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1 -r FAYETTEVILLE N.j G, THTJRSDAX SEPTEMBER 23, 18SG. ' " - -' ' " ' '" "" ' ' ' ' " " " 1 ' ,,...,' " " ' " . 7 ' '"' "' 1 .' - i - i - , . ,i i.j . --- - mm - ; n mm: tol ho. m. ; (pbscrucr cinb (Bcucttc. RISEN PROM POVERTY. THX CHILD OF COBTEDEXACY. 0. 0. JTIXOVXX, Proprietor. nmr. - U8T OP WXALTHY EX-COirFELEATES. Davis's u4 1 Orerfcaaejli F1VKTTRTILLE, IV. C. ...SEPTEMBER 23, 1886. TKKMS OF SUpsCMPTfOX: wrfr 0 advance).... .83 00 MSai - d!l 'vr- 00 I - untiwd without mruvnL umii in I' . rnintlion of lillte Uuli for.' " rr"" 111" ' RATES OF ADVERTISIXG th " - A Song of Beet. 0 W(,aryHands! that all the day ." Were set to labor hard and loifg, ow eoftlv fall the shadows gray, ' The bl"U are rung for even eong. la bour ago the golden sun unk slowlv down into the west; I1 Poor, weary llanda, your toil is done: ' fr:'- tima for rest! 'tis time for rest! 0 weary Feet ! that many a mile Have" trudged along a atony way, At lt you reaeh the trysting stile Xo longer fear to go astray. The gentle bending, rustling treea Kock the young birds within the nest; And i"ftly sings the quiet breeae: "'Ti time for rest! tis time for rest" 0 weary Eyes! from which-the tears " Fell many a time like thunder rain 0 we.-.rr Heart ! that through the years Beat with sueh bitter, restless pain, To-nigbt forget the stormy strife, And know. . what Heaven shall send is best ; Ly lwn the tangled web of life: .Tin time for rest !--'t is time for rest j flvrrnet Tifter, i Chamber' Mntazttie, "' Pretty Daughter Tinting Friends ia Virginia. , . Alexandria, Vam September 10, 188C. Jefferson Davis's youngest daughter who has been called " the child of the Con federacy," because she was born, at Rich mond while her father ruled as President of the Confederate States is on a visit to the famijyof Gen. "Runy"Lee, who lives a few miles,outside of this town. Until last week Miss Davis had lived, ever since the war, at her father's home, Beanvoir, Miss. A few days ago she came to Richmond with her aunt, and after calling on some of her family friends she set out for Fairfax County for a visit to Gen. Lee, who is one of the Confederate President's closest friends. Many Alexandrians have gone out to W: Me Who Are Alike Skilled in;War and in the . . ,. Anot Gathering in the Shekels. Tiuhigto)i Correspondence of the Philadelphia Time . General Marcus J. Wright, .Chief of the Confederate Records Office, is preparing a biographical work, in which, the fortunes of the ex-Confederate generals will be traced up to date. According to the in formation collected by him, a good many of them, Southern leaders who found them selves penniless after the war, have carved out new fortunes fort themselves, some - them even ranking among the millionaires. General Mahone, of Virginia, is the richest of them. After the surrender at 'Appo mattox he owned a horse, some war trap pings and hE$ box of surveying instruments which he had before the war used as a 1M YTil AYlfVinOAAt Tn Loo fVtnm . wrn.1- . C the las had firedhe wTsloved bv EJaSf Lv"Pll1 W the Orange and Alexandria Railroad at civil m ,t ?J55? 2 enLnneerinc. He bouirht stock with th 'X-Mis? Davis is a typical So savings from his salary, sold it opportune ly, invested in other Virginia railroads and in a few years retired from the civil en gineering to take the position of vice presi dent jof the Danville Road. From that position he graduated to the presidency of the Norfolk and Ten n esse Road. After ten years had passed he was the railroad prince of Virginia, and is now a million aire. His fortune is estimated at $15,000, 000, 'and he is adding to it daily by shrewd investments. Senator Mahone is one of the very few men who have never lost in any enterprise undertaken. Whatever he loucnes seems to turn to goia. ne is some- Ed Stokes" for country seat,' to child of the times called the " Virginia this reason. Tessia. Thf gentle ason tht we knew A unny season only, ' " ; " Hm vanished like the morning's dew ' And all the world i lonely; Ah, how we miss her winsome face! -Our souls are stung with sorrow A we behold her vaeant place Aud yearu for God's good morrow. fs know slie lives beyond tho tomb Where sorrow ht a stranger; Whore there u neither grief nor gloom, Xor ain, nor ain, nor danger; . Tet a we think f her in life Her soul-inspiring gladness, . Ai daughter, playmate, -sweetheart, wife, ' Our hearts are er ashed with sadness. - IIow, empty life is sinee aheleft! i; f J ; In Vain the sun is shining Tor those dear hearts of her bereft. And love itself is pining ' . T aosraway beyond the stars To the joy that shines about her. And leave behind the grief that mars Our lonely Uvea without her! - . i , x t' W. E. Barrett. The Turn of the Tide. The harbor light are dim with moke Which hangs about the under sky And wraps, the simple fisherfolk . In lurid mists a thev go by. . Along the shore the wind Wows free, -Keen tw ilight kiasea the wau sea -i'ar eut; steer hither, wateh with me ' The tender stars eome out on high. The ky is deepening overhead; The sail flaps loose; the wind has died ; The water laps the boat like lead ; Faint ripples splash against the side, And Khimmer with unearthly light; The harbor lamps are oat of sight J We drift iuto'a starless night Together on the ebbing tide. How still how strange the tide is slack. We eddy round, we drift no more. What swell is this whieh sweeps ua baek To where the gathering breakers roar About the pale unlighted land f t'an any tell if we shall stand Safe in the morning hand in hand Upon the steep aud rock-bound shore t 1 A. SimSOH. SUXMABY OP HEWS. Differtnt