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JACKSON CO. PTJB. COM’Y, )
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VOLUME V.
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cCrpf Hileertisements.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sales.
AITILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Novcm-
M her next, before the Couyt House door in the
♦own of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
The dwelling liouse, lot and premises now
occupied by and in the possession of Peter Mc-
Lcster, in the town of Jefferson, Jackson County,
(ia., bounded on the west or front side by Wash
ington street, in Jefferson, Ga., on the east or
hack side by the back street, on the south by the
lot now occupied by \V. A. Worsham, and on the
north by cross alley, and containing one acre,
more or less. Levied on as the property of Peter
McLester, defendant in ti. fa., to satisfy a ti. fa.
from Jackson Superior Court, in favor of L. and
A. J. Gilleland, for use of F. M. Bailey, plaintiff,
vs. Peter McLester, defendant. Said ti. fa. yon
troled by F. M. Hailey. Said dwelling is a good
two-story frame dwelling, newly finished and
painted. On said lot is a good garden and small
orchard, good well of good water, good kitchen,
>Vc. Written notice given to Peter McLester,
party in possession. Property pointed out by
plaintiff.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
one tract or parcel of land, situate and lying in
the 245th District. G. M., of said county, known
as part of the Hannah place, containing tifty
acres, more or less, bounded as follows: Com
mencing on the Lawrencevilie road, at the corner
of F. M. Dailey's lot. thence along said road to
IVter McLcstcr's Land, known as the Hat Duke
place, thence along the line of said place to a
branch, thence down said branch to J. E. Ran
dolph's lino, thence along said Randolph's line to
aline on F. M. Dailey's land, thence along F. M.
bailey's line to the beginning corner. There is
about twenty-five or thirty acres in cultivation,
the remainder in old field. Said land is suitable
fur a good cotton farm, and is within a half mile
f Jefferson. Levied on by virtue of and to sat
isfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court of
said county, in favor of Thomas L. Itoss vs.
I’cter McLester; to be sold for purchase money,
heed filed in the Clerk's office, as the law directs.
Notice given to Peter McLester, defendant in li.
fa. and tenant in possession.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
one tract or parcel of land, situate and lying in
the 245th District, (i. M., of said county, lying
an the south side of the road leading from Jeffer
son to Lawreneeville, adjoining the church lot of
the colored people. Said parcel of land being a
part of the lot now owned by F. M. Hailey, for
merly owned by Mitchell Few, tyid is supposed
to contain seven acres, more or less; the same
being that portion of the said Few lot that lies on
the east side of the branch that runs through the
said Few lot. All of said tract is in cultivation.
<bi said place is a log cabin. Levied on by virtue
of and to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior
t’ourt of said county, in favor of Thomas L. Ross
's. Wiley Hancock. To be sold for purchase
money. Deed filed in the Clerk's office, as the
law provides. Notice given to Willis Oliver,
tenant in possession, and Wiley Hancock, defen
dant in li. fa., as the law directs.
oct a T. A. MuELIIAXXOX, Sh'tf.
| .lsickson Comity.
Fourt of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes
October Ist, 1870.
Ordered, by the Court, that two and one-half
tenths of one per cent, be assessed and collected
°n the taxable property of Jackson county, as per
Oigest of 1870, by tlve Tax Collector of said coun
ty, tax for county purposes for the year ending
Beptomber Ist, 1880, as follows:
Pne and live-tenths of one per cent., to
pay expenses Superior Courts, jurors,
etc., amounting to $1,773 98
Pnc twenty-two and one-halfof one-tenth
of one per cent., to pay repair and
building bridges, amounting to 710 SO
Pile twenty-three ami four-lilth of one
tenth of one per cent., to pay Jailor's
tees, etc., amounting to 100 00
Pne twenty-three and four-fifth of one
tenth of one per eent., for support of
the County Poor, amounting to JOO 00
Pac seventeen and three-fourth of one
tenth of one per cent., to pay salary of
County Treasurer, amounting to 300 00
Pne thirty-live and one-halfof one-tenth
of one per cent., for contingent fund,
to pay any lawful claim against the
■county, amounting to 000 00
Total, for current county purposes..Bl,223 78
It is further ordered by the Court that an extra
tax of seven and one-halt’tenths of one per cent,
he assessed and collected on the taxable property,
a- per Digest of 1379. of said county, by the Tax
! ollector, for the purpose of paying for the build
h'e of the new Court House of said county, now
in course of erection, for furnishing the same and
paying 'for, improving and enclosing the lot upon
-which said Court House is being built.
