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CHEROKEE
ADVANCE.
“We had rather be riirht than to be President.
VOLUME V.
CANTON, GEORGIA SATURDAY, MORNING. SEPTEMBER 2!), 1883.
NUMBER 41.
THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE
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* LOCAL AGENT
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO
Office in (tore of J. M. Mo \ FEE.
W. A & G. I. TEASLY,
ATTORNEYS at LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will g'.vn primpt attention to nil bul
lies* inu listed to them. Wi>I practice
I a a'l the court! of the ccunty, and in
the Superior courta of the B'ue Ridge
circuit. [j ,n 7 1y
JOHN n. BELT.
Carpenter,
Having? permanently located in Cur-
toe—He it now prepared to do a’l k'n
of carpenter’s woik Building and r«
pairing o-omply done at satisfactory
price*. Parties contemplating building
will find it to their interest to get m
prices before closing cr>ntr?c‘s with oth
er workmen. J. H. DELI.
TIN SHOP.
J. H. STEADMAN,
Manufacturer ol all Tinware, roofing
guttering, stove pipes, gas p'pei, stean
piprs aril anything made of tin, etc.
Repairing.—Will repair any and rv
wry thing trom a tin cup to a forty horai
ergine at short notice. All charges low
•ad work warranted. Marietta street
Canton, Ga. [tn*r25 82 ly
MEDICAL CARD
DR.N. SEWELL returns thanks to the
nitirens of Canton and vicinity, for thoir lib
arsi patronage.
Being permanently located, will continue
to practice medicine, surgery and midwifery,
Homing by industry, energy and atrict ap
plication to busineaa, to merit an increased
patronage and onnfidenoe.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’s Drug Store
Reeidence adjoining W. H. Vv’arlick.[nov9
J. M. BfJRTZ,
ITTOBIEY AID COCMLLOR AT Lift
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court House. [mar25 ly
CEO. R. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Will practice in ttie Superior Courts
of Cobb, Milton, Forsyth, Pickens and
Djwson counties, and in the Superior
i.u«t Ju tic=i Courts of Gherokee.
Cfii :e t ver J >a M. Jin A fee’s store.
Special attention given to the collec
tion of claims.
Business rrspoct ully solicited,
Jan 13, 1883
PAINTING!
BBIDGES & FORRISTER,
House and Sip Painters,
Will paint wagons, buggies, furniture,
and all other plain and fancy painting.
S*e or address J. W. BRIDGES cr J. B.
FOBRIS TER Canton, Gj. [feblO’83
G. W. EVANS,
Gainesrille Street, t CAN ION, GA
Mr the Bailroad Depot
Horses and Buggies at reasonable
pricea.
Carriages and Horses always ready.
Will aend to any pan of '.he country,
with careful driven and gentle teams,
Ail kinds ol stock fed and well oared
for.
HAULING AND DRAYING
done at low rates.
Customers will be politely waited on
it all hours, day or night.
G. W. EVANS,
nnv26 81 til Proprietor.
AT HURLEY LOCK,
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C. D. MADDOX,
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iVylie an 1 (i.smbling <fc Spalding, all
At'snts. m Mi-10 83
COME
AND
SEE ME.
I HAVE just opened a Complete 8tock
direct from the manufactory of Fancy
Candies, Mixed Candies, Plain Candies,
Crackers of all sorts, Also Fresh Raisins,
N uts, 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, Deeds,
Ac. always on hand.
CLAUDE F. EDGE.
Nev 18,1882.
rTe. CASON.
DENTIST,
Has now located in Oartersvllle. He
solicits patronage from hia old friends
god ogers j)i» professional **rT|°**^^
H. H. McENTYRE,
I3rioU, Plns’cring.
AND STONE WORKMAN,
CANTON, GEOIU1A.
Ism fully prepared to f'o sny kind of
Masonry or I 1 art- rine st the lowest possible
rate*, sad solicit the patronage nt tho e He*
liring work in my lin*. II. FI. McKntykk.
A NEW WORK SHOP.
D W. Bridges has opened a shop one
luor : 1) ve Geo. Lathem’s store. He
buildn bouse', mills. Bridges makes and
eptirs all kinds of furniture, and does
•nyibing that can be done with wood.
