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OLD SERIES—YOL. YII-NO. 36.
CEDARTOWN, GA., OCTOBER 7, 1880.
NEW SERIES—YOL. II-NO. 43.
MDFORDWER,
Main St Cedartown 6a.,
IT YOU WANT THEM PORF AND TRB8H.
C. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Iw office In the Court Home. febis-ly
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
DBS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
office cast inn or uii n.
CEDARTOWN*, GA
. W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. Sur«eoni
CEDARTOWN, GA
OFFICE orer J. A. Wynn 1 * where lie may he
round ready to attend caila either day or night.
]anl5-ly
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Phyilcbui and Burgeon,
Cedartown. G-a.
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler.
CEDARTOWN, GA
H&rlne just opened oat a shop at the store or
a. D. Hogg k Co., respectruiij requests the
public to call on him when needing work In hla
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA
will practice In the Superior Courts of Polk,
Paulding, Haralson, Floyd and Carroll counties,
special attention given to collections and real
estate business. marll-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In the most skill*
tni manner, OQce over J. 8. Stubbs A Co.'s.
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.
MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOR
Machinery of all Kinds.
Sixty-four different makes of Steam Engine* and Boiler* ranging
from 3 to 40 horse-power—new and second-hand—all at vary low prices.
Alio agents for the
Albany and Brown Cotton Bin,
PACKING, SCREWS, SEPARATORS, THRESHERS, CORN MILLS
and Farming Implements in general. We had a fine trade in this line
last year, and general satisfaction was given. We are also
Dealers in General Merchandise*
And have In store a well selected stock of
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES,
HATS, CAPS, CLOTHING AND GROCERIES,
All of which we will sell low, either for each or to prompt paying time cus
tomers. We are agents for GEORGE A CLARK’S
“0. N. T.” Thread,
N 7
And will sell at retail and also will job it to merchants at regular whole
sale prices. *
10,000 Pounds of Wool Wanted.
We will pay highest prices for all the washed wool brought to us.
P.rsons contemplating the erection of buildings may save money by
calling on ns for prices of LUMBER, LATHS and SHINGLES. Come and
see us.
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.,
Cedartown ( G-a.
A. J. YOUNG,
F. M. SMITH,
Attorney at Law and
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Particular attention given to the selling or
renting or city property. Buying and selling
wild lands a specialty. Parties owning wild
lands In Georgia would do well to correspond
with me, as I nave app lcatlons 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 lot. Always In advance. To
insure at'ent.on enclose a S-cent stamp. Parties
owning wild lands should look to tbelr interests,
as many of these wild i&nds are being stolen by
squatters under a bogus title. All communica
tions promptly answered. Satisfaction
an teed to all honest men.
tlon roar-
Janrf-ly
LIVERY FEED,
AND
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson Prop’rs.-
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
Being supplied with new Horses, New Vehi
cles. k we are prepared to meet tfce wants of
the pubUc 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 pe feet
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
alighted. I ask a trial. JAMBS. H. PRICE.
ieb!8-ly.
CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable.
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props ,
CALHOrif, GEORGIA.
Having lately purchased ih% 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, mar telegraph ns, and
have their wants promptly and properly at*
tended to.
JanS-tf
FOSTER k HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga.
ISAAC T.
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—dealer in-
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPECIALTY.
Every variety of lob work m my lino neatly
dons. I respect’uLy solicit the patronage or
the public, and would be pleased to have all my
friends and customers call and see me when in
town. L T. MBE
JanS-ly
GOLD.
Great chance to make money. We
need a person In every town to take
subscriptions for the largest, chean-
est and best illustrated family Publication In
the w rid. Anyone can become a successful
agent. Six elegant works of art given free to
subscribers. The price Is so low that almost
everybody subscribes. One agent reports tak
ing iso subscribers in a day. A lady agent re
port 8 making over $*oo clear profit in ten day*.
All who engage make money fast. Ton can do
tt as well as other- . Full directions and terms
free. Elegant and expensive ontflt free, if
you want profitable work, sand ns your address
at once, it cos s nothing to try the business.
No one who engages falls to maks great pay.
DEALER IX
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins
and Brandies.
Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga.
