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The Cedartown Advertiser.
3Pubfi.sh.ed every Thursday by D. 33. FREEMAN.
Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance.
NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 44.
Main St. Cedartown Ga.,
IP YOU WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH.
C. G. JANES,
attobnby a.t law,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
t*r offlce In the Court House. febi9-iy
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
attorney at law,
CEDARTOWN, GA
ir First Room up Stairs over J. S. Stubbs A
Co's Store.
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OFFICE EAST SIDE OF EIIN ST.
CEDARTOWN, GA
w. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. Surgeon.
CEDARTOWN, GA
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where be may
lound ready to attend calls either day or night.
Janl5-ly
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown, Ga.
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Having lust opened oat a shop at the store of
a D. Hogg * Co., respectfully requests the
public to call on him when needing work In his
fine. leos-tr
M. PHILLIPS & CO.
MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOR
Machinery of all Kinds.
Sixty-four different makes of Steam Engines and Boilers ranging
from 3 to 40 horse-power—new and second-hand—all at very low prices.
Also agents for the
Albany and Brown Cotton Gin,
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 eclected 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,
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.
Persons contemplating the erection of buildings may save money by
calling on us for prices of LUMBER, LATHS and SHINGLES. Come and
see us.
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.,
Cedartown. Gra.
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA
will practice In the Superior Courts of Polk,
Paulding, Harabon, Floyd and Carroll counties,
special attention given to collections ana real
estate business. marll-iv
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In t.he most skill-
tn manner. Offlce over J. S. Stubbs A Co.’s.
febHMy
MT OLD HOME.
The pump is broken, the chain is rusty.
And the water, once pure, is fetid and musty;
The robin that sung on the nodding spray.
Grew weary of silence and flew away ;
The brambles have covered the ivy vine,
And in through the shattered windows twine.
The stoop is broken and fallen down.
And covered with moss is the threshold brown;
The storm sweeps wild through the open door.
And the rank weeds spring through the broken
fleor;
The roof is fallen out and in
The swallows flit in the twilight dim.
The apple tree stands by the garden wall.
And in its dead branches, knotty and tall,
Hangs the rod we threw in ohildlah glee,
To knock the apples from the tree;
The tree is dead, and on the hill
Toe restless feet in death are still.
And in the home that once was mine.
When I was yonng and in my prime,
There's nothing to me that seems the same
But the babbling brook at the footof the lane,
Which, as it murmurs, eeems to say :
You and your home are old and gray.
O, faces fair ! Oh, hearts so strong !
Ye in the grave have lain so long.
And yet I almost seem to hear
Ycnr merry voices ringing clear,
Happy and glad, full of joys
Were the days when we were girls and boys.
Good-bye, old home! in the shadows dim
I’ll sadly sing my evening hymn—
That we sang together when we were yonng,
And the path of life had just begun,
The path is ended by all save me,
And I with my lost ones soon shall be.
A. J. YOUNG,
DEALER IN
Gins
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. Parries owning wild
lands In Georgia would do well to correspond
with me, as I nave app lcatlons for thousands
of acres whose owners are un known. No tax 11.
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. 50 cents per lot.
For ascertaining If land la claimed or occupleC
toy squatter. $1 per lor* Always In advance. To
insure attention enclo 5 e a s-cent stamp. Parties
owning wild lands should look to their interests,
as many 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
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
livery feed,
AND
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
Being: supplied with new Horses, New Vehi
cles. 4'.. we are prepared to meet the wants ol
the public In our line. Jans-’ ”
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 JAME3. H. PRICK
tebia-iy.
CALHOUN
Livury and Sale Stable.
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props
CiLHOM. GEOBOl
Ravine lately n^rchased the above Stable and
RnnnHed it wlUi goo^ Horses and a splendid
line of new Vehicles, we 2 re rJnr Tinp?"
the wants or the traveling pJhlio In our Use.
Parlies wishing vehicles sent •.? &ny_ ot
trains on the Selma. Rome and Dalton Rat
or to any other point, may telegraph us.
have their wants promptly ana properly at-
" 1 'FOSTER 4 HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga
JanS-tT
purposes with perfect safety,
guaranteed.
|X3T Give me a call.
Good treatment
mr!8-ly
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS!
New Goods and New Prices.
Apple Blossoms.
