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Bright sea, far-flooding aU the pebbled sand, I “You can’t match It,
Flinging thy foamy' pearls from stone to ‘ Dallas.
stone; - _ 1 And she proved to he right.
Thy lullaby, low-nmrmnred to the strand, 1 ^ llis despair, Hugh Ballard went to
y* I to™'elsewW, Mrs. Mcgarreau, whowas exactly
Some other shore, ks fair, t.like everybody’s fairy gra^moOmr.
Thy waves have kisssed and left it dry and j> “ What ami to do?” Said he,Iilankly.
“Do?” said Mrs.
! the diamond butterflies on
“Why, go to the. china-, _
decorating rooms, of course-, in ttfsae-
mersly Square. Take your sample,
and they’U duplicate it for ydn in
twenty-four hoprs. Say that Mrs.
Megarreau sent you.” ; -
Mr. Ballard devoutly thanked the
old lady, and obeyed. without loss of
Blithe bird, loud-warbling underneath the time. Mrs. 1 laker, the superintendent.
An eager love-song passionate and shrill, [ ?*0 ratatherdeskj the ideces of
My heart is trembling amid summer leaves . Mrs. Wlutw orth Walkingham s doomed
Bright sunsliine, gleaming on my cottage
Tracing the shadows of an ivy spray,
How tenderly thy golden touches tall
On common thines to-day;
Yet, beneath other skies
Some land betaighted lies,
Deserted by thy glory, cold and gray.
With sweet, responsive thrill;
Yet far away, dear guest, 1
There is an empty nest
cup and looked earnestly at them with
her head to ofie side.
“We have that shape in our wares,”
Which thou hast left forsaken, void and ^ she; “and I am quite sure we can
8ti11 - reproduce the design—blue iris-buds
Fair sea, bright sunshine, birds of song land marsh grasses Miss .Raymond’s
divine) : designs are, some of them, even-more
I«too may lose the tide, the light, the lay; exquisite than this. Rosabel, my dear,
Otliers may win the kisses that were mine, come here.”
My night may be their day;
Yet, though the soul may sigh
For precious things gone by,
And Rosabel Raymond, pale and
I pretty as ever, came unconsciously
I Shan What forward* her brewnlruen pamtiug
CEDARTOWN. GA.. THUBSDAY, MAY 17.1883.
NEW SERIES—VOL. Y-NO. 23.
Type, Border, Ornaments, &c_
designs, and all orders
for Job W ork will be executed neatly
cheaply and promptly. J
The noisy eld mill doqsn’ti
so warm, after alL Does
breathless snapping machine
teach a bright-eyed urchin to
straight row on a pair of chicbeni
The wrinkled old hands, ho#
they patted the cheeks of the re
grandchild, not half so soft in
childish curves as the touch of
ma’s hands. The stockings gi
knit; how much, love went into
stitch; how many prayers were
Into every round. Somewhere I
read about a nun who bent over
needle work, and as oft as a tear fHl
from her eyes upon the snowy fabric
she wrought about it and worked it in
with her deft needle, until at last the
strange design wrought out a touching
story of her loneliness and sorrow.
And if we could read all the dreams
and thoughts and prayers that grand
ma wrought with those patient needles
we would wear the stockings she kuit
next to our heart rather than on'our
feet. For here is a dream of John, and
there is a tear for Chris’ Robbie, and
here is a plan for Will, and here comes
creeping in a quivering strain from
some old, old hymn that is hallowed to
us not because her lips blessed it? so
often; see now a prayer quivered all
LITTLE ROSABEL.
“Ot course they don't want me, - , . _ . , , ,
said Rosabel Raymond sadly. “No- jfrasses, but Rosabel never looked at
dress, with a bow of black ribbon an
her throat, and her lovely chestnut
brown hair poshed#>ack from her face.
Mrs. Baker was hflMing out the bits of
fractured china, whereupon were
painted the blue iris-buds and drooping
body seems to want me. No home
seems to he open to me anywhere.
When papa died he told me that Uncle
Dallas would be kind to' me. and take
. his vacant place. And he" is kind,
after his odd, abrupt fashion. But my
Aunt Alicia don’t care for me, and the
girls look coldly on my shabby dress
and pale face. Evidently I am not a
cousin to he proud of. If I were an.
heiress things would be different. ”
Poor little Rosabel! The world
looked very dark to Tier as she sat on
the window sill of the third-story back
room in the Dallas mansion, which had
been unanimously voted “good .enough
fof Rosabel Raymond,” and watched
the dull reds and grays of tire Winter
sunset fading out behind the crowded
spires of the city.
“Oh, Rosabel, are you here?”
It was her cousin Medora’s soft,
them.
| “Mr. Ballard,” she cried, her face
brightening with a delight which she.
was. too unsophisticated to suppress,
“What brought you to this place.”
“Miss RaynTond,” he exclaimed,
“what are you doing here?”
“Earning my own living,” said Rosa
bel, with quiet dignity.
•‘Does Miss Dallis-^Medora, I mean
—know where you are?”
“She ought to know,” said Rosatiel,
“for it was she wlio recommended me
to come here. For the Dallases, I
think, were getting tired of me,” she
added, with a sigh. “But I ought to
he very much obliged to her, for I have
acquired a most welcome independence,
and the work here is exceedingly con
genial to my tastes. Is that the pat
tern you wish copied Mrs. Baker?” she
asked, taking a piece of china.
“Oh, what an excellent group of
sweet voice. She disliked Medora j Duds! yet I am bold enough to think I
more than either Augusta or Bell, can imitate it successfully."
although she could not tell why.
“We were thinking, mamma and I,”
said Medora, “that you must be terri
bly dull" without anything to do, all
these dismal days.”
“It is ratiier lonesome,” sighed
Rosabel, wondering at her cousin’s
unusual thoughtfulness.
