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COLEMAN 4b KIRBY, Editors ud Proprietors.
VOL XI.
■ELLiJAY COURIER.
PUB.'JSHEd EVERY THURSDAY
—BY—
COLEMAN & KIRBY.
~ 1 —tec in tho Court House -f
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
Superior Court meets 8d Monday in
May and 2d Monday in October.
Hon. James R Broivn, Judge.
George F. Gober, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge.
Moultrie M. E-cssic nr,County Solicitor.
Meets 3d Monday in each menth.
Court of th-dinary meets first Monday
iu each moLth.
town coUNcns
J. P. Perry, lutendent.
Al. McKinney, x. 11. Tabor, | n
J. Hunnicutt, J.R. Johnson, } ljom
\V. H, Foster, Town Marshal.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Allen, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court,
H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff,
J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G. W. Gat<s, Tax Collector,
Jas. M. West, Surveyor,
G W. Rice, Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Commissioner.
The County Board of Education meets
at Lilijny ihe Ist Tuesday in January
April, July and October.
na.ioious services.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South—
every 41 li Sunday, and Saturday before,
Rev. C. M. Ecdbetter.
Bapii<-t Church—Every 2nd Saturday
m.fl Sunday v by Rev. E. B. Shopc.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever
Ist Saturday aud Sunday, by Rev. if
-11. Robb.
FR ATE UN An RECORD.
Oak Bowery Lodge, No, 81, F. A. M.,
meets first Friday in each month.
W. A. Cox, W. M.
I. B. Greer, S. W.
W. F. Hipp, J. W.
K. Z Roberts, Tre is.
T. W. Craigo, Sec.
W. TV. Roberts, Tyler.
T. B. Kirby, S. D.
11. M. Bramlett, J. D.
J. W. HENLEY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
JASPER, GEORGIA
Wi 1 practice in the Superior Court of the Bins
Riilge Circuit. Prompt attention to al busi
no a intiusted to his care.
M- M. Sessions. E. W. Coleman
SESSIONS A COLEMAN,
attorneys at law,
ELLIJAY, OA.
Will practice in Blue Ridge Circnit, County
p>urt Justice Court of Gilmer County. Leeal
business solicited. •Tromptness” is our motto.
DB. J. S. TANKERSLEY.
Physician and Surgeon,
Tend-rn his professional services to the citi
Zens of Edijay, Oilmet* and surrounding conn
ties. Alt calls promptly attend and to. Office
upstairs over the firm of Cobb & San.
FE WALDO THORNTON, D.D.S.
DEN tist,
Calhoun, Ga.
>ll v ' s 't Eilijav and Morganton at
both the Spring and Fall term of the
Superior Court—and oftoner by special
contract, when sufficient work, is guar
anteed to ju-tify me in making the visit.
Address as above. fmaTil-lv
Young men
W.io wish a Thorough preparation foi
Business, w ill find superior advantages at
MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY
ATLANTA, GA.
The largest and best Practical Business School
.in the South. gSTStudt nts can enter at anj
time. for circulars. '
CENTRAL HOTEL!
Ellijay, Georgia.
Iu tlie special popular resort for
men aD(I tourists of a’l kind, and istlie genei al
housj for prompt attention, elegant rooms aid
are second to lnue. in this p’ace. Reasonable
rates.
Mrs. M. Y. T.-ero will give her personal a*-
ccui on t > • neats in the dinir g hall. 1\ 14
WHITE PATH SPRINGS!
—THE—
Favorite and. Popular Beaort o]
NORTH GEORGIA!
Is situated 6 miles north of Ellijay on
the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad.
Accommodations complete, facilities for
ease and comfort unexcelled, and the
magnificent Minetal Springs is its chief
attraction. For other particulars on
lroard, etc., address.
Mbs. W. F. Robertson,
Ellijay, Ga.
Main Motel!
ELLIJAY, GA.
This Hotel is now fitted up in excel
lent order, and is open for the reception
of guests, under competent management.
Every possible effort will lie made to
make the Mountain View the most popu
#r Hotel in Ellijay. Accomiftbdation* in
every department tirit-cUs,. Livery, sale
and feM stable, in connection with hotel.
