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VOL XII.
ELLIJAY COURIER.
PUBLJBHXD BVBBT THURSDAY
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COWKMAN * KIRBY.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
Superior Court meets 3d Monday in
May and 2nd Monday in October,
comm officers.
J. C. Allen, Ordinary.
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court.
M. L. Cox, Sheriff. „
J. R. Kinciad, Tax Collector.
Locke Langley, Tax Receiver.
Jas. M. West, Surveyor.
G. W. Rice, Coroner.
Court of Ordinary meets Ist Monday
iu each month.
TOWN COUNCIL.
E. W, Coleman, Intendant.
L. B. Gfecr,
J.' P.ColSqJr. Commissioners.
T. J. Long,
W. K, Foster, Marshal.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church South—
Every 3d Sunday and Saturday before.
G. W. Griner.
Baptist Church—Every 2nd and 4th
Sunday, by Rev E. B. Shopc.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Every
Ist Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. T. G.
T.'liasc.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Oak Bowery Lodge, No. 81, F. A, M.,
meats Ist Friday in each month.
L. B. Greer, W. M.
T. H. Tabor, S. W.
J. W. Hipp, J. W.
It, Z. Roberts, Treasurer.
I>. Gart en, S ccretary.
AY. 8. Coleman, 8. D.
\V. C. Allen, J. D.
S. Oarren, Tyler.
& T. PICKENS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
KLLIJA V, GEORGIA.
'fill practice in nil the conrts of Gil
mer _ and adjoining counties. Estates
H "d interest in land a specialty. Prompt
attention given to all collections.
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DR. J. R. JOHNSON,
Pfiyf lclaD arid Surgeon
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
Tenders his professional services to the
people of Gilmer and surrounding coun-
asks the support of his friends as
heretofore. All calls promptly filled.
E. W. COLEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY. GA.
Will nr.tri.ice in Ii 11 lU-'ge CirenO, GVnntt
(‘iin Jufiiiru Coi.it ol -• timer County. Ltg:\l
buenirfla solicited. ’ **Pi omptuMk" u our luotui.
OS. J. S. TANKERSLEY.
Physician and Surgeon,
Tender* hie professional services to tho ci4i
sens of EUijay, Gilnvr and surrounding conn
<?. All calls promptly attend <1 to. Office
epatairs over the firm of Cobh & Son.
•WFE WALDO THORNTON, 0.D.8.
DENTIST,
Calhoun, Go.
Will visit Ellijay and Morganton at
both the Spring and Fall term of the
Superior Court—and oftener by special
contract, when sufficient work is guar
anteed to justify me in Baking the visit
Address aa above. Tmavll-.li
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ELLIJAY COURIER
THE ELLIJAY COURIER
FULFILMENT.
Fulfilment mocks at Hope’s foreshadowing,
Ob ruined fruits her sullen lips are fed;
Athwart tbs last-limned dream, the song
last said,
She sweeps the leaden shadow of her wing,
A bitter burden of bare l-light to bring,
In sudden disenchantment, dull and dead.
And so we waken—Jn our aeraph’B stead
To find a gaping goblin-changeling.
Sweet Hope is slain; come, let us bury her;
The dream is done, the labor lost, we say;
But oftimes, gazing on the lifeless clay.
The old fire fills our veins, our longings stir;
And still, to strive anew, we turn away
From yet another dead Hope’s sepulchre.
— Scribner.
A SUCCESSFULSEANOE.
BY’GARTAN FOSE.
Mr. Clithers sat in his private office
(just a corner partitioned off the great
grain and meal store), in the thriving
town of Bellevue, 111. As he sat at ease
in the armchair, scanning with his keeu
blue eyes the choice items of news in his
morning paper, he looked every inch the
shrewd business man he was. Socially
he and his wife stood in the front rank.
One half-column article in the paper
seemed to interest him beyond all. It
was a account of a mind-reading
exhibition given in an Eastern city.
“Now, that is very remarkable,” com
mented Mr. Clithers, mentally. “There
is no trick about it, either. I think the
exhibition proved it can be done.
Gracious [ what a revolution if every one
could become a mind-reader 1 But I
suppose he must have a gift.”
J ust then some painful thought seemed*
to intrude upon his mind, for he frowned,
and then, throwing the newspaper aside,
he rose and stepped to his desk. After a
hasty glance about biin, he slipped a key
into a drawer and pulled it out. A pile
of bills lay in the inside. lie shut it
again quickly, and locked it.
“So itis still there,” he muttered. “By
Jove I I’d give anything to find out who’s
been robbing me lately. I wonder if
that mind-reader could tell me, or is it
only a guy or trick? I wish I could get
a mind-reader to try his skill on this
racket; I know it has baffled me.”
