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7 1 ?-V ' " - ! : ' ' ' ' ' ' i ' dESERTBd" FARM. mite; drain off the fat. DRESSY WEAR. r WHAT THE WINTER STYLES WILL, BE FOR THE WOMEN. Smooth-faced Broadcloth In Plain Colors the Hoit Popular Material Wool Suit " injtii of Great Variety Also Strong Favor itesShoulder Capes and Long Cloaks. For dressy wear this winter the style is for costumes of the new smooth-faced broadcloth in plain colors. They are ex tremely handsome and very lustrous, and for simple elegance cannot be surpassed. .They may be tailor-made or not as is fancied, a new style having part of the costume braided with soutache: . Such a costume is the one illustrated. It is of broadcloth in a rich shade of Havanne brown, with braiding of the same color twisted with gold-colored silk. The bodice is cut after, a new model, and is particularly graceful and pretty. The bonnet is hrown felt, faced with brown velvet and trimmed with plaid silk in shades of brown and gold. For useful gowns the wool-suiting cloths, of which there seems to be a greater variety than ever this year, are the materials in vogue. They are checked, striped and plaided, or else the neat mixed cloths are used. Such dresses are made very simply, with plain or pleated skirts and very full draperies and short basques, finished with tailor buttons and a binding of silk tailor braid ; or else there may be a little plush or velvet used on the bodice in the shape of a vest and collarette, or reverse With plaid skirts in largedesigns the basques worn are of plain goods, harmonizing in color. ' For the early fall dajs hats of dark straw will be worn, trimmed with vel vet, moire or gay plaid silks and ostrich feathers J or birds' . wings. A becoming shape is illustrated. It is of brown straw, faced with velvrt and trimmed with light brown moire, a tuft of feath ers and a jeweled dagger. At this time of between seasons, when many of the days are chilly, an- extra wrap is a necessity. There are several styles in fashion, many of them ex tremely pretty. The prevailing style of wrap is in visite shape, very short in the back and with long peplum points in front. Lace, jet and loops and ends of ribbon are the garnitures. Later on the materials used will be heavier, with fur substituted for the lighter trimmings. The very graceful and convenient wrap shown is of heavily beaded black net, lined with changeable silk and trim med with black Chantilly and bows of ribbon. There are many pretty little shoulder capes that cover the figure to the waist, for use in the demi-season,. some made to match suits and others of checked cloth. They are cut to fit into the figure front and back, and have dolman-shaped sleeve pieces that reach just short of the elbow. A hood is added lined with silk, and the effect is very jaunty and par ticularly suitable to young girls. For traveling and inclement weather there are stylish long cloaks in raglan and newmarket shapes, dark blue, brown and mixed or plaided cloths. Black con passementerie galloons and round balliof buffalo horn are the trimmings. Many of the short cloth jackets have vests and lapels faced with plush or braided with soutache. A new fancy executes this braiding in gold, silver or steeT faith very good effect. All over braided jackets in self-colors are a nor- elty. . Suede gloves still hold their own de spite all rumors to the effect that gloves of glossy kid were to supersede them The 'newest street gloves are of un dressed kid, in shades of tan and black, with heavy stitching on the back and an embroidered figure to match on the wrist; Evening gloves are of Suedkid in light .tints in long mousquetaire style,. some of them covering the arm to the shoulder. Ruchings will be more worn than for several seasons past., Sometimes the merest line of white, consisting of a fold of etamine or fine silk bolting cloth, an swers for this purpose. The new ruch ings'are of etamine, crepe de chine, thin silk or surah laid in fiajt folds, points, &c. Many have color introduced into them in the shape of upright loops of picot rib bon or silk chenille. THE NAN-GIN-TSIN. An Opium Den Known Throughout the Chinese Empire. A writer in a recent number of the North China Herald describes, the Nan-gin:tsin, the greatest opium den in China. It is known throughout the length and breadth of the empire to the Chinese, and it helps to make Shanghai regarded as a city affording the same opportunities for pleasure and dissipa tion that Paris does the typical Frenchman. It is situated in the French concession in Shanghai, within a stone's throw of the wall of the native city, within which no opium shops are supposed to exist. The character of the place could not be guessed from its external appearance, although the air of the people passing in and out might suggest it. The throngs visiting it represent all sta- firms nf life, from t.heCOolie to the wealthv merchant or the. small mandarin. It is with difficulty that one gets inside through the crowds of people hanging round the door. Those who have not the requisite number of 'copper cash to procure the baneful pipe watch with horrible wist fulness each of the more affluent pass in with a nervous, hurried step, or totter out wear ing that peculiar dazed expression which comes after the smoker's craving has