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'S' rtown Advertiser CEDARTOWN, GA., APRIL 24, 1879. NEW SERIES-VOL. I. NO. 19. ADVERTISING RATES. 1 inch 2lncue&... 3 inches.... V A column... 6 m. $ 800 12 00 IS 00 20 00 40 00 65 00 18 00 2S00 40 00 \ per 1 lnsei OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at half rates. BETTER THAN THEM ALL. A moderate share of wealth is goad, To cheer us on our way ! For it has oftentimes the power, To make December May ; And so is beauty, so is health, Or genius at our call ; But a happy, careless, IoviDg heart, 1h better than them all. A heart that gathers hope and faith. From every springing flower ; That smiles alike at winters storm, Aud gentle summer shower : That blesses God for every good, Or whether great or small ; Oh, a happy, hop ful loving heart, Is better than them all. Tie well to hold the wand of power, Or wear an honored name ; And blush to hear the mighty world, Re-echo with our fame : Tin well jf on qur path the smiles, Of kings and nobles fall ; But to have a happy trusting heart, is better than them all. A heart that with the magic notes. Of music is beguile® , A heart that loves the pleasant face, Of every little child : That aidetk weakness in distress. And heareth duty’s call ; Oh such a 1 oving human heart. Is better than them all. favor liim and bring him nearer the object of bis thoughts. Before long he found himself bowing low before Miss Hattie Hastings, who cordially extended her hand, exclaiming, while she flashed a glance of her bright eyes upon liim, “I always like to take by the hand those who are fighting for our flag. I feel an especial interest in our soldiers.” He was charmed by her frank, impetuous manners and handsome face, and she held him in close conversation, leading him on to speak of battles in which he had been engaged, until he nearly forgot her fair haired sister, whom he at last discovered sitting in an arm-chair on a raised platform near them, gayly chatting with the friends who surrounded her. Her face, liglited with animation, was very beautiful, and, turning to Hattie he remarked: “I should.like very much to be presented to your sister if you will do me that favor.” 1 “Such an act would require more courage than I possess,” declared the incorrigible | Hal tie, “for Lou Harwood would certainly | annihilate me. She is looking daggers at 1 me now for keeping you from her so Ion: ! And laughing gleefully at that young lady’s j discomfiture, and at her own cleverness in keeping him from her sister, she led him I away to another part of the hall j When she reached home that evening she ! was lotfd in her praises of her new acquain- j tance, while Minnie, who though gentle j and lovable, felt piqued at his seeming in- j difference toward making her acquaintance, ■ shrugged her shoulders, and said: | “I couldn’t perceive anything so very re markable about him. To be sure, he is passably good-looking and has a fine form; j hut then these good-looking men are, as a “Oh, Minnie, look! Isn’t that a splendid general thing, soft.” looking officer conversing with Lou Har-1 Hattie laughingly repeated this remark to wood { See! they are over by the organ.” j Miss Harwood, who, in spite of herdeclara- And Hattie Hastings excitedly gfasped her tion to the contrary, was on quite friendly sister’s arm as she spoke. terms with the sisters, and who called on “He is indeed a fine appearing man,” | them the following day. She in turn re said Minnie, quietly. “But, hush ! dear, ! peated it to the gentleman in question, add- you will attract attention.” j ing that Minnie had declared her intention “Fine appearing indeed! Why, he is of snubbing him, thereby proving to him superb—magnificent! Now, Minnie, I am j that one girl at least was not reaijy to fall going to be presented before the evening is ( down anil worship him. He was surprised over, aud unless my powers of fascination and hurt, and decided that possibly Miss are on the wane, I’ll make a sensation. Do \ Harwood was right in her estimate of the you just keep in the background, for he 1 young lady, and that he w6uld avoid mak- looks dignified enough to fall in love with ing her acquaintance. your quiet manners, and you know that as 1 Lou was delighted with her success in 1 am the oldest, I must have the first chance. ! keeping them apart, and, although after See—they are looking tfliis way-—I’m sure those first remarks neither spoke the other’s they are speaking of us. We’re in poor j name, she was constantly inventing some hands, too, for Lou Harwood, with all her slighting remarks and pouring them into the sweet, baby ways, cannot succeed in retain- ' ears of each. ing a lover, and is consequently jealous of j Thus weeks passed. Minnie, in spite of us more fortunate ones. I really believe I her resolution to the contrary, had learned have met my fate.” j to look eagerly for. the appearance of the “Oh, Hattie, what a rattle-brained crea- j tall soldier, and to feel a keen disappoint- ture you«are! Be quiet now f I want to ment if he were not present at each meeting, hear the speaker. 1 promise to leave the ! while he could not make up his mind that field clear for yc u, only don’t make your- j the mild-eyed, sweet-faced** girl was any- self ridiculous.” And quiet, sedate Minnie thing hut a pure, truthful woman. They who, although three years younger than her ! met everywhere, yet each tried to avoid madcap sister, seemed at least five years' the other, and two months had passed lie- lier senior, turned her attention once more ; fore the ice was broken, to the speaker, a talented young man, who, j Among the new recruits was a young hoy The Prince of Wales at Home. Winnie’s Mistake- with Kossuth, was banished from H and who had been induced by some of his friends to deliver a lecture on the subject of his native land before a lodge of Good ’Templars in the village of Westerly. He was an eloquent speaker, and who had been taken suddenly ill, and his mother, “a poor widow, had him removed from the camp to his home, that he might receive her loving care. He rapidly grew worse, however, and Lieutenant Dane, who had taken a great interest hi the - lad, saw -t iling of his country and his doarlv loved 1 that* Iri.i days were numbered, hut unfortunate leader, his whole soul rose ! One day about a week after he had been in indignation at their wrongs, the blue ! taken home, he walked down to the cottage eyes of the young girl filled with tears of i a little earlier than liis usual hour for calling, sympathy, and, perfectly unconscious of As lie approached the door, he heard sobs the gaze of a pair of dark, hazel eyes, she ! afid moans, as of some one in great distress, sat drinking in every word of the discourse, j while a sweet, low voice seemed speaking only turning her blue eyes away when, words of comfort. Fearing that the worst amid thunders of applause, the young ora- had happened, and that the young recruit tor took his seat. I had already joined the ranks of the angels, In the meantime, Lieutenant Dane, the; he made his way into the room without young officer who had made such an im- ( knocking, and was greeted by a fresh op pression upon Miss Hattie Hastings, was | burst of tears from the stricken mother, who, gayly chatting with liis companion, a pretty ' pointing toward the bed, where