Now it is always well to consider
whether we really want a thing before
we express a haphazard desire for it, be
cause sometimes that eternal school
teacher, Fate, takes it into her head to
accede at once. At least she apparently
did in this case, for, as Mr. Clithers
turned aside’from his desk, the door
opened, and a tall individual, arrayed in
close-buttoned frock-coat and soft felt
hat, advanced with a light step, and pre
sented his card.
Mr. Clithers read with a perceptible
start the words:
’ l 'R\uUik 'Ntuix* Oakl>l> all' •
Mind Reader.”
This latter, with one comprehensive
glance around the office, removed his hat,
and calmly seated himself, not failing to
note, indeed, the effect his card had upon
Mr. Clithers. That gentleman, after
staring at the card some time, at length
looked his visitor over, but got little
gratification from his inspection.
A full beard covered the lower part of
Mr. Cardinally face and the upper part,
showing two high cheek-bones and a
peculiar hooked nose, pinched at the
point, with a pair of very brilliant eyes,
gave him a hungry look not at all pre
possessing.
He smiled in a superior way at Mr.
Clithers’s scrutiny.
“Perhaps you wonder why I have
called,” he remarked, in a full but low
tone. “I will tell you. I propose to
give a seance in this town, ana I wish to
enlist the aid of tho very best people, in
order that it may be a success. Do not
mistake me; lam not working for money,
I merely wish to test my wonderful power
before an audience composed only of the
most intelligent and cultured people of
Bellevue.”
“Aad you really are a mind reader?”
“I am only au amateur as yet, sir,
but I feel the power is in me. I have
given exhibitions before physicians, m n
of science and others. I have letters
from presidents of colleges and many
literary men. Are you acquainted with
he President of the Weehawken State
University ?”
Mr. Clithers confessed that he was
not.
“There is a letter from him,” contin
ued the mind-reader, picking it out from
a package drawn from his pocket.
Mr. Clithers read it. It seemed satis
factory, and he did not doubt the man
at all. He was thinking deeply,'though.
“Now, my dear sir,” went on Cardin
all, ‘I shall have to throw myself on your
good ature. I desire to invite to the
seance only the cultured and wealthy
people of this town—all those who move
in good society, in fact—and I must
have their names and addresses.”
“I have a list of those I invited to a
ball recently, if that will do,” said Mr.
Clithers, who could see no good reason
for refusing, and who .vas perfectly
alive to the social eclat of introducing
this lion to his friends.
“The very thing. I will fix the date
for the evening of the day after to-mor
row. I am extremely obliged to you
for your great kindess to a perfect
stranger, and if I could do anything to
show ”
“You can,”said Clithers; “by your
mind-reading.”
“Ah! and how can that be?”
Clithers drew his chair close to his
visitor and spoke almost in a whisper.
“For the past month I have been miss
ing money from that drawer in the desk
there. It is evidently taken whenever I
leave the office. I have always to keep a
certain amount of money on hand to make
change, and I lock it up when I go out.
Yet I find that somehow it is opened in
mv absence and five or ten dollars taken.
I Lave watched and said nothing about
it, but have failed even to susiiect any
one. Now, can you tell me who stole
that money?”
Mr. Cardinall seemed uneasy. He
hitched his chair back, and hemmed
and hawed.
“Why, you see,” he finally said, “that
is rather an awkward test. I should have
to read the mind of every employe and
friend you have. Then, again, I should
have to In-Come acquainted thoroughly
with this oilier, so that I could see it
plainly in connection with any one eise's
mind. lam willing to try."
“If you suerned, J will pay you one
hundred dollars.”
“A MAP 09 MUST UVM-ITB FLVtTVATIONS AND ITS VAST CONCERNS. ”
ELLIJAY. GA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4. 1887.
“I want no reword, air ; I iholl be only
too happy to try. And supposing that I
begin at once to convey the impreaeion
of this office to my mind, it will be neces
sary that you go out, sir—even out of the
building—and I will, as it were, take
possession of the office. Then it will be
come fixed on my mind.”
Just for one moment Mr. Clithers hesi
tated, but the man’s brilliant eyes were
upon him, and he acquiesced.
“You need begone only ten minutes,”
was the gracious remark of Mr. Cardinall
as Clithers went out.
