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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1883)
Hi MMlle Deicrat, ORA W FORDVHJ.c, - - G EGTUJ f A. GENERAL NEWS. The population of Chattanooga is said to be 20,666. Malaga grapes are successfully grown iu Hillsboro county, Fla. Eighty cents per hundred,'is the price offered for good limes in Jacksonville, Florida. Fifty - El VK thousand dollars worth of sponge were sold at Key West, Fla., last Monday. Eight and three-quarter million dol lors is the valuation of property in Flor¬ ida for 1883, an increase of four millions over last year. Vicksburg, Miss., wells sunk about 200 feet reach the gulf level and an abundance of excellent water, with fine sand and sea shells is found. The Charleston, S. C., News and Cou¬ rier reports great injury to the cotton by drouth and greater injury threatening upland crop. South Carolina, according to the cen¬ sus, is the most illiterate state, 48.2 per cent of the population being unable to read, and 55.4 per cent hi able to write. From present indications it is probable that. Galveston, Texas, will receive for the season 1882-83 about 900,000 bales «>f cotton, leaving every port except New Orleans iu the race. A committee is canvassing for sub¬ scriptions to a steamship line bet ween Augusta and Savannah. It is thought that it will be a success. When the con¬ templated improvements in the river are made steanieis can run all the year. The German colony located at Piek enaville, Ala., apprehend realizing noth¬ ing from their crop, on account of the drouth, and have entered into negotia¬ tions to furniBll staves to the Mobile market from the timber along the upper Bighee. The work in the harbor at Vicksburg will not be abandoned. Tt is confidently believed that a sufficient depth of water can be kept in the west pass of the lake to allow tributary boats to land at the city landing during the lowest stage in the river. The Ui aril of Directors of the Florida Fillip canal and Transit Company adjour¬ ned at New York yesterday, after a four days’ session. Work will probably com¬ mence on the canal within the next ninety days. Its estimated cost is §40, 000 , 000 . | WwtTKH North^Can jn it.....'I'Yilb; • -a great section for fruit. In Wntmign cunt, is nu apple tree fifty years old which has on it about fifty bushels of fine apples, and lias nine large branches, which give rise to thirty-two bmnrhlets, -....................................... . covers tiventy-mne yards. Two of the best farms in Culpepper countv, Va., exchanged hands recently, : One of . thorn, .. containing . . . 1,300 . acres, sit nated on the liappanonnock river, naa purchased by Tlionms B. Nulle for |50. 000 cash; the other, ’ containing 200 lu-res, near ... brandy Station, , n as sold , , at . #10,000 to the County Treasurer, S. Russell Smith. A two thousand dollar Jersey cow, owned in Baltimore, Md., 1ms vi'centlv owned the refutation of being tlie best butter producing cow in the United States, having, in seven days’ test, given 327 pounds of milk, which made twenty five jsuuids two and a half ounces of butter, being one pound of butter from a little less than thirteen jwiunda, ca six and a half quai ts of milk. G BORGIA, Tennessee aud other south «ru state* eoniblaiil that- dogs kill their sheep. In England pet dogs are hecomf ing a serious drain upon tho edihle ne- 4 -esrities and luxuries of life. Many pups ar»> fed 011 toast and tea and eggs, and liunb chops. One gentleman daily onlei-s a beefsteak and two gliusses <>f wine for liis dog. Some ot them take brandy and soda, cheese and piekhsl oy^titts. Mr. H. J. (Ui het. Bulhv'k comity. Ala., is engagixi in unking syrup from melons, and has already made 800 gal¬ lons. This sells fear 75 cents per gallon. An ordinary melon will make two gallons • of u. juice, jUH-o. ««i and it 1 . takes — twelve gullisas — to - niak, . one oj . syrup. LstuAtmg i- j a.. the I yield per acre l.tkK) melons, which Ef I give 2.060 gallons of ju >>*<*. or 166; of syrup, at 75 c< Its jhw gallon, tho pro c*eoils will be ♦ 1 -io. A,.haw iFla.) Argus: An irr.uieiis f tow n is now sung built on ihi* hn< o' * tin* SL J. A 1.. E. r uilroad. Itiomnicn ces at Ravenswoo* I, and continues ai o> the lino to I'nmtil . a distance of six E lies, id which AltiK - a is the grand 1 center, geographically. Five saw-miib make it limn for us, and if tilings