The McCormick advance. [volume] (McCormick, S.C.) 1886-1887, January 13, 1887, Image 4
A MODERN UTOPIA,
THE CHARM OF THE JAPANESE
ISLANDS.
Pleasing Characteristics of the Peo
pie—A Land of Many Holi
days—Master and Ser
vant—Japanese Art.
• no distinction which Japan enjoys
is, that while other countries have lovely
3pots she is everywhere enchanting. The
whole length of the island chain, 1,200
miles in extent, hurdiy presents a spot
that would not be a subject for a land
scape painter. The great central moun
tain range, with the overtowering cone-
shaped Fujiama, rises almost out of the
ocean below to be lost in view in the
clo.'.ds above. Long transverse spurs of
hil’s run out into the sea. Deep, warm,
rich valleys have been everywhere cut
through the mountains and hills, and
bordering the ocean fertile plains have
been formed from the weatherings and
washings of the great mountain masses.
Covering these plains, valleys, hillsides
and mountains is a verdure that riots in
luxuriance. Clear streams, from their
elevated sources, dash through narrow
gorges, pour in gleaming cataracts down
precipitous mountain sides and whirl
in crystal eddies at the feet of over
branching forest trees. It is a climatic
zone where the flora of the cold north
and that of th* heated sonth meet and
intermingle. The pine and palm, the
maple aud magnolia, the beech and bam
boo, and the oak and the orange inter
lace their branches in the same grove.
Around all the land are the waters of
the great ocean, from which soft winds
temper the heat of an almost tropic sun.
Living in such scenes of enchantment
these people are as light of heart and
sunny in disposition as children, and so
polite and pleasure loving as to excite
the admiration of even their French and
Italian visitors. There is no dwelling so
humble b it it has a spot for trees and
flowers. The rich have gardens in which
are faithful reproductions in miniature
of their varied landscapes, hidden in
gold of the ripened
and wheat is contrasted against a back
ground of green foliage. Whatever name
may be given to the religion of that peo
ple, and whatever creeds and doctrines
may have been engrafted upon their be
liefs, the main feature of their worship
is an intense love, amounting almost to
an adoration, of nature. This appears
in their whole life. They have built
their temples on the sides of the great
mountains, embowered them in over
hanging groves, and surrounded them
with everything of flowering shrub. The
sites of these command beautiful views
of the surrounding country, and usually
are near fountains and waterfalls. The
village shrines are located in the most
charming spots of the neighborhood,
and no labor is spared to adorn and beau
tify them. The highways are bordered
by rows of trees, planted centuries ago,
whose branches form an evergreen arch
over the head of the traveler. The road
to Nikko, where the temples and tombs
of the Tycoons are situated, has a grand
avenue of giant flrs. For sixty miles
one may ride in the shade of these wide-
branching trees. From Yokohama south
to Kioto, the old capital, 400 miles, the
road is one continuously shaded avenue,
iV.mdin<r alone the ocean shore, around
narrow bays and inlets and over high
hills and mountain sides.
Unlike their neighbors, the Chinese,
the Japanese take time from their toil
to enjoy all this. Their government may
have been despotic and arbitrary, but it
never overworked its laboring popula
tion. It gave them more holidays than
any" people under the sun ever enjoyed. !
They had what were known as the
“Ichi-roku” days, that is, all the days in i
the lunar months that were designated I
by one or six. Thus the 1st, (5th, 11th, |
liith, 21st and 20th days of each month
were legal holidays. In addition to
these, the birthdays of the ruling Em- j
peror and Empress, and also of several
of the greatest of their predecessors of
the ruling dynasty, which reaches back
through 2,600 years, are holidays. Every
village h is festivals in honor of its patron
saint, and the saints of the famous tem
ples and shrines have festal days. On
all these the people, in their holiday
dresses, gather at the temples and shrines ;
for thanksgiving and to admire the
beauties of earth and sky. Whole neigh- j
borhoods turn out their population, |
leaving only enough people at home to
care for the households, and go some
times hundreds of miles, on what may
appropriately bo called these religiout
picnics. They walk along the shaded
avenues, talking, laugh ng and singing.
They rest when w'eary from walking in
the shade of the great trees by some
clear stream, or some bubbling spring.
All tWse great highways are lined with
tea booths, where, tea, rice, eggs or cakes
can be had for an incomparably low
price.
The spring and summer bring the
flower festivals, when city and village
streets for miles are filled with the most
beautiful floral exhibitions, and crowds
of admiring people. There is no more
beautiful sight than one of the long
wide streets lighted at night and filled
with flowers. The love of the beautiful
has led the Japanese to forego the grosser
pleasure of e,.ting the fruit of the cherry
tree in order that they may enjoy the
beauty and fragrance of the cherry blos
soms. There ate large groves of the
double-flowered cherry trees in all parts
of the country, which grow to enormous
Bi»e. The flower is as large as a rose,
and when in full bloom these groves are
a marvel of beauty, and are visited by
thousands of people, who spend the
whole day in these flowery avenues. The
chrysanthemum gardens, to be found in
all towns and villages, are points of
great attraction. In these are to be seen
every variety of that flower, every shade
o$| color, and almost every size of blos
som
The summer sees streams of people,
the poor as well as the rich, going to
gaze at Fujiama, the pearl of mountains.
No. person is so poor and no distance so
jjreat but several pilgrimages are made
m a lifetime to the venerated mountain.
