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OLD SERIES—YOL. YII—NO. 44.
CEDARTOWN, GA., DECEMBER 2, 1880.
NEW SERIES—YOL. II—NO. 5L
MFORDimm
Main St Cedartown Ga.,
IP YOU WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH.
C. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
CEDARTOWN, GA. ,
tr office in the court House. lebie-ly
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
\3T pirgt Boom up Stairs over J. S. Stubbs &
Co’s Store. 8eptlS-iy
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
ffnci EAST BIDE OF MAIN NT.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Jan8-ly
W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. SurReoni
CEDARTOWN, GA.
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may he
found ready to attend calls either day or night.
Janl5-ly
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown, Q-a.
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
will practice in tbe Superior Court* of Polk,
am ding, Haralson, Floyd and Carroll oountles.
pedal attention given to collections and real
itate business. maril-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
—a n jv»n»aT work performed in tbe most skill-
ftg manner, Office over J. S. Stubbs 4 Co.’s.
*rt>i#-iy -a
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 lauds a specialty. Parties owning wild
lands In Georgia would do wpII to correspond
with me, as I nave app lcatlons for thousands
of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl.
fa. or other bogus title need apply. Look up
▼our beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per
cent, commission on sales. For locating and
ascertaining probable value, $l per lot. For
searching records for owners, so cents per lot.
For ascertaining if land is claimed or occupied
by squatter. Si per lor. Always in advance. To
insure attention enclo a 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. janSP-ly
LIVERY FEED,
AND:
SALE STABLE
Wright & Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Keep* on hand and manufactures to order
MATTRESSES!
My work recommends itself wherever used,
aadta guaranteed to render the moat perfect
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
alighted. I ask a trl&L JAMES. H. PRICE.
iebl*-ly.
CALHOUN
Lhrery and Sale Stable
FOSTER & HARLAN, Props
CAUHOUJM, - - - GEORGIA,
i with good Horses and a splendid
UneoThew Vehicles, we are prepared to meet
the want* of the traveling public in our ime.
Parties wishing vehicles sent to any of the
trains on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
or to any other point, may telegraph us, and
hare their wants promptly ana properly at-
’POSTER * HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga.
Jans-tf
ISAAC T.
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—dealer in-
STOVES TINWARE
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OP ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPECIALTY.
Every variety of lob work in my line nea
done. 1 respectiuliy solicit the patronage
the public, and would be pleased to have all i
friends and customers call and see me when
town. L T. MEE
jans-ly
GOLD.
Great chance to matte money,
need a peraon In erery town to take
_ _ subscriptions for the largest, chean-
„t and best Illustrated family Publication In
AM w rid. Anyone can'become a ‘suc.’eBslul
agent. Six elegant work* of art given free to.
subscribers. Tbe price Is so low tbst almost
•Terybody subscribes. One went report* tat-
Inn i»i subscribers Hr a day. A lady agent re
pons making over ,100 clear profit in ten days.
Hi wbo engage mate money last. You i—
ft as well as others- Full directions and
fra. *l«ant and .xponalYe outfit '
MB want profitable-wort, aend us you
teacoe. it oosis nothing to tor the bnslnim
Mb one who angages (ails to make gnat pay.
tMtoJttttK (TOSOH nee., Portland, Maine.
W. M. PHILUPS & CO.,
MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOR
Machincr j of all Kinds.
Sixty-four different makes of Steam Engine* 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 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 ttsnt cus
tomers. We are agents for GEORGE A CLARK’S
“0. Y. 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, Ga.
Life to some is full of sorrow—
Half is real, half they borrow ;
Full of rooks and full of ledges,
Corners sharp and cutting edges.
Though Pu» Joy iwH« may be ringing,
Not a song 700*11 hear them singing ;
Seem g never makes them wise.
Looking ont from downcast eyes.
All in vain the sun is shining,
Waters sparkling, blossoms twining ;
They bnt see through these same sorrows
Sad to-days and worse to-morrows ;
See the cionda that must pass over ;
See the weeds among the clover—
Everything and anything
Bnt the gold the sunbeams bring.
Draining from the bitter fountain,
Lo ! your mole hill seems a mountain.
Drops of dew and drops of rain
Swell into the mighty main.
All in vain the blessings shower.
And the mercies fall with power.
Gathering chaff, ye tread the wheat,
Rich and royal, ’neath your feet.
