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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1882.
YBOTWY.
THE UNFINISHED I* iSAVI.It.
Now I lay me”—“Say it, darling;”
“Lay me” lisped the tiny lips
Of my daughter, kneeling, bending
O’er her folded finger-tips.
“Down to sleep”-“To sleep,” she murmured
And the curly head drooped low;
“I pray the Lord”—l gently added,
“You can say it all, 1 know.”
“Pray the Lord”—the words came faintly,
Fainter still—“My soul to keep;”
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.
But the dewy eyes half opened,
When I clasped her to my breast,
And the dear voice softly whispered,
“Mamma, God knows all the rest.”
O, the trusting, sweet confiding .
Of the child heart! Would that I
Thus might trust my Heavenly Father,
He who hears my feeblest cry.
Spoopemlyke as a Farmer.
Brooklyn Eagle.
“This,” said Mr. Spoopendyke, as lie
gazed around on his new acquisition of
six acres—“this, my dear, is what I
have always wanted. A farm and a
farmer’s life are the highways to happi
ness. Mrs.. Spoopendyke, don’t you
think so?”
“It’s perfectly lovely,” rejoined Mrs.
Spoopendyke. “I was born on a farm,
and was always healthy, though I had
to go a good ways for water.”
“I’ll fix that, my dear,” returned Mr.
Spoopendyke. “I’ll bring the water.
Now, where are my agricultural reports?
I must plant right off if we are going to
have crops, and when they’re ripe we’ll
take them to market.”
“I see tho report says you must give
your hen chopped turnip once in a
while,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke,putting
her thumb on the paragraph.
“Either that or cabbages,” returned
her husband. “I don’t know whether
we will have cabbages enough,” he con
tinued musingly.
“You might have less buckwheat,”
suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke. “I
should think, though, that two acres
would be enough for one hen, and if it
isn’t you can buy a load now and then
from the neighbors.”
“I’ll think that over.” replied Mr.
Spoopendyke. “Here’s one thing cer
tain I don’t understand. It says we
should test a few seed before planting
to make sure they will germinate, hut
it don’t say how to do it.”
“Maybe it means to boil them,” sug
gested Mrs. Spoopendyke, ‘ or perhaps
you—”
“Oh, perhaps you think it means to
crack ’em with an axe to see if they are
hard! I s’pose you’ve got an idea you
stick straws into ’em to see if they’re
done! Well, you don’t; you put acid on
’em. I’ll get some acid and drop ’em in,
and if it discolors ’em they are no good,
and if it don’t they’re all right. I think
we ought to have some weevil for the
pig.”
“I don’t know where you are going
to plant it,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
“unless it will grow with buckwheat or
onions. You can’t put it in with the
cabbage, because the pig and hen would
fight.”
“Don’t you know what w’eevil is?”
demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, glaring at
his wife. “Got a notion it’s some kind
of weed for the pig to smoke, haven’t
you? Imagine its gilt-edge note paper
with a monogram for him to write on,
don’t you? Well, it isn’t a swallow
tail coat or a plug hat for him to go to
church in, neither! You don’t plant
weevil, Mrs. Spoopendyke, any more
thanyou do soap, or clothes-pins, or
stair-rods. You buy it in barrels, and
I’ll order some.”
“I think we ought to have some face
curtains for the front window,” sug
gested Mrs. Spoopendyke, anxious to
change the conversation.
“Yes, and we want a fold bedstead
for the cow, and we’ve got to have a
new arm chair for the pig, and I’m
afraid those cabbages won’t do without
a wet nurse!” squealed Mr. Spoopen
dyke. “I suppose I’ve got to hire a
man to see that the meadew don’t go
fishing on Sundays and upset your re
ligious notions. 0! you’re a farmer’s
wife, you are! If I had time to write an
index to you and get some dodgasted
binder to fit you up with a flyleaf, you
make a whole agricultural report!”
And Mr. Spoopendyke shot into that
house and to bed, while his wife, having
put all the oil lamps into the buckets
of water so they couldn’t explode dur
ing the night, fell asleep dreaming that
the cabbage patch had eloped with the
onions, while the cow and the pig died
of weevil, and the windmill had aban
doned agricultural pursuits and started
off through Ohio preaching the gospel.
“Who is your new beau?” asked one
Oil City girl of another.
“What beau?” •anxiously asked the
other, under thf impression she had
made a mash.
“Jumbo,” replied the other, with a
giggle.
Of course the girls must have their
little jokes at Jumbo’s expense, the
same as the boys. —Oil Cihj Blizzard.
