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Xoi't!) Geordi an, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -AT - BELLI GN, O.A. Bv MYERS <fc BUIUE. DR. D. M. BREAKER Editor. Offi 'Q in (he s uitu building, east of the depot Tfrms —sl 00 per auunro, 50 cents for six •wouths, in advance. * :fty numbers to the volume. TOPICS OF THE OAT. Campaign enthusiasm seems to bo at low ebb. Li sooty was shot, on the anniversary of the of Fort Sumter. Won’t it soon be time to commence complaining about cold weather? ■ - General Khebman is anxious that short work be made of the Apaehes. The Cook Fund has reached §I,OOO, J bis required 100,000 contributions. MASSrcm-nnTTs, Minnesota, Missis sippi, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin elect Governors this fall. The late President was a magnet to wards whom ail heart* were irresistibly drawn. He was of the people. —♦ 1 Here is little doubt now about the suc cess of the Mrs. Garfield Fund, started by Mr, Cyrus W. Field. Subscriptions are pouring in liberally. Ax unsueezod sneeze, when it is there, wants to come and can't, is decided!) more int< resting than the unkissed kiss the lestl’.etie poet has gone crazy over. - » Three sisters were married in one an dding at St. Louis, and the occasion required eighteen bridesmaids. As a matter of economy, the scheme was a success. The Detroit Free Press wants the Government to introduce opium among the Indians. Chinamen die by the hundred thousands from the habit of opium eating. **’•■• ■ 1 In his inaugural address, President Arthur intimates his purpose to pursue He policy indicated by his predecessor iu office, forshadowed during his bricl administration. — The late Lorenzo Delmouico made $2,000,000 keeping a restraiirant, but ho never set up meals for fifteen cents, not by any means. Mis memory is dear only to the rich. This is a little too too. Says the De troit Free Press: “David Davis has just had a reunion at Bloomington. He took a, dose of alum." We suppose it brought him all together. — .. - It is something of a remarkable coincidence that the death of President Garfield occurred upon the anniversary of file battle of Chickamauga, where he was most distinguished for gallantry. Kalio.h’s Sun Francisco congrega tion have voted not to grant him leave to go on a lecturing tour, although lie has signed a contract at §2OO a night. He will probably resign bis pastorate. • «*“ Qi'EEN Victoria is worth about SBO,- 1100,0110. We have been judging h r fortune by the way she gives when called upon by suffering humanity, and we didn't.think it was near that much. - President Arthur, for the present, will not occupy the White House. lie will reside with Senator Jones, of Ne vada, in one of the granite buildings erect* d by Ben Buller, near the Capi tol. - . ——— The statement that polygamy is be coming obnoxious to Mormons and they are entertaining thoughts of exterminat ing it, is rather hard to credit. That, if we understand it, is the foundation upon which their faith is built. — The New Haven Register puts it in this shape : “Josie Mansfield is flitting about the gambling halls of Paris, Stokes is in the oil business, and Jim Fisk has one of the finest monuments in the State of Vermont. ” Personally, President Arthur has many warm friends. Up to the present time he has been the head of the law firm Arthur, Philips, Knevals k Ran som. He is a widower, his wife having died some two years ago. ' Mrs. Garfield has passed so many days of suffering and anxiety' at tho White House, that she is heartily sick of its surroundings, and now expresses the hope that she will never be required to enter it again on any occasion. - General Burnside's warhorse, Major, that bore him through the war; wa killed the other day at Providence. It had become helpless, and the General had arranged for its death whenever it could be killed without his knowlrdgi Orp. National calamity has been of a character so overwhelming that we had almost lost sight of the suffering pre vailing in Michigan. However, w? are The North Georgian. VOL. IV. gratified to be able to state that the pub lic everywhere have responded very lib erally to the call for aid. Two diminutive brothers, named Sparling, have just entered Hillsdale College, Michigan. Christopher, the oider, is eighteen years old, is 39} inches iu height and weighs 37 J pounds. The other, Edwin, is fifteen years old, weighs 49; pounds and is 12} inches tall. -—— . Since wc have ascertained that Marvin, who is in jail nt Richmond, Tnd., married eighteen different women, we have con cluded |liat men become bachelors from tlieir own choice. We don’t mean to say that girls will marry anybody at al} I hats not the idea. We can’t explain it. however. Tire ball in the Prosiden’t body, which was found just back of the heart, was fully a foot and a half from the point where the eminent surgeons had located it, which goes to show' that the surgeons were about as much at sea about the matter ns p< rsons of much less profes sional knowledge would have been. Mb. Wm. Hyde, editor of the St. Louis A'rpid;/icon, has been connected with that paper twenty-five years, he having been its original sole editor and reporter. Be was one of the first jour nalists in the West. He will celebrate the twenty-fiflh anniversary by taking needed rest ami a trip around tile world. 