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The Gedartown Advertiser.
Published every Thursday by ID. B. FREEMAN.
Terms: $1.50 per annum, in advance.
OLD SERIES—VOL. YII-NO. 39.
CEDARTOWN, GA., OCTOBER 28, 1880.
NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 46.
Bor four fins From
MOHMURi
Main St. Gedartown Ga.,
IF TOC WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH.
C. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
tr Office In the court House. iebi*-ly
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OrriCK EAST SIDE OF EACH »T.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Jan8-U
W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. Surgeon.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
OFFICE over }. A. Wynn’s where he may he
found ready to attend cans either day or night.
janlB-ly
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Gedartown. Ga.
. B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Haring lost opened out a shop at the store ot
a. D. Hogg * reipectruily requaste tha
E bilc to call on him when needing work In his
e. :et>5-tf
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Will practice In the Superior Courts of Polk,
Pau ding, Haral on. Floyd and Carroll counties,
.special attention given to collections and real
estate business. marll-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
D IST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In the most skill
ful manner. Office over J. s. Stubbs * Co.’s,
febia-ly
F. M. SMITH.
Attorney at Law and
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Particular ttentlon given to the selling or
renting of city prop erty. Buying and selling
wild lands a specialty. Parlies owning wild
lands in Georgia would do w?ll to correspond
with me, as 1 nave app lcjtlons for thousands
of acres whose o wner* are un kno«v n. No tax fl.
fa. or other b gus title net d apply. Look up
your beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per
cent, e moil>8tou on halns. For locating and
ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For
searching records for owners, fto cents per lot.
For ascertaining If land is claimed or occupied
by squatter $l per In*. Aiwa s In advance. To
insure at ent on enclo e aa-centstainp. Parties
own ng wild l «nd- slnu'd look to tbelr interests,#
as main of these wad an-Js are being stolen by
squatters und r a bogus title. All communica
tions p ompriy nnswTfld. Satisfaction guar
anteed (o all honest men. Janfc&ly
LIVJEItY FEED,
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Jotyison Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, l - - GEORGIA.
Being suppl'ed with new Horses, New ▼''hi
des k we are prepared to meet the wants of
the public in our tine. Jan8-iy
JAMIES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Ke. ps on band and mauuf icturc3 to order
MATTRESSES!
My work recommends Itself wherever used,
and U guaranteed to render the most pe feet
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
slighted. I ask a trial. JAMBS. H. PRICE,
rebis-ly.
CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable.
FOSTER A HARLAN, Props ,
CALHO UET, GEORGIA.
Having lately purchased the above Stable and
supplied it with good Horses and a splendid
line of new Vehicles, we are prepared to ra^ot
the wants of the traveling public labour line
Parties wishing vehicles sent to any of the
trains on the Selma. Home and Dalton Railroad
or to any other point, mav telegraph us, and
have their wants promptly ana \ roperly at
tended to.
jans-tf
FOSTER k HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga.
ISAAC T. MBS,
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—DEALER IN-
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-furnishing Goods
A BPECI1I.TY.
the public, and would
menda and customers c
town.
Jana-ly
HU
W. HI. PHILLIPS & C0„
MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOR
Machinery of all Kinds.
Sixty-four different makes of Bteant Euflua and BrtOem ranging
from 3 to 40 horse-power—new and second-hand—all at very low priees.
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 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,
Auiwill teU 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 ns.
Persons contemplating the erection of buildings may save money by
calling on us for prices of LUMBER, LATHS and SHINGLES. Come and
see Hi*.
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.,
Gedartown, Ga.
Om of fthu wortw of tho world
living totted und tolling dted ;
Bat others worked und the world went on,
And wua not changed when he wee gone—
A strong arm stricken, u wide sail furled,
And only a few men eighed.
One of thoheroeo of the world
Fought to oonquer, then fought to fail.
And fell down shun in his b'ood-stained mail,
And over his fora they step;
His cause was laat and his banner furled.
And only a woman wept.
One of the singers among mankind
Bang healing songs from an o'erwrought
heart;
Bat ere men listened, the grass and wind
Were wasting the reet unsung like a wave ;
And now of his fame that will ne'er depart.
He has never heard in hie grave.
One of the woman who only love,
Loved and grieved and faded away—
Ah, me ! are these gone to the God above ?
What more of each can I say ?
