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..00 & 8ST Advertiser Published every. Thursday by, D, B. VT?.TflTr,lvr A ~NT. EtiBrfr TIOfJrfCL-ll Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance. SERIES -VOL. VLE-Not 27" CEDARTOWN, GA., AUGUST 5, 1880. NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 34. Drai MhDmftt Kain St jOedartown-Ga., .giLni-i,-' IF YOU WANT THEM PURB AND FRESH. €. G. JANES, ATTORNEY A.T LAW, CEt)ARTOWN,GA. Ir office In the Court House. lebis-iy JOSEPH A. BLANCE, 1 ATT99KT AT LAW, CEDARTOWN, GA. HP First BOWS upStalrs over J. S. Stubbs A CD’s Store.' septss-ij DBS. LIDpMiL m C SURGEONS OFFICE EAST SIDE OF HAIH ST. - ,* CR&tfTOWN, GA • ’Jtn8.»“. 1 W. Cj, ENGLAND, PhystttJm and! Surgeon '*■* } CEDARTOWN, GA. «>- - «■ OFPIOB-oyer J. A. Wynn’s-wtoere He may be found ready to attend calls either day or night. Janir — "BEAK YE OHE ANOTHER’S BORDENS I" Tie Heeded Protection of Our Loied Ones at Net Cost / ’ The People's Mutual Relief Association las “ ilJ K certificates of membership in amounts from $1,000 to $5,000 op strictly healthy persons, male and female. The plans are SAFE, dffiAP AND PERMANENT. Applications for membership will be received by JNO. W. RADLEY, Cedartown, Ga. Partial list of members in and aroupd Cedartown: F. M. Hieht, A. A. Read, John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken, Wm. R. Craig, Geo. H. Leake, J. w r r D w' C ,* H T arri8 ^ J - «•, Crabb < w - H - H - Harris, »- B. Monroe, Dr. W. 6. England, Jno. W. Radley, J. W.Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B. Freeman,-Mrs.Ifificy Powelf, Alex. Dougherty, Mrs. Francis Dougherty, ftr. £. H. Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. ap!5-6m DOWN BT THE BROOK IN THE MEADOW A. J. YOUNG, DEADER IN Rye^ Whisldes, Wine, Gins Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. Corn a l DHJJO .HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon, Cedartown, - - - Ga. at BradfOM & Walker’s :e at the Reece House. -*-B. FfSIIER, Watchmaker & Jeweler. .} CEDARTOWN, GA. Having Just opened out a shop at the store of “ " ispecttutly requests the hen needing work in his Turnee, AJierney at Law. CEDARTOWN, GA. WU1 practice lifthe Superior Courts of Polk, Paulding, Harabon. Floyd and Carroll counties, Special attention, given to collections and real estate business. marll-ly DR. L. S. LEDBETTER, DENTIST, CEDkSTOW:*, - . - - GEORGIA. All DentaJ work performed In the most skill- tol manner. Office over J. & Stubbs * Co.’s. febHMy P. M. SMITH, Attorney at Law and REAL ESTATE AGENT, CEDARTOWN, GA. Particular Attention given to the selling or renting of city property. Buying and selling wild lands a specialty. Eartles owning wild lantaln Georgia would do well tc correspond with me, as I have app lcations for thousands of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl. fa. or other bogus title need apply. Look up your beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per centVcnmmlssiOQ on sales. For locating and ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For searching records for owners, 5o cents per lot. For ascertaining if land Is claimed or occupied bysquatter. $1 per lor. Always In advance. To insure attention enclose a 3-cent stamp. Parties owning wild lands should look to their interests, as many of these wild lands are being stolen by squatters under a bogus title. All communica tions promptly answered. Satisfaction guar anteed to all honest men. Jan29-ly LIVERY FEED, SALE STABLE! Wright & Johnson Prop’rs. ‘CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. Being SnpiiHed with new Horses, Hew Vehi cles, & v we ace prepared to meet the wants or the public In our Und.' Jans-iy 'JAMES H. PRICE, CEDARTOiyN, GA Keeps onihand and manufactures to order MATTRESSES! My work recommends itself wherever used, * ~'—-—*— “ —-der the most peifer* aaterlal used, no wot JAMBS. H. PRICK andle guaranteed to render the mo9t peifect aattstactlon. Ho flimsy material used, no work slighted. I ask a trial — 1! “-- ■ • - . CALHOUN Livery and Sale Stable. FOSTER & HARLAN, Props., CiLHOUir, GEORGIA* Having lately purchased the above stable and supplied It with good Horses and a splendid Tine of new Vehicles, we are prepared to meet the wants ofthe IkaveJlAg public in our line. Partial wtohlbg vehicles sent to any bf the trains enthe Selma, Rome and Dalton Hillroad or to any otfiBr point, may telegraph us, and have their wants promptly and properly at tended to. FOSTER A HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga. JanWf Mm, CEDARTOWN, GA., —DEALER IN— STOWES TWiWABE, Hardware and Hollow-Ware, OF ALL KINDS. House^Fusnishing Goods A SPECIALTY. Every variety of lob woric in my line neatly done. I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public? and would be pleased to have all my friends and customers “— town. Jfns-ly CEDARTOWN SCHOOL, J. C. HARRIS, Principal. The Spring Term commences the first Mon day In January and wfu continue s» montna Fall Term opens Srd Monday