Let it not be so, my neighbor ;
Look up. as yoa love and labor.
Not for one alone woe’s vials ;
Every one has cares and trials.
Joy and care are linked together,
Like the fair and cloudy weather.
May we have, oh, let us pray,
Faith and paiienoe for to-day,
A. J. YOUNG,
DEALER IN
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins
and Brandies.
Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga.
SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL ft THOMPSON’S
STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES
in Cedartown.
I keep such Liquors as. may be used.as a beverage or for medical
purposes with perfect safety,
guaranteed.
EV Give me a call.
Good treatment
mr!8-ly
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS!
New Goods and New Prices.
A. D. HOGG & CO.,
MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
Have just opened a select stock of General Merchandise in their new itora,
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 reoent
rise in prices, and they feel confident of having goods at bottom figures.
They have beautiful Dress Goods, Calicoes, Corsets, new styles; Bleach-
lngs, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky ^Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentleman’s Underwear Vxar
Low. Remember the place—last Brick btore on South MAIN Street, west
side. nov6-ly
BAKER & HALL,
LOOK BP, NOT DOWN.
An Adopted Child-
to Reginald Warren, oppressed the ten
ants, and was feared and disliked by all.
And changes came for Eveline. John
Falconer was taken ill the winter after
ie’s departure for the continent—a
illness, which prevented
him bom working, and need up all his
savings.
Evy was his devoted nurse, never leav
ing his bedside, and was besides, very care
ful of his money.
Rent day came, and John Falconer was
in despair. He found that he was unable
to pay his rent. The poor man knew not
what to do. He was unfit for work, and
Evy had never been accustomed to it.
She was fitted for a governess, to be sure,
bnt how could he live without her devoted
care!
Mr. Stevens, the steward, was a hard
man. He said that John Falconer must
either pay the rent or go. He would give
him two weeks, but not a day over.
“My dear home!” he said; “the home I
have lived in for so. long! Evy, it wil!
break my heart to leave it!"
Evy soothed him with tender words.
“Nevermind, papa. We will think of
some plan.”
Evy had been acting very strangely for
the last few weeks. Mr. Falconer was not
obaervant. or he would surely have noticed
it
Sometimes she looked pale and sad; then
she would brighten up, while a burning
color suffused her cheeks.
Every morning she looked out for the
postman, and when he had passed by,
without leaving any letters, she would turn
avay with a sigh.
Time dragged on, and the day came for
J«hn Falconer to leave his home. He had
been unable to obtain the money, and Mr.
Sevens was to call during the morning.
If he could not pay him, they would-be
iumed out of their pretty home.
And yet Evy did not look at all so rrow-
fuL
Mr. Falconer thought it very strange
that she should go about with a smile on
her face, and a happy light in her eyes.
“You seem gay, Evy,” he remarked;
aid the pink in her cheeks deepened to
ctrnalion.
“I am not gay, papa. Here is Mr. Ste
vens. I will go to him as it would try
you too much;” and she ran out of the
room.
She ushered the steward into the little
iitchen and gave him a chair.
“Where is your father?” asked Mr.
Stevens.
“Papa is not able to see you to-day,’’re
plied the girl, in her self-possessed way.
“You seem independent, young lady.
I suppose you know that you must either
pay or eo?”
“I am quite aware of the fact,” retorted
Mr. John Falconer was walking slowly
towards his pretty little cottage one aftex-
noon in autumn. He was the head gap
dener of Warren Hall, a beautiful estate,
situated a few miles from the picturesque
village of Waverdale. A tall, fine, up
right man of forty-five, with a pleasant
face and honest, gray eyes, John Falconer
was a favorite at the hall.
He had known its owner, Mr Lionel
Warren, from a boy. The young heir
had been very fond of John, making him
his companion, and treating him almost
as an equal. When they Ijoth grew up to
be fine, handsome men, however, the inti
macy dropped.
Young Lionel, on the death of his fath
er, took possession of the estate, and whea
John applied to him for the post of under
gardener, he was immediately appointed
to it
A few years passed away. Mr. War
ren, who had gone abroad, returned, bring
ing with him a little son to gladden his
home. He had married an Italian lady,
who had died shortly alter the birth of
the little Reginald; and no longer able to
bear the right of that bright land winch
reminded him so much of his young wife,
Mr. Warren, now a grave, sad man, came
back to his home.
