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Iwrtigtt Office, WAREHOUSE STREET, On* Door north of Cotton Warehouse. . Official Journal of Polk and Haralson Counties. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 per square for first insertion, and 60 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. The space of oneinch is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advecti&tfnents to run lor a longer period tlian one month. D. B. FREEMAN, Publisher. LABORING FOR THE COMMON WEAL. TERMS: $1 50 Fer Annum, in Advance. OLD SERIES—VOL. X- NO. 29. CEDARTOWN. GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. 1883. NEW SERIES-VOL. Y-NO. 36. Job Printings THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE is equipped with good Press and Sew Material, EMBRACING Type, Border, Ornaments, Ae_ ' at « s *,« le *>gi>3. and an oidars for Job Work will be executed neatly, cheaply and promptly. 9 SO GOES THE WOBlD. The eagle plucks the raven, And the raven plucks the jay, To whose voracious craving The cricket falls a prey. The big fish dine at leisure, Upon the smaller fry, Ana the minnow eats with pleasure The poor unoonscious fly. The miser skins his neighbor, The neighbor skins the poor, And the. poor man doomed to labor Spurns the beggar from his door. And thus the world Is preying, The strong upon the weak, Despite the precious saying: “The earth is for the meek.” SECRET OF A LARCH-TREE. A lady, young, beaut ful, blonde, sparkled with diamonds as she danced, herself the magnet of all eyes, amidst the music, light, and revelry of the August night at Silver Spring. Dia- . monds twinkled in the fair hair, poised there as a butterfly; diamonds trembled like dewdrops about the snowy throat, and formed a blazing pendant medallion amidst the flowers of the satin corsage; diamonds flashed in the tiny ears and on pach dimpled wrist. “Professor Horton, do you see the lady with the diamonds?” inquired tne ' Colonel, with his soft, good-natured laugh. “Yes, I see her. What then? torted the Professor, grimly. “Oh, nothing at all, only the Silver Spring will be regarded as a fashion able resort, what with the new Belle vue Hotel and such guests. Next year we will he able to hold up our heads with Saratoga and Newport, if we can add a race-course and club house, sir.” Here the Colonel rubbed his bands together with a gesture which has become traditional with the hotel proprietor of all ages. The face of Professor Horton was lean, sallow and dolorous, on the con trary, and was clouded by the discon tent of one who lias a grievance to lay at the door of circumstances. He retorted, sharply, “Mrs. Delaunay is the name, eh? Are the diamonds real?” “Beall They are of the purest water, and cost seventy-five thousand dollars, X am told. She was an heir ess, you know, and when she married last year, the accumulated interest of her minority was invested in 'these jewels.” Such was the Colonel’s glib explanation. “Who is her partner?” pursued the Professor. “Oh, the French Marquis de Ratti. They say lie followed Mrs. Delaunay here, after being all about in society at New York and Washington last winter. ” “I do not believe in foreign noble men,” grumbled the Professor, “They prove to be valets and barbers more often than not. He looks more like a prize-fighter than a gentleman; but perhaps the prize-fighting, element is the highest element of bipod -among the nobility,” mused the republican spectator, “numplil I should not care to meet him oii^ a dark night. He might crack my slsull like an ei sell betweer finger and thumb. Oh, the customs of fashion. That young husband, leaning against the wail, permits the Marquis to waltz with his wife, instead of knocking him down for his impudence.” At this moment a pretty girl ap peared behind the professor and the landlord, with round, fair face and hair meekly brushed back from the temples, and ingenious blue eyes. The pretty girl smoothed her neat apron and lowered her eyes demurely as she demanded, in the softest of voices, “if you please, sir, may I have my tea? “Mrs. Delaunay’s English maid, Alice,” explained the Colonel, when he had granted the request. Why did Professor Horton follow the English maid, so young, so gentett, so demure, with his eye? He could not tell. He saw lier pause outside an other window, where the Marquis de Ratti was taking the air, the dance being over, and it seemed to the ob server that the two exchanged a glance, a smile, a signal, before the girl dis appeared around the comer of the house. “We only lack the gallantries of noblemen anil ladles’-maids to complete the ruin of our Silver Spring,” mut tered this stern moralist, whose ideas wese so old-fashioned. He sought his own chamber gloomily, for in addition to perturbation of mind, owing to hav ing his sylvan retreat invaded by the Philistines of fashion, he was literally broken by bodily fatigue. He had rambled many miles that day, botan izing in the valleys, and seeking geo logical specimens on adjacent hills. His shoes wore dusty, liis raiment brier-tom, his loose sack-coat freighted with the “rubbish” precious to the sa vant in the wide external pockets, while rheumatic twinges in knee and back reminded him that he was no longer young, thereby increasing his exasperation. Then to return to a hotel where all the world whs dancing, and one woman was decked like an idol with seveuty-five thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds. The Professor’s cup of bitterness brimmed over at these reflections. The room was stif- flingly hot, but he lighted his lamp, and forced himself to read an extract from Dr. Dollinger, while moths blun dered about the flame, frying them selves to a condition of unpleasant crispness, and mosquitoes stung Lis temples. His watch marked midnight, and still the movement of the ball-room and the twang of musical instruments reached his ear, precluding the possi bilities of sleep. “Squeak, squeak, fiddles! Boom away, bass viols! Keep it up till morn ing, by all means. I wonder if that is the music of the future? Ahl” Here the listener clinched