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THE LINCOLNTON * % NEWS
VOLUME IV.
My Husband’s Shirt. or
I’m nfrai'l you may think him a dandy.
And mention it, to his disgrace.
When 1 tell you the front was embroidered
A nd the neck and sleeves trimmed with soft
lace.
Rut I Ironed it. with such a feeling.
As never possessed me before,
Though I laundried Ids shirts, a full hundred,
And made them for him by the score.
But, tenderly bending o'er this one,
1 said "bless his heart,” and "sweet boy,”
And smoothing the lace on the neck-band,
With 1 lingered a minute to toy
the frill ns It lay on my finger,
I piessed And, (though quick you e kisses ay think I it, was "Soft,”,
two upon
And laughingly held it aloft.
I know wives don't usually do so.
When ironing shirts for their lords;
They’re more apt to indulge in a tantrum
Or tirade, o’er their ironing boards.
But list, and I'll tell you tin- -ecret,
And you'll sympathize will me I know.
As one woman will, with into her.
If she the -‘white feather" will show.
My Was little girl up to her Granuny’s,
And staying, the morning nefore,
while she was rummaging, child-llke,
’Midst some duds in an old bureau drawer,
She captured a shirt ’v'- toll her papa,
When be was a Into,. nad worn,
And begged it to ry p her dolly;
And as it was wrinkled and torn,
Rotnmr« ! ' f'mo. she said, “Mamma wash it,'
• n - i'lid her behest, •
t n.i.ught how my terrible giant
4 . iil.in its wee size had been pressed,
you wonder I said “bless his heart,’ ’ aa
'Mr fancy presented to view,
A V.'ho miniature phrase of the monster
measures Hollis, lust six feet two?
—Virginia C. in Good Housekeeping,
THE GARDEN SOIL.
Some Useful Suggestions Respecting tlu
Treatment of Various Soils.
The ideal soil for a garden is a mel¬
low, sand}’ loam, underlaid with a sui>
soil tli at is not too open or porous. Such
ground the is kind termed “grateful” gratitude and which it is
not of lias
been defined as “a lively appreciation of
favors to come” which is true of somo
other soils. This ideal land remembers
past favors; it retains the fertilizers
with which it has been enriched, and
returns them in the form of good crops
until the gift is exhausted; therefore it
is The a thrifty as well as a grateful High¬ soil.
degree owner can fertility, bring and it up to the
est of keep it there
by judicious management. This sandy
loam—nature’s blending of sand and
clay—is a safe bank. The manure in¬
corporated with it is a deposit which
can be drawn against in fruit and vege¬
tables, for it do“s not leach away and
disappear Light, with sandy one season’s rains.
thin, soil, with a porous
or gravelly subsoil, is of a very different
type, and requires a different treatment.
It is a spendthrift. No matter how
much you give it one year, it very soon
requires enrich just so much can’t more. You can
it, but you keep it rich.
‘Therefore you must manage it as one
would what is take essential caro of a the spendthrift, time, and giving in
at a
way that permits as little waste as pos¬
sible. I shall explain this treatment
more fully choice further on. garden
In tne of a plot you
may be restricted to a stiff, tenacious,
heavy deal with—a clay. Now soil you have a miser to
that retains, but in
many eases makes no proper use of,
what it receives. Skill and good man¬
agement, however, can improve any
soil, and coax luxuriant crops from the
most We unpropitions.
will speak first of the ideal soil
already contains mentioned, and hope that the
acre an area of it of suitable
dimensions for a garden. What should
be the first step in'this ease? Why, to
. get more of it. A quarter of an acre
can be made equal to half an acre.
You car, about double the garden, with¬
out increasing adding the to it depth an inch good of surface, For by
of soil.
instance, tho deptli ground of six has been inches. cultivated Try to
or seven
tiie experiment of stirring the soil and
enriching it one foot downward, or
eighteen what inches, or differences even two will feet, result. and
sec vast
Willi every inch you go down, making
a il friable and fertile, you add just so
much more to root pastnrage. When
[your you wish to raise a great deal, increase
leverage. Roots are yo levers;
and when they rest against a fer¬
tile soil they lift-into the air and sun¬
shine products that may well delight
■the eyes and palate of the most fasti¬
dious. We suggest that this thorough
deepening, ing the pulverization, and enrich¬
of soil be done at the start,
when the plough can be used without
any obstructions. If there are stones,
rock, the roots—anything which which garden prevents
should treatment there is a decided plot
receive, a ad¬
vantage in clearing them all out at the
beginning. that Last fall and I saw encumbered a half-acre
was swampy, so
witli stones that one could walk all over
it withyu* stepping off the rooks. The
land was sloping, and therefore capable
of drainage. work The proprietor the lower put side three with
men to on
picks, shovels, and blasting tools. They
turned the soil over to the depth of
eighteen inches, taking out every stone
larger than deep a walnut. Eight or ten
feet apart ditches were cut, and
stones, as far as possible, placed in
these. The rest were carted away for a
bestvy wall. You may say it was ex¬
pensive work. So it was; yet so com¬
lieve plete it a garden would yield spot was made that in I be¬
a fair interest po
tntocs alone. I relate this instance to
show what can be done. A more for¬
state'could bidding area scarcely for a garden found. in its Enough original
be
vegetables and fruit can be raised from
it hereafter, with family, annual and fertilizing, it will to
supply a large under the refining im¬
prove every year ef¬
forts of frost, sun, and cultivation.
