The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 23, 1892, Image 6
tsgftt IRR Break Tomorrow
'Wmit though oar skies be overcast
And doods o? trouble lower?
Though disappointments crowdingfal
Seem s\u%rateful dower?
ho gh feials throng upon our way,
Stinll lie succum to sorrow9
Hof Latus gainer, hope, and say,
The 2gbt wi break tomorrow! .
Tbouga fickle Fortune hides her foes,
Oar brave endeavors scorning.
And robs ns of some prorated grace
Without a moment's warning,
Let us not tremble at her frown.
Nor care and trouble borrow,
But eru&h our dark forebodings down
The light will break tomorrow!
Beyond the shadows of the night
The welcome sun is shining,
The clouds that loom upon oar sight
Save all silver lining ;
The darkest hear precedes the dawn,
And joy succeeds to sorrow
The longest night wilt yet be gone,
And fight will break tomorrow! -
-[Helen Whitney Claris in Saturday 2 ii
EQUAL TO TIE TEST
"Oh, dear, no! Bessie Hant'l] ne'
amount to much of anything. Pre
enough, if any one fancies red ii
and eyes that baye a yellow glint
them like a tiger's, but that never v
my style of beauty ! Give me a g
that has something more substant
than mere good looks to fall bs
on if the time should ever come wh
it is necessary, instead of a girl w
bas nothing more than some moul
classic OD the end of ber ton gue,
some frittery fancy work forever
her fingers!"
"La, sakes, brother,'7 feebly expc
tnlated Mrs. Hunt, "you look as if
were really going to be! I know Bc
sie is fond of her books and pr t
feminine fancies, but I don't blan
the giri. I used to like 'em when
was her age! But I know she ait
any more like Jessica or Minerva th*
they are like her."
Abram Alvey was too deeply e
grossed in his subject to heed ti
quiet sarcasm in the last portion <
her response.
"Eight, Emily," retorted, quickl;
"no more she ain't! Jess or Mi
could take hold and do for themselv<
if they should ever have to, but Bess
there-laugh!"
Nobody saw a slender shadow fl
across the window near which Abrai
Alvey sat, neither did they near til
footsteps which approached the ope
doer, then stole swiftly and quietl
amy. A tail, slender girl, with wav
masses of red-brown nair duster in
around a sweet, serions face, out c
which shone the wide brown eye
Which had in them the "yellow glint
to which Abram Alvey objected.
Unwittingly Bessie Hunt had over
beard the whole of their conversatioi
- which alluded to her! She had a boo)
in uer hand, and as she turned awa;
there was just a suspicion of tears 01
the long, silken friuge of lashes aroum
toe . brown eyes, a tremor in th*
curved, sensitive lips.
"I wonder.'7 she murmured, as shi
went swiftly do wu the grass-grow i
path to her favorite haunt under :
clump of graceful, silvery larches, "i:
I am so very useless? Cuele; Airej
certainly thinks so! But," with
sigh, "I never had the streng 1 h tc
do ail that Jessie and Minnie might 1
I wish I bad, 'though !"
Poor child, she did not Know, ai
sae uttered this vain wish, that it wai
literally like grafting the fair, frai
orchid blossom on the strong, hard;
Horthern rose! The harsh remark
that she had overheard rankled deeply
in her heart just now.
But "tru;h is stranger than fiction/
Sunny skies and fair promises sur
rounded Myrtle Farm and its inhabi
tants at present. T tere was no feai
of casualties iii the heart of hones!
Joan Hani, for, as lie said, he'd "laid
by a considerable pile to use on
rainy day," if the time ever came.
Bat they had no fear of: it coming,
not they !
Bot, las for the consistencies of hu
manity! Down in the progressive
town, near the outskirts of whici
stood Myrtle Farm, once a week John
Hunt carried a goodly load of farm
pi od ace; there be heard conversations
which set him to Thinking. Men
talked of making a lifetime fortune iu
some bold speculation; of getting
comers" in grain, buying "low,v
the selling "high," and, although he
did not just understand as clearly as
be ought, he would ponder these things
as he j dted homeward ever the rough
country roads, aud the more lie
thought the more fascinated and
tempted he became.
At last, one bright morning he
started for the market as usual, but
beneath hi* coat, securely wadded into
a snug roll into his vest pocket, was a
large roll of bills.
He was going to try Iiis luck. It
would be such a fine thing for the
home folks, he arg ted to him-elf, if
be happened to come ont ahead. No
thought of the other possibility seemed
to tronble him. .
He seemed unusually restless for
the next few days after his return.
He was singularly anxious to read thc
daily papers.
"A body'd think you'd been speen
LUin', J hu," observed Mrs. Hunt,
one day, as she repeated some remarks
z third time before lie heard her.
A queer look settled over his face
but he made no response.
Bat all at once he uttered a stifled
exclamation aud started to his feet;
bis face had grown unusually pale and
the hand which grasped his hat trem
bled with nervous agitation.
