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The Cedartown Advertiser.
Published every Thursday by D. B. FREEMAN.
OLD SERIES—VOL. YII-JSO. 11.
Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance.
CEDARTOWN, GA., MAY 27, 1880.
NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 24.
Bi? Your Dr© From
F(
Main St. Cedartown Ga.,
I? YOU WANT THEM PURS AND FRESH.
C. G. JANE3~
attorney at x.aw,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
;r omce In the court House. ^febl9-iy _
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
1r First Boom up Stairs over J. s. StiiBte &
Co's Store. septic-1Y
“BEAR TE ONE ANOTHER’S BORDENS I”
at Mel FnMiii if Oar Loved Dies at Net Cost.
The People's Mutual Relief Association
Is 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 be received by
JNO. W. RADLEY, Cedartown, Ga.
Partial list ot members in and around Cedartown : F. M. flight, A. A.
Read, John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken, Wm. R. Craig, Geo. H. Leake, J.
W. Barr, Dr. C. II. Harris, J. B. Crabb, W. H. II. Harris, D. It. Slonroe,
Dr. W. G. England, Jno. W. Radley, J. W. Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B.
Freeman, Mrs. Nancy Powell, Alex. Dougherty, Mrs. Francis Dougherty,
Dr. E. H. Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. apt5 6in
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OFFICE EAST SIDE OF MAIN ST.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician, and. Surgeon.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may be
found ready to attend calls either day or night*
Janl5-iy
A. J. YOUNG,
DEALER IN
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins
and Brandies.
Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga.
SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL & THOMPSON'S
STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES
in Cedartown.
I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown, ----- Ga.
Office at Bradford A Walker’s Drug Store.
Residence at the Reece House. novi4-iy
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler*
CEDARTOWN, GA
Having lust opened out a shop at the store of
a. D. Hogg A Co., respectfully requests the
public to call on him when needing work in ms
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS !
Hew Goods and New Prices.
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
will practice In the Superior courts of Polk,
Paulding, Harahon, Floyd and Carroll counties.
Special attention given to collections and real
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
EDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In the most skill-
il manner. Office over J. S. Stubbs St Co.’s*
febllMy
F. M. SMITH.
Attorney at Law and
IEAL ESTATE AGENT
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Particular attention given to the selling or
jutmg of city property. Buying and selling
lid lands a specialty. Parties owning wild
mds in Georgia would do well to correspond
nth me, as I have app icatlons for thousands
f acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl.
i. or other bogus title need apply. Look up
our beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per
ent. commission on sales. For locating and
scertalnlng probable value, $l per lot. For
earchlng records for owners, bu cents per lot.
’or ascertaining If land 13 claimed or occupied
y squatter. $1 per lob Always in advance. To
a sure attent.on enclose a3-centstamp. Parties
wning wild lands should look to their interests,
s many of these wild lands are being stolen by
quatters under a bogus title. All communlca-
lons promptly answered. Satisfaction guar-
nteetf to all honest meu. JanS»-ly
H. C. CROWLEY, £ £
DEALER IN
STOVES AND TIN-WARE,
EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET,
Opposite Piiilpot& Dodds, - - - CEDARTOWN, Ga.
LIVERY FEED,
AND
SALE STABLE
Wright A Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA
Being supplied with new Horses, New Vehi
cles. Si we are prepared to meet the wants of
the public In our line. Jan8-ly
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Keeps on hand and manufactures to order
MATTRESSES!
My work recommends itself wherever used,
and Is guaranteed to render the most peifect
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
slighted. I ask a trial. JAMES* H. PRICE.
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CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props
CitHODli, 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
the wants of the traveling public In our line.
Parties wishing vehicles sent to any ot 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, Qa.
janS-tf
ISAAC T. MEB
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—DEALER IN—
STOVES TINWARE
Hardware and Hollow-Ware
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPECIALTY.
Every variety of Job work in my line naatly
done. I respectfully solicit the patronage ot
'•the public, and would be pleased to have all my
friends and customers call and see me when f"
town. ■ I. T. MEE
Jan8-ly
CEDARTOWN SCHOOL,
J. C. HARRIS, Principal
The Spring Term commences the first Mon
day In January and will continue 534 months.
Fall Term opens 3rd Monday in August and
continues 4# months. Rates of tuition as cus
tomary.
The school-room is convenient and comfort
able : training thorough and discipline firm.