his teeth, with a diabolical expression of countenance, as the violins shudder over his nerv ous system, snatched up his broad felt bat, and strode out of doors, actuated by the impule of escape. "The night was sultry and oppressive. The Professor breathed a sigh of re lief as he quitted the vicinity of the hotel, which sparkled with many lights through the trees like an ogre’s eye. Darkness and the obscurity of the shrubbery welcomed him abroad at this unusual hour. He strolled about the gravel paths, farming himself with his hat, and paused beneath the pro jecting roof ot the ornamented kiosque of the Silver Spring. “There will be a thunder storm be fore morning,” soliloquized the Fro- feseor, replacing his hat. All was deliciously still here, and far Jjelow, guarded by the encircling basin, bubbled the Silver Spring, cool and limpid source of health, as the Profes sor firmly believed. Had not the nymph of the fountain spread her wings in startled flight in the disas trous change from rural tranquility to a fashionable resort? The Professor leaned on the parapet, and peered into the crystal depths of the spring, musing in this vein. As he did so he perceived two persons advancing from opposite directions to meet a few yards distant from himself. They proved to be a man and a woman, and they scarcely paused before separating again with the same rapidity of movement as they had met. Wait for me.” said the woman. “I shall have to manage, to get away at all.” I will wait till morning,” replied the man. “She is sure to dance tc the very last, you know,” added the woman. “Don’t lose, your head, that’s'all,” admonished the man. “I lose my head, indeed!” retorted the woman, whose voice and hearing were youthful. The Professor moved slowly away, scarcely heeding these words wafted to his ear by a passing breeze. At an an gle of the rath was a rustic bench be neath a larch-tree, known as Professor Horton’s favorite seat. Hither he directed his steps in an irritated mood, and sank down on it in sheer weari ness. The scent of flowers reached him, while the foliage seemed to spread above him “fragrant robesof darkness. ” Grateful repose succeeded noise and light, lulling all his senses to soft obliv ion; he fell asleep. He was awakened by a terrific peal of thunder, and opened his eyes with a bewildering uncertainty as to surround ing objects. The trees swayed wildly in the rising wind; a few large drops of rain fell heavily among the leaves; lightning quivered on the horizon. Suddenly a female form bent over him. some small object was thrust into his hand, and a voiee whispered in his ear: “I am early. She had a headache. QuickI take them, or I shall be missed. The thunder rolled, the trees swayed, the woman vanished. Professor Hor ton winked several times, and opened his mouth to speak, then closed his lips without a sound. The object thus unexpectedly consigned to his care was a small leather bag, scarcely more than a tobacco pouch, and heavy. Mechanical!^ he thrust it into one of the wide pockets of his loose coat. Harkl A heavy footstep crushed the gravel on the patcli to the right. The professor rose to his own feet as if moved by a spring, his knees shook, his teeth chattered, a deadly fear smote him. Fear of what, evil? He did not know. To shrink to the left, gam the next clump of shrubbery, aud conceal him self, was the work of a moment, and accomplished with the more ease that he knew every inch of ground from long familiarity. Had he not planted many of these trees which now proved frjends? The hiding place gained was a larch surrounded by stiff little Japa nese cedars, and forming a sort of labarynth. Scarcely had the Professor glided into this shelter than a vivid sheet of lightning illuminated the whole country side. He saw himself seated on the rustic bench beneath the larch- treel He could not believe the evi dence of his own senses; the breath remained suspended on his lips. Had he been a devout Catholic he would have crossed himself, invoking the protection of a calendar of saints; a chill of superstitious dread certainly stagnated his blood. Was he to be lieve that liis hour had cornel There sat his own image on the rustic bench, the soft felt hat pulled down over the brow, the broad shoulders, the slouch ing nondescript attire; nothing was lacking to complete the resemblance. Was he still asleep, victim of . night mare, or had he gone mad? He pinched his flesh and rubbed his eyes violently. The figure under the larch- tree did not vanish. Swift realization of the truth dawued on the drowsy scholar. He was alone, at a distance from the now silent hotel, and he had in his pocket a bag which belonged to the other. What if this unknown had found him still on the bench? What if he emerged now, accosted the stranger, and gave him the bag? ‘I should be murdered as sure as there is a heaven above us,” shuddered the man of letters, with a conviction for which he could give no reason. At this junction the wind freshened, and the rain fell in torrents, while the lightning became less frequent. Pro fessor Horton quitted the larch-tree, reached the hotel with surprising agil ity, found a window of the recent ball-room unfastened, groped his way through that deserted apartment and gained his own chamber. The bag was gone. He had lost it from the wide pocket, probably in his fight. His watch marked two o’clock. The Pro fessor extinguished the candle, opened the shutters of the window, aud seated himstlf with his eyes fixed on the eastern horizon. He was a prey to the most exciting emotions. Professor Horton was the first votary of the Silver Spring, abroad next morn ing. If he was feverish and haggard, with a stealthy, even furtive aspect, the boy at the fountain did not notice the circumstance. Always an early riser, the Professor sipped a glass of the sparkling water, and then walked along the upper paths of the grounds. Cautiously he skirte < the rustic seat beneath the larch-tree, and approached the larch. A short, dry laugh of tri umph escaped the lips of the usually undemonstrative student. A leather