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A Xoralsjr Can.
When eh* tpied him coming
She wore a kerchief mind her h,ad,
Her papered oorU to bide.
The flounces on her skirts were ton*
Her slippers were untied,
Her jacket wanted buttons, and j
Twaa not exactly clean, t
And through her worn-out sleeves quite plain
Her elbows could he seen. »
When ike received him
Upon her brow her fluffy hair
Like tangled sunshine lay,
Her pretty Mother Hubbard gown
Was rioh in ribbons gay,
Her little shoes were decked with bows,
Some meadow flowers clung
Near her fair throat, and from her side
A small soent-botUe hung.
Jtnd its a sure thing
That never yet for conjurer
Did quicker change befall,
Than that young man evoked who came
To make a morning call.
—Philadelphia JVews.
An Uncommon Proceeding.
“How cold it is growing,” said Miss
Wait, the teacher ot the common
school in the then brisk little manu¬
facturing village of Shattuckvilie, as
«he tied on her soft blue hood, button¬
ed her warm flannel cloak, looked at
the window-fastenings of the not over
commodious or attractive but snug
schoolroom, locked her desk, and care¬
fully shut the damper of the air-tight
wood stove, preparatory to quitting
her domain of labor for the night
As she picked up her rubber over¬
shoes and stooped to draw them over
her shapely kid boot, she cogitated:
“Oh, dear! Tommy Howe’s red
toes sticking so pathetically through
those old gaping shoes fairly haunt
me. I wonder if, in all this prosper¬
ous, busy village, there is no way of
getting that poor child decently clad.
1 must think it over and see what I
can do about it”
Twenty-four hours later the leading
man of the village, and the owner of
the little factory there, who, years be¬
fore, when a poor boy, had stranded
down from Vermont to this little
hamlet, eccentric and brusque, but
kind-hearted, keen-eyed, and observ¬
ant of all that was going on within
liis‘domain, was walking along the
Btreet and met a bright-eyed and
sprightly lad of 10 speeding ahead
with that amusing, unconscious, con¬
sequential air that a boy carries with
his first brand-new pair of boots.
“Old Sam” Whittier, as this gentle¬
man was familiarly called, not by
reason of advanced age by any means,
but because of his supremacy as the
mill-owner and employer of all the
help in the hamlet, took in the situa¬
tion at a glance, and called out- to the
absorbed child,
“Hullo, youngster! where d’ye get
them fellers?”
"Teacher gave them to me, sir," and
the lad’s tattered cap came quickly off,
and he stood with it in bis hand.
“Does she buy boots for all the boys
in the school?” he growled out.
“Guess not; but she bought Joe
Briggs a speller and Jane Cass an
arithmetic, and she gives away stacks
of slate-pencils and paper and ink, and
such things.” ,
“What made her go and buy them
nice boots for you?”
, “She said she wanted to, sir; and
when 1 said I had no money to pay
her for them, she said she’d rather be
paid in perfect lessons; and I will try
my best to pay for them in that way,
you may be sure, sir.”
“Pretty good sort of a teacher, is
she, bub?”
“Oh, yes, indeed! I guess she must
be the best teacher that ever lived, sir
—she tells us about so many things
that we never knew before; and she
wants us to be good and honest and
not tell lies, and she says we shall he
men and women by and by, and she
wants us boys to know something so
we can own factories our own selves
some time. The other teachers we’ve
had only heard our lessons and let us
go, but she’s so different!”
“Well, well, bub. I shall have to
think this business over a little. Now
run along, and go to scratchin’ over
them ‘perfect lessons.’ I don’t sup¬
pose you’ll find a person in Shattuck¬
vilie a better judge of perfect lessons,
or how much they are worth, both to
the teacher and to the scholar, than
•Old Sam’ Whittier. So, bub. look
after your ways, and I shall look after
you.” The next morning little note writ¬
a
ten in a coarse business hand was
disratched to the teacher by the hand
of ons of the children. It ran as fol-
SPRING PLACE* GEORGIA* THURSD AY* NOVEMBER 12* 1886.
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"Mtss Wait: 1 have heard of some
rather uncommon proceedings on your
part as a teacher toward your scholars.
I would like to inquire of you person¬
ally as to particulars. Will you do
me the favor to run over to my house
directly after the close of your school
this afternoon.
“Samuel Whittier.”