In thirty seconds his retiring footsteps
had died away, and quick as a flash the
mind-reader stepped across to an old
fashioned safe that stood in the corner,
and bent over it. A grim smile played
over his face. Then noiselessly he tnrnad
to the desk, and was just putting his
hand to the money-drawer, when a slight
rustle came to his ear. With the light
tread of a panther he crossed the room
and dropped silently into a chair that
was behind the door. It opened inward,
and the next instant there was a louder
rustle, and the door was pushed open an
inch or so. Mr. CardinaH’s mind was
busy. °
“This is the thief,” he said to himself.
“Now toMry the trick that has never
failed.” ff
The doqp swung open, and Mrs. Clith
ers, a handsome woman of forty summers,
glided into the room and turned to close
the doorU At that moment a hand was
placed on her shoulder, and a harsh voice
cried:
“Where- is all the money you have
stolen?"
With distended eyes she turned to look
at her accuser. “Oh, my God!” she cried,
“I am lost! Oh, have mercy, sir—l will
never steal another cent. Oh, I shall die
—oh—oh!” and then broke into the most
agonizing sobs.
“Stop that,” Snapped the polite mind
reader, “and explain yourself. Who are
you?”
“Sir, lam Jjfrs. Clithers, and I have
as much right in this office as my hus
band. I am not afraid that he will arrest
me; my fear is of his knowing it. Oh,
sir, is there not some way of hiding this
j from him? I promise solemnly never to
! take any more money in this way.”
j “Humph 1” remarked Cardinall, look
j ingather composedly; “so you are his
wife. So you don’t want him to know.
Very natural, of course; but hard to do.
No, I don’t want money. Who do you
think I am ?”
“A detective, I suppose.”
“No, a mind-reader. Don’t be afraid,”
with an amused smile; “your secrets are
1 safe from me. If you give me a little
assistance, I shall be mum about this af
fair. In the first place, I want you to
do all in your power to induce your so
ciety friends to attend a mind-reading
seance your husband will tell you of.* Hi
the second place, I want you to send by
‘ address, to-njght, if possi
ble, a Tough plan, drawn on paper, or
your house, and also indicate the recepta
cles that hold, say a dozen valuable arti
cles, and theii location—such as jewelry
or silverware, etc. You wonder at suen
a request? It is in order that I may ap
pear familiar with the inside of your
house at the seance, and thus insure its
success. Do this and keep a close
tongue, and lam dumb. Of course you
will be sure to be present at my ext dbi
tion to indorse the accuracy of my mind
reading. Is it agreed.
It was evident that she doubted him.
Such an extraordinary request. But,
then, the shame—the bitter shame.
“I will do it; only don’t play me
false.”
And as he smiled in satisfaction she
slipped from the room. He looked at
his watch; the ten minutes was nearly
up. So he settled himself in the chair,
and with a dreamy look in his eyes and
a mysterious smile, Mr. Clithers found
him on his return.
“I thank you for your courtesy,” he
said, on taking his leave. “I have forged
the first link of the mental chain that
will bind your thief. Send that list you
spoke of to my hotel—the Palace—and
don’t fail to turn up at my seance."
And so it happened that evening that
two letters addressed to Mr. Cardinall
were sent from Mr. Clithers’s house.
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There was quite a crush on the event
ful evening at the Bijou Hall, which the
; mind-reader had secured for Mb seance.
Mrs. Clithers evidently had not failed to
keep her promise. Her husband, too,
had exerted Mmself to secure a large at
! tendance of the elite of society. The
■ ladies’ tongues were busy discussing from
every couceivable point of view the new
creed of reading the mind of man.
At 8 o’clock precisely, Mr. Cardinall
stepped on the platform. He had made
j himself conspicuous around the town
: since Ms arrival, so he was pretty well
| known. After a few words of intfoduc-
I tion, in which he humbly stated that he
! was as yet but an amateur, he begged the
audience to choose a committee of two
to assist him in his demonstrations. A
dozen offered themselves, but finally,
after much discussion, a society youth,
fearfully and wonderfully vain and pomp
ous, and Mr. Clithers, were chosen to
represent the audience. When the latter
was chosen, a gratified smile wreathed
Mr. Cardinally face, but at the sight of
the dudieh youth he appeared almost dis
gusted.
“This is really too bad,” whispered he
to Mr. Clithers, when the committee
were on the platform; he has no mind;
I cannot read a vacuum; do —do let me
use you as a medium. Just make the
youth fetch and carry.” And he winked
solemnly at Mr. Clithers, who was evi
dently flattered at this evidence that he
had a mind at all. The first test was the
hiding of a gold watch by Mr Clithers—
the mind-reader and youth retiring.
Now, when they both emerged Mr. Cardi
nall seemed to change his mind about
the brains of the youth, for he asked him
if he knew where the watch was Md.