in August and continues months Bates of tuition as cus tomary. The school-room Is convenient and comfort able ; training thorough and discipline Arm. The Principal oners his thanks tor past favors, and confidently aak for a liberal share of patron age In the future. . Beferenoe as to discipline, etc., Is made to toe former patrons of this acheol. nortr-un SOLE AGENT FOB COX, HILL & THOMPSON'S STOj^E mountain whiskies Xxl Cedartown. I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical purposes with perfect safety. t5T Give me a call. Good treatment guaranteed. mrl8-ly N|1W HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS! New Goods and New Prices. A. D. HOGG & CO. MAI ^fllft-V r »‘»SV CEDARTOWN, Georgia, Have just opened a select stock of General t Merchandise in their new store, and waitojaJ thelp friends and the puhlic generally to call and let them Show their gShds knd'prlces. ' Their stock was bought before the recent rise in pricfl|jiM^5lM>y,;^el confident, of having goods at bottom figures. They ha^fe WkfitlMl' Dress Goods, Calicoes, Corsets, new styles; Bleach- ings, Flannel^, .Cassimeres, Kersey#, Kentucky k Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves, Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Vrar Low. Remember the place—last Brift btore on South MAIN Street, west Bide - , '/ .... ? ' nov6-ly =■ - 1 * =gggSB!ggH^te5Bg5BBBgg!» It was down by the brook in the meadow, Where the daisies and buttercups grew. And the wildfires glistened so brightly. When kissed by the new fallen dew ; Where the Bound of the rippling brooklet, As it merrily deneed on its way. A song of joyful welcome aang To me, one bright Summer's day. It was down by the brook in the meadow. One warn when the Sub Shone serene, I peacefully lay on the green, moesy bank. Indulging in youth s Bummer dream. I dreamed of the days that have faded and gone. Those many aweet days of the past; I wondered if life would always be gay, And Bummer forever could lash It waa down by the brook in the meadow— But how very different the scene! Tie winter. The Frost King's oold fingers Have touched the soft aod once so green. In a tight, icy chain the brooklet is bound ; It no longer slugs merrily, oh 1 And the flowers that onoe grew down by the brook How sleep 'neath a coverlet of enow. It was down by the brook in the meadow That an old man, feeble and gray, With bended head went plodding along. And onto himself thm$ did say : “Oh, for those days that have faded and gone. Those many sweet days of the past; But, aiss! I have found, in my travels thro' life. That Summer forever won’t last." Rose Forrester’s Escape. BAKER & HALL, DEALERS IN GENERAL HARDWARE, SUO] Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iron and Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Rakes, Ran a re Forks, Ete. BUGGY WHEELS, SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES, WHEELBARROWS, SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, HINGES, CHAINS, ETC. . We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, and ask a trial in Goods and Prices. We are Strictly in the Hardware Business, and will be prepared to furnish goods in our line as cheap as they can lje 1»ought in any market. Give us a trial bofore going elsewhere. ED. E. BRANNON, Dealer In Staple and Fancy Groceries. Chickens, Eggs And Batter a Specialty. I HAVE ALSO A F I XI ST-OL ASS BAR. In connection with the Store, which is stocked with the finest Liquor* in town. jan8-tf J. P. DUFFEY, MANUFACTURER AND DIALER IK BUGGY AND WAGON HABNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, ft (DtiikerOVOM Stand,) CEDARTOWN, Georgia.. All Work Guaraatoad to fiv* satisfaction. All he uk* is a trial. jaaS-ly . “Everbody envies Rose Forrester.” The pale girl, in gold-colored silk, lifted the broad lids from her clear eyes for a mo ment, as the speaker’s words reached her ear; then she bent over the photographs upon her lap again. She handled the pictureswithan enthusi astic appreciation of their worth, so absorb ed in their examination as to be totally un conscious of the tall, fair man who stood quite Hear, looking down upon her with an apparently suddenly awakened interest. “Belonging to Buch a nice family, an heiress, and so beautiful!” The continued words oi the speaker reached Howard Manley’s ear, but evident ly Rose Forrester did not hear them. Bha turned with a sparkling smile to her hostess, and was still talking with her of the photo graphs when Mr. Clinton brought Howard Manley up for an introduction. As she rose in the full light it revealed that she was very young, scarcely twenty, yet tall of stature, and with a marked re pose of manner. Her beauty was not conspicuous—she was too pale; yet Manley saw how perfect ly ent was every feature, how clear the dark gray eyes, how dark the curling lashes. The lipe shut over little’teeth ai' white as milk, and the contour of the face was a perfect oval. The girl’s natural and spontaneous man ner told that she gave the young man, at