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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1887)
NORTH GEORGIA TIMES i Vol. VII. New Series. Summer Hong, x. Sommer Is pone with its roses, Summer is gone with its sweete¬ st* dewy day-dawns and its posies: Listen, sweetl Its garland of apple-blossoms A deep In their cradles green, Its daisies on hill and in valley, Its violets blue between; Its songs wliero the blue-bird lingers, 1 . Its songs where the robin stays, Its songs of the golden thrushes Through days and days, Listen, sweet! And a cheek that was bright with blushes, A face that was glad and gay, Fled with the golden thrushes Away, awayt Eyes that were blue and tender. Lips that were shy and sweet, ** “ Hands that were white and slender, Listen, sweet! Have left me alone, and the shadows Show that the night is near, Night o’er the silent city Hongs drear. n. But another summer cometb. When the roses bud and bloom, When the shadows flee affrighted From the violet-mantled tomb; > Listen, sweet! When a rush of golden thrushes Make musical the trees— When ovor the scented clovers Hummeth a band of bees; Listen, sweet! When down in the bowers of lilies The light winds coma and go, Full of the sweetest music— Blow, winds, blow. New leaves are on tho willows, Day-dawn is on the billows, The summer sea grows brighter, Tholily bells are whitor; And swift and sweet, On soundless feet. Summer in her blun mantle comes; Sunbrlght her windy hair, That tloateth on the air; Her face, Iifco an angel’s, shineth sweet; Her gift is a garden whore lovers meet; Listen, sweet! list, for'tho night it is almost ovor, List, and my joy it will bo complete; List, while I call you, my dainty darling! Ob, listen, sweet! —[Clio Stanley. THE PURPLE PLUME. Mirrored iu the clear waters of tho Rhino were the .gray towers of Avcr boch’s ancient past^;. , The fourteenth'century had just be¬ gun and over the great German land had ruled Albert the First, tho unworthy son of his great sire, Rudolph, tho first of the Ilapsburg line. When Rudolph was but a simple count, long before ho ever dared to dream that ho would one day rule ‘as Emperor, ovor great Germany, tho castle of Averboch was held by a stout war¬ rior, known only too well as Evcrhard the Red, because he was a ruthless and bloody soldier. Evcrhard was a count, and yet his castle was but a robber’s den, from which tho rcd-bcardcd lord sallied forth at the head of his mail- clad ruffians to seize the property of honest men weaker than himself. I Rut when Rudolph of Ilapsburg as sumed tho German crown, he gave warn¬ ing to all the robber knights within his dominions that their reign of terror was over. “Live in peaco or war with mo," said the iron-handed emperor, and ho meant every word of the simple utterance. And Evcrhard the Red, grown bold from a long career of crime, laughed at the warning. 1 “All Germany’s might cannot tear me from my walls at Averboch,” ho cried in contempt. “Let I* this new made em peror come, and the Reel heard of the Rhino, will teach him that he is no more powerful because tho dotiug monks have mumbled a few prayers over him, and placed an ornpty crown upon his he ad, than ho was when he was but the Count of Hapsburg.” And Rudolph did come at the head of a mail-clad army that mado even stern Everhard wink in wonder. A line of steel the German Emporor drew around the castle, and coolly he eat down and waited for famine’s gnaw¬ ing tooth and thirst’s bitter pang to fight his battle for him. The wily warrior did not wait in vain, for after being shut up within the strong tower for four weeks, the desperate Everhard could endure it no longer, and so, at the midnight hour, salliod forth at the head of his force and eadcavored to cut his way through the line of muiled men that was crushing tho life out of him. The robber’s knights found foemen ■worthy of their steel, and, surrounded by ifedbeard overwhelming numbers, the Iihcnish died a soldier’s death. Serving under Rudolph was a distant relation of tho dead knight, a poor, but worthy soldier, named Conrad or Kip hsosen, and as he had neither lands nor wuaitb, nothing but his good sword arid a pretty young slip of a girl, tho German emperor bestowed the castle and lands of Aberbocb upon his devoted follower. SPUING PLACE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1887. Rudolph prospered and Conried thrived, tEfTClcrman and, after years had passed, when ruler yielded to death, his