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The Cedartown Advertiser.
Published every Thursday by D. B. BRE EM Ah.
OLD SERIES-VOL, YII-NO. 3.
CEDARTOWN, GA., APRIL 1, 1880.
Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance.
NEW SERIES-VOL. II-NO. 16.
EMIGRANT.
: saw what it would come to. And Nellie
! grew older and graver day by day. But as
| yet she kept her own secret, and she hoped
| more and more that Edward had forgotten
! her foolish, thoughtless words on a certain
Silver and gold, silver and gold!
For the sun’s dusk red in the western fold
Tells that the end of a day draws nigh,
ADd the clouds they grow bolder along the sky. ; mo0 nlight night, now some seven or eight
Silver and gold, silver and gold— i wee ^ s a &°* ,
For the moon in the Eaat is a queen to behold, j At last the engagement was announced.
As she reigns with her spells o’er the calm, Gracie Basset had no friends to interfere
sweet night, • with her, and flattered with Edward’s at-
Holding tremulous sceptre where ghosts walk 1 Nations, and really believing that she lov
ed him “quite enough for happiness,” she
i had agreed that the marriage should take
place as soon as all needful arrangements
' white.
Silver new-molten meets ebbing of gold,
On a wandering isle without a foothold;
A vessel alone on the lonely seas.
Stirred with the sigh of the fanciful breeze.
Moonbeams and suubeams, silver and gold:
And they toyed with the bark as she idly
roll* d
On the silent waters that shadowy grew,
And the.night-gloom fell, and the Btars stole
through.
Silver and gold, silver and gold-
could be made.
The wedding was over. The honeymoon
was over also, and Mrs. Melville, richly
dressed, and looking very lovely, w ith Ed
ward as an attentive and devoted husband
beside her, was receiving her guests.
Nellie was among them. She was paler
than usual, and her free, happy, girlish
And the surUh'at l ;a'wasted hTclondl.nd cold j langli was gone for ever. Yet she, too,
Throws a purple pall o’er a womans face, looked lovely this afternoon, in her pretty
Whf re death's coloiless fingfrs are smoothing I blue silk dress and cottage bonnet, and
pain’s trace.
Moonbeams and sunbsams, silver and gold—
The youug is come in place ofAhe old,
A seal set on lipa that have said their last
word,
And lips that ne’er opened before are stirred.
lights of earth, light of heaven, shower silver
and gold.
Como aboard, the great ship is a traveler bold 4 .
Tw.light and moonlight, in soft mantle hide.“
One that vanishes silently o’er the ship side.
Silver and gold, silver and gold—
Tho sun is lost in the wide sea*wold,
The vail falls over ihe mother’s head.
On a journey new is the traveler sped.
Silver and gold, silver and gold—
The waves, as if tells by the star rays knolled.
Ring of death, and of ghosts that dance all in
white,
And tho babe’s cry breaks on the calm, sweet
night.
Moonbeams and sunbeams, silver and gold;
A life is hidden, a life doth unfold:
One goeth hence to a brightness afar,
One bath found the way here by the light of a
star.
How He Learnt His Lesson.
there was a beauty in the expression of her
gentle young face that went far beyond
tiny mere beauty of feature.
Only a few weeks passed. Nellie was
invited to dine with them. After dinner
they were moving about the drawing-room,
and Gracie was exhibiting to Nellie some
choice bouquets of flowers which bad been
sent to her that morning. They had all
been arranged on one table, in accordance
with a whim of the young wife, who de
clared that the the effect of their richness
and color was lost when they were scatter
ed.
But Edward had not heard her say this.
“Let me put this blue vase here, Gracie, ’
he unwittingly began, removing it, as he
spoke, to another table. There; it shows
to advantage now!”
Gracie, with heightened color, deliber
ately walked to the table, and put the vase
in its former position.
“It is quite out of tfie way there*” she
said stiffly, ‘and this is where I wish it to
be Edward.”
“How great a matter a little fire kiud-
leth!” Edward’s color also rose, yet he
did not look angry*.
••AndI wish that it should stand here,”
i he returned, once more taking up the vase;
Oh, what have I done! What have I j and theQ he a(1(led> half repr0 achfully, half
done!” exclaimed Nellie, under her breath, j pi a yf U ll v', “You promised to obey me.
as sad and dismayed she hurried up the j ( , ra( , ie .„
garden path. “He will never be kind to j qqjjg p roved to be only the beginning of
me any more. How could I have said such ! gma jj discomforts and disagreements.
a thing!”
And her hands trembled so that she could
scarcely lift the latch of the old fashioned
door, and she turned away to quiet herself
a little before going iu.
Nellie glanced up at the rambling old
farm-house, which had beeu her home for
many year3. How she loved it! Every
nook and corner that it contained was dear
to her.
“I have it, and all in it, loft to me,” she
said, iu a soft, sad tone; “and dear father |
, , .. Edward.
and mother, too. A happy, happy home it _ „, ,,
. , , . T .. i t Nobody but Edward,
has always been, and I am thankini tor it. : i . ... ,, A
J ’ j Love would have made him all the world
| to Nellie.
T would wear my prettiest dresses for
“As for
f Many months passed, Gracie grew more
j imperious than ever; Edward’s lace lost all
[ its brightness, and he seemed day by day to
j grow old, silent and sad.
j And when Nellie went to see them now
I she found except Gracie expected visitors
j she took very little pains with herself, re-
j marking sometimes to Nellie as they went
i downstaiis for the evening,
i “I have not dressed, Nellie. Ot course
| you don’t mind, and theres nobody else but
But, oh, Edward, how could you be so un
kind ? Oh, how could you ?”
She listened, fancying she couid hear his ;
departing footsteps yet,
might have done so.
