The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, June 21, 1877, Image 1
THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE
AND PORT ROYAL COMMERCIAL.
YOL. Y. NO. 29. BEAUFORT, 8.' C., THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1877. $2.00 per Aim SinglO Copy 5 Cents.
With Thee.
BT W. W. ELLSWORTH.
I'd rather walk through shower with thee,
Than wi^h another when the air
Is soft with summer, and as fair
The heavens above us as a sea
Of dim, unfathomed sapphire, where,
Slow drifting on a liquid sky,
The white-sailed ships of God float by.
Sweeter in storm to be with thee,
Dark waters 'round us, and the roar
Of breakers on an unseen shore
Resounding louder on the lee?
Than with another, sailing o'er
A rippling lake, whete angry gale
May never rend the silken sail.
The Children's Luck.
Sitting together on the bank of a rivulet,
paddling with their bare feet in its cool, limpid
water, and scaring the curious minnows that
shyly regarded them frOih beneath the protecting
shadow of the tall gra>s, overhanging the
very edge of the stream, were a boy and girl,
he whittling out a rudely shaped boat front a
little block of wood, she twining together a
wreath from a mass of wild dowers piled in her
apron and upon the sward beside her.
"Ain't this jolly, though?* exclaimed the
boy, suspending his whittling, and throwing a
chip in the direction of the minuows, whereat
they tied in great alarm. "Ain't it just jolly,
I say ? No more rehearsals, no more bein'
bossed around by everybody, and linn' in an
erful Biuelhu' alley, and bein' cold and hungry
1"
" Yes, Toct, but don t you wish poor mamma
had been able to get here with us ? She might
have got well and be alive now," replied the
girl, speaking low and sadly.
Tom, boy like, was by no means inclined to
mar the full enjoyment of the moment with
unpleasant reflections, if he could avoid them,
and, to do him justice, uuhappy thoughts seldom
came to him. He was kiud hearted, and
had loved his mother quite as det^ly as his
little sister had, but early hard fortune in life
hvd given him a precocious philosophy that
sometimes made him stem much more indifferent
than he really was.
" it wasn't her luck, I suppose," said he, reflectively;
" seemed liko it wasn't her way to
strike anything that wasn't rough, ever sitice I
know'd her."
' Do yon believe in luck, Tom?"
"'Course I do. So does everybody that
knows anything. Why?'
4 4 D, innf Mup+JiQ MUnCf TY?A
JUCV/a UOV (1 1-4" V 4'AIM.VUHT M.V
there is no such thing as luck."
"Ob, she does, does she? Well, then, how
does she make it out that one feller can t never
strike notbin' that it don't turn out soft and
rich, just vure fatness, while another feller will
, have lots better chances, and tries every way,
and still fails, just because it ain't his luck to
do anything else ?*'
"She says it is the will of Providence."
"I.ooka to me like pilin' a heap on Providence
! Would she go for to sav that it was a
square thing for Providence to fuller a feller
, up that way aud kuock him every time he
thought he had a good thing? I know mamma
believed in Providence, and in luck, too, for all
they both weut back on htr."
" Do you believe we are lucky, Tom ?"
"I can't just venture to say yet, Eva, but it
looks like it. It was bounciu' luck, sure, for
Uncle Ben to find us after mamma died, and
fetch us out in such a bully place as this."
" But, for real good luck, he ought to have
found us before?when the winter was so cold,
and mamma couldu't dauce any more, and was
bo sick?when all the money we could get was
what you made selling papers, and me going on
for a fairy, now and then when we needed tire
and food* and clothes and mamma wauted
medicine and couldn't get it."
* You're mi sin' up her luck and ours, Eva ;
mamma's luck always win bad, as I said afore,
ever since I kuow'd her."
"Then, if we're going to be lucky, papa will
come back."
" Of course he will. He may turn up any
minute, with slathers of money!"
Oh, won't you be glad, Tom ?"
" Yes?if him and me gets along as well as
we used to. But travehn" so far away for so
long may have changed him some. He said
he'd teach me to ride in the ring when he got
back. If he does, I'll be satisfied that my luck
is just bully."
44 What li you do, Tom. if you have all sorts
of good luck as ever was??just what you'd
want to have, like as if a fairy was to give you
your wish?the way they do in plays, though I
don't believe they ever ao anywhere else."
"What'll I do? Why, I'lJ have loads of
money, and I'll have two horses, one for me
and one for von, and we'll ride to France and
China, and everywhere, and see all sorts of
things ; and I'll have a boat and go a-sailin';
and I'll have a big house and lots of woods
about it, like these, with chipmunks and May
blossoms and minnows ; and I'll have a circus
all to myself!"
"With papa for ringmaster ?"
4 'No, I guess not. It would olily be the
right thing to let the old man lay by and take a
rest?but, if he wanted to jump in. why, he
should. "But what would you do, if von* had
big luck, sis ?"
44 Oh, I'd have all sorts of fine dresses and
jewels and diamonds, and a pretty house with
birds and flowers all about it, and I'd marry a
grand gentleman who loved me ever so much."
Tom stared at her and gave a long whittle,
followed by the ejaculation :
44 Well, you are a-goin' it!"
"Ha! ha! ha !" laughed a hearty voice be- '
hind the little dreamers, 44 and how many chubby
children would you have to dabble their
feet in the cold brook water, and lie on the
grass, and catch cold, and get Bick ?"
Eva gave a little scream of alarm, and lorn,
springing to his feet, faced the intruder?a
large, good-natured looking man with a bronze
complexion, clad decently but somewhat carelessly,
and very dusty from long tramping over
the country road.
