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The; people's gvjess. JOB PRINTING L. V. & E. T. BLUM, imUllilicrs and Proprietors TBS FUSS J93 ESPA&nOI U ppll4 wit mil BiciM.ry pUiil. a4 la filly pnpf& tmdm worfc wiXk HCATMEavyDlf ATOM. Jl Arm VERY LOWEST PRICES Terms Cash in Advance. One Copy, on year.... ... ....$1.50 " j six months. 75 " I three months .vi,... .45' A Family Newspaper Devoted to Literature, Agr-icxxltvxre and General Information. Reduction to Clubs. -Em inside. Ba am to ftva 'as a trial VOL. XXXIX. SALEM, :N; C, THURSDAY, XOYEMBER 26, 1891. treads vilk m i NO. 48.1 We can go to Africato-day easier than rould go to Arizoua a decade ago. ' Superintendent of Census Porter says the question of a permanent census 'bureau will be brought to the attention of both houses ot uongrcss as ,soou they assemble. " h'.' '. ' as The delegates to the iPrisou Congress i -J ' -i ; -confessed theraselvc iquite unable to understand why England, should show a decreasing number of criminals, whilp in the United States thd number is eyei on the increase, i Professor C. A. Young thinks that we may some day bo able ti signal the in habitants of Mars if we construct singu lar looking objects spme fifteen or twenty miles in diameter. lie admits that the expense of such work3 is a big obstacle in their way.. . - ' ' ' A unique street railway baron is Mr. Eiujene Winchet, of D.iytou, Ohio. The road he owns'tuas through the suburbs of Daytonand, by the rule drawn up by Mr. Winchet himself, . all working girls using the cars' ride at half price, and washwomen! carry iug their baskets trarel free. 1 . ' ' - The Boston Iraktsript muses: "There arc 142,519 children uulerv five years of age living in ihe-teneuint houses of 2Tew York City. Over one hundred thou sand children under seiooi age, still in the foruiativej period and surrounded by BCarcsiy any influence for good. This is indeed food j for' thought, and such thoughts as is, stirring the ppilanthrop pists to demand a Remedy. The workers ot the New York Kindergarten Associa tion have a great problem to solve." It will bo j-emeaibered, ob jiverpool (England) Menir Serves the Liverpool (England) ?terzHrj, that soma years ago there was a sudlen fashion for ths conversion Oi: green stu Is 'into w'at is called ensilage.. In . various parts of the country, a'tid especially in soaii parts of Scotland expensive silos ' were built into which tho greeu - grass . was thrown to be preserved '-by f-'r.uentation. Oae Hears ies3 ot ensilage .now tnan six years ago. rne triuu is mat tac suo has gone out of fashion again. Scores of them are standing idle in Scotland, and the system ha3 manifestly "failed to aoolim i tize itself. jv ' ; THANKSGIVING. The golden grain is garnered Our store-houses o'erflow O'er prairie broad and city mart The winds of fortune blow. No losses from distemper No rust the wheat to blight Thanksgiving to tho Father Who has blessed us day and night. No pestilence is near us No sound of war is heard Peace tinkles in the shepherd's bell, . And rusting lies the sword. The brooks rush on right merrily The song-birds seem to say, "Praise God for every blessing sent " On this Thanksgiving Day !" Friends who" have long been parted, The dear old bomesteed seek. To chat of pleasures that are past, And of the future speak. All home once more, with hearts They gather round the board. And cry in concert, fervently, "Thanksgiving to th Lord!" All selfishness is put topflight The wretched poor may feast On dainties that they seldom touch For this ona day at least. And e'en the felon in bis cell May taste of dainty fare Oh, God is gracious! Shout His praise Thanksgiving everywhere! . Francis S. Smith. aglow energeti-; A THANKSGIVING BURGLAR wno o Duiter, two o sugar, three o flour'n four eggs," soliloquized Aunt Hepsie Barber, as she measured out the ; ingredients . for the children's' favorite cupcake. 4 4Seems like that rule is like a verse of poetry, it runs off so glib; but, my ! it ain't nothin to the way the cakes go off after the children gets a holt of them. Let's see, now, how many tinsful did I bake last. Christmas? Six, as I'm a livin' woman, an' afore night their faces was all puckered down with, Oh, Aunt Hepsie, ain't there no more patties?' as doleful as if they hadn't had one apiece;; It does beat all how much children can hold, an' not hev an explosion. Now, "I sot out to have enough this year, but! I d'no's I hev. One good thing, that rule's sure true blue, like indigo cal.i ker, an' ,not light's a fe. ther one time ah' fiat's a pancake another, like some rules. "Rules is like folks sometimes, an' not to be trusted; they're all nice an' pinicky onct or twict, an'' next time ye see 'eui they're way off the handle, an' you've got to get acquainted with cm' all over .again. That Widow Jenkins, now, she's that sort well, Marion; here you are at last, an' right glad I am to see you, too."' . .i . . h A delightfully -dainty kind of farm ing, more elegantly aesthetic, maintains the New York Sunt than growing lilies in Bermuda and almost as prolc.iV:e as raising checks anJ biak notes, is that of Mr. Timothy Uipkins; o; Msalo Park, California. In a grove of giant oaks Mr. Hopkins ha3 a live-acr paten of violets .of the rarest "and moitbeautiful