More years passed away, and little Reg
inald was now nine years of age. L, . , .. .. ,
„ . T , „ , , Evy, as she laid the money on the table.
Though John Falconer was now hea&Xli’ .
“Will vnn mvn ttip ft rMWinll”
DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE,
StTOH AS
Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iron aoi
Steel, Spades, Shovels, floes, Rakes,
Manare Forks, Ete.
BUGGY WHEELS. SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES,
WTnamr.Tt atiti ow« t
SAWS, FOES, LOCKS, BINGES, (SAINS, ETC.
We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, and
ask a trial in Goods and Prices. We are
Strictly in the Hardware Bnaineae^
and will be prepared to furnish goods in our line aa cheap aa
they can be bought in any market. Give us a trial before
going elsewhere.
gardener, and lived in a pretty cottage on
the estate, he was still unmarried.
So on this bright afternoon he was walk
ing homeward after his day’s work. He
had turned the corner of the quiet lane
which led to the house, when he nearly
stumbled over a tiny child, who stood cry
ing in the middle of the road.
She was about five years of age. A
slender, little thing, with beautiful dark
eyes and raven curls, clad in a tattered
calico frock.
“Who are you, little one! ” asked John.
“I’m Evy Gray,” she replied, in a sweet
voice.
“Where do you live, dear? ”
The tears rolled down the pale cheeks.
* *1 don’t live anywhere. Mother’s dea 1
She died a long time ago, and anntie took
me. We lived in London, but auntie came
here to sell things. She’s gone away to
day, and she beat me and left me here.
Oh, what shall I do?”
The poor little thing sobbed bitterly and
John’s benevolent heart was touched as
he looked at the lovely, tear-stained face.
He took the tiny hand in his, and led her
towards his home.
“Where are you taking me?” asked the
child.
“To my house, Evy. Here it is.”
Evy gazed in awe at the ivy-covered cot
tage, with its strip of bright garden and
pretty, green porch.
She hardly dared to walk over the clean
floor of the cosy kitchen, where the fire
was burning brightly, and where a rosy
servant-girl was toasting muffins for her
master’s tea.
Susan looked at the child with wonder
ing eyes, and was still more astonished
when John bade her wash the little thing,
and make her presentable.
Evy looked like another child after her
bath. Her cheeks grew rosy, her eyes
bright, while her long hair fell in curls over
her shoulders. John wrapped a shawl
around her, and placed her in a chair by
the fire, with a bowl of bread and milk on
her lap. Then Susan, who always went
home at night, was dismissed, and the two
were left alone.
How the child eDjoyed her nice supper,
and her cosy seat by the firel The little
tongue cliattered incessantly, until at last
she fell asleep in her chair.
John Falconer gazed at the pretty face
of the sleeping child, until the tears stood
in his eyes; then he said:—
My poor birdie! You have no home
or friends, my pretty one, but I will be
your friend, and, as long as I live, my
home shall be yours.”
And John Falconer kept his word. No
one claimed little Evy, so he adopted her
as his own child. He sent her to an excel
lent school, and worked hard to gain mon
ey for her sake.
Haste Regie, from the hall, took x great
fancy to Eveline, and they became great
friends. Mr. Warren encouraged the in
timacy, because it pleased his idolized son
ami Evy was always welcome at the hall.
8» time want on. Regie grew to be a
handsome youth of twenty-one, and Evy a
beautiful young lady of seventeen, when
changes came, and the youug friends were
parted.
Mr. Warren died, and Regie, now the
owner of Warren Hall, went abroad far a
year or two, leaving the estate in the care
of a bard, exacting steward, who, unknown
•Will, you give me a receipt!”
The eyes of the steward opened wide.
“How did you get the money?” he in
quired.
“I do not think that is your affair, ” said
Evy, icily, ai she took up the receipt.
“Good morning.”
Mr. Stevens took his departure, and
Evy bounded up the stairs to the invalid’s
room.
“See, papa! ” she said, waving the paper
before his eyes.
“What is the matter, Evy?”
“I have paid the rent, papa, and this is
the receipt.”
'“Evy, how did you get the money?"
“It came by post yesterday morning,
papa. I—I wrote a book and got fifty
pounds for it; so we shall have enough to
liva on till 1 can do more.”
