Aiken courier-journal. (Aiken, S.C.) 1877-1880, October 25, 1877, Image 1
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Haroan 11 Rasohid.
■v iienrt w. LOKaraxxow.
One day, Haroan A1 Raachid read
1 book therein the poet «aid :
“ Whe vara the kinga, and where the rest
Of me /> ■»to once the world possessed ?
“They re gone with all their pomp and show,
.They’re gone the way thou shall that go.
" Oh! thou who ehoosest for thy share
he'rorld, and what the world calls fair.
(11 that it can give or lend
ist death is at the end !''
' chid bowed his head ;
'.ii upon the page he read.
—St. Nicholas Xtugariue.
f
V
0timcd
iiogular Song.
nas. “Songs of Singnlar-
-Tvrmit, recently published
A llowing specimen of alllt-
iny Madeline!
ilodinus midnight moans ;
py melting music mean,
monotones.
lolin's mild minstrelsy,
1 music magazine,
’ my mind, n>y memory,
| ag murmur ••Madeline,’'
^ ' masquerades,
Kv • matrons mien,
rnsjosUc maids,
- .ess Msdeliue.
’enoe may make
,^;'-:<»sic mine ;
l^fives m iy mistake,
.merits much malign.
tie's most mi-thfnl mood
Jlfies my mind's machine ;
fulness magnitude
kes me mrrry, Madeline !
king ma's uiay machinate,
jlng misses me misween ;
If i''.' make many mate.
. ^ ^—“ Madeline !"
. pUiflr'.us melody.
..T mounts marine,
•'oorhught—marry me,
"i!—Madeline.
VOI.. III. NO. 148.
01.0 HEM IKK. VOI.. VII. NO
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aik:
.NICE’S HAIR.
i imlnlgo me iu this, Frod.”
tiow I object to spending the
in such an out-of-the-way place,
r.- ip Next winter I must go to work
la in good earnest; and I wanted a
.e pleasant travel and recreation dur-
the warm weather.”
“Oh, nonsense! Berry says it’s
splendid, and she ought to know, for she
spent two months there with her aunt
last summer. The nicest hotel in the
world, with a shaded terrace that over
looks a plea ant green. There are lovely
walks and drives, too, and the dearest
little lake, with a boat upon it. The
village is perched upon top of a hill, and
it’s such a cool, breezy place, with a fine
view of the surrounding scenery.”
“Stop and take breaMi, Norn!” ex
claimed Fred, putting up his hands iu
dismay. “Does Berry talk like that?
If she does, 1 should decline going to
the place, even if it were an elysium.”
“ Oh, B rry would make a desert de
lightful ! She was the dearest friend I
had at school—a lovely little blonde,
with such beautiful hair—long and heavy
she arranges it so
prettily! She was always the ITrsl to
adopt the new styles at school.”
“Probably her father was a hair
dresser, and she assisted him when at
home. ”
“You fibber! Her father was a
wealthy gentleman, when living; and
Berry is an orphan, residing with her
annt. It’s really romantic, the way she
was named. Her mother had long,
beautiful hair, like Berry’s, aud her
hrsbaud, who admired it very much,
used to call her ‘ Bereuice ’ sometimes
for a pet uame. Soon after Berry’s birth,
he died, and her mother ealled her Ber
euice, because he loved the name.
Berry used to look at her constellation,
as she called it, every summer night,
when the moon was not too bright. I
never cared for it before, it is so dim ;
bat now 1 always think about it when
I’m looking at the stars. Come Fred,
you are interested in her, I know. Be a
good brother, aud promise me we’ll go,
' - I told Berry I was almost certain of
“ Very well, Nora. If you are sure
ou will be satisfied with the place, we
*1 consider it settled.”
F * O weeks later, Fred Lewis and his
.'ora arrived at the hotel in the
_• „ ge which Nora hud described
uiting. Berry was imined:-
' id of their advent, and was
to meet her friend. Fred,
der, though he had heard her
>o often, was not disappointed
tyou think Berry is beautiful ?”
"w of her brother, upon the first
-ihty.
Fred had half lost hie heart
but thinking “discretion the
rt of valor,” looked a little
and answered: “Well, ye—
T es ungt • ; “g on the “yes ”—“yes”
“ rather.”
“Yen know very well she is, but you
won’t confess it, because I wish you to
i; ke her,” said Nora, sharply.
This was quite true, for Fred loved to
tease his sister, though usually he was
very indulgent. He was a noble-hearted
fellow and very handsome, and Nora was
really very fond of him.
He met Berry almost constantly, for
their two parlors wore adjoining, and
both opening upon the terrace, aud he
boob grew very fond of her society,
though he still indulged his propensity
to tease Nora about her.
One eveuiug they were all sitting on
•2ke terrace, enjoying the starlight and
♦be cool breeze.
“ Your constellation is quite distinct
to-night, Berry,” Nora said.
“Yes,” returned Berry; “though
usually it is scarcely brighter than the
Milky Way.”
Fred smiled, and gallantly quoted :
“ behold
The glistening ina/oof Berenice's hair ;
Forty the stars, but such as seem to kiss
The flowing tresses with a lambent flame.’
Aud Berry, feeling slightly flattered,
was very decided in the opinion that
Nora’s brother was a perfeet gentle
man, aud could be very entertaining if
he liked.
