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HAIIDY. Somebodv had stolen a horse from Daniel Jobson. The stable and horse weie built "right under their noses," to use an expression of his wife's a fact which gave rise to frequent animadver sions ou her part respecting the unfor-. tunato choice of the situation of thi.r necessary outbuilding. I She was in the habit of attributing to. their noxious influence whatever ills might befall the family their state of health, or rather unhealth if the hens refused to1 lay, or if the watchdog ran "jJjout at night instead of staying athome to5tuard them from thieves. By the .same icen stie once even attempted to account foXJhe caterpillars which had at tacked the chiton. Now that a hefrse was stolen it waecause 'Mr. Jobson had persisted in ,havingthe stable and horse lot right in the back yard, where nobody else -under the sun would have thought of having them. She hoped he ,would learn a lessson, now, before he lost .r.TToi-TT iinrap and mnlft to his name,; and .the jcows and pigs thrown in, not-to mention his wife and children. ; There had been a light rain in the early part of the night, and the tracks made by the lost animal and the thief 'could be seen very distinctly. Mr. Job Ison traced them to the house of Pete llaggs, a good-for-nothing, shiftless f el low, who lived in an abandoned settled iinent a mile or so away. From, the signs at appeared that the horse had been tied jto a small persimmon tree at a little dis- jtance from the house, and a number of .tracks were seen about the place, going back and forth between the house and the tree. Pete Jaggs was not at home. His wife said that he had gone away early that morning to visit a relation in an adjoin ing county. She" knew nothing of the missing animal, and was sure .that her husband knew nothing of it, or he would have mentioned it to her. She, allowed o-nsitors that nightfandshehad-not heard or seen any one about the premises till Mr. Jobson and his men came to in quire. . j Mr?. Jobson quickly rendered the ver dict on hearing the evidence in the case. (; "I never 'spected nothin' less 'n that good-for-nothin' Pete Jaggs. 'Course he stole the mare ; any fool can see that. jWhat's a wonder to me is he didn't take the whole shebang an' us into the bar gain, bein' as the lot is right in the house, all but, an' anybody that's fool ernough to have one in sich er outlandish place needn't 'spect nothin' else, nuther." i No one, not even Daniel. Jobson, dis puted her opinion as to the identity of the thief, however they might differ in regard to the baleful influence which the situation of the horse-lot was supposed to exert on that unfortunate individual. The horse was gone, and so was Pete ; 1 out the tracks of both were there, and while no one could say Jaggs was actually seen to take the horse, the evidence that : be had was plain enough to convince any jury in the world, not themselves horse thieves. Mr. Jobson went to town to inquire after the lost mare, and to offer a suitable reward for her return and for the appre hension of the thief, which, along with a prolific description of the animal writ ten in his best hand, was tacked up hy the courthouse door and in the postoffice. Diligent inquiry rewarded him with a clew, though an uncertain one. At a wagon yard in the town he had found a man who had seen the animal. Wasn't ehe a light sorreL mare, blaze-faced, with left fore-foot white? Of course she was; but the man who had her and who traded her off to a farmer for a scraggy bay, blind in one eye, seventeen dollars to boot, was not "a little old humpback, sandy-haired fellow with a pair of new black jeans britches and a squint in one . eye, the left one, and home-made knijt gallusses and an old wool hat in his shirt aleeves" which bill of particulars repre sented Pete Jaggs as he had left home ' that morning, according to the evidence given by his wife to David Jobson, and by him accordingly set forth in the ad vertisement. But his most persistent inquiries led to no better result; no one had seen Pete Jaggs, either Avith or without a' blaze faced sotrel mare, and Mr. Jobson wds forced to return home disconsolate at his ill-luck., Daniel Jobson had -two men living on . his farm as tenants who had evinced great interest in the fate of the stolen imare, and had shown much zeal in the J search for her and the thief as every, one .believed Jaggs to be. They were loud in their denunciations of the little hunch ,back for the crime of which it was evi dent he jvas guilty. 