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THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE
. AND PORT ROYAL COMMERCIAL.
VOL. V. NO. 35. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1877. $700 per HUE Siatle Cap? 5 Celts.
Husbands, Ideal and Real.
" Oh, fair Ambrosia! lift thy earnest look
A moment from the pages of thy book :
Is there 9 lover that hath power to move
Thy heart to strong and perfect love ?"
" Mv lover mast be wise, must love with me
All lovely things in art and poesy ;
His soul must sit on high like some large star, !
And men salute him, even from afar."
j
" I do not ask for houses, land, or gold,
Only for knowledge great and manifold.
Let such a lover seek my heart and hand.
And I will bow me to his wise command."
" Ah, what a stupid husband !" answered May;
" I'd not have such a one a single day:
My lord must own a very lengthy purse.
Or else I fear he'll fiud it all the worse."
" Ana I," said proud uornena, - own uo iora
But he who buckles on his country's sword :
He must lead armies, and in blood and dame
Carve the bright letters that shall spell his
name."
The wise Ambrosia weds a banker old,
A man without a thought beyond his gold ;
And May, who vowed that naught but wealth
should rule.
Marries a poor professor, and keeps a school.
And ne'er to proud Cornelia soldier came ;
Vain were her dreams of glory and of fame ;
She bowed her soul to daily household work?
Her lord a little harmless dry goods clerk.
THE ARTISTS BRIDE.
It was a morning in early June?soft,
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warm ana ouuiuua.
In a large room, at the very top of an
eld-fashioned mansion, an artist stood
before his easel, surveying the portrait
which had just rec. ived the finishing
touches from his long, pale fingers.
He turned suddenly away, as if a sharp
pang had shot through his frame, anil
pressing his hand upon his heart, he
coughed slightly, and in a moment hib
lips were red with blood.
"This will finish me, perhaps," said
the hoy, for he was but a child in years,
aud the lameness under which he sufft red
made him look young by reducing his
height.
A light rap at the door made him
start. He called, faintly, "Come in,"
and there entered a young girl of small
and delicate figure, and a face which was
absolutely startling in its beauty.
As she entered, Michael Waldmver attempted
to conceal the traces of liis recent
suffering, but her quick eye saw
them, and she faltered and turned pale.
"It is nothing ? absolutely nothing,
Madeliue. It was only an accidental fit
of coughing which produced it." Mtule- j
line looked mournfully at the blood drops
on his clothes, and then at the crutches
which leaned against his chair. He
watched her look aud smiled, for he was
Madeline Hargrave's lover, even though
he did have to use those appendages to
his footsteps; and he knew that in her
eyes they were no bsr to his fame and no
hindrance to his goodness.
44 Why, here is father's picture all
finished," said Madeline; 44 but, dearest
Michael, he surely has not a face so
stern and harsh as vou have pictured
him!"
44Just so he looked, Lina, when I
asked him for your hand. He was absolutely
terrible in his expression. I confess
that I copied that very look. It was
in my memory too strong not to be mingled
with every touch of the brush.
441 must notstay here," she said, as
she turned away from the contemplation
of that pale face. 44 Papa is coming
nere, sum l would ratuer not meet mm.
He called lier to his side again, and she
bent over him with a loving smile.
44 Let me show you this le'.ter, dearest,"
he said, taking one from the table
before him.
It was from a well-known gentleman '
of great wealth, who was noted for his
liberality to young and indigent artists,
and who had become singularly interested
in Waldmyer. In the letter he had |
generously offered to take upoa himself I
the whole expenses of a voyage to Italy j
and a year's study there, if he would go i
at once; promising patronage and influ- :
ence after hi6 return.
44 Shall I go, Lina ?"
44Go! certainly, you must and shall j
go, Michael. Why, you would be mad
not to accept this offer. Besides, do you
know that if you go to Italy and succeed
?as I know yon will?my father wonld i
be proud to receive you when you return :
under the auspices of such a man as Mr. !
Lennox ? Nay, you will think me un- j
maidenly if I say all that I was about to
utter."
Then, as if struck by a new thought, '
she said: 44 Yes, Italy will be the very
thing for that terrible cough. Indeed,
you will go, Michael?and go now, yes,
go now."
The young girl was beseeching her
lover to part from her, even with tearful !
eyes, and he smilingly told her so. But !
ncraiofQ,] on/] OAAn 1 off Vi 1 m t/\ liifi
J'CiniOm4 J UUU OWU ivi V UlUi W MW
own meditations on the subject.
Rome! Italy! The very goal to
which his thoughts had flown a thousand
times, and as often returned as did the
dove to the ark. Would his feet touch
the land so beautiful and hallowed by j
the art he loved ? True, it would sepa- ;
rate him from Madeline, but they were
both young; and, as she said, when he
had gained a name, perhaps he might j
dare to claim Ifcr. He decided to go, si d
wrote a few brief, grateful lines to Mr. j
Lennox, sign lying his acceptance of his i
generous offer.
He had just sealed his letter when Mr. !
