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THE AIKEN
RECORDER.
BY FORD & McCRACKEX.
AIRES, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1888.
ESTABLISHED IN 1881.
AIKEN INSTITUTE,
AIK EX, 8. C.
FRANK H. CURTISS. President.
D esigned for uiehighercmiucu-
tion of young ladies and young
gentlemen. Course of study thorough
and exhaustive, covering a period of
eight years exclusive of collegiate
course of f.»uryears. Each department
complete in itself—Primary, Inter
mediate, Grammar, Preparatory Aca
demic. Academic and Collegiate.
UATKS OF TUITIOX.
Pen Mo.n'vh.
Primary $1 50
Intermediate ^50
Grammar 3 00
Prep. Academic,) . ^
Academic, )
Collegiate 5
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN.
Until tt-e meet tu?ala, dear, thou and I,
God tiiec tn his care! the ni^ht draws nigh
And I must go my way: its path Is wide
Aud long, j et as 1 linger hy thj - side,
Tbus-lcoking, loving, on thy peaceful face,"
I.ovo teaches me the patience of its grace!
L'ntil we meet again—soon come or late—
Tiiough I may j-earn for tliee with hope elate,
(>r grieve, my true heart knows the secret way
To i hive; far <’ ui::t j'et or near, this day,
Ti;gt pu!- ; wastes in shadows of the night,
Ilr.'.h f ! ■. s'd for thoe and mo each morning's
Uglit.
L’l.tli we ir.*-ei again no joy or rest
t’au e.sue to us idee calm that love knows best;
I. e. e |. • s the gentle speech that makes thco
And i:k.!;i s
Not I.mg I
so—
liach day s'
rui i
German and French, each 1
Instrumental Music
Mpecial Drawing Lessons 2 50
Painting, Oil, Water Color, Chi
na, Lustra 2 50
For any desired information con
cerning catalogues, rates of board, or
any other matters connected with the
Institute address the President.
A limited number of students de
siring board may Hnd a pleasant home
in the familv of the President.
FRANK H. CURTI8K,
Feb. I. 18S8.-ly President.
Absoksteh
rest
M
^ure*
This powder never
purity, .-tr.engtii and \
eeoiiondcal ilian the
cannot be s.iid in
multitude of l.w te-
or phosphate powders
itoVi
Capital paid in, - - $50,000*
Aiken 4'oiiuly
Loan and Savings
zb^-Hstk:
Does a General Ranking and Collec
tion Business.
Savinpi Dcpartiiiciit.
Interest Allowed on Deposits on Most
Liberal Terms.
W. W. Woolsky, I W. M. Hutson,
President. | Vice-President.
J. W. Ashiiukkt, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
vanes A marvel of
vh«Mooineness. More
ordinary kinds, and
iinpetition with tiie
t, short weight, alum
, Sol.n OXI.Y I X • ‘ANS.
liAklNC I'OWKKit ( O.,
Jo<; Wall street, New York.
For sale by COL iM’NEV Ac
Aiken. S.
Professional Advertisements,
IJ. K. IIkxkkuson. E. P. IIkxdkkson.
Hcmlersoii Brotlicrs,
Attouxeys at Law, Aikkx, S. C.
Will practice in the State and
United States Courts for South Caro
lina. Prompt attention given to col
lections.
James Ai.tmicu
Wai.tki: Arui.KY.
W. W. Woolsey,
H. F. Warneke,
W. M. Hutson,
O. H. Phinizy,
H. H. Hall.
H. B. Burckhalter,
J. W. Ashhurst,
G. W. Williams, jr.
C. BART & CO.,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
FOREIGN & DOMESTIC
inZR.TTITS I
Apples, Oranges, Bananas,
Cocoanuts, Lemons, Peanuts,
Pine Apples, Potatoes, Onions,
Cabbage Ac.
^■vr.r.q Cl.QrWmj
Aldrich & Ashley,
Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C.
Practice in the State and United
States Courts for South Carolina.
kravo with sure content;
.avc wo to wait, and yet—I need thco
mar; far ns oa my waj* I go.
eel Again to thco and me
What moiv of I or hope can i)e
Rave 1 e. 'c r.o f;L"t of word or
As j.!- ■! or trust; 1 have uo prayer rave this—
L't.l!. • t..ect agaia to thee uiid mo
Mr.y tlo.! be kind! Good-by, my love, good-by!
rcod-by I
—Harriet Maxwell Converse in Home Journok
LITTLE MISS I’RIM.
Joitn Gary Grans,
Attorn e y-at-La w.
Will practice in the Counties
Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell.
of
llaviland Stevenson,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C.
Special attention given to Collec
tion.
0. C. JORDAN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
AIKKX, S. C.
Edw. J. Dickerson,
L. L. SOMMER,
Watchmaker aid Jeweler
Richland Avenue, and Laurens St.
I am prepared to repair watches and
lewelry, with promptness and care, at
moderate prices and guarantee satis
faction. The cleaning of watches a
SPECIALTY.
With a continuous experience of
six years I respectfully solicit
a liberal share of the pat
ronage of the Aiken
county public.
L . L. SOMMER,
Rio^land Avenue, and Laurens St.
BUSCH HOUSE
AIKEN, S. C.
HENRY BUSCH, Proprietor,
f
12A TES $2.00 PER DA Y.
Special Hates by the. Week.
Rnscli House Transfer
Carries Passengers for Busch House
FREE.
tyOrders for Passengers and Bag-
f ago left at the Busch House or at H.
hiseh & Co.’s Store, will receive
prompt attontion.
THE HOTEL!
Attorney-at-Law, Aiken, 8. C.
Will practice iu all the'Courts of
this BtaUv" , . ^
Dr. W B Courtney, Dentist
-OFFICE-
Laurens street, Aiken, S. C.
