Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1881, Page 14

HOME MATTERS. & BUDGET OF Goop REcrPEs—oLD-TIMg axp| The Hon. Lucius Fitzgerald walked up and MODERN LUXURIES—VARIOUS SUGGESTIONS. ‘To MexD Broxew Ivory.—Moisten thorough @ small quantity of very finely powdered good juicklime with white of eggtoform a paste. Teaat once, clamp the. parts, and do not dis- turb for twenty-four hours. Do not use an ex- cess of the cement. Dexiciovs Murrins.—Take two cups of flour and work into it thoronghly two teaspoonfuls ofbaking powder; wet the flour with milk un- til it is about the consistency of pancake batter; then add three well-beaten eggs the last thing; mix well and drop quickly iato muffin rings, well buttered’ and bake in a quick, hot oven. Pemrxis Pre.—Stew the pumpkin the day betore you wish to bake pies; cook till very soft, 80 that you can easily rub it through a sieve; take three eggs to two pies if eggs are not plenty; if they are. put two in each pie, a large cup of stewed pumpkin to one pie, milk enough | to thin it sufficiently, that is, to make it like season with ginger, molasses, and : If yon choose, bake till a brown crust forms over the top.—Household Hints, Emma Whitcomb Babcock. How To Perreme Nore Parrr, Etc.—Get a few quires of blotting-paper and sprinkle the sheets with the perfume desired; then put the blotting under a weight until it becomes dry. aper, envelopes, etc., be- i place thei’ under a ve them and they ry again and can be made to re- tain their perfume for a long time by keeping them free irom exposure to air. Boxe Feox.—A person who has to suffer | Hatured of you not to have them here. with a bone felon has to endure excruciating pain. Upon the high anthority of the London Loaneet the following id to be) certain cure is 2 oon as the disease is felt, put di- the spot a fly blister about the size of your thumb nail, and let it remain for six hoursat the expiration of which time, directly under the surface of the blister, may be seen tantly taken out with int of aneedie or a lancet.” Foot axp Mocra Disease.—It cannot be too extensively known that a cure of foot and | mouth disease can be effected ina few days by the use of salicylic acid solution of the aci is prepared by dissolving three tablespoonfa of acid ina gallon of water, with which the mouth and feet are washed three times a da A little of the powder should also be_sprink after washing between the hoofs. Two table- spoonfuls of the a ould also be added to the drink of each beast during the day. A cooling aperient of half a pound of salts, a quarter of an ounce of nitre, and a quarter of an ounce of ginger will be of advantage, together with great attention to cleanliness. OLp Tive Pork aNp Beans.—Take two pounds of moderately lean side pork, to two quarts of marrow-fat or other beans. Put the beans to soak over night. In the morning after bi fast scald and scrape the rind of the pork ut on to boil an hour before putting in the | woe Set the beans to boil in a separate pot, in warm water. If the ter used is of hard lime stone use a teaspoonful of soda to the first water. After boiling a short time drain through a cullender and put on fresh water and Jet boil until quite tender. Then add the pork to the beans and let simmer until nearly as stiff as mashed potatoes. Then put into a baking dish; score the pork and place in the center; brown in the oven onehour. Great care should be taken not to let the beans scorch when they are boiling —New York Tribune. Svear aNp Corree.—Sugar, which with many doctors has a bad reputation, is an excellent aliment which assists digestion, and should not, says M. Leven, be proscribed in dyspepsia. By experiment, digestion of meat is found to take lace much’ more completely when suxar is ad- Bea. Coffee exerts both a local aad general ac- tion, operating locally by means of its tannin, by diminishing the calibre of the vessels, but acting on the general economy by exciting the Rervous centers and the muscular system. It Fenders digestion slower. and is only ot good effect by relieving the feeling of torpor after meals. Its injurious action on digestion may be corrected by adding sugar so as to counter- balance its effects on the mucous membrane. ‘Thus adding sugar to coffee is not only a pleas- ant practice, but one contributing to digestion. Tue WASHING AND SHRINKING OF WOOLEN AR- ‘FicLEs.—Professor Artus, who has devoted him- seif to the discovery of the reason why woolen @lothing, when washed with soap and water, Will insist upon shrinking and becoming thick and acquiring that peculiar odor and feeling which so annoy housekeepers. says these evil effects are due to the decomposition of soap by the acids present in the perspiration and other waste of the skin which the clothing absorbs. ‘The fat of the soap is then precipitated upon the wool. These effects may be prevented by steeping the articles in a warm solution of washinz-seda fer several hours, then adding some warm water and afew drops of ammonia. The woolens are then to be washed out and rinsed in lukewarm water. The Professor further tells us that flannel which has become yellow by use may be whitened by putting it for some time in solution of hard soap to which strong ammonia has been added. The propor- tions he gives are one and a half pound of hard eurded soap and two-thirds of a pound of strong ammonia to fifty pounds of soft water. MaKE-BELIEVE TERRAPIN.—Of course, It's a sham, for there ain't nothing in this world that ean take the shine out of a real terrapin. still, if you ain't got none of thesenice creeturs you can Manage to make shift with acalf's head. You don't want a whole head of a calf. but boil it Just the same, but don’t sluice it with all the water in the reservoir, only enough to cover it, and in that water put a couple of onions and salt and pepper. When boiled tender, take say half the meat, half the tonzue, and a tablespoonful of the brains. Cut it up, but not too fine. Put into a frying pan a quarter of a pound of the best butter, and bring it up toa light brown, mixing in a very little sifted four when it is off the fire, and a little cayenne pepper, and just a ores of sweet marjoram. If you put herbs into tt boiling butter it maks a bitter taste. Then stir the sauce with alittle of the water the calfs head was boiled in. Then put in your chopped up calfs head. Place it on the fireazain—not to cook, but to only—and last of all pour in two wine-classes of Madeira, but if you haven't that, let it besherry. Thouh it ain't terrapin, = _— all the same.