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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES.
C. B. N. CARTER, KINO. I Proprietor
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"Blw np your rifles !” Stern and clear
Ring out the words upon the ear.
Yet none of all that motley band
Or moves an eye or stirs a hand.
In silence anil disdain profound
Gaze those grim warriors on the ground,
Though round about them ringwise runs
A glittering wall of deadly guns.
What ails those wild and savage men
Hemmed there like cattle in a pen ?
Black-haired, high-cheeked and eagle-eyed,
Have they no fear, no hate, no pride?
, Ragged they are, and hunger gnaws
The vitals of their sullen squaws.
“Give up your rifles!” Now they look
Like painted Indians in a book.
Each warrior's arms are crossed, and rest
Beneath his b'auket, on his breast.
They make no sign, yet soaring high
Drifts one lone buzzard through the sky.
“Give up your rifles!” To and fro
Those gaunt forms sway in rhythm slow.
Listen! What menus that guttural moan,
That weird, unearthly monotone?
“Enough of this!” The captain’s brow
Grows black. '‘Forward aud search them
now.”
Down drops the buzzard in the blue—
Is that the death chant of the Sioux?
Quickly with leveled guns the men
Step out, the ring contracts, and then—
Red devils, desperate and rash,
Fighting in ragged lire aud crash
Of sudden rifles; sulphurous air
And lithe fiends leaping everywhere!
Here shakes the dripping tomahawk,
There falls the splintered rifle stock.
And yonder, with uplifted knifo
The lean squaw writhes amid the strife!
And all is over. White and red
Together piled lie torn and dead.
Now rake the long ravines with shot
And riddle every hiding spot!
Let none of them escape to toil
How many pale-faced warriors fell.
’Tis done, ’twas done, now as we ought
Let ns remember how they fought.
Was the Old Guard at Waterloo
Less desperate than those filthy Sioux?
“Yield you, brave Frenchmen” was the cry;
“We never yield,” they said, “we die!”
Was Custer, when he fought that day,
More daring and less rash than they?
Murderous and treacherous at best,
But no slurs ’gainst their courage rest.
I praise them not, I love them not,
But ere their prowess be forgot,
And ere their tribe be dead and dumb,
Oh that some native bald would come
To sing in weird and worthy strain
Those wariors of wood and plain,
To weave in sad and moving song
The story of their hate aud wrong!
Perchance some sweeter time might hear
And blot the page with many a tear!
—[George Horton, in Chicago Herald.
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A Maiden of Yucatan,
BY ALICE D. LE PI.ONdEON.
The first time we saw her, Concliita
Was seated on a very upright chair, the
high heel of her dainty shoe caught on
one of the lower bars, so as to raise
her foot to a height enabling her to
sustain her guitar in a right position.
She was one of the many guests in a
large house owned and occupied by a
wealthy planter, who delighted in
throwing open his doors to all friends
during the time of a groat annual fair,
when lodgings were hard to find.
Conchita’s father was a rich planter,
making plenty of money by the labor
of poor Indians. Yes, Don F-made
plenty of money, bnt did not keep it,
for he was an inveterate gamester.
All his wife’s entreaties availed noth¬
ing. His object in attending (he great
fair in the city of Izamai (Yucatan)
was to sacrifice a few hours and many
dollars at the tables, squandering the
profits obtained from his sugar plan¬
tation. Ho was quite an old man, and
the only being he really seemed to lcve
was )about his daughter Conchita. She was
seventeen years old, very small,
hot more than four ieet ten incites in
^eight,and proportionately d brunette, slender. perhaps A
very pronounce
paving a slight tinge of Indian blood;
this was particularly noticeable in her
exceedingly dark eves, and the obsti¬
nate straightness of her luxuriant
black locks. Conchita had not a pretty
figure, nevertheless she was graceful,
and had bcauliful little hands which
appeared to advantage in playing the
guitar- ,For the rest, (hough Conchita
was called a belle, she really could
make no pretentions to beauty, but a
piquant expression made her face at¬
tractive. The wonder was how she
managed to get music from the guitar,
her hands being so very small. She
wore a pink muslin dress, and various
pruftffiPlRi el gold, It pnly eleven
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SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. MARCH: 19, 1891.
