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Newspaper Page TextIS NORTH GEORGIA TIMES C. N. KING, ! Proprietors. S- B. CARTER,) KEY. DR. TALMAGE. rHE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. Subject: “Shall America be Reserved for Americans!” Text: "And hath made of one bloo:l all nations.-'— Acts xviL, 26. botomy That is, it tor some reason general phle¬ were ordered, and standing in Scotch¬ a row were an American, an Englishman, a Ger¬ man and an Irishman, a Frenchman, Spaniard, a man, Italian, a Norvreigan, Russian an Icelander, and representatives a an a of all other nationalititie3 bared their right arm and a lancet were struck into it, the blood let out would have the same characteristics, for it would bo red,complex, fibrine, globuline, chlorine and containing sulphuric acid, potassium,phosphate of mag¬ nesia and so on, and Harvey and Sir Astlav and Cooper Brown-Sequard and Richardson all and scientific Zimmerman doctors, and the eclectic, allopathic, would homeopathic, with Paul hydropathic standing and Mars Hili, his'pulpit agree ridge ot as, limestone on a rock titty feet hi gh and and among the proudest people and most exclusive undemocratic ot the earth, he crashed into all their prejudices by declaring in the words of my text that God had made "of one blood all nations.” The countenance of the five races of the human family may be different as a result of climate or educa¬ tion projecting or habits, and the Malay the Caucasian will have the the upper jaw, and oval face aud small moutb.and the Ethiopian the retreating forehead and large lip, and the Mongolion the Indian flat face the of copper-colored olive hue. and the American com¬ plexion, but the blood is the same and indi¬ cates that they all had one origin and that Adam and Evo were their ancestor and an¬ cestress. I think God built this American continent and organized this United States Republic to demonstrate the stupendous idea of the text. A man in Persia will always remain a Persian, a man in Switzerland will always remain a Swiss, a man in Austria will always foreign natioualties remain an Austrian, but all ica coming to Amer¬ were intended to ' be Americans This land us the chemical laboratory where foreign bloods are to be inextricably mixed up and race prejudices this and race antipathies by are which to perish, and kill sermon is an hard ax X hope to them. It is not for^ me though to preach such a sermon, because, this al¬ my ancestors came to country about two hundred and Wales fifty years ago, some of them came from and some from Scotland and some from Holland and some from other lands, and I am a mixture of so mauy nationalities that I feel at home with people from under Bvery sky and have a right to call them blood relations. There are mad¬ caps and patriotic lunatics in this country who are ever and anon crying out: “Amer¬ ica for Amerioans.” Down with the Ger¬ mans I Down with the Irish I Dowh with the Jews! Down with the Chinese! are in some directions the popular cries, all of which vociferations X would drown out by the full organ of my text, while I pull put, the stops and put my foot on the and pedal that will open the loudest pipes, run itiy fingers over all the four banks of ivory keys, playing the chant: “God hath made o£ one blood all nations." There are not five men iu this audience, nor five men in any audience to-day in America except it be on an Indian reserva¬ tion, who were not descended from foreigners if you go farenough back. The only native Americans are the Modocs, the Shawnwas the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chicka saws, the Semino'es and such like, if the principle America only for Americans be carried out, then you and I have no right to be here and we had better charter all the steamers and clippers and men-of-war and yachts and sloops and get out ot this country as quick as possible. The Pilgrim Fathers were all immigrants, the Huguenots all im¬ migrants. The cradle of most every one of our families was rocked oti the bank of the Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon or the Seine or the Tiber. Had tbe watchword “America for Americans” been an early and successful cry. where now stand onr cities would have stood Indian wigwams, and canoes instead of steamers would have tracked the Hudson and the Connecticut; and instead of the Mississippi being the main artery of the continent, it would have bean only a trough for deer and antelope and wild pigeons to drink out of. What makes the cry o' “America for Americans” the more absurd and the more inhuman