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*—-—— - rj vJii-jL gp? The Newsan Herald. PUBLISHED ETEKf TUESDAY. A. B. CATES, Editor and Publisher. this or scncurioH t One copy one year, in advance *1.50 If not paid in advanoe, the terms are *2.00 a year. A. club of six allowed aa extra copy. Fifty-two n ambers complete the volume. THE NEWNAN HERALD. WOOTTEK A CATES, Proprietors. WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODKBATION.- TEBIS:-41.50 per year ia Adraaee. VOLUME XXII. NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1887. NUMBER 16. The Newnah Herald. PUBLISHED EYEBY TUESDAY ava t a? vii/i ttsfirf One inch one year, *10; a eolnm one year, *100; less tune than three months. *J 00 per inch for first insertion, and 50 cents additional for each su’oseqnena ’in- sertion Notices in local column, ten cents per line for each insertion. Liberal arrange ments will be made with those ad vertis- cg by the quarter or year. transient advertisements mast b paid for when handed in. _ Announcing candidates, tus n IM S’rietly in advance. Vd dress all communications to - A. B. CATEss, Newnan Ga Our lives are albums, written through With good or ill, with false or true. i WALKER’S VENGEANCE. Between the years 1863 and 1805 a full thousand people heard the story of Grim Walker. That was during the fiercest part of our civil war, and minor inci dents were speedily absorbed and forgot ten. I doubt if there are a score at peo ple living to-day who can recall the de tails of this singular man's adventures, and I do not remember that anything aavo a brief outline of the massacre of Lis family has ever appeared in print. I was a pony express rider on the Overland route. That meant helping to to guard stages, carrying a light mail on my saddle, forwarding dispatches, taking my turn to act as agent of some stable and various other things which need not bo explained. There wero then several great trails leading west from the borders of civilization, and all were more or less traveled, but the favorite routes were from St. Joseph and Council Bluffs, tho one t>eing known as tho northern and the oilier as the southern route. I was on a route along tho Platte river, west of Fort Kearney,, which was sometimes fifty miles long and sometimes 125, ac cording to the way the Indians were be having and the number of men we had for service. Grim Walker was a pioneer named Charles 0. Walker, from near Iowa City. He was a giant in size, naturally sour and taciturn of disposition, and his family consisted of a wifo and three children. While tho country was ex cited over the civil war, and travel by tho overland had almost come to a stop except in cases of necessity, Walker and others formed an immigrant jiarty to make a push for the golden land. When I first heard of them they numhered twenty wagons and sixty *r seventy people, and were on the Platte, east of Kearney, which was then dangerous ground. When the outfit reached Kear ney some were for turning hack, others for electing a new captain, others for set tling down near by and establishing ranches. It seemed that there were three or four different factions in the party, and several bitter quarrels had resulted. In the then state of affairs 200 brave and united men could have scarce ly hoped to reach the Colorado or Wyo ming line, for the Indians wero up in arms on every trail and thirsting for blood and scalps. When it was known, therefore, that Grim Walker, as lie had come to be known, had lieen elected captain of a faction and intended to push on at the head of only seven families, which could muster but nine lighting men, soldiers, hunters, Indian fighters mid overland men argued and scolded and predicted. Not an argument could move Grim Walker. Not n prodiction could frighten one of his adherents. It appeared to them to lx? a case where manhood and pride were at stake, and when it was hinted that the military would restrain them they made secret preparations and departed at night. It was an awful tiling for those bigoted and determined men to drive their wives and children, consisting of t wenty-two people, to a horrible death, but nothing sliort of a battle with the military would iiavo stopped them. They left Kearney one night about 10 o'clock, drawing away quietly and traveling at their licst Sliced. They could not have gone ten miles before being dis covered by the Indians. A party of twenty of us left over tho some trail at noon next day, and we had gone only fifteen miles when we found evidences that the little party, which was keeping along the Platte, had lieen attacked. This must have been about daylight. Boon after sunrise they laid been driven to shelter in a grove of cottonwoods, but lx-fore reaching it one of tho men ltad lieen killed and scalped, a wagon had broken down and been abandoned, and stray bullets had killed a woman and a child as they cowered down behind the cargo of the wagons. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we came to the grove, driving away the last, of the savages, but we were too late. Such a spectacle as we there beheld was enough to sicken the heart of the bravest Indian fighter. The little party had lieen attacked by about 800 redskins, and the fight had lasted for half a day. As near as we could figure from blood spots on the earth fourteen In dians had been killed, and there were bloody trails to show that as many more had been wounded. The foolhardy men had died game as an offset. We made out that their ramp had been carried by a charge, and that the last of the fighting was hand to hand. Five of the women had been carried off into horrible captiv ity. while all others had lieen butchered— nil save Grim Walker. The bodies had been cut and hacked and mutilated in a terrible manner, but we could have identified Walker by his size, even had he been decapitated. The immigrants’ horses had all been killed, the wagons plundered and burned, and the savages were bundling up some of the plunder when we came in sight and drove them away. AU that was left us was the sad work of burying the corpses. A month later we heard that Grim Walker had escaped from the fight, breaking out of the grove and riding off on a horse just as the conflict closed in. Men belonging to the Overland had met and talked with him east of Kearney. He had three wounds, but seemed un conscious of them as he briefly related the story of the fight, and vowed that he would have the lives of five Indians for every white person who had perished. Nothing further was heard of him until June of the following year. I was then in government employ as a scout and dis patch rider, and was on the Smoky Hill fork of the Kansas river, twenty miles west of Fort McPherson, riding with two other scouts, when we came upon Grim Walker. He had gone east after the massacre, and had built for himself a ^bullet proof wagon. It was a great cage i wheels, and everything about it was de of iron. Wheels, box. bottom, every part of it was bullet proof. : a pierced or loopholed in fifty places —Aetry, ventilated at the top and j awn by four mules. The man ! ave had considerable means at bis | 1 to pay for a vehicle like that, > had come all the way from Coun- ; ~ - alone. The interior was fitted j i a sleeping berth, iron tanks for ! ; food and water, and he had come ! i the plains to keep his vow. But ] ! primness the idea would have Aangh. He must have been en many long days, and he cer- paased through many perils. We heard afterward that aa he readied the fort one afternoon, and it became known that he would push on, every effort was made to dissuade him. For a time he was silent, grim, deaf. Then lie pointed to the northeast and said: “There lie the bones of my children and friends, and I will not rest until I have avenged them thrice over.” They told him the country was alive with hostiles, and that every rod of the way was beset with perils; but as the son went down he harnessed his mules to the iron tongue, climbed into the saddle, and without a nod of farewell to any one he rode to the west in the gathering gloom—more grim, more de termined, more of a devil than a human being. He had traveled a good share of tho night oyer a country in which death TuHreiJme^SyfSffiffiV Bbt the watchful savages had not espied him. He had traveled until mid-aftemoon next day along a trail where savages outnumbered the snakes twenty to one, but somehow they had missed him. We were riding at full speed for the fort, keeping the shelter of the dry ravines and the valleys, and expecting at any moment to be pur sued when we ran upon Grim Walker. His wagon stood on the open prairie, at least half a mile from the river and the shelter of the cottonwoods. The four mules had been unharnessed and turned out to graze, and the man was cooking his supper at u campfire, the smoke of which would draw Indians for ten miles around. Our astonishment when we found him there alone kept ils dumb for a few minutes. We sat on our horses and stand at him, and he greeted our presence by a mere nod. When I recog nized him as Grim Walker I began to suspect the enterprise he had on foot, anil after I had put a few questions he briefly explained: “I am here to kill Indians. You can lixik my wagon over if you care to.” It was what I have described. He had a barrel or more of fresh water, a lot of flour and meat, a small stove to cook on and a perfect arsenal of firearms. It was evident tliat the Indians could not get at him with bullets, nor tomahawk, nor fire, and it would take weeks to starve him out. There was only one thing that troubled the man. His stock would lie killed off at once when lie was attacked, and lie would then have no way of moving his wagon. We helped him out of his dilemma by agreeing to take the animals to the fort. The har nesses were piled into his house, and it was understood that he would come for the mules when he wanted them. He had a compass, and wo gave him the ex act bearings, and as wo rode away lie was preparing to toast another piece of meat, seemingly utterly unconcerned over the dangers of Ills surroundings. As to wiiat happened him during the next three weeks I had a few meagre details from his own lips, but plenty of information from warriors who afterward became •friendly." That is, when licked out of their boots half a dozen times, their vil lages destroyed, many of their ponies shot, and their squaws and children driven to temporary starvation, they cried for peace in order to recruit and make ready for another campaign. The campfire which Grim Walker built saved the three of us from being am bushed. A warrior told me that forty- savages were lietween us and the fort when the smoke led them to believe that a largo party of immigrants must be camped in tho lxittoms. It could only be a large party which would dare build