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The Lamar News April 15, 1886

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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor            VERNON, ALABAMA, APRIL 15, 
1886           VOL. III. NO. 24

THE WINTER OF THE FEAR (Poem – will transcribe later)

THE WORKINGMAN’S WIFE (Short Story – will transcribe later)

A CHINESE MILITARY PAY DAY
	The Chinese soldier receives his pay once a month only, and Chinese 
months, it may be remarked, are much longer than these we are accustomed to 
reckon by.  On the eve of the payday, the captain of a company, together with 
his sergeant-major, goes and receives the amount requisite to pay his company, 
from his next superior officer.  This is not paid to him in jingling coins 
such as we are accustomed to, for China possesses no coinage but in pure 
silver, which, however has been broken into somewhat irregular pieces.  The 
whole of the night preceding payday is occupied in weighing out for each man 
the required ounces of silver, and this occupation as may be easily imagined, 
is a very tedious one, and ionly successfully accomplished by infinite care, 
for , here a piece  the size of a pin’s head has to be chipped off, and there 
a piece of larger dimensions has to be added to make up weight, and any 
deviation one way or the other means the loss of perhaps a day’s pay or more 
to some poor defender of the Celestial Empire. When the process of meting out 
is accomplished, the silver is then carefully wrapped in paper, upon which is 
written the name of the intended recipient.  On the following afternoon the 
company is mustered, and the sergeant-major divides the money, commencing with 
the first man in the company, and going on to the last.  When this division is 
concluded the question the question is asked in stentorian tones:  “Has any 
one else a claim?” and the customary “No” having promptly been given, the men 
are then dismissed.  Each one now repairs to the nearest tradesman’s shop 
where he exchanges his silver.  
For one tael he receives 1,600 small coins, perforated in the centre so as to 
allow of being threaded on a string, and having received the proper amount, 
turns homewards with a cheerful mien, but nearly sinking beneath his burden.  
The private receives three and a half taels, equal to about nineteen shillings 
monthly; out of which he has to provide himself with clothes and food.  This 
to us, no doubt, seems a very insignificant sum, but we must remember that the 
whole of a Chinese soldier’s subsistence only costs him about one tael, for he 
subsists on rice, absolutely nothing but rice. His clothes, too, also cost but 
a trifle.  But it is not pretended that a soldier can save much out of such a 
slender income, and it is invariably the case that when the next pay day comes 
round the poor defender of the Celestial Empire has not a cent in pocket, 
neither has he had any for some days past, so quickly does money melt, even in 
those celestial regions. – [Chronik der Zeit]

TAKEN DOWN (joke – will transcribe later)

HOW CIRCUS PEOPLE LIVE – A BUSINESS IN WHICH THERE IS MUCH HARD WORK
Peculiarities of Show Employees and Their Life on the Road
	Mr. James M. Nixon, than whom no living man knows more about a circus, 
said to the Cook:  “There are no people, excepting plainsmen – the skirmishers 
overs the wild country of the West – who live so hard a life as circus 
employees, both performers and working men.  Their life is not as hard now, it 
is true, as it was some years ago, excepting with the small concerns.  They 
are the “wagon-shows that travel through the small towns.  But even with the 
big concerns that travel by train it is hard enough now.
	“Take the case of a wagon show that has to travel thirty miles after a 
night’s performance to get to the next town, where a street procession is to 
be made in the forenoon.  The workmen, canvas men, and the like have to take 
breakfast at eleven o[clock at night.  Then they get no meal till after the 
procession – say at noon.  Wherever they are, the work must be attended to 
first, and eating is a second consideration.  With the performers – gymnasts, 
riders, clowns, and the like – it is not quite so bad.  They get better pay 
and better food.  As a rule they live on the best food there is to be had 
where they happen to be, and they take a great deal of it. Most of them are 
great beef-eaters, and are not very particular whether the meat is cold or 
hot, so long as it is good and plenty.  They are very particular however, 
about cleanliness.  I have seen twenty or thirty of them get up and leave the 
table because the tablecloth was dirty.  And when they want a meal they want 
it and will have it.  I have often seen them leave a hotel where they would 
have to wait fifteen minutes for a dinner that was paid for, and go to a 
restaurant where they would have to buy another.  They won’t eat unless they 
are hungry but they are always hungry after a night performance, and will not 
go to bed without a hearty supper.  They say they can’t sleep if they are 
empty.
	“One thing that is peculiar about them is that they do not take 
medicine, and they are remarkably healthy.  When they are out of sorts they 
diet themselves, each one according to his own ideas, but I don’t think I ever 
saw $50 worth of medicine around a circus in all the years I have been in the 
business.  Yes, they drink.  Not to excess, but nearly all of them drink when 
they feel like it.  They never drink, however, before performing.  They are 
very careful of themselves.  They have to be or they would not last long.
	“AS a matter of course, with their irregular habits, they are in a 
certain sense extravagant.  Their extravagance however is mainly in the matter 
of eating.  Experience teaches them very soon, if their own sense does not at 
first that they must take the very best possible care of themselves 
physically, and that good eating is a primary consideration.
	There is a moveable kitchen now with every show that ravels.  An 
enormous stove is set up on a wagon, and all the appurtenances are kept 
handy.  Food is contracted for in each town ten or fifteen days head and as 
soon as the show arrives the kitchen tent is set6 up and meals are cooked up 
for the work people.  The performers are a little too aristocratic to eat 
there, and insist on going to the hotels; but in some parts of the country, as 
every traveling man will appreciate; they do not fare so well.
	There has been in late years a vast improvement in all departments of 
the traveling circus and in nothing has this been more observable, to those in 
the business, than in the provisions made for the health and comfort of the 
employees.  A good chief cook with a circus will get as good a salary as a 
first class performer, and has to earn it.  There is no place for laggards or 
make shifts where sawdust perfumes the breeze.

The production of magnesium having been cheapened by a new electrolytic 
process, efforts are being made in Europe to extend its use as a source of 
light.  Two prizes - $125 and $50 = have been offered by a Bremen firm for the 
best designs for magnesium lamps with clockwork movement.