—Bob te Sea Cook, in N. imes. Viexxa Correr.—In making large cafes of the Kathner Ring, in Vienna, the coffee is prepared as follows: To make six quarts, one pound six ounces of coffee are used. Within a very heavy cylinder or urn, that is securely pinned to the floor or table, there is fitted a coarse sieve, a piece of cord or rope sur- rounding the sieve making It fit tight! the sieve there is placed a piece of canton flan- nel, fastened down by means of aa iron ring that fits into the ring which holds the sieve. At- tached to the sieve is an iron frame, witha hook at the top. The sieve is pressed to the bottom of the cylinder, the coffee placed upon the flannel, and boiling-hot water poured upon it. This reeeptacie is then closed and covered, and allowed to stand six minutes. A screw fitted into an iron frame is tien hooked on to the frame holding the sieve, which is then forced toward the mouth of the urn, the pressure forcing the infusion through the canton flannel. The cotfee is then ready to be served with hot milk and whipped cream. For the use of fam- ilies a coffee-pot of a somewhat novel character is employed, This is more complicated than the simple contrivance described above. The water is boiled by means of an alcohol lamp underneath the pot. When the water boils the steam passes through a tube and through the finely ground coffee, which has been placed loose in the top. and protected by several strainers. A glasstop enables the operator to see when the coffee is ready for use, and when finished the glass cover is removed and a me- tallic one put in its j yesag This process secures & perfect infusion of the coffee without loss of ‘roma, and it has made coffee at the A Plodding Florist’s Hit. ‘From the Albany Arcus. Of late years such a popular craving for nov- elties in floral decorations has been developed among our Metropolitan population that the Producer of a new rose or a new evergreen is more certain of fortune than a painter whose eanvases bring more than their w i . At the present moment aan werd af peer bas gone mad over a new of smilax, either produced or obtained by a plodding Ger- Our American rep tative of pale green smilax, which has maiatained its Popularity so long in ‘and funeral saltke, is the common eat-brier—an ugly thing. half weed, half shrub, that will make the discoverer’s fortoue resem- bles the cat-brier thore strongly tin thet wen- man whose flower plantation is within the city limits. secular and sacred. festal familiar to every country lad. The new sinilax ‘@ally employed for decoruiive po The blotting sheets | over his MR. FITZGERALD'S MARRIAGE. down the breakfast room at Abbotecraithie with his hands in his trousers pockets, jingling his money. Well, he was perhaps hardly as yet re- accustomed to the sound. His young wife— they had only been married six months—sat at the table, behind the tea and coffee parapher- nalia, watching him while she very assiduously knitted a coarse Knickerbocker stocking. Something had evidently produced a twist‘in the skein of their hitherto unentangled bliss; for the breakfast was untasted, and was getting cold. “It is the first request you have refused me; but I suppose you do not think me good enough for your swell acquaintances,” said the lady at last, swallowing a little sob. “Really, Amelia, the way you put things is too ridiculous. Not good enough! Because I object to Lady Constantia Veralam and her daughter being invited to Abbotscraithie. What can they have to do with you? I simply do not want them.” “Yet they were your most intimate friends before your marriage.” “ Perhaps I have quarreled with them.” “Nonsense! I saw an envelope addressed to youin Miss Verulam’s writing, only a week or two ago.” “It was merely a line of congratulation. The Verulams were abroad when we married.” And Mr. Fitzzerald, a deep flush mounting all ace, sat down opposite his wife, and uusy himseif by uncovering the dishes. persisted, “let them come ‘and congratulate you in person. It is very ill-| You | | Know I want to find a nice wife for Percy, and he is coming for the shooting on the 10th and Perey!” muttered Mr. Fitzgerald jis mustache. “Well,do as you like, I'll make no further opposition.” And flattering himself with the idea that he had striven bis utmost to do rizht, he now re- signed himself delizhtedly to wrong doing. melia Fitzgerald is the daughter of a north country manufacturer, who left her many thousands of ands in hard cash, with part of which Abbotscraithie has lateiy been purchase: It is a handsome stone house, in the center of a fair Lowland estate, bonnie with moor and forest. Riches apart, she is a lovable little woman enoush; yet Lucius does not love her, and for no more valid reason than that she is not somebody else. Then why have martied her? The question is only too pregnant, the answer too obyious. Whena mutual friend, a i-making woman, had first broached the he answered at once Can you ask me? If the young lady is fool enough to marry me, here I am, and let's waste | no more words about it.” Amelia Huggins was not long from theschool- room, and full of sweet schdol-roomish views of love. The younger son of an earl, five feet eleven, handsome, and apparently charmed with bi What more could sie want? Now, Lucius was no abandoned wretch; he was simply a young man whose six or eight years of life had dispossessed him of about dou- ble the number of thousands which had ever be- longed to him—Ob, a very vulgar miracle as times go—and he had latterly—tliat is, for the past year or two—saddled_himseif with a des- perate passion for Berthe Verulam, and which, alas, she fully returned. As neither of these ill-starred lovers had any money, or even a reasonable expectation of be- lng eit some, Lucius felt no sort of ecraple in offering his heart to the willing Amelia. Calmly considered by an impartial observer, the trans- action mtzht look very like selling an estate with aheavy undeclared mortgage upon it. To the Honorable, yet impecunious, Fitzgerald, however, it speared but in the light of that time-honored course, ‘‘ The only thing to do, by Jov. Ah, and he would do his duty like a man, he would. No more flirting now. Of course, if they met much, it would be awkward—deuced dangerous (with another “by Jove!"