In the autumn, when the golden rice and
wheat, and the brown millet have been
gathered, the harvest festival is held
m every part of the country. There>
in the groves, on soft green carpets
spread by nature, under the full harvest
moon, they make merry, night after
night, with song and dance At these
harvest festivals ail classes, from prince
to peasant, rejoice together over the
ample winter’s store. It is not only
in this intense worship of nature
that the beauty of their country has
molded and influenced their natural
character. It is seen in their domestic
intercourse. In all the conventionalities
*of polite life they are far in advance of
any people in the Occident This refined
politeness pervades every grade of so
ciety. It >s just as noticeable among the
lower as in the higher (lasses. To be
inde in word or act is to become a social
outcast. The poorest workers, when
they meet, greet each other as politely,
aud pass the compliments of the day as
freely and feelingly as do those of higher
stations. While the vocabulary of com
pliments and blessings is a long one,
there are no words for a curse iu their
whole language. There may be hate,
jealousy and envy, but they find no ver
bal expression. It is a constant delight
to hear only pleasant words and good
wishes.
The relations of masters and servants
are as admirable as possible. They aro
mutual and confidential. While the ser
vant studies the interest of the master,
the latter makes the yelfare of the ser
vant and his family his duty. The ser
vant is made to feel that he is a factor of
some importance in his employer’s busi
ness by being consulted upon many mat
ters of importance. The master is polite
and kind and the servant deferential and
respectful on all occasions. The relation
of parents and children shows the same
refining influences. There is no assump
tion of the authority of the drillmaster.no
exaction of blind obedience, no ruling by
fear on the part of the parent. Obedience
is induced by patient teaching day after
day. The chila is lovingly taught why he
should do certain things, and why he
sou Id not do certain other things. The
bond between parents and children is
one of reason and regard, and the result
is that the child makes his duty to the
parent the foremost object of his life,
and his own interests are made entirely
secondary. A foreigner might live iu
that country for years ana see less
parental tyranny and violence than he
would see in most families in some other
countries in a month, and he can see
more filial devotion there in a month
than is observable elsewhere in years.
Japnnese ideal art is only a repro
duction of the beauties of na’ture. The
artist puts mountains, valleys, waterfalls,
lakes, trees, flowers and birds on porce
lain, paper, silk, satin and lacquer, but
beyond this field of decoration he has no
fancy. These are 60me of the character
istics of the Island Empire and its peo
ple, but it must not be inferred that
these finer traits of character mean
effeminacy, for they do not. These peo
ple are brave and daring, as all those
who were reared among mountains have
been in all ages. They have proved
their title to bravery on many a bloody
field. In spite of time consumed iu
pilgrimages and in worshiping nature,
they are industrious workers. They have
built up manufactures, established trade
and commerce, and developed a system
of agriculture that is more thorough and
brings better results than that of many
of their neighbors.—San Francisco Chron
icle.
How the Presidents Looked.
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madi
son, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van
Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor,
Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan and Johnson
wore no beards. Lincoln was the first
President who had whiskers. Grant,
Garfield and Hayes had full chin
whiskers. Arthur wore moustache and
side whiskers and Cleveland wore the
moustache, but no whiskers.
Washington was a manly man, majestic
in proportions, and of dignified bearing.
He was of the blonde type.
Jefferson was tall and elegant looking,
with sandy hair and fair complexion.
His granddaughter, Mrs. Randolph
Meikleham, is wonderfully like him in
appearance.
Madison was small and plain. He
looked like a well-to-do farmer. Mrs.
Madison had a majestic and queenly air,
and he appeared to disadvantage, phys
ically, fff her company. Before she
married him she alluded to him to her
friends as the “little great Madison.”
Monroe was a good-looking man in
his uniform. He liked to wear the,
cocked hat of the revolution, and held
to it so long that he went by the sobri
quet of “the last cocked hat.”
Both John Adams and his son, John
Quincy, were stout, and the son wai
thick set and short. The latter was
qnite bald.
Jackson was gaunt thin, and plain.
His eyes were his best feature.
Van Buren was an insignificant look
ing little man, the least handsome of the
Presidents.
Harrison was a fine-looking, soldierly
man, even in old age, of noble features
and genuine dignity.
Tyler was thin and tall, and his nose
was remarkable for si/e and plainness.
Polk was small and unattractive in per
son and mauners. Taylor was a large
man of rough exterior, but a pleasant,
genial person. Fillmore had a dignified
appearanee without elegance, but genteel
and agreeable. He was a large man of
good address. Pierce was a slight,
handsome man of delightful manners and
winning voice. Ben: Perley Poore, in
his recent “Reminiscences,” says that he
was the most popular man personally
that ever occupied the Presidential chair.
“No other President ever won the affec
tions of the people of Washington so
completely as did he. ” His successor,
Mr. Buchanan, was courtly in bearing
and was a fine-looking man even in old
age. He had a penchant for white neck
ties, which gave him a clerical look.
Lincoln, though tall, gaunt and
homely, nevertheless had a pleasing face
when engaged in conversation. Johuson
was one of the old time Presidents in the
matter of personal appearance. He in
variably wore black broadcloth, and was
scrupulously neat in dress. He was
heavy built, but not stout, somewhat
under six feet, and had a head of beauti
ful outline—his only handsome feature.
Grant had light sandy whiskers and dark
hair, and was of medium size and weight.
He was the youngest of the Presidents.
Hayes and Garfield looked alike—both
large and tall, ©f florid complexions and
good looking. Garfield was the finer
looking of tho two.
General Arthur is the only President
who wore side whiskers. He was a well,
preserved man of elegant appearance. In
the matter of dress he ranked all his
predecessors.
