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LINCOLNTON NEWS
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VOLUME IV.
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A M (dbbtaftS Dear to the Hear*.
How 4$ar to our heart ls the building eprnqr
he U surious to
O, tfie^Btf-winded poet, the
ImJ The A se^ium-bound «vt« poet—let liirei hang in tho
And , f “^k^ m “- e ' i <V ^ k ‘ et
did his
How tweetiy voioe floated ont on the airt(! j
That JfWr'y 8rruttea ol4f:u»«y proud rooster.
as as a
Bqt, knight;
iltt—MUiiOh htt hwlu’4
.He Me aud the Coroner said he was tight.
' How dearly-beloved was the moss-covered cat
Then died of sore-throat in the meeting
How dearly and muchly we loved the f young
The •Bin*,! brasa-thi-oated , ~ i .i
the dark; doglet that howled in
■
He waastmngled todenth by the noo»e in biS
1 -Jpfi^inded iiowti deep bj the side of his
—Ra!^h E. Hoyt.
•taftEj^otHrG'ARrrisT* r
The tiny afiattmcnt was evidently the
;sister’s only room; for in the centre, up¬
on a floor So sfSbtlasalV wfiite to make a
carpet seem like a needless luxury on
awro
)P#te4nnch which Maudie - =+wri
mm II „
now sleeping quietly on the couch,
|h|n Uariwe-^ snowy pillows .Os I are JO fS not whiter
;
Like some lovely marble image she
looks; amLwereritpiot cotljd for the, |ej fluttering
: efsiy mistaken
But here comes Maudie. %ith a light
to
the
sleeper. MABfcUfffovfe Alta ainftfiTent, , listen¬ ^
■
ing fitted to spirit-lamp qtttot'’ breathing; then liiing she
polished a over which a
copper kettle, it was "'soon •
trfWBPtik bubbling away tbe merrily, oti it) as, going though
.g« was t(4
do.
It rotjscd the sick gifl. She opened
Mr eyes abd Sifiiled, as Maudie said
brightly: “Now
for a cup of tea, ARa. See
what I have brought you—the cunning
est little glass of currant-jolly! They
qall it a‘ptcnic’jar; and itgiy.es areli?u
to these crisp milk-crackers, and this
nice butter. Just look how yellow ft Is
—like pure gold.”
Alta A« Maudie displayed hand her treasures.'
put OBt -her languidly for
the plBtt which bet stater offered . her.
fill
la g. the.rpoiB.wHU, ifa. pjea^nt arypt*..
Ma udfe took then- one Precious, cup,.
Wtftcn’fiadbeiShgeatblft'rgraiulmothor. in just the
put and the* right-proportion.of iheliot sugar
cveam. it. and coaxed poured drink Doldng
over Alta to it.
8h* tIMtol* A. few Aiomthffils before
she noticed Maudie -.was not eating.
Then she said:
Maudie? ’fWtftl has Has become walk of your tired apjietitc.
much your you so
that yon cannot eat?”
uNo,” was -tiie careless answer;—“I-
4 have had my lunch.”
If she hail told the whole truth instead
• of a part of it, Alta’s relish for her
frugal meal would have quickly vanish¬
ed. Maudie had only eaten a few soda 5
crackers spite of since her cheery early ’morning; and project in
ways, if tiie
which filled her mind should prove a
failure, she knew not from whence
would come the next month’s rent for
$(Vti*l their nap (fast th<l$|i§|fe|«fotf* room, or the fevv things
'nJ
But she was brave and hopeful, and
that is half the battle. One day while
passing the she ; had stopped fashionable
stationer, a moment
Mp boxes of if tastefully Wiiidoxv, arranged «U»oted ‘Papoterio. -by, the
-toiSMfite if* th# pflbfeagtSi df -ehve^opcs ,1
were fastened together by bands, bear
vafiofis' patterns—the'
intricate Persian, or graceful groupings
be S tics Y r 4' e
As Maudie looked, a conversation,
■which she h..d once heard between her
SttJHJdKraasirajm ■
Artists designs, were employed and "were to sometimes originate
these teifJ
liberally d,
common cop mo pel <a |tu#? >f l# #!
the faculty N n 510
She was a little child when she heard
this, and thought at the time what a
pleajanteway for ekeVat it would be to earn quite lUongt;, 5
that age she was a
proficient in drawing, and loved dearly
to steal away by herself, with pencil and
life” Her talent had mJ takaj^ier besn-f ostfc-ed fencl./ ’ fiy lie# . |
father, who had given her lessons from
home to hunt up,-hoc. box ot water
board wbicli had remained useless °f Wff and
unthought-rff at the bottom of a packing
Alta’s eyes followed her movements
sketchod witli languid interest graceful as wreaths .shp ..rapidly and
some
vines from the originals in -memory’s
cabinet. ‘
■
One of them—a delicate cluster of
trailing arbittns—well she remembered
the gay party who had sot out to find
under the shy tl® 9prink4&o|uif(^irt.lh, show. ■Htfines and liars* ir jhkunts’ con¬
tended fyr the mastery as she woi'ked;
predominated, for her dis
as essentially sunny. pleasant
Alta thought it merely a
diversion fof fier young Meter, for
Maudie nad kept the studiously knowledge concealed of their
urgent necessity felt such sympathy for
from her. She a
the stricken girl that she was absolutely
ptotfierly in ner care of her.
