‘Charlotte Jtteswnger.
Charlotte, N. <, k . September 18. 1886.
OUR CHURCHES.
St. Michael s (P. E.) church, Mint 6t. Ser
A M ” jand BP. M. Sunday School
■at 4 P. M. Rev. P. P. Alston, Pastor
~Vp Graham St; Services,
to f ’ ,n<i 8 P M. Sunday School at
»*• M Rev. S. M. Haines, Pastor
M P , iis l, rh i".': h t? outh Churehfit; Ser
:Ss*F 1 1 A. M., 3P. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday
iwJiOU a 1 I M. Rev. A. A. Powell, Pastor
ribenezer Baptist church. East 2nd St. Ser
■V'ces nt ll A. M., 3 P. M„ and S P. M. Sun
■day School M 1 p. M. Rev. Z. Haiohto.v,
■raster.
Preck”tcran churh, corner 7th and Colleeo
for Vies at 3 P. M„ and 8 P. M. iwiv
4dch4fclat 10 A. M. Rev. R P. Wyciie Pastor
Jmtcfii In,) cl, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St; Ser
vices at 11 A. M 3P. M., and BP. M. Sun
day School at 1 P. M. Rev. M. Slade, Pastor
Little Rock (A. M. E. Z.I, E. St
Service .it 11 A M 3P„ and BP. M. Sun'-
“ af ' P M Rkv ' W “ Johnson;
Local
The Republican State Convention
meets in Raleigh next Wednesday.
Our trip so Fayetteville was very
pleasant and profitable.
The Grand Lodge Good Samaritans
meets in Fayetteville nest Tuesday.
Excursions are to hm from Greensboro
and Bennettsviße to Fayetteville next
Thursday.
Wednesday is the day for the
convention in Raleigh and the east
will conic up in full.
Ur. Mott ha* a third letter out. If he
has not shown sufficiently that he should
go off the committee, we think the con
vention should say so next week.
Urs. Joe Butler still suffers from an
arm she had broken several weeks since.
Jt is feared that amputation will be
necessary
Mr. TVadeus Tate reason last Thursday
cvcnipT. married to Miss Mary L. Butler.
The firemen’s excursion to Salisbury
leaves this city next Tuesday morning.
It seems that many arc going.
Mr. Cato T. Thomas requests us to an
notlncc that be is a candidate for the
nomination for constable for Charlotte
\ township.
Mr. Noah G, Cress wishes it published
.that tie will be a candidate in the eon
vention for constable for Charlotte town
ship,
Hon. David A. .Jenkins ex-treasurer
of the State, dieel at his residence l n
Gastonia on Friday of last week after a
protracted illness.
Mr. W. M. Rainey anel Miss Bettie
Jones, of Chester, S. C., were married on
the sth inst.
The Re publicans of this county have a
fipe chance to win, but it cannot and
should not be done through the barroom.
Delegates for the State convention will
reave for Raleigh on Tuesday night via
the C. C. railroad. It seems the full del
egation will go.
Mr. W. 11. Houser and T. .1. AVcdding
ton left last AVednesday night for
Charleston to assist in rebuilding that c ity.
Mr. Jerry Eury and brother are spend
ing a week or so with friends and rela
tives in this city and Concord. Thev
have been in Florida about two rears.
Don't forget you can buy a half acre
lot near the colored graded school build
ing for SIOO —one-third paid cash. Coi.
Myers has a large number of tine lots;
rail on him.
The Republicans of Charlotte town
ship will assemble in mass convention in
the court house next Friday night to
nominate two constables.
The Board of Zion Bishops will meet
in this city next Thursday in semi annual
session.
Our new graded school building is
showing signs of advancement. Thereof
is now on it and it may be finished sooner
than some expect.
I lie meeting of the Grand Lodge Iu-
Fcndcnt Order Good Templars has
n postponed from October 12th as
.Wished, until November 16th, when it
■ kill meet in Concord, N. C.
