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Newspaper Page TextAdvertiser. 3P.ublish.ed every Thursday by 3D. B. L* 'KEEMAN. Terras: $1.50 per annum, in advance. OLD SERIES—VOL. VII-NO. 20. CEDARTOWN, GA,, JUNE 17, 18S0. NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 27. Eiy Your Bus Fra Main St. Cedartown Ga., IF YOU WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH. c. G. JANE3~ attorney ax law, CEDARTOWN, GA. fr office In the court House. feW9-iy JOSEPH A. BLANCE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CEDARTOWN, GA. tr First Boom up Stairs over J. S. Stubbs A Oo’s store. septis-iy ~ DRS. LIDDELL & SON, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OFFICE EAST SIDE OF MAIN ST. CEDARTOWN, GA. "BEAK YE ONE ANOTHER’S BUEDENS1” Tie Mel PnMien ot Du M Oils at HetCast The People’s Mutual Relief Association Is issuing certificates of membership in amounts from $1,000 to $5,000 OP 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 around Cedartown: F. M. Hight, 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. H. Harris, 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. ifi. II, Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. apl5-6m I know that the world, that the great big world, From the peasant np to the king, Has a different tale from the tale I tell. And a different song to sing. Bnt for me—and I care not a single fig felf they say I am wrong or am right— I shall always go in for the weaker dog, For the under dog in the fight. I know that the world, that the gr©*t big world, Will never a moment stop To see which dog may be in the fault, But will shout for the dog on top. But for me, I shall never pause to ask . Which dog may be in the right; # For my heart will beat, while it beats at all For the under dog in the fight. The Mystery of Garrick Mall. W. G. ENGLAND, Physician, and. Surgeon. CEDARTOWN, GA. OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may bo found ready to attend calls either day or night. Janl5-ly DR. C. H. HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon, Cedartown, Ga. A. J. YOUNG, DEALER IN Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins and Brandies. Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ca. SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL & THOMPSON’S STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES Ivl Cedartown. I keep such Liquors as may he used as a beverage or for medical purposes with perfect safety. E3T" Give me a call. Good treatment guaranteed. mrl8-ly NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS I Sew Goods and Hew Prices. B. FISHER, Watchmaker & Jeweler, CEDARTOWN, GA Having lust opened out a shop at the store of a. D. Hogg & Co., respectfully requests th« public to call on Mm when needing work In hla fino ieb5-tr W. F. TURNER, Attorney at Law. CEDARTOWN, GA. Will practice In the Superior Courts of Polk, uldlng, Haralson, Floyd and Carroll counties, cclal attention given to collections and real Late business. marll-iy DR. L. S. LEDBETTER, DENTIST, CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. All Dental work performed In the most skill- ..1 m (inina onor .T Si filllhhfl If (!ll ’R. F. M. SMITH, Attorney at Law and HEAL ESTATE AGENT, CEDARTOWN, GA. Particular attention given to the selling or renting or city property. Buying and selling wild lands a specialty. Parties owning wild lands in Georgia would do well to correspond with me. as I liave app Icattons for thousands of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl. fa. or other bogus title need apply. Look up your beeswax und wrlto me. Terms: Ten per cent, commiselou ou sales. For locating and asoertalnlDg probable value, fl per lot. For searching records for owners. 50 cents per lot. For ascertaining if land Is claimed or occupied by squatter. $1 per lor. Always in advance. To insure attention enclose 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 title. All communica tions promptly answered. Satisfaction guar anteed to all honest men. JanS9-ly LIVERY FEED. AND SALE STABLE! Wright & Johnson Prop’rs, CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA Being supplied with new Horses, New Vehi cles, & we are prepared to meet the wants of the public in our line. Jans-iy 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 peTect satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no wo ? k Blighted. I ask a trial. JAMES. U. PRICE, lebie-iy. CALHOUN Livery and Sale Stable FOSTER & HARLAN, Props CiLHOUir, GEORGIA 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. Borne and Dalton Railroad or to any other point, may telegraph us, and liave their wants promptly and properly at tended to. FOSTER & HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga. jans-tf