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CEDARTOWN, GA., MARCH 10, 1881.
NEW SERIES—YOL. III-XO. 13.
CHARLES E. WEST,
Attorney at Law,
CSDARTOWN, Georgia.
IW~ Special attention to Collection ot Claims.
Ofllce op stairs In Ledbetter A Goode Building.
• c. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN', GA.
tw Office in the Court House. fehi9-ly
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OFFICE EAST SIDE OF HAIN ST.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
JanS-ly
W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. Surgeon-
CEDARTOWN, GA.
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may be
found ready to attend cans either day or night.
Janl5-ly
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown, G-a,
LIVE FOR SOMETHING.
Live for eomething, be not idle—
Look about thee for employ;
Sit not down to useless dreaming—
Labor is the sweetest joy.
Folded hands are ever weary,
Selfish hearts are never gay,
L fe for thee hath many duties—
active Le, then, while yen may.
scatter bleseings in the pathway !
Gentle words and cheer.ng smiles
Bettir are than gold or silver
With their grief-creating wiles,
A the pleasant sunshine falleth.
Ever on the grateful earth,
So let sympathy and kindness
Gladden well the darkened hearth.
Hearts there are oppressed and weary ;
Drop the tears of sympathy.
Whisper wer Js of hope and comfort,
Give, and thy reward shall be
Joy unto the soul returning,
From this perfect fountain head ;
Freely, as thou freely givest,
Shall the grateful light be shed.
Two Elopements.
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Having lust opened out a shop at the store of
a. D. Hogg A co., respecttuily requests the
f mbilc to call on him when needing work in his
Lne. ieb5-tt
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
will practice In the Superior Courts of Polk,
Paulding, Haral'On, Floyd and Carroll counties,
special attention given to collections and real
estate business. marll-iy
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In the most skill
ful manner. Office over J. S. Stubbs A Co.’s.
feblMy
DR- G. W. STRICKLAND
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - Georgia.
Having permanently located In Cedartown,
offers his professional services to the public,
guaranteeing UrsC 1 -eJass'*Wbrk'affd reasonable
charges to all patrons. oct2l«iy
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 pe feet
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
Blighted. I ask a trial.
JAMES. H. PRICE.
D. H. LEDBETTER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
CEDARTOWN, Ga.
All kinds of Repairing of Watches, Clocks
and Jewelry done promptly and satisfactorily.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of all kinds fur
nished 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 am
prepared to tarnish
GOOD PICTURES.
Give me a call. Gallery up stairs In the Led
better & Goode Building. sep9-ly
LIVERY, FEED
-AND-
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson, Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN, .... Georgia.
Being supplied with new Horses, New Ve-
hiolea, &c., we are prepared to meet the wants
of the public in our Jans-iy
STAR BARBER SHOP.
WEST SIDE MAIN STREET.
CLEAN TOWELS and plenty of BAY RUM al-
ways at hand. Every thing neat and systematic
about my shop, and cusomers 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.
guarantee perfect satisfaction in all branches
of my business.
The repairing of Umbrellas a Specialty.
nov25-ly LEWIS BOND
How Watches are Hade
It will be apparent to any one who will ex
amine a Solid Gold Watch, that aside from the
necessary thickness for engraving and polish
ing, a large proportion of the precious metal
used is needed only to stiffen and hold the en
graved portions in place, and supply the neces
sary solidity and strength. The surplus gold Is
actually needless so far as utility and beauty
are concerned. In JAMES BOSS’ PATENT
GOLD WATCH CASES, this waste of precious
metal Is overcome, and the same solidity and
strength produced at from one-third to one-
b alf the usual cost of solid cases. This process
is of the most simple nature, as follows: A plate
Of nlckle composition metal, especially adapted
to the purpose, has two plates of solid gold sol
dered one on each side. The three aj e then
passed between polished stegl rollers, and the
result is a strip of heavy plated coinpo Ition
from which the cases, backs, centres, bevels
4c.. are cut and shaped by suitable dies and
formers. The gold in these cases Is sufficiently
thick to admit of all klnd3 of chasing, engrav
ing and enamelling; the eDgravcd cases have
been carried until worn perfectly smooth by
time and use without removing the gold.
tfklS IS THE ONLY CASE MADE WITH
TWO PLATES OF SOLID GOLD, AND WAR
RANTED BY SPECIAL CERTIFICATE.
For sale by all Jewelers. Ask for Illustrated
Catalogue, and to see warrant. novis-iy
In a large, square,old-fashioned Louse—
such as our fathers used to build when 90-
lidity was more sought after than utility—
lived Phikp Mason and liis sister Esther.
Philip had reached the mature age of 40,
and Esther was close to him. Still, each
had pursued a solitary pathway through
life, seeking no companionship save that of
the other till there was reason to believe
that they would continue to follow the same
course till m the fulness of time they were
gathered into the family tomb—the recep
tacle of many generations of the .Mason
family. There was more reason to think
so, since they took care to commend an
unmarried life, not only by example but by
precept.
“No,” said Philip, when assailed on this
subject by a match-making lady; “marry
ing may be very good for some people, but
I could not bear to have my habits broken
in upon, and my whole house turned top
sy-turvy by the introduction of a wife!”
“Hut by-and-by, when yon grow older,
you will feel the need of a wile, more than
at present.”
“No,” said Philip, conclusively, “I have
a sister who is devoied to me, and while
she lives 1 shall need no other. ”
As for Miss Esther, she often declared
that she would never make a slave of her
self for any mau living. If other wumen
were foolish enough to give up their inde
pendence, and tie themselves to a man, for
no other earthly purpose than to burden
themselves with cures and toils from morn-
ing till night, she was sure she had no ob
jection. For her own part she was wiser.
Her brother and she had always lived to
gether peaceably and happily, and she did
not think she could make any change for
the better.