G tits transfered fo and from all trsir s
frw of char?** o 24 ly
THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
AURAHTII
Most of the diseases which afflict mankind are origin
ally caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER*
For all complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of
the Liver, Biliousness. Nervous Dyspepsia, Indiges
tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation, Flatu
lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria,
Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever,
Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar
rhoea. Loes of Appetite, Headache, Foul Breath,
Irregularities incidental to Females, Bearing-down
sStt; S.llDJ6mjUlßAliiy
is Invaluable. It is not spinaces for all diseases,
but OMDC ad diseases of the LIVER,
.iliyuric. STOMACH and BOWELB.
It ohanges the complexion from a waxy, yellow
tinge, toe tuddy, healthy color. It entirely removee
low. gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL
TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE
BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC.
STADICER’S AURANTII
Fob sale by all Druggists. Price SI.OO per bottle.
C. F. STADICER, Proprietor,
>4O SO. FRONT ST.," Philadelphia, Pa.
FIRST GLASS—Grocers Keep It.
This child 1* eloai
And sweet, I ween.
As any Queen
You’ve ever seem.
Were washed with
ELECTRIC LIGHT SOAP
Without Rnbblnir.
First Class Housekeepers use It.
Ist. Washing clothes In the usual
manner is decidedly hard work; It
wears you out and the clothes too.
Sd. Try a better plan and Invest 1
five cents in a bar of ELECTRIC
LIGHT SOAP. Saves Time, Labor*
Money, Fuel and Clothes. Use ns di
rected octbo wrapper of each bar.
ORDERS SOLICITED.
ATKINS SOAP CO.
INDIANAPOLIS. IND.
Automatic Sewing Machine Cos.
72 West 23d St., New York, N.Y.
J * We invite special at
, tention to our New
Tpyr wKLclsh Patent Automatic Ten
/jy bion Machine, making
precisely the same stitch
jf yLpf as the Wilcox & Gibbs,
the Wilcox & Gibbs
Automatic Tension Ma
v\ chine, can bo returned
any time within 30 days
and money refunded.
But what is more remarkable still, we never
knew a woman willing to do her own family
sewing on a shuttle machine after having tried
our New Patent AUTOMATIC.
Even Shoe Manufacturers find it best suited to
their work—its elastic seams are more durable.
Truly Automatic Sewing Machines are fast
superseding shuttle machines, and it is no use to
deny it. Truth is mighty and does prevail.
Shuttle Machines have seen their best days.
Send for Circular. Correspondence solicited.
T-THE
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READY FOR USE.
4®“ Tlie Best Paint Made.
Guaranteed to contain no water,
benzine, barytes, chemicals, rubber,
asbestos, rosin, gloss oil, or other
similar adulteratione.
A full guarantee on every package
and directions for use, so that any
pne not a practical painter can use it.
Handsome sample cards, showing
88 beautiful shades, mailed free on
application. If not kept by your
dealer, write to us.
Be careful to ask for “THE LAWRENCE PAINTS,”
and da not take any other said to be “ at good at
Lawrence’s.”
W. W. LAWRENCE & CO.,
pittsiiißgh. pa
A Unique Chimney.
“I lived in San Francisco before the
War,” observed a returned Californian at
the last Scientific Association meeting,
“when the coa-t tin suffering from a
great many earthquahes. I once dug a
well in flaypy soil seventy-five feet deep
and had just begun walling it in from
the top when there was an internal up
heaval one night. The next morning I
was surprised to find my narrow belt of
stone seventy-five feet above the surface
with the rest of the hole continu’ng
down to the ground.”
“What did you do?” asked the Presi
dent in astonishment.
“I set workmen to walling up the rest
of it, working around the hole from the
top down.”*
“Then whit?” inquired the President
with even more surprise.
“I .-old it to a man for $2,000, who
built a factory next to it and need it
for a chimney.” —Bern York Graphic.
A teacher of mule in the Elmirs
College has invented and patented ad
vice tor alleviating the suffering* of cat
tic It U probably used tor keeping tin
v inflows and doom closed while th
music lesson it being given.
Pome on- hai compile 1 the following
table, ho—ing the results of the recent
storms in this country:
Killed. Wounded. Damage
Ohio 4S 10 91,4W,000
Missouri 89 87 871,000
Kareas 11 86 710,000
Indiana 9 W 8*5,000
Illinois 8 • 960,000
Michigan, Wisconsin
aud Pennslyvania. 5 6 100,000
Total loss 119 12ft $3,800,000
A dollar a month trill kaep a Bengal
man alive. Hera is certainly the spot on
esrth where contentment, sufficiency,
paradise should be. A distinguished
Brahmin recently quoted from official
reports the ctatimeat thet 80,000,000 of
of the Hindu* are always in a state of
semi-starvation; that most of the dis
eases are the result of hunger; that
8,000,000, or 4,000,000 die every elev
enth year of acute famine. Over a large
portion of China famine is chronic. Only
a few years ago 7,000,000 people starved
to death in one visitation.