?) Well, they mustn’t meet, that’s all. You see, Lucius thought himself quite a good man. J don’t want to say a word against bim, only if he is one, then there are plenty of good men about, that is all. So much the better that there should be, of course. His young wife, thouzh hardly of what you would call strong character, inherited from the late Huggins a large share’ of that pertinacity which he had turned to such good account: and she pours out the coffee this morning with an air of innocent triumph in her blue eyes at hay- ing carried her point. ‘And so Mrs. Fitzgerald insists on Lady Veru- lam and her daughter being invited,” mused her husband. “The Veralams of all people in the world! For Percy, too! Asif Birdie Verulam (as she was called, her real name being Bertita,) would marry Perey!” Percy is Amelia’s brother, older than she is by four or five years. Rich, of course. Hug- gins senior left his thousands equally divided. But the son had not acquired any of’ that zen- tleness and good breeding which seem to have come to the sister as if by magic. In Lucius Fitzgerald's mental phrase, ‘He is an insuffer- able young cub, talking slang by the yard, and only fit to herd with bagmen and shopboys.” “Yet he is his brother-in-iaw. must be made the best of, and is even now coming on the 10th to meet Lady Constantia, the fastidious, and her delightfully fine daughter! If only they would send an excuse? But no. Circumstances would never go and risk their cherished old reputation for spitefulness. How they must smile now—that is, if they ever do smile.” So cogitated Lucius; and his little burst of wicked exultation at losing the battle rapidly gave way to ever-increasing doubts and fears. He was sufficiently grand ‘seigneur to remain uncrushed by the Percy trouble. “Va pour le beau-frére;” but the other matter seemed, as he reilected upon it, to hourly contain less and less of what was sweet, and more and more of what was decidedly bitter. Granting that there is always something of rapture in meeting our soul's ideal once again, so long, that is, as she is not on the arm of @ successful rival, what good could possibly come out of tnis untoward encounter? And for &momentary thrill, a joy that was first cousin to a sorrow, was it worth while to jeovardize even such very gray-colored domesticfelicity as now belonged to him? Yes, the more he thought -of it, the less he likedthe prospect. Visions of strange heartrending scenes, tragic duets, and more tragictrios, began to fit across his brain by night and day. ' After all, he had suffered marvelously little for the want of Miss Verulam’s society since his marriage. Indeed, this had often been a subject of wonder to him. He was really comfortable enough with Amelia, and as to romance, passion. ecstasy—was the whole thing worth while? Was he hot getting just a shade too old, or, to put it plainly, too fat and lazy, for these fatiguing toys? All this time Amelia was perfectly happy and serene; for when Lucins was with her he was more than ever aur petits soins; and then had she not gained her own why in the matter of in- viting these Verulams? And they were coming, too. “Were going to ee delight, Pea neighborhood, and sho so del , Constantia’s n¢ had said. ¥ aia For some days before they arrived, Mr. Fitz- gerald had a good deal of spare time on his hands, with which his wife did not interfere. She was so engrossed in her first hospitable pre- parations, and in adding touches of beauty to the somewhat hastily furnished rooms, that she had little leisure to nt some- ut as hour after hour passed on, and the time approached nearer for the arrival of the Verulams, Mr. Fitz- gerald grew more and more dejected, till at-last even Amelia was compelled to notice it, and she inquired with some solicitude what ailed him. Of course he brisked up suddenly and said “Nothing.” How could he own that he either longed for or feared the arrival of these people? In Point of fact, he was absolutely beginning to “You will go and meet them at the station, Lucius? It will be so uncivil to let them come with slow dignity into the station. though watching to be ecogelued, apa: the ough wi to office-door. A second more and the bright color mounts to his brow, and then suddenly fades away into sort of blue pallor. He walks for- ward to. 8 carr but with no haste; yet, from that carriage window is gazing on hima fair young girlish face, atace such as even an indifferent passer-by in a crowded thoroughfare would turn to look at; such a face as a painter might have chosen for a Calypso when looking seaward from the shores of Ithaca. it had the stamp of a blighted love upon it. A busy porter opened the carriage-door, and Lady Constantia, fat. rubicund, and fifty, came tumbling ont. '“How do you do”-ing Lucius with easy familiarity. He gave his hand to the girl. She did not attempt to speak as she stepped down on the platform, though her hand seemed to linger in his just a moment longer than was necessary. Perhaps it was the whis- per ‘My darling!” which he uttered in a very low tone as she stood beside him, which so sur- prised her that she forgot to be conventional. What right had he to call her “darling,” with Amelia sitting at home waiting for them, and in spite of the far-off pained look in the sweet. Birdie’s eyes, which should have thrust the word back unspoken intd his heart? It did not bring a glad look into her face, as “darling” ut- tered by Lucius Fitzgerald six months ago would haye done. All the sunshine and joy had died out of Birdie Verulam’s life since then. She turned away from him and spoke to her maid luggage, as though seeking refage in a triviality. Why hadshecometo Abbotscraithie? Even Amelia, had she been at the station that day, could not have failed to note that Birdie Verulam had been to Lucius in the past what every law of honor forbade that she could ever be still in the future. Like Lucius, Birdie was