44 Come, "vou, nt>w?steer off! You ain't in
this game," warned Tom, courageously placing
himself in an attitude of defense before his
litrlfi i.istpr. Ent the stranger. instead of
44 steenng off," laughed agam. and leisurely
threw himself upon the grass near the children,
replying:
4 Why, my little man, yon have a rough way
of greeting strangers. Cau't you imagine that
I've been once a boy like you, and had my
dreams of the future, as you "have ? Come, sir,
sit down, and let us see which of us can think
of the nicest things he would like to have."
The man's pleasant smile and cheery voice
quickly banished the children's distrust, and
Tom readily accepted his challenge to a wishing
match.
44 I know what I want," said the boy ; " I just
want good luck. If a feller has that, everything
else comes."
4 4 And you, little girl, what would you like
best, if you were a woman?"
4 I've'said that already," answered, Eva, shyly
; 44 but I ain't a woman yet?I'm only a little
girl."
44 And, as a little girl, what do you think
would make you happie*t ?"
44To have all about me that I love and who
love me, and to have everybody happy."
44 That settles it," interpolated Tom?"covers
the whole ground. 4Everybody happy !' Why.
that would give every one his wish? for a feller
couldn't be nappy if he wished for anything he
couldn't get."
4* Yes. I can make no better wish than that,"
assented the 'nan. 44 Surrounded by love and
happiness!?surely, all the wisdom in the world
could not think of anything better. And. now
that you have beaten me at wishing, let us tell
stories, and sec who is best at that. Suppose
we tell our own. and, as before, yon begin."
4' I hain't got no story to tell," protested
0 Tom.
"Why, yon can tell the gentleman who we
are," suggested Eva.
"TheVe's notliin' funny about that, and a
story ain't worth nothin' 'tliout it's funny."
44 The best ones are the true ones, and, unfortunately,
life is so far from being merry,
that the truest are seldom funny," answered
the stranger gravely.
Tom revolved the proposition In hxi mind,
I
I
and, finding the idea one his experience enabled
him to approve, nodded sagely. Th#n
he said:
''Good enough! Here goes! The first I
know, I was a little codger, Win' mostly jerked
by tho ann to get ^mc out of the way "of hoss
oars in New York. 'Pears to nie, 1 lookod at it
then as if most of the world was made of hoss
cars, and all a-conuu' straight for me. I had
a father and a mother then, hut 1 didn't have
much time for to get acquainted with him.
'cause, as I understood after I got bigger, he
belonged to a circus, aud I never seo him only
in the dead of winter, and then mostly at
night when I was sleepy. Mv mother, she
danced at a theater, and I tell you sho looked
as pretty as a picture when she was fixed up
for a dance. But sometimes she didn't have
uo chance to dance, when they was a doin"
stupid plays that hadn't no daucin* into them.
By-and-by'e ray little sister here, Eva, was born,
and then I had a steady job a-lookin' out for
her, and a-jerkin' her out of the way of the
hoss cars when she got old enough to toddle.
All that time we had pretty good lu<?k, but all
i of a sudden we struck a bad streak. Father,
he broke his leg in some fur-olT place, that I
don't know the name of. aud tho circus he'd
been with busted up, so th5 circus folks couldn't
: help him out, as thev mostly does when one of
'em eets hurted. Then mamma was out of an
engagement to dance, 'cause tliey don't do
much in the theaters in the summer time, and
when a feller did come along for to do a piece
that had dancin' in it, he was a sniile sort of
chap, and used for to dock her pav for most
every little tiling, 'cordiu' to rules he'd made
for to catch the dancers foul, and what he
didn't dock off he didn't pay, no how, toward
j the end. Then, just as the winter come on,
she was too sick with rheumatics and a concilia'
orful She cotched the first of it a-goin'
| out one mighty bad day, a-tryin' for to get
from that snide chap what lie owed her. I'd
! jest like to burst his head ! You see she had
a little money into a savin's bank, but she
j didn't want for to burst in on that, not know;
in' how soon things might get rougher yet.
But she might just as well spent it for candy,
for the bank broke, and she couldn't get a
I cent People said the bosses of the bank stole
j the money, and I shouldn't wonder if tli y did.
j Anyhow, it was all gone. She was af eared to
; write to father and tell him about it, knowin'
j it would make him feel orful, and afore she
j could make up her mind to it, she got a letter
: that he'd got able to join a circus that wasgoin'
! off for three years to South America, and some
j other fur-off countries that I don't know the
i name of. Then times got rough with na, I tell
' yon. I used to earn a little, shiniu' boots and
j selling papers, and sometimes the theater used
j to give J2va a quarter of a dollar for beiu'a
| fairy, but all we could do wasu't enough to pay
j the rent and get coal and things. And mamma,
; she got sort of out of her head I think. She'd
j lie on the straw tickiii' in the basement where
j we lived, down in an alley, and cough and
cough, and cry, and then she'd talk some
j foreign iingo that we didn't understand,
French I guess it was, and augh, and go on.
Well, at last, one day. when she wasn't light in
her head, she took off her weddin' ring that
she'd always kept till then, and sent it by a
neighbor woman to the pawn shop, for to put
' in an advertisement in the paper tor to find
| our Uncle Ben ; 'cause she said she hadn't
Ions; to live, and it was the last thing she could
do for us. Sure enough, somebody showed it
to Uncle Ben, him as is my father's brother,
i and he come for us and brought us home here.
but he didn't find us until poor mamma had
> died. Don't cry, Eva; mamma's a heap hapi>i?r
where she is now, than where she was a**
:i\iii% ftie last three years, anyhow, 'cause
Uncle Ben says so, and he ought to know.
