Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News August 12, 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, 8:05 pm The Lamar News August 12, 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, AUGUST 12, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 41 FORWARD – Poem – [Jack Gardner in Detroit Free Press} THE SQUIRE’S APPLES – Short Story – [Helen Forest Graves] TURKISH PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS The public amusements of the Turks consist of Meydan-oyoonoo, kara- g’eaz, and the meddah. Meydan-oyoonoo is a sort of low burlesque, acted by men only and without a stage, the changing of costumes being effected behind a temporary screen. The kara-g’eozx is the Turkish “Punch and Judy,” rendered in shadows, a white sheet being stretched across one of the angles of the room diagonally, forming the base of a triangle, behind which the performer takes his stand, and by the force of a strong light casts the ‘shadows of coming events” on the sheet. And the meddah is the famous story-teller of the East. The absence of works of fiction, and the general ignorance of the people, who do not even know how to read, make the narratives of the meddahs quite acceptable to the public, who flock to hear them for pastime, for the love of the marvelous is too powerful in the warm and imaginative nature fo the people of that sunny clime to remain without some development. Hence their popularity. Them, again, these meddahs are not destitute of dramatic power, entrancing their attentive audienve4s by the magnetism of highly wrought fiction, exaggerated description, and effective mimicry. Indeed, some of them have acquired a renown for their specialty. Kiz-Ahmed, or Lady Ahmed, is so names on account of his successful ability in “taking off’ the ladies, and Pidjemin is noted for the “pathetic.” They exercise certain coup de theatre of their own, and are by the excited fancies of the people invested with a genii-like power, as they condense into a passing hour the scenes of an eventful life, or detail the enchantments of fairydom . In fact, these meddahs occupy the Oriental lecture field, and on festive occasions provide a most welcome part of the entertainment. Their tales, generally vulgar, to suit public taste, are often not devoid of some good moral, and their comicalitias hold up some popular vice to public derision. – [Harper’s Bazar] GOING TO SEA IN A FLATBOAT Recently the pilot at Eadsport on the Mississippi River, notices a singular looking craft, with two sails and a jib, making its way down the jetties to sea but paid no particular attention to it. There was a heavy sea on at the time, and when she had to about five miles out into the gulf the pilot boat Underwriter caught sight of her and seeing that she was in danger, went to her assistance. On reaching the strange craft it was found that her rudder was broken and she was unmanageable – in fact, that she was an old-fashioned scow or flatboat, with two short masts and as a jib. The caulking was coming out of the seams, she had no bulkheads or strengthening braces, or any similar device of marine architecture. The only living things aboard were one man, his wife, two children, and a dog. These adventurers were all the way from some interior point in Arkansas, on their way to Florida, without knowledge or even chart, chronometer, or other maritime appliances. There was no water aboard, and but little provisions. The captain of this nondescript must have been reading some dime novel, and probably though he could hitch up at night, get water and provisions, and go ahead whenever he desired. He had, he said, ---- building this craft. The --------to the city. A TALK ON THIEVES What A City Police Inspector Knows About Them No Bolder Than Other Men, But Helped By Timid People’s Fears “Many people have an idea” said Inspector Steers recently, “that burglars, and other lawbreakers, whose line of business is attended with personal danger, are built on a different pattern from the average human being. They are supposed to be without fear and to carry in their natures a large amount of terrifying material, ready to be set off at a moment’s notice. They are supposed to be rough, gruff, and careless of human life. This is true in some instances, but in the great majority of cases thieves differ little in these respects from the ordinary citizen. They don’t like to work, are lazy and their organ of acquisitiveness is not regulated by a cultivate conscience. It is difficult to understand why a man with a wife and family, who moves in good society, has an income large enough to live in comparative luxury, and is respected by everyone, becomes a thief. He has everything to make his life happy, and yet will give it all up to have a little more money. It looks a good deal like a disease which comes over a man, and he cannot help giving up to is influence. Prisons are full of just such people. Thieves when committing crime always have in mind a way to escape if detected. They do not want to be caught or killed. They will take desperate chances to get away. If a life stands in their way of escape, they will take it, not as a matter of hatred or pleasure, but as a part of their education and trade. But this in every case is only a last resort, and no thief will add murder to his crime unless certain he can get away. As a rule they are not to be feared. A show of nerve will always unbalance them. This applies particularly to the policeman. Even though they know that they have an advantage over a man who wakes up suddenly in the night and finds a stranger prowling around they will respect and fear him, if he doesn’t show any sign of fright. Scared people help along their business. But a policeman is on an equal footing with a thief in regard to being awake and armed. If he is possessed of the real genuine nerve, the case is soon settled, and the thief will usually surrender without trouble. Bluff will not do. A thief can see a lurking sense of fear in an officer’s heart, and will make things lively if he finds it. A quiet determination on the officer’s part, that indicates a supreme confidence in his own ability to take his man or men into custody, as if it was an every day affair, is what takes the starch out of the boldest rascals. Policemen frequently get into tight places. When they get out of them alive, and think what they have gone through, I have seen as the most stout- hearted of them shake a little. A good man will never know his danger until it is over. If he should stop to think when there are many chances against him, he would be likely to lose his grit. He must think and act like a flash. Hunting for a thief in a dark house is what will try a man. The recollection of places I have been in at times during my long experience as an officer will bring on a chill of fright. I well remember a lively burglar I went after many years ago. An