Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. XI.
Holland reclaims an average of eight
acres per day from the sea and |tbe salt
water is no sooner crowded out than cab*
bage is crowded in.
In the ten years, since 1878, 376 per
eons have been killed or maimed or seri*
ously hurt at crossings of the Reading
railway in the city of Philadelphia.
At Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.,
ground has been broken for the first
gymnasium and mechanical laboratory
for colored people the world has ever
seen.___
The merits of newspaper advertising
were well estimated by a prominent soap
man of Philadelphia when he said that
he confined his advertising to newspa¬
pers ‘-Because the man who does not
read the papers does not use soap.
It is reported from Cape May that if
the Government cannot be induced to
build the proposed channel from Cap«
May to Atlantic City an effort will b«
made to raise the money by popular sub¬
scriptions at the two resorts during th*
summer,
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The people of the Pacific Coast are
taking considerable interest in the Mel¬
bourne Exposition, which will be opened
in August, though why it should be held
in winter is not clear. It is expected
that there will be a very creditable ex¬
hibit of California products at the Ex¬
position,
A prison revolt, which was not quelled
without much bloodshed, took place re¬
cently at Damanhour, Egypt, about
twelve miles from Alexandria, Two
prisoners in the jail who were under
sentence of death, aided by eighteen
other convicts, managed to make their
escape from the prison. The police at
once started in pursuit, but before they
could come up with them the prisoners
took refuge in a mosque. Here a des¬
perate fight took place, iu which fifteen
of the prisoners were killed and two
were -wounded, while the police had foul
killed.
The Taos Yalley of Colorado and New
Mexico is about to have a boom. A
company will soon irrigate the eutire
valley. Says a recent visitor: “The
beauties of the valleys of Southern Cali¬
fornia are much extolled by tourists as
well as by the inhabitants. Tao3, how¬
ever, discounts anything in the Golden
State. The climate is much more de¬
lightful, and the enemies to vegetation
much fewer. None of the destroyers of
fruit which are common to California ere
found in the Taos region, and I can as¬
sure you that watermelmons picked there
two years ago are good and fresh, and
fit for the table at the present time. ”
A correspondent of the Philadeldhia
Ledger suggests that the court of the
new City Hall in that city should be
embellished with statues of eminent
Phjladelphians, after the manner of the
Iffizi at Florence. He suggests, as ap¬
propriate subjects, William Penn, Ben¬
jamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Ben¬
jamin West, Bishop White, .Stephen
Girard, John Fitch, Robert Fulton,
Robert Morris, Lindley Murray, Dr.
Kane, Charles Brockden Brown, Thomas
Buchanan Read, Bayard Taylor, Henry
C. Carey, Dr. Gallaudet, Horace Binney,
Vice-President Dallas, Dr. Hayes, John
H elsh, and others.
Boulanger, the fleeting idol of the
Volatile French, is described by the
Boston Transcript as “an off-handed,
rather open-hearted fellow, who likes to
please, delights in rendering services to
Do matter whom, is charmingly gallant
to women of all ages and ranks, has an
elegant figure and a handsome face, a
winning smile, sits on horseback like a
centaur, and took when he was in the
a, my as much enjoyment out of his fine
Belongings 8unday as a child does out of its
clothes. He xvas really pictur
eqtie on his black prancing horse, sur¬
rounded by his staff. The rank and file
ar lored him; for why? he gave them
oiean Beds, lavatories, mess tables and
plates, tumblers, knives and forks. For
®en who had to spend three years at
® a ’t in the army this was a good deal.
Before the time of Le Beau General they
e almost like hogs, each eating out of
at .
m can, with his fingers or penknife as
wst he could. The beauty of the thing
^ l0 ‘ ' n 8!> it being change clipped cost off the taxpayers
contractors
their patrons. Wilson didn’t like it;
bl » Boul anger didn’t Boulonger
didn’t care.