After Maudie two or three had days of steady 'num¬ in¬
dustry, ber completed a
of ddftlar specimen whose pictures, window and, had going first t®
tile
sug^este^l her plan, she asked for an
interview with him.
an old gentleman, with a
■e. wBo so won her confidence
that she made ni known her errand with
but a treffiot.
listened had explained kindly aud courteously
until she her motive in
calling head^ upon him. Then he shook lijs
“Why, child” said he, “the best
artists i«»4be city- do not consider it be
Bi trade. ath tlieir dignity to design for our
An amateur would stand but
little chance.’*
Jfaddiq’s Heart was in her throat, but
sheiSkid stuM.i)v:
Jou make up your mind as to
, “Yes; but before 1 do so, you must
promise not to feel bad if I cannot pass
a favorable opinion. A stranger rarely
finds the merits in our productions that
we do ourselves.”
Hi- intentions were kinder than his
words, for lie was really attracted by the
voting face with its earnest eyes
s lbokiu£up,at him so frankly; and he did
not wish to raise her anticipations and
then disappoint looked her. her
So lie at drawings, care¬
lessly at first, then with unconcealed
surprise. After a time he tinned to
"Do you fell nte these designs arc
yTulV'hVn*” , M
Maudie blushed, but said resolutely.
“Indeed;’shy yourself they are mine, and no
one but and my sick sister has
had a glimpse of them. ’
i f'Bless ine, child, how old are you?”
“Sixteen last Match.”
, The old .gentleman scrutinized tho
ikatohes adjiifl, this ti ne closely and
carefully. *T Then knew he said:
see you what you were capa
bfe of better than I did. These,” laying
hw- full Pi -tijjon her portfolio, “are
wonderfully well-done!” well done. Wonderfully—
’
AUlie firought out these last words
-slowly and rapidly. emphatically, Maudie’si mercuryj
spirits rose ns as the
does under the influence of unclouded;
sunshine; and well they might for the
stui qf independence and prosperity had
arisen for her.
Mr. Beunclerck offered to write her a
Ifitter of Introductiori to the firm who
supplied the papeterie, snyiug that he
thought it very probable that they Would
at once secure her services.
gke waited long enough to receive
the precious letter, and then hurried
home to tell Alta that she had an errand
which might defaiu her a few hours.
and not to worry if she stayed even
longer. "
She met with success. Her drawings
proved the-open sesame” to a eompe
teu.ee earned easily aud pleasantly.
IhiiTeacies Sgjiy gould uow procure the needed
for Alta, which had been out
ivneb before, hoping they might
restore the bloom to her pale cheek,
But. (be poor girl was suffering from a
Wound which struck deeper than a
nwre physical watched malady, so the loving
sister in vain for the roses of
IniOJth. ' j Maudie *• ..
Now that was secure of an
independence;' she took Alta into her
confidence, amHtrjnutitsd a spurge of
pleasure to the sick girl to fear' the’
young artist’s off-hand description of
the various people site met with m her
One day, peregrinations. Maudie
took her portfolio to
town soiling w:th her, of her as she larger had airospoct paintings of
some to
be copied as chromes. Among? them
she had inadvertently left a picture of
her sister, Alta. '
hit The tb ;wrings gentleman wfc* who absent, usually and the inspected senior
partner sent word that he was very
folio much and engaged, would but to send if the in paintings the port
he see
were satisfactory, so she need not lose
her time by a useless journey.
Maudie seated herself to await his _
She heard the murmur of
voices iu the inner office for a time, then
an exclamation of surprise, followed by
eager and questioning. Then entered. rapid foot
sti-.ns ~l*‘MisaMaudie, a gentleman
am am I I so so fortunate?” fortunate?”
sfioife shorn! ijp by’ wifirpTeasure; with approached ached his his but but face face its its exDression expression absolutely absolutely
measure:
changed as Maudie rose, white to the
lips, and py tioned away his outstretch
“Mauuie listen to me. Nay, I will be
heard. There is surely some terrible
mistake, cruel alike to me and Alta.
A'siGod is my witness, my life, sinqp I
’““you, Mira has been a blank." I hate,,not
place unvisited where I, othpa a
chance of hearing from you. y«i
pot believe me?” ’'|g*
decided. Many ie stood for a moment un
Ho sa vv hor change of expression, and
glitepaOJiiwr bantL
k»e*y my little friend had not
turjed heart. ttfitor Come, to take me in to her Alta.” kind true
me
-Did you not receive Alta’s lettey,
ath, and our changed,
tl
er
... Alt ., ” ,
*<M»Wodufio g qfieonly
girl suffered of youl . acquaintance." She has
Sfiie a.-living is fi|deda death |p.nd iu thinking invalid.” you
fafaq. t an
“No matter—she is Alta, That is
enough tvotiid beithe for me. sfttrie My rose of girls! She if
in my eyes -evea
disligured " beyond recognition ° by* v
nf |. >>
MauJiJ was convinced.
