Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News October 7, 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, 7:38 pm Lamar News October 7, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS J. E. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, OCTOBER 7, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 49 ANTICIPATION – Poem – [L. E. Kirk] ORIENTAL NEW YORK – A Phase of City Life It may be questioned if any city in the world can compare with New York in Cosmopolitan characters. Like every current metropolis, it has its French, German, Irish, Jewish, and Italian quarters. Unlike most, it has colonies of Russians, Negroes, Swedes, Bohemians, Hungarians, and even Turks. And still more unlike the great capitals of Europe, it has an oriental element varying from ten to twenty thousand in number. This element in New York is made up of tailors, cooks, peddlers, clerks, and occasionally tradesmen and merchants. They are brought together by the mighty dollar, and usually remain in Gotham until they have secured what seems to be a snug sum and to their far-off fellow countrymen a fortune. The Chinese preponderate and already have a settlement of their own in Mott Street. After the Chinese come Japanese, Javian, Hindus, Maoris, Hawaiians, and Madagascar. In one large boarding house on Water Street no less than 12 Asiatic languages are spoken; in another on ---- Street the proprietor has on his address car: “English, Chinese, ----, Japanese, Danish, Hindustani, ----, and French spoken here.” These eastern races herd rather than mix together. Rent in their own land is so cheap that they cannot bear the rates of this country. For this reason they will crows ten and even twenty persons into a room usually occupied by two Americans. By cooperating simply in buying and preparing food, they succeed in reducing the cost of living to 20 cents a day. It is easy, therefore, to see how upon $2 a day wages or --- one of them can amass $1500 in a few years, and with it buy a small farm with the frugal cost. The homes of these people are chiefly of the 4th and 6th wards – Water, Char--, Oliver, Baxter, and Pell Streets being their favorites – and comprise bother boarding and lodging houses. The proprietors of some of these are quite rich. – Chin, a Cochinese, is worth $40,000; Akwah, $10,000 and La Crux, ---,000. These boarding houses are of one general type. You pass through a dark hallway or plunge down a gloomy cellar --- and find yourself in the ante- room office. It has a small desk or counter behind which either the proprietor or a clerk perpetually sits, a few chairs, and a pile of trunks, boxes and barrels. Against the walls are shelves and cupboards, on and in which are the goods in demand by oriental races. To one similar with life in Cathay most of the articles are familiar. Dried ---- fish, of the Japan seas, bamboo tips from –chin-China and Siam, brown tobacco from Corea, and yellow from Formosa, --mium from Calcutta, and Singapore, ginger root, preserved ginger, and Llali—confections are but a few of the many – which supply the boarding house –per with a profit of seldom less than – per cent. Behind the office is the main living room. This is generally a long apartment of 20 by 40, whose walls are lined by bunks three deep. These bunks are sometimes separated by partitions as on shipboard, but are usually deep – ves running all around the room. The separate bunks the room described are continuos shelves about nightly. In the middle of the room are chairs, --- piles, and generally more or less luggage of the guests. In some of the lower grad establishments where hygiene and the board of health are bid del--- ce to , garbage and dirt are piled up in the center of the living room until a mixture “East River Dump” is produced. In these bunks the lodges lie – day or night and frequently day and might, according to their vocations. Tobacco, opium, and haseesh consume all their energies and convert form the time being into almost veritable corpses. It is no uncommon sight to see at noon at Cruz’s Hotel in Baxter Street or Quong Fat’s in Park Street as many as thirty persons lying in a dead stupor. To the rear of the living room is the kitchen and work room. The furniture is painfully simple, and consists usually of range or cooking stove, a charcoal brazier, a chopping-block, table and a few culinary utensils. Here the meals are prepared and the crude opium of commerce converted into a smoker’s paste. Here also in the early morning each guest takes his tub bath and washes his daily supply of linen and cotton. Life begins in these strange caravan-series at 6, when the proprietor or clerk opens the front door and sends out for the breakfast material. These comprise rice, fish, pork, bread, and vegetables. The lodgers nest put in an appearance, crawling out of their bunks, still drowsy with sleep or sleep giving drugs. A pail of water and a coarse rag in the kitchen soon restore the circulation of the body and fit one and all for the morning meal. This is made of the articles described, but cooked in ways very different form those employed in civilized circles. The rice is plain boiled, the fish boiled or stewed and served wit an aromatic sauce in which ginger, cloves and red pepper are prominent factors’ the pork and vegetables are chopped into thin pieces and stewed together. The drinks employed are hot and cold tea, and sometimes minute quantities of strong arrack or rice brandy. After breakfast many of the lodgers depart for their daily work. Among these early birds are cigar- makers, clerks, peddlers, and shipping runners. Those who remain are usually seamen, merchants, gamblers, and agents. These after their repast light a cigar or cigarette, opium, or hashheesh, and take “solid comfort” for an hour or more. Those who have literary tastes lie down in their bunks and read, for, strange to say, most oriental assume a recumbent attitude when reading or studying; those who desire excitement resort to dominoes and other games of change, while the majority simply smoke and “swap stories.” At noon a second meal is served similar to breakfast, but including besides soups and stews, in which macaroni and vermicelli are chief features. At 5 o’clock dinner is given. It is like its predecessors in the articles served, only there is more of them and all are more highly spiced and seasoned. House-cleaning and bed- making occur usually between breakfast and lunch, and are very primitive in character. The beds as described are bunks or shelve covered with while Canton matting and the pillows woolen, footrest. The man of all work simply sponges off bed and pillow alike with a sponge dipped in water containing a little chloride of lime and cau de javelle, and allows the heat of the room to dry them off. This novel way of making beds has one advantage. It disinfects room and inmate and destroys whatever vermin there may be about. In the evening the guests resort, one after one, to narcotics, and at midnight