been satisfied and his transient pleasure nas passed away. One requires a strong stomach to stand the sickening fumes with which the air inside is thickened, l he clouds or smoKe. the dim light from the numerous colored lamps, the numbers of reclining forms with distorted faces bent over the small flames at which the pipes are lighted, cause the novice a sickening sensation., But as soon as the eye becomes accustomed to the scene . it is noticed that the place is got.up on an expen sive scale. In the centre of the lower room hangs one of the finest of Chinese lamps, the ceiling is of richly carved wood, while the painted walls are "thickly inlaid with a peculiarly marked marble, which gives the idea of unfinished landscape sketches. Numerous doors on .all sides lead to the smokers' apartments. In the outer portion of the building stands a counter covered with little boxes of the drug ready for smok ing, which a dozen assistants are kept busy handing out to the servants who wait upon the habitues of the place. The average daily receipts are said to be about $1,000. The smoking apartments are divided into four classes. In the cheapest are coolies, who pay about fourpence for their smoke. In the dearest the smoke costs about sevenpence. l he drug supplied m each class is much the same, both in quality and quantity ; it is the difference in the pipes that regulates the price, l he oer kinds are made ot ivory, the stem being often inlaid with stones and ren dered more costly 'by reason of elaborate carving: the cheapest kinds are made simply of hard wood. The rooms also are furnished according to class. In the most expensive the lounge upon which the smoker reclines is of fine velvet, iwith pillows of the same material : the frames of each couch are inlaid with mother-of-pearl and iade, and the whole air of these rooms is one of sensuous luxury. There is also a number of private rooms. In the poorer sections will be seen many wearers of the tattered yellow and gray robes of Budd hist and Tavist priests. Women form a fair proportion of the smokers. The common belief is that the opium sleep is attended by a mild, pleasurable delirium, with brief glances of Elysium; but-this is the excep tion, not the rule. People smoke to satisfy the craving begotten of previous indul gence. There is accommodation for 150 smokers at a time, and there is seldom a va cancy very long. The stream of smoke goes on from early morning till midnight, when the place closes; the clouds of smoke go up incessantly all day long. Europeans do not often visit the place, but the seamen of American men-of-war visiting Shanghai sometimes seek solace in the drug. THE SHREWD EXAMINER. How a Young Man Found Inspiration In His Girl's Picture. An examiner who prided himself on his shrewdness was determined that he would make it impossible for any Copying to take place under his supervision. Accordingly he not only kept a very sharp and constant watch upon the candidates, but peered at them from time to time between the fingers of his hands spread before his face. At last he thought he detected a man in something which looked very suspicious. Looking from side to side to satisfy himself that no one observed him, the man plunged his hand into his breast pocket, ana, drawing some thing out, regarded it long and steadfastly, and then, hastily replacing it, resumed his len and wrote with obviously increased en ergy. The examiner pretended not to notice this, but after a time he rose from his seat, and with his hands in his pockets strolled round the room with an appearance of neg ligence and indifference to what was going on. By these means he succeeded in disarm ing suspicion, and getting to windward of his prey, stole upon him from behind gradually and unperceived. Then, waiting patiently, his strategy was rewarded .byobserving that the man once more turned his head from side to side, yet not quite far enough to see him, and once more put his hand into his breast pocket. Then the examiner sprang forward in ela tion, and seized the hand in the very act of grasping the suspected object. "Sir," said he, "this is the fourth time I have watched you doing this. What have you in your hand?" The man hesitated to reply, and this, coupled with his evident confusion, confirmed the suspicions of the examiner. "I must insist, sir, on seeing what it is you have in your hand." The man reluctantly complied, and drawing his hand from the pocket, presented to the dismayed examiner the photograph of a young lady. This it was which had been his hidden , source of inspiration. This had been the secret of his ever-freshened energy. Very humbly and sincerely did the examiner offer his apologies as he returned, crest-fallen, to his seat, and ; it gives the finishing touch to the story to! learn that the candidate married that young lady in due time, and that they are now liv-; ing happily together in the enjoyment of the blessings of their faithful love, so rudely, tcsteu ana discovered. jempie nar. . angerous Drinks. A bartender plaintively fewailed the neces si ty : of having to rub-congealed drops of sticky beer off the bar. "But if I let them remain," said he, in the tone of one seeking compassion, "they rot the wood." "They rot the wood, do they?" fiercely re-i peated a beer bibbler. "Then what in the