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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-14

VISIBLE SUPPLY OF CoTToN.-The visible sup
ply of cotton, as made up by cable and
telegraph to the Financial Chronicle. is as fol-
lows: The continental stocks, as we'll as those
for Great Britain and the afloat, are this weeks
returns. and consequently all the European fig
ures are brought down to Thursday evening.
for Feb g. we add the item of exports from the
United States, including in it the exports of
Friday only.
1891. 1890
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALaAyAc-rats DAY.

nj NtAIVusI II u ~ N = 4 ITO On L
Sun RISES .......... .....-...............o:o
Sun SETS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS :25
HIGH WATER AT SAVANNAH. lf:55 A N. 1890 NJ
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SATURDAY. Feb IA. 1891.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.

Steamship City of Macon. Lewis. Boston-C
G. Anderson.
Steamship D II Miller, Billups, Baltimore-w
Guerard. Agt
Steamship Kansas City. Fisher. New York
g G Anderson.
Schr McCarrel, -. Charleston, with
phosphate rock to Savannah Guano Co; vessel
to Master.
Steamer Farmer, Usina, Fernandina-C
Williams, Agt.
Steamer G Barker, Gauibsro. st Helena
Master
Steamer Alpha, Strobhar. Beaufort, Port
Royal and Bluifton--C II Medlock, Agt.
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ARRIVED UP FROM QUARANTINE YEsTER-
DAY

Bark Amaranth lNorl, Berentsen, to load for
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. e. Co.
Bark Poseidon LNorl, Borresen, to loal for
Europe-Chr G. DAM & Co.
Bark Erstatniugen [Norl, johnson, to load for
Baltic-Chr q Dahl Co.
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RECEIPTS.

Per steamer f @ Barker from Sc Helena
Islands, tons cotton seed to Wilder & Co.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway, Feb f3
IA bales cotton, 20 pkgs tobacco.7 bales waste
~ pcs goods, car empty bbls, case hats
bales goods, bbls potatoes 8 machine, 8
cases perfumery, truck. 20 cases m food. 1 box
bedding bedstead, crate pumps, 2 bales
matt.
Per Savannah, Florida and Western Railway.
Feb 1885 bales cotton, so boxes vegetables 9
bales moss, 307 bbls vegetables, 100 pkgs mdse,
1,222 boxes oranges, 202 bbs oranges, tank
oil, IS cars lumber, cars pig iron, 2 bbls -four.
box hardware. sacks peanuts, cases liquor,
box drugs sack coffee, bales goods 225
sacks rice. 80 bdls paper, cases shoes and b, 10
bbls bottles, bale leather.
Per Central Railroad. Feb 13-1, 500 bales cot
ton, II bbls spirits turpentine, 1853 bbls rosin.
"a bales yarn. 254 bales domestics, bales hides,
20 boxes tobacco 3 cars bacon. 10 boxes bacon,
237 bbs cotton seed oil. cars cotton seed, 10000
lbs bran, empty bbls 70 bols vegetables 100
pkgs mdse. l2 bales waste, pkgs Irvine, 1900
lbs flour, "a pkgs wood in shape IS sacks rice z
bbls syrup cars lumber, 80 pkgs furniture 700
bushels corn, IS bbls flour, l3 bbls whisky 10 hf
80 sacks peanuts, 10 boxes hardware car stone,
10 kegs powder. bales plaids, 10 cases eggs, 81
cases goods, cars mcny.
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DEPARTED YESTERDAY.
SAILED YESTER

