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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES
C. V. K'N'G, I I-Toi> r i t tor
s. b. gag non. )
Maybe Land,
Eeyontl where the marshes are dank and
wide
Is a ladder of red and gold.
Where the sun has sunk in the shifting tide
Of the etouds that the night elves mold.
It lends to the porta s of Maybe Land,
Whose ea-tles and groves we see,
On a vapor hank e-Vr the mists expand,
To darken the wind-swept lea.
'Tis there that our wishes are all made true,
Where frowns may not mar Hie brow,
Where storms never mutter the whole year
throtuh,
Where Then is transformed to Now,
And otiiv the dreamer who fifty h ilts
With a pencil and brush in hand,
Can travel the path to the mystic vaults,
Aud the treasures of Maybe Land.
A Tale of Pioneer Lift!.
On tho third day of May, 18G7, a
pioneer on I ho Solomon River, Kan¬
sas, heard the reports of rifles to Hie
west of him just as ho hail fin'shed
breakfast. ilLinmo was Cherry, and
his family c nsislcd of a wife and two
boys. Only ono of the-hoys was at
home at the time, lie was a lad of
12, named John. Tho Indians had
been surly and menacing ail winter,
and every whito man knew that an
oiubiwik was likely to occur in Hie
sinirtg. Believing Hint the blow was
fcaded ijjrout The to fall, doors, Cherry closed made and ready linrri
and to
hold out as long as possible.
Two hours passed quietly, and (hen
tiie settler argued that the firing must
have come from a party of hunters.
In order to satisfy himself on this
point lie slipped out of the back door
into tiie brudi, intending to go up tho
river to tho oilier cabin. He Imd gone
only a quarter of a in.le when five In¬
dians fired on him from an ambush.
Every bullet, as they afterward rela¬
ted, inflicted a mortal wound. Cherry
fell to tiie earth, b. t as they ru-hed
forward to scalp him he killed the
foremost man with a shot, ai d then
dgawiag his knife, lie attacked Jhe
otiicrs and cut two of them badly be¬
fore ho AH down and died.
The reports of the lilies warned Mrs.
Cherry of what had happened to her
husband. lie lull taken the rifle,
while she hud a shotgun and Johnny
had a single-bundled pistol. They
did not have lo: g to n aif. A hand of
nine warriors came toward the front
of the house waving a white shirt as a
Hag of truce, and when within ten
feet of the door the leader called to
the occupants of the house;
“We no hurt you if you open the
door I"
“If you try to get in wc shall
shoot!” replied Mrs. Cherry.
The Indians laughed in derision,
and four or five steeped forward to
burst in tiie door. Mrs. Cherry and
-Johnnie quietly retreated to the back
door, hoping lo get clear of the house,
but as they opened it two warriors
Were foil* d there on guard. Mother
and son fired logeilier, and (lie two
men fell, but before the fugitives had
run a hundred yards they wore over¬
taken.
Mrs. Cherry ami Johnnie were
taken to t! c other settler’s, whose
inline was llobinson. He had been
shot down in ins door, and his wife
and sisters were prisoners. The house
had been ransacked and set afire, and
one of the Indians Imd Robinson's
scalp at liis girdle. Tho prisoners,
who now numbered four, and were
guard' d by only two men, wero con¬
ducted along a snail creek which emp¬
tied into tho Solomon, and after
marching about seven miles were
halted in a grove.
The grove had been named as a ren¬
dezvous, amt the four prisoners wore
the first to reach it. Ono of (he guards
had an old wound in tho side, and
about on hour after reaching the grovo
lie pulled off his shirt to dress it. Mrs.