They are human flowers that flower and fall,
This ia the song and the end of them alL
A Domestic Tyrant-
A. J. YOUNG,
Great chance to make money. We
need a person in every town to take
subscriptions for the largest, cbean-
est and best Illustrated family Publication in
the w rid. Anyone can become a tuc essful
avent. six elegantinvonre or am fivsnvree~»
subscribers. Tt*e jrict is sq Jow&bat jalnuit
everybody subscribes. One agent reports tak
ing 1» subscribers UMtdUJ. A lady agqatxe-
port 8 making over teoo clear profit in teadaya-
All who engage make money fast. Ton can do
It uajrellitsjather^ Fnj.UUrectlons.fuia terms
ires. Elegant and exoesstve ’ outfit free. If
yon want undatable work, send ns your address
at ofiee. it ed8 a nothing to try toe business.
No one who engages Jails to make great pay.
Address •*
GEORGE STINSON A CO., Portland, Main*.
■■ . v.- •
DEALER IN
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins
s and Brandies.
Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ca.
SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL * THOMPSONS
STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES
In OodLartown.
I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical
purposes with perfect safety. HT Give me a call. Good t reatment
guaranteed. mrlS-ly
NEW HOUSE I NEW MERCHANTS I
New Goods and New Priees.
FALLS! FLOWERS.
A. D. HOGG & CO.,
MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
Have just opened a select stock of General Merchandise in their nee 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, Cor.ets, new styles; Bleach--
lngs, Flannels, Casslmeres, Kerseys, Kentucky,Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Vur
Low. Remember the place—last Brick btove on Sonth MAIN Street, west
side. nov6-ly
BAKER & HALL
DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE,
SUC]
Ready-Made Flews, Flow Stocks, Nails, Irou a to
Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Rakes,
Manure Forks, Etc.
BUGGY WHEELS, SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES*
SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, HINGES, CHAINS, ETC.
We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, amd
ask a trial in Goods and Prices. We are
o- Strictly in the Hardware Business,
and wifi be prepared to furnish goods in our line e«s cheap ?V9
they can be bought yiit any market. Give us a Ijial beffre
going elsewhere.
“If you marry Major Hunter, you’ll be
trod oo—take my word for it, Mi*
Amory.”
“Do you think bo?” said the penon ad
dressed, quietly, looking up from the hand
kerchief she was hemming.
■Think so? 1 know it. Don’t you re
member how his first wife fared? If there
was ever anybody I pitied, she was that
one. Poor thing! She didn't even dare
to say her soul was her own. If she had.a
different husband, she would have lived
till this time.’’
‘Very likely.”
'And yet, knowing all this, you are
going to take .her placer’
“Major Hunter will find me a very dif
ferent person from his first wife,” saidjgisa
Amory, composedly. “Howavmf 1 don’t
wish to anticipate trouble, we-will, if you
please, dismiss the subject.”
This was not the first remonstrahea
which Miss Amory had received <m tha
subject of her approaching marriage, bat
her mind appeared to be made up, ana she
was now occupied in making preparations
for the wedding.
What had beensaiglof Major Hunter and
hia first wife was quite true. He was a
domestic tyrant and holding the female un
derstanding in a very slight esteem, con
sidering that the wile ought, in all respects
to be subservient to her husband’s will.
His reason for marrying again waa partly
this, t.lm he found no housekeeper who
would be sufficiently subservient to his
whims and caprices. Having lost one
after another, he came to the conclusion
that be needed a wife, and
soon resolved to tender his hand to Miss
Amory. We will not analyse her motives
for accepting bis proposal. Probably, how
ever, regard for Mr. Hunter’s three children,
who resembled their mother rather than
their father, weighed with her quite
much as any other motive. But, however,
that might he, the marriage look place,
and after a brief journey, Miss Amory re
turned as Mrs. Major Hunter, to take the
place of mistress of his household.
Hitherto, Major Hunter had forborne
“showing his hand.” Now, however, that
their married life had fairly begun, he
thought it high time to do so.
‘■I have given Mrs. Hodges a week’s
warning,” he remarked, at the breakfast
table, the morning after their return.
Mrs. Hodges had been housekeeper and
maid of all work, the entire duties of the
establishment having developed upon her.
“For what reason?” asked his wife com
posedly. --Don’t you feel satisfied with
her?”
“It is not that,” said the Major, deliber
ately.
“Any difficulty about wages?” asked his
wife unconcernedly.
“No,” said her husband, feeling a little
embararased. The fact is, Mrs. Hunter,
there is not very much work to do in our
small household; no mote in fact, Man one
pair of hands can easily do. My first wife
did all her own work.”
