The Conshohocken Recorder, April 20, 1894

              THE
*To. 1358.
■IsS In ' la lor u Newspaper )]<n.
:Sly son, 1 liou'i kuuw ir roar youthful oow tp-llun
Hath brcbdih In the scope of its nebulous
plan
To wield cuinpicheiislun of I liat one except loa
To ". i' ia.-, iL. newspaper man.
But if you'll a. ■■■.• to a i, Me doacripllon
From one ol tliefr number, I'll do what 1 can
To blend in the way if a little preaorlpilon
The iiiixlnru that's known as a newspaper
i man!
Take.,* brain that Is steeped In solution of
kknowledK".
Most vane.I and picturesque, under the sun:
Then add jn-i a pinch of the Milt, if the college,
A flavor of wit and a totipoon of fun—
For a rclUh lloieraian sauco is the caper—
And a mind that will stretch from Beersheba
' to Dan;
In fancy or fact, when It conies to the "paper,"
■ Or touuhes the heart of the newspaper man!
Toa memory that clutches the veriest trifle.
And a'hand that is tireless when work's to
'>be'don.e,
.Add an eye that is quick aa the fti.sh of ariflo
And keen as the eagle tlia' Mas la the sun.
'Take strength andanduranee and loyal devo-
I tlon
And add all the grit and the courage yon can
To the heart .that's aa big and as deep aa the
. ocean.
A iiundred to one on the newspaper man!
4 CONSHOHOCi-.^N, ARIDAY, APRI:. 20, 1894. 1.00 TEA YEAR »r»
H.i-Wfwr .1 *Hir: IIM irouiijiunrtw iio
Autil Kmilv ■«■ Ini ti<iiiiiht-|ir<ivif-i.ms mill
fajel Mini even.K<»niu«;i)ir 'ihar Mian Vu-tonne.
wiiiiiiin innwirrtng ihtrilnTP
gard to the jiiunanr.
The Mat*** Trmrmer received ime
•0iilviaarte.lv. I avuM cniidiu-ted at■ once
to their <llstrrri|S«UNlietl .tathnr. ■tieiii'i'ul
lYuiiiiicr. »l vrh«jii tlu-y .wereniiMlcuiht
lustlv promt, ithollffb ilii'tlienetliiysaeity
little m-iih h it of (bun ilpt a h \v t tilts of
wlute featr anil a ih»«;l> iteiuper. and I
li'uinl that lie wait to provide,me with
the pro|>e: i«'»iit~<i:l Sentiments, and for
tire year* J bad inti vary .busy eamiiiK
my fortune Now J .was h9; I was my
own mistress, Ae i <bavve said, d-was
going aoa»e to Viotomuoitoiniake.her
happy
The ailienti had feeea ottnred ; my 'fel-low
actioiara and J bad wept 'In each
others anna Tbe Misses Trimmer had
each given rue a token of their esteem
in the shape of a good shook, .the gen- •"-■"■ -mi a, mine, aim mo in
era! bad presented toe witA * ibadgeof j *°nt its,red ray across the cloth,
the Grand Array at ttw Eeemiblic.wbich B!«~«-~—•■«
I earnestly Ix^od that Victorine -would
never discover amid
lng.
Run out into molds that are models for men
-Add A ceaseloaa encounter with planning and
toiling
For Lho world of today that is ruled by the
pen.
-Add the honesty of friendship, the dew of af-fection
.And the esprit de corps that gets down to
hard pan,
-And paste In your hat the whole mortal col-lection
As the regular stock of the newspaper manl
—New York Sun.
...-., uo»«u uisnuvur niniu «nv aiosavsaious.
Wlth*taaw-of ideas that, soothing and boU- .„,, , ^^^^ iB\J^L «f a
captain of the Old Doimnicai ilise.
as though 1 had beeaasaaali piece •of
eggshell china and was ia danger «f
breaking. Even the trip was over, i
had arrived at Norfolk, 1 had taken
the cars to a small station and was uow
being conveyed along the road ia the
old yellow stage, which I knew of yore.
Everything seerned unchanged. There
was the same dangerous waahoot,where
so many vehicles had been upset;
there was the broken bridge which had
been temporarily propped op by logs
as long as 1 could remember. There
were the old residences, with their beau-tiful,
soft gray tints of unpainted wood,
set off by the rich foliage of the old
trees, the front doors all wide open:
there were the glimpses of gay skirts
Boating from slow swaying hammocks,
of tnrbaned negresses Kproiiiliiig clothes
to dry upon the boahea. of n'ltie black
gnomelike darkies devouring stolen
red watermelons, with rolling eyes
'watcbttm nut' as liny did so: there
wen- the u .uis of little early tailed
white pi|{a :,ilnwing eueh other with
J* MARY KYLE DALLAS.
lOopprlghl, .KB, by American Press Associa-tion.!
