Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News - January 28, 1886 January 28, 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 December 30, 2005, 1:36 pm Lamar News January 28, 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, JANUARY 28, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 13 SONG OF THE SOUTH WIND Through fragrant pines I sweep along, And chant for the mighty song, Grand and triumphant, sweet and strong, Like organ notes heard far away, In some cathedral old and gray, When vespers tells the close of day. I stir the ripples on the lake; The dancing wavelets softly break Against the cool white sand, and make A broken melody that seems Like birdlings, chirping in their dreams, Ere lights the east with dawn’s faint gleams. I bring the rain clouds from the sea – The shadows fall on lake and lea; The thirsty plants nod thanks to me, And yield me treasures of perfume, The sweet mementos of their bloom To bear away to climes of gloom, To tell the Northland’s prisoned flowers – Biding the slow, dark winter hours, While chill and gray the dull sky flowers “Long though your time of waiting be And firm the chains that fetter ye, Lose not your hope – ye shall be free!” - [Augusta D. Dunn] A TIGHT SQUEEZE – By an Ex-Confederate When General Meade fell back from Min Run, in the fall of 1863, he went into winter quarters between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock, on his old grounds. This was about December 1. On the 15th of the month I received orders to cross the river, penetrate his camp and pick up all possible information. It was understood that he was sending troops off west, and I was particularly charged to discover if there was any foundation in the report. I left the rebel cavalry outpost at 10 o’clock one night, being on foot and wearing a blue uniform throughout. There was about a mile of neutral ground between outposts, and when I had crept down the highway almost to the Union videttes I took to the fields and flanked ‘em. I knew every rod of that country, and passing the vidette was a matter of no trouble. It was when I reached the first line of sentinels that I had to go keerful. It was now midnight, and winter had set in. There was no snow, but the wind was cold and the ground frozen. It so happened that I struck a part of French’s corps. Knowing that Lee was going into winter quarters, and knowing that a strong picket was out, the sentinels were not over watchful. I crept up until I located two, and both were muffled up against the cold and thinking more of keeping warm than of looking for spies. While I was waiting for a chance to skulk in, the two came together and stood talking, and this gin me the show I wanted. I riz up from the cold ground, bore off a little to the right, and entered the gap without being seen. In ten minutes more I was among the tents and shanties. I must find a place to pass the night. It was too cold to go prowling ‘round saying nothing of the danger to be incurred. I walked up one street and down another, looking for a place to stow myself away; and by and by I saw a soldier come out of a tent and go off. I reasoned that he was on guard, and had come to his tent on some errand, and I was probably right. It was half-tent, half-shanty, with a fire place in it. I crept in at the door and found a fire going, and there three men asleep under the blanket. There was a heap of wood at hand, and the best I could do was to stir up the fire and hover over it. I didn’t mean to fall asleep; that is I was bound and determined to keep awake, but I had no sooner got fairly warmed through than I went off to the land of Nod, and the net thing I knew it was daylight. None of the chaps under the blankets were awake, and I slipped out without disturbing them. Everything would have been all right ‘cept for a man in a tent across the street. He had come out after wood, and was standing there as I appeared. As both tents belonged to same company, and as all the men in each company knew each other, it was only natural that I, a perfect stranger should attract his attention. Further, it was jest as natural that he should suspect me of being a thief. He was a sour-faced, beetle-browed chap, and the minit I looked into his eyes I knew we should have a row. “Ah, I caught you!” he growled as I faced him. “At what?” I coolly ----------- “Stealing, of course!” “You are wrong. I went in there to get warm.” “Who be you?” “George Smith.” “What regiment?” “Sixth Maine.” I wasn’t answering at random. I knew that the Sixth Maine was in the fight at Rappahannock Station, about a month before, because I had talked with some prisoners. “Where’s your regiment?” he asked. “That’s what I’m looking for,” I replied. “I was took by the rebs fifteen days ago, and have just escaped and come in.” I answered him so promptly, and told such a straight story, that he could have no suspicions, and I might have got away but for an accident. He had brought out his coffee-pot, and in moving away I fell over it. He was aching for a fuss with somebody, and that was a good excuse. He jumped for me without a word. I returned the blow, and then we clinched and fought up and down the street. I was getting the best of him, when we fell upon and wrecked a tent and began to draw a crowd. In five minutes there were fifty men around us, and pretty soon an officer comes up, and separates us and asks? “What is this row about?” “I caught that chap stealing,” sings out my opponent. “He lies!” “Who are you?” asks the officer. “Private George Smith, of the Sixth Maine.” “Where’s your regiment?” “Don’t know, sir. I was captured by the rebs, got away and am looking for my regiment. “When did you come in?” “Last night.” “How did you pass all the outposts and sentinels?” He had me there. I had as good as betrayed myself by that one answer. “I’ll see to your case!” he growled, and he called the guard and had me marched off. The guard house was a log stable, and as soon as he reached it I was stripped and searched. The next move was to hunt up the Sixth Maine and discover that I did not belong to that regiment. I was then taken to corps headquarters and questioned. I changed my line of defense, claiming to be a deserter from the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth New York, who was voluntarily coming back to his regiment, but the next day the Colonel of that regiment came to look at me, and pronounced me a liar and an imposter. Next day, when a court martial was convened, I had no defense to offer. They tried me as a spy, and while nothing could be proved, I was condemned and sentenced to be shot. I was given to understand that, but I reckoned that some of the officers were not quite satisfied. Instead of carrying out the sentence right away, the findings were sent to a higher court for approval. What I am telling you in a minute consumed about two weeks. I was pretty comfortably fixed in the barn, but so zealously guarded that there was no possible show for escape. The papers had been sent off, and I was daily expecting to hear their approval, when, one night just before dusk, the chaplain of a Pennsylvania regiment came in to console me. He was about my size and age with the same colored hair, and the minit I saw him I grasped at a plan. When we had talked a little I asked him: “How did you get in?” “Why, I showed my pass to the guard,” he answered. That was all I desired to know. He talked for about an hour, and I made him promise to come and see me the next evening at the same hour. He advised me to give up all hope and make my peace with God, and I gave him to understand that I might be more contrite on his next visit. I tell you, that next day seemed a week long. I had a plan, and it promised success. When the day did begin to fade away I was so nervous and excited that I could not keep still. The chaplain came in just at dark, and, as he grasped