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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1889)
NORTH GEORGIA TIN ;■ TH t Vi -*> L P Vol.JX. New Series. Vinter Evening. Tonight gold toe horses springing B§r Toss from whitened nostrils. In a ' dream. The streets that narrow to the westward Like roars of golden palaces; and high From ail the crowded chimueywtowar and die A thousand aureoles. Down in the west The br imming plains beneath the sunset rest, One burning aea of gold. Soon, soon shall The glorious vision, rad the hours Bhall feel A mightier master; soon from height to height, With silence rad the sharp unpitying stars, - Stem creeping frosts and winds that touch like steel, Out of Abe depths beyond the eastern bars,. A Glittering and still, shall come the awful night. —{A Lampmau, in Scribner’s Magazine.* ©N A MOUNTAIN. “Does he know jhow picturesque he looks!" Garcia wondorod. She was in¬ clined to give a man credit for vanity, or anyothor little idiosyncrasy he might possess. Joo Miscarat dll not know that he might have posed successfully for a charming bit of south country life. He knew, of course, that he was hand¬ some, and that the water he drank from Juan Sepulvada’s olla was cool and ckar. The wator jar hung in a hugo poppor tree, and tho fern-lika foliage with its feathery blossoms drooped nearly to the ground, framing Jose in a green arbor, through which tho sun glinted. Jose’s shirt was a snowy white, and the vivid scarlet and yellow handkerchief knotted loosely around his throat gave a richer coloring to his swarthy cheek. A wide sombrero cov¬ ered his black hiir, but did not hido the flashing glances the dark eyes cast toward Garcia’s hammock. The hand that held the gourd was small and shapely, and there was in his salute all the grace of the Spanish cavalier, whoso blue blood, much diluted, flowed in his veins, * Miss Waldo flushed little a ua der that grandiloquent bow. Guilty! Perhaps. Sho had spent more hours than'she liked to remomber, lounging on tho wide gallery or swaying lazily , in tho hammock, strung up in the big blue gums; listening through the drift¬ ing, sunny days to the love tales of old Spain, retold with many embellish¬ ments by this young romancer, who had nover journeyed a hundred miles from his mountain home. Jose’s bee ranch up the canyon did not occupy much of his rime, and, while his many-legged servants buzzed and labored, he brought out his choicest store of sweet sayings for Garcia's dc-” lectatlon. Years ago, before Miss Waldo’s blue eyes had looked very far into life’s mysteries, both hor parents had died of consumption. . The care of the little girl had fallen on her father’s eldest sister, who was in constant worry lost Garcia should suffer the same fate. They had come from their eastern homo in soarch of health, in tho little foothill village, nestled in the shadows of the Biorrn Madras. Here nature ran riot in glorious profusion and sky and earth were alike brilliant in brightest hues. Garcia had been so tirod of her color¬ less surroundings; tho gray sky; the snow-coverod earth; her aunt’s pale ness of age, and hor own dimmed beauty, that she refused to return home, although tho October days with their wealth of fruit had come again, and hor health was almost entirely restored. Miss Waldo’s aunt did not take kind¬ ly to the gallant Jose, and his occasion¬ al performances upon the mandolin she utterly.disapproved. Sho camo to tho door on tho afternoon In question with evident depreciation of tho pretty tab¬ leau. “Havo you written to Stephon today V sho demanded, and Garcia camo out from tho rqins of Alhambra, where she had been wandering in imagi¬ nation, and recognized the hostile gleam of her aunt's spectacles. Joso departed with alacrity, and Gar ciaprepared unwillingly to enter the house. “When an unpleasant fact is threo thousand miles away,” she grumbled, “it is very disagreeable to b8 reminded of it.” Sho fell to wondering how Stephon would look in a sombrero and a red muffler. She shuddered at tho thought. “Fancy him at a bull fight with a guitar tied on with