bag, half pouch, lay, concealed by the long grass, beneath the spreading boughs. The larch-tree had kept its secret well. The bag remained where it had fallen from the Professor’s wide pocket. He clutched it, returned to to his room, and proceeded to investi gate the contents. The little hag held the Delaunay diamonds. Necklace, bracelet, butterfly ornament—nothing was lacking in this precious heap swept hastily from cumbersome case and casket. Five minutes later the rosy landlord was seized by the collar, dragged into his private office, and confronted by Professor Horton, whose agitation verged on sheer lunacy. The latter took from his pocket a little bag, and poured out the Delaunay diamonds, telling a wild and incoherent tale, meanwhile about a larch-tree and mid night rambles. “Nobody would believe it, you know,” said the Colonel, coolly. The hotel proprietor is never surprised in this world. “Take the trinkets, and restore them in your own way. Do not mention me in this transaction,” retorted the Pro fessor. He stooped and plunged his fingers once more in the rainbow of precious stones with a sort of intoxica tion; the starry rays of rose and blue dazzled, blinded him. “Beautiful and fatal gift to man!” he murmured, with parched lips. The Colonel closed one eye. with the aspect of a sagacious bird. Professor Horton sought his bed,, and slept Heavily until 4 o’clock in the afternoon. He was awakened by voices, and peered through the shut ters of his window. A carriage waited to take the Delaunay party to the steamboat on the lake. Mr. and Mrs. Delaunay were already seated, while Alice, the maid, had paused to reply to the head waiter, after which she re-entered the hotel. At this moment Professor Horton’s door was opened, and the Colonel entered with the bouncing swiftness of moment peculiar to fat men in haste. If the conduct of the Professor had been extraordinary in the morning when he had restored the jewels, that of the Colonel was not less so in the afternoon. He locked the door, made a warning gesture to the Professor, and stole on tiptoe to a second door at the extremity of the large room, wliere he lay down on the floor and applied eye and ear to the crack. Voices became audible in the adjoming. chamber. “I was there at one o’clock, and gave it to you,” said a woman. “A lie! I waited all night, and you did not come,” said a man. “I gave it to a person under the tree, and he took it,” gasped the woman. “Fool! Then the game is up. Get yourself dismissed at Newport, and cut to New York. If I believed you "were tricky, my girl, it would be the worse for you.” “There was a sound of footsteps, and immediately afterward the Delaunay carriage rolled away. The Colonel rose to his feet, chuck ling at the success of his stratagem. “Set a thief — ahem—I mean a woman to catch a woman. My wife thought of having the English maid sent back in search of the missing bag, in order to give her a chance to com municate with her accomplice m the hotel, if she had one. The bag was dropped in the empty room next to you, for the purpose, and a man joined her there. Your story is amply cor roborated, you see, by the few words exchanged.” I believe the Marquis de Ratti is the accomplice, and no more a French man than you are,” exclaimed the Professor. So do I; but how to prove it?” re joined the Colonel. “You should have them arrested,'” urged tiie Professor. What is the charge? Your advent ures of the night? The noble Marquis is caught whispering with a pretty girl? No, no; I gave back the diamonds to Mr. Delaunay—with a suitable expla nation—and lie has carried them away in a money belt. We alone know the truth.” “And the larch-treos,added 'Hie Professor. “It was the noble larch- tree that kept the secret, my friend. Well, well, I hope you are pleased with the fashionable elements attracted to our Silver Spriug. Doubtless the Mar quis de Ratti and the demure English maid Alice belong to one of those hands of English thieves who are said to keep a map of country-seats with reference to the plate chest, and are now trying their fortune in America. How beau tiful they were—those diamondsl” The Marquis de Ratti departed by the nine o’clock boat that same evening. His foreign accent was never more apparent than when he took leave of Silver Spring. Two Electric Freaks. A most extraordinary instance of an electrical fog is mentioned by Mr. Crosse, of Bromfield, England. This gentleman, for the purpose of studying atmospheric electricity, liad a long wire extending from tree to tree in his park. The wire being perfectly insulated con veyed the atmospheric electricity to the room of the observer, where one end terminated in an insulated brass ball, near which was a second ball connected with the ground. Mr. Crosse’s account is as follows : “ On a dark November day I was sitting in my electrical room, during a very dense fog and rain which had lasted many hours accompanied by a strong south-west wind. I had at this time 1,000 feet of insulated wire, which crossing two small valleys brought the electric fluid to my room. From about 8 o’clock in the morning to 4 in the afternoon the wire gave no sign of electricity. About 4 o’clock, while reading, 1 suddenly beard a very strong explosion between the two balls, which was an inch apart. Shortly, the explosion became more frequent, until there was one uninterrupted stream of discharges, which gradually died away aud then recommenced with the opposite electricity in equal violence. The stream of fire waf too vivid to look upon for any leugth of time, and the discharge continued for five hours without any intermission and then ceased entirely. The least contact with the conductor would have occasioned instant death ; the stream of fluid far exceeding any thing I have ever witnessed, except during a thunderstorm.” An extraordinary display of atmos- pheriec electricity, in connection witli telegraphic lines, which may fairly be attributed to the prevalence of a snow storm, was observed some years ago on our western plains, and is thus told by a writer in the Hartford Times: “ It