Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News May 20, 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 May 7, 2006, 7:40 pm The Lamar News May 20, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, MAY 20, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 29 ONE STAR – Poem – [Anna M. Carpenter in Cassell] MEEK LITTLE SIMEON MIX – Short Story – [Ed. Mett in the Journalist] AN ANECDOTE OF WEBSTER Webster liked a good story even if he was the hero of it. He delighted to relate that while going in a stage from Concord, N. H., to his home on a certain occasion he had for a traveling companion a very old man. The old gentleman lived at Salisbury, and as Captain Webster – Daniel’s father – had been quite popular thereabouts. Daniel asked if he had ever known him. “Indeed I did.” Said the antiquarian, “and the Captain was a good and brave man, and grandly did he fight at Bennington with General Stark,” continued the old gentleman. “Did he leave any children!” asked the great statesman. “Oh, yes’’ there was Ezekiel and I think, Daniel;,” was the simple reply. “What has become of them?” Daniel inquired. “Why, Ezekiel – and he was a powerful man, sire – I’ve heard him plead in court many a time – fell dead while speechifying at Concord. “ “Well,” persisted Webster, “what became of Daniel?” “Daniel – Daniel,” repeated the old man slowly – “Why, Daniel, I believe, is a lawyer about Boston somewhere.” It is perhaps unnecessary to say that Daniel failed to reveal his identity. – [Cleveland Leader] A SUPERFLUOUS FEMALE The surplussage of females in the population of Massachusetts is constantly the cause for annoyance. It was at a juvenile party the other day that a mother noticed her five-year-old daughter had not joined the march to the refreshment room. “Why did you not go in with the other children, my dear?” “Because I could not find any little boy to hold on to,” was the wail of the ingenious unfortunate. – [Lowell Citizen] AN ENGINEER’S STORY – HIS STRANGE PASSENGAR ON A SOUTHERN RAILROAD An Incident of the War in Which a Prominent Confederate Figure Over in Jersey City one day last week, says “Halston” in the New York Times, two or three locomotive engineers sat talking over strange experiences, and this was the story that one of them told: “I was a young man working on a Southern Railroad as a fireman when the war broke out. Before the war was over I got an engine of my own; but before I was regularly promoted the engineer of my train fell sick all of a sudden and I was ordered to take the engine out myself. I shipped a brakeman to do my firing, and started away at 6 o’clock in the morning, pulling one passenger and half a dozen freight cars. There wasn’t any fighting along my line, but there was a deal of bad feeling everywhere, and lots of lawless deeds were being committed. The track on this road had been torn up in two places only a week before, and there was a good bit of talk about trainwreckers and the like. At bout 8 o’clock at a way station I got a telegram from headquarters to drop all my cars and hurry right on to the end of the line with only my locomotive and tender. It was a queer order, but I knew that it was official and I made ready to obey orders, when a little man with a brown slouch hat, who did not look as if weighted over a hundred pounds, climber up into the cab and said to me that he wished I would let him ride in there with me, he was so anxious to go forward as far as he could. I told him that my orders were to let nobody ride, and explained that I didn’t think I could let him. Go. “Don’t you expect me?” he asked. I told him I didn’t. “It will be all right,” he insisted, but when I asked him what was his name and what was his business he couldn’t be induced to tell me. “Then it’s all up” said I, “I’ll go right along without you.” Then he suggested that he was willing to pay me well for letting him remain aboard, but I wasn’t taking any chances, and I told him so. I was only waiting till my fireman attended to some business that he had gone down the track about, and then I was going to shoot ahead and leave everybody behind. You ought to have seen the sparks in that little man’s eye. “You needn’t wait for your fireman. I’ll do his work. Go ahead!” I looked at himl wondering whether or not he was crazy, when he calmly took out a shiny pistol and tapped gently on one of the brass rods of the cab seat, and he repeated once more, “Go ahead!” I was knocked clean out. What could the stranger mean? That sparkle in his eye grew brighter and brighter, and seed fairly to dance like a diamond under the sun. “Do you understand?” he inquired in the quiet tone that pierced me like a bullet. “Go ahead, I say.” I went ahead. On, on, and on we dashed, through the fields and forests and by the villages, stopping nowhere, my passenger – I felt that he was a madman – keeping a close watch on me all the while. I was scared. That pistol was till in his hand, and like the little hand of a watch its rut-a-tat-tat on the brass rod kept counting off the seconds and the minutes till I grew almost crazy myself. I was rattled. As sort of film kept coming before my eyes. He said not one word, but I felt that his searching gaze was on me all the while. And finally I could stand it no more. There was a rush of blood to my head, I staggered and fell – with the town I was bound for just in sight. What I remember next was a buzz of voices over me as I lay in a doctor’s office. Aside from a nervous shock I had suffered nothing. My engine had brought me into town all right, and had come to a halt at the station as gently and nimbly as nay old family horse. The man who had rode down with me had known enough to govern her, but he had waited at the depot after arriving lonely long enough to tell a bystander that I was in need of help in on the engine’s floor. A week after I learned the reason for the strange order that had been given me to hurry on with my locomotive and no cars, and I learned too the name and the mission of my passenger. A telegraph operator had blundered. My dispatch should have read: “Take on little man with brown slouch hat; drop all cars and rush forward with no stops.” The operator had carelessly left off the first phrase about ‘the little man with brown slouch hat,” and given me only the last part of the order. The man? He was Alexander H. Stephens, and he had important war information – information that he had been willing to trust to nobody else. He apologized to me afterward for his strange actions, but he said he felt that only in such a way could he ever manage to make me go on, for he didn’t know what the real text of my orders was and he was afraid to ask for fear that he might find me either unfriendly or untrustworthy. Those were days when everybody was suspected, you know.” HOW SOME ARTISTS LIVE One can live cheaply or the reverse in New York, as Leande Richardson shows. He relates the fact that many unmarried artists have rooms opening out of their studios making arrangements for the sweeping, washing and all that sort of thing with the janitors of the buildings in which their quarters are situated. The milkman comes in the morning and leaves his little bottle of the best milk, the baker comes around with the muffins and the janitor’s boy runs out to get the other supplies for the day. When the man in the house is ready for his breakfast, he simply goes and cooks it, and there isn’t anybody to find fault with for making the coffee too strong or doing the steak too much. One of the profession who makes a large income was found immersed in the duties of the kitchen, and apparently enjoying himself. He was covered over with a large white apron, and his sleeves were rolled