It should be remembered that culture
does for soil what it does for people. It
mcjlows, brings it up, and renders it
capable of finer products. Much, in¬
deed, can bo done with a crude piece of
the land thoroughness in a single year that when has treated been with
and strong-growing sug¬
gested, some during vege¬
tables may be seen at their best
the first season, but the more delicate
vegetables of cultivation. thrive better No with successive how
years matter
abundantly the ground may be en¬
riched at first, time and chemical action
are into required the best to transmute of plant the food, fertilizers and
forms
make them a part of the very soil itself.
Ploughing or spading, especially mould if done
jn late autumn, exposes the to fhe
beneficial action of the air and frost,
refined* distinguishesitfrom 3 Sw fS^L°which C ordinary
InYaW “thin the field
with .h-Vi-W sandy soil one
tee
given. ““ w
couragement. Fine results, if not the
best, can be secured. In this case there
is scarcely any possibility of soil for a thor¬
ough prejiaration It gradually the improved, from the
start can be
however, by making good its deficien¬
cies, the chief of which is the lack of
vegetable mould. If I had such a soil I
would rake up all the leaves 1 could
find, employ and them (if as I bedding for my
cow spread pigs lieap kept resulting any), and
the compost on
the sandy garden. The soil is already
too light and warm, and it should be
our aim to apply defect. fertilizers A tending to
counteract this nervous, ex¬
citable person should let stimulants
alone, and take good, solid, blood-mak¬
ing food. 'I liis illustration suggests the
proper course to be taken. Many a
time 1 have seen the action the reverse
of this resulting disastrously. his light For thin in¬
stance, a man carts on
soil hot fermenting manure from the
Seeds lior.se stable, planted. and In ploughs the moist, it under. cool,
are
early spring impulse they make the a powerful great start,
feeling the There hasty of and unhealthful stim¬
ulant. is a
growth, days but long long and before hot, drought maturity the
grow the dries Therefore comes,
and garden up.
every effort should be made to supply
cool’ manures with staving qualities,
such as are furnished by decayed vege¬
table matter composted with the clean¬
ings of the cow stable. We thus leant
the value of fallen leaves, muck from
the swamp, etc., and they also bring
with them but feu seeds of noxious vege¬
tation.
On tne other hand, stolid, phlegmatic
clay i uires the stimulus of manure
from horse stable, lt can be
ploughed and decay under at once, and to ferment
in the soil. The process of
decomposition cold, will tend to banish its
inert qualities, and make the
ground loose, open, and amenable to
the influences of frost, sun, and rain.—
E. P. Roe, in Harper's Magazine for
Robert Garrett’s Fancies.
One of Mr. Garrett’s hobbies, writes
the Baltimore correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times, is canes, another is
hats, another is patent-leather shoes.
His supremely, superlatively, great big
hobby is a railroad and to New York. His
canes, hats, patent-leather gaiters
are into positively the hallway numberless. People who
go of his house while
he is at dinner usually conclude, after a
brief study of the hat-rack, that he was
friends, entertaining whereas a vast congregation of his
there is no one about
but his mildly eccentric ‘ self. If he
should ever be dragged down to poverty
lie can subsist in comfort during the
balance of his life upon the sales of his
old clothes. He buys all of his garments
in New York; has samples of the latest
patterns in cloths forwarded to him by
mail, and telegraphs his orders to his
tailor, giving as minute and elaborate
and explicit directions as though every
word did not cost one-quarter of a cent
or thereabouts. A friend to the West¬
ern Union Telegraph company has sug¬
gested that the Baltimore & Ohio Tele¬
graph company could make large profits
were it not for Mr. Garrett’s telegrams
to his tailor.
Mr. Garrett is not Baltimore’s richest
[liis citizen, nor even her second richest, but
influence in her social and commer¬
cial life is equal to that of any man
within her borders. By direction of his
father ho and his brother and sister an¬
nually dispense among the poor the in¬
terest on nearly a million dollars. His
gifts and those of bis sister to charit¬
able institutions are large, though not
ostentations, and he is kind-hearted
■and easy of approach. His wife, who
-is the daughter of Mr. J. T. Frick, is a
handsome and accomplished woman
and a favorite leader in society.
Mr. Garrett is fond of pictures, and
scattered through his house are many
ifine examples of modern art, the pro¬
duct of both brush and chisel, including
a portion of the collection of prints pur¬
chased by him from the estate of tha
late James L. Claghorn.
A Story of Kenwarrt Pliitp.
