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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-01
BEING ENGAGED.
MISS MEHITABLEs ROMANCE.

When Msh,table's mother leaned on the chairback
and looked at her daughter after the departure OF
Parrot smith, that daughter felt that she would almost
be willing to forcgo the pleasure OF hearing man ask
II he might come TO see her Sunday night II that
pleasure were to result IN such gaze as this. She
could not account for her suffering from such guilty
feeling when she not guilty of anything unless
It OF being attractive that gentleman deslred
her society At this thought she biushed. and then
common sense whispered to her that she was no'
aurac 80.
u OF no use to try to look her mother in the
face she gave up the attempt After terrio@
silch.. Mrs. Green cried out:
O. never I declare mover did
Mehitable trembed
lilo was weighin' tho ROSTERS" she said feebly
lie want weighin' ROSTERS when you m he
was stanln' by the fence, without ben' nigh no roos
ters," the stern reply.
Mchitable felt there was nothing for her to say
and so she said nothing. She only tried 10 hold her,
self so that her mother should BIO as little aggravated
as possible.
HAS that man buried his second wife''
He has"
ooh gracious land!'
Here Mrs Green deliberately withdrew her hands
from the back Of the chair sat down IN that char ana
then with osenstlous careflness, began TO unto tho
handkerchief from her hoah and to fold IL on her
knees When she had done this she looked up at her
girl and made this inquiry;
when d. he bury herf
"AbOut six months ago.
He's ben mourner scnce, s'poseP
al s'pose So, deiectedly came from Mehitables
lips.
The poor thing endeavoring to brace hersei
in some way. She knew that she bad right 10
receive Mr.. Smiths addresses, but this hno" edge
of singularly little avail to her.
She immensely astonished and ,ndehnaoiJ
alarmed when her mother said, rising to her feet as
she spoke.
we mustn't be fooIn' here IL we want to get
them bunnts sewed fore the man comes
Mehitabe eagerly sat down 10 the straw work.
For two hours she expected, every time her mother
opened her lips to hear something more on the dead
subject But no, Mrs. Green remarkably am able
and the gcntlemen7 not mentioned in any way
SO the days passed. and nothing said. 1t Will
be guessed that Mrs. Green had not only Inherited
the Farnswoth look, but tho Farnsworth shrewdness
we'll What she said to herself was =" If go
aginst that Parrot Smith, she'll take up all the moro
for him, ll hold my tongue"
She was one OF those exceptional women who,
having resolved to hold her tongue do so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-01

Surely somebody had driven into the yard SOMEBODY
said " whoa very loudly and emphacally.
81 puess we're goin' TO have callers, Mhitaole,'
said Mrs Green sweetly. "You run right n light
the scttpnroom stove, m I'll go to the door,
While Mehitable was lighting the stove.' her
,o,bor usbered into the kitchen Mr. Alphonso smith
Uo said be guessed he might s well take out his boss
N, stan, II in the barn as twas KINDER DUN OUT
la immediately disappeared ana WAS eVldenuy
stap,tn, his boss in the barn. when ne re'urnoo
Nch,tobe was in the kitchen and he shook hands WIN
-. oo,.if.I,v with both women and said with gusto
70, Ia had an idea that two women alone so might
Ia lonesome like IN he Jest dropped In to be sociaoie
10 unwound gray comforter from his neck
AL a. he did so one might have observed that MS
,.,rcoat was not as long, By ABOUT loo'' do INC
,a,t hcneath H. This kind OF disparity IN length
docs not give an agreeable appearance to gentleman
and when a lover appears with this relatively WRONG
,on If coat skirts It Is very hard indeed 10 pear
~, ,ha, Miss Green was astdious In sucn matters
.,,u he could not control heeting Wish mat ME-
smiths coats had agreed with each DINER oe''er'
who, however his outer garment was removed
ard She had hung It on nail IN the bach ohtry wheIe
she us'u "a rbIng his hands 10y the cock stove,
thst She e~ght not to blame him for not having
anVtbing long enough to conceal The Immense eAen,
@f his foc coat The skirts OF that article OF apparei
werr 80 wide and long, they waVea ana mapp" o ~
when their weaeT moved tna' they S't the gmsi
Il
sgnIfcanSo OF this visit suddenly found her ,I mpr
MIR Smith found that coat Did they nave hess
coats ready made anywhero' Could any man 80 ana
get onei 49,, Art, n.rso,,s dross HE blach
nontao0ns we're very short and small. as II all the
rIn lad been used in tho coat, and his shirt front
| L,lrod - crat deal and seemed threatening to crack
III L,d An effect as ii IL were vcneered,
Nt,. Green made somo inquiries about the hen
husiness and found that Mr. smith had permanently
tsInn The pace OF that young man who had gone up
lie ffS' was 4V only driver now but he hsscrcd on sn
" ,,,cr awhile Mrs Green suggested that thu front
room, Sas probably warm enough now, and Mehitabie
"Oduted her sutton into that apartment. where they
both Sat down somewhat awkwardly: But Mr.. smith
n 30 much accustomed 10 this kind Of thing as
Se Would have said 10 be much at loss He did MOI
~, -, 49, ,be sentimental. lie talked a good deal about
~. IN advantage II would be for them two women
w have est the kind OF man he there and
bring his COW over N his pigs. and Mh,able cousi
take care OF 'em while he was pckin' up hens, MS
children all shlrkn for themselves now though
| his Youngest only twelve =,
"' She listened to him Mehtable conscious OF
| the most curious mixture OF disappointment ana ana
cxultation she exuled over the mere fact that snc
now had gentleman frcnd' OF her own. and there
| he was vsiby before her. stn there was an unda
lying sense that this nero fact wss not very
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
THE NAVY.
Annual Report of Admiral ID. ID. Porter,
Commanding Officer of the United States