accomplishing her destii a firm belief in her own strength. How utterly weak they both were perhaps they discovered with startling reality as they stood side by side on the Abbotser: platform. Lady Constantia was Birdie’s step-mother, and the girl was dependent on her for food, shelter, and clothing—utterly dependent; and her father’s chattering, good-natured, shallow. ated widow was calculating, though kindly, and had, moreover, but a limited income. + To marry Lucius, Birdie knew was utterly impossible—knew it from the moment the first love-fiutter agitated her heart; so she resigned him—gave him with her own free will to Amelia. She had a morbid longing to witness the suc- cess of her work, and had accompanied her mother to Abbotscraithie, deluding herself into the idea that she would henceforth endure the void in her life with less bitter pangs if she were but allowed to see Lucius rich, happy, and eon- tented. So when Lady Constantia told her that she had received an invitation from Mrs. Fitzzerald. and in her blindness and her love of living at other people's expense sugzested that they should accept it, Birdie had offered no opposi- jon. She got into the carri: and seated herself by Lady Constantia’s side. the maid opposite. Lucius proceeded them in his cart. He had chosen wisely in leaving Birdie to her reflec- tions for a while; furthermore, he went up the back way into the stable-yard’ to avoid Deine present when Birdie and Mrs. Fitzgerald should meet. He could easily make an excuse for not being at his post to fulfil the ceremony of introduc- tion. Perhaps, evenin theabstract, he wasright, although his action, or. rather, inaction, in the tatter was due on this occasion solely to his in- clination. Where people are bound nolens volens to make themselves acquainted, the for- mality of an introduction is very likely better omitted. At all events, in this instance the affair passed off comfortably enough, and the impression on all sides was favorable. But this fact by no means tended to mend matters as far as danger was concerned, and Miss Verulam was too wise and too honest to deceive herselfinto a contrary belief. When a woman allows herself to love a mar- ried man, she may tell her conscience that every fault from the wife palliates her guilt; but she must be morally blind, indeed, if she imagines that all the qualities of all the angels centered in the wronged one would ever have weighed with her in the indulgence of her unlawful pas- sion. There was something artless—an evident de- sire to like and be liked—about the woman in Possession which went straight to ‘the Birdie’s heart and disarmed her—disarmed her of anyill- feeling against Lucius’ wife—tiat is to say no more. “This is the first time I have ever met any really great friends of my husband,” said Amelia, pouring out the tea, “‘and you don't know pew I have been looking forward to your com- ing.” Lady Constantia declared herself delighted to be there, but the journey. “Oh that railway carriage! I thought I should have died of heat apoplexy; and that horrid old-young man—ridiculous creature, he must have been fifty at least—would insist upon having the windows up all the time, and Birdie would not snub him. Why would you not, Birdie? Oh, he was good-looking—very, but le; in fact, quite one of the ‘have She was something of a rattle, was her lady- ship, and not over-particular about being lis- tened to. This the Birdie had long since tained. At that moment she was dreami ingly contemplating Amelia. “How a man might love that sweet little woman if she had only got the first chance of him!” was the mental ejaculation. Dinner that night was a not altogether suc- cessful attempt at being festive. Percy had arrived just before, and decidedly second rate as were his jokes and general behavior, more than one of those present felt grateful to him for keeping up the conversation, his brother- in-law, perhaps, the most of all. Next day two or three mean, invited by Lucius for shooting, put in an appearance, and the mas- ter of Abbotscraithie, in doing the honors to his male friends, avoided on all possible occasions being brought into anything like close compan- fonship with the ladies. Only he would look at Birdie sometimes with sucha longing, wistful look in his large, flaming eyes that it m&de the girl more than once creep away up to her room and send the excuse of a headache instead of reappearing at dinner. Meanwhile Amelia saw nothing except that Percy’s attentions were re- ceived by Miss Verulam with cold disdain, and that Lucius looked sadly weary and jaded, which she entirely ascribed to his having over-walked himself shooting on the moors. Thus a week passed, and Birdie suggested to Lady Constan- ia that it was time they took their leave and went to the house of some other friends; but Lady Constantia was comfortable and contented in luxurious Abbotscraithie, and she would not be hustled. Birdie must endure her torture a little longer, She had gone out alone one lovely September afternoon, taking a volume of Shelley to dream over. not to read. In Budie's frame of mind all the lines were one blurred mass, all the words were indistinct. She sat down in a little arbor that had been built at the edge of a wood, hanging over an extensive view of heathery moor, and there, till the dressing-bell rang, she felt she could weep and think in peace—at least, so she hoped; but a quarter of an hour had searcely passed away when she heard a man’s footstep approaching the arbor, and she almost, beter oP. ‘ee a little Mightened ery. ot Lucius; no, not Lucius; the + ould not bear It’ “em peaetles) It was Percy, and she sank back into her se: as though relieved from a great fear. Not frined she wanted Percy's companionship—far from it: and had he been a man of the world and a gen- tleman her monosyllabic replies would speedily have induced him to perene his way to the up here all alone. But I think I had better stay and receive them in the hall; that is the way, is it not, in your world?” “Yea, yes. You alway love;” which wasmore thanhe did, for he bob! down and kissed her plump on the nose, and smiled at his mistake. With this he dashed out of the room, leaving Amelia a little bit disconcerted at his