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Use Of Palms.

In order to be able to appreciate how
much the native tribes of the countries
where palms most abound are dependent
upon this noble family of plants, and
how they take part in some form Or 9TH
er in every action of the natives life, we
must enter his hut and inquire into the
origin and structure of the various art-
cles we see around us. Suppose we visit
an Indian cottage on the banks of the
Rio Negro, in South America. The
main supports of the building are the
trunks of some forest tree of durable
wood, but the light rafters are formed OF
the straight stems of the jara palm. The
roof is matched with large, triangular
leaves, and bound to tho roof with for
est creepers. The leaves are those OF the
carana palm. The door of the house is
framework made of the stems of the
pashinba palm. In one corner stands a
harpoon for capturing the cow-fsh; it is
made of the black wood of the pashinba
palm. Beside it is o blow pipe ten OF
twelve feet long, for shooting birds OF
even the wild hog or tapir; it is made
from the stem of one of two species OF
palms. The Indians large bassoon-ike
musical instruments are made of palm
stems; the cloth in which he wraps his
valued feather ornaments is fibrous
palm spathe, and the rude chest in which
he keeps his treasures is woven from
palm leaves. His hammock, string,
and fishing line are from the fbres OF
leaves which be obtains from different
palm trees, the hammock from the mi
viii, and the bow-string and fshing-ine
from the tucum.
The comb that he wears on his head
is ingeniously constructed from the hard
bark of palm, and he makes fish hooks
of the spines, or uses them for tatooing
purposes. His children are eating the
agreeable red and yellow fruit of the
pupunba or peach palm; end from the
assai he has prepared favorite drink
which he offers you to taste. That care
fully suspended gourd contains oil which
he has extracted from another species
of palm; and that long elastic plated
cylinder used for squeezing dry the man
drocea pulp to make his bread is made
of the bark of one of the singular climb
ing palms, which alone can resist for a
considerable time the acton of the poi
sonous juice. In fact, there seems no
end to the economical purposes to which
the,products of palms are applied in the
countries where they grow.-Seientite
american. &c.. ....
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THE BOSS EATHER.

Every night the hotel piazzas are the
centre of life until about half-past ten
o'clock, when the music ceases and the
mothers and younger children go to bed.
The older children then get a chance to
watch the sea from the summer houses
and whisper away as if they had.not seen
each other for years. Papa, alas quite
frequently strolls. around to study the
habits of that unconquerable animal, the
tiger. ~.
The nightly display of dress in the no.
tel parlors at Long Branch is magnificent.
There are more finely formed, beautiful
and exquisitely adorned women here now
than ever before. No wonder the young
men are losing their heads, and the first
crop of engagements is announced. The
average young lady here, while far
more shapely being than cheap wood
cut artist design, and as lively maiden
as, one would wish to see, is a modest,
we'll behaved girl in the water and out Of
it. The girls love the waves. They
ego in" by the hundreds, and the bath
ing masters tell me they learn to swim
easier and better, than men. ,5. ..a.,t
One of the sights of the Branch during
bathing hours is the ''boss bather," as
the children disrepectfully term her. If
she is not fair and forty, she is certainly
the other thing, for a ninety inch belt
could not make both ends meet around
her waist. Every chance she gets to take
a roll in the sea she improves, SO that In
all respects she is a great bather.
While watching this heshy nymph OF
the sea tumbling about in the water, I
noticed that several ladies in bathing
wore their diamond earrings. They
said they felt that the jewels were safer
in their ears than anywhere else, but it is
queer combination, bathing suit and
diamonds. .....-.....-
After her bath the Long Branch girl
takes drive. So does everybody else
if they can afford it. There are num-
Der of carriages out in the morning be-
fore the day grows hot, but the ''passing
show" as seen from the West End piazza
in the cool of the afternoon, is one of the
features of Long Branch life. The dull
clatter of the horses, many of them
thoroughbreds, the gingling of their
chains, the glitter Of their trappings, the
roll of the carriages, filled with elegantly
attired women, makes pleasant music as
the panorama moves along the bluff. 1t
is indeed pretty picture, this daily dis
play of beauty on wheels. The moving
line is fanked by beautiful lawns; it runs
between imposing hotels and cottages.
All is color and animation in the fore
ground, while behind lies the ocean, calm
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REPAIRING THE BLUFF.