The word month is not likely soon fo
be defined in its statutory use by national
enactment, though a bill with that end
in view has been introduced by Senator
Platt. In England a legal month is the
lunar month of twenty-eight days. This
was the common law interpretation, hut
Georgia is the only State which now ad
heres to that interpretation; all other
States go by the calendar. As the ques
tion has never been raised in the courts
the ludiciary Committee concluded that
there was no call for any legislation on
the subject, and reported the bill ad
versely.
For her turned np nose,
Her sweet little toes,
Her pretty pink hose.
And all her clothes /
Balloons as an adjunct of warfare are
attracting much attention in European
military circles, and their possible value
in time of peace is not entirely over
looked. An English writer remarks that
the recent successful attempts at balloon
steerage in France have led many
thoughtful per onsto believe the day not
to be far distant when we shall see bal
loons plying in well-paying passenger
traffic between England and the conti
nent. Another writer adds that such a
result would be no more wonderful in its
way than tho discovery and development
of the telephone, which, though scarcely
a decade old, is already so familiar-to us
that it no longer seems strange.,
Captain John Miller, of Jimtown,
Chickasaw Nation, was recently on trial
at Fort Smith, Ark., charged with mur
der. This was not a novel experience to
Captain John, for, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, he has, according to his
own account, killed thirty men during
his life, not counting those he may have
slain in the war. Though often tried for
murder, he always eseaped conviction,
and in this last case was released on the
ground that the court had no jurisdic
tion in the case. Captain Miller was
born in Choctaw county, Miss., in 1816,
and is now seventy years of age, though
no one would take him for more than
fifty.
The devices for attracting and pleasing
customers in New York stores are various
and ingenious. In one store a buffet has
been opened for free lunching. A neat
maid serves out tiny sandwiches, cakes
and coffee. She is an expert, however,
and puts the dainties where tkey will do
the most good to her employers. She
discriminates between little and big
buyers intuitively; she soon spots those
who bring their empty stomachs too often
to be filled, and especially is she kind to
the children of liberal purchasers. For
these youngsters she has a special supply
of pastry, and with them she opens the
hearts and purses of the fond mothers.
Probably this luncheon counter does
not cost more than $25 a day, and in
fluences more than enough business to
pay for itself.
A City of Mexico letter asserts that “if
the tourists -who leave the Eastern and
Middle States during the bleak winter
months to seek health and pleasure in
milder climates knew Mexico as it is, they
would flock here. The country is, and
has been, during my five years’ residence
as safe as the State of New Y r ork, to live
and to travel in. The people are quiet
and as a rule courteous to all strangers.
Violent crime is Jess in proportion in
Mexican than in American cities. There
are fairly comfortable hotels in nearly all
the principal towns, and many new ones
are being built and furnished. The food
furnished is nutritious and plentiful. The
mode of cookery is generally distasteful
to Americans, but the keepers of restau
rants are adopting American customs in
many instances to get their trade. Hotel
and restaurant charges are a little lower
than in the United States. Police service
is as effective in all the larger towns as
in the United States, and the Mexican
police are more patient and courteous than
those of the American cities. Several
tourists, who were entirely ignorant of the
language, have told me of their having
been picked up, when lost in the city of
Mexico, and returned promptly and cour
teously to their hotels by the police, and
they are as ready to serve the old and ugly
os the more attractive or younger. Of
course it U bard to make resident* of the
Eastern States realize that the climate is
•uch that you may dress in light woollen
goods, and, with a light overcoat fcr
night journeys, be comfortable tb* year
round; bat it is tree,"
••A MAP OP BUST LIFE—ITS FLUCTUATION'S AND ITS FAST CONCERNS."
ELLIJAY, GA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1886.
THE SOUTH WIND.
When maples drip their sweet,
That fires distill to amber honey; when
The swollen brook is noisy in tho glen.
And robins, hopping o'er the brown earth,
greet
Tho gentle dawn with song; when snows re
treat
Tc|fence and forest-nook, and high again
The soft clouds sail the sunny heaven; then
Tha South Wind comes with hope and life
replete.
It knows the grave of every flower that
sleeps '
And wakesueach litte Lararus. It dyes
The dawn a fairer purple than of Tyre,
And spills the cloudy cisterns of the skies.