'flic London Times, perhaps Hie best known paper in the world, and certainly the greatest of nil European journals, published eleven columns on the death of the late President, surrounded with a border of mourning. This is a mark of respect in our mother country we •ould hardly have expected. In our sor row wo have the full sympathy of nil Europe. . Kokomo, Indiana, has been disgraced. Dr. Henry C. (’’ole, the Mayor of that hand.-'urn-little < ity, was shot to death wh I • stealing flour from a mill. He hid carried the fourth sack away when he was called upon by the Shiriff and others, wh • t Id him to halt, but he refused ami stinted to run. A vc.lly of shot was sent after him .and he fell, deal. The whole circumstances is a peculiar one. ■ Mrs. Lillie M. Chihstivni'y wrote her husband a letter the other day, but it wasn't a love letter, by any means. She told him that rivers of blood would not wash th" stain from her which was stamped into her soul when she gave le r innocent girl life into his keeping, ami added : “The greatest suffering I li iv 1" endure is the knowle Igo of the degradation that you have been my lin J .and." There seem to be contradictory re ports concerning the condition of Sena tor Bn. Hill. It is known that lie was troubled with a cancerous growth on the to:. "uc, but the severity of the affliction has not been generally known. On the Cth of September a second surgical operation was performed, and it is now feared he will lose the power of speech. I! is being :r ated at Jefferson College Hospital, Philadelphia. ♦ There has been so much said about the Boston girls that people hereabouts are. getting rather anxious to see one of them. They are all said to be “{esthetic of the utterly too awfully too ’’ brand, and while we do not fully realize meaning of the expression, we hold that it must be something awful. We know we should never be able to converse with them, as they have for the most part discarded English for the dead lan guages, excepting some of the big words in Webster that nobody knows anything about. A Boston correspondent says; “ They are self-poised, ready for any emergency, and carry mental quivers full of Emersonian tracts. They are largely ceramical and music and philoso phy are general accomplishments.’’ He then adds: “ They wear red mite on their hands and blue or red leggings?” i Well, well. Thls bit of biography is of renewed interest : At college Chester A. Arthur had determined to become a lawyer. Ac cordingly, upon graduation, he went to a law school at Ballston Springs, and there remained diligently studying for i several mouths. He then returned to Lansingburg, where his father then re | sided, and there studied law. In 1851 he obtained a situation as principal of an academy at North Pownal, Bennington i County, Vermont. He prepared boys I for college, all the while studying law. Two years after he left North Pownal, or | m 1853, a student from Williams Col | lege, named James A. Garfield, came to ; the place, and in the same academy j building taught penmanship throughout ! one winter. It was a singular circum stance that, after nearly a quarter of a | century, both these men should meet at a nolical convention, and unexpectedly to BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., SEPTEMBER 29. RSBI. themselves be picked out as the candi dates of the Republican party for Presi dent and Vico President. The Moqui Indians, In Arizona, among other pleasures, heartily enjoy a “snake dance.” Lieutenant General Sheridan, of Chicago, the other day re c ived a letter from First. Lieutenant JohuG. Bourke, Third Cavalry, A. D. C., iu wh ch one of these dances is de scribed at great length, the writer having attended a dance the day before writing. The Mosqui had a procession, divided into two parts—one, of the choristers and gourd rattlers; the other, of forty? eight men and children, twenty-four of whom carried snakes and the other twenty-four acted as attendants, fanning the snakes with eagle feathers. The horrible reptiles were carried both in the hands and in the mouth. The writer says it was a loathsome sight to see a long file of naked men carrying those sinuous monsters between their teeth and tramping around a long circle to the accompaniment of a funeral dirge and monotonous chanting. After a snake had been thus carried once around the circle it was deposited in a sacred lodge of cottonwood saplings, covered with buffalo robes, and its place taken by an other. Thus it was not hard to circu late the number used, which was not far one way or another from a hundred, rather over than under, and one-half tho number being rattlesnakes. When In dians get to carrying live rattlesnakes about in their mouths, we do not hesitate to pronounce them equal to almost any emergency. They are fully capable of caring for themselves. How Rome Was Sayed by a (loose. The story is related of the fourth siege of Rome, in the year 387 before Christ. A number of Gauls, under Hie command of Brennus, entered Upper Maly, and laid siege to Severn) places. Rome in terfered,and by this act sixiply irritated the invaders, who marched against the “ Empress of Hie World.” A battle was fought and the Romans were defeated. Rome was now practically at the mercy of Hie Gauls. The Senate had not enough men left alter the. buttle to defend the “ Etun.ul Clit.v.” and so they threw nil Hie men callable of bearing arms into Hie Capitol, and sent away all useless mouths ; the old men and women mid children took refuge in the nearest cities. There remained iu Rome only a lew pontiffs and ancient Senators, who, not being willing to survive either their country or its glory, geilerously devoted themselves to death, to appease, accord ing to their belief, the anger of the in fernal gods. These were found by Brennus, and for a time their splendid habits, tlieir white Ireards, their air of grandeur and firmness astonished the Gauls and inspired a religions fear iu the army. Finally, however, the Gauls massacred the Senators, mid ail who had not escaped Mere slaughtered, mid then they attacked tho Capitol. While Hie Gauls plundered the city, the coun try round was recover.ng from itsih lent. Camillus was chosen leader of the Ro mans, and while the. Gauls wire revel ing they attacked the invaders and killed many of them. Camillus was proclaimed the savior of his country, but he refused to do anything as their leader without Hie order el the Semite mul the people shut up in the Capitol. It was almost impossible to gain access to them. A young Roman, however, had the hardihood to undertake this perilous enterprise, and was successful. Camillus was declared Dictator, mid collected a large army. The Gauls had discovered the traces left by the young Roman, and Brennus attempted during the night to surprise the Capitol by tin same path. After many efforts, a few succeeded in gaining the summit of the rock, and were on the point of scaling the walls ; the sentinel was asleep and nothing seemed to oppose them. Some geese, consftrated to Juno, were awak ened by the noise made by the enemy, and began to cry as they do when they are disturbed. Manlius, a person of consular rank, ran to the spot, en countered the Gauls and hurled several from the rock. The Romans were roused and the enemy were driven back ; and ultimately were defeated in open battle by Camillus, who has been called Rome’s second founder.— Chicago Inter Ocean. Theory of Luminous Paint. Light is supposed to be the vibration of an extremely elastic fluid called ether, which is supposed to fill the whole of space, and which, set in motion by the vibration of the luminous source itself, produces upon our eyes the sensation of light. Now, it is thought that the waves of light communicate their motion to the particles of paint, which start into energetic vibration, continuing long af ter the exciting cause is withdrawn. When we ring a bell the blow of the hammer communicates its motion to the particles of the bell, which start into action, imparting their motion to the particles of air, which transfer the vibra tions to the drum of the ear and produce the sensation of sound, which grows fainter and fainter, until at last it dies away, when the particles of the bell arc once more at rest; so it is with the lum inous paint and all other phosphorescent bodies, the particles of which, when dis turbed by the waves of ether, yield light for a tine, which decreases in'brilliancy as the particles grow less and less ; they. too, like f lu- particles of a bell, require periodical renewals of the force that as fords them their motion. Antiquity of the Earth. Theologians of every sect and creed had persistently taught that only some 6,000 years had elapsed since the earth sprang into being. Tho suggestion of its greater antiquity was received with a storm of theological opposition, which underwent little abatement during half a century, and of which even yet the ground-swell may occasionally be felt in some of the dark recesses of ignorant minds. 'The majority of those who raised the storm were the social or pro fessional ancestors of these who now, iu like manner, oppose tho doctrine of evolution; but the change which has cojne over the latter races of combatants is itself some proof evolution affects the minds of men, whatever it may do to their bodies. Fifty years ago the full force of an anathematizing odium theo logioum burst upon the heads of the assailed geologists, with a violence hap pily unknown among the opponents of evolution. Then, as now, the represen tatives of geological science explained to the world the great facts upon which tlieir conclusions were based. Then, as now, myriads of men were in doubt whether to resign themselves to the leadership of geologists or of tho theo logians. But those who ranged them selves under the banner of Cuvier, Lyell and Sedgwi k ultimately found them selves on the victorious side. One by one the theologians laid down tlieir vitu perative