titiue this wax' for notlier vear a line of strt*et cars and stret*t lamps will have i lie juauguratetl j*<*r mvessitv. Wltla “ this six miles are the towns of Ravens VO( I, Pittniaan IOW Z 1 , Al toona, Honeywi 1 % lliln. A new civ< lias been disco in North Carolina. It is located on thf Tennessee river in Bwain county, near the month , of „ the -- Nantihala. , ii A * 11 blast l was put in the mouth of it and a way opened for entrance. One large room, bearing B beautiful stalactites, was ex pored and a small aperture h ailing to another room was found, but for want of proper lights the exploring party went no further. The railroad rims im mediately liy it » Ufa rtor. Tim tod is owned by Maj. J. W. Wilson, about the largest landholder in North Carolina, The eave is in the great marble belt of the ,, west, . which , . , crops out , at . Marble ,, ,, gap on Valley-river mountain. EDITORIAL NOTES. The sum of $931,600, bequeathed by J. B. Gardner, of Boston, to help pay the National debt, was received at the Treasury Department and placed to the credit of patriotic donations. A Reno saloon-keeper kept a Lottie of pitch pine splinters soaked in spirits of turpentine for the use of customers who .......<„ h„„ K it up; but the beverage became so popular m Reno that it was considered too good for that class of customers. A gold idol weighing thirty-two and one-half pounds was recently excavated in Calistlahauca state of Mexico, by some Indians. The idol was composed of a group of figures, but it was broken up by the Indians and divided equally Only nine of the thirty-eight States have furnished the country with presi¬ dents. These States are the following, and the length of time the several States have held the office is also indicated : Virginia............ ......36 years Massachusetts...... ...... 8 years Tennessee.......... ......16 years New York........ .... .10) years ()hio............... ...... 4j years Louisiana......... ...... 1 year Now Hampshire. ...... -k- — years Pennsylvania....... ......12 ...... years Illinois............. years Total from 1789 to 1885.....96 years Tn the seventy-two years prior to the civil war, the South possessed the Presi¬ dency for forty-nine years, and as good ns possessed it under the eight years of Pierce, of New Hamshii'e, and Buchnn nan, of Pennsylvania. In those days it made no difference where a man came from, if he was in spnipathy with the dominating Southern element. The ex¬ traordinary contributions to the' Presi¬ dency, wore due, no't at all to her loca¬ tion, but to the unusual relations of her strong men to flic Government during the period of the Revolution and settle ment of the Constitution. Virginia has furnished in presidents since Monroe went out in 1824. Mr. Russcfl, a wealth* Mississipp L ; .m-Jo is at Unclrt.i;idg.- Alun> ! Springs with his wife, has with him als > „„ adopted el„hl, twelve years old, wh ^ R so,, of the late Gen. John B. Hood. of the Hood children, the two eldest dan-liters wore taken by Mr. Maury, a ing educated m Germany with his daugh tors. John B. Hood, Jr., the oldest boy, is tka ouo adopted 1 into the family •' of Mr. Russell. A pair of twin girls are mloji t,.,l children of a Mr. Adams, of New York; another pair of twin girls are iu the family ' ; of Mr ‘V McKee of Mississippi; another boy, Duncan , by name, is the adopted child of a wealthy maiden lady of New York, and another, Oswald, is to.!* ,.i «*»«»» siding near the l.inpire C ity. Unis have the fatherless been eared for. A singular coincidence is related in connect tion with three of tho gentlemen who have thus taken the place of fathers of these ^interesting children. Messrs. Russell, Adams and McKee were elass mates at Yale College. They are nil married, but have no children. Without cons,a,f , of - ai-taon, , or even , knowing what thcotlmre were about to do. each up plied fur and was given the charge he now has. Carries Its Own Moral. Tn in one one ol of our our tsew New Einriand tngiana cities ciue-s, n few days ago, three wretched tramps wore brought before the police courts us vagrants, having lwen found iu an in teiieatqd condition in » barn whore 6u they ! the nrevions 1 niuht e\ animation it . was found that each one had been a former resident of the city, and I was well known. Ono of them had lioeu, only a few j ago, tlie suj'eriutendont i*f the , touuorv toundry department aeparimom o| 01 an an extensive oxieusivc and | ivnlely-kuowu manufacturing ... eatsbl.sh- . , 1 ; 1 ment, receiving a yearly salary of §2,50 >. and having a pleasant home occupied by ; mbs and children, and being • man ottec i respestod and esteemed by those wl t iv K m. Tho two others had lxx*u vm : % n under him whom he had di-- Z bar neglect of their woik toi 111 k, and ho iumsolf was iinally ife* in lssed for the snnie fault. I Checks.