alarm had been given, and I had him located in the second story of a high building. He was calmly picking out the most valuable articles to take away when I surprised him. He was a tall sinewy and slippery fellow, and at the first sound I made he made a leap as if shot from a cannon. Up the stairs he flew like a streak, and I went after him. He evidently knew the building; I did not and hit every obstruction I could find. He gained the roof when I was half-way up the stairs leading to the scuttle, and when I got there I could just see his figure in the darkness going like the wind. I followed him without hesitation and when he got to the side of the house he stood a second and then jumped. I was going so fast that I went right off the house without knowing where I would land. It seemed in the confusion as if I went down fifty feet, before I struck anything. Then I landed square on my feet with a force that nearly shook my teeth out. I thought for a moment that I had fallen between two houses. I was right on the thief’s heels and before he could take a step, I caught him. I was sore from that fall and I did not put a tender grip on the fellow. He did not struggle and I took him in quietly. The next day I went around to look at the houses, and found that I had jumped from one roof to another, a distance of from fifteen to twenty feet. I never got over the shock from that jump. My ankle was severely sprained, and though many years have since passed, the ankle is still barometrical – indicates on approaching storm and is exceedingly painful at times in damp weather – [New York Tribune] WON BY AN ACCIDENT When we say that something happened from chance we really mean only that it occurred, without or in spite of previous planning by the men who wished to control events. History knows of empires which have been lost or saved “by accident” that is, as the result of acts which were not within the control of sovereigns and generals One such case – the story is narrated in the second part of the Greville Memoirs – was the victory, in 1845, of the English over the Sikhs Ferozeschah. At a critical point in the battle, the governor-general of India, Lord Hardinge, who commanded in person, thought the battle was lost. Believing that his army would be destroyed, and not expecting to survive the defeat, he gave his watch and some other things to one of this officers, asking that they might be conveyed to his wife with the assurance that his last thoughts were about her. Just at this time, one of Lord Hardinge’s staff, also in despair, having lost his head, through nervousness or fear, rode up to the commander of the English Cavalry, and communicated an order which he declared he had received, that the cavalry should retreat. The commander asked for a written order; the staff-officer admitted he had none, but spoke so positively as to the instruction which he was charged to deliver, that the commander gave the order that he men should retire. The Sikhs, seeing the cavalry drawing off, supposed the movement to be for the purpose of attacking them on their flank, and cutting off their communications. A panic seized them and they began to retreat. The English commander-in–chief noticed the disorder in the Sikh ranks, and ordered a charge along his whole line which resulted in the rout of the enemy. Thus a victory which saved India to England was due to a nervous officer who invented an order he had never received. If the British troops had been defeated, the whole of India would doubtless have risen to throw off the yoke of those whom the Sikhs had beaten in battle. – [Youth’s Companion] USEFUL HINTS When a setting hen is too indisposed to stay on the nest continuously, let her rest alternate days and tie the rooster on the nest while she’s resting. The soot can be thoroughly swept out of a chimney by dropping a goose in it at the top. The goose, in vainly striving to fly upward, thoroughly cleans the chimney with its wings. By immersing the entire body in soft tar before taking a bee-tree, one can render himself invulnerable to the assaults of the bees. You can smoke a rabbit out of a hollow by smoking a cigarette close enough to let the stench enter the hole. The scent of whisky on the breath can be subdued by smearing asafetida on the moustache. When your bedfellow snores and refuses to hush, trump up a counterfeit nightmare and straddle his neck. If this does not stop him,. Kick him out of bed in such a way that his head will strike the floor first. The resulting cerebral agitation will keep him awake for the rest of the night and give you a chance to doze a little. If you make a habit of keeping live mice in your pockets, your loose change will be comparatively safe from your enterprising wife. If you take a small step-ladder with you into the theatre it will be very serviceable when the stage is barricaded from view by a big hat. Freckles can be removed from the face with sandpaper. – [Life] “WIFE DOES THE MILKING” “A little story” brings to mind with renewed force the old proverb, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” We were talking of what disposition to make of a kicking cow, when our hired man said” “I guess I can find a customer for her. There’s an Irishman up in R-- , who bought a cow of one of our neighbors. He told the Irishman that he must tell him one thing about the cow before he closed the bargain – that the cow would sometimes kick.” “The tender “God-ordained protector” of our sex replied” “That makes no difference; my wife does the milking.” I have often heard such things told, and have sometimes thought they must have been made up- “to point moral or adorn a tale.” But this is a fact: For I questioned the man about ita, and he said he knew it was true. – [Woman’s Journal] THE WIND BABY – Poem - {Youth’s Companion] HUMOROUS An Ulster covers a multitude of patches. The telephone operator has a perpetual holler day. A young lady wrapped up in herself is a delicate parcel. “Lend me your ears,” as the farmer said to the corn stalk. A policeman like a man climbing a ladder goes the rounds. Two heads are better than one – on a freak in a dimes museum. The nick of time – The piece broken out of the ancient crockery. When the heart is full the lips are silent – when the man is full it is different. John Ruskin wants the sewing machine to go. Let him put his feet on the treadle and work it, then. The man who never gets mad is supposed to be a half-brother to the woman who never looks behind her. A patent medicine advertisement says: The human body is much like a good clock.” This sounds reasonable. A good many men spend a large part of their time in striking. “Are you pretty well acquainted with your mother tongue, my boy?’ asked the school teacher of the new scholar. “Yes, sir,” answered the lad timidly. “Ma jaws me a good deal sir.” One thousand dollars in gold weighs forty pounds. It is the necessity of