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The Cedartown Advertiser.
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OLD SERIES—VOL. VII-NO. 29. CEDARTOWN, GA., AUGUST 19, 1880. NEW SERIES-VOL. II-NO. 36.
Bur Yonr Dus Froi
BMHDiWUR,
Main St. Cedartown Ga.,
IP YOD WANT THEM PUBS AND FRESH.
C. G. JANES, ~~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
tar place In the Court House. febia-ly
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
attorney at law.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
nr First Boom up Stairs over J. S. Stubbs &
Co’s Store. Septl5-iy
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
ernes east side of dais st.
* CEDARTOWN, GA.
Jan&-ly
W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. Surgeon.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where be may be
found ready to attend calls either day or nighty
JanlMy
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown, Ga.
Office at Bradford & Walker’s Drug Store.
Besidence at the Reece House. novl4-ly
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Having Just opened out a shop at the store of
a. D. Hogg A Co., respectfully requests the
publlo to call on him when needing work In his
line. rebs-tf
W. E. 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
eslate business. marll-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed in the most sklll-
tolmanner. Office over J. S. Stubbs A co. ’s.
lebie-iy
F. M. SMITH
Attorney at Law and
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Particular attention given to the selling or
renting of city property. Buying and selling
wild lands a specialty. Parties owning wild
lands In Georgia would do well to correspond
with me, as I nave app icutlons for thousands
of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl.
fa. or other bogus title need apply. Look up
your beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per
cent, commission on sales. For locating and
ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For
searching records for owners, so cents per lot.
For ascertaining If land Is claimed or occupied
by squatter. $1 per lor. Always In advance. To
insure attention enclose a3-cent stamp. Parties ,
owning"wild lands should look to their interests, 1
as'man v 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. Jan29-ly
LIVERY FEED,
AND
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
Being supplied with new Horses, New Vehi
cles, Awe are prepared to meet the wants of
the public in our line. Jan8-iy
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Keeps on band and manufactures to order
MATTRESSES 1
My work recommends Itself wherever used,
and is guaranteed to render the most perfect
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
slighted. I ask a trial. JAMES. H. PRICE.
iebl9-ly.
CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable.
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props..
CALHOUM, 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 of the
trains on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
or to any other point, may telegraph us, and
have their wants promptly and properly at
tended to.
FOSTER A HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga.
J&nS-tf
ISAAC T. MBS),
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—DEALER IN—
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
▲ SPECIALTY.
Every variety of Job 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. MEK
Jan8-ly
CEDARTOWN SCHOOL,
J. C. HARRIS, Principal.
The Spring Tens commences the first Mon
day in January and wiu continue su montus.
Pall Term opens srd Monday in August and
continues months. Bates or tuition aa cus-
t °The'school-room is convenient and comfort
able ; training thorough and discipline firm.
The Frlaetpal offers his thanks for past favors,
and confidently ask for a ttberal share of patron
age in the future.
jteferenoe as to discipline, etc., is Bade to the
former patrons of thla schaol. sovtr-sm
BAKER & HALL,
DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE,
SUCH AS
Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iroi and
Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Rakes,
Manure Forks, Etc.
BUGGY WHEELS, SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES,
WHSEUiBARROWS,
SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, HINGES, CHAINS, ETC.
We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, and
ask a trial in Goods and Prices. We are
Strictly in the Hardware Business,
and will be prepared to furnish goods in our line as cheap as
they can be bought in any market. Give us a trial before
going elsewhere.
“BEAK YE ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS!”
Tit Kernel Frolecllon of Our MOies at Met Cast
The People's Mutual Relief Association
Xs 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 be received by
JNO. W. RADLEY, Cedartown, Ga.
Partial list of members in and around Cedartown: F. M. night, A. A.
Read, John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken, Wm. R. Craig, Geo. H. Leake, J.
W. Barr, Dr. C. H. Harris, J. B. Crabb, W. H. H. Hairis, D. R. Monroe,
Dr. W. G. England, Jno. W. Radley, J. W. Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B.
Freeman,-Mrs. Naacv Powell, Alex. 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 & 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, ty Give me a call. Good treatment
guaranteed. mrl8-ly
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS!
New Goods and New Prices.
