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Newspaper Page Text3 vi C ; . J. Advertiser. [Published every Thtir May by X>. 13. FREEMAN. Terms: S1.50 per annum, in advance. OLD SERIES—VOL. VII-NO. 10. CEDARTOWN, GA., MAY 20, 1880. NEW SERIES—YOL. II-NO. 23. “BEAR TE ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS!” The Needed Protection of Oar Loyed Ones at Net Cost.. > I.':.-.:‘ • The People's Jutu I Relief Association la issuing certificates -of- membership in amounts from $1,000 to $5,000 on strictly healthy persons, male and female. The plans are SAFE. CHEAP AND PERMANENT. Applications for membership will he received by ~JNO. W. RADLEY, Cedartown, Ga. Partial list of members in and arouud Cedartown: F. M. night, A. A. Read, John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken. Wm. R. Craig, Geo. H. Leake, J. W Barr Dr C H. Harris, J. B. Crabb, W. H. H. Hams, D. R. Monroe, Dr. W. G. England, Jno. W. Radley, J. W. Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B. Freeman, Mrs. Nancy Powell, Alex. Dougherty, Mr3, Francis Dougherty, Dr. E. H. Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. a P Ia bm A. J. YOUNG, DEALER IN Gins Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, and Brandies. Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL & THOMPSON’S STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES in Cedavtowu. "'I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical •purposes with perfect safety. Give me a call, guaranteed. ■ Good treatment mrl8-lv Slew NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS! Goods and Slew Prices. A. D. HOGG & CO., MAIN Street, ----- CEDARTOWN, Georgia, Have just opened a select 3tock of General Merchandise in their new store, and want ail their friends and the public generally to call and let them show their goods and prices. Their stock was bought before the recent rise In prices, and they feel confident of having goods at bottom figures. They have beautiful Dress Goods, Calicoes, Corsets, new styles; Bleach- ings, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky v Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves, Hardware, Notious, etc., etc. Extra uice Gentlemen's Underwear Vkby Low. Remember the place—last Brick btore on South MAIN Street, west tide. . pove-ly -i 1 • £ £ H. C. CROWLEY, £ & DEALER IN STOVES AND TIN-WARE, EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, Opposite Philpot & Dodds, - - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. Bay Your Bmp From BfiMDMLB Main St. Cedartown Ga., IP YOU WANT THEM PUKE AND FRESH. C. G. JANES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CEDARTOWN, GA. W office in the Court House. tebis-ly JOSEPH A. BLANCE, attorney at law, CEDARTOWN, GA. DRS. LIDDELL & SON, . PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OFFICE EAST SIDE OF HAIM ST. CEDARTOWN, GA. Jan8-ly W. G. ENGLAND, Physician and. Surgeon. CEDARTOWN, GA. OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may he found ready to attend calls either day or night. JanlMy DR. C. H. HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon, Cedartown. Ga. B. FISHER, Watchmaker & Jeweler. CEDARTOWN, GA. Having Just opened out a shop at the store of .. D. Hogg & Co., respectrully requests the tublic to call on him when needing woric In his lne. ieb5-tt THE FOOL’S PRAYER. The royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to this jester cried, * *Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for ns .a prayflg!” The jester doffed his cap and bells, * And stood the mocking court before ; They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore. He bowed his bead, and bent bis knee Upon the monarch’s silken stool ; Hia pleading voice arose : ”0 Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! ‘'No pity, Lord, could change the heatt From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the tin ; but, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! *‘’Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of trnth and right, O Lord, we stay ; Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earjh from heaven away. “These clumsy feet, still in the mire. Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. “The ill-timed truth we might have kept— Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ? The word we had not sense to say— Who knows how grandly it had rung ? “Our faults no tendemers should ask. The chastening stripes must clease them all; But for our blunders—oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall* “Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will; but Thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool I” The room was hushed ; in silence rose The King, and sought hi* gardens cool, •And^raHred apart, and murmured low, , “Bs merciful to me, a fool!” Blake’s Widow- W. F. TURNER, Attorney at Law, CEDARTOWN, GA Will practice in the Superior Courts of Polk, Paulding, Haralson, Floyd and Carroll counties. Special attention given to collections and real estate business. marii-ly DR. L. S. LEDBETTER, DENTIST, CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. All Dental work performed In the most skill ful manner. Office over J. S. Stubbs & Co. s. febl9-ly Keeps constantly in stock the LATEST and BEST brands of STOVES and can now supply customers with the uuequalcd Times, Southern Baker and fron Cily. Keeps at all times a full line of TINWARE, and does all kinds of tinner’s work—Roofing, Guttering, etc. mh25-ly F. M. SMITH. Attorney at Law and REAL ESTATE AGENT, CEDARTOWN, GA. Particular attention given to the selling or renting or city property. Buying and selling wild Jands a specialty. Parties owning wild ' in Georgia would do well to correspond he, as I nave app leations for thousands of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl. fa. or other bogus title need apply. Look up your beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per cent, commission on sales. For locating and ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For searching records.for owners, so cents per lot. For ascertaining If land is claimed or occupied by squatter. SI per lot. Always in advance. To insure attention enclo se a 3-cent stamp. Parties owning wild lands should look to their interests, as many of these wild lands are being stolen by squatters under a bogus tide. All communica tions promptly answered. Satisfaction guar anteed to all honest men. ED. E. BRANNON, Dealer In Staple and Fancy Groceries. Chickens, Eggs and Batter a Specialty. I HAVE ALSO FIHST'OLA BAR In connection with the Store, which is stocked with the finest Liquors in town. jan8-tf CHEAP GOODS! J. S. STUBBS & CO, Have just moved into their elegant new Store Rooms on East Side of MAIN Street! Where they arc now opening an extensive stonk of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Their goods, were selected witlr great care and with an eye to the needs of their customers, anu were bought for C'a§h. They will be sold at the lowest figures. Go and examine their stock and prices bafore making your purchases. aug7-tf &e. J. P. pur FEY, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN BUGGY AM WAGON HABNESS, SADDLES. Dougherty's^OIiT Stand,) — • • CEDARTOWN, Georgia. All Work Guaranteed to give satisfaction. All he asks is a trial. janSdy .«■ Jan£9-ly LIVERY FEED. —AND SALE STABLE! Wright & Johnson Prop’rs. CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. Being supplied with new Horse3, New Vehi cles, & we are prepared to meet the want3 of the public In our line. JanS-l y JAMES H. PRICE, CEDARTOWN, GA Keeps on hand and manufactures to order MATTRESSES! satisfactionr No flimsy material used, no work slighted. I ask a trial. JAMES. H. PRICE. iebl9-ly. CALHOUN Livery and Sale Stable. FOSTER & HARLAN, Props > CALHOUN, - GEORGIA. Having lately purchased the above Stable and supplied It with good Horses and a splendid line of new Vehicles, we are prepared to meet tbe wants ot the traveling public In our line. Parties wishing vehicles sent to any_ of the trains on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad or to any other point, may telegraph us, and have their wants promptly and properly at tended to. FOSTER & HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga. Jans-tf ISAAC T. MBS, CEDARTOWN, CA., —dealer in- STOVES TINWARE, Hardware and Hollow-Ware, OF ALL KINDS. House-Furnishing Goods A SPECIALTY. Every variety of Job work la my line neatly done. I respectfully solicit the patronage ot the public, and would be pleased to have au my friends and customers call and see me when in town. 1. T. MEE Jan8-ly CEDARTOWN SCHOOL, J. C. HARRIS Principal. Fall Term opens srd Monday In August and oenUnues 4% months. Bates ot tuition as cus- t0 Tfce'school-room is convenient and comfort able : training thorough and discipline firm. me Principal offers his thanks tor past favors, and conddonuy ask tor a liberal share of patron age In the future. Reference as to discipline, etc., is made to the tanner patrons ot this school. novrt-lm Jem Blake was shot dead in his own doorway by Antonio Gueldo, and the trial was to come off directly. The extraordinary interest in the affair was less due to the murder and its peculiar circumstances, than to the fact that this was the first case tried at San Saba in any more formal court than tbe time honored institution of Judge Lynch. Jem had been a quiet man and a good neighbor, with a hand always ready to help one who was out of luck, so public sentiment ran pretty high against Antonio. If the general incli nation had been followed—as, up to that time it always had—the last-named gentle man would have found very scant oppor tunity to make any remarks in his own be half. However, thing were advancing at San Sahu as well as elsewhere, and it wouldn’t/ do to hang Antonio without a regular trial, no matter how agreeable such a proceeding might he to the people at large. So ran the opinion expressed by Judge Pithlado whose ideas on such subjects were usually accepted without comment. ■ Nevertheless there was more than one dissenter in the present instance, to whom it was by no means clear that there Gould be any sense or profit in thus beating about the bush. 