ISAAC T. MSB CEDARTOWN, GA.. —dealer in- STOVES TINWARE Hardware and Hollow-Ware, OF ALL KINDS. House-Furnishing Goods A SPECIALTY. Every variety of lob work in my line neatly done. I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public, and would be pleased to have all my friends and customers call and see me when in town. 1. T. MEE Jan8-ly CEDARTOWN SCHOOL. J. C. HARRIS^ Principal The Spring Term commences the first Mon day In January and win continue Sid mouths. T FSllTerm opens 3rd Monday in August and oonUnues 4# months. Rates of tuition as cus tomary. Hie school-room is convenient and comfort able * training thorough and discipline firm. The Principal offers his thanks for past favors, and confidently ask for a liberal share of patron age In the future. Reference as to discipline, etc., is made to tha former patrons of this school* novST-sm A. D. HOGG & CO., MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia, Have just openeil a seleet stock 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; Bleacb- lngs, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky .Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves, Hardware, Notious, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Vkky Low. Remember the place—last Brick .store on South MAIN Street, west side. nov6-ly A A H . C. CROWLEY, A & DEALER IN STOVES AND TIN-WARE, EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, Opposite Philpot& Dodds, - - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. Keeps constantly in stock the LATEST and BEST brands of STOVES and can now supply customers with the unequalcd Times, Southern Baker and Iron City. Keeps at all times a full line of TINWARE, and does all kinds of tinner’* work—Roofing, Guttering, etc. mh25-ly THK UNDER DOG IN THE FIGHT. It was just such a night as tills, Rob ert,” said Aunt Edith, to my papa, with a little shiver. ‘Exactly,’’ papa replied, thoughtfully, “and the same time of year, too.” ‘Suppose you tell the eliildren all about it,’’ mamma said quietly; “they look as if they wanted to know very much. ” Well, since it is perhaps time they knew, I will tell you how Aunt Edith saved my life,” continued papa, turning to Edgar, the eldest of us, “long ago, long before you were born, my boy.” ‘Aunt Edith and I were only brother and sister; ever so much greater cronies than you and Edgar are, Jessie, not only because we had each other to love, but because we had to make common cause against an enemy, Jeffrey Dawson, our step-mother’s son by previous marriage. We lost our own dear mother when we were babies. Jeff was ten years older titan I was; and after ottr father's death which happened when I was eight and Edith six, we would have had a poor time of it but for Dame Turtle, our dear old nurse. She looked after our interests, and fought all our battles valiantly whether we were in the right or wrong. Our step-mother was so wrapped up in Jeff that she bestowed little trouble upon us. I, especially, was no favorite, for she got the silly idea into her lieadthat I stood between Jeff aud the property of Garrick. He was a fine, hand some fellow, as I remember when I was 15, and he twenty-five ; strong and daring, haughty in disposition and hasty in temper. I could see even then he bitterly resented I d eT ined them at once. ED. E. BRANNON, Dealer iu Staple and Fancy Groceries. Chickens, Eggs anil Butter a Specialty. I HAVE ALSO A FinST-CL A An 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 are now opening an extensive stonk of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Their goods were selected with great care and with an eye to the needs of their customers, and were bought for Cash. They will be sold at the lowest figures. Go and examine their stock and prices bafore making your purchases. aug7-tf J. P. DUFFEY, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN BOGGY AND WAGON HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, AC. (Dougherty’■"Old Stand,) CEDARTOWN, Georgia. Ail Work Guaranteed to give satisfaction. All lie asks is a trial. jan8-ly my being master, and himself as if nobody; for all our servants had grown old Villi us, and were staunch and loyal to us children of the house. “Onr mother—we colled he so, though she was ‘little more than kin, and less than kind’—resented it too, and looked forward with very bitter feelings to the time when I would be 21; for then according to our father's will she was to leave Garrick Hall, the homestead, and reside in a little cottage he owned in Wales. “It would be a different position for her as she had but a small jointure—all her own fortune hud been spent on Jeffrey— and by some inexplicable chain of woman’s reasoning, she blamed me for