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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1887)
........ THE TELEPHONE THE TELEPHON! PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY RATES OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: One Dior North of co; »r Third and E 8to , M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: I One year....... Six months ... Three months e. (IX ADVANCKJ .. |2 00 ... 1 no ... 50 WOMAN AM) HOME. HOW I. TO ENJOY HOSPITALITY THE COUNTRY. IN Lecture for a IIusband—Education OÍ Children«>Slgnoi* Max Talks—Before the Xirror — Cure of Children—Farmers* Wives—»Hint* anti 11 * ips. I ■ L I I ► 1 ► I I i 1 I ... J.llffl, Country residents are proberbially liospita Lie, and for that reason we should bo doubly careful nut to impose upon them, for, as a gen eral rule, they are so overrun with company thut the end of the summer finds them worn out. Every member of a household is an added earo to the head of it. especially if, as is often the case, there are few servants, or none at all, and if the mistress is fortunate enough to possess a corps of well trained do inestles, too much company is apt to disar range tne household affuirs in the lower re gions. If you are fortunato enough to have a friend to whom you know a visit will afford real pleasure, by a little for» thought you can yet make it still more enjoyable. In the first place, fix a definite time for your departure before you arrive. If she is not wise enough to do so, be sure when you write to announce your coming, to say on what day you will leave, and then be still more sure that you do leuve, no mutter how hospitably yeu may be urged to prolong your slay. It is better to have your departure sincerely regretted than to have the faintest feeling of relief that you are gone. There are many ways in which a summer visitor may bo a real help. If circumstances warrant it, you ran offer your uid in house hold matters, and spend an hour hulling •trawben ics, or whipping the cream which you are afterwards to enjoy, and if you set that assistance of that kind will not be ac ceptable, there will be still something that you can do; you can arrange the flowers that perhaps the busy house mother never finds tinio for, and yet enjoys so much; you can coax the children out of the kitchen, when you know she is specially busy, and entertain them in your own room, and there are count- . less other little things that a kindly heart and a quick eye will discover, in which you can make your presence a constant comfort. Then, too, one’s own personal habits Lava much to do with the pleasure of entertaining. I knew a lady who came across the ocean to visit friends of mine, who perfectly wore out her welcome by her one annoying habit of unpuuetuality. She was charming in every other way, and yet, although they would not have said so, I know they were delighted when she went away, simply because she was always behind time. Every housekeeper knows bow the work drags if tho breakfast table has to stand for an hour, and she was never ready for any meal in time. Money matters are always a dedicate sub ject between friends, but though we can sel dom remunerate them for the trouble they take for us in dollars and cents, yet some times there will lx» ways in which it may be done. It is easy to give presents to children, and although it is harder to give anything to the hiother, yet by exerting a little tack, you may be able to do it. She cannot refuse a pretty piece of fancy work that you havo made (luring your visit, and books and maga- z nos can usually be safely offered, and re member that while all these things may seem r very trifling, vet it is the little that make up I .the sum and substance of our comfort and happiness.—Flora M. Wright in Good House keeping. Didn't Ask Iler Kight. Mr. Burdette insists that ho overheard a woman lecturing her busband as follows ofi board a train: “Now 1’11 tell you why I wouldn’t go into tho restaurant and have a cup of coffee with you while we were waiting for tho train. I didn’t like the way you asked me. Ke p quiet. I have the floor. Not half an hour before you said to Mr. Puffer: ‘Come, let’s get a cigar,’ and away you went, holding Lis arnvand not giving him a chance to de cline. When we met John O’Howdy on our. way to luncheon you said: ‘Just in time, John; come take lunch with us.’ And then to-night, when wo found the train an hour late, you looked at your watch, turned to me and said in u questioning way: ‘Would you like a cup of coffeo?’ And I did want it; I was tired and a little hungry, but I would have fainted before I would have accepted such an invita tion. And you went away a little bit vexed with me and had your coffee and bread and butter by yourself, and didn’t enj^y it very much. In effect you said to me: ‘If you want a cup of coffee, if you really want it, I will buy it for you.’ You are tho best busband in the world, but do as nearly all the best husbands do. Why do ycu men seem to dole things out to your wives when you fairly throw them to the men you know? Why don’t you invite me heartily as you invite men? Why didn’t you say: ‘Come, let’s get a little coffee and something,’ and take me right along with you? You wouldn’t say to a man: ‘Would you like me to go and buy you a cigarf Then why do you always issue your little invitations to treats in that way to me? Indeed, indeed, my dear husband, if men would only ac$ toward their wives as heartily, cordially, frankly as they do toward the men whom t' ey meet, they would find cheerier companions at Lome tLan they could at the club.” Education of the Young. It is of vital importance that those who have the care of tho young should early dis cover the difference between absolute de ficiency and slowness of perception. Many a poor fellow is mortified and discouraged be cause of tho odds between him and his volu ble competitor. It is a happy thing when the plodding boy falls into tho bands of a wise and large-hearted educator, who can discern tho mental capabilities of his dull pupil, and urdoi-s‘r.”