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Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
A DlGrlIFIED WOMAN.
The Empress of Japan rs She Appeared
at "a Recent Reception.

The Empress of Japan as She Appeared
at "a Recent Reception.
The Empress Haru is slight little
woman rot five feet in height. She
has the pale yellow skin, the finely cut
features and long oval face of the high
caste Japanese. Although friend to
all progressive movements, the patron
and ns,igator Of many reforms and
advancement. and woman of sur
prisingly modern views. the Empress
still blackcns her teeth in the old style
and thin arches of eyebrows have been
traced above those that she dutifnlly
shaved at marriage. Beyond n jewclcd
ornament fastened above the brow.
her costume and coiilure did not differ
ut all from that of the ladies surround
ing her. and Mt n distance her parasol
was her only distinguishing mark.
Nearer, there was majesty OF dc.
mcanor, dignity of presence, an inn
prcssivc, intangible something, that
divinity of ruler, and had she stood
in the garden alone she would have
been as impressive in manner and as
much q sovereign rs when surrounded
by her scitc, with court and strangers
bowing low. The Empress wore tho
red slippers and skirt, and kimono
of rich BLUSH purple silk. brocaded IN
large moon figures in pale colors. The
pointed neck was filled with folds of
white silk, and she balanced in her
hand an umbrella of the purplish silk
embroidered all over with wistaria.
She passed straight on to the long
marquee tent, and, giving her parasol
to her attendant, entered and sat alone
in throne.likc chair before large
oval table. Her sixteen attendants
stood in n picturesque and brilliant
line behind her, and the diplomats,
the other ladies and mobiles were seated
at little tables below her. The palace
attendants served the company to the
elaborate collation. of every thing
boncd, jellicd and iced and truflled.
the beautiful set pieces were broken
up, the champagne frothed in thin
crystal glasses craven with the i'm.
pcrial crest of sixteen-petaled chrysan-
thcmum. Every one was served quiet.
ly and decorously, the bands played.
there was the subdued hum of soft,
low voices in conversation. and one by
one the Impress summoned the wives
of the foreign ambassadors and Mimic
ters to her for few gracious words
Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08

ric. the basque II made double; that is,
lined with tho same as the outside.
This is done that the waist may be 81
the same shade rs the doubled skirts.
Cambrics and ginghams. however, re.
quirc no lining whatever, the white
corset cover worn underneath being
sufficient. The fullness is all confined
to the front Of the basque. and 10 done
by simply adding two or three inches
to the width of the fronts when cutting
out by any basque pattern, and gather.
Ing the neck. the waist line and end OF
tho basque. The fronts and backs are
longer than the sides, and tho edge Is
finished with bias piping fold. High
military collars and small tinted pearl
buttons to fasten tln basque arc worn.
For more drcssy waists, embroidery
either white or colored-is added in
reverse. or else inserted in V-shapc
down the back and front alike. Round
waists gathered to belt, with n yoke.
or else u white muslin guimpc, still
hold their own; and with these are
worn dog collars Of embroidery or
velvet.
Handsome satccns and Chambcrics
are often also made up. the same rs
wool or silk dresses, with heavy lining
and whalcboncs, but these have to be-
sent to professional scourcr TO be
cleaned The Norfolk jacket is another
pretty easy fashion for any material.
and differs from last years in having
only one wide double plait at the back,
and one in front.
Oycrskirts are long, with tho rcgula.
ton apron front, hcmmcd or trimmed
with embroidery or lace. The back
brcadths are straight and gathered to
the belt. Three or four wide plaits
down the left side are held in place
by cross tapes, sewcd underneath
them, and the front breadths next
these are drawn across to the right side
and caught up into folds by loops and
buttons. Unlike stuff dresses, one or
two narrow ruillcs finish the lower
skirts Of cotton gowns.
Whom two materials, as plain and
figured. are uscd. the combination Is
somewhat odd. For instance, the basque
and foot-plaitings may be of plain
blue cambric. and the skirts, waist, col
lars and cuffs Of that which is figured
all over. This II IN excellent style for
rcmodcling old dresses, but in buying
nsw, it is better economy to have all OF
one fabric.
In white muslins. embroidered stripes
are the newest mode. These are beau.
tifully made with Figaro jacket, that
has closcly-ii,tcd postillion back,
while the fronts are cut away. and dis
play n soft full vest Of dclicatcly tinted
crepe lissc, or silk muslin. Sashcs, are
largely shown this season, and appear
in some form on cotton dresses and in
most decided and exaggerated con-
trasts. Thus, brilliant scarlet ribbon
Is now worn on dark.bluc satccn, and
dull brown on plain pink mulls.-
american Agricutmrist.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
SUGAR STATISTICS.
The Amount OF saccharine Products Con-
sumed Annually.

