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on: angels.
Old not with any sound they come, or sign.
Which fleshly ear and eye can recognize:
No curiosity can compass or surpass
The secret of that intercourse divine
Which God permits, ordains, across the line-
The changeless line which bars
Our earth from other stars.
But they do come and go continually,
Our blessed angels, no less ours than His—
The blessed angels whom we think we
Whose empty graves we weep to name or
And vainly watch, as once in Galilee,
One, weeping, watched in vain
Where her lost Chiist had lain.
Whenever in some bitter grief we And,
All unawares, a deep, mysterious sense
Of hidden comfort come, we know not
whence;
When suddenly we see, where we were
blind;
Where we bad struggled, are content, re
signed;
Are strong where we were weak—
And no more strive or seek—
Then we may know that from the far, glad
skies,
To note our need, the watchful God has
bent,
And for our instant help has called and
sent,
Of ali our loving angels, the most wise
And tender one, to point to us where lies
The path that will be best—
The path of peace and rest.
SET WITH THORNS.
Rose Gumey came slowly down the
broad path, and pausing before an old-
fashioned red-rose bush, began to select
with dainty fingers some partly-opened
buds which she fastened with delibera
tion in the knot of lace at her bosom.
A broad straw hat, with a scarf of
white muslin shaded her features; and
her morning robe of white lawn daintily
ruffled and draped in spotless purity, the
little nosegay of roses being the only bit
of color about her.
Philip Grantley, smoking his morning
cigar under one of the big elms, stepped
forward, tossingthe fragrant weed aside,
and doffing his straw hat.
He was a fine looking fellow, with wav
ing, jet black hair, and bold gray eyes;
and when you find such a combination-
black hair aud gray eyes, you will gen
erally find a will as indomitable and im
movable as a pyramid.
“How do you do, Cousin llose?” lie
said.
The young lady surveyed him • with
great calmness, quite ignorant of his ex
tended hand.
“I suppose you are Mr. Grantley,” she
said with the slightest possible bend of
her head; hut I am not aware of any
existing relationship between us.”
“No? Then I am not,” rejoined the
young man, philosophically, as he drop
ped his neglected hand into the pocket of
his loose flannel coat.
She looked at him with some perplex
ity now, but his face was inscrutable.
“May I have a rose. Miss Gumey?” he
asked with great politeness, his eyes fixed
upon the little cluster at her bosom.
“Oh, certainly! Help yourself!” with
a little graceful gesture towards the blos
som laden bush.
But he only glanced upon it with a
smile and turned away as the breakfast
bell rung out an imperative summons
from the house.
“You will come in to breakfast?” said
Bose, with a stiffness not at all natural
to her.
“How very kind you are,” ftiunnured
Philip, languidly, as he sauntered on by
her side.
“Papa, how can you expect me to
marry that man?” cried Rose, an hour
later as she joined her father in the
library.
“Is he not agreeable to you my dear?”
queried Papa Gurney, a shade of anxiety
drifting over liis handsome face.
“Agreeable? why papa, he is the most
—insufferable Rian I ever saw! Such
coolness, and such insolent grand seignor
ways. Why, I wouldn’t marry him if he
was the Iasi man on the face of the
earth 1”
“Well, well, Rosamundi, there’s no
compulsion about it.” And ill'. Gumey
smothered a sigh. “But I had hoped
you might fancy each other; the hoy’s
father was an old friend of mine. At
least you can treat him courteously while
he stays with us. He is our-tguest, re
member.”
Kose left the room silently, with com
pressed lips. “Treat him courteously, ”
indeed! Conventional courtesy seemed
utterly lost on this young fellow, who
made himself so entirely at home, who
w T as discomposed at nothing.
In the days that followed, Philip was
like the girl’s shadow, waiting upon her
with the most scrupulous attention, yet
not hesitating to criticise herplaying, her
singing and her riding. Rose quarreled
with him unconsciously. As for Philip,
he was as impertubable as mortal man
could be.
After all he could be a most delightful
companion when he chose. Rose reali
zed this when on rainy days he read ex
quisitely bits of her favorite authors,
while she busied herself at sewing! or
when in the long scented twilights he re
lated strange adventures in far-away
countries.
There had not been the slightest word
of love between them jtlierefore it was a
good deal of a surprise when Philip, lin
gering with her over the piano one lovely
summer night, said suddenly:
“Rose, will you be my wife?”
With her heart in her mouth, and
angry astonishment in her wide eyes,
Rose answered directly, “No, sir!”
Philip did not seem to take her refusal
much to heart. He drummed out a little
opera snatch rather absently on the white
keys, and presently went out on the lawn
for a smoke; while Rose, very much dis
turbed, ran up to her room and came
down no more that night.
The next day Mr. Gumey was stricken
down with paralysis.
He was quite conscious, but as helpless
as a little child, with no control of hands
or tongue.
The attempt at speech, the wistful en
treaty of Ids large eyes, wrung the heart
of poor little Rose, who was sure that he
desired to communicate something to
her.
When Philip came to the bedside, that
same dumb, passionate beseeching glance
went to him. The young man seemed to
understand it.
He bent over the stricken man quietly,
and said, with his hands upon the poor
helpless hands on the spread:
“I know what you wish to say, my dear
friend. Do not be troubled—everything
is right. Be comforted.
Tears gathered in the old man’s eyes,
and he motioned Rose and the house-keep
er from the room. They could hear his
voice low and steady and soothing; and
when they returned Philip went away, P 1106-
but the anxious, eager, expression was
gone from Mr. Gurney’s eyes; and when,
later, Rose questioned Pliilip concerning
ter father’s uneasiness, she got no satis
faction.
It was then, in the days of her sorrow,
that the girl learned the real nobility
and gentleless of Philip Grantley’s heart.
Never was there such an unwearying
nurse as he.
He took all troublesome duties upon
himself. Rose gladly gave the reins of
government into his steady hands.
