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r THE SONG OF THE WIND. Who hath an. eye to find me? Who hath a chain to bind me?, :lTy haunts are earth's fair forests, fields and seas. I break the sunlight into dancing flakes, And blurr the pictured dreams of sleeping lakes, Hither and thither going where I please. 3Ien see not, but they hear me; They lore me, yet they fear me. AH nature breathes and moves at my com mand. Sometimes I dally with a maiden's tresses, Or bear faint odors from far wildernesses, Then strew with wrecks the desolated land. Well may the seaman tremble "When I with smiles dissemble ! For ne'er a spirit had such changing moods, from wafting heavenward:, the white winged ships Under propitious skies, I seize my whips And lash the tempests from their solitudes. Who hath an eye to find me? "Who hath a chain to bind me. ?Tfce vagrant roamer of the homeless sky? Before the hoary mountains were, I lived; J or ages murmuring tnrougn tneir pines have grieved . That I alone of all things ne'er shall die. : J. P. Bitter, JfJt in BelfortTs Magazine, THE SOUDANESE SPY. BY WILLIAM M. GRAYDON. "Listen, Bruce, what's that?" and Car riston raised his hand with- a gesture of silence and looked at me intently. Then we both dropped our cigars and rushed out to the door of the Embassy. i A gun-shot, plain and unmistakable, liad echoed through the night air, and we certainly liad heard a faint cry. But in the dreary street all was quiet, and the solitary electric lamp, reflected no shadows save our own on the, pavement nl the British Embassy, while the palace across the way," with its coral facades and .massive carved gates, showed no signs of Jife. Then a gun went off, a drum began to rattle loudly, arms clashed, hurrying foot -steps, echoed on the stones, and shouts tsrere giv(i and answered. I listened in speechless astonishment, and then rushed ; back for my cap and sword. It was best to be prepared, though what possible ground for alarm existed I could not see. Suakin was protected by a line of sen tries that extended a mile beyond the town. No signalhad come from the out skirts, yet here was this turmoil in the very midst of the European quarter. , As I hurried back to the door the great palace gates swung open and a squad of Egyptian soldiers trooped 'out, their swarthy faces shining under their crimson aps. Close behind them, escorted by several officers, came a- tall, dignified, looking man. He was bareheaded and held an unsheathed sword in his hand. I recognized him at first sight as Ach ined Ras, the Egyptian Governor of Sua kin. He glanced up and down the street and then hurried across to the Em bassy." . "You area British officer!" he said, breathless with excitement. Captain Dugdale, of the Ninth Dra goons, at your command, Your Excel lency," I said, briefly. "Thank you. I am in need of your services. An Arab prisoner, a captured spy of the Mahdi, has made his escape. My stupid soldiers are to blame. The XUoy.hasn 9rrfjeoW SiTct' fortifications. I fear my soldiers can do little, but if your dragoons will scour tho plain " ' "Your Excellency," I interrupted, ' what you desire shallbe done at once." ' I mounted, my horse, waved a hasty alute, and galloped off down the narrow -street, leaving Achmed Ras and Carriston hobnobbing together on the steps of the Embass y for Carriston was the British Ambassador at Suakin. The hot blood was coursing madly through my veins, for I hadbnly been at Suakim a week, and the faintest touch of excitement was in- tensely welcome. 1 remembered, too,- having seen -this escaped Arab only a few days previous, whenjie was being led captive through the streets of the town- a great black giant, with muscular, brawny limbs and his black locks dangling iri curls down his shoulders. I spurred rapidly through' the town, crossed the ' peninsula to the mainland, "where the troops were quartered side by side with the native population, and soon the bugle call to arms was floating out on the night air, and the jingling of spurs and the trampling of hoofs were heard on all sides. A few brief, concise orders and we galloped out onto the desert and scattered over the sandy plain. Chances were in our favor, for the moon was com ing up slowly, and the enemy's outposts, where alone the Arab could find .safety, were at that time three miles beyond the town. Not a stone or bush or a mound of sand escaped scrutiny. The men were "widely scattered, clinging far to the north and to the south and drawing steadily xiearer to the enemy's lines. I galloped straight across the plain, - closely attended by a solitary trooper, a brave fellow named Tom Fraser. I kept as far as possible in the direction I judged the fugitive' had taken and I hoped to ; have the pleasure of capturing him my self, for the trampling of my horse was muffled by the drifted sand and wrould not betray my approach until I should be close upon him. A mile and a half from the town lay a belt of deserted intrenchments from which the enemy had been driven a month or so previous. As we approached these we slackened our speed and began to look for a suitable crossing place. The Brit- Ish shells had leveled them in places, and - one of these points we soon found, a . break in the trench with a gentle slope. - on either side. , . We rode slowly down into the hollow, and as our horses were - commencing to ascend again Fraser sud denly tugged fiercely at my arm. "Look, Captain, look!" he whispered excitedly, and as' I followed the range of liis outstretched hand I saw a sight that made my heart leap. Off to the south ex fended the trenches in one unbroken for mation, their mounds of sands rigid and exact, and outlined sharply in the moon . light against the right hand wall of earth was a swiftly moving shadow. Even as xre looked the specter vanished around a curve and we saw it no more. We pulled our horses' heads round and clashed down the trench side by side, for it was fully wide enough for three horse men to ride abreast. We thundered on in silence. I clutched . the reins tightly with one hand and with the other I held my saber. The Arab ,.