With lofty looks and disdainful curve of j 1 care tor tllcm ’
, .. 1 But Grade, only frowned lor reply,
hm rather dun lips he was on Ins way , ^ a ^ dansdll but instea d
home along the ending lanes Hew*. ; Awards’, house, there was
man of five and thirty, while Nellie was I J n
scarcely twenty. She was simple and in
nocent as a child; but he had learnt many a j
lesson in the school of life ere this. And j
one lesson which Edward MelvU.e prided )■even the tendered love
himself on having learnt was the value of , ^ jn hours ^ thege , Gracie . s lagt m0 .
money. e was a m in or, am so le , luC nts’s were numbered, and she passed
made up his mind he would remain until he | leaving her Uttle one t0 * elite.
And Edward, when the first benumbing
influence of his grief was over, sold his
And perhaps siie j Imsband, Gracie, " she said
I other people, they might go. W hat should
i bitter sorrow, and as the youug husband
| knelt by the bedside of bis unconscious wife
he felt all the old love for her filling his
The Heathen Chinee at Home.
The Awful Majesty of the Law.
One of the officials of Justice Alley, of: ~ “ '
Detroit, was the other day called upon by 1 There are some facts in regard to the re-
an old gray-headed farmer and his wife, suit of six or seven thousand yeais of Oii-
toeether with a neighbor, and outside the , ?ese civilization. Just think of it. There
door they hitched an old half-blind horse | “ not a road in all of the broad expense of
whose cash value was reckoned at $25. j populous China where even a wheelbarrow
“You see,” explained the old fanner , could lie driven or a horse led except around
naybur Jones wants to buy the old boss i Shanghai, and here the English have con-
out there, but lie wants a bill o’ sale signed j structed them. They have no cemeteries,
by wife and I. We want you to draw up ! no tombstones mark and honor their last
one for us." resting places on earth. Those who own
The Justice reached down one of the j Pn™te gardens bury their dead and those
printed blanks, filled it out, and then said: ! of them friends therein. Those who have
“Now you listen while I read this over j uo gardens or plots of ground lay he bodies
and see if it is all right. All ready now: | °f the dead in rough boxes on the surface
Know all men by these presents. That j °f open fields. Ihe Chinese regard the
- 4 1 Q,-mle r.f tlwnr anrxictrr ua lirtL'a in t nr* Ipnrrrn
Presents! Why, I’m not going to pre
sent him with that boss!” interrupted the
farmer.
■And we don’t want any present from
him!” added the wife.
That’s all right—only a legal form,”
exclaimed his Honor. Listen:
Count}* Wayne first part con
sideration sum of $25 grant bar-
and sell party second part
his executors, administrators .”
I haven't got any executors or adminis
trators!” interrupted neighbor Jones.
‘No; all he’s got is a wife and two girls! ”
added the owner of the horse.
“All form—all mere form,” explained
the justice, and he went on:
“And assigns forever covenant and
agiee defend the same heirs, execu
tors and administrators ”
“William, I shall never sign no such
paper!” suddenly exclaimed the wife as
she rose np.
“Nor I, either!” stoutly replied the hus
band. 4 ‘Why, I’d shake iu my boots every
time I met a constable!”
“It is all mere form and according to
law,” explained his Honor. “All bills of
sale read this way.”
“Looks to me as if it was sort o’ tangled
up,” said neighbor Jones. “The old hos9
is blind in one eye, and how can they war
rant hinT?”
And what has this boss-sale got to do
souls of their ancestry as links in the length
of a great chain which they say enables
them to reach up to the supreme source of
life and ruler of the universe. This is the
reason why these remarkably keen, quick
witted people will not tolerate the con
struction of a railroad in their country.
They declare that the locomotives and
rattling trams would certainly violate the
sacred charm influenced in their behalf by
causing the abrupt scared flight of their
ancestry who are ever hovering around and
over them. They have no banks in China,
and uo coin of value except our silver and
that of Mexico. They have no lawyers, but
they have a perfect, rigidly enforced system
of law and order. The principals alone
can plead their cases. The first social rank
in China can only be attained by literary
merit. All Chinamen can read and write,
because education is compulsory. Every
man in China is free to complete for a li
terary degree, and last year 107,000 candi
dates for this honor were entered at Canton
for examination. Those of this large
number who passed muster then are free
again to advance to the higher national
grade competition at Pekin, annually held
there, and when they pass this ordeal they
become Mandarins and live in high estate
at the pubiic expense. -No military man is
permitted to aspire to these literary honor
in China. This annual selections from the
whole Chinese people of its rulers, who re
presents its best thought and mental power,
with his heirs and covenants?” inquired the has P/obably been the great and potent fac
old mftn ! tor of their remarkable vitality and preser-
“I won’t sign—I won’t have a thing to! ^tion as a nation but at the same time it
do with it!” exclaimed the wife, as she >“teases the wonder that they should have
walked around. “We’ve always kept clear j *ood still on the avenue of human progress
o[ the law, and we ain’t going to get into! tor thousands of years. ^
no scrape and lose our farm now—not if j Herat.
we know it!”
The more the justice tried to explain the j This city stands on the Hcri River, on
bigger the words looked, and the trio finally j the slope of the Hindoo Koosh, and conse-
walked out. While they were unhitching! quently in the northwest corner of Afghani-
tlie horse along came a house-painter, and stan. Due north, at a distance of abont 230
when be had heard their story he picked up 1 miles, is Mery: due east, at a distance of
a piece of paper iu the alley, pulled out a! nearly 400 miles, is Cabul; considerably
stub of a pencil, and wrote, j to the southeast, and almost equi-distant
“We hereby sell this horse to Jonn Jones | from Cabul and Herat, is Candahar. If
for $25, cash down. We raised him from j our readers want a war map which will
a colt, anti his name is Andrew Jackson. | convey a fair idea of the situation from a
“(Signed) j strategical and political point of view, let
. ” j them suppose a capital L mounted on top
The paper was signed, passed over with I of a capital V; Mery will be at the top of
the horse, and as the farmer received the ' the L, Herat at the angle, and Cabul at the
money he said: | horizontal extremity of the letter, while
“That’s all there is to it, law or no law, Candahar will be down at the angle of the
and it didn’t take two minutes. Why, I’d | V. Cabul may be eliminated from the
have taken Andrew* Jackson back home ; situation, for though there are direct roads
and knocked him in the head afore I’d put j between it and Herat, the route by Maimana
my name to that paper binding us to keep ! to the north of the Hazarch mountains is
on covenanting and agreeing ai.d assigning i circuitous and- difficult, and that through ''“j j. one who holds a check, as payee or
and administrating a whole lifetime on one j the Hazarch country is equally roundabout*^ )t j ierw j so ^ trtt3m {era it to another, l.o hoa
* and more arduA.ua. The ujnm ruuve, and,
Khan took it after a siege of six months,
it was a city of 12,000 shops, 350 schools,
144,000 occupied dwellings, and 6000 bath9,
caravanserais and water-mills. Of the in
habitants, 160,000 are said to have been
slaughtered at this second sack. In 1398,
Miran Shah, and in 1447, Jehan Shah,
smote it severely, and twice in the sixteenth
century it was attacked by the Usbecks.