name of common sense does beer do to my stomach?" j Replied the manipulator of drinks : "It is "beyond me to tell. Of one thing I am confl uent, and that is man's stomach is made of cast-iron. vElse wise how could he withstand the fluids he pours into it ? Let me show you something." He placed a piece of raw meat on the counter and dropped upon it a small measure of an imported ginger ale. In five minutes the meat had parted into little pieces as though hacked by a dull knife. Philadel phia News. Balzac's Dream. An autograph letter of Balzac has just been made public which tells that he once dreamed of great treasure being buried in Corsica, and he set out alone to seek it. Want of funds,, however, hampered him, and before he reached Ajaccio he lost faith in his enterprise and decided to return to Paris. But from this incident Dumas de rived the inspiration of "Monte Cristo. Exchange. j A PLUMB LINE. STRAIGHT UP-ANU-DOWN LIGIOX THE ONLiY ONE. RE- Rct. Dr. T. DeWltt Talmage's Sermon on j the Necessity of Building Solid and Cor- ! rect Christian Characters So-called Piety Too Often Below the Horizontal. "RrooitLvit. September 25. After the great congregation had , sung', the long meter doxology m the Brooklyn 1 aber nacle this morning, Dr. Talmage ex pounded the sixth chapter of the second pnistle to the Corinthians, setting forth the importance of separation from bad fellowship, and saying that a man is no better than the' company he keeps. Pro fessor Henry Eyre Brown played an or gan solo, Sonata No. 1 in D .minor by Guillmant. The subject tf the 1 sermon was "A Straight Up-and-Down Religion, and the text was Amos vii, v. 8 : "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest t.hnu ? and I said. A Dlumb line." Dr, Talmage said: The solid masonry of the world has to me a fascination. Walk about some of the triumphal arches and the cathedrals four or six hundred years old, and see them stand as erect as when they were builded, walls of great height for cen turies, not bending a quarter of an inch this way or that. So greatly honored were the masons who builded these walls that they were free from taxation and called "free" masons. The trowel gets most of the credit for these buildings and its clear ringing on stone and brick has sounded across the ages. But there is another implement of just as much importance as the trowel, and my text recognizes it. Bricklayers, vand stone masons, and carpenters in the building of walls use an instrument made of a cord, at the end of which a lump of lead is fastened. They drop it over the side of the wall, and, as the plummet naturally seeks the centre of gravity in the earth, the workman discovers where the wall recedes arid where it bulges out, and just what is the perpendicular. Our text rep resents God as standing on the wall of character, which the Israelites had built, and in that way measuring it. "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou ? and I said, A plumb line. i What the world wants is a straight up-and-down religion. Much of the so called piety of the day bends this way and that to suit the times. It is horizon tal, with a low state of sentiment and morals. We have all been building a wan or character, ana h is gianngiy im perfect and needs reconstruction. How shall it be brought into the perpendicu lar? Only by the divine measuremnt. "And the Lord said to me : Amos, what seest thou ? and I said, A plumb line. The whole tendency of the time is to make us act by the standard of what others do. If they play cards we play cards. If they dance we dance. ;If they read certain styles of book: we read them. We throw over the wall of our character the tangled plumb line of other lives and reject the infallible test which Amos saw. The question for me should not be what you think is right but what God thinks is right. This per petual reference to the behavior of others, as though it decided anything but human fallibility, is a mistake as wide as the world. There are ten thousand plumb lines in use, but only one is true and exact, and that is the line of God's eternal right. There is a mighty attempt being made to reconstruct and fix up the Ten Commandments. To many they seem too rigid. The tower of Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the perpendicular, and people go thou sands of miles to see its graceful inclina tion, and by extra braces and various architectural contrivances it is kept lean ing from century to century. Why not have the ten granite blocks of Sinai set a little aslant? Why not have the pillar of truth a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as good as a square ? Why is not an oblique as good as straight up and down? My friends, we must have a standard ; shall it be God's or man's ? The divine plumb line needs to be thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ago Solomon discovered the tendency of buyers to depreciate goods. He saw a man .beating down an article lower and lower, and saying it was not worth the price asked, and when he had purchased at the lowest point he- told "everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck, and how he had outwitted the merchant. Proverbs, xx, 14: "It 'is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer:. but when he is gone his way. then he boasteth." So utterly askew is