President Cleveland is the first of the
Presidents who has worn a moustache
only. He is large and strong, but not
good looking, and is fast growing bald.
—New York Sun.
An Elephant in a Parade Ground.
A menagerie was recently moving
slowly along the road near Portsmouth,
England, when the largest elephant of
the caravan, who is known as Madam
Jumbo, escaped from her keeper, and
charged upon a military barrack that
stood by the road. She seized with her
trunk the sentinel who stood at the gate,
and threw him at full length on the
ground, without hurting him in the
least, and then triumphantly entered the
parade-ground within the barracks at a
grand trot. The 300 soldiers who were
drilling in the enclosure were so much
astonished and alarmed at the appear
ance of so strange an enemy, that they
broke ranks and took flight in every di
rection. The elephant proceeded to at
tack a tank filled with water, part of
which she drank, and upset the rest.
Then she charged upon a bin filled with
potatoes for the soldiers, and ate up the
potatoes Having satisfied her hunger
and thirst, and put a batalion of soldiers
to route, Madam Jumbo allowed herself
to be captured, and contentedly resumed
her place in the caravan, to the great re
lief of the soldiers.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Shopping Toilets.
ft Unfitness in dress a peculiarity of
American women? asks Clara Belle in
one of her New York letters. ‘ Are the
women of other nations as insensible to
the incongruous as are ours? These
questions were suggested by the scene
in a basement room of one of the large
stores in this city. There were hundreds
of women passing in and out and strolling
from one counter to the other, ana
among them were worn some of the
handsomest street toilettes I ever saw.
Often was the eye almost blinded by the
sparkling of jet in the electric light, and
satins, velvets, plushes of all colors
formed a moving kaleidoscope. The de
partment was one for housekeeping
goods, and some of those gorgeously
arrayed women were selecting chopping
bowls, carving knives, tin pans, fire
shovels, etc. The climax was reached
when, through an opening in the throng,
I saw a young woman -whose toilet was
largely made up of white watered silk
and lace poising a black-bottomed kettle
with a dainty-gloved hand 1 Her cos
tume would have answered for an ele
gant reception; perhaps she intended go
ing to one after purchasing a preserving
kettle.
Thackeray in Praise of Woman.
Thackeray, in one of his novels, says:
“There are more clever women in the
world than men think for. Our habit is
to despise them; we believe they do not
think because they no not contradict us;
and are weak because they do not rise
up against us. A man only begins to
know women as he grows old; and for
my part my opinion of this cleverness
rises every day. When I say that I
know women I mean that I don’t know
them. Every single woman I ever met
is a puzzle to me, as I have no doubt she
is to herself. Say they are not clever!
They are constantly exercising cleverness
of the finest sort.
“You see a demure-looking woman,
faithful in house bills aud shirt buttons,
obedient to her lord and anxious to please
him in all things; silent on politics or
literature, and, if referred to, saying
with a smile of humanity: ‘Oh, women
are not judges upon such matters; we
leave learning to men.’ ‘Yes,’ says
Jones, ‘attend to the house, my dear, and
leave the rest to us.’ Benighted idiot!
She has long ago taken your measure;
she knows your weakness and ministers
to them in a thousand artful ways. She
knows your obstinate points, and marches
round them with the most curious art
and patience, as you will see an ant on a
journey turn round an obstacle.”
The Man Milliner’s Reign.
Everywhere uptown cloth jackets that
fit like jerseys and ulsters that are mold
ed to the graceful, rounding figures of
the ladies, as men can scarcely hope or
wish their overcoats to be, inclose the
persons of all well-dressed women. It
is impossible for any man (except a
woman’s tailor) to judge whether the
new fashion is or is not a good one.
And I would not give a fig for the opin
ion of a man so dull that he could sec a
half-dozen Murray Hill girls, who have
strained art and poured out money in
order to look their best, and then could
express any but the one opinion. Amid
the rack and stress of shifting fashions
since I have been among them each al
teration in their gowns has seemed to
make them more and more entrancing.
What brought about this revolution?
Well, first the common jersey, which
made a display of the outline of the fig
ure popular, and then the demand for an
equally tight-fitting overgarment to keep
up the accurate exposure of outline when
the weather called for something out
side and on top of the jersey. The
men’s tailors were called upon to con
struct these feminine “ulsters,” as
they were called. These tailors got ex
tra prices for this new work and liked
it (that is, the extra prices) so w r ell that
they enlarged their signs to attract more
a dies. This encroached on the field of
he men dressmakers, who then hired
ailors and also altered their signs.
Thus the words “ladies’tailor” appeared
on the signs of two sets of tradesmen.
And thus, also, came it to pass that the
original men’s tailors went on from mak
ing ulsters to making dresses, and the
men dressmakers became the makers of
tailor-made gaiments of all sorts. It is
interesting to visit one of these ladies’
tailor shops, as I did yesterday. Here
were trousers by the score hung in a iine
on hooks, like beeves before a butcher’s
stall, and across the room were great glass
cases filled with ladies jackets and skirt®,
blazing with embroidery in gold, with
gaudy libbons and with buttons big as
butter dishes. A young man with his
coat off and one arm out stiff, like a
mailbag catcher on a postal car, was be
ing measured for a coat in the thick of
a bevy of circling ladies, one of whom
stood on a low platform while a young
girl encirclea her with a taj e measure
and the great woman’s tailor talked of
whalebones, linings, flounces and I don’t
know what not.—New York Letter.
Fashion Notes.
Postilion backs, pointed fronts and
short sides are seen on basques.
Gold brooches representing a tennis
racquet, with ball, are popular.