was first noticed on the telegraphic wires in central Iowa. The lines, lead ing west, were rendered useless for the transmission of messages, owing to an incessant discharge of electricity, in creasing in intensity until it would leap from one strap in a luminous stream to the ground-plate of the lightning-ar rester. At times the whole brass-work of tlio switch-board would appear as a mass of flame, illuminating the office with a blinding glare. For several hours previous, and for some time after the electric discharges, a south-west wind was blowing at the rate of thirty- five miles an hour, accompanied by light snow, with the thermometer at 5° F. This display took place within the region having Minnesota on the north, Detroit on the east, southern Iowa on the south, and Omaha on the west. It was observed by many tele graph operators, who all united in say ing that its effects were entirely dif ferent from those experienced during ordinary auroral storms. Where a number of wires were on the same pole one would be highly charged with electricity and the others but slightly or not at all. During the remarkable electric phenomena that occurred on Melons for Chills. street Lite in Naples. Barbering at Home. write, in relation to | The horrors of the st t cmUs; Some years aeo I was in a mm- n f v-»nlp<* haw ? ing town in California during the melon on b y DbilantliroDists ami se^on. As melons and fruits gener- ZreVue“Sy a^aruK ally had to be hauled m wagons a dist- »^ n pvnlpnt Italian nmfi aQ Ar ance of some twenty miles, I could not his e^rieDc^ ^n^n T procure them with the usual regularity. p resence . Amid the accumulate?mtoe! I would have a chill. Sureenough, one w “mI'T"’ 3 dav while en<nuwl j n ■> mine r ™ - v antl a S IrI > sle I ,t m a damp and - y with a ve^^-ere chill I spread no '*° me cella [’ *> mfested by rats that the sun w th airthe coa J^at a . large Stone , had to 1x5 ke P fc reaeh at « al1 a -S? 18 tna J night to repel their approaches. The be gathered around piled on, but nrinciual sustenance of the fcimilv taken with a very severe chill. I spread out in" of coarre coSd*not*keep U warm ° D Just I sust “ e <* family com abor^s^a^yoTSdoi^- rived and I at once began eating them sera™, their Hnthincr seem, these two remedte combing ^ SltU T without any medicine whatever, cured L° der.^TheVwere the chills as thoroughly as could have L IS ' ' e "r irreclaimable, been done by means of quinine or any Hviliydinn 4 >® restr<untaof other remedy I had only one chill C1 - 2a ~? 1 h But IU mitigation of the The philosophy of the matter appeara ?w < ?h POlltan rooke . rles > il must to be this; The melons reopened the ^ re fnr^L^ are lalr3 , resort- bowels which had nrnhahlV Wnnm . fo . r slee P aloue ? while the remain- costive’ and the oysters, being a strong of g doonThi °«!« S mrKt S can i 1 f d ? ut diet, strengthened nature, thus enat> the most equably benign ling her to throw off the disease and aS^linl all?™ of stn **s restore the system to its normal condi- °f N aples are the tion. The fact that the chills were fht fi frL,. 1 * rpetual Picnic, recalling completely eradicated while using me- ‘'Z Tu--h 8 Ions must be conclusive proof that they rarely lit within doors, will not produce chills, if eaten regu- ^ th„ TJ? , are . carrled 011 larly. I afterwards spent much ofmv Se'ha^f’a warmif* 61 ? “ time during several melon seasons in coal p tlle c , hai I Marysville, a city much addicted to g -T' 8 heat chills, by reason ofadjacent swamps 'm e sul^tnre^'Li^T’ ^T 3 "" and low lands. I ate melons regularly bello , W3 " , rhese and had no chills while mam wl,.» movable hearths in winter become were afraid of them had chills. I liave of “fraction to the passersby, never been in any place where chills ap- flroaP 8 ot loungers gathered peared to be so prevalent as in Mary£ oneaMuL^r^? ,CU0 ^ tea t tur ! viile and I will eive it as mv nnininn 0I , eapohtan outdoor lile. The street that melons, regularly eaten, would do f 0 M^l h “ t f an8 ‘ more to eradicate them thau anv other Li„„f ml ° a , hall, where, means that could be devised. " f^ n ut . th ® ^habitants may be seen seated in front of their houses eating boiled chestnuts or slabs of yellow meal poleuta, macaroni, since - . . . . the introduction of tne grist tax, hav- t/vA nUnnSn ““P* 100 r Sf en . tl J mg become rather an article of festive TJt ‘ uxu 7 t tlian of ( fa*ly diet. In the streets, too, are performed all save the A New York barber recently remarked there are a great many families who dis like to bring their children to the shop to have their hair trimmed. They pre fer naving it done at their homes. This is a lucrative branch of the practice, as the price charged is treble that which rules in the shop. Already I have twelve families on my list. I visit their children once a month, and keep their hair iD order. Next there are gehtle- NEWS IN BRIEF * Volcanic Eruption at Sea. May 20 and 21 the ontbreak at Krakatan Island, situated in the Strait of Sunda. most elementary operations of the F ~ m toilet, and h^-drSg m al, to ** u “ported “there was a tre- phases invite the atteution ot the r who are gratified with the K 1 “ he \ °? * ke aight'of the long black tresses in every ? ° n h ^ 6 ^ J 0f the K'0 of dishevelment. The lava following day it was distinctly seen pavement in front of the doors is fur- ’k? 01 ‘t. reaoiied Ba ! kffied in the afternoon as a salon tavia on the 24Ui of July having passed with a due allowance of rush-bottomed Krakatan Island on the north, met with chairs, whose weight-carrying power a heavy ram of ashM, covering the decks would seem to be of a high order with one and a half inches of volcanic judging from the ponderous^ rotundii . J ies tdey occasionally sustain. These While, this eruption seeme to have bulky matrons are generally engaged been notably violent it is an agreeable like so many Parcae, plying distaff and surprise that no fatal effects aooompany- spindle, while the girls seated beside it reported* The great curve | tiiein ure more frequently intent on made by the islands circling round | their