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SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oat copy one year 11 50 On* oop.V six month*,...... 75 Os* copy three month*, 40 Will club THB tftBAtD AXD An- vbstiseb with eitbei of the following named publications at $2 50 per annum fer both paper*: Atlanta Weekly Con futation, Macon Weekly Telegraph. Lealarllla Weekly Conrler-Journal, Sou thern Cu tirator. gg~ Remittances can be made by P.O. Money Order, Postal Mote, Registered Letter er Expies*. THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER. ADVERTISING RATES. Ilf! VOL. XXII. NEWNAN, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 27. 1887. NO. 32. LARGEST STORE IN THE SOUTH, CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON & C0„ IMPORTERS AND HEADQUARTERS FOB DRY GOODS, CARPETS, MILLINERY, SHOES AND DRESS MAKING. SILKS J £^^Inali ths New Weaves, Colors’and Mhade*. Including the finest line of Black 8llk In the South. VELVETS! tB Lyonh French Dre** Velvets, a specialty In black and colors. Full stock on band. TRIMMINGS 1 French novelties. We carry the largest and most e’egant lines in the South. WOOLENS! d^^Everythlng New. Stylish and Pretty. Our stock represents all first-class mills in America and Europe. WHIT £ GOODS I £^“French Weaves a specialty. We have certainly the largest slock In the country EMBROIDERIES! #l^^Tmported from Ht. Gaul, ^Switzerland, all widths for full salts. Bee them. TABLE LINENS I E^Trom Germany, France and Ireland, with Napkins, D'Oyles and Tray Cloths. WASH GOODS I kinds, all styles, all pHces and all colors, In immeosc quantities. CASSIMERES I tB French and English suitings, with a lull and complete line of Boy Casslmercs. HOSIERY 1 £I^And Gloves In all the new styles and colors. Bee this elegant variety. MILLINERY1 t3B m Bonnets and Hats made only to order—We sell no patent goods. DRESS MAKING 1 £B~Equal to Paris in Fits, btyle and Design. None superior. Few equal. CARPETS! CARPETS! CARPETS! la Carpets we lead the van. We Import direct from the mills, and use cash In discounting every bill—saving to the trade from 30 to 36 per cent, besides giving new. clean «nd stylish good*. We have no middle man to divide with, but pay our duties on imported goods here at oar custom house, aiid ns wc are the only importers in our line, we know that we can give fresher goods with later styles and designs than any other Houtbern firms who deal exclusively with second and third hands. In fact, we have virtually no competition in the South, and further we guarantee prices equal to New York or any other Northern or Eastern city. WE ARE THE SOLE AGENTS FOR The oelebraled Crossley factory of Hartford, England, and have a full and complete stock of Velvets, Wittons and Brussels received for the spring trade, all with rugs, poitlere goods etc., to match. FOR SHOES. SLIPPERS AND BOOTS Don't forget that we have every pair made to order In all lengths and widths for Ladles, Gentlemen, Boys, Girls and Children. Now don’t forget our place and remember that the prices as well as the quality are guaranteed on everything we sell. Samples of Dress Goods sent on application. Agent for Buttcrlck’s Patterns. CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON A CO., Importers, 60 and 68 Whitehall, and 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, II, 13, and 15 Hunter Sts., Atlanta, Ga. THE SONG OF THE HEART. BiH Bye on Economy. | I read an essay recently on tbe ia- ! side of a valued exchange on the sab- | ject of economy, which greatly inter- i eated me. It related to the great ex penses which really aggregated from little ones, and dealt with tbe mat'er of daily papers, bootblacks, shaving expenses, baths, etc., and showed bow Blithely sings the young heart, and cheerily shines tbe sun; *Tis spring o’ the year, ’tis early morn, and lire is bat begun. Tbe day Is bright, tbe heart is light, And all tbe future yean Stretch forth as fair, with never a care. Nor clouds nor tears. Boldly Kings tbe young heart, but scorching- iy shines the sun; Tis the summer now, ’tis midday heat, the work*life is began. But hope runs high, while the stead- millions of the people’s money was D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO., ATLANTA, GA. •DID YOU EVER User a rifle shot ring out on the morning air? Well, it has a eloan-cut crack that “gets there” over the h'llsand makea you know what it means. Now Just listen to the crack of our old army musket to-day and you’ll hoar something whizz through the air. We shall oontino oursolvos to a small space to-day, for fear we fly the track, and besides, when wo say so much, it is more difficult to recollect what wo have said. This week we are going to sweep the dock in WHITE GOODS, LACES, DRESS GOODS AND PARASOLS, and us to Tablo Linens, we want to tell