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Published every Thursday by D. B. FREEMAN.
Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance.
OLD SERIES—YOL. YII-NO. 31.
CEDARTOWN, GA., SEPTEMBER 2, 1880.
NEW SERIES—YOL. II-NO. 38.
Buy Your Dus From
F(
Main St. Cedartown Ga.,
IP YOU WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH.
"BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS 1”
The Heeded Protection of Our Loren Ones at let Cost
c. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
rar Offlce tn the court House. fetis-’.y ;
JOSEPH A. BLANCE, ! ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
jy First Room up Stairs over J. S. Stubbs & j
C j’.s Store. Sept25-iy
ms. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OFFICE EAST SIDE OF Fill ST.
CEDARTOWN, GA
Jan8-ly
The People's Mutual Relief Association
Is issuing certificates of membership in amounts from $1,000 to $6,000 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. Hlght, A. A.
Read, John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken, ffm. 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, Alex. Dougherty, Mrs. Francis Dougherty,
Dr. £. H. Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. apl6-6m
A. J. YOUNG,
DEALER LN
Gins
W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician, and Surgeon,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’8 where he may bo
found ready to attend cans either day or night.
janlB-ly :
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown. ----- Ga.;
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Having lust opened out a shop at the store of
a. D. Hogg St Co., respects u ly requests the
f mbile to call on him when needlDg work in his |
me. ieb5-tr
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDXkTOWN, GA.
Will practice in tbe Superior Courts of Polk,
Pau ding, Haral on. Floyd and Carroll counties.
Special attention given to collections and real
estate business. marll-ly
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine,
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.
mr!8-ly
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS l
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, Cornets, new styles; Bleach-
ings, Flannels, Cassimercs, Kerseys, Kentucky , 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
side. nov6-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In the most skill
ful manner. Offlce over J. S. Stubbs A Co.’s.
febi9- ly
F. M. SMITH.
Attorney at Law and
HEAL ESTATE AGENT,
CEDARTOWN, GA
wild lands a specialty. Pariles owning wild
lands In Georgia would do well to correspond
with me, as 1 nave app 1cttlons for thousands
of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl.
fa. or other b gus title need apply. Look up
your beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per J
cent, c mmi-8lO!i on sales. For locating and ;
ascertaining probable value, $l.per lot. For
searching record^ lor owners, so cents per lot.
For aBcenalnlnglf land 13 claimed or occupied |
by squatter. $1 per lor. Aiwa, sin advance. To j
insure at ent on onclo e a 3-cetft stamp. Parties
own ng wild land - should look to their interests,
BAKER & HALL,
DRIFTING DOWN STREAM.
We are drifting down the stream,
By the darkening willow shore.
In a happy golden dream.
And my lover rows no more.
He lets Che old boat glide ; he is sitting at ny
side
And saying that his heart is mine
Forever, evermore.
Bow! row! under the stars ;
Flow, stream, by thy sandy bars !
Bow! row! from ehore to shore ;
Love will last for evermore.
But ’tis long end long ago,
And he is here no more ;
I do bnt sit and dream and dream
Beside the qoiet shore.
The old boat still floats on, as in the years
agone,
And thy words are in mr heart) my love.
Forever, evermore.
A Lady After All.
DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE,
ns manv of these wild ands are being stolen by
squatters und r a bogu-* title.
tlons p ** ‘
ea i
All communlca-
romptlv answt-red. Satisfaction guar
anteed to all honest men. janS9-ly
LIVERY FEED,
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
Being supplied with new Horses, New Vehi
cles. & we are prepared to meet the wants of
the public in our line. Jan8-iy
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Keeps on hand and manufactures to order
MATTRESSES!
My work recommends itself wherever used,
and Is guaranteed to render the most peifect
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
slighted. I ask a trlaL JAMES. H. PRICE.
iebl9-ly.
CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable, j
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props, j
CALHOUN, 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 want3 ot the traveling public In our line, j
Parties wishing vehicles sent to any of the I
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, Qa.
Jan8-tf
JSAAO T. MEB,
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—dealer in-
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPECIALTY.
Every variety of lob work in my line neatly
done. I respe^t ul y solicit the patronage of
the public, and would be pleased to have all my
friends and customers call and see me when in
town. I* T. MEB
jand-ly
SHOE
Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iron and
Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Rakes,
IS a mi re Forks, Ete.
BUGGY WHEELS, SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES,
WHEELBAH.HOWS,
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 ’ *ht in any market. Give us a trial before
going elsewhere.