It was opr pleasure to meet in Fayette
ville Hon. J. H. Hannon, register of
deeds for Halifax county, lie ia re
nominated, which is cepiivolcnt to elec
tion.
Hit AAinnona Literary Circle will meet
at Alisa Lydia Sehencks on next Friday
evening at 8 o'clock. A full attendance
is reamestc-d as the auuual election of '
officers will la- bail.
A new paper is to Ire started in this
rity in the interests of the Knights of
Labor lulled “ The Crafteman " AA*e
suppose it is to lee a weekly pajier.
The revival spirit seems to have taken
the entire country. The results of the
earthquake are the conversion of inuny
souls, and the laird’s army is greatly
strengthened and encouraged.
Airs. AV. C. Coleman and Alisa Jane E.
Harris, of Concord, are in onr city, the
guests of Air. J. AV. Smith.
Miss Eliza Johnson has returned home
after an absence of several weeks in the
mountains of South Carolina.
Rev. E. AV. Taylor, of Cheraw, S. C.,
preached at Zion Church last night. The
sermon is highly spoken of.
The Good Samaritans wilt give an en
tertainment in Hargraves’ basement next
AVednesday and Thursday nights.
33?*Please pay what you owe us; we
need money badly to pay for the work or
the paper we send you—at least, let us
hear when you will pay.
Our city graded school opened last
Alonday with the following teachers: J.
E. Hatley, principal; Alisses Victoria
Richardson, Mary Lynch, Sallit Hall,
Annie Hayes, Lydia Schenck and Airs.
Alston.
Scores bf our subscribers get a blue
mark this week and the paper will be
discontinued until we hear from them.
AVc dislike to part from them but hope
they will soon renew. AVe must conic
down to business
AVe have a long letter from Prof. Harl
lee which will appear next week; also a
AA ilmington letter.
Maine held elections last Monday, and
though the vote is light this off year, the
Republican majority holds out very en
couragingly.
AYinehester, Vs., voted dry last Alon
day and it is said many colored men
worked hard for and voted the dry
ticket. Politics were forgotten and all
parties were divided as well as colored
men.
In Eastport, Maine, last Alonday, the
Democrats supjiortcd tlic Knights of
Labor candidate, who was the Afaster
AVorkman and a strong prohibitionist:
with all that the Republican majority
was stronger against him than ever.
The prohibitionists'of Guilford county
have nominated a full legislative county
ticket, made up of the wealthiest and
most influential men of the county.
The letter which appeared last week
over the mime of J. J. Mott is well writ
ten anil has some strong (mints, yet it
shows the more conclusively that there
can be no peace in the party while he is
at the head. This letter is so different
from the others in its general make up,
and s winds so much like a certain writer
in this city, that we are forced to say we
don’t believe that Dr. Alott wrote it, but
that the J lielongs in the other end of
the name of the man who wrote it.
It is frequently said by our white edi
tors that the colored people did this or
the other in the earthquake. Experience
here and close inquiry in our travels in
five other counties since the quake, tell us
that there was as much screaming, expo
sure. praying. Are., among the whites that
night as among the colored. The only
preacher we have yet heard of leaving the
pulpit was a while divine here in this
city. It was not superstition that night,
hut most depended upon the strength of
the nervous system. Let the colored
people continue to prepare for the end,
and be ready, for we know not the t ime
the son of man cometh.
To Ike Teachers.
Salisbcrv/N. C., Aug. 30, 1886.
Mn. Editor:
Allow me to inform the teachers of the
State that the committee appointed at
the last session of the N. C. S. Teachers’
Association to prescribe a course of
reading, met in the city of Raleigli on
the 27th inst.. at the call of its chairman.
Prof. J. C. l’rice. By invitation our
meeting was held at the St. Augustine
Normal School and Collegiate Institute.
All the members of the committee were
present, whom I might name as follows:
President Price, Prof. E. K. Smith, Airs.
A. J. Cooper and the writer. Prof. 11.
A!. Joseph was invited to sit with the
committee. Prof. Price then explained
the object of the meeting, to wit: To
prescribe a course of reading for the
teachers of the State for the first year.