-3fS unarmed and I would take him alive. I thought, and lead him back in triumph, to Saukia. ; This all passed .through my mind ia an instant and then we galloped round the curve and saw our prey in full view before us. He jwas struggling along painfully and limping as though one leg was hurt. The moon shone full upon him, and to my surprise I saw that h carried a great shield and one of those eaormous double-edged swords which these Arabs use with such terrible effect. He had doubtless found them in the treaoh. ' I W called on him to surrender, but he never rn turned until as we were -close upon nun he suddenly whirled around ih desperation and confronted us menac ingly, we drew our sabers and dashed upon hua. Just joere, extending full across the trench, was a rugged depression, caused probably by an exploding shell. This we failed to see, and, while; Fraser's horse leaped ii gallantry, my animal stumbled and fell, and down I went, partly beneath him I triid to rise, but myankle was badly sprained, and, with ajpry of pain, j I dropped down behind thehorse. Then I forgot rry thing in what I saw going on before me. The Arabj had retreated against the wall and was (fiercely keeping Fraser at bay. Their swords clashed until the sparks flew,' and strokes wfere intercepted leathern shield. Eraser's heavy by the Arab's They fought oh in silence and in the moonlight I saw the Arab's face, the eyes sparkling with hatred and the white teeth clinched in deadly determination. . Clash after clash rang on th night air." Sud denly Fraser spurred on his horse and dealt a fearful blow at the Arab's ex posed head, but quick as a flash the great sword flw up, and the short saber strik ing full and forcibly against the awful edge, bke off close beside the hilt and lav shining on the sand at their feet. What i tUowed I can neter forget. It will haunt me to my dying day. ' Fraser threw "up his right hand, with the brokn hilt, and with Ithe left reached for his wvolver, and then, as I-looked on, stupid with horror,' the Arab raised his great sword aloft with both hands, and with all the force oif his desperate strength he hurled it -forwerd like a catapult. " The gUaming blade flashed the moon light from its edge and crushed with an awful sound through poor Fraser's head, cleaving its way through the skull and between the shoulders fand on down through the back until! its point fairly touched the rear of the saddle. Split ia twain from head to waist the poor fellow dropped to the ground with out a cry, and his plunging steed tram pled over the body and then galloped in mad fright down the trench. Wholly engrossed in this awful scene, I forgot my own peril, anid only realized it fully when the Arab, gracing himself against the wall of the trench, began to drag his sword out of jFraser's body. With a shudder I reached for my pistol, and grew faint for an instant when I re membered that it lay under the horse in the holster. I was wholly at the Arab's mercy. The wretch was; still tugging at the sword, and seemed unable to loosen it. H only I had my pisiol how nicely I could bring him down. . All- at once I saw something glitter in one of Fraser's outstretched hands, and the sight of it gave me a ihrill of hope. It was his revolver, which he had suc ceeded in grasping just before the bloAV fell. f not Fraser's fate woul( be mine. I gritted my teeth, seized my saber firmly and rose erect. The Arafy saw me, and, with a savage imprecaticin to Allah he threw himself on the swod with a terri ble effort. Still it clung to Fraser's body, and then, as I leaped toward him, forget ful of my sprained anklej and flourished my sabre fiercelv, he grabbed his shield and fell back a few yards, keeping on the defensive. I uttered a ldud shout to in timidate him, and then bent over pool Fraser. He still held the pistol, but his grip was like iron. I. gave a strong pull and then another, and just as his stiffened fingers loosened their chisp my injured ankle asserted itself and I fell heavilyjto one side. The wary Arat was. watching his chance and before I could even turn he leaped on me like a tiger and we rolled over m the sand splashing" through a pool .of Fraser's crimson life-blood. The Arab had clutched at my throat, but missed it and clasping each other's shoulders we floundered about the trench, now one uppermost and now the other. With clenched teeth, and struggling for breath we fought on desperately, knowing that one or the other niuslt die. I could feel the Arab's hot breath upon my neck and his huge brass earrings flapping against my cheeks. I stilj hefcl the pistol tightly in my left hand, tf I could only get a chance to use it! ATery foolishly I relaxed my grasp a brief second and in that lightening-like interval the Arab seized the advantage and fastened both his brawny hands firmly on my throat. - In vain I struggled and strove to turn, the bony fingers were pressing my windr pipe and the hideous lace was into mine with a mocking j smile.