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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 29, 1884.
VOL. TV.
NO. 30.
Each subsequent insertion.. 1 03
WOMAN AND HOME.
Hints for the Household and Helps
for the House-Mother.
Clara Hello Concerning- Conrteklp
CJuu-tlas; WomenSenp Base ;
and Old Papers A Fine
Complexion.
Plo Lewi Monthly.
To soften ana whiten the skin there is noth
ing more beneficial than oatmeal, taken in
ternally and used externally. As I hare no
wish to 1 encroach upon the housewife's do
main, m simply jive directions for its ex
ternal use. After a warm bath it may be
used dry, or pour boiling water over a few
spoonfuls of it, and let stand a few hour
On going to ' bed, wash the hands and face
freely in the starchy water, and dry without
wiping. firan and Indian menl may be used
instead, with nearly the same effect For
the sun bath put the bran or oatmeal into
small bags, otherwise the difficulty of remov
ing the particles which adhere to the skin is
considerable.- ''.-
Instead of poultices of bread and asses'
milk which the Roman ladies found so effi
cacious for softening and whitening the face,
we may use a mask of quilted cotton or
chamois skin, wet in cold distilled water.
This will not be the most comfortable in the
world, but . no great excellence is ever at
tained without labor and care. Many ladies,
whose complexions are the envy of all their
friends, acknowledge that they owe it all to
distilled water, which they use for their face
and hands. Queen Victoria is to be envied
for one thing, if nothing else, for 6he has the
delightful comfort and luxury of having dis
tilled water for all her baths.
Ladles with oily or greasy skins may use,
sparingly, a few drops of camphor in the
bath. Borax and glycerine combined, are
used with good effect by some people, while
thoroughly disagreeing with others. Glycer
ine alone softens and heals, but in time will
darken the skin and make it over-sensitive;
the borax obviates this, and has a tendency
to whiten. No toilet table is complete with
out a bottle of ammonia. A few drops of
this in the bath, cleanses the skin and stimu
lates it wonderfully. It is especially valua
ble in removing the odor from those who
perspire freely.
To remove tan and sun-bum, cold cream,
mutton tallow and lemon juice may be used ;
for freckles, apply the latter with a tiny
camel's-hair brush. The country girl, de
prived of many things which her city cousin
finds indispensable, discovers that she can re
move the tan from her face with a wash
made of green encumbers sliced into skim
milk, or, failing in this, she makes a decoc
tion of buttermilk and tansy.
A well-known writer on feminine beauty
recommends the use of finely-ground French
eaarcoal for the complexion. A teaspoonful
of this, well mixed with water or honey,
should be taken for three consecutive nights,
followed by a simple purgative, to remove it
from the system. The aperient must not be
omitted, or the charcoal will remain in the
system, a mass of festering poison, with all
the impurities it absorbs.
None of these things will bring about the
.-desired result aniens, the foundation is first
laid by proper food, exercise and bathing;
above all things, do not neglect the bath.
Cleanliness is one of the cardinal virtues, and
a woman fresh from the bath feels a good
deal like an angeL
"Clara Belle" Concerning; Courtship.
, Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Let us return for a moment to the subject
otibmage, lor the sake of a little moraliz
ing. Ruskin is out with condemnation of
what he calls mob courtship, and I agree
with him. It is greatly to be regretted that
of paying court in the old-fashioned way to a
lady, with expectancy that it will take time
for acquaintance to blossom into friendship
and friendship to ripen into love, there is not
much in our days. Instead we have the mad
"falling in love," for which our novels aie
partially responsible, which have much mar
rying in haste and repenting in leisure to an
swer for because of their false teaching in ex
alting impetuous passion above calm, patient,
intelligent love.
Ruskin is of the opinion that if a youth is
rally in love with a girl, and feels that he is
wise in loving her, he should at once tell her
so plainly, and take his chance bravely with
other suitors. No lover should have the inso
lence to think of being accepted at once, nor
should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at
once without severe reasons. If she simply
doesn't like him she may send him away for
seven years or so, he vowing to live on cresses
and, wear sackcloth meanwhile, or the like
penance; if she likes him a little, or thinks
she might come to like him in time, she may
let him stay near her, putting him always on
sharp trial to see what stuff he is made of,
and requiring, figuratively, as many lions'
skins or giants' heads as she thinks herself
worth.
The whole meaning and power of true
courtship is probatiou; and old man Ruskin
thinks thai it ought to be fixed at seven years.
But th j precipitate process is now in vogue.
We learn our lessons of love and wedlock
from the novel and the drama.
Charm Ins; Women.
Atlantic Monthly.
"When it was all over, my friend said,
Now, that is a woman in earnest. Do you
suppose it is her earnestness that makes her
so unprepossessing P
That is my perplexity reduced to its last
equation: Was it her earnestness?
My friend held that it was. "If you have
observed," said she, "women with aims are
always like that. They are too superior to
condescend to make themselves agreeable.
Besides, they haven't time. Then they never
. can see but one side of a question the side
they are on. They are always dragging their
own opinions to the front, and always
running full tilt against every one else's.