The ardor of her imagination was
somewhat dampened, however, upon the
following afternoon. She was looking
unusually charming in a dainty white
mtgdin, her hair a wilderness of smooth
aud soft curls. Fred admired her
exceedingly, aud rendered himself so
very agreeable that Nora was highly de
lighted. Berry stepped into her own
parlor a moment in pursuit of a book,
aud Nora remarked : “ How beautifully
Berry’s hair is arranged to-day !”
“Yes,” returned Fred, provokingly
cool, now the object of his admiration
was absent. “Yellow hair is very ex
pensive, I’m told. I wouldn’t wonder if
! the mass she has ou her head this after-
i
1 noon cost twenty pounds.”
Nora was about to cry: ‘ ‘ For shame 1”
when a vision of Berry in the doorway
checked her. She had returned unper-
eeived, and stood half hesitating a mo-
i meut. Then she advanced slowly, the
; soft white train of her dress rustling iu
her wake, her face crimson, her eyes
flashing, aud, in spite of her anger, a
: suspicion of tears.
; “ I wouldn’t take a thousaud pounds
for the hair I’m wearing to-day, Mr.
Lewis !” she answered.
Aud she was scarcely coquette enough
; to hide the pain iu her voice.
Fred flushed hotly, aud he would have
given almost anything to be able to re
call his words.
He rose to his feet, aud, bowing, said :
“Miss Bereuice, I humbly beg your par
don for my ill-natured i-emark. I only
made it to tease Nora, for, of course, I
had no idea—”
j “ Apologize to Nora, then, not to me,”
«he answered, quickly, and, turning, left
the room.
She crept away by herself, and sat
down, feeling, in spite of her efforts to
i conquer the sensation, hurt aud sore at
| heart. It was nothing, she told herself ;
she surely didn’t care what Mr. Lewis
thought about her, or said, either.
Aud then came a sigh, as she thought he
did not care for her, or he could never
have ridiculed her, in any way, even to
his sister.
Aud then, though she was not vain,
she had always looked upon her hair as
a sacred birthright bestowed by her
dead mother, and had ever associated
the beautiful constellation “Berenice”
with thoughts of her mother iu heaven ;
a childish fancy, but it clung to her as
childish fancies will cling to us all.
That night, before retiring, she braid
ed her hair in two long braids, and in
the morning she combed it out and left
it flowing, only drawn away from her
forehead, and banded by a blue ribbon.
The braiding had made it wavy, and it
fell in bright, heavy golden ripples, like
a mantle of “cloth of gold,” far below
her waist. Fred smiled, half triumph
antly, when he saw it.
“ I didn’t dream she cared half so
much for me,” he thought.
Berry observed his peculiar smile, and
the wrath_appeared on her cheeks.
1f ^I yruCipr iT ¥*in hPitrt
upon my sleeve?” she asked herself.
And then she told herself, in a little
comforting whisper: “Wait.”
Not long afterward, Fred sat down to
the table and began writing letters.
Presently Berry came flying into the
room.
“ Nora !” she called, iu the softest
little '•oiee in the world, whirling around
ou one foot, and carelessly tossing aside
her hair with her hand. Out flew the
bright, golden ripples, and Fred’s pen
went spinning along the carpet.
“ Oh, pardon me!” she cried. “My
new wig is a little troublesome to man
age, yet I’ve no doubt but I shall be
come accustomed to it iu time —and
away she sped, leaving Fred to pick up
his pen and resume his writing as best
he might.
This was more easily said thau done,
for there was a zigzag mark over his
letter, aud as the pen had fallen upon its
point, it was bent nearly double. Vexed
as he was, he leaned hack iu his chair
and laughed heartily.
“That was gracefully done, I’ll ac
knowledge, ” he said.
The afternoon was line, and Lady
Eatou, Berry’s aunt, called them all
upon the terrace, to view a distant moun
tain, which showed very clearly, the air
being very pure. Fred brought his tele
scope, and gallantly held it while Berry
peered through, with such a look of dis
interested curiosity, one would suppose
she bad no thought for anything this
side of the mountain.
“How pretty 1” she exclaimed, giving
her head a sudden toss.
Away flew a lock of hair, straight as an
archer’s arrow, into Fred’s eyes. He
nearly dropped the glass, and uttered an
angry exclamation in sudden pain.
“Excuse my carelessness,” she haul,
piietly. “I had forgotten, for the mo
ment, you were so near.”
Fred went into the house and bathed
his eyes in rather a reflective mood ; but
when he again appeared. Berry seemed
so entirely unconscious of having done
anything wrong, and slut was so pretty
and engaging iu manner throughout the
evening, lie forgot his vexation, aud was
as agreeable as possible.
The next day she appeared witli her
hair in the same style, and Fred, all the
morning, was on the look-out for another
hostile attack. None came, however.
In the afternoon they went out to have a
row upon the lake. After rowing awhile,
Fred rested his arms and his oars at the
ame time, under the pretense it was
nicer to float slowly along. He took out
a cigar and lighted it, saying lie must
make the most of it, for it was his last.
He asked for some music while he puffed
away, aud the girls began a vocal duet.
