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VOL XII. ELLIJAY COURIER. PUBLJBHXD BVBBT THURSDAY —T— 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. _ 10-21 85 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 WHITE PATH SPRINGS! —THE— Favorite and Popular Retort o) NORTH GEORGIA! Is situated 6 miles north of Ellijay on the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad. Accommodations complete, facilities for case and comfort unexcelled, and the magnificent Mineral Springs is its chief attraction. For other particulars on board, etc., address. Mss. W. F. Robertson, Ellijay, Go. $25,000.00 IN GOLD ! VIM. KK PAID FOB AMIES' COFFEE WRAPPERS. 1 Premium, - - $1,000.00 2 Premiums, $500.00 each 0 Premiums, - $250.00 “ 25 Premiums, - SIOO.OO “ 100 Premiums, - $50.00 " 200 Premiums, • $20.00 “ 1,000 Premiums, SIO.OO ** For full particulars aud directions see Circu lar in every round of AKBrCKLKs’ Corns. FOB oso9 JOB PRINTING —OO TO TMM 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. **** 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.