is that some in this country who themselves arrived here in their boyhood or arrived here only one or two generations back are foreign joining in despotisms the cry. Escaped from “Shut the themselves they say: door of escape for others.” Getting them¬ selves on our shores in a life boat from the shipwreck saying: Haul the boat on the beach and let the rest of the passengers go to the bottom! Men who have yet on them a Scotch or German or English or Irish brogue crying out, America, for Americans: What if the native inhabitants of Heaven, I mean the angels, the cherubim, the seraphim born there, should stand in the gats and when they see us coming up at the last should say: “Go back! Heaven for the Heavoniaus!” Of course we do well not to allow foreign nations to make this country a convict colony. We would have a wall built as high as heaven and as deep as hell against foreign thieves, pickpockets and anarchists. \\ e would not let them wipe their feet on the mat of the outside door of Castle Garden. If England or Russia or Germany or France send here their desperadoes would to get these clear of them. we have des eradoes sent back in chains the p.acas where they came from. Wo will not have America become tb„ dumping place build for foreign wall vagabond¬ the ism. But you up a at Narrows before New York harbor, or at the Golden Gate before San Francisco, and forbid the coming of the industrious and hard working and honest populations of other lands who want to breathe the air of our free institution? and get op¬ portunity for better livelihood, and it is only a question of time when God will tumble that wall flat on our own heads with the red hot thunder¬ bolts of His omnipotent indignation. You area father and you have five children. Toe panor is tue best room in your house. Your sou “Now. Philip John, says to the live other in the four small chil¬ dren: you room in the end of the hall and stay there ; George, you live in the garret and Btay there; Mary, Fannie, you live live in in the the cellar and stay there; you kitchen ana stay there. I. Philip, will take the par¬ lor. It suits me exactly. I like the picture? on the wall. I like the lambrequins at the windows. I like the Axminster on the floor. Now, I, Philip, propose to occupy this parlor and 1 command you to stay out The parlor only of this for Philippians. ” You, the father, hear arrangement and what will you do? You will get red in the face and say: “John, come out of that small room at the end of the hall; George, come down out of the garret; Mary, come up from the cellar; Fannie, come out of the kitchen, and go into the parlor or anywhere you choose: and, Philip, for your I greediness for and unbrotherly behavior, dark put you two hours in the closet under tbe itairs.” God is the Father of the human race. He has at least five sons, a North SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1889. American, a Sousa American, a European, an Asiatic and an African. The North American sniffs the breeze and he savs to his tour brothers and sisters: •M.et the South American stay in South America, let the Europ an stay in Europs,!et the Asiatiestay 111 Asia, let the African stay in Africa; but America is for me. 1 think it is the parlor of the who.e earth. I like its carpets of grass and its upholstery ot the front window, r.anielv the American sunrise, na the upholstery of the back window, namely the American sunset. Now X want you all to stay out and keep to your places.” I am sure the Father of the whole human race would hear of it and chastisement would come, and, whether by earthquake or flood or drought or heaven darkening swarms of locust aud grasshopper or destroying angel ot pestilence, God would rebuke our seiflsih ness as a nation and say to the four winds of heaven: “This world is my house and the North American is no more my child than is the South American and the European and the Asiatic and the African. And l built this world for AU the children, and the parlor is theirs and all is theirs.” For, let me say, whether we will or not, the population There of other harbors lands will come iiere. are ail the way from Baffin's Bay to Galveston, and if you shut fifty gates there will bo other gates un guarded. And if you forbid for eigners from coming on the steamers they will take sailing vessels. And if you forbid them coming on sailing vessels they will come in boats. And if you will not let them coins in boats they wili coma on rafts. Aud if you will not al low- wharfave to the raft they will leave it outside Sa l ly liooi aud swim for free