CHAPTER 1.
My school days > were. over. I had
graduated at the Misses Trimmer's Col-lege
for Young Ladies with honors, es-pecially
in mathematics. I knew, as
we phrased it among ourselves, French.
German and Spanish;, could paint flow-ers
and do embroidery and drawn work.
1 ahould beeority if the Misses Trim-mer
ocmld see my,mistakes, in simple
multiplication nowadays, and as for my
attempts to make my-,-11 , understood
abroad, the least said the better. Still.
1 can decorate my door pauels and make
as pretty cushions and bureau covers as
any woman ia the land. However, this
is digression.
This school going had been, a proba-tion
insisted upon by my .maternal
grandfather when he made.mo. his heir-ess.
From 13 to 18 years.of .age 1 was
to attend this school kept by: the three
spinster daughters of General . Jehoso-phat
Trimmer, a veteraniof the Mexi-can
war. who had also figured.in the
"late unpleasantness." .His heiress
"must lie iinbacd with 'the .proper
views. " he declared. What ihe imeant
we quite understood. The proper views
were what Victorine called ".northern
views '
Victorine had lieon a young lady when
the war broke out. while 1 was not yet
born, for though we hud one father we
had different mothers. Mine had of-fended
bit relatives by jilting a reortuv
young Harvard professor and choaatag
my lather, even then not very ■wang,
but still supremely handsome. flfae<Ued
at my birth, and at my first remem
many squeals along the lines of fences
and of old sows taking mud baths
wherever there was a puddle. The
smell of the pine forests came to me
upon the wind, and nearer the odor of
roses ami magnolias. All was wild and
sweet. Nothing was orderly—every-thing,
to my eyes at least, was beanti-ful,
exceedingly. And there was my
dear old home—oh. my dear old home!
Oh, the sadly passionate memories that
rushed into my heart!
■ 3T >yo', •! UB„ and flat s tie mm. Aha
'then Victorine gave a gasp and rushed
'toward me, and we clasped and kissed
andi kissed, and clasped again, and Aunt
Emily glided ont of the room, shutting
'the door, behind her. And of the two
il think my, half sister wept the longer
Then>are talknrland talked as though
we .would never have done, about old
times and what we had thought and
ihopeil auiUsurfered.
At i last, the doer opened, and what a
'fragrance of good things rushed through
it! 'Odor* of, coffee and broiled chirk
en and corn, cake and wheat biscuit and
■roasted sweet.potatoes and persimmon
preserves, sliced oranges, and 1 know
not what.else.
'^Chillun, icomeito supper,' said
Aunt Emily, and hand in hand we
cameitoithHfeast, prepared in my honor.
Aunt .Emily waited on us, joining in
our talk. The day closed in while we
vwere still.at.table, and the level sun
Aunt
.Emily twent'to tho window to close the
iblinds andjpaused'there with a low cry
of, " For de iland, dem norf folks' pigs
i is in,do gardin.agin!"
I "The second time this week," said
j "Victorine. She sprang to her feet.
I seised the tongs and thrust a feathpr
•duster into -my hands
'Come. " she cried A moment more
j and vwe were .in the garden, re-enfoi rod
■by Aunt lEmily. armed with a broom
I To be continued next veekA
| MOLASSES AND .PLTROLEUM.
j They Are Carried as Alternate Cargoes In
tlie Srnie Sl«>uiu>lii|i .Tanks.
Aoontlall'lthe imilasses u'liich comes
from Cuba to the I'nit.-d States is
, brought in Che same tanks in steam-ships
thai are used to entry petroleum
1 as a return .cargo, says tlie New York
ITribune. The ships' tanks are about
sixteen feet deep ami have a neck
seven feet deep. They are pumped
full of oil at ]tro,\clyn or Philadelphia,
then taken to Havana, and the .oil is
pumped out into the tanks of -the re-
J fining plants there. Molasses is
brought from the interior of the
island in huge hogsheads, which are
| emptied into the storage tanks. A j
suction pump drawing about Aen
thousand gallons an hour tills each I
ships tanks to within about two Scat
of the top, that amount of space being
required for the expansion of the
molasses. It might be .supposed that '
the petroleum would have a bad effect '
on the molasses, but it has been shown ,
that the contrary is the case, and as
nearly one-half the importation is I
made into rum and the balance re-lined
into sugar a little oil is not of
The Kyes I Love.