nearly all are sound asleep. No sight is more impressive or fearful than one of those living-rooms at 10 or 12 p.m. The dark floor and ceilings, the gloomy and grimy furniture, the single lamp, flickering and smoking on the table, the silence, and everywhere the bunks, each containing a man courting slumber through some narcotic drug make up a strange picture. You enter the apartment and each inmate turns towards you – the Japanese fiercely and swiftly, the Hindu curiously and slowly, and the Cochinese with the lethargy of death. Every face belongs to an unfamiliar or unknown race; every sarticle is a sealed book. A word from the proprietor and the eyes leave your face and resume their former occupations. Here and there at times are attempts at ornament. The black statue of Rama, worshiped in Ceylon, the bronze image of Buddha, the allegorical portraits of Health, Plenty, and Strength of Confucius, the crucifix of European faith, and even the sharks’ and tigers’ teeth of the Malay, are attached to the wall or displayed on some fragmentary mantelpiece. The proprietor of one of these places aid: “It doesn’t cost much to live. I can board a man for $1,75 a week – perhaps even less. I don’t make much money on may board, but do on tobacco, opium, and hasheesh. My folks drink a very little; not so much as 10 cents a day. When they go off on a spree they order a fashionable dinner and eat all they can hold. Then they smoke five shells of opium (about two ounces.} and sleep for twenty-four hours. How many houses are there like mine? No one just like it or so good, but about thirty in the same business.” Five other proprietors made the same remark. [Chicago, New York] THE CURIOUS YOUNG LOBSTER – (story about young lobsters – {New York Herald] UNLEAVENED BREAD OF THE PASSOVER The “pesach” festival or Jewish Passover is the only festival in which “matzos” is the one bread allowed. The bread is unleavened, and there are now four cities in American with unleavened bread bakeries – New York, New Orleans, Chicago and Cincinnati. In order to supply the demand these bakeries begin baking two months before the beginning of the Passover. The matzos look like the ordinary hard-tack, except that they are a foot square. They are made of flour and water, and contain no other ingredients. After the flour has been kneaded into a stiff dough, a lump of it containing about fifty pounds is placed on a great block of wood and pressed into a thick sheet with a great beam which is fastened to the block at one end by an iron link and staple. The sheet is next placed under an iron roller, from which it emerges into a long ribbon. It passes through several rollers until it is thin enough for baking. It is then stamped and cut into unbaked matzos, which are placed upon a wooden tray having a long handle and deposited in an oven. In three minutes they are done, white and crisp. – [Milling World] AWED BY AN EAR TRUMPET Some years ago a well known Presbyterian divine was spending his summer vacation with his family in the Adirondacks. One Sunday he accepted an invitation to preach in one of the simple meeting houses of that region. In the congregation was a man who was apparently deaf., for he came to the service armed and equipped with an immense brass ear trumpet, and as soon as the sermon began went forward and took his seat well up on the pulpit stairs. The clergyman’s little daughter was among the auditor’s she had never seen an ear trumpet, and the spectacle of the form on the pulpit stairs steadily holding that instrument to his head filled her with awe and wonder. On her way home from church the first thing she said to her father when they were alone was: “Papa, was that an archangel by you?” – [Boston Herald] EXCITING A COW “Never under any circumstances do any thing to excite a cow while milking her,” sagely remarks an agricultural paper. Quite right, quite right – we never do. It never really seemed to be necessary to do anything to excite a cow while we were milking her. When a cow begins to kick with both feet hard enough to knock the hoops off a tin pail and them puts her tail up in the air and goes racing around the edge of a ten acre field with a cloud of dust following her we don’t see how any sane person could think for a moment of shooting off fire works or doing anything else to excite her. – [Estelline (Dak.) Bell] APPALLING DESTITUTION “Yes, indeed, Miss Clara,” continued Mr. LaDedah, giving an account of his travels. “I have been in great perils, don’t you know. One time on a railway train out west, don’t you know, we were stopped by the train robbers, don’t you know, and one fellow, a terrible brigand he was you know, he put his pistol to my head, don’t you know, and he said, ‘Your money or your brains!’ and ‘pon me soul, Miss Clara, I had nothing for him.” – [Burdette] A MEXICAN MEAL – EATABLES AND DRINKABLES AT A WAYSIDE INN Bread Like Cannon Balls, and Native Fruits Washed Down with “Pulqua” At an Indian village of unpronounceable name, says a letter from Mexico to the Philadelphia Record we stopped for luncheon, in its only public resting-place – a typical fondita, which is Spanish for “little restaurant”. The earth floor of this wayside inn was neatly swept, and its whitewashed inner walls hung with pictures saints wreathed with gaudy paper roses. Rickety-legged benches were ranged (immovably) around the table; adn the only two chairs the establishment afforded – which were kept as articles of vertu, of little actual use to their owners – were brought for the accommodation of los Americans, who were suspected of not wishing to conform to the rural custom of squatting upon a petate (straw mat) spread on the floor. The windows, of course, were guiltless of glass, and had the usual iron bars before them, but I observed that the rude barn-door-like shutters were of solid mahogany- a wood, by the way, which is cheaper in many parts of Mexico (because less rare) than common pine. The great oaken door, with its enormous hinges and lock like the breastplate of a medieval warrior, was quaintly carved – probably not less than a century ago by some long-forgotten artist. There are many things in this wonderful country, which are calculated to arouse the spirit of highway robbery in the breast of the most honorable tourist. I longed to tear that door from its hinges and run off with it, or to seize from the shoulders of the master of the mansion his Zarape – a native blanket of softly-blended oriental hues, with the national escutcheon in the centre (a big eagle perched upon a cactus bush, with a serpent in his beak_ - which would make a most ravishing portiere. Our refreshments were speedily served upon a well-scored tabled to which the addition of a cloth would have been an incongruous superfluity, and the menu was as follows: Stewed frijoles (red beans_ with our choice as to “seasoning” – whether we would pour rancid goat’s milk over them or molasses form the Chinese sugarcane; small black loaves of Mexican bread that