In frocks, basques and mantles the
shoulder seams are made very short.
For general wear this season cheviot,
tweed and canvas goods take tho lead.
Among the fashionable combinations
black and yellow retains its popularity.
With tulle or lace neckwear small
brooches of rare workmanship will be
worn.
For elderly ladies arav watered silk
is combined with black cashmere iu
gowns.
Jet beads, it is said, will give way to
balls of feathers as a finish for hat
brims.
The tape stripe among the new woolens
looks as if it had been sowed on the
fabric.
English gowns are plaited and plain,
and French frocks are gathered and
puffed.
Fall hats have crowns of cloth, velvet
and satin, and have a seam directly in
the back.
Tiny shells of mother-of-pearl are scat
tered over a handsome fichu of tulle and
old point lace.
Bright red will in a great measure be
supplanted by bright yellow in brighten
ing dark costumes.
Pale pink veils are worn with every
sort of bonnet. They are more becom
ing than the red ones so long in favor.
Link sleeve buttons have a cat’s head
in low relief and a pug’s face in high
relief, signs of the zodiac, or any two
objects not alike.
All American frocks for little girls are
made short iu the waist, full of skirt,
and loose and comfortable in fit all over
the person this fall.
Hand-made underwear is shown iu
plain and embroidered styles. It grows
steadily in favor, and is among the best
of ready-made goods of this class.
Silver bead bracelets are much worn
and the bead pattern figures conspicu
ously in gold and silver trinkets of all
kinds. A new bracelet shows alternate
beads of gold and platinum.
English tailor styles in dresses remain
the same in general cut and retain favor
at the East for the promenade. French
fashions in walking^ dresses are favor
ably regarded in the South and West.
There is a revolt against small birds
and feathers of the same for millinery
ornaments among those ladies who wish
to put a stop to the slaughter of the for
est birds of America, and the whole
world.
The hair is no longer massed over the
forehead, but a few light curls or waves
fall on each side. It is still piled up at
the top of the head, and well brushed up
from the nape of the neck. It is well off
the temples, and leaves the ears quite
free.
Oatrich feathers are in high favor in
fashionable millinery. They are seen in
all colors, also in ombre and mottled ef
fects, while novelties with tinted tips
upon which glisten pearl beads, will be
very effective for evening wear in the
hair or on the bonnet.
Ashantee and Its People.
Ashantee, a new kingdom on the Gold
Coast, has given the British no little
trouble, and may give them a good deal
more. It is mountainous, well watered
and healthful, except in the lower dis
tricts, and has a population of about
1,500,000, one-fifth of whom are war
riors. The beginning of the kingdom is
obscure; but traditions say that it was
occupied several centuries ago by immi
grants from a region north of the King
Mountains, caused, probably, by the
spread of the Mohammedan Empire to
Timbuctoo. The first known of it in
Europe was iu 1700, when Coomassie
was made the capital by Osai Tootoo I.,
who, having overcome various separate
states, was established as a kind of
feudal prince over a large district. In
their course of conquest over the Fantees
the Ashanteea followed them even to the
large seaport towns, aud butchered them
by thousands. The British sided with
the weaker party, when the savage foe
attacked the fort of Anamboe, and
would have slaughtered the garrison
had not the British Governor displayed
a flag of truce. Hostilities lasted,
with some interruptions, from 1807 to
1826 when the A&hantees were finally
driven from the sea coast. Some four
teen years ago the British were involved
in another war with their old enemy.
Then an army under Sir Garnet Wolseley
penetrated to the heart of the Kingdom,
burned Coomassie and returned safely to
the coast. Notwithstanding their re
verses and losses, the Ashantees are still
belligerent and powerful, and enjoy as
much prosperity as any negro nation in
western Africa. They are very barbar
ous and bloodthirsty; but their abund
ant gold, extent of territory and success
ful campaigns have yielded them pres
tige and prominence. They have no
military knowledge, but depend upon
their savage bravery and overwhelming
numbers, including many rlaves, which
the chiefs can put in the field. The
King is commander-in-chief, and often
leads his-heskin-pifSOB. As an instance
of their desperate courage, many of them,
after defeat by the British, were so mor
tified aud so fearful of degradation that
they coolly sat down on kegs of gun-
powder and blew themselves into the air,
in presence of the hostile camp. The
government of those negroes is an abso
lute despotism, the King exercising com
plete control over the lives and property
of his subjects. He has spies every
where, and the slightest act or word of
disaffection is at once reported, and the
rebel is put to death. He is the great
property owner; he levies a tax of twenty
per cent, on all manufactured gold and
all gold taken from the mines, so that be
is the richest individual in Africa.
Slavery prevails extensively, the chiefs
often holding 1,000 slaves each; these
beings are for the most part pagan ne
groes, captured in war by Mohamme
dans, brought from the interior and sold
into bondage. Polygamy is a favorite
institution, a man’s importance being
rated by the number of his wives. The
King is limited, poor fellow, to 3,338,
who occupy two entire streets and are
rigorously secluded from everybody save
the sovereign and his feminine relatives.
To look on one of them, even acciden
tally, is a capital offence. Adultery is
punished by a line, and retaliation of
any violent kind on the part of the hus
band is thought mean and degrading.
The Ashantees seem to delight in shed
ding blood, and human sacrifice is a
part of their religious ceremony. — Com
mercial Advertiser.
Indian Gamblers.
