Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News July 8, 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, 7:57 pm The Lamar News July 8, 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, JULY 8, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 36 FELICITY – Poem – [E. Frank Lintaber in Puck] MET BY CHANCE – Short Story – [From The French] NEW AFRICAN COTTON FIELDS Africa has so long been regarded as a steady consumer of imported cotton, that the idea of her ever becoming a producer and entering the cotton market as a rival to the Untied States would doubtless appear to most people as impossible as that the scanty and unprofitable tea plantations of Southern Russia should one day surpass the finest growth of China. Yet this seeming extravagant idea was gravelly discussed years ago by one of the greatest living authorities upon all questions connected with Africa, and pronounced perfectly feasible not only by him but by several other competent judges. Strangely enough, recent events in the northeast of the Dark Continent seem to have shaped themselves on purpose to favor the making of this extraordinary experiment, which aims at nothing less than the reclaiming of the entire Nubian Desert at one blow, and the turning of the whole extent of that vast region that lies between the Upper Nile and the Red Sea into one gigantic cotton plantation. The scheme is undoubtedly a colossal one, but a generation which has constructed the Suez Canal and the Mont Cenis Tunnel, and which is now considering the feasibility of submerging the entire western half of the Sahara Desert beneath the Atlantic, can hardly venture to pronounce it impossible or even improbable. – [Brooklyn Union] KILLING A GIRAFFE The noble animal stood at bay pawing and stamping the ground, his long neck swaying to and from. Several more shots were fired at him, causing him to strike desperately with his fore feet a blow which would knock a horse down. Dismounting, I ran to get a nearer view. There was despair in his large drooping brown eyes, and a look which seemed to say, “What harm have I ever done you?” It seemed a shame that no one gave him a coup de grace, and put him out of his agony. Turning to one of the men I said, “Shoot him in the head, and put an end to his pain.” But he answered me by grasping my arm and pulling me to one side, shouting, “Look out or he will be on you.” Looking up I saw the crazy creature swinging his head about, his long neck putting me in mind of an anaconda, as it fairly whirled through the air, forming wide circles as he made desperate plunges to keep his body under his neck; pitching forward, he fell on his head and shoulder, and rolled over with a thud that shook the ground. He was a “zwart bont” (black-spotted, the variety usually seen in zoological collections’; the white-spotted ones are longer and fine made, and have never been brought to Europe, and are never so heavy. He measured from the root of the tail to the shoulder 6 feet 1 inch, and from the shoulder to the tip of the nose 10 feet 7 ½ inches. – [London Graphic] HAWK AND CAT A huge California hawk swooped down on a sleeping cat at Santa Rosa the other day, and bore it squalling and scratching high in the air. When about 500 feet high the hawk lost its grip, and the cat came down with fearful velocity, but the hawk caught it again just before it struck the earth, and was carrying it off, when suddenly both fell like lead to the ground. The cat had bitten through the hawk’s head, killing it instantly, and the fall killed the cat. A GOAT FARM – A WOMAN’S VENTURE WHICH HAS PROVED PROFITABLE Raising Angora Goats and Selling Their Wool at One Dollar a Pound A Nyack (N. Y.) letter to the New York Times says: Three miles from this village, near the Hudson River, is an Angora goat farm which from its novelty attracts much attention hereabout. It is looked upon as something in the nature of a farmer’s freak like the raising of bees or silkworms. Goats browse and goats prosper on this farm on the heights that border Rockland Lake as readily as they do on the rocks about Shantytown, in New York City. But they a re a different breed of goats, more aristocratic than their city relatives as to work, more epicurean in their tastes, and more blue-blooded as to ancestry. The heard in this somewhat novel farm just now numbers 75, varying in age from the tiny object of three months which looks like a cross between a dog, a rabbit, and a lady’s powder puff, to the handsome patriarch of the flock, a magnificent specimen of the pure Angora breed, with immense cu rling horns. This handsome old fellow with his wife were imported by Dr. Agnew, the famous oculist of New York, from Asia Minor, and the importation cost him a heap of money as the price of goats goes. Their present owner is the good woman who now runs this goat farm, and who never tieres of descanting on the good qualities of her pets. They know her voice, and answer to their names when she calls them. Kind and gentle they appear when visitors are about, but the fondness for fighting, as characteristic of goats as it is of a native of Tipperary, crops out when the heard is together and apparently out of sight of mankind. A strange fact noticed in the breeding of these animals is that the females do not thrive in this locality as well as the male. The hardy female goat of the ordinary species was introduced into this flock for experimental breeding purposes, and with marked success. Repeated crossing with the common goat and her offspring has produced apparently pure Angora goats, the tendency being in all cases for the kids to revert in the texture of their wool toward the male side. As a consequence the third generation has all the appearance of this distinguished ancestry, and in the fourth generation even the best experts cannot tell the pure blooded form the grade Angora. This fact is a matter of considerable interest to breeders of goats, as an Angora buck cost $100 or over, while the common goat can be had almost for the asking. The fecundity of the Angora is not so great as that of the common goat, the Angora ewe giving birth to but one kid yearly. As a source of profit the goats have turned out well. The wool is from four to six inches in length, silky, and of beautiful texture. A full- grown animal will yield four pounds of wool, which will readily sell at $1 per pound. Just now the demand for this wool is not particularly lively, as the lustrous dress of fabric into which it was at one time largely converted is out of vogue with fashionable ladies. It is therefor used almost exclusively in the manufacture of plush for upholstery purposes. When the kid is 6 months old its hide, undressed, is worth $3, and will sell readily for that amount to glove manufacturers. Kids on the farm in question meet