Over Hahn & Co’s. Store.
Dr. Z. A. Smith'
PRACTICIXG PH YSIC f AN,
VAUCLUSE. - - - S. C
cyOftice near Depot.
Gray, angry looking clouds obscured
the bine sky, a cold east wind blow tiny
particles of snow into the faces of those
persons who were so unfortunate as to be
exposed to the cutting blast. A warm
fire and comfortable easy chair were
things to be appreciated, and so thought
the Laurence family as they stood or sat
around the great blazing logs of hickory
in the open fireplace of the luxurious
sitting room at Pleasant Park, the old
homestead of the Laureticcs.
Harry, the eldest boy, a tall, bright
eyed lad of I f, went to the window that
looked out upon the highway. It was
nearly school time, and troops of boys
and girls were passing swiftly along in
the direction of the huge brick edifice,
the pride of Fairmouut.
“Lizzie, Johnny, come here,” cried
Harry, and his handsome countenance
beamed with merriment as ho gazed upon
the scene without. A lady not muca
taller than Lizzie, the 12-year-old sister
of the merry youth at the window, was
'•.dicing, or rather trying to, for the
slight figure swayed from one side of the
road to the other, beaten and blown by
the high winds; and the umbrella she
carried was turned inside cut, while her
long gray her was floating like a banner
in the wintry breeze. The girl and boy
ran to the pretty alcove, with its snowy
lace curtains looped back, showing the
stand of plants bright with bloom, and
joining in tho laughter caused Mr. and
Mrs. Laurence to look up from their read
ing to inquire tho cause of so much
mirth.
“Oh, mother you ought to see the
capers little Miss Prim is cutting; old
Boreas makes her move lively,’’said Mas
ter Harry, and even his parents could
hardly suppress a smile as they taw the
ludicrous figure the poor dressmaker
made in her vain endeavors to keep her
feet and avoid tho rude embrace of the
northeast gale. “Jiminy, but she is a
scarecrow,” said little Johnny. “Won
der what she goes out such stormy da vs
for?”
“Why, my son, Miss8?rim is poor and
is obliged to earn her own Ih ing. She
ftss no fcffid papa to give her mce-NvarnY
clothes, or provide her with food, as you
have. It is not right to laugh at tho lit
tle woman, for she has a hard life of it,
and is so patient and kind in every trial,”
and Mrs. Laurence patted the soft curls
* s i is E n i A o T T
tarance ami Real Estate Apnt,
AIKKX, S. C.
Tornado, Cyclone and Windstorm
POLICIES!
ISSUED BY
HUTSON k CO., AsPiits,
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PHCENIX INS. CO. of Brooklyn.
ASSETS, - - - $5,000,000.
Augusta,
Georgia.
IfF.ST $2.00 HOUSE IX THK SOUTH.
Headquarters for Commercial Men.
Centrally located nearR. II. Crossing.
L. E. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor,
Formerly of Tontine Hotel, Xew
Haven, Conn. Also, West End
Hotel, IsOny liranch, J. X.
PAVILION HOTEL.
Charleston. S. C
PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND
ELECTRIC BELLS.
House fresh and clean throughout.
Table best in the South.
Pavilion Transfer Coaches aad
Boats. Rates
giving your
Wagons at all trains and
reduced. Beware of
Check to any one on
Rates
Train.
$2 Oil (a
$2 50.
Wright’s Hotel!
8. L. WRIGHT & SON, Prop’rs.,
COLUMBIA. - - . S. C.
T ABLE supplied with the BEST.
Rooms large and well furnished.
One of the most comfortable hotels in
the South.
Rates • easonable. flFl
On Frame Buildings: 1 year, 30
Cents on $100.00 ; 3 years, (JO Cents on
$100.00; live years, 00 Cent.'on $100.00.
Brick Buildings; 1 year 20 Cents <>n
$100.00 ; 3 years, 40 Cents on $100.00;
live years, 00 cents on $100.00.
For Policy, apply to
HUTSON & CO.
Insurance and Beal Estate
Agent,
LAURENS STREET. AIKEN, 8. C.
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The Mobile Insnrmiee Co.. <if Mobile.
The Ilibernkt Insiiraiiee Co., of Xiov < *r
leans.
The Southern Insurance Co., nf Xc.v Or
leans.
Tho Travellers’ T.if>-ami Ae. Lieut In-ur-
anee Co.. <»■' Hartford.
Strong and reliable compau'se*. l.osse.-
adjusted and paid pr. niptlv.
ileal estate bought and '<i!d. lb.ii'*'
ruled ia:r.!.Y f
Lying-In Koom.
Is recommended by all
physieiaus as the iuo.-j di
gestible as weil a< nutri
tious diet for the invalid.
SOLD HY A l.l
IMU'c.iiSj.-: AX 1 * CHO
CK KS.
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Corner York Street and Colleton
Avenue.
Comfortable and well furnished
Rooms and table supplied with the
best. Terms reasonable.
Mrs. X. E. SENX.
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Manufacturers,
20!) X. Til I UP STUKl.T, I'l! IA HKI.I’ll I A
FOR
A I.K
COURTNEY £ CO.,
Aiken, S. C.
Augusta Book Store.
We have a nice line of school books,
pens, ink, paper and all kinds of
stationery. Also a nice line of novels,
base balls. Special attention is panl
to school supplies. Old books bought
and sold. All orders V*y mail will re
ceive prompt attention,
R. L. DUVAL,
11 BroadISiivct, Augusta, Ga .
of her G-year-old boy, mentally thanking
God she aud her dear ones were free from
the curse of poverty.
