoming quite
frequent It is asserted that there is a
fixed resolution on toe part of toouands
in Prussia to make that country as hot as
possible for Jews, and it is not unlikely
that this may in a measure increase the
■beady considerable number now return
ing to Palestine, more especially as the
the German Jews already are a power
in Jerusalem. The improvements are,
further, likely to lead to many Europeans
wintering there.
“Sure, the w<x3 won’t burn. Pll
thry a little at yexself, me dorlint,” as
Bridget said to toe kerosene. “ Yon be
Mowed!” as the kerosene said to Bridget
Vigilance Necessary In BnMlng.
The difficulty of getting a honse built
to one’s satisfaction is well illustrated in
the experience of a Chicago gentleman,
as related in the Sanitary Reu s, who
has just completed a comfortable home.
He gave his architect most definite in
structions, but he soon found that hard
ly anything was being done as he had
directed. Nobody employed about the
building seemed to manifest the slightest
interest in his work, and bricks and
boards were put together with the ut
most disregard of the fitness of things.
Lumber was wasted as though it
were to be had for toe hand
ling. The gentleman came to the con
clusion that it would be advisable to
stay about the premises, and he did so
most of the time, watching as many of
the movements as he could. The result
was that each day usually opened with
tearing down or pulling' apart the work
of the day previous. For example, he
thought he saw something wrong in the
laying of the main drain for toe sewer
age. He reported to the architect, who
was to be held responsible for defects.
The workmen insisted that everythin;;
had been done jnst exactly as it shooh
have been. The drains were dug np,
nevertheless, and it was found that no
connection had been made with toe
street sewer at alL The last section of
pipe had been too short by several
inches, and to the crafty drain layer,
who was interested in saving time "and
material, it was not considered:
‘o lengthen it. The fresh air
ing to the furnace had been ordered
built of unusual capaity, for the reason
that the owner wanted none of the
common difficulty about getting suf
ficient air to ventilate as v
his house. He watched the work on this
air duct very closely and was congratu
lating himself that it was well made,
but, at last, discovered that the work
man narrowed the inlet by drawing in
each succeeding course of bricks as he
neared the top. When remonstrated
with, he said he thought he was doing
the proper thing, as the duct wouldn’t
let in so much cold air if smaller. So
in everything done abont the house—
the workmen had no more conception
of the purpose which a healthy,
fortable, and convenient house was to
serve than the tools which they used.
By hiring an architect to watch them,
and then watching the architect himself,
he succeeded at length in getting a
honse in which be takes some pride;
but it was at the expense of extra tends
much valuable time and patient writing.
Preparing the Ground far ■ Lawn.
The success of a lawn depends upon a
vast deal of. work that is quite ont
of sight We expect more of
the soil devoted to the lawn
than we do of any other part
of the grounds, for we are c ontinually
cropping it and it can only give a con
stant succession of grass when the roots
have a deep soil and sufficient nourish
ment. As it is desirable to have the
grass well established before hot
weather comes, the seed mast be
sown early, and to this end the soil
must be prepared as early as the
season will allow. Only small a:
such as fruit yards, croquet and
tennis grounds, should be perfect
ly level A slightly u _
surface is more pleasing to the eye than
a dead level, and it may be made to give
the impression of a greater extent if the
surface is laid out in gentle swells, and
will give a better effect if slightly higher
as it approaches the house. Of course
there must be nothing like abrupt hills
andhollows.and if any such occur where
the lawn is to be. they must be either
cut down or filled in. If the lawn is
such that it would require draining
to tit it for garden crops, then it will
need draining for a lawn. Indeed, all
but very light saDdy soils will be im
proved by draining with tiles. The
depth and distance apart o the drains
should be such as are found best in the
fields of the vicinity. The next re
quisite is a deeply worked soiL In En
gland the soil is thoroughly trenched
two spades deep, but we can hardly ex
pect our people, who avoid tbe use of
the spade wherever possible, to trench
toe ground for a lawn. The most we
can hope for is the deepest practicable
S lowing, with the use of the subsoil plow.
f tbe soil is poor, a generous eoatmg of
manure should be turned under, but
if in fair condition, top-dressings may
be depended upon for fertilizing. After
this preliminary work, the ground
should remain as long as possible be
fore sowing, in order that it may proper
ly settle. If in any place the ground
settles unevenly, then fresh soil must be
a ided, where needed, to brinw the loir
spots up to the proper leveL Whether
the lan n is to I e laid down with seed, or
S3 is sometimes pro erable, if the area
is small, with turf, the preliminary
5 reparation must be equally thorough,
1 a fine and permanent turf is desired.
Agriculturist,
The fashions far girls who elope just
now are very plain. Some whit
convenient window, a long
dark night, a coach, a minister and
honse of a friend, and the elopement is
over. H toe into father, armed withe
double-barreled cool shovel and a town
constable, does not pursue, the affair ia,
although picturesque, not exactly a suc
cessful elopement H the father of the
bride relents within two days the foolish
couple are not happy. H it leeks out
that the mother of the bride ie in toe
secret, much of the pleasure of the trip
is spoiled. If both the father and mother
of toe bride are in the secret of her going
away, and have actually left toe ladder
near toe window, and that fact ia found
out, the elopement ie a failure. In the
olden time the eloping bride pecked ail
her portable’goods on herself and went
away heavily laden. Now, as she is
about to return in a day or two in her
friend’s dress, she goes sway quite
w girl who has tried it save
the story that kiaaing would core freck
les lacks the important element of truth;
bnt there is one thing, she slmits,
greatly in favor of the remedy—it is not
disagreeable to take. Hers, however,
nay be a deep-rooted, stubborn case,
and she shouldn't feel discouraged be
cause fifteen or sixteen hundred appli
cations failed to effect a cure. It won’t
coat much to give the medicine a cou
ple of year’s trial, ^-^urUngUmDawkeyt,
WAITS AND WHIMS.