“And so,” added Medora, with the
sweet smile that Rosabel always mis
trusted, “when Miss Armitage told of
the place in the china painting and
flower designing rooms—you always
were an artist, you know, dear—X ex
claimed. jn that silly T .impulsive way of
mine; ‘The very idea for Rosabel.”
And,” added Medora, “Miss Armitage
says you can obtain excellent board for
four dollars a week with a widow near
the rooms, and that would save you a
great deal of time and no end of fares.
So, if you conclude to accept the posi
tion, perhaps you had better come down
into the drawing-room and see Miss
Armstage.”
If there was anything which Rosabel
Raymond loved, it was her pencil.
Here, at last, was the much-longed-for
opportunity, and she arose with alacrity
and followed Medora Dallas down the
stairs.
Mrs. Dallas and the Misses Dallas
were openly exultant when Rosabel
Raymond was gone.
“So dispiriting to have her round all
the time, with her swollen eyelids and
pale face,” said Miss Augusta.
“But what are we to say if Mr. Bal
lard asks after her?” blurted out Bell,
the most honest and least prolitic of the
family.
“Say? Why, the truth,” declared
Medora,—“that she has left us.”
For the secret of Miss Medora Dal
las’ anxiety to get rid of her pale little
cousin, whose mourning was so dis
tressingly becoming to her, was the
fact of Mr. Hugh Ballard’s admiration
of the white, statuesque face, the deep
larkspur-blue eyes, and the features
which were as perfect as any cameo.
Miss Medora had marked Mr. Ballard
for her own prey, and declared war
upon any unfortunate pretender who
should come in her way.
The very first evening that Mr. Bal
lard called, he inquired for Miss Ray
mond. Medora dropped her long
lashes.
“Rosabel bad a cold, reserved na
ture,” she said. “She never seemed to
become fond of any of us, and she has
gone away.”
“Gone where?” Mr. Ballard was per
sistent enough to ask.
“She said she would write and send
us the address,” said Medora, drawing
on her imagination; “but she never
did. It quite went to dear mamma’s
heart. Mamma regarded Rosabel as a
fourth daughter. But Rosabel never
was inclined to reciprocate our affec
tion.”
Mr. Ballard glanced at Medora with
an expression which she could not in
terpret, but it meant simply:
“If this girl is lying, she is doing it
very artistically. Appearances are
certainly against Rosabel Raymond;
but it would take more than the testi
mony of one woman to make me be
lieve her either cold or ungrateful.”
These reflections "passed through his
miud as he was politely accepting Miss
Dallas’ invitation to accompany her to
Mrs. 'Whitworth Walkiugliam’s musi
cal tea, the next day.
“It will be a bore,” lie said to him
self; “but Mrs. IVhitworth Walkingham
is a genius, and there is sure to be good
music there.”
“There was good music there, and
also delicious “Orange Pekoe” in the
tiniest of cups, each painted with a
separate wild flower or bunch of grasses;
cake, ices and white grapes following
the barcarolas and rondollettas—and
all went merry as % marriage bell,
until, in turning to place a chair nearer
the window for Miss Dallas, Mr. Bal-
ard’s unfortunate elbow knocked one
of the priceless cups off the carve
shelf of the Japanese cabinet and broke
it into three pieces.
“Mrs. Whitworth Walkingham will
commit suicide,” cried Medora, clasp
ing her hands with simulated horror.
“I swear you to eternal secrecy,”
said Mr. Ballard,.laughing, as he wrap
ped the precious pieces up in his pocket
handkerchief and deposited tnem safely
in his pocket. “H there is a store in
New York, Brooklyn, or Jersey City,
“If you can replace that cup,” said
Mr. Ballard, dramatically, “I am your
slave for life.”
“I think I can promise to replace it
without any such condition,” said
Rosabel, laughing.
And Mrs. “Whitworth Walkingham
never knew that her iris-oud cup was
broken until Hugh Ballard brought
back its exact counterpart.
He came no more to Mrs. Dallas’
Tuesday morning receptions and Friday
afternoon teas. Miss Medora vainly
wondered why. But one day she met
him. on Fifth avenue, .and-prettily re
proached him with his recent absen
teeism.
“I have been fortunate enough to
discover the abiding place of your
cousin, Miss Rosabel Raymond,” said
he gravely.
Medora looked up, with a deep color
mounting to her cheek.
“Indeed?” said she.
“It was very kind of you to secure
for her such a congenial position as
that,” he added.
“Medora Dallas hung her head, and
was silent.
“But she will not remain there
long,” he continued, cheerfully. “I
am happy to tell you that I am engaged
to her. We are to be married in a few
weeks. Of course you will receive ‘at
home’ cards when we are finally set
tled.”
Medora murmured something about
“congratulations” and “delighted to
hear of it.”
But Mr. Ballard smiled to himself
when she passed on.
“La belle cousine is not exactly
pleased,” he said to himself.
A Costly Small Book.
At an auction sale in New York re
cently, among the books sold the one
creating the most spirited bidding was
an almanac for the year 1686, entitled
“Kalendarium Pennsilvaniense; or,
America’s Messenger.” This book
contains twenty leaves, not paged and
uncut, and this and another formerly
possessed by George Brinley. of Hart
ford, an the only ones known to be in
existence. It is especially valuable
from the fact that it is the first work of
the first printer of Philadelphia and
New York, W. Bradford of the former
city who, in an address printed in the
book, says: “Hereby understand that
after great charge and trouble I have
brought the great art and mystery of
printing into this part of America, be
lieving it may be of great service to you
in several respects.” It was sold to
Mr. Stone for $520. The other books
disposed of include an almanac for 1705,
another for 1693, which respectively
brought $11. and $7; “Anecdotes of
Distinguished Persons,” $8; “The
American Neptune,” in three volumes,
printed in 1781 for the use of the Royal
Navy of Great Britain, under the direc
tion of the R. H, Lords Commis
sioners of the Admiralty, brought $90;
the Holy Bible, with genealogies prefix
ed, printed in 1613 by Robert Barker,
of London, bound in thick boards, with
metal comers and centre, was purchased
for $20 50. A copy of the original
charter of Rhode Island College, now
Brown’s University, presented at the
General Assembly in February, 1715,
brought $20 54.