my hand, he said: “The papers have come back, and you must prepare to die!” “Pray for me!” says I. He knelt right down, and he had skeercely uttered a word when I had him by the throat. It was so sudden, and I had sich a grip on him, that he skeercely kicked. I didn’t’ want to kill him, but I choked him until he was like a rag. Then I off with his coat, vest and pants, and was into ‘em before he showed signs of coming to. It was too soon to go out, and I choked him some more. Poor man! I felt sorry to do him sich injury, but my life was at stake. In about twenty minutes I felt it was safe to go out. I dragged him into a corner, sat him up on end, and then knocked on the door. It was opened at once, and as I squeezed out the guard shut it without even glancing in. “How is he, chaplain?” asks the guard as he locks the door. “Resigned, poor man,” I answered, and off I goes. As I afterwards learned, I had a good hours’ start. I didn’t head for the river, as might be expected, but for the north, and it was over a month before I saw Lee’s lines again. A Washington paper had a long story about my escape, and it said I would have bin shot next day, and that the chaplain would be laid up for a month. – [Detroit Free Press] A NEW NARCOTIC Something worse than opium or chloral is reported to the New York Medical Society. Several city practitioners found out that a few persons were using hyoscine to produce a sort of intoxication that resulted in profound slumber. The drug is a hydrobromate, and has to a limited extent been used in medicine in lieu of atrophine for relief in epilepsy and other diseases of the nerves. It is obtained from a German plant, and is usually on sale by German apothecaries in this city. The supply has been small, and the price about seventy-five cents a grain; but a suddenly increased demand nearly exhausted the stocks and sent the price to a dollar. The doses must be infinitesimal in order not to be dangerous, and the peril of self-dosing lies in the liability to kill by carelessly swallowing or hypodermically injecting too much. The experimenters with it proved chiefly to be medical students, drug clerks and other acquainted with its soporific qualities. Hard drinkers employed it to force sleep, and very nervous persons drove off insomnia with it. In order to test its effects, it has been systematically administered to thirty-six insane patients in the State hospital for the Insane, by Drs. Langdon and Peterson, who say that the effects prove the very great danger of hyoscine eating. They found that it would indeed compel sleep in most cases, but that its habitual use would surely bring muscular paralysis and delirium of a particularly violent sort. The society will ask the Legislature to forbid the sale except on prescription. – [Cincinnati Enquirer] BATHING IN INDIA The gospel of cleanliness is not for India. Do I begin to argue? I am told that “a virtue of Gautama Buddha was his dirty face!” And yet a bath is a Hindoo’s frequent practice. But the use of mustard oil overbalances all ablutions. A native always polishes his skin with mustard oil before bathing. “It prevents the water from entering the blood through the skin,” Gauga tells me. It makes the presence of a native anything but agreeable, for the anointing having greatly diminished the power of the water, the sun’s action upon the cutaneous surface is such that the smell has actually the effect of ruining the health of Europeans who have to inhale it for many hours daily in the katcherries and courts of law. If you say to one of these objectionable smelling parties: “You would do well to take a bath!” he will answer, spitefully: “I am a Hindoo!” This, being interpreted, means that the man scrupulously observes the many washings that the law enjoins. But those washings are something like the mumbling of a formal prayer. Indeed, the high-caste Hindoo may not, like the Pharisee of old, eat except he wash. SOMETHING HOT FOR A COLD Doctor to lady patient – “You should take something hot for your cold.” Indolent patient – “Well, in what form shall I take it, doctor?” Doctor – “Considering you have so little exercise, I should say you would derive the most good from it if you took it in the shape of a flatiron.” – [Boston Budget] GIANTS OF THE FOREST - SOMETHING ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA REDWOOD TREE Twenty-Five Thousand Feet Of Lumber From A Single Specimen The Redwood of California is the second largest and third loftiest tree of the known world. It reaches its greatest perfection upon the seaward slopes and along the transverse ravines of the Coast Mountains of the northern and central parts of the state. It is occasionally found scattered or clumped among other growths, but is generally massed in dense forests. It grows so high, branches so thickly and stands so close as to darken even noonday brightness into shadowy evening twilight among the huge, monumental trunks below. Fog seems its favorite food. The lofty, thick and spreading tops form vast and swift condensers of the heavy fogs which descend in local daily rains, forming pools which often remain till high noon even in hottest days of the dryest season. Where the trees have been cut away, with no provision for regrowth, springs have dried up and streams have failed. The name is one of those simple, obvious, Saxon christenings which every spectator understands the moment he sees the color of the wood. Its hue show all varieties of red, from the most delicate pink of the finest cedar to the deepest and darkest shades of the richest mahogany. In some cases its reddish-browns rival those of black walnut, while under long exposure to the weather it takes on a blackness equal to that of ebony. In texture and appearance the wood is occasionally waved, cur led, flecked, veined, nottled, twisted and interwoven in the most varied, intricate and beautiful manner. Indeed, some specimens show all these varieties of formation combined. Its knots, roots and bu rls furnish veneers as exquisitely beautiful as those of the most costly imported woods. If they came from some distant foreign land, fairly staggering under some polysyllable, unpronounceable name, our cabinetmakers, artists in carving, and their wealthy patrons would esteem them almost priceless. Its grain and density vary from those of the softest pine to those of the densest beech. When wet or unseasoned the wood is often enormously heavy. Specimens have been known to sink instantly. The thickness of the bark varies from four to twelve inches. Its textures resembles that of the famous Sequoias, or big tress, which are but a gigantic species of the Redwood. In height the California Redwood allows but two other vegetable growths to look down upon it. Those are its lofty relative above alluded to and the Australian Eucalyptus. It has been known to reach 320 feet; quite often 250; very commonly 200 to 225. In diameter specimens reaching twenty feet have been authentically measured. Thousands of trees now standing in the newly opened Loma Prieta and others districts girt from thirty to forty feet. The logs from these trees are often so large that they have to be blasted into halves and even quarters before the wood-teams and sawmills can handle them. One tree yielded seventeen logs each twelve feet long, and the upper one six feet through at the smaller end. It is true that these stories may seem incredibly “big” to the Eastern reader, but the trees themselves are very much bigger, as the incredulous may easily satisfy themselves by visiting the localities already named. Twenty-five thousand feet of lumber from a single tree is very common. In the foggier and moister northern counties the average from each tree is fully one half greater. For posts, sills, ties, flumes, aqueducts, and sewers the wood is the best known. It is also admirably adapted to the inside finish of halls, dining