For the last two weeks, a lot of sharp,
good-looking Indians have been lounging
about the town. They own race horses,
good clothes and the showiest of blank
ets and carry plenty of silver. Old set
tlers know them well. They are the
gamblers of the Moses tribe, and yearly
make their pilgrimages to this point at
the time when the Yakima and Klickitat
Indians are well provided with money,
earned by laboring in the hop fields.
They are expert card players—up to all
the tricks—and are not afraid to try
their skill and nerve with the sportive
frontiersmen to the north, with whom
they frequently have long sieges of
“draw,” and oftentimes to their material
profit. To these experienced gamblers
the local siwashes are as children, and
lose their earnings and ponies in a
prodigal manner. This season is just a
repetition of the last and many previous
ones, and Moses’* men will go home well
fattened with wealth, while the home In
dian and money-earner will pass a lean
and hungry winter. — Yakima (Arizona)
Signal.
A Pretty Experiment.
With so simple an article as a red cab
bage, a very old but pretty little chemi
cal experiment may be made by the
young people, with the result of amus
ing and astonishing those around them.
The effects may be strikingly shown in
this manner: Cut threa leaves of the
cabbage into small pieces, and after
placing them in a basin pour a pint of
boiling water over them, letting them
stand an hour; then pour off the liquid
into a decanter. It will be of a tine blue
color. Then take four wine glasses—*.
into one put six drops of strong vinegar;
into another six drops of solution of
soda; iuto a third the same quantity of
strong solution of alum; and let the
fourth glass remain empty. Fill up the
glasses from the decanter, and the liquid
poured into the glass containing the acid
will quickly change to a beautiful red;
that poured with the soda will be a fine
green, and thft poured into the empty
glass will rem
unchanged.
There are nj
France comp<
THE WASHINGTON WILLARDS
Three Brothers Who Have Grown Rich
and Ramons In the Hotel Bosiness-
rous Masonic lodges in
exclusively of women.
[From the Pittsburgh Times.]
“The Willards” in Washington are
three Vermont brothers, Joseph, Henry
and - Caleb, named in the order of
their ages. The latter is the pro
prietor of the Ebbitt, worth one or two
millions. Henry owns much property
in bonds. With Joseph, the elder, ho
is joint owner of the Willard Hotel,
which they kept for many years. His es
tate is away up in the millions and
growing. Joseph is the richer, as well
as the elder of the three, and is said to
spend much of his time cutting coupons
from bonds. He is in no active business.
He is a widower and one son is the only
heir. He lives the life of a recluse. If
he is not a good lover he is a good hater.
He has little to do with mankind in
general, albeit he has the appearance of
a mild-mannered, benevolent-minded
g entleman of 65 years. He and Caleb
ave not spoken for years. Joseph does
the hating and Caleb the grinning and
bearing. The latter owns a long row of
property on F street, beginning with the
Ebbitt. Only one strip of twelve feA
interrupts his continuous ownership from
Thirteenth to Fourteenth street. It is
next to the Ebbitt. This strip Joseph
owns. Caleb has tried every means to
buy it. Joseph holds it solely to spite
his brother. It is occupied by a tenant-
less one-story structure. Not a great
while ago a suave, business-like gentle
man called upon Joseph and stated that
ho was looking for a location to estab
lish a candy manufactory. He was im
pressed with the F street location and
wanted to know if it was in the market.
Joseph Willard rep’ied that he would
sell if he could get his price. Then his
visitor asked the terms. Looking up
and catching the business man’s eye he
said: “My price is $500,600.. You go
back to C. C. Willard, who sent you
here, and tell him that.” It iasaid that
Joseph has so fixed ,t in his will that
the property can never fall into Caleb’s
hands or the hands of his heirs. That
he is insane is not suspected. He loves
his mother, and makes a daily visit to
her in the house of the brother he so
hates. He and Henry though not alien
ated have little intercourse. There is
nothing the matter between Henry and
Caleb. The singularity spoken of is lodg
ed specially with Joseph. He dresses
neatly, does i ot seek intercourse with
his fellows, and only a few persons have
dealings with him. General Boynton
has his confidence and is sometimes the
medium of communication between him
and others in business transactions. He
appears to be as happy as any one and
attends the church of which he is a
member. He is ta’l and handsome and
active. His wife was one of the hand
somest women in Washington.
Henry and Caleb are enterprising
citizens and loving brothers. Both con
tribute liberally to benevolent objects,
especially to the churches to which they
belong.
A Driving Business.
An Honest Man.
Jones wanted a hansom the oiaer
night, it having reached, the “Wee, sma’
hours ayont the twal’ ” before the club
adjourned. Just then one of the two-
wlieeled conveniences whirled by, and
Jones made a frantic endeavor to stop
the vehicle.
“Hello, cabby, hold up; here’s a fare.”
Jehu, who had an engagement, drove
on, shouting back:
“Oh, no; I dont stop; my business is
driving.”
A Valuable Medical Treatise.
The edition for 1887 of the sterling Medical
Annual, known as Hosteter’s Almanac is now
ready, and may bo obtaiued, free of cost, of
druggists and general country dealers in nil
parts ol the Unit d States, Me\lco, end Indeed
in every civilized portio i of the Western Hem
isphere. This ADnanac has been issued regu
larly at the coninlbncemcnt of every year for
over one-flfth of a century. It combines, with
the soundest prac ical advice for tho preserve-
t on and rest ratio i ot hea t \ a large amount
of interesting and amusing light, reading, and
the. calendar, astronomical calculations, chro
nological items, &c., are prepared with great
care, and will be found entirely accurate. Tn«
Issue of Hostet’er’s Almanac for 18o7 will
probably be the largest edit on of a medical
work ever published in anyco- ntry- # The pro
prietors, Messrs. Hosteller & Co., Pittsburgh.
