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OLD SERIES-VOL. VII-NO. 24.
CEDARTOWN, GA\, JULY 15, 1880.
NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 31.
Bu fluff Drop From
MFOilWR
Main St Cedartown Ga.,
17 TOU WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH.
C. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
tr office 111 the Conrt House. febn-iy
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
attorney at law,
CEDARTOWN, GA
DBS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OFFICE CAST SIDE OF MAIN ST.
CEDARTOWN, GA
JAHHT
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
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown. ----- Ga.
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler.
CEDARTOWN, GA
Haying just opened out a shop at the store of
a. D. Hogg * Co., respectfully requests the
public to call on him when needing work In his
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA
will pr ctlce In the Superior Courts of Polk,
Pau ding, Haral on. Floyd and Carroll counties,
special attention given to collections and real
estate business. marll-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In the most skill
ful manner. Office oyer J. S. Stubbs k Co.’s,
flebit-iy
F. M. SMITH.
Attorney at Law and
KEAL ESTATE AGENT,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Particular attention given to the selling or
rent ng of city property. Buying and selling
wild lamia a specialty. Parties owning wild
1 • nds in Georgia would do well to correspond
with me. as I nave app lcatlons for thousands
of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl.
fa. or other bogus title need apply. Look np
y< ur beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per
cent, commission on sales. For locating and
ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For
searching records lor owners, so cents per lot.
For ascertaining If land Is claimed or occupied
by squatter. $1 per lor. Always In advance. To
m.Mire at'ent on enclo e a S-cent stamp. Parties
owning wild lands should look to their interests,
as many of these wild ands are being stolen by
squatters under a bogus title. All coramunlca-
t„,promptly answered. Satisfaction guar-
f to all honest men.
JanM-ly
LIVERY FEED,
AND
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
i with new Horses, N
prepared to meet the
Being supplied with new Horn
cies. k we axe ] ~
the public in our
New Vehl-
wants of
jans-ly
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Keeps on hand and manufactures to order
MATTRESSES!
My work recommends itself wherever need,
and Is guaranteed to render the moet perfect
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
slighted. I ask a trial. JAMES. H. PRICK
tebie-ly.
CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable.
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props,
CiLHOVIT, 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 of the
trains on the Selma. Rome and Dalton Railroad
or to any other point, may telegraph us, and
have their wants promptly ana properly at
tended to.
FOSTER * HARLAN, Calhoun, Os.
JadS-U
ISAAC T.
CEDARTOWN, GA..
—DEALER IN-
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPECIALTY.
variety of lob work in my line neatly
done, l iaspect ul:y solicit the patronage nf
the public, and would be pleased to have all i
uir puuuu, auiA nuuiu aw pioascu uj uavc au mj
frienda and customers call and see me when In
town. 1.T.MBE
Jans-ly
"BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS I”
file Mi Protection of Our Loved Ones at Net Cost
CEDARTOWN SCHOOL,
J. C. HARRIS^ Principal.
continues 4M months. Rates of tuition a, cus-
TUe school-room Is convenient and eomfort-
ab e; training thorough and discipline nrm.
The Principal oilers his thanks lor past favors,
and conddentlT ask fora liberal share or patron
age In the tutor*.
Retereaoe as to discipline, etc., 13 made to the
(onuer patrons or this school. norsr sm
The People's Mutual Relief Association
Is issuing certificates of membership in amounts from $1,000 to $5,000 or
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 of members in and around Cedartown: F. M. Right, 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. Harris, D. R. Monroe,
Dr. W. G. England', Jno. W. Radley, J. W. Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B.
Freeman, Mrs. Nancy Powell, Aiex. Dougherty, Mrs. Francis Dougherty,
Dr. E. H. Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. apl5-6m
A- J- YOUNG,
DEALER IN
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins
and Brandies.
Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga.
SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL t THOMPSON’S
STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES
In Cedartown.
I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical
purposes with perfect safety. tW~ Give me a call. Good treatment
guaranteed. mr!8-ly
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS!
New Goods and New Prices.
A. D. HOGG & CO.,
MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
Have just opened a select 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, Corsets, new styles; Bleach-
ings, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky v Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Very
Low. Remember the place—last Brick Jartore on South MAIN Street, west
side. nov6 ly
4 4 H. C. CROWLEY, 4 4
DEALERIN
STOVES AND TIN-WARE,
EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET,
Opposite Philpot & Dodds, - - - CEDARTOWN, Ga.