red and yellow ribbons. Oh, dearl why is his hair stlch a pale brown and his moustacho so feeble. What a very unpleasant height six feet three is lor a man.” At any rate sha was glad she had only partly could\ prfl’uiued to marry him. How girl threatened with tuber- SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA, .THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1889. clesl Sho took a last look at tho moun¬ tains, now Garcia lovod those moun¬ tains t When their highest peaks caught the first smile of the morning; when sin and shade flashod at noonday over their brown sides; when the fun s|M “good night,’ ’ and hid them in a soft purple hoz); when the “clouds Came down to rest” and shrouded them in a groon mist; ever changing, yet always the same, Garcia lovod them and had dreamed dreams of the happy tithe when she should explore thoso hidden canyons. At a hotel down the street, a lively widow and her sister boarded. Garciat considered thorn charming acquaint¬ ances, but her aunt held them in cold displthsure, mostly on account of what she termed tho widow's “flirty” ways; but she had been boguilod into promis¬ ing, in a moment of weakness, that some timo G ircia might accompany the objectionable widow on a mountain ex¬ cursion. The aunt nevor intendod to keep this promise; reconciling it with hor conscience that “some timo” was so vague that it might bo indefinitely post¬ poned, and the journey never accom pliscd. Mysterious business took hor to Los Angelos one day. This was tho widow’s opportunity. She swooped down upon Garcia, and, before tho be¬ wildered girl realized the situation, she was mountod on a burro, in company with two ready cavaliors and tho widow and her sister. Their destination was a tont on the mountain side, occupied by tho employes of an irrigating com¬ pany, who were tunnelling tho moun¬ tain in search of water. Garcia bad often looked longingly up to the eyrie abode, which she had lik. cned to a great white bird perched upon the mountain sido. They wound slowly upward through sage brush and chapparol, pausing occasionally to look back ovor the San Gabriel valley away to the distant ocean, showing through a rift in the hills. By and by Garcia felt a strange and unpleasant qualm as her burro crept gingerly around tho unusually steep precipice. The distant tent looked more than ever like a bird ready to taka win?, and, oh, so far away. The widow, glancing backward, ex¬ claimed at her pale face: “Are you going to faint, Miss Wal - do!” “I think I am go ing to die,” Garcia whimpered. There was a groat commotion among men and beasts, smolling salts were ap¬ plied and bottles woro uncorked, and - Garcia opened har eyes to fiud herself upon terra firms, sheltered by a big grease-wood brush. No porsuasion could induce her to remount, but at her earnest requost, tho rost of tho psrty continued their upward journey, leaving hor in her presoat retreat for the few hours that would intervono be¬ fore their return homo. Garcia gave a sigh of relief as a bend in the trail hid them from view, and she was loft alone. Tho day was perfect, and she revelled in her independence and the glorious view beforo her. Far down the ravine she heard the music of a hidden stream. Tall yuccas, with thoir masses of snowy bloom, might stand for white robed spectro wives of dead mountain giants, with whom Thor tried his foat3 of skill! Sho laughed aloud at a merry mock¬ ing bird,, bubbling over with a song, mimicing tho sweet notes and shrill calls of his foatheTed friends,and ending with tho mournful peep of n dripping chicken. ■ Sho know that Joso's homo was in the canyon arounl tho other side of the mountain and that he somo times took this trail as a shorter cut to tho town below. What if he should como thirinorning? Hjw surprised ho would bo to soo her ia thii unexpected place. Would ho be glad! The trip had been tiresome, and her present quarters so comfortablo that her day dreams melted away and sho dozod into sleep. Suddenly sho awoke with tho thought that tho day had become sur¬ prisingly hot. Sho drew a little furthor into her