1 "Sumpin' oughter be did wid de low dp wn scoundr'l; nobody's critter's safe ' ,w id sich er rogue gwine rouu' at night an er stealin' uv 'em." h They protested against Mr. Jobson's having Pete arrested by the sheriff to be tried by due form of law. i "Lawin's too good for 'im. Give 'im sump'in wat'll learn 'im er lesson w'at e jWon' have no chanch ter fergit," with a sinister look and inflection conveying a 'dark hint as to the nature of the intended lesson. . ' i One day Jaggs unexpectedly returned home. That night he was aroused by a loud knocking at his dooir. Opening it to discover his visitors, he found a pair of rifles pointed at his breast, and heard a muttered command to "Come erlong, an' don' raise no rumpus about hit. ef ver don wan'er git hurt." His visitors, whose faces were concealed by torn pieces 01 cloth, carried him away through the woods, several hundred yards before halting. !'"". At last, coming to a little ; clearing in the woods where the moon shone brightly, they paused and ordered their prisoner to hold out his hands, which one of them immediately proceeded to bind with a short piece of rope. With an oath ;the captors declared that they, rwould now proceed to business, producing a rope that had an unmistakable noose tied in one end. . 1 "Dis is de way we cyores hoss steal- in , one saiu, wiiii a tuarsu lciuju, au. hit irinerTv cvores. too, ef hit don't kill . 1 11 1 A 1 1 V. ltnM1 'era." , Pete Jaggs was trembling violently. He had been too surprised and terrified to resist his assailahts. even if so weak and almost helpless a person ! as he could have hoped to cope with such strong and desperate enemies. . He instinctively drew back, shudderinar. at sieht of the . 7 O' rope, as the evident , purpose of their un seemly visit flashed upon him. "Wat ver srwi' do. Bill, vou an' Dick Waters?" he asked, recognizing Mr. Jobson's tenants in spite of their flimsy disguise. "We's gwiner hang yer fer stealin' Dan'l Jobson's mare, tfat's them answered roughly. w'at," one oi "Bovs," cried Jaggs, "I ain' ne'er tuck none er Dan'l Jobson's critters ; I ain' ne'er hveerd none er 'em been stoled tell I gets back home ter night."! ''Ain' no useerlyin' erbout hit, Pete; ver dnnfi it we tracked "ver an7 de mare, an's Dan'l war gwi' put de sher'ff a'ter yer, we thought we'd save 'em de trouble. We knows yer do' ! wan' er go ter de penetench'ry no-how." They rudely adjusted the noose upon the neck of the trembling little hunch back, and throwing the end over the nak rrowiner near, seized it o - O ' and began to draw him up. "Yer won' steal na' huther'n, Pete, I reck'n," they said, as they pulled on the rope. At that moment the sudden, sharp report of a rifle rang on the still night air. The suspended body of Pete Jaggs made a few rapid turns, as the rope un twisted, and he fell to the j earth. The rope was cut just above his head by a well-aimed buiiet. The men pulling hard on the rope, as it parted fell to the ground. Nancy Jaggs had become alarmed at the summary way in which 'her husband had been carried off. Feeling sure that -some harm was intended, sne dressea, and seizing his rifle which she had learned to use, and with which she had brought to death many a wild turkey and even deer in the wilds of the Ocmulgee River swamp, not far away followed the men stealthily, until she came upon them as they were in the act of lynching Pete. In an instant she thought that if the rope were cut Pete would fall to the ground uninjured. Taking quick, but steady aim at the cotton rope gleaming in the moonlight, she fired and severe'd it with the shot. I ! Throwing aside the now useless weapon, she rushed forward, seized one of the rifles that had been laid down by wU.thp, men I and covered them" before they , T r - .iwi.1'1Ul gwi' hang Pete ter night, air yer?". "Don't shoot, Nance,' they implored. "We's jist er skeerin' Pete. We ne''er 'lowed ter hurt 'im. Pete ain' hurt none ; is yer, .fetef' Pete's activity showed much injured, for, having he was not scrambled to his feet and rid his hands of the clumsy bond, he had seized the other rifle and stood ready to assist his wife in guarding his late captors. They carried the would-be lynchers, to Daniel Jobson, who, aroused by their calls, came out and secured the men in an outhouse, while Pete and Nance stood guard without. At the trial which followed the arrest of the two men it was brought out that Luirjf nau sLuien j ouson s mare and pur posely carried her to Pete's house in order tb throw suspicion on him. They were convicted and sent to the peni tentiary, from which they were so anxious ( to save Pete; and Jaggs'si wife became the heroine of the hour. Neio Orleans Times-Democrat. An Unusual Sank. William Murray, a guest of the Grand Pacific, who is one of the biggest linen manufacturers in Ireland, which has a local interest. tells a story "You hear of any number of bogus noblemen in this country. TIT- ray in the hotel rotunda last evening., 4 4 rmt on 4 mormon r T 4-l4 J the Old World is somewhat! rare. A yeai ago this summer I arrived at a little town in the South of Ireland called Dungar wan. The people were excited over the presence f an American official. Flags were flying, bands playing,; and every thing was gay. As I was somewhat ac quainted with the United States, I asked the name of the guest so royally enter tained. Nobody knew. exceDt that he ' x was one of the biggest men of the United