wliat she was pleased to call her unmerited misfortunes, ffaeh year that passed made matters worse between us. As I grew older many things in the management of the property struck me as unjust. The best of the timber was being cut down and the house allowed to fall into a state bordering on rum, because my mother would not spend money on re pairs which I alone was to enjoy the benefit of. Our family lawyer was dead. Jeffrey chose his mother’s legal adviser, and neither Edith or I knew where to look for advice or assistance. Things remained very much in this state till I was nearly twenty, when one day Jeff entered my room in a state of wild excitement, and showed me a will that had been discovered in some out-of- the-wav corner. It was dated a few days before my father’s death; and except that it bequethed to Jeffrey the sum of £5,000, and the reversion to Garrack if f died with out heirs, it was substantially the same as the one already in existence. I had my doubt about the validity of the document, hut I passed no comment; both the witnesses were dead, and I had not a shadow of proof to advance. Suspi cions in ' such a case go for nothing, so 1 held my peace, the mire especially as Jud- son, our old steward, was prepared to swear to my father’s signature. So Jeff Lawson had liis £5,000. On the night of which I am going to tell you, there was a large part of the money in the house. Jeff was going to London the next morning: and he meant to start early; he said good-bye to us over night, and went up to his room first carrying the money with him. Edith and I remained in the dining room a little longer, chatting on different matters, among others Jeff’s departure, ot a strange restlessness I had observed inliis manner of late, of the pos sible date of his return; and somehow, quite unintentionally, I let fall a hint about my suspicions about the will, and discov ered that they corresponded exactly with Edith’s. At last, when the fire had burned quite out, and the candles were getting low in their sockets, we went up stairs together. It was a wild November night, and just such angry, impatient gusts of wind and vagrant thunder-claps as this. I occupied the west room; yonr aunt the ohe adjoin ing; and Jeff slept in the west room at the other end of the corridor; while his mother had he*- apartments in the south wing. As I bade Edith good-night, the clock on the stairs struck 12, and she merrily wished me many happy returns of the day, for I had just entered my 20th birthday. In a few minutes more my light was extinguished, and I was closely wrapped up. In less than half an’hour I was sound asleep. Not so Aunt Edith. She was, she told me af terwards, restless and nervous, two most unusual things with her. “All efforts to sleep were unavailing, and she gave up the attempt at last, and rising from the bed set down by the fire to read, Twice she fan cied she heard footsteps in the corridor, and opened the door to liatqn- Your aunt i was not afraid of the White Lady, our fam- | ly ghost, or anybody else, girls. Twice she threw herself on a couch with the in tention of resting, since slumber was out of the question; but between the storm and the mysterious sounds through the house, rest was impossible. At length, about 2 o’clock, she fancied she heard some one moving about the room very cautiously; and, nothing doubting but that I was as wakeful and restless as herself, she resolved to come in and speak to me. A sudden gust of wind in the corridor extinguished her candle, and she entered my room in the dark, save for the faint rays of the moon light which shone through the carelessly drawn curtains. “As your aunt gently approached my bed, she saw a form advancing en the other side with uplifted hand, in which something white gleamed in the moonlight. Quick as a thought, without a moment’s hesitation, her arm was thrown across my neck. The knife of an assassin descended with a terri hie force; aud glancing off the bone, in flicting a long and jagged gash in her arm. The assassin, who had not seen or heard her approach, instantly fled, leaving his weapon behind; and I was aroused from my slum here by Edith’s shrieks, to find myself bathed in her blood. Binding my silk handkerchief around her arm tightly, to check the bleeding, I sent a servant—for the whole house was aroused by your aunt’s shrieks aud the violent ringing of my bell for the nearest surgeon, and then proceeded to search for some traces of the murderous intruder. Mechanically I went first to Jeff’s room, probably because I was aston ished at not having seen his face among the wondering group gathered round my door. It seemed amazing that he should sleep so soundly through such commotion. The door of the east room (Jeff’s) was