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The Cedartown Advertiser.
3Pu.blish.ed every Thursday by 3D. B. FREEMAN.
Terms: S1.50 per annum, in advance..
OLD SERIES—VOL. YII-NO. 43.
CEDARTOWN, GA., NOVEMBER 25, 1880.
NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 50.
Bay Your Drags From
ORMDMIM
Main St. Cedartown Ga.,
IF YOU WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH.
C. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
!*■ offlco In the Court House. WblMjT
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
nr* First Boom op Stairs over J. S. Stubbs &
C j *.h Store. Sept25-iy
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OFFICE EAST SIDE OF MAIH II.
CEDARTOWN, GA
Jan8-iy
W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. Surgeon,
CEDARTOWN, GA
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where 6e may ha
found 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
pubi
fine.
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law,
CEDARTOWN, GA
win pr.ictloe In the Superior Courts of I
Pnu diug. Haral on. Floyd and Carroll COMO**,
special attention given to collections awl rest
estate business. marIl-*»
W. M. PHILUPS & CO.,
MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOR
Machinery of all Kinds.
Sixty-four different makes of Bteam Engines and BoUers ranging
from 3 to 40 horse-power—new and second-hand—all at Tory low price,.
Also agents for the
Albany and Brown Cotton Gin,
N - f
PACKING, SCREWS, SEPARATORS, THRESHERS, CORN MILLS
End Farming implements in general. Wo liail a Auv UWl« la U«ls Uuo
last yeh, and general satisfaction waa given. We are alio
Dealers in General Merchandise.
And have in stcre a well selected stock of
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES,
HATS, CAPS, CLOTHING AND GROCEBIES,
All of which we will aell low, either for each or to prompt paying time tua-
tomers. We are agents for GEORGE A CLARK’S
"0. 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.
Persona 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, Ga.
A. J. YOUNG,
DEALER IN
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST^ ^
(CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.’
All Dental'work performed in t.he most sklll-
fnl manner, office uver J. S. Stubbs a Co.’s.
febi9-iy
Com
F. M. SMITH,
Attorney at Law and
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
CEDARTOWN, GA
Particular ttentnn given to the selling or
rent Dg or city prop ny. Buying and selling
wild la ds a specially. Parlies owning wild
I,tnds In (i-orgla would do wll lo correspond
with mi 1 , as 1 havo up;-, le.tlons lor thousands
or a f, res whose owner., are unknown. No tax 11.
la. or other h gus title neul apply. Look up
v. ur b eawax and write me. Terms: Ten per
cent, c ra:ni'Sl» i on sales. For locating and
ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For
eearchin* ivcord' lor owners, so centi per lot.
For asci rialnlnp If land Is claimed or occupied
by squatter $1 per In'. Aiwa. s In ndvance. To
insure at ent ou enclo e aS-ccntstamp. Parties
own nj? wild land' sh m’d look to tlielr interests,
as raanv of tiie^e wild ands are beln? stolen by
cauatteisund r a boifu-i title. All Communica
te .. ........ Corlcft.XlAD iriinr.
LIVERY FEED,
SALE STABLE!
VVright & Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
Beinsr s^ppl'ed with new Horses, New Vehi
cles Sc w y are prepared to meet the wants of
the public in our line. JanS-iy
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Kecpi ou hand and manufactures to order
MATTRESSES!
My work recommends Itself wherever used,
and Is guaranteed to render the most peifect
SatisiacUOD No flimsy material used, no work
SightedI ask a tilaL JAMES. H. PSICH
iebl9-ly.
CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable.
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props •
CALHOUN, GEORGIA
Berlmr lately purchased the above Stable and
■minlle i It with ffood Horses and a splendid
line of new Vehicles, we are prepared to meet
the wants or the traveling public In our line.
Parties wishing vehicles sent to any of the
trains on the Selma. Rome and Dalton Railroad
or to *ny other point, may telegraph us, and
have their wants promptly and- properly at-
tended to. FQgTER & ^rlan, Calhoun, Ga,
Jan8-tf
ISAAC T. MEH,
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—DEALER IN—
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPECIALTY.
werv variety or Job work m my line neatly
a i iesoe 't ul v solicit the patronage of
toe public, and would be pleased to have all my
freed a and customers call and see me when In
■town.
Jnns-iy
GOLD.