And do you know what he did ? AVhy, he
found out that our father had been a-sendin'
letters to mamtria tflth money in em, 'most two
thousand dollars, and what with us a-movin'
round when landlords bounced us, and her
; get tin'out of her head and not a-knowin' what
to do, we never got none of 'em till, after she
; was dead, he fitided 'em all in a place they call
the dead letter office, 'cause they never give
the letters out of it till tho folks they's addressed
to is dead. Poor mamma ! If she'd
got one of them letters, even without a cent in
it, it might have saved lier life, for she just
broke her heart thiukin' father had gone back
on her?which he nev?r had."
' No, no, my boy," replied the stranger,
wiping his eves "and speaking in a voice full of
emotion ; " he never did. Many weary months
; passed in which, traveling as he was, from
place to place in strange foreign lands, he
could not hope to hear from his wife and little
childreup but when he got hack to his own
I country he soon learned all. And now I should
not be at all surprised if, before many days.
; you would see him coming to Uncle lien's to
. claim his brave boy Tom and his darling little
daughter Eva."
" He has come!'" cried the girl, springing to
her feet and rushing into his arms. " You are
our papa P*
"\es, my children," answered the man,
pressing them to his heart; 411 am papa, home
at last!
4* Ah, papa?" said Tom, 44 my story was the
longest, but yours is lots the best, and now,
Eya, I'm sure, at last, that we're in luck !"'
Tiie voices of tiie ttiree, aHtuvy iajKt-a nappily
together that brightest of summer afternoons,
were so full of kindness and love that
the blue bird, not a wit afraid of their companionship,
perched close beride them to sing
his merriest song; the inquisitive chipmunk
came out with sparkling eyes and flirting tail.
:'as if to invite them to a friendly romp, and
even the timid minnows left their covert in
i :he pool above, to play nearer those who must
have seemed to them as happy as their friends,
1 the water elves.
A Bitter Lesson for Her.
A dark-liaireJ, slender young girl,
1 with large brown eyes and a pleasant
face, stood at the prisoner's dock in a
! New York police court. She was neatly
1 dressed,though her attire was well worn,
| and she stood with bowed head, while an
! occasional sob shook her slender form.
i Two other female prisoners stood in the
1 dock wiih her. The one on her right
; was a bold-faced woman, dressed in
j- cheap but gaudy finery, bedecked with
tawdry jewelry aud evidently familiar
; with her surroundings. The other was
an old woman in dirty rags, which she
scarcely held upon her shoulders with
! one thin and grimy hand. Her eyes
I were bleared aud her face bruised and
i bloated.
The judge looked at the strangely assorted
trio. Then he said to the weepiug
girl:
" How is it that so young a girl as you
should have come to this ?"
"I did not intend to get drank,
judge," said the girl. "I went to a
woman's house and we drank some beer
; together,and somehow I don't remember
what happened after that until I found
myself in the cell."
" How old are you ?"
"I am going on sixteen, sir."
"Sixteen! How do you like your
neighbors? Look to your right; that is
your next step. It won't take very long
for you to reach that stage if you continue
as you have begun. Now, look to
your left; that is nearly the end, but
i it is the sure eud of the downward
path."
The young girl sobbed, but said nothing.
"You are young," resumed his honor.
"This is your first offense; I hope it
will be your last. You can go."
The girl left the court-room witli
; hanging head, but the woman on the
right laughed and the woman 011 the left
leered as thev waited for their turn.
*
' Ha; that jury agreed ?" asked the judge o]
I a nlK-riir. whom tie met on the stairs with 1
! bucket in his hand. " Yes." replied Patrick
'they have ajreed to tend out for half t
< gallon. ''
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HISTORY OF RUSSIA.
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1 Killer* lor ihe Past One Thousand Years? j
An InterestliiK ltevietv.
i Frances A. Shaw lias written a brief
history of Russia, which has been published
with two excellent maps by J. R. j
Osgood & Co. The history given a sue- i
cinct account of the successive rulers
from the time when Rurik, the noted j
Varangian chief, was called to Novgorod i
to suppress internal dissension and pro- !
tect the place from foreign invasion. He j
j acted his part well, and Novgorod found j
that, like the horse in the fable, who
1 asked the help ot a man, it had taken a
master upon its back when it begged for
; an ally. Rurik laid the foundation for
the empire,, and after fifteen years of ,
fighting and ruling with a strong hand, j
left his infant son, Igor, to succeed him
i in 879, with Oleg for regent, and the '
regent seems to have been faithful to his j
young master. This Igor married a j
{ beautiful peasant girl without disclosing !
his rank, afterward made her his queen,
.i+ liio /loo+li cVio rpwnt, Slie
nuu Ob liin V4VUVU ? AAV W
renounced Paganism and was bap'ised at'
Constantinople, the Greek emperor and
empress acting as her sponsors, and the ;
imposing solemnity was followed by a
grand entertainment, the table at which j
i Olga and her sponsors sat being solid |
j gold. But she made very little headway
j in introducing Christianity into Russia, j
Fourteen sovereigns followed, and at I
varying intervals till the throne became j
vacant in 1612, when Michael Romanoff, i
a youth of sixteen, was chosen czar. His ;
family had long been famous for its pub- j
lie services and patriotism, and he was j
said to have been a descendant of Rurik
on the female side. He was the founder !
of the present reigning family, and dur- j
ing his fortunate reign of thirty-two years j
the country began to emerge into a con- I
dition of comparative order and civiliza- ;
tion. His son Alexis reigned thirty-one I
years, and did more than any of his !
