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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN : OCTOBER 2, 1877.
Eli Perkins on Saratoga
Shoddy.
[New York San.j
Newport runs to 'polo, swell din.
tiers, the carriage-parade up and
down Bellevue avenue, and coaching
The Mystery of Chief Jos
eph.
The Christian soldier sat alone in
his guarded tent He heeded not the
wind, which howled dismally without,
and he paid no attention to the distant
parties, while Saratoga runs to bal- t * le demoniac savages, as they
cony cliques, worldly conversation*,
and the swell dress-parade up and
dmvn the halcouics and through the
halls.
Tfliere is very little sensible conver-
sa’ion fti Saratoga. Brains are really
at a discount here; while money and
good clothes are sure passports to
the most exclusive cliques.
There is an aristocracy here (though
darned around the encampment, vain
ly attempting with insulting taunts to
draw the American Havelock forth to
battle He ^heeded nanght, for his
burning sense of injustice was taking
form jn eloquent words. His rapid
pen skipped impetuously to and lio
over the page;, page after page of
manuscript fell fluttering like snow
flakes to the ground till the floor of
the tent was covered with white.' The
not at pur hotel) founded on pure ,
monev and clothes that would look I ^ ir * s l* an commander was replying to
down on a well-educated college ' he newspaper criticisms o.n his con.
professor or author as a giraffe woidd
look down on a mud-turtle. Yes,
•there are hundreds of ladies .here in
in Saratoga who wear a new §800
dress every day, and use plural verbs
with singular nominatives, who would
actually look down on Bret Hurtc or
Charles Rcadc. They worship money
alone, and have no appreciation what
ever of worth or genius. If Socrates
were here to-day and did not keep a
carriage, and if Mrs Socrates did not
wear imported Worth dresses, they
would be ruled dut of the shoddy
cliques.
A sweet, beautiful young wile came
into a Saratoga parlor the other
evening. As site entered, one of the
Worth dress clique arose to shake
hands with her.
*• flow do you iluf she said ; ami
then the Worth dress examined the
young wife, drosed in sweet muslin,
from head to foot, as people used to
•examine Horace Greeley.
In a moment another member of
the shoddy clique tugged at the
Worth dress woman and whispered:
“ Come a way! You don’t want to
know any such dress as that. Didn't
you know they’d lost their money?
Wiiy her husband is a common pro-
fessor in a college now.’’ . . j
Ami, after that, the whole worldly- [
Worth dress clique all cut the accom
plished wife of the college professor,
and went on with the following con-
vernation:
“ Have you seen the Scroggs girls?*
asked one.
“ Yes, and they’ve got on the same
dresses they wore the first night they
came. Did you ever?’’
“ And awful dresses, too—machine-
made—perfectly- dreadful!” contin
ued Mrs. Buster, who married a rich
^soap-man.
“How do yon know they are
machine-made?” asked the lady in
-diamonds.
“How do I know?’’
■'‘Yes, how do ycu know?”
*“ Well, I’ll tell you confidentially
flow 1 know ; mid Mrs. Buster leaned
forward and whispered: “You see,
I know because I used to be a seam
stress. I married Mr. Buster, and
■joined the aristocrncy, and I could
see the stitches clear across the
room.”
“And just think, the underskirt is
last year’s, too;” continued the aris
tocratic soap-maker’s wife. “ Oh,
they’ve lost all their money, the
JScroggses hast”
“ But they keep a carriage?” stud
-old Mrs. Grubb, by way of oxlenna-
lion.
“ No they don’t I They hire one,
and dress up their coachman in their
old livery. O, they’re poor now, and
getting awfully common, too. Why,
one of the gills sings in Grace
Church.”
“She does?” asked four Wortli
-dresses at once.
Yes; didn’t you know?”
■“ For money, tco ?” interrupted a
rich old lady, all covered with velvet
un i point-lace, whose husband is now
•in the petroleum business.
“Yes, twelve hundred a year.”
“ That’s enough, we’ll have to cut
4ho Scroggses this year,” and the
wives of the diamond-clad petroleum
•king and rich soap-man settled back
an their chairs and got ready lo prac
tice social Lynch law on another
C ir fellow-mortal whose sin. should
more brains than money ”
The first glass factory in the United
-States of which we havedefinteknotvl-
-edge:was built in 1780.
Rum and Opium.