Cherry’s arms were so securely bound
that she could not release them. They
hail been nioro careless in the case of
the boy. As the two Indians wore
employed with the wound the lad
worked his arms loose, and with an
encouraging nod from his mo'her lie
made a rush for the rifles. Wi'h one
of them he shot the wounded Indian
dead. The other was wrested from
him before ho could fire,but he turne#
and ran and got clear away, dodging
the bullet so .t after him, and the sur¬
viving Indian did not dare to pursue
hitn for fear the women would get
away. This brought tho dead up to
four. What happened to the lad after
his escape no one will ever know, as
no trace was ever discovered. I my-
SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1801
.
self was employed for nearly six
mouths searching for him after pfcice
came, but nothing came of it. lie
was not killed as he wandered about;
neither was he retaken. I believe he
perished on tho plains from exhaus¬
tion.
The remaining Indian sat with his
rifle across his knees and guarded tnc
women until a band of seven or eight
of his companions came in. They had
as prisoners two children belonging to
a family named llasca'.l, a woman
named Deering, and a boy, 10 years
old, named Lawton. This boy had
been living with an uncle named
Thomas, and both his aunt and uncle
had been killed. In the laid on the
settlers quite a number of Indians had
been killed and many wounded. Hut
for the efforts of tho sub-chiefs all the
pti-onors would havo been toma¬
hawked. About 5 o'clock in the after¬
noon tho party left tho grovo aud
headed to the northwest.
All the lashings wero cast oft’ (o en¬
able the prisoners to move faster ami
in tiic confusion of starting Mis.
Cherry managed to pick upand score.o
a hunting knife which had belonged
to tho Indian her boy shot. After
traveling four hours the Indians made
a camp without fire, food or water.
Hero one of tho Indians attempted to
strike Mrs. Cherry and sho gave him
such a blow across tho throat with
the keen-edged knife that his head was
almost severed from Jiis body. Sho
was disarmed and tied hand and foot,
and the Indians promised that site
should, bo tortured for tlirco whole
days before death came to her re ief.
I must now coufiuuo tho story from
a different experience. Twenty days
after tho party of prisoners had disap¬
peared into the Indian country I was
engaged by the father of the Lawton
boy and by a brother of Mrs. Cherry
to make an effort to find end rescue
them. The northern and western parts
of Kansas wero then in the hands of
the hostiles, many of the forts ami
posts besieged, and there were no rail,
roads to transport troops. Indeed*
ilie lethargy of the Government in re
inforcing tho troops occupying stations
greatly encouraged the Indians, and
prolonged the war.
When I cut loose from tiio frontier
I had as comrade a scout and Indian
tighter named Reid. Wo were mount
ed on fine and speedy mules, had
Winchester rifles and revolvers, and
the pair of us were put up against
four or five large tribes of Indians
Scores of prisoners laid been carried
off along tho entire frontier, and to
look for any particular one seemed a
hopeless task. Wo know, however,
that tiio two we wanted had made
their start from tiie grove ou Mink
Creek, and we decided to make that
our point, of departure. It was then
forty miles from tiio nearest military
post, but wo readied it without acci¬
dent. Wc had not yet unsaddled out*
horses when Tom made a discovery
that furnished us with a clue, lie
picked up an Indian tobacco pouclt
which had belonged to a Sioux.
Up to this tiino we did not know
whether (lie pair we were after hud
been captured by tiie Sioux or Chey¬
ennes. This gave us a big start in the
right direction. Wc must bear more
to Hie west and search among the
Sioux.
It must not be imagined that wc
went riding boldly around the country
Oil our errand. There were days and
days that wo lay in hiding. If wc
moved at all it was by night, and then
only short distances. The country
swarmed with redskins, and there was
never an hour that wo were not in
danger. We wero gradually working
toward the villages on tho Smoky Hill
Ford and its territories, and our game
was to play hide and seek.
We had one closo call as wo neared
tho villages. Wo had advanced about
five miles during the night over
ground so hard ns to leave no trail,
and wo wero lying in for tho day in a
dry ravine. About 9 in Hie morning,
as I was on watch, I espied a couple
of Indians to the east. They had been
sent from some war party with a mes¬
sage to ono of tho villages. They
wero riding at a gallop when I first
saw them, but of a sudden they halted,
held a council, and both rode into the
ravine about eighty rods above our
position. They could not have seen
our trail, nor had they reason to sus¬
pect our presence, and I never could
fathom their action. They were com¬
lug right down upon us, aud I
Tom awoke in a jiffy.