and dull under cloudless summer sky
stretching away as far Us the eye can
reach, and dotted here and there by
white wings thatseem to have been painted
ON canvas. so we'll defined but motionless
do they appear.
The Ocean Drive, the glory of the
Branch, was badly damaged last winter
by the sea. It hardly seems possible
that the water could get over the bluff,
which is fully thirty feet high, but it did,
and in places took the bluff away with it.
The roadway ran close to the edge, ST
that in spots it was ruined.
A United States engineer says he will
put down bulkheads every 200 feet from
the Iron Pier to Elberon and guarantee
that the beach will make instead of lose.
That will cost a great deal OF money, but
it seems to be the last chance to have the
valuable hotel property facing on the
ocean, to say nothing of the driveway and
the bathing facilities, without which the
hotels would not be able to compete with
Eastern summer resorts.
The big break begins at the east end
of the Rowland House. 1t is about SUI
feet long. To get around it the stages
have to run about 500 feet inland on
poor road, which is unpleasant and de-
laws one. There is force of men at
work with pile driver, building up the
bluff again, and their labors are watched
daily by hundreds of people. 1t is one
of the sights of the beach.
This hole in Ocean avenue ia sore
trial to the hundreds to whom Long
Branch was a delightful place to BRING
their horses. It is still, however, an
agreeable drive from Seabright to Hlbe-
ron, and even further up and down the
coast.
The Long Branch stage is one OF the
most inconvenient vehicles on earth, but
it is cheap and therefore popular with
the masses. There are hundreds of these
stages running back and forth from the
Iron Pier to the West End all day and
nearly all night. The fare is only ten
cents for the whole distance, but like the
New York 81" roads, short ride costs
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AN ouT1rE OF THE "ANGELUs. !"

AN oUTLr:E OF THE "AEeELUs." I" <
forthcoming. The men who in Gallic
exaltation, when the picture was put on,
sale the second time, subscribed hundreds
of thousands Of francs, were not to be
found. cEfs 80 g
Challonier then sent for Mr.. Sutton, of
the American Art Association, and asked
him to take the picture at his bid sof
$11O, 400. Sutton had advertised his
willingness to give $40, 900 to the poor
of Paris if allowed to take the "Ange-
lus" at the figure at which it was bid OF
for the Louvre, and his delight knew no
bounds when told of the new turn of af-&
fairs. Before he could get to Challonier
with certified cheek high officers OF the
Government had induced the auctioneer
to wait until 9 o'clock a. M. Of July 4,
and in the meantime Baron Rothschild
had been induced to give his check for
the entire amount on behalf of the Gov
ernment. Believing he had no further
show to buy the picture, Mr.. Sutton de-
cided to apply to the French Government
for permission to exhibit the picture IN
New York next autumn, and, as amin
ducement intended to offer to make over
half the proceeds to Millet's widow, who
is now living in extreme poverty in Bar
bizon. However, the cables announced
that M. Proust had written a letter In
which he announced the withdrawal OF
the request of the Chamber Of Deputies
for credit for the purchase of the paint
ing. The cable also announced that Mr.
Sutton had secured the famous painting,
which will be exhibited in the American
Art Gallery in New York after it has been
shown in Paris for the benefit OF the
painters widow.
Jean Francois Millet, the sspalnter OF
peasants, was born October IA, 1914, IN
the village of Gruchy, commune Of Gre
vile, canton of Beaumont (Manche1
France. With the exception Of his last
years, when his genius had been recog-
nized-and he received many orders for
paintings, his Life was one long struggle
with Sickness. disappointment and sor-
row. ! He died january 20, 1875. ~ 81
So little were Millet's works esteemed
during his lifetime that for the "Ange-
lus," his greatest production, he received
only 1000 francs, or s400.F of this mas
terpiece the artist, Richard Heath, writ
ing in 1882, said: ''The religious sentl-
ment which pervaded Millet's paintings
from the time he first began to follow
his true vocation attains its highest ex-
pressions in the 'Angelus.' Il Is that
moment of the day when the whole cre-
alton is one in alteration. The sun has
lust passed away, and the purple after
glow suffuses all things. a man and'a
woman have been digging up potatoes;
the sound of the angelus floating through
the air has just reached them; they have
risen and are repeating the traditional
words: sAngelus domini muntiayit ma
ria The man stands solemn and mo-
t;onlessS r. woman. her head bent, is
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LONG BRANCH.
LIFE ALONG NEW JERSEYS
WAVE-WASHED SHORE.
Happy Summer Days for Young and
Old Who Love to Dance.
to Drive, to Bathe or Do
Little Flirting.