States and a native of Ireland. Elbow ing my way through the erowd I went to the little hotel, and there learned that I was to have the honor of being under the same roof with an official who stood next to the President of the United States. I went to the register to see if the Vice President was there, and to my surprise saw this on the books : ( " 'Redmond Sheridan, Chicago, I1L, Alderman of America.'" Chicago Tri hine. I Electriflekl Snow. In a paper describing a perilous ascent of Pike's Peak, Lieutenant John P. Fin ley, United States Signal Service, says that the ascent was made when the snow was the deepest of all the year, and the Lieutenant was accompanied by the Ser geant of the Station. The ascent was accomplished on mule back until a zone of deep snowwafc reached, and then the animals were taken back to the half-way house below. Into this snow they some times sans up to their armpits, and saved themselves from plunging! deeper bv spreading out their arms. At one time they crossed a frozen crust in shape of a turtle back, where a foothold had to be cut at each step, and where a misstep would have sent thm thousands of feet down the - mountain. Electric storms sometimes were witnessed i there when each snowflake, charged with electricity, discharged a spark as it touched a mule's back in its fall. Electric sparks streamed from the fingertips of upraised hands. In their ascent they-encountered a storm of sleet that cut their faces so as to draw blood. The last five miles iwas a fight for life against wind, sleet, cold and rarefied air. I j . .1 BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Don't Snubbed A Natural SupposP tion A Valuable Subject Per nicious Activity Base In gratitude. Etc., Etc rheres a modesty of mien always pleasant to be seen, . . No matter who the wearer, youth or maid; There's the air of charming grace; mere ' the open, honest faee Against 'which naught in reason can be CO 11 Such deportment merits praise in these hifa- lutm' days, , And I'll tell you true it can't oe bought for So let your speech be easy, mayhap a trifle monev. . . breezy; So avoid the sin of hyperbole, and Don't Get Funny. " ,T Wheh conversing with a friend let your lan guage always tend To impress him with the fact that you are sane: Avoid all eccentricity, all verbal infelicity- Such linguistic lim-jams gives a pain. Don't rise to the emphatic; do not bloviate dramatic. Nor mix for one a verbal peach and honey; Each word of easy diction is like oil on heated friction. But above all use common sense and Don't Get Funny.. St. Paul Pioneer Press, PE'RNICIOtrS ACTIVITY. Celestine "Your new maid is twice is active as the old one.' Ernestine "That's why I have noth- inor to on nan tne time. j.cw ivr, , r . i . 1 HT IT 7. - ,o oun. A 25ATCBAL SUPPOSITION. -"One of the dime museums Ted ad- vertises a phantom hen." Ned "What does she do?" Ted "Lays, ghosts, I suppose." Life. SNUBBED. "Good morning!" said the cyclone to the flood. "I don't know you," replied the flood, "you put on Munses. too many airs for me. THE SLANG OF THE DAY. Fir. "RaRehallist "And when the old man instead of the girl met you at the door, did you make a home run?" Second Baseballist "No, I was shut out." 2Vrr? Haute Express. BASE INGRATITUDE. Basklev c ' What's the Mrs. matter, Henry? You look disgusted." Baskley "Why, I gave a poor widow ten dollars on the ; sly to buy coal with, and she didn't tell anybody." A VALUABLE SUBJECT. Howard "A penny for your thoughts . but I suppose you value them at more than that." ' , Edith "Oh, no! the fact is, I was thinking of you just then." Mumeyt. rt'.Vi!:'iailiSSrgywafgai J " o "vinj X IE grVTT TTTT1 something to eat, - said the kind hearted woman. "I can't follow my profession unless you do," returned the tramp, "for I am an after dinner speaker." -Life. SHE OWNS THEM. "I wonder if Miss De Wigg's teeth are lier own,", said Mrs. Squildig to her hus band. . "Yes," replied Squildig. "I happen to know the dentist she bought them of, and he $old me she paid cash for them." A REFLECTION RESENTED. She "I know Harry Hopkins must have a mercenary motive in this match. How can he love Miss Van Million when she is so much older than he is?" He "Oh, you do the boy injustice. Even if he doesn't love her, he venerates her." Life. AW ADAMLESS EDEN. Adams "You don't mean to sav Mr. that you have to carry all your letters into town from the college?" , Miss Poughkeepsie "Yes, indeed; they are so strict at Vassar, that they won't even allow a mail box on the grounds." Munsey's. TRIED HI8 'PRENTICE HAND AT REPARTEE. "Sir," said an apprentice to his master, "when a very clever and a very stupid person are together irf one room, and the clever one goes away, who is left?" "Why, of course, the stupid one." "I hen good-bye, sir," said the prentice, and went. Sonntagsolatt. ap- LIKE THE MURDERER. Sensation Reporter "It was purely a love mateh. It seemed as if fate brought these two people together. , Neither could resist the other and so they were mar ried." Friend "And how did John meet his fate?"