11. \V\ HELL, Ord'y.
A true extract from minutes of said Court.
11. W. HELL.
Pet. Ist. Ex-Officio Clerk Court Ordinary.
| HiOllUll. Jackson Comity.
V\ here**, upon the petition of certain citizens,
asking that the public road recently established,
*'oimueueing at the rear of lane near Hr. DeLa
perriereX, and ending at the Pederson and ..lon
roe road, uear .Jack llanie’s residence, be discon
tinued:. Reviewers were appointed, and having
•nade their report to me that said road is one ol
ln ueli public utility, and recommending said road
to be coutittuVd. it is ordered, that if no good
fau.se be shown to the contrary, an order will he
passed dismissing said application on the sth day
P Ayveuiber text.
Liven under my official signature..
oct 3 H.. W. BELL, Ord'y.
LIGHT JOB WORK,
Executed promptly, at tins office.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Administrators Sale.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary
of Jackson County, granted in terms of law, will
be sold, to the highest and best bidder, on the Ist
Tuesday in November next, between the lawful
hours of sale, at the Court House door of said
county, in Jefferson, the following lands, to-wit :
One lot or parcel containing two hundred and
thirty-six acres, more or less, lying in the County
of Jackson, on the waters of Deech Creek, adjoin
ing lands of Jermimo Lay. lands of the Chandler
estate, lands of Harp Arnold and lands of Green
liowman. On said lot there is twenty-five acres
in cultivation of bottom land, and about thirty
acres upland in cultivation; balance old field and
forest. - On said lot comfortable cabin and out
buildings. One parcel containing one hundred
acres, more or less, adjoining lands of T. L. Day,
A. D. Walls, and the above described tract. On
said lot there is about thirty-five acres in cultiva
tion. all unland except three acres. On said lot
comfortable cabin and out-buildings. One fifteen
acre lot bounded by the above described lots,
mostly upland and in a state of cultivation. One
lot containing sixty-two acres, more or loss,
bounded by the Dower of Mary McDonald and
the two first described lots. On said lot there is
about five acres of bottom land in cultivation,
and ten or twelve acres of upland in cultivation,
balance in old field and forest. All of said lands
lying in the 240th I list., G. M. Sold as the prop
erty belonging to the estate of William McDonald,
deceased, for the benefit of heirs and creditors.
Terms of sale cash.
J. s. ay. McDonald,
t. x. McDonald,
Administrators.
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold, agreeably to an order of the
Court of Ordinary of Jackson County, be
fore the Court House door, in Jefferson, on the
iirst Tuesday in November next, the following
property, to-wit: A tract of land lying in said
county, adjoining lands of AYalls, Chandler and
others, containing forty acres, more or less ; about
12 or 15 acres in cultivation, balance in woods
and old fields. Said land sold as the property of
\Y illiam Wilson, deceased, for the purpose of
paying the debts of said deceased. Terms cash.
SARAH AVILSON.
Administratrix W. AYilson, deceased.
oct 3
( 4 120ISLSIA, .Jackson t oiuUv.
vx
Court of Ordinary. Sitting for Comity Purposes.
September 29th, 1879.
Ordered by the Court that the offices of the
Ordinary and Clerk of the Superior Court and
Shcriit of Jackson county, after this elate, be and
the same arc hcreb} 7 removed from the rooms
respectively occupied by each in the old Court
House building in Jefferson. The Ordinary’s
and Sheriff's office to be removed and kept over
the store-room of F. M. Hailey, in Jefferson, and
the Clerk Superior Court office to be removed
and kept in the store-room formerly occupied by
Stanley it Pinson, in Jefferson.
