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VOLUME 111.
PEOPLE IN THE SOUDAN.
A GIJXCE AT TIIE LAM) OF THE BLACKS.
Tlie British Military Operations at tiie Con
\<,n'iii£ Poiut of Nearly all of the African
Knees — \ii t'ueonquered People—
The Slave Dealers.
W ahhington , February 8.
The Anthropological Society of Wash
ington, have just received from the An
thropological Institute of London an ex
tremely interesting paper on the ethnol
ogy of Egyptian Soudan, prepared by
Professor A. H. Keane, a member of the
Institute Council. This paper throws
much light upon the characteristics of
the warlike and predatory people who,
under a leader of Islam, t r i to day dis
puting the occupation of their territory
by one of the most formidable nations of
Christendom. The writer states that the
expression Soudan, or Beled-es-Soudan,
“Land of the Blacks,” applies to the
whole region between the Atlantic and
the Bed Sea and from the Sahara and
Egypt towards the equator. Ethnically
speaking it is the land of transition be
tween the lb unit os of the North and the
negroes of South Africa. The East Sou
dan, the scene of the British military op
erations, the writer says, is the converg
ing point of nearly all the African races.
In giving the distribution (if these races
he says that the Somerset Nile connect
ing Lake Victoria and Albert Nyanza
Hows through Bantu territory. The
Balir-el-Jebel between Luke Albert and
the Sobat confluence is held by negroes.
The W bite Nilo between Sobat and tho
Blue Nilo confluences and tho main
stream northwards is occupied on the
left chiefly by Semites and left by Ham
ites. From Dongola to Asuan, on the
Egyptian frontier, the valley between
Lybyau and Arabian deserts Is held by
Nubians. The whole region east of this
valley, us far as the Red sea and between
the Abyssinian highlands and the coast
round to Cape Gardafui and south to tho
equator, is held by Hamites. The arid
wastes and'steppes west of the Nile arc
held entirely by the Semite nomads,
while in the outlying provinces of Kor
dofau and Darfur Semites, Nubians, ne
groes and even Hamites and Fnlahs are
intermingled. Thus along the course of
the Nile the writer shows that the Ban
tus and negroes occupy the south, the
Semites and Hamites the centre and Nu
bi.ino the north.
AN UNCONQUEKED PEOPLE.
Although officially included in the
Egyptian Province of the Equator the
people of this region, tho Bantus, have
never been conquered. They have ex
clusivo possession of tin? southern half of
the continent, except tho region of the
Hottentots and Bushmen, aud extend at
points live degrees north of the equator.
They aro negroid rather than negroes.
Professor Keane shows that the negro is
numerically the most important element
iu Egyptian Soudan and hitherto has
held almost undisturbed possession.
Within the area of tho countless head
waters of the White Nile in this portion
of the Soudan is concentrated one half of
the population of tho whole Nile Basin,
from the equatorial lakes to the Mediter
ranean, and embraces an estimated pop
ulation of forty millions of people. This
includes several powerful negro nations
still enjoying political autonomy, as the
Handeh (Nyam Nyam), the Mittu and
Mon but tu. Some of these occupy re
gions within tho Khedive’s domain. Iu
these Nilotic peoples the salient features
of the negro race are less prominent than
, elsewhere. Although Islam has made
f some progress tho bulk of these people
arc still nature worshippers. When pre
paring for battlo the “medicine man”
Hays an infant and places the bleeding
victim on tho war-path, to be trampled
by the warriors marching to victory.
Human fat is a staple of trade. The
Moubuttu cure for future use tho bodies
I of the slain in battle and reserve their
prisoners for terrible cruelties. These
Nilotic races iu many cases are skilled iu
useful industries, as agriculture, iron
smelting and casting, weaving aud the
manufacture of pottery. The form aud
ornamental designs of their utensils dis
play artistic taste, while their iron imple
ments have a temper superior to that of
European manufacture. They are can
nibals and yet show a regard and devo
tion to the weaker sex.
THE SLAVE DEALERS.
Tho Semites aud Caucasic stock of
Northeastern Africa are descibed as the
Ooktanidesaud the Ishmaelites or Arabs.