That is where they differ most from
women who haven't purposes and who
have seen a good deal of the .world. It is
the business of a woman of the world to be
agreeable. She spares no pains to make her
self just as good looking as possible and just
as charming. And she is always tolerant.
She may think you a fool for your beliefs,
but she doesn't tell you so brutally, or try to
crush you with an avalanche of argument.
She tries to look at the matter from your point
of view ; in short, she feigns a sympathy if she
has it not. Your women with a purpose
think it wrong to feign anything. They won't
pretend to be sympathetic any more than they
will powder their faces, or let their dress
maker improve their figures. That's why
they are so boring; they are too narrow to be
sympathetic and too conscientious to be
polite. It is earnestness does it, earnestness
is naturally narrowing. It is earnest
ness, too, sets their nerves in a quiver and
makes them so restless. They can never sit
still; they are always twitching, don't
you know! That's earnestness. It has a
kind of electrical effect. Women in earnest
have no repose of manner. But a woman of
the world feigns that, just as she feigns
sympathy, because it makes her pleasant to
other people. Oh, there's no doubt of it;
women with a purpose are vastly better than
other women, but they are not nearly so
nicer
My own experience corroborates my
friend's opinions. Women with a purpose,
women in earnest, have a noticeable lack of
charm. And I regret to say that the nobility
of the purpose does not In the least affect tne
Quantity of charm. Very likely their busy
lives and the hard fight they , have had to
wage with social prejudices 'and moral
anachronisms may have something to do
with it. "
But after making all deductions, I wonder
if my friend's theory does not hit somewhere
near the mark.
An Epidemic mt Scrap-Bass.
New York Post.)
One of the fancies of the day is to have in
numerable scrap-bags and work-bags scat
tered through the house. This should, and
probably will become something more than a
fancy, for after one has become accustomed
to the convenient practice or putting away
things in them it will be difficult to give
them up. They are made in every style ana
of every kind of material.
If for bed-rooms, they should match in color
with the other bright or sombre colors used
there. One very simple and pretty way. to
make them is to make - tne nag or. wnite
butchers' linen ; cut it square and have it
about.flfteen inches each. way. Across tne
top and bottom put on a strip of Canton flan
nel three inches wide; sew this to the linen
with fancy stitches, then draw three circles
at equal distances apart and about the size of
a half-dollar. Work these, commencing at
the centre and going up in straight lines to
the circumference, with three or four shades
of yellow embroidery silk. The ba is not
gathered at the top, but has two blue strings
attached to the corners to . hang it by. The
bottom of the bag may be ornam-! jUkI by a
strip of butchers' linen fringed out, or by a
row ol torchon across the bottom, slightly
fulled on, or it may be left plain.
Another way is to have the bottom of the
bag of a band of silk, sateen or velvet, five
inches wide, and the rest of the bag, wmcn
should be ten inches or more long, of one
kind of material. The top should be faced
for about five inches and a shir be stitched
there and ribbon run in. Aida canvas bags,
made in the shape of the first one mentioned,
are very pretty. Embroider some shot1"
figure or pattern on the canvas, and hav
upper part of silk with very narrow ribu
to hang it by. The canvas so extensively
used by tailors in gentlemen's coats make
nice and serviceable bags. This may be used
in place of butchers' linen.
.Still another style is to take a piece of silk
three-quarters of a yard long and twelve
inches wide, line it with silesia, sew it up in a
long and narrow bag, leaving an opening in
the centre large enough to insert your band,
gather the ends and finish with a tassel, slip
two small rings of bone or of brass over these
ends up to each Bide of the opening. These
are made up especially to bang over a rod or
the knob of a door that is not used often, and
made very ornamental. Outline work shows
to good advantage on brown canvas, and
cashmere is pretty for the upper part of the
bag.
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Chlhuahuan Women.
Wheeling Register.
Chihuahua is innocent of sidewalks. Mud
is scarcely known, as rain falls only suffi
ciently to moisten the earth, except in the
month of June, when as if to make up for its
feebleness at other times, it almost deluges
the town, falling to the depth of. thirteen or
fourteen inches. It rushes down the moun
tains in a torrent, floating off carta, barrels,
chairs and chicken-coops, if the latter are
sufficiently modern to be made of wood. The
coops are usually mud and . stone, hastily
thrown together.
The Mexican women are wonderfully
graceful This is partly due to the mannei
of carrying baskets or bundles, begun in
early childhood. I watched a Mexican girl
carry an immense basket of clothes home to
be laundned. First she selected from the
basket a towel, and twisting it tightly
wound it round and round until the circum
ference was the size of her head, on which
she placed it; then, helped by a companion,
she lifted the basket, weighing at least thirty
pounds, on top of the rolL She balanced it
by touching it lightly, first with one hand
and then the other. After she had gone a
short distance she folded her hands in her
shawl, walking with the greatest ease and
unconsciousness. She looked back smilingly
at me, showing her pretty white teeth, still
amused at senora, who thought her task
difficult
Households Hints.