Steamship City Of Augusta. New York.
Steamship Tynedale [Brl, Bremen.
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Steamship Tallahassee. Askins. New York-C
G Anderson.
Stea nship Des5oug, Savage. Phlladelphia-C
G. Anderson.
Steamship d Fl Miller. Billups. Baltimore
w e Guerard, Agt.
Steamship Peconic [Brl, Harnden, Barcelona
"A Minis sons
Schr Mary Cook, Higbee. Baltimors-Harriss
& Henderson.
Schr Joel Cook, Warren, Fernandina, to load
for Philadelphia Harriss g. Henderson.
Schr Horace P Shares, Mount, New York
Jos A Roberts & Co.
DEPARTED YESTERDAY.
Steamer Farmer. White. Brunswick-C Will
iiams Agt
Steamer Advance, Myers, Augusta and way
landings-C II MedlocS. Agt.
Steamer Bellevue, Baldwin, Beaufort, Port
Royal AMI Bluifton-W Gibson. Master.
SAILED YESTERDAY
Steamship City of Augusta. New York.
Steamship Tynedale [Brl, Bremen.
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LUMBKR-Coastwise- The requirements of
shippers during this week have been fully met,
and rates are again easy at quotations. For Bal
timore, 81 IS; Philadelphia and New York, 81 50
@6 90 and wharfage, Sound ports and Boston,
s. 00G15 IS. From 26lo50c is paid yes
sells here for shifting TO load az nearby
ports. Timber, 50c@$1 higher than lum-
Der rates To the West Indies and Wind
ward, nominal 10 Rosario, $1s OO@1s 90; to
Buenos Ayres orySNf6n sevideos ~ Si4 e9s TO
Rio Janeiro. SIS 09;lto Spanish and QNIediter-
ranean ports. S14 90: to the United Kingdom for
orders, nominal for TIMBER Is standard;
lumber, e5. Steam-LTo New York, $500; to
Philadelphia, IS 90; toBoston So 90 tor Balti-
more, So so. ~ > FY9 3oaoF
NAVAL SroREs--Market. lie steady. Foreign
Cork, etc, for orders. small spot vessels rosin
Is l0lSd and Is 1lkd: to arrive Is i01Sd and 4s
spirits Adriatic. rosn. Ss: Genoa, Is Cd; South.
America, rosin, Soc per barrel OF $50 pounds
Notwithstanding Boston. lie per 100 ms
on ros.n 9oc on spirits; to New York, rosin, NC
per 100 lbs; spirits, soc. TO Phiiadelpnia, rosin
SO per 100 fbs. spirits SOC: to Baltimote rosin
70c spirits, zoe. Coastwise quiet smog
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MEMoRANnA


New York. Feb 1l-Arrived, bark Chestina
Redman, Watts. Savannah; schr Charlotte I
Sibiey. ChapIes, Fernandina.
Altoona, Feb 6-Sailed, steamship John Dixon
Bristol. Feb li-Arrived. bark Laugsn [Norl,
Museboe. Charleston
Goole. Feb IO-Arrived, bark Johanna [NorI,
Drum, Brunswick, Ca
London, Feb i1-Arrived, ship Morning Light
lNorl. Johansen. Pensacola
Havana, Feb ARRIVED. schr Carrie Cook.
Look, Mobile.
sailed, schr Edwin ] Morrison. Smith, ApaIa-
chicola.
SOth-clearsd. bark Pepe Tono [spl. Abb
Brunswick, Ga.
st Jago, Jan 96-Arrived, schr Daisey z PARK
hurst, Hooper, Pensacola
Kingston, Jan S-Arrfved. schr Lester A
Lewis, Burgess, Charleston.
Boston, Feb ii-Cleared, schr Lewis 8 An
drews. Watts. ApalAchicola
Baltimore, Feb ii-Cleared, steamship Up
lands bril- Turner Savannah
Sailed, schr VIM Marburg, Savannah.
Boothbay Harbor, Me, Feb ii-Sailed. schr
Rogers. Charleston.
BARREN, Feb li-Arrived, bark Lakefield [Norl,
Olsen, Havana; schr Julia Trubee. Mount,
Brunswick. Feb 11-SaiIed, ship Agra [NorI,
Johannesen. Rotterdam.
l0th-Arrived. brig Alto GRusl. from -.
Bucksyille. G. Feb 11-Arrived. schrs Lsx-
ington, Patterson, Baltimore; Eaglet, Wicks,
New York.
Jacksonville, Feb ll-ArriYed. schrs Mary r
CorSon, Robinson. Martinique; f V Glover, In
gersol. New York; AddIe G. Bryant. Gilkey,
Fernandina; Lizzie Hall, Creed, New York
Arrived at the bar 9th, schr SamI Hubbard.
Mehaffey, Providence
Key West. Feb 6-Sailed, schr Robt l. Clarke,
Abbott, Pascagoula.
Norfolk, Feb e-Arrived, schr Jno Shelton ,
Charleston.
Pensacola, Feb lf-Arrived, banks Nikolai
tRusl, Sundell. Barcelona; Tikoma [Norl, Mel
som, Bristol; Orion lNorl, Matthiesen, Cner-
bourg; Siava Aust. Cassovich. Rio Janeiro;
Ligurl tItall, Tasso, Buenos Ayres.
Cleared, BARK Vimeira [Norl. Olsen. Buenos
Ayres.
Port Royal. G. Feb ii-Arrived, schr II
Cornell, Wass, Red Beach. Ne.
Providence Feb 1I-Sailed, schr W Downes
Haskell, Darien.
Vineyard Haven, Feb 10-Arrived, schr EVE
Brown. Darien, Ga. for st John, M b.
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Sed LIdnds-The receipts Tor tne week up 70
an. m. By factors were 1,769 bags and 156 bags
of through cotton. The total exports were 3,507
baes to Havre 651 bags, and 1909 bags to
northern mills The total sales were 2511 bags.
The demand has been for fine and medium, fine
principally, with sales of the better grades;
while all the lower qualities have been neglected.
The bulk of the cotton sold during the week
was at lGD1616c. The above sales were on the
hash Ofou
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NOTIOE TO MARTNERs.