Hargrnve came in. He was, as usual, :
very stately and magnifieant. He came
to look at his picture for the last time
before it should be removed to his house. |
" You have an expression there, young
man " (he said this very pompously),
'' which I ?ra not conscious of wearing.
Will you amend your work in that respect
I"
Waldmyer bowed acquiescence, and
with a few strokes of the pencil, he
changed the expression to a grave but
pleasant one.
"Better, much better, and I flatter
myself much more natural. When shall
I send for this ?"
" To-morrow, if you please, sir."
Mr. Hargrave gathered up his gloves
and hat, and was leaving the room, when
Waldmyer, who had exerted himself too
much, was again attacked as before, and
the red stream was flowing from his
lipi*
" Bless me, Mr. "Waldmyer ! let me
call a phy sieian." He could only answer
by a sign not to do so. Mr. Hargrave
handed him a glass of water and held it
softly to his lips. He was touched by
Waldiayer's gentle and patient look.
"I am truly sorry for you," he said,
in a tone unlike his usual imperious one.
" You must go to a warmer climate, Mr.
Waldmyer. Unquestionably it would be
better for you than this changeful one
which tries even my healthful frame,"
and he bowed himself from the room.
Hargrave was a man, after all, of kind
feelings aud strong benevolence. Perhaps
he was not so much to blame for
not wishing Madeline to marry one like
Waldmver. He was poor, ill and lame;
and in Lis heart, Michael, ever candid
and right-judging, could not censure him
for the part which he had taken; while
yet he sighed bitterly over the destiny
which seemed to separate him from
Madeline Hargrave.
Madeline had gone from Waldmyer's
room to the house of a dear friend, Alice
Clifford, to whom the lovers had mutually
confided their hopes and fears. Alice
was the niece of Mr. Lennox, who had
been so generous to Waldmyer, and it
was partly by her representations' that
her uncle' had become so interested in
the youthful artist.
44 You will not hinder this, Madeline,"
said Alice. 44 Do not! for I feel that it
is his only chance for life. I speak
plainly, for you must see that Waldmyer
is dy mg by inches?not so much from illhealth,
as that he is so hemmed in by
circumstances, so narrowed in his prospects,
that he has become hopeleas of
the future. I have talked long and
earnestly with him, dear Lina, and this
is my conviction, that he must go or
die r
Madeline thought of the blood, and
shuddered.
441 will urge him to go, Aliee," she
answered. 441 have done so already.
God knows that I would not stand in
his path. I will go to him agaiD," and '
she added, with a quivering lip, 44 poor !
fellow, he shall go." .
She did go to him and he consented J
to go. Over their parting, we must not I
linger. It was full of a sorrow too!
sacred to be revealed; the sorrow which
looks on death as near and certain.
It was on a Inoraing in the latter part
of July that Waldmyer sailed for Italy.
He arrived in safety, and wrote, full of
hope and reviving health, to Madeline.
Several months elapsed after this, and he
OEiV tilings J. uiu utn x uipuvelvet,
I declare ! Just the color of Ra-1
phael's. Wliv, Alice, I should think you 1
were in love with Mr. Waldmyer, yourself;
I will certainly tell Lina to watch
you or you will run away with her lover.
Nay, you cannot do that, Miss Alice, for
poor Waldmyer is not given to running."
41 For shame, uncle, to sport with his ;
dreadful infirmity."
111 trust Alice, from the accounts I
hear from our young friend, that his
infirmity will be greatly lessened."
"Now I can guess the meaning of
those mysterious packets which you
have been addressing so often to that
French doctor with thej unpronounceable
name. Dear uncle, is Waldmyer cured
of that terrible lameness ? 0,'do let me
go and tell Lina."
" Why, Alice, how you jump at conclusions.
Becauso I hinted that Mr.
Waldmyer may have received some benefit
abroad, you?woman-like?conclude
at once that he has thrown away his
crutches, and can now walk n? well as
you do yourself."
was rarely lieard from. Alice Clifford, I
however, received a letter from a friend I
at Rome, which contained this paragraph
:
" By the way, Alice, one of your farfamed
American youths, whose praises
you have 60 often trumpeted, is here ;
and if those who are tall and straight
and healthy among them can compare
with this one, I will concede to you
what I have so often disputed?the
superiority of American artists in points j
independent of their art. You know !
that you have claimed for your country- j
men that they were not only professional,
but that the profession was only an
adjunct to the man himself ; while I,
alas, was forced to admit that our artists
have, in general, no claim?beyond their
actual profession?to intellectual wealth.
44 But I take it, Alice, that this youth
must be an exception; for, although he
is suffering from excessive lameness, and
is often embarrassed in company, from
his continual dependence on liis crutches,
yet I assure you he is highlv distinguished
here, for his professional talents,
for the mournful beauty of his face and i
for his intellectual acquirements. Ho is !
studying with one of our first artists, ,
and bids fair to paint well; understand
me, Alice, not as Italians paint, but as .i
well as Americans can paint. For the ;
re6t, I will only say that this wonderful
youth is called Michael Waldmyer, and 1
if he were not an American, I should !
expect him some day to rank with our j
best artists."