SOUS 4GEXT EOS OOX T HILL k 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
little light it gave revealed all the grace of
Mrs. Winfield’s alight form in its close-fit
ting robes of black. To-night, for the first
time in her two years of widowhood, she
laid off the widow’s cap,, which bad for so
long served to conceal the thick auburn
braids, so artistically coiled about the .mall
head. Perhaps for the same reason she
had dismissed the butler, when he entered
according to custom to light the lamps, or
perhaps because the slow ticking of the clock
upon the mantel revealed to her sufficiently
the lapse of time without compelling her to
distinguish the hands upon the face of the
dial drawing nearer and nearer the hour
whose close approach dissipated the calm-
in she vainly strove to gain.
Eighteen years had passed since she and
Arthur Mainwaring had met. They had
been lovers in that far-off time, but he was
poor then, with no whisper in the air of the
rich inheritance to which he afterwards
fell heir, just too late to bring happiness to
either. Not that they cared for wealth,
either of them, but there were older, wiser
minds to judge for both, and so, each vow
ing eternal vows, they were tom apart.
Six short months later she married Ed
ward Winfield. He was, fortunately, not
a man to look far love and sentiment in bis
young wifs—only wifely duty and obe
dience. In these she never failed him, and
after his death the world found proof of his
esteem in the fact that to his widow revert
ed all his fortune, untrammeled by a single
reservation.
She had married very young. She was
bnt thirty-five now. Would he find her
changed, she wondered—he for whose com
ing she waited here to-night?”
Simultaneously with the thought came the
sound of carriage wheels and horses’ hoofs
on the graveled walk. She started to her
pressing both Lands uoon her farf-
beatid
received a telegram announcing Arthur. feit x demand?”
NEW HOUSE I NEW MERCHANTS!
New Goods and New Prices.
A. D. HOGG & CO.,
MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
Have just opened a select stock of General Merchandise in their new store,
and want all their friends and the public generally to call and let them
show their goods and prices. Their stock was bought before the recent
rise In prices, and they feel confident of having goods at bottom figures.
They have beautiful Dress Goods, Caliooes, Corsets, new styles; Bleach-
lngs, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky, Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Vxrt
Low. Remember the place—last Brick btore on South MAIN Street, west
line- novfi-ly
BAKER & HALT.,
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,
WHHELBAHROWS,
SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, KINOES, 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.
WIST WIND.
The barley bows from the west
Before the delicate breese
That many a sail caressed
As it swept the sapphire seas.
It baa found the garden sweet.
And the poppy’s onp it sways,
And the golden eXrs of wheat;
And lta dreamy toueh it laya
On the heavy mignonette,
And it a teal a its odors fine,
On the pansies dewy yet*
On the phloxes red as wine.
Where the honeysuckle bright
Storms the sonny porch with flowajs,
Like a tempest of delight,
Shaking fragrance down in showers,
It touches with airy grace
Each clustering perfumed spray,
Clasps all in a light embrace.
And silently wanders away.
Come forth in the air divine.
Thou dearest, my crown of bliss !
Give that flowar-aweet cheek of thine
To the morning breese to kiss.
Add bnt thy.'perfect presence
To gladden my happy eyes.
And I woald not change earth’s morning
For the dawn of Paradise !
A Mother’s Sacrifice
come to her, and he had wooed and won
his absolution.
Sometimes Barbara Sighed as she watched
them together, while ahe'sat alone, bat As
gave to the sigh no name, and thought it a
tribute to the vanished yean.
One day came her awakening. Don and
Mr. Mainwaring bad gone for their after
noon ride, bnt it had extended beyond its
wont, and ahe had grown anxious and gone
out to meet them, striking the forest p*th
which was their favorite way. Half a
mile from her home Bhe met Dora’s horse,
riderless. Pale with tenor, ihe hastened
or, when she suddenly stopped, rooted to
the spot. Almost at her feet knelt the man
hrr heart hxd loved always, and in his arms
he held Dora’s unconscious form.
•‘My love! my life I” he said, each word
being borne distinctly to her ear; “apeak to
me once—just once I Oh, Dora, are you
hart ? My darling, would tW I might
have given my life for yours 1”
Then he stooped and pressed his lips to
hers. A long Buttering sigh escaped
“Arthur!” she whispered; “Arthur!
“I am here, dear,” he said.
And then he laid her down out of his
anfto, though, with returning life, ha re
membered the duty it brought with it.
The mother sprang forward.
“Do not be alarmed, ” Mr. Mainwaring
said, gently, on seeing her. “Her horse
threw her. I think there is no serious in-
jury.
No serious injury I None to Dora, but
Barbara knew that her wound was beyond
Yegrhyr.