who were once beaten back alter a siege of
eighteen months, and once succeeded in
capturing and pillaging the city. When
the Persians soon afterwards took the city,
which they had always claimed as one of
the four royal places ot the Khorassan, it
was “not only the richest city in Central
Asia, but the resort of the greatest divines,
philosophers, poets and historians of the
African Salutation*.
A very interesting account is given of
tlxv? ceremonials observed by the Tubu
people, Africa, in greeting one another. A
most elaborate performance is gone through
when two strangers meet in this wild coun
try. Each of the performers covers all his
face but his eyes with this turban, seizes
his spear and throwing-iron (a curious
bowering-like weapon w ith a long project
ing prong on the concave margin), and
thus prepared, the two appioach one an
other. At a distance of about six steps
from one another they squat on their heels
with spear upright in one hand and iron
in the other. The one then asks “How do
you do ?” about a dozen times by means ol
four different words having that meaning
used alternately, the reply being varied of
the use of two words Laha, or Killala.
Then one of the two loudly sings the word
“ihiila,” which is returned by the other in
a similar tone. The w*ord is exchanged
again and again, being commenced in a
loud high pitched note and gradually run
down the scale until it reaches a low* bass
murmur. When it has become so slow* as
scarcely to be heard, on a sudden it is
shouted again in high key and the gamut
is run through as before. This goes on a
very long while, the performers going
through it as a strict matter of ceremony,
and taking no interest in one another all
the while, but looking round at the horizon
or elsewhere during their vocal exertions.
After a while various forms of the question
“How are you?” and the answer “Well,”
are introduced; at last questions or other
topics are brought forward, although now
and again the “ihiila” burst* out in the
midst of them, but the seric* of notes in
which it is shouted becomes shorter and
shorter. At last the ihiila is got rid of al
together, and ordinary conversation be
comes possible. Strangers do not shake
hands, but acquaintances do. The cover
ing of the face when greeting or meeting
strangers is considered as a mo3t important
matter of etiquette.
This is BnsinesR.
Checks or drafts must he presented for
payment without unreasonable delay.
Checks or drafts should be presented
during business hours; hut in this country,
except in the case of banks, the time ex
tends through the day and evening.
If the drawee of a check or draft has
changed his residence, the holder must use
due or reasonable diligence to find him
Are We to Lose >Ia{;a
i so far as is known, the only road by which
ra a ». | a j ar g e f ore e could be moved from Cabul
Those who want to see the Horseshoe j (0 jj era f run3 through Candahar. From
Falls of Niagara must, I fancy, come out: (j anda i,ai- to Herat is about three hundred
soon, or they will not he able to form an | ml ) es ; u a direct line; the road, however,
idea of what it was, for I think it is going j 3 not yer y direct, and for military purposes
to change its form more quickly than it has | Gu . distance may be called 350 miles. The
for a century past. Already a great change
lias taken place in its appearance. About
two years ago the shoe was rent in twain,
ami ii v:ist rent made in the toe of the cliff
over which the great river falls. The con
sequence is that instead of driving straight
down a circular wall of water, the course
of the column is rudely broken in the mid
road from Mery is so nearly straight as to
he less than 250 miles long; it is a good
one, being even at its worst part, where it
crosses the Hazrat-i-Baba Pass about thirty
miles north of Herat, practicable for all arms
of the service. It traverses a fertile coun-
trv, and tuds for a great part of its length
along the valley of the river Kuslik, so that
die, and a foaming torrent collapses in a | s „p.,]i t . s aud water are very abundant.
1 igged gorge of the cliff, lints splitting the; whenever the race for Herat begins, if
ascade into two sides of a horseshoe, with, t i icre ; s a f a j r start, the Russians should
he his wife. He himself was a country
doctor, and, with a very small, and not | pTactice _ he had no need of it now-and
never do to j 1
i went abroad.
creasing practice, it would
marry and have nothing but that to depend ! . , a
J i Eighteen months passed away. A man
upon, he told himself. i. , .. . , . . , . .
„ , __ ... 4 , nronzed and bearded stood at the gate ot
He had generally escorted Nellie to her j ^ oW tarmbous „ A Uttle toddling crea-
own door, after their evening walks, but | ture ran down the path, her fair curls flying
this evening he had left her just outside the I jn (he wind _ The stra uger took her in his
gate. He was her aunt’s step son. She j
eataiact in the center. Mucli more mist,
oo, is produced by the cataract than was
formerly occasioned by the sheer fall of the
horseshoe, and the view of the falls conse
quently obscured. The river might have
fallen for centuries over this solid weir of
ardest scist; but a fissure having been
made in nature's masonry, it is not un
likely that the river will continue its exca-
ation. begun near Lake Ontario, and do
its work more quickly thau of late. Now
that a breach ha3 been made iti the for
bad known him all her young life, and had
always called him Cousin Edward, all un
suspicious of the feeling which was gradu
ally gathering strength within her heart,
till this evening. And Edward, for his part,
had always treated her as a mere child.
“You will go to meet Miss Basset, I sup
pose, Nellie?’ inquired her mother.
“Ob, yes, mother. Edward was good
enough to say that he would drive me to
the station in his carriage, and he will drive
us both home, too. He says that a rich
young lady like Miss Basset will not care
to walk a mile along our lovely lanes, he is
Perhaps there was the slightest under
tone of sarcasm in Nellie’s voice, for her
mother glanced at her as if in surprise with
out replying.