up above his elbows displaying a pair of brawny and well-shaped arms, while in his mouth was the regulation artist’s black pipe. At that particular instant he was finishing up the luncheon, which a few minutes later the party sat down to demolish. It was a very nice affair, consisting of consommé in cups, broiled oysters, a tender fillet of beef, black coffee, cheese and hard crackers. At Delmonico’s it would have cost $2 or $3. In the artist’s little suite of rooms the total outlay was less than fifty cents, and the host, who has a genuine liking for the preparation of eatables, enjoyed the pleasure of doing the cooking beside. Richardson says further: I was surprised to hear my artistic friend tell the other day how many people of high and low degree live in this way in New York. He declared that three out of five of the painters carried on this existence in a more or less modified form, some of them keeping a servant to run errands and do the menial part of the housekeeping, while many others did it all themselves. Some of them have elaborately gotten up flats in which they live in great style, but the bulk of them carry on their existence in sets of rooms opening out of their studios. That, however, is not a fair example of the bohemian sort of thing at tits best in New York. Eben Plympton, the actor, used to run a pleasant little flat down in Twenty-Ninth Street, where he delighted in inviting his friends and treating them to luncheons, dinners or suppers of his own preparation. I never could being myself to think Eben a good actor, but they do say he is a first class cook, and perhaps that is the direction in which his genius lies. At any rate, his rooms were their resort of lots of people who know what good eating is, and who always appeared to be very glad, indeed, to have an invitation to a feast made ready by their host himself. Hillary Bell, a well-known painter who diversifies his professional career by writing a portion of the time for newspapers and magazines, also lives by himself, doing all his own cooking and oftentimes entertaining his friends. He was telling me the other day how in the early days of his career, when he used to be sometimes hard up for money, he found he could live in really excellent style upon this system at a total outlay of about $3 a week – this amount, of course, veering only the cost of the raw materials and not including rent. So it will be seen that a man who enjoys puttering around at cooking and all that kind of thing may combine thorough pleasure with complete economy. TOOMB’S ESCAPE On the day after the last Confederate Council, which was held in Washington, Ga., that section of the country was overrun by Federal troops in pursuit of the fugitives. A federal cavalry officer dismounted at the door of General Toombs’ mansion, and was met upon the doorstep by the general himself, whom he didn’t happen to know personally. “Is General Toombs at home?” inquired the stranger. “He is. Take a seat and I will go and tell him.” Making his escape thus out of the room, General Toombs told his wife to go in and entertain the officer, and to gain him as much time as possible for escape. Mounting a horse, which was kept constantly saddled for the purpose, rode away, and after a trip marvelous for its incidents both on land and on sea, he gained the shored of England. – Atlanta Constitution] THE WONDERFUL WEAVER – Poem HUMOROUS The Springtime of life – When you discover a bent pin under you. Can a man be called a temperance man of long standing who wears tight shoes? “Struck down” as the barber said when he shaved the fist crop of fuzz from a youth’s chin. A soft answer turns away no wrath from a girl when she is serious on the popping question and means business. The wealth of our language is shown by the fact that “hang it up” and “chalk it down” mean precisely the same thing. Playwright – Do you think my new tragedy will survive a first performance? Critic – Your tragedy –may be; the spectators – hardly. It is said that a person who eats onions will keep a secret. But such a person cannot keep secret the fact that he has been eating onions. Uncle George – “And so you go to school now, Johnny? What part of the exercises do you like best?” Johnny – “The exercises we get at recess.” “Yes, gentlemen,” said the barber, “we are standing on free soil.” “No, you’re not” said the shoemaker, “you are standing in shoes not paid for.” There in not so much difference between a restaurant and a cattle barn as one would at first suppose. The former has many tables, and the latter has its stables too. Farmers are pouring into Western Texas so fast that ranchmen have just time enough to move their cattle out and prevent their tails being chopped off by the advancing hoe. A school board recently asked the following question of a little girl: “What is the plural of man?” “Men” “Very well; and what is the plural of child?” “Twins” immediately replied the little girl. During a recent cyclone in the West “a church was lifted to a height of thirty feet.” The members of the congregation were deeply chagrined when they saw their edifice become a high church so suddenly. “Oh, Mamma, you’d be surprised to know how dumb Bessie Barton is! She took me into what she said was the apiary. What do you think I saw there!” “I don’t know dear” “Why nothing but a lot of beehives. There were no apes there; not even a monkey.” GREEK BURIAL CUSTOMS A correspondent at Athens gives an account of many curious burial customs peculiar to Greece which lately came under his notice. A piece of linen as wide as the body, and twice as long, was doubled, and a hole large enough for the head cut out of it. In this the body was wrapped and then dressed in new clothes, and more especially new shoes. Beneath the head was placed a pillow full of lemon leaves. In the mouth was put a bund of violets and around the temples a chaplet flowers. These are used only for the unmarried, and must be white. Both head and feet were tied with bands made for the purpose, which were unloosed at the edge of the grave when the coffin was about to be closed. A small coin (a relic of the fee to the ferryman) was placed in the palm of the hand. At Athens a sou is dropped into the coffin. The greatest attention is given to this point. In removing the body the feet always go first. A priest came on three successive days to sprinkle the room, fumigate it and repeat certain prayers, as for that period after death it was supposed to be haunted. After burial women are hired to keep a light burning over the grave until the body is supposed to be decomposed. To assist this, the bottom of modern Greek coffins is of lattice work. Every Saturday the poor of Athens place on the graves of their friends eatables of the sort they used to like. – [Sunbeams] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MAY 20, 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 30.