Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News September 23, 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 28, 2006, 7:22 pm The Lamar News September 23, 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 23, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 47 OPPORTUNITY – (poem) – [Monthly Advance] NONA’S OBEDIENCE – Short Story – [Harper’s Weekly] HE HOLDS THE FENCE Several weeks ago a Detroiter purchased a piece of land in the west end of the county. After the purchase had been completed he engaged a surveyor’s services to see if he had been cheated. The discovery was made that a line-fence was over on his land eight inches. When he went to the owner of the adjoining property with the statement the man replied: “Stranger, the row about that fence began twenty-eight years ago. It was then five feet over the line, and the two men fit and fit until one was killed and the other crippled. After a while it was moved a foot, and then the other owners fit and fit until the lawyers go t the two farms. The fence was then moved another foot, and the two new owners spent half the year in jawing each other and the other half in lawing. One died and the other got sold out on a mortgage, and when I got this farm the fence was moved over another foot. Then I fit and fit, and two years ago was kicked in the ribs and laid up for three months. During that time the fence was moved to the present line. So it’s still on your land?” “Yes” “Well, I s’ppose the proper thing is a row. If you’ll go out by the barn with your revolver I’ll come out and hunt for you with the shot-gun. If you git the drop on me don’t let go, because I shall shoot to kill.” It took the Detroiter some time to convince the farmer that he didn’t care for eight inches of land, and that he wouldn’t have the fence moved for fifty dollars, and when he had succeeded the old man drew a long breath of relief and replied: “That’s kind o’ you, and it leaves my boys a chance to fit and fit after I’m gone. I hope you aint comin’ out here to live alongside o’ me?” “No.” “Glad on’t. If you lease, git some man whol’ll want them other eight inches. The boys and I is lonesome for excitement.” – [Detroit Free Press] A FELINE’S FRIGHT Last week in connection with a study of the carnivore, says a Denver scientist, I obtained a cat from an acquaintance at a dinner and carefully dissected it in a room above our stable. When I had finished the car was, as may be supposed, hardly recognized. I cleaned the scalpels, placed them in the case, and took them to the house. No sooner had I put them down that I observed our own cat go and sniff all around the case with a peculiar look of intense wonder. I took the instruments away and thought no more about it’; but a short time after I returned to the remains of the dissected cat in order to prepare the skeleton, when I saw our cat standing at a distance of about a foot from the dissection, and presenting an appearance of most helpless terror. She was trembling from head to foot, and in such a condition of evident horror that my presence had no effect upon her. After some moments she noticed me, and then darted away with a scared look such as I had never before seen. She did not return to the house that day, a thing quite unusual, but on the next day she returned and entered the house with a fearful caution, as though realizing the probability that she herself might become a victim to science, and her whole conduct was changed. This suggest that the country custom of using dead birds, weasels, etc, as a scare to the like is not entirely unreasonable, and it would be interesting to know whether others have noticed similar effects. GLASS EATING – MEN WHO PRETEND TO CHEW AND SWALLOW GLASS A Probable Explanation Of The Manner In Which It Is Done No matter how absurd anything is, the great majority of people are willing, if they cannot understand it, to accept any explanation offered and be satisfied with it. This has been especially true of the alleged glass- eating, which has now become a regular “profession” with a number of men – a woman has never yet tried it. The feat originated in Philadelphia, where, it seems, a negro appeared to develop a peculiar fancy for lamp chimneys and other kinds of glass as an article of diet. The doctors advertised the thing quite extensively at the time by declaring that the man would surely die. He did not, however, to their amazement, and still continues to dupe credulous people into the belief that he consumes “fused sand.” His pose as the “original and only” glass-eater was soon spoiled by the appearance of numerous other applicants for glass-eating glory, and now a dime museum is poor indeed that cannot support one of these “human ostriches.” They are the legitimate successors of the sword-swallower and eaters of fire, who were at one time the standard “wonder” at circuses and museums. The sword-swallower is obliged to educate his throat so as to allow a foreign substance to remain in it for an indefinite period. That this is a difficult task let any one who believes to the contrary run even his finger down his throat and mark the result. The fire-eater toughens his mouth with astringent washes, and then uses for fire volatile substances, which produce a great deal of flame with but little heat. But how does this glass-eater dispose of his flinty lunch, which, if taken into his stomach, would produce the same effect as a score of lancelets or a dose of cyanide of potassium -–a most agonizing death? Powdered glass has long been used as a sovereign but cruel remedy for superfluous cats, dogs, &c. Now, if the stomach of a dog or cat, which so easily digests bones and other hard substances, cannot dispose of a little powdered glass, how, then, do the interior organs of the colored “professor” at a neighboring dime museum stand the strain of a dozen, more or less, meals of this kind a day? The most obvious answer to this is that the eater of glass never eats glass, in fact, although those who witness the edifying spectacle and are afforded the opportunity of exploring the dark recesses of the Ethiopians’ gullet, may be unable to fully understand what he does with the pieces in his mouth. The explanation by the medical man whose certificate is printed on the bills, of the manner in which the performer disposes of his dyspeptic load is ludicrous in the extreme when one begins to think of the absurdity of it. He says: “From a personal examination of the man’s stomach, I have found that the gastric juices and alkalies contained therein