— A device has been intro¬ duced at a Chicago hotel for the pur- 1 pose of circumventing swindlers. Each _ . guest receives small piece of cardboard a on which the number of tlie room he is to occupy i-i plainly marked. This he is obliged to present at the office when ever he desires his key. Another card, on which the name of tue bearer is i written, is a pass for the elevator, and it is essential for a ride. Both these I j cheeks when tke must departing lie returned visitor to tlie cashier 1_ pa vs bill Aphorisms of Holmes. ~ Ton may set it down as a truth . which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, Memory is a net. One finds it full of when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. God bless all good women ! To their soft hands and pitying hearts we must ail co “ e at la8t - . ’»* When a strong brain is weighed with a troe heart, it see ids to ine like balancing a against a wedge of gold. Controversy the equalizes fools and wise men in 8ame way _ and the fools know it. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. If the sense of the ridiculous is one side of an irrepressible nature, it is very well; but if that is all there is in a man, he had better have been an ape and stood at the head of his profession at once. Travelers change their guineas; not their characters. There are three wicks to the lamp of a man’s life: brain, blood, and breath. the heart minute all Ito? a and out go three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold and dark¬ ness. The scientific study of man is the most difficult of all branches of knowledge. There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, ! mt they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People that do not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use admirable anything subjects but dictionary for biographies words, are But we don’t care most for those flat pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium. Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. The Broad Church, I think, will nevei be based upon anything that requires the use of language. Freemasonry gives the idea of such a church The cup ol cold water does not require to be trans¬ lated for a foreigner to understand it. The only Broad Church possible is that which has its creed in the heart, and not in the head. I would have a woman as true as death. At the first real lie, which works from the heart outward, she should be tender¬ ly chloroformed into a better world, where she can have an angel for a gov¬ erness, and feed on strange fruits, which shall make her all over again, even to her bones and marrow. Why can’t somebody give us a list ol nobody tilings which and eyerybody another list thinks things nnp says, of that everybody says and nobody thinks 5 New England Woollen Mills. In order to ascertain The the extent of the lenression ndustrvThe in Bostoifri New Eiiglrn 1wool en i of’inquirv dijertiser sent cir c „l ar s to the 500 ti^ mills in those Stsrt/'H and UaMAfl*UaUed 250. Tho c the replies received from nuni } ^number W8o”^4W WI \ the of sets of cards was 2,922. According to the Advertiser’s returns, the number of sets of cards now 8U mption of each set of cards is 301) pounds of wool. This would show a re duction in tho total consumfitioa of oun 700 | nonnds a dav or about 7 000 00C ’ reduction l(ou u ,| H month. The actual ls doubtless greater than this, for the reason that the returns made do not in elude all of the stopped mills. Theuum ber of sets of cards shut down in each New England State and the total mini her in each as returned by the census of 1880 are as follows :— Island............ .......“~3S 138 432 ithode Maine................. 35 201 New Hampshire.......... 