"I L. L." in Detroit Free Press.
To keep knives and forks in good condition
when not in use, dust the blades and prongs
with finely powdered quicklime and keep
them wrapped in flannel.
To clean straw matting, boil three quarts
of bran in oue gallon of water and wash the
matting with the water, drying it well.
To wash castor bottles, put them one-third
full of rice and fill up with water; shake
thoroughly.
To remove fruit stains from linen, dip in
sour buttermilk and dry in the sun; wash
in cold water and dry two or three times a
day.
Mildew is easily removed by rubbing com
mon yellow soap on the article an 1 then a
little salt and starch on that. Rub all well
on the article and put in the sunshine.
To extract ink from wool, scour vrith sand
wet with water and ammonia. Then rinse
with strong saleratus water. -
To clean door plates use a wet solution of
ammonia in water applied with a wet rag.
Clothes pins boiled a few minutes and
quickly dried once or twice a month become
more durable.
Modes of Bread "Raising."
Scientific American)
Good cream tartar bread is perfectly whole
some, but it lacks the alcohol, and can cot
monly be distinguished from yeast t
even by the taste, and this mode of "raising"
is used chiefly for those forms which we will
so unwisely persist in eating hot,
For herein comes to light the most import
ant distinction between the two modes of
raising dough. As formerly remarked, hot
bread, biscuit, etc., ought never to be eaten
by any one. But if we are bound at any rate
to do it, there is much greater safety ' and
much more ease of digestion secured by the
use of the cream tartar.. The biscuit, eta,
made with it can within a very few minutes
after baking pass through all the changes
which in the other case requires Jive or six
hours. And until these molecular transfor
mations ha ve ceased, the bread is a fearful bur
den to a weak stomach. But where it is to
be eaten cold, as it shoul 1 always be, yeast
fermentation is what it ha in all ages been,
the one way to raise bread.
Something; Sew and Xlce.
Inter Ocean.
pannages are easier to pour when prepared
tm p ti kettle with a spout A small one can
Tjrrrchased for the purpose. '
When peeling onions place a pin tightly bo
tween the front teeth. This prevents the
tears from coming.
A very palatable dish can be made of
mashed potatoes and a little finely chopped
meat of one or more kinds, mixed together,
flavored with salt and pepper, and fried in
small flat cakes. ..
It is said by a butter-maker, who ought to
be authority, that if rancid butter is worked
over thoroughly in sweet milk, every suspi
cion even of unpleasant flavor will here
moved. The caution is repeated that this
must be thoroughly done.
Beef balls are very nice fried in suet
Round steak can be used for these. Chop the
meat fine, season well with pepper and salt
and any herb you may choose, snaps mem
like flat balls with your hands, dip in egg and
fine cracker or bread crumbs, and fry in the
hot suet
Fiction for Children.
Harper's Bazar.
Feed your child on pickles and sweetmeats,
allow her to wear paper-soled shoes and an
Insufficiency of flannel, and we all Know
what the consequences, will be dyspepsia
and hectic cough. Does it never occur to you
that the analogy applies to her mental sus
tenance and equipment? that if we feed hei
unformed and emotional nature with
high-spiced, morbid, unreal fiction she
will become incapable of digesting bettor
literature, and that by the time she is a
woman anything solid will be rejected by the
pampered appetite f Have you never seen
this, tou mothers? .
Oo-ni fiction is truly a legitimate, healthful,
and improving means of- pleasure and profit
By the perusal of clever novels, of real and
idealized pictuny of human life, our mental
range of vision is extended, the focus of our
intellectual glasses is truly adjusted, ' our
sympathies enlarged, our prejudices driven
away, our knowledge of and regard for the
just value of life increased and verified; we
are amused, improved, touched, warned,
helped, and ureed to help others. Thero is
so better means of impressing on our mindi
the facts of history or the qualities and val
ues of human nature than by the historical
or critical novo). But such tiro not the re
sults which usually follow from a perusal of
"the light literature of the day," which
library people prove young girls devour
yearly in unlimited quantities.
Save the Old Paper.
Tnter-Ocean.
Never throw away old paper. If you have
no wish to sell it, use it in the house. Some
housekeepers prefer it to cloth for cleaning
many articles of furniture.
For instance, a volume written by a lady
says: "After a stove has been blackened it
can be kept looking very well for a long time
by rubbing it with paper every morning.
Rubbing with paper is a much nicer way of
keeping a tea-kettle, coffee pot, and tea-pot
bright and clean than the old way of wash
ing them in suds. Rubbing with paper is
also the best way of polishing knives, tin
ware and spoons; they shine like new silver.
"For polishing mirrors, lamp chimneys,
etc, paper is better than dry cloth. Pre
serves and pickles keep much better if brown
paper instead of cloth is tied over the jar.
Canned fruit is not. so apt to mold if a piece
of writing paper, cut to fit the can, is laid
directly on the fruit Paper is much better
to put under a carpet than straw. It la
warmer, thinner and makes less noise when
one walks over it
Difficult and Dangerous.