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, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky v Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Notious, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentleman’s Underwear Vert
Low. Remember the place—last Brick btore on Souiii MAIN Street, west
side. nov6-ly
BAKER & HALL,
DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE,
such: as
Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iroa ind
Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Rakes,
Manure Forks, Etc.
BUGGY WHEELS, SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCIES,
WHEELBAHHOW S,
SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, HINGES, CHAINS, ITC.
We have just opened a Hardware House in Ce^artwn, and
aek a trial in Goods and Prices. We are
Strictly in the Hardware Bnsines.
SSSE'SrSSSS and will be prepared to furni.h goods in our line * «he»p M
•rSSSfSWi they ean be bought in any market. Give ns a ** before
iTonc^going elsewhere.
2To one who engages fairs to make great pay.
QBOBOE STINSON * CO., Portland, Kline.
ISAAC T. MEEJ,
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—DEALER IN—
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware end Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPECIALTY.
Every variety of lob wort in my line neatly
done. I respectfully solicit the patronage or
the pubUc, and would be pleased to have all my
XWonds and customers call and see me_when_ln
town.
janS-ly
I. T. MEE
W Great chance to make money. We
need a person In every town to take
■ subscriptions tor the largest, cheap
est and beat illustrated family Publication In
the w ,rld- Anyone can become a successful
SSnL SU elegant works of art given free w
SSEnEL VTprlce is so low that*™*
One Monday morning in May when Mr.
Castor, of the law firm of Castor & Brush,
entered his offlce he found on his desk a
bunch of fragrant white flowers with that
delicate flush at the heart that makes apple
blossoms so irresistible.
Apple blossoms, sir,” his clerk explain
ed. “I spent Sunday in the country, and
brought them down, thinking you might
like to see some.
Mr. Castor’s preoccupied face lighted up
with pleasure. Thank you, Mr. Clark,’
he said. “Get some water, will you, John ?
We must keep them as fresh as we can, I
shall want to take some home to my wife
to-night. There, that looks quite country
like, doesn’t it, Clark?” Arranging the
blossoms to advantage against the law
books and falling back a little to look at
the effect.
Clark smiled, and Mr. Castor went to
work at his law cases. ■ But something was
the matter with him. His thoughts would
go wondering off to the green meadow by
the side of the river where Clark told him
he had broken the fragrant branch.
‘I wonder,” he soliloquized, “whether
it is anything like that meadow where
pshaw! what am I thinking of 1 In a case
of ejectment—wonder if I could sing
Annie Laurie;’ used to know that tune.’
And he hummed softly to himself ■■
“Gave me her promise tru*.”
just as the door was thrown violently open
and John Edson, the most qiarrelsome man
in New York, as his frierds and enemies
both agreed, burst in.
“What’s the matter tow, Mr. Edson?”
asked Mr. Castor, risiig to offer his client
a seat ,
‘Matter? Mattelenaugh, sir! But if
he thinks I’m goiig to submit to the rob
bery by his knavfry he’ll find himself very
much mistaken I My brother, sir, my own
brother—think of that, sir!—is trying to
cheat me out A my share of our paternal
property. I vant you to take steps immedi
ately to stophis proceeding. He threatens
to bring in i bill against the estate that will
swallow u> every cent—but what’s that?
Apple bbssoms! Where did you get
those?”
Mr. Clark brought them down this
mominj- Sweet, though rather out of
place n a lawyer’s offlce, don’t you
think ?’
“I don’t know,” said Mr. Edison,
thoufhtfully, taking up the tumbler and
smefing the fragrant things. “Where did
thee grow?”
‘Up in a little country village in Con-
neticut. Clara is from the country, you
kiow, and I should think from his dsscrip-
tin it’s quite a pretty place. Green mead-
iW8 and river, you know, and all that sort
if thing. But what do you want me to
do?”
‘Wait a minute, can’t you?” said Mr.
Edson, impatiently. You lawyers are al
ways in a tearing hurry. ”
Mr. Caster raised his eye-brows, but
made no verba answer to his rather incon
sistent remark, while Mr. Edson leaned
back in his chair and looked at the apple
blossoms. In a minute he started up and
brushed his hand across his eyes.
It makes me think of old times,” he
said. 1 nearly broke my neck once climb
ing an old apple tree for blossoms like that
to give to Lucy Baird, the prettiest girl in
school. I fell from the top branch and my
brother—I never had but one, sir—picked
me up and carried me home. He was real
good to me all the long tune I was sick,
too. I think he’d have died for me then,
and just to think that now we should be
quarreling over a few hundred dollars!