"I most go up to town, Emily," he
exclaimed, "at once ! Where's Bess?"
Mrs. Haut looked lier astonish
ment.
"To town!" she repeated, blankly,
"Why, you wa t tere only last Sa ur
day! Anything happened?" wi.li a
glance at the paper, which had flut
tered unheeded to the floor.
*No, not much, only-well, never
mind." 1
wo, three hours past. Jessica
Minerva, came iu, two strong, t
girls with loud voices and blunt i
uers, and immediately damai
-dad,*
Poor,mystified Mrs. Hunt shoo!
head.
< I doo*t know, girls, bat & sal
was going:; in town. B usine S
"guess."
fi Humph " ejaculated Jest
"Where's Bessie? Uone with hi
'.So. She went for somethi
PTO forgot. But any rate she's ro
somewhere."
The MUses Hunt exchanged glan
but deigned no reply to the pati
overworked mother, who was ra
afraid of these self-reliant daught
preferring in her heart gentle, mit
dersiood Bessie before either.
It was several hours past the t
for their early tea when John H
came home. Abram Alvey was v
him, and his lips were compressed
a thin, hard line.
John Hunt himself, during
short time he had been absent, seen
to have grown years older. He 1
pale, restless, and the hand which
rested on the table shook as w
palsy.
His wife came forward, seriou
I alarmed.
I "W hat happened, John i Any tbic
Be yon sick? Just sit down and
me get yon a good, strong cup o' I
right off! If/ ll do you good," for
spite of the clouds which sometin
obscured their domestic horizon, Et
ly Hunt was loyal and true to t
man whom in her earlier youth s
had chosen for better, for worse.
He made a gesture of r pugnai
at the suggestion of food or drink,
"I can't eat anything, wife,"
said, as he threw his arms across t
table in a hopeless, dejected fashic
and hid his face upon them. "I-I
tell her Abram."
-. "He has been speen la tin'," went <
that individual, the rigid lines in 1
face never softening, the tones of 1
voice hard and metallic as cold s iee
"speculating I tell you, and has end
by ruining his family. That's alli"
Mrs. Hunt sank helplessly into t
nearest chair and stared, speechley
at her brother. Jessica and Miner
clung together on the sofa, au expre
sion of almost ludicrous dismay <
their faces.
<*Well, I never!" exclaimed Mi
erva, the first to break the nea*
silence that ensued. "Father, wha
ever possessed yon?"
Jessica suddenly burst into a violei
fit of weeping The bent figure besk
the table never moved.
"Father ! Look up P
Without a glance in eiiher dircctioi
tall, straight, with a bright spot buri
ing in either cheek and a brillia!
glitter in her eyes, Bessie suddeul
crossed the room and knelt gently
sympathetically, beside her father
chair.
"Father! Don't take it so to heart
It cannot be so bad, and," in a lowe
tone, "I will help you now."
-Then John Hunt raised his head,
gleem of hope stealing into his drear
eyes as he phic sd his band tender!
among the red-bro-n tresses cluster
ing above tl ie high white brow.
.*Yon, BessieT*
"Yes, father," she responded quiet
ly. "Try me and see."
And so it proved. The test o
which Abram Aivey had often boasts
had at last come.
But contrary to his expectations
Jessica or Minerva, the Self-relian
girl*," did not come up to his stand
ard. Tl&ey 4*hnng around," aa he ex
pressed it, bemoaning their un luck;
fate and making the place almost nu
bearable to the disheartened man. H
bore up as long as he possibly could
then succumbed to the inevitable.
lt was thou hat Bessie, the "use
less one," came to thc fore.. The 4 frit
tery fancy work" that Abram Al ve]
bad so scorn iully condemned, prove
its worth. Blithely the bright stee
needle flew through gauze and silk
and for the dainty creations turnee
\ out by the deft fingers Bessie re
ceived a snug competence. Her tim
was al moat taken up, but some hov
she managed to crowd in a few mush
pupils, aud so add a trille more t<
their income.
And it was after giving a lesson om
day that she came in, and throwing
aside her hat, laid her flushed, brigh
face on the pillow be-ide her father's
He looked at her fondly, but in a dep
recaping way.
"My dear," he said, in a strange!}
weak voice, "you will kill yoursell
working so! If only Jess or Min"
She placed her hand on his mouth
with a quick, quaint gesture.
"No more 'ifs,' papa, please," sin
said, lightly. "And 1 am not goin
to work so hard now. Papa, Ralph
Deane has a-ked me to marry him and
1 said-I would!"
Ralph Deane! John Hunt remem
bered him. He belonged to one ot
the best families iu town.
For an instant the broken man
gazed into the fresh, fair face, then
drew her close to hts breast.
"God bless you, my daughter," he
said, huskily.
And Jenica SR id Minerva?