Poets may sins' "f "''ilium's eyes—
The Mack of <lie h.'.nii or blue;
They may rave uuil go into ocstaales
Over each different hue.
This one miiy prute of his favorita.
Anil others be landed by some.
But I love the eyes that watch for ma,
And STOW brighter » lien 1 samel
I have never found out, and 1 do not care,
Whether hazel or blue or gray
Is the color of those I prize the most.
And 1 do not know todaj :
Butthey're tin .,■ of my .harming- little wife.
Who keeps my humble home.
And hers are the eves tlint watch for me
And grow brighter when I come!
—New York Clipper.
Don't Tooseeo Spl- or Smoke your Life Away
Is the trathrnl. startling title or a little bood
that tells all about No-to-bao, the womlerfni
harmless. Qaaraoti jd tobacco habit cure. Tte
aitst i» 'rifli-r and the n-»- . -. wants to qnlt
nd oan't rnos no phvleal or flnanclal risk in
using "No-to-bao " Hold h- all drnsclsU.
•to >• *t n n« smr»-, o b mall free Art-dress
me Htorlins Kemedy Co.. Indiana
Miners' ■'rrlnr* Ini it
Head and Arms
Seemed on Fire
A Sunstroke Followed by
Nervous Prostration
Hood's Restored Health,
TARIFF !-i TARIFF I-I TARIFF,
■s» - • a—
WE WILL NOT
Uriff rate?' p-ir'0rn"nce of miraclei. in the reduction ol out-
BUT WE DO CLAIM
to give fair (reatment and guarantee to our patrons the ber
goods at fair prices. YOU KNOW OUR LINE.
FURNITUHE,
CARPET8
Bl DDlIV€3rf
WALL 1'AIER
Wl]yi>ow SHADES and
OIL OLOTHlKa.
ROBERTS & MEREDITH.
FAYETTE STHKE1. CUNSHOFOCKEN, PA.,
,,„ ... T I """-" 'u™ lussr iime (in ih ol
father, I whispered. "Omydar- much account. The tanks are cleaned
brance my father, Victorineand 1 lived
on the old plantation, tyraaniz I osa t
cared for and loved liy the U»S relic Ol
the aciitii-ri d band of servants, porrjy
ebony skinned Aunt Emily, an aonabli
tyrant, who toiled for us and adored
as aad managed what little there was
ito maoage.
One day when 1 was 14 came the
sews ,«f my maternal grandtather'a
4eatta. His fortune was to be mine on
condition. 1 was to bo pnt to school
in Now tfork city and to remain there
for five years. "To be weaned from
ncsue and me," said my father.
wife's father always hated me."
"To forget .out lost cause," said Vic-torine,
"to become at heart a northern-er.
"
" 1 will not 00," 1 said. " I will not
asm my fortune by exile from those 1
lore. Five yoars—why, he might as
well bare said forever." I sat down
to write an indignant refusal, to re-nounce
the fortune offered on such
terms, but the letter was never sent
That night my father died suddenly of
heart disease.
When our first wild passion of grief
was over, Victorine and I found that
- io had very little left. A mortgage
Cm the property would soon be fore-closed.
We must either find means te
sawn our own bread or be dependent on
charity When 1 realized this. J went
to my own room, destroyed the letter
1 had written and In another accepted
the terms of my grandfather's will.
The sum ap-portioned for my private
expenses at school would, if properly hus-banded,
also keep Victorine'from want.
J could save the old home, I could restore
it to its former elegance—in fact, I
could do ivb.it I chose. It was plainly
my duty to secure the fortune, but I
dlspatrhd tin lettei before telling via-toriue
anything about it and endured
bar reproaches, her invectives, her a<-
tmsations
Yon have sold your birthright for a
mess of pottage. Persis."sho said,"and
I will have iionoof your ill gotten gain
I prefer sinning in the streets for my
bread." Victorine was inuaiaal.
ling father! Shall I never see you
; again?" The tears poured down my
cheeks, but I checked them quickly.
1 had come home to make poor Vlctor-
\ ine happy, not to sadden her. Poor
Victorine! She had pinched and saved
( 10 long, but that was all over now At
last she should find everything easy and
comfortable. It was for her sake that
| I had banished myself.
There was the house. It was always
, the prettiest in the neighborhood There
were the dear white roses, nodding wel-come
at the garden gate.
But now I saw something rather new.