Castor, you needn’t do anything about this
matter—just yet, at least. I—I guess I’ll
go see him. And say”—rather Bhyly—
“you couldn’t spare me a little twig with a
few of those blossoms on it could you?”
Mr. Castor willingly broke off a branch
and handed it to him, but he watched Mr.
Edson’s departure with a comical smile on
his countenance.
“Those apple blossoms are doing sad
work in t.his office,” he said laughingly to
Clark. “I’ve lost one promising case
through them already, and as for keeping
my own mind on anything legal it’s an ntter
unpossibility- It’s evident to my mind
that law and flowers were never meant to
go together.”
Mr. Edson, for his part, went down to
his brother’s offlce and entered with a little
hesitation. The brother, a man older than
Edson, with one of those stern, self-re
pressed faces which says as plainly as words
could, 1 ‘I’ve had a hard life and I don’t
care a asnt about you. I’ll have what I.
ean get whether you suffer or not,” Kartled
as Edson came in. His eyes rested an in
stant longingly on the apple blossoms; but
the next moment he drew back, asking
coldly, “Did you wish to see me?”
'Yes, George, ” answered Edson, finger
ing the flowere awkwardly, “I came to see
about that matter—that—that property,
you know. It’s a pity we should quarrel
about it and—and—well, I don’t care.
You’re the oldest and had the hardest row
to hoe always, and I guess likely there was
fully my snare spent on me when I was in
college; and see here, old fellow I’ll do
whatever you say if you’ll speak to your
lawyer and send him up to my office. ”
There was a moment’s silence, and the
young Edson, looking down, saw his
brother put his hand to his throat as if he
were choking. The next moment the elder
spoke almost as awkwardly as his brother
had done.
It wasn’t the money I 'cared for, but—
but I wanted the old place. 1—well, 1 had
some associations with it.”
The young brother started. Associations?
What associations of pleasure could George
have with the place? There was none,
could be none except those with Lucy
Baird, who had been for one short year his
own wife, now laid away in Greenwood.
He sprang forward, “George, did you care
fur her? You could have won her if you
had tried, and you knew it. She cared for
me first because I was your brother. Did
—do you mean to say you have gave up
the chance of winning her for me?”
For a minute or two the Edsons might
as well have been a couple of Frenchmen
meeting after a long separation. The elder
was the first to recover himself.
“There, there, John,” he said, in exactly
the same way he used to speak when they
were boys together, “I’ve been hard, but
you see I never had a wife to soften me,
and. I intended to pay you for .your share of
the property at first but—well, it’s no use
talkiig it over. Of course you didn’t know,
but I kept thinking you might have known
if you wanted to. But there, never mind
that now. Did you know that Midland
bonds are going up? I’ll make a good
thing out of them yet.”
“I can't stay,” answered Edson, opening
the d»r, “but I’ll see you again. Come
up to dinner with me, won’t you Z”
“I will,”-a^Hed the brother, heartily,
and with a cordon 1
ed.
Tbs younger brother went straight home
and aut the precious branch of apple blos
soms, which had been a divining-rod to
him showing where the richest treasure of
a brother’s love lay hidden, into a glass and
set it where he could see it often. The
older as he turned to his desk again saw
thr' ■' petals lying on the floor. He hesita
ted a moment, and then stooped and quick
1y gathered them up, layirg them reverent
ly in his pocket-book.
hand-shake they part-
1’raying on a Race Tlaclc
The eel, like the catfish, lives in the
mud on the nver bottoms, and many
methods are adopted tocapture the slippery
wriggling fellow. The bob is merely a
bunch of common ground-worms, knit
upon a string with a needle. Eel-spearing
is also a favorite pastime with many, hut
as it requires wading in mud and water to
hunt out his habitation, it is withal dis
agreeable and dirty. The eel is very tena
cious of life, and ean be kept for many
days after being caught. His home is
under the stumps, in the hollows, in mud
banks, around the bridge and wharf-
pilings, and under bunches of long river-
grass. The usual method employed to
take the eel is with the float, or “cork”
line. The line—of hemp—is from eight
to twelve feet long, with small hook and
sinker of lead. The float may be either of
wood, cork or quill. The hook should be
three inches above the sinker, the latter
lying on the bottom. The float should
be adjusted in such a manner, after the
depth of water has been ascertained, so
that it will swim in a perpendicular posi
tion cn the surface. Worms are acknow
ledged to be the best bait for float-lines,
and it Bhould be firmly fastened on the
hook, as the peculiar shape of the mouth
of the eel enables it to strip the worm from
the hi.sk by sucking. The bite of the eel
is a succession of gentle nibbles, and it is
difficult to tell at times that you have
hooked one.
