Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1881, Page 7

| | 1 THE SUMMER RESORTS, THE HEATED TERM FILLS THEM—LIFE AT SARA TOGA, NEWPORT, CAPE MAY, ETC. — The Fort Wm. Henry hotel, at Lake George, ‘Was never doing so well. It has 384 persons: Row and more to come. It is owned and man- aged by Mr. Roessele, of the Ariington. — Allof the watering places are doing well, except the White Mountains. — Ocean Grove is filling up for the camp Meetings. | — Gen. Lee, ason of the Inte Gen. Robert B. Lee, is at Narragansett Pier. — It is estimated that there were between 20,000 and 30,000 people at Long Branch last | Bunda | clasping it, the significance in this country usually is that the man is trying to “brace | up"—shoulder brace, as it were; but in France it is supposed to mean, “I would like to marry.” If the stick is carried in the arms, like | a bundle, it implies. “I'll flirt, but am not a marrying man”—which is lke a Frenchman’s egotism in regard to the other sex. In Ameri- | ca—and we dare say in France—the ladies have something better to do than to watch cane sig- And, in this connection, we are reminded | that fashion has, on several oceasions, sought to | introduee the custom ofcane-carrying by women. | The effort never went further than a spurt in It was thought to be g little “too Not unlikely, the ladies saw the on- becomingness of such an appendage, for skirts are incompatible with graceful cane-sporting. Never until some modifieation of unmention- to female wear, is the walking | stick likely to lose its sex distinction. But a | natty rattan would look quite too, too awfully, | ete., supporting a shapely “lower extremity, a trim ankle. It is, per- | haps, what might be called the “lardy-dah,” or | “swell,” use of canes that has brought them into disrepute with many sensible men. The force- ry. —A series of amateur theatricals will be ping at the Newport Casino Theater at an early — Admiral and Mrs. Porter are domiciled in one of the cottages of the Elberon Hotel, Long Branch. — It is claimed that the main avenue of New- Port is so crowded with vehicles that it is almost impossible for persons on horseback to work their way along. —The hotel keepers fn the White Mountains deplore a lamentable seareity of brides, and young men are so few that sighing lasses have to dance with female partners. — Well-to-do bachelors are lounging at Sara- toga, speculating in stoeks and taking chances on the pretty girls. — “Don't you make a noise, or else you will wake the baby!” is the cry of fond mothers at suinmer buarding-houses. — At Nantasket Beach young ladies during the early part of the day row or roam in dark blue flaunei suits, wide rimmed hats and base ball shoes. — St. John’s Commandery, Knights Templar, of Philadelphia, will visit Cape May August 11th, and stay at Congress Hall. A ball will be held in their honer. — Anotiee at one of the Cape May hotels reads: “Guests keeping dogs in the hotel will be charged $10 per week extra.” “There are some two-legged pupples down here that I Wouldn't beard for $10 an hour,” says the oldest inhabitant, brusquely. — Whales are seen daily off Block Island and in unusually large schools. The other day one Tese, blew and diseppeared within two hundred yards of the steamer George W. Danielson on her trip over from Newport. — Although the etfort for odd stylea of arehi- tecture for the summer residences about Long Branch is in some instances painfully over- strained, yet one must feel grateful timt the | or ’ whipping pelling and fate- una eeaet worl have neither time nor inclination to dwadle much with-waik- have beth hands free. and have only regretted that they had not many carry out the projects of their teem! ursers, who have of the lillies of the field, without their excuse for being—that of beauty—and who Took out upon life from their participants not only, but in- siasm at other men’s accomplish- ments, are indeed an ex: set. The different modes of carrying the walking stick have often been remarked as quite as in- | dicative of character, or at least of mental | habit, as the gait itself. The methodical man “is with his cane. nounces his comin; The nervous individual iz behind you by the sharp, impetus to vary from the old stereotyped style | @ick ring of his ferrule on the walk. The of country houses has been so successfully | Saunterer swings his stick, hitting off the clover given. Bumerous about Long Branch as mosquitoes are | any seaside resorts | at Cape May, through the | ot dandelion, if he be in the felds. The proud — In taking the pretty drives, which are as [reper Rela or a ty with a regularity ax “s baton. The cane-carrying idiot. may be his habit of shouldering his the point backward ‘from . in reckless disregard of other and stomachs. This is a favorite tinguished by I to find so | stick, or thrusti sue dwellings, and searcely two | emphasis of a drum- — The young society man of the day is said to | ttiek of the Idiot in a crowd, where it_advertises | Tepresent six distinct kinds of a born idiot, and his presence at the shore convulses sensible peo- ple with merriment. —Saratoga’s big houses are crowded thi week, and, toemploy a saying not altogether unconventional, the season at this resort is now at its height. — Ex-Gov. Bullock, of Massachueetts, has | engaged one of the cottages of the Elberon Hotel, Long Branch. for himself and family for the rest of the season. — Coney Istand Sunday last had its largest | day this season so far: the hotel men looked happy and smiled; but it is agreed that the pface is not so well patronizedas of old. Long Beach attracts many people from it. — Ladies at the watering places are amusing themselves this summer by making bead em- broidery on laces as trimmings @resses. This is done by taking an: leaf for a mode! and cutting one by it following the leaf tone of colori ilkuminated bea ntil. as a re an autumn or bi From this leaf strings of bea most lovely fringe with producing a charming lesired lace and It, they have ay be suspended pendants or t ne mes, forming a — At Long Bran 1 Saturday last the larg- | est shark ever seen.on the Jersey coast was hibites It was killed at Seabright b apt. W S. Price and J in the nets of t Octagon house. M It beeame sh pond opposite the rlyan hour. The shark 750 pounds. It fins —Te moon on the be: —Mr. James Fresh, of New York, who paid the Long Branch fishermen $5 to take him out over the