Great chance to make money. We
need a person In every town to take
^ w subscriptions for the largest, Cacao
es!. and best l lusimted family Puoilcation In
the -w rid. Anyone can become a sue esslui
a'ent. elegant works or art given free to
■uhscrib-rj. The price is so low that alm*»sr,
evetybody\ubscrlbes. Oae agent reports talc
lng li' suosci.bers la a day. A ladv agent re^
por s Busing ow»r $wo clear prods In ten days.
All who togag • m*ke mo iev fast. You can do
it a* well other-. Full directions and terms
free. Eieg»m, and exoen lve outfit free. "
you want proirah e w »r». send us your addre
at once. *tcoK S nothlngvjtry the busine
Ho one who en^ges rail* to make great pi
Address __*
CEDKGS STINSOt 4 QQ t Poru^^ Maine.
and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins*™-;
~~amTFrandies.
Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ca.
SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL & THOMPSON’S
STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES
Tv* Cedartown.
I keep each Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical
purposes with perfect safety. MT Give me a call. Good treatment
guaranteed. mr!8-ly
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS!
New Goods and New Prices.
IN THE ORCHARD.
Mellow lies the sunshine on the orchard slopes
and meadows.
On no jfafotfurple asters and tints of leafy
bills ;
The soft, warm base is tender with a palpitat
ing splendor,
And a fresh, delicious odor ail the dosing val
ley fills.
Colors like a prairie in the color of its blos
soms
Gleam amid the grasses where the luscious
fruitage lies.
And in their cosy places on the boughs, with
tempting faces
Peep and nestle myriad apples, like birds of
dyes.
Golden, green and russet, and warm with
scarlet blushes,
Basking in the si!ent noon upon their perches
’mong the leaves—
How they gldw like royal rosea, where the
loving sun r* po*ea.
How they fall from their own fatness on the
crisp autumnal eves.
Apples, fragrant apples, plied high beside the
presses,
And heaped in wain and basket ’neath the
broad-branched, mossy trees.
Tan we fairly call him sober—the splendid,
nch October—
Pouring out his swoe’s and beauty in such
lavish gifts as these ?
Children frolicking and feasting on the ripe
ness to the core—
Monarch* of the orchard king lom, with
every tree a throne—
What are spring days for your pnises, or
woodpaths, or the daisies.
To these provinces of sweetness, which, by
right of love, ye own ?
Sadly may the aged ponder life's decays and
changes.
Bat y* nth sees no dark omen as the mellow
apples fall.
O children, keep your gladness ; may yon
have no more of sadness
Than while, romping in the orchards, you
are kings and queens of all I
What John Harding Thought.
“In some things women are so silly and
ridiculous!’’
Here John Harding laid down the maga
zine article he had been reading, and which
had for its theme the apparently inexhaust
ible one—the follies and shortcomings of
the sex to which he had alluded.
Mrs. Harding glanced from the how she
was fashioning to the solemn face of the
speaker.
In some things! That is encouraging
snrely! I’ve known sueh quantities of men
that were silly and ridiculous in so many
ways. What is it now, I wonder!"
Loftily obvious to the quiet sarcasm in
these words, Mr. Harding continued:
‘Just look at the way they dress, for in-
A. D. HOGG & CO.,
MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
Have just opened a select stock of General Merchandise In their new Wore,
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 figure*.
They have beautiful Dress Goods, Calicoes, Corsets, new styles; Bleach-
ings, Flannels, Cossimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky .Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear V«*T
Low. Remember the place—last Brick btore on South MAIN Street, west
side. nov#-ly
BAKER & HALL,
DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE,
»xto:
Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iron ant
Steel, Spades, Shovels, floes, Rakes,
Manure Forks, Ete.
BUGGY WHEELS, SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES,
WELBHIiBARIlOWB,
SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, HINGES, CHAINS, ETC.
We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, and
ask a trial in Goods and Prices. We are
Strictly in the Hardware Business,
and will be prepared to furnish goods in our line as cheap as
they can be bought in any market Give us a trial before
going elsewhere.
•Not only devoid of common sense, but
of all artistic elegance and beauty.”
“Really, John,” retorted Mrs. Harding,
drawing her needle through her work with
so much energy as to snap the thread, ‘ ‘how
ever silly a woman may be in your estima
tion, I think they might know how and in
what style to dress.”
“They might, I suppose,” was the cool
response; “but that they don’t is very
evident. Have you read: ‘Dress as it Re
lates to Health and Beauty,’ in the last
Monthly.”
