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The Cedartown Advertiser. Published every Thursday by D. B. FEEEMAN. Terms: S1.50 per annum, in advance. 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,