impromptu bower and resumed her castlo building. By and by a clum¬ sy jack-rabbit, with HU ridiculous ears drooping forward lumbered across tho path. A timid littlo cotton-tail fol¬ lowed swiftly with & strango disregard of her presenco. Tho air grew hotter and hotter. Tho mocking-bird hushed his songs and flew away. Queer littlo lizards, with - their halting haste, darted into the bushes. More rabbits, With long jumps, passed by and disappeared over -the mountain. She wondered idly at this strango pro¬ cession of beasts and reptiles, but scrambled hastily up os a horrid toad, with bristling back and unnecessary tail, nearly ran across her feet as she rose; the burro, with a loud snort and mighty wrench, sna’ppad ths rope with which he was staked, and ran, madly up the trail. She hoard a loui cracking noise, and clouds of smoke stifled hor. What could it mean! Bewildered, she looked down the mountain side. Ah, God I She know then. The mountain was on fire. Tongues of flame darted from shrub to shrub, and licked, up the grass, dried to tinder by the semi-tropic sun through the reinless months of summer. With a roar like a tompost it swept up the moun tain. The dried branches of dead trees, killed by former fires, caught the blaze, and stood like sentinels of firo in its wake. Although she knew that certain and awtful death was coming, terror held Gar¬ cia helpless, and she was again brooming unconscious, whoa sho was arousei by the voice of Joso shrieking wildly: ‘‘Fly, seeorito, fly. For the love of the Virgin, fly P She could not move with foar as “lead upon the foot of her most anxious will.’’ Tho hot breath of death was scorch¬ ing her check, when she felt hersolf clutched by the arm, and dragged un¬ ceremoniously over rock and bushes to tho ether side of the ben l. There was no timo for choosing paths. Joso was certainly not to blame that his delicate physique rendered him incapablo of giving hor bettor assistance, but when her senses returned, unreasonable in¬ dignation came also. Stiphon would never ha7o draggod and tumbled her down a mountain with an utter disre¬ gard of her feelings and hor wardrobe. Still they slipped and stumbled and the firo pursued them with dnngerou3 haste. Another fivo minutes and they would reach tho canyon, with its ex¬ panse of gravel and water and safety. At this unfortunate moment G ircia’s skirts caught tho projecting limb of a fallen treo and brought roacuor and res¬ cued too sudden standstill Gircia tugged at her skirts and Joso pulled at Garcia with all his strength, which did not tond to help matters. The fire came nearer and snatohod tho end of the treo whose branch held Garcia pris oner. With a wild shriek J so let go his hold, and, plunging downward, loft the uufortuaato girl to her fade. Re lieved of the strain thi iceosonod gar¬ ments wore easily disentangled and Garcia followed hor cowardly guile, disgusted even in her peril, and' thor¬ oughly cured of her infatuation. As she rcachod the saving gravel sho saw a strangely familiar figuro dash madly up the canyon. It was only a fleeting glance, for sho was too terrified for rea¬ son, and flung herself hoadlong into tho littlo stream. The water gurgled and splashod and wet her to tho skii. Her hat was lost and her dress was in tat ters. “I shall die of consumption,” she thought, “after all this exposure. Oh, how sic* I fcoll I boliovo I am dying now.” Sho opened her eyes, however, and sat up very straight for a dying woman, as she heard her name called in an agonizing tone. “Garcia, Garcia, my darling Garcia!" “Why, Stephon,” sho criod, “is it really you! Where did you coma from?" sha asked, as he fished her, dripping, out of the stream. “I cannot believe it is you.” “It is surely I,” ho assured her, as he lifted her with tender strongth and held her closoly in his arms. “It wouldn’t bo healthy for another fallow to be in my placo. ‘Whore did I como from!’ Chicago, of course, on tho 9. 