are just what will dissolve glass, iron or stone.” Any one who has dabbled in chemistry knows that the statement is a bare-faced romance. In fact, about the only acid that will dissolve glass – hydrofluoric – is so powerful that should it get into this pretentious individual’s interior it would eat its way out, in less time that it takes to record the fact. Bu the man really does take glass – not bites out of tumblers, but thin glass such as lamp chimneys are mad eof – into his mouth, and, with a pinch of salt, probably to take off the excessive freshness of his meal, and a glass of water to wash it down, chews it up and apparently swallows it. At any rate, the glass does not remain in the performer’s mouth as an examination by the writer’s fingers proved. And it was real everyday glass, as several pieces taken from the mouth just as he was on the point of swallowing them are now in the reporter’s pocket-book – that is, if the sharp fragments have not cut their way out. So this disproves one theory, that the alleged glass as a clever imitation, manufactured out of gelatin, clarified and made brittle, to represent the real article. The gelatin would, of course, do the man no harm’ but would, in fact, prove rather nourishing. Another theory is that the performer had previously bee a sword-swallower, thereby having made his throat so callous that the glass would not cut it on its passage to the stomach; but this does not explain how it is digested. From all thick, knowing that the glass does not sty in his mouth, and being equally certain that it cannot go into the stomach, there is but one conclusion to be drawn – that the glass is intercepted before reaching its destination. But how can this be done Very easily. The sword-swallower educates his throat to allow the presence of the sword; the glass-eater prepares his to receive a tube of some description, which probably has a strainer in the end to allow the water which he drinks to filter through, but retains the glass until such time as he can dispose of it without being observed. That silver tube can be worn in the throat we all know from the numerous instances in which they have been used in surgical operations. Meanwhile, glass eating is becoming one of the crowded professions, and it behooves the managers of dime museums to be on the hunt for some new dictictical curiosity. Glass eating is already a “chestnut.” – [Boston Transcript] IVORY AND ITS USES Mammoth tusks of ivory occasionally come to this country from Siberia, but as these have been lying exposed for centuries, and probably for many thousands of years, and often buried in ice, the “nature” has gone out of them and they are not fit for the cutler’s use. The teeth of the walrus and hippopotamus are used considerable, and being of suitable size are used whole for making expensive carved handles. Ivory of the best quality comes from the west coast of Africa under the names of Cameroon, Angola and Gaboon ivory. This is brought down from the interior and retains a large proportion of the “fat” or gelatine, from the fact probably that it is more recently from the animal. In this state it is called “green” ivory. It is more translucent and not so white as the Egyptian and other kinds, called “white” ivory, that have been lying a longer time and in a more sandy region, and exposed to the heat of the sun until the animal matter has disappeared. The excellence of the “green” ivory consists in its greater toughness and in its growing whiter by age, instead of yellow, as is the case with the whiter varieties. Yet buyers of cutlery, through ignorance of those qualities, usually prefer the whiter kinds, which on that account are more in demand for the Sheffield trade, and have more than doubled in price since 1879. The sales of ivory occur every three months at London and Liverpool, and sales are also held to a limited extent and at irregular intervals at Rotterdam. At Liverpool only ivory of the best quality and from the west coasts of Africa is offered. Buyers from Germany and France and agents of American consumers attend these sales, and it is estimated that about one quarter of the whole amount goes to Sheffield, another quarter to London, and the other half to Germany, France, and the United States. – [Chamber’s Journal] FRIENDS OF THE FARMER There are two kinds of weasels in the Eastern States. The smaller kind feeds chiefly on mice and insects and is not known to kill poultry. The larger preys also mainly on mice and rats, but in addition sometimes kills rabbits and poultry. Both species are friends of the farmer, for the occasional loss of a few chickens is a trifling consequence compared with the good that these animals are constantly doing in checking the increase of mice. You ask my opinion in regard to the beneficial and injurious qualities of the hawks and owls which inhabit Pennsylvania. Our hawks and owls must be ranked among the best friends of the farmer. With very few exceptions their food consists of mice and insects, meadow mice and grasshoppers predominating. The exceptions are the fierce goshawk form the North and two smaller resident hawks, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned, which really destroy many wild birds and some poultry. These three hawks have long tails and short wings, which serve, among other characters, to distinguish them form the beneficial kind. – [Forest and Stream] RULES OF CONDUCT 1 Never lose any time. I do not think that lost which is spent in recreation every day’ but always be in the habit of being employed. 2 Never err the least in truth 3 Never say an ill thing of a person when thou canst say a good thing of him. Not only speak charitably, but feel so. 4 Never be irritable or unkind to anybody. 5 Never indulge thyself in luxuries that are not necessary. 