He said also that the committee might
make any recommendations concerning
the same it saw fit. Our meeting was a
most pleasant one and I think full of
good results. The course prescribed is
as follows:
rtRBT TERM.
1. Sweet’s ftethods of Teaching.
2. AlcCarthoy's History of Alodcrn
Times.
3. Guzot’s History of Civilization.
SECOND TERM.
4. Hewitt's Pedagogy.-
5. Life of Franklin or LaFayette or
both.
WHOLE TERM.
6. Gow’s Murals and Alanncrs.
OPTIONAL-WHOLE YEAR.
1. Jules Verne’s “Around the AVorld
in Eighty Days."
2. .Macaulay's Biographical Essays.
3. The New A'ork or New England
School Journal, and the N. C. Teacher.
FIRST TERM.
4. Tales from Shakespeare by C'lias.
and Alary Lamb.
SECOND TERM.
5. “King John" including the life of
the author.
The teachers should read so aa to be
able to give a synopsis of the bonks read.
It seems apparent that if teachers read
and comprehend the course as above
prescribed they will profit greatly aa
well as be bjtter prepared for the work
of their profession. The above course is
for the first year. Other courses w ill be
lined out for the succeeding years. All
the members of the Association will at an
early date be forwarded a certificate of
membership. On the backot this certifi
cate you will find the course of reading
as prescribed. Although it is presumed
that all membsrs of the Association are
members of the circle, yet all who mean
to take the course will signify the same
by dropping me a postal card upon re
ceipt of your certificate of membership.
Books may be had at contract prices of
A. AViiliams & Co., Raleigh, or tile Sec
retary of the committee, Salisbury.
The committee believes we are on the
line of progress. Let the teachers do
their best to confirm that belief.
Yours as ever for the cause,
S. G. Atkins,
Secretary of the Committee on Reading
Circle and Cor. See. of the Association.
Nationalities In Congress.
The Washington correspondent of tho
New York Staats-Zeitung writes thus
concerning the nationality of the mem
bers of the House of Representatives:
There are eighteen members who were
born abroad, seven of them being natives
of Ireland, namely: Davis and Collins
of Massachusetts, O’Neill of Missouri,
Woodburn of Nevada, NcAdoo of New
Jersey, T. J. Campbell and Dowdney of
New York. Two were born in Scotland,
Henderson of lowa and Farquhar of New
York; two in England, West and Spriggs
of New York; two in Cannda, Gallinger
of New Hampshire and Adams of New
York; three in Germany, Lehbach of New
Jersey, Gunther of Wisconsin, and Ro
meis of Ohio; one in Luxembourg, Alullcr
of New York; and one in Norway, Nelson
of Alinnesota. To this number may be
added Caine, the delegate of Utah Terri
tory, who is an Englishman by birth.
Aside from the Pennsylvania Germans,
Ermentrout, Sowden, Ncgley, Brumm,
Everhart, Storm, etc., all of whom
speak German more or less correctly
and fluently, there are to be men
tioned among Representatives of Ger
man descent who have not neglected
that language only Belmont of New
York and Kleiner of Indiana. Her
mann of Oregon, the son of a German
physician, has almost completely forgot
ten his German. On the other hand,
there are quite a number of non-German
Representatives who know German very
well. Henderson, of lowa, speaks and
writes to his German constituents only
in that language; Adams, of Illinois,
having conquered the High German, is
now [busy with Uncle Brasig’s Platt
deutsch; Pettibone, of Tennessee, is a
great Schiller enthusiast, and recites
with great gusto ‘ ‘The Distribution of
the Earth,” he beinga poor poet himself.
Reed and Atilliken, of Alaine, arc not
embarrassed if addresed in German; and
Crain, of Texas, La Folette, of Wiscon
sin. O’Neill, of Missouri, Loutitt, of
California, Hitt, of Illinois, Le Fevre, of
Ohio, are far beyond the average vo
cabulary of “AVie geht’s?” and “Zwci
Bier!” Aforeovcr, if one considers that
among the Congressional employes there
arc a number of Germans, and that
among the correspondents of the English
papers there are several who speak and
write German, one may well say that
even if the Germans are not numerously
represented in Congress, the German
language decidedly is.