with sudden death on that account at about that age with considerable regularity. When it is necessary to kill them the good lady has them chloroformed so that she may not hear the death cries of her little pets. The milk of the goat is much sought after by Dyspeptics, by persons suffering from pulmonary troubles, and by otherwise delicate persons, and it brings a much greater price than cow’s milk. As to their use for food little can be said, because the goat does not flesh up well, but the kid, when killed young, furnishes a fair amount of tender meat which some people like. It will never become a great delicacy in the market, or be in sufficient demand to become a source of income to the goat raiser. There is nothing in the world so cheap to raise as goats, because they will find ample food in lots up here where other animals would starve to death. Acorns are a favorite article of food with them, and as these abound in the woods the cost for Winder fodder is mainly confined to the trouble of gathering the acorns. “Mamma,” said Johnny, “can anybody hear with their mouth?” “No, child, I don’t think they can,” replied the mother. “Then, mamma, what made Mr. Jones tell sister he wanted to tell her something and put his lips to her mouth instead of her ear!” FORTUNES MADE IN OLD CORKS “You wouldn’t think a man could make a fortune selling old corks and bottles, would you? Well, I know a man who bought out a coffin shop twenty- five years ago and began to deal in old corks. Eight years ago he went into the old bottle business, and he is now a rich man.” The policeman who said this took the writer down Mulberry Street, and a few blocks below Bleecker stopped before a rickety old building, in front of which stood several barrels filled with bottles of all sizes. There were bottles emptied of Vine Vermouth, Piper See and Rhine wine, of Bass’ ale, claret and stomach bitters. Inside the ship were seen the necks of a thousand bottles, pointed toward the door like little howitzers. They were piled up and boxed up and were in rows on the floor. From the roof hung dingy demijohns, covered with cobwebs, and in the center of the room was a barrel of old champagne corks. “How many corks have you sold today, Hugh?” asked the policeman. “Eight barrels” “How many bottles?” “Seventy-five gross. You see we never take the labels off, and never wash the bottles. The men who buy wine bottles want the labels as well as the bottles – sometimes want the labels much more than the bottles. But we don not deal in labels. When a junk man comes in with a load of bottles he may have twenty different kinds. We sort them. When we get a gross of a certain kind we know where to sell them. A gross of quart champagne bottles fetches $4.50; pints, $2.25. Claret bottles sell for $3.75 per gross, and so do soda water bottles. Bass’ ale is worth $2.25, but for Rhine wine bottles we get $6 per gross. “Tom” gins and stomach bitters go at $4; porter and Vino Vermouth at $2.25. Apolinaris, quarts, we sell for $5per gross, and pints at $3.25. A gallon demijohn is only worth 20 cents, but larger beer bottles with the patent stoppers bring $5 per gross. Root beer bottles sell for $6, while ginger ales only fetch $1.50. We sell Hathorn, Congress and Geyser bottles back to the mineral spring men in Saratoga for 30 cents per dozen. Most of the small bottles are bought by catsup and table sauce makers. We don’t buy medicine bottles. We sell very little stock to medicine men. You know a champagne cork has a sound head and is turned from the bark. Ii is not cut out as straight corks are made. When it pops from the bottle the head is cut up by the string and the cork looks like a mushroom. We put them all in a big kettle of boiling water and swell them. Then they’re as good as new. Ordinary sound corks sell for twenty-five cents per gross, but corks from champagne bottles, made with more labor, bring $2.50. We have handled enough corks in the past twenty-five years to float the Great Eastern.” – [New York Sun] “EXCELISIOR” Many admirers of Longfellow will be interested to learn that the idea of this popular poem was suggested to the author by the lofty sentiments contained in a letter which he received from his friend Charles Sumner. In a letter which the poet himself wrote to another of his friends, Mr. C. K. Tuckerman, he tells how this idea was developed in this mind; and he gives in plain prose, the intended lesson of the piece. The hero passes through the Alpine village, through the rough, cold paths of the world, where the peasants cannot understand him and where his watchword is in an “unknown tongue.” He disregards the happiness of domestic peace, and sees the glacier, his fate, before him. He disregards the warning of the old man’s wisdom and the fascination of woman’s love. He answers to all, “Higher yet!” The monks of St, Bernard are the representatives of religious forms and ceremonies, and with there oft-repeated prayer mingles the sound of his voice telling them there is something higher than forms and ceremonies. Filled with these aspirations, he perishes without having reached the perfection he longed for; and the voice heard in the air is the promise of immortality and progress ever upward. HE KNEW WHAT LIFE WAS ABOUT Brown – I say, Smith, what’s the attraction up this way? I see you passing quite frequently. Smith – Yes, six nights in the week, and twice on Sunday. There’s a lady in the case, old man. Brown 0- Ah, ha! I see. But six nights in the week and twice on Sunday is rather thick, isn’t it? I found that twice a week was--- Smith – Yes, but you married a young lady. I’m courting a widow. I know what I’m about, old man. – [New York Sun] NEWPORT NEWS, 1886 – Poem – [Jouquin Miller in Independent] HUMOROUS The lawyer’s advertisement – Give me a trial. Misplaced confidence – Trusting in a mule while you pare his corns. What is taken from you before you possess it? Your photograph. Policemen know more about club life than any other class of citizens. It’s the little things that tell –especially the little brothers and sisters. The letter carrier that gets around quickest is the cylinder of a printing press. Professor (who is about to have his hair cut) – How cold is it in this room. Pray allow me to keep my hat on! A young lady, who said she mad married a tanner, deceived her friends most shamefully. He was only a schoolmaster. A western sight-seer being told that the dried-up man of 110 pounds weight was Evarts, the New York senator, said: “By gosh, I’ll bet he boards.” The Indians of New Mexico are very thrifty and economical. When blood-hounds are sent in pursuit of them they shoot the dogs and eat them. Little maidens (who is spending the afternoon with her aunt) – Auntie, mother said I must not ask you for anything to eat, but I’m awful hungry.” A Montana