Rose thought with a dreadful heart
sinking of his departure.
She broached the subject one day.
“Mr. Grantley, ”slie said, “I feel that it
is selfish in us to lean so thoroughly upon
yon- We must learn to do without you.
Some time again if you will viisit us when
papa is better—”
Her voice broke here; everything in the
future looked so hopeless, and she knew
herself to be young and inexperienced.
He was watching her attentively with
very gray eyes; and when she paused he
took her hand and drew her unresistingly
in the circle of his arm.
“Rose, do you want me to go away.
She shook her head. She dare not
trust herself to speak.
“Rose, I will not attempt to disguise
from you the fact that your father will
never again he well. Some time,
perhaps months hence, he may regain the
power of his speech.. But, Rose, he will
be an invalid always; and I am going to
ask you to let me share with you the care
of him. Ileis dear to me, and I suit him.
Rose, dear little red Rose, I want you for
my own; we need each other—don’t you
see? Can you love me a little? '
She was weeping wildly in his arms
now, and lie waited for her to grow- calm
er, and then led her to the sick room.
Mr. Gurney listened, with such un
mistakable rapture and assent in his eyes
to the young man’s story, that Rose could
not doubt what the desire of his heart
had been.
They were married very quietly a few
weeks later: and then a few words from
Mrs. Barton, the housekeeper, opened
Rose’s eyes,
“So you are not going to leave the old
place after all, Miss Rose?”
“Leave the Hull? What do you mean,
Mrs. Barton?”
“Then Mr. Grantley has not told you!”
“Told me what?”
“Miss Rose, just before your father’s
illness, he had decided to sell the-old
house, as he had met with heavy losses.
Mr. Grantley bought the place of him in
order that it might not go into the market
He lias probably been keeping this from
you in order to save your feelings; and I
must say, Miss Rose”—with the respect
ful freedom of an old servant-“you have
got one of the kindest-hearted gentlemen
in the country.”
Rose went silently in search of her hus
band. When she found liiip in the libra
ry her face was very pale, and her eyes
very big.
“Philip.” she said, “I have just learned
that this house belongs to you.”
‘What’s mine is yours, my dear; and
what’s yours is—”
But Rose had thrown herself upouhio
breast and was crying heartily.
“Philip! now rude, and unkind, and
ungenerous I have been to you. who are
so noble!”
Softly, little one! You are always my
ow r n red Rose; a little thorny, perhaps,
but that is the nature of roses.”
Home L.Ite In Brazil.
Food Makes tlio Man.
Speaking roughly, about three fourths,
by weight, of the body of man is constitu
ted by the fluid he consumes, and the re
maining fourth by the solid material he
appropriates. It is therefore no figure ot
speech to say that food makes the man.
We might even put the case in a stronger
light and affirm that man is his food. It
is strictly and hteially true that “A man
who drinks beer thinks beer.” We make
this concession to the tee totallers, and
will add that good sound beer is by no
means a bad thought factor, whatever mar
be the intellectual value of the commodity
commonly sold and consumed under that
name! It can not obviously be a matter
of indifference what a man eats and
drinks. He is, in fact, choosing his ani
mal and moral character when he selects
his food. It is impossible for him to
change his inherited nature, simply be
cause modifies tions of development occupy
more than an individual life, but he can
help to make the particular stock to which
he belongs more or less beery or fleshy, or
watery, and so on, by the way he teeds.
We know the affect the feeding of animals
has on their temper and very natures; how
tne dog fed on raw meat and chained np
so that he can not work off the super
fluous mtrogenised material by exercise
becomes a savage beast, while the same
creature fed on bread and milk would be
tame as a lamb. The same law of results
is applicable to man, and every bring or
gamsm is propagated “in its kind” with a
physical and mental likeness. This is the
underlying principle of development.
Happily the truth is beginning, though
slowly and imperfectly, to find a recognition
it has long been denied. It is possible
that in the natural desire to eecure the
best and purest supplies of food and drink
for man we are pushing matters a little to
extremes and becoming ridiculous. Uto
pia is a long way off, and “Hygeia” has not
been built. It is, however, desirable that
we should aim high and make the teach
ings of physiological science the precepts
of our daily life aud conduct. We maj
not be able to reach our ideal, but prog
ress will be advanced by striving to make
its attainment an object. “What to eat,
drink, and avoid” is a rational proposi
tion; and if some of us are becoming a
little unreasonable in the attempt to solve
it, at least we are on tbe right road, and
ought to be encouraged rather than
abashed by the not unkindly criticism
our endeavors are calling forth.
Hudson River Excursions via Pennsylvania
R. R.
Commencing Thursday, the 5th instant,
and continuing on Thursday only until
further notice, this most delightful of all
the one-day excursions will be commenced
by the Pennsylvania R. R. by rail to Jer
sey City, and thence via the favorite
steamer, “Richard Stockton,** to West
Point and Newburgh. The beauties of the
Hudson river have been pronounced by
great travelers as equal to any in the world,
and by se me s#i(l to exceed the world-fa
mous scenery of the Rhine. Certainl y there
is nothing to compare with it in point of
convenience and cheapness, as the entire
trip can be comfortably taken between early
breakfast and late supper.
A special train to connect with the boat
will leave Broad Street Station at 7.00 A.
M., on Thursday only, to stop at Powelton
avenue, Ridge avenue, Germantown Junc
tion, Frankford Junction, Torresdale, Bris
tol, and Trenton. Connection will be made
at Trenton by the train which leaves foot
of Market street at 6.20 A. M., which train
stops regularly at ail principal stations be
tween Camden and Trenton. The tare for
the entire round trip is only $2.50; children
between the ages of five .and twelve, half
fix who throws out suspicion should
at onoe be suspected himself
The streets of tbe business parts of
tbe eity of Para are very narrow. A
few are well paved with limestone, im
ported at an enormous expense from
Portugal. The other streets of the
town are macadamized with the one
sort of stone that is common in Brazil.
