The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-04-07
NOT SUPERSTITIOUS.

Uncle Job Mcintosh, an elderly
negro who lived not many years ago
on one of the Georgia sea islands
| with his wife Hannah, used frequent
| ly to rebuke his wife for her Shopper
stishin." Yo's a heap too slooperstish-
! is. Harnah," he would say. "Why
ain you done obsarve me, ole'oman
Yo'ain' nebber seen me min no sloop-
erstishin. Dey ain no dog howlin
wot kin skeer me dey ain no black
cat wot kin make Inc beleebe dat Tze
gan fer to die"
Aunt Hannah paid no attention.
| She was accustomed to let Job assert
his superior virtues without contra
| diction, being quite aware that he was
| no better nor wiser than his fellows.
The very night after this positive as
| sertion of Jobs part of his indepen-
| dence of superstitions Aunt Hannah
| was suddenly taken very ill with
| cholera morbus. Job, after satisfying
| himself that her case was really alarm
| ing, set out just at sunrise to fetch
| the doctor.
He was just making his way in q
! depressed frame of mind through the
path overgrown with wild orange and
jasmine that leads from his cabin to
the boat landing His eyes were up
on the ground. Suddenly he became
aware that some object was confront
ing him ON the path and he looked up
with q start.
There standing facing him was
big black cat, its glossy back arched,
its tail erect andswollen to what seem
ed an extraordinary size, and its
golden eyes glittering in the light of
the rising sun. 1t was merely some
wandering tabby of large size return
ed from a nights foray and startled
by Jobs quick approach into making
a bold show of resistance, but to the
negro's dazed eyes it was an astonish-
ing and terrible object.
Job threw up both hands and scream
ed,
"Tain't me, Marse Satan 'Tain't
me OATS sick, l tell We. It's my ole
oman Hannah dat We come fer
'Tain't me, Marse Satan"
Jack Tolliner, ON his way to the
rice plantation, came up just at this
moment and took in the whole sit
uation, and while the cat turned and
ran off through the jungle, Jack laugh
ed long and loud at Jobs fright.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
With whatever disgust most men
may look upon the revival of crinoline,
it has proved needed boon to many
manufacturers. In Pawtucket, r. l.,
large manufacturing concern few
years ago. before hardwood and plush
furniture had become as popular as
they are now, employed several hun
dred looms in the manufacture of hair
cloth. AS the demand for this mater
ial gradually decreased, it kept reduc-
ing its output, and the number of
looms in operation, as well as the num-
Der of days ON which it ran, were
gradually reduced, and the mill was
when this demand for crinoline, which
much resembles haircloth, sprang into
being at the dictation of the rulers of
the sartorial world.
The result was that the looms were
slightly changed, the weavers, who
had long been wholly or partially idle,
sent for, and new ones sought in every
possible quarter. The factory is now
rushing at its utmost capacity, the on
ly difficulty being the fewness of the
looms and the scarcity of good weav
ers. The orders are far ahead OF the
output, and there seems to be no rea-
son why the owners of the mill should
not reap a handsome fortune before
the passing away again of the silly
but expensive fashion.
There are also many other branches
of industry which are to feel the effects
of the revival of an old custom 1t
will be very generally felt among cloth
manufacturers, us well as among the
makers of all kinds of trimmings, laces,
ETC., as the introduction Of the extend
ed and stiffened skirt means the re-
legation to the rag-bag of the present
plain gown, which requires so little
material for its construction, and al
most nothing except the beauty OF its
wearer for its adornment. Should the
hoopskirt follow crinoline, as it prob
ably will, there will be a revival in the
iron and steel industries which will be
very perceptible. In fact, It'll not en-
tirely impossible that these dropping
industries in England may have been
in collision with the fashion kings
when they decided to doom all woman
kind to the wearing of crinoline.