Fine wire may lie substituted for the
hemp line, and it is peculiarly adapted to
eel fishing. Every boy knows from experi
ence, the difficulties and troubles he has
encountered by having the line slimed and
twisted and tied into countless and intri
cate knots by the contortions of his cap
tive. It requires care to keep the wire
from kinking by repeated winding and un
winding, but it helps to release the hook
from the liouth and obviates the annoyance
of having lo stop fishing to wash the line or
unravel kbts. The cork may be held in posi
tion on thivwire by inserting asmall piece of
stick between the hole in the cork and
wire, or thfe cork may be entirely dispensed
with, at the optien of the angler. Another
method, and one frequently practiced in
our local waters, is the “eel-pot,” although
it affords no real amusement beyond the
setting and taking up. An old demijohn,
after having the particles of glass removed
from the willow casing, is tied in some
convenient spot over night. A string, with
a few worms or a piece of meat tied to it,
is inserted in the mouth. The eel passes
into the mouth and once in he becomes a
prisoner. When it is taken up in the
morning, you are frequently rewarded for
your pains by securing six or eight eelB.
The most effective method of skinning an
eel is to roll it violently in the sand. This
loosens the skin; then, with a knife, make
an incision near the head, grasping the
head in the left hand, seize the skin with
the right one, and pull hard but regularly,
and it will come off without difficulty.
L nappropriate Hymns.
In the late hurdle race at Brighton
Beach, Coney Island, one of the horses
named L. L. was mounted by a lad named
Kearns, who had worked around the stables
for a few weeks. He had never ridden in
but one hurdle race previous to yesterday.
When he reached the backstretch L. L.
was third in the race. Leaping a hurdle
his feet caught in the top and he went over
in a somersault, Kearns striking his head
first on the track and the horse falling on
him. The horses following dashed over
the hurdle, while a chorus of “Ohs!” arose
from the crowd on the other side of the
track The horse soon rose and walked
away, but his rider lay motionless in the
dirt.' Many thought he was dead, and a
string of jockeyB, stable boys and idlers
started across the field towards the boy. In
the line towered the tall form of young
Father Dougherty. With the natural love
of his countrymen for horse-racing he had
been watching the equine contests. When
the Father came to where the boy lay,
with his bloody face turned to the sky and
his lilac and red colors covered with dirt,
he saw that the boy was insensible and ap
parently dying. Requesting the jockeys,
stable boys and others to kneel down the
reverend father offered up a prayer for the
boy, annoiatmg him and performing other
services of his Church for the dying. The
scene was strikingly impressive. Horse
men and nders who had never knelt in
prayer before obeyed the request of the
Father, their bronzed, earnest and bard
faces softening in sympathy for the crushed
jockey. All this was unknown to the
crowd on the quarter-stretch and grand
stand. Shortly afterward a jockey re
turned to the crowded stretch and remarked
to a companion: “I guess Kearns will die,
for they all kneeltd on the track and
prayed for him over there.”
Hymn singing is not always appropriate
to occasions, and leaders often make singu
lar selections. A minister preached
solemn sermon on the judgpient, and gave
out at the close
That awful day will surely come—
which the choir sang to the lively air
“Coronation,” “Brother,’ said the preacher
to the chorister m the vestibule, “why
didn’t you sing Yankee Doodle?’ ”
“At an immersion baptism on the bank of
a river, as each candidate, male or female,
emerged dripping from the water, the
people interjected the favorite revivalist
chorus;—
They look like mien in uniform,
They look like men of war.
At a protracted meeting one of the
hardest families in the neighborhood—by
name Ransom—were persuaded to go to
the front as subjects fori prayer. The re
joicing people shouted lpstily in prospect
of half a dozen much neekjed conversions—
The year of jubilee is! come;
Return ye ransomed stumers, home.