o’clock in the morning, but as soon as
high mass had been celebrated in the
great church standing on the opposite
side of the square, the bullfight would
commence; and merrv maids wore in
evening dress, ready for that enter¬
tainment. The bull ring stood in the
middle of the square. From the Salon
where we sat listening to Conchita’s
performance, we soon saw people
eagerly thronging to the spot; the
gayly dressed white people, and the
far more numerous natives, all
clothed in white. Big and small, rich
and poor, all must enjoy the bull fight.
Many ladies took with them several
young children, and as many servants
to look after them.
“Come! come!” exclaimod Conchi¬
ta, “we shall miss the first bull."
Wo all went to the ring and occupied
a large box. Neither man nor horses
were sacrificed on that occasion, nor
even injured; only a few bulls were
killed, much more mercifully thau iu
any slaughter house. Every one en¬
joyed the fight; Conchita’s cheeks
were flushed to a pretty pink.
When we had returned to the house
and partaken of fruit, Conchita came
to me with her hands full of gold
ounces, sixteen dollar pieces; six or
eight of them filled hor small palm.
Said she, “See what papa has given
me to play with I”
“And are you going to gamble?”
asked I.
“No,” laughed Bhe, “I am goiug to
keep it.”
If sho did lose any of that gold at
the roulette table, we were not pres¬
old; but her father threw away a few
thousand dollars that very night, only
desisting at sunrise because he had no
more on hand to lose. He expressed
no regret, but played again in the
afternoon, merely saying, “Santa Ma¬
ria” (the name of his plantation)
“will givo it all back to me in a few
months.”
Evening found Conchita at the ball,
her clear brown skin made chalky
vvliito with powder, in which respect
she was no exception to the other
ladies; and all wore artificial flowers,
though natural ones could easily be
obtained.
When the fair was over, Conchita
was one of the first to teavo Izamai
for her home in tlm more eastern city
of Valladolid. Don F.’s traveling
carriago was ono of those peculiar
conveyances called Colan Kocho, a
wagon whose bottom is a network of
thick ropes, on which is spread a thin
mattress, serving as seat.
Conchita said she would never oc¬
cupy any other part than the foremost
end of it; so there sho took her place
beside the driver, a bare-footed, dark
skinned native, in white cotton gar¬
ments. Conchita had on a cambric
dress, and a Mexican rebozo (scarf)
over her head and shoulders—for it is
only during the last few years that the
ladies of Yucatan have taken to the
use of hats and gloves. Don F
stretched himself at full-length on the
mattress and fell asleep, according to
his habit.
Later on we saw Conchita at her
home. She, not her mother, seemed
to rule the household. Her three
young brothers, one sister aud half a
dozen Indian servants all promptly
obeyed her orders, though she seemed
to bestow no affection on any of them.
When next wo met Conchita she was
in the capital, Merida, where the fam¬
ily had moved, occupying one of their
own houses, so that the children might
have more educational advantages than
they were afforded at Valladolid. As
for Don F--, he was nearly always
away at the plantation.
With a carriage of her own, a fine
piano and first-class teacher, Conchita
was fairly contented; but a new
thought had crept into her life, and
much of her time was spent swinging
in her silky pita, hammock, and tak¬
ing occasional whiffs from the dainti¬
est of cigarettes. About what was her
mind so busy? Why, the poor little
thing was in love, and even her piano
hardly interested her any longer; it
required much coaxing to induce her
to practise half an hour a day. It
would have beeu quite different had
the course of her true love run smooth.