VINEYARDS AND “CHICH” OF CHILLI
	A Kansas City Journal correspondent, writing from Chili, says:  We 
enter near Las Vegas an immense hacienda, containing 16,000 acres of land, one-
half of which is under cultivation and much of it planted in vines.  The grape 
is cultivate here after the French and Spanish style – a low stout stump kept 
back by pruning and the young shoots and grapes confined to the body of the 
vine.  The yield is very heavy.  This vineyard belongs to an Englishman with a 
Chilean wife, with whom he received the estate, and it turns out annually many 
thousand gallons of white and red wine – the common drink of the country – 
though a cruder and more fiery product called chica is made from the refuse 
and poor grapes and mixed with sour spirits of wine.  A glass of this 
containing as much as four ordinary tumblers, is sold for 5 cents Chilian 
money about 3 of ours, and on this the poorer classes become dreadfully and 
frequently intoxicated.
	I have seen drunkenness in Chili than in all my travels through 
Central and South America thus far.  A single glass of this chica will produce 
intoxication.  In taste it resembles the Mexican puique or the yeast beer made 
in our young days by our mothers.
	On this great estate is every modern appliance for farming – it is 
divided by mud walls covered with tile,  trees grow along the drives and 
walks, fine herds of cattle graze in the ample fields of alfalfa and barley 
stubble. Sheep of English importation improve the native stock.

RELICS OF THE LATE WAR.
	One of the most interesting relics of these times is a wretched-
looking, dismantled and fragmentary steam engine that was once the motive 
power of Joe Brown’s “Pike Factory” which lies hors de combat near the 
platform in front of the old woodshop.  And this is the fate of the engine 
that was to furnish the power to turn out a bountiful supply of those 
formidable weapons that were destined to carry terror and confusion into the 
ranks of the invaders who, according to a favorite expression of stump 
oratory, “Mought do very well to stand afur off yander an’ shoot ther’ guns, 
but they can’t stand cold steel, boys.”  A few years ago there were still 
piled up around an old building in Milledgeville a rust-eaten pile of those 
same old pikes.  Such is the fortune of war.
	By the ay, another bloodthirsty individual invented a dangerous weapon 
called the “barbed pike.”  It had a broad, flat blade, the edges of which were 
deeply indented, barb fashion, so that when thrust through and drawn back, as 
the inventor said, “They’d jest nat’ly fetch the gizzards out’n them big 
fellers.”  And the most remarkable of all is, the inventor of this terrible 
weapon was a preacher, who “rid the circuit” all through the war.  I guess he 
failed to obtain a patent on his neat little invention, so his name shall be 
nameless now.  If you were to ask Judge John T. Clark, of Cumbert, he could 
tell you all about the “barbedpike” and who invented it, and he would enjoy a 
hearty laugh at the expense of this warlike minister of grace. – [Atlanta 
Constitution]

CHIROMANCY
	Among new methods for simplifying the unwieldy processes of the law 
none is more noteworthy and suggestive than the science of chiromancy, which 
appears to be becoming fashionable in English police courts.  It was applied 
with striking success in two cases.  In one of these the prisoner, who was 
charged with begging, pleaded that he had done hard work, but was now unable 
to get any; the jailer then examined his hands, declared they showed signs of 
hard work and the man was let off with a nominal punishment.  In the other 
case the accused said he was a carpenter, but was out of work.  His hands were 
examined, found soft, and he was sent up. – [Chicago Tribune]

ACQUAINTED WITH MUSIC (anecdote –w ill transcribe later)

PRECIOUS MEMORIES – (Poem – will transcribe later)

HUMOROUS – (Jokes – will transcribe later)

A VEGETABLE LIFE DESTROYER
	The Judas tree is the great life destroyer of the vegetable world.  
Long before the leaves appear upon the branches, the gorgeous blossoms 
ornament them, and they look like scarlet sunbeams caught upon the boughs.  
The brilliant beauty of the crimson flowers attracts thousands of tiny 
insects, and the wild bees seek to draw honey from their exquisitely shaped 
cups.  But every insect, bee or butterfly that ventures to rest upon the edge 
of its blossoms is overcome by a fatal, curious sort of opiate or sleeping 
draught which the flower juice contains, and drops dead on the ground beneath.

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY APRIL 15, 1886

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A bill is proposed calling for a conference of American States.

The Lincoln monument bill has passed the Senate.

50 odd votes were cast in the House of Representatives against the bill to 
give Mrs. Hancock $2,000 per annum.  The Senate passed the bill unanimously.

One great defect in our present school laws is that it requires that teachers 
shall be paid only at the end of each quarter, and that County Superintendents 
shall keep large sums of money in their possession for many months.   We 
suppose at least a quarter of a million dollars are thus locked up today, in 
Alabama.  Our teachers are poor people, who should be paid monthly, and the 
surplus funds should be sent to the State Treasurer.

COUNTY CONVENTION - CALL OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
To the Democratic Conservative voters of Lamar County:
	You are requested to assemble in convention in the town of Vernon on 
Saturday, the 8thd ay of May next, for the purpose of electing delegates to 
the State Congressional and Senatorial Conventions, and to transact such other 
business as may come before the Convention.  The basis of representation is 
one for each thirty, and fraction over fifteen votes cast for the Democratic 
candidate for Governor at the last general election.  This basis gives the 
beats the following representation, to wit:
Town		9		Military Springs	4
Lawrence	3		Betts			4
Sizemore	2		Trulls			3
Brown		3		Vails			2
Henson		2		Millport		3
Goode		1		Steens			3
Millville	4		Stricklands		4
Pine Springs	2		Wilsons			5
Moscow	8
	To insure meetings and a full representation in the convention, the 
voters of the several beats are requested to meet at their place of voting at 
3 pm on Saturday, the 1st day of May next, for the purpose of electing 
delegates to the County Convention.
	The Committee respectfully and earnestly urge the voters of the county 
to attend the beat meetings; being a part of a state that progress and 
prosperity are fast bringing into notice we should not through indifference 
allow the offices of the state to be filled by incompetent men, or turned 
voter to those who once brought our State to Shame.
	Vernon, Ala.  April 10th, 1886
	By order of Committee,
	W. A. Young, Chairman	

