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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
The Decline of ROYALTY.

A Lusignan descendant of the Kings
of Jerusalem died miserably lately in a
hospital in Milan. A Marquis descend
ant from the Dodges is selling matches
in the streets of Venice; in the same
city porter at one of the most splendid
palaces keeps the door of the house
where he ought to be master. At Ma
pies the Due de Lerma, grandee OF
Spain, is lawyers clerk. At Palermo
the Due de Santa Croce goes about the
streets picking up cigar ends and any
thing else to be found. The Princess
Pignatelli is singer in a cafe chantant
in Berlin. At Buenos Ayres there is a
lovely flower girl about twenty, who,
when asked where she came from, re-
piled that she was Lombard, but that
her parents we're Romans of the name of
Pecci. The girl, whose name was
Leonildha Pecci when asked if she was
relative of His Holiness, said she did
not know, but in her family it was be-
lieved they were nearly akin.--N. y.
Tribune.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
DRESSES FOR CHILDREN.
Reforms That Should BE Introduced With
out More Delay.

out More Delay.
The question of dress reform is agit
tating our sisters across the sea, who
have formed themselves intoa so-called
Rational Dress Society, advocating the
advantage of shorter skirts for outdoor
wear, as being more cleanly, suitable
and better generally, adjurihg the much
tabooed corset and high-heeled shoes,
denouncing stihy-boned bodices, and
seeking more comfortable as well as
artistic dress. But the most sensible
resolutions they have adopted are those
with reference to dressing little girls.
in the long, narrow-skirted dresses,
binding Kate Greenaway capesi around
Their shoulders, and placing huge super
structures laden with plumes., called
bonnets, on their heads.
The fashionably dressed child of the
day is most artistic little object in re-
pose, and most awkward and uncom'
Portable little atom in notion. She
would be beaten in a race with her own
grandmother, for her narrow, elinging
little skirts give her less freedom of
motion, and as for climbing it is entirely
out of the question. She returns from
her dignified promenade on the avenue
with muddy petticoats, the same as, her
big sister, unless, indeed, she be taught
to lift them at the crossing, as many OF
them are. If she goes upstairs she
trips, if she climbs on chair or the
window seat she sprawls. She misses
in her petticoat tyranny half the joy of
! childhood, and loses it's elasticity and
! free abandon of motion, and unless She
is an angel, all but the harp and crown,
! she gets pessimistic views OF life, bad
temper and sallow complexion before
she is thirteen, all on account of frus-
trated purposes and ahortive attempts
to attain the freedom of action which
ought to be her inalienable right in
babyhood. Women are supposed to
be martyrs in the cause of beauty.
They don't expect TO be comfortable in
their complicated toggery, butthe babies
ought not 20 be made to bear the burdens
of life before theycut their double teeth.
A mother in the full development of her
strength makes her bonnet of bit o.
lace, anchored with a diamond pin and
moored with strings of velvet and gets
neuralgia, but she does not mind. She
would rather have touch of the tic
doloureux than quarter OF yard toe
much lace ON her bonnet.
Bat the little toddling mite her nurse
leads beside her has hat like a 81,
teenth-century courtier's. laden witi
heavy feathers and tied with broas
thick ribbons. The child gets q head
ache, and does not mind it very mueA
for the happy consciousness of being y
the fashion is not so sure sedatis<
suffering liz her case as in her Iaosk
The assurance that her plames s.
longer and more numerous than thd'a
! Of the other toddlers has not 50 poten
, a charm for her. Where arethe sensibl
little close caps and the pretty shol
| fitting skirts Of half decade ago? WI
! will introduce them tgaing-Chicr
! Herald,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
TERROR is EPIDEMIC.
That Is the Reason Why Cowards Deserv,
Exemplary Punishment.


