The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, April 19, 1877, Image 1
THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE
AND PORT ROYAL COMMERCIAL.
. VOL. V. NO. 20. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1877. $2.00 per Aim SinglG Copy 5
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Forsaken.
Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.'
If even Thee, the righteous and the holy.
These did forsake,
What wonder human hearts, loving as lowly,
Do sometimes break ?
AH stand far off in the dark hour of trial,
Just before sleep:
'Neath the lip's smile we feel the soul's denial.
And turn and weep.
Thou weptst not, Lord! John had thy breast
for pillow.
Thou the hard cross;
Yet our weak bosoms heaTe like sobbing billow
At each light toss.
Sweet summer friends, farewell! lour Eight
you've taken?
Small blame, God wot!
In the lone hour of death, Thou, once forsaken, i
Forsake us not.
?Miss Hillock, j
A PHYSICIAN'S WIFE'S STORY.!
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441 have heard of persons whose hair
was whitened through excessive fear, but,
as I never saw, myself, any one so a?- i
fected, I am disposed to be incredulous j
on the subject."
The above remark was made to Dr.
Maynard, as we sat .00 the piazza of his ,
pretty villa discussing the different effects
of terror 0:1 dissimilar temperaments.
Without replying to me the
doctor turned to his wife and said :
44 Helen, will you please relate to my I
old friend the incident within your own
experience. It is the most convincing )
argument I can advance."
I looked at Mrs. Maynard iu surprise, i
I had observed that her hair, which was
luxuriant and dressed very becomingly, j
was purely colorless ; but, as she was a
young woman, and also a very pretty j
one, I surmised that it was powdered to !
heighten the brilliancy of her tine dark
eyes.
The doctor and I had been fellow stu- 1
dents, but, after leaving college, we had
drifted?I to commence practice in an
eastern city, he to pursue his profession :
in a growing town in the west. I was ;
now on a visit to him for the first time !
since his marriage.
Mrs. Maynard, no doubt, reading my
supposition by my look of incredulity,
smiled as she shook her snoyy tresses
over her shoulders, anil, seating herself
by her husband's side, related the fol'
lowing interesting episode :
44 It is nearly two years ago since my
husband was called on one evening to
visit a patient several miles awav. Our !
1 a:? 1.-1 ?n 1
uumebi/ics iutu un gvuc iu n nu&c iju iuc i
vicinity, the dead man being a relative j
of one of our serving women. Tims 1 !
was left alone. But I felt no fear, for i
wo never had heard of burglars or am
sort of desperadoes in our quiet village,
then consisting of a few scattering
bouses. The windows leading out on
the piazza were open as now. but I secured
the blinds before my husband's
departure, and locked the outside doors,
all except the front one, which I left for |
the doctor to lock after going out, so j
that, if I should fall asleep before his '
return, he could enter without arousing i
me. I heard the doctor's rapid foot- !
steps on the gravel, quickened by the :
urgent tones of the messenger who '
awaited him ; and, after the sharp rattle !
of the carriage wheels had become an
echo, I seated myself by the parlor astral,
and very soon became absorbed iu
the book I had been reading before \
being disturbed by the summons.
" But after a time my interest succumb- ;
ed to drowsiness, and I thought of re- I
tiring, when the clock in the doct6r's i
stridy adjoining the parlor struck twelve,
^ so I determined $o wait a few moments
more, feeling that he would be home
now very soon. I closed my book,
donned a robe de chambrc, let down my
hair, and then returned to my seat to
patiently await and listen. Not the
faintest sound disturbed the stillness of
the night. Not a breath of air stirred ;
the leaf. The silence was so profound ,
that it became oppressive. I longed for j
the sharp click of the gate latch and the
well known step on the gravel walk. I
did not dare to break the hush myself by
moving or singing, I was so oppressed
with the deep stillness. The human
mind is a strange torturer of itself. I j
began to conjure up vivid fancies about
ghostly visitants, in the midst of which
occurred to me the stories I had heard
from superstitious people about the
troubled spirits of those who had died j
suddenly, like the man whom my ser-!
vants had gone to "wake," who had;
been killed bv an accident at the saw
mill. 1 n the midst of these terrifying
reflections, I was startled by a stealthy j
footfall on the piazza. I listened be-1
tween fear and hope. It might be the \
doctor. But no, he would not tread like
that; the step wr.s too soft and
cautious for anything less wily than j
a cat. Ar I listened again, my eyes !
were fixed on the window blind. '
I saw the slats move slowly and cautions
]v, and then the rays of the moon disclosed
a thin, cadaverous face, and
bright, glittering eyes, peering at me.
Oh, horror! who was it ? or what was it ?
I felt the cold perspiration start at every
pore. I seemed to be frozen in my chair.
I could not move ; I could not cry out;
my tongue seemed glued to the roof of
my mouth, while the deathly white face i
pressed closer, and the great sunken
eyes wandered in their gaze about the
room. In a lew moments the blind
closed noiselessly as it had been opened,
and the cautious footsteps came toward
the door. 4 Merciful heaven !' I cried,
in a horror stricken whisper, as I heard
the key turn in the lock, 4 the doctor,
in his haste, must have forgotten to
withdraw the key." #
44 God forgive me !" ejaculated Dr. ;
Maynard, interrupting his wife, and looking
far more excited than she. 441 can
never forgive myself for such a thought- '
less act. Please proceed, my dear."