It lifts the heart like verse, but how it
sweeps
The ohords of memory's pathetic lyre!
—Franklin E. Denton, .in the Current.
DOWN TURNERS POINT.
If you will look out of the window on
your right, when the train gets through
the cut, you will have a fine view of the
Grand Chasm,” says the polite conduc
tor, lifting his gilt-lettered cap.
“Thabk you very much,” returns the
quiet little lady in dark blue, quickly
raising her eyes from the pages of her
guide-book.
“Oh, Aunt Tina,” says a shrill, ex
cited voice, at her elbow, “let me go out
on the platform, do I 111 be just as care
ful and hold on to the break as tight!”
“Don’t think of such a thing for a
moment!”in quick, decided tones, while
her alert eyes are upon each movement of
the restless bit of humanity at her side.
She is a quiet-looking little lady no
longer.
The train is approaching Tallulah, Tal
lulah the Terrible, Georgia’s greatest and
most famous Wonder, and the passengers
arc in a fever of impatience to catch tho
first glimpse of the tremendous canyon
along the dizzy edges of which the rail
road makes its way. None more so than
the wide-awake bit of humanity referred
to, who, boylike, cannot understand why
it is that his twelve years of life do not
entitle him to a greater show of privi
leges, like that, for instance, of standing
on the platform as the other men aro
doing.
Ho thinks his jpintio unnecessarily
cautious and particular, yet he doesn’t
get ugly about it at jell. He has never
been a very headstrong, nor a very dis
obedient boy, only Somewhat willful at
times, with strange ideas of his own, the
expression of which, after a fashion
peculiar to himself, , has gained for him
among his mates the title of 'the queer
fellow.”
There is nothing in the bare sides of
the . cut through which they aro now
passing, npr in t hafe'-ntiotonous stretches
of pine barrens left behind, to give even
hint of the grandeur of the scene that
now bursts upon their vision.
Down through a gore 1,300 feet in
depth, and over 1,000 feet in width at
its narrowest point, dashes the Tallulah
river, over ruggedly massed boulders, in
foam-tossed cascades that throw their
spray in air nearly a hundred feet.
On either side rise sheer walls of solid
granite, worn smooth as polished silver
in many places by the floods of centuries,
and like silver glittering in the sun’s
rays.
“That is Turner’s Point,” said the con
ductor, pointing just to the right o( them
to stupendous mass of rugged granite
shelves, soil covered in many places that
juts out more prominently than the
others into the dizzy gorge. “With but
one exception,” continued the conductor,
“it is the highest point on the chasm,
and is full nine hundred feet above the
bed of the river. ”
“A tremendous fall that!” exclaims a
nervous little gentleman behind him,
“provided any one wanted to try it.”
“Shouldn’t think they’d particularly
want to try it,” returns the conductor,
dryly, “yet some of them do.”
“Good gracious,” cries the nervous
litle gentleman again, “you don’t mean
to say that someone has fallen down
there?”
“Oh, no, not that; ODly that some of
the more adventurous have tried to climb
down by means of the clumps of stunted
verdure you see. ”
“And did they succeed?”
“Only so far as a partial descent; about
one-third of the way, I believe. ”
Arrived at Young’s Hotel about the
first person whose acquaintance is sought
by our restless bit of humanity—otherwise
Aunt Tina’s nephew, Swain Connor—is
Monk, the veteran guide.
“I say, Mr. Monk,” Swain breaks forth
immediately that he has that worthy se
curely penned in an out-of-the-way corner
of the veranda, “I want you to take me
down Tamer’s Point.”
“Phew!” whistles Monk, thinking this
the queerest one he has had to deal with
yet. Then, apparently determining to
treat it all as a huge joke:
“Yes, certainly, and isn’t there some
thing else on the same order that you
would like, a pleasure ride, for instance,
over the Hurricane?”
“Yes, if you please.”
“But, goinl gracious! I don’t please!”
cries the excitable little guide, losing con
trol of himself at once. ‘ ‘The thing either
■way is not to be thought of for a mo
ment, unless you are extremely anxious
to leave th's world for another.”
“But the conductor said some of ’em
went down Turner’s Point.”
“Someone or two fool-hardy ones
have, to a certain distance, but they
were giad enough to get back, I can tell
you. As to going down that way to the
bottom of the gorge—well, if you are
extremely anxious to get rid of yourself,
the quickest way would be to try the
Hurricane.”
