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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES.
:
C. N. KING. I Proprietor
.8. B. CARTER, f
THE PIRATES’ HOME.
How 0ne of the Wickedest Cities
in the World Was Destroyed.
The Earth Opened and It Was
Blotted Out of Existence.
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When the Spaniards were driven
from Jamaica they left behind them a
number of slaves, who sought shelter
iu the mountains and defied the author¬
ities. These bandits whre nearly ex¬
terminated soon after the English oc¬
cupation, but tho remnant later grew
to be powerful and greatly troubled
the authorities. They are known as
the Maroons, and the story of their
desperate struggles for freedom, of
the privilege*’ wrung from tho whites
and of their assistance in suppressing
the rising of the blacks'in 1865 reads
like a romance. Six hundred of these
troublesome marauders ■ were transr
ported to Nova Scotia. The descend¬
ants of the ancient Maroons are even
to this day a separate people, and still
enjoy tho privileges granted to their
ancestors.
Pirates and their bloodthirsty deeds
have furnished so often the plot and
theme for the melodramatist and the
dime novelist that one bates to write
about them in sober earnest. But
they were no myths iu Jamaica, and
no account of Jamaica’s past, however
' brief, can omit a reference to the part
they played iu its history, especially
as the most dreadful calamity that
evor visited the island is connected
with them.
The Jamaican pirates generally
sought to throw over their marauding
and pillaging expeditions tho sanction
of legal authority by obtaining letters
of marque, but they wore,nevertheless,
pirates, pure and simple. One chief
after another scoured the Spanish
main, capturing vessels, usually Span¬
ish, on tli^ higii seas, and when tho
ocean did not offer enough to satisfy
his curiosity and love of adventure,
attacked cities and towns,laying waste
with fire and sword, and committing
horrible barbarities and cruelties.
Nothing was sacred to these human
devils, and yet they were tolerated
for many years by tho Jamaican
authorities. The island profited by
their expeditions, and tho last half of
the seventeenth century witnessed a
prosperity as great as it was- wicked
and demoralizing.
Port Royal was the capital of the
pirate empire, and the Marooners filled
if with wealth and debauchery. Tliero
they maintained iu semi-barbaric state
their great establishments. They lived
like men who, with the wealth of
princes, did not know when they might
die, aniFwho had* no fear of God or
man. Imagination can hardly picture
tiie charter of the populace of that
• little city under the sun, or the life
within its walls’. To it came the reck¬
less, the desperate, tho men most
skilled in villainy. With them they
brought the spoils of richly laden gal¬
leons bound home with silver and
go’.d, the ransoms of cities aud whole
populaces, and fleets of merchant ves¬
sels freighted with rich staffs from all
the markets of tbe world. AJ1 this,
and more, was poured into Port Royal
and was spent with a lavishness and
extravagance that is possible only
wit h treasure bought at so slight a
cost as that of human life.
Nothing seemed lacking to make it
the wickedest place on earth; yet the
vengeance of the Lord apparently
passed it by. -But ic was only for a
season. One day the earth opened
and in two minutes tlie city, its pal¬
aces and its lmvels lay at tho bottom
of the sea. Thousands of the iuhabi
tants perished with tlieir ill-gotten
gains, and^the unburied dead, floating
in tbe harbor or heaped upon the land
under a tropical sun, bred a horrible
pestilence that carried off thousands of
those who escaped the ‘earthquake.
Today the waters of the bay hide
from sight the ancient city. Was
ever retributive justice more terrible
or complete.
Romantic and exciting as were the
lives of all these buccaneers, that of
Henry Morgan, the greatest of the
freebooters, was the most so. From
a white slave in the Barbadoes, where
m e had been sold iuto servitude, he be
ame, first, the most daring and sne
uessfui of the jflrates, and later a
’ t, and, as ^ieutenant-Governor
yOf that island.
SPRING PLACE. GA„ THURSDAY. MAY 21, 1891.
