Newspaper Page Text
CHEROKEE ADVA NIK.
“We had rather be right than*trt be President.*’
VOLUME V.
CANTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 20, 1883.
NUMBER ti.
THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
By N. N. EIHIE, Editor and Manger.
Office Up Shuts Turner Gainesville, and west
Marietta Street—aver store nf V. M. McClure.
Official Organ of Cherokee Comity.
terms:
Single copy, one year $1 25
Single copy, six months 65
Single copy, th £ e months 35
Professional and Business Cards.
BEN F. PERRY,
I.OC4I, AG RUT
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Offloe in store of J. M. McAFEE.
J. W. JARVI8,
JEWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Can be found at his Gallery, at an)
time where be is always r« a It to do good
work at a lew price. [Ju-y16*f
wTa7 a g. i. tekslyT
ATTORNEYS at LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will give primpt attention to all bus-
ideas intrusted to them. Will practice
in all the courts 'of the county, and in
the Superior courts of the Blue Ridge
circuit. tj »i»7 ly
G. W. EVANS,
Gainesville Street, CANTON, GA.
Near the Rsilroad Depot.
Horses and Buggies at reasonable
prices.
Can (ages and Horses always ready.
Will send to any pan of the country,
with careful drivers and gentle teams.
All kinds ol stock fed and well cared
for.
•HAULING AND DRAYING
done at low rates.
Customers will be politely waited on
at all hours, day or night.
G. W. EVANS,
nov2f> '81 til Proprietor.
B. F. PAYNE, P. P. DuPIlEE.
PAYNE & DuPREE
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON, : GEORGIA
L. J. GA11TRELL,
Attorney at Law,
8} Whitehall Sc., Atlanta, Georgia
Will prraUce in the U. S. Circuit and
District Courts of Atlanta, and the Su
preme and Superior (Jjurt ef the State.
DR. J. M. TURK,
Office on Main Street—Fronting
Church Street.
Will attend es)U at all hours. If I »m
not at my offiea *h*n ycu c*II for me, look
at the slate in window, or evil on Holland
A Hardin, or enquire at my residence.
In connection with tbe practice. I have
Drugs to suit this lection of countryjdarhicb
I will sell ohesp.
I aek my f. lends to call and tee me.
Canton, July 22,1882.
It. W. MKWMAN. JNO. T. ATTAWA Y
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON, : GEORGIA
Will prrotice in the Superior Conrt of
Cherokee and adjoining counties. Prompt
attention siren to nil butine*^ placed in
their hands. Office in the Court House
H. H. McENTYRE,
Brick, Plastering:
AND STONE WORKMAN,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Ism fully prepared to do any kind of
Masonry or Plastering at the lowest possible
rate*, and eolielt the patronage of there de
airing work in my line. M. H. McEnrYr.R.
JOHN H. BELL,
Carpenter,
Hiving permanently located in Can
ton—He is now prepared to do all kinds
of carpenter’s work. Building and re
pairing promply done at ratiafactory
piices. Parties contemplating building,
will find it to their interest to get my
prices before closing contracts with otb
er workmen. J. H. BELL.
TIN SHOP.
J. H. STEADMAN,
Manufacturer of all Tinware, roofing,
guttering, stove pipes, gas pipes, steam
pipes and anything made of tin, etc.
Repairing.—Will repair any and ev-.
ery thing from a tin cup to a forty horca
engine at short notice. All charges low
and work warranted. Marietta street,
Canton, Ga. [mar25 ’82 ly
DR. W. A. GREENE.
O FFERS his,professional services to
to the citizens of Cantor—and will
practice out of the Village in Surgery
and Consultation.
FEE8 same as other Physicians,
N. B.—The old Reliable Cherokee
Drug Store will continue to keep a
full stock of Drugs and Medicines and
sell them cheap forca*h. [*ep7 82 2m
Concerning Contagions Diseases and
Funerals.
—the —
‘CONSTITUTION’
FOR 1882-3.
