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Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1885-07-11

The article by "Obstructionist, .
addressed to the "editor" of the BAN
NER merits consideration. If the
statements made are true they should
be carefully weighed and every effort
made that is lawful to stop the water
works movement. We will examine
them. The first statement that the
"obstructionists" are "nine-tenths' of
the property owners, can be nothing
but matter of opinion, and from facts
known to us, we think that it is far
otherwise. Indeed, we know that
there are many property holders who
at the water election voted against the
measures, have declared themselves
now satisfied that they voted wrong.
The plea of the great cost frightened
them into voting as they did, but the
estimates and bids now before the pub
lie have convinced them that they
were deceived. Again, in the work
proposed to be done. Our correspon-
dent is possibly not aware that along
Broad Street all the service will be
directly from the 10-inch main, that
the 6 inch pipe will be for the chief
streets, and that The inch pipe is for
side streets, and that it will not be
necessary to lay 6 inch pipe, if more
pipe is needed than laid down in the
specifications. Perhaps he is also not
aware. thatit is not customary to lay
pipe in unoccupied lanes and side
streets, and that total of four miles
Of pipe will supply all the streets Of
the city where there is any need or
will be for years to come. Go to
Camden or Burlington, and there are
miles of outlying streets with no pipe,
but as soon as necessity arises the
demand pays for the pipe. Now, if
our correspondent will look over his
addition he will find that the total
length of pipe called for in the speci-
fications is 11,720 feet. or nearly 2t
miles. Add to this Ii miles of 6 inch
pipe, and then the total cost can be
reached. Fortunately these figures
are to be had, and according to the
terms Of the specifications, and the
total cost of the works with 4 miles of
pipes and the plugs, services of engin-
eer, pumping, is below 100000, and
party win contract to do it at
that price just as soon as
the city is ready. And here we ask,
why does cur correspondent in his es-
innate use theNfgures of Mr.. McNeal
a rejected bidder for the Burlington
extension. Is it fair to take-the high
est bidder of another town and use his
figures to estimate in the lowest Bev-
erly bidder? We think not. Again
in estimating the increased cost, salary
of the engineer, coal, oil, etc, are all
added in, but the receipts for water
rent are not deducted. How one
sided The rate of interest is fixed at
6 per cent, whereas there will be no
trouble in placing it at 5 per cent.
Now then with these figures let US do
a little arithmetic.
per cent. on $4,000 $1,000 90
Cost OF engineer, 100 90
" oil, ETC., 500 90
Total s275O 90
.s $3.50 % |
q MOO. 1900 90
Balance lobe provied for, 1850 90
Total. $3.50 90
The total assessment for Beverly is
G555 600 which will rnaLa n to- ~ !
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
How the Resting Place of the Dead Prince
in South Africa Appears.

How the Resting Place of the Dead Prince
in South Africa Appears.
The first thing that strikes one is the
extreme beauty and order of the little
enclosure. 1t looks like a little flower
garden with sloping banks on each
side. 1t was really, it seems, originally
a dry donga with dark black mud. and
the bottom is filled with the ~inclosure
and cross, whereas the sloping sides of
the donga are covered with the pretty
green expresses and pines now, per-
haps, six feet high. The country round
is fearfully plain. and near the place
where the Prince was killed little
brogen dongas abound. But the eye
rests on the pretty arrangement in the
planted Enclosure with pleasure. There
is first a little square, about ten feet
long and eight feet broad inclosed
with beautiful white quartz stones
brought from Emblungwane hill, close
by. 1t looks like a little marble wall q
foot high. Then the white stone cross,
put up by Queen Victoria, stands on a
pedestal, set upon some of the same
large whitish stones. A long inscrip-
ton says how it was put up by Queen
Victoria to the memory of the Prince
Napoleon. who was killed here, with
his face to the foe. There is .also in
the Enclosure a long flat, raised altar
tomb. with a cross worked upon it in
stones, and at the foot of this is a little
~crucitix, with an inscription in French.
Higher up in the inclosed piece
of ground is the site of another grave
with a recumbent cross, | suppose
to the memory of the soldier who was
killed at the same time trooper
Rogers, l think, of Bettington's horse),
but no name is to be seen. A native
was also killed at the same time. The
trees look so nice and green, and there
are several little beds made with stone
edgings in which are planted hydran-
geas. lilies and little shrubs. But are
and keeping in order are evident every
where. There is a little wooden cross
fast decaying, which records that it
was put up to mark the spot by the
Royal Scots Fusiliers. The little place
looks pretty, and outside are all the dry,
long grass and the ugly dongas. One
donga with water uns close to the
stone steps which lead to the cemetery.
and an embankment has just been put
up to prevent the water from washing
away the foundations of the wall which
runs all around the inclosure, and on
the top of which are planted aloes.
About fifty yards off is the mealie gar
den (the kraal is now gomez, where the
Prince rested. He seems to have been
getting away on foot when he was
killed, his horse having broken from
him. The river Ityotyo1i is about one
hundred yards below the garden. The
ground slopes to the river, so people
coming up from it could not be seen
through the long grass. The crest of
the hill on the other side of the river,
where the Zulus were first seen, is
about a quarter of Il mile off, but they
could make a circuitOus hidden APP
proach. The place.is four hours ride
from Rorke'S Drift, or more, and in a
desolate part of the country.-Natal
Mercury.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
WASH DRESSES.
The Muslins and Lawns Which Are Worn
During the Hot Weather.