you conlidontially, and kind o' easy at that, that we have eoiuofat things for you. Wo aro no shrimps; wo are here for busi ness, und wo aro determined tj pour In hot shot until we aro fully recognized as the live-business house of this country. Our house is full of intelligent drives and bar gains, and wo we promise to keep before you something ir. the wa/ of solid comfort •11 the season. It will do you good to eall and see us at any time; for. we cannot tell you oursolves to-day where lightning may strike to-morrow WHITE GOODS. On many lines of these wo save you 25 per coni. Wo lead the State in low prices. LACES. Call for theso goods and boo what wo aro selling. Immense drives iu white and figured LawnB. PEARL BUTTONS. Buy these goods of D. H. Dougherty ,V Co. DRESS GOODS, SILKS, VELVETS AND TRIMMINGS Ths fact of the business is, we’ve been looking around for something that isn’t bargain, and we conclude that we ha\e nothing but bargains. Nobody can possibly touch us ou these goods or any other; and as for SHOES why, we sweop up the deck with the whole kit and kerboodle of them. Our5c-.25c. and 80c. Slippers; our 75c. Newport Ties; our $1, $1.25. $1.50 and $2 Shoes for ladles, beat the world, and our $5 men’s Gaiter is ahead of anything. Come early. We aro always crowded. D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO., „ ATLANTA, GA. ff $w\ vend for DOG BUYERS’ fj i; I I HE, containing ooiorod plate*, i lOO rtutrnvincnof different l reed*, f prior?* they art? worth, and wlierr to i buy tiw«n. Directions for Training I Dogs «ad Breeding FrrreCs. Mailed jj for 15 teats. AboCnta of Dog 1 Furnishing Goods of all kinds. | YOl/lNTERESTtC JN POULTRY TRY HbUii.. lOO pngr?*; beau tiful colored pinto x engravings ai otariy all kinds ot fowls; descrip tions of the brvwis; how to capon ire; plan* ftw poultry bonces: information about incubators, and w here lob«v Kggs from block nt Si«iO per ia<tiug. bent for Id Cents. 1 coed the BOOK OF CAGE . UO )>ngcti. 1*>0 illus- . Ceantiiul colored phtr. r _■ ;ivs:aient *t»u breeding of all kinds Caiw sl'Sf iv*r pJesumre and pro*L P:*ece« mv' thrir curs Hew *n bu:kl and etock ; -Vy a a A \ • u>\ Alt shout Parrots. Pncee ol i : Luda birxls, car**, etc. Mailed fir ) j ^ i cuts I’fco Tiut* Books. 40 t'U. ^ a^ociateotanciirs; * ?37 sun l h iightk Mnet, Pkilsdalphia, Pa. j CARRIAGE AND WAGON REPAIR SHOP! Wc arc prepared to do any kind of work i» tbe Carriage, Buggy or Wagon line that may be desired and in the best and most work- maulike^manner. We use nothing but the best seasoued material, and guarantee all work done. Old Buggies and Wagons over hauled and made new. Near Buggies and Wagons made to order. Prices reasonable. Tires shrunk and wheels guaranteed. Give urn a trial. FOLDS * POTTS. Mewnin; February It 1887. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR AND DIXIE FARMER 43tu YEAR. T he great farm, industrial and Stock Periodical of the .South. It em braces iu its constituency the intelligent, pro gressive and substantially successful farmers ol this section, and as an advertising medium for the Merchant, Manufacturer, Stock-Rais er and Professional Man is absolutely un equaled. Space judiciously employed in its coluxr ns is always remunerative. By recent purchase it now combines: The Dixie Farm er. Atlanta. Ga.; the Plantation, Montgom ery, Ala ; the Rural Sun, Nashville, Tenn : the Ssoutheru Fanners’ Monthly, Savarnah, Ga.; Southern World. Atlanta, Ga.; the Phce- nix Agriculturist, Marietta, Ga-; and unites the patrousof these with its own large list of subscribers. The press and people ail testify to its great merits as a medium for controlling Southern trade. Subsciption, one year in ad - vnnee, postage paid, 11.50. Sample copies sent free. Advertisements, per line. 30c. We go to press tbe 35th of each month preceding our date. Address, THE CULTIVATOR PUBLISHING CO., P. O. mawee §, Atlanta, Ga. SILK RIBBONS, An elegant, large package of extra fine. As sorted Ribbons -Job lot,] different widths in all the late fashionable shades; adapted lor Bonnet Strings. Neckwear, Scarfs, Trim ming for Hats and Dresses, Bows, Fancy Work, etc. Sent by mall for only S5c.. three packages for 60c.—SPECIAL:—We will give double the amount of any other firm in Amer ica if you will send us the names and P. O. ad dress often newly married ladies when order ing. No pieces less than one yard in length. Satisfaction guaranteed. KNICKERBOCKER SPECIALTY CO.. New York. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. CLOCKS! Buy a Clock from me With a guarantee That insures your Clock Against a stop. I live in your town, Where I may be found ’Most every day, Doing what I say. (This is not spring poetry.; And selling the best and cheapest Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, Silver ware, etc., to be found in this section. Call and see me for anything in my line. Respectfully, W. E. AVERY. BRADFIELD’S An Infallible specific for • all the diseases peculiar to i women, such as painful or • suppressed Menstration, i Falling of the Womb, Leu- • corrhcea or Whites, etc. FEMALE CHANGE OF LIFE. If taken during this crit ical period, great suffering and danger can be entire ly avoided. REGULATOR! Send for our book containing valuable in formation for women. It will be mailed free to applicants. Bkadf’eld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. SALESMEN k-f WANTED I ' to canvass for the sale of Nursery Stock! iSteady employment guaranteed. Salary and expenses paid. Apply at on« e, statin* ace. (Refer to this paper.) CHA<E BROTHER*, Rochester, N. Y. JJailroab Scljebulcs. ATLANTA & WEST POINT R. R. April «sd Um second and fourth Saturdays in | r*Uy. U&Xl&l* C. 9.8. I May 22d, 1SS7. Up Day Passenger Train—East. Leave Montgomery 7 45a m 41 Grantvi lie 1137am Puckett’s 11 50 a m Newuan 12 03 p m Palmetto 12 14 pro Arrive at Atlanta 1 25 p m Down Day Passenger Train—West. Leave Atlanta 1 20 p ro Palmetto 2 20 p ro Newnan 2 47 pro Puckett’s 3 02 p ro Grantville 3 13 pm Arrive at Montgomery 7 15 pm Up Night Passenger Train—East. Leave Selma 330pm Leave Montgomery S 15 pm Grantville 3 13 a ro Puckett’s 3 37 a in Newnan 3 AS a ro Palmetto 4 45am Arrive at Atlanta 6 10 a ro Down Night Passenger Train—West. Leave Atlanta 10 00 p m Palmetto 11 26 p m Newnan 12 OS a ro Puckett’s 12 32 a m Grantville 12 50 a in Arrives at Montgomery 705am Arrives at Selma 1147 a m ACCOMMODATION TRA IN (DAILY,—East. Leaves LaGrance 6 00 a m Arrives Grantville 6 43am 44 Puckett’s 7 02am 44 Newnan 7 15am 44 Powell’s ...7 27 am 44 Palmetto ..7 45am “ Atlanta S 45 a m accommodation Train (daily)—West. Leaves Atlanta. 505pm Arrives Palmetto . ... 600pm Powell’s 6 27pm Newnan 6 42pm Puckett's- 7 00pm Grantville 7 IS p m LaGr&nge 5 00 p m CECIL GABBETT, C. % Ckoxwkll, || General Manager. fast eye. Fixed on the goal of fame. Heeds not the glare, for he who will dare. Must win a name. Cheerily sings the old heart, while slowly sets . tbesun: i Tis autum chill, ’tis eventide, and rest Is now begun. Brave was the heart that did its part. And ever upheld the right: i Now sets the sun, the work is done; Now comes tbe night. Hushed now is the tired heart and set now is tbe sun; Tis winter time, the stars gleam out, the new life Is b**gun. Calm is the sleep, and long and deep, Bat bright win tbe waking be; Tbe cross has been borne, the crown will be worn Through all eternity. Economical Presidents. Jacksonville iFla.) News.] Tbere seems to be some conflict of opinion among writers for the press just now about the amount of money Mr. Cleveland is going to accumulate in his Presidential term. One writer 'be other day declared that the Presi dent was flndiDg tbe expenses of his position worse than the salary; anoth er says, on the other band, that he a ill go out with about $100,000 saved out of bis salary. The fact is that neither of them kuows anything about the matter. Mr. Cleveland is not taking every newspaper man into his confidence about bis private aflairs. He is undoubtedly able to live within his income, and with what money he bad when be came here and tbe growth in value of wbat he has purchased, it is not improbable that he may go out of the White House with about $100,000. If he does, it will put him just about on a par in tbe matter of wealth with the average retiring President. Some of them bad more than that, but a good many had less. As a rule the average Piesident is not much of a financier, and if he accumulates wealth it is because it gravitates to wards him by the attraction of high position. President Arthur was a very high feeder and spent a great deal of mon ey on his table, but he managed to save $100,000. GarHeld was not in office long enough to save much mon ey. He left about $40,000, and the gifts Mrs. Garfield has received have made her a wealthy woman. Mrs. Hayes ran the financial end of the house during Hayes’ administra tion, and that she is a financier is proved by tbe amount she saved out of his salary. Grant never saved much of bis sal- ary, but the generous gifts of his friends made him independent. He lost his all iu the Graut Ward fail ure. The sale of his book has placed bis wife in an affluent position again When Andrew Johnson left the W bite House he had about $150,000, a good deal ot which was lost by the failure of the Freedman’s bank. Buchanan left over $250,000 to his nephews and nieces. Pierce did not do as well. Fifty thousand dollars was his limit and m> one to inherit it. Filmore left tbe White House a poor man, butby a second marriage became wealthy. John Tyler went to the WhiteHouse a poor man, but be managed to save enough out