Since the Mohammedan invasion of the
seventeenth century this element has be
come predominant and is tho diturbing
influence which inspires fanaticism, pro
motes dealing iu slaves, and without it
there would be no malulis, no Egyptian
question to perplex the councils of Euro
pean statesmanship and to break up
Ministries.
In describing the characteristics of
those people this paper speaks of them
as proud, ignorant, bigoted, nomadic
owners of cattle, camels, horses and
slaves, hunters, robbers aud warriors.
Tho life of the men is devoted to caring
f*r tlicir cattle, slave-huuting and war
while the women till the fields. The
Arab tribes are described as numerous
and powerful, commanding groat iuflu
ence among the surrounding populations
and often defy the supreme authority or
compel it to accept their conditions in
the administration of Eastern Soudan.
The same paper then speaks of the
Hamito races, the true, indigenous ele
ment in North African, their kinsmen,
the Semites, being recent intruders from
Arabia. The Ethiopian Hamites, or
northern group, the most important, oc
eupy the Suakim district and their war
riors largely participated in the opera
tions before and after the battle of El
Teb. I hey are described as handsome,
bronze, swarthy or light chocolate com
plexion, of Caueasic or European typo of
features, with long, crisp hair, filling in
ringlets over tho shoulders. They are
described as zealous Mohammedans, oc
cupied chiefly with camel-breeding and
as caravan leaders, governed by heredi
tary sheikhs, and, like their Hamitio and
Semitic kindred elsewhere, are distin
guished for their personal bravery and
love of freedom. Frofti the third tc the
sixth century of the present era they in
fested tho southern frontiers of Egypt
and, though often defeated by Aurelian
and Probus, continued to liarrass these
outlying provinces of the Empire and li
naliy compelled Diocletian to withdraw
the Roman garrisons from the region of
the cataracts, replacing them by the
warlike Nubital tribes from the groat oa
sis of Kargcy, in Upper Egypt.
THE NUBIANS.
The paper then proceeds to give an ac
count of these same people of venerable
antiquity, now known jih the Nubians,
and which, cradled in the Kordofan
Highlands over two thousand years ago,
settled in the present Kargey oasis and
valley of the Nile about Meroe. In 545
they embraced Christianity and formed
the powerful African kingdom of Dongo
la, which lasted seven hundred years and
was overthrown by the Arabs and came
under the dominion of Islam. The Nile
Nubas live in settled and semi-civilized
Mohammedan communities and are treat
ed on an equality in Egypt, where large
numbers are engaged as free laborors,
porters, costermongers and in other pur
suits. They are strong and muscular,
warlike and energetic and generally ex
c*l the Egyptians. The present Mahdi
is a Nubian of Dongola, but has found
his chief support, not among his own
countrymen, but among the more recent
ly converted negroes and especially the
Arab and Hamite communities of Kordo
fan and other parts of Eastern Soudan.
A Dolaileil Story of Cliiiircr Gor
don's Death.
London, February 10. —The following
additional details of the killing of Gen.
Gordon and the fall of Khartoum are at
hand. On the day of the capture, which
is variously stated as the 26tli and 27th of
January, General Gordon’s attention was
attracted by a tremendous tumult in the
streets. He left the so-called palace or
government buildings, in which he had
made his headquarters, to ascertain the
cause of the disturbance. Just as he
reached the street he was stabbed in the
back and fell dead. The tumult was
caused by the mahdi’s troops, who had
gained access to the interior of the town,
through treachery, and who w r ere soon
in complete possession of the place, in
cluding the citadel. A fearful massacre
of the garrison followed. The scenes of
slaughter are described as surpassing the
Bulgarian atrocities, and rivaling the
worst horrors of the Sepoy mutiny. The
panic stricken Egyptians were captured
in their flight and put to death w ith the
most fiendish tortures. Some were trans
fixed with spears and left to bleed
to death. Most of the victims were
mutilated in the most horrible manner.
