Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1883, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: - WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1883—DOUBLE SHEET. So Bia GRIGHT FANCIES OF THE POETS. HOME MATTERS. FROGS AS A TASLE DELIcacy. | THE LONELINESS OF ROYALTY, May Omens and Superstitions. 5 : oD ’ [Written for Tux Evesrso Sran. Sumday-Schoe! Anniversary Hymna. = BY GEORGE KENT. ‘We greet again this festal day, ‘Reflecting brightiy Heaven’s own ray; And, 83 our volces raise the song, Our hearts the grateful praise proiong. For the rich treasures of Thy Grace— Our “ covert,” and our “niding-piace,” From storms of sin, and sorrow’s strife— + We praise Thee, bounteous Lord of Life. We praise Thee, Lonp, for Thy dear Son, In whom Thy children all are one; As Thou in Him, and He in Thee, Be our communion large and free. We praise Thee for Thy Holy Word, Frota whose blest truths we know the Lord; By which our souls are upward led, To Cunusr, our living, loving head. ‘Through Thy blest Srrarr we confess “The Lord our strength and righteousneas”— © The way, the Trath, the Life” divine— O, makes us ever whclty thine. ‘Wastinetox, May 12, 1843, S Written for Tue Evextse Stan. Bird-Sonz. (THE WwooD-THKUSH.) In the Summer-time ts hear!— “Eolt\—Eouel” Orer and o'er, this single word, ‘Little song of Meth: bird— Love-song, if I have not erred— 7 2 “Eoltet” Lonely longs he, deeply stirred, 3 #0 clear, 30 suft sings he— “Eolie—Eoliel” As be sings with flute-Iiko trill— “Eotie—Eoliet” Lists the alr, grown hushed and still; Listens in the vale the rill; ‘Liat the trees on plain and nit— “Kollel And his notes the wild-ficwers thrill, And s0 clear, so soft sings he— “Eolte—Eolte!””_ Long he calls his sweetheart dear— 5 “Eotie—Eoltet™ ‘Where ts she?—afar, or near?— ‘She fs dead, I sometimes fear, Nevermore his song will bear— “Boltet” Seems It “a melodious tear,” 48 s0 clear, so soft sings he— “Eolie—Eoliel” AsT hear at close of day— : “Eoite—Eolie!” Memories of a lovely May, Loved and ioving, far away, Chiming, mingle with the Liy— 5 “Bolte!” “Where is she,” I, sighing, say, AS 90 clear, 30 soft sings he— he ail ‘The maid I write hath curis by fairies spun From sheen of satin and from gitnt of sun; For color shz hath robbed the veiled moss rose, And from the Illy stolen its graceful pose. ‘The violets bave paid tribute to her eyes, ‘The sunshine siniled in them from morning skies. 4 ‘The round red lips are tremulous with feeling r ‘Which seems for tenderest love forev’r appealing; ‘The dimpied chin so round and white and small Would sure have tempted “Adam” ‘fore his fall. O! couid I catch the tint of flower and shell, Or hold the music of the chiming bell, Or prison the shimmering light of evening’s star, ‘Yet trom my task would I be just as far Of picturing the tender modest grace ‘The saintly beauty of this fair one’s face. ‘Thts dainty mat. In years is only four, But ab! beware when twelve are added more. —Mas. H. Mrrzozn. Waaitncton, May, 1883. ————_~--—____ (Written For Tax EvExine Stan. Dewdrops. Sparkling lttle drops of dew Glistening on the opening flowers, Making them so bright and new As they wake from midnignt hours,— ‘Nevergems of sparkling light, In the crown of king or queen, an compare with dews of night As the sunbeam’s silvery sheen Comes, with morniog’s sweetest breath, ‘Toawake the slumbering flowers Fresh trom sleep, which 1s not death, But a rest from waking hours, Dewdrops sweet are nature’s gems, ‘Tears of night in silence given— ‘Taken from iove’s diadem, Loaned to earth from shining Heaven. uns. 2... ‘The Ship of Fortanc. ‘My ship, she sails a shifting sea; I know not what her fortunes be, Bebind my latticed window-bars Aiwatch at Ln ong the flouting stars, And cradled by the rolling sea stient hamlet lies; My fretghtea shty perchance the gale Bives pattie to her Swelling, Her heaving charger meets the blow And plunges punting back; The current swims beueaca her keel, And !n the foaming flood below The waters cirele Diack! ‘Or yet a thousand leagues from shore, ‘Phe red flames eat her to the core; She icaps im all her blazoned gold a the hissing tide— ‘Her quenchiess jewels sink in slime— ag pt og terre ag al And rusbing thru’ empty hold ‘The ocean claims the bride. > you followed Ah, friend! too long footsteps of the year the meitiag: Day, ‘The Suppression From the New York Sun, Said Winter to Summer: “Tis quite cléar to me See = gaa season ca! > YO Is one with ‘which all ere disgusted. ma “Her vanity’s something immense, and Ler wiles Are wanton, deceitful, and fickle; farmer who trusts to the creatures false smiles ‘Will find himscif soon in 4 pickle, That she ts a biot on Nature’s fair plan Spring poet.” ages Os eee But cannot be always forgiving. “To a that wicked young creature is ‘When her tetnper can never be And what mountains of song. in her ‘When she ought to be—yes, sir—be bus’ted!” Said Winter: “There need be no quarrel or fight; nd tans wo can sgeccte tet ton ids of hex quite, And silently, 7+ Suppress ber, “When is decent! it-of "We ewe will no more be devideas* N° "97> you shall take May, are ‘Then I will take March, and And let April be fairly divided.’ “Fhe Bad Boys of Rocky Springs. ‘From the Port Gibson Reveille, - Some bad boys in Rocky Springs, Claiporne ecunty, captured a buzzard the other night and tying a lighted turpentine ball to it turned it nese. Toned the beet of scaring the life out of all who saw it, the people imagining it was a meteor from the heavens that was to destroy the world. CONCERNING TABLE-CLOTHS—HINTS TO ARTISTIC YOUNG LADIES— HOUSE DECOKATIONS— coop COOKING RECIPES. APretry Beavine for the top ofa muslin curtain is made by hemming each edge of a strip of muslin and gathering it In two places’so that there shall be a puff in the center and a ruffle on each edjr Wuew Bryiva tin covers for kettles be sure that they have rings of wire on the top, instead of flat handles soldered on, as these will not last any perceptible lenzth of time, and the cover must then be thrown aside. In Ptace of the old-time stair rod to hold the stair carpet In place. a pretty and equally effec- tive way is to fasten securely down with brass pina with round, flatheads. They are new and successfal.and are not open to the objection that they will nog tit any or all stairs. A SUITABLE CovERING for Uae home-made cor- nice of anpainted wood is made of the wide- fringed border that is used for the edge of burlap mats. The fizures in.some of the border are of blue or searlet; if you cannot procure this you eaa work the outlines of the fizures. with single zephyr of any color youplease. A Licut and very delicate pudding is made by beating six tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with six exza, ahalt a teaspoonful of salt, a quart and a pint ofsweet milk, sugar and ilavoring to sult your taste. Heat the 1 and then stir the cornstarch, ete.. gradualiy in. It is quickly made. and if served with vanilla flavored cream Is delicious. : To Parevest MotH Ravaces.—A boiling s0- lution of sulphate of copper applied to a floor before laying a carpet will keep away moths. For outside coverings of furniture, especially of wool, a solution of corrosive sablimate dis- solved in colorless alcohol. can be use without fear of discoloration, and is a certain extermin- ator of these pests. Ruvepars Pies are much improved if baked in & very slow oven. If great care is taken in wet- ting the edges of the crust and pressing them together, the riubarb need not first be stewed, but may be put raw in the crast. Ifa little four is mixed with the sugar used in the pies, it will thicken the juice and keep it from running out over the top of the ple. Cxow Cuow.—One quart large cucumbers, one quart sinall cucumbers, two quarts onions, four beads cauliflower, six green peppers, one quart green tomatoes, one gallon vinegar, one pound mustard, two cups sugar, twe cups flour, one ounce tumeric. Put all in salt and water one night; cook all the vegetables in brine until tender, except the cucumbers. Pour vinegar and spices over. Sabine Toast.—Divide some sardines length wise, removing skin, bones and tails; add a little of the oil from the tin and put into the ‘oven between two plates, letting them get quite hot. Take some thin strips of bread the exact length of the sardines, fry them in butter, pat half a sardine on each slice, sprinkle on Fo Spee pepper and salt and a squeeze of lemon Juice, and serve very hot. Om. oF PEPPERMINT IN NEURALGIA.—Dr. Meredith, in the Birmingham Medical Review, recommends oil of peppermint as an external plication for allaying the neuralgic pain so nm complained of in eases ot Herpes zoster. He has used it with great rehef to the patient even when the eruption was out in a fresh florid condition. He thinks that the value of this remedy in relieving neuralgic pain deserves } to be better known. Apricot Prppine is made inthe form ofa Toly-poly. Makea crust as for baking-powder biseult, then, after soaking and stewing the dried apricots, spread them thickly over the crust; roil it up. and steam it for an hour; before soaking the apricots, wash them; do this as quickly as ‘ible; then the water you pour over may be kept, as much of the sweetness and flavor will be soaked out. Restoring VeLvet.—It is not always con- venient to hold a bulky piece of velvet over a tea kettle when the pile has been flattened by shop wear or by water is. An easier way is to wet a towel thoroughly and fold it over a hot fron. Hold the iron, wrapped in_ this way, di- rectly over the spotted part of the velvet, so that the steam will reach that part. Do not let the iron touch the velvet, as it is only the steam that is wanted to lift the matted pile. Porato Frrrrzrs.—One pint of boiled and mashed potato, haifa cupful of hot milk, three tablespoonfuls of butter, three of sugar, two eggs, a little nutmeg, one teaspoonful of salt. Add the milk, butter, sugar and seasoning to the mashed potato, and then add the eggs well beaten. Stir until very smooth and licht. Spread about halfaninch deep on a buttered dish, and set away to cool. When cold cut into squares. Dip in beaten egg and in bread crumbs, and fry brown in boiling fat. Serve immediately.—From Miss Parloa's Cook Book. Geneva Warers.—Well whisk two eggs; put them into a bowl and stir to them three ounces of butter, which must be beaten to a cream; add three ounces of flour and sifted sugar grad- ually, and then mix all well together. Butter a baking-sheet, and drop on it a teaspoonful of the mixture at a time, leaving a space between each. Bake in a cool oven; watch the pieces of paste, and when half done roll them up like wafers, and put ina small wedge of bread or piece of wood to keep them in shape; place them in the oven again until crisp. Betore serving remove the bread, put aspoonful of pre- serves in the widest end, and fll up with whipped cream. Drawn Worx is carried to an extent and a beauty in Persia that has rarely been attained by any European needle-woman. Not only are the borders to pieces of fine linen or muslin drawn out in the familiar squares of European work, but complicated designs are attempted, and the various parts of the material drawn away so as to form regular patterns. On a piece of muslin in the South Kensington museum a Vandyke border is formed by alternately draw- ing away a section and form! It into minute juares, each square being button-holed over with colored silka, and leaving section and covering that with silk embroidery, while the center of the muslin is filled with a round of drawn work, edged with pots containing flowers made with many-colored silks.