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8 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA* TUESDAY OCTOBER 28 1884. TWELVE PAGES. THE WOMAN’S KINGDOM Tht Home end the Housewife and Gossip of the Hearthstone-—Talks With Women and About Women. (Short Letters on Lome toDic* earnestly solicited Write “Woman's Kingdom ouone corner of envelop.! Charity. The rich man gave his dole, not ill-content To find his heart still moved by human woe ; The poor man to his neighbor simply lent The scanty savings he could scarce forego. The one passed on and naked to know no more The other's wife all night, with pity brave, That neighbor** dying child was bending o*er, And never deeming it was much she gave. Oh! God forgive us that we dare to ask h’olace of costless gifts and fruitless stghst Scorn on the sigh that shuns the unwelcome task, The dole that lacks the salt of sscrlflcei No gilded palm the crushing weight can lift; Nosoothinrsigh tho maddening woe can euro, *TIa love that give* its wealth to aver/ gilt; 211 would the poor man fare without the poor. TBLL YOUR MOTHER. We find ouraelves writing a. great deal mothers and fear sometimes we neglect our girls, so we have a word or two df advico for them. When you read the words that head this article, “Tell Your Mother/* did you wonder girls what it was you wero to tell your mother? if you did, we would simply answor ‘ everything! The safest way for all girls is carry every secret, every care and every pleasure to their mother, in her confide. Inno rent faults aro over-looked by kind mothers who always remember that they too were prono to make mistakes when they wore young. It is only tboio girls who conceal their doings from their mothers that become targets for tho shafts of scandal. A girl will never do anything very culpable if she is sure to have no secrota from her mother. 1 don' think we would hear of so many uufortunato marriages if our girls would g«> to thoir mother with every thought and feeling and get her advice. Girls, it is only when your good kind mother is laid away forever out of your sight that you will wish that you had trusted her more fully and shared with her your every thought. Mauy a mother looks hack from middlo life and sees it she had only told her mother all that occurred to bor, that she would have been spared many a sorrow and mistake, and sometimes sin, in her life. It has been said that young girts talk too much about themselves, but it is fur better to do that than to tell too little and to harbor accrete which may load to sad coniequsuces, ••It is tho little rift in the lute that spoils the music, and it is theso little defects of character which lead (o some of tho greatest evils of life.’* If I could only persuado my girls of this Kingdom to follow this little piece of ad vice 1 should feel J had dono a groat work. Thcro is nothing in this world half so lovely and interesting ns a young girl. From tho time n girl is six years old wo begin to watch her with interest, uud each suoceoding year lends new beauty to her life. A frieud said before us a few days since, (who has a littlo girl eleven years old,) “Oh I it 1 could put a rock on her heud and keep her from growing any tnoro 1 would bo so glad, I dread so to havo her go out iuto tho world and he a young lady too soon/* and wo supposo that is a natural fccliug with many mothers, but it need not bo so if girls will make companions of their mothers, uud in their gentle breast roniido. Wcjiopo our girls will not tire of this piece of advice, road it carefully, aud treasure it up for futuro uso. Wo will be on* couraged to come agniu to them ou olhhr sub jects, that th«y may kuow how tenderly we carry our girls in our hearts. Fashion Notes. Low draperies still prevail «m wool dresses. Poppy ml velvet U used In blue cloth costumes. Now ripped cloths, called falUo cloth, Is intro duced. Corduroy velvets in line lines, aud uncut velvets, ate employed hi combination with plain or rough cloth. Doyles In delicate plna or blue linen, embroid ered In white are now.used wltU;fiuger bowls o( Bohemian glass. The most stylish collars ou dresses aro worn very high, are tuade to meet lu (rout, and fastened by two books and loopa. Changeable hosiery Is among the novelties. Blue and gold, brouse uud red. and red and blue are iavuiitc com bioalUms. A moliere phutrou of real Yalencleuucs lace and white crepe de Chine, which cost |l.'*0, hai just been finished for a New York lady. Among new faurles in dress buttons aro those made of pearls, both black aud white. Blood plums and ruble* are also used for this purpose. Lbony, aud other line wood umbrella handles, hate tho monogram of tho owner set with pro- ck us stones, such as amethysts, rubies aud emer ald*. Kngllidi tailors are sgaln using the genuine Ccotch tattam, those with blue and green plaids bclu* favored. They form draiwics to blue serge costumee. It la growing more and more in favor to palut or plain the floom of rooms when they are not laid lu ornamental Ithe woods, and then rugs instead of carpets coveting the entire floor are used. Carving cloths have sprung again Into populari ty. They coat from seventy-five oent* to ll.it, and wre generally purchased to accoinpany.haudsome table-cloths. The shot effects In silks are gradually obtaining A wider recognition of their real beauty. Tho new dark combinations are very effective aud light up like Venetian glass. The latut style of oruaincul for the hair and corsage consists of one or