The Muslins and Lawns Which Are Worn
During the Hot Weather.
Sheer muslins and lawns in light
colors are the comfortable morning
and day dresses worn in the country
during the midsummer heat: their
freshness is their charm, hence the
light colors that require frequent
cleansing are preferred to the dark
grounds that are confessedly chosen
because they do not show soil. To
make these simply and without lining,
yet to give a full appearance is the
modiste's object. To do this afounda-
ton skirt is first made of the material,
and on this is hung a deep f%ounce ex-
tending from Just below the hips to the
foot. and the top of this flounce is con-
cealed by the drapery; this gives the
effect of a round skirt, or at least a
very full skirt. For lawn dresses this
deep tlounce is gathered, and some
times is tucked in clusters of four
tucks, each in four or five clusters.
The drapery is a breadth of the lawn
drawn straight across the top, with
gathers down each side to make it
fully wrinkled, while the back has
fuller breadths tucked across the foot,
and slightly hontiant at the top. A
basque without lining is made Of the
lawn, and in front is a narrow Breton
vest tucked across, and buttoncd to
the basque by small pearl buttons down
each side; the buttOn-holcs arc worked
in the basque. and the buttons are on
the vest, so that it may pass under
the basque in true vest fashion. The
collar is tucked and turned over, yet it
is rolled so closely to the neck that it
gives the appearance of a standing col
lar; it must be detached from the vest,
but fastened to the basque so that it
a be hooked in front over the vest.
Other muslins are made with the
gathered belted waist, and are worn
with a sash or a belt. French mod stes
are using robe patterns with tlounces
for muslin and summer silk dresses,
having the skirt covered with three
deep Ilounces, scalloped on the edges,
and with a large pattern of flowers and
vine printed on each hounce. A very
wide sash ribbon is invariably worn
with such a skirt, and knots of the
ribbon trim the sleeves and the front of
the corsage.
Plaid and striped ginghams are SINH
larly made, but the full-looking skirt is
a deeptlounce laid in kilt plcats instead
of being gathered. A pretty model for
a Scotch Bingham dress for morning
walks or for a short journey in the cars
is of black and white large cross-bars
for the k~ilt-pleated skirt and its sash.
like drapery, while the basque is of a
plain ground of mixed black and white.
with a gathered vest of the plaid set in
the front; the back drapery in loops is
set up on the edge of the basque. A
black rough straw sailor hat with two
velvet bands around the crown and a
rosette in front. black and white.
striped lingerie. and a black leather
belt, complete this toilette. -Hmpcr's
Bazar.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12