-s» y-. !■,«»«««■
over the leaves of the Bible that seemed' P ,LScles are oval instead of round.
never to be out of her lap; here the old
eyes looked out across the pasture and
the mowing lot down to the wooded
hills where the birds are answering
winds; here the,old eyes slept for a few
minutes, and here, is a knot. Ah, yes,
Philie and Annie are home this week,
and the house is full of their children.
There will be many more knots in the
yam before the stocking is finished.
Who is the boy whose fate it is to hold
on his extended hands the skein of yam
while grandma winds it off after the
romping youngsters who taunt him with
shrieks of laughter as they desert him.
But never mind, grandma confronts
him with splendid stories of Uncle
Doc’s pranks when he was a boy and
went to school at Carmichaeltowu.
until the boy wishes the skein was five
miles long. And then he is rewarded
by a great big cooky, sweeter than
honey, because he was such a good
boy. The only thing that took the
edge off this reward was that all the
other children got just as big cookies
as he did, because somehow grandma’s
rewards for the good boy and girl
managed to include all the other boys
and girls. To grandma, all children
were good; some children were better
than others, but there were no bad
children. A thousand blessings,
thousand times told, on the dear old
face and the silver hair that crowned
the placid brow; on tlie wrinkled hands
and the work they wrought; on the dear
lips and blessed old hymns they sung;
on the dear old book that lay in her
lap, and the life that drew so much of
love and faith and help from its pages.
Tike “Expert" Business.
Art Accurate Time-piece.
* * While on the subject of Wal
tham watches, we may mention that we
have seen a letter from the Commander of
the (Jordon Castle (Castle line of Steam
Packets), who was fortunate enough to
save life at sea, and who for his gallant
conduct was presented in September last
witb a Gold Keyless Waltham Watch by
the President of the United States, on be
half of the London Local Marina Board.
Referring Vo this Presentation Watch, he
says: “When 1 left London the watch
was six seconds fast, and on my arrival at
Singapore it was only three seconds slow,
a most extraordinary performance for a
watch, as i ( amedit on my person the
whole time. I compered it every day with
my chronometers on the passage out, and
it seldom or ever differed one second from
them; iafact, 1 found it almost, if not ae
good a* my chronometers, which la a good
deal to wy ft* a watch earned about and
subject twill kinds at jolts.”—London,
England, The Watchmaker, Jeweler
and SUeeremith, Feb. 6,1881.
An elderly gentleman with bushy white
hair and whiskers, rather square and
massive features and a firmly knit form
of medium height, clad in an exceeding
ly plain and old-fashioned suit of clothes,
welcomed a reporter in Cleveland the
other evening.
“Is this Professor Piper?” asked the
reporter.
“Please call me Mr. Piper, plain Mr.
Piper,” was the modest request.
Piper is an eminent microscopist and
expert, summoned to examine the signa
tures of a deed conveying certain Pros
pect street real estate from Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Osborne to C. A. Adams. Mrs.
Osborne claims that her signature to the
deed was written at home without pro
per acknowledgement by the notary,
whose signature and that of her husband
was written down town after hers
had been affixed. And upon this ground
she seeks to set aside the deed. Adams,
of course, objects to the setting aside of
the deed, since he has advanced Osborne
money on the strength of it, claims that
the instrument was signed in legal
form.
Piper brought his misroscope to hear
on the signatures and declared that it
was an indisputable fact that Mrs. Os
borne’s signature was not written before
that of the other signers, as she positive
ly states, but afterward. The loop of
the y in Mrs. Osborne’s Christian name
of Mary crosses the H. of her husband’s
signature, and a powerful glass showed
conclusively. Piper claims, that the
lines of the y were written over the H.
Numerous drawings of the letters mag
nified many diameters appeared on Pi
per’s table, t ogether with pencils, brushes
and finely-graded rules for measuring
the smallest fraction of an inch. Piper,
by an ingenious device, threw the sha
dows of the signature, magnified many
diameters, on a sheet of bristol board
and then drew them as they appeared.
He has just returned from Philadel
phia, where he was employed over one
hundred days on one case. That which
called Piper into prominence more than
anything else was his connection with
the Cadet Whitaker case. It will be
remembered that it was claimed that
Whitaker himself wrote the note of
warning found in his room. Piper en
larged the handwriting and declared
that it was not Whitaker’s. Subsequent
confessions proved that he was correct.
“I am a firm believer,” said the expert,
“in Whitaker’s innocence.”
One of the curiosities of Piper’s col
lection is his wonderful laboratory of
inks, containing samples of almost every
variety of ink made. He has a book
filled with ink tests. A long strip of
paper is painted with a certain variety
of ink and then the strip is marked off
into squares. In each square a drop of
a certain chemical is placed. Oxalic
acid, for instance, takes out all the color
of the bright-liued aniline inks, but has
little effect on Arnold’s ink or Stephens’.
Chloride of lime and potash water have
a marked effect on even Arnold’s inks,
India ink nothing appears to effect. At
stated intervals Piper writes specimens
of certain kinds of ink with a date
affixed and lays them away to show
what effect the action of time has on
them. In one case on which he was
employed a matter of $250,000 hinged
on his decision. A party swore that
certain certificates of stock were six
years old. It was shown that it was
written with a certain variety of ink,
and Piper obtained a specimen of writ
ing over six years old done with the
same kind of ink, which had turned
brown, whereas the signatures on the
certificates looked bright and fresh.