first, no unusual attention. Little by little she observed him—the fair hair shadowing the white forehead, the dark blue, penetrating eyes, the unusual grace of figure, the fault less dress. Her manner was so cordial and friendly and unmistakably charming that Manley racked his brains for the chance of a next meeting, but was obliged to abandon it when Miss Forrester was joined by her brother. She left the room, but instantly he thank ed his good fcfftune at the finding of a ruby scarf pin which he recognized as hers. It was easy to decide the ornament too valu' able to be entrusted, to a messenger. I was a presumption which he would man age with ease to call upon and restore it. Rose was not a belle. She had too much depth and passion of nature to ever be a society woman; but she had her admirers, and out of them she chose Manley. She could not tell why, but his looks, words, every act bad a charm for her, and the eloquent blood tinging her cool cheek at his approach told him the story of his power. He was a proud man—he might well have been a happy one—but he often wore an.air of noticeable weariness and depres sion This, in answer to Rose’s gentle in quiries, he attributed to ill health. Spring was opening, with its vivid son- shine, its balmy air, and Rose was very happy. It seemed to her that it was the pleasant influence of the season which made her daily ways so light; the tender colors, sights and sounds surrounding her daily walk with Manley in the park, which made them so enjoyable. Perhaps they helped to make her spirit strong so that she dared say to herself, “I love him!” and say it without reservation or fear; for she knew that it was but a little while since she had first met him, and of his past history and much of his present she knew nothing. No; she feared nothing for herself. To love and be surrounded with tenderness was happiness enough for her; she asked for no more. Yet some instinct or trace of worldly wisdom made her withhold her confidence from her brother, who was her guardian; he knew nothing of the inti macy. From the night she had first met Man- ley at Mrs. Clinton’s party, she never knew any one who knew him intimately. He told her that he kad no living female relatives—no home He evidently had means at command, and procured for her with an ingenuity which was almoa genius, the rarest and most beautiful gilts. Her delighted recep tion of them scened a mutual joy which prevented any possible feeling of obliga tion on her aide In truth foil of passion ate impulses of youth, she was deaf, dumb and blind to aiything but the fullness of the present Her broth* came into the music-room where she sal at the piano, dreamily plsv Ing, one day. “Roae, rill you give me your attention (or a to w r^inuteaf” He Italian open letter in his hand. He years cider than herself, a it man. i propose* for your hand. Ton are aware that it will be a very ad mirable match, are you not i” Rose had a strange, stunned feeling, yet toe bowed faintly. From childhood she had been greatly under her brother’s con trol. “I should like to write him favorably* Rose. Have you any objection!” “I,—I—” She found herself upon her feet shiver ing in the May sunahine. I would have a little time, Edwin.” ‘“Certainly, if you wish,” though his brow slightly clouded. ’“The doctor will not probably look for an. immediate an swer," The next moment Rose had escaped from the room, and was locked in her chamber. During the next . two hours she hardly knew what she was doing! , Bhe found her- sail walking the floor, and wringing her bands. At last she stopped short, with sense of pride. ‘There is no reason—no reason in the world. I dare tell my brother why I will not marry Doctor Wingrove.” Rose Forrester’s Escape.— Doctor Wingrove waa the noblest and gentlest of men, singularly handsome, wealthy, and highly connected, and barely thirty years of age. He had known her since childhood, never made love to her, but now that the offer 'of marriage had conie to her, she realized, somehow, that he Bad always loved ner. itose was conscious of a rackihg pain in her temples, at last. The chamber seemed sliding. Catching up her cloax and hat, and tying a veil of heavy black lace across her face she went out into the street. She soon walaed herself weary, without abating her painful sensation, and, return ing to the street in which her residence was situated, entered the public inclosure tree* and shrubbery which ornamented the square. A fountain bubbled in the centre; the Stone vases of flowers sent a sweet per fume upon the air. So close to her home, she had no timidi ty, and, sinking upon a circular seat sur- romadmg a large tree, she gave herself up to her absorbing thoughts. It was soon dark, yet she had not stir red. In her black dress, in shadow, she was quite unnoticed by two men who cros sed the street from the opposite side and sat down behind her. She would than have risen and glided away quietly, hut that the movement was arrested by Howard Manley's voice. “How soon?” he asked. “Now, my dear brother, I’ll stand the risk no longer. I’ve passed false money enough for you to shut me up for the rest of my life, and I value my liberty, singu- jariy enough,” sneeringly. “Well, well, I am willing enough to go, Fred. Heaven knows that I am as sick of the business as you can be. Coining isn’t all prosperity. In a new country I should feel like another man. But.