ED. E. BRANNON,
Dealer in
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Chickens, Eggs and Batter a Specialty.
CEDARTOWN SCHOOL,
J. C. HARRIS, Principal.
The Spring Term commences the first Mon
day In January and win ooutlnue 53d months.
Fall Term opens Srd Monday in August and
continues 4# months. Bates of tuition as cus
tomary.
The school-room is convenient and comfort-
ab’e; training thorough and discipline firm.
Tne Principal offers his thanks for past favors,
and confidently ask for a liberal share of patron
age la the future.
Reference as to discipline, etc., Is mads to the
former patrons of this schsoL novir-im
I HAVE ALSO
FIH.ST-OL ASS
In connection with the Store, whioh la stocked with the finest Liquors
in town. " jan8-tf
J. P. DUFFEY,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
BUGGY IM WAGON HlfiNESS, SADDLES, BBflMS, &C.
(Doughertj’a^OM Stand.)
CEDARTOWN, Georgia.
All Work Guaranteed to *ira satlafiaotion. All ko asks As a Mol. Joat-lr
Jf
Lennox Ray sprang from the train, and
hastened up the green lane to the wide, old
fashioned farm house, carrying his valise in
his hand.
“I wonder if Fannie got my note, and is
waiting ? Hallo!”
This last exclamation was drawn from
Ray’s lips by a cherry, which, coming from
above, somewhere, came iato sudden con
tact with his nose.
He looked up, and there, perched like a
great bird, upon the limb of a huge old
cherry tree, and looking down on him with
dancing eyes and brilliant cheeks, was a
young girl.
“How do, Lennox f Come up and have
some cherries 1” was the mischievous greet
ing.
“Nannie 1 Is it possible?” exclaimed
Lennox, severely.
And while Ray looked on in stern disap
proval. the young witch swung herself
lightly down.
“Now, don’t look so glum, Lennox,
dear,” ske said, slipping her little hands into
his, with a coaxing motion. “I know it’a
Tom-boyish to climb the cherry trees; but
then it’s such fun.”
“.Nannie, you should have been a boy,”
said Lennox.
“I wish I had! No, I don’t, either; fqr
then you wouldn’t have fallen in lovo with
me. What made you, dear I” with a fond
glance and a caressing movement
‘‘B>.cause you are so sweet, darling,” an
swered Ray, melted in spite of himself.
“But I do wish, Nannie, you would leave
off those hoydenish ways, and be more dig
nified.”
“Like Miss Isham J” asked Nannie.
“Miss Isham is a very superior woman,
and it would not hurt you to copy her in
some respects.”
The tears sprang into Nannie’s eyes
Lis tone.
They went into the parlor, and Ray U>j|
seat in the great arm chair.
Nannie, giving her curls a toss backward,
went and sat dawn.
“I wish you would put up those flyaway
curls and dress your hair as other young
ladies do,” said Ray, “and see here,Nannie,
want to have a talk with yon. Tou know
love you; but in truth, my dear, my wife
must have something of the elegance of re
fined society. Your manners need'polish,
my dear.
‘I came down to tell you that my sister
Laura is making up a party to visit the
noted watering places, and she wishes you
to be one of the number.”
“Are you going ?” asked Nannie.
“No; my business will not allow it; but
I shall see you several times. Will yoe
go?”’
“I don’t want to go. I’d rather stay here
in the country and climb cherry trees every
day.”
‘Nannie, I must insist upon more self-
control,” said he, coldly.
“But don’t send me away,” she pleaded.
“It is for your good, Nannie, and you
must be content to go. Will you ?”
The supper bell rang at that instant, and
Nannie hastily answered:
“Yes; let me go, Lennox,” and ran out
of the room, and up stairs to her own cham
ber.
“Yes, I'll go, and I’ll teach you one les
son, Mr. Lennox Ray; see if I don’t,” she
murmured.”
It was near the middle of September be
fore Mr. Ray, heated, dusty and weary, en
tered the hotel where his sister’s party was
stopping.
“Lennox, you here ?” said she.
“Yes. Where’s Nannie ?”
“She was on the piazza, talking with a
French count, a moment ago. Ah! there
she is, by the door.”
“Ah!” said Lennox, dropping Laura’s
hand, and making his way toward the
door.
But it was difficult, even when he drew
near, to see in the stylish, stately lady,
whose hair was put up ovei a monstrous
chignon, and whose lustrous robes swept
the floor for a yard, his own little Nannie of
three months ago.