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE – For State Senator, 12th Senatorial District. Hon GEO. C. ALMON, of Franklin. THE SENATORAL CONVENTION – [Marion County Herald] By virtue of a regular call of the Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of 12th Senatorial District of Alabama, the said convention met in the court house in the town of Hamilton, Marion County, on the 12th day of May, 1889, and was called to order by Judge JOHN A. POPE, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and W. H. KEY was requested to act as secretary. The following names were enrolled as delegates from the various counties, to wit: FAYETE COUNTY J. J. RAY, A. A. WALDEN, DANIEL COLLIER, L. B. SHELTON, W. P. MUSGROVE, T. E. GOODWIN, JOHN ERVIN, and R. F. PETER FRANKLIN COUNTY W. P. JACK, W. M. SMITH, JAS. M. THORN, W. I. BULLOCK, J. B. STEADHAM, H. C. SARGENT, J. W. NANCE, and T. S. JONES. LAMAR COUNTY J. S. TOMLIN, G. W RUSH, W. A BROWN, D. J. LACY, T. B. NESMITH, J. H. REAL, R. N. WALDROP, W. M. STONE, J. B. ABERNATHY, and W. W. OGDEN. MARION COUNTY J. M. GAST, J. P. FORD, R. S. BOTTOMS, W. J. MARTIN and G. N. STOKES On motion the Chair appointed the following committee of four, one from each county, on credentials: W. I. BULLOCK, A. A. WALDEN, J. S. TOMLIN and J. M. GAST, who presented the following report: We the undersigned committee on credentials beg leave to report that the credentials of the delegates from Lamar, Marion, and Franklin and are correct. W. I. BULLOCK, Chairman A. A. WALDEN J. S. TOMLIN, J. M. GAST We the undersigned beg leave to submit the following report: We are unwilling to receive the delegation from Fayette County, and report their credentials insufficient for the following reasons, to wit: 1st, Because the notice of the mass meeting to select delegates was only published one time before the holding thereof; 2nd, Because the people of Fayette County did not have a full, fair, and free choice of her delegates to this convention by reason of the hasty call of the aforesaid mass meeting: 3rd, Because Fayette County’s candidate for Senatorial honors was the Chairman of the mass meeting aforesaid, and appointed, as we are advised, his own relatives to select delegates to this convention which we consider unfair and unjust to other aspirants. We do not think that any delegate should be admitted to seats in this convention who were elected without proper notice of the time and place that they would be selected, and we submit the matter to the candid consideration of this convention. W. I. BULLOCK J. M. GAST We the undersigned delegates of this committee approve the report of the Fayette delegate and consign the members of said county to seats in this Senatorial convention. We infer from the report of the delegate from Fayette that the delegation were duly elected by the democratic party of said county, assembled in convention on April 10th, 1886. A. A. WALDEN J. S. TOMLIN The motion to enroll the delegates from the three counties reported favorably was finally carried, after which the delegations from Fayette and Lamar withdrew from the convention. On motion J. B. STEADHAM was elected permanent chairman, and W. H. KEY was elected permanent secretary. On motion the convention proceeded to nominate a candidate for Senator from the 12th Senatorial District. GEO. C. ALLMON was put in nomination. There being no other candidates put in nomination. G. C. ALMON was unanimously declared the nominee of the convention and the Democratic Candidate for State Senator in the 12th Senatorial District. A committee of three was appointed to wait on Mr. ALMON and notify him of his nomination. Mr. ALMON was presented to the convention and made a patriotic speech accepting the nomination. Hon. W. I.BULLOCK, COL. W. P. JACK and M. J. W. NANCE made speeches complimentary to Mr. Almon and honorable to themselves. On motion the chairman of the various Democratic Executive Committees of the four counties of Fayette, Franklin, Lamar and Marion were a Democratic Executive Committee of the 12th Senatorial District, with the chairman of the Marion County Democratic Executive Committee as Chairman of said Senatorial Committee. After resolution of thanks the convention adjourned sine die. J. B. STEADMAN, Chairman W. H. KEY, Secretary The church must take right ground in regard politics. The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics, or the Lord will curse them. They must be honest men themselves, and instead of voting for a man because he belongs to their party, bank or Anti-Bank, Jackson or Anti-Jackson, they must find out whether he is honest and upright, and fit to be trusted. They must let the world see that the church upholds no one in office who is known to be a knave, or an adulterer, or a Sabbath- breaker, or a gambler, or a drunkard. Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differentive, or God will curse the nation, and withdraw His spirit,. God cannot sustain this free and blessed country which we love and pray for, unless the church will take right ground. Politics are a part of religion in such a country as this and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty to God. It seems sometimes as if the foundations of the nation were rotten, and Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not know what they do in politics. But I tell you, he does see it, and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they take. President Finny, of Oberlin College, O, the Great Revivalist, in 1835. THE FAYETE JOURNAL The Fayette Journal disregarding our frequent admonitions to be consistent and work for unity and harmony in the Democratic ranks, ahs in its zeal for M. SANFORD, gotten astraddle of a very high fence that separates bolters from organizers; and is casting longing looks at SANFORD and making faces at older men whom the Journal terms bolters. The last issue of the Journal is full of richness. In the first place all account of the Senatorial convention is pretendedly given, which follows the minutes of the regular convention down to the bolting and stops abruptly in this style “&c”. Then follows the proceedings of the bolters. Now what is meant by such a publication as that? Simply, the Journal readers are sought to be made believe that this is the minutes of the regular convention. Again, the Journal uses this extraordinary language: “Hon. JOHN J. B. SANFORD, our nominee for the Senate, is just now in the prime of a splendid mental and physical manhood, and will take high rank in the Senate.” Now who gave the Journal authority to nominate Mr. Sanford as the Democratic candidate for Senator? And when is Mr. Sanford going to represent this district in the State Senate? Not this time foe the fact of two thousand votes. Again the Journal calls the attention of the bolters of the Hamilton convention to a card Mr. Sanford publishes in the Journal, in which he says that the convention was very “unsatisfactory and inharmonious”. This doubtless depends on the preferences of the person. To more than half the voters of Lamar County it is very satisfactory; but to Mr. Sanford and his henchmen it is doubtless not as they wished. Now who bolted and disorganized the party? Not Franklin and Marion, for the convention was called to order by the Chairman of the Ex. Committee and remained in session until the entire business of the Convention was transacted. Lamar and Fayette left the deliberations of that convention and after the adjournment of the same sine die when the term of office of each delegate had expired proceeded to disorganize and get up this revolt. Why didn’t Fayette and Lamar remain in the convention? The answer is short. They expected things to be unearthed that would forever silence their claims as to the pretended justness of their cause. Now Bro, when you get tired of estimating the vote of your nominee on first Monday in August, just give us something more about that “mass meeting.” Mr. W. S. FORD announces that he will be a candidate before the State Convention for Superintendent of Education. He opposes the employment of Republicans and Independents as clerks by Democratic officials, and proposes to make that issue with the present superintendent. Mr. Ford is a citizen of Marion County, is in every way capable of discharging the duties of the office he seeks, and he should have the support of his home folks. – [Tuskegee News] Chancellor THOS COBBS arrived Saturday night and opened Chancery court here yesterday. He is in fine trim