—” “The heiress?” ‘T am sure of her. But I don't like to urge a hasty marriage. She has an old fox of a brother, who may be inconveniently curious regarding my affairs. If we could wait till the autumn, now, I might enter some respectable business.” “I tell you it won’t do!” Both rose in their excitement, and invol untarily walked away. Plainly under the gaslight, Rose saw Howard Manley and his brother pass under the street. They were coiners. More dead than alive, she crept into the house. But Rose was not a weak girl. Before midnight she had placed Howard’s gifts in a close package and sealed with them a note, briefly stating that she had overheard the conversation in the park. The next morning it was dispatched. As 30on as her brother broached the sub - jeot of Dr. Wingrove’s proposal, she asked to have the latter call upon her. He came, with countenance so high of purpose, with eyes so full of truth, that she involuntarily contrasted Howard’s old, re ticent face with it; but she told Dr. Win- grove all the truth. “Perhaps it was wroBg, but I loved him —loved him purely—and my heart is torn and bleeding. I am wild with a secret pain which I must hide from everybody. If I bad never kuown him—but I cannot imagine that. This terrible experience has changed me; I am not the care-free,happy, trusting girl you knew. I cannot love you; but pity me—be my friend. I must talk to some one, and, oh, there is no one in the world so kind as you. ” “Was Dr. Wingrove piqued by this re ception cf his proposal? No, he was too generous and tender-hearted for that. “Poor child!” he said, in a tone so sooth ing that, for the first time, Rose gave way to a relievng burst of passionate weeping. “What shall I do? What do you think ot me?” she asked ht last ‘We will wait, and I think that I love you ?” he answered quietly. So two kept the secret of Rose’s sorrow more easily than one, and though her heart ■till knew its pangs of grief for a time the summer brought change of scene which was helpful to a spirit really brave find in nocent. Dr. Wingrove joined Rose and her brother at the seashore, to find brightness m the young alri’s eyes again, and to the latter it was sweet to call so kind and noble a man friend. Together they climbed the rocks, drank in the free air, watched the sunsets - and theses. O old they had been congenial, and now thfey seemed more happily so. There is usually a sacredness about first love, and perhaps it is expected of me to record the death ot my heroine of a broken heart, but I must tell-the truth. In the Autumn Rose married Dr. Win grove. She is one of the happineat wives in the world. The first love fell from her like a false blossom, while the second ripen ed into richest fruit. The On Palm Tree. Of the multitudinous species ^of the Palm Family, the products af a few only .have found their way into American and European commerce, the most valued be ing those of the Cocoanut, the Date and the Oil Palma. Of these the appearance of the last is the least familiar to most per sons as unlike the others, it has never hitherto been accurately pictured in scien tific and popular works. In Western Tropical Africa there are vast regions thickly covered with the members of this species, and it is from this torrid region, especially from the River Bonny, that the largest quantities of palm oil find their way into the the American markets. The trade with the natives is carried on chiefly by barter, glass beads of various forms, sizes, and colors being among the principal articles af exchange. The trunk of the tree from which palm oil is obtained is sel dom over thirty feet high,and is surmount ed with a tuft of long pinnate leaves garn ished with prickly petioles. The flowers are dioecious, and borne in dense heads, sometimes two feet long and two or more feet in circumference. In these closely crowded spadices the fruit is so compactly clustered that the bunches bear a strong re semblance to large pine-apples. The inde- vidual fruits are about an inch and a half long, somewhat pear-shaped and when fully ripe of a bright oraijge color. They con sist of an outer soft, pulpy substance from which the best oil is obtained, inside which, forming about one-fourth of the whole, is a very hard, stony shell inclosing the seeds, and yielding when caushed, a dear, limpid product called palm-nut oil. The fruit when sufficiently ripe, are gathered by men, boiled in large earthenware pots by women, and then crushed in mortars. They are next placed in large clay vats filled with water, and women tread out the oil which rises to the surface and is