of his salary to live in comfort. James Iv. Polk left about $150,000. As be had no children, Mrs. Polk re ceived it all. Martin Van Buren did not' save much out of his salary, but he left $300,000. Andre™ Jackson was counted a rich man in his day. The Hermi tage, which he left to his adopted sod, is now the property of the State. James Monroe died in New York insolvent. Of the earlier Presidents Washing ton was the wealthiest. At bis death his estate was valued at $300,000. Adams was poor, but by his wise, able management he never suffered want. When Jefferson entered the White House he was a wealthy man, but he lost all his property and died in solvent. Madison was wealthy when he be came President and left a handsome estate, which Mrs. Madison’s son, Payne Todd, squandered, and left her a poor woman. The President at the Theatre. If there had been present at the Na tional Theatre on Wednesday evening any of tbe newspaper writers who chatter about “an aristocratic special entrance” having been constructed for President Cleveland so that he might “avoid contact with the common peo ple,” tbey would have had their eyes opened. The President and Mrs. Cleveland sat through the evening in their box enjoying the opera, aud ap plauding cordially whenever they felt like it—as at the pleasant interpo lation of “Home, Sweet Home,” add ed to the entertainment as an ac knowledgment of the presence of the distinguished guests. When the curtain fell upon the un happy “Lenora” the Preaident and Mre. Cleveland filed out, with no foot man,, servant or policeman in sight, and mixed as usual with the audience advanciug to the exit. They were not annually squandered in this way that ought to go torwards buying books. Tbe article set me to thinking aud I resolved to investigate it." I was more especially taken with the idea of ex travagance in the matter of barbers and barber shops. Yon can go to a gorgeous shop and pay 15 cents and a tip for a shave, or you can go to a 10 ceDt shop, or you can get shaved ou the Bowery for 5 cents, or you can ig nore the whole business and let the wind blow through your whiskers. Now let us enter the seductive and fragrant field of statistics for a moment aud see bow we may economize. If we shave every day and tip the barber at a 15-ceut shop, where we are dealt with in a gentle and soothing way by talented men, we can readily see that it is no trick to invest $75 to $100 per year, If we lower our standard a little and get a plain 10-cent shave, with no fun ny business, we can put the bill at say $50, and we will get just as good a shave, though of course a young man with a clinging Dature, one who pines to be foDdled by some one all the time, would miss tbe caress which a tip would call forth. This little sketch is not for him. If no one else speaks a kind word to him or pats his Adam’s apple with a powder puff in a playful, bantering way, I do not cbide him fur tipping a barber over aDd over if be wants to in order to secure these at tentions from one of his own sex. Carrying the matter still further, we find that by going down on tbe Bowery we cauget a good, clean shave for five cents, with bay rum and co- coaine. This will cost $15 per year. Or we can allow our beards to grow wild and woolly, with fragments of cracker and autumn leaves in them, at a very trifling expense. Last week I was thunderstruck when foilhow much could be saved by changing from a 15-ceut barber to a 5- cent barber and keeping it up for a year. Countiog300 days as a fair es timate of tbe Dumber ou which I would be apt to shave, I found that by this change I could have at the end of (be year $30, with which to buy books or crossed-barred trousers or any other means of intellectual improvement which I might choose. I could buy one of those expensive books that Mr. Do Lux occasionally gets out, or I could hear Patti,or buy a small, yet fragrant dog for $30. I could also buy myself some more bair or get my teeth filled. I could take a classical oourse ou the banjo or buy an interest in a bird dog with $30. But I wanted, more than anything else, to get more books. I wanted a new photograph album most of all. An album with illustrations in it, to lay on tbe parlor table and explain to strangers in low, passionate tones, is a never ending source of pleasure to the thinking mind. With a frontispiece sbowing tbe proprietor as he looked with side-whiskers, and, later on, a view where be had himself photo graphed with chin-whiskers and hold ing a wai-time plug hat in his swollen hands; with a picture of grandmother bolding a Bible as though it might be a glass bomb, and a front view of a sightless child that makes up for its total absence of eyes by introducing a soul-stirring month that w °nld make a golden-haired ball of North Carolina butter turn white in a