breakers, offered them 250 to bring him ey had only been out an hour, but they refused, and then he said he would give them all} throw him overboard. — “Well, Count Ramshaekle, what do you think of the view?” said Mrs. Loverofnature, as they stood on the piazza of the Catskill Moun- tain House, with considerable of the world at their feet. ““Vell, 1 vas founddumbed mid ash- tonishment und bieasure. So help up me Moses Daylor, neffar such a brospect came before mie, Oxeusé me, Mrs. Loverofnature, ish dot chain | vot you laf on genuine gold?” —These moonlight nights are glorious at the seaside. “Isn't it heavenly,” said Miss Sillybilly to Mr. Polo. “What?” he asked. “Why, the moon.” yes, just too utterly heavenly ‘Ob, 1 do just dote on the . it’s awfully nice, mspicuous, too!” —At one of the Long Braneh hotels a lady ap- Feared the other day in an alleged Paris cos- of little squares of pink and blue satin. her bonnet being trimmed with huge pink and fe that is,” said one lady who saw her to another, “you can have it.” Both gave it up. — There must be somethi in the crowd at a watering pl: rooms and a thousand inconveniences. A lady will stand ov her trunk to dress, and will | jure the greatest inconvenience as to bath and absence of wardrobe, will sleep on the hardest bed, so that she may enjoy the pleas- ures of the crowd. Men give up their roomy houses, their comforts, their good club din- ners, and their easy chairs, to enjoy the chat, the variety, the gay fou! ensemble of a water- ing place. Young people love the crowded ballroom, the gay scramble on the beac drive. crow place. It would be weil if, Rot abusing it and injuring themselve — Predictions made concerning the success of the season at Niagara Falls are being verified rapidly. The patro of the hotels is much greater than last year at a corresponding period, and among the arvivals are many pen aes who have not visited the Falls ““sinee the wah — Some secially ignorant people go to-the Ocean House. Newport. thinking that by so doing they will make themselves fashionable. Unless they have cottage friends they speedily ascertain that they have made an error. and at once come to the conclusion that there is no place like home. — As far as heard from the Eastern seaside resortsare doing fairly well, none being crowded bat all comfortably filled. This is expecially true of Mt. Desert, Old Orchard Beach and Nantasket, the latter being a very cood tmitation of Coney How dear to my heart was the old family Be ; was the old family Be te, tees seeod on the table co sclesuraneyan, Where often I've hid anything I thought labie ‘To get in the hands of my bad brother Hill How ardent I've seized it with eyes that were its wide till out the things fell; pene all its churrsing old secrecy's going, With this new-f Bible the bookstores all sell. new-fangled Bible, the twenty-cent Bible, ‘Mb reversed ible that says Hades tor Hell a trieyele has been adopted by the Birming- bias goles force for the purpose of facilitating the work of the summoning officers, to whom its use will for the present beexclusively oryis . Should the experiment prove a suecess, itis ex- pected the use of the Inachine will be further axt ended. seem to exerci r their autumn | just weak enough is omber or | izht hued leaf in perfect b y. | oy Rued Sead tes pestect Deauthy || Vere Ok Cee mee | autumn leaf heading, | angled | as only killed after a | feet and 9 inches in cir- | ¥. while the bat- | people were | of cork, exceeding! money and watch if they would | *dmitting of effect carry such a cane, but to be the rule with however, good thers. “Ifyou tell me what | = very fascinating | ‘e to the aver-| the adventurous age mind, as it makes people patient of small | of Burns, Words: must have produeed with the | the dinner at the lake, and, in fact, “the | They love the gayety of the watering | hibited in some states by law, and are less frequently carried in civilized com- | munities than formerly. With a tough stick, ly weapon, but if the fibre is at all jow will shatter them. Gold- headed canes are chiefly used for presentation. bod: es to carry one, unless it be some man of the old school. Neither are ebony woods in favor. Men generally light gymnastics at home. oe Picking Up Fortunes. Three men, in a single day, up on the ledge near Downieville, Col., pounded out twenty-nine pounds of gold. L. W. Smith, of the Eureka, Silver Cliff, Col., recently cut the of chloride ore, wi per ton at the surface. Frank Winker, of Canton, 0., a coal miner, has falien heir to one-seventh of 255,000,000, pro) crty accumulated by his brother in the Soult in using it, they are | prefer to take yields 92 ounces of silver Amelia county and ‘They washed spots om the land, brought fi home for bier omzeed id prepared for digging. aking out almest fabulous q ‘Three brothers named week from a recent worth of silver. Vaquero who was ri over the mountains search of stray cattle. His attention boulder | usually tich in metal Uj worth of silver. It was taken to the Hermosillo and sold for upwapa of | his pigelsh unconcern for others. The proper treatment for this peculiar typeof manners isfor ‘ome able-bodied man to grasp the idiot’s cane rmly bythe end, snatch it quickly trom his ‘ubject indulges in any idiotic remarks the re- maining treatinent isto again take the cane from him and play it about his legs or across his shoulders in a lively fashion for a minute or two. The idiot then subsides. The only direction for carrying the cane ina genteel manner which the writer has been able to find are embodied in the suggestion that “it should be carried with a gentle swing, the arm held quite near the careless, natural manner, apparently exer- cising no special streagth as ‘the cane is raised or lowered.” If these directions be faithfully observed a truly sweet sult. Particular Romp pei pa ” in lifting a cane; one doesn’t want to seem too weak, but the idea, we suppose. | ~ The subject of the manufacture and trade in | canes, says a Boston Herald writer, is an inter- esting one. Many of the sticks are, of course, imported, and are gathered from the four quar. ters of the world. There is a large industry in France and Germany, parti- ly in the odd earved heads. The large American dealers do a great part of their own manufacturing and finishing. At stores like the one before alluded to, where sticks are made a specialty, many hundreds of different styles and | varieties are displayed. 