44 What a teasing thing Agnes is,
Uncle Lennox," said Alice, as she showed
him the letter. 44We have disputed so
many times about American talent, that:
she considers herself bound to keep j
up the quarrel. Well, I forgive her in
consideration of what she admits, and '
will go to Madeline with the letter. ;
Even its qualified praise will rejoice her." !
The year waned and ended, and it was j
not until the second had nearly expired, 1
that Waldmyer returned to his native I
shores. Unknown to any one. Mr. Len- j
nox had furnished liim with the funds ;
which should enable him to pass a few
months with an eminent surgeon, who j
had so far succeeded as to allow him to
walk without pain, and occasionally to i
dispense with any other support than a
light crutch and another person's arm. :
He thus looked a very little taller than
before. His face wore a hopeful expression,
and there was a lighting up of
the countenance, which no one ever saw
there in the old time.
Mr. Lennox did nothing by halves;
and almost before the arrival of the j
steamer that brought him was announced, j
a splendid room was fitted up with every
requisite for the pursuit of art that could
be desired.
*' Who is going to wear that splendid
dressing-gown and cap ?" asked Mr. Lennox,
as he saw Alice finishing them.
" They are for your favorite, Mr.
Waldmyer," she answered.
" Excellent! I believe they are the !
? t j:j ?* ??
"Well, that will comfort Liiia a little. >
I will tell her that."
" No?wait and let her find it out."
A few months after this, Mr Lennox
and Mr. Hargravewcre walking together,
when the attention of the latter was
drawn to the handsome sign on which
the name of " Waldmyer, Artist," was
conspicuous.
" Is that the same whom you reoomj
mended to me as a portrait painter I
" The same. He is making a great i
; sensation here. His saloon is constantly
j occupied by sitters, and already he has '
acquired a'fortune, although it is only a j
i few months since he came from Italy."
4 1 Tinlf ai\/1 rtn It a IvaitaI a<1 if
xuiij i uuu iias Liz; uatciuu i *1
He has, and since he returned his success
has been unrivaled, not only professionally,
but socially, for he is now admitted
to very select circles."
"Yes, very likely," said Mr. Har;
grave ; "by the way it was I who adi
vised his going to Italy. I knew it
1 would save his life, and moreover, I dis'
covered such wonderful talent in him."
Mr. Lennox bit his lips. "Let us go
j in," said he. They did so, and Mr.
Hargrnve greeted the artist with so much
j cordiality, and congratulated him so
j warmly upon his restoration to health,
i and paid him so many compliments upon
j his success, that Waldmyer ventured to
' draw the curtain from a large picture
which stood in the room. * It was
Madeline?so lifelike, so beautiful, that
one would have almost expected to hear
j her voice. It was a full length portrait,
: and perfectly matched another standing
i just behind it, which Mr. Lennox had
employed liim to paint for Alice. The
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when no one but themselves and Mr.
Lennox were admitted.
Mr. Hargrave gazed and wondered ;
and then he gazed at Waldmyer, standing
erect, or leaning but lightly upon a
crutch of a peculiar French manufacture
; and which seemed a light support
to a cripple, such as he remembered
him when he asked him for his daughter.
* * * * ? *
"If ever life was prosperously cast,"
it was that of the two beings whose love
had endured so long and so well. It was
not in Mr. Hargrave's nature to withstand
the pleadings of Waldmyer and
his nvo friends, Mr. Lennox and Alice ;
and there is not a happier little wife in
the whole world than Lina Waldmyer,
the artist's bride.
Circassian Soldiers Helping Themselves.
The presence of the irregular soldiery
T? wrovAiim A ci'q IVfiivAi* i a r?nf a. K1 acq.
in niijcivuui, "O'* ?* AU.XUV*, "V1( ** ^4VWU
ing, according to a correspondent. The
government has kindly ordered that no
one shall kill Christians even if the armies
are defeated, so that life is tolerably
safe, but the little woes to which
Christians are heir in the presence of
the irregular defenders of their hearths
wear upon the minds of the sufferers
more than greater ones. The Circassians
are commonly the culprits. One
goes to a shop and asks, for instance, for
gunpowder. It is furnished, and he
walks off, saying that he does not propose
to fight and pay for his gunpowder
also. Another stops a man in the street
and takes the shoes off of his feet, with
the remark: " There, I knew those were
my shoes." Another helps himself to a
pair of boots and pays a dollar toward
the cost of them and departs. There is
no resisting the arguments of these fellows
when they are armed to the teeth,
especially where the article stolen is a
pair of boots. The shoe which is in
general use among them is very simple.