varieties double whites, double blues, sky blue, and one variety which is blue with a faint dot of red on oae of the petals. The violets are planted in rows two feet apart, and under, the cool shade and in leaf mould soil .they attain perfection. For six months a, year .'the grower ships an average-of fifty bunches of violets duly to San Francisco, and the returns arc not far from tho same number of dol lars. , The difficulties of navigating the Missouri River are conlinel to two places the mouth, of the j Osage and Grand Rivers, which are about 150 miles apart and the Government is trying to overcome them. At the mouth of the Osage an ellort is to be ma le to confine tho channel for about nine miles. The Missouri is very wide there, the waters spreading over low ladds, and there has been no distinct channel. The depth of the water has been increased from 4 $ to 7 feet. Piles 33 feel in length are forced into tho sand and clay in five miuutes by the use of a powerful stream - of water that is force 1 through a pip3 extending to th? point of eao'a pile. The stream clears away the sml and clay, and tho pile sjnjcs of.its own weight. It is believed ithatifter 'tho work has been finished the rivdr will be navigable dur ing nearly all th!e year except winter. DCSTED AXD ARBASGED EVERYTHIXG. ' Chief Buchanan, of the( World's C jlum bian Exposition Live Stoci Department, "has sent out about 3000 cjp-ies of the live stock premium list to the various fair and breeders' associations of the country, and is receiving responses which , show that the live stock exhibit at the Exposition will be something tremend ous. B3sidc3 the larga premium of fered by tho Exposition for a live stock exhibit, all the, various breeders' associa tions are oHering large prizes, notably for shorthorns,- llerefords and Jerseys: As an evidenco of the widespread inter est taken in the live-stock show A. E. Mansell, of Sopp3hire, England, offers 8 prize of $50 for the best Amric ii bred Shropshire ran. The State of Illinois offers sji 10,00 j m premiums for live stock; thq Clydesdale horse breeders offer $5000 extra prizes; the cattle asso ciations olfer extra prizes as follows: Galloway, i53pOO; shorthorn, $S000 ; Hereford, ,$5300; jersey, $10,000, and Holstein, $10;000' The swine, sheep and dog breeders also offer extra money prizes. , The money prizes to be paid for live siocc wiiij amount to ?Zol,uui or more, which, of course, includes the sum of $150,000 voted by the ' Exposition Company for premiums id that depart ment. The Exposition buildings for the accommodation or live stock will cover thirty aciea. ! liI expected you would be, Aunt Hep sie, and should have been here earlier, but compauy came last night and I cchild not get away." : " A bright-faced girl had entered and was taking off er wrappings as if per-' fectly at home ia the ' farm-house, and perfectly sure of her welcome. She was of middle height and a graceful build. Her face was a very pleasing One, though' just where the "charm was one. could scarcely determine, whether in .the bright, expressive eye, the warm, sym pathetic smile, or the winning expres sion, but at all events 'it was there", if somewhat beyond analysis, and Marion Ainslie.was a charming girl, with the faculty of attaching warm friendship: to herself from young and old. f "Uncle Jerry's folk3 came and stopped over on their way to Watertown to spend Thanksgiving with Eli," she explained. 'They wanted me to go too, but I knew you needed me, and I can go there an other time." . ! . , t "Land sakes, child, you needn't j a stayed for that."- Aunt Hepsie turned quickly around from her baking. fl could a found some one else to help me through. I 5 j "But some one else wouldn't have been me, would it, auntie?" The gijd came and laid her bright head on the elder woman's shoulder. "And theh. quite the same it," ; interrupted Mrs. Barber cally. VAnd she kept telling ma of , tho at tentions which Jack was pavinsr her on the sly, and intimating more than she really said, until at last I, taxed Jack with it, and you know how quick Jack is, auntie?" j "Yes, ready to go off the handle at a minute's warnin' an' then too proud to own that he's in the wrong." "And he wouldn t gve me a word of satisfaction as to whether she had told the truth or not, only that if I had com menced distrusting him so soon we might as well part first as last, with other speeches which cut deeper still. Oh, it was so hard, Aunt Ilespie, when I loved him so. . He accused me of beinar ieal-i ous, but it was not so. . I only thought it best if he it ally cared for her, to have 4.1 A.L . A j 1 1 1.1 vue matter seiuea rigntiv Deiore it wa3 too late." '' ". "My poor little girl ; and that widder with detestation in every tone, "she's been after him thicker'n mush ever since She took off her mournin', an' all her grievance' is that he would have nothing to say to her." j "Yes, I know that, now, that it is too late, Aunt Hespie, but there's no use cry I ing for spilt milk," a bright tear trem bled on the long eyelashes, "and I will trv and not spoil my Thanksgiving with tears." For the next few hours the discussing of the measuring, weighing and beating predominated in the large kitchen and spicy ocors rilled each nook and cranny, penetrating