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VOL. V. NO. 4. * BEAUFORT, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1876. $2.00 per Am. Single Copy 5 Cents.
Lost.
Do, winds. blow fair! Ob. winds, blow free!
Tbo port we eteer for is under our lee,
And crisp waves curl on the dear green sea.
Home from exile, dear love, we eail;
Cor ship speeds forward with favoring gale?
8ee where the cliffs loom somber and pole.
llunuiug so freely, our haven near,
But iittie for tempest and storm we fear,
A .d fife to each wa9 never so dear.
Ah! Low weird is the seabird's ory.
How mournful and shrill is the wild wind's
sigh,
While white waves glance from our bulwarks
high!
Stem the frown on tho skipper's face?
The wind and the waves have risen apace,
A ad across the sky the storm clouds race.
Hard down the helm! The black rocks Bhow
Where the reef runs out so narrow tDd low,
Like jaws of hell 'raid the billowe' enow.
Pnt her about! Too late, alas!
The strong ship shivers like fragile glaes.
A\ul hiding waves through her timbers pass. J
Cling to me. love! My life for thine!
l\ound your slender waist this stout cord Til
twine,
And so sh&li ycur fate be bound to mine.
? Trust to we, darling ! My strong hand
Hhall tear yon nnli&rmcd to the storm ridged
strand,
. Nor shall loose its grasp til! we touch land.
Bruised, vaVo beaten, we gained the bay :
My life was left, but my one treasure Jay
Lost, In my arms, for ever aud aye.
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Mary Grey's Mother-in-Law. j
A Christmas Story.
i
" bo your mother-in-law is coming to
live with you," remarked -Mies Susan
Skinner, contemptuously, giving her
head a toss which set all the little pink
bows on her cap a dancing.
Pretty, plump, little Mrs. Grey opened
her brown eyes in mild surprise at her
visitor's tone.
"Why. yes. Miss Susan, mother
Grey's last child has married and moved
away from her, aud now she isJfft quite <
atone. Henry always was her favorite, i
and 1, knowing it would please him,
suggested that she should rent or sell i
the farm; and make her home with us,
and she has oonsentcd to do so."
"Humph! all the more fool you I I
You have got yourself into a pretty fix
uow, Mary Grey. $ho will never leave i
you a? long as she lives ; you can make i
up your mind to that, and bid good-bye
to peace for the rest of your days." ]
"Why, Miss Susan," said Mrs. Grey, j
regarding her old neighbor with sur- !
prise, "1 don't understand you. I am i
sure I never want mother to leave us,
?ml as for ueaco, what difference can j
her coming make ?" i
V Oh, you'll see," replied Miss SusaD,
ncxl iiug ber head wisely, while her i
kuittiug needles kept time to her shrill j
tones with a sharp ciiok-olick. " Ycu'il
see ! You will repent of your bargain 1
before a month is over, mind what I tell
you. Of all the mean, conniving, med- <
dlesome women in the world, it is a i
mother-in-law." . j
Mrs. Grey began to feel a little J
annoyed, "What do you know about <
it?" she could not refrain from saying.
" Humph ! you needn't twit me with i
beiDg an old maid, Mary Grey ! I thank i
my stars that I'm not tied to aDy man, ?
nor what's worse, to any man's mother, i
What do I know about mothers-in-law ? t
More than I want to. goodness knows I
Why, t here wa3 my cousin Lucie da, i
who was obliged to leave her husband, 1
and go home to her father, just on ac ]
count of her mother-in-law ; and Alice j
Lawson, poor, little, weak creature, who
used to live in this very house, was so I
imposed upon and ill used by her hus- 1
band's mother, that they do say it killed i
her; anyway, she died just three months
after her mother-in-law came to live 1
with her. Why, I know of lots of snch i
cases, and, if*a woman isn't awfully
strong minded, her mother-in-law just ;
runs iight over her and rules tho house,
and, if she is strong minded, tliey are :
continually jangling anct quarreung, so '
you see that, altogether, a woman's best ;
way is to keep entirely away from her '
mother-lu-law."
" Bat, Miss Susan, these are only ex- !
eeptional eases/'said Mrs. Grey; "I J
am sure there are good and true women
in the world belonging to this class." ]
" Well, iM just like to see one of
them, that's all! I see it's no use i
arguing with you, Mary; you're too set
in your own way; mark my words, my
dear, you will rue the day you ever let I
that womau come into your house," said i
Miss Susan, in a tone of settled convict*Vn.
"When do yon expect Mrs. .
Grey V' she asked, rising, and folding <
up her knitting work.
" To-morrow evening."
" So soon ? Well, I'm sure, I hope
you will be able to get along with her,"
answered Miss Susan, with a little sympathetic
sigh.
