The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, October 16, 1891, Image 16
The crown heads of Europe are all
in debt
The author of “Tho Egg, from the
Hen to the Table," states that New
York city annually consumes eggs
ralued at $12,000,000.
Many Italians are leaving their
country for Brazil, and in some
provinces the population ■ is apprecia
bly thinning out in consequence of the
rapid emigration.
Rev. A. W. Maun, the pioneer deaf
mute preacher, writes, “The ratio of
deaf mutes to the hearing is as one to
1600, so there are over 40,000 in the
United States and about 1,000,000 in
the world.
After three minutes’ use of a scythe
a Rockland, Me., lawyer’s back gave
out, and he sat down on his steps to
ponder, with this result: Every man
or woman that came along was in*
▼ited to try his new scythe and “see
how easy it works.” Within two
hours the job was done, and the law
yer was still seated.
The New York cooking school had
1000 pupils iu the year just ended,
half of whom were taught free. The
school gives free instruction in plain
cookery to the children of working
people, and teaches them how to pre
pare their food in a wholesome way,and
how to market advantageously and
economically. Instruction in higher
cookery is given to those who pay for
it.
Ponoma Valley, California, expects
to have the biggest fig orchard in the
world. Over 700 acres will be planted
with 73,000 trees, imported from
Syria. T::e projectors expect to pro
duce fruit equal to the best Smyrna
varieties. At Vacaville a fruit raiser
reports a profit of $225 an acre from
apricots on ar. orchard of forty
acres.
London has a hospital for women
which was established by a womau
and is now officered by women and
maintained by them. There is an out
patients’ reception room, numerous
wards for in-patients, rooms for pay
ing patients and there are prettily fur
nished suites for women doctors. The
hospital was established through the
indefatigable exertions of oue woman,
Mrs. Garrett Anderson.
Bonguereau, Vuillefroyes, Mme.
Madelaiue Lamaire, the French artists,
who sent examples of their brush to
the International Exposition at Berlin,
despite the protests of certain Freneh.
men, are reaping the rewards of their
temerity. Their photographs are to
be seen in the show windows of the
capital, with the legend: “Exposition
ie Berlin.” “These names,” ends an
article in L’Autorite. “must be nailed
an the pillar of shame as those of the
worst Frenchmen, unworthy to repre-
sent French art. These artists should
remain in Geimany. "We repudiate
them. They are worthy of being
Prussians.’’ The Matin and a number
of other journals have printed the
names of the “unpatriotic” artists in
their most conspicuous columus.
A new ghoul has made his appear
ance, discovers the Boston Transcript.
This is he who unceremoniously thrusts
himself upon the mourners and the
ifflicted, oy personal application 15r“by
impertinent correspondence, at the in
stant of the announcement of a death
iu the family circle, offering to “col
lect and mail all the newspaper notices,
obituaries, etc., for a scrapbook to be
handed down to the family. Conside
ration $10, <rr its equivalent, to watch
the papers for thirty days, etc., with
sdvice, too, iu case of need to tele
graph at once \o a certain address in
New Jersey, U. S. A.” In some cases
these missives, marked “important”
snd “personal,” have been thrust upon
families at thf hour of the funeral,
with an assurance that is unmatched.
The most careful foreign authorities
ill agree, avers tin Boston Cultivator,
that Europe must draw much larger
mpplies of grain from this country
the coming twelve months than usual.
The Russian crop is so deficient that
jrain must be imported, and iu some
localities famine is threatened. The
English crop is promising a little bet
tor just now than it did one or two
months ago. but England is always a
large wheat buyer, and its crop, most
rears, can only be used by mixing with
'he dryer wheat from the United
States. India’s wheat crop is deficieut
and it is always poor in quality. There
need be no fear that all the wheat this
country can grow, both the present
year and in 1892 will be wanted at
prices more than $1 per bushel. A
leficiency like that which now exists
will maintain good prices for two
years, even should the next wheat crop
be a large one.
Statistics show the following to be
the average size of families iu the dif-
Europ^n countries: France, 3.03
members; Denmark, 3.61; Hungary,
3.70; Switzerland, 3.94; Austria and
Belgium, 4.05; England, 4.08; Ger
many, 4.10; Sweden, 4.12; Holland,
4.22; Scotland, 4.46; Italy, 4.56;
Spain, 4.65; Russia, 4.83; Ireland,
5.20.
Dallas, Texas, claims, taking that
city as a center, that withiu a radius
of one hundred miles there is not to
be found on the globe a more produc
tive soil nor a more healthful climate.