hemming and stitching. The the 17th of November, 1382, one source pLvail^UrEi^nVTnd^riousTyin- 1 f rDe ° t ’ moluding java, deSneifan area I NeapofitoTiteet'^irehffi ^'STthe most pea “ f 14 1 ™ of* 11 g a mins, surpassing even Dress Reform. In spite of tlieattack of “A Woman on male dress, it is obvious that men on the whole run little danger to health from the caprices of the mode. Their clothes are at all times so fashioned that they can wear unknown any quantity of inner clothing, and the gayest dandy in evening dress may be amply protected from sudden chills. This is not the case as regards ladies at halls, and herein men show more sense than women. The open coat, also, may always be buttoned across the chest, and inner drawers may make up for thin trousers. As to the latter gar ment, which some women envy and others attack, there is, if we may say so and absurd fuss made about its advo cacy and use. We believe it is an open secret that “dual” garments have long been worn by ladies of all ages, from schoolgirls up to matrons, and that, as they are not exhibited, they may be as long or as short, as light or as warm, as tight or as loose, as the wearer wills or the seasons demand. Men show their trousers, women conceal them; that is all the difference. If a girl desires free dom she has only to concentrate all the comfort and warmth in these invisible garments, and then with a light, loose skirt she can walk as freely as any man and yet look as feminine as any fashion able lady. No public meetings, no ostentatious exhibitions are required for this reform. Any woman may dis pense to-morrow with heavy skirts without even the knowledge of her lord. Perhaps a solution so simple derives the improvement of its attractiveness, there must be a cause and a crusade with protagonists aud martjrs—speeches, resolutions and leaders, committees, councils, exhibitions and appeals—all to compass a change that any girl can ac complish by half an hour’s shopping and a few minutes’ trouble and thought. Railway Exhibition. The receipts of the Chicago Railway Exhibition amounted to $86,000, bnt the amount of I. as has not yet been as certained. The electrical railway was in operation 118 boors, and in that time earned 26,805 passengers. The entire distance ran was 466 miles. The report of the electncian in charge of the road, although it gives these and other par ticulars, and says that the motor proved the theoretical calculations made as to the power developed, does not contain cue word about the amount of power aotoally required to operate it, the per centage of loss in conversion, or any thing that would indicate either its suc cess or failure from a commercial stand point. This omission is significant. There has been no donbt, in reoent years, that trains could ran by electri city, but the question is, how much does power thus applied cost? The en gineer, instead of answering this ques tion, repeats what was already known, that trains can be ran by electricity. —The Garfield monument fund-in Cleveland now amounts to $130,000. terfered with the transmission of tele- praphic messages from that country, and had also obstructed the land service there. He iseiicred In Temperance. “Fact is,” said Mr. Swiller, sitting down at the round table with his friend. “Fact is—two beers, Tonyl— there’s just as much intemperance in eating as there is in drinking, and that’s what puts me—by George, that’s refreshing, isn’t it? Cold as ice. Fill ’em up again, Tony—out of patience with these total abstinence fanatics. A man can be temperate in liis eating and he can he temperate in his drink ing, and I go—light a cigar?—in for temperance in all things. Now I like to—thank you, yes, I believe I will re peat—sit down with a friend and enjoy a glass of beer in a quiet way, just as we do now. It’s cool, refreshing, mildly stimulant—have another with me—and does me good. I know when I have enough and—once more, Tony —when I have enough I know enough to quit. Now do I look—hello, there’s Johnson; sit down here with us John son; three beers, Tony—I was just asking Blotter here if I looked like a victim of dyspepsia. I don’t drink much water this weather; I believe it’s the worst—this time with me, fellows —thing a man can put into his system such weather as this. I believe beer is tne best thing for any man, and I know it’s the best thing for me. But I— don’t hurry; have another before you go; here, Tony!—don’t gorge myself with it; I don’t sit around and get full every time I take a drink. I like to— tliree more Tony—sit down quietly with a friend and enjoy a glass of bet r and a bite of lunch, but I don’t like to gorge myself. I don’t eat myself into -fill these up again—dyspepsia, either, and then claim to be a temper ate man. Temperance in all things is my mozzer-mozzo-motto. Ttiatsh me. Now, I don-donk-donkall, I donkall myself a drinking mail:—once more wiz me, fellows—I like to sit down quieshly wish few frens aud ’joy glash beer—just becaush does me good; good. But I don eat myself to death—oncesh more all roun’—like these temperals falatics—oncesh in while I like glash of beer—jush m quiet way oncesh in while I like glash of beer—but you don’see—you donlsee me gettin’ full ev’y time—” (Talks temperance in all things and undue indulgence in nothing over twelve more glasses and succumbs.) would have been nothing remarkable uis Parisian prototype in his owi° walk, had the recent ontbreak been exceed ingly destructive. In 1822 the eruption ot Monnt Galung-gung on the main island desolated over a hundred villages „ . , and destroyed four thousand persons. 