441 heard the front door open, the step
in the hall, and helpless as a statue, I
sat riveted to my chair. The parlor
door was open, and in it stood u tall, '
thin man, whom I never beheld before.
He was dressed in a long, loose robe, a j
sort of gaberdine, and a black velvet j
skull cap partially concealed a broad
forehead, under which gleamed black
eyes, bright as living coals, and placed so
near together that their gaze preter
natural in its directness; heavy grizzled
eyebrows hung over them like the tangled
mane of a lion; the nose was sharp and
prominent, and the chin was overgrown
with white hair, which hung down in
locks as weird as the Ancient Mariner's.
He politely doffed his cap, bowed, replaced
it, and then said, in a slightly
foreign accent :
4 4 4 Madam, it is not necessary for me
to stand on any further ceremony, as
your husband, Dr. Maynard (hereupon |
lie again bowed profoundly), has already
acquainted you with the nature of ray
business here to-night. I perceive,' he
added, glancing at my neglige robe, that
you were expecting me.'
44 4 No,' 1 found voice to stammer.
4 The doctor ha3 said nothing to me
about a visitor at this hour of the night.' |
" 4 All! lie wished to spare you, no j
doubt, a disagreeable apprehension,' he 1
returned, advancing and taking a 6eat 011
the sofa opposite me, where for a few j
moments he sat and eyed me from head
to foot with a strange glittering light in
his eyes that mysteriously impressed me.
* You have a remarkably fine physique,
madam,' he observed, quietly; 'one that
might deceive the eye of the most skilled
and practical physician. Do you suffer j
much pain ?'
"Unable to speak, I shook my head.
A terrible suspicion was creeping over
me. I was alone, miles away from aid
or rescue, with a madman.
";Ah!* he continued, reflectively,
'your husband may have mistaken a ;
tumor for a cancer. Allow me to feel
your pulse,' he said, rising and bending
over me.
"I thought it best to humor him, remembering
it was unwise for a helpless
woman to oppose the as yet harmless
freak of a lunatic. He took out his :
watch, shook his head gravely, laid my
hand down gently, tnen went xowaru tne
study, where, on the table was an open
case of surgical instruments.
" 'Do not be alarmed, madam,' he j
said to me as I was about to rise and !
flee, and in another instant he was by j
my side, with the case in his possession.
"Involuntarily I raised my hand and !
cried:
"Spare me ! Oh, spare me, I beseech I
you!
" 'Madam,' he said sternly, clashing
my wrist with his long, sinewy lingers,
with a grip of steel, 'you behave like a
child. I have no time to parley, for I
have received a letter from the emperor
of the French stating that he is suffering
from an iliac abscess, and is desirous
of my atteudauce. I must start for
Europe immediately after performing :
the operation upon your breast,' and, :
before I could make* the slighest resist- i
auce, he had me in his arms, and was [
carrying me into the study, where there 1
was a long table covered with green
baize. On this he laid me, and, holding
tne down with one hand with the strength )
of a maniac, he brought forth from some i
hidden recess in his gown several long !
leather straps, with which he secured I
tne to the table with the skill of an ex- ;
pert. It was but the work of a 1110- :
ment to unloose my robe and bare my j
bosom. Then, after carefully examining ; 1
my left breast, he said:
' Madam, your husband has made a 1
mistake. I find no necessity for my in-;
tended operation.'
"At this I gave a long drawn sigh of I
relief, and prepared to rise.*
"'But,'he continued, 'I have made j
ttie disrovprv that vour lieari is as larcre 1
as that of an ox! I will remove it so '
that you can 6ee for yourself ; reduce it
to its natural size by a curious process of
my own, unknown to the medicid |(
science, aud of which I am sole discover- ! 1
er, and then replace it again.'
44 He then began to examine the edge i (
of the cruel knife, on which I closed my ; 1
eyes, while every nerve was in perceptible
tremor. ; ]
44 4 The mechanism of the heart is like , j
a watch,' he resumed; 4 if it goes too 1 '
fast, the great blood vessel that supplies
the force must be stopped like the lever
of a watch, and the works must be clean- i
ed, and repaired, and regulated. It may. 1
interest you to know that I was present
at the post-mortem examination held 1
over the remains of the beautiful Louise 1
of Prussia. Had I been consulted be- ; 1
fore her death I would have saved her by i '
taking out her heart, and removing the ' 1
polypi, between which it was wedged | '
like us if in a vise; but I was called too ' "
late. The king and I had a little differ-;
ence; he was German, I am French. I
trust that is sufficient explanation.'