single night. With ail these little specimens of plas- i ic art, I often think that a photograph album will do more towards enter taining a mixed company than any other literary work with which I am familiar. So I went into a low priced barber shop a week ago and began to save $30 for tbe purpose of adding to my libra ry. I soon discovered that-in a five- cent barber 9bop you get less consider ation aud a lower grade of lather up your Dose than elsewhere. I believe that the man who shaves vou fo- 5 cents makes his own soap. Possibly he works up some of his fat test patrons that way. Anyhow, tbe soap be uses smells badly and tastes worse than any soap I have ever par ticipated in. At this price of shave one saves financially, but he loses cutane- ously. The chair I sat in was not a good easy chair, and tbe spiral springs in it occasionally had to come to the sur face for more air. I became very much attached to one of these springs, and tbe ten cents I saved on tbe shave I bad to payOtailor down town who trephanned my trousers for me. The chair was almost mentally a wreck, and its memory was failiDg. I thought. Just as I would relax my muscles and close my eyes this totter ing old chair would forget itself, and the worn-out trigger that held tbe head-rest would slip about nine cogs. Then with a low death-rattle it would fall about a foot and disturb my intel lectual faculties. You can get shaved quicker for five cents-tban you caj for fifteen, but the towels are more clam my and tbe bay rum is rather more of a cheenut, I judge. Suffice it that I am not going to continue the coarse of economy that I had inagnrated for the year, for I am opposed to tbe hoarding nnd accumu lation of a surplus. Money is tending from other sources than the musty tomes which decorate the shelves of our libraries. One of the brainiest men I ever knew, if I msy be allowed the tempo rary use of that term, a man too who bad succeeded in amassing quite a fortune as a result of native shrewd ness and knowledge of human nature, once admitted to me in a sudden burst of confidence, inspired perhaps by too much wine, that he had never read el ther of my books. And yet he had concealed this gross ignorance for five years and amassed a fortune. While this is a sad commentary ou American galvanized illiteracy, it still shows that a man may bs almost criminally ignorant in this country and yet ac quire tbe scads. saluted or crowded or stared at, and they spoke to those tbey happened to : too much towards centralization any know, as anybody else would. On : way and I do not want to encourage reaching the stei'9 they waited and ; it. took their cbaDge with the rest when : While I may not be able to secure their carriage could be got out ot tbe the books which I contemplated buy- tangle, treated with respectful defer- ing with my savings, I can visit the II. ELL, Oenq Pass. Agt. 4 encebyaii. The President and Mrs. Cleveland have none of that “pride which apes humility.” They are not ostentationsl v humble, but tbey are simply and nat urally democratic. chamber of horrors at tbe Musee and improve my mind in such ways by actual observation. We do net get all of our education from books. We msy easily obtain many rsflfiiif and enaefeUaf ideas Billy. It was a boy of 7 who provided last Sunday’s fun in the pew of a city church, writes “Gilsey” iu the Utica Observer. His elderly father has been goutv this spring, and had a lot of leeches applied to his refractory legs, After the innocent leech bad been used he put the little fellow into a fish globe and made wbat he called a n&t ural barometer. He drew my atten tion to their peculiarities. When the weather was fine tbe leeches were near the top; when it was stormy they hugged tbe bottom; when it was windy they weDt rattling around like circus riders. One particularly large aDd active leech was the boy’s favorite. JohDoy fished him out with a paper cutter aDd named him Billy. He fed him od tbe back of the cook’s neck and on his oldest sister’s pug dog. S» Billy waxed lusty and very hilarious. After hours of play Billy would be put back with bis relatives in the fish bowl. Buuday fouud the Btnall boy at peace with all the world and anxious- to share its pleasures. To that end Billy was fished out of the bowl, imprisoned in a pomade pot, and carried off to church. Tbe boy’i two maiden sisters were there, tak ing in all the boDnetsaud thinking how sweet their family doctor looked in a check suit, when they became conscious that their little brother was groping around their feet. What is the matter with you?” snapped the elder; “sit up ou your seat.” “I don’t want to,” whispered the boy; “I want to find it.” Wait till after church,” suggested the other lady, supposing it was a chi na alley or an agate. “It’ll be lost forever if I wait,” per