Annual Report of Admiral ID. ID. Porter,
Commanding Officer of the United States
Navy.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-The annual
report of Admiral ID. ID. Porter, the COM
manding officer of the United States
navy, shows that most of the ships in
the navy are in good condition. The re-
ceiving-ship Dale has rotten hull.
Four vessels, the Antietam, the Juniata,
the Pilgrim and the Quinnebaug, have
been condemned and ordered to be sold
for the sums of $500, $1,000, $1,000 and
SIS, 900 respectively.
The Admiral makes but one recon-
mendation, which is contained in the
following paragraph:
1t has been customary for reports of exer-
cises on board ships of war to be sent to me
for examination. l have frequently found
these reports SO satisfactory, and the reg
ulations so imperfectly complied with, that
I am of the opinion that they should be made
directly to the Bureau of Navigation, where
they would come directly under the eye of
the department Many things which are OBJ
solete are still adhered to in these reports, the
forms for which were made twenty years ago.
Since then the system of naval tactics and
exercises has entirely changed. therefore
beg leave to recommend that under the sys-
TEN about to be inaugurated in the navy, en-
tirely new forms for exercise reports be
adopted.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
lit CUTS A BIG FIGURE.

A Knife that was Found on Dan Coughlin
when Arrested just Identified Hav-
ing Belonged to DIR. Cronin, But Almost
Too Late to Cut Any Figure in the Case.
CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-Barney Flynn,
the officer that took Dan Coughlin to
Jail the day his arrest was ordered by
Chief Hubbard, yesterday informed his
superior officer that at the time of
Coughlin's arrest two pocket knives
were found in his possession, and that
at Coughlin's request he took them to
the Fidelity Safety Deposit and locked
them up. After conference of police
officials Chief Hubbard visited the de-
posit vault and secured the knives. 1t
is reported that one of these knives has
been identified as having belonged to
DIR. Cronin. When seen in regard to the
pocket-knife story Chief Hubbard said:
"Yes, it is true. It's another case, in
my opinion, of Clan-na-Gael control.
And to think that it comes just when it
is too late to use. Great Godi When
will these disclosures cease?" Chief
Hubbard would not say who identified
the knife, nor any thing further in re-
| gard to the case.
LATER-Evidence in relation to the
above was admitted at the last moment,
despite the objections of counsel for the
| defense.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
Some Curious Hindoo Notions.

