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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02

A Cooking Club composed of
young ladies of Lewiston and An-
burn, Me-, has been in operation
some years and is conducted upon
IA most excellent plan. The Club
meets at The house of each one in
turn every fortnight. The hostess
furnishes the bread and all the
others contribute something cook
ed by their own hands 10 the tea.
Sometimes the dish TO be furnished
is agreed upon and sometimes it is
surprise to all but the originator.
No copying from cook books is al
lowed, but the girls may consult
their own family cooks when a
difficult problem arises in the in
venlion OF new dishes. 1t is SOL
emnly asserted that no girl in the
class fears 10 eat her own concoc-
tions.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02
Impoverished BY Evaporation.

F. Gautirr, writing in the South
ern Cultirator, says: | believe all
soils are impoverished more by
evaporation than by teaching
down, washing away or what is Ia
ken up by crops. BY examining
the sub-soil of cultivated fields,
rich or poor, generally yellow or
red clay sometimes mixed with
sand,) it will be found about the
same under all sandy soils. Fresh
cleared fields are generally good;
the luxuriant growth that covered
them never diminished their fertil-
ity; there was no teaching down,
no washing away, no evaporation.
The soil was protected; but when
under cultivation, blowing and ex-
posure to The winds an sun of our
long summers, they will become
impoverished, all the plant food
gone, not down or washed away,
but gone up to return no more by
that route.
/ think a field of sandy soil, if
made very rich after being plowed
five or six times during the sum-
mer for three or four years, would
be made very poor whether plant
ed or moi; maybe worse if not
planted at all; it would be more
exposed. Shallow cultivation du-
ring summer is The best in such
soils for field croDs.
For fruit trees we should initiate
nature, but our land in good conGi-
tion, plow and harrow, and make
as level as possible after planting
your trees; If in reach, get some
kind OF mulchlng, pine straw, bark,
leaves, trash of any kind, and cover
The ground the coarser the stuff
The thicker. Put your trees close
enough so that the tops will meet
when OF full size, for then the
mulching will not be needed. I
have about 100 fig trees; planted
them a year ago in very dry soil;
mulched Them with pine bark;
bearing and doing very well. Tho
only way, l think TO raise figs on
a large scale, in sandy soil. l
have also 1000 orange trees plant
ed IN poor soil. They are beautiful.
Fig or orange never suffer In the
longest drought.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02
TOAST TO GENTLEMEN.

Mrs. Duniway, at literary re-
union at Salem, Oregon, toasted
'The Gentlemen as follows:
Bless 'em! They halve our joys,
they double our sorrows, they
treble our expenses, they guadru-
pie our cares. they excite our
magnanimity, they increase our
sell.respeci, awaken our enthusi-
asm, arouse our affections, control
our property and outmanouvre us
in everything. This would be u
dreary world without them. In
fact, | may say. without prospect
Of successful contradiction, that
without them this wouldn't be
much of a world anyhow. We
love them, and the dear beings
can't help it; We control them,
and the precious fellows don't
know it. AS husbands they are
convenient, though not always on
hand; as beaux they are by no
means 'matchless.' They are most
agreeable as visitors, handy at
State fairs, and indispensable at
oyster saloons. They are splendid
as escorts for s&me other fellows
wife or sister, and as friends they
are better than women. AS our
fathers they are inexpressibly
grand. A man may be "A failure
in business, a wreck in constitu-
iion, not enough TO boast of as a
beauty, nothing as q wit, less than
nothing as a legislator for women's
rights, and not very brilliant as a
member of the press, but if he is
our own father We overlook his
shortcomings, and cover his picca-
diloes with the divine mantle of
charity. Then, as our husbands,
how we love tn parade them as
paragons! In the sublime Ian
guage of the poet:
"Well lie for 'em,
Well cry for 'em,
And if we could, we'd fly for 'em;
We'd anything but but die for 'em.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02
MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE.