.. care either whether influential
Idcians . took, when he was war minis
.
in bad part his refusal to tame col
erS on strike by sending military
t a
° * tle ^ r b tack
tte IV hen country, to dragoon
^ the colliers were starving,
a a oger telegraphed to the soldiers
to
re ' neb victuals with them. I don’t
•I; J*, k® did
this to win popularity, but
- e y from a kind impulse.”
NATIONAL CAPITAL
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB¬
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS—IMPORTANT
ACTS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
COS8IP.
An order was issued from the War
Department announcing that by authority
of the President of the United States,
July 2, 1888, the military reservation of
Port Pickens, Fla., located on the west
end of Santa Rosa island, is modified and
extended so as to include the whole of
said Santa Rosa island.
A counterfeit five-dollar silver certifi¬
cate of the new issue made its appearance
in Washington on Saturday. It was pre¬
sented at a gentlemen’s furnishing store, by
an Italian named Guisseppe Crugiora, in
payment fora pair of socks. Its peculiar
liceman appearance having aroused suspicion and a po¬
been summoned, the
would-be purchaser was taken into cus¬
tody. The note was examined at the
treasury department, and proved to be
one of the dangerous issues of counter-,
feits discovered in Detroit in February
last.
The weather crop bulletin issued by
the Signal Office says: For the week
ending July 7th, the weather conditions
were generally favorable for all growing
crops gions throughout all the agricultural re¬
east of the Rocky Mountains. . A,
decided improvement is reported in
wheat, corn and cotton regions in the
central valleys. The weather has been
especially favorable to cotton in North
Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama,
although more rain is needed in South
Carolina. The high temperature during
the past week in the corn regions has
greatly improved the condition of that
conditions crop. Improvements are reported in the
of the tobacco and corn crops
of Keutucky, due to the favorable
weather of the past ten days. Reports
from Minnesota and Dakota, state that
the “weather conditions have been very
favorable, all crops growing finely and
promise abundant harvest.”
BY THE SEA.
The U. S. War Ship, Swatara came
to anchor off Nonquit, Mass, on Sunday
afternoon, after a run of seven hours
from New London. About two hours
afterwards Gen. Shi ridan was brought
ashore without any apparent discom¬
fort, and is now in his own cottage.
A large number of strangers was at¬
tracted to the spot. The Swatara passed
than Dumpling mile light and cast anchor at more
a from the shore, and as soon
as the ship was sighted, the shore and
landing place were thronged by curious
spec ators, as well as by friends of the
general. After about an hour’s delay,
several boats left the Swatara for the
shore. In the first boat were Mrs. Sheri¬
dan and two Sisters of Mercy, who have
been faithful attendants upon the gen.
eral. A party of sailors was m
the second boat. These boats pulled to
the landing, where the party landed, and
the women proceeded to the new cottage
for General Sheridan. At the same time, a
launch belonging to the ship, towing a
boat in which was a stretcher whereon
the general rested, steamed in toward the
shore, to the north and nearly opposite
the cottage. As the boat came to shal¬
low water, a dozen sailors waded out to
it, and carefully and tenderly lifted the
stretcher up and bore it to the shore. The
crowd of spectators, among whom were a
number of photographers, pressed for¬ the
ward in the hope of getting a view of
general’s features. They were disap¬
pointed, however, for a large umbrella
which was held over him to shield him
from the sun’s rays, also acted as an ef¬
fectual barrier to curiosity. Mrs. Sheri¬
dan is evidently very happy at the success¬
ful termination of what was regarded as a
very hazardous experiment.
CLOSELY WATCHED.
Dr. McKenzie, in an interview at Paris,
France, said he was glad to leave Berlin,
where his movements were closely
watched. “Empress Victoria,” he said,
“xvas surrounded by spies after the death
of Emperor Frederick. I was confined
at Potsdam for several hours. Emperor
William’s conduct was odd. Altogether af¬
I almost think his aural malady has
fected his brain. I can say nothing of
the late emperor’s memoirs. It is untrue
that Queen Victoria carried them off.