carrying home from their offices the daily income of specie that makes so many newspaper men round shouldered. A small child being asked by a Sunday-school teacher: “What did the Israelites do after they had crossed the Red Sea?” answered: “I don’t know, ma’am, but I guess they dried themselves.” Literary man (laughingly) – Yes, I took to literature naturally. I was vaccinated from a quill, you know. Friend (grimly) - The world would have been the gainer if you had been vaccinated from a pick or shovel. Sunday school scholar (to teacher) – “Did you say that the hairs of my head were all numbered?” Teacher – “Yes, my dear,” Sunday school scholar “Well, then, (pulling out a hair and presenting it), what’s the number of this one?” “How do you do, Mary? I’ve been trying to catch up with you for half an hour. I knew you just as soon as I set eyes on that bonnet. I’ve known it as long as I can remember.” It is such remarks as this that fill the female heart with bitterness. A Chicago boy of fourteen years recently ran away from home to become a pirate king. He was captured by a policeman and returned to his parents. He didn’t become that kind of a king – but after a brief interview with his father he was aching. MAKING IT BINDING “I am a lawyer’s daughter, you know, George dear,” she said, after George had proposed and had been accepted, “and you wouldn’t think it strange if I were to ask you to sign a little paper to the effect that we are engaged, would you?” George was too happy to think anything strange just then, and he signed the paper with a trembling hand and a bursting heart. Then she laid her ear against his middle vest button and they were very happy. “Tell me darling,” said George after a long delicious silence, “why did you want me to sign that paper? Do you not repose implicit confidence in my love for you?” “Ah, yes, “ she signed with infinite content, “indeed I do’ but George, dear I have been fooled so many times.” – [Life] AN ANCEINT CHAPTER HOUSE UNEARTHED A missing chapter-house, which was buried during the great fire at Dublin in the 18th century, has been discovered by some workmen who were excavating underneath Christ Church’s Cathedral. In the chapter-house were beautifully carved effigies, color tiles, and marvelous specimens of architecture. The discovery was not divulged to the public until recently, and it has created quite a sensation. The lord ----, the clergy and prominent officials had ----- ---(can’t read) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY AUGUST 12, 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. They have singing as well as political conventions down in Coffee County. Samuel J. Tilden, the grandest and noblest Democrat of them all, died at his home in Yonkers, New York, Wednesday morning the 4th inst. The record of his life and services is a part of the history of the country he loved so well and served so faithfully. A fusion by the Republicans and the Democrats that belong to the Farmers Wheel in Franklin County gave Mr. Sanford 71 majority in said county, reducing Judge Almon’s majority to something over seventeen hundred, which is enough. THE JOURNAL MAN CAN’T SPELL “CRITICISING” The editor of the Fayette Journal being somewhat offended at the admonitions given him by the News, ransacked his file of the News to find something to comment on, and going back several months finds a typographical error where a p was used for a b, whereupon, he shews his ability to spell in the following paragraph: “If the Lamar News man would devote the time that he spends criticizing his exchanges studying Webster’s dictionary, might possibly avoid making such errors as the following, clipped from that paper.” Now, my dear boy, you no doubt since you have started to school found many things in the dictionary that you didn’t know. We had observed that you didn’t know anything about politics and that religion was an entire stranger to you; but we did give you credit for being able to spell. But in this too we are mistaken, for when you turn critic you spell criticizing in this way “critercising.” Webster don’t spell it that way, and my dear boy you can’t play off and call it a typographical error because no typographer ever put more letters than appear on the manuscript and there is too much difference in an I and er to get out in that way. Now, we look on the faults of a brother with a great deal of charity and we know that you will spell well after you have studied awhile, and no doubt that by this time you have gone through with the words in your dictionary commencing with A & B and are now spelling in the C’s. For very young students, there is a little blue back book that was much in use by small boys in our school days, that we would advise you to get. It too, was made by the great spelling Webster. My dear boy there were two Websters. After you have learned something of the one named Noah, you may then read, for you must learn to spell before you can read of the great Daniel who was something of a politician and be it sacred to his memory he was no bolter. We are at a loss to know what “critercising” means, unless it is exercising on a “critter.” The Journal having been riding a bolting critter of late, we make the inference, not finding the word in the dictionary. We are willing to dub you knight of the spelling book and remind you of an old adage, glass house &c. Vernon, Ala., Aug 11, 1886 Editor Lamar News: I will not trouble you with a long letter this week, in regard to Miss Mollie, the “wonderful girl,” but am proud to be able to say to all skeptics, doubters that she is neither dead, sick, or insane: but is stout, hearty and healthy and able to preach, pray, exhort, sing and shout two and three hours at a time without the least hurt. She is sound and strong in the faith, perfect in love and practice too much for any skeptic, and greatly beloved. Yes, almost worshiped by all good people who have kept up with the wave and wonderful works of God’s love displayed in and through her. The whole current is heavenly, evenly and upward. She is possessed of that charity that “suffereth long and is kind, that envieth not, that vaunteth not itself, that is not puffed up, that seeketh not her own, that is not easily provoked, that thinketh no evil.” I may write again. Yours truly, T. W. SPRINGFIELD THE TWENTIETH CAMPMEETING The annual camp meeting at Perry’s Campgrounds has just closed. The buildings were erected first in Sept 1st, 1867, and the first camp meeting was held on 2nd Sunday in Oct. of that year. The grounds are lovely – one mile east of the Miss. line on a beautiful plateau – fashioned as one would but think for the purpose. For nineteen years your correspondent has made annual visits to this encampment, and while I sit here and look on the great assemblage the past with its like scenes come before me. The great trees that tower so high have changed but little, the