The following are the appoint
ments for the Seashore District:
L. II. Mounger, Presiding Elder
Moss Point Station-C. A. Pow.
ell.
Ocean Springs-J. W. Harmon.
Perry Circuit-Supplied by A.
p. Cox.
Bay ST. Louis-J, r. Savage and
one TO be supplied.
Pearlington-T. w. Adams.
Purvis-H. ID. Howell.
Hattlesburg-J. S. Parker.
Estabutchie-G. II. Ellis.
Whittington-J. Ii. Holland.
Vancleave-M. l.. White.
Americus--Supplied by l.. X.
Roberts.
Williamsburg-J. II. Evans.
Columbia-M. III. Moore, James
I. Abney.
Ellisville-R. B. Downer.
Heidelburg-W. g. Backus.
Mount Carmel-N. B. Young.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02

OF late years the old song which
boasted that "Uncle Sam is rich
enough 10 give us all a farm" has
not been heard very often. The
impression has gone abroad that 1t
is no longer applicable to The stu
alton. But the report of the Sec
retary of the interior shows that
there are still vacant public lands
amounting 20 5S6,2l6,S61 acres, ey-
elusive of the undesirable domains
in Alaska, and not counting the In
dian reservations, some of which
are already falling into the gener-
al territory. 1he:a are farms for
a good many of us yet.-Philadel-
pkia BHlletia.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02

OF the sixty-four oflice-hoiders
in Bolivar county,i forty one are
negroes. Every constable in the
county is a negro; thirteen justices
of the peaces are negroes; two
members of the board. of supervis-
ors are negroes; the circuit clerk,
treasurer, assessor, coroner and
one representative are negroes !;
and ones of The delegates to the
Constitutional Convention was a
negro and the other a white Re-
publican.-Cldrion Ledger.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02
T EWIS III. CHAMPLIN-
A1T0RNEY-AT-LAW,
Pass Ckrisfidu, Miss.

viii attend to business IN all the Courts
of Harrison, Hancock, jackson aud adj
joining counties. Will also attend 10 ex-
aminations of titles and the payment of
taxes. Special attention given TO collec-
hoR of claims in all towns along the Mis-
sissippi Seacoast.
Offioe at residence, on Davis avenue,
near Mexican Gulf Hotel.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02

Jay Gould says that when he
gets all the important railroads of
the Union under his management
the combination will be all har-
mony, with no particular change
except slight advance in rates.
Yes, that "slight advance in rates"
explains the whole thing.
Florida Times Union.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02

A New IDEA-A recent contract
provides for street lighting in Paris
on a novel plan. Power Is distri-e
buied by The compressed air sys-
TEN To a great number of small mo-
lers, each OF which supplies elec-
tricily for small number Of lamps.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-02

SUBSCRIBE for your own county
paper, the DENocRAr-STAR. Only
s2a year in advance.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-10-24
WATERLOO SURVIVORS.
Tho Last Man In Getting Scarce, and Nov
Comes tho Last Woman.

AH0 A~Ss Aau II Gostin8 Scarce ana Nov
Comes tho Last Woman.
People frequently hear about old
Waterloo men," but "Waterloo wom-
en-" are undoubtedly rare. There exists,
however, in France, says the Brandon
Bucksaw, . Mmc. de Variola, who
nursed wounded soldiers ON the great
Belgian battlefield and traversed tho
historic plain on the night following the
memorable fight which sealed the fate
of the first Napoleon. Mime. de Variola
lives at Nantua, in the department of
the Ain. She is ninety-eight years old,
having been born in March, 1903. Her
father, M. Carpan, who had been EN-.
ployed in tho household of Queen Marie
Antoinette, emigrated to Belgium dur
ing the great revolution and bought the
demesne hear st. Amand which con-
tanned within its inclosure the Bry wind
mill, one of the old landmarks of Water
loo. Mime. de Variola, who still retains
all her faculties. relates that on Juno
II, 1915, her father took her and her sis
ter to the windmill. While. they were
there Napoleon entered with an aid de
camp and began TO survey the country
round through q telescope. Seeing the
6A'ASt hS SOAo NAh' SuI pau W IihO UuCm
away, rs great battle was to be fought
near the place on the morrow. Never
thcless, the family ramained in the
windmill and saw some of the fighting
next day. Balls and bullets fell on the
roof of the building, and toward even
ing party of Prussians entered tho
place, one OF thcnn--nn officer-remarls-
ing thnt it was all over with the French.
Shortly afterwurd this officer returned
to the field of battle, and had not gonc
far before his legs were shattered by n
cannon ball. At night M. Carpan won't
out with his children and assisted the
wounded, who were mostly French.
Nine. dc Variola's husband was a
Spaniard, who was once wealthy. but
died poor. His widow is not too we'll
off in her old age. She was formerly
befriendcd by the Empress Eugenie,
but is now supported mainly by her
children.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-10-24
A Novelty In Educ ,tion,