The Principal offers his thanks for past favors,
and confidently ash for a liberal share of patron
age In the future.
Reference as to discipline, etc., Is made to the
former patrons oIUU* SsheoL wvn-m
purposes with perfect safety,
guaranteed.
Give me a call.
Good treatment
mr!8-ly
A. D. HOGG & CO.,
MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
Have just opened a select 3teck of General Merchandise in their new store,
and want all 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, Cornets, new styles; Ble&cli-
ings, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky v Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Notlous, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Very
Low. Remember the place—last Brick ktorc on South MAIN Street, west
side. novG-ly
OLD AGS.
I often think each tottering form
That limps along in life's decline.
Once wore a heart as young, as warm,
Ae full ofjidle thought as mine !
And each has had its dream of joy.
His own unequ&led pure romance,
Commencing when the blushing boy
First thrilled at lovely woman’s glance.
And each could tell his tale of youth ;
Would think its scenes of love evince
More passion, more unearthly truths,
Than any tale before or since ;
Yes, they could tell of tender days.
At midnight penned in classic shades ;
Of days more bright than modern days,
Of maids more fair than modern maids.
In Hard Straits.
Keeps constantly in stock the LATEST and BES T brands of STOVES
and can now supply customers with the uuequalcil Times, Southern
Baker and Iron City.
Keeps at all times a full line of TINWARE, and docs ail kinds of tinner’s
work—Roofing, Guttering, etc. mh25-ly
ED. E. BRANNON,
Dealer In
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Chickens, Eggs ami Butler a Speeiilty.
I HAVE ALSO
♦
A FIRST-CLASS BAH.
In connection with the Store, which is stocked with the finsst Liquors
in town. jan8-tf
“Nine o’clock, sor, an’ the hot watlier,
an 1 is it the rest of the baoou ye’d be after
havin’ for breakfast ?”
“Will it not be too much, Bridget!’’
“Sorra a bit, sor.”
“Very well.’’
And with a half groan, I, Basil Hatha
way, sprang out of bed, and proceeded to
array myself in unexceptional costume—
trowsers, vest and frock-coat. My only
ones, alas! an accommodating retative
some twenty doors off had taken charge of
shabbier garments, one by one, kindly ad
vancing sundry moneys thereon.
Three of us were in the same plight—and
school-fellows and old chums, now thrown
together in manhood by the caprice of
Dame Fortune, and fighting shoulder to
shoulder the great battle of life in the great
city.
As I dressed,one of the trio,Hal Trevour,
came bounding by three at a time up the
worm-eaten stairs.
He was fresh from morning lecture at
the liospital, and hungry as a hunter, I
thought with a shudder. I heard his cheer
ful greeting of Jack Hornsey, hard at
work since daylight on “Coke on Little
ton.”
“Well, old bookworm, ready for break
fast I Where is the captain ?”
“The captain 1” How the old title, be
stowed, set me dreaming. 1 was roused
by the dull thuds of a poker hammering
violently at the intervening wall.
“All right,” I shouted. Ring for the
bacon.”
In a minute there were three of us gaz
ing with rueful looks at the breakfast ar
rangement. A loaf of stale bread, a piece
of butter about the size of a walnut, and
three tiny rashers, that either could have
put out of sight with ease.
“Is that all, Bridget?”
Every line of the girl’s honest Irish face
was eloquent with sympathy.
-,Not a bit more, sor.”
Hal laughed.
“Turn out your pockets, lads. There is
my last coin.”
And ho produced an exceedingi." ' liLU J
sixpence.
Jack, after much rum>”aging, showed a
quantity of fluff and a brace button. I had
three-pence half-penny in coppers.
“Odd man out for the bacon,” quoth
Hal.
“No, divide it between yon,” said I. “A
man has been rash enough to invite me to
dinner. Hand over the loaf.”
Jack gave me one keen glance. I think
he suspected the pious falsehood. Hal—
bless the boy—was quite unconscious, as
happy as though he had not a care. The
frugal meal had just been disposed of when
we heard a great puffing and blowing on
the third floor. That had but one possible
meaning—a creditor.
“Whose turn?” asked Jack, laconically.
It was an ancient arrangement now that
on the advent of a dun only one of us
should receive him, the others being in the
city—that is, in the adjacent bedroom.
Your own,” cried Hal, as we decamped
leaving the door ajar to watch the course
of events. “I wish you joy, Jack; it is
old Blunderson, snorting like a grampus,as, an(J began tQ speak incoher entIy .