Iu the midst of the song Berry took
off her hat, makiug au excuse to fan her
self with it. As she drew the elastic
cord suddenly from beneath it, out flew
her shiniug hair like a glittering flag at
the head of the boat, nud away went
Fred’s “ last cigar ” into the water.
“ That was too cruel !” he exclaimed ;
but Berry sang on, her soft voice float
ing so smoothly above Nora’s alto, tliat
he swallowed his wrath, and sat with his
eyes half shaded by his hat, for fear of
another dash, and thinking she looked
and sang like a siren of the sen.
That evening he moved his chair h. a
remote corner of the terrace, at a safe
distance from Berry, and smoked his
cigar in silence, glancing • meditatively
toward the two girls, who sat near each
other, engaged in lively conversation.
“ I’m tired of this one-sided warfare !”
ho said to himself, reflectively. “ Of
course I take a lively interest in it, won
dering what she will do next; and then
she’s sure to act when I’m entirely off
my guard. I believe I’ll surrender at
once, and throw myself upon the mercy
of the enemy !”
Fortune seemed to favor him, for soon
after Nora rose, and saying she promised
to read aloud to Lady Eaton, she passed
into the house. Berry was about to fol
low her, but Fred came quickly forward.
“Berenice,” be said, rather abruptly,
“ will you never forgive me for that un
lucky speech ?”
She turned, almost coldly.
“ To what speech do you refer, Mr.
Lewis ? I was uot aware you were au
orator.”
“ You canuot help knowing what I
meau!”he cried. “And you are still
unforgiving, though I acknowledge it
was both uugeutlemauly aud unkind.”
She was silent for a moment, a hush
seeming to hover over her, whether from
anger or excess of emot ion, he could uot
tell.
“I agree with you,” she said, con
cisely.
Not a very encouraging remark, and
he felt it, but was determined to have
done with suspense.
“ I wish to recall what I have said,’
he went on, hurriedly. “I’ll say you
have the most beautiful hair in the
world ; for you have, Berry. I’ll say
you’re an augel; and I’ll say and do any
thing you desire for the rest of my natu
ral life, if you’ll only forgive me, and
be—be my wife.”
“ I’m not au angel,” she answered.
“ And if you are worthy to be the hus
band of an angel you are too good for
_ »>
me.
She spoke in a cold, hard, unnatural
tone of voice ; but Fred was too much
excited to notice it.
“If you will only love me dear, I’ll
try to be worthy of yon,” he said,
gently.
Her lips were growing unsteady, and
she sat her teeth hard together.
“ Can’t make the attempt,” she said,
at last. “ It would be impossible for
me to learu to love you.” And she
swept into the house.
Fred began to walk the terrace hur
riedly.
“I don’t understand these women,”
he said as thousands of men have said be
fore him, and thousands more will say
after him.
A few moments later, Nora came run-
ning out. —•- „
“What’s the matter, Fred?” she
asked. “Hero you are looking like a
thundercloud, aud Berry is in her room,
crying as though her heart would break;
and I can’t find out what afflicts her !”
“ Berry crying?” echoed Fred, in as
tonishment.
“ Yes, indeed. Have you b«eu qnar-j
reling ?”
Fred was uuable to speak from amaze
meut, and Nora began to suspect the|
truth.
“ I don’t see how it is with you two,”
she continued. “ I know you love eaehl
other, and yet you never agree upon any
subject. ”
Leaving Fred to ponder on her words,
she went into the hotel to try aud com
fort Berry ; aud she succeeded so well,
that before many minutes had elapse
the two girls came out together. Berry|
was anxious to show Fred how indiffer
ent she was, and the starlight told nc
tales about the evidences of tears.
“Come, Fred,” said Nora, “dont si
musing by yourself ; it’s awfully dull this 1
evening.”
So she gradually drew toera into con
versation, and then withdrew to the op
posite end of the terrace, making an ex
cuse to listen to some siugiug in the ad
jacent rooms; and Fred, without losing
a moment of time, began the conversa
tion where it left off before.
“ Berry,” he said, softly, “cannot you
see how wretched I am ? Do forgive
me,” he entreated.
“ Hush!” she exclaimed under her
breath. “ Nora will hear what you are
saying ”—her heart all iu a flutter.
4 Whatever you may think of what I
have done aud said,” he continued, drop
ping his voice for her sake, “ I love you
dearly—dearly. And ”—here a little
strategy crept in—“ it almost drives me
wild to know you dislike mo so much.”
“I—I didn’t say I disliked you !” and
she seemed so troubled that Fred drew
nearer, aud passed his hand caressingly
over her flowing hair.
“ But I know you do !” still clinging
to artifice, since its use resulted favor
ably—“I know by your manner. You
call me Mr. Lewis, instead of Fred, aud
you torment me without the slightest
compunction. You swept your hair in
my eyes yesterday, and almost blinded
them. They pain me yet, sometimes.”
This last was au awful story, and only
told for effect; but he managed to look
so miserable, that, woman-like, she be
lieved every word.
“ I’m sorry if I gave you so much pain,
Mr.—Fred,” she said, in a contrite little
whisper.
His heart gave a bound. He leaued
closer, very much in earnest now.
“Take pity on me, dear,” he said, ex
tending his hand.
She still hesitated, half afraid; Nora
came quickly forward, aud seizing Berry’s
little hand, she placed it iu Fred’s eager
palm, nud then left them together.