to .the diring-room, and even to the parlor beyond. "Seems sorter useless to make pumpkin pies when Jack am t here to eat em, remarked Aunt Hespie disconsolately. "'pears like there never was a boy loved pumpkin pies like he does. remaps mat young minuter who is visiting Horace will eat Jack's share, suggested Marion. "Ministers usually have a pretty fair appetite for good things, I ve noticed. "l s pose now Horace tyiu be anxious to show off his relations in pretty good style to his college lriead, "rejoins 1 Aunt Hespie, reflectively. "When he toid me he was coming, he said, lau hiu ike: 'I've been bragging on your cook ing, auntie, aud I want to show S immy Holland what a real Thanksaiviu z in the country is like.' " At length the cooking was : all done, theabig turkey dressed and ready for stuffing, and the rows and. rows of- pies and rich, plummy cakes, the pau of doughnuts and the heaping platter of cup cakes and another of jam tarts sug gested a large gathering oa the morrow. In Jack s room . alone, no preparation was to be made, for Aunt Hepsie would use the room for no one but its ownejc; but Marion went in there with a lonely feeling in her heart, the song dying upon her lips as she did so. j She lingered about the little dressing table, absently pushing in the pins which spelled "Jack" upon his pin cushion, and thinking ' of him with such longing that Jacic could not have re inaiued angry; with her could ho have seen her hungry eyes. ii j Suddenly a thought came to her she would prepare Jack's room, too, as if he were coming f with the rest, and wit.i nimble fingers she dusted and arranged everything in j the best possible order, pinning a spray; of dried ferns and sumac upon the "window curtaius that the close ness might be dispelled by the clear, keen fair; of a perfect November day. The window opened out upon- the broad verandah, and Jack had often climbed its supports and gone to his room and to bed without awakening the family, when at home. Ij , She would have been his wife now, had he not goue off in such hasty, un reasonable anger, and she sank on her knees bv the bedside when, all was done. 'On, Jack,' come back. Come back to me, ner heart cnea out, ana it spirit voices can become audible to each other, Jack s spirit must have heard the earnest appeal wherever he was. ; ine nouse oegan to nil with a merry crowa oi relatives at an early nour on the morrow, for a Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt depsie s was a treat to young and old. Mrs. Barber herself looked cateworn and old. the difference between a spiritual and a merely intellectual belief in Scripture when a frightened trio of children came scrambling down the stairs. ! "Oh, Aurt Hepsie, there's a burglar in Jack's room; there is, and he's asleep on the bed." I "A burglar. Oht my su3! Then t wasn't a dreaming after all." I Mrs. Barber was setting the table, ancL she fairly turned pale with nervous excite ment. I' TURKISH GIRIS. "PERUAP8 HE'S ARMED." HOW ORIENTAL! MAIDENS ARF PETTED AND SPOILED. How They Are Educated At Four teen a Bride Their Pleas axes Extremely Limited, and Simple. isn i ere r can till , your d, withered and s, smoothed the singly. "If you set too, . Thanksgivin: to me anywhere else "No, Manon, nobody place," the bony old ha, worn in service for ot satiny black hair ca was really my own darter, J couldn't more store by you." I A crimson flush . overspreaJ the soft brunette cheek. i . . "You haven't heard anything from Jack, have vou, Marion?" V ; r "No, auntie, not j a word," she sigh'ed. "Just a yearj ago to-day, and it seems like ten." j : "What was it. child, that set him off so?" asked Mrs. Barber ' gently. "I've always wanted to know, but I thought when you wanted me to hear it you'd tell me." ; ' , "Why, Aunt Hepsie, didn't you know?" The girl raised her head with a look of astonishment. "I supposed of. course that he had told you the whole foolish story, or I should have spoken of it long ago." "Not a word, dearie. He orfly came in one dav, his face all white and set, to tell me that hie was going, and that, all women werej flirts and deceivers. ! I thought for awhile that you had mit tened bam, but I've put two and two; to gether since and changed my mind." - "Why, you know, j auntie, d was in timate . with Dolly Jcnkings about that time",' .' ,;-; ) . '-.-:) "There, I knowed that tormented widd hd something or other to do ith "come back to ME I" "I guess I was too tired to sleep well last night," she said, as she basted the turkey, "for I keptturnin' an' twistin' all night long, an' I dreamed o' burglars an' Injuns, an' along toward mornin' I de clare if I didn't imagiue some one sneakm' around the house. I was too tired to get up an' see, an' I dropped p(f to sleep again, au't must been a dream with the rest on't, for there's nothing missing, an' the silver 3poons sot right oh the dining room table." ; j "If anyone had come in for plunder Ihey would have looked for silver first of all, so you" must have been dreaming, auntie;" replied Marion, smiling. "But' what shall we do with the children until dinner's ready? : ' "Send them upstairs to play," said Aunt Hepsey. "Here comes your Cousin Horace and his friend, and a proper, fine young man he looks, too. IM A moment