Within that radius there is a thrifty
population of more than a million
of people, and it is capable of sus
taining a population of ten millions.
Within this radius, adds the New York
Independent, nearly one-half of the
cotton in Texas is raised, more than
half the oats and the wheat, and near
ly one half the corn.
Cloud mud Sunshine*
Waiting In gloom and pain;
Weary, oh! so weary l
Steadily falls the rain.
Dark the day and dreary.
The bitterest winds are wailing loud.
And the funeral sky is clothed in cloud;
Will the sun ne'er shine again?
Courage! in heart and brain,
Though the day be dark’ning;
Waiting is not iu vain,
If for God thou'rt hark’ning.
The dreariest weather will change some
day,
And never a cloud bat will pass away,
And the sun must shine again.
Be still, sad heart, nor mind.
The heart of fiery-trying,
The mystery entwined
With sorrow and with crying.
The costliest gold, by a method slow,
Must lose its dross in the hottest glow.
But it cometh forth refined.
—fCaptain B. K. Carter, in New York
Observer.
AN EDGED TOOL
BT AMT RANDOLPH.
Californians are begiuuiug to bo
stirred up over the Japanese invasion
of that state. The Japanese emigra
tion to California is in part due to the
ovei flow from the Japanese colony in
the Sandwich Islands, and in part due
to the same causes that attracted theChi-
nese. There are now several thousands
of Japanese in California, enough to
waken the jealousy of native labor.
With this element the Japanese are
even more unpopular than the Chinese*
for the latter go home some time, while
the Japanese are the cheapest of cheap
laborers and have come to stay. Every
steamer from Japan adds to their
number, and before long they prom,
ise to be numerous enough to force a
collision with native labor. The inva
sion of the Sandwich Islands, where
the Japanese are already a menace to
the rest of the population, and would
dominate politics could they get the
franchise, and their immigration to
California will be reckoned by some
observers as the beginning of the
movement to push Asiatic populations
into the Occident, of which Lord
Wolseley claimed to see the premoni
tory symptoms.
“Success,” declares the New Y'ork
Post, “is attending the experiment of
mproving the quality of soldiers in
the United States Army and prevent
ing the numerous and hitherto unpre-
yentable desertions by seeking recruits
m tbo rural districts instead of the
iities. An officer in the Adjutant,
General’s department in Washington
;ays that the young farmers that have
entered the service since the adoption
af this policy make much better sol
diers than the old and hardened city
toughs that formerly constituted the
jreat majority of the recruits. They
do not join the army in the hope of
getting a living for nothing, or to vary
the monotony of an idle and semi,
criminal existence; they enlist because
they feel that they have a taste for
the life *>f a soldier. Tii s being the
case, it is but natural that they should
not attempt on the first opportunity,
as city recruits often do, to escape
from a service that is not altogether a
prolonged holiday. Towns as recruit
ing fields have, therefore been aband-
oned almost entirely, and agricultural
districts will, so far as practicable,
source of supply for depleted
Dr. George M. Beard maintains that
the dryness of our atmosphere causes
an evaporation which produces in the
American girl a look of refinement
and spirituality not implanted on the
features of the dwellers in moister
climates. “The same influence,” he
says, however, “that makes the Ameri
can female more handsome, also causes
her beauty to decay earlier than m
Europe. The Englishwoman is less
beautiful, less delicate and attractive
between the ages of fifteen and twenty-
five, yet she retains her beauty longer.”
In his opinion, America is a modern
Etruria, where the beauty of women is
peerless. Yet here nervous diseases
abound, because of the dry air
and the violent changes of
heat and cold. The male Amer
ican does not profit so greatly from
the climate as do the young ladies of
his household. His leanness has been
a source of wonder to Europeans for a
century at least. A thousand Amer
icans, according to an eminent author
ity, if selected at random, would be
found to weigh less than a thousand
Englishmen or Germans of the same
class selected in the same manner.
The Americans have been partially
dried up and blown away. But this
is not all. Sir Charles W. Dilke
thinks that ho has observed a tendency
in the Caucasian native American to
acquire the red Indian type of physi
ognomy. W. Matthicu Williams agrees
with Sir Charles in this surprising
opinion, and thinks the process of
desiccation due to the dry atmosphere
is responsible for the change.
Saltest Body of Water on Earth.
