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■ NORTH GEORGIA TIMES.
Vol. yin. New Series.
Fatter Time.
Above the world I sit and sail
Moving on, moving on;
The things I pas; no more avail,
They bide their years, decay and fall,
While I keep moving on.
Down on the world I look and smile,
Moving on, moving on;
The scythe'I bear smites all the while
Cats as it ntay for good or guile,
While I keep moving on.
Over the world I glance my eye,
Moving on, moving on;
Good deeds mature, the hopeful try,
The just alone shall never die,
While I keep moving on.
Around the world I sit and roll,
Moving on, moving on;
Ripening fruits for sacred goal, \
Perfecting hopes of the dying soul,
While I keep moving on.
Beside Hie world I sit and hear,
; - Moving on,-moving on;
Sounds of joy or sadness drear,
Filling the space around the sphere.
While I keep moving on.
Above, around all worlds I ride,
Moving on, moving on;
Watching in all the swelling tide
Of human love and human prido,
While I keep moving on.
When stars go out and worlds stand still
Alone I’m moving or;
Obeying God’s eternal will,
,■ * I cease wot when all else Is still
Buft yet keep moving or.
Thus Time rolls on,
’ Ever on and on;
Above the earth and o’er the sea;
’Mid lightning’s flash,
And thunder’s crash,
Moving toward eternity.
A Thief Among the Bees.
The Holden brothers, Roswell and
Frank, went to California from a New
England town, in 1881, for the benefit
of.Roswell’s health, upon medical ad
vifie; and subsequently they found
themselves engaged in the business of
bee-keeping near Los Angelos—for cir¬
cumstances, accident Tather than de
sign, first led them into it.
The children had inherited a cousti
tutional tendency to pulmonary dis
eases, which had s-ieTi: already begua to do
Vglrift l atr ir ur m
become so far an invalid that his friends
deemed it unsafe for him to set off on
so long a journey alone. After m&ny
family deliberations, it was arranged
that Frank, and Ellen, their sister,
should accompany him, and remain one
winter, if hot longer, in the west.
As their means were limited, Frank
and Ellen began, soon after arriving in
California, to look about for some way
to earn a living. Roswell, too, as his
health improved, wished for'something
to do; and at length they were, by
chance, led to buy thirteen hives of
bees of a lady who—herself formerly an
invalid—had been employing her leisure
i n ap iculture, but now was about re¬
turning to her home in New York.
With these thirteen hives the young
Holdens entered upon tho honey- pro
duc^g-plppness early;' in 1883. Fora
yeqr th4y resided in tho vicinity of Los
Angeles; ftni finding that the bees, as
the number of swarms increased, were
unpopular among their neighbors, they
were led to move from so thickly inhab¬
ited a district, and lived for a time near
Mojave.
Thencp, however, early tho following
spring, they again moved to a tract of
unoccupied country farther back among
the mountains, in a kind of long defile,
or crooked valley, inclosed by a wooded
range on either hand, but which, from
tho great abundanco of wild flowers,
affords good pasture for bees. Here
they are at present dwelling, and it is
from a number of letters from them to
theiir * friends at home that the present
sketch is compiled.
The Weather there is so favorable and
the climate so mild that bees require hut
little feeding with artificial sweets,
though, of course, more honey can be
produced for market if, at certain times
of the year, the swarms are thus pro¬
vided with food.
The hives aro arranged so that
,
drawers, or boxes, when filled with
honey by the bees, can he withdrawn,
and empty ones substituted in their
places.
Swarms of bees vary in size and inin¬
dustry as honey-gatherers. Somo swarms
produce in a year not more than twenty
pounds that can prudently be with¬
drawn from, them; some, indeed, from
certain causes, will not even gather
enough honey for their own support.
Other swarms produce forty or fifty
pounds, and still others much more.