would have made excellent cannon balls, of course without butter, which does not “grow” in this country; watercress and fresh olive oil, from which we compounded a salad fit for an emperor’s table; wild honey and stewed apricots and a basket of ripe tamarinds, pomegranates, figs and mangoes, arranged in their own green leaves, as the poorest of these people have a tasteful habit of doing. The inevitable pulque was at hand in a pigskin “bottle” which retains the perfect shape of the animal, minus head and tail, and gurgled an approving note, alarmingly like life, while its contents were being emptied into our mugs. These so-called “pig-skins” are really the undressed hides of sheep, with the wooly side turned in. Nothing else is considered so good for holding the popular beverage, though we are told that a skin of small size costs not less than $2.50 and lasts little more than a month, as the constant fermentation going on inside soon eats the wool off. In this volcanic country the traveler must eschew water, or suffer serious consequences, and one must drink something besides the bitter Mexican coffee; therefore we long ago made up our minds to pulque – the cheap drink of the natives – and pulque it is, every day of our lives at dinner. I confess, however, that it required considerable effort to educate ourselves to it, and it was only accomplished by resolutely fixing out thought upon that glorious product of the year –the century plant – from whence it came, and by repeatedly assuring one another that the thick, white, nasty liquid resembles home buttermilk, though we know it to be an outrageous libel on northern dairies. But, even now, Betsy and I sometimes amuse ourselves in leisure moments striving to compute the quantity of sheep’s wool which we must have absorbed in the course of the last two years, since the contents of each alleged pig-skin contains a good deal of it – “in solution” so to speak. Immediately following this dainty repast the mistress of the fondita produced her private cigarette holder and tenders us the customary courtesy with the air of a princess, an act of kindly hospitality which we would not for the world have wounded her feelings by refusing. Netting pigeons is a simple and effective method of capturing the birds by whole-sale. A pigeon net is a section of ordinary small mesh fish netting, made to cover an area of ground, when laid flat, sometimes 20 by 40 feet in extent. A THEORY OF SOAP A new theory has been started with regard to the use of soap on the face. Women who for years have been careful of their complexion would never, under any circumstances, wash the face in soap, as it was said to roughen and coarsen the skin. Now, this idea is exploded, and a well-known physician in the metropolitan profession recommends his women patients to use it freely every day, lathering the skin well. Of course, a fine, oil, and pure soap is most desirous. This being secured he states that none but the most beneficial results will be affected by his method of improving the skin. He holds – with considerable plausibility – that the pores of the face become as much clogged by grease and dirt as the hands or any other portions of the body. And if soap is considered a necessary purifier in the bath, its needs must be felt equally on the face. By an abundant and regular lathering the facial pores, he claims, are kept open, free from the clogging matter that produces unsightly black heads, acne, pimples, and a pure, healthy, fresh and brighter complexion is the resultant. Not mincing matters, he says that the trouble with most women who have sallow, pasty skins is that from year’s end to year’s end they never have a really clean face. An article in good Housekeeping says” “Hands kept dirty are never smooth and white. Absolute cleanliness is necessary. Many people who do not work seldom wash their hands. The day’s accumulation of dirt is allowed to remain on the hands all night. Upon rising the hands are washed in cold water; the possessor wonders why when she does not work her hands do not look any better. The hands and face should always be washed in warm soap suds before going to bed. White soaps are safest. Highly scented and colored sops are almost invariably made from rancid and ill-smelling fats. After drying them thoroughly use a few drops of mixed glycerin and camphor, which the druggist can prepare for you. Drop into the palm of your hands and rub well, and this will be all that will be necessary to show decided improvement. When you rise in the morning do not use soap on your face, but bathe it well in warm water. Do the soap-scrubbing only at bedtime. – [Brooklyn Eagle] THE FARMS OF AMERICA Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the iron manufacturer, of Pittsburg, Pa., in his book entitled “Triumphant Democracy” says of the farms of America: “The farms of America comprise 837,628 square miles, an area nearly equal to one-fourth of Europe, and larger than the four greatest European countries put together (Russia, excepted), namely France, Germany, Austria, and Hungary and Spain. The capital invested in agriculture would suffice to buy up the whole of Italy, with its rich olive groves and vineyards, its old historical cities, cathedrals and palaces, its Kings and aristocracy, its Pope and Cardinals, and every other feudal appurtenance. Or, if the American farmers were to sell out, they could buy the entire Peninsula of Spain; with all its traditions of medieval grandeur, and the flat lands which the Hollanders at vast cost have wrested form the sea and the quaint old towns they have built there. If he chose to put by his savings for three years, the Yankee farmer could purchase the fee simple of pretty Switzerland as a summer resort, and not touch his capital at all, for each year’s earnings exceed $550,000,000. The cereal crop for 1880 was more than 2,500,000,000 bushels. If placed in one mass this would make a pile of 3,500,000,000 cubic feet, or a pyramid three times as great as that of Cheops. If loaded on carts it would require all the horses in Europe and 1,000,000 more (33,000,0000) to remove it, though each horse drew a load of two tons. Were the entire crop of cereals loaded on a continuous train of cars, the train would reach one and a half times around the globe. Its value is half as great as all the gold mined in California in the thirty-five years since gold was found there. The corn and cotton fields of America form kingdoms in themselves surpassing in size some of those in Europe.” A SLIGHT MISCONCEPTION – Anecdote – [Pittsburg Chronicle] MORNING – Poem – [J. Hewlerson] HUMOROUS A DEMOCRATIC BOYCOTT – Anecdote – [Boston Record] A LESSON IN PRONUNCIATION – {N. Y. Times] – Anecdote PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY OCT. 7, 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. H. Bankhead, of Fayette A convention of the Alabama State Temperance Alliance is called to meeting in the city of Montgomery on Tuesday, November 16th, 