Some Russian schools have petitioned
the ministry of education to introduce
instruction in graceful bearing, polite
bowling, gcnu1exions and the manners
OF polite society" for tho pupils. For
this purpose dancing masters would be
engaged and their lessons entered in
the regular programme of instruction.
But the principal object of their in
struction would be 'politc social man
ners and graceful bearing" and not
single dances. In the higher grades
square and round dances might be in
troduced successively, according to the
development of the pupils. SIS this
piece of information" says q Moscow
contemporary, another invention of
Prince Mestcherky's fertile brains? Or
nrc there, indeed, popular educators
who desire to have dancing introduced
in our public schools, while the populn-
tion of seventeen governments have no
bread to eat.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-10-24
There's Mnny a Slip.

An Albina (Ore.) man, well along in
years, visited Portland justice the
other day with girl of about sixteen,
and wanted the justice to draw deed
for two lots, for which he was to receive
twenty five hundred dollars. The justice
was to deliver the deed, receive the
cash, and divide 1t between tho old gen.
tleman and the young girl after she had
become the formers wife. The decd
was prepared, ready for tho old mans
signature, when tho justice asked for
his fee. That broke the bargain all up.
The old man walked out, leaving til.
br;de-elect. who in turn went her diff.
ferent way homeward.
a LIVERPOOL watch-malser has III
vented lever watch that only require
winding onco in eight days.
A PERFUME lamp, which burns cologn
and spreads pleasant scent about IT,
room, is among tho late household no,
r]ticn.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
POOR TANNING.

Too much politics is now officially re-
ported to be the cause of the partial failure
of crops in Kansas. The Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture and Chancellor
Snow of the State University have visited
the counties in which short crops were re-
ported and found that the wheat had been
drilled into wheat or corn stubble without
any previous preparation of the ground. In
the same counties were wheat fields that
promised large crops. One farmer plowed
while another spent his time going from
one political picnic TO another. The officials
above mentioned say that so far as could
be aseertained every field Of wheat that was
properly prepared is in excellent condition
and promises well. tits doubtless true that
man will impose upon nature as much and
as long as nature will stand the imposition.
If crops viii come without cultivation, there
will be no cultivation. If high cultivation
is necessary to live, high cultivation will
follow. The Kansas farmers were appar-
emily making little experiment 20 see TO
what extent nature could be relied upon to
produce crops unaided.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
BLAINE'S POSITION.

A special Washington dispatch makes the
somewhat improbable assertion that the
proposition for a closed season in seal-fsh-
ing came not from Lord Salisbury, but from
Mr.. Blaine himself. 1t is also stated that
the delay in accepting it has induced Mr.
Blaine to consider if it is worth while at
this late date to enter into an arrangement
of any kind with England Admitting that
the proposition for closed season came
originally from Mr. Blaine. it must have
been in the expectation that eOmprehen-
siye settlement of questions pending be-
tween the United States and England
would by such means be promoted. The
question Of compromising the North
American Commercial Company for the
loss Of a seasons catch, if their con-
tract entities them to such compeusa-
ton, would not be considered an obstacle
to such an understanding. The report of
Henry Elliott, which Mr.. Blaine has been
charged with having suppressed, represents
condition Of things which REQ uires an alb
sOlute cessation from seal-6shing either by
the lessee of the islands or by pOachers.
The report is the exact opposite Of the con-
tention or tie Doachers that their destruc-
tive methods had had no apparent effect
upon the seal population.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
WHERE COFFEE CONES FROM.