But alas 1 her father bitterly Opposed
her marrying a carpopter, even though
that industrious young man did call
himself a cabinet maker. What was
to be done? Conchita was a very
dutiful child, and really loved her
father, he jtaylhg always gratifle^ her
little whims and fancies. So when ba
forbade her to speak to or look at ths
dear Lorenzo, she yielded implicit
obedience, requesting the loved one to
not even approach the window behind
w^ose iron bars she some times sat to
look abroad.
She would pass in her carriage by
his door, where he was taking the cool
evening air, and nover turned her head
his way, saying to us, “It is hard, but
he knows I think of him.”
When carnival time came round, nt
the gay and brilliant balls where ono
seemed to be transported to Spain it¬
self, Conchita might dance with whom
she pleased save him. Then she sighed
and said, “How hard; the only ono I
should like to dance with, I may not
even glance at with a look of recogni¬
tion ; but some day papa will give his
consent, when ho sees how sad my life
will become.”
And be did at last; after threo years’
patient waiting the wedding was cele¬
brated with Don F-’s full blessing.
Just in time, for only a few weeks
aftor Conchita had worn white satin
and orange blossoms, she had to don a
black garb and mourn the death of her
father.
AVheu we asked what she would
have done about marrying, had lie
passed away without giving liis con.
sent, she replied, “Remained single
all my life and Lorenzo would have
done the same.”
When we last saw Conchita sho was
fondly gazing on a little morsel of
humanity, and she said, “Papa would
have loved it.”—[Boston Transcript.
Cremation is Older Than Inhumation.
If sun and lire worship be the earli¬
est forms of religion in the world, it
is reasonable to infer that cremation is
older than inhumation. And yet the
Chaldeans, who were fire worshippers,
regarded the burning of a human body
as a pollution of their deity, and the
ancient Parsees, as do their modern
representatives, exposed their dead to
the attacks of beasts of prey, caring
not about the flesh, and confident in
the indestructibility of the bones. It
is curious, however, that the ancient
German races did not regard it as a
pollution of the Earth deity to bury
their dead. The Scythians, again, de¬
clined both fire and earth, and made
their graves in the air, hanging the
bodies ou trees, while the Ichthyo
phagi of Egypt sought theirs in the
sea. Theso last, it will be observed
thought to avoid corruption in the
very manner which the Homeric heroes
dreaded most—by the extinction of
the fire of the soul in water.
The old Balearians, according to
Diodorus Siculus, adopted a curious
compromise. They affected urn burial
without burniug—crushing the flesh
and bones into urns, upon which they
heaped wood without fire. Aud that
the Hebrews were not unacquainted
with cremation is certain, for the men
of Jabesh burned the bodies of Saul
aud his sons.
The Massagetae, who, according to
Herodotus, inhabited the country to
the east of the Caspian, had a cheerful
habit of boiling their aged and infirm
relatives, and of feasting on their
bodies, “esteeming universally this
mode of death the happiest,” Those
who died from disease, however, were
not eaten, but were buried in the earth
as altogether unfortunate subjects, to
be forgotten quickly as unworthy
members of the family. Yet a9 the
Massagetae were sun worshipers, we
may imagine something of the religious
element iu the boiling process.—
[Scottish Magazine.
A 'Witty Answer Brought Success.
A young newspaper man who last
spring found himself in Whitman
County, Washington, 500 miles from
his base of supplies and “broke” hired
out to a farmer. Ho was set to plough¬
ing with a pair of horses, but both
man and beasts being new to the
business, the furrows looked as if
they were the result of au earthquake
rather than of design, so crooked and
zigzag were they. At the close of the
day the farmer rather testily criticised
the job. The newspaper man felt that
his doom was sealed, but mustered
courage to reply: “I know the rows
are rather crooked, but the sun was
exceedingly hot today, and it warped
them.” The answer turned away the
farmer’s wrath, and, instead of being
discharged, the newcomer was given
a nuich easier and ploasanter job, and
i» yow the farmer's
WHETSTONES.
Their Production Is an Impor¬
tant Industry.
