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Newspaper Page TextThe Cedartown Advertiser. Published every Thursday by D. B. B'REEKTA.iN’. Terms: 31.50 per annum, in advance. OLD SERIES—YOL. YH-NO. 52. CEDARTOWN, GA., JANUARY 27, 1881. NEW SERIES—YOL. III-NO. 7. CHARLES E. WEST, Attorney at Law, CM)ABTOWN, Georgia. tr special attention to Collection of claims, omoe up stairs In Ledbetter £ Goode Building. octn-lj C. G. JANES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CEDARTOWN, GA. Iw Officein the Court House. febis-ly DRS. LIDDELL & SON, ^PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS >HICI CAST SIDE OF MAIM H. CEDARTOWN, GA jan8-ly W. G. ENGLAND, Physician and Surgeon. CEDARTOWN, GA OFFICE orer J. A. Wynn’s where he may he Sound ready to attend calls either day or night. Janl5-ly DR. C. H. HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon, Cedartown. Ga. B. FISHER, Watchmaker & Jewelers CEDARTOWN, GA W. F. TURNER, Attorney at Law. CEDARTOWN, GA Will practice In the Superior Courts of Polk, P.iU ding, Haralson, Floyd and Carroll counties, hpedal attention given to collections and real tbkite business. marllrly DR. L. S. LEDBETTER, DENTIST, CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. All Dental work performed In the most skill, ful manner. Office over J. 3. Stubbs A Co. ’s. febi»-iy DR G. W. STRICKLAND DENTIST, CEDABTOWN, - - - Georgia. Having permanently located In cedartown, offers his professional services to the public, guaranteeing first-class work and. reasonable chargee to all patrons. oct2l-ty JAMES H. PRICE, CEDARTOWN, GA Keeps on hand and manufactures to order MATTRESSES! My work recommends itself wherever used, and Is guaranteed to render the most peitect satisfaction. No-flimsy material used, no work silghted. I ask a trial. JAM EL IL BRICE. ieblS-l/. ISAAC T. MED, CEDARTOWN, GA., —DEALER IN— ' STOVES TINWARE, Hardware and Hollow-Ware, OF ALL KINDS. House-Furnishing Goods A SPECIALTY. Every variety of lob work in my line neatly done. I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public, and would be pleased to have all my friends and customers call and see me when la town. 1. T. MEK jans-ly STAR BARBER SHOP. WEST SIDE MAIN STREET. ( LEAN TOWELS and plenty of BAT RUM al ways at hand. Everything neat and systematic about my shop, and cus'omeie promptly and politely waited on. Am prepared to Clean Clothing. Bring me your worn and faded garments and have them made to look as good as new. I guarantee perfect satisfaction in all branches of my business. The repairing of Umbrellas a Specialty. nov85-ly LEWIS BOND J. F. EAVES. Restaurant and Confectionery - EAST SIDE OF NORTH MAIN STREET. W Meal* Served at all Boars. W. M. PHILLIPS & CO, MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOB MacMnerj of all Kinds. Sixty-four different makes of Steam Engines and Boilers ranging from 3 to 40 horse-power—new and second-hand—all at very low prices. Also agents for the Albany and Brown Cotton Gin, PACKING, SCREWS, SEPARATORS, THRESHERS, CORN MILLS and Farming Implements in general. We had a fine trade In this line last year, and general satisfaction was given. We are also Dealers in General Merchandise. And have In stare a well sale*ted stock of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, CLOTHING AND GROCERIES, All of which we will sell low, either for caoh or to prompt paying time emz- tomers. We are agents for GEORGE A CLARK’S “0. K. T.” Thread, And will sell at retail and also will job It to merchants at regular whole sale prices. 10,000 Founds 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 us. W. M. PHILLIPS & CO., Cedartown. G-a, R O E Cotton and Produce Exchange, 27 BROAD STREET, ROME, Ga. BRANCH OF THE Atlanta Public Produce, Cotton and Stock Exchange. J. F. CUMMINGS & CO., Managers. Quotations from all the Principal Cotton ana Produce Markets received Dally, quoting all Changes In the Market, which are rree to the public. Future Transactions In Cotton, Grain and Provisions. dec23-lm tr Call or Bend for Circular Explaining Method of Doing Business. A. J.' YOUNG, DEALER IN Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins and Brandies. Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL £ THOMPSOS’S STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES In Oedartowxx. I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical purposes with perfect safety. (W Give me a call. Good treatment guaranteed. mrl8-ly D. H. LEDBETTER. Watchmaker & Jeweler, CEDARTOWN, Ga. All kinds of Repairing of Watches, Clocks find Jewelry done promptly and satisfactorily. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of all kinds fur* nlsbed to order on short notice. I am prepared to do PHOTOGRAPHING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. My Gallery is fitted up in good style, and I sip prepared to furnish GOOD PICTURES. LIVERY, FEED —AND- SALE STABLE! Wright & Johison, PropTs. CEDARTOWN Geoboia. Being supplied with new Horses, New Ve hicles. *C_, we are preptred to meet Ue wants of the public in our lint lans-iy BAKER & HALL. s DEALERS IN GENERAL HARDWARE, STJOEC AS Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Kails, Inn ant! Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Hakes, Manure Forks, Etc. BUGGY WHEELS. SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES, »”T|T?AP'R rt ' Btra , SAWS, FILES, LODES, HINGES, CHAINS, ETC. We hare 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 ebeap they can be bought m anyViarket. Give us a trial befo4 going elsewhere. “THBY SAY.” •They any V Ah, well; suppose they do. But con they prove this story true ! Suspicions may arise from naught But malice, envy, want of thought; Why count yourotlf among the “they. * Who whisper what they dare cot soy f “ They say 1" but why the tale rehearse. And kelp to make the matter aorse ? No good can possibly acorns From telling what may be untrue: And is it not a noble plan To spe&k of all the best you can ? •• They say!” well, if it should be so. Why need you tell the tile of woe ? Will it the bitter wrong redrees, Or nrak* the pang of sorrow less ? Will it the erring one restore Henceforth to “ go and sin no more ?** “They say!** Oh ! pause and look within; See how thy heart incline* to sin ; Watch, leet in dark temptation's hour Thou, too, should sink beneath its power. Pity the frail ; weep o’er their fall. Bat speak of good, or not at alL The Obstructed Track. Above the fair girl who looked out of a small dormitory window shone countless stare; she might have seen Bootes and Or ion bad she looked up, but that night the worlds of heaven had no attraction for her. She was listening to a strange sound borne from the west by the nocturnal breeze that chilled her cheek. “I believe it is Gwynne’s Cut,” she said at last, to herself. Perhaps some villain is obstructing the •rack for devilish purposes. The Red Bird will soon be due, and this is Ed’s trip down.” The moonbeams stealing in at the win dow, fell on the face of the dial and told Viola that it was 19 o’clock. ■Twelve,”she murmured. “What! 19 o’clock, and he whistles to me at half-pasti My heavens! What if the track is ob structed in the cut I” With the last word on her lip, she turned and soon left the house. At the gate she paused a moment and listened. The stars looked down upon a little object that glittered like silver In Vi ola’s hand. She was the belle of the county she in habited. Her father was dead, and, with her widowed mother, and a little brother of twelve, she dwelt In the humble house won by the sweat of her father’s brow. A railway station called Beaumont, was the only settlement near, and It was six miles from her home. The brace of shrieks, loud and shrill, whichjsounded every night, told her who drove that engine toward that great city on the Mississippi’s banks. They recalled the day, one year since, when the first engine she had ever seen had stopiied at Beaumont, scarcely a station then. The engineer w>s young and handsome; a. he saw her ex amining the groat driving wheels, and looking with wonderment upon the mighty beauties of his iron pet, he leaped to the ground. “A pretty piece of machinery,” said he to her, “and she goes like a bird.” She blushed when she caught his eye, and the sound of his voice thrilled her. A week later she found herself at the sta tion talking to him again. By and by Ed. Gordon, the engineer, carried a picture over his heart, and on Viola’s bureau lay the photograph semblance of his face. But to letura to the night when Viola left her home to investigate the sounds that seemed to come from Gwynne’s Cut. Viola at last reached the cut, into which the mellow moonbeams fell, and paused. Something high and dark obstructed the track before her, at the very spot where the cattle guard seemed to be, and she held her breath. It was 12 o’clock when she left the house, and her walk had occupied a number of precious minutes. The shrieks of the Red Bird would soon be heard, and a moment thereafter its headlight would Hash i.ito the cut or gorge. She saw more than a pile of strong ties on the track. She saw the dark figure of a man moving about among the pyramids, as if contemplating his night’s work, and speculating upon the death and ruin it would cause. She watched until she believed that one man had accomplished the diabolical deed, and then she crept forward through the shadow of the bushes that lined the side of theont, until she stood within ten feet of him. “I’ll go back to the station, now,” she heard him say to himself. “I can get there before the accident, and when it oc curs, why I can run up there and see him under the rums of his