Notices to mariners. pilot charts aud all nauti-
collaboration will be furnished masters of yes.
sells free of charge at the United States Hydro
graphic Office In the Custom House. Captains
are requested to call at the office
LIEUT. II SHERMAN
In charge Autographs Station.
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ARRIVED Az TYBEE YEsTE
CLEARED YESTERDAY.

'AhhIVEU AT I BEE Yesterday.
Schr May Mcfarland, Small, New York. with
guano TO 3, T & w Ry Co; vessel to
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SPOKEN

Bark Palermo [Brl, Walker, from Pensacola
for Rio Janeiro, Feb :, lat 20 10 N. Ion "a rs w
Feb 8, IS miles N OF Fowey Light, bark Ger
hardus tDutchl, Pensacola for Queenstown.
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WEEKLY REPokI-
OFFICE MORNING NEWS.

WEEKLY REPORT.
OFFICE MORNING NEWS. I
SAvASSAH. Feb. Is. 1897
pxuaRKs.-There has been fair
Co. n progress during the last week in the
tssLsS,- ,oarket. without, however, any more
ss'a+ ordinary activity. There was GER
- - ,,t,Is halter feeling manifested in COM
ADJ ,;-,l.s- due TO an easier tendency IN
-,opey market and steadier tone
y ,oth foreign and sight exchange
% ovsment among jobbers has been more
T. Int as a whole it was quiet in full vol
Es-''r y, curse the demand, while very steady,
lHs y 80 heavy as for the week previous. The
FA' - n,srket was apparently in little bet
seN .s and a feature of the week was the
advance in Central railroad
snIp collections are still quite slow,
EsA somewhat better than
I~qss-., weeks. The demand IN the whole
~ 'o .socsry trade keeps up briskly. In dry
y 70 .hare was a quiet, though steady bust
rbere was also a fair trade in hardware.
D,.,,bar a ouieter business prevailed, while
-. have rather declined sharply. In other
~. comparatively steady business was seen.
I.Lont any special activity in any. In
'.. .0 f,sights there was an easier tendency
&c 70 the liberal supply Of spot tonnage.
w. go amended resume of the weeks business
IN show the tone of the latest closing spot
'--,stions of the different markets to-day.
W., W. sroRKs-The market for spirits tur-
.sAina was somewhat unsettled, and prices
l .bssr irregular. though for the most part they
I Ia.-.S comparatively easy. There was quiet
sse.oand with pretty steady offerings. The
esan- decreased considerably, although receipts
s.ntnne 0uite full, and the market closes rather
s.-,sr at slight recovery in values. The total
laiss for the week we're about l,3OO casks
Gpan,ssinThe market was quieter during the week.
sit5ongb prices were firm for the lower qualities.
Tbare was a fairly good demand, but with
sronle offerings. The total sales were about
m barrels. In another column will be found
r,askiv comparative table OF receipts and ex-
ITS from April to date. and for ike
Iperiod last year, showing the stock on hand
and on shipbosrd not cleared, together with
tne ofhcial closing quotations.
CoT-ToN-The spot market was quiet but COM
.s-stively steady during last week. There was
y fairly GOOD demand, but 1t was mostly con-
Sned to the better cotton, while the low grades
are not wanted The offering stock OF the most
desirable qualities was light, which rather
sfrengtheped holders. and they were enabled to
maintain values steadily, although reports from
abroad are weak and depressed, due to the In
crease of the supply In sight, caused by the un-
usually heavy movement from the plantations
and at interior towns. The total sales for the
week were $500 bales. The following are the
official closing spot quotations OF the Cotton
Exchange
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THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT SHOWS THE NET RE-
CEIPTs AT ALL PORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING
FEB. 10 AND FEB. 6, AND FOR THIS WEEK
LAST YEAR
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LIVERPOOL, Feb. 10, noon.-Cotton dull,
wish only retail business doing; American
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THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IA. 1891