and looks cheerful and happy. He has filled his office so faithfully and well that no one else has been even mentioned as a contestant with him for the place at the coming election. – [Eutaw Mirror] FACTS ABOUT NEWSPAPERISM By some unaccountable misapprehension of facts there is a large class of people in the world who think that it cost little or nothing to run a newspaper, and if they buy a copy occasionally they are regular patrons and entitled to unlimited favors. Men ask for a copy of a newspaper for nothing, who would never dream of begging a pocket handkerchief from a dry goods store, or a piece of candy from a confectioner, even on the plea of having done business with them once before. One paper is not much, but thirty or forty at each issue will amount to something in the course of time. But this is a small drain compared with the free advertising a newspaper is expected to do. Some people when they once pay for an advertisement think they are stockholders in the establishment for eternity. Without being represented in the advertising columns we have had people requesting us to gratuitously insert this notice or draw attention to that article with the slightest suggestion that it “will cost you anything to put his in,” which is just a s ridiculous as to ask a man to grind your ax on his grindstone, and graciously tell him it won’t cost him a cent. It takes money to run a newspaper as well as nay other business; no paper can succeed financially that carries a dead head system. Any mention of people’s affairs that they are anxious to see in print is worth paying for a, and when printed is generally worth as much as any other investment of the same amount. The newspaper business is very exacting on all connected with it, the pay is comparatively small; the proprietors risk more money for smaller profits, and the editors, and printers work harder and cheaper for the same number of men in any other profession requiring the given amount of intelligence, training, and drudgery. The life has its charms and pleasant associations, scarcely known to the outside world; but it has its earnest work and anxieties, hours of exhaustion, which are also not known to those who think the business all fun. The idea that newspaperdom is a charmed circle; where the favored members live a life of ease, and free from care, and go to the circus at night on a free ticket, and to the beach on free passes in the summer, is an idea which should be exploded. Business is business, and the journal that succeeds is one that is run on a square business footing, the same as banking, building bridges, or keeping a hotel. THE STATE FAIR – [Montgomery Advertiser] The premium list of the Alabama State Fair, to be held in this city beginning November 8th and continuing one week, has been published. The amount offered ought to bring large competition in every department, and no doubt will. This Fair, let it be remembered is under the auspices of the State Agricultural Society with Col. J. S. Newman, professor of Agriculture, in the A. & M. College, as President. Well known farmers are at the head of every department and they are doing all they can to get up such an interest, as it will make this affair a notable event in the history of Alabama. This State can produce everything needed for the comfort of mankind. Sheep could be raised in such quantities as to furnish all the wool needed to clothe a population quadruple that of ours. Cattle, horses, and hogs can be raised in numbers to meet all demands and keep every dollar spent on that account here at home. Oats, corn and wheat grow well in our state, and there is no necessity for a bushel of either being bought outside the state. The truth is our people do not appreciate the great blessings they enjoy. They have had misfortunes, it is true, and many of them, but there is a fortune in the old adage “pick your flint and try it again.” Don’t give up and talk about going to Texas or some other country because the cotton crop is cut short and the price is low. It will be the same way there. Make a sure thing of the necessities of life so that you can be independent in case your cotton crop does not turn out as well as expected. Don’t stake all on that one crop. The coming Fair offers a fine field for the farmers and stock raisers to show what they are doing. The premiums offered are liberal, especially in the matter of field crops. Those who want copies of the premium list can be supplied by writing to the secretary, Wm. A. Davis, of this city. Regular old time political discussions are to be employed by the Georgians. It seems to be the settled fact now that the contest for gubernatorial nomination is narrowed down to Gordon and Bacon. The latter proposes joint discussion throughout the state and as the proposition seems in line with one made by General Gordon, the empire state is likely to have some addition to the usual summer temperature. It will be something like the canvass of Illinois between Douglass and Lincoln and will attract crowds of hearers in every part of the state. It may end in their appealing directly to the people as in the last famous canvass between Colquitt and Norwood. – [Ex.] The Georgia evangelists, Sam P. Jones and Sam Small, are at present wrestling with Satan and his votaries in Baltimore, Md. The Baltimore American gives the following sensible advise to them: “Those who need to be touched to the quick are within the churches, sometimes even vestrymen, pewholders and communicants. Their needs after all the greater, because they are not aware of them. Panloplied in self- righteousness, padded with a complacent sense of their own virtues, they are impervious to the thrusts of compunction, proof against the upbraidings of conscience, dead to all the elevations of holiness, knowing not the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding. They make religion a routine, a respectability, while their hearts are worldliness, pride and pleasure. They are far, far away from God. O, Brother Jones, smith through the armour of their selfishness and complacency and show them what they are! Reveal to them the wretched things that they really are, and thus through the gates of penitence lead them back into the field of God.” THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL now under the Principalship of JNO. R. GUIN, will open Nov. 2, 1885, and continue ten scholastic months. Able assistants will be employed when needed. Said school offers great advantages. Tuition as follows: Primary: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25 Intermediate: Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Higher Reading, English, Composition, and U. S. History, per month………..$2.00 High School: Embracing Botany, Physiology, Elementary Algebra, Physical Geography, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy, Elocution, and Latin, per month……..$3.00 A reasonable incidental fee will be charged. Board can be had at $7 per month. Tuition accounts are due at the end of every two months. For further particulars, address. - JNO. R. GUIN, Principal, Fernbank, Ala. – October 28, 1885. AGENTS WANTED – for Rev. Sam P. Jones Sermons – There never was such a book before, and never will be again. Something new and startling. First you laugh fit to kill yourself, nest you set up a deal of thinking, then you get mighty solemn. The most extraordinary book of sermons ever published. As delivered in Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta Augusta, Waco, Memphis, Nashville, &c, &c. Strikingly illustrated with best portrait of Sam Jones ever engraved, and over sixty interesting character sketches. The Only Authentic Edition. Only full reports yet printed. Do not 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 clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. 