11. W. BELL. Ord'y.
A true extract from minutes of said Court.
11. W. HELL,
oct 3 Ex-Officio Clerk C. O. J. C.
/ AIiOKGU, Jnckson County.
Whereas, /. T. Suddeth, Administrator of S.
Cowan, late of said countv, deceased, represents
to the Court, by his petition duly tiled, that he
has fully administered the estate of said deceased,
and is entitled to a discharge—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in December, 1879, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said count}', why Letters
of Dismission should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
20th, 1879. li. W. DELL, Ord’y.
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
DICK.
[continued.]
“AYell, all this time I’d been drinkin*
pretty stead}’. I took a drink that night
afore I went to drive them folks. I always
drank then, right along; didn't think T could
do without it. But the next morn in’, when
I got up, I went right down to the stable*
and never look a drop—somehow I couldn’t.
The first tiling I done, I went into Kit’s stall
and petted her a little, when the boy 7 s wa’n’t
lookin’, just as Dick hail done. Hanged if
I didn't put my face right down against hers,
just as Dick done, and felt myself blush
clear np to my ears when I done it, too. I
kept that filly for more'n five years after that,
and I wouldn't ’a' sold her then, only I
had to.
“AYell, I didn’t drink nothin' for more'n a
week, and I kind o' kept alone by myself a
good deal. Two or three times I went up
by the house whore Dick hail been, but I
couldn’t get a sight of her. She told me
afterward that she went home the next day.
up into the country. Then the boys, they
got to makin’ fun of me. You see I’d quit
drinkin’, and gamblin’, and swearin’ mostl}’ —•
though that was the hardest to get rid of; I
haint got. quite clear o’ that yet. But the
boys, they asked me when I got religion, and
how soon I was goin’ to preachin’, and all
that; Lord, they hadn’t no idea what really
was the reason for my doin’ as I did, or I
reckon they'd ’a’ just about run me out o'
town makin’ game of me. When they first
begin blowin’ I got mad about it, but I saw
that only made things worse, so I finally
give in, and went to drinkin’ again.
“AA'ell, bv inquirin’ ’round I found out
where she lived, and who she was, and all
about her. So, along the next spring, I
went up that way, sort o’ casual like, to buy
some horses. * I rigged up in the best I’d got,
and I could sling it on pretty thick them
days, too, if I tried, for it was afore the war
and times was flush ; I did a good business
and owned all mv stock, I got up there, and
met the old man and talked business with him
for a blind, and laid low and kept an eye out
for Dick. I saw her at supper, and then I
staid all night and spent the evenin’ with
the family. The old man had Dick play
and sing for me. Lord, stranger, but she can
sing ! Oh no, she can't go so high as some
of ’em ; but somehow she’s got a way of
getting off a song that just double discounts
anything else I ever heard.
“Oh, well, it's no use mailin' a story
out of it! But anyhow, I use;! to go up
there, off and on, for about two years, anti
I got well acquainted with her; and the
better I got to know her, why, the oftener 1
went to see her. And then, finally, I got to
tailin’ that little team o’ blacks up there and
goin' ridin’ with her; and we used to ride,
and talk, and have just the nicest times that
two folks ever did have, I reckon. Well,
one night we’d been a-ridin’ till pretty late,
and we got back and found all the folks had
gone to bed. We drove up, and a nigger
took the little gals to the barn, and Dick
and I went and brought some chairs out
onto the porch and set down. Y'ou see it
was along in the fall, and cool nights, and it
was full moon, and the porch fronted the
south, and it was just too nice to go off and
leave. So Dick and I set down there, and
didn’t say much for a good while—just
looked at the sky and the hills and woods.