Of course, it was insinuated by those
whose opinion differed widely from Miss
Esther’s that in adopting this opinion she
was only making a virtue of necessity, and
thflj it wasted, tp be,contented with one’s
lot, provided there were 5o chance of im
proving it. Bat Esther did not hear these
remarks, and so was not disturbed by them.
She continued to live in the old house with
her brother. They kept no domestic, since
Esther rather plumed herself on her house
keeping qualities, and there was really but
little to do. 60, as her brother was usually
absent during the day, she was left lor the
most part to the companionship of her own
tliougnis, unless some neighbor chanced to
call in—a thiDg, by the way, of rather rare
occurrence, since most of tne neighbors had
large laimlies of their own, which necessa
rily counued them at home.
Early one afternoon just after Esther
Mason had completed her task of clearing
away the dinner dishes, and storing them
away in the cupboard after a thorougu
washing, she was sturtied by a rap at the
door.
►Somewhat surprised by a caller at this
unusual hour, she answered the summons.
She was a little apprehensive that it was a
neighbor who had of late proved very
troublesome from her habit of borrowing
articles, and owing, it is to be presumed,to
j a habitual forgetfulness, neglecting to re-
irn them.
I hope,” she mused, “that if it is Mrs.
Bailey,sue will be wanting to borrow some
thing mat I have not got.”
She opened Che door; but no Mrs. Bailey
presented herself to her expecting gaze—a
gentleman of forty-live, carefully, nay ele
gantly dressed, stood before her.
“1 beg your pardon for intruding, ma-
dame,” said he, as he noticed Esthers look
ot surprise; “but can you direct me to the
house of the late Mr. W ell fleet? I have heard
it was for saie, and from the description 1
have heard of it, judge it will suit me.”
Tt is the next house on the left, sir,”
answered Esther, who had had time, while
the gentleman was speaking, to examine his
appearance, whidh did ^not fail to impress
her favorably.
Thank you for the information. I trust
you will pardon me for the trouble I have
occasioned you,” replied the gentleman,
bowing.
“Not the least trouble in the world,” re
plied Esther, a little fluttered. by a defer
ence to which she had not been accustom
ed.
Two days afterward Esther heard that
Mr. Welllleet’s estate had been purchased
by a stranger named Bigelow. She at once
conjectured, and rightly, that this was her
visitor. A few daj s elapsed, and Esther
Mason received another visit from the gen
tleman.
I bave a favor to ask of you, Miss Ma
son,” he began (it seems he had ascertained
her name). “1 am aware that our slight
acquaintance will hardly justify it, but I
trust time will remove this objection. You
must know,” he added, smiling “that I am
a bachelor, dependent in many respects upon
ruy housekeeper, who though a good wom-
her way, 1 am afraid is not reliable in
matters of taste. As my furniture has ar
rived, but has not yet been arranged, I
would esteem it a real service if you would
give me your opinion in some litue matters
respecting its proper disposition. Mv car
riage is at the door ready to carry you
over. ’’
“But,” said Esther, a little hesitatingly,
“I do not claim to have much taste. I fear
I shall prove no more reliable in that re
spect than your housekeeper.”
“I have but to look around me, ” said
Mr. Bigelow, politely, “to be fully satis
fied upon that poiut.”
Esther’s cheek flushed with pleasure at
this compliment, ,and she made preparations
to comply with lier new visitor’s request.
it was nofwithout a little consciousness
of the singularity of her position that Es
ther found herseit riding by the side of a
gentleman with whom sue had scarcely ex
changed half a dozen words in the course
of her life.—The distance, however, was
but short, and she had little time for reflec
tion. On arriving at her place of destina
tion she found the chief part of the busi
ness accomplished.
The furniture, which, by the way, was
new and handsome, had been arranged in
the room after a fashion, but Esther was
able to point out several changes for the
better, with all of which Air. Bigelowfpro
fessed himself delighted; he, moreover,
asked her advice as to the proper place in
which to bang several fine pictures that he
had picked up in the course of his European
travels. Tnis was accorded with some
hesitation.
Mr. Bigelow would not be satisfied with
out showing his new found acquaintance all
over the house, from kitchen to garret.
When all was completad he overpowered
h r with protestations of gratitude for her
kind service, and landed her at her own
door just live minutes belore her brother
came in. Esther was rather glad of this,
as she was a little suspicious that her broth
er would consider her adventure rather a
Quixotic one.
To avoid comment, she did not even in
form .Philip that sue had ever met Mr. Big
elow. He took frequent opportunities to
call upon her, on some slight pretext or
another, but it always chanced to be when
her brother was absent.
“I wonder, 1 ' said Philip, jjarelessly, as
he sat by the fire a one evening, “whether
Mr. Bigelow will not be looking out for a
wue before long?”
“1 don't knew,” said Esther, and in her
embairassment dropping half a dozen
stitches irorn the stocking she held in her
hand.
“Not that I approve of marriage
least in my k own case,” said Bnilip, not
noticing this demonstration, “but it may be
different with Mr. Bigelow. He hits no sis
ter to superintend his establishment. I
don’t know, however,whether there is any
body likely to suit him in this village. Let
me see—there is Miss Breston; she might
do.”
“No, I don’t think she would suit him at
all,” said Esther with a spirit which con
siderably surprised her brother. “She
knows very little about housekeeping
“Why, 1 thought you and Miss Breston
were friends,” said Bhiiip, a little puzzled.
“Well, so we are,” returned Esther in
her usual tone; but I—I hardly think
would suit Mr. Bigelow.”
“Berhaps not,” ne rejoined, and so the
conversation ended.
From the conversation which we have
recorded above the reader will obtain some
insight into the character of Esther’s feel
ings toward Mr. Bigelow. She would
hardly confess it to herself; but, as a mat
ter of fact, her ideas x ol marriage had suf
fered a material change within a brief
period.