ing at 81 . per barrel; bulk and carload lots
special: calcined plaster. So IS per barrel; hair
<15o; Rosendale cement, 81 40Dl 50: Portland
eement, retail. 81 60; carload lots 81 20; English
LIouoRs-stsady, fair demand. Whisky per
gallon rsctined- 81 0SGe1 IS. according to proof;
choice grades, 81 6o92 50; straight 81 5Oa4 90;
blended, 81 0o05 co.. Massachusetts port,
sherry, catawba. low grades, 6O1S5c; fne
grades. 81 O911 50; California, light, muscatel
and angelica, 81 SOL rs.
s. 10; ID and Sd, 81 70; Cd. 81 so; Sd, 50 SIS;
i0d, 81 80; l2d, g. rs; S0d, 81 20; sod to sod
81 10: sod. 50 IS; 4Od. g IS.
NUTs-Almonds, rarragona. ls4sOc; Ivicas,
16GiSc; walnuts, French, 15c; Naples, l6c;
pecans, 14c; Brazil. i6c; hloerts, lZIxc; cocoa
nuts, Barracoa. 81 0004 20 per 100; assorted
nuts, SON and 2S-n boxes. 1sDl4e per n.
Ous-Market steady: demand f1lr. Signal
40n50c; West Virginia black 10dslsc; lard, bsc
kerosene lie; neatsfoot. 6O0s5c; machinery,
io025c; linseed, raw, 5ecs boiled &c; mineral
seal. 1sc: homelight. lie; guardian, Il.
ONIoNs-Firm: Northern reds, per barrel,
IS 5015 rs; Northern yellow, per barrel, s. 25
crates. 81 50
PorAroKs-Irish. sacks and barrels 50 00dA IS
Seed Rose. per barrel, 81 So
SHor-Drop, 81 %; buck. 81 II.
SUGAR-The market is firm. Cut loafs, 71Sc;
cubes, &c; powdered. &c; granuiated, SIC;
SIC; white extra @. elsc; golden 5s4c; yellow,
SALr-The demand is moderate and market
quiet. Carload lots, &c (. o. b.; job lots, 7S@
soc.
SYRUP-Florida and Georgia, 2S625c; market
quiet for sugarhOuse at S00 s0c; Cuba straight
goods, 301S2c: sugarhouse molasses, lsG2oc
ToBAcco-Market firm Smoking, domes-
tic, 291SNS1 60; chewing, common, sound. %
125c; fair, 2StOS5c; good 36GliSc; bright 500
Csc; fine fancy. 10000; extra fine, 81 000i IS;
bright navies. 22D45c.
LUMBER - The market is very quiet for both
domestic and foreign. and mills are in need of
assortment of orders, more particularly in
small sizes. We quote:
Ordinary sizes. Observation-Disclosures f2 000l6 81
Difficult sizes. 80. ................. IA OQ026 81
Flooring boards. .................. ID 50@22 OF
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Total shipments. ,Sa,7e7 s52,o7O l71,784 5,875
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06

SPAN is busily preparing for the cele-
bration of the 400th anniversary Of the
anding Of Columbus in America. The
Society Of Americanists, which has de-
voted itself to THO study Of everything
relating to America, will hold a Congress
on October 10, 1892, at the convent Of
ia Rabida, where Columbus found shell
YER while he was planning his expedi-
ltioa. SPANS methods Of celebrating the
anniversary may not appeal SO much to
the popular taste as might have a great
Exposition, but in their scientific and
historic aspect they will be in keeping
with an event 50 far-reaching in its Ell.
fects On civilization.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06
WHICH?