“But bo/came my pictures?”
Tho in with a note from
Mr. Ogden, of saying that ho would take
Iwo the oval landscapes. So MMtdie
took ner portfolio, and started with tho
impatient lot or for tho replaced pleasant suite (ft
rooms Which, Which had their one
attife room in we found them.
“Had it not been for your business,
ability; Miss Ma udie I should never
have discovered your retreat Think
of it! If we had been separated by a
single knowing partition, and unk and still passed on uu
nown ! was your
DJlYOTKD TO 1UK INTKBI ST OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
LINCOLNTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1888.
piclure wa&rng of Alta which told me who it
was in my friend’s office.’'
“Alta’s picture!’’
“Yes. So that was an accident, too.
Well, Providence befriended me. Thq
oversight was for my special benefit.”
Need we say that Alta recovered as i|
by newed magic her when hope and love were re-,
in heart by the return of het
lover—faithful and true?
After his explanation, the sisters
wondered that they had not thought it
to have been the true state of the case;
of but slights they had and had coldness some bitter apparently experience
from
devoted friends after their change of
circumstances, and when time had
passed on, and Ernest Monteith failed
them, Alta had too—judging turned the by wall his and silence— hoped
to
for death.
When Ernest came home from his
studies on the Continent, he had gone
to their old home and found them gone.
Ernest Monteith and Alta St. Clair
are now married lovers. Maudie make9
her home with them; hut, true to her
independent spirit, she continues her
congenial labors. One of the pleas¬
antest rooms in Mrs. Monteith’s house
is appropriated to her use as a studio.
Her pictures are the fashion, and she
has orders enough ahead to fill her
time for many months. How true it is
that who our help Heavenly themselves! Father helps those
QUEER APPETITES.
The old saying that what is one man’s
meat is another map's poison is realized
in the opposite tastes of people.
The Englishman will not eat a squir
rel, bnt will gloat over a meal of bama
cles and periwinkles, the latter a species
of sea-snail that adheres to the rocka
The Hollander relishes a feast of de
cayed bread shark, yet looks with horror ou
and butter. The Japanese have
a prejudice against milk and beef, but
will enjoy stewed or roasted rat. The
Turks shudder at the thought of eating
oysters. The Digger Indians the Pacific
of
slope rejoiced in the great locust swarms
of 1875 as a gracious dispensation of the
Great Spirit, and laid in a store of dried
locust powder sufficient to last them for
several years.
The, French will eat frogs, snails and
the diseased livers'of geese, but draw
the line at alligators.
Buckland declares the taste of boa
constrictor Sir good, and much found like veal.
Robert Schoniberg monkey
very being palatable, carved though looked he says that be
fore it disagreeably
like a roast child.
Quasi the fermented cabbage water
of the Russians, is their popnlar tipple,
It is described as resembling a mixture
of stale fish and soapsuds in taste, yet,
next to beer, it has more votaries than
any other fermented beverage. A tab
low candle washed down with quasi*
forms a meal that it would be hard to
be thankful for.
Iu Canton and other Chinese cities
rats are sold at the rate of $2 a dozen,
and the hind quarters of does are hung
up irt the butchers’ shops commands alono®ide
mutton and lamb, but high.
er price. The edible birds’nests of tha
Chinese are worth twice their weight in
silver, the finest variety selling for as
much as $80 a pound,
The j negroes of the West Indies eat
.their h ytr fi “W ** and palm worms fried in
own fat, but they can not be in,
duced to eat stewed rabbits,
In Mexico" parrot eaten, but they
are rather tough.
The Guaehos of the Bad da Oriental
are in the habit of hunting skunks for
the Sake of their flesh;
la Kasfcaskia, a tovm.bn the banks of
the fried Mississippi, rattlesnakes "Musical Jack,” qr.
skinned, aud showing decapitated white and
a meat as
and firm as a chicken, is a standard
dish.
The octopus, or devil-fish, when boiled
and then roasted, is eaten in Corsica
and esteemed a great;delicacy,
In thfeTbcififc lslantlsand West Indies
lizards’ eggs are eaten with great gusto,
The natives of tbe Antilles eat alligator
eggs-, and the eggs of the turtle arc
popular every where, though up to the
commencement of the last century tur
tie was only eaten by the poor of Ja
m&ica.
, Ants are eaten by variops. np|kws.
In Brazil they are served with a resin¬
ous sauce, and in Africa they are stewed
with grease or butter. Th e East In
dians catch them in pits and carefully
wash them in handfuls, like raisins. In
Siam a curry of ants’ eggs is a costly
luxury. The Cybn
the bees after rob
bing Caterpillars- them of tl ' siri
> ;rs are dainties
to the African bus
After they have ind the silk from
the cocoon the Chinese eat the crysalis
of the silk worm.