“What can I have done?” thought
that little teacher, in such a peturbed
state of mind that she corrected Juhn
ny Snow’s mistake in his multiplica¬
tion by telling him seven times nine
was fifty-four. Indeed, she let tfw
mistake go so long that every little
hand belonging to the second primary
class was stretched up in a frenzy of
excitement. “Let me see; what is it
I have done the past week? I switch
ed Bobbie Baker pretty smartly, to be
sure—-and I kept Sam Woodruff after
school—and I kept Marion Fisk in
from recess for whispering; but I must
keep order. Well, dear me, I have
tried to do my duty, and I won’t wor¬
ry;” and Miss Wait resolutely went
back to “seven times nine,” and so
in the usual routine.
But she ate no dinner that noon,
and had a decided headache as she
crossed th& big bridge over the hill to
the mill-owner’s residence.
“I shall not back down in anything
where my cleat duty and self-respect
are involved,” thought she. “I have
set up a certain ideal as to what a
teacher of these little common schools
ought to be, and I will, God and my
mind, good courage and health not
forsaking me, bring myself as near to
it as possibla Moreover, 1 will not
consider, in the premises, whether the
scholars are children of the rich or
learned,tor of the poor or ignorant.
For the time being God has placed in
my care fagged, dirty little wretches
of a factory village, as well as clean,
well-dressed, attractive children.”
“Good eveking good evening,
ma’am,” said “Old Sain” Whittier, in
his gruff way, meeting the teacher at
the door. “As I said in my note to
you, I heard to-day of some rather un¬
common proceedings on your part. I
saw, ma’am, little Tommy Howe in a
new pair of boots this morning. Do
you know how he came by them ?”
“I bought them for him, Mr. Whit¬
tier,” wondering whether the local
magnate suspected the poor child of
stealing.
“Oh, you did! Are yon in the habit
of furnishing your scholars with such
articles? Was the providing of boots 4
a part of your business contract with
the committee? If it was, 1 can put
you in the way of buying boots at
wholesale in Boston, where I get my
supply for my store.”
“It w ill not be necessary, sir,” re¬
plied the teacher, with dignity. “I
thank you for your kind offer, how¬
ever.”
“Why did you furnish hoots in this
particular case, if I may inquire?”
“The lad is very poor. His mother
has her hands full with the smaller
children. Tommy is learning rapidly;
I see marks of rare intelligence in him.
It would be a pity to have him taken
.out of school at this time when he is
so much engaged. Should he contin¬
ue coming clad as he was in such
weather as this he would be ill soon.
I could not take the risk in either
case.”
“Are you able to let your heart get
the better of you in this way ?”
“I have my wages only.” replied the
young woman, with dignity.
“Then you probably will have to
retrench not a little in your own ex¬
penses.”
“If I do it will harm no one’s purse
orpride but my own. In this instance
it may be the matter of a pair of
gloves or an ostrich tip with me.
With him the little act may make a
difference that 6hall be lasting through
time and eternity.”
“You have been attending that
school over to South Hadley, 1 hear?”
“Yes, sir.”
"Have you been through it, or grad¬
uated, as they call it?”
“Oh, no; I have attended but two
terms. But I am fully determined to
complete the course.”
"Hum—all right. Miss Wait, you
seem to be doing some good work
among the children over the river
there. I am going to think it all
over; but look here—if any more of
those little rascals need boots, let me
know. I shall consider it a privilege
to provide them. You know 1 can
obtain them at wholesale—ha! hal
and the now greatly relieved teacher’s
interview with the mill-owner ended,
“It she goes on teaching on and off,
and then taking U term on and off at
Mount Holyoke, she can’t graduate
for years,” ruminated Old Sam Whit
tier, as he watched her tripping on
over the hill; “it’s ridiculous.”
And so It came to pass, when Miss
Wait was paid her small salary at the
end of the term, she found In the en
velope containing the order on the
town treasurer a check with a slip of
paper pinned to it, reading thus:
“This may be an uncpmm'm pro
ceeding, but 1 thought* 1 over and
have concluded that you ha, better go
^U^IStS / yCgSS. “ Alter
that> with you piu ck and principle,
you "books, will be able to invest in boots or
or in any way you see fit.
Very truly yours,
“Samuel Whittier.”
I leave this true little sketch with¬
out comment. It carries its own les¬
son, both to struggling young teachers
with hearts and brains, and to pros¬
perous men of affairs, who may lend a
helping hand to deserving ones.
grant’s Type
“Gath” says in an article on General
Grant in the Cincinnati Enquirer: In
the great men of the past we find
none of the type of General Grant
Cromwell and Wellington suggest no
resemblance to him either In origin or
temperament Among modest heroes
like Admiral De Ruyter he might be
classified but for the supreme honors
he has attained. It was told of De
Ruyter that on the morning after a
battle of four days a visitor found him
sweeping his cabin and feeding his
chlckeoa; and “when decorated with
honors and titles by every Prince of
Europe he never in the slightest de
gree overcame his innate modesty.”