This made old Ranso(u mad. He took
as a personal insult,, got up from his
knees and took his bedraggled better half
by the arm, saying aloud:’—” Come on, old
woman,they dont want the like of us here;
come on, boys and gals, ”pnd led the whole
tribe out of church in flaming dudgeon! An
English leaders set the advqnthymn, “Christ
the Lord is Risen To-day—^Hallelujah!” to
the Tyrolese waltz, and a '.Southern camp
meeting Christian sung, J‘When I Can
Read My Title Clear,” t^> the minstrel
melody “Wait for the Waff:, a and We’ll
All take a Ride! ”
Simpson burg’s Conauarum.
Simpsonsburg is not noted for his activ
ity; quite the contrary. At the club the
other evening he got up energy sufficient
to propound a conumdrum. Said he:
“Boys, why am I like a torpedo?” After
having recovered from the shock produced^
by Simpsonsburg’s unwonted* activity the
guesses flowed in quick succession. Jones
thought it was because a torpedo is full of
empty noise; but that was not right, Simp-
sonburg said. Neither was Robinson’s
guess, that it was because a torpedo doesn’t
say anything when it speaks. Smith tried
to work out a pun on torpedo, torpid oh,
but failed miserably. Everybody began
to iook sick. Then Brown tried. He said
it was because a torpedo was not good for
anything till its neck was twisted. Simp-
sonburg shook his head with something
like animation. One of the boys said it
was because it was a relief when either
went off, and another ventured the guess,
in an undertone, that it was a blasted nuis
ance. Finally Simpsonburg had to di
vulge; he could contain himself no lon
ger. He said it was because he was full
of snap. The boys yswned languidly;
every one of them acknowledged to Simp-
sonburg that he should never have guessed
it, which pleased Simpsonburg mightily,
Winking Photograph..
Winking photographs are said to be pro
duced in the following manner: One nega
tive is taken with the sitter’s eyes opeD,
another without change of position with
the eyes shut. The two negatives are
printed on opposite sides of the paper,
registered very exactly. Held before a
flickering lamp or other variable source of
light, the combined photographs show
rapid alterations of closed and open eyes
the effect being that of rapid winking.
, —Bears were very numerous within
two miles of Boston In 1725.
Deep in the Earth’l.
p«A
fragments of quartz, which had been used
as ornaments. A flint spear-head was
picked up far back in the cave, imbedded
m the clay. How it came there is a mys
tery, unless some Indian, entering the cave
and finding a wild beast there, attacked it,
and this spear, hurled at the animal, miss
ing its aim, sped far back into the recesses
and there remained until found by the
scientists. No other traces of any kind
which would indicate that the portion of
the cave in which the spear-head was found
had been visited by man or beast were dis
covered, and hence the theory as to how it
came in the lonely spot. Dr. Leidy has
taken his specimens along with him, and
will make a report of his discovery to the
scientific world in due time. As yet the
lower deposit has not been removed, and
it is thought it will reveal more interesting
facts for the scientists than the middle
layer. The cave has been explored to a
depth of one hundred and fifty feet, and
one can with ease walk the first one hund
red feet. After that stooping is required
at times. The indications are that the part
thus explored is only a hallway, from
which entrances can be made, after the
earth and deposits have been removed, to
larger and more remote chambers, which
already appeared at different points. The
top of the cave is a limestone arch, which
reflects many brilliant colors when the
light of the torches flash upon it.
Flith Manures.
As with other manures, so with fish
manure, there is a choice of soils to which
it may be best applied. The soils from
which highest results might be expected
from applying fish guano, are those defi
cient in nitrogen and phosphoric acid, and
in which the stimulating effect of the de
composition of fish may render other ma.
terials available for plant food. Soils that
have been treated repeatedly with fish
guano, phosphates and the various forms
of bone manure, are often overstocked with
these elements, and are deficient in potash;
while it is also true that many soils are
naturally poor in potash. Of couise it will
at once be seen that to apply fish manures
to such lands and neglect to apply the
other necessary elements wanting in the
fish, would be to lose not only both money
ana time but very likely the crop. But
here the rule that would obtain in the use
of fish manures, is that which would also
obtain with any other kind of fertilizer in
the hands of a careful faimer, and that is
that the deliciences of a given soil are best
ascertained by actual trial, not only with
different manures, but with various crops.