At the suck tug of Fauama he obtained
175 mule-loads of treasure. The
Governor who gave him his commis¬
sion was recalled for that act, but
Morgan was kuighted, and, as Sir
Henry, turned his back upon his for
mer companions and made a most
opular Governor of the colony.—
ostou Herald.
“Our Centennial.”
Our Centennial Exposition at Phila.
delphia came next in the list of world’s
fairs after the woful Austrian exper¬
ience, and though not a pronouuced
financial success, was vastly nearer
being such than the Austrian venture.
The Centennial was opened May 10,
and was closed on tho next 10th of
November, in the meantime having
been opcu to visitors’ on 159 days.
Tho total number of admissions was
9,910,966, of which number 1,906,691
had free admission and 8,004,247 paid,
tho financial outcome being about
even, when it is remembered that the
city of Philadelphia came into posess
ion of tho main exposition building
and the art palace, both handsome and
permanent structures. The days of
the largest attendance at the Centen¬
nial were as follows: Opening day,
May 10, 76,712; September 9,99,984;
September 20, 101,498; September 28,
which had been designated as Penn¬
sylvania Day, 274,918; September 80,
103,885; October 18, 124,777; October
25, 106,986; October 27, 95,553;
November 1, 107,715; November 2,
115,298; November 8, 90,588, and
November 9, which had been
announced as Philadelphia Day,
176,755. These figures show that
the public interest in the exposition
did not wane during tho whole time
of its continuance, but the samo fact
Is more plainly declared by the state¬
ment of admissions each month.
Average daily attendance for May,
26,175; June, 86,622; July, 84,863;
August, $8,530; September, 98,834;
October, 102,358, and during the nine
days in November that the exposition
was open, 115,815 persons were ad¬
mitted. There were tho two prices of
fifty cents and twenty-five cents
charged for admission to the Centen¬
nial, the latter being for children, and
the total amount taken iu at the ticket
offices was $3,818,749.50.
The expenses were somewhat larger
than this amount, but neither the
United States nor the stockholders
lost anything, and the comparatively
small deficit was more than balanced
by tho value of the permaneht build¬
ings of which Philadelphia, as stated,
became tlie ownor by purchase after
the closing of the fair. Had the fair
been open on Sundays, it was claimed
at tho time, and has never been con¬
troverted; the exposition would have
left a surplus instead of the small
deficit it bequeathed to the managers.
—[Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Birth of a Bison.
The female bison at the Zoological
Gardens has just given birth to a fine
calf. This is a matter for some re¬
joicing, since the American bison is
getting very rare** It is even now a*
rave, or nearly so* as its European
relative, tho aurochs, and not so very
long ago it was abundant on tbe plains
of North America. The calf is a
reddish-brown color, like the calf of
an ordinary domestic cow, and not a
bit like its black, shaggy mother.
If the theory is true that every shade
and variety of color has its meaning,
this fact is very extraordinary. If
the colors of the adult bison have a
relation to its usual surroundings, why
should the calf be colored differently?
Oqp would have thought that wbat
was sauce for the goose was also sance
for the gosling. It has, however,
been suggested that such differences
between tbe parents and their offspring
are to facilitate recognition, and it is
noticeable that the young of many
aqjtyals are, as in this case, more
brightly colored than their parents,
and, therefore, mqsp conspicuons in
the dusk or twilight.—[London News.
A Reasonable Request.
Mr. Waffle—-Aw, Miss West, kind¬
ly allow me to escort you into the
banqueting salon.
Miss West—Pardon me, Mr. Waffle,
but did you expect to walk or ride?
Mr. Waffle (standing on the dress)
--Why, walk, of coarse.
Miss West—Then please get off the
train.
ESKIMO DIET.
Whit the Natives of South
Greenland Eat.
Their Principal Articles of Food
Are J^eai Meat and Blubber.