1886, at 11 o’clock am to take such steps as shall be deemed prohibition of liquor traffic in Alabama. One J. B. Sanford gets on his hand legs and denies the statement we made a few weeks ago that we had been reliably informed that he was suing those who owed him and voted against him at the recent election. As Mr. Sanford nor the Journal will take the statement of ministers fo the Gospel as genuine, we are at a loss to furnish him with satisfactory proof of the assertion. PROGRESSIVE ALABAMA It is not alone from the industrial and trade centers of the state that reports come of Alabama’s rapid development. Signs of progress are to be found on every side in every little village and hamlet, as indicated in the columns of the weekly press of the state. And this reminds us to say that no enterprise in any town deserves greater support and encouragement than these same papers which go to make up the record of a state’s advancement. From the press as a s whole one can tell as readily whether a community or a section is progressing or the reverse as of from personal observation; and while a polling of our exchanges denotes Alabama’s steady progress unquestionably the same scrutiny develops that she is not ding her duty by her newspapers. They are not appreciated by support according to their value as indices of the many communities that go to make up our commonwealth. As a rule these papers reflect much more than they are paid for the towns in which they are published than the towns are doing for them. Alabama owes much to her newspapers – they have made her greatness what it is –and she will be all the greater when her people realize the worth of her newspapers as a factor in her growth, and so realizing, appreciate and sustain them. – [Montgomery Dispatch] ALABAMA POLITICS – [Birmingham Age] Poor Bankhead! Having been nominated for Congress on low tariff platform has jumped on the Birmingham Age’s high tariff mule and proposes to ride that long-eared animal over his district – Moulton Adv The Hon. B. M. Long, who is opposing our Bankhead for Congress, is going the rounds and telling the people disinterestedly, that they should vote for him. Not content with instructing those of the sixth district in his principles, or want of principles, whichever it may be, he even ventures to go outside of his district into the third, and has published that he will speak at Carthage, in Hale County. We suggest that Davidson, the nominee for the third district, come over and answer him, and do hope that Bankhead won’t allow himself to be toiled over his district. Mr. J. H. Bankhead, Democratic nominee for Congress from this district, spent a couple of hours in town Saturday. We had a conversation with him on the subject of the tariff, and it affords us pleasure to inform the Age that the major stands flat-footed on the Democratic platform of 1884. Livingston Journal. It also affords the Age great pleasure to tell you that Capt. Bankhead admits, in an interview with the Age, that the Democratic platform “repudiates the doctrine of a tariff for revenue only,” and that he says he will not favor placing iron ore, coal and lumber on the free list, nor favor a reduction of the duty on iron such as would be hurtful to Alabama. Our friend of the West Alabamian did not read us correctly; we said that a member of the Tuscaloosa delegation proposed to a member of the Pickens delegation to unite upon Col. Stanfsel, and it was refused. We do not know that this proposition was authoritatively made, but it was so peremptorily refused it froze to death. But there is no use bandying words over the result – Stone and Martin were defeated – Bankhead is the nominee; and as there is no charge of irregularity or fraud it is the duty of the Democratic Party to shoulder and elect him. He is a Democrat, occupying substantially the position Capt. Martin did on the tariff, and which our friend says defeated Martin, we must stand square to “our friends Fayette, Lamar, Marion and Walker,” and see that there is no flickering in the ranks. We could tell better than that what defeated Martin, and it was not from any dissatisfaction of the people with him, but it is no use now, it will come up later. Capt. Bankhead is the nominee, and the people must go to the polls and vote for him. The convention that nominated him had nothing to say about the tariff or any other public question, hence we must take him as the convention gave him to us, asking no questions. We do not believe he will antagonize the administration of President Cleveland. We have no idea he will materially change our present system of taxation for revenue, and we believe he will make a creditable member of the Fiftieth Congress of the United States. Let’s go for him. – [Tuscaloosa Gazette] STATE NEWS Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, and Sheffield are booming. Mobile jogs along in the old ruts and barely holds its own. The State Normal School, Florence, opened with 140 pupils. Birmingham has a new paper, the “Negro American.” A powder explosion near Oxmore killed one man and severely injured three others. Seven prisons in Tuscaloosa jail escaped a few nights ago. Two were re- captured on Friday. Burglars are at work in Montgomery. A two million dollars mortgage has been recorded in the probate office of Elmore County. Governor Seay has returned from White Sulphur Springs, Va. Where he has been spending the summer in recovering his health. Hon. A. C. Davidson of the fourth district will have opposition. Mr. N. Woodruff, a Republican, will oppose him for Congress. The indications are that the State Fair will be a grand success. Birmingham will soon have a belt railroad. Tuscaloosa County ahs a 5 ½ pound Plymouth Rock Rooster. Another dead baby has been found in the woods near Montgomery. Hon. W. H. Forney, of the 7th district of Alabama has been unanimously nominated for his 7th term in the House. To the youngest school teacher in the state is “little Mary Duke” of Clanton, between 6 and 7 years old. She has made up an infants school and her terms are 10 cents a month or teaching the little ones their letters. The Montgomery Dispatch is waging war against the gamblers and gambling dens of that city. There are 5,876 manufacturing establishments in the State with a capital of $31,480,000. In 1830 there were 2,070 with a capital of $8,668,008. The Republicans of the 1st Alabama District, met in Convention at Demopolis last week and decided to make no nomination for Congressman. The Agricultural Wheel of Franklin County are wanting a sober, honest and industrious editor to take full charge of their paper, for which they off a good salary. MAKING TOBACCO PIPES Manipulation to Which the clay is Subjected – Ready for the Kiln The clay after being delivered at the factory is allowed to stand in the sun for a few days to become seasoned. After being exposed sufficiently long it is mixed with water and “milled,” the process consisting of running it through a mill which crushes it and