'Ef Antonio’s goin ter be hung, why in don’t we hang him?” This was the pertinent query of Jake Smith, the leader of the opposing faction, and his view of the question put it in so clear a light that the Judge had great diffi culty in impressing people with his con viction. He said that thing3 had gone on in an irregular way long enough; and here was a way to start the law in properly, and give it a lair show. Besides, it didn’t make any kind of difference; Antonio had shot Jem, hadn’t he? Well, then, what was the use of talking ? All the jury would have to do now was to return their verdict of guilty in the first degree, and there you were all comfortable. It was just the same thing in the end— exactly. I tell yer, ” said the judge, who felt the weight of ilia title, albeit the same was al together one of courtesy; “I tell yer there’s nothin’ like'doin' a thing reg’lar; partiker- lally when yer know just how it’s comm out.’’ So the judge’s argument, supported by his influence, and increasing bias at San Saba in favor of more civilized views, set tled the matter, and it was decided that Antonio Gueldo should be tried before he was hanged. As there was no place specially arranged for such ceremonies, Judge Pitblado hos pitably offered the use of his shed. Here a rough table and chair were placed for the judge, the other necessary furni ture, intended to represent the dock, the stand, etc., being eked out with boxes from Silas Baggett’s grocery store. Jake Smith looked on at these prepara tions for a time with frowning discontent, and then strolled down the road, tumirg into the lane that led to Blake’s. When he reached the door of the shanty he learned against the jamb and poked his naked head inside, fanning himself in an embarrassed way with his greasy fragment of a hat. He had come there with the in tention of saying something, but the sight within made him forget it. Blake’s widow sat there, as she had sat pretty much all the time since the murder, staring straight before her, with her chin in her palm. The sunlight struck through the foliage of the red oak trees that grew before the door, and checkered with flick ering brightness the floor and cradle in which Jim’s baby was sleeping. There it was’ just as it had been three days ago; (could it only be three days?) juBt as it had been when she went out that morning to look after the drying clothes i and left him standing in the door by the cradle, (how fond he was of the baby?) just as it was when she heard the crack of the pistol, and ran in with an awful sense of suffocating fright; just the same as she had found him lying upon the cradle, dab bling its white linen with his blood, and the baby playing with his hair. She screamed once, the first and last complaint anyone had heard her make, then she was quiet and helpful through it all; when the men came and lifted him up; when they laid him cm the rongh bed in the other room; when they carried him to the grave, she following with the baby in her arms. Jake Smith was trying to find the link missing in his thoughts; he sniffed with perplexity—or something—and Blake’s , widow looked up without speaking. Jake- nodded pleasantly four or five times. “Poorty chipper ?” “Blake’s widow smiled sadly, bent ove the sleeping child and smoothed the clothes with a tender touch. “They’re agoin’ ter try him in a court,” Jake went on, “an’ 1 don’t believe—” “Try who—Antonio?” she turned to ward the burly figure iu the door with a flash of interest in her black eyes. "Yes. ’ The judge is making a court out of his shed. I hope it'll turn out all right, but it seems like giving that Mexi can devil a chance he oughtn’t ter have.” “Heean’t get clear, oan he?” she asked, rocking^- cradle gently and patting the coverlet “I don’t see how, but he’s got soms kind of a law cuss to speak for him—a fel ler that stopped here a day or two ago on his way to Galveston, and it makes me kiDd o’ nervous.” Blake's widow did not appear to notice the last remark, for the child, disturbed by the talking, had awakened and sat up in his cradle with a wondering look. “Pooty, aint he?” said Jake, regarding the small figure with interest. “Looks just like—ahem!