rooms, billiard rooms, music-rooms, libraries, churches, cars and steamships, as well as for many forms of cabinet-making. When exposed to the weather without paint or oil, it turns nearly black. It has also the remarkable quality of shrinking cutwise, and , what is still more remarkable in the same log different year’s growths sometimes shrink un-equally. Sparks and cinders of burning redwood, falling upon flat or sloping surfaces, even shingle roofs, go out at once. Shingles of it ignite with great difficulty from sparks of other wood. It seems to be naturally fireproof in the midst of exposure which would quickly kindle other woods. The beautiful redwood is already annually supplying a constantly increasing demand in our Easter cities, while a new and wealthy syndicate is exporting millions of feet to Europe. To her already vast income from the great staples, wheat, wine and wool, the Golden State now adds a new source of wealth in the regular and increasing export of the valuable and beautiful timber and lumber of this queen of the vegetable kingdom, the California Redwood. – [San Francisco Call] EGGS IN IRELAND Seeing that some three-fourths of the whole population of Ireland are more or less connected with or engaged in agricultural pursuits, there is probably no question more often asked daily by at least 1,000,000 of the population of Ireland than, “What is the price of eggs?” From the moment the well-known “Cluck, cluck” is heard from the hen announcing the production of an egg there is a rush made for it, which never ceases until the empty shell is thrown into the ash-bin. That egg is bartered and rebartered, sold and sold again, many times before it is introduced to the breakfast table. Many lies are told about its age, some about its size, many more about its price. Eggs are bought by the dozen and by the hundred of a score. In some parts of Ireland, notably in Dublin market, the hundred counts one hundred and twenty- four. The trade is divided mainly into two classes – buyers and shippers or exporters. The former are again subdivided into two other classes – dealers and shopkeepers. Buyers sell direct to the shippers; shippers export direct either to customers in Scotland, England, or Wales, or to an agent or broker there, who sells for him on commission. The buyer is a man or woman owning, or in many cases hieing, a donkey, mule, or horse, and going from one farmer’s house to another buying their eggs for money; or, in many cases, giving foods, such as groceries, needles, thread, and other like useful articles, in barter for eggs. Dealers are a smaller class of buyers. They are mostly old women who have what is called a “dealing,” that is a small shop, which from ten to thirty shillings would stock, their husbands or children being of the laboring class. These poor dealers buy up from 300 to 400 eggs weekly, mostly obtaining the same by barter. These they usually send in by a donkey cart in a basket resembling a fish-woman’s creel, once a week, to the town where the nearest shipper resides; or sometimes, if needy, will sell for a less price than would be had from the shipper to a well-to-do buyer. Even in the humblest walks of life there is pride, and the poorest dealers will not sell to any one but a shipper, unless they are very badly off for ready money. – [Chambers’ Journal] THE VITALITY OF SEEDS The seeds of the willow will not germinate after having been once dry. The seeds of coffee and various other plants do not germinate after having been kept for any considerable time. Wheat over two centuries old has been found quite fit for food, but the grains usually lost their power of growth after a lapse of seven years. Specimens of rye and what known to be 185 years old could not be induced to germinate. “The stories of ‘mummy wheat’ sprouting after having lain dormant in Egyptian tombs for thousands of years are, to say the least of them, very dubious,” declared Dr. Robert Brown, F. L. S. “No well-authenticated instances of such finds are extant, while among other articles sold by the Arabs to credulous travelers, as coming out of the same tomb as the ancient wheat, have been dahlia bulbs and maize, the deposition of which in the receptacle from which they were said to be extracted necessitates the belief that 3000 years ago the subjects of the Pharaohs were engaged in commerce with America.” When kept dry and protected from light and air, however, seeds have been known to retain their vitality from some lengthened periods. Seeds of the bean and pea order have sprouted after 100 years storage in an herbarium, and many similar instances – most of them somewhat doubtful – have been recorded. GOOD NIGHT – [Thomas Hatley Aldrich] Good night? I have to say good night! To such a host of peerless things! Good night unto that fragile band All queenly with its weight of rings Good night to fond uplifted eyes. Good night to chestnut braids of hair, Good night unto the perfect mouth And all the sweetness nestled there! The snowy hand detains me – then I’ll have to say good night again. But there will come a time, my love! When, if I read our stars aright, I shall not linger by this porch With my adieus. “Till then, good night! You wish the time were now? And I, You do not blush to wish it so? You would have blushed yourself to death To own so much a year ago. What! Both these snowy hands? Ah! Then I’ll have to say good night again. HUMOROUS Waiter – “Will you have some salt with your eggs?” Guest – No thanks; they ain’t at all fresh.” German photographers are now making photographs of lightning. They are said to be striking likenesses. A Western poet, it is said, thinks more of his wife than he does of his poems. So does every one that ever read his poems. A philosopher who had married an ignorant girl used to call her “brown sugar,” because, he said, she was sweet and unrefined. Girls in search of material for crazy quilts should apply to the railroad companies. They throw away thousands of old ties every year. A subscriber asks: “When is the best time to marry?” Mr. Enpeque says the best time for such a ceremony is the 31st of February. Its many years ago since the poet wrote that “beauty draws us with a single hair.” It generally takes a forty-five dollar switch to do it now. Why the engagement was broken: “And dearest Augustus, when we are married you will give me al the pin money I want, won’t you, darling?” “Yes, duckie, you shall buy all the pins you can use.” “Oh, deary, that’s so nice of you. There’s a beautiful diamond pin down at the jeweler’s that I’ve wanted for ever so long.” ECLIPSES OF THE SUN The eclipses of the sun, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, are caused by the moon’s passing between the earth and the sun. If the two bodies followed the same track in the heavens there would be an eclipse every new moon, but as the orbits are inclined, the moon generally passes above or below the sun, and there is no eclipse. Occasionally the sun is near one of the moon’s nodes – the points where the planes of the orbits intersect – when it passes, and then an eclipse occurs. If the sun and the moon were always at the same position with regard to the earth, and always the same distance from it, the eclipses would always be of the same size. But as the se conditions vary, so do the appearances of the eclipse. For instance, let us suppose that tat the time of an eclipse the center of the moon happens to pass direct over the center of the sun. If the moon is near the point in the orbit which is at the least distance from the earth her apparent diameter will exceed that of the sun, and the latter will be quite hidden from view, and we have what is known as a total eclipse. Of course, even in this case, the eclipse will only appear total to the observers near the line joining the centers of the sun and moon. If, however, the three bodies occupy similar positions, but the distance between the earth and moon is greater, the whole of the sun is not covered by the moon, and the eclipse is annular. If the moon, however, does not pas centrally over the sun, it can only hide a part of the later on one side or other, and the eclipse is said to be particular. As the moon’s orbit is quite elliptical, the distance of that body from the earth varies greatly. Its least distance is 221,000 miles, its greatest 259,600 miles. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS Thursday Jan. 28, 1886 ANNOUNCEMENT – For Circuit Clerk We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August 1886. The Anniston Hot Blast favors taxing dogs and bachelors. For the first time in sixty years the whisky saloons are closed up at Decatur, awaiting the action of the people in the election soon to be held. The Gainsville Messenger wants a prohibition law passed by the next legislature which will apply to the whole of Sumter County. COUNTY CONVENTIONS In some counties in the state the people are holding conventions at this early day for the purpose of nominating county officers and electing delegates to the state convention, which meets about the first of June. This movement is not premature for the reason of the many responsible officers to fill. Besides the usual election of state officers, the Supreme bench is to fill this year. This year we elect a Senator, Representative, Judge of Probate, Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Supt. of Ed. Chancellors and Circuit Judges are to elect also. The Gadsden News is not much in love with President Cleveland. The News says: Every rose has its thorn and every sweet its bitter. Cleveland has treated the south with respect, made the cattle kings turn loose the public lands which they had unlawfully grabbed, scared the Mormons out of their boots, protected American interests in Central America, put a crimp in the chronic office-seekers, and done many other things; but he is using his influence to depress the value of silver, and he also allows Fred Douglas, a high-toned negro with a white wife, to remain in a public office.” WILSON CANDIESS, one of the most poverty-stricken young men of Galveston, applied to Col. Richley for the hand of his daughter. “In the first place I’ve sent in my application to President Cleveland for a position in one of the departments.” “Have you any other resources?” asked the prospective father-in-law. “You bet I have. I’m seriously thinking about giving up smoking.” “Pal” exclaimed the young lad,” that’s enough for us to begin with, ain’t it?” – [Texas Siftings] THE TAX ON MARRYING A young friend hands us the following article clipped from the Baltimore Sun with the assurance that it speaks his sentiments. It is better comment on the laws of Maryland than on those of Alabama, the marriage license tax being 4.50, nevertheless he says this sacred and commendable relation is taxed just double in the State of Alabama. “Our tax upon marriage license is heavier than is imposed anywhere else in the country. Yet marriage is a thing which ought not to be taxed at all. Whatever may be the case in the older and more crowded countries of the world, the doctrines of Malthus would be out of place among us who have still vacant lands to settle. Increase of population is still to be wished for, and especially that increase which is due to births on our own soil in the interest of good morals and public order it is well that as large a proportion as possible should marry. What right has the state to tax marriages? In marrying a man simply exercises one of those rights to which, in virtue of his being a man and independent of laws and states, he is entitled. He pays his taxes upon his property as do his fellow citizens, and as a tax that is all he owes the state. As a license, the present marriage license fee is equally indefensible. A man carrying on business requires more protection from the state and greater privileges, which it alone can give or withhold, and if the state wishes to make him pay for it has the right to do so. Whether or not it is good policy to do so is another question. But when a man marries he imposes no new burdens on the state. On the other hand, nine times in ten he feels more than ever he did before his responsibly as a citizen, and therefore becomes a better one. Upon what ground, then is the tax defended? The argument which is most frequently advanced by its defenders is that a man who cannot raise four dollars and a half has no business to marry; which may be true or may not, but which, true or not, has nothing to do with the question. The point is not whether he ought to be able to raise it, but whether he ought to be required to pay it.” Since the house has passed the Hoar presidential bill, it now goes to President, who with a stroke of his pen makes Secretary Bayard the next present of the United States in case anything happens to Mr. Cleveland. BRAVERY Says the Memphis Avalanche with force: “When two respectable citizens meet on the street and pop at each other with pistols, that is folly. I may be bravery, but half the time it isn’t. When an humble railroad man, like the North Alabama hero, swims a freezing river with the thermometer down to zero to flag a coming passenger train and save the lives of men, women and children, that is chivalry. That man is the very pink of chivalry. THE SUCCESSION BILL. On yesterday the President approved the bill providing for the presidential succession, known as the Hoar bill. The bill is therefore law, and the matter is probably now settled for many years to come. The main provision of the bill is that in case the President and Vice-President both shall die, resign or become disabled, the duties of the office shall devolve on the Secretary of State. In case the Secretary of State shall die, resign or become disabled, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall be next in line of succession and so on through the entire cabinet. This removes the Presidency from all but the barest possibility of becoming vacant without an incumbent ready provided by law, and we shall at least have no fears of an interregnum. By the new law Mr. Bayard steps into Mr. Sherman’s shoes and Mr. Manning into those of Mr. Carlisle, so far as the Presidency is concerned. One of the principal merits of the law is that it keeps the line of succession in the party last successful at the polls. We shall have no such thing as a Democratic President and Vice President dying and bequeathing the office to a Republican President pro tem of the Senate or a Republican Speaker of the House, or vice versa, the danger being one never encountered but frequently staring us in the face during nearly a century. Altogether, the law, though open to objections, is decidedly better than the one whose place it takes, and which has been acknowledged bad since its enactment. – [Montgomery Advertiser] GRAND AND PETIT JURORS Below we give a list of Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring term of the Circuit Court. GRAND JURORS R. C. RECTOR Town Beat Farmer H. A. BROCK Lawrence “ D. H. SIZEMORE Sizemore “ W. T. STANFORD Brown’s “ A. P. COOPER Henson’s “ W. L. YOUNG Millville “ W. M. STONE Pine Springs “ G. W. WOODS Moscow “ GEO. W. BETTS Betts “ F. M. RICHARDS Trull’s “ T. J. DUNCAN Vail’s “ J. J. HEMPHILL Millport “ ELIJAH HOWELL Steen’s “ J. J. BRANYAN Strickland “ A. P. ODOM Wilson’s “ PETIT JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK AARON PENNINGTON Town Beat Farmer JOHN WARD “ “ JOHN S. WOFFORD “ “ J. T. MCMANUS “ “ J. F. COLLINS Lawrence “ R. S. WILSON Sizemore “ R. E. BRADLEY Brown’s “ W. W. PURNELL Good “ J. V. CRUMP Henson’s “ J. B. BERRYHILL Millville “ O. M. THOMPSON “ “ W. L. SANDLIN Pine Springs “ MARVEL THOMPSON Moscow “ J. R. BANKHEAD “ “ C. C. WATSON “ “ J. A. YOUNG Military Springs “ A. L. HARRINGTON Betts “ W. P. FALKNER Trull’s “ A. J. ATKINS Vail’s “ J. N. PROPST Millport “ G. B. MOORE Steen’s “ WILEY RAWLAND Strickland “ JAS M. WILSON Wilson’s “ S. M. CURRY “ “ PETIT JURORS FOR SECOND WEEK T. N. LOGAN Town Beat Farmer O. L. GUYTON “ “ JOEL F. SANDERS “ “ HIRAM HOLLIS, JR. “ “ J. M. OAKS Lawrence “ J. F. KIRK Sizemore “ JNO. T. HILL Brown’s “ F. M. LACEY Good “ H. C. ELLIOTT Henson’s “ J. A. DAVIDSON Millville “ JAMES RIGGAN Millville “ G. W. BLACK Pine Springs “ GEO. E. BROWN Moscow “ T. M. WOODS Moscow “ R. P. HANKINS Moscow “ J. H. JORDAN Military Springs “ S. P. KEMP Betts “ FRANK BREWER Trull’s “ A. J. VAIL Vail’s “ W. H. CONNER Millport “ J. W. RICHARDSON Steen’s “ J. N. COLLINS Strickland “ J. H. CASH Wilson’s “ T. J. YARBROUGH Wilson’s “ BARBER SHOP. For a clean shave or shampoo call on G. W. 