Call and nee him. [jan!883tf
J. W. JARVIS,
JEWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA,
Can be found at his Gallery, at any
time where he is always ready to do good
work at a lew price. [Julyl6tf
My heart waa light and whole aboard s
4 11 sculled swift by Hurley ford
The rein began to patter—
Rut when I saw in Hurley Lock
That naiad in the gliifiham frock,
'Twits qnito another matter I
She had a graceful little head,
Her lips arc ripe and roand and red,
Her teeth are short and pearly ;
And on a rosy sun-kissed oheek
Her dimples play at liide-and-aock,
Within the lock at Hurley I
I strive to make a mental note,
The w hile sho lounges in her boat
Beneath the big umbroUs:
I wonder if they call her Nell,
Or Beatrice, or Isabel,
Or Violet, or Ste la?
Ia she engaged to Stroke or Bow ?
1 would thoy oould SHsuro me now
She loves to flirt witli others I
Will stalwart Senile e'er claim iu-r hand?
How gladly wonld I understand
Her crew arc nangl't but brother* I
Her hat with UlUes is bcdlglit,
Her voice is low, her laugh ia light,
Her figure slight and girly.
How chcerfnily I’d take a trip,
With such a pilot for my ship,
And sail away from Hurloy I
I wonder if her heart is truo ?
I know her eve* aro peerless blue,
Long lashes downward sweeping,
A snow-whlto rtiff around her throat,
Beneath her pouting peiticoat
A little foot out-peeping.
Oh, is she wooed and is she won,
Or is sho very fond of fun ?
I make a thousand guesses!
A sweet young face, so full of hope,
A dainty hand on tho tiller rope,
And rain drope in her tresses,
Three tiny rose buds lightly rest
Within th3 haven of her breast—
Her locka aro short and curly.
The* sun is gone I Down comes tho rain.
I lseve my heart cleft well in twain
Within the lock at Hurley I
J. AsiiBY-fiTcnnY.
GREAT CATTLE RANGES.
DIBPELLING TIIB GLAMOUR OP CATTLlt
RAISING! — THB BOOKS VERSUS THB
HERDS—HOW CAPITALISTS ARK TAKKN
IN.
II. IV. N1 'MIN
JXO T ATT*WAY
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
Attorneys at Law,
CAN ON, : : GEORGIA.
Mil prrc'ice in ll-e Superior Court o!
Cl e-.k e uer1 ndjoinins; counties. Prompt
g t-nton fcivin t" "II Lusine's place.iiq
[jjeir luudf OJgce in l fcp Court House.
fFrom the New York Han.}
The high price of beef has greatly
stimulated tho busiueas of cattle breed
ing. English and Eastern onpitul eager 1 j
seeks investment in Western cattle
ranches. It has been estimated that
about $30,000,000 of English and East
ern money has been invested in the re
gion extending from the Rio Grande
River to the northern boundary lino
during tho past three yonrs.
At present the excitement about cattle
approaches in intensity a mining craze.
Tho writers for the press and illustrated
magazines are, in a groat mensure, re
sponsible for calling pnblio attention to
the Western plains and tho Rocky Moun
tain valleys as desirable localities for
cattle breeding. The majority of these
writers know absolutely nothing about
the breeding and successful bundling of
cattle. Descriptions of life on the plains
and in the mountains abound in those
writings. The pictures are attractive,
but are they true ?
The census of 1880 shows (and the
figures for 1880 are approximately cor
rect for 1883) that in tho strictly pastoral
region embraced within the lines of New
Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota,
Montana, Nevada, Utah, Washington,
and Oregon there were 1,923,148 cattle,
or 416,573 less than in the Stato of Now
York. Kansas and Nebraska, States
that extend from tho Missouri River
westward into the arid belt, graze more
cattle than all tho so-called "cattle coun
try,” excepting Texas. Colorado has
been puffed more extensively than any
other State ns a desirable location for
cattle breeders. For years cattle have
been driven from Texas to Colorado. In
x880 there were 346,739 cattle in Colo
rado. South Carolina, a State never
spoken of as a cattle country, possessed
363,709 cattle in 1880. Arkansas, where
the men are falsely supposed to speud
their time lying in wait behind corn-
cribs for their personal foes, contained
708,243 more than Colorado. In 1880
Florida grazed 467,380 cattle, over 120,-
000 more than Colorado.
The cattle country contains, not in
eluding Texas, about 800,000 square
miles. Throughout this vast range cat
tle are expected to pick up their living
during the winter. It is asserted that
the loss of stock is very small on these
natural breeding grounds. With all
these advantages the cattle States uc
not graze as much stock as New York, a
State containing but 47,000 square miles,
and where tbe cattle are fed hay and
grain for six months every year. The
losses in New York by freezing and
starving will not equal the loss in any of
tho cattle States of the far West in ono
blizzard in the latter portion of the winter.