A. D. HOGG & CO.,
MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
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 btore on South MAIN Street, west
8 ^ e * nov6-ly
NEW STORE,
ED. E. BRANNON,
Dealer In
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Chickens, Eggs and Batter a Specialty.
I HAVE ALSO
-A FIRST-OL ASS BAR
In connection with the Store, which is stocked with the finest Liquors
in town. jan8-tf
J. P. DUFFEY,
MANUFACTURER AMD DIALER W
BUGGY AND WAGON HABMESS, SADDLES,. BRIDLES, &C.
(Dougherty’a-Old Stand,)
CEDARTOWN, Gkiorgla*
* All Work Guaranteed to giro satisfaction. AUjha uh.il a Mai. JanS-ly
THE MUTE MIHSTBEL.
The flakes fall white and fast and soft
In a noiseless whirl from tbe vault aloft,
And spread their mantle wide and fair
On earth’s brown breast through the darkened
air;
Bo reft the rose-bush looks and wan,
Methinks her blooming is ail undone,
And leafless trees bend sad and low
Beneath their branches’ crown of snow.
A robin paused in his flight too long ;
In his frozen throat is a silent song;
And nevermore shall his dead heart beat
With its love of the norland true and sweet.
Southward his winged mates have flown,
But this redbreast died at home alone.
Through the bended boughs you may dimly
see
A bird of snow in a cedar-tree !
My life, dead bird, is the cedar-tree,
And my heart in its branches is dead like thee:
'TffM red as tby breast in ita love and youth.
But the snow-flakes fell on its trust and truth!
When the singers hie them on happy wing
To leafy arches in pomp of spring,
Their merry carols may mock the late,
But thine and mine shadl be chilled and mute!
The Hand of Fate.
After 7\ ilford Dumont married Annie
Lee in a fit of pique and jealousy, Ellen
Harland, once his betrothed wife, suf
fered more than words can tell.
She had loved him in her wild passion
ate way, and had never thought she conld
lose him; but she had trusted too much in
her own power, and another woman was
the wife of the young millionaire. She
nearly went mad with rage and pride and
wounded passion, but she had sense enough
to hide her heart from envious eyes. As
as long as she felt that inWilford’s presence
she would turn pale; as long as she could
not bear his voice or glance without wine
ing, she kept out of his way, under pre
tence of visiting an aunt at a distance; but
in the sprightly letters that she wrote her
friends, she spoke of being glad that Wil-
ford Dumont had not felt her dismissal of
him to severely too be comforted. And
when she was once more mistress of her
self she called upon the bride, and Mrs.
Dumont, -who knew nothing of the old
love story welcomed her heartily, and told
Wiiford, on his return home, that she was
delighted with his old friend Miss Har
land.
“She cannot have cared for me,” thought
Wiiford Dumont, with a pang no husband
should have felt at such a thought, but the
little wife never guessed it aud it did not
harm her. She returned the young lady’s
call and an intimacy began at once. So
that, when the Dumonts went to their
place on the Hudson for the summer sea
son, Annie sent a warm invitation to Miss
Harland.
Ellen thought it over, ft was an offer not
to be despised by a fashionable girl with a
small income.
She desired to marry, and hotels at wa
tering-places were expensive. All the
men of their set would be at Wiiford Du
mont’s at one time or another. The neigh -
boring residents were people of position.
She could dress aud flirt to her heart’s con
tent, and Wiiford conld see what a prise
he had lost, even while she give him plain
ly to understand that she was glad she had
escaped the matrimonial yoke. And then
she wrote a loving note to Annie, and held
an inteiview with her dressmaker.
And Wiiford Dumont—weil he had
loved this girl, and had married Annie be-
bause she had made him angry. And
Annie was so sweet and mild and gentle.
And now he was waiting for her coming
with a guilty feeling in his heart. He
wanted to see her, to sit by her, to hear
her sing. As her host, he could do this, at
least. He weni to the depot to drive her
home. Annie had, of course, expected
him to do that, but she had not expected
what followed; for when they were in the
little waggonette side by side, and she
turned and looked into his eyes, Wiiford
Dumont had kissed the girl. It was night;
and, though Ihe moon was bright, the
shady lanes which led to Dumont Park
were still and lonely. No human eyes
looked down upon them, and their lips had
met so often—oh, so often!—before.