44 He now bent over me, his long i
white beard brushing my face. I raised ! 1
ray eyes beseechingly, trying to think 1
of some .way to save myself. 4 Oh, sir, 3
give me an anaesthetic, that I may not
feel the pain !' I pleaded. 3
44 4 Indeed, indeed, madam, I would 1
comply with your wish were you not 1
the wife of a physician?of a skillful I
surgeon. I wish you to note with what I
ease I perform this difficult operation, f
so that you may tell your husband of the ]
great savant whose services he secured, : s
fortunately in season.' <
4 4 As he said this, he made the final ]
test of the knife on his thumb. How ; 1
previous were the moments now! They i I
were fleeing all too fast, and vet an eter- i
uity seemed compressed in every one. i
I never fainted in my life, and I never : i
felt less like swooning than now, as I
summoned all my presence of mind to .
delay the fearful moment, fervently
nrflrinc in the meantime for mv hus- <
V
band's return. ? ! <
44 4 Doctor,'said I, with assumed composure,
41 have the utmost confidence '
in your skill?I would not trust my life i
to another ; but, doctor, you have forgotten
to bring a napkin to staunch the ]
blood. If you will have the goodness
to ascend to my sleeping chamber, at j
the right of the hall, you will find everything
you need for that purpose in the
bureau.'
4 4 4 All, madam,' he said, shaking his :
head sagaciously, 41 never draw blood
during a surgical operation; that is an- '
other one of my secrets unknown to the
faculty.'
44 Then placing his hand on my bosom
he added with horrible cspief/lcrie :
4 4 4 I'll scarcely mar that skin whiter'
than snow, and smooth as monumental j
alabaster.'
4 4 4 Oh, God !' I cried, as I felt the cold
steel touch my breast; but with the same
breath came deliverance.
44 Quick as thought a heavy woolen
piano cover was thrown over the head
and person of the madman, and bound
, around him-, A* quickly we*. I
I
released, and the thongs that bound me
soon held the maniac.
"My husband held me in his arms, j
He had noiselessly approached, and tnk- :
ing the horror of my situation in at a
glance, had by the only means at hand
secured the madman, who was the very
patient he had been summoned to attend,
but who had gsenped the vigilance j
of his keeper soon after the departure of
the messenger, who had how returned
with the doctor in pursuit of him. As
the poor wretch was being hurried
away, he turned to me and said:
4 Madam, this is a plot to rob me of my J
reputation. Your husband is envious of
my great skill as a surgeon. Adieu !' I
afterward learned that the man was
once an eminent surgeon in Europe, but
much learning had made him mad. i
When he bound me to that table my hair
was as black as a raven; when I left it, ;
it was as you sec it now?white as full |
blown cotton."
A Lawyer's Retort.
Perhaps the most crushing rejoinder
ever flung back in return for an insult
from the bench was that which Curran
hurled at Judge Robinson. Judge
Robinson is described as a man of sour
and cynical disposition, who had been \
raised to the bench?so, at least, it was
commonly believed?simply because he
had written in favor of the government
of his day a number of pamphlets remarkable
for nothing but their servile
and rancorous scurrility. At a time
when Curran was only just rising into j
notice, and while he was yet a poor and
struggling man, this judge ventured
upon a sneering joke, which, small
though it was, but for Curran's ready I
wit and scathing eloquence, might have ;
done him irreparable injury. Speaking i
of some opinion of counsel on the other
side, Curran said he had consulted all
his books, and could uot find a single !
case in which the principle iu dispute !
was thus established. "That may be,
Air. Curran"" sneered the judge; " but I
I suspect your law library is rather!
limited." Curran eved the heartless
toady for a moment, and then broke
forth with this noble retaliation : "It
is very true, my lord, that I am poor,
and this circumstance has certainly rather
curtailed my library. My books are
not numerous, but they are select, and
I hope have been perused with proper
dispositions. I have prepared myself
for this high profession rather l:y the
study of a few good books than by the
composition of a great many bad ones. ,
I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I j
should be ashamed of my wealth if I;
could stoop to acquire it by servility and
corruption. It" I rise not to rank, I
shall at least be honest; and should Ij
ever cease to be so, many an example !
shows me that an ill-acquired elevation,
by making me the more conspicuous, .
would only make me the more universal- j
ly and notoriously contemptible."
A Paper Making Spider.
Spiders have been noted so long as i
spinners of the finest ?f silk, that it :
strikes one a little oddly to think of one
as a paper ljj^ker. but hear this true ;
story that has just been told to m^.
In the heart of the African continent, !
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where no other paper is manufactured,
the spider paper maker does her quiet!
work. Back and forth, over n flat sur- !
face about an inch and a half square, on
the inside wall of a hut, the spider slow[y
moves in many lines until the square j,
is covered with a pure white paper. '
Under this she places from forty to fifty j
eggs; and then, to fasten the square of >
paper more securely to the wall, she !
makes a strip of paper about a quarter ;
of an inch broad, and with this glues the ':
square carefully around the edges. ; ,
When all is done, the spider?which ,
is quite a large one?places herself on
the center of the outside of the little flat; '
bag so carefully made, and begins a i
watch, which is to last for three weeks
without intermission. Apparently the !
young spiders would have many dangers
to fear, did not their anxious mamma !
wage ** Tierce war upon the cockroaches i
mil other insects that come near. After j
three weeks of unremitting watchfulness, '
the mother spider leaves her nest in the j
lay times to hunt food, but she always ;
returns at night, until her young are ; ;
strong enough to take care of themselves, j ]
?,St. Nicholas. j ?