When Bessie was married she took
her father, mother and two sister*
home with her to the handsome home
her husband gave her, and they are
there, bemoaning their fate even yet.
-[Boston Globe.
Beginning of Our Understanding of
Storing.
Ia the jeir 1821 a severe storm pre
vailed along the Eastern coast, which
for many years was known as the
"great September gale." It held that
title until September, 1869, when an
other and more remarkable one oc
curred, which rather disturbed its
claim to the honor. It was a little
time siter this first storm that Bed
fi la, while making a journey ill
Maasach use it s, was struck by a some
what carions fact. He noticed that
in Massachusetts the trees prostrated
by the wind, all lay with their heads
to the southeast, showing that the
Yale there, was from the northwest;
; but iu Coiiuectioat the trees blown
down in the same storm lay head to
the northwest* showing that the gale
had been a southeast one. He ascer
tained, moreover, that when the wind
was blowing southeast in Middle
town, his home, it was northwest at
a place not seventy miles from there.
It was then that the idea flashed
across his mind that the gale was a
progressive whirlwind. That was a
great thought, it was such a flash of
perception as came to Newton when
he connected the falling apple with
the planets in space. It was such an
insight Into the meaning of a fact as
James Watt had when he saw the
possibilities of the force that was
rattling the lid of the kentle on his
mother's fire. The development of
that idea was destined one day to pat
Redfield in the ranks of the great
scientific thinkers of his day. He
made this storm the basis of his in
vestigations, following his researches
into its movements by a careful col
lection of facts in relation to others
like it. For ten years he studied, and
examined aud compared his facts, be
fore he published hia theory of
storms.-[Popular Science Monthly,
In Praise of Celery.
Celery is one of the finest of all our
j garden vegetables. The air of uiys
I tery which formerly ming over its
cultivation has, happily, been cleared
I sway of late, and it is becoming much
! more common in private gardens. It
is a healthf al as well as delicious veg
etable, and there is really no reason
why it sbould not be universally raised,
at least wherever the soil is naturally
moist enough, or can be kept so by
artificial means. The old giant, or
tall-growing kinds were, no doubt,
rather discouraging to the ordinary
cultivator, as they required, either
deep trenching when first planted, or
i very high earthing up afc the last
I an arduous task in either
case. But modern horticultural skill
. bas developed many dwarf varieties
I of the highest excellence, which may
be planted upon the ground level and
S need but little earthing up in tho fali ;
m fact, one or two varieties are of
fered which lo some degree are self
blanching, and though they are all
improved in tenderness by some arti
ficial process of whitening the " stalks,
i hey are quite palatable without. The
old green and red kinds still remain,
however, the best for their crisp ten
derness and the possession of that
peculiar nutty flavor which is the dis
tinguishing excellence of celery, and.
these require a certain amount ox
banking to blanch them properly.
The portion of the crop which is in
tended for early use should be earthed
up early, say from September l to
October 1. That intended for late
Iwinter supply should, on the contrary,
not be earthed, bot kept growing well
and put in storage quite green, as in
this condition it keeps better, and it
will blanch quite well while in storage.
At Kalamazoo, the great celery raising
centre of the country, they still regard
the old "Boston Market" as the best
I lafe-keeping variety. Two thousand
acres or more are devoted to thc culti
vation of the vegetable in that region.
The process of blanching is accom
pli-lied largely by the use of boards,
whereby quite a saving both of time
and labor is secured,- [Boston Trans*
cript.
How to Hake an Egg Dance
For the boy who loves to play ma
gician and to keep the whole family
en thralled by his remarkable feats
here is a new trick, that of making an
egg dance: Place a hard-boiled egg
upon the underside of a smooth, but
dull-not poli-hed-tray. Move the
i ray aroaud and around horizontally,
gradually increasing in speed. The
egg, resting in the middle of the tray,
is carried around aud around by .be
movement and gradually begins to rc
vo.ve on it* own axis, faster and fast
er, till at last it is seen to rise on end
and spin away just as a top would do.
In ail experiments involving egg
balancing you will find it a material
aid to success to keep the egg upright
iu the saucepan while it is heine
boiled. The air chamber will ia such
case be kept central with the longer
.ixis of the egg, which will, in conse
quence, bo much more easily bal
anced.
To set the egg spinning as described
demands practice, not to mention some
s reng h, and, still more, address.
For the benefit of those wiio are um
nitiou* to succeed at the first attempt
we indicate a simple plan of pro
cedure. Piano the tray on tho table,
letting it project so far over the edge
us to be readily and rapidly grasped
by the hand. Place the egg in thc
middle, and with the thumb of tho
left and the first finger of the right
hand placed at opposite ends, set it
vigorously spinning, it will imme
diately rise on end, still spinning.
Quickly seize the tray and you will
then have uothing to do but to keep
the edge still rotating, which is a
very easy matter. This is done by
moving the tray in horizontal circles,
but in the reverse direction to that ia
which the egg revolves. - [New York
Advertiser.