same old “Harbor” with its mighty rafters and great hewn timbers are still the same. The daylight peeps through the roof in many places. But this is not the change. ‘Tis true happy girls and boys promenade over the grounds just as they did nineteen years ago; but they are not the same boys and girls. They think more of each other they do of the subject of religion much to the worry of the ministers. This has been the case and always will and one can but feel young again to see the happy couples moving over the grounds. The reflections on the past are sad. Change! Change! The ministers who have preached so earnestly there in the past are gone some have answered to the last summons. The tent holders of them are badly thinned in the ranks and it is with feeling of inexpressible sadness that I see that their seats are empty and hear that they are gone. The young of them have a few silver hairs now and carry some of the scars of time, still it is a grand old place. Many under those sacred shades have started in a higher and better life. Friendships have been formed that will end with life and the elevating influence ahs told on the community for miles around. The good accomplished there will not be footed up to mortal vision. Many have gone from there with secret resolves to po better (sic) the grand and stirring peals of eloquence that have reverberated in that forest have not fallen for naught. What will be the change when twenty more camp meetings have been numbered? Will the boys and girls of today fall into ranks and perpetuate something founded by their fathers that has been so beneficial to the morals of the community? We answer that they will. Birmingham, Aug 2 – A negro named Alex. Peck entered the court house about 1 o’clock, and after depositing his ballot refused to pass out at the back door, as all voters were required to do. Deputy Sheriff Dave Brown at tempted to compel him to go out that way and the negro turned and struck Brown several blows on the head with a stick. As quick as possible Brown drew his pistol and shot, the ball taking effect in the negro’s left thigh. As soon as the report of the pistol was heard about two hundred negroes who were standing around the court house, made a rush to get inside, but were prevented. A negro named Morris Bates then called to the crowd of negroes to come up and get pistols and fight for their rights. Mr. J. S. Watkins caught hold of Bates and held him until the arrival of the police, when he was locked up on the charge of riotous conduct. The negroes gathered around the court house in large numbers, but were dispersed by the police, who were promptly on the scene in force. Brooklyn and New York have about 2,300,000 population. The bill to increase the Navy passed the House, July 24th. 100 lives were lost in a political riot in Wales. The Oleomargarine bill is being worked over. The heat has been so great in Madrid that the national legislature has adjourned. The weather is extremely hot. The University of Alabama enrolled 241 students and the Tuscaloosa Female’s College 201 during the past session. These were the two largest schools in the state. The Mormons are having a big run in some parts of the state, mostly Northeast Alabama. London is going to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the restoration of that city by King Alfred, the Saxon, after it had been destroyed by the Danes and barbarians in 339 A. D. In Jackson County the Republican and Independents defeated all the Democratic nominees except one candidate for Representative, and his election is explained on the ground that he was a “wet” man. Arrangements are being made to give Gov. Seay as magnificent inaugural ball. The new governor doesn’t dance, but he can stand around the edges with the wool hat member and discuss the costumes. The Democratic State ticket is elected by a majority variously estimated at from forty to sixty thousand. This was nothing more than was expected. Alabama has about 15,000 pensionable personas under the act passed by Congress for the relief of the Mexican War veterans and their widows. Worms are reported to have ragged some crops on Cedar Creek. RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery and Confectionery, toys, tobacco, and cigars. Also coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. Ad for Peruna Ad for Ayer’s Hair Vigor Ad for Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer Ad for Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers Ad for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Chicago Scale Co. Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S 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. Ad for Free Reliable Self-Cure THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala. Ad for Tutt’s Pills and Hair dye 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 AUGUST 12, 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 The drummers put in their appearance almost every day now. Miss LOUISE BANKHEAD of Fayette C. H. is the guest of Mrs. J. E. MORTON. Circuit Clerk elect BRADLEY was in town yesterday. He will take charge of the office in a few days. The camp meeting closed yesterday after the most stirring revival ever at the place. The ever welcome visitor Mr. MURRAY COBB circulated among friends and relatives in town first of the week. The camp meeting visitors have returned and report an enjoyable time and good meetings. “Come on Lamar” is in general use now when one wants another to follow in this and Marion County. Mrs. CURTIS and little daughter, of Columbus, Miss, visited our town first of the week. Wanted to buy immediately, a good saddle and harness horse. Apply at this office. Mrs. SMITH, our beloved mother-in-law, after an absence of nearly three weeks visiting sick son in Tuskaloosa County, returned home this morning. Commissioners’ Court was in session on Monday. A full attendance and a big days work was done and no bolting in that body. Rev. MELTON of Fayette C. H. who has been preaching some eloquent sermons at Perry’s campground, passed through town yesterday. Messrs. WILLIAM and PHEONIX MCLAIN have been visiting relatives in town this week. They left for home yesterday. PUBLIC SPEAKING. Hon. LEWIS M. STONE will speak at Kennedy on the 10th day of August at Vernon on the 12th and at Fayette C. H. on the 14th day of August 1886. DIED. On the 7th inst. Miss ALICE HARPER, daughter of Mrs. GEO. HARPER. Miss Alice was a young lady of many lovely traits, and a large number of friends mourn her untimely death. We are ready now to devote some space to the encouragement of the making of a good road to Kennedy. Our mail facilities would be much improved and nothing would help our town so much, unless it would be a railroad. Mr. ---Bell of Tuskaloosa County was in town today. Almon only received 1773 votes majority over Sanford. Prof. B. H. WILKERSON, Co. Supt of Ed elect, was