“The very ‘terror-spot’ of the whole
river,” says Mr. Monk, the next morning
when exhibiting the awe-inspiring spec
tacle, known as Hurricane Falls, to Aunt
Tina and her attendant Bwain.
They have been afraid to leave the
hotel at first because of the threatening
appearance of the sky, but as Aunt Tina's
time is limited, she had finally decided
to venture. After that, luck seems to
favor her, for. with the exception of the
few drops while at the Indian Arrow
Rapids, there has been no further fall of
rain. Indeed, the clouds are now fast
clearing away, while already the bright
rays of the sun are struggling forth.
“O, what a beautiful little rainbow,”
cried Swain, as from the rock on which
they are now standing ha catches sight
of tha axquiaite area whose prismatic
hues sparkle brilliantly between him and
the dashing foam of the cascade.
but yonder is a much more
hAt<.ful one,” says Mr. Monk, pointing
down the gorge to where a magnificent
bow, intensely vivid initscoloring,spans
the rugged walls of the canyon.
“That is, indeed a beauty!” exclaima
Aunt Tina, as she turns round the better
to admire it. “I don’t know when I have
seen one of such intense coloring. If
the old-fashioned child-stories are to be
believed there must be a very gorgeous
treasure indeed at the foot of that bow.”
_ “ And why not beleivo them?” ques
tions Mr. Monk, who in spite of his
rough garb is a well-informed, pleasant
young gentleman. “For my part I have
never yet gotten rid of the idea that if
one could really find the end of the bow
he would also tind the treasure.”
“Yes, certainly,” says Aunt Tina, with
a smile, “if he could find the end of the
bow.”
“Mr. Monk,” questions a sharp, high
pitched voice at this moment, “where r>~
you think that end of the rainbow is\-'
_ Mr. Monk turns his head to follow the
direction pointed out by the nervous
brown finger.
‘ ‘That, ” he repeats, with a mischievous
twinkle in his eye. “Why, down Turner’s
Point, to be sure.”
“I believe, Mr. Monk,’’says Aunt Tina
again, “that you told me many beautiful
stones of rare valfle had been found in
tho rugged cliffs of the canyon?”
“Yes,” returns Mr. Monk, “several
fine rubies, sapphires and emeralds have
been picked up, it is suid, but none of
late. I have never been so fortunate as
to find one myself,” with a smile, “but
the guides who were here before me
stumbled upon an exceedingly fine
emerald in the gorge below Turner’s
Point.”
All the way back to the hotel tho
words “Down Turner’s Point,to be sure I”
keep beating time, syllable by syllable,
through Swain's busy brain. “Of course
It is,” he reasons. “Whore else could it
be? Why, hasn't he seen it with his own
eyes resting right against the rugged
points of the biggest boulder?” He has
marked the place well. There is a
stunted pine at one side and a great
clump of ’laurel bushes, rhododendrons
Aunt Tina calls them. On the other
there is a great rock that shines in the
sunlight liko it is streaked.with silver,
with here and there a cluster of, peauttfui
ferns and mosses, and a tiny cascade
trickling down its sides, Ribbon Cascade,
Mr. Monk calls it. Of courso the treasure
is there! And O, how he does want it!
Not so much for himself as for Aunt
Tina—Aunt Tina whom he loves so dearly
in spite of the thought that sometimes
she is a little too hard on him. But at
others how sho does pet and humor him!
And O, they are so happy together! Hap
pier still, perhaps, because in all the
world they have only each other. And
.there is Aunt Tina’s book. How hard
slio had‘Worked on it, day aud night, and
how much she does wnnt it published 1
But the hard-hearted publishers, to
whom many pages of the snowy manu
script have been submitted, have de
clared they can’t touch it till a part, at
least, of the money is forthcoming, to
pay for some sort of plates. Swain won
ders what kind of plates they can be, and
what in the world dishes have to do with
printing. He has ventured to ask Aunt
Tina once, but, being absorbed in her
work, she has only answered briefly,
“stereotype plates,” and so he is as much
in the dark as ever.
If he could only get that money for
Aunt Tina; which she had never yet been
able to get herself, for Aunt Tina is only
a poor teacher with a meagre salary.
At three o’clock this same afternoon,
when every guest of the house is enjoy
ing his or her siesta, shut in the seclu
sion of their rooms, a slight figure clad
in flannel Knickerbocker, with a sailor
waist of the same, issues, stick in hand,
from a side entrance.