The Continent
It is only a few years since the "fifteen
puzzle" was the favorite pastime. It con
fronted us on all sides, besieging the study,
the home circle and drawing-room More
lately a new enigiha has been propounded,
which novelists are bandying in every form.
It is the enigma of the human heart, which,
finding wedlock unsatisfactory, fixes its de
votion on another than the legal husband or
wife. Are the days of innocent young love
fast passing away (
It needs little reflection to show that the
theme of cross-love between the married is
not only difficult to manage but dangerous.
It cannot possibly be wholesome as a topic
either for idle amusement or close and fre
quent study. For many reasons its habitual
use as the motive of a story is something
to be greatly deplored. Are we, who have
lifted our skirts at the prurience of French
novels and plays, now to draggle them
through American renderings of the same
naughtiness f
Blase and Miserable.
St Louis Republican.
There are women in our midst who have
looked forward all their lives to a possible
time when they might own a plain, lady like
costume, of elegant material say a good
black silk. To have such a one would make
them perfectly happy, while their neighbors
are women who have worn nothing but
silken gowns and velvets all their lives.
But the first is the happier of the two. She
hop s on still looks forward to the superb
possession, while the other has nothing to
look at through the lens of futurity. The
future, when the rosy curtain rolls away, can
show her nothing she has not known in the
past only newer silk gowns, others like what
have gone before, and which Lave fallen to
the lot of the poor relative. She can still feel
an enthusiasm while looking at painted satins
and brocaded velvets, but her expectancy is
blunt at the point What can the woman
know of the genuine happiness who does not
remember the first day she wore a sealskin
pelisse, trimmed with natural otter f The
fortunate she, born to sealskin, is blase and
miserable.
The Workmanship of tbe Universal
Father.
Cor. Philadelphia Journal.
A few days since, a learned physician, with
much pride, told me bow his leading of a
costly work on the structure and functions
of woman had ?jeen delayed. His daughter,
14 years of age, had got a glimpse of the
volumes as soon as tbe express left them, and
wished to read. He readily granted permis
sion. "But, father," added, the witty girl,
"this is all about mother and me. May I
also read of you and Charlie (a brother) T'
"Why, certainly," responded the doctor. "It
is only an exposition of the workmanship of
the Universal Father, whose will is perfect"
His voice, he thinks, grew reverent Such
truly was his state of mind. Dewy tears came
into the eyes of this daughter, already noted
for her grace, beauty and intellect, and she
put her arms around her father's neck, and
most tenderly kissed him.
Parlor Furniture.
New York World
Fashion requires that the modern parlor
shall avoid all appearances of uniformity in its
furniture. In a word, every piece is expected
to have some characteristic not possessed by
its neighbor. What is known nowadays to
dealers and manufacturers as a "parlor suite'
consists of one sofa, one arm-chair, and a side
chair or two. These may be uniform in
style and upholstery. The remainder of the
furniture is contributed iu odd pieces, differ
ing in style, color, and upholstery, yet in
harmony with the furniture proper.
Coffee Cups. '
No two after-dinner coffee cups should be
the same, says an exchange, and this will en
able china collectors to show what they have
got that is old, new, odd, uniqua, exclusive,
and pretty. .
(anntlet Glove.
The gauntlet glove is coming into fashion
for morning use in quitt gray, tan, and wood
shades.. They are. made in four different
lengths and the longest cuffs reach nearly to
the elbows. . . ,
rVm't train your eves by readinz on an
empty stomach or when ilL
THE FEUIT-WOMAN'S
NEPHEW.
From the French of H. Moreau.
"What, you -(retch I cried Pere La
Bare, cook at Versailles, to his son; "you
will be 6 years old at Christmas, and
yon can't do the least thing of nse; yon
can neither tarn the spit nor skim the
pot!" -
One must avow that Father Lazare
was somewhat right in his reprimand
ing, for at the moment in which the
scene passed, 176, he had just canght
his heir-presumptive in delicto flagrante
of frolic and laziness, ekirmishixg,
armed with a skewer in the guise of a
foil, with the smoky kitchen wall, re
gardless of a fowl that upon a table
piteonsly waited to be spitted, and of
the paternal kettle that mntteringly
hurled cascades of scum ita the ashes.
"Come now I i ardon- him . and em
brace him, the poor child ; he won't do
so any more," said a young peasant,
fruit-teller at Montreal, and sister of
the irritable cook. Martha that was
her name had come to Versailles
under pretext of consulting her brother
about some matter, or other, but really
to bring kisses and peaches for her
nephew, of whom she wan extremely
fond. Everything about the child's
character and appearance justified this
extraordinary affection; for he was
franksome and turbulent, but good,
sensible and charming, charming I one
could not refrain from eatiug with
kisses his pretty cheeks, fresher and
redder than his aunt's peaches. But
Fere Lazare continually grumbled.
"Six years!" he would say, "and he
don't know how to skim a pott lean
never make anything out of that child !"