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. 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. 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. 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). PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MAY 20, 1886 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy, six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge JAMES MIDDLETON Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. 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 Cheerfulness is a good tonic. The best restorative is hope. No, it wasn’t dynamite! Let us bear with one another. Very little sickness in town. Fast grows the springing grain. Our farmers report most flattering prospect for good crops. The firm of RUSH & CO., have moved back into the BURNS house. Subscriber for the News now if you want all the election news. Thanks to Senator J. L. PUGH and Congressman J. M. MARTIN for Congressional Literature. Rev. L. M. WIMBERLEY has just returned from a visit to Fayette C. H. The wash-hole has already been disturbed by the promising little boy. Keep you temper – everybody else have enough at present. The soft folds of the pure white dresses make “assurance double sure” that warm weather has come. The High School has been opened again and will continue to the close of the session. The lovely rain Tuesday night has had very beneficent effects on growing crops; and it is hoped that it will cool off the political atmosphere. A large party of our townsmen are camping at Fayette LOYD’S Mill on Buttahatchie this week, fishing and hunting. Notice is called to Tax Collector LACY’S delinquent landsale at the courthouse on Monday 7th June. The health of the citizens of our town and county is reported to be very good. Keep cool if you can, if you can’t go down to RUSH & COS and buy the best fly fan in the world. It will fan folks and scare off the flies. James T. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala,…(can’t read) Subscribe for the old reliable NEWS. No preaching in town last Sunday. What’s the matter? An agent with a new cotton scraper is in town. Vernon has quite an improvement boom despite the political wrangles. The ALMON and SANDFORD fights have opened. Mrs. TOMLIN and children have returned from Fayette C. H. We are glad to learn that DR. GREEN SPRINGFIELD who ahs been seriously sick is much better. Mr. R. A. TRIM of Wayside gave us a pleasant call yesterday and left two subscriptions to the News. Dr. W. L. MORTON has just returned from Montgomery where he attended the Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F. Col. NESMITH is off to Walker County’s Circuit Court. Mr. ALLEND JORDAN paid us a pleasant visit and ordered another subscription to the News. (TORN) Miss KELIE HARRINGTON has returned home after spending several days in town visiting relatives, Mrs. GUYTON and family. Mr. W. Y. ALLEN paid us a pleasant call yesterday and ordered the News sent Dr. W. A. ALLEN, Grand Saline, Texas. Married: Mr. JAMES W. THOMAS and Miss LUCY A. CHANDLER at M A. CHANDLER on the 16th, by ALEX COBB Judge of Probate. Messrs JOEL SANDERS & BROS have just built a splendid bridge across the slough between Vernon and their mill. Why does the Journal disclaim the bolting of the Fayette delegation? Those fair propositions you hear of that were made at the Senatorial convention were made by the gentleman from Fayette after he was fairly and squarely beaten, and had nothing to give away – wonderful fair to be sure! “A Boom For Vernon” On Tuesday the press and material for the new paper in Vernon arrived from Fayette C. H. Said paper will make its appearance it is said, about the first of June. It is to be edited and published by A. A. WALL, who three or four years ago published The Vernon Clipper but more recently the Marion Herald. We will be much pleased and agreeably surprised if Lamar supports two newspapers. We are aggrieved at the feeling the communication entitled “True Democracy” has created throughout the county. Lamar delegates do not deny having bolted the convention in Hamilton. The question is, was it a shame to the Democracy of this county? The delegation was made up of some of our best and most highly respected citizens and whether or not they had a just cause to bolt the convention is the question. The voters of Lamar Count whose voices were smothered by dark and devious ways at the county convention are to be congratulated on the happy turn of arrears at Hamilton. Te voice of voters is sometimes thwarted, but right will come out the victor at last. Ad for Francis Catarrh LODGE OF OLD FELLOWS OF ALABAMA – [Montgomery Dispatch] The Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Alabama met yesterday forenoon for a short session, but adjourned soon to let the encampment branch of the order meet. The Grand Encampment then transacted the annual business. Reports were read showing the condition of the Grand Encampment to be better than at any time during the past twenty years. The following grand officers were elected and installed for the year. Robert West, of Montgomery – Grand Patriarch A. E. COUPEC, of Montgomery, Grand High Priest. E. ERSWELL, of Birmingham – Grand Senior Warden. A. D. DOREN, of Montgomery – Grand Junior Warden L. R. MCKEE, of Montgomery – Grand Scribe and Treasurer The Encampment adjourned sine die to meet at Mobile nest year. The Grand Lodge met yesterday afternoon. Received reports of committees, one of which was on the proposition to build a Grand Lodge Hall – bonds to be issued. The committee reported it in expedient at present, it requiring an act of the legislature authorizing the issuance of said bonds. Nominations for grand officers for the next year resulted as follows: Grand Master – H. C. WEAVERS, Huntsville, Ala. Deputy Grand Master, GEO. R. WARD, Birmingham, Ala Grand Wardens, J. S. CARUTHERS, Mobile, J. B. ANDERSON, Uniontown, ALFRED MOORE, Huntsville. Grand Secretary, W. A. SHIELDS, Mobile. Grand Treasurer, R. H. ISBELL, Talladega. Grand Representative – OLIVER J. SEMMES, mobile; LEE R. MCKEE, Montgomery; R. B. MOSELY, Talladega. The Grand Lodge adjourned towards evening to accept an invitation of the Montgomery Lodge No. 6, to the Ladies’ Baptist Aid Society entertainment at the city hall where a most pleasant evening was spent. The Grand lodge will resume its work today, install the new officers elected, and will adjourn sine die this evening. OVER THE STATE The poles for the electric lights are now being erected in Selma. The farmers of South Alabama are complaining of poor stands of cotton. The population of Edwardville is said to be rapidly increasing. Mr. C. H. Allen of the Gainsville Messenger, ahs been made town Marshal of Gainsville. The merchants of Montgomery have subscribed $17,250 towards extending the Montgomery Southern Railroad. It is rumored that a Mormon elder was drowned in Shelby County by a mob. The freight handlers, on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, at Mobile, are on a strike. A young man named Cullen was cowhided by a young lady on the streets of Mobile one day last week for grossly insulting her. Mr. James Tuggle shot and accidentally killed his son while out deer hunting near Jasper one day last week. Chicago, Ill, is the blissful retreat for every incarnate devil under the sun. No wonder it is styled the American Babylon. The French minister has called on his government, requesting instruction with regard to his future course in dealing with the Grecian imbroglio. A Birmingham vacant lot, 20th St. and 1st Ave, 50 x 100 feet sold the