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£hf gfdartatrn gfoettim. ~V Printing. Official Journal of Pofk tmd Haralson Counties#' rv Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 per square for first insertfein,- and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. The ftpace of one inch.is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to run for a longer period than one month. TEBMS: $1.50 Per Annum, in Advance. THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press sad If ew Material, EMBRACING DESEBTEP. 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 Reproduction of eSiptioXI^