Oh, which were best, and who would dare to
choose
Between the friend who holds you as his
life,
Counting all effort worthless if his strife
Win from youno fond word, content to lose
AL else but you; or him you know no ruse
.Of time can part your soul from, and No
knife
OF fate discover, though all tongues be
rife
With tales of SANDER his fair fame to bruises:
Oh, which were best to give or to receive.
To love or to be loved? To take Away
Or stand with gifts of love before the gate
Of one beloved? All. curious heart, believe
All love wins love, and choice were foolish
play
In this. These two are one or soon or
latel
Oscar Fay Adams, an Harper's Weekly.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06
"a painted ship
p a painted ocean.

In support Of his choice of a feminine
name, the sailor is able to point to the
possession by the ship of various feminine
characteristics and belongings. The ship
possesses a waist, collars, stays, laces,
b%onnets, ties, ribbons, combings, ear
rings, chains, watches, jewels and scarfs,
aud there is often considerable ''bustle"
about her. She is full of pins, hooks
and eyes. She also possesses a forehead,
nose, head. eyes, shoulders and more than
one heart. The keeper of a ship in port
is Familiarity called the ''ship's husband"
If we add that she looks best when fully
rugged OUT we may have enough of
sailor logic to account for the feminine
name."-St. Louis Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06
Why a Ship is Called "She."

Lieutenant F. s. Bassett says there are
many plausible reasons why a ship is al
ways spoken of as 'sshe" by Americans
and some other nations. etThe rule. -
he says, sis not universal. The word
ship is masculine in French, Italian,
Spanish and Portuguese, and possesses
no sex in Teutonic and scandinavian.
Even a man-of- war is She to our sailors.
Perhaps it would not be an erros-to trace
the custom back to the Greeks, who
called all ships by feminine names, prob
ably out of Difference to Athene, goddess
of the sea.
"But the sailor assigns no such reasons.
The ship is to him a veritable sweetheart,
and it is a common thing to hear him
ascribing to it vitality and intelligence.
It is not to him
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06
SELECT sLFTINGs.
Chicago his Chinese bakeries.

Chicago his Chinese bakeries.
Ithaca, Wis, breeds st. Bernard dogs
Herbert Bruce. of Columbus, Ind, il
thirteen years old, but weighs 21t
pounds.
Indian elephants cannot live in Contra
Africa, the home of a larger and more
hardy species.
The past has been. it is said, with ONE
exception, the foggyist winter for twenty
years in London.
Mrs. Stanley, wife of the explorer, il
a direct descendant-the seventh in line
from Oliver Cromwell.
A man at Athens, Ga, owns an antia-
uity in the form Of a water bucket.
hewn out of the solid rock.
The japanese administer the oath by
cutting the witnesses finger and taking
blood to seal the swear.
DR.. Elliott Coues, late of the Smith
sonian Institution, estimates that 1000
legitimate words are coined annually.
The most watery county in the United
States is Monroe County, Fla. It is
chiefly composed of small islands, or
keys.
The new wat ship of the English navy,
the Royal Sovereign, was constructed in
seventeen months, which is said to be the
best time on record for such work.
The poundmaster of Oakland, Cal,
sold for S12 at an estray auction an un-
claimed horse. The animal was subse.
quently identified as a $4,000 thorough
bred trotter.
A Missouri man recently went before
the Legislature of that State advocating
the introduction and passage of a bill
compelling the keepers of railroad res
taurants to date their pies.
In certain parts of Africa crickets are
said to constitute an artitle of commerce.
People rear them, feed them in confine-
ment and sell them. The natives are
very fond Of their music, thinking that
it induces sleep. Superstitions regard
ing the cricket's chirp are very varied
Some believe that it is ominous Of sorrow
and evil, while others consider it to be
q harbinger of joy.
The fate of Lizzie Bond, of Anderson,
Ind, shows that a woman isnot safe even
after she has stepped on one side Of the
track and permitted a train of cars to
pass her. Miss Bond stepped off the
track, but the suction Of the train that
thundered past her drew her dress under |
the rear car, which, catching upon an
iron bar, dragged her fifty yards or more, |
dashlng her brains out upon the cross.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06