Whoever did will create a sensation when
he publishes them, for besides Frede¬
rick’s diary, they contain a series of let¬
ters from the leaders of the German lib¬
eral party, sketching the policy they
hoped Emperor Frederick would have
adopted had he lived. Empress Victoria
has not yet come to a decision as to her
future residence. She has an income of
£40,000 of which £8,000 is derived from
England. She will be obliged to make
Germany her nominal residence, and will
visit Berlin every year.”
A Bare Spectacle.
There was recently witnessed in the
palm house at the imperial palace of
Schoubrunn, Austria, a spectacle which
has hitherto been seen only once before
in Europe—to wit, the palm tree Brownia
Ariza in full bloom. This tree which is
named after a celebrated English bota¬
nist, arrived at fichonbrunn forty years
ago from London. It was then an in¬
significant sprig, but it now vies in
magnitude with the Maria Theresa palm,
which is 170 years old, a-din the same
palm house. It blossoms only once in
fifty years, and the bloom only lasts
forty, eight hours. The last time th«
blossom of the Brownia Ariza was seen
was in June, 1851, in the Duke of Nor
folk’s conservatory at Chiswick, England.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JULY 13. 1888.
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS—THE EXCURSION
FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDES
DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS,ETC.
Alabama*
Dr. Bryce T. Hughes, a popular young
physician of Birmingham, died from an
overdose of morphine, cocaine and bel¬
ladonna. He was prominent in business
and social circles, having amassed a con¬
siderable fortune, and no man in the
city was more popular.
, Cieorsia.
The 35th Georgia regiment of war
veterans meet at Conyers, July 25th.
Kenny & Werner, wholesale liquor
dealers in Atlanta, are in financial trouble
and a receiver has been appointed to take
charge of their affairs.
C. C. Gordon, for many years teacher
of the boys at the orphan asylum, in Au¬
gusta, died from a stroke of paralysis
received last Winter. He was an es¬
teemed gentleman and a member of the
Confederate Survivors’
The state authorities have ordered an
encampment for two weeks, of the state
military, beginning on the 12th of July.
The railroads have given a rate of one
cent a mile both ways, to companies of
twenty-five or over, while individuals
may make the journey on one fare.
Among the companies which, will be
there are the Columbus Guards, Floyd
Rifles, of Macon; Elberton Light In¬
fantry, Gainesville Blues, Atlanta detach¬ Zou¬
aves, Atlanta Gate City Guards,
ment from Rome, the Clark Light In¬
fantry, Augusta, and others.
Kentucky.
At Hardingsburg, County Judge A.
M. Pulliam shot and killed James Miller.
Miller’s brother is county clerk. • The
shooting is a mystery. *
Missouri.
A first-class social sensation is furnishfed
in the elopement, from St. Louis, of
Henry W. Moure, managing editor "of
the Post-Dispatch, with the wife of
John W. Norton, manager of the grand
opera house and Olympia theater. Mrs.
Norton before her marriage named was an Emma ac¬
tress of high reputation, is married and has
Stockman. Moore
one sod, aged six.
North Carolina.
Capt. NYilliam M. Swann, awell-known
citizen, was instantly killed near the At¬
lantic Coast Lino station, at Wilmington.
He was standing near the track when a
large pile of lumber fell from a car while
in motion, crushing him into an almost
unrecognizable mass of blood and bones.
South Carolina.
Over $60,000 has been subscribed fora
cotton factory to be built at Chester.
The caterpillar is making fields about its appear- Fort
ance in the cotton
Motte.
The state board of agriculture will hold
a Farmers’ Institute at Laurens on July
26-27.
The Rev. W. M. Anderson has been
installed as pastor of the Rock Hill
Presbyterian Church.
J. Marion Rogers, a graduate of Wof¬
ford College, has been elected principal
of the Mullins High School.
The tax returns this year of Clarendon
county show an increase of $60,823 over
the figures of last year. The total prop¬
erty of the county now is $1,751,667.
Prof. J. P. Pritchard has resigned his
position as principal of the Mullins High
School to accept the principalship of the
high school at Clarence, Mo.