The best form of fish manures is the dry
ground fish guano, free from oil. The
water and oil left in the “scrap” as the fisb
comes from the press, add weight and bulk
without in any degree improving its value.
But experience has proved that the coarse
fish-scrap, as it comes from the oil facto
ries, cannot be uniformly spread; is not
easily diffused by the moisture of the soil;
is acted upon by a few roots of growing
plants, and becomes slowly available to the
roots that do find it The divided dry fish
is, however, easily spread, is diffused by
rains, and is thus made accessible to a
large number of roots, and can be ab
sorbed by them when they reach it Per
haps one of the best methods of using the
fish-scrap by farmers, is to use it in a corn-
pest with muck, good manure, ashes, lime
and vegetable refuse, fermenting the whole
mass by the use ot urine. There is a higher
and more practical consideration connec
ted with this subject to which we have not
alluded, but which is of vast, Importance
to the agriculture of New England, and it
is one which it is the main object of (his
article to enforce; and that is the greater
use of fish manures by our own farmers.
At present its principal use is by the manu
facturers of phosphates and other forms of
commercial fertilizers, by whom it is used
for supplying the nitrogen and phosphoric
acid to their manures. It is also sent in
bulk by the cargo to enrich the lands of
France and Holland. Is it too much to
expect that at no distant day, some effort
may be made successful for furnishing
their fish-scraps in some portable, concen
trated form to out own farmers? To this
end we hope to see some earnest concerted
action put in operation at once.
Executed on BL Wedding Day.
The Crystal Hill cave, Pa.', is situated
on the limestone ndge which separates the
valley of the Pocono from Chefrry valley,
in Stroud’s township, on the south side of
the ridge, three miles west of tttiat place
and five miles from the Water Imp. The
ridge on which it is located begins on the
Delaware river, and runs west fon twenty-
five miles, embracing such eminences as
‘Shawnee Hill,” “Fox Hill,” rCrystal
Hill,’’ and others. The cave is Alevated
about eight hundred feet above tile river
level, at whai is known as Hosier's \ knob,
and from it a most picturesque view lean be
obtained. Lately Mr. T. Duncan Faret,
president of the Tannite company his be
come interested in the cave, and has had
several men employed for some time i*i ex
cavating it, and some very interesting \ dis
coveries have been made. Recently, \Dr.
Leidy, of the Academy of Natural Sciem
of Philadelphia, and Dr. T. C. Porter^ of
Lafayette college, Easton, arrived
made researches in the cave, so far
has been explored. The entrance was
first almost completely hidden by depoei:
of clay and animal and vegetable matt
but now it has been opened so that tin
mouth is about sixteen feet square. Thi
bottom of the cavern was found to be cov-l
ered with a thick deposit of clay, on the
top of which was a deposit, varying in
depth, of a dark substance, aUd on this is
an incrustation of lime which has fallen
from the roof of the cave. It is the deposit
of rich, dark material that particularly in
terests the scientists, and to this Dr. Leidy
and Dr. Porter gave their attention. They
found many indications of the presence in
the cave at one time or another of many
Qnimalii, some of which were doubtless
brought there by a nimals of prey, and
others nsed it for their den.. Among the
bones of animals found were the jaw-bones
of the raccoon, skunk, weasel, beaver,
squirrel, porcupine, woodchuck, fox, wild
cat, elk, deer, and bison; the shells of two
or more turtles, the bones of wild turkey,
and the vetebrse of snakes in large quanti
ties. Other bones will doubtless reveal the
presence of other animals. The most in
teresting specimen found, however, were
the head and teeth of a gigantic beaver
(Castoroidet Ohioensis) and a large pec
cary (Dicotylut compresswi), neither of
which has ever been found before in Penn
sylvania. Besides these were found bones
which had been burned and split—evident
ly the work of the aborigines, who sought
the marrow m the bones. Indian relics
were also found, among them being polished
bone needle* and bedldna, sea-shells, and
On the 22d of August a melancholy mar
riage cerem my was celebrated in tbe prin
cipal jail of Madrid. Some days previous
ly a young man named Alvarez Oliva and
his mistress, with whom he had lived for
several years, were tried for murder by the
criminal tribunals in the Palacio de Justiz,
and having been proved guilty, were sen
tenced, the former to death by the garote,
the latter to ten years’ imprisonment with
hard labor. Shortly after the condemna
tion they craved permission of the authori
ties to !>c united in matrimony ere the dread
sentence of the law should be carried into
effect, in order that their only child, a little
girl live years old, should be legitimized.