a young faced, apparently sweet-tempered girl, who, girl was just closing the eyes of the boy, to judge from the close attention which she , and tenderly laying his head upon the pil- paid to every word he spoke, and her utter : low, she cried piteously, oblivion to the presence of others, was de-1 “My Rob is dead! My Rob is dead!” cidedly of the opinion that her friend had ! “He is free from all pain, my dear 31 rs. formed, and was not all averse to the honor . Bennett. Remember lie is an angel now, of being the sole lady acquaintance of the and can never suffer more.” And as she distinguished soldier. I turned, her eyes brimming with tears of As his gaze wandered about the pretty j sympathy, and took the hand of the mother hall, it rested upon the two sisters, and, 1 in hers, she discovered the presence of the turning to his companion, he asked : | gentleman. “Who are those two young ladies sitting , She bowed and blushed confusedly as she by the chaplain’s desk ?” met his eye, but the suffering of her neigh- “Oh, those are the Hastings girls,” re- j bor served to take all thoughts of other plied his companion, with a very significant[ matters from her mind, and she proceeded Are they toss of her head. “They are fine looking friends of yours ?” “Acquaintances merely. I never liked them, especially the older one, so I never liqve encouraged their friendship. But you will be presented soon. They are accom plished tlirts, and always on the lookout for fresh victims, so they will manage to bring about an introduction before the evening is over.” There was an unmistakable sneer in the speakers voice and manner, but, looking once more at the sisters, and observing the beautiful, womanly pity that liglited up the face of Minnie as the exile told of the home of his youth, he replied: “1 have always flattered myself that I am a good judge of character, hut if that blue-eyed, golden-haired girl is not the em bodiment of sweetness and purity I shall never again lay claim to any special excel lence in that line. ” “Appearances are often deceitful,” said the girl. “I really hope you will retain your good opinion of her.” And she turned toward the lecturer, to hide from the gen tleman the rage which she felt he must observe, While her heart was filled with bitterness toward the young girl, who seemed destined to charm, without an effort, those whom she, with all her arts, could no more than amuse for a time. While the young man, endeavoring to appear interested in the discourse, was una ble to prevent his eyes from wandering to ward that part of the room where the two girls sat, one, entirely forgetful of hi: to put the disordered room to rights while he endeavored to reconcile the woman to her bereavement.. With heart breaking sobs she exclaimed: “I will try to be resigned, hut oh ! he was my only child, lie lias suffered so terribly, and I don't know what I should have done all this dreadful week hut for that blessed angel there. God surely will reward her an hundred fold for her kind ness. ” As it was growing quite dark, Minnie said she could not remain longer, and Lieut. Dane, rising, offered to accompany her home, saying, when he saw her hesitate, that it was hardly safe for her to go alone, as there were so many soldiers roaming about the streets. She could not decline his escort without rudeness, and they started out, each main taining perfect silence until half the distance to her home had been accomplished. Find ing it impossible to restrain himself longer, he said: “I find, Miss Hastings, that I have been greatly deceived in your character, and I cannot tell you how happy I am to find you, instead of the heartless coquette I was led to believe, an angel of love and mercy. I have been deeply interested in you from the first, but have tried, though vainly, to dislike you. You see I am frank with you. Will you not be equally so, and tell me why you have avoided me?” Mutual confessions followed, and the perfidy of Lou Harwood was revealed. In his great joy at finding her all his fancy had pictured* he forgot that this was sence, and the other, noting his glancesj the first time they had ever exchanged and ascribing them to an interest awakened J words, and told her how she had won her in herself, felt her \ ulse quicken as she 1 way into his heart, and that he wanted her thought how those eyes could look when ; for his own precious wife; while she, with once the heart was touched, and she re- j blushing face and happy tears, exclaimed: solved that no effort should be spared to j “I think I have always loved you, hut I bring him to her feet. j supposed you loved Lou Harwood, and I Lieutenant Dane was one of Nature's was so very miserable. ’ noblemen. A lawyer by profession, he ! Drawing her closely to him, and imprint- hade fair to make for himself a name : hut in the dark hour of liis country’s need lie had laid aside liis dreams of fame, and, lis tening to the call for volunteers, had enlisted as a private in a Massachusetts regiment. He had risen rapidly, however, and after his first term had expired he had re-enlisted —and with his regiment was now encamped in Westerly, looking up recruits and await ing orders to the front. As soon as possible he hunted up liis old college chum. Will ing liis first kiss upon her lips, he said: “That, my darling, was your mistake.” The Fig Racket. The “fig racket” is the name of a swin die practiced on the northern trains. The operator, who is generally the news agent, selects his victim among the passengers and shows him several boxes of figs, into one of ( which lie openly puts a two dollar bill. Harwood, and expecting to remain in camp ! Placing the boxes behind him and mixing some time, decided to accompany his sister ; them thoroughly, he again shows them to Lou to the lodge, in order that he might: the unwary and proposes to let him take become acquainted with the young people • choice for a dollar. Sticking from one of the village. ! of the boxes the sharp eye of the unwary Inwardly resolving to study the girl who j i ias caught a glimpse of the bill, and is had interested him so deeply to learn for j on iy too glad to hand over his dollar and himself whether she was the gentle, noble j take the box, in which he, of course, dis- woman he had imagined her to be, or artful covers the corner of a paper tcn-cent piece. an<j wily as his companion intimated, he too turned liis attention to the speaker, and, j —American manufacturers eager to at the close of liis remarks, during the half j push their already extending trade in hour’s intermission which followed, he Europe, should be on hand at the In- offered his arm to Miss Harwood and joined | ternational Machine Market to he held the promenaders, hoping that fortune would in Leipsic on June ISth. but the mountain seems all on fire. Sergt. Choate says that when -he was out observing one of these storms it appeared as though the whole mountain top was r sheet of electric flame. It came* out pf every rock and darted around with wonder ful audacity. It played around him, as he expressed it, shot down his back and darted out of each hoot toe, and so completely- filled him with electricity that he could not retain his foothold, but bounded and re bounded from the rock like a rubber ball; he felt as if a powerful electric battery jvas pouring