FERNBANK ITEMS
	The health of our town and vicinity is good in consequence of which 
Dr. J. T. SEAY & Bro. are doing but little practice.
	Our school is still doing well with a very fair attendance.
	Mr. A. J. WALLACE, Mr. H. L. FALKNER and Mr. B. E. TURNER are late 
accessions to our school; and as they are very studious, we have no doubt but 
that they will succeed in their educational undertaking.
	Mr. B. H. WILKERSON of this place on the 8th inst. Commenced a three 
months school eight miles south west of here south of Luxapallia.
	The people of Fernbank are much pleased with the passage by the Senate 
of the Blair Educational Bill.
	Mr. E. B. ATKINS and Dr. M. R. SEAY have rented Capt. J. M. USSERY’S 
steam gristmill and they are now prepared to give general satisfaction to all 
who may patronize them.  Success to the gentlemen in their new line.
	Mrs. M. E. ATKINS mother of Mrs. MILLIE WILKERSON has been quite sick 
for sometime past, but she is now convalescing.
	We saw in a late issue of the Lamar News that Hon THOMAS SEAY 
candidate for governor had given the citizens of Vernon a pleasant call; and 
in and around Fernbank, who would be pleased to hear of his triumphant 
nomination for governor in the next Democratic State Convention.
	WARWICK – March 27th, 1886

Now is the time to subscribe for News.  Country produce taken.

HOW YOU CAN EARN A DOLLAR
Dear News:
	My efforts to get a club of ten were long and earnest, but ended in a 
most, most, I cannot coin a satisfactory superlative and will say magnificent 
failure.
	If you can give me a little space I wish to suggest to our honest 
laboring citizens of the county that it is a duty each one owed himself, his 
wife and children to take our county paper.  It gives pleasure and information 
renewed weekly.  An experienced teacher once said he could tell, any time, by 
a child’s intelligence and progress in school that its parents were familiar 
with the current literature of the day.  An enthusiastic advocate of public 
schools suggested once that enough of the fund be set aside to send each 
family a good weekly paper knowing that would certainly be effective free 
tuition.”  Say!  Mr. Candidate for legislative honors!  How do you approve 
making a law creating a small fund to pay for the News to be sent to families 
too poor to subscribe?  It would carry its teachings to hearthstones where the 
pine knot throws its cheerful radiance on the evening group composed of father 
with spectacles on reading aloud, mother with busy fingers making or mending 
comfortable garments for the little ones with expectant faces, who keep so 
quiet whilst papa reads aloud.  These little ones perhaps are barefooted and 
cannot go to school, or may have to pick brush in the new ground, or toil 
otherwise, “to help papa.”
	Of course, this scheme only provokes a smile disdain, and as 
Providence helps those who help themselves, why not let each mother determine 
to give $1 from her pin money, and take the paper for father and the little 
ones.  Set aside one Plymouth-rock, name her “Literary” tell the children to 
care for her well, because proceeds of her first brood must go to pay for the 
newspaper.  Results in June speckle’s brood of ten chicks can be sold for 
$1.50.  I have some nice flower and vegetable seed to give to any child or 
lady who acts on this suggestion.  An not personally acquainted with the 
editor, have not any axe to grind, but “noble souls, like Heaven, are pleased 
with doing good.”
	If your wish I can give several other methods by which an energetic 
farmer’s wife or child can earn a dollar.
	GEORGE ELIOTT

OUR DIXIE LETTER
DIXIE, ALA., April 5th, 1886
Ed. News:
	Will you again allow the backwoodsman to extend a hand of friendship 
and brotherly love to yourself, and the many readers of your excellent paper, 
and especially to bro. Warwick of “Phernbanx.”
	We are so far behind time now, we must again beg pardon for our 
delay.  But when we tell you we have been on a visiting tour through middle 
Tennessee, we feel certain you will excuse our long silence.  We see form back 
numbers of the News, Bro. Warwick and others have kept you out of mischief 
during our absence.
	Now that our visit is over, we will again resume our former business, 
and will try in future to send you all current items from the backwoods, and 
hope to join hands every fortnight with Bro. Warwick through the columns of 
the News.  But here let us return thanks to him for the very flattering 
compliment he paid us in reference to our last article of Dec 24, ’85.  We 
certainly think from the tenor of his letter, he is a high toned gentleman, 
and ifs prompted by a sense of honor, as well as duty in all he says and does.
	Now the dots:  Notwithstanding our country (ie) Dixie land is under 
military rule, commanded by Gen report, we are looking forward with sweet 
anticipation to a great conservative and Democratic victory in August.
	We notice nearly everyone has his man out for office –t his being the 
case, some one will be “left” – but we will here suggest that those who can’t 
Judge, Represent, or something else, have the honor of Road-over-seer 
conferred upon them.  The kind of men we want here for office of every grade, 
are those who will wade across a muddy street to shake our hand – after 
elected same as before.
	The heavy rains have materially injured the farmers of this locality, 
though they are making strong efforts to plant a large area, both in corn and 
cotton.
	Mr. A. J. GARDEN is now seriously ill with remittent fever.
	Mr. PLEASANT CORBIT, who lives a few miles from Dixie, shot himself a 
few days ago in the foot with a charge of twelve buckshot.  It is thought he 
will recover.
	Mr. HENRY A. KIRK, our efficient P. M. and Machinist, has lately added 
a circular saw to his splendid mills and no more will he use his old “dancing 
jinny”  - the sash.
	The friends of JOHN HANKINS, now in jail, are quite restless and seem 
to think him innocent.
	Our regular monthly meeting was largely attended last Sabbath; Rev. W. 
C. WOODS, pastor officiating.
	Rev. W. J. KIRK has been called to the pastorship of Springhill 
Baptist Church, of Fayette County.
	Mrs. MARHTA KINARD, near here, died a few days ago.  Our pen fails to 
give utterance to her pitiable condition.  Our commissioner certainly ought to 
make some provisions for her now motherless children.
	While in Tennessee we visited the ancient city and cemetery of the 
Giants, or which we will tell you more in the near future.
	Hoping all our candidates will be elected, we are still your dubiously,
	THE BACKWOODSMAN.