’ifiut, my child I never knew yon could
‘’It came to me naturally, papa. I
wrote first for the love of the thing, and
then I wrote for love of you!”
“Evy, my own child!”
And in that giad moment John Falconer
knew that he was rewarded for his benev
olence.
Evy never wrote again for money. A
afterwards Regie returned, and
he heard the story, he dismissed,
Mr. Stevens from his service. And in the
spring there was a grand wedding at Wav
erdale, with Regie as bridegroom and Evy
is bride.
And Evy is truly happy in the love of
her husband.
John Falconer lives with them, and is
called “Grandpapa” by Evy’s children.
His reward for his act of benevolence, is
great, and the bread of charity, which he
cast upon the waters, has returned to him
after many days.
A Living Paper-Cutter.
An Indian rajah who was pleasantly
disposed toward the English and has
learned their language after a fashion, fre
quently visited some years ago, as the
story runs, the viceroy of Calcutta, and on
one occasion borrowed of the latter a copy
of tbe Edinburg Review, which he hap
pened to see lying on the table. When he
returned the magazine the viceroy asked
him if he had found anything interesting
in it. “Oh! yes,” he replied, “many
beautiful things, bnt also many disconnected
articles.” “How so?” asked tbe viceroy.
“See here,” answered the rajah, “this
begins with ‘Hunting the Orang-outang,’
dot i it not? And now turn over the page,
and here you have the ‘History of Mary
Stuart.’” The viceroy laughed. He per
ceived that the rajah had attempted to read
the took through without cutting the
leaved He accordingly took from his
table a beautiful ivory paper-cutter, ex
plained its use to his visitor, and made him
a present of it. The rajah was puzzled
as to how the leaves of books could be
printed before they were cut open, but
this also was explained to him. About a
year aftm this occurence the viceroy saw
a gay company entering the court, and in
the center of it the rajah seated on a young
elephant. No sooner did the rajah see the
viceroy than he cried: “Do you happen to
have an uncut copy of the Edinburg Re
view 1 If so, please toes it to me.” The
viceroy threw out the magazine. It was
caught by the elephant, win placed
between his tusks, which had been wrought
into elegant paper-cutters, even including
carved handles, and quickly cut open the
leaves, after which the knowing animal
1 nnimn the Review back to the surprised
viceroy. The rajah then dismounted, and
said to ths viceroy, aa he pointed to the
elephant: “He is yonrs, I return you your
paper-cutter alive.”
BmnyyHny
On the Belgian and Spanish frontiers the
professional smugglers employ dogs, which
are taken into Spain or Belgium, and while
there poorly fed and regularly beaten by
confederates wearing the uniform of the
French douaniere. At the proper time
the animals have packages of lace or silk
tied on their backs and are turned loose,
when they at once “strike for their homes,”
taking care to give any one who wears a
uniform the widest possible berth. Roche
fort used to smuggle his Lanteme from
Brussels into France in great qua*ties, the
“diamond edition” being packed in plaster
busts of Napoleon III. The Russian Nihi
lists have introduced many tons of sediti
ons literature into the Czar’s dominions in
well-soldered sardine-boxes and fruit-cans.
Not long ago a French douanier at Pagny
discovered a very extensive smuggling as
sociation, whose operations were made
possible by the venality of a Russian
tchinovnik, who had stolen the seal of one
of the imperial departments. Cabinet
couriers of all European nations enjoy the
privilege of exemption, as far as their per
sons and luggage are concerned, from the
Custom-house officers’ examinations. The
suspicions of the French douanier at
Pagny were aroused by the unusual num
ber and dimensions of certain trunks, tor
which the usual exemption was claimed by
a “courier extraordinary” of tbe Russian
Government, passing toe Franco-German
frontier, on his route from bt. Petersburg
to Paris. He therefore took upon himself
the responsibility of opening and examin
ing the suspected luggage, despite its pro
prietor’s indignant protest. His courage
was rewarded by the discovery of 24,000
cigars, which the pretended cabinet-courier
had intended to smuggle into France.