- orlt'lTinor O " I was choking, suffocating all sense was leaving me. Must I die thus? It was horrible. ' With a fearful effort, the strength that madness alone can give, I twisted the Arab sideways. " My left arm was free. My hand still clutched! the pistol. I raised it with a jerk. I put the muzzle to his ear, with the last atom of strength I pulled the trigger, and as the stunning report echoed through the trench with thundering reverbations everything grew black and dim. 4 t i Attracted by the pistol-shot, they found us-there half an hbur later, still locked in a close embrace.) My uniform was spattered with ; the "Arab's blood. Messengers, were sent tb Suakin foi stretchers, and while waiting the body of my desperate foe' J was buried where he lay in the trench, and beside him was laid my! horse, whose neck had been broken in the fall. We marched mournfully back to Suakin, and the next day poor Fraser was laid tc rest in the English cemetery on the shore; of the Red Sea. I've been iki many a skir mish with the Arabs since, jbut that night in the trenches outside Suakin- .was th closest call I ever had, and! as a living re membrance I have kept that great two- edged sword which' spli Tom Frasei nearly in half .before Chicago Times. my very- eyes. Forty-five years ago the (Farmers of Illi nois used their watermelons for making molasses. The juice was foiled clojrn in open kettles out of doors, and though the flavor was not equal to the best "honej syrup it was sweet, and the user knew what was in it. , A MILITARY DUDE. THE HERR LIEUTENANT OF THE GERMAN ARMY. - ... intelligent and Manly, With Care fully Trimmed Moustache, He is a Social Lion His ' Daily Iiife. "" The German Lieutenant is the German dude. He has few characteristics, how ever, in common with the American dude. He is intelligent and manly. He wears no ultra-fashionable attire, and talks no ultra-foreign jargon. He has no yellow top coats, nor wide trousers,nor pot hats, nor patent leather shoes, nor big-headed cane. ; But there is a red stripe on each of his trousers legs, a big imperial eagle on his helmet, red straps on his heavy ulster, spurs on his boots and at his side a sword in a massive scabbard, wnich. strikes the pavement at every step. He often wears a monocle, and always a moustache. A Lieutenant's moustache is probably the most carefully trained bit of whiskers in the world. Its proper development involves - more labor than the combined moustaches of any three dudes in the whole United States. Three times every week the Lieutenant's barber devotes half an hour or longer to oiling it, twisting it, patting it and burning.it into shape with hot irons. When the Lieutenant ' shaved the ends of the moustache are done up in tissue paper, so that the lather brush and the barber s fingers cannot muss it. A very fastidious Lieutenant puts a little flat wooden clamp on each end of his moustache every night when he goes to bed, to keen the hairs straight and even. The result of i is a moustache which all German girls dream about, and all Gennan men, out side of the army, ridicule. The hairs are stiff, crinkled and spread away from the corners of the mouth in a fan shape They shine with oil and are odorous of perfume. The Lieutenant has his hair oiled daily, curled in front frequently and rubbed down with German elixirs of all colors, odors and effects. After the Lieutenant has been refreshed bv his barber from the fatigue of early morning drill, he goes to the most popular cafe to show the poor humdrum chaps without -swords or spurs or trained mous taches or- curled front hair what a mighty fine fellow a Lieutenant of the Guards is. As soon as he enters the cafe his favorite waiter begins all sorts of feats of acro batic politeness. He bows himself double whenever the Lieutenant turns a hair. He scurries around like mad after the military "periodicals,, and shouts himself hoarse in ordering for the Herr Lieuten ant the very best caviar, the freshest rolls, and the strongest coffee which the cafe affords. He never addresses the Lieu tenant directly as "you." That' would be too disrespectful to a real Lieutenant, though it is good enough for men in bob tail coats and trousers without stripes. No, the: waiter always asks: "Will the Herr Lieutenant kindly have sugar in his coffee?" ' 'Will the Herr Lieutenant have a 2-cenf'beer or 2-cent beer?" "Will the Herr Lieutenant have a fine domestic cigar for 3 centSj or a superfine imported cigar for4 cents?" All this servility costs the Lieutenant a cent. It would cost an American double that amount. A German civilian would have hard work jto get it at any price. A Frenchman jPUJ. -.Ot-t.af; fjl ; little brushes from a case in hispocket and brushes his moustache. Then he goes out to give the girls a treat. In Berlin he exhibits himself on Unter den Linden; .in Leipsic, on the Promenade; in .Dresden, on the Bruhl Terrace. He- marches along in the middle of the walk, as erect and conscious as if he were on dress parade. He turns neither to the right nor left, save for ' an officer of higher rank. Civilians make way for man to bump him, for he is a bad against ility, He is keen to resent anv inciv- and the man who shoves him rudely or gets on his toes, is apt to bring up opposite him with swords or pistols the next morning in the Grunewald or Rosenthal! The Lieutenant on this stieet parade, however, is not so busy ad miring himself that he has no time to ad mire all the girls, who admire him. He ogles every pretty woman through his monocle. 