“She heard us !” gasped Berry, droop
ing her head until her face was hidden
by the bright falling hair.
Fred parted it, and smoothed it back
gently with his disengaged hand, twin
ing it tenderly around lus fingers, nud
drawing her head to his breast.
“ No matter, my darling,” he said.
“ We won’t care if you only love me;
and you must give me the right to call
you mine, all mine, before the world very
soon.”
Y, OCTOBER 25, 1877.
$2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
e court of Louis XIV., in the
house of princes aud nobility, and only
for them, the dinner hour, or the time
for the “table," was announced by the
blowing of horns. They used to sit on
benches—banes iu French—hence the
word banquet. It was Henry III. who
first introduced chairs. There were
tables of silver aud gold. Wooden
tables were simply covered with cloths,
folded doubly and of homespun linen,
made iu the houses of the bonrgeoise.
They hung away down, serving as sub
stitutes for napkins. The first were
made at Rheims, aud presented by the
city to Charles VII., at his coronation.
Later they used napkins at court made
of velvet, with their coats of arms on
them, and richly ornamented by precious
stones.
But those of liueu were also used.
Forks were unknown up to the fourteenth
century. They carried with them spoons
and knives. A knife was called “ monk,”
a fork a “nun,” because the husband
managed the knife, and the wife the
fork. At banquets they used to sit in
couples, always man and wife together,
and those who sat beside each other ate
from one plate, aud drank out of one
goblet. Wherever in Germany that
fashion did not prevail there were sepa
rate eating rooms for men and women.
There was neither glass nor porcelain in
use in the eleventh century.
The vessels of the poorer classes were
made of wood and tiu, and those of the
wealthier of majolica aud Fayence.
The nobility hod silver, silver gilt-plated
or gold, which served more to feed the
eye than for any practical use—simply
to stand ou the sideboard, which was
called buffet in the fifteenth and credence
in the sixteenth century. At this time
the State interferes with the domestic
affairs of its subjects, prescribed the
number of courses for the table and the
expenses of their meals, the cut aud
length of their clothes. At this time we
find the luxury laws of the middle ages
still prevailing to which new ones were
added.
Philip the Handsome forbade any
one the use of golden or silver vessels
who had not an income of £6,000, and
ordered that at a common meal but one
kind of soup and one dish should be
served. On festive occasions one milk
soup and two dishes. Louis XIII. or
dained that at a banquet held not at
home no more than 81 per head —or,
rather, per stomach—is to be expended.
An ordinance at Basle (1556) declares
that a meal is to have no more than three
shillings’ (about five cents—Tr.) worth
of meat cr two baizen of fish per person.
A law of the sixteenth century, iu Venice
aud Ferrara, fixes a dress not to exceed
the price of fifteen ducats, aud any orna
ment for a woman not to cost more than
fifty. Peasant women are forbidden
by the law to wear silk, pearls, gold or
silver.
[ARK TWAIN’S MILITARY RECORD.
poorest places, but according to the Rus
sian ideas, the position of honor. Not
far from the above church is Peter the
Great's cottage. There the famous boat
—made by himself—is shown, together
with the now tattered sail. In the
larger of the two rooms is the jeweled
image which Peter had with him iu the
decisive battle at Poltava, where he con
quered the Swedes and established his
greatness. The little apartment was
bright with the light of many tapers
placed there by those who have faith in
the efficacy of the shrine to prosper their
undertakings.
Impartiality of American Bullets
The cartridge manufactory at Bridge
port, Connecticut, is supplying material
for both the Russiau and Turkish armies,
nud American bullets are hurled pro
miscuously from both sides. The
Bridgeport company manufactures from
six to seven hundred thousand cartridges
per day. They have supplied forty mil
lions to Russia, seventy millions to Tur
key, and have just received an order of
eighty millions from the Italian govern
ment, Two tons of powder are used
each day, and other materials in like
proportion. An inspecting officer for
Russia aud Turkey were recently alike
engaged side by side iu superintending
the production of the cartridges for their
respective governments.
A Hornet.Proof Lad.
The village of Fritztowu, Pa., has an
anomalona character, known by the
name of “ Tommy,” who is said to be
insensible to the pain which usually at
tends the sting of bees, yellow jackets,
wasps and hornets. He can take the
honey from bee-hives and bumble-bees’
nests, without either stupefying or de
stroying the beos. He destroys all the
hornets’ and yellow jackets’ nests that
he cau find, and, although frequently
covered by the insects which have alight
ed upon him in swarms, he has never
beeu known to flinch. Upon getting
hold of a hornets’ nest he empties it by
shaking the hornets out of the aperture.
The United States, with a pop-iiao n
less than that of Germany, has nun<
miles of railroad thau Russia, Turkey,
Germany, Austria, Great Britaiu, France
and Italy combined, their totai mileage
being 76,030, while ours is nearly fiO -
000
The Army Expense** of the Ureal American
Jaker-A Humorous Effusion.
{Speech at the Putnam Phalanx Banquet.)