A fire burned ifi the lower grate, but the When, a few hours later, they knew that
H.iilat-FUhlnf at Lewis, England:
Only that morning she swi
Mainwaring's coming, and already he was
here. Bhe was glad. Oh, so glad, that the
room was dark, when ahe heard the quick,
firm tread ahe had sometimes heard in her
dreams daring these long years of dutiful
living; so glad that he could not see the
quick blush, which put her matronhood to
shame, when the door was thrown open,
ana three or four swift strides brought him
to her side.
“Barbara
Oh, how his voice still thrilled in her—
half with pleasure, halt with pain!
His tall form towered far above her,
in the olden time; but he held close in his
own firm, tender grasp her two little tremb
ling hands.
“Are you glad to see me?” he question
ed.
She strove to answer, but her lips quiv
ered, and no words came.
’Barbara,” he said then again and he
bowed his handsome head lower, “is it too
soon to speak ?”
“Ob, Arthur,” she answered, “can I yet
atone?”
And then the bridge of years wss swept
away, and she sobbed out her happiness
upon his heart.
“Let me see you,” he said at last. “I
have not yet seen the face for which I have
hungered all these years.”
He struck a light, then turned and looked
her.
“My darling!” he said. “It is still my
beautiful Barbara. 'What hare I done to
deserve this hour?”
“Mamma, where are you ?” called out a
fresh, girlish voice at this instant.
The next moment a young girl of scarce
seffenteen summer sprang into the room.
“This is my daughter, Arthur—my only
child. Dora, let me present you to one of
your mother’s oldest friends."
The gentleman indicated looked from one
to the other—from the mother to the
daughter—then back again. Now he could
realize the lapse of time—now he could ap-
jreciale the changes years had wrought,
t was as though he had brought the past
and present face to lace forcing him to ac
knowledge the impossibility of nature’s
standing still.
The daughter was a fair counterpart of
the mother's beauty. As she looked now,
shyly extending to him her hand, as if in
deprecation of her unceremonious, entrance
bad Barbara looked, when extending her
hand in farewell, as though she would hare
said, “I am forced into it by a stronger will
than mine.”
An uncomfortable sensation rose up in
his breast—a dumb warring against the in
evitable—an acknowledged desire to re
trace life’s pathway and conquer time.
Meantime the young girl pouted the full,
red lips, as if she thought her mother’s friend
strangely absent; and when he at last
forced himself into a few words of greet
ing. they fell upon dull, unheeding ears.
Then she had gone. The lovers were
alone again, but he no longer opened wide
his arms but instead, drew a chair to her
side that they might discuss more rational-
“You must teach Dora to love you,” she
id to him next morning. “I want first
to reconcile her to my second marriage be
fore startling her with its probability. Tell
me, do yon think her like me?”
“Your second self. ”
“Ah, I’m so glad I You will love her
then for my sake ?”
To love and be loved. O’er easy task
set by frail woman in her blindness. It
must be Mr. Mainwaring who must be
Dora’s companion in her daily ride; Mr.
Mainwaring who must teach her to manage
the cockle-boat—for which he had sept to
town—in these first early spring days. The
lovers were seldom alone now.
Dare looked upon their guetts as her pro-'
perfy. She had long ago laughingly told
him how unceremonious had been bis wel-
there was no need fpr anxiety on her ac
count, Barbara shut herself up within her
own room to fight her battle.
“1 cannot give him up,” she moaned,
“He does not know his own heart. He
will forget this child, and she—she certain
ly cannot love him.”
But even as she reasoned came the re
membrance of the one word, “Arthur|
and the tone in which ahe had spoken it.
“I will try her,” she said, and for the
first time in her life came a feeling of bitter
resentment even against her child.
They were sitting together in the library
as she entered.
“Arthur,” she said, “I think it ig time
that we told Dora the truth. ”
The man’s face paled. She could almost
see his soul preparing for the conflict, and to
crush out his heart behind hia honor. Even
Dora' looked up with a suspicion of coming
trouble.
“It is only this, dear,” Barbara said,
turning to her daughter; “has not Mr.
Mainwaring told you -that he was an en
gaged man?”
Then she saw that the steel had struck
home. The child answered nothing as she
turned two wet, reproachful eyes to him,
who dared not meet their gmee. Until this
iaelunt she had not known that she pos
sessed a heart. She learned it now to her
cruel cost.