It was about such a night for moonlight as
it is out there now, only there wa’n’t no
snow. Well, while we'd been ridin’ I’d been
tollin’ Dick about my life, and what a rough
time I’d had, and all that; and she’d said
just the best things to me about it, and told
mo how sorry she was for me, and so on :
and sittin’ there on the porch, we got to
talkin’ the matter over again ; and finally, the
first I knowed, I'd said it—just asked her to
marry me, fair and square ! Well, you just
ought to ’a’ seen her, stranger. She was sit
tin' in a kind o' low chair, and the moon was
a-shinin' right square into her face, so that 1
could see her just as plain as day. She sat
right still and trembled, and just looked
right down at her feet, and that made her
eyelashes come clear down on to her cheeks.
And she's got the longest ami cleanest-cut
eyelashes I ever sec. Well, she never said
a word for more’n five minutes. Lord, it
seemed like a young eternity to me ! And
then she looked up, and her eves was brim
full o* tears. She didn't really cry, you
know, but just had her eyes full o’ tears
ready to fall, and tremblin' life, there in the
moonlight; and she looked right at me for
a minute, and then she says,—and her voice
kind o' shook a little when she talked, —
‘ hy, George ! What made 3*oll say that?'
(You see slic’d got to know me so well that
she just called me George without thinkin’.)
‘l’m nothin’ but a little girl, and 3*oll are a
man grown. I never thought you conic to
see me because you wanted to marry me, hut
only because you liked me, just as I liked
3’ou.’ Now wa’n’t that a great speech to
make to a feller? Oh well, I took it all
back, told her to play I never said It, and
all that; but somehow, after that night, she
always seemed different. It just appeared
as if she growed into a woman all in one
night.
“It was a long time afore I ever said
anything more to her about it. In fact, I
don’t know as I ever would *a' said anything
about it again, if she hadn't 'a' give me a
chance to. I used to go up there, just the
same, and go rulin' with her, and all that.—
and we used to talk just the same, only
about that. But one night, I was sittin’ alone
out on the porch, where I’d been smokin’
with the old man, and the first thing l knew
she come and kneeled right down afore me,
and put both her hands into mine, and she
says, ‘George, l never answered that ques
tion von' asked me so long ago. You haven’t
forgot it. have you ? I’ve been thinkin' it
all over, ever since, and I know now that
I've loved you all the time. I don’t quite
see hovv it is that you should love me; but I
know }’ou do, or you wouldn't say so, and so
I’ve eotne to say yes.’ AYell, stranger, may
be you know a little how it is yourself about
such times. But any how, right there, on
that old porch, begun a little heaven below
for me and Dick, and it iiaint let up yet,
and we've seen some pretty rough times too,
since then.”
lie paused suddenly, bending forward and
listening intently; then, with a slight nod.
he said, “That’s all right. I was just
waiting for us to strike a bad joint on this
grade. But Jack is up to it.” lie then re
sumed :
“This was along in the fall. The old man
give his consent, for I was gettin’ on fine.—
reckon I was good for about ten thousand
them times, —and we never set no time lobe
married. But along in the winter I had a
hard run o' luck. First I went on a note
for a feller, and he broke, and I had to make
it up. It was for somethin’ over six thou
sand, and it run me pretty close to make the
raise. That was when 1 sold Kit. Lord,
but I did hate to see her go. But the money
had to come. Then, after that, one Sunday
night, when I was up to sec Dick, the stable
got afire, and burned up pretty 7 much all I
had left. Then in the spring the war broke
out. and 1 always was a-hlowin’ round,
talkin’ just what I thought, no matter who
heard, till finally it got too hot to hold me
in that region any longer, and so I sold out
most o’ what I’d got left, and skipped out
between two days, and got off to the North.
I didn't get a chance to see Dick afore I
left. Of course we all expected the thing’d
be all over in a few months any how, and
then I thought Dick and ine'd be all right
again. So I come up here to Jackson, and
pretty soon enlisted in the Michigan Cavalry,
and went south again. For about a }’car we
was with Ilalleck over on the Mississippi,
but after a while I got transferred to Burn
side's division, when he was over in East
Tennessee after the Rebs, and went with him
up to Knoxville, and you see when I got
there I was on my old stampin’ ground.
Lord, I never thought I’d come back to the
old town that kind o’ way 7.