HE DID NOT HEAR
Mr. Editor:
	It is impressed on me to suggest it is now time to discard that stale 
jest our amiable friend has borne long and patiently.  Thus, His deafness is a 
convenient subterfuge when asked for credit, yet he hears acutely if you say “ 
I am now ready to pay you; or I have a horse to swap for your steers.”
	Proof:  He started to N. O. Drove an obstinate ox several miles, and 
of course at noon exercise and country air had whetted his appetite.  Calling 
at an humble cottage he asked for the landlord.  The lady said he was one the 
farm.  “Would soon be in to dinner, won’t you come in and dine with us, my 
husband will be pleased to meet you when he comes.  He die not hear and if one 
cannot hear an invitation to dinner it is tacit proof he is really in need of 
aural surgery.
	That impulsively kind hearted lady stepped to the gate repeated her 
invitation to dinner, pointed to her husband then coming in sight followed by 
a troop of sturdy neighbors.  Raising his hat he declined with thanks, bowing 
with a Chesterfieldian grace to that plain body, such as many men reserve for 
their friends who dress fashionably, and know all about etiquette.
	Politeness costs so little, and may give so much pleasure.  That plain 
lady returned to her humble duties musing on the long ago when as the “first 
honor girl” she delivered the valedictory to her graduating class, and every 
one raised his hat; bowed and smiled to her then.  How could he refuse a log-
rolling dinner in the country!  Should not any one know, intuitively, it would 
be excellent, from the ham and turnip-salad first course, to the canned 
peaches that were eaten with sugar and cream for desert.  Ah! friend B I was 
in the front room courting “Jennie Lee” a – la Pleasant memories of Georgia 
piney woods, and the aroma of those peaches filled the house with their aroma 
of June.
	JOAQUIN MILLER

THE CANDIDATES
	J. M. MCKLERNY, H. D. CLAYTON, THOS. SEAY, and N. H. R. DAWSON are 
avowed candidates for the nomination for governor by the next democratic state 
convention.  All four gentlemen are going about among the people trying to 
make the best possible impression, and each has many an earnest and admiring 
partisan working hard for his success.  The candidates are all handsome 
gentlemen, of pleasing address, and wherever they go are favorably received.  
The personnel of the candidates in short is very creditable to Alabama.  But 
his is not all needful for spirit material to make governors out of.  Alabama 
wants something more that handshaking democracy and how-de-do conservatism.  
Thinking men in the state4 want to know what sort of principles, if any, the 
candidates hold.  It is all interesting enough to know whether Colonel This or 
Judge That is for this or that candidate, but what about the candidate 
himself.”  Does his character index any enduring principle?  Has his record 
proved him capable of being a true and honest servant of the people?  Is he 
able, manly and self reliant enough to be superior to dependence upon the mind 
of a hired subordinate for light upon the correct administration of the 
affairs of his office.
	Is he sober?
	Is he intelligent enough to make the proper speech on occasions that 
may require him to speak?  Has he ever made himself ridicules in what he has 
said or written?
	Can he stand up before a crowd of men and command their respectful 
attention while he tells them his views of what kinds of a governor Alabama 
should have to succeed the present incumbent?
	These are a few questions about the standing candidates which should 
interest the Democrats of the state.  They are well worth answers, and to our 
mind the way to get at the answers can be furnished by the candidates 
themselves, each, taking the stump where he will be will reported by the 
press, and telling the people briefly and concisely why he thinks he would 
make Alabama a fit governor. – [Age]

OVER THE STATE
Ex-President Davis will speak in Montgomery on the 29th.

Temperance Mass Meetings common everywhere.

There is a call for a Greenback convention.

Such a flood has never been known as that of the last week in March.

Strikes, floods, fires at home and wars and rumors of wars abroad.

The final location of the Georgia Pacific puts the road within 7 miles of 
Jasper, in Walker County.

The next annual meeting of the Alabama Press Association will convene in 
Marion, beginning on the 28th of May.

The Talladega Mountain Home is for Dawson for Governor.

The Greenville Advocate is for McKleroy for governor.

The Gadsden News thinks it would make Alabamians s happy if McKleroy were 
nominated for governor.

It is said that on the Advertiser Crews is for McKleroy while Cory and Glass 
are for Dawson for governor.

There is a rapidly increasing interest in the approaching elections.  The 
Union Springs Herald says:  “Much interest is felt all over the state in the 
result of the Barbour county democratic convention, which convenes to day 
(Tuesday).  It is generally believed that a sold delegation to the state 
convention will be elected favoring Gen. Glayton for governor.  If this be the 
case, the only inference is that in their home county, where both are known, 
Clayton is considered to be a better man governor than McKleroy.”

United States Deputy Marshals A. B. Hamlet and D. M. Cooper arrived in the 
city on Sunday night at 10 o’clock with sixteen prisoners form Marion county, 
charged with violation of the revenue law.  The sooner the people of this 
district realize that officers intend to carry out the law faithfully and 
conscientiously the better it will be for them.  Stop making “wildcat’ whisky 
and cutting timber off of government land and you will not have to take so 
many trips to Huntsville.

Masonic.  Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at 
Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. 
 J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M. 
 		 M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th 
Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

AGENTS WANTED FOR REV. SAM P. JONES SERMONS
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mistake it for one of the small pamphlet editions.  Sam Jones has repeatedly 
Denounced these garbled and abbreviated reports as without his sanction, and 
as doing him rank injustice.
	Write at once for illustrated circulars and terms, and name your 
choice of territory; or to secure it instantly, send 75 cents for complete 
agents outfit, which will be forwarded by return mail, postpaid.  Postage 
stamps accepted.  Liberal terms guaranteed.  Address  Herbert & Cole 
Publishing Co.  810 & 812 Olive Street, St. Louis.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. 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.

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 
cleam and comfortable, the talbe being supplied with the best the market 
affords.  

RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi.  Those visitng Aberdeen would do well to 
call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, who keep sRestuarnat, Family Groceries, Bakery and 
Confectionery, toys, tobacco,a dn cigars.  Also coffee and sugar.  Special 
attention paid to ladies.