“It is nearly 9 o’clock,” cried Lizzie,
glancing at the huge old fashioned time
piece that ticked away so musically in tho
corner of the room. “I will take Johnny
with me, mother, and then one umbrella
will shelter us; Harry is large enough to
take care of himself.” So saying Lizzie
arrayed herself in her warm cloak, hood
and furs, looking like the pictures of Lit
tle Bed Biding Hood, with brown eyes
shining and cheeks rosy with health.
Just as li.e three children derconded tho
steps to the garden tho huge iron gate
clanged to, and Miss Prim met them cu
the broad graveled walk.
“Mamina at home. Blossom?” said
the little lady in a cheerful tone to Lizzie,
and at the same time laughing, as she
saw the half concealed smile on the faces
of the children. “You rogues! you
might just :us well shout and laugh at
the funny figure I cut. I shall not feel
at all hurt. I know I am a perfect
scarecrow, but no matter, my beauty
will not suffer.” And with a nod and a
“Good-by, dearies,” not waiting for an
answer to her question, Mbs Prim van
ished within the open doorway, and the
children hastened to school.
Miss Charity Prim—or Miss Chatty, as
she was called—was the village dress
maker. She was a maiden lady, thirty-
five or forty years of age, small and
delicate in appearance, but always in
good health. Her face was always
smiling, her toft, blue eyes mild aud
pure as those of a child; hi r abundant
hair, long and silken, crowned her head
as with a coronet of silver.
“I thought I would come and finish
that dress of yours, Mrs. Laurence,”
said Miss Chatty, as she entered the
firelighted room, the warmth and glow
making such a contrast to the gloom
without. “I am a little late, but I had
a hard time of it, fighting the wind all
the way from the cottage. My umbrella
is a wreck, and I look as though I had
been in a gale, and was flying the flag of
distress,” laughing merrily and showing
firm, white teeth that hud never known
the torture of a dnitist’s art; “however,
‘all’s well that ends well,’ ” and, with a
sigh of content, Miss Chatty followed
the stately but kind hearted mistress of
Pleasant Park to tiie sewing room, where,
in a low rocker, with a huge pile of
work before her, the little dressmaker
was soon busy as -a bee.
“Miss Chatty,” said a servant, enter
ing with a tray on which were muffins,
steak and a steaming cup of coffee, “here
is something warm for you.”
“Well I declare, all this trouble on
my account. It is too bad, but I do be
lieve I am hungry,” and putting her
work aside, tho little woman soon mado
sad havoc with the dainties before her.
She w as proud in her way, was this poor,
hard working sewing woman. She would
not own that on this cold and dreary morn
ing she had dressed in her chilly room,
aud sparingly of bread and oat
meal, with a small cup of milk to satisfy
her thirst, but never a complaint, never
a cross look from the noble woman who
had no luxuries and few comforts, but
who ever looked on the bright side of
life.
Before night tho storm became so fu
rious, tiie snow so deep, the dressmaker
was urged to remain until the next day,
and to tell tho truth she was nothing
loath, for her humble room in the cot
tage of the widow Green was not a very
attractive one, although clean and neat,
yet a rag carpet, paj>er shades, a cot bed
and a small stove, with scanty food for a
dainty appetite, was all the dressmaker
couid earn for herself in the small village
of Fairmount.
Evening, with her sable curtain, en
folded the snowy earth. The wind
sighed and moaned around the warmly
draped windows of Pleasant Park. The
Laurence family were wealthy and liigh
born, MV. Laurence being from one of
the oldest and proudest families in Bos
ton, and his wife, tiie handsome Kate
C:uleton before marriage, was of F-tigliAi
birth, with noble blood in her veins, yet
they acknowledged the goodness and
worth of their humble seamstress; and
although she did not join them at the
table, having her meals sent into the sew
ing room, she was invited into the sitting
room when the family met together for
the pleasant chat before bedtime, and in
her modest brown dress, with snowy col
lar and culls, her sweet, pale face, soft
voice and charming smile, Miss Chatty
did not look out of place even In the par
lor of the high bora Laurence family.
“Miss Chatty, I wish you would tell
me a story. I do vo like to hear them.”
This from Master Johnny, who was
basking on tho snow white rug of bear
skin, the glow from the lire lighting up'
his curls until they l«>okcd like a mass of I
gold, and his round, dimpled face as rosy !
as tho sunny side of a peach. i
“Oh, do, dear Miss Prim, tell us some-}
thing nice,” exclaimed Lizzie, shutting,
up the entertaining fairy book, and conw
ing forward to tiie easy chair whereitn nights,
j sat the tiny lady, her small hands busa^.
: with some tatting she wished to finiahj
: for Mrs. Laurence.
‘T never told a story in all my lifi
| my dears. Then I am afraid, even if
I could tell you anything that would In
terest you, I should disturb your faihek
and mother in their reading.”
“Not at all,” they L+tit cried, with a 1
the courtesy they could have shown l
lady of wealth, and putting away the
paper and look, they begged her, if si p
felt iso disposed, to entertain the childrei *
“I will go to the smoking room fer an
hour or so,” said Sir. Laurence, ard
putting on his silk embroidered jack A
and cap he left the room. “I will fini ih
this piece of ruffling,” Mrs. Laurence
smilingly answered as she turned the p is
higher, ami soon her white jeweled
gers were plying the shining U
while Miss Prim with a thoughtful ooi
tonance commenced the story of her 1:
“A true story, Blossom, and I In
will interest you, but it is the first timj
have ever spoken of my past, co you
forgive mo”—turning to the Jpdy .of
mansion—“if I shed a few tears
past joys and sorrows.”
“Indeed, Miss Chatty, I ce:
would overlook anything in one
amiable as you are, but do not la-in,
memories that will cause you grief,
will tell the children a fairy talo and fc'ou
can go on with your work.”
“Oh, no, indeed, not for tho w
would I disappoint the dear little 1;
and it will do me good to relate to
hearted ones tho story of my ratbertfull
life.