such a fire in a hostile country. The warriors wero all drawn off by a signal to attack the larger game, and before sundown that evening 200 murderous redskins were opening their eyes very wide at sight of the one lone wagon an chored on the prairie under their noses. How did it get there? Where were the horses or mules? Was it occupied? They must have asked themselves these questions over and over again, but there stood the wagon, grim, silent, mysterious. The whole hand finally moved down for a closer inspection, believing the vehicle to have been abandoned, and hopeful that something in the 6liape of plunder had been left behind. They had come close—they had entirely surrounded the vehicle—when a sheet of flame darted from one of the port holes, and Grim Walker had begun to tally his victims. Before the redskins could get out of range he had killed seven of them, using shot guns and buckshot. It was only when they came to return the lire that the savages discovered what sort of a vehicle had been hauled out there among them. They wasted hundreds of bullets before they ceased firing, and with a rifle Walker killed two more of them before night set in. The superstitious nature of the Indian would have driven him away had he not burned for revenge. And. too. it was argued that the wagon must contain something of great value to have been built that way. and greed was added to the thirst for vengeance. They believed that the bottom of the box, at least, was of wood, and about tliree hours after dark a number of warriors, each having a bunch of dry grass under his arm. crept forward to the vehicle to start a fire under it. They crept as noiselessly as serpents, but before a man of them had passed under a double barreled shot gun belched forth its contents, and two more bucks set out for the happy hunt ing grounds. Next day. refusing to be lieve that a wagon could be bullet proof, the Indians opened a fusilade. which was maintained for two hours. They were behind trees and logs and under cover, and not a shot was provoked in re sponse. Various schemes were concocted to get at the wagon, which was finally believed to contain a party of hunters, but none promised success. At noon, however, a number of young warriors volunteered to carry out a plan. There were twelve of them, and they were to approach the wagon in a wide circle. The idea was to seize and upset it, and thus render the occupants harmless. The circle was made, and it gradually nar rowed until the signal for a rush was made. The man within—grim, silent, watch ful—let the circle close, and the warriors j seize the wheels before he opened fire. It j would have taken a dozen stout men to ! have lifted two of the wheels off the ground. He shot down three of them j and the others fled in- terror, and half an - hour later the siege was abandoned and. the Indians were moving off. For two j long weeks the wagon remained in that ! spot, an object of curiosity to scouts and j hunters—an object of awe and menace to the savages. Then, one morning just at daylight. Grim Walker came into Fort McPherson for his mules. He was going to move his iron cage to a new field. He replenished his provisions and inside of two hours was off again, having spoken less than fifty words during his stay. It seemed as if he had grown taller, fiercer —more grim and revengeful. There was something pitiful in knowing that he alone had survived the massacre; some thing mailing in the knowledge that he naa Become a nemesis whom nothing but blood would satisfy. The wagon was moved north to the headwater of the Saline Fork. One who has been over the route will wonder how it could have been done. It was attacked there one forenoon about 10 o’clock by a hand of thirty warriors, who had been raiding on the Solomon’s river. The mules were staked out, and Grim Walker sat at his camp fire. The warriors charged up on horseback, believing they had a hunter’s or surveyor’s outfit, and while they stampeded and secured the mules, four of them were killed from the loopholes of the cage. They came back again, and another was killed and two were wounded. Then they dis covered what sort of an enemy they had to deal with and with- ilrew. Grim Walks* and his wggoture mamed there for a month. When the Indians would no longer come to him he set put in search of them, and he became a veritable terror. Twenty different war riors whom I interviewed between 1864 and 1867 told me that Walker was more feared than a hundred Indian fighters. He killed everything he came to that was Indian, including squaws, ponies, chil dren, and dogs. No camp felt safe from him. He had the ferocity of a hungry tiger and the cunning of a serpent. He used his iron wagon as a headquarters, and made raids for fifty miles around. During the summer our scouts 6aw Walker or his wagon once a fortnight. He was last seen alive on Sept. 2. on the Republican river, when he had a fresh Indian scalp at his lielt. He had then blown up liis wagon with gunpowder and abandoned it, although he did not state the fact. His hair and beard had be come long and unkempt, his clothing was in nigs, and there could be no doubt that he had gone mad. On the 15th of the month, as I rode with an escort of soldiers south of where he was seen on the 2d. and fifty miles from the spot, we found him dead. He lay on a bare knoll, on the broad of his back, with his arms folded over his breast and his rifle by his side. Ills eyes were wide open, as if looking at the buzzards sailing above him. and we soon satisfied ourselves that ho had died from natural causes. He had a dozen scars and wounds, but disease had overpowered him, or his work had lieen done. He had exacted a full meas ure of vengeance. Better for the Indians had they let his immigrant party pass on in peace, for he had brought mourning to a hundred lodges.