—you. Poor little—I—a —” he stammered and treated his hat like a mortal enemy. “Of course he’s had— you’ve got—there aint nothin’ I aould do fur yer, maybe ?” She answered with a grateful look, but it was accompanied by a shake of the head. Jake bent down, and, with his big fore finger, softly rumbled the hair of the baby’s head: then he went out and left them, Blake’s widow sitting as he had found her, and the baby staring down the path after him. He walked on until he reached the top of the little hill, where he could look down upon the roof which covered the piteous scene he had just left. Here he seemed to have half a mind to turn back, for he hesitated and stopped, but he changed, Jins partial intention after lingering a moment, and walked meditatively onward, with the exclamation, “Wall, some women do beat the d—1 amazin’.” It was a clear case of alibi. Jake Smith’s astonishment at Jhe ease with which the thing had been accomplished was unbounded. He threw a disgusted look towards Pitblado, but the judge was nonplussed, and didn't seem to be inter ested with things in Jake’s Ticiiiity. Gentlemen of the jury,” said he, “things has took a turn I didn’t altogether expec’. I don’t know as there’s much to be said. I suppose you’ve got to go by the evidence, an’ that don’t need any explainin’. Ef you kin make out accordin’ ter that, that Antonio Gueldo killed Jem Blake, why, just recollect, that’s what yer here fur.” • The jury filed out, and the expectant audience occupied itself with tobacco and whispering comments. Jake Smith fidgeted about on his box, “Can you cook in the French style?’ •“Yes, mum.” and cast anxious glances through the open- * “Can you get up German dishes?” Of course everybody came to the Inal- The arrangements were soon found to be altogether too meager. Pitblado’s shed was filled to overflowing, and Baggett made a clean sweep of every empty box in his store. Antonio’s lawyer, a sharp-eyed, sharp- featured fellow from Galveston, had bus tled about with surprising agility on the day previous, holding mysterious confer ence with Ill-conditioned fellows of Gueldo’s kidney. Jake Smith was highly dissatisfied, and even the judge was heard to utter some misgivings, however, by the time the pro ceedings had really commenced he gained confidence. The court was assembled, the jury had been chosen, and the witnesses were aSi present save one—Blake’s widow. Pretty soon there was a stir at the door then a murmur of surprise ran through the crowded room. “May I he d—d,” said Jake Smith, audibly “if she hasn’t brought her baby!” What reason she may have had for no leaving the little thing in charge of some sympathizing woman—and there are plenty who would have been glad of the trust— was not apparent; however that might be. there it was clasped firmly in her arms, its bright red cheeks contrasting with her whiteness, and its father’s sunny hair mingling with her dark locks. With some difficulty way was made through the throng to her seat, which had been placed on the side of the judge, di- rectlv opposite the candle-box on the other, where Antonio sat. She took her place and never moved during the whole trial, excepting a9 she was required to testify, and once when the baby tugged at some glistening thing that lay hidden in the folds of her dress, at which she took pains to distract its attention with a chip from the floor. As for the baby it sat there with its big, blue eyes open to their fullest extent, en tirely absorbed in the novel scene, save when that irresistible glitter caught its eye. . - Every one being now present, the trial went on in good earnest. A number of witnesses were examined, whose testimony showed that Gueldo’s had had trouble with Blake, and more than once threatened his life; that Gueldo pistol was one charge empty on the evening of the day of the murder, whereas in the morning it had been full; that he was seen that morning around Blake’s house, and more than that Blake’s widow had heard Gueldo’s Voice just before the fatal shot, and had seen his retreating form as she ran out. At this last point the Galveston lawyer asked the witness a few questions regard ing how she knew it was Gueldo’s and how she had recognized the voice for his. She did not know how exactly, but was none the less sure for that. There had been a rumor aboqt that some one had heard Antonin make a boast of having “done for Blake this time,” but if there were a witness for this he could not be found now. And so the prosecution closed. The Galveston lawyer began by involv ing in a whirlpool of hopeless contradic tion, the witness who had sworn to having seen Gueldo near Blake’s house. Then he expatiated on the esse with which one per