'At dinner in a restaurant the Lieuten ant always gets the prettiest waitress, her nicest r smiles, the fattest bit of roast goose, and the biggest piece of cheese. He is admitted toThe theatre for almost aothing,. and attracts more attention there than the rich banker who has a pro scenium box all to himself. Between the acts he brushes his moustache before the whole house and flirts with the pret tiest girl whose Frau mamma isn't look ing or whose Herr 'papa has gone out to see a man. He knows all the soubrettes. His card is attached almost every evening to a bouquet that is handed over the footlights. He leads at all the dances. His red and blue coat attracts more fa vors than a dozsn swallowtails. In the damentour he is the first man on the floor. In fact his social domination is so complete that of late years disgruntled critics of German high life usually speak of it as a "Lieutenant-beriddeu society." The Lieutenant's social success is aot due entirely, however, to his fine clothes, perfected moustache, curled front hair, and good dancing. The German Lieu tenant is generally a nobleman and a gen tleman. He is always well educated and well informed concerning topics of the day. Long after entering the army, he frequently subscribes to university lecture courses, and appears in the lecture room regularly with his little leather bag full of noies, just as if he were an ordinary student. He reads a great deal about civil government, political economy, Bis marck and the Hohenzoilerns. He can say his Goethe backward, and can cite Shakespeare more appropriately than three-fourths of the Englishmen. He can quote Heine with the Professor's pretty daughter, or Roscher and Rau with the Professor himself. He is cleverly ven turesome, too, and, though he may not know the difference beiueen knowledge and belief, he dees not avoid bouts with old metaphysicians concerning the theo ries of Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer. He is so superficially omniscient and auda cious, that his presence at a reception al ways ensures some one a good time. The criterion of the success of a German party is consequently the number of Lieuten ants present. Kotwithstanding all his attractions for Frau mammas and Fraulein daughters, the Lieutenant usually terminates his triumphant social career by marrying a very plain woman. -This is the reason : The Lieutenant's life is an expensive one,' as life in Germany goes. Three-cent , wine and flowers, and actresses, obligations, and an occasional d at card play ducks and drakes with his ffaTary, which is little more than one- third - the salary of an American Lieu tenant. If he has no private fortune he makes debts at every turn. These debts are piled up year after year. "An angel flies, through the room and a Lieutenant pays his debts," is a German proverb. ine (jerman Uovernment has had. a life long experience with the young Lieu tenant, and knows a thing or two about his expensive habits. It has therefore -forbidden him to marry unless he or his intended wife has money enough to sup port the family. When a Lieutenant s debts have become mountain high and troublesome, Jae begins to scurry around after a rich marriageable woman. Money is the one sine qua non of his choice. A woman may be plain, stupid, erratic within ' limits, or American: yet if she has money enough to put the Lieutenant square with the world after he has had his fling, he jumps at the chance to marry .her. New York Sun. The Bland Dollar Portrait Each - scholar in the Kindergarten Trawiing School who owns a Bland silvei dollar possesses, a first rate picture bf his or her teacher. The confirmation by the Board of Education on Tuesday of the selection of Miss Anna W. Williams as Instructor of Philosophy and Methods oi Kindergarten Training is the latest laurel in the already fame-bestrewn path of that tr. whose classic features have been tamea on millions of silver disks. ! Ten years ggo Miss Williams suddenly became f ainous when the interesting announce ment was made that her face was the original of the Goddess of Liberty on thai; much-abused, much-admired and equ illy as much disliked Bland dollar. The discovery was due to the efforts of a Bcwr&er reporter who worked eighteen months in tracing out the original tf the GocdessV The friends of Miss Williams placed every 'conceivable obstruction in the way, but unsuccessfully. The story of Miss Williams's connection with the' stamp upon the coin is interesting. In the early part of 1876 .the Treasury Department secured through communica tion! with the Royal Mint of England the services of a clever voung designer and engraver named George Morgan. Upon his arrival in this country the young en grayer was located at the Philadelphia Mint, and was assigned the task of making a design for a new silver dollar. After mor ths of patient work he completed his design for the reverse side of the coin, on which he represented the American eagle. His attention was then turned to the other side, and his first inclination was to place on i ; a fanciful head of a Goddess of Lib erty. But the young designer was too muc h of a realist to be pleased with a mer ; work of fancy. Finally he deter mined that the head should be the repre sentation of some American girl, and he f crt iwith searched for his beauteou3 ideal. Thr )ugh a friend who had spoken to him of the classic profile of Mis3 Williams's face, he sought and obtained her ac quaintance. Miss Williams was with dif ficul ty induced by her friends to pose be fore an artist, and after five sittings the design was completed. The young de signer declared that the .profile was the mos ; perfect he had ever seen in England or tris country. Miss Williams, around whom this web of romance and fame clings, s a very estimable and modest lady. . S resides with her : mother and nunlj at iV: 1U?3' Spring Garden street.' 