The youth answered Yes, having watched
through a small crack in the door. Then
the mind-reader said: “I will find it
through you.” Immediately both turned
their footsteps toward one ef the win
dow-sills, ana stopjied at it. There was
the watch. But whether the mlnd
readcr led the youth, or the youth the
reader, was more than the audience
could determine. However, this success
elicited the greatest applause.
Cardinall then requested someone in
the audience to hide an article, and be
would find it. A* he spoke he fixed his
eys on Mrs. Clithers. She read that
ha>k at ouee, snd conquering her dislike,
I stood up and said L > would bids •mm
thing. He beried and apologized, and
retired. She stent to the stage and laid
the article at 'he right-hand corner on
the floor. It was a common pin. The
mind-reader rppeared blindfolded, as
usual, and at spaing down from the stage,
took her hate in his. “Where is it ?”
he whispered, as he bowed. She told him.
After* few mkpoeuvres, indicating uncer
tainty, he rushed to the spot, ana picked
up the article triumphantly.
The net of the exhibition consisted en
tirely of a description of the inside of Mr.
Clithers’s hough. Having asked, that gen
tleman to sat-to the audience that the
mind-reader md never been inside the
house, he to make a minute
statement of lye location of nettrly every
article of vaflK Mr. Clithers possessed.
Th* latter 4as perfectly astounded.
There could bb no denying the gift of
this man. HbvL Jared that Mr. Clithers
was the bestMbject he had ever operated
on, adding he had a remarkable
brain cell orgP ism. In fact, he had Mr.
Clithers blusMng with pleasure and the
audience in"hfeh good numor, when the
town-clock stfuck eleven. He was apol
ogising fort* lateness of the hour, when
a sudden bustle became manifest at the
door of the Kali. Someone was trying
to force an entrance, the ushers interpos
ing. A harsh, gruff voice said something
in a low tone, and then a passage was
made. The Audience turning round to
ascertain thd cause, heard a murmur of
“law” and “officers,” as two burly men
advanced toward the platform. A couple
of silly womep shrieked. All eyes in.
stinctively turned to the platform. Mr.
Cardinall had, retreated to the rear. A
fearful frowtrwas on his brow, and ho
was biting his nails convulsively.
“Don’t be aWmed,” said one of the in
truders. “I make no doubt you’ve had
a nice evening of it, he's so very funny”—
pointing his finger at the mind-reader—
“when he gets started. But he’s a luna
tic, just the siime.”
“A lunatic: crazy I” came in a chorus.
Some of the women rose hastily, and at
tempted to go out.
“You’d better all keep still,’’continued
the man. “He takes queer notions, and
if he saw you all going out, he might
tMnk there was a-flrc and get very vio
lent, andmayhe kill someone.”
“Come, come, angrily remarked Mr.
Clithers, loatfc to give up his idol,” aro
you sure you’re not making a mistake?
Say, Mr. Cardinall, you aro not crazy, arc
you!"
Whereat both men burst into loud
laughter.
“Why, look at him,” said the first
spokesman; and indeed he did not appear
sane. His ; • eyes were flashing vin
dictively idf. the audience, and moving
right anddeft, as though looking for a
“Ob, he’4 Receive a smarter man thau
you,” cod Meed the keeper, for that is
what ho aleutly was. ‘ You see he’s
gtek. min'?Edging op the .brain, lie’s
beenthat way these five years. ~He 'got
away from the State Asylum six weeks
ago, and we’ve been after him ever since.
Here’s our papers. ”
But everybody was so disgusted at the
turn affairs had taken, that no one cared
to examine the papers; they were only
anxious that the lunatic should be got rid
of. Some dropped an anxious word that
the keepers might have difficulty in tak
ing him off.
“Never you fear,” chuckled one of
them. “We know our man.” And so
saying, he walked to the edge of the plat
form, and drawing from his pocket a
large, luscious pear, held it up for Mr.
Cardinall to see. That worthy glanced
at it and turned away his hend. Still it
dangled there, and do what he could, his
gaze returned to it. Greed sparkled in
his eyes. Finally he shook hiß head. The
keeper said, “Come?” He shook his head
again. Then from his other pocket the
keeper drew another pear and held it up
also. The poor mind-reader fixed his
eyes on them.
“Both?” he cried.
“Yes, both of ’em, if you’ll come
quietly,” replied the keeper.
“And can I eat one now ?” with a comi
cal assumption of shrewdness.
“You snail have them both, now,” as
serted the keeper. The victory was com
plete. With a formidable grin, the luna
tic came forward, stepped from the olat
form, and calmly left the hall, demolish
ing his pear, ana occasionally looking at
his other prize in exultation.
