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The National tribune., 1881-09-17
EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.

The oldest newspaper i'll the United States is
the Ncr hampshire Gazehe published at Ports
mouth. 1t began existence in August, 1856. The
next is the Newport Wcrcury in Rhode Island
which was started in September, l751, by James
Franklin, son Of James Franklin, and nephew Of
Benjamin Franklin. The third in age is the Con
necticut COUraM which first appeared in Decem-
ber, 1864. The CourUnt is now printed both as a
weekly and a daily, and was never better than at
present. 1t was established by Thomas Green.
The fourth is the Spy and these four the
only papers in the country which existed previous
to the Revolution.
The National tribune., 1881-09-17
WORDS OF WISDOM.

1t is the petty expenses that empty the purse.
1t is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
1t is never worth while to do unnecessary
things.
Never grease fat SOW, praise a proud man.
Never hold up a candle to show the sun, or try
a thing which nobody doubts.
1t is useless 10 try to end quarrel by getting
angry over it.
Expect to get half Of what you earn. Il quarter
of what is your due, and none OF what YOU have
lent and YOU Will be near the mark
He who. marries sovenly, dressy girl, and
hopes to make her "A good wife, might as we'll
buy goose and expect it to turn out Il milch COW.
Economy is half the battle of life.
The National tribune., 1881-09-17
CHEAP LIVING,

1t seems little curious to eat the solid trunk
of a tree but there is tree in the East Indies
which makes very agreeable and wholesome
food for thousands of people. The food is well
known in this country, though the tree itself is
never seen being the sagO. often made into
puddings and custards.
A full-grOwn tree is cut down close to the
ground A strip of the bark is then torn Oft,
laying bare the pith which is about as soft
dried apples
With club of heavy wood, pointed at the end
with sharp quartz rock, the natives cut out this
pith, which is carried to the water-side, and be-
ing mixed with water, is kneaded and pressed
against strainer till the starch is dissolved and
passed through the strainer.
The water holding the starch in solution is
then passed through a trough, where the sedi-
ment is deposited, and the water is drawn off. 1t
is then put up in cylindrical cakes, of about
thirty pounds weight, and sold as raw sago.
The raw sago, to prepare it for use, is broken
up dried by exposure to the sun, powdered and
sifted. This flour is made into cakes, easily
baked, which are very delicious if eaten with
butter and a mixture of sugar and grated CO.
coanut.
The cakes are not only eaten hot but are often
dried in the sun, and put away in bundles for
future use They will keep good for years, it is
said Children are fond of them even when hard
and dry; but older persons generally dip them
in water and toast them, when they relish as well
as when fresh baked, or, by soaking and boiling
make them serve as puddings, or in the place of
vegetables.
This food, as may be imagined, is extraordinar-
lily cheap, costing much less than rice among the
HindOOs, potatoes among the Irish.
A good sized trunk of a sagO tree twenty feet
long and five in circumference. will make at least
thirty bundles of thirty pounds each. Each bun
die, it is computed, will make sixty cakes allow
ing three cakes to pound; and five cakes are
considered by the natives sufficient for a full
days food. A single good sized tree will, there
fore, furnish food for native for an entire year
and many Of them live on it almost exclusively
One needs to labor only a few days to secure
this supply of food for the year. man can re-
duce tree to powder in ten days, and a woman
in the same time can reduce it all into cakes
By steady labor for twenty days therefore, pro-
vision may be laid up for the year.
But such cheap living proves favorable neither
10 ucdltH vi DOuy nor Ol ulllu. a uniform ulet
of sago varied only by fish, rarely by fruit or
vegetables is not good for the body; and the
want of a stimulus to exertion is prejudicial to
the character.
What is got easily is generally worth little;
and the natives, having no occasion for physical
toll for careful thrift, have no force of char
acter. Cheap food may be curse instead of
blessing Youths Companion
The National tribune., 1881-09-17
THINGS TO MAKE NOTE OF.