Spiders roasted are a sort of dessert
with the New Caledonians.
The Viennese are the great snail
eaters the itotfce Danube, world. is The town of Ulrn.
on the principal place
where snails *a're fattened for the mar
kefc Those whiqfi are fattened on
Strawberries command the highest
priSe, whitofiO.OOcMhre.annually export
Afciean snail, that attains a length ot
eight Cock’s inches, is converted into sofip.
conjbs arc considered a deli¬
cacy in the Paris restaurants, while the
Briton swallows shrimps in their en¬
tirety.
,, Mr*. Wheedle ,, ■! . was just . . kxkkiug , , . at
your ^oiildntjet insurance An policy, .Vt^ qnd I find should that 1.
a ‘K J (Hl
commit mrtoide. Why don t vou change
it info. some .other ofifitpuny?” Mr. W.
JW* m J^ r l y 00 d «!i 1 " ant "If W ;~ to
faityowa sack Of cfaqse -k.«d, not, WNiknl* Charlie;
to *
ami $9,000 would »- a
g«d R be a
^ to * -Poston Transcnpt.
”
pupil i . # , ,, ...—
A in one ol our.public schools,
remarked one day last week, while re
citing tiolls history, that “tho first couscion
H has Congress suggested met in Philadelphia.”
been that it was also,
fitedast opo —Cape Ann Breeze,
Grand Chief Arthar.
Twelve years ago the grand chief
engineer of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers resigned. His order
was in just such a condition as Mr.
Powderly, in his late address, said that
the Knights of Labor are now in. There
were too many strikes, and it was not
possible for the chief engineer to control
tbe die membership. The great Pan-Han
trouble was on then, and everv state,
almost, had an engineer's strike. j t
was during this crisis that P. M. Arthur,
He the present radically grand chief took the helm.
was conservative. He held
that men should work until they found
their differences could not be settled by
arbitration, rather than strike until they
were adjusted. diplomacy
Bv a little he fixed up the
Pan-Handle trouble, and then made a
tour of the country. Wherever he met
the officers of the road the men were
justified instances and work he was resumed. In
several found the men had
violated the principles of the orgwniza
tions bv striking without exhausting all
resources. In such cases the men were
forced to apologize to the company and
go to work, or suffer the revocation of
their charter. Mr. Arthur went all the
■way to Maine to defend an engineer
who had been arrested for interfering
with the mails by refusing to take out
his engine. Although the man was
liable, Mr. Arthur paid his fine and the
expense of the trial, amounting to $3,
000. Then he prosecuted to the bitter
end a defaulter who had run awav with
funds belonging to the insurance depart
meat of the brotherhood. All this was
a revelation to the order, which had be
fore believed that the grand chief was
simply the boss striker. He was re
elected and But few strikes followed.
There never has been a strike on any
road by the engineers under Mr. Arthur
after tiie company consented to an m
terview with him. He will, ahvavs
make concessions. The doctrine which
he has taught the order is “come, let us
njason togfclher.”
The order was in verv good shape
when the trouble arose "in 1876 on tho
Grand Trunk road. Mr. Arthur went
with liis committee of thirteen to Mont
real, but his request for a conference
was spurned with offensive words. Ha
called his committee together a»d coun-’
seled them that duringthe strike which
he was about to order no violence
should be done to any one not to prop
erty. No engine was to be "kiUeu”
nor derailed. Every engineer who waa
put up by the company was to be taken
down by the men by their contracting
to pay him regular wages for doing
nothing. The men struck, and for three
days not a wheel was turned on the
road. Then the company sent for Mr.
Arthur and his committee and treated
them like kings, conceding brotherhood everything,
For eight years the has
not had a strike.
Mr. Arthur ran an engine from Al
bany to Schenectady on the New York
Ceutral for twentv years. His engine
was the “William "H" Vanderbilt,” the
crack engine of the road. It was then
that he and sixteen other engineers wer®
discharged for daring to ask for passes
for tlieir families. They had no organi
zation then, but a few years later they
concluded to ask for enough more
wages per day to pay fare discharged for their
wives. The same man who
them Mr. Arthur was glad to grant proud the increase. order.
is very of his
which is verv extensive and wealthy,
He does not believe in general order*
—the banding together of engineers and
shoe-makers—but believes that every
branch of skilled labor should look ont
for itself. He says America is proud
of her railroad engineers. The brother
hood, offences, discharges and for lie, drunkenness the anil
other says traveler
goes darkest to and bed in his sleeping-car in the
stormiest night that ever
blew with just as much confidence in
liis safety ns he would at the fines*
hblel. This assurance, he believes, is
largely due to the work of the brother
|ioqd. Mr. Arthur's greatest work now
is ni editing his magazinefbf worid-widc, engfneers.
Its circulation is reaching
20,OOu copies.