girl shot a bear and with the bounty paid bought a sewing machine. In a short time she will probably be gunning for the sewing machine agent. An exchange says: “The use of glass flooring is increasing in Paris.” Glass flooring seems to be increasing in this country, also. Many a man is “floored” by a glass. “Are you a marrying man?” was asked of a sober looking gentleman at a recent reception. “Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply. “That’s my business. I’m a clergyman” An English paper reports that during recent explorations at Ninevah a petrified umbrella was found in one of the temples. Near by was the petrified man who was just about to make off with it. A “Three-year old” discovered the neighbor’s hens in her yard scratching. In a most indignant tone she reported to her mother that Mrs. Smith’s hens were wiping their feet on our grass.” Professor – Does my question trouble you, sir? Student – No, sir, not at all. But I am a little in doubt how to frame my answer so as to give you the precise information for which you seem to ask. “Landlord,” said a Wisconsin traveler, emerging from the dining room after a long and fruitless struggle to secure a dinner – “Landlord, there’s one thing you have here that’s as good as the Palmer House, Chicago.” “I am very glad to please you, sir. What is it?” “The salt.” Mr. X. Y. has a little voice, weak, feminie. “There is a dime for you, my brave soldier,” he said, as he toossed the coin into the cap of a poor fellow who was blind. “Thank you, marm” was the response. “I’m not a woman,” was the indigniat reply. “Thank you, miss,” was the prompt retort. BLUNTING THE FEELINGS. “Curious how one’s feelings get blunted by the sight of blood and horrors,” says Sir Chas. Wilson, in his new narrative of the Nile expedition. “There was one strange incident. An unwounded Arab, armed with a spear, jumped up and charged an officer. The officer grasped the spear with his left hand, and with his right ran his sword through the Arab’s body. And there for a few seconds they stood, the officer being unable to withdraw his sword until a man ran up and shot the Arab. It was a living embodiment of one of the old gladiatorial frescoes of Pompeii. It did not, strange to say, seem horrible. Rather, after what had passed, an everyday occurrence. I used to wonder before how the Romans could look on at the gladiatorial fights. I do so no longer. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JULY 1, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVATIVE NOMINEES – STATE TICKET For Governor – THOS. SEAY of Hale For Secretary of State – CHARLES C. LANGDON of Mobile For Treasurer – FRED H. SMITH of Dallas For Attorney General – THOMAS N. MCCLELLAN of Limestone For Auditor – MALCOLM C. BURKE of Marengo For Superintendent of Education – SOLOMON PALMER of Marshall For Chief Justice of Supreme Court – GEORGE W. STONE of Montgomery For Associate Justices – H. M. SOMERVILLE of Tuskaloosa DAVID CLOPTON of Montgomery For Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit S. H. SPROTT, of Sumter For Chancellor Western District THOMAS COBBS, of Jefferson For State Senator, 12th Senatorial District –GEORGE C. ALMON of Franklin Go and hear Hon. Gen. C. Almon speak. He is the peer of any man in West Alabama in point of integrity, intelligence, sobriety and morality and we know whereof we speak. The Sanford Journal says that “Mr. Sanford is gaining strength daily.” But does the Journal know that he is loosing every day, there being in this county by actual count nine intelligent men who were delegates to the county convention and favored Mr. Sanford who will on the day of the election vote for Judge Almon. Gaining daily won’t do Mr. “Whoever You Are” that edits the Journal. If Mr. Sanford were to gain a vote for each hour between this and the election there might be some chance for him. A GOOD MOVE Steps are being taken to get our daily mail route established from Fernbank or Kennedy instead of from Columbus, Miss. By such change we would get all of our southern and eastern mail one day sooner. The mail for this place leaves Columbus at 6 p.m. The northbound train comes in at 9:30 am and our mail is put off to remain till 6 next day when it would come on to Fernbank by 11 am and on to Vernon that night. The Commissioner’s Court will be asked to pay for the bridges on Yellow Creek just south of town and a subscription will be presented to the merchants and citizens for the purpose of throwing up the road. It is estimated that five hundred dollars will make a good crossing. The necessary bridging will cost about two hundred and fifty, or possibly three hundred dollars. The commissioner’s court can’t, with all wished for propriety and legally, pay for this work. A sum sufficient to put the road in repair can be easily raised by subscription. The saving in freights and hauling good s to the merchants of Vernon would soon pay back the money. The people in south part of the county will give substantial aid to this undertaking. There is nothing more needed to make up our town than a first class highway to the Railway. ANOTHER LIE NAILED Below we give a letter from Mr. W. T. Gast, proprietor of the Marion Herald, that doesn’t harmonize well with the editorial of recent date in the Courier in which the editor of the Courier states that he changed to a Sanford man at the date of the senatorial convention. Read and note the facts. HAMILTON, ALA. June 28, ’86 Ed. Lamar News: In reply to yours of 25th, will say that the Editor of the Vernon Courier did become a Sanford man before the Senatorial convention, even before the Beat Meetings and county convention was held in this county. How do I know this to be a fact? Is a natural question to be asked. Well, I know it by his own talk and actions, he even went so far as to try to get a Sanford delegation from this (Hamilton) beat to the County Convention. The Editor of the Courier need not pretend that the reason for his change from Almon to Sanford was because he considered Sanford the nominee for he changed before the convention was held now I would like to know why Mr. Wall considered “Sanford as the nominee of the Democratic Party” five weeks before the convention was held? Very Truly Yours, W. T. GAST CLEVELAND IN 1888 A New York Times Washington special says: “While the Democratic leaders in Congress are displaying an extraordinary lack of ability to agree upon a tariff policy and are conscious of the poor figure they calling before the county, some of them find time to talk of the President much more successful than his party in creating confidence in Democrats.