Pa., on receipt of a two cent stamp, will for
ward a c >py ny mail to any person who cannol
procure one in liis n -ighborht od.
A dog lost in Kansas made its way back to
:lie home of his master in Michigan.
Dr. Pierce’s "Favorite Prescription'’ is not
extolled as a ‘'cure-all,” but admirably fulfills
a singleness of purpose, being a most potent
specific in those chronic weaknesses peculiar
towvmen. Particulars in Dr. Pierce’s large
treatise on Diseases Peculiar to Women, 180
rages, sent for ten cents in stamp*. Address
World’s Dispensary Medical Association,
m Main Street, Buffalo. N. Y.
“ Consider yourself engaged for this set.”
>s the ring said to the diamond.
“Consumption Con be Cured.”
Dr. .T. 8. Combs, Owensville, Ohio, says: ‘‘I
hare given Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Li e -
Oil wi h Hyp Phosphites to four patients wi h
better results than sermed possible with any
remedy. Alive e ler-di'ary cases of Lung
disease, aid alvanced to that sta e when
Cou ;hs, pain in the chest, frequent breathing,
frequent pulse, lee.’ a id Emaciation. All
these cases have imreased in v e glitfiomlfito
28 ib 3., and ar j not now needing any medicine.”
The book that makes the greatest stir in
society is the plethoric pocketbook.
Rupture, pile tumors, fislulse and all diseases
of the lower bowel (except cancer), radically
cuied. Send 10 cents in stamps for book. Ad
dress, World's Dispensary Medical Associa
tion, 863 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
It takes a goose to believe in a goose bone
as prophetic of winter weather.
For restoring youthful freshness and color
to gray hair, jjse Hall’s Hair Renewer.
A neglected cough often terminates fatally.
A ver's Cherry Pectoral affords speely relief.
BROWN’S
IRON
BITTERS
WILL CURE
HEADACHE
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
DYSPEPSIA
NERVOUS PROSTRATION
MALARIA
CHILLS and FEVERS
TIRED FEELING
GENERAL DEBILITY
PAIN in the BACK & SIDES
IMPURE BLOOD
CONSTIPATION
FEMALE INFIRMITIES
RHEUMATISM
NEURALGIA
KIDNEY AND LIVER
TROUBLES
FOR SALE B Y ALL DRUGGISTS
The Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed Red
Lines on wrapper.
TAKE NO OTHER.
Pensions
The Italian peddler had retired for the
night, when there sounded a heavy knock
at the door.
“Who-a there,” he demanded.
‘ ‘I’m the man you sold a pint of chest
nuts to this afternoon.”
“Well, wbat»a you want l”
I have come to return a sound chestnut
to you. It was the only good one in the
lot, and, as I’m an honest
probably put it in by
brought it back to you.”
man, and you
mistake, I’ve
A single fact is worth a ship load of argu
ment. This may well bo applied to St. Jacobs
Oil, which is more offleae oas than all other
liniments. Mr. John Gregg, a well-known
citizen of Watsonville, California, found it to
be indispensable as a core for rheumatism.
Price, fifty cents.
In 1884 Miss Gould undertook to provide her
father’s tenantry, in Limerick, with means
of obtaining remunerative employment, and
has established a knitting enterprise, a com
plete cottage industry, in which the women
take the keenest interest.
An ounce ot discretion is better than a
pound of knowledge. Why not spend twenty-
five cents for a bottle of Red Star Cough Cure,
and save a large doctor’s bill ?
A writer says that when a girl is being
courted, she sets a great deal by a young man.
True enough; but the sentence is not gram
matical. It should read, "she ‘sits’ a great
deal by a young man.” Anyway the young
man sits a great deal by the girl.
‘‘I do not like thee. Dr. Fell,
The reason why, I cannot tell.”
It has often been wondered at, the bad edor
this oft-quoted doctor was in. ’Twos probably
because he, being one of thd'old-school doctors,
made up pills as large as bullets, which noth
ing but an ostrich could bolt without nausea.
Hence the dislike. Dr. R. V. PiercA’s "Pleas
ant Purgative Pellete” ara sugar-coated and
no larger than bird-shot, and are quick to do
their work. For all derangements of the liver,
bowels and stomach they are specific.
The woman who neglects her husband’s
shirt front is no longer the wife of his bosom
Ladies ! Those dull, lired looks and feelings
speak volumes! Dr. Kiimer’s Female Remedy
corrects all conditions.restores vigor and vitali
ty and brings back youthful bloom and beauty.
- ■ — ~ • tu<
Price $1.0
1 bottles $5.00.
Important te AH Who Work
for a living. Write to Hallet & Co., Portland,
Maine, and they will send yen full informa
tion, fiee, showing you how yon cam make
from $5 to $25 end upwards a day and live at
home, wherever you are located. Some hove
made over $50 in a day. Capital net required:
you are started free. AU ages; both sexes. AH
is new. Great incomes sure from the start.
Fortunes await all workers who begin at orce.
Daughters, Wives and Mothers.
Bend for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, free,
securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, N.Y
Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable to
use. It is not a liquid or a snuff. 60c.
BINOHAMTON.
M.IDS
M
. M.D.
THE INVALID'S BENEFACTOR.
Discoverer of Dr. Kilmer’s
Complete Female Remedy
Ladies' Home Treatment
Special and Specific treatment for
all Complaints and Diseases peculiar to
Daughters, Wives and Mothers.
Ka ^hj‘« c ha^e contains 3 bottles.