New York journalists Kenward are inclined ti
resent the exploiting of Philp.
lie was an exponent of an element in
metropolitan newspaper rapidly during life that ha*
diminished so the past
decade that we may hope for its entire
extinction within ten years more. If 1
add one true story to the many already
published ing his character it is with comprehensively. a view to illustrate Ha
was impoverished *A and abundant thirsty one drinks eve¬
ning. project passed for
struck him as he a theater where
a certain star was playing. He sought
the actor, evening's professed a lively interest in
that trial of a new drama,
and proffered his services to influence
the critics favorably.
“All I propose,” he blandly said, “is
to greet my press acquaintances play in tho
corridor, chat about the as your
agent, and invite them to drink with
me. It won’t cost you anything—ex¬
cept a modest bill at the bar.”
The actor thereupon gave an order at
the bar leading that Phllp’s should hospitality to any
of the critics be permit¬
ted to the extent of a bottle of cham¬
pagne each; and Le took the precaution
to detail a person to identify the men to
be treated, for he liad heard of Pliilp.
Well, the dry but glib tongue of the
trickster plausibly assailed one after an¬
other of the critics on the list, but their
excuses reward of deprived his earnest him endeavor. of the expected Dis¬
said couraged and who desperate, had declined he at his length invi¬
to one
tation to imbibe witli the management:
“For heaven’s sake, my dear fellow,
don't let me die of thirst in the desert
Assist me to the oasis,” and 1 m explain¬
ed the situation so plaintively that tho
acquaintance complied for charity’s
sake.— Cor. Albany Argus.
It i* said that one of the durability properties in
specially conducive to
Upbvif oJwJXerquineM. _
DEVOTED TO TIIK INTKRI (BT OF UNCOLN COUNTY.
LINCOLNTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1886.
To Help a Horse.
Almost any hoT^lii do better when
fad . ,eed This means to cut
-
?*• “-. HoS or atraw tS about *&St.*SS a tlMTth ”wK ot an
svtttttfv.tS.S5 quire less hay and less train in
tion. and really do propor- P P
more work.
This mode of preparing their food is
Ewhich n fi C 1 t0 h° ld h ° rSe3a 'T
thase which have h a ve t. the heaves or are at
all affected in their breathing. An old
towe actually running down on hay
and who e grain wil! begin to thrive
Th» The Vn benefits Jt? are is prepared actually in beyond this way. the
explanation of science, so far as the
The composition of the food is concerned.
benefits go beyond the real virtue
or nutriment furnished by the food,
and are found in part in that which the
food does not do. *Jtis in a condensed
form, but not so condensed that the con
dition is unfavorable for digestion, but
on the contrary, most favorable, as
there is a medium and proper combina
tion of coarse and fine material, with a
judicious taken balance of constituents, all
into the stomach at the same
time. Not so when hav and grain are
fed, singly. There is no'eombi nation of
food, and generally so much of the first
is given, that the action of the respira
tary organs is impeded, and the dust
iungs, arising from the hav ciuses is drawn into the
where it irritation and
often is the beginning wording of the disorder
called heaves. All animals, in
eluding oxen, will do better on cut food.
The saving in the amount of hay will
had always pay for the extra labor! We
an old horse, years when°fed ago, which
could hardly stand up drv
feif hay, on account of the heaves. When
hours, nothing he but oats soaked twelve
although performed well and got fat,
worked in a team every day.
We are satisfied that farmers, as a rule,
feed their horses too much hav, and of
ten, too much grain. They usually feed
all the hores aRke. This is a mistake,
as abilit? no two horses are ’Worses reallv 7 nTv alike £ in
kept to digest food
poor bv overfeeding “ as well as by
giving Cornmeal them too little. made
is for a walkimr
horse, but not suited to one required to
go on a trot. It is never good food for
horses which have to exert themselves
so as to get heated, nor is it good food
for horses when it is expected that they J
will move quickly It is the food
the slow horse, as it makes flabby mus
cles and sluggish tie action.
Oats, on contrary stren<rthen the
will do to mix a portion of corn with the
r , 5i^ ^ k K ,ho *" i “ 1
Traps for Americans.
An American gentleman, who for
many years past has been established
in business in Paris, received one day a
call from a handsomely-dressed female
in whom he recognized a notorious
American member of the demi-monde
of Paris. She came, she said, to pro¬
pose to him a lucrative business trans¬
action. She had in her possession a
list of sundry high-born amt titled gen¬
tlemen who wished to marry rich
American girls, and she displayed such
a list inscribed with some of the proud¬
est names of Ihe French aristocracy. If
my countryman would inform lier of
the arrival in Paris of any wealthy
American ladies, and of the presumed
amount of their fortunes, she would, on
the accomplishment of a marriage be¬
tween any one of these and one of her
clients, at once pay over to him half of
her stipulated percentage on the dowry,
which in her case was to amount to iO
per cent. It is needless to say that the
woman’s offer was refused.' But the
very fact of its being made showed how
widespread is the system Paris, of the matri¬
monial agency in and how ex¬
tensive and elaborate must be its ar
ran There gements for obtaining information.
is an Austrian gentleman
moving in the best society of Paris
whom the I strongly and accredited suspect of being one of
secret agents of one
of these establishments. He tried hard,
but about in vain, match some between years ago, the daughter to bring
a
and only child of a wealthy American
gentleman French duke then visiting this family. city and a
of ancient Th.