other day for $35,000 or $700 a front foot. Montgomery Capital: everybody seems to be on the strike except farmers and editors. They will continue to work 16 hours a day. The Mobile Register says things are getting lively in our Alabama Democratic Camp. Bolting is getting to be fashionable. The dark horse in the fight for governor still has a living chance, but it looks as if Dawson will spare him the privilege of exercising it. – [Montgomery Dispatch] Chicago, May 12 – The idle strikers in the southwestern lumber district, about 10,000 are beginning to feel sorely pressed for want of cash. Their small resources are apparently nearly exhausted and the present situation gives little prospect of anything but starvation ahead. There is a shaft in a Chicago cemetery erected by a widow over her husband’s grave which cost about $450, and which the poor woman is gradually paying for out of her earnings at the washtub. The Florence State Normal Institute under the management of the state superintendent of education and Prof T. J. Mitchell will open in the Normal School building Monday 31st, 1886, and continue three weeks. Three men in Alabama are sure of renominations, viz, Chancellors Foster, Cobbs, and McSpadden. They have given entire satisfaction, and are unopposed. The chancery conventions will merely ratify the choice of the people already expressed The great Southern Baptist convention has met and adjourned and its several hundred of distinguished delegates left uttering words of highest praise for the coming city of the south. Mr. Cobb who lives at Coulifinee in Cleburne County, has preserved a biscuit that was cooked at the second battle of Manassas, during the civil war. He was wounded in that battle, obtained a furlough and on getting home found the biscuit in his haver sack and conceived the idea of preserving it as a relic, and has had it in his possession ever since. It is kept dry and become almost as hard as stone. – [Anniston Watchman] ITEMS OF INTEREST It has cost Canada $4,129,237 put down the Riel rebellion. Grand Master Workman Powderly continues to strike for strikers. The Rev. Sam Jones has agreed to go to Boston – how will his plain talk fall on the ears of cultchaw? India’s national debt is $1,000,000. England is now paying $205,000 for repairs from dynamite attacks. Indians comprise thirty-five percent of the population of Mexico. Statistics show that women have a majority in Europe of 4,579,000. The commandments of the Holy Bible furnish the foundation for all stability of society, for all protection of property, for all human happiness. Science illustrates revelation – the footprints of God are upon the woodland paths and by the sequestered streams where man has scarcely trod. London papers attribute our riots – notably the terrible scenes in Chicago and Detroit – to America’s encouragement to the scum of Europe, or her endeavor to make citizens of the same. Congressman James A. Loutitt, of the 2nd California district, boasts that he was born in a stable in New Orleans and was brought up in a blacksmith shop and was educated in a common school. He is now a lawyer. 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. We are authorized to announce JASON H. SHAW a candidate to represent Lamar County in the next General Assembly of Alabama. Election in August, 1886. 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 We are authorized t to announce Dr. B. F. REED a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County. Election next August. To the voters of Lamar County: I take this method of informing you that I am a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court at the approaching August election. Soliciting a liberal share of your votes, I am yours, obt. R. N. WALDROP 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. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W. M. M. W. MORTON, Sec. Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ pm each month. - W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G. - M. W. MORTON, Sect’y Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company – Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a commission issue to us by the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama, we will open books of subscription to the capital stock of the Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company at the court house of the county of Lamar, Alabama, at Vernon on Friday, the 28th day of May, 1886, at 2 o’clock pm. JOHN A GRANT, WM. A. WALKER, M. A. PORTER, Board of Cooperators. State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, April 1st, 1886 In the matter of the estate of Joel B. GIBSON, decease, it appearing to the Court upon the examination of the proof and papers submitted, that said estate is insolvent. It is therefore ordered by the Court that Thos. B. NESMITH, Administrator of said estate, file his amount, vouchers and evidence, and that he make settlement of his administration on the 31st day of May next, when and where all parties interested can contest the same if they think proper. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate TAX NOTICE The State of Alabama, Lamar County I, D. J. LACY, tax collector of said county will make application to the Probate Court to be held first Monday in June 1886, for an order to sell the lands mentioned below or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the taxes, penalties and cost for the year 1885. Henson Springs Beat – THOMAS BANNISTER Millville Beat – J. B. WILDER & CO - CAROLINA PRICE Pine Springs Beat – T. A. THURLKILL Trull’s Beat – J. L. JONES D. J. LACY, T. C. TAX SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County By virtue of Decree rendered on the 3rd day of May, 1886, by the Court of Probate for said county, I will offer for sale at the court house door of said county on third day of June, 1886, the following lands to wire: se qu of sw qr sec 19 T 11 R 14. Tax and cost (fees…..) Said lands or so much thereof as will be necessary to pay the above tax and cost will be sold on the 7th June, 1886. D. J. LACY, T. C. Ad for Chicago Scale Co. Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans Ad for Wetherill Lead Paint Ad for Avery Sewing Machine Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Collins Ague Cure PAGE 4 HUMBLE BUT USEFUL – A SHORT SKETCH OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE MATCH How Matches Stand in the World As a Factor Of Economy In his address at the opening session of the British Association, Prof. Lyon Playfain, M. P., the president, said: “Let me take a single example of how even a petty manufacture, improved by the teachings of science, affects the comforts and enlarges the resources of mankind. When I was a boy the only way of obtaining a light was by the tinder-box, with its quadruple materials, flint and steel, burnt rags or tinder, and a sulphur match. If everything went well, if the box could be found, and the air was dry, a light could be obtained in two minutes; but very often the time occupied was much longer, and the process became a great trial to the serenity of the temper. The consequence of this was that a fire or burning lamp was kept alight through the day. Old Gerard, in his herbal, tells us how certain fungi were used to carry fire from one part of the country to the other. The tinder box long held its position as a great discovery in the arts. The pyrxidicula igniaria of the Romans appears to have been much the same implement, though a little ruder than the flint and steel which Philip the Good put into the collar of the Golden Fleece, in 1429, as the representative of high knowledge in the progress of the arts. It continued to prevail till 