weapons. Tho late Dr. Chal mers early accepted the geological creed. Dr. Pye Smith received tho fellowship of tho .Royal Society for his well-meant endeavor to reconcile the Mosaic narra tive with the writings of the geologists, earning some hard names from tho de fenders of the orthodox camp for his sup posed abandonment of their holy cause. Meanwhile, Hie geological batteries made sad breaches in thedefenses of that camp. A late Dean of York valiantly confronted the assailing hosts when assembled in his cathedral city. Singly ho faced his foes like a new Horatius, but speedily fell beneath tho sharp arrows of Sedg wick’s biting eloquence. The last Hy pntian geologist who st rove to restore tho dying faith was Young, tho clerical au thor of the “Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast. ” He, like the Dean, lifted up his warning voice iu a geologi cal section of the British Association for tho Advancement of Science, but in vain. Even a Julian could not have re stored the ancient belief, and Young was not a Julian. Truth proved too much for error; and, though occasionally a theologian nuvv still be found so ignorant of what is going on around Him as to uphold the exploded doctrine, the race has almost become extinct.—Contempo rary Review. Keep Them Bright. Keep your face, your heart and your home bright. Don’t let the cobwebs gather in the corners of the pretty little sitting-room ; or the dust accumulate on the furniture till you can write your name thereon. No matter what is on hand), or how much you have to do, take time at least once a day to tidy the, rooms, and gather fresh flowers. You will never regret it, even though at tho close of your life you may not possess quite so much of the world’s goods as- some of your neighbors. It is the best plan by far, to enjoy life as it comes, and this you can never do, in a sloven or disordered home. Would you keep your husband from evil associations, and your children from wayward paths? li •member there is nothing in this world so attractive to a man as a pleasant home, and a smiling face therein ; and ns for the little feet, they will not be apt to wander far, so long as your face beams with the lovp and solicitude that your heart bears them. A wife, or a mother is a queen, al ways. Not of vast domains, to be sure, and not of society, but of the most sa cred spot on earth to every human heart, of home. You never thought of it per haps, but it is true, and it is indeed true also, that there is no more pitiable sight than one of these “ queens” who do not, either from want of judgment, or lack of will, govern her subjects aright. Did you ever see a truly happy family, without a loving, watchful and affection ate wife and mother, at its head ? The father may be sour, hard, or cross grained, but if the mother is all right, there is sure to be happiness in that family.— Farming World. Why American floods Are Preferred. The growing reputation of American manufactures in the markets of the world has alarmed competitors abroad. Whatever Americans undertake, whether it be machine tools, cutlery, silks, flour, cotton cloth, or any other merchandise, they make, their brands the leading ones, selling for the most money, ami universally sought after. The reasons for this are plain. It is not on account of the better and more direct processes employed; it is not by discarding work shop traditions and old time methods; it is not by such adventatious aids that we have achieved so great an eminence that our trade marks are counterfeited and foreign goods are represented as of American make. It is because our manufactures have found that mercan tile honesty is the only policy, and that when they attempt to adulterate or lower the Standard the criticism of competitors exposes them at once. American machine tools of first class makers are not cut in weight or in work manship. It is a race to see who shall discover a weak part that can be made stronger, or a detail exposed to wear that can be made more durable. The same is true of cotton goods and siIKH. The senseless weighting of both with adulterants of one kind or another is not practiced here, for experience teaches our people that the best is the cheapest. —MecAanicaf Engineer. The Hosting Reporter. Once a Chicago editor sent a wild and untutored sou of the West, who wore his hair short and chewed plug tobacco, to an Eastern city to report a big horse race. Before tho reporter went away the editor told him to look sharp when he got to Hie horse race, because there would be a lot of awfully smart reporters there from New York and Bdston, and it would bo great sport for them to “scoop” friendless and inexperienced young men from the West. So the re porter said ho would try to keep up with the procession, and wont away. When he got to the horse race he mot a great miuiy other reporters, one of whom mis from Boston. This reporter was very cultured, but ho didn’t know a scalping boot from an overhead-check, and that is really the kind of culture that a man needs when he is writing about a horse race. The Boston reporter was very kind to the