duke turned out finally to be an im
poster, and was forced to take flight
from also Paris. be Employes found of these principal agencies
are to at the
hotels here. They are usually women,
generally pleasant bear of high-sounding titles, affable and of
are manner and
bearing. quaintance Their with business ricli Americans is to make who ac¬
have aforesaid daughters, be so presented that the daughters impecu¬
may to
nious adventurers on the lookout to re¬
pair their fortunes by marriage. The
matter is theater very adroitly managed, little danco an
opera being or a party or amiable a French
gotten up by the
lady friend, to the amuse luckless her damsel sweet, new whose young dol¬
lars, real or rumored, have caused her
to be selected as a fitting victim. At
the dance or at the theater the intro¬
duction of takes place, and the supposed fascina¬
tions the gentleman are to
do the rest. Very often, indeed, the
promoter of the whole series of maneu¬
vers is not connected with any agency
whatever, but is acting on her own ac
ooun t — Philadelvhia Teleara.vh.
A golden ashbox is a rarity, and so
one finds himself interested in this bit
out Says of this Meignan’s writer: “From “1 will Paris refer to Pekin.” the
to
cigar-ash receptacle, where ends of the their smokers
in the salon drop the cigar¬
ettes, according composed to the Russian custom,
after a meal, of a pure nugget
of gold worth £ 1,600 sterling, and just
found in tho in rough the mine. state in The which Czar it had has been
per
mitted, in an exceptional case, M. Rons
nietzof to retain possession of this nug¬
get in his house on account of the rarity
of such a godsend. The proprietor of
this treasure did not omit to inform mo
thirty that liaviug he this had precious receptacle merely the for
years lost not
£ 1 , 600 'sterling, but also the interest—
£ 2 , 400 —and that consequently this lux¬
ury had cost him £ 4 , 000 .
TELEGRAMS.
^.Sst,,, orW-’w,,. D, lr
.rK.c™ wir.d u a . wg „._
The sadaod the o, r .
One of .ho b-=jS» In eh,.
graph company. Its visitors during the
da J a ^e many, and from morning until
clT^hTL^HvelfrfatT tnidnight the throng continues to come
closes witn a nveiv ciatier every ti lew
old, “«"*»• They come m.dd in all styles, the
the young, and e aged They
^ ’whVVhsoon “rtf Td*^ t^dt^SfTa^ claZT
,uck ’f°" may Chang,‘
Faces pah, with sadness, furrowed
with care, bright with anticipation, or
radiant with happiness: all -o through
the not overwide portal, and all upon
the f me '” rt of ar ™nd, elther g* or
fae “ d awa J message*^
Hope and and selfish despair jostle and with each careless
*«■ jov seldom
Petes the other. Often the face which
comes trouble, smiling goes away dark with
and many times the dull look
begotten of hope deferred becomes trans
formed, and the owner goes away with
buoyant step and a peace which has not
been experienced fora long time.
A around the office will give
the student of human nature a good
chance to guess at what is being written
bv those who prepare their messages
right on the spot, and the manner of
the writers will often show something
the characters and business habits of
them.
A commercial drummer will run into
and a telegraph office, slamming the door
making He the papers flutter all over
the place. will push his way to the
d *sk, a blank, dive a pen into the
ink, and write a message in just thirty
seconds. Before he begins he will push
his hat high on his brow, and turn hi.
bead to one side. •
Then he will stride up to the desk and
looking tho dispatch familiarly and at big the clerk, will push
a silver dollar to
that functionary, remarking *
’‘Send that away d -n quick!”
A man who has not been accustomed
to sending telegrams will take more
time about it, sometimes taking as much
time about it as it would take a book
will keeper carefullv to balance a cash account. He
count the words, and
^ndy and re-study the message in order
to decide that he hasn t got too many
^
will be clearly undeistood
Ladies generally write their messages
folded at home and the then office, take where them carefully ask
to they will
many questions. They wil want to
fo^zns a Sf
nature is to be included i« the cost
the transmission. Then they will want
to know how soon it will reach its desti
nation. Then they will carefully lay
down their parasols or satchels and
count out tho price for the message, and
when the cash is about half counted
thev atwhYvTr wall ston is^^stondhiT to look around and smile
at wnoev 1 r is sranatng behind nemna them tnem
waittngfoi a chance to talk with the
r- rinaiiv, u vviien 1 n tne money is pant and ,
the clerk has been carefully made to
pronuse to send the message lnimedi
ately, they will then gather up their
property anil depart. After they get
out upon the sidewalk they will fre
quently leturu to ask the clerk if he can
read the dispatch, as they wrote it quito
lunricdly. vv hen a lady happens to
write the message in the office the pro
cess is doubled, as*a similar style of per
torn 1:1 nee is carried on at the desk,
wheie they will want lots of elbow
r °rw"
Of those 11 w ho enter or send away the
announcement ot a death to relatives
far away their manner is always quiet,
and a new father coining into let the
grandparents know that a baby has ar
rived, will go in smiling all over hi*
face. Not infrequently the- sender wnl
go to the extra expense of a dime or *0
to add a sentence which is intended as a
People sending for remittances infrequently gener
ally look anxious, and spread not ink
■write with a rush, and the
on thick and black, as though to thus
express the exigency which compelled
the sending of a telegraphic message
for funds.