%
1 A Wkbky Drinker would Lie, fcut m
Eater would Lie all the Isue
duct of the campaign.
“If these gentlemen of the press,”
he wrote,' “ knew the true character
of the foe with whom I have to con
tend, they would perhaps be slower to
ridicule my policy. The Chief Joseph
is a wily, audacious and unscrupulous
adversary. He unites the compre
hensive military genius of Napoleon
with the dash of a Messena. Yet he
does not hesitate to employ tho most
reprehensible methods of annoying me,
and eludes pursuit by stratagems un
known to civilized warfare. My cam
paign must not be judged by the
ordinary standards, for his activity is
superhuman, his resources apparently
boundless, and his lack of principle
wholly beyond belief.”
The progress of the Geneial's com
position wqs interrupted by the en
trance of a breathless and agitated
orderly.
“ Well,” said the Christian soldier,
after he had punctuated his last sen
tence.
The orderly touched his hat. “ Jo
seph’s forces are advancing on the
outppsts, jelling and swearing like
devils!”
“ It is as I have written/’ remarked
Howard sadly. “This totally unprin
cipled Aborigine tines not scruple to
attuck me even upon the holj- Sab
bath. Direct the Chaplain to go out
and read to the encmj- the fifth chap
ter of Matthew.”
I have conscientiously endeavor
ed,” continued the General, resuming
his pen, “ both by moral and logical
appeals, to bring Joseph to acknowl
edge the unreasonableness of his atti
tude toward the United States Gov
ernment and .toward me, the
representative of its military arm. It
seems to be a case where argument is
unavailing.”
The orderly again appeared at the
tent flap. “They have scalped the
Chaplain and are still advancing,’’ he
reported.
“ He was a good man,” reflected
Howard, “and we shall miss him.
Try and find some pious private who
will volunteer to go out and finish the
cliapter.”
“Newspaper criticism,” Y/rotc the
General, continuing his letter, “serves
not only to encourage the enemy, but
to grieve me personally. 1 am, there
fore, constrained to request that it may
be fuspended, and, meanwhile, I look
to history for the vindication of
my ”
Another orderly burst into the tent.
“The sentries are shot,” he cried.
“ What shall wo do?”
A patient yet mournful look over
spread the Christian soldier’s features,
“ Pul the flag at half mast,” he re
plied, “and make tlie necessary ar
rangements for the funeral to-mor
row ”
“ iJut they hauled down the flag,
and are making a Imnflre of tracts and
by inn honks around the pule.”
“ Summon niy'officers hither to de
liberate o:i the most prudent course of
action to pursue under the circum
stances.”
“ But the red devils are this very
minute stealing your tent pins and
the canvas will be down on your head/’
“ This is too much!” murmured
the Christian commander. “ Saddle
my mule without delay, aud order a
retreat.”
most important one. The importations j talks well, but understands everything
of opium are largely increasing every ! that is said to her by simply watching
The English Catholic Bishops are
about to revise the Douay version of
the Bible.
The first temperance society jju this
country, was organized in Saratoga
county, New York, in March,1808.
[From tht Chicago Tribune.J
Tito eighth annual meeting of the
American Association for the Cme
of Inebriates was called to order yes
terday morning in the chapel of the
Washingtonian Home by the Presi
dent, Dr. T. L. Mason, of Brooklyn,
n. r.
The Secretary read a paper on
“The .Responsibility of the Profes
sion in the Production of Opium
Inebriety,” which had been prepared
by Dr. J. B. Matteson of Brooklyn.
The writer set fourth that, within
the last two or three decades, the
consumption of opium has increased
far in advance of its direct therapeu
tical need. The question to consider
was whether patients indulged in
the use of opium for 1 he purpose of
obtaining transient happiness or ob
livion, or whether once ordered by
the physician and continued indefi
nitely, its use caused such mental and
physical changes as to engender a
constant demand tor it. The vast
prepoudei ance of testimony was to
tlio effect that its use was often en
tered njioii nncoiiscio”s!y, and con
tinued until it became a . physical
necessity. High authorities concur
that, tlie opium habit lias its inception
in prescriptions ordeiedby physicians
It is, therefore, advisable not to re
commend opium continuously tor the
purpose of allaying pain, especially
with patients of aueivoits tempera
ment, lest the plij-sieian mig t be
come the innocent cause of sett in>r
the spark to the fire 5 lint maj r onlj'
be extinguished with life. The writer
held that fully 80 jier cent, of the
cases of opium inebriety in this coun
try may lie traced to opiate piescriji-
tions. Physicians are too r ady*to
prescribe ophites for the relief of pain
or insomnia, and too * careless about
seeing that, when the strict therapeu
tical m-cesrily for its use has hem
fulfilled, the use be disco:itimied.