Edward had given Nellie, bit by bit, and
■with a good deal of tact, his ideas upon
the subject of money, and of the com
fort to be got from a proper use of it.
Outwardly the two were as good friends as
ever. At heart, however, he was carefully
on his guard, while Nellie, tender and gen-
tle-natured thongh she was, could not help
slightly despising him.
Miss Basset was an old schoolmate of
Nellie’s and an heiress, and she had taken
a fancy to spend the remainder of the sum
mer in the old tumble-down farm house
which Nellie called home.
Edward was very attentive, even speci
ally kind to Nellie on tho way to the sta
tion, and her heart went out to him again.
“If only I had not said that to him,’’she
thought, as the carriage stopped, and he
carefully lifted her out. “I hope—oh!I do
hope that he may forget it."
The train steamed in. There was pret
ty Gracie Basset's face at a parlor-car win
dow; and in a few moments she was seated
vin the carriage beside Edward, chatting to
and laughing with him as if she had known
him for years; and Nellie had taken the
seat behind.
And that was not the only drive they
had, nor the only evening they spent in
chatting and laughing.
Nellie, her father and mother—all three,
and many of the neighbors beeidea, aoon
“What is your name, little one?’’ •
And in a baby-voice she told him, “Gra
cie Melville,” and he covered her little face
and hair with kisses. But who is this
coming out to look for her?
‘Aunt Nellie," she said and slid down
from her father’s arms.
“Cousin Edward!” exclaimed Nellie,
ladly, the color rising very rapidly to her
usually quiet pale face.
And he shook hands with her; then keep
ing the hand he had taken, he led her into
the house.
And will you tell me now, once more,
Nellie dearest, that you love me better than
any one else in the world
Nellie swiftly covered his mouth with
her hand, while burning blushes dyed her
cheeks.
“Oh, Edward, do please forget that I
ever said so!”
“Not likely,” lie returned, smilingly,
“Ah, Nellie,” and he was serious now, “I
have learned my lesson since that evening.
I have learnt to value love, not as it deser
ves, but at least to set it above everything
earthly. My Nellie! do not tell me that
your love for me is dead !”
Never mind Nellie’s reply. Two months
from that day she became Edward’s wife,
and he never had the smallest need to re.
mind her that she had promised to obey
him, simply because she loved him, and to
do as he wished was a pleasure.
And having at great risk and cost learn
ed his lesson, Edward strove to teach it to
others, and to more than one young man
he gave in confidence the advice: “If you
wish to be happy, many only a woman
that loves you. Neither money, nor posi
tlon, nor anything else, can bear the least
comparison with love, which will outlive
them all.”
tress, it seems certain that the volume of i under a mile in length. The
water, acting as a peqietual battering ram j s * ree t s are ill-built, narrow and dirty; in-
on the wall of each side of it, would soon ; deed, the common saying of the place is,
detach other portions of ti:em, and thus j Jirt were to kill, where would we be?"
alter the whole form and character of the '• i‘() n jy ma n is vile” at Herat, however, for
famous Horselioe Falls. i na ture has done everything for the city and
Hasty Burials. ! its environs. The climate is the finest in
posed corpses are ^ alway3 gxfl, often cold. The Herats
hurried away to burial. There w only one ■ p r0 verb. “If the soil of Ispahan,
good that can result from tlje plenty with | ^ of Herat &nd th / waler9
Inch people ti PP°^ A tWn „ tot of Khwariziu were in the same place there
would be no such thing as death.” The
Bran as a food has not been fully ap
preciated. The laxative tendency does
not produce any unsatisfactory results
provided the bran is fed as It should be
A slight laxative condition of the bow
els is better than the constipation that
a lack of such food produces. Besides,
the bran is rich in phosphates, so es
sential to the development of healthy
stock.
get down the perpendicular of the L from
Merv before the English can get up the
thick side of the V from Candahar. The
position occupied by Herat on the high road
between India and Persia, the centre spot
of an extensive and fertile valley, well
watered by channels made from a perennial
stream, marks her out as the natural garden
and granary of Central Asia. It is situated
in a plain about 2500 feet above the sea,
and is fortified with mud walls, presenting
the form of a square, each side of which
a right to insist that the check be presented
that day, or, at the farthest, on the day
folfeftring.
A note indorsed in blank (the name of
the indorser only written) is transferable
by delivery, the same as if payable to
bearer.
If the time of payment of a note is not
inserted, it is held payable on demand.
The time of payment of a note must de
pend upon a contingency. The promise
must be absolute.
A bill may be written upon any paper, or
substitute for it, either with ink or pencil.
The payee should be distinctly named in
the note, unless it is payable to bearer.
An indorsee has a right of action against
all whose name*"were on the bill when he
received it.
If the letter containing a protest of non
payment be put in the postofilce, any mis
carriage does not affect the party giving
notice.
Notice or protest may be sent either to
the place of business or to residence of the
party notified.
The holder of a note may give notice of
protest either to all the previous indorsers
o: only to one of them; in case of the latter
"j# must select the last indorser, and th
list must give notice to the last before him,
aid so on. Each indorser must send notice
to the last before him, and so on. Each
indorser must send notice the same or the
day following. Neither Sunday nor legal
holiday is to be counted in reckoning the
time m which notice is to be given.
The loss of a bill or note is not sufficient
excuse for not giving notice of protest.
If two or more persons, as partners, are
jointly liable on a note or bill, due notice to
rae of them is sufficient.
Not Much Fireworks.
packed; it is, that should they not at the
time be dead, they are certainly frozen to
death ere the moment of interment. Hor
rible as this is, it is much less horrible thau
being buried alive. It is the general igno
rance of people, and not want of proper
sensibility, that causes them to comply so
readily with the usages of burying a body
within three days after death. In this way,
where ice has not been abundantly supplied,
people who are believed by their friends to
be dead, but who bear upon them more
thau one indication of lurking life, are hur
ried to the tomb. We do not call attention
to these probabilities from any desire to
awaken a morbid sensation upon the sub
ject. We do not take the absurd ground
that out of all the people buried the larger
proportion are buried alive. But we do as
sert that it is not impossible that a case of
this kind sometimes happens, simply be
cause the relatives of the uafortunate crea
ture are too ignorant to detect the subtle
signs of a vitality that might be reawaken
ed.