And so they go. Unconscious panto
mimists, all it, of mimic, them sketchy making, picture without of
knowing ihe lights and a shadows, the fleeting joys
sr the sudden and more lasting dream called griefs
which go to make up the
life.
There are various preparations for
whitening the hau is which can be
used without harm. Glycerine, vase
line, cold cream or muuou tallow rub
bed in will do much to soften them.
The chroniclers of Queen Anne’s time
had a receipt which is at least harm
less. The white of an egg with a
grain of alum dissolved iu it was
spread on the hands, and they wero
then wrapped up in old limui over
night, aud this treatment was "itnran
teed to make soft and flabby hands firm
and clean-looking. Oatmeal and corn
meal, both dry and uioi-t. may be used
with good effect. Thu rotiMiesi aud
ugliest pair of bands may bo made
smooth and sott, il not while, 111 one
month if Ihe owner will but wash them
well in warm water every night and
rub them well with whichever of these
simple preparations them suits her best loose and
then mouse m :i pair <>{
cr'Jx loves from which the linker-tips have
een citt.
Mr. Francis 1’aikman's winter home
is in the house of his sister. Miss Park
man, on the western here slope he of does Beacon
hill, Boston. It is that the
most of his .literary work. His the study of is
a plain, comfortable room at top
the house, with an open lire, a small
writing-table near the window, and
shelves of books covering the walls.
The most valuable parts of his collection
are manuscript copies of public and pri
rate documents.
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Fifty thousand the Mississippi square miles of covered terri
tory east of are
with swamns, which might easily be
drained and turned into fertile lands.
Slaves of the Turk.
The great fav^Twith the Turks
have alwavs been the Circassian fork girls,
writes a correspondent of the Sew
S.SC
^me x Jeenh tvpT is trulv 7 remarkable Tame The
A limbs ’ the ‘ clear com
l(Jxi< the same fair skin blonde,
hair, and blue eyes. The Turks
themselves being dark, they are natur
ally attracted to the fair'one, of the
ft op V,site sex. Thus since time immemo
ifhasa1 ^ a blonde who
has reined as sultana favorita in the
Serail. Thus, too, the highest priced
of the human chattels have been and
6t ill are the Circassian completely girls. Now, Cir
cassia itsel( having 1 passed
under Russian rule. t is mostly from the
Circassians who have settled ‘on Turk
ish territory that the supply is had.
Thf . £, pr0 vin'ce where they are most
that mime uslv Sivas. and thickly oo'nnvgated is
of in the northern part of
Asia Minor, with Aziziah for its prin
cip;ihc , wn . It is a very fertile district.
with enormous especially agricultural ami pastoral
interests -tock-raisin-r ami For
mi>r]v the Circadian bev, chief
used'to pav a regular “the tribute in mrl- to
t he successor of caliph commonVhimr That i- no
longer done. But it is a fiver's
to see Circassian chiefs, w ho have
to ask in Stamboul, or who wish to ex
polite [Ti important nr-ttv matters a^r»- Sf to fur
s h a maid in lieu uJ spot ea-h
a . baeksheesh Debts arefre
quentlv Lnmt. canceled bv them in Ti-tom the same
Nor is this ln-t con
tiu.-d to the Circassian- 1 am told it is
very often do«e in all part- of -tatistiTs the em
bailable pir J. There are no aetual
as to tin- number of Circassian
„ ir F thus annually disposed of ’prices but it
n, ust ,. ano . f . enormous“ in th( : thousands ^Tn General
t™ vary" Towev^r C Trices h
^ stated hkve that
f or 'prettv white slaves been uuiver
sallv over-tated bv European writer- on
, he subject. From the best authorities
I STo know* th*t from 1 thtYeratTprS /“.() tr» Ulm Tm-Liah S
f Circassian maiden P
or a prettv fetches **4
ren]h beautiful woman her prioe C,i
an v where of oners,- in l/m.lnn
p a ‘ris as well as in Stamboul.” was the
way one of mv informants put it
hair, Y^vrian f^irls have d irk eve< little
knd are. to speak the truth, a
"offcolor,” i. e.. their complexions That are
brown as of an
American quadroon girl. Tbev have
generally good Vanidlv figures while th.-ir'< youito, but
ao- e more F TS ilo th 5 o in [s SS ire-is-ian
an average price to pay for one of them.