Blood has proven as great a field of
investigation for the expert as ink. It
was claimed, for instance, by a party
arrested out West for murder, that the
blood on his garments was from a pig
which he had carried on his shoulder.
In human blood the minute corpuscles
are about 32-1000 of an inch in diameter,
while those of a pig, as a rule, are but
about 1-4000 in diameter. It was con
clusively shown that the blood on the
man’s ^garment had larger corpuscles
than pig’s blood was ever known to have,
and, the fact being established that it
was not pig’s blood but human blood
on the garments, went a long way to
ward convicting the defendant.
In order to obtain samples of blood
from various animals for investigation
under the glass Piper once bled the
whole of Forepaugh’s menagerie save
the monkeys. When the animals ad
vanced to the bars of their cage the
doctor struck each on the nose with a
spring lance, making a minute little
gash from which a drop or two of blood
was obtained. It is needless to saythat
Piper didn’t loaf around the lions’ or
tigers’ cages long after he had stuefc his
business into their noses, as it were.
Strange to remark that while samples
of the savage lions’ and -big boa con
strictor’s blood could be obtained, the
keepers did not dare allow the monkeys
to be bled. It has been learned by ex
perience that sucb undue familiarity
with a monkey as lancing it makes it
insane and worthless. The blood of the
elephant and the whale is a little larger
.so to speak, than that of a human being.
A camel’s blood differs from the claret
St. Petersburg in Winter
People in America might possibly
imagine that tea-making in this country
is a very complicated and laborious
air, but it is no more so than any-
,_iere else, only people here are so
eSsy-going and good-natured; time has
sd little value, and labor is so cheap,
•Ten though itrmay be poor, that about
half a dozen people are doing here
what one person would do with much
more thorouglmess in America because
not stumbling over other people’s feet.
One of the servants in question was
washing about half a dozen s|>oons,
saucers and glasses. Men in Russia
drink their tea out of glasses, so they
can admire the amber liquid and at the
same timsF feel its warmth creeping
through Afcir bodies As they hold the
~ ieir fingers. The
sec raid man brought the tea-canister
and; sugar-liowl, and being impressed
with the importune and dignity of his
work he moved abtut with a slowness
that was edifying to behold and gene
rated in the spectator a violent desire
to go to his assistance. The third man
was arranging sweet cockers and si in-
ing lemons to be used with the tea;
while the fourth man’s intention was
entirely absorbed by the sanovar.
The samovar, as weir as the steam
bath, is a truly national institution.
Take away from the Russian‘hese two
objects of necessity and luxury and he
will think life has been robbed of half
its charms. The samovar is ar indis
pensable piece of furniture in themuses
of the rich and the poor, the higa and
the low, and not till he is the hippy
owner of such an institution dofc< a
young ffian set about in search of "a'fhr;
partner, willing to share with him the
comforts offered by a room somewhere
under a staircase.
Art at Home.
var” is composed of the pronoun “self’
of “itself,” and the verb “to boil,” and
literally means ‘ ‘self-boiler. ’ ’ The samo-
varvis made of brass, has the shape of
an egg, and holds from one to two pails
of water. The lower end rests on four
feet, the upper is flattened, and it has a
funnel for charcoal in the centre. The
top of the funnel is finished off by an
object resembling a crown, and when
the water boils on your tea-table you
fill your tea-pot, put it on the crown to
draw, and your tea is ready.
The four men were attending to their
duty in religious silence, the only time
they opened their mouths being to in
form me that there was to be an extra
meeting on some important business,
and that it was on that account they
were making the tea. Now the gentle
men who compose those meetings come
together at 2, leisureiy sip their tea,
relate the latest news, and go home to
their dinners at 4, leaving a kind Provi
dence to attend to their affairs, unless,
indeed, the question be one of politics—
“political unreliability,” as they call it
here. Then these same jovial, easy
going gentlemen will instantly he
transformed into stem, unflinching
judges, working day and night and to
the best of their abilities, in their en
deavor to please the head of the coun
try and thus earn stars and ribbons, or
a more exalted “chin” or rank.
The present Emperor, in ordering a
revision of the laws relating to the
Jews, has taken one step further oh
the road trodden by his father. When
Alexander II. freed the serfs he at the
same time tried to better the condition
of his Hebrew subjects. Previous to
1861 no Jew was allowed to remain in
Russian town longer than a week,
except in Poland and the South, which
were overrun by them. In Poland
they were even so numerous and so
powerful once that a Polish King was
on the point of marrying a Jewess.
Russians knew only the peddling Jew,
by no means the best representative of
the race, as the persecutions-Liy his
Christian brethren had made him un
scrupulous and cowardly and had over
developed his natural shrewdness.
Even where they were tolerated they did
not dare to betray any outward signs
of thrift; they would not long have re
mained unmolested if they had, so they
remained ragged and dirty, and to all
outward appearances in abject poverty
until they became a by-word and a
reproach, while in reality they held the
purse strings of the country. They
carried on a pitiless and most unre
lenting usury, sucking the life-blood
of their victims like so many leeches
and keeping the people, who' flattered
themselves that they were their masters,
in the most absolute and humiliating
dependence. And the two races hated
each other most thoroughly. Once in
a while the Christian slave rebelled and
inaugurated a love-feast, similar to
those of the Vandals and the Goths,
but his resistance only lasted until his
long accumulated energy had spent its
elf, when everything went on as before.