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UIten iiunng me lfiuaujuct w ?u?i
day inr^the next, Mrs. Grey found her
pelf wcfndering what her husband's
mother was like. He had always seemed
so proud and fond of her, that she was
predisposed to lctve her; to regard her
with that reverence and affection which
she bad cherished for her own dead
mother. She thought how nice it would
be to have some one to whom she could
go with all her little troubles and anxieties,
some one who would sympathize
with and counsel her; and how pleasant
it wonld be for Henry to have his mother
always near him, where he could watch
over ana care for her.
They would make such a happy
family; Henry and herself, grandma,
and baby Harry.
Then, in opposition to all these pleasant
thoughts, would come up, in spite
nW.mtr wftminffs and forft- I
VI UCij liii3 gtwiuj
bodiLgs which Miss Susan Skinner had
uttered. Could Henry's mother be
"mean, conniving, meddlesome," or
disagreeable in any way ? No, a thousand
limes no. And yet the sharply
spoken words had left their sting, and
she could not drive the memory of them
v from her mind.
\ VThen train time arrived, mamma anfl
\ baby took their station at the window,
to watch for "grandma." Soon the
sound of wheels was heard, and Henry
drove up to the door, and handed out a
lady.
"Mother, this is your daughter,
Mary."
Mary looked up, and met a pair of
gentle blue eyes looking out wistfully
from a kindly old face.
"Mary, will you let me be your
mother as weH as Henry's ?" asked the
lady, holding oat her bands; and Mary
answered, embracing her warmly :
" Indeed, I will! Welcome home,
mother."
Miss Skinner, peeping from between
her blinds across the street, saw the act
and understood it.
" Oh, that's all very tine," she muttered,
contemptuously. "A new broom
sweeps clean. Wait a few weeks, and
then we shall see."
It was two weeks before Christmas,
and Mary was busy preparing for the
holidays. One evening, after putting
baby to bed, she ran down to the parlor
to get her sewing, which she had left on
the table before tea. The door did not
open readily, and she tried it again, but
found it was locked. She was sure she
had heard Henry's and his mother's
voice within, and thinking the door had
become fastened accidentally, called out
to Henry to open it.
" Oh, is that you, Mary ?" he answered.
" Run up stairs and get my cigar
case, will you ?"
Mary did so, and when she came down
again, found the door open, rnd Henry
sitting by the table reading.
" Where is mother?" she asked.
" Wasn't she up stairs with you?" replied
Henry, keeping his eyes fixed on
nis book.
"Why, no; I thought she was here."
"Weil, yon see you are mistaken, "
he answered.
Mary-did not reply, but took up her
work and sewed away busily, her
thoughts keeping time with her fingers.
She was positively certain she had heard
Mrs. Grey's voice in low toned conversation
with Henry, and yet he had the
same as denied her presence there. It
was the first time he had ever equivocated
to his wife, and 6he could not
overlook it lightly without knowing the
reason. Why had he done so? Was
there anything secret between him and
his mother from which she" was excluded,
and if so, what could be the nature
of it?
Wf?ll. never mind: it might have been
abont Mrs. Grey's affairs, and had notli- j
ing to do with her; but then, why need j
Henry have equivocated about the matter
?
The little affair troubled her considerably,
and her uneasiness was very much
augmented a few days afterward.
She was in the kitchen one morning,
putting the finishing touches to the
preparations for breakfast, when she
heard Mrs. Grey and Henry enter the
iinicg-room.
44 Are you sure Mary knows nothing
about this matter ?" Henry was saying.
44 Yes, I am quite certain of it; and I
think we have been so fortunate to keep
it froru her.
44 Yes, it would never do for her to
Snd it out now," Henry answered.
Mary wanted to hear no more, but ran
:>ut into the back hall and up stairs,
whence she appeared in the dining-room
is the breakfast bell rung, looking a
ittle flushed and excited, but not i
mough so to cause.comment.
After breakfast Mrs. Gray went out to
make some little purchases, and Mary
rat down in her husband's big arm
jhair in the sitting-room, and tried to
reason herself out of her absurd fears
tad suspicions.
What was it that her husband and his
mother were trying to keep from her ?
Why did they treat her like a child, in
her own house ? she thought indignantly
; it was shameful!
Her meditations were interrupted by
the entrance of Miss Susan Skinner, who
14 had run over to have a chat with her,"
is she said:
44Why, my dear!" she exclaimed at
Brst sight of_Mary, 44 how poorly you
ire looking! What is tiie matter*"
"Nothing serious. I was very busy
yesterday, and am a little tired."
"Ah, one more in the family makes
more work, I know. It won't do to
wear yourself out this way; you must let
your mother-in-law do her share of the
work."
"Ah, indeed she does," exclaimed
Mary, quickly, " even more than I wish
her to, sometimes.''
" Well, it seems to me she goes out
more than you do."
" And so she ought. I have Harry to
claim my attention."
" And she receives callers, too."