Ibon affected by fog ia mist rusted.
A Muxs ia tame enough in front, hot
awfully wild behind.
A URLS eider now and then is re
belled by the beat of men.
Ths man who oan’t remember that he
was ever a bey is entirely ripe for toe
Starch is said to be explosive. It
causes explosion in the family when toe
rid man finds it has been left ont of his
A Boston]
of
took 900 fares
silent as to
a street-ear rare* tot
last Sunday, bnt is entirely
how many the company got.
Tmm Crown Prince of
mate puffing over giving a $3
blind boy than on American does over
leaving $40,000 to an orphan asylum.
Thkrs is a fortune in store for toe mil
liner who shall devise a bonnet that can
be worn in any part of a church and al-
A poultry mthority says that “ chick
ens should have an ample range.” It
depends upon the number of chickens.
A little chicken will broil pretty well
over a very small stove.
Manx persons who rake through an
other’s character with a fine-tooth comb,
to discover a fault, could find one with
lees trouble by going over their own
character with a horae-rake.
It costs more than a hundred millions
of dollarB annually to keep toe fences of
this oonntry in repair. Now, gentlemen,
get off toe fence and stay off till after
election, and save your country a few
miltinn. of torn outlay.
Grown-up sister—“Oh, Charley, if
yon most go away can’t you introduce
me to one of your school-fellows, to look
after me till you come back?” Charley—
“Oh, no, it wouldn’t do! It would be
too rough on a fellow to fag him ont like
that"—Hunch.
Somebody who appears to know how
fashionable schools are managed, says:
“ To educate young ladies is to let them
know all about the ogies, omenies, toe
ifics, the tics and the mistics; but nothing
■boat the mgs, such as sewing, darning,
baking and making pudding.
I say, mister, this is a double seat,
and yon can’t lay over it in that way,”
grid a stand-up passenger in a crowded
car to another passenger who was making
himself too much at home. “Can’t lay
over the seat?” echoed the loafer. “Bet
your life I can. See here, I have a lay
over check from the conductor, and it is
good.”
A touno lady received toe following
note, accompanied by a bouquet of
Dear , I Bend yon bi toe
boy n backet of floors. This is lik« my
love for u. The nite shade menes kepe
The dog fenil menes I am your
slave. Boris red and poris pail, my love
for yon shal never fale.”
The flowing reporter who wrote, with
reference to a well-known belle, “Her
dainty feet were encased in shoes that
might be taken for fairy boots,” tied his
wardrobe np in a handkerchief and left
for parte unknown when it appeared toe
next morning: “Her dirty feet feet were
encased in shoes that might be taken for
ferryboats.”
A Young lady who is studying French
lately wrote to her parents that she was
invited to a dejeuner toe day before, and
was going to a fete champetre toe next
day. _ The professor of toe college was
' to receive a dispatch from toe
l” a day or two after saying:
“If yon don’t keep my daughter away
from these menageries and side shows, I
will oome down and see what ails her.”
It is amusing to watch a slim am
weigh himself. He steps on to toe plat
form as an elephant steps upon a bridge,
with an awful fear of breaking the thug
down, and then puts toe three-hnndred-
" on the end of toe beam,
takes it off again, bnt he
does this unostentatiously. Having found
that he weighs, say, one hundred and
twenty, if you watch him carefully you
will see him slide the weight along to
one hundred and seventy-five. “By
George!” he will exclaim as he goes crat,
I’ve lost ten pounds since last week.”
He doesn’t say how much he weighs
now; if von wish to know, there is the
scale. He knows you will look.
In the Wrong Boon.
Shortly after 12 o'clock a tow nights
ago a Philadelphia guest at one of toe
large Atlantic City hotels was awakened
‘a nudge from toe sharpest of his
e’s sharp knuckles. As he opened
his eyes he saw by means of the ex
tremely faint light that penetrated from
toe hall into toe room toe figure of a
i, who stood silently by the bureau
who, as it appeared, was fumbling
* valuables might fall into
The wife clung to her
husband’s arm and trembled so violently
that the latter feared feat the burglar
Idhaarand escape. Releasing his
the guest slipped noiselessly from
t __. bed and holding his pillow as a
.1A.M he reached the burglar at a bound.
In the midst of crushed chair and
broken bric-a-brac the robber went
down, with his assailant on top. The
robber struggled hard to rise, bat, being
stronger, the occupant of the room soon
hadtnethief spread oat at fall length
with the pillow cm his head. The con.
qneror’s wife struck a light as quickly
Whentoe tender?nulled
me room he sew ethriffing taUeenx, toe
AM figure of which was a powerful
Othello strangling » male Deademona in.
the of the floor. Bnt tbe scene
was set in oomedy after all, for when the
pillow was removed the thiefs face
Showed him to be the highly respectable
occupant of the adjoining r
friendof his as " *
above reproach.
for a
—A certain caravan orator at a fair,
ter a long yarn descriptive of what
u to be seen inside, wound np by say
ing: “Step in. gent’emen, step in. Take
my word for it, yon will be highly d*i
Ighted when yoq get ont”