society in this matter that you seldom find a seller asking the price that he expects to get. He puts on a higher value than he pro poses to receive, knowing that he will have to drop. And if he wants fifty, he asks seventy-five. And if he wants two thousand he asks twentv-five hundred. "It is naught," saith the buyer. "The fabric is defective ; the style of goods is poor ; I can get elsewhere a better arti cle at a smaller price. It is out of fashion ; it is damaged ; it will fade ; it will not wear well." After a while the merchant, from overpersuasion or from desire to dispose of that particular stock of goods, says : "Well, take it at your own price," and the purchaser goes home with alight step and calls Into his private office his confidential friends, and chuckles when he tells how that for half price he cot the goods. In other words, he lies and was proud of it. Nothing would make tim-s as good, and the earning of a live lihood so easy, as the universal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes through all bargain-makine. Men who sell know not whether they will ever get the money. Purchasers know not whether the goods shipped will be ac cording to the sample. And what, with the large number of clerks who are making false entries, and then absconding to Canada, and the explosion of firms that fail for millions of dollars, honest men are at their wits end to make a living. He who stands up amid all the pressure and does right is accomplishing something toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. I have deep sympathy for the laboring classes wno ton with nana and foot. But we must not forget the business men who, without any complaint .or bannered professions through - the streets, are enduring a stress of circumstances terrific. The fortunate people of to-day are those who are receiving daily wages on regular salaries. And the men to be pitied are those who conduct a business while prices are falling, and yet try to pay their clerks and employees, and are in sucn leanul straits that they would quit business to-morrow if it were not for the wreck and rum of others. When people tell me at what a ruinously low price they purchased an article, it gives me more dismay than satisfaction. I know it means the bankruptcy and de falcation of men in many departments. The men who toil with the brain need full as much sympathy as those who toil with the hand. All business life is struck through with suspicion, and panics are only the result of want of confidence. The pressure to do wrong is all the stronger from the feet that in otir day the large business houses are swallowing up the smaller, the whales dining on blue fish and minnows. TJie large houses un dersell the small ones because they can afford it. They can afford to make noth ing, or actually lose,j on some styles of goods, assured they can make it up on others. So, a great; dry goods house goes outside of its regular line and sells books at cost or less than cost, and that swamps the booksellers; or the dry goods house sells bric-a-brac at lowest figure ; that swamps the smkll dealer in bric-a-brac. And the samti thing goes on in other styles of merchandise,- and the .consequence is that, all along the business streets of all our cities there are merchants of small capi tal who are in terrific struggle to keep their heads above water. The Cunarders run down the Newfoundland fishing smacks. This is nothing against the man who has the big , store, for every man Ijas as large a store and as great a business as he canj manage. To feel right and do right under all this pressure requires martyr grace, requires divine support, requires celestial reinforcement. Yet; there are tens of I thousands of such men getting splendidly through. They see others going up and themselves going down, but they keep their patience, and their courage, and their Christian consis tency, and after a I while their turn of success will Come. The own ers of the big business will die and . their boys will! get possession of the business, and with a cigar in their mouth, and full to the chin with the best liquor, and behind a pair of spanking bays they will pass ; everything on the turnpike road to temporal and eternal perdition. Then the lousiness will break up, and the smaller dealers will have fair opportunity. Or the spirit of content ment and right feeling will take posses sion of the large firm;, as recently in the case of the great house of A. A. Low & Co., and the firm will say : "We have enough money for all our needs, and the needs of our children ; now let us dis solve business and make way for other men in the same line." Instead of being startled at a solitary; instance of mag nanimity, as in the case just mentioned, it will become a common thing. I know of scores of great business houses that have had their opportunity of vast accumulation, and who ought to quit. But perhaps for all the days of this gen eration the struggle of small houses to keep alive under the overshadowing pres- sure oi great nouses win continue ; therefore, taking things as they' are, you will be wise to preserve your equilibrium, and your honesty, and your faith, and throw over all the counters, and shelves, and barrels, and hogsheads, and cotton bales, and rice casks,! the measuring line of divine