predecessors to make Russia a European j
instead of an Asiatic nation. His son j
Feodore died after a brief reign of six
years, and was succeeded by Peter, who
achieved the title of "the Great." And
in many respects he was one of the most
remarkable rulers of his age, and under
his energetic administration Russia made
a long stride toward iuternal unity and
civilization. His reign covered the
period between 1689 and 1725, and was
followed by his queen, Catharine, who
kept the throne two years, dying siul!
denly from the effects of dissipation in
j her thirty-ninth year. Her career was
! remarkable. In one of Peter's campaigns j
j against CharlesXII. a Livonian peasant j
j girl, seventeen years old, came to one of
j his generals with tears in her eyes for the
i loss of her husband in a mclce, to whom
j she was married only the day before.
i'She was graceful in person, pleasing in
; manner, with remarkable sense and
j sweetness of temper, atrd * jt -prisoner,
i Peter made her his mistress and then
married her, and ever after acknowledged
hesashis wife. She joined the G^reek
; church aud changed her name from
. Marpha to Catharine. Her devotion to
! him was boundless, and she alone could
i soothe the mad frenzies of passion to
j which he was subject She went with
him everywhere, advised him, protected
him, encouraged him, and after the terrible
defeat in the battle of Pruth, when j
he was in despair, she saved him and his
army and empire by her genius and
j heroism. But after his death she was
j treated with contempt by the nobility,
and deserted by friends. She lost the
, virtues that had ennobled her, and sank
i into dissipation. She was presently followed
by Peter II., with whom the male j
; line of the Romanoff family became ex- j
tiuot. Anna, daughter of a half brother i
J of Peter the Great, reigned from 1730 to |
1710 with conspicuous ability. She was |
followed by Elizabeth, the daughter of '
Peter the Great and Catharine, a nar- ;
j row-minded, superstitious woman, who J
ruled twenty years. She was followed !
by Peter III., whose head was crammed
with German notions, and whose face
| was pitted with small-pox. He got tired
of his queeu after the manner of English
! Henry the Eighth ; but in this case the
; aversion was mutual, and she, being the 1
abler and more unscrupulous of the two,
| anticipated his intended divorce by getI
ting him deposed and finally taken off
by poison. Once fairly on the throne,
she filled it, and for thirty-two years
showed what a coarse, strong-minded,
: ambitious, unscrupulous woman could
! do. She earned from Voltaire the title
i of " the Semiramis of the North," and
| others, with more justice perhaps, have
I called her "the Louis XIV. of Russia."
She certainly raised the Russian court
to a high degree of splendor, extended
the boundaries of the empire, increased
its influence in Europe and marked her
career with a series of inexcusable crimes.
Catharine was followed by her son
I Paul, whom she always hated, and whom j
| she did not intend should reign; but she
; died too suddenly to designate another
successor. He was eccentric in mind,
' " a madman in brain and a Finn in fea
rare," ignorant of the machinery of the
j government and a stranger to the people
, he wa? called to rule. 11 is reign was a
failure, and he was strangled by conJ
spirators in its fifth year. In 1801 Alexi
ander, his son, who inherited his mothi
er's beauty and grace of person, and
i who had been carelully educated in
i Germany, ascended the throne. He was
; then twenty-four, and immediately dis- i
played the hand of a reformer and the
mind of a statesman. The circumstances
of his reign made it impossible for him
to carry out his plans for internal imi
provements. With Europe in arms, he
was forced to fight, and was defeated in
tlm VkftfilA nf Ansterlitz. But the COn
?_ --quering
genius of Napoleon dazzled
| him, and, yielding to the infatuation, he
i made the famous treaty of Tilsit in 1807.
One of the most memorable tableaux in
modern history was the meeting of these
two monarchs on the craft in the river
i Niemen, where they coolly proceeded to
divide Europe between them. But the
treaty was broken,the infatuation cooled,
i and the meeting 011 the Niemen was fol1
lowed in live years by the burning of
Moscow. Alexander took a leading part
1 in the coalition which crushed Napoleon,
1 , and placed 900,000 men in the field; and
; Napoleon, at St. Helena, said: "The
emperor of Russia is infinitely superior;
ho possesses abilities, grace and inforf
; mation; he is fascinating. * * * If
1 I die here, he will bo my successor in
[ Europe." He was one of the first, if not
1 the first monarch of his time. Never;
had a ruler been more beloved, nud
never was one more lamented. As at the
death of William of Orange, "the little
children cried in the streets." At his
death Nicholas, his brother, succeeded
to the throne, his elder brother, having
married a Polish countess from love, who
was a Roman Catholic, and also knowing
that he was unfit to rule, abdicating in
his favor. Nicholas was not liked, and
all the suppressed discontent broke out
in rebellion. He put it down with terrible
cruelty. There had not been an execution
in Russia for eighty years when
he sent many of the bravest and best
men in the empire to the scaffold. Nicholas
never forgot an injury nor forgave
an enemy. He was a terrible autocrat,
but a man of narrow news. "Everything
for the people and nothing by the
people " was his motto. " Not a mouse
can stir in Rn&sin without permission
from the czar," wrote a traveler in that
country. His activity was feverish, his
industry unceasing. But he miscalculated
his strength when he undertook to
carry out the splendid dream of Alexander
I., who, pointing to Constantinople
nud the Bosphorus, said to Napoleon:
" I must have the key that unlocks the
door of my house." The terrible mortification
of the Crimean defeat was too
much for the old monarch, and disappointed,
almost heart-broken, he lay
down to die. The handsomest man in
Eurone. he was in his prime; and it was
said that "the royal family of Russia is
the handsomest that ever lived," by one
who saw the four sons and three daughters
in their blossoming season. He was
succeeded by the present ctar, Alexander
II., in 1855. He had been brought up
under a rule of iron, and his health had
been impaired by military service. A
secret melancholy preyed on his heart.