Just above us was a sharp bond,
ami here we took our stations, revoi.
vers in hand. Tho ponies of the In.
dians came scrambling along the rough
path, ono closely following the other,
and tho first rider never knew whal
hit him. Tho second saw us but Was
dead live seconds after, and went once
secured tho ponies. This was Stitt
fourteenth day of our advance, nnd
the thirty-fourth day of Mrs. Cherry's
capture. Lot us now return to hcj\,
The prisoners wero marched across
t*»o county to the villages on the
Smoky Hill Fork. The fust idea was
to put all of them to the torture, but
(lie chiefs finally decided to bold them
for n while and sco how even's would
shape. Two sons of prominent chiefs
and a great medicino man had been
captured by the whites, ami St might
be that they would lwvo to be ransorfted
by giving up prisoners. Mrs. Clywry
and the Lawton hoy were kept IN ono
village, while all others captured with
them were scut to another. T(»ey
were made to carry wood and water,
live on the food thrown to (It# dugs,
and every hour in Hie day wc o told of
the fato iu store for thorn. Bpth vi tro
beaten by Indian women and boys,
but they did not feel their lives in
peril. They slept in a tepee, with < an
Indian boy about 18 years of age »nd
an old hag of a squaw. 4
On the afternoon of the day Wc
killed the two Indians in the ravine
Mrs. Cherry secreted a tomahawk
under tiie driod grass composing her
bed. It belonged to tho Indian boy,
but he did not miss it. She heard them
talking that day about moving cnuip,
but nothing was doiie, because' no
orders came. At midnight, when
everything was quiet, Mrs. CluAry
crept over to tiie Indian boy and s*ak
tho blado of tho tomahawk in ;jiis
skull. lie raised his arms but mjulo
noouterv, aud was dead ill ifot!'$Uc Jwr*vr
three minutes. She disposct' f t
old woman in tiie same way, and then
waking up young Lawton sho took
him by tho hand and walked out cf
the village.
At 1 o'clock in tiio morning, as I
was scouting on foot to locate tin
village and was within a mile of it, I
met Mrs. Cherry and the boy. She
had the Indian hoy’s how and quiver,
ami Lawton carried tho blood-stained
tomahawk. We pushed back to the
ravine as fast as wo could go, and
after reaching it wo lost no time in
mounting and heading to tiio south.
Wo were not followed from tho camp,
as an order reached it at daylight to
move to a distant point,and wo dodged
tiio war parties until another two hours
would havo carried ns into a post.
Wo were then suddenly confronted
by a band of thirty warriors, but af¬
ter a race of two miles we beat them
iu securing possession of a grove, and
for three hours wo held them at bay.
Troops from the post then came to
our rescue, I had been hit in the
arm, Tout in the shoulder, Mrs Cherry
in the cheek, and tho boy lost two lin¬
gers by a bullet. We hail killed three
warriors, wounded two or three more,
nnd knocked over four ponies. Tho
Indians wero scared away from tiie
post very soon. What they did with
Hie captives among them wc never
learned. —[Now York Sun.
A Lake of Pitch.
“Near where wo live,” said William
Creig of Trinidad, West Indies, “is a
pitcli take. It’s at La Brea. Jtcovors
about ninety acres and it is soft enough
to take tiie impression of your shoes
as you walk over it, but take up a hit
of it and strike it sharply and it breaks
off with a conchoidal fracture like a
lump of anthracite. I dont know
where it comes from, but I do know
that it’s most awfully hot there. Tho
sun pelts down like fun, and tiio black
pitch absorbs all tho heat. All down
to the coast and under the sea and
across in Ycnesttela thero is a streak
of this samo formation. Tho British
Government owns tho lake, and a
monopoly pays a royalty of not less
than £20,000 a year.”—[Chicago
Tribune.