removes all grit and foreign substances. After coming from the mill it is worked and kneaded by hand, much in the same manner as bread, and whatever grit remains is carefully removed. When the clay has been worked sufficiently it is given to the “roller” as the man who fashions it is called. His tools are of the simplest- a wooden bench, a stool, a rolling board, and his hands constituting his “kit.” The clay is placed on the right hand of the bench in easy reaching distance of the workman, and then the second process of pipe-making is gone through. Grasping a handful of clay the workman separates it in halves, and placing it on the board rolls them, one with each hand, until they have reached the length desired, one end, of which the bowl is made, resembling a small sized pear. After being rolled the partly formed pipe is laid on a board just the length of the pipe desired, when, fi the stem is too long, it is broken off at the required length. After one dozen pipes have been rolled in this fashion they are bunches and passed over to the helper, who sits on the opposite side of the bench, on one end of which is the machine with which the pipe is made. It consists of a lever, at the lower end of which is a plunger, the size of the bowl of the pipe to be made. Below the plunger is a slat in which the iron mold is placed, the slat allowing the mold to enter until the bowl of the pipe is directly underneath the plunger. When the half made pipes are handed to the man at the machine, he picks up the bunch in one hand, dipping the other in oil, with which he oils the clay, separating the bunch as he does so. After oiling the clay he picks up the iron pipe mold, which is double, separating at the center, and opening it, he dips his finger in oil, and with a quick movement oils the inside of the mold, which from constant use shines like burnished steel. The mold is the exact size and shape of the pipe. After the mold is oiled the workman picks up a long steel wire and, oiling it, proceeds to insert it in the stem of the pipe, pulling the clay on in about the same manner as a glove is put on the hand. After the wire has been inserted nearly to the bowl portion of the pipe, the clay is placed in the mold which is them closed and placed in the slot of the machine, care being taken that the wire in the stem does not reach to the bowl, as if it did the plunger which forms the bowl would break it. The mold is pushed as far as possible into the slot, and while being held there with one hand the workman turns a screw at the side of the machine, with the other hand forcing an iron plate against the mold, the pressure forcing out all superfluous clay and forming the pipe. The lever to which the plunger is attached is then lowered, the plunger entering the bowl portion of the mold forcing out the clay and making the bowl. The mold is then withdrawn from the machine, the wire in the stem being moved into the bowl of the pipe making the hole through which the smoke is drawn. The clay which has been forced out of the mold is then cut away with a knife, and the pipe removed form the mold and placed upon a tray. The wooden trays when full are placed in the sun to allow the clay to dry moderately. They are then taken by a girl and each pipe is carefully polished with a piece of hard wood. A “rimmer” a block of hard wood, is placed in the bowl and turned around to smooth the bowl, while a piece of iron attached to the “rimmer” cuts the wreath on the outside of the bowl. The stamp that is seen on the front of the bowl is then put on by means of a hand- stamp, and the pipe is ready for the “potter,” and other girl who places the pipes, bowls, down, into an earthen pot called a “sagger,” which after being filled with pipes is covered with a flat earthen cover and placed in the kiln. The clay before being fired is of slaty blue. The various decorations, such as wreaths, fern leaves, figures, etc. seen on the pipes are formed by the mold after the kiln has been filled with the “saggers” containing the pipes the door is closed and the fire built.” – [“V. D.” in Brooklyn Eagle] CLIMATE FO THE ISTHMAS A very unfavorable account of the sanitary condition of the Isthmus of Panama is given by a French physician. Dr. A. Nicolas, who was sent out from Paris to study the climate which prevails along the route of the inter-oceanic canal. There are many hotter parts of the world, but few, if any which are more unhealthful. The atmosphere is saturated with moisture, particularly in the daytime; heavy mists prevent free radiation, and the local influences at the towns of Panama and Colon are especially pernicious to health. The climate of the isthmus produces an enervation which we are told “is characterized by loss of memory, persistent sleeplessness, and peculiarly passive and profuse perspiration.” It is evident that the great canal must cost thousands of lives as well as millions of dollars. – [Chicago Herald] NITRO-GLYCERINE A HEART STIMULANT Dr. Burrouglas writes in a scientific magazine that nitroglycerine is now used in minute quantities as a heart stimulant far superior to brandy. Two dorps of a 1 per cent solution are equivalent to an ounce of brandy, and the effect in the collapse of fevers and certain poisoning cases is immediate. – [Exchange] THE SEINE’S WASHING BARGES There are more than fifty huge washing barges on the banks of the Seine, in France, which are made use of through the year by no less than 33,000 washer- women. The government wants to remove these barges to avoid the contamination of the water. – [Paris Letter] 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. Wanted: To know the whereabouts of Sylvestre Alonzo Box. It will be to his material interest to correspond to W. A. Allen, Vernon, Ala or – Harril, Okolona, Miss 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 OCT. 7, 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 BREVITIES Houses in demand in Vernon, there is not a single vacant house. Mr. E. W. BROCK and wife are visiting relatives near Moscow. Work on the Kansas City Road has commenced in earnest at Crew’s Mills. The colored folks are making extensive repairs on their church. We shall expect a largely increased subscription list during October and November. DANIEL COLLIER Esq of Fayette C. H. was in town today looking after business in the Chancery Court. The Missionary Baptist Church of this place at a recent meeting called the Rev. W. G. WOODS as Pastor for the ensuing year. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” The High School opened with much more flattering prospect than was anticipated by the warmest friends. Circuit Clerk BRADLEY has rented the dwelling of JAS. MIDDLETON Esq. and will soon bring his family to town. The series of meeting held here last week by Rev. G. L. HEWITT resulted in much good and eleven accessions to the church. Miss ALICE BLACKMAN who ahs been teaching near the old furnace place for a term of three months has returned to her home in Okolona, Miss. We call special attention to the ad of the Farmer’s Warehouse. Mr. JOHN I. MARCHBANKS of this county is with this house and Alabamians will be kindly treated. We call special attention to the advertisement of Prof. W. J. MOLLOY’S school. Prof. MOLLOY possesses a fine education and is a finished gentleman, and boys and girls can find no better place than Prof. MOLLOY’S school. The Rev. W. C. WOODS and W. G. MIDDLETER, Esq attended the Yellow Creek Baptist Association being in Marion County last week, and report a good meeting. We learn that the Courier has accepted two legal advertisements that at lawful rates would have amounted to $14 for $2, and with a promise to furnish cards of the parties a year’s subscription to the Courier, at that. Permanently located! Hey? There is a five-year-old colored girl in Cincinnati, who, it is said, reads anything that is printed in the English language, and yet has never been taught her A B C’s. Mr. J. N. MCNEIL is preparing to build a dwelling on the hill between the residences of Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD and W. A. YOUNG. Vernon is still on a boom. DIED: Mr. BARRY BARNES of this county near Pearce’s Mills in Marion County last week. Mr. BARNES was here as a delegate to a Freewill Baptist Association. A man and a girl from Tuskaloosa County were brought before the county court last night on charge of adultery and were fined one hundred dollars each. The man whose name is SEYMOUR is said to be a married man and persuaded this girl while picking cotton of her father’s to elope with him promising to marry her. The girl is quite young and said to be of good family. 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. Remember the printer kindly. Mr. M. F. DENMAN is moving to the GUYTON house. We are indebted thanks to W. W. PURNELL, Esq. for much appreciated favors while enroute to Franklin. Judge COBB and his son ROLIE have exchanged places and will move next Monday. A large party of persons passed through town today on their way to the Association of Primitive Baptists. It is reported that WILLIAM MAYFIELD and family left a few nights ago for parts unknown. Mr. J. W. MORTON after spending several days in Franklin County has returned. Please lay by a dollar to pay for the News. Help us to keep on battling for your interests as well as our own. The WHEELERS of Franklin don’t propose to be hum bugged by a turn-coat editor. They want a man that can be relied upon. Messrs. W. B. STRICLKLAND and S. H. JACKSON have returned from Birmingham. Uncle TOM SYKERS visited Fayette C. H. first of the week for the first time in 20 years, and says he could hardly recognize the town. We are informed that Mr. G. W. RUSH has sold his farm west of town to Dr. W. A. BROWN and Mr. O. L. GUYTON for the sum of $900. MARRIED: Mr. G. G. NORTHCUTT and Miss MARY P. BRADLEY, at Beaverton, Oct. 7, ’86, by A. MARKHAM J. P. Mr. J. W. NEWELL and Miss MARY REED, by Judge Cobb at Probate office Oct. 2nd, 1886 Mr. J. W. PENNINGTON and Miss SALLIE A. RUFF, by P. W. KEMP J. P. Sept 30th, at the house of DUG DEES. We had the pleasure on our return from Franklin of spending a night with our genial friend and the efficient County Treasurer of Marion County, M. M. FRAZIER, Esq. where we were most hospitably entertained by himself and his accomplished and Christian family. The following named persons were baptized by emersion (sic), near Judge Cobb’s mill on last Friday: Misses EMMA GUIN, MINNIE SUMMERS, JEFFIE IRVIN, DAISIE NESMITH, AND Masters DICK NESMITH and MINNIE BROCK. We hear various opinions concerning the crop prospect, and from what we gather, conclude that we will make probably five per cent more this, than last year. Let every subscriber we have see if he can’t get us at least one new one. Now is the time of year when the people are beginning to lay in their reading matter for next year. Try it friends and see. SCHOOL NOTICE. On the first Monday in Nov. Next the undersigned will open a school at Molloy for a term of six months. Tuition from one to two dollars per month, good school-house – good board from five to seven dollars per month. For particulars, address, W. J. MOLLOY, Molloy, Ala. ALEXANDER the “great” of the Vernon Courier, notwithstanding his many fair promises to our people that he had come to sty, ahs made application to serve as editor of the contemplated paper to represent the Wheelers in Franklin county. However, the Wheel knowing something of his character, voted him down at a recent meeting held in said county. CHANCERY COURT Chancery Court convened this morning, the Hon. THOS. COBB in the bench. There were but seven or right cases on docket and only three finally disposed of. The case of BELLE ALLEN v. R. T. ALLEN for divorce was argued and demurer and continued. SARAH E. COPPER v. J. COPPER for divorce and custody of children the counsel for Deft. Withdrew from the case and cause continued. J. M. COOSA v. J. J. HEMPHILL to enforce vendor’s lien, continued. HILL v. HILL, divorce granted. MAHAN v. MAHAN, divorce granted. W. A. COBB v. VIOLA COBB motion and …..(cut off) AT LAST – Poem, - [Nellie Watts McVey in Frank Leslie’s] “THOUGHT READING” EXPLAINED The Performer’s Receptivity of Suggestions from the Medium – Hypnotism… …..(not transcribing)…. PHYSICAL CARE OF A SINGER The celebrated French baritone Faure has just published a book combing the results of his long experience, entitled “The Voce and Singing.” It is intended for the use of aspiring tenors and baritones. Not only is much instruction given in the science of music, pure and simple, but many practical hints of great value are added. Thus on the day of a performance the artist should avoid long railway journeys, the motion of the train being held to be injurious to the voice. He must also live as near to the theatre as possible., so as to reduce to a minimum “the dangers of locomotion” and the risk of taking sudden colds. He must eat regularly, watch the manner in which his digestive organs perform their functions, avoid indigestion, strong emotions and draughts of air. He must not war any article of raiment tightly bound around his neck, feet or waist, in order to escape a rush of blood to the head, and must not allow flowers either at home or in his dressing room at the theatre. M. Faure, says a critic, in commenting on these minute instructions is not only a professor – he is a mother, and should warp his precious pupils in cotton. Few, however, are aware what a world of pains must be taken by the aspirant for lyric honors who would stand even the slightest chance of success. Art is a jealous mistress and brooks no rivals near her throne. – [New York Graphic] BATHING PET DOGS AT LONG BRANCH Bathing pet dogs is a duty that the women here perform regularly every morning, and one may see a score at a time between the Ocean House and the West End Hotel subjecting the little quadrupeds to this extremely disagreeable operation. Young bellies and trim little French maids are the most frequently seen at it. One well-to-do woman, either at the Ocean or the Howland, is reported to have two Skye terriers and two maids – a maid to each dog, and the maids have nothing else to do but to wait on the dogs – [Long Branch, Cor., New York Sun] A FLORAL CHAMELEON DISCOVERED A novel flower has been found on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, at the San Hose hacienda, some twenty-two leagues from the city of Tehuantepeca. This floral chameleon has the faculty of changing its colors during the day. In the morning it is white; when the sun is at its zenith it is red, and at night it is blue. This red, white, and blue flower grows on a tree about the size of the guava tree and another peculiarly of this flower is that only at noon does it give out any perfume. – [Boston Transcript] “Mathilde” is the name given the small planet picked up in the vast heaven by Dr. Palisa’s sky-sweeper on Nov. 13 last. It costs $300,000,000 a year to maintain the standing armies of Europe. 