His father sent him to visit the different
courts of Europe, with permission to
choose a wife for himself. All the princesses
set their caps for him. At HesseDarmstadt
the Grand Duke Louis had
several handsome daughters, who decked
themselves out in gorgeous array to win
his heart. The younger, however, had
no such ambiti n, and modestly minded
her studies and her mother. Alexander
saw and sought her, and surprised the
family by asking for her hand. She went
to Russia, studied the language, was
baptized into the Greek church, and
they were married in 1841; and their domestic
life has been unusually happy.
The loss of their eldest son in 1854 cast
a deep sorrow over the royal household,
as ho was a young man of great promise
and was betrothed to the Princess Dagmar,
of Denmark, who has since married
his oldest brother, Alexander. The
present czar has live sous and one daughter,
the wife of the Duke of Edinburgh,
Victoria's second son. The events of
his reign fire too well known to need
mention, fie emancipated some 25,000,000
serfs by i mprital_n1rji m jh j'! n
carried out a number of important reforms,
and probably has done more than
any previous ruler to develop the resources
of the empire. He has extended
its boundaries in the East till it is more
of an Asiatic thou European nation, and
has given it a place among the first nations
of Europe.
How He Didn't Know It All.
He was a practical but rather pedantic
sort of a man, and said he did not believe
language was made to conceal
thought. More than this, he did believe
that the dictionary was a work made to
use, and that every man should be
familiar with its minutest contents.
*' But," said the student, " that would
be impossible for any man."
" Nonsense !" exclaimed the practical
man, " why, there are few words that
could be mentioned that I wouldn't be
quite at home with."
" I should like to give you n few
samples," replied the student. "I believe
I could commence with the beginning
of Webster and stump you before
you got through the A's."
"Goon with your sample A's," demanded
the self-confident one, "and
then tackle the B's and run on to Z's."
"I'll try," said the student, calmly,
"by first giving yon a few sentences in
A's."
And squaring off for the work, the
stu^pnt asked the practical man to please
bear in mind and translate, when he had
done, the few sample sentences following
:
"Approach, adorers at Alliteration's
altar. Assemble abdals and abderian
adepts, and analyze an ambagitory and
amphibiological allocution. Accept, as
an apparently a cataleptic and absonous
arrangement, an alliterative aggregation,
aiitnallv anacoizerical. As an acephalist.
abjure all adscititious arts and* adventitious
aids as addititions ; and ardently
advance. Ablepsy and audacity are
alike anatreptic and adiaphorus, as adjuvants
and anamnestic adhibitions at
abstringing and ablaqueating all abstruse
anfractuositie8 and anagogias, as
all adepts are aware. Avoid anastrophes
as anacolutliic and anisomeric ; and abandoning
abditories, advance against apparently
antiphrastical anagraphs. Apply
apomecometry, and arrive at apodeictical
anagnorisis; and accept an
author's acknowledgments."
"There !" demauded the student,
"translate that and I'll commence with
the B's and run on to the Z's !"
But the practicid man who was so intimate
with his own language had fled.
Modern Improvements in China.
The self-complacent contempt of the
Chinese for the invention and manufactures
of outside barbarians is gradually
diminishing- through intercourse with
foreigners. For instance, the Celestials
have almost wholly abandoned the old
flint and steel apparatus for lighting
tires, and now import millions of boxes
of Inciter matches. The old paper umbrellas
of the country have been almost
superseded by the European article, and
the manufacture of umbrellas has become
an important business at Cauton. Clocks
and watches and many other articles of
use are largely imported; foreign needles
nvo liirrhlv nnnrpciated :
<11111 bill tllvi mi' ? J "I'l ?
woolen socks and mittens are very generally
worn, and kerosene aul other mineral
oils have been introduced, with
lamps, suitable for burning them.
The. liaihcay Age savs that .105 American
locomotives, worth 85,490.64'', have been exported
in seven years, and that " the reputation
(of American engines is steadily increasing.
Fashion Notes.
Linen lawns are in great demand.
Sewing machine stitching is again
used for ornamenting the hems of overi
dresses.
| The rubies buttoning a delicate pink
satin dress, worn by a Parisian belle,
cost $10,000.
Amber, both clear and clouded, is
again very much in demand. It is used
; in beads for necklaces aud bracelets.
Ivory ornaments are also as much in
J vogue as formerly.
For traveling bonnets, brown, gray
and mixed chips, and colored rustic
: straws iu close shapes, trimmed with
! silk folds of the same shade, and flowers
i that relieve the sombeniess, are prefer1
red to round hats.
A new kind of shell, "Leusaic/'isused
J to make necklaces and pendants, in real
j shell designs, iu imitation of tortoise
; shell. It is a perfect imitation, showing
j all the clear, beautiful colors of the tor!
toise shell, and having the advantage of
| being much stronger.
The most popular sleeve for full dress
, is the Martha Washington, or elbow
: sleeve. This is a plain, close sleeve to
' ? 11 * r. 11 - ^
i tiie eiuow, irora wiuoa inns u ucep
j flounce of tulle, aud, if possible, a fall of
i rare old lace over. The neck of such a
i costume is cut square (plastron),and filled
in with tulle and lace to match.
A number of beautiful designs for lai
dies' head-dress caps can now be seen.
Many are composed of Chantilly lace
fastened to a coronet of white lace, intermixed
with jets, or flowers of purplish
colors. Long ends of the Chantilly lace
are arranged at the bosom, and held by
an ornament and jet flowers to match the
I coronet.