1833, when phosphorus matches were introduced, though I have been amused to find that there are a few venerable ancients in London who will stick to the tinder-box, and for whom a few shops keep a small supply. Phosphorus was no new discovery, for it had been obtained by an Arabian called Beechtel in the eighth century. However, it was forgotten, and it was rediscovered by Brandt, who made it out of very stinking materials, in 1669. Other discoveries had, however, to be made before it could be used for Lucifer matches. The science of combustion was only developed on the discovery of oxygen a century later. Time had to elapse before chemical analysis showed the kind of bodies which could be added to phosphorus to make it ignite readily. So it was not till 1883 that matches became a partial success. Intolerable they then were, dangerously inflammable, horribly poisonous to the makers, and injurious to the lungs of consumers. It required another discovery by Schrotter in 1845, to change poisonous wax into innocuous red brick phosphorus in order that these defects might be remedied and to give us the safety match of the present day. Now what have these successive discoveries in science done for the nation in this single manufacture by an economy of time! If, before 1833, we had made the same demand for light that we now do when we daily consume eight matches per head of the population, the tinder-box could have supplied the demand under the most favorable conditions y an expenditure of one quarter of an hour. The Lucifer match supplies a light in fifteen seconds on each occasion, or in two minutes for the whole day. Putting these differences into a year, the venerable lucent who still sticks to his tinder-box would require to spend ninety hours yearly in the production of light, while the user of Lucifer matches spends twelve hours; so that the latter has an economy of seventy-eight hours yearly , or about ten working days. Measured by cost of production at 1 shilling 6 pence daily, the economy of time represented in money to our population is ₤26,000,000 annually. This is a curious instance of the manner in which science leads to economy of time and wealth, even in a small manufacture. GATES AJAR The touching pathos of childhood is shown in the following: The death of a well-known gentleman had called forth many expressions of sympathy from friends, in the way of a profusion of flowers, in beautiful designs. After they had been placed around him as he lay in the casket, his little daughter Alice, of 4 years, was led by her mamma into the room to look upon the face of her dead papa. She was naturally attracted by the flowers, and by the design of “The Gates Ajar.” Her mamma told her that “the beautiful gate” had opened, and papa had passed through and would never come back to them again. The child looked steadily at her papa’s face for a few moments, then climbed up so she could reach over and kiss his cold lips, saying: “Papa, dear, speak to me and say you will come to “the beautiful gate” and meet your little Alice some day.” – {Boston Courier] A JUDGE’S CHARGE Tennessee’s distinguished historian Judge Haywood was once presiding in a case where a woman was being tried for some offence in which the evidence was clearly against her. At the close of the trial the Judge, in giving the case to the jury said: “Gentlemen, you have heard the evidence and you know the law.” Then, after a pause, “There is no punishment a man can inflict upon a woman and still be a man.” The woman was acquitted by the judge without leaving the box. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. “As you love me, let not your tongue give way to slang.” Air and light are among the best medicines known to man. A sneer is often the weak subterfuge of imprudent ignorance. The silent eye is often a more powerful conqueror than the noisy tongue. In your home study refinement and comfort, but study economy also. If a married couple avoid the first quarrel they will never have a second. No success in life can be so desirable that man can afford to sell his integrity for it. The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. Nothing more clearly indicates the true gentleman than a desire evinced to oblige or accommodate. There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before they are spoken – the manner, the place and the time. ‘CHIP’S” LETTER “Chip”, a Chinese house-servant long employed by one family in San Francisco, having accumulated a snug little sum of money, recently determined to pay a visit to his relatives in China. Desiring to correspond with the family during his absence, and not being able to write in the English language, he hit upon the following novel expedient: He applied to a friendly neighbor – a young lady – to write from his dictation, enclose and address a letter to his mistress, he taking the same with him for the purpose of mailing from China. A few days before his departure the lady of the house chanced to go into Chip’s room, and there saw lying upon the table a sealed letter addressed to herself. Thinking its presence there to be an oversight on the part of Chip in not promptly delivering, she opened the letter, and on reading it discovered the true inwardness of the same. Not wishing to have Chip know that she had surprised his little secret, she had a new envelope properly prepared and addressed in close imitation of the original and left the letter where she had found it. The letter graphically described the trip from San Francisco to Hong Kong: It dwelt particularly upon a terrible storm at sea, during which nearly every one was seasick except the writer; Chip’s arrival home was touched upon; the joy of his mother and family was feelingly described; finally the date of his intended return was given and a answer requested. Chip, having secured his certificate, departed hence as arranged, and sure enough, the last China mail brought the wonderful letter from Chip, and, no doubt, when he receives the answer, which was promptly sent, his heart will swell with pride and gratification and his importance among the circle of his acquaintance in his native home be duly increased by his foreign correspondence. – [San Francisco Argonaut} THE CHINESE MINISTER A Washington Letter to the Springfield Republican says: The Chinese Minister is a man of 60, who was a Governor of one of the Provinces in China. After e had made his fortune the Emperor saw that he was getting rich too fast, and, much to his disgust, exiled him here on a salary of $25,000 a year and all expenses paid. For the Chinese Governor is liberal. If a dinner is given at the legation the Government pays for it and the same if he travels or keeps a carriage, while all the expenses of the legation are defrayed from home. When he came the minister let his wives at home, but after a while he had sent over from China a little thing, not more than 18 years old, and she is the only woman at the legation. She is kept very secluded, and only allowed to visit the house of Mr. Bartlett, formerly correspondent of the Republican and now Secretary to the legation. About once a week she is driven over and spends the afternoon with the ladies of his family, but they are not allowed to admit others to see her. Then she trips back to her carriage, if a woman on such little feet could be said to trip, and is not seen out again for another week. I have known ladies who had an idea of the day she would visit Mrs. Bartlett, to spend the whole afternoon in a neighboring window to get a glimpse of her. When the Chinese want to please people they send them some of the finest tea, which comes direct to them, not in the great boxed which you see, but in small cases