more very large-pink crushed rosea, arranged with small feather tips nnd fronds, white, piuk or blue, tho fronds always white. A novelty In cretonnes U velvet surfaced with |«rintcd designs and colors that stimulate to a roam! the strongly drawn moyenage figures of the men, women, armor, and sytrau aud warlike •ccnes of the old Gobelin tapestries. Jute velour draperies for window curtain* and portieres have been brought to a wonderful degree of perfection. The double pile thrown upon both aides is fully an Inch thick, aud looks as silky as »|!k, aud mote velvety than velvet. The finest table cloth Uncus come from Ireland, And show many new aud beautiful pattern*. Among the newest designs are square satin blocks or iqoous in the center aud sides. The “Lily of the Valley" is a beautiful aud favorite pattern. The •■Duupbiu" cottar, wtiit'h bis been so much worn in France lb fas pest summer, lsnowatarorite style with our young ladlea. It Is four Inches deep, oia'iis lu from leaving a space for a gathered drapery, which u la*tvucd down on either iu shawl shape. The new “Dachcss of Albany "cord, Is so named, because the first was made to order for that lady In gtrnet and smoka gray. Queen Victoria dupli cated the osier tn black, but there Is less variety in ctdor in the Albany cord than In the style of finish. Crimson curtains can be made from the new cotton plush, ornamented with a border of old gold plush or satin, and loop*} back with crimson ■atin ribbons. They can be used for the bedroom, sitting-room, or dining-room, and found both warm and pretty. A novel attachment to one of the new dolman cloaks it an oral In front, trimmed like the rest the garment, with chenille fringe, and also llneJ, but by a simple arrangement of a loop and button become* a dainty muff. Lowered, and not re quired as a muff, it becomes an ornamental accessory. It is the simplest idea for A muff yet uvea ted. Household Hints. A salad of tomatoes and onions seasoned with vinegar, pepper and salt, Is appetising for break- Ckbam Case Without Eoos.—Fourcupsof flour, three cups of sugar, one eup of butter, two onp* of soar cream, three teasponsful of saloratus dis solved In a little cold water, half gratod nutmeg, and a teaspoonful essenca of lemon. Cheese podding is made by grating half pound of cheese very fine, mix with two eggs, whites and yelks beaten up together, and half ounce of fresh butter, season well with pepper and salt. Bake in a small dish lined with puff paste, or clso merely batter the dish before pouring la the mix ture. Bavcm roa Boiled Fish.—Take two tablespoons- fulof the water which has been used In boiling the fish, and put it In a stew pan, add an onion and a tablespoonful of walnnt catsup. Let It stand and simmer for a quarter of an hour. Add a pint of good veal gravy, and strain and thickeu with butter and flour. Ciiibbe Sandwiches,—Pound In a mortar two ounces of good cheese. Cut in very thin silee« one ounce of fresh butter, a tablespoonful of cream aud a little mixed mustard. Bprea<! tho mixture on slices of bread neatly cut, lay another slice ol bread on each and press together; cut into corners or squares. A Nice 8*ice foe Fish.—Mix an ounce of good butter very smoothly in a sauce pan with ounce of flour. Then add six tablespooBaftil of cream or rich milk, a pinch of cayenne, a little grated nutmeg and a toupoonful of lemon Juice. Then 1/ you have them stir in two tablespoousful of shelled shrimps, taking care that tho saueedoM not boil. Serve whild hot. Cl* bit Saucb ron Puddings.— 1 Tako tho yolk* and white of two eggs and beat thorn up well. Put thc«\ with * cupful of claret Into a saude pan, adding to the mixture half tcaxpoonful. of finely grated lenon rind, a little pouuded cinnamon aud large tablespoon fu I of sugar. Whisk tho sauce over the fire till It Is well frothed, aud just before it comes to a boll pour it over the pudding. The banana ha* come to be almost a necessity to thomands of families, to whom it was unknown a few years ago. They are fried aud served as uu entree; pics arc made of them, with a delicate upper and under crust, with plenty of sugar aud a little spice; then sliced thin and mixed with chopped pineapple, or with chopped orauges, they are rimply delicious. Tin y are often served for breakfast by removing the skin and cutting the banana iu two pieces, crosswise, and piling thorn pretty china or fancy plate. Freckles and Dimples. Freckles, it is mid, have, this summer, been all tiie mgo in fashionable American circles, aud of oouiso means have l wen devised lor enabling fair faces to display the coveted beauty spots. To rub the visage with a certain kind of fine sand seems have bccu an early devlco for producing thorn; and It Is said that a considerable trade bos been doing in "freckle sand." This probably did not always produce the desired result, and was found hnve an unpleasant effe t on tender skins. Ar tists have therefore come forward, and any lady may uow have her beauty enhanced by any num ber of freckles she chooses to pay for at twa shil lings each—a reduction no doubt being made in taking a number. Every freckle is hand-patntod, and, provided the face be not washed too vigor ously, is warranted to last three days, vrhon it will require to be renewed—11 of course some eligible suitor has not In the tueantlmo beeu brought to surrender and to'dnly declare himself. “I havo heard of your palutlugj too well ouougb." says llamlct; “God hath given you ono faco nnd you mako you rat Ives another.