engine, so crushed that the doll faced girl will Dot recognize him.” The last words, full of devil’s triumph, still quivered on his lips, when Viola step ped from the shadows and thrust the muz zle of her revolver into his face. ‘Tbu is your revenge, Morgan Duke,” she said, looking sternly into hi* ©y«m- “Now, obey my commands, or there will be a lifeless body on this track, to be min gled among the ruins of the night express. To work' at once; off with your coat, and remove every obstruction your wicked hands have placed there. ” “The train can’t be saved now,” he said, and there was joy in his tones. “It took me one long hour to obstruct the guard. In twenty minutes or less, perhaps, you’ll see the Bed Bird’s headlight up the cut.” “Villain!” she cried, “if this track is not clear when I see her headlight, I’ll drive a bullet through your Drain. You know what to do. I’ll talk no longer.” He worked for dear life, for he knew when the thundering train was due, and a glance at the girl on the track told him that she would surely kill him if he did not do her bidding. She said to him : “I never thought this cf you, Morgan Duke. When I rejected you 1 thought you would bear it like a -ran.” He replied not , but glanced at his watch. “Half-past twelve,” he said. “To work 1” was the stem command, and Viola stepped forward and brought the revolver nearer his head. “You must,” was the reply. “I drove them in a with sledge.” “I did not hear the sound.” “It was deadened with my coal.” The girl’s face grew paler than ever, and she glaneed fearfully up the cut. “Take them out 1” she said suddenly; “the train is coming. I hear It.” The villainous station master heard the rambling and again turned to the ties. You have your choice,” Viola said to him. “A bullet or an unobstructed track.” She watched him as a woman never watched a man before. She knew that he was doing all that could be done to undo his wicked work, and while she watched her heart grew still beneath the rumble of the express. “He’ll soon call me,” she said to her self. “There! there 1” The familiar shrieks cleft the cool Octo ber air, but they brought no joy to her heart. She was not at the old window be side the light he loved to hail from his en giac. i'eihupi. «lie would be the first to kiss his cold brow bcaeath the stars at Gwynne’s Cut. She almost shouted for joy when she saw the first tie drawn from the guard by the desperate man. ■Quick! the sledge! break the guard! ” she cried. “God, I never thought of that,” he said, and the next moment he was shattering the long guard with the heavy sledge. At that the tie was broken, and he thrust the other ties down into the long opening he had made. At that moment the train, rounding the curve, dashed into the cut, and the flashing headlight, not twenty leet away, almost blinded the eyes of the twain. Morgan Duka stepped from the track. He looked up snd beheld the gleam of tri umph in the girl’s eyes. In an instant a gnm look of resolve settled on his face. On, thnndeiingcaihe the train. He sprang forward and the next instant it disappeared in the woods leaving Viola alone with the mangled remains of her rejected lover. With tears in her eyes she bent over the shapeless mass. How could she fail to forgive the crime he had expiated with his life The next day brought Ed. Gordon lo her side and nono loo soon, for the poor girl was almost prostrated with the excitement of the night. The company presented Viola with a beautiful house, when her husband took charge of the ear shops. I know she will never regret her night in Gwynne’s Cut with her rejected lover. Hr. BeSbera Babe*. “Yes, it’s so, said the man. “Ob. Jona/Aou mu%t be mistaken,” re plied his third WTie. “Well, I tell you it’s so; 1 ought to know,” was the emphatic reply of John Heffner, who lives on Maple street, be tween Chesthuf and Spruce, Reading, Fa. A reporter ha£ called upon Mr. Heffner to learn the correct history of his much- talksd-about great brood of forty-one chil dren. Heffner is sparingly built, smokes a short pipe, and makes a living in the rag business. He is sixty-five years old and has a pleasant smile and cheerful greeting for all friends. The story of the man’s married life, at related by himself, is prob ably the most remarkable one on record. He was born in Germany in 1815. When twenty-five years old—in 1840—he mar ried his first wife, who lived eight years. She became th« mother of seventeen chil-, dren in that time, having twins in the first year of their marriage. The next year an other pair of twins were born. Each suc ceeding year for four years thereafter Mrs. Heffner became the mother of triplets. The seventh year was signalized by the birth of only one child. Mre. Heffner died and was laid away in the village church-yard in Germany. The widower had now a family of seventeen