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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-03-29
BEAUTY.

Ever the Spring returns with skies serene,
And balmy breath of infant buds and
flowers;
Ever the hills renew their primal green,
And melodies that gladdened earth's
first hours
Are heard again in many a hazel screen.
Warm hearts turn cold, quick pulses cease
to beat,
And love grows languid in the lapse of
time;
But beauty still tempts youths pursuing
feet,
Bright eyes are endless themes for pass
toned rhyme,
And lovers vows will be forever sweet.
Great souls nave died for truth and left
their fame
To be the watchword of another age;
But virtue, justice, courage, and high aim
Descend through time, a common hert-
tage,
And heroes live to-day in all but name.
Years wax and wane, the good and true re
main;
How sweet love is mine own heart tell
eth me.
Mine eyes nave seen the Summer In the
plain,
And in the crowded street, unwittingly,
may ave passed a martyr in his pain.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-03-29

An interesting rumor comes from
New Orleans to the the effect that Gen.
George Pierre Che has dropped the
Pierre) ToussaInt Beauregard is about
to marry Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
the widow of the dead Commodore.
Beauregard, as all the world knows,
was II of the greatest engineers Off
GERS on either side in the late war.
Carefully trained at West Point, where
he graduated second in his class in 1910,
he rendered valuable services to the
United States in the Mexican war, and
invaluable services against it in the war
of the rebellion. He is considered to-
day one of the foremost military engin-
GERS of his time by competent critics.
Some of them contend that he is the
equal of any engineer since Vauban.
Certain it is that he is very highly
spoken Of, and that some of his work
that at Manassas battlefield, in Virginia
for examples pointed out by the older
officers of the aBmy as a model for the
young Iieutelants of the corps. He is,
however, nothing more than a great
engineer. He was not a good fighter,
and after the war he failed signally in
an attempt.to revive a Southern rail-
road which was on its feet within six
months after he lett its presidency, and
is now striding forward into permanent
prosperity. Perhaps, since we have no
great engineering work for him to do,
Gen. Beauregard is best employed
as he is at present in assisting to man
age a lottery enterprise at a salary of
$4,000 a year. Gen. Beauregard is a
short, shapely, handsome old gentle
man, with gray hair and white nous
tache and a ruddy face. He has the
appearance and accomplishments of a
courter of the days of Louis XIV,
and, withal, hosts of friends. lie has
buried two wives and has a married son
and a married daughter in New Orleans.
Mrs. Vanderbilt was the reigning belle
of Mobile while yet very young, in the
years Immediately preceding the war.
She was not pretty, but was exceeding
ly neutrality-suspicious. " stylish, "
lovely, "the old beaux say. She married
William ii. Elliot, a New Orleans law
yer but they did not agree with one an
other, and finally separated by way of
the CO SO For several years Mrs. Ell
liot, who was stin very attractive, sup
ported herself and her mother by teach
ing music. They had met the Wander
bits before her first marriage, and it is
SAID that the Commodore, who admired
them, quietly contributed to their sup
port through her mother, after her sep
aration from her husband. Be this as
it may, they met again in the North af-
ter the war, and when Mrs. Vanderbilt
died Mr.. Vanderbilt married Mrs. Ell
hot. Now she is a handsome widow of
about forty, with a legacy of SS00,00O
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"Our A american Cousin.''