sisted sonny, “an’ I wouldn’t lose him fur a dollar.” What is it you have lost?” asked the elder, as she grabbed the boy’s band. “Billy; he’s been gone some time,” said the boy, almost -Tying. “Billy, the leech?” gasped the hor rified woman. “Do yer suppose it'sBilly the Kid?” sneered the youngster. Pale with horror and all tbe ghastly possibilities of the accident, those two women rose and pushed out of tbe church. Tbe boy made a rapid search of the hassocks and carpets, and with a sort of instinct rushed after his sis ters. He overtook them in the vesti bule. Mary was clenching her clothes in the neighborhood of her waist and holding the garments as far away as possible. Martha was asking her in broken tones if she thought she’d got it. “Let me see,” says the youngster. You ain’t so apt to have it as Mar- 8, for she was next to me when Billy skipped.” Martha, thus encouraged, gave a yell aDd started off at a brisk walk. “Ob, dear, something stuck me like a pin,” sobbed the disturbed maiden. “Billy,” shouted the wretched boy, as the door swung open and the people began to pour out. “What's the matter?” asked an anxious parishioner of the disturbed maiden. “They’re hunting Billy, my pet leech,” explained Bub; “I lost it in church.” Amid great laughter the girlsescaped and flew on the wings of fear for the paternal mansion. In lessf time than they ever undressed before the ladies disrobed and bunted for Billy. It must be back in tbe church,” groaned the lad, as his sisters came down stairs after tbe unsuccessful search. Twenty minutes later, when the family and a few friends were sitting down to luncheon, there cameatri- umpbanthowl from the boy: “Unbut ton me quick; it’s Billy. I got him myself all tbe time!” And sure enough, Billy bad ridden back iD safe ty in the seat of Johnny’s little Knick erbockers. Babies is Snsuner. A summer subject of interest to all mothers with young children is thus discussed in the New York Tribune by Sarah E. Post, M. D., of that city To scald milk first take a thick glass bo: tie—a soda-water bottle will do—fill it with milk nearly to the neck aDd place it uncorked in a kettle of cold water. Gradually bring this to a boil, and continue tbe boiling for forty miDUtes, then cork tbe bottle while tbe steam is escaping, with rubber cork, and remove it. Milk thus prepared wilt keep for a month in a cool place. This statement may seem extravagant, but it can be prov ed true. Dr. Herman Knapp, of this city, has in his laboratory flasks of milk which are months old and are yet perfectly sweet. Tbe method of preserving by boil ing in an open vessel and corking dur ing the escape of steam is familiar to all who have canned fruit. This method has not been earlier applied to milk perhaps because ourdling has been considered natural to milk after a certain period and something which could not be avoided. Since tbe prog ress of the germ theories, however, ii has beeD shown that even this every day phenomenon is due to a fermeu tatioD, and that, like many other fer mentations, it depends upon tbe growth of a minute vegetable organ ism similar in character to yeast or mold. Tbe milk is tainted by the germs of this organism through the can or bottle wbiuh receives it, or by contact with the atmosphere, perbap' and the organism develops, at the ex peuse of nutriment in tbe milk, with tbe formation of tbe acid aad gas. This development can be postponed by keeping the milk cold—our usual way of preserving sweetness. Though sweet, however, it will be seen that cold milk is Dot necessarily pure; it may contain tbe germs which, in traduced into the stomach, will find tbe beat Deeded; aud fermentation oc curs there, with colics and even more serious coraplalDts as its result. It is now considered that the introduction of these germs with the food is the greatest danger in hand-feediDg. In preserving milk as fruit is pre served we achieve two advantages over the ordinary methods. By the Leat applied we pretty thoroughly destroy aDy germs in tbe process ol development; while by corking dur ing the escape of steam we exclude air and later contamination. Further, the disagreeable scum usual in boiled milk Is avoided and the taste of tbe milk is unchanged. It is hoped that this dainty and effective way of pre serving n ilk will be widely adopted during the coming months. For ba bies' use it cannot be too strongly re commended. The milk as it arrives cau be immediately scalded and cork ed and afterward diluted and prepar ed as required. Where intended for use duriDg a journey it will be found especially valuable. WheD, however, tbe bottle has been once opened il should be quickly emptied, and any portion not consumed at once should be thrown away. Tribute to a Wife. Hubert J. Burdette publishes Lippincott’s a paper of reminiscences entitled: “Confessions of a Reform ed Humorist,” full of the gentle pa thos which has always tempered aDd purified his work, and breathiDtr the fondest love for bis dead wife, to whom be nays the following tribute in closing: “As I close this paper I miss the loving collaboration that with so much grace aDd delicacy would have better prepared these pages for the reader. Tbe first throb of literary ambition, my earliest and later successes, so far as I have been successful, wbateve- words of mine men may be pleased to remember most pleasantly, whatever of earnestness and high purpose there is in my life, whatever inspiration I ever had or have that enters into my work and makes it more worthy of ac ceptance I owe to tbe greatest, best and wisest of critics and collaborators, a loving, devoted wife. And if ever I should win one of the prizes which men sometintes give to those who amuse them, the wreath should not be placed on the jester who laughs and sings, but on tbe brow of her who inspired tbe mSctb Mtd tbe toug." Beautiful Creole Women. New Orleans Letter.] The aristocratic Creole lady is often a model for the imitation of her sex. She is an obedient and respectful daughter, a faithful wife and a devoted mother. She is soft of speech and has grace of manner which gives a charm to all she does. Well educated and accomplished, with keen wit, she makes a brilliant figure in society, but is, nevertheless, an excellent manager of her household, but gives a most careful supervision to every detail that will enhance the comfort of her lord. She looks diligently af ter the physical and intellectual wel fare of her children; especially are her daughters trained under her own eyes in all that goes to make woman lovely in mind and persoo. Their tasks for school are conned by her side, their music lessons are practiced within her bearing, that she may de tect the least false note. She share- in all their amusements, she is their companion, their confidante, their friend. They come to her with all their little hopes and fears, sure cf her sympathy. When her daughter is grown, the creole matron blooms again into a rich second youth; her own girlhood is renewed in that of a child; they are scarcely mother and daugh ter any longer, but a pair of loving sisters. The young girl is educated Id a convent, and leads a secluded exist ence nn’ii she is launched in society, and then in tbe joyous life that bursts upon her she is always sarrounded by the same watchful care that guarded hercbildbood. YouDg girls are not al lowed to go into society without being accompanied by their mothers or some other married lady, as chaperon—one of tbe maDy Creole customswbicb has been generally adopted by the Ameri can residents of New Orleans. These young girls are often wonder fully beautiful. Good features, hand some eyes, and graceful figures com bine to make them very attractive, their beauty being not infrequently Oriental iu type, though the vivacity of their manner marks them as essen tially French in character. Many Creole women are very accomplished. They have a skill in music aDd paint ing that is often artistic. In tbe liter ary clubs which society women have inaugurated of late years in New Or leans, tbe American ladies .have been astonished to find the Creole ladies quite as well posted as themselves in English literature, while posst song a much greater knowledge of tbe litera ture of other countries. But an ac complishment still more attractive to the impecunious young man seeking matrimony is tbe exqniBite taste with which these maidens fair will fashion their own gowns and bonnets when cir cumstances tequire them to make these things at home. The Creole women have Inherited the French tartcinr dif*j ifldJdB » greater degree One square 1 month, - - One square 3 mouths, - • One square 6 mr nths, ----- 60$ One square lz months, ----- 10 ft Quarter eolun n 1 month, - - - 6 0* Quarter column 3 months, - - - U 0* S uartercolumn 12months,- - - SOI* alf column 1 month, - - - - - 7 1* naif column 3 months, ... - 3P 0* Half columu 12 months,- ... 000* One colnmn 1 month, ----- 10 *1 One column 3 months, - - - - 26 0* One column 12 months, - - - • 100 00 than other Americans they the flat of Paris as the supreme au thority iu all matters concerning tho toilet. Also, tbe Creole women of all sges aud of all classes are devoot. Neither social engagements, nor weather, nor other obstacles ars allow ed to interfere with the discharge of their religious duties. Are they not somewhat superstitions? Borne of them a little so, perhaps, in remem brance of voudou stories told them in their infancy by old negro nonce. God Bless the Old-Fashioned Girl. Omaha Bee.] Bishop Cosgrove, of Davenport, la., delivered a notable sermon in the oity last Saturday on the immoral tenden cies of the times