" I think you must bo mistaken, Miss
Sasan. She has made no acquaintances
since coming here."
"But I certainly saw a gentleman
come here, two days ago, when you were
down town"'
"A gentleman 1"
" i'es, and she jnet him at the door
herself. Mr. Grey oame home in about
half an hour and took him away with
him."
" Ob, it was probably some friend of
Henry's."
" Perhaps so," replied Miss Susan,
doubtingly. She soon took her departure,
leaviEg Mrs. Grey's mind in a very
troubled state.
In vain did she try to reason with herself;
to persuade herself that all this
was no concern of hers, it should not
trouble her; still she could not help con
A- r/Auflomcn unfli
neCHDg tUO YiCiilJ U1 lUi9 ^CUUU Aunu n^vu
the mysterious private conversations.
Why was she not thought worthy their
confidence ? Why all this secret plotting
and schemiug ?
In spite of herself, all Miss Skinner's
warnings of a few weeks before came
back to her mind with redoubled force,
until she could have wished herself
deaf before ever listening to that hateful
woman.
Suspect her husband's mother, that
sweet, gentle faced woman, of any treason
toward her! No, indeed, she
would not!
Still ahnost daily Mary found herself
interrupting stolen conversations, and
stumbling upon evidences of the secret J
an I add to this Miss Skinner's almopdaily
" chats" with her, which a1**?8
left her feeling nucomiojiaWr with the
world in general and ho?*i&tljer-in-law
in particular, no won^? *kat sk? 8reW
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thin and pale, and lost her appetite.
Mr. Grey and his mother wondered at it
and tried in vain to raise her spirits.
Her husband took her out driving
daily.
The day before Christmas came. Mary
pleaded that she was too busy when the
time for her drive came; but Henry
would not listen to it, and she put on
her wraps and went. The air was clear
and keen, lind Mary.felt much refreshed
and invigorated when at last they drew
up before the door.
" Eun up stairs and take your wraps
off, Mary, and then come right down; I
want to show you something," said
Henry, as h9 helped her out of the
sleigh.
When she came down stairs, he was
waiting in the hall; and, drawing her
hand through his arm, conducted her to
the parlor. *
" What is it you wish me to see,
Henry ?" she asked, a3 they entered the
room.
" Find out for yourself," he answered,
playfully.
She raised her eyes, and then gave a
shrill scream of delight, and, with a
bound, was across the room, standing
beside a superb pianoforte.
" Oh, Henry, where did this come
from ? What a perfect beauty ! Is it
really for rne ? Oh, how can I ever
thank you ?"
" One question at a time, my dear;
but I will answer your last one first.
You have no right to thank me for this
Christmas present. Here is the giver,"
replied Henry, going up to his mother,
who had stood a quiet spectator of
Mary's pleasure, and putting his arm
around her.
" Mother I is it possible ! Oh, you
darling? how can I ever thank you?"
cried Mary, throwing her arms, too,
around Mrs. Grey, and giving her a
rapturous hug.
"I am well surrounded, I see," said
she, smiling on them proudly.
" I am glad you are pleased with your
piano, Mary, and you shall repay me by
getting all the enjoyment from it that
you can."
" It is something I have wanted ever
since we were married," said Mary,
" but Henry could not quite afford i.t."g
" And now you have your heart's desire,"
said Henry, " but at the expense
of a little sinning, I am afraid. Do you
remember one evening, about two weeks
aaro. when vou found the parlor door
locked ? Mother and I were koldiDg a
consultation when yon came, and I sent
you after the cigar case to give her time
to run away. I came very near telling a
fib that night."
"Yes," said his mother, "such planning
and plotting as we have had. The
other day, when the man came to make
the final arrangements about bringicg
the piano, you were down towD, and I
was so afraid you would return unexpectedly;
and this afternoon they came
and put it up while you were out driving;
but I knew Henry would not bring
you home too soon."
Mary felt herself turning sick and
faint. This, then, was the secret which
had tormented her so; these innocent
plots and plans prompted by loving
hearts! What a monster she was to
have suspected this noble woman of any
wrong ! She felt like humbling herself
in the dust before her.
"How white you are, child! The
excitement has been too much for you,"
said Mrs. Grey.
But Mary knew better. Still, she
kept her secret locked in her own
breast; not by a word would she let this
gentle woman know how she bad been
tempted to doubt her.
Mary has gradually dropped Miss
Susan Skinner's acquaintance, and that
worthy spinster often complains how
"dreadfully uppish some folks have
grown;" but Mary is only too glad to be
able to keep out of the reach of her
tongue; and finds her greatest comfort
and delight in the society of her motherin-law,
than whom she thinks there is no
better woman on earth.
The Wheel ol Fortune.
Those in this country engaged in
trade and commerce, says the New York
&un, aro liable at any moment to be
overwhelmed by financial panics, political
disturbances, and other causesagainst
which no human foresight can provide.