A curious light is thrown on the rural
life of Bengal by the contents of pa
per reprinted lately in the annual re-
port of the Bombay Anthropological
Society. From this paper we are told
the following among other things:
Shouting the name of the king of birds
(Garuda) drives away snakes. Cholera
that attacks on Monday or Saturday
ends fatally, but not cholera that at
tacks on Thursday. The Towering OF
bamboos augurs famine. In tanning, If
the fan strikes che body it should be
thrice knocked against the ground.
When giving aims the giver and re-
ceiver Should not be standing on differ
ent sides of the threshold. If snake
is killed 1t should be burned, for it is a
Brahman. At night the words ''snake"
and ''tiger" should not be used; call
them creepers and insects. Do not
wake up sleeping physician. A morn
ing dream always comes to pass Iron is
a charm against ghosts. A black cat with
o white face is very auspicious.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
A PATENT DENIED.

sigmund Odenhelmer Denied a Patent for
Cotton Bagging a Substitute for the
Jute Article on the Ground that it fs Not
the Product of Original Inventive Fac
ulty.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 In deciding
the application of Sigmund Odenheimer
for patent for baling fabric, Commits
sioner Mitchell says:
The most conspicuous change made by
the inventor to produce his alleged inven-
tion was the substitution of cotton for jute
in the manufacture of bagging. The appli-
cant urged that cotton was especially adapted
for the use I'm such manufacture, because,
unlike iute. IT is not highly inflammable, not
brittle, inelastic or rough, and that it can
commercially compete with jute, nOtwth
standing its greater cost. He further claimed
that the discovery of its value for such use
was the result of long experiment, attended
by large expense, in ascertaining how the
threads should be spun with great deal of
twist so as to give uniform smoothness and
hardness and lightness in weight and also
that he found it necessary to omit the sizing
process, which diminished the elasticity of
the threads. The Commissioner, following
the recent decision of the Supreme Court
in Brown vs. District of Columbia (where
the alleged invention in a pavement con-
sisted in substituting especially shaped
wooden blocks, laid and filled in q certain
way, for blocks of stone, held, that, notwith-
standing the advantage secured by the al
legged invention, and the commercial success
it had received, the applicant had, in substi-
tuting one material for another, only availed
himself of the resources and knowledge OF
| the weavers' art that the experiment and
| trials practiced by him were merely along
| the lines suggested by the skill and expert
| ence pertaining to the calling, involving the
| intelligent manipulation of the materials,
| and that the supposed invention was not the
| creative work of the inventive faculty which
| the laws contemplated to encourage and re-
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A MORTGAGE for $3.50, 100000 payable in
100 wears at 5 per cent. interest, was filed
at Topeka, Kas., on the 30th. The Union
Trust Company, of New York, holds the
mortgage on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway Company and auxiliary lines.
WHILE the collector of the Commercial
National Bank, of Cleveland, Ohio, was
counting $500 in the general office of the
German American Bank, thief snatched
g, 900 and escaped.
SIX or seven years ago land around Hum
boldt, Tenn, could be bought at from SO
to SIS per acre; now 1t is worth from $40 to
$50 per acre.
REPRESENTATIVES of the English syndi-
largest Touring mills in the country have
secured a sixty days option on the Nash
vile (Tenn.) Flour Mills.
MISSISSIPPI cattle brought away every
premium at the recent Birmingham, Ala,
fair.
THE Missouri Pacific Company has closed
Q contract for the construction of 100 miles
of railroad from Dermott, Ark, on the
Little Rock, Mississippi and Texas Rail-
road, a branch of the Iron Mountain, to
Monroe, La. Work will be begun at once.
The United States Treasury on the 30th
mailed 1906 checkes, representing 81 ,13l ,602,
In payment of the interest due December 1st
on registered 4 per cent. bonds.
The First National Bank Of Sheffield, Ala,
has suspended and an examiner will take
| charge.
A SHORTAGE of S45, 900 has been found in
the accounts of A. r. Woodson, city col.
lector of Richmond, Va.
NEW YoRK's worlds fair fund on the
3Oth was s., ,02S, ,942, and the committee ha.
determined to push on toward $10,OOO,0 900
IT is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that there has been q decrease o
$4,000, 900 in the public debt since Novem
Der 1st
CANTRELL & FAULKNER, proprietors o
the Tennessee Woolen Mills at McMinn
vile, have assigned, with liabilities o
about 81, 600; assets SIS, 1000, consisting o.
stock and finely equipped mill.
J. N. HoLLEY has been appointed post
master at Dixieville, Decatur county
Tenn, vice G. w. Frazier, resigned.
A SYNDICATE, with headquarters In New
York. is negotiating to buy up all th'
large cottonduck- mills of the country anC
put them under the control of one corpora
tion. The undertaking will require cap
ital Of $15,0O0,0O0. English financiers ar
said to be interested in the project.
REPUBLICAN Congressman are becoming
very badly mixed over the speakershil
i contest, and a good deal of bad blood ha
been engendered.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
THE OYSTER WAR.
Sensational Arrest of Two Oyster-Dredg-
ing Captains-Great Excitement Among
the Oystermen Along the Border Line
Dismissed with Small Fine.