The Holdens have now between two
and three hundred hives, ha'ving made
it a rule so far to keep all the new
swarms which come out, though a few
have escaped. The care of this nu¬
merous colony occupies all their time
and attention, and they biro two Indian
SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 15, 1888.
girls to assist them to watch the nu¬
merous sub-colonies which they hare
established in different parts of the val¬
ley, generally within a mile of each
other. For it will not do to have all
these two hundred swarms, or more,
collected near one spot, on account of
the pasture supply of flowers being over¬
fed, and the bees having to go too far.
The whple number of swarms is di¬
vided up into groups of ten or fifteen
hives, and these aro often shifted from
place to place as the season passes.
For moving a sub-colony to fresh pas
turage, the boys have a platform set
upon four wheels, and drawn by two
steady mules. Then, after the bees
have entered the hive at night, they are
closed in, and the hives are transferred
to the platftfrm. Very carefully then,
and slowly, so as not to jar the hives too
much, the transportation of the colony
to the distance of a mile or two is ef¬
fected.
At the time of this story,—some time
in March or April of last year,—the
Holdens had pastured out ten hives at a
point higher up the valley than any
they had previously occupied. In point
of fact, the new pasture was in a branch
of the main valley. Hither they had
come up from their bee-sheds next be¬
low, two miles distant, -with a load of
hives, and built h “rest” for them near
two large oaks—great trees with wide
spreading branches that nearly touched
the ground—on the north side of the
interVaie, at the foot of tne mountain.
It was a favorable location, for on the
south side the bees had the entire val
ley, well stocked with flowers and
flowering shrubs, outspread before
them; and so secluded did the place
seem that the young apiarists judged it
entirely safe to leave the bees to gather
honey here, unguarded, for a few days
at least.’ '
Having seen to it therefore, that the
hives were well placed, they returned
down the valley to their shanty-house,
where their sister and the Indian girls
looked after the few simple domestic
affairs of the household. In fact, it was
quite their custom thus to colonize a
new pasture, and thus they had met with
few losses. Honey in small quantity^
had been stolen from them on one or two
occasions and once a number of deer, in
their flight across the valley, had upset
three or four hives,
But on this occasion they met with
mishap; for on going to the placo two
or three days afterward, to see how their
swarthy “Italians” were prospering,
Frank found one hive upset, and
another of the ten missing altogether.
From tho latter • circumstance, as also
from certain marks and traces in the
grass, resembling footprints, he at once
concluded that some thief had
“jumped” the hive,
A few days before they had heard the
report of a gun several times, faint and
at a distance, and had conjectured that
there was a hunting party, either of
whites or Indians, on the other side of
tho mountain. . 1
“Some of them have probably been
spying about and got their eyes on that
row of hives,” was Frank’s thought.
Whether the rogues would rest oon
tent with the honey of one hive, or come
back after more, was what no one could
guess. The brothers, however, deemed
it prudent to expect them again, and
would have gone up and drawn tho re¬
maining hives down to camp, if the
two Indian girls had not been sent down
to the. postoffice—a little settlement
twelve miles away—with the mules, to
get tho mail and a stock of groceries.
Roswell therefore proposed that, af¬
ter supper, they should tako a little
shelter tent which they had, and go up
to the new rest, in order to pass the
night where they could guard the hives.
For by this time the older brother had
so far recovered'his health as to be the
stronger of the two.
As Ellen did not liko to bo left en¬
tirely alone sho proposed to accompany
them. They accordingly set off, tak¬
ing along the tent, three blankets and
a Winchester carbiue.
Arriving at the rest just at dusk, they
pitched their little shelter tent near the
trunk of one of the oaks already re¬
ferred to, and in such a manner that the
ends of the drooping branches nearly
or quite concealed the te it from
view.
The night was warm and the place
was quite dry. Accordingly they did
not kindle a fire, but made themselves
comfortable with their blankets under
cover of the tent and the sheltering foli¬
age of the tree.
They had really no serious expecta¬
tion that the thief would come back;
and after a time all three of them fell
asleep, for Ellen Holden had become
quite accustomed to this free, out-of
door life. They slept thus for three or
four hours.