“AA'cll, of course I was all the time think
in’ about Dick, and when I got back to the
ville I was going to go right to work to hunt
her up. But you see old Longstreet got after
us, —got in below us. you know, and shut off
our grub, and it took about as good as we’d
got in tlie shop to hold things level for a
while. Pretty soon, we got a whack at the
old devil down at Fort Sanders, and we just
everlastingly cleaned him out. That let up
the siege, and we went back into Knoxville,
and a part of us boys was detailed to guard
the city'. While the siege was goin’ on
things had been runnin’ pretty loose all over
town, and they looked kind o’ rough ; so.
along about the middle o’ January, I was
put in charge of a squad o’ men and teams
to tidy -;, -the city.
“All this time I hadn’t heard a word from
Dick or knowed a thing of her. Yon sec,
here it was more’ll two years and a half
since I’d seen her. But bless 3'our soul,
stranger, don’t you think I was afraid she
had gone back on me—not much ! That
aint her style. 'You see, when a woman
does as Dick did that night out on the porch,
she aint agoin’ to give up and take the first
feller that comes along. Oh, I know there's
plenty o’ men—and women, too, for that
matter—that says they will ; but such folks
haint never known such a woman as Dick.
“Well, one da} 7 I was out witli my men
clearin’ up, and I rode into a back yard—l
was on horseback—where there was a big
pile o' chips, kind o’ all scattered round. 1
got off 1113' horse, and went to the back door
and knocked. A woman come to see who
was there, and I told her that if she didn't
take care o’ them chips I should have to, and
if slic’d got a rake, I’d help her get ’em into
shape ; and we talked awa3* there a while.
She was kind o’ sassv ; some o’ them lleb
women was just old business in goin’ for the
boys, and givin’ ’em fits gen’ally. So I
stood there talkin’ with the old lady, and
kind o’ devilin’ her a little, and the door
swung open a little more, and I saw there
was another woman in the room. I saw her
dress right through the crack between the
door and the frame. I didn’t think much
of it in particular, though I always did some
how feel a little kind o’ red in the face and
sink-hearted like, when I’d see a woman that
I couldn't get a fair enough sight at to tell
what she looked like, especially if she was
about Dick’s size.
“AVliile me and the old woman was talkin'
there, this other woman somehow edged out,
little by little, till the first I knowed l looked
up, and as sure as shootin’, stranger, there
stood Dick ! She was a little taller than
when I saw her last, and looked pale and
tired and anxious like, just as though she
was a watchin’ and a-watehin’ for something
to come, and was .all tuckered out waitin'
for it.
“ I tell yon, it was about as much as I
wanted to do to stand still, for about a min
ute. I knowed her as soon as I got my eye
on her, but sbo didn't know me, for sure.
You see I'd changed since she saw mo last.
I’d been drinkin’ right along, and was red in
the lace, and had a full beard.— I always
shaved, as I am now, in the old days,—so it
wa'n't no wonder she didn’t know me. But
I just stopped short on my racket with the
old woman, and looked Dick right square in
the eye. I couldn't stand it no longer, and
T just says, ‘ Dick !’ and then There
it is again, stranger ! You see, when a fel
low is talkin’ about such things as these,
there aint no words good enough to tell all
you mean. For, you see, that little old time
out on the porch begun right over again, just
as though it had never stopped, and three
years seemed like no time at all. She’d been
in the city all through the siege, but somehow
I’d missed her till then. But after that, of
course, we was happier than ever.
“Her father had Inst all his property, pret
ty near. llis niggers had all run off, and the
old man was in a bad fix. He was up at the
old place, doin' the best lie could to get along,
and Dick was stayin’ with her aunt in the
ville. Dick told me that, after I skipped olf
north, her father said she should never marry
that Yankee scoundrel; but that didn't make
no difference. Yon see she’s quiet enough,
Dick is, but she's got a will of her own.
“But I wa'n'L in no hurry about gettin’
married. And so tilings run along for quite
a while, till it got to be almost summer,—
so noli me about the middle o’ May,—when
things took a turn we weren't a-lookin’ for.
