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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09

those women who do not hare sufficient
help, and are obliged to put up fruit
hastily and with many Interruptions, or
not at all.
GREEN CCcUMBER CATsUP-To make
green cucumber catsup, take three dozen
good sized cucumbers and six small
white onions; crate the cucumbers;
sprinkle pepper and salt to your taste
over them. Heat enough cider vinegar
to cover them, and pour over. Put IN
large month bottles, and pour melted
wax over the cork If the airs kept from
them, when you open a bottle in mid
winter. the odor will be delightful to the
lover of the sometimes dangerous GU
cumber. By the way, if plenty OF salt
is put into the cold water IN which
the sliced cucumbers should lie tor an
hour before dinner, no bad effects are
likely to ensue from eating them. Ii
YOU have not the hour, and have the Gu
cumber for DINNER, after slicing 1T put
| il between two plates, scattering salt
plentifully over the slices; then shake
them Welt for FIVE minutes between the
plates.
GRAHAM BREaD-that can be started
after breakfast and baked before dinner
is made of one pint and half OF sour
milk, two scant teaspoonfuls of soda
dissolved in little hot water, hall
cup of New Orleans molasses, q tea
spoonful of salt, and as much sifted
graham flower as can be stirred in with
spoon. Grease a large bread tin very
evenly, as the molasses in the bread rem
ders it liable to stick, put into the oven
and bake for two hours. Have the oven
hot when the bread is put in, and to-
ward the last half of the last hour let
it cool gradually. Or, this bread may
he steamed for one hour and three
quarters, and be dried off in the oven
twenty miutes. When it is taken from
the oven wrap towel around the loaf,
the tin and all, and in ten minutes, re.
move from the tin, and keep the loaf
wrapped in the cloth until it is sent to
the table.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
The Baby's second Summer

There are three sources from which
harm to the children may be antlcl-
mated during the coming three months.
These are the process of teething, indi-
pestion. and the heat. An account OF
the troubles incident to these clrcum-
stances would now be seasonable and
possibly interesting to many. AT All
events, these matters are standard
tepics of conversation among mothers,
evidence that they at least know of the
gravity of the troubles in question.
Although q thermometer is not ex-
actly indispensable where there are
Young children. yet it is q great con-
yenience. for until the external temper
ature rises to about ninety degrees III
tie trouble may be expected from the
heat. Troubles due to the cause just
named are best combated by frequent
snonoing of the face, arms, hands, and
feet with simple cool water. Children
that are so treated will be much less
liable to be affected injuriously by the
heat and other matters now to De
spoken of.
The liability to indigestion increases
as the summer heat approaches the
maximum point. In the treatment o.
| this trouble the old rule about preven'
ton will be especially useful. At thil
time the avoidance of fat and heated
foods and of uhwholesome breast anc
other milk are very important points
The foods most suitable for summer us'
can be named in short order. Use tn
most nutritious and digestible sub
stances that can be commanded. Meat
| baked or boiled used cold. Cold cul
custard, rice pudding, cold, good ice
cream, milk and sponge cake ar
prime articles Of summer diet for All
| and especially for children who ca
| use food other than milk.
The eruption of the teeth goes o.
most vigorously during the secont
wear of the child's life, and make
i Unusual demands on its vital powers
This circumstance accounts for tn
more serious outlook of all the disease
that may occur at this period OF tn
child's life. When a child is teethin
and appears in great general distress
with perhaps hot and dry skin, muc
relief may be afforded by allowing .
abundance of cold water to drink an
by q cool bath, followed BY sharp rus
: bings of all parts of the child's body
But if. on the other hand, the chill
should be attacked by sudden vomi
| inc and purging, with much apparer
t weakness and cool skin. medical q
J vice should be had with al specs
t While waiting for the coming OF th
i doctor, drop Of the best brandy
{ hot. sweetened water. should be give
!. by the mouth. Hot spice plasters g
3 Piled to various parts of the bod,
!. notably the stomach, would also
o useful.-P1silddelphid Times.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
The Language of Parasols.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati Enquirer
Sentimental parasoIs are to be in
fashionable and coquettish use this sum-
mer. They will be to their carriers what
fans are to the belle of Spain-implement
of devastation to male hearts. This was
tacitIy agreed upon by all New York
girls. who kept up with the procession
lust A. soon as they saw that elaborate
and picturesque sunshades were to be
feature of summer life at the resorts;
but it was not until the night before last
that any concert of action was arranged.
| was then present at a secret conference
of small but highly influential number
Of our most approved bellies, and was
delegated to publish the outcome OF the
important deliberations. After a gene
raj discussion of the questions at issue,
during which it was abundantly set
forth that inanimate- articles can be
employed effectively in firtations, and
greatly to the relief of facial expression
besides possessing the advantage OF
b2ing noncommittal-th following code
of signals and signifcances was adopted
unanimously:
Opening the parasol quickly, with the
point upward-YOu interest me.
Closing in the same Manner am
not favorably impressed by you.
Opening with the point downward
Acquaintance would not he disagreeubl'
to me.
Closing similarly-Any advance woul6
be repelled
Closed and carried over the righ
shoulder-Beware of observers.
Closed over the left shoulder-we arr
watched
Reyoiyed slowly while open-l like
YOU,
Revolved rapidly love you.
Used as cane-HOu may walk will
me.
Laid across the Iap-You may sit b,
ne.
Carried under the right arm y es
Under the left arm.--No.
Swung point down in front-kindl,
salutatiOn.
Moved perpendicularly while heI
open over the head-Good-
Reyolved open behind the back-1o
NAV follow me.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
Anecdote of Washington Irving

