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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1888)
■ 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.