Chicago reporter and told him what a great city Boston was, and how smart a young man hail to be before he could become a reporter there, and the Chicago reporter took another chew of plug tobacco and winked to himself. The Boston reporter asked the Chicago reporter if he had read Emer son’s works, and the Chicago reporter said he hadn’t—he had seen “ Pinafore.” Thon the Boston reporter said: “ Really, you astonish me,” and went away to drink some Deep Rock water and smoke a cigarette. Then the Chi cago reporter laughed heartily, and said iu the reckless Wabash avenue way: “ I wonder if that duck thinks I am a sucker that he can piny on the end of a string. I should twitter that he will got left if he does.” So he hunted up three ot her reporters and said to them: “ Let's paralyze the gawk from Chicago.’ The other reporters were willing, and so they all wrote very long accounts of the races, going right from tho truck to the telegraph ollico, but the Boston reiiortei he went to his hotel and had supper, and then he went, to his room, telling the clerk to send up a mess nger boy about midnight. When the boy came the Boston reporter gave him a long dispatch, but. when it reached tho tele graph office there was so much other matter ahead of it that the wires were blockaded until four o’clock iu tho morn ing, and by that time it was too late to get a dispatch to Boston in time for the paper.— Chicago Tribune. Belshazzar ami His Brother Bill. Belshazzar Smith had a very bad and very dangerous habit of walking in his sleep His family feared Hint during one of his somnambulistic saunterings ho would charge out of the window and kill himself, so they persuaded him to sleep with his little brother William, and to tie one end of a rope around his body, and the other around little Wil liam. The very first night after this arrange ment was made, Belshazzar dreamed that a burglar was pursuing him with a dagger. So ho crept over to William’s side of the bed, stepped over William’s slumbering form, jumped out on tho floor, and slid under the bed. Ho stayed thoron while, and then his night mare having changed, ho emerged upon tho other side of the bed, and got under the cover in his old place. The rope, it will be observed, was be neath Iho bed; and it was pulled taut, too. Early in the morning, Belshazzar, about half awake, scrougt d over against William. To his surprise, the move ment jerked William clear out of bed. Belshazzar leaped out to ascertain tho cause of tho phenomenon, and at the same time his brother disappeared under the bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake, was scared, and lie dived beneath the bed stead; as he did so, he heard William skirmishing across the blankets above his head. Once more he rushed out, just, in time to see William glide over the other side. Belshazzar just then be came sufficiently conscious to feel the rope pulling ou him. He comprehended tho situation at once, and disengaged himself. Perhaps little William was not mad.’ He was iu the hospital, undergoing re pairs, for about three weeks, and when he. came out he had a strange desire to sleep alone. Belshazzar anchors himself to an anvil now. — Argonaut. The Discipline of Ilrnilgcry. A “ liberal education ” is a capital thing, and tho thousands of young men who aro now honored with the title of A. B. are to bo congratulated upon the good fortune that has permitted thorn to acquire the mental discipline -resulting from a four years’ course of academic study. But these young men must not make the mistake of supposing that this discipline is an all-sufficient preparation for the higher callings of life. That is, the young men who purpose to enter ! any of the branches of professional life, I f<p ; instance, must not imagine that the i fact of their having a college education ; will permit them to leap to the top rung iof tho ladder at once. The discipline they have is valuable, but chiefly s<> as the basis for tho acquirement of practical knowledge, without which success is im possible. By practical knowledge we moan acquaintance with the miuutiie or I little details that go to make up all oc cupations. Such knowledge a college I education cannot give and is uot intended ito give. It is only to Jie acquired by patient application. The discipline of the college curriculum must be supple mented by another kind of discipline, namely, the discipline of drudgery. No one, however largely endowed with mental power, can be exempted from the necessity of acquiring thfe discipline. . It is fur more essential to success than the discipline furnished by a college I course.— New Haven Palladium. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Space. i mo. 3 mosh mon I >*r. < 'lie iiic’i, f .5 (in 1 i' 7 50 FiO 00 Two inct.OM, 3,5 7 s(i; .0 00 15 00 Three i rheg, 500 10 0( 'l2 M 20 00 Four inchew, 6oi • 12 ■'»<i 15 «< 25 00 Fourth 'ol mn, 75- 15 0: 2<i 00 30 00 Half coiuuin. li hi 2ooo| 40 or 6JOO column, ‘ 15 0"; .’.OOu 00 o< I (Hi (;0 tells due alter fl st. insertion.. Transient dvertiseinents (strictly in ad vance) il per inch for the first insertion; 50 t ents per inch for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 cents per line. Announcements $5 each. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertise ments. NO. 39. Tho Native Michigander. The native Michigander is a good fel low at heart, but he has his eccentrici ties. ‘ ‘ Yes, I struck this State over fifty years ago, ” ho said to me the other even ing, as ho hunted in his hind pocket for his plug tobacco. “I’ve heard the wolves howl, the b’ars roar, and the pan thers scream.” “Youhave, eh?” “You bet I have? .Yes, sir, and I’ve lived all winter on acorns, slept in sum mer in a tree top, and walked forty-two miles through the woods to prayer-meet ing.” ‘ ‘ Then you must be pious ? “Pious? Dum my old hide to bally hack and gosh all fish-hooks to thunder, but I ray tlier reckon I am. Pious ? Why, how iu thunder and blazes and tea-ket tles could I have borne up if I hadn’t been pious! Say, did you ever live in the woods forty miles from the nearest human hyena, black or white ?” “Never.” “Did you ever have to go barefoot in snow four feet deep ?” “No.” “ Ever shake with the ager right along for 284 days, Sundays included?” “ No.” ‘ 1 Dod rot your pampered counten ance, of course you never did! What did you ever do towards making Michi gan the great and glorious State she now is?” “Well, I’ve run a lawn-mower.” “ Run a thunder to blazes I How many acres of forest do you ’spose I’ve cut down ? ’ “ Two.” “Two! Why, you onery hyena, my old woman has slashed down over forty herself, and she’s left-handed, at that 1 I calkerlate, sir—l solemnly calkerlate that I’ve cleared off at least 300 hundred acres of the toughest kind of forest. How much toa do you suppose I had in my house the first ten years of our pio neer life ?” “ Twenty-five chests. ” “Twenty-five li—Us I” he roared as he hunted for more plug, “we had just two drawings and no more !” “Couldn’t you get trusted at the cor ner grocery ?” “Get trusted ! Corner grocery ! Why, you infernal young lunatic, wasn’t I lo cated forty miles from the nighest gro cery ! That’s what I’ve been telling you all along. None of you spiled children of luxury kin have any idea of how we had to get along in them old days.” “I presume uot.” “ One winter when tho old woman wa* sick I had nothing to feed her but salt coon and corn-dodgers.” “ Oyster soup would have been nice.” “ Oyster thunder I Don’t I keep tell ing you that 1 was fifty miles in the wood ?” “Yes, but whv didn’t you get out ?** “Git out? What fur?” “ Why, you might got out and lived on your mother-in-law and had a trot ting horse, a plug hat, a diamond pin and high Jiving. You were very foolish to stay in the woods, where they had no ward caucuses, or military parades, or circus processions, or ginger beer, or ba nana puddings.” Wo generally cud here. The old na tive chokes and gasps and jumps up and down and kicks liis hat into the street hnd goes away saying : “Them durned pampered idiots of luxury wouldn’t keer two cents if the hull State was growed up to jack-pines so thick that a rabbit couldn’t squeeze through 1” But next night ho comes again to wrestle me for the championship.— lU. Quad. Milkin’ Kid (llovcs. The Troy (N. Y.) Times given a de scription of glove manufacture in a town near Troy as follows : In this fjetory nearly all the stock used is imported from France. The skins on arriving at the factory are first put through a process of “shaving,” which is done with a broad chisel, and alt the imperfect parts of the leather are cut off. The skins aro then taken to the table cutting-room, where thirty cutters aro employed in cutting the skins into oblong pieces, after which they are sent to-the “slitting” room, where the fin gers are cut and the gloves are ready for the sewing-machines. Thence we fol low them to the making room, where ninety steam sewing-machines, run by women, are kept busy stitching the seams, and twenty other women are en gaged working button-holes and putting on buttons. The gloves are now ready for the “laying off” room, where a number of long-hollow forms, like out stretched hands, are stood upright from a table. If one were in need of a good warm shake of the hand, he could be accommodated hero, for each of these hollow forms is filled with steam, and gives the gloves that peculiar shape they have before being worn. Another room is the “sorting-room” where the vari ous colors and sizes nre fitted for the market. In the stretching process is a peculiar sewing-machine which does tho beautiful overstitching of the seams. In this factory over 200 hands are employed and about seventy-five dozen pairs of gloves made daily. The glove cutters average from $75 to S9O per month in wages, and the makers (women) from S3O to $lO per month. A beautiful glove is now being made called the mosquetaire, from imported Inocha skins, but dressed in the village, which is better than any imported glove, and the day seems to be coming when American gloves will be known as superior to all other makes. The skins used will cut on average about two pairs of gloves. New York claims 75,000 self-support ing women.