This common stone is composed of very
small quartz crystals and ochre cement.
It is exceedingly soft, and under the
heavy wheels of the clumsy vehicles
rapidly crumbles to a fine, red dust,
which would be intolerable but for fre
quent wetting. Street sprinkling is
wholly performed by the clouds, and
as this section lies in the zone of calms
a daily shower is expected. It usually
falls about 4 r. 31. and with so great re
gularity that daily appointments are
made with reference to the rain. No
“outlandish invention” could s<
thoroughly wash through the best pav
ed parts of the city, and it is to be hop
ed that no other sprinkler would leave
such wretched pools of water in the
fine red sand of the macadamized streets.
Winding among the elegant dwellings
of the more wealthy classes of people
the streets are wide and beautifully
planted with trees of various sorts.
Sometimes the palm is chosen and
sometimes the far-famed “ silk-cotton ”
trees are planted, but by far the com
monest are the mangoes. Brought
from the East Indies, the mango flour
ishes in luxuriant beauty and its thick,
clustering foliage forms one-of the most
striking features of Para, making this
city stand out in bold relief among the
other individualities and peculiarities of
various Brazilian cities.
In studying the habits of birds there
is nothing more interesting than to
mark each tribe’s special maimer of
constructing its nests. So, too, in mak
ing the acquaintance of a new i»eople,
nothing seems more important than a
consideration of their houses and home
life, and they are first to attract the at
tention of a foreigner. One might
naturally expect wood to be the most
common building material in a country
of such vast forests of huge trees. This
however, is far from being the case,
There are only about a half-dozen saw
mills on the whole Amazon river; con
sequently home-manufactured lumber
is not abundant and all of tbe stone
used in building is imported. But the
clayey soil bordering the small streams
and many parts of the larger rivers
makes brick a far cheaper building
material and it is also a much better
means of protection from the fierce
heat of tropic suns. The outer walls
and even the partitions are built three
feet thick, in order to support the
crushing weight of the heavy earthen
tiles of the roof. The outsides of the
brick houses are sometimes colored
pink, blue, green, yellow or white, bnt
they are for the most part covered with
porcelain tiling, in which blue and
white predominate, but in which al
most every color or combination of col
ors may sometimes be seen. This til
ing is always ot tlie tvuie form, nve
inches square and nearly half an inch
in thickness. Sometimes one piece
forms a design, but commonly it takes
four of the pieces set together to form
a figure. The figure is fastened either
with cement or with mortar on the
brick walls. AVlien not of glass the
outer doors are almost invariably paint
ed bright green, and without exception
both windows and doors open in the
centre and swing on hinges into the
room. In many cases blinds or “ lat
ticed windows ” are used in place of
glass windows, and these are frequent
ly suspended at the top, so that they
may be turned outward and propped
into a kind of awning for the windows.
Tbe outer doors and windows are all
provided with wooden shutters, which
are made to exclude the hot sun and
are faithfully closed to shut out the
night air, of which the people are so
much afraid that every house looks like
a dungeon when its inmates are sleep
ing.
Perhaps one reason for these well-
nigh hermetically sealed windows and
doors is found the fact that vampire
bats abound, and they are sometimes
so bloodthirsty that a strong horse that
has been exposed to their ravenous ap
petites for a single night will be stag
gering and weak in tbe morning. They
seem to be possessed of very fastidious
tastes, and the bats that freely bleed
one person will never be known to bite
another, even if tbe two individuals
are sleeping always in the same room.
But to return to the houses. All the
doors of a common dwelling-house are
wide and high enough to admit two
mounted horsemen riding abreast. As
for tbe interior, paper-hangings are not
very common, the walls being covered
from tbe floor to a height of three feet
with glazed tiling, like that used for
exterior walls, and the remainder
simply whitewashed to the ceiling,
which is made of wood and painted
white. Sometimes for better ventila
tion the ceiling is constructed of slats
that are arranged in diamond form and
the diamonds expand m size from the
chandelier to the edge of the room.
Insect life is so vigorous and so en
croaching that even oilcloth is not com
mon and other carpets are out of the
question—even the most elegantly fur
nished houses only boast of a rug or
two. Tbe floors are, however, quite
ornamental, being composed of alter
nate strips of light and dark wood.
The roofs, as I have said, are tiled, and
the red tiling is made in oblong, curv
ed pieces which are so laid on the
wooden frame that the roof is of con
tinuous and parallel rows of earthen
gutters; the scalloped edge of the eaves
being bidden in nicer houses by build
ing tbe front wall a foot or two higher
than the roof, and placing upon the top
of this parapet a row of porcelain or
marble vases, urns or monster acorns
and beautiful statues.
Among tbe flowers and shrubbery of
the gardens there is often a fountain
and around their marble basins statuary
is arranged. No high winds or winter
frosts ever blight the verdure in this
land of perpetual summer, and every
yard with its sanded pavements or its
gravel walks is provided with a high
iron fence, over which no thief could
possitily climb. Above the head of
him who passes the guarded entrance a
pair of crouching lions or porcelain dogs
seem to threaten violence to him who
enters unbidden. Some of these gates
are provided with bells, others have
only the cord of the house bell dangling
in the street, at the mercy of many a
saucy and mischievous boy, who catch
es the cord as he runs and is far from
the reach of the angry servant who
comes to answer the summons. Door
hells are not the most common means
of warning to those approached by visi
tors. Knockers are seldom seen, and
as the heavy doors would never echo
om ta pping knuckles, the only way
would seem to be to call out for admit
tance. Not so. The Brazilian pauses
on the threshold of his neighbor’s castle
and claps his hands two or three times I
Sometimes this sound of clapping will
be heard under your window, aud step
ping to the balcony, it is according to
chance whether you will be saluted by
a beggar, by one of your best friends,
or by a man who most respectfully in
vites you to purchase a ticket to a
circus or a sleight-of-hand performance.