10 cents for an ordinary southern or eastern amboo, to $2 to $5 for a fancy cane, and from effect should be the re- The prices range front | correspo! bed and Rites esd tl a proceedi m conducted; and that even in Stamboul, among good Mue- sulmans, the trial had produced an impres- sion very different from what was intended. these circumstances his Majesty per- ceived that it would be dangerous to have the sentence carried out, and he determined to com- At the same time, in order to counter- act the growing conviction that the whole story of the assassination was an invention, rumors agated through the local press and other channels that nearly all the accused had made partial confessions. efforts to supplement defective legal evidence, many people, and among them the mother of Abdul Aziz and some sf the doctors who exam- ined his body, still hold to the conviction that assassination, and that Abdul Aziz committed suicide. The trial cleared up the mystery.” ‘The correspondent adds that he is now ina Position to explain why the such great anxiety to get and employed such unjustifiable means for this “It may be remembered that — months greatly alarm: a revo- “ the ctlet be the ex-Khedive. , Who has since taken a was orderedto make airy, and came to the conclusion that In spite of these idhat condemned ago the Sultan was gator was believed judicial functiona: proj conclusion was probably erroneous, but it made ; a strong impression on the Sultan's mind, and from that moment Midhat's fute was decided. | stapes of his complicit; mn could be produced had to be employed for getting rid of him, and the regicide inquiry was used for this purpose.” HEALING BY HERBS, Their Growth in Eve ete, and the Trifle in em, In the begining of the present century, (says the New York Star) Boston hada visitation of searlet fever. The old school physicians were unable to cope with the disease and their pa- tients were giveu over to Thompson appeared among the sick. He dis- | carded the use of mineral medicines and the | compounds prescribed by the old pharmacopeia, and as a consequence he was not recognized by the regular physicians. tients with a syrup made from cobelia, a beauti- ful biennial plant with pink flower and fibrous Toot. His success aroused the envy of the old school physicians, and he was accused of witch- craft and placed on trial for his life. The Boston | Jury was sufficiently intelligent to acquit him, and Dr. Thompson, who was the father of medi- cal botany in this country, came to be a recog- nized authority among medical men. Justice was never done him—the regular physi- cians stole his remedies and incorporated them in their books as their own. Atthe present time the school of medicine which Dr. Thompson founded can hardly be said to have a recognized representation, but the simple remedies which he prescribed are used to an extent hardly credible. There are in this city a large number of establishments doing businessas botanic druggists. Their business importing and selling other vegetable matter, But he cured his pa- consists in collecting, herbs, leaves, seeds and to be used in part for the manufacture of tine. tures, extracts and concentrations for the use of “regular” practitiouers; in part, also, for the manufacture of perfames, but in the main to be disposed of aud applied as simple remedi is estimated that a million pounds of medicinal herbs reach. this city annually. While many medical men’ do not admit that herbs possess any wonderful virtues some among their number who stoutl: their unfailing efficacy. to $75 for gold and silver mounted one: Curious Chinese and Japanese sticks, beautifully | mounted, command large prices. There are | tandard goods, like the different varieties of | the trish blackthorn, English hazel | ; olive ood, Florida orange, hiek- ory, ete.. and a long line of rare and fancy | rey sticks. Among the latter are the ebony, Malacca, | "Porter. cinnamon—bearmg the marks in the wood of the | worms that cut their way up under the pungent park. often fine specimens of natural carving— | the Whang Wee, a choice Japanese stick, the | witeh-hazel, a beautiful wood, having a natural and enduring sweet odor; also the sandal wood. noted for its fragrance. One curious stick was firm, even and fine-grained, | e working. Another was a having wicked bead ing back'to its place as xX of an unworked vein colored Voudoo doctor, Joseph B. Bass, believes that there is nothing good i outside the vegetable kingdom. by his friends that he is the onl city who speaks the Voudgo langua: Mr. Walter Adams, a wholesale bot gist, gave some interesting information to the He said the herbs used in the Ameri- can pharmacopceia are mainly the products of small proportion being ime | in endless variety, and are mer- chantable a8 seeds, leaves, plants, bark and | y man in this | this country, but ported. Theyar | en rua, but ‘mos’ ‘fo’ he had time fer ter study In what particular section of the country are ese herbs grown, and what | pluck them?” asked the reporter. | “In everv section from Maine to California,” stalk of tea wood, the bark of which is mude up | 2¢ Teplied, “‘and they are gathered for privai of small. sharp knobs. A new fancy style is the “snake cane,” brightly mottled in color like a snake, with a reptilian head, eyes and an open mouth. To add to the effect. a slender steel rod concealed in the center gives to almost a serpentine lim! Aman must be very fond of disagreeably odd things to the odder the Lea seems many. AS a general thing, taste suggests that a walking stick be not conspicuous any more than any other part of a gentleman's outfit. The mere expensive canes have carved heads, in in- finite variety, both as te material and pees is the most ucipria ee horn is a favorite. Some very clever wood carvings are i 4 shown, and contest the palm with knots and | 2#thered, and in the drying p roots. The plain crook isa trifle old-fashioned— for there are fashions in canes as in everything Small silver heads aro still geateel, ‘if chaste in design and not too conspicuous. Deer = chamois = npr used for cane heads with very pretty effect. Rare wi , havi historic associations of some sort, eae in | Enough canes have been soid as | = —_ men = @ famous war | gate to sink tl ‘test Liverpool packet. Noah's ark has contributed to the rare woods of | © manufacturer, and the graves worth and other favorite ts st an