“Did she, indeed?” said No. 2, sipping
her coffee.
“Yea, that with ease, although she was
act a very strong woman.”
“She died young didn’t she?” inquired
her successor, tranquilly.
■“Why, yea,” said Major Hunter, slowly,
berrayiog a little embarrassment. “You
know life is uncertain.”
“Yea, so I have heard,” returned his
'jvwife.
Major Hunter was considerably puzzled
i -byithe. matter-of-fact manner of his wife.
Her .cool, self-possesssion awed him a
Wfie. If she had only stormed, he would
be better prepared to meet that emergency.
1 In the course of the week,” he proceeded,
‘.‘you will undoubtedly get an idea of the
course of your work, by observing Mrs.
> v| Hodgee."
“I dare say I might,” said Mrs. Hunter.
“Then 1 need say bo more. This day
week she leaves, and will resign the duties
of the household into your hands.”
Major Hunter took his hat, and was
about to leave the room when he was ar
rested by the simple address:
“Mr. Hunterl”
“Well,” said he, turning back.
“It appears that you have been making
arrangements without consulting me.”
“Consulting you?”
“Yes.”
Major Hunter was astonished at his
wife’s temerity.
J “Why should 1 consult you?”
T* “Because, I may not approve of them.”
“Mrs. Hunter,said her husband, warm
ly, “it is your duty to acquiesce in what
ever plans I, as your husband, may see fit
to form.”-
“Indeed, I never took that view ol the
matter.”
Then the sooner you take it the bet-
“Do 1 understand that yon expect me to
do all the work of your establishment?”
“Yes, martini.”
“I believe yon ue a rich man, Major
Hunter; is it not so?”
I am accounted so,” said her husband,
complacently.
“And are able to hire dniutf assist-
ante?" ' -jaw f -f GFE I
“Yet if it is needful” _ ”
-•Suppose im yon that itis needful?”
-Ml should take tha liberty to doubt it.
‘SSery well, Major Hunter, since it baa
: i baen .forced upon me, I might as well tell
on, first as list, my decision oa this point.
Ton Offered me the position of a wife, not
that of ia mud-servant. On that under
standing! accepted yon. Yet if your cir
cumstances ever became such as to require
it, 1 shall not hesitate for a moment to con
form. myself to them. I only object to as
suming a burden which from your own ac
count, appears to be quite needless. I am
qmtetnlling* 0 superintend tl e household
arrangements considering that a duty
which my,poation devolves upon me.”
‘fl have listened to yoni statements,
Mrs. .Hunter, ” said her husband, somewhat
excited, ‘.‘and they an weak. They can’t
.weigh.with me.”
It is to be regretted,” said Mrs. Hunter
composedly.
The first Mrs. Hunter better understood
her duties as a wife. She never ventured
to oppose my will I met with a great loss
when I lost her.”
What was your loss was her gain, ” said
number two, with a rather curious expres
sion.
The rather obtuse Major Hunter did not
comprehend the point of this last remark.
Aocordtngiy, he took no notice of it.
It is quite needless,” he said, “to dis
cuss this matter further. This day week,
Mis. Hodges leaves us. I expect you to
qualify yourself to assume her duties.”
Mrs Hunter smiled.
“There ts nothing like beginning right,”
■aid the Major, as he struck his cane on
the sidewalk. If Mrs. Hunter married me
wni,the idea of having an easy time, she
is quite mistakes. If die expects to be a
lazywfine lady, she will find it difficult in
my establishment. I don’t intend to en
courage female insubordination. I believe
the Sian was made to govern, the wife to
obeji If more husbands had my firmness,
tluu^if would go on a little better in this
woild. But it isn’t everybody that has
my tact of governing.”
Meanwhile Mrs. Hunter left at home,
summoned Mrs. Hodges
"So I near my husband has gives you a
week's warning,”
“Yes ma’am.”
“And you are sorry to leave?”
“Yes ma’am, for I don’t know where to
get another place, and 1 have to pay the
board of ray little boy out of my wages.”
“There’s considerable work to be done
in t&is house, isn’t there?”
“Yes, ma’am, a good deal. Then Mr.
Hunter’s so particular that he wants to
have everything just so. That’s why I’m
sorry to go just as you come. I know
you’re easy to Buit.”
“How do you know? ” asked Mrs. Hufiter,
smiling.
. “I can see it by your face, ma’am. It
looks so good-natured.”
“Do you know who Major Hunter ex
pect? to get to fill your place after you are
gone?”
" “No, ma’am."