The millionaire of to-day becomes the
bankrupt of to morrow.
We have had notable instances of reverses
of fortune among the rich men of
this city, the most recent and the most
notable being that of Mr. Edward
Matthews, the great real estate owner.
Mr. Matthews owned buildings in the
heart of the down town business portion
of the city, renting hundreds of
offices and stores in Broadway, Bond
street, Wall street, ;md Exchange place,
all at high rates. It is said his income
from real estate alone, in ten years, be- i
ginning with 1863, amounted to over
88,000,000. Mr. Matthews became involved,
and his creditors are, as we understand,
now seeking to throw him into
bankruptcy. For many years Mr.
Matthews, his house on Fifth 'avenue,
near Eighteenth street, his choice col- t
lection of pictures by modern masters
and his faultless equipages, have bep
much talked of in fashionable circsia
this city. At one time nobody ?rncd
out a better appointed four-in haf d than
Edward Matthews. Now he h in very
serious difficulty. On the tweatiethof October
1 ist ho conveyed all *hs roal estate
to his son, J. Brander tlatthows, for a j
consideration of $50,003 It is charged j
that this conveyance which transfers j
property valued at over $3,000,000 even ]
in these times, is assailable. Certainly j
in this case the wheel of forinne made ,
a sadden and disastrous turn for a gen*
?lir I
tlemau who-eo long naa cstru tumug m i
wealth. / .
Another painfal c*se is that of the
venerable Daniel Drew, who, at one
time, and that/dot so long ago, threw
about his miVions in Wr.ll street with
the best of>fiem. He could at any tinio
during tid successive years have retired
to* the street worth 85,000,000,
but V? ventured once too often, and is
DoX utterly bankrupt of his houses
oda lots, his farms, his bonds and stocks; I
'they have all passed into other hands. Mr. j
Drew's case i3 a particularly ^bad one.
He finds himself stripped of worldly ;
possessions at an age when ho can no j
longer hope to retrieve his fallen j
fortunes. [
THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.
How to Prepare It.
Oyster Sauce.?Parboil the oyjters
in their own liquor, beard them and reserve
all the liquor. Melt a piece of
batter in a saucepan, add a little flour,
the oyster liquor, and enough milk to
make as much sauce as is wanted. Put
in a blade of mace and a bay leaf tied
together, pepper and salt to tasto, add
the leastbit of cayenne. Let the since
boil, add the oysters, and as soon as
they are quite hot remove the mace and
j bay leaf, stir in a few drops of lemon
I juice and serve.
Roast Turkey.?Pluck, singe, draw,
wipe thoroughly and trusa a fine turkey,
stuff it with plain forcemeat,
paok it up in some thin slices of fat
bacon, and over that a sheet of buttered
paper; put in a hot oven, basting frequently
with butter, A quarter of an
hour before it is done, remove the paper
and slices of bacon. Sprinkle with salt
just before serving. Garnish with pork
sausages, and serve with a tureen of
gravy. Time of roasting two to three
hours, according to size.
Gravy.?Mince an onion finely, fry it
in butter to a dark brown, then add
three-quarters of a pint of good stock,
pepper and salt to taste, a small piece of
ham minced finely, a sprig of thyme,
one of parsley, and a little Worcester
sauce; let the whole boil five or ten
minutes, put it by till wanted, then
strain it into a sauce boat.
Truffle and Chestnut Stuffing.?
Mince one pound of iat bacon and a
couple of shallots, give them a turn on
the stove in a saucepan; then put in one
pound of chestnuts, boiled and peeled,
and one-half pound of truffles, both cut
up in moderate sized pieces; add pepper,
salt and spices to taste; also a little
powdered thyme and majoram. Give
the mixture another turn or two on the
fire, and it is ready.
Horseradish Sauce.?Grate a quantity
of horseradish, add a pinch of salt
and two or three tablespoonfuls of vinegar,
then stir in a gill of cream beaten
up with the yolk of an egg.
Plain Boiled Potatoes.?Peel the
potatoes, pack them in a saucepan, and
fill it up with cold water, add salt to
taste; let them boil half an hour, then
drain off the water, cover the saucepan
with a cloth dipped in hot water, and
folded up, and set the saucepan by the
side of the fire.
Christmas MiNCEMEAr.-Three pounds
of rib roast beef, five pounds of apples,
one pound cf fresh beef suet, two
pounds of raisins, stoned, one pound
whole, two pounds and a half of currants,
half a pound of mixed candied
peel, the grated rind of three fresh
lemons, the juice of two, two pounds of
sugar, two nutmegs, dessertspoonful of
mace, one of cinnamon, one of allspice,
one of ginger, one of salt, a fruit syrup,
and a pint of golden syrup boiled in two
quarts of cider until reduced one-fourth,
and then poured over the whole. Of
-- A _ 1
course the ingredients are separately
prepared, and afterward thoroughly
mixed.