open, and so w as tlio»window, but the room was empty. Where was Jeff? Why had he gone so suddenly aud mysteriously ? Why the open window ? I was all the more pain fully perplexed, as the most careful exami nation failed to disclose any other means of exit by which the wouid-be-assassin could have escaped. Every door was securely barred, every window except that of th e east room was safely fastened. In the flower bed underneath there were tracks of men’s feet leading from the window, none whatever leading to it. These things made me terribly unhappy, and some suspicion of my thoughts must have crept into my countenance, for Edith However, she re mained silent about the appearance of the man who attempted my life, and I refrained from questioning her. At best there could be but a conjecture—the room was dark* the man disguised and your aunt fiigh’en- ed. The knife which lay upon my bed ap pealed with terrible force to us both. It was my pruning knife, and that very af ternoon Edith had seen me lend it to Jeff Lawson. Whether the knife had beefi poisoned, or whether your aunt’s wound had been badly dressed in the first instance, I do not know, hut inflammation set in and for weeks she was dangerously ill. For days her life was dispaired of, and it was only saved at last at the expense of the brave right hand that had saved me so well from a terrible and sudden death. “The matter made a sensation, which was something more than a nine days’ won der in our village; but as I kept my sus picions to myself, no one else ventured to express any, and Jeffrey’s name was never mixed up in the matter. Indeed it got circulated that he ieft Garrick the evening of the attempted mjrder and no one con tradieted it. The object of the attack, which was evidently robbery as well as murder, for every drawer and desk in my room was thoroughly ransacked, caused much wonder and discussion. It was pretty generally know that my allowance as a minor was scarcely adequate to my few simple wants. ” “What became of Jeff Lawson, father?” Jess asked, with a stolen glance at aunt’s face. “From the night he said good-bye to us in tins very room, thirty-one years ago, I have never heard of him nor from him. He disappeared in the most extraordinary man ner. Doubtless he is dead; and as far as he is concerned, I have no hope of the mys tery of that awfnl night ever being cleared up.” ‘ And his mother, papa?” Fred ques tioned. “Ah, hie poor mother, she broke her heart over his disappearance, my boy. Mothers will do such tilings over the mest worthless sons. Well, Upton, what’s the matter ?” “If you please, sir, there’s a gentleman wants to see you,” said our old butler, clos ing the door behind him, and looking mys teriously around. “He says his business is urgent, but he won’t give his name.” “A strange gentleman, at this hour and on such a night,” exclaimed papa, rising. “He must be some belated traveller. Show him in.” We all looked at each other, and glanced toward the door in eager, nervous curiosity, as an elderly gentleman, with very white hair and beard, entered the room, made a •courteous bow, which embraced everybody, and proceeded to unbutton au enormous traveling cloak, in which he was enveloped. For a moment or so his eyes wandered round the room, as if in search of some thing, and then he smiled sadly. “You don’t know me, Mr. Neville,” quoth the gentleman, alter what seemed an ominous silence, drairing more directly into the light of the fire, which blazed cheerily. “I have not that pleasure, sir,” papa re plied, looking at our visitor more atten tively. “Ah I Yet my picture hung there once,” pointing to a vacant space among the por trait* on the wall. “My name is Jeffrey Lawson.” “Jeff!” we all cried m amazement. Here was the sequel to the story with a vengence. “You don’t seem overjoyed to See me, Robert,” Mr. Lawson said, after another pause. Well, perhaps you are not to blame. But you. Edith, after all these long years —might give me your hand.” At that moment his eyes rested on aunt’s helpless right arm, and the most terrible awkward, awful silence I ever witnessed ensued. Mr. Lawson was the first to recover his self-possession. “Forgive me,” he said, and there was a tremor in his voice. “I did not know—I am sorrow.” Papa re mained stern and silent. I really pitied Mr. Lawson, the odds were so fearfully against him. Not a single kind or encour aging glance met his eye as he looked up a little haughtily, and continued addressing us all. “I did you a great wrong oacc, Mr. Neville. I have travelled many thou sand nuies to offer what reparation I can. That will by which 1 obtained £5,000 was a forgery. But I have come to pay it back with interest.” Papa bowed his head but remained si lent. Money