Sensational Arrest of Two Oyster-Dredg-
ing Captains Great Excitement Among
the Oystermen Along the Border Line
Dismissed with Small Fine.
BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. 30.-The Amer
leans special from Readsville, Va, says
the excitement among oystermen was
intensified yesterday by the arrest of
two oyster-dredging captains-Swift of
the pungy Parks, and Hoadley of the
pungy Regulator-both of Tappahan-
mock, a.,-for dredging on Hog Island
flats. The two oysterers were pounced
upon by the police tug Augusta, Cap
tain Russell, and ordered to surrender:
instead they made for the Coan river,
the Augusta in pursuit. The police
steamer Chesapeake joined in the chase
and overlook the pungies.
Captains Hoadly and Swift were
taken before a magistrate, to whom
they exhibited copies of Baltimore
newspapers containing the proclamation
of Governor jackson of Maryland,
throwing the Hog Island fats open to
the oystermen of both Maryland and
Virginia.
The magistrate discharged both Cap
tains with small fine.
Governor Jacksons proclamation was
issued on the strength of the decision
rendered by Mr.. Whiting, of the United
States Coast Survey that the flats were
on the Maryland side of the boundary
line. There is great excitement among
the oystermen.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
UNTiDINESS AND RUIN.
In Nine Cases Out of Ten They Go Ham
In Hand.

In Hand.
Whether it is that untidiness leads to
ruin or that manufacturer who is los
ing money has not the moral stamina to
keep things in trim, thrifty shape, is a
hard matter to determine, but true it is
that untidiness in the shop and Office
and ruin are such close friends that
they are ordinarily seen together, and
the sight of one suggests the other. We
have often seen men of rare industry,
judged by their hustling manner, who
would spend much time each day look
ing for tools they had forgotten where
they left stumbling over piles of stray
castings left under the lathe or piled on
or under the bench, or paving those cast
ings over for a piece somewhere in this
pile or that when it ought to be in
place by itself, going from tool to tool or
bench to bench to find or borrow drill
or wrench or hammer or block, when
there should be just one place to find the
desired article. And when the articles
are found he never thinks of returning
them to their proper place. In fact there
will be no proper place" for tools in
such shop, and the next man who
wants them will go on the same hunt
ing expedition about the shop. Such a
shop will always have black and dirty
walls and ceiling, with windows splat-
tered with dirt and decorated with cob
webs, notwithstanding that the light is
SO bad that careful work is rendered i'm
possible or tedious of accomplishment,
when a few cents worth of lime and
brush would whiten the walls and CELL
ing and greatly improve the light, and
so expedite and improve the work.
Money and time are lost and ruin in
vited by neglect of these things.
But the greatest loss experienced by
this deplorable and needless state of
things is the morale of the shop. Work
men compelled to work in dingy, i'll.
kept and ill-lighted shop will suffer los.
of ingenuity, loss of ambition, loss OF
self-respect and respect for their en-
ployer and his interests. II they are
forced to work at disadvantage the stim-
ulus to activity and ingenuity suffers
gradual decay, and no one will pretend
to deny that this decadence on the part
of the workman is not direct money
loss to the proprietor.
Tidy workshops stimulate manliness
and ingenuity on the part of workmen,
and right there may be found the profit
on the years business, or if neglected,
the years losses. There are plenty es-
tablishments, East as we'll as West,
which, by a careful attention to these
matters, which they regard in fact as
non-essential, could easily increase the
efficiency of their workmen ten per cent,
and that per cent. would determine the
difference between profit and loss
Aoa of Steel
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05