All along the New Jersey coast, from
Sandy Hook to Point Pleasant, pleasure
reigns supreme. Every day the beach is
dotted with bathers, the cottage and ho-
tel lawns swarm with tennis players and
the roads are marked by lines of dust
kicked up by horses worth all the way
from fifty to thousands of dollars. There
are far more of the latter, however, than
of the former, for the wealthy summer
visitor generally brings his "turnout"
with him, but it is an open question
whether he enjoys the glorious drive
along the shore any more chan the occa-
sional Jersey farmer who comes in with
his corn fed team and 'sdemocrat wagon"
to see s'them stylish rigs"
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lust as soon as the evening IaIIs vlslr.
ors from all along the beach flock to the
West End Hotel to join in the dancing or
TO watch the children dance. This IS
pretty sight. The picture of the brill,
iantly lighted room with happy little tots
circling about to the music is a familiar
one to any one who has spent an evening
at the Branch. The broad piazza outside
is crowded with onlookers in evening
dress, while proud fathers and mothers
gaze fondly at the merry little ones. !.
II is on the piazza, while the soft
music floats out from the parlor, that
Cupid binds his victims. It is there that
the Young men, gathering courage per-
haps in the uncertain light, talk then
sweetest, and the girls, who are there fol
that purpose, look their prettiest and
listen. So far there have been only three
engagements whispered to confidential
friends, but from the prospects the net re-
suit of the season will be many times three.
No such nonsense as loVemaklng
bothers the children, who seem never,
theless to have the best time at, the sea.
side. They romp from morning to
night. The beach is their favorite spot,
and high times they have there. Not a
few lads and quite number of girls OF
tender years are good swimmers and
friehten their nurses twenty times day
by darting away from the life lines: just
now baseball is enjoying the attention OF
the boys. I noticed youngster hardly
as high as the table playing billiards one
day, and he made runs of eight and ten
quite frequently. Another little fellow
spends his time in the Ocean House
bowling alley. He disdains small ball,
and always picks out the largest he can
find to roll at the pins. .. ..
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Primitive Dentistry.

Old Uncle Hugh johnson, of the Cop
per Creek neighborhood, the man who
fastened securely twine string around
three teeth of his lower jaw, and then,
tieing the other to an ash-hopper, jumped
up and threw himself backward with
such force as to extricate the entire lower
Jaw, simply to rid himself of toothache,
is yet alive, and was here the other day,
looking after lawsuit he has against ons
ST his >neighbors.--Mouat Ysrnon (Ry...
Signal. 3s.l ,fs
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The Chinese Laundrymaa Utilizes His