“He thinks I can do all the work. ”
> “What! and you not used to work? It
would make you sick in course of a woek.”
“I think very likely it would. ”
“Oh, I pity you ma’am! ”
“No occasion forthat, Mrs. Hodges. The
fact is, I have not the slightest idea of
doing the work.”
“You have’nt? And what will the
major say?”
“I really don’t know. I know what I
shall advise him to do. ”
“And what ia that?”
“To take you back again."
“Oh, ma’am, you’ll never stand out
against him.”
“J3ee if 1 don’t. At any rate, you
mustn’t secure a place till you hear from
me again.”
“No ma’am.”
Variety In the Dally Ised
Though good wheat, or good beef, or
good milk,may each furnish a perfect food,
or contain all the elements needed to sup
port life, it is not best to depend upon any
one article of food alone, except in the case
of nursing babies, and then the mother
should have a suitable variety. To obtain
variety some housekeepers only go a
round of "different kinds of pie and cake,
all equally bad, perhaps; thinking that if
the pantry is well supplied with these things,
little othercookingis necessary, ltisagreat
mistake. Cake and pie do not supply much
actual food, and the good material that ia
used in them is put into such shape that
the stomach is wearied and worn out by
the effort to digest them. This accounts
for much of the tiredness complained of by
women and girls. They are half starved,
because their food is poor. The use of
much poor trash called “dainties” (1 don't
abase these things because I dislike them;
I have “a sweet tooth,” and know my own
weakness well enough to understand the
knees of others) spoils the appetite
for substantial food. The stomach is feeble
for lack of good material in the blood (made
constantly of our food and air) to repair
its waste, and it takes food unwillingly be
cause it is tired with overwork—overwork
upon the concentrated conglomerations of
rich cake and pastry. An error easily fal
len into in such • case is to give up one
thing after another because it “hurts" us,
until the stomach becomes so weak it can
hardly bear anything. It is slow starva
tion. We must not only “cease to do evil,”
but must also “learn to do well,”—not
only give up unwholesome food, but eat
plenty of that which is wholesome. The
proper variety is one made up of fruit, vege
tables, grain and animal food, the latter con-
sisting of healthy meat, eggs, or milk in its
various forms, mth palatable graham or
oatmeal preparations, especially where
milk is freely used, meat is seldom craved
or found to ke necessary to high health and
strength; but when starch, sngar and fat
preponderate, as in the common fare of
white bread and butter, potatoes, cake,
pie, and a little sauce, beef (especially
steak) often seems an absolute necessity
to one who has to put forth strength. Coffes
cannot possibly supply its place. It does
not give strength, but only stimulates it, or
calls it out making ODe feel strong while
under its influence. Nourishing foods really
strengthen us. You would hardly believe,
until you try it, how heartily a plain and
nourishing variety of food is enjoyed by
those who live with reasonably simplicity.
It it easier in every way. Ail feel much
better and more good-natured, with do
unreasonable cravings for confectionery,
pickles or stimulants. It lightens the care
of children wonderfully. It makes the
cooking more simple and easy, and last,
but uot least, it saves the doctor’s bills.
A Chines* Burial In Brooklyn.
The week passed rapidly.
“Mrs. Hodges will leave us to-morrow,”
hjfe.kv' 1 Major Hunter,, at the yea. table.',
vYbu have decided upon it?”
“Yes; so I announced to you a week pre
vious."
‘I thought it possible my objections
might have weighed with you, and induced
you to change your mind."
“I never change my mind,” said her
husband, loftily.
•T am inclined to think you will repent
the exchange,” said Mrs. Hunter, rising
from the table.
“That is an affair of mine.”
“I have very little experience as a
COOK.”
“You will learn. Employment will be
a good thing for you.”
“Have you dismissed the gardener?”
“Dismissed the gardener?” What made
you think of such a thing?”
“I thought it might be a good thing for
you to take his place.”
“Such levity is unbecoming, Mrs.
Hunter,” said her husband, severely.
The next morning Mrs. Hodges was
paid up and sent off.
At ten o’clock the marketing was sent
up.
At two o’clock Major Hunter made his
appearance. The dinner table was set,
though with scarcely as much neatness as
usual. Still it was set, and by Mrs. Hunter.
Her husband thought of this as a personal
triufiiph on his part.
He hardly felt so complacent when the
dinner came up. The beef was terribly
over-done, the potatoes were, on the other
hand, -not done enough. In short there
waa nothing fit to eat on the table.