«l how to assist in their develop ment. Children who con io before the public in speech.d song before t hey have reached their teens, and w ho astonish crowds by their bright sayings and brilliant ways, seldom mature into strong and well balanced character. They flash and shine for awhile, and are then lost sight of before they reach maturity. Tue l>oy whose band is always up to answer every question that bis dull neighbor is pon dering, often bears off the palm for scholar ship; be pets all the medals, and pockets all the “rewards of merit.” He can memorize and recite scores of standard selections, and is always to the front in every display of youthful smartness and precocity. But it is an injury to such boys when they are pushed to their maximum, and made to serve every .occasion with the novelty of their brilliant ¡gifts. Such subjects mature too quickly, and their strength often fails at the supreme moment of [manly development Aliy system, then, is [defective which assumes that all boys must be ■objected tn the same kind of mental disci [pline, without the susceptibility of nervous ■organization, or tho wi<le divergences of the ■bower of I magi nation.—Popular Science ws. Children Who Are Too Fat. 8ome people think th j fattest children the naltbipst . but this is not true. Too much at iu children, «« well as in grown persot is, is ligase. Coveting tbs muscles too deeply r'oders their grow th and strength. I have WEST SI VOL. II. not known an over fat child to live through teething without losing its superfluous flesh. Until 8 or 10 years of age no meat is needed for tho perfectly developed child, und then on«je daily is sufficient. Abundance of oat meal, yellow cornmeal ami bread made from entire wheat flour will furnish material for strength and good teeth, and make tho teeth hard enough to cut themselves in most cases. Delicate children cannot always live upon thh coarse food, but those who can will have little work for the dentists, and will ¡»ossess a strong, bony framework for the attachment of the muscles. For the delicate little ones, whose appetites must be studied, there are various health foods now lnude, among which should be sonio one that will be found to agree and prove palatable. Children wisely fed do not take cold easily; they are not troubled with constipation or diarrhea, ami the ordeal of teething gener ally proves an easy matter. When children have colds the feeding should be still more moderate. The old saying, “Feed a cold and starve a fever,” is renounced by scientific physicians of ail schools in these days.—Mrs. E. Y. Cock, M. D., in Demorest’s. Practice Before the Mirror. While on the subject of adorning the female human face it may bo well to note that self study of women’s countenance is highly com mended. It is now declared that women should make a practice of smiling, talking and eating before their mirrors, the object being to detect and correct grimaces, with which most of our kind are at times afflicted. The actress studies every physical phase of her part with the aid of her mirror, and why should not women who do not act (on the stage) avail themselves pf the same means of improvement? We are told that an agreeable smile, without obvious affectation, and a graceful carriage are mostly results of train ing. If practiced intelligently, that is, before one’s mirror, and assiduously, they finally become easy through force of habit. En raging manners are certainly worth all the oains thut one can expend in their cultiva tion. If some of us could see ourselves as < »there see us w hen we are at the essential gross business of eating we might be tempted to line our dining rooms with mirrors. On second thought that is not a bad idea on gene ral principles.—Detroit Free Press. Thoughts Concerning Women. A thousand deaths anti burials were prefer able to tho living death of a jealous man^ How odd a truth it is that no man is happy with the woman he loves until he has become cheerfully indifferent to her. Nothing so adorns a man as a happy mar riage. It is the most wholesome and broad ening discipline known to mankind. What man ever was enough the egotist to use the pronoun “ho” for the noun Beauty? I wonder if that is not man’s most expressive and delicate compliment to woman? Oh! if it should turn out true that all the mothers of babies that have died shall one day find them and rock them on their yearn ing breasts again—why, then, heartbreak here were but a little trial, after all. Woman’s chiefest need is a master—not a petty despot, but a self poised, considerate leader who moves with confident tread, and who is always alert to prevent collisions at life’s crossings whether the bell rings or not. —Signor Max in Detroit Free Press. The Wives of Farmers. The farmers are an influential an«l import ant class in society. Grass is king, They stand at the base of the pyramid, They should be well equipped for their life, The farmers’ wives bear the brunt of the hard- ships. Their life is made doubly hard from the lack of suitable facilities. The same re marks may apply to many country hamlets. Now, many of these housewives are iatelli- gent and bright women. They enjoy dainty appointments, lovely surroundings, elevating thoughts. They have as good minds, as keen insight, as quick intuition as those who pre side over a modern home. They wish to live so that the higher life may have its place and influence. How are they handicapped? They have the limitations of a country district. Meu folk* who are “set” in pre^dice, and answer every suggestion with: “Mother always got along so, and you can. If they re the wives of farmers or mechanics their ncome is often small—$450 to $600 a year. How can they live in genteel poverty in such a case?