A Kind Father.
“Hallo, .Tones. Going away?”
“No; I'm only checking my daugh¬
ter’s trunks.”
“Why, is Maud going visiting?”
i
“Not exactly. She and young Wil¬
kins are going to elope this afternoon,
aud I’m best man.”—[Now York Sun.
THE HONEYMOON.
A Survival of the Primitive
Method of Marriage.
Brutal and Unromantic Court¬
ships of Various Savages.
“Can yon tell me from what source
this custom of tho honeymoon journey
is derived?'’asked a young married
man, just returned from his wedding
trip with inuclv llattcucd pocket book,
of a scientific friend.
“Why, my dear boy,” was the re¬
ply, “it is of purely savago origin and
represents a survival of the primitive
method of marriage by capture. In
the early days of social existence be¬
fore the era of civilization dtwncd tiie
lover always secured his bride bv
force, just as the Australian native ol
today knocks down tho woman lie de¬
sires for a wife with his club and
drags her ofi, this ceremony constitut¬
ing the requisite legal form. Among
the Kalmucks of central Asia tiie girl
whom a youth desires to win is put on
a horse and rides off at full speed, the
lover pursuing as soon as she is judged
to have got a fair start. If ho cannot
overtake her the match is oil. hut if lie
succeeds iu catching her she becomes
his wife. When sho likes the young
man it is to be presumed ;liat site does
not ride iter hardest.
“With the Ahitusof the Phillippine
Islands when a man wishes to marry a
young woman site is given an hour's
start in the woods, anil, if he tin.ls
her and brings her back beforo scusct,
it is a lawful marriage. Ever so
many people still preserve the form of
marriage by capture, even though tiio
actual custom no longer cxi.-ts. When
an Indian of Chile has agreed on the
price he shall pay for a girl to her
parents the recognized mode of pro
Ceding is that lie surprises her, or is
supposed to do so, and carries her ofi
to the woods for a few days,
winch tho happy couple return home.
“That seems much like a civilized
honeymoon.”
“The idea of it is precisely tiio same
and the custom is derived from tiio
same source. Just as 1 said, the
honeymoon is in fact a survival of the
primitive custom of marriage by cap¬
ture. As nations have advanced in
civilization and commit' hies have be¬
come larger the actual capture of wives
has become inconvenient and uinieces
sary. Gradually, therefore, it lias
sunk more ami moro into mere form.
Thus tho requirements of fashion were
satisfied with your running off with
your own brido out of town for a
month.”
“Very expensive I found it. I
should have preferred not to acquire
my wife by capture.”
“All! But my dear fellow, you
were obliged to make a show of carry¬
ing her off if you wished to do the
proper thing. The very brido cake at
your wedding, of which 1 was given
a slice, is simply a survival of Hie bar¬
barous method of marriage by eating
togetiicr. This latter custom is in use
today among many tribes of Indians.
Among modern savages you will find
the same customs in vogue now that
wero doubtlc s used by our own
primitive ancestors, and this consider¬
ation alone renders a study of their
ways very intcrcs ing.
“Speaking of weddings reminds one
of kissing Hie bride. Now, as to that,
kissing seems to us so natural an ex¬
pression of affection that wc should
expect it to be found all over the
world. Yet it is unknown to tiie
Australian, Hie New Zealanders, the
Papuans, the natives of we*t Africa
and tho E-kinio. In some parts of
Central Africa it is considered a mark
of respect to turn the back on a supe¬
rior.
“The Todas of the Neilghorry hills,
in India, show respect by raising Hie
open right baud and resting tiie thumb
on tho ciul of the nose. Capt. Cook
asserts that the inhabitants of an island
in the Pacific ocean, called Mallicolo,
show admiration by hissing. Among
tho Eskimo it is customary to pull a
person’s noso ns a compliment. And
among tho Chinese, who aro not snv
age but barbarous, a coffin is regarded
as a neat and appropriate present for
an aged person, especially if in bad
health.”—[Washington Star.