faithful soldier did not long survive him. In 125B the battle of Worms was fought, whiclfcgave to Rudolph’s son Albert, tho imperial crown of Germany, tho crown that on account of his cruel and tyrfSmical acts, had been cnicd |Kjf: three erftperor years $nghged battle in the «fman fjlfe—first was war with the kirtg^of Bohemia, apd afterward with the ‘pope, Boniface VIII. , Put when the wars were ended, Albert commenced to reward tho tools who had aided him to climb <5 ’the heights of power. Foremost among the emperor’s favor¬ ites was a soldier of fortune, Ludwig of Kurt, an unknown adventurer, who had no right to claim kinship with tho old family of the Kurts of Alton-Aar. The emperor wished to reward this Ludwig for his services, and so he looked around for some strong castle to give to Ludwig’s keep. Tho eyes of tho tyrant fell upon the Tower of Averbock. Conrad of Kiphau sen wastl^gd, and his daughter, Joquc linc, a flaxen-haired beauty of twenty, held her father’s lands, and was toasted much by the neighboring gallants under the title of tho ‘‘Lady of Averboch.’’ Many a German lord had laid siego to the heurt of the heiress of Avorboek, and report hinted that the young Lord of Eberstinc was the favored lover. The tyrant noted the Castle of Aver¬ bock and its fair lady. He sent a mes¬ sage to her and proposed to wed her to a noble knight of his court for the great love he had. borne her father, tho dead Conrad. But the spirited Joqueline, whose early life had boon spent in the tented field, and who possessed a war¬ rior’s heart beneath her silken robes, de¬ clined the emperor’s offer. She under¬ stood that tho crafty Albert covoted her fair castle for one of his favorites. The tyrant was not easily bellied, and a royal herald rode to tbe'Castlo of Aver¬ boch and mude proclamation that' Lud¬ wig of Kart,- cousin to tho dead Jprd, Evcrhard, the Rhenish rod-board, claimed the domain of Averboch, that tho emporor summoned tho lady to appear at his imperial court to contest the claim. That tho adventuror was neither kith nor kin to tho old robber lord was ap¬ parent to all; but what justice could one expect at^he hands of a tyrant, eager to reward one of his minions. The emperor affected to hear the case; both pnf^lp made their statements, the adventurer backing his claim by twenty rogues, who swore right stoughtly that they know him to be tlie cousin of the old red-beard. Joqueline was in despair, for she saw that the trial was a farce, and that the emperor intended to decide against her regardless of the truth, and, as tho last resource, she claimed the “ordeal by battle,” the right of every uoble when life or prop¬ erty was at slake. “Grant her prayer, most, noble em¬ peror," cried the adventurer, confident in his skill in arm 1 :. “Let her produce a champion, and if with a lance I do not prove that my cause is just, then I am content to lose.” Within one week Joqueline must pro¬ duce a champion in tho hsts ready to contend with Ludwig or lose her estate. The maiden counted that young Eber stine would fight for her, but ere the time came, on a couch of sickness the young lord lay. The trumpets sou in tho lists be forq the emperor at is court, on tho appointed day, when Ludwig cast his steel-clad gauntlet down. Neither tho lady nor her champion seemed at hand, but at the last summons a slightly built knight, arrayed iu armor, with the visor down, rode into the lists. The knight was a stranger to all. A purple plume floated from his helmet, but his shield was clear of device. “Ho, you, Purple Plume 1” quoth the emperor; ‘ tightest thou for the lady of Averboch?” The knight bowed, the trumpets gave the signal, and the contest began. With leveled lances Ludwig and the unknown knight rushed upon each other, but heaven was with the right, for the horse of the adventurer shied, and Lud¬ wig’s lance, forced upwnrd, struck the helmet from tho head of the Purple Plume without hnim'ng him, but the lance of the unknown took Ludwig full in the throat, and hurled him lifeless to the ground, and then, before the empe¬ ror and all the court, the “Lady of Averboch” stood revealed in the un¬ known knight. She had donned armor and fought far her fair estate. Ever after the day in the lists the bannerof Averboch bere as its device a simple Purple I’.uiiic, in memory of Jjquehue’s brave deed. Electricity Applied to Agriculture. The Marquis of Salisbury’s country seat at Hatfield, England, continues to be a live example of