Lennox strode up with scarce a glance at
the bewildered dandy to whom she was
chatting, and held out his hand with an
eager exclamation:
“Nannie!’’
She made a sweeping courtesy, and lan
guidly extended the tips of her fingers; but
not a muscle moved beyond what accorded
with well-bred indifference.
“Ah; good evening, Mr. Ray.”
“Oh. Nannie, are you glad to see me ?”
said Lennox, feeling that his heart was
chilling within him.
“Oh, to be sure, Mr. Ray; quite glad.
Allow me to present my friend, the Count
de Beaurepaire. Mr. Ray, Monsieur.”
Lennox hardly deigned a bow to the
Frenchman, and offered his arm to Nannie.
“You wi’l walk with me a little while ?”
“Thanks—but the music is beginning,
and I promised to dance with Mr. Blair.”
“But afterwards ?” said Lennox, the chill
growing cdlder.
“But I am engaged to Mr. Thornton.”
• “When then?” demanded Lennox, with
a jealous pang.
“Really, my card is ao full, I hardly
know. I will, however, by and spare you
a waltz somewhere.”
“Good heavens! Nannie, what affectation
iathlal”
She favored him with a well-bred stare.
“Pardon. I do not understand you.”
And taking the arm of her escort, she
walked away with the air of an empress.
Lennox sought his sister.
“Laura, how have you changek Nannie
so f” he demanded.
“Yes. she is changed. Isn’t she per
fect?”
“Perfect? Rather too perfect to suit
me,” growled Lennox.
“To-morrow I shall see more of Nannie,”
he thought.
Bat to-morrow stiff to-morrow and to
morrow, it was all the same, and that “ele
gant Miss Irving,” as they styled her, was
always in demand, and poor Lennox, from
tbe distance at which she kept him, looked
A_''«t heart-broken varying between wrath,
joliousy, pride and despair.
'“Nannie,” said he one morning, when he
fujmd her a moment alone, “how long is
this to last?”
“I believe you wished me to come here
to improve my manners, Mr. Ray; to ac
qtiire the elegance of society,” she said,
cddly.
,“But, Nannie ”
“Well, if you are not pleased with the
result of your own advice, I am not to
b’irne. Tou must excuse me now, Mr.
Ray, I am going to ride with the Count de
Bsaurepaire. ”
(And with a graceful gesture of adieu,she
lift him sick at heart.
*That afternoon Lennox walked unan
nounced into Laura's room.
“I thought I’d drop in and say good-bye
before you went down stairs, ” said he. “I
Ie»ve to-night.”
‘•Indeed? Where are you going?” asked
Laura.
“Oh, I don’t know !” was his savage re-
PV-
“You can take a note to George for me?”
“Yes, if you get it ready,” said he.
“Very well—I will write it now.”
Laura left the room, and Lennox stood
moodily at the window.
Presently Nannie came in and stood near
him.
“Are you really going away?” she
aiked.
“Yes, I am,” was the short answer.
“And won’t yon tell us where?”
i “I don’t know myself—neither know nor
Cfre!” he growled.
bhe slipped her hand in his arm, with the
oil caressing movement he remembered so
wel, and spoke gently, using his name for
the first time since he came.
*But, Lennox, dear, if you go away off
sonewhere, what shall I do?”
He turned suddenly and caught her tohis
lAart
“Oh, Nannie, Nannie!” he cried, passion
al :ly, “if you would only come back to me
a d love me—if I could recover my lost
assure, I would not go anywhere. Oh, my
lost love, is it too late?”
She laid her face down againsi hiesbeul-
der and asked :
‘Lennox, dear, tell me which you love
best, the Nannie you used to know, or the
fsshionable young lady you found here ?’’
*Oh, Nannie, darling,” he cried, clasping
her closer. “I wouldn’t give one tass of
ycur old brown curls for all the fashionable
young ladies in the world.”
‘Then you will have to take your old
Nannie back again, LenDOX, dear.”
And Leinox, passionately clasping her to
him, begg:d to be forgiven, and vowed he
would not ixchange his precions little wild
rose for all Ihe hot-house plants in Christ
endom.
A Tex
i Horse Trade.
A dame Boy.
It will he ranembered that the schooner
Twilight broke her moorings at Atlantic
City and drifted to sea with only a boy,
Adolphus Paker, aboard, during a gale.