Keeps constantly in stock the LATEST and BEST brands of STO.YES,
a'nt can now supply customers with the unequalled Times, Souther i
linker and Iron City.
Keeba it all times a lull line of Tinware, and does all kinds of tinner’s
work—Roofing, guttering, <fcc.
Splenrtld assortment or Crookery and Glassware will be kept constantly
instock. ml>25 ly
ED. E. BRANNON,
Dealer in
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
C hickens, Eggs aid Batter a Specialty
I HAVE ALSO
A first-class 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 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
loweit figures. Go and examine their stock and prices before making
yonr purchases. ang7-tf
J. P. DUEFEY,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IK
BUGGY AND WAGON HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, &C.
(Daugherty’a-OId Stand,)
CEDARTOWIV, Georgia.
All Work Guaranteed to give satisfaction. AU he asks is a trial. jan8*ly
DAWK.
O whispering breath of tha Morning!
Float up bum the iaaguiA South,
And kiae the Mousoas adanrng
The Earth with your eoented month;
Careee-with your tender fingers
The bed where the lilies sleep ;
Sigh where the violet lingers.
And the eed-oyed peneieo weep;
Awoken the roee from ite dreaming,
Pley with the daffodil's heir:
Flit where in dew-drops streaming
The star-crowned daisies stare.
O breath of the breezy gloaming!
Sweep from the Eastern sky
| lows gathered up there in the country.
■ | “We are all invited.”
] “And, of course, we will all go!” was
j the prompt and unanimous response.
As for apple-paring and cutting, it was
scarcely anything more than an introduc
tory ceremony, resorted to for the purpose of
place-boring the old people and getting the
free use of the house for dancing. Before
the end of an hour the old lady told the
young people very plainly that the apples
they were wasting were worth more than
the work they were doing, that they had
better remove the baskets and pans, clear
up the rooms and go on with their danc
ing.
As for Edgar Hartland, he did not pare
Hath let o'er the riven lie;
Snatch from her shadowy garment.
The glories of purple and red—
Scatter them over the mountaina.
To tell na the Night hath fled.
O breeze of the Dawning tender I
Cell np from ite dreamless rest.
With yonr tale of the Morning's splendor,
Each bird from its mossy nest.
Fill np tha woodlands and asedows
With the music of a wallow end thrush ;
Sweep the gray mists from the vslleye;
Loosen the streams with a rnab.
Then beckon with loving fingers,
O breath of the Summer sweet!
To the Dawn that so coyly lingers
O'er the mountain, with laggard feet,
She will come with her round cheek flush
ing.
To brighten the waiting werld :
And the sombre Nig't, at her blushing,
Shall into dark void bo burled.
The oiooda that the iMi-ht m her roaming. * dozen a PP le8 that evening, nor did he
K ^ join in the dancing. Formal introductions
had not been heard of in that Egypt, and
Mr. Hartland was therefore simply observ
ing the customs of the country, when, soon
after entering the room, he approached a
strange young lady and said :
“I am much pleased to meet you here.
My name is Edgar Hartland. ”
“And mine,” was the frank reponse “is
CVra Ogden.’
i We are expected to pare some of the
apples, I suppose,” said Edgar.
“I will pare until I find a good one to
eat, and then divide it with you, n said his
companion with a merry laugh.
Half a dozen were pared, cut, cored and
thrown into the tray before one just right
was found, the seeds of which were taken
carefully out and used in telling their for
tunes. By these trifles those young stran
gers were opening the way for the conver
sation that soon followed in regard to their
homes in New England.
Mr. Hartland had paid only two visits to
his home during the four years he had been
out there, while Miss Ogden had been there
only three months, having come out with
the Rev. Mr. Birdsell, a missionary, ac
companied also by the young wife whom
the minister had been home to marry and
bring out.
“As for me,” said Miss Ogden, “I came
here on a land speculation. ”
Then she went on to relate that her
father, who had died two years before, had
Found in Egypt.
There was nothing remarkable in Edgar
Hartland’s starting out in the world. He
was simply a bold, earnest and persevering
young man, who intended to make bis
life’s visit to this world a fact worth re
membering.