30 train. I wandered about that wrotchad littlo villago till I w s al nost stag¬ nated, and camo up ths canyon on an exploring expedition to find my fiance apparently endeavoring to commit sui¬ cide. That littlo Mexican you soomod pursuing hasn’t stopped running yet” (looking after tho retreating figure and not noting Garcia’s blu.hes). “Whew! how smoky. That would have a grand effect at night," ha said, looking at. tho burning mountain. “Thank God] my darling is safe from that fiery death.” “Oh, Stephon!’’ Garcia cried, throwing her muddy arms around his neck, with sublimo disregard for his light coat, “take mo homo and keep me always. I think it is tho loveliest thing in the world to be so tall and strong. ” —[At¬ lanta Constitution. Needs a Good Night’s Rest. Doctor (to Bobby). “So you’re sick again, are you, my littlo man!” Bobby (who doesn’t like medicine). “I don’t think lam; I don’t feel sick.” Doctor. “Well, wo’11 see. Show ms your tongue, please.” Bobby. “Well, now, doctor, you can’t always tell that way. I’ve had a busy day of it today, and if my tongue looks bad, I guess it's only bccauso it’s tired and needs a good night’s rest.”— [Bazar. RARE COFFEES \ A Bolivian Variety Which Is Distinctly Intoxicating. The Odd Tiger Cat and Mam¬ moth Liberian Java Species. “Do you know,” said Josoph M. Walsh, the recognized tea and colloo expert in Philadelphia, “that there is a coffee almost as distinctly intoxicating aa alcohol! You would like to bear about it! Well, it is very scarce and comes from Bolivia, I have already had some of it and havo sent for more. What I have had came from the Gov¬ ernor—I suppose that is what you would caltjhim—of Poeopilla, Bttivia. I had it washed and wo made several cups of it. Tho cofloe is distinctly intoxicat¬ ing. A swallow tinges through ono’a veins from top to toe, aud several caps would make a man feet very jolty, if not absolutely hilarious, The great strength doubtloss comes from proper¬ ties }n tho soil, as it is a known fact somo coflees from Honduras grown on coccia plantations possess properties similar to chocolate or cocoa. Wo havo had mats of cofies almost as narcotic in largo doses as opium, from being grown near harcotic plants. Qusor, isn't it, that one brand of coffee should sot your nerves a-tingling and another should put you to sleep! I am inclined to think that tfiis new Bolivia coffee is either a species of mosbol or pulque, or was grown in soil used for growing the latter. Somo . coffee coming from Costa Rica has a peculiar hidey flavor when roasted and boiled. 1 havo sometimes wondered if special vanilla, chocolate, lemon, ba¬ nana and other fl .vors coutd not be in¬ troduced in coffeo culture. Wo might havo an after dianor coffeo and brandy au natural before coffeo culture reachos its full development P’ Mr. Walsh here handed hi* listener a light yellow bean, which ho said was known as the “rigor cat.” “Tt.U ” said ho, “is found n the . very centre of tho Island of Java on the Psmenokon Plantation, District of Krawan, and I think only thirty mats wero ovor brought to this country! It gains it3 name from the fact that young tiger cats, peculiar to Java, small, lithe animals, and fond of good living, I should judge, climb tho coffee-trees, growing fivo . or six feet, and select therefrom tho best and ripest of the berries. In thc first place the Pameno kon Java is a straight, fine coffeo of excellent flavor and strongth. Thon the selection of tho choicest, ripest and largost berries by these tiger cats makos a still better name for the ‘tiger-cat’ coffee. The animal eats tho pulp. In n sample pan beside “Tiger Cat” in Mr. Walsh’s office, was soms coffee beans so grotosquely mammoth in propor¬ tions as to merit tha namo “Jumbo” coffeo, but a small tag sail Liberian Java, and which is tho largest coffee known. Several years ago somo Li¬ berian coffeo was taken to tho Island of Java by a Frenchman and plantod. Tho result was a largo beau and very light green. Tho planting from this made a stilllargor and moro yellowish boan, known as Liberian Java. It is not very much sought for, except as a curiosity, but it is from jmt such odd coffees that somo of ■ tha groatost caterers in tho world have made fortunos. Tho oldest Dolmonico maio his cups of ar^ber coffee world-ronowned. One day he bought a samplo of San Domingo coffeo and had it roasted undor his own super¬ vision. From this ho mado coffee Ori¬ ental style, and it caught tho fancy of epicures.