But Ellen drew back and flushed scarlet,
and said:
You forget you are a married man,
sir.”
And Wiiford answered:
“Yes, I did forget. Pardon me.”
That and nothing more. Then there
was silence, each of those two suffered in a
different way, and yet somehow there was
a pleasure in the pain.
After this they conld not stand on the
calm, friendly footing they had both hoped
for. He, at least, meant no wrong. She
had hoped that he might be regretful of the
past, but had not dreamt that he would
dare presume upon it.
For an hour or so after—the evening was
over—the iong dinner, the music - in the
parlor, the dark, the walk in the moonlight,
with the young wife’s arm about her
waist—Ellen intended to make her visit
very brief. In a little while, however, she
changed her mind. She would stay. Yes
stay; and this wife, who boasted to her of
her husband’s love, should suffer a little
also. What was she to come between them?
And now ail that was evil asserted itself in
Elian Harland’s heart, and where evil once
abides it grows stronger day by day.
She laughed, she flirted, she danced with
other men, but she met Wiiford alone by
the banks of the river. She sang duets
with this one, looked merrily into the eyes
ot that, but in the lonely woods she sat by
Wilford’s side with his arm about her
waist.
They talked freely of the past now. He
had confessed that she was yet more to
him than any other woman; more than his
trusting, unsuspicious wife. Only that
little life stood between them, and often,
as Ellen looked at Annie, she felt that she
should be glad to see her in her coffin.
Yet the end of her visit approached. She
most go, since she would . have no excuse
for lingering, and in her absence might not
thowife win the heart of one who already
respeeted and admired her, though his pas
sion was another's? Sorely.
So, with the fiend’s whisper in her ears,
Ellen Harland one day walked out alone,
making the purchase of some little trifle in
the village an excuse for a solitary
hour.
For a while she battled with her hate for
Annie, knowing her to have none but
friendly feelings to herself, cut it over
powered her at last.
‘ ‘If that little thing were dead, ” she said,
‘ “I should have Wiiford for my own-I should
be the lady of the Park—honored, admired,
beloved. Now I walk here alone, while
she fills my place. If she would but
die!”
Then, suddenly—surely,Satan was whis
pering in her ears—she remembered that
she had heard of a drug, which, though an
almost instantaneous poison, left little trace
and was tasteless. For a moment she trem
bled and flung tbe suggestion from her; but
Satan is strong. There was a drug store
in the village, and the proprietor had left a
young, emptypated clerk in charge.
The poison , which would not have been
sold by the older man to any stranger with
out a doctor’s prescription, was dealt out
without a thought by this boy, and Ellen
went home with the tiny package hidden
in her bosom.
Annie was watching for her coming
from the veranda. She came forward to
meet her guest with a sweet smile.
“The others have had lunch,” said she,
“but I waited for you. I have had our
little table set in the bow-window, with
the view of the river. We shall have such
a cosy time.”
Then she led the way to the dining-room,
and tossing her hat and mantie on a sofa
the ydung hostess poured the coffes and
handed a cup to her guest, taking one for
herself. At that moment some one called
from the hali:
“Came, both of yon; something to
It was only a great pleasure barge
going up the river with a picnic party.
Ever ready for anything amusing in those
idle hours, the household always made a
gay pretence of deep interest in these par
ties.
Annie left the Uttle room. Ellen delayed
a minute before she followed. In that lit
tle space of time she had emptied the poi
son into poor Annie’s cup ot coffee, and
thrust the crumpled paper that had heid it
back into her bosom.
Annie returned first. As she seated her
self, she happened to notice that the cup
she had passed to Ellen was over-filled. It
looked untidy, neither had yet been tasted,
and with the natural impulse of a careful
hostess, Annie changed the cups.
Little did she guess what she was doing.
She only desired to set before her guest that
which was neatest. And little did Ellen
know what had happened in that brief in
stant.
She looked to sec her rival turn pale.
She watched for some token that the poi
son had begun its work. Instead she her
self felt a strange faintness creeping over
her, was conscious of a sudden agony. It
was brief. The fate she had decreed for
the innocent young wife was to be her own,
and it came to swiftly too leave much time
for thought.
Before the man who had ridden fast and
furiously across the country to find the
nearest doctor, had performed his errand,
all was over,
Dying, Ellen Harland understood only
that in some way Providence had outwit
ted her.