Ten minutes later the same figure
makes its way along the railroad track to
where a small foothpath turns off to the
left, with a stunted pine near at hand
labeled: “To Turner’s Point.”
“It daesn’t look so very awful!” ex
claims Swain, as, the path followed, he
stands at length beside a clump of dwarfed
pines and looks down upon the river,
much more peaceful here than a hundred
yards above, where its fury seems to have
been finally expended in the last of the
great cascades.
A strange feeling of awe and dread
steals for a moment into the child’s heart,
and he partly turns as though he would
go back. The next, apparently ashamed
of even this faint show of cowardice, he
grasps his stick firmly and begins to climb
downward.
There is no regular path, but he catches
sight here and there of a trodden tuft of
grass and the shredded twigs of ash and
laurel that show plainly where the foot
and hand of the daring climber have left
their prints.
Very cautiously Swain picks his way at
first, then, as he finds it easier than he
has thought, he grows bolder. Finally,
when about 300 feet down, a projecting
ledge stops his further progress. Kneel
ing down, he crawls to the edge and
looks over.
“The Very place?” he cried excitedly,
“and I just know it is down there!”
But the “down there’’ is fully a hun
dred and fifty feet beneath him, and is an
other pro jecting ledge, but much larger,
and thickly covered with ferns and
mosses, over which a thread-like cas
cade trickles.
As he leans further over, a tiny some
thing that glitters in the sun’s rays
catcaes his eye.
It is embedded in the soil of the ledge
a foot or so beneath him.
Reaching down he quickly grasps it,
and then with an exultant little cry
springs to his feet. But the next mo
ment the cry of exultation is changed to
one of supplication and terror, for in the
sudden spring his feet have come in
contact with a treacherous tuft that is
barely hanging to the cliff’s edge. As
they press against it, it gives way, and
the next moment he goes headlong over
the ledge.
U p at the hotel all is confusion and
excitement, for he has been missed, and
the mother-aunt, in her agony of terror,
is beseeching landlord, clerk, guide,
waiters, all to go In searob of her darling
boy.
Only too well she surmises that in his
usual fearlessness, and aliva with the de
sire to hunt out thing* for bimaelf, he is
straying along the ditty edge of the
dangerous chasm.
It is twenty-four hours before they lad
him, and at least a lourth a* many more
before, by the aid at ropes and ladders,
he is rescued. -~
He is conscious and able to teU his
story, though when he is first lifted he
cries out with pain in spite of himself.
One arm lies doubled up under him and
shattered, yet with this exception there
is no other outward sign of hurt.
His descent has been broken by the
various clumps of verdure, and finally
when he has reached the ledge below it
is to fall upon a bed of ferns and mosses.
For a time the shock has completely
stunned him. When ho returns to con
sciousness it is to find that he is unable
to move his body. But he manages to
reach his handkerchief, which he dips
from time to time in the cascade near,
and thus slakes his thirst, and also with
its damp folds protects hi* face from the
j sun’s rays. It ia the chill of the long
dark night that strikes tho greater terror
to his heart and a dsathliko numbness to
his cramped limbs.
This is the story he tells to thoee who
rescue him, but he says nought of these
dreadful things, when passionately clasped
against the throbbing heart, that all day
and all night long has watched and
waited in an agony of mingled hope and
fear on the veranda of the hotel.
There, in the presence of all, yet seem
ingly unmindful, overcome at last by the
sight of the agitated loving face, with its
passionate eyes raiuing hot tears down
upon his own, he sobs out the whole story
of his hopes and longings for hor, tho ar
dent desires that cling so fondly about the
dear, dear book.
Clutched tightly in tho palm of his
uninjured hand he still holds the precious
sparkling thing, which, now that he is
safe within her sheltering arms, he dis
closes to tho view of all.
Not till the next day, however, when
tho brave, loyal fellow is struggling iu
the dcUrium of fever, is the value of hiß 1
find discovered. It is an emerald un
usually large and clear.
“I will give him one thousand dollars i
for it, uncut as it is I” declares a young
i’oweler from New Orleans, who, to do
lim eredit, is much more touched by the
pathetic story Bobbed out on the mother
aunt’s bosom than ho.is by tho probuble
value, or tho exquisite beauty of the gem.
“I lost just two hundred and fifty dol- j
lars, hard cash, by tho investment,” he
says to the same friend a ycur later, “but
I assure you I have never regretted it."
Aunt Tina’s book is out, and u success.