in town this morning for the purpose of having his bond approved. To Grand and Petit Jurors, witnesses and all interested, we are requested by Circuit Clerk MIDDLETON, to state that Circuit Court will not convene in the town of Vernon until Tuesday, August 31, 1886. Almon received a majority of votes over Sanford in every beat in Marion and Lamar Counties, and in every one except three, in Fayette County. Some one ought to ask the editors of the Fayette Journal and Vernon Courier what ahs become of their “Simon pure” – [Marion Herald] Mr. J. D. MCCULLOUGH was awarded the scholarship of the county to the Alabama Medical College. The other applicants not being present nor having their certificates of examination on file. Mr. MCCULLOUGH is a very worthy young man and the scholarship no doubt is well placed. At the camp meeting Sunday a call was made for ten men who would give five dollars each missionary money, the following gentlemen responded: J. M SPRINGFIELD, JAS. P. YOUNG, T. C. JERNIGAN, R. W. YOUNG, B. M. MOLLOY, W. A. TURNER, J. B. DARNELL, W. A. YOUNG, and G. L. HEWITT. The collection otherwise was also good. THE AUXILLARY The annual Singing Auxiliary was held at Shiloh on last Saturday and Sunday. The people present on Sunday were estimated from four to five hundred. The following named gentlemen conducted the singing alternately: G. B. SPRINGFIELD, R. L. BRADLEY, J. J. PENNINGTON, A. T. CHANDLER, S. V. JONES, CHES. MCMURRAY, V. D. LIIVINGSTON, J. T. ALLEN, AND W. S. REDDENS. Vernon, Ala, Aug 11, 1886 Editor News: In looking over the News of the 5th, I see a letter addressed to J. R. BLACK. I presume from the wishes expressed for the success of the school, signed J. S. TOMLIN, with a fling of sarcasm at the town of Vernon, desiring a “Cessation of that superstition bonanza and Sanford’s election.” Now, what I have to say is this: That the school alluded to, from present indications, is liable to the same fate as the one just preceding it (die a natural death before its time), and those who have imbibed the truths of what he is pleased to call that “superstitions bonanza” is a s far a head of his sort as G. C. ALMON was of his man Sanford for Senate – and that was out of sight. (Now don’t leave this off”) T. W. SPRINGFIELD ROLL OF HONOR Below we give names added to our subscription list for the News since June 1st. S. H. JACKSON WM MILLER G. K. THOMAS C. W. HANKINS R. R. JONES H. BRANYAN J. L. MARLER P. PENNINGTON W. J. HILBURN A. M. JACKSON L. G. WEBB F. B. MCGILL F. A. ALDRIDGE G. W. MATTISON J. R. BLACK H. C. BICKERSTAFF S. M. BROWN W. H. HANKINS S. J. BOYD AUSTIN JORDAN G. B. HARRIS W. M. MOSLEY O. L. GUYTON P. L. RICKMAN J. M. PENNINGTON C. H. HOLLIMAN A. B. PENNINGTON D. M. LUCUS T. S. NOBLE J. M. DAVIS MRS. M. A. MOLLOY D. G. HOLLADAY M. B. SMITH STEPHEN TAYLOR C. N. NORTON J. H. REAL B. F. POPE T. J. CAMPER A. A. PEARCE R. E. BRADLEY D. S. STANFORD J. B. HANKINS P. M. MCNEIL E. F. COLLINS D. D. HOLLIS J. C. MOLLOY J. R. HOLLADAY ALBERT NELSON MRS. N. B. GARIOTT S. F. HANKINS P. M. WOODS J. L. TACKETT N. NORTON Y. A. GILMORE J. T. MORTON W. A. WATSON A. L. STEWART W. L. GUIN H. E. CORBELL W. B. MORTON S. L. DAVIS J. W. STARNES D. R. SHAW J. M. HARRISON HUMPHREY SARTAIN LIST OF JURORS The following is a list of the grand and petit jurors drawn for the fall term of the circuit court commencing Tuesday, August 31, 1886 GRAND JURORS M. W. MORTON S. H. JACKSON J. E. GRAVES W. M. MOLLOY VINCENT WEBB J. W. PAUL J. T. JAGGERS ISAAC HILL A. J. PENNINGTON R. F. SAVAGE D. G. HOLCOMB T. J. GENTRY T. J. ALEXANDER W. W. DUNN F. M. CASH PETIT JURORS – FIRST WEEK A. K. GREEN J. J. WHEELER G. H. TURNER T. J. SHAW R. A. TRIM REUBEN GUYTON T. L. CREW J. A. MORROW KIT DUKE GRAVE HARRIS W. J. SANDLE J. L. MARCHBANKS ALEX BELL V. H. HILL SILAS WALDROP W. P. SMITH ROBERT IRWIN ANDY CLINE J. R. SHIELDS L. H. HAYS J. M. BEASLEY J. R. GOODMAN J. W. SHELTON J. R. ROBERSON PETIT JURORS – SECOND WEEK W. B. MATTHEWS G. B. TAYLOR ABNER PENNINGTON W. R. CUNINGHAM MOSES COLLIER L. R. GUIN R. P. BOLIN J. H. SHAFER J. W. JOHNSON J. H. CARR A. U. HOLLIS W. W. MIZE MARTIN LAWRENCE R. L. RICHARDS J. M. DAVIS C. M. HYDRICK F. M. GARTMAN ROZ GUIN S. E. ROWLAND STEPHEN CASH J. M. USSERY Ad for Peruna Ad for Dr. C. McLane’s Celebrated American Worm Specific Vermifuge Ad for Dr. McLane’s Liver Pills Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Extra Light Draft Two Mule Sulky Plow (picture of plow) Break Deep and double your crop! 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. 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, Register 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. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Ad for Pianos and Organs – (picture of organ) Mr. J. Garrison, of Cullman, Ala who handles bur first class pianos and organs. A FINE FARM – SITUATED ON WILSON CREEK I offer for sale my farm six miles north of Vernon on east side of Wilson Creek, containing three hundred and twenty (320) a ---- Well improved; one hundred and twenty-five (125) acres under --- fence, two hundred (200) acres of good tenable land; well timbered, plenty of good water and one of the healthiest localities in Lamar County. I have lived on it for the past ten years and there has not been a chill in my family during that time. If you want the best and cheapest plantation in this country, now's your time to get it. It can be bought for $5 an acre. For further particulars address, J. WESLEY CLEARMAN, Vernon, Ala Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Avery Sewing Machine Ad for Wetherill Paint PAGE 4 WORDS OF WISDOM Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft hands It is not genius so much as ability that carries one through the battle of life. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of. No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. Some reserve is a debt to prudence, as freedom and simplicity of conversation is a debt to good nature. Hope without action is a broken staff. We should always hope for things that are possible and probable. Dress, so far as respects neatness and cleanliness, is of great importance to the first impression we make upon others. One of the finest qualities in a human being is that nice sense of delicacy which renders it impossible for him ever to be an intruder or a bore. Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pas in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. Learning, if rightly applied, makes a young man thinking, attentive, industrious, confident and wary; and an old man cheerful and useful. It is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, an entertainment at all times. It cheers in solitude, and give moderation and wisdom in all circumstances. THE GREAT QUESTION OF THE DAY The late Dr. Samuel D. Gross, the father of American surgery, used the following words in an address delivered a the dedication of the McDowell monument: Young men of American, listen to the voice of one who has grown old in his profession, and who will probably never address you again, as he utters a parting word of advice. The great question of the day is not this operation or that, which have reflected so much glory upon American medicine, but preventive medicine, the hygiene of our persons, our dwellings, our streets, in a word, our surroundings, whatever or wherever they may be, whether in city, town, hamlet or country, and the establishment of efficient town and state boards of health, through whose agency we shall be more able to prevent the origin and fatal effects of what are known as the zymotic or preventable diseases which carry so much woe and sorrow into our families, and often sweep like hurricanes over the earth, destroying millions of human lives in an incredibility short time. The day has arrives when the people must be roused to a deeper and more earnest sense of the people’s welfare, and suitable measures adopted for the protection as well as for the better development of their physical, moral and intellectual powers. This is the great problem of the day, the question which you, as the representatives of the rising generation of physicians, should urge, in season and out of season, upon the attention of your fellow citizens: the question which, above and beyond all others, should engage your most serious thoughts, and elicit your most earnest co-operation. When this great object shall be attained, when man shall be able to prevent disease, and to reach, with little or no suffering, his three-score years and ten, so graphically described by the Psalmist, then, and not until then, will the world be a paradise. A SNOW-WHITE IBEX In the Owl Mountains, Wyoming Territory, is seen at long intervals a snow or white ibex. One of these rare animals was recently killed by an old trapper and hunter known as Shoshone Jack. The snow ibex attains the size of the big-horn or mountain sheep, has a coat of dazzling white and is of the true ibex breed. It is both active and powerful, and when driven to bay is a most dangerous adversary. Its massive horns, with the backward sweep of two feet, are formidable weapons and are formidably used. Some years since Tom Anten, then a mountain prospector and hunter, now half owner in the noted Bonanza Oil Spring. Brig Horn Basin, came near losing his life in an encounter with a snow ibex in the Owl Mountains. Tom was in pursuit of a band of blacktail deer, when he espied ahead of him what he at first took for a moving snow heap. Soon, however, he saw it was an animal, and a moment later knew that it must be the famed mountain rare avis, a snow ibex. The ibex, an old ran, was within fair range, and Anten at once pulled down upon him. At the crack of the rifle the animal fell in its tracks. Hastening up to secure the rare prize, Anten suddenly found himself confronted by the infuriated animal. A most tremendous “butt” sent the hunter flying into the air, and when he struck the ground the ran was on top of him. And now the heavy, curved horns of the furious brute were dashed again and again against the anatomy of the hunter. Every bone and joint felt the fearful punishment. Finally Anten succeeded in grasping one of the heavy horns, and drafting himself to his knees, confronted his furious assailant. He held on desperately, and was forced to the brink of a rough and steep mountain washout. Here Anten succeeded in dragging his hunting-knife. He made several ineffectual passes with this weapon, and the closely clasped forces went down the washout together. The ibex struck the bottom underneath, and the keen and ready blade of the hunter drank deep of its life-blood. Again and again did the knife strike home, and the snow ibex was a corpse. When dressed the carcass weighed 123 pounds, and the flesh proved excellent eating. The Owl Mountains seem to be the only Wyoming district in which the snow ibex is found. There are said to be a few in certain localities of the Montana Mountains. THE HEATED TERM – Poem [Tidbits] WHEREABOUTS OF LEADING EX-CONFEDERATES A Washington correspondent of the Washington Post has been looking up the present whereabouts and occupations of some of the principal survivors among the leaders of the Confederacy. Of the six full generals appointed by the Confederate Congress, only two survive – Joseph E. Johnston, now United States Commissioner of Railroads, and G. T. Beauregard, Adjutant-General of Louisiana, and manager of the Louisiana lottery drawings. Of the twenty Lieutenant-Generals appointed to the provisional army several are living. E. Kirby Smith is Professor of Mathematics in the University of the South, in Tennessee; James Longstreet is keeping a hotel down in Georgia; D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, was, till recently, President of the Agricultural School of the State of Arkansas, and now earns a living chiefly as a magazine writer; Richard Taylor, son of President Taylor, is engaged in building a canal near New Orleans; Stephen B. Lee is a farmer, and President of the State Agricultural College of Mississippi; Jubal A. Early practice4s law at Lynchburg, Va. and is connected with the Louisiana lottery company. Of the Major-Generals, A. P. Stewart is now President of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Joseph Wheeler is in Congress, is very wealthy, and one of the largest planters in Alabama. John B. Gordon is a millionaire railroad man. General Loring, of Florida, was engineering in Egypt until a few years ago, when he came to New York to work at the same profession. B. F. Cheatham was recently appointed Postmaster of Nashville, Tenn. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the Judge Advocate-General’s office. Lafayette McLaws is Postmaster at Savannah, Ga. S. B. Buckner lives at Louisville, Ky., where he owns a great deal of real estate. S. B. French is engineering in Georgia. C. L. Stevenson is in Fredericksburg, Va. John H. Forney, brother of Congressman Forney, is in an insane asylum at Selma, Ala; Abney H. Murray is Washington agent of a New York Life Insurance Company; John G. Walker is also in the insurance business; Isaac R. Trimble is in retirement in Baltimore on a fortune. General Heah is employed by the government on some Southern Rivers; Cadmus Wilcox is writing a history of the Mexican War; Fitzhugh Lee is Governor of Virginia; “Extra Billy” Smith practices law at Warrenton, Va; Charles W. Field, once Doorkeeper of the House is superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation’; Wm. B. Bate is Governor of Tennessee; W. H. F. Lee is a Fairfax County Farmer; C. J. Polignae, who came over from France to espouse the Confederate cause, is back in Paris busied with railroad operations’; Wm. Mahone is in the Senate, as is E. C. Walthall, of Mississippi. John S. Marmaduke is Governor of Missouri; Pierce M. B. Young is United States Consul-General at St. Petersburg; M. C. Butler is a Senator fo the Untied States; C. W. Curtis Lee is President of the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. STRENGTH OF THE ANARCHISTS According to the New York Mail and Express, Romanoff Mezeroff, a prominent Russian Nihilist, is living in the metropolis under an assumed named. In an interview he was asked about the numerical strength of the Anarchists and replied: “These figures are as nearly correct as it is possible to get them: Russia…….10,000 New York….2,500 Germany….20,000 Chicago…….5,000 Austria……10,000 Milwaukee …..700 Hungary……5,000 Pittsburg….