- .7: Sensation Reporter "Unflinchingly." PUTTING IN FULL TIME. Time Keeper "Look here, Donovan, I can't understand how you made seven-. teen hours on Thursday." Donovan "Shure Oi shtarted two hours before Oi began, an' Oi wurrked all dinner toime whin Oi was lestin', and afther Oi left off Oi wurrked for two hours more, an that makes me toime out." Funny Foils. GUYING HER . UNCLE. "Uncle John," said little Emily, "Do you know that a baby that was fed on elephant's milk gained twenty pounds in a week?" - "Nonsense! Impossible!" exclaimed Uncle John, and then asked: "Whose baby was it?" "It was the elephant's baby," replied little Emily. Illustrated Fun. CAUSE AND EFFECT. Bad Boy "Lick me, an' sorry." ye'll be Teacher (holding "Why?" the rattan aloft) . 'Cause, if you do itTl make . my hands sore, an' if they're sore I can't ketch in to-morrow's game, an' if I don't ketch the game'll be lost an the name o' the school dragged in the dust. Seel' " Lawrence American. CAME BRAND OF PAINT. Eastern Dame "You certainly must that the women of the West are not aslhandsome as those of the East."" i - . Western Damsel "In what respect? ' Eastern Damie "Well, you have no such complexioiks out here as we have." Western Damsel "OH, I am sure you must be mistaken. We use exactly the same things," America. A HOXEYMOON IN ECLIPSE. "Mr. Digby'told me he didn'V enjoy his wedding tour. Queer sort oi state- ment, wasn't it 8" "Why, no. Auntie; not under the circumstances. 'I "What do you mean?" xWell, you see Mrs. Digby had such a horror of people taking Digby and her for a bndal couple tnai sue wu. a chaperone along." Life. , WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE. Dr. Hocus (gruffly) "Madam, there is i j i hope. Your child will absolutely no die." Dr. Pocus (kindly "I quite agree with all that Dr. Hocus has said, Dut, with careful nursing, I think the child will probably live." ur. isoius i umiaiy x am cuuidji n -i f. I 11 v i i T . in4?..silTT in accord with Dr. Hocus and Dr. Pocus, and TT -: think- the child will that is to say- will neither live nor die." Harvcvrd Lampoon FOG "Thanks," WAS FACETIOUS. said Fogg, most gracious- Iv. to the waiter who presented the lig neous toothpicks at the close of the meal; "no, I think I don't care for them I've had quite enough. And, besides, my physician has warned me that they are the very worst things 1 can put into my stomach." The waiter tarried sumciently long to ascertain that no tip was forthcoming, and then he retired to inform the wait ing gentleman at the next table that a lunatic had broken away from some asy lum. Boston Transcript. A TRAIT OF THE SU-X. "Mv wife,'! said Jones to Smith, as. "is they sat smoking in the dining room, going out shopping. She has been up stairs before her looking glass for an hour, but I will bet she will have a ques tion to ask abbut her appearance before she goes out.'f "Think so, f said Smith. "I'm sure of it." Just then Mrs. Jones tripped down stairs, and looking into the dining room, said : "Good-bye dear, I'm going. Oh! by the way," she added, "is my hat straight?" Boston Courier. IT IS DIFFERENT NOW. Sunday School Superintendent (ex- the lesson' 'Many of these Scripture names, children, have a special meaning. Can anyone of you tell me the signification of this name, Icha- bod!'" Several Voices "The glory has de parted." j Superintendent "Correct. If, then, vvi wished tb convev the idea that some Man sav a politician had become un nnnnlftr and could no longer succeed in wnoie acnooi "JJennisr vhicago Tribune. THE MESSENGER BOY. AND THE TORTOISE It happened once that a messenger boy was taunting1 a tortoise with his inability to smoke cigarettes or pitch penaies. "What you say is true," replied tht tortoise, 4but Nature gives different gift to ailierent creatures. I may not be able to smoke cigarettes nor to make a con fidmg woman pay thirty-seven cents and car-fare for delivering a message to hei dressmaker im the next block, but I can beat you in a foot race." The messenger boy's Spanish blood was roused and he accepted the tortoise' challenge. Tj'he tortoise was so confident of victory that after he had gone a little distance he Went into a convenient door way and w;nt to sleep. Perceiving which, the messenger boy persevered, and by, diligent effort won the race. Moral: Theirace is not always to the swift. Life NAPOLEONS IN FINANCE. A most appalling sound was heard it the nursery, and the astonished father, with his hair on end, ran to see what was the matter, looked in. He opened the door and Willie was sitting astride his drum, kicking it with both feet. Johnny was wisting the cat's tail and brinffingr forth howls of dire asronv. Tommy was whirling a rattle, Bobby Stapleford, a neighbor's boy, was super intending a ngnt between two vociferous dogs; Harry Plugmore, another visitor, was jumping up and down on an empty barrel, half a dozen other casual