At the last opera ball. A young man du
meilleur monde is seated in a corner and . . . .
does not appear much more amused than j to pay the expenses of garrisoning the prm-
waters of the Ileri, Conolly described in
1831 as the best he ever tasted, and the
fruits as the most delicious in flavor. Peo
ple enter the gardens and eat at will, being
weighed as they pass in and out and
charged for the avoirdupois gained; a sim
ple system, which that sane wag Nasir Ed-
din once defied by filling his pockets with
pebbles and casting out ballast as he took in
lading, so as to bring the astonished pro
prietor into his debt. The soil is extraor
dinarily fertile, and the orcliards, gardens,
corn-fields and vineyards stretch to the
mountains, four miles away on the north and
twelve on the south, and along the valley as
far aa the eye can reach. There are exten
sive mines of iron and lead, only worked
at the surface, and the scimitars of Herat
are as famous in Central Asia as its horses.
Silk is spun there largely, and carpets of
wool, and silk are manufactured. The
other articles of export are manna, assafee-
tida, gum, saffron and pistachio nuts.
Half a century ago it paid an annual reve
nue of $450,000, and Malleson declares
that under British rule the income to the
Government from the district would suffice
Remarkable Accideut.
la Oil City recently a small number of
persons witnessed the strange sight of about
a quarter of a mile of railroad moving ra
pidly from its bed, evidently paying no at
tention whatever to the injunction to hike
up its bed when started on a journey. It
may be an oidinary occurrence for a rail
road to start on a journey on its own hook,
but if so it is not recorded. The Incline
road, which is a quarter of a mile in length,
is being taken up, preparatory to remove to
Tamaqua. The track was a double one—i.
e., four rails extended from the base to the
summit. The single rails were fastened to
gether in such a manner that each of the
four was continuous. The workmen had a
team of horses with which the string of
rail3 was pulled down hill. After pulling
it down a few yards they would remove
three or four rails and then repeat. They
only repeated twice. The string of rails
weighed between five and six tons. The
ground along the roadway was frozen, the
ties were covered with ice and everything
w*as propitious for a sleigh ride, and the
string of rails commenced sliding. The
foremost rail—the one which had the lead,
had been crooked like a sled-runncr by last
summer’s sun. It led off beautifully, ap
parently caring not a continental where it
went. "When it reached the foot of the
declivity it did not pause in its mad career,
but plunged across the street, extricating
itself from the horses, aud partially de
molishing the harness in a little less than
no time; entefed the side of Mrs. Case's
barn, near the floor, pranced through the
barn like a streak of greased lighting, made
kindling-wood of a small outhouse adjoin
ing, struck as stone wall back of Y. James’
kitchen, and finding it impregnable, raised
itself to something higher and better, struck
the chimney of V. James’ house, knocking
about ten feet therefrom; thence passed
onward and upward, removing shingles and
a portion of the chimney on the three-story
house occupied by I). Lindersmith, and
finally rested with about fifty feet of the
iron rail extending heavenward from the
roof of Liudersmitli’s house. The striking
of the stone wall near the kitchen of
James’ hotel was a fortunate occurance,
as its doing so prevented it from entering
the kiteken,* where girls were working at
the time, and would doubtless have beeu
injured. The thing might have continued
on its mad carrer up Tunnel hill until this
time, had not the line parted near where
the horses were. The force with which
the stiing was moving may be realized from
the fact that when it broke a portion of one
of the rails was thrown about a hundred
yards. Yery fortunately no person was in
jured, the horses were not badly hurt,
and the damage of property was not ex
tensive.
Waterspouts on tlio Sound.
Two fishermen of Greeuport, L. I., de
scribe an extraordinary phenomenon which
they witnessed while on the bound shore,
opposite that village, on a recent afternoon.
Their attention was first attracted by what
seemed to be an unusual disturbance on the
surface of the waterj directly under a heavy
cloud coming from windward, the wind
blowing heavily from the northwest and a
heavy surf rolling. The tops of the waves
assumed the spiral ascending motion pecu
liar to waterspouts, which increased until
the elevation was upward of fifty feet be
fore the water took the clourl form. This
w r as soon followed by a second, about a
mile off shore, similar to the first, but con
siderably larger, its- height, judging from
the angle of elevation being nearly a thou
sand feet. The top of this also resolved
into a fog or mist directly under the cloud.
Then, at a distance of about four miles, a
third one was plainly discernible, whicli
seemed to meet the sky at the rear of the
cloud, aud which must have covered an
area of several acres. All three of these
spouts w*erc moving with the wind, and the
first or smallest one subsided to the water
level only a few* rods from the beach. Im
mediately there was a sharp dash of rain,
followed by a hail squall as the disturbing
cloud passed over, and when this subsided,
so that a view of the bound could be ob
tained, the waterspouts had disappeared.
So far as knofarn, these were the only water
spouts ever seen in the bound.
African Farms.
In India the husbandman, being averse
ti toil “that asks tough sinews,’’ prefers to
tckle the surface of his fields with a stick
iistead of plow ing them. To convince him
a his error, an English plow was once im-
prted by an enthusiastic official, and a
mmber of the cultivators of the neighbor
hood were invited towitness the great deeds j meats has caused a great many disputes,
o: the new implement. Bullocks were so- Farms the boundaries of which were lic
it is not to be imagined that these farms
of the Boers are in any way comparable to
what we understand in the ordinary appli
cation of the term. They are simply huge
tracts of country, containing 6000 acres or
more, with nothing but a small beacon of
piled up stones at certain points to mark
the line of boundary. In proportion to the
amount of land held by each proprietor,
there is a very small piece under cultiva
tion—at the most ten or twenty acres, and,
in the majority of cases, two or three or
none at all. The original method of mea
suring these “runs” w r as somewhat primi
tive. Starting from the last-made beacon,
a Boer would ride in a straight line for half
an hour as fast as his horse could carry him,
then halt, erect a beacon, and again ride
away for half an hour in a direction at
right angles to his first ride, and erect an
other. The rectangle made by these two
lines of ride would contain his farm, so by
this method the Boer who had the fleetest
horse obtained the largest tract ot land.