'like corVpIexion, 'is' 'slightly below the averageeight, and possesses a graceful, aplomb figure. Philadelphia Record. An Apparatus for Burning Water. What may prove to be the most im port mt invention of modern times, and one that will revolutionize the manu facturing industries and, in fact, all com merce, has been invented at PhiUips, Wis, by Rev. M. Alley. Mr. Alley has studied thoroughly and exhaustively for the iast ten years the subject of com bustion,' in the attempt to invent an ap paratus to cause the consumption of smo ce in large furnaces. J$ot succeed ing : n that beyond a certain limit he at last applied himself to the invention of a device to bring about the burning of watr, which he has at last accomplished. The apparatus consists of a tank of water, which would be the boiler of a furnace, a pi e leading from the tank to the fire plac?, into the "burner. The burner is very simple, ' being only a piece of gas pipe, varying. in size according to the in tens: ty of the fire used and filled with scraj)s of iron or coils of wire. This burr cr lies over the fire, and steam pass ing 1 hrough it is heated to such a high temperature that when it issues from the orifices in the pipe it is immediately trans formed into its component gases and burnied, producing a heat manv times greater than that of coal. The most im p6rtan parf of the invention is a valve which allows the water to- enter the burner in quantities only sufficient to its The fuel used is dimished three- fburths, and the heat produced increased many fold. One of these has been in use on a conomon cook stove in Phillips for several months, but not many outside of that days locality have heard of' it. A few ago its operations were witnessed by Milwaukee capitalists, who were remarking greatly excited about it, one that it seems almost like witchcraft. . Chicago Herald. A LiTing Corpse. strange and hideous monstrosity ex ists in Portland in the person of a six-year-jold . boy, the lineaments of whose features and the pallor of whose counte nanc have an exact similitude to those ol a corjpse. During a critical period previ ous tjo the child's birth his mother, re ceiving intelligence of the- dangerous ill ness pi her father, hurried to his "bedside only to find him a corpse. The shock to her in her delicate condition was great', and when the child was born it had the markj of death on its face. The boy though now six years old is very J small and withered up' and has a shrill piping voice. His nose'is pinched, his eyes and cheeks sunken; on the tem ples dn beneath the eye3 the skin is dis colorcl while the whole countenance has the dull pallor of a corpse. The hands, feet an limbs are very small and bony. The j: d is bright and precocious and answe questions with an intelligence that is ther startling. However, the d, set expression of countenance same pal. always ts the eve. He never smiles or cham his facial expression undei gation. A person not ac- any jpr quaintf lth his history would Suppost him to in the last stages of some wasting.! but the father savs the boy wa a "never unwell a day in his life, Solent regon) Statesman, Cli THE NEXT CENSUS. MOMENTOUS TASK OP COUNTING" THE PEOEJLE. It Will Require a Farce of Over 40,. OOOMenand Cost $8,000,000 J - Carious Facts in Rela tion to This Bis Job. v In a big room in the attic of the In terior Department at Washington is one of the most interesting collections in the possession of the Government, and yet there are not a hundred people in the city who know of its existence. In this room are thousands of leather bound books of all sizes, lettered on the backs, as the case may be, "First Census," "Second Census," etc. .These books are the original returns made by the enume rators ih taking every census from the year 1790, ' when the first census was taken, down to 1880, the year of the last census. Prior to the year ISoO only the names of the heads of families were - taken, but when the. census of that vear was col lected the name of every individual in the United States was enumerated. This room consequently contains the name of every man, woman and child who has been born or who has lived in this coun try. since the first day of June, 1850. I do not think many people know of this, and at some time it may be of the great est use to lawyers and others who are en gaged in the search for missing heirs, and who want to ascertain whether a cer tain person was living at a particular time. Preparations are now well under way for the eleventh census, and the tre mendous amount of executive ability that is required of. the Superintendent to start the machine cannot be appreciated by an outsider unless he has some practical knowledge of the task. The fact that there are to-day 15,000, 000 more people in this country than there were in 1880 is in itself an assur ance that the work of the eleventh census Will be much greater than was that of 1SS0. ' Another fact will also attest to the magnitude of the eleventh census, and