As to Aunt Tina herself, where she
made pleasure trips of a week before, she ;
now mukes them of months, and she is
never seen anywhero without her attend
ant Swain.
As to this same Swain, he is a hand
some, active fellow indeed, in spite of
the fact that one arm hangs stiff and
almost helpless—an ever-present re
minder of tho time when he went down
Turner’s Point! —Winthrop Burroughs.
Corpulence.
A correspondent, who, without any
known organic or functional trouble, is
greatly incommoded by superfluous fat
—ho wrongly calls it flesh —requests an
article on the subject.
The condition is known as corpnlence,
or obesity. It consists in a tendency to
the formation and deposit of fat. A cer
tain amount of this deposit is normal. It
is an olement of beauty, rounding out the
form. It lessens the effect of sudden
changes of temperature. It is a reserve
of nutriment, to be drawn upon in emer
gencies, thus saving the muscles and
other tissues.
Borne persons inherit a tendency to it.
Some races aro more liable to it than
others. Women aro more so than men.
Both sexes are more inclined to it after
the age of forty. Thero are individual
cases of extreme obesity. . A boy at tho •
age of three weighed one hundred and
twenty-four pounds; a girl, ono-htindred
and eighty-two, at twelve. A woman,
who was thin and delicate at eighteen,
died at forty-one with some eight inches
of fat around her body. The famous
Daniel Lambert’s maximum weight was
seven hundred and thirty-nine pounds.
Much the largest part of the body in these
persons was pure fat.
In all cases of obesity, there is a de
ficiency of oxygen in the blood, either
absolutely, or relatively to the amount of
food. Excess of food tends to produce
it, and yet some are corpulent on a spare
diet. Lack of exercise favors it. by less
ening the oxidation of the tissues. * It is
also produced by disea-es which diminish
the number of the red blood corpuscles.
It is the latter that absorb oxygon from
the inspired air and convey it to the tis
sues.
According to Quain, very corpulent
people have large hearts and small lungs.
This may help to explain the deficiency
of oxygen. It lias also quite recently
been proved that women have fewer, by
many millions, of red blood corpuscles
than men. This, too, maybe one reason
for their greater lendoucy to corpulence.
As the muscles become infiltrated with
fat, they are weakened. Hence corpu
lent persons are apt to be indisposed to
active exercise. For the same rea/on,the
heart is rendered feeble and is easily dis
turbed. The deficiency of oxygen tends
to the formation of uric acid, and hence
to the production of gout. The very
corpulent arc specially liable to various
forms of congestion, and acute diseases
are apt to have an unfavorable course.
In treating the corpulent, regard must
bo had to the fact that the heart is
weak. The main reliance for reducing
the obesity is on diet and exercise. The
latter increases the power of the blood to
take up oxygen. The more oxygen one
can receive, the better, if kept well
within the person’s strength and the ca
pacity of a weakened heart. The diet
should contain but little fatty or starchy
food, and much animal food—lean
meats, fish, but not the richer kinds,
also fresh fruits, vegetables, and bread
with only a moderate allowance of but
ter. Alkaline water is believed to bo
helpful.— Youth's Companion.
Various Cakes.
For fho creditor—Short cake.
For the singer—Dol ugh i cake.
For the sailor—Currant cuke.
For the tramp —Sponge cake.
For the drunkard —Drop cake.
For the farmer—Hoe cake.
For the cowboy—Plain cake.
For the man with bunions < ’orn cuke
For tho house builder—liaisin’ cake
—Humbler.
A mass of Itad in an elrvatcd furnace
ia Paris was lomnletcljr dissipated by a
stroke of lightning. n<> trace of tho metal
being found afterward.
ORE DOLLAR Par A.tn, la Alvaae*.
, ROSE AND DAISY.
The Daley lifted her eyes to the Boo*
(The Daisy that crew so low),
At the summer day’s dim, shadowy close.
When the south wind began to blow,
And the blush of the sky at the parting Ida
Of the sun was paling slow.
And she wondered why, as Daisies will,
God made the Rose so fair;
And, drowsily nodding, wondered still
Till sleep o’ertook her there—
A sleep so deep, she knew it not
When the south wind touched her hair.
But the south wind’s touch aroused a dream
In a heavenly garden plot
Beside a clear and winding stream
That fed the forget-me-not;
They two did seem ft was but a dreamt
To grow, and share one loti
They two did grow as sisters dear,
And the Daisy’s weary head,
| With never a thought of doubt or fear,
On the Rose’s breast was laid—
For the mothfe-heort stooped and drew if
near—
The little, motherless head I
But the night wind passed, and the Daisy
woke; y
And queenly above her there
i The Rose smiled on. The morning broke,
And flushed the sapphire air,
And she wondered still, as Daisies will, /
Why Roeas grow so fair!