Within the last few years science, however,
has been brought to bear on the subject,
and farms are now measured by the theo-
iolitc. The introduction of these instru-
lennly attached to it and urged to proceed.
They refused, of coarse, and so moie and
rrpre were added, until at last the plow be-
gu to move; but whether from the inexpe-
riince of the plowman or the conduct of
tie bullocks, or both combined, in such er-
raic fashion that the nozzle was one in-
sfcnt plunged deep into the ground and in
tb next jerked up violently, sending
sbwers of earth info the air; and the ex-
hiition was finally brought to a premature
caclusion by two of the bullocks joining
ina single combat. The peasants assem
bid were veiy much impressed by the bc-
haior of the plow as a plow, but confided
toffieir entertainer before leaving that they
d£ not think much of it—as fireworks.
Co<l Liver Oil la Disease.
lieved to be perfectly defined were dis
covered to overlap one another to a serious
extent, and as this is the case all through
the country, the land surveyors are having
a pretty good time ot it.
In Search of a Wife.
does the domino who accompanies him. A
boisterous brawler of gigantic height begins
to poke fun at the ennuied couple.
Go*away, you bother me,” said the
gentleman, “you are tipsy, go and mind
your own business.”
“Tipsy!” screamed the brawler, “go to
grass. Dandy! you would not dare to say
that to me in the street!”
A crowd gathered around.
“See here,” said the young man, without
moving, “you are pretty tall, you believe
yourself mighty strong. Yery well; there
is one thing you can't do!”
“What! I’ll bet you a hundred francs 1”
The young man drew ofLittis boot, then a
silk stocking, and rektez^-'j*; white foot on
the marble. ”
At this unexpected action the brawler
became furiously red, and then tried to es-
oape in the crowd.
“Pig!” thundered the young man du
meilleur du mondt, ‘you have dirty feet.’
And the brawler disappeared, followed
lay derisive laughter.
cipafcities of Afghanistan. Foster, who
visited Herat in 1783, described the city as
far surpassing Candahar in the extent of
its markets aud the volume of its trade.
Christie, who spent a month there in dis
guise in 1810, is as loud as Conolly in his
praise of its delightful situation, brisk busi
ness and phenomenal fertility. He placed
the population at 100,000; Conolly’e esti
mate was 45,000, and the present number
of inhabitants is believed to be something
under 40,000, though the encyclopaedias
call it “about 50,000.” Herat, however,
is only a shadow of its old splendid self.
Its origin and early history are unknown or
little known. There was a town there be
fore Alexander, and the modem city stands
on the site of one of the four cities of Arri
an’s “Aria”—Artakoana, Aria Metropolis,
The fish from which the oil thus named
isibtained is said by the British Pharma
copeia to be Gadus inorrhus, Lin.; but in
tb United States Pliarmacopteia it is said,
wji stricter accuracy, to be derived from
tht fish “and other species of Gadus.”
Te following are the species of fish from
w.ich the oil is obtained: the Codfish, the
calfish, the turbot, the ling and the dorse.
Te chemical substances which cod-liver
oiis found to contain are margaric, stearic
ad cetvlic acids, all of which are white
sdds; oleic acid and volatile acids, which
a) liquids, glycerine and biliary matters,
ad gadutne. These are shown in the rela-
tle proportions iu which they exist in t6e
oi Besides these bbdies, cod-liver oil con-
tms minute quantities of iodine, bromine
ad phosphorus. To each of these its med-
iminal properties have been referred, but
Candace and Sousia Akhala. The Persian 1 tb minute quantities contained in the oil,
chronicles not so very much later speak of tb difference of opinion among authorities,
Heri, the capital of Aria, as a place of oon- ari the fact that other animal oils are found
sider’able importance. In 1167 the Turco- tcproduce similar effects, are regarded as
A gentleman in search of a wife consults
a matrimonial agency.
“We have just the article—the angel, I
should say — that you want,” says the
Manager, rubbing his hand; 4 ‘widow lady
of 23, husband (aged 68) died thirteen
months ago, during the hooneymoon;
large fortune invested in bonds and stocks;
charming woman; accomplished; her only
fault, perhaps, is the severity of her moral
nature, but then having been brought up iu
a convent—’’
The gentleman marries her off-hand and
discovers that all these representations are
strictly untnie. Furious he hies to the
matrimonial agency and reproaches the
agent with his deception.
“You told me,” he cries, “that she was
the very pargon of woman—that she would
make a man really happy—that—”
“You inimitable idiot,” cned the agent,
“if I had thought she was, wouldn’t I have
married her mvself ?”
A stranger went into a cigar store in Cin
cinnati and asked for a cigar. Mrs. Meyer
set a box of the weed on the show-case.
“Where is Mr. Meyer?” inquired the
customer as he sorted over the cigars.
“Across the street,” w*as the reply.
“And are you left alone to keep shop ?’*
he asked.
“All alone,” said she.
‘‘Thin I’ll be going,” said he. Where
upon he hitched the box of cigars under his
m.n. captured and and probably proving sufficiently that cod-liver oil i« u»«-' arm and vamoosed. He has not been heard
destroyed It, yet, when in 1289 Genghii 111 chiefly as an easily digested fat. J of sines.
Tlie Hyacinth.
The Hyacinth is a universal favorite in
the most extended application of the word.
^ie number of its varieties is now fully
equal to that of any other florist’s flower.