—New York Sun. ON A MCE PLANTATION. Digestibility of Breadstuff*. Dr. Walzen Muller, the German physi ologist, remarks upon the common idea that an admixture of bran with flour renders the latter much easier of diges tion. and asserts that the smallest com minution of the grain, as well as the amount of husky portion retained in the well known Graham flour, produces a slight irritation of the digestive organs, which results in the separation of the Iiepsin from the husk of the grain, ad mitting of its mixture with the gastric fluids, thus greatly facilitating the pro cess of assimilation; this mechanical irri tation, particularly in the case of the aged and weak, being otherwise produci ble only by the use of alcoholic and sim ilar stimulants. Dr. Muller is of the opinion that bread should not be made without salting, for the reason that the starch of the flour contains a large amount of the salt of potash, which neutralizes much salt in the system. Again, dry bread which has been baked some little time is most healthful, as the chewing process must of necessity be thorough and the bread consequently fully salivated previous to its entrance into the stomach. He also particularly urges the desirability of mix ing the dough of bread with milk.—Chi cago Tribune, Care of Horses* Feet. It is generally conceded by horsemen that lameness originates chiefly in the faulty treatment of the horse’s foot. This fact suggests several recommenda tions for the mitigation of the evil: First, bare feet. It may be stated as a general proposition that any horse with fairly good feet need never be shod at all. Ill the barefooted horse the heels spread out, the frogs descend, ridges form upon the soles, giving to the bottom of the feet a good purchase upon either a rough or smooth surface. He soon learns to rely upon lximself and so adjusts his equilib rium to motion that he neither strains himself, nor slips nor stumbles. Horse men have often given this plan a short, faint-hearted trial, but on the first mani festations of foot soreness at the end of a few weeks, and before the feet have be come inured to the change, usually have the shoes replaced again.—Spirit of the Turf. The Tree of Death. On the New Hope battlefield was a tree upon which the soldiers nailed the inscription --Tree of Death.’’ Several Federals were killed behind the tree by Confederate sliariishooters. The tree was in advance of the Federal line, and was about 300 yards from the Confed erate works. It was used by Federal skirmishers, who would stand behind it and load and then step out and fire. Confederate sharpshooters went along the Confederate line for nearly a mile in each direction, and then being so far from the side of the tree that they could see behind it, by a cross firing made it. as dangerous to stand behind the tree as to stand in front of it. Seven Federals were killed behind the tree, and it came to be known as the • -Tree of Death. ‘ ’— Atlanta Constitution. Maun ia Which htNhn Flooded. A Hutaraaqa. Sight. As soon m the gain root pushes oat underneath the grain in search for food a minute point is visible above the groand reaching up tor light and air. This is Hie embryo stalk and corresponds with the germ root. The plant is now in Hie proper stage for forcing and the stretch water should he put on at once. Die water is at first turned on deep, entirely covering the surface of the squares and the young plant, drinking in the life giv ing fluid, commences to rear its head aloft and reach np for light and air. The river water is seldom clear—always more or less tinged with mnd—and the ten der shoot battles manfully with its semi- translucent covering to bask in the com forting rays of the sun. After the rice has become sufficiently stretched, or a few inches high—a period extending through from two to ten days—the water is slacked down to what is known as “slack water gauge,” so as to show the. tops of the plant and give it necessary air and sunshine. If the plant is longer than the water is deep, which is generally the case, it floats its upper leaves on the surface in long waving lines across the squares—a singularly at tractive and beautiful picture., It seldom happens, however, that the whole planta tion is under the same treatment at the same time, for with 500 or 600 acres to sow, it is a difficult matter in spring, with freqnent interruptions from rains and bad weather, to seed down so large an acreage in time for any one spring tide for flowing. A large plantation will run five or six drills and put in some times sixty-five or seventy acres daily; but even with as rapid work as this it is impossible to get all in contemporaneous ly. Consequently is is a common thing to see. perhaps, one-fourth of the squares under the stretch water, another fourth under charge of the “gun squad,” wait ing for the tender point to shoot; another series under the sprout water and the re mainder in process of planting, all at once. This necessarily adds greater