Both De Ruyter, who was taken out
of a rope-yard, and Grant, out of a
tannery, were sincere republicans,
graduated by a sense of duty ambition! that sup
pressed all restless, vulgar
Grant Is the earliest fruit of that per
fected and simplified republicanism
which was seeded and ripened beyond
the Ohio river. He is not only Amor
lean, but North-western. People who
are seeking in him traces of the old
Colonial gentry, like Washington, are
ignorant of their country and its ex
pansion. What Washington but dim
ly conceived the age and locality of
Grant have fully realized-* powerful
democracy and its home heroes. He
was born on the public land, went to
land-endowed Public Schools, and was
the son on both sides of pioneers. The
whole machinery of the Federal Con¬
stitution and the statutes of the gov¬
ernment of the North-western Terri¬
tory bad gone into operation when he
came upon the stage. No other Presi¬
dent except Lincoln had been exclu¬
sively Western grown, and Lincoln
was born in Kentucky, though of
Pennsylvania descent
Grant’s stock is Puritan and Penn¬
sylvanian. He is of English Puritan
stock, which came to this country in
1630, ten years after the Pilgrim
Fathers. *
The Man with the Camellia.
“L'Homme auCamellie” (The Man
with the Camellia) is the heading a
French paper gave lately to a sketch of
one of the many original figures to b«
seen on the Parisian boulevard.
Though invariably clad in the shab¬
biest attire—for excellent reasons—the
individual in question is never without
a magnificent white camellia at his but¬
ton-hole. A year or two ago he had, it
seems, a rare run of luck at the green
table, and with eccentric prudence, he
determined to ensure, in the season of
his prosperity, that, whatever priva¬
tion the turn of fortune’s wheel might
bring with it, he should never want
for his favorite flower. He asked his
fieuriste one day accordingly what sum
she would take to sbppiy him with a
white camellia every day for the rest of
his life. The amount fixed upon—a
very considerable one, as may be sup¬
posed—was paid on the spot, and now
the ruined gamester struts daily along
the asphalt, rejoicing in the possession
of a camellia worth rather more than
the coat it adorns,
So Near and Vet so Far.
Dainty Dud* —“Jfelinds.how did you
like my serenade last night ?”
Melinda —“I didn’t like your port
tion.”
“My position ? My attitude, you
mean.” ,
your position. You weren’t
enough away for me not to hear
ygu^ ^pd you weren’t close enough
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L Ni) OF THE ESQUIMAUX.
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Some Traits of the People in
the Arctic Regions.
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A Savace Baoe who Clan Draw Maps and
Save Tremendous Appetitee.
Writing about the Esquimaux In
New York Times Lieut Schwatka
#|ys: engineers “They are rude sculptors, topographical and
as well as are
flpremely good map makers for such
unkempt savages. Nearly every white
itean, explorer or otherwise, who has
Visited their country and associated
with them speaks of this trait being
Very conspicious in them. It seems
especially well developed in the wom¬
en, although many of the men, from
their greater amount of journeyings
oyer and around a country, are often
in a position to make more accurate
drawings in the details or particular
places. I have had several occasions
to use them as map makers, and find
their rude charts quite accurate, good
though at least to enable me to recog
nhe th « P laces 1 wa9 tr y in « to make
oat - These propensities for drawing
tod carving have often been utilized
*>y ethnologists to show the origin of
this * reat fam »y or rnce which ca P 3
* be American Continent Noth-
80 pleased the little ones of the
l anuit « “ » Pencil and a clean piece
of paper on which they could draw,
and 9 uite often we would tod a 8 r0U P
of these spending hours in producing
fearful hieroglyphics, until the sheet
looked llke a P atterQ sheet from a la ~
d ’ ea fashion magazine, The nautical
almanacs and books of tables for the
P&ty were profusely ornamented with
These rude drawings, and the more iin
jwtanfrecords only escaped a similar
fate by being kept under lock and key
^hen not used us.
f The ornamental displays in the sew
, of those which
Sg the women are are
confined to the limited varieties of
colors to be found on the seal and
reindeer. The fur of the latter in its
P rime ia in the darkest-colored ani
,naIs 1 uite a g Io3a y hlackon the back,
the flanks Hnd bell y bein S white - and
between the9e extremes every shade
of g ra >’ can be found - The 9kin of
tl,e former i3,anned in two wa y s - one
of which makes it black, the other a
^ white, and their best sewers
combine these furs and skins in~d*
8i 8 ns often 4 uite intricate, and not
without pleasing effect. None of the
men or boys know much about sewing,
although I doubt if like other savages
they consider it degrading, in so many
things do they assist their women
with their work. As a war party is
wholly unknown among them, and
these are the only kinds of parties
among most savages unaccompanied
by women, it is seldom that the In
nuits have not their footgear in the
very best condition, and somebody al
ways with them to keep it so should
it get otherwise.