I had road once about Eskimo eating
habits—how once upon a time, for
instance, an Arctic explorer offered
some Eskimo girls somo sweetmeats
which wore rejected, while tallow
candles were eagerly accepted and
eaten. Now I was to see an Eskimo
eat. With many smiles, Peter entered
the cabjn and sat down at the (able. I
should have apologized to him on ac¬
count of the scantiness of our fare,for
we had no candles and there Wasn’t a
bit of tallow on deck even, let alone
in the eabin, but I noticed that the
butter plate was heaping full, the
sight of which made me wish for
some of my friends so that we could
make a pool on the number
»f bites he would take in swallowing
the roll. Then Peter sat down and
without ceremony helped himself to a
lot of baked boans, a piece of dry
bread and a largo piece of very leau,
salt beef, all of which he bit into and
swallowed as a hungry ’longshoreman
might have done. Then he took more
beans and more bread and more lean
beef, and with them several cups of
coffee with a groat deal of sugar to
each cup. He was a long time getting
to it, but he finally began on the but¬
ter. Ho had poured his last cup of
coffee and was looking about for
something to eat with it when his eye
fell on a plate of cake. Taking a
small piece he put a small lump of but¬
ter on it and slowly ate the combination
with the coffee. To the reader of
a geographical magazine it may seem
strange, but the fact is, until 1 saw
this man at the table I had really ex¬
pected to find the Eskimos of South
Greenland showing the habits and
tastes of those living a thousand miles
further up the coast. I had not quite
expected to find them living in snow
houses, but I had a misty idea that an
Eskimo was a little black Indian
whose chief delight among the things
brought from a civilizod country was
tho tallow candle. The staple food is
leal meat and blubber. Next to that
is the little fish taken in the fiord
and dried for winter use, known
(o' them as the augmat-fat, and
to the learned as salmo villosus. A
favorite way of eating tho dried aug¬
mat-fat is to take it by the tail, poke
it into the oiiy blubber for a while,
and then chew it down. Awful, isn’t
it? It iB almost as bad as eating sar¬
dines. There is a deal in a name.
Blubber is disgusting; oil, if for use
on a salad, is delicious and indispens¬
able. I have eaten seal oil and found
it (very unexpectedly) good. I had
supposed it would have a flavor of fish
oil. Ttero is no such flavor about it.
It is equal to the best extract of cotton
seed—that quality sold as olive oil in
all American groceries. Augmat-fat
and blubber, under a French label,
would be esteemed a luxury in New
York as in Arsuk. For the rest, the
Eskimos trade seal oil and skins to
their governor for three kinds of hard
tack, for coffee, sugar and tea. They
catch Arctic codfish (misarkornak in
Eskimo, and gadus navaga in the
books) and salmon in the seasons;
they shoot .no end of gulls, ducks,
ptarmigans, and tho Arctic hare; they
have eggs in endless quantity in the
season, and very many foxeB are
trapped. The fox is to the Eskimo
what the ’possum is to the
darkey. He likes to smoke a
favoring circumstances, will Bwap
anything he’s got, including his wife,
for rum.—[Goldthwalte’s Geographi¬
cal Magazine.
Yon Need a Gan for These Lobsters.
“Onca upon a time,” said an expert’
in matters crustacean to a Star ’report¬
er, “there were crabs and lobsters, in
existence for which the omdern fisher¬
man would have gone a-hunting ^ith
the most approved weapons and Cau¬
tion. For example, in times abte
diluvian there was a lobster which had
a body; eight feet long and could
stretch twelve feet with its formidable
arms. Positive knowledge of this
giant of long ago is conveyed by geo
logical research’. It must have con¬
tained meat enough to make tgggpd
for a regiment of soldiers. |
days of long ago everything ’ °
enormous dimensions, whether animal
or vegetable. Frogs-were big and ac¬
tive enough to leap at one hop from
the Treasury building to thg Capitol,
and other creatures, particularly those
of a destructive sort, were in propor¬
tion.