right. "And ' the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou ? and I said A plumb line.? In the same way we need to measure our theologies. All sorts of religions are putting forth their -pntensions. Some have a spiritualistic; religion, and their chief work is with ghosts, and others a religitin of political economy proposing to put an end to human misery by a new style of taxation, and there is a humani tarian religion that looks after the body of men and lets the soul look after itself, and there is a legisla.ive religion that proposes to rectify all wrongs by enact ment of better laws, and there is an aes thetic religion that by rules of exquisite taste would lift the heart out of its de formities, and religions of all sorts, re ligions by the peck, religions by the square foot, and religions by the ton all of them devices of the devil that would take the heart away from the onlv reli gion that will ever effect anything for the, human race, and; that is the straight up-and-down religion written in the book, which begins J with Genesis and ends with Revelation, the religion of the skies, the old religion, the tiod-given religion, the everlasting religion, which says : Love uoa above all and your neighbor as yourself, but the one begin at etid- and int the wrong Bible religion demands All religions the wrong place. The that we first get right with God. It begins at the top and measures down, while the other religions begin at the bottom and try to measure up. They stand at the foot of the wall, ,ups to their knees in the mud-of human theory and speculation, and have a plummet and a string tied fast to it. And they throw the) plummet this way, and break a head tjiere, and throw the plummet another way, and break a head there, and then they throw it up and it comes down upon their Fools ! Why will you stand of the wall measuring up, own pate, at the foot when you measuring ought to stand at; the top down? Ai few days ago I was in the country thirsty, after a long walk. And came in, and mv: child was blowing soap-bubbles, and j they rolled out of the cup blue, and gold, and green, and sparkling, and beautiful, and orbicular, and in so small a space I never saw more splendor concentrated. But she blew once too often and all the glory vanished into suds. Then I turned and took a glass of plain water and was refreshed. And so far as soul thirst is concerned, I put against all the glow in?. glittering soap-bubbles of worldly re form and human speculation one draught irom tne iountain from under the throne of God, clear as crystal. Glory be to God for the religion that drops from above,., not coming up from beneath! "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou ? and I said, a plumb line.? i I want you to notice this fact, that when a man gives I up the straight up-and-down religion in the Bible for any new-fangled religion, it is generally to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then yon hear of some swindle he has practiced in Colorado mining stock, telling some one if he will put in ten thousand dollars he can take out a hundred thousand, or he has sacri ficed his chastity, or plunged into irre mediable worldliness. -His sins are so broad he has to broaden his relisrion anH he becomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the soul's darkness, as broad as hell. Thev want a reliVion that will allow them to keep their sins, and then at death say to them: 'Well done, thou g?od and faithful ser vant," and that tells them : "All is well. for there is no hell." What a glorious Heaven they hold before us ! Come, let us go m and see. i There is Herod and all the babes he massacred. There is Charles Guiteau, and Jim Fiske, and Robespierre, the friend of the French guillotine, and all the liars.thieves, house burners, garroters, pickpockets and lib ertines of all the centuries. They have all got crowns, and thrones, and harps, and sceptres, and when they chant they sing: -Thanksgiving:, and honor, and glory, and power to the broad religion inat let us all into Heaven without re pentance and faith! in those disgraceful dogmas of ecclesiastical old-fogyism." juy text gives me a grand ODDortunitv of saying a useful word to all young men who are now forming habits for a life time. Of what use to a stonemason or a bricklayer is a plumb line ? Why not build the wall bv the unaided eve and hand ? Because they are insufficient, be cause if there be a deflection in the wall cannot further on be corrected. Be cause by the law of gravitation a wall must be straight in order to.be symmet rical ana saie. a young man is in dan ger of getting a defect in his wall of character that may never be corrected. One of the best friends I eerhad died of delirium tremens at sixty years of age, though he had not since twenty-one years of age before which he had been dissipated touched intoxicating liquor until that particular carousal that took him off. Not feeling well in a street on summer day he pepped into a dm store, just as you ana x wuuiu . done, and asked for a dose of p" to make him feel better And there w alcohol in the dose, and that one drq aroused the old appetite, and he enterec the first liquor store, ana siayeu until thoroughly under tne pow,er Ho ntprH hi home a raving ma- rum. i,ia -nrifo ond rianirhters fleeing