The boy gives the following statement of
his adventurots trip : He said when she
first parted hfr moorings I thought I would
run her ashori, but she struck the wharf
and Bheered *ff into tbe stream. I then
threw over a small kedge anchor, which
dragged to the first buoy and there parted
the cable, noticing she was fast being
driven or. the liar, I hoisted sail to keep her
off. The surf boat put out to help me, but
turned back. Meanwhile I tried to haul
her close to <ae wind, after clearing the
bar, in the hoje of receiving assistance,
which did not tome. I now found myself
fast being drilen to sea, and I did not
think the schooier would be able to stand
the terrible wans which struck her. The
rigging was poor, sail torn, and the pros
pect of her wetthering the gale not very
promising. On Wednesday night a heavy
sea broke over the vessel and rolled me
over tho wheel The rigging and deck
were covered with ice, and it was with
difficulty I kept myself from freezing. On
Thursday I supposed I was near the Gulf
Stream. There was about a foot and a
half of water in be hold and a heavy sea
rolling. The punps gave out, and I was
forced to bail ber out with a bucket. About
four o’clock on Thursday afternoon the
wind sprang up fresh from the southeast.
I then headed wist and about ten o’clock at
night was hailed by a bark which cleared
the schooner bj only ten feet. The
8chooBzr’d*^2hts went out and I took down
the itarboaror light, relit it and hung the
signal light in tin main rigging on the port
side. On Fndaymorning I sighted land
near Beach Haven, and afler beating about
all day headed up abreast Absccom Light.
The sea was very rough, and failing to
bring tbe vessel nto the inlet, and as the
water was up to the cabin floor, I beached
her on Little Rigantine Shoals, where I
was taken off, after having been without
sleep for four lays and three nights.”
Sad raw of an uld Bachelor.
There is a gentleman by the name of
Smith living in Galveston who keeps a
kind of livery stable. Among other horses
in his custody was a fine bay horse belong
ing to Jones. This horse, in cavorting
about the stable yard, ran against a wagon
and broke his leg. Smith was responsible.
All he had to do was to send for a police
man, have the animal shot, and pay Jones
about $60, the value of the animal. Smith
notified the policeman, and -started out to
see Jones, and inform him officially about
the accident. Now Smith is considerable
of a wag. Happening to meet Brown, he
asked if Brown did not want to buy a
horse. It had been the-dream of Brown’s
life to sit behind a horse of hi9 own and
call out “g’lang!” He wanted a cheap
horse and one that was safe, so that when
Smith put the question to him Brown re
plied : “May be so; if you have the right
kind of a horse. Is he a steady, quiet
horse?”
“He is the quietest horse you ever saw. ”
“Won’t bite or kick, and is not likely to
run away?”
“If he bites, kicks, or runs away, I’ll give
you your money back.”
“Humph, ” said Brown, “what are you
asking for the wonderful animal?”
“I’ll let you have him cheap. He is
that fine bay horse Jones used to own. I’ll
let you have him for $21. Give me $1
down, and your note for $20 more, and it
is a bargain. I haye no more use for the
horse, but I want money right off.”
Brown thought to himself: “This is the
golden opportunity. Smith has been tam
pering with cotton futures, and is Btrapped.
I’m sorry for him, but business is business.
I’m not his guardian;” so he planked down
the dollar and gave his note book for the
balance.
If Brown was pleased with the trade,
Smith was still more so. He called to sev
eral friends, and treated the crowd with
the dollar, after which the procession re
formed and marched down to the stable to
see Brown’s new purchase. When they,
got there the policeman had already shot
the poor brute, and he looked like all he
really needed was an inquest. Brown
looked very much that way himself. He
turned pale and then got red behind the
ears. Then be smiled, but it was not a
particularly healthy smile. Smith tried to
help matters, and as soon as the crowd
had quit holding their sides, he said: “Now,
Brown, I don't want you to tell anybody
that I swindled you. I call on these gen
tlemen to witness that I’ae done the square
thing. This is Jones’s bay horse, the identi
cal one I sold you. I guaranteed he would
not not bite nor kick, and you cannot pro
voke him to run away. I think he fills
the bill. I want you to take him off or
I’ll charge you for keeping him.”
“Boys,” said Brown, “don’t give me
away, I know I am not the only fool on
Galveston Island. Let’s go and hunt for a
duplicate and I will set ’em up,”
They strolled out and met Robinson.
“Look here, Robinson, don't you want
a right good horse at a bargain? I've
just bought Jones’ fine bay horse. He
cost $60 originally, and he is in just the
same conditiou he was when I got
him.”
