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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES •■[j
C. X. KINO, (I’ruprtutor
a a ojuwsr. >
The Unexpected.
We arise from sweet sleep in the morning,
And with never a whisper of warning
The unexpected comes.
At the noontide never a whisper of on¬
slaught!
Yet, despite all our knowledge and fore¬
thought,
The unexpected comes.
With the even wc question no longer;
For to us, he we weaker or stronger,
The unexpected comes.
While the vigil at midnight we’re keeping,
Through the presage of sorrow and weeping
The unexpected comes.
-[William S. Webster in Constitution.
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LITTLE QUEEN.
“Little Queen,” said the handsomest
Ad lady alive to hor granddaughter,
■rose pet name seemed tho most ap
Ibriate that could be given her. 1
Hliemisseil Patrick. lie has been
fpf>H: Bkli»i-'>\vri‘d •!>© dairy, ungrateful wretch.
il - and bog* that he
Hbday. Is it not dreadful?”
Bmloed u'lilma. Pa!.’ lek is
^9kinan can be.”
ier, child, Dolmer
id no peace since that
Ed,” cried Queen, in a
■have been deceived by
9orrible and wicked
Hr it re. Look at his
Hger-like 9 eyes. The
Hi 1 have no doubt, an
hate him! '
H B-inantiered n guagc. dear. Dol
man-ser
Hh B for my interests.
. of beauty.”
jtiftil,” laughed
his honest gray
m mouth, grandma.
Ed keep Patrick.”
H lovely room in o'nc
■ villas on the IIud
Hofa on which tliey
Hives, a tall Indian
H ■rauglits, li; > r bed been placed
which the
■..ws-unost old ladle!
Hsion it answered a
m, for behind it crouched
K-ski:ined man in a ser*
* who was listening iu
convcrsalion of tho two
HTr is a good man. Ha prays
ids his Bible a great deal,” said
old lady.
“Always in public,” said the girl,
“And tho Benevolent Society speaks
so highly of him,” said the grand¬
mother.
“What do they know of him?”
asked Queen. “Guilt is stamped on
his face; ho wants honest Patrick out
of the way; lie is a member of the
dangerous class, I am sure. Grand¬
ma, I am afraid for you. Send him
away.”
Tiie old lady tossed her heart.
“I am more competent to judge than
you are, at your age, little Queen,”
sho said* “Suppose lie lias sinned and
is repentant, shall we not bo merciful
to him? I believe he is truly good,
poor thing, and so attentive. Besides,
I manage my own home, little Queen.
I am not quile childish.”
“Very well, grandma,” sighed the
girl.
Sho passed out into the hall. Patrick
stood there, with his face flushed aud
his hair touselcd.
“Ould Nick, savin’ your prisince, is
’avesdroppitig to your remarks,” he
said.
“No doubt, Pat,” said Queen. “Had
I my way,he should go aud you should
stay.”
“Thank ye,miss,” said PuL “You’d
never believe poor Patrick would rob
the dairy, miss, and stale butther au*
egg a an’ things—Pat that is so g rate¬
ful he’d die for the ould lady aud both
of yez?”
“Indeed, I do not,” said the girl.
“I have tried to got grandma to alter
her decision. However, I know where
to find you, Pat: and I think yon will
come back before long. I will expose
Dolmer. f if 1 can.”
Pat bowed, and wont sadly and
•lowly toward his garret to get his
littlo bine chest, and Bertha moved
away. As she did so a cruel face
peeped from behind a pantry door,
and two dark brows met in a scowl
over eyes that were hardly human.
The man who liad listened behind the
sc: een listened again. It was Dolmer.
“So you are my enemy,” he said.
“Very well, young lady. All is
fe» ww.”
SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1891.
Time was a littte supper-party at
the villa that night A dozen of the
most - elegant • people of the neighbor¬
hood had been invited. Bertha, in
licr palo pink silk dress, with rosebud*
in her black hair, was beautiful enough,
bi t at the last moment the old lady,
anxious to atone for her passing ill
temper, added a touch to her toilet.
“Come here, child,” she said. “Yon
shall have ray long-promised diamonds
tonight. I have tukon them from the
safe on purpose. Yon know I never
put them on now. You are just the
stylo for diamonds.”
She placed the stars in her hair,
drew the golden drops from her ears
and substituted little cascades of dia¬
monds, fastened a necklace about her
neck and bracelets on her arms. The
girl looked like an empress with all
this wonderful splendor added to her
beauty.