During the early part of the night
there was a moon, but the moon set to¬
ward midnight; the stars, however,
gave some light, though everything
was rather misty and dim. The now
somnolent and quiet hives reposed on
their rest, a few yards from the tree and
the tent.
At length the sleepers were suddenlj
.roused by a heavy thump, followed by a
grating noise and a deep humming
sound from the hives.
They all started up and listened in¬
tently! ftos,”
‘ ‘Something’s afoul of the bees,
whispered Frank.
Roswell, starting up, took tbe Win¬
chester and peeped out amongst the oak
branches. What looked like a tall,
"slouching’’ man was in the very act of
taking one of the hives .in bis arms,
despite the loudly 'buzzing bees. As
Roswell stared in astonishment, the
sturdy pilferer • did actually clasp his
arms about the hivft and raising it oil
the rest, started to walk slowly off
with It.
“It's some Indian, I guess, by the
looks of him, ” muttered RoswelL “I
don’t just like to fire at him; he don’t
seem to have any gun. But let’s ,‘go’
for him and give him a good thrashing.’
Frank, agreeing at once to his propo¬
sition, snatched up two stakes which
they had cut for* the tent, and handing
one of these to his brother; who laid
down the rifle, both young men ran
quickly, but stealthily, after the
heavily-loaded thief, who was shamb¬
ling awkwardly on across the open
ground, beyond the rest,
The grass was thick and soft, apd they
were not long closing in with the
marauder,
“You scoundrel 1" yelled Frank.
“Lug off our honey, will you?” and
drawing off with his stake, gave the
thief such a tremendous whack across
the back and shoulders as to knock him
half-forward over the hive.
“Take that!”
Drawing off again, he was about to
ropeat the dose, and Roswell on his parr
was just getting in a blow, whfen the
supposed ‘.‘Indian" suddenly came'
round on all fours and give vent to a
growl whic£ made the whole valley re¬
echo.
It was a grizzly 1 sand as ho growled,
he roso on his hind legs and “lunged"
at Frank.
Prodigiously astonished, Frank gave
a long jump backward—not so far,how¬
ever, but that one of the ugly creature’s
paws raked along his right side and sent
him rolling over and over again on the
ground.
Roswell, too, had executed an almost
equally long leap backward, and ran
plump into Miss Holden who with com¬
mendable foresight, bad come quietly
after her brothers, with the Winchester
in her hands.
“Here, quick, shoot!” she exclaimed,
thrusting the loaded piece into his
hands. Turning on the instant, Ros¬
well fired one, two, three, four shots
into the boar, now in tho very act
lunging again at Frank, and with such
effect that the animal fell, roaring and
whining, unable to rise for another
lunge.
A few more shots finished it.
Frank, though considerably bruised,
and shaken up, was not seriously in¬
jured.
“Ellen ,V exclaimed Roswell, turning
to his sister, when tho bear had been
fairly floored and Frank had picked
himself up, “Ellen, you’re a brick! You
got round just in the nick o’ time!’’
“Well,” said she laughing, “when two
fellows go after a grizzly with a couple
of sticks, it’s a good plan to have a
Winchester not far behind.”—[Youth’s
Companion.
Distilling Gold.
It has long been known that gold is
to some extent volatile at high temper¬
atures; but it is evidently far more
volatile than has hitherto been believed.
Mr. Crooks mentioned incidentally at
the last meeting of tho Chemical So
ciety that he had found gold to boil
violently when heated m the oxyhydro
gen flame, and, in fact, to bo so volatile
that there would seem to be no doubt
that it might be distilled in an apparatus
similar to that employed by Stas in dis¬
tilling silver.—[Athemeum.
Choosing Lire Fish For Dinner.
A correspondent writing from Russia
says that in the dining room of one of
the large cafes of ^Moscow there is a'
pool of fresh water in which fish of
various kinds and sizei .swim about.
Any patron of the restaurant who may
wish a course of fish far his dinner,
goes to the pool, picks out the partic¬
ular fish which strikes his fancy, and in
a jiffy the waiter has captured it with a
dip net and sent it out to the chef.