Barber Shop.  For a clean Shave or Shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of 
Dr. BURNS office, Vernon, Ala.

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD      THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala.  J. B. SANFORD, Fayette 
C. H., Ala.  Attorneys-at-Law.  Will practice as partners in the counties of 
Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt 
attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

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.

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.

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.

Ad for Pianos and Organs – J. GARRISON of Cullman, 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.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi.  A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated 
their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this 
well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable.  Owing to their 
consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which 
they are selling cheap.

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).

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY APRIL 15, 1886    
         
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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. WIMBERLEY			Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON				Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS. MIDDLETON, W. A. BROWN, 
R. W. COBB

RELIGIOUS
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each 
month, 7 p.m.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX.  Services second Sabbath in each month 
at 11 am.
METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT.  Services fourth Sabbath in each month.  11 
a.m.

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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
The woods are growing lovely.

The white dress has been lovingly unfolded.

The Rev. Sam Jones meeting in Columbus excited great interest.

The straw hat receives its share of thought.

See advertisement of lands to be sold for nonpayment of taxes.

Madam rumor says there’s a wedding on hand.

When you go to Columbus to hear Sam Jones, don’t forget to have a superb 
Photograph taken by Echard.

Prof. TOMLIN, who has been absent from the school room for several day on 
account of sickness, is convalescing.

AMANDA BONMAN, colored, had her house burned down a few days since while she 
was absent attending a funeral.

COL. NESMITH and Miss DUBA MCLAIN are off to Winston County.  The Col. is 
attending court and Miss Dubba visiting relatives.

Mr. N. F. MORTON has taken a contract to build a large house for W. A. YOUNG, 
Esq.  The plans and specifications are said to be the work of a young lady.

C. C. NESMITH, Esq. of Cullman, brother of our esteemed townsman, T. B. 
NESMITH, gave us a pleasant call this week.  He will remain several days with 
his brother.

Those of our citizens who attended court at Hamilton, have returned and report 
Marion County just as the Herald informed us, almost unanimous in favor of 
Almon for our next Senator.

The executive committee had a very harmonious meeting on last Saturday.  The 
information gathered by the committee in regard to a county convention was 
that one was not desired and that it was not necessary at this time.  So 
prepare for your stait race.

Every person visiting Columbus, we advise them to call at Echard’s Photography 
Gallery and have some of those elegant Photo’s to give to relatives and 
friends, which will be appreciated …..

The picnic season is rapidly approaching.  

Capt. S. J. SHIELDS returned home to Aberdeen on Tuesday.

The small boy now invests in fishing tackle.

Mrs. E. W. BROCK and children are visiting relatives near Moscow.

Our streets show that our farmers are actively at work at home.

Mr. W. G. MIDDLETON and wife are on a visit to Columbus.

We regret to learn of the illness of Miss HATTIE SPRINGFIELD.

The editor’s better three-fourths paid Columbus and visit latter part of last 
week.

Rev, J. E. COX preached two very interesting sermons in town last Sunday.

The Columbus mail arrives much earlier now, on account of fresh horses being 
put on the rout.

Don’t fail to attend your beat meetings and send your delegates to the county 
convention.

The landed proprietors on east side of town are having a canal cut to carry 
town branch.

Miss MOLLIE CREW has returned home, after spending several weeks in town.

The Literary Society gives a general invitation to the public on Friday night.

We were pleased to receive a call from Prof. W. J. MOLLOY, a popular candidate 
for Co. Sup. Of Ed. A few days ago.

Remember Echard, the Photographer, of Columbus, Miss is making as fine 
pictures as can be made in the South.

Who needs government aid in Lamar County:  Congress will doubtless appropriate 
$150,000 for the relief of overflowed sufferers.

We regret to learn of the continued sickness of Miss ELIZA MORTON.  Hope to be 
able soon to report her complete recovery.

Mrs. O. A. MCNUTT has just received a nice selection of Ladies, Misses, and 
Children’s hats and bonnets.  Would be pleased to have her friends call and 
examine them.

MARRIED:  On the 18th ult., at JNO. HOLLAWAY’S by the Rev. M. D. CLEARMAN, Mr. 
D. D. HOLLAWAY and Miss MOLLIE HOLLIS.

The announcement of J. T. BURROW, the tenth candidate, for the office of 
Circuit Clerk, appears in this issue.  “John Tom” is known by everybody, and 
never lacks for something to say and we predict that he will make a lively 
race.

The wily politician is getting up his delegation for the convention, and one 
gave himself away by approaching and exhibiting his ticket to a gentleman 
that “don’t’ vote that way.”

The two remaining prisoners, CHARLEY MCCAULEY and FRANK BOLIN, colored, in the 
county jail were sent for by the penitentiary inspectors yesterday.  The jail 
is now vacant.

G. W. YOUNG Esq. one of our best citizens, has returned home from the school 
room., having taught a school five months, five miles north of Vernon, Lamar 
County – [Fayette Journal]

A large number of our people have rented rooms in Columbus for the purpose of 
attending Sam Jones series of meetings at that place, being on the 18th inst.

JAMES T. ALLEN, Vernon, ala. Having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music 
School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties.  Write 
him for terms and have a class this winter.

Rev. Sam P. Jones’ sermons are published in book form by the Herbert & Cole 
Publishing Co., of St. Louis, Mo.  The first and only collection of sermons 
ever produced on the globe that has been thus susceptible of striking 
pictorial illustrations.  Sam Jones’ wonderful richness of thought, abundance 
of anecdote, incident and allegory, and power of conviction, are here all 
shown forth in an attractive volume at a low price, within reach of the 
masses.  Agents wanted for this valuable book.  We call attention to …….

Unless quite a change is brought about between this and our county convention, 
Judge Allmon will doubtless receive a solid delegation to the Senatorial 
Convention.