33 293 W «5 _ . . ,, The important bearing of this marked coM^Tami^enTwhTn'TtTs^remem 1 - ^S OI Uiatmoiisiry lav. UnTe^StateT u leuoine . A^orfmgto he census ,one io rth sctTf of^all ^‘ t * h» n a thirf of Hie cards are in New England g white lift], New England mills consume more tban of afl the wool used in the comitev and tarn out more than half tlio t - km i*> -----—--- \ Happi ..... I In,light. ~~ ‘ ‘While I was defending Dr. JVludd, f! a ' HtHeXiif little thing lminiened haj \ ein d whterT w Inch Tmre' e..n n - member though 111 t ie lapse of eightwn years I have forgotten nluuxst all the do tails of ilie trial. A colored woman hud beon found with som- evidence tending to remove a very tent impression from 1 r. Mudd, aiffi she was brought up to ^T 1 r ’ Tid' “uu JUKI Mud, >.1 A l,ro 1 ,..a. der-in ii-i.in Hw3 put the m «nau m with us to take her down to the court-room. As we wore about to start the question wes asked: ‘8aBy, naw^majmo - an A ■ bri ’^Slic saul, to eat so ns — irii ner story without In'ing shake: the “>|‘« oill and r R handed m 1 man :t , , 1 .0 re-n oer. out l .mg ive her dollar to go ana get iior i>ro :kf;ist :uui iaon come * Laok to Lie oornasre. I don’t know j jihrbntlor ligible to myself some I reached reason out hardly and mtel- said, I ‘ don t give her five doilars. Take her to get lior breakowt at the hotel and then come back and pun rue. We pro duccil the woman in court a little later, ! and the vctt first question , ndge Holt asked the woman was: Sally, has any Ixxly given in you any nu y since, yon have been this city ? ’ the woman innocently, . suppose she had taken the five 1 .101 vou see w.-M , . a a impression . . it would j .c ur. Aiuaa. prejudice. I Bargaining With a l'unip. Some thirty years ago, an in temper ite man was reformed by being refused one cherry. Penniless, he went to the public house one morning, where he had squandered maiy a shilling, to refused get a drink “on tick.” The landlady to trust him. Seeing a plate of luscious ripe cherries on the bar, he asked for but one. “Save your money and buy your own cherries,” was the reply. “I will,” he said, and he did. His wounded j>ride forced him to reflect; reflection Tjnsured amendment. reformed. From that morn¬ ing he following was story tells of flannel The a weaver who was induced by a surly good an swer to reflect and then to make a bargain This with had a pump. saved guinea for the man a purpose of having a whole week’s dissi tion. He began on Monday, spending ree shillings per day for seven days ; on the morning of the eighth lie was burning with thirst, but his money was gone. Judy, the landlady, mopping the was passage; he stood looking at Judy, with his cracked lips, parched tongue and bloodshot eyes, expecting her to ask him to take just adrop; but she did not, and he requested her to trust him for only one pint. and With an indignant look of scorn contempt she replied, “Trust thee ! thou dirty, idle vagabond ! Set a step in this house, and I will dash this mop in thy face.” * The poor wretch hung down his head in shame. He was leaning against a pump; and after a little study began to talk to the pump. “Well, Pupp,” said he, “I have not spent a guinea with thee, Pump; will thou trust me a drop ?” He lifted up the handle, put his burn¬ ing mouth to the spout, and drank his fill ; this done, he again said to the pump— “Thank thee, Pump and hear ; now flfe, Pump. I will not enter a public house again for seven years; and, Pump, thou art a witness,” The bargain was kept, and this min afterward became a respectable ma iu facturer, and often said, that it was a grand thing for him that Judy threat¬ ened to dash the mop in his face. Preserving Berries. Fruit Juices.— The juices of many kinds of fruits are so extremely delicate that they cannot be preserved by the or dinary methods of heating, so list* re tain the flavor, this being especially the case with raspberries difficulty, and strawberries, advised To meet this we are to take perfectly ripe, dry, clean raspber nes, ana to masli them in an earthen jar, with a wooden pestle, so as to obtain a homogeneous mass. To this, five to ten per cent, of grape or cane sugar is to be added, aud the whole then allowed to the ■WBX- lot* the take place, in course of which pectine will separate completely, leaving ssass strawberries, two pound. ofr fr&faspberries, berries are to be selected, as directed and placed in a large bathed bottle without mashing, so as two snira half pounds ol nneiy ptuver Sken^p^uTnriy^Tt without heating. The temperature, will extract the moisture from the sugar clear berries and form a syrup