—New York Times. ApouT THE TaBLE-CLoTH.—In spite of the attempt to introduce color into the table-cloth, preference in the highest circles is still given to the fine white damask. The newest designs for these are in arabesques, Landseer’s game birds, sunflowers and lilies. The grounds are well covered, and there Is a double border, the inside one lying on the table. White table-cloths, with col borders and with borders done in out- line stitch in colored cottons, are used for 5 o'clock teas aud for luncheon. Napkins come to match every cloth in three sizes—the large French serviette, the three-quarter rapkin and the small size for fruit or dessert. is served with colored napkins, consideration for the hostess calis for the use of these instead of the fine white damask dinner napkin. Thick canton flannel cloths are used on the table under the damask. ‘They serve to deaden all sound of rattling china or giass and also when set down carelessly by shall fit with trre- hable smoothness and be a part of the le itself.— Philadelphia Press, Maxy Artistic Youne Lapres are tryligg the experiment of the imitation falence of raised china work, which is easy to do and quite effec- tive when completed. Of course, like every- thing else, the more pains is taken the more satii 2 Be result. To begin with, the y be done either on china, pottery, or wood. On wood the flowers are best raised with putty, on china with plaster of Paris, and on pottery with sheets of gutta-percha. The Jar ig first painted all .over in cil colors, beginning at the top with some light shade; for instance, a creamy brown, develop- gage green, and ym that into darkest Vandyke. It is considered best to put the paint on with the pallet knife in dots, thus making it the more to resemble the original article. When the paint has dried, a small piece of putty or plaster of Paris is formed as near a3 ble to the shape of the leaf you wish to copy. This is laid on the jar and raised ‘up soasto make it stand off as much as possible; the flower or leaf mould is then pressed upon the plaster, and each leaf and is put on separately. Atter these are adjusted, the edges are ralsed a little and trimmed with alittle Be When perfectly dry the blossoms and foliage must be carefully painted their natural colors, and the jar and flowers varnished all over with copal varnish.—WV. ¥. Post. gg How Sparrows Destroy Fruit. From the Lancaster New Era, Of their propensity to eat the opening pear buds we can speak from abundant observation and knowledge. Not once, but scores of times have we sat and watched them, hardly ten feet distant, cut off the tips of the swelling buds'and eat them, while many others were cast upon the ground. None of the buds thus attacked set. A New Trade That Has Sprung Up in| The Isolation of the Woman at the the States Down East. From the Bo ton Post. Within the past few years the demand for frogs as an article of food has steadily increased, and many people to-day rate’ frog legs very highly asa table delicacy. Many of these per- sons a few years ago would haye hesitated for some time before accepting the delicious ba- trachiana in their bill of fare. Within the past winter this demand haa been with difficulty met, and from all appearances the coming cea- son will be @ very prosperous and profitable one for the trog*dealers. The catching secson has already opened, and Mr. J. M. Beck, the largest dealer in the state and prebably in the has engaged nearly one hundred men » veveral New England states to catch for him the coming season, and he estimates that id this summer will be double that of the last year. Many hotels that formerly had frogs only during the summer sre now making contracts for them the year round. An attempt was made last summer to send Jive frogs to England, and the first attempt was watched with considerable interest, as it was doubtful if the attempt would result success- fully. The frogs were properly selected and special attention was given to their care and feeding during the long sea voyage. The firet lot of animals sent arrived in England in the best of condition, having stood the voyage remarkably well, and the mortality was very slight. During the summer several other .at- tempts were made, and the results of all were perfectly successful. ‘These lots were designed for hoxpitals, and were sent on special orders for surgical experiments. Some were dressed and eaten, and a demand in a small way was immediately started. The green frog, or, as he is generally known, the bull frog, Is not a native ot England, and it is now desired to introduce and propagate him in sufficient num- bers, so that they can be used for food. To this end a novel bobote it will be made next month to send to England the spawn of the bull frog to stock a pond and rear the frogs in Englileh waters. — A New Cure for Baiking Horses, A new cure has been disco. ered for balking and cribbing horses by the application of elec- tricity, A gentieman of Baltimore county, Md., who has a horse subject to balking, placed an electric battery, with an induction coil, in bis buggy, and ran the wires to the horse's bit and crupper, and, as soon as the horse came to a standstill, the current was turned on, and after the horse was relieved of his shock he proceeded without showing any disposition whatever to balk. The same application was successfully made to a horse which indulged in cribbing, whereof