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The Cedartown Advertiser.
Published every Thursday by D. B. FBEEMA.TST.
Terms: &1.50 per annum, in advance.
OLD SERIES—VOL. IX-NO. 30.
CEDARTOWN, GA., AUGUST 24,1882.
NEW SERIES—VOL. LV-NO. 37.
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.
ABE MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS FOB THE
LATEST IMPROVED MACHINERY!
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE
Engines and Boilers, Complete,
Ranging from $50 to $80 a Horse Power.
SAW MILLS, COMPLETE,
From $300 to $600.
Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers,
Brown'S, Gullet’s, and other leading makes, SCREWS and PRESSES. WHEAT THRESHERS an4
SEPARATORS,
SORGHUM MILLS AND EVAPORATORS,
man y other like articles too tedious to mention, all of which we will sell as low as
i-hLaO 11 w Dd ^e lhem P ut U P and started free of expense to the pur-
Plne?whlch sma>?^u?^ SiLe Umber ** lh * Cnerokee lron Works, using nothing but Yellow Heart
FINEST LUMBER IN THE ICOUNTRY.
All of which we will sell as low as the same grade can be bought for. We also keep In i
PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
HARDWARE,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
DRY GOODS, &C.
keeping in mind the needs of Farmers, and will sell cheap for cash, or on tune to nromnt
paying customers. Call and see us when In want of anything In our line.
Very Respectfully,
W. M. PHILLIPS & co.
a
W. S. DAVIS,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Has charge of the Machine Shop of W. S. DAVIS & GO., and is now ready to
furnish the citizens ot Cedartown and surrounding country with anything that
pertains to his line of business. He will dress and match yonr lumber, or sell
it to you in any shape you may want it Will alsotio your taming, sawing of
Brackets or Balusters, or make yon a Safe, Desk or Book Case. Wagon
Bodies on short notice. Doors on hand or made to order.
And row remember well, and bear the fact in mind, that if yon want a house,
or any part of one built, he will do it for you at rock bottom prices. So by
calling on him you will be sure to get the worth of your money when you put it
in a building, for he has the facilities for doing work cheap and he defies honest
competition, Estimates made on Building and Plans furnished.
Thanking the public fur past favors he only ask. the public to consult their
interest by seeing him before contracting to have work done. jyli-ly
THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE.
The Ladies’ Favorite!
BECAUSE IT IS
The Lightest Sunning,
The Most Quiet,
Makes a Prettier Stitch
and has more conveniences titan any other Machine. It
is warranted five years, and is the easiest to sell, and
Gives the Best Satisfaction
of any machine on the market. Inteudmg purchasers
are solicited to examine it before buying. Responsible
dealers wanted in all unoccupied territory. mO-ly
J. D. & T. E. SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers,
59 Broad. Street, Atlanta. Ga.
g^For sale by J. A. WYNN & BBO., Cedartown, Ga.
ATLANTA MARBLE WORKS!
WALSH & PATTERSON BROS.,
Successors to WM. GRAY.
Importers and Dealers in
Foreign and American Marbles.
MONUMENTS, TABLETS, HEADSTONES,
IM 111 Ms of Cemetery fort hone «i Start Notice
also have on hand all THAT BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY of STATUARY that wan on exhibition
at tks COTTON EXPOSITION. Designs furnished free on application.
MHce and Works No. 77 East Alabama Street, ATLANTA, GA
«. W. FEATHERSTON.
W. S. FEATHERSTON.
NEW FIRM!
FEATHERSTON & BRO.
Have on hand at thifclr
New Brick Store, on Main Street,
A LABCEB AND FINER ASSORTMENT OF
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
than they have ever before offered to their customers. With additional
room and improved facilities generally, they are prepared to give all old
customers, and as many new ones as may choose to favor them with a trial.
Bare bargains. Come at once, and see the inducements they offer.
We also keep First-Class Guanos and Phosphates.
FEATHERSTON & BED.
BARBER SHOP!
(At CKDABTOWN HOTELJ
Y LEWIS BOND.
.CUTTING, SHAMPOOING, SHAVING,
sag Msvlhi“loiie in a satisfactory maa-
■naiitrr
DR. G. W. STRICKLAND,
DENTIST
Can be found at the Cedartown Hotel, whan he
has secured permanent quarters, and fti mdf t*
give attention to the wants o^all in the Ume el
dental work. Satisfaction given. Prices —-
JUST BEYOND THE BLUE.
Oh, fragrant day of flowery Jane,
Knee deep within thy grass I stand,
And feel the heavens so near I soon
Might touch their portal with my hand.
