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The Progress., 1894-01-13
HERMIT AND MISER.
James Lucas, Whom Dickens Pictured
In ..Tom Tiddler's Ground" "

James Lucas, whom Dickens Pictured
In tom Tiddler's Ground"
Among the landed properties
brought to the hammer within the
last few days in England was Elms-
wood, in Hertfordshire. In a small
house, now demolished, on this es-
tate, lived for many years james
Lucas, the ''HertfOrdshire Hermit" "
whom Charles Dickens made the
subject of one of his Christmas
stories. Tom giddler's ground"
He was a well-educated man who
inherited the estate of his father, a
prosperous West India merchant.
His eccentricities are summarized in
the Dictionary Of National Biogra-
ply" which says: "He refused to
administer his parents wills, defer
red for three months (when the sep
ulture was enforced) the interment
of his mother, and barricaded his
home at ElmswoOd. in the kitchen of
which he took up his abode He eX-
cluded furniture, abjured washing,
slept on bed of cinders, and clothed
himself in loose blanket. His skin
grew ingrained with dirt. and his
dark hair long and matted.
His dietary, besides bread and
penny buns, consisted of cheese. red
herrings and gin, and he protected
his food from rats by hanging it in
a basket from the roof. Lucas en-
joyed the society of tramps, always
putting them to series of questions,
and rewarding satisfactory answers
with coppers and a glass of gin. He
thus attracted all the vagabonds in
the kingdom and had to protect
himself by retaining two armed
watchmen, who lived in a hut Oppo-
site the formidable iron grille al
which he received visitors. These
included Lord Lytton, Sir Arthur
Helps. John Forster and Charles
Dickens. This eccentric person
died of apoplexy in 1874, and was
buried in Hackney churchyard.
The Progress., 1894-01-13
What He Don't Know.

The monkeys intelligence has
never been able to arrive at a poin.
which enables the animal to achieve
the untying of knot. You may see
monkey with a cord fastened with the
simplest form OF common knot, and
unless the beast can break the string
or gnaw it in two he will never get
loose. TO unite knot requires Oh
servatiOn and reasoning power, and
though a monkey may posses both, hs
has neither in sufficient degree 10
enable him TO overcome the difficulty.
The Progress., 1894-01-13

At the World 5 fair people had tn
pay cent a glass for drinking water
and very small glasses at that. Iti,
now reported that the south of France
wine growers are offering their DO.
duct at penny quart, and canDo,
even get that. The new casks need.
ed to contain. the wine cost more than
the wine is worth. One thing tina,
Injuries the wine trade in France /,
that the merchants of Paris put On
he market large quantities of manu-.
featured wine, and it is said that tbs
wine growers of the Montpelier dis.
trict are preparing to make a gres.
demonstration against the scandal Of
selling counterfeit wines when tho
genuine article is so cheap.
The Progress., 1894-01-13
Ingenio Us Schemes.

'Jarley's stair rail in his new
house is strange looking thing. 1t
has a newell post on every other
STEP" "Yes, that is one OF Jarley's
patents. It's what he calls his anti
slide-down-b -banister for families with
boys. He also has scheme to pre-
vent servants from scratching
matches on the wall" What is
that?" ats a little notice in the
servants rooms requesting them not
to scratch matches on the carpet -
Harper's Bazar.
The Progress., 1894-01-13
The First Time.

For the first time on record He.
brew has been gazetted officer to one
of the crack highland regiments Of
Queen Victoria's army. These reg-
ments, Notwithstanding their Scotch
origin and dress, are nowadays com
posed mainly of Englishmen, Welsh
men and Irishmen. But this is tho
first time that they have had on their
roster a highlander of the chosen
race, which, prior to the presen'
reign. was barred from holding com
missions in they army and navy sna
even from membership Of parliament
The Progress., 1894-01-13
In Terror Of Siberia