Eyes were gouged out, noses were slit
and tongues were torn out by the roots,
and in many cases the mutilated parts of
the victims’ bodies were thrust into their
mouths while they were still living. The
massacre included many non-combatants,
and Egyptian women were subjected to
shameful indignities. More than 400
women and girls were given over to the
mahdi’s followers to be used as slaves.
After the slaughter many Arabs were seen
rushing about the streets with the heads
of Egyptians impaled upon their spears.
The next night was spent in a satuanalia
of blood and debauchery. Since the cap
ture of Khartoum, thp mahdi has re
paired the fortifications and has made the
place well nigh impregnable. He has
made it his permanent headquarters, and
is said to have an abundance of guns,
small arms and ammunition.
Probably So.—A rather venerable lady
countess married a man who did not be
long to the nobility. “How did she come
to marry him ? She lias a title aud he has
none,” remarked one gentleman to an
other. “I don’t know for certain, but I
expect she preferred to have a husband
without a title than to have a title with
out a husband.”—Texas Siftings.
“You don’t know anything about court
ing, my son. You should wait until you
are older before you think of such thiug.”
“I don’t think so. You see the fact that I
don’t know anything about it is what make
me do it.” “How so?” “Why, because
ignorance is bliss. ” —Boston Times.
London mail earners now call at private
residences for parcels tiie same as
messengers iu this country. A scarlet
card is furnished bj tho postal author
ities, which, when displayed in the win
dow, insures a call from tho postman.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1885.
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LUCILLE YSEULT DUDLEY.
O'DONOVAN ROSSA’S ASSAILANT.
A quiet and lady-like inmate of a New
York boarding-house suddenly attained
a notoriety reaching to the ends of the
oarth, by shooting the man who is re
garded oppositely by the public, either
as a formidable enemy of the English
Government or as a miserable pretender
who makes it appear that he is such,
through the medium of his publication,
with the purpose of handling the money
freely sent in by deluded Irish people
resident in this country.
The antecedents of Lucille Yseult
Dudley as given by various people who
pretend to know th- m, are contradictory
as well as incomplete. We give such
statements as appear to be trustworthy.
She claims to Lie an English woman, but
her mother, as she says, was an Irish
woman. The truth seems to be that she
is the illegitimate daughter of a French
nobleman, and though born in England
has not a drop of English blood in her
veins. Her education was superior, as
her attainments include a knowledge of
tho French, German and Erse languages,
and her English is exquisite, perfectly
well chosen as to words and accentuated
with tho refinement of the gentle-woman.
A life singular ill its romance and mis
fortuuo was injured beyond restoration
in her early womanhood by the cruel de
ception which led her to regard herself
ai the wife of a man upon whom she had
no legal claim. Ho is said to have been
a French officer. That his name was
Dudley is more than doubtful, but she
has been kn:>wu by it at least for several
years. Both children born of an intima
cy perhaps more unfortunate than sinful,
are dead. The mother’s bereavements
are believed to have permanently unset
tled her reason, but only at intervals
has it been found necessary to restrain
her.
In 1883 the unfortunate young woman,
now only about twenty-five years of age,
attempted suicide by poison in a carriage
of a railway train. She was discovered
in an insensible condition, and was taken
a patient of the Hayward’s Health Insane
Asylum, Sussex, England. An earlier
attempt at suicide had been punished by
imprisonment. She remained in the
asylum nearly twelve months. It is said
that during the earlier half of this period
of detention, she was with difficulty pre
vented from taking her life. After her
release she learned the work of the skill
ed nurse, and in due time was engaged
to practice it. Another attempt at sui
cide interrupted this occupation, and she
was made the subject of medical treat
ment in the same hospital wherein her
skill had been exercised.
She came to this country in September
last, and filled several positions as nurse,
before planning and carrying out the
plot which laid Rossa on his back in a
hospital. Her system was a simple one.
She tempted her victim to meet her by
pretending to have rnouoy for “the cause
of Ireland.” He had two interviews with
her, in the second of which he was shot.