children, the oldest only seven years of age. Three months thereafter a young lady took charge of the children, and in course of time she be came the second Mrs, Heffner. The first wife died in February, 1848. In February, 1848, this seoond wite presented Mr. Heff ner with a boy. On Christmas Day of the same year the nineteenth child was added to the Heffner flock. The family was now larger than any other in that part of the country. Five years passed by, and Mr. Heffner’s household was increased by the addition of ten more children- -a pair of twins being bom every year. There was now a lull, and for three years thereafter only one child was bom unto them. In 1854 he came tc this country with his fam ily, and the last three children were born in America. .In 1857 his wife died, having been married nine years. He was now tho father ot thirty-two chil dren, twelve of whom had died, leaving twenty to be taken in charge by a widow whom he married in 1858- Mrs. Heffner No. 3 had one child by a previous mar riage. She became the mother of nine more children in ten years by single birth. His last, or third wife, is still living. None of the first set of seventeen children sur vive. Two of the fifteen of the second wife’s children still live, and three of the third wife’s nine. In a period of twenty- eight years-—from 1840, when he first mar ried, to 1788, the date of the birth of his !a»t child—he became the father of lortv- C&e children. The five who are win hv- - ua gu-U. With the step-child added „ jie list, forty-two children have called John Heffner “father.” The old man has long since forgotten the names of his nu merous progeny, and can only recall those born in late years. The Uumlilu Floating Slllls. The floating grain mills on the Danube are perhaps its most curious feature. Fan cy two canal boats moored parallel to each other, in mid river, about fifteen or twenty feet apart, and supporting between them the crank of a gigantic mill-wheel, turned by the current of the stream. Fancy, moreover, the sides of one of these boats carried up one story higher than those of he other, then roofed over a la Noah's ark, with doors and windows as needed— and you have a fair idea of these Danube grain mills, some four or five ttou- and of which, in groups of ten or a dozen ogether are scattered along this watery highway, all the way down from Vienna to Belgrade. Each mill is inscribed with its owner’s name, and 1 found time in passing to copy one or two, such as “Jubss Istvany ces Land os’’ and “Jonasvitch Makopopom” as being curious samples of Magyar peas ant nomenclature. As the steamer goes shooting by these mills, so dose that the slow “clack, clack” of the railll wheel is distinctly audible, it is smusing to note the inmates, looking for all the world like Hnmpty Dnmpty in the play, rushing to their doors or windows to wave a salute end have a look at the passengers. Instantaneous FliotogTaphj. The process of instantaneous photo graphy, as perfected recently in London and in this country by Kockwood, has re sulted in many changes in the mode of taking ordinary photographs and has en larged the field of photography by bring ing within it the work of picturing objects in motion. The history of the instantane ous process of photography is, like that of all other inventions, full of failures. The gelatine used instead of collodion as a medium for the chemicals employed in making negatives is a delicate substance, the manipulations of which need great ex perience and judgment; its proper pre paration is so tedious that it is not probable that photographers will attempt to prepare their own plates as at present, but will buy them ready prepared, in large quantities, the plate being dry and practically inaltera ble. The gelatine is first boiled for many hours, then mixed with the necessary salts of silver and potassium then passed through sieve-lik'i cloths, washed in water to ex tract the excess of chemicals, boiled again for a day and then spread on the glass plates. Even the minutest care in propor tions and treatment results in plates of dif ferent quality. Borne plates are too sensi tive and become black, even after an ex posure of a fraction of a second: others do not give clear pictures. Bo rapid is the effect of light that the motion of the hand has been found to be tod slow, and a pneu matic device has been introduced by which the slight pressure of a rubber bulb throws up a disk which covers the aperture of the camera and brings it down again. In Mr. Rockwood’s studio a long tube goes from the camera to any part of the room, the bulb which ends it being carried in the operator's hand. When he sees a gcod expression or position on the part of the sitter he squeezes the bulb, no matter in what part of the room he may be, and the picture is taken. But even this