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HY JOHN Q BAXK.
List o a tale well worth th ear
Of all, who wit nul rhurc adrulre,
Invented, it la very c’^ar.
Bome aßea prior to M tbew Prior.
l’alwiliood and Truth, “ upon a time.”
One day in .Tnne’a delicious weather,
(Twaa in a distant a?e and clitne).
Like sisters took a walk together.
On. on their merry way thev took,
Through fragrant wood and verdant meadow,
To were a beech beside a brook
Invited rest beneath its shadow.
Tuero, sitting iti the pleasant shade,
Upon the margin’s grassy ma’ting,
( \ velvet cushion read -made),
The young companions fell to chatting.
Now, while in voluble discourse
On this and that, thei ■ tongues were ruuning
As habit bids, each speaks, perforce,
The one is frank, the other cunning.
Falsehood at length, impatient grown,
With scandals of her own creation,
Said, “ Since we two are quite alone,
And nicely screened from observation.
Suppose in this delightful rill.
While all around Is so propitious,
We take a bath 7” Said Truth. “ I will ;
A bath, I’m sure, will be delicious !”
At this her robe she cast aside,
And in the stream that, ran before her
She plunged, like Ocean’s happy bride,
As naked as her mother bore her !
Falsehood, at leisure, now undressed,
Put off the robes her limbs that hamper,
And, having donned Truth’s snowy vest,
Ran off as faßt as she could scamper.
Since then the subtle maid, in sooth,
Expert in lies and shrewd evasions,
Has borne tbe honest name of Truth.
And wears tier clothes on all occasion o .
" tide Truth, disdaining to appear
In Falsehood’s petticoat and bodice,
Ml ill braves all eves, from year to year,
Ah naked as a marble goddess.
THE NARROW ESCAPE.
A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT.
Upon one of tbe lovely farms that
lit? along tbe Delaware dwelt Israil
Israel and bin fair young wife, Althea
The blasts of war, which was desolating
♦be laud, long delayed to reach their
I orders, and as yet each true-hearted
\met lean, their neighbor, dwelt unmo
lestod under bis own vine and fig tree.
It is true that many of the young men,
(In forward, the enterprising, the
crossed in love, and the bowed down
with debt, had enlisted ; aud in their
communications, blood-stained from
the various battle-fields, awakened
sympathy and gladness, by turns among
their frieuds at home. But Air.
Israel felt no call to leave the blooming
wife, and (he merry twins, whose voice
was his home music, for the stern music
of the war. He served his country in
a more quiet but perhaps equally effi
cient way, by working sodulously in his
vocation, paying the largo taxes icctrm
bent on the war drafts, rnakiug an occa
sional loan io the government from his
thriving treasury, ami nursing up the
promising twain whom Providence has
vouchsafed as the fruits of wedded
love. But the sounds of strife began
to come nearer his district. The de
feats upon Long Island, and the dark
season that followed, f-ent many a poor
fellow back to his neighborhood,
maimed or ragged, or starving, to tell
how the heart of the great Washington
was nigh do pairing at tbe gloomy pros
pects ahead, aud to ask an aim of the
lull-handed farmer for God Almighty
sake.
Such appeals were not suffered to fall
unheeded. There was bread and to
sp ire in the buttery ; there was raiment
and to spare in the old clothes press ;
there was shelter and to spare in the
big gable-roofe 1 house. These were
bountifuly dispensed to suffering patri
ots at the bauds of the kind-hearted
Israel or his affectionate spouse. For
kith'sftdf 'sl tfiatfour pen is most
pleased. There is a freer flow at its
point when it glides upon this topic.
Brother Israel was a fiee mason. He
was what a writer Styles “a born ma
son ; a mason in the bud and flower ; a
nia°on in the milk and grain ; a mason
m the lint and thread, in the cloth,
dye and garment; thoroughly a maeon!
Therefore he was liberal—it is one of
t i e virtues of masonry to be liberal—
and patriotic; the world-wide attach
mentsof the craft do not, in the least
blunt the delicate home sympathies
which are natural to us all.
I he masonic lodge in this vicinity ac
knowledged the superior ability of* Mr.
Israel, and placed him at the head of
the various finance boards and emer
gency boards, which that emergent
season demanded. This position neces
sarily made him the medium of pay
ment for the various masonic charities
•and the district. It must be confessed,
however—and the circumstance is re
nted not to disparage the brethren, for
1 aid of the poor at home, and the
prisoners in the prison-ship at New
Vork, were usually cashed from the
pockel of Mr. Israel himself. Quar
b'! I.v dues could not bo collected to keep
pace with the demand ; there was too
much pressure from without to justify
a resort to harsh measures for the col
lection ; so Air. Israel trusted to the
ntiiio consideration of his brethren,
.""I favured the orders from his private
fluids. At the close of the war, when
general statement of the fiuatiees of
'he lodge was made, there was found
1 " be due this noble Hearted mason
more than two thousand dollars in gold
and silver. When the suffering patri
l,g came near his door on their disas-
Uous retreat from Long Island, an
opportunity was offered for a liberal
‘ nplay of his disinterestedness; for
! "High provisions were scarce, and com-
| sanded a high price in the markets of
! lie country, yet on the petsonal appli
' dion of General Washington, Mr.