“I shall bo really ashamed of my¬
self. I am too fine,” she said.
“Nobody can be that nowadays,”
said the old lady. “Simplicity is out
of fashion, and the idea that girls
must only wear only white and rose¬
buds. I shall tell them I have given
yon your birthday present, and made
you wear it. Why should I wait un¬
til I am dead to give the things to
you? You would not enjoy them so
much, and you are one-and-twenty,
Bertha.”
“Dear grandma,” cried Bertha,”
how good you are 1 It is more than I
deserve, unless, indeed, loving you is
some claim. When I argue with you
it is because I know you are being
imposed upon I— There, I will try
to believe as you do about Dolmer.
Of course you have had more experi¬
ence, and I am silly about Patrick,
who has been hero so long.”
“My dear, I’vo cried about Patrick,
if you want the truth,’’ said the old
lady. “I’ve really been liis benefac¬
tress ; but they tell lie that persons
of this class are always turning out
badly, and have no gratitude. -Sys¬
tematic plunder, good Dolmer says',
has been going on from ftrst to last
Well, now go and look your prettiest
and feel your happiest, little Queen.”
And, k.ssieg the lovely girl, the beau¬
tiful old lady swept into her drawing¬
room, where the guests soon assembled.
It was an evening to remember, and
Queen was in her gayest mood, or
seemed to bo. The truth was, she
made an effort unusual to hor, for
somehow her heart was heavy. Dol¬
mer, with his strange, cruel face, dis¬
figured by tts yellow scars, had drilled
•he waiters thoroughly, and in his
faultless blaek coat and white tie,
seemed to her like Satan playing man¬
servant. Many, howevor, congratu¬
lated Mrs. Ashford on her possession
of a treasure.
“These Europeans,” they said, “un¬
derstand all this sort of thing so much
better than other people.”
A great tenor from the Italian opera
sung for them that night Brilliant
men talked their best; girls looked
lovelier than evor, in the light of the
myriad wax candles. The scent of
m ;ny blossoms filled the house. When
good-nights were said, the protesta¬
tions of having liad “a very pleasant
evening” were heartfelt; and surely,if
admiration from men aud friendly
speech from women could contout one,
Queen should have been happy.
Alas! her heart felt as heavy as
lead. She seemed to feel a strange
premonition of evil. That night for
the first time she reincmb trod that her
grandmother, so handsome yet and
full of life and spirit, was really old;
that in all probability she must soon
lose her. Perhaps it was this she
thought. It was enough.
She followed the old lady to her
room, and was loath to leave her; but
all was so pleasant there, so guarded,
so comfortable, and then the waiting
maid always slept in the small room
adjoining, that she had no excuse for
asking to stay.
With her diamonds still about her
and her face growing more and more
serious, she stole softly up the stairs.
Dolmer was locking doors and extin¬
guishing candles with a painstaking
air. He bowed to her as she passed.
His eyes and his dark skin, with its
scars, made her think of a tiger.
She hurried to her room and locked
the door. Sho had never done this
before. She did not know why she
did it now. The house sho had known
ever since she was born felt unsafe to
her.
At last she knelt down and prayed.
teit comforted* and arising, began tc
undress.
She removed the diamonds, laid
them in their rich old eases, ami
placed them fn her bureau. She had
not the courage to go to the safe with
them—she, who bad often boasted
that she did not know what fear
meant. She threw her pretty dress
across a chair, attired herscif for the
night and slipped into bed, leaving the
night lamp burning. It was a curious
little thing, from which a white moon
face, set in a sea of blue, looked at
one with its almond eyes, when the
lamp was lighted. It usually liad a
expression; now it seemed to
give her glances of warning. Yet she
might have fallen asleep even then,
but f„r a new and horrible thiug tliat
happened- %
We all know that the coughing or
even hard breathing of any individual
is a very distinctive sound, alike in no
two people. Patrick, the dismissed
servant, had a peculiar way of catchr '
ing his breath when fatigued. .
Suddenly in the silence, this sound
struck on Queen’s ear. Was it imagl
nation? No, she hoard it again.
once she was assured lhat Patrick wot
coucealcd in her room behind tho cuj|>
tains of an alcove. It could bo for no
other purpose than that of theft. Dal
mer had been right, an honest guardign
of her aunt’s iuterests; Patrick a
wretch who deceived his benefactress.