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Make hens lay….(to small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JAN. 28, 1886 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. STATE OFFICERS Governor E. A. O’NEAL Auditor M. C. BARKLEY Treasurer FRED H. SMITH Alternate ------ T. N. MCCLELLAN Supt. of Public Education S. PALMER Secretary of State ELLIS PHELAN JUDICIARY B. O. BRISKELL Chief Justice Supreme Court G. W. STONE Associate Justice Supreme Court R. M. SOMERVILLE Associate Justice Supreme Court - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor 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 JAMES M. MORTON Register B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLEY Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. R. 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 3 o’clock p.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. 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 30.00 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, 2 ½ cents per line. 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 We wish it distinctly understood that in no case does the mere publication of a communication commit this paper to an endorsement thereof. LOCAL BREVITIES Advertising is the key to success. The high school, we are glad to learn is receiving large accessions. Justice’s court is doing a rushing business these days. The rain prevented preaching Sunday. Despite the bad weather the hammer and saw is still heard. The REV. G. L. HEWITT and family have moved into the parsonage. The roads are almost impassible in many places in the county. JOHN W. SIZEMORE Esq. gave us a pleasant call a few days ago. A large number of Vernonites went out in the country on Monday to attend a Sheriff’s sale but the matter was settled and no sale made. We are requested by our postmaster to say that several letters and postal cards have been received here addressed to MRS. MINNITE GREY, remain uncalled for. GEO. W. RUSH & CO. pays highest market price for barter and sell you groceries and dry goods at astonishing low prices. The News is under lasting obligations to the Times Democrat, the most enterprising paper in the South, for an illustrated and unabridged statistical Almanac for 1886. But few things in the southern state but have received attention. Circuit Court will convene on first Monday and first day of March. Read three new legal ads in today’s paper. DIED: On Sunday last, after a long and painful illness, little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. CORBELL. Thanks to the Pope Mfg. Co., of Boston, for the handsomest Calendar of the season. The roads in this vicinity are in a condition that can be fitly described only by the term awful. The literary society in connection with the high school was formerly organized last Friday night. PETER BROCK, colored, was lodged in jail Tuesday. Charged of larceny and two cases of carrying concealed pistols. We extend thanks to the HON. E. C. BETTS, Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture of Alabama for Bulletins Nos. 2 and 3 of second series. W. A. YOUNG Esq. was prevented from attending church last Sunday morning by his shoes being mysteriously gone. The circulation of the News is steadily growing and will go to almost every home in the county before the close of the year. Mr. R. W. COBB has returned from his trip to New Orleans, where he took a large drove of cattle last week, and is well pleased with his trip. ROBERT J. YOUNG has been appointed Storekeeper and Gauger for the Dist. of Alabama. No better appointment could have been made. Some of our citizens have had their new shoes stored away until friend Y’s could be found. We take pleasure in notifying such parties that they can now wear new shoes with impunity as the lost are found. JAMES A. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties. Write him for terms and have a class this winter. We have received an interesting communication from Moscow, but as the writer failed to furnish his genuine name in connection with the fictitious signature, we necessarily decline its publication. Rev. T.W. SPRINGFIELD is again at his post, after a couple of weeks absence on account of sever burns on the hands, received during the late cold snap in rescuing his daughter from being burned, her dress having caught on fire and was rapidly enveloping her in flames. There are eight announcements for county officers in Franklin county. Three for Judge of Probate, four for Clerk of the Circuit Court and one for Co. Sup of Ed. Why are Lamar candidates so behind our neighboring counties? We are in receipt of the proceedings of the River and Harbor convention held in the city of Tuskaloosa on the 17th of Nov. 1885. The book contains sixty- eight pages besides maps of the coal fields. This book should be extensively circulated containing as it does such an amount of valuable information about Alabama. On Tuesday Mr. ROBERT J. YOUNG received new of his appointment to the office of Storekeeper and Gauger for the District of Alabama. Yesterday he was in town executing his bond. The amount that his sureties justified in on the bond was eighteen thousand and five hundred dollars, the amount of the bond being five thousand dollars. The first warm day hatched out a new candidate who was traveling with the Assessor and Collector, ascertaining facts as to whether he can handle the public funds. More good news for our welcome visitor – [Fayette Journal] A Special from Tuscumbia to the Advertiser, says WILLIAM COOPER Esq. celebrated the 84th anniversary of his birthday yesterday. He is one of the most remarkable men in the world. Although 84 years old he is as quick and vigorous seemingly as a boy. He mounted his “gray pony” one morning not long since and rode to Belgreen, a distance of twenty-five miles, over a very bad road, and attended to a law suit, and returned to Tuscumbia same day; rose early next morning and went to Moulton. He is said to be the oldest practicing lawyer in the State. MARRIED: At the residence of JOHN BIRMINGHAM, on the 21st Jan. 1886, Mr. FLEX F. GODFREY and Miss MARY L. BIRMINGHAM, by Rev. AARON PENNINGTON. On the 14th inst. at the residence of M. W. LOYD, by Rev. G. M. G. DUNCAN, Mr. MAJOR C. LOGGAIN and Miss DORA E. LOYD. [Birmingham Age] Candidates are coming out thick and fast in Lamar County, but the NEWS notifies them that they must pay in advance for their announcements. The News head is level enough to know that you can’t credit a candidate, because all of his bills are made with the idea of paying when he gets the office, and the NEWS knows that by t one man can occupy an office at a time. There was a man once on a time who thought him wondr’ous wise, He swore by all the fabled gods he’d never advertise. But the goods were advertised ere long, and thereby hands a tale, The ads was set in nonparell, and headed “Sheriff’s Sale” – Ex. Alabama is becoming more and more prominent in the general congress. This is the result of her policy of retaining men with experience in her congressional service. She