AMBULANCES
For the Care of Disabled Ani
z' mals in the Metropolis.
Practical Ways of Caring for the
Dumb Creatures.
The Society for the prevention of
Cruelty to Animals in the city of New
York has its practical side. Not alone
dees it bring to justice those who
vyttonly inflict injury on dumb crea¬
tures, but it cares for animals suffering
from the many accidents which may be
fidi them. In New York City the mis¬
haps to which horses are subject are
frequent. A horse slips, falls, and
breaks a leg. It becomes a necessity
to remove him; and a crippled horse is
by^qo means easy to handle. Horses
overworked in summer suffer from a
malady which very much resembles
sunstroke; they fall, and may remain
for some time in a state of syncope. A
ver| hok|es peculiar diseaso which affects
seems to become more
frequent in damp aud muggy weather.
A horse having remained in his stable
for h day or so b taken out, put to
went, when suddenly he is attacked
with partial paralysis, Iu the graver
accident, such as the breaking of a leg,
little can be done save to remove the
horse as gently as possible, and after¬
ward to despatch him. But many cases
occifr when the troubles horses suffer
from are only temporary, and if they
cab Be attended to at once their lives
can be saved, and so a heavy loss is not
entailed on their owners. To meet tbe
exigencies cellent Society of its for city the service Prevention that ex¬ of
Cruelly to Animals, having at its head
Hagjy Bergh, has in constant uso two
ami tees, It is rare that one ambu¬
lances* is not at work. As fast as one is
off duty another takes its place, and it
freqfintly happens that both are em
so ambulances are strong aud
hejtv^ but 86 devised as to give the ani
.a S < whay; c swy ae- wm 4
In a very ingenious manner, by means
of a winch like that used to move safes
into their vans an animal can be drawn
on a sliding platform into the ambulance.
It sometimes happens that in that
abominable condition of excavation
found in tho streets of New‘York,
horses fall into those pit9, which are
apparently set as traps for them. To
get ever this difficulty tho society uses
n small derrick and in this way animals
are raised out of excavations. No small
amount of ingenuity has to be exercised
by those having the ambulance in
charge in carrying disabled animals to
the stables of owners. M any truckmen
in New York keep their animals in. cel¬
lars or where the approaches to tho sta¬
ble lead through tortuous alleys, high
enough for a horse to walk through but
not wide enough when tho animal has
to bo carried. Without such mechan¬
ical devices as are found* in those ambu¬
lances this humane work would be ira
possible. During the few years o£ exist
once of this ambulance system the so¬
ciety has moved from the streets of New
York fully 4500 animals, aad has hu¬
manely destroyed 2300 horses disabled
past recovery. Not only aro horses
moved, but steers, calves, aud sheep, all
of which are subjected to accident in
New York. Occasionally these ambu
lances have carried rather uncommon,
animals through the city. An ’elephant
arrives from beyond the seas. The ani¬
mal has become crippled and footsore by
long confinement on shipboard, audit
would be cruel to have the hugo crea¬
ture walk on the hard stone streets.
The ambulance is at the service of tho
elephant, and at his ease he is carried to
his place of destination.
A street block is not an uncommon
sight in New York. A horse has fallen
in a crowded street. On examination it
has been found by tho officers of the
society that the animal's injury is grave.
He cannot move himself. He must be
carried. At once the ambulance is
sent forth, and the dexterous officials,
with a minimum of suffering to the
horse, quickly place him in tbe ambu¬
lance. A crowd blocks the street. It
is a sympathetic assemblage, for it has
been taught by the Society for tho Pre¬
vention of Cruelty to Animals to know
what is truo humanity.—[Harper’s
Weekly.
A Modern Deserted Tillage.
The city of Lecompton, Kansas, which,
30 years ago, was ono of the most promis¬
ing towns in tho West, is to-day a strik¬
ing cxamplo of a “busted boom.” Town
lots that sold readily for $1000 each in
1854 cannot now bo disposed of at $50,
an 1 the $500,000 State House then
under way is now o mass of ruins.