The word “samo- wealtiy society lady, noted for her
Purchase the Florence knitting si Ur
It comes in all colors. The size of the
steel needles used will depend upon the
fine or coarse quality of silk that should
be selected. Stocking knitting is
easily learned. The majority of old
ladies know all about this sort of in
dustry, in a-plain way, to be sure, since
art decorating is of rather recent date,
and especially in the manufacture of
fancy hosiery. However, the grandmas
of to-day are familiar with the rules for
shaping a stocking, and when this is
learned the artistic emhellishings are
easily controlled. In personal beautify
ing, doubtless a prettily dressed foot it
quite as much noticed as any other part
of the toilet. And especially is this
the case during the summer season
when fashion’s disciples are rusticating
in point lace and diamonds at an ex-
lensive watering place, where the ex
travagance of dress is sometimes
extended to the bathing suit, and heavy-
silk stockings are worn to protect the
satiny whiteness of sliapely limbs.
Knitting silk stockings is a charming
industry, a work easily laid down .or
taken up, and when rusticating, the
knitting can be carried about in the
dress pocket, ready for use at any mo
ment, when the occupation may be re
sumed with marked effect in displaying
valuable jewelry—the hands are held up
to view, innocent, of course, of any in
tention of exciting envy, or seeking
admiration for beauty of hands, mani
cured nails, and costly gems. There is
something very fascinating in fancy
knitting, and then there is a great
satisfaction in an industry so lucrative.
A handsome pair of silk hose are well
worth from $10 to $30, the value de
pending upon the amount of fancy
work with which the hose may he dec
orated. Domestic made silk half hose
for gentlemen gives a pretty and ex
ceedingly satisfactory occupation for
young girls and misses, who take pleas
ure in giving their male relatives pres
ents that are handsome and useful, and
are also such positive evidences of in
dustry and artistic taste. A silk knitted
smoking cap can be richly designed,
showing a rainbow of color effects.
Dressy little silk sacques for babies are
knitted or crocheted in colored cord
forming a very useful and ornamental
garment.
Embroidery lias become so fashiona
ble that it is lavishly employed on
some garments. Now much of this
work is wrought at home, thereby sav
ing large sums of money, and still
indulging in the preferred dress decora
tion of the season. A pocket handker
chief embroidered by a young lady only
“brought out” this AVinter just past
could not he bought at one of our large
stores for a cent less than $50. A little
schoolgirl of eleven Summers has em
broidered in colors within four months’
time a lawn tennis apron, a perfect
poem of dainty conceptions in the in
termingling of blossoms, buds, and
climbing plants, all so ingeniously exe
cuted, and so exactly copied from
nature, they appear to be only laid on
tlie handkerchief, to be gathered up and
PJH into a_Y9se. _0f water. One of the
richest pongee cdstumis 'that w be
seen at Newport this Summer was em-
broidtred during this Spring by a
The Art of “Bracing Up.**
The Snake-Dance.
cbaritible deeds to the worthy poor,
who, towever, does not believe in favor
ing boll finery and idleness.
For summer use in a country cottage
gray-liied curtains with edge embroid
ery afe ornamental and "afford an
admtoble shade to a room exposed to
the belt of the noonday sun. A door
curtail formed of tarletan in ample
folds ^picturesque, imparting an air of
breezy coolness to the rooms. Edge
the cuxiin with tinted lace and hang a
hollanq shade of corresponding color;
to be lawn down when seclusion is
require!; loop back the tarletan near,
the cetre with ribbon bows. There
is anoter effective style of door cur
tain with is easily constructed. Pur-
few yards of dotted Swiss
etween the dots on both sides
of the 4ods sew tiny spangles; edge the
curtaiifvito narrow gold lace, and a
fairy-lit effect is given, especially if
two pah plants or pots of flowers are
placed i either .side of the door. A
showy ] ino cover may be secured at
very lit i expense. Applique on green
serge o maroon tinted camel’s hair
cloth, a rariety of quaint figures, not
exactly rotesque, but selected with
taste, a: presenting to a pototed man
ner son sort of suggestion relating to
music, to vocal and instrumental.
Original y expressed in designing
decorati s for a piano cover is sure to
eat satisfaction if artistically
awaken
execute! and there must also be given
proper ] iportion, breadth and repose
to the w k. The designs wrought on
an orga :over should harmonize with
the gen^l characteristics of this to-
There should be no crowded
leedle work, even when the
pattern ijlarge, and the article embel-
jntSj ample breadth for a
of liberal dimensions. In
ure a pleasing effect in
home decorations, be care
ful that Itail is always subordinate to
the desic and above all be sure not to
depart ffn truth when the designs are
iutendetlo be copies from nature—
every fletr should have its own foliage,
and theliole made as perfect as possi
ble. Gltog inaccuracies in this (Ure#
tion d^oy the desired effect of mos
ught.out productions, and
ie time it is obvious that the
is in possession of considera
te.
Thi
great
manyj
sidei
The Sunflower.
The sunflower does not turn with
the sun, but a recent observer finds
that a majority of the flowers do have
a prevailing direction when opening.
In the case of one of the perennial sun
flowers of sixty-eight flowers, up to
one time all had their heads inclined to
the southeast. Three dayB after this,
with seventy-three flowers open, twenty-
one among the older ones had advanced
toward the northeast, their horizontal
faces becoming nearly erect during the
journey.
Eating in Washington.