was absolutely necessary, then, for I had many pressing engagements to meet—my safety, ray liberty was at stake —I was desperate ; but though my base trick succeeded, it was too late. Absolute ruin and disgrace stared me in the face, and 1 was compelled to fly, like a thief in the night, to escape the consequences of ray folly. That night I secretly left the house, escaping by my bedroom window. Con cealing ail the money I had, I took passage for Australia, where, by careful speculation and hard work, I soon realized a consider able fortune. I had no desire to return. I formed new friends; new habits, a squat ter life suited me; and so I remained year after year. But I was heartily sorry for, and ashamed of the part I played about the will, and resolved one day to try and make it square with you. The gold fever broke out, and the spirit of adventure being strong iu me, I resolved to go the diggings. I wai singularly successful; but others were not so fortunate. One poor fellow went by the name of ‘Down Ted’ I heard frequently spoken of as singularly unlucky. One day I was surprised to receive a message from this fellow requesting me to come and see him as he was very ill, and had a very im portant confession to make. I went at once, and saw at a glance that the man was dying; but imagine my surprise, when, on a closer survey of his features, I recog nized him to be Tom Judson, the son of your old steward—good-for-nothing, grace less, vagrant Ted, who got me into many scrapo3 as I got him out of. With the utmost difficulty, for he was dying, he told me a singular story. Ou the veiy night I left Garrick, he tried to rob and murder me. ‘Hearing from his father that I had a large sum of money by me, he resolved to have some of it; and entering the house in the dusk of the evening, he concealed him self behind the corridor window and waited till the house was all quiet; then he en tered my room, and after searching in vain for the money, he seized the knife which lay on the table, and in a fit of drunken rage and disappointment, he resolved to cut my throat if I did not give up my purse. Advancing to the bed where I lay sound asleep, he lifted the knife and made a slash at my throat; when to his horror he saw the While Lady, who ‘walks’, bending over me. Throwing down he knife he fled in terror, and made his escape through a win dow he found open. In a moment it flashed upon me that your room was mis taken for mine, and my window, which I had left open, proved the means of escape for the villian as it had already proved the means of escape for me. I hopa the timely appearance of the White Lady prevented any serious mischief. ” It did to me,” papa said sadly; “but the slash that missed my throat cost my sister her right hand. She was the lady who saved me, Jeffrey. I am better pleased to have the mystery cleared up than I would be to have the right hand back again, if such a thing -were possible,” aHnt said softly. “The knife Judson saw on the table must liave been your pruning knife, Rob ert, which I asked one of the servants to return to you,” continued Mr. Lawson- “Here’s Ted’s written and signed confcs. sind, witnessed by a magistrate. And now let me once more entreat your forgiveness; and, as my mission is accomplished, I will not intrude any longer. I should have re membered that the Nevilles are not a race to forget and forgive.” “Are the Lawsons, Jeff?” papa cried, advancing with outstretched hand. “If so, I claim yours, I have done you an infin itely greater wrong than you did me. I am very s *ry.” A bright smile passtd over Mr. Lawson’s face, altering his whole expression, as he grasped papa’s hand; and I am sure there were tears in his eyes as lie bent down to kiss Aunt Edith’s forehead; and in the smiling silence that followed, as they looked into each other’s eyes, all old scores were wiped out, all old scores healed aud forgot ten. Hints for the Engaged. Ought engagements belong or short? It has often been said that nothing helps so much as being engaged to the girl whom he loves, and for whom he works to prepare a suitable home. The solicitude of David Copperfield’s friend, Traddles, to buy bits of furniture— flower pots nud such like—for the house where he and his betrothed were to dwell, was a pretty thing and much to be commended; but, on the other hand, it is undeniable that long engagements have their drawback, especially if the young people see much of each other during the period of probation. Iu this case much of the rythrn is taken off the poetry of courtship, and no less gilding off the prospects of marriage. There may be a great deal to Bay against the policy of wedding in haste, but youug people who take eaeli other for better or for worse, in all the