Began Alike.
Braggs-I upi a self-made" man, air.
I began life ai a barefoot boy.
Cooley-Indeed! Well, I wasn't
boru with shoes on either.-[New
York Herald.
Pupils in the third and fourth year
of the Boston high schools coarse?
may take an elective in shorthand.
CURING A COLD.
Some Methods That May Be Used
to Advantage.
A Doctor's Practical Sugges
tions and Remedies.
If you have contracted a cold," of
course you want to get rid of it as
soon as possible, says a doctor in the
New York World. When the fit st
symptoms, which have been described,
manifest themselves is the time for
action, and this should consist of a
hot mustard foot-bath before going to
bed aud a hot draught of milk. The
covoriug of the body should be linen
and wool, the former in the way of
the sheet and the latter in the blanket.
No attempt to get up an active
sweating should be made. The foot
bath and the warm drink will give a
sense of warmth and facilitate the
natural excretion of materials which
should pass away by the skin, and any
effort to aggrevaie this will be not
only superfluous, but harmful.
The blanket should never be worn
next to the night robe, and should not
be so thick as to confine the Sir nex
to the body. It is, indeed, of en ad
visable to lighten the covering of the
feet, and to preserve a certain amouut
of weight over the loins, and to have
the shoulders protected from the ex
ternal surroundings in general.
The last measure is not to be under
rated; a sensitive lung carries with it
susceptibility to take to itself every
thing that could possibly affect it to its
detriment. Lung diseases belongs to
sensitive persons, and may or may not
be the sequence of a "cold.0 The
majority of them, however, can be
traced to imprudence iu dress and ex
posure. Pneumonia, plurisy and con
sumption are partners of carelessness
in the dressing of the chest and back,
and "colds," which might stop at the
throat by a little prudence, are their
apprentices.
If one of your ancestors died of a
lung disease, you should be more than
usually cautious about the clothing of
your chest and back. Families and
their offspring have tendencies toward
certain complaints, and this fact should
not be ignored.
If you have unconsciously cou
tracted a cold and want to get relief
from it, you feast, in the first pitee,
avoid too much medication A proper* I
ly clad skin and a clear digestion
ought to shorten the life of the cold."
If a little comfort can be secured by
' wearing a light covering on the head
during indoor hours it should be re
spected.
Ventilation of apartments comes in !
for a slight amount of attention, and
it should be simply sufficient to fur
nish fresh air aud not to produce cur
rents which can be appreciated. No
thing is more fallacious than the
belief that health is promoted and life
prolonged by air in excess, and this is
proved by tombstones.
There are a few good remedie
which appeal to us as matters of tra
dition. Our grandparents used them
with effect, and we might lollow their
example without injury. One of these
is sassafras tea, another xs boneset tea,
and another is senna tea. Each has
its office, and each is of value in its
peculiar line, and at the same time
harmless.
It would be superfluous to give di
rections for their use, for every one
knows about them and what grandma
has believed of their efficacy. These
teas are good and may benefit you in
time of "colds."
Forest Fires and Mosquitos in Alaska.
Miles and miles of blackened stumps
marked the ravages of the forest fires.
The Indian, when resting on his jour
ney and suffering from mosquitos,seta
fire to the twigs and leaves around
him, creating a smoke which keeps
the pe*t ata distance, and,'when re
freshed, pie straps on his pack sud
moves along the trail, of course with
out extinguishing his fire; when an
nouncing his approach to friends at a
distance, he sets fire to a half-dead
spruce or tamarack-tree, aud the
column of thick, black smoke is the
signal, to be acknowledged iu the
same manner by those who see it, so
; a to direct the traveler to their camp
ing-grounds. In the summer every
thing is crisp and dry, and the timber
is saturated with turpentine. The
trees left to smolder are fanned into
flame by the slightest breeze; the
flames creep among the resinous trees,
and spread till whole forests are de
stroyed. These forest fires and the
mosquitos account for the scarcity of
game. Over the vast untraveled re
giou th it we visited, there was a re
markable scarcity of wild animals.
We saw only a few ground-squirrels
and some grouse and ptarmigan.
The Indians say that, ail the larger
animals retreat in summer to the hill"
tops, where, exposed to a constant
breeze, they are free from the tor
ments of insects.
At our camp for the night on a
grassy knoll, the mofqnitos aud other
flies were itt greater numbers and
more ravenous than wc had ever pre
viously experienced them. The whole
insect world seemed to hail our arrival
with the same relish that re ervution
Indians welcome government rations.
Their attacks were tierce and inces
sant; our poor brutes, tortured into
a frenzy, th<>ugli hobbled, stampeded
ck, and sought escape from the tor
ment by sinking into the swamp
through which we had labored only a
few hours before. The next morning,
however, afforded us a delightful rest,
for a stiff breeze from tho southward
swept the air clear of the pests, and
granted man and horse a short re
spite. When plagued by flies, our
leader, who wore a brass bell, would
create a continual tinkling but when
unmolested, the baud would seek
oft patch of grass and go soundly
sleep, profiting by the unusual lull.