Themes from Different Fields. A notorious moonshiner named Chenault wujthot and instantly killed at Etna, Sunday awning, 12th Inst.," by one McKay. Cause, liquor. . . ', . ,. t . ' , Kine Xo. 3. at Huntsville, Mo., the largest n thut vicinity, after bving idle more than five month-, has just reopened on the oooperative plan. The miners are to have the use of the wmpany's machinery and tw-'pay. the latter a royalty of one cent per puahel. - - 'J A railroad collision occurred last week on the Nickel Plate Eoad, in' New York "State, in Bich nineteen persons were killed. Blame is attached to the engineer and conductor of the train.' The engineer has not been aeon since the accident, having ran away. A dispatch from Eauclaire aaya; The Chip jwfi Lumber and Broom Company's saw mill luippewa r ails, Aiiun., tne largest in in j eonntry. was struek- by lightning at 2 o'clock "n the lfith inst., and eomplotely destroyed. -0,000; partially insured. Henry Barnes, colored, was lynched on the 10th inat., at Millen, Ga., for outraging s hite lady at Roger's station, on the Central Railroad, -j A . party of masked", men did . the lynehhur. Barnes was taken from the train. "ear auien and riddled with JbjaUeU.; ; U il John Wvatt and Domnsev Loft in are neieh- in Marshall eountv. Kv.. who have not bora. spoke to Wyatt on funeral, and the latter rt with a rock. - lxftin then JPoken for years. Loftin 'he 15th inst., at a fun noked him do wit with a few a knifo iml Viio.A Wvatt sr&lirttTior liim Centimes. ... . , Matthew Hotlveffer, keeper at tho Zoo, In ; 'n"niati, was killed by a grizzly bear on the "th inst. He was sweeping in front of the ?n, when the bear reachttd -out throuirh the Jw, eauglrt hfra by the shoulders and hold on NUbe, flesh was torn to shreds. . The man m removed to the City Hospital and died Uat night of his injuries. . t , ir j i the eyening of the Hth inst., a a freight "am on the "Longline'' arrived within, a mil , " ' e putney Ills., it was thrown irom tne Jfaek by a misplaced switch. Jack Mc ' rthy was caught beneath his engine" and f"hed tb death. Fireman Meefe was so bad . Raided that ho died an hoar later. Iee ri8lfott, brakeman. was also fatallr scalded. A large rock overhanging the mountain side Jackson fottnty.-W. nVaj,. d the 15th inat. P'eame detached and rolled down. The dwell- ng and barns, of Lostie 'Cumtoins were de ehehed. ' Cttmmins son; Frank and a hired , Edward Jenks, were kiUed outright -v uier children of Cummins' were so badly kUleary WiU Jie" BeTer1 n,rMg Were l3 Hi Nat.inn.1 TaeevmAO A aAMrla 1 tiaia no i Mine Lalwrers of the United States began jr4 nnoal Convention at Chi ?ago on Sept. They represent a membership of 30,000. order was organized in St. Louis last May, wKaK tba,t branch of the Knights of Labor " ? are miners. Business has been confined jtM to the appointment of. committees on l Jd finance. The two Senators from Louisiana, Gib son and Eustis, rank next to Mahone in wealth. Gibson was a Confederate gen eral and served throughout the war. At its close hd had several hundred acres of land, which had not been, tilled for four years, and had a musty, law office iu New Orleans, which he had not entered since his brigade was ordered to the front; .With borrowed money he set to work planting, and at the same time began once more the firactiee of his profession. Now, after the apse of twenty years, he ranks among the wealthiest planters in Louisiana, is at the head of ,the bar in New Orleans aud is worth considerably over a half million of dollars. This will be increased eventually to a million or more, as his wife will come into a large fortune at the death or "her mother, Mrs. Montgomery. 1 His colleague, Eustis, after fighting under Johntson till the close of the war, turned his attention to law aud sugar, and between them has eked out several hundred thousand dollars. He is regarded as the. shrewdest mau.in the New Orleans Sugar Exchange, and al though not a broker, always has the " tips. " He was the candidate of the sugar men for the United States Senate and, it is said, has a hand in the Louisiana Lottery Com pany. Nearly as wealthy as the .foregoing is General Brown, of Tennessee, twice Gov ernor of that State since the war and now the receiver of the Texas Pacific Railroad. General Brown, like so many of his as sociates, took to civil engineering and rail--roading when he laid down his arms. " Af ter constructing several small roads iu Tennessee he entered the service of the Texas Pacific at a salary of $20,000 a year and has his headquarters at Dallas. Asa result of his railroad adventures he is worth nearly $1,000,000 and is. increasing his fortune yearly. , After the surrender he Was as penniless as General Mahone, but, like Mahone. he did not lie back and com plain. His first surveying job brought him fifteen dollars a week, but in a year tuere nfterhewas receiving five thousand dol lars a 'year as president of the Nash ville Railroad. General Rosser, of the Northern Virginia Cavalry, now living in retirement at Charlottesville, has an estate valued at over $700,000. He made it all since the war, and at. 