Meanwhile the gentleman continued his
visits. Oftentimes he would ask to see the
bed of flowers,on which Esther rather prid
ed herself, and sometimes he would peti
tion for seed, being very fond of flowers,
as he said, and very anxious to introduce
them in his own garden.
On one of these occasions Mr. Bigelow,
after a litt.e visible embarrassment, said,
hesitatingly:
‘I would like to ask your advice, Miss
Esther, on a rather a delicate subject, and
one of great importance to myself. There
is one tiling I wish to secure to make my
establishment complete; but 1 hardly kuow
in what manuer to ask for it.”
“What is it you refer to? ’ asked Esther,
unsuspiciously.
Instantly a crimson flushed Esther's
cheeks. She did not trust herself to
speak.
Need I say that you ar? the one whom,
of all others, i would^eek to place in that
position?”
He took her unresisting hand and kissed
it with all the gallantry of a young lover.
“Bui what will my brother say?” in
quired Esther, when she had found voice
to speak.
“ vYhat should he say? You are your
own mistress, surely.”
“Yes, but he is always ridiculing the
idea of marriage, and I couldn't^venture to
tell him. ”
“No need of it. Let’s run away to New
York and get married. You know,” he
added gaily “we are both young and ro
mantic, and it would be quite in charac
ter.”
Esther at first objected, but when she
came to consider that in this way she would
be relieved of a great ^portion of the ein
oarrassment which such a step would nat
urally bring with it, she consented, and
that day week w r as appointed for the de
part ure. She required this time to make
preparations.
Meanwhile, if Esther had not been so ex
clusively occupied with her own affairs, she
might have noticed that a change had come
over Biulip. He was often absent evenings,
mid when at home was more silent and ab
oiracled than hi3 wont. The former she
leauiiy altributad to the cause which he as
signed—namely, a pressure of business,
iuu latter she did not observe, her mind
ueing preoccupied. We, who are in the
occicl, may taKe the liberty, of following
him ou one of his business calls. It was a
neat co.uge, irflin whose front door dang
led an immense knocker, that Bnilip Ma
son hunched. Tne door was opened by the
same Mias Bresion, who, some months be
fore, he thought “might do’’ for Mr. Bige
low.
“Good evening, Maria,” as he entered.
After a brief conversation about the weath
er, the crops, and other standard topics,
which, however trivial they may seem,
couid hardly be dispensed with, he began
to show signs of emoarrasament, and final
ly ejaculated:
“Maria—Miss Prestdu—I mean Maria,
what are your opinions about marriage?”
“Why,” said she, “I hardly know,
don’t think I have given much considera
tion to the subject.”
“Because,” continued Philip. “I find
my opinions have suffered a great change
on this point. There was a time when 1
thought it unwise; but now, if 1 could get
a good wife, such as you, for example,
should be inclined to try it.”
“Oh, Mr. Mason ,” said Miss Preston, in
some perturbation, “how you talk.”
Five minutes afterward Miss Preston had
accepted the proposal of Philip, and the
two were, to all intents and purposes, en
Esther started out for a walk dow/i the
street. It so happened that Philip and his
wife were at the same moment walking up
the street. The natural consequences was*
that the two parties met.
Heavens! my sister!” exclaimed Philip.
•Merciful goodness! my brother!” re
turned Esther.
What brings you here with Mr. Bige
low?”
Nay, how happens it that you are here
with Miss Preston?”
‘Miss Preston is now my wife!”
‘And Mr. Bigelow is now my husband! ”
‘But 1 thought you were opposed to ^g Q p U t m circulation in this
matrimony?”
“And I suppose you were equally so.”
. “My friends,” interposed Mr. Bigelow,
“this is a day of surprises, but I trust .of
such a nature that we shall all be made the
happier thereby. My regret, Mr. Mason,
at robbing you of your housekeeper is quite
dissipated by the knowledge that you have
so soon supplied her place. ”
It gives us pleasure to state that neither
Philip nor his sister ever had occasion M*
regret the double elopement.
Latin lor Bugs.
A widow who was going to leave Chi
cago, held an auction of her household ef
fects, and everything went at prompt sale
until little but the bedstead was left. Just
before this was put up some of the women
went spying around, and discovered that it
waa infested by bed-bugs. This fact was
noised around until it came to the ears of
the auctioneer, who mounted his box and
said:
“Words cannot express the poignancy of
■my sorrow over the base„canard which has
•been put in circulation m this crowd. I
have sold goods in this town twenty-nine
Jjng years, and this is the first instance in
ifhich huge have been permitted to step
between me and the purchasing public.
.Ladies and gentlemen, if there is a bug in
or about that bedsiead 1 want to see him.
I cannot and will not believe there is. It
would be a slander—a most foul slander on
the character of this widow who is about to
remove to the State of Ohio.”
Being invited to step down and view the
j bugs for himself, he made an inspection.
They were there. They were galloping
—liu and out and up and down, and it was no
7 . _ j use to dispute the fact.
At some of the more primitive German j “Ladies and gentlemen, ” said the auc-
and Bohemian watering places a quaint oi<j*i tioneer, as he resumed lifs post, “I found
Tbe Emancipation of :
A Doctor’s Mistake.
custom prevails, in virtue of which the
resident medical or bath doctors take up
their stations every morning at a fixe4
hour, under particular trees, on the leading
promenade of their respective Bade-Ort, an
that their patients may make sure of find
ing them for consultation or advice at &
particular time and in a particular plac^.-
A good memory for faces is a sine qua non
to these sons of HEsculapius, who in the
heigdt of the season frequently interview
from fifty to sixty invalids apiece duriDg
these receptions. Mistakes as to identity.