[Century.
? ? . ^ i ? ?
Tepees and Hogans.
"While attached to a military exr
di lion against the Sioux iu Wyomi
in 1877. I saw those Indians constm
at the varions camps we made whai
take to be the most primitive form
house built by human nands. It w
si inply a shelter, or tepee as lb
caned it, made with tho green boug
cut from the cottonwood trees. Wit
out any especial pre a rut ion of t
ground, they implanted the cut en
of the limbs in two parallel roi
about eight feet long and five fe
apart. The tops were adroitly be
over the inclosed space and fas'en<
together along the middle line, tin
creating a semi-cylindrical shelt
open at both ends. These tepees we
merely intended for two or three nu
to sleep in, all thc cooking and oth<
arrangements being performed ou
side.
In permanent summer camps the
tepees are built in a .>ub^hcnii>pheric
shape, the ground upon which UK
are bniit being cleaned off, moderate!
scooped, out, aud thc earth hus o
tained banked around the n-8iu<
cuds of the boughs on the inside <
the structure. They are then trimme
up and properly covered outside ir ii
long prairie gra*s. so placed a* to SIK
the rain. Often, too, they threw
old buffalo hide over the top us an a<
ditiotial protection.
lu 1886 I observed the Navajos i
northwestern New Mexico buildiii
similar houses to the ones I have ju
described; but those Indians al>
build a more durable structure i
their hogan-a conical house ol 1<><
! plastered with mud, and with a do*
at the side. Navajos, too, aro in
: proving in their home-building tnoi
{ especially where they have taken u
i their abode in the neighborhood c
frontier military garrison .-[Popule
Science Monthly.
All He Guarantees to Do
The cleverness of the waiters wh
stand at the doors of the dining roo ir
of the large hotels in charge of th
hats which are left outside by tl
guests is very striking. Some of thei
perform really wonderful feats c
memory iu the way of identifying th
hat of each person, although they ofte
do not see the guest more than one
and that for only the instant when li
pauses to leave his hat behind him a
he 6titers.
At a hotel on the Maine coast is
colorod man who is famous among tb
guests for never making a mistake
although sometimes the guests hav
tried to puzzle him by going in i
groups and by wearing hats he ba
never seen. One day one of th
boarders talked with him about thi
power aud the waiter said that he hs
acquired it by long practice.
.'And do you never make mis
takes?7' the gentleman inquired.
4 No, sah ; I don't cal'late to m ak
no mistakes," wa the answer.
"And do you give every man h
own hat?"
Oh, sah," returned the waiter
" 'taint none o' my bue'nes whose th
hat am. I gibes to ebery mun thc ha
he gibes to me."-[Boston Courier.
A Marvelous Work of Art
A poor sonar, or goldsmith, nama
Prayag Ram, of Dumaron, in Saaha
bad, India, has constructed a most in
gemous piece of mechanism. It rep
resents the various household and in
du8trial avocations engaged in by thi
women of that country. A larg
group of figures beautifully model e
and dressed, each about two in che
high, is seen in the reproduction o:
the inner courtyard of au Indian man
sion. Some are employed in spinning
cotton, others in husking rice, grind
ing corn, churning and other domestic
work. Their movement!, which an
wonderfully natural, are comm uni
cated by complicated clockwork con*
cealed in the body of the case, whict
is inclosed in glass. The invento]
having expresced a desire to pr tent
his work to Queen Victoria, the mag*
istrate of Shahabad has submitted thi
offer through the proper channels.
Uer Majesty has been graciously
pleased to accept the mechanism aa a
token of Prayag Ram's loyalty, and
his magnum opus, fitted in a padded
box, is on ils way to Osborne.-[Chi
cago Times.
The Antiquity of The Umbrella,
The antiquity of the umbrella is un
disputed. Tue Chinese, who, in their
lavish notions of antiquity, credit
their institutions with centuries galore,
think nothing of dating the first um*
brella back 4000 or 5000 years ante
rior to the Mo-aie date of creation.
Many distinguished scholars have
I claimed to discover in the Bible refer
ence to tho existence of a shield
against sun and rain, while the San"
scrit poets, writing when Latin was
young, are full of abusions to it Va
rious have been the speculations as to
the origin of the umbrella.
Some say that the introducing of
leafy branches into a sort of a bower
first suggested it Others that the
nomadic tent was the only natural
prototype of what o strongly resem
bles it in miniature.
lu tho Chaldaic sculptures of Nine
veh the umbrella is of frequent oc
currence, as shown by the excellent re
productions of Lay ai d, who wrote
concerning it: "The umbrella or par.
asol, that emblem of royalty to uni
versally adopted by eastern nations,
was generally carried over the King iu
lime of peuce and sometime even in
war. In' shape it resembled very
closely those iu common use, but it ia
always open in the sculptures. It
was edged with tassels, and was
usually ornamented at the top with a
flower or some other ornament-"*
i [Clothier and Furnisher.