'railroading. After surveying for several years in the Western States, he became connected with the Northern Pacific Railroad, and was elected its vice president eight years ago. His estate is almost adjoining the old home stead of, Thomas Jefferson,. at Motrticello, and is generally conceded to be the finest in Virginia. .'He has a hobby: which is laughed at throughout the State. While in California he took mucti interest in tne grape culture there, so when he settled in Charlottesville a few years since he plant ed an extpnsive vineyard and was always boasting of his knowledge of the vine. It turned out that his knowledge was like Greeley's in the farming line. The vines grew not, neither .did they bear frwit, ex cept the fruit of expense. Still the old Genera! rides his hobby and is determined to make California vines grow luiunanuy n Virginia. He has lost many thousands of dollars in his vine venture,- yet he can not be said to bd poor with $700,000. General Pohgnae, who servea in me Western Tennessee army, is worth ilot far from a million. He is the French soldier who, at the outbreak of the war, came to this country and offered his sword to the Confederate cause. Though he gained no especial distinction in the field, he fought bravely till 1865. Finding that soldiering did not nav he thereafter devoted his en ergies to civil engineering and soon attain ed distinction in the profession. Several times he was sent by the French Govern ment on surveying expeditions in Africa, and proved that his daring was equal to bi VI11 ' He received several decorations from the government and, what was better stinV some large government contracts, out of which he extracted a snag fortuned ' General Trimble, who lives in Baltimore, found a fortune in liquor.' after the war. The whisky whieh bears lis,iame found its way into popularity at once, and has so far yielded the General more than a half million."" He owns extensive distilleries near Baltimore, and although very .old he .-11 1- 1.1 i .m a '! snu superiniequa wwr viirimmu. . General WJaeeler, of Alabama, now Con gressman from the Eighth , district, . after gaining the 1 reputation of bein the- most daring cavalry leader in the South after J. EiB Stuart, stepped irom we saauw into the cotton field, and from poverty has risen to be the richest man in his State. His estate is valued at neatly a million. General Gordon, of Georgia, made a for tune since the war, but lost it recently through injudiciousspeculation. Five years ago he was a millionaire; to-day i he is lib erally not worth a dollar. General John ston, Unittd States Railroad Commission er, has a snug fortune; and a few othor ex-Confederate generals are worth a hun dred thousand or more all made' 'after laying down their arms. Ravenswood, Gen her admiring Southern beauty, She is just tall enough to be commanding in appearance, and has a willowy, grace ful form, which is clad with a richness and taste that are surprising, when it is re membered that the young girl has lived all her life in the retirement, of a country house. Her face is long and somewhat in clined to -leanness, but its very lineament bespeaks the .patrician. Hr complexion is a rich ohver her eyes hazel and her hair black and curling. Although still very iroung, and without society experience, she ooks like a queen among women as she stands receiving her callers. From her conversation it appears that she cherishes the sentiments of her father in regard to the " Lost Cause." She regards it as a sacred theme and considers the Southern people as - i a. VT . I . i i manrs io .worinern greeu ana geaiousy, 1 hat she should imbibe such' sentiments is no more than natural. Ever since the war she has been at her father's side, his chief support and consolation. He edu cated her personally, gave her his views of life, and fashioned her in the mould of the ante-bellum Southern ladv It is said by those who know Miss Davis well that she helped her father consider ably in the preparation of his recent his tory of the war. Her studies from youth had beeu directed in the line 'of Southern war records atd political history, so that when it came to preparing the work she was a valuable assistant. Her aunt savs that the old Confederate leader relied on her almost entirely in the matter of collect ing and arranging statistics of the war and employed her as amanuensis most of the time while preparing the work. Nothing pleased her so much as huntiug up facts anu theories to defend the South and the policy of her father's administration. Her favorite retreat at home is in the big library, which consists almost exclusively of the war records and histories of the United States. Here she reads to her fath- several hours daily, while the fallen THE WHITE ROSE AND THE RED. THE "HORN OF PLENTY." GSXAT BAIT LAXX. ALFRED AHD BOB TAYL0X X2T TEX POLITI CAL ABE A. er chieftain listens, nods and dreams of the !ast. .It is said that he fairly dotes on his tandsome child cannot bear to let her out of his sight. It was only after' a '. long struggle that he consented to her trip to Richmond and Alexandria. She seems equally devoted to her father, for she has ref used several advanta geons offers of mar riage from wealthy Mississippi planters, in order to soothe his declining years by her presence. While Miss Davis is in Virginia she will, it is said, visit most of the places of his toric interest. " She has already seen the room in the Governor's mansion at Rich mond Avherw she-was born, and pored over the war records at the Capitol. Anything of interest connected with the war ha s an all-absorbing interest for her." Wherever she goes she is received as a princess. She has received hundreds of invitations from members of the "P. F. V.,n bat will of course have to decline most of them, since her visit is to be a brief one. It is report ed that her next visit will be to Gen. Park Custis Lee's, and thence she will visit some of the first families alonz tidewater Vir ginia. A Queer Little Western Bailroad. ' From the Chicago Xer. There is a little, narrow gauge railroad in Central Illinois which is rather amusing. It runs through a rich