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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1888)
NORTH GEORGIA TIM 54 : ' Tn X ¥ Sf & . :J Vol. VIII. New Series. Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie. "Whan Charleston built for tho Briton’s sport The spongy, hardy palmetto fort, And the ships with their topsails taut aud thin Stormed over the bur at break of day. Gun and swivel and culverm Shouting their murderous roundelay! tVben the hissing shot was immured for good, Tima after time, in the soft, sly wood, A venturous shell, from the Moreland's dock. Struck th# patriot staff, and snapped it quite, Neat in the middle, without one fleck, And whirled the flag from the rampart’s height. But William Jasper saw from his post, Anu, his young blood seething, still as a ghost, Straight through the perilous tire leaped down, I.eaped down, and back, by a leopard spring, Tho smoko in his eyes, erect and brown, Ail in the beat of a swallow’s wing. And hold close, close, as lie climbed aloue, The banner sacred and overthrown; And quick, with that steady hand of his. Notching its loops on his ramrod bare, With a “So, my lieauty!” aud one frank kiss, Flung it again to the glad,'free air) Then tho friendly tides turned clean about, And slipped from under the frigates stout, And Sir Peter Parker's crippled fleet. With its disembarking, bewildered crow, Groped and fumbled, and got its feet, # And reeled off into the si ns anew. ’Tis tho eld tale; how ours sat down At dusk in their fair, beleaguered town, We seal their valor, repeat their vows; We-keep their memories cast and west; We sing their praise through the happy house; But of Sergeant .Jasper, who knows the vast* Who asks tt.< Pea^o to bis ashes cold The Carolinian grasses fold! To the fond boy heart, in itij little bom - Symbol and vision o£ loyalty, Homage!, The root whereof ha was flower Bears hundreds, happily, such as he. Let emperors sleep in their gorgeous fame; For us, forever, some quiet mime. In which no armorer’s skill is versed, To mock at history's calendar. And ouco through its ordered page to burst Like a headlong, glorious August star! —[Louise I. Gurney in Boston Post. Fate of John Ramsay, M. D, liV W. H. S. ATKI-NSOX I am a physician. 1 have made a life¬ long study of tlifi human brain, aud may, perhaps, bo pardoned if 1 say that my opinions upon diseases of tho mind now carry considerable weight among members of tho profession. It is only a week or two since I was cilled to a large asylum for the insane in Northern Ohio to examine a case which baffled the skill of the local doctors. After disposing of that matter 1 took an unprofessional stroll through tiie insti¬ tution in company with my old lrieud, the superintendent. Tbe rsylurn over which I now made a tour of inspection was a most beautiful building, resembling in its appoint rnents the homes of the ^wealthy and opulent. Vi'o wandered through room after room and nioug successive halls and corridors where men and women iu every stage of insanity passed tiie time in various harmless amusements, or were restlessly confined iu the care of ward¬ ers and nurses. Of all tiie misfortunes to which humanity is heir, this loss of reason is, to my mind, the saddest by far; and, though I might be expected to have grown hardened by long years of familiarity with all phases of weak in¬ tellect, i never cease to feci devoutly thankful lor that greatest of all benefits conferred upon men by a beneficent Cre¬ ator—a sound bruin. W r e hud ]iaised through the greater part of tho enormous institution and were approaching that portion of the building set apart for the residence of the superintending physician—my friend, Dr. Habershon, Taking from his pocket a key. Dr. Habershon in¬ serted it in tbs keyhole of a door. Be¬ fore turning if, ho looked at me in a strange manner und said: “If you were not a a old mod., llartly, ani as familiar with strange cases us I am my¬ self, I should warn you to keep your no on entering here. Aud 1 speak, anyhow, so as to be on tho tafo side.” So say¬ ing he turned the key iii tho lock and opened the door. We quietly entered a very neat but plainly furnished room, and I confess that, although I have witnessed quoer, weird, wild and, oft times blood-curdling sights, I never felt so startled in ail roy life as I did at that moment. The toom was cot by any means dark, for it was welt lighted by u large window running all along one side, but placed above the reach of a man, even though he should stand upon a chair; yet at the farther end of the room I noticed a student’s lump burning ever a plain pine-wood table, upon SPRING FLACK. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL 5, 1888. which rested a human skull and some wilting paper. Seated at this table, pencil in hand, was a man about the same age as lityself and Dr. HabersLon (40 years) gazing intently upon the skull. What startled me so severely was the fact that when I lmd last seeu that man more than fifteen years since— 1 had seen him in exactly such a position, with precisely similar surroundings. And yet, what a dif¬ ference! Then he had just graduated at the head of his class from our col lege, and was looked upon as one of the most promising young physicians in the country—now, he was a helpless maniac! “Ramsay?’’ I involuntarily queried, only partially believing my own eye¬ sight. Hitburslion nodded. “You need not speak to him; he won't reply. It is just 0 o’dock, lie will sic at that table gazing at the old skuU until daybreak and then he will throw himeelf upon his bed and sleep until n»ou. That’s the way he used to do, you know, and humor him all J can. Poor old Ramsay; 1 owe him a good deal, you know, Ilurtly. You remember nil about it?” “Yes I remember the story, though I | had almost forgotten it." Ramsay. IlnbersUo-.i and myself were iill students together iu Philadelphia. . We were iu the same classes in college 'and jointly occupied the same suite of rooms. Furthermore we were all mak¬ ing 0 specialty of studying the human brain, and the only point wherein we materially differed from each other was t ^ at Ramsay know more than we two fellows together. True, Ramsay was, in regard to his theories and speculations, what many people would <adl a >’crank”—but then successful craui\ Are esteemed to be | was, ! mv judgment, quite as near the one as , the other. We threo fellows nil fitted in the ! same social set, aud although both Ram¬ say and llabershon know good and beautiful girls by the scotte, tho fates decreed that they should fall iu lovo with the same young lady. And yet, strange enough, they never displayed bad feeling toward each other, nor ever sought to make the lady’s position au unpleasant ono ou account of tho rivalry, j It seemed to me, au onlooker, aa though j there was a tucit understanding between them, that no undue intluencc should bo brought into play, but Ihnt, knowing how both ioved and admired her, the object of their admiration and esteem should be left quietly to choose between them. f ! Grace Thornoycnoft was a most beau til ill and estimable girl and, though I have been au old bachelor all my days, I do not wonder that any man should have sought her for hii wife. One day Grace, with her father, mother and a biotins', were down to Atlantic City, where they took a sail boat and went out, A sudden squall overtaking them the frail pleasure boat wus upset atul Grace was the only mem her of the party who escaped with her life- She was picked up iu a fainting condition and tenderly cared for, but j when restored, physically, it was found J that her mind that was wealth,combined shattered—she with was insane. All skill, could do was done far Grace, but it availed nothing and tho physicians aud friends at last gave up the case as hopeless. Habershon was himself al¬ most crazy with grief und could not bear to go near tha poor girl. As for Ramsay, he shut himself up in his den —a small, barely furnished room where he was in the Habit of pursuing his studies and experiments. There was a determined expression on the fellow's face and when I iodkod iu on him (which was seldom) he was always busy with his papers and books—sometimes engaged in dissecting the brains of dogs and other animals, and once examining a human brain. He seldom spoke or even so much as remarked my presence, though once he said in an excited tone: “f shall cure her, llartly—it shall be done at any cost.’’ So for days and weeks he sat over that bare pine table gazing at the skull in front of him—ever and anon rapidly penciling diagram: of tho human brain and of tho nervous system. Late one evening I was sitting with Habershon when there came a rap at the door and II mmy entered. He was very quiet, but knowing him as well as I did I could tali lie had something beyond the ordinary ou his mind. “Boys,” ho said, “I think I have found what I have been searching for— I think I can cure Grace. I say think, because, after all, it is only a theory of mine and may utterly fail, but I think not. Perhaps you say I should not theoriz3 and experiment on a woman , whom, as you know, I lovo. Well, it won’t do any harm to her and it may i '’dollar all possible m ood. To-morrow : moruing I shall try to do the work.” Tbeu turning more particularly to ’ HubershoB, he continued: “Ed., you' and I both love Grace ThoraeycroU. Now. in the presence of Hartty, here, I want you to promise me that, whatever the consequence* of my operation, you j will care lor Grace as long as she lives, and, if necessary, care for ine, too." I think neither Il»be»hoa or myself understood the purport ot these words, j wneli tuev were spoken, though their ! meaning was clear , cuoagli . , later on. However, Habtrskcu . . gave tbs , request- , ed promise and we parted for the night. The next day. in tlis foreuoou, Ram¬ say, in the presence of the two physi¬ cians who had beau in charge ot Grace, began hi? operation^. I was uu inter¬ ested observer front a (distant part of the room, but Haibenhou could not bo induced to be pise sent. Ramsay told the older doctors that if his theory proved perfectly tmcciesl'ul in practice he would be ablo to givfe his method of cure in writing for the benefit ot' the •nodical world—at pins tail, ha said that it was utterly impossible for him to in - telligently explain his ideas. However, ha guaranteed that the attempt would be perfectly harmless to the patient and the doctors stood by ready to pre¬ vent any ui*iue or dangerous experi¬ ment. For myself, 1 have not the least idea to this day just what tha means were which liamaay employed to pro¬ duce tha end he hud iu victw, nor have I any theory to advance. The whole thing wat a .strange alfair to me then and appears just as strange wjhea I look hack upon it from the prescoft moment, with all the experience w3ii<Jh I have ! } gained with ffcheen years’ practice. Ramsay first of all administered a draught to Grace Thome;/croft, who -s was seated in u reclining chdir. A few j moments later lie made a sumil incision i in an artery iu the putieot's right arm, which movement he followad by mak* iug a similar incision in au artery of his own left arm. The two arteries he then connected by means of a small sil ver tube. Facing lus s«bj«ot, »MMy. tapped her head, near tho base of the brain, two or three times -with his knuckles, aud then giued ibto her eyes. Ten minutes passed slowly bjy and no perceptible difference was noticeable in Grace’s condition. Ten urarifc minutes, aud a gleam of inteliige »oe seemed to be forcing its way into tiie lace of tho pioor girl—but, strange to folate, a wild, far-away look was settling upon Ram say! Another ten minut:^, and Grace Thorneycroft recognized h: very one iu tho room, including iuysfelf, wh'lu John Raiusay was led away from the newly conscious girl, a raving mediae! As I have before remark ed, I have no explanatfion to offer—I cau only chron icle bare facts. llamsay was a man of genius, suielv, though iu the one act of his life in which he proved that genius, he partially failed; and, in that by losing his miud he was lanahla to give his theories to the wrorld, his genius will never benefit posterity. llabershon married Girace Thorney croft two years lately au*d they have al¬ ways takou the best of (calo of the mau who saved a woman’s i*-afou at the ex¬ pense of bis own.—[Detroit Free Press. A Blind Man’s Insanity. “Will you please set my watch right and tell me what tho time is now; fit has run downf” The speaker was blind and ho handed a handsome gold stem-winder to his friend. Tiie friend put tho watch right, told the time and then handed it back to his blind friend, saying, “Of what use is a watdh to youH How can you tell the time!'’ “You have just set. the watch at« quarter to two,’’said the blind ma:n, and now it is fully wound up. If I wiaflr to know wlmt the lime is this evening I shall rewind tho watch aud count cadi of tho clicks as I turn the key. There are'forty-five ciickn, for example. Now I have found that nine elides correspond to 100 minutes, so that if there are forty-five clicks it will mean that eight hours and twenty minutes havre elapsed since the time the watch was set, mak¬ ing the time five minutes past 10 o’clock. I always remember what the time was when I wound it up last, and so by a little care and calculation can always come very near what the time is.”