This Major Hunter angrily remarked.
“I dare say,” said his wife, placidly, “I
am not a very good cook.”
With his appetite only half titisfied,
Major Hunter waa obliged to rise from the
table.
The next morning, breakfast was delay
ed an hour, and when it waa ready, scarcely
eatable. Major Hunter was quite out of
humor, but in reply to his indignant re
monstrances, his wife coolly remarked:
“You know, Mr. Hunter, 1 warned you
that I waa a very poor cook.”
For three days Major Hunter stood fire,
but finding thugs deteriorated rather than
improved, sent for Mrs. Hodges on the
fourth. .
One point gained, Mrs. Hodges found it
easier to maintain her rights when invaded
in other quarter*. She perhaps, owed her
success to the fact that she never trenched
upon her husband 'b real prerogatives, but
respeeted them as she claimed respect for
her own. Major Huntar stands a very good
chance of being cured of his taste for do
mestic tyranny through the independent
stand taken by Mrs. Hunter Number Two.
In earlier days medicinal qualities were
supposed to reside in be wedding ring,
capable of removing ia perfections of the
skin, though in later agent; wo uld seem to
be mpre effectual in devetoping imperfec
tions of the temper; in those ages of easy
faith a ring which had touche*, the skulls
of Hie magi reposing in BOlemn splendor in
the cathedral of Cologne, would secure the
owner against the evil-eye, sudden death,
or 1 accident, while that which bore the
name of one of-these kings of the East, or
had been blessed by the sovereign on Good-
Fnday, was a talisman, to which the most
fastidious could not object, against cramps.
Legend and history meet about this little
hoop of gold, and enrich it with spell or
story, as the ancient jewelers beautified
it with elaborate' chasings and precious
stones, with skilful tabor lavished upon
cameo and intaglio. Nowadays it has be
come a somewhat matter of fact ornament;
rustic lovers no longer break it in halves,
as an assurance of constancy, ballad-mak
ers no longer hang their rhyme upon it;
all the cunning of our impnoved civilization
cannot fashion us a ring like Solomon’s,
which om seal the evil genius of the timee
in ajar, and what goldsmith of to-day can
warrant hu rings toxeader the purchaser
invisible, ur to appease the injured if thrown
Into the see?
A funeral cortege that passed up Broad
way, in Brooklyn, towards evergreen
Cemetery, was regarded with curiosity
and interest by hundreds of people on the
sidewalk, and many of the gamins were
overheard irreverently addressing the occu
pants of the vehicles. The faces seen at
-ma-aarriage wi.srto3rs.WRre. tha** oC Chinn
me n. A consumptive Mongolian sat upon
the hearse, throwing slips of rice paper into
the street. The handsome walnut coffin
seen through the glass doors of the hearse
bore the name Lee Wan upon a silver plate.
The deceased was a dealer in Chinese groce
ries, a native of the Flowery Kingdom, but
of late years a tenant at No. 4 Mott street.
He died on Tuesday, of heart disease. The
procession, after turning through an avenue
of beer saloons and marble-yards, entered
Evergreens Cemetery at the same rapid pace
that had been preserved all the way from
the Broadway ferry. The grave was in
what might be termed the German quater of
the cemetery. Alter the Chinamen had
alighted and gathered about the, narrow
pit several stalwart Hibernian drivers re
moved the coffin from the hearse and laid
It upon the trestle over the grave, after
which two German sextons lowered it.
Some of the monrners then advanced and
tosaed in a few handfuls of earth, just
Christians do. Then began the curious
part of the ceremony. Fagots of slow
matches were bound together and planted
in a basin of ashes and loose earth at the
foot of the grave. On being ignited they
sent up a fragrant smoke. Red candles
richly decorated with figures in gold, blue
and green were placed in a row near the
fagots, and quickly burned down to the
little sticks, on the end of which they
were fastened. The dead man’s clothes,
including a white shirt, somewhat the
worse for wear, a freshly laundered collar
and handkerchief, a blue silk blonse and a
straw hat were then rolled into a bundle
and cremated near the grave,and the bright-
colored and gilded wrappings of the can
dles and slow matches were added to the
burning heap. A cocoanut mat was then
unrolled beside the grave, and the China
men, coming up one after another, took
formal leave of the departed. This was
done by clasping the hands, lifting them to
the chin, and letting them drop, repeating
the operation three times. After this the
mourners dropped upon their hands
and knees upon the mat, and made a
triple salaam, bowing their foreheads close
to the earth. Tea was poured from a
quaint little pot of blue and white porce
lain into minute cups of egg-shell china,
and each man, as he bade farewell to the
dead, sprinkled a spoonful of the tea upon
the ground. Three pans of rice, a bdiled
chicken and a plate of mutton were al
lowed to stand before the grave for some
time, that the dead man might refresh
himself and prepare fin- his long journey.