She tried to think of some means of ,
escape from the room. Should she
rise to cross it, Patrick, powerful and
alert, could stop her with a finger,
She might bring about her own rour
der. Perhaps to feign sleep was the
best and safest thing to do.
At last grandma was safe for the
present. Patrick must know the dia¬
monds were in iter room. Again that
sudden catch of tho strong man’s
breath. Queen almost fainted.
Suddenly another sound struck li(jr
ear. A step upon the roof of the
porch, which was below her window.
The shutters opened; a dark hoail ’
protruded into the room, a lithe figure
followed. Dolmer himself, a pistol in
his hand.
“Can tills be true?” thought tho
girl. “This man I suspected lias
proved my guardian angel; lie has
come to save me from Patrick,”
In tier relief she sat up iu bed, and
clasping her hands, cried:
“Dolmer—good—kind Dolmer I”
But his answer was an oath. A
hand struck her, not heavily but sharp
ly, on the shoulder, aud Dolmer’s
voice hissed in her ear.
“ ‘Good Dolmer, eh I Ah, now you
are afraid I I was bad Dolmer this
morning. I was to be dismissed, eh?
Oh, yes, yes, because I am so dreadful
to behold 1”
“I looked like an escaped convict?
Very well, I ain—from the galleys
at Toulon. For what was I there, ehP
For killing a woman. Now I kill
another I Then I take the diamonds I
Ah! you did well to keep them in your
room to-night, and, at daylight, I dis
cover you are murdered and robbed,
Dead women cannot telltales! Per
haps its Patrick who is dismissed,
who is (ho ihief. Who knows? Not
honest Dolmer—who soon goes to bo
rich in his own country. I hate you.
I like to kill you! I, who look like
an ugly tiger, eh?”
The girl shrank back powerless to
move or to speak, but seeing what
Dolmer does not see: the alcove cur¬
tain thrown aside, and a great well
built Irish figure emerging from it,
and lifting its strong hand above Dol
met-’s right arm. The next instant,
Dolmer is on tho floor, and Patrick
kneeling on his breast, ties his hands
together with a red cotton handker
chief, as he cries:
“No fear now, miss I” I was up to
the thrieks of the craytlier, and
watched him. I knew he was afther
thirn di’miuts, and I saw him thry the
windy to see if it was aisy enthrin’;
so I risked me caracktlicr for the sake
of the family, j rayin’ the saints be wid
mo. “Asy, Miss Queen. He’s as
helpless as a baby in me hands.”
Pat gave his testimony iu court,
when Doltner was tried, in a way that
made much laughter, but it was with
him, not at him.
Dolmer, an escaped murderer, who
had killed a lady for the sake of a
bracelet, was returned to the authori¬
ties of his own country; and Patrick
s now guardian-goueral of the house
.and the ladies. A more faithful
could not be found.—(The Ledger.
THE JUGGERNAUT.
|acts * About a Great Hindoo
• Religious
Festival.
^The Car Used Is the Largest
;I Vehicle In the World.
f Juggernaut is variously pronounced
fts Jaggernath, Jumcrgulha and Jag
jtnnniha. the last being the Sanscrit
probable root of the many words
©f the same general construction all of
signify “Lord of tho World;”
one of the names of Vishnu,
io second god of the Hindoo triad. .
Juggernaut, besides being the name
the idol representing Vishnu, is
also the name of a town or city in the
province Orissa in Bengal, British
Jfrom India, tho city having taken its name
Juggernaut’s car and idol on-
1,ri uod within its walls. The ground
upon which the town is built is con¬
e id qfcd holy and is hold by tho com
nf9 ’” i,v as common property, no tribute
exacted from any resident, other
that he perform certain ritos in
a,,< * n ^ out ,he tem p!©> * llU3 proving
fownself a Iliudoo and a firm believer in
Vishnu iu bis manifold forms. -
* * 10 c *^ Juggernaut has about
60,000 _ inhabitants, but as there is a
religious festival held there once every
mon( h, the population constantly
within its borders falls but little slnrt
of 150,000. The principal street of
the city runs north and south for 2 8-4
miles—both sides being formed by an
almost unbroken line of Hindoo tem
P^ es » which are overshadowed
by tho great Temple of Juggernaut,
which stands at tho southern extremity
of tho main street.
Tho “great temple” rises to a height
of nearly 800 feot, and is surmounted
by a brotUMr covered domo, the point
of which reaches 160 feet higher. The
goda tyftll wlHcfipuvrovmds is sjj it with this sides gigantic 650 feet pa¬ in
a are
is Ad. feet thick at the bottom
and nearly 40 foot high. Besides the
great pagoda in honor of Juggernaut,
tho inclosure contains templos and
idols dedicated to dozens of tho other
Hindoo deities.