6 Do all things with consideration, and when they path to act right is most difficult, put confidence in that Power alone which is able to assist thee, and evert thine own powers as far as they go. The foregoing rules were penned by the well known Quaker lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. – [Watchman] The proper course to pursue on being informed that somebody has threatened to pull your nose is to procure some fellow and grease it. THE OUTSIDE DOG – Poem – [Philadelphia Call] HUMOROUS Hard luck – A big ice crop. A last farewell. A shoemaker giving up his business. Men of mark – those who are unable to sign their own names. The greatest satirist is the blacksmith, for he is so extremely ironical. When you offer oats to a horse he may say neigh, but he don’t mean it. Wives who are always blowing up their husbands are domestic magazines. “This is a very paneful (sic) affair,” remarked the man as the sash fell on him. Our country’s best resources re undoubtedly its women; but its resources should be husbanded. There are two reasons, why we don’t trust a man. One because we don’t know him and the other because we do. A writer says that a woman is a silent power in the land. To this a cynicle (sic) old bachelor editor responds: "“hat will be news to thousands of husbands."” Governess – Now Jack, if I were to give twelve pears to Maudie, ten to Edith, and three to you, what would it be? Jack (aged six) – it wouldn’t be fair. “Papa, if three wheels is a tricycle, and two wheels is a bicycle, what is one wheel?” “One wheel my son?” Well, let me see? One wheel must be a unicycle.” “No, it ain’t papa, it’s a wheelbarrow!” “Pa,” inquired a little boy, “if you can say that ‘people run for office,’ why can’t you say that people walk for office?” “Because they are in two big a hurry to walk,” explained the intelligent father. There is a difference between a hurricane and a cyclone. A hurricane devotes several hours to the work of scattering a man’s house over several miles of territory, while a cyclone picks up the structure bodily and completes the job in about fifteen minutes. No eight-hour movement for the cyclone! At a time of great excitement in this country growing out of our political relations with France and England, a man in Vermont named his daughter “Embargo”. It was suggested that the name might have been given ironically, for when read backward it expresses more than a mere willingness to be taken. A DEFECTIVE EDUCATION “This ediction they fill boyus up with now days ndon’t seem ter ‘mount ter much much fer ord’nary use,” said a Dakota settler. “What makes you think so?” asked a friend. “Why, there’s that boy v mine – sent him ‘way ter school fer pretty nigh two years and he aint’ capab’l uv taking right holt uv ev’ry day bus’ness yet.’ “What has he failed in?” “Well, pretty important p’int now I tell you. When he come back I give him a mid’lion good hoss and told him ter see what he could make ov it and I’ll be hanged ef he didn’t trade a couple uv times and come here with an old plyug uv a hoss that wus a colt ‘bout thrity-five years ago. He couldn’t tell nothin’ by lookin’ at its teeth you see. I’ll be busted ef I don’t b’lieve you could shove a hoss onto that boy with false teeth fixed up by one uv these here dentist A DEFECTIVE EDUCATION “This ediction they fill boyus up with now days ndon’t seem ter ‘mount ter much much fer ord’nary use,” said a Dakota settler. “What makes you think so?” asked a friend. “Why, there’s that boy v mine – sent him ‘way ter school fer pretty nigh two years and he aint’ capab’l uv taking right holt uv ev’ry day bus’ness yet.’ “What has he failed in?” “Well, pretty important p’int now I tell you. When he come back I give him a mid’lion good hoss and told him ter see what he could make ov it and I’ll be hanged ef he didn’t trade a couple uv times and come here with an old plyug uv a hoss that wus a colt ‘bout thrity-five years ago. He couldn’t tell nothin’ by lookin’ at its teeth you see. I’ll be busted ef I don’t b’lieve you could shove a hoss onto that boy with false teeth fixed up by one uv these here dentist sharks!” – [Estelline (Dakota) Bell] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY AUGUST SEPT 23, 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. For Congress, 6th Dist., J. B. BANKHEAD, of Fayette The two brothers, candidates for governor of Tennessee who are both musicians, occupied the same room in a Chattanooga hotel Monday night and entertained an audience of delighted admirers by engaging in a musical competition with fiddles. The Nashville Banner referring to the occasion says: “Bob played ‘Rack Back Davy” and Alf played ‘Akansaw Traveler’ with Tennessee variations. It is reported in the dispatches as being a beautiful sight, and it doubtless was. It is pleasant to see brothers dwelling together in unity, despite their differences in politics. PUBLIC ROADS There will be before the next legislature several plans for improving the present and existing system of keeping up the public roads. There must be some change in the road laws to insure good roads. The old law once adopted to the sparse population of a young state has become of little force. It can not be claimed that the existing laws ever did give good roads. Occasionally an overseer would take commendable pride in making a short piece of good road; but the next section would be indifferent and the load drawn was always that which could be pulled over the bad road. Since the vote on the road amendment the roads have been better worked in this county, in the main, but the public eye will soon be withdrawn from the roads and the old-time state of affairs will be resumed. The most sensible and feasible plan proposed is to work the convicts on the public roads. There can be no more objection to working them on the public roads, than on farms. And in this county the cost of taking them to a place where reasonable wages can be had for them consumes about half their wages. The convicts of this county would very nearly keep in repair the public roads. And the only question for solution is if there should not be a sufficient force to repair all the roads how and where would the convicts labor be placed? THE QUESTION ANSWERED The Birmingham Age propounds the following questions the Lamar News together with several other papers in the district: 1. Do you really believe that Mr. Bankhead is a tariff for revenue only Democrat? 2. Do you really believe that Mr. Bankhead will vote with the Morrison wing of the Democratic Party, with the view to reducing tariff taxation to a revenue only basis? 