Facts About the Eye.
„ There . w no . cute . foi u color , „ blindness. .
ih ® f; 3t .^- e of color bl,ndne8S wa8
repotted m blindness Hw. dtte exhausboa
is- to
of nerve fibers.
lour out of every 100 males and one
in every 400 fonm>s are color blind. ,
Itis nosignateariis color blind be
cause he can not name every color.
nitr to 20.000 small T eyes. te’- It is n8 really ^
ooimwked of evefi.
Wo do not need light to see eertem
objeots. A sharp blow on the eyes often
causes a man to “see stara
The cause o! color blindness, aside
from natural causes are alcohol, tobae
co and diseases. It is m many cases
hereditary
The writer saw a rannwlte was color
blind take 100 colors and divide them
into four groups, black, yellow, white
and blue.
It is nonsense to believe there is any
particular way Whether to rub the eyes. It makes
no uiffeivnee ytm move from or
toward tbe nose or up or down.
The cat. horse and birds have a third
eyelid, which is used to protect the eye
from too much light. Man has a third
eyelid in the corner of the eye which is
undeveloped. The defects of the
eye are numerous,
but we are pretty well satisfied with
it. Every one has a blind spot in th®
eye. This is proved by shutting one
eye and lqpking at an object. We can
not The see it fully'. of the change the
use eyo enps to
fonn of the eye in hope's of bettering the
sightis ridiculous. They draw the eye
out of shape and often cause blindness,
Thousands of these cups are sold every
year.—A. Y. Mail and Sxpress.
uotft'Kcuper liepresentatives, imt®, or tne c,onnecttc«C
House of has ten cart¬
Gage ridges in that the were carried by Jude B.
retreat from New Londou
in the war of 1812. They are hand¬
made, the wrapping being pieces of
newspapers, and the round balls ara
kept in place by tow strings. Mr. Gago
.when ninety years old gave the relica
Jto Mr. Date.
Unnot iced Da ngers.
Some years ago the "'hole country
was ? tartlet * b J Hie »ml«len death of a
P roml J l ® n * man ln -' e ' v York. had
moved into a new and beautiful home
■- V *. or two ? e ‘ ore ' was
nterary work, occupying . a
Bt| my on tee lower story in front, ap
P* r ® aU y tbe mo.-,t desirable pact of the
house. I he at tend ont physician early
c “ ar g®« tne trouble to sewer gas, but no
defect in the pipes coul.l be found. After
“ lg death a more thorough examination
u^ VP a boot of stagnant water under
“J**. .. ^ *' AO w ?J l( ' er that he died. The
™y 3terious providence which removed
“>m was a mystery no lor ’?® r
Vine of the professor-sot- Harvard toi
, ege has lately been seriously ill, mam
tln 8 ab I. symptoms of arsenical
, For time his
poisoning. wine recovery
’vas in doubt But when out of danger
a mo8t careful search after the source of
?“* P 01800 resulted in finding the arsenic
1? P a P er "* ,aa S l n? s - ■* tie beauty o.
*, he « and ^ £ ree “ P, r °
-
“ cea D )' arsen ' c - No wonder that that
tate . aroused, and that the
> s citizens
aema , '} tl a iaw w hich will prohibit the
sale of a R such dangerous hangings
-tnese two cases are typical. Far too
man y houses, both in city and country,
? re P° sl ti'®ly aangeious. Many city
houses stand on made land, or at least
“at which was formerly swampy lue
walls, when there are any
f°r houses often stand on posts alone
* re “ui t of solid masonry, but with no
celn ® n elt “er outside or in. buch walls
are .P® rous » an ‘^I soak up water nearly as
raputly as a sponge. 11 slowly
* nc kl ? th
laa l* . r forming , a fine s soil in which ail
manner of fungoid growths flourish.
The rooms over such places are firatr
c aa s i l8 ®a 3 e riders, and ev erv home
fu. 06 Ir, -‘ c l u e “ exammea to see
.u- - doe>
, at t “ 13 source . danger not ex
,
then, arain , . pipes otten .. , leak ., the
in
® 6ilar ana basement. lhis adds to the
danger bends, stagnant to the rooms water above. from the 1 he sewers two
a “d the water filtering slow ly m thiongh
wax work in eoneert to sap the lite
enret Jf® asea*. i. 0nes ’ and to “t them to
xne walls or tee rooms themselves in
far , to ® man y houf j®s are disease brt^d
er8 ',, A nesU :ina P a l X!r u P° n “‘ e
wall makes , a loom . inviting, and adds
J° tbe “ onl ® co '“ fort - Bat - onfortnnate
JT- * rol even “ poison, vvhen ami t ie goo'! pajver P a P is t; r made oun flee 80
jnade, tached the is jus pas t e e wuth home which for , the it minute is . at
organisms which produce certain dix
I his is bad enough where there
ls onl > a single layer ot paper, nut,
vv ben ’ as and . ls en the case, spread several layers
of , P a F r paste are upon the
8ame w ’ a 'l< °f ou ® anotner. the
danger is multiplied many times. Such tilth.