Mrs. Dudley has personal fascinations
of a high order. Her carriage is that of
a woman of good breeding, and her dress
is tastefully made and worn, if a gixnl
deal the worse for wear with regard to
some articles comprised iu it. She is
tall and well-formed; her counteurnce is
characterized by refinement and regular
ity of feature, and her complexion is
fair and clear, iu harmony with her beau
tiful brown hair.
The Silent Woe of Moriuonisin.
[Boston Trarscript.]
An intelligent writer of Salt Lake City
Mrs. Paddock, in a letter which lies before
me, tells this story : “A few years ago an
educated young journalist came to Salt
Lake City from Europe with his young
wife. Both became sincere believers in
Mormonism. Then strong pressure was
brought to bear by the priesthood upon the
husband to force him into polygamy. The
wife, finding opposition in vain,at lastgave
her nominal consent. A second bride was
brought into the house. In a short time the
first wife became a mother, but the infant
never cried aloud. It came voiceless into
the world. But it wept in secret all the
time. Sleeping or waking the tears flowed
from its closed eyes; and in a few weeks it
died. The mother said that it died of a
broken heart. Every day of its life it shed
the tears that its mother had repressed be
fore its birth. Its weeping face is the sym
bol of the face of Utah. A territory of pre
cious minerals and welth of soil, with in
toxicating air and blue sky, but filled with
silent woe.”
LA\Y Y KK’S BIG 1 EUS.
Fortunes Received for Services
Rendered in Litigation.
f
iNew York Sun.]
“Big fees,” said a veteran lawyer, "are
generally the private concern of the
client who pays them and the lawyer who
receives them. If Dorsey saw fit to pay
Col. Ingersoll SIOO,OOO for his services in
the Star route cases, Dorsey probably got
the worth of his money. I have observed
that lawyers do not care to measure ihe
value of yieir services by the
the amount of the verdict except when
they win. It is not an unfair rule that
lawyers’ fees should be governed by the
importance of the interest involved. Mr.
filden received a fortune for bis services
in railroad litigation and negotiation; but
as long as those who paid the money
were satisfied, I do not see whose busi
ness it was but that of the parties in
terested. Henry L. Clinton is reported to
have charged William 11. Vanderbilt over
$200,000 in the Vanderbilt will case, and
to have actually received $75,000. But
there were millions involved in that case.
It is a common thing for big lawyers to
charge SIOO per day for attendance in
court.
Big fees are common in will cases, but
allowances by the courts of estates are
now limited to $2,000 a side. Those were
halcyon days for the lawyers when the
surrogate could divide the estate among
the gentlemen of the bar, leaving the liti
gants in debt. In the Taylor will case, a
few years ago, the lawyers got not only
the estate, but actually left the widow iu
debt after selling her clothes. In the
Parish will case Charles O’Connor re
ceived a small fortune. In the Hardin
will case John K. Porter got, I believe,
about $28,000 a side. He represented the
claim of the alleged widow. Henry
Nicol has charged as high as SSOO a day.
George Ticknor Curtis had such a
big bill in one of the celebrated india
rubber cases that he charged SI,OOO for
making it out.
Many big fees have been received by
patent lawyers. Professor Morse spent a
fortune in the courts defending his first
patents, but he got it all back in the value
of the patents. Every invention of im
portance has cost its inventor or owner
dearly for legal service. Signal instances
of this fact have been seen in the vulcanic
rubber, barbed iron fence, nickle plating,
burglar-alarm, sewing machine and other
patent cases, in all of which fortunes
were paid to lawyers. In such cases the
labor of lawyers is enormous, the respon
sibility great, and the pay of course ap
prnprin.ikUy lm-yu*. Ormd patent lawyers
get rich, but their brows are generally
furrowed with care.
Mr. Evarts has had some very big fees
from corporations, from will cases, and
long contested suits. He could show the
record of a great many SIO,OOO fees.
W hen a suitor has a hard case he does not
hesitate at paying a few thousand dollars
to a good lawyer. A poor lawyer is a
very expensive luxury. When a suitor
with a good case has been
two or three times to the court of appeals
in consequence of his lawyers blunders,
he begins to think it pays to get a good
one.