Young Hartland was twenty-two years | left among his effects some old land war-
old when he finiahed his collegiate course, | rants, issued to soldiers for services in the
in his preparation for which, aa in all his war of 1812. There were thirteen of these
studies, his constant effort had been to
make thorough work of whatever he at-
temped to learn, and not simply to put his
warrants, each entitling the holder to select
and receive eighty acres of government
land. In settling the estate she had re-
real or imaginary attainments to the best | ceived those warrants as a part of her di-
use in making a sensation on public occa
sions.
And now the young man was looking out
into the world for something to do. As
for the triangular professions—law, medi
cine and divinity—there were as he thought,
too many already m them. He thought it
would be difficult to make a good use of
his head or his hands, while obliged to be
using his elbows at the same tune, in
crowding other poor fellows out of the
way. So he concluded at last to take bis
compass, level, and measuring line, and go
West.
Forty years have passed since the events
to which the reader is now turning hi8 at
tention, occurred, and yet even then the
watchword: “To the West I to the West!”
was an old, familiar and Btirring appeal.
Hartland repaired to the land office and
applied for an appointment as surveyor of
government lands.
“You are quite a young man,” said the
commissioner, ‘ ‘to be assigned to so arduous
and responsible a duty; and besides yon
do not look as if yonr constitution could
stand the fatigues and exposures of camp
life.”
“I was strong and healthy,” said Hart
land , “when a boy, being accustomed to
spend a good deal of the time on the farm
with my father. He died about seven years
ago, and since then I have been studying
until lately. A few months in the open air
will bring me all right ”
“Well, my young friend,” said the com
missioner; “yon appear to hare the right
spirit, and a man who has a soul in him
can soon put a body around it Your tes
timonials as to character and attainments
are good, and we will give you a place in
our corps of surveyors. It may be a month
or six weeks before you will be ordered
into service. In the meantime, here is a
small book of instructions, which it will be
well for you to look over. Your salary
dates from to-morrow, and you will receive
a remittance for outfit with your order to
report, which will be sent as soon as we
determine where yonr services will be re
quired. Here is your commission. Where
shall I address you ?”
The place named was the home of his
mother, to which Edgar Hartland imme
diately repaired to bear the good news.
But to her it was also sad news for
she now realized that her beloved son must
soon leave her for some distant field of
labor.
“I am ordered to Egypt, mother,” said
Edgar, as he opened and read a letter from
the commissioner. But the alarming an
nouncement was turned into a pleasant and
gratifying surprise when the lady learned
that the Egypt referred to waa no further
off than the western part of Illinois.
Every department of business has ways
of its own; and the old saying, that “there
are tricks in all trades but ours,” would be
nearer the truth if ours also were includ
ed.
To survey, map out and describe the
public domains has been a work of enor
mous dimensions; but Edgar Hartland, and
the men who were with him, soon discov
ered that most of the maps with which they
were furnished, purporting to show old
surveys to be verified and traced, had been
made by imaginary field-notes. The act
ual work which these maps professed to
record had never been done. The rivers,
mountains, rocks, valleys and trees—min
utely described—black oak, red beech,
hickory, maple and sycamore were not there
and never had been. The wooodland waa
an open prairie; and as for the mountains
and rivers so carefully described in the re
ports, they had never been seen-by the old
est inhabitant. Bat those maps and reports
had been received and paid for a long time
ago, and the men who made them had gone
to receive another reward. The only thing
the new surveyera could do was to begin
therr work and go on with it exactly as if
those old maps had never been made.
The people out there, counted by thous
ands, and sometimes not counted at all,
were scattered here, there and everywhere,
and knew lrttle or nothing in regard to the
grounds on which the government rested
its claims to those lands. As for the sur
veying companies that were passing occa
sionally through their fields, and driving
stakes near their cabins, they did not place
a high estimate on them, and occasionally
expressed their want of confidence in them
by giving one or more of those men a cheap
funeral.
Edgar Hartland and his companions soon
discovered that a cheap and easy way to
get along with those settlers was to avail
themselves of their services and adopt their
manners and modea of living aa far as they
could. When invited to a husking, apple
paring, or even a quilting, to be closed
with a break-dpwn, they were pretty cer
tain to be there.
“There is to be an apple-bee at Tom
Blnrer’s, to-night;” said Edgar Hartland
to his companions, among whom were half-
a-dozen axemen and chainmun—young fel-
visory portion, and had come out there in
company with her friends, hoping to find
some one who would select and locate the
lands for her.