“ Mr. Cleveland will beat everybody in ’88.” says Representative Miller, of Texas. “Public opinion is in his favor, and no one can beat him. If the election occurred this fall he would be elected by an immense majority.” “Will he be strong in the convention?” was asked. “Yes, machine politicians can’t succeed in a fight against well defined public sentiments. With Carlisle second on the ticket they would get the largest majority ever given to any ticket.” “There is considerable talk of this sort,” says the Star, “among the Democrats in the House. It seems to be acknowledged on al sides that the turn of the tide is toward Mr. Cleveland’s renomination and that already it has got our of the control of the politicians.” FERNBANK LETTER FERNBANK, ALA. June 28th, 1886 After a silence of some weeks we shall again attempt to give you and your readers a few dots from Fernbank. We have had an abundance of rain which in some instances is very damaging to crops of all kinds. The health of our town and vicinity is good. We have heard of but few cases of sickness this season, and it is to be hoped that this year will be a healthy one. Mr. SAM MORDECAI delivered an interesting lecture in the Academy Saturday night. His subject was “The contrast between living a wicked life and a righteous one.” The audience gave close attention to the lecture as delivered by Mr. MORDECAI, and we trust that much good will result therefrom. Owing to the demand for gravel trains are passing almost constantly. Prof. JOHN and miss JALA GUIN re- opened school this morning. The present session of our school will continue nearly three months, and judging the future by the past, we predict success at the end. The people maintain a good school every year at all hazards and that sort of determination just suits us. Rev. Mr. PENDERGRASS of Miss, agent for musical instruments has been in our town since Friday, and he preached an interesting sermon in the academy yesterday. A car lumber load for the Union Church and Masonic Hall has been delivered, and we presume Mr. WRIGHT will soon commence work on the building. As dots are not as easy gotten up as some might suppose we will close by saying we still subscribe ourselves faithfully for the Hon. THOMAS SEAY for Governor. WARWICK. WAS IT AFTER? – [Marion Herald] As the editor of the Vernon Courier has now acknowledged that he was a supporter of Judge Almon early in the spring, while he was editor of this paper, he might now be kind enough to tell his readers what caused him to change from the support of Mr. Almon to that of Mr. Sanford. And if the Courier outfit was not the persuading influence brought to bear on his weak nature to draw him from his support of Mr. Almon to that of the now independent candidate for State Senator. The editor of the Courier need not pretend, as he does in an article in his paper of the 23rd ult, that he did not become a supporter of Col. Sanford before the convention, and before he could possibly have considered him the “nominee of the Democratic party.’ For the citizens of this place well know that he was a Sanford man from the spring term of the circuit court until the convention, which was five weeks before the convention was held. “Come back into line with clean hands as we did after the nomination of Sanford,” indeed! Now, were you not a supporter of Col. Sanford in the beat meeting held at this place, and did you not, with two other men, try to get a delegation from this beat to the county convention that would support him>? While you were doing this did you recognize Sanford as the nominee of the Democratic party? Now was it AFTER the convention before you began to support Sanford? and why did it “depend on the action of the convention whether you got your paper started up or not at Vernon? You are just getting entangled in your own sophistry. You make --- different kinds of statements that we can hardly blame you for getting entangled in the knot of your own actions and when you find the meshes too narrow for you to crawl through you just shut your eyes and kick out blindly, calling Mr. Almon a republican and the papers that support him republican papers, and also that two of the delegates from this county were republicans, which you knew when you printed such tales that they were barefaced lies and that they could be proven to be such. Yet you had no facts in your favor to work with, and deceit and misrepresentation were the only weapons at your command, and you have assiduously applied them to the uses for which they were originally intended. Now let us congratulate you on your skill in handling these weapons; we confess that we have never met your superior in that line of warfare. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY (picture of a crowing rooster) LET ‘EM CROW – ALMON ROOSTERS Moscow, Ala, July 6, 1886 The Almon Roosters are doing well. There are two hundred and fifty in Moscow beat. The Sanford brood is growing beautiful less since the gentlemen were here last week. The men of so many propositions very clearly proved to the people that his great aim heretofore was to rid himself of the uncomfortable attitude which he assumed while suffering the stings of defeat. The men who are running him should be counted, for in the future were will want to put a distinct name upon them. The name of “Bolters” is their’s and no other will they wear for all time to come. The Republican Party won’t have them, for if that party has a virtue it is a party realty. And when their individual preferences are thwarted they don’t bolt and they don’t want any such material in their party. I am not in for reading them out myself, but would ask them to show some signs of repentance more than being mad over their inevitable defeat on the 1st Monday in August. I hope that you will keep laying it on them and handle their leaders with ungloved hands. In ‘79 we called on Franklin County to come to our aid and help our “soldier boy” as we called him and she did giving him a rousing majority; and we ask the people of Lamar county to believe that we have manhood enough in us to remember and keep our promises and on the 1st Monday in August we will show you and the people of Franklin County that we regard our promises as sacred an can and will keep them. FAIR PLAY The writer of the above urges us to handle the leaders of the Sanford rabbles with “ungloved hands.” We simply say to him that we have found some of their leaders a kind of political commodity that can best be handles with a shovel, and we will go on with the work. It has turned out just as the Journal predicted, and “Private” Seay has been transformed into a “First Sergeant” which is next door to a commissioned officer. Thus it is that the “private solider is constantly being lost sight of in the high places of the land. Two did succeed in getting in to Congress, one from Tennessee, and the other from South Carolina, but the newspapers persisted in making them colonels. And now Alabama loses the honor of electing a private