Old Blunderson was a general provision “Delirious, said I. It was a great re
merchant, who had let himself be beguiled' l^e to hear Hal’s springing step. He gave
into supplying miscellaneous 'goods until! »lowwhistleof astonishment as he entered,
his bills really frightened me. He was the felt the patient’s pulse, while I gave a
CHEAP GOODS!
J. S. STUBBS & CO.,
Have just moved into their elegant new Store Rooms on
East Side of MAIN Street!
Where they are now opening an extensive atonk of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Their goods were selected witli great care and with an eye to the needs
of their customers, and were bought for Cash. They will he sold at the
lowest figures. Go and examine their stock and prices bafors miking
your purchases.
steps toward us.
Better not,” said Jack.
“Eh?”
“Typhoid fever—had case—contagious,”
fibbed Jack between his puffs.
We saw old Blunderson’s face turn a
ghastly green with fear. Still he looked
incredulous ; we had played so many tricks
before.
“Gammon!” he gasped at length.
Jack rose slowly walked to the corner,
and produced the shovel.
“Fumigating the room,” said he. “Bet
ter have a pipe.”
And old Blunderson fairly turned and
fled wilh such celerity that he gained the
next floor m seconds instead of minutes.
We were laughing at his discomfiture,
when Bridget’s head appeared at the door.
“I thought I’d tell ye, gentlemen, the
miBtress is just cornin’. The saints purtect
ye, for sh» has been rampagin' like a hay-
then ail^ is blessed mornin’!”
Our ‘aces fell. Sirs. Callaghan, our
worthy landlady, was not a foe to be so
readily dislodged, and her powers of invec
tive were simply unrivaled. Hal was the
only one who could soothe her, and he
came to the rescue.
“3Iy turn,” he said, with a look of comic
disgust. “You fellows get into my room
and clear out of the house as soon as she is
seated.
As we did, seeing Hal hand a chair (as
we glided by) with the deepest of mock
reverences, and an expression of extreme
devotion on his handsome features. “Slak
ing violent love to the old beast I” as he
would have elegantly expressed it.
It was evening of the same day—a dull
November evening, much in harmony with
my thoughts, as I leaned against the door
post of our house, and recalled the good
old times when life was a merry farce for
us all.
I had no heart to work. All that day I
had hawked my manuscripts from one
publisher to another, vainly hoping to get
a loan upon them. Sly threepence half
penny had been carefully invested at a
dirty cook shop, and I was glad to think
there must have been just enough cold
meat to satisfy the boys at dinner and tea.
Presently I would go in and hunt for
any fragments that remained, for 1 was
desperately hungry.
Through the fog came a slender female
figure disguised in a waterproof. She did
not notice me until quite abreast, when the
light fell upon her face. Then as she
;ave‘ one frightened glance, I saw two
things—how pale and beautiful it was, and
what a depth of misery lay in the startled
eyes.
It was a low neighborhood in which we
lived, though separated by but a long
alley from a fashionable West End street
—& dangerous locality for a young girl at
that hour, f crossed the road in order to
accompany her unobserved, and had hardly
done so ere I saw her brought ud by some
man, looming unsteadily in the mist.
“Come here, my pretty dear!” said he
She gave a faint scream and tried to slip
by him, but the drunken wretch caught her
by the loose waterproof. In another sec
ond he measured his length on the pave
ment ; but, strange to say, the girl sank
down also insensible, droping something
that looked like a jewel case.
Sly prostrate friend was relieving his
feelings by a round volley of obscene abuse.
Slot daring to await the arrival of a police
man, 1 caught up his victim and her case,
and made a hasty retreat. At the foot of
the dilapidated stairs I hesitated. Should
1 carry my fair burden into Sirs. Callag
han’s little parlor ? The sight of Bridget in
full flight pursued by shrill invective, de
cided the point.
“Bridget,” said I, this lady has fainted.
Come and help me. ”
■ “Ah, sure, sor, poor dear!”
We carried the stranger to the common
sitting room, and essayed to bring her
round. Presently she opened her eyes,
Hathaway. I am deeply grateful to you.
Where is my child ?”
The most renowned physician in town,
was quickly summoned but in vain. Mr.
Bullion begged him to devise means to re
move his daughter. At present she must
not leave her bed. In a few days, per
haps, with returning strength, she might
lie for two or three hours at a time on a
sofa in our sitting-room. Further change
was imperatively forbidden.