'.rad supplied the American forces
''oh fifty huge beeves, conttntinghim
• 1 with a plain commissary’s receipt,
instead of the hard money. The war
‘oew further and farther south. Phil
adelphia was occupied by the British.
he surrounding country was daily rav
aged for their sustenance. Although
die English officers were noted for their
piompt payments, and even generosity,
where their own iriends were concerned,
where tbe slightest suspicion of a
disposition iavorable to the patriots ex-
JS ’ed, woe to that farmer’s possessions !
He was well escaped if ihe foraging
parties contented themselves by strip
ling him of his grain and beeves. An
• nipty roost, a vacant stockyard, un
tenanted stalls, were but a light inflic-
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME 111.
tion. It was oftener the case that the
stills were fired, the dwelling consumed,
and the poor farmer, whose only crime
was to love his country better than his
country’s foes, was left far-off to com
mence the worl 1 anew. While the
dark (1 md still rested over the patriots
prospects, the Roebuck, frigate, an
chored in the Delaware, not far from
Mr. Israel’s house, aud a detachment
was sent ashore to secure that gentle
man, and appropriate his cattle. Mr.
Israel was easily taken, for he rather
put himself in the way of the party,
thinking no farther evil than that of
his property would be subject to a heavy
draft. Alueh to his surprise, the sol
diers seized him, bound his hands, and
sent him on board the frigate to be
tried by court martial that very day !
AU this happened in plain sight of his
wife, who stood in the doorway; and
no sooner did it pass, than she instantly
divines that mischief was brewing. To
prevent tbe capture of the stock, she
hurried to the yard, turned all the cat
tle out, and set the dog after them.
He soon ran them out deep into the
woods. The horses in the stable were
liberated in the same manner. By this
time the detachment came up, and see
ing her purpose, they fired their mus
kets at her, but without effect.
Some harsh language was used, but
the English officer soon came up and
ordered his men away, having received
no instructions to damage the prop
erty, and the strong-minded woman was
left to rock her babies and ponder upon
the fate of her husband, then in so
dangerous a condition. Mr. Israel was
taken on board the frigate, and while
the officers busied about the final dis
position to be made of him, one of the
sailors approached him, and in a low
tone inquired, “Harkeo, friend, ain’t,
ye a free mason V” What prompted
the question in the man’s mouth, can
not be known; but the reader will pres
ently perceive that Air. Israel’s life wus
involved in the answer. Startled by
the inquiry, but feeling new heart at
the very word mason, Air. Israel whis
pered in reply that he was. “ Then,”
pursued the sailor, hastily, for an offi
cer was approaching, to order the pris
oner below, “you had better tell it,
for the officers will hold a lodge in the
cabin to night.”
Avery few hours sufficed to prepare
an indictment, summon officers enough
for a court martial, and commence pro
ceedings. Air. Israel was led across
from the forecastle to the cabin, where
a speedy trial and a short shrift were
in store for tbe rebel. And the rebel
took a glance across the still water to
his pretty homestead which he felt was
not long to claim as the proprietor.
The trial was a mere formality. Wit
nesses testified to anything that was de
sired of them. The Judge Advocate
evidently felt that the whole matter was
beneath him. He asked but few ques
tions, and those in a careless manner.
One witness, as a crowning point to his
testimony, averted that when Lord
Howe sent to purchase cattle with
specie that the rebellions individual re
turned for answer “ that he would rather
give his cattle to Washington, than re
ceive thousands of British gold !” ‘ *
“ Wbafc have you to say in plea,
prisoner ?” inquired the senior officer,
m the same breadth giving a low order
to the sergeant, which hurried him on
deck, where the rattling of a block,
fixed to a yard arm, could be distinctly
heard. Tbe rattling ceased. A file of
marines marched across the deck.
Something there was awful in all this,
and Air. Israel’s lips paled as he an
swered. He made a manly defence,
avorring his devotion to his country's
cause, and maintaining liis entire inno
cence of ever having committed any
treatment.''* 'He was a plain man ; loved
his country ; loved his home ; thought
no harm to any one ; and hoped tbe
court would not deprive an innocent
man of his life in the very presence of
his family and home.”
At the conclusion of his last remark
he gave the sign of the brotherhood.