annual crop equal to a section of the Black forest, to judge by the souvenir sticks sold 8 certitied , Sword canes have been supplanted by the pocket pistal, as a rule, though me one are still » | th ass of persons e use by tens of thousands of people, but for the ly @ sinall number of persons make it “Who are they?” “Principally the members of the Shaker com- munities in thisstate and in Massachusetts, Con- necticut, Ohio and other states. These pe cultivate farms of these herbs, and sell. th | wholesale to druggists in the city and else- Annona “Is the tramic large?” carry a stock of 200,000 pounds, and there | are several other large houses in the bnsiness. Itis safe to say that 1,000,000 pounds of medici- nal herbs are brought to this market year. They are of course thoroughly dried when | den he say, sezee, dat he des drap in fer ter | about 100 per cent of their weight. gathered when in blossom, and seeds and roots about the months of September and October. Any person can do the LAL ey gonies ma must direct and supervise the , dry: The roots ci barks” are sold cr crushed or powdered. and the leaves, herbs and flowers crude, cut or powdered.” “Is the business inj “* Mostly certainly so. three cents per portant in a pecuniary Our goods cost from | pound to $4 perpound, the price being governed by the supply. An ar- ticle which can be had one y cents per pound may cost next This year, for instance. the plant known as | Crawiey, a preparation from which is 1a! Aun innocent looking stick, with a plain | Std Suovessfully used In fever cases, has ead, disclosed a glittering binde six inches long, upon being reversed and given al slight Jerk, the knife | goodness knows Tm mighty glad fer ter see Mr. Year 83 or -84. | daretudyin’, hit come ‘cross his min’ dat he des high as 34a pound.” What herbs are My ue Bet a list of nearly 500 | | varieties, anc no means complete. I a spring was touched In the side. Loaded canes might say that medicinal herbs. gro PI | endiess varieties, supplying fluid and solid ex- | tracts, tinctures, oils and concentrations to the harmacoperia, In addition to simple remedies ‘he forms of teak, powders and syrups.” these herbs cultivated for the market?” “Many of them are on the farms of Shaker communities. Before the which consumed the Shaker buildings at Le- banon in this state, some five years ago, was a great place for the cultivation of m nal piants. Among those large!: are sweet balm, sweet basil, belladonna leaves, burdock root and leaves, caraway seed, castor ion. sweet fern, fox- uce, lovage root and mafrey, horehound, lett ram, pars- flowers, puiopiin scot” quince flow lowers, pampkin . quince ogi atta saffron, mae spotted candus, A wonderful discovery was Ca They, uncovered « 8 oyu s } sineial; ¢ inet from the | 45 ounces of silver and 60 region was wild with excitement the discovery. ty of oe werent a & poor, worn: lesert began prospect Worthingten at vein was discovered strawberry vines, suaflower seed, tanzy, thyme, yellow dock and wormwood. A small pro} ofthe herbs used are importe and South erant of fact will yet he estab! ‘contains an — ‘Scritmer's Monthiy. “‘T'speck you done year tell er ofe man Berijer- |: mun Ram,” said Uncle Remus, with a great affectatiSh of indifference. after a panse. “Qld man who?” asked the little boy. “ Ole man Benjermun Ram. I ‘speck you done year tell er htm too long ’go ter talk "bout.” “Why, no, I haven't, Uncle Remus!” ex- claimed the little boy, protesting and Inaghing. “He must have been a mighty funny old man.” “ Dat’s ez may be,” responded Uncle Remus, sententiously. ‘Fan. deze days wouldn't er counted fer fan in dem days; en many’s de time wat I see folks laughin’,” continued the old man with such withering sarcasm that the little bey immediately became serious—‘“inany's de time w'at I'see um laughin’ en laughin’, w'en I lay dey ain't kin tell wat deyer laughin’ at deyse'f. En ‘taint der laughin’ w'at pesters me, nudder,”— relenting a little—“thit’sdish yerey'lastin’ snickle en giggle, giggle en snickle.”” i Having thus mapped out, fn a dim and uncer- tain way what older people than the little bey might have been exeused for accepting as a sort of moral basis, Uncle Remus proceeded: “Dish yer Mr. Benjermun Ram; w'ich he done come up inter my min’, wuz wunner deze yer ole timers. Dey tells me dat he’uza fiddler fam away back yander—wunner dem ar kinder fid- dlers w’at can’t git de chune down fine "less dey pats der-feot. He stay ajl by his own-alone set ’way out inde middle un a big ;new-groun’, en he’s sech a handy man fer ter have at a frolic dat de yuther creeturs like ‘im mighty well, en w'en dey tuck a motion fer ter shake der foot, w'ich de notion tuck’n’ struck um eve'yoncet a w'ile, nuthin’ ’ad do but dey mus’ gen’ for ole man Ben- jermun Ram en his fiddle; en dey do say,” con- tinued Uncle Remus, closing his eyesin a sort of ecstasy, ‘dat w'en he squar’ higse’f back in a cheer, en git in a weavin’ way, he kin des snatch dem ole-time chunes fam who lay de rail. En den. wen de frolie wuz done, dey'd all fling in, dem yuther creeturs would, en fill up a bag er peas fer ole Mr. Benjermun Ram fer ter kyar home wid "im. “One time, des ‘bout Christmas, Miss Mead- ows en de gais, dey up’n’ say dat dey sorter gin a blow-out, en’ dey got wud ter ole man Benjer- mun Ram wiich dey ’speected ‘im fer ter be on han’. W’en de time done come fer Mr. Renjer- mum Ram fer’ to start, de win’ blow cole en de cloud ‘gun ter spread out’cross.de elements—but no matter fer dat; ole man Benjermun Ran tuck down his walkin’ cane, he did, en tie up his fid- die in a bag, en sot out fer Miss Meadows. He thunk he know de way, but hit beek on gittin’ coler en col’er, en mo’ cloudy, twel bimeby. fus? news you know, ole Mr. Benjermun Ram done lose de way. ' Ef he'd er kep’ on down de big road fam de start, it mouter er ben diffunt, but he tuck a nigh-cut, en he aint git fur ‘fo’ he done los’ sho’ ‘nuf. He go dis away, he go dat away, en he go de yuther way It all de same he wuz done los’. ‘Some folks would er sot right flat down whar dey wuz en study out de way, but ole man Benjermun Ram aint sot wrinkle on his hawn fer nothin’, kase he done got de name er ole Billy Hardhead long ‘fo’ dat. Den a’g’in, some folks would er stop right still in der tracks en holler en baw! fer ter see if deyean’t rouse up some er de neighbors, but ole Mr. Benjermun Kam, he des stick his jowi in de win’, he did, en he march right on des *zactly like he know he aint gwine de wrong way. He keep on, but 'twa’n’t long ’fo’ he gun ter feel right lonesome, mo’ speshually w’en hit come up in his min’ how Miss Mead gals en all de comp'ny be ‘bleezed fe bes’ kin widout any fiddlin’; en hit kinder make his marrer git cole w'en he ee how he gotter sleep out dar in de wonds by his- se’f. “ Yit, all de same; he Keep on twel de dark ‘gua ter drap down, en den he keep on still, en bime-by he come ter a littie rise whar dey wuz a clay-gall. W'en he git dar he stop en look "roun’, he did, en ‘way off down in de holler, dar he see a light shinin’, en w’en he see dis, ole man Benjermun Ram tuk his foet in his han’, en make his way todes It. des like it de ve'y place w'at he ben huntin’. ’Twa’n’t long ‘fo’ he come ter de house whar de light is, en, bless you soul, he don’t make no bones er knockin’. Den some- body holler out: “Who dat?’ “Tm Mr. Benjermun Ram, en I done lose de ii [come fer ter ux ef you ean’t take me in | fer de night,’ sezee. “In common,” continued ‘Unele Remus, “ole Mr. Benjerman Ram wuz a mighty spoken somebody, but you better b'l monst’us perlite dis time. jecmun Ram fer ter walk right in, en wid at he open. de do’ en walk in, cn make a bow like fiddlin’ fol "en dey goes in cop’ but he ain't no T make his bow ‘roun’ twel he ‘gun ter shake en sh done been strucken wid de swamp-arei settin’ right dar ‘us ole Brer Wolf, his toofies showin’ up all wite en shiny wz bran new. Ef oid Mr. nun Ram | aint bin so-ole en stiff I boun’ you lie’d er bro! *bout gittin’ "way, ole Brer Wolf done bin jump up en shet de do’ en fassen er wid a great big chain. Old Mr. Benjermun Ram, he know he in fer't, en he tuck'n’ put on a bol’ fice ez he kin, but he des nat’ally hone fer ter be los’ in de woods some mo’. Den he make ‘n'er low bow, en he hope Brer Wolf en all his folks is weil, en wom hisse’f en ‘quire uy de way ter Miss Mead- ows’, en ef Brer Wolf be so good ez ter set “in in de road ag’in, he be off puttysoon en be much ‘blige tn de bargains. “**Tooby sho’, Mr. Ram.’ sez Brer Wolf, sezee, wiles he lick his chops en grin; ‘des put yo walkin’-cane in de cornder over dar, en set yo’ bag down on de flo’, en make yo'se'f at home,’ sezee. ‘We aint got much,’ sezee, ‘ but w'at we is_got is yone wiles you stays, en I boun’ we'll take good keer un you,’ sezee; en wid dat Brer Wolf laugh en show his toofies so bad dat ole man Beujurmun Ram come mighty nigh havin’ ‘n'er ager. “Den Brer Wolf tuck’n’ flung 'n’er lighter'd knot on de fier, en den he slip inter de back Toom, en, present’y, w'lles ole Mry Benjermun Ram wuz settin’ dar shakin’ in his shoes, he year Brer Welf whispun’ ter his ole ‘oman : ‘*-Ole’oman! old’oman! Fling ’way yo’ smoke meat—fresh meat fer supper! Fling ‘way yo’ smoke meat—fresh meat fer stpper !” “Den ole Miss Wolf, she talk out loud, so Mr. Benjermun Ram kin year: ““Tooby sho’ I'll fix "im some supper. We er “way off yer in de woods, so fur fam comp'hy dat Benjermun Ram. “Den Mr. Benfermun Ram year ole Miss Wolf whettin’ ’er knife on a rock—shirrah! shirrah ! shirrah!—en eve'y time he year de knife say shi rah! he know he dat much nigher de dinner-pot. He know he can’t git way, en w'iles he settin’ mout es well play one mo’ chune on his fiddle fo’ de wuss come ter de wuss. Wid dat he ontte de bag en take out de fiddle, en ’gun ter chune ‘or up—plink, plank, plunk, plink! plunk, plank, ptink, plank!” = Uncle Remus’ initation of the tuning of fiddle was marvelous enough to produce a start- ling effect upon a.inuch less enthusiastic listener than the little boy. It was given in perfect good faith, but the ‘serious expression on the old man’s countenance was so irvesietibly comic that the child laughed until the tears ran down his face. Uucle yperly this asa tribute to his wonderful resources as ‘ oe teller, and continued, fa great good <W'en ole Miss Wolf year dat kinder fass, co'ze she dunner w'at is it, en she ?er knife Benjermun Ram ain't know nm ole Min Wo ae aes rt Wolf wid ‘er elbow, en she say, sex i ‘Her, ole man! w’at dat?* 4 un um cock up der. years en lissen, en des “bout, dat time, ole Mr.Benjermun Ran’ he sting de butt er de fiddle up ander his chin en struck up wunner dem ole fie chunes.” “Well what tune was it, Uneie, Remus?” the little boy asked, with some display of impa- tience. 7 “Ef I alt done gone en fe elfane off'n | thi my min’,” continued Uncle vg “hit sorter went like dat ar de to fall. In some mysterious way, as it seemed to the little boy, the gloom of twilight fastened itself upon the dusky cionds, and the great trees without, and the dismal perspective be- yond, gradually became one with the darkness. Uncle Remus had thoughtfully placed a tin pan under a leak in the roof, and the drip~drip-drip of the water, as it fell inthe resonant vessel, made a not unmusical accompaniment to the The old man fumbled around under his bed and presently dragged forth a large bag filled | with lightwood knots, which, with an instinctive economy in this particular direction, he had stored away for’ an emergency. flickering flame was the result of this timely discovery, and the effect it produced was quite in keeping with all the surrounding. ‘Kkness held sway without, lightwood blaze and wind, and dar! while within, the unstead: seemed to rhyme with the pan. Sometimes the shadow of Uncle Remus, as he leaned over the hearth, would tower and fill the cabin, and agnin, it would fade and dis- appear among the swayil webs that curtained the ““W'en bed-time eome, honey,” said Uncle Re- mug, in a soothing tone, “I'll des snatch down yo’ pa buggy umbrell’ fam up der in decornder, you und’ my arm en set you and swinging cob- ll take'n’ take down on Miss Sally h’a'th des ez eza rat’nes’ inside a fodder-stack. the house-girl, rushed a darkness with a water- proof cloak and an umbrella, and announced her mission to the little boy without taking time to mu gotter come right "long.” ave she skeered lightnin’ gwine strike ‘roun’ in yer "mongs’ deze high trees some’r's.” Uncle Remus rose from his stooping posture in front of the hearth and assumed a threaten- in out of the rain-and catch her breath. “Miss Sally say she exciaimed. “Well, is anybody year de beat er dat!” was his indignant ‘exclamation. don’t you come foolin’ “longer me—no you do it. Kaze ef you does, I'll take'n’ hit you put you ter ‘bed ‘fo’ bed-time w'at!” “Look yer, gal! ‘at