skimmed off. It is then oncejcore boiled to get rid of the water, and packed away in barrels or casks for exportation. It stiil retains the color ing matter of the fruit, which is removed by subsequent processes in numerous factories in Europe, either by bleaching in shallow pans on the surface of hot water or by vari- ious chemical methods of treatment. As each drupe affords only about one-sixteenth of an ounce of pure oil and each tree only three or four pounds, an immense amount of labor is required to procure the product and a vast area of forest is annually destroy ed to supply the demands of commerce, Good palm oil is a fatty substance of the consistency of butter,of a rich orange color, a sweetish taste, and an Oder like that of violets or orris roou Is is now extensively used in the manufacture of candles, soap, and also as an axle grease, chiefly for the wheels of railroad cars. At a temperature of from 75 degrees to 95 degrees F. it melts to a very thin fluid, and the older it is, the greater the heat required to liquify it. By age and exposure it becomes rancid and assumes a whitish tinge. It is per fectly soluble in ether, slightly so in cold alcohol, but readily dissolves in hot alcohol, though on cooling it solidifies. It consists of margerine, oleine, and a solid fat like stearine, which is called palmatine, and constitutes two-thirds of its weight. Palm- oil is used more extensively for the manu facture of candles than for any other pur pose and the process, though somewhat- lengthy, is highly interestingr Having been melted by a jet of steam introduced into the casks, and freed from all impurities, it is mixed with from one-seventh to one- sixth of its weight of sulphuric acid and briskly agitated for about two hours in which steam maintains a temperature of about 350 degrees. The sulphuric acid and the glycerine, which is an ingredient of its component fats, are in this way decom posed and escape partly by subsequent washing. The impure acids are then distil led in copper stills steam-heated to a temp erature of 600 degrees. The dark residue in the boilers is made to yield still more oil by heavy pressure and the black refuse that remains is used for fuel. When cool ed, the distilled fat is broken into cakes eighteen inches long and about an inch and three-quarters thick. These are spread upon squares of cocoa-nut matting and are then piled on top of each other and submit ted to hydraulic pressure at a temperature of seventy-five degrees. The fat obtained may be run at once into candles for the 'European and American markets, but for tropical use, it is again submitted to pres sure at a temperasure of 120 degrees. Violin Making. The question whether violin making is a lost art is answered ih the negative by G. L. Chapin, who has been an enthusiastic student of the subject for thirty years. Nothing relating to music, he says, uas been more fruitful of silly legends, romance and superstition than the violin. Not that the old masters did not produce some grand instruments. But it is a mistake to sup- pose that they worked by a- rule, system or secret, which invariably gave good results; that a violin is excellent simply because it bears the came of Da Salo, Maggini, Amati, Stradivarius, or Guamerius, or that the best productions of these masters can never again be equalled. Stradivarius, for in stance, made more poor than good violins, and made more bad ones than any other maker of the great period. He is said to have turned out 2000 instruments, but only twelve really fine cnes of his make are now known to be in existence. Da Salo and Maggini each made less than 500 instru ments, but only about a dozen of each maker are extant. In a recent work on the subject, Charles Goffrie, after an examina tion of the Cremonas in the collections of Plowden, Gillott, Villaume, Bojour, and others, says that he “found that they were decidedly hard in tone, resembling new in struments.” And Prof. Le Brun, who played in the same concerts with Paganini, and had ih his hands nearly all the noted Cremonas fifty and sixty years ago sayB that the Guamerius from which that great violinist drew such wonderful tones would have attracted little attention in the hands of an ordinary professional. Mr. Chaplin’s conclusion is that “the old makers made some instruments as good as can be made, but emphatically no better. Also, they made some instruments as good as can be made now, but the larger number made by them are not up to the present standard of power, and the few that are up to this standard are in the hands of artists or in collections, and entirely out of the market. A large number of good violins have been made since the great period, and it is safe to say that a large number of instruments bearing the marks of the old makers and accredited to them were never near Cre mona.” The old instiuments do not ap pear to have been made according to any fixed rule or principle, but on the “cut and try” plan. Nor is there any uniformity in their