Illu sion of mutual trust and admiration, go through a time of ecslaey unknown to those who marry quite rationally. The honeymoons of such pairs are halcyon epochs to be remembered til a life long, asd if the after periods seem dull and loveless by comparison, yet it is something to have lived, for however brief a time, up to the highest idea of felicity. Besides, there is no little sweetness in having faced the first hardbips of life together. If a young couple have to encounter poverity and if they conquer it side by side, lighten ing all their labors by sharing them and diminishing their troubles by mu tual consolation and encouragement, they forge links which must bind their hearts closer and closer together. I like to see a snug young man stacking up money in a hank against his wed ding day, while his future wife looks on complacently at the operation as If to say: “Thomas must caru a good many more dollars before he can furn ish a house good enough for me;” but I like still more to see a young husband and witc who have feathered their nest together. It is pleasant to hear a smil ing woman remark, “We had nothing when we married, but see now how cosy we have made our house.” This means that there lias been cheerful hard work on the one 6ide, thrift aud self denial on the other—in fact, union. After all, the yoke of marriage is an apparatus that ghould sit on two pairs of shoulders; and there is nothing very seemly in seeing a girl wait to wear her own part of it until it has been nicely padded with quilted satin. The Hallway up Vesuvius. The most delicious ana expensive of the things to be found on the confectioners’ counters arc the crystallized apricots, figs, amber and green limes, pears and green gages, and most of the persons who buy them seleet them almost piece by piece, making up their boxes to suit themselves. The fashion of doing this lias come up within the last few years, and the confec tioners who first allowed it made large pro fits and greatly increased a demand for the better class of candies. A customer flits from jar to jar and case to case saying, “Give me this, and this, and this,” until she can see nothing else that she wants, smiles a little when she is told how much the whole weighs, and pays for a pound and a half of candy instead of the pnund that she meant to buy. Sherbert candy, made up of three thin, lozenger-shaped layers of sugar, different in colors and flavor, is a favorite with high school girls, aud so are the cream walnuts and crystal lized walnuts. Dyspeptics piously avoid the last two tilings, which are rather less disgestible that melted butter, but they look so nice with their brown skins peeping through their coats of white sugar, and they are so tempting in the long thick bars into which they ore sometimes made, that they please every body. Two other kinds of bar candy, the grated and sliced cocoa- nut, are much liked and are much sold for children’s parties, at which it is desirable to liave pretty dishes of confectionery, as well as broken into bits and mixed with other things for boxes, ft would be pos sible to have a varied stock and candies of many prices without going beyond the class of chocolates, which grows larger and larger every year. There are several kinds of plain chocolate lozenges, and next to them in cheapness come the nonpareil chocolates, which are loznenges studded with drops of sugar looking like homcepathic pills for fairies. Cream chocolates may be filled either with vanilla or orange, as one pleases, and some confectioners use rasberry and other fruit flavors. Vanilla cream choco lates have little cherries inside them, mak ing a delightful mingling of sour, s wcet and bitterj and the almond caramel, which comes iu little cubes cased in paper, ranks next in excellence. This paper wrapping is an improvement added the last few years for convenience in packing, chocolate be ing any thing but a beautificr to pink or white candies that lie next to it for any length of time. Almonds are cased Doth in plain chocolate and in mixture of choco late and sugar that crystallizes upon them, in plain sugar poured upon them in the form of a thin sirup and making the variety known to the trade as rough, aud in smooth almonds which are polished by constantly moving the pan in which they are dried. In the last variety the nut is not burned; in the others it is. The name of jelly chocolates sounds imposing, but the tilings themselves are rather disappointing and seem rather tame after chocolate creams, but they arc liked by the admirers of soft candies. About the Teeth- The station is situated on a level spot on the west side of the mountain, about half an hour’s walk from the observatory. The constructors of the railway