Startled Senators. j (
Some of the people of Indiana are urg- '
Ing the erection of a new State cnpitol, j i
but that may have no connection with j <
the following story from the Indianapo- <
lis Journal: In the midst of Senator i
Elarns' speech against the Belt railway ]
bill, the ceiling almost directly over his <
bead was observed to crack, and simul- <
taneonsly an ominous creaking and rum- j 1
bling noise was heard by every person in i
the Senate chamber.' The noise caused <
something like a panic, the crowd in the ' i
lobby made a rush for the door, and the 1
seats in the threatened quarter were va- <
?ated in a hurry, in expectation that the :
miserable old rookery was about to turn- j 1
ble down. The excitement lasted about. i
live or ten minutes, but as soon as it was 1
ieen that the walls were still standing, 11
ind noue of the plastering had fallen the 1 1
itmospliere and the crowd became com- i
posed, and business wAt on as usual. ! i
An examination developed the fact that 1
the walls just to the right of the presi- <
dent of the senate had settled slightly, ! i
of course carrying?the floors and ceilings
with it, but the calamity is not believed
to have endangered the safety of the
building to any appreciable extent. The
news annii ?r>rpnd about the eitv that the
State house hail tumbled in, and crowds
Hocked there to find that they had beeu
sold. The intelligence was too good to
be true.
Reminded of a Story.
A distinguished London historian having
offended the Lancet, that journal
mentions him unpleasantly, and then 1
continues : " We are reminded of the
amusing story of twelve friends agreeing
to have a novel dinner at Richmond.
Each was to bring, without telling his
friends who it was to be, the most dis- '
agreeable man he knew. The evening
came. The friends entered one by one,
each unaccompanied by the promised
guest. They had all invited one, but in
each case was he found previously engaged.
The eleven thus came in solitary.
At leugth the twelfth entered, |
not alone, but with?-we will not till up
th? blank:" ;
How Counterfeit Notes are Passed.
The counterfeit $10 bills on the La- !
layette National banR of Lafayette, Ind., I
the passage of which brought to State
prison one notorious Italian shover of |
the "queer" and his companions, says
a New Haven paper, are a very poor
imitation of the genuine. The paper
upon which they ore printed is also very
poor. Notwithstanding these facts, the
three men?Gnlotta, Achille and Hyland
(who only received five years in a county \
jail)?got rid of from seven to ten of ;
them in this city December 15, 1876. j
The way in which these men work is as
follows: Three or four come to this city
%T ?? i y\ . # il _
trom i\ew ioik. une 01 mem carries
the package of money which is to be dis- j
posed of. He does none of the " shov- !
ing," but passes out the bills to his ac- j
complices one by one, so that in case of !
arrest at most only one will be found on j
them. They pass them and return him
the good money they receive at a rendezvous
before agreed upon. Then when
the city has been worked sufficiently the
men leave town, that is if the police are :
not too sharp for them. When the lead- j
er is suspicious, as he has been upon
nearly every one of his visits to this city
of late, he hides his bundle of counterfeit
money and leaves by the next train,
abandoning his friends to their fate.
When two Italians were arrested here a j
few years ago for passing counterfeit
bills on the Traders' bank of Chicago, a \
third person was known to have been !
with them. After the arrest of his |
friends he could not be found, frnt a J
package of the bills was discovered hid- !
den away, in the fence of the First j
Methodist church, showing that the
1 V.J j it. 1 I
course ue naa pursueu wu? uie iiBiuuuur ;
of abandonment and flight. It is a grati- ;
fying reflection that the men who have
worked this city during the past few
years have all come to grief in tuis State
through our police.
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The Wild Men of Borneo.
Who will not weep for the rain of the
" wild men of Borneo," who have been
the cause of so much interest and terror
at one of the wonder shows of the east
side ? Fearful to look upon were these
wild Bornese, though they themselves |
were not half as hideons as they were
represented to be on the outside pictures
that riveted the gaze of pedestrians.
Above their misshapen heads towered i
their hair, as though it were on end with 1 ?
rage; a horrible scowl sat upon their j (
dark faces, over which bristles were
scattered; their eyes glared and gleamed j,
like those of tigers; the thick lips .of !,
their huge mouths seemed eager for : <
prey; their naked bodies, scarred in
many tights, wero tattooed to terrify;
and the big clubs which they held in (
their hands were such as only wild Bor- i
ne.se could yield. When one heard j
their keeper tell of their sanguinary j *
deeds in Borneo?how they waded in
slaughter, devoured their victims, and ! ,
danced round their roasting tires with
their host of wives?how they were j j
caught at enormous expense and brought j ]
to this couutry to be put on exhibition J ;
at the low price of fifteen cents, not- J \
withstanding the danger to their keep- :
ers, lie felt that he had got his money's t !
worth after enjoying his first glance at 1
them. It was an unlucky fire that broke j 1
out in tho show over at Newark, where | i
these wild men of Borneo were on exhi- i
bition for a few days only. It was an j i
awful fate that overtook them. They j ]
could not speak a word of English? i 1
tiiese wild Bornese; they could express ,,
rmltt in o. o?/?klirj or #nrf nf ?
mViUUVl ? VJU ij JU m ^ v V* | (
way, when urged by intelligent visitors; ' ]
vet, when they heard the cry of " Fire!" J <
they quickly took it up, and one of them (
dolefully remarked: "Dis sho' is done | i
gone, fo* to-night; dat's sartain sure." '1
The wild men of Borneo had better go |
back at once to their original home on j
the Suwanee river.?New York Sun. ]
Old Drinking Habits in Maine. ?''