firery darts all through him; and deeming “discretion the better part of valor,” he bounded into the signal station for preservation. Sergeant Choate was ^ the Springs in December, and on Decem ber 21 he left for the peak, wearing Nor wegian snow-shoes twelve feet in length. It was a weary task and a dreary trip. The first night out he slept in the snow on the mountain side. The second night the mer cury fell to 50 degrees below zero. He sought shelter in a deserted cabin, through which the wind whistled tunes ari; hut agreeablo; here he built a small The Prince of Wales’ country house is a pretty two-mile drive from Wolverton, in Norfolk, through a quantity of young plan tations, in which the Prince takes much in terest On the left you pass a picturesque building • called “The Folly,” furnished with great *aste, aud where shooting parties lunch onefe or twice during the season. The entrance to Sandringham is through the famous Norwich Gates, and so through a fine avenue of limes. The house is a mo del of comfort. The large hall which you enter on arriving is fitted up as a dining room, with a pianoforte, easy chairs, and two large Writing tables, at one of which the Prince usually writes his letters on his return from shooting. Behind the piano are a quantity of toys for the children to amuse themselves with at the’ “children’s hour” after tea. Here at five o'clock tlie tea-table is placed in the centre of the hall, and is pre sided over by the princes in the loveliest of tea-gowns. It is a pretty sight to see her sur rounded by her three little girls, who look like tiny fairies, and who run about to put “papa's” letters in the large pillar-post box at one end of the hall. There are generally four or five large dogs to add to the circle. In this same ball the balls take place. The floor is excellent, and the music is upstairs in a gallery. At the balls the supper is served at a number of round tables, with one long onfc down the side of the room. At Christmas the hall looks like a large bazaar, being then filled with the most costly and beautiful tables, with a large Christmas tree in the centre, and objects all around the sides of the hall full of presents for the household and visitors. Their Royal High nesses arrange these presents themselves, and no one is permitted to enter till the evening. Some few years back the gentle men of the household gave the Prince, on liis birth-day, a handsome weighing ma chine, which lias ever since been honored with a conspicuous place in the corridor passing alongside the hall; and regularly during each party, generally after tea, the guests are requested to come and lie weighed, a proceeding to which some seri ously object. They then, in their own handwriting, have to record the full details in a book kept specially for the purpose. They write their names, date, weight and costume worn at the time. Thus you read: Heavy walking dress, tea-gown, velvet dress—the heavy ones generally attribute some of the fault to tlie garments. It is an interesting hook, containing,asitdoes, auto graphs of many long since passed away. The drawing-room is a particularly pretty room, full of furniture, and every available corner is filled with gigantic flower-glasses full of Pampas grass and evergreens. Here tlie guests assemble before dinner. Tlie dining-room opens out of this room. The dinner-table decorations are noted, and are all arranged by the gardener, whose taste is very good. The howling-alley, in close proximity to the billiard-room, is most pop ular. The Princess plays very well, while those who have no taste this way sit in a little ante-room, comfortably furnished with two loi)g low settees and rocking chairs, and from which you command a good view of the gome. Out of the draw- up and passed around the entire cir- i •room, on the opposite side to the <h-1 c j e was , r j - -- The Toofthso ne Turkey. Beckman and others have given the na tivity of the turkey ample research, and their deductions, including the opinions of some naturalists, establish the fact that the turkey and the Guinea-fowl, which latter, by ancient authority, is ascertained to be a native of Africa, owing to a certain resem blance between them, were long regarded as identical. The name turkey, the origin of which, as applied to our favorite fowl, is only explained upon the theory of its sup posed Asiatic nativity, is still a disputed point. That given it by the French is din- don, a contraction of Oiseau d’ Inde (bird of India.) The Greeks and Romans -had what they called meleagrides, or Galance Africana?, which were supposed to he the original race of turkeys, but which proved, after all, to be the Guinea fowl. The first writer who mentions the American turkey is believed to be Oviedo, in 1525, who de scribes them under the name of peacocks, commenting upon tlieir vast number in the ate in this country at an oarly day, A Heroic Spanish Maiden. In a part of Spain known as Da Carolina there stands a substantial farm-house, be longing to a man named Fueros, who is in more than comfortable circumstances. His family consists of his wife and one black- eyed little daughter, thirteen years old, the heroine of this tale. Tliis farm-house was the scene of a tragedy a short time ago. A few days previous to it the farmer sold some cattle, for which he received $1,500. The fact of his having received so large a sum became known to some robbers in the vicin ity, and they laid their plans to obtain pos session of it. Tlie plan, which was ceedingly ingenious, was carried out as fol lows : At a time of day when the male members of the household were away en gaged in their various duties, a man sup porting a woman, who seemed unable to walk, appeared at the door. The man, who looked respectable though travel-stain ed, stated that they were natives of a neighfco ing village on their way home, and that his wife, who was in delicate health, had broken down, and was unable to go a step further; he begged, therefore, that she might be allowed to sit down in the house and rest while lie went in search of a con- „ .aid their excellence. As an article of food but avoided sleep, fearing the extreme cold [ Re found them raised by Europeans in New might produce sleep of death. The third Spain, whence they were introduced into day he reached the station safely. The I New Castile and the West Indies. Lopez summer mouths are also occupied in pre- j de Gomara, in whose hook, published in | ney. Tlie desired hospitality was gener- paring for the long seige of winter. Dur- 1553, they were called gallapavo, describes j ously granted as soon as.asked. The man ing the months of August and September j tlie flesh as delicious. In 1584, wild tur- j went on his way, while the invalid took upwards of three thousand pounds of the | keys were found in Virginia. Rene de! seat by the fireside. After proffering usual variety of family stores and about j Laudonniere found them on his landing in twenty-five cords of fire wood are snjjgty‘/-North America, in 1554. Fernandez clas- stowed away. These are all carried to the j ses them with tlie birds of Mexico, and re peak in small quantities on tlie hacks of! marks upon the difference distinguishable the poor despised Burro, whose head has the appearance of being encased in cloth, and whose ears are nearly the length of liis legs and who walks at tlie pace of a snail and a very slow snail at that. A Circular Wolf Hunt. An old-fashioned wolf hunt took place recently on tlie borders of.