from v,: .oar.a until he was taken to the city hospital to die. j The combustible material of early habit had lam quiet nearly forty vears, and that one sparK ignited the conflagration. Remem ber that the wall may be one hundred feet high, and yet a deflection one foot from the foundation affects the entire structure. And if you live a hundred years and do right the last eighty years, you may nevertheless do something at twenty years of age that will damage all your earthly existence. All you whe have built houses for yourselves or for others, am I not right in saving to these young men, you cannot build a wall so high as to be independent of the charac ter of its foundation? A man before thirty years of age may commit enough sin to last 'him a lifetime. A cat that has killed one pigeon cannot be cured. Keep it from killing the first pigeon. Now, John, or George, or; Charles, or William, or Alexan der, or Andrew, or Henry, or what ever be your Christian name or surname, rslv hflrfi And now : "No wild Oats for me, no cigars or cigarettes for me, no wine or beer for me, no nasty stories foi me, no Sunday sprees for me, I am going to start right and keep on right. God help me, for 1 am very weak. From the throne of eternal righteousness let down to me the principles by which I can be guided in building everything from foundation to capstone. Lord God, by the wounded hand of Christ, throw mc a plumb line !" Lord Nelson's general direction when going into naval battle was, no man can do wrong that places his ship close alongside that of the enemy. My friend, you will never do wrong if you keep your life close alongside the Ten Com mandments. Do right, and you can be as brave as Maria Theresa, who rode up the Hill of Defiance and shook her sword at the four corners of the earth. "But," you say, "you shut us young folks out from all fun." O, no ! I like fun. I believe in fun. I have had lots of it in my time. But I have not had to go into paths of sin to find it. No credit to me, but because of an extraordinary parental example and influence I was kept from outward transgressions, though my heart was bad enongh and desperately wicked. I have had fun illimitable, though I never swore one oath, and never gambled for so much as the value of a pin, and never saw the inside of a haunt of sin save as when ten years ago, with a commissioner of police, and a detective and two elders of my church, I explored these cities by mid night, not out of curiosity, but that I might in pulpit discourse set before the people the poverty and the horrors of underground city life. Yet, though I never was intoxicated for an instant, and never committed one act of dissoluteness, restrained only by the" ' grace, of God, without which restraint I would have fone headlong to the bottom of infamy, have had so much fun that. I don't be lieve there is a man on the planet in the present time who has had more. Hear it, men and boys, women and girls, all the fun is on the side of right. Sin may seem attractive, but it is deathf ul, and like the manchineel, a tree whose dews are poisonous. The only genuine hap piness is in an honest, Christian life. The Chippewa, wanting to 'see God, blackens his face with charcoal and fasts till he has a vision of what he calls God. My God I can see best when I take my hat off and let the sunshine blaze in my face and after a reasonable breakfast. He is not a God of blackness and starva tion, but of light and plentitude, and the 'lory of the noonday sun is Egyptian midnight compared to it. There they go two brothers. The one was converted a year ago in church, one Sunday morning, during prayer, or sermon, or hymn. No one knew it at the time. The persons on either side of him suspected nothing, but in that young man's soul this process went on : "Lord, here I am, a young man amid the temptations of city life, and I am afraid to risk them alone; come and be my pardon and my help ; save m,e from making the mistake that some of my comrades are making, and save me now. Ana quicker man a nasn uoa rolled Heaven into his soul. He is just as jolly as he used to be, is just as brilliant as he used to be. He can strike a ball or catch one as easily as before he was converted With gun or fishing-rod in this summer vacation he was just as skillful as before. The world is brighter to him than ever. He appreciates pictures, mu sic, innocent hilarity, social life, good jokes, and has plenty of fun, first-class fun, glorious fun. But his brother is going down hill. In the ;, morning his head aches from the champagne debauch. Everybody sees he is in rapid descent. What caries he for right, or decency, or the honor of his family name? Turned out of employment, depleted in health, cast down in spirits, the typhoid fever strikes him in the smallest room on the fourth story of a fifth-rate boarding house, cursing God, and calling for his mother, and fighting back demons from his dying pillow, which is besweated and torn to rags. He plunges out of this world with the shriek of a destroyed spirit. Alas for that Kind of fun ! It is morose. It is despair. . It is black ness of darkness. It is woe unending and long reverberating, and crushing as though all the mountains of all con tinents rolled on him in one avalanche. My soul, stand back from such fun. Young man, there