have adopted the American double iron rope system. There are two lines of rails, each provided with a carriage divided into compartments and capable of holding six persons. While one carriage goes up the other comes down, thus establishing a counterpoise, which considerably economizes the stream of the stationary traction engine. The in cline is extremely steep, commencing at k. ity degrees, increasing to sixty-three de grees, and continuing at fifty degrees to the summit. Every possible precaution has been taken against accident, sod the railway itself is protected against possible flows of lava by and enormous wall. The ascent will be made in eight to ten minutes, while before it required from one to two hours. To obtain the necessary supply of water, large covered cisterns have been constructed, which in winter will be filled with the snow that often falls heavily on Vesuvius. This snow will be quickly melted by the internal heat, and, besides the water thus obtained, the frequent rain fall will also be conducted into the cisterns. Carious Flowers. There are several plants, especially those with compound yellow flowers, which nod, and during the whole day turn their flowers toward the sun. Such flowers are desig nated as “heliotropes,” and the movement which they thus exhibit is called their “nutation.” This is particularly observa ble in the common sow thistle, and is a well known fact that a great part of the plants in a serene sky expand their flowers, but before rain they shut thern up, as the tulip, for instance. The floweis .of chick- wintergreen droop in the night, lest rain or moisture should injure the fertilizing pol len. One species of wood sorrel shuts up or doubles its leaves before storms anil tem pests, but in a serene sky expands qr un folds them, so that husbandmen can fore tell tempests from it. It is also well known that the sensitive plants and other species of Cassia observe the same rule. The flowers of the bindwood, the wood ane mone, and the common daisy, even if al ready open, will shut on the approach of rain. The last named flower appears to have derived its name—day’s eye—from its sensitiveness of light. Suck phenomena as these are probably determined by the action of light; and the flowers of such plants being shut at ten or eleven o'clock in the morning tell of clouds and gloom, and so predict rain. Besides affording prognostics, many plants also fold them selves up at particular hours, with such regularity as to have acquired particular names from thi9 property. Linmeus has enumerated forty-six flowers which possess the kind of sensibility. From an arrange ment of such flowers it has been ingeniously proposed to form a floral timepiece. Tlie flowers of thegoat’s beard open in the morn ing at the approach of the sun, and regard less of the weather, shut about noon, and hence its common name of “go-to-bed-at- noon.” The Star of Bethlehem expands its flowers about eleven, and closes them at three in the afternoon. The evening prim rose is well known from is remarkable pro perties of regularly shutting with a loud popping noise about sunrise and opening at sunset. After six o’clock, these flowers regularly report the approach of night. The flowers of the garden lettuce open at seven o’clock and shut at ten. That light is tlie chief agent of these changes seems to be proved by tlie experiments of De Candolle, made at the Jardin des Plantes, in an underground cellar, illuminated by lamps giving a light equal to fifty-four or dinary wax candles. By lighting these he could cause the flowers of the Star of Beth lehem to open at pleasure, and also those of the camomile, which-keeps its flowers closely shut during the night; but he could produce no artificial effect with the strong est light upon several species of wood sor- ral, whose flowers and leaves are both folded up at night. With the sensitive plant he succeeded in so completely chang ing the hour of closure that on the third day from being placed in the lighted cellar it began to fold its leaves in the morning and open them in the evening. One of the most eingular cases of the action of light on plants is that of the Lolas ot the Eu phrates, as described by Theophrastus, and which he represents as rearing and expand ing its blossom by day, closing and sinking beneath the surface of the water by night, so as to be beyond the grasp of the hand, and again rising up in the morning to pre sent its expanued blossom to the sun. The same phenomenon is also related by Pliny. The Dear Lamb. Enough has been spoken and written at various times upon the abuses of civilized life, and especially of refined society, to induce us to confess that the constitution of man lias deteriorated, and .that the teeth have