3. If an attempt is made by the Morrison reformers to make a radical reduction of the duty on pig iron and place coal, iron ore and lumber on the free list, do you believe that Mr. Bankhead will vote with the Morrison reformers? The reason the age asks these questions is because there seems to be such a difference of opinion as to Mr. Bankhead’s position and it is simply right that all of us should fully understand what we are to expect of our representative when he goes to Congress. Mr. Bankhead in his speeches in this county gave forth no uncertain sound, and he positively asserted himself as being in favor of a tariff reduction to a revenue basis only. And no man can more forcibly denounce the doctrine of the protectionist than he in this two speeches made here during the summer, and you may rest assured that he is known here as a tariff for revenue only Democrat by every one. To the second question we can but say that if he keeps the pledges made the people here in public, on two occasions, he will be more than ready to vote on such measure. And the people of Lamar have his views on that subject and they believe that he will stand up for them. To the third question we answer that we would expect him to vote in favor of any measure tending to reduce the tariff, it matters not what it is on; and while we can not foretell the vote of a congressman we would most certainly, from our knowledge of his views on the tariff, expect him to vote for any measure presented by that wing of the party known as low tariff Democrats. And in conclusion, you may rest assured that Mr. Bankhead is NOT A PROTECTIONIST. The Eutaw Whig asks “What the de-l is Mr. Bankhead’s position on the tariff anyway?” Judging from the reluctance with which the gentleman discusses the subject, it would seem that Mr. Bankhead will leave the people to guess what that position is. In an interview with the Dispatch’s reporter published in yesterday’s paper, Mr. Bankhead urged the following reason as an excuse for his failure to publicly define his tariff views: “My reason for this is that the campaign has not opened, and as the canvass will be strictly party contest, I do not wish to make my views, public until the right time, but in the canvass, whenever the issue is sprung, I will meet it square and assert my position. This will strike the public as an insufficient reason and lame excuse. How “a strictly party contest” can be affected one way or the other from a publication of a candidate’s view on the issues of the day will be difficult to determine what influence the fact that “the campaign has not opened” can not possibly exert on Mr. Bankhead’s expression of opinion on public questions. A candidate’s platform is generally known even before his nomination and on its merits he is generally selected as the people’s choice, but Mr. Bankhead seems inclined to reverse such usages and leave the people he is to represent to find out his views the best way they can. His failure to gratify the repeated demands to define himself argues a lack of firmness that should be the condition precedent of every nomination for a high and important office. Mr. Bankhead owes it to himself and party to come out squarely and tell the people what he favors or opposes in connection with the office to which the people have nominated him. Else he will be regarded as a political nondescript or a man of unsettled opinions and indefinite policy and therefore incompetent and unfit to serve the interests of an important district in the halls of the Federal Congress. – [Montgomery Dispatch] RAISING THE DEVIL For the News] A few years since while the famous Lorenzo Dow was traveling through a certain state, he came to a solitary house in the woods, and asked for lodging during the night. The woman of the house reluctantly consented, her husband being absent and not expected that night. Lorenzo got his supper, attended family worship, and went to bed in a room adjoining the one where the woman was, and separated from it by a rough partition, with large cracks between the boards. Lorenzo could not get to sleep, and therefore lay in a wakeful posture for some hours. About midnight he heard a gentle tap at the door which the woman opened to a sturdy looking fellow. She whispered to him that Lorenzo was in the next room and he must speak very low for fear of awakening him. In the course of an hour the husband unexpectedly began to thunder that the door. The lovers were put into terrible confusion, but the female mind is wonderful for experience. The paramour was towed in a large barrel and some cotton locks thrown over him. The woman opened the door and received her husband with as much tenderness as surprise. He was about three streets in the wind, that is to say; a little intoxicated and began to talk loud and swear. She hushed him by informing him that a minister, the famous Lorenzo Dow, was asleep in the next room. The husband upon hearing this replied that Lorenzo should get up and sup with him the woman’s intreats and Lorenzo’s excuses were in vain. A drunken man is a most unreasonable being. Lorenzo had to get up. Well,. Said the husband, I understand you can raise the devil. I wish you would bring him up now. I wish very much to see him. Lorenzo observed he had made no such pretension. The drunkard was importunate and would have the devil raised at any rate. Lorenzo told him he would be sadly terrified at the sight. No, said the husband, knocking his fists together, I defy him. Well, said Lorenzo, since you will have him raised, I request that you open the door so that he may escape, otherwise he might carry off the side of the house. The door was opened and the husband prepared for the attack. When Lorenzo set the cotton of fire in the barrel and out come the devil amidst the flames, and made a rapid retreat through the door, the husband reported the story about the neighborhood, and upon his being questioned, he went before a magistrate and made oath to it. It gained such credence that Lorenzo was compelled to explain the mystery. J. M. LAWRENCE 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 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 Ad for Collins Ague Cure 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. 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. Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Agents 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) 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. 