“My father kept the lighthouse
had no brothers or sisters, and whe i
14 I lost my dear mother, you can
agine how lonely I was. It was she
taught me to sew and to cut my
clothes and dresses, she who taughj
all I know. Mother was a govern*
fore marriage and was finely educ:
so I became interested In books
study. I loved the ocean, loved it
its moods. When the sky was
and angry waves were crested
creamy foam, I would sit on tiie
■and, ailmira, or-whon
were serene and smooth ! would
little boat and sail on its mi
T
having known "Widow Green
hen she lived on the island with her
usband. I left word with the fishermen
here I had gone, so that my letters from
ie could be sent, but alas! no mes-
iger ever came, and probably my lover
ps beneath tho waves.”
June, with her sunny skies and wealth
buds and blossoms, had come. The
co family had gone to Long
:h to their summer cottage. Miss
JPrim was with them, for Mrs. Laurence,
■going into a great deal of hociety, had to
iiave much sewing done. One day Harry,
Iwlio bad a pretty boat named the Star-
Tigfat, wanted Johnny and Lizzie to go
with him sailing. Mrs. Laurence gavo
her consent, but said Miss Prim must ac
company them. They had a merry time,
. and, crossing to a small island, ate their
> Hindi on the rocks and hunted for shells.
Returning, a sudden squall came up, and
it little Miss Prim had not been well
versed in the art of sailing all would have
gone to the bottom. After that event
tho dressmaker was doubly dear to all,
and Mm. Laurence would not hear of her
leaving her. So slie stayed and was
treated as one of the family.
September, with her gorgeous sunsets,
her ripened fruits and soft moonlight
came. It was Miss Chatty’s
birthday. Dressed in white, with pale
E ink blossoms in her silver hair and on
er bosom, the little dressmaker looked
as pretty and smiling as a girl. She
had received rich gifts from the Lau
rences and many other friends, for every
one loved The gentle woman. Sitting in
tho twilight, alone m the great garden at
Pleasant Park, for the family had callers,
and tiie little woman, thinking over tho
past, was glad to be in the solitude of
the shadowy park, with nothing to dis
turb her reveries but the sighing of wind
or tho twitter of a sleepy bird, suddenly
a step approached, then a man appeared,
and standing before her, repeated her
name, saying very softly:
“Charity, little darling Chatty! Do
you know me?”
For a moment tho startled woman
thought a visitor from the other world
confronted her, but whoa she felt the
clasp of the warm hand, and heard the
almost forgotten tones, she knew her
long lost lover was before her and she
nearly faulted with joy. He told her of
his voyago to Africa, of the ship being
taken by pirates, how he was sold to a
chief of a tribe in tho interior of Africa,
of tho long years of bondage, of Ids
saving the life of the principal wife of
his master, and when the dusky warrior
died Ackla, the grateful widow, gave her
slave his freedom, also a bag of diamonds,
and after twenty years he had returned
to thejlpve of his youth. He soon found
out where his gentle betrothed was, and
the once humble little * -wing woman be
came Mm. William Moms, the wife of
one of the richest men in Fairmount, and
tho future will be bright for little Miss
Prim.—Sollie A. Smith in Boston Bud
get.
PECULIARITIES OF MEMORY.
bosom for hours. Then I loved
der on the beach and gather sea-
and tiny shells. After mother di
was housekeeper, and helped fi
the care of the lamp, and when hojwas
sick many and many a night have I sat
alone tending the great glowing
that shone like a blood red ruby fi
on the glistening waters. I grieved
mother's death, but father was so kim
tender, he took her place in man;
spects. So we lived until I was 17.
“One night in January—slmll J
forget that fearful night?—father ha
light burning brightly. Wo were in
cheerful kitchen with a great fire In , he
stove, plenty of hot water, blank ts,
whisky and other things in readiness
anything that might happen. I
darning stockings, father was dozingjjn
his easy chair, when the sullen
boom, of guns was heard. The wil
shrieked and howled, rocking the Hi
house like a cradle. The waves
their spray against the w
and snow blinded and blurred the whifle
heavens. Father sprang from his cl
wide awake in a moment. I too,
though pale aud trembling from frig]
for I feared a hundred dangers in such 1
tempest, was ready to assist father,
was a large, strong man, and I, altho i,
small and slight, had const den.
strength and a great deal of courage.
“ ‘Come, my girl,’ cried father, pu
ting on his sou’wester and wrappin,
himself well up. ‘Come, we must
what assistance we can render. Soirn
poor sailors will meet their fate to-night,
I fear, for no boat can live iu this gale,
and bidding me follow him went dowi;
to tiie beach. I put on waterproof an
hood, and with a lantern soon joined]
father and a number of fishermen wb
lived on the island, but we were power
less. No man could risk his life on such
a night, no boat could outride such a
storm; so boom, boom, went the guns on
that ill fated ship, that was fast going toji
her doom on the huge rocks. I cried to*!
God to have mercy on those i»oor,
fated ones. Fainter and fainter grew
the firing and at last ceased. Vv T o waited
and watched to see if any Louies would
float ashore. Only one came, a man
lashed :o a limber. *
“Father and old Jo, a fisherman, car
ried the inanimate form to our house. 1
ran before. Tho man was about 25, tall
Facts Concerning Cabinet Woods.
A handler of veneers thinks tliat birch
is not appreciated at its real merit. For
veneers he considers birch nearly, and ho
can almost say quite, as good as cherry.
Birch is coming to be more highly ap
preciated than it was, and may not be
surprised to see a boom in it before long.