“1 must congratulate Mr. Mainwaring,’ 1
she said, calling up all her woman’s pride
to her aid, then hastened from the room to
hide the burst of tears. The two were left
alone.
“Does she suspect, do you think ?" she
asked gloating over his torture.
"She must know, ” he answered. "I am
ready, Barbara, to fulfil my bond. Let
there be no further delay.”
“Will you not, then, plead that I asked
Inniindpf flesh, without a drop of
id that jour nfe mu« pay the for-
A hat can you mean ?” he asked in a
bewildered way.
“Only,” she said, “that I plead my cause
for yours. Release me, Arthur. I find I
cannot marry you.”
Five minutes ago she would have thought
herself incapable of the sacrifice; yet here
she stood, quiet and calm, giving no out
ward sign of the inward whirlpool, nor the
torture that wrung her as she watched the
weight lift from his soul at her words.
“You no longer love me ?” he question
ed.
“I am growing old,” with a mocking
laugh; and in his blindness he accepted her
words as denial, and went forth content,
little dreaming of the sacrifice the mother
had made for her daughter’s happiness.
A little later he came to her, Dora blush
ing, radiant with happiness, by his side.
“Will you give her tome,” he tsked.
“I loved her, Barbara, because she was
your second self I"
What Rattlesnakes are Good For.
It may not be generally known to our
readers that snake poison is used for medi
cinal purposes in these day s, and a firm in
Liverpool recently imported a number of
rattlesnakes, and abstracted the venom
from the live animals in the following in-
genious manner: The reptiles were in
separate compartments of a case fitted with
a thick India rubber noose at one end,
which could be loosened or tightened by
the hand at pleasure. This wis inserted
through the partially opened lid, and the
opportunity quickly seized by slipping the
noose over the snake’s head, the loop being
immediately drawn tight by means of the
cord thereto. With a similar contrivance
the tail was next fastened; the snake being
securely held, was lifted out of the box to
the floor of tne room. A pickle-bottle con
taining chloroform was then thiust over the
snake’s head, and carefully held in its place
by keeping time with the animals efforts to
extricate itself. As the reptile became
stupified, the noose was gradually relaxed
to enable the lungs to have tall play, and
when it appeared powerless the snake was
laid in a narrow box, made for this pur
pose, with an aperture at one end, in which
its head was fixed while the after operation
was performed. Its jaws were then opened
and fixed, and the poison glands were
pressed open with forceps and the gloved
finger and thumb, while s small, graduated
vial was held to receive the drops as they
oozed b lowly out through the poison fangs.
Twenty drops was the average quantity
yielded from each snake. The venom is of
a straw color, thick and gummy in con
sistency, and decidedly acid in its reaction
on litmus paper. It is readily soluble in
glycerine or water. Its toxicological prop
erties were fully tried on a variety of animals.
Half a drop produced death on a linnet
within three minutes after being injected
under the wing. The symtoms produced
in all caseB are very similar.
He Will Not Coma Back.
“A young mother, for two years a wid
ow, was on the point of marrying again.
One evening Bhe was sitting by the bed of
her son, who was of a weak and sickly
habit, and the child said to her, ‘ Pain is
dead, isn’t he ?’
“ ‘Yes, my poor boy.’
“ Then he won’t come back again ?’
“ ‘Alas, no, my darling.’
“ 'Very well, mamma, it is all right that
he is deaid, Decause I love you so much—
you see, mamma, so much—that I love
you for both of you, and if papa should
come back I could not love Mm any more
at all.'
“Sleep,’ whispered the mother softly
after some minute* of sorrowful silence.
Bleepl he will not come back.’ ”
Aa the day wean on, the multitude of
boats make sell, and leave the harbor in
magnificent and picaresque confusion; and
the evening glow of the setting sun lights
°P and gilds the dark, sailed loggers of the
west, and the yellow, white-canvassed,
half-decked boats from the east coast, as,
guided Dy the signs they watch for, they
gain the herring-ground, and shoot their
miles on miles of nets. With early
morning cornea their harvest; and then,
sometimes gunwale-deep, they crowd all
mil, and hasten back, like swarms of hom
ing pigeons, to the curers, who, ready at
all {Joints, wait to torn the work of other
men into profit. Measured by the cran—a
circular tub holding from 800 to 1,600
herring, according to their balk—the fresh
caught flah are sold at prices which vary,
like the other barometers of wealth and
weather. In the begining of the season £6
a cran were paid. The day before we
came half a crown a cran was taken. And
one poor man with 80 crans, coming in too
late for market, was told that they were
not worth a shilling. But,nothing daunted,
he bought some casks and salt, and vowed
he would not throw his fiah a way or labor.