what can be done t" aid the agriculturist in his work when a convenient sourco of power is at hand, such as is afforded by electricity. The threshing engine formerly employed has been replaced by an electric motor, and recently an electric elevator, employed iu raising newly-cut hay or corn sheaves to tho top of the slack, has been intro tiuccd with marked success. Dispensing with the usual horse or labor required for the machine, tho ele vator is supplied with an electric motor, fixed upon its bed, and driven by a cur rent brouiht by wires from a central source. The wires arc easily transporta ble, so that the elevator can bo taken from stack to stack in a very short time. The greatest radius over which the elec trie elevator lias beeu used at Hatfield is Half a mile, be ng all that is there re¬ quired. The principle is, evidently, ap¬ plicable to a fur greater range of distri bution, and we shall seo the time when our large Western farms will be a u worlced more or less With the aid of elcc trie power, Where a fall of water is available, this is particularly easy of ac¬ complishment, but even the installation of a steam-power plant to drive the dynamos will in many cases be below the initial cost of horses and their mainten¬ ance, or that of a large number of individual portable stennt-engines, stich as are iiotv largely in use.—[Electrical World. A Land Without Chimney*. From the top of Cathedral Tower the lover of the picturesque may obtain a view which will delight his soul, writes a correspondent of the Philadelphia Record from Mexico. One thing that. will probably strike him with surprise, if new to Mexican cities, is the absence of chimneys, which in other countries form so prominent a feature of such views. In all this sunny country there is no such thing as a stove or fyc-place, hence no chimn'cys. In Jalisco the temperature remains at about 70 degvccs from year to year, and though the traveller will feel inclined to keep in tho shade at noonday he should wear flannel under¬ clothing constantly and a light overcoat in the evening. The cooking is all done with charcoal in Dutch ovens built out of doors, or in earthern pots similar to our large-sized plant jars, partly filled with coals, upon which smaller jars are placed. Chimneys would be a superfluity, for nobody Wants a fire in the house with the thermometer and for tho sameteason never bjlow ho die objects seventies, to in¬ closing himself in a conservatory by putting glass in bis windows when all tho winds of Heaven arc welcome. But, though he should want it ever so badly, fuel enough to run one of our wasteful cooking machines would be entire y out of the question, since coal— which is mostly imported from Eng¬ land—costs $25 per ton and wood $20 per cord. Gasoline is unobtainable, and petroleum sells for $1.25 per gallon. An Opium Enter, Chance gave mo one day an oppor¬ tunity of seeing how the opium habit is practiced by its devotees. Like most people, I bad an idea that it was some¬ thing poetical mid Oriental, like hash— ccsh-eating, or that, at tho worst, it was no more common place than De Quincy’s sipping the ex¬ tract like wine poured from a decan¬ ter. I was at a druggist’s counter when a shabby woman, evidently living in some neighboring tenement house, came n with an ordinary four-ounce medicine bottle. It bad a label on it as if it had been onca filled by a prescription. The woman laid down a few cents, tho drug¬ gist took up the bottle, turned mechani¬ cally to his shelves and poured into it from a big glass jar an ounce or so of— laudanum. Not a word was said. Tho woman thrust the bottle in her pocket and went home to drink herself into in toxication. Suspecting the nature of the transaction I asked the man: “Is she an opium-eater ?” “Yes,” he said, with a mean and guilty look.—[Brooklyn Citizen. Forgot Himself. A well-known lawyer in Cnicago, who was also notorious for the monumental ropulsiveness of his features, once at¬ tacked the prisoner at tiio bar with great bitterness. The judge advised him several times to use moderation, 1 nt the lawyer continued his tirade: “Too wretch bears his character m his face— anyone may read it. AVhy, lie is the ug¬ liest man I ever knew." “Counsellor,” again remarked the judge, “you aro for¬ getting yourself,” i GLOVE MAKING. 