young" sters were pounding tin-pans, and all were yelling at the tops of their voices. "What is the meaning of this unearth ly racket?" demanded the father as soon as he could make himself heard above the din. ' "We're playing Chicago Board of Trade," replied Willie. "Fellers, let 'er go once more!" And pandemonium broke loose again. Chicago Tribune. HE ALSO HAD RULES. He had opened a restaurant in' Buffalo, and after two Or three weeks he called at a bank to get the cash on a small check received from some one in Philadelphia. "Have to' b identified, sir." said the teller as he shoved it back. rant around the corner." "Must be identified." - "This is payable to me or order, and I've endorsed it," protested the res tauranter. "Can't help it, sir. Rules of the bank." The man went out and brought -ome one back to idjentify him, and the money was handed oyer. Three days later the teller dropped jin for a lunch at the new restaurant. He had taken a seat and given his order, when the proprietor ap proached him and said : - "Have to be! identified, sir." "How! What?" "Have to bej identified before you can get anything here sir." "Identified?! don,t understand you," protested the teller. "Plain as day, sir. Rule of the house that aU bank officials have to be identi fied. Better go out and find some re sponsible party who knows, you." . 'Hanged if I do I" crowled the teller. and he reacheU for his .hat and coat -and banged the door bard as he went out Sew York Suri - THE TURQUOISE. AN ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES JF THE STONE. Different - Places w nere xarquoises Have Been., Found The Color aiost Highly Prized How the Stone is Cat. Within the past month daily papers have given a brief account of the tur- . -.r X1 1 i.1 quoises m JNew .Mexico, as xnougn mey only recently had Deen aiscoverea mere. This may, indeed, be news to some per sons, but not to those who know some thing about the history of these precious stones. As long ago as 1858 Professor W. P. Blake called attention to the presence of turquoise at Los Cerillos, about twentv-two miles southwest of Santa Fe, where ancient mining opera tions undoubtedly had been carried on. Since then fine specimens of turquoise have been found in several States for example, in California, in Arizona and in Nevada. There are many interesting facts con nected with turauoise which it is well sometimes to remember. To begin with the name itself, a curious fact is to be noted. Turquoise was formerly regarded as coming from Turkey, and hence the old Engish name of the gem was turkise or Turkey-stone. But the home of the stone was in Persia. From Persia it made tits way westward to the Turks, who bartered with the European peoples. The French naturally named it turquoise, and ' this is how our name for this stone of delicate blue shading to a green. Persia is still the home, or chief center, of turquoise. About all the finest tur quoises come from one or two mines which are situated near Nishapur, in Khorasan, on the road from' Teheran to Herat. These mines have been wxrked for the last eight centuries at least, and are now very deep, one shaft reaching down 160 feet. Some interesting particulars concerning the turquoise trade can be gleaned from the reports of Mr. S. W. Benjamin, late United States Minister to Persia. .Ac cording: to Mr. Benjamin, all Khorasan mines are farmed by a few officials who nav the Shah an annual rental of about 30,000 for the privilege. The turauoise occurs, imbedded in its matrix, usually in seams or veins, some a times in nodules and in stalactitic masses It is never found in crystalized form. It is said that the process for extracting it is much like that pursued in mining for salt in the same region, except that in stead of using a ball of . clay the native miners burn a branch of dry grass in the hole, being qareful, however, as soon as cracks appea not to damage the gems which may be incased in the block. The stones are generally associated together; that is, they occur in groups of twenty or thirty. The Persian miners divide turquoises into two kinds those in crusted with rock and those free from foreign matter. -There are good reasons for believing; that the turquoise mines at Mt. Chal4 chuitl, in New Mexico, may be almost as old as the celebrated mines of Khorasan in Persia. Wfl know that the earlv in- their mosaic work and for lnlaYinff 0D fl-mencanpeopie must nave expended an immense amount of labor extracting tur quoises Irom the rocks. Thus, one shaft at Mt. Chalchuitl is 104 feet deep, from ancient worKing to the commencement of, new work. Another shaft is 83 feet deep( anu ax rignc angles a tunnel runs into the mountain xu ieet. as aireaay nas been intimated, t turquoise occurs, imbedded in itsmatri uouanjr luscamsor veins, in iNew iviexico it is often found in thin veinlets and lit tie 'balls called "nuggets," covered with a crust of the nearly white tuff. Some times the specimens are seamed or streaked with