Atlanta, GA.,Feb. 10, 1879.
Messrs. IhdcMnson & Bro: I have
used your “Neuralgine” in several
instances, and find it the best remedy
for neuralgia and headache I have
ever tried. It relieves the pain, leaves
none of those unpleasant effects due
to narcotics or other anodynes. I
shall always keep it in my office, and
take much pleasure in recommending
it to my patients.
8. G. Holland, D. D. 8.
24 Whitehall, Atlanta, Ga.
Written for the Republican
Reminiscences of Alabama.
• NO. O.
CAMP PI RE STORIES.
There are some men who care noth-,
ing for the signs of the Zodiac. Yet
would gladly penetrate the cane brake
or the swamp to draw a bead on some
of its animals. In all ages the chase
was an exciting amusement in propor
tion to the danger which aroused into
activity the strength and courage of the
huntsman.
'ln the early days of Alabama, par
ties would appoint a day to meet and
organize a regular camp hunt. Horses
and hounds with a couple of negroes
and two horse wagon filled with a good
outfit for a party of five or six would
be gone for a week at a time. Buch
was the party of which we write. Nat
Tichnor, Oleg Bradly, Isom Varner,
Jerry Fleckmoro and Jeannes Kunker
(uncle Jeems,) after a good camp sup
per, sat by the fire and smoked. Each
had a story to tell. Cleg Bradly was
a man of an inventive order of mind
and in telling a story, had plenty of
material which produced a doubtful
finish in some places and being not over
stocked with truth told stories which
were not always believed, and when
doubted would call on his negro man
Newt to vouch for his veracity. “Well
boys,” said Gleg, “I have made many
a good shot in my time, but the best I
ever made was when I killed the big
buck of
TALLAWASSA.
That was many years ago, Newt and
I was hoys then, an’ 1 hearn the creek
Injuns talking about a big buck down
on Tallawassa creek that had been shot
at many times and if he had ever been
hit the hall never hurt him. Bill
Weatherfoid,the injuns called him ‘Red
Eagle,’ took a crack at him and as
usual the buck skid out unhurt, that’s
what the injuns say: I was on a hunt
one day near the creek when I hearn a
cracking in the cane brake and out
burst that same deer in full lope. Ah
boys he was the biggest fattest feller I
ever saw. He dashed by me and tuck
me by surprise at first. I lied at him
fifty yards or sich a matter, and shot
him through the heel and head at the
same time.
“What,” said the others through
the head and heel at the same time with
the same bullet?”
Cleg knocked the ashes out of his
pipe and said in a serious tone of voice
“If yer don’t believe me ask Newt.”
“flow was it Newt?” asked Nat
Tichnor.
“You see it was dis away,” replied
the negro when Mass Cleg seed dat de
deer was running like he was about to
break his neck he raised his gun and
tuck a good long aim, dar was a big
seed tick on tie bucks ear and it bodder
ed him in his run, so he stop jist a
minit and reached up wid his hind foot
to scratch ’em off, just den Massa Cleg
he pulled tricker and shot him in de
head and heel at de same time.” Newt
walked off to the wagon muttering to
himself “I wish Massa Cleg ’ndput his
ideas closer to gedder.”
“That looks reasonable,” said Vai
ner, “Very reasonable,” put in Fleck
more, confounded reasonable and you
killed him in both ends at the same
time,” said Nat.
Jeems Kunker laughed heartily, I
should say stomachly, for that was the
only part of his long lean lank body
that shook, but the gathering lines
about his mouth spread out like Atlan
ta Railroads, his mouth being the depot
with only three sentinel teeth to guard
that cavern of absovbtion. He had
been one of the pioneers of that grand
young state and knew every creek and
bend on the Tallapoosa river.
“I think,” said Uncle Jeems, that,
that, ar story ar likely enough. When
Bagby was Guv’ner I was fisliin on
the big bend uv the Tallapoosa, wliar
I had once bin with Gineral Jackson at
the battle of the “horse shoe” as it is
called and I sot my lines out in a cove
and kindled a torch fur it was darker
than the insides of a tar bai l. I fetch
ed my axe with me thinken I mout
find a ripe ’possum in a hollar log.
Well when I got my torch to burning
good I found the 'water was low, but
thar had bin some awful big rains some
time before, and thar was the cussedest
hootin of Owls I ever heard, I never had
any fish luck when they put in thar
gab. So I ilashed my torch and tuck
a good look at the black water in the
cove and I seed somethin moving and
splurging about, at last I made it out.
It was the biggest catfish I ever seed !