— New York Mail and Express. The New Universal Language. “I love, thou lovest, she loves,” in Volapuk, the new universal language, is “Lofob, lofou 1 *, lofof,” and “They will have been loved” is “Pulofoms.” “The knowledge of one’s self is the best foundation of all virtues” is, in Vol apuk, “Itisevam ebinom stabin gudikin tugas vahk.” I fr RTHT 1 OR wl iHL, l-TT T * HRN - Jf Contains Every EitTUcllt j. CCt'SSdiy ..... tO , «», idll • S c SlippOl t. Eivt) Hundred Ways of Dressing Eggs.—Medicinal Qualities. Th ^. dl ,course on eggs which Mr. SiuiIB0 Uas just delivared before lhe society a . . of . Arts, . ; reported ... Lv the as * * London T , Standard, ... , is well worthy , of the , J most careful consideration, Eggs, according to the lecturer, constitute a neglected mine of wealth. They are the one articte of agricultural produce for which tho demand is unlimited, and perhaps the oniy ouo in which we might, did we choose, defy foreign competition. They not only menu money, but they command prices that admit of profit compared with which beef and mutton ura of little account and wh 'vt barely worth mentioning. Hens, for those who know how to utilize them, lay eggs which, if uot made of cold, are quite capable of being turned in.o that metal, when they are retailnblc- all the year round, one month with nuoiher, at something not much short of t. penny apiece, while the eggs of ducks will bring a still more re¬ munerative price. Eggs tire a meal in themselves, Every clement necessary to the support of man is contained within the limits of an eggshell, iu tho best proportions aud in the most palatable form, Plain boiled, they aro wholesome. The masters of French cookery, however, *f tfore rm than ! b ,l 300 “ U different f’- v ,odreM ways, thew each hl method “ ct «uly economical hut snlu tar - v lu lUc lu - UaU du " reo - No appetite oer yet rejected au egg in some guise. It is nutriment in tho m ° 5 1,011:1 -« f °m and in the molt C 0 U( ' 2 Qlri ds-d shape. Whole nations of “* a,ii,nd 1 )“■ e[y otUer UClimal food. Kings eat them plain 1 as readily J , . A iamb trrbeifmou &S 0 la e * e '■- i v*y^-“f.. “ i,cr lu ' Vlg sat !,t illlbld meat ? r wltU ^-^ ),ea hls ' J r « ra 3 aa great captains, he deter Imne on tt P leca of lu * ur y~ “°ne egg 0 every ' Ulla ' aud tw ° *° tlj0 excellent •[ v «' a ai ^clrwepperman." Far more lftu •*“— t» r watery diet— egga are , scholar 16 s fare. They contain phos P* loriw > which is brain iooJ, and sill l tions > j JUr > in "’hioh the jierforms a variety of func economy. And they are the best of nutriment for children, for, in a compact form, they contain everything ** ,at ’' s necessary for tha growtli of the y° ut hful frame. Eggs are, however, not only food—-they are medicine nl90. ^ lu ‘ white is the most efficacious of remedies for burns, aud the oil extract at> *° lrom tll ° y* llf 13 regarded by the Russians ns au almost miraculous salve for cuts, bruises, and scratches. A raw egg, if swallowed iu time, will effectually detach a fish-bone in the throat, and the white of two egg. will render tho deadly corrosive sublimato as harmless .as a doso of calomel. They strengthen the consumptive, invigorate the feeble, and render the most suscep tibleali but proof against jaundice iu its more malignant phase. In France alone the wine-clarifiers use more than 80,000,000 a year; and tho Alsatians consume fully 38,000,000 iu calico printing and for dressing tho leather used in making the fmftst of French kid gloves. Finally, not to mention various other employments for eggs in the arts, they may, of course, almost without trouble on the farmer’s part, be con verted into fowls, which in any shape are profitable to thu seller and welcome to tho buyer. Even eggshells are valu¬ able, for allopath and homeopath alike agree in z-egirding them as the purest of carbonize of lime. Some fowls will lay as many as 220 eggs per annum, while others do not yield a third of that number. But if, according to tha calculation of a correspondent whoso figures we printed some months ago, each hen is credited with 100 eggs, there would bo at least 000 000,000 of , eggs from out- homo fowl-homes, less the 10 , 000,000 in process of hatching. This supply, prodigious ns it seems, is, however, a mere trifle compared with the quantity required. For if the egg eaters of the kingdom are putat 23,000, 000 the number mentioned would