"a plague on all towards" says
Shakespeare's Fat Knight, himself the
beau ideal of a bullying poltroon.
But is it just to couple infamy with
cowardice? Would any man be chicken
hearted if he could be otherwise? Does
not every frightened fugitive from
danger blush as he runs?
1t can not be fairly imputed to the
bastard as a crime that his nerves quiver
like aspen leaves when he hears the i'm
mediate bullet whizzing by, or that the
sight of sheathless steel makes the per-
spiration start from all his pores. He
wOuM face the whirlwind of battle if he
could, but it whisks him round
like a weathercock, His reason may
tell him that his back is as broad tar
get as his breast and that he is as likely
to be shot retreating as advancing; in
deed, more likely, for even brave man
can take a Steadier aim at flying ad-
versary than at furious foe rushing
upon him at the "double-quick. But
instinct is stronger than reason in the
| craven, anu All HIS loCOluOulNG uuuSClcS
are at its command.
Under these circumstances, ought a
military man who shows the white
feather in the presence of the enemy to
be shot therefor? Being, as Falstafi
says, "a coward upon instinct" is he
morally responsible for running away
Perhaps not. Nor is it for the act
itself that he is doomed, but because OF
its consequences Terror is epidemic,
1t is more readily caught than the
smallpox, and spreads more rapidly
A Captain is smitten with it and
communicates it to his company
the regiment catches it from the com
pany, the brigade from the regiment
the corps from the brigade, the whole
army from the corps, and thus a grea
battle is lost, and perhaps great caus'
endangered or ruined.
twill not do to adhere scrupulousl,
to the abstract principles of justice il
, such cases. The offense must be meas
ured by its results. The event and no
the involuntary act which produced ii
, arraigns and condmns its author. Th
{ punishment which seems cruel is absC
: lutely necessary, and therefore right
Not because he is a coward, is the COW
ardly soldier done to death, but in ordG
e that disasters more terrible than th
: shooting of thousand dastards may b
!. prevented by his public shame and dii
j honorable doom.-N, Y. Ledger,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
VERSES TO THE EDITOR.
Witty Rhymes That Accompanied De-
cidedlv Poor Poems.

WHY rhymes Ihat Accompanied De-
cidedlv Poor Poems.
The editor of one of New YorlI's
many repositories of humor is almost
daily in receipt Of versified communi-
cations from his contributors, submit
ting verses which in many instances
are lamentably inferior to the COM
munications themselves.
From one of the most prolific poetic
pens came the following
o. prithee cast your eagle squlnt
Ger this poetic tale
And if 'tis good enough to print
Remember It's for sale.
The same writer shows that even the
poet is sometimes compelled to think of
material things, and in sending a Son
net to the Soul to be passed on to the
proper channel, he observes:
say, my Lord, hope you're well,
This Sonnet to the Soul
If wants it will sell
For two full tons of coal,
So
Friendship of many years standing
prevented bloodshed when the editor
received quatrain accompanied by
the lofty lines:
They say you don't know what Is what,
don't believe you do,
On your decision on this Quat,t
Rests my opn of you.
+Rain.
To this the editor found it profitable
to reply;
may not know just what is what
Or which is which-don't ask it,
But do know your little Quat
Lies buried in my basket.
The next contribution from this gen.
tleman brought with it the invocation:
Ipray that you andI may get
A gift from Heavens dome:
May you get sense to like these lines,
dollars for the pome.
1t sometimes happens, as in the three
instances following, that money is either
lost sight of altogether or is so subor-
dinated that it is rather an accessory
than any thing else:
I've worked for pay never got
Until my head is hoary;
Take this and lucer send me not;
I'll take it out in glory.
Appeals of this sort are very hard to
resist, though in the instance following,
the editor, rather than feel himself re-
sponsible for premature though happy
death, returned the poem to the writer
The note read thus:
If l could get this poem in
Your magazine, o. friend,
/ should have reached the pinnacle,
Attained my cherished end.
o! take the poem, print it, and
Delight my poor weak eye,
And when / see my lines in type
o! then I'll gladly die.
The third utterly unselfish verse was
as follows:
If you want it, take it!
| I'm not consarned;
If you don't, why, shake it,
And be darned.
The meter is rather weak in the las
line, but the sentiment of the Who'll,
was so refreshing that very bad poem
was accepted and paid for on tn,
strength of the little note that cam,
with it.--John Kendrick Bangs, il
| Chatter.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
THE SEVEN STAGES.

THE SEVEN STAGES.
Only baby,
Kissed and caressed,
Gently held to a mothers breast.
Only Il child,
Toddling alone,
Frightening now Its happy home.
Only boy,
Trudging to school,
Governed now by sternef rule.
Only youth,
Living in dreams;
Full of promise life now seems.
Only man,
Battling with life,
Shared in now by a loving wife.
Only father,
Burdcned with care,
Silver threads in dark brown hair.
Only graybeard,
Toddlng again,
Growing old and full Of pain.
Only mound,
O'ergrown with grass;
Dreams unrealiZed-rest at last.
Boston Traveller
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
An Adcnnnte AnoIogr.