The poorer classes and slaves live in
a sort of house whose floors are of mud,
whose walls of sash-like framework are
filled with unbumed clay and whose
roofs are covered with tlie well-dried
leaves of tlie “ thatch palm.”
Cremation in the East.
John Gilbert’s Boots.
Among the Hindoos, as ever}’ one
knows, the process of cremation is
common, and at Berares its practice
may he observed at any hour, alike be
neath the burning rays of the noonday
sun aud by the light of tbe pale moon.
Many a poor sufferer strains his last ef
forts to reach the.shore of the Ganges,
there to die on the hallowed ground.
The expense of wood for the funeral
pyre being too great to secure the burn
ing of the whole body, it is partly
charred, and then sent to float down
the holy stream into the eternity of tlie
sea. Tlie wealthier Hindoos are more
formal in tlie disposal of the dead. Af
ter bathing the body in the river it is
swathed in a shroud of white, scarlet
or saffron colored material; sometimes
even covered with cloth of gold or sil
ver, some vermilion paint, symbolizing
tlie blood of sprinkling, is then thrown
over it, and the body is laid upon the
pyre. After adding sweet grass, pre
cious oil, and more wood, the chief
mourner bears a lighted torch three or
nine times round the body, touches the
dead lips with the holy flame, and
lights the pyre. Then it is kindled in
several other places, and in a very short
time the body is consumed by the flame
tlie asiies are gathered up, aud the
Ganges bears them away.
In Japan cremation is not so publicly
lierfornied. A plain-looking house in
the comer of tlie country cemetery,
with mud walls and earthen floor, in
side of which are seven or eight low
stone enclosures, serves as a crematory.
The body, in a sstting attitude, is plac
ed on a heap of dry fagots in one of the
enclosures, and when after six or eight
hours the tire is burned out, nothing is
left but a lew white ashes, those are
put into an earthenware urn and buried
with or without religious rites. Tlie
burning of the bodies is not compulsory
in Japan, but Buddhists of tbe Monto
sect are nearly without exception cre
mated.
The town crematories differ only
from those in the country by their tall
chimneys, by which unpleasant odors
are kept from becoming troublesome
to the neighborhood. There is a small
room kept separate for the wealthier
people in which tJ#cy have their dsart
burned apart. For the use of this pri
vate apartment they pay twenty sliill-
lings, whiie those who prefer to be
burned in company pay about the fifth
part of this sum. Tlie fuel only costs
about one shilling. From 8 p. M. to 6
a. 3i. the fires bum on the granite sup
ports which are laid on the earthen
floor, and from each of these hearths
the ashes are gathered and put separa
tely into an urn. There is no smell to
annoy any one, and no nuisance. Terri
ble as cremation may appear to some,
the process is far lesi hideous in its de
tails than that which has its slow course
in the deep narrow bed into which the
flower-covered coffin is lowered from
our sight.
Toward the close of one of these
trips through the border States, the
company to which Mr. Gilbert was at
tached played in St. Louis, then an in
significant town of a few thousand in
habitants, paved principally with mud
six inches deep, and boasting one
theater, transformed out of ap old salt-
house, the only entrance to which was
by way of a long and rickety flight of
steps built on the outside of the end
wall. From liis share of the receipts of
a performance in this establishment
young Gilbert bought a pair of very
fine-looking boots, and, on account of
them, was for the moment the envj*of
his companions, several of whom were
without adequate covering for their
pedal extremities. They said very lit
tle regarding his purchase, however,
until some days afterwards, when, on
the way down the Mississippi to New
Orleans, the boat in which they had
taken passage stopped at Vicksburg
for a load of cotton. There two or
three of tlie actors, knowing that the
boat would be detained all night, deter
mined to give a performance on their
own account, and hired a negro to
make tlie announcement. Toward
evening it became evident that the
tumble-down shed in which the enter-
ment was to be given would be filled;
and old “ Sol ” Smith—“ the original
Sol ”—who was to be one of the per
formers, came to Gilbert, and dolefully
Girl Graduates.
There were eight graduates in all.
Two of them were exceedingly beauti
ful, both being blondes; five of them
were pretty, but the eighth was decid
edly homely, though intelligent.
“ Well,” said one of them when ask
ed the question, “ I’m going abroad to
study medicine. It will take me about
five years, and then I intend to come
back here and practice in my own
home in Connecticut. I tliink the sal
vation of this country will be only at
tained when half physicians are wo
men ! ” And when a noble expression
in her beautiful blue eyes she turned
away. This was from the prettiest girl
of the lot.
“ I’m not going to be so silly,” said
the other beauty, biting the end of her
white satin fan. “I’m going into
society. This summer ma’s going to
bring me out at Newport, Saratoga and
Long Branch, and in the fall I’m going
abroad to be finished or polished up, you
know. It gives one an air of elegance
to travel abroad, I’m told.”
But what are your plans for life ? ”
was asked.
“ Plans ? how funny ! Why I in
tend to have a good time, of course.
Bnt plans ! “Why, ma says its vulgar
for women to have decided views on
subjects. Of course I’m going to be
long to a dancing class, and have regu
lar reception days, if that’s what you
mean by plans,” and she fanned herself
gently and held her big bouquet of pink
roses up to her dainty nose.
“For my part,” said the homely girl,
I think life is a curious mixture.
What’s the good of learning so much
trash, for it is trash. Then you live
a little while, and speak correct Eng
lish, and then die. I don’t know what
I’m going to do. I should like to be in
love, but I don’t really think any one
weu'.d ever fall in love with me, so I’ll
have to give that up. I wish I could
;o to school all my life. ”
“Now. Edith,” said one of the girls,
yet unheard from; “ you know you’ll
marry some awfully nice fellow, be
cause you’ve got so much money. As
for me, I am only too thankful to have
been educated, even by a stingy old
aunt; and now I’ve got to support my
self.”