The Gear of Russia has suppressed the
Lutheran Church in his domains. Ihere
were three years ago about three million
members Of this body in the Russias,.
mostly in taeeRyltic nrnvinces. n.
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lily, and trembling like leaf. 10
not dare to desecrate his body with
your unhallowed presence.
Arthur Wynne strobe forward and
confronted Gabrielle, with white, wrath
full face and blazing eyes.
THAT Is soon told! am uuperJ Law
rence's welded wife, and the mother of
his child! It was secret marriage
but he was about to acknowledge it
when she" (she wheeled about, and
pointed toward Ruby Gin her jealous
rage and fury, did the awful deed for
which she must now suffer!
"Yes, gentlemen. I am Gilbert Law
rence's wife; l have al requisite
proof; and my daughter. is his lawful
child and heir, while that girl yonder
is"
"Hold!"
Arthur Wynne sprang forward, and
c1utched Gabrielle's arm in vise-ike
grip.
"Dare to breathe such foul aspersions
here, in the presence of this dead
body" he thundered, "and I will
take your miserable life! How dare you
speak such words of her, such-vile-
words ?"
She wrenched her arm from his grasp,
and glared into his face like wild
creature at bay.
~ assert nothing that L cannot
provew she Kissed, Indignantly. "Only
last night that girl there, who calls
herself Gilbert Lawrence's daughter,
discovered the truth; learned her
fathers story of hidden sin, and how
he had wronged her. She was half
mad at the knowledge; perchance it
turned her brain, murder has beer done
many time before, for less cause. and
so" (she wheeled about, with a tragic
gesture) "gentlemen, I, Gilbert Law
rence's widow, do make this charge,
Ruby Lawrence murdered her own
fatherI Officer, I demand her arrest|
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some one.
When the story was finished, he
stepped forward and gazed full into
Maggie Willett's stolid face.
you had your tooth extracted" he
began, with apparent irrelevancy;
what dentist did you visit?"
The girl started, and her eyes sought
the floor, hesitating palpably. Then
swift upward glance, and her eyes met
Gabrielle ST. Cyr's for the least possi-
BILE space. Was it Arthur Wynne's
imagination, or did he observe slight
sign of recognition pass between the
two?
"What dentist" he repeated, sternly.
cdr. Franklin, replied the girl; "he
extracted the tooth"
"Your story is told," said Arthur
Wynne, gravely. "You may CO."
As the door closed behind Maggie
Willett, the officer who had accompa-
nicd Gabrielle to Lawrence Park,
stepped to Ruby's side. and laid his
nand upon the shoulder OF the kneel-
ing girl. u, T.. =,
he was beginning, but Arthur Wynne
sprang upon him like tiger.
"Never!" he thundered. Dare to
touch that innocent girl, and I will
shake the life from your body"
"OAicer," interposed Gabrielle, COM
mandingly, II demand that girls ar
rest"
"Arrest her-at your peril!" cried
Arthur Wynne madly. "This foul
charge is monstrous-horrible! I will
not submit to it.
Gabrielle's large dark eyes were
lifted to his wrathful face with long,
slow look.
sYou!" she sneered. "You speak as
one having authoritY! What right
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
HIS STOCK WENT UP.


How Mas. RiddIeford Was Convinced of
His Dogs Great Worth.
An angry looking man called at the ONCE
of Maj Riddleford. II have come, sir, ssaid
the man, ito tell you that while passing your
house this morning your dog ran out and bit
men
s'You don't sey sor' the major exclaimed.
eyes, do say so. / was walking along
the road, attending strictly to my own bust
ness, when ON sudden the wretch leaped
over the fence and bit piece out Of me.n
"You don't say sol"
sBut, confound it, do say so.n
"Oh, / see. You do say so.n
"Yes, do, and moreover, want to know
what you are going to do about it.
81 can't do anything; I'm no surgeon"
"But want to know If you are going to
kill the dogn
"Killing the dog wouldn't help the wound,
would it2'
ssNo, but it would be Of great satisfaction
to me, and demand his death"
Ibid he jump over the fence and nab your
tOf course he did"
"Didn't crawl under the gatei''
"No, tell you he jumped over the fence. !"
ssDid he 90 over with clear leap or did he
scramble on topT
HE jumped clear over. but what difference
does that maker
makes considerable difference. A dog
that can jump 30 high a fence must be valu-
able. For some time have thought that he
was of no account, and had intended to kill
him, but now that you have given me so
strong proof OF his wor th, why his stock
goes up. He shall live Now, il he had
crawled under the gate, or IL he had scram-
bled clumsily on top Of the fence, should at
once have signed his death warrant, but as
he cleared the fence at q bound p
sYou are fool"
ssThank you When he bites you again
call around and see me Good day. n-Ar-
kansaw Traveller.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
LIQUOR AND REV0LVERS.