Not long ago it was unlawful and un
professional for a lawyer to have a personal
interest in the case of his client. This
was obviously unjust to poor litigants.
If a man got injured on a railroad he was
absolutely unable to get damages because
of his poverty. It got to be proverbial
that there was no use suing a corporation.
The poor suitor was at a disadvantage.
Now it is lawful and reputable for a law
yer to become interested in the case of
his client, and to make his fees contingent
upon success. By the operation of the
law of self-interest the lawyer thus works
harder than he otherwise w r ould. Many
poor litigants have in this way recovered
verdicts who would otherwise have be
come vagrants.
Many large corporations have salaried
lawyers to look after their business.
Judge Dillon left the bench of the United
States Court to take a salary of $20,000
from the Union Pacific Railway Company.
Dudley Field has had enormous fees out
of the Erie Railway Company and the
elevated railways. The lawyers saved
the elevated railways about $2,250,000 in
the tax suits with the city, as the courts
cut dow r n the bills about that sum.
The counsel for large corporations like
Trinity Church, the Equitable and Mutual
Life, the Standard Oil Company, and in
stitutions of like magnitude receive hand
some incomes, and devote themselves
largely to the business of one client.
Lawyers like Ben Butler, Roscoe Conk
lin, Senator Edmunds or Judge Jere
Black could fill volumes of records of
big fees. There is, in fact, always a de
mand for lawyers who can earn big fees.
There are so many novelties of the law,
so many expedients and devices to suit
new circumstancas, that men of penetra
tion and skill in devious expedients can
find plenty of scope.”
The Nevada gold seekers have discov
ered anew use for fowls. The hens are
picketed, and, being hungry, begin to
scratch and eat. After three or four days’
honest toil they are killed and their craws
examined for gold. As much as $8 has
been found in one craw.
The Centenuiat building at Yorktown
was burned a few days ago. Tho loss is
over $20,000. Tho building was erected
for the centennial exercises which took
place iu 1881.
Mrs. Langtry’s bill for last month was
only $2,750.
THU TOWN OF JUN EAU.
A Visit to Alaska’s Throe-Will -
OKI Mining Camp.
rGlobe-Democrat. 1
When wo steamed on a mile and crept
up to the wharf at Juneau the whole
town and the Indian village were down
to see us land, and when the lines were
cast ashore,the curious friends made a rush
for the assembled Indians and the trading
stores. The town of Juneau dates back
as a mining camp but a little over three
years. Iu 1879 the Indians gave fine
quartz specimens to the officers of the
man-of-war, Jamestown, and in the fol
lowing summer a prospecting party was
organized by Joseph Juneau and Richard
Harris. They camped at the present
town site on the Ist of October, and then
following up Gold Creek to the Silver
Bow Basin, three miles back, found the
rich placers and the outcropping quartz
veins.
When the news of their find reached
Sitka there was a rush for the New El
Dorado, and a camp sprang up that win
ter and has slowly grown into an odd
little town. It was first called Pilsbury
for one prospector, then Fliptown with
miner’s grim humor, then Rockwell for
the lieutenant who came from tho James
town with a detachment of marines to
keep the camp in order, and fourthly it
was named Harrisburg, and fifthly
Juneau. The last name was formally
adopted by the miners at a meeting held
in May, 1882, and in the same conclave
resolutions were passed ordering all Chi
namen out of the district and warning
the race to stay away, which they have
done.
When the sun shines, as it has to-day
and for two w T eek’s past, Juneau is as
charming a little mountain nook as one
need seek for. The mountains go so
straight up to their 3,000 feet that the
little cluster of white houses at the base
look as though they may be bits of the
lofty snow hanks that have tumbled down
the feathery cascades to the beach. The site
of the mining camp in the
Silver Bow basin is even more
picturesque, and the trail from Juneau
plunges straight up the mountain side,
then down to a second valley, and along
the wild canyon of Gold Creek and into
the basin of the Silver Bow. All the way
it leads through dense forests and luxu
riant bottom land, where the immense
pine trees, the thickets of ferns and devil’s
club, and the rank undergrowth of bushes
and grasses continually excite t one’s
wonder.