in terest and diversity to the process and prospect. Sometimes, too, the rice comes up mixed with “volunteer;” this is the pro duct of thp grain shaken out during the previous harvest and scattered broadcast over the land. This can generally be re moved bv the hoe, but where it is very thick sometimes necessitates replowing and seeding, thus throwing late a por tion of the crop. This volunteer rice is hardy and prolific and externally similar to white rice, but the objection to it is that the berry is red and greatly reduces the grade of rice with which it is mixed, besides totally unfitting it for seed. To destroy this obnoxious tare the fields are sometimes thrown into dry crops for a year or two, or kept under water for a like time. It will be remembered that each square is under separate control, and, except where two or more are temporarily united by the check banks washing through, can be flowed and drained in dependently at the pleasure of the planter. A walk over the banks of a plantation at this period is replete with interest; at every step the “fiddlers” scurrying from under your feet and ducking into their holes, qach one as he disappears waving aloft in defiance his disproportionate manacle. Yonder are small squads of negroes in twos and threes, dragging with long wooden rakes the floating Trash and stubble blown by the wind in masses against the lee banks and piling it on the pathways. Over there the rattle of the grain drills is heard seeding down the few belated squares. Here is the trunk minder with his assistant hard at work repairing a leak. On the canal bank is the overseer in consultation with the planter on his daily visit to the fields, his little sail boat rocking at the wharf down by the quarter. Attention is called to a defec tive trunk or a dangerous bank; stretch water to-morrow, must be turned on No. 6 and No. 8, and sprout water let off from 17 and 23. The long cord of the submerged thermometer is drawn in hand over hand, its reading carefully taken and the mean temperature of the water for the month in the overseer’s handy note book is compared with that of last year and dependent operations deduced and determined. From the high and dry squares on the further side comes the casual pop of the musket, while flocks of daws and hungry crows circle overhead, awaiting their opportunity to settle down on the’tsprouting grain. Ev erything works in its appropriate groove an 1 little is left to chance. The stretch water is held at the slack gauge from twenty to forty days when the ‘ ‘dry root’ ’ and the leaves correspond ing to it have put out. The amphibious and pampered plant has now had enough of its stimulating though strictly temper ate beverage, and is ready for a period of “prohibition” or dry growth.—Southern Bivouac. TWO LOVES. TV woman ho loved, while he dreamed of her. Danced on till the stars grew dim: But alone with her heart, from the world apart. Sat the woman who loved him. The woman he worshiped only smiled When be poured out his passionate love. While the otter somewhere kissed her treasure A book he had touched with his glove. The woman he loved betrayed his trust. And bn wore the scars thro' life; And be eared not, nor knew, that the other was But no man called her wife. Hie woman he loved trod festal halls While they sang his funeral hymn; But the sad bells tolled ere the year was old O'er the woman who loved him. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A MODERN GYPSY CAMP. Has Visited Mecca. Sir Richard Burton, the celebrated African and Persian traveler and author, who at the present moment holds the post of British consul at Trieste, is the only European living who has visited the Mo hammedan holv citv of Mecca. It has been figured out by some one that 1.000.000 dollar bills weigh 2,S41 pounds. Count Beust collected all the carica tures of himself that appeared during twenty years, and took great pride in showing them to visitors at Altenberg. He also collected newspaper articles- and pamphlets relating to himself. His mu sical talent was considerable. Among his valses the most popular. “Rerour des Indes.” was dedicated to the Princess of Wales. His last poem, dated Altenberg, June, 1886, and entitled "Vorbei.” ap peared afortnight ago in The Vienna Re view. It closes with the words "For giveness to enemies, the battle is over.” —Chicago Times. Enduring Quality of Human Hair. A remarkable illustration of the endur ing quality of human hair may now be seen in the British museum, where has been placed a wig lately foundiii a temple at niebfes, which is supposed to have beat worn by an Egyptian priest at a neriod net less than 3.400 varniun Ravage* of the Divorce Disease. When one thinks of the comparatively small number of divorced persons in his acquaintance, or within his personal knowledge, it is hard to believe in the correctness of the statistics, which show that in this part of Ohio there is a divorce to every eight or ten marriages. One reason for this is that a very large part of the men and women who are divorced at all are divorced a second, and even, in some cases, a third or fourth time. Di vorce is one of the diseases which is apt to strengthen its grip on its victims like the opium habit, and just as chronic “drunks” furnish a large percentage of the cases of intoxication in any police court, so the chronic breakers of mar riage vows contribute liberally to swell the shocking records of the divorce courts.