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W' F. SMITH, Publisher.
VOLUME IX.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Campaign enthusiasm seems to bo at
Icrw ebb.
Lincoln was shot on the anniversary
the fall of Fort Sumter.
Won t it soon bo time to commence
complaining about cold weather?
General Suerman is anxious that
short work t>e made of the Apaches.
The {look Fund has reached SI,OOO.
Ibis required 100,000 contributions.
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missis
sippi, Ohio, \ irginia and Wisconsin
elect Governors this fall. '
lhe late President was a magnet to
ynrds whom all hearts were irresistibly
di awn. He was of the people.
is little doubt now about the suc
cess of the Mrs. Garfield Fund, started
b\ Me. Cyrus W. Field. Subscriptions
are- pouring in liberally.
\n unsneezed sneeze, when it is there,
wants to come and can’t, is decidedly
more interesting than the unkissed kiss
the aesthetic poet has gone crazy over.
Three sisters wero married in one
wedding at St. Louis, and the occasion
required eighteen bridesmaids. Asa
matter of economy, the scheme was a
success.
The Detroit 'Free Press wants the
Government to introduce opium among
the Indians. Chinamen die by the
hundred thousands from the habit of
opium eating.
In his inaugural address, President
Arthur intimates his purpose to pursue
the policy indicated by his predecessor
in office, forsliadowed during his briel
aU ministration.
The late Lorenzo Delmonico made
$2,000,000 keeping a restrauraut, but ho
never set up meals for fifteen cents, not
by any means, ills memory is dea/
only to the rich.
This is a little too too. Says the De
troit Free Press: “David Davis has
just had a reunion at Bloomington. He
took a dose of alum.” Wo suppose it
brought him all together.
It is something of a remarkable
coincidence that the death of President
Garfield occurred upon the anniversary
of the battle of Chickamauga, where lie
was most distinguished for gallantry.
Kaleooh’s San Francisco congrega
tion have voted not to grant him leave
to go on a lecturing tour, although he
has signed a contract at S2OO a night.
Ho will probably resign bis pastorate.
Queen Victoria is worth about SBO,-
000,000. We have been judging her
fortune by the way she gives when
called upon by suffering humanity, and
we didn’t think it was near that much.
President Arthur, for the present,
will not occupy the White House. He
will reside with Senator Jones, of Ne
vada, in one of the granite buildings
crock'd by Ben Butler, near the Capi
tol.
The statement that polygamy is be
coming obnoxious to Mormons and they
are entertaining thoughts of exterminat
ing it, is rather hard to credit. That, if
we understand it, is the foundation upon
which their faith is built.
The New Haven Register puts it in
tli is shaiie : “ Josie Mansfield is flitting
about the gambling halls of Paris,
Stokes is in the oil business, and Jim
Fisk has one of the finest monuments
in the State of Vermont. **
Person* Aim y, President Arthur has
many warm friends. Up to the present
time he has been the head of the law
firm Arthur, Philips, Knevals fc Ran
som. He is a widower, his wife having
died some two years ago.
Mbs. GARFTEiiT> has passed so many
days of suffering and anxiety at the
White House, that she is heartily sick of
its surroundings, and now expresses the
hope that she will never be required to
enter it again on any occasion.
General Burnstpe’s war horse. Major,
that bore him through the war, wa<=
killed the other day at Providence. I*
had become helpless, and the General
had arranged for its death whenever it
oould be killed without his knowledg*
Ottr National calamity has been of a
character so overwhelming that we had
almost lost sight of the suffering pre
vailing In Michigan. However, we sve
gggggggggggggggg
iMotnj to Iwlufctrial Inter*st, the Diffusion of Truth, tbe Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government.
gratified to be able to state that the pub
lic everywhere have responded very lib
erally to the call for aid.
Two diminutive brothers, named
Sparling, have just entered* Hillsdale
College, Michigan. Christopher, the
older, is eighteen years old, is 39j inches
in height and weighs 37£ pounds. The
other, Edwin, is fifteen years old, weighs
49 J pounds and is 42l inches tall.
Since we have ascertained that Marvin,
w ho is in jail at Richmond, Ind., married
eighteen different women, wo have con
cluded that men become bachelors from
their own choice. Wo don’t mean to
say that girls will marry anybody at aR
lhats not the idea. We can’t explain
it, however.
The ball in the Presiden’t body,which
was foufftl just back of the heart, was
fully a foot and a half from the point
where the eminent surgeons had located
it, which goes to show that the surgeons
wero about as much at sea about the
matter as persons of much less profes
sional knowledge would have been.