fanning country and is owned and managed by wealthy farmers. The conductors, engineers and brakemen are farmers' sons who have Two Brothers Who Aspire to be Governor of Tennessee, Extracts from an Eloquent Speech. . The Taylor brothers, democratic and re publican candidates for Governor of Ten nessee, opened the campaign at Madison ville.on Sept. 9. The people of the sur rounding country turned out en masse, and a crowd of several thousand heard the novel but dignified discussion of the points at issue between the parties, with nothing of a personal or unpleasant nature. Hon. Alfred A. Taylor, republican, was first introduced, and made an eloquent presentation of republican principles. He arraigned the democratic party of the State and . nation as beinsr in power by false pretenses, and having broken every gromise maae in recent party platforms, te defended the protective tariff, and ably presented arguments favoring the Blair bill. He alleged that the republicans had been -pioneers in every good move ment of to-dav. In openingMr. Bob Tavlor, the demo cratic candidate, said: "Fellow Citizens In the days of the Roman empire it was the custom of the emperors to amuse them selves and their subjects with cruel and bloody entertainments called gladiatorial contests. It is possible that many of you have come here to-day with the fear that you may witness a similar exhibition of brutality betweeu two brothers scrambling for the same office. In this country there are two great ideas of free government the i republican idea and the democratic idea. The representative - of the republi can idea in this campaign is my brother. It devolves upon me, as the choice of the democratic party of Tennessee, to repre sent the democratic idea. Is there any thing improper, indelicate or unbrotherly in our meeting to aiscuss puonciy tne in terests of a great state and a great nation under these two ideas? We have not met tq wrangle or quarrel or scramble for the high office for which we have been made candidates. The tender bond of brother hood is neither "severed nor nbraided by our difference of opinion in politics, nor can the discussion of political questions disturb the delicate relations. The red rose and white rose bloom together and shed their odors upon the same atmos phere,and, geutly st rugging for supremacy, glorify the twilight hours. My brother represents to-day the red rose and I repre sent the white. Our political histories vary in this, that in my budhood I was trans planted by tender and loving -hands into the sweet gardens of pure democracy, while he, like the 'last rose of summer,' in the desert of republicanism was left blooming alone. 4 Full many a gem of purest ray serene ' The dark unf athomed caves of ocean bear, Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on tho desert air.' shall grown wearv of raising cattle and corn and wno nave tatcen to -rauroaaing as a re lief. The various stations along the line of this little railroad are of no consequence whatever, except to their score or more of inhabitants and to the farmers of the neigh borhood. A train starts from each end of the rodd every morning after breakfast, runs to the opposite end of the road by dinner time, returns again for tea, and ties up for the night. As there isno telegraph line connected with the road, nobody at any of the stations knows when a tram is comincr until it arrives in sight. As the rails are laid on ties placed on the flat nrairie. and as no grade exists from one end of the road to' the other, the tall grass baa an awkward habit of getting? under the wheels and stopping the train. 'Not infrequently, also, the light rails spread apart and the cars run off the track, and go tumbling along on me virgin prairie Whenever a little accident of this kind oe- e.nrs the engineer, conductor, brakemen and passengers jump to the ground and lift the cars into place again, ine pas sen.ers ride in a car reserved for them in the, rear bf a lonsrlineof freight cars. Half of this car is partitioned off in order that it mav also serve for carrying mail Dags, ex nress matter and basrerage. Not infre quently passengers walk into a village ahead of the train and announce that the ear will follow- them- in an hour or twoi roviding they can be kept on the track ongenough. Sometimes, ldeomotive gets stalled on some -one. of the several gentle hills alons? the line.' The trainmen there upon quietly- wait intil the other engine appears, men xne two engines uraw me train , nn the hilL - Notwithstanding the oddities which exist in the management of this little railroad it hauls large quantities r f reiffht and is making money for its stockholders. . ; . I --'? ---r : Heeded Characteristics. If a man would be useful continually, he must have courage and self -respect enough to be inconvenient occasionally. No man can always be at hand without something being in the way.; JSo man can oe a skiu- f nl mechanic without first being an inquis itive apprentice. A man absolutely and always harmless is liKeiy to De aosoiuxeiy and always useless. "But, fellow citizens, when vou have all taken a smell, and taken vour choice of blossoms, the red rose will have the happy consolation of knowing that he is the brother of the governor." I The speaker awoke echoes of applause in discussing the scenes at the South at the close of the war. He said: "At the close of that memorable conflict the South, once bo fair and rich and powerful, lay bleeding and gasping in the ashes of defeat and humiliation. Her fields laid waste, her wealth consumed, her cities battered and burnt and ruined, and her thousands of happy homes made desolate