—“A Country Pai-son” in Good House keeping. Caring for Babies. It is pernicious for children to be held in arms as is the almost universal custom, or to allow them to grow to the age of creeping rr walking on soft beds. A comfortable spread upon the floor for the child to lie on fur nishes resistance to tho movements, and strengthens tho muscles. A padded box, one foot high by four or live feet square, is an excellent contrivance for the little ones. On its sides can be hung a variety of playthings to attract the eye. Draughts upon the box □r comfortable must be avoided. As tho 2hild grows, the sides of the box can be raised, and it may be kept a happy prisoner tor a longer or shorter time. In this way children learn to help themselves, and not to expect constant attention to all their w ants. Too close watching and too much help mako little tyrants of them.—Mrs. E. G. Cook, M. D., in Demorest's. Hints to Mothers. “My advice for this summer to all mothers with babies under five years of age,” said a prominent children’s physician the other day, “is as follows: To give them a bath in the morning and again about 4 o’clock in the afternoon; fill tho tub with tepid water and let them splash about in it for twenty min utes or a half hour. Dress them in flannels next to the skin and put on as few other clothes as possible; be careful not to over- feed them; let them sleep on a hair mat tress, or anything of the kind; feathers are far too heating even for tiny babies; keep them out of the sun from 10 until 5 o’clock, but let them play out of doors all that is pos- rible; make them tako a nap in a cool, dark ened room every afternoon and they will be healthy anJ happy, au«l you will be wise.”— New York Journal. * Stitches Safer than Safety Pins. “What is safer than a safety pin?” was the conundrum asked ut a recent mothers’ meeting. The answer was “stitches.” There are thousands of fond mothers who sew on baby's clothes while be is in long dresses. Those who have never tried it laugh at the Hee, but mothers know that even small safety pins, when placed in the little flannel band, annoy the tender skin of babj. If rose leaves troubled the princess while she slept, why shouldn’t brass pins annoy l>aLy? Bo the tender mother threads a needle with soft darning cotton, slips her left hand forefinger down baby’s I »and and bolds with her thumb, then deftly takes four or five snug stitches, and the band is on for the day.—New York Journal. A Woman's Translation. Helen Spurrell. of London, has made r translation of the Bible wl.ich is highly praised by sebotars. ai.^ is said to be fai mor» enjoyable to the English reader tbsi lb» "retted version” of the committee^ Thi* hdy, we ar» told, seeins to Lav» drunk in th« ÏLEPHONE MSMIN »TEMBER 30. 1887. KING LO BENGULA. Iramatic spirit of tho Hebrew more pro foundly than the male translators, while her original arrangement of the l’salms, Song of Solomon, and several other books, furnishes a A SOUTH AFRICAN RULER WHOS key to a clearer interpretation. In the lan SOLDIERS ARE HIS SLAVES. guage of a reviewer, “No translator in the future will venture to ignore her work.”— Demorest’s. Every Man in Lo Bengula's Country Is :« ¡ Suu Baths for the Baby. SoldierMPeaceably Disposed Tribe U ho If a baby is irritable and fretful and won’t go to sleep, throw up tho window shades and let all the sun you can get into the room. Let the child play in the sunshine and presently ho will go to sleep without trouble. At this season of the year the sun should bo allowe« 1 free entrance into our homes. A little while ago his stay was too short to have much effect; presently bis rays will be too hot to be en dured and now wo should make the most of our opportunity to give tho bouse a thorough sun bath every day.—Farm and Fireside. Live in Perpetuul Fear—Royalty Cor rects a Missionary. A few weeks ago a dispatch from South Africa said that old men and women were being sacrificed as food for vultures almost daily by King Lo Bengula in Mainltekland; that he was raiding the surrounding tribes, killing the men, and reducing the women and children to slavery, ami that thousands of natives wero flocking into the Transvaal to save their lives. Since the fall of Cetywayo, king of the Zulus, L<> Bengula hjis been by far the most Lifting Children by the Arm. |x»werful native ru’ Y in South Africa. He “If a nurse maid used one of my children is the king of Matabeleland, north of the like that 1 would discharge her at once.” “Why, mothci's do it as often as the nurse Trausvaal, and his subjects are Zulus them selves who were led far north by Lo Bengu maids.” la’s father many years ago to found a new “Yes; but they are thoughtless.” The nurse maid was lifting a child off a car Zulu empire. Every man in Lo Bengula’s by one arm, and then helped it to the curb country is a soldier, who cuimot even marry stone in the same wav. Misshapen shoulders without the king’s consent. No boy is permit* and arms are the inevitable result.—New ted to think he will ever be worthy the name of a man until he has killed an eneiny in bat York Sun. tle. Tue king is au absolute monarch. The l»eople and all their belongings are his. His Cracks in Floors. soldiers can call nothing their own except Cracks in floors, around the skirting boar«l or other parts of a room, may be neatly and their weapons. Last year this fat old despot gave a vivid permanently filled by thoroughly soaking newspapers in paste made of one pound of idea of Lis power in a few words he s^joke to flour, three quarts of water and a tablespoon Mr. John Mackenzie. He was contrasting ful of alum, thoroughly boiled and mixed. the feebleness of Kliame, the ruler of the The mixture will be about as thick as putty, great Bechuana tribe west of him, with the and may be forced into the cracks with a case great power and savage grandeur of the king cnife. It will harden like papier rnache.