pneumatic disk is cot rapid enough for pictures taken out of doors. For this purpose a wooden s.idc is used with a round hole in it. As the slide falls the opening passes the camera aperture and gives a view of the scene, which lasts for aDout the hundreth part of a second, in pictures taken at the Battery by this process of gelatine coating and slides the finest ropes on ships, steam boats going at full speed are as distinct as if the boats had been at rest, aud each wave was distinctly pictured as it was at that fraction of a second. For artists the instantaneous process of fers the most valuable kind of aid. No matter how animated a scene it can be photographed as easily as a tableau. A ball-room with dancing going on, the musicians fiddling, people talking, laugh ing and yawning, oanuow be photographed with ease. Rogers, the sculptor, lias used the process to take pictures of athletes struggling. The men struggle without any thought of the camera, and when they get through there are a half dozen pictures of the men in positions which struck Rogers as effective. All he had to do was to squeeze his rubber bulb and the thing was done. Horses trotting and cows grftrlpp are jaaaily laktm 1 r* **" ,v taken recently represents five pigs lending, one old fellow scratching his back as he gazes stolidly at the camera. A cat and her kittehs’make a pretty group. In taking children and very old persons the advantages of this process are invalua ble. The child is allowed to move about until it takes a good position, when the picture is made. Old people who dislike the ordeal of sitting are photographed be fore they know it, all such things as head rests and props being done away with. Pictures of persons lauirhing are full oi life, and it may be said ot ail pictures taken by the instantaneous process that the still, unnatural expression almost un avoidable when a person is obliged to sit with head propped up, staring at a camera for half a minute is done away with, in the opinion of many persons it will not be long before photographers’ head-rests wilt he sold for old iron. Saddle Horse*. Bis Lost Prestige. Tlie prifloacr in cell No. 1 waa making a great noise as Court opened recently in Detroit, and he was therefore brouglit out first. He was a stout, thick-set man with short hair and milk white eyes, and he be lieved himself to be a mountain lion of the fiercest order. He came out on a dance, with a half -concealed war-hoop in his teeth and Bijah rather expected he would raise a fuss. ‘Is your name William Hill?*’ softly in quired the Court. •Oldman, you bet!” was the ready re- ply. See here, William,” continued his Honor, “this Court is not an old man— neither dot*i he bet. Don’t make use of any more such language. Now, then, you were drunk yesterday.” You bet!” ‘Prisoner, this court doesn’t bet, and if it has to inform you of that fact again, it may have to add Bixty days to your sen tence. Do you plead guilty cr not guil ty?” ‘Jodge, 1 was drunker’n a beer bar’!. I was fighting drunk. I was just in the con dition to chaw up half the police force in this one-horse four-comers. Jedge, let me out long enough to flap my wings aad give a now which can be heard four miles agin a stiff wind!” William Hill, I think I know what ails yon,” quietly remarked the aourt after looking him over. “You are aching to fall against some consumptive Detroiter, about five leet who will mash you flatter than sole leather. You evidently think youreeif a tarantula, but you are nothing hut a rab bit. Instead ol being a terror, you are a nuisance, aud I .ami —..H you 10 the Work House ” “Judge, I’m from Arkansas, and I tell you I’m dangerons. ” “Pooh! 1 shall send you up for thirty days, the same as any common drunkard. ’ “Don’t disgrace me, Judge. Make it six months, at least. Think of the story going back to Arkansas that I was sent up on a horse fly sentence. ” But his Honor was obstinate, and the prisoner sat down an a nail keg in the cor. ridor, and stud he’d have to kill one of the guards at the Work House to restore his lost prestige. • Women en the Bench. Borne years ago the eminent lawyer Henry W. Paine, of Massachusetts tried a case for a lady client, but did not receive a decision in bis favor,although justice and equity would have warranted it. As he and his client were leaving the Go art-room, the lady, who is well known as an exponent of woman's rights, said to him: “That was rank injustice.” “Certainly, madam,”Mr. Paine replied. “Mr. Paine," the lady continued,“when we women get a chance to sit on that bench, such injustice will not ’be possi ble.” With one of bis rich, rare smiles the great lawyer 9ald: Med am never expect to see a greater set of old women than are at present on the Massachusetts Bupreme Court bench. To the man who travels over the face of the earth, migrating from