5 Pacts About the Manufacture Of Hand Coverings. Where Four-Fifths of All American-Made Gloves are Produced, Nobody, so far as we kn has ever: disputed the proposition thatllse-half of the world does not know how the other half lives; and we have little fear of ctmfradiction when we make bold to dmure that probably one-half of the people of tho United States do not know where their gloves come*'from k Of course it is generally, known that gloves of fine k ’ d * sucb :13 ladies wear, and gloves of a certain form which fashion prescribes for men, are brought from abroad; bnt "hence comes the great supply of all the otbcr gloves? The answer would not bo Ver >’ far wron 3 if ono w «e to say frftm Fulton County, New York. Four»ftfths °* tke g ,oves made in America, it isws timated, are manufactured in the county named, and tho manufactories which ! make gloves elsewhere are in great part [ tbe children of Fulton County, indeblcd ] t° her for their nurture and their estab “aliment > n lift!: The head-quarters of the glove-mak¬ ing industry in Fulton County are forty five miles north-west of Albany, in Johnstown township. The villages of Gloversvillo and Johnstown, in that township, contain a population of abput twenty thousand, seven-eighths of Whom are glove-makers. There are up¬ ward of ono hundred and fifty gloVo manufactories in tho section. Glove making in what is now Fulton County vas begun early in tho present century. Upon tho passing away of Sir William Johnson, tho famous Indian agent of colonial times, and of his son Sir John, a zealous Tory who fought fiercely for King George tho Dutch farmers of the j neighborhood „ looked about for „v> some better means of support than were ; <S«rqd to them by the soil, which was hot fitted for husbandry, although there Was good grazing land upon the -stony Hill-sides. A shrewd family from Con¬ necticut. .|'-cticut aw-Ar giiafkly droaitod credited j with in r troduciug troduciug' ’*1 :| iiM. dAd ,h 11 ?l?e e Kc neighborhood neighborh the manufacture of buckskin gloves. There was iu the convenient North Woods in those days a supply of material for this manufacture so great that nobody would have thought it could ever bo ex¬ hausted, but the demand of the Ameri¬ can peoplo for gloves proved to be still greater, and the North Woods deer ceased to be depended upon by the Fulton County glove-makers years ago. To-day tho glovos manufactured in Giovcrsville and Johnstown are made ofj'sKius brought from the most distant parts of the globe. The great bulk are buckskins and sheep skins, but there are mauy others which tho glove-makers use—among them seal skin, dog skin, East India cowhide, and the skin of tho South Americau water hog. The bulk of the buckskin comes from Mexico and Central aud South America. The deer of the tropics is covered with a heavier skin than covers tiio deer of these lati. tudes, and the finest sheep skin comes from South Africa, and is that ; of the Cape hair skeop. “Thu coarser the wool, tire finer the skin,” is a glove* maker’s saying. All manner ot furs,too, go to Fulton County, to be used in fin¬ ishing the gloves. The business of glove making in Ful¬ ton County amounts to about eight mil¬ lion dollars yearly. The wages of the most skillful workers—the table cutters, as they are called—run from sixty to eighty dollars a month; block cutters get from fifty-five to sixty-five dollars monthly, and machino girls earn, ac¬ cording to their skill, from six dollars to twelvo and even fourteen dollars a week. The skins of which gloves are made go through -a very exhaustive variety of processes. Some of them aro soaked in vats variously from three days to four weeks, after which they got a scraping from the “beam" worker. They are then dried into parchment, then soaked in water, thou “milled" in oil, then put upon the beam again and scoured of oil and natural grease with alkali, being repeatedly dried in the course of this various treatment. After the alkali scouring they are put upon the “break¬ ing” machine, and are then “hand staked” with a blunt tool to render; them pliable. Then they go on to the “buck tail, ” or emery wheel, and from there into tho identical oil and natural grease of which they were scoured with such pains. Then they are wrung out and colored, then again “broke-staked" and “finished,” then smoked, and then turned over to tho glove-makers, who promptly “stake" them again, cut them either on the block or by hand (“table" cutting), “silk" them, sew them, do’ pouch else to them, put buttons on them . . .. fit . Moated by, J them over metal hands steam, soft them, and put them up in the pasteboatd boxes iu which they arc i sent to market. The gloves lhndc h Fulton county are of all sorts, and range from 3 lady’s kid to tiio cow-boy’s gauntlet splendid with tassols atul gold 1 cord.