Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News September 16, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 18, 2006, 7:56 pm Lamar News September 16, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 46 A FRAGMENT – Poem – [Jean Ingleside] THE ASTROGLOGER’S DUPE – Short Story – [New York Times] HONEY IN THE CHIMNEY Wild bees are becoming very plentiful in the country around Emigrant Gap. A score or more of trees have been cut near that village during the past eight months, some of which proved very rich. In this connection the following strange circumstance is noteworthy. The chimney of James Davis house, Bear Valley, had not been used for a year or tow – that is, not by the family. On April 19 it was found necessary to start a fire in that part of the house. The fire was duly started, but for a while it did not burn very successfully. The fact is there was an obstruction in the chimney in the shape of a large deposit of honey in the comb. The fire caught in the honeycomb, the flames hot up out of the top of the chimney to the height of about ten feet, and it was thought for a while that the house would be destroyed, but it wasn’t. Over 900 pounds of honey ran down the chimney. – [Placer (Cal.) Argus] “Shrouds!” exclaimed an old lady who was listening to an old sea-captain’s story, “What do you have them at sea for?” “To bury dead calms in.” THE COMORO ISLES. – Picturesque Scenes in a Remote Region of This Earth. The Island, Their Inhabitants and Their Ruler Described. A correspondent of the New York Tribune writing from Johanna, Comoro Islands, says: The Comoro Islands are four in number, lying in the Mozambique Channel, between Africa and the northern end of Madagascar. The four islands are the Angazlya, or Green Comoro; Arijonan, or Johanna; Mayotte, and Mohilla. Mayotte was ceded to France in 1842. The other islands belong to Arabia. The inhabitants, about 80,000 are principally Mohemetanhs, but fetishism prevails to some extent. The people of Johanna find their principal employment in connection with the ships calling for provisions. The trade of Comoro and Mohilla is of the same character, but the islands are not so much frequented as in former years. Upon entering the harbor of Moosanoodo, the principal settlement of Johanna, one is struck with the picturesque beauty of the hills. From the anchorage the town is also picturesque, with its tall minarets and its two forts – one perched on a commanding hill and the other upon the beach among the shore houses. But the illusion is readily dispelled upon reaching the shore. The landing is upon a beach of rocks and shells and through a considerable surf in the calmest of weather. Along the shore are strewn the washed clothes of the ship’s officers and crews; and a set of vagabond-looking natives of all colors, save that of the Caucasian, are lounging about looking carelessly on, and presenting a repulsive contrast to the Arabs. The costumes of the latter are decidedly attractive’; white robes with loose jackets, and silken girdles about their waists supporting cimeters, the scabbards and hilts elaborately finished with god and silver. These cimeters are purchased at Muscat, and costs from $50 to $250 each. The men’s feet are encased in sandals, and large white turbans adorn their heads. Many of them speak English with fluency and French as well. The town is dilapidated and squalid to the last degree; the houses of rough stone, cemented and thatched; the streets not more than five feet wide and exceedingly crooked. The town is encircled by a stone wall, twenty feet in height, with an entrance at each corner of the inclosure through a gateway scarcely wide enough for two persons to pass at the same time. This wall was built as a sort of defense against the pirates, who were in the habit of visiting the island and stealing everything from the people even to the slaves. Slavery exists to a large extent, and the Sultan of Johanna owns 700 beings, whom he keeps principally to till his lands on the east side of the island. The other Arabs also own plantations and slaves. The inhabitants of the islands, a mixture of Arabs and negroes in great part, are intelligent and sprightly. Before the Civil War in the Untied states they purchased many cotton goods from the American whalers, but their opportunities were disastrously interrupted by the Confederate Cruiser Alabama. Since then they have not fared so well under the oppressions of the English, who they assert, “are strong enough to interfere in everybody’s affairs, and to threaten us with the exercise of their power if we bring over any more slaves from the main.” The highest parts of the islands are densely wooded, and the mountain sides are so steep in some places that the tops of some of the trees touch the trunks and roots of others. The language of the island, a peculiar Arabic dialect, is soft and pleasing to the ear. Prince Abdallah is perhaps one of the best educated men in the Arabic territory, and I was struck with the novelty of the men, and the extreme beauty of face and physical build of this bull-blooded Arab. He is a tall, soldierly–looking man, with square shoulders, well-proportioned limbs, olive complexion, finely cut features, and a black moustache and black hair. I was also surprised at the beauty of one of his three wives, whom I chanced to see with her mask raised. The walls of his house are filled with small niches, receptacles for coffee cups, ornaments, etc. Couches are ranged about the reception and dining rooms, and floors are covered with rich and heavy Turkish carpets and rugs. A black houri was set to fan me, and a crowd of children gathered about me, but the harem kept in the background. If any of the harem have occasion to go in the street or appear in public it must be with her face behind a three-cornered mask with her eyes peeping over it. After refreshments – confections and rose syrup – I walked into the Prince’s garden, a beautiful wilderness of betelnuts and coconuts, mandarin oranges and mango trees, with heterogeneous patches of rice, sweet potatoes and beans, and here and there a cotton plant. On my departure the Prince treated me with royal honors. A band of music – two drums and a clarinet – played for me, each of the musicians using his instrument regardless of the others. Their music reminded me of what a home for foundlings might be on Christmas morning after drums and trumpets had been liberally distributed. The bodyguard about twenty native soldiers was drawn up, then the men holding their arms in the most awkward position. But their dress was a feature – white trousers, red coats and red caps, condemned uniforms purchased from the English soldiers. Scarcely one of the m had a button on his coat, so it was fastened together with pieces of string. The honors, however, were the best the island afforded. A BASE BALL DOG The rival nines were made up of boys under thirteen, and Major. As I reached the ground it was his inning, and his master, who claimed the privilege of striking for him, was at the bat. The dog was right behind with one paw in advance, and his eyes on the striker. In came the twisters, and Major made several false starts; but finally, as the ball went scudding from the bat, off he rushed for first base, his ears flapping, his plume-like tail out straight behind. But the shortstop was too nimble for the dog and just before he reached the base the ball arrived there, and he came slowly back, his tail hanging low, and a very mournful expression