Speaking of Pompeli a well known
Presbyterian divine Of London, now
visiting Naples, has told one II the
best things connected with the btried
city that has been heard for long 1ime.
This divine has not only the advantage
of being a Scotchman, but also thtt of
having had some experience in Ambrica
in travel in the United States, and in
residence in Canada only a few hours
distant from the "Greater Britains" as
Sir Charles Dixie termed u couhtrY.
A few days ago, at dinner time, helper
ceived opposite to HIM at the tabled 1hote
of his hotel a gentleman who, bY his
peculiar observations, freely giyeh in
backswoods English, proclaimed him
self to be an American, and ONE. of
those men, probably the son of a 'ig-
norant Irish emigrant, who, by native
force of character, had worked upJfrom
poverty to a certain degree of ~afi4ence.
His brain, however, had not been filled
with knowledge as his purse had
been with dollars. He evident
ly had succeeded in his own
neighborhood as a lumber1san OR a
small trader, and finding himself pos
sessed of means, thought that a little
foreign travel would set him up ID the
world. Vanity and great self-efteem
are oftentimes the accompanimeJts of
acquired wealth without cultuY and
these two qualities prevent SUCH men
from getting information by inquiries,
as they do not wish to show their igno-
rance by asking questions about things
which others seem to know all dboat.
So our baekwoods american Cousin"
had come all the way to Naples, and
had never heard of Pompeii, although
he chad heard tell of Vesuye." No
ticing that travellers all around him
went to Pompeh, he considered it the
correct thing for him to do. lid had
been here two weeks, and had never
put a single question about the city, so
that when he arrived there, entering it
by the marine gate, down which poured
the commerce of Pompeli eighteen cent
uries ago, he was taken aback 10 see
ruins Of houses emerging from the strata
of pumice-stOne and ashes. He for once
orgot his Ignorance, and with an air
of surprise, horror, and almost stupefac-
ton he northumberland on airth's
the matter with this place? Sometimes
wrong herel Why 1t seems all Kiyered
up, and the peepul all dedl' 1t has
been the standing joke with hls compan-
ions eyer since. But his s~hrewdness and
native wit, as a general thing, keep
him yen with the John Bulls who sur
round him
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-03-29
NUMBER 81.
PrunIng-How and what.

The manner IN which vi often see
trees hacked and cut, with long stubs
left at the base Of the branches cut off,
and strips of bark peeled down from the
place where they we're removed, mdi-
Gates a lack of intelligence or care, or
both, on the part of the operator. The
man who has the care of an orchard
from the start a give no valid excuse
for having badly-shaped trees, so far as
pruning can control them. A fruiterer
should be able, as he stands by his
young tree, to look into his future and
mentally see that tree when grown to
large size, and to judge Of the effect
that every branch he leaves on it will
have on the shape and balance of the
head. Every limb not needed to COM
plete the symmetry and balance Of the
head should be rubbed off with the
hand as soon as it appears. a forked
tree should not be suffered to live. 1t is
an insufferable nuisance. If one branch
cannot be cut off and the other used for
the stem of the tree, then let botE>be
removed and a vigorous sprout be select
ed from those that start and trained for
a trunk forming a head at the proper
height. But trees are often required to
be pruned after having reached a consi-
derable size. In that case two or three
general principles should be kept in
view. One is that a perfect balance
should always be maintained in number,
weight and extent of the branches over
the base Of the trunk of the tree. An
other is that the centre of the head
should always be kept free and open to
access of both air and sunlight. Fruit
that grows entirely in the shade is
neither so highly colored nor 50 finely
favored as that which has had the ben
eft of sunlight. In pruning a large
tree the operator should begin at the
centre and prune outward. All branches
not needed to make a we'll balanced
head, with branches evenly distributed,
must 60. The branches left should be
so far apart that even when grown large
they may not interfere by rubbing or
chatting. The style Of growth of a tree
is to be taken into account in pruning,
so that the shape of the tree may be
properly regulated and controlled. If
the tree is a spreading grower, the lower
and outside branches should be cut in
preference to the upper or inside branch
es; but if 1t be a very upright grower,
then the reverse course is to be followed.
Wherever gaps or vacancies occur the
surrounding branches may be cut back
to buds or branches pointing in the
direction of such vacancy. By giving
attention to these principles it is not
difficult to 50 control the form of the
tree as to have a wel|l-balanced, shapely
tree that will carry heavy crops without
the danger OF splitting to pieces OF
tumbliQg out by the roots, as is too fire.
oslently the>ease with i'll shaped and
badly balanced trees.
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Men In PettIcoats.