How Light Affects the Blind.
An interesting account has lately been
furnished by AI. Plateau, the eminent
Belgian physician who has been blind
nearly forty years, of the sensations he
experienced in his eyes. He has no sense
of objective light even when turning his
eyes to the sun. But his visual field is
alway divided into spaces, some of
which are pretty bright and others som
ber or nearly dark, and which merge into
each other. Their general tint alter
nates, in time, between gray and red
dish. The relative arrangement of these
different spaces is always the same, but
the intensity of their tints varies. Tho
central tint seems now rather bright,
now rather dark; above and below, and
on the left to the limits of the field, there
is sometimes brightness,sometimes dark
ness, but on the right there is generally
a vertical band, nearly black, and be
yood this a space which is nearly always
bright and reddish. These appearances
follow ail the movements of the eyes,
which probably do not participate in the
same way in the tints, but M. Plateau
cannot distinguish what belongs to tho
other. No connection of the general
tint with the work of digestion is ob
served. The author states that he be
came blind through looking fixedly at
the sun for some time, with a view to
ob«crviog his after sensations; it was not
till about fourteen years after this that
inflammation of the chloroid act in,[de
stroying vision, but during the interval
he often taw colored and persistent halos
round flames, etc., and he advises those
who bare such vision to consult an ex
perienced oculist.
The prcr.t mistake men make is in the
idea that they must be holy to bcco no
heirs; the truth is they must become
heirs in order to be holy. Wn do not
serve in order to heroine sons, but we
must heroine sons in order rightly to
serve. It is those who believe on His
nsme that have the power, the privilege
to become the aons of God.
the terrapin;
AN EDIBLE REPTILE BELOVED
BY THE EPICURE.
A Maryland Member of Congress the
First Terrapin Eater—How
the Terrapin la Turned
Into Food.
The turtle's immediate relatives arc the
land tortoise and the terrapin. The tor
toise was highly respected by the an
oients, and is mentioned by Pliny the
younger as a reptile “of calm and im
posing demeanor, and wise, inasmuch as
he avoideth haste.”
The identity of a man who first ate an
oyster is buried in obscurity. Attempts
have been made by many learned anti
quarians to discover that daring indivi
dual, but in vain. At one time, about
the beginning of this century, a musty
old searcher into the records of tho past
declared that a Celtic knight, Sir Mora
Mora Gan, who was the possessor of a
massive stronghold on the western shores,
was tho first oyster eater, but he failed
dismally in tho presence of delegates
from seventeen learned societies to estab
lish his claim to the alleged discovery,
But the names of those who took the
initial plunge in the terrapin business are
well-known and honored in Slaryland,
where the terrapin is, of all things in
animated nature, most honored and
loved. Daniel St. George Tenifer, mem
ber of Congress from Maryland, and
afterward Minister to Austria, and
John B. Morris, President of the Me
chanics’ Bank of Baltimore, were the
heroes who ate the first terrapin that civ
ilized man ever ate. Morris died in 1875,at
the age of ninety, and TeSifcr was almost
as old when called away from this world,
the good things of which, chiefly terra
pin, he had heartily enjoyed. Air. Teni
fer argued that if the turtle, whose
habits so closely resembled the terrapin,
was edible, there was no reason why the
terrapin should not be equally good. So
soon as this valuable culinary discovery
was announced, all the epicures of Balti
more clamored for terrapin. From 1845
to 1850 terrapin sold in Baltimore at
from $2 to $3 per dozen. In 1860 they
commanded $25 a dozen, and after the
war the dealers asked S3O and S4O a
dozen, and got it, too.