I wouldn’t have missed this for a great
deal. I did not assemble at the hotel
parlors to-day to be received by a com-
j mittee as a mere civilian guest. No. I
i assembled at the headquarters of the
{ Putnam Phalanx and insisted upon my
1 right to be guarded to this place as one
of the military guests. (Applause and
laughter.) For I, too, am a soldier. I
am inured to war. I have a military
history. I have been through a stirring
campaign, and there is not even a men
tion of it in any history of the United
States or of the Southern Confederacy.
(Laughter.) To such lengths can the
envy and the malignity of the his
torian go. I will unbosom myself here,
where I cannot but find sympathy. I
will tell you about it, aud appeal through
you to justice. Iu the earliest summer
days of the war I stepped out of Haimi-
*bal, Mo., by uight (laughter) with a
friend, and joined a detachment of the
Confederate General Tom Harris’s army
(I find myself in a great minority here).
Up a gorge behind an old barn in Rail’s
county, Colonel Rail swore ns in. He
marie us swear to uphold the flag aud
Constitution of the Uuited States, aud
to destroy any other military organiza
tions that we caught—doing the same
thing. (Great laughter.) In other
words, we were to repel invasion. Well,
you see, this mixed us. We could not
really tell which side we were on; but we
went into camp aud left it to the god of
battles—which was the custom in that
day. I was made second lieutenant and
chief mogul of a company of eleven
men, who didn’t know anything about
war—or anything. We had no captain.
My friend, who was nineteen years old,
six feet high, three feet wide aud some
distance through, and just out of the in
fant school, was made orderly sergeant.
His name was Ben Tupper, aud he had
a hard time. When he was mounted
and on the march, he used to go to sleep
and his horse would reach around and
bite his leg, and then he would cry aud
want to go home. The other men pes
tered him a good deal, too. When they
were dismounted they said they couldn’t
march in double file with him, because
his feet took up so much room. Oue
night, when we were around the camp
fire, a fellow on the outside of the circle,
in the cold, said: “Ren Tupper, put
diiwii that newspaper; it casts a shadow
like a blanket.” Ren said; “I ain’t got
any newspaper.” Then the other fellow
said : “ Oh, I see, its your ear !”
(Laughter.) We all slept in a corn-crib
jon the corn, aud the rats were very
thick. Ber Tapper hari been carefully
and rigidly reared, and when he was
ready for bed he would start to pray;
and a rat would bite him ou the heel,
and then he would sit up all night
(laughter) and keep everybody awake.
He was town bred, and did not seem to
have any correct idea of military dis
cipline. If I commanded him to shut
up he would say: “ Who was your ser
vant last year ?” One evening I ordered
him to ride out on picket duty about
three miles to the beginning of a prairie.
Said he: “ What, in the night! and them
blamed soldiers likely to be prowling
around there any time.” So he would
not go. Next morning I ordered him
again. Said lie: “In the rain?” Ho
didn’t go again. Next day I ordered
him on picket duty once more. This
time he looked hurt. Said he: “What!
on Sunday ? You must be a blamed
fool.” Picketing was impracticable, so
I dropped it from my military system.
We had a good enough time there at
that barn, barring the rain and the rats
aud the mosquitoes nud things. We
lived on both parties impartially, and
both parties hated us impartially. But
oue day we heard that the invader was
approaching, so we had to pack up aud
move. Inside of twenty-four hours the
invader was coming again; so we moved
again. And next day he was after us
once more. We didn’t like it much, but
we moved (laughter) rather than to make
trouble. This went on for a week or ten
days, and we saw considerable scenery.
Then Ben Tupper lost patience. He
says: “War is uot what it’s cracked up
to be. I’m going home if l eau’t ever
get a chance to sit down a minute. Why
do these people keep us a humping
around so ? Blame their skins, do they
think this is au excursion?” Some of
the other town boys began to grumble.
They complained that there was an in-
sufficiencyof umbrellas, aud theu they
complained that the Worcestershire sauce
was out. Ihere was mutiny ami dis
satisfaction all around, and, of course,
here came the enemy pestering us again,
two hours—more thau twohours—before
breakfast, and nobody wanted to turn
out at that hour. This was a little too
much. The whole command felt in
sulted. I detached oue of my aids, aud
sent him to the brigadier, aud asked him
to assign us a district where there wasn’t
much bother going on. The history
of our company was laid before him,
out, instead of being touched by it, what
did he do ? He sent us back an indiguaut
message. He said: “ You have had a
dozeu chances iuside of two weeks to
capture the enemy, aud ho is still at
large. (I knew that.) Stay where you
are this time or I will court martial and
hang the whole of you.” I submitted
this brutal message to my battalion aud
asked their advice. Said the orderly ser
geant: “If Tom Harris wauts theeuemy
let him come here and get him. 1
■ haven’t got any use for my share. Who’s
! Tom Harris, any way, that’s putting ou
j so many frills ? Why. I knew him whei
’ie wasn’t anjjflUTig but a bla
-aph opeca^^^Gent
3
for us.” So then and there on the spot
my brigade disbanded itself and tramped
off home, with me at the tail end of it.
We were the first men who went into
the service in Missouri, and we were the
first who went out of it anywhere.