Next day another Russian courier arrived
at Pagny, also accompanied by an inordi.
nate amount of luggage under seal, which,
upon being inspected, was found to con
tain 27,000 cigars. Bismarck tells us very
plainly that the Duke of Moray, when
Ambassador to Russia, made large sums
by refurnishing the embassy repeatedly
sad selling the furniture, which had, of
course, been imported duty free. One of
the most remarkable smuggling movements
of the present day was that at Roubaix,
France, last Summer, when twice every
day the contrabandiere crossed the fron
tier into Belgium several thousand strong,
bring back with them eoffee, coal-oil and
tobacco, and defrauding the customs of at
least 50,000 franes a day. The men had
been on a strike, and being resolved not to
starve, organized a smuggling army too
powerful for the authorities to cope with.
Some very extensive smuggling most have
been done at Hamburg, apparently with
the connivance of the custom officials,
within the last few months, since we read
that a miller, one Herr Wegner, has been
fined nearly $95,000 for smuggling 6,500
tons of wheat and rye into the district with
out paying the comparatively small impost
on such grain. New York readers are
made aware from time to time of the
operations and devices of smuggling at this
port. The business flourishes between St.
Albans and Rouse’s point and Montreal,
where the operators can work both ways.
It was once the practice for certain Mon
treal tailors to empiov New York cutters
and send agents through New England and
Northern New York to take orders for
clothing to be delivered in the United
States at the maker’s risk, and an exten
sive business was done in running over
whde carloads ot bulkier merchandise.
On the 31st of August last a Montreal mil
liner who was about to settle in New York,
was stoppsd at “the lines” with eighteen
trunks full of silks, velvets, laces, silver
ware, and wines, although she had a certi
ficate from the American Consul-General
that all these were non-dutiable immi
grant’s effects. It is de rigueur for silly
American women who go to Montreal to
buy silks and similar goods and smuggle
them home, a practice that is gradually
going out of favor, now that our fair and
free-lrading countrywomen have discover
ed that the guileless Canadian tradesman
usually furnishes them with an inferior
article purchased in New York or Boston
and sold at an advance price. Since our
Canadian neighbors have enjoyed the bene
fits of a protective tariff smuggling into
Canada has been very lively, jewelry being
one of the articles most extensively intro
duced. There is perhaps only one country
in the world which is really smuggler-
proof—Boralong, in South Africa, which
is ruled by a benevolently despotic mon
arch, Moroko. When the King found his
councillors attending the palavei furiously
inebriated and his sons taking to brandy
drinking, he prohibited under penalty of
death tbe importation into his dominions
of intoxicating liquors of any kind, and
when a subject was caught evading the
law the penalty was sternly inflicted. “For
some years,” there have been no attempts
at smuggling, and as a consequence the in
habitants of Thaba Nchu, the capital, are
a sober, well-ordered, industrious and
prosperous community.”
He took all Che Bets.
The Busslau Lord High Admiral.
The Grand Duke Constantine is a mari
time Chesterfield. He has a ready compli
ment for every one who approacnes him in
society, and has a good deal of light chit
chat for all sorts of persons. But in pri
vate liis speech is curt, and he deals in
those expletives without which the sailor’s
vocabulary would be incomplete. The
Grand Duke was married when young to
the handsomest princess in Germany—a
blessing he never much valued. He trav
els abroad by himself, and the Grand
Duchess Constantine by herself. Constan
tine lias navigated and circumnavigated a
good deal aa an officer of the Russian navy,
of which he is now High Admiral. As he
grows elderly he stiffens and shows hered
itary pipe-clay. His carriage has the
bolt upright stiffness of the Prussian offi
cer, and his trousers fit as if held down
with straps His trunk is clothed in a kind
of naval pea-jacket. His step is, tor so
tall a man. curiously mincing. It is a dan
cing-master’s step, and enables him rapid
ly and without fatigue to cover a deal of
ground. At St. Petersburg this illustrious
friend of M. Emile de Girardin has often been
accused, behind his back, of harboring
M'homiw too ambitious to be righteous.
These must have found their
way to him. The Czar has an ennnye look,
and gives the impression of a man who
never had a friend who was not a valet.
Constantine looks as though he felt him
self watched by spies, and glances about
without turning his head. He is very land
of animniRj and has in his park in Russia
a “Zoo” of his own, in which there are
remarkable specimens of Asiatic goats,
buffalos and yaks. The Grand Duke Con
stantine is given credit for making intelli
gent investments. In the management of
his private affairs he shows order and in
telligence, from which we may infer that
if the naval department, which he heads,
is badly administered, toe blame is not to be
thrown on his imperial highness’ broad shoul
ders, bnt on those of Admiral Popoff, in
whom he has placed, and still p.lac un
bounded confidence.