At the door of the hall a carriage
stood, loaded with trunks, and the crowd
who had rushed to the door saw two
bags lying in the inside of the carriage.
Mr. Cardinall and his keepers entered,
and the carriage rolled away.
It would be useless to report the Babel
of tongues that then found expression
among the audience. It was the strang
est experience that they had ever met
with, and the unfortunate Mr. Clithers
encountered many an ill-concealed re
buke in the form of the oft-repeated
query:
“How copld you ever be so deceived?”
He didn’t know himself. What indeed
affected him the most was the fact that
the mystery of the stolen money was as
far from being solved as ever.
So they separated finally, each to his
home; but to many there was no rest
that night. Most of them did not dis
cover it until the morning; but all the
next day there was weeping and wailing
in that pretty town. It was found that
while they were attending the seance,
nearly every house belonging to the
wealthy people had been entered, at the
second story, and ransacked. It was a
perfect night of looting. Mr. Clithers
suffered the most. Many jewels which
he supposed hidden had been taken, and,
worst of all, his safe had been
blown open, and all his available cash
carried off. He was ruined, and indeed
very many besides himself came near to
bankruptcy. Somehow, the good peo
ple were many hours discussing the mat
ter before they connected the mind
reader with the robberies. Then Mr.
dither’s explanation of his safe robbery
opened tbeir eyes fully. It was still a
mystery to him how they obtained an ac
quaintance with the inside of his house,
snd it is so still, for his wife, although
she privately sorrowed over her fault,
kept faith with the mind reader. She
dared not oonfess about the money the
had purloined, and Mr. Cardinall kept
his word.
Shortly afterward, Mr. Clithers re
ceived a note, as follows:
“Dsar Hi: You wanted to find out where
your money wot gone. I think you bevedts
l overed by this time who stole it.
Thk Mud lUadbk."
But this Usoisot note did set satisfy
the merchant, and to his dying dav the
truth was Mddcn from him. —Frank Im
lie't.
Turkish Baths.
The bathing establishments, or hamamt,
consist of large octagonal or circular halls,
paved with flag-stones, around which run
stone seats or very hard divans. In these
halls, which are heated to excess and
filled with steam, the bathers have them
selves washed, rubbed and shampooed
by employes called (elate, who, " with
their hands encased in hair gloves, knead
the ilesh vigorously until it becomes
clean, flexible, and soft like satin.
Men go to the bath singly, and remain
there only an hour or two; but women
go therein parties, and sometimes pass
the entire day there, drinking syrups,
smoking eating rhat loukovm
and sweetmeats, and sleeping on divans
or in small beds placed around the bath
room. ~
The exterior of the hamamt presents
nothing Very renfkrkable. They are
large, low structures built of brick,
covered with stucco, and always paved
with marble. They aro lighted only by
small round skylights set in tho cupolas
and provided with greenish panes, which
throw, into the rooms a dim light, re
sembling moonlight, and very favorable
to repose. A furnace underneath heats
the building by means of pipes which are
run all through .the walls even. The
temperature is raised to forty, fifty, and
sixty degrees Centigrade.
After undressing, the bathers envelop
■themselves in a long wrap (jgechtymal),
and make a delightful plunge into a cloud
of vapor, .which produces, even in the
case of dh#leanest, a profuse and debili
tating perspiration. One puts on clogs,
which look like small stilts, to protect
one’s feet from the extreme heat of the
floor. There are large white marble urns
fastened against tho wall, which receive
cold and boiling water by separate fau
cets ; it is around these urns that all tho
purifications commanded by tho Koran
are made. Seated upon a little cedar
stool, tho bather pours upon his head and
body large bowls of water, which he heats
to the desired temperature by the fau
cets.
The hamans, of which there are more
than 800 in Stamboul alone, have no
fixed tariff. The charges depend upon
the look and the dress of the bather, aud
vary from two sous to twenty-three francs.
Rich pashas sometimes hire them out
right for their families, and think that if
they pay less than forty Turkish livres
(eighteen dollars), they have done some
thing below their dignity, On the other
hand, beggars and poor people are ad
mitted free of charge to certain baths de
signed for their use; and this is a bless
ing t them as well as to their neighbors;
for .Ihcso periodical ablutions diminish
their extreme filthiness, and arrest the
growth of the vermin nourished at their
exponso— Cosmopolitan. J
' •
How the Sultan Lives.
Abdul Humid lives in Oriental seclu
sion. He is an inveterate smoker, and
shows his European taste by smoking
cigarettes, instead of Turkish pipes.