The politician generally wants a
good “deal” for his money.
Vol. XI. New Series. NO. 1
Stokers ou an Ocean Steamship.
On the steamship City of Paris tl*ro
are sixty firemen, who feed the fiery
maws of fifty-four furnaces, that
create steam in nine steam boilers.
! I ifty coal passers shovel Hie fuel from
the bunkers to tiio furnace doors, and
the firemen toss it in. Tliero is some¬
thing tnoro titan mere shoveling in
firing. The stoker must know how to
put the coals on so they will not burn
foi^ qukkly or deaden the lire. He
must know how to stir or poke the
tiro so as to get all, or nearly all, Hie
caloric out of the coal. 1 Ie must know
how to obtain the best results from
the Welsh coal 1m burnes on the voyage
to this port and tho American coal he
uses on tho trip eastward. Each kind
requires different handling.
Often the result of a race eastward
fins been determined by tho superior
knowledge of tho handling of Ameri¬
can coal possessed by the winning
ship’s stokers. To a man who thor¬
oughly understands it, firing is easier
than it used to be. But it is, never¬
theless, so arduous that tho veterans
arc not over 45 years old. Nearly all
tiie stokers on tiie City of Paris and
Hie City of New York arc between 20
and 30 years of age. They rcccivo
820 a month and their board. Tho
leading stoker gets a few dollars more
find does not have to work quito so
hard. Ho is usually the eldest of iho
crew ho directs. Tho coal passer, tho
limit of whose ambition is to bceomo
a fireman, gets $17.50 a mouth. Tho
lending coal passer, or trimmer, ge.s a
little more than this.
W Service in the tire room is divided
into six watches of four hours each.
Tho fireman works and sleeps every
alternate four hours. After tho first
day from port two out of every six^
furnaces aro raked out of tiie baro
bars dining tho first hour of each
wa , c , lt Thus in a vovngc, all tho ftu
lmcc8 aro cletUHJll ouco every tW0n .
ly _ fom . lmurs . The 8lenm 0C8 down
a hh itI the hour while the cleaning is
Jlg 0IU The perspiring stokers
shovc , into tho fa ,. MUCC9 flftecn tolls ()f
coal every hour or 340 tons a day.
The ship usually takes in 3,000 tons at
Liverpool, and lias between 500 and
8C0 tons left in her hunkers when sho
arrives here.
The engineer's department is entire¬
ly distinct and sepnrato from ihe
firemen’s. On the City of Paris there
are twenty-six engineers, including
hydraulic and electrical. They arc
educated in engine shops on slioro and
a certain numb r of them go on ships
every year. They a e all machinists,
so whenever the ship breaks down they
know how to repair Hie damage. Ia
case Hie chief engineer should be disa¬
bled any assistant could take his place.
Animals’ Prrmonilions of Death.
Mr. L. li. Craig writes, affirming
that animals often havo premonitions
of death, in proof of this assertion
lie offers certain anecdotes. Here is
one of them: “Years ago,” he says,
“I was staying at a farmhouse where
it was Hie custom every evening to
drive a small heard of cows from the
pasture to a lot near tho barn.
It was decided one day to kill one of
the number, a yearling, whoso mother
also belonged to the herd. The calf was
accordingly left iu tiio loft, while the
re.-t were driven to the pasture, No
sooner Had the butcher slain his victim
thnn there could bo distinctly heard
from Hie pasture half a mile away, the
mournful lowing of tho mother, the
other cows occasionally Joining in
what cou'd bo dccribcd only as a wail.
Tho circumstance interested me
very much and 1 walked over to the
pasture. Through thirty years that
pathetic picture of maternal
.rief lias remained with tnc. It seemed
lo me that tliero was the actual sobbing
of a bursting heart and to my child¬
ish eyes there wero tears moistening
ihe face of tiio poor, gentle, sorrowful
creature before me.”—[New Orleans
Picayune.
Consistent.
“That Sallie Harkins Is the greatest
girl for getting bargains at second
hand.”