When birch becomes fashionable every-
trill wa»Mt it. .. _
Efie foreign wood trade prima vera,
the fashion^ole light mahogany, is very
scarce all over the country. The princi
pal foreign wood house in Chicago has a
stock of only 3,000 feet on hand, and out
of this New York orders are being sup
plied with the prospect that shortly not a
plank will be left in the sheds. It is a
curious fact that mahogany is being
shipped from the depository in Chi
cago to New York right along, when
the same stock was brought from the
same seaboard city. A> carload of ma
hogany was lately shipped from that city
to Germany.—Boston Budget.
Xot-Oue Ol ly but Many Memories in Koch
Mind.
It is manifest that there is not one
memory only, but many memories, in
each mind, and that one kind of memory
is pre-eminently developed in one person,
and another in another. “Memory,”
says Ribot, “may be resolved into mem
ories, just as the life of an organism may
lie resolved into the lives of the organs,
tho tissues, the anatomical elements
which compose it.” Referring exclu
sively to tho perceptive faculties, we need
only mention a few thoroughly recognized
facts in proof of this statement. Persons
having a strongly developed organ cf
what the phrenologists call “individu
ality” receive peculiarly distinct impres
sions of external objects, and, therefore,
of persons; lienee they immediately re
cognize them on seeing them again, and
easily picture them to themselves from
memory.
Persons abundantly endowed with the
organ of “locality” exhibit an astonish-
ing yiower of finding their \vay in regions
previously unknown to them, and of re
membering the character of those they
have visited. Persons thus endowed, when
strongly impressed by the contents of a
passage in a book they have read, re
member exactly the part of the page in
which the passage occurs,and whether tho
page itself be a left hand or a right hand
page. The number of degrees of capa
city of perception and recollection of col
ors is scarcely less remarkable—the
power of recollection of them being
always proportionate to the power of
perceiving them and signalizing their
differences. Similarly, he who possesses
tiie musical faculty in an eminent degree
possesses in a like degree tho power <
learning and remembering the pieces of
musio to which his attention is directed.
A striking proof of the distinctively
individualized character of our various
faculties and memories is presented in
the otten observed fact that tho percep
tion of musical sounds and the per
ception of time, though both alike essen
tial in the mental constitution of a good
musician, differ greatly in their relative
strength in different individuals—so that
while* one may be a skillful musician he
may be an indifferent timist, and vice
versa. In tho former case the orderly
succession of notes of a musical passage
is easily remembered, but the time in
tervals, which are a distinctive feature
of it, are remembered less easily; whereas
in tho latter case the memory of time is
stronger than is that of tune.
Equally notable is the fact that persons
who are especially able as calculators
recollect numbers with peculiar facility.
Moreover, persons especially gifted with
the faculty of language have a propor
tionate facility of recalling words, and
of quoting from memory long passages
which they have previously heard or
read: “Cardinal Mezzofanti, who is
said to have known moro than 100
different languages, used to declare that
he never forgot a .vord that he had once
learnt. ”—Westminster Review.
How Forests Aro Destroyed.
A good authority on our American
forests writes that ho has seen over $1,-
000,000 worth of lumber burned by the
careless fire of a gang of railroad work
men. Such fires are constantly raging
somewhere, and the enormous loss can
hardly be estimated. He urges that only
by making such carelessness criminal
can there be put 'an end to it. What wc
ion Id learn is to preserve the forests we
have by proper legislation, by educating
and appointing foresters of intelligence
to care for them; by publishing informa
tion on the subject, such as fanners and
timbermcn can easily understand and
apply.—Globe-Democrat.
and fine looking. Father and Jo rubbed
] him, put him in blankets, gave him hot
j drinks, and in an hour he lovived. His
name was William Morris, second mate
; of the ill fated ship Monarch. It was
: weeks before the man was able to leave
our island home. When, after two
months stay, he returaed to the city, we
were betrothed lovers. Father had been
to the owners of the vessel, and they liad
given William one of the best of charac
ters. hi another mouth William cani'3
; to bid good-by. He was going to Africa
as first nL«ite. ‘P >r one year, darling,
he said, as we sat together by the kitchen
fire, ‘only one shoit yestr, then we will
: never part again. I shall be captain then,
and you shall go with me on every voy
age.’ Wo parted. That was twenty
years ago this month, and I have never
heard from or seen my sailor since,’’and
crying softly to herself, poor Chatty for
a moment ceased talking. AH three of
the children wiped their eyes when they
witnessed the grief of the little dress-
; maker, and Mrs. Laurence patted her
softly on the shoulder, saying in low
tones, “Earth has no sorrows heaven can
not heal.”
“You are right, and I am very foolish
to weep and mourn, when God lias been
so good to me in all these years,” and
j trying to smile Miss Chatty continued her
story.
“In six months after William sailed
father died. He was never well after the
fearful night of the storm. I gave up
the lighthouse, and with the few hun
dred dollars my parents had saved, and
my small stock of furniture. I came to
Dr. Nansen’s Exploring Expedition.
News has come of the Greenland ex
pedition under Dr. Nansen. It appears
that he and his six companions landed
on the east coast of Greenland on the
.. 18th ultimo, in latitude Co degs. 30 min.
This is nearly two degrees south of the
tic circle, and will imply* a journey
some 300 miles across to tho west
coast. The two Laplanders who accom
panied Norden.sk j old in his se' >nd unsuc
cessful attempt to cross Greenland (in a
higher latitude and from the west side)
managed to advance eastward some 140
miles and attained a height of over 0,500
feet, whence they got a view of what ap
peared to be an endless snow field.
Should Dr. Nansen’s party reach this
jSnovT fi«id, their chances of success will
great, as they are all famous snowshoe
walkers, and have frequently crossed tho
Norwegian mountains in tho depth of
winter. They could not have landed in
Greenland at a better time; for they
escape tho short and thorouglily dis-
eoable sub-arctic summer. What has
been described as an endless snow field is
no doubt the water shed of the innum
erable Greenland glacier streams, the
[terminations of which form such a strik-
feature of the Greenland coast.