Plum Pudding.?Weigh out two
pounds of the best beef suet chopped
as finely as possible, and one and a half
pounds of bread crumbs?made by rubbing
pieces of stale household bread
through a wire sieve; put these with half
a pound of flour, into a large bowl, and
work them well with the hand uutil perfectly
mixed. Pick some currants and
stone some raisins with the greatest care.
Take two pounds of each and mix them
into the bowl, then take one half pound
of mixed peel, chop it up small and mix
it with the rest; lastly mix in one and
a half pounds of brown sugar. Continue
working the mixture with the
hand for some minutes, and put it by.
Put fourteen fresh eggs in a bowl
(breaking each into a cup first to ascertain
that it is fresh and to remove the
speck), add to them grated nutmeg,
powdered ginger, and powdered allspice,
accordiug to taste, and a large
pinch of salt; then stir in a quart of milk;
beat all up together, and pour it gradually
into the other bowl, working the
whole mixture with the hand for some 1
time. Continue to work it with a wooden
spoon for at least half an hor*.
Scald two pudding cloths, spread <ach
in a bowl and dredge them we'*' with '
flour. Divide the composition *ito two
equal parts, put each in its clo^t and tie
up tightly. To boil the pudding place
two inverted plates in saucepans filled
with water, and when t^e water boils J
fast put each pudding &to its saucepan. <
Let them boil four *ours, keeping the <
saucepans full by adding more water as <
it is required, avd taking care that it 1
never ceases baling. Then take the <
puddings out. and hang them up till the {
noxt day, wten the cloth of each pud- 1
ding shouU bo tightened and tied afresh, 1
and an hour's boiling as iu the first in- 1
stance *ill make them ready for table, i
a u-bh a sDrie' of holly stuck on the 1
4T u
top and plenty of rich liquid sauce.
The Happy Time,
The Rev. Adirondack Murray declares
that the religion of the future will be
Christianity, but improved. " My
friends," he said, in a recent sermon,
"I behold in vision the light of that
sublime age; I catch a glimpse of that
far off but happy time. I see the people
of the earth living in gladness and
peace. I see them beating their swords
into p'owshares and their spears into
pruning hooks. The desert blossoms as
the rose ; instead of the thorn is the fir ,
tree; in place of the briar stands the ]
myrtle; the mountains and hills break ,
forth into singing ; the trees clap their j
hands; violence is not heard; wasting and .
destiuction are not within its borders. ,
The sun goes not dowD, and the moon
withdraws not herself, lor tne juoru is
their light, and the days of man's
mourning are ended forever." The
Christians who live in that happy time
will have no desire^ go to heaven.
Taken.?Scene in a debating society:
President?" We will tafce the ayes and
noes on tj^previous qutetion." Member?41
Alyd or two, Mr. President?:
Friends, Remans, countrymen! lend
me yoar ears." President?" Order,
sir! We will take the eyes and nose
first."
The Yew York Clerk,
Young men in the country imagine
that if they could only manage to get a
clerkship in New York, or some other
large city, their fortunes would be
made. The New York clerk does not
have so feat :ery a bed to lie in as
many imagine. A correspondent writing
on the subject says. Take, for instance,
the dry goods clerks on Broadway.
Some ?f the establishments like
Stewart's, Lord k Tajlor's. JatTray's,
etc., have as many as two hundred
clerks in their employ. They are expected
to dress well, to keep up with
the fashions, so as to be in keeping with
the general style of things about them.
They must be at business promptly at
eight in the morning, a strict account
beiDg kept of any failure to do so,
which is reported by the head of the department
to the general manager. All
the day long they are kept on their feet,
under watchful eyes, and with* a multitude
of details to attend to; and at noon
they must hurry out for a hasty lunch
and be back as scon as possible, flying
the day through until seven or eight
o'clock at night. In the busy season
they are liable to be worked until eleven
or twelve o'clock at night; and in the
dull seasons, which come on the city
4L/\*? Inel- ac KoKln fa
Olieil CUUUgU, kUOJ aiD J uou ao luauiu tu
be discharged at a v^pek's notice, even
thongh they have been years in the
house, and been faithful in every way,
and all this for from $8 to $15 per week.
The head bookkeeper of a prominent
Broadway honse gets a salary of thir- j
teen thoueand dollars, while under him
are no less than six meD, having the
brunt of the work to do, who are paid
three dollars a day. There are men in
other houses who enjoy princely incomes,
because they have drawn one of
the prizes of trade; they have a trade of
their own which briDgs in large sums to
their employer; they are paid for their
work with unstinted hand. But all
around them are men without this special
advantage, though competent, who
are barely getting a living. A large tea
house that employs sixty clerks has only
five who receive over $10 per week.