he was svon cured through the unpleas- antness of the eiectric shock. Dee Poe Conkling im the Metropolis. Letter in the Commercial Gazette. Ex-Senator Conkling 1s still a noticeable fig- ure in New York. . These warm May afternoons, when the avenues are filled with crowds of tash- lonably dressed people, Mr. Conkling often may be seen walking np town from his office, with a law book under his arm, his long, heavy over- coat, buttoned closely about the waist and opened across the breast, in a way that gives him a pecaliarly pores up appearance. I no- ticed him at the Brunswick to-night eating bis dinner, solitary and alone. His hair and beard have almost entirely whitened in the past year, and there is « perceptible increase in his welght, gained at a serious logs to his figare. He dines at the Brunswick regularly, and is often accom- panied by one or two young men, who seem to sit and sip in admiration of this patron. Mr. Conkting still seems to command attention. He would probably die without it. When he rises from dinner the attendant naturally takes down Mr. Conkling’s coat prepared to assist him in donning it. If Mr. Conkling happens to be reading a newspaper the walter must hold the coat until Mr. Conkling finishes the paragraph. In the meanwhile the eyes of half the people in the room being on the ex-Senator he quietly folds bis paper and relieves the patient waiter of his burden. By this time Mr. Conkling is ready to leave his table, and he lows slowly down the long dining room, bowing to such of his ac- qualotances as are present and departs. The common humanity resumes its mutton. Practical Hints Abont Glawes, ‘From Medical Herald. Persons finding their eyes becoming dry and itching on reading, as well as those who find it necessary to placepan object nearer than fourteen inches from their face to read, need spectacles. Persons under forty years of age should not wear glasses until the accommodating power of the eyes has been suspended and the exact state of refraction determined by a competent opthalmic con. ddlers and by The spectacle glasses sold by some jewelers severally ate mtful to the eyes of those who read much, as the lenses are made of inferior sheet glass and are not sym- metrically ground. ° No matter how perfectly the lenses may be made, unless tl are mounted in a suitable frame and ly placed before the eye, dis~ comfort will arise from their prolonged use. ‘There are three systems of, ing spectacle lenses, the English, the metric and the Prus- sian. Those made to supply the demands of the trade in this country are carelessly made and are poor imitations of either the English or the metrical systems. The metrical scale no English equivalent, is not graded by any uni- form rale of dividing the inter-focal spaces, and is therefore unsulted to the exacting demands of sclence. : Persons holding objects too near the face en- danger the safety of thelr eyes and incur the risk of becoming near-sighted. The near-sighted eye is an unsound eye, and should be fully corrected with a glass, notwith- standing the fact it may need no aid for read- Ing. The proper time to begin wearing glasses is just as soon as the eyes tire on being subjected 0 prolonged use. void all dealers who advertise testimonials of skill which thelr work should display. All ignorant pretenders to scientific know- ledge are apt to announce themselves with testl- moniala of their pretended skill. —_—_—~e-_____ An Imperial Hunter. From ths Cornhill Magazine. There ig one rifle, at least, among the crowned heads of Europe who might easily “give points” to some of the best among us. Francis Joseph of Austria has been prematurely aged by his troubles. Latterly he has always looked much older than his years, but we fancy he would have broken down altogether had it not been for his ardent devotion to the chase. He is happler on the mountains than his consort in the huntiag field, and, overburdened as he has been with the anxieties of state, he has never missed an op- portunity for a flying shooting trip. Ischl is perhaps the place of his predilection, and there is no more enchanting bath in all the hill coun- try of Zurope, but the Styrian mountains have their regular turn in his sporting progresses; not unfrequently, like Budolph. his son and heir, he follows the famous of the Carpathians; norhave his Magyar subjects in the hunting grounds of lower Hungary any reason to com- plain of neglect. Nor is the shooting of the Al emperor light amateur work by any means, when he has flung court ceremonial fairly behind him. He rises early, tolls like any mountain-bred professional chamois hunter, and his spare and sinewy form shows the severity of the training. Perhaps no man in the world, his Bavarian nelghbor not excepted, can boast of more mag- nificent preserves. The Vere picturesqueness of the wildest of our highland deer forest is magnified indefinitely, and the ground often falls from almost inaccessible snow pans through a Jumble of eee and snow slopes, lakes and cataracts, to the fir woods and the “‘Alps” of the lower levels. The round of one autumn day may offer every variation of tem- ‘rature, from icy hailstorms to scorching heat. ircumyenting the chamois from the ice-bound latitudes above them, you may be caught in a falling veil of mist that shrouds the barely prac- ticable tracks, where only the hunter's.eye can distinguish & possible foothold. Then there may be nothing for it but to walt till the cloud shall lift or its shadows lighten, and then in a mo- ment the fog may thin as by enchantment, leay- ing everything above and below bathed in.a flood of'sunshine, with possibly a group of. ‘ols within shot, as mach