Mu. Wm. Hyde, editor of the St,.
Louis Republican, has been connected
with that paper twenty-five years, hr
having been its original sole editor and
reporter. He was one of the first jour
nalists in the West. He will celebrate
the twenty-fifth anniversary by taking
needed rest and a trip around the world.
The Loudon Times, perhaps the best
known paper in the world, and certaiuly
the greatest of all European journals,
published eleven columns on the death
of the late President, surrounded with
a border of mourning. This is a mark
of respect in our mother country we
;ould hardly hove expected. In our sor
row we have tlie full sympathy of all
Europe.
Kokomo, Indiana, has been disgraced.
Dr. Henry C. Cole, the Mayor of that
handsome little city, was shot to death
while stealing flour from a mill. He had
carried the fourth sack away when he
was called upon by the Shiriff and others,
who told him to halt, but he refused and
started to run. A volly of shot was sent
after him and he fell, dead. The whole
circumstances is a peculiar one.
Mrs. LmniE M. Chbtstiancy wrote her
husband a letter the other day, but it
wasn’t a love letter, by any means. She
told him that rivers of blood would not
wash the stain from her which was
stamped into her soul when she gave
her innocent girl-life into his keeping,
and added: “The greatest suffering 1
have to endure is the knowledge of the
degradation that you have been my
husband.”
There seem to be contradictory re
ports concerning the condition of Sena
tor Ben. Hill. It is known that lie was
troubled with a cancerous growth on the
tongue, but the severity of the affliction
has not been generally known. On the
6fch of September a second surgical
operation wan performed, and it is now
feared he will lose the power of speech.
He is being treated at Jefferson College
Hospital, Philadelphia.
These has been so much said about
tlie Boston girls that people hereabouts
are getting rather anxious to see one of
them. They are all said to be “aesthetic
of the utterly too aAvfully too ” brand,
and while we do not fully realize the
meaning of the expression, we hold that
it must be something awful. We knoAv
we should never be able to converse
with them, as they have for the most
part discarded English for the dead lan
guages, excepting some of the big words
in Webster that nobody knows anything
about. A Boston correspondent says;
“They are self-poised, ready for any
emergency, and carry mental quivers
full of Emersonian tracts. They are
largely ceramical and music and philoso
phy are general accomplishments. ’ He
then adds: “They wear red mits on
their hands and blue or red leggings ?
Well, well.
This bit of biography is of renewed
interest : At college Chester A. Arthur
had determined to become a lawyer. Ac
cordingly, upon graduation, he went to
a law school at Ballston Springs, and
there remained diligently studying for
several months. He then returned to
Lansingbnrg, where his father then re
sided, and there studied law. In 1851
he obtained a situation as principal of an
academy at North Pownal, Bennington
County, Vermont. He prepared boys
for college, all the while studying law.
Two years after he left North Pownal, or
in 1853, a student from Williams Col
lege, named James A. Garfield, came to
the place, and in the same academy
building taught penmanship throughout
one winter. It was a singular circum
tstance that, after nearly a quarter of a
centurv, both these men should meet at
a polical convention, and unexpectedly to
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA
themselves be picked out as the candi
dates of the Republican party for Presi
dent and Tice President.
The Moqui Indians, In Arizona,
among other pleasures, heartily enjoy a
‘‘snake dance.” Lieutenant General
Sheridan, of Chicago, the other day re
ceived a letter from First Lieutenant
John G. Bourke, Third Cavalry, A. D. 0.,
in whch one of these dances is de
scribed at great length, the writer having
attended a dance the day before writing.
The Mosqui had a procession, divided
into two parts—one, of the choristers
and gourd rattlers ; the other, of forty
eight men and children, twenty-four of
whom carried snakes and the other
twenty-four acted as attendants, fanning
the snakes with eagle feathers. The
horrible reptiles were carried both
in the hands and in the mouth. The
writer says it was a loathsome sight to
see a long file of naked men carrying
these sinuous monsters between their
teeth and tramping around a long circle
to the accompaniment of a funeral dirge
and monotonous chanting. After a snake
had been thus carried once around the
circle it was deposited in a sacred lodge
of cottonwood saplings, covered with
buffalo robes, and its place taken by an
other. Thus it was not hard to circu
late the number used, which was not far
one way or another from a hundred,
rather over than under, and one-half the
number being rattlesnakes. When In
dians get to carrying live rattlesnakes
about in their mouths, we do not hesitate
to pronounce them equal to almost any
emergency. They are fully capable of
caring for themselves.