A Wealthy Woman in Rags.
As Roscoe Conk,in, Joseph 1L Choate
and William M. Evarts were ‘leaving the
court house in New York City, after a
big trial the other day they encountered
a decrepit old woman in tlio corridor,
She grimaced and the eminent jurists
raised their hats and bowed with court¬
ly dignity. A half-dozen big tenement
houses, a bundle of government bonds
and shares in an uptown savings bank
represent the old woman's worldly pos¬
sessions, and yet she can neither read,
write nor cipher. She is the best-known
character in the offices of the city gov¬
ernment. When the late William M.
Tweed first came into power “Aunt
Sally,” as she is called, used to ped¬
dle peanuts and apples in the
various offices, By careful
economy she had saved a little money.
Tweed, who would do anything for any
one he took a liking to, advised Sally
to put her little savings into a “spec,”
which he promised would turn out
well. Sally made several hundred per
cent, profit on her investment. In
those days every politician owned a
high silk umbrella. Sally made it her
business to become acquainted with every
politician, lawyer and office-holder
of consequence, and at stated
times visited them to col¬
lect discarded hats, umbrellas and
other articles of wearing apparel. She
carries on that business to-day in con¬
nection with her peanut and apple
trade. The hats and umbrellas she re¬
pairs herself, and sells them often for
half their original cost. Coachmen, hack
drivers and colored dudes am her best
customers. Her income from this source
alone is very big. She adds several
thousand dollars yearly to her fortune.
Her age is a mystery. Somo of the old
timers say she is over a century old, and
that she is a witch. She dresses in rags
and always pleads poverty. The records
in the Register's office show that she is
worth at least a filth of a million. —»
[Mail and Express.
The Advantages of Rest
There is no better preventive of ner
«YOU* exhaustion than regular^ «tihur
ried, muscular exercise. If we could
moderate our* hurry, lessen our worry
and increase our open air exercise, a
large proportion of nervous diseases
would be abolished. For those who
cannot get a sufficient holiday the best
substitute is an occasional day in bed.*
Many whose nerves are constantly
strained in their daily avocation have
discovered this for themselves. A
Spanish merchant in Barcelona told his
mqdical man that he always went to
bed for two or three days whenever he
could be spared from his business, and
lie laughed at those who spent their
holidays on toilsome mountains. One
of the hardest worked women in Eng¬
land, who has for many years conducted
a large wholesale business, retains ex¬
cellent nerves at an advanced age, ow¬
ing, it is believed, to her habit of taking
• one day a week in bed. If we cannot
avoid frequent agitation wo ought, if
possible, to give the nervous system
time to recover itself between the
shocks. Even au hour's seclusion after
a good lunch will deprive a hurried,
anxious day of much of its injury. The
nerves can often bo overcome by strata¬
gem when they refuse to bo controlled
by strength of will. —[Nineteenth Cen¬
tury.
Mackerel Poisoning.
Wo have heard of a very severe case
mackerel of poisoning which occurred in
Kensington. A man, aged 40, ate a
piece of mackerel about four weeks ago.
Severe diarrhoea followed in a few
hours, and then gastro enteritis and
general peritonitis, with the worst
symptoms of acute obstruction. During
the course of the third week an abscess
formed and burst into the intestine;
since then the patient has steadily im¬
proved; The young gentleman to. whose
case wo referred last week appears to be
slowly approaching convalescence. The
Cervical glands enlarged last week, but
the swelling has subsided. The tem¬
perature has never exceeded 100.2 de¬
grees Fahr., the symptoms of intestinal
obstruction have entirely disappeared.
Emaciation and debility are strongly
marked. Tho danger of eating mack¬
erel out of season has long been ad¬
mitted; it is unfortunate that it is not
more generally known; nor can youths
and men who have no experience in
housekeeping bo expected to keep a
calendar of seasonable articles of diet
stored in their memory. Most of tho
Scomberidos or mackerel tribe aro more
or less poisonous at , certain seasons of
the year; this phenomenon is particu¬
larly the case with the gigantic oceanic
mackerel, the albacoro and bonito. In
both cases the patients were on several
occasions violently delirious at night.