“Oh! ” said Robinson, “things are hard
and horse feed is awful high. A high-
stepping horse, like Jones’ bay, will eat
his bead off in-no time.”
‘That’s where you are fooling yourself.
He eats less than any horse you ever saw.
By thunder, no horse can eat less than he
can.”
“Ain’t he a little frisky?”
Brown shook his head and replied:
“You are doing that horse injustice. You
can tell by looking at him that be is not
kind of an animal I’ll let you have bin for
just what I gave tor him—$20—$1 down,
and your note, secured by such men as
Heidenheimer. for the balance. I’ve got
to have money.”
RobinBon thought it was mean to take ad
vantage of Brown’s distress, but then it
was not his lookout. 11 he was out of his
bead, why didn’t he have the court appoint
him a guardian ? So he planked down $1
and gave the note, on the condition that the
horse would go in a wagon.
‘You bet, ” remarked Brown, “he’ll go
in a wagon. He won’t go in anything else.
Come on, boys, let’s spend this dollar. ”
After they had wiped off their mouths,
the procession re-formed and started to in
spect the animal. Sure enough, three nig
gers were lifting him into a wagon.
‘There,” said Brown, “I told you he
would go into a wagon. Don’t say I swin
dled you. He will eat less than any horse
you ever owned. You will save his viiue
in horse feed in two weeks. Just try, and
see if he is not gentle. Tickle him with a
straw.”
The spectators applauded. Robinson
looked like he ought to go along with his
horse to keep him in countenance.
In conclusion, it is whispered on the
strand among capitalists that some of the
notes have already passed into the hands of
innccent holders, and as soon as they ma
ture, protesis will be in order.
A Brave Fireman.
The blessed baby had been howling in
the street cars for nine blocks, until every
body else in tie car had escaped except a
bald-headed old Galvestonian, who rubbqd
the top of hiB dome of thought, scowled,
stamped, fumed, and gave other evidences
of being annoyed.
“1 hope the baby don’t disturb you,
sir,” said the mother, pleasantly.
“No, madam, it does not,” he said, sav
agely gritting his teeth.
“I am so glad. I was afraid it did—lit
tle tootsy, wootsy, yum, yum, yum!”
“No, madam, it don’t disturb me,” he
said still more avagely. “Little tootsy
fiddlesticks only disturbs people in the ad
joining county. It has made a chattering
idiot of me five blocks ago, ” and, spring;
ing through the car window he gave a
maniacal Ka! ha! ha! and disappeared
•round a comer.
Why is a young lawyer lHce the na
tioual currency ? Because be li a legal
tender and somewhat greqn.
way that I oughtn't to have done. 8o he
iet go of her and 1 dropped her down on to
the porch below, where she was easily tak
en off. I hauled up the rope again and sent
down this girl Burke, a big, heavy woman.
I thought she weighed two hundred on the
and of that line. The rope got foul of Reese
end his sheet, and so I sari to myself:
“Old gal, it ain’t (going to hurt you to drop
the rest of tbe way, ” so I let her go by the
run about four or five feet and she landed
ail right. Then I got Reese out to the lad
der and Barney McKernan helped him
down. I untied my rope, took a slip bend
about the centre-piece and dropped down
to the ladder and so to the ground. It was
getting pretty hot and smoky, bnt I did my
best. Then we moved to another window
and got two women and a man out the
same way. Not a living soul was then to
be seen. We saved everybody that showed
their face, and so we got round to Kim
street. Nobody was in sight there, and so
we went ail round the hotel back to Fourth.
Mr. Lindsay called my attention to a man
hanging in a window—Mr. Kennedy we
found out it was. I went up, but we
couldn’t get the ladder into the window and
I threw him the slack of my rope. “I’ll
jump,” said he. “No, damn it, don’t
jump,’’I cried. “Take plenty of slack
and I’ll save you ;” and I threw him more
6lack and twisted a round or two about the
fly ladder, so that if he had to jump he
would have a chance for nis life. I ran
down and we got the truck nearer. We
ran the truck into a shape that a truck never
did work in this country, or any other, and
never will again, though it did that time.
It had notkiug to support it ; so we threw
her against'the wall some distance below
the window. I ran up as far as it would
go and told him to drop out ef the window
and hang on by the sill. The glass was
cracking in the window at this time. Then
I took a firm hold of the ladder with my
legs and feet, leaning out a little to get a
good purchase, took hold of his feet with
my hards and yelled “drop,” and down he
came. I fastened on to him, and had a nice
little time for a minute or two. He was
very much excited, and we were hard set
to get him off the ladder. I hadn’t coiled
up my rope when down comas that whole
Fourth street side.