Is better equipped in every sense than
ever before to maintain its position
IN THE FRONT RANKS OF BjUTHEBN
.T JUHNALISM.
It calls the attention of the reading
E ublic to the following points that can
j claimed. Namely, that it it
1. The largest and best paper in Geor
gia, A'absma, the Csrolinas, Florida and
Mississippi.
2. More reading matter than any pa
per in the South Atlantic States.
8. The tallest telegraphic service and
latest news.
4 Tbe brightest, best and fullest cor
respondence.
6, The completcst election returns.
6. Verbatim Legislature reports.
7. Official Supreme Court reports.
The Great Georgia Paper—Better than
Ever. No Intelligent Georgian
can do without it,
Every Georgian should take a paper from
the Capital during the next 3 months.
The Dally C institution flO per an
num ; $2 50 3 months; $1 00 1 month.
Weekly $1 50 a year; Club of 10, $ 1 25,
with free copy to getter up of club;
Clubs of 20 $1 00, with free copy.
Address The Constitution.
Atlanta, Ga.
NEW
ENTERP RISE!
MEDICAL CARD,
DR. N. SEWELL 'returns thanks to the
citizens of Canton end vicinity, for their lib
eral patronage.
Being permanently located, will eonlinne
to practice medicine, surgery and midwifery.
Hoping by industry, energy and strict ap
plication to business, to merit an increased
patronage and confidence.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’s Drug Store.
Residence adjoining W. H. Warlick.[nov8
J• M. BURTZ,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court House, [mat25 ly
TRIPP & TOLBERT,
Now have their New Steam Machin
ery in full operation in Canton.
Plaining Lumbar,
Jointing and Matching,
Moulding and preparing all
Lumber lor building purpose?.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
To ginning and packing cotton.
Grinding Corn
On the afternoon of Tuesdays and Fri
days of each week, we will grind all corn
brought to our mill.
Canton, Ga., Sept. 30, 1832,
C. D. M ADDOX,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
CANTON. GEORGIA.
J. M. HARDIN,
House, 8ign, Carriage
—AND —
Omanental Fainter.
FRESCO & SCENIC ARTIST.
CANTON, GEORGIA.
COME
AJSTD
SEE ME.
I HA VE just opened a Complete Stock
direct from the manufactory ot Fancy
Candies, Mixed Candies, Plain Candies,
Crackers ot all sor s. Also Frcsh Raiein®,
Nuts, Oysters, Canned Goods, and every
thing wanted in this line. I respectful
ly ask patronage of my friends, both in
the store and job work. Blanks, Deids,
always on hand.
CLAUDE F. EDGE.
Nov. 18,1882.
3o much has been said and written
latterly of the extremely infectious char
acter of scarlet fever and diphtheria,
that it would seom that any further
warning must bo superfluous. But it is
not so very long ago that an incident
occurred not far from whore I write,
illustrating tho wicked folly and appa
rent ignorance of pcoplo who would
havo folt grossly insulted at having their
common sonso questioned, that 1 am led
to utter warning anow. A child had
died of scarlet fever, anil on a Sunday
afternoon tho parents and friends came
together to bury its body in a church
yard. It was proposed to open tho cof-
lin in tho church wlioro a Sunday-school
was about to bo he'd, but as ono of tho
trustees of tho church mildly objected,
tho children and tho congregation wero
afforded tho opportunity “to take a look
at tho corpse” in tho churchyard. Tho
patents of the dead child had ono living
child left, and they lifted her to kiss tho
face of tho doail ono in tho coffin. And
monstrous as it seems, no ono interposed
a word of objection. A little more than
a fortnight later the parents came again
to tho churchyard to bury tho body of
their last remaining child, who had as a
natural sequence died of scarlet fever.
Those parents are duplicated all over
tho country in fathers and mothers who
are beset with tho idea that unless a
cortain amount of parade and display is
made over the dead, it indicates a lack
of affection and respect on tho part of
the survivors, while in fact it indicates
nothing of tho sort.