A bit of leather is turned up over the
sides of the foot and finely sewed with
two seams, one from the tip of the
pointed toe to the instep, and the other
at the heel. This is the original model
of all pointed shoes, ancient and modern,
and is doubtless a strong and comfortable
affair, but has the drawback for the
Circassian cavalry service that the instep
and ankles are bare?for no Circassian
wears stockings. To remedy this the
Circassians make a sort of a boot leg of
another piece of leather, and wear that
separately. The sight of tliis cavalry
boot is enough to explain the Circassian
greed for surreptitious foot gear.
How Philadelphia Kills Dogs.
A Philadelphia paper says: " At this I
season of the year, when so many un- !
muzzled dogs find their way to the dog
poimd on Lamb Tavern road, it will be
a matter of interest to some citizens to
know what becomes of the animals when
they arrive there. The dogs are kept a
few days in case their previous owners
want to claim them, and, if not called J
for, are killed. The mode of killing
them is rather novel in character. Into j
a small brick building, containing two !
rooms, one above the other, the unsus- ;
pecting canines are induced to enter. i
Once in, the modes of exit are closed. A
charcoal fire is started in two stoves, i'
and as soon as a blue blaze (carbonic acid <
gas) appears on the fires, the windows :
are shut and the dampers are reversed, j
so as to prevent air from entering the I
rooms. In about a minute the dogs fall ,
insensible, utter a faint cry, and shortly
afterward cease to breathe. They are
left in the room, however, for eight or ,
ten minutes to make sure that life is en- u
tirely extinct. The windows are then
opened, and, after the poisonous gas es- ,
capes, the dogs are removed." ,
Strange Rites. '
According to Mr. Mackenzie Wallace, :
when the approach of cholera is feared, ;
all the village maidens in some parts of i
Russia gather together at night, in the i
usual toilet of the hour, and walk in pro- i
cession round their village, one girl j'
walking ahead with an Icon, the rest following
with a plough. The girls make
their own arrangements as to time; but
it sometimes happens that the men find i
out what is going on, though, if any one ]
is caught taking observations, he is sure j
to be considerably beaten, it is said, by ]
" - " * ? Jl * 4
tne lair meinoers or me procession, a ;
correspondent says that a very similar
custom is in vogue in Azimgurh, India, i
when drought is apprehended. On an i
appointed night the village women, I
taking a yoke and plow, go to a fallow J i
held, generally in a northeast direction |
from the hamlet, and draw the plow a i'
few times over the field. Women of in- , i
ferior caste and mature age are generally
the performers. Notice is given to the :
males of the village, and they religiously
abstain from vitiating the ceremony by 11
improper curiosity. I:
CONSTANTINOPLE IN WAR TIME.
Tlie Softnn and Their Method of lutimida*
tion?An Exciting Scene.
A Constantinople correspondent writes:
The Softas (students of religion) want
Midhat Pasha to return to office, and
they want Redif Pasha and Mnhmond
Damad Pasha to be sent about their
business. There came, a few days ago,
a great mass of stalwart, tierce-eyed men
surging up past the front of St. Sophia
into the courtyard of the Dar-ul-Fownoun,
where the parliament holds its
sessions. The day was fine, and the coffee
shops under the Assembly Hall were
crowded with people who were nearly
frightened out of their wits by the sudden
apparition of that motley crowd in
red and green and blue and black cloaks,
and wearing white or green turbans on
their heads. A mob of Softas is the most
terrible of mobs in its outside appear
ance, and the four pair of Turkish sentries
at ihe gates and on the staircase of
the Assembly Hall dared not stop them.
They insisted on admission to the hall,
and the captain on duty at the top of the
grand staircase made no effort to stop
them. He only induced them to moderate
their expectations, and to select five
spokesmen, whom he conducted to the
floor of the astonished Assembly. He
introduced them with the remark that
they wished to ask the Assembly a few
questions, which they proceeded to do.
Everybody in Constantinople dreads the
Softas in his inmost heart. Nurses use
the name to frighten children. So the
president of the Assembly, instead of
ordering the floor to be cleared of the
intruders, suspended business in order
that they might speak, and even argued
with them in his paternal way from the
lofty white pulpit which places him
above the heads of all the house. They
went away at last, sure that they had
done a great and noble thing.
After they had gone, the president of
the Assembly closed the session and
went straight to the sultan's palace.
The more he thought of the affair the
more he was nettled at having been carried
away by the popular fear of Softas.
This mob had insulted the Assembly,
and late, but fully, the president saw
that the Softas must be punished for it.
? ? ? ? * 1 1 il L 1
Martial law was aeciarea me next uay,
and now there are about forty of the ringleaders
of the affair cooling their ardor
in jail, under s.-ntence of banishment,
while some fifty or sixty more, who live
in interior cities, have been expelled
from the schools where they were studying,
with orders to go home at once.
The government now makes light of the
affair, but at the moment it feared a
movement like the agitations which ended
the reign of Abdul Aziz. The only
thing which deprived the demonstration
of this grave character was the fact of
the parliament. Lst- year the Softas
were the "representatives of the people,"
and carried all before them. This
year they did not see until after the affair
was over that the parliament represents
the people, and receives from them the
support and trust which the Softas have
always been accustomed to find.