That little service would be just in the
line of the work the young surveyor was
accustomed to do. He would gladly select
the lands and obtain for her the full and
specific titles which she required from the
government.
For this service Miss Ogden would, of
course, be greatly obliged, and as soon as
this business was arranged would retnrn to
her home. The people with whom she had
been stopping, and whom she had never
heard of until she came there, had been
very kind to her, and she had suffered no
inconveniences that would not be more than
paid for by securing those lands, which her
dear deceased father had left her the means
of obtaining.
On parting Mr. Hartland remarked that
he would call again within two or three
weeks, and might, perhaps, be ready te re
port progress in the selection of the lands.
Of course not a word had passed between
those young people suggestive of any spec
ial or per.onal interest in each othei; nor
do well-bred persons talk of love, court
ship, or marriage the first time they meet.
“Youare in danger of bemg killed;” was
the startling announcement that Edgar
Hartland heard from a friend two days after
that interview with Miss Ogden. While
conversing with the young lady he had
noticed a repulsive loooking man, whom
he had occasionally seen, and knew to be a
rough and coarse fellow, glaring at him
with the fierceness of a tiger. His manner
seemed strange and unaccountable, but he
did not think best to make any allusion to
it. Now, however, he knew that the coarse,
but bold and daring young man, had been
boasting of his ability to woo, win and
marry Miss Ogden, who had spoken to him
civilly a few times. But his love demon
strations had not yet been sufficiently ag
gressive to awaken in her mind a suspicion
that he was preparing to lay siege to her
heart and hand. Now, however, all the
forces of his wild, uncultured mind were
aroused, and entirely unconscious of what
propriety and delicacy required, he was
openly boasting of his determination to
marry the young lady, or rather, “that ’ere
gal,’’ as he called her.
“As for that surveyor, he would put him
under the leaves if he didn't move out of
his way.”
“Better go an’ see the gal at once and
ask her to marry you,” was the advice Joe
Blanson received from several of his com
panions.
And Joe did,
“Really, Mr. Blanson. you surprise me,”
said Miss Ogden. “I can not entertain an
offer of marriage from you,”
“And I know,” said the ambitious lover,
“just why you don’t want me. You’ve
got your eyes on that fellow, Hartland. I
seed him makin up to you at the apple-bee,
and if he cornea near you again I’ll lay him
out cold I”
The fierce and murderous expression
with which that threat was accompanied,
aroused in the mind of Miss Ogden serious
apprehensions for the young surveyor’s
safety; and a message from her soon reached
him, warming him of the danger impend
ing. The result was that Edgar Hartland
soon called on Miss Ogden to allay her fears
for his safety, assuring her that they were
groundless.
“I will see,” said he, “JoeBlanson imme
diately, in company with a couple of my
friends. I will tell him that X was simply
talking with you about our old homes and
in regard to Borne matter of business, and
will tell him also that it is not honorable
nor fair for him to be pressing his atten
tions on you. I have been among these
men a long time and know just how to deal
with them. He will give you no further
trouble; and as for his killing me, there is
not the least danger of it”
Mr. Hartland did very soon quiet poor
Joe Blanson, and he subsided entirely.
But to control and subdue certain emotions
that had been awakened in his own heart,
waa not so easily done.
Tho-e quarter sections were carefully
selected and located, four of which, ad
joining each other, took in some valuable
improvements that were pud for at satis
factory prices.
Meantime Miss Cora Ogden concluded
not to return just then to her old home in
New England, a happier and much more
desirable home ha ring been found oat there
i“ Egypt- ,
Joe Blanson, strange as it may seem to
the reader, was among the guests who were
invited to the entertainment that followed
the marriage of Edgar Hartland and Cora
Ogden. Joe waa there in his best clothes,
and behaved as well aa he knew how. It is
true he stood back in some nnconspicuous
position most of the time, for he could not
keep out at his thoughts the remembrance
of the foolish and wicked threat he bad
To one man, who knew how absurd and
improper his conduct had been, ha said:
“I’d die now for Hartland, sooner than
I’d kill him! 1 wasn’t tha man to be
courtin’ that gal; and he is the right one
to have her. But it was me that started
him for her. If he had showed or talked
fight the day he come over to see me, I’d
a killed him as sure as ray name is Joe
Blanson; but it took the murderin' feelin’
right out o’ me when he come to me on the
square an’ talked good common sense. ”
Trying to Drive a Baa
Did you ever undertake to drive a hen
anywhere? If not, then never say “Where
there’s a will there’s a way,” or “Ail things
are possible to him who observes, ” because
you don’t know anything about it.