I was in New York lost winter during
tho reign of a tcrriblo epidemic of scar
let lover, and had with me my little boy
nearly tlvo years of age. While thdro two
friends chanced to call upon mo at tho
samo hour, ono was a physician and the
other was a lady who remarked as soon
as she camo in tho drawing-room, “I
havo boon visiting a friond whoso chil
dren aro ill of scarlet fever,but I haven’t
an artlolo of clothing on or about mo
that I woro there, and I havo been dis
infected.”
Just then piy boy’s laughing face
peered in at a door, and tho physician
asked quickly, “Did you have your hair
disinfected? No? Then it will bo safest
to keep this boy out of the room.” That
infection should bo carried in tho hair
was a new thought to us both, and it
showed the difference between a physi
cian of great intelligence and good! sense
and tbe average man or woman who is
always willing to take risks. That it
often requires high moral courage to
S uard children properly from infectious
iseascs, I well understand, but no per
son of conscience and good sense will
ever take offense at a parent’s precau
tion. I sometimes see in obituary col
umns notices oi deaths from scarlet
fever and diphtheria, with the. added
announcement that the funeral will l>v
held “at the house,” and friends aro in
vited to attend! Tho case would not
be a whit more absurd if tho death had
occurred from small-pox or yollow-
fover. Indeed, between small-pox and
scarlet fever, tho former is to bo pre
ferred, as tho lattor almost invariably
leaves tho victim witli some distressing
weakness or loss of sense, and diphtho*
ria is often as bad.
In cases of scarlet fever, the children
in a family, and all members of it who
are not in attendance upon tho sick ono,
should bo thoroughly isolated, not only
from the sick room but from the attend
ants. Disinfectants should bo freely
and thoroughly used throughout tho
occupied part of the house, and it would
be but a matter of common safety to
destroy all bedding and carpeting used
in tho sick room. Of course, whoever
cleans it does so at tho risk of con
trading tho disease. Tho custom that
often prevails in country placos of
neighbors “ dropping in ” to see per
sons who are ill from contagious dis
eases, is in a way criminal. The better
sort of sympathy would lie in contribu
ting to a fund to hire a nurse, if the
family could not afford tho expense.
In this way of mistaken kindness, un
told mischief is often done in the spread
of diseases. Neighborly sympathy and
neighborly kindness can not be too
highly commended, but they should be
tempered with discretion, where there
is danger of imperiling tho lives of
others. There are many people who
net as if they were doing nothing at all
to be deprecated in going from tho bed
side of a scarlet fever or diphtheric pa
tient to church, to call on a neighbor,
to tho country post-offico, or for a ride
in a rail oar, when, in fact, they ought
to bo “ arrested for intent to kill.”
As regards funerals of persons dead
from infectious diseases, too much care
can not be taken. Alter ono Is dead
there is nothing more to bo done for his
comfort, and the welfare of tho surviv
ors is of far more importance than
anything connected with the burial ser
vice. It is hard to be controlled by good
judgment when ono is overwhelmed
with grief, but there should always bo
some ono of sufficient self-control and
good sense to manage affairs at such a
time, and see that discretion overrule?
emotion and feeling. It is true that
a very ignorant or thoughtless person
would expect his ohild who died of scar
let fever or diphtheria to be buried in the
usual publie manner. An intelligent
parent, who not only loved his child
out loved and respected the wellare ot
tho community, would tenderly lay
away the dead body, alone and with his
own hands—if need be—rather than that
danger should be incurred by another
child.
Much of the vulgar display of old time
funerals is happily being dispensed with,
but there is still a vast amount of dan
ger and sickness resulting from them.