GRAPE JELLY.-Wild grapes are delicious for
this; but if you can't get them, tame ones will
do Wash and pick the grapes from the stems
just before they ripe; put them over the fire
in porcelain-ined kettle with little water, to
keep them from burning, and stew few moments;
then mash gently with silver spoon; strain and
to every pint Of Juice allow a pound of white
sugar: put the Juice back on the fire and boil for
twenty minutes: pour in sugar lump or granu-
lated and stir constantly till all is dissolved:
then, without any more boiling. fill your Jelly
glasses.
VEGETABLE SALAD. Boil a small cabbage
until tender let it get cold, cut it into pieces;
add a chopped boiled beet, some sliced boiled pO-
tatOes and some capers. Dress with OIL vinegar.
pepper and salt.
FLAKED FISH.-AIake a sauce by dredging
some flour in two ounces of hot butter in q stew
PAN add one-halt pound OF cold fish nicely faxed
one ounce OF cold butter, desert spoonful each OF
anchOyy sauce and mixed mustard, one teacupful
OF cream. some pepper, salt, and a few bread
crumbs. Make hot and serve as it is. OF you may
pour it into butter dish. with the addition of
few bread crumbs, and brown the top in the
oven
KENT PUDDING.-One quart OF milk, SIX
ounces of ground rice three eggs. currantS, sugar
and spice to taste. The milk and rice should be
boiled over night, and the other ingredients
mixed in the morning Stir the mixture we'll
before putting it into the oven.
POTATO LEMON PUDnING-Three ounces OF
potatoes. the peel of two large lemons two ounces
OF white sugar, two ounces of butter Boil the
lemon peel until tender, and beat 1t into mortar
with the sugar: boil the potatoes and peel them;
mix all together with little milk and two eggs:
bake it slightly.
FRENCH CHICKEN PiE.-A tender chicken cut
in Joints half pound salt pork cut in small pieces,
boil the two together till nearly tender i'll little
water: line deep dish with pie-paste, put in the
meat season with salt pepper, and chopped pars-
lev. put in little water and cover over with the
pie-paste. which should be rich bake forty mini
uteS.
TEA CAkEs,-fIalfa pound OF -four, two ounces
of sugar. two ounces of butter two eggs. Mix ali
together
To TAKE off the crust formed on the inside ol
a water pitcher, use lemon juice Vinegar VIII
sometimes answer the purpose also.
The National tribune., 1881-09-17
For THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
THE BEGGAR BOY,

I'm poor little lad, with nobody to care for me
Sadly wander the world up and down;
When e'er am happy, though seldom dare to be,
People who pass me look savage and frown
For I'm only a tramp
Bearing poverty stamp,
And gruffIy the folk chide day after day,
Till wish might die,
As shall by and by.
And go. o. most anywhere ont of the way.
I'm poor little lad and hard time have OF H.
Striving to gather a crumb here and there.
I never can steal. but don't like TO beg "A bt
Yet can't live upon nothing but ar
| am willing TO work,
Nor nv duty would shrk.
Y2rf neonle don't want such a mite of boy.
So hungry must go,
While my heart filled with woe
Is perisbing daily for CLEAN of JOY.
In, A lone little Lad; but once had mother dear
Gently she cared for me. patient and true;
And were she but with I'd neer shed another tear
Never could hunger my footsteps pursue
But she sickened and died.
And since then. far and wide
I've wandered through summers heat storms and
through cold,
But I'll meet her one day.
As she oft used to say
Where even earths beggars share riches untold.
GRIF.
The National tribune., 1881-09-17
FEEDING ON ASHES,

The expression she feedeth on ashes" is pro-
verbal in the East for that which is done to no
purpose. The following extract, though not so
strictly an illustration of the text, is much to
the purpose. One of the most extraordinary
examples of depraved or perverted appetite is
the of earth for food. This propensity is not
an occasional freak but a common custom, and
is found among so large number and variety of
tribes that it may be regarded as co-extensive
with the human race. From time immemorial
the Chinese have been in the habit of using
various kinds of edible earth as substitutes for
bread in time of scarcity; and their imperial
annals have always religiously noticed the dis
covery Of such bread-stOnes or stOne-meal as
they are called On the western coast of Africa
a yellOwish kind of earth called caO7ac is so
highly relished and so constantly consumed by
the negroes that it has become to them a neceS-
sary of life In the island of Java. and in various
parts Of the hill country of India. reddish earth
is baked into cakes and sold in the village mar
ketS for food: while on the banks Of the OrinocO
in South America. Humboldt mentions that the
native Indians find species Of unctuous clay,
which they knead into balls, and store up in
heaps in their huts as provision for the winter
famine to have recourse to this clay, for even
when fish, game, and fruit plentiful, they still
eat it after their food luxury. The practice
of eating earth is not confined solely to the i'll
habitants of the tropics. In the north of Nor
way, and in Swedish Lapland, kind of white
powdery earth, called mountain meal. found
under beds OF decayed moss, is consumed in i'm
mense quantities every year. 1t is mixed by the
people with their bread in times of scarcity: and
even in Germany ii has been frequently used as
a means of allaying hunger.-Rer. II. NocmUia.
For few brief days the orchards are white
with blossoms They soon turn to fruit or else
float away. useless and wasted, upon the idle
breeze. So will it be with present feelings They
must be deepened into decision or be entirely dis
spated by delay.-Theod0re CtyIer.
Something noble, something good, something
pure, something manly, something godlike is
knocked Off man every time he gets drunk or
stoops to sin through torgettulneSs OF God
GOugh.
The National tribune., 1881-09-17