They are not only desirable for planting i
beds in the flower-garden, but for forcin L
into flower in tne dull, cheerless months of
winter and early spring, when their bright-
colored blossoms and rich fragrance lend a
charm not otherwise to be found. For
growing in the conservatory or drawingroom
the bulbs should be potted, as early as they
can be obtained, in small pots of rich, light
earth, aud placed in a cold-frame, or some
protected place in the garden where they
maybe secure from heavy rains, cover them
with at least one foot of newly-fallen leaves
and being once well watered soon after be
ing potted, they may remain foi a month
at least, to form their roots, when they may
be secure from heavy rains; cover them
with at least one foot of nearly fallen leaves,
and being once well watered soon after be
ing potted, they may remain for a month
at least, to form their roots, when they may
be uncovered, and the most forward
brought out and repotted jnto large pots,
and placed m a moderately warm room.
The size of the pot will depend much upon
the size of the bulb: as a rule, the first pott
ing should be in four and the second six
inch pots. Some care is necessary in the
application and increase of heat, or the
flowers will be abortive. For the first
three weeks it should not be above fifty de
grees at any time of the day; after that the
heat may be increased to whatever degree
is desirable in the room where they are to
bloom. Water should be slightly warm
when applied, and given in proportion to
the development of foliage, and flower, in
no case should the earth in the pots become
dry, neither soddened, an excess of water
being as injurious as drought. Hyacinths
succeed best in a humid atmosphere, which
is not easily obtained in the drawing-room;
aud they are particularly sensitive to cold
draughts of air, which may and should be
avoided. Hyacinth in glasses are an ele
gant aud appropriate ornament to the draw
ing-room, and for this purpose occasion
but little trouble. To those contemplating
these interesting branches of floriculture,
we make the following suggestions: 1. If
you choose your own bulbs, pay more at
tention to weight than size, and be sure
that the bulb is sound at the base as well as
at the top. 2. Use the single kinds only,
because they are earlier, more hardy, and
as a rule perfect their flowers in water
better than the double varieties. 3. Use
rain or soft spring water. 4. Set the
bulb in the glass so that the lower end is
almost but not quite in contact with the
water. 5. When the bulb is placed, put
the glass in a cool, dark closet, or any con
venient place where light is excluded, there
to remain for about six weeks, or until the
roots fill the glass; which they will do
sooner than in the light, as they feed more
freely in the dark. 6. Fill up the glasses
with water as the level sinks by the feeding 1
of the roots or by evaporation. 7. It is
not necessary to change the water, if a few
pieces of charcoal are placed in the bottom
of the glasses. 9. When the roots are
freely developed, and the flower-spike is
pushing life, remove by degrees to full light
and air.
The Jackson Hermitage.
In a conversation with Mrs. Jackson, I
asked her incidentally when and where she
met her husband. She smiled at the ques
tion as if all the romance of her youth re
turned to her, and said: “Why, I first met
him in Philadelphia, on the streets. I was
with a lady triend, he with a gentleman.
As we passed I turned—it was not exactly
the thing for a young lady to do—and looked
at him, only to find that he had done the
same tiling. He called that evening, and
so began the acquaintance which ended in
our marriage. That was during father’s
(meaning General Jackson, whom she al
ways speaks of affectionately as ‘father’)
first administration. We went directly to
Washington, and the White House was our
home as long as father was President.”
This little reminiscence seemed to brighten
the lady not a little. She was seated in a
cushioned arm-chaii in a rather gloomy
looking room, immediately back of the one
in which General Jackson died. Her eyes
are bright and black, her raven hair show
ing few silver threads and her complexion
retaining its purity which, in her youthful
days, made her a dazzling beauty.
It has always been understood by those
who knew them best that when the youth
ful Mrs. Andrew Jackson went to the White
House there arose a question as to whom
the honor should belong of presiding as lady
of the White House. Mrs. Andrew J.
Donclson was already in that position and
had filled it acceptably and gracefully.
General Jackson desired that she should
still preside, and the younger lady yielded
any claims she might have had.
In my conversation Mrs. Jackson re
marked that she first visited the Hermitage
before the birth of her eldest son, whom
she named Andrew Jackson, and who is
now Colonel Jackson, the stay and support
of her declining years.
“None of your children were born in the
White House, I believe, Mrs. Jackson?”
”No, they were all—four in number—
born here at the Hermitage.”
When the terms of Jackson expired and
he repaired to the Hermitage, Mrs. Jack-
son, her husband, Andrew Jackson, Jr.,
and their family constituted the household,
afterward increased by the admission into
the family circle of Mrs. Marion Adams,
sister of Mrs. Jackson.
Jn the course of time General Andrew
Jackson passed away aud was placed in
the mausoleum he had long before pro
vided for himself by the side of his wife,
to whom he was so fondly attached. The
years flowed peacefully on, the young peo
ple bad grown up and many brilliant scenes
of gaiety awakened the echoes iu the build
ing and were reflected in the long mirrors.
The marriage of the only daughter of the
household, named in honor of the beloved
and long-departed wife of General Jackson,
Rachel, was an event that broke into long,
ranquil yeais.
Then came the distracting times of the
war. Three young men—two of the Jack-
sou sons and one Adams—went into the
Confederate service. Only one returned,
and that was the one now living—Colonel
Andrew Jackson. The latter went through
the vicissitudes of war with honor, but was
at the close of the same, a prisoner at Camp
Chase. While here he first heard, through
a chance paragraph in a newspaper, of his
father’s death. It seemed that while in
dulging in his favorite pastime of hunting,
Andrew Jackson, Jr., had shattered his
hand; the wound produced lockjaw and
death. Said Colonel Jackson: “The day
on which I read that paragraph was the
blackest, gl jomiest one of the whole war.
I thought of my sorrow-stricken mother
in her lonely home, and myselt unable to
go to or help her. ”
In a few months the unhappy struggle
was ended, and Colonel Jackson returned
to the Hermitage and to his widowed
mother. Life now flowed on in a listless
way. It had taken on a quiet, subdued
tone, shadowed by the newly-made graves
in tli# corner of the garden, only a few
steps from the mansion. Mrs. Jackson and
Mrs. Adams, together, were going, hand in
hand, through the remainder of the voyage
of life. No bustle and stir of the busy out
side world broke in upon them now, either
with its cares or its gaieties. From time to
time, when the evenings grew long, and
they, with Colonel Jackson or some of the
bright young grandchildren, gathered
around the blazing fire, a visit to their rela
tives in Philadelphia would be discussed.