Let ns hope hia self-reliance would be re
warded. On the othar hand by means of
bounty and other arrangements each curer
secures the service of certain boats, whose
catch he takes. A proportion is dispatched
at once, quite fresh, in boxes, b; one of
the small squadron of steamers waiting for
hire. Some are cured in a brine and
cashed, while the rest are gutted, smoked,
packed in a box or basket containing fifty,
and find their way quickly to our breakfast
tables, under the deliciously suggestive
name of “kippers.” The curers of late
have erected a number of buildings where
companies of women wait with sharpened
knives the coming herrrng. With a slit
down the back and a turn of the wrist the
fish is spread open and ready for the man
who hooka it od a stick containing perhaps
a score. These sticks are ranged one above
the other in the smoking chambers until
their walls are covered with the fish, heads
up and insides exposed to the fumes of
pungent smoke produced by fragrant chips
and saw-dust. Fer ten hours or so they are
thus inclosed, and they are packed and dis
patched at once to market. The Russian
and North German eat their herrings raw,
and being dainty in that matter, take them
only when they are in their prime. But
competition has its evils as well as its
merits; and it is feared by those who look
more ahead than the old-established cus
tom that the new system will result in
greater harm than is yet forseen by many.
The herring are easily frightened; and if
they are met so far from the haunts to
which they come in. countless shoals the
Loch Fyne experience may be renewed on
an. infinitely greater scale, to the ruin, if
not starvation, of thousands who depend
upon them. .Besides, the continental mar
ket gets gutted by cheap, interior early fish;
for the herring of May is to that of June
and later months as is the stripling to the
alderman.
water and some cloths and some mustard
and a bottle of brandy.”
While James was gone she loosed the
girl’s cloths and rubbed her bands, which
were as cold as ice, and as soon as James
came back she got the girl’s feet in warm
mustard water and after she had brought
her back to consciousness enosighdo make
her swallow anything, ahe gave her some
brandy, and as soon as possible helped her
to bed.
When Mrs. Wilkins saw she couldn’t
help herself she left the room, and Aunt
Jane was allowed to perform her mission
ary work alone. She stayed with the
girl all night, and had a talk with her,
advising her to go home, which she was
willing to ao. She seemed to be under
the control of her ancle while she stayed
there, and said she had these attacks every
night when he was home.
Well, Aunt Jane arranged with her to
take one of the afternoon trains if she
was able. She sent James after some break
fast for herself and stayed and dressed the gi»l
and took her home with her to dinner,
and went with her to the train and bought
the ticket with her own money. And so
ended Aunt Jane’s first, and so far last,
seance.
Mustangs In Texas.
A oat Jane’s Seance.
Aunt Jane waa very much exercised be
cause a new family that had been settled in
our neighborhood were “spiritualists.” It
was all the more vexatious to her because
she had “neighbored” with them in her
single-hearted, motherly way, and when
"*• ‘ V?** *°*»ieL‘“-•--wbpnt their “peculiar
views” ahe weuldn’t believe inem, fdf she
said, “they are real nice folks, and 1 don’t
believe one word of it. ”
But the talk about them increased, and
then a new actor appeared on the scene.
It was a young woman, "a medium,” and
now the little country village was alive
with interest. The girl was watched and
commented upon as if she had been an
escaped “What-is-it,” and the school-chil
dren, all who dared, went to and from
school that way. Every thing about the
plain little white house eras so mysterious,
although it was like Several dozen other
booses in town. If the curtains happened
to be up they wondered why they were not
down, and if one of the curtains happened
to be down or the blinds to be closed, (hen
it waa very strange,—although the next-
door neighbors might have one or two or three
without beiog particularly noticed.