they 'TanTTin EvfdenceYMhUtrT^- nri.ee^ betvviT, ,ifL.T? £6 a to
toTkrrted an?Twvan’t on^^vill EmolanThTstav- (Sme^ to he^ JZT^ fT
sometime heT in the iTri countrv and obfS pnnn<rh
of cau coT'nus-i’o e as ’ to Fe,Tate the T1v?1
tto Uon of < { toe the conmto-Kui. Heniale slaves
^ uld »<>*' and then come to them for
ai d to obtain their liberty, ami 111 ail
such cases, after going through the
usual formalities of applying tor her
emancipation papers, the girl or woman
was ties, granted due, it by the Turkish authori
of course, only to the active
interference of the British. Now and
then a case would occasion more than
ordinary difficulties. Thus, at Adanah,
in northern Syria, a woman, the slave
of an Ottoman functionary, who hud
thrown herself on the protection of the
commission and had demanded her free
dom. was at first stubbornly refused it
by her master as well as by the gov
ernor of the province, who was being
influenced by the owner. It was only
when the threat was made to get the
direct intercession of the British ambas
gador at Stamboul that she was giveo
her freedom. The matter at the time
raised a commotion in that province,
This, then, briefly told, was the ex
perience of the commission. Things
are still about in the same shape in
Asiatic Turkey.
His Life Was Saved.
-
A Rock Island train had just left Mo«
line. Ill., and was slowly wide crossing the
big iron bridge over the waters of
the Mississippi when a tall passenger,
witli a huge mustache and watery eyes
looking out from under a slouch hat.
jumped excited to his feet and shouted:
_ ‘-Conductor! Hyah, conductor! Are
we "No,'’ in lowy responded yet?" that official;
"but
what if we ain't?”
“Then stop Stop this her!" train. Stop her,
quick, I say. don't
"But I see any reason why the
train should be stopped.”
"Stop her, I tell ye. By so doing you
can save the life of one of your passeu
gcs. 1 beg of you stop the train.”
The conductor, wondering at the
cause of this strange request, hesitated
a moment, and then reached for the
bell-cord. In a few seconds the train
came to a standstill, when the excited
passenger again inquired:
"Are you sure we are not in lowy?”
The conductor looked out of the ear
window and assured his passenger that
the train was still ill Illinois.
“Then," replied the man with the big
sated iny life. I thank you. Only a
few minutes ago I read this little hand
bill, which says dinner is now ready in
the dining car, and that no liquors will
be sold while the train is running
through hold Iowa. train here I lease, Mr. minutes Conductor, till 1
your two
'•>>» back to the buffet and get my bottle
filled. Do the legislative Kentucky galoots gentleman out
this way iliink a
could ride clear across the State of lowy
with an empty bottle?”— Chicago Her
aid.
The house in which Lincoln died w:e
a lodging-house. John Matthews, a
comedian, who was a great friend of
j 0 h„ Wilkes Booth, had rooms there.
and his room was the one in which
President Lincoln died. A few nights
[ i before Booth occupied tiie assassination Matthews’ John WUkes and i’
room,
Is a curious fact that he slept in th>
same bed upon which the man whom h«
afterward murdered breathed his last
breath.
A Mexican Interior.
house had been originally built
fcr , an eofiesiastical college, and as may
Y waa a ver 7 ea9 F fit ffS for a
ri,|o « which surround the front and rear
courts '
*“*»? of t),e . ’I™^ho tra - v of , 00 neler ff
! kmx-ked p enetraDie at the neaa door, or nair, awakened who never to
one
'Ll, s freY^Tinthe ’ * t Y Tl* fl-Jw
Suited * 'T SSooJT T“^ IT?’ at vSS^r
h hour iiour f rr one one n}l chose cnose to to a,k ssk for ior ll 0 iu. - - The air •
of earlv morning was indescribably pure
and cool—cool enough to suggest an
open tire to an English or American
constitution—but the sunny side.of the
corridor was a very good substitute.
The flowers were freshly watered and
fragraDt. All the galleries in Mexico
6urroundino-the inner courts are lined
with flowers. It is one of the prettiest
features of their domestic architecture.
The vines festooned along the arches
Btl ^ d a little of the breeze which lifted
End let fall the heavy leaves of the ba
" arja ' tr fce near l he oimng-room door,
Clear shadows l J slanted , across the pale,
J mted s i? ne facade of the cloistered gal
YS' There 'ca.s a hammor'k cradlinglittle of Panama
^- ^gbter T a °f w ;bde tne h°use poodle, always wuom attended she ad
dre ^f d as Fimque. mi alma. )My
7 '
A man-seiWar. _ . of ... the shade , of , com
“ c?t lde k ^ moreno—chocolate of chocot with
a e ml
, TTk UEm ] - xed ln “ wh,t * h nen blouse,
-
flTd !!! listkilT ? StTge ( about the TalkTv gallery at^his at this
JlT’s lYjtu f , i i‘ ng pavement { ‘‘ e P ? with ' 4 k SW a 1 broom f plng
T„ t P l P % T ww \ pai "
• T' '*
the Tkrl Th fh \r ? V turt;e ' do ' e ! ' ’ er are fe* m
-
fereof ^ evu Suo to the the hoT^I h°u..e where where thdr tlTlr soft soft
S^ ttural "° e keard - but the Casa
C rejected . this super-Uiion of the
The^Ti’se^.d xne noi.es 01 IheVeT-T- tne r,,,u e - X eplea.- VT-vtdeT
vounTmistress unheard-’ TT'bed ever' r-ip-' oTa ' servant If 'the
5 had need C k
£4 Idl.v heftan^ LeoTu'da i • The , t^TTw^nsw^ Prif-'or • i ,
“Tate^siTn. or MFhaela
everythinv eanTirto Wth abolum a o-l,.oiiiv T’ChteT air even to
the i-'.o'i' a .’ ,t h i Lt J. ulaer5 of
-
Z TamariltT reconeili Thefr . mllSv^t .