I done gone en done ter Unk’ asked ‘Tildy, with a great affec- tation of innocent ignorance. | “Tm gwineter pnt on my coat en take dat ine right straight up ter iss Sally ef she sont dat kinder wud down yer, w’en she know dat chile sittin’ yere “longer me. | continued Uncle Remus, ‘en ef she aint sont | dat wad, den I'm gwineter fetch myse’f back. Ww. you des watch my motions.” “Well, I year Miss Sally say she nin’ gwiueter strike some’r’s on de place,” said ‘Tildy, ina tone which manifested her willing- ness to compromise all differences, “en den I Teome down yer, en den 1g deze yer cloak en pairsol. “ Now you dun brang um,” responded Uncle Remus, ‘you des better put um in dat cheer over dar, en take yo'se'f off. close ter whar deze yer stick-head de big house en ax I'm gwineter ax her, Thunner mighty But the little boy finally prevailed upon the old man to allow ’Tildy to remain, and after a while he put matters ona peace footing by in- quiring if roosters crowed at night when it was Dat dey duz,” responded Unele Remus. vet er dry, dey flops der wings en wakes up Law, bless my soul!” he ex- claimed, suddenly, ‘‘w'at make I done gone en fergit "bout Mr. 2 “What about him?” inquired the little boy. ay back yunder,” said Unele the ashes off his hands and two plantations right "longside er wunner n’er, en on bofe er deze plantations wuz a whole passel er fowls. sociable in dem di on one plantatic | out der invites all de neighbors. Dey wuz mighty ys, en it tu’n out dat de fowls ina party, wiichdey sont de fowls on de ‘t’er planta- ie, Mr. Rooster, he blow his ‘semble um all ter; im come ole lady Hen r wuz Mr. Peafowl, en uinny Hen, en | allance un um. edy, but ‘twa’n't long Miss Puddle Due Dey start off sorter ras ‘fo’ dey all kotch de step, en den dey march down by de spring, up thoo de hoss-lot en | house, en "twa’n’t long “fo” dey VY, en dey sing, d ly did dey play en’ sing dat ar song wich it run on like di “Come under, come under, my love, my own true love; “Dey wuz gwine on dis away, havin’ der *musements, w'en, bimeby, ole Mr. Peafowl, he got on de comb er de barn en blow de dinner- Dey aH wash der face en han’s in de back-po'ch, en den dey went in ter dinner. Wen dey git in dar, dey don't see nothin’ on de table but a great big pile er co’n-bread. De pones nes, en on de top wuz a great ir. Booster, he luok at dis en he tu’n up his nose, en bimeby, atter wile, out he Ole Miss Guinny Hen, she watchin’ Mr. Rooster motions, ‘she take'n’ squall out, ehe did: “**Pot-rack! pot-rack! Mr. Rooster gone back! Mr. Rooster gone back!” “Wid dat dev aM make agreat ter-do. Mies Henen Mizs Pullet, de Gobbler, he le, en was pile up on Pot-rack! pot-rack! cackle en squall, Mr. Puddle she ensay quickity-quack. But Mr. Rooster, he ruffle up his cape, en march on out. “* Dis sorter put a damper on de yuthers, but fo’ Mr. Rooster ten year'n’ dey went ter wuk on de pile w’at wuz” breed, en, lo en beh un’ dem pone er bread wuz a whole er meat en greens, en bake’ taters, en bile’ turnips. Brer Rooster, he year de ladies makit’ great ‘miration, en’ he stop en look thoo de crack, en dar he see all de doin’s en fixin’s. He feel mighty bad, Rooster did, w'en he see all dis, en fowls dey holler en axt 'im fer ter come back, en his craw, likewise, it up’n’ ax "im, but he biggity en stuck up, en he strut’ off, cro he yo; but de ‘speunce er dat time done las’ him en all er his fambly down ter dis day. you neenter take my wud for't, ne’r, kaze ef you'll des keep yo’ eye open en watch, you'll kiteh a ‘limpse er old Mr. Rooster folkeseratchin’ whar ‘ks ter fine der rations, en mor'’n dat, ratch wid der rations in plam sight. Sence dat time, dey aint none er de Mr. Roost- dat w'at dey see’ on top. ers bin fool’ -b y dey see w'at und’ dar. Dey'll aint res’ twel seratch spite er all creation.” “* Dat’s de Lord’s truth!” said "Tidy, with une- tion. “‘I done seed um wid my own eyes. Dat i This was 'Tildy’s method of renewing peaceful relations with Uncle Remus, but the old man Beautiful Specimens of Foot Covering—Some Gems of the Season—A Variety of Fashionable Modcls—Several Costumes Described. Until the shoe pinches the lady of fashion hardly realizes how much her actual comfort and goneral enjoyment depends foundation of style, the outer covering of her dainty foot. Physicians insist that tight shoes and gloves impede the ciroulation of the blood quite as much and are as injurious as tight Walsts; therefore, for hygienic considerations, easy, perfect-fitting shoes must be selected, no matter what their shape, form and style may be. High heels, placed almost in the center of the shoe soles, iave been justly condemned, and are | even credited with injuring the eyesight, and, in | one instance; the discarding of the French shoes and tightly-drawn corsets certainly gave great | and immediate retiefto a Indy whose eyesight | was thought to be failin; In “The Art of Beauty” Mrs. Hawes says we lose by the shoe for firmness of tread and charm | of appearance, and only gain cleanliness and a certain amount of protection for the foot against | cold, wet and friction. She even grows poetical | in her description of a thinly-stockinged foot | With @ sandal beneath, held in place by an em- broidered strap coming between the two first toes. across the instep, after the old Roman fashion, showing “with every step, with every | turn of the ankle, a kind of delicate ple pass- ing over the instep, as a thrill rans through a corn field sometimes under a tender wind.” She indorses one kind of shoe as being of a roper {and sensible form from the medical point of Henry VIII., in whose capracious front the toes might apread and be at ease. She, however, de- clares it ugly, and says nothing really equals the sandal. The modern hygeia boots, specially intended for long walks, have been most highly appre- ciated by those who have tested their admirable Gualities. They have low, flat heels, thick soles and square toes, and are earnest'y recommended by physicians. ‘Indeed, fashion herself, who ; condemns waist and chest contraction and, with clinging and flowing draperies, allows her vo- taries to reveal the graceful curves of their charming forme, advocates ease of hand and foot in*the loose, wrinkled gant de Suede and the | low-heeled, wide-soled, square-toed shoes now worn by the zstheties and laughed at by sense- pani and stylish look of her foot than she does for Reese personal comfort