A Triumph ot Art.
Phelim Toole, who was a brave fireman
of St. Louis, lately lost bis life at a fire in
that city. Phelim gave the following ac
count of the Southern Hotel horror on the
night of April 11, 1877. The narration
reads thus: “I am tiller-man of the Skin
ner escape, a post I have filled for four
years and seven months. I don’t know ex
actly the time the alarm came in, but it was
some time after midnight, down stairs. We
went out of the house as usual, and, I
think, made belter time to the fire than we
usually do and stopped in front ot the grand
entrance on the Walnut street side. I
can’t get off the truck till it stops, as the
bind wheels are on a pivot and a man has
to steer it. Some unknown person took the
fly-ladder; that delayed us about a minute
and a half—no more. We raised the ladder
on the Walnut street side, but there was no
one to be saved there, so we took her down
and went round to the Fourth street side.
It is an ugly street—there is a double car-
track and that porch was in our way; but
we got her up in very quick time, and then
I left my place and shinned up tbe ladder,
i told somebody to bring me a light line
that was coiled up at the tiller aud they
brought it. The line had stops on it like
we used at sea to send sails aloft, but the
stops were hardly rotten enough. When I
got to the top of the fly-ladder I was still
about five feet below the window in which
the people were. I couldn't pass up. There
were four people in the window, all wiih
sheets. I shouted to one of them, “You
pass me a sheet.” “What do you want with
it?” said he. “You pass it down and I’ll
save your lives.” So I got the sheet and
twisted it and went into the window where
they were on it. I made my life preserver
fast to the centre-piece ot the window. I
made fast to a Mr. Reese and lowered him
down on the window-sill under me - He
thought I wanted to get him on the ladder,
but it would have been impoaeible to do
that. I then sent his wife down, and he
shoved her out to the ladder, where she
was caught and pulled on by a fireman.
Next 1 sent this light woman, Joanna Hat
pin, down, and Mr. Reese wanted to catch
bar and above ber over to tbe ladder like be
bad dona bis wife, ted I swore at him in a
On the Peacock Islhnd in Potsdam we
find among the white marble statues an im
age of Rachel, the celebrated French trage
dienne, placed there in memory of her tri
umph over a monarch who had been by no
means friendly disposed toward her. We
mean Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, whose
disiike to her had been caused by her Re
publican sympathies and turbulent senti
ments, which he abhorred.-a^d on account
of which he had prohibited her entrance in
to Russia: he is even known to have said
that he wished never to set eyes on her.
This inclement verdict of the powerful
monarch was no small stumbling block in
the great tragedienne’s wav, for Russia is a
mine of gold, foreign artists and many a
Rachel and Patti of our days might relate
wonderful, almost fabulous tales of cistly
gems raining down upon them on the stage
amid tho enthusiastic cheers of an enchant
ed audience.
Therefore, Mademoiselle Rachel was
highly pleased when, in the summer of
1852. she received an invitation to act be
fore the court at f‘otsdam, where the Empe-
ror Nicholae was just then staying as the
King if Prussia’s guest. The famous act
ress had been desired to reciteseveral scenes
from French plays, but neither in costume
nor in company of other actors. She there
fore arrived attired in black, tho most cost-
iy lace covering her beautiful arms and
shoulders; but the gentleman who, by the
King’s orders, was at the station to receive
her, expressed his doubts whether the roya;
and imperial party would not object to so
melancholy and mournful an apparel: and
on reaching the palace, the artist was kindly
invited by the late Princess Charles (sister
to-the Empress Augusta, and wife of the
Emperor’s brother) to wear a few gayer-
looking things of her own. Such an offer
could not be refused, and Mademoiselle
Rachel appeared in the gardens adorned
with roses. On inquiring for the stage she
was told that there was none erected, aud
that she was expected to stand on a grass
plot in front of the seats of her noble audi
ence. This demand roused her quick tem
per, so that she was on the point of return
ing to Berlin, when her official attendant,
the above mentioned gentleman, pacified
her by remarking that she would be on the
same level with the audience, that her art
would prove the greater for the want of any
stage apparatus ; and that (last but not
least) he reminded her of how much was at
stake—an enormous honorarium and per
haps the repeat of that fatal interdiction.