Cattle raising in tbe West is life on
tho frontier. It is a life of ceaseless
monotony. There is nothing fascinating
in the life of a cowboy, or in that of an
owner of a small herd. It can be summed
up in a few weeks’ hard riding in the
spring, during the branding round .p,
&nd a few weeks more rifling during
thiT >eef roundup in tho fall. Tho reel
of fho vonr is spent in watching the
liorus of cattle grow, in oounting the
ripgs on the bneo of tlioee weapons of
defence, and in cooking and eating ba-
cuu ami bread. This attractive life is
varied by men who have families and
sufficient means by living in somo little
squalid frontier town. Life in one of
these towns is not attractive. Tho men
loal. Time hangs heavily on tho hands
of .iueh men ns cannot supply themsolvo-
wits Intellectual amusement by sitting or,
an empty dry goods box and pounding
their heels against Ine resounding sides,
while discussing bucking ponios and
cows whose tnils hnvo been frozon off.
These idle stock growers arc apparently
wrapped up iu absorbing thought ns to
tho > price of cattlo nt the distributing
points in tho Eastern States, or ns to
whether Clark’s bnuuun-tniled, one-
homed oow, tho one with the diamond
P. nvaud on her right side, and an tin-
derrrop on her left ear is seven or eight
years old. Thcro is somo hunting done
by these men, but the greater portiou ot
tliem do not hunt, Thoy loaf, they
(leap, they liuou blankets, they eat pool
food wretchedly cooked. A bright, ner
vous, intellectual young mnu would
nbandou tho business, as it is generally
conducted, in less than a week.
Across tho plains waves of bent roll iL
the summer, causing tho air to trebmle,
and through which heat medium all ob
jects are distorted to the visiou. Iu the
winter arctic storms sweep out of tin
north. Tho snow flics horizontal!)
through tho air. The furious wind
drives it into the raviues, there not being
cmtigh vegetation on the lcvuls to hold
thb snow particles. In the cattle country
t liFrc arc no trees, no good water, unless
iu mountain valleys. The grass becomes
brown uud dry ill late Juue or early July.
Ev*ry drop of rniu that falls after the
grass has died for want of water, injures
the feed by washing nutriment out ol
it. This early death of the grass is ex
plained to strangers iu an airy manner,
Tho cattlo breeder indicates an extensive
sot po of arid country with out stretched
sweeping arm, and saya : "No need for
mowing machines hero. Nature makes
til- hay. No heavy work for meu ii
pmiding food for tho cattlo during tin
wftfer. The grass cures where il grew,
The cattle help themselves.” The trull
is that on the plains enough grass could
no l>e cut on a hundred acres to feed o
a cow through the winter. In the.valleyi
grass can he grown il the land is irri
gated, and better hay—that is, more nil
tritious—mode than iu any of the East
ern States. But where cattle are bred
in herds of ton, fifteen, or twenty thou
sand, it is not possiblo to procure hay for
them.
At tho present prices much money can
bo made in raising cattle. But will the
price of beef rule as high ill the near
future as it does now ? The high price
of beef is easily explained by the fact
thr.t there have been three successive
short corn crops. A full corn crop re
duces the prices of meats. The bottom
will fall out of tho present excitement
about cattle raising promptly alter the
husking of the first full crop of corn.
Another function that will aid in reduc
ing the price of beef is the faot that no
calves are killing in the corn country.
Iu many of the towns lying along the
railroad in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and
Missouri, it is impossible to buy veal.
Tho butchers sny that they canuot pur
chase calves from the farmers.
The mortality among cows is very
large on all tho ranges of high altitude.
This is necessarily so under the present
system of management. Two year-old-
heifers drop calves in the early spring.
An animal two years old hns not reached
maturity. They shed their teeth at that
age. The young creatures are called
upon to feed strong calves running at
their sides, to nourish others, and. to
complete their growth. The young ani
mals apparently thrive until late in tht
summer. Then tho calves nro strong
and demand more milk tbau their dams
can supply when fed on dry grass thut
has had a portion of its strength washed
out by rains. The heifer could be
saved if their owners wonld wean the
calves and allow them to recruit beforo
the icy blast* of winter sift through
them; but this is seldom done. The
calves stick to their dams until tho en
feebled system of the cows can no longer
supply milk. By this time tho animals
are mere bones encased in a rough hide.