It is customary to leave tnese dishea beside
the grave, but just before the cortege re
turned a Chinaman, whom opium Bad
bleached, bleared and sallowed into the
the resemblance of a corpse, gave a sus
picious glance at certain of the small boys
who gathered about the place, and shnffied
them back into a tea box whence he had
taken them. Clears were passed around,
and then the yellow faces were once more
shut up in the the carriages, the drivers
mounted to their seats, cracked their whips
and the procession disappeared rapidly in
the dust.
In a Chinese Restaurant.
We called at a fashionable restaurant, ia
San Francisco. Some wealthy tea merchant
were to entertain a delegation of noted
countiymen that evening. The first floor
was in the throes of cuisine agony for so
great an occasion. Buns baked a light
brown, mth guest’s insignia of rank burned
on the top; little pyramids of cherries, plums
and sliced oranges were erected on sauce
dishes one dish forming a course. Heaps
of thin cakes and pickles were on all sides.
The refreshment rooms were up stairs, the
first room being for commoners, the second
for a little higher grade, the third for the
aristocracy. In the latter an open scroll
work ot gilded iron ran up the sides and
across the top, from which hung a silken
curtain dividing the apartment. The small*
er part was for the, musicians, who discours
ed the most hideous jargon of sounds while
the guests ate. On a raised dais was a most
exquisite china and gilt opium pipe, with
tubes, so that they could take a smoke at
the end of the repast. The other half of
the room was hung with highly colored maps
and pictures, and furnished with quaint!;
curved chairs and tables in ebony and gill.
Covers were laid for six at a table, and con
sisted simply of ivory chop sticks, three
plates i the size of an individual butter dish),
in Choice china and a wine glass holding
a table-spoonful. We indulged in a cup of
delicious tea served in odd cups with covers,
and partook sparingly of some dried fruit.
Some chopped fiddle strings every one de
clared looked tempting, but no one had
any appetite. The guests arrived before
we left, and were preceded by the host,
who ushered them in with much ceremony
and overwhelming salaams. They were
handsomely attired in blue broadcloth, taste
fully corded with black, and wore the red but-
ton of rank and opulence upon their caps.
After the ceremonies they settled down to
easy chit-chat, and seemed to bubble over
with humor and wit, which of course was
lost on our uneducated ears, but was greet
ed ivitb shous of applause of them.
The next amusing tiling was the waiter,
who was so much inflated with the awful
ness oi the occasion that he would swell
into the room with an immence server, hold
ing it as if bent to the ground with the
weight of good things, in the centre of
which would repoee, like an island in mid
ocean, a single sauce dish of rice and meat.
Chestnut Culture.
Was She a Witch.
In some localities in Italy and Spain and
in Eastern Europe and Western Asia the
chestnut crop is equal in importance to the
wheat crop in Ohio. Chestnut bread con
stitutes the principal food of more than a
hundred millions of psople the healthiest,
handsomest and most sinewey people in
the world. It is estimated that the value
of the Chestnut crop of Ohio is $60,000.
It ought to be $20,000,000, and can be
brought up to that figure within twenty
years. The natural home of the chestnut
is a barren soil—waste land—though it
will glow and flourish on any soil in Ohio.
Chestnut trees one hundred feet in height
and from three to seven feet in diameter
can yet be fpnnd on the hill tops of South
ern Ohio, growing m soil which cannot bp life in jeopardy.
mu 1 , tv, proquAo five bucItAle ol corn to "
the acre, and where oak, hickory and
other trees are mere dwarfs. The cheat-
nut is a valuable timber tree, and is of
very rapid growth. Under favorable cir
cumstances a bearing chestnuutrae twei*r-
five feet in height can be grown from the
seed in five years. The proper way ia to
plant the chestnut where it is desired that
the tree shall grow. Like the hickory, the
chestnut dees not take kindly to transplant
ing. Farmers in Central and Western
Ohio have tried the experiment of import
ing chestnut trees in vain, and have ar
rived at the conclusion that there is some
thing in tne soil which militates against
the growth of the chestnut. That is a
mistake. Any farmei who desires it cam.
have a chestnut grove, or as many chert-
nut trees as ne desires, by planting chest
nuts. They should Ik planted before they,
become dry and shrivelled—within a week i
or two afther gathering, the aoonfir the bet
ter, The chestnut should be about half
buned in the ground, and then covered
with leaves or Utter—barely covered, not
buried or smothered. Twenty chestnuts
should be planted for every tree desired;
for although every healthy chestnut will
germinate, and is liable to produce a tree,
provision should be made against moles,
mice, chipmunks and other vermin.* Of
course, hogs should be excluded from the
ground where chestnuts are planted.