From tho central window of the second
floor, that of Victorine's bedroom, was
thmst a long staff, from which floated
•the Confederate flag, and as "Black
Dan" opened the stage door and I
"lighted down" I heard the tones of the
somewhat cracked piano.on which Vic-torine—
J knew her touch—was playing
'The Bonnie -Blue Flag" with great ex-pression.
The uoiseof tho wheels brought Aant
Emily to tho door—Aunt Emily just ns
i left her, kerchiefed in crimson, at-tired
in check, smiling, rotund, black
as eliouy.
"Bress de chile, she ain't altered
none. She am only growed up," cried
the soft, sweet negro roioe. ' Bress de
chile. I'd knowed her anywhere."
**>' j Then 1 was .clasped to her bosom, sob-bing
in spite of myself. And still Vic-torine
banged away at the "Bonnie Blue
Flag" with an energy that assured me
of her strength and vigor.
"Why doesn't she come to meet me?"
I whispered to Aunt Emily.
"Don't yo' mine, honey," replied
my old nurse. "Her heart come, only
she got one of her crankums on. Mighty
high strung, Miss Victorine la Don
yo' mine. G'long in, g'long in an get
it over." With this she gave me a push
that sent me across the sill of the par-lor
door, and the music eeasad. My
half sister started to her feet, bnt in
stead of advandng retreated into the
corner, her arms outstretched, her palms
toward me.
"Haiti" she said in solemn tones.
"Not a step nearer until you reply to
my questions. Have you esene home
with northern principles or southern
principles? Answer, Persia Carlton.
answer trnly."
I looked at her, tall and dark, with
her eyes flashing and her brows bent,
and began to cry, and then bwean to
laugh, then grew hysterical, and I K
tween sobs and giggles managed to ex
claim:
"Oh, Vicky, darling, don't. I haven't
come home with any principles uh.it
I ever. 1 am utterly destitute of prin-ciples
of any sort. I've just plain come
home. Oli, sister Vicky, don't stare at
me so! ('nine and kiss me."
"Come kiss yo' sister. Stop actln jess
like yo' got no l'eelln. Miss Victorine,
■ ~«* *nnt Euiilr. "I'sclsr ashamed
after the molasses has been pumped
out by turning ina powerful steam jet,
which washes down the sides and
j liquefies whatever molasses may be
left in the bottom of Ihe tank, and the
suction pump finishes the work.
Acargo of molasses, which formerly
required ten or twelve days, oarj now
be unloaded In forty-eight hours, while
the difference In the oosl of handling,
to say nothing of the saving of time,
am,mills to a large sum.
The lirst attempt at handling mo
lasses In balk was made by the brig
Novelty in IS77. Sin- was fitted with
u lining and her whole bold was used
without partitions. She made s,.Vcral
trips between Matan/as and Boston,
but was not successful as a dividend
earner, since the present system of
dividing a vessel's bold into tanks was
devised and put in practice on steam-ers
the prolits of the trade and the
steamship companies have largely in-ereaaed.
Mr. Kduard Scolltn
Philadelphia, Pa.
C. I. Hood It Co., Lowell. Mass.:
"Gentlemen —Ca August 10, I was taken to
8t Joseph's hospital unconscious from the
heat; my temperature was 10(i°. 1 remained
In the hospital two weeks; I was unable to
work for four weeks alter that, but then
felt compelled to turn In, as I have a wife
and Dve children. I soon began to feel as
though undergoing continuous shocks from
an electric battery.
Every Nerve and Flbra
of my body seemed In a constant state of quiv-ering
agitation and tremulnusness. Heat
flashed from the calves of my legs up
through my thighs and body; my left arm
and hand felt as though on lire, and ray
head ached as if It would split when I
stooped down. I had great pains in my
back around the base of the spine. I con-tinued
to stick to my work, feeling that
If 1 must again go down I would do so
Struggling for My Family.
I hare always been athletic, but I had lost all
appetite, aud my strength failed me; I was
on the point of giving up. I had read much
about Hood's Sarsaparilla. and concluded to
glvo it a trial. Before I had taken half a
bottle my appetite became so voracious that
I would be compelled to eat betweeu meals.
Hood'ss?>Cures Hood's Sarsaparllla lias now fully restores"
my strength anil general health. That lern>
bie nervousness Is entirely gone, I feel as
hearty aud vigorous ns ever. The palm
Ml." l.nw
I
JOB PRINTING -^
-:- Pi cmptly Attended to
At THE RECORDER Offices
• -i ■ i aj
••A HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT Ttt
«, SHAVE WITH.-
.SAPOLIO 18 THE PROPER THING FOR HOUSE-CLEANINCL
P. QUJGLEY WHOLESALE DEALER IN
my ba,k li *vera nh liet icise.