Oh, beauteous day of balmy done.
When have I seen thy skies so bine ?
And can we, in life's afternoon,
Find fields still wet with morning dew I
Aye, where the lightning struck at noon
And cast the branches far and wide,
Can we stroll softly ’neath the moon,
Or gather flowers at eventide ?
Oh, heart of mine, so crashed with pain
In summer days thro* far years fled.
And canst thou throb with hope again,
And rise, like nature, from the dead ?
Nay, heart, beat on. I’ll blame thee not
If happy once more thou canst be,
Nor ask if thou'st so soon forgot
What life that summer took from me.
Oh, peaceful day of peerless June,
Thy grasses grow on graves, tis true,
Yet is my heart with thine in tune,
And heaven is Just beyond the blue.
HER INHERITANCE.
A blustering, uncomfortable day in
early November, with a bleak promise
of snow in the air, and a sky that was
clo ding over. The bare branches of
the trees swayed and writhed savagely ;
occasional little showers of dry, dead
leaves, that were not yet sodden and de
cayed, flurried up and down; and the
roar of the fire in the chimney comple
ted the outside picture of a dull autumn
afternoon.
In Miss Miner’s sitting-room however,
everything was as cozy and delightful
as could be desired, with the warm
crimson lambrequins, with their heavy
cords and tassels, and the carpet to
match in tint, and the furniture of light
gra damask, puffed with crimson, and
the gray and gold wall paper, and the
pretty knicknacks here and there that
furnished the room in snch admirable
taste. And Miss Hetty Miner, sitting
before the open grate-stove fire, her
black silk skirt turned carefully back
over her lap, and her substantially-made
pebble-goat boots, resting comfortably
on the fender.
An eldery woman—40 odd—with a
sharp Blirewd face and bright littleeyes,
and a resolute look around her mouth. A
homely, ontepoken woman, who was
prond to say she never has been in love,
who lived in luxury, although on a
small scale, and who had $75,000 in
Government bonds to leave her relations
when she died ; and in all the world she
had bat two relatives, Mrs. Carisford
Carl, her married sister, and Mr. Parker
Dollingby, her half-brother, who, be-
.ides being inordinately jealous that old
Simon Carmen had left Hetty her for
tune, just because she had happened to
befriend him in his poor, ante-mining
dayB, were very much given to toadying
her and writing affectionate letters to
her, and loading her with presents, and
forcing invitations on her; all of which
Mia» Miner aocepted in a matter of fact
way, and in return did exactly as she
pleased.
This especial afternoon, as she sat
meditatively before the fire, she sud
denly broke the stillness, with an ener
gy of speech that made the yonng girl
reading In the iBy-window, nearly con
cealed by the curtains, look startledy
np from her book.
‘ ‘Ellice, yon’re a fool!”
Evidently, Ellice Dunning had not
lived five years as companion and per
sonal attendant to Miss Miner in vain,
for she manifested no surprise at the
rough speech, beyond the brief little
startled look in her soft winy-brown
eyes.
She closed her book and came out
into the room, a little flash on her face.
“Do you think so, Miss Miner?"
“Most certa’n'y I think so, or I
shouldn’t have Baid so. Yon are a fool,
Ellice Dunning, and I hate to see you
throw yourself away so foolishly. Do
show your common sense, if you’ve got
any, and let that yonng jackanapes of a
doctor go. Yon are better off without
him. I’ll give you a new sealskin sacqne
this winter if yon’ll give him up.
“I couldn’t give him np, Miss Miner;
Ilovehi too well.”
Miss Miner looked sarcastically at El
lice's sweet, flushed face, and gave a
sniff of contempt.
“What nonsense! You love him too
well. Love indeed! It’s all absurdity.
I never was in love in all my life.”
Ellice dropped her head in a pretty,
little confused way.
*'I—can’t help that, Mias Miner. I
love Frank, and he loves me. We'd be
perfectly miserable if we were parted.
Please don’t tell me I must give him np!
Indeed, it is impossible. We are en
gaged to be married just as soon as he
oomes back from his visit home.”
Miss Miner dropped her feet from the
polished silver bar to the tiled hearth
with a resonant hang as she jumped up,
indignantly.
“Engaged to be married to Dr. Ole-
vin ! Did I ever! Well, Ellice Panning
very well! You may pack my hand-valise
at once. I am going to New York on a
visit by the 6:10 train, and 111 be home
on Thursday. When I come back, don’t
let me find yon here, you ungrateful
little wretch—yon!”
