Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

(Ltrlctsbillc tlllfe- Awrvivatt. 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. 2* /y " 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 NUMBER 41 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.