housekeeper, which otherwise would
be permitted to putrefy, communicating
the air. We may imagine that he
| circles about in the air with no definite
! object in view, but If we will carefully
watch him we shall be convinced that
ne has an object, collecting his food,
atoms of impure or deeaying matter,
which otherwise would enter our lungs,
adding to the impurity of our blood.
This filth is collected on his wings and
head, for as we see him light, he scrapes
his wings and head with his legs and
feet, passing the gathered morselsfrom
foot to foot, the front pair passing his
dinner to his mouth. In this way he is
busily engaged during considerable of
the time in the bright sunlight, when
he can see his dainty morsels distinctly.
Truly, in Bible language, where tho
carcass is, there will the eagles the
flies, the vermin, ETC., "be gathered
together
In addition to the very important
less on of cleanliness, relating more to
health than to mere looks, the fly
teaches us the value of sunlight. not
only to cheer but to purify the air, for
he has too much good sense to live in
a dark room. When the parlor is dark
ened, he seeks a decent place for his
residence.-Dr. Hanatord, IN Golae"
RuIe.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
else get his reward for his useless
guardianship,

guardianship.
Though corn is worked now with the
cultivator, and stiff backs are fast GO
ing out of fashion, the old hand hoe is
associated with pleasanter memories
for those who used it; men used to
turn over the sods and their summer
thoughts together. When in ~tassel, corr
is waving in the plenitudo of its prom
Uses. The very soil seems proudly to
hold up the ranks OF green columns for
the eve to delight in. And when the
wind comes and rustlcs its long, lance
shaped leaves, so deeply green, the
sound and the motion seem precisely
in keeping to ear and eye. Neither
oats nor wheat, barley nor rye, cane
nor cotton, compare with corr for fine
effect. Toward his corn-iield the far
mer feels, or once felt, as toward no
other planted crop. His corn is the
product that comes closest of any to
his daily life, He handles every yellow
ear of it, first to husk and then to shell
it; and its sweet meal makes golden
loaves for the table at which he three
times a day sits down W tn an appetite.
He feeds corn to his poultry and his
pigs; smothers his chopped hay with
the mellow meal when he bats his
horse; takes it in the old family bags,
patched and mended times without
number, to the dusty miller; and re.
CARDS it as atlectionately as any miner
in the gulches ever looked on his store
of gold.
Thus the field that grows the corn
and the chimney in whose throat
it is baked and boiled becomes re-
lated and neighbors; and it is to
be naturally wondered whether the
summer smokes that struggle out
through the famer's c~himney-top do
not strain, on emerging, for a vision of
the corn that still stands and rustlcs in
the tassel. There is a hard and endur-
ing honesty in New England corn. 1t
is real vegetable gold, without alloy.
.kirting the edges of the crowded field
or pushing ones way through the army
of stalks that rise above ones head, the
solid character of this noble native
product, never yet supplanted by the
Importations of other climes, impreSses
itself strongly on the awakened i'm
agination. One readily associates it
with the good hard flesh that is seer in
the healthy cheeks of country boys and
girls; with the sound and ripe health
that is in the possession of their fathers
md mothers; with smoking breakfast
tables and the glad morning talk of the
with plenty, and peace, and
home, and happiness. 1t a its
plume over fields it has fairly won. Its
broad green leaves bespeak u royalty
that is rooted in nature herself. --Mas-
Hougtmun.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
THE CORNEIELD.