** That was a good whlto ago. The painting is still going ou, and if Ham- had been moving in # modern society In tho same ceusorious spirit bo might not havcconfluod his strictures entirely to the face. It was but the other day that a lady described In the Chicago Herald how delightfully easy ft was to haves dim- ploor two artiflelally produced If Nature had churlishly denied them. She had just undergone the proems, aud was charmed to And upon her ann "tho prettiest little dimple In tho world,*’aud she had to pay was a couple of guiuoas. Tho genius to whom she submitted herself first placed small Rhus tube over tho spot where tho dimple was desired. By sucking the air out of the tube raised a slight protuberauco and then deftly tied round It a bit of Rivulet silk. With a “wicked looking kniiu” he uow sliced off this littlo plraplo bad raised. The wound was quickly bound up aud an inverted silver cone was placed over it to press down exactly iuto tho contor o( it. The fair patient weut to havo it dressed on five MKcvtkive day*, and then tho wound was found to inplctely healed, aud tho sliver couo was removed. Blsvri tn Pettleonts. In Germany women do most of tho menial out* door work. Switzerland Is the only country In continental Europe where peasant worncu are not obliged to ail the hard work. A woman wasseeu recently In Naples carrying her bead, chatting gayly with a man who we iked empty-handed at her aide* Not infrequently a woman aud A cow are socn together pulling a coal cart through tho streets of north German city, a man touching them up, gently to he sure, with a whip as he walks besldo them. In Denmark it la not unusual to see a woman high up In a cherry tree picking the fruit, while a man lies at the foot, waiting to placo the Udder when she be ready to come dowu with her bur den. In upper Austria.'* writes a correspondent, saw a very pretty young girl carrying the mortar to the second story of a building, while a mau waited there to put It in place when shear- rived." A correspondent reports having seen a woman Holland drawing a canal boat, bent nearly don- with the leathern harneu as site truilged ataug tow |«tb, a man sitting at his ease iu the boat smoking. Fashion Chat. I.lttle girls are wearing their d.ernes very short. Birds wings are now the craw and from three to twelve adorn one hat. Bed velvet broche will play a very Import&nt rote tn the drama of fashion this seavou. Olive greet! and pole lavender U a new Parisian unblnatiou in dress and bonnets. Caleu you pretty, do not wear It, This season the shoes toe* are slightly rounded the corners but the beds are seldom over three- quarters of an Inch In height. The latest designs iu writiug paper are made to represent hemstitched handkerchief*, and the mono*ram is placed tn one corner as if embre- dered. Handkerchiefs now are of fine linen In blue, gray, crimson, and other Mots, with white hem stitched borders embroidered with quotations m fchaksjware. ^. Preference* of Women. The sense of u*te is more delicate and oxqntv e iu women tb*n mm. therefore young tu tu, tuite soup and beefsteaks aud onions, may be agreeable to you. but u*e out your lady frieud* veuiugs, and bate ke cream or oysters set CUR. YOUNG FOLKS. Davoted to the Instruction and Entertain ment of the Boys and Girla Who Read The Constitution, fin writing for this department,write plainly, on •ae side of yonr paper,and pat “Our Young Folks*' on one corner of your envelope.] tbsn man, and she is disposed to those Dle«u w hi«b have relations to that sense. Therefore, when you bet with them, let your wager be some of Walter Taylor's cologne, sad bet so as to lose. In wernsn, the ear U more sensitive, bat more feeble than in man. btreag sounds, load noises, are agreeable to the ear of man, they Are offensive tofeir- M»e prefers soft and louder, gay aud pa thetic music to every other, and whatever may be the perfection* of her musical mlaraiion. when you go to srrewade her. bear In'miud that she prefers sweet sad leader melody, to the oust com plicated Sclavonic barmopy. A Little Hoy’# Troubles. I thought when I learned my Utters That all my troubles were done; But I fled myself much mistaken— They only have Just begun. Learning to read wax awful, But nothing like learning to write; I'd be sorry to have jreu tell It, But my copy-book is a sight! The Ink gets over my fingers, The pea cuts all sorts of shines, And won't do at all as I bid it; The letters won't stay on tho finer, Bat go up and down and all over, As though they were dancing a jig; They are there in all shit pea and sixes— Medium, littlo, aud big. Thero'd be some comfort in learning If one could get tbrrough; instead Of that, there are books awaiting. Quite enough to craze my bead. There’s the multi plication-table. And grammar, and, O dear me!. There’s no grod place for stopping, When one Uu begun, I see. My teacher says little by little To the mountain tops we climb It isn't all done In a minute, But only n step at a time. She wiys that ull the scholars, All the wlso nnd learned men, Had each to begin as I do; Jf that’s so—where’s my pen? —Wide Awake. Our Letter Hox. Dear Aunt Susie: We are schoolmates, sixteen, thirteen nnd sixteen years old, and ore farmers’ daughters. We help our mothers cook, sew on the machine, wash, crochet nnd knit. Our fathers take your most excellent paper. Wo wish some of thecousius would send us some flower seed. Your friends, Anna Smith, Gallic Wilson and Manda Hall. Absolom, Go,. Dear Aunt Susie: I am a former's daughter, liv ing in a sparcely settled, but very beautiful and picturesque country. We have a few excellent neighbors, and an Interesting Sunday school, in which wo nil take great interest. 