and mournful by the rage and wrath of armies and the cruel ravages of civil war. The angel of death had crossed almost every threshold, and three hundred thousand of theflowers, of the land were in bloody graves. Every sighing breeze that swept her dreary wastes, from the bloody grounds of the Wilderness to the smouldering embers of ruined At lanta, bore the wails of weeping women. She was a land of sorrowing mothers, heart-broken widows and orphan children. She was a land full of griefs more poignant than the sword that made them. " But the big brave hearts and brawny arms of those bronzed veterans of a hun dred battles were not to thus remain in the stupor and paralysis of lost hope. It did not become a brave people to thus yield up their courage and passively await the fin ishing stroke of adverse fate. In the mis fortune and destitution which the war had broneht upon their innocent and helpless famines thev heard the stern command or .. .. ... a new and arduous duty; in tne obstruc tion of their homes and the desolation of their country they saw a new field of no bler strife. They said: ' The storm is past and we-survive; while life remains the star of hope will not be quenched, though of tentimes obscured by the passing shadows. We can not give back life to those who fell we can only cherish their memory; we cannot bring back the fallen fortunes and departed glories of the old South, but we can build a new South, and by the bless ing- of Almighty God we will do it. We will build it on a new foundation in which shall be incorporated the great constitu tional principles now ' settled and estab lished bv the arbitrament of the sword." They brushed away the tears of their weeping women and pledged them a brighter dav," when the shadows should vanish and the clouds roll by. They tnrned their backs upon the dead past aud brave- lv faced the future. ' These, my countrymen, are the principles of the1 progressive 'democracy of tho new South. They inspire the energy, tne pusti, the grip and snap which are rapidly rear ing, the Southern half of the grandest structure of advanced civilization the world Hew tome Xew "York Entertainments Are lap . j ' plied with Food. -" i From-the Troy Tlmr ' The caterer is now a power in New York. A few years ago a well-stocked household was considered sufficient unto itself, but now the caterer and his assistants are called in for anything 'out of the regular order of things, from a lu'hcheou of six people to supper for five hundred guests. There are caterers of every; grade, from 'good-natured and hardworking negroes who serve meals "to bachelors living in cheap rooms, at prices ranging from thirty to seventy cents a meal,un to the Pinards, who pretend to be a peg higher even than Delmonico. The humbler caterers- may bo seen trudging along ii the morning from their homes in the poorer quarters of the city, lugging ob long tin boxes that have been japanned a seal brown at a date more or less remote. and wending their way toward sleeping bachelors all over town. The tin boxes are about a foot square and two feet and a half high, with a big handle on. the top. Within; arii tin shelve. Under .the bot tom shelf are alcoholic lamps. On the shelf is:a platter .with chops, steak or ham. The space between that shelf and the next is only ithrce inches, but the shelves above it are about five inches apart, to give room for the caps, saucers, coffee and milk pots and sugar bowl. ' All of these things have their slots, into which they fit closely. The top shelf is used I for the table cloth and napkins. The front of the box is a door. It swings open and exhibits the breakfast to the hungry lodger when the caterer bustles-into his -room. More pretentious kits than this are sent out by the liotels and restaurants. A breakfast may be car ried miles through the snowy streets and laid on, the. table hot and. inviting. The catering" department of the big restaurant is a very important one. There is a prej udice against boarding houses in New York, At all events, it is exceedingly un fashionable tb live in one, and the people who are not supplied by caterers from choice are from awe of the form of fash ion. Contracts to serve meals may be made with the big restaurants at rates far below the regular figures on the bill of fare. But perhaps .the caterer is most highly appreciated by people who enter tain, j Instead of bulldozing the regulation cook iuto preparing a dinner for a uum ber of guests, a note to the caterer settles it alL . There is then no hurry, no delay, no wrangles witty servants, and the surety of a good dinne well and promptly served. Halt an hour before it-is time for the uests to arrive a wagon of the hearse pat tern with a chimney through the roof drives up. Nimble assistants carry in the wine from the" refrigerator in one end of the wagon and the edibles from the hot com partment in tho.other end. Everything is there, from the flowers to the salt. The regular -servarats retire and the. caterer takes possession of the kitchen, pantry and dining room until the guests have gone. Then the wagon drives up again, and in twenty minutes all traces of the dinn party, whether to six or a hundred guests, have disappeared. This plan of giving dinners grows more and more popular every year. The extent to which the fash ionable New York housewife depends on the caterer, not only for food but for near ly everything else in the way of entertain ing, is growing more and more noticeable. These useful servants take all the details of the work of party-giving off the hands of the hostess. They lay the dancing cloth, provide musicians, have the