Should til is prove to bo the case, the
lltimate discovery of a vast inland sea or
teries of great lakes is not improbable.—
it. James’ Gazette.
Ragging at tho Kuocs.
The subject of trousers bagging at tho
knees is one of general and widespread
interest. More widespread and general
than is commonly supposed, for the rea
son that a great many who have given
Time CHd thought tO thc consideration of
it will not frankly acknowledge that they
have done so. But, all the same, there
are rich bankers, mercliants, poets and
statesmen, who will to-night, before they
retire, carefully’ fold up their trousers,
lay them on a chair and place a heavy
Bible or a file of patent office reports on
them, so that in tho morning they will
not be compelled to walk abroad with
two bay windows located prominently at
their knees. There are politicians who
stop thinking of the tariff several times
a week to give a little thought to this
detail of dress, and attempt for the hun
dredth time to solve tho harassing prob
lem involved. There are poets who will
pause in tho midst of making rhymes to
take this absorbing theme into considera
tion. The same thing is true through all
tho ranks and professions of life.—Boston
llc-rald.
Value of Industrial Drawing.
Interest in the manufactured products
(ft manual training schools and the inci
dental courses of instruction in tho use
of tools seems to have taken attention
away from industrial drawing as an
indispensable factor to their success;
but its great importance in de
veloping the skill of the hand and
the eye in obtaining and express
ing knowledge should not be lost sight
of. In every manual school the thoughts
to be expressed in wood, metal, etc., are
first expressed by drawing. If, there
fore, manual exercises are to be intro
duced into schools, the first thing as a
prep;u‘ation for them is to introduce in
dustrial drawing. This should be so
taught that pupils may be led to express
their thought not only by drawing but
by making it—that is, by constructing
tho object of the thought. The extent to
which this method may be carried can
not lie determined at this time, when our
experience with it is still in the fh-st
stages. That it is possible to do some
thing, however, has already been fully
demonstrated by the excellent results ob
tained by the pioneers in this movement
in such cities as St. Louis, Chicago, St.
Paul, Columbus, Worcester and Quincy*.
—Charles M. Carter in The Century.
frequently either plowed under or otner-
wise used on tho crops. Privy waste is
safe nowhere, except when thoroughly
and daily mingled with dry dirt—very
dry—anil then either use as land fertil
izer to be plowed in or else cremated,
burned to a roast. Tho danger from
sewage when run Into brooks and
streams is imminent. We have above
all to guard against polluting tho water
supply of our families or our neighbocs.
Most of the large streams that seem too
large to seriously be affected with tho
waste from above aro found to bo alive
with bacteria, that even do not die with
freezing. The water in summer, and
the ice in winter, of our large rivers is
unsafe. But it must even be borne in
mind that our soils ore underneath us,
out of sight, full of small water courses
running everywhere, and carrying what
is allowed to saturate tho soil.—M. Mau
rice, M. D., in Globe-Democrat.
Nightly Cooling of tho Earth.
During the day, when the sun is shin
ing, it communicates its heat to the
earth and the latter becomes warm.
When night comes, however, tho earth
gives off the heat which it has stored up
during tho day, and consequently be
comes colder. This cooling commences
at sundown, and increases every minute
until the sun rises again, when the low
est degree of cold is reached. That is
tho time when most of us feel, even in
bed, after the hottest night, a chilliness
which causes us to cover ourselves more
closely wit>v the blankets, which were
rejected at the beginning of tho night.
This fact will also explain the cause of
‘taking cold” in midsummer, which
has seemed such a mystery to many.
Going to bed on a hot evening, the win
dows are left open and all covering is
thrown off. Now, when from neglect,
or through failure to waken, tho body is
not covered as morning approaches, it is
exposed to the same conditions as in the
depth of winter—a sudden lowering of
temperature—and a “cold” is the nat
ural result. This nightly cooling of the
earth is not so much noticed in cities as
it is in the country. In the former tho
many large buildings of brick, stone and
iron have become reservoirs of heat during
the day, and at night they add so much
more of the amount of heat to be given off.
As a cou sequence, the air is not cooled
to such a degree as it is in the country,
and very frequently in the hottest
weather the whole night is intensely op
pressive. —Boston Herald.
Chicago’s Building Associations.
“I suppose there must be a constantly
rolling and moving capital of $60,000,-
000, engaged in the 800 building and
loan associations in this city,” said the
manager of a big sewing machine con
cern on State street. “And it is this fact
which interferes more and more with
collections in our business. For a year I
could not imagine what the growing dif
ficulty in coUecting moneys due arose
from. Then at last I found it was be
cause the spare cash of many thousands
in this town goes into these building as
sociations. And their number is con-
stantly increasing. Safe? Well, so far
as I can see the money invested in these
concerns is perfectly safe unless there is
reckless management. But there is less
cliance of that than in almost any other
concern.”—Chicago. Herald.
Inefficiency of t'mttci t Filters.
An agent has just left my rooms after
wasting a half hour of time in vain at
tempts to persuade me into purcliasing
faucet filter—mado iu some new fan-
gled way. There is really no such tiling
as a filter for water that can be used at
tached to house faucets. At best, they
lave never been anything else but strain
ers, and recent experiments prove them
to lie worse even than that, for they are
shown to be nests for propagation of just
such impurities as they aro calculated to
remove. Far better take chances on
Croton or Cochituate direct than to have
tho already laden water made a breeding
ilaco for bacteria by so called filters.
They are not to bo trusted.
This water question continues to be of
the utmost public importance, and it
seems extraordinary that typhoid fever
and other filth diseases should not rage
to f->r greater extent than reports show,
if our drink is as foul as it is said to be.