not admit of each of them consuming more than about twenty-four per annum. This, of course, is far below the mark. Many middle-class families use for the breakfast-table und lor cooking fully 100 per week, while confectioners, ho tels . restaurants, and others must con surue every day four or live times as ^ocy, to sav noting of the cratefuls ab¬ sorbed by yanous art* and manufac- turei> ln «me photographic estjiljlislx meut aloue 3 , 000,000 are used ever? year; while the amount required for va tious processes in calico printing, leather dressing, and, we believe, in book-bin d ing, must exceed the number employed as food. From what quarter, then, ate the wants of Britiun supplied i Our eggs are not manufactured iu America, as an ingenious myth circulated some years ago affirmed to be the case, The simple truth is, that the eggs are im ported. Not a Dahomey Man. The victims sacrificed at the death of a king in Dahomey are often eaptive 3 . or criminals, and are supposed to be- j come his servants in another world. Those killed at intervals afterward arc supposed to he messengers to him from this. Their despatch i- considered by each successive king of Dahomey to be incumbent upon him us a matter of duty alike to his father, to the state, j and to tha gods. IJe walks about I among the messengers, delivers to them his messages, and talks amicably to j each of them upon the subject, ar 1 another authentic anecdote, Inimitable in its humor, told me by Tetteh Againa- ; zong will show. One day, ingoing his rounds, tho king cams to a remarkably fine-looking min, a nalive of the Yortrba | country, and said to him: “ Well, you i have got to go; tell my father I am get ting along pretty well, and am governing j the people as he would wish me to do." “ Yes,” said the man. “ I have got i to go, but 1 want to tell you one thing I first .’ 1 “What is that?’’ asked iho king. 1 “1 want to tell von, replied the man, „ lhlit j will not dt .| ivcr oar message." “Not deliver mv message?” exclaimed thek i “ No l will not!” “Why noli !tsked bis maj( . stv . rcp H e d the victim, “because 1 don’t want to go, #nil j doll 't see why 1 should deliver it for yoll> aud , secondly, because 1 am a Yoruba man and he is of Dahomey, um j tbu Yotuba people do not see or I talk to the Dahomey people 1 here, nor do * J they im there*; ,, tJieroforo , T l ueulier • , <;au | nor will deliver your message.” The ! kiag lookM sstouished, and turning to 1 the executioner, who was ready to bc j gjn ^ bloody work aa d despatch the J j ^esjenger .ipp, if not the message, simply 9aid( is tt bad messenger—don’t , L Bt;nd ldlu y. And the man was let go ! cot .f ree< ]t a ther a dangerous preoe den£( one wou | d thin 1c, under such cir ; oumstaucos.for the future [—[Nineteenth Century. The Blizzard. Of all the people familiar with the word “blizzard,” probably not one in a thousand ever saw anything remotely resembling the thing which that word was coined to describe. In the absence of lexicographic authority, the definition of the term is best supplied by persp^n experience, A blizzard means sorne thing as nearly as possible like tho sand-stonn of the desert, with pulver ized ico iu the place of sand, and a temperature as many degrees b. low freezing aa the other marks above. Its accompaniments are perfectly well de- ! fined. They are a very low temperature, never in a gen time blizzard rising above the zero point; a tremendous wind velocity, equal to that of the most violent gale* of the stormy season at sea;and the fill iug of the eir with needle points of ice, which blind the eyes and cut and sting like miniature arrows wherever they strike. This ii the storm which be numbs, bewilders and destroys life in its path. It has been felt in rare in¬ stances by the settlers of the treeless plains of tha north. It seems, rather singularly, to occur le^s frequently as population anil cultivation increase,— [ 8 t. Paul Pioneer Press. A Curious ami Valuable Book. Perhaps the most singular curiosity in the book world is a volume that belongs to the family of tho Priure de Ligne, and is Dow iu Franco. It is entitled “The Passion of Cliriit.” and is neither written nor printed. Every letter of the text is cut out of a leaf, and being in¬ terleaved with blue paper, is as easily read ns the best print. The labor and patience bestowed upon its composition must have been excessive, especially when the precision and minuteness of the letters are considered. Tho gen erul execution in every respect is indeed admirable, aud tho vellum is of the most delicate and costly kind. Rudolph H. of Germany offered for it in 1040 11,000 ducats, which was probably equal to 60,000 at this day. The most remarkable circumstance connected with this literary trea 3 ura is that it bears tho royal arms of England; but when it was in that country, aud by whom owned, has neve.t bet n ascer¬ tained.