country to coun try, nothing will appear as more extreme in the manners of the different people he comes in contact with than their various methods of riding horses. While the Arab is the ancient ideal of a perfect hoiseman, yet our own country probably furnishes as great variety and styles of horsemanship as all the nations of the world put together. Let us take a hasty glance at the different patterns our country affords: in Mexico, Texas, and the extreme Southern States the style of ruling is quite unique. On the other side of the Mississippi river a suitable • costume is quite indispensable. The bridle I is armed with a curb bit of terrible leverage. The saddle bears an immense pommel to ease the strain of the lariat or the elbows of toe sleepy rider. A common buckled girth would never do in such.scientific rid ing. The broad hair hand is tightened with a cunning twist from a long, loose strap that has been “sprung” upon until the band is as tight as wax. Wc are all, at least in pictures, familiar with the broad sombrero, Blashed breeches, and large silver spurs with their attached ‘•jingles.” This rider in his appointments and horseman ship is certainly worthy of much admira tion, for he always looks at home and grace ful when he tries to be, even on the most veritable plug of a mustang. It is Beldom, however, that his charger calls forth any thing but a feeling of pity from the edu cated horseman. The native breed of those sections is a long way off from the ideal saddle horse of the middle Btates. In Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia we probably see the art of horsemanship, both in its relations to horse and rider, carried to a higher standard than in any other part of the world. Here we find the horse bred for generations under the most enlightened rule9 for breeding, and with the sole pur pose in view of making him the perfection of a sadd e horse, in physical teatures he is a model of the artist. In gaits his vari ety is infinite—a rapid walk, fox trot, rack, trot, lope,and run, changing from one to an other at a practical signal from the rider. In temper perfect, quick and comprehen sive. This is a point which no one but the practical rider can appreciate. The bridle lines are actually useless with him. A slight bending of the liody forward in forms him you wish the gait quickened; settling firmly back in the saddle intimates to him to siackon the gait, asiight bending of the body in the saddle, a little pressure of the opposito knee, aud perhaps an un conscious motion of the bridle baud in the direction you wish to turn is all the man agement he needs. The lines are never pulled to turn him right or left, but pressed against the side of the neck opposite the direction you wish to turn. Leaning for ward in the saddle puts him in a fast or fox trot. To puli him in a rack the bridle reins are pulled taut, while the heels bring the spur pressure to his sides. To make him trot, the reins and heels are let loose, the hands pressed upon the withers, and the body slightly raised in the saddle until he gets settled in his gait. To make b im jamgr-«Joaejattle-in lh H saddleayLw»f One hand in tne air. T hese are not thi and boar sandwiches were duly honored by the strong sex. Beautiful eyes, under quaint, poky hats and mousquetaire “toques,” flashed merry glances after Bparkling champagne and hock had been handed round profusely. The beil rang but too soon, and back to the paddock we strode for the last event. The shades of evening were over the Castellans, crowded by thousands of persons who wished to see the return, when we drove back to Madrid amid a scene of animation in streets and promenades only surpassed, perhaps, by the road to the bull-ring on Sundays. Fashionable Flutters ana Toes. >ne hand in the air. inventions of a single individual, but the universal custom among those who train saddle horses in the-Blates named. We now come to the rider of this perfected saddle horse. He sits in his scat with an easy, comfortable grace that shows him familiar with it from earliest boyhood. The stirrups are so long that his toes barely rest with ease in them, while his heels turn slightly outward, relieving his appearance of extreme awkwardness that is often seen in rider’s whose toes point at right angles with the horse’s sides. These horses are thoroughly bitted when young' and thus taught to carry a high and sty lish head, so that when in full motion, with the favorite gait, a rack, and bestrode by his superb rider, the whole makes a picture that chal lenges our highest admiration. Aironno’s Fancy. With the annual close of the bull ring coincides every autumn the second race meeting of the year in Madrid. Just as the bull fight is the popular amusement, par excellence, where the people revel ill all the fierce excitement, the good humor