Men appeared in Elizabeth's time in
rufus, plated, and plated as daintily
as any dame; they carried fans and
pocket glasses by which to arrange any
occasional disorder in their dress. Then
too, they carried muffs, and revived a
fashion of wearing earrings. But lest
it should seem that this arraignment OF
men is, piece by piece, taking from our
forefathers all title to our respect, it
| should be mentioned that to men origi'
nally belonged the right to wear ruffs
by virtue of original ownership. 1t
was only when ladies invaded mascu-
line privileges, ana took to ruffs, that a
competition began, in which each sex
strove to Guido the other in e~Xtraya-
gance, and the heads of people appeared
as if borne on linen trenchers. Ear
rings. too, we're worn by men before
the conquest. This cannot be held to
exonerate men from blame nor divert
us from the conclusion that at certain
periods men have generally adopted and
unseemly display and been guilty of al
effeminate refinement in dress.
1t is not so much to the discTedit of
Englishmen that they wore petticoats
and stomachers in early days, when
those were recognized parts of male
costume, as it is to the disgrace of their
| descendants who took up the wearing
of fripperies and fneries proper to wo-
men-the dissolute cavaliers who, after
the restoration, pranked themselves out
in laces and ribbons and feathers and
flowing curls, or the cravated and
bewigged dandies and maccaronies of
the succeeding reigns, who, with their
garnished coats, laced cnffs, silk
breaches, clicked stockings and
buckled shoes we're at least as fine and
certainly no less depraved than theiI
fathers. 1t is well that masculine
dress has now distinct lines of demar-
cation, and has become generally dark
and somber in color, so that, although
"masherso and "dudes'' perpetuate
effeminacy in men they have not at least
the advantages which gaudy apparel
and common garments might give
them in parading the degenerate dain-
tiness of which they seem so unwprth'
lily vain. ~
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How to Defy Old Age.