later and Marion was mak ing her company ' bow., to' the young clergyman and as she caYried his overcoat and hat into fie hallway, she gave the children permission to go into the chambers. , ; ,M "And please don't be rude or noisy," she said, waraingly, "for Aunt Hepsey ha3 a headache tnis morning." j' "We won't. We'll be still as mice," aiid one of the flock, confidently as if at if it were a ppssioie sraie oi iniogs familv merrymakiug. The young miniver wsjast explaining "Uon tget lrigntenea, auntie, i ll go up and rout them out. Give me the poker," and Horace started up the staira hurriedly, with his formidable weapon. "And I, too.:" Uncle Drake, a jolly Id fellow of i immense avoirdupois, caught up the tongs. "I'll pinch him while Horace belabors him." J It i3 needless to say they were foU lowed by an excited retinue of specta tors, at a safe distance, however, fof there was no telling what the presumably savage intruder might do when alarmed.1 "Perhaps he's armed," suggested the young minister, nervously. He had pro-j vided himself with an umbrella, as ha brought up the rear. The ourglar ; must have been in a sound slumber not to have heard the con fusion of whispering voices at the door. but there was no sound within the cham ber until Horace opened the door- and peered cautiously in, the poker in hand in defensive readiness. "Jack Barber, you villian, if you' haven't been up to vour old tricks of climbing in the window." Horace's voico came floating down the stairway in a peal of surprised laughter. "Jack! My Jack! Well I never, cried Aunt Hepsie, pushing her way through the crowd and rushing j up the stairs. ! if- Marion, at the first sound of Jack's name, nad divined in a moment just what had occurred, that Jack had come! on the early morning train, and not wish-! ing to arouse the family, had crept up to his roqm window in the moonlight, and; as she had so obligingly left it open, had found no trouble in getting in quieMy, and trembling and blushing, she re treated to the kitchen to think it over, and compose herself for the meeting with him. i They bad parted in anger, and shal scarcely know how to receive him now. Last night in heir loneliness and grief she) would nave rushed into his arms and have shown all her delight and desire td undo the past; this morning she was more self-reliant, and she wisely re solved that a little of the concession at least must come from Jack, since he had left her so cavalierly and so unkindly without just causef j. She wa3 standing there still, balancing! the fork with which she had just turned the turkey, idly in her hand, when an arm stole round her waist and Jack's voice, very humble and loving, whispered in her ear: fWill my Marion! forgive and forget?" ' i All her pride vanished at once under the spell of the dear, familiar voice, and turning, she shed happy tears of re joicing on her lover's shoulder, j "And why haven't you written to me. Jack?" she asked reproachfully, after a few moments of happy converse. "I did, Marion. I wrote you a long letter asking j your forgiveness j for the miserable part I had taken j in that wretched quatrel, but I never received a word in reply and of course I supposed you were angry and unforgiving towards me." i i "How could I answer it dear Jac' when ly-never received it; no, not one line from you in all this weary year." i 4If I could only have known it, but not hearing made me so angry that J I determined that you or no one else should know where I was, or anything about me." - i j "You foolish, hot-tempered Jack' said Marion, softly, "but how did you chance to come borne, dear?" I "I could not keep away, said- Jack simply. "As Thanksgiving drew near, the attraction towards the old home be came too strong to be resisted, and now that I have you again, I'm not going to let you go, and I propose that we be married this very day. I'll go for a minister directly after dinner, and well make it a Thanksgiving worth remembering."- j. j- . j ; "Well, as for that, there's no use o' stir rin'out of the house for a minister." Aunt Hepsie had come in to look after hSr ne glected dinner, and stood regarding them with a beaming face. "Young Mr. Hol land is a minister, and I don't doubt but that he'd be glad to have a ceremony j to sorter get in prictice on, you know." "All the better ; we'll be married before dinner then, and have a wedding dioAer as well as a Thanksgiving feast. Just let me brush up my hair a bit while Mar ion takes off her kitchen apron. j , The great brown turKey was an interest ing witness of a surprisingly impromptu ceremony a half hour later. The guests were not informed of what was going ion until they were all gathered around the table in their several places. Aunt Hep sie, at the head in her best cap.and Jack and Marion at her right, Mr. Holland I coming next. He othciated in a partic ularly happy manner for a comparative amateur, and never had a jollier Thanks giving dinner been served in the old farm house than upon this occasion, made memorable by the presence of a burglai in the house, and the subsequent ringing of j wedding bells. Ladies world. The importance attached by intolerant Moslems to the separation of men and women is shown in the method of build ing houses which still prevails