How Rome Was Saved by a Goose.
The story is related of the fourth siege
of Rome, in the year 387 before Christ.
A number of Gauls, under the command
of Brennus, entered Upper Italy, and
laid siege to several places. Rome in
terfered, and by this act simply irritated
the invaders, who marched against the
“Empress of the World.” A battle was
fought and the Romans were defeated.
Rome was now practically at the mercy
of the Gauls. The Senate had not enough
men left alter the battle to defend the
“Eternal City,” and so they threw all*
the men capable of bearing arms into
the Capitol, and sent away all useless
mouths ; the old men and women and
children took refuge in the nearest cities.
There remained in Rome only a few
pontiffs and ancient Senators, who, not
being willing to survive either tlieir
country or its glory, generously devoted
themselves to death, to appease, accord
ing to their belief, the anger of tlie in
fernal gods. These were found by
Brennus, and for a time their splendid
habits, tlieir white beards, their air of
grandeur and firmness astonished the
Gauls and inspired a religious fear in
the army. Finally, however, the Gauls
massacred the Senators, and all who
had not escaped were slaughtered, and
then they attacked the Capitol. While
the Gauls plundered the city, the coun
try round was recovering from its defeat.
Camillus was chosen leader of the Ro
mans, and while the Gauls were revel
ing they attacked the invaders and
killed many of them. Camillus was
proclaimed the savior of liis country,
but he refused to do anything ns their
leader without the order of the Senate
and the people shut up in the Capitol.
It was almost impossible to gain access
to them. A young Roman, however,
had the hardihood to undertake this
perilous enterprise, and was successful.
Camillus was declared Dictator, and
collected a large army. The Gauls had
discovered the traces left by the young
Roman, and Brennus attempted during
the night to surprise the Capitol by the
same path. After many efforts, a few
succeeded in gaining the summit of the
rock, and were on the point cf scaling
the Avails ; the sentinel was asleep and
nothing seemed to oppose them. Some
gee&e, consecrated to Juno, were awak
ened by the noise made by the enemy,
and began to cry as they do when
they are disturbed. Maulius, a person
of consular rank, ran to the spot, en
countered the Gauls and hurled several
from the rock. The Romans were roused
and the enemy were driven back; and
ultimately were defeated in open battle
by Camillus, who has been called Rome’s
second founder. —Chicago Inter Ocean,
Theory of Luminous Paint.
Light is supposed to be the vibration
of an extremely elastic fluid called ether,
which is supposed to fill the whole of
space, and which, set in motion by the
vibration of the luminous source itself,
produces upon our eyes the sensation of
light. Now, it is thought that the waves
of light communicate their motion to
the particles of paint, which start into
energetio vibration, continuing long af
ter the exciting cause is withdrawn.
When we ring a bell the blow of the
hammer communicates its motion to the
particles of the bell, which start into
action, imparting their motion to the
particles of air, which transfer the vibra
tions to the drum of the ear and produce
the sensation of sound, which grows
fainter and fainter, until at last it dies
away, when the particles of the hell are
once more at rest; so it is with the lum
inous paint and all other phosphorescent
bodies, the particles of which, when dis
turbed by the waves of ether, yield light
for a tine, which decreases in brilliancy
as tli© particles grow less and less ; they,
too, like the parti les of a bell, require
periodical renewals of the force that af
fords them their motion.
Antiquity of the Earth.
Theologians of every sect and creed
had persistently taught that only some
6,000 years had elapsed since the earth
sprang into being. The suggestion of
its greater antiquity was received with
ft storm of theological opposition, which
underwent little abatement during half
a century, and of which even yet the
ground-swell may occasionally be felt in
some of the dark recesses of ignorant
minds. The majority of those who
raised th® storm were the social or pro
fessional ancestors of these who now,
in like manner, oppose the doctrine of
evolution; but the change which has
come over the latter races of combatants
Is itself some proof evolution affects the
minds of men, whatever it may do to
their bodies. Fifty years ago the full
force of an anathematizing odium theo
logicum burst upon the heads of the
assailed geologists, with a violence hap
pily unknown among the opponents of
evolution. Then, as now, the represen
tatives of geological science explained
to the world the great facts upon which
their conclusions were based. Then,
as now, myriads of men were in doubt
whether to resign themselves to the
leadership of geologists or of the theo
logians. But those who ranged them
selves under the banner of Cuvier, Lyell
and Sedgwick ultimately found them
selves on the victorious side. One by
one the theologians laid down their vitu
perative weapons. The late Dr. Chal
mers early accepted the geological creed.