*Iroquois and Kankakee counties, Illinois, thouo^i it must be confessed there was more hunting than finding. About a year ago a circular hunt or drive was carried out in that section,, which resulted in the corralling of fifteen oA twenty wolves, all of which, with one ex ception, escaped through the line, owing to the fact that guns were forbidden, for fear of accident. Not satisfied with the result, as then and there decided to have an- between the wild species and those domes ticated. Pedro de Ciesa found them upon tlie Isthmus of Darien, and Dampier in Yu catan. Buff on and other later travelers such refreshment as the house afforded, the mother and daughter went on with their household duties. The mother saw' nothing unusual, hut Caramita, for such was the girl's name, who sharply eyed the visitor with the curiosity of childhood, was terror- stricken to observe that beneath her skirts the sick woman wore pantaloons. With mention them as seen in various parts of j discretion beyond her years she managed to ^America. Kalm, who visited Pennsylva-: communicate her discovery to her mother uia in 1784, says of the wild turkeys of without awakening the suspicion of the that region : “ they are longer than our do- J stranger. As coolv as was possible under niestic turkey; the flesh is redder, hut su-1 the circumstances the two withdrew to a perior in taste.” Smyth mentions that neighboring room and locked the door, flocks of wild turkeys abounded in Western I Convinced after a time that his sez and Virginia and neighboring localities. Prof, j character was discovered, the robber cast S. B. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution, ! off all disguise, and, approaching the door, describes two distinct species of the wild ! ordered the terrified woman to open it at turkey found in North xVmerica. “One I once under penalty of death. Finding that confined to the more Eastern and Southern j they did not yield to his threats, he attempt- states, the other to the Rocky Mountains ! ed to force a passage. Failing in that, he fcnd adjacent parts of Texas, New Mexico, | drew’ a large knife and proceeded to cut a Colorado and Arizona; that the later ex-j hole through the door large enough to tends along the Eastern part of Mexico, as 1 craw’l through. When the opening w’as far South at least as Orizaba, and that from J large enougli he attempted to enter. The joining townships were to form the south line, those of St. Anne tlie west, those of Momence the north, and those of Morocco the east. Besides these, a number of In- dianians, with a pack of hounds, were ex-W pected to take part. A chief captain and tw’o assistant captains were named for each division, and points of rendezvous at ten room, is a small sitting room fitted with bookcases. Beyond this is the Prince’s own room, quite foil of beautiful things. Here lie and the Princess always breakfast and here, on the 9th of November and the 1st of December, are laid out all tlie numerous birthday presents. Of the Princess’ private apartment upstairs it will suffice to say that no prettier room than II. R. II.’s own boudoir or sitting-room was ever seen. All the visitors’ rooms are per fect, nor are the servants’ comforts neglect- d. Immediately after tea and coffee (when there is a party staying in the house) the Prince sits down to his wiiist in the small room leading out of the drawing-room, and the Princess adjourns to tlie Ixiw’ling alley, wdiere two little hoys attired in appropriate costume, are in attendance to send hack the heavy halls and set lip the bowls. The gar dens are of considerable extent, and the Princess’ dairy is a thing of beauty, with a lovely room luxuriously furnished for tea parties. The usual Sunday afternoon walk, with all the guests, household and children, comprises visits to the gardens, the dairy, the farm and the kennels, and alwa}’S fin ishes up with the stables. The company consists of very much the same set each year, w’itli occasional additions of foreign- Tliere are also one or two very good whist players. High Life. The United States signal station at Pike's Peak is the highest signal station in the world; it is also the highest inhabited por tion of the globe. It was opened in the month of September, 1873. That it was a wise provision of the government in estab lishing a signal station at this point is no longer questioned, the facts having already demonstrated its practicability, and the present success promises that Pike’s Peak gnal station is yet to stand at the head of all astronomical and meteorological stations vorld. This point is wonderfully favored by nature for the study of astrono my and meteorology. The rarity of the at mosphere brings out a remarkable brillian cy and clearness to tlie stars and all the heavenly bodies. The nights are most al ways cloudless and cloudy days are the ex ception. Nine-tenths of the storms are be low the peak. The best and most complete report of the last total eclipse of the sun received a‘ Washington was the report of Prof. Loud, of Colorado college, from ob servations taken at Pike's Peak. The sum mit of Pike’s Peak contains sixty acres, it is 14,336 feet above the level of the sea. On the highest point of tlie summit stands the signal station, a rough stone building twenty-four by thirty, one story in height. divided into four rooms—officers’ room, kitchen, store-room and wood-room. And here in this bleak spot, nearly twenty miles from tlie habitation of man, though three miles nearer the heavenly regions than most parts of New England, these live tlie larger part of the year. The station is three miles from the timber line, where the greater part of vegetation ceases. Short grass tufted with delicate Alpine flowers struggle for an existence against the frigidity of the atmosphere and creep to- sird the mountain top; but there are hundreds of acres of cold, gray and reddish rocks where not a vestige of verdure exists. Like the dwellers of the arctic regions, the inhabitants of Pike’s Peak have hut tw T o seasons—summer and winter. Two months of summer—August and September —and ten long, cold months of winter. Tlie summer season passes quickly. The atmosphere is congenial. The duties of the officers are various. Seven observa tions are taken daily; all storms are close- other hunt this year, and to have it with guns. The men of St. Marie and the ad- North America that our domestic turkey j mother fainted with terror, hilt Caramita, is derived. ” One of the points of difference j seixing her father’s gun, wiiich luckity I'ctween the tw r o species, and the one be-; stood loaded in the corner, walked resolute- lieved to lie constant, is in the color of the*! ly up to the opening and shot the man, as lips of the tail feathers and of the feathers he was in the act of creeping through the iverlying the base of the tail. These are j entrance. Upon searching the body of the creamy or yellowish-wiiite in the Mexican | dead rober a whistle was found. This was jmd tropical barnyard birds, wiiile in the used. When the soldiers appeared, tlie re wild turkey of Eastern North America the j mainder of the band of robbers made tlieir o’clock