through tbe breaking dowu of the safeguards which one* protected girls and young women. Aa a model for the rising generation, tho Bishop pictured the “old-fashioned girl” of thirty years ago in the follow ing words: “She^as a little girl until she was fifteen years old, and sho helped her mother in her household duties. Bhe bad her hours of play, and enjoyed herself to tbe fullest ex tent. Bhe never said to her mother: ‘I can’t—Idon’t want to,’for obedience was to her a cherished virtue. Sh* arose iu tbe morning when called, and we don’t suppose she had her hair done up in papers and crimpiDg pins, >r banged over her forehead. She did not grow into a young lady and talk about her beau before she was in her teens, and Bhe did not read dime nov els, nor was she fancying a hero in ev ery piowboy she met. The old-fash ioned girl was modest iD her demeanor, and she never talked slang or used by words. She did not laueh at old peo ple nor make fun of cripples. Sbebad respect for her elders, and was not above listening to words of counsel from those older than herself. She did not kDow as much as her mother, nor did she think that her judgment was as good as that of her grandmoth er. Bhe did not go to parties by tho ime she was ten years old, and stay till after midnight dancing with any chance young man who happened to be present. She went to bed in sea son, and doubtless said her prayers, aud slept tbe sleep of innocence, rose up in the morning happy and capable >f giving happiness. And cow, If here be an old fashioned girl in the world to-day may heaven bless and keep her and raise up others like her." Brief Social Splendor. Washington Letter.] I never see tbe wife of a newly- elected Congressman come here with- •ut a feeling of pity for her. At her home she was a worthy woman, wbo did much to secure her husband’* election by her popular manners and tier good heart. To her it was a great thing to become the wife of a member f Congress, but ou arriving here sho found that she had only taken the first step towards social distinction. It was not long befo’.e a change com menced. From a modest lady, In a plain black silk and smooth brown locks, she burst into an ornamental gown of light satin, loaded with beads, which was not high enough in be neck by three inches, and her bead had in front a mass of frizzles, which bid her broad brow and mkde her look like an idiot on a Shetland pony. Before her diamond decked finger had been out of the domestic dishwater long enough for their knuckles to recover train their greasy >dor of parboiling, she rode abont in a hired coupe, and gave her orders to be coachman in a fault-finding tone. Her days became a round of ceaseless, meaningless toadyism, proclaimed by women writers as fashionable, and her nights were wild revels, with champagne, oysters, flowers, punch, lost temper , and disappointments. Now, her husband has not been re flected. Bhe must return to her little village, mope and pine and make her self generally disagreeable, bat, as shs drops out of life here, not a ripple on he tide of fashionable sooiety will -how where she has gone down, Tho wheels of folly roll round forever, and tbe wife of tbe new member will, in her turn, take the place of tbe one that has gone. The Origin of Cheap Postage. Harper’s Young People.] The story of how cheap postage or- ginated has been often told. Fifty- me years ago, shortly before Qneen Victoria came to the English throne, traveler in the north of England stopped to rest at a country tavern. While sitting on the bench before ths door the village letter carrier cam* up with a letter for tbe landlady. She took it, looked at it attentively a few moments, asked the postage, which was two shillings, and then banded it back to the carrier, remark ing that she coaid not afford to pay all that postage. The gentleman, on bearing her say this, insisted on pay ing for the letter, which she was very unwilling he should do, and when the letter carrier had departed she owned to him that there was nothing in the letter. She and her brother lived far apart, both were too poor to pay heavy postage, and they bad arranged a plan which, by means of certain marks on tbe addresses of their letters, each could once in six months ascertain that the other was in good health and doing well. Tbs traveler was a member of Parliament, Mr. Rowland Hill, who a few weeks later introduced bis plan for cheap postage into the House of Commons. Tbere is comfort for editors In the Inter-State commerce law, even if their passes are taken away. The more tbe prioe of tickets advance the greater tbe sum the editor will save by walking. The same backache which makes a boy howl when he’s digging potatoes, wreathes his face in smiles when ha' slips off tbe back way to tho ple-nle. Btqrs are curious Insect*,