possess will keep perfectly bulk by alcohol. the addition of one-fiftli of its of Pickled Barberries. — Boil tno bruised berries of a few bunches ui salt and water; strain and put a gill of the liquor to a quart of vinegar, with an ounce of salt, a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar a quarter of an ounce of pounded ginger, and a little sliced horse radish; boil and strain it; then pour it hot over the barberries, the finest bunches having been previously selected s’ ‘“he 0 ; yx be kept in a jar with a strong brine of salt and water poured over them. When au y 8C nm is observed upon the surface, pour Off the brine and add fresh. A Mcan „ Trl<k _ . . ’ A man who probably hailed from Buf DetroitTridal 1 couple Niagara Falls at j other evening. They went to a hoW wld ^stered, for night had supper of and tin «hen started out a view Mighty Roarer. They had not gone far whe ° n ma, “ called to them and said: “Have vou just been married? “Weli-have, answered the growm “Going to stay here a day or two. “Yes.” ; “Having reg stored at my hotel you probably intent!to remain there?” “Yes, sir.” “Well, I want to say a word to you. tolon’t want any ducky-dearv- nonsense around my house. I want no popsy W opsy business on the verandas. I want no squeezing Lauds on the balconies, or feeding each other at the taVile.” The grinim let his aim fall from liis i, r i de ’s waist in a slow and painful man Ler and the stranger continued: , ',‘ TUe “uf ’’Tis W , Ild cream or she etuis vou you uei darting, “Y-yes, sir.” “She’s no sweeter than ten thousand girls, and you are uo more of a darling than I am, and I won t stand lovesick nonsense.” H e walked away with that, and tue people at the Falls who knew the bn couple were amazed to hear them address each other as Mr. and Mrs., aud to see w hat precautions they took to prevent touching hands or bet raying any synip toms oi love. They put in two wretchevi davs, and it was only as they were discovered upon the point of leaving that they how a base villain had duped them.— [Strait Free Jbrs*. — — ----- total assessed valuation . y a x,ues.—T he follows: New p{ tlie United States is as England States. §2.652,076,586; Middle States, $3,567,073,848; Southern States, 369.246,890: Western States, §6.180,- 504 614 ; Territories, §128,213,629. Total $i«;897,135,567. valuation. This is about one third the true A Frontier Lynching Bee. T». I—l Ijnchiug episode occurred recently out on the scientific frontier of Texas. Kosciusko Dalrymple was a hard character, with a reputation as big as a court-house, ’ but not so symmetrical, perhaps, , and , at tunes . he , uaa ,. m . . upon with longing, avaricious eyes by vigilantes. One day they nabbed him under suspicious circumstances, hurried him out of town to a neighboring ° grove for the , purpose of helping him x oye t e gravelly bed of the shining river of light. On this involuntary trip toward etemity Kosky earnestly and eagerly protested i ru his innocence of the express crime charged , _ m . t ie rude . indictment, , and when the party arrived at the grove and took a breathing spell Kosky got his second wind and commenced to har angue the multitude with all the ve Lenience of Mark Antony over the corpse of Caesar, if not with that .. . distinguished , , Roman’s eloquence and address : “Gentlemen,” he said, “I'm a Lard citizen.” “The point is well taken,” said the chairman of the committee, “but tell us something new.” “Yes, I’m tough. You know all about me, I suppose ;. know my record, and have- got me down pretty middlin’tine ?” “We are on to you, Kosky, this time for a fact.” “Yes, gentlemen, you’ve got me at a disadvantage, I’m a had man from away back, but I just want to remove one staiu from my reputation. I want to say just one word before I’m swung up, and it isn’t that I’m a-going to glory and to play on an organette. It isn’t one last word to my poor old mother, for she lias been dead these twenty years, God bless her. It isn’t to coufess and tell the young men to let whisky alone and never to learn the dif a,. lady-card. No, gentlemen, noneo. these tliings agitate me now at this supreme moment of my life. But what I want to know, gentlemen, is this. They say J stole Gabe Runnel’s horse.” “Thai s the charge, Kcsky,” said the . . cnairman. “That’s why . to do for you are going me now, I suppose ?” “That’s about it.” . < A 11 rtoht, ° gentlemen. Do