appointed. At that hour horsemen ) name parts are of a chestnut-brown color, [appearance, were arrested, and put to death, and footmen began to gather, armed with j When the Spaniards conquered Mexico the ! Thus a heroic Spanish maiden saved the rifles, shotguns, muskets, clubs, fish-horns, J turkey w r as found in a domesticated state, family, and was hailed with acclamation by conch-shells, and every other imaginable j jind it is believed had been reared as a tame all her friends and neighbors. thing that would blow’ or go off with a-bird for several centuries before that period. bang. An hour later the lines were ]|Turkeys w r ere introduced into England from Th« Bars of Gold, formed, covering a circuit of about ten or l]Amerioa about the year 1524: and we have ; twelve miles in diameter, and the signal to {accounts of their being served up at a great Away down upon the coast of Maine start—tlie blowing of a tin liorn, which was jSanquet in 1555, which, according to Eng- | there is a. little hamlet wiiich hears the nd passed around the entire cir- i 1 3li authority, was the first occasion upon name of Gray Craig. A few houses—liard- ;iven from the Momence column. • lincli this dish was there given promi- j m °re than a dozen—nestle under the lea At the start the men were widely scattered, icnce. The same authority adds that, 1 of the dark storm worn rocks, looking much but as they approached the centre they drew j-L' -ut 1585, turkeys were commonly rcc-; ljke so many nests of sea-birds, and the nearer and nearer until an alrnool phalanx was formed. Tlie country ove hicli tlie hunt was made is a marshy re gion, broken here and there by sandy ridges, covered with stunted young oaks, ranging from two to ten feet in height—in short, what is known in the vernacular of the country as “barrens.” Tlie arrangement was that when the circle was narrowed to a mile and a quarter in diameter, a halt should he called, and ten select hunters should go in with dogs and stir tlie animals aumhexof delir.iito dislies. 1 dwejlers therciu are much like tlieir featli One account says that it is believed that * cr fd neighbors wnosc homes are near ov. turkeys were introduced into England from j ^ * ien the weather is fair they are about America by Willliam Strickland, Lieu- ; skimming over the face of the water in pur- tenant of Sebastian C’ahot, in the time of su *t of food ; hut let the storm arise, and Henry VII. The earliest account of them 1 their frail boats are turned homeward, their in Italy is contained in an ordinance issued sai * s trimmed, to catch the freshening by the magistrates of Venice in 1557 for re- breeze, and they seem to run a race with pressing luxury, and in which those tables , their feathered friends to see which shall it which turkeys were served were parti- j ^ re t £ !lin a place of safety in the little cove cularized. About the year 1570 Bartolo-1 under the shelter of the great rocks. _ meo Scappi, cook to Pope Pius V., gave in ! A few summers ago I spent a couple of up for a chase. The hunt was. prettily ar- his book on cooking several receipts for: weeks at Gray Craig, and made the ac- ranged to this end, and when the halt was dressing these then expensive and much ad-; quaintance of every soul in tlie hamlet, called it was upon the verge of a circular mired fowls. In evidence of their rarity at i ^ ^ ie .V were friends good and true, and I prairie, and tlie entire line was visible, this period it is mentioned that the first ( hardly know when or where I have spent a making a picturesque sight. Then it was turkeys brought to Bologno were some that i happier season. seen that the tSt. Marie and Morocco por- had been given as a present to the family I From the old fishermen I have heard tions were well-filled, while those of St. (of Buonocompagni, from which Gregory ! n,an y stories of the danger of the lives they Anne and Momence were full of wide gaps’XI., who at that time filled the Papal ^ e( ^* They were full of them, and nothing owing to the small number and unequal chaig, was descended. Authorities do not | delighted them more than to sit and tell distribution of tlieir men. Inside the lines agree on the period when the French people : Riem on a stormy day, when it was impos- was the broad stretch of prairie, covered first acquired this article of food. It is as- | s ‘^ e f° r them to he upon the ocean, and with short, brown grass; hut nowhere over serted on the one hand that the first turkey j when the thunder of the surf upon the shore its level surface was a wolf to be seen. Tlie seen in France was brought thither by the shook the solid rocks upon which tlieir order forward was given again, and tlie cir- Jesuits, and served up at the marriage feast j cabins stood. cle grew’ smaller and smaller until horsemen of Charles IX., 1570. The assurance, liow’- J Due of these old fellows bore the name of and footmen came up and looked into each ever, though not fully proved, that they j T°m Pains, and he was as full of stories as other's faces, as if they would say: “Well, were first brought to France by Philip de . the waters were of fish, w’hat did you let them out for?” It was a Cliabot, Admiral under Francis L, is re-! “Did you know that Captain Kidd buried “water-haul,” in fisherman's parlance, garded as more favorable. Gylius, who his gold not a hundred rods from where we A comparison of notes showed that the cir- died in 1555, furnished the first scientific are sitting now' he said to me, one day. cle had at one time embraced four wolves, description of them, which was approved I I assured him that I was not aware of the One of them went into his hole on tlie St. both by Gesner and Aldrovandus in tlieir j fact, although I knew that there was hard- Anne line, and pulled it in after him, aud works on ornithology. Bellon’s illustra- j ty a hamlet along the coast that did not some of the boys stayed behind to dig him tions of them were first published in the lay claim to some legend of this sort, out. One made a rush for it on the Sti same year. About the same time they were “But this is true, he said. “For I Marie line, and got off with a whole skin by] described by La Bruyere-Champier, who have seen the bars of gold myself. When dextrously dodging a rifle bullet, and thq mentions that they liad a few years before remaining couple sought and secured soli] been brought to France from the Indian Is- ' ” lands discovered by tlie Portuguese and tlie rid of it, hut the thought of the iron chest haunted me. If I could only get the gold wiiich I felt sure it contained, my fortune would he made. I could he as smart as those great gentry who in the summer time come down here to fish and see what man ner of people we were. “Late in the afternoon, when the tide was out, I took a pick, and, unseen by anybody made my way to the cliff. The sky was overcast, and the wind sighed dismally, in dications that a storm was fast coming up. The boats which were outside were fast hurrying in, as were the sea-birds, who with many slirill cries circled alxive my head. “On the edge of the cliff I found the very footholds I had seen in my dream, and clinging to the face of the rock as well as I could, I commenced my descent. It. was no hoy’s task to do it, hut I worked man fully, and at last I stood on the little belt of sand at the foot of