4
The Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph \
prints a communication, which, speak- j
iug of residents of the adjoining town of 1 ?
Topsham, fifty years ago, says : In one
family of five persons, three of them j
would each punish three pints of New
England rum every day ; the other two i
perhaps a little less. Why I can be so
specific, I was a clerk in a store at Tops- i j
ham and had them for customers. An- {
nther instance: we had an old man, ,
who was a customer when I went there j j
ind was there when I left, who pur- .
aliased a pint and a half of gin every \
Jay, and Saturday three pints. He had j
it charged, paid his bill monthly, and j
never purchased another article to my re- i]
3ollection. His family consisted only j f
i)f himself and wife, and she an estima- j j
ble woman, therefore he must have used ! (
fill of it himself. The average sales at \
nur store were at let st $10 a day, amount- ]
ing to $3,000 per annum. There were ]
live other stores in Topsliam, and I have i j
every reason to believe that they sold as ,
much rum as we did. Brunswick had ,
three times as many stores, besides three }
successful hotels (Topsham had none). : 3
[ think she must have sold at least double (
the quantity of Topsham. With New .
England rum at forty cents a gnllon, ]
and the best of imported liquors at $1, r
in almost every other family in Topsham j
there was a drunkard or drunkards. The ]
evil became so great that the people (
nrvonr ninrmoil Two cenerations of i
my own family on both sides of the .
house suffered severely. ^
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S}H>kc Too Loud.
A Dan bury woman's fourth husband
was seriously ill a few years ago. j
Watchers from among the neighbors ,
stayed with him at night. There came
a night which bade fair to be his last on [
earth. The watchers took their place in
the sick room. The bereaved wife said *
to them: ]
"I don't think he'll last till morning.
If he drops off in the night you need not J
disturb me, for I am going to sleep aud i
want to have a rest, and everything is ]
arranged. You can take the cellar door 1 !
to lay him out on."
Seeing him drive by 011 a load of corn- j '
stalks just now reminded us of the inei-! J
dent. The unhappy woman spoke too
loud.
Many of us spend our youth in letting . <
down empty buckets into empty wells
and fritter away our age in trying to I
draw them up again, |
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Ilonhrkcrpins Hints.
Steamed Indian Meal Bread.?One !
quart of Indian meal (yellow,) one pint j
of flour, two-thirds teacupl'ul molasses,
one tableepoonful soda, salt, and sour
milk to make a thick batter not too stiff;
put it in a pan as for bread and steam it
three hours, then bake one-half hour.
Graham Bread.?Take two cupfuls of i
sour or buttermilk, and one of sweet
milk ; two cupfuls of Graham and one of
white flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, \
and one of soda ; mix the soda and the
salt with the flour, and then add the
milk, making nil into dough ; bake from
one to two hours.
Potato Salad.?Boil about a quart of
small potatoes ; peel them ; cut up onequarter
pound of clear smoked pork into
very small slices ; fry them brown ; then
pour two tablespoonfuls sweet oil, half a
goblet full right sour vinegar and a goblet
full water into the pan, and heat this
all together ; put into a bowl, cut up a
small onion and throw in a handful of
salt ; cut the potatoes in very thin slices;
have the salad ready half an hour before
you wish to use it.
Saratoga Potatoes, Moon's Sttle.?
Raw Peachblows or Early Rose, slice
them very thin ; put the slices in ice
water over night, drain off the water,
and lay them evenly between linen cloths,
press until they are dry ; have the kettle
of boiling clarified lard ready for use ;
drop in the potatoes, a few at a time,
and with a skimmer take them out before
they are browned. They will be crisp,
and are equally good whether cold or
warm, and will keep for a long time.
Ap^lf. Pork.?Have the bone taken j
from a leg of pork, and the skin scored j
in diamonds ; till up the place winch the
bone lias left with juicy apples, pared,
cored and cut small; a little brown
sugar, and some grated rind of lemon ;
place in a large baking pan, and around
it whole apples, pared and cored, with
brown sugar sprinkled over them, and
the grated rind and juice of a lemon.
Bake three hours, or according to the
size of the joint; put about half a teacupful
of water in the pan.
Conch or Witclifrrnen.
As the subject of couch, or in some
localities called witch or quack grass,
has been of late considerably discussed,
and various ways recommended for its
eradication which seems unnecessarily
expensive and in most cases ineffectual,
I will describe my method, which requires
little or no extra laboi, 110 loss of
cropping the land for a year, ami will in
one year completely kill every root of it.