1'npa takes The Constitution, and we like it very much. I would like to correspond with some of the cousins. ' Your loving niece, Camden, 8. C. Daisik Barnes. Dear Annt Suslo: Wo are sisters, ten, eloven and thirteen years old, and aro going to school. Papa keeps the Long Cane station. Ho takes Tub Con stitution, and we like It very much, especially O. F«, Betsy II. and !>r. TnltnAgo. Your friends, Ida, Maths and Sallis Samples. WcstPcint, Go. Dear Aunt Susie: I am a farmer's daughter, four teen years old, and keep house for mama. Papa takes Tub Constitution, and we are delighted with it, especially O. Y. P„ Bill Arp and Betsy H. Your nlcco, Lizzie Pauline Butler. Drayton, Ga Dear Aunt Suslo: 1 am a farmor'sdaughter, nine yean old. 1 study at home, and have a little twfl^ year-old sister that Is the iweetust little thing joa. ever saw. Papa takes Tub Constitution, aud I like it very much. Your littlo niece, f - Monroe, Ga. Luzie E. Cabithers. Dear Aunt Basle: We nre brothers, and though only four and six years old, we can help, mama set the table, sweep, and make bods, and sometimes pick cotton for our dear, good grandmother. She pays ui n cent a pound for all wo pick, and wo’ve tamed thirty cents. Wo think all boys ought to havo a grandmother. Your loving nephews, Hex and Jdus McKellar. Sumter Co., Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I go to school to my pastor, Rev. J. W. Wilson, and I wish yon could hear him picach. I read Tux Constitution, and think it Is tho best paper published. I wish some of the coutlus would scud me somo crochet patterns. I'll scud some pretty ones In return - , Your loving niece, Catawba, Ga. Dbatbicb Walker. Dear Aunt 8nsle: I am twelve years old, and am not going to at hool this year, but have a nice time at home. I have a pet duck that has laid 40 eggs this yenr. Don't you think she's dono well ? Yours truly, Idxlla 8. Cook. Red Oak, Go. Dear Aunt 8us!c; 1 am eleven years old, and go to school aud holp mama at homo too. Father' takes Tiie Ci^stitution, and I love to read O. Y. F., Betsy II. and Bill Arp. Toll Minnie Uarpe’ the answer to her riddle ought to bo “The Constitu tion,” for It comes nearer to being read (rod) "all over” than nny paper 1 know. Your niece, Lillie m. Ckawfoud. Mouutaiutowu, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am ten yean old, anil I work for papa and mam*. Papa lake* Tub Constitution, aud 1 like to read O. Y. F., Bill Arp. Betsy U. and Dr. Talmage- You nephew, Long swamp, Ga. Buss Mew born, Dear Aunt 8usle: I am a farmer's daughter, ulnt yean old, nud can cook, sew, crotchet and knit, have a little curly dog named Priuce, aud a sweet, blue-eyed doll named Polite. PapaU pauuudor at this place, and also has a store. He takes your paper, ami we think it's splendid. Your niece, ViCToaiA.SMrrit. Dear Aunt Suele: We are nine, twelve an*l four teen yean of ago and are brother and sisters. We are all picking cotton, aud have eight bales and ono sold. We take The Constitution and think thcro Is no paper in the world as good. % Yours truly, Salub, Annie and Georqe.Buckeleu, Lutherville, Clayton Co., Uu. Dear Aunt Susie: I am twelve Tears old. Wo tako Tub constitution, and 1 don't think 1 could do without U—especially O. Y. F„ Betsy U. and Uncle Remus. Yonr frieud. West Point, Ga. Nettib W iener. Dear Aunt Susie: W# areconsltu, ten years old, and go to tho same school. We send a riddle for thecousius: "riix set—seven sprung— From the dead the living comes.” Your friends, Mattie Bulloch and WillikColi. Collins Statiou, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am eleven years old. and go to school. Pupa take* TheConstituiun, and w« like It very much—especially Our Letter Box and Bttsy II. *Your niece, Carrel’ton, Ga. ^ Salub Pskrt. Dear Aunt Susie: I'm a farmer’s daughter. Papa* take# The Constitution, and I don't think wo could do without 1L Toll Minnie Layfield I think Herbert would be a nice name for her littlo nephtw. Will some of the cousins write to me. Your niece. Chaxub Stabs. On-bard Hill, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am fourteen yean old. Ruth gleaned tn Boas's wheat and barley fields, and gleaned seven gallons and four pints of grain. Your niece. . Minnie Wail Goshen. Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am nine years old, and am going to school. Oar teacher boards wiih'as and I ilka her very ouch. My grandma la In Louisians ‘ on a visit, aud I think it is a long msyto go to mike a visit. Your niece, Brookiiuc, Ga. Laura J. York. Dear Aunt Susie: I am twelve year* old and my only lister is fifteen. Sliternud 1 formerly lived Ju Atlanta, but “0" wllb P*** ’ WA Y d<)Vfa ISc among the Hlllabco mountalus. 1 llko tho country much better than a crowded city. I help pspa In the farm. He gave me a cotton patch for my own, and when I sell my cottou I will mike sister a nice present.