opposite the Treasury is a
irt, where may be seen not only
u officers and men of con-
position iu the goverment ser
vice,Mt a great many others who do
not ( it a cheap luncheon, but a light
one, i know that if they once settle
into estaurant chair the result will be
a syo appetite by dhner time. Sec-
retar ^handler is one of the frequent
viati, and often maybe seen standing
in a iwd of Treasury jlerks, drinking
his i ; of milk and mtnehtog his two
cent icuit—that is it istwo cents k he
takes! buttered biscuit and only one
cen l it is unbuttered. It will be seen
by: light intellectual ejort that the
sals ■ of a Cabinet officerfor one year
purchase 800,000
c The Secretary’s
id, therefore, as
If the Secretary
two unbuttered
of his luncheon i;
of seven cents:
rill raise it to ni
take a piece of _
ly would not do—as
ew England, where
and not a sordid
11 reach fourteen cei
. however, as
be justified in a Cabinet
When Esculapius confidently asserted
in the presence of his disciples that there
was somewhere in the world an effica
cious remedy for every pain, he spoke
with greater wisdom than he knew. The
Star reporter, in the course of his
peregrinations, recently learned of a
benevolent and thriving pharmacist who
has gained a proud reputation for his
ability to exercise every type of inebria
tion. He is commonly spoken of by
those frail young men who bring him
the most patronage as “the great Ameri
can brace-up,” and is venerated by these
as one who loves his fellow-men and de
serves to be classed among the truly
good philanthropists of the earth. The
nature of the compound he uses is one
of the Dundreary mysteries, which ‘no
fellah can evah find out,” but so potent
is it that a man may enter his establish
ment in a state of beastly intoxication
and leave it half an hour afterward re
juvenated, clear-headed, confident and
n his right mind,
The shrewd druggist’s customers are
as various and as plentiful as blackber
ries in the season of flowers and sun-
sliine. The young swells or harmless
dudes who have been tempted into tak
ing more champagne tliau would meet
with the approval of their worthy par
ents, and who are afraid in consequence
to get under the family roof-tree lest
their desperate struggles to climb the
staircase and seek ttys solitude of their
quiet room should awaken their slum
bering progenitors and involve them
selves in difficulties, turn to the drug
gist as naturally as the daisy to the sun.
Prosperous clergynieu who have permi
ted themselves to indulge.somewhat fre
ly in’ after dinner beverages wliich
would be much more politic to eschew
have been known more than once to come
here evincing as much anxiety to be
sobered and put in a state to attend an
unexpected call as was ever exhibited
by lie Foe in his long search for the
elixir of life. Ladies who have sjient
the afternoon together and find that
' extra dry” has produced an effect
•liich lias put them into a state to pro
duce a still greater effect upon their hus
bands should they venture home in such
condition enter the drug store and in
timate as quickly as possible that they
have a sorrow for the proprietor to heal.
Half an hour of rest: with draughts of
this mysterious compound at short inter
vals, generally restores the fair libantees
te a projier state of nature, and they go
on their way rejoicing and with more
appreciation than ever before for tlie
wonderful invention of man.
Some of my customers are very curi
ous ones;” -said the man who is daily
benefiting his race to the Star reporter,
as they, mutually watched the exit of a
young man, the dark lines beneath whose
eyes demonstrated that Bacchus had
marked him for his own. “There is in
this city of temperance a lecturer of
some prominence, and who is in receipt
of a large salary from the societies with
which he is connected, but he seeks me
oftener than he probably realizes him
self- Hd came to me last Sunday morn
ing—nowntria Is a fact-Mn a state not
dreamed of in the philosophy of his ad
mirers. I restored him to his mental
equilibrium, and, as sure as you are
there, he staggered in again at two o’clock
in the afternoon, with tears in his eyes,
Egging to be once more relieved and
saved from ignominy, for he was engaged
to deliver a stirring lecture before a large
audience an hour latter.”
“Do you have many professional peo
ple?” was asked.
“Their name is legion. Physicians
who are suddenly called up to a patient
after a social evening with their friends
have come here for a ‘brace-up’ before
seeking the bedside of the sufferer.
Lawyers and Judges are always fond of
conviviality, and many of them have
found that I can subsequently do them
good. Once in a wh ile a minister forgets
liimself, and then he discovered the same
thing. I also have many lady patients,
Not long ago I was called to the sidewalk,
where I found a handsome and elegant
ly-dressed lady weeping bitterly in her
carriage. She confided to me tliat she
had lunched with lady friends at Del-
monico’s aftera shopping tour, had ta
ken more champagne than she had been
aware of, and dare not return home. A
few doses of my medicine dried lier tears,
and she departed with no visible signs of
her Indiscretions save a few dark lines
beneath her pretty eyes.”
Not all the bibulous, however, know
of this place of restoration, and so it
transpires that the fame of the “cock
tail” will not speedily .wane while
the lords of creation will still permit
themselves to indulge in spirstuous liba
tions. Apollinaris, gin fizz and seltzer
lemonade must continue a necessity, ex
cept as the Bacchanalian learns of the
wonderful druggist who can give him
back his reason in one short hour, with
a touch as gentle as that of a limner
restoring a picture by an old master.
Many of the men who look upon the
wine as it giveth its color in the cup
have, in their bed-chambers champagne
cocktails in bottles, of which they par
take as they dress in the morning.
Other devotees never start upon a journ
ey without carrying with them a flask
of this recuperating fluid, although the
drink can be obtained at almost any rail
road restaurant. Sporting men and
boxers are particularly prone to this
weakness, and moreihan one man, felled
ostensible by a soft glove, lias been in
reality knocked out by a cliampagne
cocktail.
. The following is a traveler’s narrative
of the snake-dance, among the Moquis
Indians, a northwestern tribe: Prepa
rations for the dance had been in pro
gress for eight days. The snake-priests,
forty-two in number, devoted the first
four days to secret rites. The four suc
ceeding days were employed in captur
ing the snakes which haunt the sandy
plains around the village. With a wand
painted, and bearing at one end two
black eagles’ feathers, the priests caress
the heads of the snakes as they coil in
the sand. The snake-priests are sup
posed to have borrowed this idea from
the habits of the eagle, which, when
capturing snakes, is said to charm them
to comparative harmlessness by hover
ing over and fanning them with a rapid
and peculiar motion of its wings. Hav
ing secured a sufficient number of the
reptiles, they are carried in sacks to the
estufa—the councilhouse of the Moquis.
This chamber is an excavation in the
solid rock from nine to ten feet deep
by eighteen feet wide and twenty feet
long, covered with poles, mud, and
stones. Hung on the walls in fantastic
groups are highly ornamented mocca
sins, breech-cloths, waistbands, rattles
and tortoise-shells.