•‘No,’’ responded Mrs. Harding, with a
toss of the head. “It was written by some
man, I suppose,’’.
‘No matter who it was written by; it is
sound sense, every word of it. I wish you
would study that article, Mary; it would
do you an immense deal of good. I don’t
mean to say that you haven’t sense in a
good many things, which surprises me all
the more that you should show so little in
the way you dress.”
Mrs. Harding’s red eheeksgrew still red
der.
“John Harding!”
“There, now, Mary, don’t fly into a pas
sion because I tell you the truth, all for
your own good. Just look at the trimming
on the skirt of your dress, for instance; ac
cording to all artistic rules, the line should
he unbroken, from waist to feet, and here
it is cut up and destroyed in half-a-dozen
places?”
‘Have you ever seen me in a dress whose
skirt is entirely plain, or, as you term it,
with the line unbroken from waist to feet?”
“No; but I should be glad to do so - "
“You would? Have you any farther
complaint to make? If you have 1 beg that
you won’t be backward about stating it.”
‘I don’t mean to be. There’s the hat
you wear. That is what you call it, I sup
pose, though for any use it perfoi ms it
might as well be called most anything else;
a mass of ribbons, feathers and flowers,
piled up as high as possible, and worn upon
the back of the head.”
‘Anything further!”
Yes. Look •at the way the hair is worn
by nine-tenths of the ladies—yours among
cm, part of it in a snarl on the forehead
and the rest braided and festooned at the
back of the head.”
“How would you have me arrange it?”
“Why, simply drawn back from the fore
head and coiled low at the back of the head
so as to preserve its classic outline. Some
thing the way it is in that picture. See?”
Mrs. Harding glanced at the picture to
which her husband pointed, that of a very
lovely girl, with small regular features, and
whose wavy hair was losely knotted at the
back.
“Yes, I see. But I don’t think you ever
saw my hair dressed in that style.”
It would be an immense improvement
if you would dress it so, you’d look like
quite another person.”
I think I should, But have you on
farther suggestions to make? Your ideas
are so original that they interest me.
“Not at present,” returned Mr. Hard
ing, biting off the end of his cigar he inten
ded to light as Boon as he got oat on the
steps.
A few minutes later he put his head
back into the room where his wife was
sitting:
“I shall be around with the ponies at
8, Mary. Don’t keep me waiting.”
Mrs. Harding belonged to that large
aiase of ladies whose attraction* depend
more or less on style of dress, and no one
understood this more clearly than she.
She knew her strong and weak points,~and
how to bring out the one and conceal the
other. For instance, she had fine eyes,
hair and complexion, but her features were
rather irregular, her forehead especially
being out of proportion with the rest of her
face, and the form wanting in roundness
of outline. Bat so skillfully were these
defects remedied by the adjustment of the
hair and dress that they were scarcely no
ticed, and she was considered by all who
knew her—her husband not excepted—to
be an attractive and very charming woman.
Mrs. Harding spent the greater part of
the morning in the attic overhauling a chest
that had belonged to her husband's aunt:
apparently well repaid for her trouble by
the garments fished up out of its dark
depths, and which she carried to her own
room. Out of these she fashioned a dress
very similar in style to the one for which
her husband had expresed so much admira
tion.
“I hate to disfigure myself so!” she
thought, as the straight folds fell lankly
around the tall, thin form making it look
still more tall and thin; “but nothing else
win cure John; and if he keeps on he’ll
drive me frantic! ”
Taking a round, flat hat, very much in
vogue a few years ago, and whose only
ornament was a ribbon around the crown,
Mrs. Harding went down into the parlor.
She did not have long to wait. Ten min
utes later John came up to the door, in an
open phaeton, drawn by the well known
grays that were the pride of his heart.
Running up the steps, he opened the door
of the room where his wife sat.
He stared at her, for a moment, in dumb
amazement
“Heavens and earth! Mary, is that you?
I thought it was—I don’t know what!
What have you been doing to yourself?’’
“I have been trying to carry out the hints
you gave me this morning in regard to
dress. I hope it suits you and that you ad
mire its effect?”
“Well, no,” responded Mr. Harding,
taking a critical survey of the odd looking
figure before him. ’’1 can’t say that I do*
To speak plainly you look like a fright!”
“I must say John,” retorted his wife with
an injured air, ’“that you are very diffcult
to suit. I have spent the greater part of
the morning in following the suggestions
you gave me at breakfast and still you find
fault. What is it now I’d like to know?