* We went to school last win ter, and will go again this fall. Papa takes ins Con?htution, and It's a race every night between sister and I to see which will get It fi -?C Your friend, T- .. J. LovElEM. Idaho, Ala. Dear Aunt Suslo: Wo are brother and sister aged six and uino years. We have vacation now aud arc having a fine time with our pet cats aud our baby sifter. We think there's no paper like Tub Constitution. We send this riddle: “Look at my back and I am nobody. Look at my face aud I'm anybody.” Your little friends, IJASSIB and CONNIE SAPP. Cottage Mills, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: Wo aro a farmer’s daughters and help papa in the field and mams In the house. We have vacation now, but go to Sunday achool, and love to go very much. Your little friend, Canton, Ga. M. L. and Lula Chapman. Dear Annt Susie: I am an only child, twelve years old, and live on the C. and W. R. R., near Weverly. I was very badly burned last Scptem ber, and sfneo then hare boon such a little invalid that 1 could not walk or go out at all. I am much better now though, aud can walk and ride all about Lovingly, Wavcrly, Ga. Lula Pearl Maddox. Dear Aunt Susie: My lltt|e sister Cora and my self have a cotton patch of our own, and are now picking cotton in It Papa takes The Constitu tion, and we all love It. We like It bettor not glued, because we can all have a sheet at the same time. Can any ono solve this puzzle: Three-fourths of a cross a^d a circle complete— One perpendicular two circles meet— A right angle triangle set upon feet, Two semi-circles and a circle complete. Your niece, Ada Knox. Brick Store, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am twelve years old. I've been going to school, but have stopped to Dick cotton. I go to Sunday school. Papa takes The Constitution, and we like It very much. Your little friend,. Columbus, Ga. CiNCiMNAiua Overoy. Deer Aunt Susie: I am twelve years old—a farm er's daughter. I go to school and help mama cook and wash d'shes. Papa takes The Constitu tion, and wa llko It very much. 1 love O. Y. F. and Betsy II. best Will some of tho cousins write to me. Yonr friend, Mun’s Station, Ga. Geta Johnson. Dear Aunt Susie; I am a farmer's daughter and kuow how to work. Papa takes The Constitution and we all like 1L I would like to correspond with some of thecousius. Tell Minnie Layfield to name her nephew Johnnie. I send a riddle: Black on top ol black, and black ou that, Three legs up and six legs down. Yonr niece, Hattie H. Dorr, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am nine years old, and am on a visit to my cquslns, Albert and Clyde Pope. We -are having ^uch a nice time driving their goats and taking tho cows to pasture. Sometimes we all three ride ono horse at tho same time, and go a mile to tho ofllco for Tiis Constitution. Your little frlond, Washington, Ga. Jounnie Callaway. Dear Aunt Susie: I wrote to you onco and some boys laughed it mo and said they knew you wero an ugly old bald-headed, groy-halred, big-eyed man, and not the nice, sweet lady that I think you are. Please tell lia who you arc. * • Your little niece, ^ * Anon.Ga. Minnie Mvut Pope. , Dear Annt Susie: I am a farmer's son, fourteen years old. 1 help papa work lu the fields, and he calls mo his little plow-boy. I go to Sunday school regularly, and love to go very much. Y’our frieud, W. M. Chapman, Canton, Ga. The Captain's Pippins* It wasn't just tho thing for tho captain to set out apple trete in that spot, especially when apples are so rare in Minnesota, and boys do "hanker” after them sol Of what use are astono wall and astcop descent outside, when a boy really wauls an apple? As for tbe notice, it seemed absolutely insolent to Tommy Forrester as he stood gazlug up, biting his finger nails with eagerness, and muttcrlug lu a thoroughly exasperated tunc— “Oh I I ray—and pippins, too.” It wasu't a very high stono wall, anyhow, and Tommy, being an excellent climber, knew that it .would be but the digging ol his toes into a crook, then a long breath, a fierce littlo strugglo, and ho would be at tho top,' with -a comfortable seat astride the wall, nnd unlimited pippins. Such pippins, too! bright yellow, with red cheeks of satiny smoothness, and full as big as baby’s head! His mouth watered, and he sacrificed his last nail in the struggle—for thcro was a strugglo. It would Be easy, ol course, to get up there—but after ward*? Tommy had a conscience, and it already began to torment him. What would his mother say? Uow would his Sunday-school teacher look? Abovosll, supposing tho captalu should corns along, what vfonld he do? These questions came so sharp and quick that Tommy could not answ« them, and half turned away. Then his eye fell ou tho uotice again— “TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED.” It looked almost like a personal challenge, and made him flash. “Ohl Indeed! You don’t say so? We’ll see absut that! I’d like to see you prosecute me!” and up went Tommy, hand over fist, till he sat in triumph astride the garden wall, with plenty of ripe pip pins in easy reach. “Ah! ha!” he laughed. "Going to prosecute, <b? Never mind I I’ll help myself to some of these, see If I dou’t, Mister Notice!” He buried his white teeth in tho biggest pippin be could find, and took a long, delicious bite. “I don’t see but it tastes good, if it It stolen,” be said aloud. ‘ Do you think so, my boy?" asked a voice, so close to hi* elbow that Tommy uearly fell off the Wull, In his surprise. He looked over Into the fine orchard, aud there stood the captain himself, switching the clover- top* with Ws cane, big and hurley as ever, aud with his shaggy eyebrows drawn close togsther in a quizzical frown. Doer Tommy turned all sorts of colors, and hadn't, even sense enough left to slide back the way boetmo. The keen eyes of the captain seemed to hold him as If with a chain of stccL The pippin suddenly grown Usteless, and whether stolen fruit was sweet or uot. Tom my could not have told for his life. “Well," said the captain again, lu his quiet way, bow do you like pippins, anyhow?” Tommy looked down a moment at the mutilated apple he still held, then threw U angrily away, and, coming to himself, began to prepare for de scent. “Stop!” said the captztn, sternly. “Get djwa this side!'