We rose at 5:30 in order to go out to the
h<ain and get back before the ship sailed
at 10, and in the fresh, dewy air and the
pure light of the early morning it was a
walk through an enchanted forest and a
happy valley. The trail wound up to
1,500 feet, dropped by long jumps and
slides to the first level of the canyon and
reached 1,500 feet above the sea again in
the basin. The devil’s club, a tall thorny
plant, with leaves twelve inches and more
across, grew in impassable clumps in the
woods, and the sunlight falling on these
large leaves gave a tropical look to the
forest. The devil’s club is tho pros
pectors’ dread, and the thorny sticks used
to do to switch witches with in the In
dians’ old uncivilized days. Echino
pauax horrida is the botanist’s awful name
for it, and that alone is caution enough
for one to avoid it. There were thickets of
thimble-berried bushes covered with large
creamy white blossoms, and clusters of
white ranunculus, white columbine, blue
geranium and yellow monkey flowers
grew in patches and dyed the ground with
their massed colors. The ferns were
everywhere, and under bushes and be
side fallen logs delicate maiden hair ferns,
with fine ebony stems, were gathered by
the handful. We met a few' well dressed In
dians hurrying to town and an occasional
miner who gave us a cheery greeting.
Silver Bow basin is a place to delight
an aesthetic miner in the way of land
scape, and any ono with a soul in him
would surely appreciate that little round
valley sunk deep in the heart of a great
mountain, w ith snow-caps on every hori
zon line, a glacier tipping from a great
ravine, and w'aterfalls tumbling noisily
down the slope. Timing ourselves by
our watches, w r e lingered on the last mile,
sitting on a log in the cool shade of the
forest, where the trail almost overhung
the little town. We could watch the peo
ple walking in the streets beneath, and in
the still, slumbering sunshine almost
catch the hum of their voices. Pistol
shots raised crashing echoes between the
high mountain walls, and set all the big
ravens to croaking in hoarse concert.
St. Augustine’s Celebration.
The preparations at St. Augustine for
celebrating the anniversary of the land
ing of Ponce de Loon in Florida on Fri
day, March 27, 1512, and founding of the
city of St. Augustine by Menendez 1565
are exciting very general interest through
out Florida. The committee of arrange
ments is well qualified for the work which
has been entrusted to it. Nothing will be
left undone that would contribute to the
interest and enjoyment of the occasion.
The celebration will occupy two days,
beginning on Mirch 27. There will be a
grand display, in which there will be an
endeavor to give a faithful representation
of the landing of the Spanish troops to
take possession ot the country. The aim
will be to present an exact picture of the
landing of the Spaniards over throe and a
half centuries ago. The positions of the
Spanish vessels, the uniforms of the
Spanish troops, the Indians on the shoro
, awaiting the landing of the troops, and
the celebration of mas immediately on
lauding, will all he observed in presenting
the picture with the greatest possible
fidelity. The landing of the troops, how
ever, aud the accompanying ceremonies
will only be a small part of tiie celebra
tion. Arrangements have been perfected
for a grand military parade, a ball, re
gatta, tournament, and a novel display
colled the Bottle of Flowers.
The town of St. Augustine, with quaint
houses aud apearanceof antiquity, which
has had its quiet seldom disturbed in its
three hundred years of existence, is about
to be aroused, perhaps jus it never yet
has been. Always an attractive place aud
always pretty well suplied with visitors,
it will doubtless be more popular with
health seekers aud sight seers this winter
than ever before.
THE HOME OF THE JERSEY!*.
The Little Island from Which are
Drought Our Milkeir.
[Kura] New York.]
The Island of Jersey contains less than
forty-six square miles, or about 29,000
acres, and jet, according to the census
report, it supports over 12,000 head of
cattle,besides some 00,000 people. There
are annually exported from the island
over 2,000 head. Thus the island sup
ports two persons to every two acres, and
ono cow to every two acres, aud exports
ouo animal to every ten acres, and as Mr.
Eugine J. Arnold justly says, in Bell’s
Messenger, the system that will enable
Jersey to do this must be worth consid
ering by the people of other countries.