“Only a few little specimens art
loft to illustrate the giant crustacean
forms of that ancient epoch. It is
known how crabs and lobsters are
hatched from eggs, resembling upon
birth nothing so much as tho animal
cula) shown.by the microscope in a
drop of ditch water. They are as un¬
like the shell fish they are to become in
mature life as a grub is unlike a butter
fly. In the case of the crab the egg
clusters , , ave attached , *, , beneath tho am- .
mal . . after ,, extrusion, . -while with the
, lobster . . they .. . become fastened „ , to , tho
tail, , which, by its fanning motion, ..
. ... the stream of , oxygenated . , .
increases air
through and among the ova.
“From tho eggs of the lobster aro
, hatched . , . creatures , not ..... m the least re
sembling ... their . parents—little * ........ fellows
,, that . swim . with feather-like „ . locomo- ,
•
tivo .. the surface , of , the
organs near
water. At .. the end , of „ . weeks , they
six
develop , , legs, , unless, , as is ..... highly
probable, , ,, they have previously , , , been
devonred , , , by fishes ,, , or other .. enemies, .
’
. becoming ... thereupon small „ lobsters , , . of
familiar , ... shape. . Haying „ . reached ..... this
stage of growth, the - young lobsters
become walking animals, and, jinking
to tho bottom, immediately seek hid
fig-place* to protect them from their
foes. — [Washington Star.
.....— — V .-——-.
The Indian Warriors' Scalp Dance.
occasion Tire return of of ^fy-ar 'lemony party of general is the
.
rejoicing on iW part of the tribe.
Tho warriors decorate themselves with
beads and war eagle feathers, a tuft of
long white feathers being affixed to
tho crown of ■ their heads; red and
black figures \ are painted on their
bodies. On nearing their village they
raise their voices in song, and bear in
their hands branches of pine, on which
are hung tho scalps taken from their
enemies. Arriving at a lodgo con¬
taining their sacred symbols, the chief
of the tribe walks in a direction oppo¬
site to the course of tho sun, crying
aloud an invocation while the circle is
being formed. Opposiie the door is
the war pole, and beside it a square
box securely fastened together con¬
taining their mystic symbols. They
all sit down on the earth and the si¬
lence is unbroken. At length tho
warriors rise aud follow their chief,
who leads the way, mako the circle of
the war pole, chanting a peculiar in¬
vocation three times. Each in the
order of succession now enters tho
lodge, on whoso hearth burns tho
sacred fire. Three days and nights are
given to fasting. The woman stand
beside tho door in two rows tho first
night of tho fast, chanting at intervals
iu a shrill voice, followed by an abso¬
lute silence. From time to time dur
the fast the chief appears with his
warriors, shouting the war-whoops,
marching around the circle of the war
polo and waving the branches to which
the scalps are attached. Finally u gen¬
eral procession is formed, with the
chief at the head, each in orderly suc¬
cession, as before, followed by the
squaws, and march around the chief’s
lodge from the east to the north, where
the evil spirit dwells, the warriors
singing the death song. After the
procession they affix to tho roof of the
...... lodge a branch with a piece of scalp
a
fastened thereto. This is repeated at
each lodge of the village to appease
tlie spirits of the dead, and then the
ceremony ends.—Chicago HerafjL
A Good Test of the Eye.
A trick that is going the rounds just
now is to measure by the eye the dis*
tance to which you must push away
the central one of threo silver dollars
side by side, their circumferences
touching, so that the distance from the
lower edge of the central coin so-re¬
moved, shall be equal to the distance
apart of the outer edges of the two
other coins. You will probably do as
everyone else does, put the coins side
by side and push the middle one up¬
ward along the table until you think
you have done a rash thing by pushing
it so far. Whdn yon measure you
will find out. IPs an old perversity
of tho eye.—[Lewiston M (Me*) Jour¬
nal. - ■>ft : /4vv\;
Some cheap things are ever in good
form-politeness, for instance. l s
Vol, XL New Series. NO. 16 .
