The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, April 24, 1891, Image 6
The removal of Pri
mate’s seat from Grau t^Duda-Pesth
calls attention to that twin city's growth
at the expense of Vienna. Vienna
seems to be steadily going down. J
Boston is the only city in the world,
avers the New York World, where a
stenographic account of every session
of its Common Council is preserved in
the municipal archives. Every motion,
argument, debate, remark, etc., is
jetted down by the official stenog
rapher.
There are nearly 100,000,000 acres
of land in the Territories of Arizona
and New Mexico whose ownership is
in dispute owing to the confusion
growing out of the Mexican grants
and the forgeries of Spanish deeds
that have been prevalent.
English newspapers complain that
the military defence of the British
Empire costs many millions per an
num more than that of France, Ger
many or Russia. Either France or
Germany, it is asserted, could put
200,000 men into the field in much less
time, and with smaller effort than
would be required to mobilize 30,000
in England.
The Arizona Legislature has passed
a law, providing that a reward of
$200 shall be paid for every Indian
killed while carrying arms. The
\ilanta Constitution protests that
■“this simply encourages murder. Few
Indians can resist the temptation to
carry guns and pistols. Under the
present law, designing white men
will make Indians presents of cheap
firearms and then murder them iu
order to get the reward.”
There are uow under vine culture
iu America 400,000 acres, of which
about 300,000 acres are bearing. The
estimated value of the vineyards and
wine cellars is $155,000,000. In Cal
ifornia there are 150,000 acres under
vine culture and a large proportion of
the grapes produced are made into
wine. Most of the grapes grown in
New York State are sold for food. Ihc
total production of wine in the United
States during the past year is about
40,000,000 gallons.
The emigration of Russians to Bra
zil has taken on extraordinary propor
tions. The German steamship compa
nies have had to organize a special
service for the transportation of
Russians desiring to go to Rio de
Janeiro. The Russian Government
has been concerned at this movement
and has established a system of sur
veillance upon the German frontier to
New industries are being introduced
in Chile in considerable numbers
There is now a large woolen mill al
Santiago, and among other forms of
manufacture recently started may be
mentioned breweries, factories for the
manufacture of bottles and pottery,
sugar refineries, paper mills, and fac
tories for the production of soap and
candles. The milling industry is
steadily expanding, there being now
750 flouring mills in the country.
In large canning establishments
workmen lose much valuable time in
heating and reheating their soldering
irons, it being practically impossible
to keep them at a temperature neces
sary for efficent work, the irons being
either too hot or too cold. An elec
tric soldering iron, which seems to ob
viate all the difficulties experienced
with the old-fashioned irons lias been
invented. The head is made as usual,
but back of it is a cylinder which con
tains two copper-heating cores wound
with wires, which are heated from a
current from the dynamo. The tool
is very convenient, and it is said that
its use is decidedly economical.
Says the Boston Transcript: The
natural resources of the Appalachian
basin, in West Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee, are at present attract
ing attention as never before. In
iron, coal and timber it is regarded as
the richest territory iu the United
States. West Virginia, as many other
of the States, will make a large appro
priation, that their natural wealth may
properly be represented at the coming
World’s Fair at Chicago. But private
enterprise will likewise be active.
One gentleman in southern West Vir
ginia is having cut a cube of ten feet
of coking coal. Another cube of
splint coal of seven feet; and another
of pure cannel of five feet. And an
other party will send a poplar log ten
feet long and ten feet in diameter.
To carry this to the great fair the
Chesapeake «fc Ohio Railroad Company
will build a special car of forty tons
capacity. These various exhibits will
be rafted down the Guyandotte River
to the bridge of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway, crossing it at its mouth, and
then hoisted upon the transporting
car.
A writer in the New York Sun gives
an elaborate sketch of Topolobampo
in Lower California, and what is being
done there to make the communistic
idea practicable. “He gives a much
more favorable view of the colony,”
alleges the San Francisco Chronicle,
“than has been furnished by disgusted
colonists who have returned to this
city, but it is to be feared that most
Awake! \
Awake, awake, the dreary night is gone;
'Rise with the day; gird duty's raiment on.
Awake, awake.
Whate’er in darkness thWatflictions are,
They’ll vanish soon in light that comes from
far.
Awake, awake.
Peace, mourning heart, yield not to sorrow's
sway;
Death dies and life’s dream ends when God
doth say—
Awake, awake.
—[Adam C. Orr. in Inter-Ocean.
The Van Duzener Pride.
Barring an occasional bill or adver
tising circular, George Mortimer’s mail
had, as a rule, consisted mainly of
certain darling little notes which
sweetly thanked him for flowers or
candy; or tod him that the writer
would be delighted to accept his invi
tation to the theatre; or else, that she
had a cold and couldn’t go, so would
he “come around,” instead. Fancy,
then, his dismay, one “misty, moisty
morning,” as the nursery rhyme goes,
upon finding beside his breakfast plate
in the shabby boarding-house dining
room a letter addressed, in a feminiue
hand, to be sure, but not at all the
hand which had penned the darling
notes above mentioned. When Mr.