An Editors I;eminisccncc of a Familiar
Continental Industry.
1t is in August that the corntield is
in its prime. The sight of a noble
field Of Indian corn in full tasscl is a
finer onr any day than that of the
proudcSt brigade that ever marched in
its pomp to the wars. Corn is virginia.
on this Continent. It is leafcd and
plumcl with assoc ations of the Colon
ial days, when the white man first met
the red man with open and clean
hands, 1t strikes its strong roots into
the oldest known stories of this New
World; nOtale is older than that which
Introduces the welcome gift of corn.
1t has nothing whatever to do with the
life or literature Of the Old World, but
begins an entirely new and delightful
chapter. The last vestige of the In
dams themselves may have faded from
view. but their remembrance will be
kept alive 81 long MS we, their pale-faced
successors and dispOSseSsors, con-
tinue to cultivate their golden-eared
corn.
Complaining time is hailed by every
one in the country with true gratifica-
ton. After the fields are all prepared
with very much more cost and
care now than formerly-the work of
the regular season on the farm begins.
In DAYS not 50 very far back the boy
rode the horse, with his father at the
plow-ta'l geeing and having the oxen.
Then followed manuring; after that,
dropping the seed, including the in
cvitable n pumpin seed to a hill; and
finally the covering. And on the Sun
day following the planting Of a full
field of corn, when the surface looked
to his true eye like a checker-board,
the farmer loved TO stroll off after the
customary two me Of the day and
quietly muse on the appearance of the
result of his industry from ovcr the
stone wall. His weeks work then, if
ever, gave him a contented satisfac-
ton, and all the more because he was a
lcisurely visitor in his Sunday clothes
where he had so recently been q tired
to,lcr with patched knees and in a
starchlcss shirt.
The double row of potatoes next the
wall, and the scattering hills of white
beans on the gravelly knobs, testify to
the farmers calculating qualities the
former planted to let the sun in upon
the outside rows Of corn, the latter to
save n patch for service in one
way that is niggardly of it in
another. Then there are poles set
here and there about the field, to
which white string is tied to tele-
graph danger to the marauding crows;
and there are hidcous scarecrows be-
side, the embodiment Of all the ancient
styles Of dress that have slept for gem
creations in the garrcts. that have de-
liberately walked out into the air and
taken their stand in the season for the
farmers imaginary protection. But
the bl~ack-coatcd corvincs are become
more or less familiar with these gen
tlemen in hats and outstretched arms
and flying coat tails, and pay little
heed to their motionless gesticulations.
They may be deserted pulling up the
tender green blade at the very feet of
M '0f these same harmless field
watchmcn, doubtless winking at him
knowingly Il, they bolt the sproutcd
kernel and hoping he may somewhere
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
AN OLD MANS MEMORIES.


On the Way From the Old House to the
I'll sit q morneat by the road: l will not keep
YOU long;
But, dearie, | am very tired. Somehow the
memories thronE
About me so; the sky looks dark, for all It's
bright and blue;
III breaks my heart, this leaving. dear, the
old house for the new.
It's different, child, when folks are young
they wake and woyk and sleep.
And take LIES changes rs they come; old
roots have struck too deep
TO bear transnlantinF well. yen know. I'm
Just like that, you see:
Dontlook for any second growth from such
a blighted tree.
For nigh on fifty years, my dear, I've crossed
that threshold Ger,
And hung my hat upon the peg that's lust be-
hind the door;
Your mothers stand and rockingham were
ever plainin light,
And when she smiled to welcome me her
look was like the light.
You were our Youngest, little Jean, the lamb
kin of the fold;
know in your sweet eyes, my love, we both
were always old:
But when brought my bonny bride to share
Her like was not in far or near, wherever
you might roam.
with hair ike waves of crinkled gold, and
checks like roses red,
A step so swift, a laugh SO gay, she had when
we were wed;
Oh. up and II the countryside her match
was not that day.
lnever thought could be glad that she had
gone away.
But now I'm thankful mothers safe where
trials never come,
where happy souls no more go out, once
gathered in that home:
l would not have her here to feel the loneli-
ness and pain
Which will be mine the rest of life, in sun
shine and in rain.
Forgive me, dear. My selfish grief is cloud
ing you, | know,
But bear with me, my little one, and now I'll
rise and go;
I'll try TO be, for your sweet sake, as cheer
full as | can,
And meet this trial as | would were | a
younger man.
1t would have lasted out my time, they might
have let me stay
And die in peace where ] have lived in peace
nv LIES long day.
But. Jeanne, guide me on, my d%ear-you say
the Sky1S blue:
Its dark to- me, now that | leave the old
house for the new.
-Hnrper'S Bazaar.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
SIC TRANSIT.
Glory Is Transient, Fame Is Fleeing, and
All Is Vanity.