“Pray forme,” she whispered to Annie.
“I dare not pray for myself.”
And with her hands held fast between
Annie’s, with Annie’s tears falling fast up
on her pillow, Ellen died.
They found the crumpled paper with
“poison” written on it, in her bosom. The
coroner’s jury gave a verdict of suicide,
and remorse filled Wiiford Dumont's
heart—for he believed that Ellen Harland
had killed herself because she could not
ive without him.
In his trouble he made a sort of a con
fession to his wife. No man ever made a
full and true one under such circumstances.
What Annie gathered from it was, that
her own attractions had made him forget
those of Ellen Harland, and that the poor
girl could not endure the sight of their mu
tual tenderness: and so to this day she be
lieves, and often goes with her husband to
the church-yard where Ellen lies, and with
her own fair hands plant flowe rs upon the
grave of the woman who would fain have
done her to death that she might win for
her own the hushand who, though not as
tree and perfect as Annie fcsSieves him, now
loves her very fondly; loves her, though
he remembers, with a pang, the passionate
creature who, as he fancies, died for love
of him.
In this world the truth will never be
known, and it is better that it should be
so.
lee Without freezing.
A new skating surface, called “crystal
ice,” has been invented by Dr. Calantari-
ents, of Scarborough, England. Consider
ing that after all ice is merely a crystalline
substance, and that there is no lack of sub
stances that are crystalline at ordinary
temperatures, Dr. Calantarieuts experi
mented with a variety of salts, and after a
time succeeded in making a mixture con
sisting mainly of carbonate and sulphate of
soda, which, when laid as a floor by this
plan, can be skated on with ordinary ice
skates ; the resistance of the surface is
just equal to that of ice, it looks like ice,
and indeed when it has been skated on and
got “cut up” a little, the deception is quite
astonishing; a small experimental floor has
been laid in the skating rink a Prince’s, and
has proved so successful that no doubt a
large floor will be laid there or at some
sther convenient place in the autumn. This
floor will obviously have great advantages,
both over artifleia ice floors, which are
very expensive indeed, and over floors for
roller skating. The floor can at any time
be made smooth again by steaming with an
apparatus for the purpose," and the floor
itself, when once laid will last for many
years. The mixture of salts used contains
about <0 per cent, of water of crystalliza
tion, so that after all the floor consists
chiefly of solidified water.
A biporter who attended a banquet
concluded his description with the
candid statement that “it is not dis
tinctly remembered by anybody pres-
ant who made the lact speech.’’
Nellie and her Uttle Lamb.
Two years ago a band of gypsies i m-
camped st Ginger Ridge, near West Union,
Adams County, Ohio. The farmers in the
vicinity missed sheep, pigs and poultry,
charged their losses to the gypsies. The
leaders of the band were arrested, exami
ned and discharged for want of sufficient
proof to convict them of sheep stealing,
pig-sty pilfering and hen-roost robbing.
The gypsies moved away, muttering threats
against Mr, John Kainfortb, their princi
pal prosecutor. They crossed the Ohio
river, and encamped on the Kentucky shore.
On the same day little Nellie Rainforth was
missing. She was a four-year old, with
sunny face and golden hair, and was last
seen playing with a lamb on the ledge of a
rocky ridge, a short distance from the
house. The pet lamb was gone too, and
neither Nellie nor her lamb could be found
anywhere in the Ginger Ridge region.
Rainforth charged the gypsies with steal
ing his child, and with assistance ransacked
their Kentucky camp. The little golden
sunbeam could not be found in the camp,
and the gypsies denied all knowledge of the
child. Still they might have known, and
some story-tellar in after years might find
the materials for another romance of Nellie
Rainforth’s gypsy life. At all events, the
parents were convinced that their child had
been stolen by the gypsies, and might some
day turn up alive and well. There was
some consolation in the hope. The other
day Rainforth lost a sheep, and got on the
trail of its disapperance. There was blood
and wool on the grass and across fences
where the lost sheep had evidently been
dragged. The trail led to a cavern in a
ledge of rocks, with an opening large
enough to admit the body of a man, but
nobody was willing to crawl into it. A
blast of powder widened the apperture and
let in the light. It was a cave of bones
and horrors. The blast had killed a black
snake full fifteen feet long, and two feet
around in the thickest part. The sheep was
lying on the floor of the cave among the
ghastly relics of serpents’ feasts—dead and
slimy. An explorer picked up a small hu
man skull and handed it to Rainforth. He
said, “Poor little Nellie.” The mystery
was solved. The gypsies were exonerated.