any of youwuu me off d on { f live years believe I don t know a good horse from a mustang, from a broncho, |- rom a scrub colt with the glanders, an watc h. e yed, swenied, poll-evil ani »ilo Willi hi, shoulder tucked down and thrushes in all four feet, mane roached with a jack-knife and saddle j*. *. horse “I - Kos ?” ^’” “Yes, I’ll say that much for you. ” “Well, that’s all I got to say, gentle al)gn . .ijvw, ,if J .look Jike.aman_Bhq woU i d steal any of Gabo Rtmnil’s stock "Ren there was plenty of good horses not forty rods away; if I look that mean, and low down, and insignificant, wopple jawed and freckled, why, gentlemen, it immauow ’ scaie J, or , mi manity, why, pull me up to glory and let me die like a chicken thief. ” The chairman ordered the rope thrown off Kosky's neck, aud, covering him with liis Winchester rifle, said, laconically: “Skip !” Aud Kosky was off like the wind.— Texas Siftings. A Check for Over Two Millions. - In April, 1881, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, General Dodge and other New Yorkers arrived in Philadelphia, Pa., to attend a meeting of the directors, at the office of the company, which it was sup [Tsiness" 'The^ mTding 1 was 7 to take Sage came iido AL^ sJotS'pre LThlTgfoithepu^oseTf )jrR . e ln the Pennsvlvania Railroad having of a pre- the lilnilmrv talk on the future policy differ road( there being some points Of Puce between Messrs. Gould and Scott. During the conversation, the difference, which was amicable, rather widened, and 1 hi ally Col; Scott said positively he could not agree to Mr. Gould’s policy, and that h e would rather sell o*-. “What will you sell for?” asked Mr. Gould. Col Scott promptly named his figures, and Jay G ould wrote his check for 400 000, and became the possessor of {be control «mrr of the Texas & Pacific Rail ‘-pbe gentlemen then went into the r om w bere the other directors were as r^led -;is and the resignation of Col. g cott w tendered This was the first uotice to tbelu tbat tbe sale had *«*«“ Sv . The whole andSer transaction ge^emen did not one hour, that the sale would had any * previous idea occur T he incident is a forcible illustration of the a p titude 0 f yi r , Gould and Col. Scott for business.* promptly arranging weighty ,, f There was never a t ;nie when Col. Scott’s mind was clearer t b au on this famous day, though he was ^ysi C al}y very weak from the diesast which ended his life a vear later.— Phil * n ^ e f D h; a f> r ess. -- g [ oi £ E —a Baitimorian has a cage , m011 hevs. Bv way of variety he put , in with them,* much to their de Heht. On taking it or 1 the other day there was terrible howling ofl both sides. The cat refused to eat, and the monkeys gat licking the tears out of each other's eves ioT da ys. Finally the cat was put back, aud then there was great-joy. It ijckecl all the little monkeys, and the big ones took turns hugging it till its stack ont How “Greasers” Live. There is a great and marked difference, like a caste distinction, between the “Greaser” Mexican and the Spanish Mexican, who boast of a descent from pure Castilian blood. The former is Jazy, ,j thriftless, ignorant, superstitions, usually an unstable. The latter is bright, active, and intelligent. As might be expected, they, in harm, my with the foment, Control most of Hie wealth and commerce of the cojantry* j n ^i ie states of old Mexico the greatest portion of the people are of the former class, and . hence the Govern ments are Unstable and subject to fre fluent revolution under the influence of factious leaders. In Lie more southerly g^es there is a greater diffusion of the Castilian blood, and revolutions are more rare and difficult. On the ranch or village home of the “Greaser” Mexi¬ can everything bears the stamp of negli gence and shiftlessness. Their gaunt, sharp-nosed, long-legged, their and tan-colored hogs share with owners in the comforts of the family residence. No fences except brash sur¬ round their fields. Generally there are none. They raise just sufficient wheat, barley, beans, and chili (red peppers) to meet their absolute needs. They thrash their crops upon bare, smooth ground and by driving flocks of goats over them -washing in the nearest stream. They often plow with a crooked stick, and the hoe is their scythe, sickle, and reaper, even tlieir hay is cut with a hoe. They as a rule live in villages and cultivate small