He thinks the Jersey cow has had much
to do in enabling those favorable results
to be accomplished. She is not bred to
be eaten; she is too valuable as a butter
machine. Then why should she he lar
ger? Where 12,000 cattle are kept on six
miles square and whore rent averages
over $43 per acre; where the farms are
smaller than anywhere in the world, ev
ery farmer works with his own hands,
aud instead of the islaud being eaten up
with the cows and the farmers beggars,
tho whole island is a little garden, thick
ly strewn with comfortable, well to do
houses and homesteads; ease aud comfort
are everywhere, poverty and want un
known. Ho does not claim this is all the
product of the cows; but th and the farm
ers who have so close a fight aud aro so
successful must understand their business
and do not keep 12,000 cow's at a loss.
All the beef for the people is imported
from France and Spain. With 12,000
cattle they do not rear a single bullock
nor make a single pound of cheese. The
cows are reared and used for the produc
tion of butter, and that alone. The Jer
sey will yield more butter in proportion
to her size and tho amount of food con
sumed than any other breed whatsoever.
She rarely exceeds 800 pounds and scarce
ly averages 700, and yet plenty of cows
are to be found that yearly make more
than half their weight in butter. She
comes into milk early, rarely past two
years; often before; gives richer milk
makes higher flavored batter, is docile
and easily managed even by children and
lastly is equally at homo in hot or
cold weather. Ho says the Jerseyman
would be hard pressed to get along with
out his cow, and challenges the world to
produco her equal. There is no doubt
but much of tho prosperity of Jersey for
several years has been largely due to the
demand iu other countries for the surplus
cows of the islaud aud tho high prices
that have been paid for 2,000 head ex
ported every year.
GETTING Hl* IN THIS HOIC
KING.
A New and Novel Invention that
luiled of Its object.
When we consider the great improve
ments that have been made in hotels the
past fifteen years, the wonder is that no
inspired person has devised a scheme for
awaking guests who desire to take an
early morning train, without waking ev
erybody on tho same floor. Thero seems
to have been no improvement made in
waking people in tho past thousand
years. At the ancient Roman hotel the
porter pounded on the door of room 240
with his knuckles or an iron key or any
thing, until the galoot that wanted to be
called had rolled over and yawned a few
times and answered "hello,” when the
porter would yell, “It is half past four,’’
and the guest would say “all right,” and
get up and tiro himself iuto his pants, hit
the water pitcher against‘the bow l with a
sound that would go through the uext
half dozen rooms, grab the gripsack and
go out into the hall, slam the door and go
down tho stairs whistling, “It’s live
o’clock in the moaning. ” And the same
thing is done now, only the parties make
more noise and the guests swear a little.
Every other guest for a half block each
way is awakened and is mad. It is sin
gular when a porter attempts to awake
the man who is to bo called, that man
is the last one on floor who wakes up.
F very body else hears the noise, but the
man that ought to hear it dreams on in
blissful ignorance that a panel is being
kicked out of his door, and when he does
wake up he is always mad, though helms
nothing to get mad about. It is the oth
er guets that have a right to be mad.