“ You see. I'd been drinkin’ right along all
this time. I never used to drink daj r s when
I was goin' up to see Dick, but nil the rest
o’ the time, I was pretty full. I used to
gamble, too, for all that was out.
“One day, it was the 1 Dili o' May,—l'd
been playin’ draw poker all day long, and it
seemed that day as though the more I drank,
the better luck I had. Just about dark, I
got orders to rig up a train o’ wagons, and
go down the country, across the river, for
forage, that night. So I got out. and was
just about ready to start, when one o’ the
boys come to me and says, ‘George, do }’ou
calc’late to ever cage that canary o’ your’n
up there on the hill ? If you do, you'd bet
ter be about it; for I heard to-day that the
old man was in town, and that he allows to
run her off to night!’ It beats every thing,
stranger, bow some such thing as that ’ll
brace a feller up when he's full. I was as
sober as lam now inside o' two minutes. I
turned 'round to the feller that told me, and
says I, ‘Charley, you take this train down
the river, and get the boys to loadin’ up, and
L’II be there sometime in the night, to come
back with yon.’ Well, I rode right ofTto the
house where Dick was stayin’, hitched my
horse, and went in. As good luck would
have it, the old man wasn’t about, and Dick
come rnnnin’ to me as pale as a sheet, and
tremblin’ like a leaf, and told me that it was
true, her father was goin’ to run her off. Says
I, ‘ Dick, look here. Do you want to marry
me. just as I am. and tonight?’ And she
just come up and put her arms around my
neck, and hid her face on my shoulder, and
says, ‘ George, I’ll marry you any time, and
the sooner the better, for I can’t be parted
from you again.’ Says I, ‘That’s all right,
little girl ! Just you put on your sun bon
net, so as the folks wont think nothin’ about
it if they do see yon, and go down to head
quarters, and I’ll go and get the chaplain.’
“ Weil, as soon as we got the thing fixed
up, I took her down to the hotel, —they’d just
got a little house started there. —and I give
t! 10 landlord a hundred dollars ; told him that
was my wife, and that he must keep her till
I come back, for I'd got to go, and there
might be some trouble ; but if there was he
must see her through. Then I went with
Dick to her room, took off her sun-bonnet,
kissed the tears out of her eves, and then
mounted my horse, and struck out.
“ The old man come down after I was gone,
but lie found out it was all over, and no use
raisin' a row. so be just made the best of it.
and give Dick Ids hlessin’ like a sensible old
davy as lie was. Yon see, such old fellows
hate to get beat, like the very devil, but just
j*ou clean ’em out, on the square, once or
twice, and they’ll come down as handsome as
you please.
“ Dick and I staid at the hotel for a couple
o’ weeks or so, and then we went to keepiu*
house. You sec, the chances was that we
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should have to stay where we was for a good
while, anyhow, and Dick wanted to keep
house, so I let her. 1 was pretty flush for a
while after my run o' luck on p< ker, and I
nvide the most o’ what I got on that haul.
We got a nice little brick, that I could rent
cheap, and bought a lot o’ condemned Rch
furniture, and set up in good style. The fur
niture was some of it Al. We had a mating-,
any bedstead, big high head-hoard, you know,
and tall posts for curtains, and a rosewood
dresser, and fine chairs, and all that sort o‘
thing. It was just nobby ; and the way Dick
used to fix up that house was a caution, I tell
you. I got a nigger woman to do the work,
and the first thing we knowed, whv here wo
was, all set up, as if for keep.
“Hut you see I kop' on drinkin' pretty
steady ali the while. That night when Dick
and I was married, an 1 I went rulin' off
alone, down the river there. I got to thinkiq*
over this drinkin* business, and about con
cluded I'd quit; but when I got back, of
course the boys made me set ’em up for tlm
weddin’, and that got me started again, ami
when a feller gets started once, stranger, yon
see it’s pretty hard to stop. Hut I took it
kind o’ cas\\ and was careful never to get
chuck full, and I got along so well, that way,
that I just about begun to think I could do
that thing, right along, just drink enough,
and let the rest alone. ' Hut I tell you, stran
ger. if a feller thinks he’s agoin’ to play that
game, and win, he's fooled, sooner or later,
you bet; it’ll beat the oldest man'that ever
lived.