(Great laughter.) This, geutlemen, is
the history of the part which my division
took iu the great war, aud such is the
military record of its commauder-in-
chief. And this is the first time that the
deeds of those eleven warriors have been
brought officially to the notice of hu
manity. Treasure these things in your
hearts, and so shall the detected and
truculent historians of this land be
brought to shame and confusion. I ask
you to revere the memory of the orderly
sergeant aud those other neglected and
forgotten heroes, my foot-sore and
travel-stained paladins, who were first in
war, first in peace, and were not idle
during the interval that lay between.
Japanese Cheap Labor.
The ingenuity and persevereuce of
1 Japanese workmen have caused alarm in
some of the manufacturing houses of
Birmingham, where articles for the
Japan trade arc made. A sufficient
quantity of thCse articles is already
made in Japan to cause European houses
in that country to discontinue the im
portation of them. The impossibility
of competing with Japanese workmen is
explained by a gentleman in Yokohama,
writing to the Birmingham Posf .*
“ Frugal as badgers, industrious as bees,
the Japs undersell every labor market
they enter and outdo every civilized
artisan at his own trade. Any one who
sees a Japanese carpenter at work, with
his toes for a vise ami his thighs and
stomach for a bench, has seen tools well
used aud goods equal to European make
turned out. They will, in fact, become
formidable ou all kitds of Western
manufactures. The Japanese are always
ready to learn, and to outvie everything
that the West does, and this they do
with less food, less air, less clothing and
less cooi fort than any civilized work
man.” The writer further states that
he was offered a large order for Bir
mingham goods at a price at which he
would lose about ten per cent.; yet a
factory at Osaka took the order and
made the goods.
Robbers Foiled.
While a freighting party was camped
twelve miles south of Custer City, Da
kota, they were visited by three men,
who cooked dinner at the camp-fire and
made themselves so agreeable that all of
the frieghters except a young man named
Myers gathered about them. Young
Myers was suspicious and went to one
of the wagous, where he got his shotgun
and remained away from the party.
During the conversation around the
camp-fire one of the strangers admired
a shot gun belonging to the freighters,
and took it up to examine it. Suddenly
he cocked and leveled it, stepped be
tween the freighters and their arms, and
ordered them to throw up their hands,
saying they would take what money
there was in the outfit. At this point
young Myers stepped from behind the
wagon and fired, striking the robber in
the face and breast. The robber wheeled
round and fired at young Myers and
| missed him. The robber theu dropped
i the gun aud ran, firing his revolver at
the party. Oue of the freighters shot
at him with a rifle ball, striking him in
the arm. He fell and died soon after
ward. The other robbers fled.
Yield of the Pennsylvania Oil Wells.
! The following table will give the read
er some idea of the vast amount of this
j material (petroleum) which lias been
! yielded by the Pennsylvania oil regions
alone from 1860 to 1876, inclusive :
“CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLES.”
Uhls, of |
Uhls, of
Venrs.
40 gals. \
Years.
40 gals.
IStiO...
SCO,000 |
I860
..4,210,720
18G1...
2.118.000 |
1870
..5.673.195
1862...
3.056,000 |
1871
. .5,715,900
2,861.000 1
1872
..6.531,675
1864...
1873
1865...
..2.407,000 j
1874
. .8,900.000
1868...
8.507.000
1845
..8,830,902
1867...
3,347.000 |
1876
..9.653,949
1868...
3.583,660 |
The overage daily product of this
region from the discovery of petroleum
to January 1, 1876, has beeu nearly
12,000 barrels. The average daily pro
duct in 1870, 1874, 1875 and 1876 has
been about 33,000 barrels per day. This
year there has been considerable in
crease, the product for July aud August
having averaged 39,000 barrels per day.
A Way to Wet Rid of Borrowers.
I A gentleman, whose place of business
is not a thousand miles from the Mer
chants’ Exchange, is annoyed, as many
business men are, by impecunious indi
viduals desiring small loans. He has
iiduptcd the following method of dealing
with them : He will listen amicably to
the long preface to the request to “Just
lend me live dollars for a few days?” and
answer, “ certainly,” aud then, turning
to a clerk, says :
“James, we have five dollars to lend,
have we uot ?”
“ Yes, sir,” says well-traiued James.
1 “ Well, lend it to Mr. Beet.”
“ It is not in, sir, you loaned it to Mr.
Bummer day before yesterday.”
“Ah, yes; so I did. Well, when it
comes in lend it to Mr. Best ;” and bow
ing to the borrower the merchant re
sumes his business, and the needy one
walks dejectedly out to try a more profit
able place. —JUiston Commercial llul-
fetin.
The United States treasury a few
days ago received advices from the agent
of the United States depository at Tuc
son, Arizona, acknowledging the receipt
of a letter containing exchange on New
York amounting to 8100,000, sent from
the treasury to tlnu ag< • cyiu May last.
Jlie mail rider b**:u;u die dispatches
mrdi^Hty the linl ans en route.
?r was left, together with
jtches, on the scene of ti e
^ages, It was found
[forwarded, after
of
The Khedive ol K«ypl Offering to PrCMenl
New York Cilv with One of Thene Two
Aneient Itlonaments -- The Htory of the
Obelisk*.
(From the New York World.)