The sad occurrence at Rowlesburg
last week, whereby one man lost his
life and another is in prison awaiting
trial on charge of murder, was the
result directly of liquor and if the
ever ready revolver would not have
been brought into use, and the total
termination of the feud would not
have resulted in the absence of the
revolver. But the presence of both is
always a hazard to human life. The
sympathies of the community go ont
to the stricken parents of the young
men and the widow and the father
less boy of the murdered man, but
will society profit by the lesson that
the sad event should teach ? Are
the laws regarding the sale aud car
rying of pistols as stringent as they
should be g-Grafton Sentinel.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
MORGAN, THE INDIAN FIGHTER.

Some time since the Morgan fam
lily, of Marion County, W. Va, con-
ceived the idea of doing something
tangible to perpetuate the memory
of their ancestors famous encounter
with the Indians, and concluded to
erect a monument on the now histor-
ic battle ground which lies nearly a
mile north OF Catawba.
In order to carry out this plan,
they procured the services of Hanes
Jones, a very excellent workman in
stone, and quarried from native
rock-which by the way is very
light in color and solid and durable
in character-a monument which
will endure for ages to come. 1t
rests on foundation stones deeply
and securely bedded, in a bottom
course 81 feet square and 13 inches
hight: The second course is feet
square and q feet high. On this
stands the column or prism, which
is Q feet high, 26 inches at base and
Ii inches at top, making the entire
monument, including foundation ex-
posed, 16 feet above the surface.
On the south side on second course
is inscribed:
"Erected in memory of David
Morgan"
The monument is erected directly
upon the ground of his famous en-.
counter with two Indians in March,
1774,
On the column in front is a gun,
tomahawk, scalping knife and pow.
der horn, in a sort Of monogram
style, and on the reverse side is a
plain panel.
Saturday, October II, was fixed
as the day. A very fair crowd as
sembled, and after enjoying them.
selves in sort or picnic fashion for
a while the ceremonies began.
Ex-Governor T. III. Pierpont, a
lineal descendant Of the hero of the
battle, opened with a genealogy of
the Morgan family showing them
from Morgan Morgan, of the 10th
century, to the present day when a
portion became Pierpont. He was
followed by Stephen Morgan, Of Up
shur county, a nephew of the boy
Stephen now gone down to history
who related some "reminiscences as he
had heard his uncle relate them.
Next in order came a paper read
by Prof. Joseph May, late of Ben
wood, giving the traditional descrip'
ton OF the fight as remembered by
those who participated therein.
After the narrative was concluded
William E. Watson was called for
and was giving a very good talk
when an Indian appeared upon the
scene, and the ceremonies were con
concluded. -Morgant0acn Post.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
DRUNKENNESS A CRIME.

Drunkenness is a crime against
both the moral and the civil law, and
it is among the least excusable of
crimes. Every man who makes
himself a drunkard does it in the
face of the fullest knowledge of his
sole responsibility for his double Of.
Tense against himself and against
society. There is not hopeless va
grant drunkard in the land who did
not depart from the patti OF sobriety
down the thorny way of dissipation
with his eyes open and his senses
admonlshing him at every step of
his peril. All the safeguards that
the affection at home and the re-
spect Of friends could throw about
him were exhausted to make him de-
sist from the crime that brutalized
him in his best days and has now
left him little of the semblance of the
manhood given him by his Creator.
These degraded wretches merit SIN
cerc pity for their crimes against
themselves, against affection, against
respect, and against society; but
they are none the less criminals than
are the equally perverted and de-
bauched. burglar or highwayman,
and the law very Justly permits no
plea of drunkenness in mitigation of
serious crimes.
1t is time to halt the idiotic senti.
mentality chat treats the drunkard
as the hapless victim OF the rumsel-
Ter. The rumseller has his respon-
sibility, both in law and in morals,
but it does not in any degree lessen
the responsibility of the drunkard
for the crime of brutalizing himself
and assailing the good order and
safety of society, and there should
be stern and certain punishment for
the crime of drunkenness. The
State of Minnesota has already clear
ly defined the crime of drunkenness
by statute with severe penalties for
every violation of sobriety, as vic.
lation of law, and the sooner that
like laws are enacted in all the
States of the union, the sooner will
the most practical and the most just
methods be adopted to suppress one
of our commonest and most demon
alizing crimes.-Phila. Times.