son may he mistaken for another, and brought a witness to show how Gueldo had already been said to resemble someone in the village. Finally, he produced three of the ill-conditioned fellowsbefore referred to, who swore that Antonio was with them on a hunting expedition during the whole of the day on which the murder was com mitted. door towards the clump of nopals where the jury were deliberating. Antonio talked aDd laughed in an under tone with his counsel, and Blake’s widow sat stariBg at them wi£k compressed lips, and a strong expression of determination coming into her face. It wasn't long before the jury filed in again, all seating themselves by the spokes, mau, and Judge Pitblado rose wiping his forehead with his shirt sleeve. “Straightened it out, have yer?” asked he, nodding to the Spokesman. The man nodded slowly in return. “Wal, le’shave it then." “Ter sec,” said the spokesman, with a hesitating and disappointed air, “ef yer hadn’t a corralled us with stickin’ ter the evidence, we might a done better, hut ac cordin’ ter that, Antonio wasn’t thar when the murder was doue, an’ ef he wnrn’t thar, he couldn’t a done it, an’ ef he didn’t do it, why—then—of course he’s—not guilty.” Pitblado didn’t dare to look at any body; he stared up at the ratters—down at the table—nowhere in particular; and then turned half-way towards Antonio. “You kin go,” said he, Bpeaking with great deliberation, “hut I wouldn’t stay round here too long.” There was a dead pause for a moment, and nobody moved. Jake Smith exploded a single expressive word, which he had held in for some time past, and Blake's widow stood up. “Have you got through, judge?” she asked. “Wal—I—s’pose so.” “And there is nothing more to be done ?” “I’m afraid ther aint.” “And he’s free to go?” “Y-a-a-s” Antonio Gueldo rose with an insolent grin, and picked up his hat. The baby crowed, for it saw the glitter ing thing again. There was a sharp report—Autonio pitched forward in a heap upon the floor, and Blake’s widow stood with the pistol pressed to her breast. A line of clear blue smoke curled up from the muzzle of the weapon, and formed a halo around the child’s flaxen head. The glittering thing was quite near the little hands now, and they took it from the yielding grasp of the mother. Blake’s widow looked steadily at the figure on the floor—it was quite motionless —then she turned, and went through the wide passage opened for her by the silent crowd, holding the baby very tenderly, and the baby carrying the pistol. The child laughed with delight; it had got its shining plaything at last. Personal Peculiarities. About forty years ago I had a lad in my employ who had the habit when unexpect edly spoken to of pricking up his ears in so decisive a manner as to remind one of the ears of Puss or of Tray when suddenly called. Marie .Louise, the second wife of the great Napoleon, was in the habit of amusing the ladies of her court at their pri vate soirees by turning her ears almost com pletely round, and in a manner closing them up. She did this by a peculiar mo tiou of the jaw, and she is said to have prided herself on the exploit not a little. A man 1 knew well wore an enormous shock of raven hair, and would allow him self to be lifted by the hair from the ground by any one strong enough to do it, and to be swung to and fro like a pendulum, or to be dragged along the floor. The faculty of sleeping.at will was one of the endowments of the first Napoleon, who it is said could sleep any length of time, long or short, and awake at the time, al most to the minute,.he had lesolved upon. Among the muscular movements not commoD, I have noticed several instances of persons who could throw back the four fingers of either hand until they stood per peudicuiar to the back of the hand arid wrist. Other instances I have seen, though but a few, of persons who can project the lower joint of the thumb almost into the hollow of the palm. In neither of these persons is the ordinary use or the symmetry of the band at all affected. Of left-handed people we have all seen many, and they abound among the working classes; but of the artihandist, or both handed, that is, of persons who could do everything with either hand, as weil with one as the other, I have known but one in the whole course of my life. This was an orphan boy, who had had no parental care, but had been left al most to himself from infancy. Quick, ac tive, and sharp-witted, he had taught him self many things tolerably well, could draw fairly, could play the fiddle and the flute, and wrote admirably and with unrivalled rapidity with either hand. There are many persons who, from causes they can never explain, have a repugnance, almost amounting to horror in some coses, for certain animals. The French General Junot, who