Then: petition was granted, and the jail
chaplain pronounced the blessing of the
church upon their union on the morning of
the day appointed for Alvarez’s execution.
Having duly exchanged rings and pro
nounced vows of mutual fidelity “till death
should part them,” they took an eternal
and affectionate leave of one another, after
which the bride was removed to the scene
of her future punishment, and the bride
groom was conducted to the condemned
cell, where, having confessed his sins and
received absolution, he was pinioned and
conveyed to the scaffold. A few minutes
later he had ceased to live. Surely no
grimmer expiation of a capital offense
has ever been suffered by the most atrocious
of criminals than to be inexorably strangled
on his wedding morning by the public exe
cutioner.
That Span New Umbrella;
If all the flustered grandpas and grand
mas knew how much they contribute to the
humor of common life and the keen enjoy
ment of children by the fun they innocent-
i ly make while hunting for their spectacles
iwhile they are all the time perched on their
heads, they would often be quite reconciled
to such mistakes. A victim of the same
description was a good old lady who had
just finished her shopping in one of the
Boston dry goods stores.
“There!” she cried, in an excited voice,
“I should like to know what’s become of
that ambnl! 1 sot it up agin tbe counter
when 1 come in, and afore I could torn
round it’s gone—and it was only on a Mon
day that I gin four and six for’t.”
“What kind of an umbrella was it,
ma’am?” asked the polite clerk in his
blandest tones.
“A spick and span new gingham, young
man,” was the response, “with an iv’ry
handle on’t and a ”
“Like the one in your hand, ma’am, fee
instance?”
* ‘.Sakes alive ?” she exclaimed. And one
might have thought she saw a serpent
rather than her own “spick and span
gingham,” with “iv’ry handle" clutched
fast in her hand- She colored up like a
druggust’s window, and went off amidst
unintelligible excuses. She never felt so
flustered in all her days, as she told Jemima
Ann when she got heme.
“Well, my boy, if you want a tiger
you’ve come to the right place, for this
and the bit round Fort Perovski are almost
the only spots on the whole river where
there are any left; indeed, I might say the
only spots in all Central Asia, except the
great jungle of the Ili. two days’ journey
north of this.”
So spoke CoL Petroff (the Russian com
mandant of tne little outpost of Tchinaz,on
the Upper Syr-Daria), to his excited junior
officer, Lieut. Galkin, who had made up
his mind that the first duty of every right-
minded officer was to shoot a tiger single-
handed, and that life would be a blank to
him till he had done so.
“And what's the best way to get at
them?” asked the young man, with a flash
ot excitement on his handsome face.
“Well, if you’re so anxious to make
their acquaintance."said the veteran, smil
ing at the lad’s eagerness, “there are sev
eral ways of doing it. First and foremost,
you can just follow the beast’s trail till you
come upon him, and then shoot him down;
but that's rather dangerous, and not very
certain either, for the trail’s apt to get
blurred in among these big reeds.”
“Well?”
“Well, secondly, you can drift along the
bank in a'boat, and fire at ’em as they
come down to drink: but that’s not always
certain, because, if there’s a moon, they
see you and run away, and If there’s not,
you can’t see them at all. Thirdly, there’s
the cage."
“The cage?”
“Yes; you shut yourself up in an iron
cage among the reeds, with a big bit of
horse-flesh beside it by way of bait, and
when the tiger scents the meat, and comes
after tit, you fire at him.”
“Capital I” shouted Galkin, with a loud
laugh; “that’s quite a new idea. The cage
be it by all means. ”
“Well, I wouldn’t begin with that, if I
were you, my boy,” said the Colonel,
gravely, “for it’s a risky business at best.
A tiger-hunt’s very good fun so long as it’s
you who are hunting the tiger, but when
the tiger takes to hunting you, it alters the
case a good deal.”
However, Galkin was not to be moved,
and daybreak next morning found him in
his cage among the huge reeds (tall
enough to overtop a six-foot grenadier with
his cap on), through which, as they sway
ed in the morning breeze, he caught a pass
ing glimpse, every now and then, of the
broad, shining river, and the little tumble-
down mud hovels and clustering trees on
the opposite shore.