AH of the idols are monstrous in de¬
sign and frightful looking in appear¬
ance. That to Krishna (another name
for Juggernaut) is painied blue and
has a faco hideous m the extreme.
According to Hindoo legend Krishna
was killed by a hunter. His bones
wore found under a tree and brought
before King luilradyumna, who was
directed by one of the goils to form an
image of Jaganath (perhaps Jugger¬
naut; see John IV. Wright’s “Idol
Worshippers of India,” page 355),and
place Krishna’s bones inside.
Visvakarma, a divine architect and
sculptor, undertook to make the im¬
age, but, being hurried by the king,
left off in anger. So Jaganath was
left without hands or feet. In cont
pensntion, Brahma gave tho image
eyes and a soul. It may bo seen by
this legend that it was oiiginaliy on
account of the saintly bones within it
that the image was venerated,
Besides Krishna or Juggernaut, two
others of the idols are provided with
immense cars or chariots. Tho Car
of Juggernaut is thought to be the
largest wheeled vehicle that lias yet
been made in the world. It is 34 1-2
feet square at the base and 43 1-2 foot
in height, mounted on 16 wheels, each
6 1-2 feet in diameter. Once eacii
year, at the great annual March festi
val, Juggernaut, mounted on the apex
of his stately car, is taken to a house
about one and a naif miles in the coun
try, where a female image is supposed
to be waiting to become his bride,
The removal of the chariot from the
shrine to the country house being a
proccceding holy iu the extreme, no
animals are used for drawing the
chariot, men, women and children
only being permitted to perform sucli
righteous services.
On this occasion either five or seven
ropes are attached to the front of the
car, tho middle one having been
twisted from hair cut from the heads
of female devotees. It was a long
cherished belief in Christian countries
that m-iny pilgrims sacrificed them¬
selves upon these galla days by falling
prone before the car and allowing the
pondrou8 wheels to pass over their
bodies.
It is probable that the accounts of
these self sacrifices have been too
highly colored, and that the great 1cm
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of life upon such occasions, when
thousands of frantic devotees are con¬
gregated together, comes more from
accident than ft out a desire to stavt for
heaven from directly underneath tli©
wheels of the holy cir.—[St. Louis
Republic.
Tho Potato Festival in Bolivia.
Professor Squier tells us that he
happened to visit Tial.uanaco during
the annual chuno (potato) festival of
tho modern Indians—the vegetable, as
all tho world knows, being indigenous
to this portion of South America,
though it lias been vastly improved in
some of tho countries to which it lias
been transplanted. lie says that tho
people were dancing in tho public
square, in front of the cathedral, to
the music of drums and tambourines,
and were wearing enormous head¬
dresses resembling umbrellas, made
mostly of feathers wrought into the
jorm of flowers.
Each group of men was accom¬
panied by a number of female dan¬
cers, the latter wearing hats with wide,
stiff brims, the crowns surrounded by
fan-like representations of tho rising
sun, sot with small looking glasses and
tipped with clusters of feather flowers.
All the women wore sky-blue dresses,
and over the left shoulder of eacli was
tied a scarf of hand-woven wool,
striped with brilliant colors.
This chuno festival is participated
in by all the Indians far and near and
is a curious mingling of tho rites of
tho heathen incas and the ceremonies
of the church. Though antedating
the Christianization of the country it
is carried on today under the qontrol
of the priests who, through the three
hundred and fifty years that have in¬
tervened since the conquest, have al¬
ways found it expedient to retain
some traces of tho ancient customs.—
[Washington Star.
Wanderings of Derelicts.
The suggestion’ that the Government
build and equip a small cruiser for
patrol duty along tho Atlantic coast
and the destruction and removal of
dangerous wreckR and abandoned ves¬
sels calls to mind the remarkable wan¬
derings of a “derelict” noted in a re¬
cent Atlantic pilot chart. In Novem¬
ber, 1886, tiro Port Royal Buoy wont
adrift. Instead of floating ashore
somewhere along the Carolina co»9t,
ii was carried far to the northeast by
the Gulf Stream, and three months
later was sighted 200 miles north of
the Bermudas. Over a year later, iu
June, 1888, it had drifted to a point
300 inilos further west, and hero for
two years moto remained almost sta¬
tionary, floating about in a circle with
a radius of less than 100 miles.