When (Jed wishes to punish a nation
he deprives the rulers of wisdom.
Some weeks ago John Mackay was
sitting in the Gould and Currie office, Car-
son, Nevada, reading about the “Jumping
Frog of Calaveras,” when an idea
occurred to him that some sort
of a trick like that would be a
splendid thing to nng in on Maurice Hoe-
ffich, the mining expert. Hoedich is
around the office a good deal, and when
ever he takes a lunch with Mackay, he is
sure to get in some sort of a dispute and
offer a bet. Mackay don’t like betting
and frowns it down, unless be thinks peo
ple are trying to bluff him. At last he de
termined to cure Hoeflich of his habit and
find where the weak spot in his armor lay.
One day he saw Hoeflich on the stoop,
playing with an enormous grasshopper,
which he was teaching to jump. Hoe-
flich’s grasshopper could jump twenty-
three feet, and it wasn’t long before he re
marked to Mackay:
“I’ll bet two dollars dot you cand find a
hiniect to peet him.”
Mackay bet ten dollars that he could
beat it, and Hoeflich raised him twenty
at once. The bet was closed at these fig
ures, and Mackay said he would have the
hopper there in a day or so. He then sent
a trusted emissary down to Carson Valley
to secure a contestant for the winged steed
of Hoeflich.
The man spent nearly a week roaming in
Carson Valley catching hoppers. He sent
an official report to Mackay, statiDg he had
caught over three thousand grasshoppers
and put them through their paces. The
best gait any of them had was 17; feet.
He doubted if a bigger jump could be se
cured. On receipt of the letter the Bonan
za Prince telegraphed to the man to bring
him up anyway. The next day he ar
rived with about a dozen hoppers from
Farmer Treadway’s and Mr. Mackay gave
them quarters in his room as Vanderbilt
would his stud. Each hopper had a cigar
box to himself, and every morning they
were taken out and put through their paces.
It was impossible, however, to get one to
jump over 18 feet, although ail sorts of in
vigorating food was given them.
Mr. Mackay was in despair, but one
morning a hopper sniffed at a bottle of
ammonia on the table and immediately
jumped thirty feet. After making a few
experiments it was found that one whiff of
ammonia so enlivened the hoppers that
they could make jumps that were almost
incredible. Next day Mackay announced
to Hoeflich that he was ready for the
match. The expert was ready at nine
o’slock, an hour before the time, with his
pet hopper. Not finding Mr. Mackay in,
he sat down in the study, and there noticed
the bottle of ammonia. While examining
it, Bridget, the old and faithful domestic
of the Gould & Carrie firm, came in with:
“Don’t be techin’ that numonia, Mr.
Hoeflich. It’s to make Mr. Mackey’s hop
pers sprightly. Bedad, I belave by the
robes of St. Patrick, he’s out of his sinses,
since the pump broke at the north ind. ”
Hoeflich pumped the domestic and soon
knew all about Mackay’s game.
A light broke upon Hoeflich; grabbing
the bottle he rushed up the stre et to Per
kin’s drug Btore, threw away the ammonia
and ordered it filled with chloroform. In
ten minutes, lie was back, and leaving the
bottle where he found it got out of the
place as fast as he could.
Mackay soon arrived with half a dozen
mining superintendents he had invited up
to see him have some fun with Hoeflich.
They were hardly seated when Hoeflich
oame in with a cigar box under his arm.
“I vasaleetle late, Mr. Mackay, but I’m
here mid derhopper and der coin.”
He laid down the money which was cov
ered promptly.
“Anyone else to ped?”
Joe Stewart laid down $100.
John Kelly put up $50.
Warren Sheridan stepped in for $200.
Hank Smith wanted a like amount.
Sam Jones had only $60, but he put it
up. *
Then a few got into the corner of the
room and concluded it was a shame to rope
Hoeflich in that way, and finally agreed to
give the money back after they had won
Mackay then bantered Hoeflich to
raise the pot 100 shares of Union Con.
Hoeflich wrote an order on his broker and
remarked:
“Dar’s no limit to de bets, gentlemen,
de coin sbeaks. ”
Nearly every man donbled his bet, and
then Mackay got behind Sam Jones and
let his hopper sniff of the ammonia bottle
which held Hoeffich’s chloroform.