At first Aunt Jane wouldn’t believe what
ahe heard, but when she saw they never
went to “meetm’,” and took no interest in
either of the two chnrcnes, she suspected
there might be some truth in the gossip,
and when she heard about the “medium”
she made up her mind she would know
whether they were spiritualists or not. So
■he went over to make a neighborly after
noon call, with her knitting-work in a bag
on her arm. She was gone a long while ;
it waa almost tea-time when she came home,
and when she came she was very silent,—
we called it cross and wondered what had
happened. She solemnly announsed at the
tea-tab!e that they were spiritualists, and
no mistake. It semed that they had been
explaining some of their “views” to Aunt
Jane and she was a little vexed that she
had listened so graciously; her conscience
troubled her for net telling them right up
and down what she thought of it all. They
had given her a very polite invitation to a
“seance,” which she hyd emphatically de
clined, and now ahe felt sorry she hadn’t
accepted it, ao that she might know how
far they carried their “nonaence. ”
She had another opportunity however, a
few weeks after,—she waa invited again lo
“seance,” and this time she accepted.
The man of the house, Mr. Wilkins, was
away from home, and this seance was a
very private one. There waa no one in
the room when Aunt Jane went in but
Mrs. Wilkins and the “medium,” a slight
young girl about 16 years eld (a niece of
Mr. Wilkins), and a boy who had lately
come to live in the Wilkins family. Soon
after Aunt Jane arrived the light waa turned
down to a properly solemn pitch, and they
all amt in stately silence. Presently Mrs.
Wilkins asked:—
“Do you feel anything strange?”
“No," said Aunt Jane sharply, “I
don’t.”
Presently she noticed that’the girl acted
strangely, and she became wholly absorded
in watching her. She woald rub her hands
wildly and jerk from one side of her chair
to the other and go through vorious mo
tions which Aunt Jane thought were all
done for effect. Bat as ahe watched her
she grew startled, for the girl seemed in
pain, and when she finally settled back
rigidly in her chair, Aunt Jane sprang up
with a “Turn np that light instantly I ”
The boy instinctively obeyed but Mrs.
Wilkins honied op to the table to turn it
down again. “Why,” said she, “it is a
trance. In a moment she will begin to
t."
Trance or no trance, said Aunt Jane,
•that's a dreadful tick girl. ”
“I tell you there is nothing the matter
with her. She is a medium, and an un
common good one.”
“I tell ;you that’* a dreadful sick girl,
and you must bring me some hot water as
quick aa yon can.”
“I shall do nothing of the kind. She is
not sick.”
“Well,” Mid Aunt Jane, “she is a very
sick girl, and yon go right down to my
house, James, and bring me a pail of hot
The word mustang, is a corruption of
mesteno, the Mexican name for a wild
horse. Many years ago there were thou
sands, no doubt millions, of those animals
in Texas. In 1840, and for several years
thereafter, they were numerous in the
region between the Nueces River and the
Rio Grande. They were found further
north, but not in such numbers. Tinmen a*.
herds of wild horses could be seen grazing
on the prairies. When they saw any one
approaching the leader would often move
to the front and make a reconnoisance. If
things did Dot suit him he would give his
head a peculiar toss, wheel, and sound the
note of alarm. These demonstrations would
be followed by prompt movement on the
part of the herd, sometimes to the front,
but more usually to the rear. They would
wheel into line, change front, move in line
or in column, with as much precision and
order as cavalry. It was wonderful to wit
ness how well they were drilled and disci
plined. In the event a retreat was ordered,
the leader would move in the rear awhile.
If any lageed or straggled they were very
apt to feel hia teeth, if not his heels. On
some occasions a movement to the front
was ordered. It was a charge in line, or
in column, proudly beaded by the leader.
This was the case sometimes when mounted
men were in sight. The Texas rangers
operating in that country were followed by
pack-mules in charge of a guard. It was
necessary at times to form a hollow square,
place mules inside, and to throw out skir
mishers to fire into the animals. If the
leaders could be struck, the charge would
be broken. The horses would retire at
once. The mustangs were jiunted by Mex
icans, and fine looking ones singled oat and
lassoed. Whole herds were ariven at a run
into pens having extended wings, which
contracted as they approached the gate. As
many as 500 mustangs have been penned
at one “run.” They were sold at almost
nothing, $5 being a high price for a choice
horse. These mustangs were a wild set,
often ao better than Indians; some of them
were honest, good men. They were guilty
of many murders and robberies. The Co-
manches made many visits to that region.
They would pounce upon the muatangera,
set mein urfc«, “i-kil! theirt «« eraricedic-
taUxL The Comancues wanted the mus
tangs to ride and to eat. Horse-flesh is a
great delicacy with them. The choice part
is the fat immediately under the name.
The section in question was very hot in
those days for Americans. A Texan was
considered a hereditary enemy by both
mustangers and Indians. His only protec
tion was the rifle and a six-shooter, and a
horse of strength and bottom.