A hasty whisper passed upon the judges;
an evident interest took the place of
their listlessness. Their haughty bear
ing was cliafnged ; the senior officer or
dered the Judge Advocate to recall the
witnesses. This being done, the mem
bers of the court cross-examined them
searchingly. It was not difficult now
to sift out of their evidence to much
malice nd envy, that the senior officer
dismissed them with a stern rebuke
“for seeking to liorf. so honorable a man
as Air. Israel.” Toe verdict was a
unanimous not guilty. The court being
dismissed, Air. Israel was sent on shore
in the captain’s barge, and a handsome
present sent to his heroic wife, whose
coolnes?, in defending her husband’s
property, bad been reported to the
officers.
So long as the frigate kept her anch
orage, there were numerous exhibitions
of friendship on the part of her officers,
and Mr. Israel made frequent visits to
the ship where he had been so lately a
prisoner, but whtre he was now hailed
as a brother. It is needless to add, no
evil of any description was ever inflicted
on the fortunate man. The records of
Pennsylvania show that Israil Israel
was for many years grand master of
the state.
Arabian Head gear.—A correspond
ent with the Gordon expedition in
Africa, wri es: “Scanty is the attire
of our five Arab attendants. But what
ever waut of attention is displayed as
to fcircity of raiment is made up by the
magnificence of their bead-gear. Coif
fures that would make the first ot Air.
Truefitt’s young men envious are pos
sessed by each of our Arab band, and
cosmetics in the shape of liquid fat be
daub and beplaster the erection of hair
which is piled up some seven inches
over every man’s forehead. ‘Very
beautiful!’ I remarked to the Sheik of
the party, who accompanied us a few
miles out of the town, at th same tin e
pointing to his hair. He was delighted
at my feigned admiration, but after
wards seemed somewhat disappointed
when T observed that probably be wore
it so as a protection against the beat.
‘ Can the child of the sun fear his
father?’ was the slightly contemptuous
answer, and the man turned on his be?l
and strode back to Souakio, pensively
scratching bis head with a long silver
skewer which he wore as a hair-pin.”
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL I, 1575.
Henry Clay.
The Indianapolis correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial says :
As we steamed out of Greenfield, Air.
Hendricks took a seat beside me and
remarked: “Mr. Hackleman, who is
familiar with this part of the country,
has just been telling me an incident
connected with Henry Clay’s visit to
Indiana many years ago. It was long
before there was a railroad, and his
journey partook of the character of a
triumphal pilgrimage, swelled at every
point by th 9 citizens who flocked from
far and near to get a look at him. Here
abouts, his retinue consisted of six car
riages and a mounted guard of honor of
forty men, augmented considerably at
Greenfield by a delegation to escort him
to Indianapolis. As the cavalcade was
leisurely proceeding hither, a man and
woman were observed bringing a large
tub and a gourd out of a farm house to
the side of the road, where they stopped
and made signs for the procession to
halt. On closer view 7 they were found
to be an old man and venerable woman.
The latter asked if “Henry Clay” was
in the crowd, and said she and her hus
band wanted to see him. Air. Clay,
who was in the first carriage, rose to his
feet and, lifting his bat as courteously
as if he had been in the presence of
royalty, saluted them. The woman ex
claimed that she and her “old man”
were from “Kaintuck,” and they had
always said that if Henry Clay ever
passed that way they would offer him a
drink of their best cider. AVith this
she dipped the gourd into the tub, and
passing it to her husband, he handed it
to Air. Clay, who, with another courtly
bow, quaffed the delicious beverage—
for it was as delicious as the rich, sweet
juice of good apples could be made.
The gourd was then refilled and passed
from one to the other of the ‘goodly
company, who, as they moved on, gave
three hearty cheers to their Kentucky
friends.
A writer in Appleton’s Journal has
this pleasant allusion to the “ Great
Commoner
Mr. Clay had not his great rival’s
(Mr. Webster’s) knowledge and love of
literature. He was a natural genius,
with wonderful political learning, singu
lar acuteness, and great sympathy. He
was always a charming talker, very
graceful in his manners. In spite of
his remarkable plainness of feature he
was always admired aud courted by
women. To the last he knew how to
pay a compliment to a iady with old
fashioned courtesy, and with some
southern warmth in it. To men he was
irresistibly fascinating; he had great
power over any one who approached
nim, and a person who saw the inter
view beteeon Air. Ciay and Air. Web
ster, on au ‘’yetting of January in this
mem<; D> Hie Ohu in *T ft called
to consuiV- were all ~4< n'lhe
bast mode of w settle the diffi
culties growing out of slavery, declared
it to in his opinion, one of the finest
exhibitions of “manner” ever seen be
tween two English speaking men.
Rome’s Danger of Inundation.