Many years ago-in fact, back in the
thirties-Dr. Grant, of Enfield, whose
reputation as physician of Connecticut
is still in memory of the first rank after
wears of retirement from practice, was
travelling in South Carolina. his native
State. going by stage from Savannah to
Augusta. At q certain stopplng-place
it was found that there were more pas
sengers than the stage could carry, ana
an extra was ordered for the aecomodat-
ion of five passengers. These passengers
we're John Forsyth, of Georgia, John
Branch Postmaster-General, George
McDuffie. of South Carolina, DIR. Grant,
and an unknown gent enan. The party
soon became talkative, and by degrees all
knew who each one was, with the ex-
ception of the one silent stranger. As
the stage creaked along, the attention OF
DR.. Grant, who was a lad at that date,
was attracted by a little dog following
the stage, which reminded him OF one
described by Washington Irving IN
Astoria, which he had Just been reading
He was laughing quietly to himself
when one of the gentlemen insisted that
he should tell them the cause OF ms
amusement, that they might join in the
fun. DIR. Grant said, THAT little dog
reminds me of Washington Irving's dog
whose skin was so tight that it drew uE
his hind-legs."
This led to a talk about Irving, II
which all Joined except the unknown
man. One of the gentlemen then appeal
ed TO him, and asked if he did not think
Irving one of our wittiest and most de
Eghtful writers. The person appealed
to replied that he could not say that h
did. The gentlemen all expressed thei
establishment, and one of them persisted
in demanding why he did not agree viii
the others in their admiration of tn
tsvorite author.
Have you ever read any of his works
they asked.
"Yes," was the reply.
"Well, don't you think the Sketc
Book enc of the most beautiful spec
mems Of English which our country IA
produeedF'
"Well, no." the unknown replied
u can not say that I see anything II
markable in it.D
"Well," said the other, 'then 20
must be Washington Irving himsel
for no one else could resist the hume
and pathos of his pen"
The unknown colored to the roots I
his hair, but made no reply, and b
tormentol continued:
Come, tell US the truth; are you N
Washington Irving himselff7
The poor man at last blusbingly CO
fessed that be was, and then followed
general introducing and hand-skakinI
and delightful and neEeF-to-be-forgo
ten stage-ride.-Editor's Drawer,
Harper Magazine for July.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09