I will assume that a piece of grass
land is entirely tilled with it, having
crowded out all other grasses, and the
surface of the land a mass of roots
which will be found to grow not more
than three or four inches deep, and
which when dead will afford a great deal
of plant nutriment for future crops.
The land should be plowed tight
inches deep after haying, in the dryest
part of July or August?furrows laid ns ;
flat ns possible, which will bury the
roots at least four inches deep?then harrow
with Randall's harrow, which is the
t?est; it being dry weather and the roots
buried so deep it will be several weeks
before any appearance of life will be
seen, but when any does appear in Sep1?
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cemoer or v/ciuut'i, uunun ?^buj. ui
the spring, manure on the surface and
liarrow it in or use a horse cultivator,
but the land must not be plowed, as the
abject is to keep the roots buried as deep
is possible; then at the proper time
plant either squashes, cabbages, fodder
?orn so wed thick in rows near together,
31* any crop that will completely cover
md shade the ground in a short time,
with the ordinary cultivation wiil cure
the evil in one year.
The potato crop will not do it; the 1
roots will pierce tliejjotatoes through and
through, and the more the grass roots
ire cut up by hceing. the more they inneaso,
ami so with any crop or eultiva- i
lion that does not completely shade the 1
ground; ni;d to smother it in that way is i
jure success. "
I do not consider it any serious objection
to cultivation. ? Massachusetts
Ploughman. j
Digliuddinjr Fruit Trees.
The season for disbudding fruit trees j
is at hand. The importance of the operation
is generally acknowledged, and
upon its proper performance depends
;he production of clean, healthy wood
ind the best of fruit. Take, for instance, i
i single biauch of the peacli tree when it
first starts in the spring; if in a healthy,
fruit bearing condition it will throw out '
many shoots and a great number of blosjoms,
and if the whole of these were left
it is probable two or three of the leading
jhoot3 would draw all the nourishment
to themselves and become rank and over- |
luxuriant, whilst the remainder would j
be weak and worthless. In line manner J
the fruit would be small, ill-favored and !
i great portion abortive. Hence, the
pruning called disbudding, by which we j
mean the removal of every shoot that is
not required, and the stopping of new 1
jhoots that apparently are not wanted to 1
apve form and health to the tree, by nib- I
biug out buds which, if left, would grow.
Hie same should be done with the fniit
blossoms; so many of them should be
rubbed away as to leave the remaining i
mes to gather full food and form good ["
fruit. All varieties of fruit trees require |
innually tfiis system of pnining, and the j
nine to do it is when they are in full !
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k/l\A/Ul?
Prevention of (?apen in Chickm*.
Ciapea is caused by the. presence of n j
parasitic worm in the breathing tubes of
the chickens. When they have gained a
lodgment it is difficult or impossible to j
lisplace them. The ouly cure is prevention.
This may be effected through
deanliness in the nesting places, changing
the feeding ground frequently, preventing
the mixture of any of the droppings
of the older fowls with the food of
the chicks, aud by general attention to '
perfect sanitary precautions. Young j
animals of nearly all kinds are infested i
svith similar parasites, lambs and calves
especially, and their presence may be i
looked for iu every poultry yard unless
the precautions mentioned are ol>?etved.
The Ilonse of Representatives of
Connecticut passed a bill making the |
legal rate of interest six per cent, iu the 1<
absence of a contract for a different lace. 1
The bill previously paused Urn Senate. , 1
I
New Fabrics for Dresses.
A fine half transparent material called
gazeline barege is made of pure llama wool
of very bght quality. It is like beige in
appearance, though much finer, and is in
dark rich colors instead of the natural
brown and gray mi xtures of de beige. It is
especially admired in navy blue, made
up with silk and trimmed with galloon
and fringe ; it is also shown in myrtle j
green, nut brown and tilleul. It measures
thirty inches in width, and costs
seventy-five cents a yard. The woolen
suits necessary at the sea side and nice
traveling dresses will be made of this '
foivfi'n Tinnfin or rpRpmblps it in aDDear- !
anee, but is more stiff and wiry. Another j
wool tissue also to be used for traveling j
dresses is shot with colors showing I
Knickerbocker effects by having rough
threads of dark shade raised on the
smoothest surface. .All-wool bourrette
is shown for similar costumes, and is
more expensive. It has raised figures
of tiny leaves or flowers, or perhaps only
dashes of color. The price is 81.25 a
yard for goods nearly thirty inches wide.
Sea side grenadine is all of pure wool
in lace-like open patterns and in matelasse
designs. This will be much used
for the country, traveling, mountains
and also for town wear later in the fall.