A WHITE CITY.
The Wonderful Growth of the
World's Fair Buildings.
A Waste Plain Covered With
Magnificent Structures.
H. C. Banner draws ia Scribner the
following graphic peo picture of the
wonderful rise of the World's Fair
buildings in Chicago:
On the shore of a wide, blue-gray
lake, under a northern sky, veiled over
half itt horizon with a dim, smoky
mist, there spread, two years ago, a
waste and desolate sand plain with a
streak of marshy pools in the heart of
it. Here and there were trunks of
scrubby trees and patches of starvel
ing underbrush; but it had none of
the pleasant loneliness of the country
sid ; the bleak desolation of a great
city's waste outskirts brooded
over the whole tract On the west
the pace was bounded by the flat
broad road bed of a suburban rail
road; eastward a strong wall of pon
derous masonry flood between it and
the sullen swash of the inland sea.
To the south it went out of sight in
loneliness; on the north it narrowed to
a point where a great town had begun
a tight with nature for a few acres of
pleasure ground, stubbornly pushing
a green covering of young trees and
grass across the unwilling saud.
Beyond (h s patch of verdure trailed
out tho city's myriad streets, sparsely
settled here, for the town proper lay
eight miles away iu the heart
of the smoky haze that floated
along the sky Hue.
In the mouth of Jane, 1891, a man
st nek the nose of a plough into the
sand of this plain, by way of begin
ning an undertaking which lay before
him, and before some scores of thou
sand of working men all over the
country-day-laborers, like himself;
iron-forgers, architects, trackmen,
carpenters, painters, surveyors, glaz
iers, designers, moulders, joiners,
masons, gardeners - men of every
trade and art and handicraft, of
every notionally, of every class and
kind of humanity, working together
in widely separate places for
the accomplishment of one com
mon parp se. lo-day ia the
prosecution of this under
taking, the surface ofthat waste plain
hat bec. me the scene of one of the
mott marvellous manifestations o
mechanical achievement which the
worid hat to o Her; it is the site ol
sach a group of buildings as has never
before been assembled for tack a par
pose, on such a scale, within such s
time, and tn stich conditions. It
toundt like an extravagance to say
that within this space of half a thou
sand acree is concentrated the energy,
the skill, the intelligence, the activ.
ity, equipped with every material
requisite, that would suffice to bal ld
up a large city in the space of three
years; bat to this plain statement of
fact mutt be added this other: that
the city is built He who goes to that
lake-tide desert a year from now will
see, rising from a gracious and well
ordered garden, a white eily of glasfi
and iron, a system of structures gi
gantic in plan and scope beyond any
thing that science has hitherto held
feasible or desirable for the shelter"
iug of a multitude of pleasure-seekers.
America's Sift to the World's Larder.
The discovery of America and of
the passage to the E ist Indies around
the Cape of Good Hope contributed
much to the development of cookery
by enlarging the number of gastro
nomic productions, and especially by
furnishing better seasoning than bad
before been known. The ancients
had made ase chiefly of cumin, mint,
saffron, garlic and oxymel; to these
were now added cinnamon from Cey
lon, vanilla from Mexico, cloves and
nutmegs from the Molucca islands
pepper from Java and allspice from
the Caribbees.
Sugar had been brought into Europe
by the Saracens only a few centuries
before, and all through the Middle
Ages it wat a cottly luxury used only
on rare occasions. During the Wara
of the Roses, about 1460, Margaret
Patton, wife of a wealthy country
gentleman of Norfolk, wrote to her
husband, begging that he would
.?vouchsafe'' to tend her a pound of
lugar, All this time honey largely
took the place "of what we consider
the indispensable saccharine commod
ity.
In England kitchen vegetables were
very scarce until the end of the six
teenth century. No salads, carrots
turnipt,or other succulent roots were
cultivated by the inhabitants of Great
Br itain until the close of the reign of
Henry VIII. Up to that time the
little they had was imported from
Holland and Flanders. Potatoes and
y .ma, both products of the New
World, were introduced later.-[New
Turk Obsorver.
France's Friendships.
A Russian newspaper has published
a leading article on the hollowness of
the friendship between France and
Bussia. If the French people cared
fer Russia, stales this organ, they
#ould have shown their friendship in
deeds, not in words, dnring the fa
mine. France ouly tent $5,000,000
to the relief funds, and then only after
being specially requested to do so;
whereas England and Germany, who
make no profession of particular
friendship, contributed mott gener
ously.
Kurd on the Boga.
Firtt Dog-We'll be tied up every
Thursday and Saturday nights now.
Second Dog-What's up?
Firtt Dog-That new dude that
comes to tee Mist Susie has money.