Dr Widneysaid t[iat in hisixpe-
ricuee South during the war, when
opihui was very stStrecjfJ^lle persons
who had been in the habit of using it
turned their attention to alcohol as a
substitute. In one case a woman
who had been iu tlie habit of taking
as high as twenty grains of morphine
a day drank a quart of whisky with
out becomiug intoxicated. Persons
could use alcohol for a longer time
than they could opium without be
coming dependent upon it. lie be
lieved that legislation was necessary
n»r the control of the sale of opium
and its preparations.
The Rev. Jon Willi-t believed that
the charges against the doctors were
ino sweeping, and that they were less
responsible than the druggist* Great
difficulty existed in reaching the
facta, owing to the utter want of ve
racity on the part of the patients
No opium eater, in his experience,
ever told the truth in regard to-the
origin of the habit in them. A whis
ky drinker wonld lie, but an opium
eater would keep bn lying all the
time. The habit arises insidiously
and by accident more than in auy
other way, aud physicians, in older
to guard against the ■ danger, should
watch their patients, and substitute
harmless prescriptions.
Dr. Earle concurred with the last
speaker that physicians were not so
much answerable us were the drug
gists. They filled prescriptions with
out the order of a physician, and be
believed that under the law they
were allowed to hold prescriptions as
private properly, and might continue
to hold them indefinitely. This was
ail wrong, pml legislative restriction
w:is needed. Hu did not 1 believe
lhat the opium habit or the whisky
habit were diseases.
Dr. Day, 'of Boston, had considera
ble experience of such eases, and
considered that the origin of the habit
was mote often accidental than other
wise. He blamed the druggists for
the indiscriminate filling of prescrip
tions. He also recommended that
special care should be given to the
control of tho sale and usa of opiates.
The opium habit was a most fearful
disease.
The Chair considered the subject a
year, and the effect of its use on the
race is very profound and wide-reach
ing. Somewhere a great responsibil
ity existed, and he held the druggists
most culpable. Many of them were
as directly interested in the sale of
opium and morphine as the salcon
keeper was in selling liquor.
The Rev. Juhn Willet tollowed with
an elaborate paper on the diseased
appetite of the drunkard, as its cure.
Mr. Willet utterly-disowned the mi-
raculouscure theory advanced by the
■new order of religio-temperance teach
ers, and claimed that the recovery of
the drukard from his degraded condi
tion must.be attained by human means.
He invited the “ deluded zealots,”
who insist that the drunkard’s habit
aud appetite can be cured by miracu
lous interpositi h, to visit an inebriate
asylum and experiment on its inmates.
Deadheading on
paper.
the News-
Tlie Rome Sentinel rises to explain,
and its language is plain, and is as
follows
There is no other business on
wliicii the public levies such heavy
contributions as on tlie newspaper
publishing htishii ss. An organization
is getting up sum- kind of festivities,
tor example It pays for the use of
grounds, pays for refreshments, gets
§2 wortli of tickets and §4 worth of
the lips of her interlocutor. Ou one
occasion an eminent clergyman of this
city called to see her mother, and was
received by the young lady. After
some fifteen minutes the mother pre
sented herself, and the young lady re
tired. Presently the'•'conversation
turned upon the' daughter, and tlie
mother said something about her in
flrmity. The clergyman, who had
seen nothing to iudicate any lack of
perception in the young lady, and who
had not noticed any physical defect,
was surprised, and asked what was
meant. The mother'then explained
that her child was stone deaf. The
clergyman was loath to believe it, and
almost demanded f urther proof, of the
fact. The young ludy was then called
and it was proven to his entire satis
faction, that she could not understand
a single word that was spoken unless
she saw the motion of his lips which
uttered it. Liko the deaf girl de
scribed in Wilkie Collins’ novel of
“ Hide and Seek,” she is singularly
susceptible to anv vibration of the
timbers of the room or 1 uni sc in which
she may be, and her mother has estab
lished a system of telegraphy with her
by means of the doors and balusters,
by which she ran communicate with
her throughout the whole house. By
simply striking tho baluster cr door
with the opeu hand her parents can
apprise i.er that her presence is desired
in a particular room or part of the
loll* printed cither at a newspaper, . , , . „ .