After a moment’s hesitation and a struggle
with herself, Mademoiselle Rachel took her
cicerone’s arm, and suffered him to lead her
to the spot destined for ber performance.
The evening was lovely; the moon, half
hidden behind a group of poplars, threw
her silvery light on the pond and the gentle
murmuring fountain. A few torches and
lights illuminated the face of the artist,
while the court sat in the shadow. Deep
silence ensued upon her appearance—one
could hear the cricket* chirp—and then she
began her orations. The listeners seemed
spell bound ; ihat was not human speecn,
it was music dropping from her lips. She
was determined to be irresistible; and she
succeeded so well, that even the hitherto
unfriendly Emperor himself, won by her
art, rose from his seat when she had ended,
and meeting her half way, kissed her hand
in presence of the assembled court, assur
ing her that henceforth she would be wel
come in Russia.
What were the praises, flatteries and
congratulations of the others who were
crowding around the happy artist, com
pared to the homage rendered to her by
the mighty ruler of Europe's vastest coun
try, the monarch from whom a sign ordered
thousands of his subjects to be or not to be.
Thus was one of the greatest autocrats
in Europe won over Dy the acting and elo
cution of—a woman I
Our Cows and their Value.
The Small Boy’s Rights.
A Kansas jndge presents his view of the
rights of small boys in the following, which
forms a portion of his judicial decision:
“Everybody knows that by nature and
by instinct boys love to nde, and
love to move by other means than their
own locomotion. They will cling to the
hind ends of moving wagons, ride upon
swings and swinging gates, slide upon cel
lar doors and the rails of staircases, pull
sleds up hill in order to ride down upon
them on the snow, aDd even pay to ride
upon imitation horses and imitation char
iots swung around in a circle by means of
hone power. This last is very much like
riding around in a circle upon a turntable.
Now everybody, knowing the nature and
the instincts common to ail boys, must act
accordingly. No person has a right to
leave, even on his land, dangerous machi
nery calculated to attract and entice boys
to it, there to he injured, unless he first
takes proper steps to guard against all acci
dent ; and any person who thus does leave
dangerous machinery exposed, without first
providing against all danger, u guilty of
rugHjfnrt
It is estimated that the number of milk
cows in the United States is over 13,000,-
000, requiring the annual product of 52,-
000,000 acres of -land for feed, givmg em
ployment to 650,000 men, and requiring
the labor of 866,600 men. Estimating the
cows at $30 each, the horses $80, and land
at $30 per acre, together with $200,000,-
000 for agricultural and dairy implements,
and the total amount invested in the in
dustry is $2,219,280,000. This is con
siderably more than the amount invested
in banking and tbe commercial and manu
facturing interests of the country, which is
$1,800,964,586. The cattle and horses
will require two tons of hay annually or its
equivalent. If it is estimated that 5,000,-
000 cows are fed with grain for winter
dairying, and that if the horses eat daily six
quarts of Bats or corn during the year, they
will consume 28,383,300 tons of hay, 84,-
380,000 bushels of corn meal, 84,370,000
bushels of oat meal, 1,250,000 tons of bran, ’
30,000,000 bushels of com, and 300,000,-
000 bushels of oats, of a total value of
$384,459,400. To this should be added
the labor of 650,000 men at $20 per month,
$156,000,000, making the annual value of
$504,459,400, or an average of $38.80 per
cow. Accepting 12 cents per gallon aa a
basis for computing the varne of the milk
product and446gallonsthe average yield per
annum (this being tbe average in sixteen
States in 1860), the 13,000,000 cows produce
annually 5,793,000,000 gallons of milk, J
wurth $695,760,000. Anal) sis shows ihat 3
pounds of milk contain the same kind and
amount of nutrition as 1 pound of boneless
beef. Tbe total weight of the milk pro
duct is 50,732.600,000 pounds, equal to
14,495,000,000 pounds of boneless beef.