On the morning of the dance we were
granted admission to the estufa, and on
descending by a ladder from the centre
of the roof, we found the snakes, from
one hundred and tw enty to one hundred
and fifty in number, contained in large
OV»il PilrtllPliU'-iro iii*i>c ..—
NEWS IN BRIEF.
I 8 societies of Shakers in
the United States.
The dot now placed over the i dates
from the fourteenth century.
Armorica, which is now Brittanv
was conquered by Oesar 56 B. C
of the world occurred 767 B. C.
in all parts
-—The celebrated mineral spring at
Cheltenham was discovered in 1718.
i It requires 10,296 gas and 2 368 oil
lamps to light the streets of Boston
through by those of the priesthood who
were present. Pouring the living mass
out of tlieir urns, they, with tiieir
wands, drove them aroiuid tlie floor of
the estufa from east to west, and then
around an altar laid in tlie rock floor
two feet from tlie west wall of the
budding.
The priests all wore waistband,
breecliclotlij and moccasins fringed with
red; besides wliich, their faces were
painted, from forehead to mouth, black,
from mouth over the chin, white; their
bodies, pink; tlieir arms and legs dyed
a dark brown. Around tlie right lejr
lielow the knee, was attached an orna
ment made of tortoise-shell, together
with the horny part of a deer’s hoof,
which in the dancing that followed pro
duced a sort of Inunmiug rattle resemb
ling the noise of a rattlesnake in anger.
During their exercises in the estufa, the
priests drank freely from a large urn
containing medicine water.
The snake dance itself took place
aliout four o'clock in the afternoon. A
cottonwood grotto had lieen erected on
tlie rock near the estufa, with a single
buffalo robe tied firmly around it, leav
ing a small entrance on "one side.
Around this was traced a mystic circle
thirty feet in diameter. Within the
grotto the snakes were now deposited
en masse.
The dancers were twenty-four in
number, the remaining eighteen priests
being reserved to receive the snakes
from tlieir hand, and to chant during
tlie progress of the dance. The dancers
first advanced towards the grotto, wands
—A single grape vine at Cajon. Cali-
ormiL is said to bear five tons of fruit .
4fiiTnno r m ll0uses , London
2:S Paris ’ * ew York and
—The shipment of petroleum and
petroleum products from this count^
for January were valued at $3,056 953^
, ~the new census there are in r^i
Cath oUcs and 1 ! -
198,842 Protestants of all kinds. ’
, 7T Tlle debt °f the United States nrinr
,lel ' e J a H wa -! a,K)ut 'S!>°’000,000. The
debt of the Australian colonies is a!
ready fivefold that. e s isal-
tu “” “ ic low
oval earthenware urns. Soon after we —Sweet jiotatoes are iiem<r
had entered a ceremony was gone fully raised in Mower count^ MffiST.
February ami January were added
to toe calendar by Numa abou“
svstemln'to-^i Wi J\ first reduced.toa
system 16io by Job,. Daniel, Mayor
The practice of using a baldachin in
dmrehes was introduced into England
i i . The Fr ?“cl‘ Government intends to
Hirlsin im mtern:,ti ' ,nal ex bibition at
—The hyssop of Scripture is toe caner
tree which abouuds in southern Europe
lower Egypt and Syria. Europe,
—Chicago is said to waste-' 40 000 000
" Per day, and 22 "
-The revenue of tlie Dominion Gov
eminent for the first nine month “of toe'
in height 11,000 feet, is almost exe stee 3
ly inhabited by Buddhistnw^s.
—On the Colorado desert a species of
tortoise grows to a weight of twenty
five pounds, and toe meat of this U con
sffiered a great delicacy among the £
a line, representing the two sides of
in land. Tlieii thiTis!#* fi*,. 1 ?
separated twelve a side, and formed in} its kind of „.i,;„i T? , rt
a ?!
—A man recently sold the timber
nghton a tract of land in CambriuToun'
ty, Pennsylvania, for 8C, ooo ' ir"
bought the laud and trees a few vo-?* 8
ago for $1,000. te w years
Atoe^Ain S Tr f0 “ 1>deJ a Public library
gives any acconnt^'Vfoi™!^^.^^!
Ptolemy PhiQeY-
triangle, of which the grotto was the IP*” 13 founded the second 281 B Q
aiiex The eighteen followed, dividing —"Pbe cost of tlie Vanderbilt bail -
equally and facing tlie dancers, while estimate r.,a - . ulu ' uau l
Lite m Large Cities.
Cities aje costly luxuries, and toe
bigger the city toe more expensive the
luxury. The assessed valuation of pro
perty in the city of New York for the
year 1825 was $101,100,040, and the tax
for that year was $387,448. In 1850 the
assessed valuation of property was $207,-
142,476—having doubled in twenty-five
years. The amount of taxes had, how
ever, increased eight times, being $3,-
230,085. In 1875 the assessed valuation
had risen to $883,643,545, while the
total amount of taxation had reached
the enormous sum of $32,365,744—hav
ing been multiplied one Hundred times
in fifty years, while the State tax charg
ed against tlie city has risen from $50,-
580 in 1825 to $8,012,386 in 1875. In
1880 the assessed value of property was
advanced to $942,571,690; but the total
tax was reduced to $28,937,272, due to
the reduction in the State tax levied on
the city from $8,000,000 to $3,571,322,
the city tax remaining the same.