However, will occur, and sometimes result
in singularly comical complications. Re
cently one of the most popular physicians
at a crowded Bade Ort was visited under
hi3 tree by an American gentleman, a re
cent arrival, who complained that the
waters caused him such terrible headaches
that he thought he had better drop them
and depart to other climes. The doctor
unwilling thus promptly to lose his patieht,
looked over him hastily and, perceiviiig
that he wore a fat sombrero, told him it
was not the waters that made his head
ache, but his unconscionably heavy hat.”
Swiftly the American betook him to the
nearest hatter, of whom he purchased a
straw fabric so light as to be ali but im
ponderable, and went on drinking the
waters as before. His headaches, how
ever, growing worse instead ot leaving
him, he again called upon the medical ad
viser a few days later, and told him that
his head was still so bad that he really
must try some other cure. The doctor,
within the meantime had forgotten all about
his previous prescriptions, and was as re
luctant as ever to let the patient denart,
again cast a comprehensive glance at Em,
and espying the straw hat, exclaimed:
“You cannot expect to be free from
headache if you wear such preposterously
light head-covering. A man of your age,
nearly bald, in this hot weather, must pro
tect his head from the sun’s rays, by a
stout, solid hat!” ^
The American gazed at his interlocutor
for a few seconds in blank astonishment,
then, after bowiDg profoundly, he sardoni
cally replied:
Thank you, doctor; I am off to the
railroad station!” turned on lus heel and
departed.
J. ®osculine possession are you anybody's
Latin for them, but they are there. And
now iet me talk to you as a friend. Bed
bugs were not made for gaudy show, nor
were they made for a life of ease, ll is a
law of nature that they should inhabit bed
steads. They can no more go out under
the barn and make a living than a dog can
become an eagle and float through space.
scarcely irritates the sleeper, but it cleanses
and purities the blood. But for the bed
bugs of this country we should all hav4
boils and carbuncles. They keep down
warts. They cause moles to disappear.
Give them a chance and they would remove
corns without pain. The great—”
Fifty cents?” called an old woman who
remembered that she had a remedy at
home.
•Fifty cents! I am offered fifty cents
for a $10 bedstead, and as I was goinj
say, the great Napoleou always asked for
a bed with bugs in it. I am offered fifty
cents and yet Csesar had his bugs. 1 arn-
‘One dollar. ”
‘I am offered one dollar, and yet the
poets of Greece immortalized the insects
before you. The widow tells me that she
has not had an ache or a pain since the first
bug made his appearance. How many of
you have read what Homer wrote about
them? What was the fountain of Mozart’s
Twelfth Mass? And yet I
“Two dollars.”
“And yet I hear only two dollars! Do
you have headache? Are you afflicted
with giddiness? Do you have roaring, -in
the ears?”
“Three dollars.”
“My friends, let me go home and get my
copy of ‘Baradise Lost’ and read to you
one short chapter. What did Milton—”
“Four dollars.”
“Ah 11 began to see that art and culture
are not unknown to the audience. Did
ie-xanckx tbo Hreat^have -floikk Ncy«i*i
Sot one! And why?”
“Five dollars!”
“I am bid five dollars. 1 would like to
quote a verse from a well-known Latin
poet, but time presses , and this bedstead is
sold for five dollars, cash on the nail.”
She looked just like that kind of a woman
when she came into the sanctum, and all
the seniors became.instinctively very busy
and so absorhed m their work that they did
not see her, which left the youngest man
on the staff an easy prey, for he looked at
the visitor with a little natural politeness,
and was even soft enough to offer her a
chair.
You are the editor?” she said, in a deep,
bass voice.
He tried to say “yes” so she could hear
him, while his colleagues in the sanctum
couldn’t, but it was a failure, for the
woman gave him dead away in a miuute.
“You are,” she shouted. “Then listen
to me—look at me—what am I?”
The foolish youngest man looked at her
timidly and ventured to say, in a feeble
voice, that she looked to be about ferty-
sev—
“Nursling.” she shrieked, “had you the
soulful eyes ot a free man you could see
shining on my brow the rising light of a
brighter day.”
“Could 1?” asked the youngest man tim
idly.
“Yes, you could!” the woman said in
tones of unmeasurable scorn. “Now hear
me; have you a—but I cannot bring myself
to use the hateful expression in the style of
husband?
The youngeci man blushed bitterly and
said that he wasn't as yet, but he had some
hopes—
“And you expect your—tliat is, you ex
pect the woman whose husband you wiil
be to support you?”
The youLgest man blushed more keenly
x - im; vuuLiiCBi mau uiubucu iuuic nucui v
The aversion among you to this msect .w than bef an(1 tremblingly admitted that
founded on false principles. His bife lle had some expectatioMthat-that—that
the only daughter of his proposed father-
in-law if he might put it that way—
“Yah!” snarled the woman—“now let
me tell you the day of women’s emancipa
tion is at hand. From this time we art
free, free, free. You must look for other
slaves to bend and cringe before your ma
jesties aud wait upon you like slaves. You
will feel the change in your affairs since
we have burst our chains, and how will you
live without the aid of women. Whc
makes your shirts now?” she added fierce-
iy-
The youngest man miserably said that a
tailor ou J street made his.
“H’m,” said the woman, somewhat dis
concerted. “Well, who washes ’em then?”
she added triumphantly.
“A Chinaman just west of F-
street,” the youngest man said, with a
liopelul light in his eyes.
“Broud worm, who cooks your victu
als?”
The youngest man said truly that he
didn’t know the name of the cook at his
restaurant, but he was a man about forty
years old, and round us a barrel with
whiskers like the stuffing of a sofa.
The woman looked as though she was
gbiug to strike him.
“Well,” she said, as one who was lead
ing a forlorn hope, “who makes up your
bed and takes care of your room?”