and future years of dily suffering. To grasp the wonderful variety of fashionable models in shoes ix hardly possible without illus- | trations, for while decided difference in over ists the curves and lines can only ‘ized, as in the arrangement graceful drapery of a tulle-covered dress. there are some specimens that can be d, such as the semi-high shoes, laced or | with open bars instep, to be worn with fine cotton or thread stockings, matched in color ss, and sometimes striped or sprigged. h high boot shows the st: across the t leven straps being used, with an ornamental button on a useful buckle. Combinations of styles are fashionable. | and kid lined, showing the Charles 1X. top, with round toe and buttoned strap over the instep, and the same style heel, with the elegant halt. high Richelieu top, embroidered down front, over | seams and at edges with dainty vine patterns. | The Wattean shoe is much in demand this sea. | son, but it is not the most comfortable nor. really as pretty as other styles. Very elegant are shoes with good substantial not too high, and and half-square toes, of fine ch kid, laced at the sides, while across the fronts are thirteen | richly-embroidered —, or, as in other varie- | ties, with the back and front most beautifully | embroidered in variously-colored silks, in gold or silver thread, or with wonderfully hued beads. In the hands ofa fashionable young lady a pair of slippers are in process of construction ofcream satin, lined with white quilted satin, bordered with quillings of satin ribbon and embroidered on the toe with a pink rose and cream bud and Frenchy shoe, with high heel and eurved instep, can be made of any desirable silk or satin, either | to match or contrast with costumes; and one | model is worked in gold or silver thread, another | | in silk of different colors, the buttoned stray across the instep being ornamented with a bow | of ribbon or a spray of flowers. Pretty kid shoes have the toes beaded in Oriental designs, in illu- minated Persian beads, with strap to match. They are most effective in bri i The Universal Fashion Monthly, reliable a thority in matters of unique dress, says t “Wattean” tennis and yachting shoes hat pointed toes, no heels and soles made on principle; they are held on by a strap passing | around the ankle. Sandal boots fur dancin have French heels, arched insteps, and. are strapped across the front up to above the ankle, and are buttoned in the ceuter ofthe foot. Ox: ford ties are still popular, but they are not so fashionable for a carriage shoe as a novel style of black kid, with an elastic at each side aud several straps across the instep. The gems of the season are the exquisite shoes and slippers intended for evening wear; indeed they are real work of art, and command fabu- | lous prices, many of them being decorated with | View, the wide-ending shoe worn in the time of | h embroidery and secured | the shoe with the Louis XV heel of glace kid | The outery in California against the mutiiated ‘coin is repeated, gil over the country. Even im this city some of the banks positively refuse to accept gold or silver pieces that have been in any way tampered with, and they have been driven to this course by the abundance of the depreciated stuff. | To the unthinking person the accidental clip | ping off of a bit of the edge of a coin is a mere {Blemish upon its appearance, but seems rather to give it an individuality, to make fta piece you would remember if it came around again, than to injure it for commercial purposes, So, too, with a hole bored in it, a coin seems merely to have been used temporarily for a charm or aa ornament. In either case the fact is that a cer | tain amount of value has been abstracted from ; the piece, and it is not worth what i was worth. If this needed any demonetration it is to be | found in the fact that the clippings, flings and | borings, melted together, amount to a valua- ble consideration, and it is apparent that the old coins have lost all that this new piece | amounts to. Thisis the reward of the colm clipper, and his trade pays weil. It thrives just | so long as there is indifference on the subject, {and until the trading public flatly refuse, Hke | the banks, to take any except the sound | England underwent an experience of this trouble in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies that shows the difficulty of making Peony ple see the mischief of such things and the final cost that has to be paid for tolerating the fraud, j though. owing to the vast improvements im coinage and especially the milling ef the pieces, vhich came then as a correction to the evil, | Such mutilation as they then had will never again be possible. “Moreover, the lessen onght to have some effect. In Elizabeth's time, clip- ping the coins to save the metal clipped off had | become such a source of loss that it was declared | high treason and made punishable with death, The penalty continued long after, but it seemed to accomplish no staying results. | In ene day, for examble, seven men were hanged in London and one woman burned for clipping. Still the clipping went on. One coin clipper, when abeut to be hanged, offered | $30,000 for a pardon, and Macaulay says that | this evidence of how the crime paid did more to encourage it, far more, than the hanging | of the man did to discourage it. P | jon was against the hanging and favored "the less mademoiselle or madame, who cares more Lipper th took little fro cack for Frenchy high heel, Spanish-curved instep | out ae Ney took se . piece that it amounted to almost nothing. ‘0 show how the abuse of the coins ye it is related that in 1865 a lot of coin should have weirhed 220,000 ounces was weighed and really showed 114,000 ounces. | Nearly half the value had been abstracted. In thirty-five pounds taken in at random |there was only one perfect piece, a single alf-crown. One law declared that any one inform! against a clipper should have 40 pounds reward; one clipper informing against two clippers should have a pardon; and any person having the pre- us parings in his possession should be burned |in the cheek. The story of the struggle to get rid of the debased coinage is an ¢ familiar jone. It ended in the famous window tax, and vils and its injurious, tfects upon health and social lite historians to have been a benefit to the people , When set against the evils of the cheapened. money. In our own country to-day the. United States | law provides a fine of $2,000 and two years im | prison for whoever defaces, mutilates, imy | diminishes, falsities, or lightens any of our coins, providing it is done fraudulently. Ang no depreciated coin need be taken in any tranpe action. It therefore rests wi. the people to de» termine how far the present attempts to wake money by clipping the coias shall be extended. They Will cease so soon as clipped money ceases to be accepted.