Driving a hen properly, and decorously,
and successfully, requires more skill than
capturing a herd of buffalo.
The hen you want to drive js always a
strong-minded hen. If she had been a
woman she would have wanted the ballot
long ago, and her husband would have had
to keep quiet when she ‘ got set” on any
thing. But being only a hen, all she can
do is to cackle, and be contrary, and thwart
you at every turn.
If you want her to go in somewhere she’ll
be sure to want to go out, and vice versa.
Yon want to drive her mast when she gets
out of the coop, and gets into your garden,
to the total destruction of your pet bulbs,
and roots, and seeds, and everything else.
One smart, active hen will do more harm
in one hour than a cow would in half a
day.
A hen la bom with an instinct to get at
the root of the matter, and she follows out
her nature.
When your hen gets out of confinement
she makes straight for your choicest flower
bed, and she stays there for an hour before
you discover her. By that time she has
dug out everything that you cared anything
about, and has buried herself up all but her
head, and there she lies in the sun with
happiness and triumph in her speaking
countenance.
How mad you are 1 You feel as if you
could sever her joints and make her into a
pot-pie with a will—no matter if she is one
of the trio that cost $10.
You go for her with energy, and scream
out “shoo!” at her, and flourish your apron,
and make wild gestures in her direction,
and call your husband, and the children,
and the hired girl, to help drive her into
her quarters.
Now, it is never any use to call a man to
help drive a hen. We are willing to admit
that the lords of creation can do quantities
of things that the weaker sex cannot, but
there is one things man can never do—and
thit is drive a hen.
He’ll break the rake-handle, and get
hung in the clothes-line, and lose his hat,
and fail down over the croquet wickets,
and burst off two or three of his suspender
buttons, and the hen will fly up on the top
of the bam, or take refuge io the tallest
The Manly Art.
Prize fights have been steadily loosing
countenance for years, even with the ruf
fianly class that has hitherto supported
them, and the end of them in this country
seems very near. They are essentially un-
American and have never met with any
degree of encouragement from the native
population, unless of direct British or Irish
descent. Professional pugilism is of Eng
lish origin, and has been tolerated, even
advocated, in Britain, by men of position
and title. The earliest account on record
of systematic British boxing was in 1750,
when public displays of the “manly art'
attracted general attention. Up to that
time self-defense with fists had mads but
little progress, strength and endurance be
ing the only recommendations of the
bruisers at Smithfield, Moorfield and South-
wark fairs, where boxing booths and rings
had long been seen. In the year aforesaid,
Broughton, who pronounced himself cham
pion of England, built a theatre for exhi
tions, and they were well attended and
stubbornly fought. He also introduced
gloves for sparring with various rules miti
gating the savageness of the practice.
Jackson, the champion of 1785, made the
business so popular that half the men of
rank and fashion of the day were proud to
be his pupils. Shaw, the Life Guardsman,
who so distinguished himself at Waterloo,
was Jackson’s disciple, and his achieve
ments on the battle-field were owing as
much to training as to strength. Belehner,
Guily and Cribb were also famous Cham
pions of the period. From the time of
George IV. pugilism has steadily declined,
on account of the diehonesty and meanness
of its principal participants, who gradually
became common roughs, blacklegs and
thieves. The last fight that drew any no
tice from any decent people was that be
tween Sayers and Heenan, and that be
cause it had assumed an international
character. In the United States pugilism
has never touched the outermost circle of
respectability. It has from the first been
surrendered to the vilist creatures in the
community, and really reputable Americans
have never countenanced it. The main
argument in its behalf, that it discouraged
the use of deadly weapons, has loDg been
refuted, for pugilists of a professional sort
are continually employing knives and re
volvers without the slightest justification.
The one thing which they might be ex
pected to have is physical courage; but
most of them have proved themselves,
whenever opportunity offered, wholly de
void of it. The cincerest, most active sup
porters of prize-fighting are not only low
scoundrels, but arrant cowards, equally
ready to pick a pocket or stab an enemy in
the dark.
Human Flesh as Food and Medicine.