So Mr. Bullion, with many apologies,
begged that some of his daughter’s favorite
pictures, and a few chairs, etc., from her
boudoir, might be brought; and we could
not refuse. A few hours transformed
our bachelor den into a kind of fairy
palace.
Sir. Bullion was naturally a constant vis
itor, and I had to receive him in the tat
tered dressing gown. Twice he found me
writing with manuscripts littered around.
“You are an author ?” he queried with a
smile.
“A would-be one.”
“Pray do not desist from writing on myac-
count. Slay I .amuse myself for a time
with your papers ?”
He borrowed a bulk} - one at leaving—to
submit it, he said, to a publisher he knew :
Next day 1 received a letter from a well-
known firm, offering $250 for the copy
right and an additional $250 if a second
edition were called for. In my youth and
inexperience, it did not occur to me for
months the money came front the banker’s
pocket.
Of course I eagerly assented, and took
my coat and vest out of pawn—not a day
too soon, for Sliss Bullion was pronounced
convalescent, and that afternoon her fath
er's strong arms conveyed her from one
room to the other.
I lived in fairyland for a week till our
guests departed. She explained the visit to
our obscure street—it was to pawn jewelry
foj her brother’s benefit, a wild lad, whose
excesses had driven him from home, and
who had recently been writing her letter
after letter, hinting at frightful consequen
ces if she did not furnish him with money.
“Mr. Hathway,” she said, “will you be
my friend, and try to reclaim him ?”
She put a transparent little hand in mine,
as she spoke, and I promised. Her friend
—I would have promised her anything for
such a title.
Then an eventful conversation took place
between me and the banker.
“You have abandoned the idea af becom
ing a barrister, Sir. Hathway, and the pro-
fesaion of an author is a precarious one.
Unite it with another pursuit. S’ou are a
good linguist, and I badly need a foreign
correspondent. The hours and duties will
be light enough; cast in your lot with me
—I will take care you have no cause to re
gret it
I thought ofmv “friend,” and consented.
The firm is Bullion & Hathaway now. the
junior partner having married the oenio’rs
or. John Hornsev is their lawyer,
a man much resaw' 0 ' 1 in the profbo-:on.
nai Trevor is j ust begi nningtomakeastiras
a fashionable physician.
A Cave Mystery.
A Rattlesnake Concert.
While chasing a rabbit recently near Slar-
shall township, Ohio, a gentleman found a
hole at the base of a hill, and proceeded to
make a search. Reaching in, he grasped
something in his hand which proved to be
the long bone of a human being. His curi
osity being now very much excited he pro
cured assistance, and began digging. Peo
ple flocked out from the village, and came
pouring in from the surrounding country,
as the news rapidly spread. The locality
is but a short distance from the notorious
Bob SIcKimie’s old headquarters, and with
in the range of his once noted gang, nearly
all of whom are now in prison under long
Talk about snakes,” remarked an old
frontiersman in conversation a few evenings
ago, “there are more snakes in Arizona
than ever existed in Ireland before good old
St. Patrick came along and gave them the
grand bounce. Why, I have been every
where ; waded southern swamps when I
would have to stop a minute, with the
water up to my chin, to allow a drove or
school of water-moccasins or cotton-mouths
to go by; up in the far northwest and
British America I have lived like a fighting-
cock and to the queen’s taste for weeks at
a time on snake steak, but I saw more rat-
snakes down in Arizona, last summer was
a year ago than ever before in my life, all
put together. Down there they don’t go
in pairs, clusters or droves, but in columns,
just for the world like the children of Israel
got up and tramped out of Egypt with
Sloses, and Aaron in the van, and Joseph,
with his circus coat, bringing up the rear.
I and a friend were over in the Tombstone
county, among the hills on a prospecting
expedition. There were rattlesnakes ail
around us, but they did not seem to be very
savage. We would scare them up riding
along, and they would sneak away from
our track like coyotes. One day about 2
o’clock in the afternoon we were taking a
hill, and, as the ascent was very sharp,
our horses would stop every few minutes
to blow. Long before we got to the sum
mit we heard a strange noise, or rather
jargon of noises, apparently on the other
side, and if we had been shot the next
minute we could not have told from whence
it emanated. Why, it was worse than the
average church choir. Well, we get to
the top after a while, the noise mcreasiDg
every step we took up. By the time we
had got there it had become a little short
of terrific, and looking down over the side
we saw a sight that took the cake.