23, 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 Cool nights as a rule. Several cases of chills reported. Late watermelons on the market. Mr. L. S. METCALFE was in town yesterday. The corn crop bids fair to be as good as usual. Our country friends say that cotton is opening rapidly. It is better not to speak than to speak unkindly. Ex-circuit clerk MIDDLETON has returned from his trip to Talladega. A protracted meeting to be conducted by Rev. G. L. HEWITT will commence in town next Saturday. Glad to see Master SHIELDS MORTON who has been quite sick, able to be out again. Hon. T. B. NESMITH and W. A. YOUNG, Esq. are attending court in Fayette County. In the death of Mr. THOS. S. BOMAN, Lamar has lost a noble and good citizen. Mr. G. W. BENSON and family have returned from visiting Mrs. S. A. LEE and other relatives near Detroit. The editor and family will leave tomorrow for their annual visit to relatives in Franklin County. Mr. T. L. CREW, who has been quite sick for several weeks at Mr. E. W. BROCK’S has returned home. Little MARY EUNICE RUSH we regret to learn fell from the banisters this week and was badly hurt. The colored people will hold a campmeeting to being today, near “Uncle” EGBERT BONMAN’S. Hope they may accomplish great good. We should have stated in last week’s News that the house purchased by JAS. MIDDLETON, Esq. cost him $762.50, instead of $662.50. The Fayette Journal says: A colored witness testified in the Circuit Court, one day last week that he gathered four bales of cotton in 1885, off a piece of land that he cleared up in the spring of 1886. There will be very good mast crop this year. Circuit Clerk Bradley expects to move his family down next week. And still the subscribers keep flocking in. That is the proper caper. The pamphlets on the “Wonderful Girl’ are at last completed. Call in and get one. Price 50 c. If young men will adopt the following rule they will get along much better: “Keep good company or none.” Those who have chickens to dispose of can find ready market for same by applying to A. J. WHEELER. The members of the Missionary Baptist Church at this place expect to have a meeting Saturday 4 p.m. at the Union School house for the purpose of electing a Pastor for the ensuing year. Mr. HUGH PENNINGTON is building additions to the blacksmith ship, now occupied by Mr. J. W. MORTON, with the view of using it for a livery. Uncle ANDY WHEELER has quit the “mill business” and gone into the “poultry business”. He had such good success with his chickens in Columbus last week that he has gone again this. A gentleman from Fayette C. H. a few days ago informed us that the recent defeated candidate for State Senate of that place was suing every person that owed him and who voted for the Hon. G. C. Almon at the recent election. We suppose that the Colonel doesn’t expect to offer to serve the “dear people” anymore. FREE TO ALL. Our illustrated Catalogue, containing description and price of the best varieties of Dutch 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. Nanz & Neyner. Louisville, Ky. ROLL OF HONOR Below we give names added to the subscription list of News since Aug. 12th. J. T. PENNINGTON, JR. M. C. PETTY RICHARD COBB M. C. VEST J. W. TAYLOR D. W. BAXTER B. P. POWELL T. N. WEAVER LISKEY BERRYHILL J. W. PAUL D. T. ALLEN REV. J. CLARDY W. N. MILLER G. T. EASTMAN J. R. BELL W. A. UPCHURCH W. W. JORDAN P. J. MCMANNUS E. S. CAIN W. M PHILLIPS L. C. B HARRISON J. D. GARTMAN W. A. LEE A LETTER Below we give a specimen of the letters received by many in our town since the remarkable circumstances occurred in regard to Miss Mollie Pennington. This letter was written by an intelligent and accomplished Christian lady and its well worth reading. KINGSTREE, S. C., Sept. 9,1886 Rev. T. W. Springfield: Dear Brother, Your letter of Aug 14th reached me in due time. As I did not think it right to trouble you with a regular correspondence I hesitated. Though I felt it my duty to thank you for the trouble you took to give me so much interesting news. Your letter was a great satisfaction to me and many others. One minister read it and said it was another prophesy fulfilled. One of the wonders that was to take place, I suppose what seemed to be spasms from disease, must have been the evil spirit striving not to be cast out. We read of similar cases in the Bible. You no doubt heard of the terrible earthquake we had the last night in August. Charleston and Somerville are ruined. The people will never be able to rebuild even if they knew they would be safe in doing so. A small shower of pebbles from the size of a grape to an egg came down in two streets last Sunday. They must have been sent from some volcanic eruption but they have not been able to find it yet. Some think Charleston is liable to go down any moment. Well, I know God does all things for the best. There has been a general revival going on all over this country ever since. A great many sinners have been saved and the good work is still going on. It was the best sermon that was ever preached in S. C. It seemed to shake open the eyes of the people to see where they stood. As for myself, I stood firmly on the everlasting Rock. I find no other foundation safe and no other friend true. My Father died a soldier of the Confederate army and a soldier of the Cross. He was a class leader in the Methodist Church for many years and his five sons are exhorters, class leaders and Sunday School teachers. We are the old time Methodist and believe in the old time religion. We praise God when we feel like it and are not ashamed for people to know we are Christians. When any one has a little bit of religion he is ashamed for people to know it, but when he gets full he can’t hide it, he wants to tell the whole world. I want you and that dear little girl MOLLIE PENNINGTON to pray for me that I may be more useful in the Church of god and that I may meet you both in Heaven. Your stranger, but true friend MOLLIE EPPS ALABAMA NEWS Mobile has a negro faith doctor. The Governor pardoned twenty convicts one day recently. A vein of great richness has been discovered at Abachochee. A farmer club has been organized in Montgomery. Eight prisoners escaped from Wilcox jail. A vein of silver is attracting much attention in St. Clair. Troy is willing to contribute $40,000 to build the M. & F. R. R. through Pike County. The Anniston public school building is worth $15,000. Sheffield stock went up last week from 20 to 100 cents on the dollar. The Memphis & Birmingham R. R. advertises for good railroad hands at $150 per day. A harness and saddle factory had been established at Montgomery, Ala by T. G. Hardaway of Athens, Ga. Alabama Press Association has presented Col. Jas. B. Stanley, of the Greenville Advocate, with a handsome silver water service. Birmingham claims to have the horse that Jesse James rode. A young man named Gained died of hydrophobia on Sand Mountain. About 40 hands are employed in the oil mill at Union Springs. Mobile sent $1,700 to the mayor of Charleston. The Sate Fair, at Montgomery will commence on November the 8th, and continue one week. S. D. Turner, an engineer of the Georgia Pacific committed suicide in Birmingham a few days ago. The new iron bridge over the Tallapoosa River is finished. Auditor Burk is after 500 sewing machine agents for