make or published directions concern ing their construction. Mr. Chaplin tells us that he has owned two of the masters’ instruments of the great period and fifty instruments of the best reputed imitators, has examined more than 2000 other violins of various grades and patterns, and has read what has been published on the subject, but that he has failed to find “even how long to make the fV in a given sized instru ment, to say nothing of where they should be placed.” Hegives certain ratios, meas urements, and directions fer constructing a violin in accordance with the laws of sound, and remarks that • ‘instruments made to demonstrate this theory can be seen.” Violins, he claims, can and shduld be made on scientific principles, as other musical in struments arc. As good violins can be produced here as have been made in Cre mona, and the chief reason why this is not done, he says, is that the people will not pay for them. Quassia vs.Mosquitoes. A few yoars ago we had some peach trees which being oil a wall exposed to draugth, were annually blighted. One died, and the new wood of the others were not more that a hand’s length. A scien tific friend advised me to try a weak solu tion of quassia to water them with, and the success was complete. Blight was prevented. The first year the trees bore well and the wood was elbow length or more. I next tiled quassia in the vinery. Instead of lime-washing the walls to get rid of the green fly, one watering with the quassia dismissed them m a day. Our head gardener, who bad previously much experience in nursery grounds, wondered that he had never heard of it before. He now uses it on all cases as a protection from flies and blight. The illation goes a long way: one pound of chips of quassia wood boiled and reboiled in other water, until he has eight gallons of the extract for his garden engine. He finds it unadvis- able to use it stronger for some plants. This boiling makes the quassia adhesive, and being principally applied te the under leaf,. because most blight settles there, it is not readily waslied off by rain, Quassia is used in medicine as a powerful tonic, and the chips are sold by chemists at from sixpence to a shilling per pound. The tree is idigenous to the West Indies and to South America. And now as to gnats and mosquitoes, a young friend of mine, severely bitten by mosquitoes and un willing to be seen so disfigured, sent for some quassia chips and had boiling water poured upon them. At night after wash ing, she dipped her hands into the quMsia water and left it to - dry upon her face. This was a perfect prolection, and contin ued to be so when ever applied. The pas tilles sold in Florence and elsewhere, which are vaunted to be safeguards against mosquitoes, are from my own experience, of no use. At the approach of winter, when flics and gnats get into the houses and sometimes bite venomously, a grand child of mine, eighteen months old was thus attacked. I gave the nurse some of my weak solution of quassia, to be left te dry on its face, and he was not bitten again. It is is inocuous to children, and it may be a protection also against bed insects, which I have had not the oppor tunity of trying. When the solution of quassia is strong, it is wall known to be an active fly-poison, and is mixed with sugar to attract flics but this is not strong enough to kill at once. If it be true that mosqui toes have been imported into one of the great hotels in the south of London, it might be Very useful to anoint some of the furniture with it. Then a strong solution with sugar, set about the rooms, ought to clear them out. ftoths fbr Children. * —Japan has now a large nail factory, and its produots are said to be equal to our beat. —New Orleans was founded in 1717, under the regency ofthe- Duke of Or leans. George Bancroft’s Workshop. Mr. Bancroft’s workshop is upon the sec ond floor, in a large square room facing the street, in Washington, D. C. What a place of rest and study! Great leather and shaker chairs, a great desk in the middle of the room, and all about the walls books and books; from the ceiling to the floor, on every side, books 1 Not an inch of space that is not filled. And he has four rooms like this. The table was strewn with pamphlets, books and bushels of documents and manucripts. The picture as you enter is one you have often seen. An old man sitting at his desk at work, and a young secretary opposite copying, verifying and arranging documents, and both encirled by walls of books. Within the four rooms composing his library, Mr. Bancroft has over twelve thousand volumes. There are larger collections of books in private houses, but Mr. Bancroft's library is remarkable for being more selected than extensive. It is peculiarly rich in the best editions of ancient classics, and has almost all the notable works in the modem European lan guages. The great feature of the library is the manuscripts. No man in the coun try has such a collection of original docu ments of a military or