At last it turned southward again
and three months ago was sighted
about oOO miles to the east and south
of the Bermuda Islands, looking un¬
changed and in a condition to continue
its rovings indefinitely. A “dorelict”
of larger bulk following the same
track would of course prove a serious
and constant peril to navigators of
that especially crowded and dangerous
part of the Atlantic, aad many mari¬
time experts have urged the establish¬
ment of a patrol for the interception
of such floating hulks as an additional
safeguard against disasters at sea.—
[New York Tribune.
California’s English Walnut Trees.
The English walnut groves are just
coming into good bearing in Anaheim,
Los Angelos County. They produce
from $400 to $500 per aero, and the
entire crop of the valley has yielded
$20,000 this season. Only twenty
seven trees are planted to an acre, but
each tree will yield $20 worth of nuts.
Nineteen years ago Fresno County was
a desert, given over to the jack-rabbi -
Wheat could not be raised even on the
valley land, beemse of tlie excessive
drouth in summer. In 1871 the first
irrigating canal brought in 500 set¬
tlers. These have now increased to
25,000 colonists, whilo land formerly
held at $2.50 per acre now commands
from $50 to $500 an acre. The county
now has sixteen canal systems, 800,
000 acres in grain, 20,000 in vineyards,
and 8000 in orchards.—[New York
Tribune.
Rather Artificial.
First Miss—Don’t you think Mr.
Simper is rather artificial?
Second Miss—Indeed, he is, espe¬
cially his teeth and one eye.—[New
York Weekly.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A velocity of about six or seven
miles a scoond would suffice to earry a
body away from the gravitation of the
earth.
It is asserted by men of high pro¬
fessional ability that, when the system
needs a stimulant, nothing equals a
cup of strong coffee.
An Engli h geologist predicts that
within fifty years a convulsion of nat¬
ure w!U sink the wltolo of New Zea¬
land fifty feet below the surface of
the sea.
Want of wholesome and adequate
food docks one-quarter, one-third or
oue-!ialf from the natural term of the
industrial force for all those who come
to man’s estate.
California diamonds are crystals of .
quartz, the most abundant of all minjj
ends. They are sometimes cut tonH; and Jnj
by jewelers, and sold as “white
but oftnner as California iHs.^9 dian^^l
A <all lake lias been
1 Vr-ia, tliu waters of \vl«
it than those of anvfl
world. According to HH£BBj||fi|f I
!• "s, the proportion of
twenty-two per cent. *
There are but two u flH S jjg
■“liiw.’.G
One is (O li-tctl to ihc9 .A
ditlb'ult teal : the ot^B §9
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The ("teavTions of ^B’.V' H
nothing, or next to i H
arch.Tology of the floly^B V,<9
the c, as. !!•;■: ago, J! il, i if
learn anything about pro-1 itsH
on the soil of Palestine
lie by the help of the spade. It
Dr. Holder, the eminent H
on small arms, says that the®
trie tube which incloses the AH
mi "f the Manchester lemporntl^B ritu^H
of itna easea '
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it was intended,
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cold. m
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fur- i-ight 9
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or d.
is not ut-M rvaiiio in ottiH vMM
The fact is not so wolIHl
deserves to hr that croam^Hiledeededd;;
an aiiunrahie nutvimmit for^BesSld::
It is superior to butter, coHJ
more volatilo oils. Persons ]
posed to consumption, aged oxtremitlBI perlH
or those inclined to cold
and feeble digestion are especially
benefited by a liberal use of sweet
cream. It is far better than cod liver
oil, and besides being excellent for
medicinal properties it is a highly
nutritious food.
A Land of Eternal Earthquakes.
At Autlqua, or old Guatemala, are
the ruins of the old capital, destroyed
long ago by earthquake. Here you
find (he most equable climate in (be
world, the temperature almost never
varying. Here, too, the* earth keeps
up a continual quaking, and scarcely
an hour passes but a slight shock is
felt The ancient ruins show signs of
past grandeur and are the remains of
the buildings and dwellings of wealthy
people. It is said that the country
round the old capita! has been gradu¬
ally sinking, inch by inch, for ages,
but this does not prevent it from being
occupied.
The Guatemalan’s propensity for
gambling is something wonderful, and
at the games carried on in the swell
clubs yon see fortunes change hands
in an evening. The favorite games
are “para pinto," played with dice,
and the great American game of
poker.—[San Franolacho Cronldc.