On a little plateau of perhaps fifty yards
dimensions, about seventy-five feet below
us, was a regular rattlesnake reunion and
concert. The ground and stones were just
yellow with them, and if there was one
there were at least ten thousand snakes in
the gang. They were of ail ages and sizes,
and how they enjoyed themselves. The
two oldest king-pins of the crowd were in
the centre, and the other snakes were all
gathered about them. Each and every
snake had coiled himself up in such a man
ner as to allow their tails and rattles good
play, and they were rattling awav as if for
wages, and their wicked tongues were
darting out and in, keeping up an accom
paniment to their tails. We looked at the
racket for about a minute, and then with
an awful flourish the rattling stopped.
The two old snakes reared their heads at
least three feet off the ground, and looked
all around over the field in a manner in
dicative of a general on a battle-ground.
After serveying the situation and apparent
ly seeing that every member of the snake
combination was ready for business, they
sounded a note by way of tuning up, and
the whole crowd commenced their concert
again. It took them about ten minutes to
finish one tune, and we must have watched
them there through at least a half dozen.
After a while I got tired of the business,
and rolled a rock down in the crowd.
This broke up the meeting without delay*
and, as several of the snakes were crushed
to death, the others set up an awful rat
tling, and crawled away to their respective
dens. I have been among snakes ail my
life, hut that was the first snake concert
I ever wttucsscrf ’’
Stranger than Fiction;
Not long ago Matilda Boelter, a step
daughter of Michael Boelter, who lives in
the town of Holden, Goodhue county,
Minn., came to her death by the accidental
discharge of a gun. The painful accident
recalls other tragic events in the history of
the family to which she belonged, and
which, we believe, have never been pub- .
1*1 -J TO t C - rtacoaort-rx rtf LUC *
about, liis face describing the most painful
contortions, and his toe in the mare’s
mouth. The more he struggled, the harder
she pulled at what, through some misad
venture, she mistook for the girth-straps.
J. P. DUFFEY,
MANUFACTURER AJil) DEALER IN
BUGGY AD WAGON SADNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, LG.
Doughertj's^Cld Stand,!
CEDARTOWTV, G-eorgia.
All Work Guaranteed to give satisfaction. All lie asks is a trial. jan8ly
exception that proved that old rule, “Laugh
find grow tatas crusty, ill-comlitioned a
wretch as ever read one particular portion
tion of the Lord’s Prayer backward. A
modem FaliBtaff, minus the wit, he always
ascended slowly, restibg on each stair.
We were safe for about five minutes,
Jaca employed them in preparing for his
reception, and we watched the proceedings
with amused curiosity.
The first was to produce a huge tobacco
pouch, taking from it about half an ounce
of tobacco. From this he filled a long clay
pipe—Jack’s merschaum had preceded our
clothes to the pawnbroker’s—depositing
the remainder carefully on the table.
‘An alarming sacrifice!” murmored
Jack shaking Ms head over it with a re
gretful sigh.
The next move was to grasp the fire
shovel and tongs.
“Weapons of offense,” whispered Harry.
He meditates assault and battery—”
Hal stopped abruptly in sheer amaze
ment. Jack was deliberately removing
live coals from the fire to the shovel, and
upon these he swept his cherished tobacco.
Then he placed the shovel upon the bot
tom ledges of two chairs at the further
comer of the room, threw himself into the
one nearest the fire, and complacently
lighted his long clay.
Of course the room filled fast with smoke
and a most pnngant odor.
“Old Blunderson hates tobacco as a cer
tain personage hates holy water 1” grinned
Hal.
Bad policy, though, to irritate him,”
grumbled L
By this time our enemy was in the door
way gasping for breath, and shaking a
great hairy fist at Jack by way of filling
the interval till speech returned.
“You abandoned young profligate 1 ”
Jack removed his pipe, nodded and
quietly resumed it.
“Where are the other scamps?’
“One gone for the doctor; the other—
and a jerk of the speaker’a thumb toward
the door behind which be Btood completed
the sentence.
Old Blunderson made two uawieldly
gave i
brief explanation.
“Feverish—very. She must he put to
bed at once, Where does she live ?
“I have not an idea. Search her pock
ets.”