There will be a reunion of Company I,
7th South Carolina cavalry, at Concord
Grange Hall, in Sumter county, on July
26. The Rev. C. C. Brown will deliver
an address.
Tennessee.
Greer & Co., dealers in boots and shoes
in Chattanooga, made an assignment for
the benefit of their creditors. Their
largest creditors are Nashville and Cin¬
cinnati wholesale houses.
Chattanooga and Knoxville railroad
circles are very much excited over the
probability of a strike on the East 1 en
nessee systems, which, if it is ordered,
will be caused by the demand of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive discharged Engineers for
the reinstatement of a engi¬
neer named Monahan, who is a member of
their order. Chief Arthur has been in
Knoxville investigating and has returned
home.
Why It Does Not.
Why does not wool felt on the sheep’s
back? The answer is simple. Because
all the fibres are lying one way. The
serratures always point in the direction
away from the root of the fibre, and thus
they cannot fit into each other any
more than two saw edges pointing the
the same way could interlock, or than
two fir cones could stick together if both
lay in the same direction. But reverse
one of them and then try to draw it past
the other while touching it, and they will
at once become fastened together. In
like manner, during the various pro¬
cesses of manufacture, the fibres of
wool are pulled about in every direction,
and thus their edges are placed with
many of the points facing each other and
ready to seize hold when the ielting op¬
eration begins .—Dry Goods OhronicU.
SEVERE EXPLOSION.
A battery of boilers at the tannery of
A. J. Greetzinger, Allegheny buildings City, Pa., and
exploded, wrecking several
seriously injuring six persons, three of
whom will probably die.
THE WORLD OVER.
CONDENSATION OF FACTS BN
’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL¬
ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
Many shops in the market place in
Athens, Greece, were destroyed by fire
recently, involving a loss of $750,000.
A government decree has been issued
to the Strasburg authorities ordering the
lawyers to keep their books in German.
The Irish Catholics attacked an Orange
procession at Manchester, England, while
proceeding to church, and hatchets,
knives, pokers and bottles were the wea¬
pons used.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, on Friday, the
strike of the Brewers’ Union, because a
member was discharged by his employer
for disobedience of rules, was formally
declared off after a continuance of three
months.
As a coal train en route for Monmouth
Junction was passing through Dayton, and
N. J., it was struck by a cyclone
Conductor John Dyer, of Trenton, and
two train men were blown from the train
and fatally hurt.
The German training squadron, con¬
sisting of four cruisess and fourteen tor¬
pedo boats, will accompany the iron
clads selected to form the escort to Em¬
peror William on his Russian trip. It is
announced that Prince Henry will have
supreme command of the fleet.
The Academy of Music building at
Haverhill, Mass., was pretty thoroughly
gutted by fire, causing a loss of about
$100,000, of which $50,000 was on the
building, $25,000 on the scenery and
furniture, and $10,000 on the Common¬
wealth hotel.
On Saturday night, the immense brick
building on 18th street, between Broad¬
way and Fourth Avenue,New York, occu¬
pied by the Century Publishing Com
pany, was destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of nearly $300,000. The Everett
House, adjoining was somewhat dam
aged.
A farm house belonging to George
Dobbs, located about seven miles from
Sault Ste Marie, Mich., on the Canadian
side of the river, was destroyed by fire
early Friday morning. Four of the in
mates—George Dobbs, aged 72 vears; "Alice
David Mernfield, aged 21;
Thompson, aged 9, and another child
perished in the flames. The tire started
from Dobb,;.ho a smudge, and when discovered by
Mr, i, ,0 ot age, «.
beyond control.
As passenger train No. 17 of the Bur
lington railroad was leaving Chicago,
Ill., on Saturday, a rock was thrown
through the cab window of the engine,
narrowly missing Engineer Farnsworth
and both Fireman sides of Corkery. the cab The broken. windows At of j |
were
Riverside, and again at Napierville, the former the
engine was bombarded. At
place a perfect storm of stones was
thrown, battering tlie side of the en
gine and breaking more glass.