Father Lazare. you see, was one of
those steadfast and fanatical cooks, that
consider the'r trade the chief of all, as
an art, as a cult whose hands are
fiercely posed on their carving-knives
like that of a pasha on his yatagan ; who
pluck a goose with the solemn air of a
hierophant consulting the sacred en
trails, who beat an omelette with the
majesty of Xerxes whipping the sea;
who whiten nnder the immemorable
cotton cap, and who will hold on to the
leg of a stove, dying, as they say the
Indian devotees hold on to the tail of a
cow.
There are no longer any such men.
As for Martha, the fruit-woman, she
was a good and simple creature, so good
that she was not foolish, as they usu
ally sav, but, on' the contrary, spiritu
elle. Yes, she found ever in her heart
touching and passionate ways of speak
ing, that M. de Voltaire himself, great
man in those days, never found nnder
his peruque.
There are stiil such women.
"Brother," said she, moved and weep
ing almost at seeing her little Lazare,
"you know that big trunk yon found so
commodious for packing up the table
service, and which I refused to sell to
you? I will give it to you if yon
wish."
"I will still give 10 pounds, as be
fore." "Brother, I want more."
"Come! 19 pounds, 10 sous, and
enough said."
"Oh ! I exact more yet. It is a reas
nre which I wish !".
Pere Lazare h okrd fixed at his sister.
as if to see if the were not gone mad.
"Yes," continued she, "I want my
little Lazare Lome and mine all alone.
From this evening, if you consent, the
trunk is yours, atd I take the little fel
low to Montreuil."
Martha's brother objected somewhat,
for at the bottom he was a good man
and a good father; but the boy in liti
gation caused him to have, as ha ex
pressed himself, so much bad blood and
so many bad sauces ! Martha's in
stances were so lively and, moreover,
the trunk in question was so suitable
for hoMing the silverware ! at last he
yielded.
"Come, my child, come ?" said Martha,
as she dragged the little Lazare toward
her cart, "you will fare better with me
among my apples, which you eat with
so much pleasure, than in the society
of your father's roasted goose. . Poor
boy ! yon would have perished in that
smoke. Lcok now," added she with
naive fright, "my violet bouquet, a mo
ment ago so fresh, is already withered !
Come on, quick jf your father should
recall his words and wish you back 1"
And she dragged off her prey so fast
that the pa.sors-by would have taken
her, but for her decent appearance and
the free and gay air of her young com
panion, for a genuine kidnaper. "
The aunt's first care, after seeing her
yonng nephew installed in her house,
was to teach him to read what Father
Lazare had never thought of; for
totally devoid of education, the brave
man knew not its value, and would have
been greatly astonished. I swear td'ybu,
if one had informed him that one of
the feathers he had so heedlessly
plucked from a goose's wing, fallen
into skillful, fingers, could overturn the
world. Little Lagare learned rapidly,
and with so much ardor that his
instructress first had often to close
the book and say: - "Enough,
my angel, enough for to-day; go play
now; be good and amuse yourself
the best you can." And the child
would ride horseback uproarously
within the house or before the door, a
stick between his legs. Sometimes the
innocent steed seemed to take the bit in
his teeth " "Mon Dieu, Mon Dieu ! he
will fall, would cry the good Martha
who followed the esquire with her
eyes ; but . she soon saw him tame,
guide, spur his v broomstick with all
the dexterity and. self-possession of an
old witch, and, reassured, she smiled
down upon him. from her window like
a queen from tbe height of her balcony.
JLhis bellicose instinct but augmented
with age. So much bo that at 10 he
was named unanimously general-in-chief
by half of the playfellows of Montreuil,
who were then divided into . two camps.
contending for the possession of a black
bird's nest. Useless it is to say that he
justified this distinction by prodigies of
address and valor. They pretend that
he succeeded in winning four ba'tles in
one day, an unheard. of feat in military
annals. fNapoleon, himself, never
reached but just to three. But his
high rank and victories did not render
Lazare prouder than before, and every
morning the customary filial kiss sounded
not less freely npon the fruit-seller's
cheek. But alas! war , has terrible
chances ; and one fine day the conqnerer
met with a misadventure which
almost disgusted him forever with the
mama for conquest. It happened in
this wise: As he bent over to observe
the enemy's movements, his hand rested
npon the trunk of a tree, a little j after
the manner of Napoleon pointing a
battery at Montmirail, the general's
trousers cracked and split bahind, yon
know where, let tine hang and flutter a
large bit of the little shirt which Mar
tha had washed and ironed tbe evening
before. At this sight the heroes of
Montmirail burst into laughter as loud
as the best efforts of Homers gods
great jokers as everybody knows, (j The
army mutinied ; in yam did the general
cry, like Henry, of Navarre, whose his
tory he had read: "Soldiers, rally on
my white plume!" They answered that
a plume was not worn there, and. one
could not, without insult to the French
colors, plant them in a like breach, so
that tbe poor general broke his i: com
mander's baton over a" mutineer's
back, and went home ' sad
and dejected as the English
when ; they landed at Dover
after the battle of Fontenoy. i This
name recalls a circumstance I would be
wrong to omit. ; A poor old soldier who
came from time to time to Martha's
house to smoke his pipe in the chimney
corner, and warm h;s heart with s
glass of cherry bounce, had not for
gotten to relate at length how he and
Marshal Saxe had won the celebrated
battle. I leave yon to think whethei
this inaccurate but warm recital could
have influenced the imagination of the
young listener. From that time, asleep
or awake, he heard without cessation
the horses striving against the curb, the
bullets whistling and the cannons roar
ing; and more than once, alone in his
little room, he thought himself an actor
in the grand military drama. j;
Then you should have seen; him
stamp, leap and cry. j!