Sigmund Ma,sakowskl. a Rp..i,.
refugee, committed suicide in Cbioa-
few days ago. rather than run t5s
risk OF being eXtradited and sen, :.
Siberia. lie had been an officer in ,bS ~
car 5 army, and about four mor,b.
ago was suspected Of being mixed N.
in political plot, and fled from ,bs
country. He had hoped to be able IL
bring his family from st. Petersbrrr
but the Russian government forbai.
them to leave the country, and as M.
unfortunate man understood, put spie,
on his track, and he was in copstaD,
fear OF being arrested for extraditiop
Death, he told a countryman in Chi
cago, was better then Siberia.
The Progress., 1894-01-13
IN WATCHES
Curiou. Time Pieces That Attracted At
t.ntion at the Worlds Fair.

t.ntion at the Worlds Fair.
In the exhibit of watches Of a Phil
adelphia firm at the worlds fair
there were two beautiful re-
peaters. soth 100 years old. and OF
French make. The mechanical parts
of the repeating train are exposed
and tiny gold figures strike upon 1T
tie bells. tolling off the hours in a
most musical and pleasing manner.
In this collection, also, there was
another watch for the blind, used,
perhaps, by "some mute lnglorlous
Milton" whose name is unknown,
but whose battered old-time- piece is
said to have lived with him more
than l5O years ago 10 tell the
time the blind man removes the crys-
tai from the face and lightly touches
the hands and the raised number to
which it points. Such use would
tend to hurt the movements OF the
hands IT would seem, but so marvel
Gus is the delicacy of touch of these
sightless people that no change Is
made ia the movements.
A most curious watch is one with
wooden case and movement, made by
a deaf mute of Tennessee, who made
the watch before he learned anything
of matchmaking and whose tools
were only a three-cOrnered file and a
case-knife This piece, however, Is
more curious than beautiful, though
the whole thing shows an ingenuity
and skill wonderful from such un-
tutored hands.
A beautiful Geneva watch, 1OC
years old, has the twenty-four hour
dial One half is white, to mark the
day, and the other dark blue enamel,
studded with stars, to represent night.
There we're two twO-hundred and
fifty ye2x old watches. both of English
make. and one has the catgut cord IL
place of the chain, which was a later
Improvement
A watch with three dials is curl
GUS The dials are small, and hold
separately the month. minutes and
seconds. Then there is the old
French watch. the size of silver
dollar and just as thin. and last, but
not least in interest to Pennsylvan-
ians, watch which recalls one ol
the greatest calamities. The move
ments in the case belonged to Mr..
Kirlin, who, with his entire family,
was drowned in the JohnstOwn flood
The watch was lying in the debris
for about three months, when it came
into possession Of the present owner,
who put it in running order
So much for ancient time pieces.
The modern watch was in such pro
fusion that the display eludes de-
scription.
From the costliest bejeweled for
eign affair to the humblest little sill
yer thing that any school-boy could
own, they were there, and very beau
tiful and curious many of them were
When watches were first made one
person made the entire thing; hence
the enormous cOs:-frOm $1,000 &c
1,500 of our currency. Later differ
ent parts were made by people in
different places, and the cost was re
duced. The American watch is the
only one made entirely by machinery,
and many think it the best on that
account
1t was formerly the fashion to wear
two watches, one of them a dummy.
Cinnamon still do so, because "if one
makee sick and die the other live"
The Progress., 1894-01-13
IN


The Man Of Iron" on
"Gile- the Wizard. was ono Y'nerViss
persons put TO death during ~ u the
craft prosecutions at SaIoru ' Witch
His real name was Giles "a, ca Mass.
at the time Of MS awful death y and
an old man past 50. Wban ne Vas
OF being a "wilard' (which ~ FUSED
lem Iunat'cs seem to have consi5oS', %,
the masculine OF "witch'') he calmIa 5yu
met their charges and coolIv !.
formed them that he would die ra,ba. ~,
than admit that he had evsr r'usi Is,
communion with evil snjrit. uaa "a
was put 70 the peine forte ., A. n'
death by pressure with huge wsi,L.0' Ju''
his fortitude during his dving us ~
ments winning for him the titia n.., NV
in the first line. -'ea
The Progress., 1894-01-13
A Mean Man.