“Hut everything went on smooth as a
dollar for about three months, and Dick grew
oetter and better, every day, and we was as
happy as the day was long,—all only my
drinkin’.
[concluded next week.]
How to Cook a Steak.
There is no mystery about broiling a beef-,
steak, and yet ninety-nine times in a hundred
it is badly cooked. The simple art is to cook
a steak without smoking it, and to retain the
juices. When you rest your cake of Indian-,
ink on a palette, happen to put your
brush in your mouth and taste it, the peculiar
savor is t hat of carbon. Now, carbon isono
of the products of the imperfect combustion
of hydro carbon, and the best lampblack is
made that way. I f there is any taste of In-,
dian-ink about a steak or chop, it is at fault,
Tfie ait, then, is simply to broil without firing
or blazing. No steak can be cooked with-,
out watching it. The fire must be very hot,
The outside must be well cooked in order tq
keep the juice inside ; but the outside must,
have scarce any thickness. The thing to do
is to turn a steak from side to side, and tx
keep doing it. Never pepper or salt a steak
until it is on the dish. To pepper it might,
not do so much harm, but to salt it is almost,
a crime. Never use a gridiron with bio broad
slats ; that scores the beefsteak through, and
fries overdone, dry portions. Incline your
gridiron. If there is a blaze from the melting
fat, the flame will burn beyond the steak. It,
is difficult to arrive at a proficiency with a
steak which lias too much fat on the edges.
Trim your steak well, and, if there he fat ot\
it, when your gridiron is inclined, let the fat,
portion he up toward the handle at first.
Good steak must be served instantaneously
on a hot plate. Hotter is admissible on a
steak, but only in very minute quantity. If
the crude steak be of good quality cut aq
inch and an eighth thick, and, the cooking
artistic, the juice of the meat follows evory
cut. We eat more beefsteaks butchers know
how to cut them more artistically, and we
cook them better in the United States thaq
in England. This is in accordance with the
latest testimony furnished by Mr. Richard
Grant White in the Atlantic Monthly. — Ex-,
change.
The Bushman After the Lion.
Capt. Aylward tells a droll story of a ren
contre between a bushman and a lion. Tliq
narrator was acquainted with the man, ancj
has no doubt of the truth of tiie story. Tho
bushman. while a long way fioin his home,
was met by a lion. The animal, assured that
lie had his victim completely in his power,
began to sport and dally with him with a feline
jocosity which tho poor little bushman failerf
to appreciate. The lion would appear at q.
point in the road and leap back qgaiq intq
the jungle, to reappear a little further on.
But the bushman did not lose Ids presence of
mind, and presently hit upon a device by
which he might possibly outwit his foe. This
plan was suggested by the lion’s own con
duct. Aware that the brute was ahead of
him. he dodged to the ri"ht. and feeling pret
ty sure of the lion's whereabouts, resorted to
the course of quietly watching iiis movements.
When the lion discovered that the man had
suddenly disappeared from the path, he was
a good deal perplexed, lie roared with mor
tifieation when he espied the bushman peep
ing at him over the grass. The bushman at
once changed his position, while the lion stood
irresolute in the path, following with his cyq
the shifting black man. In another moment
the little man rustled the reeds, vanished,
and showed again at another point. The
great brute was first confused, and then
alarmed. It evidently began to dawn upoq
him that he had mistaken the position of mat
ters, and that he was the hunted party. Tho
bushman, who clearly recognized what was
passing in his enemy’s mind, did not pause
to let the lion recover his startled wits. lio
began to steal gradually toward tho foe, who,
now in a complete state of doubt and fear,
fairly turned tail and decamped, leaving the
plucky and ingenious little bushman master
of the situation. —Chnniters Journal.
Many a seemingly prosperous business
! man lias come down with a crash, because
j patrons were not required to come down with
ithe cash.
NUMBER 20.