... . - , . ' vrpremi-is, and by modifications of the
office or somewhere rise, and theiiL . , * „ , ,
, .. „ ,7 raps can inform her of manv of the
expects iree advertising from tl/c ‘
paper to. an extent iirtually woitli
troni 88 to $20. The mere announce
ment" of a pin-nic, sociable or festival
is an advertisement and ought {Jobe
paid lor. The result is, that ungen
erous proportion of the profits of
nearly all entertainments of this kind
is money which rightfully belongs to
newspaper publishers. Then, after
the thing is over, tlie managers will
cdtiie in with a long string of resolu
tions, witlr which to rob the publisher
oi more valuable space. The truth
i-, that space in :t newspaper repre
sents money. It is worth money to
t e publisher. There is no more rea
son why he should give it away, than
why a merchant should give away
his goods. Part of the spaee of tho
paper is sold to business men for ad
vertising purposes; the rest of the
space is devoted to interesting read
ing matter. On the last, the pub
lisher depends for tlie attractions
which shall sell his paper. Either
space represents cash to hint. Yet,
the business man who buys space to
the amount of 82, often hir s a gr:<*
tuity of space to the amount of 81 ar
§2, or even mere. The managers of
festivals,'pic-uics or other home enter
tainments may not buy one cent’s
worth of space, but all the same ex
pects the free gift of several d liars’
worth of space. The politician, even
though lie forgets to keep his sub-
scrip: ton paid up, demands column
after column of valuable space free
and rarely so much as says thank yon
for it. For all this, the newspaper
man, taxed beyond any other bnsi-
ness man, enjoys the high distinction
of being regarded as a deadhead by
two-thirds of his neighbors.
Lip-Reading.
A good many years ago, when the
accomplished daughter of a well-known
gentleman of this city was a little girl,
she was taken ill with senret fever, and
when she recovered was stone deaf.
Fortunately the child, who possessed a
remaikably sweet voice, had le. rned
to talk before tlie attack, and the phy
sician who attended her, finding that
her sense of hearing had entirely' gone,
enjoined upon the nmthir the necessity
of carefully keeping up the habit of
speech, in order that it should not be
totally lost. Front that time out the
mother devoted herself to the preser
vation of her daughter’s voice, almost
to the exclusion of everything else, and
the successful issue of her undertaking
has proved an ample reward for her
labors. The young lady is now not
only an accomplished member of socie
ty, but an excellent artist, well known
among the painters of New York.
Her education was so carefully atend-
ed to by her mother that she not only
minor affairs <liat arc taking place.
Although her father has a handsome
competency, this young lady earns
enough for her own support in the
pursuit of her art.—AT. 1”. WoM.
A Terrible Experience.
THE tAFTAlX OF THK LOST VAX NAME TELLS
HIS STOKT.
Captain Hardy, of the schooner C.
J. Van Name, which was wrecked on
the way from New York to Barncon,
Au<>usi 3rd, has just re! itrued to hi*
'•onie in New Haven. He relates the
story of a wonderful experience. For
thirty-six hours, wjtb six companions,
lie drifted about in a terrible sea on a
frail raft which was all the time nndei
water, and it* occupants were me
naced constantly by the unwearying
attendance of sharks, which came so
near as to smeil of the men and to
have their eyes put out by sheath
knives in the hands of the sailors.
The particulars as narrated by Cap
tain Hardy are as follows: The Van
Name was a new vessel, built near
this city, and was laden with coal
Her passengers were Matilda Assurus,
aged twelve; Fieddie Assurus, aged
nine, and a man, who were among
the saved. At midnight on August
2nd, when nine days out, and three
hundred miles from shore, the
schooner began to feel the effects of
the gale. She was hove to under
.short sail and all was made snug. In
the morning all were oil deck, except
the girl. Tlie waves, were heavy and
ominous, the sky whs black, the rain
fell rapidly and tlie wirid shrieked.