at Con stantinople. Every Turk who can afford to do so divides his residence into harem and selamlik , and while connecting the t("o from within, gives, if practicable, a street door to each. . This arrangement is symbolical of the reigme which com mands the sexes to live apart, unless united by ties of closest relationship, and requires them even to conduct their intercourse privately, and, so to say, vm recognized by the outer world. A Turkish girl is petted and spoilt, especially by her father and the slaves, often to a dangerous extent, and what is worse, not frequently a witness to sights ahd recipient of chatter demoralizing in the extreme. Besides this the harem and-selamlik system stands in trie way of instruction which, under favorable circumstances, her father might quite possibly give her. : She dwells almost exclusively! with women, perhaps all of them, including ner own motner, pur chased slaves, for as a rule her brothers, particularly, if pupils in the higher schools of Constantinople i or Europe, are seldom at home after their education ... . . 1 . .... . fairly begins. A iurtner drawback is the rapidity with ; which she develops into womanhood. At ten years old she mav be an unlettered child, and at fourteen a maiden in the marriage mar ket. Girlhood is tco short in the East for the welfare of mind and body. Some twehty or thirty years ago there was a great educational movement in Cor itantinople, a Ministry of Public vIn sirucnon was instituted, scnoois were founded, and everything seemed to her ald the dawrl of a new intellectual era in Turkey. Previous to that time the only schools for rfirls existing throughout the Empire were the Rushdieh or primary schools, generally attached to the mosque of csch quarter, A pretty custom, which may still bo seen in many of the old: quartets of Stamboul, p evailed on the admission of a new pupil io one of these schools. On the day appointed for herr arrival the. childreu of the school, headed by the imam, and perhaps somebody with a "musical" l instrument, go in procession to the liousi of the new scholar, who awaits them decked in her most splendid finery, a new satchel, gaudily embroid-': cred, hanging at her side. If she "be very little aer father or some good Daturcd map will carry her, while the quaint proc ssionj singing hymns to the Padishah, M ends its way through the streets to th j school.! Afterward all re turn in the same way to the; new pupil's; house, where a feast of cakes and sweet meats await i them. j At these schools the imam, or reader of the mos(pae, provides a scanty mental nourishment to boys and girls together.: Under bis care the girl learns to repeat a fev verses from the Koran, and to read and write Ja little. But when she be comes old enough to wear the. yashmak, that is, about ten,! she is taken from school, as St is no longer seemingly for her to keep company with boys. The smattering jof the two R.'s which she ac quires is never kept up and gradually dlips out ofjmemory, her time now being occupied in learning to wait deftly, and to perform gracefully all those elaborate obeisances and genuflexions which oc cupy such an important place in Turkish society. . j j In rich families the girls used to share, and still do in some houses, with their brothers the instructions of the hodja, a species of resident tutor. Any of the slave cirls who desire to learn are also free to dc so from the same teacher. From the hodja the girl may, if in diced to intellectual pursuits, acquire, besides reading, writing and the rudi ments of arithmetic,! something of Otto man history and literature. It is in teresting to note that Beither singing nor dancing is considered a desirable ac complishment for a girl; . it is decidedly "fast" for ber to do either. As many Turkish gentlemen object to their women folk shopping in the town, on account! of the opportunity it affords for flirtation, it is a common prac ice with Pera tradesmen to send their shop-girls to the harem with goods for sale, or dresses to e tried on. These girls, gen eraly French Levantines, bright and tak-. ing in manner and j appearan ces, some times catch the fancy of their customers, and it is a common fallacy of the Turk that a person gifted in one capacity must be equally so in every other, a shop girl will often be engaged as nursery gov erness by some semi-enlightened human anxious tc educate her girl a la Franca. Utterly unfit both as regards knowl edge and character to undertake such duties, these girls impart to their pupils little beyond a slight knowledge of the French language and a taste .for novels of the Zola school. The impulse to ex treme flightiness i which results has brought Frank education into disrepute, ana checked the movement, stm In its infancy, for the better instruction of girls, the (Turk generally being ignorant of the world and judging by his own limited experience.; The serious Mussul mans are Ishocked at the j levity of the crirls brought up in I the new fashion, and perceive in n juBimuati-ju Christian teacuers, wmie me the progressjonwU bM bea damped by the unforseen consequences of haste. . To obviate this prejudice and prevent the corruption of Mussulman girls, a Nor mal School was founded in Stamboul in 1870 by Savfet Pasha, a