Ilis palace surpasses in beauty and mag
nificence the rich descriptions in the
Arabian Nights. Passing through a mar
velously beautiful gate of green and gold,
halls, chambers and apartments succeed
one another, each and all displaying an
airy grace and undreamed of splendor.
The Hall of Jewels contains a dazzling
collection of rubies, sapphires, emeralds,
and other precious stones, heaped in
large basins, while diamonds of great
size and pearls of rare loveliness are as
plentiful as green peas in June. While
the Sultan lives in all the magnificence
of Eastern luxury,- tho people are wretch
edly poor. Beggars infest the streets of
Constantinople by day, and thieves by
night, and as the city is miserably lighted,
and the police very indifferent, the rob
bers have every opportunity to ply their
vocation with success and impunity.
The salary of tho police is. nominally fti
a month, but as even this small amount
is seldom paid, they divide the plunder
with the thieves. The immense army of
cooks, attendants, and others reauired to
keep up the Sultan’s large household is a
constant drain upon the people. Abdul
Hamid’s personal expenses are (50,000,000
francs ($12,000,000) a year. Ilis favor
ite attendant, Kishlar Agra, the Black
Eunuch, receives 240,000 francs as his
salary, with many rich perquisites. Ho
bears the high sounding title of Gardien
de la Porte de la Felicite.— Epoch.
A Japanese Baby in Washington.
Mme. Kuki’s baby is the son of the
Japanese Minister, and its pretty little
Japanese eyes and its yellow cream com
plexion, together with its winning ways,
make it as beautiful as any American
baby you have ever seen. Its hair is jet
black, and it laughs and cries just like
an American baby. It is the pride of the
Japanese Minister's heart. He shows it
to all of his friends,and brings it out now
and then on State occasions.
Mme. Kuki, its mother, is a very ac
complished lady. She is fine looking,
and she wears dresses and diamonds as
fine as any you liave seen at a White
House reception. She has a creamy yel
low complexion, black eyes with half
closed lids, and masses of blue-black
hair wound at the back of her heud. She
dresses iu European style, and she keeps
her baby dressed in the same manner.
Tho little one is now two years old, and
ltcgins to prattle in broken English.—
Washington Letter.
Ingrowing Toe-Nails.
A chiropodist says in the Bt. Louis
Globe-Democrat -. “The cause of the in
growing toe-naiis I don’t think has been
properly stated. My observation has
taught me that that trouble is caused
chiefly by the use of the knife in the
trimming of the nails. Scissors should
always boused instead. The knife tears
the nail off into the quick, and thus the
ingrowing commence-. Much of it is
caused at Turkish bath establishments.
There I have seen persons let an ignorant,
darky whittle off their nails with a knife,
or try to correct the growth of an in
growing nail. Tho carelessness people
display in the handling of the most im
portant portion* of their body is sston
isbing.” _ _____
W. If. Parkinson, of Mlueral Point,
Wk, while sowing oat* found s gold
ring on th* point of one of the seeder
teeth, The ring wu lost shout thirty
year* ago hy a young lady iu passing
ever tho form.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Soap.
In examining the process of soap
making, we learn that there is soap ana
soap, sajs a writer in Good Houtekeeping.
The real article free from adulterations,
injurious or useless, is never the cheapest.
Poor brands contain pulverized marble,
talc or other mineral powders to give in
creased weight. Marble dust costs less
than one cent per pound, and sometimes
each pound cake contains fully one-quar
ter of its weight of mineral matter. .
The editor of a scientific magazine not
long since analyzed a certain brand wMch
had attained some degree of popularity
for the toilet, and had received the in
dorsement of several celebrated persons.
He found m it a large admixture of .fine
sand. His process is a long one, but any
housekeeper who chooses can test the
quality of soap in this simple manner:
Shave an ounce of soap and put in a
small bottle; nearly fill with alcohol and
place in hot water till the contents are
dissolved, taking care to hare no posi
bility of ignition. Set away to cool
and thicken; if oo’sedinfent appears the
soap is good.
It is a better way to buy only the
favorite brand of a well known manu
facturer. A noted chemist says: “The
label and tradesmark of a known, reli
able and responsible manufacturer is the
best, protection the public can have
against frauds, imitations and counter
feits. “When the manufacturer uses
some fictitious name on a fancy brand,
no matter how attractive the soap may
be, beware of it.” Its ingredients, dis
guised under many shapes and delicate
perfumery, may be repulsive or noxious.
A strong, rank soap will also ba
avoided by the prudent houskeeper;
whatever attacks living tissue rendering
the fingers shriveled and sore, is ruinous
to garments and fabrics. In such cases,
the alkali, not thoroughly combined with
the fat, is left free to eat into the cloth
ing. And it is evident that what is too
harsh for vegetable fibre is not fit for
contact with the skin.