—[Philadelphia Record. Independent Florida Indians. Way down on Indian river, near Melbourne, Fla., ii aa enterprising colony, which two years ago had to de¬ pend on a forty-mile sailboat route for their mail and all freight as well. Their pretty littlo town is two miles from the Atlantic coast and has a mile of steam¬ ers and telegraphic communication. Two miles from town ono can hear the call of tho panther, wildcat and cry of the sandhill crane,, and there is an eagle’s nest in tho top of a deal pine treo. "‘The nest is about 15 feet in cir¬ cumference. j It is not an unusual thing for a man at work on his homestead in this vicin¬ ity to feel tho nearness of a human presence and look up to find a Seminole Indian standing before him. When sa¬ luted, the Indian says “How, how.” IL in a mood for talking ho will questions for a while in j^ggll broly^fl iish, but. will generally midst of your senteuu^B often bring ia von since one suddeny a good supply. Among other questions he was asked if Charlie Osceola was now thoir chief. “No-have no chief-be sloop long sleep.” They live in the everglades and de pend on hunting and agriculture for subsistence, This section of Fioiitla is not imagine, . . , but . a swamp, as some a low plane, covered with hillocks and ranges * of hummock land. The soil is very rich. . , Tho Indians raiso , corn, hog% , cattle, potatoes, bees-in short they live on the fat of tho land. Fresh n b, oysters, boar meat and venison are free to them. They celebrato tho maturing of tho crops by the groon corn dkcco. If a white is present at this feast honors h.. P ,d u p » him. Thc Wi. “White man first, Indian next, my dog noxt, negro last” They havo negreo: who do their farm work, and this is, perhaps, tho socrot cftbiir iucccss in agriculture. They are not under tho care of tho government.—[D.troit Frco Press. Experiments iu Hypnotism. At a lato meeting of the B-'riin Mod ical 8>cicty Prof. Virchow introduced a French physician, D. - . Feldmann, who mado somo experiments in hypnotism. A young man named G irrick ottered himself ns a modium. A'ter a few sec¬ onds of tho umal manipulations the medium foil into a deep magnetic sleep. He bccamo perfectly apathetic and motionlo3s. Ii tho stato of “.-u; gostion’’ D.\ FMdmann showed tho in¬ fluence of various medicaments on tho medium, who took quini re for sugar, smektug his lips with e i j .ymant, and he believed ammo .la to bo perfume, and smelt at it for some time. Imme¬ diately afterwarJ, following tho will of tho doctor, ho showed tho usual signs of abhorronca of thoso bitter find caus¬ tic substances. With tho sarao success he ato a loraoa for an apple. A piece of camphor held on his forehead ha 1 a singular effect. The modium bent hit body far backward and had to bo held on his chair. A magnet cauicd a dreamy state,during which tho medium related his impressions as to events in the street, in which he believed him¬ self to bet Then tho modium obeyed tho will of tho doctor in various way<, shovelling snow, sharing, falling, and rising agaii with one jump at tho doc¬ tor’s suggestion, and finally took a pocketbook by force out of Prof. Vir¬ chow’s pockitt. lie was then ordored by Dr. Foldmann to rosoat himself, and soon woke out of tho hypnotic sloop remembering nothing of what had hap¬ pened. Two young physicians then spoke, declaring that such experiments wore without scientific basiu They believed the ‘ ‘suggestion’’ to be proba¬ bly genuine, but as to tho other exper¬ iments, especially the effect of medi¬ cines an! tho magnet, they thought they needed caroful t lamination.