Hark Twiin'ifltory of the Cats.
When I waa fourteen yean old, I lived
with my parents, who were very poor and
correspondingly honest. We had a youth
living with us by the name of Jim Wolfe.
He was decidedly a fine fellow, seventeen
years old, and very diffident. He and I
usually slept together—virtuously—and on
one very cold Vinter’s night a cousin Mary
—she’s married now and gone—gave what
they called a candy pulling in
those days, in the West, and they
took the saucers of hot candy outside
of the house in the snow, under a sort of
old bower that came out from the eaves—
it was a sort of an ell then, all covered with
vines—to cool this hot candy in the, snow,
and they were all sitting around there, and
in the meantime we had gone to bed; we
were not invited to attend this party—we
were too young. The young ladies and
gentlemen were assembled there, and .Tim
and I were in bed. There was about four
inches of snow on the roof of this ell, and
our window looked out on to it, and it was
frozen hard. A couple of tom-cats—it is
possible one might have been of the oppo
site sex—were assembled on the chimney,
in the middle of this ell, and they were
growling at a fearful rate, and switching
their tails about, and going on, and we
couldn’t sleep at alL Finally, Jim said:
“For two cents I’d go out and snake
them cats off that chimney.”
So I said, “Of course you would.”
He said, “Well, I would.”
I said again: “Of course you would.”
He said: “I have a mighty good notion
to do it anyhow.”
Says I, “Of course you have; certainly
you have; you have a great notion to do
it.”
Finally I got his ambition up, and he
raised the window, and climbed out on the
icy roof, with Dothing on but his socks
and very short shirt.
He went climbing along on all fours on
the roof toward the chimney where the cats
were.
In the meantime those young ladies and
gentlemen were enjoying themselves down
under the eaves.
When Jim reached the chimney he arose
to his feet, leaned around the corner, hold
ing on by one hand, and made a pass at the
cats. He missed his aim, lost his hold on
the chimney, his heels flew up, and he shot
down and crashed thro’ those vines, and
lit m the midst of the ladies and gentlemen,
and sat down in those saucers of hot can
dy.
There was a general stampede, of course,
and he came up stairs dropping pieces of
china ware and candy all the way up, and
when -he got up there—now anyl»ody in
the world would have gone into profanity
or something calculated to relieve the mind,
but he didn’t—he scraped the candy off
his legs, nursed his blisters a little, and
said:
“1 could have ketched them cats if I had
had on a good ready.
▲ Billion PUsecfd.
Uniter the English Channel.
The preliminary excavations for this
enterprise are being actively pushed for
ward at Sangatte, near Calais, at a spot
where the cliffs have an altitude of seven
ty feet above the level of the sea at high
water. A point has been chosen where
the rocks of gray chalk which have to be
traversed by the tunnel come to show their
heads at the surface of the soil. On the
opposite shore similiar bonnga have been
begun, so that the works are proceeding
simultaneously. The soundings that have
been made during the last few years dem
onstrate that the base of the Channel con
sists of a compact mass of chalk, resting
on banks of slate. This mass, which is
easy enough to pierce, is said at the same
time to resist filtration sufficiently. It would
therefore, present a substance excellently
adapted for perforation. But what yet re
mains to be proved is whether the succes
sion of these chalk layers will not disclose
some irregularities or ruptures which would
render the enterprise impossible. The
shaft at Sangatte has now reached a depth
of nearly 200 feet, or about 130 feet below
the level of high water. It has a width of
ten feet, is and lined with oak, so that the
water cannot penetrate very freely, not
more than seventedn gallons a minute.
This water is not salt, which is thought to
prove that the layers hitherto traversed
have their point of contact sufficiently far
from the shore to prevent the sea from as
cending the shaft. It is mtended to sink
to a depth of 300 feet, and then a gallery
will be excavated in the direction of Eng
land. Up to the present the engineers are
highly satisfied with the results obtained,
as no irregularities have been discovered,
which is considered a good augury for the
success of the enterprise. It is impossible,
however, to proceed at a quicker rate than
twenty inches a day. Nevertheless in
eighteen months or two years enough pro
gress will have been made to arrive at a
perfect understanding about the possibility
of the undertaking. It is stated that the
work will not fail through lack of funds.
Expecting Bad News.
A boy apparently very much agitated,
rushed into a house and said to th. lady:
‘I don’t waDt ter alarm yer, bnt I’ve got
big news. The man sent me up from the
livery stable to tell yer.”