in his great eyes. “Maje’s out, side out!” cried the boys and immediately conceived a method by which he could retrieve this disaster; the dog seemed to regain his spirits, dashed into the field, and was speedily in his position as left fielder, before any of the bothers had reached their places In the preliminary “pass around” that preceded the play, Major was not left out, and I saw that the balls that were thrown at him directly were quite as swift as those delivered from base to base; and in justice to him, I never saw him “muff.” When a ball was thrown at him, he settled back, and dropped his great lower jaw, into which the projectile seemed to fit’; then, with tail wagging, he would hasten to carry the ball to the next player. He was equally proficient with low balls, either catching them in his mouth or stopping them with his broad chest, and in fielding he could not be outdone. When he caught a ball, he carried it at full speed to the nearest thrower, and not a few players were put out by his quick motions and activity. – [St. Nicholas] MAKING THE ALLIGATOR USEFUL Says a Florida letter to the Chicago Times: A heathen stranger would certainly say that the alligator was the totum of the tribe and the presiding genius of the place. For it is no exaggeration to say that one may see that reptile here in a thousand appearances – dried or stuffed in the shops, highly ornamented in the stores, alive in tanks, big alligators in pens, imitation wooden alligators on the streets, little alligators in tubs, alligators of assorted sixes in the museums, skeletons of alligators in the drug stores, alligator skins tanned in the leather stores and hundreds of different articles of jewelry of alligator teeth mounted on gold, silver or nickel. You can buy a live alligator from six inches to two feet long or a dead, dried and stuffed one fourteen feet long. A favorite device is thus manufactures. Take an alligator two feet long, the tail as much longer, split it down the front and take out the entrails. Then bend the tail up so the creature can be put in a sitting posture, sew up the front and color it to conceal the opening, and dry the thing to solidity. The, with open mouth and glistening teeth, the cadaver is set upon a stand at the door and smiles a saurian welcome on the customers. The forelegs are often bent around a card-basket or Japan saucer, and if for sale, a placard held in its mouth announces, “I want to go North.” or “I smile to see a customer,” or the like. One is surprised to find the ugly reptile the source of so much art and wit. When the basket is made of some sea creature’s carapace and is filled with assorted shells, the richness of the design is complete. INNOCENT CHILDHOOD “Taint so,’ triumphantly exclaimed Bobbie from his perch on top of a chair, gazing down on Algerson’s head. “What is not true, “ doubtfully asked his sister Maud. “Why, you said Algy was so green that grass was growing from the top of his head, and (determinedly) there ain’t any there.” How Maud explained the situation is unknown. – [Detroit Free Press] THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN A physician says that if arnica with which bruised limbs are bathed is heated its good effects are perceptible much sooner than if applied while cold. A standing antidote for poison by poison oak, ivy, etc. is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned part with it. Three or four applications, it is said, will cure the most aggravated cases. A retired physician living in Ohio, and suffering with diabetes, claims to find great relief in a diet consisting wholly of buckwheat. He states that when he confines himself to a buckwheat diet exclusively, the disturbance in the stomach is relived, as is also the pain in the eyes, due to the disease from which he has so long suffered. This remedy is a very simply one, and well worth trying. For ordinary nervous system being out of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep will naturally follow, and upon getting up the patient will feel very much refreshed and the toothache gone. For what is known as “jumping toothache” hot, dry flannel applied to the face and neck is very effective. For common toothache, which is caused by indigestion, or by strong, sweet acid or anything very hot or cold in a decayed tooth, a little piece of cotton steeped in strong campher or oil of cloves is a good remedy. Care in the diet, especially when the bowels are disordered, is helpful to mitigate toothache. If the tooth is much decayed, nothing is better than its extraction. HAND ORGANS Hand-organs, writes a correspondent of the Troy Times, are a modern infliction, and have introduced the monkey, which is a feature formerly unknown in mendicant minstrelsy. The monkey, indeed, is so amusing that one almost forgets the organ-grinding while watching his antics. These animals are worth from $10 to $30, according to their training, and when an Italian owns his organ and monkey he is really well-to-do in the world. The best hand-organs cost from $100 to $150, but those which so commonly torment the public rarely cost more than $40. The best are the flute organs, and they play nearly a dozen tunes, and some have extra cylinders, which add to their capacity. The principal factory is in Cathham Street, this locality being so near the Italian quarter (Baxter Street) that it is very favorable to trade. There are some Italians who own a number of organs, which they rent by the season at a large profit and with but little loss. The grinder having finished his summer iterancy, of course comes back for winter quarters, and thus pays his rent. Both organ-grinders and boy fiddlers have their regular routes, which they repeat year after year, and there seems to be some general arrangement which prevents interference. It is said that more than 300 of these peripatetic minstrels have gone from New York this season, and yet it will be rare if two men visit the same village. When cold weather sets in the grinders return to Baxter Street, where they pack together – sometimes nearly a dozen in a small room, with neither fire nor lights. The Italians can sustain life under extreme privations, and he seems content to sleep on the floor and live on what he can pick up. A CURIOUS KANSAS LAW IN REGARD TO MURDERERS The most curious law in the United States dealing with punishment of murderers exists in Kansas. The Legislature in 1872 passed a bill which provided that any person convicted of murder in the first degree should be sent to the penitentiary, there to remain until the governor of the state signed a warrant for and fixed the date of his execution. This was a fearful responsibility to place upon the executive, who would hesitate before being directly responsible for the death of any man, no matter how heinous his crime. The responsibility was shifted from the jury or court, to which it properly belonged. That law is still in force, and the result has been that the Kansas penitentiary is crowded with murders, as no governor would order their execution. Forty-one convicted murderers, four of whom are women, could be hung any day by order of the governor. Some of their crimes are unparalleled in the annals of cold-blooded assassination. One of them days, unless that strange law is repealed, there will be a grand hanging tournament in Kansas. The state will elect a governor pledged to rid the community of a band of cut-throats. It may be stated that the law was a neat bit of strategy on the part of the