It is shown in ecru, tilleul, navy blue,
gray and green, and is to be made up in
combination with silk, or the entire
dress may be of the grenadine : SI.25 a
yard is the price. Cobweb cloth is a
novelty this season. It seems made up
of threads of loose zephyr wool tied in
diamond figures with silk. This pretty
lace like fabric is soft and thin yet
strong, and is shown in olive, bronze,
tilleul, light blue and ecru shades. It is
nn/1 Atilt* nr firA vorrla
UUUUiC ? IV. 4 IU| UilU vyuij AWlt* V* MTV J TM V.V
are required for an over dress. The
dress beneath must be of silk. This will
be used for watering place dresses. Drap
de Medine is an oriental stuff in bayadere
stripes with alternate lines of silver-colored
silk and wool. Mecca gauze is
another wool fabric with Knickerbocker
shreds und dashes. The genuine Knickerbocker
goods of wool of very light
quality for early spring wear are shown
in cream, navy blue, myrtle green, gray,
brown and ecra, with cardinal red.
New 6ilk goods are soft, like raw silks
thinly woven ; they come in irregular
stripes, dashes of color in knotted
threads, brocaded lines, and in tisli scale
patterns in Turkish and Persians colors,
showing much olive and bronze, and
quaint green shades oddly combined
with blue and gray and cream color.
They cost $5 a yard, and measure twentyseven
inches in width. Mixtures of silk
and wool show similar designs in larger
figures and broader stripes. These be.
in at $1.25 a yard and go up to $3.
Colored percale bands, embroidered in
Colors in regular Hamburg work, are
imp< ; ted for trimming the fine dark percah
s ami Scotch ginghams. The ix rcah
is myrtle green, navy blue or seal brown,
aud the embroidery is in self colors am.
white. They are two or three inches
widn, ami cost fifty to sixty-five cents j
yard. Fine Scotch percales without
glaze are imported in these dark colors
for dresses to be trimmed with this em
broidery. To trim white muslin dresses
for summer is the new Fayeux openwork
in Renaissance designs, that are said to
he copied from antique church lace.
This costs from SI.25 to $2.75 a yard.
Before and After Marriage.
When you see a young man sitting in
a parlor, with the ugliest six-year-old
boy that ever frightened himself in the
minor, clambering over his knees, jerking
his white tie out of knot, mussing
his white ves't, Jcicking his shins, feeling
in all his pockets for nickels, bombarding
him from time to time with various
bits of light furniture and bijouterie,
calling him names at the top of his fiendish
lungs, and yelling incessantly for him
to come out in the yard and play, while
the unresisting victim smiles all the time
like the cover of a comic almanac, you
may safely bet, although there isn't tin
sic 11 of a girl apparent in a radius of
10,000 miles, you can bet your bottom
do: lor that howling boy has a s:ster whets
primping in a room not twenty feet
away, and that the young man doesn't
come there just for the fun of playing
with her brother.
They were very pretty and there was
apparently live or six years difference in
their ages. As the train pulled up at
Bussev, out on the A. K. & D., the
younger girl blushed, flattened her nose
nervously against the window, and drew
DacK in joyous smiies as a yuuug iujiu
came dashing into the car, shook hands
tenderly and cordioliy, insisted on carrying
her valise, magazine, little paper
bundle, and would probably have carried
her had she permitted him. The passengers
smiled as she left the car, and the '
murmur went rippling through the
coach: " They're engaged." The other
girl sat looking nervously out of the
window, and once or twice gathered her
parcels together as though she would
leave the car, yet seemed to be expecting
some one. At last he came. He bulged
into the door like a house on fire, looked
along the seats until his manly gaze fell
on her upturned, expectant face, rpared :
"Come on! I've been waiting for you on
the platform for fifteen minutes!"
grabbed her basket, and strode out of
the ear, while she followed with a little
valise, a bandbox, a paper bag full of
lunch, a bird cage, a glass jar of jelly
preserve^, and an extra shawl. And a 1
crusty looking old bachelor in the fur- :
ther end of the car croaked out, in nni*m
with the indignant looks of the passen- :
gers : 44 They're married !"
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The Russian Army. t
A dispatch from Vienna ?*ys : The
Press publishes a letter from Jassy giv- '
iug a detailed ordre de bataille of the '
mobilized portion of the Russian army
l)oth in Europe and the Caucasus. It i
says : Concentration and organization is 1
so far ready tfiat the forces may hike the '
field at an/ moment. The south army <
comprises an active operating army of i
four </>rps d'amwe, having an effec- i
tive/ strength of 114,000 men, 32,800 ]
horses aud 452 field guns; the coast '
army with 72,000 men, 16,400 horses arid i
216 guns, and the corps d'armee in the ?
Caucasus, reckoned at an effective i
strength of 120,000 men, 25,000 horses J
und 352 guns. This fully corresponds ty i
the war effective as systematic ?d by the 1
Drganization of 1874. J
A Bright Little Bourgeois.