I suspect that the truth is this bacteria
scare has been very much overworked.
There are leaders in the medical profes
sion who say directly that modern prac
tice of medicine has actually nothing to
show in the way of better results than
ancient, and that no greater percentage
of patients recover in palatial hospitals
than in tho rough shanties where sick
were kept a hundred years ago; and cer
tainly the past heated term, with its ac
companying immense consumption of
water, has not shown any increased death
rate—slightly the reverse. If one’s water
supply bo distinctly and sensibly impure,
I try some other source; otherwise, it is a
question if it bo not unwise to disturb
one’s mind about microscopal bacilli,
that have been swimming about ever
since Adam.—William F. Hutchinson,
M. D.. in American Magazine.
The chemical relations of matter are
mt imperfect types of the delicacy, the
] aultiplicity and the inclusiveness of
l aoral relations. All things which men
tyuch through any sense, by any thought,
i$ any act, distfil some moral quality and
react either for good or ill. We are
played upon by influences too many for
■ our comprehension, too delicate for our
observation, too far reaching for our
foresight. When we seem to be sacri
ficing things most precious to us wo are
i receiving them back in some finer
imperishable form; when wc seem
working solely for others, wo aro
serving ourselves in the highest
noblest way.—Boston Budget.
Now Material for Paper Pulp.
The discovery of a new’ use of the cot
ton stalk, for paper pulp, is followed by
the discovery of a method of utilizing the
tops of pine and spruce trees for the
same purpose. This at onco makes mar
ketable a vast mass of hitherto waste
material. It is a sort of waste tliat has
led to untold mischief in lumbering
regions, because, having become dry, it
has been the originating place of nearly
all forest fires in lumber districts. Here
after the tops and branches of all ever
greens will be gathered, and being
steamed to extract the resinous matter,
will be ground into dry pulp. Tins is
portable to any distance, when it can be
used in paj>er manufacture. The effect
of the two discoveries on paper produc
tion wiU be enormous, and for the ad
vantage of the press and people. It is
impossible to avoid ihe conviction that
in due time we shall discover that noth
ing need be wasted, but that all things
are useful when properly understood.-
Globe-Democrat.
Not Iiijurious to Her Health.
In the face of facts like these and of
many more that might bo adduced, we
cannot believe that nature has placed
liefore woman any constitutional harrier
to the collegiate life, but that so far as
physical reasons aro concerned, she may
enter upon it with no moro fear than a
man may. That an increasing number
of women will do this, and tliat it is best
for tho state tliat all should do it who
aro destined to be instructors of the
youth of tho republic, is iu my mind not
at all doubtful.
What is to bo the result? That is tho
crucial question. On tho physical health
of tho educated woman it will be bene
ficial. Observation, so far as it is now*
possible, shows that tho work of the full
college course is favorable to bodily
health. Tho regularity of life, tho satis
faction of attainment, tho pleasant com
panionship, tho general broadening of tho
girl nature, tend in that direction. Speak
ing of “nervous or neuropathic” j*oung
women. Dr. Charles Follen Folsom, of
the department of nervous diseases in
tho Boston hospital, writes that it his
opinion that “the higher education is a
conservative rather than a destructive
force.”—Arthur Gilman in Tho Cen-
turv.
Bm Waited Dons Enough.
ie representatives of the negus of
at the celebration of the 900th
iversary of the introduction of Christi-
r in Russia, have been commissioned
to iscertain whether the gold cross sent
negus to Alexander II ten years
had been received by that monarch,
i negus asserts that he has received no
’ from the Russian government to
. inquiries, and it is reported
i he has threatened to kill his emis-
i should they return without the de
formation.—Boston Transcript.
Disposing; of Hous« Waste.
City sewage should be burned to be got
rid of. There is no other safe method. I
fchall startle country people by adding
' that they, too, must come to the same
! method. Ordinary kitchen slops should
be caught in pails and canned out at
once, to be poured into gardens or about
trees, and not repeatedly in or about one
place or tree. But the garbage that ani
mals will not eat should be promptly
, cremated. Burn all decaying substances,
, even old weed heaps, unless they can be
used iu small quantities as mulching
! about trees. A house drain to carry off
impure water and slops is unnecessary
: and dangerous in the country,
i A certain amount of house waste may
safely lie composted with the ashes, and
Tho Boundary Lino Post*.
The iron posts that mark the northern
boundary line between the United States
and eastern Canada are at every cross
road that leads into Canada, and desig
nate, as the inhabitants there say, “Lino
45. ” They stand above tho ground about
threo feet, and have four sides, on which
appear the following inscriptions: 1.
“Boundary, Aug. 9, 1842.” 2. “Albert
Smith, United States Commissioner.” 8.
“Treaty of Washington.” 4. “Lieut.
Col. I. B. B. Estcourt, H. B. M. Com
missioner.”—Frank Leslie’s.
A Competent Nurse.
Mistress (to applicant)—Yes, I have
advertised for a nurse. Aro you compe
tent to take care of young children?
Applicant—Ob, yis, mum.
Mistress—You never give them pare
goric to quiet them?
Applicant—Niver, mum. I alien pre
fers laudanum.—Once a Week,
THE USE
PERFUMES.
Over la-
A Delightful Practice, If Not
dulged In—A Pitiable Mistake.
The refinements of the ancients varied
in almost every way from those of a
modern age, except, perhaps, in some of
the uses appertaining to tiie toilet, and
the Scriptures, as well as other records
of ancient customs, bear testimony that
baths and clean linen, perfumes atyj
sweet odors were regarded quite as much
of a luxury then as now. Few are, per
haps, aware that tho origin of the use of
manufactured perfumes had a sacred
character, yet they were an invention of
the priests who officiated at the unrrifleial
altars in the olden temples, and, doubt
less, great necessity must have been the
mother of invention, for from the
slaughtered beasts must have arisen meet
noxious emanations, which all the water
in the land would i.ot have washed clean
without the aid of the perfumes of Ara
bia. Moses leaves a record of the exact
perfumes and incense which were used
iu the temples, although in biblical days
the latter was termed frankincense, and
was, moreover, with myrrh and gold,
the most valued article of oommkroe.