Ellice’s lips quivered, and her eyes
filled with diamond-bright tears.
“Miss Miner! You don’t mean—to—
turn me away!”
“That is just what I mean ! I have
told you, time and again, I didn’t ap
prove of men-beaux and love-making,
and I won’t have it where I am ! You
can take your choice—me or Dr. Olevin.
I’ll give you just five minutes.”
“I don’t want five minutes for a
choice, Miss Miner!” she said, proudly.
“You have been very'good to me, and I
cannot forget your kindness; and I think
I have done my duty to you. But noth
ing—no one—oonld oome between me
and Dr. Olevin.”
“All right, then. Don’t let me see
you here when I oome baok—that’s all!”
And then Ellice went up to Miss
Miner’s room and packed the red Russia
satchel, dropping a few tears as she
folded the garments Miss Miner would
require.
“I’ll go to Mrs. Carisford Carl,” Miss
Miner decided, as she sat in the city
bound express, in the early dusk of the
November evening. “Cornelia frhinlca
all the world of me. Her daughter
would not act as that ungrateful young
minx dared act. The idea 1—the idea !
—of preferring—actually preferring—
a penniless young doctor, with a mous
tache—a nasty black moustache—to me !
After all I’ve done for her, too !”
And then Miss Miner leaned back
very contentedly in her seat,satisfied
that she had done her whole duty by
herself, and Ellice Donning, too.
It was just 8,30 o’clock when the
hired hack deposited her at the door of
Mrs. Carisford Carl’s red-brick honse—
a comfortable, cozy place, with the name
on the door in full.
A servant showed her in, and asked
her name; but Miss Miner wanted to
suprise her sister, and sent word that a
friend wished to see her, while she
seated herself in the parlor, where a little
girl sat curled np in a cushioned chair,
reading.
“You want to see my mamma, I sup
pose !”
“Yes,” said Miss Miner, with an afla-
bles mile. “You are Hetty, I suppose?”
The child gave a heavy Bigh.
“Yes, I’m Hetty . Oh, don’t I hate
that name?”
Why, I think it’s a first rate name.
Yon are a namesake of somebody, 1
guess?”
Yes, I am. Old Hetty Miner, my
aunt, who lives out in the country. I
never have seen her, and I don’t want
to, either, ’canse mamma says she’s the
the meanest old thing in all creation—a
regular old Miss Nancy, papa says.”
Miss Miner smiled—a little qneerly.
“Oh! that’s what they say, is it?
Well, Hetty, I am yonr Annt Miner.”
The child opened her eyes wider.
“Are yon? Then, won’t mamma be
mad! We expect company after awhile,
and mamma won't want you at alL We’d
be dreadfully ashamed of you before the
Algerdons. You’re going to leave us
your money, ain't you? Fapa and mam
ma said they were most tired of waiting
—you had as many lives as a oat. We
are going to Europe when you die!”
“Are you?” said Miss Mmer, with an
insane desire to shake the pert, self-
possessed, venomous youngster. “Well,
I wouldn’t depend upon it if I were
you?”
And before Mrs. Ctrl came down
stairs, Miss Miner was out on the street
on her way to her half brother’s honse,
“A pretty nest of vipers those Carl
are. Thank heaven, Eve found them
ont in time! Going to Europe on my
money! Why, ungrateful as that spun
ky little Ellice is, she isn’t half as trea
cherous as my own flesh and blood.
Humph!”
And her complacency was not yet re
stored when she left the street-car on
the nearest comer to Mr. Parker Doll-
ingby’s bachelor quarters, that wore
alight in a perfect blaze of bright cheer,
“It looks like a party,” she thought.
But all the same she did not hesitate
to go np the imposing Btoae steps and
ring the bell, to which no response
coming, she tried the door knob, and
admitted herself into a large, brilliantly
lighted hall, at the end of which was a
room, from which came the Bounds of
revelry and jollification that had pre
vented her ring being heard.
Miss Miner went into the first door
that stood ajar and through another
partly-closed door she saw the gay
bachelor party-;—some ten or fifteen—
merry over their wine
“So that’s the way Parker Dollingby
does, is it?” Bhe asked herself grimly,
jnst as, the same instant, that gentle,
man rose high, an I for a second silenced
all others.
“Here’s to the health of my most re
spected ancient mariner-ess—a veritable
old maid, all forlorn, whose legacy is a
long time coming, but sure to get her
some time. A cool $50,000 or so, boys;
and imagine the swell we’ll cut when
the venerable Mehitable kicks the
bucket. Drink to her, fellows!”