—Cleveland Leader. The South Sen “Dnk-Duk.” The curious and little understood cere monies of the duk-duk are extensively performed in New Britain and the neigh boring Duke of York group of the South Sea islands. It may be described as fol lows: If A injures B, B burns down G’s hnt, or makes a hole in his canoe, or sticks a spear in the pathway so that C is nearly sure to ran against it B lets C know that he has injured him, and tbs reason of it when C is expected to settle the account with A, the first aggressor.— Philadelphia Call. The people of Paris eat 2,000,000 larks every year. Micw Beatrice's Baby. The Princess Beatrice's baby is rocked in a cradle of polished oak, bought by the queen in the artisan's section at tbs Edinburgh exhibition. Spots c< grease may be effectually re moved from the nmat fabric by tbs applicitioD at dry buckwheat floor. Edgar Z~ Wakeman With an Ancient Race—Camp by the Roadside. Any one would be interested in noting how rapidly the members of a Gypsy band adjust themselves to their surround mgs when a camping place has been reached. Almost within an hour the place will have all the appearance of settled abiding. In every direction you will see in light and shadow the covered wagons sheltered by the overhanging foliage of great forest trees, some of the meanest, poorest type, others rich in trappings and decorations. Near to each and scattered about the grass, or carefully stretched over improvised racks formed by saplings bent and their tops fastened by bark throngs to clumps of brush or stout wooden pegs driven into the ground, or still hung upon the smooth, outstretching limbs of trees, are saddles, blankets, parts of harness, or various por tions of the outfit of the road. Here and there are light buggies, with which trad ing is done at the distant town, or in which shrewd dukkerers (fortune tellers) seek the credulous occupants of outlying farms. * Between all these, or tethered where m06t convenient, are horses and mules in large numbers and of all grades, though really excellent animals predominate, munching their com or nibbling at their hay, cornstalks or freshly cut oats or grass, and whinnying and snorting in their needs and freaks as strapping lads leisurely care for them. Within the open spaces around which the wagons are standing—invariably with the open fronts facing these spaces and the closely cov ered rear ends toward the forest or road —are scattered the tents, like great brown woolen hoods, their mouths open ing upon cheery fires, at the side of which will always be found the black iron kettle sticks, from which are hang ing, at nearly all hours of the day or night, the sizzling pots or singing kettles. You will nearly always find this camp near the highway, though almost as fre quently entirely hid from it, like a nest; and, to my mind, the Gypsy camp always recalls how, when I was “a brown faced, tunicked country boy,” with others of my ilk, we hunted the nests of the meadow lark, and passed and repassed them, at times stepping squarely over them without our prying eyes discovering the tiny homes we were robbing, unless mayhap the brown and mottled little mother, wild in fear, with a whirr and flutter rose startlingly almost beneath our very feet. Then there is the stream, large or small, never more than a few rods distant. Below the camp—that is, down the stream from it—is the horse path, where Gypsy lads lead the animals to water, and from which, if the stream be large enough, you will see them daily swimming the horses and mules—for cleanliness of person end animals is a part of Gypsy religion—with much laughter and jollity, as I have seen the gay nadadors disport with Havana horses in the sea off the Calle Anche del Norte. Above the camp a few rods is the path where the lads and lasses bring the drinking and cooking water. Midway between there will be found a spot which slopes to the stream. Here are sand and pebbles gleaming in the sun, or may be a flat rock with freckled face and sides, shelving over or into the water. It is here the women come and duck their chauvies, as mother geese will school their goslings, or where they wash their clothing much after the fashion of Ger man housewives down in old Bavaria, and upon the alders near will flutter gowns that have a witching look as if par taking of their wearers’ race heredity, while the red and yellow cotton stuffs in undergarments, handkerchiefs, scarfs and turbans flaunt airily, suggestive of old Spain and the savage colors of the Mos lems that left barbarous tokens thread ing down the centuries to the Castile of our own day. From divers ropes or bark thongs, dung from clumps of wil lows or fastened to woodenpegs driven into the bank, may be traced closely covered, well oiled tin pails or jugs of earthen ware, resting in the cooling water, which hold various cooked or uncooked articles of food. Over here, just at the edge of the camp, you will see where the chau vies have disengaged a rugged old vine from a century-old tree and have trans formed it into a swing, or, in the ab sence of that, have spliced, as cleverly as could sailors, bits of ropes into one—for the child-heart is the same the earth round—and there are great laughter and happiness here.