The youngest man replied with an air of
truth and frankness that he roomed with
a railroad conductor and an ex-Bullman
The Studio of a Taxidermist.
In the window was perched a large
brown eagle, with an unlucky little bird in
its strong, sharp claws. “That eagle was
shot in EnglewoGd, about five weeks ago,”
said the proprietor. “His extended wing?
measure over six feet.” Near the eagle a
gray owl stare d out into the street, as if he
had forgotten his natural dislike to day
light. He held a mouse in his thin, hooked
taloons. Suspended back of Jhese was a
bat, with wings extended, over twelve
inches. Some wild ducks, which had been
just received for stuffing, lay with their
glossy green and black plumage carefully
.aJnoothed down. The skins of some ducks
and other birds lay around iu various stages
of preparation. The reporter gave a start
as he nearly stepped on a little white Spitz
dog, curled on a mat near the door; but
he, like his companion, was only life-like,
and past all “delight to bark and bite.”
Several glass cases were rang, d about the
room, and contained hundreds of birds of
almost as many different species. Some
were glistening in sheeny plumage of green,
red and gold, with the shifting brilliancy
of “changeable” silk. Others were quietly
dressed little songsters. Some gray squir
rels sat up on a show-case, as pert as if in
their native woods. Here, too, w T ere
snowy-feathered geese, and effigies of pet
canaries. Several heads of deers with their
antlers on were mounted to do duty as hat-
racks, and other deer were stuffed entire.
A large sea-gull and a vicious-looking hawk
swooped down from the ceiling. Near the
door:hung a number of lovely white doves
with- out-stretched wings. These were
only a few of the things that met the
glanctL as almost every kind of bird known
in this country was represented, and the
collection ranged all the way from a beetle
to a bear. The reporter began question
ing. “What is your largest class of cus
tomers?”
“A good many people send their dead
pets here to be mounted, ” replied the tax
idermist. “A large share are canary birds,
and they send, too, dogs, cats, squirrels,
rabbits, even horses once in a while. Dur
ing the autumn aud winter, when the game
laws give liberty to spoitsmen, I get many
specimens of game to mount. I presume
they keep them as trophies. They are
usually wild ducks, geese, partridges or
deer. Sometimes they shoot an eagle, or
a big owl or hawk, and these they are
pretty sure to want stuffed. Owls make
very handsome birds when stuffed, as they
are plump, have plenty of compact plum
age and striking eyes.”
“I presume fionsls use many of those
white doves?” said the reporter.
“Oh, ves, I have a large order for them
now. They perch them on floral designs
for funerals. There is always a market for
pure white birds.”
“Wlr.re do you get the brilliant colored
birds?”
“From South America mostly. They
skin them down there. They cost differ
ent prices according to their color. Some
of the hues are very rare.”
“Are milliners using many of them
now?” asked the reporter, who was not
posted in the matter.
“Not this year, as they are not the style,
but last year I could seil all I could find
So me Detective stories.
, , . , . without any trouble. Women are very
Little Jakie Jones.
Old Mrs. Jones borrowed Mrs. Brown’s
recipe for making watermelon pickle the
other day, and, being hard of hearing, as
she couldn’t see to read very well, she got
her grandson Jakie to read it for her.
Jakie took the paper, like a dutiful child,
and, holding it upside down, commenced:
“Take a green watermelon—”
“Wby, Jakie, ain’t you mistaken? I
thought the melon must be ripe.”
“Oh, what’s the matter wid you! Gew
ever see a watermelon that wusn’t green ?”
Cut the watermelon into four
halves—”
But there ain’t only two halves to any
thing. I don’t believe you are reading
that, Jakie.”
Well, I don’t have to, anyhow, that’s
what the reseet says. Then soak it in a
pint cup—”
“Oh, dear me! How in the world can
you put a watermelon in a pint cup ?”
‘Well, I aint here to tell the whereases
and howfores.’ I’m just readin’ the facts
and you can put in the filosofee to suit your
taste. After soakin the melon put it in a
skillet and fry it fur five days.”
1 wonder if Mrs. Brown sent me such
a recipe as that ?” said the old lady; but
Jakie kept on:
‘Then put the watermelon in a quart
bowl and pour over it a gallon of vinegar,
akiug care not to spill the vinegar—”
“I’d just like to know how yoi^can pour
a gallon into a quart bowl without spilling
any of itbut Jakie continued:
“Then sift a peck of pepper through a
Adulteration in Food.
The adulteration of our food, drink aud
medicines, which it is now sought to pre
vent by National legislation, has already
attained a surpassing magnitude. Experi
ence warrants the belief that if not effici
ently checked it will be much more exten
sive in the futnre than now. The worK of
adulteration is one of growth. Jt begins
in a small way and ends nowhere, In cof
fee, for example; a third of a century ago
it was adulterated with chicory to the ex
tent of about two and a half pouns to the
hundred. From that point it grew in a few
years to fully fifty per cent. Then the
chicory itself was subjected to adultera
tion and now it is not impossible to obt^
samples of so-called coffee which does not
contain more than twenty-five per cent of
the genuine article. Even the man who
buys his coffee in the berry is liable to re
ceive a villainous admixture of real ber
ries with other stuff that has been moulded
into the true shape but contains none of the
true material. Parties m the trade re
member when five per cent, of adultera
tion In pepper was about as much as was
considered safe; and now the bogus
amounts, in the worst cases, to not far
from nLe tenths of the whole. And in
these, as well as other cases too numerous
to mention, viler stuff is now used as a sub
stitute than people oared to employ at the
outset. There is no limit to the fraud when
once it is started; or at least the limit is
only reached iirthe utter extmetion of the
genuine article. That limit has already
been touched in the case of not a few
drugs: it is nearly reached in the manufac
ture of artificial nouey: and sugar and but-
£5he paused when she reachecFtlie door,
and turned upon him with the lace of a
drowning man who is only five feet away
from a life buoy.