- TNnw York Weekly.
WOMEN'S HANJOS GROW SHALL ER
A manufacturer of gloves on Broad
Way made a very nu expected state*
ment Said be:
"Americau women wear smaller
glores tuan formerly. We have been
compelled to notice the difference
within the last tow years. Ten ycart
ago we sold very few gloves of sizes
fi 1-2 and 6, bat now a great part cf
our trade is in those sizes. The ten
deucy is to plain gloves, and the fash
ions in them change very little, where
as they used to alter constantly, often
leaving a big* stock of unsalable goods
on baud,"-[New York Journal.
SKIRTS WILL BR SHORT.
The welcome announcement is made
in all the best shops that skirts of
street dresses will be short enough to
clear the ground. Those seen on the
newly imported gowns are close-fitting
and very simply trimmed. Some are
fitted by narrow gored breadths, and
others retain the bell shape, with darts
at the top and eloping back-seam, pre
cisely as is now worn. Various names
are given the French skirts, as the
trumpet, the umbrella, the cornet; but
the motive remains the same for all,
the top smoothly fitted in front and
on the sides, with slight fulness
massed in the back, and the whole
flaring gracefully towards the foot
The accordion-plaited skirt reappears
on cloth dresses and on light silk
mousseline designed for evening
wear.-[New York World.
LACS IS "POINTED" AGAIN.
In laces there is a reaction in favor
of scallops, fern-points, rose-points,
and others, against the straight-edged
varieties so long used. Soon they
will appear ou stalely evening gown3
of velvet, silk and brocade as flounces,
tabliers, etc. Meanwhile, they are
employed for jabots, bretelles, ber
thas, wide, picturesque collars, and
sleeve-frills, zouave-fronts, puffs, and
sleeve-caps of greater or less depth.
Their creamy meshes blend char
mingly with the delicate mauve, Nile
green, rose-colored, and golden-yellow
ribbons now in vogue. Indeed, a
larger use of laces can but lead to a
greater prodigality of ribbons, though
already they are used in quantities
now-in series of loops, in knots,
singly or clustered ; iu wide and nar
row sashes, in straight rows, points,
bara, rosettes, and in broad bows and
ends from the belt-in Empire style
on the shoulders, in coquettish French
fashion, or at the back, mingling
gracefully with the Watteau pleat of
lace or of gauzy tissue that is cn many
silk, chifl n, or brocade gowns.
[New York Post
FASHION NOTES.
There are raiubow-hued glasses,
Tates and dishes cf every sort.
"The Baby's Friend^ is a little sil
ver box to bold baby's safety pius.
Yetta of lace shirred on daisy rib
bon are much liked by young women.
A great deal of very elaborate and
expensive passementerie is to be
worn.
Chippendale glass is in tall, slender,
angular pieces with delicate gold
tracery.
The choker collar is quite the fav
orite. This style is seen on most of
the tailor costumes.
A shirred hat of dark-colored crepe
over gold wire has a trimming of lace,
wings and aigrettes.
A beautiful brocade bas a ground of
pale-green, with a design of water
lilies sheltered by bulrushes.
Vases of glass bubbles surmount
ing one another, as delicate and irid
escent at soap bubbles, are new.
Hats with tiny crowns the height
and size of a charlotte-russe still hold
their own among autumn fashions in
French millinery.
Embroidered shoes, with stockings
matching the color of the ground of
the shoe or some leading tint in the
decoration, are quite popular.
The quaint high crown that made
such a sensation in the spring is to be
the popular crown of the winter, ac
cording to present indications.
Round yokes of galloon, with wide,
round corselet belts also of galloon,
are worn with dresses of cashmere
and oiher thin woolen materials.
The Chester carnation and orchid
boutonni re have given way to a bunch
of half a dozen tiny rosebuds, with a
tingle wisp of green in the centre.
Plain skirts trimmed at the extreme
edge are still ali the rage, and
princess dresses as well ai those in
imitation of them, and with or with
out Watteau plaits, are becoming
more popular.
Princess gowns have returned.
Many are made with Watteau plaits
and corslets bands which are rattier
unpardonable. The princess gown
should mould to the figure with no
superfluous fripperies.
A new silk it called armure celeste.
It has a horizontal rib in two shades,
the high rib of one shade, the line be.
tween of another. This gives a shot
effect. Two shades o heliotrope,
eau-de-ml and mauve and maise are
shown.
Chamois-colored cloth and Suede kid
In russet and ecru art much used for
the making of vests and long cloie
cuffs of Russian and other costumes
made with open jack et-fro nts. The
buttons used are of cut steel, resem
bling studded leather when fastened.
Russian cloths and velours du nord,
which is not velvet, but a sort of red
wool, are among the novelties.
Among the colors approved are many
Warm browns, merging into and
mingled with yellow. Changeable
effects predominate in woollen goods
at well at silk.