shared in the degeneration of organ ism. One of the most conclusive proofs of this is found in the fact that scientific tra velers visiting various nations in different parts of the globe have reported that those people who breathe a pure atmosphere, who drink pure water and eat unadultera ted food, who take healthful exercise and sufficient rest, who dress in a manner that favors free respiration and free movement of the body, are wonderfully free from those diseases that are so common among people of more civilized nations, and possess teeth that are seldom, during a long life, attacked by any disease. It is a reasonable assertion, then, that if we would endeavor to imitate the healthful manner of iiving of these nations—which we could do very nearly and still retain all our claims to civilization—if we would eat bread made of unbolted flour, and other things containing a liberal amount of phosphates, we could make a decided im pression for the better upon the tsethof the coming generation. One of the little lambs picked up in the streets of New York by Wliitelaw Reid and sent West to find a home was adopted by a Detroit family about two months ago, and ere this is published Mr. Reid has re ceived a big postal cord announcing that his dear lamb has gone West to fight the Indians, and that he needn’t mind about sending on another to take his place. This New York lamb was thirteen years old. He said so at the depot on his arrival, and half an hour later he reiterated the statement at the house, and added: “And if you don’t believe it then call me a liar I That’s the sort of spring-gun I am, and don’t you forget it I” “They didn’t forget it. He ate with his fingers, wiped his mouth on his sleeve, and gave the family to understand before sup per was over that he didn’t come West to have liis hair combed or his face washed as a regular business. On his first evening he slipped out, had three fights and stole a dog, and whenhunted up he was about to take his beer in a saloon. The family expected to wrestle with the boy tor awhile, and they didn’t sit down on him until it became a painful necessity. During his first week he stole three dollars in money, a gold chain, a revolver and a pair of ear-rings, and he got drunk twice. When reasoned with and asked to do better he took a fresh chew of plug tobacco and replied: “Oh! you Michigan folks arc too soft! If a feller can’t have a good time what’s the use of being an orphan ?” On Monday of the second week he sold the family dog to a stranger for a quarter, threw the saw and the ax into the alley, and when locked up in a closet tore a Sunday coat to pieces. It was thought best to have a policeman to talk to him, and one was called in. He put on his fiercest look, and lectured the lamb for fif teen minutes, bat as soon as he stepped for breath the young sinner replied. “Now see nerc, old buttons, you are wasting time! 1 know my little gait, I do, and if yon think I’ve come to a village\ like this to be bluffed by anybody, you’ve missed your train! He was taken to Sunday school by the hand. He hadn't been there half an hour when he was taken out by the collar. He seemed anxious to punch the head of every good little boy within half a mile of him, and he told the teacher of liis class that when she could staff Moses in the bullrushes down him it would he after she had bleach ed out her freckles. They gave him a .Sunday school book to fit his case, but he fitted it to a crack in the sidewalk on his way home. When moral suasion had no effect on the wicked youth his guardian tried the rod. He was bigger than the boy, and he wal loped him, but within three hours two of the nuts were taken off his buggy and thrown away. There was a second seance in the woedshed, and before dark a wiadow glass worth eight dollars was broken. That orphan was faithfully and difly and persistently wrestled with. He was coax ed and flattered. He was licked and reason ed with. Ambition, gratitude, fear and avarice were alike appealed to in turn, but as he was the first day so he was the last. A few days ago he was told that he would be sent to the Reform School at Lansing if there was any further trouble with bun. That night he stole five dollars of the cook, a butcher-knife from the pantry, a pie from the sideboard, and departed from the house, leaving on his bed a note reading as fol lows: “This town ar’no place fur a N. York or fun. I’m goin’ out ou the planes to flte injuns. It will be yuseless to toiler me, fur I can’t be took Alive!” —Real estate In Boston costs less now than it has in several years.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Cedartown advertiser. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1878-1889, June 17, 1880, Image 1