soldier as governor, for Thomas Seay was first Sergeant of Company K of the Sixty-Second Alabama Regiment. – [Atlanta Journal] NOTICE – If you are delinquent in your assessment, meet me at the public speaking in your beat and I will assess your tax without the usual fee. – W. Y. ALLEN PUBLIC SPEAKING There will be public speaking by candidates for Legislature at the following times and places to wit: (TYPING PLACE NAMES, BUT NOT DATES) Military Springs, Betts Beat, Hudsonville, Fernbank, Vails, Millport, Kennedy, Strickland, Lawrence, Sizemore, Browns, Goode, Henson Springs, Millville, pine Springs, Moscow, Town (Vernon). J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (Picture of watch) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. NOTICE - Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company. The subscribers to the capital stock of the Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company will meet at the law officers of Hewitt, Walker and Porter in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, on Monday July the 5th, 1886, at 12 o’clock M for the purpose of completing the organization of said company by the election of a board of directors to manage the affairs and business of the company for the ensuing twelve months or until their successors are elected and duly qualified. May 24th, 1886. JOHN A GRANT, WM. A. WALKER, Jr. M. A. BUTLER, Board of Corporate. THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5,m 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala. 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. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala. 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. Ad for Collins Ague Cure – 50 cents per bottle. 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. MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi. General dealers in staple dry goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock of goods on hand at Bottom prices. Don’t fail to call on them when you go to Columbus. Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment…(too small to read). B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge….(too small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JULY 8, 1886 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy, six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge JAMES MIDDLETON Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES Keep cool. “Be just and fear not.” The blackberry crop is fine. The school children are happy. Steady work will keep off the blues. The handshaking season is upon us. Who are they settling on this week? Truth is mighty and will prevail. Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may, is our motto. See two new Homestead notices in this issue. The Almon Roosters seem to be a very fine breed. The days have commenced to shorten at both ends. Ex-Sheriff J. W. WHITE and wife spent Tuesday in town. Most of the candidates are attending the Senatorial speaking this week. Miss RAMA LACY visited friends in town first of the week. Rev. C. A. WHEELER made us a pleasant call a few days since. Watch out for the combinations; somebody is going to get left. PROF. B. H. WILKERSON, of Fernbank, paid us a pleasant call Monday. Dr. R. L. BRADLEY added another subscription to our list Friday. Prof. J. R. BLACK favored us on Friday last with a subscription to the News. They say the best place to begin your Heaven is on earth. Adopt the following as your motto: Pay as you go, and don’t go till you do pay. Always say the truth you know and you shall learn the truth you used to know. The News takes no stock for or against any county candidate, all are considered friends, yet the editor has his preference, and will vote for the men he thinks most worthy and competent. The Fayette Journal assures us that Judge Almon will receive no more propositions from Mr. Sanford. Is it possible that the Journal has had the solid adamant that covered its under standing so broken as to see the unpropriety of an independent bolter plying the democratic nominee with childish proposition. Rev. Mr. FINCH delivered an interesting sermon in town last night. Candidates should be careful what they say about their opponents during the campaign. Miss IDA GUYTON opened a school in the academy building Monday for the summer months. Miss ALICE BLACKMAN has returned and will teach in the Furnace neighborhood. A prominent candidate for “Ripresentative” was in town first of the week. We are prepared to print election tickets on short notice, and solicit orders for the same. The candidates for Representative will open the campaign in Military Springs beat next Tuesday 13th inst. Send 50 cents and get the News the balance of the year and get all the election news, state, county, and congressional. Mr. J. D. MCCULLOUGH of Kennedy, stood examination before the board of (Medical) census prepatory to the study of medicine on last Saturday. About the first of August we will give toll of honor giving names of all subscribers received to the News during the months of June and July. Dr. M. W. MORTON favored us this week with a subscription to News to be sent ALBERT NELSON, Crothersville, Ind. I wish to thank our generous and efficient Tax Assessor, Mr. W. Y. ALLEN, for the finest apples I have seen this year. (Little type)(sic). EDNA COURTNEY (CUT OUT) Liberty is troubled about the plucking of geese. If ancient History is true the Seven Hill City of Rome” was once saved by the cackling o’ geese. Enter in at the right door – Goods cheaper than ever before! Sorghum 25 cts per gallon, cash. Two rips, mare and horse to sell or trade for oxen. – E. W. BROCK., June 30, 1886 The death knell to rings and beat lasses in Lamar County will be sounded on the 1st Monday in August when the people assemble at the polls and elect the brave and chivalrous son of Franklin State Senator. We call special attention to the adv. of Mr. J. B. MACE. If you want jewelry, clocks, watches, sewing machines, or steam engines repaired in a workmanlike manner, just call on JAS. B. MACE who is all the time awake and knows the value of advertising. We were pleased to receive a visit from Messrs. S. H. HANKINS and W. R. ROBERTSON on Monday. Esqr. HANKINS informs us that the people of his neighborhood are quite sanguine over the prospect of a good corn crop. SAMBO WALKER an idiot’s negro was drowned in Buttahatchie near Pine Springs last week. He left Cansler on Monday of last week, and was not heard from until found drifted upon the banks. Buttahatchie is a stream of many fatalities and a history of those who have found it a watery grave. PUBLIC SPEAKING Hon. GEO. C. ALMON, Democratic Nominee for State Senator, will address the voters of Lamar County at the following times and places, to wit: (TYPING PLACES, BUT NOT