“Miserable dependent,” she cries, “who
sews on your buttons?”
The youngest man on the staff rose to
his feet with a proud, happy look on his
face.
•Haven’t a sewed button on a single ar
ticle of my clothes,” he cried, triumphant
ly, “patents, every one of ’em fastened on
like copper rivets and nothing but studs
and collar buttons on my shirts. Haven’t
had a button sewed on for three years.
Patent buttons last for years after the gar
ments have gone to decay.” And the
woman tied down the winding passage aud
the labyrinth stairs with a hollow groan,
while the other members ot the staff,
breaking through their heroic reseive, clus
tered around the youngest man and con
gratulated him upon the emancipation of
their sex.
milk strainer over the melon, and to one
cup of butter and the white and yolk sand j tei already far gone in the process of
sheila of three eggs, and throw in the old deterioration. Surely it is time to stop,
hen that laid them, and four sticks of ,cin- 1
namon drops and two tablespoonful of qui
nine and run it through a coffee-mill and
let it stand till it ferments, and then put it
m a tin can and tie the can to a dog’e tailathis
will stir it up to the right consistency—and
then you can turn it off in crocks and have
it ready for use. Serve it cold and spread
it on mince pie and it makes capital dessert,”
and Jakie slid out of the door and left the
old lady looking like a wrinkle on a monu
ment.
N * tural Vinegar.
•The only thing I think of,” said the
gentleman, after a brief pause “is that my
sister Esther is a decided enemy to marriage,
and I hardly dare to tell her I am about to
marry. If we could only get away aud have
the ceremony performed it would be pleas
anter.”
“Suppose we go to New York,” suggest
ed the bride elect.
“A good idea. We’ll go. When can
you be ready?”
“Next Monday morning.”
So next Monday morning was agreed
upon. It so happened that Esther was to
start on Monday afternoon for the same
place, with the same purpose in view—but
of this coincidence neither party were
aware.
The reader will please go forward a week.
By this time the respective parties have
reached New York, been united in the holy
bonds of matrimony, aud are now legally
husband and wife. They „were located at
hotels situated ou the same street, and even
on the same side of the wav, buL were far
from being aware of the propinquity.
On the morning succeeding the. two mar
riages—for by a singular chance they hap
pened on the same day—Mr. Bigelow and
While traveling through Texas, recently!
I heard of and visited the above resort of
the sick and afflicted. Sour lake is situated
in Hardin county, Texas, nine miles from
the Texas and New Orleans railroad. It is
certainly one of nature’s freaks. On my
way from Houston to Orange, I stopped
off at the nearest station and visited the
lake. At that time there were about seven
ty-five visitors from different parts of the
Union stopping at the lake for their health,
using the water for bathiDg and drinking.
The lake is what I should call a large sized
pond, with bathiDg apartments around the
sides. The water is sour, hence its name;
and gas is oozing up through the ground
ail about near the place, and bubbling up
through the water in the lake. By takiDg
an empty fruit-can with one end out and a
sm&il hole punched in the other end, and
by slickmg the open end in the mud near
the lake, gas will shoot out through the
hole and burn like a candle, if set on fire.
Near the lake are eight or ten springs, all
of a different class of water, but mere or
less sour. They are numbered from one to
eight; some drink one and some another,
according to their ailments. While I was
there I drank No. 3, as I was a little in
clined to be dyspeptic at the time, and 1
was told to use No. 3, and thought it helped
me immediately. No. 3 is sour enough to
make lemonade. There is a large hotel
and many out cabins on the premises. The
The greed which would amass riches at the
risk of causing-disease and death to thou
sands has had play enough. It has become
question of self-preservation to the great
mass of consumers. They must die if the
adulterators be permitted to ply their ne
farious arts much longer. Let us call a
halt along the whole line—and at once.
Tlcltline: iJi»No»e.
Dis feller comes mit my saloon und
asks for peer,’’Legan the witness as Samuel
Beters stood before the bar of justice.
“VheD he has one glass he tells me set ’em
oop again. Yhen he has tWo glasses he
vas as dry as a prush fence. He drink s
six glasses right off, und says I must shari
it to der sinking fund. I doan’ know vat
such tinges mean, und 1 lock der door und
makes afl ready for a fight mit him?”
“And you had one ?”
“Vel, you can see how my nose is all
busted oop, und some piack on my eye,
und such a bad feelings in my ears. I vas
novhere; yes I vas,—I v2fc under der
table. ”
“Who struck first ?”
“Vel, 1 gifs him a shendle tap on der
nose to make him see dot he must pay
oop.”
“You locked the door on him and tapped
him on the nose ?'*
“Yaw.”
“Well, the prisoner is discharged and
you may go home. ” *
“Vhatl Doau’t you send him up for
six months ?”
“No, sir.”
“Doan’ I git some predection of der
law ?”
“Not when you lock the door on a man
and begin tjpkiing his nose.”
“Vel, I nefer seel I might as vel close
oop my peesness und take poison. Dot
preaks me all down like a child, und 1
tells der old vornans dot we move pack to
Milwaukee nght off.”
animals stuffed to serve as advertisements.
A handsome black bear, tiger, or panther,
attracts attention.”
A Tipsy Tomcat.
are poor, the property being in litigation.
hotel is well kept but the improvement* —The Crown of England is valued
at £134,000 or $670,000,
Jean Baptiste Charles Alphonse Cayron
du Cayle, a son of the Count Cayron du
Cayle, for many year the governor of the
Hotel des Invalides, Baris, recently, died
at his residence, No. 2,067 Fifth avenue,
New \ ork. He was the youngest aud last
survivor of nine sons, all of whom were
killed or wounded in the service of France.