A destructive storm struck the town
of Edwardsburg, Ind., on Saturday night,
creating sad havoc throughout the vil- '
la-e. The town consists of about 700
inhabitants, and contains between 250:
and 300 buildings. It is located on the :
Grand Trunk Railway, 113 miles from I
Chicago, on the shores of Diamond lake, j
The wind struck the village with terrific
force, overturning and carrying away
many of the houses. There is not a bus¬
iness house in the place but that is dam¬
aged to a more or less extent and the
town is almost a complete wreck.
Such Chewing Gum
The use of chewing gum lias come to
bo quite the fashion in a quiet way, and
is almost as difficult to break away from
as the tobacco habit. A pretty young
lady artist at New York sauntered in
upon her intimate friends with her
mouth working over her favorite gum,
and explained how she formed the
habit:
“You see I was invited to a eweH
lunch given by some friends of mine,
and everything was novel, artistic and
delicious. After everything else had
been served, there were brought in some
bon dish. It was the creamiest, most
delicious confection I ever tasted, and
as it slowly melted there was a spicy,
aromatic flavor, and a substance that did
Tint rbssnlve Tt still retains a necnliar
d
fortho.otldI live in oonrtjnt terror
for fear I shall lose it and not be able to
get any more. Sorry I can’t offer you
some. It was made by the young la
dies themselves, who had the recipe
from an old Indian servant when they
lived in Calcutta. Their father was a
British officer, you know. They won’t
tell how it’s made. They say its the
they would like it to last tw, them Kvi two « sea
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TROUBLE IMPENDING.
A labor newspaper in Chicago, Ill.,
has the following on the Locomotive
Brotherhood affair: “If the present
crisis in the affairs of the two great broth
erhoods does not result in a general radical strike fac
it will not be the fault of the
tion. Their leaders are busy bracing
up’ the more conservative members of
the two. organisations.
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Customer „ , o , ai , jet ) c- ,____ 1
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friend, yeti are shaving slices of my
'•'ib.r-Ye,. sir; but the «.
very thin.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS
The Care of Lamps.
The disagreeable flickering of a stn
ilent lamp is sometimes caused by tiny
particles of the wick dropping into the
inside tube of the cylinder surrour^Iihg flaw¬
the wick, thus preventing the oil
ing freely from the barrel, lief ore insert¬
ing a new wick remove the oil barrel,
and empty the lamp entirely of oil, pour
into the opening, down the wick cylin¬
der and wherever fluid will touch inside,
boiling water to which has been added
a spoonful of spirits of ammonia.
Lamps are now so universally used
that the care of them has become one of
the daily and most important of domes¬
tic duties, not only of the country, but
of the luxurious city home. If not at¬
tended to every day, the perforations of
the burners become clogged with carbon
and dust in a short time, refuse to move
easily, the light is dimmed, and a most
unpleassnt odor ensues'.
If occasionally our duties exceed the
limits of our time, and wo find the wick
well-nigh consumed, a strip of old soft
cotton may be pinned to the end of the
wick for the nonce, and thus convey the
oil to it.
At some inauspicious moment a hole
in the lamp chimney confronts one, no
other is nearer than the grocer’s; a neatly
cut piece of letter-paper, generously nicely
covering the offending fracture, do
pasted on, will serve until wo can
better.
Whenever the lamps are filled, with a
clean soft piece of flannel polish the
burners and mountings of the lamps. It
is but a moment’s work and keeps them
bright and shining. Smoked chimneys
anil ill-kept lamps are trying alike to
eyesight clear, and bright temper. light adds much to
A so
the comfort and enjoyment of the even¬
ing occupations, that one is well repaid
for the daily disagreable task of keeping
the lamps in perfect order. Kerosene oil
and lamps are now so cheap that, even
in the country, it is no longer regarded
as a luxury, but a necessity to have an
abundance of light for homo cheer and
use.