…..250 Bohemia……5,000 Philadelphia….250 Switzerland.12,000 Cincinnati……..200 France……..8,0000 St. Louis…..…..120 England….15,000 Buffalo………..100 This shows a total of 85,000 in Europe and 9,150 in America” resumed Mezzeroff after he had scanned the table he had prepared. “We must add something to this for places not accounted for,” he continued, “and we will put down the American Anarchist population at 10,000 and that of Europe at 95,000 all told. This is the top figure. The small number in Russia, which is the birthplace of Anarchy, may be a surprise, but there the order is entirely overshadowed by Nihilism. The fiercest Anarchists are the Russian Poles and the Bohemians and Hungarians, and they are gaining in numbers. Ireland is omitted from the list because that country does not take kindly to Anarchist doctrines. The followers of the order in England are quite numerous, but not trouble is looked for in that quarter while Queen Victoria is on the throne. A programme of strictly martial music is on the bills after her Majesty’s funeral takes place.” CHARACTER, AS SHOWN BY FOOTWEAR A Spanish shoemaker of a philosophic turn of mind affirms that men’s characters and dispositions are more accurately read in the way they wear their boots and shoes than in their physiognomy, or even their handwriting. He says: “Show me the shoes of a man after he has worn them two months and I will analyze for you his character. In your shoes, for instance, I see lack of energy, levity, negligence, and a disposition to evade the fulfilling of disagreeable duties and obligations. The even wearing away of the heels and soles of a pair of shoes shows that the wearer, if a man, is one of a good business habits, energetic, prudent, of good head, and faithful in the discharge of his duties. If a woman’s shoes are so worn, they indicate that she is, or is capable of being, a good wife and an excellent mother of a family. If the outer edge of the soles are worn away much more than the inner ones, the wearer has an unstable, fickle character, prone to ingratitude. If the inner edges are the most worn, it indicates irresolution and weakness in a man and modesty in a woman. A few months ago a stranger entered my store wearing a pair of shoes that were very much worn on the outside edges and at the toes, the latter so badly that they were quite broken through, while the other parts of the shoes were almost new. I took care to watch that man while he was near my goods, and when he was gone, said to my wife, “That man is a thief.” The very next day he was arrested by the police for a robbery.” The city of Paris has bought out the horse railroads. THE HOME DOCTOR REMEDY FOR AGUE IN THE BREAST I will give you a remedy for ague in the breast, which has proved efficient when every other remedy has failed. Make a strong solution of saltpeter with about one quart of boiling water. Wring flannel cloths out of this and apply as hot as can be borne, changing frequently. By using this remedy early and perseveringly a cure will almost invariably be effected in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. – [Mrs. H. W. B., in Household] REMEDY FOR PAINFUL WOUNDS Take a pan or shovel with burning coals and sprinkle upon them common brown sugar and hold the wounded part in the smoke. In a few minutes the pain will be allayed and recovery proceeds rapidly. In my own case a rusty nail had made a bad wound in the bottom of my foot. The pain and nervous irritation was severe. This was all removed by holding it in the smoke for fifteen minutes, and I was able to resume my reading in comfort. I have often recommended it to others with like results. Last week one of my men had a finger nail torn out by a pair of ice tongs. It became very painful, as was to have been expected. Held in sugar smoke for twenty minutes, the pain ceased, and it promises speedy recovery. – [Country Gentleman] RULES FOR RIGHT LIVING 1. Keep the body clean. The countless pores of the skin are so many little drain tiles for the refuse of the system. If they become clogged and so deadened in their action, we must expect to become the prey of ill health in some one of its countless forms. Let us not be afraid of a wet sponge and five minutes brisk exercise with a crash towel every night or morning. 2. Devote eight hours of the twenty-four to sleep. If a mother is robbed of sleep by a wakeful baby, she must take a nap some time during the day. Even ten minutes of response strengthens and refreshes, and does good “like a medicine.” Children should be allowed to sleep until they wake of their own free will. 3. Never go out to work in early morning in any locality subject to damps, fogs, and miastas, with an empty stomach. If there is not time to wait for a cup of coffee, pour two-thirds of boiling water on two teaspoonfuls of cream, or a beaten egg, season it with salt and pepper, and drink while hot before going out. This will stimulate and comfort the stomach, and aid the system in resisting a poisonous or debilitating atmosphere. 4. Avoid overeating. To rise from the table able to eat a little more is a proverbially good rule for every one. There is nothing more idiotic than forcing down a few mouthfuls, because they happen to remain on one’s plate after hunger is satisfied, and because if left, they may be “wasted.” It is the most serious waste to over-tax the stomach with even half an ounce more than it can take care of. 5. Avoid food and drinks that plainly “disagree” with the system. Vigorous out-door workers should beware of heavy, indigestible suppers. Suppers should always consist of light, easily digested foods – being in the country, so soon followed by sleep, and the stomach being as much entitled as the head to profound rest. The moral pluck and firmness to take such food and no other for this last meal of the day can be easily acquired., and the reward of such virtue is sound sleep, a clear head, a strong hand, and a capital appetite for breakfast. – [Mrs. E. H. Leland] LAUGHING AT THE TEACHER The adage: “It’s easier said than done,” is only a variation on what we are constantly observing in life of the difference between theory and practice. We may be fully equipped with a theory, and ever ready glibly to expound it, though when