You’ns lias seen Ben Dinkerel’s new
ferry boat. It was as big as that—
broader but not adzactly so long. Right
at the mouth of the cove stood a hollar
sweet gum. So I seized my axe and
in no time I fell’d it across the mouth
of the cove to keep it from gettin back
into the river again. Fisliin was up
for that night, so I trugs back home
and gits a crowd uv neighbors next
morning and wo fetched a yoke uv steers
and a log chain and a power of ropes,
crowbars and sich like. Jerry Canant
fetched a cross cut saw and a grubbin
hoe, for you see we war all bent on git
ten that fish haudaciouslv out uv the
water. Shure enutT that fish was thar
in the mornin codumixin in the mud
with the whole upper part uv his hack
bone, four feet above the water line,
some was fur takin him out alive an
some was fur killeu him out-light and
taken him out piece at a time. Canant
’low’d ho might have some valuables
in his in’ards which would be lost if we
did that. So we made a lasso of an
inch rope and arter a dozen trials got
it just beyant his gills and socked a
crowbar behind it to keep it from slip
pin off, then we hitched the log chain
and the steers to the rope and with the
help uv all hands we dragged him out,
(fact gintlemau.) It tuck some time
to cut his head off. The next thing we
did wus to cut some big levess and git
him on his back arter we chopped off
his hind eend he stopped his cussed
wigglin. Jerry Canant’s cross cut saw
was too short so we jist nat’ally explor
ed his insides by' diggin and cuttin an
liackin ontil the loose meat scattered
all about over the ground, looked worse
an if lighten had struck a city butcher
shop arter which we got into his craw
or gurzzle bag and I wish I may be
Odestified if we did’nt find an anvil—
a blacksmiths anvil, and that warnt
all, thar wus a sledge hammer, part of
the bellussus the smiths leather apron,
a wagon hub, a bed post and well nigh
on to a keg o’ horse shoe nails. Be
sides all those leetle things we found a
horses huff with the shoe on, a pa’r o’
saddle hags with two half gallon jugs
full of corn whisky in ’em. We sorter
expected to find the blacksmith thar
but we didn’t. The next thing we
found was a Tarrapin, a tar bucket, a
pa’r uv old shoes, some eels and mud
turtles, and at the bottom uv his vat
we found a music book,the old ‘Mosoora
Harmony,” and I wish I mout bedick
erated if all the few—so laws, had’nt
taken roots in the sideot his stummick
and was growin. That fish would uv
made a fine sqnelin worm if we had’nt
spil’d his music box. I’ve seed boss
hars grow in water and tadpoles and
wiggletails, hat music notes sorter
giagumpficates my faekwildes. Dag
it I never had any luck fisliin arter that
and never did ketch a fish in the Talla
poosa since.
I was about to forgit one thing that
ar catfish swallowed. It was the hard
est uv all.
“What was it?” enquired Cleg
Bradly.
With a twinkling eye and mulicious
grin he replied “The head and horns of
the big buck of Tallawassa.”
Well its bed time, Nat and Isom can
tell their tales to-morrow-niglit.
“I hope they won’t tell any fish
stories,” said Cleg.
Nor a Buck story said Uncle Jeems
Kunker. H.
He Knew ’Em Both.
Brooklyn Eagle.
“There’s considerable doubt in my
mind which I ought to vote for,” re
marked the seedy man, rubbing his el
bows and staring through the pigeon
hole at the busy cashier. “For some
reasons I like Folger and for others I’m
way tip on Cleveland. But it was
fours.” and he shook his head gloomily.
“It was fours and no mistake!”
“What was fours?” growled the
cashier.
“All three was fours,” replied the
seedy man, rousing up. “I went in
with a pair of kings clean, and when
Folger raised, me and Cleveland stayed
right with him. On the draw I got the
rest of the kings and lifted things for
a hundred. They were there!” and the
seedy man sighed mournfully.
“How did you come out?” inquired
the cashier.
“Well, sir, Cleveland didn’t have
any ready money and Folger was strap
ped, hut they were good and I let ’em
chip notes for the amount. I was put
ting up cold money, and the first I knew
there were six or eight thou’ on the
board. You bet they hung well. And
I was on the premises myself. It was
pull and pinch and finally they called.
I showed the kings, but they beat me.”
“What did they hold?” asked the
cashier, who never plays, but likes to
hear of such things.
“Cleveland had four aces,” answered
the seedy man, resting his elbows on
the counter. “Yes, sir, four bullets
was held by Mr. Cleveland!”
“Where was Folger? What did he
have?” demanded the interested cashiet.