The most, trying part of an exciting ad
venture is the waiting for it to begin, and
so our hero found it; but, luckily, he had
not long to wait. The Central Asian tiger
has a keen scent for prey of any kind, and
the warning crackle of the reeds was
speedily followed by the gliding out of
a huge gaunt yellow body, straight toward
Galkin’s ambush.
Despite his perilous position(for the cage
wasaprettyoldone,and its rusty bars seemed
hardly to be trusted against the rush of a
full-grown tiger), Galkin could scarcely
help laughing at this curious reversal of
menagerie rules—the man in the cage, and
the wdd beast walking round it to look at
him. But he was not the man to let either
the joke or the danger unsteady his hand.
He aimed carefully at the vital spot behind
the fore-shoulder, and let fly.
The huge beast leaped high into the air,
rolled over on its hack, and, after a few
convulsive kicks, lay dead before him.
Hurrah! Up sprung Galkin, quite forget
ting the cage in his excitement, and hit
his head such a bump against the bars that
for a moment hardly knew where he was.
The shout was answerea Dy a long snarl
ing cry, and out from the reeds broke a
second tiger, evidently a young one, al
though quite big enough to have finished
our friend with one bite. Galkin felt for
his cartridge-pouch, to reload for a second
6hot, when, lo! no pouch was to be found.
And now, to his dismay, he perceived that
it had been off when he jumped up, and
was lying outside the cage, where it had
rolled over a slight descent of the land
quite out of his reach.
Here was a pretty piece of business.
But, if the hunter was at a nonplus, the
tiger himself seemed to be no less so. This
cross-barred machine, with a motionless
human figure inside of it. (for Galkin,
finding himself defenseless, remained .is
still as a statue), was a complete puzzle to
him. He had never seen anything of the
kind before. It might be a trap. Who
could tell?” On the whole, he appeared
to think that his wisest way was to begin
with the horse-flesh, which he soon dis
posed of—a somewhat disagreeable hint to
Galkin of what might shortly befall him.
Breakfast over, the tiger-kitten seemed
to wax frolicksome. He leaped up against
the cage, and put his fore-paws on tbe top
of it, bringing his face so near Galkin’s that
the poor Lieutenant almost felt the hot,
rank breath. Suppose the bars were to
give way I”
But what did. happen was almost as bad.
Overbalanced by the beast’s weight, the
cage rolled over, and the unlucky officer
along with it; while the tiger, delighted
with the sport, and evidently thinking the
whole affair a toy meant for his own
special amusement, patted it about with
bis huge paws like a cat playing with a
mouse, tumbling it over once or twice, and
bumpling poor Galkin against the bars till
he was pretty well bruised. Ali at once
there came a tremendous crash, as a thick
clump of reeds gave way, and splash down
into the river went cage, Galkin and all!
Fortunately for our hero, there was a
mud-bank close to tbe shore, so that the
water only came up to his belt; hut, even
so, to sit waist-deep in a cold river for an
indefinite time, with a tiger mounting
guard over him, was anything but a plea
sant prospect. Morevcr, the tiger, which
was standing on the bank above, with a
face of great disgust at the less .of its toy,
seemed strongly inclined to leap down after
jt; in which case the sportsman would be
rolled over m deep water, and drowned at
once.
Just at that moment came the sharp
crack of a rifle. The tiger fell headlong
into the rive,r while Galkin,looking up,saw
a boat coming toward him, pulled by two
Tartars, behind whom appeared the grin
ning face of his friend, the ColoneL
“I hope you like your day’s sport, my
boy,” chuckled the old soldier,as he opened
the cage and pulled out his half-drowned
comrade. “I was up stream, looking to
see if I could find any game worth firing
at, when I heard the crack of your piece,
and I came along to see what had happen
ed; and, on the whole, I think it’s just as
well I did.”
Novel Pm or the Telephone.
It is well known that if a long dry tube
open at both ends be held over a jet of
burning hydrogen a musical Bound is pro
duced, the pitch and quality of which vary
with the length, thickness and diameter of
the tube. It has been proposed, to adapt
such a tube to a safety lamp underground
m the mines and to place it near a tele
phone in communication with another in
the manager’s offlce on the surface. The
alteration of the sound due to a greeter or
less admixture of gases with the air of the
mine would warn the manager of the state
ef the atmosphere in. the workings.