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 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 APPLICATION TO SELL LAND The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, September 18, 1886 This day came W. S. PROTHRO Administrator, and filed his application in writing and under oath praying for an order and proceeding to sell certain lands in said application described, for the purpose of paying the debts due and owing from said estate and the 1st day of November 1886 being a day set for hearing and passing upon said application, this is to notify all persons interested to appear on that day and contest the same if they see proper. ALEXANDER COBB, judge of Probate FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. 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 Marriage Guide Ad for Peruna Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Scientific American Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Two Mule Sulky Plow Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for The Star – weekly newspaper PAGE 4 A MOTHER’S LOVE – (story about the mother’s love) JUVENILE JOKES – (jokes) THE MEXICAN BABY SUPPLY – (if interesting in story, let me know and I will get it to you) Dr. Gimlet returns empty-handed from a day’s hunting, and in response to his wife’s inquiries, candidly confesses that he killed nothing. “Why,” retorts Mrs. G., slowly, “you could have done better than that to have stayed at home and attended to your regular business.” The doctor never even smiled at her wit. United Ireland, a Dublin newspaper, calls the recent victory over Gladstone in the United Kingdom “the tricksters, soreheads and mountebanks’ grab after the emoluments of power.” LADIES DEPARTMENT HOW BRIDAL VEILS ARE WORN The manner of wearing the bridal veil now is copied directly from royalty. Every one is familiar with the arrangement of Queen Victoria’s ever- present veil, and in this manner do the brides of today fancy wearing them. It is bunched slightly on the top of the coiffure, forming a coronet or cap, and then falls back over the train. This arrangement requires a skillful hand, and is generally intrusted to a milliner’s manipulation. It is becoming to most faces, but does away with the traditional use of the veil, which has always been to cover the modest face of the maiden, in being an old-time custom always to life it as soon as the ceremony was performed. The bridal veil then was full of significance, now it is merely an ornament. – [New York Herald] FASHIONS IN PARASOLS Parasols this season are unusually varied, and some of the styles are exceeding novel and attractive. In common with the rest of the toilet, ribbon, plays an important part in their adornment, while lace, gauze and net are used in a variety of ways. Some of the parasols have a full ruching of net around the top, and full folds are brought down along the ribs and caught in a the tips. Others are covered with loosely-plaited crape or net, and still others have the lace covering shirred around the top, whence it falls below the silk in full, loose folds, draped at one side with loops and ends of ribbon, and showing the silk beneath. The en-tout-cas is in demand this season, as it is large enough to afford protection from a sudden shower and sufficiently attractive to be used as a parasol. Velvet, foulard, pongee and sateen are all used as covering for the many new shapes. The sticks are often very elaborate, and are generally longer than those of last season, thus serving as a walking stick when the parasol is closed; the ferrules are of steel and do not suffer by contact with the pavement. Some parasols have two large lace handkerchiefs laid one over the other, forming eight points, and have a deep fall of lace underneath. – [New York Commercial] WOMEN’S BEST FRIEND A hairpin is a woman’s best friend. It fits a multiplicity of uses and she is never without one. If her hair is short you can depend upon it that in a recess of her purse or a pocket of her reticule you will find the hairpin. If she buttons her shoes she uses her hairpin, and who ever saw a woman button her gloves with anything else? If her head itches, does she scratch it with her finger? Nonsense! Se whips out a hairpin and relieves herself. Suppose a nickel has dropped between the bars of the wooden foot grate in the street car. Does she soil her fingers as a man would, and then not get it? Certainly not. Out comes the hairpin, and the coin is lifted out without trouble. If her shawl pin is lost, where so good a substitute as the hairpin? If she eats a nut does she take a nut pick? Most assuredly not. The hairpin again. It is with a hairpin that she rips open the uncut leaves of a book or magazine; it is a hairpin with which she marks her progress in her favorite book; if a trunk key is missing, a hairpin opens the refractory lock as neatly as a burglar’s skeleton key would; with it she cleanses her finger nails, and, if it is a clean one, even picks her teeth. And the feats of hair securing that she will make a simple bow legged hairpin accomplish nearly surpasses the belief of man. Altogether, it deserves to be classed among the great inventions of the world, and the grave of the original man who created the first one could have no prouder epitaph than this “That is the kind of a hairpin he was.” – [Chicago News] WHERE LACES ARE MADE The most of the hand-made lace is manufactured in Belgium, France, and England. Large quantities are also made by machinery in the two latter countries and in the United States. The application of machinery to this delicate and intricate work has made many kinds of lace very cheap, which, when made by hand, ver could have been otherwise than expensive because of the labor required to complete them. In Belgium, where a very large part of the real lace is made (the hand-made laces are all called "real” and machine lace, "imitation”), over 150,000 women are said to be employed in lace-making, and the majority of these work at