political character relating to the country. He began his great historical work in 1825. It was in this year he began to gather materials and to lay out the work that will make his name great while the world lasts. Uses or Cork. The lightness of cork makes it superior to all other substances for life preservers, for insuring the buoyancy of life boats. It is also employed as buoys to float nets, and in making waterproof shoes. It has also been converted into and used as gun wad dings. Cork, as is well known, is a non conductor of heat and is porous. These peculiarities have been taken advantage of in the manufacture of water coolers, which are much used in Spain. They are made Of slabs of the wood, bent round circular heads of the same, and bound with hoops. The porosity of the cork allows the water to percolate slowly to the Burface, and there to cool in evaporating, while its non-con ducting nature prevents the heat of tho sun from wanning tne water within. About 30 yean ago an ingenious Frenchman intro- duced mattresses and cushions in which cork reduced to dust or shreds was a sub stitute for feathers, hair or word. It might be used alone or combined with the above- mentioned materials. It was claimed that these would make easy beds, smooth, light and elastic, and especially well adapted for use at sea, where, in oases of emergency, they might be available aa life preservers. But it is evident that cork mattresses did sot become popular. A variety of walking sticks are manufactured from young cork tress in Africa, and Spanish black, a sn owier nigawit, is made cf calcined eortr. No wise mother will put her young chil dren into quite cold water in winter time, nor with a cold, and above all, will never allow them to be washed and bathed in a draught, on the same principle of consist ency that plenty of fresh air is good when it is not damp or foggy, but draughts are most urturiou. Even in summer the chill should be taken off the water in which young children or delicate persons are bathed, while in winter it is doubtful whether even the strongest man is bene fited by bathing in water at or but little above tho freezing point. The cold bath is not advisable when followed by no warm glow; neither when followed by a rush of blood to the head—in both of which cases tepid or' warm water should be sub stituted, There live many men (and women, too) “with souls so dead’ ’ that they will go into a cold bath, or send their children, when they have some feverish or irrnptive complaint. The danger of this should be obvious—that the disease re ceives a most violent check, and the per son’s life is even threatened. If, however, you persist in the use of cold water in cold weather for yourself or children, succeeded by no necessary after-glow of warmth, and will not have the common sense to use warm or tepid water, then put in a tablespoonful of spirit of some sort into your bath—whisky is best, though eau de Cologne or spirits of wine will do—and you will have your glow. This often prevents chilblains in persons of slow circulation. On the other hand, it is injuries to many people to have the water even approaching to hot. Those who bathe regularly the year round in cool water are rarely sensitive to cold, and the most delicate women may use the sponge bath daily, not only with impunity, .but with advantage. To do this immersion is not necessary and no one need complain that they oannot have a “good wash” be cause they do not happen to possess a bath, for this may be easily accomplished after Miss Nightingale's plan, in the rules she laid down for her lady-nurses who accom panied her to the Crimea; even if they had but the poor accommodation of a basin they were to thoroughly sponge themselves from “top to toe,” whiob is possible to the poorest of us. India Shawls. A Great Work, Somewhere about 3,000 workmen, 600 or 700 wagons, seventeen or eighteen lo comotive engines, three steam “navvies” and a quantity of minor machinery of vari ona kinds have been engaged since 1875 at the southeast end of London in a work com pared with which the building of the pyramids—with modern appliances—would have been no very signal feat. Hitherto the one entrance to the Victoria docks from the Thames had been at Blackwall point, but, now there is a dock capable of receiving all vessels, no matter what they might be. Three and half miles of walls have been built, inclosing ninety acres of water. These wails are forty feet high, five feet thick at the top, and eighteen or. nineteen feet thick at the bottom, the whole of this enormous mass being compos ed of solid concrete, for which 80,000 tons of Portland cement have been used. Some 4,000,006 cnbic feet of earth have been dug out. It may assist the imagination somewhat to state that if it were filled into ordinary carts the vehicles would form an unbroken line 7,000 miles long. The ex cavations have gone through a submerged forest, and among other cariosities dag ont have been a reindeer’s horn, a Roman vase, and