The lamps used for sewing and read
j U g should be provided with shades,
n0 [ only for the comfort they impart,
hut for the positive saving they arc for
the eyesight. A chimney frequently
breaks from having been too tightly the
screwed on; the glass expands from
heat of the flame. The wick is more
evenly snuffed by rubbing the chaired
edge with a piece of paper or soft rag
f^ eu by trimming with a pair ot
^issors. Before using lamp wicks soak
them in vinegar, and dry thoroughly to
P^vent their smoking
the * lcks ^“ to h °
.
Jfthod of putting out a lamp. Not
only j s the odor from a lamp disagreeable, partially
turned down extremely
but the noxious gases from it are equally
unhealthy. The chimney may be quickly
an d easily cleansed by breathing upon
and into it, and wiping and polishing red flannel it
with newspaper. A piece of
put into the bowl of the lamp, besides
giving a dash of color, gathers the im
purities of the oil.
Burners sometimes get clogged and re
fuse to turn up and down. This may he
remedied by putting them into an iron
kcU ‘? containing a quart ot water and a
doable b;l ! ultul 0 wood-ashes. A ei
boiling a little wh. ., e take out, and with
a soft rag wash and dry them bath composed periectly
Or they may be put into a
( ’ f .W al P arts of mllk and vlne S ar > and
b01 e '
if after putting the wick into the
bowl of the lamp, and before pouring in
any oil, the bowl is crammed with
sponge, the wick and sponge then satu¬
rated with the oil to the fullest capacity
of the bowl, the lamp is converted into a
safety lamp, so that there is no danger
to life from accidental upsetting or
breakage of the lamp, or fear of spots on
table-scarf or carpet. Add more sponge
as the wick burns away; keep the bowl
full of it. The lamp will continue to
burn until the oil in wick afid sponge is
exhausted. — Independent.
I
Recipes.
Thickening for Sofp.— Put into s
saucepan half a pound of butter; when
hot, stir into it half a pound of very dry
flour; stir this over the fire till a delicate
brown, taking care that it does not burn,
One large tablespoouful ' thickens will a quart
of soup. This the:, ' keep a
a long time.
Scalloped Parsnxps. A nice way of
cookln ? parsnip is to take it prepared
as the balls, except the eggs. Place
» * he bottom ?/, a ottered pudding
dish, cover with . brea< or cracicer
crumbs, season with pepper and salt,
dot it with bits of butter, and b&ke it in
th, o.cn to. n,c, bro.,,
Poverty Pie.—P are and slice as
many potatoes as you think you will
need; put them in a baking-pan; pour
in water so you can just see it. Place
slices of fresh pork, bacon, or beefsteak
here and there over the potatoes.
Sprinkle with flour, pepper, and salt.
Roast in oven for one hour.
Asparagus Salad.—B oil two bunches
of ara in salted water until quite
tender. Place on the ice until very cold.
Serve with the following dressingTwo
tablespoonfuls of olive oil, two saitspoon
fuls of salt, one of pepper, and two
tablespoonfuls of sugar. Mix all to
gether and pour over the asparagus.
Raspberry Vinegar.—R ed raspber
^ any quantity> or sufficient to fill a
stone j ar u ea ri y full, then pour upon
them sufficient vinegar to cover them.
Cover the j ar c i ose i y and set it aside for
eight or ten days, then, strain the through
or miusliD, and add to clear
liquor q one and a half pounds of sugar to
ea ch »»»/•■ pint p i ace 0 v er a fire and boil tor a
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NO. 20.
THB OLD-FASHIONED HAIR,
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Oh, thft old-fashioned hair of the sweet Ion*
ago
Is the kind I shall always love best,
And the faces it framed with its beautiful
grace
Of the dear onos long since gone to rest.
There were tresses, and ringlets, and long
braided locks,
Tlpce were beautiful, bonnie bright curls,
Aj|d high combs and side combs, and fair
shining coils,
That' were worn by the old-fashioned girls.
I remember the roach that my grandfather
wore,
Brushed back from his broad, honest brow,
With an elegant, easy simplicity, which,
Though I look for, I never see now.
And my grandmother’s hair—snowy white
hid away
’Neath a head-dress of dainty white lace,
Curving down from her brow in a smooth
silver band,
Framed a queenly and beautiful face.