tion= d one to the onh loud
st*.^r- * 1 T° 1? he b: ° <,d - h nl ,nd '
to Gained v to tRe wad of the court , b.-iow. 1
if IfchT lhe damping of the horses “nder feet tho on
rp, “ Y • meal , at . which ,
w" ceremonious
t T f a :' cmo!ed the Mldda V
u break!ast, This -
aimuerzo. was a sue
cession of courses, chiefly meat, in sur
prising quantity and variety in a climate
where a very little animalfood is suffi
cient, ending with dulees and coffee.
After the soun, rice, cooked in the Mex
icaa fashion. \\ as invariably served and
eaten with bananas. The game and
poultry had the advantage of the most
perfect cooking over a ehareoal tire. A
spit iean'kilehen is used in roasting, provided and every Mex
is with a multi
tude of pottery vvssels, even to pottery
griddles, light and clean, w hich seemetl
to me far preferable to our heavy uuap
petizing national metal dish ones. From time to time
a appeared, rather to htt
mor the guests' fancy for a novelty than
for a preference for them on the part of
the family. One called turco. I was
told, is of Moorish origin. It is compos
ed of chicken, cooked slowly in a paste
Blade of the flour of a very small and
delicately dried pea. and served with a
sauce of complex flavor. Raisins and
olives are an incidental feature of it. and
the whole dish tastes of the Arabian
The Sewl “~ Clr c l e ’t Xoble ork ~
_
Hobbs—I do envy you ladies the
pleasures of the sewing circle. Just
think, plished too. of the vast lingers good aeeom
bv your nimble for the
' '
poor. Mrs. Fogg—Yes. all in
we are so
forested in the work. 1 don’t believe
you could keep any of us away ’ from the
’
meetings. Hobbs—What is the result of the
ses
sions of the winter, so far?
Mis. Fogg—Well, we've decided fha*
the minister’s wife is a lazy, good-for
nothing woman; that unless young
Spriggs proposes to Miss Brown -on 11
old Brown will be justified in using
stern measures; that Mrs. Bangle is a
deceitful woman in telling around that
her bonnet cost $25 when it didn't cost
any such money, for Mrs. Ham bought
one Barnes almost as homeliest good for 5®o; that Miss
is the woman in town,
and a few other things of minor ini
portanee. Then, besides this, we’ve
about resolved to devote two weeks of
next the village.— winter to sewing for the poor of
lid-Hits.
--* --
He Didn't Know What to Say.
. blunt n ld (torman member nf the
Illinois Legislature. Mr. Plotke, was one
of the eommittee annointed to invest!
, i»,chu ioi
,
CM., ‘ 1
, ‘ oalhaf ' onto make
, , • lt
s i,Lij H>;lki mH , 01 . aitUu-ulties. He said: “I
v , V( ,t tl , 4 ,, v V nn i
1
f ‘? ; ,, ^h.Miileinens* YZT'SZtoVJR vnr
^ n huttlu
^
mimWlf avav. Vot shall I call vou den?
1 will call you members of the Illinois
Penitentiary, members shoost Illinois the same as we are
of the Shcneral As¬
sembly. You have places been- unanimously widiu
elected to fill the you have
ifhse walls shust the same as we mem
bers of the Shcneral Assembly have been
elected. here, 1 can because not say dot dot might I am make glad
you is
you feel bad, and den again I can not
say dot I is sorry dot you is here, be¬
cause I dink it was goot dot you was
here now because you is here, and 1
hopes you will do your duty duty do shoost the
same as wo do our for term for
which you is elected .”—Texas Siftings.
NUMBER 31
From Ths Pulpit,
vouchmg for d a* occumng prec«e
]^K?ge ' B^ino assisted by an evansrelist ths
,he P a, " a ™ h of P*t*ence was set forth
th thTTTrrtlTud^eTtTf l".! lstr ] ous . cas f of %pocnsy. After
cd -tTrY^uTn JobTTh^r- sin:
to
Yrinonlke thou considered mv servant Joh
, hl perfeTt t, nprUht h n, in the earth thai
as and an man one
tried concerned My
was not a man to be
nor nor to to be be dr,nntod daunted hv by a a quotation. "Yes, “Ym
remember it, but the Lord was only
setting Matan s opinion! I T *’ thought of
the man in Proverbs and of the seven
men who could render a reason, and
was silent.
Of many men it is still true as of many
mon * n rdd Chaucer’s day:
“For wbanne that he himself concluded bad
bad
Ageust bis device. This was his fantasle!”