"My dear, said Mr.. Bloohumper tc
his wife. 81 wish you would have
some of these biscuits Of yours when
Mrs. Briscoe is here for dinner"
al thought you didn't like Mrs.
Briscoe, love-" replied Mrs. Bloo-
bumper. sweetly.
Il don't Judge.
The Progress., 1894-01-13

The Sitka Indians in Alaska not
long since gave a great feast to Wis
itors from other tribes. The prin-
cipal dainty was tubs of last seasons
Wild trawberrie5 soaked In seal oil
The Progress., 1894-01-13
Household Helps.

For an ingrowing toe or finger
nail cut V or notch in the center Of
the nail, and it will grow toward the
center and relieve the corner.
A goblet of hot water taken just af-
ter rising, before breakfast, has cured
thousands of indigestion, and no
simple remedy is more widely rec
commended to dyspeptics
No matter how large the spot Of
oil, any carpet or woollen stuff can
be cleaned by applying buckwheat
plentifully and faithfully. brushing
it into dustpan after short time,
and putting on fresh until the oil has
disappeared.
Broken china may be mended by
mating light paste on the white Of
an egg, and flour. cleaning the broken
edges from dust, spreading them
with the paste and holding the parts
together whit wet, wiping off all
that oozes ou~ 1t must be held OF
fastened in position until dry.
For dark colored garments make
the starch Of coffee or make hay tea
to wash them in. When the color of
red or pink garments is doubtful
soak them two hours in salt water
before washing, and blue ones in
water to which tablespoonful of
sugar Of lead has been added. Al
ways iron colorsd garments on the
wrong side as far as possible.
The Progress., 1894-01-13
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
BAOLUCK THE DAIRY MEANS
BAD MAN MENT.

Pluck and Common Sense Needed in
Every Business-Threshing Navy Beans
Horse Talk-Poultry Pickings and
Household Helps.
The Progress., 1894-01-13
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, l.

OTATE OF OHlO, ClT1 OF lOLEDei a
Lucas COUNTY,
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that ne
the senior partner of the firm OF +. :. CAI
NEY & Co., doing business in the CiV y
Toledo, County and State aforesaid nwr s1S
that said firm will pay the sum OF OSn
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and evey
case of CATARRH that cannot be cureo
the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed ID w
presence, this 9th day of December, A. "
1886.
srII Notary f.S4
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internany ~ -.
acts directly on the blood and mncus
faces Of the system. Send for testinOH'>''
free.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo ="
rE Sold by Druggists, Toe.
The very greatest novelty In girls p~
g. ooks is money.
The Progress., 1894-01-13
Poultry Pickings.

Save the best birds for breeding.
In winter cover the windows of the
poultry house at night with batting
or shutters.
If hen only pays seventy
cents profit annually, she is paying a
big per cent
The temperature of the poultry
house in winter should never be be-
low 40 degrees.
Hens will not lay unless they have
a full supply of water. Water is as
necessary as food.
Whenever a farmer can get hold OF
oyster shells he should take them
home for the hens.
If you want to fatten, feed corn
and other fat producers. If eggs are
wanted give egg producing feed.
1t is all right to have a good breed,
but without good care in the way of
feeding and warm quarters fowls will
bekept at a loss.
Certain markings are necessary for
exhibition, but for practical purposes
good hen is a good hen whatever
her markings are.
Remember that laying hens will be
kept more profitably through the
winter if fed wheat and some meat
Winter eggs are profitable.
French poultry raisers cook the
grain that is fed to fattening fowls,
but some poultrymen claim that
there is no advantage in doing it.
The Progress., 1894-01-13

The only thing broken as frequently IS
bicycle records this season is the moral law
The Progress., 1894-01-13

The very greatest novelty in girls p'0
- ooks Is money.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-07
Reed Talks Wildly,