surprised as your- self at the sudden transformation scene. Per- haps the most enchanting chamois preserves in Europe are those in Bavaria, overhanging the deep waters of the Konigeee, and the electors and i of the house or ‘Wittelabach. were wont to be arace of hunters. But the present King, as everybody knows, has gone Wacner- mad, preferring the scraping of his fiddle etrings to the snap of the rifie locks, and trying costly experimenta with the iy Susceptibilities of his sub- Head of an Empire. From the London Spectator. The Queen has survived not only her husband, but almost all relatives of her own time, all ber earlier political friends, and an entire group of closely attached dependants, like’ Sir C. Phipps, Sir Arthur Helps, and many another less known tothe general world. Thefe is np one living who could address her by:her Christian name, or, indeed, on any terms of equality; while all her children but one are married, scattered, im- mersed in business and households of their own. It isalonely peak to sit on, at the top of the world, and as age draws on the sovereign, who already reigned go long that men passing middle age have consciously known no other, must feel this more and more painfully, with a sadness inet the movement of the world does not di- minish, The Queen has had no misfortunes such as have afilicted many of her predecessors, no loss of subjects like George [1I., no loss of public honor like George IV.; but she has to bear the burden of an ever-increasing pressure of inter- ests, Incidents, movements of mankind, of all which she must to herself seem the center. Nothing eventful can happen in the world which is not in some way or other borne in ney on the Queen. The special feature of the age, the new complexity of life arising from rapi communication, began shortly betore her acces- sion—Hoskisson was killed in 1880—and from that moment to this affairs must have seemed to —preas in ever-increasing volume upon her, as if the very atmosphere had grown more weighty. Imagine what the tele- graph alone has been tu theQueen. To feel imperative duties increasing, and strength de- caying, and life growing more and more lonel is a sad position for any one; but what must be to a sovereign who receives every day evi- dence that slie is one of the central figures of the world, who hears on Monday that all Amer- ica is glad beeause the report of an accident to her had proved exaggerated, on Tuesday that an Indian tribe has eee hee her as goddess, on Wednesday that her daughter, one day to be Empress of Germany, has celebrated her silver wedding with princes for truin bearers, on Badh i that-a plot has been discovered which renders doubled watchfiilness necessary round Windsor? It is a strange position, one not to be de- sired; and, remember, It must be judged not from the constitutional point of view that the Queen only accepts advice, but from her owa point of view that the Queen, after taking ad- vice, gives l@r own commands. No monarch ever yet aes lost the feeling that, in some in- describable way, he was himself in some special degree, responsible for the welfare of his peo- ple, and in that responsibility alone, be it as ‘unreal as it may—and Englishmen often under- rate the Queen's direct influence on affairs—is a burden which, to a lonely woman, long experi- ence can only make the heavier. Experience teaches us what to do, but teaches also how ‘useless the doing often Is. We are no devotees of monarchy, gravely holding self-government to be more educative and more dignified; but there bas never been in history a reign like that. of Queen Victoria, who, surrounded by an im- penetrable etiquette, breaks it to tell her peo- le that devotion, even in the humblest of fol- lowers, has roused in her “real friendship.” Republicanism in England sleeps, and will sleep while the Queen reigns. Is there not in that mere truism a sufficient biography? Se ee + & New Dodge iu Advertising. One of the curious sights presented by the streets of New York was to be seen the other day In the appearance on a Madison Square cor- ner of a woman dressed in the deep mourning of a widow, who, standing there as the crowd swept by, handed out circulars to'the afternoon multitudes. She had a gently woful face that seemed to express the logs, not only of a hus- band, but of ali her other relatives; and her Manner was correspondingly subdued. Her garb was fashionably correct, and of excellent texture. Her bonnet was a small eapote of dou- ble English crape, the crown pleated, and the small brim composed of two little puffings, be- yond which was a pleating, of three strands of crape.. There was no ornament or trimming of any kind. The dress was ef fine Henrietta cloth, with deep border and close paniers of crape. The bodice was finished with a collar, which also formed a vest of crape, laid in fine folds. All this betokened the first three months of widowhood, for fashion is very exact in prescribing rules for mourning. This youre woman was, therefore; an instructive ex- hibit. She attracted a great deal of attention, of course, and her circulars were taken as fast as she could hand tliem out. They conve; the Information that a story entitled,‘'A Wedded. Widow,” was to be published in a weekly fiction paper. ’ This advertising device will no doubt pay the publisher well, though I shold say that the wages ot the mock widow would have to be very high, The streets are full of men and boys offering cards and handbilla, but these must ee something attractive to the eye, and there- fore expensive to get up, or_experienced shop- pers will not avcept them. But the young wo- man in black had no difficulty in distributing