SOME of the newspapers are discussing
the frequency of railroad accidents and
the RESPONSIBILITIES of the railroad COM
panies. There is no doubt that rail
road company is directly responsible for
large number of accidents. which occur
A company is not to blame Tor an ac-
cident happening to an individual VINO.
transgresses its regulations, but collisions :
are ayoidable; the breaking down OF
bridges and culyerts is avoidable. lt IS
fact which few companies can deny
that their engineers, conductors, brake
men. switchmen and firemen are gene
raIly oyerworked. So are the train dis
natehers on many roads. An engineer
Who does not get the sleep which natnre
asserts he must have and a train DIS
| hatcher for a division, who works fifteen
or eighteen hours at stretch be
fore he is relieved, are in no condition
i 10 he AT their posts. Neither are over
worked switchman. A train dispatcher
| who makes a slight mistake in placing
trains on his division of the road may
bring two of them together in a very
ldestruetiye collision. Engineers some
times do continuous service Tor forty
Eeioht hours and longer. 1t is no wondel
that they sometimes sleep in the cab ane
| how can they help it? Then in the case
| Of bridge accidents: Is it not the busl
mess Of company to be absolutely Ger
/ tain of the security of their bridges
Are not bridge disasters almost inyarla
/ bly the result of defective construction
or weakening which ought to have bee
! discovered by inspection and remedled
!. Collisions are beyond doubt Preventa6l'
disasters. There is, in fact, substantia
hasis for demand upon the companle
by the public for greater care ana r
vision. No desire to economize sn0nl
be effectuated in a way which VIII pro-
Injurious to the public. People VII
travel by rail assume that company
! usin0 all human ingenuity TO lnsur
|. their safety. The confidence should nc
, / he abused. &C Chicago Current.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
Men and Women.

It has long been deplored, says the
London Times, that when brothers ana
sisters meet in the holidays they have
so few topics in common; that Is, SO
fev derived from their several courses
of study. They have nothing to say
to one another, unless it be such talk
as thev mioht have without any educa-
ton, and in which they are posslDly
beaten by those who have had none'
Yet It can not be denied that there are
studies more proper, and more easy; 10
one sex than the other, and that what
we find to be the custom must pc IN .
0reat measure our rule for the future
fhere is here or there female prodigy,
bylt women are certainly not at home
in the dead languages. A lady VIII
tell Won. no doubt with truth, that she
has read through the Eneid with her
father. Try her. She can not con-
strue a line. Few women can put up
with philology. The bare mention OF
. derivation gives them the tdgess.
They can not, like men, spend an
evening in harmonizing dates and
periods. They are without the calLl
partiality which the historian must q
least assume, unless he IS eonten. y
advocate a cause. They are wanunE
in the judicial power necessary % a
action as well as opinion. Ihey mus
he interested-that is, made partlsans
I'm the other hand, they have immens'
nower for the acquisition and master.
of details. especially if at all OF . plct
,,rasnue character. They can make ~
agreeable and instructive narrative on
| of the stuff a philosophic or constltu
t;onal historian throws aside. But Q
almost every work of the intellect an
the hioher faculties they seem doome.
70 faIi short. The s.nobler" sex, as
i arroCantly and unfairly called. %
80 far always the advantage. Ina
women can feel as noble as men, an
act as nobly, none can donoL ~ ~
II when it comes to the trial OF strengsl !.
the poem, the history, the essay, y
sneech. or what not, they are peatei
Here they have fair fleld ana I, Z
e favor. vet they are distanced. IN
natnral difference must always De
difficulty in the common use q e
J ar,ir atoms. schools, or other acaa
mic aT,nliances. The universities q
s. nresent adapted to the case OF me
. # can hardly becontemplated that fns
! shall be neutralized so as TO aim at
mean between the sexes. Special no
ors for the several subjects go son
wav ia meet the difficulty, but there
hsy5lv i subject, unless it be pu
: mathematics, ,,,. that can not be treat.
Ia 4 masculine or in feminine sly
as may be required.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09