ill-con- excitement. A moment later she heard the sound of wheels, and looked out of the win- dow. Mr. in a white-chapel, was going down the drive. that thing! ordered the hit the right marl sone to meet the Verulams in Impossible!" cried his wife. ” * house. But Percy, like his sister, was not easil) daunted; he could not. tunderstand de wo “no” unless it was written very pl letters actually had "eh pos- juite sur} too, when she got upsod told fin that she regretted’ be had mater 8 mistake, such an allignce being “Impossible!” he repeated; “impossible that biog: ever care for me?” like Lucius, she had | “I would never havecome if 1 had known; but, oh Lucius, Ithought I could have borne it. Ln fhe you let her invite us?” “My , [did my utmost to prevent it; but she was very positive, and I—well, you bade me marry her, and I—well, you see, I did hot think you would care so very much.” ““O Lucius, 1 pla have made no sacrifice for you if I had really cared, but I thought Iwas braver. If only ly Constantia would be persuaded to take me home—” “My poor, poor, sweet love, Birdie!” was all the man could murmur. - There was no consolation to offer now. ‘ou must not kiss me, Lucius—well, only this once, my love... Now go. I cannot bear it if you stay longer—I cannot, indeed. Besides, it is not right to yourself or her.” He took her in his arms for a moment, left on her lips one more forbidden burning kiss, and was gone—not toward the house, but down the hill on to the moors, where, with ‘nature reign- ing in wild beanty all around him, he could fight unchidden with his raging love, In the arbor, for a long space, the soft, buz- zing, lazy summer sounds were disturbed by Birdie's sobs; while outside, with nothing be- tween them Dut the thin, bark-covered, wooden partition, sat Amelia on the ground among the underwood, her head on her knees, which were surrounded by her clasped hands. Shehad heard it all, and was thinking it over bit by What should shedo? The future, which but an hour ago had seemed 80 bright to her as she believed in Lucius Fitzgerald's love, had sud- denly become dimmed by a mist which looked eternal. She could not see through it; it was thick as that which gathered about the summit j of her own north country hills. Still she must | try and find her way through it; and as she sat there motionless, listening to the sobs within, and thinking more earnestly than she had ever thought in her life before, a depth of feeling was awakened in Amelia’s heart for which no one who knew her only in the light comedy of iife would have given her credit. She was the first to move—very carefully, lest Birdie should hear—and to go slowly to the house. She met Percy at the door. : “Well, what was up in the arbor ?” “Nothing. I believe you purposely sent me on a wild-goose chase. “Lucius has gone down toward Kaeburn’s farm. hatan imvaluabie article is stupidity in the proper place! - Two hours later the husband and wife met at dinner. Birdie had one of her usual bad head- aches. No one could have guessed that Ainelia had learned the trath; only perhaps Lucius noticed that she was even more tender and er than she had ever been For many days Birdie lay il up stairsina darkened room. Amelia never intruded-herself unbidden into the sick girl's presence; but all that love could think of and attention carry out she gave to Birdie, and with no demonstrative outbursts. Nor did she ever tell Lucius that she knew aught of the past, but helped him quietly, with soothing tenderness, to bear the anxiety aad irritability produced by Birdie's ill- ness. Amelia had seen her way through the mists, and the road along which she had elected to travel was that of patient sympathy. As months passed on, and time cicatrized the wound in Lucius’ heart that destiny had made, was not much of its healing due to the woman who loved him well enough to bear silently and unmurmingly her stfare of the burden with which he was so heavily welghted. Birdie Verulam has never married. She went abroad with Lady Constantia for a while; on her return she studiously avoided all meetings with Lucius, and pointedly refused to pay another visit to Abbotscraithie; but she is al- ways on friendly. almost loving, terms with Amelia, who scarcely ever undertakes any scheme of importance without first consulting Birdie.—Tinsley’s Magazine. ———— High-priced Dogs. From the Wilmington News. Within the past. half dozen years there has grown up among sporting men and gentlemen of leisure a strong fancy for imported or blue- blooded setter dogs. There are many of the im- Proved species in the kennels of Wilmington gentlemen. "The majority of the imported dogs come from the e -tensive kennels of Sir Percival Llewellyn, a mew of the British peerage, who has acquired fare and fortune by devoting his attention exci ively to the improve- ment in the breed of setter dogs, The animals are brought directly to this country, generally to New York. in some cases to Philadelphia, and there purchased through agents by sports: men. The prices paid, in many cases, are aston- ishingly large, ranging in a few known instances as high at £2,600 for a single setter. One thou- sand dollars, however, is considered a high figurge, the latter sum, it: Is said, having been paid bya yentleman in this city for a noble Specimen of the bluest blood. he imported dogs have many points of superiority over the native animals, differing as much trom each other as the trained racer from the conntry read horse. Blue blood is strong and fleet of limb, has long, fine hair, with a tendency to crisp at the ends, well colored, whatever that means, and is warranted to watch his game, rain or shine, twice as long as the native specimen. There are at least half a dozen imported setters in the possession of pay’ »s in this city, each of which cost over $300. e best known man in the United States in ti ue is Rene” Martin, the dog trainer. Martin was tormerly a butcher, but the instinct born within him was too strong and he quickly drifted into his natural sphere. As a trainer of setter dogs, his charzes, varying from $100 to $200, area little extravagant, but the owner ofthe pup can rest assured that when he graduates from Martin’s careful and pains- hands he is accomplished in the