begins each new term where she left off the last term. EDITING A NEWSPAPER From the Louisville Courier-Journal Some people estimate the ability of a periodical and the talent of its original matter. It is comparatively an easy task for a frothy writer to string out a column of words upon any and all subjects. His ideas may flow in one weak, washy, everlasting flood, and the command of his language may enable him to string them together like bunches of onions, and yet his paper may be but a meager and poor concern. Indeed, the mere writing part of editing a paper is but a small portion of the work. The care, the time employed in selecting is far more important, and the fact of a good editor is better shown by his selections than anything else and that, we know, is half the battle. But we have said, and editor ought to be estimated, his labor understood and appreciated, by the general conduct of his paper – its tone, its uniform, consistent course, aims manliness, dignity, and its prosperity. ALABAMA NEWS Epizootic is raging among the horses in Montgomery. The State of Alabama has 6,000 more females than males. It is reported that the Talladega Mountain home is to publish a daily edition. Gainsville ahs a new paper called the Messenger and a very creditable sheet it is tool. A fire at Opelika, last Friday morning, destroyed the Times office, with all its outfit, with no insurance. A convention of postmasters will be held in Gadsden on the first Tuesday in February. Maj. J. G.HARRIS, of Livingston has been appointed Register of the Land Office at Montgomery Alabama. The salary of the mayor of Attalia, Ala. has been reduced from $300 to $100 and the marshal’s from $500 to $300. Cause – Attala has gone dry. The Times of Eufala says: The old negro man, riding a large white steer, saddled and bridled, with saddle bags under him and an old blue umbrella tied on behind, passed through the streets again yesterday, to the amusement of all who saw him. He was evidently on his way to some distant point westward. Some five or six weeks before Christmas Hon. D. A. ADERHOLD, of Springville, had some cattle sent to his stock farm on Blount Mountain. One of the cows escaped with a plow line tied to her and dragging on the ground. After getting off in the woods, and the parties losing sight of her, the line became entangles and fastened her to a tree. On Christmas day Mr. Aderhold, in passing through the woods, happened to come upon her. She was still alive and had lived there without food or water for thirty or forty days. He says she was a perfect skeleton, but was fat when he lost her. He approached her to untie her and she was perfectly wild. He cut the rope and she ran off a bluff some twenty feet high. He had no idea but that she was dead, but when he got to her found her alive. She is doing well. – [Birmingham Age] It is now said Mr. Tilden put up the money for the canvass that made Hill Governor of New York. For a compete stock of clothing, hats, shirts, &c., &c., go to Butler & Topps Columbus, Miss. SOMETHING YOU NEED! The Cheapest and Best Weekly for an Alabama Reader In addition to his county paper and religious weekly, every citizen not able to afford a daily, needs a State weekly containing in full the latest news of his own commonwealth and of the world. Nothing is so instructive and improving to the family as good papers. 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History, per month………..$2.00 High School: Embracing Botany, Physiology, Elementary Algebra, Physical Geography, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy, Elocution, and Latin, per month……..$3.00 A reasonable incidental fee will be charged. Board can be had at $7 per month. Tuition accounts are due at the end of every two months. For further particulars, address. - JNO. R. GUIN, Principal, Fernbank, Ala. – October 28, 1885. SHERIFF’S SALE Within legal hours on Monday, February 8th, 1886, as Sheriff of Lamar County Alabama, I will sell at the court house door of said county to the highest bidder for cash, 2 gray mules, 1 bay mule, 1 gray pided mule as the property of G. W. METCALFE, and 1 clay-back horse the property W. R. METCALFE, to satisfy 2 executions, the first in favor of S. E. MINGA and against W. S. METCALFE, and others and the second in favor of the Bodine Manufacturing Co. and against G. W. METCALFE, and W. R. METCALFE issued from the circuit court of said county. This January 27, 1886. - S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama – Probate Court – Lamar county 27th day of January, 1886 Estate of CHARLES C. LOYD, this day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 15th day of February A. D. 1886 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper. - ALEXANDER COBB - Judge of Probate of said County NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville Ala. – January 23d, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon, on March 13th, 1886; viz: No. 11476 AARON C. WILEMON, for the N ½ of NW ¼ Sec 28 T 12 R 15 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. R. RAY, WILLIAM WHITE, C. V. JOHNSON and JOHN W. JOHNSON, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Ala. - W. C. WELLS, Register ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S ½ of S W ¼ Sec 10 N W ¼ and N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ and S W ¼ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S E ½ Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased. Said sale will be made for one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from day of sale. The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two good securities for purchase money. This the 4th day of January 1886. - J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886 Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 30th day of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper. - ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 12tjh day of February, 1886, viz: No. 9862 ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West. 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Now dig it up, being careful not to break off any of the tender roots, as it is those that will supply the plant with the strength to start again. Get a pail of water and wash the soil completely off, dipping the plant up and down until all the soil has left the roots. This will remove all worms and ever rootlet touching the new soil will be ready to start. Then pot and water it, and stand it in the shade for at least three days. Ina short time the plant will commence to show signs of new life. – [Our Country Home] CUTTING AND CURING CLOVER Prof. S. A. Knapp gives the following directions for cutting and curing clover: Start the mower at 3 o’clock p. m. and cut until 8 in the evening. If it should rain the following day the clover would not be wilted enough to receive any great damage; should the weather be fair use the tedder from 10 to 12 the morning after the clover is cut; immediately after dinner rake into smah (sic) win-rows; place in shock before the dew falls; on the following day air and draw to barn. We have in red clover one of the most valuable fodder plants in the world, but our present method of curing by exposure for a long time to a hot sun reduces the crop in value to pod hay and in flavor to an insipid weed. A ton of the best clover hay costs the farmer less than one-third that of a ton of corn, and all things considered, its food value is about the same. SAVE THE CORN STALKS Of the many things I admire in my German neighbor, none excite my respect more than the very successful way in which he manages his corn stalks. His plan does not differ from that generally adopted. He husks his corn in the field, ties the stalks into bundles, stands these bundles into stocks, and when dry, draws them into the barn, or makes them into a high, narrow stack, that is pretty much all