Somehow Miss Miner took herself
silently ont of the place. She was silent
all the way to the hotel; and then, once
in the room, locked the door, and aat
down and—actually cried,and then went
to bed, wondering if it was ever granted
to mortals to come nearer being made a
fool of than she had been; and at two
o’clock in the morning to awaken with
a strange, sick feeling that was awful to
endure in that big lonely hotel, where
she didn’t know a living souk
Bat she rang for assistance, and the
servant brought her a physician, who
happened to be staying over night, and
Miss Miner’s life was saved from the
terrible attack of gastralgia by Dr.
Frank Olevin.
“I’ll pay you when I get home,” she
said, tersely. “You can go with me, if
y: u don’t mind my green vail and bag.”
And -so after reaching home where
Ellice Dunning in readiness to leave by
a train an hour later, opened the door
in answer to an imperious summons.
Miss Miner stalked in followed by Dr,
Olevin.
“Yon needn’t be frightened, Ellice,”
she said, in a wonderfully soft tone of
voioe. “I’ve changed my mind. I’m
the fool, not you. Here’s your bean;
you can have him in welcome. And
when you’re married, I'm going to settle
my fortune an yon and let you lire hen,
if you’ll give me • room somewhere.
I've changed my mind, I tell you, Eiifoe
Dnnnini;. Take off your things and go
get a cup of coffee for us.”
And that was the way little brown-
eyed Ellice came into her double inheri
tance of love and fortune.
A Bothersome Boa-Constrictor.
“Did you ever carry any really dan
gerous animals on your ship, Captain
John?” said L
“Well, 11 once, when I was in Para, I
bought a snake, a boa-constrictor, seven
teen feet long. I got him of four In
dians, who caught him some twenty-five
or thirty miles up the liver. They
brought him into town in a strong cov
ered crate, or basket, which they carried
on Iwo pole , When I bonght him
had him carried into my old consignee's
yard, and I got a stoat packing box, and
had it all donble-nailed, and holes bored
in the sidei to give him air. Then the
Indians put the snake in the box, and we
nailed him np tight, leaving him in a
snug corner for the night.
“The next morning, I went arouuu
early to the market to buy something
for my snake to eat. I got a couple of
little animals, something like our rabbits,
and I carried them around to my con
signee’s honse. I found the old gentleman
hadn't turned out of his hammock yet;
but he soon got up, and went with me
into the yard. When we got there, we
saw the packing-box all burst open, the
boards lying around loose, and no snake
to be sees. We looked about, but could
see nothing of lum. I wrb amazed
enough, to be sure, and the oldgeDtleman
felt quite uneasy at the thought of such
a creature wandering about his place.
‘ ‘We wont look for him,'he said.
‘Those Indians are still in town, and we
will send for them.’
“The Indians came, and they soon
found him. You can’t imagine where
he bad hidden himself. Tnere was
pile of earthen drain-pipes in one comer
of Lheyard, behind some bnshes, and be
had crawled into one of these short pipes,
and then turned and crawled into the
one next to it, and then into the next
oae, and so on, in and ont, nntil he had
pnt himself into five or six t f the pipes.
He had probably seen, through the holes
in his box, some of my old consignee’s
chickens, and, being made perfectly
ravenous by the sight, had broken ont.
Then, haviug male a meal of one or two
of them, he crawled into the pipes.
“The Indians were not long in cap
turing bina. Fortunately, his head
stack out ot one of the pipes near the
ground; and one of the Indians taking
a leng pole with a fork at the end
climbed on a high fence near by, and
won pinned Mr. Snake’s head to the
ground, leaning on the pole with all his
weight. Then the other . Indians
straightened ont the drain-pipes in
which he was, and began to draw them
off him, pulling them down toward his
tail, and first exposing the portion of
his body nearest his head. Then they
took a long, strong pole, and, with bands
of the tough grass which grows in that
country, tied bis body to the pole close
to his head. Then they bound him again,
about eighteen inches farther down.
Slowly drawing down the pipes, they
tied him again to the pole, about eigh
teen inches below, and so on until
his' whole length was fastened firmly to
the pole. Thus he wss held secure nntil
the box was nailed np again, and I had
sent for a blacksmith to put iron bands
aronnd it, so that it should be strong
enough to hold any snake. Then the
creature’s tail was loosened and put
through a hole in the top of the box.
Then another band was cut, and the
snake-pushed stilll farther in. Then,
one after another, every fastening was
cat and the snake pushed gradually into
the box until, his head being loosened
and clapped in a board was fastened over
the hole, and he was snug and tight and
ready for his voyage.”