Thoughts for Saturday Sight.
Life becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends or enemies.
*
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortunes,
but ingratituce dries up the
fountain of all goodness.
Make no more vows to perform this or
that; it shows no great strength, and
makes thee ride behind thyself.
XT 1 A .U.. 4.^
i^CYCI picnu iu pufcmj, kju itu
as this world is concerned, you might
better admit that you are a villain.
Man wastes his mornings in anticipating
his afternoons, and wastes his afternoons
in regretting his mornings.
Right in one thing becomes a preliminary
to right in everything; the transition
is not distant from the feeling
which tells us that we should do good to
all men.
The pleasures of this world are deceitful;
they promise more than they give.
They trouble us in seeking them, they
do not satisfy us when possessing them,
and they make us despair in losing them.
He who says education, says government;
to teach is to reign; the human
brain is a sort of terrible wax, that takes
the stamp of good or of evil, according
to whether an ideal teaches it or a claw
touches it.
Oaths are vulgar, senseless, offensive,
impious; they leave a noisome trail upon
the lips, and a stamp of odium upon the
soul. They are inexcusable. They
gratify no sense, while they outrage
taste and dignity.
Of all the love on earth the one most
like the divine love is that of the good
mother?so unselfish, unforgetting and
watchful, considerate, free from jealousy,
and desiring the good of her children
far more than her own happiness.
Enoch Arden in Australia.
A short time since a young sailor,
Becond officer of a ship trading to the
Mauritius from Melbourne, left his wife
living at Williamstown, Australia. At
Port Louis illness seized him, and ho
was left in the hospital seriously ill. On
the arrival of the ship, tile wife saw the
captain, who gave her the facts concerning
the health of her husband. Subsequently,
another arrival from Mauritius
told her that her husband "died
in the hospital," and upon this very unreliable
authority she concluded herself
a widow, and in this capacity took a
situation in the provinces; and after a
time?say about a twelvemonth from her
husband's leaving?she married her employer's
brother. Meanwhile, the husband
was not dead at all, but recovered.
No ship offering for the colony, he
shipped home, writing his wife, wbo,
Laving left her former residence, never
got his letters. Arriving in England,
he learned that a rich relative in China
bad died and left him a large amount of
money, and accordingly he sailed to
China and took possession of the property,
upon which he realized some ?90,000,
the result of years of successful
speculation, and sailed for Victoria to
join his wife and enjoy his wealth with
her, only to find that, unlike Penelope,
she had not waited for her Ulysses, and
was another's. The next homeward
mail bo it took him away to England
without disturbing the felicity of the
existing arrangement. The wife now
repents her precipitancy,
1
Jfarm, garden and household.
Recipes.
Beef-Steak Roast.?Take a nice
thick beef-steak, pepper and salt one
side well, make a nice stuffing of breadcrumbs,
seasonings, and onions, wet
with egg; lay this oyer the steak, and
roll up like a 44 roly-poly" pudding; tie
with a bit of cord. Bake like any other
roast.
Forced Meat.?Take bread-crumbs
(dry bread grated is as good), add onethird
as much chopped suet, thyme or
other herb to taste; salt and pepper;
beat up eggs enough to wet it to a paste;
stuff your roast, fish, or fowl with it, or
lay it in the pan among the gravy.
Canned Cobn.?To every six quarts of
corn take one ounce of tartaric acid dissolved
in boiling water; cut the corn
from the cob, and put in sufficient water
to cook; put the acid in -while the
corn is cooking; when done, seal airtight
in tin cans or glass jars. To prepare
for the table, pour off the sour water
and save it; put in enough fresh water
to cook it; to every quart of corn add
one small teaspoonful of soda and let it
stand a few minutes before cooking;
while cooking put in a teaspoonful of
sugar; if the corn turns yellow there is
too much soda; pour back some of the
sour water until it turns white again;
when nearly done season with salt,
cream, and butter, same as fresh corn.
Tin quart cans are preferable to glass
jars.
Berry Pudding.?One pint of milk;
two eggs, well beaten; a very little salt;
one-fourth teaspoonful soda; one-half
teaspoonful cream tartar; slowly add
flour enough to make a thick batter; at
the last add one pint of any kind of berI
ries, well sprinkled with flour; boil one
hour in a well-buttered mold, or, if you
have no mold, a floured cloth will do;
after the pudding has boiled hard for
one hour, remove it from the pot and
dip it quickly into cold water, and a3
quickly turn it out; this will prevent
sticking; serve at once, for it soon becomes
heavy.
Cabinet Pudding.?One-fourth pound
butter and one and a half pounds granulated
sugar beaten to a cream; add the
well beaten yolks of five eggs; one-half
cupful milk; then half pound of flour,
with the whites of five eggs; lastly, half
i pound of seeded a nd chopped raisins,
with a quarter of a poimd of well-washed
and dried currants^ihc fruit must be
floured before mixing; use a buttered
mold or floured bag; boil three hours;
then plunge quickly into cold water;
turn it out at once to prevent sticking;
serve hot with sweet sauce.