A writer says: “It is surprising, as
De Fournon says in his learned and in
teresting work, “Etudes Statistiques,”
that a people so powerful as the Ro
mans, so truly skillful in all great
works, such as drains, bridges and
aqueducts, should have done nothing to
protect Rome against the scourge of
inundation. To be sure, the part of
the city most exposed to the overflow
had not in early times any great monu
ments. But it is inexplicable that
Agrippa should have placed his superb
Pantheon in such a low spot, which is
now n„ljT o little <a rAJi. jlllotics uIJUVO
the river’s level, and must have always
been submerged at the slightest over
flow of the Tiber. Tne Temple of
Vesta was between the Forum and
the Velaorum. The Velabrum was the
whole of the low ground lyiDg between
the Tiber, the north point of the
Avantine, the south point of the Capi
toline and the west point of the Pala
tine. This space, together with the
Forum and the hollow between the
Capitoline and the Palatine which eon
nects them, was a swamp in very ancient
times. It was frequently overflowed
by the river until the stagnant waters
were carried off by the famous drain,
known as the Cloaca Maxima ; besides
the Cloaca, the rive r was confined with
in its bed by a strong bulwark faced
with hewn stone. This parapet and
the Cloaca are amorg the few works of
that early epoch which still remain
entire. At the southwest end of the
Velabrum, near the opening of the
Vailis Alurcia, was the Forum Boarium,
or cattle market, under the Aventiue
was the Emporium, or wharf, where
merchant vessels loaded and discharged
their cargoes ; it was likewise a large
marble wharf in imperial times, when
large quantities of costly stoues and
marbles were brought to Rome for
public and private palaces. This Em
porium was buried under the accumu
lation of river mud and sand. For cen
turies only the tradition of it remained.
Seven years ago it was discovered, and
excited great interest. It brought us
very near to those far-off days when wo
drove to the ancient Emporium, and
walked over columns and fragments of
costly marbles, which had on them the
quarry stamps, nearly two thousand
years old. The whole of that quarter
was connected with the Forum by two
great streets, the Vicus Tuscus and
the Vicus Ingarius. Thus it was very
easy for old Tiber to sweep up into the
city. ”
White Quails.
A year ago from last fall a pair of
white quails were netted in the western
part of this country and were purchased
by G. H. Ribhle, Esq., of this city.
They were very much like the ordinary
quail with, the exception of being pure
white. Mr. Kibble Kept them until last
May and then, as they seemed drooping
and despondent, turned them loose in
the woods south of town. Nothing
| more was heard cf them until early in
| the fall, when they were discovered cn
the Lackland farm, with an interesting
family of thirteen chicks, all as white
as themselves. Thty are yet in that
vicinity, our sportsmen, by common
consent, leaving them unmolested. If
it had only been a freak of nature, as
was suppt sed by some to be the case
In God )f'e Trust.
with the pair captured, the progeny
would have been of the ordinary color.
They are evidently a kind new to this
country. What is their proper name
and classification, and where did they
come from? Will someone who is
posted please inform us.— Mexico (Mo.)
Intelligencer.
The Art of Conversation.
The secret of a great talker is in his
courage and presence of mind. The
god of gabble helps those who help
themselves to cur ears and time. O
tongue-tied friend ! what a fool you are,
with your stammering and yonr rush of
blood* to the cheeks, your mistimed
modesty and miserable struggles to be
accurate! Shall we cell yon a little an
ecdote? The scene is a library! The
subject is an edition of the Greek tes
tament just put out. The interlocutors
are two gentlemen who have written
for newspapers until they have forgot
ten all their Greek, and another gentle
man just from Oxford and dreadfully
fresh in his Alpha-Beta-Gamma. He
at once points out an error in the text
—a wrong particle and not of the least
consequence, so far as the salvation of
the world is concerned. He waxes in
dignant at the criminal carelessness of
proof-readers. The two also wax indig
nant. “Good heavens!” they cry,
“ what are we coming to ?” So the Ox
ford man goes away, with a great re
spect for their exegetical powers, and
then—they look into each other’s faces
and laugh. “Awful carelessness,” they
say as they smoke over it —“Basker-
ville would never have nade a ‘typo’
like that;” and then they smoke and
laugh again. There is nothing like
assuming erudition, though you have
it not. Besides, it is usually safe,
especially in this country, to take the
ignorance of the other party for
granted, unless you happen to know
your man too well to try it on. If you
are a fool, you will sometimes get
caught; but, being a fool, you will not
feel it. Accurate knowledge of any
thing is the rarest acquisition of this
superficial time. Don’t be scared !
When we are exceedingly dignified
and moral, we express a great contempt
for mere praters, and speak as if a gen
eral massacre of the whole crowd of
them would sheve us several thousand
leagues toward the millennium. Can
anything be more embarrassing than
the awful silence which sometimes falls
down like an enormous wet blanket
upon a company, left to look .idiotically
in each other’s face, and horribly to
hem and haw? Your part of the work
is but small—only a “ Ye-e-es” dropped
here and there to keep things bobbing.
Sweet then is the sounding brass —
sweet the tinkling cymbol! Is it at
dinner? Is not any noise better than
a clatter of knives and forks? Or, if
•t be at tea. a jingle-jangle of the spoon?