Here is the unbroken sweep of skirt; the
classic line of the head—I think that is
what you call it. And you surely can not
say that this hnt is too high, or that its ele
gant simplicity—I quote yonr words—is
destroyed by any superabundance of flowery
feathers and ribbons.”
M”, Harding turned very red.
— * 1 i n&t is all nonsense, Mary. I h3d only
three hours at my disposal, and it’s now
half past 3. 1 thougnt I should find you
all ready.”
“I shall he ready in half a minute,” re
plied his wife tying on her hat.
Mr. Harding looked at her in horrified
astonishment.
“Do you think that I sm going *.o take
you out in such a dress as that? Why you
look like an escaped lunatic!”
Just here the door bell rang.
“It’s Judge Howe,” said Mr. Harding,
as he listeded to the voice, in reply to the
servant who answered it. “He’s come ex
pressly to see you. For pity’s sake go up
stairs and put on something decenj. I
wouid’nt have him see you in that dowdy
thing for any consideration!”
“Will you promise—”
“I’ll promise anything!’’ interposed Sir.
Harding drawing his wife toward the door
which opened into the back parlor, and
through which 3he disappeared just as their
visitor was announced.
In an almost incredible short space of
time Sirs. Harding entered the parlor where
her husband and their guest were seated,
looking so different that no one not inti
mately acquainted wtth her would have
recognized her.
Sir. Harding drew a long sigh of relief
as he looked at the pretty, tastily-attired
woman of whom he had so often spoken to
his friend, Judge Howe, and to whom he
was so proud to present her.
In the gay and animated conversation
that followed, and all the pleasant thoughts
to which it gave rise, he forgot everything
else; not so with Sirs. Harding. As soon
Married Life Among the Esquimaux.
It might be supposed, says a correspon
dent with the Scbwatka expedition, who
saw something of life among the Esqui
maux, thatinsuchastate of society asexists
among this people there would be no roman
ces, no marrying for love ;but that would be a
mistake, for there have been several roman
tic little episodes that came under my ob
servation during iny residence in North
Hudson’s Bay. There is a poor old man
dwelling with the IwiUiks, near Depot Is
land, named Iteguark, who had two very
attractive and useful wives, or Nu-lee-aug-
ar, as is the native term. The old man had
been a good hunter, but a few years ago
met with an accident that resulted in his
right knee becoming stiffened, and his hunt
ing days were over. He can still hunt seals
thrnug the ice, but cannot work up to them
on top of the ice, nor can he chase the
reindeer on his native hills. Then it was
that Oxeomadiddlee looked with envious
eyes upon the youngest and fairest of lte-
guark’s wives and induced her to come and
live with him. She knew that her new
lover was strong and active and better able
A Bachelor’s Confession.
I live in a French flat. Of coarse there
are objections to French flats. So there are
to most thiDgs. I can’t afford a hotel,and
I detest a boarding house. A bachelor of
thirty odd, who had been at the mercy of
boarding bouse keepers all bis days, can
easily understand that.
So, when I engaged a suite of rooms—
third floor in a French flat edifice—and ar
ranged my household goods therein, with
a tine lookout over a green dot of a park in
front, and the glimmer of a palisade in the
rear, above a forest of chipping, I consid
ered myself well off.
What is my profession? I haven’t any
in particular. I am an artist, and draw a
little; daily, in front of my ease!, I contrib
ute to the press, and write when the divine
aflatus seizes me. I read the law when I
feel like it, and draw a little income from
a snug little property left me by an uncle
in India. Consequently I was able to dec
orate my new quarters very prettily with
Bagdad rugs, old China dragons, black and
gold J ipanese screens, and pictures I had
to support her than her old love and listen- picked up at a bargain.
■ And when the fire was burning cheer-
ened to the voice of the tempter. Iteguark
was not disposed to submit meekly to this
treachery on the part of hia friend Oxeo
madiddlee, so one morning while the tru
ant wife and her new husband were
sleeping in their igloo Iteguark
enleredand sought to take the
life of the seducer with a hunting knife.
But Oxeomadiddlee was on his guard and
being a man ot immense strength he caught
his adversary by the wrist and by the sheer
force of his grip compelled him to drop the
weapon on the floor. He then released his
hold and Iteguark rushed out to his own
igloo and got his bow and quiver, but his,
enemy was still watchful and took the bow
and arrows away and destroyed them.