America. Stop them? Von might as well pas3 a law forbidding a swarm of summer bees from lighting on the clover top, or pass a law forbidding the tides of the Atlantic to rise when the moon puts under it silver grap pling hooks, or a law that the noonday sun should not irradiate the atmosphere. They have come. They are coming now. They will coma. And if X had a voice loud enough to bo beard across the seas J wouid put it to tin# utmost tension anil cry: Let them come* You stingy, selfish,shriveled up, blasted souls who sit before your silver dinner plate piled up with breast of roast Turkey incarnadined with cranberry, cramming your fork full and your mouth full and down the superabundance till your digestive organs are terrorized, let the millions of your tellow-men have at least the wishing bone. Rut some of this cry. America for Ameri- _ cam. may arise from an honest fear lest this land-be overcrowded. Such persons bad better rak» the Northern Pacific or union Pacific or Southern Pacific or Atlantic and Char lotto air line or Texas and Santa he, and go a long journey and And out that nc more than a tenth part of this continent ■ fully cultivated. It a man with a hundred acres of farm land should put ail his cultiva tion Oil one acre he would be cultivating a larger ratio of his farm than our na tion is now occupying of the national farm. Pour the whole human race, Europe, Asia, Africa and all the islands of the sea, into Amer.ca and there would be room to spare. All the Rocky Mountain barrennesses and all the other American deserts are to be fer tilized, and as bait La^e City and much ol Utah ones yielded not a blade of grass, now by artificial irrigation havs become gardens. so a lar^o part of this now is too poor to even „ a mullein stalk or a Canada tmsule, Itliiidis prairie wave with wheat or like n Wisconsin farm rustle with corn tassels. Beside that, after perhaps a century or two more, when this continent 13 quite well occupied, the tides of, 1 ™ migration , will turn the other way. Polities and governmental affairs be ing corrected on the other sffie of the waters. Irelaiul under different regulation turned into a garden will invite bacx another generation of Irishmen, and the wide wastes ol Russia brought from under despotism will with her own green fields ln yit< back another generation of Russians. Ana there will be hundreds of thousands of Americans every year settling on the other continents. And after a number of cen turies, all the earth full and crowded, what , TVgvii Sfl. ft,of- rSsTsySSsi timo ontift niVht n «s a“p It^and puttffig^dTpanther tooth in P m? U ^ thma God is „oin, to mi fill this laud with a race ot people Jo per cant, superior to any thing the world lias ever seen. Inter marriage of families and intermarriage of outside nations is depressing and crippling. Marriage of one s own nationality and with anoffier style of nationality is a mighty gain. What makes die bcotcu-Insh second to no ffioorgr'r^r'urto"^ and court bench to the front rank in jqris prudence and merchandise and art? Because than nothing Scotchman under heaven and can Irishman be more unlike a an and th) descendants of these two conjoined nation alities, unless rum flings them, go right to the tio top in everything. All nationalities coming all the to while this land affianced, the opposites will be and French and German will unite and that will stop all the quarrel between them, and one child they will call Alsace and the other Lorraine, Aud hot-blooded Spaniard will unite with cool-blooded Rolander and romsntie Italian with -matoer o" fact Norwegian, and a hundred and fifty years from now the race in occupying purity of this land will be liquidity in stature gracefulness complexion, of in in dome like of eye, in poise, brow, ahead in taste, in intelligence and in morals so far of anything now known on either side the seas that this last quarter of the nineteenth century will seem to them like the Dark Ages. Oh. then hqw they will legislate aud bargain and pray and preach and govern! This i? the land where by the mingling of raee3 the race prejudice is to get its death blow. How Heaven feels about it we may conclude from the fact that Christ, the Jew, and descended from a Jewess, uevert.ieles? provided a religion for all races, and that Paul, though a Jaw, be¬ came the chief apostie of the Geutiie3, and that recently God has allowed to burst iu splendor upon the attention ot the world Hirsch, the Jew, who after giving ten million dollars to Christiau churches and hospitals, has called a committee of nations and fur¬ nished them with torty million dollars for schools to elevate his raca in France and Ger¬ many and Russia to higher intelligence and abolish, as he says, the prejudices against their race, these fifty million dollars not given iu a last will and testament and at a time when a man must leave bis money anyhow, of age and but in by good donation health, at utterly fifty-five eclipsing years all benevolence since the world was created. I must confess there was a time wheu I entertained race prejudice, but thank? to God, that prejudice has gone, and if I sat in church aud on one side of me there was a black man and on the otner side of me wa? an Indian and before me was a Chinaman and behind me a Turk, I would be as happy a? I am now standing ip the presence of this brilliant audieuce.and 1 am as happy now as 1 can be and live. The sooner we get this corpse of race prejudice buried, the healthier will be our American atmosphere. Let each one fetch a spade and let us dig its grave clear on down deeper and deeper till we get as far down as the center of the earth and half way to China, but no further lest it poison those living on the other side the earth. Then into flfl? grave let flown the aecursej carcass ot things race prejudice and throw on it all the mean that have ever been said and written between Jew and Gentile, between Turk mid Russian, between English and French, between Mongolian and anti Mongolian, between black and white and put up over that grave for tombstone some scorched and jagged chunk ot scoriae spit nu t bv some volcanic eruption and chisel on it for epitaph: “.Here lies the carcass of one who cursed the world Aged, near six thousand years. Departed this life for the perdition from whence it came. No peace to ashes!” Now, in view of this subject, I have two point foreigners blank words to utter, one suggesting what ought to do for us, and the other what we ought to do for foreigners, First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apologetic air and realize you have as much right as any man, who was not only himself born here but his father and his grandfather nnd great-grandfather before him. Ara you the Revolutionary an Englishman! Though during war your fathers treated ( >ur fathers roughly. England has more than atoned for that by giving to this coun¬ try at least two denominations of Chris tians, the Churea ot England and the Methodist Church. Witness the magnificent liturgy of the one and the Wesleyan hallelu jahs of the other. And who shall ever pay England for Woodsworth what Shakespeare aud John Milton and and a thousand other authors have done for America? Arj you a Scotchman? Thanks for lohn Knox’s Presbyterianism: the bal anca wheel of all other denominations, And how shall Americans ever pay .your na tivs laud for what Thomas Chalmers and Macintosh and Robert Burns and Christo pber North and Robert McCheyne and Caudlish aud Guthrie have done for Americans! Are you a Frenchman? We cannot forget your Lafayette, who in the most desperate New York time surrendered of our American and revolu tiou, our armies flying Brandy in wine retreat, and Monmouth espoused our and cause Torktown and at put tion. all America under eternal the obliga And we cannot forget coming to t:ut rescue of our .fathers Rochambeau and his French fleet with six thousand armed men. Are yon a German? We have not forgottou the eleven wounds through which your Baron De Kaio poured out his life blood B t the hsad of the Maryland and Delaware troops in the disastrous battle at Camden, and after we have named our streets and our cities a nrl counties after him we have not paid a tithe of what sacrifice. we owe Germany for his Martin valor and self And what about Luther, the giant German who made way for liberty for lands ’ religious all and ages ? Are £ , 1 How cau we forget bones your rilliant Count Pulaski, whose were ) a j(j in Savannah River after a mortal woan d gotten while in the JtIrrlU)3 of ona of t i, e fiercest cavalry char ft of t he American revolution? But witll no tima to particularize X say: ‘'All hall to the man anil WO man of other lands w ho coma here with honest purpose!" Re J0uil2a all obligation American to foreign allegiance. despots. Gat Take the oath of out ^ r naturalization papers. Don’t talk fact our institutions, for the ^at you came herd aud stay shows that you like our 3 better than any other. It don’t like them there are steamers going out of our ports almost every should day, detained and the tare j sc b oa p and,lest you be e #* Qr rin<r l bid van-^ffdod-bv now. But if you like it