limonite, derived from the accompanying pyrite. In Southern Nev 1 aaa turquoises occur to small extent. There the stone is found in blue grain running through sandstone. Two kinds of turquoise are distin guished in mineralogy the real stone, or caiarre ana tne osseous stone or odonto- ".v. iuc idsi uameu is considered a false turquoise, and is supposed to be composed of bone covered with phos phate ot iron. According to Professor bilhman, of Yale College, the turquoise, unaer tne microscope, is a non-crystalline material and consists of very minute scales, nearly colorless, having an aggre gate polarization and showing a few par ticles of iron oxide. In chemical language turauoise is a hydrated phosphate of aluminium, asso ciated witn a variable portion of hydrated phosphate of copper. The beautiful blue color of the stone is due to this variable quantity of copper oxide, while the green tints of certain varieties are doubtless due to admixture with salts of iron. . Turquoises vary in color from sky blue to apple green. Now,, the commercial value of a turquoise has always depended oh its tint. The color most highly prized is that delicate blue which faintly in clines to a green. A streak of lessons the value of a turquoise. green Again, some specimens with exposure and age grow green. Hence, all first class stones are of good and fast color. What makes "Khorassan turquoises so valuable is that they hot only have the delicate blue tint, but that they retain it. Persian rninen say that stones from the oldest pits have a better and a more constant color than those from newly opened pits. Thus, in ' trade, the finely tinted turquoises are said to be fvom "old rock," while those that are pale are from "new rock." Not infrequently it races an expert to detect a small speck of off -color in the stone. Turquoises are cut in three wavs the fiatjthe truncated cone, and en cab ochon, or witn a low convex surface. The higher the conical and convex surfaces in the two latter the more such stones are prized. For, be it remembered, only a fine, deen- colored stone can be cut into a cone, since one of pale color would appear almost white at the apex. Again, the turquoise takes a fair polish and gives a feeble luster. Like the "water" of the diamond or the lustre of the pearl, a turquoise has what the Per sians call the zat. Only a stone with the zat has any great commercial value-; those that have thii prized property always bring' a good price. Large turquoises are not rare, but as a rule they have little val ue. They are generally pale or discolored, and are used principally for the decora tion of furniture and of the saddles and bridles of rich Persians. Two large tur quoises are on record one out of which a drinking cup was made for the Shah, and another in which the treasure of Veaice was kept, and which 'several pouds. ' "Q- eu. mnw. tnrouoises are quite com - w m w n m m m m .-v monly imitated by enamels They also produced arunciauj te compositions.- une re"" , ' lIIT. sky-blue stones; are highly pnz W thpv rannot be unixaieu. . shades may be imitated without serious Tfca er.es of bone are capa- ble of being colored with phosphate ot as to resemble tne rei 5. TWo nrtifirial stones, so exicnbivc.j worn by ladies, are known in the traae ! Occidental turouoises. m oraer iu ui- tinrmicTi v.m fmm thfi renuine or Ori klU O ental stones. Nevt Tort btar. An Eccentric Author. One of the few books, says an ex change, that were read with pleasure by vnuth 100 Years aro. was "Sandford andMerton." Its author, Thomas Day, was a devoted friend of the colonies dur ing the American war, and espoused theii cause in his poems. He was an "original,'' distinguished by that inconsistency be tween theory and practice which gener ally marks an eccentric person. He went into society, but disregarded the "minor morals," such as combing his hair and making himself presentable. Professing to think, that love had been the curse of mankind, he continually an nounced his determination never to marry. And yet in spite" of this re solution he offered his hand to three ladies, each of whom declined the honor. To one of them he sent a long letter,in whirh he expressed his affection, asked her to marry him and detailed to her the duties of a wife. As Mrs. Day she was to be satisfied with her husband's society and to exclude herself from the company of men and women. The woman re plied that the details were too numerous and onerous. In three weeks' time he offered him self again to the sister of the woman who had rejected him. She imposed conditions before she would answer "m" or "no." She would marry no could not fence, dance nor man wno ride. As Mr. Day had none of these accomplishments and had derided them as unbecoming manliness, ne was in a strait betwixt consistency and the lady's hand. He sacrificed his consistency, went t Paris, took lessons in the three accom. plishments and returned to England. The lady laughed at, his fencing, dancing and horsemanship, and