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aggM a / // >7 X X Z X XX X ®fe* Cfdartoun gulvcrtiscr. Office, WAREHOUSE STREET, One Door north of Cotton Warehouse. Official Journal of Folk and Haralson Counties. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 per square for first insertion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. The space of one inch is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to run for a longer period than one month. The Cedartown Advertiser: D. B. FREEMAN, Publisher.' LABORING FOR THE COMMON WEAL. TERMS: $1 50 Far Annum, in Advance. OLD SERIES—YOL. X- NO. 27. CEDARTOWN. GA.: THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1883. NEW SERIES—VOL. Y-NO. 34. anil Job Printing. THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press and Jfew Material, EMBRACING Type, Border, Ornament*, &e„ Of the very latest designs, and all ordera tor Job Work will be executed neatly, cheaply and promptly. 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.