Here ended hostilities. Oxeomadiddlee
paid the old man tor his wife and tfiac set
tled it forever. Presently another Inuit
named Eyerloo fell desperately in love with
poor iteguark’s remaining wife, and with
his arts and blandishments won her away
from her husband. There was no fight this
time. The poor old man gave up com
pletely, and said the world was all wrong
and he only waited for his summons to
leave it and mount the golden stairs.
A few years ago an Igloolip Inuit named
Kyack won the affections of one of Iko-
mar's wives, and this brought on a duel in
which Kyack came very near leaving Mrs.
Kyack a widow. Ikoinar got the head of
ilia enemy in chancery and tightened liis
arm around his neck until Kyack dropped
lifeless upon the snow. He gradually re
covered, and would have returned the stol
en wife, but Ikoinar refused to take her
back, and demanded payment instead. This
was tendered to him, and being appeased
by the offer further trouble was avoided.
Punnie, one of Armow’a daughters, was,
in her youth, affianced to Sebeucktelee.but
when she reached a marriageable age be
came the wite of Conwechungk, her adopt
ed brother. The pretext for this new ar
rangement was that Bebeucktelee’s father
had not made payment at the time he made
the wedding contract, and that Punnie
loved Conwechungk better anyhow, and
would take advantage of the omission of
the intended father-in-law. It made no
difference that Conwechungk had another
bora. When I left Depot island 1 noticed
that be bad not only loaned his first wife
away but bad traded his dearly beloved
PunDie for TockoleegeetaiB’s wife for an
indefinite period while Sebeucktolee had
taken to his bosom Netchuck, the discarded
wife of Shockpenark. But life is altogether
too short to allow of a complete and reli
able record being made of the social gossip
of an Esquimaux village. Intennairiages
are common, and everybody is related to
every one else in the most intricate and
astonishing manner. I once read of a man
who married a widow, and his father, sub
sequently marrying the daughter of Ibis
same widow, was driven insane by trying
to ascertain the exact relationship of their
children. Such trifles have no effect upon
the Inuit brain or the entire na'ion would
long ago have become raviog maniacs.
as the door closed after their visitor, she
turned her laughing eyes full upon her
husband’s face.
‘Now John, let us have a fair and clear
understanding; I want to suit you if it is a
possible thing. Which of these two styles
of dressing do you wish me to adopt?”
‘I shouldn’t suppose you’d ask such a
question, Mary. Seeing you once in the
peculiar costume you assumed is quite
enough for me, I assure you.”
I assumed it to please you—don’t for
get that.”
‘You failed in your object, then. To
speak frankly, I didn’t suppose it possible
for you to look so downright ugly in any
thing.”
You are not over complimentary,”
laughed Mrs. Harding. * ’But no matter: if
you’re satisfied, 1 am. Don’t look-so crest
fallen, John; you are not a bit more incon
sistent than the rest of your sex who give
ours so much sage advice in regard to mat
ters they know nothing about. If the wives
and daughters of these modem Solomons
should dress as they advise other people's
wives and daughters to do they wouldn't
be seen in the street with them.”
fully in the grate, the first rainy May ev
ening. the student lamp shinmg softly on
the red, carved table, and the waiter from
a neighboring restaurant had brought in my
frugal dinner of a broiled bird, a mold of
currant jelly, a slice of roast beef, and a
raspberry dumpling, I considered myself
pretty comfortable.
“Upon the whole,” says I to myself, “I
rather approve of French flats.”
I rang the bell.
The janitor—a respectful, decent sort
of a fellow, in a round jacket and carpet
slippers—answered the summons.
“Janitor,” said I, “who occupies the
floor above?”
“Nobody, sir,’’the man answered. “Last
party moved out yesterday. New party
moves ia tomorrow.”
“A large family? - ’ said I, rather dubi
ously.
“Bless your heart, sir,” said the man,
“no family at all—a single lady, sir.”
At this I congratulated myself more and
more.
“I shall have the prospect of a little
peace now, I think,” said i, and ete my
dinner m a fool’s paradise of happiness.
The single lady moved in on the mor
row. She must have moved in when I
was down town selecting some new mill
boards and color lu’.es for the summer
sketches that I intended to make, for when
1 returned, fondly expecting once more to
enter into my kingdom of peace and seren
ity, everything was changed.
There was a banging and pounding over
head, a thumping and hammering—a sound
as if some middic-aged giantess, in hob
nailed shoes, was enjoying herself in a
promenade.