---[The Bookworm. NO. <1. IHedrioU and Gretehen. S.;i a yiriihx* within his castle, Sad and lone: Jar l'.nt »th a winding river Panned and shone. “Ah!' 1 he sighed. “I wish and yray 1 were hnjifiy now as they— Yonder feasants on their way.” Lauded a peasant gavlv humming Simple *on£f Glancing upward toward the castle Grim and strong: ‘A Von Id that 1 were there, * said he, “Ah, how happy l should bo, KeaMing, singing merrily ! v “Nay,” said Gretchen, now beside him “Covet not: Thou art happy, honest Diedriob, In thy cot. God hath given thee thy place, Goalie walls would pale thv lace, »Viiste thy strength und mar thy grace." Sunday coma and bells were tolling Soft and low; Vrom the castle walls a cortege Moved, and slow. “Diedrieh," said fair GreteUen, “see! Whom thou envied so, ’tis be,— Wouldst thou prince or Dieilricb be. 1 '' “ Diedrieh ever with my Uretcben By my side In the cot—if t.hou wilt grace it,” He rejilied. “Yes,’’ she whispered,“thine,command!” Then be sUpjicd a golden band Ou the blushing maiden’s hand. —IM. J, Adams, in L'ourant. ill MOKOl'S. There is one crop that never fails. It belongs to the chicken. A hotel cull-boy never takes affront when the clerk yells “Front!” The English language sounds odd to a foreigner, as when one says, “I will come by-atid-bv to buy a bicycle.” The man w ho makes your knuckles snap And says, “I’m glad to meet you,” Is very frequently a chap Who'll readily forget you. j New Jersey swain (calling on his | girl)—What makes the house shake so, I darling! Girl—Its pop, up stairs. lie’s : got tha fever'u ague agin. In a play recently piodncod iu Paris liter.: >. ei() (wtntj'ii ir'U'i on the stage. It is uot likely that the performance., came to an end without a hitch. A laundry which stands in the shadow of an cast-side church, Buffalo, bears the appropriate legend ou its sign board: “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” “Yes,’’ he said, “I began life U 9 a farmer's boy, and to-day I am worth millions.” “To what do you attributo your succesf” “Togetting away from tha farm as soon as I could.” A book agent tried to sell a Pittsburg woman a volume entitled “The Art of Speech” yesterday, but she cast such a withering look upon him that the wretch slunk away in shame. A sportsman is a man who spends all day away from his busines , $3 for pow der and shot, and comes home at night tired ’ lmu 2 ly atul U S ! H dragging a a fourteen cent rabbit by tin oars.” IVe know of no picture more keenly portriigaut of human anguish and tho awful consciousness of imminent disaster than that of a dignified man with his mouth full of baked beans trying to re press a sneeze. A scientist says: “If the land were flattened out the sea would bo two miles deep all over the world.” If any mau is caught flattening out the land shoot him on the spot. A great many of us cau’t swim. Timid Y'oimg Suitor (who has won consent of pnpu): And now may I ask you, sir, wliethcr-ah-whether your daughter has auy domestic accomplish¬ ments? Papa (sarcastically): Yen, sir; her brows. “It is pretty blue up at tho house,” said Mr. Twinsy, mournfully; “I’ve got a cold, my wife’s got a cold, baby’s got tho measles, and my eldest daughter’s got a piano. Which is the warmest park to sleep in?’’ Omaha mother— “Where is Mr. Nicc fellow?” Lovely daughter (sitting alone) •—“Gone home.” “Home? It’s only 8 o’clock.” “Y r ea- -lie asked me to—to marry him, and—and I said ‘no,’ and— and he went right oil-boo!hoo! hoo!” “How is this, my son, you write and tell tnc that you’re up and dressed every morning in time to see tho stm rise, while the president informs mo that you lio in bed till U o’clock and after?” “Well, you sec, father, the sun rises till noon out here.” Charming young hostess: “Why, Major, you are not going so soon?” Major (who prides himself on being one of those lino old-school fellows who can say a ncut tliiDg without knowing it): “Soon ? Madame, it may seem soon to you; but it seams to tna I have been here a lifetime.”