Wo are reminded of one particularly
bright little bourgeoiee, whose life we
have followed from afar during many
years. When we first knew her, more
than twenty years ago, she was a young
and blooming bride, who took possession
of the seat reserved for her at the till in
her husband's shop as proudly as if it had
been a throne. It was a large grocery
shop in the Rue St. Denis, and the business
was flourishing. Madam M 's throne
was fenced off from the shop on three
sides by a brass wire retting,leaving only
an opening in front vliich served as f
Uvirthl nn.l OOflOTlf
ilttUJC 1UI UC1 uu^uv OX1U
countenance. There she sat day after
day, with the heavy leather-bound bcoks
and ledgers before her, always busy and
never hurried; with a gTacious smile for
every customer, and a vigilant eye for all
the shopmen. In the summer, when the
Rue St. Denis was hot and stifling; in
the winter, when the ever opening door
sent in cold draughts of wind, there she
sat. One would like to think that in the
evening there was some relaxation; but
as every account that was sent in by that
house was in her hand writing, we fear
there was often evening work as well
After a time a little girl took her seat
beside her within the sanctuary of the
brass wire netting and Dialed with her
doll, or did some little bit of childish
needlework under the mother's eye. The
doll soon made room for slates and copybooks;
but still the child was there and
kept her mother company. In time she
took her place now and then at the heavy
books by way of initiation into the myssteries.
while her mother worked by
her side. Years went by, and Madam
M was still there; her eye was as
vigilant, perhaps more vigilant than ever,
but it was less bright ; her smile was as
gracious and as unfailing, but it was less
varied and more conventional; in a word,
ner youiu was gone, unmj pw?w
behind that commercial cage of brass wire.
The other day, looking into the shop, we
noticed that there was a new master. But
the mistress was not new; the child, the
girl, the woman whose life had been
spent there, now reigned in her mother's
stead. The shop, her dot, herself, had
been handed over together to the same #
purchaser. ' 'Her father and mother had
retired," she said. "They live in the ^
country now," she added, not without a
touch of pride.?Macmillan's Magazine.
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The Drunkard's Appetite.
There was living not long since, in
Brooklyn, a man who had inherited from
a drunken father an appetite for rum.
He was a hopeless drunkard. The man
had many noble instincts, and, better
than all these, he had a loving, faithful,
brave wife, who made skillful war upon
the demon, her husband's master. Becoguizing
the fact that her husband was
under an overpowering impulse, that he
longed and struggled manfully to free
himself from the passion for drink, she
beut all the energies of her woman nature
to the task of helping him. She
loved and suffered and toiled until at last
the loving Rnd suffering and toiling accomplished
their purpose. She took her
husband by the hand, and shared with
him his struggle, until, after years
of labor, she overcame his master, and
saw him a free man again. Her battle
with rum had been a tierce one, taxing
and wasting her strength sorely, but she
was conqueror at last. Her husband
stood upon manly feet, and showed no
signs of falling again. Several years
passed away, and this reformed man fell
ill of consumption. The distinguished
physician, from whose lips we have the
story, prescribed alcoholic stimulants as
the only means possible of prolonging
his life. The poor wife was in terror,
and begged the physician to recall the
prescription. She told, liim of her long
struggle and victory, and said she preferred
that her husband should die then,
a sober man, than that he should All a
drunkard's grave a year later, hut the
freed spirit of the man was strong, and
he undertook to take alcoholic liquors as
medicine, and to confine himself absolutely
to such times and measures in the
natter as the physician should prescribe.
This he did, and, during the months thus
added to his life he never once djaiik a
single drop more than the prescription
called for, and he died at last a sober
man, as the wife bad so earnestly prayed
that he might. But the eud was not yet.
When the loving ami patient woman laid
Him in his grave, and saw her long labors
thus ended in the victory for which she
had toiled so hard and suffered so bitterly,
she turned, in her grief, to the brandy
which had been left in the honse^and,
drinking it, she fell herself into the 'power
of the fiend whieh she had fought so
Heroically. And that woman died* not
many months later, a hopeless, hslpless
drunkard. /
A Waterspout in IntKa.
The clouds grew very dark and threatening,
and immediately the course of
the vessel was changed from southeast
to due north, in order to run away from
the point toward which the storm seemed
to be centering, which proved to be
on our port bow. Gradually the
clouds, which, by-the-bv e, were forming
in strati, grew almost black, and seemed
to be about three miles away. A breeze
having sprung up suddenly led us to
think we were certain to have our, thus
far, remarkably smooth passage interrupted
by an Indian ocean storm, or possibly
a cyclone. Bat instead, to our
trrpjif, nleasure. we saw emerging from
D"~ ~ 4 w v
the dense mass of cloud a most distinctly
marked waterspout. We could sec perfectly
well tie water rise, in the shape
of a cylinder, to a considerable height
from the ocean, when the revolutions of
the wind grew larger, and the water,
being carried by the wind, spreud ont in
the form of a fnnne1, larger and larger,
until it became lost in the clouds.
The spout wai drawing wa'er for
about fifteen* minutes when wc noticed
that its junction with the ocean was
broken, and it then looked almost precisely
like the lower part of a balloon as
it floats in the air, flapping from side to
ride. Gradually this lower part disappeared
from the bottom upward, until it
eras wholly lost in the. clouds. Almost
immediately afterward we raw on the
mrface of the water what looked like
*Uam rising, but what proved to be tho
tpray caused by a very heavy fall of
ah?; on it came until it reached us,
vhen, for ufc least thirty minutes, it
rai&ed m bard as I ever mitt it r%;?,