was as cool as a cucumber amidst a perfect storm of bullets, and would face the cannon’s mouth unmoved, would take to his heels at the sight of a live frog, and would not recover his equanimity for hours. I have known a man who would not touch mutton, however cooked, while he would eat heartily of any other meat. Some there are in whom the thought of eating hare or rabbit excites loathing; some who would starve rather than eat shell-fish of any kind and there are not a few to whom butter and cheese are abominations. Others are equal ly prejudiced against certain vegetables, but why or wherefore they can never tell you. The mind builds its own house. Gaiety is nature’s garb of health. Tbe greatest fault is to be conscious of none. A High-Toned Cook. Sirs. Vandewater has lately experienced a great deal of trouble in securing a go id servant girl. The last one she had was told to boil an egg in the coffee, and she put it in whole. On another occasion, when instructed to stuff the ducks with onions and potatoes, she put them in whole. She also made apple pies in a similar man ner. Her predecessors were equally neg ligent and ignorant, and Mrs Vandewater determined to have a better girl at ail hazards. It was with the intention of se curing one that she went to the city. She went to an intelligence office and asked to be shown some of the best specimens in stock. A burly girl of thirty-two 'stepped for ward, and the following dialogue took place: Yes mum. “I suppose you are a church member?” “Yes.” “You have no objection to splitting wood?” “Not any.” ‘ ‘What time do you wake up in the morn ing?” “Five o’clock; and lean play the gui tar.” “You never kindle fires with kerosene?” “Never, missus, never; and 1 aint strong- minded. I ain’t in favor of women vot ing.’-’ She suited first-rate; but before she con sented to be engaged, she wanted to ask some questions: “How many folks in the family?” “Five.” “Husband drink any?” “No.” “Do your daughters whistle ‘r'ln&fo.o’ airs?” “Never. ” “Have you any oil paintings in the house, and Axmiuister tapestries, and pots of hya- cintlfon the shelf?” “I have.” “Have I got to hunt off book agents?” “I’m never troubled that way.” “Do you expect me to wash the dog?” “I have none.” “Do your boys go out crabbing and come home covered with mud, and have four shirts apieCe in the wash every week?” “My children are all girls.” “What part of the city do you live iu?” “I live in Paterson, N. J.” “Then you can’t hire me. I don’t go to the country if I knows myself. My beau don’t get through work till seven o’clock, and by the time he’d get shaved and put on his swallow-tail coat and get out to Paterson, it would be breakfast time. I don’t wan’t country in mine. I’m a city gal.” Then she took her place on the bench, and waiting for an eligible employer to come along. _ Coins. A Mile In JKid-Alr. “Usually,” said Mr. Carter, “young men who are in a position to handle much change begin to notice the old American cents and to lay them aside. They soon become interested in -making a complete series of them and the tast then develops. Soon they begin with half-dimes and then dimes. Then the appetite grows arid they undertake a collection of quarters, and so they go through halves and dollars. Though in the American mint series there is noth ing of interest hut the date, still curiously enough the few rare dates in fine condition will command higher prices than the rare coins of almost any other series. In war times, when money was high, I have known an American dollar of 1804 to sell for $700, and since then dollars of that date have several times brought as much as $300. American cents of 1793,1799 and 1804 are very rare and bring high prices. Of course much of their derived value depends on their condition and color. A coin that does not show the marks of circulation and still bears the mint lustre is much esteem ed. Some collectors take great pride in matching their seiies in color, and while one has a taste for purple cents another prefers the olive.” . “Is not this a costly diversion?” “The American coins can he collected, with a few exceptions of very rare coins, at a slight cost. But frequently when fathers are called upon to pay the bill for the collection which their sons have made they begin to take an interest in the sub ject. In my own case I of course wanted to do something a little better than my son had done, and I began collecting ancient Roman and Greek coins, in which I took much interest. Iu these old coins I found a link to the dead past, and when I read of Greek and Roman wars and hold in my hand a coin of the dates in question, or commemorative of some battle or some fighting emperor, I feel that 1 have some tangible connection with the events which ptherwise must seem too