.4
X Metrical Kinlslursa
Sgr eyes display a blended bna
Of Kammer skies and violets bitte,
With jest a bint of April dew
To make her glances bricht;
Bot, lest their luster be too lair,
And brighter than the world could beal,
LoDg lashes like a silken snare,
Befringe her lids of white.
Shy apple-blossoms flashed with moa
Have lent tbeir color to adorn.
Her cheek, whereon ig gaily bom
A dimple with each smile.
Her wayward tresses scorn to rest
By ribbon bound or fhlet prest,
Aud ever weave at tbeir liehest
Fresh graces to beguile.
Her curvinir lips by turns recall
Red roses, poppies, cherries-al!
That wins the eye or could enthrall
A bermit or a saint.
Her gleaming teeth't were vain to hymn;
The brightest words were all to dim;
The artist who their light would limn
Must crush a pearl to paint.
Beneath her kirtle peeps afoot
That charms in slipper, gaiter, boot;
Whose music makes the birds grow mute
With bended heads to bear.
Her hand can boast perfection's mold,
In winter wann, in summer cold,
And just the temperature to hold
At any time of year. ^ ,
A snowy neck, a witching chin,
An ear in tint the sea-shell's twin.
A saucy nose-just put that in
The bonnie little belle!
Her name? Ah, there I hesitate;
With many a rival at ber gate,
Her name, until I know my fate,
'T were wiser not to tel!.
-[Samnel M. Peck, in the Century.
HUMOROUS.
'T is better to be tried by fire than
to be fired after being tried
It takes a master-stroke to smooth
down a rebellious ec bool boy.
It is a wise child that goes out
of the room wuen the old man smashes
his thumb.
"riere is another idle shattered,'1
said thc young man who fouud he
had togo to work.
The spider is possibly the only thing
living that eau have a fly time of it
without being punished
"We'd like to come," said the rat to
his friends in the wall, "bat we'll
have to stay here with our traps."
Dotley (who notes her black velvet
ribbons)-You are in half mourning?
Dorothy-Yes, my half brother if
dead.
Sbe-You say you think Mr. Pinck
erly was born lucky. Why, he hat
been jilted by four girls. Her Hus
band-That's lucky.
"That's the burning question,*
announcing Gazzam, as he laid down
his newspaper. "What is?" asked his
wife. "Cremation."
Molly-Does your husband still
practice economy as ho did when he
was single? Wife-Ob, no; he con
tents himself with preaching it to
me.
Mr. Que See-Sneaky sort of man?
What do you mean sir? Witness
Well, sor, he's the sort of man that'll
never look ye straight in the face until
yer back's turned.
Chappie-I did not catch Mrs, Hi
strong's remark. I wonder if it was
intended for me? Bess-STo, I know
it was not, for she said, "A word to
the wise is enough."
"I see Miss Sanders and Miss Smi
ley are together all the time. What
dear friends they most bel" "No|
at ail. You see, each of them has an
unmarried brother."
"There's one thing-J don't under*'
stand," said little Harry; "that's why
good-tasting things like pie make me
sick, while bad-tasting things like
medicine make me well. *
Mollie, "Whatever induced you to
get this horrid-looking material for a
dress?" Ethel: "It is the only way]
I can be sure of getting back what
is left over at the drefamaker s,"
He-Do you kuow it has always
seemed strange to me that I have
never married? She - Dear me*
haven't any of thc giris ever given
yon their reasons for refusing you? ..
Invalid Wife-John dear, I do hope
if you should ever marry agaiu yon
will find a better wife than I have
been. Johu-There, there, my love,,
don't worry; lhere will be no trouble
pbout that
He-Miss Emma, I love yon. May
I ask your parents for their permission
to lead you to the altar? She-Cer
tainly. "And do you think they will
give their consent?" "Of course they
will. I have trained them to be
obedient f rom my youth up."
Queen Victoria's German Side.
1 heard au amusing story about
England's Queen the other day. I
don't think it has ever been published,
but the authenticity was vouched for.
It seems that an English woman,
whose name was given to me, is on
quite intimate terms with the royal
family, though she is without title;
just a ptaiu "Mrs," and from a country
family. One time she, with her little
child, three years o d, was lunching
with the Queen. At the table were
Princess Beatrice and several others.
The Q teen, in thc course of the lunch,
took up a chicken wing in her fingers.
While she was enjoying the sweetness
of the meat next the bone the little
child looked up and quickly said:
.'Pig-ee! Pig-eel" Every one wai
horrified. The mother felt as if sh
would like to sink out of existence.
The Queen wcut on for an instant
with the morrel which she was hold
ing in her fingers and then said:
"You are right, my dear. An
English lady would not take a chicken
wing in her fingers, but you must bear
tn mind that I am a German woman.19
And she calmly finished the wing.
The rest breathed a low sigh of relief
and the mother and child were, on
taking their leave, invited to come
again.-[Chicago Inter-Ocean,