1t has been generally believed for a
long time that sooner or later the sci
entists would discover the secret of
indefinitely prolOnging human life.
Why people should cease to be young
in appearance and feeling when, in
reality, they are young in years, and
why they should grow old, fall into the
sere and yellow leaf and shuttle off this
mortal coil just when they are begin.
ming to enjoy life, are mysteries of Il
tantalizing and yet fascinating charac-
ter. But general reflections are not in
order in discussing a matter of such
vital interest. The world will learn
with breathless interest that the scien-
fists have at last succeeded in agreeing
upon a course of treatment which,
they think, Will have the effect of sus-
pending the Entertainments of old age.
The fact having been noted that, after
passing middle life the process of ossi-
Gcation becomes markedly developed
until it ushers in senlle deerepitude, it
has occurred to our scientific friends
that the arrest of this ossiic tendency
would naturally ward off or delay the
coming of old age. To make ii still
plalner suppose we put it in this way;
Old age, instead of being an accumula-
ton of years, is simply a slow but
steady accumulation Of calcareous
matter in the system. The proven
ton of the deposit in any considerable
quantity of this calcareous matter is a
bar to the approach of the physical and
mental decline called old age. 1t would
be interesting to follow these scientists
step by step in their Investigations and
discoveries, but within the limits of
this brief article we have barely space
for their conclusions, The main point
is the method recommended for the
prevention of |calcareous accumulations.
OF course this is a matter of diet. We
must use bread in moderation, fruit III
abundance, fish, poultry, young NUT
ton and veal. heterogeneous food must
be avoided. The next thing is to drink
several glasses of distilled water con-
tanning ten or fifteen drops Of diluted
~phosphoric acid every day. This has
the effect of dissolving any calcareous
matter in the system. Believers in the
Malthusian theory will probably view
this discovery with disapprobation, and
it is not to be denied that the effect
will be to augment our population. To
some extent it will create a revolution
in the business world. If u middle
aged men go to dosing themselves with
distilled water and phosphoric acid i'll
stead of red eye" there isno telling
how long they will last, and their
refusal to be laid on the shelf viii de-
Law the progress Of our young men, or
make them push forward with redoub-
led energy. The future experiments
of the scientists in their tussle with Ga
Father Time will be watched with in
tense interest, as the resul1 intimately
concerns US all.
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was needed for the course of treatment
l was compelled to prescribe, but she
never questioned the wisdom of the
harshest measures, or shrank from any
remedy | advised. So, together, my
patient and l won back the boon of
health to the young frame, and | proved
my theory by curing Lima of the hered-
itary illness we had all feared would
end her young life. And while l strove
to master the disease, 1 found my love
for the child | had taken to my poor
home was but the beginning of my
~manhood's M strong love. My profess
sion had filled heart and brain for many
long years, and my lonely life had
known no sunshine so bright as the
winter visit of my child love. But in
this intercourse of more mature years
| learned that God-sent lesson of true
and perfect love, lacking which no life
is complete. And l Won an answering
devotion from the fair, sweet maiden,
who seemed but my own tender, loving
child come back to me. In all heryears
in her uncle's home, the petted darling
there, my Lima had lost nothing of that
modest grace and patient sweetness of
her child life. She seemed too fair and
gentle fer this rough world. When l
told her she was well, needing no more
my skill or care, she lifted her eyes with
a strange fear there.
"Well," she answered, "does that
mean that you will leave me alone
AGAIN."
Then | told her how l loved her, and
the sweet face rested upon my bosom,
and the low voice answered.
81 have loved you since first l saw
you! You win not leave me again?"
"Never!'
And have kept my word. There
was no voice raised in opposition when
| sought my bride, and once more my
freside Is frightened, my home cheerd,
my heart made happy, by the gentle
presence of Lima. my wife.
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While the Central train for the west
was waiting at the station in Albany
the other day, for the Boston train, the
passengers in the smoking car were
entertained by a conversation conduc-
ted in pretty loud tones about Wander
bilt. One man said it was an outrage
that Vanderbilt did not throw out any
flag from his residence on Evacuation
day, and that Kisses from the process
sion were the consequence. And then
considerable was said about Wander
bits greed and uncharitableness.
"Well," said a well-dressed man,
putting away at his cigar, Il can tell
you a story about Vanderbilt that con-
Germs myself, and that | know al
about-no hearsay. Several years ago
l was conductor on the Fourth-avenue
horse railroad, New York. 1t was at
the time when the tw%enty.cent piece
first made their appearance, and you
know they looked very mnch like and
were about the size of the twenty-five
cent pieces. Horse a conductors
had to keep a sharp lookout for these
pieces or they would take them for
twenty-five cents. When In the neigh
borhood of Madison square II day
w. II. Vanderbilt got in my car. As
l passed along to g st fares lie gave
me a twenty-cent pieC ;,and 1 promptly
rr,vy, him farrr{nan -ann4C IN nhrunorA
When we got up to the station where
we were to change horses l was sent
for to come to the office. There sat
Vanderbilt, and lie began at nee to
ask me questions. lie did not know
whether l knew him or not, but l did.
Said he:
you're a conductor on this road,
amt your"
eyes"
"What's the fare on this %railroad?"
"Six cents"
care you pretty good at arithme-
tic?"
Eyes, sir"
"Do you remember what change you
gave me?"
Eyes, sir; fourteen cents"
"Do you know what piece of money
L gave your"
"a twenty-cent piece. eh?" land
soon a change came over his counten-
ance. which up to this time had been
pretty severe and STERN. "Iave you
got the piece?"
81 think l have, sir" and the piece
was produced.
Vanderbilt looked at it carefully,
and added:
That's what l gave you eh?"
Then it vas the conductors turn.
q think L have convinced you
against your will"
81 was a triae worried" said the
conductor, ''as to what might grow out
of the incident, for l did not want to
be turned out of my place, especially
for any lack of duty or attention on
my part. However, my anxiety was
soon received. Several DAYS passed
when l received a note from the office
telling me that l had been promoted.
To my joy, L found a desk in the gen.
eral office waiting for me at a good
salary, and L have been there ever
since. | have no reason to find fault
with Vanderbilt"
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800, 900 for each year of her life with
tbs Commodore, as some one has OBJ
served-and nothing to prevent her
marrying anybody she pleases to marry.
Mrs. Vanderbilt is, as is well known,
like her late husband, a great admirer
of the Rev. DR.. Deems. of the Church
of the Strangers, New York city. Van
derbilt University at Nashville, Tenn,
probably owes its existence to the ap-
peas made by DR., Deems and Mrs.
Vanderbilt to the dead millionaire.
General Beauregard, a creole in every
thing else, is presumably a member of
the Roman Catholic Church.
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Vancouver, w. t., seems to b.
the headquarters for runaway couples
in that neighborhood. Ninety runaway
couples from Oregon were married there
during 1888.
1t has been decided by the Attorney
General of Iowa that the > LADIES Of
teachers are due monthly, I'd when
not so paid interest can be co ecaed on
arrearages.
A MONTANA statesman Is namei Ma
ginnis M. Ma9innis, The middle let
ter is thought 10 stand for Maginpis,
and a vague suspicion is gaming a
footing that he may be of Irist de-
scent,
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-03-29

A MANS brain weighs three and a halt
pounds. A woman's BRAIN Is some
what lighter but of finer quality. That
is what enables her to taste lard in her
neighbours pastry.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-03-29

The curicls man goes about to crafty
his curiosity but he will probably
never travel far enough to find Ar.
thing more curious than himseI
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-01-12
Fairs Crimes.