Standing in a graveyard in storms of
sleet aud rain, the. feet chilled with
dampness m well as tho whom tnuy— a
cutting wind winding about you and
piorcing to the marrow of your bones—
emerging from the ovchoatod liouso of
mourning, or sitting in a draught wait •
ing for the procession to form—those
Mid other tils attendant upon oold-
woathor funerals tend to shorten tho
lives of w »ny, and porsons who are deli-
cat 0 should avoid suoh oxposuroa. A
visit of condoleneo to tho boroaved
family in tho lonoly days that succeed
a funeral is worth yar moro than atten-
tendance at tho burial.—Many inp/cr
Fis/ur, in Rural Raw Yorbrr.
Harried Only In Jest*
12
The Coarse Comb.
It is probable there is in tho world no
ono instrument which has boon tho
agont of moro tort uro nnd cruelty t hau the
coarse comb. From tho ourliost period
of civilization, tender, delicate ami
nervous children must suffer terribly by
the hands of lovely, merciful nud kind-
hearted mothers—women who hopo of
Hoavon when they die. Who is thoro in
nil the broad lain! who does not rocol-
loot ns among tho cmclost agonies of
his childhood the rash nnd reckless
combing of the head? Wo havo seen
children undergoing untold agony from
kind mothors, sisters, and friends, witli
tears streaming front their oyes and
agonizing but half suppressed screams,
enough, ono would suppose, to chill tho
blood or stay the hand of a savage.
Merciful and kind in other respects, but
ruke after rake is continued until wo
have no doubt tho little ones suffer ton
times moro agony than persons who aro
hung or raokod. And thoro is noither
need noroxcuso for it. Tho hair of a
child can bo denned and combed as
tenderly ns any otlffir act, if only
patience and care aro exercised. But
mothors who aro patterns of patience in
all otlior things, seem to forget or steel
their sensibilities to all such suffering.
Or they lmve pulled and broken combs
in thoir own hair until their heads havo
bocomo callous to pain from hair
pulling, until they havo not the least
appreciation of tbo terrible suffering
they indict on thoir innocent children.
Sorno women, to avoid trouble, cruelly
cut off the noblest crown of beauty a
little girl ever had—hor hair, and mako
her such a fright that no wonder the
mother loses all tender feeling for hor.
But wo beg for the swo< t little girls’
lovely looks. And wo plead for tliera
to bo saved from the noo story torture
indicted upon such lowjly dowers. We
fear that in the world to come, some
mothers- will meet, unexpectedly, the
weeping nnd waning of tortured chil
dren, who havo suffered more than
death two or tlireo times a week from
un thoughtful mothers. Do sparo the
innocents. Have more pntienco. The
recollection of tlioso innocently indicted
tortures havo fnllowod us for seventy
years, ami wo nsk that the present in
fnntilo generation bo spared.— Iowa
Slate Register.
Searching for Papa.
A iady in tho street met a little girl
between two nnd tlireo years old, evi
dently lost, uud crying bitterly. Tho
lady took tho baby's hand and askod
where she was going.
Down to find my papa,” was tho
sobbing reply.
“What is your papa’s uamoP” asked
tho lady.
“His name is papa.”
“ But what is his other nameP What
docs your mamma call him?”
She calls him papa,” persisted tho
little creature.
The lady then tried toKad hor along.
“ You had bettor come with me. I guess
you camo this way?”
“ Yos, but I don’t want to go back. I
want to find my papa,” replied tho lit
tle girl, crying afresh, as if hor heart
would break.
What do you want of your papa?”
asked tho lady.
“I want to kiss him.’*
Just at this timo a sister of tho child,
who liad been searching for her, came
along and took possession of tho little
runaway. From inquiry it appeared
that the little one’s papa, whom she was
so earnestly seeking, had recently died,
and she, tired of waiting for him to
come home, had gone out to find him.—
Cleveland Herald. _____ '
A Parson’s Sunpercli.