I sent for the janitor in a rage.
“Is this house coming down?” said 1.
“It’s the new tenant a-inovin’ in, sir,”
said he, apologetically.
“Docs her furniture consist entirely of
Herring’s safes and square pianos?” said I.
“There are two pianos, sir,” said he.
“She’s musical.”
“The deuce she is!” roared I. “Two pi
anos! And does she play on ’em both?”
“Don't know, sir, I'm sure,” said the
man, with a distressed expression of coun
wife—in fact, it was all the better on that
account, for he would have one for him-1 tenance.
self and unoihcr to loan around to his neigh- 1 endured the noise until midnight, and
- - - then 1 sent up the jani or's wife.
According to a Yorkshire notion, anew-
born infant should be laid first in the arms
of a maiden before any one touches it; and
In some places the infant's right hand is
left unwashed in order that he may gather
riches. It is, too, considered very import
ant by many that an infant should go up in
the world before it goes down. Thus, in
Cleveland, says Mr. Henderson, “if a child
should be horn in tue top story of a
house, for wsnt of a flight of stairs one
of the gossips will tike it in her arms
and mount a table, chair or chest
of drawers, before she carries it down
stairs.” In the north of England when an
iafant for the first time goes out of the
hoist, it is presented with an egg, some
salt, a little loaf of bread, and occasionally
a small piece of money—tuese gifts being
supposed to insure teat the child shall never
stand in need of the common necessaries of
life. In the Ea t Riding of Yorkshire a
few matches are adued lo light the child to
heaven. It was, too, in former times custo
mary, and the piactice is not yit ob-.o’.etc,
to provide a large cheese and cake and cut
them at the biith of a child. These
were called the “groining cake and
cheese,” and were distributed among all
the neighbors. In Y'orkshire Ibis cake is
termed the “pepper cake,” and in some
localities the “sickening cake.” It is the
Eource of a species of divination, tor being
cut into small pieces by the medical man.it
is divided among the unmarried of the fe
male sex, under the name of “dreaming
bread.” Each one takes a piece, places it
in the foot of the left stocking and throws
it over the right shoulder. This being done,
ti.ey must retire to bed backward, without
uttering a word, and those who are lucky
enough to fall asleep before midnight are
favored with a sight of their future hus
bands in their dreams.
Hear/ Clay.
Up to five minutes before they had been
lovers, but now there was likely to be a
coldness between them. At last he arose,
took up his hat, and said:
“Maudie, 1 am going to see—”
“Oh, Augustus, forgive me. I was
wrong. Stay by my side. Do not leave
me ”
“No, I cannot stay. I am going to
see—”
“Hear me, I pray! Do not leave me.
Think of the dangers of the ocean deep,
and do not venture on its treacherous wa
ters.
It is well known that one of Michigan’s
United States Senators, Augustus S. Por
ter, was on very intimate terms of friend
ship with Clay, and they were often clos
eted together when momentous questions
were under consideration in the Senate.
On one occasion Mr. Clay was in Mr. Por
ter’s room until late at night talking over
a matter peoding in the Senate upon which
he proposed to speak next day. While
Mr. Poiter was intently looking up authori
ties in point and bent over a book, Mr.
Clay was walking the floor, and stepped to
the side-board, took up a cut glass decan
ter and remarked: “Mr. Porter, very hand
some decanter you have here.” Mr. P.,
without raisinghisheail, said: “Yes, very,”
and continued his research. When David
Stout. E q, of Detioi’, who sat beside
him, whispered: “Go?, they are empty.’’
At which Mr. Porter aroused and said: “I
didn’t undent md Mr. Clay,’ at the same
takesall the pleasure out of my existence?”
‘ ‘Should two lives be thus blighted.” said
I.
“I—1 don’t think they should,” said
Barbara, looking intently at the bouquet of
pansies she held in her band.
It was past midnight when the boat land
ed. Harold Webster came up.
“I promised to see you home, Mise Wil
lis,” said he, rubbing his hands briskly.
“You need not trouble yourself, Webs
ter,” said 1. “I shall be most happy.”
I called a hack, helped the divine Barba
ra in, feeling more and more as if I were
walking in cloud land.
“Wliere shall I drive to?” said the man.
“No. 69 Ravenal street,” said she, fourth
floor.
“What!” cried I, “not to Fernandino
flats?”
“Exactly,” said she.
“Why, that’s where I live!”