Bo mane* of the Oil Becloiu,
Napoleon Rogers lived with his parents
in the beautiful city of Titusville, on
banks of Oil creek. Napoleon was young
and ambitious. He was smitten with the
charms of Lucinda MerkeL After an ardent
courtship he took his case to Mr. Merkel,
the father of the fair Lucinda.
Adolph Merkel was a merchant, and had
accumulated gold galore, while Napoleon
was poor as aa outside refiner.
‘No! 1 ’said the father, sternly. “You,
who cannot support yourself, have no right
to ask for the hand of my daughter. Go!”
and he spurned himwitb his boot.
When Napoleon struck the sidewalk he
turned with flashing eyes:
‘Mark you, Adolph Merkel, the day will
come when your miserable store will not
be a peanut stand compared with one I
shall own! ”
Young Napoleon disappeared. Yi
rolled on.
Our hero had been toiling upon the Pa
cific slope, and had erectad a business house
in Chicago that was grand beyond compare.
It was filled with rare and radiant goods
from the looms of every land,
Napoleon had photographs taken of the
inside and outside of his magnificent trade
palace, and sent them to Adolph Merkel,
who had refused hitn the hand of his daugh
ter because of his poverty.
The store was mortgaged for more than
it was worth; the goods belonged to another
party; Lucinda was married to a red-headed
oil broker, and was fat.
Standard advice.
Would you keep your rosy complexion,
ware thick soled shoes.
Would you never be told a lie, do not
ask personal questions.
Would you retain the love of a friend,
do not be selfishly exacting.
Would you respect yourself, keep your
heart and body clean.
Would you enjoy quiet sontent, do away,
with airs and pretences,
Would you sleep well and have a good
appetite, attend to your buisr.eae.
Woold you have good health, go out in
the sunshine. Sickness is worse than
freckles.
Would you have others to respect your
opinions, hold and never disown them
yourself.
Would you have the respect of men,
never permit yourself to indulge in vulgar
conversation.
Would you gain the confidence of burt-
nass men, do not try to sappert the rtyle
of your employer.
Fiddle and Sing.
Years ago, before the contribution
taken up to the rythmic time of operatic
music, or the churches boasted more Of
their choirs than of their ministers; there
was an earnest, able expounder of the gos
pel holding forth in one of die Presbyterian
churches of Pittabnrg, Fa. He believed
in simple singing without the use of
ments, and when after a long contest, the
younger members of the church introduced
a bass viol into the choir, he wsa deeply
disturbed. In the church he said nothing;
but night after night in the director’s
ings, and during the day time on the streak
did he labor for the removal of what ha
termed ‘that fiddle,” but without
Each Sunday the notes of the
ware heard, to the joy of the
and his own annoyance. At
persuasion useless, he arose
morning in lriS pulpit, and after
exercised, said, “Now we trill fiddle
sing to tha par of God, the ICtXh fay ”
There was no Iddiing in that eharcft lor
many a day sftar.
When Lord Chief Justice Holt presided
in the Court of King’s Bench, a poor, de
crepit, broken old woman, almost ready
from sheer limitation, to shuffle off the
mortal coil, was brought before him
charged with a decree of criminality which
merited the utmost rigor of the law.
“What ts her crime!" asked his lordship,
with look and tone which plainly indi
cated that the forlorn and helpless creature
had enlisted his warmest sympathy.
“Witchcraft!” said one, “She’s a witch
if ever there was one!” chimed in another.
“What is the proof against her?”
“She has a charm, your lordship, given
by the Evil One himself.”
“Let me see it.”
The red-noeed, pimple-iaced sheriff
placed upon the court the charm which
upon examination—his lordship slowly and
methodically undoing it with his own
hands—proved to be a small ball formed
of bits of silk and linen, of various colors,
compactly wound yrtfr Threads of"as many
different blits," and in the centre of the
Pfxss was found a slip of parchment on
which was writing of a strange language,
which had become very nearly worn away
by much handling.