Wonderful Stones Used for
Making Steel Blades Keen,
“Au important industry of tho
world is the production of whet¬
stones,” said Curator Merrill of the
Smithsonian Institute to a Washington
Star reporter.
“The finest whetstones known for
the sharpening of fine edged tools are
obtained from Arkansas, In that
elate are beds of what is called *no
vaculite,’ which is scientifically known
as an ‘altered schist.’ This means a
deposit of a flinty nature, usually
combined with limestone, tho rock
thus produced being changed in such
a manner molccularly, by process not
altogether understood, as to supply
a surface most suitable for grinding.
Arkansas furnishes tho most entire
supply of novaculite for tho United
States, aiso filling a large part of tho
export demand, which is very consid¬
erable. The main deposit of the ma¬
terial is in a single hill about 500 feet
high. For the sharpening of keen
edged tools, razors excepted, this no¬
vaculite is unrivalled, It is a very
beautiful stone, of snowy whiteness,
and is quite costly because it has to be'
cut by diamond dust, owing to its ex¬
treme hardness.
“Next in point of quality tor whet¬
stone purposes is a gray, fine-grained
sandstone from Orange county, Ind.
It is called indifferently ‘Hindoostan
stone’ or ‘Orange couuty stone.’ Vory
commonly it is made into long spikes
for sharpening knives upon in the
kitchen, and for this purposo it is far
better than steel. Another sandstone
employed for the same purpose is
married in Cortland county, N. Y.,
yE?iU A called, without any reason that
I know of, ‘Labrador stone.’ It is of
a dark gray color.
“A still coarser whetstone for
scythes and other such tools is made
from Berea grits, a sandstone found
in the neighborhood of Berea, Ohio.
Also there are certain qualities of fine¬
grained mica schists—a crystalline rock
of quartz and mica—which are ob¬
tained from New Hampshire and Ver¬
mont and utilized for hones where¬
with to grind tools of a bigger sort.
But it must be understood that there
is hardly such a hing as a whetstone
quarry. Nearly every quarry from
which whetstones are derived is
worked chiefly for obtaining building
stone, the small pieces of particularly
fine grade only being utilized for mak¬
ing whotstones.
“Three stones imported from abroad
are employed in this country for
whetstones. Best known of these is
the German razor hone, which is com¬
monly used by barbers for sharpen¬
ing their razors and is in all probabil¬
ity tho best substance for ilie purpose
kuowu. It is found chiefly near Rat
isbon, Germany, in the old river bed.
During tho poriod of early geological
formation the river brought down to
that point mud, which was deposited
on the bottom. This mud varied in
material from one season to another,
depending upo n tho source from which
it was derived, so that dur ing one year
it was white aud during another blue.
Subsequently, in the course of ages,
the mud became stone, and now the
white layers serve to sharpen the
blades, by which civilized men all
over tho world keep their faces clean
of hair. Because the white stone is
costly it is usual to back a thin slab of
it with another slab of cheap blu
stone, fastening the two together with
cement. Such is tho ordiuary razor
hone of commerce.
“There are two other foreign whet¬
stones commonly used in this country.
One of those is a fine-grained schist
from Scotland known as tho ‘Water
of Ayr,’ and used much by carpenters
and stonecutters for rubbing down the
surfaces of other stones. The other is
the ‘Turkey oilstone,’ resembling
novaculite.
“The stones used in this country for
grindstones are mostly from Ohio and
Nova Scotia, the latter supplying the
best grade, which does excellently for
scythes. Of foreign grindstones most
come from England. Of all whet¬
stones the most curious aud interesting
are those which are utili%Gil by en¬
gravers to shqfpgq their |?igrayiug
Vol. XL New Series. NO. 7
tools. They are of every shape imag¬
inable, from long noedlc-Iike~points to
fine-edged, sticks, the object being to
grind the little points and edges of the
steel instruments which could not be
sharpened upon an ordinary hone.”