that is that it will be a centennialine,and therefore one of the greatest importance. It will also be the census of the greatest nation on earth, as neither in Russia nor in China, the most populous countries in the world, is a census of any importance evertaken. . - The first duties of the Superintendent are to district the entire country, prepara tory to making a count, with a view of making a complete, satisfactory and ac curate enumeration of the population. , Congress allows the Superintendent 175 supervisors, and besides these a good-sized army of assistants, numbering some 42,000 people all told, to assist him in the work. With the exception of the First Assistant Postmaster-General no officer of the Government has such a large force under his immediate direction as the Superintendent of the Census. This districting of the country is left entirely to the discretion of the Superin tendent, who may give an entire State as, for instance, New York to one aimprvisnr. or he mav divide one State' w-r nmong four, five or six supervisors, ac cording to the population, the territory to be covered and the general features of the country. Suitable men for the-.posi- men who are. thoroughly acquainted With the country for which they are to he held responsible. The duties of the supervisor are simi lar to those of the Superintendent,'' al- though on a smaller scale, and are almost as multitudinous and varied. They have to redistrict their division and recom mend to the Superintendent for appoint ment suitable men, called enumerators, of which there will be about 40,000. In 1880 there were 32,000, and with an es timated increase of 15,000,000 in the population, it is vcry.probable that fully 40,000 men will be 'required to take the census of 1890. . These 'enumerators having been duly appointed by the supervisor receive a for midable book of instructions, consisting af thirty pages, and proceed to take the census. This book of instructions is pre pared by the office in Washington, and covers almost every case which is likely to arise when the enumerator is engaged in his arduous labors. Their duties com mence on June 1, 1S90, and in cities have to end in fifteen days, and in the country within thirty days. Those who think the duties of an enu merator are easy, and who accept the place, with that idea, will be doomed .to disappointment. To give some idealof the various schedules which these enu merators have to carry around with them from house to house it is only necessary to mention some of them : Schedule of population, schedule of agriculture, schedule of manufacturers, schedule of mortality and vital statistics, to say nothing of supplementary an4 special schedules relating to the deaf, blind, insane, criminals: and indigent, manufactures, banks and every other con ceivable branch ef business. An ad ditional schedule to those formulated ten years ago is a schedule relating to veteran soldies and sailors, their widows and children. Also as to the number of mulattoes, quadroons and octoroons to be found in the country. And in. case' Superintendent Porter decides not to col lect the statistics of recorded indebted ness of the country by special agents this information will also be collected by the enumerators. Should this not be "done by the latter employes it will necessitate a personal visit by special agent to every county seat in the country. As there are nearly 3000 counties, this in itself will be an immensa task. , It is absolntcly impossible to tell what the census will cost. An appropriation has been made of 6.400,000, but in all probability it will take fully $8,000,000 to complete the work. This is exclusive of printing, for -which, a special appro priation of 81,500,000 is made, includ ing the printing of the volumes. The pay of enumerators consumes the largest part of the appropriation. In 1880 it amounted to over $3,300,000, and this year it will probably reach over $4,000, 000, especially as the population of the country will in 1890 be somewhere in me neighborhood of 65,000,000.-3 York Press. ' Miss Caroline King, a young Boston artist, was offered $300 to make a series of designs representing the industries of women. She wanted the money, but when she found the pictures were to ornament cigarette packages, she re fused the contract. . WORDS OF WISDOM. It is not selfish to be correct in your dealing. The value of a thing depends on our use of it. Honesty is better capital than a sharp er s cunning. . , A true man never frets about his place in this world. Conscience, dead as a stone, is a heavy thing to carry. Love cannot enter the heart without bringing with it a train of other virtues. - The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example. The way to do good is to be - good. There, must be light, then it will shine. The crow of conceit in man is often overcome by th cackle of importance ia woman. - ' Ability is as worthless as hard coal when it is so deep as to be confined to its own bed. The wise man who knows when to keep silent will alwaysy sa something when he does' speak. - If there is any one thing that will dis- rmiracre a man it is to trv to act aristo- cratic naturally. o - The exeat men of the ancients under stood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of State- f . . .There is not a particle of "free speech in an expression or an idea a person may be taught to utter-, A person always exposes their pre tended virtue by taking offence when "an other difiera with them. A man