Recipes. •
Cannino Currants.— Place the fruit
in the kettle with very little water, and
us soon as they begin to boil, add one
half pound of sugar for each quart of
berries. BoiJ six minutes; remove from
the lire and put into cans.
Dried Rhubarb. — Prepare the same
as for pies, by peeling the stalks and cut
ting into pieces an inch long. Spread
it on plates, not paus, and place in a
warm oven. It should dry quickly, and
then be put away in paper bags.
Sr iced Ham. —Select a small ham,
from eight to ten pounds, and have your
butcher takq out the bone. Fill the ham
with mace, allspice and cloves,put into a
white cotton bag and sew it up, and boil
until thoroughly done, t off the
beg, then boko in a hot or on an til
browned.
Morasses Cookies: Bring to a scald
one cup of molasses, stir into it a level
tcaspoonful of soda; pour it, while foam
ing, over one cup of sugar and one egg,
previously well beaten together; then
ndd one tablespoonful of vinegar, a tea
spoonful of ginger; mix very hard and
roll very thin and bako brown. The
omission of milk and shortening is inten
tional.
Peach Pie. —Cover a deep pie plate
with a pastry not too rich, and set in a
moderate oven and let dry so that it will
not be soggy. Let it cool when dried
and till with cut-up peaches. Take a
half dozen soft peaches, peel, take out
the pits, and place in a thin muslin cloth.
Wash out the juice and pulp with a
wooden spoon. Pour on this a half-cup
ful of boiling water. Sweden and
thicken with a teaspoonful of cornstarch.
Sweeten the peaches in the pie with
plenty of powdered sugar. Pour over
the thickened juice and cover with a rich,
thin crust, having several slashes in the
centre to let out the steam. With the
finger press a gutter around the edge of
the pie, making a little hole occasionally
so that the juice will not run over. Bake
in a quick oven. When done sift pow
dered sugar over the crust and serve with
a pitcher of cream.
jffaefhl Hints.
Whiting or ammonia in water is jjpef- i
ferable to soap for cleaning windows.
The warmth of floors is greatly in
creased by having carpet lining of layers
of paper under the carpet,
Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks
where ants congregate will drive them
away. The same remedy is also good for
mice.
To make a good liquid glue, put one
dunce of borax into a pint of boiling
water, add two ounces ‘of shellac and
boil until the shellac is dissolved. Bottle
for use.
Saieratus is excellent for removing
grease from woodwork which has not
been painted. Spread thickly over the
grease spots, moisten, and after it has re
mained a half-honr wash off with tepid
soap suds.
A nice way to freshen old-fashioned
■ilk, making it look like new surah, is to
sponge it carefully with strong coffee.
While damp, lay it wrong side up on an
ironing board and place paper over ii,
then press with a warm iron. Be sure
the coffee is perfectly settled until clear
before using. This is also good to freshen
black lace, cashmere, ribbon and alpaca.
Cannibalism as It Is.
Although cannibalism is reported by
missionaries to have died out among the
islands of the South Seas, it is far more
common than is generally imagined, says
a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle.
In New Ireland I saw a big fight between
two villages, and after the battle the
bodies of those who had fallen were eaten.
The bodies, after being scalded in hot
water, are scraped with a bamboo knife
by old women. An old man cuts up the
bodies, taking care to keep the thigh and
•bin bones, which are used for spent
heads.
After beig # wrapped in stout leaves,the
dismem Iwred caduvers are placed in ovena
dug in the ground aud in four days are
ready for eating. The natives made no
concealment of their disgusting meal,and
during the feast they held wild dancing
and orgies. The preparation of sago,
coconiiut and hiiinan brains is railed aak
tnk, and is in great demand among tba
women. The females seem to ba mors
brutal and savage than the men during
ttpfMniui jnnn*Hl
SUMMER
Sweat summer leaning o’er a rustic fence,
With marigolds beneath her freckled chin.
How fair thou art, a pitying Providence
Hath font thee to this world of toil and sin.
What though the sun that follows thy brown
feet,
Too lavish may be with its glowing heat., -y
What dawns thou bringest, brig.*lA ■4th
scarlet fire, V
To tempt ns from our downy co\h of
sleep,
And lure ns on to plefMoe where the brier
Doth gayly through the breathless thickets
creep,.
And busy hornets hide within.tbe bush.
And nimble snakes ooil neath the blossom’s
blush.