— of the Matabele. “The Bechuana,” said lie, “are like little Home Journal. birds on the branches of trees, and their chief A Picturesque Record. is only one of the hints. One says ‘Cheep,’ Mrs. J. Wells Ohampney, the wife of the and the other-* answers‘Cheep,’ but where is artist, is making a picturesque record of the tho master hand? Here in my country.” the childhood of her two children. She catches old fellow continued, holding up one finger, them unawares in all sorts of attittides and “there is only one voice heard. It is for all with many various expressions, lhey are others to listen and obey.” all being pasted in a big book, which will be Matabele society may lie said to exist for more interesting to these young ones as they the king, llis claims are supreme und un grow older than any other possible legacy. questioned. No cruelly can exceed that of the warriors who live under a few despotic Mrs. Archie Shaw, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., chiefs in Africa. The poor wretches they do is likely to make a fortune out of a dustpan not enslave they remorselessly kill. One of that she has patented. It is in appearance Ix> Bengula’s soldiers, who was asked last like a half pail; the flat side lies on the year why tho Matabele killed little children carpet; it can bo easily moved with a broom when they went on their raids, replied: “They er foot, and when lifted by the bail tips back would only be eaten by the wolves if we did not kill them.” ward a little to prevent the dust falling out. A society has been organized among Japan ese women to cultivate a taste for foreign cooking. Many Japanese women of good birth are invited to dinner by Europeaus in Yokohama, Tokio and Nagasaki, and they find it very difficult to accept the hospitalities offered. LIVING IN A3JECT FEAR. The tribes to whom the name of Lo Ben gula is a source of terror are the more intelli gent and further advanced than the Matabele ill the arts of civilization. Some of them, liko the Mashona and Mnkalaka are the best busbandmen among the tribes of South Africa, raise the greatest variety of crons, The clever wife of a professor in a Western are the best iron workers, and weave blank college once wrote ai follows in one of those ets and cloths from their own cotton. Yet confession books where jjeople put down their they havo been almost destroyed as tribes by opinions on all sorts of subjects, in answer to their fierce enemies, whose only trade is war, the question: “Whut is your idea of a and who havo a great advantage over people heroine?” “An educated American woman that live by tho pursuits of peace. Mr. Montagu Kerr describe«F tastyvar tirtrmiser- who does her own housework.” able state of abject fear in w hich many of these poor people live, their huts perched high Señorita Ernestina Perez passed her medical upon barreu rocks, to which they themselves examination in Santiago a short timo ago, can gain access only by means of rude lad- and is now practicing in Valpariso with the dem, which they pull up after them. It is title of “Medico-Cirujano.” She is the first among these Mashonas, who live in the gold Chilian woman who has studied medicine bearing region just a little northeast of successfully. Matabeleland, that La Bengula’s soldiery now A few years ago it was thought improper find tho greatest number of their victims. It took a stout hearted white man to push for a woman to be a foreign missionary unless she wero a missionary’s wife. Now there are his way into Matabele land for tho purpose of 2,400 unmarried women in the mission field, founding a mission station there. Dr.Moffatt, besides, probably, an equal number of mar the fatbt r-in-law of Livingstone, pioneered the way and established a station niuny years ried women. ago, which still exists. The missionaries worked there a quarter of a century before Mario Augustin Despeissis, of London, has patented a device for creating a regular and they made a single convert. At last, in 1882, even draught through the tubes of flues of several Matabele wero baptized in the Chris tian faith. In some ways the missionaries steamboilers, which is said to work well. have had a good deal of influence with the Mi-s. M. Louise Thomas, president of Soro- king and people, but they have had some very sis, has been one of the most successful bee comical and strange experiences. One day a missionary was preaching to a keepers in tho country, making 10,003 pounds large crowd, among whom tho king was an of honey in a year. attentive listener. Tho white man remarked that all men were alike in tho sight of God, Lemon juice and sugar, mixed who would listen as readily to tho ¡»etition of is useful to relieve coughs the humblest man as to that of the greatest throats. It must be very acid king. “That’s a lie,” shouted the king at the sweet. top of Lis voice. Evei*ything the king says is A good way to take cod liver oil, to mako echoed by his loyal subject«, so everybody it palatable, is by putting it into tomato cat shouted “That’s a lie!” The missionary found sup. it necessary to change the subject of his dis course. Set a dish of water in oven with cake when SURE OF AN AUDIENCE. baking, and it will seldom scorch. After the missionaries got to be an old story they found it very hard work to get Water in which white potatoes have been anybody to attend their services. They 'oited will cleanse delicate colored woolen therefore resorted to a practico that has been goods. in vogue among street preachers in New Camphor gum put with silverware prevents York who have distributed bread and coffee among their audience«. On the way to the it from tarnishing. service the missionaries would take their White kid gloves can be cleaned with sweet guns, kill some game, and give it to the peo ple. They were always sure of an audience milk and white soap. as long as there was anything to eat. If the Nothing restores colors taken out by acid so preacher’s stock of words held out longer than tho provisions, most of the audience readily as hartshorn. would disperse, and those who remained would ask for a reward for their good con Dreaming to Somo Purpose. duct. In the winter of 1850-60 tho writer was Lo Bengula has usually treated white mon teaching school in Bedford county. Pa., and well. Only a few months ago he gave to a boarding with an intelligent and substantial trader a hundred head of cattle and some farmer of German extraction by the name of goods in comi»ensation for the burning of bis Anthony Felton. The family was a remark