The rest of Nellie’s bones—all that could
be found—were gathered together and
buried near where she was last seen play
ing witli her lamb—and a veracious cor
respondent of a New York paper saw the
snake and vouches for the whole story.
That there might be no doubt about the
human bones and to whom they belonged,
a gold chain which the child wore around
her neck was found among the bones.
The mother of the child was not informed
of these discoveries in the black snake’s
den, or the funeral on the ridge, as the
father preferred to let her dream on that
her little golden-haired girl is alive among
the gypsies.
Hot Day—Sit Down.
The captain of the Central Station, De
troit, had a day-dream cf burglars rudely
shattered the other day by the event of a
gaunt, tall woman about forty years of age
who carried a closed umbrella in a threat
ening way. She refused his salutation of:
“Hot day, madam—sit down,” but slowly
advanced to the desk, gave it a rap with
her umbrella, and solemnly asked:
“Am I a human being—a person—a
woman?”
The startled captain was so long in an
swering the question that she continued :
“If I ain't I want to know it, and that’s
what I am here for?”
“What is your case?” he cautiously in
quired.
“Why, I’ve been passed over by the
census men the same as if I were a dog!
Not one of the gang has been near me! ”
“Haven’t, eh? Well I suppose they
have missed a few.”
“But there is some spite work about it,
and you can’t make me believe there
wasn't! ” she exclaimed as she waved her
weapon around his head. “They might
accidently miss some little dwarf of a
woman, but how could they get past me ?
I tell you it was a put up job, and I don’t
feel right over it.”
“It won’t make no great difference, I
■uppose,” mused the Captain.
‘How do you know it won’t?” she in
dignantly demanded. Don’t I live here ?
Don’t I count one ? Haven’t I just as
many rights as any other woman ? Do I
belong in the census of people or of goats?
I know when I am stepped on as well as
anybody else! ”
“It’s too bad.”
“It’s mean, that’s what it is! Every
old polk of a maid on our street, every girl
and every old woman, has got her name
down, while I’ve been left out in the cold
as if I belonged in Africa! You’ve got to
make this thing right! ”
“Me?”
“\es, sir, you! Now then, write it
down. I’m forty-three years old, and no
lying. I’ve been married three times and
am the mother of mne living children. My
father was born in England, and my moth
er in this country. I was born ia New
Jersey, and my occupation is that of a
widow who don’t care two cents for all the
men you can pile into a ten acre lot! Got
that all down ?”
“Yes, but you sec ”
“I don't see nothing. If I am put in the
census, all right. If I find I ain’t there,
you’ll see me again! Good day, sir!”
With that she gave her umbrella an extra
flourish, upset the chair on which she had
rested her foot, and sailed out without a
look behind.
How Kailrouil Time is Kept.
There are in use between Albany, and
New York thirteen electric clocks, two of
the number being placed in the waiting-
rooms and one in the dispatcher’s office at
the Grand Central depot, New York. The
time on the clock in the depot at East Al
bany corresponds exactly with the time in
New York. Each one of these clocks is
connected with the general superintendent’s
office in New York, in which the railroad
time is kept on what is cailed the “big
clock.” Conductors, train men,and others
are compelled to keep their watches in
strict conformity with the superintendent’s
cIock. It is set by standard time and con
nected with the service department of the
gold and stock telegraph. The time is
distributed over the line each week day as
follows: At ten o’clock fifty-eight minutes
and three seconds a. m. the word “time” is
sent by the main office to the telegraph
stations between New York and Albany.
This word is repeated for twenty-eight
seconds, during which time operators must
see that their instruments are adjusted. At
ten o’clock and fifty seconds, seconds,
commence beating and continue
for fifty seconds. The word “Bwitch” is
then sent over the wire and operators hav
ing electric clocks connect them immedia
tely with the circuit known as nnmber nine
wire. Ten seconds are allowed in which
to make the connection. At eleven a. m.,
with one touch of the New York key, the
hands on the different clocks are set to
eleven o’clock. If they are fast or alow
they change all at once to the hour named.