opponents of capital punishment. It seems thus far to have fulfilled the expectations of those who desired to see hanging played out. – [Cincinnati Enquirer] PARTED – Poem HUMOROUS Upside down – A feather bed. A capital fellow – The millionaire. Uniform prices – What the tailor charges for soldier’s clothes. “What is the latest?” was asked of a wit. “Twelve P. M. “ was the curt reply. When one splits his side with laughter he should run until he gets a stitch in them. The unfortunate head of a family who fell into a vat of hot water is said to have been pa boiled. Three things that never agree: Two cats over one mouse, two wives in one house, and two lovers after one girl. People hire lawyers in certain cases for two reasons. One is for the settlement of disputes and the other to dispute settlements. Among the new importations are the Anderson ginghams. They come in plaids and checks and embrace all the new fancy shades of the season. An original way of answering two questions at a time “Here, Biddy, what’s the time of night, and where’s the pertaty pudding?” “It’s eight sir.” A writer says that a woman is a silent power in the land. To this a cynical old bachelor editor responds: “That will be news to thousands of husbands.” Smith (nervously) – “Are you sure there are no toadstools among these mushrooms?” Mary (guiltlessly) – “They wuz bought for the missus’ table, but she told me to try ‘em first on the boarders. Husband (impatiently to wife) – I told you I only wanted half a cup of tea, and as usual you’ve filled it to the top. Don’t you know what half-ful is? Mother-in-law (grimly) – She ought to b y this time. “Don’t prevaricate, sir,” thundered a judge to a witness from the mines. “Can’t help it, judge,” answered the miner. “Ever since I got a kick from a mule that knocked my teeth out I prevaricate a great deal.” “Are you going to make a flower-bed here?” said the Brooklyn girl to her father’s gardener. “Yes, miss. Them’s the orders.” “Why, it’ll spoil our tennis grounds!” “Can’t help it miss. Your pa says he’s bound to have this plot laid out for horticulture, not husbandry.” CARE OF THE TEETH The teeth should be brushes twice a day. The proper time is on rising in the morning and on retiring at night. In the morning a wash may be used. Brush gently over the crowns of the teeth. This removes any mucous that has collected during the night and leaves the mouth in a refreshing condition. Just before retiring a tooth powder should be employed and particles of food lodged between the teeth removed which, when left for several hours, result in the fermentation of an acid, which causes softening of the tooth-structure, and thus promotes decay. After eating, a quill tooth-pick and floss silk should be used for removing he debris. – [Dr. Gilbert] ON THE WRONG SIDE A temperance missionary in Glasgow left a few tracts with a young woman one morning. Calling at the same house the next day, he was rather disconcerted at observing the tracts doing duty as curl papers on the head of the girl to whom he had given them. “Weal, my lassie,” he remarked, “I see you have used the tracts I left w’ye; but,’ he added in time to turn her merriment into confusion, “ye have putten them on the wrong side o’ your half, m---- woman!” – [Independence] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY AUGUST SEPT 16, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Mayor Hillyer of Atlanta says that everything is booming except the liquor trade. For a stirring program see 1886 – strikes, fires, storms, anarchy, war, and rumors of war, an eclipse, an earthquake – what next? The highest mountain peak east of the Mississippi is not Clingham’s as has been stated, but Cheatam’s Peak, a part of the Black Mountains. News of the death of Gen. B. F. Cheatham will be read with profound sorrow. Many Alabamians were in his command which was considered one of the finest in the Confederate service. THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1886 The earthquake which caused half of this continent to tremble on the night of August 31st, was the worst shock known to have visited this country, so far as our records show. It extended from the Northern Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from Nebraska to the shores of the Atlantic. It was severely felt and created great alarm in many places, but no serious disasters save in the dear old City of Charleston, which has sat enthroned as a queen in her kingdom by the sea since the days of old and now in her desolation touches the tenderest sympathies of her children’s children, where their lots may be cast and appeals to the nation for pity in this dark hour of her direst calamity. Floods and fires have swept over her and bravely has she hidden the wounds of war on her bosom, but now her homes are laid waste and her children, panic- stricken, are encamped in the open air amid the ruins. The barest truth is a picture of desolation that calls forth genuine charity and deepest sympathy. There is a lack of provisions and clothing, in fact every comfort is wanted by those homeless people, some of whom have had their loved ones stricken in one instant from life to death, from time to eternity. The city has received no less than ten shocks – here seems to have centered the supreme force of the seismic wave. Besides the dead, there are hundreds of wounded to be cared for an already, more favored cities of the land have reached forth the hand of practical Christian charity. Little is known concerning the real cause of earthquakes. Scientists, after all their investigations can openly tell as that they see caused by the seismic wave, a vibratory motion through the earth, like sound through the air. There have been 7,000 earthquakes recorded in the last two centuries, 364 in the United States during the last 12 years. Southern Italy and the Mediterranean have been considered the lands of the earthquake ever known took place Nov. 1st, 1755, and destroyed the city of Lisbon. The greater portion of the town sank 600 feet below the sea and within 6 minutes 60,0000 lives were lost. Antioch was destroyed by earthquake three times. The United States has been remarkably free from these disturbances, as compared with the old world, but there are great changes going on through out the creation and we know not what years, aye, the days and hours may bring forth. Pickett’s History of Alabama tells us that: The last felt in this region caused a bloody war. The southern tribes were inclined to peace. Tecumseh came from the Forthem Lake tribes, and told the Creeks on the Tallapoosa they were not going to fight. “I know the reason,” he added. “You do not think the Great Spirit sent me. You shall believe it. I shall leave, and go straight to Detroit, and when I fet there I’ll stamp my foot, and shake down every house in Tookeebechee.” The Indians counted the time it would take him to reach Detroit. One day their houses reeled and tottered. They ran out, crying: “Tecumseh has got to Detroit! We feel the shake of his foot!” The Great Creek War at one followed. This was known as the New Madrid Earthquake, which was felt in the Mississippi Valley and to which is attributed the sunken land of Missouri and Arkansas. The earthquake of 1870 was severest in Canada and New England and 1882 there was a great panic from the same at San Francisco. However light the throes of the globe we live on, her lightest gang inspire us with awe. It is a solemn moment when the valleys quake, the mountains tremble – and the great sea