Philosopher - Good-afternoon, Mrs.
De Science. Allow me to compliment
you on your remarkable article in the
Scientific Age.
Mrs De Fashion-You have made a
mistake, sir. | am not bock-worm nor
do have to write for a living. | am
Mrs. De Fashion, rather well-known
soiety leader--not Mrs. De Science.
Philosopher-0hl beg her PARDON
n. Y. Weekly.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16

AT a recent French cooks ball ia
New York the work of art was the rep
resentation of a temple of commerce. 1t
was made of $4,000 pieces of gum paste
and sugar, and stood several feet high.
The architectural beauties were we'll
shown, and the coloring was especially
clever.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
UNCLE SANS ARMY.
There Are Not Ten Real Soldiers 70
Every Commissioned Officer.


Every Commissioned Officer.
The army of the United States con-
sists of 2, l67 commissioned officers and
sufficient number of enlisted men to
keep them in practice. This number is
fixed by general law at 80, 900; for sew
eral years Congress has been in the
habit of appropriating for only $4,000
and it does not seem likely to get out of
the habit, although the military authori-
ties are generally asking for at least the
statutory 10000. Omitting considera-
BILE number of enlisted men who are
performing civilian duties the Adjutant-
General of the army reports the actual
strength of the army as 90, 145.
So there are rnot ten real private
soldiers for every officer; this
fact inspires great deal of wit on the
part of paragraph writers who do
not understand what our army is for.
We have never been in danger of any
sudden foray from Canada or Mexico, our
army would do us precious little good if
our harbors were invaded by hostile
neet, ana lof several years past the In
dian has ceased from troubling and the
town-site speculator is at rest. We
have no fighting for our army to do.
But the organization of an army is not
an easy thing, and so we obey the in
junction, in time of peace to prepare for
war, just far enough to keep up mill
tary organization of 1000 officers and
the smallest number of enlisted men
that will permit the officers to keep in
military practice. A regiment of in
fantry with 81 officers and hardly 400
enlisted men seems pretty top-heavy,
but the 81 officers form regimental or
ganization around which 1000 enlisted
men could be arranged as easily as 400.
Fred Perry Powers, in Chautauquan.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16
Eight Scholastic Hints.
Conciseness is a virtue.

Conciseness is virtue.
Don't get ratified in school govern,
ment.
There is no good discipline where a
harsh voice is frequently heard.
Teach genuine respect for the best
thought and the best life of the day.
A small vocabulary skillfully used is
better than large one indifferently
used.
A question asked by a pupil for the
class to answer is frequently worth
much more than that of teacher.
The essential features of elocution
should be in the mind of the teachers
through the entire school career of a
child.
Emphasize the fact that the right
way is always easier than the wrong,
and that to answer a question correctly
is easier than to answer it incorrectly
if the idea is clearly in mind.-Journal
| of Education.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16

-Meddybemps, Me, boasts of a six
year-old boy who spelled over four hun
dred words on examination day without
missing one. Evidently the spelling
book is not neglected in that school.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-16

The meter is rather weak in the last
line, but the sentiment of the whole
was so refreshing that very bad poem
was accepted and paid for on the
strength of the little note that came
with it.--John Kendrick Bangs, in
Chattar
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
SAVE LA FAYETTE PARK.