1862, the young lady’s mother and her step
father lived in one of the counties border
ing on the Slinnesota river, she having a
husband (who was a brother of her present
husband) and two children, the youngest
but a few months old, and he having a wife ; I . erhaps als0 she mistook his shouts for
and two young children.. The Indians Ruled j vociferous cheers of a pleased audience,
his wife, while he and his children escaped ; and th ht it was « all right,” and at it
and succeeded in making their way to t ort anra j Q s jj e wen t with redoubled vigor. By
, _ Ridgely, afl d afterward went to bt. Paul, ^ )me means he * must have made some
sentences. In fact it was supposed that we believe. His brother was killed, but j sli(rht movemC nt, which the mare thought
McKimic was hid in one of the numerous hj s sister-in-law and her two children lied j tQ be her sigQal t0 p er f orm the trick, and
to the woods near her home, where she se- j we[lt lQ w0 = k accordingIy . However, the
creted herself, hoping to find a place of - - ...
But the search was fruitless.
“Call a cab, and I will take her to the
hospital,” suggested Harry.
1 looked at the flushed face and the
bright beautiful eyes, and my heart gave a
great senseless throb of disapproval.
“No, we cannot turn her away. Fetch
a nurse, Hal, and she shall have my room.
You will take mein for a night or two ?”
“Of course, old man,” and Hal flew off.
Then I thought of our landlady.
“Bridget,” said I, “how about Sirs. Cal
lahan!”
’’I am the misthress, sor! Sure, I’ll tell
her you’ve got the faver, an’ devil a bit
will she come nigh ye.”
One more difficulty remained, and that
the greatest—the money problem. Well,
my coat and vest might go.
So for three days I patted about the
apartment in an old tattered dressing-
gown, being supposed to he down with
fever; meanwhile the real patient had
careful attention and strengthing nourish
ment.
The third day a notable event happened.
A high-class monthly sent me a guinea for
a contribution, and requested a similar one.
I worked cheerfully after that till the cri
sis came, and the nurse gleefully reported
that the young lady was conscious, and
asking for her father.
“May I see her ?” said I, eagerly.
“Dear, dear, no, sir. The excitement
would throw he* back. Besdes she must
not talk. Her father is Sir. Bullicn of
street.
Bullion, the great fcreign banker.
'What brought his dauglter unattended;
into this vile side street ? Time would ex
plain, perhaps. Meanwlile Jack put on
his hat and departed inquest of the great
banker. In an hour he vaswith us, his usual
imposing air and magisterial demeanor lost
in the agitation of themoment. He shook
me warmly by the bald.
“Yaur friend ba» explained all, Mr.
caves that exist in the eastern parts of the
county, after he had made Ms escape from
jail about three years ago. After digging
some distance they came to a large stone
slab on edge, closing the mouth of a cavern
about ten by twelve feet square and six
feet high. On the floor lay bones in large
number, some human, but the larger por
tion were bones of different species ot ani
mals. Some of them were in a good state
ot preservation, and could easily be named
and classified, while others crumbled to
dust on being exposed to the air. Bones
of wildcats, of rabbits and dogs were found,
while bones ot some larger animal could
not be classified, though they are supposed
to belong to the larger species of wild ani
mals, such as panthers, catamounts, bears,
etc. There were also found some large
bodies of charred wood or charcoal. One
of these is as large as an ordinary base
burner stove. Close search was made for
metal ornaments, but none was found,
though several articles of flint and stone
were discovered such as are generally found
in mounds and ancient fortifications.
Hie Irishman and the Bear.
An Irishman of Slontana was working a
place mine a few miles from Bear Gulch,
and visited that place one day to get Ms
tools sharpened. Just as he was about to
start hack, some one told him that if he
would go home by way of Sour Kraut
Gulch he would not miss his way, and
would save several miles of walking.—Pat
started out, but after traveling several miles
the sun was almost dowD, and he had seen
nothing that looked familiar.—At last he
made up his mind that he was lost, and, to
use his own words, feared that he “would
be robbedand murthered entirely all alone.”
While he was in this state of mind he spied
a cinnamon bear on the side of the moun
tain, and was almost ready to fall to the
ground with fright. Recovering Ms self-
possession a little, he said: “I thought it
wouldn’t do to let the bear tMnk I was
afraid of Mm, and concluded I might inti
midate him by making him tMnk that
there were several with me. So, walking
a little faster, I called out as loud as tver I
could, ‘Mikel Oh! say, Slike. hould on
till I catch up wid ye and the rest o’ the
b’ys. When the bear heard that he walk
ed away and said not a word.