His life was a romance. Its prominent in
cidents were narrated recently by his
widow. He was born at Baris, Oct. 18,
1828. At five years of age he was placed
in the military school for officers’ sons at
La Fleche, near Lamont. Many men now
prominent in France were lus fellow stu
dents. At the age of eighteen he joined a
hussar regiment and remained in it for two
years. In 1848, after leaving a ball, he
went with a number of companions to
revolutionary club. The “Marseflaise”
was suggested and the whole party was
arrested. Du Cayle was tried for
treason, but family influence saved him.
He was then transferred to Africa, and
made a lieutenant in a regunent of ftpahis.
He was in several campaigns under Gen.
Negrier and £>t. Arnaud. Four brothers
were in Africa with him. The other four
were already dead. At the outbreak of
the Crimean war he was ordered with his
regiment to Russia. He was at the charge
at Inkerman and also at Balaklava,and was
badly wounded at the battle of Alma. From
this wound he was always slightly
lame. He was bre vetted ^.captain for gal
lantry, and held the position of ensign
bearer to general (now Marshal MacMahon.
His future seemed bright, when an unfort
unate affair ruined ali his prospects. There
was much politcal feeling among the offi
cers of the French army, aud the Orieanists
and imperialists were bitterly opposed to
each other. This resulted in a series of
seven duels, ali on one day, and between
champions of the rivai factions. Four men
were Killed outright m these duels. Du
Cayle was au Orleamst and fough Renede
Marnesea, who was said to be the illegiti
mate son of Napoleon III. Marnesea was
killed, and then began Du Cayle’s troubles.
His promotion wa3 stopped, men were
l-assed over his head, aud finally he was
ioreed to resign. He returned to Baris, and
as he had^fiua basso voice he studied
music at the conservatory for three years
and became a pensionaire of the opera.
He was also basso iu tne original perform
ance of ‘ ‘The Bohemian Girl” at Rouen.
He ihen went traveling in the East Indies
with an opera company, was away five
years, and accumulated a fortune, which
he sent to France. On his return he landed
at Marseilles and learned that he had lost
all but 50,000 francs by the failure of a
banking house. With this money he went
to Buenos Ayres andsiaited a theatre. It
failed, and he went to New Orleans, where
he passed many unhappy years. He re
turned to France in 1869, and came back
to this.city as a basso. He sang with the Hess
and Kellogg troupe, and many other com
ponies.
A well-grown black and white cat had
wandered away from a house iu Forsyth
street, New York, in a maudlin condition,
but it was not until it reached Grand street
that this peculiarity was noticed. It was
a bitter cold day and the piercing wind
blew along the street causing that thorough
fare to be almost deserted bv pedestrians.
A crowd seemed to take possession of the
sidewalk near Forsyth street and moved
slowly on its way toward Williamsburg
ferry; about five feet ahead of the crowd
was the drunken feline staggering with
slow and uncertain gait, seemingly uncon
scious that it was a cold day. Everybody
was buttoned close to the neck,but “Tom”
did not appear to mind it a bit. The
crowd were orderly and followed with qniet
interest, each saying to the other:
“Did you ever see a cat drunk ?”
“Here is a specimen.”
“Where did he come from.”
“House in Forsyth street,” replied a
small boy.
The usual disposition to shy a brick or a
rock was subdued by the novelty of the
spectacle. No, hooting or shout'Dg was
indulged in and no policeman could be seen.
Everybody followed to watch the move
ments of the inebr ate cat. He took up a
good deal of the sidewalk for a cat and
measured it well: but one controlling mo
tive seemed to possess him, and that was
to go as straight forward as possible; once
or twice he almost toppled over, staggered
to either side,but just managed in keeping
his balance. “Tom’s” head was a study.
While the legs were deprived of their usual
assurance the head was steady, and the
eyes dull in appearance; occasionally he
would swing in a degree to either side—
but mainly kept right. “Tom” proceeded
in this fashion for haif a block when he
turned to an open hallway, trot on the step
with great difficulty, leaned against the
wall slid on his side and instantly fell
asleep. The crowd gathered about him
and extended that mercy they never show
to the human drunkard—let him lay
peace.
Good stories are told about railroad con
ductors, a most popular class of people.
One of the best told is of a -Kansas City
conluctor, a man n3ted for the faithful
and polite manner in which he performs
his duties, and his integrity and honesty no
one has ever had to doubt. Not long since
wnile so-called detectives were riding on
about every train, the conductor discovered
one of those important personages aboard
one of liis coaches. He kept his eye on
him and before long discovered him asleep.
In an instant he took in the situation, and
going up to him he took him by the shoul
der and said:
“Wa-wakeup here; y-ycu are paid for
watching me, and f want y-you to do your
duty, or I’ll report you.”
The effect was magical. The passengers
the most of whom knew the conductor to
be probably the most trusted employe oa
the road, took in the situation iu an instant
and the laugh went round the coach. For
the remainder of the night whenever Pink
erton's man showed the least disposition to
close his eyes, he wos awakened by some
one shouting: “Wake up here; do your
duty, or I’ll report you.” When the train
reached Council Biutfs he made a hasty
exit, satisfied that he had met at least one
conductor anxious to be watched as well as
one who did his duty and expected others
to do so like wise.
A good story is also told of a Milwaukee
conductor as honest and straightforward a
man as ever lived, and as courteous as hon
est. Peculations had occurred on the road
and detectives were put on. One of these
worthies was on our Milwaukee friend’s
train. Matters ran on for a month, and
the detectives had no report to make againt
Jerry. At the end of the month Jerry
walked into the office of the general mana
ger of the road, and addressing the mag
nate said:
“Mr. Manager, up to one month ago I
have been for fourteen years a conductor.