rapidly. Besides, she was good looking oroagn to suggest the heroine of the story which she advertised, and so tempt people to read it. boiler et anak Mexicau Traits in New Mexico. Most of the arable land between San Marcial and Rincon has been already entered durjng the last year by enterprising Americans, but there is considerable yet subject to entry at points north of San Marcial and between Rincon and El Paso. Then also throughout the territory upon the Pecos, Canadian, Mimbres, Gila and other rivers are scattered valleys which by irrigation would be richly fertile and productive. The raising of poultry isan industry which ie almost wholly neglected in@Vew Mexico, and which would be greatly profitable. Chickens rarel: being less than seventy-five cents each, eggs fifty cents dozen. There is one small chicken ranch at Pinos Altos, near Silver City, and I do not know of another in the Terri- tory. Iused to wonder why the constitation- ally weary Mexicans dig not engage in this sim- ple and easy avocation, but found that the ne- cessity of building places to guard them at night from the cratty foxes and coyotes was too much for their small energy to undertake. It the Almighty ever created a lazier creature than From Harper's Bazar. The celebration of the 1st of May, and the great a hold upon the peasantry of England, | {or ““ADvmarisz> Scotland, and Ireland of to-day as they exer- clsed generations ago, and although the | tthe Dead Letter Ontice. average American—or rather New Yorker—| ji... Man le Spe “FIXE MILLINERY GooDs" devotes it to moving. cur foreign populations | Addisoy bis ‘Mre ‘ever displayed in this Bpccial attention given: have introduced and kept up many old customs | A0‘d Mise HineLaare all orders. inl ie which they were wont to observe at home, and Brown Emma Long Lizzie B many a May bough will be found on the ist of Bisa docephine Tapeeee Mar Mu. J. P. Pio, mid nalled to the front door to please the | ReAcd Maria ems. IMPORTER OF FasHION. les. jou 7 joters: Tt has alo become, in spite of the hard | Biolscs mats Moy Sure, 07 F STREET NORTHWEST, things said about it, a month in whictto marry. | Buchanan Sophis —- FIRST REGULAR BUMMER OPENING OF Plutarch gave three reasons for a May marriage | Batley Surah Malbly L cas PARIS AND ] not being satisfactory. The first and most | Baliey Sarah Bignt Linnie LONDON SSTLaR, Important was that May being between April, | Blewkmore 5 E Mrs Sethe Oaiver Mrs ON THURSDAY, MAY 20re, which is consecrated to Venus, and June, which | Gon» Annie ‘Martin xedie is sacred to Juno, and both these deities being | Clark CU Mrs Emme, held propitious to marriage, they were not to | Gostmey Hllen | ees be slighted. In Scotland It is believed that all | GonmorGrace Punect Mary the children born of a May marriage will die | Copeland Lissie Spott young, but that an engagement made In May is oes a Sa sure to be a happy and alasting one. Cunningham Mag Rogers Emma May-day ie as much a lovers’ day as the 14th | Crompton Martha Ritter Eetilde of/February, and May puddings, May dreams, Ty eee May boughs, and May wishes under the you: Durant Calla oreo Amelia May moon are as firmly believed in and as much | Duke J M Mrs Séwall B Mrs Sought aiter as St. Valentine's or Halloween | Dachig Migs per pho peed Encox Anna Bmith Della ‘in the Highlands an oat-cake is baked,and the | Elexandris Bettie Smith 5 high-priest of the-ceremony breaks off’ certain | }merson Mary pleces. Some of them he throws juto the fire | ¥or ‘Lita ‘Small Elise which has been kindled in the yard or on the | Goowall Amelia hegil Funnie green, with these words: “This I give, © Boal; | Green Ann se Mento Preserve my horses; this give, O Boal; pre- | Gooley lac ‘Smith Matiide serve my kine,” and soon. Then he throws | Gaillard Minnie ‘Mary Agnes }some into the air, saying, “This I giveth pee sate po hoe Fox; spare my lambs; this to thee, O Hi Hil anute Fryioy Gtberine Crow; this to thee, O Eagle.” Harcourt Ele ECM In County Cork and in some of the counties of | Httentuvasun™ 2 ghompeon Xd Connaught and Ulster, Ireland, May bonfires | Hudsu 3 6 at are still lit, and all over Ireland a small fire is lit | Holmes Lisa Faylor Mary 0 in the milking yard, and men, women, children, | Hope Maria Pay and cattle are made to pass through it as a Hatlogn Mekhew Mre Tucker Willie ventive against sickness or the evil eye, it | Herett Mrs é aie ee m3 is not unfrequent to sec a fire kindled at the | Henderson Miss we front door of each little cabin at sunset, May-day, | Hogans s itherson ner to keep offevil. This custom prevails to some jacuson Anna Wilts Geo extent among the shanty-dwellers on Manhat- | Jonne2m Altos, ~ Flee Jordon Lizzie B Williams a On no account will an Irishman or @ Scotch jn Worton Mary: Highlander allow a bit of fire or water to be | jo4nscu ee cry, taken from his home on New Year or May day, | Kine Wm H Mrs ‘Watts Susan but he will do his best to borrow from any one GENTLEMEN'S LisT. that he wishes to get the better of during the Anpenis King U8 Com'r year. ar muons Amongst the girls the greatest rivalry prevatis | {msyong. pees as to who shall draw the first pail of water on Andersqn ‘Kilgore Hilton May morning, and in any. New York home | Alp Wms cece where Irish help is employed it may be noticed Butier Benj Kramer Lewis B that the girls are always up bright and on den Chas ‘Lawyer apd Heaver this day, for the first up will be first married. | BudCC ene The first person entering a house is always Ballou Ltk B ‘Prof A asked to ‘take a dash,” orto help dosome trifle, | Boohm & EB to show good will and friendship. pew oS ceed Any anxiety on the part of the housewife to | pemou.Ge ‘Levi discover {f there