0I1 ^ says Moncure Robin- The eruption of Mount Guntur,^in 1843. ““h 1 PP** 1 P art of a a ‘ the according to the estimate of Jonghalin, M’ reat c t* ess tournament. In a large a writer on Java, threw ont thirty mil- u PP® r room of the Criterion, London, lion tons of sand and ashes. That the I ant t roar of the four great volcanoes of this island—the gem of the struts which converge at Regent Cir- Indian Ooean-havenot exliaiLted tfieir fjf’ ‘h™ ^ ln a Sd P c . e almo ^ su ‘ enerirr hv these evniniti. in .i.owe tilime these warriors of the world en- the fact that in 1872 the eruption of the 8384x1 }“ . d< ( ad ! y , strife : ground the active volcano Merapi proved fata] to JPP c rd Li-., a<1 ln ° Ii p ll i eL J spectators many inhabitants of Kadu, and the enll3t f d stnvers were ^ e fi“*T la°S°w®th r t r name s SpaT i aV ,l 1D ‘r I On each table were two small che£ The June Crop. From the June crop report of the Agricultural Department of Illinois, it appears “that the estimated increase in the com acreage over 1882 is three per cent., making the corn area this year over 7,500,000 acres. The condition in dicate a yield three-fourths as large as as the average, or 168.750,000 bnshels less than the crop of 1882. The condi tion of green corn and sugar cane is dis couraging. Winter wheat prospects are not as good as in May, and the pres ent estimate is 16,000,000 bushels.^ Oats are nearly up to the average condition, and the prospective yield is 100,060,000 bushels. Rye, flax and barley have fal- Itn off 10 per cent, in the acreage. There will be 100,000 acres of Irish po tatoes. Severe frosts have greatly in jured the fruit crop. —A monster loteter in the London Fisheries Exhibition was sent over from America. It measures three feet in length, and one of its claws weighs eight winds, the total weight being about twenty-eight. tics of Dr, Bergsma, there were sixteen earthquakes registered throughout the island. As the scene of the leoent disturbance lies on the West Java coast, and the whole island is swept at this season by the regular south-east trade winds, the volcanic ashes must have fallen mostly at sea and cannot have affected the the growing coffee crops. It is to be hoped that the recent eruption at Kra katau, by relieving the earth of the in ternal pressure, will be a safeguard against further disturbances at present. But as Java is the centre of the most active volcanic region now known on the globe, having standing on a single plain twenty-eight distinct volcanic cones, varying in height from five thou sand to fourteen thousand feet, it must be some time before a sense of security returns to the Javanese. Saved From Drowsing, W. H. Pottiuger, of Hamilton, On tario, Canada, an experienced swimmer, furnishes the following few remarks upon the vital importance of knowing how to keep one’s self afloat when sud denly immersed in deep water: “When yon find yourself in deep water you will sink first a few feet down, bnt if you do not struggle yotfwill come quickly to the surface again, which on reaching immediately draw a full breath, throw your head back, and this will have the effect at placing you in a recumbent position on the surface of the water. Now, this is a moat critical time for those who don’t know what to do next. Extend your arms at once oo a level with your shoulders, palms of hands downward, so that the water cannot penetrate them, and begin gently pad dling the water with the movement ol the hands from the wrist only, Extend your legs quietly and slowly in a line with your body. If you raise your arms or your legs above the surface of the water you will sink, but if you have the presence of mmd not to do so, or straggle about, you will never sink so long is you keep paddling gently, with out exertion, with your hands, and so you may float on until you are picked up or until you are numbed by oold.” Willows of the Revolution. The willow trees in the northeast cor ner of Holmes’ field, st Cambridge, Massachusetts, had a curious origin, not generally known. During the Bevolu tiocaiy war, while the American army was encamped on the heights around Boston, a fortification was thrown up, extending from Somerville westward through Cambridgei This fortification ran directly through Holmes’ field. In order to form a palisade, willow stakes were driven into the top of the earthen took root table some shaking foot ticked the ner vous process going on in the brain. The smoke of the battle-field steadily arose from many cigars, one in every mouth. There was no word spoken, never a smile; these grim, pale, intense faces and eyes reminded me of the group of German chieftains I once watched as they were gazing on the slaughter at Gravelotte. Here wasZukertort—Mo- heke of the field—a thin little man, blonde, penetrating, his coming victory presaged in the peculiar placidity of his brow, indicating the ease of his mental movements. His hardly de feated antagonist, Steinitz, has a better brow for special efforts; his head is massive, his expression that of a cul tured man not absolutely absorbed in chess. Some of the players have beau tiful heads—young Mason, for instance, and Rosenthal. But there was not one of them whose face had the stamp of genius that was ou the face of that vic torious victim of the game, Paul Mor phy. Well do 1 remember when, a young aspirant of the clubs, I played six games with that wonderful man at the Brevoort House. He gave me a rook and beat me five of the games. Une only I won. From that hour my chess enthusiasm was chilled. L could spare no more time to a game which left me so helpless before any man, with such odds. Could I have read poor Morphy’s face I would have seen, per haps, tnat he envied me my incompe tency. He vainly struggled to be some thing else than a chess-player. Some years after I well knew the late How ard Staunton, who told me he regarded Paul Morphy as the greatest chess genius that had ever lived. After play ing with Morphy Stauntou conceived a strong dislike of the game. “I hate chess,” he once said to me ; “It takes the heart out ot people. Meu have hated me, slandered me, injured me in every way they could, simply and solely because 1 heat them at chess.” Staun ton devoted himself to Shakespearean stud'es in h's later years and very rarely played chess. Emerson shook his head at the enthusiasm for this game. The Be« Waterfall of the World. men who can afford the luxury of a pri vate barber. The valet, as a rale, is a bad workman, ontside of his natural duties of brushing his master's clothes and boots, answering the hell, reading ail the