Cat and Mona*.
When to l*lant Garden Seeds.
A greater difference of time is required
in sowing seeds in the garden than in the
field. Thera is no month when frost is out
of the ground in wMeh the seed of some
kind of vegetable may not be profitably
sown. The value of most vegetables de
pend on the time of sowing their seed.
Many things raised in the garden are only
seasonable a very short time. Spinach is
not in demand after lettuce is sufficiently
large to eat, wMle lettuce loses its value
when green peas appear. Radishes are
wanted as early in the season as it is possi
ble to produce them, hut the appetite for
thorn disappears after cucumbers become
plenty. An effort should accordingly be
made to raise a crop of spinach, radishes,
and lettuce as early in the season as pos
sible. Among the other vegetables seeds
that should be sown very early in the sea-
sou, are those of cress, kale, endive and
parsley, as they are wanted as soon as they
can Dc produced. The seeds of onions,
beets, carrots, parsnips, celery, cabbage
and cauliflowers should also be sown early,
because it takes considerable time for the
plants to mature. Onion sets should also
be put out as early as possible, as the ob
ject of planting is to secure a crop in ad
vance of that produced by planting seed.
The seed of all varieties of gourds should
be planted very early. It is a good plan to
start them in beds or small boxes in the
house, and to place the plants with the
earth about them in the ground where they
are to grow, when the weather becomes
sufficiently warm. Gound vines are highly
ornamental as well as useful, and they are
worthy of a place in every garden and yard.
The shells of gourds are easily converted
into dippers, and drinking-cups and other
useful articles, and are much in use in ail
parts of the South. Gourd vines require
some support They may he trained over
a trellis so as to make a very fine appear
ance, or be made to attach themselves to
strings, brush, or the branches of trees.
The seeds of nearly all other vines, as
pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, citrons,
and all kinds of melons, should be planted
quite late in the season. There is nothing
gained by planting them in the open ground
till the weather is quite warm. Their
growth may be hastened by planting the
seeds in Mils and covering them with small
boxes having glass on top. The soil may
be moistened from time to time by remov
ing the boxes. The boxes protect the
young plant from the cold when they are
quite small, and from the insects that are
very certain to make thoir appearance a
little later in the season. The young plants
may be gradually hardened by removing
the boxes during warm days and by re
placing them at night and on the approach
of cold rains and winds. Nasturtians, pep
pers, okra, tomatoes, sweet com and all
kinds of beans should be planted quite late
in the season. Sweet potato plants should
not be put in the open ground, in this lati
tude, before the first of June. As a rule
all vegetables having a southern origin
should ho planted late. If planted early
they become stunted .and never make a
vigorous growth.
Sweet William.
On one occasion said a Circus manager,
we were preparing for our promenade
through the streets, when a kind of “hang
er-on” to our company, who, through Ms
invariable politeness of manner, had been
nicknamed “Sweet William,” was deputed
whose ‘tncKs v ' traincd bIack raare ’ one of
girths with her
saddle. Sweet William was the last to
leave the stables the others having passed
out before he had mounted. Suddenly
loud cries of ‘ ‘Murder I ” were heard to pro
ceed from the stable, and I shouted out as
I went toward the spot: “What’s the
matter? Who is it?” “It’s me,” replied
the agomzed voice of Sweet William.
Make haste—the mare’s got hold of my
- „ ■ , „ , ..oe!” And sure enough I found the man
fished. I revious to the Sioux massacre of j Qn (be mare . s j,ack, writhing and twisting
safety when the fiendish Sioux had com
pleted thrir work, hut, to her dismay, the
savages went into camp near her hiding
place. During the daytime she could see
all their movements, as they rode about on
the prairies and often passed near her in
going through the woods: and at night she
could watch them in their dances and hear
their horrid yells. Sometimes after they
had gone to sleep she would steal back in
the darkness to her house and get a little
food, as long as it lasted, but for the most
part of the Mne long, weary, dreadful
weeks, whose every moment must have
been filled with a terror worse than death,
she subsisted on the scanty supply of wild
grapes, roots, leaves and the hark of trees,
that her limited range afforded. At length
the Indians went away, the frost had c >me
and destroyed her subsistence, her frame
refused to yield nourishment and her babe
died of gradual starvation. Then she and
the remaining child crawled to their old
home to die. Some soldiers, who were out
burying the victims of the massacre, found
them, and they were sent to St. Paul, or
some other point, where her brother-in-law,
who-supposed her to have been killed, found
her, and at length married her. They set
tled on East Prarie, where, we believe, they
lived until the present time. The young
woman whose sad fate we are called upon
to record was the little three-year-oid child
whose eseape from the bloody Sioux was so
marvelous.