How city clerks live !?considering
the meager condition of the salary market.
Living any way, in New York, is
expensive, as living in a great city always
is. Ten, fifteen, twenty dollars a
week in some places gives a man all the
comforts of modest expectation; nay,
often gives one a trifle for the saving
fund, or the luxurious. Not so here.
Decent board will range up to ten and
fifteen dollars; decent board?which
means a narrow, close room, clean food
?very plaii^-and nothing more. And
then you come down peg by peg to the
horrors and misery and slack and discomfort
of New York boarding house
life?the cheapest and meanest being
five and six dollars a week.
Clerks pack themselves away in these
holes, making them just sleeping and
eating places, cast out from all amusement
and society upon thotown; or else
they hire lodgings in some obscure
quarter, and "live by the card" of
cheap eating houses. They make all
sorts of shifts to keep stylishly clothed.
To Distinguish Cotton from Wool.
Rivel out the suspected cotton fiber
from the wool and apply flame. The
ootton will burn with a flash, the wool,
will curl up, carbonize, and emit a burnt,
disagreeable smell. Even to the naked
eye the cotton is noticeably different
from the filaments of wool, and under
the magnifier this difference co^es out
strongly. The cotton is a flattened, more
or less twisted band, havkig a very
striking resemblance to hair, which, ip
reality, it is; since in tke condition of
elongated cells, it lines the inner surface
of the pod. The wool may be recognized
at once by the zigzag transverse
markings on its fiirers. The surface of
wool is covered rfith these furrowed and
twisted fine cross lines, or which there
are 2,000 to 4,000 in an inch. On this
structure depends its felting property.
Finally, a simple and very striking
chemicd test may be applied. The
mixe<? goods are unraveled, a little of
the cotton fiber put into one dish and
the woolen in another, and a drop of
strong nitric acid added. The ootton
will be little or not at all affected; the
wool, on the contrary, will be changed
to a bright yellow. The color is due to
the development 01 a picraie.
The Russian Loan.
The suoc638 of the new popular loan |
in Russia has been such as to give the |
3zar full assurance that, in case of I
emergency, he can raise a large amount j
of money from his own subjects bofore |
?oing abroad to borrow. The Russian j
ozar has baen so long in the habit of resorting
to the money markets of western I
Europe when the lnnds were required
that most people had supposed he would
foe helpless in case these were closed
against him. But, during the last
twenty years, and especially since the
omancipation of the serfs, the financial
resources, as well as the military power,
of the Russian empire have undergone
r great development; and we have no
qo doubt that, as the czar has raised his
hundred million rubles at once in two
of his cities, he could raise ten times as
much on short notice in his empire at I
large. The success of the present loan j
must give the Russians a new sense of i
financial independence.
I
Let Drown Walk.
A gentleman was very much annoyed J
it night by a person who was walking j
heavily in the room above and nnable to j
bleep; ho ascended to the room to ascer- j
tain the cause, and found a man walking j
up and down, apparently in great dis-!
tress. His sympathy induced him to j
inquire the cause. At fu\st he could i
get no response, and the man, with his j
hair in his hands, still continued to *
pace the floor. At last, induced by the
kindly tone of his visitor, he stated the !
cause of his great anguish. " I owe my [
friend Brown 8500, which I am utterly |
nnable to pay." " My friend," said the
gentleman, "I can give you edvico
which will relieve your distress." j
" What is it?" anxiously inquired the j
distressed individual. "You have walk-!
ed far enough," replied the gentleman. j
" My advice to you is to go comfortably !
to bed, and let Brown walk awhile."
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Leave it to the Coys.
We desire to call the attention of Mrs.
Stanton and Miss Anthony to the degenerate
and pusillanimons fashion in which
young girls run away from their homes;
for until something be done to give
these young adventurers, presumably
the boldest and most resolute of the sex,
more hardihood and enterprise than
they have commonly shown, we shall
hardly modify our views in regard to
the inadvisabiiity of granting female
suffrage. A girl gets indignant with
her father because he refuses to buy her
a new dress or a pair of earrings, puts
on her bonnet and leaves the paternal
mansion in a pet. She disappears for
the space of twenty-four hours, her parents
are in agony, detectives are set to
work to look for her, and coroners go to
dragging the adjacent waters. In the
middle of the commotion a joyous dispatch
arrives from some maiden aunt in
a distant part of the city or some cousin
m a neighboring town, with whom the
wanderer has taken refuge. The truant
damsel returns delighted to a delighted
household and gets all the earrings and
dress patterns she wants. This is ordi|
narily the end of a girl's runaway, and
when the story is varied, as it sometimes
is, by the rum of the truant, her destruction
is commonly due to her -willingness
to sacrifice herself for a place
of refuge. There have been several escapades
on the part of young girls in
New York lately, all of which have terminated
happily, and all of which go to
establish this fact, that girls should not
run away from home, for the simple
reason that they don't know how to do it
with any credit to themselves. Nature
never intended them for runaways.