polished gentle man and ac accomplished scholar, who wa3 the Minister of Public Instruction at that time. The plan was to take trirls who had left the Rushdieh schools and give them a strictly orthodox education which would fit them for teacher in tecondary girls' schools and for goTern- esses in the harems of the rich. Tnis, however, is not the only effort that has been made to raise the standard of education, i In Constantinople and some of the larger towns of the Empire secondary girls' schools have been founded. The subjects taken up in these schools are the same as in the Normal be hoc I. No European language, It will be noticed, is taught in any of the girls' schools. The pleasures of Turkish girli are ex tremely simple and limited. Shut out from that limitless world of entertain ment which the literature of civilized countries opens up to the European child directly she can read, with the exception ot festivities in the harem, cn red-letter days,' her pleasures consist in an occa sional picnic or accompanying her elders on the visits which occupy such a large portion of a Turkish lady s time. On household festivals or great relig ious feasts wealthy people will often or- sranize entertainments on a very elaborate scale. Uipsy; dancers or a troupe ot clowns with some sort of pantomime ot show, are engaged for the occasion, and the neighbors, rich and poor, are invited to the performance. The Turks being exceedingly hospitable, a friend of the hostess is free to bring all her sisters and her cousins and her aunts, with theit families, on such occasions. These are high days for the Turkish girl for her elders, too though an English child of tea ot twelve would think the entertain ments very poor performances indeed. The dances are at times rather cracef ul. and the music,' when one is used to it everything depends on your being used, to it is not ; always excruciating ; but the coarse, almost brutish humor of the pantomimes, would be decidedly distaste ful to a western audience. " A more pleasant side of Turkish girl life is that which may be seen any day in early summer, at the Sweet Waters of Europe or some other favorite resort on the outskirts of Constantinople. The family will set out in the morning and spreading their rugs in some field, spend the day there 'doing nothing, and ap parently very well contented with the occupation, lhe women squat on the ground with their feet under them. It is hot romantic, but truth compels me to state that all Turkish girls ultimately be come bandy-legged; the fine, well-made women one occasionally meets in Stam boul are mostly Circassians. A few cakes and some rahat lakhoum or other sweet suffices for both young and old. . A stranger i is invariably struck with the prematurely sericus air that Turkish children wear.: The dMer girls do not play and run in the manner that English people expe:t of healthy children. They sit or stroll about, quietly and gravely, their : yashmaks loosened and forming & snow-white framework which displays to advantage their complexion, u yet unspoiled by paint and powder. On the approach of a man they will hast -ilv draw over their yashmak, not so lose, however, that the stranger cannot id mi re their face if he has a fancy foi- Turkish beauty, which, though in girl The picture of the Druse girl is pro duced to give a specimen of the - head dress, once common to all Lebanese females. 'The Maronites have, however, ceased to wear it since a woman when kneeling at the altar, awkwardly knocked the Host out of the hands of the officiat ing priest. j The most highly instructed girls arc, comparatively, so few in number that they hardly yet constitute a ctas?J i refer to the daughters of certain wealthy and powerful pashas, who, having shaken off the trammels of bigotry and pre- Mudice, educate their children in, as far as is practicable, European fasmon. i These fathers send their sons abroad, and provide capable foreign governesses for the girls. In such homes, daughters, while occupants of the schoolroom; are often encouraged not to neglect muscu lar exercise, which ia essential to healthi ness of both mind and body. They walk, drive and even ride over the' paternal estates. i - Returning to Turkey, the boys are de lighted to find their sisters sympathetic companions, and naturally seek to marry If dies ot the same cultivated stamp, and so very siowiy but surely the wall be a. 1 rt - tweca uxrem ana seiamiiK is being un dermined. Generally about the age of fourteen or fifteen, sometimes even earlier comes the great event of the Turkish girl's life- marriage. It is the end she has been trained for, the goal she has looked for ward to, and the subject upon which she has probably consulted the gypsy fortune tellers who frequent the harems. Marriage is considered a civil rather than a religious ceremony, and its pre uminaries. unchanged : for generations. WORDS OF WISDOM. men AX ARAB DOMESTIC. though prosaic enough according to western notions, are to the native girl filled with romance, and there is certain ly one thing to be said for her view of the. matter, for in all probability, since neither of the parties most concerned has an opportunily of judging the other be forehand, the fancy untrammelled, by facts, is free to