LakeUrumiah, in Persia, 4100 feet
above the sea, is. according to British
Consul-General Stewart at Tabriz,
the saltest body of water on
earth, being salter than even the Dead
Sea. It is eighty-seven miles long and
twenty-four miles broad, and contains
nearly twenty-two per cent, of salt.
Its northern coasts are incrusted with
a border of salt glistening white in the
sun. It is said that no living thing
can survive in it, but a small species
of jelly-fish manages to maintain an
existence in its waters.
Chili’s Curious Currency.
The money of Chili at present is
peculiar. Mr. Hoffman has his pocket
fnll of it. It consists of small tags of
pasteboard, on which a man writes the
value for which he is willing to re
deem it, putting his name on the back.
It then begins to circulate until it
finally gets back to the source
which it emanated.--[Boston
“Miss Morel wanted, immediately,
in the show-room!”
Shrill and sharp and clear the mes
sage came through the speaking-tube
into the great room where all Mrs.
Cavendish’s young women were at
work—the great, bare-floored echoing
room, which was lighted only from a
skylight of frosted glass above.
Valencia Morel rose at once, her
pale olive cheeks suddenly suffused
with scarlet, to obey the summons.
She felt sure she was to be scolded for
slighting the pipings on the skirt of
old Mrs. Mickel’s blue satin dress.
But Mrs. Cavendish, sitting at her
desk, received her graciously.
“ Miss Morel,” said she, “ on se<
ond thoughts, you .may trim Mj|
Vavasa’s moire antique with lace l
stead of velvet. Miss Gay, the
woman, will give you all uec^
instructions.”
After a moment she added:
“My dear, you know that
interfere in the private and
affairs of my young womei
am informed that you ar<
home every night by a gen
must certainly be above
Miss Morel, I am not yoi
□either do I possess any
you. But I do know so]
world, and I bid you
Valencia Morel was.
Mrs. Cavendish hadj
supposed that her f;
was going to confi;
mistaken.
Half an hour 1
swarmed out of
rooms at the so
bell, Valeoci
little behind the rest, so that it was
quite dark when she reached the cor
ner of the street, and a quick, silent
shadow, with the fiery end of a cigar
burning in front of it, moved up to
her side quite as a matter of course.
“Valencia!” sofily spoke the phan
tom.
“Yes; it’s I,” said Valencia Morel,
coquettishly pulling the blue vail a
little farther over her face. “And
Mrs. Cavendish has somenow found
out that you walk home with me eve
nings.
“Well, what then,” demanded the
owner of the fire-tipped cigar, in a
debonnaire and defiant sort of way.
“Is it a capital crime?”
“N-no; I suppose not,” said Valen
cia, dubiously. “But, Hector—”
“Well?”
“1 do wish I knew what the end of
all this was to be.”
Captain Hector Maurice lifted his
primrose-kidded hands deprecatingly.
“So like a woman,” said he. “Bless
their dear little hearts, they never can
be contented to let well enough alone.”
“Well, if you must know,” inter
rupted the gallant captain, “we are
nearer ‘the end of all this' than you’ve
any idea of.”
“What do you mean?” Valencia
stood still, with a face as white as j
marble.
“I mean simply that I’m to be mar
ried in three months."
“Married!”
“Yes, married. Why not? She is
not as pretty as you are, Valencia,”
with a sigh and a shrug; “in fact,
she’s as old and ugly as Medusa, if you
know who that classical character was;
but she’s rich, and I never was one of
the kind that could live on love and
poetry. Now don’t turn crusty, Va
lencia!” as she involuntarily drew
back. “Y’ou know I’m desperately
fond cf you and all that sort of thing,
but I must marry money or it is all up
with me! And you must have known
that we couldn’t go on philandering
like this forever!”
Valencia looked at him with eyes
that shone dangerously.
“ Hector Maurice,” said she, “ you
have been playing with me all this
time. Beware I do not turn out au
edged tool!”
“My darling, only listen to me.”
He took both her hands by main
force and renewed his caressing pro
testations while he walked along at
her side. Presently she turned, with
a short, harsh laugh.
“ Don’t mind me, Hector,” said s
“ I was a little oi^. of tem
came so sjiddenlr ^pu kuo
s I
have quil
tore withol
ject now.”
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marry her?”
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mother.”
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name?”
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Valencia.
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words, yoi
tool.”
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only corai
were a me
she came!
workroom!
tie paler tl
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about
widows
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widow,
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of his moll
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fanningl
very ma|
won’t
will!”
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ally.
“Oh!’
Please,
foolish
“If II
widow,
to be
shall nei
money?’!
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her mail
hysterics