dancing or ders composed ' and printed, decorate the rooms, put up the storm awnings, number the carriages, provide extra chairs, coat checks, supperj and help, and virtually give the entertainment. All the lady of the house has to do is to walk down to her Earlors and receive her guests when they egin .to arrive. The. cost of all this is very much less than one would imagine, and the relief from the din, hubbub and annoances that prevail when the house servants undertake the work is decided. BOW AX XDITOB THX AXD HIS WT7X PROCEEDS." Utll.I'.KD ever saw. i Don't Blind the Babies. ever occurred to those who Has it purchase coaches for their babies, and who make it a point to select the brightest colors they can hnu for the screen that is interposed between the eyes of the , child and the sun, that they are liable , to do irreparable injury , to' the vision ; of the little ones? .An infant lies on its back, its eyes upturned toward the bright coverig 'above it. its gaze being the more ; intent the brighter the cover and the more direct the rays of the sun upon it. .Nothing but ln- iiirv can result from such thoughtless expos ure. An experienced nurse fays there cannot be a doubt as to injurious esecu or those bright so-called shields uron the . tender eves of children. Parents who are wise will select the darker and denser shades, even though they may not be as handsome or showy in their eves as come of those which, are more fashionable. A T. Stewart's Widow. AVt Yuri Cufi-rtjiuAJruct of Sn Frnncitco Aryouaut. Some days ago, walking past that mar ble palace on Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, I had a glimpse of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, the first for years. Poor old lady! Oue look at' her is as good as a sermon on thq follies of this life. Her coupe, gorgeous h gilded trappings and satin cushions, was standing at the curb, and, just as I passed, the great white hall doors were thrown open with a flourish. and out she came. Against along vista of marble columns and shining floors she began to creep slowly down the stairs. leaning heavily on the arm of her major domo. That major domo, by the wav, is a .wonderful old creature. He looks like a creation of Trollope's, and always dresses in" decent black, with a black velvet sknll cap on his lorfg, silvery hair, and his gold- tipped wand of office in his band, tie led Mrs. Stewart with fatherlv care down the long flight of steps," then at the bottom delivered her into tho hands of two gigan tic footmen, who : supported her to the carriage, while a maid followed, her bloom ing face peeping out from under a mass of shawls and air cushions. That the widow of the merchant millionaire is fond as ever of the pomps and vnnities is shown in her planted cheeks, in the maze of wild black curls, bobbing into her eyes and pouring . . a a a a jetty cascade down ner oactc; in ner gown of black silk, stiff as pasteboard, and covered, with laces and jet and red satin bowsj dragging its heavy length out be hind her. It looks, however, as if. she could : not" have much more time to enjoy them. Sho .was .so feeble the other day that her footman had almost to lift her into her carriage; then the maid came tripping . to the, door , and began . putting her into shape punched up her cushions and arranged her shawls, pulled the gloves up over ( her skinny, trembling bands twitched her bonnet into place, pulled down her Veil, patted tho bow under .her chin 'and settled her into the carriage as one might settle an extra expensive doll. AroMmedes Kardpaa Gives His Experience as a Journaliit Liver Fads Refused by Eli Gro cer as a Legal Tender. . . . , Scott TTay, i'ji th Detroit F, Pre. The following wof nl experience should serve as a warning to the country editor who sells his advertising space for "truck" that he has no use for: My name is Archimedes Hardpan. Un til recently I was editor of the . irry6acl llorn nf P&iijf. My journalistic career was short, sad and painf uL I am now brooding o'er the painful past. I have so much painful past to brood o'er that I haven't time to do much else. Let the frivolous and trifling pause here and turn to-another column. These. re marks are not for them." They. are for those who can weep a couple of tears over my painful past. I . My wife's namo is Maria. She is a wo man of an economical turn of mind and great force of character. Iu her domestic, walks "waste nothing" is her maxim, and her constant efforts to have me help her "waste nothingfhave been the , cause of m ach of my painful past. The advertising patrons of the Horn of rUnty paid me mainly in sad-irons, cork screws, garden seeds, health food and a variety of other things which Congress has thus far neglected to make a legal tender. In this respect my paper was truly a Horn of Plenty. It was more of the nature of a hollow horn. - ! 