About 50 per cent of a fat steer is boneless
meat, so that it will require 20,650,000
steers of 1,400 pounds weight to produce
the Bame amount of nutrition as the annual
milk product. Such fat steers would sell
at $4.50 per cwt., or $63 each—a total of
$1,300,950,000; deducting for hide and
tallow, $260,190,000, leaves the meat
value $1,040,760,000. This gives the food
value of the milk product in the United
States annually. Willard, in his “Prac
tical Dairy Husbandry,” says that milk at
24 cents per gallon is equivalent in value
to boneless beef at 9 cents per pound.” It
is false economy, therefore, that substitut
ed meat for milk as an art.cle of food. The
same authority (Willard) states that 50 per
cent of the milk is used in making cheese
and butter, 41 per cent is consumed in a
liquid state. The Department of Agricul
ture, 1877, estimates there are 1,000,000,-
000 pounds of butter and 300,000,000
poimds of cheese made annually m the
United States. At 27 pounds of milk for
1 pound of butter, and 9} for 1 pound of
cheese, the total amount of milk used
would be 29,950,000,000, add 41 per cent
of the product for consumption, the total
production is 50,752.325,000 pounds, with-
in a small fraction ot 1 per cent of the
estimate made. The caseine in the milk
used for making butter, if utilized for cheese
would produce aunually 1,890,000,000
pounds, Jand besides there is annually run off
In the skimmed milk, buttermilk, and whey
200,000,000 pounds of milk sugar, which,
if saved, would have a market value
greater than the entire annual sugar crop
of Cuba.
A Pickpocket Sold,
Recently a lady living at the upper part
of East Broadway, N. IT. on her way home
boarded an East Broadway one-horse car
in front of Frankfort street, deposited her
fare in tlic cash box and was then invited
to take a seat by a man who moved to an
other part of the car. The lady had with
her a iiortfciio of large size, which she held
on her lap after being seated. She had
not ridden far before she felt something
touching the right side of her dress, anil
looking down saw a newspaper was cover
ing a portion of it. Her suspicions were
aroused, as she bad her gold watch and a
ten-dollar note in her pocket on that side of
the dress, and she at once felt for the valu
ables and found them. She took them out
of her pocket, and being convinced that the
fellow alongside of her was a pickpocket,
thought she would have a little fun at his
expense. She took the watch and wrapped
the ten-dollar note around it, so that he
could see it, and then putting the portfolio
in such a way that the fellow could not see
what she was doing, put the articles in her
left hand, and placed her right again in her
pocket as if depositing tbe watch and
money there. The lady had in her pocket
a cracker in a piece of paper, one left of a
half a dozen she had taken with her from
home as a “snack,” and, squeezing the
paper around the hard cracker, she drew it
up close tQ the entrance to tbe pocket and
waited to see if the fish would bite. In a
moment or two afterward she felt tbe news*
paper again thrown carelessly over her lap
and the delicate touch on her dress as be
fore, and then the fellow got up and pulled
the strap for the car to be stopped. He
got out, and, putting a hand in each of his
overcoat pockets, marched down East
Broadway until became to a comer, around
which he passed on the double quick to ex
amine lus booty. The lady wonders what
the thief said when instead of a gold watch
and a ten dollar note he found out that he
had stolen a cracker and a piece of white
paper. As the lady does nut care about
the loss, detectives need not call pa her
to ascertain what she will give for the re
covery of the property.. She does not wish
to make any compromise. The thief was
a well formed fellow, about five feet eight
or nine inches high, not stout, with a bad-
iooking left eye. He had an accomplice,
ne doubt iu the man who first got up in
the car and offered the lady the seat, as
after the thief left the other soon followed.
Tlie Mouths of Plants.
“If you are very thirsty,” said old Mr.
Ewing, “and 1 was to pour a glass of wa
ter on the top of your head, would you be
very grateful to me ?”
“No,” said Tom, who was watering his
geranium, “I’d be mad 1”
“Well,’’said the old man, “you are not
treating your plant much better. It has
mouths, aud it likes to drink when it is
thirsty, but you don’t pour the water into
its mouths.”
“I don’t know where they are,” said
Tom, looking curiously at the bush.
“Its leaves are full of eager little pores
and they are choked with dust,” Mr. Ew-
inj said. “Just put the nose again on the
watering-pot and wash off the leaves.”
Tom picked up the nose, put it on the
spout of the pot and gave the bush a tho
rough wetting.
“It does look better*’’ he said. “Has
it any other mouths?”
“Plenty more,” said the old man; “one
at the end of each rootlet. When you pour
a stream of water around the stem of the
plant, I think it must feel as you would if
1 put your drink on hour head.”
“Yob,” said Tom, “see the fuachia. I
didn’t water the leaves nor the ends of the
roots, I am aura.'’
“And don’t you see you are doing tbe
same thing by that rhododendron?” said
the irritabe old man. “When yon do any
thing, boy, do it in the right war!”
- And he took the watering pot himself,
and every mouth in each plant got a good
drink that time.