They have lost all ambition, all desire t,o
live. In the case of a mature cow the
results are much tho same. These ani
mals are never in good condition, unless
the grass has been of unusual goodness
and tbe winter exceedingly mild. Thou
sands of cows die every winter because
their owwers neglected to wean their
calves. On the plains, the breeding
stock of a herd rapidly disappear; but
they do not disappear from the herd
books
It hi not generally known, in fact I be
lieve that it, has never been published
that the movement of young cattle has
jf Incredulous disbelief. Tho foot ro
mains tho same. Many of the cattle
breeders of Wyoming and Colorado have
iigeuts iu tho real cattlo country com-
posed of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansne. and
the eastern portion of tho Indian Terri
tory, Kansas, and Nebraska. These
igonts bay young cittle, chiofiy steers,
which they ship to tho western ranges
to replenish tho herds. Them eastern
Rattle aro branded on their arrival in the
west; but just how they nppoar on the
books, none, excepting their owners,
know. To thoso accustomed to plnce
confidence iu mngnziun romances, this
movement of young cattle looks liko im
porting organ grinders into Italy. Bui
it is a truth that should nt ouco dissipate
ill glamour about tho "groat, natural
nttle breeding ground." The stockmen
lave not been nblo to breed cattlo to re
plenish thoir hqrfls.
Hincc tho settlement of Colorado and
Wyoming thousands and tnouaanns o>
L’oxnn cows have boon drivou thither.
I’lio larger portions of tho herds driven
rom Texas to tho new countries aro two
nd three-year-old heifers. They wort
lopcfully expected to live for eight or
en years, and to form tho foundations ol
lords from which hundreds of thou-
atids of oattle should spring. Where
ire tho cows that a few years ago were
Irivcn from tho gamma and mosquito
anges of Texas ? Their bonos whiten
ho plniim. Their flesh was eaten by
.voIvcb. They died from exposure iu on
Vrctio climate.
It must not be believed that all the
and represented iu bright colors ou the
mnpB of the laud graut railioads are
1 razing lands. There axe extensive
racts of land in the West that are ro-
note from water. These aro grassy
U sorts. There is a limit to tho distance
that homed stock can travel to and from
i range foir water. Tho daily drivo of a
lerd of Tesas cattlo, and thoy aro by far
ilie best traveler* of all cattlo, is limited
o fifteen miles. The animals will iiboul
told their flesh when traveling that dis
tance por day. If pushed to twenty
miles thoy rapidly lose flesh. ThiB be
ing so, it is plain that native oattle, that
.ire notoriously poor travelers, cannot
walk more thau fifteen miles per day and
^licep’R good condition. H the feeding
'rounds are more tliau eight miles from
water, the caitle will not grow fat. If
they aro tou miles from water thtf ani
mals will ioso flesh. The limited capac
ity of tho stock to travel bars them’ out
-if extensive ranges.
Certain men, who have been success
ful in cattlo raising, are seized by tho
eoat collar and dangled before the eyes
f the Eastern public as remarkable ex
amples of wliat industry and paying
close attention to horned stock will ac
complish for any young man who lias
tho pluck to go West and work faith
fully. If tho stories aro to bo believed,
those successful mon alwuys came
West penniless. They arrived at certain
towns astride of a spavined, ringboned
horse. This worthless animal they
traded for a spotted heifer. This heifer
is represented as the foundation of tho
herd. They workod, and every cent
they earned thoy put iuto femalo cattlo.
gradually they became rioh. That is
tho regulation tale. Tho truth is that
they invested considerable money in cat
tle. They branded all the calves they
could catch. When their herd was filled
with steers fit for the butcher, they op
ined a butcher shop iu tho nearest town
and drove tho other butchers, who did
not own herds of cattle, to despair by
the low prices of tho beef thoy sold
and finally drove them out of the busi
ness. Tliis accomplished they promptly
increased the prioo of beef until there
•was 500 per centum profit in it. They
kept the price up until tho other shops
rcsnmM business. Then down went the
price of hoof, until tho other butchers
could not afford to dull their knives and
saws in cutting roasts and steaks. Again
i hey shut, up their shops. That very
instant the blackleg and other kindred
diseases broke out in tho Eastern States,
and skyward went the price of beef.
For fourteen years I have seen this game
played in the West. Another exceed
ingly profitable branch of tho cattle
business was, and is, tho supplying of
Indians with beef. An Indian beef con
tract in a prize; it is a fortune for any
Western cattle breeder. A thin, scala
wag Texan steer, that has been reduced
by hard driving and alkaline water until
it is doubtful if he will tip tho scales at
600 pounds, staggers off of the platform
under the weight of 1,300 pounds of
beef. It is astonishing how heavy a
steer is when an employee of the Depart
ment of tho Interior weighs him.