“Miriam cures wound, -and Pharaoh is
sold for balsams, ” wrote Sir Thomas Brown
tree on the premises, and there she will J two hundred years ago, and it ia an
stay and laugh at him until she is ready to undoubted fact that evendown to the
come down. And all the men in creation > time of Sydenham “mummy” was
cannot drive her down, for she knows that held to be a drug of great curative
she has got things her own way.
Your hen that you are going to drive
generally cackles aril the time you are try
ing to drive her. It gives her courage,
perhaps, to defy you. It is like the music
of a martial band when the troops are
marching into battle. It is as inspiring as
the strains of “Yankee Doodle” to the hen’s
ear. You try gentleness first.
“Shoo, biddy! shoo, biddy! shoo, there!”
and she plunges off m the direction con
trary to th« one you wish her to go in; and
then you draw off your forces and execute
a flank movement, and “pen” her np, but
presto 1 just as you think you have got her,
Bhe squats and gives a scoot right out under
your skirts, and away she goes free as air.
Then you get some corn and try and bribe
her. Oh, no, she doesn’t want any corn,
thank you. She is above bribery. She
doesn’t take any stock in your “chicky!
chickyl chicky!” delivered in your most
cajoling of voices. Still she cackles. All
the roosters cackle, too, evidently tickled
with her spunk. A few hens who are not
curious join in. All the neighbors will
be looking out to see “what on earth are
you making them hens screech so for.”
Your husband gets a pole and makes a
dive for that hen. He’ll fix her cackle for
her, he says; she’ll go into that hen-honse
or he’ll know the reason!
And by the time he has chased her all
over the premises, and torn his pants, and
knocked a piece of skin off his hand, and
run over little Charley, he does not find
out the reason. It is because she is not of
a mind to go into that hen-house.
And he sayB that hens are a nuisance,
and that he’ll kill the whole of ’em, and he
wishes there never had been one invent
ed.
By'this time you are tired of his help,
and you request him to go away and you’ll
drive that hen.
Then you begin, and the hen begins too.
Bhe flies over the fence, and op on a neigh
bor’s woodshed, and down into somebody’s
pig-pen, and the pig takes after her with a
vim, and she flies out with a screech, and
runs under the barn, and there she stays
till night and then if you will leave open
your hen-house door aha will find her way
thither, aa meek and innocent looking aa
yon please—far “chickens and curses come
home to roost.”
Courtship in Greenland.
There is something exceedingly mel
ancholy in the accounts which are given
of the custom of courtship in Greenland.
Generally women enter upon the blessed
estate with more willingness and less solici
tude than men. The women of Greenland
are an exception to this rule. A Green
lander, having fixed his affections upon
Borne female, acquaints his parents with
the state of his heart They apply to the
parents of the girl, and if the parents are
thus far-agreed the next proceeding is to
appoint two female negotiator* whose
duty is to broach the subject to the young
lady. This is a matter of great tact and
delicacy. The lady ambassadors do not
shock the young lady to whom they are
sent by any sudden or abrupt avowal of the
awful subject of their mission. Instead of
doing this they launch out in praises of the
gentleman who seeks her hand. They
speak of the splendor of his houae the,
aumptnousneaa of his furniture, of his cour
age and skill in catching seals, and other
accomplishments. The lady, pretending
to be affronted even at these remote hints,
runs away, tearing the ringlets of hair as
she retires, while the ambassadresses, hav
ing got the consent of her parents, pursue
her, take her by force to the houae of her
destined husband and there leave her.
Compelled to remain there, she sits for
days with dishevelled hair, silent and de
jected, refusing every kind of sustenance,
till at last, if kind entreaties do not prevail,
she is compelled by force, and even by
blows, to submit to the detested union. Ip
some cases the Greenland women faint at
the proposals of msniage; in others they
fly to the mountains arid only return when
compelled to do so by the hunger and cold.
If one cuts off her hair it is a sign she ia
determined to racist to death. The Green
land wife is the slave of her husband,
doomed to a life of-doil, drudgery and
privatioo.
power, and was extensively administered
in cases of fever and ague. But what
should be said of the “exhibition” to a pa
tient of a piece of human flesh freshly
taken from the living subject ? This ex
ceptionally appalling medicament seems to
have been made use of under very singluar
circumstances in China. A recent number
of the Pekin Gazette ■published an appli
cation to the Emperor from the Governor
General of the Province of Kwane-Tung
for permission to erect a memorial structure
in honor of the filial devotion of a young
lady twenty-one years of age, the daughter
yf a magistrate of Canton. She is describ
ed as having be. n “brought up by her
father from childhood well educated and
deservedly reputed for virtue and intelli
gence. ” In the spring of last year her papa
fell ill, and was most tenderly nursed by
dis devoted daughter. At the end of six
mouths the old gentleman became much
worse, whereupon the young lady cut a
piece of flesh from her arm and mixed it
with his medicine. This remedy proved
fatal to the patient,and his daughter, whohad
vowed to sacrifice her life for his, poisoned
herself on the same day that her father (lied.