One day two residents of Deal’*
Island, Md., were out fishing. They
had paddled and rowed in tho hot sun
all tho afternoon without even getting a
nibble. They had just anchored to try
thoir luck again whon Rev. Joshua
Thomas, the famous Methodist minister,
came paddling along in his canoe. Now
it seemed as if ono of the men had long
been the subject of the reverend gentle
man’s prayers, without avail, however
As he came op he saluted them with:
“Well, brethren, what luck?” “Bad
enough, Parson Thomas, bad enough,”
replied ono of tho men. The other
called out in a joking way: “ Now, look
yer, Parson Thomas, you pray an’ we’ll
fish.” “ Donel” quickly responded the
good man.
He tied his canoe to a post and went
down on his knees. Ovor went their
linos. The parson poured forth his
prayers in earnest, not forgetting to
put in a word for the salvation of the
souls of tho men. Presently, excited
and enthusiastic, one of the men
straightened himself up and exclaimed:
“ Stop right thar, Joshua Thomas; I’ve
got a bite; I’ll jine your congregation.”
Sure enough the first fish for that day
was a large sunperch, honestly believed
to have boon caught under the inspira
tion of that prayer.— Wilmington {Del.)
Every Evening.
—Of the 140,000 known species of
E lants, M. de Candolle finds that man-
ind makes use of only about 300 at
Rev, Voss Neal, An aged colored man,
of 63 Troy avenue, Brooklyn, is on sli
days of tho week a packer in Ovlngton
Bros.’ china store at 248 Fulton street,
Brooklyn. On tho seventh day ho
proaehdk in Bethel Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Schonoetady and Dean ave
nues. lie is vory old, very modorato in
his movements, and his scanty locks aro
thickly sprinkled with gray, lie Is ol
an accommodating disposition, nnd
whon pretty Gussie Cropsoy, tho littlo
black-eyed saleswoman, presented her
self before him in tho basement last
Friday, accompanied by Will Evoring-
liain, a clerk, who is the nephew of tho
Ovtngtons and tho reputed liolr to a
largo estate, and with great morrimont
requested him to “marry thorn,” the
old man put tho usual questions with
groat solemnity, nnd sent them away
with the injunction to go and got n cer
tificate and ho would fill it out. Whon
a fow hours later Miss Cropsoy was no-
eostod by her follow clerks as “Mrs.
Everingham,” she professed to bo
amused, but tho day after was vory In
dignant, and said there was no use of
carrying tho fun any further.
unP” said a follow clerk; “do you
call it fun P You’re married as fast as
any woman wlm ovor lived. Do you
moan to say you didn’t know that Voss
is a minister?”
Everingham was summoned, nnd was
apparently thunderstruck nt. the infor
mation. lie had considered It a Joke to
ask Voss to marry them. Of course, it
could not be a marriage.
“But it is,” his follow clerks replied,
“and nothing can ohnngo it now. You
aro man nnd wife, and had bettor make
tho bost of It.”
Bov. Voss Neal was sitting last oven-
ln«r In the rear chamber of his dwelling.
His coat was off, and his stocking-clad
loot rested in a chair. Ho laid aside his
newspaper as the reporter entered, amt
looked up over Ids glasses.
“Did I marry Will nnd Gussie?
Como, now I This tiling’s gone far
enough, l’vo hoard nothing but marry,
marry, for the last week, nnd I’ve been
kept up high long enough. It’s a plenty
bail to have iv hundred clerks dingirt* ft
in your ears without their puttin’ up
strangers to it."
“ But it is claimed that you took ad
vantage of the ignorance ot the two
young people, and whon they came to
you in a frolic tied them up in earnost.”
“ Well, 1 just wish I had. But it wat
all in fun. There’s no marriage to it.
They haven't got a certificate, and I
haven’t returned one of these blanks tu
tho Health Department. Why, I do
lots of marryin’. I’in too old to make
such a mistake as that.”
“ Well, you must own it was a good
JokeP”
“A good joke! Well, I should sat
no. But they’ve CArricd it far enough
down to the store, nnd I wish thoy'd
drop it. I've really been mad about it
onco or twiee, but there’s no use grum
blin’ about their sassy tricks. They
will have their fun with tho old man,
and when a lot o' young folks think
they’re doin’ something smart you can’t
tell them anything.”