ed jollity, the ploasant equality that makes the young grandee sit close to the common muleteer or workman, the horse races are a pastime where the upper classes fancy they amusing themselves because it is fash ionable, and the multitude stared in undis guised astonishment at the rows of hand some carnages and drags Allied with ladies and gentlemen who are betting and making books during several hours. The multi tude only evinces some interest when the race actually takes place, and the jockeys in their blue, yellow or black and white jackets incite more curiosity than the horses. Your Bpamard can not admire the fine, active, slim, thoroughbred herse, as his ideal of a steed is an Andalusian crossed with Arab, prancing, curvetting, stepping slowly to display its showy tail, rounded form and heavy curved neck. What Cas tilians do begin lo like in the races is that it affords x double opportunity for sight seeing and for gambling. The agencies for pools are besieged with native* shoal ing and asking tickets with the name of the favorites, and the most forward in the new sport bet and make bets with a zest and fury worthy of Longcbamps in Paris or of Epsom Downs on a Derby day. The Madrid race course is lieautifolly situated at the extremity of the Recoletos and G’as- tellaua drives in a sort of hollow plain sur rounded by rising ground and hillocks that afford for the masses a natural amphithea tre on which they stand by thousands on foot and in every imaginable vehicle. Down below, near the course, are four handsome stone and wooden stand support- «*a by iignt iron columns and with iron- railed terraces right and left or the royal pavilion that is the center of the paddock. The stands are crowded with bourgeois® and young men eagerly surround the “poule” agency, but the center of tho at traction is the paddock and great tribune near the royal pavilion. There muster in force the belles of Madrid society in ele gant toilets, vicing with the ladies of the diplomatic corps; ministers, judges, gon- erals, deputies, bankers, grandees, young aristocrats, and busy plutocrats have all come there to bet and lunch merrily, and there is as much flirting going on there as in every gathering of Madrid high life. King Alfonso himself leaves the young queen and the princess iu the pavilion and mingles with the distinguished crowd, now discussing horse-flesh with Duke Fernan Nunez, Marquis V. Hamejor or Mr. Dav ies, the owners of the best studs, or ex changing amiable remarks with his lovely subjects, who are ever anxious for a smile of their gallant young Monarch. In fact, in the paddock you meet every oue that is known in the world of fashion, politics or finance, unless, indeed, some have remain ed to brave the keen blasts from yon blue mountains and snow-capped peaks from the tops of mail coaches and Danmonts, magmfisently got up, with their livened servants and fours-m-hand. ‘ Between the third and fourth race there is a tong pause for lunch, and then I west from the pad- dock to a hospitable ccach, where, as in all, pates de foie grot, pasties ot venison The idle, fashionable woman has taken to a new diversion She polishes her nails. She extends her hand to you with great frequency nowadays, and always with the back upward and the fingers straightened out. That is because she wishes you to observe the nails, which shine like glass and are of a delicate pink hue. Who knows what started this mania ? Nobody can ever discover the origin of such things. The distemper breaks out-somehow, aud then extends from person wt P^ocn. The New York woman of leisureV'b’iether s he be left in the city or is to be found at some near seashore resort, now spends about four hours a day at work ou her nails. Her tool is an article Bomewhat like the wooden handies or holders for blotting-paper a narrow strip of ebony, ivory or India-rub ber, with a knob on one aide and a surface of chamois skm on the other. Some’ of these polishers are fancifully made, and $10 is not an unusual price; but cheap ones do the work as well, and a home made article answers the purpose. The best of them have a device for handily fastening in fresh strips of chamois skin but tacks will do. The essentials are a polishing substance and plenty of industry. A mixture is sold in the stores at a pretty high price, and it has a beautiful name aud label, but is a simple compound of rotten- stone, oil and rouge. Anybody can mix it for herself. The stuff is daubed on the rubber, aud assiduous friction does the rest. The rotten-stone and oil smooth and polish the nails, jnst as metal; bone and ivory are made to shine by the workmen, and the rouge imparts a pinkish color. The en.busiasiic industry displayed by the women in this amusement is wonderful. They rub, rub, by the hour, usually in par ties, making this employment take