* Then lu a pleasanter tone, “You are my guest, you know. 1 want to show you somo better fruit" Tommy looked up defiantly, but again those eyes compelled him, and ha slid slowly down upon the inside of tbe wall. They walked together through the beautiful or chard. and up the gentle slope which led to the rear of tbe house, the captain talking with perfect courtesy, pointing out bis best fruit, and handling oeuny a sample now and then—UU hlz pockets ere fulL “I set this orchard eat myself.” he said, then, “when I waa only twenty-fire, and I'm free to cou-. fc*s I'm very proud of it. It's a rare thing to see applcs'growing in this climate, but the wall to tho north, and those Hues of poplars east and west protect it finely. I had a Uttle daughter who used to enjoy it so much, but she's gone now—no, not dead, only married-and I send her a box of those very pippins every faU; that’s why I’m so choice of them. I've tad wretched work to keep ’em ou tbe tree, though. I've tried everything, fre; 4 " wires and bells, to a dog. Poor Major l. * ue *a? splendid police officer, but he died "a martyr to his sense of duty. Yes, they poisoned him—poor fel low i I'd have given <jv«tTy pippin on the place save him,” The captain's voice sank, and Tommy looked up in his faco with real aympotby. for he loved dogs, and felt a kinship towards tbe man who oouid speak so tenderly of one. * “After that,” continued the captain, “Icouldn 1 risk another life, so I put up the noUce. I beUeve you’re tho first to call since.” A quick flush, that was not fear, flamed up Tommy's checks. Unconsciously he had beguu to take aides with the captain against the offenders, when suddenly he found himself classed among them in a way that made him more ashamed than ho bad ever been In his life. Yes, he, Tommy Forrester, waa a "trespasser”—and a thiei It was no longer a matter ol bravado, but of actual, shameful stealing. “Captain/* he said, huskily, “I—I didn't think how it reaUy was—I thought it would be smart, but I see it was only mean. Oh! I wish I'd never seen that notice!” He threw down the applet which the captain had handed him, as if anxious to be rid them. 'Here, sir, I couldn't eat 'em—they'd choke me! I'm Tommy Forrester. Prosecute me if you like, but I tell you true, sir, I was never here before, and 1’U never come again 1” Tho captain looked down at the honest young lace, working with emotion, and held out his hand. Well, Tommy, I guess you're a pretty fair boy, after all, and perhaps I’ve been a trifle too hard on you youngsters. Come-let by-gones he by-gones, and let's be friends In fnture. I've a mind to give a sort of apple-bee, and talk sense and reason to the boys, and I wont you to help ine. What do you say?” “Oh! sir, I'd like it!” cried Tommy, radiantly, as he wrung the outstretched hand in boyish fash ion; “and, I tell you, If you’ll do that, you' never lose another apple, I'm sure!” 8o the apple-bee came oil, and I think It answer ed better than bell-signals, dogs, or shot-guns, for tbe notice has been down these three years, and the apples hang till they drop for very ripeacss, quite unmolested until the annual frolic at the captain's, to which the boys look forward as they do to Christmas. As for Tommy, when be told his mother all about it, he said with deep conviction: “I’ve found out all I ever want to kttfJw abont stolen frultl" And she sincerely hopes he has! Funnic £. Newberry. “AN APPEAL TO CJE8AR." HUMOR OF THE DAY. A young lady who was blamed for allowing her glove to be discovered in a young xuau’s pocket stated that she had wo baud iu it. 'Sing tbe upper notes?” said a friend of oars who was enthusiastic over the accomplishments of a renowned soprano; “she sings so high that it would make a woodpecker dizzy.” The novel of tho fatnro will begin: “The full bright moon was just silvering tho treetops when a solitary coachman, with a rope-ladder under his arm, was seen wending his way,” etc. They were sitting ou the porch of tho Grand Union at Saratoga. “Are you fond of works of art, Mr. Browne?” she asked. “Very,” ho replied, gazing at her with undisguised admiration. “What is more awful to contemplate,” said a lecturer, glaring about him, “than the relentless power of tbe maelstrom?” Ami a henpecked look- ilk nan in tho renr of thebujlding soltly replied, “the femaicstrom.” Mis. Bounaerby (who Is excessively flesh?): “How good of you to come nnd see me, Mr. Pin- Well, you know, Mrs. Bouuderby. tho ./ouldn’tcome to Mahomet, so Mahom et had to come to tho mountain.” Oh, I do so dote on the sea,” sho gurgled. 