I« Each kind is also sold separately:
Female Remedy, (Blood and 8ystera)$l .
AII t II in f lixt., (Local Trcatm’t)* 1,
I A O Anointment,(External •• .50
tSUOr the three in one Package$2.00.
Recovers the “run-down;” bed-ridden”
or “abandoned.” It Eliminates Humors
and Blood Impurities thut cause Scrofula,
Cancer, Tumor, pimnles and blotches.
The ago for Pessaries and Exposures Is past,
woman's Health and usefulness again restored!
Dr. Kilmer treats internal Tumor, Cancer.
. You ean’t afford to neglect early symptoms.
Letters of inquiry promptly answered.
Dr.Kilmer’s Female Dispensary. Binghamton, N. Y.
“Invalids' Guide to Health" (Scat Free).
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
DROPSY
■^TREATED FREE. ■
DR. H. H. GREEN <Ss SONS,
Specialists for Thirteen Years **“•**
Have treated Dropsy and its complications with the
most wonderful success; use vegetable reme'lies.en-
tirely harmless. Remove alt symptoms of Dropsy in
P1 &u\e * patio nU "pronounced hopeless by the best of
Pl $romthe first dose the symptoms rapidly disappear,
and in ten days at least two-thirds of all symptoms are
rel Some may cry hurabng without knowing anything
about it. Remember, it does not cost you anytmngto
realize the merits of our treatment for yourself, in ten
days the difficulty of breathing is relieved, the pulse
regular, the urinary organs mada to discharge tneir
full duty, sleep is restored, the swelling all or nearly
gone, the strength increased and appetite made 0OoL
We are constant'y curing cases of Ibng standing, cases
that have been tapped a number of tunes, and the pa
tient declared unable to live a wsek. Give full history
of ease. Name sex. How long afflicted, how badly
swollen and where, are bowels aoative, have legs burn
ed and dripped water* Send for free pamphlet, con
taining testimonials, questions, etc.
Ten days’ treatment furnished free by mail.
If you order trial send lOcts in stamps to pay postage.
Epilepsy (Fits) Positively Cared.
II. II. GREEN & HONS, M. De.,
!2dO)4 Marietta Street, Atlanta, G».
ATLANTA
SAW WORKS.
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
Saws and Saw-Mill Supplies.
Repairing a Specialty.
Agents for L. Power A COMPANY’S
Wood Working Machinery.
Large and oomplete stock. Wnte
for oatalogue. Atlanta, Ga.
to Soldiers ,g flelrs. Send stamp
for Circulars. COL. L. BING-
HAM. Att'y, Washington, I). O.
| Habit Cured. Treatment sent'on trial.
Humane Remedy Co., Lafayette, Ind.
Blair
Invalids’Hotel sSurgical Institute
BUFFALO, 1ST. "ST.
Organized wlffi a fall Stair or elgbtee*
Experienced and Skillful Physicians
and Surgeons for the treatment off
all Chronic Diseases.
OUR FIELD OF SUCCESS.
Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Throat and
Lang Diseases, Giver and Kidney
Diseases, Bladder Diseases, Disease**
of Women, Blood Diseases and Nerv
ous Affections, cured here or at home,
with or without seeing the patient. Come ana
see us, or send ten cents in stamps for our
“ Invalids* Guide Boole,’* which gives
all particulars. _
Nervous Debility, Impo
tent')’, Nocturnal Losses,
aud nil Morbid Conditions
caused by Youthful Fol
lies and Pernicious Soli-
Oeucite
Diseases.
| Rupture. |
Specialists. Book, post-paid, 10 cts. in stamps.
J5upti:ro, or Breach, radi
cally cured without the knife,
without trusses, without pain,
and without danger. Cures
Guaranteed. Book sent for
ten cents in stamps.
PILE TUMORS and STRICTURES
treated under guarantee to cure. Book
sent for ten cents in stamps. Address World’s
Dispensary Medical Association, 6G3 Mam
Street, Buffalo, N. Y. . .
The treatment of many
__ a thousands of cases of those
Diseases of s <u * eMe8 peculiar to
•xxrOMEN
Women.
at tho Invalids’ Hotel and
Surgical Institute, has af
forded large experience in adap.’ug remedies
for their cure, and
DR. PIERCE’S
Favorite Prescription
Is the result of this vast experience.
It Is a powerful Restorative Tonic
and Nervine, imparts vigor and strength
to the system, and cures, ns if by magic, Leu-
corrhea, or “whites,” excessive
auteversiou, retroversion, bearing-
down sensations, chronic conges
tion, inflammation and ulceration
of the womb, Inflammation, pain
and tenderness in ovaries, internal
heat, aud “female weakness.”
It promptly relieves and cures Nausea
and weakness of Stomach, Indiges
tion, Bloating, Nervous Prostration
and Sleeplessness, iu either sex.
PRICE $1.00, ?Sn c % n £g&* I
Sold by Druggists everywhere. Send
ten cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce’s large
Treatise on Diseases of Women, illustrated.
World’s Dispensary Madical Association,
603 Main Street, BUFFALO, N.Y.
SIOK-HEADACHCf
Bilious Headache,
Dizziness, Constipa
tion, Indigestion,
and Bilious Attacks,
promptly cured by Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant
Purgative Pellets. 25
cents a vial, by Druggists.
PATENTS
inventors* Hand-book free. 15 yrs.
experience. FLENNER A CO.,
Attorneys, Washing-ton, D. C.