One of the duties of the Esquimau
women is to chew the hides of the
ook-jook (great seal) that are intended
for the soles and footcovering of the
sealskin boots, this process rendering
them more nearly waterproof, and
thely may be seen thus engaged in
almost every tent or snowhouse. By
the time they are old crones and too
weak from age to chew on the sole
leather any longer, their teeth are
worn down almost to their gums with
the constant attrition. They will
often do this labor as a pastime while
employed at some other work which
only requires about half the attention
and the use of one hand, as cooking,
leaving the other hand free to roll the
great bolus of seal leather around in
the mouth, that keeps opening and
shutting all day with the regularity of
a windmill pump, and with just such
spasmodic variations, according to the
intensity of the mental wind.
It would hardly do for one to imag¬
ine that an Esquimau could tire Ms
jaws with wagging them, so constant¬
ly do some of them keep them going
in eating their almost continual lunch¬
es of raw frozen meat and hot tidbits
from the stone kettle hanging over the
stone lamp. As an example of their
enormous appetite, to Esquimau boy,
supplied by Capfc Perry, of the royal
navy, while wintering among them,
devoured in one day over 10 pounds
of solid food and drank of tea, coffee,
and water over a gallon and a half.
A man of the same tribe, (one of
those pot far from North Hudson Bay,
where I wintered,) ate 10 pounds of
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ot C8adle ®» and dr » nk ° f ™ rl ««« li <r
uida a gallon and a half, and thraa
people were only about 4 to 4$ feet in
height. I might give some instances
in my own party, but being a practi¬
cal convert to the theory of the neces¬
sity o{ considerable food in that di
tnate 1 shall desist.
The Esquimaux have often been ac¬
cused of eating tainted meat. This is
true to a limited extent The fat
meats of seal and walrus are stored
away in the Summer for future uss,
and this fat is a true preservative,
never allowing the meat to go beyond
rancidity, that is to putrefaction, and
no more in that state than is caviar,
and some kinds of game and cheese.
All the lean meats, such S3 reindeer
or musk oxen, are generally disposed
of immediately in the warm Summer
and only put in caches after freezing
weather has come on. The general
impression of people is that they
drink oil (rendered from fats) of all
kinds almost as copiously as we drink
water, and yet I have seldom seen
them do this, and understand that it
is only done to avert starvation, except
salmon oil. I doubt if they use as
much oil as some civilized nations.
In the shape of huge chunks of blub¬
ber from the whale, seal, or walrus,
they consume enormous quantities,
but to drink it in the pure state, or to
even use it as a dressing for any other
cooking, is very rare indeed. The
Esquimaux in and around the mouth
of Black’s Great Fish River catch
quantities of fat salmon, and a great
deal of oil is obtained from these fat
fish. This oil 1 have seen them drink
and have soused it myself. About
the middle of December, 1879. in our
midwinter sledge journey from the
Arctic Sea to Hudson Bay, our supply
of toodnoo (reindeer fat) ran very
low, and so did the thermometer, and
we noticed the disappearance of our
fatty food very conspicuously in the
greater effort that was necessary to
keep warm. After matters had been
running this way two or three days,
one of my Innnit sledgeraen came to
me and showed me a couple of recep
trtcIes - beln « reindeer bladders, each
holding nearly a quart of salmon oil.
and poured me out a glU of the stufE
from one ’ which he tola me to (lnnlc
to drive away the cold. My repug
nance for the odor 1 soon overcame,
knowing the usual after effect, and I
downed the dose as an old toper would
his morning drink, but with a horrible
grimace. I might add that the effect
of warmth, a pleasant glow all over
the body, was apparent about as soot
as if 1 had taken that amount of alco
hoi, although one would imagine that
the oil would have to digest according
to known laws of assimilation before
producing warmth. Several times af
ter ward J repeated the agreeable dose,
and always found the same effect of
genial w armth. _
New Theories AMut Eating.