the mighty joy through the city. fe
the bells ring, and the angels mention
it in their song. Wave it from the tor
OF the walls. All here!'
No more breaking of heart strings,
but face to face. The orphans that were
left poor, and in a merciless world,
kicked and cuffed of many hardships,
shall join their parents over whose
graves they so long wept, and gaze into
their glorified countenance forever, face
to face. We may come up from different
pa-ts of the world, one from the land
and another from the depths of the sea;
from lives affiuent and prosperous, or
from scenes of ragged distress; but we
shall all meet in rapture and jubilee,
face to face.
Many of our friends have entered up
on that joy. A few days ago they sat
with us studying these Gospel themes;
but they only saw dimly-now revela-
ton hath come. Your time will also
come. God will not leave you founder
ing in the darkness. You stand won
derstruck and amazed. You feel as il
all the loveliness of liz were dashed
out. You stand gazing Into the open
chasm of the grave. Wait little.
In the presence of yoJr depart
ed and of Him who ca1ties them
in His bosom, you shall soon stand face
to face. Oh! that our last hour may
kindle up with this promised joy! May
we be able to say. like the Christian not
long ago, departing: Though pilgrim
walking through the valley, the mount
ain tops are cleaning from peak to
peak" or, like my dear friend and
brother, Alfred Cookman, who took his
flight to the throne of God, saying in
his last moment that which has already
gone into Christian classics: Il am
sweeping through the pearly gate,
washed in the blood of the Lamb
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
Fredericksen in New York.

New YORK, Nov. S0.-It is known to
the police authorities here that Fred
erickson, the head of the firm that is ac-
cused of land swindling in Chicago and
other Northwestern cities, came to New
York about a week ago and visited
friends in this city and Brooklyn No
demand for his arrest has been received
from Chicago, consequently the police
here are merely keeping track of his
movements. From information they
have gathered the police believe that
Fredericksen has no money and that he
has been made the victim of sharpers
smarter than himself.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
Ornaments of Roman women.

The favorite ornament of the Roman
beauty was undoubtedly the bodkin, the
pin long and pointed, widening at the
top and carved with the figure of Fortu-
ma or some other favorite goddess. 1t
was occasionally arranged to contain
poison and put to tragic uses, or an
swered the more ignoble purpose of a
weapon to torture the slaves who assist
ed at the difficult function of the toilet.
To prepare the hair and skillfully blend
the false with che true, variety OF
ivory and bone combs were employed, as
we'll as the discerniculum, a pointed
instrument to make parting straight
enough to satisfy the exacting object Of
all these attentions Monthly.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05

WHERE law ends, tyranny begins
Earl of Chatham.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-29
The Inrenior Of Pip.Mnsio

The credit of the invention Of pig
music belongs to the Able de Baigne, a
great musician, who supplied the court
of Louis the Eleventh with many other
curiosities in this way. The ingenious
able was one day asked by the king if
he thought it possible TO produce must
cal sounds from the cries of pigs. The
able thought it was possible, and re-
ceived a grant of money from the mon
arch for that purpose. With this money
he proceeded TO purchase a number of
porkers, of different sizes and ages, and,
after testing the pitch and quality of
their voices, secured them fast, and ar
ranged them in order in a large tent.
He further constructed a keyed instru-
ment, furnished with a number of wires,
tightly drawn, corresponding with the
number of animals. At that end of each
wire which was inside the tent, and al
most touching each pig, was attached a
short, sharp spike, which, when moved
by the action of the key, pricked the pig
and made him squeak. "By this
ASaus, says an Olu CnfOnlClef, ''Iub
able produced such harmony as
to astonish the whole court "
That the cat has been pressed into
the service of musical science, appears
from the account given by Juan Christie
val, Spaniard, of procession which
took place at Brussels at the fetes in
honor of Philip the Second. ''The or
chestra, y says Christoval, ''was upon a
large car; in the middle sat a great bear,
playing on kind of organ-one not
composed of pipes, as usual, but of TWEEN
ty cats, separately confined in narrow
cases, in which they could not stir. Their
tails protruded from the top, and were
tied to cords attached to the key board
of the organ; and, according as the
bear pricked upon the keys, the cords
were raised, and the tails of the cats
were pulled to make them new in bass
or treble tones, as required by the nature
of the airs" Live monkeys and other
animals danced to this music. cal
though" continues the chronicler,
"Philip the Second was the most seri-
Gus of MORALS, he could not refrain
from laughing acknowledgement.