On 'T another occasion a “ brother orouier m of the me
hard-shell 1 order had been holding a
Feries of meetings in our place. He was
to close on Saubath evening, and as the
chapel and^a of our Baptist friends was small
with neighboring the church wished to join
them in closing service I offer
ed them my own church. Itwasthank
fully densely accepted, and on the evening named
was crowded. The worthy man
read for the Scripture lesson the healing
of the lame man at the pool. Pausing
aud looking around he said, “I want
you to take notice, my candid friends,
that this modern habit of finding fault
w.th the miracles of our Saviour is no
“ Tf *? the time of
the Saviour Himself. h R Before His n eyes
^ Jews found fault with every one of
H,s miracles; with every one. every one!’
U " S ath ? red eontidence with the repeti
? 1U1 V and t he Ba P tlst n'lnister on
hi- Fit, "My brother, . do you remember
^ ‘T' the vd,daot tond
fault. Coloring, he answered - mod
estly.;A^v. non. This I added don't to think ins of conndence any just
t.. C do T 'vTTn'Y^fonTp you leniembcr one? 6 ' A single
1 ', vas ln hopes the question wouki
be en rto?" , R? ' 'r? P f 8 T
,n his reading. Lut t n<j, .ike Brutu&, r . he
on mT C,. InYtheTTes rJ'! of C hoT ^ ****
STfT k wk^ i-lTLi a cast of Ye “ah? t
Tl T ii h 1 . ? d , 1 1 Could u
not tell u a -le. i An a inconvenient - memory
wfhave'be^T^d'to i' T Tn, iT-T tTnil Tel ,5 ?
, e " V e
ventured, diffidently, to say that I did
not just remember any objection made
at the raising the son of the widow of
.Nairn He paused a moment looked at
nie. then at the wall, then at the people,
-I was thinking about that case! There
wasn't much said right about the spot,
but 1 thought I heard a little grumbling
up cm tie outskirts!"
_
About Bedding Plants.
In regard to bedding-plants, the gera
nium still stands at th- h-ad for a‘con
tinuous flowering bedding-plant that
will stand the hot suns, strong winds,
and changeable weather of our New
England summers. Beds made entirely
of them, or bordered with coleus or
dwarf blue or white ageratura, are satis
factory edged all summer. The best white
Madame geranium for a border is
Salleroi. It gi-ows about six
inches high in a rounded clump, has
medium-sized leaves of green with white
edge, browning. stands the hottest sun without
If vou invest in it vou will
not be disappointed,
One or two shades of the same coloi
are more effective in a bed than’nnxed
colors. The double have more lasting
flowers than the single. The single
blooms are scattered by high winds and
showers, while the double ones hold
For a fine scarlet bed try B. K.
double'"flowers toa’TmeasYe^froin'an
inch to two inches singly. A pure rose
pink bed can be made of'Emile de Giro
din—double flower, green foliage with
out zone, good sized trusses. Queen of
the Fairies has a perfect shaped flower
of salmon pink, double. The varieties
are almost endless,
For a late show in the garden the
salvias are brilliant, easily grown. . A
small plant set out the last of May will
bloom from the last of July onward; as
the weather grows cooler the scarlet
tassels glow with more intense color,
The blue variety, S. patens, is different
in growth and flower, but showy. The
flowers are deep, intense blue, unlike
anything and be else; kept the roots cellar are with tuberous dahl
can in the
ias ias during showy the winter. and bloom The single until dahl- late,
are
They are a and great attraction to bees,
butterflies humming birds; will
grow first easily April. from seed if planted the
of A group of double holly
and hocks make a good show during July
off August If the main stalks are side cut
shoots as soon will as flowering is over, bloom the until
start out and
frost. If you want a single specimen of
canna, trv the new Ehemanii. Tho
folia S e f a tklc g^n, md the flowers
color. we us large The as a gladiolus, crimson deep, rich in
soil, canna requires the sunniest
place. plenty A'group of water, half and dozen bulbs
of a
of Hyaointhus eandicans will make a
good show from August on. lhe flower
8tenl s arc from three to five feet high, fhe
with bffibs white - bell-sl.aped left in the flowers, groundLor
cun be
R ke gUdioItw.-Mr*. M. J. Plum
stead ' 111 Uood Housekeeping.
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-oj qoRlui oi sjaAuqj pus s.mqiuaj
qjlAA "pauuuuj ‘sjtiq ajtqAi aubsajnpid 3 a|sd
pus asas[ a.ioAi .moj qs a[it(At ‘uaaj
ut qjjnoj aq) pus ‘AioqaA fqsd ut ap:d p.qqt
e ‘quid aped ut aaqjomi Aqiaad ‘arqq uj
svai auo 'sassaap Jtaqt aia.u anq
jo o;cd os paasadds quit -w'fliu jo ‘jo[oo tue.ia.gtp
s ui qoso spiwrasapijq aqt pus
‘apsaoaq agflAt jo ss.ti ssa.ip s.apuq aqx
•.{[juaoaj uopuoq ui “uippa.w dyyaid eiqsuoiqssj
« ye yno pau.iso ssai sapt y ,