“Isn’t site? I understand she’s
going to marry a widower.”—[New
York Sun.
The Point of Resemblance.
He—The sound of your voico re¬
minds me of the music of a brook.
Site (flattered)—Indeed?
Ho—'Yes. You see, it rolls on for
ever.
The Sweetest Day.
I ito not know what skies there were,
Nor if the wind was high or low
I think T heard the branches stir
A little, when we turned to go;
I think I heard tiie grasses sway
As if they tried to kiss your feet-
And yet. it seems like yesterday,
That day togetiicr, sweet!
I think it must have been in May;
I think the sunlight must have shone;
1 know a seent of Spring ime lay
Across the fields; we were alone.
TVc went together, yon and I;
How could I look beyond your eyes
If you were only standing by'
I did not mi»s the skies t
I con’d not teil if evening glowed,
Or noonday heat lay white or stii
Beyond the shadows of the road;
I only watched your face, until
I knew it was the gladdest day,
The sweetest day that Sumtiie. Ih m
The time when we two stole away
And 1 saw only you!
HUMOROUS.
True lovers arc few but not very far
between.
The cook is an expert at decorating
the interior.
The butcher’s recipe for getting
rid of superfluous flesh is to sell it.
Earth lias no greater joy (ban the
discovery of a quarter in a cast off
vest.
Wo may differ ia this world, but
when we get to the cemetery we are
all oa a dead level.
Tho orator lias tho advantage of
other men; whenever ho is hard up lie
can “spout” something.
How good a man is to his wifo the
first day after she has caught him
doing something wrong.
Waiter—“Do you object lo cigars,
Miss Perto?” Miss Perto—“Never,
unless they arc lighted.”
The plebeian molasses candy always
lias optimistic views. It. gets stuck ou
everything, itself included.
The mule is a great kicker, but, un.
like Man, he doe-not kick iu the di.
rection where his grub is found.
Fair visitor—Why do they call the
sailors tars, lieutenant? Lieutenant—
Because they pitcli into the enemy.
Chirrup—Docs your watch go?
Ilard-Up (just returned from pawn¬
broker’s)—Well, it went for a short
time.
“Johnnie, you have broken tho Sab¬
bath.” “Well, there’s no great harm
do c. There’ll bo another aioug next
week.”
“I sco the dethroned Emperor of
Brazil has become a great student.”
‘•Yes; now that lie cannot reign he
pores!”
When you sec a boy with beautiful,
long yellow curls tliero is very little
doubt as to who is Hie head of the
family.
Dobbins—Miss Clara’s father actu¬
ally insulted mo last night. Richards
—Got out! Dobbins—Yes, thal’ajust
what lie said.
Snooks—“There were very few peo¬
ple at (lie funeral of Dr. Soottovcr.”
Skaggs—“No wonder; hardly any of
his patients have survived him.’’
At the husking beo, if you get a red
car, you may sleal a kiss; while, on
tho contrary, under other conditions,
if you steal a kiss you may get a red
car.
Dummy Clocks.
There aro some cl cks that tell time
ami some that only tell the right time
twice every day. They are the dum¬
my clocks which jewellers often have
for signs in front of their stores.
Have you ever seen them? and, if so,
have yon noticed that almost all ol
them point to tho same t'mc,—seven¬
teen minutes afier eight? Perhaps, il
you have thought of them at all, you
supposed, ns I did, that they wero
made to point to any hour that the
workman who made them might fan
cy; but that is not so. A gentleman,
standing near one the other day, said,
“I never sco one of those clock-faces
tlint I don’t think of Abraham
Lincoln.”
“Why so?” laid a friend.
“Because those clocks mark the hour
nnd moment when he was shot. The
Jewellers’ Association aftor Ids death
decided that all such clock-faoes
should be set at 8.17, end this has
been done so generally sines that you
scarcely ever see one which*!* not in
this way a sad reminder of the tragio
death of a great man.”-— [Christian
Advocate.