the place of needlework. There was once an old woman who scrubbed her kitchen floor until she fell through into the cellar, break ing her back. Something like that will happen to these nail polishers, for nails cannot thicken as fast as they are now be ing scoured away. The polishing is not ail done on finger nails. Oh, no. The toe-nails of the belles are beautified, too. What is the use of spending time and labor in making then toe-nails pink and glossy f Well, some of them have husbands, bear in mind. Time was when the female bather hid the corns, bunions and lii tie unshapli- ness of her feet in slippers, or stuck them ol l ’{lTe DuxrnstieJ water! "Yhc attractiveness ol nails are deemed by her to more than com pensate for any blemishes, and so she takes pains to show her feet. The change is a marked feature in the surf scenes, where thousands of women are in the water every afternoon. Many of them have been seen sitting on the sand with their toe-nails proudly glistening in the gun. The increased attention to nails has na turally extended to their shape, and the greatest care is bestowed upon the matter of cutting them. Long and narrow naiis are considered prettiest, and to give them the desired proportion they are trimmed somewhat to a point, while at the roots the skin is pushed and cut hack as muen as possible. Gloves arc not worn at all, even at the full-dress balls. Mitts of all colors, from white through the whitest hues to plain black, extended from the elbows to the knuckles, leaving the fingers exposed. There is all the more reason, then, for ren dering those fingers sightly. Realiy beau tiful fingers, if you will iahe the trouble to convince yourself by observation, are scarce indeed—much more so than handsome faces. The plump beauty usually has fin gers as blunt at the ends as drumsticks, while the fingers of her etheriatlv slender sister are about as bony as a skeleton’s. Thus it is a good year for pretty fingers that do not need a tight glove to squeeze them into shape. Kings are more than ever iu vogue. Bangle rings with jinglets to them are about the only novelties in that tine. How tbo Burglars Burgle. Tin; modern housebreaker is, however, a far different person, and plays fora higher stake. He has probably been in prison, and learned the tricks of the trade in the hours of combined labor while undergoing penal servitude at Dartmoor or Portland, it is here that he receives tbe first smatter ing of his scientific education. He may have been a clerk or a discharged iootman, or a small shopman, or an errand lad,— some one who embezzled or purloined,— and the discipline of his prison career has resulted in nothing more than preparing him for the exciting trade of a professional thief. Society, he argues, has injured him by depriving him of his liberty, and be in tends to be revenged upon society. Hebe- comes a companion of old tbie res, and he is elected a brother in the freemasonry of crime. He is told where property can be found, how it can be stolen, and where it can be oisposed of. Stories ot robberies and burglaries, and midnight adventures, sound as fascinating as the yarns of miners at the diggings. Chance may decree a long course of ceaseless work and no re ward; but whan the “turn-up” does oome, the prize is worth the winning. Thus edu cated theoretically in thieves’ knowledge, the felonious neophyte comes out of prison to be a connecting link between the “lagged’ and ths ‘lucky.” He knows what policemen can be bribed, what in formation is necessary for his undertaking; what public houses and other haunts ore frequented by thieves, aud what should be the general plan of the campaign ou which he has entered. He does not go rashly to work, bides his time, setting his traps and snares with the care of an old sportsman. Unconsciously, domestic servants, mato aud female, drift into thi9 world of roguery and before they are aware of it, are led to betray the confidence of thier employers. They are plausible lellows, these modern burglars; they can tell a good s:ory and sing a good song, they can flirt with the silly maids, and will ‘walk ont with them’ on Sundays; they bet a little and play cards and gradually they enmesh a house hold by the agency of the indoor servants who have not the faintest idea of the real objects of the crafty feilows who have made themselves so agreeable. People ex press themselves surprised at the constant success of the confidence trick, and all the devices in which good acting and plausi bility are opposed to selfishness and vani ty; and yet they cannot realize the fact that agents of the ‘Intelligence depart ment” of knavery are constantly ou the alert.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Cedartown advertiser. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1878-1889, January 27, 1881, Image 1