here, then 1 charge „ oa at t fi a ballot box, in legislative be mill, j n churches and everywhere Jut an j out Americans. Do not try to e8tab i iatl . bare the loose foreign Sab t )a tbs or transcendentalism spun into a re ligion 0 f musu au d moonshine, of or foreign thiev¬ libertinism or that condensation all ^ scoundrelism, lust, murder and perdi tio whio |, in Russia is called Nihilism and - m j,' ran( . e ca jj e il Communism and in America , a u 0 d Anarchism. Unite with us in making t,y the grace of God the fifteen million square a j- les America on both sides virtue the Isthmus f p anama th 0 paradise 1 of and re ‘lay c other word suggests what By Amerioans all possi t do for foreigners. Dio SMrspq; in oans e^pialn to tiidin oin institutions* SSSSSa? f^nfted ^Tabouf SSH of they may have been oppressed there, in t ; iac native land there are sacred places, they ca buis or mansions around whose doors p[ £ a yed, » ! and perhaps | somewhere there is a ^ t wh c h they would like, when life’s oils are over> to be let down, for it is motlle; .’ s grave, s ’ aud it would be like f in ’ a ain int0 the lovin2 arm! hat fir3t held them. and azainsl tfle boso.u that first pillowed them. My. t ll ' T 0 jy *i own a ma “ scendad "W® , a to . have Il l regard for the place cradle was rqc.ced. Don t mock i f h3lr orq -. ua qr ta l ir st un,b S’ a p at hardest ., . of the ajl to learh. namely that they I EnsUs'f EngUsh language. well I warrant could talk 1 *?***, Scandinavian. as Treat them as yon in America as >i >u wou ' d Uk ? to b ® t rfca “ l l£ ,^r hood for h ?, yourself a9St P^oo'P or , 1 your ® 3 . ar » family a you ‘Tfi had 1 .' [no 'ff, d V?. d ? r the shadow of Causeway, Jungfrau, ar •*' bB ? r Giants or th9 Bonamian Forest, or the Fran conlan Jura. If they get homesick, as some of them are, suggest to them that God is as near to help them hsre as He was near them before they crossed the Atla!itie,and that the soul’s final flight is less than a second whether from the beach ot the Caspian Sea or the banks ot Lake Erie. Evangelize their adults through the churches aud and their let home chil¬ dren througn the schools missions ana tract societies and the Bible translated in all the languages of these for¬ eign people have full swing. Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead of people being thoroughly an element of weakness the foreign mightiest defence evangelized all will world. be The our Congress United against the of the States recaatly ordered built new forts all up and down onr Ameri¬ can coasts, and a new navy is about to be projected. dred million But do.lars let me say that three hun¬ fense will expended in coa3t foreign de¬ not be so mighty as a vast imputation Ireds of thousands living in America. Germans With hun- New o.‘ in York, Germany would as soon think of bombshellmg Berlin as attacking ns. With Hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen in New York, France would as soon think of firing Oil Paris. With hundreds of thousands of Englishmen in New York, England would as soon think of destroying London. The mightiest defence against Euro¬ pean reaching nations all and is ■ down a wall the American of Europeans uo con¬ tinent, a wall of heads and hearts conse¬ crated to free government. A bulwark of foreign humanity heaved up all along onr shore-s, re-enforced by the Atlantio Ocean, armed as it is with temptests and Oarihbedn whirlwind? and giant billows ready to fling mountains from their catapaiglt, we need as a nation fear no one in the universe hut God, and if found in His service we need not feai Him. A® si* hundred million people will yet sit down at onr national tahle, let God preside. To the Him sheaves be dedicated the metal of our mina3, ot onr harvest fields, the fruits of our orchards, the fabrics of our manufactories, the telescopes of observa¬ tories, the volumes of onr libraries, the songs of our churches, the affections of .our hearts. iu 1 all our lakes become baptismal uxits an 1 all our mountains altars of praise end all our valleys amphitheatres of wor and our country, having become fifty n itions consolidate! into one, may Its every leart throt* bs a pulsation of gratitude to -"lira who made “of one blood all nations” and ransomed that blood by the payment of the last drop of His own. -PENALTY OF THE WHEEL. The wheel symbolized not the sun only but also the lightning. It was used as a menus of kindling a fire by turning island it rapidly about on an axle. Iu . the of Mull, till the introduction ot lucifer matches, this method of kin a fire was