will progress in proportion to his courage to seek knowledge, that can 'only be taught by experience Conntingr-Out Rhymes. The following are a few of the manv rhymes used by boys to decide who shal take the first inning in many minor games: Ana, mana, monamike; Barcelona, bona, strike; Care, ware, frow, .track; - Hallico, ballico, weet w0 wack! This, also, is subject to countless varia tions; "Barceloa" becomes "tuscatona," etc. One form ends in : Hulny, guldy, boo, out goes you. Ana, mana, dipery Dick; Delio, dolio, Dominick; r ' Hitcha, pitchal dominitcha; Hon, pon, tush. In some districts the third line is given as "Houtcha, pou'tch, dominoutcha," and in others "Hotcha, potcha," etc. "Tush" may also become "tus" or "tusk." THE COUNT OUT. Haley, maley, tippety fig; Tiney, tone-y, torabo, nig; Goat, throat, country note; Tiney, toney, tig. ISatum, peatum, penny pie, Babyloni, stickum, stie, Stand you out thereby. Beside rhymes of the character of the above that is, consisting of a mixture of gibberish with disconnected words there are many rhymes containing no uncouth words', but possessing in general a jingle easily recognizable: One, two, three, Nanny caught a flea; ; The flea died and Nanny crieS, Out goes she ! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Mary at the cottage gate, Eating grapes off a plate, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. This is giveh also "plums" in place of "ornrws and f vcr&TVien crateTTor "cottaere ofr ' o o r i. n i..wii- tietttte oUirfxcl'ends .the second line the counting stops at "four". to satisfy the rhyme. JSew York World. Improved Sedskins. . Major Baldwin, the Indian Agent at the Piegan Agency, was asked the con dition, prospects and general progress of the noble red men under his care. Said the Major: "The Piegan Indians are in good condition; they have bright prospects ana are making steady pro- gress. Ihey have quit horse-stealing. .Not a depredation claim for loss of property has Been filed against them for an act committed within the past three years, although numerous claims are pending for robberies prior to that time. me Regans have wholly abandoned the medicine lodge, or annual gathering, one of the worst institutions of Indian life and .the cause of much crime. Thev 'have built sixty miles of fence "about their homes and farms, none of which existed two years ago. They, hauled all their own freight from Port Benton last year, and were paid in cash for doing so. Thev are more nonest, industrious and enterprising than they ever were. We distribute meat (from twenty to twenty-six good beef steers) among them weekfv. When I took charge of the agency onlv eight steers were killed weekly. As to animals'. they are all better off. We received re cently ten fine Norman stallion and 10G good American mares, so as to improve their stock. They have now plenty oi maclimery, mowers and reapers, and are qualified to take care of them. The best men in this country bear witness to theii improved condition. Many of them have taken up lands in severalty, although none has been allotted them as vet. The wish for such allotment tends to break up tneir tribal relations. Great Fdllt Montana) Tribune. ' About Mustaches. One afternoon a barber startled me bj saying that he knew a thing that would agitate society in general from basis tc battlements if it were known, writes Hepburn Jones in the Pittsburg IHspatcH. Naturally it took some persuading to exv tract this charge of moral dynamite from its cartridge, a3 it were. But it was out at last. " Said the barber; "If you will dbserve the mustaches of the men you know, you will discover nine cases out of ten thai one side of the mustache always flourishes better than the other. 3Iost men are aware to some extent of this peculiai phenomenon, but I do not believe thai any one who is the victim of it can explain it to you off hand. Yet the reason foi this difference in the opposite section ol the mustache is simple enough. This is the secret: The side the man sleeps on most often will always be found to cor respond with the side of the mustache which does not grow properly, is strag gling and very often bleached. Naturally, you see, the pressure of thet face on the pillow brings about the falling out of the hair, and the tendency of the saliva to flow from the lower corner of the mouth during a man's sleep doubtless assists in the process of disintegration. "I have noticed some singular phe nomena in this field of inquiry, and I re member that when I was in the Palmer House barber shop in Chicago 1 dis covered that the right side of Mr. Fuller's (now Chief Justice Fuller) mustache was notso heavy and glossy as the left." HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. JELLIES AM) MARMALADES. For making jelly . and marmalade, it is of the greatest importance that the fruit should be only just mpe, for if it is not, all efforts to make good jelly will be in vain. If jelly does not "form" the firt twenty-four hours, it is useless to cook it over or waste time, with it. ' Sometimes to set it in the sun a day or two may im prove it. The best loaf sugar should be used, and fruit juice should De weu boiled, before adding the sugar, as it re tains both color and flavor better. IVenty minutes is usually sufficient time k cook jelly, but sometimes it requires much longer. Acid f nuts make the best elly, but almost every variety will make good jelly Courier Journal. HOW MILK SHOTXD BE KEPT. Consumers of milk are too often indif