Did you have any trouble with him
when yon were taking him to the
North?” I asked.
But just then the supper-bell rang,
and the Captiin arose to his feet It
was of no use to expect Captain John to
go on with a story when supper was
ready.
Hew To Chooso s Stateroom.
American Fisheries.
Tbe census statistics relating to
American fisheries are interesting read
ing. These figures show the fisheries
to have been worth in the value of pro
ducts the very handsome sum of $45,-
000,000 in the year 1880. This was the
pnee, moreover, that was paid to the
producers simply. At wholesale prices
the pecuniary return for the same pro
ducts reached the neat little fortune of
$90,000,000. The products included
dried ood and pollock, smoked herring,
halibut and mullet, pickled and spiced
fish, salt mackerel, canned salmon,
lobsters, clams, oysters, crabs, shrimps,
cod and sardines. The consumption of
these is constantly increasing abroad,
and a very profitable sale for them has
been built up in England, France and
Germany. As yet it appears, however,
the pickled fish of American waters are
but seldom sent abroad, although great
quantities of pickled fish are consumed
in Europe. It is recorded that sinoe
the Berlin exhibition of 1880 American
fish have become popular on the Conti
nent, agencies for their sale have been
established in very many of the leading
cities of Europe. Another fact of in
terest is that the boneless American cod
fish has been adopted as a standard
article of food by many regiments of
the German army. Proof of this growing
popularity of our fish is afforded in the
statistics of exports to Europe. In 1869
the exports of fish reached only $134,783,
aooording to a local commercial journal.
Last year there was shipped abroad
$1,902,100 worth of fishery goods. Df
this amount $403,029 was received from
the exports of oysters to England alone.
“Have you selected your stateroom?
said a red-faced aid gentleman whom
met as I came out of the steamer office.
“Oh, yes. I have a fine one—number
268—right in the best part of the ship.
“How do you know it is?”
“Oh, I can see by the plan they showed
me in the office.”
“Plan be biowed! Why, you dnn’l
pick your stateroom out by that thing, do
you? You might as well select a room
through a clairvoyant as by one of those
infernal charts. Don’t you know that
there are never more than half a dozen
rooms on a ship fit to live in? and if you
expect to gst one of these you must lock
alive, young fellow, take my word for it.
“Whatdo you mean, sir?”
“ W hy, you must go to the dock and look
at the ship for yourself, and pay as little
attention to what those chaps tell you at
the office as you would to the gabble of a
horse jockey trying to sell you a horse.
It’s perfectly astonishing how nearly every
stateroom has some internal nuisance about
it which does not appear on any printed
plan. If yon are near the machinery you
have an intolerable noise and heat, and a
nauseating smell of hot, churned oil. If
you are near the pantry or the saloon you
have an indescribable bad odor from this
source, mingled with the constant rattling
of dishes and the clatter of the 8‘ewards.
If you are Dear the drying room you arc
surrounded by an atmosphere of musty
linen. If you are too far astern every rev
olution of the screw will be like an auger
bonng through your vitals, and here, as
well as too lar forward, you will find the
pitobings of the vessel unendurable. You
may escape all these objections, and then
find what you took for an iron post in
your cabin is a diabolical ash shule, through
which tons of ashes will be discharged
through the voyage. At midnight, at four
in the the morning, and at the hour for
your afternoon nap, there wdl be a ire-
mend jus rattling of the hoisting machine,
the dumping of the ashes into the stiue,
and the sliding through it with a noise as
if the tube passed right through the mid
dle of your poor old skull. Those are
only a few of the little pitfalls which 1
could point out to you. but I can’t stand
here talking to you all day, you know.
Perhaps it isn’t worth while anyhow, for
when you have taken the necessary trou
ble to get yourself a good room you gen
erally find that the other berth is occupied
by a dirty chap who wdl be sick as a dog
all the lime and will never turu out K>Dg
enough to let the steward moke his bed.