"Fire first, Messieurs les Anglais!
Marshal, our cavalry has been repulsed!
The enemy's column is nnshatterable !
Forward the king's guards! Pifl'paf!
boom! boom! Bravo! the English
square is broken ! The victory is ours !
Long live the king!" jj
Poor Lazare believed himself at least
esquire of Louis XV., or colonel.! Such
an exhibition doubtless makes yon
laugh ! It would have been a miracle,
would it not, if the fruit woman's
nephew had risen so high ? Yes : but
rememler that we approach 1789, an
epoch fruitful in miracles. Listen :
Lazare first entered . the French
go ards, despite his aunt's tears,) whom
he endeavored on parting to console
with his caresses, and soon became ser
geant. Then the age marched onward,
and the fortune of many sergeants also.
In brief, from grade to grade, he be
came guess colonel. There were no
longer any colonels. The king's e.paery.
There no longer was any king.; You
cannot guess. Well, Lazare, the cook's
son, Lazare, the fruit woman's nephew,
became a general; no more a j make
believe general with a paper hel
met, but general for good, with a
plumed hat and a coat laced with gold;
general-in-cbief , general of a j great
French army, nothing otherwise; and,
if you doubt it, open the modern his
tory, and there you will read with emo
tion the beautiful and grand feats of
Gen. Hoche. Roche was the family
name of Lazare. Let us hasten to say
to his praise, that his victories, this
time so serious, left him as modest and
as good as his infantile victories at
Montreuil. So, when- on a review day
he passed at full gallop along his
army's front, there was yet at a win
dow near by a fine old woman, who
covered the splendid general with her
eyes breathless from pleasure and
fear, and repeating as twenty years
be'ore, "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu ! He
will fall!" As for the grumbler cook
of Versailles he was there, too',' aston
ished at having given a hero to the
country, repeating with a certain air of
sufficiency to those who felicitated him
thereupon : 44 You don't know how
much trouble I had to raise that boy!
Just imagine, citoyens, at 6 years of
age he could not skim a pot." j
Ueniarkable Ieath From Fright.
Loud 3H Globe. j i
The most remarkable death from the
accident of fright was that of the Dutch
painter Pentman, in the seventeenth
century. He was at work on
a picture in which were ! repre
sented several death's-heads, grin
ning skeletons and other objects
calculated to inspire the beholder with
a contempt for the vanities . and j follies
of the day. In order to do his work
better, he went to an anatomical room
and nsed it as a studio. One i sultry
day. as he was drawing these melan
choly relics of mortality by which he
was surrounded, he fell off into a quiet
sleep, from which he was suddenly
aroused. Imagine his horror i at be
holding the skulls and bones dancing
around him like mad, and the skeletons
which hung from the ceiling dashing
themselves 'together. Panio stricken,
he rushed from the room and threw
himself headlong from the . window on
the pavement below. He sufficiently
recovered to learn that the can?e of his
fear was a slight earthquake, but his
nervous system had received so i severe
a shock that he died in a few day 4.
ftaeane from Kditorlal Stiffness.
"Oath's Letter." j
The first person article, which has
spread all over the press, began in The
London Illustrated News, with George
Augustus Sala. The next appearance
was in The Washington Evening Star,
called "Gadabout's Column," nine
years ago. The New York Star then
published "The Man About Town," by
Mr. Ackermann. The Tribune about
the same time published "Johnny Bou
quet," and followed it with "The Broad
way Note-book." A few -weeks after
the latter began all the newspapers fol
lowed Bait. The stiffness of editorial
comment is thus thrown off, and direct
responsibility evaded.
Op tk a door in heaven;
From skies of gla s
A Jacob's-la Ider Tails
On n-Mulnir era's.
And o er the mountain walls L
Young angels pass. !
--Tennyson's $1,000 poem.
TWO GUINEAS -AND FOUR MEN
A Scene of tTsal Interest the
Oreyhoand ef the Ocean.
New York World.