Ol’ in tUe evening otfujU-, U.y
than the thrums of the piano and the
chirp of the lamilv soprano? So
that when we are sometimes forewarned
that “ Aliss Alultiglott is coming,” and
that she “will talk us to death.” we are
not in the least frightened, but rather
consoled. We like her simple, honest
chat. She will tell us about our neigh
bors. And we like dearly to know all
about our neighbors. She will make
matters lively. She will sprinkle Wor
cestershire sauce upon the funeral
baked meats, and put a little taste into
the cold tea of young lady-lisping. It
is so pleasant to 101 l back in one’s chair
and be all receptivity! And the best of
it is that we shall really be told some
thing which we did not know before ;
for it is astonishing what queer, odd
things these petticoated fetchers and
carriers pick up in their constant trots.
The Figure and Color of Wood.
The figure of wood depends more up
on the particular mixings and directions
of the fibres than upon any difference
of color. If a tree was found formed
of merely circular rings, like the sec
tion of an organ, filled with layers of
peel instead of pulp, the horizontal sec
tion would exhibit circles ; the vertical,
parallel straight lines; and the oblique
section parts of ovals; bat few, if any,
trees are to be found either exactly per
pendicular or straight, and, therefore,
although the three natural sections have
a general disposition, to the figures de
scribed, every little bend and twist in the
tree disturbs the regularity of the fibre,
and adds to the variety aud ornamenta
tion of the wood. A perpendicular cut
through the heart of the tree is the
hardest and most diversified, because in
it occnres the most profuse mixture and
density of the fibre, the first and the
last in point of age being presented in
the tame pi ink; but the density and di
versity lessen as the board is cut further
away from the axis. Curls are formed
by the confused filling in of the space
between the forks of the branches. The
beautiful figure thus induced causes a
log, say of mahogany, to be valued in
proportion to the number of curls it
contains. There is great competition at
public auction for such logs, and prices
which seems astonishingly large are
sometimts given for a log knowu by
judges to contain several fine curls Oc
casionally some disappointment may be
experienced when the log is opened, but
not often. The curl generally shows
it>elf on the outside, where it can be
seen, and there is always the possibility
of there being interior ones as well,
which do not show on the surface. Fig
ure is also produced as follows : The
germs of the primary branches are set at
an early period of the growth of tbe par
ent stem, and thus give rise to knots.
But many fail to penetrate to the exte
rior, and are covered over by the more
vigorous deposition of the annual rings.
Each branch is a miniature tree down to
the sm-iilest twig, and this process goes
on in each individual branch just as in
the trunk. These knots produce figure
iu the following manner: W nen the germ
succeeds in forcing its way to the sur
face, the future rings of the trunk bend
and turn aside when they encounter the
kuot, and in the softer woods do not
unite with it. This accounts for white
wood Knots being so liable to fall out.
The farp’entin * in other sorts of wood
acts as a sort of cement and keeps the
knot in its place The hardness of knots
is due to the close grouping c-f the fibers
and to their compression by the sur
rounding w*od, which .itself is allowed
expansion by the yielding nature of the
bark.
American Advantages Over Paris.
On an average we dress better, far'
better, sleep softer and combat the cold
in winter and the heat in summer will
more scientific persistency than do any
of the so-called luxurious nations of
Europe. Take, for instance, the mat
ter of heating and lighting. A few of
the leading hotels in Paris and a small
minority among the most expensive
suites of private apartments have gas
introduced into all the rooms, but as a
general thing it is confined to the pub
lic rooms, and the unfortunate wight
who longs to see beyond the end of his
nose is forced to wrestle with dripping
candles and unclean lamps, known only
by tradition in our native land. The
gaslight, which is a common necessary
in the simplest private dwelling in an
American city, is here a luxury scarcely
attainable save by the wealthiest. And
we do not know how precious our gas
light is till we have lost it. To sit in a
dim parlor where four lighted candles
struggle vainly to disperse the gloom,
to dress for opera or ball by the uncer
tain glimmer of those greasy delusions,
is enough to make one forswear all the
luxuries of Paris, and flee homeward
forthwith.
Then in winter comes the question of
warmth. What is more delicious than
to plunge from the iced-cliampagne at
mosphere of a sparkling winter’s day in
America into the nest-like, all-pervad
ing warmth of an American home ?
Here such comfort is wholly unknown.
The cold, though less severe than with
us, is damp, raw and insidious, and
creeps under wraps with a treacherous
persistency that nothing can shut out.
The ill-fitting windows, opening in the
old door-like fashion, let in every
breath of the chill outer air. A fire is
a handful of sticks or half a dozen
lumps of coal. The caloritere, a poor
substitute for our powerful furnaces, is
a luxury for the very rich—an innova
tion grudgingly granted to the whims
of the occupants of the most costly and
fashionable of privatj apartments.