customary. Cousider ing wheel, the sucreduess of the symbol of the it is rendered most probable that victims to the sun were offered by en spokes twining their limbs nbout the nine nud then erecting the wheel on a long polo, so as to expose the victim’s face to the sky. We find this method of execution of criminals in Europe, and it is probably like hanging,a survival of a sacrifice to the sun. The Romans knew of fastening a criminal round the tire of a wheel ami then rolling it. This was ■the inltsjare in currus of Livy, but among the German nations the otiier was the form of execution. Gallonious, in his book of martyrdoms of the saints, gives the several wheel, plates representing the torture of and in his text quotes his au¬ thorities. In the first a man bound to a wheel is rolled down a hill; in the next we have the man bound to the wheel, with limbs , twisted in and out from tlw spokes, set up in the sun; in the third, a martyr bound about a wheel is turned over flames aud another over spikes, 'that the Greeks and Romans did Rvmie times employ the mode of twining the s mbs among the spokes and exposing to -certain. & lingering ' In death in the sun is almost one of the doubtful epis tfes of Fhalaris it is particularized, but ijfewas the martyrs not common, which mention and those it acts also of are ndt genuine. It is, however, spoken of by Gregory, of Tours, iu the sixth ceu tury. In 1310 the Parliament of Tou¬ louse ordered the execution of a rob¬ ber captaiu by the wheel, and Francis I., in 1535, decreed death on the wheel to rail highwaymen. * Iu 1320, Frederic. Count of Isonburg, the murderer of Engelbert, Bishop of Cologne, lipibs was thus executed, but liis were btoken before he was affixed to the wheel. This was a modification, » concession to humanity, that came in with Christianity. Originally the vio . tims were allowed to linger for many ASNys bn their wheels, bound in the most torturing contortions, and deprived of food and water. But even when their limbs were broken they lived for many hours. A still further concession to humanity when came the iu criminals the seventeenth beaten cen¬ tury, tho chest aud neck with were iron on an l ar. But this concession wns notgeucral, and in the sentence of the Judges, order was given whether the execution was to take place If from “from below, below” signified or “from that above.’’ that the ex tfemitios were to be struck with tho bar, and only tho final blow to bo d alt on the breast. Curtins, a French writer of the sixteenth century, describes the penalty of tho wheel. “It is a mode oi death more like that of the cross than of the gallows. In the first place the limbs are bound to four crossbeams, then are broken with an iron bar; after that the shattered body is taken off tho cross and fastened to a wheel which is set upright, so that, still living and feeling, die still writhing, the victim may slowly in the full glare of the sun, lying last on his the back, face tho upward.” wheel The ease of use of in Ger¬ many was about 1840.— Gentleman’s Magazine. ■Sir Farmers in Denmark. Young men are apprenticed to the best farmers all over the Kingdom for two or three years, under the oversight of the Royal Agricultural Society. They work for good farmers for one year as learners, receiving a small sum beside their board and lodging. At the end ol the year the apprentice is removed to a farm in another part of the Kingdom, and his third year is spent on a still dif¬ ferent farm in a district where a differ¬ ent kind of agriculture is practiced. The society gives each apprentice a number of agricultural books at the outset, which become his property upoq the completion of the tliree years. Th* apprentices report to the sooiety at sta¬ ted intervals, and from these reports and other record? where they have worked, the sooiety judges of accordingly. the progress and grants diplomas Th« young men thus get a thorough knowl¬ edge of all kinds of practical farming, but at hard they labor have from to work for it, as they are 4 a. m. till 7 p. m., exoept the meal hours. Tbe society has started thesystpm of apprenticing young men in the beet diaries for three months instead of threo years. Nearly 1,000 youths ceived have diplomas. thus beon educated and re¬ The system has far outgrown the sooietie’s control, and now nearly every large farm and diary has several apprentices accepted and trained by private agreement. A iecidedlv novel plan of shop-lift¬ ing has been brought to light in tho case of Mary Leonard and Annie Riley in Philadelphia. into Their lift scheme was to go a