-Ex-Speaker Reed is devoting a large
part of the speeches he is now making To
southerners and the south. He does not
praise the south. What he tries TO show
is that although southern men have con
troll of congress neither they nor
their constituents have any business
sense.
Either MIR Reed doesn't know any
thing about the south or else he sun
presses the knowledge which he has. If
the southern people are lacking in bust.
ness sense, how is it that they are better
OF shan the people of the north?
Let Mr.. Reed read the last census re.
port. He will find that southern farmers
are almost wholly free from debt and that
there are comparatively few mortgages
on their farms. in Kansas, for instance.
nearly all the farms are mortgaged, while
in Georgia less than ten per cent. of the
farms have mortgages upon them.
In the New England and Middle States
the number of farm mortgages, in proper
ton to the number of farms. is much
greater than in the south Does this
showing indicate that southern men are
wanting in business sense?
The fact mus. not be overlooked that
the southern people were ruined finau-
cially by the civil war. They did not have
fourishing factories and well kept and
productive farms when that conflict
ended. But what an amazing amount Of
wealth they have created since that time!
Iakirg into account what the people of
the south had and what the people of the
north had little less than thirty years
ago, have not the people of the south
done fully as well as the people of the
north Almost any fair-mnded man,
who knows the facts, will admit they
have. And yet Mr.. Reed is telling the
Maine folks that the southern people
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-07
Sugar Planters pissatiaAsd.

The sugar planters of louisiana are
! seriously considering the advisability Of
breaking away from the Democratic
/ party and electing congressman from the
sugar districts who will pledge them
selves to act with the party in congress
that will promise TO vote either for a
higher duty on sugar or for a sugar
! bounty. On last Tuesday they held a
meeting at Donaldsonville, in the Third
/ congressional district, which was largely
attended, and on Wednesday they held a
meeting at Pointe a la Hache, in the
First congressional district. Next week
they will hold a meeting in the Second
congressional district. They believe that
in these three districts, and perhaps in
the Sixth district, they can elect protec-
tionists to congress.
AT the Donaldsonville meeting the
speakers said they were sorry to leave
the Democratic party, but that their IN
terests were in the direction of the pro-
tective policy.
The sugar planters say that the protec-
ton which the Wilson tariff bill gives
sugar is not sufficient to enable them to
operate their plantations at aproft. They
were very prosperous under the bounty
system, because the bounty was clear
profit. If, however, they expect to get
the bounty again they are doomed to dis
appointment. The sugar planters are no
worse of than the wheat farmers, who
get only so cents a bushel for their
wheat, or the cotton farmers. who get less
than Z cents a pound for their cotton.
There is no more reason, therefore, why
the sugar growers should have a bounty
than there is why the wheat and cotton
producers should have bounties.
When the Republican party granted a
bounty to sugar growers there was
grumbling in nearly all parts of the coun-
try. If, therefore, the republicans should
get control of the government they would
not restore the bounty to sugar growers.
The bounty system is a thing OF the past,
and will not again have the approval of
any political party.
And it is doubtful if the sugar duty
will be increased. 1t was a difficulty mat
ter to get the House 20 agree to the sugar
duty in the Wilson bill. The republicans
are not likely to be any more liberal in the
matter of sugar duty than the demo-
Gratis.
The sugar producers will have to be
satisfied with what they have They will
have 10 cut down expenses, and raise big
ger crops. There is nothing now to indi-
cate that the sugar planters will get more
protection than they now have. They
will have to introduce cheaper methods
for growing and manufacturing sugar.
The severing of their connection with the
Democratic party will not help their
cause in the least.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-07
a TaIkativs Passenger on Board.

a woman in Broadway car the other day
carried a pasteboard box which she held
carefully in her lap, says the New York
tribune. Little holes were punched in IT,
but otherwise there was nothing unusual
about 1t. 1t was lust PLAIN. ordinary paper
box. At least il was for about nve minutes
after she entered the car. Then the corner
OF the box began to show signs of collapse
There was crunching sound the pasteboard
was twisted and wrenched, and suddenly the
head OF parrot shot up into view.
Hello said Polly, and then came tri-
umphant crow.
The woman looked confused and the pass.
CnEerS were startled. he arrot was so
uckled at having Chewed OF one corner of his
prison that he crowed, chUc1led, laughed and
shouted IN great glee, and there was a lively
excitement among the passengers.
The owner of the parrot was blushing furi
ousIy ~ this time, but Polly didn't mind that
bit. T1en another woman who had taken
keen interest in the proceedings changed her
ST a TO one beside the owner Of the parrot
Il own one myself. she said and | couldn' {
resist coming over to talk 10 yours
Tie other woman seemed grateful for her
new ally and the parrot babbled away at a
tremendous rate until its owner got up to
leave the car. Polly ducked his head back
into the box then, but when the woman had
reached the door the green head and throat
popped into view again.
'9 oodby.' screamed the talking bird and
eyeryDody reared
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-07
Revenge Is Sweet.