The newest fashion is for ladies to
j have their bouquets made up into fans
j now, and the effect is rather pretty, and
j no more artificial than the arraugement
i that orevails in the ordinary florists' bou|
que... A piece of stiff card-board is cut
1 into the shape of an old-fashioned round
[ fan, and to tb:s the bouquet-holder is
j firmly sewed, actiDg as the handle. The
I flowerare lb en separately stitched on,
| on each side, and though the stitching
seems rather barbarous, the flower-fan is
a good'y addition to the weapons of ?
coquette's armory, and the blossoms last
fresh much longer than when tied up in
bouquets.
A Low Volfe in Woman.
Yes, we agree with that old poet who*
said that a low, soft voice was an "excellent
thing in woman." Indeed, we
* * ? a. r?n. L/v
' leei mcnnea 10 go uiucii lurmer tutui uc
j has on the subject, ami call it one of her
J crowning charms. No matter what other
; attractions she may have ; she may be as
j fair as the Trojan Helen and as learned
i as the famous Hypatia of ancient times ;
i she may lmve. all -the acooraptohmonto
! considered requisite at the present day,
| and every advantage that wealth can pro'
cure, and yet if she lacks a low, sweet
! voice, she can never be really fascinatiug.
I How often the spell of beauty is rudely
j broken by coarse, loud talking. How
i often you arc irresistibly drawn to a
j plain, unassuming woman, whose soft,
j silvery tones render her positively at
tractive. Besides, we fancy we can
! j udgc of the character by the voice ; the
I bland, smooth, fawning tones seem to
! betoken deceit and hypocrisy as invari|
ably as the musical subdued voice indi
cates genuine refinement. In the social
! circle liow pleasant it is to hear a woman
1 talk 'D that low key which always char!
acterizes the time lady. In the sanctuary
i at home how such a voice soothes the
| fretful child and cheers the weary hus
1 1 ? ?4n Art ,1 flnoftJ
I nana, now sweeuj us uuicutc uwua
! through the sick chamber and around
' the dying bed! with what solemn
: melody do they breathe a prayer for the
departing soul! Ah, yes, a low, soft
voice is certainly " an excellent thing in
woman."
i (Jen. Jackson-s Walking Stick.
Andrew Jackson Wilcox, u clerk in the
( Navy department, and a great grandson
of " Old Hickory," has in his possession
; a cane that was presented to General
Jackson by a committee representing the
! citizens of Teunessee, and which is one
j of the most unique, and at the same
; time intricate, pieces of workmanship
that the writer has seen for many a day.
; It is of the finest hickory wood, and was
: taken from a tree in front of Gen. Jack|
son's plantation, the " Hermitage," a
' short distance from Nashville.' The top
; is surmounted with a cap of solid silver,
i upon which are engraved the names of
. all the chief magistrates of this country,
from 1776 to 1841, commencing with
| John Hancock, the first President really,
I and ending with John Tyler. Each of
| the prongs or knots is tipped with silver
j and upon these aft' engraved the names
j of the donors. There is also a whistle'
made in one of the knots, which was
used by Gen. Jackson in calling his
i hounds. Upon the side are engraved
the lines:
"And may at last my weary ago
Find out my peiceful Hermitage."
A Trifling Mistake.
T " TT 1 T>
jn ine nouse 01 jrueis, uunug mo ?
i animation of tlie magistrates of Edinburgh,
touching the particulars of the
Porteous mob, in 1736, the Duke of
1 Newcastle having asked the provost
: with what kind of shot the town-guard,
commanded by Porteous, had loaded
' their muskets. vec%ived the unexpected
, reply: " Ou, just sic as ane shoots dukes
i and fools wi !" The answer was con'
sidered as a contempt of the House of
j Lords, and jthe poor provost would have
; suffered from misconception of his
i patois, had not the Duke of Argyle (who
I must have been exceedingly amused)
! explained that the worthy chief magj
istrate's expression, when rendered into
! English, meant to describe the shot used
j for ducks and water fowl.
A Fight for Life with a Beaver.?
i Mr. Jackson Kirksey was standing in
the door of a mill house when he saw a
j large beaver, on the bank of the Patsal|
aga creek. He seized a pole and ran
between the creek and the beaver, exi
pecting the beaver to make for the water.
To his astonishment, the animal turned
fiercely on him. when a regular fight for
life ensued. Mr. Kirksey broke his pole
| into three pieces during the fight, but
finallv killed the beaver, which was a
I very large one, weighing fifty pounds.
FARM, GARDEN AND ROUS
Kecipea. t
Strawberry Gem Tarts. ? Make
large-sized gems in the nsual manner ?
from the fine Graham flour, being careI
fill not to J?ake them too hard. When 1
done let them stand ten or fifteen minutes
to steam, then split open and fill
each half with strawberries with or withj
out sugar, add a spoonful of strawberry i
j juice sweetened, if it will hold so much, ! ^
and serve at once.
Strawberry Salad. ? Pick, wash, i a
; drain and toss crisp, tender lettuce j i
leaves, shred them up fine in the salad i
i bowl, aud pour over them some straw- ! {
berry juice, and serve at once.
Nutritious Composition.?Take equal j 8
quantities of sago and cocoa, mix them, i g
put a tablespoonful in a pint of boiling '
water, and boil the whole together for a r
few minutes with constant stirring. , :
Cottage Cheese.?Those who have (
; plenty of milk and make butter, have an j B
j abundance of sour or clabbered milk daily !