Mortimer had mastered its contents,
he was so upset that he forgot to eat
his breakfast, but set forth down town
to the office where he enjoyed the
proud position and slender salary of
assistant bookkeeper, with a mind full
of conflicting emotions. The accounts
must have done themselves that day,
for Mr. Mortimer has no recollection
of rendering any assistance whatever.
And when night arrived, he got
through his diuner with a speed that
was simply frightful, and started for
the abode of his heart’s treasure in a
violent hurry.
Iu a short time, Mr. Mortimer was
seated in the shabbiest, cosiest little
sitting-room in town, pouring into the
ear of the girl of his heart the most
crazy, incoherent account of the con
tents of the letter that couid possibly
be imagined. Finally, he wound up
with:
“It’s insufferable, now, isn’t it,
Bella?”
Bella’s pretty face looked anxious.
“If one could read it for one’s self,
George ?”
“Certainly.” And he produced the
letter with au air which plainly said:
We are one.
After reading it carefully through,
Bella handed it back, saying:
“As I understand it, the position is
this: Yonr aunt, Mrs. Van Duzener,
who has been living abroad for three
now I’ve g*pt it, or my name isn't
Bella. I’ll have to put my pride in
my pocket this time, I guess.
The advertisement read to the effect
that a lady« «anted a person of refine
ment to do ■!> laces and fine lawns
each week.- The person of refinement
was to call at No 12 Periwinkle Place,
and ask for Mrs. Goodman, house
keeper.
“And, cs true as I live,” exclaimed
Bella, “I believe that’s where George's
aunt lives. Well, she can’t eat me,
that's certain, and I might as well do
up her laces as anybody else's. Even
if she should happen to see me, she
wouldn’t kjiow me. I suppose when
I go there That Mrs. Goodman, the
housekeeper, will go to the madam
and say, ‘If you please ’m, the wash’-
woman’s come.’ Well, I guess I can
stand it. I’ll ask Mrs. Cordova and
the Montagues on the avenue if they
have any of that kind of work to give
me. And perhaps they may know of
others.”
And so. Bella, with a brave attempt
to make “her destiny, her choice,”
dressed logo to Periwinkle Place.
In ten minutes after she had rung
the door-bell, the interview was at an
end. She had been politely treated
by the housekeeper, who, after a close
scrutiny, asked what she could do, and
then her address, and finally gave her
quite a parcel of laces, fine handker
chiefs and some delicate silk under
wear to be done up. And the inter
view had passed and nothing had hap
pened.
“And, pray, what did you expect?”
demanded Bella of herself, savagely.
“Did you think you would see
George’s aunt, and that stunned by
your charms, she would immediately
exclaim: ‘Come to my arms, 3 on
poor, stricken dear!’ Don’t forget
the Van Duzener pride, Bella—nor
your own.”
And so six months passed. Bella
had all the work she could do, and,
consequently,was so busy that she had
no time to waste in wishing that the
patron saint of lovers would turn his
attention to that little afl’air of hers.
In fact, just about this time the
course of true love didn't rim at all;
it stood stock-still.
It happened that, during one of
those rare, brief visits which Bella
now permitted Mr. Mortimer to make
her, the subject of that 3’oung lady’s
employment was brought under dis
cussion. Bella, with a most becoming
flush on her cheeks, and an extra toss
of her curly head, explained the sort
of work she had found to do.
“For Heaven’s lake, Bella, couldn’t
you fine anythina'in this big town to
do but fhmt?” Mr. Mortimer.
^shoutcl ’ *come ~to my
Bella, it would be
.11 our hopes.”
Bella,
ha grew moody aud quiet and left his
favorite dishes untasted, she decided
that she must know what troubled'him.
So, one morning, at the breakfast
table, she suddenly said, in her quick,
snappy way:
“Come, George, satisfy an old wom
an’s curiosity. Who is she?”
Mr. Mortimer was at first very much
confused. But being very young and
ver}' unhappy, and noticing that his
aunt looked particularly amiable, he
soon unbosomed himself of a few of
his woes.
“And why,” asked his aunt, “don’t
you marry her ?”
“Why!” exclaimed Mr. Mortimer^
who labored under the fond delusion
that he had explained every point in
the story. “Because she has a poor
grandmother that she would stay and
work for; and because she thought
you needed me; and because—well,
there’s the Van Duzener pride, you
know. Bella is a working-girl.”
“Bless my heart!” exclaimed Aunt
Van Duzener, raising her bauds im-
patienth*. What greater pride can
au> r one feel than in doing her whole
duty? And the more distasteful and
difficlult the dut\’ the greater the
honor. That’s the sort of pride I be
lieve in.”
“But, aunt,” stammered her nephew,
deprecatingl)", feeling sure that he was
dealing the final blow to his newly
raised hopes, “Bella does up laces and
things for a living. In fact, she —
washes, you know.’’
“Well, and what has that got to do
with it? If she is honest aud brave
and pretty, did you say?”
“Be-au-tiful!” exclaimed George,
ecstatically.