We invite the attention of our rentiers
to an event which is not merely of inter
est in itself but opens the way to a pos
sibility of the liveliest importance for
New York. Nothing but a comparatively
slight effort of public spirit here ie need
ed to secure for our own metropolis an
ornament fully equal to that which is
uow on its way to Loudon eagerly ex
pected by the whole British people. We
are authorized to state that his highness,
the Khedive of Egypt, has signified his
willingness to present to the city of New
York, upon a proper application being
made to him, the noble obelisk seventy
feet in height, which now stands “ soli
tary and alone ” near the railway station
of Ramlet, at Alexandria, i«s companion
having been accepted by England, and
provision made for its transportation
thither by a public-spirited Scottish
gentleman. And we are further able to
say that the enterprising contractors who
are conveying the English obelisk to its
destination are prepared to agree to
bring the companion monolith from
Egypt to America and to erect it in any
site which may be selected for it at a
price not exceeding 8100,000, the whole
risk of the enterprise being taken by
them against a deposit of the sum
agreed upon in tfie hands of some lead
ing American banker.
For nearly 2,000 years there have stood
on the shores of the Levant two obelisks
of rose-colored syenite, known as “ Cleo
patra’s Needles.” Egyptologists tell us
how these great monoliths, nearly sev
enty feet high, were taken from the
granite quarries of Syeue by the skillful
workmen of antiquity aud conveyed
thence to Karnac and Heliopolis. In
order to move them, the stone was
marked the whole length required, and
metal wedges were driven into the line.
Another plan, which showed wonderful
ingenuity, was t > insert wedges of ex
tremely dry wood and then to pour water
upon them till they split aud displaced
the stone. Pliny says that they were
transported to the Nile with the aid of
flat-bottomed boats specially prepared
for that purpose. Sharpe says that they
were placed in au erect position by cut
ting a groove in the pedestal, in which
the lower edge of the monolith might
turn as if it were a hinge, the top of the
obelisk being elevated by means of a
mound of earth, the size of which was
continually increased till the stone stood
securely erect. From Heliopolis, where
they stood before the entrance of the
temple of the god Turn, or the Setting
Sun, they were transported to Alexan
dria during the reign of Tiberius, but
bear their popular name because of a
tradition that they were transported to
Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra. A
great deal of controversy has raged
among the learned in regard to their
meaning, but, notwithstanding all that
has been said and written about them,
as well as about other similar monu
ments which still stand in Egypt, or have
been transferred to Rome, Arles, Paris
aud London, no absolute certainty as to
their import has yet been reached. Pliny
supposed them to bo symbols of the
sun’s rays ; other writers have identified
them with the Jaehin and Roaz of Sol-
mon’s Temple at Jerusalem, apparently
only because the obelisks were placed in
pairs before the entrance of au Egyptian
temple. They have been regarded as
identical with the Hindu Liugam, aud a
score of opinions, more or less reasou-
able, have been advanced by speculative
inquirers, but there is still quite as much
difficulty in arriving at their true mean
ing and origin as there is in interpreting
the story of the round towers of Ireland,
or, to compare small things with great,
the origin of the Newport (R. I.) mill.
Mr. Bonomi, who is a better authority
thau most writers, inasmuch as he has
spent a long period on the bauks of the
Nile iu unwearied aud intelligent re
search, says : “As regards the original
sites of obelisks, it should be mentioned
that there are none on the western bank
of the river proper—the obelisk appear
ing to be a decoration of the cities of the
living, symbolized by the rising sun, as
the pyramid is of those of the dead,
symbolized by the setting of that lu
minary.” Taken in connection with the
fact that at Heliopolis the monoliths now
known as Cleopatra’s Needles stood at
the entrance of the temple of the Set-
ring Sun, this explanation rather shows
the difficulties surrounding the question
of their meaning and origin than throws
any decisive light on the subject. Nev
ertheless, a study of the hieroglyphics
with wide a the Needles are covered seems
to confirm the view of Mr. Bonomi.
These inscriptions generally describe
the greatness, magnificence and glory of
the monarch in whose reign they were
erected. Ou the obelisk which will soon
be erected iu Loudon appears the name
of Thothmes III., the date of whose
reign, according to Sir Gardner Wilkin
son,is about the middle of the fourteenth
century, before the Christian era, or some
3,300 years ago. Ou the other hand,
and touching the theory that obelisks
were raised for the living alone, it
should be remarked that dwarf obelisk
were employed in Egypt from the earli
est times and were placed before the
doors of sepulchres at least 4,000 years
ago. Obelisks are squared columns,
taperiug slightly from base to apex, the
proportions of the base being one-tenth
of the height of the shaft up to the foot
of the pyramidian or pyramidal top,
which in later times was sometimes cap-
p< 1 with gold, iron or copper. It was
<>! « bably during the twelfth dynasty of
th< Egyptian kings that they ceased to
be sepulchral adornments or symbols,
uid were placed before the tomples.
‘' Your money is the safest,
newspaper philosopher, “ wl
don’t foggany.”
Items
^^St. Louis
depth of 3,800.
A New Yorl
clubbed his own br
“ Well, how uneasj^^am, seat
tween two tailors,” snW a self-impor
fellow. “They suffer the greatest in
convenience,” replied a gentleman,
“having but one ‘goose’ between
them.”
A new way of c making a living is
practiced in Brussels, Belgium. A man
goes about with a cart containing four
large tubs of dyeiug liquids^ Hn
nounces that he will dy<
instant, by plunging if into eithe
vessels, giving it Mack, blue, greenj
brown tinge, as may be desired.