We had a pleasant call from Capt. J. H. BANKHEAD on the 12th inst.  In the 
course of his visit he informed us that there was error in the article 
entitled “A Boom for Vernon.”  Our information in reference to the proposed 
newspaper in Vernon in the interest of the candidates therein named, was 
obtained from what we considered reliable source.  We are convinced, however, 
injustice was done Capt. Bankhead, as he assures us that no such enterprise 
was ever contemplated by him.  We cheerfully make this correction, and if any 
injury has occurred from it we sincerely regret it.

Sam Jones has heretofore preached against everything in the world, except 
tobacco.  He has hurled his anathemas against intemperance unsparingly and in 
bold defiance of the world and the Queen’s English alike and with singular 
inconsistency has preached of Temperance with tobacco on his lips and in his 
mouth, as if nothing came under the head of an excess, except drinking 
whisky.  Sam Jones has at last seem himself as others saw him and throws away 
the filthy weed, acknowledging the error of his ways.  Now that his mouth is 
clean, perhaps he will see the uselessness of slang – who knows.  If a man of 
his wondrous personal magnetism wand magnificent powers should pour pure 
English undefiled into the ears of the multitudes who draw near to him, the 
good he might do cannot be calculated.

TAX SALE
Land accessed for:
JAMES OLDSHUE
D. FOWLER
W. R.. WEST
MRS. JOEL GIBSON
M. M. BULL
L. BALENGER’S
COL. VERGO
S. RANDOLPH
R. HUMBER
C. L. HILL
M. A. HARRIS
ALDRED POE
H. H. HOLLAWAY
S. M. MECK

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOR SENATOR
We are authorized to announce the name of GEORGE C. ALMON of Franklin County, 
as a candidate for the State Senate from the 12th Senatorial District, 
composed of the counties of Lamar, Marion, Fayette and Franklin.  Subject to 
the action of the Democratic convention.

FOR REPRESENTATIVE
We are authorized to announce J. D. MCCLUSKEY as candidate to Represent Lamar 
County in the next General Assembly.  Election next August.

We are authorized to announce R. L. BRADLEY as a candidate to represent Lamar 
County in the next General assembly of Alabama.  Election 1st Monday in August.

FOR PROBATE JUDGE
We are authorized to announce J. E. PENNINGTON as a candidate for the office 
of Judge of Probate of Lamar County.  Election next August.

FOR CIRCUIT CLERK
We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of 
Circuit Clerk of Lamar County.  Subject to the Democratic Party.  Election in 
August, 1886.

We are authorized to announce J. N. MCNEIL as a candidate for the office of 
Circuit Clerk of Lamar County.  Election August next.

I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of Lamar County.  Election in August next. – W. G. MIDDLETON

We are authorized to announce W. W. PURNELL as a candidate for Clerk of the 
Circuit Court of Lamar County.  Election next August.

To the voters of Lamar County:  I hereby announce myself a candidate for the 
office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, at the approaching 
August election; and respectfully solicit a liberal share of your votes.  Very 
respectfully.  R. E. BRADLEY

I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of Lamar County, at the approaching August election and respectfully 
solicit a liberal share of your votes.  Very respectfully.  JOHN T. BURROW

FOR CO. SUPT. OF ED.
We are authorized to announce B. H. WILKERSON a candidate for County 
Superintendent of Education for Lamar County.  Election next August.

We are authorized to announce B. MCADAMS (cripple) as a candidate for County 
Superintendent of Education for Lamar County.  Election next August.

We are authorized to announce W. J. MOLLOY as a candidate for the office of 
County Superintendent of Education of Lamar County.  Election 1st Monday in 
August.

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County to me direct, I 
will expose for sale at public outcry at Kennedy on the 1st day of May enxt, 
the following described lands belinging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased, 
to wit:  17 acres more or less off of the west side of the N W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 
15 T 17 R 14 and SW ¼ of SE ¼ and SE ¼ of SW1/4 of a W ¼ Sec 15 T 17 and R 14; 
also about six acres east of the branch including all the dry land in SE ¼ of 
NE ¼ Sec 19 T 17 R 14.  Said sale will be made for one-sixth in cash and the 
remainder on a credit of twelve months from day of sale.  This the 3rd day of 
April, 1886.
	 - J. G. TRULL, Adm’r estate of C. K. COOK

NOTICE TO PROBATE WILL
State of Alabama Lamar County
In Probate Court, March 29th, 1886
This day came GEORGE W. RUSH and filed in this court a paper purporting to be 
the last Will and Testament of W. P. RUSH, late deceased, and the 20th day of 
April, 1886 being a day appointed for examining and passing upon said paper.  
This is therefore to notify J. D. RUSH, heir at law of said estate, and all 
others interested to appear in this Court on said 20th day of April 1886, and 
contest all matters pertaining to the same if they see proper.
	Given under my hand on the 29th day of March, 1886.
	ALEXANDER COBB, judge of Probate.


ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
Within legal hours, on Saturday the 7th day of April 1886, by order and decree 
of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, as Administrator de bonis non, 
of the estate of W. K. KIRK, deceased.  I will sell to the highest bidder, at 
public outcry, at the court house door of said county, on credit of twelve 
months, as the property of said estate, the following lands, to wit:  (large 
legal description – if interested, contact howven@sbcglobal.net for photocopy 
of notice )
	Also an undivided half interest in the West half of lot numbered 32 in 
the town of Vernon, Sec 16 T 15 R 15.
	Purchasers must give notes with at least two good sureties.  This 
March 25th, 1886.
-	W. A. BROWN, Administrator.

ESTATE OF JOEL E. GIBSON
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, March 5th, 1886
	In the matter of the estate of JOEL E. GIBSON deceased, THOS B. 
NESMITH, administrator of said estate, having filed his report in writing and 
under oath, alleging said estate insolvent, and this being the day for passing 
upon said report and it appearing to the court that notice had not been given 
as required by law.  It is therefore ordered that the 1st day of April 1886 be 
and is a day to which the hearing of the same be confined when and where all 
persons interested can appear and contest the same if they see proper.
ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

Ad for Chicago Scale Co.