Anticipating no danger, tlie lashings
of the boat on deck were allowed to
remain. At five o’clock, three large
waves—large waves. always roll by
threes—ctime towering upon the .ves
sel and swept over her with incon
ceivable speed. By the time the sec
ond had passed, the schooner was
keeled over on her side and the
water was rushing iu through the
cabin windows. The steward, Wal
ter Gill, at the command of the Cap
tain, .went to get the girl out of the
cabin. The third wave ’ reached
completely>over the doomed craft,
and the steward was carried away
and never seen again, except for a
moment hv the mate, and all the
crew were thrown into the water.
In six minutes from the time the first
wave struck her, the Van Name had
sunk. With her went down the girl
and everything on board except an
oar and a few pieces of scantling.
The Captain had clung to tho back
stay, but when taken under water,
loosened his hold and came to tho
surface. The oar was within his
reach, but it wonld not support his
weight, and as he could not swim, he
resigned himself to death, shouting
a farewell to the mate, who
swimming near. When he came op
acorn, he had the good fortune, how
ever, to grasp a joist, and this held
him up. The boy passenger he saw
supporting himself on two pieces of
lumber, but (be immense waves swept
over the boy’s, head, suffocating hin,.
The mate had two pieces of-timber
and the sailors had each one piece.
After great toil tlie pieces were col
lected, and when fastened together
with sailors* clothes, which could be
poorly spared, as the water was cold,
made a raft about three feet wide
and twenty-four feet long. On this,
seven men were floated, but to keep
on the surface, they were compelled
to remain on their hands and knees.
No sail appeared all day Friday,
and Friday night the raft gave indi
cations of breaking up, the fastenings
becoming partially loosened. The
idea of repairing the damage was
precluded by the presence of the
huge sharks, which made their ap
pearance a few minutes after the
hastily-made raft had been construct
ed and did not thereafter leave it.
The raft was so low in the water,
that the monsters were on a level
with the men, but only once was an
attack made. On that occasion, one
o’" tlie sailors had barely time to save
his feet. All Friday and Friday
night it rained. The men spread
handkerchiefs, and thus secured moist
ure enough to assuage their thir*t,
but had nothing to cat. Tlie position
\va< very irksome, lint could not he
changed for fear of the sharks. The
oar saved had been raised, and to
this a shirt was attached to attract
attention. Saturday morning, after a
most agonizing night, during which
all had nearly resigned hope, a steamer
was seen about a mile distant, the
only' vessel that had been sighted
save one from the time of the depart-
u*-e from New York. Although all
the men shouted with the energy of
d spair, they failed to attract atten-
tion. The action of the owner of (lie
signal was eloquent. Ho said noth
ing, but taking the shirt from its
place pul it on and lay carefully down
again. Throughout all this terrible
time, li*tie had been said’by any one.
Religions themes and the impending
peril were alone mentioned. After
the steamer bad passed later in the
day there came in sight a sailing ves
sel, bnt efforts to attract her attention
were again uavailing. Of all the men
on the raft, the Captain, who is about
forty, was alone over twenty years
of age, bnt all bore up wonderfully
under tlie circumstances. In the
afternoon, the schooner Minnie I’ip-
pelier, sailing on the wind, came as
tfie long-wished-fcr rescuer. O.e
man had been told to keep watch,
but in their feverish agony each in
sisted that his eyesight was tiic best.
There was danger of the schooner's
passing, as nothing could he seen of
the raft except the flags and the hu
man heads. Lungs were, however,
never more severely taxed, and the
shouts were of good effect, although
at the last minute there was danger
of the raft breaking up. A line was
thrown to them, but in tlicir eager
ness there was danger again, as about
all 'stood up and the raft sank lower,
with the expectaut shark’s danger
ously near and on the alert. How
ever, one by oue the men got on
board the Pippelier, Captain Henry
L. Burton, and were lauded safely at
Aspinwall. The Captain, in sum
ming tip the. terror of the time spent
in mid-ocean, said : “You can have
no idea of the feelings we had when
the steamer went away.”—A r . Y.
World.
When a man is making love to a
widow he always feels as if >bo had to
begin where the othe* fellow left
off.
Love makes itself understood by the
simplest beings; it bears with it a
charm which moves the indefferent,
and the eyes of two young lovers have
a language whose sweetness penetrates
even those who have uevef loved.
Organs are said to have been first
introduced into churches by Pope Vi-
taliauus, about A. D. 1670.
Gold was first discovered in Cali
fornia in 1848.