ing headlOng into the closet. [ heard him go
down with a crash that shook Mrs. Halstead's
biggest jar of raspberry jam off the shelf.
didn't stop to take breath until I'd locked the
door and barricaded it with Uncle Jacks big ma
Then | breathed-and listened What heard
made my eyes stick out bit. First | almost felt
like crying Then laughed until | did cry. |
suppose the excitement made me hystericky. 1t
wasn't ten minutes before reused up Mr.. Simms
the constable and Jared Peters, who lives next
door. Mr.. SimmS brought along an old pepper
box revolver and pair of handouts. Jared Pc
ters had his double-barrel gun, but in his furry
he forgot to load it.
Up stairs we hurried The two men pulled
away the bureau, and Mr.. Simms who was in the
army, stationed us in our places.
Look a-here YOU feller," Mr.. Simms called
out, the strong arm Of the law is a-coverin' OF
YOU with deadly weapons. Surrender without
reSstance-Phil, yank open the door
/ flung open the door. Jared Peters covered
the prisoner with his gun. He was covered with
something else toO-Mrs. Halsteads raspberry
Jam, that he'd been wallowing around in. He
didn't look proud, though for all he was so stuck
up.
Before he could open his mouth Mr.. Simms had
him handcutfed and dragged out into the cham
ber.
There" he said, with a long breath, 81 guess
y0u won't burgle no more right away"
For goodness sake, ,Simms-Peters- don't you
know me-Nfr John Morris, cashier of the saw
ings-banll?" That was what the prisoner said
lust as soon as he could speak.
Well | didn't wait any longer. | just bOlted
for my own room, where | could lie down on the
floor. And there lay laughing until | was pur-
pie clear round to my shoulder-blades. Then
went to bed
"Philip,n said Uncle Jack. SOlemnly, while we
were at breakfast next morning, Il should beg
your pardon for trying to test your courage in
the-the consummatey idiotic way took to do
last night, but and he looked pretty sheepish-
II think | got the worst of it,"
Il think YOU did, sir" | answered him, chok-
ing bit
The disguise was a good one, though" he went
on. with a sort of feeble chuckle, "and leaving
my false teeth out, changed my voice completely
-eh, Phil?"
"Yes, sir-until YOU hollered out in the closet
that it was all joke, and wanted me to let you
out" | answered him, | got up and edged
toward the door.
Why didn't you let me out them" roared
Uncle Jack, who is rather quick-tempered.
| hope l wasn't impudent. Truly, didn't in
tend to be Because, Uncle Jack" | said, as
turned the door knob II have heard you say
more than once that he who cannot take joke
should not make one And as lodged through
the door l heard Uncle Jack groan.-Frank H.
COnrerse IN HdrDer's Young People,
The National tribune., 1881-09-17
For THE NATIONAL TRIBCNE.
l WOULD BE LOVED.

| would be loved i'll youths gay prime
While yet the years are young
And c'er the frosty touch of time
Has forced obedience wrung
From supple joint and rounded form
And made lifes current flow less warm
For love grows cold as the years grow old
And it's fires more dimIy burn
Till naught is left, save heart bereh
And the ashes which we spurn
Were | thus loved, in perfect bliss
I'd spend youths summer time.
Then, dying, perish on a kiss.
And seek some happy cline
Where youth eternal ever dwelIs
And lOudest loves sweet anthem swelis
For love grows cold when the years grow old.
And its holy flames burn low.
Too soon expire the sacred fire
Is quenched in the " Long Ago.
The National tribune., 1881-09-17
AN ACCOMPLISHED SOVEREIGN.