UNRIVALED ORGANS
On the EASY PA YMENT .yjtem,from •3. ( gg
UPRIGHT PIANOS,
Constructed on tho new method of stringing,
similar terms. Send for descriptive Catalogue.
MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CCt
Boston. New York, Chicago.
Kg Ropt to Cut Oft Horses’ Manes.
Celebrated ‘ECLIPSE’ HALTER
and BRIDLE Combined, cannot
be slltmed by any horse. Sample
Halter to any part of U. 8. free, o
recelp*of$l. Sold by all Saddlery
Hardware and Harness Dealers.
Special discount to the Trade.
Send for Price-List.
J. C. LIGHTHOUSE,
Rochester. N. V .
PENSION
CLAIMS.*.'*
KINDS pro.ee.*.,
v m w m m without fee unleeo
successful. TWENTY-TWO YEARS’EX-
FKRIENCE. t*B r *CORRKSPONDE>iCK tfOLXClTED.
MILO B. STEVENS & CO.
WASHINGTON. D. C. CLEVELAND. OHIO.
CHICAGO.ILL DETROIT. MICH.
fll|fP§
W E WANT YOU! ;“- 0 e SS2
profitable employment to represent us in every
county. Salary $75 per month and expenses, or o
lanre commission on soles if preferred. Goods staple.
Every one bufs. Outfit ami particulars Free.
STANDARD SILVERWARE CO.. BOSTON. MASS.
ies
Francis Drill, Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y.
J. P. STEVENS & BRO.
JEWELERS.
Atlanta, Ga.
Send for Catalogue.
ST) . Can get the most Practical Business Edu-
v/-r7Cyl't47 cation at Goldsmith’s SchoolI of Bne-
Sy'sly iu*‘Se,88XS Broad St.Atlanta,Ga. Send
v //lesn- for Circulars h Specimen of Penmanship.
nj|| Great cnglish Gout and
S BllSSa Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Box bl.OCi round, 50 cts.
ENCYCLOPEDIA JS9FS:
valuable information, ENCYCLOPEDIA.* PUB-
“ L1SHING CO., 24 Wooster Street. New York,
THURS TOM’ Spe ahLTO 0TB POWDER
Keeping Teeth Perfect and Guins Healthy.
OPIUM
FREE
and Morphine Habit cured In Iff
to30 days. Refer to luuo patients cured
In all parts. Dr. Marsh, Quincy, ilich.
Package of Fronefield’s Cattle Powder for
Horses, Cattle and Poultry. The best mad®.
FroNSFTELD, 346 Dulwyn St., Philad’a, Pa.
o BS u day. Samples worth *1.56 fr'UEB
j.lae. not under the horse s feet. Address
Brewster’s Safety Rein Holder, Holly, Jllch.
PATENTS
| ias, Patent Lawyer,
Obtained. Send stamp for
Inventor's Guide. L. But**
Washington, D. C.
A. N. U
Fifty-two, ’86
m LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD. Th
Beautiful Statuette of Bartholdi’s I^reat XS fl rk.
1STLIBKRAL A ATTRACTIVE OFFER Ever Made,
.ngement with the Statue of Liberty Manufac turing Company. I am
1
A
By arrangement with the Statue of Liberty Manufacturlng Company. I am
enabled to make the following unexampled offers, which place this b.autl-
ful statuette, of bronze and nickel, within the reach of everv one :
The statuette has been specially made for me, and is a fae simile of the
Identical material of the great statue. The pedestal and base are heavily
nickeled, and will, with proper care, last brilliant and untarnished a life
time. Thousands of statuettes of inferior workmanship, of less height,
W Thl» U ls the*only statuette authorized by M. Bartholdi or the A ,™ e 1 ri £?" l S.°™f
mlttee, and can he obtained by no other publisher In th® I nited States or
Canada. We make the following offers : .
L To any person tending us a new subscriber to the Illustrated >ews-
paper (#4), or to the Popular Monthly (S3.OO), for one year, we
will mall, postpaid, the statuette of Liberty. ., _
II. To any person sending two new subscribers to the Sunday Magazine
(S2.50). for one year, we will send the statuette.
III. To any person sending not less than Sid, except as stated above, forany
of our publications, singly or in combination, we will send the statuette.
In each case the full subscription price must be sent directly to this office,
and request for the statuette distinctly stated with the remittance.
tw~ The Statuette will not be sold, without subscription, at
M LESLIE’S POPULAR MONTEY lor 1887.
Tkls o'd’livorlte 1 , 'The^MonarcIi or tn* AiomhV*.’’ wlU^irTth* coming
▼ear. be more attractive than ever. Among ita features will be :
Subiects of the limy, in the Old \\ orld ot* i he New, always treated
with Illustrations to bring the whole vividly before the mind of the reader.
Popular Scienee, by able and skillful writers.
Papers en Oirr National Capital, the Great Seaports and Manufactur-
o'nt'd'oar* Amusements of the American People on Land and
Water.
A*rHcleB ai»d^8torlee by General Lew Wallace. Etta W. Pierce. Lucy FL
Hooper Walter E. McCann, Elizabeth Taylor, A. V. Abbott, Cob Chatlle
Long Hon Clarence Pullen, Ausburn Towner, Fay Adams, Amelia A. Barr,
and other talented and popular writers. . ... ...
All the other publication* of this house will be kept up to their well-known
high standard of merit, and fully abreast the duties and demands of the times.
Specimen copies of eaeh monthly forwarded, postpaid, for 15 cents, or
the entire list of weeklies and monthlies for 30 eents.
(Mrs.) FRANK. LK0UIK, 53, 55 aud 57 Park Place, New York,