told him that she liked him best as he was before. But Day's spirit was up; he deter mined to marrv some one. He therefore selected two orphangirls from an asylum, with the view of educating them both and then selecting tha fittest one for hii wife. In order to cultivate their fortitude, he used to drop hot sealing wax on then bare arms, and fire off pistols, loaded only with gunpowder, at their petticoats. One of the two girls would cry with pain or alarm, and she, therefore, was ruled out of the competition. The bthev, though she showed fortitude by ?iei silence, would wear a certain kind oi sleeve and handkerchief then in fashion, but whieh Mr. Day disliked. She alsc was dismissed. : - . At last he found a wife, a lady of large fortune, who conformed to. his whims and believed him to be a great man. He appropriated her fortune, a thing so with her, until he was ' killed try being thrown from a colt he was. training ac- ording to a method of his own. His widow took to her years later. Kansas bed and died two City Star. The Bale Fire. In olden times, when New England was a struggling colony, when gettle ments were few and far between, when even Boston was but a struggling village by the sea, before the telegraph was thought of, beacon fires were nightly ngnted up on the hill-tops to guide the mariner into port or to convey glad or ill tidings through the land. But so seldom were they harbingers of good news that they were called "bale fires." The word "bale" means "sorrow, calamity, misery, misfortune." . Massachusetts was then an almost un broken forest, with here and there a clearing where some adventurous Puritans had established a settlement and carved out farms from the gloomy wilderness. Carefully would these old pioneers watch the peaks, on whose tops were piled the materials for the bale fire, which was often a rallying point as well as a warn when the red-skinned and redder handed Indian swooped down on the outlying settlements, burning and slay ing without mercy. Then hastily seizing sword and musket. equipped in breast and back plates, with a steel morion for head-gear, these grim citizens would hasten to the assemblv. and, directed by the fires now blazing from hill to hill, march at once upon their savage tots. Detroit Free Press. A Young Housekeeper's Blander. Apropos of the importance to the house wife of a knowledge of ehemistrj comes the following story from the west ern part of the State: A young house keeper, knowing something of the pre servative quality of salt, and observing that ice cream and other substanees to be frozen were always packed in ice and salt, drew therefrom the strictly logical deduction that the salt was intended to preserve the ice In a solid state. Upon her cook, therefore, the injunction was carefully and continually laid to keep the ice well salted especially the ice about the meats and the milk for the baby with the amazing result that there was never any ice in the refrigerator, while the liquids therein were always in a state of congelation. Murh did th matron grieve over this, and loudly also did her husband protest when the ice bills came in. And finally in order to clear her skirts from the charge of undue lavishness in the matter of ice did the young matron explain carefully and with tears how it could not be herfault when sne was so careful to have the ice salted each day in order to keep it. The chem istry of. the problem was quickly ex plained to the young woman, and she now salts the meat and lets the ice alone. New York Sun. ElectricLights for Sleeping Apartments In the the new hofel at Tampa, Fla the electric lights in the sleeing apart ments will be so arranged, says th Tampa Journal, that they may be madt to burn with any degree of brilliancy bj turning on or ? off in the same way as a gas jet or kerosene lamp is regulated to give more or less light, Tha is the very last invention in electric lighting, and will overcome the greatest objection . to electric lights ic bedrooms, which by all former appliances give their full capacity when used. xx P -who talks sows, he who listens1 reaps. : Every utterance creates some kiad of an impression. The error of a moment may be the sor row of a whole life, j Our acts make or mar us; we are the . children of our own deeds. Politeness is as natural to refined na tures as perfume is to flowers. The cruelty of the effeminate is mors dreadful than thit of the hardy. Avoid shame, but do not seak glory. Nothing is so expensive as glory. A deep moral hurt leaves its traces as surely as a deep wound leaves a scar. Poverty is the only burden which arrows heavier by being shared withthos & we love. Calumniators are the asps of society. Envy and malice are the herbs upon which they feed. He that cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass him self; for every man has need to be for given. Dark seasons are never pleasant to us, but they are always good to us. Aloud less sky could never produce a rich