Dr. Pye Smith received the fellowship
of the Royal Society for his well-meant
endeavor to reconcile the Mosaic narra
tive with the writings of the geologists,
earning some hard names from the de
fenders of the orthodox camp for his sup
posed abandonment of their holy cause.
Meanwhile, the geological batteries made
sad breaches in the defenses of that camp.
A late Dean of York valiantly confronted
the assailing hosts when assembled in
his cathedral city. Singly he faced his
foes like anew Horatius, but speedily
fell beneath the sharp arrows of Sedg
wick’s biting eloquence. The last Hy
patian geologist who strove to restore the
dying faith was Young, the clerical au
thor of the “Geological Survey of the
Yorkshire Coast. ” He, like the Dean,
lifted up his warning voice in a geologi
cal section of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, but in
vain. Even a Julian could not have re
stored the ancient belief, and Young was
not a Julian. Truth proved too much
for error; and, though occasionally a
theologian may still be found so ignorant
of what is going on around him as to
uphold the exploded doctrine, the race
has almost become extinct.—Contempo
rary Review.
Keep Them Bright.
Keep your lace, your heart and your
home bright. Don’t let the cobwebs
gather in the corners of the pretty little
sitting-room ; or the dust accumulate on
the furniture till you can write your name
thereon. No matter what is on hands,
or how much you have to do, take time
at least once a day to tidy the rooms, and
gather fresh fknvers. You will never
regret it, even though at the close of your
life you may not possess quite so much
of the world’s goods as some of your
neighbors. It is the best plan by far,
to enjoy life as it comes, and this you
can never do, in a sloven or disordered
home. Would you keep vonr husband
from evil associations, and your children
from wayward paths ? Remember there
is nothing in this world so attractive to
a man as ft pleasant home, and a smiling
face therein ; and as for the little feet,
they will not be apt to wander far, so
long as your face beams with tlie love
and solicitude that your heart bears
them. A wife, or a mother is a queen,
always. Not of vast domains, to be sure,
and not of society, but of the most sa
cred spot on earth to every human heart,
of homo. You never thought of it per
haps, but it is true, and it is indeed
true also, that there is no more pitiable
sight than one of these “ queens” who do
not, either from want of judgment, or
lack of will, govern her subjects aright.
Did you ever see a truly happv family,
without a loving, watchful ana affection
ate wife and mother, at its head ? The
father may be sour, hard, or cross
grained, but if the mother is all right,
there is sure to be happiness in that
family. —Farming World. .
Why American Hoods Are Preferred.
The growing reputation of American
manufactures in the markets of the
world has alarmed competitors abroad.
Whatever Americans undertake, whether
it be machine tools, cutlery, silks, flour,
cotton cloth, or any other merchandise,
they make, their brands the leading
ones, selling for the most money, and
universally sought after. The reasons
for this are plain. It is not on account
of the better and more direct processes
employed; it is not by discarding work
shop traditions and old time methods;
it is not by such adventatious aids that
we have achieved so great an eminence
that onr trade marks are counterfeited
and foreign goods are represented as of
American make. It is because ouz
manufactures have found that mercan
tile honesty is the only policy, and that
when they attempt to adulterate or lower
the standard the criticism of competitors
exposes them at once.
American machine tools of first class
makers are not cut in weight or in work
manship. It is a race to see who shall
discover a weak part that can be made
stronger, or a detail exposed to wear
that can be made more durable. The
same is true of cotton goods and silKs.
The senseless weighting of both with
adulterants of one kind or another is
not practiced here, for experience
teaches our people t£at the best is the
cheapest. —Mechanical Engineer.
The Bosting Reporter.
Once a Chicago editor sent a wild and
untutored son of the West, who wore
his hair shoit and chewed plug tobacco,
to an Eastern city to report a big horse
race. Before the reporter went awaj*
the editor told him to look sharp when
he got to the horse race, because thei'e
would be a lot of awfully smart reporters
there from New York and Boston, and
it would be great sport for them to
“ scoop ” friendless and inexperienced
young men from the West. So the re
porter said he would try to keep up with
the procession, and went away. When
he got to the horse race he met a great
many other reporters, one of whom was
from Boston. This repoiter was very
cultured, but he didn’t know a scalping
boot from an overhead-check, and that
is really the kind of culture that a man
needs when he is writing about a hors®
race. The Boston reporter was very
kind to the Chicago reporter and told
him what a great city Boston was, and
how smart a young man had to be
before lie could become a reporter there,
and the Chicago reporter took auothei
chew of plug tobacco and winked to
himself. The Boston reporter asked the
Chicago reporter if lie had read Emer
son’s works, and the Chicago reporter
said lie hadn’t—he had seen “ Pinafore.”