Ad for Tutt’s Pills

Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ

Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans

Ad for Paint

Ad for Avery Sewing Machine

Ad for New Home Sewing Machine

Ad for Collins Ague Cure

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FOR THE FARM AND HOME

SELECTING  SEED POTATOES
	Judging from experiments made at the New York Experiment Station last 
season farmers can increase the yield of their potato fields considerably by 
selecting their seed from the best tubers grown in those hills which yield the 
largest quantity.  In the experiment alluded to “potatoes were taken for seed 
from the most productive and also from the least productive hill, and planted 
the nest spring in regular and registered order.  The result was that the 
largest tubers from the productive hill exceeded, by 16 percent, the product 
of the largest tubers from the least productive hill, and the smallest tubers 
from the productive hill yielded slightly more than the largest tubers from 
the least productive hill.”  Whether a series of experiments would show 
similar results is uncertain, but as it will require only a little extra labor 
at the season of digging for farmers to select the seed form their following 
crop from the most productive hills, it is an experiment that all can afford 
to try – [Cultivator]
	
MUCK AS A FERTILIZER
	The value of muck as a fertilizer is a much disputed question.  It is 
not only in theory, but in practice, that a difference of opinion exists.  
Chemically muck differs very much, its nitrogen, for which it is mostly 
valued, varying from 1 to 3 or 4 percent.  Pure peat, which is wholly 
vegetable matter, contains 3 percent, and upward of nitrogen, but is inert, 
and is not plant food until it is made available by decomposition.  Its 
condition of decomposition, then, has much to do with its value.  The coarse, 
fibrous peat requires to go through a decomposing process before it can be 
used a manure, while the soft, black, buttery muck breaks down into fine, rich 
black soil very quickly, and in this condition it has an immediate and very 
useful effect6 upon grass, to which it gives a rich, deep green color and a 
luxuriant growth.  Those who are interested in this question should first 
learn to distinguish pure peat from the earthy, sandy stuff which is often 
called muck, but is really a very poor substitute for it.  Pure peat contains 
only 1 percent of a very light ash, and the quality may be accurately graded 
by the quality of ash left after it is burned. – [New York Times]

BEAUTIFYING THE HOMESTEAD
	Beauty of arrangement about the house has a marked effect upon the 
inmates.  What can make a place more attractive than a nicely laid-out garden 
in the midst of a well-kept lawn?  It does not suffice to set out a few shrubs 
and ornamental trees without regard to order or effect.  Landscape gardening 
is a greater art than many lovers of attractive homes realize, and a mistake 
is often made by the well-to-do in mot securing the service of an experienced 
gardener, when a ? lawn is to be designed.  A clump of bushes here or a tree 
there may materially impair the artistic effect of the whole lawn’ there is a 
place for the roses, one for the lilies and another for the shrubs.  Attention 
should be given the location of the houses and the foreground kept quite free 
from shrubs and flowers.
	We believe that a great mistake is made by farmers giving so little 
heed to ornamenting the grounds in font of the dwelling.  The necessary time 
and expense involved would be well repaid by enjoyment secured from the 
pleasing effects of such a lawn.  We would not in the least disparage efforts 
in this directions by those who cannot afford to employ an experienced 
gardener.  Almost any farmer could materially improve the looks of a place 
barren of shrubs and trees, and should be encouraged in any attempt to do so. –
 [Tribune and Farmer]

CHEDDAR CHEESE
	The process employed by Mr. Harris, an American, in making Cheddar 
Cheese at the Highland and Agricultural Society’s show at Aberdeen, Scotland, 
is thus described in the North British Agriculturist:
	“In illustrating the Cheddar system, Mr. Harris took the morning’s 
milk supplied by the Aberdeen Dairy Company, and after warming it up to 96 
degrees, he let it stand about two hours, till it cooled down to 86 degrees 
when it was ripe enough to add the rennet.  To 58 gallons of milk he used two 
ounces of rennet and coagulation was effected in twenty minutes.  On Wednesday 
the vat was filled with 90 gallons of milk, and to this three ounces of rennet 
were used.  Twenty minutes after that he cut the curd – that is to say, in 
forty minutes after adding the rennet.  Mr. Harris estimated one pound of 
cheese to one gallon of milk.  One of the advantages of this system, is that 
it enables a uniform quality of cheese to be produced.  It is well known to 
practical cheese makers on the Scotch Cheddar system, that they never can 
guarantee an equal quality of cheese two days in succession.  As in the case 
of the working at Aberdeen, where the first day’s curd was too small to make a 
good sized cheese, and it had to be mixed with the second day’s curd, the 
benefit of uniformity acquired by Mr. Harris’ method is very apparent.  The 
most improved utensils were used, including among other things, cheese vats 
cased for steam and hot water, steel curd-breakers, cheese-banders, and the 
patent leverless cheese-press.”

CHANGING CLIMATE CONDITIONS
	The Hudson River Valley (N. Y.) peach-growers, it is reported, will 
abandon peach growing for good on account of the untoward seasons and a 
conviction that the climate is becoming more and more unfavorable to that 
fruit.  The restriction of localities adapted to peach culture is yearly 
becoming more and more confined as cultivation carried the country away form 
the peculiar conditions incident to the original climate.  Cultivators are 
also finding year by year, what has been long known to the few, that soil and 
climatic conditions have much to do with the successful raising of all crops.  
This is especially noticeable and generally known in the case of tobacco, 
sorghum (when cultivated for its sap), wheat, barley, sweet cherries, peaches, 
grapes, and other plants that night be mentioned.  The East Michigan, lake 
shore is noted for its wealth of fruit of all varieties suited to a temperate 
climate, especially peaches.  The opposite or Illinois shore is the reverse.  
Yet forty years ago the vicinity of Chicago, north, west, and south, seemed 
excellently adapted to peaches, as well as the more hardy fruits.  Winter 
wheat also was generally cultivate4d.  The cause of the failure to raise 
peaches lies more in change of climatic conditions than otherwise.  The 
changed soil conditions also have operated against the cultivation of wheat.  
The wise cultivator is he who carefully studies into causes and effects.  
There is no calling in life in which more careful study should constantly be 
made than in agriculture. – [Chicago Tribune]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Cranberry jelly mixed with cold water makes a refreshing drink for sick 
persons.

Brooms dipped for a minute or two in boiling suds once a week will last much 
longer than they otherwise would.