The worlds production OF sugar is
probably we'll toward eight million
tons year. OF this, British India and
China produce and themselves con-
sumo over million tons each OF cano
sugar, their exports being small, and
these of very low grade sugars. The
estimated product Of all countries
available for export was, in lSS4-5, a
year OF large production, 2,l62,00O
tons of cane and no less than 2,557,S00
Of beet sugar. 1t is estimated that the
cane-sugar crop marketed this year
will increase to 2,2l8.000 tons, and
that the bcct-sugar crop will fall oil
52O.76O tons-partly the result of
lower acreage resulting from the low
prices of last year. Cuba produces
more than a quarter Of the whole cx.
port supply of cane sugar. last years
product being 627, 600 tons, while this
years will probably equal her largest
crop $50. which was $4,000 tons.
OF this. moro than half lin 1885. $780,
$50 gross tons) comes to this country.
which gets nearly half its total supply
for refining from that island of rcvolu.
tons. Louisiana produced last year
but "a. 900 tons. but its normal product
is nearer l2j, 600 tons, to which Texas,
our other chief sugar-growing State.
adds 10000 tons more. Five other
States contribute some cane sugar
The Sandwich Islands crop, under the
stimulus Of the treaty which permits
its sugar to enter duty free. reaches
$1,000 tons. but it is said that the use
of all the available land, and the poor
quality OF native labor, the prohibition
of Chinese, and the high price of white
labor, fix the limit nj the present figure.
Of the bcct-sugar supply. Germany
produced last year l,l55,OOO tons. Aus
tria $4,000. Russia $4,000. France
5000, Belgium 10000 and Holland
$4,000 tons. Our chief contribution to
this crop is from factory at Alvarado,
Cal, producing about 1000 tons, but
it is believed that this will become
an important Pacific coast industry,
Beet sugar is largely imported into this
country for refining purposes, and we
get also some datc-palm sugar. called
commercially "datc jaggery." Our
yield of maple sugar, in which YER
mont still leads, was about 1900 tons
last year. Sorghum, although large
quantities of sirup are made from the
large acreage at the West. has not yet
come into the market rs an important
commercial source Of crystallizablc
sugar, the largest crop having been but
5000 tons; our scientific agriculturists,
who give good reasons for looking to
this rs one of the great American
crops of the future, have yet to justify
their faith by their works. The manu-
fac,urc of commercial glucose, or arti-
iicial starch sugar, has Of late years
reached enormous proportions in this
country, amounting in value to third
of our canc-sugar crop.-R. Il. Booker,
IN Harper's Magazine.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
COULDN'T TELL a LIE.
An Old Mans Heroic sacrifice In the
Cause Of Truth.