This melancholy story of heroic filial piety,
mingled with the most barbarous ignor
ance and superstition, may be instructively
read in juxtaposition with a letter received
in Shanghai from the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Shansi. Says Mgr. Monagatta,
who is a resident of Tai Yuen, the capital
of a province in which famine is just now
raging with the most fearful severity:
“Until lately the starving people were con
tent to feed on the dead; but now they are
slaughtering the living for food. The hus
band eats his wife; parents are eating their
children; and in their turn sons and daugh
ters eat their dead parents. This goes on
almost every day.” Cannibalism has in a
more or less marked degree been an atten
dant horror on the majority of great
famines, but the systematic eating of ha-
man flesh in a time of scarcity is hardly to
be wondered at in a country where young
ladies of rank, education and intelligence
grow up to be twenty-one in the belief that
a piece of human flejih can be beneficial as
an inward medicament. It may be men
tioned that the Imperial Government has
sanctioned the erection of the memorial to
the daughter of the Canton magistrate, but
that only very languid steps have been
taken to alleviate the ravages of the fa
mine.
Afhhan Etiquette.
Afghan etiquette forbids paying visita m
the off-hand unceremonious way usual in
Europe, and is customary and also con-
veniet in many ways to send a few hours’
notice ot the intention to call upon an Af
ghan. The visitor is received at the door
by tome confidential retainer or retainers,
and conducted through an open courtyard
to the foot of a rude, winding staircase,
which leads first to an uncovered landing,
and thence to the ordinary reception room
or balcony of the proprietor. Here he ia
received by the host in person, and con
ducted with every mark of courtesy and
respect to a small row of chairs, the use of
which article of furniture seems to be gen
eral in good society in Cabul, and to have
quite superseded the carpets and felts which
satisfied an older generation. After a few
words of welcome and inquiries in a set
formula after health on both sides, a tray
of fruit usually appears and ia placed upon
the carpet at the feet of the visitors. The
conversation is then carried on with more
or leas spirit on the ordinary topics of the
day, and here, if the visit is merely a
formal one, the interview comes to an end
and the visitor is conducted to the door
with the same formality and courtesy with
which he was received. It is not, how
ever, unusual for the host to ask that the at
tendants, who have been seated a respect
ful distance all this time, shall withdraw,
in view to the introduction of more con
fidential topics. Those who look for more
than the mere interchange of civilities at
these meetings will gladly acceed the
this proposal, and it is then that the on-
venation often becomes deeply important
ioJ interesting.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
—Levy gets $500 a week for blowing
his cornet.
—Water is worth as much as whisky
in Carson, Nevada.
—Queen Victoria’s companions are
nearly all widows.
—The exodus of negroes from the
South still continues.
—There is a Boston Bible elass with
a teacher on a salary of $1,000 a year.
—The Florida orange crop of 1880,
promises to be larger than ever before.
—There are now 97,000 miles of sub
marine telegraph cable in working
order.
—Only one of the late Brigham
Young’s daughters was a thorough
blonde.
—The demand for heavy horses, not
only for breeders, but for work, con
tinues.
—Twenty-three thousand quails trom
England have been set at liberty in
Pennsylvania.
—The eldest son of Professor Alex
ander Agassiz will enter Harvard Col
lege this year.
—The rice crop of South Carolina Is
estimated at 43,000 tierces, and of Geor
gia at 26,000 tierces.
—The New Jersey Fish Commission
ers have deposited 5000 trout in the
Passaic and Saddle rivers.
—New Orleans boasts of blocks of ice
with natural flowers frozen into them
at its own ice manufactories.
—A Providence woman, admiring a
bust in a shop window, stepped in to
inquire who Terra Cotta was.
—Pearl millet which has not gen
erally succeded in Massachusetts is
grown with good results in Kansas.
—Rye straw is now extensively used
in the manufacture of paper, and is
worth as much as the best timothy
hay.