less: and Joel was quite proud OF her.
Willy was not neglected for the little
girls sake. In those days children went
earlier to the factory and worked longer
than they do now, and by the tire the
sister was FIVE years old Willy became
factory boy; and his pay put the lit-
tie girl to school. When she, at Z, went
to the factory too, Joefs life was alto
gether an easier one. He always had
maintained them all, from the day of
his mothers death. The times must
have been good-work constant and
wages steady-or he could not have done
it. Now, when all three were earning,
he put his sister to sewing school for
two evenings in the week and the Satur-
day afternoons; and he and Willy at
tended an evening school, as they found
they could afford it. He always escorted
the little girl wherever she had to go, into
the factory and home again, to the school
door and home again, and to the sunday
school; yet he was himself remarkably
punctual at work and at worship. De
was a humble, earnest, doeile pupil him
self at the Sunday school-quite un.
conscious that he was more advanced
than other boys in the sublime science
and practice of duty. He felt that
everybody was very kind to him, but nc
was unaware that others felt 1T an honor
to be kind to him.
linger on these years when he was q
/ fine, growing lad, in state of high con
tent. l linger, unwilling to proceed
But the end must come; and 1t is sooI
told. He was 16, think, when he was
asked to become a teacher in the Sunday
school, while wholly not ceasing to be
scholar. He tried and made capita
| teacher, and he won the hearts OF the
children while trying to open theil
| minds. BY this he became more widely
known than before.
One day in the next year tremendou;
clatter and crash was heard in the fac
tory where Joel worked. A dead silence
succeeded, and then several called oui
that it was only an iron bar that had
fallen down. This was true; but the
| iron bar had fallen on JoePs head, ano
he was taken up dead!
Such a funeral as his is rarely seen
There is something that strikes on al
hearts in the spectacle of a soldier
funeral-the drum, the march of com
rades, and the belt and cap laid on tht
coffin. But there was something more
solemn and more moving than all sucf
observance in the funeral of this younG
soldier, who had so bravely filled hi
place in the conflict of life. There wa
the tread of comrades here, for the
longest street was filled from end to end
For relics, there were his brother anc
sister; and for a solemn dirge, the un
controllable groans of heart stricker
multitude.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
Tests for Butter:

"Every housekeeper should be able to
tell oleomargarine from butter" said
Washington market dealer to reporter
Yesterday. "The market is full of bogus
butter, so skillfully made that it cannot
be told fIom the genuine article by the
eve or tongue. To detect it market-meen
draw the blade of a knife across the
suspected butter. If it is oleomargarine
the place where the knife was pressed
will look white, and the track of the
blade will be marked with little beads of
water. When the test is made with gen.
uine butter the white look does not ap-
pear, but the butter holds its color" ]"
Another test is to drop piece OF the
suspected butter into a well-heated Try,
ing pan. If it is oleomargarine it will
sputter because of the water in it. If 1t
is real butter it will melt and bubble OF
boil. but not sputter. Any housekeeper
can tell the differenee.-N. Y. Herald.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
tiquette of English weddings.


$ weddings in the English Style"
all the rage this season, It may be
resting TO mention 4 few points re-
ling what is considered the correct
q on the other side Of the Atlantic.
er the departure OF the bride and
legroom theparty atonce breaks up:
in London It is net customary to
& any fsstiyity in the eFening. IN
country there IS often 3 dance %
se those staying in the house
her cards nor cake are sent, and
pie discover for themselves when tbs
ng couple return from their wedding
and call at their rconvenienee. WheH
bride appears for the first ime at !
er II any house she takes pfeced
OF every one, no matter hoH higf
ank provided such appearance i
u three months of her marriage
which time she IS no longer con
8 bride. This custom IS, how
BEGINNING 20 fall into disa5e. ex
~ rural districts. The bride
Aees not obtain oEy precedence
4e 81 Ee1 wears her wedding dEa1
large dinners aud parties
1|1senl. mus. h5 removed +
pft1I| '6|s 31 tie we'd
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
HOME AND FARM.


DO Right.
There. spirit in the air
,nJ n5'i il whispers everywhere,
an Ah;.nsr. TO me and to you;
1t sni-gb5 l5 ,be message that it brings
1.s hns message fit for kings,
H,ssssge ever old, ever new.
r. bs. echoed down the ages,
AID the heroes and the sages,
a AZ me good and the great Of the past,
AM Dee heard the simple. story,
nd a. have tod "the paths Of glory
,fiJ al the halo Of light which it cast.
pr the martyrs prison lamp,
a. b1d the red glare Of the camp,
:, has ~. sounded in the stiffness soft and
,r5 the heart OF steel has bowed,
I'D anJ the craven heart been cowed
4, & he words Right do, and never fear
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
President JacksOn's Early Career