Senator Fair IS being abused be-
cause he, during the holidays. gave
S25. 900 in charity. There are many
worse men than Fair, and, regard
ing him, we would quote tee
Savior and say, "Let him that is
without sin cast the first stone"
Mr.. Fair does better in his life
work than his critics and detractors
bu: lacks tho capacity OF getting
himself doomed. If there were no
worse men than he. this would not
be a very bad world. His princi-
pal crime is that he is rich.-Poet
We imagine that if persons who
knew Fair pretty well were asked
to give list of his crimes, they
would recite a good many before
they put riches down upon the cat
egory. Fairs crimes is not wealth
but the infamous methods by
which lie acquired it. After a man
las manipulated other peoples
property until he has extracted
millions from the peoples pockets,
he can we'll afford to give one per
cent of his plumber to the poor.
The gift of $4,000 to benevo,ence
may cause the Post to forget poor
Fred Smith but the public has q
longer memory. A man who was
but q few months ago pronounced o
double-dyed william by nearly every
paper in the United States, seems
to have in the estimation OF
some people. leaped back upon the
pedestal of saint at a single bound.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-01-12
GOOD SOLID TALK.

tits we'll known fact that Con-
cress is under the control Of the
Speaker of the House. When Mr..
Daggstt was in Congress he tried
all thro agh the session to get the
floor but was unable to 90 SO.
Congressman Belford, of Colorado
has made speech on this subject
which conmerds itself for good
sturdy sense.
The Speaker laid before the
House Wednesday the message OF
the President submitting the an
nual report of the Mississippi Xiv
er Commission. A long discussion
followed motion by Willis to re-
fer the message to the River and
Harbor Commission. Bedford, OF
Colorado, said: "This discussion
showed the damnable, Internal
character OF the rules under which
The Hou se acted. There was a
Committee on Ways and Means
composed OF the brains CT the
House. Then there was Commit
tee on Appropriations. The Com
mittee on Appropriations was com
posed of white buttoned mandarlns.
(Laughter.] The other committees
were mere slaves, compe' led to bow
their nec..s to ask the Speaker to
recognize them. 1t was spectacle
a, sweet as the Hebrews observed
when they saw the oil running
down the beard of Aaron to See the
Democratic brethren qua're!lng
over the reference of great subjects.
He was in favor of voting not one
million. but thirty millions to ac-
complish advantages for the peo-
pie. The Treasury was to-day gov
erned BY New York influence. 1t
held in its vaults hundreds of mil
lions of dollars kept there, IN his
Judgment, for the sole purposes OF
advancing the finances OF New
York and Pennsylvania. But the
House to-day was in control OF the
South and West, and he thanked
God for it. The country ha6 sub
mitted to the dominion OF two
States, a little section not as large
as one county in his State, long
enough. Now let the Southern
and Western men stand together
and say they would unlock the
vaults of tie National Treasury and
use the money to improve the wat
or ways Of the country to the end
that the interests Of the people shall
not be overborne or torn down by
the railroad corporations of the
Republic. Every committee should
have the privilege of reporting at
any time. The members should
have the right at all convenient sea,
SOILS. Two men, under the present
rules, controlled the House-the
Speaker and the gentleman from
Indiana (Holman)-who exercised
the veto power by way Of constant
objection. The House refused
yeas 124, nays 143-ihe reference
to the Committee on Mississippi
Levees, and referred the message t
the Committee on Rivers and Har
hove
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-01-12

It is rumored that Jim Keen has
purchased Delmonico's restaurant.
He attempted to board there by the
week, aud doubtless found that it
would be cheaper to purchase the
place outright.