highest degree. Mortin’s plan is simple. As soon as the gunning season opens he takes his dogs to some secluded hunting ground in the gouth. There he establishes himself and his pupils. Every day he hunts, going out early in the morning and re- turning only after dark. At the end of the season his dogs have completed their education. ne. Lime Kila Cbservation. “Doorin’ my three score y’ars of life I hey ob- sarved some curus things,” bezan Brother Gardner as the thermometer showed ninety- eight degrees and rising. “I hev obsarved, fur instance, dat the men mos’ consarned "bout de welfar’ of de kentry am de men who do de least to prosper her. “I hev obsarved dat de politishun who sots out to save de kentry am ginerally hauled up fur robbin’ her. “I hey obsarved dat de men who seem to hev de moas’ sympathy for de p20’ neber wait five minutes to forclose a chattel mort- gage. They obsarved dat good cloze and impn- dence will pass fur riches and educashun. “T hev ol red dat bragan’ bluster am better weapons dan fal ple an’ truf. “They obsarved dat a grand monument in a graveyard doan’ hide de meanness of a dead er bee peered dat ch: : “I hey obsarved dat charity kin make paupers almost as fast as a conflagrashun. ay “I hey obsarved dat while all agtee dat hon- esty am de bes’ policy, not one manin a hun- dred hesitates to work a lead nickel offca a street kyar company. “They obsarved many odder things equally susngs an’ inconsistent, an’ I am prepared to say jou: *atottoes doan’ mean bizness. ‘Maxime kin be tten faster dan written. 7 eel with one cog gone. slong as you kin afford Gis Bente, iat ow A Pershttent Spectre. Free bee While the subject of ghosts is attracting atten- tion, I will offer a nut for our scientists to crack. A MEDICINE FOR WOMAN. LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE OOMPOUND Is a Posrriva Cuas For all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses 20 S common to our best femais population. It will cureentirely the worst form of Female Com- ibles, It will dissolve and expel Tamors from the Uterus in an early stage of development. The tendency of Can- cerous Humors is checked very speedily by its use. It removes Faintness, Fiatulency, destroys all Cra- vings for Stimulants, and Relieves Weakness of the Stomach. It cures Bloating, Headache, Nervons Proe- tration, General Debility, Sleepleseness, Depression and Indigestion. The feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, is always permanently cured by its use. S*-PHYSICIANS USE IT AND PRESCRIBE IT FREELY._@3 It will at all times and under all circumstances ac in harmony with the lawsthat govern the female sys- tem. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either sex this Compound is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND is prepared at 233 and 235 Western avenue, Lynn, Mase. Price $1. Six bottles for $5. Sent by mail in the form of pill, also in the form of lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box foreither. Mrs, Pinkham freely answers all letters of inquiry. Send for pamphlet. Ad- dress as above. No family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS. | They cure constipation, biliouaness, tild torpidify of the liver "3s ‘Cents per box. EP Sorp.sx avy Davcowts._eg 83-e0 AN TRON AND COPPER INVESTMENT. In 1876 the incorporators of the NORTH STATE MINING COMPANY began the examination and development of the mineral wealth of North Carolina, and, after five years of labor and expense, became satisfied that they were possessed. of rich and valuable mineral properties, that only re- quired a railroad to enable them to pour into the pockets of their stockholders thouands of dollars of dividends. ‘The principal properties being in Ashe County, remote from transportation, the Legislature of North Carolina ‘was asked to grant a special charter for mining, railroad and telegraph purpores. This charter was granted February 11, 1881, incorporating the North State Min- ing Company. Under this charter the company have acquired very valuable privileges; power to buy and sell mines and mineral lands, fo carry on the mining and reduction of ores, in all its branches; to construct railroads and telegraph lines connecting its mines with trunk lines of railroad and telegraph lines, and for the purpose of constructing said railroad and telegraph lines, it has power to issue bonds to the amount of $25,000 per mile. The capital stock of the company is $10,000,000, divided into 400,000 shares, of par valueof $25 per share. In Stanly County, 23 miles from Salisbury, on the Piedmont Air Line Road, in North Carolina, is the well- nown Crowell Gold Mine, which is well equipped and developed. ‘The estate consists of 850 acres of iand, rich and fertile soil, covered with heavy growth of timber. It has numerous veins of gold quartz upon it, and about 300 acres of auriferous gravel, which yields numerous fine nuggets and coarse gold. ‘The company also own and operate a large saw-milli n connection with the mine. In Ashe County the company have large tracts of mineral land. Among them a very valuable Copper mine, carrying gold and silver, which is a property of 350 acres, covered with heavy timber. This mine is fully equipped with modern machinery, and has already produced a large quantity of rich and valuable ore. Prorgsson Emmons, late State Geologist of North Carolina; Pror. Kerr, State Geologist of North Caro- lina; Pror. J. H. McCursxex, Mining Geologist; Watrer Hammnron, M. E.; Paor. R. M. Eawes, have made most favorable reports about this mine. They concur in the belief that it gives indication of great commercial value, and that by the character and grade of the ore, it promises to be one of the best paying Cop- per lodes in this country. When the smelting furnaces are finished the daily present yield of this mine is estimated as follows: ‘Thirty tons of ore per day; average, 20 per cent. cop- per and $40 in gold and silver per ton, will equal $3,000 per day, andaverage 300 daysto the year, will equal $900,000 gross earnings per year. When the new shaft is Gixhed, and cross-cuts are made to the vein, the ‘outpnt can easily be doubled, and by the end of the first year the mine will be earning (ore averaging as at pres- ent) over $1,800,000 per year. ‘The Soapstone quarries, Kaolin mines and Mica mines are situate about four miles from the Copper mines, on the way to the Magnetic iron ore beds. ‘The estate consists of over 1,000 acres of fertile lands, covered with a heavy growth of timber, and also in- cludes a water power of about 800 horse-power. The addition of railroad transportation is only re- quired to turn these iron mines into @ bonanzaase wealth. Pror. Kerr, State Geologist of North Carolina, re- fers to this property in his report to the State in 1875, on page 267, Vol. 1. He concludes his remarks by say- ing: ‘*This is manifestly an iron region and worthy of thorongh investigation.” The value of these magnetic iron ore beds cannot be easily estimated, at the lowest calculation there is in sight sufficient ore to last for 100 years, with an output of 360,000 tons a year. ‘The company are preparing to build a line of railroad that will counect their iron mines with the Ohio Valley; and at the same time be a trunk line from the North- west to the Southeast.* This road will be known as the CanoLixa, VIRGINIA AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD, and will connect at the most feasible point with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia, thus giving direct communication with the Ohio Valley and the Northwest, and at the same time the construction of the railroad from Jefferson to Wadesboro, will give an outlet south to the Atlantic Seaboard. Judging from the present average of ore from the Copper mine, it is estimated that DIvIDENDs to the ex- tent of Two AND ONE-HALF ($2.50) DOLLARS per share can be paid during 1882. The completion of the com- pavies’ railroad by 1883, will give a market to their valuable deposits of Macwetic Inow One, which will enable them to pay DIVIDENDS of at least Five ($5.00) DOLLAES per share. THE STOCK OF THE COMPANY CAN BE OB- TAINED THROUGH ANY REPUTABLE BROKER CONNECTED WITH THE MINING EXCHANGES, AT THE CURRENT MARKETRATES. Maps, pamphlets and full information can be obtained. at the Company's office, No. 52 Broadway, New York City. n8-t, t, &e-6t Louse: STATE LOTTERY. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION! OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. In. 1868 for twenty-five years by the Leeis- sare orEducebonal sud Cuasiisuie purpeece wis Eo $240; 000 tna Side boon aldose oe ce a By perwhelmi popular vote its franchise was made «pare of he prosent State Constitution sdopted ber 2d, A. D., ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS WILL TARE PLAGE MONTHLY, ok at the fc istribution: GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, ich wil) take place the nics GRAND MONTHLY EXTRAORDINARY SEML ANNUAL DRAWING ‘TUESDAY, thet vege) 13TH, 1881, Under the permonal management of |. G. T. BEA’ ‘ARD, of Louisiana, and GEN. SOBAL A BARE of Virginia. FINANCIAL. Fs RAILROADS. AILROAD AND MINING STOCKS Correspondent Scranton, Pa.; BR. R. Sisk & Co., Brokers, Harrisburg, Pa. nS MINT 61 BROADWAY, N.¥. TERING BAR ce berate and Gold at lowest rates of Commission in New Dooght oer Advances made and divide: cashed. = mcs se CHISOLM & OO. F YOU DESIRE TP ake ESTMENT OR SPECULA’ IN RAILROAD, MINING STOCKS: Or mi securities we transact a ceneral com- mission business, execute orders on all stocks from ten shares unwards on margins from 8 to 5 per cent, or buy and sell for cash. Block priva Correspondence or Address nl-lm PEIVATE STOCK TELEC RAPH WIRES BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORE. H. H. DODGE, Bonds, Stocks and Investment Securities Bough tend Sold on Commission, No. 639 15rx STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING, ) Agency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokers, 64 Droapwar, New Yor. Every class of Securities bought and sold on commis- sion in San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Washington. Orders executed on the ‘New York Stock Exchange at one-eighth of one per cent commission, Private and direct telegraph wires to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, through which orders are executed on the Stock Exchanges in those cities and reported back promptly. Quotations of Stocks and Bonds and information regarding the Markets received through our wires INSTANTLY 4i- rect fram the New York Stock Exchange. nl PROPOSALS. ALS FOR SUPPLIES. preres Treascny Derantaerr, BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, November 4th, 1881, Sealed Proposals will be received at this Omics until TWELVE O'CLOCK M., WE AY, DECEMBER fs TH. ASSL, for siipphes, needed by ts during the six months from January Ist to June 30th, 1882, of articles in the following classes: Dry Colors, Oils, Chemicals, Typoxraphical Inks, Textiles, Paper, Binders’ Muteriale, Dextrine. Grocers’ Suudrics, Glue and Twine, Hardware, Blank Stecl Plates and Rolls, Gas and Steam Fittings, Irou and Brass Castings, Lum ber, Horse Feed, Ice, Goal aud Wood. Blank torms for propossis on articles of any clans, with information ag to qualities, quantities and condi- fons, will furnished on appiication to ihe under: Proposals on each item will be considered separately, and preference given. $9 articiesof domsntee production or manufacture, conditions of price and quality being ity ‘As it is not convenient to store a large supply of, in'the Burean onlers ob the, sotertel bidders wi te made from time to time, aa the actual need may be de- termined. and as a rule for not less than the quantities course of busi- approval of the ‘Thore desiring blanks and information must specify on which clase of articles they are qualified. 