A neat, clean, fresh aired, sweet and well-managed house exercises a moral as 
well a a physical influence over its inmates.

One can have the hands in soap suds without injury to the skin if the hands 
are dipped in vinegar or lemon juice immediately after. 

Milk contains all that is required by the body, and the best proportions of 
mineral matters; is less irritating than other foods and better digested.

To make old lace appear new and have it clean at the same time, give it a bath 
of strong tea steeped in alcohol.  Don’t heat the alcohol but let the tea 
stand in it for a day or so.

Mould can be prevented from forming on fruit jellies by pouring a little 
parafine over the top, and that, when cool, will harden to a solid cake, which 
can be easily removed when desired.

Rosewood being in so much request for furniture, we give a recipe for an 
imitative stain, applicable to pine and other plain woods, consisting of a 
transparent rose pink liquid.  Mix, first, four pounds of potash in one gallon 
of hot water, adding same weight of sandal wood.  When the color of the wood 
is extracted add two and one-half pounds of gum shellac dissolved over a quick 
fire.  Apply a groundwork of logwood stains to the wood and then the mixture.

RECIPES

BREAD-CRUMB OMELET – One pint of bread crumbs, one large spoonful of parsley, 
rubbed very fine, half a tiny onion chopped fine.  Beat two eggs light, add a 
teacupful of milk, a trace of nutmeg, and pepper and salt liberally; also a 
lump of butter the size of a small egg.  Mix all together and bake in a slow 
oven, on a buttered pie-plate.  When light brown, turn it out of the plate and 
serve at once.

PLUM PUDDING – Six butter crackers, rolled fine and soaked in three pints of 
milk.  Cream, one-quarter of a cup of butter with one cup of sugar.  Add half 
a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of mixed spice and six well-beaten 
eggs.  Stir it all into the milk, and add one pound of the best raisins.  Bake 
in a deep pudding-dish, well greased with cold butter.  Bake very slowly in a 
moderate oven three or four hours.  Stir several times during the first hour 
to keep the raisins from settling.

FRIED POTATOES – Peel them and boil in salted water; do not let them boil 
until they are soft.  Beat one egg and have ready some fine cracker crumbs.  
Roll the potato in the egg and then in the cracker and fry in butter until a 
light brown turning frequently that the color may be uniform; or the potato 
may be dropped into hot lard.  In this case a cloth should be laid over a 
plate and the potatoes should be drained for a moment in this before sending 
them to the table.

JUMBLES – One and one-half cupfuls butter, two cupfuls sugar, five eggs, 1 ½ 
pints flour, one-half cupful corn starch, one teaspoonful baking powder, one 
teaspoonful extract lemon, one-half cupful chopped peanuts, mixed with one-
half cupful granulated sugar.  Beat the butter and sugar smooth; add the 
beaten eggs, the flour, corn starch and powder, sifted together, and the 
extract; flour the board, roll out the dough rather think,, cut out with 
biscuit cutter, roll in the chopped peanuts and sugar, lay on greased baking 
tins.  Bake in rather hot over eight to ten minutes.

MAXIMILLIAN’S ILL-STARRED WIDOW
	A writer in the London Figuaro says:  When I was at Brussels a few 
weeks ago, on one of my excursions to the neighborhood of Lacken, I drove by 
the chateau where the ill-starred widow of the ill-fated Emperor Maximilliam 
is passing her ruined life.  I met with a Belgian who told me much about this 
victim of Napoleon’s insane Mexican expedition.  Though still out of her mind, 
her mental condition has much improved since the shock caused by her dress 
catching fire a year or two since.  She is now comparatively cheerful, though 
the danger of a return to suicidal tendencies has to be carefully guarded 
against.  It is only by exceptional acts that she reveals her sad condition.  
Thus, one of her peculiarities is the ever present wish when walking in the 
beautiful grounds of the house which her sister, the queen of Belgium, has 
placed at her disposal, to search and pick up things from the ground.  She 
derives so much pleasure from this innocent pursuit that her attendants 
purposely scatter about things on the path she generally chooses for her 
walks.  She is particularly fond, it is noticed, of picking yup scraps of dad 
wood and small withered branches of trees, which, on returning to her 
apartments, she arranges with marvelous taste in original forms.  She often 
paints, too, and there is not the slightest trace of hallucination in the 
landscape she produces.  Another occupation in which she finds much pleasure 
is in preparing the daily menu for her table.  She insist invariable or having 
two kinds of soup served for her.  It is sad to learn, however, that of her 
complete recovery there is no chance. She may live for many years, but the 
doctors – and she has had the best advice Europe can afford – hold out no hope 
of her mind ever being restored to its normal condition. 

A CREW THAT COUNTED
	Leroy, who, though he expresses the opinion that “the nature of the 
soul of animals is unimportant” was an excellent observer, mentions a case in 
which a man was anxious to shock a crow.  “To deceive this suspicious bird the 
plan was hit upon of sending two men to the watchhouse, one of whom passes on, 
while the other remained.  But the crow counted and kept her distance.  The 
next day three went, and again, she perceived that only two retired.  In fine, 
it was found necessary to send five or six men to the watchhouse to put her 
out in her calculation.  The crow thinking that this number of men had passed 
out lost no time in returning.”  From this he inferred that crows could count 
up to four.  Lichtenberg mentions a nightingale which was said to count up to 
three.  Every day he gave it three mealworms, one at a time; when it had 
finished one it returned for another, but after the third it knew that the 
feast was over.

FIXING THE LINE
	“My dear sir, it is current that you are a veritable slave to your 
wife.  Now, a man should have some independence, he should fix the line 
somewhere.”
	“I know it; I fixed it last night,” was the doleful response.
	“You did, eh?  Glad to hear it.”
	“Yes, I fixed it.  It was from the back stoop to the henhouse, and 
contains yesterday’s washing.”  - [Binghamton Republican]

AN UNCERTAIN OUTLOOK
	“What makes you look so downcast, my dear boy; something troubling 
you?”
	“Haven’t you heard?” asked the dear boy brokenly.
	“I have heard nothing.”
	“This is my wedding day.”

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