holding a few pounds. This is the finest tea that ever comes to this country, and those who are lucky enough to receive a package prize it very highly. It is a little stronger than the tea you buy at the stores and so much more fragrant and pleasant to the taste that it hardly seems like the same plant. And I doubt very much whether it is. WHEN HE GETS ROUND Wife – “John, dear, I notice that your brother James never makes a friendly call upon us unless he is intoxicated.” Husband – “No, my dear, he doesn’t. James reminds me of the moon.” Wife – “Reminds you of the moon!” Husband – “Yes, dear. He never gets round till he’s full.” – [Boston Courier] CHILDREN’S COLUMN – “A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING” Ned goes to the circus with grandpa, And sits on a nice cushioned seat, Where he beams upon the performers With a smile confiding and sweet. But after a while he grows restless, And then he softly observes: “If these are preserve seats, grandpa, Why don’t they pass the preserves?” – [Bessie Chandler, in St. Nicholas] A BRAVE DRUMMER BOY In 1861, while on recruiting service in a small town in the central part of Pennsylvania, writes Colonel Norris in the Philadelphia News, a fine- looking, open-faced stout little fellow came up to me one day and asked in a manly but beseeching way if I didn’t want a drummer. “I ain’t big enough for a soldier, but won’t you let me drum for you?” was his anxious question. “Go home and have your mother write me a note that you can go, and I will take you.” I replied. “She can’t write sire” was his response, and as he spoke he hung his head, “but if you will ask her I know she will let me drum for you” and as he raised his head his bright eyes flashed at the thought. Struck by the lad’s earnest manner I went to his humble home, and big tears rolled from his mother’s eyes as she gave her consent, and patting him on the back of the head told him to be a good boy, to be true to his country, love his mother, and fear God. Ho0w proud the little fellow looked when clad in the army blue, and his big drum hung about him. A few months developed the stripling, and he grew stronger and taller. In our first fight I found him with the company at the front instead of the rear, where he ought to have been, and when ordered back I noticed his reluctance to go. A few days afterward he begged permission to renter the ranks and take a gun. “I am big enough to fight, and I ought to,” was his chivalrous remark as a musket was place din his hand. A month afterward the drummer distinguished himself for coolness and daring in the second Battle of Bull Run. In every engagement he displayed the same conspicuous gallantry. Foremost in every charge, among the last to leave the field, the surest and most deliberate shot in the whole company, always neat and tidy with gun and equipments bright and shining, erect, manly and respectful, he was the type of the good soldier. WEEZY’S MOUSE Baby Haynes was so little that he couldn’t drink very well. One morning he spilled his mug of milk all over his bib. “He must have a clean bib,” said Mamma Haynes. “Will you bring me done, Weezy, from my bureau?” “Yes’m” said Weezy, running away in high glee. She was always proud to be sent on errands. Next moment, she came flying back mouth and eyes wide open. “O, mamma, mamma,” Cried she, “there’s a mousie in the drawer! There’s a mousie in the drawer!” “A mouse!” said mamma, quietly. “Well wouldn’t he let my little girl have baby’s bib?’ “O, mamma, mamma! I’m just as scared!” cried Weezy, still hopping up and down. “Afraid of a pretty little mouse? What a silly Weezy!” said mamma. “Didn’t he scamper away as fast as he could?” “No, no mamma! I shut him up tight!” “You did? Oh, then, I think papa must catch the poor little fellow,” said mamma. She put the baby in the cradle and went to call Papa Haynes. Papa seized the tongs, and walked upstairs. Behind him followed mamma, with Weezy clinging to her dress. Behind Weezy tip-toed Phebe, the nurse-girl. Phebe wanted to do something to help, so she brought the mouse- trap. Last of all came Bridget, swinging the rolling-pin. “Open the drawer gently” said papa to mamma. “I’ll try to catch the mouse when he jumps.” Mamma pulled out the drawer a little. Papa stood close by with the tongs, but the mouse didn’t jump. Then mamma pulled out the drawer a little farther. “See, See Papa. There’s the mouse!” cried Weezy, pointing her little finger toward a corner of the drawer. Papa thrust the tongs and drew out – Well, what do you suppose? Why, a wee gray tassel! Mamma must have dropped it off her sleeve in taking baby’s clean frock from the bureau. “Dear, dear!” laughed papa. What poor eyes our Weezy must have? I’ve a great mind to buy her a pair of spectacles.” After that they all went downstairs, - papa with the tongs, mamma with Weezy, Bridget with the rolling-pin, and Phebe with the mouse-trap. And this was the end of Weezy’s fright about the mouse. – [Penn Shirley] Photography is advancing. Recently the volcano of Colima was caught by an instantaneous photograph at the very moment of its most extreme violence. Last summer a German photographer photographed the lightning. SUPPORTS FOR HOUSE PLANTS When we grow fuchsia, or other tall slender plants, says the American Agriculturalist, some support becomes necessary. We are using as supports to all plants of a slender spreading growth, small iron rods with holes punched through them. Through these holes were passed wires, which reach out on all sides, and furnish support to all branches that need it, without being conspicuous in the least. When painted, they will hardly be noticed. The branches seem to support themselves. Of course, a small rod of iron thrust into the ground as one would a stick, will not remain firm very long. To prevent this, we instructed the blacksmith to weld two other pieces of iron of the same size to the bottom of the rod, then to spread each prong thus formed out at right angles to the rod: then to bend the prongs down again at right angles. This gives a very strong support to the rod, when the three prongs are inserted in the soil of the pot. They brace against each other, and the pot will tip over before the rod will. If vines at to be grown on a trellis, the latter may be hastened to such a rod by strings, or wire wound about the bar, and through holes, as may be necessary. The cost of such supports is trifling compared with that of trellises sold at seed stores and implement houses. They may be constructed in various designs, according to individual taste, and are preferable in many respects to the former. FARMERS WHO BECAME PRESIDENTS It is noteworthy that most of the Presidents of the United States were reared on farms, or retired form active life to spend the evening of their days amid the quiet and retirement of rural scenes. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, and so down through the list, Grant and Garfield, were all at one time or another cultivators of the soil, and fond of farm life or blooded stock. Daniel Webster was never so happy as when on his farm at Marshfield, and his fine oxen were the delight of his leisure hours. Some people go on the principle --- the best discipline for a boy is to --- out what he doesn’t like, and then give him oceans of that very thing. An Irishman wrote home to his friends over the briny that in this blessed land everybody is so honest, a reward has to be offered for thieves. Borers – Anything in the nature of lye will destroy the apple tree borer or the young borers before they penetrate the bark very far. ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar961gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 71.3 Kb