Economical Sponge Cake.?Three
i eggs, one cupful each of flour and sugar,
three teaspoonfuls baking powder, onequarter
pint milk, salted and flavored to
taste, made thin. It is nice for jelly
cake or strawberry cake.
To Clean Papebhangings.?First
blow the dust off with the bellows.
Divide a white loaf of bread of eight
days old into eight parts. Take the
crust into your hand, and beginning at
Al_ _ A r 11 * A .1 ? .1
uie top 01 me paper, wipe it uowuwaru
in the lightest manner with the crumb.
Do not cross or go upward. The dirt of
the paper and the crumbs will fall together.
You must not wipe above a half
a yard at a stroke, and very lightly, and
after doing all the upper part go round
again, beginning a little above where
you left off.
Put one or two red peppers or a few
pieces of charcoal into a pot where ham,
cabbage, etc., is boiling, and the house
will not be filled with an offensive odor.
Picklnff (?cei<e.
Picking should be done in a close
room or every breath of air will scatter
the feathers and down." Having taken
up your bird, draw a long stocking over
its liead and down on the neck, to prevent
its wreaking its vengeance on you
by its merciless biting.
I The wings are formidable weapons
also, and must be held, or their blows
will leave many a black and blue mark
as evidence of their power. Geese might
be picked upon a caponizing table and
fastened in the same way as a chicken for
the operation of caponizing. Pick when
the quill of the feather is ripe, that is,
clear ; while the feathers are developing
the quill is filled with bloody matter,
which shows their unfitness for picking.
When picking, take all the small feathers,
leaving all the large ones, except
four or five under each wing, which must
be plucked to keep the wings from drooping.
Take off the down only in warm
weather. The number of times it is
best to pick geese in a season depends
upon the climate. The rale we have
given above will enable any oue to determine
when the feathers will do to
pluck. Keep the geese in a warm place
when they are out of water, if the weather
is cool after picking. The early goslings
might be picked when their feathers
are grown and ripe, and yet grow
out full in time for fattening, for the
holiday market. The yield of feathers
will ho iihmit nnA-nnnrtpr ot" a nonnd
from each goose, and these alone will
very nearly pay for rearing them.
Feeding Young Chick*.
In some localities it is difficult to get
chicks through the first two weeks after
they are hatched; for the little complaints
of this early period are often
more numerous and critical than at any
other period of their lives. Feed is the
first consideiatioD, and pure water a
great essential for them from first to last.
Cornmeal is the one article of chicken
diet which has been the main dependence
for generations; but some experiments
with rice, last year, convinced us that
for young chicks it is equal to anything,
if not superior to everything else.
Broods fed upon rice alone, all liv2d and
grew finely on a single handful at a feed,
for the hen and her brood. An inferior
quality, known to the trade as broken
rice, is just-as good for feed, and it takes
so little for a feed that the expense is no
greater in the Northern States than
cornmeal, while in the South it will be
the cheapest feed known.?Poultry
World.
There had been a heavy thundershower,
and the parched earth and
wilted vegetation drank in the refreshing
showers. " I should think the plants
would whisper to each other how delicious
it was," he exclaimed, enthusiastically.
"Yes," said she, "all but the
onions ; they wouldn't be likely to wir eper
with such a breath;"
HOW LUMBERMEN LIVE.
Long Hoars and Numerous, if not Luxurious,
.lleals?Sunday In the Woods.
The Journal,. of Lewiston, Me.,
prints the foliowing: The annual com;
ing of the river drivers, whose tents are
now pitched near us on the banks of the
Androscoggin, is an event anxiously
i awaited this year, not only by the lumber
manufacturers, but also by the lum,
ber consumers. And not by these alone;
! for the lumbermen will soon be along in
j quest of new suits of clothes and the
| luxuries of civilized life. They are vig|
orous, energetic men, leading a jollv if a
I Inlvsvm'/Yiia on. 1 ilanarormis lifft A fflance
iniA/XiVUO (IUU \iuu^v*w?M Q?
at their style of doing things may not bo
without interest at this time.
Three hundred men will cover and cut
a section of about three miles square,
taking off over 60,000 logs, which would
measures bout 10,000,000 feet, each seasou.
Work begins at daylight and ends
at dark ; and when the days lengthen, or
the moon favors, a long twilight or earlier
morn, the men get the benefit in
longer working hours. On the river,
when the drive is started, work begins
at three o'clock in the morning, and ends
at nine in the evening, the men having
five meals?breakfast at six, lunch at
nine, dinner at twelve, supper at five,
and tea at nine. The meal consists of
pork and beans, corn bread, molasses
cake, and tea or coffee.
No stint is given to a man's appetite.
The fare, such as jt is, is abundant, monotonous,
nutritious, and cheap. A
cook is provided for every fifty men.