England's Derby.
There were a few Americans around Mr.
Lonliard’s Boreas, at the last trying very
hard to fancy he might win; but the colt has
no very gentlemanly air, and it was evi
dent that the racing blood of the States was
only to be represented by a commoner; yet
in the race he seemed to show a turn of
speed, for, passing Sherwood’s, he went to
the head, and carried Mr. Lorillard’s
cherry and black hoops m front almost
to the mile-post. The betting at the start
was principally marked by the large
amount of money thrown into the market,
for Yon der Tann, the strong position of
Robert the Devil, Muncaster, and Ercil-
doune, and the comparative opposition to
Bend Or—for how a horse having shown
the form that he had shown, and stripping
manifestly well, should have had two to
one offered against him, instead of odds be
ing laid upon him, is not yet quite under
stood. But, perhaps, the reasons of this
determined hosility were his not having
been tried at home, and the Duke of West
minster having Muncaster so dangerous a
candidate, and not declaring a preference
for Bend Ur. However, if Bend Or
had obstinate enemies, he had a vast
amount of firm friends, and the cloud
hanging over him only added to the inter
est of the race - After the start,which Mr.
Lorillard’s Son of Saxon so notably im
proved, and as soon as that point *as
reached when position began to mean
something, the color of white and sky
blue were seen leading the field, and a cry
went up for Robert the Devil, running
down the line faster than the horses them
selves. On came the Devil, brimful of run
ning, and nothing emerged from the field
save Bend Or, but the yellow and black
was closing very slowly. At the bell Bend
Or was a beaten horse. But Archer was
not a beaten jockey—and he fell to fairly
lifting his horse along, while the self-suffi
cient blockhead, Rossiter, sat “the Devil”
quite stiff, with the egotistical idea of
‘ ‘drawing it fine. ” The strain of deep ex
citement as Bend Or gradually drew up,
was painfully intense, and when, in the
last twenty yards, the pair joined issue
and flew past the post the scene was
one of momentary madness. Every glance
turned to the one spot as the judge pro
nounced his verdict, and when a moment
later “No. 7’’ rose in the air, the ringing
shout of exultation that arose seemed like
the joy cry of a mighty nation. A short
head 1 and Archer’s riding did it. Little
Rossiter must have cursed a bitter
curse, for no one knew so well as he that
he had called on his horse just ten seconds
too late. In an instant the track was turn
ed into a stonuv sea, surging around the
returning jockeys. What roars for Archer
—what a madness of enthusiasm! There
were men there who would have rejoiced
to carry him in triumph—those who, on
the Sunday before, had seen him pluck the
French Derby from the fire for M. Lefevre,
and who, to-day, had watched him win
with a beaten horse, whose opinion here
after will be steadfast that Archer has be
come the best jockey that ever lived. A
wonder!ul popular Derby win it was; and
among the causes for gratification not the
least was the sympathy felt for Bend Or’s
noble owner, a thorough sportsman and so
highly honorable a man.
An Irish Manner of stopping a Hole.
“Oar folks" have got a Biddy of the
veriiablcst kind. She was a queer duck
and good natured “as a basket of chips. ”
Well, last Sunday,as we were sitting down
to dinner we found the old cat with three
young grimalkins largely engaged in the
nursery business under tne table.
“Biddy,” said we “take this cat and her
kittens and put them where we shall never
see them more.” A hint of dreadful im-
port.but not understood.
“Fail^sir, that I will.”
The feline family was removed, and wo
proceeded to dine. By and by Biddy re
entered, with an impression on her face
that seemed to say, “be dad, I guess they’re
in safe keeping now. ”
“Well Biddy, what have you done with
the old cat and her kittens.”
“Be gor, sir, they’re safe enough, sure
d’ye mind the wood house forninst the
stable? Well I put them all in there,
and fastened the doors and windies. Then,
seeing there was a hole besides where they
might get out, I stopped that up too and
so, you see, they won’t trouble you any
more. ”
We were satisfied “av course,” and we
ate our dinner in peace; afterwards walked
into the yard when we saw the “dintical”
old cat and her kittens at liberty. Calling
Biddy we said:
“Did you say you fastCHed the cat in the
wood house 1”
“Faith an’ I did sir.”