The Great Fall of the Barings.
It would be difficult to find a parallel
such a sudden descent from im¬
wealth to comparative poverty as
that of tho partners in the great firm
of Baring Brothers & Co., of London,
England. Lord lteveletoke was build¬
a splendid mansion in Mayfair
which was to cost $500,000, hut 1ms
surrendered this as well as tho
rest of his property to his
creditors to bo realized upon
as among the assets of tho firm. The
other brothers have dealt with their
property in tho same way.
M. Hodgson, who was a silent part,
ner only, and drew $40,000 a year
from his share of tho profits of tho
business, had a magnificent place in
Kent, where the family had dwelt for
three generations. This lie has given
over as it stands, houso, furniture,
works of art and everything, to tho
liquidators, and finds himself begin¬
ning life again at an advanced ago at
a salary of $500 per year in tho ser¬
vice of tho revived limited company
of Barings & Co.
Another partner, Mr. Steuart, father
in-law to Herbert Ward of Stanley
and Africa fame, had purchased one
of tho most palatial houses in Carlton
House terrace, and was spending $750,
000 in decorating aud finishing it. The
house was to bavo been occupied by
him this spring and a great house¬
warming was planned. He considers
himself fortunate to find a purchaser
for it in tho person of Mrs. Mackay.
Yet another member of the firm,
Henry Bingham Mildway, had a'eplen
did houso and estate in Kent, for
which he has found a tenant for three
years in Sir Henry James.—[San
Frauii4oo Cjiror ’j f
m ——~
Co-operative Farming is Unprofitable.
Co-operative farming ou a large
scalo has nover yet beon found profit¬
able. Many attempts have been mado
to carry out such enterprises, but all
bavo failed disastrously. There are
many serious difficulties in tho way of
success which seem to be insurmount¬
able, and tho fundamental principle
upon which these enterprises are or¬
ganized are greatly opposed to human
nature. It is impossible to gather
even so few as a hundred persons who
are all animated by the same spirit or
possess the requisite self-control and
congenial habits to work together
smoothly'. Differences are 6ure to oc¬
cur which cause divisions, and the com.
pact soon falls apart and the enterprise
disintegrates and fails generally with
disaster to all concered. Much more
is it injudicious to undertake such en¬
terprises iu a foreign country. Ono
case recently occurred in which a
colony of farmers were induced to go
to Mexico under illusive promises of
wealth to be acquired with great
rapidity. The unhappy victims are
reluming, with the loss of all their
money and time, at tho expense of
their friends, who are called upon for
assistance. Iu other cases Govern¬
ments have had to come to the relief
of tho disappointed colonists and
bring them home at the public ex¬
pense. If a score of neighbors cannot
successfully enter into simple co¬
operative enterprises which promise to
be profitable among themselves, it is
far less probable that more extensive
projects should meet with success and
still less those in foreign countries.—
[New York Times.
Babies in a Sleigh.
A novelty in baby carriages, inspired
by the holiday snows, is a double end
er sleigh in ivory-white and gold.
When two little twin cherubs, their
noses and checks pink with the frosty
air, aro stowed away in either end
wrapped in soft furs, and a good
looking French maid in a white cap is
at the other end of the string, the
whole cavorting along the walks, it
forms a sight for the gods.—[New
York letter.
The Supreme Test.
“He referred me to you as to his
honesty.”
“And I certainly can indorse him
thoroughly. Why, my dear sir, I’d
trust that man with—with—why, with
an umbrella.”—[Philadelphia Time**
What They Knew.
The ancient Gauls used a reaping ma¬
chine. Hobbs gave his name to a lock
found in the tomb of Egypt.
Coins far back were stamped with engraved record, dif s
so that we have lost the
and movable types are said to have beeu
known to the Romans.
In all that pertains to sculpture and
painting the ancients knew so much that
their superiority has never been ques¬
tioned, atul their work remains as unsur¬
passed models.