—Professor Huxley will deliver the
inaugural address at the opening of the
Science College at Birmingham on Oc
tober 1.
—One or more large sorgum sugar re
fineries are to be established in Minne
sota, ready for working the crop of
next fall.
—The British Mercantile Gazette re
ports an increase of 649,200 acres In
four years devoted to the culture of
beet roots in France.
—The Canadian Senate lately reject
ed, by 32 to 31, the bill legalizing mar
riage with a deceased wife’s sister or a
deceased brother’s wife.
—Stonewall Jackson’s widow and her
daughter, Miss Julia Jackson, unveiled
a monument to Stonewall Jackson at
Winchester, Va., on the 9th of June.
—General Grant is reported to have
sent to the Emperor of Japan several
handsome horses, and the Eastern po
centate frequently uses them in liis
rides.
—The will of Lewis, the Hoboken
(N. Y.) miser, bequeathing $1,700,000
to the Government toward payment of
the National debt, has been admitted to
probate.
—Minnesota fruit growers are look
ing to some varieties cf apples in Rus
sia with the hope of finding some that
will endure the severity of the winter
climate.
—It is stated that there projected this
season in Ohio twenty-one new roads,
hirteen of them narrow-gauge and the
prospects are good that fifteen of them
will be built.
—The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Bos
ton, will soon visit Europe, to be absent
several months. He will go to Eng
land with Dean Howson, of Chester, as
his companion.
—Strauss, the musical composer and
director, still lives in Paris. He is 74
possessed of a competency. Strange to
say, his ruling passion is not music,
but bric-a-brac.
—Alsop, the brewer, who has just
secured a baronetcy, is discovered to be .
descended, on his mother’s side, from
Richard Piantagenet, father of Edward
IY. and Richard III.
—In England the marriage rate was
lower in the last quarter of 1879 than
m any since civil registration was es
tablished In 1837. The birth rate was
was lower than in 1850.
—M. Henri Say’s new yacht, now
being built in Maryland is to cost
nearly $300,000. It Is expected to reach
speed of eighteen miles au hour, and
it will be finished in the autumn.
—Horatio Seymour, on the fid of
June, which was his seventieth birth
day, planted two trees on his broth
er’s lawn, in Utica. His Albany ad
mirers sent him a handsome library
clock.
—Mrs. Polly Jerome died in New
London, Conn., recently, at the age nf
102 years and 5 months. She was born
in Ney London and has always lived
there, except a brief period during the
war of 1812.
—The Tennessee Historical Society
has presented a gold-headed hickory
cane to Clark Mills, and increased his
delight by informing him that it is the
first testimonial ever given to any man
by the society.
—Garibaldi, who is in excellent
health, is at present repairing and en
larging his house on the island of Cap-
rera. The engagement is made in view
ot his recent marriage with the nurse
of his children.
—It is said that Gov. Andrew, of
Connecticut, has appointed a Stare de
tective to make a further effort to
solve the mystery of the murder of
Mary Stannard, for which the Rev. H.
H. Hayden was tried.
—The rank of distinguished Generals
in the late war at the time they were
graduated from West Point is officially
given as follows: Sherman 6, Rosecrans
Gilmore 1, McPherson 1, Grant 21,
Sheriden 34, Custer 34.
—The old car shops near Borden-
town, N. J., formerly occupied by the
Camden and Amboy Railroad Com
pany, have been leased, it is said, by
parties from Wilmington:, Del, who
intend starting a new car manufactory.
—What is said to be the first pound
of coffee raised in the United States
has been grown by a Mrs. Atzeroth on
her plantation on Indiana river, Flor
ida. The plants were furnished by the
Agricultural Department in Washing
ton.
—Great Britain and Ireland sent out
217,163 emigrants last year, against
147,663 in 1878, and received 53,973 im
migrants; 91,806 of last year’s dc-
larturea came to the United States,
.7,953 went to Canada, and 40,958 to
Australia. These changes in popula
tion have an important sanitary bear
ing.
—In the Paterson (N. J.) Ironworks
there has jnst been iorged the heaviest
piece of iron ever forged in that city.
It is a stern frame for the steamer W.
A. Shotten, now being repaired in New
York. It is 32x37 feet, and weighs
eleven tons; with the rudder, it weighs
sixteen tons. It could not be taken
through the Erie tunnel, and waa
drawn to Jersey city by fourteen
horses.