is rocked under depths. – [Greenville Advocate] ITEMS OF INTEREST The cholera is said to be raging in Japan. The next session of Congress ends the –th of March. The Knights of Labor condemn the anarchists. Secretary Manning will return to his duties with the cool weather. Frost reported in Indiana, Aug 31st. “And I beheld the mountain and they trembled and the hills moved lightly.” The hanging of Maxwell the murderer of Preller has been postponed to Nov. 16th. The great storms of the West have damaged Texas crops seriously. Experts estimate that it would take about $20,000,000 to cover the deficiencies including declarations of the Republican Party. Yellow Fever reported at Biloxi – Montgomery quarantined. Burglars in Birmingham, as well as at home. Birmingham uses 30 tons of ice daily. Wetumpka expects to receive 10,000 miles of cotton. Gov. Seay will be inaugurated in November. They say Jay Gould is interested in Alabama railroads. Limestone County is to have a fair in October. Judge Clayton has moved to Tuscaloosa to assume the Presidency of the University. The Probate Judge of Jefferson will have 10,000 in fees this year. The Alabama Senate consists of 32 Democrats, 1 Independent or Republican. Eighty-two Democrats and 18 Independents or Republicans were elected to the House. Eufala is to have her fair from Nov. 15 to 20th. Birmingham has nearly one hundred trains arriving and departing daily. There are about 208,185 Missionary Baptists in Alabama. The negroes of Escambia have organized a lodge of Knights of Labor. Gadsden and Rome whisper to each other by telephone. The schools are opening all over the state. Ad for Peruna Ad for Dr. C. McLane’s Worm Specific Vermifuge Ad for Dr. McLane’s Liver Pills PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONER’S COURT Regular Term, July 12, 1886 It was endorsed by the Court that W. R. BROWN be allowed for stationery 3.18 J. C. BROWN ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ pauper 13.00 KATE JONES ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ 25.00 R. W. COBB ‘’ ‘’ stationery 5.83 S. F PENNINGTON – repair court house 10.00 J. W. DRAPER for pauper 15.00 W. W. PURNELL “ “ 96.29 SAMUEL LOGGAINS - as commissioner 6.50 R. W. YOUNG “ 6.50 ALBERT WILSON “ 7.95 W. M. MOLLOY “ 8.00 ALEXANDER COBB “ 6.00 W. Y. ALLEN “ 4.00 W. Y. ALLEN stationery 1.25 Order of Review granted for a new road from Moulton Road to Fayette County line. Order of Review granted for a new road from Columbus & Fayette Road to Fayette line now W. K. DAVIS” in Stern’s Beat ALSO AUGUST 9TH 1886 It was ordered by the court that: J. F. SANDERS be allowed for bridge lumber 2.10 J. E. CUNNINGHAM for mile boards 1.00 G. B. SPRINGFIELD for feeding prisoners 4.03 JAMES P. YOUNG for registering voters .85 JAMES P. YOUNG for bridge lumber 3.24 WM. MCCULLOUGH for registering voters .85 J. E. SISSOM “ “ 1.00 J. I. BURKSDALE for bridge lumber 11.10 LEON NALL for 5 trees for bridge sills 1.30 MARSHALL & BRUCE for stationery 9.31 J. I. BURKSDALE for hauling lumber for bridge 2.75 MCADAMS & PHILLIPS cost for arresting prisoner &c. 3.20 A. J. PARSONS, lumber for bridge 15.00 W. W. PURNELL, for care of paupers 24.20 W. G. RICHARDS & SON, nails for bridge 1.00 HALEY & DENMAN “ “ 4.76 A. A. WALL, for election notice 14.00 E. J. MCNATT, for public printing 4.00 SANDERS & WHEELER for lumber and nails for bridge 22.25 JAMES MIDDLETON, registering voters 2.50 ALEXANDER COBB for registering copies of election 25.00 JAMES MIDDLETON for ex-officio fee as clerk 125.00 ALEXANDER COBB for ex-officio fee as probate judge 125.00 ALEXANDER COBB fee for road services 90.00 S. F. PENNINGTON ex-officio fee as sheriff 200.00 Mrs. MCGILL for pauper 12.50 ALBERT WILSON as commissioner 4.95 W. M. MOLLOY “ “ 4.95 R. W. YOUNG “ “ 3.90 SAMUEL LOGGAINS “ “ 3.90 W. Y. ALLEN “ “ 3.90 ALEXANDER COBB “ “ 3.90 The above is a copy of the orders and disbursements at said courts. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate SALE OF LOTS By virtue of a mortgage executed in the undersigned by R. R. BAGLE and wife on the 23rd of August, 1886 to secure the sum of $500.00 due the 20th of August, 1886. I will sell for cash at Millport in Lamar county at the stat (sic) on house the following described lots situated in said place, to wit: Blocks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 282, 60,33, 34,,37 39 and 40, and all blocks of lots numbered 39, 11, 21 and 31, lying west of lands owned by RANDOLPH in Section 23, Township 17, and Range 15 West, containing twenty-five acres of unsold lots, formerly the property of J. A. DARR, and of which the Georgia Pacific owns an undivided half interest, and situated in the town of Millport, Lamar County, Alabama embraced ins aid Mortgage to WM. V. EZELL, for cash to the highest bidder on Monday the 11th of October, 1886. Apply to D. C. HODO, Carrollton, Ala – WM. V. EZELL, Mortgagee Ad for Marriage Guide MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. Ad for Pianos and Organs – (picture of organ) Mr. J. Garrison, of Cullman, Ala who handles bur first class pianos and organs. Wanted: To know the whereabouts of Sylvester Alonzo Box. It will be to his material interest to correspond with W. Y. Allen, Vernon, Ala, or W. L. Harrill, Okolona, Miss. Ad for Pianos and Organs- Cullman, Ala PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery and Confectionery, toys, tobacco, and cigars. Also coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala, September 6, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on October 27th, 1886, viz: No 10849, FRANCIS M. COOKEN, for the N ½ of S E ¼ Sec 8, T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: C. HARRIS, W. G. NORTON, WM. CORNET, AND C. H. NORTON, all of Detroit, Ala. WM. C. WELLS, Register LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS – NEW PICTURE) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S Barber Shop. For a clean shave or Shampoo call on G. W. BENSON, in rear Dr. Burn’s office. Vernon, Ala WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine photograph or ferrotype of any size or style. No extra charge made for persons standing. Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size. All the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done. Has a handsome and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand. Call at his Gallery and see his work when in Columbus. MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi. General dealers in staple dry goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock of goods on hand at Bottom prices. Don’t fail to call on them when you go to Columbus. Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment…(too small to read). B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge….(too small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY SEPT. 16, 1886 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy, six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge JAMES MIDDLETON Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES Chancery Court convenes here on the 7th of Oct. Rev. J. E. COX left for his home today. Circuit Court is in session at Fayette C. H. this week. The funeral of Mrs. H. C. BICKERSTAFF was preached by Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD last Sunday. Mrs. T---- SPRINGFIELD and children have returned from a visit to West Point. Little LILLE BROCK who has been quite sick for several days, we are pleased to know is convalescing. Ex-Circuit Clerk MIDDLETON has purchased the dwelling now occupied by C. L. GUYTON at 662.50. The Odd Fellows Lodge seems to have been in session every day this week. Circuit Clerk BRADLEY made a visit to his home at Beaverton first of the week. Mr. WILLIE BRADLEY after spending several days at home and in town returned to Columbus Miss. Monday. The News is a little late this week owing to the illness of our dear little one, OLENA. Mrs. L. N. MCNEIL suffered considerably Sunday by a fish bone lodging in her throat. Mr. EDDY MORTON to whom a dose ariconite was given through mistake on Sunday night is again on the streets. A protracted meeting conducted by Messrs. J. E. COX and ---- NASH for the past several days closed last night. The parties sentenced to hard labor at last term of the court with one exception have been hired out in the county. Mrs. MCCLUSKEY and children have returned after an absence of two weeks visiting relatives in Western portion of the county. The Birmingham Age informs us that the Hon. B. M. LONG of Walker County is a candidate for Congress to 6th District. Mr. Long is not long enough to beat the nominee. Little BENTON NESMITH has been sick this week. “Uncle” ANDY WHEELER and wife left first of the week with a load of poultry for Columbus, Miss. The orders for the book on MOLLIE PENNINGTON keep pouring in and we hope to have them all filled by tomorrow night. Messrs. S. H. JACKSON and W. B. STRICKLAND left today for Birmingham the former to serve on the Grand and the latter on the Petit Jury of the U. S. Circuit Court at that place. JAS. MIDDLETON left on Sunday last for Talladega, taking with him a little granddaughter and little son of Mr. MIKE WEATHERS deaf mute, for the purpose of having them educated at the celebrated school at that place. A well known lawyer was heard to say that during the last term of the circuit court that “the criminal docket was busted in this county unless there can be a saloon or two started, and that quick too.” The cost of the recent circuit court all told amounts to $1,122.45. The special Jurors were paid $254.35 in the two cases of State vs. BEARD and HANKINS and neither were tried. The pay of Bailiff amounted to $168.00 and that of the regular Jurors $99.40. The grand Jury cost the county nearly three hundred dollars. The High School opens in next month, and a large attendance is expected. As to morals, society, health, and a great many other advantages, our village is second to none; and these are important considerations to young men and ladies who wish to attend school. FREE TO ALL. Our illustrated catalogue, containing description and price of the best varieties of Dute’s bulbs, also hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, & c, as Bushes, Small fruits, grape vines, trees, shrubs, &c, all suitable for fall planting. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write for a copy. NANE & NEYNER, Louisville, Ky. CIRCUIT COURT Below we give a list of cases tried and disposed of at the Fall Term of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, 1886. B. F. REED vs. A. A. SUMMERS, et al judgement in favor of Lamar Co. for $370 CHAS WEST vs. J. T. BURROW et. al. Mistrial. BUALANON (?) SMITH vs. J. T. SMITH et al verdict for pl’ff W. G. RICHARDS vs. W. A. BROWN a lmr. Compromised. All other civil cases were continued STATE CASES SECOND WEEK State vs. LOCKHART BRIDGES G. L. withdrawn and filed. State vs. LOCKHART BRIDGES et al ec. Fa cont’d. State vs. RICHARD JONES. C.C. P. con’td by deft. State vs. RICHARD JONES A & B W con’d by deft. State vs. FAYETTE SMITH Ret. Cont’d by State. State vs. FAYETTE SMITH sci. fa cont’d. State vs. FAYETTE SMITH illicit distilling, continued. State vs. G. C. BURNS, converting county revenue, continued by State. State vs. THOS. B. BEARD, murder, continued by State on account of venire being quashed. State vs. ELISHA BALDWIN, A. L. continued by State State vs. JIM MADDOX, A. & B, plea guilty, fine $2. State vs. MOSE GOSA, C. C. P., verdict guilty, fine $50. State vs. PAGE RET., verdict not guilty. State vs. FRANK MAY, public drunkenness, continued by deft. State vs. JOHN CLAUSE, A. L. plea guilty, fine one dollar. State vs. RILEY ROBERTSON, A. L. plea guilty, fine fifteen dollars. State vs. RANDALL CORDEN, C. C. P., plea guilty, fine fifty dollars State vs. PALE JORDAN, miscegenation, vol. pros. State vs. JAS. FOSTER A & B W nol prossed. State vs. BULUE STEWART, in jury to railroad, continued by Deft. State vs. LEM BURROW, B W M continued by Sate. State vs. C. V. MCAFFERTY, selling untagged fertilizer, continued by state. State vs. ED GOURLEY C. C. I plea guilty, fine fifty dollars. State vs. A. SISSON A. L. plea guilty, fine five dollars State vs. BUD THORNBERRY, public drunkenness, continued by state. State vs. LONNY L. ABCUP, plea guilty fine fifty dollars. State vs. JIM POE A $& B W plea guilty fine one dollar. State vs. DAW RANDOPLH assault with intent to ravish------ State vs. HIRMA SMALLWOOD, Ret. Verdict guilty, fine fifty dollars, put to hard labor to pay fine and cost. State vs. JOHN MCDANIEL, C. C. P. forfeiture vs deft and bail alias copias ordered. State vs. JOHN WRIGHT seller P. cont’d. State vs. SAM TAYLOR Ret. Forfeiture. State vs. GEO. HILL, JACK HILL, AND DAVE BARNES three cases of A. I. M. cont’d by State. State vs. geo. Hollis, a. l. CON’TD BY STATE State vs. BEN FLEMMING perjury forfeiture. State vs. GEO. HILL, C. C. P. continued by State. State vs. BARCLAY RANDOLPH G. L. cont’d by deft. State vs. W. FORREST BURG, verdict guilty and new trial granted. REPORT OF GRAND JURY FALL TERM 1886 The State of Ala. Lamar County Circuit Court, Fall term 1886 To Hon. S. H. SPROTT, Judge Presiding: We the Grand Jurors empanelled and sworn at the present term of the court respectfully submit the following final report. We have made a personal inspection of the county jail and report it sufficient for the safe keeping of prisoners when confined in the cell. We also ascertain that all the requirements of law relative to the comfort of the prisoners have been complied with by the jailer and sheriff. We recommend that the commissioners court have an extra floor put in the female apartment of the jail to be made of oak lumber 1 1/4 inches thick and placed in the opposite direction from the one the present floor runs. Also that wire netting be placed in front of the windows of the room when the cell is placed to prevent the introduction of implements. We recommend that the commissioner’s court also have a two-story building erected near the courthouse for the use of the Grand and Petit juries. We have examined the bonds of all the county officers and report them in legal form and sufficiently secured. We have examined the books of the different county officers and found them well and nearly kept and no illegal fees charged. This examination, as usual by Grand Juries, was very imperfect, owing to the limited time at our disposal but we did the best we could under the circumstances. The County Superintendent of Education and County Treasurer hove both submitted reports which we hereto attach and summit as a correct statement fo the condition of their respective offices. The examination of their books, like that of the other officers, was incomplete for the same reason. In accordance with our oaths we have investigated all violations of law which have come to our knowledge so far as the attendance of the witnesses could be procured, and returned bills in all cases which were made out and which in our opinion the public good require prosecution. There