Warmth, our cozy, all - pervading
warmth, is a winter luxury that wo
leave behind us with the cheerful light
of our universal gas-burners. In sum
mer we sorely miss the cold, pure ice
water of our native land, and we long
for it with a thirst which vin ordinaire
and Bavarian beer are powerless to as
suage, The ill-tasting limestone-tainted
water of Paris is a poor substitute for
our sparkling draughts of Schuylkill or
Croton. Ice-pitchers, water-coolers and
refrigerators are unknown quantities in
the sum total of Parisian luxuries.
The “cup of cold water” which the
traveler in our country finds gratui
tously supplied in every waiting-room
and railway station, every steamboat,
every car and every hotel, is here some
thing that must be specially sought
for, and paid for at an exorbitant price.
Ice caa be purchased only in small
quantities for immediate consumption.
Ten cents for a few lumps swimming in
water on a tepid plate is the usual term
for this our American necessity, this
rare Parisian luxury. Nor do all the
deiicate artifices of French cookery
suffice wholly to replace for an Ameri
can palate the dainties of his native
land. The buckwheat cakes and waf
fles, the large, delicately-flavored, lus
cious oysters, the canvas-back ducks,
the Philadelphia croquettes and terra
pin, find no substitutes on this side of
the water. The delicious shad ui and
Spanish mackerel have no gastronomic
rivals in these waters, and the sole must
be accepted in tlieir stead. We. miss,
too, our profusion and variety of vege
tables, our stewed and stuffed toma
toes, green corn, oyster plants and
sweet potatoes.— Lippincoit's.
Another Herman Invasion of France.
The Germans are getting back into
France—this time on a peaceful mis
sion, apparently. The Frencli com
plain and take consolation in a round
of abuse, as follows : Germany is a
shabby land, as it’s inhabitants can’t
stay at home. Prussia sends back into
Gaul her discharged soldiers, on the
close of their war labors, to gobble up
all the best paid positions which the
Gaul is foolish enough to give them,
generous hearts abdicating vengeance.
These Germans are not only covetous,
but spies of Bismarck, to ferret out all
the secrets of the shop, families and
state, and yet thrice silly Gaul persists
in wearing her heart on her elbow, for
the daws to peck at.- These Germans
are permanent overseers, not discour
aged by hatred and contempt, only
thereby rather more slimy. These
Germans are Austrians and Poles, or
give themselves out to be, while taking
the front seats in trade and manufac
ture. These Germans left us to get
their weapons across the Rhine ; they
came back and skinned us alive ; they
then went home to hang up their
bruised arms ; now, like vultures, they
have come back to pick our bones.
These Germans have been particularly
spotted of late in the prefect’s reports.
They prohibit the exportation of their
horses to Gaul, which in turn should
prohibit the importation of all their
two-legged animals, not wanted and far
more dangerous than quadrupeds. And
so we go. The truth is, the Germans
1 i *se France—love her—got a first-class
taste in 1870, and subsequently itched
to get back. France is a pretty girl ;
her teeth are like a flock of sheep, and
Prussians like sheep meat. Comrne
tons les ok tens.
Ma. nifleent Fishing in Florida.
South from Jacksonville about two
miles in Alachua Lake. Formerly this
was a vast prairie of over twenty thou
sand acres of good grazing land. In
the midst of it was a deep hole or land
sink, of which there are a great many
in the state, into which the waters of
MeKinstry Lake, situated farther north,
and the surrounding country used to
flaw and find a subterranean outlet to
the eea About four years ago the out
let got more or less choked up, and the
surplus water backing soon covered this
vast tract of country, in which aqueous
condition it has lemained ever since,
increasing and diminishing in area as
the season varies from wet to dry. This
lake is literally dive with fisb. I have
seen colored boys witn an ordinary
pole cut from the woods, a line not over
four feet ioug, and a fly, rudely con
structed of white and red flannel, catch
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j eighty pounds of black bass in a couple
of hours. Thee flsh average from two
to twelve pounds. An eight-pound bass
is common. A few davs ago a gentle
man residing in Gainville caught and
weighed on Fairbanks scales, in the
pi*esence of a numbtr tf northern visit
ors here, a black bass weighing nine
teen and one-quarter pounds. Tradi
tion says one was caught here-last year
that weighed twenty-three pounds. * All
the small streams flowiug into this lake
are also lull of bass. Hay before yes
terday I saw three small boys standing
in a stream, about three feet wide, and
may be a foot deep, each armed with a
piece of hoop iron, with which they
killed, in the half hour I was present,
eight good sized bass. Another boy of
the same joarty, with a two-bushel corn
bag, made'one haul in the same stream
of ten bass.
Leopard versus Cow.