the cliff. “Eagerly I glanced about me, and sure enough there was the hole in the rock which I had seen in my dream. “A gust of wind at that moment sent the spray from the water over me, well nigh drenching me to *the skin; hut I paid no heed to this, or to how fast the waves were vevance to earn’her to the end of her jour- ^ l ^ at iron chest was in — - - there, and that I must see what its contents were, no matter what came. “With one look at the blackening sky and rapidly swelling waves, I entered the cavern. At first it seemed as black as night therein, but, as my eyes became accustomed to tlie darkness I was enabled to see about me. “Guided by the memory of my dream, I groped onward, and at last, to my great joy, I saw tlie iron chest before me. “I did not lose a moment's time in setting about my work, for I know that I had none to spare. In a little time the tide would lie running swiftly in, and I would be drowned unless I hurried away. “Stout were the blows I dealt upon the chest; one by one the iron hands fell off, and at last they all lay at my feet. Then I strove to lift the lid, but tlie rusty iron lock still held it in its place. . • “A few more blows stove this to pieces, and then I threw back the lid. “Tlie sight which then met my eyes filled my soul with delight. The chest was full of yellow bars of gold ‘For a minute I stood feasting upon the sight, when I received a blow which nearly threw me from my feet. A great wave rolled in without a sign of its coming. “I picked myself up in horror, and turn- g my hack upon the gold, fled toward the opening. The narrow belt of sand outside was covered with water, and afar off, linr- g like a race horse, I could see another monster wave. My only hope of life was to get out of its reach, and I sprang up over the rock with tlie swiftness of the wind. I was not a moment too soon. The great wave struck the cliff, and leaped after Had I been a foot lower down I must have been swept away by it. ‘The storm had now come in all its force. It almost took my foothold ; but I held on and reached the summit in safety. Then I hurried home, convinced tlial the gold must ain where it was until the storm abated. It proved to he one of the most fearful ones ever known on this coast. It raged fortwo whole days, and its fury I never saw equalled before. When it was over I hurried to the cliff, and clambered down as far as I could go, and The a I fxmud thiii the. gold was ; test to me forever. The storm liad changed all about its base. Where the sand had been a great mass of rock had fallen, sealing up the mouth of the cavern for all time from the gaze of man. The gold is in the heart of the cliff, and there it will remain until the Last Day. Tlie House of the Midnight San. As we crossed the famed Arctic Circle we saw, far. away to tlie westward, the four isolated peaks of tlie islands of Thaennen, which stand up erect as towers in the ocean, as if placed there as sentinels to keep watch and ward over tlie entrance of the Polar seas. Nearer to our ship's course we passed the curious Isle of Hestamando, or Horseman’s Island, so called by the sailors of these seas from the likeness which it is supposed to a huge cavalry soldier riding througli the waves. The fishermen always take off their caps and make an obeisance to the “horseman” as their boats float past him. L and I remained on deck to watch for the northward of the Polar Circle being nearly all snow-covered with many a huge glacier topping the highest hills, or appearing behind the ridges. The lights at 11:45 P. 31., when the sun appeared as if to set, although it, of course, did not do so, were splendid, and the white-capped mountains were covered with a panoply of every hue of the rainbow, while the sea around was one golden purple blaze of tiny wavelets. The scene presented to us at 12 o’clock (midnight) altogether baffles de scription, and a far abler pen than mine, would he required to do a tithe of justice to such a glorious panorama. There, some distance above the horizon,. we saw the blood red hall of the sun, and so bright was the round mass that our eyes could scarcely hear to look at it. Its warm rays could still be felt, although the wind now met us, and a very cold northwesterly breeze, it was straight from the frozen shores of Spitzber- gen : this alone was sufficient to remind us that we were in a far northern land. No one on the deck spoke, and’ the extreme stillness and solitude was very striking and the effects solemn. _ The color of the sun was even redder than it is in full daylight, but the spectacle cannot lie described pro perly by a writer, and can hardly he ima gined by any one who has not been in these northern latitudes. The way in which the hundreds of huge snow-capped mountain peaks and tlieir rugged sides were lighted up by the bright rays was almost magical; and the varied colors which danced in con stant motion upon the snow, and on the surface of the sea, were worth coming all the way from England to gaze upon. The sun appeared, as nearly as we could judge, to remain quite stationary from a quarter lo 12 o’clock till 12:20 A. 3L, when the orb began to rise again slowly ; and by one o’clock the heavy mists which liad lieen resting for the last two hours on the sum mits of some of the highest mountains, gradually merged into the skies, and as we went down in our berths all nature was ful ly as bright as midday. Truly it was a sight not to lie forgotten as long as memory lasts. “Eb And Ase." burned over in tlie fall and the wolves hat bid the place good-bye. One old huntei reckoned that as the arrangement for tli hunt had been made on the ground last y the wolves had heard it and had lit out The most plausible theory, however, wa that they had effected their escape throng the north line, which was particularly tlii in numbers—a gap of half a mile existin in one or two places—for fresh tracks w plenty. How Thimbles Are Made. The manufacture of thimbles is vcrl simple, but singular!}’ interesting. Coil silver is mostly used, and is obtained 1i purchasing coin dollars. Hence it liappei that the profits of the business are affecti instantaneously by all variations in tb nation's greenback promise to pay. Tb first operation strikes a novice as alma wicked, for it is nothing else than putting, lot of bright silver dollars, fresh from t| mint, into dirty crucibles, and melting tlie| up into solid ingots. These are roll# into the required thickness, and cut byk stamp into circular pieces of the requirfl size. A solid metal bar of tlie size of tl* inside of the intended thimble, moved V powerful machinery up and down in a b<f- tomless mould of tlie out side of tlie thii- hles bends the circular disks in to tlie thii- ble shape as fast as they can be placed undr the desending bar. Once in shape, te work of brightening, polishing and decoi- ting is done upon a lathe. First, the blak form is fitted with a rapidly revolving ri. A slight touch of a sharp chisel takes a tin shaving from the end, another does te same on the side, and the third rounds ff ly watched and each special and distinctive j the rim. A round steel rod, dipped in d, characteristic duly recorded. Sunrise and j and pressed upon the surface, gives it a sunset demand close attention. Every pe- j lustrous polish. Then a little revolvig culiarity of the