An Indignant Protest Against the Uproot-
ing of Fine Old Trees.
To the Editor of The Sunddy Herald:
Can you not raise your voice and appeal to
other journals to lift theirs also against the au
thority that is at work destroying La Fayette
Park and its splendid trees in order that Col
Cor Mai.) Ernst may put statue in some place
where he desires IL? "They' have first de-
stroyed the south front entrance facing the
Presidential Mansion, uprooted noble trees
among them a superb magnolia, the first one in
the park, and placed base there, lat expense of,
believe, $S ,000,) to which some Senators OBJ
jectcd, and there it is STILL Now, at another
extra expense, they are digging up the ground
and uprooting trees at the southeast entrance
for another site. The splendid old tree Just at
this entrance taken up to-day, root and branch,
is doubtless historic, and planted by some
of the 'fathersn of our country when the city
was planned That one tree for health, beauty,
and glory of the place was worth far more to
human good than any number of statues. Why
not up and beg France and other nations not to
give us any more craven images if our city
parks must be despoiled to give them standing
room In the name of art, aesthetics, beauty,
and humanity let us protest against the destruc-
ton of our parks and grand old shade trees,
every one of which is worth more than thou
sand dollars apiece, for money cannot replace
them. There were two fine shade trees re-
Gently removed from the grounds south of the
White House, which to see destroyed was a
crime, in my eyes, to my thinking, seeing what
a benefaction such great trees can be, espe-
ciallY in this city of concrete and stone where
grasses and foliage are so much needed to give
little vitality to the air. The
air here in warm days, for lack of this
oxygen and ozone, is almost insupport-
able 1t will not be long before every historic
landmark, even to the great trees planted by the
early fathers of the Republic, win be swept
away. Surely the Daughters of the American
Revolution cannot begin too soon their work of
rescue. Some one must keep an eye on Col.
Ernst and his ilk, or they will have the dome of
the Capitol down and Heaven knows what else
uprooted before Saturday night.
This Government should have a regular stand
ing committee on art, in or out of Congress,
composed of few people of the highest culture,
should have charge of just such matters as the
erection of public memorials and ornamentation
of grounds belonging to the United States Gov
ernment. Where is Senator Bate, where his
colleagues, that those Senators cannot use their
power to stop the destroying of Lafayette Park
If the memory of Gen. Lafayette has not niche
in the heart and gratitude of the people it is not
likely piece of marble will evoke it or enhance
the glory of that patriot For art work in the
Capital we have had enough subjects or motifs
from the field of war. Why not celebrate
scholars, scientists, artists, inventors? We
might as a grateful people begin with a statue
to Edison and Mary, Mother of Washington.
l.. r. NJ.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
THANKSGIVING DINNERS.
Continued from ninth page.

Arrange hot dish, pour Bechamel sauce
around, and serve.
IRENE RUCKER SHERIDAN"
A NAVAL RECIPE FOR BREAD
The wives of the generals and admirals excel
not only in making fancy dishes but in getting
up the palmer articles for the table. Mrs. Gen.
Banks makes most delicious boiled tomatoes
which she serves on toast. Mrs. Gen. Manderson
has breakfast dish of corn mullins which her
husband never gets tired of pralsing, and Mrs
Gen. Bate makes an eggbread consisting of two
cups of corn-meal, three cups OF buttermilk,
teaspoonful of lard q teaspoonful of salt, and
one egg which, when cooked and eaten hot with
fresh buttermilk, will make any Tennessee mans
stomach get up and howl for more OF course,
every one wants homemade bread for Thanks
giving and will let Mrs. Admiral Crosby, of the
Navy, tell how you make it:
Two quarts of flour, one teaspoonful each of
salt and lard, one teacupful each of yeast and
milk, a little sugar if desired; thin the dough
with cold water, and knead about twenty min
utes or longer; put in bowl to rise over night,
moistening with little melted lard on top; in
morning. or when light, put into loaves and set
in same place, then bake"
1t may be that some of the readers of the above
VIII not know how to make the yeast and add
this recipe from Mrs. Crosby. 1t will beat any
baking powder in existence:
Pare six or eight potatoes; cover with about
place in bowl; one teacupful each of salt and
sugar; throw the water and potatoes through
the coander, and if there is not water enough
add cold water; when it is cool, add one teacup-
full of old yeast; set in warm place for several
hours; then keep in cool place. Will keep
several weeks. l.. A. CROSBY"
MRS. SENATOR CARLISLE'S MAYONNAISE.
My next recipes come from Kentucky State
famed for its hospitality. They are penned in
the handwriting of Mrs. Senator Carlisle and she
warrants them good. The first is for mayon-
naise. 1t is:
Take yolks of three eggs, Juice of one lemon
small pinch cayenne pepper one-half teaspoon
full salt, one teaspoonful vinegar, one-quarter
pint best olive oil, and teaspoonful prepared
mustard. Put yolks in china bowl and mix in
salt and mustard. Stir with fork and drop in
the oil slowly until it thickens, then add the
lemon juice and vinegar, stirring constantly un-
til thoroughly mixed"
Another of Mrs. Carlisles famous recipes
which is made as follows:
MRS. CARLIsLE's BLACK CAKE
Two pounds raisins, two pounds currants
one pound citron, cut fine; one dozen eggs
beaten separately; one pound dark brown
sugar, one pound butter creamed, one table
spoonful allspice, one teaspoonfu cloves, one
goblet brandy, nutmegs, flour the fruit sepa-
rately, one pound flour, and one teaspoonful
baking powder. Mrs. j. c. CARLISLE"
With this recipe 1 close my list of dishes for
your Thanksgiving dinner / can assure you
that the recipes all genuine. They are the
result of years of experience and they have
tickled the stomachs of statesmen and generals |
That they may also be successful and may tickle
yours is the wish of Miss GRUNDY JR
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23