FOREST GIANTS.
California’s Majestic Redwood
Trees in Danger.
Steps Taken to Preserve Them
From Utter Destruction.
It is gratifying to learn that the
Land Office at Washington is at last
taking steps to preserve the giant red¬
woods of California, which arc fa¬
mous the world over as the greatest
trees in existence. These majestic
monu " ients oE uatur ° are * an f * ot
" ttor dMtru * t .‘ on ’ a ' ,a 1 U 1S h, « h 1,m0
that something were done , to save
„ In tho first ,, place, they arc bc
. killed otl bv the mouutain . tires „
mg ;
which ,. , are very frequent on the ,, slopes
'
of .„. the Sierra Ncvadas, , ’ and , are dne . to
„ the carelessness , of „ sheep herders who
who lead flocks far up f, tho mountain , . , s
r
sides. Iu T fact, , , there few of the
are
giant ... trees ol ft California „ ... . which ,. , are
wholly . „ uninjured . . , by , fire. . There ...
now
also , sawmills . building .. .. . the ..
are in
neighborhood . ,, , , of , of . these
some groves
°f .... gmnt treos, and, , strange as r. it may
. seem, they .. . have noi the slightest ..... corn
punction about destroying . .. them, al- ,
though “ many ' of the larger * trees are. '
of . . difficult .. for . them to . . handle,
course,
and fact lia8 holpod to keep tUom
from deatruotton .
In tho Visalia district there arc sev¬
eral groves of enormous trees, the
largest of which is 106 feet in circum¬
ference. These forests aro very im¬
pressive on account of the grand trees
they contain, and, although the land
was withdrawn from public entry fivo
years ago, a colony of enthusiasts and
theorists, who were bent upon demon¬
strating the practicability of Bellamy’s
idea*,have settled in the neighborhood,
and it is said that they have destroyed
some of the trees.
There is a general feeling in Cali¬
fornia that all that region of forest
trees on the western slopes of the
Sierra Nevadas should be withdrawn
from settlement. The Government is
already taking steps to protect tho
redwoods by withdrawing from entry
the sections which contain groves of
these giant trees. During the past
two years tho Gonoral Land Office has
made a careful investigation of the
Stockton, Visalia, Mariposa and other
districts where the giaut treos aro
found, and reports have been sent to
Washington of the exact situation,
number and size of these trees. This
was done in order that the Government
might have all the information needed
for carrying out measures ’to protect
tho forests.
The trees are always found at an
deration from 6000 to 7000 feet above
the sea. They are a little south of the
Yosemite valley, and south of east of
San Francisco. The most famous of
these groves is the Mariposa, which
contains about 320 giant trees, and is
carefully guarded from foreSt fires by
a company which makos a business of
carrying excursionists to see the great
trees. The redwoods in this grove
cover about four square miles. With
proper protection the giant trees of the
Sierra Nevada slopes will, for many
years to come, be hmong .the
natural curiosities of California. Tho
General Land Office has entered thor¬
oughly upqn tho work of saving the
trees whkh still exist, and there is
) every prospect that the varions canses
! which have been depleting their ntjrn
be ,. wlll bo -removed and that the trees
! will still be for many decades a
source of great interest to the tourist.
—[New York Sun.
Just a Plain Sailor.
A sea captain, who was going up to
Albany to see his frionds, came out
with us on the tvajn, and a Chicago
broker who first discerned his pres¬
ence, gave the boys the wink, and fol¬
lowed it up by saying;
‘ ‘If we work it right we can get
some awful lies out of him. Let some
one ask him about sharks and sea
pents.” V‘ • ’. ,.
Four of ns crowded him into
smoking compartment, and when we
had become slightly acquainted
inquiry was made; 4 .