1 My first advertising. contract yielded me a dozen liver pads. -1 tried to trade them to the grocer for a piece of bacon, which, I thought, would give my liver more joy than a pad, but be looked at me coldly and said that liver pads had gone out of style. When Maria found them on my hands she insisted that I should wear them, and when Maria -insists I usually give in to save trouble and loud talk. For twelve weeks I wore a large, scarlet-trimmed pad over an innocent and well-behaved liver. Then Maria gave the cast-off pads to the local benevolent society for the poor. My next important contract brought me an artificial leg. That rather stumped Maria, -as we were both fully supplied with legs, ine old wooden limb caused her a great deal of mental pain. Sometimes she seemed to almost wish I would lose a leg somehow or other,-so that the artificial limb could be turned to use. I knew that she was .grieving herself sick because I couldn't wear it and Wouldn't try. I oft found her weeping o'er the old unavailing leg, and I was sorry I had told her any thing about it. She worried over it for months, and then a bright idea struck her. She sent it to a dear relative on the occa sion of her wooden wedding. The dear relative had a full set of legs of her own, but Maria said that did not matter, as an anniversary gift was not valued for its usefulness, but for the giver. . Then a traveling agent traded me & case of horse powders. That sort of health food onplusseu Maria lor a time, as we had no horse to feed them to. She often crazed on me in a Way that seemed to say I ought to end her perplexity by taking the health food mj-self, but she did not speak out, and I was glad. Affer some months I ventured to ask about the horse powders, and then Maria told me frankly she had mixed them iu my griddle cakes, and that I had seemed to like them thus. She couldn't think of having them go to waste, she said, and as I complained so much about taking any little thing of that sort, she had decided to smuggle them into me in disguise. I had another short respite from keep ing things from going to waste, when a mustard plaster: maker sent me six dozen of his biggest and strongest plasters, with a request for a write-up. ".Dear Archimedes," said Maria, with a tender look at me, "we cannot afford to waste these excellent plasters. You must let me put several of them on. vou every night. A man of your build and habits is liable to have some sort of sickness at any moment. These six dozen mustard plas ters may save your life." I kickedy but to no purpose. I went to bed with six or seven large, warm, thrill ing mustard plasters stuck about here and there on my person. There was one on each foot, a large one covered my gothic backbone and another warmed itself in mv bosom. It also warmed my bosom. When all these shop-made mustard plas ters got to work they made things lively for poor old Archimedes Hardpan. They filled me full of intense excitement. I am a tough old lossiL, but l couldn t stand a great deal of that sort of thing, so I rose up in bed with a wild, blood-chilling war whoop and filled the air with profanity and mustard plasters. I sold the Horn of Plenty soon after that last painful event. Maria has given those vigorous, thrilling mustard plasters to the missionary society to send to the heathen, and when the heathen adorns himself with nine or ten of them and a stovepipe hat, and goes to church with a triumphal air, I shall want to hear how he deports himself. I am, therefore, anxiously awaiting ad vices from the heathen. I dont know the heathen, but I am well acquainted with those mustard plasters. Dimeultiee ef twimaainsr ia its SaHae Waters The Mishap of a Touaf Lady who Attempt a Hatatorial Teat . , Utah. Letter to the Chrtaffo Iier-OemfL , ' I did not anticipate ajiy advantage in either way, but I lacked the moral courage to turn away and confess I had seen Great Salt Lake without taking a bath in its cel ebrated waters. While I stood on the long platform deliberating as to the style of debut most impressive for a till, thin man, with abathing suit for one whose propor tions were latitudinal rather than longitu dinal, an ideal of beauty stepped from the next dressing room, and, conscious of her loveliness and its power of attraction, stopped a moment on the stairs to survey the field before making the plunge. Could she ' swim? Like ' a mermaid, rd , havs; wagered my last nickel. She was from one of Chicago's suburbs, and had cut the wa ters of Geneva Lake like one of the finny tribe that makes their home there; she had plunged into the surf at Long Branch, and sported in the warm water of the Japan, current of the Pacific coast. She was art expert swimmer, but neither mermaids nor finny tribes inhabit Great Salt Lake. - It is a dead sea, where nothing in the animal or vegetable kingdom finds life. Its waters -are nearly one-fourth pure salt, and ita specific gravity six times greater than tho ocean. It is as buoyant as a rubber balL But the beauty had not been told all this and did not discover the true nature of her surroundings until after she had made the almost fatal plunge. The water did not receive her form in a lovingembrace, but repulsed her familiarity. Her body re bounded as though it had struck a great rubber ball, her heels went into the air and then she took a header, with eyes, mouth and nostrils open wide with surprise. The water is like brine, and this dive was a terrible experience to the mermaid of thev east. She strangled, and without prompt' help would have drowned. She said it wa like swallowing a great gulp of lye. I profited by the experience, and was satisfied to wade until l found it required no effort at all to float, which is the only ' swimming attempted in Great Salt Lake. The water is too heavy to make any progress in swimming. When Paul Boyn-" ton was here he found that . with his rub ber suit on he could swim with great diffU, culty, since the buoyancy of the water pre- t vented his body . from sinking into it enough to make 'a successful stroke.' He met with an experience somewhat similar to the young lady mentioned, and in a lit-1 tie gale accidentally got some of the salt " water in his mouth and nostrils. ' He -strangled, and was rescued by two young 1 men in a boat. Leaving the lake you find i in your dressing room a large pail of fresh water for another bath, without which you . will present an