taxes. Auditor Burk is a model officer. Col. Osceola Kyle is mentioned for vacancy on the bench in the fifth district. United States internal revenue amounted to $582,675.85 during the past years in Alabama. There is one Independent in the Alabama Senate and eighteen in the House. The Dispatch says: The gambling halls of Montgomery has wrecked many a young and noble life. To our certain knowledge the Age has called Blankhead, Barkhead, and Bandhead. Ah, you cruel thing! – [Dispatch] The corn crop of Southeast Alabama is said to be the finest for several years. Burglars raid Birmingham about once a month and generally make good hauls. Seventeen colored people were sent to the coal mines from Pickens county a few days ago. The monied men of Florence have held a meeting and resolved to build a railroad from that town to Tuskaloosa. Rev. A. B. McCorkle, aged 80 years, died at Talladega, after being pastor of the Presbyterian church in that place for a quarter of a century. Two hundred and seventy four cases were tried in the mayor’s court in Birmingham in August. Birmingham should have prohibition. J. E. Hargrove, of Selma, states that his failing eyesight has been restored by gazing at an electric light an hour or two for several nights. Rich veins of silver ore have been discovered six miles north of Fayette, C. H., by a well-digger. A Lodge of I. O. O. F. organized at Patton Junction, Fayette County, by Grand Mater W. H. McL—----and W. a. Shields, last week. Mrs. Joseph Will, of Chilton County eloped with her stepson a few days ago and her husband is on the war path after the guilty couple. Wm. Hancock, a white convict, escaped from Pratt Mines by climbing down a wire rope 200 feet high. A reward of $100 is offered for his capture and return. The Selma negroes held an indignation meeting a short time ago, and after making a number of bloody short speeches in regard to railroad fare, said they would resort even to death or have first class accommodation. It is announced that Capt. John McKleroy and family will remove to Montgomery to make that city their future home about the 1st of October. By a vote of 34 to 4 against, the people of Edwardsville have decided to incorporate their town. At Eden, on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, real estate is said to be 200 per cent higher than it was the 1st of August. Ad for Peruna Ad for Guns of every kind, cheaper than ever. Great Western Gun Works, Pittsubrgh, Pa Ad for Agents A new Cure for potato Bugs Ad for Musical Instruments 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 Avery Sewing Machine (picture of Sewing Machine) Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ (picture of Organ) Ad for Scientific American Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture of sewing machine) Ad for Two Mule Sulky Plow (picture) Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for The Star – From New York, William Dorsheimer, Editor PAGE 4 LADIES DEPARTMENT WOMAN THE ROSS TRAVELLER “If you want proof that a woman is more cautious than a man” said a drummer, “just keep your eyes open while traveling. A woman never forgets to start for a train so early that she will have forty minutes to wait. She never forgets to ask her husband or male escort if her trunks are checked. She never forgets to pause with one foot one the car step and one hand on the handrail to inquire if she is on the right train. She never forgets to ask the conductor is she has to changed cars before reaching her destination, and if she is sure to make a connection, and if the train stops at the place she wants to get off. She never loses a ticket on a train check, never drops her hat out of the window, never permits herself to go to sleep within 100 miles of her destination for fear that she may ride by, never fails to get a whole seat for herself and another for her luggage, never walks from one car to another unless the train is standing still, and never gets up from a seat to leave a train without turning to looks and see if she ahs forgotten anything. I’ll bet on a woman for traveling every time. – [Chicago Herald] LADIES FISHING IN THE SIERRAS As I neared the stream to secure the material for our first lunch, the pleasant sound of a woman’s voice, followed by rippling laughter, rather astonished me, and going a few steps further somewhat more cautiously, I cam upon a very refreshing scene. Two young ladies who had probably heard of the Indian’s mode of fishing by constructing a wicker work dam, and driving the fish into the trap, had ingeniously simplified the plan, and were just commencing operations. They had diverted themselves of the foot gear and were standing in the steam about twenty feet apart, in water some ten inches deep. As soon as the most muscular one succeeded in getting a large, flaring tin pan into position under the water she called to her companion, “Now start them,” and bracing herself prepared to scoop up a fine mess of fish, while her friend advanced toward her, beating the water with some brush and “shooing” continually. I watched them make two runs, both attended with poor results, so far as the catch of fish was concerned, but they had all the enjoyment they could managed, judging by the hearty peals of laughter they indulged in; and I passed on as I came, unobserved, and thoroughly amused at this harmless mode of fishing. – [Overland Monthly] THE MODERN LADY’S MAN The modern lady’s man, says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle, is radically different from the old-timer. Not very long ago the term lady’s man suggested a gushing sort of a chap, who dressed foppishly, displayed a tendency to sport sky-blue neckties and affect effeminate manners, squeezed his feet into small boots, and went to a vast amount of pains to render himself objectionable to other men. He chatted about dancing, was full of small-talk, loved to carry a fan or a bouquet, bowed perpetually, daintily, and on the slightest provocation, and was altogether a very useful sort of a fellow to have around luncheon, sewing, and commerce parties. Occasionally he had a violent rival in a lady’s man of the Maj. Bagstock type, who was as masculine, dashing, and abrupt as the other was the reverse of it all. One seldom sees and old beau of the dashing military type now, however, and the gushers among the male sex are not popular. Lady’s men have changed amazingly – their manners are subdued, dignified, and exclusive, the seldom dance, their rows are heavy, and they only smile after due deliberation and with a high