I should think it would be lots of
fun to earn your own living,” said a
lively little brunette who was in grand
spirits. “ Don’t you fii-d it so ? ” she
went on, turning to the reiorter.
Oh, yes, lots I ” was the heroic re
ply.
“Yes, I should love it. Getting
checks of your own every week and
drawing on the bank, and having
enough money to buy all the candies
and chocolates you wanted. Oh, I do
wish pop wasn’t* rich.”
Don’t be siRy, Maud,” replied a
stately young lady, with very wise eyes.
“ Frank says it’s very difficult to make
money, and when I’m married I'm go
ing to be very economical. I’ve come
to the conclusion that it’s a very wick
ed thing to have so many new dressed
and music and ice cream, when thou
sands of people are starving.’! '
displayed a pair of shoes tliron .
which a tom stocking was only too
plainly risible, said, in tones which
would have done credit to Forrest or
the elder Booth :
John, friend of me youth, let me
liave your opinion of these shoes.”
“ They are very bad shoes,” replied
Gilbert, with equal solemnity ; exceed
ingly bad shoes, my friend.”
“ In fact it would he injudicious, as
it were, to appear before the culture
and fashion of Vicksburg in such
shoes ? queried “ Sol; ” and Gilbert be
ginning to see wliat was coming, reluct
antly admitted that “tlie culture and
fashion of Vicksburg ” might indeed
object to so lavisli a display of worn
stockings.
“ Then me friend, me noble triend!’
continued “ the inimitable Sol ” with
increasing animation, “there is abso
lutely no help for it. Me very soul re
volts at being compelled to ask the
sacrifice, but in tbe name of our friend
ship I conjure—nay, I command you
th lend me your new boots ! ”
What warm-hearted man could have
withstood such an appeal? Certainly
not John Gilbert. Without further ado-
he pulled off the new boots and gave
them to his friend ? They were several
sizes too large for “ Sol;” still, happy
in their possession, he hurried away to
take part in the performance.
The house was well filled. “Sol
received neari y $20 as his share of the
proceeds, and, having the night before
him, wandered about “just to see the
town, you know,” happened into a
gambling saloon, last his money, took a
brandy-smash or two, became happily
oblivious to what was going on about
him, staggered out into the street to
ward his boat, and at last arrived in
tlie very best of health and spirits, but
without anything on his feet.
He left John Gilbert’s new boots
sticking in theblackmudof Vicksburg.
During tbe rest of the trip to New Or
leans that eminent comedian was ob
liged to wear the “ holey ” shoes of hi*
friend “ Sol,” while “ Sol ” himself—a
wiser, if not a sadder, man—was oblig
ed to walk about in a pair of dilapidat
ed slippers furnished by tbe liberality
of the steamboat captain.
Flags For me a anon.
“What can you tell about flrga that is
interesting ?” was asked of the proprietor
of one of the largest factories in New
York.
“A great deal,” he said. “The trade is
booming; that’t interesting to ns. The
Fourth makes the trade lively just now, of
course; but trade tor the last vear has been
much better than it was last. Flags form
one of tbe necessities of life. They are the
most prominent outgrowth of American
enthusiasm. We get married at an altar
draped with the national colors. Sunday
schools parade the streets and go picnick
ing with flags m the hands of the children.
Christmas trees are decorated with them.
The advent of bock beer or the opening of
a bar-room calls for the use of the patrio
tic emblem of freedom. We nominate
political candidates m flag-draped halls.
The opening of the-great bridge called for
thousands of flags. We honor the memory
of the soldier dead by decorating their
graves with the flag they fought for. We
listen to stones of the wrODgs inflicted on
the oppressed m another land in halls
where the stars and stripes are twined with
the emerald field and the narp. Every
thing that excites our emotions sells our
flags. There is no place like America for
flags; there is no flag so beautiful as the
American flag.”
“Have you any Idea how many flags are
made and sold in a year ?”
“Not a very accurate one. They are
made by the million. Our concern turned
out a million and a quarter last year. There
are dozens of other hrms turning out other
millions. We fill orders for a thousand
gross of the small ones. We keep hundreds
of thousands constantly in stock. Flags
are perishable. When the present excite
ment is over the flags are thrown away.
When the future excitement comes new
ones are bought. They are so very cheap
that no one cares to keep them. Thus we
make small paper flags, one by one and a
half Inch large, mounted on a pin, that wc
sell at thirty cents a gross. From that
figure the price runs up to $200 for a very
large and elegant silk banner handsomely
embroidered. Tbe largest banting flags
seldom exceed 36x50 feet in size. Such
flags are used by hotels. Then there are
the streamers, the burgees or banners wilh
mottoes, tbe signal flags for merchant
ships and yachts. Those may be called
side issues to the flag business, but they
are a large factor in the trade.”
“What do you make your flags of?”
“Silk, bunting, muslin, and paper. Silk
flags are usually made to order. We keep
a great variety of Duntmg flags in stock.
These flags are made by sewing the dif
ferent colored ciothes together. The bunt-
ing'was formerly imported, but a number
of years ago Gov. iien Butler, of Massa
chusetts, made np his mind that he could
make better goods for less money. The
opposition be encountered encouraged
him. He now sells the best bunting in
the worlk tor about $10 apiece. The in
ferior imported stuff costs $14. The next
cheaper grade ot flags is made by printing
the colors on the white cotton cloth. We
can print them as large as six feet in
length. They are printed on hand presses
much the same as newspapers were printed
years ago. All attempts to cheapen the
work by steam power have failed.”
“I)oyon ever make foreign flags ?”
“Thousands of them. They are wanted
for decorating purposes chiefly. Ships
buy some, but not many. They get them
abroad. The foreign consuls give us orders
for some very elegant flags.
“To what territory do you look for your
trade?”
“The whole country, New York sup
plies the nation, although many flags are
made elsewhere. Here is an order from
Cincinnati. Over there is a handle for
San Francisco. You can say that in the
new trade, 83 in a great many other things
New York city leads the world.”