long past to be of much interest in this age. The Roman coins are interesting for the portraits which they hear of the emperors. And thus one becomes interested in the history of the people who bought and sold with these antique and misshappen pieces of stamped metal.” “What, Mr. Carter, is the assurance of the genuineness of these old coins, and how can one trace the coins from the coffers of Commodus through the ages to the collec tor’s cabinet, lor instance, in modem Brooklyn?” “It is difficult to explain how we know a genuine antique. But there are no two ancient coins alike in shape and appear ance. and an expert will sort out the coun terfeits—^which are common, and, as I un derstand are manufactured in quantities in Birmingham—as readily as a bank teller will detect the had bills which may pass through his hands. The appearance of a genuine old coin is unmistakable and in imitable.” _ Sand Pillars. Barrington Brown, during his memorable survey of Guiana, reached the foot of Rora- ima and 'ascended its sloping portion to a height of 5,100 feet above the level of the sea. Between the highest point he reached and the foot of the highest perpendicular portion which towered above is a band of thick forest. Looking up at the great wail of rock 2,000 feet in height, he could see that a forest covered its top, and that in places on its sides where small trees or shrubs could gain a hold, there they clung. The gigantic cliff itself is composed of beds of white, pmk and red sandstone, interbedded with layers of red shaie, the whole resting on a great bed of red diorite. The length of Roraima is about eight or ten miles; Kukenam is perhaps larger; and the area of Illebeapeus is certainly more exten sive. It is impossible to view this wonder ful group of mountains without realizing that far back in the youth of the world t'aiy formed part of an archipelago in tropical seas. That they are well wooded and watered is made certain by visible trees and the enormous waterfall which pours at least from Roraima. A grand view of this cata ract was obtained by Barrington Brown from the mouth of a cave, inhabited by guacharo birds, and situated 1,882 feet above the level of the sea. Through the clear atmosphere was distinctly viable at a distance of thirty miles the white thread of the waterfall. The Indians said it was the head of a branch of the Cotinga river, bat it is more probably trie head of the Caroni, a branch of of the Orinoko. „ This tropical Staubbach is probably the' highest fall in the world, and is at the same’ time of con siderable bulk. The cliff of Roraima is 2,- 000 feet in height, “over the upper half of which it fell like a plumb-line and then de scended with a slight slope outward. The remaining 3,000 feet to the valley below slopes Rt 2111 OUglo $«»>» Acta Jn,yraaa OTlil being tree-covered, the rest of the fall is hidden by foliage. The invisible attraction the curious range of Savanna island mountains to naturalists arises from the in accessibility. This should not be under stood as the mere desire to excel others in a feat of climbing, hut as the hope that some relics of the mammillian life of the so- called “miocene” period may have survived on these isolated altitudes, cut off from all communication with the living, moving world. If any of the “miocene" mammals lived upon them when the sea washed over their bases, the descendants of those ani mals may exist there still, as the lemurs ex ist in Madagascar, and a whole family of marsupials, such as the kangaroo, in Austra lia. Perhaps a balloon may one day solve the mystery which lends a charm to these island mountains, and the happy naturalist who lands—as one will, of course, and in time—on the summit of Roraima, may find himself among the descendants of the races long since blotted from the lower world in which the evidence of their existence is re corded in the great stone books alone. Amid the forest depths, on which rests a huge cloud, he may find not the gigantic saurians of the yoHthful world, grim mon sters of the fish-lizard and blrd^Bzard form, but the great progenitors of existing mammalia. Leaving the tapir, one of the most ansient of extant creatures, at the bot tom of the Roraima cascade, he may find at its summit its gigantic cogcners—huge her bivorous animals fifteen and eighteen feet in length; the dinotherium, a tapir-like creature, larger than the elephant; antique analogues of the mastodon; ancestors of the horse, the hog and the greater cats, which in the known parts of the continent ’ are represented by the jaguar, the puma, and the ocelot. A prospect of the dino therium alone would be sufficient to com pensate an enthusiastic naturalist for the labor of years. It is the largest of the ter restrial mammals which have inhabited