store, many miles outside of Matabeleland, by able ono for ingenuity. One night after one of the king’s war parties. The old fellow school tho conversation turned upon difficult has somo sense of humor. Once, after be had problems in mathematics. I mentioned one swooped down upon old Chief Bekhome, of that my brother had sent me which I con Bechuanaland and driven several thousand sidered quite intricate. The question was as head of cuttie over into liis own country, he follows (I reproduco from memory): “Sold beard that a white man from Sekhome’s cap 5,000 ells Flemish of cloth for $21,250, and ital hod arrived and wished to see him. gained as much per yard as one-eighth of the “Well,” said the king, “drive up Bekbome’s prime cost of an ell English. What was the cows and milk them for Sekhome’s white prime cost per yard, and of tho whole piece F man. He must be hungry after traveling so On repeating the question my host told me far.” promptly that it could not lie done. I re This jolly old despot cannot continue much peated it several times for him during the longer to be the bully of south Africa. The evening, ti»l lie bad its conditions well fixed British have established a protectorate over in his mind. I assured him I had solved it by the vast territory of Bechuanaland, the fa algebra, of which he knew nothing. vorable stamping ground of Lo Bengula’s The next morning, on coming from my army, and Luve notified the king that his room, he said: “I can tell you all about that savage raids in that direction will no longer problem now.” Upon asking him bow be l»e tolerated. Mr. Mackenzie and other trav bad reached the solution, he said: “I dreamed elers say that the gold bearing quartz of it out.” I smiled iiicreduously, for I had no Moshonaland is of surpassing richness, and faith in curb straight dreaming. I said: that some day miners will flock into that “Let me see your solution?” and to my as country as they are now swarming inU> tte tonishment and delight be produced an arith Transvaal. The wings of lx» Bengula’s des metical solution that was a marvel of potic power are destined to l»e cli, ¡>ed, and it analytic simplicity. I then asked more par may happen, as in the case of Cetywayo, that ticularly about his dream. He said: “An this terror of the south African tril»ee will old man, to whom I bail at one time gone to some day wear a suit of store clotbee and be school, came to mo in my dream, and seeing quite an humble sort of a person.—New York I was troubled about something asked tlx* Bun. cause. I repeated the question to him, and A Helle of th« War. told him that I bail told the ‘master’ that it An lnt/»re«ting relic of the war wm rarried could not be solved. The old man told ine it made no difference what you told the at the bead of tho decoration ¡>arado nt Pitta- •master,' it can lie worked, and Mien told me burg. It was the guidon of bai tery B, Irt Penn how to do iu” And he remembered it so dis •ylvania artificry, which wm the finit flog tinctly that he solved the question by the in in the Army of the Potomac draped in bonorof structions received in Lis dream.—John Mil President Lincoln on the news of bis awjassiii atioTi. 1 he 18t of crape tied over the colon« ton Akers in Christian Advocate. tlx/n still remains tbere.—Chicago Newa Many of the large hotels of New York nor. “Sam” Scudi, the «vergehst, says that Le use potatoes imported from Germany instead of using Bermudas. The advantage is ii I» as traveled 25,000 juiies in the coorarikm I «a a mem. price rather than quality. AN EMBARRASSED ENGLISHMAN. NO. 25 IN THE ASTOR LIBRARY. He Complains of Persecution—Mistaken for an Anglomaniac Yankee. FAIR READERS NOT ENTIRELY GIVEfc “I am subject to one form of persecution i:i OVER TO NOVELS. this country,” said an Englisman to me th« other day, “which I find quite intolerable, though I can’t in the least blame my pei'secu tors. You know I speak quite like an Eng lishman, naturally, and conduct myself quit« liko one, as a matter of course. Really, inn • much as I’ve been on this side only a month, \ou see, and am going home in anothc.' month, it would hardly be worth my while ta attempt to master the accent and manners of the country, don’t you know. “Now, I’m not in the least unwilling to I« taken for an Eiqpishman; that lam proud of, in fact. But I’m not taken for an Englis! • man, and there’s the disagreeable feature oi the thing. I’m constantly taken, don’t you see, for an Anglomaniac Yankee, a beastly cad whose native country isn’t good enough for him, and who caricatures us in a wild al tempt to imitate us. To be taken for a > Irish dynamiter or a Russian Nihilist woul«I l»e a comparative compliment. “The other day I called on a friend in tl city to whom I had a letter, and rs he wasn in I fell into a little parley with the youn men in the outer office about his return an the like. Then I sat down in the inner offic io wait a bit for him. Presently I heard, over tho half partition, one of the youi.g inei. say softly to his companion, with an imita tion of my accent: “‘Bah Jove! not bad, don’t you know! B it natural or acquired?’ “ ‘Painfully acquiahed, deah boy—painfull acquiahed,’ said the other in the same tone. “ ‘Cahn’t bo done in a day, deah boy,’ L went on. ‘There’s Beverley Cadley, don'i yon know, who comes in here sometimes t< boah the governor; took him one and twent months—yaas, three and twenty months—t acquiah his accent. This hasn’t been carrie«! to tho supehb perfection that Cadley’s h&^. not at all, my boy; but he’ll mahster it in h yeah or two, don’t you know, with perse verance.’ “All this with an indescribable clipping o' consonants and vowels mado with the teeth- really very clever, you know. Then I hear« a maddening chuckle from the two. This i very much the sort of treatment that I g«» everywhere. Sometimes men look as if the were really going to kick me, until they tear that I’m really an Englishman, and the they’re the best and most cordial fellows i tho world. Really, it’s very natural to trei I mo so, but it’s deucedly unpleasant to L< mado odious in a strange land by a set of cad*. don’t you know.”