Time being called, the hoppers were
placed side by side on the piazza, and at
the word “go,” each ihaeet was touched
on the back with a straw. Hoeffich’s
grasshoper described a semicircle in the
tor and scored twenty-four feet. Mackay’s
gave a lazy lurch of some four inches, and
folding its legs across its stomach fell fast
asleep. Jones swore that he could hear it
snore.
Hoeflich walked back into the room,
swept the coin into a canvas Back, and
Mackay wrote out an order for the stock.
Hoeflich went up the street with his hop
per under his arm, leaving the others too
much astonished to speak. Presently
Sheridan put the ammonia bottle to his
nose and called Mackay’s attention to the
smell.
“Chloroform by graciousl”
Then the Milesian woman who was the
cause of all the mischief, appearing with a
broom announced that it was “swapin’
time,” and the crowd dispersed, each going
in different directions.
As Mackay started for the Union abaft,
he remarked:
“That fellow, Hoeflich does play in queer
luck.”
And to this, all hands inwardly agreed.
Bow Ladles Dress la Persia.
She wore a bright red skirt, richly em
broidered with gold lace: it was very full
and short, barely reaching to her knees ; a
loose jacket of bine velvet, also much
trimmed—this time with silver lace; the
sleeves were made of cashmere shawls, but
toned by about twenty small buttons. She
wore several necklaces, most of them very
massive, studded with fine turquoises. On
her head she wore a white shawl, wjth a
band of jewals round her forehead, and at
one side a huge pearl star. She had on
both arms at least a dozen bracelets—some
handsome ones, some only bands of colored
glass. Her feet were covered with coarse
white socks; her shoes were green leather with
scarlet heels. Some of the ladies wore
bright red trousers, reaching to the ankle;
but this was quite the exception. They
wear a long veil, reaching from head to
foot, generally made of some email print or
muslin. 1 ought to mention that every
lady wore a small leather case around her
neck, containing some earth from Mecca
and verses from the Koran. The faces of my
hostess and friends were much decorated,
the eyebrows broadened and carried quite
across tbe nose. Some had small designs
tattooed on the cheeks. The hair is very
long and thick, generally dyed red; it is
worn plaited in many thin' tails, twisted
with gold thread. The hands are well
shaped, but nails and palms are stained a
dark red.
In October, 1877, the brigantine Moor-
burg left Foochoo, in Chins, for Melbourne,
carrying four seamen, raptsin, mate, and
last, but by no means least, the captain’s
wife, who wss a little delicate woman,
and her baby. They had not gone far on
their voyage ere all the crew tell sick, and
one after another died. The mate did not
succumb entirely, but became reduced to
a skeleton, and was incapable of doing
much; while the captain himself was
almost in as miserable a plight, his legs
having swollen tremenduoudy, and his body
being a mass of sores. His wife alone held
up under the terrible heat, although she
had nursed the sick till they needed nurs
ing no longer, had looked well to her baby’s
needs, and done duty at the wheel in
regular watches, and taken her share of
seaman’s work beside. To make matter*
worse, the ship sprang a leak, which the
captain luckily was able to stop, and
eventually the Moorburg got into Brisbane
harbor, half full of water, with two sick
men on board as her crew, all told, and a
woman at the helm, tbe gallant woman
bringing not only the ship but her baby
safe into port.
Some time in 1871 a woman named
Theresa Maria, dwelling in the village ot
Fratel, on the frontier of Portugal and
Spain, on the way across the fields with
her husband’s dinner, was told by a shep
herd boy that he had seen a wolf prowling
about Never having seen one in her hie,
she pat down her basket, and directed by
the lad, climbed to a high place, and,
looking eagerly around, descried the ani
mal in the act of devouring a lamb. Think
ing to scare the brute from its prey, the
boy shonted at it, and pelted it with stones
so infuriating the wolf that it left its maal
unfinished and made for its disturber,
jumping up at the little fellow's face, tear
ing the fluih, and then pulling him to the
ground. What did the horror-stricken
onlooker do—run away? Not she. Pick
ing up a large stone, she rushed on tbe
beast and seized hold ot him. In vain he
bit and tore her flesh; the undaunted wo
man contrived to keep his throat closely
enfolded by her left arm, while she bat
tered his head with the stone, and at length
killed him. Meanwhile, the villagers had
been alarmed, and came hurrying to her
tod, armed with guns, sticks, and atones,
meeting Theresa on her war home earned
with blood from terflfe wounds- in bar
face, arms, and hands. They carried her
to the hospital at Nizn, where, pitiful to
tell, she expired exactly a month after
ward, consoled in her dying hours with
behaving that she had not sacrificed her
life in vain. A false belief, alaal for tha
shepherd-boy died of hydrophobia a day
or two after his lamented deliverer.