What throbbing stars to pear through the
green trees,
What witching moons to light the perfumed
caves,
Where cooing lovers sit in blissful ease,
Amid the dim, mosquito-haunted leaves,
What restful nights made tuneful by the trill
Of festive crickets in the grasses still
What peace of mind, what watermelons cool,
Whrt languid ails, what seas of sweet ice
"cream,
What doctor’s bills, what fishing in a pool
When all the fish have vanished like s
dream,
What sudden waves of tender sentiment,
What strange forgetting all you ever meant.
Vacation is the happy word that rings
Through thy bsst days so fairy like and
fair,
Oh, that’s the time when to the old world
clings
An ampler ether, a diviner air.
A little space it is, while sweet hours whirl,
To oourt ad libitum a summer girl!
—Susan Hartley, in Boston Courier.
| PITH AIDPOINT.
Out of sight—The blind man.
The cheapest thing in straw hats thi3
season is the head of a dude.— Picayune.
The reason figures won’t lie is because
they alwaya stand for something— Too*
Stylingt.
A poet writer: “I know sweet songs
I cannot ling.” That poet has our grati
tude.—Somerville Journal. ,
It was the lady who thought she was
going to swoon who had a faint sus
picion.— Yonkers Statesman.
Orpheus was a musician whoso music
had power to draw rocks, etc., toward
him. The modern street musician has
the same power.— Tid-Bits
An exchange says: “Mary, in the poem'
‘Mary had a little lamb,’ is now seventy
C:§ old and still hale and hearty." The
b, however, is dead. We ate a piece
f it last week.— Newman Independent.
X Philadelphia woman, years
old, draws salaries amounting to upwards
off 15,000 a year. Sit down, ladies; sit
down. She draws the salaries as cashier
to pay off the hands.— Detroit Free Frees.
Manufacturers Of silverware deplore
the scarcety of silver-chasers in this
country. We supposed there were plenty
of them. About everybody that we know
is pretty busy chasing silver.— Boston
Post.
Within the clasp of a fair maid
Assuringly my hand I laid,
I felt a pressure, soft and sweet;
Her eyes and mine did chance to moet;
• A blush spread o'er her cheek so fair,
My other hand was held out there;
But neither of us thought of love—
She was but fitting on a glove.
—Puck.
“Well, I never quarrel with any one,”
remarked a quiet but crossgrained and
sarcastic individual in a down town office
the other day. “No, perhaps not,” re
marked a gentleman seated near, “but
you give others plenty of opportunity of
quarreling with you.” Did you ever
hare such an acquaintance!"—Philadel
phia Cedi.
Phillips Brooks declares that Webster,
Lincoln and Beecher were the three great
est Americans of the century. Now, the
superstitious will please observe thatjajnT
had seven letters in his name, sind what
is mare remarkable, that three times
seven are twenty-one, at which age
Beecher, Webster and Liivcoln all attained
their majority.— Life.
The Tarantula.
The tarantula,''or wood spider, recei.es
it name fronj, Taranto, Italy, where it is
very common. It makes no web, but
hides in holes and crevices of rocks, which
it lines with silk, and wanders for its
prey, running it down with great swift
ness. Its poison is active, and causes
troublesome symptoms, but is not neces
sarily fatal. In the Southwestern States
it is destroyed by the large red-winged
wasp. The tarantula sometimes haunts
bunches of bananas, and fatal instances
are not uncommon from the bite of the
insidious spider. The latest case was
that of a kitchen girl in a Chicago hotel,
who was severely stung in the thumb
while cutting some bananas from a bunch.
Killed on the Bail,
The number of small animals tnd birds
killed on railroads is surprising, and it is
odd to see game which hunters find most
difficult, to capture meet death under the
wheels of the often slow-moving coal and
freight trains. Woodchucks, skunks,
nearly all kinds of squirrels, raccoons,
and even fleet-footed rabbits are fre
quently victims of the rail. Telegraph
wires, too, are deadly to winged game,
and quail, woodcock and smaller birds
are often killed by striking them.—
Globe Democrat.
To Clot Plenty of Leisure.
Fist Merchant—“ Warm, isn’t it?”
Second Merchant— “Very sultry.
Makes me think of the seashore or the
mountains; but I can’t get away.”
“I’ll tell you how you can get plenty
of leisure time.”
“How?”
“Take your advertisement out of the
paper. " —Pkilailelphia Call.
According to the mint reports, C.d*’
fornia has dropped to the thrd p! :< o
among the States and Territories .I*l p
din er of precious metal*. It still ra: 1. 1
first in the production of gold, bit -<
awny behind Colorado and Montu >4 >
the .production of silver and iu tl e .0 .it
value of the output
NO. 20.