Ever thing about the‘first-class hotels of
the present day is perfect except tho
method of awakening the guests. That is
still aj great a nuisance as the old-fashion
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candles, and the insane rule of paving in
vd vauce, that once moles toil some of the
best guests. A guest at a Chicago hotel,
who had been awakened hundreds of
times when other doors were being ]>ouu
ded on, wanted to get up at live o'clock
last Monday moiviug, and he decided
that he would not cause all the other
guests to bo annoyed, so lie told the clerk
that he was going to hitch a rope on his
ankle when lie retired and throw the eml
of it over the transon, and wanted tho
the jxirter instructed to pull on the rope
at five o’clock until he got an answer,
and not pound tho door. The clerk told
a party of young men boarders <*f the sin
gular request of the guest aud they
thought it very original. They went out
to the theatre and got full of wine, and
when they piissed the sleeping guest’s
room at one o clock in the morning and
saw the rope hanging over the transom,
they thought it would be no more than
right to see liow tho new idea would work
so four of them took hold of tho rope and
began to pull. They heard a heavy body
that seemed to be walking over the foot
board of tho bed on its back, heard sheet
rip and nightshirt tear, and they kept
palling and heavy body struck the floor
and a voice began to swear and 3 ell “mur
der” and “tiro,” and they pulled away
until the heavy body seemed to be climb
ing up the door feet first on tho inside,
and the voice said “All right I am up,”
but they kept pulling until one leg of a
man came over the transom, aud the oth
er leg was kicking the door, and the voico
was using language that was not admis
sible in polite society. The young men
then tied the rope to the door-knob and
retired to their rooms, leaving the man
hanging head down with one foot out in
the hall. The man yelled until the watch
man came, and he thought it was a case
of suicide, and he cut the rope and tho
heavy body fell to the floor, when tho
clerks and manager of the house aud sev
eral -porters were called, and they bursted
in the door and found the badly used up
guest grabbing at blankets and sheets to
cover himself, and swearing that his back
Was broke from sliding over tho foot
board. An explanation was had,aud it was
generally believed the tipsy young men
had done tho deed, but when they were
called they were asleep, aud the next
morning they claimed that they had re
tired as usual at nine o’clock in the even
ing and were innocent of anything on
earth. The guest remained up until live
o clock and used arnica and things; gave
the rope to the porter and said after this
they could pound on his door and wake
tho whole house if they wanted to. How
ever, somebody ought to invent a scheme
by which one guest at a time can bo
routed out without spoiling the sloe]) of
a bundled.
Household Hints.
flood flavoring for sauces is made by put
ting halt an ounce ot watercress seed into
one quart of vinegar. The seed should bo
crushed before putting it in, and it will
then be soon ready for use. Celery vinegar
is made in the same w r av.
An agreeable flavor is sometimes im
parted to soup by sticking some cloves in
to the meat used for stocks ; a few slices of
onion's fried very brown in butter are nice
also flour browned by simply putting it in
to a saucepan over the fire, and stirring it
constantly until it is dark brown.
When roasting a chicken or small fowl
there is danger of the legs browning or
becoming too hard to be eaten. To avoid
this take strips of cloth, dip them
into a little melted lard, or even just rub
them over with lard, and wind them
around the legs. Remove them in time to
allow the chicken to brown delicately.
A pretty banner for the wall is of black
satin with a cluster of wheat and a few
daisies embroidered upon it; it has tassels
in three colors across the bottom, and one
tassel on each end of the pole at the top;
in the right hand corner is a bow of nar
row ribbon; it is almost like a rosette, so
many loops and ends compose it.
l’arsnip balls are excellent for an entree.
Parboil six large parsnips, and let them
get quite cold, then peel them and grate
them, beat two eggs until very light, and
mix with the grated parsnip, adding
enough flour to give coherence to the
mixture; flour your hands and make
small flat balls. Have hot lard in a shal
low kettle, and drop the balls gently into
it; fry them until they are well browned
on both sides. Send to the table very hot
A fruit-layer cake is a delicious novelty
in cake making. Take one cup of sugar *
half a cup of butter, one cup and a half
of flour, half a cup of wine, one cup of
raisins, two eggs, and halt a teaspoonful
of soda; put these ingredients together
with care, just as if it were a very rich
cake; bake it in three layers and put
frosting between—the frosting to be made
of the whites of two eggs with enough
powdered sugar to make it thick. The
top of the cake may be frosted if you
choose.
Sour milk is so little used since the ad
vent of baking powder that few modern
cooks know how to disposo of a cup of
sour cream or milk; here is an old-time
and most excellent receipt for sour cream
or milk cookies: Two cups of sugar, one
cup of butter, one of sour cream or milk
or cream, three eggs, one teaspeonful of
soda; mix soft, roll thin. When the
cookies are cut out sift granulated sugar
over them, and roll it in by pressing the
rolling-pin gently over the cakes, taking
care not to flatten them too much.
James Gordon Bennett is sitting for his
portrait to the painter Bakliui.