4 morning contemporary assumes, on i'm
perfect information, that the new reciproc-
ity treaties with cvfIee-growing countries
vii involve = TeimpGsiIiOn Of duties on the
coffee Of countries that do not recipTOeate,
such as Mocha and Java. The trouble with
this reasoning is that we get no coffee worth
mentioning from the countries in question.
So little of the Arabian coffee known as
Mocha reaches the United States that it
cuts no figure in trade tables. We get from
Costa Bica a fine coffee. of which the bean
cannot be distinguished by the eye from the
Mocha bean, and this is what the grocerS
supply when Mocha coffee is ordered.
A small quantity of Java coffee is i'm
ported, mainly to mix with Rio coffee in
blends. But the whole coffee product of
Java is less than 150,000,000 pounds per
year, and the people of Holland, North
Germany and Scandinavia, who are great
coffee-drinkers, use it almost exclusively.
We IN this country consume some SOC. 00O. 900
pounds Of coffee each year, nearly the
whole of which comes from Brazil, Central
America, Cuba and other SDanish-American
countries. Some Ceylon co fee finds its way
into our markets by way of England.
A few years ago, when the coffee markets
were corneTed, and good Guatemala rose in
this market from cents to u cents, it was
said that the plants in the Santos district Of
Brazil were exhausted, and that extensive
replantation would be necessary if the out
put Of Rio coffee was to be main tanned.
There was probably some exaggeration in
these statements, but there is no doubt that
under the unthrifty system of agriculture
pursued in Brazil the coffee plantations are
I-frr DIT
mala, Salvador and Costa Rca stand ready
10 make up any deficiency which may occur
in South America. The area planted in
coffee in those States is increasing yearly,
and the bean produced is often very fine in
deed. 1t is likely that coffee will be grown
there some day which will compare fairly
with the best Java or Arabian coffee. and
that the amount produced will be only lin
tied by the available supply Of labor. Such
coffee would come to San Francisco for dis
4-st.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
WHY NOT?

In Mr., Blaine's letter to Sir Julian
PauneefOte under date of April 18th he puts
the following pertinent question: IF
Great Britain may thus control an area of
200 square miles of ocean On the coast of
Scotland why may not the United States
prescribe the space around the Pribyloff
Islands in which similar prohibitions may
be enforced?" The answer to this question
is that Great Britain has navy and the
United States has only few Ships. The
Behring Sea controversy has been conducted
on that basis. Mr.. Blaine, with as much
courage as a statesman can afford to have,
has had to conduct the Behring Sea contr0-
Versy with view to gain time. He has
been confronted with condition similar to
that of an unarmed man who encounters an
armed adversary. The English have taken
the full advantage of their navy. That
Government for years has recognized the
fact that government is force 1t is some
satisfaction to feel that one is on the right
side of given proposition, but this feeling
is greatly intensified by the consciousness
Of power to make the right win.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The International Electric Technical Exhibit
ton, which will be opened at Fraukfort-on-the-
Main on Saturday, will possess some very novel
features. Telephones Will be connected with the
Grand Opera houses In FIR ankfort Munich and
Wiesbaden, as well as with concert halls in dis
tant German cities. so that each evening tile Wis
itors may hear the best music OF the artists OF
Western Germany, The historical division VIII
illustrate the development Of the telegraph and
telephone, and IS expected TO be complete beyond
anything OF tile Kind previously attempted. An
other division Will present examples OF
electric signals for railways, ships, mines
and the army. The marine exhibition
VIII be displayed on the Main. Two
electric boats will ply on the river which will be
Illuminated by an enormous electric-light tower
a picturesque feature will be a waterfall forty
feet high on grotto Lighted by electricity. The
machinery hall will contain sixty motors Of
1000 horse power, and among them will be
two or three motors OF 300 horse power.
Another unique feature Of the exhibition Will be
the transmission and distribution OF electric
power from factory IN LaHffen, 105 miles dis
tant, arrangements having been made for 800
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
MUST WAIT.

New York will not expand into a city Of
100000 for a while The question of con-
sOlidatiOn came up in the Legislature in the
form OF bill to extend the life Of the COM
mission, and was voted down. The opposi-
ton is said to have come mainly from Kings
and Westchester counties. which were to be
absorbed. New Y ork papers assume that the
politicians of those counties saw political
extinction if brought into the same munich
paity as New York. II is assumed also
that poll of the communities around New
York would show large majority in favor
Of consolidation. OF this, however, there
may be some doubt. New York is certainly
not remarkably well governed city. 1t is
heavily in debt, and consequently subject to
high rate of taxation. If population as
large as that of the city proper should be
added, Tammany would be as absolute as it
now is. Most likely, however, in the end
the ambition 10 become the second city in
the world in point of population will over
come all obstacles that the politicians who
fear extinction can present.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
ACROSS THE BAY.
Brief Items of Interest From
Two Cities.