An Old Mans Heroic sacrifice In the
Cause of Truth.
A prominent Maine journalist, for
mcrly editor of Portland paper, once
practiccd law in Foxcroft, and ut that
time quaint old man named Graves
lived in the ncighboring town of Gull
ford. He had little property, but
was very slow about paying his bills.
lie became indebted for small amounts
to number of storc-kccpcrs in Dover
and Foxcroft, aud they gave their
claims to this journalistic lawyer to
collect. He wrote several letters to
the old man, which produced no effect,
till one day he threatened to attach his
farm IL he did not call and settle with
in forty-cight hours. The threat made
tho old man pull out his stocking. and
on the next morning aftcrrccciving tho
letter he appeared at the lawyers Of
flee and announced that he was pre-
pared to pay. "How much does 1t all
amount to, squirrel" he asked.
"Twenty.cight dollars" said the
lawyer.
"How's that, squircP" demanded the
old man.
"You owe Ferguson six dollars and
Snickerson nine dollars and Jeggerson
eight dollars, and my charge for COLI
lecting is five dollars"
al did not know you had any bill
against me. squire"
~ must have my pay for writing
those letters to you."
"Well, / declare, squire. wasn't
calculatin' on that. I'm pretty old
man, most eighty-two, and 1t was hard
for me to got this money together to
pay these bills. Tm not prepared to
pay you."
The old man begged the lawyer to
let him oif,tand after considerable talk
the lawyer said: "Look here, Mr..
Graves, you have made considerable
misohieyous talk about me. You have
gone through the country calling me q
big liar and other hard names. Now,
II you will go around and sec every
body to whom you have made this talk
and tell them that what you've said
about me is false, I'll knock of the five
dollars"
After rubbing his old gray head, the
old man answered: "Mr. Pullen, I'm
most eigh:y-two years old. and too
near eternity to tell such u 'tarnal lie
rs that. "-Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
EVERYDAY WORK.
Great deeds are trumpcted. loud bells are
runx

Great deeds are trumpcted. loud bells are
rung,
And men turn round To see:
The high peaks echo To the p,cans sung
Ocr some great victory.
And yet great deeds are few The mightlest
men
Find opportunities but now aud then.
Shall one sit idlo through long days OF peace,
Waiting FOE walls 90 scale,
Or lie In port until some Golden Fleece
Lures him To face the galcg
There's work enough. why idly. then. dclayI
His work counts most who labors every day.
A torrent sweeps down the mountains brow
With roam and flash and roar.
Anon its strength Is spent. where Is II nowl
Its one short day Is DER
But the clear stream that through the meadow
flows
All the long summer on It's mission goes.
Better the steady How: the torrents dash
soon leaves it, rent track dry.
The light We love Is not the lightning flash
From ont midnight sky.
hut the sweet sunshine, whose unfailing ray
From its calm throne of blue lights every
day.
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed,
Whose deeds, both great aud small,
Are COSe-knt strands at AN unbrokcn thread,
Where love ennOblcs AL
The world may sound no trumpets, ring ne
bells;
ghc Book OF Life TIE shining record tells
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
The invention of the modern form

The invention of the modern form
of the piano dates back to about 100.
The spinet, of rectangular shape, which
we manage to call square, was called a
virginia.. 1t is frequently stated that it
was done to compliment Queen Eliza.
beth. but this can not be true, rs il is
found mentioned among the musical
instruments of King Henry VIII. It's
more likely that it was so named be-
cause 1t was intended to be played by
young ladies. 1t was essentially a
lady's instrument, for ii is said that ut
a concert in Oxford, Eng. the public
performance of the first male pianist
was rewarded by a storm Of Kisses.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08

cape. In the early dawn they got
away from their prison-bars and ran
toward the nut tree. We called them,
but in vain. They ran a little way.
looking around when We called them.
not content 10 rest on the nut tree,
they hastcned on, faster and faster, to
the thick wood beyond, and when once
there all trace of them was lost. They
had become handsome pets, with their
long, bushy tails, and had learned
many cunning tricks.
Our queer children have never come
back to us, but every autumn gray
squirrels come to the old nut tree near
our dwelling. and we fancy they know
us, and have heard OF the sojonrn OF
their ancestors in our midst-Chrtstidn
Union.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
DUB BOYS AND GIRLS.
IN THE KITCHEN.

went 10 tho kitchen. WANTED to SEQ
II Nora had any thing good there for mo.
she stood nc q table with sugar and spice
And raisins and Currants and every thing
nice.
And stirred with q spoon just ss fast as
'twouid go,
And put in some -four and rolled out some
And cut little round things as fast Us she
could.
And baked them. and then they wero cookies
aud good!
! ate one and two and thcn three and then
four.
And when they were finished l ate few
And then Nora gave me nice lump OF
dough,
And told me TO make her Jolly fine beau.
/ made something round and put currants
for eyes,
They stared. and looked solemn and sober
and wise.
Iplnchcd up nose in the middle and made '
A hole for a mOuth-'twas beautiful head
made him waist with beautiful row
or buttons-'twas currunts, dozen or so,
made him some arms and some fingers and
feet.
II you could have seen him. 90 funny. aud
sTost!
gave him "a cinnamon stick for gun,
A cap Of u rlisin and then he was done.
We baked him and gavo him to Polly and
Ned:
They ate him all up in hurry. and said
That of all things on earth they did really
enjoy,
No goody comes up to a sugar-dough boy.
-Sid,eu Ddvrt, In Youths Companion
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
A prseoelou. Little Miss.