Casts from Uvlng Forms.
Dr. Abernethy did not like to he dis
turbed in the night. Once when he had
got to bed at one in the morning in a very
bad humor, because he had been woke up
at midnight, he heard his .bell ring.
“What is it?” he exclaimed angrily.
“Oh doctor, doctor; quick, quick; my
son has just swallowed a mouse.”
“Very well, tell him to swallow a cat,
and leave ms in quiet 1 ’ said th© doctor,
jfjlng to bed again.
5Ve were taken by a friend to see the
wonderful plaster casts of living human be
ings wMch are among the curiosities of the
Russian capital. How the thing is done
is impossible to imagine, hut there the
two statues are, recumbent female figures,
undoubtedly taken from living women.
One lies slightly turned upon her side, her
lips parted in a smile, as though she was
trying to suppress a laugh. The other, who
was much the finer form of the two, lies
face downward, her feet crossed and her
head pillftwed on herfolded arms, as though
she had thrown herself down to sleep. Th*
minutest detail of the texture of .the skin,
nails, etc., are very perfectly reproduced,
the “gooseflesh” with wMch the skin is
covered being amusingly noticeable, and
showing that the preparation used for these
casts, the composition whereof is a secret,
must be applied cold. Then all the little
indentations in the soles of the feet and the
palms of the hands, and the curve cf the
nails and their rimmings of skin and flesh
are produced with startling accuracy. The
process by which these figures are produced
is still a secret, out it is certainly a wonder
ful and curious discovery.
—A boy in Kenny county, Texas,
has killed forty-three bears the past
winter.
man was speedily released from his awk
ward predicament, and the cavalcade pro
ceeded on its ways hut it was a long time
before the incident itself ceased to excite
a good-natured laugh at the expense of
Sweet William.
Diamond Ba>er».
Buying diamonds for retail is said to be a
delicate and difficult task. The buyer sits
down at a table with a large sheet of white
paper spread before him. On the paper are
poured the contents of certain packages re
ceived by the wholesale dealer. The keen
eye of the buyer, an expert, of.course, picks
out at once the shallow, flawed and all de
fective stones, wMch are defimtely rejected,
and swept into a bag. The accepted stones
must next be paired, and to tMs end a tin
plate, mounted on four feet and pierced
with holes of different size, is employed.
On this the diamonds are laid, and shifted
to and fro until each diamond has been fit
ted into a proportionate hole. Then the
gems undergo a second and final examina
tion, the buyer examining them most rigor
ously, and rejecting some wMch may at
first have escaped his attention. Any ir
regularity of form, lack of brilliancy, dull
ness of water or yellowness of tint is suffi
cient to condemn them. The matched
stones are then put up in pairs m papers or
small cases, and the others are sold to in
ferior jewelers. In Paris the latter are rea
dily purchased and set in the flowers, stare,
crosses and other ornaments which make
such a display in the windows of the Palais
Royal. The French, as a ruie, like showy
things, and are less fastidious in diamonds
than Americans are. They care more for
general effect than purity or perfection, and
olten sell to *ur people inferior gems that
will not bear resetting. Paris is not a good
place to buy diamonds.
A Telegraphic Blunder.
A noble Lord, as proud and fond as a
man should be of Ms beautiful young wife,
was just about rising to speak iu a debate
when a telegram was put in Ms hands. He
read it, left the house, jumped into a cab,
drove to Charing Cross and took a train to
Dover. Next day he returned home,
rushed into his wife’s room, and finding
her there upbraided the astonished lady in
no measured terms. She protested her
ignorance of having done anything to of
fend him. ‘Then what did you mean by
your telegram?’’ he asked. “Mean ? What
l said, of course. What are you ’talking
abojit ?” “Read it for yourself,” said he.
She read; “I flee with Mr. to Dover
straight. Pray for me.” For a moment
words would not come; then after a merry
fit of laughter, the suspected wife quietly
remarked: ‘O those dreadful telegraph
people! No wonder you are out of your
mind, dear. I telegraphed simply: “I tea
with Mrs. in Dover street. Stay for