The anniversary of Founders day at
Mills College was observed yesterday by
the students and large number of their
friends. The twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Alumn8 Association was also held. The
association has pledged itself TO raise a
scho larship fund for the collegiate course, to
be known as the Alumn@ Association
Scholarship. The proceeds of the concert
on Friday evening will be used TO 1T up the
Nathaniel Gray Hall of Science.
A demurrer, setting up the statute of
limitation in the six suits of Alameda
County against the Southern Pacific Com
pany for the taxes of 1887, was argued yes
terday before the three Judges of the Su-
perior Court sitting in bank. Ii. S. Brown
and A. a. Moore re represented the company,
and Acknowledgement Bart was assisted by
District Attorney Reed of Oakland and As
sistant District Attorney York of Los An
geles. After a lengthy argument it was
finally taken under advisement
The articles of incorporation of the East
Oakland Street Railroad Company were
filed yesterday afternoon. The capital stock
is $3.50, coo in $500 shares Of S100 each The
estimated length of the road is ten miles.
The road is known as the Sessions Wander
cook ROAD. to whom franchise was granted
by the council few weeks since. The Di-
rectors are Z. c. Sessions, c. L. White, Z.
P. Vandercook. T. F. Crist and w. P.
Melvin.
The Oakland Starr King Fraternity has
elected the following officers: President, j.
p. Irish; First Vice-P President, c. j. Wood
bury; Second Yice-President, b. c. Cuvel-
lier; Secretary, Mrs. A. q. Freeman; Treas
ureT, Joshua Baker; Drectors-C. w.
Wendte, E. Won Adelung, Mrs. L. z. Fisher,
Mrs n: w. Palmer; Library Committee
Daniel Titus, A. b. Nye, Mrs. /. K. Griffin,
Miss E. Nj. Sherman, Mrs. A. c. Schies-
niger
Israel Lawton has gone to Japan, and it
is said that he may never return TO Oakland.
The death of his son and other things, nota-
bly, the Merritt estate trouble, have caused
a severance of all binding connections with
Oakland. He lett for the Orient on Thurs
day with Mr.. ara Mrs. A. p Hotaling.
The State of Maine picnic was held at
Shell Mound Park yesterday. b. p. Flint
and f. J. French delivered addresses This
was the fourteenth annual reunion of the
association. The second annual basket
meeting OF the Indiana State Association of
California will be held at Laundry Farm on
the 30 inst.
The Oakland Board of Health has con-
eluded to estimate the death-rate upon
basis of co. 00 population, believing that TO
be more correct than the Government cen
sus. That basis has been used for two
years.
Six thousand dollars is due to the Oakland
city treasury for liquor licenses since May
makes III saloons. More than half Of them
are delinquent
The Young Mems Christian Association
will hold anniversary exercises at a mass
meeting in the Assembly Hall at $50
o'clock this afternoon.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
WORLDS FAIR DISAGREEMENT.

Mr.. n 2. Lipman, President Of the Cali
fornia Worlds Fair Association, has adj
dressed an open letter to Irving NJ. Scott,
President Of the California Worlds Fair
Commissioners. in which he strongly advo-
Gates a united exhibit. Mr.. Lipman says:
I'VE can install within the California
Building such an array OF California prod
ucts and the handiwork of CALIFORNIA;
people as will challenge the admiration Of
the civilized world, aud such as will at once
become the cynOsure of all visitors, with
out seeing which they will feel that they
have not seen the fair. But this cannot be
accomplished by a scattered and dissipated
and fTagmentary exhibit throughout fifteen
departments" Ga the other hand, NJ. II.
de Young advocates a distribution Of Cali
fornia products among the fifteen depart
ments. We believe, however, that neither
Mr.. de Young nor his newspaper have made
it clear how the State appropriation can be
made available for a department exhibit
under control Of the fair managers. The
State Commissioners can only draw the
money for a State exhibit under their per
soual direction and control.