Sir Samuel Baker, in his interesting
work on Ceylon, tells us that the leop
ards in that country eanse no little loss
among the cattle. They are so daring
that they will get to the sheep and cows
by scratching through the thatched
roofs of the sheds in which they are
kept.. Sometimes, however, they meet
with their match in the small but active
cattle, as in the following instance :
About three years ago a leopard took
it into his head to try the beefsteaks of
a very savage and short horned cow,
who, with her calf, was the property of
a blacksmith. It was a dark, rainy
night, The blacksmith and his wife
were in bed, and the cow and calf were
nestled in the warm straw in the cattle
shed.
The door was locked, and all was ap
parently secure, when the hungry leop
ard prowled stealthily around the cow
house, sniffing the prey within. The
strong smell of the leopard at once
alarmed the keen senses of the cow,
made doubly acute by her anxiety for
her little charge, and she stood ready
for the danger, as the leopard, hav
ing mounted on the roof, commenced
scratching his way through the thatch.
Down he sprang, but at the same in
stant, with a splendid charge, the cow
pinned him to the wall, and a battle en
sued which can be easily imagined.
A coolie slept in a corner of the cat
tle shed, whose wandering senses were
completely scattered when he found
himself the unwilling umpire of the
fight. He rushed out and shut the
door. In a few minutes he succeeded
in awakening the blacksmith, who pro
ceeded to load a pistol, the only weapon
he possessed.
During the whole of this time the
bellowing of the cow, the roars of
the leopard, and the thumping, tramp
ling and shuffling which proceeded from
the cattle shed, explained the savage
nature of the fight.
The blacksmith, who was no sports
man, nliurtly found himself with a lan
tern in one hand, a pistol in the other,
and no idea what he meant to de. He
waited, therefore, at the shed door, and
holding the light so as to shine through
the numerous small apertures, he look
ed in. The leopard no longer growled,
but the cow was mad with fury. She
alternately threw a large dark mass
over her head, then quickly pinned it
to the ground on its descent, and then
bored it against the wall as it crawled
helplessly toward a corner of the shed.
This was the beef eater in reduced cir
cumstances. The gallant little cow had
nearly killed him, and was now giving
him the finishing strokes.
The blacksmith perceived the leop
ard’s helpless state, and, boldly opening
the door, discharged the pistol, and the
next minute was bolting as hard as he
could run, with the warlike cow after
him. She was regularly “up,” and was
ready for anything or anybody. How
ever, she was at length pacified, and the
dying leopard was put out of hie misery.
Loudness of the Latest Parisian
Mode. —The latest mode of Parisian
lady’s wear has been given out to this
measure : The lady is wrapped around
twice in a gauze scarf and thrice in a
tulle veil; twenty yards of flower gar
lands are next woven crossways around;
having thus become somewhat of a
package, she is still not sufficiently
dressed, and something more is needed;
a tail, or train, or declivity (however it
may be prefeired) is next attached be
hind with diamonds or pearls, and must
be as heavy as the rest of the costume
is light; the said tail to be covered with
butterflies of gauze, birds of lace and
sarcabenses of lophophore (which is not
cotton jeans), with their respective
claws tied by golden threads. The
lady thus clothed is kept warm down
below ; but her upper half is kept fresh
with no sleeves, scarcely any corset and
thighs prominent. The toilet is then
essentially complete. This looks as if
the empire was under way again with
its loudness.
It is believed that Fohi, the first
kir.g of China, is identical with Noah.
The Chinese themselves claim that
Fohi has no father ; and Noah, although
subsequent to the flood the great pro
genitor of the race, was himself at that
time fatherless. The mother of Fohi
is said to have borne him encompassed
with a rainbow—an evident allusion to
the bow of promise revealed to Noah as
tA o sign of God’s covenant. Fohi is
r presented to have reared seven kinds
ot creatures, which he sacrificed to the
Great Supreme. Noah also took into
the ark clean beasts and fowls by
sevens, which he offered to the God of
heaven as offerings ; Fohi is represented
as drawing off the waters which had
deluged the earth, thus identifying him
with the flood.
A Florae Offerer. —A Liverpool
paper says that an action involving the
question of the right (not to hiss but.)
to throw bouquets to actresses, is about
to be brought against the manager of a
theatre there. An elderly gentleman
almost nightly for some time took his
place in the etalls prepared with bou
quets, and threw them with great reg
ularity to certain of the acti-eses at
certain points of the performance,
sometimes rising cn their acceptance
of the nosegays, and acknowledging
the honor done him by profound obies
ancts. The manager, finding that this
had assumed the character of a bur
lesque and a nuisance, had to interfere
at last, and to take legal proceedings.
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
The Shakers have at present eighteen
societies in the United States, compre
hending fifty-eight families, with a to
tal population of 2,415 sonls, and real
estate amounting to about 100,000 acres,
of which nearly 50,000 belong to their
own home-farms.