ferent to their ways of keeping milk after it reaches them. When deliveredin cans it is a common custom for many people to draw fom the same, as they need it, and possibly a can may not be emptied until - fresh supply is received. As soon as the milk is bought it should be poured into a glass or earthen pitcher, and when this is emptied it should be made abso lutely clean and then well aired. Those who have young children dependent upon milk food ought to receive a fresh supply of milk both morning and night; other 'nrise' in the warm months, it is extremely liable to become unwholesome. With but few in cities is this possible, apd, -'' therefore, in summer it will be wil to scald the supply. when received, to pre vent its becoming sour. Journal of Health. GREEKS. The following plants and portions oi young vegetables make good greens: Young beets, beet tops, cowslips, chic ory, chevel, dandelion, dock, horserad ish tops, young ttrnips and tops, young milk weed, and many others peculiar xo different localities. The dandelion ana dock are especially fine, producing marked effects as blood purifiers and in clearing the complexion. : They should always be cooked in salted water, to which should be added a little soda or a pinch oi carbonate of am monia, to preserve their green color. All greens should be very thoroughly washed in several waters, after removing : the roots and any dried or dead stalks which may have been gathered. They should be either cooked in soft water or water freshly drawn, and put in at its first boil ing The time required is indefinite, depend- , ing upon how young they may be, orthe variety used; are done always as soon as tender, and should then be taken up, and' very thoroughly drained by placing in a colander, and squeezing Avith. a wooden spoon. BAG FOR SOILED CLOTHES. Fancy bags of all descriptions are used, and some are very elaborate, says Mrs. Curtis in the Prairie Farmer. I use a fine towel for soiled clothes; cutting it in two in the middle for a bag for collars and cuffs, making two bags of one towel, and using a whole one for the larger clothes. A few outlined figures improve the bag, and with dnwn work and knotted fringe a very pretty bag may be made. For the large bag, cut the towel in two in the middle.cross-wise, and seam it on, all the edges except the-4fast-e" that is left for the. opening of the bag and hemmed; after which a draw-string may be run in twice to close it. The smaller bags are cut in same: the way, and closed so that the fringe will j hang at the bottom, just '' as it does in! the larger bag; this makes a long, narrow , bag. To lessen the length, I turn a deep hem at the top, and stitch in this a casing of the proper width for the draw-string. For the string I use a cast-off ribbon, that at a little distance does not show that it has been washed. I also made a bag foi dust-cloths, using a brown linen towel, and ornamenting it with different shades of wool in rows -of cross-stiching, be tween which are scroll patterns worked in outline-stitch. The towel-fringe I discarded, and substituted one made of the wool used in the embroidery. ItECIPES. Soup Balls Boil five eggs until hard, remove the shells and pound the yoiksrto a powder; add the whites of two un cooked eggs, with a little flour and salt; mix into balls, boil in water and drop into the soup. ; Biscuit One quart of flour, three tea spoons of baking powder, one teaspoon of salt; sift all together three times: add enough sweet milk to form a dough, role4" out an inch thick, cut in round cakes and' bake in a quick oven. Ragout; of Onions Cut a' couple of bunches of young onions m slices; add double the quantity of potatoes, peeled and sliced; season with salt and pepper, and cover with broth of anv kind: sim mer until the pototoes are done: add a ablespoonful of butter and eat very hot. Chicken Salad Boil one chicken ten der, and chop fine ; chop fine the whites of twelve hard-boiled eggs; add equal quantities of chopped celerv and cab bage ; mash the yelks fine ; add two table spoons butter, two of sugar, oue tea spoon mustard; pepper and salt to taste: and lastly, one-half cup good cider vine gar; pour pver the salad and mix thor oughly. : ; " . Stuffed and Roasted Pork Take a small loin, three tablespoons of bread crumbs, one chopped onion, half a tea spoon of chopped sage, pepper and salt, one-fourth of a cup of chooned beef suet. one tablespoonful of butter. Separate with a cleaver cachH'oint nf thp Inin anri make an incision with a knife into the thick part of the meat in which to r.larp. the stuffing, which prepare as follows: Mix the bread crumbs with the onion,add the suet, sage, pepper and salt, press into the incision in the pork and sew i to gether with coarse thread the edirtU of e meat; dredge the meat with flour place in a baking-pan with a cup of hot water. Allow twentv pound lor baking. r -r- v j LU9 Diring Apparatnson War Ships. Profiting by the recent evekts at Sa moa, when the treasurp nf thk : - - "v lucvacu irenton was recovered bv mwnt . mving apparatus borrnwprl f, w " the unusn man-ot-war -CalKo Navy Department here has determined to emiin each of our naval vessels with a complete diving apparatus. By order a submarine diver is also to be detailed j as part of the Complement of each vessel in commis sion. No trouble is anticipated in se curing suitable men, as there are always members of the crew who make good divers. 2fao Tori Mercury. ' -
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