10 as awards will be made only to established manufac- turers of or dealers in the is LRE.FIgLE to waive defects and to reject any or all bids Chict of Bureau Engraving aud Printing, nl2-Tawét Washington, BC. STEAMERS, &c. TEAMER “MATTANO” ‘ ‘I o'clock a. m. for wharf at .C RIVE LANDINGS as follows:—On Tues- days for Nomini; on Thuradays tor Brick House Land- ng Machodock Creek) and Creek on Sundays att ani x 5 mn alternate days, tou intermediate given landings and returnis at Matt Souaase and Fridays up. Ey tawoman Creek G. T. JONES, Agent. OTICE. FOR POTOMAC KIVER LANDINGS. On and after NOVEMBER 3p, 1881, the steamer ARROWSMITH will leave her whar?, foot of 7th «treet, at7a.m. every MONDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR- DAY for’ all river landings. On MONDAY as far aa Nomini HURSDAY, Nomini and Carrio- m Currionian and Leonardtown. JOHN K. WOOD, Agent. OR NORFOLK, — PORTSMOUTH, FORTRESS F MONKOE, PINEY POINT AND POINT LOOKOUT. Steamer EXCELSIOR on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS fund SATURDAYS at 5 p.m. ‘ALL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENTS, BEGIN- m NING OCTOBER lstT First-class fare to Norfolk and Fort Monroe.. Second-class fare to Fortress Monroe ani t and Point Lookout. Tickets and staterooms for sare and information tur- nished at B. W. Reed's Sons, 1216 F street northwest: 4 & O. Ticket office, 1351 Pennsylvania avenue north es Sia Rineescas, Goth Re Or ¢ jotels: HB. xt to Ci S fide; aud at Company's Oflice, #th etrect whart. GEORGE MATTINGLY, General Supt, (WM. P. WELCH, Agent. ou JNOBEOLK AND NEW YORK STEAMERS. a STEAMER LADY OF THE LAKE her wharf, foot of 6th street MONDAY, Were Pinch ister aerey ONDA: ing at Piney Point, Point Lookout and Fortress Monroe. Excursion tickets will be issued as follows: ‘ALL AND WINTER ARRANGEM. FALL AND MENCING GCTODER } Pirst-clars Fare to Fortress Monroe and Norfolk, Second-class F: Fortress Monroe a Pint clase Fare t0 Piney Point and Pout Lookout Second-class Fare to Piney Point and Point Lookout. 75 Returning, leave’ Norfolk, TUESDAYS, THURS- DAYS and SATURDAYS, at tour o'clock p.in. Tickets and staterooms can sect general 15th street; in the National Metropolitan ding, or at the office, 6th street wharf, THE NEW YORK STEAMERS | GI d E. C. IGHT leave eee ee ie Sree ere AUS ALFRED WOOD, Secretary, ona 613 15th street, opposite U. 8. Treasury. (esanp LINE. (OTICE: CUNARD. oktvene COMPANY LIMITED, BETWEEN NEW YORG AND LIVERPOOL. CALLING AT CORK FS ‘marked “do not carry teasers for expool and Queenstown and all other parts of Europe st bills of tsaen given for Belfs Brags ieee rome te Conan or Me ean For freight and passage at the Company's office, Otis MGutow's O., 605 7th street, Washington, 4 ‘VERNON H. BROWN & CO., New York; 18 BIGELOW & CO., Means. 5 rth streak, Waahingran. Orto janl2 EW YORK ROTTERDAM. SBexaxvoat VALLEY RAILEOAD, THE ONLY ROUTE TO THE CAVERNS OF LURAY. Laray and Hote! Company fied this Cosapany that they have iairoaused ELECTRIC LIGHT into the Caverns, and they are now daily illuminated by ihe sid'of thie yowentul arent NO OTHER ILLUMINATOR BEING ADEQUATE to, te the obecurities of theer vast subterrancam tabs and grotice ore property feveal thelr MAGNIFICENT ip ee nog No similar Caverns known elsewhere. Caverns have ever Uefore ieea Wuuiuaied by the aid uf deer Claret ged eee pty om pee are marseiouny tensufulaad present tothe ope eine which i heocfore unatiatnate under sen Neextra charye is made for the Mumination by the Hlectiic Light, and Guides are furnished freq, as weuake LURAY INN . will remain open at all seasons of the year, and visitors: may feol aswured of pwoouring superior abd bret-class accuMOgat ns. THROUGH TICKETS, areon rale by connecting roads. JOSEPH H. SANDS, ~ CHAS. P. HATCH, "iagortown, Ba. oo Vuiiadeip hin a BAU NORE AND O1TO RAILROAD. THE MODEL FAST LINE AND THE ONLY LINR THE PAST AND THE WE=[, VIA WASHINGTON, DOUBLE TRACK! COUPLER! STEEL JANE Ral SCHEDULE TO TAGE EFFECT SUNDAY, MAY 22, an A. M. LEAVE WASHINGTON. 1320-CHIOAGS. CINCINSATL AND ST, LOUIS uss. Uinorr, Kloot City, amd Way Stations, Baltimore, A ie ‘and nd (Piediuomt, ore ange Strasburg, Winchester, Hagerstowny and Wa}. Vin of Rocks and Way Stations. SEPIA, NEW VORR AND BOSTON Var o New York. NION AND VALLEY EXPRESS (oon- eo ; Ragensiown snd at Poiut of Rocky for 39:00 On ‘Sunday only, for Baltimore, Annapolis and 10:00- FAL TIMORE EXPRESS (stops at Hyntievita exe ee (ioe — Annapolis Junckon, fd Hanover. BUMG, CHICAGO, CINCINNATI AND Is EXPRESS. tious. 1:25—Ou Sunday only, for Baltimore and Way. Pe SALT NOE Ere y 1500 -BALTIMOIL PHILADELPHIA AND NEW nce and Way Stations, (Winehester, Bred- ‘erick, Hagerstown and Way, via Relay.) B0—BALTINOKE, HYATTSVILLE AND LAUREL EAI KESS, (Frederick, via Helay, elope at Aunap= ck, , Wins (hu Sunday to oe y Stations. ( Murtiosbune and tteville and Laurel.) 1 Way Stanonn. aud Way Stations. KE, HYATTSVILLE AND LAUREL . CINCINNATI and ST. LOUIS *HIA, NEW YORK and BOSTON AVATISVILLE and LAUREL 4 eon sytnal or to ietofl passemrers tion between Washington and’ Aunapoda Sundays only. Other trains daily, exonps All trains from Washington stop at Relay Station. Por further information appy. st the paltry ang Sc et Ufice, Washington Station and. adie! L mt ™ nsyivania avenue, corner l4th street, will be taken for baggage to be checked and reosi ved, GREAT any poiut in the city. 23 . THE PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE. 1881 NOkIM, W SOUTHW EL 8. Sleep in TIMOR at any # Juncti +Daily. Ni IN Ei FECT NOVEM 7. BSL. - vol Mirth and B etsects as Tollowe ixth and a 4 For Sud the West Chicaco. Limited Fs press of Pallinau Hotel and Sleeping Care at 8: s-m., daily: 10 20 a.m, daily, bg hy —— isbune neintat Cuicaco: 9:30 pm. daily, with’ Palace » ure. BALIIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. For Canandaixua, Rochester. Buf iawara, at a.m. daily, except: Sum cent Saturday, with Palace and Watkins. For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elmira, at 10:30 10:00 and etre | 41048 pan, On Bun an mn 3025 p.m. Limited Sent Sunday. 8:00, 1 id. 10:15 p.m. For Pope's Crevk Line, 6:40 a.mand 4:40 p.m. daily, except Sunday. Anuapolis, 6:40 a.m. and 6:40 p.m. daily, except Sunday. ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RATLWA AND ALLXANDIGA AND WASHINGLOM and 11:30 a.m... 4 8) rau On Bunday ‘and #30 pom. Bout 6s i 200 pin, daily, except Sunday Jeave Alexandria for Wakhington, 6:00, 8:05 and 00 a.m. : 1:10, ‘00, 6:0, 7400 and 9:10 00 midnicht. On ‘Sunday at 8:05 m. m. 10: 200 and 9:05, fice, northeast aud RAILROAD. For Alexandria, 6 6:00, 6.20, 8:20 a.m. x o(isbcen al eae rs SS E ‘and Pennsylvaniaavenue, where orders can be left for the checking of baggage destination from hotels and residences FRANK THOMSON, Geneial Manucer Moras MEDICAL, &e. 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