The Benedict Arnold house at New
Haven is being demolished to make
room for a neighboring store. It was
built between 1650 and 1660, of brick
brought from Holland, and was not
only once the lodging-place of Benedict
Arnold, but the scene of his marriage.
“ The proportion of the married
among the insane is smaller than that
of the unmarried.” Undoubtedly. A
man who has to scratch around and
make a living for his wife and eleven
children couldn’t be insane if he wanted
to. Ho naan’t the time.
Some observer who has noticed the
effect of great religions awakenings
might do the good cause a service by
publishing the number of old debts
that are paid after each revival. There
are scoffers who affect to believe that if
an amount has been over-due a very
long time no religion in the world will
make the debtor hunt np and pay the
man he owes.
An English pictmre collector recently
bought an enormonsly valuable “old
master ” on the Continent, and, in or
der to get it into England under light
duty, had a modern “daub” painted
over the old master. When they
washed off the daub the old master
went with it, and left behind a portrait
of George III; so it wasn’t a very old
master.
Twelve years ago an efficient Michi
gan prosecuting attorney nearly roared
away his lungs in convicting Henry
Smith of murder, and Henry has been
in the penitentiary ever since. Now
the friends of the prisoner are trying
to procure a pardon for him, the mur
dered man having died a short time
ago, confessing that the murder had
never taken place.
The Sultan of Turkey employs in his
palace 6,000 servants of both sexes. He
pays and feeds 300 cooks, 300 gardeneis,
500 coachmen, and 600 more to do odds
and ends about the house. To feed
these people and their hangers-on 1,200
sheep and 2,000 fowls are killed every
day, and 60,000 francs for lights are
expended. No wonder they call him
the siek man of Europe.
The southern baptists have joined
heartily in the plan proposed by the
American Baptists education commis
sion for the celebration of the ap
proaching Centenary of American In
dependence. The Nashville Advisory
committee, which met Feb. 22, passed
resolutions urging the formation of
state committees in the states it repre
sents, namely: Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkan
sas, Louisiana, and Texas. The com
mittee recommended the endowment of
the Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, and of the denominational insti
tutions of learning in each state.
The legislative committee appointed
ad hoc , lets the eagle out of the Napo
leonic bag—an eagle, by the way, ever
stuffed with meal. They discovered
that the Brutals had already organized
a secret empire, which was carrying on
functions throughout France, proselyt
izing army and peasantry, intimidating
judges, prefects moldmg more or less
all others in executive authority, and
distributing daily over 500,000 copies
of imperial journalism. The commit
tee advises the stopping of this busi
ness, but does not say how it is to be
stopped. The discovery of the secret
empire gave rise to the recent fears of
a coup d'etat.
In the Malavan Peninsula large apes
of naturally intelligent breeds are em
ployed by their masters much in the
same way that human slaves are made
use of in some parts of Africa. The
cocoanut palm is valuable for its fruit,
but this is very difficult to procure, so
the landlord of a tope of palms trains
his apes to climb the trees and judi
ciously pick .he richest nuts for him.
The apes seem to delight in the work.
The apes thus employed in the neigh
borhood of Singapore and Penang are
bred in Atchin, anJ the owners itiner
ate and hire them out. They go up
the trees with a line attached, and obey
the command of their masters, choos
ing the proper fruit. They twist the
nut round and round till it falls down
from its stalk, when the feat is hailed
on the part of the apes by jumps and
chuckles of evident satisfaction.
Our secretary of legation at St. Pe
tersburg has a Deutsche-sounding
name—Schuyler. It has been said of
late that on account of his carious and
deep dives into Russian matters, Prince
Goitschakoff had asked his recall. The
saying is denied from St. Petersburg.
It is a significant fact, however, that
the Russians are extremely bitter
against the Germans, and all that
smacks of a German sound. They
have so fa- received all their civilization
imported by German heads and hands,
and manifest a tendency to kick out
ward from their own sterility. Clever
Germans monopolize their big and diffi
cult jobs and places, could not be done
without, reside in the country, and
necessarily excite jealously. Todtle
ben, tho defender of Sebastopol, was
Teutonic, and by that fact was a target
for the national Slavonic spleen.
The American traveler in England
can scarcely have failed to notice the
embellishment of railway stations along
the road by flower- beds and pretty lit
tle gardens. These cultivated areas
are commonly the unused land lying
along each side of the track at the en
trance to the station. Occasionally
there is a somewhat fantastic taste ex
hibited by the station-master; but a
few freaks of design may well be par
doned in view of the healthful ambition
that led to them. These garden-spots
become matters of pride and zeal with
the station maLtera; they employ what
c o ffi otherwise hs idte hfJnrs; and
hence they are not only a charm to the
traveler, but. a means of agreeable
change to the otherwise monotonous
duties of the railway officials We
should be glad to see in America as
prevalent a taste for flower culture as
finds almost everywhere in England.