Don’t go to bed with cold feet. Don’t
sleep in the same undergarments that are
worn during the day. Don’t sleep in a
room that is not well ventilated. Don’t
sit or sleep in a draught. Don’t lie on the
left side too mneb. Don’t lie on the back,
to keep from snoring. Don t try to get
along with less than seven or eight hours’
sleep out of twenty-four. Don't jump out
of heel immediately on awaking in the
morning. Don’t forget to rub yourself
well all over with crash towel or bands
before dressing. Don’t forget to take a
good drink of pure water before breakfast.
Don’t take long walks when the stomach
is entirely empty. Don’t start to do a
day’s work without eating a good break
fast. Don’t eat anything but well-cooked
and nutritions foods. Don’t eat what you
don’t want just to save it. Don’t eat be
tween meals nor enough to cause uneasi
ness at meal-time. Don't eat the smallest
morsel unless hungry, if well Don’t try
to kaep np on coffee or alcoholic stimu
lants, when nature is calling yon to sleep.
Don’t stand over hot-air registers. Don’t
inhale hot air, or fames of any adds.
Don’t fill tne gash with soot, sugar, or
anything else to arrest the hemorrhage
when you cut yourself, but bring the parts
together with (tripe of adhesive plaster.
Don’t wear thin hose or light-soled shoes
m cold at wet weather. Don’t strain your
eyes by reading on an empty stomach or
when ill. Don’t strain your eyes by read
ing or sewing at dusk, by a dim light, or
flickering candle, or when very tired.
Don’t sing or halloo when yonr throat is
sore or you are hoarse. Don’t drink ice-
water when yon are very warm, and never
a glassful at a time, but simply sip it
slowly. Don’t take some other person’s
medicine because you are similarly afflic
ted Don’t bathe in less than two hours
after eating. Don't eat m leas than I wo
hours after bathing. Don’t call so fre
quently on yonr sick friend as to make
yonr company and conversation a bore.
Don’t make a practice of relating scandal,
or stories calculated to depress the spirits
ot the sick. Don’t forget to cheer and
gently amuse invalids when visiting them.
Don’t call on your sick friend and advise
him to take some other medicine, get an
other doctor, eat more, eat less, sit np
longer, go out more frequently; stay a
week, or talk him to death before you
think of leaving.
liaising Cinchona.
A letter from Ceylon, lower India and
Java aavs I iaucy yon would be sur
prised at the modes of cultivating the
cinchona, as now practised in Ceylon,
lower India and Java. I fancy a slight
description of it will have some interest
for yon, After getting the forest felled
and burned off, the - land is lined off,
and holes are cut the same as for coffee,
only not so large, eight inches wide and
deep, instead of twenty as for coffee.
The best approved mode is five feet
apart; this gives 2,540 trees per acre.
Leave the holes open until thoroughly
oxygenized, and this point is shown by
the weeds beginning to grow well down
inside the holes. Then pat oat plants
in shadowy weather, at four years of
age, ent off all lateral branches to a
height of five feet from the gronnd.
Trees if on fairly good soil should then
be ten feet high. Yon leave branches
above five feet from tae gronnd, be
cause they are the laboratory, a ma
chine that draws tbe alkaloid-piodnc-
ing properties from the atmosphere.
At the end of five years you start on
the stems of the cinchona trees (here
you will be astonished) with spoke-
shaves. Set the blade of the spoke-
shave sufficiently forward to enter the
bark to the point where the cambrinm,
or innermost bark, lies. This cambrinm
most not be ent; it is the machine that
will grow thick for next year’s bark.
Mats are adjusted at the foot of the
trees to receive the shavings. The men
peg away, and a fair day’s work for an
average coolie on five-year-trees is 60
or 70 pounds of the wet bark. This,
when dried, should turn ont one third
of its weight in dried bark, the value of
which, just row, in Colombo (Ceylon),
is one shilling and sixpence, or about 36
cents per pound. A fair thing, from
five-year-old trees, would be half a
pound of bark per tree. Bnt, like many
other things, many get more, and many
get less.
At onr present rate of expenditure,
abont ten pounds sterling per acre, or
say in equivalent rupees, 25 or 109
cents to a rupee equals $125, Allow
ing 1.700 trees to the acre, an average
of 7 cents per tree covers expenditures.
Taken as a whole, cinchona growers
have done very well on soils that were
not too light with clay.
The plant wants a very gravelly soil,
but will not stand wet feet. The variety
of plant now most in vogue in Ceylon is
called tne “Cinchona hybrid,” caused
by the mixture of the pollen from the
two varieties. This cross is believed to
possess the greatest immunity from the
various diseases peculiar to any tropi
cal cultivation over large areas.
The greatest difficulty is found in the
cinchona nurseries, when the yonng
NEWS IN BRIEF
Boston* 616 ar<i 0V6r 1,000 bic y clels in
new post-offices were estah-
hshed m the United States durin» the
fiscal year just closed. ° e
—Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto
Canada, has fully recovered from his
recent dangerous illness.
—Three children have died in Brazil
Indiana, within the past two yearefrom
drinking concentrated lye.
Cregon, is to have this
yearall’OOO’DOO bridge, and railroad
workshops costing $5,000,000. a
—A devil fish, measuring eight feet
m circumference, was captured at Santa
Monica, Cal., a few days ago.
—The total coinage of the U. S. Mints
i Un , D ?A Une , was *L»*M30, and dlu “"
the last fiscal year $66,192,704.
■ 7 T . her f ^ more than 800,000 people
m Ireland who speak Irish, and 100 000
who can speak no other language. ’
The total debt of the city of Bos
ton is reported at $41,281,000, an in
crease of $1,118,000 since last year.