—Boston Post. Copyright in Clippings. An important case in regard to the right of newspapers and journals inserting, withoi.l permission, clippings from other papers hi recently been decided in England. The pn priotor of The Builder newspaper applied fo an injunction against The Brick, Tile, an Builders’ Gazette to restrain the latter pap< copying articles, essays, notes ana olh« matter. Mr. Justice Stirling, on the submi sion of the defendants that the motion shou) be treated as the trial of the action, gav« judgment, granting a perpetual injunction i terms of the writ and a reference as to damp 'es. As affecting paste and scissors edilin and the wholesale unacknowledged strata; of items that has hitherto gone on unchecked, this is perhaps one of the most importai I actions in connection with literary copyrigl i yet decided.—The Journalist. There is a reason for employing French on the modern bill of fare which is quite pra< tical. It is that there are many culinarv processes and arrangementsand combination of food for which no English definitions cai be found. Tlie French, having for many gen erutions pursued the art and science of cool ery with ardor and success, have, as is al way the case in such undertakings, gradual! evolved a terminology of the kitchen. Tli has no analogies in English, tiecause the Enj lisb, though possessing always a robust dietary, and though in their former colonie developing a refinement beyond the tutelary skill, have never attained the complexity an nicety of discrimination and combination d< velojied in France. From these facts it re sults that unless many French dishes an described in French words they can not be described at all.—The Argonaut. Gen. N. P. Banks and Daughter. Miss Maud Banks, who is at present in Philadelphia, asserts that her going upon th* stage received the cordial approval of hei parents. Her father attends all her perform ances when she is playing anywhere neai Boston, although before her debut he took n<> interest in tltfatrical matters. “He is now, she said the other day, “71 years old, a yd hi- hair is white as silver; but when I am at home bo forgets 50 years of his age. We live on a farm of sixty acres just outside of Bos ton, and father manages to spend all the sur plus revenue from his office as United Stat« » marshal in agricultural experiments. But the farm doesn’t interfere with his official' duties, as he is in his office daily.”—New York Tribune. Wlmt Are “Wild Hairs?«' One square or less, one insertion............... (1 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.... 50 Notices of appointment and final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisements. 75 cents for first insertion and 10 cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business columns, 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, 5 cents per line. Professional cards. (12 per year. Special rates for large display “ads.” THE FOOD OF THE TURKS. Ths Turkish Cuisine Must Be Tasted to Be Properly Appreciated. As to Turkish cuisine, it must be tasted to be appreciated; it is such that I dare not rec ommend it to any one. The basis of all cu linary operations iu Stamlioul is a certain Hanners of Lady Students In a Library kind of tallow extracted from the broad and Heading Room—Feminine Investigator thick extremity of the Caraman sheep. This and Scientists—What They Do When tallow has an odor so potent that we would Lunch Hour Arrives. not use it even for candles. The Turks are essentially vegetarians. “A great deal has been written about the They eat beef very rarely, and never pork rivolous nature of tho book» which women or veal. They indulge in drinks, lean fowls, cad,” said an attendant at the Astor library, and finally sheep, the flesh of which they cut ‘but if you put common report to the test o. off in small pieces. These pieces are strung personal observation, you will find that at upon long spits, which are held and turned æast those feminine reudere who come here for some minutes over hot coals, where they .ind interest in something besides love sto are slowly roasted, retaining all their juices. ries. This is what is called kebab, a healthful and ‘Tako, for instance, those ladies at the nutritious food, which Europeans find deli >ther end of the room who are poring over cious. books and taking notes so extensively. Shall Turkish pastry is quite varied and would I tell yoii the names of some of tho books not be disagreeable if honey and sugar were they culled for this morning? Well, do you not used so abundantly and if the taste of see that pretty little creature at tho lower end tallow could be excluded. Bakalava and of tho table—the blonde with tho helpless, ekmik kataif (thick cakes cooked in honey, appealing air? You are sure she is reading perfumed with rosewater and covered with >no of Bertha M. Clay’s lovesick romances. caimak, a kind of cream) in particular recall She is not, though. Those three volumes very savory memories. open near her and so profusely adorned with Pashas and rich Turks always have at dips of paper could hardly be culled light their repasts a great number of dishes, which reading. The book directly beneath her eyes the servants bring in on brass platters and is Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations,’ the one place on the inat on the floor or sometimes on to her right is Sir Thomas More’s ‘Utopia; small, low tables, around which the guests or, the Sea to of a Happy Republic,’ and the squat themselves. They eat in silence and in •iinall volume contains John Stuart Mill’s a grave manner, and servo themselves gen E»say on Liberty.’ ” with their Angers as well as with their Just at that moment, when the girl seemed erally forks, and with their teeth as well as with uore than ordinarily puzzled over some eco their knives. Nevertheless they deign to use nomic problem, and when her little hands a spoon to convey to their mouths food that were clusped as if to concentrate thought, a is not very solid, like stewed rice malebi, a young man camo slowly up the steps, walked kind of cooked cream, and taourt, thick and >ver to the catalogue desk and commenced bitterish milk, of all of which they are very turning over tho cards. She glanced at him, fond. a look of recognition came into her eyes and Their drink consists of clear water; but her clasped bands—aye, those hands that had this does not prevent them from imbibing erstwhile been clinching economic puzzles in before repast a white liquor, raki, which unison with her mind—flew to her bang.« I is made their of the gum of the mastic tree mixed Yes, the Bunk of England was forgotten i.i with alcohol. It is an agreeable drink, but .he all important consideration: “How uro is used like absinthe, the taste and proper my bangs?” Ye gods! What a descent from it ties of which it possesses. Its use, and even the upper air of philosophy to earthly vanity 1 its abuse, does not bring remorse to the con It must be remarked that a woman is but a science of the Turks, for if Mohammed has voman after all. them to use wine, he forgot, “Do you see that stately girl, with brown, forbidden prophet though he was, to foresee the man- Hashing eyes?*’ continued the library man. ufacture of raki, an invention more modern “You inay judge from the architectural and than his own.—Tho Cosmopolitan. mechanical illustrations on its open pages that the books which claim her attention ure Peculiarities of “Word Deafness.•• scientific ones. At her elbow are several Th» cases with reference to language and large sheets of paper and a box of drawing instruments. She is a regular visitor to tho other means of communication among men library, coming in at 10 in tho morning and are most instructive. The loss of memory generally staying until 4 in the afternoon may be limited to everything connected with Moreover, she is one of those j>eople ‘of ono a foreign language that has been acquired- book’ whom Cicero feared. For nearly si.< general I y late in life, comparatively speak months she has been handling every morning ing. The latest acquirements have least chance of becoming thoroughly organized in the same work. “That youngish old girl to the left of this the brain, and are consequently easiest lost. feminine scientist—the one with tho flaxen The loss may not be permanent, indeed may hair and the bard, determined look—is read be very transient. In certain forms of pa ing a portly volumo of ‘Travels in the East? ralysis, generally affecting tho right side of Tho meek little woman, with diminutive, the body, all memory or the use of words pulo features, is absorbed in an illustrated mi may be lost, and this loss is usually perma work ; and tho tall, raw boned lady back of nent. The memory of gestures appropriate her is poring over a veterinary surgeou’i for the expression of ideas is frequently lost * curious condition is book on the treatment of cattle. She is, I at the same time. This ___________ the con- think, tho horse and cow reporter of soma termed “abphasia.” In other cases dition is different. The meaning of written newspaper. ” “It does not appear, then, that women are or printed words is understood as well os given to such frivolous reading after all?” re ever, but articulated sounds convey no meaning. This is called “word deafness.’9 marked the writer. “Not the women who come hero. Those Again, spoken words are perfectly under who patronize tho circulating librurics gener stood, but written or printed language con ally cull for novels, I think, but the women veys no idea. The patient may be able to who come to tho ‘Astor’ are chiefly students write quite well, but unable to read what he in some branch of science or art. They can has written. This goes under the name of get here any Look for reference they desire, “word blindness.” These remarkable condi to assist them in their studies, and tables are tions are connected with disease or injury of especially provided for them so that they certain definite localities in the brain, as the may take notes. It has been said that woineu poet mortem examination has demonstrated have not the necessary constancy of purpose time an<l again. When forgetfulness is limited to numbers, to pursue a course of study by themselves. My observations huvo convinced me that this to names, to verbs, to adjectives, to music, is not the case. There are many of them to colors, etc., as there are numerous cases who read the same books here for five hours recorded of each of these forms of loss of every daj—books, too, which most men memory, we must suppose that there is de struction of the substance of certain nerve woflld find dry. “Nearly all the WQmen you see hero today cells which were used in connection with are what we call ‘regulars,’ that is, they are these forms of ideas, or that they are re- daily visitors; have tteir regular seats and strained in their action, “thrown out of get their l>ooks without the formality of gear,” so to speak, by some influence reach making out applications, since we know just ing them from some other part which is the what they want. There is one notable dif seat of the disease. In the temporary cases ference between them and the masculin« the tatter is the condition most probably.