our globe, and deservedly stands at the head of the thick-skinned animals, as the megathe rium or gigantic sloth at that of the tardi- grades. Probably the dinotherium would be found, if found at all, pursuing a life like that of the hippopotamus. Its great head and tusks are fitted for grubbing up aquatic plants, and like those of the walrus, for helping the animal out of the water. But the dinotherium is but one of the start ling forms which might be.looked for on Roraima if its cliff? be really as difficul as painted. Lizards in the semi-ophadian stage might be encountered, and other ani mals which, as the little boy said who had been taken into a lecture of Prof. Owen’s, “had not quite made up their minds what they were going to be.” Ancient Modes of Torture. We have often witnessed a phenomenon on the sandy plains of Central Asia, which accounts in some measure for the innum erable sandy mounds that are found in some regions. When seen at a distance for the first time, it mad# a strong impres sion upon my mind. About twenty pil lars were in view, wheeling round and lick ing up the sand. As they passed aldng a cloud of dust was raised on the ground, apparently eight or ten yards in diameter. This gradually assumed the form of a column, that continued to grow in height and diameter as it moved over the plain, appearing like a mighty serpent rearing his head aloft, and, twisting his huge body into contortions in his efforts to ascend. The pillars were of various sizes, some twenty or thirty feet high, other fifty, sixty, and one hundred feet, and some as cended to nearly two hundred feet. As the whirlwinds began gathering up the dust one might have fancied that antedilu vian monsters were rising into life and activity. The smaller ones seemed to trip it ligh’ly over the plain, bending their bodies in graceful curves as they passed each other; while those of larger dimensions revolved with eravity, swelling out their trunks as they moved onward, till the sandy fabric suddenly dissolved, forming a great mound, and creating a cloud of dost that was swept over the deceit. Everybody who goes to Nuremburg must visit the torture chambers. One almost writhes .at sight of the rack which. 400 years ago was in actual use, and trembles at the presence of the Iron Virgin, a3 she is called. It is an Iron case in the shape of a woman with folding doors, which open in front. The victim stepped inside, and the doors, into which are fastened eight sharp spikes which pierce the eyes, were gradually shut. It was a slow death, and long dreadful hours passed, during which the spikes were driven deeper, until at last some vital spot was reached. After death a small trap door was opened and the poor fellow dropped into a machine in the room below, where he was cut mto bits about three inches long, and then thrown into the canal. To see such things makes one glad to live in the 19th century, where even the worst criminals are at least treated with that mercy."whic!i ought always to temper justice. The object of the olden time was to keep a villain alive as long as possible. To-day, on the other hand, we are trying to devise some means by which death may be caused painlessly and sud denly. There is one instrument in this torture chamber however, which we would like to see revived. It is a frame work in which those who adulterated food were placed for punishment. Their heads and hands were firmly tied, and then the whole thing was let down by a strong rope into the river. The criminal was ducked until he promised to commit the offence no more and then ducked once again, just to empha size his promise. Justice Strong Strong has the spare form and refined face of an ascetic; heisamember of the Presbyterian Church, a rigid observ er of his religious duties, a strong temper ance man, and a model husband and father. Judge Bradley is of short statue, scholarly and very courteous. He looks very wise and very severe while on the bench. Judge Harlan has a boyish, smooth face, full of good humor and kindness. He maintains majestic gravity during an argument. Judge Clifford ha3 a rosy, benevolent face, and his large white neckcloth sets off the somberness of his silk gown. Mr. Justice Clifford has the most exalted idea of the court, ranking it next to heaven. He would readily pass for a worthy Bishop, and never tolerates anything bordering on liberty. Judge Swayne is portly, and has an intellectual head and face. Judge Miller has a large, ponderous frame, and is the embodiment of legal lore and the re sponsibilities of his high office. —O’Leary, the pedestrian, ig said to be worth $60,000.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Cedartown advertiser. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1878-1889, May 20, 1880, Image 1