— London Njw«. Health fill ness of Yarious Occupations Assuming the normal avorsgo death rate of the community as tho unit of comparison, and calling it 1000, partic¬ ular occupations' may bo regarded as healthy or unhealthy, according as tho death ratoj among thoso pursuing them fall above or bolow that figure. The most healthy occupation appears to be that of ministers of religion, whoso rate is 550. Next aro gardenors and nursery¬ men, 590; farmers and graziers, 631; agricultural laborers, 761; schoolmus, tors, 719; grocers, coal mcrchiints papor, laco and hosiory manufacturers, whool wrights, shipbuilders and coal miners, with all of whom tha average death rato is undor 775. Tho most un¬ healthy occupations aro tho trades con¬ nected with tho liquor traffic and hotel service, with which tho death rato- is 2205; following thoso are general labor¬ ers in London, 2020; costermongers, bankers and street, sellers, 1879; inn¬ keepers, etc., 1538; and brewers, 1361. After tho trades connoctod with alco¬ hol, tho highest rates aro furnishod by the patrons that involve the breathing of dust—other than coal dust—and ex¬ posure to lead poisoning. Tho death rate among butchers is also high, 1170. A Rival to Niagara Falls, Labrador is said to possess a water fall that makos Niagara Falls insignifi¬ cant in comparison. R, F^M| who recently mado a tour om® locates thii full on thc tcjfl »||| which connects f.-ikis l'< Gooso liny, at llioj^l Iukt i- NO. 1. Thc Xoa5ne< . 1Xhe ^ngna, 50 gma „ 8nd weak> Can crush and kjju declared the Greek. -The tongue destroys a greater horde," The Turk asserts, “than does the sworX" Thfl Persian proTerb wiselr „ ithi “A lengthy tonguo-an early death." Or ~ sometimes ,. takes _ this , . form , instead, , liwt let your tonguo cut off your hond „ Says the Chinese, ““ T*. “outstrips f the steed.” T**" While Arab sages this impart, The 8 great storehous9 ig ths heart - Hebrew wit the maxim 8 P r,in 2 °“ Id S ' iP “ e ’ er i8 ‘ ** “f" 1 T " iter crowns the who,e - 1 N HUMOROUS. Warranted to wash—A laundress. The fashionable hangings—Lambre quins. Takes the will for tho deed—Tho sur rogata. A full stop—Asleep on the sidewalk at 1 a. m. The dancing master should bo quick at figures. Usually seen on his last legs—Tho kangaroo. Always turning over a new leaf— Librarians. Motto of real estate men— “Deeds, not words.” Applicants for loans generally adopt a borrow-tone. There is nothing like a bolt for break¬ ing a dead-lock. The wind now whistling through tho corn-fields hae a husky tone. A hew and cry usually follow the small boy’s acquisition of a pocket knife. A rock salt bed has been found in Michigan, but most icon prefer a hair mattress for real comfort. Goods in the hands of a merchant who doos not advertise are like row¬ boats. They have no sale. The car Stove is back from its sum¬ mer vacation and will soon be heard from in railway accidents. Nature is just with compensation for losses. The toothless man is not apt to bito off more than he can chow. “I like Paris," said Mrs. Mulhooly, “them Two lures and Boys do Bologna and Champs Elizas is immense.” The girl with a six-foot sweetheart said that she wouldn’t tell a story, but the couldn’t help' but “draw a long beau." A clergyman who married a couple ot deaf mutes in Brooklyn tho other day made a bad break when ho wished them “unspeakable bliss.” The only thing that can down true genius and curb genuine inspiration it a pen that catches in the paper and exe¬ cutes a design in splatter -work at every third stroke. A wealthy young lawyor spent two days and a night over one case, and at the end of that time could not toll which side he was on. It was a case of champagne. Firsb amateur Nimrod—“It is getting late, and wo haven’t killed anything yet.” Second Amateur Nimrod— “Well, let us miss a couple more rab¬ bits and then go home.” A young redskin schoolboy was asked the*other day what is tho highest form of animal life. “Tho giraffo,” was tho prompt roply of tho lad, whohad evi¬ dently been taking in the circus of the pale face. A lady having remarkod in company that she thought there should bo a tax on tho singlo state—“Yes, madam,” re¬ joined a most notabto specimen of the uncompromising old bachelor who was present, “as on other luxuries.” Miss Floy Trappe (whojgM undeniably 1 mvfl NMl^B said last night that swoet oxprosiion. meant ihat V' i-m I an ill "u uujfl Wj