heavenly regions is viewed j steel wheel, whose edge is a raised orn- and records made of the same, and monthly ment, held against the revolving blak, reports of these records sent to the prints that ornament, just outside the rfa. headquarters at Washington. The present j A second wheel prints a different omaimt year has been unusually prolific in sun-! around the center, while a third whri, dogs, which are said to prognosticate j with sharp points, makes the indentatiis earthquakes, subterranean explosions, im-1 on the lower half and end of the thimle. mense freshets, and troublous times. A i The inside is brightened and polished ii a government office at Pike’s Peak is no sin-' similar way, the thimble being held oi a ecure, for the officer must buffet all storms ' revolving mold. All that remains tojbe and brave all weathers. Occasionally an j done is to boil tlie completed thimbles in electric storm visits the peak. There is ' soapsuds, to remove the oil, brush themip, hut little thunder accompanying the storms, • and pack them for the trade. tude by doing the.like on the3Iorocco line. Considerable astonishment was expressei Spaniards. Germany seems to have had at the fact that so few were encircled. Tin turkeys introduced, probably from France, prevailing opinion was that it was owing t<j as early as 1530 ; and in the same year the fact that most of the ground had beei they were imported into Bohemia and Sile- In support of the theory that the tur key is a native of America, Beckman, in answer to the opposite argument, holding that these fowls could not become so soon distributed over Europe, since Cortez first visited 3Iexico in 1519 subdued the capital in 1521, aud returned to Spain in 1527, re calls the fact that maize, or Indian corn, and other productions of the New World, soon became wiedly diffused into other countries, after their discovery. Very Lively Cider. A Norwich man put up twelve liottles oj cider against tlie no license law this season, and when lie went down cellar to get a bot tle for a friend, the other night he found that five of them had hurst. He picked up a sound one and returned above stairs. He held tlie bottle at an angle of sixty-two and one-lialf degrees north latitude, between liis of my mind for five minutes at a time, knees and cut the wires that girt the cork, j “The dream run in this way : I thought There was a flash and a report, and the that I was down on the shore of the ocean. lioy I often heard the story that Kidd buried one lot of his gold somewhere in these parts. Tlie old people firmly be lieved this, and they told us youngsters so often that we came to he of the same mind. Time and again, I .remember, that I and Joe Kirby, a chum of mine, hunted for the treasure. Whenever we had a chance we improved it in this way. When the water was so rough that we could not go out, we would take our spades and picks and dij among the rocks and sand in all sorts of places where we could imagine that Kidd might have hidden away his yellow blood stained gold. But we never fpund any thing in the shape of treasure, although w< dug until there was a dozen spots alioiit here which looked like so many rabbit rens. The gold never turned up, and at last Joe and I gave it up as a bad bargain, convinced at last as many liad told us be fore, that we should never make a living in this way. “I had not hunted for gold for nigli on to ten years, and the thought of Kidd and his treasure but seldom troubled me, when one night I had a dream that haunted me all the next day. I could not get it out mere was a nasn ana a report, ana me • mat i wa» uuwu uu iuc anwic m me u^cau, tries, cork struck the northern brink of his wife's . on the summit of a great cliff where I had left ear, while the entire pint of cider, mak- been hundreds of times. I seemed to he on Guatemala Indigo. This species of indigo is known to Ameri can and European commerce as “Guatema la indigo.” In Salvador it is called by the native name of “tiquilite,” and is consid ered the most important agricultural crop of the entire Republic! The plant grows wild, hut is cultivated in properly prepared ground. Both the crops and produce vary according to the geological composition of the soil. Thus at the base of the volcano of San Salvador the yield of dye is some times aliout half a pound per load of leaves, while at Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, situ ated at some distance from the sea, thirteen fourteen ounces are obtained. Indigo is grown over nearly the whole of Salvador, forming extensive fields, and furnishing one of the most valuable products to its agricul tural industry. The localities in which tlie plants are grown are called “Manchones. ” The workmen, who are styled “sacateros,” cut the plants with a small sickle, and make them up into sheaves of from fifty to sixty pounds weight. Tlie plants after being cut are thrown into vats filled with water, they are here allowed to soak for a period of from twelve to seventeen hours, the time varying according to the temperature and quality of the water. When the liquid is in a state of fermentation, the coloring matter is drawn off into another vat, where it is beaten, kept in motion by means of wooden wheels, and then the dye is precipitated by the sap contained in the bark of the “tihuilate,” of the “platanillo,” or of the “cuaja tinta.' The first-named hark is referred to a species of Ionidium, the second to Canna indica, while of the third no clew is given as to the scientific name of the plant. All these plants have an acid reaction. When once the dye is precipitated, it is allowed to remain dur ing the night, and the next day it is boiled, filtered, pressed and lastly dried in the sun. Each hale, or “suron,” contains 150 pounds and the different qualities of grades of the' digo are specified by numbers—from four to six ordinary quality, or “cortes; ” from seven to nine, fine or superior, or “sobresalientes. ’* The usual annual produce of indigo in Sal vador amounts to aliout 2,400,000 pounds, the annual exports being between 14,000 to 15,000 “surons” of 150 pounds each, repre senting an approximate value of 1,721,378 piasters or dollars. Tlie superior quality indigo is sold at the country fairs at about eight reals per pound. In the American and European markets the prices vary, of course, according to the supply from other coun- Tlie New Presiden t ot France. ing nearly as good time as the cork, struck | the very edge and it almost made me dizzy the expectant friend full in the mouth. : to look down into the boiling water below. Never having accustomed himself to drink- Down over the face of the cliff I had al- ing cider in This way—that is, on the fly— | ways thought that it was impossible to go, lie reminded the dejected possessor of the ! hut now something seemed to impel me to bottle that he had been able only to get a do so, and I saw that there was a foothold smell of tlie liquor, and advised him to open | to be obtained there, way down to the very another bottle. Tlie request was complied < edge of the white capped waves. Down with and the host brought up another bottle {this something forced me, and at last and, in order to avoid accidents and also j I stood on a little belt of sand which now, save the cider, he turned the neck of the ! as the tide was out, was