The best terrapin are the diamond
back. These come from the eastern
shores of Chesapeake Bay, and are affec
tionately known aa “eastern shore pul
lets.” A full-grown specimen is from
nine to ten inches in length. The best
season for eating them is in November,
when they are taken by drags from tho
mud in which they hibernate. The ex
cellent quality of these terrapin, which
are much finer than any in this State, is
attributed to the fact that they lie at the
edge of tide water, and are alternately
washed by the fresh and salt water dur
ing the twenty-four hours.
The female terrapin, when carrying
eggs, as she does in the winter season, is
the most highly esteemed. The male
terrapin is set down as a tough fellow,
and no true epicure will have him in his
stew. In the cooking, tho intestines,
which, as the reptile is hibernating, are
empty, are cut up with the other por
tions and are said to impart a very supe
rior flavor. The Baltimoreans differ
from the Californians in preparing this
delicious dish. They cook their terra
pin altogether without spice, except
pepper and salt, using only butter rolled
in flour to thicken it, and flavor it with
old Aladeira instead or sherry. The
gourmets of the old days kept what they
called the terrapin bottle. Into this,
when the Aladeira was decanted, the
lees were poured, which are considered
better for the terrapin stew than the
clear wine. It was only after the failure
of the Aladeira wine crop that Baltimore
gentlemen used sherry in their terrapin.
n preparing terrapin for the stew pot
care is taken that the gall is extracted,
else the dish becomes a nauseating fail
ure. They are plunged alive into boil
ing water, and when the claws pull out
easily, they arc done and ready to be
picked for the stewpan. The cultiva
tion of terrapin is quite an important in
dustry in this portion of the South, and
one gentleman last year cleared over
$4 ,000 from his terrapin farm.
Terrapin are very numerous in this
State, but their consumption is not at all
as general as in the Eastern and South
ern sections of the country. A few epi
cures enjoy them, but it is not easy to
find a cook who thoroughly understands
their preparation. They make the stews
too thin, and so smother them with spice
that the true, delicate flavor of the terra
pin is completely sacrificed. Indeed, a
cook of ordinary skill can make an imi
tation of terrapin with soup meat very
close to the real thing as presented here,
being spiced beyond recognition. In
those large ponds and sloughs made by
the overflow of the Sacramento Rivet
terrapin abound. They nro taken with
drag and scoop nets at all reasons, and
sell in the markets from $2.50 to $3 a
dozen. In marketing, the terrapin
dealer will always try to palm off the
male terrapin on the ignorant eater,
while the females are reserved for their
customers who know what they are
ab ait,and would not have the gentleman
loptiteforu gift. Along the Southern
shore, in the neighborhood of Point San
Pablo, are several large terrapin ponds,
where they art bred for the market. Here
the female is allowed to deposit hes eggs
undisturbed in the sandy margin o I
these ponds, and never raked out during
the hibernating season.
A jar of terrapin is a favorite Christ
mas present from tho Baltimore aristoc
racy to their English friends, and thi:
great American delicacy ia most thor- I
oughly appreciated on the other side oi i
the water.— San Francisco Chronicle.
Yucatan Hammocks.
“From time immemorial,”says Consul
Edward H. Thompson, writing from j
Merida, Yucatan, “hammocks have been
reticles of use and barter in Yucatan. 1 j
have found the remains of hammock j
beams and hooks in the chambers of the
ruined cities, mysterious relics of a past
civilization that lie buried in the depths j
as the Yucatanean wilderness.” He then |
gives an interesting description of their I
manufacture. He says Yucatan to-day ex- j
ports more hammocks than any other |
province in the world. They are made
entirely by hand and with the aid of a few
primitive yet effective instruments. AVitb
a couple of straight pole 3, a shuttle, a
thin slab of zapole wood, and a pile ol
henequen leaves at hand, the native it
ready to accept contracts for hammocks
by piece, dozen, or hundred. The poles
are placed a certain distance apart, ac
cording to the required length of the
hammock. The thin slab of hard wood
is then rapidly fashioned with the aid ol
a sharp machette into a “tonkas” or strip
per. By the aid of this instrument the
fiber of the thick, fleshy henequen leal
is dexterously denuded of its envelope,
and a wisp of rasped fiber is the result.