range the field of specu lation as to what the coming spouse will be like. As a matter of fact, the girl very sel dom has a voice in the selection of her husband. The mother, . or some other female relative of the youmr man who contemplates matrimony, having dis covered a suitable maiden, goes in state to ask her hand. The marriage is then negotiated by friends appointed by the girl's parents on the one side and the man on the other. Such at least is the proceeding in the great majority ot be trothals, but here again the leaders of progress are anxious to introduce shanges. Their, efforts have not yet. however, made sufficient impression on Turkish life to check to any appreciable extent the practice of arranging matches without reference to the young lady's tastes and perhaps wishes. EnglUh lUuitrattd Magazine. j A DBUSK GIRL. jection to wdor 91 and young women sometimes very attrac tive, is too frequently of the half-bred Tartar type, lacking intelligence and re finement, j In the accompanying engraving ot a Turkish maiden may be seen the fashion able yashmak and feridjeh, which, if not well adapted for walking, are distinct improvements on the thick linen face cloth and ungainly over-garment even yet affected by : some plain and venerable dames. When this new -cut and coquet tish costume was first remarked in car riages and caiques the Turkish Mrs. Grundy, who happened then and for sev eral years afterward to have an ally in the Sultan Aziz's mother, raised an alarm and the authorities received instructions to crush the revolt. But Turkish ladies care little for the police and notwith standing one or two fanatical soldiers the fair offenders held fast to their gsy plumage. The example spread like wildfire and soon reached the palace it self, where hundreds of pretty creatures speedily followed it and the struggle was virtually decided. Mrs. Grundy is beat en, and beyond an occasional idle pro test tacitly admits her defeat. Dead how is the prudish Sultana, and just as well for her peace of mind, seeing that the triumphant Turkish woman has no intention of resting satisfied with Tier first victory. 'v She- now proposes to establish her right to shop freely, listen to public bands and otherwise enjoy harmless privileges, and that she will eventually dc so unhindered nobody Constantinople can always the few who the mass remaining day is won. Than these timid ones gladly benefit by the success they have not helped to obtain. Another illustration shows a girl in the harem, but she is too smartly attired for everyday life and evidently expects friends. Visiting forms the. chief rec reation in winter, bat it cannot be very exciting for the gir l,as she is expected to speak only when direstly addressed, and is moreover, not allowed the solace of a cigarette, that indulgence being con lidwed ouly proper for marrUd weaeo Freouent. Bhallow cultivation of the j growing crops is one of the secrets of sac- cess, liave tne son in couuiuuu o u of planting, work it deeply once or twice, snd after the roots have well started keep the surface loose and porous, but do not plunge the cultivator down among the tender, spreading roots : ana ureas mem off, thus depriving the plant of .the very means of gathering up its neeaea nourisu- ment. . -! Bonis (aspiring author) "Naggus, did you read that last noveUof mine?' Naggus (literary editor) "Yes, I read it. If I remember rurntly, in tne next to the last chapter the hero and heroine were drowned." Bonis "But they were resuscitated in the last chapter.' Narus "I was afraid they would be I didn't read the last chapter, Borns.M Chicago Tribune. . Jacob katw, a pnuadcipman, re cently escaped a horrible death by reason of his thinness. A switch en gine drawing five freight cars knock ed him down and passed over him, but by hugging the ties closely he came out of the ordeal without in jury- ! The man who complains that his cows are unruly can safely be set down as a Boor farmer, and very often he is a cruel one. who deserves punishment. Most unruly cows ara made so by hungex. Real love aever woiks for pay. . Darkness is the star's best friend. What time of day is it when love stops work? f Unbelief is only another name for self- conceit, j Whenever the pig eats it helps the butcher. A mule never finds out that his ears are long. The safest place during the battle is at the front. Dressing conspicuously is a confession of inferiority. To become' wise is to find out how lit tle you know. . j. Philosophy lights no cSadle in the night of death. The trial thst you bear paitiently is the one that helps you. Did you ever see a boy who didn't think the clock ran too slow. A kind word will go farther and strike harder than a cannon ball. Don't try to kill a fly on your neigh bor's head with a hammer. Seeking happiness simply to have it is a very bad kind of selfishness. People who ride hobbies never pay much attention to the scenery. People who look down are always try ing to pull somebody else down. The man who can rejoice in the midst of his trials can rejoice everywhere. It it were not lor Hunger some would never do an honest day's work. ' A principle is something that we ought to be willing to live and die for. Man must have more than the world before he can get any real good