Ur if you don’t have this you will have a
couple of squalling babies opposite you. ”
“Hut there is such a lot of fresh air out
on the open oceau that it must more than
make up for most of these little objections
that you have been speaking of. ”
“Greatest humbug in the world my fine
youug gentleman! All this talk about
fresh air at sea is the greatest gammon you
ever heard ofl Why, one of the large
ocean steamers defiles the air for miles
about her wherever she goes. It’s worse
than living near a second-class livery sta
ble There is never more than a very
small space on deck where you teel that
you can draw a long breath, and you eaa’t
even occupy this if the ship is crowded,
or the sea is rough, or the wind blows
hard, or it rains. In one place you smell
the machinery. In another you smelt the
cooking, in another tbe steam drips on
you, in another yon are enveloped in
smoke and cinders. Down below every
thing is a bundled times worse. 1 ou
naturally think your port-hole will be open
at night in fine weather, but even if the
sea is as still as a mill pond, the stew
ard will screw up the port with a wrench,
and there you are—sweating and stewing
and gasping for fresh air more than you
would on the top floor of a third-rate lodg
ing house. You ask him to open it for
you early in the morning, but he tells you
he cau’t do it because the sailors are going
to wash the decks, and the dirty water
will splash into the port hole and ruin the
ve'vet of the greasy old sofa, and by the
time there is any show for a little ventila
tion you are up and dressed and don’t much
care. Of course in stormy weather you
stand no chance at alb Ha! hal it really
makes me laugh sometimes to find myself
at sea and searching about for a breath of
fresh air as diligently as it 1 were stewing
m the lowest slums of New York. It’s so
ridiculous, you kucw. Good day, young
man. Mon voyage/”
The red-faced old gentleman was q site
correct
The Fatal Ice Fltcher.
Ice pitchers do not lead to quarrels
in households, nor lead to murder and
other crimes by maddening the brain;
but it paralyzes the functions of the
stomach, and annually kills more people
in the United States than can be counted
as the victims of alcohol, aad the habit
of drinking from it grows npon the
thirsty lip like the nse of liquor. In
hot weather we see the slaves of the
iced cup placing it to their mouths
every few minutes throughout the day.
It is the cause of the larger part of the
disease that affects the better class of
the American people.
There is too much drinking in this
country of ail kinds and at all seasons;
but especially in our dry climate, under
the temptation of a parched mouth and
the oppressive heat, the consumption
of fluids is absolutely astonishing; and
drinking, especially of iced water or
other equally cold liquids, does not in
any manner quench the fever thirst.
Such drinking only aggravates the
difficulty and ministers directly to a
long train of diseases most difficult of
cure.
A bit of dry cracker In the month
will do more to moisten it and to relieve
thirst ihan a quart of ioed fluid, but
even this b unnecessary if the sufferers
will have a little patience. Drinking
is almost wholly a matter of habit, and
a little resolution will soon enable any
one in tolerable health to pass the
hottest day from his breakfast to his
lunch, or his dinner, without imbibing
fluid of any kind. We have practised
this method for years, and are thus
enabled to keep tolerably cool at long
honrs of work in our ordinary attire,
while many around us, divested of all
dispensable garments, are deluging their
stomachs every tew minutes from the
faucet of the oooler and perspiring from
every pore, ore “pouring out their
strength like water.” If the habit of
drinking is too strong to be broken,
let the victim indulge in warm instead
of iced fluids, and take but little at a
time, lengthening the intervals aa much
as possible. But it is practicable to do
without this oonstant guzzling, and tbe
effect of such abstinence on the general
health can hardly be overestimated.
What Meant by Exercise.
First, only the most highly organized
auimals are amenable to exercise, or,
what means the same thing, trainable.
After the generally distributed compan
ions of man, tbe horse and the dog,
the most teachable animal is the ele
phant. Chamisso found iutercourse
with the apes on board the Burik un
commonly instructive, “for,” as Calde
ron says of the ass, “they are almost
men,” and he made the profound remark
that they might be able to bring them
selves up to the mark if they did not
lack the property which Newton held
to be one with genius, steadfastness.
Carnivores, with the exception of the
cheetah, (Melie Jubata), ruminants and
rodents, exhibit only moderate teacha
bility; yet Herr Fritch considered the
draught-oxen at the Cape of Good Hope
wiser than the horse, and in Brazil and
Thibet sheep are trained to carry loads.
Among the birds, tbe higher ones are
the parrots, starlings, builfinches, and
canary birds, the falcon ranks with the
cheetah in teachableness. Chameleons,
snakss, aud carp are only moderately
teachable. The training of flea3 is only
apparent; they always perform their
tricks unacr a kind of compulsion. The
immense host of other creatures all
around us show no more aptitude for
training than they do, for the reason
that every animal within its own circle
has no need of instruction; what we call
instinct affords to animals, without
effort of the individual, more than any
exercise can. What practice coold
teach birds to bnild warmer nests, to
find the way south more certainly, or
bees to solve their geometrioal, spiders
their mechanical problems? Instinct
and perfectibility complement each other
as it were in the ascending series of
animals to a growing sum, so that, the
more iusiiuct retreats before perfect
ibility, by so much does the living
being stand at a higher stage. Sec
ondly, although the auimals we have
named and many others besides are
susceptible to exercise and trainable,
animals still do not of themselves exer
cise and perfect themselves, but do so
only when man t akes them to school.