The incense which contained myrrh
was especially reserved for the purifica
tion of the body after sacrifice and used
by both men and women, though, of
course, the latter were only anointed by
the former. It has a very aroma tic
odor. For other purposes frankincense
was mixed with cliarcoal and a little,
saltpeter. The same burning of incense
continues to this day to be a part of the
ceremonious rites in certain religions.
Morever, the sale of pastiles (or little
cones or sticks of incense) for burning in
private houses is growing largely, and
many of our rich families live in an
mosphero as heavily laden with
subtle odors as Cardinal Richelieu of
Pompey. Moses is also said to have in- ’
structed the Egyptian priests in the.
science of extracting scents, and they'
grew most proficient in tiie art of per-.
fumery and invented a most extraordi
nary variety. In fart, to this day has
descended the custom of declaring any
faint, sweet, strange odor to be like on
Egyptian perfume. •
Opinions differ about the use and abuse
of sweet scents. Certainly there is an
incongraity in their use by men, but a'
woman who leaves behind her a subtle
sense of redolence curries always a double
charm. Strong, active, energetic natures
are apt to scorn an indulgence ih what is
so grateful to their opposites—lang
luxury loving people. Yet the nat
odor of flowers about the house are grate
ful to all for their sweetness, os well as
for their beauty, and to those flowers to :
which Mother Earth lias refused a fra
grance wc give but lialf tim care which
is showered upon those tliat * can gratify
a double sense. To some floor unfortu
nates the scent of certain odors, and even
of flowers, is distasteful, and not always.'
from association. _ Even further than]
that, tiie disliked odors remici* some per
sons quite ill.
With age the sense of smell is affected,
and, like tho other senses, grows weak,
and some elderly ladies, especially those
who have been beautiful, worldly women,
much flattered and admired, absolutely
reek with the strong bouquet of some'
perfumery. Their unconsciousness is
pitiable, their vanity deplorable, for it
would vvoitpd them too greatly to
gest a lessening of thefarfndi ‘
they must be allowed to~
olfactory nerves are capridotifiT tilings,
and the aroma wliich makes' them dilate,
with pleasure at one time is quite disa
greeable at another. They easily
surfeited with an overdose.
Women generaUy have a habit of tuck
ing little bags of sachet powder in their
bureau drawers and pinning them in
their dresses, but they os generally are
indiscriminate in choosing the odors,
sometimes buying heliotrope, sometimes
violet, and again rose. There is much
more refinement and daintiness of feel
ing, beside a quaint, and certainly sweet,
coquetry, in keeping always a perfume
of one’s own; it liecomes then always a
part of one’s being. If one is fond of
tho flagrance of the rose an investment
in a few of the long peculiar vials con
taining attar of rose end keeping them in
various places amid the possessions is a
much more enduring way of jierfuminj
than uring sachet (Hiwda*.—“8. 8.
M.” in Chicago Herald
iguid.:
atural
‘riieifjjpj^ The
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%
A Bevolutlor in Dress
When tho sewing machine first came
into general use it was feared that it
would do away with the means of sup
port of the sewing girls, making it a sim
ple maUer for every household to com
pass all its own sewing in comparatively
no time at all. But, contrary to con
jecture, precisely the opposite has been
the result; for the sewing machine mado
plain work so easy that tucks, ruffles, in-
sortings, ai d all the finer fancies of the
needle, done by its aid, came to be as
much a matter of course os the plain
seam used to be. so that work accumu
lated beyond aU expectation, and Ute
class of sewing girls found more to do
than they had ever dreamed of having;
and those who had worn the simplest
sort of clothes suffered from a prevalent
feeling which made plain clothes seem
to manifest a want of taste and.elegance
and care for appearances.
With aU this superabundance, then, of
fanciful cutting out and putting together
again, of stitching and trimming with
bands and edgings, that came in for tiie
white underwear with the sewing ma
chine, the outside wear presently could
not fail to correspond in intricacy; and
thus embroideries, furbelows, pieatings,
draperies, and all the rest of the insignia
of fashion belonging to the gown, iiave
come in their turn. The consequence of
this raising of the straight seam to its
highest power is that she who once
dressed herself with simplicity would now
be out of the world in her old style and
manner, and finds it best to sacrifice her
tastes and deck herself out like a doll, as
it seems to her, and she who used to tie
the French doll incarnate has to worry
her brains and her modistes to invent
something that shall exceed all previous
bambinos, and be an impossibility to her
imitators till it is time for something else.
And thus the innocent looking little
sewing machine has brought about *
complete revolution in fine attire; has
raised dressmakers’ prices from $5 to
$40, with the intermediate grades, and
those far exceeding the larger figure;
has made it necessary for tiie women
who used to buy her best black silk for
a dollar and ninepence a yard, and when
cut and basted for “two and three
pence,” make it up herself in three or four
afternoons, now to hire a inautuamaker
with skill at the old and a knock for the
last new wrinkle, and to pay for one
gown wliat would Iiave supplied horwhole
wardrobe twenty-five years ago.—Har
per’s Bazar.
India Babbar In CaMfomla.
The Ficus Elastica, from the milk of
which the India rubber of coznmproe it
made, grows well in southern California,
and preparations are making to cultivate
the trees. A great many wul be phinied
next winter.—New York Sun.
Immigration into Canada from Europe
thus far tins year has reached 54,000.
Of this number 40.000 Iiave proceeded
direct to the United States.
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