As the business of cattle breeding
ages, it tends to separate into different
branches. At present some of the men
who handle stock on the high plains re
fuse to own any cows. They have tried
raising cattle and abandoned it as un
profitable. These men procure three-
year old steers from Oregon and Wash
ington. These animals are bought in
to the Wyoming or (Monde rongra, ar
riving there in October. They are
turned loose on the range and allowed
to shift for themselves. In my opinion
this is the safest bmnoh of the oattle
business. The young steen have not
obtained their full growth. Thoy nro
nearly and strong. It is seldom that
any of them dio. They aro held ovei
the winter until the next fall. They
j-ru w rn size anil weight, and, of oonroo,
.n value.
Another branch of tho business is the
fattening of cattlo on hay. Again three-
vear-old steers aro selected. They aro
driven into a corral, and there get all
tho hay they cau cat. The mountaiu
hay is so nutritious that tho steers be-
como as fat as corn-fed animals in tho
Eastern States. It has been the custom
for several years to whip beef during the
winter, when oattlo sre thin ou the
range, from Kansas city to Denver. Tho
beef so shipped is of a good quality.
This spring I saw better beef—that is,
fattor hoof—hanging in a butcher shop
in Laramie city, Wy., than I saw in
Denver. This choico beef win fattened
on liny out on tho Little Laramie river.
Tho business of winter feeding steers on
(he plains promises to increase rapidly
in tho near future. It is a perfectly saf«
business, and very profitable. As it in-
ercases, so will the value of the hay
lauds obtained under the Desert Land
net. FrAHK WlLKESON.
Tho English Hwlmmer.
Gapt. Wobb, the swimmer who loot
Ins life nt Niagara Fulls, wns a native of
Shropshire, England, and tho son of a
physician. He went to sea nt an early
age, and beenmo the captain of a mer
chantman. Ho first nttrnctcd public
notice by jumping from tho Ounnnl mail
Rteamor Russia during a storm io save n
sailor who had fell overboard. For this
lie received at tho hands of tho Duko of
Edinhnrgh tho first gold medal given by
the Ilumatio Society. In 1875 ho swam
tho English Chaunol and was afterward
presented, in bouor of tliis act, with u
Burmese cup by tho Twenty-fourth
British Regiment. Last year he swam
to Coney Island on several occasion*
from the Ilookaway steamers in passing.
He had previously swam against Paul
Boyton at Newport. His theory about
tho Whirlpool Rapids of Niagara was
that his principal danger would be from
two ledges of pointed rocks which jut
from the shores into tho whirlpool and
from tho suction liolo iu the centre.
1 ‘I will make no attempt to go forward, ”
lie said, "for tho speed of tho water will
carry mo. When tho water gets very
had I will go under and remain below
until I am compelled to oome up for
broath, which I suppose will be protty
often. When I strike tho whirlpool I
will strike out with all my strength mul
try to koop away from tho suction hole,
I will l>egiu with breast strokes and tbeu
use overhand strokes. My life will de
pend on my muscles and my breath, with
a little touch of science behind thorn.
It may take me two or three hours to get
out of tho whirlpool, which is a quarter
of a mile long. When I do get throngh
it I will try and land ou tho Canadian
side, but if the current is too swift, as I
think it is, I will keep on down to Lewis
ton, on tho American side. The current,
thoy say, is thirty-nine miles an hour,
ind the river ninety-five feet deep. I
suppose tho rapids arc about the augriost
bit of water in the world. I have mode
a critical examination of tho rapids, and
think I am strong enough aiul skilled
enough to got through alive, though iu
twouty-three yeurs they say eighty per
sons have lost their lives in tho rapids.’
Webb was a man of medium size and
magnificent physique, with a very brood
chest. Ho wore bis light hair cropped
close. He was not moro than 40 years
of sge.
In Russia.
Embezzlement in the official service of
Russia is not severely punished. Mus-
cliaroscli was chief of tho Taganrog
Custom House, and accused of complic
ity in the misappropriation of some
82,700,000 rubles. The statute of limi
tations, however, was successfully inter
posed as a bar to bis prosecution, and he
was only removed to another poet, being
now chief of the Custom Department at
Sebastopol. A year or bo ago corrup
tion was exposed in the tax office at St.
Petersburg, aud embezzlements amount
ing to millions of rubles were discovered.
By special imperial decree, however, the
investigations that were instituted in
this case were suddenly discontinued,
and the whole matter was quietly buried.
The chief of tho tax office happened to
be a near relative of another official who
enjoys the reputation of being very in
fluential with the Otar.
a*-*-**.-* -
When a young man wants to protect
» young lady, he paturally puts hi?
kTinor round her,