— Hartford Courant. Philsdelphia Press. ‘The art of packing is by no means a common sprays of tiny bine and white flowers. A | 2¢Complishment, and the comic pictures which represent the girl of the period despuiringly sit- ting on her trunk while the maid-of-albwork vainly endeavors to lock it and the expressmam clamors at the door are scarcely as much ex= aggerated as one might suppose. It is always disagreeable and difficult to pack in a hurry; therefore, it is wise to bezin in season, say at least a day before it seems at all necessary to do 80. See that your trunks are in order, and allow ample time for any repairs which are to be made, for mechanics, as many of us know to our sorrow, are more apt to make fair promises than to keep them. After the trunks are ready, get evesy thing to- gether which is to be packed, and then go quietly and systematically to work. Very lange trunks are an abomination over which express men groan and swear, not altogether without reason. Still, short ones are inconvenient, ex- cept for short journeys, and multiply expense, as the expressage is for each piece, be it Saree toga trunk or smail valise, without regard to really valuable stones and byilliants, and ar. | nished with jaces in round vid point, point de | Venice and Ducfiesse point, and others are bead- embroidered or embeilished with flowers on the | beds of laces or radiant with t prismatic hues The poetical costumes of ihis season are those | where each detail is in harmony with the others | comprising the toilet, as in an outfit designed by Worth the dress was of most delicate blue satin, hand-painted in floral designs and lace gar- nished, while half hidden amid the masses of Duchesse lace on corsage and skirt were irides- eent humming birds on flexible feet. so that they quivered at the slightest movement of the wearer, radiating at every turn and gleaming in each new degree of light. The stockings were of pale blue silk, with floral designs in Duchesse | lace let in, while the delicate satin slippers in the same moonlight titit were bordered with qujllings of and center rosette of Duchesse lace, and upon each rosette rested an exquisite hum- | ming bird, with illuminated throat and head = Peep iy as if Teaty —— its inty perch upon the pretty and costly-garbed foot of its lovely mistress. : A peculiar costume, with black bodice gar- | nished with gold and white and gold striped skirt, showed @ wreath oo outtercups, with | golden. ves passing diago! lown the skirt ; front, from right to: of left side. The stock- ings were striped, white, black and gold, while the black satin slippers were finished with a wreath of buttercups, with leaves like those gar- rt, only smaller in size, and pink brocade trimmed with | satin ornamented with lace and ombre feathers in the hues of the brocade. Mort stylish was a dress of coral-red broeaded satin | with white satin apron covered with applique of net exquisitely embroidered with leaves of | flowers in pearl beads. The stockings were of | coral-red embroidered in lace figures to match | the brocaded satin, while the white satin shoes | were decorated’in leaves and flowers in small size. But whatever the size of the trunk, it should be filled, or at jeast packed full enough to prevent the contents from tossing about. If you are compelled to take a trunk which is too large for what you need to pack in it, all it with crumpled paper rather than leave i half empty. Even experienced travelers have only a partial idea of the rough usage to which bagvage is subjected, how remorsely trunks are pitched about. The train stops for two minutes, perhaps, and your new Saratoga is thrown—not lifted—trom the bag; down on the plat- form, and then knocked around, pitched first om one end and thea on another, until it would seem asthough cvery fastening must be wrenched out of place. In this condition of affairs, unless the trunk is closely packed, the coytents wiil be literally churned up and down, and the cee which you have carefully folded, will be turn! to a degree, even if nothing Worse comes to them. There are expressmen and expressmen, and it once happened to the writer to 7 in with an accommodating one in a moment tee At the last eae it was lacie epeetoaae key of a trunk wasmissing, hat iy disappeared from the lock, nor to this bour hag it ever been found. “Got a stout . ee One was produced, and he pam ide the trunk acrons each way, knotting the: combi, scientifically. “There, now, that'll hold.. Yagi see It’s better to have the rope both ways, 80. a8) the top can't come off. A trunk strap's mnetiy it goes t cortied trunk, sit the more ited the more likely the hinges strings let out, the waist fokled but once the wrong side out, with the sieeves laid over the back and the fronts over ali. i pearl beads with wonderfutly pretty effect. A magnificent white satin robe, brocaded with ‘was disposed to resist the attempt. “You better be up yander washin’ up dishes, stidder hoppin' down yer wid er whole packet er stuff w'at Miss Sally aint dream; Clerical Oratory. Why do not our preachers study oratory? As Preachers, not pastors, their business is to work What the true seeks to do is to inform the intellect earers. Halt’ the ation for personal preachet with Christian trath; to by influence the will, of his sermons Hi a) eh aizt ul i af ig i Hl i z li 7 Ly tulips, outlined in beads, had apron of white satin, charmii covered with puffs of tulle and ornamented bunches of shaded eee ot ew Castie; —— One Vineland famiiy, te in affluence. supporte seven dogs. sated Hi i i i H id i 3 3 & or fold ix kept yellow tissue paper, to satins. This is Eeies i, i i FF I i iz PAT a i i be i i ! i i ! Hi i I i ; F f 2) if F LF i. i H A d are merel; of frames, with tape lattice-workk, and are fitted in, when. it bs mean of adjucaiteend-pots, which has hits neoy homens oo is @ new drink at New| ee __ The wethetic cornet player lea testeoter, teo, | yorhe, Merchants’ Hotel, at the