Eyes have they, but they see
potatoes. Ears have they, but they
hear not—corn stalks.—Detroit Free
Prestt. Arms have they, but they hug
not — windmills. — Yonkers Gazette.
Tongues have they, but they talk not—
wagons. Poiif/hkeepsie Press. Legs
have thev, but they walk not—tables.—
Poughkeepsie News. Heads have they,
but they thiuk uot—cabbages.—Hudson
liegistcr. Hands have they, but they
toil not—tramps.—Camden Post. Noses
they have, but they smell not—pitchers.
—N. Y. Express. Lips they have, but
they kiss not—tulips.—Philadelphia
Bulletin. Teeth have they, but they
chew uot — bucksaws. — Detroit Free
Press. Corns hav*. they, but yet are not
good for succotash—elephants. No sense
have they, yet paragraphers do they
graduate- idiot asylums [N. B. We
are not a paragrapher. ]—N. Y. Mail.
There is nothing more indicative of re
finement and a genuine culture in a
family than bright, cheerful and taste
fully decorated bedchambers, says an
exchange. Tasteful decorations do not
necessarily mean expeuse, aud it is pos
sible to make a chamber look very pretty
at a very small outlay. Indeed, in many
instances, no outlay at all would be re
quired beyond what would be incurred
under any circumstances. The women
of a family, especially, are apt to pass a
good portion of their time in the bed
chambers, and in some households the
sleeping apartments are used alike for
sewing rooms, sitting rooms and nurse
ries. It is worth while to obtain all the
iunocent pleasure we can in this life, and
there can be no doubt that life is
pleasanter if most of its hours are
passed iu cheerful looking apartments.
Thirty thousand people are engaged
iu the oyster trade of Baltimore, and
more than seven hundred schooner*- and
pongies form its Chesapeake oyster fleet.
Some experts will open twenty-five gal
lons a day of oysters, earning twenty
cents per gallon; men, women, girls,
(mostly of German parentage) and boys,
are engaged iu the packing aud shipping
rooms where the measuring, washing,
assorting and canning go on incessantly.
In the raw business the oysters are first
packed in air tight cans, which are in
turn packed in sawdust nud ice for ship-
meut—fifteen million cans of raw being
shipped in a season. In addition twenty-
five million cans of steamed oysters are
shipped per season. The Tangier and
Pocomoke Sounds’ oysters are the
favorito brands. The State licenses
were issued on Sept. 28, and on Oct. 1
the season was opened with enlarged
prospects owing to European contracts.
There died at Grand Rapids, Wis., a
few days ago at the age of sixty-two, a
French nobleman who was named Lord
Francis Byron by his neighbors. "When
he was twenty years old, on account of a
love affair and family quarrel, he immi
grated to the far West, and settled on
the banks of the Mississippi. He erected
the first mill ever built ou the Wisconsin
river, hauling all his provisions aud ma
chinery on ox teams through an un
broken wilderness of three hundred
miles. After floatiug down two or three
fleets of lumber, aud demonstrating tha
there was money to be marie iu the busi-
uess, he built boats, aud, loading them
with provisions, hired men enough to
draw them up with ropes, to Grand
Rapids, over rocks and eddies. When
his success was fully assured, and he
began to reap the reward of his early
troubles, his family became reconciled to
him, aud gave him au immense tract of
land in Canada, to which he refused to
move.preferring his home iu the pineries.
; Ho owned at the time of his death more
! than tliree hundred million feet of pine
| timber, beside sawmills aud real estate
! and his property in Canada.
Words of Wisdom.
To great evils we submit; we resent
j little provocations.
There are men whose lives are. spent
in willing one thing and desiring the
opposite.
The first book read and the last book
laid aside by every child, is the conduct
of its parents.
The maid that loves goes out to sea on
a shattered plank, and puts her trust in
miracles for safety.
We are too apt to bury our accounts
along with our benefactor ; to enjoy the
riumphs of others sis though they were
the just property of ourselves.
A man’s first difficulties begin when ho
is able to do as he likes. So long as a
man is struggling with obstacles, he has
an excuse for failure or shortcoming, but
when fortune removes them all, ami gives
him the power of doing as he thinks
best, then comes the trial.
Woman’s Love.
The other day an alleged horse thief
was brought up for trial at Waco, Texas.
The evidence against him was very
strong, when his wife, a mere child,
with tearful blue eyes and blushing
cheeks, and the stamp of candor ou her
innocent forehead, took the stand and
testified that her husband had bought
the horse from a man she had never seen
but ouce, aud produced the bill of sale.
The jury burst into tears and acquitted*
him, aud locked iu each other's arms tljj
devoted couple left court amid i
Two hours later the discovery was mad
that the wife had beeu schooled by on^
of the worst thieves in the prison, who
hail written the bill of sale for her.
A Polite Person.
Miss Randolph, the exeat grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, is at the
head of a young lady’s school near
Charlotte, Virginia. She has many
anecdotes concerning her famous auees-
try, and among these is the tale of a
great aunt, who once remarked naively
of her husband: “ Sure, he’s the
politest man that ever lived ; he never
even comet ,.Lo a room without looking
fugh the key-hole first to know if
welcome* 1 .”
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