—The French authorities this year
estimate for 17,200 tons of ironS
ship building; the English for 12 2JO
tons. ’
—Chester County farmers are com-
plaimngjseriously of the damage wrought
mwf"' grUm fields by E,1 S‘ isl1 s Par-
—.A census of Portland, Me., hasiust
JdT- fiJwf 11 ’ Wl " Ch shows a Population
of a>,890, an increase of 2,000 in three
years. ’ l ' aree
II. D. Cosgrove, of San Francisco
him offered the City of Buffalo a monu-
nrental drinking fountain, to cost
—A cane made of 8,000 pieces of
pasteboard playing cards, tightly rolled
m rntf 1 t0getl,er is cai ™ 1 by a man
in Chico.
P Maine and
f ° r me “ in
luiTOs. da} '~ 30 3 “ At h>nsta
plant* are just above tlie ground,"say a Maine last year was 095 714 bushels
quarter ot an inch, they damp off in I {mshels,’and of pota-
An Aesthetic Kitchen.
A German Porter.
A traveler
describes the average
porter of the hotels in Germany as a re
markable being. He is asked more
questions in one day than an ordinary
man can answer in two. He most reply
to one question in Spanish, another in
English, a third in dulcet Italian, the
next second he most assume all the
■nave politeness of the mercurial Gaol;
and before the tiste of the last French
nasal adjective has left his month, he
must tvtist his tongne abont the many
spirals ot a Russian consonantal noon.
His gold-banded cap is ever ready to be
lifted, his learned head eager to bend
itself in show, and his linguistic tongue
willing to answer any and all questions
in almost any and all languages. Bnt
even this magnificent man of varied at
tainment^ decked oat and though he is
in a showy uniform, does not refuse to
Ja offered him, be it gold.
silver
It is wonderful how pretty even a
kitchen may be made to look by the
woman of aesthetic ta3tes. Calling on a
lady who, tired of boarding, dabbled in
“light house-keeping,” she showed us
her kitchen with pardonable pride.
1 retty china was displayed on shelves,
brackets, and in a tiny cupboard; Japan
eae scrolls, fans and plates hung upon
the walls, and there was nothing about
the room suggestive of cooking except
an innocent-looking oil stove, which
stood on a box curtained with chintz,
bearing printed figures from the opera of
“Patience," in soft, aesthetic colors. A
breakfast-table stood at one side of the
room—which was little larger than a hall
bed-room—a pretty dressing-case occu
pied one corner, ami the only remaining
corner was filled by a small wardrobe.
“But where do you keep things? Where
are your kitchen utensils—your kettles,
tins and broilers?” With a smile our
friend palled aside the curtain which
hong below the oil stove, and there in a
box were all the utensils necessary m
cooking. Farther investigation revealed
the fact that the dressing case was only
used to hold groceries, while the wash-
stand concealed the tin dish-basin, soap,
etc. Market baskets, tea towels, work
aprons and the like were stored away m
the wardrobe. “How do you dispose of
refuse scraps; trait and vegetable parings
and the like?” we asked. She beckoned
ns to tbe window, where a basket hung by
a long rope reaching clear to the basement.
“X sead them down in that; tbe girl
empties the Dasket, and I draw it np again
wnenever I need it. It saves running up
and down stairs, and besides has a flavor
of ‘The Princess in the Tower’ about it
which relieves it from absolute ccmmen-
place.” This woman moves in the best
society, drives in a stylish coupe, dresses
well, and, in tbe current phrase, “goes
everywhere,’’yet there are probably few
who know about her cozy little kitchen
and her dry slop-basket. Verily, “one-
half the world doesn’t know how the other
half lives.”
yellow spots. The only remedy here is
to transplant at once into new beds,
four inches apart, removing the plants
to the field when four inches Lkjii.
The diseases most commouiy met
with are two, a peculiar decay of the
roots and consequent death of the tree,
and canker, canae and care not known.
The hybrid is not subject, it is said, to
canker. Plants of like niture covering
large areas generally do produce some
decimating influence, as if nature pre
ferred variety.
But the plant of all others I would
think best to cultivate in Ceylon Is the
cardamon. It is a bnlbons plant, some
thing like a hen’s egg in shape, with a
root of onr American rhubarb plant at
tached to one end of it at right
angles to the longest diameter of the
The best Malabar plants are for sale
at fifteen rupees per thousand. Plants
not three years old are eight feet high,
and have by tnat time developed im
mense tufts of long, heavy shoots of
leaves. Tie a handful of fowl’s feathers
together at the lower end and spread
the tope out in a sort of radiating tuft,
and you have the shape of the crop
bearmg cardamon plant. Some get to
be 10, 12 and 15 feet in height; the
leaves and shoots hre m shape like the
aloe. They are very thin, with stnnted
mid-rib, glossy dark-green on upper
side, and velvety pale green on under
side.
The crop is formed on lateral shoots
proceeding lrom the chuter of bulbs at
the surface of tbe groonffMsui poshing
their way along the gromun|tiU direc
tions from the centre of the plan^
little white flowers aad tiny bads spi
from the sides of these tendrils, or
shoots. A remarkable peculiarity is
that the flower springs from one point
on the tendril, and the carbamon pods,
of which there are two or more, close to
the flower, from anether part of the
tendril. The flower, in short, does
not develop into a fruit. It seems to
be there as a feeder or fractifier, on its
own wee, tiny stem, and each yonng
cardamon has also a tiny stem of its
own.
the l?uor SeTf^th^BriffiS?
s“’traffic half0f themrefer to the
—The public debt statement for June
shows a decrease of $18,098,201 The
tsassss**”"****
.foZ h ?„ fl l U,ntity of wheat raised in
toes, 7,999,625 bushels.
Fiirtrxn ATzi u ° Jr u d wooa near
i7T to ve ’ fOT some tim* pair,
been disturbed by showers of stonei
coming apparently from the sky.
, —The Indian colonial retains his
fondness for curry when he returns to
England, and curry is one of the few
dishes that England has adopted.