will be an Increase or decrease | Butler Jeremiah Meceall Lowettya, in the family can be satisfied if she will on May- saa pioore sees sprinkle ft with fie ashes, Stia ine morten ual 2 8] le it wi ine ashes. in the morni Sam z McKean F there should be a foot-priat pointing toward | Bras Spencer Monarchy Geo, the door, then some one will leave home; if the | Bowman ‘Thomas MoQuire Kobt other way, there will be an addition to the fam- | Britton WH eal WB iy circle; if it is just as she left it, then all will | Btden Wm & Co remain so. z lose Tey Chas ee In the north, if a young girl wishes to dream | Cooke E B* of her future husband, she must go late on May- | bes, W pies eve to a black sally-tree and pluck therefrom | Conkling W Capt H nine sprigs, the last of which she throws over | Clarke Jas. A Bayne. her right shoulder; the remaining eight must be | Chandier Jchm Procien stephen 3 put Into the foot of her right stocking, then | Game Wat wi she must place it under her pillow, and her faith | Donolue Bernard Pook Wate F being strong, ehe will ina see her future | Dict Co wrea’k Sw husband. Devidecn Hector Recor Geo K Still another mode of obtaining the same | Duan John B Robinson Hon HO knowledge consists in going after sunset on ; Eixinton Jove Ae ee ore May-eve to a bank on which yarrow is growing beck Wim Robbs A plentifully and gathering therefrom nine Sprigs | Erey Abram Boden & of the plant; while gathering it she repeats ee = tollowing: "5 Fellows 86 av “Good-morrow, good-morrow, fair yarrow, _| Fisher 3. W gia Bon 3 And thrice good-morrow to thee! @ DB ‘Capts Come, tell me before to-morrow Davie @ Shoes + Who my true-love shall be.” Grayer Joho. Siney Prof The yarrow Is brought home, put into the right | S==3&F ¢D i pd stocking, placed under the pillow, and the mys- | Haitmueilen Aug cao Se tic dream Is eure to come; but should the girl | Hunt et Spots she has pulled the yarrow the charm Hess Ferdinand R2 qhomeen z is broken. 3 Among the Yorkshire girls a custom prevails | Hall¥rank. oo Wesots Chae D of gotng to a nelghboring well and dropping a | Heros Se Warren Fred noggin or small tin bucket while repeating the | Hoffman Prot Jno Wariden Geo name of their lover. It must be left there all | He1per J Newton yon Seow night. If in the morning it Is still foating it is | Hares Webb Henry B alucky sign; but if it has sunk, then she need | Howard 8 F Welch Jno & look nor wait no longer for him. In the south- | Hobbs 7M weeps ern states the snail charm is resorted to. The | Hall W Kent” ‘Wilech Pleasant =~ little animal that is here pressed into service is Wing Word & @ not ne box snail but ee | and | frying Chas eee . shot iscovered accidentally. When found | Judson cK ‘Wison Thomas it must be placed between two plates, on one of | James Kobt Young Wa'C which is sprinkled flour—the other is used to | .. Z ; cover it—and left all night; next morning the | ““Abel’s Park’ maid seeks to discover the initial of her secret | 1I8T OF LETTERS REMAINING IN EAST. lover's name in the slimy track left by the snail. CAPITOL STATION, But Scoteh lassies think the surest way to dle: oe ak ee Gover the coming lover Isto search the pudding, Ae LADIES" LIST. 5 or bread pudding ts prepared, into which pom ase Anais, Hayden Miss a oy aR COUNT OF | Js dropped a ring, a button, anda thimble, and | 32°28 rod =e used for the sale of and also a piece of money. The ring, you will be | Pad ie Bae Loonie Mics sarah Secceuey, Soe eS ‘ married; the button, you will mi an old | Zewret Milde ure a the sale of bachelor; the thimble, you will are; and if you get the money, why, luck will come to you. The May dew, as petciiar virtues, but Eevee for the irish touchingly descril “May Dew” lovers, Beni Periloy Poore’s Friends. Major Ben: Perley Poore is over 62, while his friend, Senator Anthony, is 68, writes @ Waah- ington correspondent. The friendship was a partnership ot three in Gen. Burnside's lifetime. Another intimate friendship of Major Poore’s was with Charles Sumner, of whom he had many valuable relics, notably a cane, with a quaint in AS YOU | Gili Mrs George one knows, possesses alone for its cosmetic iris employ it—as Lover in his song of the asa bond of pecullar power among B Mrs and combines the average Mexican I have never met him either in life or in historic reading. The Indian is a miracle of indus beside him. His high- est ambition Is to sit in the sun from morning until mit as lifeless and thoughtless as a log. hen his larder is entirely empty and his pockets are bare of coin he may be Induced to work until he has earned a few dollars, and then nothing will Induce him to stir until the supplies are again exhausted. Few of the ordinary impulses of life will excite him to a quick movement. The other day I was riding past a miserable Mexican jacal (or house built of poles and covered with mud) and saw in front of it a wagon, in the bottom of which were ten sacks of flour. Two small pigs, which had been tied m the wagon, had broken loose and torn open the sacks, from which they were tossing the flour with thelr snouts in a lively mauner. I rode to the door and shouted to the Mexicans to come out. On¢ came to the door, and I showed him the damage the pigs were doing. Instead of going out at’ once to drive them away, he returned Into the honse and informed the owner, who came out ina few minutes, and in a most leisurely way walked up to the wagon, looked at it for @ moment or two, and then clambered in and drove the pigs away. Mexican agriculture fs still in @ very crnde condition. In many places I have seen the American plough in ‘use, but.in many others the crooked stick is still employed. As the spade ia the lrishman’s favorite implement and sign- manual, so is the hoe to the Mexican. They use the hoe to plant their fields, to dig their irrigat- Ing ditches, and they alsouse the hoe to cut their grain and to mow their grass. This latter statement may seem strange, but'tt Is literally true that almost all hay which Is cured by Mex- icans is cut with asharpened hoe: It is true that they do not cut a great deal of hay, astheir small burros are generally left to forage for themselves as best they can.