out of it. While the pea:ock has his plumage spread, he forgets that he has black feet. The man is mo3t neeied who will cheerfully do things that somsbody else is willing to do. 1 . t It means something to fail rather than disobey, and so failure may sometimes be the highest proof that the heart Is true. Indianapolit Ind.) Jtam't Jlra. Story of a Churn Dor. "Churn-dog" stories are always In or der. A city man who used to live on a farm, as so many city men did when they were boys, sends us this: "At home on the farm we had a number of cows, so many that churning was too heavy a task for even the men folks, so Mr. L. rigged up a dog churn, an inclined wheel, a sort of canine treadmill. It became the duty of Ponto, a large white mastiff, to tread that monotonous cycle, and not withstanding the toothsome bit of meat that was fastened on a lath within four in. ches of his nose,, he was not at all proud . of his position and responsibility. He made several attempts to shirk his task, and twice succeeded. He got to know when churning day came around as well as any one in the house. "Oa the morning of that day he would loiter about the kitchen door until he was fed and as soon as he heard the note of preparation the bringing of the -cream jugs, preparing the churn, etc. he would put for the woods and would not be seen again until night. The day of churning was changed, and next morn ing a more crestfallen and astonished dog was never seen when ho was collared and harnessed to the beam which set the dash in motion; he looked positively foolish. . He did his work, but with lowered head, and in cogitation evidently. On another occasion he tried another dodge.. When they were about to put him on the wheel he ran up to his mistress, holding up one - paw affecting to be lame. She thought much of the dog, and wts inclined to let him off that day. The next instant he was seen caarging over a nign lence al ter a neighbor s cat. WelI," said the old lady, 'if he can go after a est liki that he is able to churn. And be did, tnd never tried to shirk his work again." Forest and Stream. acquainted with doubt. But it is fight the battle, neutral until the Clover makes excellent silage when it is put up properly, but it requires care ful handling and heavy weighting, or it is liable to spoil. . 1 . About 150 women have taken tim ber claims within the last few months in the State of Washington. It has long been the wail: of the press of that region that the woods were full of lonely young bachelors pining for wives, and we trust there is nothing wrong in putting these two announce ments Into juxtaposition. If Oar Grains Were Lost. f The whole group of relatives of the - lost cereals would be passed ia strict re view. Size of gram, strength and vigor snd plasticity of stock, adaptability to different surroundings, and flexibility in variation would be examined with scrupu lous care. But the range of. experiment would. under the circumstances, extend far be yond the relatives of our present cereals. It would embrace an examination ot the i other grasses which are even now culti vated for their grains, but which are so 1 little known, outside of their own limit, that it is a surprise to hear about them. For example, the millets, great and small, would be investigated. These grains, so little known here, form an im portant crop in certain parts of the East. One of the leading 'authorities on the subject states that the millets constitute "a more important crop' in India "than either rice or wheat, and are grown more extensively,. being raised from Madras in 'the south to Rajputana in the north. They occupy about eighty-three per cent, of the food-grain area in Bombay and Sindc, forty-one percent, in the Punjab, thirty-nine per cent, in tho central provinces,'1 "in all about thirty million acres." Having chosen proper subjects for ex perimenting, the cultivators would make use of certain well-known principles. By simple selection of that more desirable seeds, strains would be kept as races, or attempts would be made' to intensify wished-f or characters. By skilful hybri dizing of the first, second, and higher orders, tendencies . to wider variation would be obtained and the process of selection considerably expedited. Popu lar Seienet Monthly. . ."When some men pay their preach er they feel as though they were pay ing a gas bin." remarks the Ram's Horn. Well, with all due respect to the many brilliant clergymen who Isolation in the Bermudas. Persons accustomed to the long jour neys and comtant intercommunication of this country cannot understand the isolation of the small communities of the Bermudas. Distances there are trifling, but communication is difficult, and to go from village to village or from island to island is esteemed a seriou under taking. When a young' nun of St. George was to !e married to a young woman of Hamilton and to take up his abode in the bitter place, twelve miles distant, his friends accompanied him to occupy American pulpits, possibly , tne wharf ana bade him good by. with some of these men are right regard-1 many tears aud prayers. Stvt Orleans log tbt tberjj j . . 1 TiwDmw-Btt - - ' ' L
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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