The beans are generally the large white
bush, parboiled in pots holding about
half a bushel, then ten pounds of pork
is set in the middle of the beans in the
pot, a quarter of a pint of molasses |
poured in, and then the pot is set in a
hole surrounded with hot ashes and
burning charcoal, the top covered with a
stone, over which a heavy wood fire is
built, and here they stay from five to
eight hours, coming out a palatable dish.
All the baking is done in rudely built,
stone ovens, which are heated, before
the dough is mixed, with a good wood
fire. The loaves of biscuit or cake are
set upon the stones and are cooked
quickly and thoroughly.
A camp of 300 men will consume daily
four barrels of beans, half a barrel of
pork, one barrel of flour, half a barrel of
meal, one-quaiter of a barrel of sugar,
and five gallons of molasses. The men
are encamped in tents, making their
beds of boughs, while their extra clothing,
a pair of dark overalls, woolen shirt,
and two pairs of woolen socks,, is kept in
on nl<1 rrrni-n oo/>V nr?d UKP(1 OR ft tlillow
at night.
Sunday in the -woods is always a day
for sharpecing axes, mending sleds, repairing
boots and clothes, setting out a
new tenting spot handier to the cutting
in the woods, and all the odd chores
which would grow out of the congregation
of so large a body of men. All well
regulated camps exclude liquor. Being
usually fifty to one hundred miles from
auy settlement, and the men not beiug .
paid until the end of the season, there is
little inducement for any speculator to
peddle rum through the woods, or for
the men to straggle off in search of it.
The consumption of axfcs and handles
is enormous, an axe lasting a month and
a handle three weeks. The axes are
sharpened daily, some camps having
regular sharpeners, while others require
each man to keep his own axe in order.
The old axes are never collected for the
junk dealers, the distance to ship them
being almost too great to make it an
economical measure.
A Picturesque Turkish Town.
The Turkish headquarters at Shumla
are picturesquely situated. A correspondent
who visited the camp one ;
IViday (the Mohammedan Sunday) draws
a pretty sketch. Innumerable bellshaped
tents, interspersed with the green
ones of the superior officers, are clustered
about all over the vast hollow in the
natural amphitheater of the mountains. '
The sound of bugles on the plain breaks
the stillness of a lovely summer's even- ;
ing, and from all parts men are coming
at the double to fetch their rations from
the kitchen camps on the left of the road. 1
Shumla, in addition to its natural
strength, is very strongly fortified; is in ;
the opinion of many men impregnable, j
The town itself, cosily nestling at the
base of the hills, is extremely Oriental
in appearance. It is much more Turkish
than Rustchuk, which has become more
or less " Westernized " by the passage 1
of the mails. The railway platform is '
crowded with uncouth-looking men and j
boys clad in every variety of native cos-.
tume, from the sad brown jacket and
'ample continuations of the Turkish
peasant to the wonderful-becloaked ;
A.rmenian merchant and still more showy i 1
Aranauts. Boys of a similar genus to 1
those who sell evening papers at ordinary j
railway stations run up and down with
fruit, water, curious-looking loaves on :
sticks, and bits of roast lamb on skewers.
BllllCIUil^ aiuuu ulu luvtiw U1 iiuvu
wares, pushing each other aside, and generally
exhibiting symptoms of a won- 1
derfully keen eye for business and quick 1
scent for backsheesh. Soldiers, of J
course, are plentiful. Melancholly Cir- '
cassians, with honest-looking blue eyes ;; ]
Arabs, looking exactly what they are, ; i
blackguards, impure and simple, blue- '
tuniced warriors of the ordinary Turkish i 3
line, with their bright scarlet facings f1
and fezzes; these are mingled with white- 1
turbafled softas, black-hatted and gown- j *
ed Greek priests, and exquisitely dressed j1
and gloved French-imitating Bulgarians. I
Together they make up a crowd such as j 1
only the dirty but picturesque East can j1
produce. 11
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Facts Worth Remembering. c
A queen bee lays from 10,000 to 30,- !
000 eggs in a year.
It is estimated that no less than two
hundred different species of caterpillars t
feed upon the oak. a
The slower the growth of the oak the j i
more durable the wood. i
Bees, beetles, dragon flies, gnats, t
spiders, etc., have minute animalculse r
upon their bodies. t
The roe of the perch, only half a s
pound in weight, has been found to oon- c
tain 280,000 eggs. 11
The larva of the silkworm weighs, p
when hatched, about 1,000th part of a a
grain previously to its first metamor- t
phosis; it increases ninety-five grains, s
or 9,500 times its original weight. j u
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Items of Interest.
The bird of paradise is a native of
North Guinea, near the equator.
Shocking knowledge ? Personal acquaintance
with a galvanic battery.
We find self-made men veir often, but
self-uamade ones a good deal oftener.
The Centennial Exhibition diplomas
have been received in Europe and distributed.
* ?
Contributor?"Why have you not inserted
my last article ? Was it too long ?"
Editor?"No, it was too narrow."
A Wisconsin eagle, killed the other
day, had eleven bullets in its body. It
was probably going off somewhere to
found a lead mine.