Both ladies desired once more to visit their
native city and mingle again with their
kinsmen and friends of long ago. The
pleasure of the trip would be canvassed,
the cost counted up, and, idas! the slim
purse was always found too attenuated to
admit of the expense. Then the bright
anticipations would fade, the trip be given
up and the humdrum life flow on in its un
broken channel.
But there again came a change in this
quiet life, and a sad one. 3Irs. Jackson
for years had been sustained and cared for
by her less feeble sister. Mrs. Adams, but
to the latter came a long and serious illness.
Slowly she began to recover, and when con
valescence seemed certain she met with an
accident, causing relapse, and she suc
cumbed to the inevitable. Her death oc
curred about two and a half years ago.
After the death of Mrs. Adams, Mrs.
Jackson’s daughter, Mrs. Lawrence, be
sought her mother to leave the sad hermit
age and malic her home with her, but Mrs.
Jackson sadly shook her head and said:
“No; it will not be for long now! ” It would
not be long ere she joined those gone be
fore. Here at the loved Hermitage she had
heard her children's infant prattlings re
echo through the long hallways and listened
to the patter of their young feet in and about
the doorways. They had grown to man
hood and womanhood beneath that roof,
and had passed out from it to the duties of
life. All her joys and all her sorrows had
been witnessed here, and iu its peaceful
solitudes she desired her own life to glide
away.
The servants at the Hermitage now are
an aged couple—“Gracey” and “Alfred”
—and any one visiting there finds them of
fering themselves as escort to the tomb.
Their youth was spent in the service of the
Jackson family, and nowin their old age they
do not care to leave it. it is upon this
faithful couple that Mrs. Jackson relies for
household assistance. Speaking of them
she said Gracey had been her *owil hand
maiden, and had been with her during all
her married life. She domesticated herself
with the Jacksons by marrying Alfred, body
servant of General Jackson, after they came
to Tennessee. Mrs. Jackson said: “I don’t
know what I would do without Gracey.
She knows my ways and my needs, she
anticipates my every want. She is stout
and well, and I do hope that her life will
last longer than mine.”
tiiorgia LeilL
When Christina of Spain was about
twenty years of age, a dwarf named Giorgia
Leili was presented to her. He was full of
wit and intelligence, and pleased the Queen
so much that she attached him to her ser
vice. Thanks to her liberality, the dwarf
was able to accumulate a small fortune
which he left when he died, recently, to
two sisters married and living in Aquila.
The heirs sent two persons to Paris to re
ceive the gold pieces and hand bills which
the Liliputian relative had left behind them,
and these innocent countrymen on their re
turn to Rome were fellow-travelers with
three persons who became very friendly
with them. The feigned travelers, were
going, they said, to Alexandria, for busi
ness of the greatest importance, and were
delighted to have found such agreeable
companions. \\ hen the men of Aquila told
them that they carried the heritage of $10,-
000 in a «mall valise, one of them said they
also had a large sum of money with them,
and proposed putting it all together. The
countrymen agreed to this novel arrange
ment, and one of the three travelers took
charge of their united treasure until arriv-
at Turin. There the pretended friends
left the train, giving the precious valise into
the hands of the Aquilinesi, and promising
soon to return. But they never did, and
the deluded countrymen found on examin
ing their valise, that the treasure had been
replaced by some lumps of leads. When
they related their adventure to the Police
in Rome, it seemed so improbable that they
themselves were held in custody until the
truth of their story was proved, and some
trace of the real culprits discovered.
Fractions Floored Him.
A High street woman was trying to do
some figuring recently, “Let’s see,” said
she, “seventeen yards at a quarter a yard.
Two quarters w~»uld be a half,” wetting her
pencil with the tip of her tongue—**two
quarters would be a half, and two halves
would Ik* four quarters, that’s four times
three—oh. dear! no, it isn’t.” Then the
pencil was wetted again, and another start
was made. “Seventeen yards at a quarter
a yard- How much is seventeen quarters ?
Two quarters and a half. Seventeen quar
ters would be how many halves? Two
quarters one half, six quarters three halves,
that’s one and a half, seventeen quarters
ould be—six times three are—” Here a
pause occurred, and the pencil went up to
the tongue again, while the forehead of the
mathematician corrugated and was bedewed
with perspiration. She turned the paper
upside down, downside up. looked at it
several times, sighed, and was about to
commence all over again, when her husband
entered. “John, how much is seventeen
yards at a quarter a yard.*’
Four into 17, 4 and 1 over—$4.25,”
promptly replied John.
“That’s what I had it,” said his wife,
“but I wasn’t sure I was right.”
“Figured all over that paper to get it V
queried John.
“No, sir!” she answered, indignantly,
growing as red as the red, red rose,
“I guess I studied mental arithmetic at
school, and,” crumpling the paper up and
putting it in his pocket—“have just got
as much sense as some people who think
they are so awful smart.
John didn’t say anything but when he
found that piece of paper, a few hours af
terwards, he whistlei
The habit of Fainting;*
There is not so much fainting in public
as there was thirty years ago. Sound health
which necessarily secures the firm nerves
and muscles, is the surest preventative of
faintness. An exchange remarks that the
majority of vigorous men go through all
kinds of severe and painful experiences
without fainting, while delicate men and
many women swoon at trifles. American
women, who used to faint continual—in
crowds, at bad news, at scenes of distress
—now faint comparatively seldom, and the
fact is ascribed to their relinquishment, for
the most part, of the habit of lacing, to
their increased exercise in the open air, and
their better physical conditions. Not one
American woman faints to-day where, thir
ty years ago, twenty-five women fainted,
and the diminution of the disorder, always
the result of direct causes, is an unmistaka
ble evidence, which other things corrobo
rate, of the marked amelioration of the
health of the highly organized, extremely
sensitive, but flexible and enduring women
of our complex race.