— readers in the next room. When lunch hour St. Louis Globe-Democrat. __________________ , —t_.3J arrives the men can be seen filing out in num Bob Burdette in the Pulpit. bers, while the women do not usually mov« Rol»ert J. Burdette, who has more friends till near the end of library hours. They cer tainly thrive better on mental lunches than and fewer enemies than any li ring writer in his peculiar branch of historical literature, men do. “One thing, however, no woman reader has been elected a deacon in his Baptist church at Lower Merion, Pa.; and be will has ever, to my knowledge, been able to do, and that is to refrain from looking up when not be a mere figure head in the office either. any one enters. The fair ones can work hard When Mr. Burdette was summering in the and fast from 10 u. m. to 4 p. m., but they Adirondacks last year he was hunted down cannot attain to such heights of philosophic in bis retreat by the trustees of a little Bap abstraction as to keep their eyes on their tist church about four miles from bin camp, books when a new bonnet is gliding into th« who insisted that, in the absence of any regu lar pastor, be should fill the pulpit. With library. “Tho woman student has other peculiari his customary good nature he complied, and ties. She sets about her reading and nota for several successive Sundays the voice that taking with a method which is in strong con bad many a time roused the mirth of crowded trast to the disorderly ways of literary tuen. halls as it told the story of Tom and Laura iu After her day of reading is over she does not the “Rise and Full of the Mustache” was show the masculine longing to pitch tb« heard in the pulpit of that little church. He books in the corner and make a rush for th« preached not only a full but a free, salvation street, but gathers up her working material in every sense of the word, for ho charged good brethren nothing whatever for bis carefully and lays her books on the desk in s the tender, lingering way. Thon she rnakre u services.—Chicago Tribune. final tost of her bangs and back hair, and, with a smile nt the attendant, trip» lighth down the stairway.”—“W. L. R.” in New York Commercial Advertiser. “Wild hairs” are eyelashes growing so as to project against the eyetmll, and thus keep up constant irritation. They are removed by electricity, as first recommended by Dr. Charles E. Michel, of St. Louis. A fine needle, forming the negative j>ole of a gal vanic battery—about four cells is sufficient— is introduced into the hair follicle, using a magnifying glass to find it accurately. The patient then makes the circuit complete by grasping a sponge forming the ¡xisitive ¡»ole. Bragging Up the liesort. A few seconds application is sufficient to “Is this lake that your company advertis« t cause destruction to the hair follicle, and there is no new growth of the offending eye I so extensively a pretty nice summer resortf’ inquired a passenger of the conductor. lash.—Globe Democrat. “Yes; very good sort of place. The bob) is a wooden structure four stories high, with Pugilist and Pupil. wide verandas and 300 rooms. Guess yes There are some disreputable pugilists, who have played a mean game upon ambitious could get in there by writing to-day fci young men. They engage to give a pupil a rooms. Big rush.” “Any fire escapes on the hotel?” dozen lessons for a stated price and demand “No; they don’t need any. The landlord the money in udvance. They give one les son, but upon the second occasion make their proposed to put some up, but the guests told appearance in a seemingly intoxicated con him thut it wasn’t necessary. You see, aft* I dition and astonish the pupil by knocking him you’ve boarded there a few weeks, paid youi all over the room and leaving him in a gener bills, tijiped tho waiters in order to get some ally battered and broken up condition. The thing to eat, fought the moequitoes by da? pupil has no desire to continue tho study rjnd and bed bugs by night, had your weight re the “pmfessor” ¡»ockets the money and looks dueed 5) per rent by the heat, and seen youi daughter fall in love with a red-headed dry out for another pupil—New York Journal goods clerk, you won’t rare whether you livi or die, and fire escapes would be useless The Panama Canal. Here’s a telegrafih blank if you want to order The follow ing items regarding the progre» some rooms. ” of work on tlio Panama canal are of interest: Tw< nty thousand men arc on the isthmus; 415 1.1 me Juice from Trinidad. miles of special railroad havo been built; 14,- A targe quantity of lime juice comes from 000 cor«, 29 steamers, 200 vessels, 804 small Trinidad. A tree yields on an average al m nit iron works, 48 drags, 96 herculean excavat gullons of juice. '1 be limes are allowed ors, 36 powerful ¡»erforators, and 468 ini ten mense pumping engines «ro at work. Light to drop off anti then passed through the cut for night work b supplied by 7,000 lamps, and ter, which rips them open, anti next through rollers and a press to separate them. Thu 175 engines are constantly engage«!.—Boston juice is then exported either as it Is or con Transcript. deneed by boiling. A Ixirrel of limes yields seven gallons of juice. The cost of producing Endurance of Big Gnm. Gun makers record with satisfaction that lime juice, Including packages, should notex- not one of the Rodman guns has ever tirai; ceed six pence a gallon. The essential oil of exploded, even th<mgb the prramre goes ab limes h extracted from the rim I before crush bigli as 200,090 pounds to the square inch. ing by grating on rasp« with the hantis. The The endurance range« from 300 to 2,4U« oil thus extracted is called ham! made oil. A round«. The average premure in Krupp* hundred gallons of juice will yield by distil guns is 30,0uo pounds to tbe square inch.— lation alx>ut three quarto of the mential fil —Chicago Tnasa Boston Budget _ _ DYSPEPSIA Up to a few week« a^o I considered myself the champion Dyspeptic of America. During the years that I have been afflicted I have tried almost everything claimed to be a specific for Dyspepsia in the hope of finding something that would afford permanent relief. I had about made np my mind to abandon all medi cines when I noticed an endorsement of Simmon« Liver Regulator by a Frominent Georgian, a Jurist whom knew, and concluded to try its effort« in my case. I have used but two bottles, and am satisfied that I have struck the right thing at last. 1 fhlt its beneficial effect« almost lm- rnediately. Un Ilk» all other prepara tions of a similar kind, no special Instructions are required as to what one shall or shall not eat. This fhet alone ought to commend it to all troubled with Dyspepsia. J. N. HOLMES, Vineland, N. J. CONSTIPATION T» Kaanra a Regular Habit of Body wlthont .'hanging tha Mat or DU- organlting the by .tom. taka ".EMONILTniBBBGUUTW OMIT tCNUINK MANVFACTVe«» «V J n. ZHUH A CO..