fields upon their outksirts. Living, as they do, and possessing a soil which under irrigation is wonderfully produc¬ tive, they require but little ground to cultivate*. For this reason at points be¬ tween their villages there are large tracts of unoccupied lands subject to entry, which are being rapidly occupied by Americans. An impression prevails somewhat at North and East that the inertia of this people is due largely climate. to some This ener- is vatiug influence of the an error. The climate is superb, ann , llld know of no climate where I can ex e rt myself so freely with so little ex¬ liaustion. This is the universal record of American settlers. Rarely does tho mercury range over ninety degrees iu the hottest summer day. and thesumnur heats are almost invariably tempered heard by of pleasant breezes. I have never a case of sunstroke here. The nights are always cool, requiring blankets for •omfort, and free from mosquitoes, and sleep is sweet and restful. I have nevt r seen a mosquito-bar in New Mexico, nor have I ever felt the need of one. As I have said before, taken as a whole, tho country is not beautiful nor attractive to the eye. The mountain scenery is at many points wonderfully beautiful and picturesque. But apart from the moun fains and the few river valleys the couutr v is one vast cattle-range.— Correspond¬ ence of the Chicago Tr ibune. Th « re hafi suddenl y developed, Harper s Bazar a fancy for simpe .^ Jr f 8ses of P 1;1ln fal f cs “ d a e °he°\aTdrobe . W fmd°TfomilLiT (^tiaiu^roiT am^e A^hesejcostumesys 'grain, tlie usw opjosedto the ’ .. udine with gros grenadines as rich, veWet-figti red vrith da ^'red^cTweT _i’ lapis ofThe blue or golden bromi t jg smoothest silk anze of a single shade, or else change grain or taffeta silk. If the dress is black, the material is the nmiure-fig nred or square-meshed grenadine, and the silk is plain gros grain or ottoman repped. Lace is the trimming for all such dresses, but this may be confined to the basque, in which case only three or four yards are required for the full frills on the sleeves, neci' and down the front. The ecru embroideries that are done on a net foundation, and resemble 'nee, are used for colorec grenadines, vhile for black dresses the French, Spanish, and guipure laces are chosen. At the best furnishing houses there .ire black grenadines of nice quality made up with the deep-pleated kilt skirt, full apron drapery, and short basque that constitute the popular de sign this season for the simplest wool dresses The grenadine kilting is in which falls,’at theYwt upon one or two uTrXveThe^Tg^raighT are needed effect of the lengthwise pleats. The patted upper draperv ifar* is not cut out by any but ranged in inexplicable folds on the top of the skirt, m any way most becoming ,to the wearer. The lower edges of tin grenadine kilt-pleating aro most often but turned under above a if it is meant that the front should be decidedly in apron shape, it-is edged with lace four or live inches wide; as this lace must not on the back and drapery; this only two yards are needed, heading, is put on in a gathered frill without the edge of the lace being passed under the wide hem of the grenadine; is one-third extra fullness is all that added for lace. Pleated i ace LS not The trimming width of laces for basques is about three inches, while that for aprons and for flounces bn skirts varies from three to eight inches in ^°, diff ^ ect ^ dfbs are used thev should have the same design. . raid indeed the same patterns may be had m three different, widths, the third wiiltli being nsed for frills around the hips, which are either laid upon the wertugadin the pnff, where they will appear just below Short basque, or else they are attached to the basque itself under the slender The scallops French that are cut along its edge. designs laces that imitate Chantilly are used for such dresses in pretty patterns of shaded roses, rose-buds, palms, and feathers; the prices 0 i these begin as low as 25 cents a yard in the three inch widths, and increase up to §1.50; excellent designs are sold for 35 or 50 cents a yard. —------ Katie, a person well-known to many 0 f our readers, recently said to her mis tress: “I know a girl who has with been keeping company three years a young man, and was married two weeks a c- 0 , and last night he was run over by the cars and killed. Ain’t that discour-