As the proud, noble face of my great Undo
George
Looks down from the canvas at me,
With the “old timey” stock and the fine
powdered wig—
’Tis as handsome and grand as can be I
But the dearest and loveliest hair in the
world
Is my mother’s soft, beautiful brown.
With a touch of the gold, and glint of the
sun,
And away to her knees falling down.
And it tells its own story of womanly grace,
And the old-fashioned modesty, too,
Of that sweet, indescribable beauty of soul.
And the mother’s love, tender and true.
For the angel that painted the rainbow could
find
Not a tint so exquisite and rare!
Oh the wealth of luxurious, rippling waves,
Of my mother’s brown, beautiful hair!
So I honor the hair of the sweet long ago, .
Whether silver, or dusky, or fair,
For it brings back dear luces, and good,
honest hearts—
And I love it—the old-fashioned hair!
—Margaret Andrews Oldham.
PITH AND POINT, j
Lost at sea—The sight of land.
A game of cards—Formal visits.
Unbidden guests are welcomest when
they are gone. •
The choir organ should always be dis¬
tinguished by its high moral tone.
Milk has so little to do with the milch
cow that a distinction is made in the
spelling. — Lincoln Journal.
What an immense town must be Parts
Unknown, Ontario, Canada. People
keep going there,— Rochester Post-Ex¬
press.
In the public schools they do not have
to keep up the interest of the scholars in
order to pay the principal .—New York
News. ,
Tlmt Fthel is an artist.
All must admit with grace;
How could one ever doubt it
Who’ll over seen her face !
— London, Tid-BUs.
“Was Rome founded by Romeo?" in¬
quired the pupil of the teacher. “No,
my son,’’ replied the wise man; “it was
Juliet who was found dead by Romeo.”
— Once a Week
At a Traveling Agency.—To Clerk:
“Did you ever realize anything in the
German lotteries ?” “Yes, sir. “Itried
one five times, and realized that I was
an idiot!" —New York Observer.
There was a young doctor of Skye, todil,'
Whose patients seemed destined
But he left them one day,
To go fishing, they well, say, for
And they all got just a guy.
—Somerville Journal.
“What a beautiful child! What an
extremely handsome fellow!” says the’
gushing visitor to the lady of the I thirtk.” house.
“Yes, lie is a handsome boy, perfect
“Oh, indeed, h« is. He is the
imago of his father- the perfect I image. don’t
Don’t you think so?” “Well,
know, f ifever saw his father. Wo
adopted him.”
The charming damsel had no appetite; said;
Her health was delicate, her mother
But at the table she put out of sight
As much as would have two ’longshoremen
fed laughed
“I eat no more than would a bird,”
she; the table went.
But when she rose and from
The landlord frowned and bit his lips; said
he meant.*
“I guess an ostrich was the bird she
— Norristown. Herald.
Lameness in Horses.
.. Horses otten ften saner su ff er from irom lameness lamenesa
througX tore,*, sutatac. wkmg
•
t j on an( j sometimes lock-jaw. Some
twent years »"o or more, when Captain
Moore’s horse Privateer was a two-year
0 j ( j j lis owner h ad j us t given him a
sp .K iendid ^ gallop over the Crab Orchard
trac w [ u , n he suddenly went lame
an d for weeks all treatment failed to cure
him. Finally, a’friend, Captain Moore, at the
suggestion of took Privateer to
a veterinarian, who was told to cut into
the frog of the ailing foot. Theveterin
arian examined the foot and demurred,
saying there was nothing there. “Never
you mind, but cut away where I te
you,” said Moore, in the emphatic s yto
for which he w-as noted. 1 .he vet.
{"S’of and on^Lirther examination a
P watout hull was found imbedded
fro w hich was the cause of the
,, v h 0 le trouble. Privateer mended rapidly of
fr ,. rW . ird an d his career is a matter
,„ rf “ h ^ in rv.—St. J Louis Savings.
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have discovered .. ,
English chemists a
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