T ” "tasses undoubtedly of filtering plain
he be9 t 1S the
P , . ea , w f.,
AU ,,, cas f hke these demand caution.
, Those Tn who are responsible for the
0n J*v c:l “ not .t?° care ^ u ^
u h ea ‘, °™“ t& e ilte OI loved ones,
’ -
, ^ parfictilarir, depends these upon k,
rl £ ld e * c lon of a ‘ l lu r “S
R lace ? of d,s ^?? e and bre ? d f rs of death -
.^ ut v ’ should be, and is, consistent
-
* lth Perfect safety m the home.-Te
rxjjin, in 1 e turren .
The Grant Monument.
h«fort T . , tne !nm -;-— wholly subscribed
ia
there will- be time carefully to con-
81< ? er wbat form the memorial should
t a ke, and the other question which the
death and burial of General Grant have
bropght ‘“ould prominently bo forward, whether nation
not a common
a , > ground, saiito, in which
lb® great heroes should be buried, and
w hicb would become at once a shrine
“f national pilgrimage and an ever-re
ne w»ng fountain of national union and
patriotism.
-inore is one obvious objection to
E ^!i h a sc ' s that th ® c ^ uas
of distinguished , citwenaitoanch l nation
al sepulture mwt bo determined by
Congress, inevitable and the result would be al
most that mere partisan feel
mg would largely determine a qnes
turn decide. wmch There such feeling be can considered, not justly
is to
I*) of 80 such ’ national shrines ^iu throughout distribution th®
com try by the burial Ifount of every Yurnoi) great
citizen at bis home. u
a temple and a monument which even
the Capitol would not be if the dust of
oth?r great Americans wew deposited
in its crypts Like the battle-fields of
wb >ch are scattered over
the old thirteen States and each of
which is • consecrated held of patriot- _
ism, the graves of famous Amermans
cheruhed amid the local scenes of
their lives would be alters of enno
land bling patriotism everywhere in thf
bly, It is objected, indeed, and veryforci- , .
that they are not cherished, but
fall often into most unseemly neglect,
Wherever this is true, it is a caustic
reproach of the neighborhood or of the
But it is hardly a reason for
national interment that a great man’s
kindred are negligent of his grave,
ln a little town among the hills of
western Massachusetts there is a mou
umeut to the the “ever-living memory” of
the sons of town who died iu the
service of the Uuiou. it is not a shaft,
not a statue, not a pyramid; it is &
grauite fountain, tho stone forming a
low and modest monument, while tho
water flows from the four sides into
convenient basins, and upon the sqnaro
sides of the stone superstructure are
engraved the the soldiers, brief inscription and th®
names of it stands in tho
midst of the village street, and the
man who stops to drink aud to water
his horses reads the names and the in
scriptlon, aud the man and beast re
sunra their journey refreshed, the man
perhaps reflecting that even so the self
sacrifice of tiie soldiers refreshed the
streugth of his country and of man
kind suiving for still higher and truer
liberty. memorial of Grant be of
May not a practical a
kind which by its benefits to
his countrymen may recall and sym
bolizc his immense and modest mag
nanimous services to his country?— harper't
George William Curtis, .in
Magazine for November.
Carious Coins.
“What is that curious-looking cop
„ er pj ece ?” asked a reporter of a deal
i,j '
9r ; n 0 co j Dg
“That is the Roman Aes, a coin
which wa3 in ase in Rome about 2,200
years ago. It is an original; it could
not be spurious, and for the reason
that though the coin itself, so far as its
outward shape is concerned, might be
counterfeited, it would be impossible
to imiiatc :he red patina, or coating,
upon it. \ ut: see, this coin has two
coatings of colored matter—one green
tlld the olitcr red. Well, the green
-an bo imitated by modern ingenuity,
t>n the red stuff can not be put upon
;ounterten coins bv anv process at
present Itnowa to the world.”
“Where do you get those ancient
co j Q . that were in use so many years
a g 0 ? Where are thev found?” '
••Well, you see. people in those an
oient limes did not have banks and
bauk vaults to deposit their wealth in
for R safe-keeping. As you know, the
oma ns were almost constantly at
warfare with others, and those who
had money would frequently hide it in
the earth or secure it in the walla of
their dwellings when they went to the
wars. Those who were killed left,
quite ofteD, no trace of where their
wealth waa hidden, and so it remained
to be resurrected by some modern relic
burner. A great rnaoy ancient coins
have been found also in riverbeds. 1
think that in manv instances they were
put into rivers by "people who wished
to have tneir history remembered by
the coming ages. There have been
coins found in the Thames near old
Loudon bridge bv which we can trace
many ol the Roman emperors. The
f uct te a t they have thus been found
i n order seems to clearly indicate that
tRey were deposited ou purpose bv per
sons desirous of perpetuating the
names of the rulers. Thus, by these
CO i Uj 0 f ancient Rome, many things
pertaiuing to that great empire which
ruled as mistress of the world are made
known to ns. Many things are indeii
blv impressed upou the mind bv glauc
iu g at these coins and afterward be
do coming believe interested there iu the subject. I
not can be a better
educator of the history of anv country
than a collection of" its coins. The
symbolic devioes and inscriptions upon
them have a priceless value iu fixing
u „ 0 „ the m ; n a the great facts and eD
ochs to which they refer. Not only
does this apply to ancient coins; it is
equally true of modern coins. Here is
something that to the thinking man iu
dicates a great social and business rev
olution in the manner and customs of
the people who use it, for here you see
a suecimeu of the largest coin ever
known to be in use anv where.”