NO. 6.
Some Days of Days.
day, some day of days, threading the
street
With idle, heedless pace,
Unlooking for such grace,
I shall behold your face!
Someday, some day of days, thus we may
meet.
Perchance the sun may shine from skies of
May,
Or winter's icy chill
Touch whitely vale and hill.
What matter! I shall thrill
Through every vein with summer on that
day.
Once more life's perfect youth will all corns
back,
And for a moment there
1 shall stand fresh and fair,
And drop the garment care;
Once mora my perfect youth shall nothing
lack.
I shut my eyes now, thinking how’t will be,
How, face to face, each soul
Will slip its long control.
Forget the dismal dole
Of dreary fate's dark, separating sea.
And glance to glance, and hand to hand in
greeting
The past with all its fears,
The silence and its tears,
Its lonely, yearning years,
Shall vanish in the moment of that meeting,
—[New Orleans Picayune
HUMOROUS.
In months of sun, so live that months
of rain shall bo happy.
“My first purchase is my last," said a
cobbler, who was £»t starting in busi¬
ness.
It doesn’t abbreviate a three months’
note to have the indorser make a minute
of it.
The average pill resembles Banquo’s
ghost m one particular. It will not
down.
If there is any one who should be
“rapped in slumber” it is _the man who
mores.
Ho (ardently)—Pd give a thousand
millions to win your love, Adelaide.
She—Cash?
At midnight: Young Bore—0, dar¬
ling Miss Ada, I’d do anything for you.
Miss Ada—Really? Well, go home.
Customer; “I should like to look at a
fat goose.!’ Shop hoy; “If you’ll wait
a minute, missus will be here directly."
Just tack this legend on your door
For those who’re going through it,
“Please take this door along with you—
As far as you can do it.”
She spoke from experience: Grasper
—“I lost my pocketbook to-day." Mrs.
Grasper—“I pity the woman who finds
it.”
The little girl who waa told that the
white cow gave the milk was justified in
asking if the brown cow didn’t give the
chocolate.
When a washerwoman changes her
place of residence one may ask her
“where she hangs out now” without
using slang.
* • f i,
annoying .
Nothing is more to a young
man who has a bunch of keys at the
end of his watch chain, than to be askfd
what time it is.
First Critic—Did you hear Mr. False
note break on that high tone just now?
Second Critic--Yes; that’s what I call
murder on the high C.
“I’m goin’to leave, mum!” “What
for? I am sure I have done all the
work myielf, in order to keep a girl.”
“Well, mum, ther work’s not doae to
suit me!”
Mrs. Popinjay—Now, dear, you won’t
forget, will you, that to-morrow is the
twenty-fifth anniversary of our wedding
day? Mr. Popinjay—Dunno. Guess
I’d better tie a string around my finger.
Artist (who is spending a month in
the country)—My dear Miss Purple
blossoms, jou are so beautiful Would
you not like me to do you in oil? Miss
Purpleblossom—Do you take me for A
sardine?
Teacher—.“John, what are your boots
made of?” Boy—“Of leather.” “Where
does the leather come from?’.’ “From
the hide of the ox." “What animal,
therefore, supplies you with boots, and
gives you meat to eat?” “My father."
“George, there is a sadness and mel¬
ancholy in youT eyes to-night, and your
cheeks seem blanched.” “Yes, Naomi,
lam far from being happy." “Confide
in me, dearest. Let me share your sor¬
row. Have the bufferings of this cruel
world cast a gloom over your soul?”
“Well, not exactly, but you see these
shoes are new and they pinch like the
deuce.”
Snow lies where late we saw the grass,
The breezes chill the blood,
The mercury nightly in the glass,
Falls with a sickening thud.
The storm cloud skurries in the skies,
The ocean flings its spvay
Upon the shore—-there are no flies
On lazy men to-day.
-[Boston Courier.