Fonr gentlemen were seated at a
table in the smoking-room of the
steamer Alaska, of the Gnion line, on
her recent remarkable- trip across. The
sea was running heavy, and the smoking-room
steward found it a delicate
matter to place a glass and a bottle be
fore each of the four gentlemen and to
nncork the complementary ginger ale
otherwise than on his head. The con
versation turned on the extraordinary
speed the steamer was making, and led
to a bet. In "covering" the wager of a
sovereign npon a trivial matter one of
the four gentlemen took from his purse
a guinea of ; the reign', of William and
Mary. ' , '
"There are only two of them ' in ex
istence,", he said proudly, "and this
piece is worth a hundred times its face
valne. ' Had I the other the collection
of two would be simply invaluable to
nnmismati8ts.f:. - .. -.
He laid it on the table as he spoke,
and in a moment after the coin had dis
appeared. Nobody saw it fall or glide
off the table. Nobody saw anybody
else take it. Its owner searched high
and low ; his three companions and the
steward helped him. No other persons
were in the compartment, and yet the
coin could not be found. -
These four men had been strangers
to each other when the voyage began.
They had b-en five days out and were
rapidly nearing port. The owner of
the valuable coin was inconsolable, sus
picious, and profane by turns. .
"IU tell you what is the best thing to
do," said one of the party. "The coin
is not on the floor; it cannot have rolled
through the ceiling. Somebody . here
must have it. Let ' all . of us be
searched."
All agreed but one gentleman who
had hitherto said nothing. He posi
tively refused to suffer such an indig
nity. When . it was, suggested to him
that where all others agreed no single
persons ought to object he simply de
clined, made his bow, took his drink
alone and left for his state-room. ;
The good ship Alaska ploughed on to
her sixth day, and just after her com
pleting it Fire island was sighted. The
gentleman who had refused to be
searched had been put in Coventry; the
three others who sat at . the table with
him unanimously suspected him.
But just as the pilot came aboard the
Alaska the gentleman who had lost the
guinea found it sticking in the sole of
his boot, where it had been wedged ever
since he had first displayed it. He was
overjoyed at his discovery and anxious
to make amends for his suspicions.
"But," said he to the gentleman who
had refused to be searched, "why on
earth did you not agree as we all did to
such a simple test ? That . would have
settled the matter instantly."
"No, it wouldn't," answered the other.
"Why not r
"Because (producing his purse) there
is the only other coin of the kind in the
world same date, same color, worn the
same I That is the reason I refused to
be searched, for nothing on earth would
have made you believe this was not
your own coin had you not been so
lucky as to recover it."
As the Alaska steamed into port a
social glass removed all traces of un
pleasantness. rtitlslac the Alligator.
A reporter for The New Orleans
Picayune has been investigating the
alligator, its uses, commercial value, etc.
The following are some of his observa
tions:
The edicts of fashion have sent hun
ters into the tropical forests of Borneo
and Java to bring back the plumage of
birds of paradise to decorate female
head gear. To-day these same imperial
edicts send the hunter to the swamps
and jungles of Louisiana to procure the
bide of the alligator for slippers to
clothe the dainty feet of fair women
and to make sachels and bags in which
to carry their handkerchiefs and pocket
money. ,
The most fashionable material for
small valises, sachels; hand bags,
portmonnaies, and the like, is the skin
of the American alligator, and in all the
gulf states, from Florida to Texas,
these saurians are hunted to supply the
demand. This fashion has not been in
vogue for a very long time, but for the
last three years the slaughter of the al
ligator has been carried on with great
activity.
Besides the hides, there are other
products of the alligator utilized for
commercial purposes. The teeth,
which are round, white and conical, and
as long as two joints of an average fin
ger, are mounted with gold and silver
and nsed for jewelry trinkets and for
teething babies to play with. All teeth
of the alligator are of this class of coni
cal tusks, with no cutting or grinding
apparatus, and hence the animal is
forced to -feed chiefly on carrion.
which is ready prepared for his diges
tion, i
The oil extracted from this creature
has a high reputation among the
swampers for rheumatism, being given
both inwardly and "externally, and is
produced to supply a limited demand.
How Sloabjr Escaped.
"Carleton's" Bull Run Letter.
My note book is full of incidents nar
rated by the veterans of both sides and
by the citizens. .; .
"1 had command of a company,.
said Maj. Fishenar, "and was out on the
picket line. I heard horses' hoofs. It
was about 3 o'clock, the night before
Chantillv. I was close by a pair of
bars leading into a road, and the hoofs
were coming down the road in the
woods." -
"Beady I Aim!" and twenty musket-
men aimed at the bars. Three horse
men rode up. '
"Halt!" :
"I surrender," shouted the middle
horseman, throwing up his hands. The
other two wheeled and fled. I could
not give the order to fire,- for I 'should
have killed my prisoner. .One of. them
escaping was Aiosuy, as he aiterwaros
informed me. -
In the United States there are 120
newspapers edited br colored men.
Th Ha-nf-etare ar ITea4rXac r
Houses.
Scientific American. -
A correspondent paid a visit not long
ago to a city in Maine, where a large es
tablishment is located for the produc
tion of these ready-made houses, and ha
says that few have any idea to what ex
tent this business has been carried, or
to what perfection it has been brought.