“Folger was there. He had four
‘jokers!’ He had, for a fact! We were
playing with the odds and ends of some
old packs, and Folger had come in
with three ‘jokers’ and drawn the
other.” i
“Where was this?”
“At camp meeting out in lowa, a
year ago. Folger was running tem
perance and Cleveland was doing the
orthodox gospel.”
“What were they doing out there?”
demanded the mystified cashier.
“They were preachers; the Rev.
Ephesus Folger and the Rev. Welcome
R. Cleveland. I know ’em. They laid
me cold, and I’m puzzled which to vote
for.”
“You’re way off!” explained the
cashier. “Those men never preached
nor stocked a poker pack on a man.”
“Sure!” exclaimed the seedy man,
rather startled. “I thought they were
the same. By the speeches nominating
them at the conventions I supposed of
course they were ministers of God, and
by what the opposition papers say I
was sure they were the men who set it
up on me at the camp meeting. I say!
couldn’t you run it up on ’em as a cam
paign document and fix me on account
of what I lost?”
He wasn’t fixed, but his story is
given as a warning to the rural press
against tho seedy man and other mis
takes he may make about the two can
didates for Governor.
Mothers, do not give Anodyne and
lull your child to quiet and sleep, by
prostrating the nervous system, to bo
repeated again tho next night, but
cure your child withTeethina (Teeth
ing Powders.)
A Man Who Can Unhinge Every
•Joint in His Body.
Cleveland Herald.
The announcement that Mr. Charles
11. Warren, the celebrated contortion
ist, would give an exhibition before the
students at tho Erie-Street Medical
College yesterday morning found a
Herald reporter in the amphitheater
at the appointed hour. The affair ;
was certainly a marvelous exhibition of
muscular activity and change. Mr.
Warren is a surgical, physiological
and anatomical phenomenon. The
display which he made of dislocation
and displacements of internal organs
suggested continually the question, is
he human?
Mr. Warren is, in his line, undoubt
edly, the greatest wonder ever brought
before the medical profession. The
fact that Dr. Hamilton has devoted
several pages to his case in his “New
Surgery” is ample guarantee that his
contortions are really phenomenal and
worthy the consideration of medical
science. Concerning him. Dr. Hamil
ton says:
“I think it may ho safely said that
if Mr. Warren does not dislocate his
hips, then none of those seven or eight
cases hitherto reported, and referred
to by me in my Treatise on Fractures
and Dislocations, were veritable dislo
cations. No cases has yet, so far as I
know, been verified by an autopsy.
And it is to be hoped that, in the in
terest of science, Mr. Warren will
leave a request that upon his death
a careful dissection of his hip joints
shall be made by competent persons.”
Dr. Agnew, a surgeon of scarcely'
less reputation, savs: “I have never
seen an individual who presented such
a remarkable symmetrical development
ot the muscular system.”
Nearly all of the other eminent
physicians and surgeons of the age have
seen him, and unite in pronouncing
him tho most w'onderful muscular speci
men on record.
His exhibition Wednesday morning
was a most remarkable one, notwith
standing that he professed himself ham
pered by a temporary attack of rheuma
tism. He began by displaying a dislo
cation of the thumb, which was perfect.
The students were permitted to exam
ine with the sense of touch this peculiar
phenomenon. The subject then exhib
ited a dislocation of the wrist, equally
remarkable. Next he produced by
muscular contraction a partial subgle
noid dislocation of both shoulders,
which Dr. Kitchen pronoudeed a most,
remarkable leat. This was followed by
a dislocation of the scapula upwards,
and a partial dislocation of the tarsel
bones.
But the most remarkable feat, that
which brings the greatest consternation
to the medical profession, was a com
plete luxation of both hips upwards and
backwards. This accomplishment,
which has been made the subject of most
careful study by Dr. Hamilton, was
commented upon by Dr. Kitchen at
some legnth.
Mr. Warren also twisted bis ankles
as if his feet hung upon a swivel, and
produced a sub-luxation of the lower
jaw. Another performance of his was
the withdrawal of the viscera trom
the abdomen and forcing of them into
the chest. This feat he performed
with alternate efforts, producing an
effect so unnatural as to call forth
most enthusiastic applause from the
students.
Dr. Kitchen then measured the chest
expansion of the subject, stating that
the enstomary limit is about three
inches. The result was to measure
ments, SOL inches in a state of contrac
tion, and 89 inches in a state of expan
sion; making a difference of 8j- inches.