is no fun in ship wrecking your character no fun in dis gracing your father's name. There is no fun in breaking your mother's heart. There is fun in the physical pangs of the dissolute. There is no fun in the profligate's deathbed. There is no fun in an undone eternity. Paracelsus, out of the ashes of a burnt rose, said he could re-create the rose but he failed in the alchemic undertaking, and roseate life once burned down in sin can never again be made to blossom. "But," say you, "if there be nothing but a plumb line what can any of us do, for there is an old proverb which truth fully declares : 'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.' What shall we do when, according to Isaiah, 'God shall lay judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet ?' " Ah, here is where the Gospel comes in with a Saviour's righteousness to make up for our deficits. And while I ) see hanging on the wall a plumb line, I see also hanging there a cross. And while the one; condemns us the other saves us, if only we will hold to it. 'Oh sick, and diseased, and sinning, and dying hearer, why go trudging all the world over, and seek ing here and there relief for your discouraged spirit, when close by, and at your very feet, and at the door of your heart, aye, within the very estate of your own consciousness, the healing waters of eternal life may be had, and had this very hour, this very minute, this very Sabbath 1 Blessed be, God that over against the plumb line that Amos saw is the cross, through the emancipating Eower of which you and I may live ana ve forever! v " After a man has been indnleine In n "elevator" he finds it hard work to settS down to walking. i u hoi THE DESERTBD FARM. Jf. W. CLARKE. K up tts slope of yonder eastern hill, Alonely farm-house lingers in decay ; Deserted, cheerless, desolate and gray, Tlportof winds that mock.it attheirwill. The farm is barren ; but the stony nil That babbles through it, answered to the Of children once, who grew, and went With Jecoil'ections that are tender still, Now, in the 2eW England of the West, Offspring of this, have other homes up grown; , Whence loving thoughts fly back to yonder ere I, .,. Like birds of passage from a kindlier zone; In fond remembrance of the parent nest, As once it was, before the brood had flown. American Magazine. THE FAMILY KITCHEN. Seasonable Bills of Fare and Receipts for the Dishes Composing Them. BY MARION HARLAND. iCopvrtal'tect,BSl.l BREAKFAST. Snowballs, jjamb Chops a la Tartare. Fried Potatoes. Cornmeal Short Cake. Melons. Tea. Coffee. 8N0WBAIX8. Half ciip of rice and the same of pearl tapioca, half cup of sugar, a quart of milk, a half teaspoonfuil of salt ; soak rice and tapioca well, mix together while dry in three cups of water, four hours; salt the milk, dropping ' in a tiny bit of soda, pour upon the soaked cereals and let them stand together half an hour ; set over the fire in a farina kettle and simmer slowly one hour ; fill small cups with the mixture while hot, and when cold put on the ice. j Turn out in saucers and eat with cream. Lamb Chops a ia Tartare. Salt and flour the chops, fry in nice dripping; and set over hot water to keep warm ; heat in a saucepan a cupful of good broth, well skimmed, thicken with browned flour, j season with pepper and salt and stir in a heaping table spoonful of capers, or, If you cannot get them, the same quantity of chopped pickles. Boil up once, pour on the chops and let them stand over boiling water ten minutes before they go on the table. Corjtmeai Short Cake. Two cups of In dian meal and one of flour sifted into a bowl with a teaspooiiful of soda and the same of salt : sift three times ; one tablespoonful of butter and two of lard, two tables poonfuls of sugar, three eggs, two cups of '-'loppered" milk. Rub sugar and shortening together, beat the eggs light and add then the milk, lastly the mingled flour and meal ; bake in a square, shallow pan, and when done cut in squares. Split and eat hot. I-UNCHEOX. Chicken Valise. Broiled Tomatoes. Bread and Butter. Crackers and Cheese. Peach Fritters and Cream. Chicken Valise. Two cupfuls of minced cold chicken, three eggs, one cupful of milk, half cupful of prepared flour, two tables poon fuls of clarified dripping, one tablespoonful of minced parsley and onion, pepper and salt. Put the dripping into a frying pan and, set at the side of tne range, where it. cannot scorch; beat the eggs light, put wih the milk, the parsley, seasoning, the flour, and beat to a smooth batter; bring the fat to a boil and pour the batter into the frying pan : when firm about the edges spread the minced chicken, well seasoned, on it; cook three minutes, shaking the pan to loosen the batter and prevent burning, and when the centre is well done roll np into a compact bundle ; cut DerDendicularly. If you have any chicken gravy warm it up and send around with the Broiled Tomatoes.: Cut large, smooth. firm tomatoes crosswise into three pieces each without peeling. Broil quickly ou both sides. Beat together a tablespoonful of but ter, a tablespoonful of vinegar and as much salad dressing. Lay the tomatoes on a hot cbahng dish, anoint each piece with the dressing and serve on rounds of crustless toast buttered. Peach Fritters aitd Cream. One cup of milk, one cmart of flour sifted with a tea- spoonful