notes he can, and drinking snch wine as he can Btand without being caught by his master I wait on about twenty gentlemen now at their homes. All of my clients art gentlemen of wealth, and all of them are very partic ular about the trimming of their heads and hair, i have one exceedingly liberal customer at the Palmer House. He thinks that my manner of combing his hair conceais his growing baldness lrom a prying world—an important matter to any man who finds himself nearing the fortieth milestone, which, is called the old age of youth. It is not shaving and hair catting only that I do among this class, I am provided with materials to produce a delicate gloss ou tne whiskers, also with an incomparable mixture for restoring gray hair to its youthful color. Do yon want a bottle? No? Yon may, when yon grow older, feel as many of my customers do—that gray hairs are insulting. I have a bachelor who entertains his friends, male and female, in regal style in his apart ments In the—well, m a fiat on Michi gan avenno. His hair and beard daily grow thinner. Why? Because every morning he has me make a microscopic examination for gray hairs in each. If there are any, out they come with the tweezers. I expostulate and cite my restorer as the proper cure, but he in sists. He'll be sorry when he has no hair, which won’t be a very long time from now if ne keeps np his present rate ot polling it out. The pernicions prac tice of men shaving themselves is the worst opposition existing to the tonso- riai trade. Bat, fortunately, every one cannot learn to handle his own razor, and as for cntting their own hair, none of them can do tha‘.” “Another very lucrative branch of practice is among lady clients,” droned the barber. “I attend a good many ladies regularly once a week to shampoo and dress their hair. The importance of every art which tends to preserve and beautify the hair is very highly re garded, I am glad to say. When the scalp is kept free of dandruff and is over a certain fragrance. Ladies should nse little oil. The hair brush is better than sticky liquids, They should be careful about keeping their hair trimmed. It is liable to split at the ends and grow harsh when not attended to. I am; as I Bay, waiting on a great many ladies at their residences, and, by the way, it would surprise people -who have no opportnniti s of seeing for them selves to learn of the elegance and lux ury of certain Chicago homes. I recall the mistress’ dressing-room in a house on Prairie avenne. Its walls are mostly mirrors with silver frames, the spaces between them filled in wi.h costly lace adornments. The toilet set is silver and gold, heavily studded with precious stones. Every article in the room is of the richest aud most expensive charac ter, as,' indeed, it can afford to be, see ing that the owner's hnsband makes half a million a year. .—Twice as many men as women die of pneumonia. —Amasa Stone’s estate proves to he worth $6,000,000. —There are 5,927 Americans residing at the French capital. There are twenty-five newspapers published in Idaho. —Tanner, the ex-faster, is now living at Jamestown, N. Y. A Modern Samwn. A recent discover}' on the head of Cowlitz river establishes the fact that Washington Territory can now boast of the grandest waterfall in the known world, its height being 1,500 feet. The Nooksack Indians assert positively that waterfalls higher than the tallest fir, pine or cedar trees are to be found on the extreme headwaters of the Nook- sack river, in this county. As that section of the county has never yet been explored by the white man, there is no good reason for doubting the statement. From the comparison given by the In dians these falls must be at least 475 feet in height. g Professor R. A. Proc'or has dis covered in Nevada a being who claims to be the strongest man in the world. His name is Angela Cardelia. He is an Italian, aged 38, and stands five feet ten inches in height, weighing 138 pounds. His strength was born with him, for he has had no athletic training. He differs from other men chiefly in his osseous structure. Although no'of unusual size, his spinal column is double the ordinary width and his bones and joints are made on a similar large and generous scale He can lift a man of two hundred pounds with the middle finger of his right hand. The man stood with one foot on the floor, his arms outstretched and his hands grasped by two persons to balance his body. Cardelia then stooped down and placed the third finger of his right hand under the man’s feet, and, with scarcely any perceptible effort, raised him to tue height of four feet and deposited him on a table near at hand. Once two powerful men way laid Cardelia, withfintent to trash him, but he seized one in each hand and hammered them together till the life was nearly out of them. He is of a quiet and peaceable disposition, and his strength is inherited, for he states his father was more powerful than him self. Racing Upon Cratches. There was a novel race from the custom house to the Commercial office, in Louis ville, Ky., the other morning between 12 and 1 o'clock, between a couple of one- legged men Darned Cook and Rogers The latter is s recent arrival from Memphis, where he was considered the crack one- legged runner of the country. Since his arrival in Louisville he has been talking pretty loud about his racing abilities, and be met Cook, who claims the reputation of being the fleetest one-legged ruDoer in Louisville. Upon meeting both men claimed to be able to “do” the other, and a match was soon arranged between them. They divested themselves of their coats, vests and hats, and each with a single crutch under hia right arm, got in position for the i ace. At a given signal they star ted and the Louisville man with three tremendous hops sprang m the lead. But Memphis was alongside ot him in a mo ment, and then ensued one of the grandest races ever witnessed. The men hopped together ss though they were one man, and the time made was wonderful. A race horse could not have caught them, for they made fully twelve feet at every stride. Together