An amusing incident that occurred on Del
mar boulevard a few days ago serves to illus
tcdte how in the young. at least the desire to
get even manifested itself, says the ST. Louis
Republic,
Seated in the gutter in front Of one of the
handsome dwell ings on tha5 thoroughfa-e
was typical street gamin. He was hatless
aud ShoeleSs, and such garmCn's as he did
wear were ragged and dirty. Constant con
tact with the soil Of the streets had made his
con pleXiOn of u Sameness with the pave
menU, so far as color and other outward APP
pearances went. Presently from oct the
mansion in fIolt of which he was playing
there came boy OF about his own age. But
In all respects he was different. With care
fully cOmOed curly locks, a Fauntleroy suit,
black SILK stockings and patent feathers it
was seen at once that he was the pet of
wealthy and indulgent parents He was
proud and naughty, having been, no doubt IN
consciously, taught to re so by a loving
father and 4 dOtlng mother.
After an inspection of the youngster play
ing IN the dirt, the little lord remarked:
Hello dirty face :"
Receiving no answer he repeated the re
mark IN louder tone, and the ragged urchin
noticing the other apparently for the first
time slowly rose to his feet and surveyed
him. Then. without saying a word he ap-
gave little Lord tGuntlerov a slap that
brought tears to his eyes and knocked him
down on the sidewalk. J he gamin quickly
rubbed his dirty hands over the other cne's
face. muSsed his hair tore his lace collar
and LETT him with a tearStained countenance
that was anything but immaculate. Silent
up to tins tins, the gutter snipe now re-
marked:
Now you're dirty yourself, durn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-07
Was it CholeraP

I The surgeon general of the marine hos
I pital service does not believe the dis
/ ease from which Peter Walker, a Bava-
/ rian immigrant, died at Cumberland, Nd,
/ Wednesday night as reported in our dis
! patches yesterday, was cholera. His
I reasons for his belief are given in
our dispatches this morning. The sur
I Reon general has no advices that chol-
/ era prevails in Bavaria and, besides, it
/ seems the man was i'll before he reached
the Baltimore quarantine Had he been
afflicted with cholera he could not have
passed quarantine.
These reasons appear to be good ones.
still, there is a possibility that the man
died Of genuine Asiatic cholera The ply
stefan at Cumberland, Md says he is &C
quainted with the disease, having seen it
in 1854. Under the circumstances there
should be the most rigid investigation,
with the view of finding out whether the
inspection at quarantine was thorough,
and whether there is sufficient ground
for OBTAINING and lsolating the imni-
grants who were in the car with the
man who died.
During the cholera scare two years ago
there were several cases reported as
cholera in different parts of this country,
but as there were no other cases in the
vicinity of these cases, il is doubtful if
they were Asiatic cholera.
The spread Of cholera in Europe this
summer has caused genuine alarm in all
the great European cities. Less than a
year ago it was thought TO be under con-
troll, and little apprehension in respect to
il existed. Now the ablest cholera ex-
perts are beginning to think that the dis
ease will show itself in a most virulent
form during this month. 1t is widely
scattered in Europe, 1t having appeared
in cities of France, Russia and Germany,
and there have been few cases in Lon
don.
There is need for the greatest watch
fulness at all our quarantine stations. To
this, and other ports of this country, there
are now coming ships from nearly all
parts of the world Some of them may
have been at infected ports, and they may
bring it here in some of the many ways
in which the disease is carried. If it
should once gain a foothold in the coun-
try it might take long time to get rid of
it. The greatest vigilance, therefore,
should be exercised in respect TO vessels
coming from countries in which the chol-
era now prevails