“And this ia the charm, is it?” said Holt,
when he had seen its every part.
The prosecutors answered that it was.
“What other proof have you!”
‘•That is all your lordship. ”
The Lord Chief Justice then turned to
the terrified prisoner, and asked her how
she came by that ball.
“I can swear my lord,” she answered,
“that a young gentleman gave it to me, to
cure my child's ague.”
“And did it effect a cure?”
“Yes, my lord. I cured my poor child;
and it has cured many others; and I have
blessed the good youth in my heart many
a time.”
Upon this the prosecutors laughed and
declared that the prisoner had no child
“Ah, your lordship,” she cried, “it was
five and twenty years ago that the charm
was given me. I had children then.”
The judge held the charm in his hand
and regarded it for a time in silence, and
then turned to the jury, saying:
“Gentlemen of the jury, look ye;—and
look and hearken, ali—Five-and-thirty
years ago, I, with a number of companions
as giddy and as thoughtless as myself, went
to this woman’s house, where she provided
for us liberally, and when we found that
we had not with us sufficient money for
the payment of the reckoning, I had re
course to what 1 then thought an innocent
strategem.
Observing a sick child bundled up in
the chimney comer, which the woman told
me was suffering with ague I pretended that
I could fix a charm that would cure her
child I wrote a line of Latin upon a slip
of parchmeat, and wound it up in scraps
of silk and linen which I found in a basket
on the table, and gave it to her as a sure
curative agent. She was deeply grateful,
and cheerfully gave us a receipt in full,
and we went our way little dreaming that
we had left with the honest dame a thing
which might in after years, put her very
That woman sow stands
this ball which is the alleged charm and
evidence against her, is the self-same
Charm which I made with my own hands,
and gave to her.”
It is needless to add that the poor old
woman waa discharged and went her way
homeward with a lighter heart. Further
we will say,—the story ot Chief Justice
Holt threw an effectual damper upon the
eagerness of the public prosecutors of that
region far arresting witches from that time
forth.”
To day I got shaved at a barber shop,
bare I begged the operator to kill me and’
pot me out of misery.
I have been accustomed to gentle care
and thoughtfulness at horqg, and my barber
at Laramie handles me with the utmost ten-
1 was, therefore, poorly prepared
to meet the man who this morning filled
ty soul with woe.
I know that I have not deserved tlna, for
while others have berated the poor barber
and swore about his bad breath and never-
ending clatter and his general heartlesnseSe,
I have never said anything that was not
Ailed with child-like trust and hearty good
will towards him,
I have called the attention of the public
to the fact that customers ■nm«*inw» had
bad breath and were restless and mean
while being operated upon, aqd then when
they are all fixed up nicely they put their
hats on and light a cigar and bold up their
finger to the weary barbey and tsB him
that they will aee him more subseqently.
Now, however, j feel differently.
This barber no doubt had never heard of
A He no doubt thought I was an ordi
nary plug who didn’t know anything about
luxury,
I shall mark a copy of this paper and
ad it to him. Then while he la reading
it I will steal up behind him with a pick
kill him. 1 want hhn to be
wading this when I kill him, bcajse it will
the coroner in arriving at the immethj
ate cause of hie death.
The first whiff I took of this man's breath,
I knew that he waa rum’s maniac.
Ha had the Jim James im «m advanced
stage. Now, I don't object to being shaved
by a barber who ia socially drunk, but when
Use mad glitter of the maniac is in his
eye and I can see that he ia debating the
question of whether he will ent my head off
and let it drop over the back of the chair or
choke me to death with a lather brush, it
makes me nervous and fldgrtty.
This man made up his aaind three times
that he wotdd kill me, and same one came
in just in lime to save me.
His chair waa near the window, and
there was a hols in 0w bhnd, so that when
be was shaving the off afieof my face he
would turn my head osar in such a posi
tion that I could look up into the middle of
the son. My aitsntion had never before
been called to the appjffpnre of the sun as
ft looks to the naked t/% and I was a good
deal surprised.
The more I looked into the very center
of the great orb of day the more I was
filled with wander at the might and power
that could create ft. I began to pine for
death immediacy, so that I could be far
sway from the hseyenly bodies, and in a
with the delirium
head down so that
my darkened un-
thrtmy brain had
around and swasti
ka melted butter,
needy, too. 1 lost
when he cut off e
brew it into the#
particularly, but
t decided to take
had won it ao
toft. It
11 ted. tetortnrttaoted
bseomn attacked to me.
la why f acted not re.