—Josephine A. Cam. '
PITH AND POINT. 1
The skeleton man travels on his shape.)
A good place for a loaf—A baker’s
shop.
Love may be blind, but in some way
it generally manages to get on to a man’s
bank aoceunt. —Oil City Blizzard.
It must be glorious fun to go courting
in Greenland. The nights are about
three months long. —Burlington Free
Brest.
Speaking of flies, a Burlington base
ball player says: “They come high, but
we must hare them.” —Burlington Fret
Frets. i
The small boy learning the alphabet
Is Tory much like the postage stamp—he
often gets stuck on a letter. —Boston
Bulletin.
Although they claim that love is blind,
■ A sad experience will disclose /
Tis difficult to be resigned
To boilaupon your sweetheart’s nose. ,
—Pittsburg Gazette.
The bricks with which many Egyptian
tombs were built are as perfect after four
thousand years as when they were made.
They evidently were pressed for time.—
Texas Siftings. /
“Pa. what does pobby mean?” “Sty
lish, my dear.” “Well,Uhen, pa. youi
nose must be very stylish, for grandma
says you have got the knobbiest nose in
town. ” — B\ftings.
When you’ve told your little story I
And have settled to the glory,
Of extravagant narration most succemfully
displayed,
How you turn a bilious yellow ;
When you hear some other fellow.
With his wretched “That reminds me,” lay
your snugly in the shade.
—Pittsburg Gazette.
Again the zephyrs sigh along the leas,
And blooms the violet ana buttercup,
Now softly blows the balmy western breeze,
And the thermometer is going up.
The golden dandelion nodslts head,
Again w* feel the odor of the briar, J
And “Thomas” re-appeare upon the shed
At night to warble to his loved “Mariar.”
—Boston Courier.
Gambling at Monte Carlo.
The hangers-on comprise men and
women of all kinds, spies, cappers, per
sons who lend money on watches and
jewelry,to those who have lost and those
who follow numerous other nameless oc
cupations. Those who patronize the
games are chiefly English and Russians,
among whom are the principal scandals
arising from lost fortunes and unpaid
debts. The Czar is often called upon by
members of noble families to forbid their
relatives to visit Monaco, where they
have already loßt the greater part of their
fortunes. There have been Russian
princesses who hare spent half their lives
at the Casino, only ceasing their visits
when old age or disease rendered the dis
sipation impossible. The trouble in the
Balkan Peninsula has prevented the
Czar from followiag out his hos
tile designs in regard to Monaco,
which he threatened just after
the attempted suicide of Prince
Gargarme last summer. English people,
who had lost their fortunes, have been
known to leave their children at a hotel
as security for the bill while they re
turned home to seek means of payment,
and, not returning to seek them, the land
lord has found it necessary to take them
to London. Americans resident at Nice
visit Monaco with the re t and loss
money, but are seldom utterly ruined.
They rarely, so far as known, increase the
list of suicides. But Nice is in its de
cadence. ' Not more than half the usual
number of guests were there this winter,
and its hotels are nearly all ruined.
With the misfortunes of Nice and the
hostility of all the countries of Europ",
except France, must come also the fait
of Monaco, which will, perhaps, be has
tened by the accession to power of the
heir apparent, who is said to be hostile
to the Casino. —Paris Letter.
The Feet of a Bee.
Naturalists say that the feet of the
common working bee exhibit the com
bination of a basket, a brush and a ; air
oi pincers. The brush, the baits of which
are arranged in symmetri al rows.it only
to he seen with the microscope. With
this brush of fairy delicacy the l,;o
brushes its velvet robes to remove tie
pollen dust with which it becomes loaded
while sucking up the nectar. Another
article, hollowea like a spoon, receives
all the gleanings which the insect curries
to the hive. Finally, by opeuing them,
one upon another, by means of a lting ■,
these two | iecea become a p tir of pincers
which reader important eervice In the
construction of the combs. —Horns Na'ur
aliet,
Between New York and the Gulf of
Mexico there are only four natural en
trances to harbors where the depth at
mean low water is over sixteen feet,
white tho largost ship* draw from iwt-n
--ty-oix to tweuty-sight and a half feet.
NO. 23.