they wen), and as th y reached the string running from the Commercial office to the Kentucky School of Medicine, the belated pedestrians who witnessed the race declared that it would be a dead beat, when suddenly the Memphis man's crutch struck a treacherous rock and away he went head aver heels, first one end np and then the other. The Louisville man pat on an extra spurt to keep his adver sary from rolling in under the string ahead of him. -But when the Memphis man struek the high street crossing he stopped rolling, aSf! the Louisville man went under the wire an easy winner by two lengths. Hanlan is no num-scull; he has made over $56,000 by rowing. —The street cars run up and down 44 cities aud towns in Germany. —There are 90,000 ministers in our country and 540,000 bartenders. —Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, for Bedloe’s Island, will be complete iu November. It will cost $20,000 to feed the Grand Army encampment at Denver next month. —Miss Frances Willard, the well- known temperance advocate, has gone to the Sandwich Islands. Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, is to be paid $25,000 a year as president of the Florida ship canal. —There are about 5,000,000 trade dollars in circulation, and over $33,000,- 000 on hand in the Treasury. ’ —Portland, Oregon, is to have this year a $1,000,000 bridge, and railroad workshops costing $5,000,000. —A devil-fish, measuring eight feet in circumference, was captured at Santa Monica, California, a few days ago. —Women, under the laws of the var ious states, are gradually securing their just rights in property aud children. —New York letter carriers delivered 86,5< 1,667 letters, 14,391,452 postal cards and 523,559 registered letters last year. —Teachers in the public schools of Cashville raise silk cocoons, and m ike money by selling them to Northern buyers. —Mme. Minnie Hauk has gone to Marieubad, Bohemia, in company with her mother, who intends taking baths there. —A census of Portland, Maine, has just been taken, which shows a popu lation of 35,890, an increase ot 2,000 m three years. —Laborers are scarce in Maine, and there is a brisk demand for men iu the bay field at $2.50 a day—so an Augusta paper says. A canvas of the American trades shows that American apprentices only predominate in machine shops and printing offices. —Three factories in the United States consume nearly two million eggs a year in making a peculiar kind of paper use-J by photographers. Mexico elects a president next year, and there is abounding talk of candi dates. Gen. Diaz seems to he the fa vorite among liberals. —Tiie quantity of wheat raised in Maine last year was 695,714 bushels; of oats, 2,265,575 bushels, and of pota toes. 7,909,025 bushels. —Lawn tennis is increasing rapidly in popularity, and It is estimated that 80,000 racquets will be sold before the close of the season. — A pickle factory at Highland, Ill., has contracted for over 400 acres of cu cumbers with farmers, and expects to ship about 16,000 barrels. —M. Abbadie has called the attention of the Paris Academy to what he re gards as proofs that sulphur destroys the influence of malaria. —The first American bishop was Samuel Seabury, who was consecrated bishop of Connecticut by four nonjur- ing prelate at Aberdeen in 1784. —The largest theatre is the New Opera House in Paris. It covers nearly three acres of ground. Its cubic mass is 4,287,000 feet. It cost about 10J - 000,000 francs. —The Bach Society was instituted in London in 1849, but there was so little musical enthusiasm in the capital at that time that it was disbanded in about twenty years. —The watering places in Germany are all well attended this season. Ba den-Baden has nearly 14,000 visitors. Carlsbad 10,000, and Ems, Teplitz, and Marienbad about 3,000 each. —Oxford university’s income for the past year was £53,900, including £13,- 300 from estates, £4,000 from the press, £24,700 from fees and dues, and £11,- 300 from miscellaneous sources. ’ —Than are 21 cities along 'the line of UK Mexican Central having an ag gregate population of 890,609. —Tomatoes, not many generations ago, were known as love apples and considered poisonous. Last fall there were 52,322,052 cans of tomatoes put np by the canning establishments of the United State. —The bombardment of Fort Mc Henry took place, Sept. 13,1814. The place was defended by 1000 men under Gen. Armstrong, and their loss and that of the British fleet under Gen. Ross was trifling. ■The Covenanters flag of Scotland was first unfurled in 1638, and was dis played at the battle of Drumclog, and at Bothwell’s Bridge in 1679. It is now in the keeping of the Edinburgh Antiquarian Society. —Sculptor Woods, of Hartford, has just finished his statue of Nathan Hale, the martyr spy, representing him as he was about to step upon the gallows, his arms pinioned, his head and neck bare and wearing no coat or vest. —Mayor Bulke’ef, of Hartford, spends much more for the city every year than his salary covers. Hisenter- tainment of the Charleston, S. C., mili tiamen cost him several thousand dol lars, the expense of the little feast at his own house being about $1,700. —Senator O. H. Platt, of Connecti cut, having been offered a large retain ing fee to take hold of the forthcoming parallel road litigation, declined, on the ground that so long as he was a United State Senator the duties of that office would require his attention. —Juh, the hostile Apache chief, who escaped being captured by Crook in hia recent campaign, is said to have afoot a third larger than the ordinary Indian, and now Chicago and St. Louis, insist ing that he is no Indian at all, will try to put him off on each other. —The longest tunnel in the world is that of St. Gothard on the line of rail road between Lucerne and Milan. The summit of the tunnel is 980 feet below the surface at Andermatt, and 6,000 feet beneath the peak ot Castlehorn, of the St. Gothard group. The tunnel is 26£ feet wide, and 16 feet 10 im»t»«»a from the floor to the crown of the arched roof. It is 9} miles long, 7f miles longer than the Mont Cenis tunnel.