appearance not unlike that of Lot's wife after she disobeyed the com- ' mand not to look back. These baths are . really intoxicating, and many invalids are here for medical aid, and Salt Lake phy- sicians say there are not more invigorating 1 it- 1 . . ir. 1 uaius auywnere in me country, ine wa ters of the Dead Sea hold more minerals in solution than do those of the Great Salt ' Lake, but there is nothing to equal this anywhere else. I( issix times more salt than the ocean, and, as I said, taste like -brine; but it looks as clear as the waters ot , Lake Michigan, only a darker green when ( viewed as a great body. , A good many people will be surprised to learn that the biggest building in the United State will be the City Hall of Philadelphia, now in process of construc tion. Betweeu $11,000,000 and $12,000,UUU have been expended upon it since 1872. It is estimated to cover z,800 more square feet than the Capitol at Washington. Tho tower on the north side will be surmounteu by a statue of Penn, and its extreme height when completed will be f35 feet. It has now reached a height of 270 feet. ' Ways of City Beggars. ' From the Xtir tYort Sn. - The simulation of disease is to be met everywhere in the streets of New York. Takene of those who has learned to love begging, and observe the devices he adopts to deceive the public. If he has a wound he will do his utmost to ' keep it open, aud even to make it permanent. He will tam per with his eyes, or swallow pounded glass, so as to spit blood. He will adopt numberless tricks known to these vaga bonds alone. Some of these fellows can counterfeit the palsied and paralyted to the very life. -. Most of them are station ary leggars. , They are as fixed by the roadside as a mile-stone, and one of two kinds rthe loquacious and the silent. The loquacious is less successful than the silent one.-- The venting of loud and continuous complaints, like murky smoke turning from a chimney, only shows the working of an artificial woe manufactory, Whose gloomy wares are produced by the habitual move ments of mechanical utterance. Your silent beggar, like a smokeless chimney, indi cates the desolate hearth" and the kitchen stove without a fire." ' The knowing beggar is therefore silent. Silence is the per fected herald of joy "so it is of grief. - This column is finished. Next! y - Life ia Fersia. . -. . From the Cincinnati Cummrrclnl. Though Persia moves a little, it is one of ; the most unprogressive empires. It had no postal system until 1876. It haa but one wagon road of any considerable length. -Ho railroads have been boilt, as the Shah will not incur the financial risk, nor make " any investment of foreign capital secure. The . telegraph now connects the capital with the provincial capitals. The eost of living has greatly increased in the last few years. Most of the Persians are very poor, the tenants or agriculturists forming the poorest class. A merchant with $50,000 ia . . considered very rich. The social life of Persia has not changed perceptibly. "The Persian of the genuine ' type and old school hardly thinks himself ' ' in a condition to be seen until his hair and " beard have been dyed and his finger nails stained, if not his fingers also. He rises at- -the early dawn, and repeats the usual E rayer; and having drank a cup of tea, if e is rich enough to afford it, goes to the field or to his shop. At 10 o'clock he aits -down in his place of business to eat a breakfast of bread and sour milk which has been brought upona tray and set be fore him. The hours of midday, in turn-. mer, "are passed in sleep. Labor, when ' resumed, is continued until sunset. The principal meal of the day and the best he ' can afford ef meat, rice and savory dishes, is partaken of in company with the mem- -bera of his family, and after nightfall, and in the open court of the bouse, or upon the -roof. If inclined to drink wine and arak, -the most approved eustorn is to indulge at - ' this hour. He satiates his thirst, if that be ; possible, by. drunkenness, having first - ' taken the precatuion of locking the doors and going to bed." , Scraps of Hi tory. Martin Van Buren is the only man who held the office of President. Minister to , . England, Governor of his own State, and, m w . w el a mem oer el pota nouses oc.ixKgreaR. Thomas H. Benton is the only man who held a seat in the United States Senate for' thirty eonsecntive years. The only in-" stance of father and son in the United States Senate at the same time ia that of ' Hon. Henry Dodge, Senator from Wiscon sin, and his son, Hon. Augustas C. Dodge,- . Senator from Iowa. Gen. James Shields is the only man who ever represented three States in the United States Senate;" at one 's time he was Senator from Illinois subse quently from Minnesota, and then from ' ' Missouri. John toincy Adams hekiposi-J tions under the Government during every' administration, from that of Washington to that of Polk, during which he died. . He had beeu minister to England, member, of . both Houses of ' Congress, Secretary of . State and President of the United States. He died Februry 23rd, 1S4S, while a mem-' ber of the House of Representatives.' The only man who, entering tb Executive Department at the lowest clerk's salary, . was promoted through all grades to a Cab inet appointment by the President and Senate, is- Hon. Horatio King, ex-Post master-General. ( The only man w&o has been employed in the Senate chamber as a page and attained the position of Senator of the United States isilon. A. P. Gorman, of Maryland.
Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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