“ I suppose thoy’vo exaggerated it.
How did it roally occurP”
“ Why, I was sitting by tho stove in
tho basement eating my dinner, when
those two conio tearin’ down and says
•Marry us,’ with lots of gigglin’ aud car-
ryin* on.
“‘What’s your name?’ I said to tho
boy, and ho said Moo .Johnson.'
“ ‘What’s yoursP’
“ ‘Miss Crimp.'
“ ‘Well,’ I said, Moo Johnson, will
you have this woman to bo your wife?’
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘And, Miss Crimp, you’ll have this
man to be your husband P’
“ ‘Yes.”
“‘Well, that’s all. Now you’re mar
ried. Go and get your certificate and
fill it out.’ ”
“ Don’t you call that a legal mar
riage P”
“ No, no! Of course not. They wore
on a galo, and it was all in fun. They
didn't think of getting married, and I
didn’t think of marryin’ ’em. It’s all
In tho motive, you know. 'Sides, I
didn’t say ‘You aro man and wife.’ ”
“ What if the young lady should say
she was not in funP”
“W-o-1-1, that might raise a quo*
tion. But she won’t say anything of th«
kind.”
“ I think I will see young Evoring-
ham.”
“ Don’t do It, now. You take my ad
vice if you know when you’re well off.
Don’t you do it. He’s in a bad frame
of mind. The clerks have been at him
every day. They've congratulated him
and sent their congratulations by m»>b
and they’ve asked when the recoj tion
was cornin’ off, and if lie was g->in’ to
Groonpoint on his weddin’ trip. Ilis
language has been awful. Profanity
don’t no way describe it. If 1 was his
nearest friend I wouldn’t mention the
subject to him.”
“How does Miss Cropsey foelP”
“ She cried once or twice about it, but
lately she’s been more resigned. Mr.
Hall, the floor-walker, fined them both
fifty cents for leaving the floor without
permission. Fact is, it’s been a pretty
do so. They have been acquainted for
long time,' and Will has kept company
with her u little. They were on a lark,
of course. I guess they knew that Voss
Neal was a minister, and carried the
joke to that extent without realizing that
thoy wero contracting a legal marriage.”
•—N Y Stitt
—Henry Ward Beecher made Ills
Brooklyn'audience laugh recently by
the romarkt “Tho ago of miracles is
not yet past, as was proved to me this
afternoon by tho return of an umbrella
which I left in a sloeping car last
week.”—Ilrooklyn Eagle.
Cosmic Dust. . !
Nordonskjold, In tho dust which I10
collcctod in the arctio regions, found
certain small, white grains which lie
described ns “ cryoconite.” It was
partly from tho presence of tlioso grains
that he Inferred its origin to bo cosmic,
and consequently not pertaining to our
earth. Silvostri found spherules of
Iron with nickel in some dust that foil
lit Catania, and assumed from that
circumstnnoo that it must bo meteoric.
Spoclmeus of tho cryoconite ami I lie
Cataninn dust, together with some ob
tained from tho snow near Kiel, worn
recently submitted to the eminent
mineralogist, Von Lasaulx, and tliat
? ;ontIonian, ns tho result of hisoxaminn-
ion, lias announced his opinion that
tho dust is not of cosmic origin at all,
but simply detritus derived from tho
rocks on the earth’s surfaoe. Tho ery-
oconito ho found to bo principally com
posed of quarts anil mica, two minerals
which are almost unknown in meteor
ites. There were no mineral particles
present which would indicate a cos-
niloal origin. Hence ho concludes that
tho dust may undoubtedly have come
from the gneiss region of Green-
land.” Tho constituents of which
tho Catanian dust was made up
wero, with tho exception of the iron
particles, siwli as might have thoir or
igin within Sicily. Mount /Etna would
supply the augito and olivine crystals
found III it. Finally, in tho dust brought
from Kiel there was no race of min
erals which would indioate a non-ter
restrial origin, with the exception of a
few particles of metallic iron which
could ho attracted with the magnet.