A six.year-old girl in the town OF
P, Ind, attended church with her
mother one day. and to visitor after
wards was speaking about 1t:
"Does your ma sit in the Amen
corner at churchp" was queried.
mo, sir; papa sits in the Amen
corner, and mamma in the a-women
corner, sir"
Carrying an unhandy vessel one day
to neighbor's, this little girl was
asked:
"Aren't you tired7 Is not that great
pitcher beavyp"
mo. sir. it's not heavy. but it's aw-
full tedious" was answered. Oefro3
Free Press.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08
SUMMER WASH DRESSES.
Timely Hints for Economical Housewives
with Limited Means.

Timely Hints for Economical Housewives
with Limited Means.
The fabrics for cotton dresses or
'print gowns" as the English tailors
call them, are this year particularly
soft in finish and attractive in design.
Many of the satecns, seersuckers and
ginghams so closely resemble silk and
wool, that their real origin is only re-
vealed to the touch. Conspicuous
among these are those having frisc Of
fects, shown in stripes, blocks and bars
of rich. quaint oolors, such as light
blue or bluff ground. with dark-green
or brown frise figures. Crazy cloth is
also new and pretty, though rather
flimsy, cotton material that resembles
Grape. 1t will probably be extensively
used. as 1t comes in exquisitcly delicate
shades. and is warranted to wash and
still retain Its crinkled appearance. 1t
is said, too, to require no ironing.
Blue-gray Is now the fashionable color
in Paris, and appears here in the ever
useful seersuckers and linens, which
make such delightful travelling dresses.
The gathered basque and long drap-
cries are the favorite styles for making
up wash-goods. For thin, coloreG
mulls, batistes. or any transparent fab.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08

An Irishman. who had on very
ragged coat, was asked of what stnff
il was made. "Bedad! / don't know"
said he; "but think the most Of 1t Is
made of fresh air"
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08

Why should chimney sweeps be
contentedP Because they always not
only SCOT themselves, but every body
that comes in contact with them.-N
y. LEDGER.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-08

"A school.boy asked to define the
vord "sob," whispered out: ''lt means
when TELLER don't mean to cry and 1t
bursts out itself"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-23
DestItution In Texas.

e.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-.First Audi.s
tor Chenoweth has just returned from q
months visit to Texas. He gives sad
picture of the destitution and suffering.
there on account Of the drought. He is
astonished that there has been so little
said on this subject. He says tits esti-s
mated that in Jack County not twenty
bushels of corn and wheat have comeiup:
The drought extends from beyond Fort
Worth into the Pan Handle. Thisis:
afne grazing country and alarge amount
of stock is kept there. This year, how
ever, it has been impossible to supply
the stock with water. People have been
obliged to haul water for household pur.
pose for twenty and thirty miles. There.
are few running streams and few artesian;
wells. a great deal Of stock has famish.
ed. In large tracts Of countrythe people;
have almost nothing to eat. They made
no gardens and have no potatoes or other.
vegetables. While Judge Chenoweth
Was in Texas he presided over several
relief meetings where people were collect
ing seed corn, wheat and money to send
to the sufferers. he says the farmers in
the regions affected by the drought
are generally of small means, and depend,
upon their products from year to year
for subsistence. They thus find them
selves Immediately in want when their
crops fail.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-23
Moisture and Lockjaw.