“And stopped the hole?”
“Yes sir ”
“Well, she had, that’s a fact but what
do ye suppose she stopped the hole with ?
She had stuck a section of a stove pipe
in it 1 We thought we would split. And
there sat ene of the little imps at the mouth
of it just as it crawled out licking its paws,
and looking as sausy as thunder.
Fi*h Faqjts.
A Washington dispatch says: “Investi
gation into the history and present condi
tion of the fisheries ot the Uuited States
forms one of the most interesting and im
portant inquiriesin taking the tenth census.
It is placed in charge of Prof. S F. Baird,
United States commissioner of fisheries.
His final report will include imports and
exports of fish and fish products from
1820 to the present time, besides foreign
shipments. A few of these tables have
been prepared, and exhibit some remark-
abel features, such as the growth of the
oyster export trade from $85,08« in 1860,
when the first reliable information begins,
to $453,306 in 187#,' and the decrease in
exports of spermaceti for candles which in
1836 was $841,907, and in 1857 was but
$35,121, since which time it has gradually
fallen off to a condition of absolute stagna
tion. The work is divided into several
sections, each one in the hands of an ex
pert in his particular branch. R. E. Earll s
work has been peculiarly successful, re
sulting in a discovery which Prof. Baird
pronounces one of great importance. The
most important food fish of southern wa
ters is the Spanish mackerel. It is only
found in certain localities, however, and
has never been propagated because no one
knew when or whore it spawned. Mr.
Earll, aftercareful watching, found that
the lower part of Chesapeake bay, known
as Mob Jack bay, was the place and Junc
the time. Next June the Fishhawk will
be taken to the spot and, with her improved
apparatus, take up a quantity of the eggs,
which will be hatched on board and sub
sequently distributed in favorable locali
ties. If the young fish survive, the well-
known principle that they will at any risk
or labor return to spawn to the spot where
they fiist sav light is depended on to insure
their first residence in their new habitation.
About fifteen new varieties of food fish
have been already added, by the labors of
this department of the census, to the 173
common food fishes of this country. Prof.
Baird contemplates the formation of a per
manent bureau for the collection of statis
tical information in connection with the
fish commission at the cloee of the present
work.
A Banana Farm.
The most perfect banana plantation, per
haps, upon the soil ot the United States is
that of Colonel Whitner, near Silver Lake.
Florida. This plantation covers an area of
several acres, and contains over ten thou
sand plants, most of them in bearing. The
plants are of different varieties. Some of
them are huge trees, twenty feet high,
with a trunk from six to eight inches in
diameter, while others, and probably the
largest nnmber, are of the celebrated dwarf
species, standing from six to eight feet
high, with a trunk from four to five inches
in diameter. The banana as cultivated in
this climate, bears no visible seeds, but it
is propagated from slips or cuttings, which
bear trans-planting well and grow with
great rapidity. These slips are generally
planted about eight feet apart. If it is the
dwarf species, an acre of ground will con
tain from sixty to 700 plants. They re
quire a deep, rich soil and considerable
moisture. It has no season, but the fruit
matures generally in from eleven to thirteen
months from date of planting, and by
properly timing the planting, ripe fruit
may be obtained at all seasons of the year.