—(Harper's Bazar. _ j Detectives and “Oroiks.” New! ‘ Julian Ralph says in one of his York letters: It is a boastof the dene ! tives that they are personally ac qualnted with all professional crimi nals in and near town. The results of this acquaintance are DXoctM often peculiar, You are talking with 'Stior a few feet from tho door oRffo' Fifth i I Avenue Hotel and lie sees a young dan dy halt a few feet away. “Better keep I right on,” he says to, the dandy, I “hurry up, now.” dandy,’ “ Olr, good i morning,” says the “I’m only going to set my watch.” That is i Kid Miller, chief of the bunco men, I and the detective wilt not allow him to ; stop in front of tho hotel. You arft pushing your way iutoa shopping store and a little ladylike body is just ahead of you. Suddenly someone steps up to her and roughly orders her to “Gat out at once.” “Certainly, sir,” she says very meekly, “I was only going to match a piece of silk.” She lies; she is j a shoplifter and tho marl Who ordered her out is n detective. ! Perhaps you are at tho Arion ball, I with its 5000 dancers and lookers on. You walk in the lobby near the entrance for a breath of air and meet Captain Williams, in uuiform, alert and liand- ! some as aa eagle, lie darts from your i side and stands in front of a stout, eider- j ly, well-drossed ■■ * gentleman so ns to op¬ pose his progress. “AVhat do you mean by coming hero ?’’ he says. The man j answers boldly; “My wife is here and I ; have come to take her home.” “That’ll ; do now,” says tho Captain; “there’s tho door; get 1” And, as Artemas Ward used to say, “he gets.” Of course, the man is a pickpocket. A neatly dressed, rather substantial looking mau of middle ago sends in - liis card to Inspector Byrne: at police head¬ quarter*. The nailmon thocr.i br -tirat' of a burglar batter known by an alias, say “Red Leary,” for instance. “Well, what do you want?” Mr. Byrnes asks gruffly. Helms an especial tone for men of that class and it is a tone that■ forbids familiarity and suggests mastery, a very different tone from thi quiet and easy one he has for his friends. “I would like to be in AVall street 15 minutes to-morrow, Inspector," says the burglar. “I want to soo about a personal matter." “I will liavo one of my corps meet you at Broad and AVall at noon, sharp,” says the Inspector. The burglar thanked tho official, for it is a favor to such a man even to be allowed to go to tho mouoy centre with a detective at his shoulder all the time ho is there. To go without this permission and escort means a cer¬ tainty of being arrested and locked up. Liko a Maelstrom, The life of the Capital, while it may have a more or less refining power, is not necessarily quickening. It is harder hero for a young man to keep from drifting into dilcttantcism; the social swirl is more of a maelstrom than else¬ where. And this is especially true with regard to the suscuptiblo minds of young men who would be likely to develop into IitteratJhrs or thinkers. Of course with seasoned students the case is differ¬ ent, and they aro likely to flock horo in respectable numbers, But wc can hardly claim a healthy growth of cul¬ ture until our indigenous young ideas shoot. No; take my word for it, cul-, ture—I mean solid, substantial culture will have a long and dismal fight before it prevails against the very artificial and growing social requirements that have pushed their way up through tho old fashioned genialities as well as formali¬ ties of tho days “befo’ d« wall.”—AVash ington Hatchet. A Big Rattlesnake. The largest rnttlesm k ; ever seen in Northern Mexico, was recently killed by Capt. Jack L. Bridges at Montezuma Camp, in the state of Chihuahua. The snake was discovered coiled up under a cactus. It at once made fight, erecting its head three feet from the ground and springing nearly five feet over its length. It was shot by Bridges, und and'seven¬ found to measure twelve feet i.; length teen inches in circumference in the mid dt*. It is unusual at this season of (he year to see any kind of snakes in Mex¬ ico, knd it is thought this snake had grown too big to get hack in his hole, which Was near the cactus. Dr. Robin¬ son of Newark, N. J., h;;s the skin of a rattlesnake killed in Colorado which oteastiros over eleven feet.