Courageous in another way was a wo
man of the Commune, who during that
terrible rising had worked day and night
in the hospital, assisting a certain surgeon,
whose services were freely rendered to
men with whose cause he had nosympathy.
When the insurrection was' quelled, tbe
doctor was arrested and marched off to be
tned by drum-head court-martial. As he
approached the door of the tribunal, he
met his late female assistant coming out
between two soldiers. “Why, Adele!”
he exdaimed, “how came you here?”
Looking hard at him, with nnre-—
eyes, she replied: “I don’t know you,
sira denial he set down to a fear of ac
knowledging the acquaintance of a doomed
man. Not a little to his surprise, he got
off and was set at liberty, to learn that
Adcle had been shot, and was on her way
to death when she had repudiated all
knowledge of him and forbore appealing
to his aid, rather than compromise hi™,
and render his chance a desperate one.
A poor servant girl in France,
once proved herself a real heroine. A com
mon sewer of great depth had been opened
for repair, the opening being covered at
night with some planking; but those in
charge of the operations neglected tc place
any lights near to warn wayfarers of the
danger in their path. Four men returning
home from work stepped au the planks,
which being frail and nNSn gave way
under their weight, and precipitated them
to the bottom. It was some time before
any one became aware of what had hap
pened; and when the people gathered
round, no man among the crowd was dar
ing enough to respond to the frantic en
treaties of the wives of the entombed men
by descending that foul and loathsome
depth- Presently, a fragile-looking girl of
seventeen stepped to the front, and said
quietly;—“I’ll go down and try to save
the poor fellows;” and creatures calling
thamcelvea men were not aahamed to stood
by sndseeOstherine Yssseur let down ou her
valiant but fearful mission. Then ensued
a low long minutes of anxious suspense
before the signal to haul up was felt, sod
two still breathing but unconscious men
were, with the gallant girl, brought to the
surface. Nigh exhausted as the effort had
left her, the heroic maiden only stayed to
gain breath before descending re
gardless of the risk she ran. This second
venture nearly proved fatal. Upon reach
ing the bottom ot the sewer, and fasten
ing a rope around one prostrate form,
Catherine frit as though she were being
strangled by an invisible hand. Unfor
tunately, the rope round her own waist
had become unfastened; and when, after
groping along the dripping, clammy wall,
her hand touched it, she had not strength
sufficient to pull it down. Dazed as she
was, she still had her wit* ahsut her, and
loosing her long hair, twisted the luxuriant
tresses with the rope. The rope was
hauled up; and the horrified crowd beheld
the inanimate form of the brave young girl
swinging by her hair, and to aU appear
ance dead. Fresh air and prompt admin
istration of stimulants brought her to Con
sciousness, and the happiness of knowing
that, if she had failed in saving <11, her
brave endeavors had restored three of
breadwinners to their families.
These nests resemble haycocks. They
are four feet high, and five in diameter at
their bases, being constructed with grass
and herbage. first, they deposit one
layer of eggs on a floor of mortar, sad
having covered this with s stratum of mud
herbage eight inches thick, lay another sat
of eggs upon that, aud so ou to the top,
there being commonly from one to two
hundred eggs in a nest. With theto tails
they then beat down round the neat the '
dense grass and reeds, five feet High, to
prevent the approach of unseen enemi—,
The female watches her eggs until they
are hatched by the heat of the sun, and
then takes her brood under her own care,
defending them and providing for their
subsistence. Dr. Lntzemburg, Orleans,
told me that he once packed tip one of
these nests with the eggs in a box for the
museum of SL Petersburg, but he was
recommended before he dosed it to me
that there was no danger of the eggs being
hatched ou the voyage. On opening one
a young alligator walked out, and was
soon followed by the rest, about a hundred,
which he fed in his house, where they went
up and down stain, whining and
like young puppies.
—The timber or Clearfield Co, Fa., la
nearly exhausted.