The cuttings, once planted, first develop
two leaves tightly rolled together, which
grow to a height of three or four feet, when
the blades begin to unfold one after anoth
er, into great broad leaves, the stems form
ing a smooth trunk, which grows to the
size of a large apple tree, compose entirely
of these eccentric leat stems »r petals. In
about eight or nine months, according to
the warmth of the season, a deep purple
bud peeps out just at the point of diver
gence of the upper leaves, and soon pushes
itself into full view, its lengtliing stem
bending under the weight of a purple blos
som, shaped like a pointed egg. Soon a
leaf of this blossom opens at the pointed
end, and rolls back to the base, disclosing
a row of five or sil tiny bananas, nestled
close together, as if hiding under the shel
ter, of this protecting leaf. Each miniature
fruit has a waxen yellow flower at the end,
with a stigma projecting through it. Other
leaves of the blossom unfold, one after an
other, m the same way, until twenty or
thirty clusters of fruit are developed, all
clinging to one stem, when these leaves
wither, and fall, and the fruit swells and
lengthens to maturity, which requires gen
erally two or three mouths. The great
stem on which the fruit grows bends under
its weight until the long finger-like fruit
hangs down in graceful clusters. Each
plant bears but a single bunch of fruit, and
then withers and dies, but while the fruit
is maturing there springs up from the base
of the trunk several offshoots, which take
the place of the old plant when that has
been removed and go on growing to the
full size of the parent tree. The fruit,
when grown full size, begins to show
streaks of yellow upon its deep green skin,
when it should be gathered for shipment
to market, as it is easily and quickly ripen
ed after cutting by wrapping the bunch in
straw or in a blanket and keeping it in a
warm place. Colonel Whitner has upon
his plantation thousands of bunches, in all
Btages of development, from the little
miniature bud to the well matured fruit,
six or seven inches long. Many of these
bunches contain one hundred and twenty-
five bananas from which may be inferred
the great profits of banana euiture. It is
not generally understood that the banana
makes very nutritious food. But if cut
into strips and dried, and then pounded
into paste and baked, it forms a very pala
table diet. It is said to be the staple food
of some of the Mexican tribes, who nsa the
young shoots for greens. The tough fiber
of the leaf has in some parts of the world
become an article of merchandise, and is
sold in large quantities to be manufactured '
into textile fabrics, some of which are of
great beauty and highly prised. Banana
culture is in its infancy in this country,
but it opens such a field for profitable in
vestment that it is probable that the day is
not far distant when vast portions of the
of the now unoccupied territory bordering
the upper St. John’s will be covered with
the beautiful banana plant, and the Florida
banana will be as well known and as high
ly prized as is now the Florida orange.
Only Two Season..
Our division of the year into four sea
sons is rather arbitrary. We often have,
especially in this latitude, spring in winter,
winter in spring, autumn in summer, and
summer in autumn. Our two most dis
tinct seasons are summer and winter, and
winter not unfrequently is—as the winter
just past and the winter of 1877-’78—only
such in name. Still, if we should consider
that we have but those season, we should
be nearer to nature than we arc now. May,
June, July, August, September, and Octo
ber, may justly be ranked with summer.
They are generally warm—very warm—as
many days in April and November are.
While they last, it is generally pleasant and
comfortable to have our windows open,
and out-door life is delightful. We do not
seem to understand this, at least practically
—for we remain within doors far more than
we ought lo. We seem to cling to the
habits of our British forefathers, who,
though they are fond of the outer air and
open sky, have ao wretched a climate that
they must find their chief satisfaction with
in walls. The Germans and the French
revel in the sunshine, though they have far
less of it than ourselves, and take every oc
casion to get out of doors. We rarely have
an open air breakfast or dinner, even the
country; but the Germans and French never
miss a chance to breakfast under the blue
canopy. We ahould be a healthier, more
cheerful, more contented people, if we
should have more to do with external nat
ure—if we should close our doors and go
out to meet her. Our virtual winters are
very long, so long that we ought to appre
ciate the summer all the more. Novem
ber, December, January, February, March
and April may be ranked as winter, liber
ally interspersed with spring and autumn,
but winter largely predominating. Spring,
as a definite season, can hardly be said to
exist here. March is winter with aggrava
tions ; April is not mueh ot anything in
particular; May is usually very like sum
mer. Autumn ia by no means distinct; so
that we may as well adhere to the summer
and winter distribution. We Americans
are apt to associate summer with extreme
heat and diacomfort— with thermometers
at 100 deg. in the shade, with drought,
with brcezeless nights, with a period when
the city is unendurable and the country
unsatisfactory. That is the w eather of late
June, of July and of August; but May,
September and October more resemble
what summer ought to be, and generally
is, in this latitude. Our summer must be
calculated at six months; for through ail
that period our out-door fife is delightful.
Water for the Londoners.
The Great Eastern Railroad Company
have announced that they will supply the
people of London with sea water at the
moderate price of fonr cents a gallon de
livered at their homes. Beyond a certain
radius the price is eight cents; not leas
than three gallons (twelve cents) is deliver
ed. This will be a great boon, especially
to tbe poor who cannot leave the city to
bathe, and also to keepers of aquariums,