regard for effect. The most solemn, earnest, and apparently abstracted man of my acquaintance is acknowledged form one end of New York to the other. He wears loose-fitting clothes of an inconspicuous pattern and cut, makes no pretensions, to foppery, and is not particularly handsome. He is exceedingly careful of the small courtesies of life, his bill with florists averages $300 a month, he is continually making inexpensive but interesting presents, and he is the soul of discretion. Everywhere he goes he is besieged, but his sallow face never lights up and he pursues the business of subduing the feminine heart with the analytical care, determination, and skill of a chemist conducting a series of dangerous and important experiments. HOW NEW YORK WOMEN SHOP Probably there is no other place in the world where humanity of both sexes learn to suffer and be strong, or rather suffer and be weak, as in the New York shops. In Paris and London both, shopping pure and simple as accomplished in this city is an unknown quantity. Here, from the highest to the lowest, from the wife of the merchant prince, who orders her carriage at 10 a.m. That she may have a long day to shop, to the laundress of scrub-woman, who so arranges that she may don her best, and elbows and crowds her neighbors as well as the best of them – all through that ascending and descending scale – the women can, say, must and will shop. After all is said and one, what is the result? Do the delivery wagons drive to one’s private residence bringing the result of the labor of the day? By no means. Are the dressmakers establishments crowded with goods belonging to their patrons? Not at all. What, then, is the result of all this shopping? Why is it the lower side of Grand, Fourteenth and twenty-third streets, and Sixth Avenue, between the two latter streets, are next to impassable any pleasant and many unpleasant afternoons? What is the meaning of this keen, self-concentrated expression that all, except the very young or very old women, have on these occasions? Does it mean great outlays are to be made – important outfits decided upon – matters of moment settled? Occasionally it does, more often it does not. The root of the matter is summed up in a few words. The New York public, especially the women, are the hardest in the world to suit; that is universally conceded. They scour the city to match a ribbon to a hair’s width to get the exact shade, time, quality, quantity, and the result is the American woman is the best dressed on the globe today., and the New York shop keeps in their hearts if no on their knees ought to thank Mother Ever for setting the first fashions. Are their clerks as grateful? Oh, no. Do they enjoy handing down goods, gathering them up into lustrous folds, talking glibly, persuasively of their various merit, to put them all away again, without making a sale without so much as a “Thank you.” They are paid for it, of course, but it is discouraging all the same. Every one can tell and out of town resident – they are laden with packages, bundles, and all the paraphernalia that goes to make up an express wagon, while the town resident will have a paper of pins sent home after rummaging for hours in half a dozen stores. – [New York Herald] FASHION NOTES Hoop earrings are again seen. White cashmere is fashionable. Rough straw hats continue in fashion. Lace fans are among the season’s craze. Wraps are, for the most part, tight fitting. Soft vests of crinkled crape are stylish with silk costume. White embroidered dresses made with yoke waists are in high favor. The straw-lace bonnets for summer show the hair and its arrangement. New buttons are life rounds cut from a rough walking stick, bark and all. Tweeds and cheviots find favor with women who incline to the English style of dress. Zephyr cloths and batiste have shot grounds with tiny embroidered designs in one of the colors. Imported sunshades are seen of embossed leather, with a leather fringe around the top. Shot silks are made up with velvet or brocade stripes upon a ground of shot silk to correspond with the plain. Silver jewelry continues to be mush own on the street and with mourning dresses. It will also e popular with travelers. White, pink and blue crepe is used extensively for summer underwear, and is trimmed with Valenciane lace and very narrow ribbons. It is the correct thing to wear common-sense shoes for walking, though narrow soles and high French heels are retained for house wear. The modern extreme fashion in furnishing is to have the corners of a room cut off by curtains, screens, low couches, a table or the like. White costumes of flannel, nun’s veiling, wool crepe and French bunting are being made up for general use at the mountain, seaside and other summer resorts. Old fashioned veils with shell-scallop edges are among the newest seen. The edge just comes to the upper lip. In gauze veils large spots are taking the place of dots. Velvet berthas, collars and cuffs are worn with both street and house toilets of wool or wash goods. Violet over white black over gray and dark blue over scarlet are very popular. Golden hair has gone out of fashion. The dye rubs off during warm weather. A few ladies are trying to revive the fancy for drab hair, but raven tresses are at present the most beautiful. Loosely worn woolen fabrics, with threads of many tints, are made up with material with stripes of one of the colors. A handsome color way of trimming these costumes is with appliques of gimp or with silk cord. The little sailor hats so popular last season are worn again. They are too jaunty and becoming to be given up by the young ladies. The trimming is arranged directly in front this season instead of at the side. A pretty idea is to cover the entire hat and face with butterfly gauze of some delicate tint, pale blue, shell-pink or apple green. The ends are tied under the chin in a large bow. Four yards of gauze are required for the proper effect. THE THIRTEEN CLUB – The Story of a Curious New York Combination There are three rather unique clubs in New York; that, judging by their recent growth, will in time become quire celebrated. One is the Thirteen Club which meets at dinner at 7:13 o’clock on the 13th of each month, to disprove the popular superstition that one of every thirteen who sit down to a table will die before the year is out. The club started several years ago with thirteen at a table, but so popular have their dinners become by reason of the feast of wit and wisdom, not to say the viands provided, that at their dinner next