“Captain, 7611 have doubtless seen
some very large whales? How
would you say the Ihrgest was?”
“Gentlemen, 1 never saw a
in aiy life,” he replied. “I have
at sea for 26 years, bat I never
P«»e»l to see a whale.”
“Well, you have seen serpent* in
hs warm seas?”
“Never saw one there.”
“But you must have seen some ex¬
tra large sharks?”
“Gentlemen, I hope you will be
Hove me when I tell you that I ni - et
saw a shark except in an aquaria; ”
‘ ‘But you have been wrecked ?”
“Never.”
“Ever have a mutiny?”
“No.”
“Fire at sea?”
“No.”
“Meet with a pirate!”
“No.”
“Tidal wave?”
“No.”
“Humph. What sort of a sailor
are you, anyway?”
“I’m sorry for you gontlemcu, very
sorry, but the fact is I am only a
plaiu, everyday sailor, and my mother
made me take a vow when I first went
to sea that I would always speak the
truth. Here are some good nickel
cigars for you, but as for lying, I
can’t do it—not cveu about sea ser¬
pents.”—[New York Sun.
An Indian Challenge.
Two tribes of Indians in the uppet
part of California had as boundary
between their districts, a low ’ridge
where tho stream .headed. If you
should go to whore one of these
streams, Potter River,rises, you would
see still standing a tall pile of stones
beside a never-failing spring; on one
side of this cairn was the territory
of the Pomo Indians,and on the other
the land of the Chumaia. These tribes
were enemies a id were often at war.
When the Chumaia wished to challenge
the others to battle, they took three
littlo sticks, cut notches round their
ends and iu the middle, tied them at
the ends into a faggot, and laid it on
the cairn, if the Pomos accepted the
challenge, they tied a string around
tho middle of the three slicks and left
them in their place. Then agents of
botli tribes met on neutral grounds
and arranged the time and place of
buttle which took place accordingly.—
[St. Nicholas.
Sheep-Shearing.
Mauy advantages are claimed for
sheep-shearing by machinery, The
work is performed more thoroughly
than by hand, it being calculated that
on an average somo ten additional
ounces of wool per merino sheep are
obtained by its employment, The
operation, moreover, is carried out
more humanely, the cuts and stabs
often inflicted in hand-shearing, more
especially when executed as “piece¬
work,” being entirely avoided, to¬
gether with the consequent damage and
deterioration to the pelts. It has been
estimated that no less than one per
cent, of the animals perish from inju¬
ries due principally to hand-shearing.
The labor entailed on the operator is
also considerably reduced; and aching
hands, swollen wrists and cats or
stabs to the worker himself should bo
things of the past.— [The Ledger.
England’s Aged Cardinal.
Cardinal Manning, the aged prelate,
is 82 years old—one year older than
Gladstone. His face is tbin and
bloodless, his eyes sunken and tbe
wrinkled skin colorless. His kindly
blue eyes twinkle merrily and a pleas¬
ant smile occasionally relieves the
ascetic look of bis countenance. He
is more than ordinarily tall, and now
that his years are upon him his head
and shoulders stoop and he is some¬
what deaf. He receives visitors in a
plain black silk cassock, with a red silk
cap on bis venerable head.—[Pica¬
yune,
China Wants No Stage Lines.
A John Chinaman, who went back
homo after making his $800 fortune
in this country, established a stag#
line between two towns wdiere sedan
chairs were in use,^and inside df, a
week he was cadght up by the authori¬
ties and his property confiscated. The
charge", against him was: “Creating
great worry and uneasiness in thepnb
lio mind.*’—'[Detroit Free Preis.
A $10,060 being Belt.
A belt; now made for a
Louisiana electric light company will
bo the largest in the world. It is to be
6 feet wide, 167 feet long, and will
take the skins of 176 animals to com
plete it; When finished it will weigh
two tens and cost $10,000, or about
$10 a square foot