‘•And will have you,” continued his
aunt. “I advise you to lose no time
in securing your treasure. Iu addition
to your salary at the office, I will pay
you well to look after my property, so
I think you can afford wife, grand
mother and all.”
Mr. Mortimer soon made his peace
with Bella, and, of course, the wed
ding wasn’t long in coming off. In
credible though it may sound, the rich
aunt, the shabby grandmother and the
young couple all lived together as har
moniously as doves.
“Aud to think,” said Mrs. Van Du
zener, “that George was so stupid as
not to know what my pride, about
which I’ve talked so much, really con
sisted of. But perhaps it isn’t so odd
after all; there are so many shoddy
sorts of pride nowadays, that the real,
honest kind is apt to be overlooked en
tirely.”— [New York Ledger.
A Mansion of Onyx.
One of the recent visitors to the East
is William
LADIES' DEPARTMEST.
RIXGS FOR THE LITTLE FCXOER.
Rings for the little finger are more
or less a fad of the hour. They are
often encircled with turquois or set
with lucky moonstones. There is aiso
a fancy for using the stone correspond
ing to the birth month of the wearer
iu these little rings, which should be
especiallv small and dainty and as ex
quisite in design as possible. — [Chi
cago News.
YOUNG LADY’S TOQUE.
To wear with a blue serge street
dress, a draped roundjhat is expensive
ly made from a piece of the cloth,
dotted with iridescent beads, which
may be sewed on in a very short time,
threading them on in semi-regular
rows. Old jet or pendant cord trim
ming or iridescent-beaded passemen
terie not infrequently affords the pret
tiest possible wherewithal to decorate
the cloth. A cluster of pompous, an
aigrette, butterfly bow or velvet loops
are set at the back and somewhat
higher than the draped crown.—
[Ladies’ Home Companion.
AN EMPRESS’S GORGEOUS MANTLES.
Some very beautiful mantles are
being made for the Empress of Russia
by a well-knowu London firm who send
a representative to St. Petersburg every
year.
One is of pale violet velvet, lined
with the finest ermine. It is elabo
rately laden with gold and violet passe
menterie, and is indeed a thing of
beaut\', if not a joy forever. Another
short cloak is in the fashionable Tudor
shape. It is made of white and gold
brocade, the yoke and collar being
entirely of gold and scrollwork. The
collar is edged with ostrich tips.—
[New York Journal.
SATCHELS AS TRADE MARKS.
It is a peculiar fact that nine out of
ten of the pretty girls seen on the fer
ryboats have little leather traveling
bags in their hands. As the girls
never take handkerchiefs or purses
out of the bags or in fact open them
at all, many persons wonder what the
satchels contain. I asked a bright
young lady whom I mot on the*ferry
this morning aud she explained mat
ters.
“Those little bags,” said she, “are
the sign manuals of the typewriters
and stenographers. When you see a
girl swinging along with a satchel evi
dently light you may know that it
contains only her lunch. When the
bag seems heavy it is equally certain
that the bearer ha^^oeen sitting up ihe
It would appear that after one has
even once viewed on every side
the effects of the ludicrous
and silly fashion of hair-coloring,
the seared and streaked mops, the
black-and-tan heads, the heads that
look like a hurriedly prepared dish of
scrambled eggs, the lemon heads, aud
the dead-looking “Patti” and “Cleo
patra” crauiums, that women would
see the wisdom of letting nature alone
in respect of their tresses. “Ye can
not change one hair black or white,’ ,
that is, successfully, for no one ever
yet did this, for, let the forced color
look ever so fine, the face of tho
wearer of the hair of the new shade
will never look natural or right beside
this artificial production, the environ
ments being abnormal and false. The
shade of the hair that nature bestows
is the only one that goes well with the
features aud complexion. The face
of a child changes as it grows up, and
from youth to womanhood and old
age, Nature herself makes the neces
sary changes in the hair.—[New York
Post.
NEW FEATURES IN MILLINERY.
Distinctive features in millinery
are, first, a transparency and airines 9
of design; next, an accenting of tho
flat crowns which obtained to such an
extent during the past few months;
third, an almost Oriental richness of
color and material, and last, a prodi
gal use of flowers.
Bonnets and hats, alike in many in
stances, are mere skeletons, with the
trimmings arranged to accentuate the
meagre anatomy; others of straw, al
though having crowns aud brims,have
also open work insertions of lace
straw, which produce a transparent
effect, and a largo proportion are made
of a wired network of silver, of jet,
of gold, and of chenille.
In toques aud bonnets, besides tho
skeleton variety, there are fluted brims
attached to a small round crown; also
a narrow plain brim close to the crown
and a projecting flat brim, which looks
almost like a continuation of the low
crown.
Inside bands under the brim in front,
supporting floral garnitures, are quite
common.
It is on the smaller hats and bonnets
that the richer materials come into
pla}’, and it is a question whether
more costly goods have ever been
used upon head gear.
The skeleton hats are often com
posed of nothing but narrow bands of
jewels and a small wing or two nest
ling in a lace barbe at the back. Others
are made of perhaps two bands of tiny
flowers, such as forget-me-nots, caught
together with a frill qf transt