'If you only bad a “ ‘ “I have no yacht, had flown out ot a bottle. The editor of the' Is in trouble. ao Posey County Weekly Falsifier „ lady gavo him two young canines and be acknowledged tho favor by saying that Mrs Jcrusha Perkluron prefonted us with two sweetly interesting pugs. The printer made It "hugs,” and the lady's husband stirred np tho unforttinato editor with a hickory hoop-polo and a cuspldore. LITEARY NOTES, Mr. Mallock is about to publish a small volume entitled "Jiiway* on Topics of the Day.” 1 he lato Henry J. Byron wrote altogether about sixty plays, for which he received nearly 1130,000, *"t will wns proved for $20,000. In the Haunts of the Nightingalo” end “Tho Ncsro Problem" will bo of *j>ecial interest to tbe ketches of the wnich hnve hitherto been kept private; several peerages in Poe’s career will bo for the first tlmo Judge Tournee's bo'k, “An Appeal to Crenar,” reached its fifth thousaud in less tha two weeks after its publication. Fords, Howard A Hulbert. of New York, wil publish next Wednesday, “The Field of Honor, a history of dueling, by Major Benjamin Truman. It will contain a history of all notable duels from tbe earliest times down to August, 1&34. Another attempt will soon be made to establish a first class literary magazine In Nashville. Oon- tributior s have already been secured. They were more easily obtained than the financial backing. Spirit uni Stoppings* At one of the club meetings this week In theclty spiritual rapping* were discussed, and The Con stitution has been asked when these tappings first attracted attention. Sir Thomas Tre?ham wrote a letter 1584. In it he refers to a knocking on his table by spirits. Iu Glanville’s "Blow at Modern Sadiicism, ’ he says, "chain walked about tbe room in the presence of the company on the &th November, 1CCL” la There? Minerva asks Tits Constitution if all sympathy hns died ont In the world. Perhaps not. If sympathy Is asked for In regard to any love matter, It la best not to expect It. a very wise plan to bear in mind tbe words of £11* Wheeler— “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Wetp, anti you weep alone; The Md old earth wil! borrow its mirth, But has sorrow enough of its own.” A Mad Goat. From the Monroe, Ga, Advertiser. Pome weeks since a dog run into town from the country, which acted as If he was mad and he was killed, after biting a negro boy, a little goat and two dogs. The goat belonged to Mr. J. D. Proctor’s little son, and a lew days ago Mr. Proctor noticed it acting strangely. He kept it tied aud watched It. It had been very tome, but now was furious— would bite the fence, dash at anything £h*t came near, and butt its head violently against tho fence. It wns undoubtedly mad, and Mr. Proctor had it killed. The t*o dogs which were bitten ought to be killed. We understand that the city marshal wen’t to kill tht-m, but desisted on being told by tho owners that the dogs were uot bitten. We submit that tha mayor ought to order the killing to bo done. Any d<ls sl»|*i ted of being bitton by amad-dogought There is too much danger in waiting to see whether the dog will go mad. They will btto somebody before their madne&a i* discovered. If the city council will not order these do^s killed, any citizen will be justified In killing them. The wishes of the owners ought not to be considered; the danger to others is too great. It waa Slot Insured* From the Amcrlcus, Ga. Recorder. Monday morning, about one o'clock, the cotton gin of Tom Powell, cdlored, three miles southeast of El 1st ill c. was discovered to be on fire, and be fore assistance could be rendered, ft and Us entire contents were destroyed. Fourteen bales of cot ton were burned, fire belonging to Powell, three to J. N. Scarborough, two to consumed. No insurance. to Geonre Grantham, to G. L. fiassy. Besides 7 of cotton seed was A Pertinent Bequest Concerning a Very Impeltlnent Work* Subscriber. Barnesville^Ga*: Please summarize tbe main points In Judge Tourgee’s book, “An Appeal tp Ceesar,” and give your opinion of the work. Judge Tourgee long ago threw off the habiil- meuts of a carpet-bagger and revealed himself a crank of tbe first water. In “An Appeal to Ctesar,” he undertakes to show that before the close of the present century there will be aq Immensely pre ponderating majority of . negro popu lation In a belt of states be tween the Potomac and tbe Mississippi; that the.population is densely ignorant and liable to be fraudulently and violently deprived of polit ical power, and that education at tbe expense aud under tbe protection of the national government is tbe only woy to secuie the future negro major ities in the senthem states their political rights.’ After giving a number of tables compiled from the census reports showing the rsteof increase la the colored race, Judge Toargeo says: “Tn thn t purl Of Ml nr at rfiun vo*n we shall have eight minor republics ol tbe union in which either the colored rice will rule or* tn.Jorltj will be dUfruchlMd!" Thetuthercuk.ee nothing that will tend to check tho lncreaw oi the negro race, nothing that will prevent them from outnumbering thejuath- era white, in the next sixteen ream. II* take, no .took In the theory that Immigration bom other atatee and foreign countries will give tbs Muth a preponderance of whlti. over black.. On the contrary he guota tho ceniaa atatlitlc. of 18Mt 1670 and UU to prove that "RitignitlnaMott liar r fourth the number of foreigners In theso states la IfeCO!” As to northern Immigrants, he quotes front the census of 1870 and 1880 to show that in the eight southern states under consideration there was a lots of nearly *2,000 northern born population* He tlieq proceeds to draw from bis migration sta tistics tho following alleged facts: 1. A greater proportion of the native whites i of tho south than of the native wnltes of the north emigrate from the stato of their birth. ‘2. There nre a greater number of nativo whites of . as of white natives of tho north residing i south. 