home. There are 900 lace schools in the country. Probably the most important center of the work in that country is the city of Brussels. A very expensive kind of lace is made here, known as Brussels lace, which is of very fine thread and intricate design. Mechlin Lace, which is very fine and transparent, is made at Mechlin, Antwerp, Llerre, and Turnhout. The manufacture of Valenciennes, another favorite lace is extinct in its native city – whence it derived its name – but has attained much prosperity in Flanders. It is now chiefly made at the towns of Ypres, Bruges, Counral, Moning Ghent, and Alost. The productions of Ypres are of the finest quality. In France, a few years ago, the number of lace-makers was estimated at 350,000, but this total has been considerably reduced by the use of machinery in recent years. The point d’Alencon Lace, which is a very beautiful lace, made entirely by hand with a fine needle, in small pieces, which are afterward united by invisible seams, is made principally at Bayeux. The towns of Bayeux and Caen are especially noted for the manufacture of fine black laces. Chantilly lace, which was formerly made almost altogether at Chantilly, is now made quite extensively at the two towns mentioned above. The productions of the towns of Lille and Arras are also well known. Lille Lace is very simple in design, but very fine and beautiful. The lace of Bailloul is strong and cheap, and extensively used for trimming. The lace manufacture of the district of Auvergne, of which the town of Le Puy is the centre, is considered the most ancient and extensive in France. Over 100,000 women are there employed, and nearly every kind of lace is made. The headquarters for machine made laces in France are at Calais. In England the manufacture of lace is carried on chiefly in the counties of Buckingham, Devonshire, and Bedford. The best known of the English hand-made laces is the Honiton, so called from the town of this name in Devonshire, where it was first made. In the city of Nottingham the manufacture of hand laces was an important industry some years ago, but this has been almost destroyed by the introduction of machinery for lace manufactures. The town is now the headquarters for some of the finest designs in machine-made laces that are known. Lace is made to some extent in Ireland, especially in the town of Limerick,, also in Scotland, and in nearly every country of Europe to a limited extent. – [Inter-Ocean] FASHION NOTES Lace mitts are again in vogue. The handsomest grenadines are beaded. Belts will be much worn with summer dresses. Striped and checked materials are all the rage. Lace mantles are profusely trimmed with beads. Snowballs make a lovely trimming for a tulle bonnet. Tucks and plaits are superseding flounces and frills. The bodices of thin woolen materials are lined with silk. Yellow and heliotrope are the leading London colors this summer. Black, white, and scarlet are the preferred colors for tulle bonnets. White frocks are not so much in favor this ear for festivals as formally. The new peach color combines exquisitely with gold shades of yellow. The London turban is a favorite, but for seaside, mountain and traveling wear. Pongee combined with plaid Surah makes a pretty and inexpensive summer dress. A tulle bonnet should be the lightest most cloud-like piece of headgear imaginable. Gathered panels take the place of pleated ones on summer wash fabric dresses. Spangled crape fans in iridescent effects come among other novelties in this lien. Large Gainesborough hats are again in vogue, but they have very large, high conleaf crown. There is a new and delicious shade of peach color that takes the bloom off every other shade. Surplice bodices have the fullness beginning at the shoulder seam, and crossing diagonally from right to left. Necklaces of cut steel and black pearls, the latter not always genuine, are included among the novelties of the season. It is predicted that next fall we shall have a revival of the old =fashioned puffed sleeves that were worn in the days of Josephine. A standing collar more suitable for hot weather has appeared, open in front about an inch. It is one of the old styles re-introduced. Tulle bonnets – white, black, gray, scarlet, all shades of red and rose color, blue and heliotrope – are worn for full dress occasions. Fans this season are exquisite. Sandal, violet, and other scented –w wood sticks are used, so that a little breeze brings a delicious perfume. Plain surah and silks, with plush or velvet stripes, are used for the skirt, the bodice and draperies being of etamine, mohair or cashmere. Serges are in high favor and deservedly so, for there is no medium priced goods from which so much wear and general satisfaction can be had. JOKES SODA ENGINES – Curious Locomotives Being Built at the Baldwin Works At the Baldwin locomotive works there are in course of construction four locomotives which are designed to be run by soda, which takes the place of fire under the boiler. Soda has much the same power as coal without any of the offensive gases which that fuel ignites. The engines are now nearly finished, and are to be shipped within two weeks to Minneapolis, Miss., and are to be run on the streets of that city, where steam engines are forbidden. The engine has much the same appearance as a passenger car. It is about six-teen feet long, entirely boxed in, with no visible smokestacks or pipes, as there is no exhaust nor refuse. The boiler is of copper, 84 1-2 inches in diameter and 15 feet long, having tubes running thought it, as in stem boilers. Inside the boiler will be placed five tons of soda which upon being dampened by a jet of steam, produces an intense heat. When the soda is thoroughly saturated, which will occur in about six hours, the action ceases, and then it is necessary to restore it to this original state by forcing through the boiler a stream of copper-heated steam from a stationary boiler, which drives the moisture entirely from the soda, when it is again ready for use. The exhaust steam from the cylinders is used to saturate the soda, and by this means all refuse is used. These engines are the first of their kind that have been built in this country and are being constructed under the supervision of George Kuculer, a German engineer. The engines will have about the same power as those on the new York elevated roads, and will readily draw four light cars. Soda engines are now used in Berlin and other European cities very successfully, and they also traverse the St. Gothard tunnel, under the Alps, where steam engines cannot be used, because the length of the tunnel renders it impossible to devise a system of ventilation which will carry off the foul gases generated by a locomotive. So overpowering would those gases become that suffocation would ensue. SHORT MENTION – Jokes A Pretty Story about Miss Terry ( Anecdote) ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1026gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 67.1 Kb