Then the Boston reporter said:
“Really, you astonish me,” and went
away to drink some Deep Rock water
and smoke a cigarette. Then the Chi
cago reporter laughed heartily, and said
in the reckless Wabash avenue way :
‘‘ I wonder if that duck thinks I am a
sucker that he can play on the enrl of a
string. 1 should twitter that he wall get
left if he does.” So he hunted up three
other reporters and said to them:
“ Let’s paralyze the gawk from Chicago.’
The other reporters were willing, and so
they all wrote very long accounts of the
races, goiug right from the track to the
telegraph office, but the Boston reportei
he went to his hotel and had supper,
and then he went to his room, telling
the clerk to send up a messenger boj
about midnight. When the boy came
tho Boston reporter gave him a long
dispatch, but when it reached the tele
graph office there was so much other
matter ahead of ii that the wires were
blockaded until four o’clock in the morn
ing, and by that time it was too late to
get a dispatch to Boston in time for the
paper.- —Chicago Tribune.
Belshazzar and His Brother Bill.
Belshazzar Smith had a very bad and
very dangerous habit of walking in his
sleep. His family feared that during
one of his somnambulistic saunterings
he would charge out of the window and
kill himself, so they persuaded him to
sleep with his little brother William,
and to tie one end of a rope around his
body, and the other around little Wil
liam.
The very first night after this arrange
ment was made, Belshazzar dreamed'
that a burglar was pursuing him with a
dagger. So he crept over to William’s
side of the bed, stepped over William’s
slumbering form, jumped out on the
floor, and slid under the bed. He
stayed there a while, and then his night
mare having changed, he emerged .upon
the other side of the bed, and got under
the cover in his old place.
The rope, it will be observed, was be
neath the bed; and it was pulled taut,
too. Early in the morning, Belshazzar,
about half awake, scrouged over against
William. To his surprise, the move
ment jerked William clear out of bed.
Belshazzar leaped out to ascertain the
cause of the phenomenon, and at the
same time his brother disappeared under
tlie bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake, was
scared, and he dived beneath the bed
stead ; as he did so, he heard William
skirmishing across the blankets above
his head. Once more he rushed out,
just in time to see William glide over the
other side. Belshazzar just then be
came sufficiently conscious to feel the
rope pulling on him. He comprehended
the situation at once, and disengaged
himself.
Perhaps little William was not mad.
He was in the hospital, undergoing re
pairs, for about three weeks, and when
he came out he tad a strange desire to
sleep alone.
Belshazzar anchors himself to an anvil
now. — Argonaut.
The Discipline of Drudgery.
A “liberal education” is a capital
thing, and the thousands of young men
who are now honored with the title of
A. B. are to be congratulated upon the
good fortune that has permitted them to
acquire the mental discipline resulting
from a four years’ course of academic
study. But these young men must not
make the mistake of supposing that this
discipline is an all-sufficient preparation
for the higher callings of life. That is,
the young men who purpose to enter
any of the branches of professional life,
for instance, must not imagine that the
fact of their having a college education
will permit them to leap to the top rung
of the ladder at once. The discipline
they have is valuable, but chiefly so as
the basis for the acquirement of practical
knowledge, without which success is im
passible. By practical knowledge we
mean acquaintance with the minutiae or
little details that go to make up all oc
cupations. Such knowledge a college
education cannot give and is not intended
to give. It is only to be acquired by
patient application. The discipline of
the college curriculum must be supple
mented by another kind of discipline,
namely, the discipline of drudgery. No
one, however largely endowed with
mental power, can be exempted from the
necessity of acquiring this discipline.
It is fpr more essential to success than
the discipline furnished by a college
coarse. —New Haven Palladium.
SUBSCftIPTION"SI.SO.
NUMBER 7
The Hative Michigander.
The native Michigander is a good fel
low at heart, but he has his eooentrici
“Yoe, I struck this State over fifty
years ago,” he said to me the other even
ing, as he hunted in his hind pocket
for his plug tobacco. “I’ve heard the
wolves howl, the b’ars roar, and the pan
thers scream.”
“ You have, eh ?”