BCOLLIW. lXKOgdeu Street, Philadelphia.
s In
Ann
When Veil Write to the Queen.
The paper on which letters to Qneeu
Victoria are written must not be fold-ed.
No communication which bears
evidence of having been creased will
ever fall into her majesty's own hands.
The proper method is to write on
thick, glossy white paper and to dis-patch
the missive in an envelope whloh
fits it. Any folded communication
never reaches the queen, for the sim-ple
reason that she won't look at it.
All such letters are opened by the mis-tress
of the robes, and, as a rule, their
contents never get beyond her, or. if
the letter is of importance, it is re-turned
to the writer with directions
how to forward it.
Hood's Pills cure all liver Ills.constipation.
biliousness. Jaundice, ttek beadaehe. Indlgestloa MciBlMliS
Weight and Cost of Ihe rirst Cable.
The original 1858 cable weighed 93
pounds per mile and had a conductor
of seven copper wires of 22J£ gauge.
Price of deep sea wire per mile, 8200;
price of spun yarn and iron wire per
mile, 8205; cost of outside coating of
tar and gutta-percha. 825 per mile;
total cost per mile. 8485. At 848."> per
mile the total cost of the 2,500 miles of
deep sea wire was 81.212,500. To this
add 25 miles of "shore end" wire, cost-ing
81.460 per mile, and we find that
the first ocean cable, exclusive of in-struments,
cost $1,350,000.
WINES and LIQUORS,
YUENLING :-: & w SONS :-: BOTTLED :-: PORTER.
Elm street below Harry, ConshohockeB*
fHECOMINGSEASOjg
WHO IS HE?
Three Is a Crowd,
The smallest inhabited island in the
tvorld is thai on tvhieh the Eddystone
lighthouse stands. At !u\v water it is
thirty feet in diameter; at high water
the lighthouse, the diameter of which
at the baso is twenty-el«rhl and three-tourtl
■ feet, completely oovers the
island. It is inhabited by three par*
suns, it lies nine miles off the Cornish
ooastand fourteen miles southwest of
Plymouth breakwater.
Recorder $J a year
inei v-'imi ,ire his anticerfents f are questions
heard un the Htreet. in the cur and hotel daily.
It is reported that he comes FROM THE
OREJtM TREE KINCDOMTV hi
risen from a long line of misfortunes ami ad-versities,
suua-lnduced and directly traeeuble
I'.'VL^i4.'.,!?,,V*?" in tlie l)\HPKI»HIA>f which HEGniUedINleaaln w. .mnlmd eats
French Physician onco said. "Find n.ea
Dyspeptic, and I will sbow you a lite bauen
of all good works—a Dead Sea
within a Uni-verse."
il show yol
rks—THE GREEK THEE REMEDY
Il OUAKANTKKI) TO CUHE YOU, asit has
the subject of this sketch.
, TESTIMONIALS
nf tho wonderfully curative effects of this
Hemedy come in unsolicited from all who
li ive used It.
Wll.l.IA.X] ILOFLINof the Freight Dep't
I .inn a II. H writes: " I have been cured
roin the afflictions of Dyspepsia by a few
'"■lib-*. It did the work''
'HAS a STUI1BS, Letter Carrier, P st
Offlos FMIa. writes: The Green Tree Hen- ,
is tin- lie.st medic iver made. 1 bad
pensla nf the worst kind. Your Ite,
oiiT-eil roe after nil other medicines fail. u.
.OHIO. cifoNi HA. Bsg., Baltimore, ltd
writes: "I suffered .vlih Dvspepslafoi years,
"V;1 "' "reei ,■,.,. Remedy; It.cured me."
n,i- u* lDRE-Ai.i. butaSureCurefor
I'"" ""•'disease. The best t?»tiumny of its
iP'Uerffect.'' .l"e"a,!lt1?h18bytBthoei°uyseofofthiot.se restored to
For -.le by TF i.. 0Y.
l-a\ette strc ebovv Elm.
JONSHOHOCKEEN, PA.
Easter past and the Spring Season fairly opened Thm
Merchandise bpring was inaugurated weeks since! but its
zenith is yet ahead of us r,
We know the pride of having your head well dresse*.
I hat's one great secret ot our success.
*
We FIT the fj^'J" to face and figure
We study to emphasize, every grace and cap the whole a
with style and taste.
them.
-SmisH CAPES
1 he Cape the tiling, and we have some great ^bargains'
M. H. BASH & SON
<: J hii t tuti. i> t ii.tuvi. ij j- tit Fost-Of e