Arrange on a hot dish, pour Bechamel sauce
around, and serve.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Important change of time. See advertise
ment in another column. Train for Chicago
leaves now at $50 p. NJ, instead of $3.50 P. NJ,
as heretofore.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
PUBLIC !!.!!.!::!!!: SAFETY,
DE M A NJ DS

That only honest and reliable medicines
should he placed upon the market. 1t cam
not, therefore, be stated too emphatically,
nor repeated too often, that all who are in
need of genuine Blood purifier should
be sure and ask for
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
For The Most Popular Boy or Girl

THE SUNDAY HERALD is going to give a mag
nifcent present to the Washington boy or girl
contest which begins to-day. Read the full par
ticulars of it on the eleventh page of to-day's
HERALD.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23

~ Washington, ID. c., November j, 1896
Sealed proposals, in triplicate, subject to usua
conditions, will be received here until IL O'Clock
a. M. December TO- 1890, and then opened for
furnishing during the six months commencing
January |, 1891, and ending June 80, 1891, such
Preference will be given to articles of domestic
production or manufacture, conditions of quail
lty ana price dneluding in the price of foreign
being equal. All information required will be
furnished on application to this office EnVel-
opes containing proposals should be marked
Proposals for Forage and Straw" and ad-
dressed TO q b. DANDY, Deputy Quartermaster
General, u. S. A. nol6.4t5
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
THE COMBINATION
1900, 1902, 1904 F STREET, CORNER TWELFTH
LADIES and MISSES JACKETS and REFFERS

madea
little quantity
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ragePe
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SWELL.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
Ayers

Sarsaparilla. Your life, or that of some one
near and dear to you, may depend on the
use of this well-approved remedy in prefer
ence to any other preparation of similar
name. 1t is compounded of Honduras sar-
saparilla (the variety most rich in curative
properties), Stillingia, mandrake. yellow
dock. and the iodides. The process of man.
ufacture is original skilful. scrupulously
clean, and such as to secure the very best
medicinal qualities of each ingredient. This
medicine is not boiled nor heated, and is
therefore, not decoction; but it is a COM
pound extract, obtained by method en-
clusively our own. of the best and most
powerful alternatives, tonics and diuretics
known to pharmacy. For the last forty
years, Ayers
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
KID GLOVES.
TOMORROW
is ALSO KID GLOVE DAY

We have full line of honest goods Every
par we sell at '5c. and upward we guarantee If
you allow us to fit them to your hand
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
At1rttuir SS1lrs.
Fine Building Lois
AT
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS,
Near Intersection of Woodley
and Tennallytown Roads.
Atrrtfn,r SalHs.
On Wednesday Afternoon, Nov. rs,
AT 3 40 O'CLOCIx.

We will sell on the premises lots in CLEV ELAND
HEIGHTS, graded and guttered streets, shade
trees about l,500 feet east of Tenuallytown road,
and on Woodley road, short distance west of
Connecticut avenue extended. Nowhere in
northwest section have lots more assured fu-
ture value, lying right in the line of the i'm
provement of the northwest. Tennallytown
electric cars within five minutes walk.
Terms: third cash, balance one and two
years: notes to bear per cent interest, payable
semi-annualy. from day of SALE and to be
cured by deed of trust on property sold, or all
cash, at option of purchaser. dep osit of 500
on each lot at time of sale. ConYeyancing, etc.
at purchasers cost. Terms to be complied with
in ten days, otherwise resale at risk and cost of
defaultng purchaser, after five days advertise
ment of such resale in some ne ewspaper published
in Washington. d. C.
Plat to be seen at the office OF auctioneers
DUNCANSON BROS,
no23-I Auctioneers