“Are you tne third floor?” she cried out,
breathless.
“Are you the fourth?” I counter-ques
tioned.
“But you’re not a crah at all!”
“Nor are you a dragon. On the contra
ry—”
But what matters it what we said?
Things were altered from the very begin
ning. I took my violin uo stairs the next
day, and helped my divine Barbara out
with sonata of Beethoven’s. I suggested
a new educational theory tor the nabnailed
classes. I listened enchanted to her reci
tation of Tennyson's Brooh; and at the end
of the quarter we are to De married—Bar
bara and L
Nonsense! What baa waters got to do time jerking the 1*11 pull whxh was an-
with this! I was almply remaiking that ew.r.d, and the decan’ers tilled.
1 was going to see you again to-morrow I ••• —
evening.” I —'The Pennsylvania rallioad employe
He saw her. 14,709 persons.
“The third floor’s compliments to the
fourth floor, and would like to know if this
sort of tbiBg is to go on all night.”
Down came the woman again.
“Fourth floor’s compliments to the third
floor, and wishes to know if he expects peo
ple to get settled without a noise.”
The next day the piano—only one how
ever—commenced. I was elaborating a
skeleton for a scientific essay, and it dis
turbed me seriously. I endured it ns lone
as I possibly could, and then I had resource
once more to the janitor’s wife.
“Third floor’s compliments to the fourth
floor, and will feel obliged if she will favor
me with a little peace and quietness, long
enough to do some necessary writing.”
There was no reply, and the music ceas
ed abruptly.
But that evening, when I was begining
to solace myself with a iittle violin prac
tice in the twilight, tap, tap, lap, came the
janitor’s wite at my door.
“Fourth floor’s compliments to the third
floor, and will feel obliged if he will favor
her with a little peace and quietness, long
enough lo write a letter.”
How I hate that woman I
So we lived for a month, exchanging
constant missiles of warfare. J’could cheer
fully have given up that miserable French
flat and gone back to boarding, only un
luckily I had engaged it for a year. The
fourth floor elocutionized, and had friends
to select private readings, whose voices
were deeper than Hamlet's, and more so
norous than that of Charlotte Cushman,
she was charitable, and had classes of
hiavy-booted girls twice a week, to sing
hymns and learn to sew. A single lady,
indeed! If she bad been a quadruple lady
she could not have made more noise. Dor
enjoyed the making of it mere.
At the close of the month, however, an
incident happened which turned the
current of my whole life. I went on a pic-
nic. I don't oflen go to affairs of that
kind; but this was an especially select affair,
gotten up by my friend Harold Webster.
I went, and there I met Barbara Willis,
and fell straightway in love with her. She
wasn’t exactly young, but neither am I—
and to my taste a full-blown rose is sweeler
than a bud, wherever you find it growing.
She was dark-eyed, with full cherry lips,
satin-brown hair, and a.c implexion as fresh
as roses and ivory. We talked—our ideas
coincided exactly. It seemed if our souls
were two looking-g-asses, to mirror each
other's.
“Miss Willis,” cried I, “why is it that
we have never met before? I fee! as if we
were old, old friends! ”
As I spoke I gently pressed her Land,
and she smiled back unutterable things.
I went to my friend Webster, who was
making up quadrilles on the upper deck.
We were accompanied by an excellent brass
band.
“Oh, Harold,” said I, “I can never
thank you enough for introducing me to
tba'. angel!”
“Do you mean Barbara Willis,” said
he. “Well, I do think she is rather a fine
girl.”
We grew confidential as we sat together
on the promenade deck aDd watched the
moonlight ripple over the surface of the
tides.
“A bachelor’s life is but half a life, Miss
Willis. ” said I.
“I can readily imagine that,” said she,
softly.
“1 live in a flat.” confessed I.
“Do you?” said Barbara, (the sweet, old
English name was just like her.) “Why,
how strange! So do I!”
• Isn’t it dreadful?” said I.
“Horrid!” said she, closing her lips as
though she meant it.
“And there’s a female dragon occupies
the floor above me and torments me out of
my life.
“Well, if this isn’t a remarkable coinci
dence,” said Barbara. “There’s a detest
able old crab of a bachelor under me, who
Why the Needle Point* Northerly.