were some cases of a serious nature and which we were unable to secure the attendance of witnesses, and we hope the next Grand Jury will give them their attention. The number of cases investigated amounted to 80, the number of witnesses examined to 148 and the number of bills returned to 38. In concluding we tender thanks to your Honor for the clear and elaborate charge given us at the commencement of our labors, to which we listened attentively and found of material benefit to us. The officers of court in attendance are also entitled to our thanks for the prompt and courteous manner in which their respective duties have been performed. All of which is respectfully submitted and we ask to be discharged. M. W. MORTON, Foreman TREASURER’S REPORT To the Hon. Grand Jury of Lamar Co. Came into hand of county fund, including Bal. On hand at last settlement $1,473.51 Credits by amt. Vouchers including Treasurer’s commissions $686.25 Balance on hand today $787.36 Balance due on iron cage to be paid Jan 1st, 1887 $609.00 Fine and Forfeiture Fund, came into hand, including bal on hand at last settlement $43.32 Credits by vouchers including munimicus (sic) $5.11 Balance on hand today $33.21 Amount Registered indebtedness $2,828.04 Respectfully Submitted, L. M. WIMBERLEY, C. T. REPORT OF CO. SUP. OF ED. Below we give the Co. Sup Ed. Report omitting comments of public schools, for want of time. To balance brought forward form 1884-5 $33.50 To amount paid by Tax Collector $4864.45 To amount paid by Trustees T. 14, R 16 $30.00 Total Received $4991.69 By amount paid white teachers $1717.53 By amount paid colored teachers $567.68 Total $2285.22 Balance on hand $2,705.86 Ad for Peruna Ad for Guns, Great Western Gun Works, Pittsubrg, Pa. Ad for Agents Ad for New Cure for Potato Bugs WHAT IS DONE WITH THE NEWSPAPERS? Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., receive at their newspaper Advertising Bureau, No 10 Spruce St., New York City, nearly one hundred and fifty thousand newspapers every three months, more than seventeen hundred every day. On occasions in the winter, when the snows interfere with the regular running of the mails, as soon as the blockade is removed it is not infrequently happens that as many as twenty-five bushels come in of a single morning, counting possibly as many as then thousand papers in one mail delivery. “What becomes of all the papers? What do you do with them?” are questions which are often asked. The papers come from every quarter, and are assorted throughout the day and night by the Post Office employees. Those addressed to Geo. P. Rowell & Co’s Newspaper Advertising Bureau are thrown into large small bags, attached to a table, made to support them with the mouth held open. (Picture of item just described). And these, when filled, are tied at the top and set aside to wait until called for. The bags are brought to the office each morning (picture) after which the papers are taken out and heaped upon a table. (picture) Then the wrappers are taken off. (Picture). THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala State Normal School. Florence, Alabama. T. J. MITCHELL, A. M. President. Established by the State for the purpose of training Teachers, Male and Female. Graduater teaches in the Public Schools without further examination. The Course of study embraces all of the branches ------ taught in high schools and colleges. TUITION To normal pupils Free To other pupils, per session $7 to $12 Incidental fee to all $2.00 Music, per session $5 to $10 Board, per Month $10 to $12 President Mitchell is a distinguished Normal an institute worker. The single success of all his institutes, as well as the strong endorsements Dr. Curry and others, mark him as peculiarly fitted for the place. Fall term opens Sept 6, ’86. For further particulars apply to the President, or to Robert McFarland, President of the Board of Directors. Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for Avery Sewing Machine (picture of Sewing Machine) Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture of sewing machine) Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for John F. Stratton – Importer of whole dealer in Accordeons (picture of accordion) Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ (picture of Organ) PAGE 4 LADIES DEPARTMENT MAKING HOME COMFORTABLE Men grow sated of beauty, tired of music, and often, too, wearied for conversion – how over intellectual – but they can always appreciate a well- swept hearth and smiling comfort. A woman may love her husband devotedly – may sacrifice fortune, friends, family, country, for him. She may have the genius of a Sappho, the enchanted beauties of an Armida; but, melancholy fact, if with these she fail to make his home comfortable, his heart will inevitably escape her, and women live so entirely in the affections, that without love their existence is a void. Better submit, then, to household tasks, however repugnant they may be to your tastes, than doom yourself to a loveless home. Women of a higher order of mind will not run the risk; they know that their feminine and domestic duties are their first duties. FORTUNE HUNTING IN ENGLAND The degree in which girls with money are pursued in England goes far beyond anything known in America; yet even in this fashion has as much influence as wealth. Some years ago there was a very wealthy and I may add good looking American girl here in England, and I have it on absolutely trustworthy authority that for weeks together she had on an average one offer of marriage d day. These were mostly made at places in the country where she was visiting, and I may add that these were chiefly those of the nobility. She very often received proposals from aristocratic fortune hunters whom she had not known for twenty-four hours. This was aided by no forwardness of her part, for she was modest and retiring beyond most of her sex. She ended by marrying a great title, saying that she had no faith in any man’s sincerity, judging by her experience, and that she might as well secure at least a title, since there could be no other advantage to her in a husband. – [London Letter] AN AFRICAN AMAZON The Parisians are expecting a visit from one of the greatest huntresses in existence. She laughed scornfully on being told of the equestrian feats of the Countesse de Chambrun, who rode from Paris to Nice; of the Austrian Archduchess, who went on horseback a distance of 130 miles without stopping to rest, and of the achievements in the hunting field of the Empress of Austria, the Duchess d’Uzes and the Marquis de Castellance. The coming Amazon is the Princess Bargash Said Medfid, a sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar. Her equestrian education was begun by her father, whom she used to accompany to the chase in a country where wild beasts of prey of the feline species are the quarry of the hunter. It was perfected with a European circus rider and English and Portuguese travelers. The princess is equal to any circus feat. She sometimes goes a field, if such a term can be applied to tropical jungle and wastes, habited in a gorgeous riding habit and wearing a broad-brimmed hat and feathers. It appears she has a fine figure, and notwithstanding her bronzed complexion, is not without a certain kind of African beauty. – [Pairs Letter] A CURIOUS MARRIAGE CUSTOM A singular marriage custom prevails among the French Canadians at Cote de Beaupre, north of Quebec. After the morning marriage service in the church, the bridal