—Edgar L. Wakeman in Chicago News. A Costly Machine. The Watemlle, Me., Mail describes a machine invented by Professor Rogers, of Colby, which inscribes upon a polished surface from 30,000 to 50,000 parallel lines in each square inch, and which is of much use in the conduct of liis astronomi cal labors. It was not perfected without an outlay of several thousand dollars. A single screw, which is twenty inches in length, and employed directly in the in scription of the lines above mentioned, after several attempts at construction, was finally produced, only after an ex penditure of $3,000. The very limited use, the editor adds, to which the ma chine can be put renders the procurement of a patent wholly unnecessary.—Scien tific American. TDe Intelligent Mechanic** Labor. A group of gentlemen were discussing the necessity for brain labor in some life vocations, and after allnsions had been made to several well-known citi zens who were successful and prominent in their professions, one of the speakers, himself a retired merchant and influen tial politician, declared that Blank, nam ing a draftsman and inventor employed in a large machine tool manufactory, did more brain labor than any other man in the city. Some examples were cited of well-known mechanics, and the con clusion was reached that intelligent me chanical labor required as much solid thinking as any other work. The Intelligent, valuable mechanic is not a mere walking machine; materials are not always plastic; they are some time* nerverse. and judgment and calm consideration are required in their man agement. The parts of a machine, how ever closely planned, do not come to- gi ’.her unaided and naturally, as eye- Siones converge in a saucer of vinegar: ii requires head work to "assemble" the ports of a machineof any kind, and now adays, when mechanical work requires an accuracy of proportions and a nicety D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO. ATLANTA, GA. of dimensions such as were not dreamed j -r , , ... rn , • j of a generation ago, the mechanic who Introductory Ch it with our friends. Ihere is uo apol ogy to offer for this, either, because this is a is not brainy in his line will surely got left.—Detroit Free Press. VICTOR HUGO’S BODILY VIGOR. A Trial of the Poet’s Eyesight—When Ho Began to Grow Deaf. Hugo had not only a strong, healthy intellect, but also a sound body. Toward Hie- end of his life lie grew deaf, so that it became a real infirmity. But other wise he preserved all his faculties, physical and mental, up to his last ill ness. M. Ulbach records several examples of Victor Hugo’s bodily vigor. When writing up Notre Dame of Paris he used often to go twice a day up to the top of the tower. In the evening lie was gen erally accompanied by friends. ‘ -On one of these occasions, ’ ’ writes M. Ulbach. “Victor Hugo was gazing with delight at the purple hues of the setting sun, turning liis piercing little eyes in the direction of the ArsenaT library, which is a long distance off. ‘I see Charles Mo- dier on liis balcony, ’ lie remarked care lessly to his friends; ‘he isn’t alone, there are two ladies with him—one of them is his daughter, but the other I do not know.’ Notwithstanding their respect for the poet, and their knowledge of his wonderful visual powers, the little group indulged in an incredulous smile. But when, an hour later, they called on Mo- dier they were astonished to find that Victor Hugo’s eyes had deceived neither them nor him. I once asked the poet if this story was true, asil iie told mo that it was, and substantiated it with this one. When in college he used to attend lectures on physics in the medical school. One day the professor wished to try some experi ment in optics, anil invited the students to go with him to the roof of the build ing. where he set up a telescope turned in the direction of the Garden of Plants. He then asked the young men to read a distant sign which seemed undecipherable to the naked eye. Victor Hugo happened to be the first whb was cal 111! upon. “ ‘I do not need the aid of the tele scope,’ he said; ‘I can make out the sign It reads: Chantier du Cardinal-Le- moine. ’ ” In fact his excellent eyesight stood him instead when he began to grow deaf. “He saw so well,” says our biographer, “that he seemed to hear everything, and when he asked that a phrase be repeated it was more to make sure that lie had guessed correctly tlian to satisfy the de mands of his deaf ear. A few months before Ills death I was dining with him and was giving an account of my last visit to Spain. I went so far as to admit a liking for bull fights, whereupon Mme. Luckrow said to me in a low tone: ‘It is fortunate father doesn’t hear you, for lie detests that cruel sport. Pray don’t say anything more on that subject.’ So I took up another topic, but my host gave me such a searching look that I felt that I was discovered. “‘I didn’t seize the whole sentence, ’ remarked the poet; “ ‘vou said that vou liked—?’ “I ventured to prevaricate. “ ‘I was saying that I liked the Bohe mian dance. ’ “‘No, no,’ interrupted Victor Hugo, shaking his head, while a smile spread over liis face, ‘you said that you liked bullfights.’”