store and and oonceal aq artiole. Then to leave the building and enter another store, where they would purchase artiole which something they and ask to have the had itolen in the first store wrapped up with the purchase and the bundle kept until they should send for it. The next day they would send for their plunder. The detectives suspected could the women for a long time, but in no way fasten a case upon them, as nothing was ever found in their possession. Vol. IX. New Series. NO. 8. PEONS OF MEXICO. Queer Customs Among the De¬ scendants of the Aztecs. Sleeping In Trees and Making Obeisance to the Sun. “Among the most curious people of this continent,” remarked John Oleudroff to a knot of three or four friends at the Occidental hotel, “are the native peons of Mexico, and when you look at the female portion of that unaccountable race you get a curious representation that makes you pause with wonder. “Living on the border of Arizona and Mexico, as I have for nine years past, I have had a good opportunity to see many things that most transient people would pass by unnoticed. The longer I stay tho more I am impressed with the unaccounta¬ ble ways of the descendants of the Aztecs. The society ‘lady’ of the peons, if I may speak of her as such, ha? a way of doing up her back hair that I have never seen duplicated anywhere. , “It is no less than to put a great clay crown on the top of her cranium, in which tho hair is matted, like pigs’ bristles in plaster. This crown reaches up, say eight or nine inches, and looks like a great plaster eone. It serves a double purpose. Not only is it worn at evening parties, but throughout the day. Indeed, the primary object of the mud cone was to preserve the head from the intense heat of the southern sun. Now, however, it is worn at evening balls, and no ‘lady’ think? herself re¬ cherche and in positively good form un less she has her novel crown on. The hair is matted and twisted and coiled all around in it, and it may be depended on that it cannot come loose and come tum¬ bling down and cause her any embarrass¬ ment in company. The longer a cone is worn the harder it gets, aud when it has reached the age of a mouth, ray, it is as hard as a brickbat, aud would have to be smashed to pieces with a sledge if there were no other way discovered. This, however, happily i? the case. “The old Aztecs invented, and the secret has boeu perpetuated in the race, a peculiar solution compounded from wild plants which knocks the plaster topknot to smithereens, It takes some time to do it, however, usually from five to six hours, and during this time the lovely Aztec maiden or matron must soak her head in a big jar of this solution. It is the proper thing for the women to change these cones at least once a month. After that the whitish soil of which it is composed changes to a dull yellow and tho wearer loses caste. And there is caste among the peons as much as there is among any other olassos of people. “These nativo women are fond of necklaces, and you will often sec them going about without nothing on except a necklaco and a mud crown. Others again will have very slight raiment. The men do not wear mud crowns, but they arc often limited in their attire. Their habits are extremely simple in the main, though in some other respects they go oil on wild tangents. “During a larger part of the year you will sec, if you will journey through this region, hammocks slung from all the trees at night time. Indeed, if you were to bo out of a moonlight night,and it was your first experience, you would think the palm and pine trees were bear¬ ing singular fruit. * The native* are all in these hammocks. They are there to escape the tarantulas, centipedes and Mexican scorpions, which are out on the rampage. Let one of these things get into your blankets and he will never be easy until he gets a nip at the occupant. This is why the natives will never sleep on tho ground. Besides, it is cooler and more comfortable in the trees. “The peon,when he rises in tho morn¬ ing makes a queer obeisance to the east. He is saluting the morning sun and does it by first bowing until he has his body at right angles to his legs and horizontal to the earth. In this position ho pauses devoutly for perhaps a quarter of a min¬ ute, and then, raising -his body to its proper position, he abruptly thrusts his right leg, and then his left, forward, another polite bow to Aurora, delivered by an inclination of the head alone, and the business is done. “This salutation is supposed to win him favor with the reigning forces of the heavens and make him ‘solid’ for the day. The women never go through this morning performance. They leave all such thihgs to the men. The children of both sexes quickly catch up the ways ot their elders and thus grow up perpetu- nting all tlio customs of the race.”