DATES) Millville, Cansler, Moscow, Military, Betts, Hudson, Vails, Fernbank, Millport, Kennedy, Strickland, Lawrence, Sizemore, Browne, Henson, Goode, Town. Other candidates are earnestly invited to attend. Time will be divided. DISTRICT CONFERENCE The District Conference of the Fayette Court House District, of the North Alabama Conference, M. E. Church, South, will be held at Jasper, Ala, July 23- 25, 1886. Rev. J. T. Miller will preach the opening sermon on July 22 at 8 p.m. Alternate Rev. W. H. Hamilton. Let all quarterly conference records be on hand to examination. – P. K. BRINDLEY The colored peoples school under the management of ROBT. RICHARDSON, M. G. commenced on last Monday. The Courier of yesterday devoted eight columns to comments on short articles in the News, and left off its locals. WALTER ERVIN left yesterday morning for Texas. He goes to live with his Aunt. Walter is a boy of many noble traits. One THOS. B. NESMITH publishes a history of Sanford’s Waterloo on 12th of May in which he compares himself to Kosinsco. His comparison is that the democracy shirked when his own powerful eloquence failed to control the convention. Many of the generals of the late war have gotten themselves severally criticized and by the time the commanding Gen. At Waterloo has the fair statements picked out of this article he will come to the conclusion that he has the most defective memory of any man in the 12th district. We in company with a number of our citizens attended the picnic at Molloy’s Mill on the 3rd and participated in the celebration of the glorious and immortal Fourth of July, the feast was grand, including both mental and physical refreshments. Those who attended are due Messrs. B. M. and W. J. MOLLOY many thanks for their untiring labors for their comfort and pleasure. Two worthy men of whom any community might well fell proud. The Fourth of July was established at Philadelphia in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and others, who celebrated the event by bell ringing, speech-making and jolifying generally, and the day has been preserved in all its freshness, until at this time it is as good as when brand new. The Fourth of July is the day on which the American eagle spreads his wings, and soaring heavenward, screams a bold defiance, daring anybody to come over in his backyard and fight it out. The Vernon Courier seems to be laboring under the impression that the Herald acknowledges itself to be a republican newspaper, and that it also acknowledges the nomination of Col. Sanford. As the Courier takes just precisely the reverse of what a man says for his literal meaning it can prove that to his own satisfaction, but what a hard time it will have in convincing the intelligent readers of the district that that is the way to get a man’s meaning! – [Marion Herald] DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER [MRS. M. A. M.] ON HER SIXTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY- Poem By M. C. L. (If interested in this poem, let me know and I will transcribe it for you.) ITEMS OF INTEREST Atlanta parted with the little brown jug in a very quiet and resigned sort of way. Dear Jack: Will you be contented to again take second place when I lead the forlorn hope in ’88? Yours, JIM. Ex-Vice President David Davis died at his residence, Bloomington, Ill, on the 26th of June, 1886. There is talk of Bacon’s withdrawal from the Georgia gubernatorial race. It seems Gordon’s friend haven’t claimed the earth for nothing. Since the establishment of prohibition in Livingston the salary of the town marshal has been reduced from $40 to $16 per month. $41,480.50 was paid into the State Treasurer last week. The laurels or the next governor of Georgia are apt to be soiled with mud, the slinging of which has employed the active energies of the average Georgia politicians for the last sixty days. OMAHA, July 2 – Senator Pugh’s daughter was rescued from her brutal husband, Mr. Elliott, at this place yesterday, by her brother, and taken to Alabama. The senator had been unable to learn her whereabouts for more than a year. The man she married turned out to be a worthless wretch who kept her in confinement and beat her. Young Pugh threatened him with a revolver before he could get an interview with the unhappy woman. WE hope that the Sanford Partisans will not feel unkindly towards us when we most respectfully inform them that the best thing they can do is to come back into the Democratic Party and take a back seat for next four years. When you picked up your traps and skedadled out of the convention 12th of May you left the Democratic party and you do not belong to it and we won’t trust you to help “harmonize” when we are in perfect harmony. About one thousand people attended the Furnace church last Sunday. The report has been circulated that little MOLLIE PENNINGTON would talk on the occasion. She did not however, and quite a number went away feeling like they had “got left” 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. To the voters of Lamar County: I announce myself a candidate for reelection to the office of Judge of Probate, and return thanks for the past and would like to have the office again. Should you think I have had the office long enough, I will retire with the best of feelings and think as you decide – that I have had it long enough. – Yours &c., ALEXANDER COBB 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. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. TAX COLLECTOR’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County By virtue of decree rendered on the 9th day of June 1886, by the Court of Probate for said county, I will offer for sale at the court house door of said county on the 5th day of June 1886, the following lands to wit: (LANDS ASSESSED TO J. L. JONES, THOS. BANISTER, CALINE PRICE, T. A. THURLKILL.) Said lands or so much thereof as will be necessary to pay the above tax and cost will be sold on the 5th July 1886 D. J. LACY, T. C. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala – June 18, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of is intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in this absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala, at Vernon, on August 25th, 1886, viz: Homestead 4409, WILLIAM B. ROBERTSON, for the S W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 22 T13 R14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuance residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: R. E. BRADLEY, JOHN L. WEEDS, JAMES SIZEMORE, and J. P. MOTES all of Beaverton, Ala. WM. C. WELLS, Regietser NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala – June 22, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof to support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on August 9th, to viz: No. 9707 DAVID S. STANFORD, for the SW ¼ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ SEC 35, and SE ¼ of NE ¼ and NE ¼ of SE ¼ SEC 31 T12 R14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuance residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: W. M. MOLLOY, S. G. DILL, and NATHANIEL MILLER, and R. CANON, all of Beaverton, Ala. – WM. C. WALLS, Register. Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Agents Ad for Tutt’s Pills Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Chicago Scale Co. Ad for Wetherills’ Paint Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for Avery Sewing Machine PAGE 4 LADIES DEPARTMENT THE SONG OF THE HOUSE BROOM – Poem – [Nathan D. Urner, in New York Sun] PERSIAN WOMEN Diplomacy, intrigue, and influence in Persia are dependent in a large measure on the force of character displayed by the women. If a man wishes to influence another in an affair of importance, he manages it by confiding the matter to one or all of his wives, who in turn visit the wives of one who has influence over him, and by urging and presents week to attaint he object. Most of important transactions of Persia are conducted in this manner. IN THE SOCIAL CIRCLES OF MEXICO There is great excitement in the higher social circles of Mexico. A number of innovators are attempting to introduce the Parisian bonnet, and many Mexican ladies are wearing them instead of the national and poetic mantilla. Mexican patriots see in this the entering wedge of national decay, and call upon the ladies to resist the blandishments of those who would bring them under the dominion of the Parisian milliner. The ladies, however, do not appear to be impressed by their appeal. – [Chicago Journal] WOMAN’S CHARMS Every woman has some special charm, which she should find out and cultivate. It may be her eyes, her mouth, her hair, her brow, her form, her hand – or her foot. It may consist in some trick of smiling, or of a drooping lid. Some grace of speech or of silence, of laughter or of motion. There are ugly beauties – the New York Stage has one – and Fifth Avenue another – as ugly and as irresistible as that famous Countess of Berlin of whom Lola Montez used to tell. She had a dull eye, a rough skin, a dumpy form and a pug nose. But she had an exquisite voice and she understood the difficult art of conversation. She knew in what her strength lay, and she had cultivated her two gifts to the highest point. “Had I a daughter,” Lola Montez said, “the first thing I would teach her should be that to converse charmingly is a far greater accomplishment than to play, sing or dance well. – [Fashion Bazaar] WOMAN’S GLORY “One of the few markets for a woman’s work which is not overcrowded, and at which competent and fairly intelligent girls can earn good wages from the first day they enter upon the profession, is that which includes the working, cutting, and general arrangement of the human hair,” said a leading New York tonsorial artist recently. “At present the hair trade, like other businesses, is very dull. Wearing short hair had a great deal to do with the depression, but now it is going out of fashion, thank goodness. It used to take six or eight people cutting hair all day to earn $10. The average wages fir female hairdressers are $8a week, rising to $18 and sinking to $5. A girl who understands the whole business thoroughly in all its branches can command $18 anywhere. One large artist in this city used to employ 140 girls, and paid out $700 weekly in wages.” “Where do the profits of the profession lie!” “In the false-hair department. We sell on an average three wigs a day, even during dull times. The ladies who have had their hair cut and are tired of it buy wigs or switches to wear in the street. Those whose hair is poor, or who suffer from baldness, wear them at all times. Girls who confine their attention to hair-working alone earn from $8 to $10 a week. It is an art that needs some skill and no small amount of patience and perseverance to succeed with. The hair with which the wigs are made is collected by special drummers in Germany and France. England and Belgium are but poor markers for hair, not because of its scarcity, for both English and Belgian women have the finest heads of hair in the world., but because they will not sell it. When collected it is put through a cleaning process severe enough to fetch the dirt out of an elephant’s hide and then dyed several times over. The best hair- dressers never buy hair from the head or from private hands. “What is the rarest kind of hair?” “Perfectly white hair. It will command almost any price. Natural cu rling hair is also of considerable value. A good wig of white hair costs $40. The material of which these wigs are made are clipped from the festive goat, and selfdom from the human head. A peculiarly soft, silky kind of snow- white hair originates on the Angora rabbit. A perfectly white and abundant wig of white human hair would cost at least $1000, which price few ladies would be willing to pay. Dead hair – that is, hair cut from the head after death – is never used by any tonsorial artist worthy of the name. Indeed, it cannot be used to any advantage, as it will neither cu rl, twist, nor manipulate. Hair cut from a living head is not dead, a fact which can be easily proved by taking a hair and stretching it out to its utmost capacity. It will them contract quietly back to its former position.” FASHION NOTES Tucks are revived for frocks. Bordered stuffs are worn again. Silver and gold braid are much worn. Striped cheviots come in new shades and colors. The new cotton goods are as handsome as India silks. Homespun promises to be popular for new costumes. New hats and bonnets are as high as ever or higher. Velvet surfaced waterproof garments are much worn. Puffs and pads around the armholes are things of the past. Summer homespun come in diagonals, stripes and plain ground. Blue and green, giving a peacock effect, is used in Parisian costumes. Jetted tissues have stripes with designs in round beads and pendants. Parisian fashion decrees that each dress must have a mantle to correspond. Gallons of loops and frayed ends of braid are employed for trimming mantles. Violets will lose their popularity soon – as soon as they become plentiful in the fields. For combination toilettes of which velvet forms a part the bonnet is of the velvet. Iridescent and jet beaded tissues are shown in rich designs for panels and plastrons. The old-time fashion of trimming the edges of basques with bead pendants has been revived. White petticoats are no longer worn directly under the dress skirt, except for indoor toilets. Another season of black hosiery predicted, but not to the exclusion of colored stockings. Shirred bodices have sleeves to correspond, resembling the old time leg-of- mutton