Tn the establishment to which we refer,
dwelling houses are made, like boots
and shoes, in any quantity, and of any
size or style, and for any market in ths
wide yorld. Not long since this con
cern received a single order for fifty
houses for Cape May, to be delivered
speedily and in complete finish.
' These houses, were to be, not sheds
nor shanties, but regularly ordered
dwellings ; and they were made accord
ingly and so delivered, and contain
hundreds of occupants at this moment.
An order will be received for a $50,000
hotel, or an ornate; French roof cottars
for a fi-o country estate, and rte jo are t s
easily and expeditiously furnished as an
ordinary boarding-house fpr a country
village, or a barn for a ranch in Kans
or Colorado. Do not suppose that only
a coarse, rough frame is thus sent out
to be trimmed into shape on the spot
where it is delivered ! On the contrary.
the house is complete when it leaves
the factory, and as ready to go together
as is a musket when it leaves the
armory at Springfield, all the parts
being found, even to the knobs for the
doors and the screens and shades for
the doors and windows, according to
specification. Graat trains of freight
cars stand waiting about, ana are
freighted almost daily here. The re
fuse trimmings and edge cuttings of the
lumber are carted off to a neighboring
pulp mill, and there speedily turned
into material for paper or other pro
ducts.
Machinery for almost every con
ceivable nse in connection with wood is
at hand,' and house materials, of any
kind or size or shape, seem to drop oat
like meal from a hopper. In a recent
instance where a large building was
furnished for a southern order, the
parts were thus made,, and when pnt
together in the city where the building
is now standing the length of the latter
was found to vary not the eighth of an
inch from the original - specifications,
although its length -on the front num
bered hundreds of feet. Every inch of
this building, from the sill to the last
shingle, was sent ready prepared from
this factory, and "set up ' as ready and
almost as quickly as a nail cask.
When S-a-ar Warn laveate-,
Clinton Montague in The Household
The exact date of the inven tion of
sugar is lost in the mist of fable. How
ever, sugar is said to have been known
to the Chinese 3,000 years ago, and
there is not much doubt but that the
manufacture of the article was carried
on under the Tsin dynasty 200 years
before Christ. A strong claim for
priority has been made for India. Trob
ably the Hindoos learned the art from
the Chinese, and from India the knowl
edge was carried farther west.
Three hundred and twenty-five years
B. C, Alexander sent Nearchus with a
large fleet down the Indus to explore
the adjacent countries. When that
officer returned from his expedition, he
brought to Greece an account of honey,
(sugar) which the Asiatics made from
cane, without any assistance from bees.
This was the earliest idea the western
nations had of sugar, the Jews, Egypt
ians, Babylonians and Greeks knowing
nothing of its use. As late as A. D.
150, sugar was prescribed by Galen, the
famous physician, as a medicine.
Before the discovery of America,
sugar was a costly luxury, used only on
rare occasions. During the wars ox the
Roses, about 1455, Margaret Paston,
wife of a wealthy country gentleman of
Norfolk, wrote to her husband, begging
that he would "vouchsafe" to send her
a pound of sugar. As late as the year
1700, all England consumed only 20,
000,000 pounds in the course of the year,
but since the consumption has greatly
increased, 20,000,000 hundredweight
now being used by the English people.
The process of refining sugar was
not known in England previous to 1659.
That was probably an invention of the
Arabs. A Venetian merchant learned
the secret from the Saracens of Sicily,
and sold the art for 100,000 crowns.
Varieties of Weed Palp.
Chicago Tribune.
In the first stages of the manufacture
of wood pulp for paper, poplar was re
garded as preeminently adapted for the
purpose, and for a considerable time it
was thought that only that wood, bass
wood, and a few other kinds could bo.
ground into a suitable pulp. Now,
however, machines are made which turn
out pulp with equal facility from all
kinds of wood. The longest fibre is
made from willow, bass wood and poplar
ranking next, respectively. Cedar, fir,
and hemlock are said to work about
alike; maple has a fibre shorter than
that of either spruce or pine, and is
quite hard to grind ; birch is very hard
and grinds quite short. Poplar and
buckeye pulps remain white for a con
siderable time, other woods changing
color; birch becomes pink, maple turns
purple, and basswood takes on a reddish
hue. "
or Interaatie-al Copyrlff-C
Mark Twain writes that he is 41
J'ears old and does not expect ' to live i
ong enough to see international copy
right established, but his great grand
father struggled for the right, and it is
his unworthy great grandson's hope and
rsyer that as long as his stock shall
ast the transmitted voice of that grand
old man will still go ringing down the
centuries, stirring the international
heart in the interest of the eternal cause
for which he struggled and died.
MMWMMM I MM
The Mtapld Fellow.
Exchange.
" Gaze upon that pure, "beautiful"
evening star, and swear to be true while
its light shall shine; swear my love;
swear by Venus," exclaimed a Boston
youth in impassioned accents. "How'
stupid you are," answered the Boston
girl, "that is not Venus. The right as
cension of Venus this month is 15h., Cm.,
her declination is 17 deg. 25m. south,
and her diameter is 10.2. .