“Good heavens! What is it?"
‘Why, you know your httle boy Aleck,
what the man can’t keep outen the livery
stable ’round th'e the comer?”
“Yes, well?”
“I told Aleck just now not to go inter
the stable among the horses, but he would
not mind me.”
“Oh dear! what has happened?”
“He said he wanted to see what a mole
ud do when yer tickled ita heels with a
straw."
‘Oh, heavens!” gasped the lady, and
clung to the mantle for support.
'Well, ma'am yer boy Aleck got a straw and
snuck up behiu'a sorrel mule, tickled him
oa the heels, an’ ”
The lady started for the door.
“An’ the blame critter never lifted a
hoof’ called the boy; “never so much as
■witched his tail! It’s a mighty good thing
for Aleck that he didn’t, too,an’ I thought
I’d come up and tell ver.”
—California expect* to make 10,600,-
600 gallons of wine this year.
It would be curious to know how many
readers have brought fully home to their
inner consciousness the real significance at
that little word “billion” which we have
seen so glibly used. There are, doubtless,
many thousands who cannot appreciate its
true worth even when reduced to fragments
jo. —..ay umimilalion. Its arithmeti
cal symbol is stmjile ami without mueO
pretension; there are no large figures—
just a modest one followed by a dozen
ciphers, and that is all. Let us briefly take
a glance at it as a measure of time, dis
tance and weight. As a measure of
time, I would take one second as the unit,
and carry myself in thought through the
lapse of ages back to the first day of the
year one of our era, remembering that in
all those years we have 365 days, and in
•very day jUBt 86,OCXf seconds of time.
Hence, in returning in thought back again
to this year of grace 1880, one might have
supposed that a billion of seconds had long
since elapsed; but this is not so. We have
not even passed the one-sixteenth of that
number in all these long eventful years, for
it takes just 31,687 years, seventeen days,
twenty-two hours, and forty-five minutes
and five secends to constitute a billion of
seconds of time. It is no easy matter to
bring under the cognizance of the human
eye a billion objects of any kind. Let us
try in imagination to arrange this number
for inspection, and for this purpose I would
select a sovereign as a familiar object. Let
us put one on the ground and pile upon it
as many as will reach twenty feet in height;
then let us place numbers of similar
columns in close contact forming a straight
line, and making a sort of wall twenty feet
high, showing only the thin edges of the
coin. Imagine two such walls running
parallel to each other and forming, as it
were, a long street. We must then keep
on extending these walls for miles—nay,
hundreds of miles, and still we shall be far
short of the required number. And it is
not until we have extended our imaginary
street to a distance of 2386} miles that we
shall have presented for inspection our one
billion of coins. Or in lieu of this arrange
ment we may place them flat upon the
ground, forming one continuous line like a
golden chain, with every link in close con
tact. But to do this we must pass over
land and sea, mountain and valley, desert
and plain, crossing the equator, and return
ing around the southern hemisphere through
the trackless ocean, retrace our way across
the equator, then still on and on, until we
again arrive at our starting point, and when '
we have thus passed a golden chain around
the huge bulk of the earth, we shall be but
at the beginning of our task. Wc must
drag this imaginary r.hain qo less than 753
times round the globe.
Smart Boy.
“Well, sonny whose pigs are those! ’’
“Old sow’s, sir!”
“Whose sow is it?”
“Oldman’s, air.”
“Well, then, who is your old man?
“If you'll mind the pigs, I’ll run home
and ask the old woman.”
“Never mind, sonny, I want a smart
boy; what can you do?”
“Oh! I can do more than considerable.
I can milk the geese, ride the turkeys to
water, hamstring the grass-hoppers, light
fires for flies to court by, cut buttons off
dad’s coat when he is at prayer, keep tally
for dad and mam when they scold at a
mark—old woman is always ahead.”
“Got any brother?”
“Lots of ’em, all named Bill except Bob,
his names’! Sam—my names'! Lany, but
they call me Lazy Lawrence, for short-
a”
•Well, you’re moat too smart for me.”
Travel on old stick in the mud, I
shan't hire yon for a boas to-day.
Why is a woman with a long dress a
vagrant? Because she has no visible
means of support.
There is something wrong in a man’s
upper story when he allows himself to
be kicked Into the cellar.
▲ Married man Is like a candle be
cause sometime* he goes out in the
night when he ought not to.