Their style of dress is not adapted for
running away. Their hearts are too
tender to bid an eternal farewell to
home in anger. They can't hire a hack
or buy a railroad ticket without exciting
suspicion. They can't sleep out under
a haystack; thev can't make a living by
hiring out to drive mules on the canal.
In fact they are incapable of doing anything
that befits a decent runaway.
They were designed for the domestic
circle, and ought tu stay there. It is
their kingdom, where with due discretion
they can rule absolutely. To run
away is simply to abandon their crown,
as King James did, and a restoration is
their only chance for power and happiness.
Look how neatly and effectively a boy
runs away. He has vague longings for
hunting buffalo on the Western frontier,
or fighting Indians, or sailing round
Cape Horn. When his mother misses
him some fine morning there is little
anxiety about any bodily harm coming
to him, but a dread settles over the
family that he may not bo back for
years. Theie is no need to search
among country cousins for the wanderer;
no use in hunting about the byways
of tho city; the vigilabt detective watches
the whale ship3 bouud for the Northern
Pacific or the traders sailing to
China or Japan; he looks after traveling
circuses and makes inquiries concerning
all red haired, blue eyed, snub nosed
boys on tbeir way westward by the towpath
of fhe Erie canal, or stealing rides
ou the freight trains of the Central railroad.
He settles to his wora seriouslv
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I AHA suiemmy, ivr ua jwuwb iuui wmic
the finding of a runaway girl ia a ques,
tion of a few hours, the finding of a
runaway boy is a matter of months or
even years. The boy can walk along
the country roads or catch rides on
farmers' wagons; he can black boots,
sell papers, run errands, and help himself
in a hundred ways. The spirit of
adventure sustains him and he fightshis
way along cheerfully, the buffets of the
world doing him no incurable damage.
If any member of the human family was
designed for running away, he oertainly
is that member. The girls should ) ecognize
this faot and leave the boys a
monopoly of the business, even if they
do in this way supply an inferential argument
against female suffrage.?
World.
A New Way to Sell Cows.
An exchange says that a new dodge
for swindling farmers has just been put
in operation. Several strange men drive
into an agricultural district. They stop
at all the farmhouses, and make a contract
to take all the butter the fanners
c <n furnish at fifty cents a pound. Farther,
it will be gathered up by a fast
sppcial team, and the caah paid for it at
the door. The pretense is that during ,
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1/liU ittll UUU rrilllaji VU^ vivavu n?*?
be crowded, and that butter will be
scarce. In this way all the farmers in a
district are contracted with, and arrangements
are made to come for the Cutter
on certain day3 and at certain points;
the contract to go into effect in two i
weeks. A few days after the departure
of the men a drove of cows come along.
They are fine looking milch cows. The
farmers, having a good thing in view,
think they might uso a few more cows.
They try to boy them, but the drover
doesn't seem anxious to sell. Finally,
however, he is induced to sell two or
three to each farmer, and at prices considerably
higher tlnn the real market
value. Ee then deoart3, meets his
partners, who put up the butter job,
and they divide their profits. The farmers
of this vicinity will do well to be on
their gnard against this new style of
sharpers.
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His Story.
He came back to his mother, looking J
very forlorn, with a big red swelling (
under his left eye, and four or five handfuls
of torn shirt boiling over his
breeches band. "Why, where on earth
have you been?" she asked. " Mo and
Johnny's been playin'. He played he
was a pirate, and I played I was a duke.
Then he put on airs, and I got mad,
and"? "Yes, yes!" interrupted his
mother, her eyes flashing, " and yon
didn't flinch?"" " No, mother; but the ,
pirate licked."
Withdrawing Theib Bets.?Betting
men in New York who made wagers on 1
the general result of the President al 1
contest are withdrawing their money, i
both sides consenting. One reason for i
this is the fear that the money wiil be
seized for the charities of the State.
Under the laws the authorities have a ,
right to f-eize all gambling money for
this object.
Items of Interest.
A glove dealer is doing a good business
when a large part of his stock is on
hand.
Steve Kirksev, of Mayfield, Ky., put
a package of gunpowder on a hot anvil.
He is bald headed now.
It is asserted that a snake with a fin
nas been captored in Maine. Even the
snake stories are becoming fishy.
Potato bugs, chinch bugs, curcuUoe,
weevils, Hessian flies, grasshoppers,
cutworms, etc., are the insect depredators
which afflict and d sconrage West-"
ern farmers.
A boy who keeps hiti honor bright,
however poor he may be in worldly
things, is an heir to an inheritance
which no riches can buy?the choice
promises of God.
Tii Pnofli*. ilm-ino fcViA r>r>lrl vin^AI1. if A
window in a crowded ballroom be suddenly
opened, sudden condensation of
the atmosphere takes place, and a fall
of snow follows, covering the dancers
with flakes.