Therefore, the animals around him appear
less susceptible to training, the lower
the stage at which he himself remains.
Higher races of men would certainly
have tamed the beautiful zebra and
quagga; the elephant, brought by Han
nibal over the Alps, fell back with
Northern Africa into wildness. Only
nutritive and formative angmentation
of advantages which an animal may
have acquired in the wild state could
come into consideration here, and these
would have to be hereditary to lead to
perfection in a course of generations.
by the throat took away his sword and
demanded the release of an American
citizen who was confined on board as a
deserter. He succeeded in rescuing the
prisoner, but from that time was a
marked man by the Canadian govern
ment The most celebrated act of has
life was the bui ning of the Sir Hubert
Peel, a large British transport, in 1838.
At about midnight on the 19th of May
of that year as the Peel was wooding at
a dock on Wells Island, just below the
present camp meeting ground. Johnston,
with thirteen men painted like Indians
and armed with muskets, rushed on
board. They seized the mail and.
driving all asbore, set fire to the vessel
and sunk her. For this act he was
outlawed by both governments and a
reward of $5,000 was put ou lus head.
He retired with his men to the .islands
and for years lived the exciting life of
a king of the pirates. There were three
crews of theee rovers, each of which was
composed of twelve men, and all being
strong and desperate they were ac
customed to appear openly at times,
attacking every boat flying the English
flag they chanced to meet. They laid
the country under tribute, usnally pay
ing for American provisions with stolen
Canadian gold. When pursued bv
sloops of war they would lead the chase
for utiles, being able to escape by sn-
peri.r oarsmanship. Once near the
shore the men of war were forced to
stop and before their cutters could be
manned to continue the pursuit the
pirates would jump on the shore and
swinging their boats on their backs
would disappear in the woods, Bhaktng
the colors of the Peel in the faces of
the baffled foe. One by one Johnston’s
followers were taken from him and he
was soon unattended, save by his heroic
daughter. The history of this heroine,
who was called ‘ ‘Queen of the Islands,"
abounds in romance, which, up to the
time of her death, three years ago, she
was very fond of relating. Johnston
afterward surrendered himself to one of
his sons, who still lives in Clayton, and
was taken to Albany for trial. He was
convicted, but on account of former
services to the government was par
doned and appointed lighthouse keeper
near the village. It is now known as
Johnston’s light Songs are yet sung
on the river about the burning of the
Peel, and every boatmen who cares a fig
for his reputation has plenty of articles
made of wood from the burned steamer.
The Social Organization of Ante.
Robinson went up to his room the
other afternoon, and noticed that there
was only one match remaining in the
box. “Now, if that should an't burn to
night when I come in,” soliloquised he,
“what a fix I should be in.” Ho he tried,
to see if it was a good one. It was.
She decanted her room with brio-s-
•brsc and pictures, and perched her
husband's photo on the topmost nail.
Then she sat down to admire her work,
and blissfully remarked: “Now, every
thing is lovely, and the goose hugs
high,”
A writer from Japan says: I arrived
in Kioto on a fine evening in April, and,
alter dinner, a mastnn or religious feast
being in progress, went to sec s dance
which was then being performed before
large audiences, 82 geishas or dancing
girlf(most of them between the ages of 10
and 14) and 20 musicians, also girls (10 of
whom played upon the semisen and ten
span a sort of drum) comprised the entire
company on the stage. The faces and
throats of the geishas were whitened with
rice powder, and their hair was dressed in
the most approved style of old Japan.
Each costume consisted of a brocade
kimono, or long Nihonesc gown: an abi,
or broad girdle wound two or three times
sround tbe waist, and tied behind, as
fashion demrnds, in a huge bow; an under
rest of red crape, showing at ‘.be throat;
and the inevitable white cloth socks
Each geisha carried in her hand a fail, of
which much use was made in the coarse
of the dance. During the entertainment
the back ground ot movable scones was
three limes changed, as in a theatre at
home. It is difficult to convey to any one
who has never seen anything of the sort a
good idea of the character of this perform
ance. Dancing, in our sense of the word,
it ceitainly was not, hut rather aitudin-
tzing. The gymnastics of the ballet girl,
pleasing though they often are to us,
would not be tolerated upon a Nihoncse
stage, but, instead, a series of posturings
—slowly, gracefully and dramatically ex
ecuted, and representing generally some
phenomena of nature, like the lour seasons,
or some legendary or historical action—is
held to constitute true Terpsichorean art.