the occasion arises for putting it into practice we forget all about it. The teacher of chemistry in a large public school was speaking to his class of the properties of a particular acid. In one hand he held a glass vessel filled with the acid in question; in the other he held a stick of chalk with which had had just been writing a chemical formula on the blackboard. “By the way,” he said, addressing his class, “I may remark here, that should any of you by accident spill any of this acid on your hands, I should advise you not to give way to the very natural impulse to rub it off with your pocket-handkerchief. Take a piece of chalk instantly, and rub it over the wet surface, and the chalk will neutralize the effects of the acid.” Just then, by an accidental movement, he spilled the acid on his own hand. Quick as a shot he dropped the piece of chalk which he held in his hand pulled out his pocket-handkerchief, and began rubbing the injured hand vigorously. Everybody who was present laughed at this unexpected application of theoretical knowledge; and after a bewildered glance round the room the teacher laughed too. The demonstration of the difference between theoretical knowledge and practical efficiency was complete. TALL AND HEAVY A newspaper in Georgia was extremely proud in mentioning the fact that in that State there were six brothers who measured 38 feet six inches, and weighed each over 200 pounds. A correspondent in Lancaster, Ontario, states that they possess a family of eight brothers who measured 52 feet 1 inches, and their united weights amount to 1,720 pounds, an average of 215 pounds each. Their name is Coade, and they are well known in the county. The tallest is 6 feet 7 inches; the shortest 6 feet 4 inches; the heaviest weighs 277 pounds and the lightest 195 pounds, - [Montreal Star] ETERNAL FITNESS – Poem PEN AND PAPER Hand-writing is as much an expression of character as dress or speech. The cut, the color, and the arrangement of the dress indicates the position, taste, and inclination of the wearer. The tone of voice, the pronunciation, and the thought expressed in speech is a complete index to the individual who holds your attention, and not less certainly does the color of ink used, the shape and quality of paper, and the fashioning of the characters in a written communication tell the story of the personality of the inditer. To be sure, we are governed or fashioned in each by certain arbitrary rules peculiar to the time and place, but it is in the adaptation of these mandates that the individual crops out. At one time no dress was complete without a trail, and it was in its management that a woman’s grace or awkwardness was apparent. It is the individual surviving under Herculean difficulties that led a certain young man to be spoken of lately as “a sensible, respectable dude.” The soft tones and smooth, grammatical sentences of educated persons are noticeable even when marred by the drawling tones aesthetic culture gives, or the twang the Yankee atmosphere imparts. Thus does an unobtrusive color of ink, heavy, plain, paper, and neatness of the sheet, indicate the lady or gentleman, notwithstanding the style of handwriting in vogue. Fifty years ago, the very delicate, very regular, very slanting characters of the Italian style of handwriting was n use; this, while lacking in character, possessed the one recommendation of legibility. Then came in the English style, very square, very imposing, stately as Britannia herself, but wholly illegible. At this time we have in use, generally a happy combination of both, and perhaps at no former time has more importance been attached to letter writing than at present. Business men consider it a most essential dignity to maintain, and their handsomely engraved letter-heads and carefully dictated and neat type-written mail are carefully considered indications of their business standing. It was formerly believed that illegibility and haste indicated enterprise and promptness; but while they do not entirely abandon money-saving and time saving, they now consider beauty-saving as well. In letter-writing, it is demonstrated that it is practicable to combine usefulness and legibility. Ladies of leisure can have no excuse for such an omission, which in them would be at once unladylike and discourteous. They are aided in this work by the perfect pens, perfect paper, and perfect ink of the day. Steel pens are most generally used in preference to the more expensive gold ones, at one time considered indispensable. The variety and excellence of paper is unlimited for the ladies’ use, but the heavy cream-laid, moderate-sized sheet, unruled, is considered in most elegant taste. The sheet may be simply ornamented by the address of the writer, the street, and number, or, if suburban, the name, as “Rosebush Billa” in plain, handsome engraving. We learn that Mrs. Cleveland uses stationery adorned with her monogram in heraldic fashion, and the motto in Lain, “Where bees are, there is honey,” and perhaps this will lead to innovations. The use of sealing-wax, recently introduced, met with a hearty reception at first, but lately we see but little of its use. The convenient self-sealing envelopes, for which wax seals are superfluous, are too neat an expedient to be immediately superseded. DO GIRLS, DO Do be natural. A poor diamond is better than a good imitation. Do try to be sensible. It is not a particular sign of superiority to talk like a fool. Do observe. The faculty of observation, well cultivated, makes practical men and women. Do avoid causes of irritation in your family circle; reflect that home is the place to be agreeable. Do, sometimes at least, allow your mother to know better than you do. She was educated before you were born. Do be ready in time for church. If you do not respect yourself sufficiently to the punctual, respect the feelings of other people. Do be truthful; do avoid exaggeration. If you mean a mile, say a mile, not a mile and a half. If you mean one, say one, and not a dozen. Do be contented. “Martyrs” are detestable. A cheerful, happy spirit is infectious. You can carry it about with your like a sunny atmosphere. Do try to be accurate, not only for your own sake, but for the sake of your sex. The incapacity of the female mind for accuracy is a standard argument against the equality of the sexes. Do avoid whispering. It is bad as giggling. Both are to condemned. There is no excuse for either one of them. If you anything to say, say it. If you have not, do hold your tongue altogether. Silence is golden. Do cultivate the habit of listening to others. It will make you invaluable members of society, to say nothing of advantages it will be to you when you marry. Every man likes to talk about himself. A good listener makes a delightful wife. ADVERTISEMENTS Brown’s Iron Bitter Opium, morphine habit cured. 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