The reporter was struck with amaze
ment when informed that the huge
squarc copper platter-like affair was a
coiu “Yes, Proceeding, Swedish the dealer said:
it is a piece and gen
eral j weighs v weighs 6f from C to 7 it pounds. This
0 ne pounds, is lo) inches
bv 9J incaes long, and is a very
rare coin . was U mde during the
reign of Frederick, king of Sweilen, in
the year 1723. Iu the center of the
piece, inclosed in a circle, you see tho
stamp * -4—doler,’ and underneath the
word , s u mvut - (silver moU ey), and
.
iu each of the lour corners, and in or
der to prevent the coin being clipped.
they were .”—Huston stamped with the royal coat
of arms U obc.
-—- » -
h M . . .
•“* I * •
A poultry-raiser out on the country
e( jge 0 { the Seventh ward is an egg
u)i ser . To eat an egg is, accord.ug to
jjj g wa y 0 f thinking, an unwarranted
extravagance. "The philosophy of
egg-eating,” he reasons, "is the de-
8lruct j on 0 f the hen tribe. Eggs arc
on |. means of propagating the
ttibe; is it not gallinaceous them?” murder,
then, to destroy Somebodv
was speaking to him about Christopher
Columbus. The poulterer took the
direction of the conversation in his
owa bands and impatiently said:
-I don’t put * much faith in the
f Colambu and the e gg,-you ^ J know! U
hfl mado the sta[ ead
^king it,-but if tho story is true.!
c ^ eQ dc W!ia au elienl y t o mankind
Think of lhe wauton destruction of an
!&» aml it i ong Une '■ c f possible pro
^ ^ , j have been counting th^t it up o?
f 8nd x fin d that if egg was
a ema i 9 _ aDd the chances are that
was _ if hatched , and the chick cared
for , would have produced by this time
gixteeu hundred trillion of chickens,
who w cantf se eggs dozeu. would now whde be the retailing chickens. ai
a
it dr08 sed and marketed, would net 2(
cents a p 0und _ m aking a grand aggro
National „ ate 0 f capital that wm,id pay off the
debt, convert the heathen in
all foreten lands and buy euouo-h votes
to elect Jeukius or any J other man gov
eruor of 0uia It W !ttl awful f t . ar .
tful waste that little trick of CoIuiu
bus .hntianapolis Sews.
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rrosimiue* »eei.
If the feet get verv much chilled a
number of times, or frozen, they should;
[*• put into When tepid frozen, water until feeling re-1
tut us. thev are generally;
verv- white, all of the blood having been)
driven from the surface, and if frozen'
repeatedly, beeoirie tender and painful., of!
They swell with every odder change
the weather, or crack open and bleed
between the toes; again, the heels andi
large toe joints are the only parts aU
fected. except a general heat and swell
ing. or painful itching. The sVes, feet, in!
the morning, are vervsore; yesterday, which;
were comfortable enough arej
at least three numbers too small to-dav.
If the large toe ioints remain swollen tliol
for several weeks, they press against
shoes and form very painful bunions. A
hot borax water bath of half an hour,
with a thorough nibbing with glycerins
is good. The feet should be thoroughly!
glycerine drv (or well applied, dried) and otherwise warm before they will; tlm(
is loosel
stay damp. Then put on old,
stockings, made and keep warm. each A of prepara-l
tion of Jwo ounces
rine and coal oil, with one teaspoonfulj
of carbolic acid, is said to be good, ajrt
plied with the hand twice a day for five
minutes .—Pauline Adelaide Hardy in
Good housekeeping. ^
NUMBER 33
Four Literary Marriages.
William D. Howells, who wedded
the sister of Larkin G. Mead, thesculp
for, divides his time between literature
and his family. He is so much in
lov* with his wife that some of his
friends say that he sees in her all the
line varieties ol her sex, and from her
fashions his interesting heroines, look
ing at her from different angles. He
does not need, like Goethe, Balzac, and
so many literary artists, to woo women
to pluck the embellishment out the mystery of their hearts
for of his fiction.