“ If wo now group tho observations of
tho various dusl-raasrics procipitnted
from tho utmospliere. It first npponrs
that, in nearly tho wholo mass, these
varieties of dust consist of mineral
particles which may be vory well ro-
■ * as a detritus of rocks more or
permission. , . .
rough joke all round, and when they
all ask me who I’m going to marry
next I feel like giving ’em a piece of mj
m Mr. Everingham and Miss Crt/psev
were not to be found last evening. A
clerk said:
“Of course it was a genuine mar
riage, and has been the talk of the
neighborhood. It is stated, on what
seems to be good authority, that large
sums have been offered to Miss Cropsoy
by Evcringham’s friends to put the
matter at rest by declaring that it is not
a marriage, and that she nas refused to
i&wijtr. Oplrtlm*mah*Hlclrom. pw»*
ent always, but la a very small ciuanti-
ty. can bo considered cosmic.” Having
arrived at tills conclusion, M. von
Lasaulx goes on to provo how tho pres
ence of inetnllio iron does not neces
sarily Indicate n oosniio origin. The
masses of iron found at (IvFak, in
Greenland, wero, in tho opinion of
many authorities, of terrestrial origin;
and if that assumption woro reasonable
in tho case of largo blocks, it must bo
equally so in tho caso of dust.—C/ntnie
lnrs' Journal.
Artemus and His Babes.
Artomus Ward started in California
with nn announcement that lie would lec
ture on “Tho Babes in tho Woods.” He
said ho preferred this title to that of
“My Sovon Grandmothers.” Nobody
knows why, for there was, of course, to
be as littlo in the lecture about babes,
in or out of (ho wood, as ubout seven or
any other number of grnndmothers.
“The Babes in the Wood” was never
written down; a fow sentences only
have survived of a performance which
was destined to revolutionize tho oomio
lecturing of tho ago. The “Babes”
seem only to have been alluded to twice
—that nt tho beginning, when tho lec
turer gravely announced “Tho Babes”
ns liis subject, and then, after a ram
bling string of irrelevant witticisms,
which lasted from an hour to an hour and
a half, lio concluded with: “I now come
to my subject, “The Babes in the
Wood.” Then, taking out his watch,
his countenance woukmiddenly change
—surpriso followed by groat perplexity.
At last, recovering his former compos
ure, nnd facing tho difficulty as best he
could, ho continued: “Blit I tind I have
exceeded my time, and will therefore
merely remark that, so far ns I know,
they were very good babes; they were
as good as ordinary babes.” Then al
most breaking down, and much more
nervously, “1 really have not time to
go into their history; you will find it all
in the story books.” Then, getting
mile dreamy, “They died in tho woods,
tstening to tho woodpecker tapping the
hollow licech-trcc.” With some sup
pressed emotion: “It w.w a sad fate for
them, and I pity them; so do you.
Good night! The success of this lcc-
Ui.e throughout California was instan
taneous and decisive. The reporters
claimed that they could not write for
laughing, and split thoir pencils ties-
I ierately in attempts to take down the
okes. —San Francisco Call.
—A former Hartford cabinet-rnafcer,
L. J- Toohey, has recently been elected
Judge ot the Superior Conrt of Califor
nia. Leaving Hartford twenty-eight
years ago, he studied law at Cincinnati,
became ono of Secretary Chase’s confi
dential olerk’s at Washington, served
through tho wav ou General Fremont’s
staff, and then settled down in San
Franoisco. where his abilities as a law*
yer have won him honor.
—A tormcr Hartford eanmet-maxer,
L. J. Toohey, has recently been elected
Judge ot the Superior Conrt of Califor
nia. Leaving Hartford twenty-eight
years ago, he studied law at Cincinnati,
became one of Secretary Chase’s confi
dential clerk’s at Washington, served
through tho war on General Fremont’s
staff, and then settled down in San
Francisco, where his abilities as a law
yer havo won him honor.