" Please don't shoot the cows" is a
sign on a farmer's fence near Chicago,
intended for city sportsmen who go out
after prairie chickens.
A Mohammedan writer, speaking of the
different sects of his religion, says:'
"Sects are different, becanse they spring
from men; bnt morality is the same
throughout, because it springs from
God."
Nothing will so emphatically grab a
man by remembrance's coat collar, and
haul him back to childhood's time, as to
suddenly come upon a half-dressed youth
nestling behind the rushes on the edge
of a swimming pond, sadly chewing the
knots out of his shirt sleeve?.
Forget to remove a pitcher of cream
from the kitchen table and several hundred
flies will tumble into it in less than
forty minutes. Set the same pitcher of
cream as a fly-trap and you wouldn't
catch more than two of the insects in
half a day. Such is the experience of a
young housekeeper.
In average health, and under ordinary
circumstances, the fat of the l>ody constitutes
about one-twelfth of its weight,
but in some cases it becomes increased
to an enormous extent. Bright, of Maiden,
England, weighed 728 pounds:
Daniel Lambert, an American, weighed
739 ; and a case is recorded in liie Philadelphia
Transaction* of a female child
which at four years of age weighed 266
pounds.
The Custer of the Russian ?rmy, and
its youngest general, is Skobeleff, conqueror
of Khokand, and now on the staff
of the Grand Duke Nicholas. In the
Khokand war he made a night_ attack,
with 150 men, on a camp c-f~ several
thousand of the enemy, cutting down
every man within the range of. their ^
swords. The enemy fled, leaving forty
dead and all their camp ma .erial ana
htLcrcmao SJkobeleff did not lose a man.
There has been so much ra in in Iowa
that the grasshoppers wear India-rubber
boots.
Intelligence of a Hocking Bird.
A correspondent from a tfity in Arkansas
writes: Deeds of personal valor and
heroism, when bronght to public notice,
are always applauded, and general'y
find their vivacious and enthusiastic historian.
Now I propose to peiform this
friendly office as best I can, for several
members of the little feathery tribe, in
relating a little occurrence: recently
brought to my attention. A gentleman
residing in this city has the yard fronting
his residence adorned with shrubbery.
One shrub having a small post
support, it seemed a small mc eking bird
had utilized for a nest, in which, on this
particular occasion, reposed five little
birdlings to fill the fond mother's heart
with joy and gladness. One evening the
lady of the house had her attention attracted
to the spot by a violent fluttering
and shrill screams of distress from the
parent bird. Going to the place, what
was her astonishment to fird a large
snake coiled about the post, seemingly
intent upon having a " game " supper.
The lady at once called a se rvant, who
promptly dispatched the reptile. Now
for the singular part of the transaction.
No sooner had the good ladv appeared
rmtib fJmn Mrs. Mockingbird
UJJVU WAV ? wuv . v
disappeared in the direction of the
woods? bnt, in less time than it takes to
record it, she returned, accompanied by
five of her feathery neighbors, with a
war cry issuing from their tiny throats,
evidently intent upon the destruction of
the ruthless invader of their homes. A
reconnoissance in force was at once begun,
but the " enefcy " had disappeared.
The search, however, was continued until,
at last, his remains were discovered,
when the now happy songsters set up, as
it were, a shout of triumph and congratulations,
and dispersed to their 6ev?,
eral homes.
A Defiance Met with a Shot,
At Mellville, Ray county, says a Lexington
(Mo.) paper, occurred 'what may
yet prove a fatal recontre. The difficulty,
we are informed, had its inception in
% joke, which will, beyond doubt, prove
i very serious one to both parties.
Luther Schoolar and James Duvall are
young men of good families, and well
thought of in the neighborhood in which
they lived. Both are well known in
Lexington, and Mr. Dnvall has relations
living there. They were in Melville, a
small village in the north-east part of
ttay county, when a dispute arose
aetween them over some trivial matter.
Prom words they came to blows. Friends
nterfered and parted the combatants.
3 hoolar drew his pistol and Dnvall
picked up a rock. Duvall called Schoolar
* coward, and dared liim to shoot. The
vords hau hardly left his lips before
Schoolar fired, the ball entering Duvall's
right, eye. The ball did not enter the
irain, but took a downward course and
odged near the roof of the month. The
lectors say the wound is very dangerous,
)ut not necessarily fatal The latest acrounts
report Duvall doing ns well as
;ouId be expected.
Crnel Sport.
The other day a number of frogs were
ortured in the English Black country in
i manner limply revolting. Some dozen
nen met at a public house b t on indnlgng
in a little "sport." To accomplish
heir laudable purpose they skinned a
lumber of frogs alive and set them upon a
able to race, betting upon the result, and
*' a- ?
prinkling salt upon me poor Biuicxujg
reatures with a view to make them go
he faster. All the men were in the emJoy
of a well known Black country firm,
,nd the police at onoe communicated to
he head of the concern the facts above
tated, with the result that all the twelve
aeu were instantly dismissed;