left hare between bottle into a pitcher before he cut the wires, j the water and the rock. Then I saw close Then he severed tlie cords in the presence beside me the dark entrance to a cavern highly appredative audience. The; which was revealed plainly now, but second jpanceuver, as far as getting the eider through which tlie ocean poured with a rush out of the bottle and into the pitcher was and a roar when the tide was coming in. concerned, was a complete success, but the I “Tlie same power which seemed to have idea that it might refuse to stay there do< s forced me down over the cliff against my not appear to have struck him half so forci- i will now urged me into the aperture, and I bly as did the cider when, with unimpaired \ stood at length in a spacious cavern, and ( _ _ agility and strength, it shot forth and raked saw before me the outlines of a big iron ; his close friend, 31. Paul de Cassagnac, are him from the bottom button of liis vest to • chest, hound with great hoops of the same ! two of the best billiard players known, and the back part of his hair. About a thimble material. { constantly play together. The two do not full of the liquid remained in the bottom of “I knew at once that here was the gold discuss politics, hut feel a mutual esteem the pitcher, and this was drank in solemn ' Kidd had left behind liim, and for wiiich I; for their respective powers with the ball, silence by the guest, who pronounced it to had sought so long, and eagerly I tried to J M. Grevy is also a keen sportsman and an be exceedingly good, but nervously mut- \ burst the iron bands that held down the lid able agriculturalist, and owns many vines, tered something about setting the children of the chest. But I could not do it, and in j cattle and fields of maize. He smokes a bad example of extravagance and waste my struggle I awoke, and found that it was much, speaks forcibly and frankly, and when the opening of a third bottle was sug- ‘ only a dream. I noror i^o hi« t»mnor anh “ho i« n« President Grevy dresses very modestly, never having worn even the uniform of the National Guard. He is a man of republican simplicity in all liis ways. In his every-day attire, even in Paris, he lias always donned ride-awake instead of a silk hat; and summer time he may generally be seen sauntering about the boulevards clad all gray, and crowned with a Panama. Though a man of considerable landed property, as estates go in France, he never set up a brougham till lie became President of the Chamber, and he has always kept this modest one-horse vehicle, with a coachman out of liver}’, at Versailles. In Paris he uses cabs and onmibusses; hue it must lie a very muddy day which compels him to ride at all. He delights in music, hut his fa vorite pastime is billiards, and to smoke cigars while making his caroms. He and Ase Gates, who lived in the western part of 3Iaiue, and liis wife were both of them very profane. They had a large fam ily of children, from ten years old down to ten days. On a bright summer morning, while sitting at the breakfast table, the children having finished their breakfast and gone out to play, “Eph” asked his wife what made tlieir children “swearso.” She unhesitatingly replied, “It’s them school children!” One day “Eb' 1 was telling about the productions, hors»s, cattle, etc., of doh, Vt.,' where he used to live. Among other varieties he said that “old Squire H. owned a hydraulic ram that he sheared eight pounds of wool a year from, for the last eight or ten years! After the laugh had subsided, his brother “Ase” was called in to substantiate the statement; who, when asked the question, said it was “a lie. Old Squire II. never had any such ram, for I knew all his stock very well!” “Eb” and “Ase" could not boast of an exalted range of character for truth and veracity. But tlie hardest nut to crack was the shooting of Eb’s, which ran as fol lows : “I and Ase was to shoot agin the boys out on the Jarman Flats. Well, we went out by side o’ the woods, ’n' I just took out my terharker cud, ’n’ let drive at a red squirrel, who was settin’ on a limb v bout 40 feet high, ’n’ brought him down. That was the fust squirrel 'at was ever killed by a terharker cud! But we went at the shooting—'twant none o’ yer shoot ing at a turkey, nor any targit, but we'd got it down to a purty fine thing (Ase V I’d got things fixed). I had a double-bar relled gun. In one o' them barrels I’ dropt a couple o’ cambric needles, and in ’tother a spool o’ cotton thread. ‘Well,’ sez I, ‘Ase, lie ready!’ Then I up and fired the needles. Then Ase he fired his’n ’at was loaded with thread same as mine, and threaded one o’ them needles, ’n I threaded the other with my 'tother barrel! When we went to pjck up the needles all nicely tlireaded, tlie boys were walkin' slowly home, whistlin’ ‘Hull's Victory !’ ” Some years later, a similar crowd being assembled, the conversation was upon the utility of the velocipede. Eh heard the pros and cons, the velocity that they could run, the difficulty of management, etc., for a few minutes, when he sailed in with the interesting remark that they were, after all, of hut little account. “I’ve seen dozens of ’em, and when I lived out on the Jarman Flats, I shot two of ’em one morning liefore breakfast!” Revolutionary Cannon. Six cannon cast for the American Army more than one hundred years ago, have been exhumed in Chester county, Penn. These old artillery pieces possess a curious history, which may not be uninteresting to our read ers. During the Re^volutionary War, Messrs. Samuel Potts and Thomas Rutter, of Pottstown, Pa., who were then operating Warwick furnace, were engaged in manu facturing cannon, cannon-shot, and other war munitions for the American army, un der a contract from Congress, and a large number of the cannon used by the patriot troops were made at Warwick. At the time the battle of the Brandywine was fought, on the 11th of September 1777, a number of artillery pieces were at the fur nace, completed and ready for use, and lien the news of Washington's defeat at that well contested field was received at Warwick, it was feared that General Howe ould send a force there to capture these guns for the use of King George's artillery men. To prevent this 3Jessrs. Potts and Rutter, who were strongly in sympathy with the patriot cause, determined to put the cannon out of the way. They were accord ingly dragged by oxen to the Warwick meadows, which were at that time marshy and covered with an undergrowth of bushes and brambles, and. there either sunk in the bogs or buried out of sight. It is said that iorty pieces were thus disposed of— tlie exact number is not known—and there most of. them remained for more than a century that has since elapsed. In 1872 however, 3Ir. Thomas 31. Potts, Jr., a great grandson of Samuel Potts, exhumed six of the old cannon. They are marked P. & R. which is intended for Potts & Rut ter, Warwick Furnace. It is known where a few of the other pieces are buried, but the exact whereabouts of the others, under the soil of the Warwick meadows, has never e en ascertained. gested. “And all through that day I tried to ge feebler than an iron bar. —The glass skylights fop the new 1 never loses his temper, and “he is no. Government building, Chicago will (aaKIav tVfcOn ot, iw\n Kor *1 I — AA ^ * weigh 20 tons.