DR.. Felix L. Oswald says in Home and
Farm: Moisture, in the form of q vapor.
bath is an excellent remedy for tetanus,
or lockjaw. The immobility Of the jaw
is. only the culminative symptom Of 9
complaint which might be defined as q
rigor of the upper motor muscles. The
affection begins with q peculiar stiffness
in the back part of the neck, rendering
every sideward motion Of the head pain
full or even impossible; before long the
cramp.like sensation extends to the spine;s
the patient feels impelled to bend forward
to relieve the strain on the shoulder mus
cles; headaches and feeling of general
numbness beget disposition to Sleep.
and on awakening from fitful nap the
teeth feel set as firmly as those Of 9 power
full steel trap. The patient leans his hesd
on his clutched fist, while spasms of the
neck muscles often beget sensation as if
the hinges of the jaw bones were mechan.
ically riveted, and could be moved only
by breaking force if not by mira
Gle. Yet steam bath, or even q vet
pack in sheets drenched with warm water,
is generally sufficient to accomplish that
miracle. The combined influence OF
warmth and moisture seems to relax the
rigor of the muscles; first the spine, and
by.and-by the. neck and jaws feel the
relief, and by continual friction the
danger of relapse can be obviated for,a-
quarter of an hour, after which the
abnormal symptoms will be reduced to,a
lingering numbness, as after 8 stunning
fall
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-23
Rival Brother Candidates.

CHATTANOOGA, September ia nov.
ell scene was witnessed here tonight. A..
a.. and Robert L. Taylor, the brother
candidates for Governor, we're in this city
on their way to appointment. Besides
being fine debaters and eloquent stump
ers, both gentlemen are accomplished
musicians, the violin being their favorite
Instrument. Large numbers of the
friends of each assembled at the hotel
where the two brothers were stopping
and occupying the same room.
After general interchange of friendly
feeling all around, two violins were
brought in and they were asked to give
some music. Each took an instrument,
and moving their chairs close together
they began, and for a time delighted
their hearers with some music as fine as
WIS ever heard here. They would throw
in occasionally the Arkansas Traveller" !"
"lsosin the Bow" and local melodies
which fairly set the crowd wild. Two
candidates for Governor of great State,
brothers too at that, sitting together in a
most friendly and brotherly manner play.
inn the violin for the delectation of their
friends, is sight probably never witness.
ed before on the stump. The brothers
preserve the same friendly relation, and
nothing is said to jar the sensibility OF
either.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-23

The Carolina Teacher for September
comes 10 us filled with number of very
readable and suggestive articles. The
first, "The Choice Of Profession" by
Prof. II. P. Archer, Superintendent of
the Charleston schools, is burdeued with
truth that majority of its readers can
appreciate from an abiding sense of a
mistake made along the line he 80
forcibly points out. Let the young man
just starting in life, if perchance such an
one should read these lines, commit to
memory the following sentences from
Prof. Archer's pen, and repeat them
every morning before breakfast for a
month: Gall callings, it is true, are hon
orable, provided they are honest; but a
mistake once made in this direction, is
calamity alike to the individual who
makes it and to the community in which
he lives. It is q calamity to the individ'
ual, inasmuch as he can never hope to
succeed in that for which he has no tai
ent, and to the community inasnuch as
he can contribute nothing to advance its
interests" Nowadays, it is getting to be
disgusting to hear young mcn speak ol
Choking around for job" Our boys
ouobt m he m trained that "a lob" would
be awaiting them when they reach the
age of strong, active, young manhood
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-23
Equal to the Emergency.

Col. Scales, of North Carolina, while
discussing a glass of Glenn Springs water
in the mountain country, told US the
following anecdote:
At the Yorktown celebration some of
the boys, feeling waggish at the enter
tainment, spied out the British Consul at
Richmond near by, and insisted upon his
responding to toast Of "the day We cele'
brate." The bold Briton, nowise daunted,
rose and began thinking on bis feet. He
substantially spoke as follows:
"Gentlemen, am placed by you in a
somewhat delicate position, but hope to
represent, however feebly, the pluck of
my country, which needs no endorsement
or recital here or elsewhere. am sure
that Great Britain is mighty aud magnan.
imous enough to look with complacency
upon the prosperity of one of her chill
dren who, after family quarrel, has at
last set up for himself and is an apostle
of liberty. So far as this immediate
celebration is concerned, l can safely
say, on my own responsibility, after an
elaborate examination Of this locality,
that had been Lord Covnwallis I should
have evacuated it damned sight sooner
than he did on certain memorable occa-
sion."
Music by the band.-Augusta Chronicle.