Elizabeth, the young Queen of Roumana,
speaks admirably six languages and is a clever.
handsome, and kindly woman. Suffering has
made her tender; her great grief is the loss of
her only child, a beautiful and gentle little girl
four years old. The Queen keeps an album in
which she writes down her stray thoughts and
Continental journalist has copied some Of them
Here is one queenly sentiment: Life is an art
in which too many remain only dilettantes To
become master one must pour out ones life
blood Again: White hairs are the crests Of
foam which cover the sea after the tempest"
"Sleep is generous thief he gives to vigor what
he takes from time If YOU could throw as an
aims to those who would use it well the time
that YOU tritter away, how many beggars would
become rich" Duty only frowns when YOU
flee from it: follow it and il smiles upon YOU"
There is keen satire in the following: The
world never torgiveS talents, our success, our
friends nor our pleasures 1t only torgves
death. Nay, it does not always pardon that
The National tribune., 1881-09-17

Conscience is the great ledger-book in which
all our otfenses are written and registered, and
which time reveals to the sense and feeling OF the
offender
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-03

Brief Items The protracted meeting
which has been going on for week or
more at Providence church, in Chester
field, closed Thursday night.
During the present month there VIII be
all.day preaching at several Of the churches
in the county.
Mr.. II. A. COgbill has purchased the
"MagnOlia Grange" better known as the
Courthouse property, which for many years
was owned by the iuther Of our Hastings
Court clerk, Mr. Hillary Duyal. Thls IS
one OF the finest farms IN the county, and
has upon ii a most elegant residence.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-03
POLICE CoURT.-The following cases wer
disDOsed OF YESTERDAY


disposed OF yesterday:
j. Taylor, drunk, was fined q.
Jacob Alexander (cOlored), charged With
stealing two cows and four heifers from
William Jackson. Tue case was continued
I'LL to-day.
Thornton Carter and Charles Madison,
drunk. were each jailed for thirty days.
Il. J. Thaeker, drunk and disorderly.
Fined 81.
&C. Gibson was fined S5 for contempt OF
court.
William Wakeham, charged with stealing
horse and buggy from James Sweeney,
WAS sent on to the grand jury.
Martha Patterson (colored), charged with
aSsauIting and beating Sarah Wilson, was
fined S2 80.
Isaiah Fields, charged with ass1ulting
and beating Bartholomew Parker, wss
fined $3.50.
Sarah Wilson (colored) was fined 81. so for
beating Martha j. Patterson.
james Dickerson (colored) was fined go
and jailed twenty-fOur hours for beating
James Griffin.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-03

PERRY DAvis'S PAIN-KlLLVR Is not new,
ps,red remedy For forly years it has been in con-
tau, u.e sud those who have used IL The longest
are rs btSt friends.
rs success Is enjirriy because Of Its merit. Every
family sheui3 have bottle ready for use. Much
p,in ard heavy docors' bills may often be saved by
promp, application OF The PAIN.KlLLER. Un-
Nh. most medicines t is perfectly safe even IN the
hsnss ofs child. Try it once thoroughly, and II
vii move Its value. Yosr druggist has 1t at 25c.
SOC, and a. per bottle.
PERRY DAVIS & SON, Proprietors,
- l.eodtNoI Providence, r. I.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-03
LOCAL MATTERS.
The plsnppsnranco of Mr.. r,nr-o,

The Disappearance Of Mira. RsarVoy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baylor returned TO the city
yesterday iIOm James City county, They
were unable TO learn anything about the
disappearance o! Mrs. Baylor's mother.
Mrs. Harvey, more than that she lett
home on the 18th OF August; that she iudi.
Gated her purpose 10 visit Mrs. Baylo
herei that she took with her some four or
I'VE hundred dollars in money aud was last
seen ut West Point, 10 which place she was
accompanied by her cousin, Edward
Slater. Being too late for the passenger
train, she took the mixed freight and pas
senger train for Richmond, and Mr.. Slater
returned home. That was about all that
Mr.. and Mrs. Baylor could learn down the
country. Yesterday, however, Mrs. Baylor
received the following from a lady friend
here 1--WE omit name):
"RIcHMoND, September /. 1881.
al have learned this evening that your
mother could not be found. Since then I
have seen Mrs. c., OF Richmond, who has
been visiting down at West Point. From
what she said l think your mother is safe.
Mrs. c. says on the 25;h OF August she ex.
pected a package from Richmond, and sent
her nurse TO the depot to get il. She 1.-THE
nurse) met q lady who went TO the Davis
lAVhoFi NuClt .Ales - Nub uOdluluSs Ut
nurse ssrried: her vslise, which was black.
The lady had q brown pocket-sstchel.
She said her name was Mrs. Harvey.
She stopped over night, and Friday the
20th left in the morning, saying she
was going 10 Richmond to see her daugh-
ter. Friday evening she returned TO
West Point on the Richmond train, re-
mained all night, and Saturday morning
got up early and ate her breakfast earlier
than the boardelS, and left. going in the
direction Of the New York steamer called
the City Of Richmond, but whether she
took the steamer or not is more than Mrs.
c. can say. This Mrs. Harvey asked the
nurse, whose name is Mary, what time the
New York steamer left in the morning.
Mary told her she did not know, but Mr.
Davis, the proprietor of the house, could
tell her. SO she asked Mary TO tell MI.
Davis she would like to see him. Now,
who this Mrs. Harvey was is 10 be found
out. She wore black dress and black hat,
with linen duster."
Upon the reception OF the above Mr..
Mayer, Of George w. Allen a. Co., agents OF
the Old Dominion Steamship Company,
caused inquiries to be made at West Point,
and il was learned that the City OF Rich
mond did not sail on the day mentioned,
but on the Path. Further, the steamships
Of this line sailing from West Point do not
take passengers, and special inquiry shows
that there was no passenger on the
Richmond the day OF her last sailing. The
description OF Mrs. Harvey given by tue
writer Is quite accurate.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-03