The reason why the needle points in the
northerly direction is that the earth in it
self is a magnet, attracting the magnetic
needle as the ordinary magnets do; and the
earth is a magnet as the result of certain
cosmical facts, much affected by the action
of the sun. These laws have pci i jdicit.e ,
all of which have not as yet been deter
mined. The inherent and ultimate reason
of the existence of any fact in nature, as
gravity, light, heat, etc., ia not known fur
ther than that it is in harmony with all
facts in nature. Even an earthquake is in
perfect harmony with, and the direct re.
sultant of, the action of forces acting under
general laws. A condensed explanation in
regard to the needle pointing to the north
ward and southward is as follows: The
magnetic poles of the earth do not coincide
with the geographical poles. The axis of
rotat .on makes an angle of about 23 degrees
with a line joint to the former. The north
ern magnetic pole is at present near tba
Arctic circle on the meridian of Omaha.
Hence the needle does not everywhere point
to the astronomical north, and is constantly
variable within certain limits. At Ban
Francisco it points about 17 degrees to the
east of nortn, and at Calais, Maine, as
much to the west. At the northern mag
netic pole a balanced needle points with its
north end downwards in a plump line; at
San Francisco it dips about 63 degrees, and
at the southern magnetic pole the south end
points directly down. The action of the
earth upon a magnetic needle at its surface
is of about the same force as that of a hard
steel magnet, 40 inches long, strongly mag
netized, ul a distance of one foot. Tne
foregoing is the acc.pted explanation of the
fact that the needle points to the northward
and southward. Of course no ultimate
reason can be given for this natural fact any
mere thsn for any other observed fact in
nature.
Better and Cheese or tne Ancient.j
From the fact that the ancient writer* of
the Hebrew and Greek schools do not men-
lion butter or cream some have concluded
that neither was know nor used up to nearly
the close of the first century of theC'hristian
era; but this must be a mistake, for no
doubt one of the oils mentioned in the Old
Testament was of a hutyraceous descrip
tion. The milk of herds and of goats ia
spoken of, consequently there must have
been cream, and butter also, produced by
the conveyance of milk in skins on camel-
back, as it is frequently carried in what ia
called the Holy La d to-day. The cli
mate, in patriarchal times, as it present*^
would not allow butter le remain long in a
solid state; and hence its mention as off.
This is, however, speculative, though more
than probable. Flinv speaks of “cow-
cheese,” which he calls butyrum; and the
nomad Arabs made what they called
“kymac,” which is a thickened preparation
of cieam almost like butter. I: .8 made by
shaking cream of goat’s milk in a calabash.
The native East Indians made butter from
buffaloes’ milk, which they culled “ghee,”
which is simply butter of a thick, oily con
sistency. Homer and Virgil both mention
cheese, the former that could be cut by a
knife—Hercamede being described in the
llliad os having shred and scraped goat’s
cheese iuto a posset be prepared for the
wounded Machaon. Virgil leaves cheese
with no greater consistency than curd,
which the Bcythians used to mix with
mare’s blood aud least upon. Long before
the Christian era the buttery extract from
milk was used by the barbarous nations
aud by the Romans as an ointment, with
which they anointed children when teeth
ing, and applied to their skins to defend
them from the sun. This was butyrum,
ghee, or melted butter; and, if it looked
then no more tempting than when presented
forty years ago, under an Arab tent at the
second cataract of the Nile, it most have
been then, as now, a very repulsive ap
pearing article of food, t with a most offen
sive smell of rancidity.
Old sews asset
A bad thing never dies.
A bad lock invites a burglar.
A bald head ia soon shaven.
A clean hand wants no washing.
A bad day never has a good night.
A black hen will lay a white egg.
A constant guest is never welcome.
A blind man would be glad to see it
A bankrupt spot ecary, a new doctor.
A contented mind is a continual feast
A careless watch invites the vigilan*
foe.
A charitable man is the true lover of
God.
A had workman quarrels with his tools.
A boaster and a liar are cousin-germans.
A book that remains shut is but a block.
A bad bush is belter than an open wild.
A c.ear conscience laughs at false accu
sations.
A common jeerer may have wit but no
wisdom.
A courageous foe is better than a cow.
ardly friend.
A bird is known by its note, and a man
by his talk.
A young harbor learns to shave by ebaT-
irg fools.
A civil denial is better than a rude com
pliance.
A broad hat does not always, cover a
venerable head.
A bird may be caught with a snare that
will not be shot.
A broken friendship may be soldered,
bat will never be sound.
A bridle for the tongue ii a I
piece of furniture.
—The quince crop ot the state la the
largest grown for years.