Another great grievance under which
the New York citizens labor and groans
is the extravagance and recklessness of
the expenditure of the moneys raised by
taxation. If we may credit the state
ments of the journals of that metropolis
nearly half the city funds are absolute
ly squandered, worse than wasted.
all joined in a wild chant. The" chief
priest then advanced to the centre of
the grotto, bearing an uin of medicine-
water from the estufa, two large sea-
shells, and two stone figures of moun
tain lions. Chanting in a monotone, he
stood for about ten minutes waving the
uni in the air. Another dance and
chant followed; upon the conclusion of
which, the nearest priest on the right
entered the grotto on bauds and knees
among the writhing and hideous mass,
soon re-appearing with a large snake iu
his mouth, its Head and tail twisted
about ids face. Being taken by toe
left arm by a fellow priest next bun, he
was led around the mystic circle. The
suake was then dropped on some sacred
com meal which tlie squaws had scat
tered within its hounds. Immediately
on falling the creature coiled in anger,
whereupon one of tlie eighteen caressed
its head with his wand and took it in
his hands. The ceremony was then re
peated by the other dancers, who, en
tering the grotto on hands and knees,
brought out the snakes in their mouths,
sometimes two at a time, and danced
round the cnx-le on the rocks with them,
until the whole had been taken from
the grotto and placed in the hands of
the attendant priests. The snakes were
then thrown, a writhing muss, into a
pile of corn-meal, upon which the whole
priesthood rushed pell-mell to the pile,
nud seizing them in their hands, divided
into four bands, tore wildly down the
rocky slopes, and liberated their cap
tives iu toe sands on the north, south,
east aud west of the village.
estimated as follows: CostnmY. «7-- s
730- flowers *11 nnn costumes $l; w
hair-dressing camd Ses, if,000
tervar*f1s-2?’nm’ 000 | ? up P er and extra
* ’ ; ak '" S a t0tal of near-
fi T\ C . e men of * ;,ie Penobscot river sav
that the present season has been a
cessful one to them. Thee ll
2*? “2 “few
about. oO’OOO tons left over from last
—It is said that Stonehenge the
ancient monument on SalisbtffyV^ 6
uas built in accordance with vf„_i■
advice by AunJiJTiStotaffa
dered'by Hengis ErEonS ^e^ffinr-
discovered by a Jesu,tTn ll“ “ndit^
duced into France, and Sir Ha™Sk£ne
earned it to England in 1700.
Franeiseoafewd2s“ fhe Te^
and Pacific Iiailway
transportation of seven hundred car
loads, being about 300,000 hushels of
*>ew Flowers.
Among the new plants prominent is
a heliotrope named “Purple Gold ”
which is descriptive of its yellow foliage
that resembles somewhat the ribbon
line plant golden feather. It promises
to be valuable from its rare quality of
golden leaves, that contrast beautifully
with its purple flower. It has the same
delicious fragrance peculiar to ell helio
tropes. It origiuated in Cleveland,
Ohio, last season, and is now for the
first time offered for sale by a New Jer
sey florist. Ranging alongside of the
the purple and gold heliotrope is another
entirely distinct variety known as
“Swanley Giant.” the flower of wliich
has a carmine shade, a color for the first
time seen in tlie heliotrope. Coupled
with this valuable quality in tint it has
a truss of enormous size, measuring
from nine to ten inches in diameter. It
has also the true heliotrope fragrance.
Among roses a new class known as
the polyantlia, many flowered, appears.
These comprise iu color pure white
blended pink and deep carmine. The
flowers are quite small—not much Jargtr
than common' daisies—but home in
large clusters, having from fifty to sixty
fiowers in a cluster. The habit is quite
dwarf, not exceeding eighteen inches in
lieight. It flowers so profusely it will
render a continuous line of white, pink
or carmine during the entire summer
months. This will be a new feature in
ribbon-line planting, as heretofore roses
have hardly ever been used for that pur
pose.
In the tea-rose class "there is but
little new, as these roses are out of
fashion at present and there has been
less attempt at novelties. However,
there is one that it seems hardly fair to
ak. This is the etoile de Lyon,
is somewhat like the perle des
,»rdin in habit and style of flowering,
tmt it isentirely different in color, being
a shade of canary yellow.
SSdrz’-sIaS
amount to $2,900 000 Tile i 1>au }
and Hecla which basa capital of $1 20o!
S(^m 8StockhoMersintl ‘«P-tSr
- T Xhe Western Union telegraph lines
of SSl^dTfE^ miles
1 S S SS?° T le3 of wire on Jan
h fS’JZ*!™ 0 ' niles of Poles and near
ly 9,00(rmiles of wire on Jan. 1 1883
thus nearly doubling its facilities ^*
three years and still building.
. ~° ne . ? f the industries of Australia is
the cooking and canning of rabbits
which are so plentiful in sou.e dfstricte
sasssuss.-ss^s:
i- * ? n . the Second revenue collection
?Sto Marel?3isf\ n 8^T h mberlSt ’
«» Zed 105 Jil ic itdi4lle^;dertroy^ e
wereTnso iTu f0rfei ^, r „ e : ^ T here
andl77.:J^. of beer destroyed
ij gallons of low wines and 367
gallons of whisky seized.
—The mimng receipts at San Fran
cisco for the first six months of the year
amornited to $16 260,000, of which $2,-
099, 4-1, was for the month of June. Of '
tins sum the California sent $1,856,292-
Eurelra Consolidated, $1,562 500* Con
solidated Virgmia, $1,494,5^1- ’Rich
mond, $1,200,000, and Ophir, $723,000
—The first annual report of the New
Jersey railroad commissioners says them
are 1800 miles of road * the state' capi
tal[invested,$214,068,349; cost off roEd
and equipments, $168,618,355; gross
earnings m 1881, $31,845,802; nk iam^
ete 8 ’*6 ^mterestpoidonbonds,
? roSS earmngsforlSSi;
^SS&^. afterdednctii «
—It is well known that the w*e har
vest last year was scanty * Italy but
compared to that of France there is no
30886 In France scarcely
30,88b 7 3o2 hectolitres were obtained
while in Italy there were 32.562,448 hec
tolitres. The harvest * France was
Ires by 3,252,383 hectolitres than th-y
while to Italy it
toe average production, though below
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