[ clean and fresh, which is the article de- e
; sired to make cottage cheese. The true c
way to make this sort of cheese is to 1
i skiin the sour milk and set a gallon or
I two of the milk on the stove in a milk 1
; pan and let it gradually warm till it is *
j lukewarm ail through. Stir it occasion1
. . ' rl- - I? ? A i
ally to prevent its Hardening ai ine uot- c
i.tom. When it is a little warmer than j
' new milk, and the whey begins to show t
I clear around the curd, pour it all into a
| coarse, thin bag, tie it close, and hang up , t
| to strain. Let it hang for two or three j *
hours in a cool, shady place, then take '
from the bag, and put the- contents in a ; j
covered dish. When preparing for a ;,
meal, mix with the curd rich sweet a
cream, sugar and nutmeg. Some prefer
; salt and pepper, but the sugar will give 1
! it the flavor of fruits or acids. This J
! preparation of milk will often be found
! salutary and wholesome for dyspeptics j
i and wea r, am1 inflamed stomachs. The {
clabbe' also very nutritious and easily ?
digested. n
Asparagus Rolls.?Boil the asparagus,
as usual, in boiling salted water ; j
when tender cut up the tops and all that j ?
is eatable and warm over in milk, butter j t
rubbed in flour, yolks of raw eggs i ?
beateu, a grate of nutmeg, and a small '
pinch of mace?quantities regulated by ! j1
the amount of asparagus; have some j;
milk rolls with the crumb scooped out, v
having taken off the top crust, till the t
cavity with the boiling asparagus, and
place the top crust on at once; must be j
managed quickly, so as to go to the table j
I very hot. 1
Growing Carrots. | 1
Of all root crops carrota are the most ^
j nutritious and best for cows and horses. I ?
! They give a richness and flue color to 1
j the cream that nothing else fed to cows i ?
i-i ? i it. :_x i. l;
ever equaxeu; ana m tue wmver u peca i ,
or hab bushel fed to cows daily is as i \
"good fts,or bette ri ndii tW' o5ffl?>7ifp' fe&l-j |j
of meal; and when we consider thai from i *
500 to 1,000 bushels can be grown from j *
an acre, it needs no lengthy argument to j ^
show that they arc profitable. " But," |
says farmer A, "I've tried glowing!
them, and it cost me more to weed them '
; than they were worth." Yes, I know !
! how you managed. Yon did not prepare 1 1
j your land for them by heavy manuring
: the previous year, and growing a crop ,
! of potatoes on it, and thoroughly de- 1
j stroying the weeds, and allowing none to
j go to seed. If you had done this, and L
j had put on manure enough for two crops, j
! your potatoes would have paid all or ; ^
j more than the expenses, and then the i ?
i land would have been in good condition 8
for the carrots, as it would not have re- | c
quired any manure that season, and
you would not have found it troublesome *
: and expensive to keep the weeds down.
' I have frequently mixed the seed with j x
J sand and kept it moist a week, setting j ?
t the pan in the sun by day, and in the t
I house near the kitchen fire by night, ap- 8
plying a little tepid water from time to j
time, and as soon as the least sign of j
i sprouting appeared, I had the land made x
i ready, then I dried the seed in the sun I *
by spreading it on large trays, then sow- a
ing it by band; and in three days it was
above the ground and the carrots grew 1
1 rapidly ahead of the weeds that appeared,
and the crop was kept free of weeds -with v
very little labor. Carrots require a deep, v
mellow soil, and should be sown in drills v
about fifteen inches apart for hand hoe- 0
. ing, and thirty inches to be cultivated v
with a horse. Sow at the time of plant<
ing corn, or a few days earlier. !
Corn and Pork. j.
There is an excellent practical sense v
in the following, from the Iowa State
Register: ! ^
"There have been various careful ^
tests as to how much pork a bushel of | n
corn will make. It seems to be con- j j
ceded that with the best breed of hogs : ^
| and the greatest care in feeding there I
: may be certainly eight and a half pounds
: to the bushel. With this data it is easy
! for a farmer to know what he is do.ng as
well as what is best to do. He will see j u
at once if corn is twenty-five cents ; a
per bushel and hogs five cents, he D
i should sell hogs and not corn. But if ] i
: corn be fifty cents and hogs live cents it n
j is more profitable to sell corn. Corn at y
forty-five cents and pork at five cents, j(
j they are equal. And in this way a c
! farmer can easily decide what to do. Or j j
in other words find ont what he can c
j rbtain for his corn, then multiply the < r
! price of corn by eight and a half, and he i p
! can at once see which is the most profit- g
! able. Pork ought to be the standard by f,
which to ascertain the price of com, and [ rj
j not by what they will give at the railroad 1 i
i station. We have said frequently that j }:
most of farmers do not know whether ^
I they are making or losing money, for ! f(
; the reason that they do not make any j
effort to know what their wheat, corn,
pork or beef costs. But when they h ive
| the raw material on hand they shoild
carefully ascertain what is bes' to do j 0
with it. And the rule which we here ! ?
present to them will solve the question a
i of what to do with their corn. But. in [ ?
these calculations we make no allowanca j "
! for the poor breeds of hogs or for care- : a
less feeding or indifferent quarters for j e
! the comfort and improvement of the i *
! animals. All these must be taken into *
j account. Some men by a slipshod sys- 1
i tern of feeding and bad treatment do not
get five cents per bushel for corn. J
? ~ p
Somebody asserts that a blue gla*s chim- j n
, ney ou a parlor lamp will briup a voting mm
up to a poiut of proposing to a homelj maida i
i iu three fcuoday evenings. 1 1
Items of Interest.
Oysters. fall bonnets, ulsters and empty casern
are out of season.
Sheridan's twins look very much alike, cspoiially
the younger one.