This is placed in the sun for a few hours
to bleach. The fibers are then separated
into a certain number, given a dexterous
roll between the palm of the hand and
the knee, and a long strand is produced.
Two or more of these strands are then
taken, and by a similar dexterous manip
ulation converted into a cord or rope,
from which the hammock is made. Til*
cord is ‘ ‘rove” rapidly around the twe
upright poles, and the shuttle is thee
brought into play. This is generally th<
women's work, and they do their w ork
well. The shuttle seems to move and
seek the right mesh with a volition ol
its own, and in a very short space ol
time the hammock is made and laic
with its kind to await the coming of thi
contractor. After reaching the hand:
of the merchant in Aleridn, the ham
mocks, both white and colored, are cacl
classified into superior and inferior goods
and neatly and compactly bailed in loti
of four or five dozen to the bale, dul;
marked and forwarded to the Unite?
States, which absorb most of the entir
exportation. During the calendar yea
of 1885 twenty-four thousand hammock
were shipped to the United States fron
Yucatan.— Washington Critic.
Canned Provisions.
“You ask me to state the effects of
freezing upon canned fruits and vogela
bles, especially as regards the texture
and flavor of tomatoes, corn, etc.,” writes
Lieutenant Grcely to the American Grocer.
“Apples, peaches, pears, rhubarb, green
peas, green corn, onions, potatoes and
tomatoes were all subject to extreme
temperatures, over sixty degrees below
zero, and were solid for months at a
time. The second summer they thawed,
the following winter froze solid again.
All the articles named presented the
same [appearance as though freshly
canned, and their flavor was as good
when the la'st can was eaten as in the
first month. It should be understood
that these were first class canned goods
am 1 from dealers of standing and relia
bility. Cranberry sauce, preserved dam
sons, preserved peaches and fruit butters
suffered certain changes from candying,
etc., which detracted somewhat from
their flavor, though not materially so.
Dealers in such preserves predicted that
•uch conditions and changes would
occur. I had also canned turnips,
squash, beets and carrots, as well as
pineapples, cherries, grapes, shrimps,
dams and crabs, which although not
subjected to such extreme temperature
as the foregoing, yet froze and thawed
repeatedly without injury. No can of
any kind except a few, say half a dozen
of fruit butters, was ever burst by action
of Cold or heat. No illness of any kind
occurred prior to our retreat, and those
most inclined to esnned fruits and vege
tables were the healthiest and strongest
of the party. I have written thus fully
in answer to your letter from my convic
tion that the excellent quality and variety
of canned provisions contributed materi
ally to the unequaled health of my com
mand during the two years wc passed in
unparalleled high latitude. The im
portance of good canned fruit and vege
tables to parties unable to obtain the
fresh article cannot be over-rated, and
so I s| eak with no uncertain tone on th«
subject.”
The following table, which the Roch
ester (N. Y.) Poet-Express has prepared
with great care from many source*, shows
the number of times the veto power has
been used by the tiVenty-two men who
hive filled the Presidential chair:
Washington 2 Taylor 0
Adams 0 Fillmore 0
.i<-tt’erson 0 Pieros 11)
Madison a Buchanan 4
Monroe 1 Lincoln 1
Adnms o Johnson 2t
Ja'-kson 11 Grant 25
Van Bnren 0 Hayes 12
Harrison (I Garfield ft
Tyler ~... ft Arthur 4
Pols 3 Cleveland (so far).lll
CASTLE GARDEH.
WHERE EMIGRANTS FROM THE
OLD WORLD ARRIVE.
Scenes of Humorous and Pathetic-
Character How Emigrant*
are Received—People In
Variegated Array.
A New York correspondent of the Al
bany Journal says: The interior of Castle
Garden is like a scene from comic opera.
Everything is foreign. It is a great
lemi circular structure with ns lltt’.e use
teas ornamentation as a Kansas barn.