This difference has been as high as 12
inches. On a former occasion, when
Dr.- Kitchen measured the exhibitor,
the difference amounted to 11 inches.
This falling off, coupled with a cough
of Mr. Warren’s, suggested the fear,
which was afterwards corroborated by
testimony, that the gentleman is a can
didate for the grip of that prince of dis
eases, consumption. The exposure of
such an exhibition as that of Wednes
day morning, together with the abnor
mal nature of his work, cannot be very
conducive to longevity.
Mr. Warren concluded his perform
ance by wiggling his ears, and then
performing a series of gyrations and
contortions which are simply indescrib
able. During all the exhibition the
display of muscles and surface mark
ings of the body was most instructive
to those interested in the study of
anatomy. The anomaly of Mr. War
ren’s case is the fact that he is able to
produce by muscular action a voluntary
dislocation of nearly every joint in the
body.
Mr. Warren is now traveling and
exhibiting his physical versatility to
the medical profession at the leading
medical colleges in the land. He has
been in former years connected with
different organizations as an athlete,
but now devotes all his time to the
cause of medical science.
Read Wliat General G, T. Tige
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How Russian Girls are Courted,
Love is tlie same the world over, but
“courting” is managed very differently
in different countries. Russian court
ing, among the middle classes, is pecu
liar. The first Whit-Sunday after the
young girl is acknowledged by her
mother to be of marriageable years, she
is taken to the Petersburg summer
garden to join “bridal promenade.”
This consists of the daughters of the
Russian tradesmen walking in proces
sion, followed by their parents. Up and
down they go, pretending to chat with
each other and to take no notice of the
young men—the tradesmen’s sons,
dressed intheir bestclothes—who walk
in another procession on the other side.
However, every now and then some
young fellow slips out of his proper
rank adds himself to the line of girls
on the other side, speaking to one par
ticularly. The parents ot the girl join
in the conversation in a few moments,
and soon they leave the promenade and
are joined by the parents ot the young
man. Generally, the old folks have
talked it well over before, but on this
occasion everyone pretends to be sur
prised. On the next day a female con
fidante calls on the girl’s parents and
requests her hand. This granted, all
the r-elations on both sides meet and
argue about the portion to be given with
the girl. If this is not satisfactory, all
is at an end; if it is what is expected,
the betrothal takes place.
The bride and bridegroom kneel down
upon a great fur mat, and the bride
takes a ring from her finger and gives
it to the bridegroom, who returns the
gift by another. The bride’s mother
meanwhile crumbles a piece of bread
over her daughter’s head, and her fath
er folds the image of his daughter’s
patron saint over his future son-in-law’s
well-brushed locks. As they arise
bridesmaids sing a wedding song. The
guests each bring forward a present of
some sort. Wine is handed about, and
some says it is bitter and needs sweet
ening. Upon this the bridegroom
kisses the bride—the sweetness being
supposed to be provided by this kiss—
salutes the company and takes his
leave, on which the bridesmaids sing a
song with a chorus something like this;
“Farewell, happy bridegroom,
Rut return to be still more happy.”
Courting time has now begun. Every
evening the lover comes to his lady’s
home with a present which is always
something good to eat—generally cakes
or sugar plums. He makes love under
rather awkward circumstances, for the
bridesmaids sit about the betrothed
pair in a circle, singing the songs de
scriptive of their happiness.
The last evening of the courtship is
enlivened by the presentation of the
gifts of the bridegroom, which must
include brushes, combs, soap and per
fumery. On receiving these, the brides
maids instantly carry the bride away,
and wash her. dress her hair, and per
fume her pocket handkerchief.
Thus touched up, she returns to the
company, and the bride’s father gives
his future son-in-law the marriage por
tion, which he takes home with him in
a neat bag.
The next mornjng he returns for the
lady herself. She receives him with her
hair unbraided and flowing down her
back. They are married by the cere
monies of the Greek church, and the
old folks never go to the wedding dinner.
Those eternal bridesmaids, whom
they must hate by this time, are there,
however, still on duty, and the evening
closes by the bride kneeling down and
pulling off her husband’s boots to prove
her intention to be an obedient and sub
missive wife.
Good-natured bridegrooms generally
hide jewelry or money in their boots,
which the bride may take possession of
as balm for her pride. After the wed
ding day the parents begin to give feasts
and keep it up a week, and it is not till
all this is over that the “young couple”
ece those blessed bridesmaids take their
departure. They are then compelled to
kiss them, thank them, and give them
each a present.
Dr. Pierces “Favorite Prescrip
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August 3, 1876. j
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Augusta, Ga , May 2G 1881.
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