During that time I have, to the best of my
ability, endeavored to discharge my duty.
I have never knowingly deprived this com
pany of one penny of its just and legitimate
dues, and in no way nave I laid myself
under the imputation of being a thief.
Nevertheless you have put a detective on
my train to watch me, as if I were an or
dinary sneak thief. During the month that
this mau was watemng me I have kept
back part of the company’s money stolen
if you please to so designate it— and here
it is.” As he spoke Jerry laid down a pack
age of $1,000, and continuing, “Here, also
is my resignation. Froin this day on I will
Dever do a day’s work for a corporation
that treats me as a thief. ”
The general manager was taken aback in
no slight degree. He urged Jerry to stay
with nim,but it was of no use. It is scarce
ly necessary to say that Jerry had no dif
ficulty in getting into another berth.
Readers will all remember the old story
told of tire driver of one of Kipp & Brown’s,
’busses iu New Y’ork city. After a long
day’s work the elder Kipp saw the driver
go up into the loft over the stable and fol
lowed him. The driver took from his
pocket the day’s receipts and began count
ing the money over. He laid six-pence, in
one pile saying, “This is for old Kipp.”
The next six-pence went into another place
VKfffc the remark. “This is f^r
me. ooTie went dn unto Hie money was
all divided equally into two piles, i here
was one six-pence over. As Mr. Kipp
watched the man he saw him scratch his
head, and that he was evidently in double.
I never had it come out that way before,”
he said, “and I don’t know whetuer that is
old Kipp’s sixpence or mine. However I’ll
give old Kipp a chance and toss lor it—
Heads for old Kipp—tails for me.” He
tossed the sixpence into the air and it fell
head up. Again the driver scratched his
head, and saying “I don't think that was
fair, I ll try it again,'’ sent the sixpence into
the air once more. This time it fell tail up.
I knew it,” said the driver, “i Jknew it
was mine, but old Kipp can't say I didn’t
treat him square.”
He put his money into his pocket with
evident satisfaction, and started down
stairs.
•Hold on,” said Air. Kipp, from his
hidiDg-piace, “you infernal scoundrel. I
want a word with you. Y ou go to the
office and get your pay. Had you treated
old Kipp squarely m tnat toss up I wculd
not say a word, but a rascal that will not
only steal, but do such an infernal mean
thing as you have for a sixpence can never
drive stage another day for old Kipp.”
The certainly hoggish driver went off
with a flea in his ear.
Capturing liis Game Aliye.
A party of soldiers out West, not having
much to do, resolved to go bear-hunting.
They had been out about sixteen hours
and had not seen a bear, and being tired
and hungry, returned to camp.
On their arrival at headquarters they
missed one of their compam 3ns, but thought
nothing of it, one of them remarking—
“He will return all right.”
They made their camp-fire, and com
menced preparing for supper; they had the
coffee over the fire; one of them was slic
ing some potatoes, another was stewing
some meat, and the remainder sat around
the fire waiting, when they were all startled
by a terrible noise that seem to come near
er to camp.
Suddenly the thickets parted, and in
rushed the missing man, his hair standing
on end, his lace deadly white, his gun gone,
and his arms flying in the air, as if grasp
ing for imaginary objects, and about two
teet behind him came a great black bear.
The soldiers seized their guns, and one
of them, levelling his piece, shot the bear
dead.
The pursued soldier turned’when he saw
the bear drop, and, looking at one of them,
said breathlessly—
“Is he dead?”
One of them asked:
“Why didn’t you shoot him, instead of
running?”
“Wnat do you take me for?” replied the
missing one; “do you think I was such a
darned fool as to shoot him when I could
bring him in alive?”
—A large aerolite fell in the iuburb3
of Erie the other night.
Mow to sav i
“Say “I would rather walk, ” and not
“I had rather walk.”
Say “I doubt not but I shall,” and not
“I don’t doubt but 1 shall.”
Say “for you and me,’’and not “for you
and L”
Say “whether I be present or not,” snd
not “present or no.”
Say “not that I know,” and not “that I
know of.”.
Say “return it to me,” and net “return
it hack to me. ”
Say “1 seldom see him,” ani* jWfciUtf
I seldom or ever 9ee him. ”
Say “fewer friends,” and .ot ' ; Iesa
friends.”
Say “if I mistake not, ” and not “if 1 am
not mistaken.”
Say “game is plentiful,” and not “game
is plenty. ”
Say “1 am weak in comparison with
you,” and not “to you.”
Say “it rains very fa3t,”and not “very
hard. ”
Say “in its primitive sense,” and not
“primary sense.”
Say “he was noted for his violence.’’and
not that “he was a man notorious for vio
lence. ”
Say “thus much is true,” and not “this
much is true.”
Say “I lifted it,” and not “I lifted it
up.”
And last, but not least, say “I take my
paper and pay for it in advance.”
A funny fellow named Scrubbs got into
a first-class railway carriage, in England
before smoking carriages were invented. In
the carnage was seated a sour-looking old
gentleman. After the train had started,
Scrubbs took out his pipe.
“You mustn’t smoke nere,” at once said
the old gentleman.
“I know that,” replied Scrubbs, He
then calmly filled his pipe.
“Did I not tell you,’’said the o. g. again,
“that you can’t smoke here ?’ ’
“1 know that,”aloomily replied Scrubbs,
taking out his fusee box. He lit a fusee,
but now the wrath of the o. g. was dread
ful.
“You shan’t smoke here, sir!” he
shrieked.
“I know that,” added Scrubbs, allowing
the fusee to exhaust itself, when he lit
another, and another, the stench was awful,
tne smoke suffocating.
The o. g., coughing and spluttering,
struggled lor words. You’d better smoke,”
aid he.
“I know that,” replied Scrubbs, apply
ing the hi a zing fusee to the expectant pipe.