To him his wife is representative of
whatever is womanly in woman. This
is the loftiest idealization of mar
riage.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, tlw
novelist, differs from the most non-lit
erary wives in the circumstance that
she is conspicuously—they might say
foolishly—in love with her lord. They
are as intimate in every respect as they
can be; they have no thought or feei
ing that they do not share. They
might be The termed late a connubial H., pair of
spoons. H. Mrs. Helen
Hunt, whose second husband wasWill
iam S. Jackson, had many of the traits
ascribed to genius, but indifferenc • to
her husband was not one of them,
They were very foDd of one another,
and he always was her la-t court of ap¬
peal. The same might bo said of Jul
ian Hawthorne, J. IV. DeForest. Mark
Twain (Clemens), Charles Dudley
Warner, or almost any writer. If
there has ever been a time when ink
caused matrimonial discord it has
long gone by, especially in this eouu
try.
. Edmund
Clarence Steumaa. win.
made a love-match when a mere boy,
running away with the pretty girl who
had fascinated him. Mis kept up the
romance ever since; and he is now, ai
though comparatively He young, a gt'aud
father. does not, after the manner
of many singers, reveal all his poetry
to the outside world and preserve bis
prose for indoors employment. What
ever he writes his wife nears first, as
she is, he says, his gentlest and yet
most Harriet exacting Prescott critic, (Spofford)
has writ
ten from her early girlhood, change of
circumstances haviug thrown the sun
port of aud the family mainly upon her. A
P 0 ® 1 a geuius.she might be thought
to be one.ot the most wayward, emo
tional, inconsisteat creature who could
never who would possess be permanent fueling and
ble of wifehood. constitutionally But iucapa
true the fact is
that she is domestic to the core. She
and her husband. Richard S. Spofford,
went to school together, were in love
with one another as girl and boy, and
are as much iu love lo-dav as when
they were in their teens. Her nature
is wholly monandrous. She minks
there is but one man in the world—iu
deed, there is but one for her-and
that man is her husband. She is never
quite content in his abseuce, and wel
comes him on his return as she proba
i° bly did when ^ he had first literary* declared his
ve * *^ ut * e > loo » though
he seldom writes, having the duties of
**' s profession to engross his time,
They are an idyllic couple iu their af
faction, dyed though they be iu ink.—
Philadelphia Time*.
A Manager’s * ""-i I.iiekv Number. ■
Col. Johu MeCaull, of the Broad
Street Opera House, is in no way an old
man. except that he is a disbeliever in
many popnlar theories'of modern times,
one of which is the fatalism of the num
her 13. He declares the dogma of one.
ph>' a dozen beiu^_* combination of
misfortunes is heresy. To the energetic
manager of “The Mikado” and "Black
Hussar' the number is full of charm
:l,u ' hick. This was the conclusion
that the Tim<js gatherer came to, after
a short talk with the Colonel. Thecon
versation was brotlglit ftbout by the hap
py manner hi which the colonel had
written an acceptance to a dinner to be
given by the famous-13” Club of New
terk.
"Colonel, do you have no feeling ol
b ‘ iir lo sit ''°wn with a company of thir
tecu’*” was the query,
This made the managerial Napoleon
««Ue, and he remarked;
-l should certainly feel uncomfortable
with any other number around the fes
^>1 hoard. Some peopto lose their ap.
petites when there are thirteen at the
b a8b and sit a whole year expecting
At two of the ' most enjoyable
»<*“« 1 ever sat down to there were just
thirteen in the company. They were
U'ivcn when we opened -The Mikado’
*>ssbn hem
“At the supper given the night before
'hit opening with the D'Oyley Carte
Company there were just thirteen gen
Cu m u from Japan, and maids from
telmol, Meet; On including the night the Jaughter-in-law- of opening
our
we entertained Sir Arthur Sullivan at
[inner ami we had thirteen at the table,
lll<1 > ! »' gh’at composer thought it so
unique that he wrote home about it.
••This was certainly a ‘pretty how
Tve do’for nervous folks, and a kettle
M fish for people who ai;« superstitious.
VV e did not have such bad luck, after
ill. We opened with a $1,800 house
and plaveil a successful season of thir
teen weeks.
-I never understood why thirteen was
fact aiv magical that number until I recalled the
I was born ou the 13th of the
month. I was the thirteenth John iu
:ho family, went to school until I was
13, ami married thirteen years after that
time.
“In looking over the register of the
boxes 1 find that we opendd with a box
part; of thirteen, aud oitt of 110 we had
during the season there Were eighteen
that were composed of 13 people. I be
liove iu 13. It knocks out the biblical
40 and 7, and to say nothing of the
mokes’ suggestive 4-11-44. I take good
rare that my shoemaker puts 18 buttons
mi ineftes my shoes and always wear my scarf
13 long. I am ‘ an original 13
man. Here is mv Coupe: I’m off for
du-Broad Street Statin®.!’
On the lamp of the hack was the mys
tical number 1$.—Philadelphia Times. |
A portrait of the Chevalier de la Lie
zerne, from whom Luzerne Com ty, in
Pennsylvania, was named, has I een pre
sented Hifltowcal by Eckfey Society. B. Coxe to the Wvom
ing ________ A