Born in such obscurity that 1t Is
doubtful to this day whether he was
horn in South Carolina, as he himself
claimed. or on the North Carolina side
of the line, as Mr.. Parton thinks, he had
a childhood of poverty and Ignorance.
He was taken prisoner as mere Doy
during the Revolution, and could never
forget that he was wounded by British
officer whose boots he refused to brush.
Afterwards in frontier community, he
was successfully farmer, ,shOp-keeper, law
student. lawyer, district attorney, judge,
and Congressman, being first Represen-
tatiye from Tennessee, and then Senator,
and all before the age OF thirty one. In
Congress Albert Gallatin describes HIM
as "a tall, lank, uncouth- looking per
sonage. with long locks of hair hanging
over his brows and face, and queue
down his back tied in an eel skin; his
dress singular, his manners and deport-
ment those Of back-woodsman. lie
remained, however, but year or two In
all at Philadelphia-theu the seat OF
natural government-and afterwards be-
came a planter in Tennessee, fought
duels. subdued Tecumseh and the Greek
Indians. winning finally the great oppor-
/ tunity of his life by being made Major
General in the United States army on
Nav 3lst, 1914. He now had his old
captors, the British, with whom to deal,
4 andhe entered into the work with a rel
ish. By way of preliminary he took
Pensacola, without any definite author
i itv. from the Spaniards, to whom it be
Ionped. and the English whom they har.
bored; and then turned, without orders
without support, and without supplies
to undertake the defence OF New Or'
leans.
as it was that the British threatened IT
the national authorities had done nothing
i to defend it. The impression prevailed
at Washington that it must already
] have been taken, but that the Presiden
would not let it be known. The Wash
ineton Republican of January Il, 1915
! aid .sThat Mr.. Madison will hnd i
convenient and will finally determine
7 IN abandon the State of Louisiana vi
) have not 4 doubt" A New York news
paper of January 80, quoted in Mr.. An
{ drew Stevenson's eulogy on Jacksol
) said. at is the general opinion here tina
) the city of New Orleans must fall." Ar
+ narentIy but one thing averted its fall
D the energy and win of Andrew Jackson
! on his own responsibility he declare
Il martial law, impressed soldiers, seize
{ powder and supplies, built fertilization
/ Of cotton bales, if nothing else came
2 hand. When the news Of the battle /
II New Orleans came to the seat Of govern
ment II was almost too beEildering &
belief. The British veterans Of the Z
Il ninsular war, whose march wherevl
4 they had landed had heretofore Seems
q holiday parade, we're repulsed In
,f manner 81 astounding that their loss "
4 more than two thousand, while that
= 1.-THE Americans was but thirteen. By
Il single strokethe enational self-Eespe v
y restored and Henry Clay, a Paris 81
81 Now / can "a 70 England witho
81 modification. NJ. Higginson,
he Harpers Magazine for July.
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the DOOR.

/ thought myself indeed secure
So fast the door, so firm the lock-
But 10 he teddling comes to lure
NY parent ear with timorous knock.
If my heart were stone, could it Withstand
The sweetness Of my baby's plea
That timorous, baby knocking and
sPlease let me in-it's only me?
I threw aside the unfinished book,
Regardless of its tempting charms,
And, opening wide the door, took
nv laughing darling in my arms.
Who knows but in Eternity,
]. like the truant child, shall wait
The glories of life to be,
Beyond the heavenly Fathers gate.
And will that Heavenly Father heed
The truant's supplicating cry
AS at the outer door / plead
'Tis /, o Father, only !"
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f,..l.er worms and Lager Beer

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On the un0eIslus = als '.ta.asss ,I...r Slastr
pie leaf to-day are nssA-s-s, -;,,,n-.s ,r.s, :
lines You can nos SO aiasa' ,, - -. =, =, :,
careful lnspection, n1s s /. !. .-,,-tl,;rs, -.
TOu viii nos &c anle = 80 q 80 -. 81
else. They spread ~ o1sl - s.s.o as.... . :
quickly - n.l1 .,.. .sl,a laavas.
communlty anu snsy 80 ~ ,-l.r,ls - tree
Kill the hraaI. An1 - s;,n E.sl
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09

A Wilmington Judge recently sem
fenced an umbrella thief to pay the
cost of prosecution, S. fine, to remain
one hour in the pillory, twenty lashes
and three years in the county jail: 1t IS
strongly suspected that the umbrella
was the property of the Judge who i'm
posed the sentence, and cost as much
as S1.50. If it had been $5 silk UNI
brella the thief would have been SEN
fenced to death NorriSs0aon Herald.