party, incaleche or carriole, make a tour of calls upon relatives and friends during the day, and then return again to church for vespers. Before the evening dance at the bride’s new home comes the supper. When the company rises from the table, the bride keeps her seat, and some asks with great dignity, “Why does madame wait?” “Is she so soon in bad grace?” She replies, “Somebody has stolen my slipper; I can’t walk.” Then they carry her, chair and all, into the middle of the room, while a loud knocking announces a grotesque ragged vender of boots and shoes. He kneels before the slipperless bride and tries on a long succession of old boots and shoes of every variety and size until at last he finds her missing shoe. The groom redeems it for a good price, which is spent in treating the company. If the groom is not watchful, they steal her hat and cloak, which he redeems in the same way; and they have been known to steal the bride, for whom there must be liberal pay. The church forbids round dances, so they content themselves with contra- dances. The event of the evening is a jig, in which a guest volunteers to out- dance the bride. If successful, the victor demands a prize from the groom. WHAT YOUNG LADIES SHOULD BE Do be natural. A poor diamond is better than a good imitation. Do try to be accurate, not only for your own sake, but for the sake of your sex. The incapacity of the female mind for accuracy is a standard argument against the equality of the sexes. Do observe. The faculty of observation, well cultivated, make practical men and women. Do try and be sensible. It is not a particular sign of superiority to talk like a fool. Do be ready in time for church. If you do not respect yourself sufficiently to be punctual, respect the feelings other people. Do avoid causes of irritation in your family circle. Reflect that home is the place to be agreeable. Do be reticent. The world at large has no interest in your private affairs. Do cultivate the habit of listening to others. It will make you an invaluable member of society, to say nothing of advantages it will be to you when you marry. Every man likes to talk about himself. A good listener makes a delightful wife. Do be contented. “Martyrs” are detestable. A cheerful, happy spirit is infectious. You can carry it about with you like a sunny atmosphere. Do avoid whispering. It is as bad as giggling. Both are to be condemned. There is no excuse for either one of them. If you have anything to say, say it; if you have not, do hold your tongue altogether. Silence is golden. Do be truthful; do avoid exaggeration. If you mean a mile, say a mile, not a mile and a half. If you mean one, say one, and not a dozen. Do sometimes at least allow your mother to know better than you do. She was educated before you were born. – [Philadelphia Record] FASHION NOTES Cactus cloth is a new material. Seersucker effects are seen in new silks. Seal brown is a favorite color in silk and thin woolen fabrics. Stamped pongee silks for young persons have cashmere stripes. Fancy straws are edges with little straw balls instead of beads. There is no golden mean in mantles. They are either very long or very short. Overdresses of corde de la reine are worn with underskirts of plain velveteen. Handkerchiefs are to be worn in the pocket. How strange it must seem to them. Little cape dolmans are made of corde de la reine, and are exceedingly useful on a cool day. Small stylish mantles are made of black gauze, faille or of jetted ------ fitting the figure closely. Dresses of light fabrics are made with plaited or gathered bodices, and have collars, cuffs, revers and belts of velvet. Bonnet crowns are a continual surprise – horseshoe, heart shape, indented, puffed out, square, oblong, and round. Among the new importation are the Anderson ginghams. They come in plaids and checks and embrace all the new fancy shades of the season. Some exquisite scarves for neckwear are of soft China crepe, elaborately and beautifully embroidered. These are in three-cornered shape, and are worn in kerchief fashion. A bonnet of pale yellow straw is trimmed with folds of lilac velvet and a group of yellow and purple iris. The colors are so soft that the effect is quite charming. Peacock blue silk stockings have clusters of nasturtiums embroidered over the instep. Those of sulphur yellow have flowers of all colors in rich embroidery. A very useful traveling jacket is of black and white checked tweed. The front is finished with a revers of brown ottoman silk and the cuffs and collar are of the same. A novelty in stripes is reported. They are arranged like the black and white keys of a pianoforte. The favorite combinations are brown and red, gray and slate and red and beige. Lavender with palest pink, seafoam green with violet, pale yellow with old blue and pale blue with bronze brown are among the newest and most artistic combinations for evening dresses. A light shade in French cashmere shows a very beautiful parti-tint. It is a delicate blue with a slight tinge of pink overcasting it. A most singular dye, yet remarkably effective by gaslight. Blouse bodices for young girls are plaited in front and are belted at the waist. They open over an embroidered pastron, or one of some contrasting material, and have reverse collar of velvet. Those bodices are only suitable for slight figures. The lightest evening dresses for summer will be made of embroidered mull. A small flower figure, usually a tiny lily or star flower is worked in silk and with a pearl in the center of each blossom. In the pale blue and pink mulls the silk and pearl are of the same shade as the fabric. A DRIVING BUSINESS “Bromley, there’s a fellow yonder who never bothers himself about strikes.” “Rich, is he?” “No. But his business is always driving.” “Why, what is he?” “A hackman.” – [Call] HOME – [By Annie B. Myers] The home governs the world. All social and moral laws of our common civilization revolve around the home. It is the school of social progress. Public opinion is the collective opinions of our home. Clear-sighted reformers aim to direct the power that rules the home. In a certain sense we are all reformers, we all try to make the world better. Some are trying in one way, some in another; but we should all begin at home. Let the home be a cheerful, sunshiny place. There let us find neatness and comfort. Above all, let us have always good nature and means for improvement. Home is the place for all the best things. Therefore don’t keep all your cheerfulness for society, nor shut out all the sunshine except when you have visitors. Cheerfulness and sunshine do not cost anything, but withhold them and you are a heavy loser. It is not alone the housekeeper’s duty to keep the home rooms neat and tidy. Each member of the family should assist in it. There are a thousand ways of keeping clean that saves a vast amount of making clean. Anyone of refined feeling regards all labor to secure neatness a labor of love and duty. Did you ever hear that little fable of the chairs? For fear you haven’t I’ll tell it to you. “Well,” said a straight-backed, straight-legged chair to a cozy rocking chair by whose side it chanced to be placed, “before I would be such a drudge as you are, I would be a stool; or if possible, something more insignificant. People are not content with making you nurse everyone, be they big or little, but you must be continually rocking them to and fro.” “To be sure,” answered the little rocking chair, “I am always busy and on the go for the gratification