roof. The Deacon and I do the same thin. The only difference is, that we propose to draw them in tomorrow, or the net day, or as soon as convenient, and the result is that something happens to postpone the work, and before we know it the stalks are wet, and we must wait until they get dry again. And sometimes we repeat this process of waiting for a convenient time, and November snow finds the stalks still in the field. Not so Mr. Jacobs. He does not wait. His stalks are frequently secure in the bar or stack before some of us commence to husk. His cows and young stock are in the field, picking up the stray ears and scattered fodder, before they are injured by the rain, and before we realize what has been done, the field is harrowed to level down the stubbs, and the next day the boys are ploughing a dn getting the land ready to sow barley next spring. – [Joseph Harris in Agriculturist] “SWILL PORK” There is in some localities a growing sentiment to the effect that producers of pork by wholesome processes should not be compelled to compete with the degraded product from city swill. Those who supply grass and corn cannot realize the profit gained by personas who, within easy reach of large towns, are enabled to secure garbage or hotel refuse at low rates or even for the hauling. The Massachusetts Ploughman considers this subject at length, intelligently, and shows that it touches not only producers, but consumers and the general welfare, and has even a bearing upon our export trade. First the passing swill-cart is “an indescribable stench” and a menace to health, as are also, to an aggravated degree, the hog-pens where this fermented or rotting slip is shoveled to the abused swine, amid “sickening odors” against which longsuffering, peace-loving neighbors hesitate to make complaint. Again, its use promotes disease – as hog-cholera and possible trichina – and the average housekeeper is not able to detect by appearance the difference between this meant and that fattened by decent methods. Moreover the swine maladies, spread from herd to heard, down stream or by other means of transit, cause the innocent to suffer, and millirate, withal, against the reputation of American pork products abroad. Our contemporary finds in these suggestive facts warrant for legislative restrictions upon sale, if not upon production; at least the objectionable product should be labeled “Swill pork,” so that buyers averse to taking risks may avoid it, and raiser s of grain-fed pigs be relieved from the unfair competition. – [New York Tribune] TO THROW PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS The old way of rooting cuttings in a small glass bottle filled with water is a good method when a hotbed cannot be used; but the bottle should not stand so close to the window as to become hot, and thus scald the rootlets. A little cotton wool within the rim of the bottle will prevent evaporation. In two or three weeks the roots will be plentiful, and then the cuttings may be transferred to thumb pots, or, if the season suits, into the beds. As each cutting is taken from the bottle, dip the roots into a little warm sand until each fiber is coated; this will keep them apart and prevent wilting. If pots are used, nearly fill them with a rich sandy compost, and press it to the sides, so as to leave room in the center. Put the roots in gently, and give the plant a little twist to spread the roots, or separate them with a hairpin. Then put in more soil, and press it about the roots. Tight pressing is one of the secrets of success in raising plants from cuttings. Water the young plants well, and shade them at first from the sun. Cuttings can be also started in pots of sand compost, with a glass tumbler placed over them to confine the moisture, and keep from the sun for two or three days; then place the pots in the warmest window exposed to the southeast. Wet sand is also good for growing cuttings, and they will start quicker than in compost. A shallow pan is preferable; fill it up with sand (not sea sand) sopping wet, then press in the cuttings tightly, and keep them wet. When new leaves show themselves, in two or three days transplant into pots filled with light sandy loam. After shading a day or two, they may have ample sunshine and sufficient water to keep them moist. Cuttings taken from the fresh growth of a plant strike best. It is better to break off a branch of a geranium or verbena than to cut it (if it breaks readily). Cuttings of roses, heliotrope, etc., will grow better if taken off at the junction of the old and new wood, and should be cut off just below a joint or bud, as the roots start from that point; and if a bud is not left near or close to the base, the cutting is liable to decay in the soil. – [Scientific American] HOUSEHOLD HINTS Bake crackers until crisp to be eaten with oysters. Corned beef and ham should be put in boiling water. The luster of morocco is restored by varnishing it with the white of an egg. Apply with a sponge. Stovepipes can be cleaned by putting a piece of zinc on the coals of a hot fire. The vapor produced carried off the soot by chemical decomposition. By rubbing with a damp flannel dipped in the best whiting, the brown discoloration may be taken off cups in which custards have been baked. Tar stains should be rubbed with lard or butter, and then be washed in warm suds. If you rub soap directly on any stain it will tend to set it. RECIPES SALMON SALAD – One cup canned salmon, one cup crackers broken into bits, one large onion chopped fine; salt and pepper. Moisten with vinegar. Stir all together lightly and serve. INDIAN MEAL GRUEL – Boil one pint of water in a sauce pan, put one-half teaspoon salt in it. Mix two even tablespoons meal with enough cold water to smooth and thin it. Stir this into the boiling water. Boil gently, stir carefully half an hour, and add teaspoon or so of cream or milk if liked. Boil up after milk is added. STUFFED EGGS – this is a good breakfast dish. Cut some hard-boiled eggs in halves. Take out the yolk and mash it smoothly with an equal quantity of granted ham, a little parsley, pepper and salt to taste, and a small lump of fresh butter. Fill the cup-like whites of the eggs with this mixture, pour over them a little melted butter and heat in the oven. Serve with each half egg placed on a neat square of bread nicely fired in butter. TEA CAKES – Rub one heaped teaspoonful of baking powder into a pound of flour. Add two ounces of butter also rubbed in, a quarter of a pound of sugar and two ounces of currants. Mix it with two eggs well beaten and stirred into half a pint of buttermilk or new milk. Roll out and make of the quantity six tea cakes. Bake in a moderate oven, and when half done wash over with the yolk of an egg beaten up with a teaspoonful of milk. These tea cakes are very nice cut in slices and buttered cold for tea. PEARLS OF THOUGHT Wound no man’s feelings unnecessarily. There are thorns enough in the path of human life. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring. Recollect what disorder hasty or imperious words from parents or teachers have caused in our thoughts. Nothing is easier than fault finding. No talent, no self denial, no character is required to set up in the grumbling business. A man who puts aside his religion because he is going into society is like one taking off his shoes because he is about to walk upon thorns. Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still night is full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than day. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the bitter thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men in steel with bloody purposes. A good man is the best friend, and therefore is first to be chosen, longest to be retained and indeed never to be parted with, unless he ceases to be that for which he was chosen. Life should be our only and great regard; for the first office of wisdom is to give things their due valuation, to estimate aright how much they are worth; and the second is to treat them according to their worthiness. HE SAW HIS FATHER “Father” he began, after taking the old man out back of the barn, “your years are many.” “Yes, my son.” “You have toiled early and late, and by the sweat of your brow you have amassed this big farm.” “That’s so, William” “It has pained me more than I can tell to see you, at your age, troubling yourself with the cares of life. Father, your declining days should be spent in the old arm-chair in the chimneys corner.” ‘Yes, William, they should.” “Now, father, being you are old and feeble and helpless, give me a deed of the farm and you and mother live out your few remaining days with me and Sally.” “William,” said the old man, as he pushed back his sleeves, “I think I see the drift of them remarks. When I’m ready to start for the poor house I’ll play fool and hand over the deed! William.” “Yes, sir.” “In order to dispel any delusion on your part that I’m old and feeble and helpless, I’m going to knock down half an acre of corn-stalks with your heels!” And when the convention finally adjourned, William crawled to his nearest hay stack and cautiously whispered to himself: “And Sally was to broach the same thing to ma at the same time! I wonder if she’s mortally injured or only crippled for life?” – [New York Sun] FABLE OF THE RABBIT AND THE GOAT A goat once approached a peanut stand kept by a rabbit, purchased five cents worth of peanuts, laid down a dime, and received a punched nickel in change. In a few days the goat came back, called for another pint of peanuts, and offered the same nickel in payment; but in the meantime had stopped the hole in it with a peg. “I can’t take that nickel,” said the rabbit. “This is the very nickel you gave me in change a few days ago,” replied the goat. “I know it is,” continued the rabbit, “but I made no attempt to deceive you about it. When you took the coin the hole was wide open, and you could see it for yourself. In working that mutilated coin off on you I simply showed my business sagacity. But now you bring it back with the hole stopped up and try to pass it, with a clear intent to deceive. That is fraud. My dear goat, I’m afraid the grand jury will get after you if you are not more careful about little things of this sort.” MORAL: This fable teaches that the moral quality of a business traction often depends upon the view you take of it. – [Life] HER SORT OF A DOCTOR “George, who is your family physician?” “Dr. Smoothman.” “What, that numbskull? How does it happen you employ him?” “Oh, it’s some of my wife’s doings. She went to see him about a cold in her head, and he recommended that she wear another style of bonnet. Since then she won’t have any other doctor.” – [Chicago News] GHASTLY RELICS – NOVEL COLLECTIONS INT EH ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM AT WASHINGTON There is one place in Washington that very few sight-seers visit. It is a museum with a very extensive and novel collection, composed entirely of fragments of dead people, and it occupied the old Ford’s theatre, on Tenth street, in which Lincoln met his tragic death. The once gay theatre is now associated with skeletons and death. The first floor, where the pit was, is occupied by the clerical force of the medical department of the army. The dress circle contains the library and a few articulated skeletons, while the peanut gallery, where the street arabs (sic) used to assemble at night to applaud the acting and drop peanut hulls and orange peelings on the bald heads in the pit, is given up exclusively to the collection of fragments of dead men. There is seldom anybody in the museum except the attendant. At the entrance of the library a group of skeletons stand grinning a sepulchral welcome, those in front standing in a careless attitude, “too naked to be ashamed,” while those behind leer over their shoulders with an air of familiarity that is offensive to a person of delicate sensibilities. Near the door is a sign and an index finger, which tells the visitor that the museum is upstairs, and these grinning, gibbering skeletons seem to feel a cynical satisfaction in directing the way to the upper room where are collected the relics of ruined men. One tall, fine-looking fellow stands with his foot on a skull. The rest stand with their toes turned in and their long, bony fingers spread out at their sides or twisted together. Some fo them are young, spry, dandified skeletons, with head erect and polished white foreheads and a full set of pure white teeth, while others are hollow-chested, snaggle- toothed, old creatures, and others again are black and shriveled up, like witch’s imps. They all have that offensive familiar grin, which seems to say that they hope to know you better later on. Upstairs there are rows of glass cases all the way around the wall, and close together from east to west around the room, there are large glass bottles, like preserving jars. Some have human hearts in them; some hold the lungs and liver. Others hold kidneys, spleen, eyes, noses, ears of fingers of men who have been a long time dead. Among the spleens is that of Guiteau, which is a third larger than any of the rest. One case is devoted to arms and legs that have been amputated, and show how nice and slick the surgeon’s knife and saw went through. Some of them are all lacerated and torn to pieces by gunshot wounds – most of the exhibits are the scraps of men picked up off the battlefield. One heart has two big ounce bullets imbedded in it. Another ahs a deep gash in it and near by is a dirk knife. Another case is devoted to horrible looking hands and feet put up in glass jars. All are swelled up and lacerated. Some have the flesh torn away and the bone and sinews left bare. A solitary thumb reposes in a small bottle, while a little finger is crooked up in another. An eye torn from its socket by a musket ball is soaked in alcohol. Odds and ends and all sorts of fragments of dead people are collected there like the scraps for a crazy quilt. But the chief part of the collection consists of small fragments of bones. There is the section of the backbone of Booth in a glass case not many feet from the spot where he shot Lincoln. There are all sorts of human bones shattered by shot and shell. Skulls with great big lead balls sticking in them; big bones with fragments of iron shells crushing them into powder; joints broken apart by musket balls. There are skulls, ribs, legs, and arms shattered and shivered by all sorts of missiles of war, and in some cases the lead and the bone have become welded together. There are over 9,000 specimens of bones fractured in curious ways by shot. There are plaster casts of different cuts of the human body that make the cases look like a butcher’s stall. Then there are more articulated skeletons. There is the great French skeleton, a giant in proportions, every bone as white as ivory, teeth all perfect like pearls, toes turned out, and palms of the hands extended with all the grace of a dancing master. “Look at those teeth,” said one of the attendants to the reporter. “He is proud of those teeth. None but a French skeleton could have teeth like that. You can always tell a Frenchman by that. There’s a Yankee. None at all! Only one canine and half the jaw rotted away. That’s because they use too much tobacco. If Americans knew how it ruined their skeletons they wound; chew so much. A Frenchman has a right to be proud of his skeleton. I should be ashamed to be a skeleton without teeth. That’s a mighty fine looking woman there,” and he dusted the glass case that protected a set of delicately fashioned bones. “She’s French. See her teeth; like pearls. If you want to make a good skeleton take care of your teeth." 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