Dr. R. M. Hodges, once read a paper
before the Boston Society for Medical
Improvement, in which he touched on
this question upon which doctors disa¬
gree, and said: “It is a common im¬
pression that to take food immediately
before going to bed and to sleep is un¬
wise. Such a suggestion is answered
by a reminder that the instinct of ani¬
mals prompts them to sleep as soon as
they have eaten; and in summer an
after-dinner nap, especially when that
meal is taken at mid-day, is a luxury
indulged in by many. . If the ordinary
hour of the evening meal is six or
seven o’clock, and of the first morning
meal 7 or 8 o’clock, an interval of
twelve hours, or more, elapses with¬
out food, and for persons whose nutri¬
tion is at fault this is altogether too
long a period of fasting. That such
an interval without food is permitted
explains many a restless night, and
much of the head and backache, and
the languid, h&lf-rested condition on
rising, which is accompanied by no
appetite for breakfast This meal it
self often dissipates these sensations.
It is, therfore, desirable, if not essen¬
tial, when nutriment is to be crowded,
that the last thing before going to bed
should be the taking of food. Sleep¬
lessness is often caused by starvation,
and a tumbler of milk, if drunk in the
middle of the night, will often pat
people to sleep when hypnotics would
fail of their purpose. Food before ris¬
ing is equally important and expedient
It supplies strength for bathing and
dressing, laborious and, wearisome
tasks for the underfed; and is a better
morning •pick-me-wn’ ‘ A e
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Hope.
Storm overhanging
Darken, the plain!
Silence most dismal
Burdens the train.
The wind that pirns
Over the marsh
Sounds in the grasses
Sullen and harsh.
Down thro’ the darkness
Catting its way,
Gleams from the heavens
One single ray.
There in the tempest.
Threatened with blight
One simple flower
Sparkles with light!
— Richard. L. Dawson in the Current.
HUMOROUS.
Wanted.—A sheet from an oyster
bed.
Hooking and lying are the fisher¬
man’s crying sins.
A cyclone is like a waiter. It car¬
ries everything before it.
The bird family must have, a jolly
time—they have so many larks.
Wealth screens depravity, but it
isn’t worth shucks as a preventive of
corns.
Women are not inventive as a rule.
They have no eagerness for new
wrinkles.
Another triumph of modern science.
A firm advertises: “Artificial flower
boys waned.’t’
“I’ve lost ten pounds of flesh on
your account,” sighed the butcher, as a
dog ran off with a steak.
“He never had but one genuine
case in his life,’’ said a lawyer of a ri¬
val, “and that wa3 when lie prosecut¬
ed his studies.”
“Never mind me,” said Mrs. Jones
before she was married, and that is
exactly what her husband did after
the honeymoon was over,
“Q where does beauty linger?” de
manded a Quaker City poetess. As
usual thing, she lingers in the parlor
until her mother has cleaned up the
kitchen.
Of the seven successful candidates
for the Presidency daring the past
twenty-eight years five are dead, while
of the seven unsuccessful aspirants
five are alive.
Tl\ere’s a farmer boy in Ohio, who
has the making of a “funny man” in
him. He recently wrote an ode to the
dead mother of his pet lamb, and
called it a “Ewe logy.”
Dairy Cows in Switzerland.
An American, who has spent some
time in France, writes: Now that co¬
operative cheese and butter “farmeries ’
are the order of the clay, 1 wish to
draw attention to the special breed of
cattle in the Canton of AppenzelL
The cows are good milkers, small hut
well built, admirably adapted for
mountainous regions, and easily cared
for. They are small feeders, and their
milk is as rich as a Jersey, and abun¬
dant as a Kerry or West Highland cow.
They yield from fourteen to twenty
quarts of milk a day, but the average
dally yield for the year is about eight
quarts. The cows are hired for the
summer pasturage on the slopes of the
Alps, for 16 or 20 francs, and descend
In the autumn, comparatively fat. The
proprietor himself, or a member of his
family acts as herd, and superintends
the sale of the milk at the central de¬
pot, or more generally converts it him¬
self into cheese. He may have from
twenty to sixty cows. The latter
never exceed six hundred-weight
They receive the bull when 18 months
old, and when they have had six
calves are fattened for the butcher.
Young bulls of 2 to 3 years old are
selected to serve. Cows intended for
the summer highland pasture are pre¬
ferred If they have calved in Febru¬
ary, and for lowland grazing if in
November. Calves destined for the
butcher are only allowed to suckle
their mother three or four times. They
are then fed from the pail twice a
day. milk and water at first, then pure
milk mixed with the refuse of the
cheese factory; but they are finished
off on goat’s milk. The cows are
milked twice a day, and receive salt
every second day. They are daily
curried, and occasionally washed.
When wet, after a storm or rain, they
are rubbed with a wisp of straw—
this keeps away, it is considered,
rheumatism. The Swiss loves his
cow as an Arab loves his horse; he
employs neither whip, stick, nor <
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