IHE A#MN
The New York Nens remarks. While
khe great oyster beds Of the Chesapeake
show remarkable exhaustion, the supply
of the oyster there having been reduced
from IS, 000. 900 bushels in 1875 to
y, COG, 900 bushels ii 1891, and many Of
lthe great packers having in consequences
removed their establishments from Balti-
more to other localities, our own areas OF
beds 10 the waters Of Connecticut and
New York are being gradually extended
20 meet the increasing annual demand.
fEhe planting and production Of oysters
lare strenuously guarded By State laws.
lsnd re have little reason to complain Of
lioas q either quantity Or quality. True.
sns consumption i enormous and grow
lngs eus between the efforts cf the ii.
lsnslsts and The practicai experience 81
louF plvAlsllar merchants, there il not
Snach fsar thas we shall keep psoe With
Ifhs progress of this industry.
=
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06

A London Boah Of Trade return, iusl
Issued, shows the large decrease in the
hours Of labor during the past ten years,
which Is bringing the eight-hour limit
nearer and nearer. Bakers who, a decade
ago, worked seventy-two hours a week
now work f~tty-four hours; miners, for.
raerly SIXTY hours, now thirty-eight and
forty eight hours. Workmen of ell trades
now average fifty-four hours weekly. OF
nine hours q day.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06

haying-time, and everyone was busy
And for the same reason, Hugh coult
not help me much himself, or spar
either of the men. They brought all the
wood, and water, and churned, and tool
the big pans Of milk up from the cellar
in fact, did what they could.
Such a reign of terror as those boys O.
Ellen's inaugurated! The first day wa:
a sample of those which followed-from
n days end to the other they were int
some kind of a scrape. They let the
hens out to destroy my garden; they
played ball in the front yard, and broke
a three-dollar pane of glass, they fell
into the pond, by turns, narrowly es,
Gaping drowning: they rode the calves
Herky tried to ride the colt and got
kicked; they let out the pigs; they broke
all the eggs, until l had to buy some Of
Simmons.
Ellen langmshed in the parlor, or on
the Veranda, all day long never saying
much, except to grumble at the country
and its disadvantages.
Hugh declared every night that it must
end, but I did not want to seem inhos-
pitable, even though | must work hard
to care for them. l did not want to of
fend her; thought every day, she would
get tired of it all and go home. But
she didn't seem to feel worried over the
escapades of the boys. The baby was
very cross, and required all her time.
They stayed ten days, and such days.
[ baked, and cooked, and every blessed
day I went up and put their rooms in.
order; never once did they lift a hand
to help. picked up books, and hats,
and handkerchiefs, and fans from every
chair and table in the house. The floor
was strewn with wreckage. One of the
boys stole in the cellar, and while drink
ing from a pan of milk let his hat fall
into it, while another poked about in my
jar of cream to see what it was, using a
dirty stick, and his equally dirty fingers.
l had to buy butter, but / kept the cellar
locked after that.
All, me! how long those days did
seem.
At last. one morning when they had
been here ten day, l woke up with a
sick headache of the most pronounced
type. | felt so sick | did not care for
anything, and when Hugh came up,
after they had breakfast, and said he was
going to take Ellen to the train, I didn't
think or care much about it; only felt
a vague sense of relief, even amidst the
green-colored mists of sick headache. [
was sick all that day, and the next day
was Sunday, so Hugh staid about the
house and tended to things, while /
l was fairly worn out.
Monday morning I went about look
ing things over. Everything from one end
Of the house to the other was dirt; dirty
marks on every door and window,
my new best chamber carpet with those
big blue stains in the centre of it, nv
Longfellow ruined, and my hammock!
had never used it once, and it was all
torn to pieces. The boys had put the /,
pig dog into it, tied him in and left him
He had gnaWed his way out,
very little of that hammock but
big hole.
Hugh say he sent Ellen off in such a
way that she will not be apt to come
gain.
Well, on the whole, I am not sorry. I
Ike to be hospitable, but 1 do not like
0 be forced TO entertain a horde of
trangers.- - oMGn'S Work.