week at the Brighton Beach Hotel, Coney Island, thirteen tables, each seating thirteen, will be provided. There are thirteen courses on the menu, thirteen at table, thirteen speeches made, and the number is introduced in every possible way and shape. Not being able to make the menu card in the shape of the numeral, the suggestive form of a coffin is adopted. The necrology of the club effectually exploded the theory of the fatality of the number and the club is gaining recruits every dinner. And will have a headquarters and take its placer among social clubs next season. The other club is the Twilight club, which meets at dinner every fortnight, and after the cloth has been removed discusses the leading questions of the day, pro and con, according to the predictions of the speakers, whoa re generally selected because they are known to be antagonistic. The antagonism of the speakers presents the club from ever being a mutual admiration society, and consequently its dinners have become very attractive to a large class who enjoy this species of intellectual sparing. The other club is least known of the three; indeed, though with a larger membership than either, little is known of it outside of its members. It is known as the peanut club, and the badge of membership – a peanut – must be worn on every occasion as an ornament or amulet, in metal, jewelry, or carved wood. Any member accosting another who cannot display the badge can call on him for a dinner for as many of the club as he likes. It may be the call may be made in the middle of the night and the challenged party aroused from his slumbers; or it may be that the demand may be made in the breakers of Coney Island or Long Brand – no matter when or where, if the counterfeit peanut is not produced the penalty is established the result is that man of the members carry their emblem of membership attached to a string around the neck, and wear it night and day. The gentleman who was aroused from his slumbers wore his this way. The Hon. Jacob Hess, of the subway commissions, was accosted the other day by a fellow member in the surf at Long Branch, but he was [prepared, having the golden peanut that generally dagles from his watch chain in his mouth. If the challenging party cannot produce the emblem if required by one who has, he is called on to pay the penalty, and in this case it took the form of a very elaborate dinner at the West End hotel. Mallahan, the trainer and backer of Herald, the new aspirant for fistic honors, tucked his ivory peanut into his car one night while acting as master of ceremonies at a fistle gathering, and so was not caught when Peters, he wine merchant, challenged him. The emblem of the club is becoming common in all circles. The imitation is generally is gold and worn as a watch charm. There is quite an excitement among the dudes in the Knickerbocker because some tradesman has obtained a list of the members and forwarded them to the club address in his business circular. It is against the rule in the club that its letter boxes should be used for advertising purposes, and generally all advertising circulars are destroyed by the wholesale but in this case the willy tradesman used square tinted envelopes, such as ladies generally use, and the superscription was in slender, tall, fashionable, feminine chirography, and the disappointment of the receivers may have heightened their sense of club etiquette. – [Constitution] SWEETS FOR THE SWEET When a young lady says she has two strings to her bow, she means that she has two beaux to her string. Alaska women cure babies of crying by taking them to the seashore and holding them in the water until they are silent. The young lady who can peel a potato in five seconds is as useful as the young woman who speaks five languages is ornamental. The principal beauty of the Mormon religion is that the same woman doesn’t have to get up the entire winter to build the kitchen fire. A woman that takes all the fashion magazines generally goes to a dressmaker to learn what is new in the fashions, and never makes her own dresses. Many women think they care domestic if they stay at home to entertain company, while their husbands think they are as little domestic at home as abroad. An old widower says: When you pop the question to a lady, do it with a kind of laugh, as if you were joking. If she accepts you very good; if she does not, you could say you were only in fun. THE COQUETTE Why is the coquette condemned? She is an amiable being; her mission is to please. There is nothing small about her. She does no business at retail. She distributes pleasure at wholesale, while her mischief is disposed of in job lots. She is the enlivening element amid the heavy formalities of society. She stirs up the froth where otherwise it would be a solid omelet that is served up to you. Tis the coquette that provides all the amusement, suggests the riding party, plans the picnic, fives dash to the private theatricals. She is the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet, the subtle power of her personal presence is felt rather than defined everywhere. She is a blessing to the community at large when she employs her time removing the glaring self-complacency of the average young man. The man who has become possessed of the opinion that a woman dare not jilt him becomes, sometimes, a useful citizen through the coquettes ministrations. How could society dispose of that papered son of fortune, possessing a dashing tally-ho, unlimited ice-cream assets and superabundant sentiment in his composition, if the coquette did not take him under her wing for a season? Ah, for the pleasures of life the coquette is only too rare. It is not every one that possesses the ability for such a career. It requires great energy, infinite tact, and a gay and airy spirit. Some one attempted to be facetious when he said a coquette was a rose from which every admirer plucked a leaf, laving only the thorns for her husband, but history teaches the reverse. The coquette oftener makes a model wife; her experience gives her a great knowledge of men. She knows their weakness thoroughly and enables her to adapt herself to all her husband’s foibles and hood wink him into accepting her own without him discovering he is doing so. But then if you do not like the coquette, you will have no difficulty in finding a female companion of the same mind as yourself. PAROXYMS OF SENSE – (more jokes) ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1024gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 65.7 Kb