oi salt, three eggs, one tablespoon ful of Jiard and two of sugar, one-half cake of yeast dissolved in warm water, -fine, ripe, freestone peaches, pared and stoned; make flour, milk and yeast into sponge early in the mornime and let it rise until lient: beat su?ar and lard to a cream and add working in thoroughly; form into -a long roll, cut ofl slices half an inch thick ; flatten each with a rolling-pin and lay in the middle a peach from which the stone has been extracted by ; laying open one side, close the dough into a bail, inclosing the fruit, roll it round on the pastry board and lay within a floured pan. The Sails must not touch one; another even in the second rising of half an hour. Have plenty of lard hot in a kettle. Fry the balls more slowly than ; you would dough- r t XjooXur 42., . IA owJ JCoj XJhrJ- C MiL xxJLoa. cJJL . j bus aMs, o.e i armies miiji mi i . J n . , nuts; drain off the fat them and eat hf.t ',. i They are very nice who, Green Corn, y.', V GlazM rjur Italian Crean, Colin.. -Re- Ochra Sour. Two and one of lean veal , 1 " "f of cold water, pq1I,,ran,i ful of sliced ochra (or ' ,kr V1 ful of minced season and set bv ui. til ti,0 f.f'"a: off the fat from the to,, : pressine hard : nut tl.') ' ..n "t i; ' with thpniAn ."r iIn l,V.i litsie, aim cook steauilv i ir vi.v,.-....,, ui mine Sll.rn. v. -rr. Ai-i iiiul. uiiu Mlr out Larded Halibut S IBUT TK.VKs. la- , fat .salt ,,rk J;V with strips of gcujci auu JfU'jnilli); o (,ik . warmed frying-pan .-.ti-l ft,:, oriiloo frrm trio u '! I a( l-i a on1 imk-.i Mi tUc- side ia done. Serve nil 'li with lemon inip nt,.i . uu. t, .li each steak which has .V- 'I a little cream, then mixed with of minced parsley. an Braised Beef. rrv fiVP n. sail pone in a Droaa-iM.tt,,.,,!, an onion sliced ; lav the beef , L closely and cook Mealiiv'f,,r.. ', a-n. in two cupfuls of boii'j,,,, J"!'''11'.'. f beef over twice in the' l,,,.,... " '.cm ana cook one nour longer lif t ' t pounds in weight) bxme ... "-'wet i i ... wier antly. Now take up the n; a Hour ana set ior a twmi; u,aer: upper grating of the ovent0w7 the gravy, set in cold water t.nr,,V, fat, take this off; return tther half a teaspoonful of mustard J 1 salt to taste, and a tauijpo,,nfu'i r X flour, wet with cold. water. serve in a boat. Green Corn. Strip the hrnkfrm.' pick off the silk carclullv. r. iSlv ? iwc'lbjr w km aiiji-inc minutes 111 hft water. Serve as a separate course, wrapped in a napkin. It cinhT1' liuui bj.it; uj hi; tuici 3 aim llien Vik and when buttered and saltM tn directly from the ear. it is n,, ionp sidered unmannerly to take it in" but considerable, deftness is enable one to do ft neatly. Youwo Turnips reel and lav, r. cutting, in ice-cold water for half ,urop into frauea Doiiing water and J tender, dram thoroughly, serve in ihiJ aisn; saiv pepper ana uuuer. Or, if v-tvAAW ststrAr nr!tti I . i n-I, ..... t iici nn la uiunii Muuer, lutj ana ooia cases senu 10 laoie not. Glazed Potatoes. Boil whole-we! 4 miiy anu my in a unnpins; ian; ttu spoonfuls of fat from the top of the lie;- which the beef is cooking, wash the h', tatoes with it and brown in a hot oven. J A 1 . " " . 1 . I - . ing more man twice witn me iat. Italian Cream. One quart of rich, J cream, three cups oi sunar. two mm juice of both and the gratcl eel of out DacKaze oi ereiatine. two tabewr of brandy. Soak the gelatine three L in a cup of cold water, then pour ct qup of boiling, and set in ht water mi solved. Strain and let it get cold. Si the cream and pour with the gelatins: the freezer. Turn fast until so stiff tit dasher of the ice-cream churn turn! i difficulty. Beat in lemon juice and peel i the brandy and freeze hard. It isdti: jE2at with cake.. -. Mashing a Masher. A young masher walking up andil the platform of a railway station mcl with a companion who had come to J off observed two handsome girls enterti-J class carriage. "Look here." heVaic-. companion, who did not pay much kI tion to his dress, "I'll get into 'thaH compartment, and I'll tell you what I you to do. When the train is about to sta you come up andLtouch your hat, &iv me, 'My lord, the gr11" na t'"?s ain van.' " His companion smiled assent, said he doubted if he could do it it Kith t proper air of a nobleman's servant. 7J same carriage with the voumr ladies i:- interest he wished to excite. The ninxl arrived and the train began to movuxl his companion came up to the carriirr.l dow. "iley, Jock," he Bhoutea, tJ maister i to be sure to $end thae breda mine by Saturday." 1 The Sword Dliara. A skiliful armorer forged the swnrdKd which came into the possession of the brated pedouin poet-hero Antar. i famous blade was made from a thunder that had jBlain one of the chiefs cameitj when the smith delivered 11. nuu-i pride, toj his patron he observed:' sword is! sham, oh chief of the tribt Ghavlib-4-sharn indeed: but where it smiter fcjr this sword?" Quoth the t. tain : "As for the smiter I am he. aa there should never be another sword U- Notes and Queries. I . V One great source of happiness in our neighbors enjoy all of their ngn V I Ir -tL. (kr JLajulJ ' A-O - C7i. 111 - -ii. ru i i rru LJ V. A. v f lAJti - mm
The Weekly Record (Beaufort, N.C.)
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Oct. 7, 1887, edition 1
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