— San Francisco Examiner. Precious Stones in the United States. During the last decade new stones have come into favor, some neglected ones have regained their popularity, aud still others, such as the amethyst and cameos, have been thrown out entirely. The latter, no matter how finely cut, would not find purchasers now at one fifth of their former value; about ten years ago they were eagerly sought after at from four to twenty times their pres¬ ent prices. Rubies were considered high ten years ago, and a further rise was not looked for, but today they are still higher, a 9 5-1C karat stone having been quoted at $33,000. There is no demand at present for topaz, yet a syndicate of French capitalists has been organized to control the topaz mines of Spain, in the expectation that af¬ ter twenty years of disfavor this gem will again be popular. Coral has felt the change of fashion, for during the last three years the imports have been less than $1000 per annum, and in the last ten years in all $33,956, whereas in the ten years preceding $388,577 worth were imported. The popularity of amber, on the other hand, is increas¬ ing. The imports of amber beads for the ten years 1868 to 1878 amounted to less than $5000, whereas during the last ten years $35,897*worth have been intro¬ duced. Amber amounting to only $47, 000 was imported from 1868 to 1878, but over $350,000 worth from 1878 to 1888. Ten years ago few jewellers carried more than the following stones in stock: Diamond, ruby, sapphire, emerald, gar¬ net and occasionally a topaz, or aquamar¬ ine. The gem and mineralogical collec¬ tions contained a large series of beautiful stones, hard and of rich color, but known here as “fancy stone” and by the French as pierres de fantasie. Since then considerable interest hns centred in these fancy stones, and any leading jewcHer is not only expected to be familiar with,but to keep almost all of them in stock. This chango may be partly referred to the fact that since the Centennial Exhi¬ bition art matters have received more at¬ tention among us than before.— Jewelers’ Weekly. The Best Exercise for Children. Instinctive gymnastics is, from the hygienic point of view, the best adapted - to the regular development of tho child. It is not liable to any of the objections we have brought against gymnastics with apparatus. It cannot deform the body, for it is made up of spontaneous move¬ ments, and conformed to the natural of¬ fice of each limb. It does not localize the work in a particular region of the body, for all the limbs are instinctively invited to take their quota of exercise; and it does not seduce the child into ef¬ forts touching upon the limits of his strength. Instinct also invites him to tho kind of work which is best adapted to his particular apti¬ tudes for resisting fatigue. He has a natural disposition to perform light but frequently recurring acts, quick motions, which put him out of breath, while exercises with apparatus rather exact slow and intense efforts that bring on local fatigue. Now, all observers have noticed the wonderful facility with which a child recovers his breath, and his impatience of local fatigue. Finally, natural exercise, being the satisfaction of a want, is by that very fact a pleas¬ ure; and joy shines in the face of a child who is playing freely.— Popular Science Monthly. Relic of a Famous Battle. A white pine tree was cut recently two miles south of Shade Mills, in Garrett County, near the site of the old Braddock road, and converted into shingles. It was a large tree, and by expert woodsmen estimated to be at least three hundred years old. In cutting it up the saw, going through some tough substance, then supposed to he a knot, attracted attention, and investigation disclosed a bullet embedded within two inches of the heart. The tree at this point was 32 inches in diameter. About one-third of the bullet was sawed away, the remainder weighing at least an ounce, being left ia a corner of tho butt end of a shingle. The ball is supposed to have been shot from a musket by one of Braddock's men during the campaign which culminated in the disaster at Fort Du Quesne. In this event the bullet was embedded in the tree 133 years ago, each year’s growth burying it deeper. It is a most interesting memento of tho ill-starred campaign of 1755.— Baltimore Sun.