—Letler to Chicago Tribune. SEES eee A Profitable Road. Even in legitimate business, things are not what they seem. When I saw a telegram to a contractor, telling him that he must not fail to bulld the whole of a railroad within‘a week, I thought I had found out the most remarkable Gael aed ot the day. An entire railroad in a week! I asked what one it wan. “The most profitable line in America,” was the reply, ‘‘in proportion to its length—so re- munerative that it is rebuilt eyéry year without making its owners grumble. But it 1s only a t jogs of @ mile long, It ranafrom Manhattan each to Brighton on Coney Island. The fare is 5 cents, and a single train of one locomotive and four cars can do an enormons traffic. Every winter the high seas wash it away, all, but the iron, and now I am to reconstruct it for the summer. The job of making this whole railroad doesn’t amount to as much as the printing of the telegraph blank on whieh the order comes.” — Journal, : Letter in Chicago top In carved ivory, representing the serpent of | ing and invigorating qualities as Ayers Sastaarilie, . FRED E BOLLERDES & 00. secession climbing up to the dove's nest of the | Quality should be considered when making” compart- f. A. tor the U. 8. and Canada, American Union, and the eagle, surmounting | eons. M opl2-3m. 115, 117, 119 Elin street, dew York. the nest, holding the folds of the fiag over it to OYAGERS TO EULOPE. Keep away the venomous intrader. This cane | 4 «ay rants ADMIRE GRAY HAIBR-ON SOME J. W. BOTELER & Conk made for and presented to Lin Porson. But fewcare to try itueffoct on their | Are the Agents forthe male of tickets in this Distelat in during the war, and given by him to Sena- | 5), usr Pen ‘Nor need they, since Ayer's Hair Vieor of the Psguumner, at whose death his sister, Mrs. | Srivents tos air from turaiee/arem tok ressereo teen INMAN STEAMSHIP Hastings, of San, Francisco, herself now dead, | Eotr'to tm original colon, It tioetine treet noe, Partien proposing to vigit Europe can obtain all infer pi dps pe sats, pee pica ‘vents the formation of dandruff, and wonderfully stim- | mation by oS Newburyport.— Boston Herald. Ee ae coer é: mnt ee : m7) | apit-am sh 32s Fenn. ave. ONE STEP AHEAD. What a Country Doctor Did Not Live to 3ee—The Triumph of To-Day. BRANCH FURNITURE, ON WEERLY THE GREAT CURE FOR ITCHING PILES. seasons, and over the worst of roads, they drive on PARNER Gopi pe mirsions of mercy—generally for amall compensation, myl-im* street northwest, ‘and often for none at all. To the country doctor in ‘Guostion, as he sat in his bugxy, an Irishman, who had stopped him on the road, was relating his suffering ‘from what he called ‘‘s dreadful pain in me chist.” Aw Ane DO KOT Fal TO THE ‘oon: a » ‘aE ‘Obs ‘Pet.” sald the doctor, perhaps impetiont at the Boot ee oo DR. SWAYNE & SOX, Punapsurem, Pa, detention, “* put » mustard plaster on your chest." PRICES THAN : Bold by Dragwiats, mid-thets =~ “‘An' will that suck out tne pain. Doothur ?” asked ae : Pat, wanting a foundation for his faith. @REA’ IND ““It won't burt you, anyway, Pat,” answered the PATTEEN doctor, whipping up his horse, then continuing to hia companion: *'My eon, I wish somebody would invent & plaster that would suck out pain, as Pat putit. I have plenty of plasters, some of which I make myself and others that are patented, but I am free to admit to you that there isn't much virtue in any of them.” ‘This was years ago, and the good doctor is gone whererwe are told, noone iseversick. He didn't live too eee or hear of BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER, which, in Pat's rude phrase, ‘‘sucks out" | ane tergest #0 inuch pain to-day. ‘The doctor, in connection with | =*tendine from his practice, kept » little village arug store, where he dispensed the cheap and common plasters of the time, “whose merit,” he used to say, “‘must reside in the oles,” forhe didn’t see as they had any other. L™ OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1888. superstitions connected with it, have almost as | &#~Topbtain any of Rae da Enns bowen 521 not called for within onemonth they vill be ssnt OTHER PREPARATION 80 CONCENTRATES blood-purifying, AND MO)! wren To KING'S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STREET, KING'S PALACE, 84 BEVENTH STREET. . tap aa inthe Mu M. J. Hor 13909 F STREET NORTHWEST, ‘has just retarned from New York, and is now prepan@ to exhibit the largest stock of r TL Pas sib we meet aus “z i ise ‘sure cure. ie ee | aS Se ‘Where ail : District, For that pain of yours try the OAPOINE, whichword| iat sf'3s end P40" woah oooh ‘naucon ents fo the in cur in the plaster iteelf. Price 25 cents: Dopaspelte Sul 8-00, Teter, toy se al ma eo Fouts! Journal itis adutted to bg Seabury & Johnson, Chamiste, New York, TH LIFT —THE SIMPLEST AND “Bend for main ps began tryndtiersin Hee atic tn eee x. ee power SOarene noe ‘ meted Forges fous ‘aan. to p. Papecgins Anoka =} Wasa gaan ve | tei roteeeg ee nt ae. : reg ahead pe tampa ncvon dpa 23 7 Ow ‘Ko. 619 D street, betweea Gth end F Estimate Furnished. Repairs and Jobbiug In ai) FISHER devotes ber crumton te the nena one. ’ me Branches, : aplatm™ * Loa bs 0 ew I wig —motens" Cn ie