.,,,.. If the 81. John az. ~ Noes says.
sr.h wounds. achet, pains, sores. etc, Il Is the
~ bhEs,f,,ai remedy we Know Of. No family
ress ~ without hottie OF u for single hour.
-, ,he Cincinnati DispGtch
rS.,S s,ra ils magic Effects, and kRoto Il 10 b.
sood article 49,, s,.,.. ..,,.., ~.
Il pbsnkh rfn~siA:
feld ss,g years OF use | Am satisfied 10 10 posi-.
NV .ericpt as a healing remedy for wounds
irs.ses and sprains'
N SNAPPER, Vsldosts, Ga saws;
Mis pssseea for al bruises and burns.
-, p ", ADAMS, Sac0, Me-:
fhtssss me immediate relief.
=. = soS,v vears' use Il never has failed me.
a. u I'm Nicholyille, y. V, says;
is,s your N-ktLLtR frequently. Ii -eiieret
Ia spt soreness aad hcdie wounds Ike mage.
~ ,cads and buns y has no equal.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-03
The Bsard OF Aldermen and the
Water Question.

A called meeting OF the Board Of Alder
men was held Yesterday morning.
Present: Meisrs. Meredith, president
Barksdale, Bass. Cabell, Crenshaw, Gasser,
Glasgow, Kelley, Smith, Wexford, and
williams.
The clerk read the Joint resolutions
passed by the Common Council on Thurs
day afternoon (which were published in
The Dispatch OF yesterday. appointing Z
special committee CT two from the Board Of
Aldermen and three from The Com.
mon Council, together with the Com
millee on Water, the City Attorney,
the City Engineer, the Superintendent ol
the Water Works. Colonel II. ID. Whitcomb,
and Msior f. I. d. Myers. to confer with
the Allegheny railroad authorities and the
representatives OF all concerns receiving
their wster-supply from the canal and basin
with view TO making some arrangement
satisfactory TO all parties interested by
which the city may be supplied With water
without deiriment to the Interests OF others.
A competing proposition was suggested,
but not moved, by DR.. Wexford, which
was to put the whole matter In The hands ol
the Water Committee and the experts
named In the resolutions.
After a discussion Of the subject, which
was participated in by several members,
the sctiou Of the Common Council was con-
CURED 10 by the following vote:
AYKs.-Hsssrs. Barksdae, Bars. Caoell, Cren.
shaw Gasser, GissAow, Weliordi Williams, an'
Meredith ..
NoRs.-Messrs. Kelly and Smith,.
The Board then adjourned.
The conference committee and parties In
interest met In the Chancery- Court room
last night. and bad a lengthy interchange OF
views. Various propositions and schemes
were discussed, including the offer hereto
fore made by the manufacturers to divide
water with the city. II was, however, I'M
possible for the committee to come TO any
definite conclusion, and they adjourned TO
meet on Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Il Is understood that the manufacturers
are still willing (aiter the open gale neir
Hollywood is closed) to make the division
OF water some time ago suggested, and IL
the city needs any more they will yield II
for fair consideration.
General Anderson was OF opinion that by
letting in the water at BOsher's dam the
cansl stream would be raised at least foot,
and the benefits accruing therefrGm would
be mutually beneficial TO the city and to the
manufacturers.
The Committee on Water will meet thu
evening at 9 O'Clock
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-03

Election Of DelegateS.-The Democratic
Conservative voters OF this city meet in the
several wards tonight to elect seven dele
gates 10 the District Convention soon 10 be
held at Chesterfield Courthouse for the
nomination Of two candidates for the House
OF Delegates for Chesterfield and Powhatan
counties and the city OF Manchester.