The floor is divided into compartments
by low railings, and in each of these it
a lunch counter, a few benches, and a
desk that looks iike an auctioneer’s
stand. From one compartment, or pen,
to another are passage ways just wide
enough to admit one person at a time.
When a fresh lot of emigrants arrives the
desks are moved up to the railings by
these passages and all the people have to
pas 3 through and answer the questions
of the inspector. The process is rapid,
tor at this stage all that is learned ia ths
emigrant’s name, his occupation or trade,
etc. If a man is able to take care of
himself he can readily show it, and when
there is any doubt about it the inspector
docs not attempt to settle it but passes
the man along into one of the neighbor
ing pens, there to wait a further and
closer examination. If in this examina
tion the emigrant cannot show that be is
prepared to make his Jiving without be
coming a burden to the community, he
is taken up to AVard’s Island to stay until
the vessel on which he came is ready to
return. He is then put on board and
gets a fi ee pass to his native land.
There are always immigrants in the
garden. They are usually waiting for
the departure of a train for the Weat.
Borne of them are expecting relatives to
call for them, and as they wait they wan
der about in pairs or groups, or 101 l on
the benches just like the choristers in an
opera. The difference is that the chor
isters are usually arrayed in their beat
gowns and so present an attractive spec
tacle of gaily trimmed short dresses,
bl ight faces and and a general air of fes
tivity. In the j-ardra the short dresses
sre to be seen ard ali the unique styles of
apparel koown to Enropean peasantry,
but the fine colors are in the huge bun
dles on the floor, if present at all, and
the face* bear expressions of fatigue and
sadness. Women stalk about in skirts
that reach just below the knees, the
limbs being protected fromview and the
weather by heavy leather boots like those
worn by Alaine lumbermen. Many of
the men. wear knee breeches and caps
with feathers. Varied are the emotions
expressed by the people congregated in
the garden. AVatching them from the
window in the secretary’s office, which
is one story above the floor, I saw a
woman suddenly leave the lunch she was
preparing for herself and several children;
and rush across the steps with arms
outstretched and mouth wide open in aa
exaggerated expression of joy. She ran
full tilt into the embrace of a man who
had just entered, and they hugged and
kissed each other and danced up and
down extravagantly for three minutes.
The children came flocking about,
some a little shyly, as if they were only
slightly acquainted with the stranger or
were only distant relatives. He gave
them all hearty paternal greetings and
they returned to the lunth and ate to
gether. It were easy enough to build
up a pretty romance about that scene, or
about the young conple in another pen
who sat with their *rms about each
ether’s waists and sailed and smiled.
But what of the see sis of moaning and
violent weeping from people in a room
adjoining the reception hall, if the rough
garden can be so dignified? Simply a
family of deluded liussians who thought
they were coming to a country where
bread grew on the trees, and houses were
waiting for them. The interpreters have
told them their fate, that they must
return by the steamer that brought them
over, for they have not a dollar among
them and know no trade. They have a
remote chance left to remain, for if any
one appears during their stay at AVard s
Island, who will guarantee their support
or otherwise assure the commissioners
that they will not become beggers, they
will be allowed to find a home in
America. Immigration societies under
the auspices of different nationalities aro
constantly on the watch to see that no
worthy man gets treated unjustly through
carelessness of the officials or from the
immigrant's inability to explain his con
dition. The officers of these societies
co operate with and assist the commis
sioners in the discharge of their duties.
It does not seem probable therefore that
nny cases exist where injustice has been
done by returning people to their nativs
countries.
A California paper say* ths great
plateau between the Rocky mountains
and the Sierras,comprising the Territory
of Utah and the State of Nevada, ia ap
parently destined to become the greatest
cattle range of tha country. Immense
tracts of land, some embracing nearly
250,000 acres, have been purchased, and
owners of large herds in Texas and other
southwestern states are looking for ranges
in this wide seel ion of pasture land. The
cattlemen are being crowded out of
other localities by the tide of settlers.