—[Now York Herald. NO, 2 ^. A SNAKE FARM. How the Rattlesnakes Have t Made One Man F51<fi>. Raising* Snakes For Their Oil, Which is Sold as a Rheumatism Cure. A 0aUon > < m -,) letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, says: Your correspond Suuda y visitcd tho celebrated snakc farm—-“rattlesnake forty near tb:s ▼'llagc, owned and managed by Cnpfc Dan Stover and wife, and assisted by AY ihiam Dunn, agent at the Illinois Central depot. It might that the briMWbg and propagation of rattlesnakes and other reptiles was not on] * !l daa R cr0US but unpleasant occupa tion. However, those poor but honest people have learned that there is money in snakes, and last yoar they cleared al most enough fro* their sales to pa? the expenses of tho family 6f four, “Who buys rattlesnakes, and what oh earth do they want with them?” you a *h. Why, for use in the manufacture °f ’1’° ne ' v c,lr0 °f rheumatism. A firm 111 Philadelphia uses the oil in their ‘‘"medy, and pays a good price for every rattlesnake delivered at their laboratory. Mr, Stover has contracted with the firm to furnish them 350 of that species dur ing the present season at $3.35 each, none to measure less than 4 feet in length, or to be less than G years of age. The older the snako the batter and stronger the oil. Sunday the sun shone out bright and warm, which brought out tho snakes in b < T g 0 numbers to bask in the warm rays, 1Jnd . as Mr. Stover said, would be a good day to tako a stroll over “rattle snako forty. Procuring a goocl stout siick and donning a heavy pair of boots, y our coi respondent joined Stover and P ;lnn in tbc bunt. Dunn is a compara¬ tively new man in tho snako business, and has had several narrow escapes from ui “g bi£t «* b y tho deadly reptiles, but ll ° “learning fast. To show us how easy it is to kill a snake, ho picked up a blue racer by tho tnlj that was lying coiled up i^ tho sunlgi)it, in & half com -atose-xrwd^iiui, whirls his and giving it lightning * couple o£ over head m a manner > ho cracked U bku a whip, caus . digits head to part from its body and 9 l dn thrw llh the nir. Proceeding a little furthc r. we came to “the mounds,” little raised places on the snake farm, where tho snnkoa burrow in w mter and breed in summer. There are thirty-seven of tbe3 ° moum ' i8 otl tIi0 farm - aad on tho south si de of ono of tho largest of these, where they could get the full benefit of the sun, lay coiled . up, sound asleep, forty-three largo rattlesnakes, seven black snakes auu numerous other smaller reptiles, not one of which seemed to recognise cur presence. Stover and Dunn do not kill off the whole crop yearly, but leave many for breeding pur poses. “Why,” said the former, “that mound there contains probably a dozen nests of eggs and each nest at least ten eggs. I have found nests that contained as high ns eighteen young rattlers, tho largest not over 2 inches in length. Their eggs are about tho size of those of a partridge but have a soft shell. Tho farm is a tract of virgin prairie and has never seen a plow, and Dan says in summer its na' tivo grass is very high, rendering it an excellent place for the reptiles to hide in. After returning to the house the two snake breeders exhibited a string of rat¬ tles several feet in length, which they captured last summer, tho whole foot¬ ing up 708 rattles. Sorno of the snakes possessed 25 rattles and a button, each r attle counting a year to its ago and the button a fraction of a year. Mrs. Stover also had in a box of saw¬ dust under a cook stove 27 rattle snake eggs, which, she said, would begin to hatch in a few days, after which event the children would bo kept busy catch¬ ing flies to feed the tiny pets. Stover and Dunn have several pet rattlers around the houso, which are as harmless as kittens, mado so by their poison sac having been removed from the roofs of their mouths and their fangs clipped with pincers, all this being done while the snakes wore under the influence of chloroform. They have no equal as mice exterminators, and in the summer keep the place free from bugs, flies and bad boys. It is needless to say the neighbors’ children do not troublo the Stover household or thoir premises. Besides supplying the Philadelphia Arm with snakes for their use, the breed¬ ers have filled orders for different parties in all parts of the country, mostly physi cians. A doctor in St. Louis took sev¬ eral live pairs last summer at $5 per pair. _____ To swoctcn bitter yeast thrust into it a red-hot iron.