and; abundant harvest. . To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest, a cheerful state of being is rpmiired. but in order to see into man kind, into life, and still more, selves, suffering is required. into our Fixing Up lujared Dolls. A little girl not long since wrote to the New York News to know where she could get a new head for her dollie, which she dearly loved. She was f urr nished with the information through the "Answers to Correspondents'' column. The reporter, thinking that there might be many other little girls whose dolls needed hospital treatment, made some investigation about the subject. He found that dolls could be furnished, be sides headsj with new arms, legs, wigs and eyes, and -the latter, when they re fused to close when bedtime came, could be made to do so. Heads for French dolls with real haii j may be had for from $1.50 to $5, while those for German dolls are worth from thirty-five cents to $3.50. The eyes ( French dolls are stationary, but when the movable eyes of the German dolls. get out of order theycan oe menaea ai a cost of from tnirty-five cents to $1. The heads of both classes of dolls are of bisque, but the French heads ara much Gner, being nearly transparent, and the faces much more beautifully molded.. Sometimes these heads are furnished with ear -rings. Wigs of real hair cost from fifty cents to $2. The German dolls are the finest that are made, and range in price'ironi a few dollars to $100, or even more when, ac companied?1 as they sometimes are, hfsn extensive wardrobe. lat are known in tne trade as xouc- )lls, that is, those.who say 'papa and. German manufacture.. Whlfi thev become dumb thev caa have. Vstored bv proper treatment. It costs uoy one for from fifty-cents -j&cxZZ No operation has vet been perform e on the latest novelties in the doll line, those that recite "Little Bo-Peep, '' "Two Little Blackbirds Sat on a Hill." and GillJ' etc., but doubtless specialist will take the matter up. "Jack some A Pathetic Trip to Prison. A middle-aged woman, dressed iu an olive green cloth Newmarket, and carry ing a skye terrier, tried to gain admis- -sion into the smoking car of the-Poughkeepsie train which left the Grand Cen tral depot the other morning. The con- ,; ducto'r said: "No dogs are admitted there. That is the smoking car. madam." f "Please let me in," she pleaded and she j appealed to the conductor so earnestly ' ' that he allowed her to enter. . X Rapidly walking up the centre of the 1 smoking car the woman took a vacant seat next to a smooth shaven r stout, but somewhat seedy-looking man, and kissed him. The man was handcuffed to two others who sat ou the opposite seat, one of whom was a colored man. They were convicts on their way to Sing Sing to work out tkeir sentences. The stout man was the woman's husband. The little skye terrier was so glad to see his former master that he literally licked away the i tear3 that trickled down the prisoner's cheeks. ' J The man and woman conversed eir- 4. nestly in an undertone, and as soon as the train was in'motion the woman pulled out a thick roll of greenbacks and drew the man's attention to them, as though' to assure him that she was not unpro vided for. Then the train peddler came alongand the woman bought six of the very best cigars he had, and forced them upon the short man, who gave a couple apiece to his fellow-prisoners. 4TheA scene was so pathetic that more than one passenger coughed and wiped his nose energetically to conceal his emotion. The prisoner was George Wilson, who will serve threes- md a half years tur bvmlwv .ScpJYork neve 8. Plate at Windsor. The papers are full of accounts of a silver centre-piece which is being manu factured for the Queen, and which con tains 2000 ounces of silver. Consider ing that there is already plate at Windsor Castle which is valued at upward of two millions, it is difficult to conceive what the Queen can want with another centre piece, especially when so very few enter tainments of any kind are. given . by her Majesty. During the reign of George IV. gold and silver plate was purchased by his Majesty, for which the country had to pay, to the amount of nearly "1 $1,500,000. In the private apartment' at Windsor there is aa punchbowl and ladle for which alone the bill wa $50 -000. London Truth. ' ' The Lord's Prayer on his Arm. "We find strange mementoes ca some ! of our bodies," said an undertaker of Detroit. " The other day we were preparing the body of an unknown for burial. He had met a violent death, but there was the most serene expression on his face that I ever saw on any one. When we dressed him for the grave we found the Lord's i prayer beautifully written in India ink on his forearm. It was as fine a piece of , tattooing as lever saw, and it set me to thinking that perhaps that was what he depended on for comfort and that gave the peaceful look to his face. Montreal Star. I, I ' y 1 1 ' ' 'I, i 5 m A t 4 1 L
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