When a tai or makes up his mind, what does
le do with the remnants?
A New Orleans man was lately killed by a
mllet from a rubber bean-snapper.
"The only way to look at a lady's faults,"
jxclairaed a gallant, ' is to shut your e; es."
What lovers swear?To xbe true until death.
Vhat husbands swear?Unfit for publication.
Said he : " Fannie, do you love me ?" Said
he : " Johnny, look over your collar and hear
nesayves."
The cakes sold in some of the eating saloons
iave become so small that customers call for
'coffee and sleeve buttons."
Thursday, June 14. will be ihe one hundredth .
inniversary of the adoption of the stars and
tripes as a national ensign.
A little boy seeing the swan plunge its bead
mderthe water, called out: "Mother, come
md see the duck cast anchor!"
Whatever else may le said against the
Chinese, no one cau truthfully say that he ever
iaw one who parted his hair w the middle.
It's approaching the time when the average
unall bov will not feel nappy unless his hair is
;ut so as to look like the rough side of a match
>ox.
There is a peddler in Sheffield, England, who
las been one hundred and eight years ou the
oad and is peddling still. He lives ou sugar
md beer.
A party of twenty-eight Chinese naval
adets are now on their way to Paris and Liver>ool,
where they will pass a course of instrucion
in the naval academies.
The Houston Age offers a year's subscription
o any member of the last Legislature who will
mswer this conundrum eorrec'iy: - now
nany counties are there in Texas?"
If you have a good sister, love and cherish
ler with all ^onr heart. If you have n< ne,
vhv then love and cherish the good rioter of
ome other man with all your heart.
An English collector of autographs is said to
lave offered Prince Bismarck 75.000 francs for
lis written resignation which the emperor reamed
with the word " nkmals " (never.)
Some men can never take a joke. There was
n old doctor who, when asked what was good
or mosquitoes, wrote back: '' How do you
uppose I can tell unless I know what ails, the
uosquito ?"
Aunt Rosy was dividing a mince pie among
ke boys, and when Jim, who had wickedly
lulled the cat's tail, asked for his share, the
lame replied: "No, Jim. you are a wicked
>oy, and the Bible says there is no piece for the
ricked."
An ingenious girl, who hss never "afeller "
a the wyr!?;. goads the other girls in her neighborhood
to madness by lighting up the parlor
brilliantly and then setting her father s hat
rhere its shadow will be boldly marked against
he curtain.
Seeking a Teacher for Linda.
She was at one of the union school
louses for an hour before school opened.
>he hod Linda with hor. She was a tall
roman, forty years eld, with a jawsbowug
great determination, and Linda was
ixteen and rather shy, and pretty lookng.
The mother said that she hadn't
>een in the city long, and that it was her
iuty fro get Luuia ;jnto school and see
hat she was properly e5d<?dted. When
he teacher came the mother boldly in[nired:
" You know how to teach, do you ?"
" I think I do." replied the teacher,
dr.shing deeply.
"Ami you feel competent to govern
he scholars*, do you ?"
" Tes'm."
" Do you pound 'em with a ferrule or
ick 'em with a whip ?"
" We seldom resort to punishment
tere." replied the embarrassed teacher.
"That's better yet," continued the
aother; " I know that if Liuda should
omc home all pounded up I'd feel like
.illing some one. I suppose you are
?f a respectable character, ain't you?"
" Why?ahem?why "? stammered
he teacher, growing white and then red.
" I expect you are," continued the
roinan " It's well enough to know who
>ur children are associating with. Now,
hen, do you allow the boys and girls to
it together !"
" No ma'am."
" That's right. They never used to
k'hen I was a girl, and I don't think
jinda is any better than I am. Now,
nother thing?do you have o beau ?"
" Why?why "? was the stammered
"I thiuk you do!" resumed the
roman, severely. "Iknow just how it
forks. When you should be explaining
irhat an archipelago is, you are thinking
f your Richard, and your mind is way,
ray on. '
" But, madam "?
"Never mind any explanations," inerrupted
the woman. "I want Linda
rought up to know joggerfy, figures,
rriting and spellography, anl you've
;ot a beau and are spooking to the theaer
one night, a candy pull the next, a
lorse race the next, and so on; your
nind can't be on education. Come,
jinda, we'll go to some other schoollouse."?Detroit
Free Press.
Brutal Revenge.
A young lady school teacher in Allaaakee
county, III, had a lover whose
flections turned to rage in a singular
launer. Declining to receive his atention
any more, she gave him theaitten.
This sorely perplexed the
oung man. He packed up his duds for
eaving the country, but before going
ailed at the school to say farewell,
kiter a few minutes conversation he repiested
the favor of a parting kiss, and
eached out to embrace her, when she
trugglcd, und?r bashful mofiesty.
ieizing the opportunity, he drew her
ice to hi&and bit her nose nearly off",
."he end part, a good mouthful, hung
>y the gristle, and was sewed in place
y a neighboring surgeon. With the
est possible care she will be disfigured
r?r life.
A Haunted Clock.
There is a clock in Raleigh, N. C.,
wned by a gentleman who is not a* all
fiven to superstition, but vet he cannot
cconut for a curious way liis old family
lock is acting of late. It is an eightlay
clock, but wind it up when you may,
nd at half-past six o'clock on Saturday
vening that clock is dead sure to
tand still. It can be easily started
y moving the pendulum, and it will
hen continue till it runs down. It has
>een wound up from the eighth day to
vitli an hour of the time, but it never
tiils to stop when it reaches the half past
ix hour mark on Saturday evening.
?his is strange and unaccountable, but
a true as gospel, according'to the
ialeigh Observer,