A gentleman, on walking oat one
Sanday evening, met a young Scotch
Eeasant girl, whose parents lived near
is house. " Where are von going,
Jenny?" said he. "Looking for a sonin-law
for my mother, sir."
A Canadian farmer missed a valuable
heifer, and, after several days' unavail
ing search, foand that she bad eaten her
way thirty feet into a straw stack. She
had taken a winding course inside the
stack, which acoounts for her not having
eaten her way through.
John Kelly, chief of the Tammany Society
of New York, war) married to Miss
Teresa Mullen, a niece of Cardinal
McCloskey. Mr. Kelly is fifty years of
age and his bride twenl;y-six. The parties
were married by the cardinal at his
residence, with the simplest forms of the
Roman church.
The mail from Cowra to Forbes, in
Australia, is carried by a mounted carrier,
The distance between the tw*
places is sixty miles, and thisonenndividual
has ridden the route six times
a week during seven consecutive years.
The distance be has ridden in that
period is 131,160 miles.
As to Dr. Donghty'n personal appearance,
much depends on Tilden's being
inaugurated. D/. Doughty lives in
Covington, Ky? hnd .sixteen years ago
he vowed that he would wear the hat
that he was theu using until a Democratic
President was sworn in. The old
hat is exceedingly dilapidated.
The Engineer gives instances of the
highest railway speed on record. On
several of the English railwaye a speed
has been reached equal to seventyeight,
seventy-five, seventy-two and
sixty-nine miles an honrs. If somebody
would give statistics of the safest railways,
it would be interesting.
The lowest temperature in the Arctic
seas recorded by Capt. Ross, iu 1820,
was fifty deg. below zero ; by Dr. Kane
in 1858, seventy deg. ; by Dr. Hayes in
1861, sixty-eight and one-half deg. by
Capt. Nares in 1876, seventy-tiwo aeg.
A Russian traveler named Niveroff once
registered seventy-two deg. at Yakoutsk,
Siberia.
By statistics it is shown that within
the limits of the island of Java every
year about three hundred people are
eaten by carnivbra, two hundred by the
crocodiles, ono hundred killed by the
rhinoceros, five hundred killed by lightning,
while one hundred die by snake
bites, and a varying number by earth
quakes and volcanic action.
A man rushed into a restaurant and,
flopping into a chair, called for " calf's
head soup." "Calf said what, sir?"
inquired the waiter. " Calf's head
soup!" roared the impatient guest
Admonished by the wrathful tone, the
waiter moved away, but paused to in3aire,
as a kind of appendix : " You
idn't hear him sav what kind of soup,
sir?"
A hotel proprietor at Morecambe,
England, was arrested lately for allowing
billiards to be played '* for money's
worth " on his premises. It turned out
that a handicap game had been played
by twelve persons for a copper kettle as
a prize. The court decided that as it
was a novel case the landlord should
merely be fined Ss. besides 15s. 6d.
costs. 4
A method of defense against wild
beasts has been discovered. One Mr.
Jes<>e Smith, of Texas, was walking
with his wife one evening, when suddenly
a bear crossed their path. Being
unarmed, Smith was for a moment
pnzzled. Then seizing a handful of theu
sandy soil, he threw it bruin's face. The^
bear recoiled, and, on a repetition of the p
" 1 ?- x.Mnallad frt MfrABf.
experiment-, was uuwj-cu<,u w
The dairy farmers of England are an
important class of the community. Tho
returns of last year show that in England
alone there were 1,600,000 miloh
cows, of which r.nmber it wascalculated
1,200,000 were in the Lands of 50,000
persons. The value of the milk 'produced
by these cows, putting the price
at sixpence per imperial gallon, and estimating
that each cow yields four hundred
gallons a year, would amount to
twelve millions sterling.
Business Preeepls.
We find it st ibid that the founder of
the great banking house of Rothschilds
made the following rules the guide of a
business career culminating in magnifl
cent success:
1. Combination of three profits. " I
ma le tho manufacturer my customer,
and the one l rx>ngnc 01, my customer;
that i?, I supplied tlie manufacturer
with raw materials and dyes, on each of
which I made a profit, and took bis
manufactured goods, which I sold at a
profit, :?nd thus combined three profits."
2. Muko a bargain at once; Be an
off-handed man.
8. Never have anything to do with an
unlucky man or plaos. "I have-seen
many clever men who Infra not ahoes
to their feet. X never tot with them.
Their advioe seems very well, but fate is
against them; they cannot get on them- J
selves, how can they do good to me?"
4. Be cautious t>nd bold. "It requires
a great deal cf boldness and ^
great deal of oration to mako a grew
fortune, and when yen have got.jHfcwT
quires ten times as mnchj^ceep it
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