Glory Is Transient, Fame Is Fleeting, and
All Is Vanity.
My dear boy, do not envy your
neighbor his greatness. Do not repine
because you are not President of tho
United States, standing between the
deep sea and the Mugwumps, with a
thousand wearying cares on his heart
and brain. Glory is transient and fame
doesn't last long. All is vanity, my
son. ''Man cometh forth like a flower
and is cut down; he fleeth also as a
shadow and continueth not" The
joke that Is new to-day, doth it not
pass into the sad and dreary tomb of
the circus, or the embalming hands of
the end man tomorrow ''There is
hope of a tree if it be cut down that it
will sprout again, and that the tender
branch thereof will not cease" but the
song we all sang yesterday, and paid
money to hear, and %applauded with
loud resounding encores, do we lift up
our hands to-day and smite the man
who singeth "Sw**t V**l*ts" or "G*b-
bic, G*bbleP' But yesterday the
word of Caesar might have stood
against the world; to-day the smiling
clerk looks up from the register and
says cheerfully: Sample room, Ju-
liusp" The King and the President,
my boy, are like grass which groweth
up; in the morning it hourisheth and
groweth up; in the evening il is cut
down and withereth. The lawn mower
of fate brings us all to the same smooth
level, prophet, priest, king and tramp,
and the lawn looks all the better and
more velvety after the lawn mower has
passed over it. Happier than the man
who gets there is the man who gets
left, for he hath all the roses of antici-
patton with none Of the narrowing
thorns of realization. Happier, nv
son, the villager who goeth forth to
the post-otfice and asketh for a letter
than the titled villager who handeth it
out to him, for the villager who askcth
cnrseth the titled villager when there
is no letter, and the insulted pbstmas.
ter can not swear back when there Is
one. Bardette, IN Brooklyn Eaqle.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
FLIES,
Some OF the Lessons Which the 'Nuisance"
lnCulcates.

Inculcates.
Do all of my readers give a unani-
nous vote of nuisance !" on the fy
question? There will be at least one
dissenting voice, for it is not suppose
BILE that the Creator made anything in
vain, that all of the ordinary creatures
around us. if our servants, not Il
masters, in some way, or in some re-
spects, are blessings. TO understand
and appreciate the uses and advantages
of a large class of what may be termed
scavengers, %cleansers, it should be
known that all living and breathing
creatures are constantly throwing off
foul and poisonous gases, and that all
decaying animal and vegetable sub
stances are as steadily p%olluting the
air by decomposition and decay. while
these combined iniluesces would soon
render the air so contaminated, so
poisonous, that animal life would be
impossible, aside from some purifying
influences. The vegetable world does
wonders in this publication, the whole
woody fibre of the world being COM
posed of the carbonic acid gas which
results from breathing, combustion, de-
cay, ETC., while a large class, like the
fly, crow, hyena, buzzard, swine, ETC.,
true to their mission in this world, are
ever busy in appropriating what would
otherwise prove poisonous to us, food
flor them! A dead carcass is found on
the surface, warmed by the sun, when
decay promptly commences. The
scavengers seize upon it, devour it
greedy as if to protect us, the smaller
bugs and insects offering their aid, as
rapidly as possible covering with the
soil what they can not promptly dis
pose OF, that all of the gases may not
escape into the air. but enter the soil,
there to nourish the vegetable king
dom, while the rays of the sun and the
winds scatter the escaping gases far
and wide, soo to be absorbed BY the
leaves and grasses, reappearing in
forms of beauty, and wholesome fruits,
grains, etc.
The fly does his part in this great
and important work of publication,
seeing with his ten thousand and three
eyes what would pass unnoticed BY us.
eagerly devouring his appropriate
food. This he finds in the smallest
atoms of animal and vegetable matters
too small to be noticed by the tidy
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12
Raising Pigs by Hand.

-
If the pigs become mothcrless when
but a few days old it will be trouble,
some to raise them. AT first they will
have to be fed with a spoon, unless they
can be taught to drink as is done with
calves. The milk should be from A
COW that is fresh. Should it cause
diarrhTa boil the milk, and il consti.
patton is the result feed it without boil
ing. A warm, dry place will be ncces
sary. BY keeping milk before the pigs
continually, in a shallow trough, they
will learn to partake Of it as soon as
they are old enough. They may then
be given n small proportion of n mix.
ture of corn meal, beans and middlings,
boiled, but be careful at first and not
feed too much. After they are six or
eight weeks old they will cause no
trouble. DO not attempt to fattcn
young pigs. If you have u clover pas
ture. after they are two months old
turn them into it. but, if not, cut some
grass and give them a good mess Of it,
either natural or boiled. Feed four
times a day, giving a mixture of bran
and middlings night and morning,
with a variety of sloppy food icIa.
Farm and St0ckniMn.