“You bet I have? Yes, sir, and I’ve
lived all winter on aoorns, slept in sum
mer in a tree top, and walked forty-two
miles through the woods to prayer-meet
kg.”
“ Then yon must be pious ?”
“Pious? Durn my old hide to bally
hack and gosh all fish-hooks to thunder,
but I rayther reckon I am. Pious ? Why,
how in thunder and blazes and tea-ket
tles could I have borne up if I hadn’t
been pious! Say, did you ever live in
the woods forty miles from the nearest
human hyena, black or white ?”
“Never.”
“ Did you ever have to go barefoot in
snow four feet deep ?”
“No.”
“ Ever shake with the ager right along
for 284 days, Sundays included?”
“No.”
“ Dod rot your pampered counten
ance, of course you uever did! What
did you ever do towards making Michi
gan the great and glorious State she now
is?”
“Well, I’ve run a lawn-mower.”
“ Run a thunder to blazes 1 How many
acres of forest do you ’spose I’ve cut
down ? ’
“ Two.”
“Two! Why, you onery hyena, my
old woman has slashed down over forty
herself, and she’s left-handed, at that!
I calkerlate, sir—l solemnly calkerlate
that I’ve cleared off at least 300 hundred
acres of the toughest kind of forest.
How much tea do you suppose I had in
my house the first ten years of our pio
neer life ?”
“ Twenty-five chests.”
“ Twenty-five li—lls !” he roared as he
hunted for more plug, “we had just two
drawings and no more !”
“ Couldn’t you get trusted at the cor
ner grocery ?”
“Get trusted ! Corner grocery 1 Why,
you infernal young lunatic, Avasn’t I lo
cated forty miles from the nigliest gro
cery 1 That’s what I’ve been telling you
all "along. None of you spiled chuuren
of luxury kin have any idea of how we
had to get along in them old days.”
“I presume not.”
“ One Avinter when the old woman was
sick I had nothing to feed her but salt
coon and corn-dodgers.”
“ Oyster soup Avould have been nice.”
“ Oyster thunder! Don’t I keep tell
ing you that I was fifty miles in the
•wood ?”
“ Yes, but why didn’t you get out ?**
“Git out? What fur?”
“Why, you might got out and lived
on your mother-in-law and had a trot
ting horse, a plug hat, a diamond pin
and high living. You were very foolish
to stay in the woods, where they had no
ward oaucuses, or military parades, or
circus processions, or ginger beer, or ba
nana puddings.”
We generally end here. The old na
tive chokes and gasps and jumps up and
down and kicks his hat into the street
and goes away saying :
“Them durned pampered .idiots of
luxury wouldn’t keer two cents if the
hull State was growed up to jack-pines
so thick that a rabbit couldn’t squeeze
through!”
But next night he comes again to
wrestle me for the championship.— M.
Quad.
Making Kid Gloves.
The Troy (N. Y.) Times gives a de
scription of glove manufacture in a
town near Troy as follows :
In this fictory nearly all the stock
used is imported from France. The
skins on arri\ring at the factory are first
put through a prooess of “shaving,”
which is done Avith a broad chisel, and
all the imperfect parts of the leather are
cut off. The skins are then taken to the
table cutting-room, where thirty cutters
are employed in cutting the skins into
oblong pieces, after which they are sent
to the “slitting” room, where the fin
gers are cut and the gloves are ready for
the sewing-machines. Thence we fol
low them to the making room, where
ninety steam sewing-machines, run by
women, are kept busy stitching the
seams, and twenty other women are en
gaged working button-holes and putting
on buttons. The gloves are now ready
for the “laying off” room, where a
number of long-hollow forms, like out
stretched hands, are stood upright from
a table. If one were in need of a good
warm shake of the hand, he could be
accommodated here, for each of these
hollow forms is filled with steam, and
gives the gloves that peculiar shape they
have before being worn. Another room
is the “ sorting-room ” where the vari
ous colors and sizes are fitted for the
market. In the stretching process is a
peculiar sewing-machine which does the
beautiful overstitching of the seams. Iu
this factory over 200 bands are employed
and about seventy-five dozen pairs of
gloves made daily. The glove cutters
average from $75 to S9O per month in
Avages, and the makers (women) from
S3O to S4O per month. A beautiful
glove is now being made called the
mosquetaire, from imported Inoeha
skins, but dressed in the village, which is
better than any imported glove, and the
day seems to lie coining when American
gloves will be known as superior to all
other makes. The skins used will cut on
average about two pairs of gloves.
>Jew York claims 75,000 self-support
ing Yemen.