All tho mechanical powers, the screw,
lever, pulley, incline plane, wedge,
wheel and axle, were known to tho an¬
cients and used in every day life. They
were expert builders, as existing relics
testify.
In our schools at the present day we
use “Euclid’s Elements of Geometry,”
writ'en by Euclid 2,300 years ago. Eu¬
clid also wrote on music and optics, an¬
tedating much which we think we dis¬
covered.
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo tubes
was utilized in China centuries ago, aud
one of the Mongolian authors writes of
boxes which repeated the sound of voices
of men long since dead--an approxima¬
tion to the phonograph of Edison.
The people of Tyre were such experts
in dyeiug that the Tyrian purple remains
unexcelled to this day. The Egyptians
were also wonderful dyers, and could
produce colors so durable that they may
be called imperishable.
The ancients were wonderful glass
workers, and discovered a method of
making it malleable, which we bavo not
been able to do. They could spin glass
into garments, dye it in every shade of
the rainbow aud etch it with marvelous
skill.
Layard found in the ruins of Nineveh
what Sir David Brewster pronounced to
bo a “magnifying glass,” and nearly
4000 year ago tho Egyptians and Assy¬
rians observed the stars through a “slid¬
ing tube,” which we have reason to
believe was a telescope.
Twenty centuries before the birth ot
Watt, Hero of Alexandria described
machines whose motive power was steam.
He also inventod a double force pump,
used modern as a turbine fire engine, wheel and anticipated machine tho he
named by a
“Neolpile.”
The science of optics must have been
pretty far advanced in the days of Alex¬
ander .the Great, because we know
he bed a copy of tho “Hind” 'n.-Jc -
. a uu—i-'fil, u.A :. .1 . 'i; • ^ it
could not have been *
aid of a microscope.
In medical skill the oriental physician*
of India practiced vaccination 1,000 year*
ago. Anesthetics were known in the
days of Homer, and tho Chinese 3,000
years ago had a preparation of hemp,
known as “una yo,” to deaden pain—•
something similar to the modern cocaine.
The Art of Being Entertained.
Let everything dark melt away before a
sunny nature. If you go to a home for
a social visit, be merry, be easy of mau
ner, ready to join iu what has been pre¬
adapting pared for yourself you. Learn the surroundings. great art of
to your
Don’t forever expect your friends to ac¬
company you, or show you around. Go
off by yourself, even though you have no
special errand. Show your hostess that
you do not expect her or her family to
continually wait upon you. Enter into
the family circle, be “one of them in
spirit, so that, when after a hearty hand¬
shake at the station, it may be said of
you: “What a pleasure she has been!
How easy to entertain!”— The Ladies'
Borne Journal.
The Light of The Sun.
The sun gives 600,000 times as much
light ns the full moon, 7,000,000,000
times as much as the brightest star in the
sky and 38,000,000 times ns much as all
the stars in the heavens combined. In size
the sun equals l,8u0,000 earths, but owing
to its smaller density its weight equals
only 300,000 earths. — Current Literature.
Beware at Ointments far Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.
As mercury will sarely de.troy the tense ot
smell and completely derange the whole sys¬
tem when entering it th.i.ugb the mucous sur
faces, Such articles should never bo used ex
eept on pro criptions ironi reputable fold physi¬
cians, os i he . amage possibly they will no is ten to
the good you can derive from them.
Hall’s Catarrh ( 'arc, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contuins no mer¬
cury, and the is taken and internally, an i acts direct¬ of the
ly upon blood mucous surfaces
system. In the buying genuine, Hall’s Catarrh is taken internal¬ Cure be
sure to get it
ly, and made iu Tu.edo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney
A llo. bottle.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per
Timber, Mineral, Farm Lauds and Arkansas, Ranches
In Missouri, Kansas, Texas and
I ought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City.Mo.
Prepare
For Spring
By Building up
Your System
So as to Prevent
That Tired Feeling
Or Other Illness.
Now Take
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla r ' •'
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