—New York Mail and Ex press. BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT! Axd Don’t You Fokget It ! CLOAKS AND WRAPS! We can openly defy the whole state on these goods. We have an overwhelming >tock and will close them out at wonderfully low prices. The winter has only be- .run. The prophets and the “goose bone” all predict cold weather ahead. Come •vhilewe can afford to give you timely bargains. Jerseys at very “low cut” prices -awav undei what thev were earlier in the season. KNIT UNDERWEAR! Here again we are defiant, because nobody can touch us. Knit Underwear for Ladies, Children and Men- We do all the business of the town in this line, and are not afraid of being touched by factory prices. We have bought out the facto ries and are underselling them. LOWEK YET. On Flannels and Pant Stuff, we are ahead of the closest competitors. We have m immense stock, and everything is down to low rock prices. A new and extensive stock of handsome holiday goods, something useful and something to please everybody. Water Proofs and Repellants For ladles’ and childrens’ suits. We know we are underselling everybody here, and we say it boldly. Cotton Flannels, from 5c to 20c, immense bargains, and you will not fail to say so when you get the goods. New Wool Hosiery. New Wool Mittens, for ladies and children. New Silk Mufflers. New Silk Handkerchiefs, we have them from 25 to 50c, sold last season at from 50 to 75c. New Cotton and Linen Handkerchiefs in great variety, very low. Author of the Legal Tender Act. The man who framed the original legal tender act is still living, a resident of Buffalo, N. Y. His name is E. G. Spaulding, and liis ago is upwards of 80 years. He had served several terms in the New York legislature, and the break ing out of the war found him a leading member of the lower house in congress and a mcmlier of the committee on banking and currency. His prominence caused him to be frequently consulted by Secretary Chase, who asked liis personal assistance in devising a bridge over the financial crisis of that period. Being familiar with tire New York state bank- law. and believing it the best that couhl he framed, as he had himself lelpedto frame it when in Albany, Mr. Spaulding set about the preparation of the bill which afterwards lioeaine famous as the legal tender act. Secretary Chase and Mr. Lincoln made a few changes in it, and Mr. Spaulding introduced it into the house. The original bill is in the possession of its author, who prizes it highly, both as a family relic and as an historical docu ment. It covers, with its erasures and signatures, about a dozen pages of legal cap, fastened together by two bright red ribbons. Mr. Spaulding is a lawyer by profession, but lie has for many year:; been in the banking business as preside:" of the Farmers and Mechanics’ National bank of Buffalo. He is an ardent Pres byterian, was formerly a social leader in the Queen City, and is worth 810,000.000. His health is not good this winter, and he rarely leaves his spacious Delaware avenue mansion.—Philadelphia Times. BMI1ITS MB COMFORTS. Let everybody blow their horns, but'yon will make a nrstake'if you fail to come to is for any of these goods. Blankets from 85c to $15.00. 10 per cent, low- er than any house in Georgia. Comforts from 50c to $3.50 and $4.00. Now these are big values, and we won’t deceive you when you come. DRESS GOODS. A fearful reduction in everything we have in the way of Dress Goods. We have a heavy stock, a superb selection, choice material, and we in tend to surprise everybody who will come and look at them. New Evening Silk in great variety. New Silk Cord and Buttons to match for evening trimming. The handsomest line of Holiday Millinery ever ■rough! to Atlanta. Gr O VEB New Kid Gloves in all colors, 50, 65,75, $1 and $1.50. Our $1 Gloves are guaranteed. ■fable: linteivs. We Will save you 25 per cent, on these goods. New Ruchings. New Collars and Cuffs. Big drives in bleached and unbleached Domestics Good Prints at 3 and3).jc. Prints at 5c, cheap at 7)4e. SHOES. We are ahead of oTir own purposes in Shoes. We run more men and have more Shoes and sell more Shoes than any house—than any two houses—in Atlanta. Shoes for everybody and Shoes cheap enough to open your eyes. D. IDOICMTY & CO. THOMPSON BROS. Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fnraitnrr Big Stock and Low Prices. PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS, WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL OASES The Wrong Sort. Boy!” called a man with a clothes wringer under his arm. as he looked over the gate, “will that dog bite?" “Yes, lie’ll go for some folks like smoke, “I guess he won't bite me, for I’m a Collector.” Say. don’t you dare come in here. If you was an agent you’d lx- all right, but he's been taught to down a collector on sight.”—Detroit Free Press. Fires from Steam Pipes. With each recurring fall and winter the question of possibility of fires from steam pipes becomes one of importance. As the most insidious diseases are usually most to be feared, so the most oecult causes of fire are among those which should be most carefully looked after. It is very well known tliat wood, after re maining for some time in contact with steam, hot air or hot water pipes, be comes carbonized on the surface and to a short distance below. The charcoal, of course, readily oxidizes. When steam is nottin the pipes the charcoal will absorb -moisture. When again heated the moist ure is driven out, leaving a vacuum, into which the fresh air current, circulating around the pipes, readily penetrates. It imparts oxygen to the charcoal, causes a more rapid rise in the temperature, till finally the point of ignition is reached. 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