4. Tho proportion of southern whites who are removing from the state of their birth Is rapidly Increasing. r». Tbe percentage of colored natives of southern states who migrate from the state of birth is per ceptibly diminishing. The judge quotes and adopts Professor Gilliam's conclusion that in tho southern states the blacks double every twenty years, whereas the whits population only doubles every thlrty-flvo yearn. Alter dwelling at length upon these sombre facts ho condenses a batch of statistics into tho statement that forty-five per cent of the voters in the south cannot read tho names on their ballots, and theso illiterates con sist of seventeen rcrcentof the whites and sev enty-eight and one-half per cent of the blacks* This illiteracy be regards as a standing monace to tho nation. He alleges that the blacks aro unfairly treated by the whites, and that they have no chance of knowing and maintaining their rights unless they aro educated. Hero he en ters upon a wide field of argument and outllneen plan of education under the asplces of tho national government. Ho is not willing, however,.to havo tho money paid to the states, but would have if paid out by a federal official to school authorities* This is the sum and substance of Judge Tourgee'B much talked ol' book. He simply proposes to fill tho south with thousands of hireling agents ot the federal government who, in addition to teaching tho “threo R’s,” will stuff the negroes with tbo Idea that it Is their intereetand duty to rule wherever tboyhavoa majority, peaceably if they can, forcibly it they must. There is but ono way to reply effective- • to Judge Tonrgee, tud that is to deny and disapprove his alleged fafits. Fortunate ly, this can be done not only with case, but with signal success. Tho author of “An Appeal to Cesar” made a fatal mistake in relying upon tho census ot 1870 os his groundwork. To do him jus tice he admits that tho census was incorrectly taken at the couth. This admission alono kills mauy of his most important state ments and conclusions, for they aro based upon tbo figures of that census. In 1870 the taking qf the census In tho southern states was In the main confided by par tisan favoritism to Incompetent and careless per sons, and the result was a grotesque'mass otto- tally unreliable statements and figures which aro never quoted without an apology. In view of this fact it Is wildly absurd forJudge Tourgee to assert that northern immigrants are dimin ishing aud that tbe. negroes aro increasing much more rapidly than tho whlteA He 1b merely giving tu guess-work, fancies, aud ho is estopped from planting himself upon tho only basis he could have stood upon, the census of 1870, because Le has admitted itsjattor worthlessaesA People who live in this section know that north ern immigration is on the increase, bocausothey sec tbe country and the cities and towns gradual ly filling up with settlers, from tbo eastern,middlo nnd western states; nnd they know that tho negrote are not increasing more rapidly than tbe whites^ because their death rato Is terribly against them. All over tho south tbo negroes have flocked la largo numbers to tho towns and cities, where their improvidence, vico and neglect of sanitary condi tions are killing them off by thousands. In Near Orleans, where negroes ought to flourish, tho death rate for many yean shows tho propor tion per thousand to bo about 84.38 blocks* * -to 22.wi whites. Similar figures are reported from other southern cities, and in Boston tho rato among negroes Is 11.10 to the thousand greater than the whites; In ITovldcnco 9.75greater; In 81. Louis 15.75 greater; In the state of Illinois 3.33 greater, and In New York 3.43 greater. With sneh facta staring us in the face it is nonsense for Judge Tourgee to talk about the probability of tbe uo> grocs outnumbering the whites In the south in the course of tbe next sixteen years. A word in reference to other points. Judge Tourgee admits that the negroes of the south have accumulated millions of dollars tvorth of property ' since their emancipation. This does not look like unfair treatment The statistics os to illit eracy In the south are bad enough, and tho gov ern ment is doubtless under obligations to aid oar public school* but any national fund appro priated for that purpose should bo distributed through the machinery of tbe stato governments. The federal government most not lie penrfiucd to take the education of ourchii dren iuto its own hands. Each state most regu late its own school system. Bat we mmt not ac cept the tbcorv that education will care the evils ->f poverty sud crime. As education haa dh>- retsed among our negro population crime has rrased. S argument «... ««• .««• - —r—r-*r~- —rzz statements aud Incorrect figures. It begin* with the prejudices of a carpet-bagger and ends with the errors of a crank. He Won His Bet* From tbe Pittsburg Telegraph. Managing editor—Where's the funny man? Local editor—He’» sIca Managing editor—Wot's tbe matter with him? Local editor—He won an election bet ou Ohio. Managing editoy—What bet? Local editor—winks. Bad for Bolvu. From the Chicago Mall. Mbs Mary Walker has declared her Intention of kb*ing every man who rotes for Mrs. Lockwood. Thus is destroyed Selva's last chance of getting a single vote. What One Ouart of Whisky Did. From the Ifeysvil!e Georgian. One ucart of whisky erat Banka county $1,SC0, the live* of two men, two widows, sev eral orphan children, and an enormia* amount of labor and trouble, in the Selma