sleeves. Fashion decrees that old and elderly ladies may wear colors as well as black and dark gray. Short loose jacket fronts opening over long-pointed waistcoats are seen on some of the new spring street dresses. Some of the new dresses have full overskirts shirred onto the long bodice, which is pointed back and front. Dark blue, dark green, pansy shades, garnet, bronze, and drab are worn by elderly as well as by younger women. Velvet basque bodices may be worn with contrasting skirts of silk or wool and tulle or lace. The velvet should be of a dark color. Neck trimmings are of the daintiest and most exquisite description, and will be a most becoming adjunct to many of the spring styles. Immensely big buttons – too large to pass through a buttonhole –are used simply decoratively, being sewed on dresses that are fastened with hooks and eyes. STATESMEN IN STREET CARS Washington, says a corespondent, abounds in fine carriages and horses, yet two-thirds of the House of Representatives, half the Senate and nearly all the Supreme Court patronize the street cars. Senator Edmunds loves a seat at the front of the car, where he may turn his back one very body and look out of the window. On cold days he carries a heavy blanket with him, which he spr4eads over his legs. His ride is a long one, from the Capitol to the outer end of Massachusetts Avenue. “I was crowded out by the excess of civilization down at Thomas Circle,” he says, “and I have gone clear out under the shade of the woods at Kalarama.” The Southern men use the cars without exception, unless it be Butler. He loves to roll home in a coupe. Hackmen find him a good customer. Sabin, of Minnesota, usually keeps him company and they chip in on fares. CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS The Chinese should be a very polite people. They have 563 books on behavior. The garrote was an ancient method of execution in Spain. It was a collar that caused strangulation till life was extinct. The word “pulpit” like “ferryboat” and “outlandish women” occurs once in the Bible. It was Ezra who was in the pulpit. A wonderful Chinese boy is mentioned in the report of a missionary at Pekin. At a recent examination he repeated the entire New Testament without missing a single word or making one mistake. Shrove Tuesday, which is the day preceding the beginning of Lent, was formerly devoted to feasting and merriment, but whence originated the custom of eating pancakes on that day is still a matter of uncertainty. Shrove-tide was in times gone by a season of such mirth that “shroving” or “to shrove”, signified to be merry. The people of the Congo have no conception of a God of any kind, and worship nothing. They believe in charms to keep off all evils. They do not believe in sickness or death as natural, and seek out the cause when any one dies or is taken ill. Many persons are thus killed in punishment, and were it not for this the populace would increase very rapidly. The largest circus in Paris accommodates only 7,000 people, while one in ancient Rome could hold over 150,000, where from 100 to 400 lions were let loose at a time. Augustus filled the arena once with 3,500 wild animals, and one Probus got up a fee fight between 1,000 wild boars, 1,000 stags, 1,000 rams and 1,000 ostriches, and the occupants of the upper galleries – the gods – had the right to shoot arrows and javelins into the melees. The Doric shaft, with its characteristic diminution and channelings, was known in Egypt more than a thousand years before its introduction into Greece, as is proved by the monuments of Beni-Hassan. Commercial relations had existed between the two countries for centuries, and it cannot be assumed that the Greeks had not seen Egyptian works of architecture. They could not have arrived at precisely the same results by independent invention. FIGHTING IKE’S BATTLES “Had to do it, you know, “ he explained as he came around the post office corner with a bloody nose and two deep scratches on his chin. “You have been fighting,” said the policeman. “Yes, but I was driv’ to it. Big Jim was goin’ to lick Little Ike. “What was that to you?” “Lots. Ike’s brother died ‘tother day, and Ike is in mourning. How’s a boy goin’ to fight ween he’s thinin’ of his dead brother and graves and bein’ buried? He can’t do it. Pluck’s all gone, you see. Can’t get his mad up to save his neck.” “And what did you do?” “Took Ike’s place, you know. Big Jim said it didn’t make no difference to him, considerin’ the circumstances, who he licked, and so I went in. Ike offered me two cents and a banana, but I didn’t take ‘em.” “And how did the fight come out?” “I got away with Jim. He’s licked me ten times, but this time I got to thinkin’ of Ike’s poor brother an’ I fetched Jim a winder on the ear. Then I thought of Ike’s having to sleep alone, and I knocked Jim’s nose sideways. He rushed in on me, but I thought of Ike’s mother feelin’ so bad, and I gave Jim a kick which doubled him up and made him holler ‘nuff.” “Where’s Ike now?” “There he is across the street. Hi there, Ikey! Come over! It’s all right! Big Jim was knocked out in three rounds, and you and I’ll go up and see the grave the first thing in the morning. – [Detroit Free Press] LOOKS LIKE THE EGYPTIAN SPHINX A correspondent writes to the Star of Washington that in North Carolina there is a mountain formation very closely resembling the Sphinx. It is called the “Pilot Knob” and is in Surry County. Its position, prone on the Piedmont plain, like a gigantic lion; its body at right angles to the precipitous ridge, and with head reared aloft, as if in the act of rising. The head is of solid rock, several hundred feet in height. The shoulders and breast are finely proportioned, and at the distance of a few miles it looks like a thing of life and intelligence. It rises about fifteen hundred feet above the plain. It is seen at the distance of fifty miles, but as yet no railroad approaches it nearer than twenty miles. THIS IS FAME “Who was the oldest man?” asked the teacher. “Methusaleh!” “Correct. Who was the strongest?” “Samson.” “Right. Now, who was the greatest man the world has ever seen?” Prize scholar: “Please sir, I can’t just remember his name, but he pitched for the Knockemouts last season and he’s just signed with the Rounders for this.” – [Burdett] As it is a hard thing to say, yet nevertheless it is a fact that when a woman once begins to go down hill man is over ready to grease the track for her rapid descent. ADVERTISEMENTS Ads include: Ad for American Home Rural Magazine Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Dr. Kilmer’s Cough Cure Ad for Roanoke Cotton Press (with picture) Ad for Thurston’s Ivory Pearl Tooth Powder File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar968gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 65.1 Kb