—The amount of fresh beef exported
““ country during May was
J,3.2,000 pounds. For the correspond
ing month last year 2,725,000 pounds.
—The total assessed valuation of real
and personal estate in the city of New
York for 1883, is $1,276,677,164, an 1n-
for'lSfZ ^ 3 ’ 200 ’ 7ti5 011 tb e valuation
In actual gam in population in ten
years from 1870 to 1880, only one State
exceeded Pennsylvania. The gain in
Texas was 773,170; the gain in Penn
sylvania was 760,940.
Steam ins in Mua.
Luther’* Bible.
Martin Luther’s hand Bible, preserved
as a most precious relic in the Berlin
Markish Museum, gains additional in
terest with the approach of the 400th
anniversary of the great Reformer. It
came originally from Wittenberg, from
the library ot the Theologian Professor,
Lommafzsch, who sold it in 18617 to
Sanitary Councillor Lutze, of Koethen,
for 9,000 mans and a life rent. Of the
latter t. e Markish Provincial Museum
acquired the Bible by purchase on Jana
ary 27, 1877. The Bible is the large
Basle Latin edition of 1509 cum plena
apparatu, and annotated thronghout
by Dr. Lather, who made nse of it in
his preparatory study for its translation.
His characteristic coarse handwriting
covers every page of the text, and the
commentaries aa well as the inside of
the parchmeet corses. The title page
contains the biblical quotation: “if Thy
word, oh Lord, do not comfort me, I
should perish in miamy. 1542 Mart,
Luther D. ”
IP
A correspondent from Las Vegas,
New Mexico, says the Las Vegas hot
springs, which are now attracting so
much attention, from their specific cu
rative qualities, are situated in a pla
teau of abont 30 acres, completely sur
rounded by mountains and traversed by
the sparkling Gailinas. A palatial
hotel, also bnilt and controlled by the
railroad, adds to the attractiveness of
the place as a popular resort. There
are abont forty springs, oi all degrees
of heat and viieness of taste, and all
varieties of batlis are given, the most
popnlar of the latter being mod baths.
The new arrival usually declares -that
nothing bnt a case of life or death would
induce him to be immersed in the black,
slimy earth. He begins witn a mdd
tub bath and shampoo, then his courage
rises to a vapor, medicated or electric
treatment, and finally he succumbs to
the sensation of the hour, the mud bath
mania. A tub is filled with hot earth,
taken from a spot where the mineral
waters tnckle through, and abont the
consistency of thick paste. In this the
victim is placed, with his head protrud
ing, to steam for a half honr or so.
Then he. is put under a shower until
cleansed. It is astonishing to see what
people can bring to themselves to do.
Delicate, fastidious ladies, who shrink
lrom the ordeal at first with horror and
nanseo, become so found of the baths
a3 to cry when giving them up; but a
row of the fair creatures, immersed in
the thick, black stuff, with just their
heads visible, like so many Bluebeard's
wives after the decapitation act, is a
sight more novel than edifying. It is
claimed that this treatment will cure
rheumatism, neuralgia, akin diseases,
eta., and eradicate malaria. A Cincin
nati doctor has jntt left the springs
after taking 68 mod baths cored of a
terrible ease of blood poisoning.
—The claims received at the Internal
Bureau for rebate of tax on account of
tobacco,. snuff and cigars under the
new Igw number nearly 20,000, amount
ing to about $2,000,000.
. L 7“ Ha , I ,” < ? rth ’ to e youngest son of
the late Godlove S, Orth, of Indiana
has been presented with the desk used
in the House of Representatives for so
many years by his father.
—Careful observations on the tem
perature in the AUiser Theatre in Ha
vana, before and after the introduction
of electric lighting, shows a difference
of 25 degrees F, under the new and old
conditions.
—The eleven surviving members of
the Class of ’33 of Bowdoin College, of
whom there were 26, are to have then-
semi-centennial reunion in Brunswick,
Me., at the coming Commencemiut.’
Nine of the eleven are clergymen.
—A curious freak of nature can be
seen at Solomon Marsh’s farm, near
Norton, Kansas. The curiosity is a
calf bom without eyes. The calf is
perfectly formed, active and all right,
with the exception that it has no sign
of an eyeball.
—Forty thousand acres of land in
Arkansas have been secured for an
Italian colony. The immigrants are to
come from Tyrol, principally, and will
be agriculturists. About a thousand
Italians have already settled in that
region.
—The largest mule in tlie world was
sold at Kansas City, last month. It
was 18J hands high, weighed 1,975
pounds, measured fifteen feet from nose
to tail, and was six years old. Some
body w£Il rise up now and tell a kick
story commensurate with the size of the
beast.
—The Princess Isabella, of Bavaria,
recently married to the Duke of Genoa,
is described as looking like a wax sta
tue, without a particle of color in the
face, rich auburn hair, large, dark wist
ful eyes, and the figure of a Juno. She
is very timid and retiring, and even her
smile is tinged with sadness.
—Bishop Keane (R. C.), of Richmond,
Va., who has been visiting Palestine,
lias shipped from that country a corner
stone for the new cathedral that is to
be built in Richmond. The scone is
twenty tsy fifteen inches in size, and
was cut from the Rock of the Garden of
Gethsemane, on thq-Mount of Olives.
—An illustrious record of long and
faithful services is the brief summary
of tbe life of a Georgia clergyman. For
nearly half a century the Rev. Henry
Crawfo d Tucker expounded the tenets
of the Christian religion, and zealously
performed the duties of his sacred office
without receiving one dollar in return
for his protracted labors.
—London will soon have a population
equal to that of ancient Rome, which
is by some historians pnt at 4,000,000
and by others at 5,000,000. AiworiiJ
in
Io711M oj£54,260: it has now naan in
3 > 8 j6.«3, todudhig 1,797,480
and 2,018,997 *imwilin thus t' '
increase of 562^23 persons.