of others; but thereby have I won many friends, and appear to be a great favorite with all. This pays me for all my trouble.” The moral of his pretty fable is, that all who cheerfully and willingly do for others are the ones who gain most for themselves. This is a most beautiful lesson to utilize for home life. One of the pleasantest and noblest duties of the family is to furnish its members with good reading. In times that are past, it was considered enough to clothe, feed and shelter a family. But now it is recognized as a fact that we all have hungry minds to be satisfied. Let good reading go into a home and the very atmosphere changes. The boys begin to talk of men, principles, the past and the future. The girls find opening before them a new life of knowledge, duty and love. Out from that family will go intelligent men and women to fill useful and honorable places in society. Let the torch of improvement be lit in every household. Let the young and the old vie with one another in introducing new and useful topics of investigation and in cherishing a love for study and advancement. Such a home implants memories in the heart that can never die. The rough rules of the world can never obliterate them. Lives so formed are the timbers that uphold the world. – [Chicago Ledger] OLD WHIMSICALITLES Dream of snakes sign of enemies. Dreaming of muddy or rushing water, brings trouble. Finding a horseshoe or a four-leafed clover brings good luck. If you cut your nails or sneeze on Saturday, you do it “for evil.” She who takes the last stitch at a quilting will be the first to marry. If you cannot make up a handsome bed your husband will have an ugly nose. If you spill the salt some one will be “mad” with you unless you put some in the fire. Stub your right toe, you are going where you wanted; your left, where you are not wanted. If the rooster crows one the fence, the weather will be fair; if on the doorstep, he will bring company. If the First Sunday in the month is unpleasant, there will be but one pleasant Sunday during the month. If your right ear burns, some one is praising you; if your left, your friends are raking you over the coals. Returning to the house for a moment after having once started out will bring bad luck unless you sit down. When in dropping a fork, it strikes the floor and stands upright, it will bring a gentleman visitor; if a knife, a lady. While at the washboard, if the suds splashes and wets the clothes you are wearing, you will have a drunken husband. If a baby sees his face in the glass it will be the death of him. If his nails are cut he will be a thief. If he tumbles out of bed it will save his being a fool. Break a mirror, sign of death. Death is also foretold by a dog howling under a window; hearing a mourning dove, a strange dove hovering about, or dreaming of a white horse. If you see the new moon through the glass you will have sorrow as long as it lasts. If you see it fair in the face you will have a fall. Over the left shoulder bad luck – over the right good luck. JUVENILE JOKES The time to take an unruly lot of children out on a sail – when there is a spanking breeze. “Papa,” said a little sick girl whose father had brought her a drink – “papa, can’t you get some fresh water? This tastes withered.” A little child was addressed by a gentleman the other day. “How old are you my dear?” he asked. “Old?’ said the child, indignantly; “I’m not old at all; I’m quite new.” Said a parent to his little son who had committed some act of indiscretion; “Do you know that I am going to whip you?” “Yes,” said the boy, “I suppose you are, because you are bigger than I am.” A little boy asked his mother to talk to him, and say something funny. “How can I?” she asked. “Don’t you see I am busy making these cakes?” “Well, you might say,” answered young hopeful, “Charley, won’t you have a cake? That would be funny for you.” “Pa, what is ensilage?” “Why – hem – ensilage, my son, is – um = ensilage is – oh, something like mucilage; used to stick things together, you know. There, run away to play and don’t disturb me now.” And that boy thinks his pa is a very encyclopedia of wisdom. “Go into the room and bring that cake off the table,” said a mother to her son. “Its too dark. I’m afraid to go into the room.” “Go into the room this instant or I’ll go in and bring out the strap.” “If you bring out the strap,” replied the boy, sobbing “bring – the cake too.” A little boy, on returning home from church, was asked by this mother to give the text. After a thoughtful pause, the little fellow replied,: “I don’t quite remember it but was something about a hawk between to pigeons.” The text was “Why halt ye between two opinions.” A picture of happiness that, to outward appearances, leaves nothing to be desired, is a small boy on roller skates, and with a return ball in his hands. Yet if the outside world could look into his innermost heart, it is probable that a yawning void about the size of a velocipede would be found. The little fellow had been in the habit of going out with his nurse and she had a beau who was a car driver. Naturally she was generally careful to take that car, and the child knew her beau and all about him. When they would pass that car he always bowed and smiled, and the maid would throw a kiss to hi,. One day the boy was out with his mother in the carriage, and suddenly he began kissing is hand to somebody and smiling all over his face. “What is it, child?” asked the mother. “Mamma, don’t you see him? It’s Wilson. Why don’t you kiss your hand to him? Maggie does.” – [Chicago Ledger] A PRACTICAL JOKE A writer in the Chicago Ledger, commenting on his war experiences, relates the following practical joke which was turned to good account: The weather was fearfully hot in August 1862, when we were marching from Rolla to Springfield – a green regiment never in battle. Now, after years of service, I am persuaded that there is not man ever invented a better way to discipline a troop, and get them over the “stage fright” of first onset, than our good Colonel. On going into camp one night upon that march, the order was given “to sleep upon our arms.” That we understood to mean an enemy in the neighborhood. It did not promote sleep I can assure you. All sorts of imaginings were in our heads. We were going to be attacked. Many of our boys had professed to be very anxious to meet the enemy. We noted that this anxiety was not near so apparent that night. Indeed we heard nothing of it. We slept by our guns. We were confident that in case of an attack we could literally “spring to arms.” Sure enough about midnight the drums beat to arms. The entire brigade was ordered out. What a scene ensued. Every man was upon his feet in an instant. But there were none eager for the fight. Here one called: “Where is my cartridge box?’ Another:” Where are my shoes?’ “Strike a match boys, so I can find my hat.” And so it went until we heard the command. “Fall in line” and we obeyed, half scared out of our wits; and there we stood and quaked and wondered how soon the enemy would begin firing, expecting the leaden compliments every moment. Had the enemy appeared then we would have been powerless. But there was no enemy. This was a practical drill put upon us to accustom us to just such scenes, and it did what it was designed for. In a little time we sprang from our beds ready for the enemy and trained to our work. ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1018gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 68.7 Kb