what is supposed to be ancients British canoe carved out of solid oak. The latter is now m the British museum. The new entrance below Woolwich will save about three and'a half miles of river navi gation, which, in the c»se of vessels with heavy draft, is of course a matter of very great importance. The London and St. Katharine’s and Victoria Docks Company are now prepared for vessels of all kinds, not excluding the largest ironclads of the British navy. The coat has been estimat ed roundly at |5, *00,000. An India shawl, like a wonderful paint ing, possesses beauty unteld to the culti vated eye. More wonderful still is this beauty when we think of the long, weary horns occupied in making it, and the many stitches inserted slowly and carefully by different hands. The odd-looking leaf you admire in one comer, and the gay- colored one in another, exemplify the old story of “extremes meeting;” for the pos- siWiry is -that-tkey were made fifty miles apart, and then wedded together by the calculating merchant. It is a little curious to think that in this manufacture the maker does not Know his pattern, even if he * makes the entire shawl; for he makes by written directions, and on the wrong aide, using a needle very much like a match sharpened at both ends. To make a hand some shawl requires one year’s steady work, and one is insensibly reminded of life’s own story—the thread going in and out for so long a time with no knowledge of what the result will be. “The Vale of Cashmere” to-day furnishes in one way as many beau ties as it did when Moore sang of it; and if Lalla Kookh does not wear the soft, clinging drapery, English and American beauties do. Orientalism being sought for in all its phases just now. La Mode decrees that shawls shall be worn more largely than ever hefore, and suggests a graceful method —for it is hard to wear a shawl grace!oily— that will look well on ail; it is, of course, the dolman. With little trouble an Ttufin shawl may be transformed into one, the dull gr een or chilly-looking blue that forma the centre of the shawl being caught up in wrinkles by an Oriental silk picquet to as sume the shape of a hood. Some ladies have their shawls cut into coats, which are elegant and stylish-looking, but one finds upon examination that no woman is bar baric enough to cut a real India shawl. Shawls used for this purpose are generally imitations of che India, the Deccaandthe Valley Cashmere. An exquisite work of art is a Delhi shawl, which, after having all the riches of Oriental colorings bestowed upon it, is further graced by threads of gold that show their presence by gleaming and glistening at each movement of the wearer. A Cashmere variety, made in France, is in black, cream and cocher, with soft, clinging-looking fringe to match, and will be extensively used at the seaside in combination with bright dresses that need something neutral to tone them down. The Textile Flouts of the World. Men’s first steps in civilization may be traced almost directly in their efforts to clothe themselves, and their first essays in skilled labor are made in the adaptation of the materials which nature has furnished them to use for dress. On the banks of the White Nile are tribes who content them selves with a simple apron of leaves, or less; and Sir Samuel Baker noticed that a great advance in general civilization had taken place there when, after having spent several months among people of that grade, he came into Unyoro, where the people wore garments tashioned out of the bark of ’tree, which they had to. prepare by soaking and beating with a mallet. Thrift seemed to follow naturally upon the ac quisition of the -taste for clothing, for the fig trees have to be cultivated to secure a sufflfcient supply. Accordingly we are told, when a man takes a wife, he plants a cer tain number of the trees in his garden, as a provision. for the wants of the family he has in prospect. A grade above the naked races arc the Papuans of New Guinea, with their lorn girdles of grass or palm leaves, and above these are the Maoris of New Zea land, with their cloaks of the leaves of an agavc-like plant laid upon each other like scales. The South Sea islanders have in thejpaper as liberty a plant which serve* toe same purpose to them as a fig tree to the people of Unyoro, from the bark of which they prepare the taps by soaking and beat ing. They illustrate another development of industry m the adornment of their clothes, for which they have an endless variety of designs, many of them of con siderable merit. This stage of civilization is also often marked by a corresponding development of the potter’s art and of skill in ornamenting vessels. From the method of using the whole stuff of the bark to toe art of separating its fibers and spinning and weaving them into cloth is a great step. The processes of spinning and weavh% are . as varied as the people who carry them on, and are largely determined by the nature of the material to which they have to lie applied.