The instrument! commonly used to accom
pany dancing arc the satnnen or guitar;
the koto, or harp; the fuye, or flute, and a
sort of small drum. Oriental dancing, to
most Europeans, is a mystery; Oriental
music a discord; but, different though
they are from our own, who can say which
is the higher art ? In the matter of
dancing, indeed, I am not certain bnt
what tbe Eastern method is more to be
admired. Certainly 1 cannot ] on in the
wholesale detraction indulged in by some
travelers, but—though the ta9te is semi-
Onental—take right kindly to the plain
tive tinkling of the samisen and tbe stat
uesque pose of the geisha.
Privates of the Sc. Lawrence.
Tbe thousand islands of tbe St.
Lawrence liave been in days gone by
tbe ecene of exciting romance. Daring
the last Canadian insurrection they af
forded an admirable retreat for tbe in
surgents. Among them waa “Bill
Johnston, tbe Pirate,” who, from hia
daring and offenses, was for years out
lawed by both the Canadian and
American governments. In tbe watery
intricacies of the islands be found a
safe asylum through tbe courage and
devotedness of bis daughter Kate.
This brave woman, by tbe inimitable
management of her canoe, baffled the
efforts of his pursuers and supplied him
from time to time with provisions under
shadow of night Tbe history of this
man, if it oouid be written, would throw
the wildest dime novel into the shade.
But as his immediate descendants and
those of his followers are now numbered
among Clayton’s most respectable citi
zens there is a difficulty in getting at
the more interesting facts of his life.
This celebrated character was bom in
Canada in 1789. Up to the time of the
war of 1812 he was a good citizen, and
engaged in carrying on a little
grocery at a small village near Bath.
When the war broke out his stock of
goods was seized a, smuggled property
and he was himself driven across the
border. This aroused a spirit of ven
geance in the man which the bloody
record of after years failed to satisfy.
He joined the American forces at Sack-
ett’s Harbor as a spy, and did good
work for the government bv his bravery
and daring in robbing ihe Canadian
mails When the war ended he re
moved to Clayton, where, even in time
of peace, he continued to harass his
neighbors across the river. One day,
while the British steamer Great Britain
was taking on wood at the Clayton
dock he rushed on board unattended
and, grasping the commanding officer
Let ns suppose that, having no pre
vious acquaintance with the subject,
we were suddenly informed, on good
authority, that there existed in some
part of the globe a race of beings who
lived in domed habitations, aggregated
together so as to form vast amPpopn-
lons cities; that they exercisetfjnrisdu-
tion over the adjoining territory, laid
out tegular roads, executed tunnels
underneath the beds of rivers, stationed
guards at the entrance of their towns,
carefully removed any offensive matter,
maintained a rural 'police, organized
extensive hunting-expeditions; at times
even waged war upon the neighboring
communities, took prisoners and re
duced them to a state of slavery; that
they not merely stored up provisions
with due care, to avoid their decomposi
tion by damp and fermentation, but
that they kept eattie, and in some
coses even cultivated the soil and gath
ered in the harvest. We should un
questionably regard these creatures as
human beings who had made no small
progress in civilization, and should
ascribe their actions to reason. If we
were then told that they were not men,
and they were in some places formida
ble enemies to man, and had even by
their continued molestations caused
certain villages to be forsaken by all
human occupants, our interest wonld
perhaps be mixed with some little shade
of anxiety lest we were here confronted
by a race who, under certain event
ualities, might contest our claim to the
sovereignty of the globe. But when
we learn that these wonderful creatures
are insects some few lines in length, our
curiosity is cooled; we are apt, if duly
guided by dominant pre-possessioDS, to
declare that the sooutl organization of
these beings is not civilization, bat at
most 7 ua» (-civilization; that their
guiding principle is not reason, but
• ‘instinct, ” or 7 utm-intelligence, or some
other of these unmeaning words which
are so useful when we wish to shut oar
eyes to the truth. Yet that ants are
really, for good or evil, a power in the
earth, and that they seriously interfere
with the cultivation and development of
some of the most productive regions
known, is an established fact.
Bird Tescbmz
A wren built her nest in a box on a
New Jersey farm. The occupants of
the farm honse saw the mother teach
her young to sing. She Bat in front of
them and sang her whole song very dis
tinctly. One of the yonng attempted to
imitate her. After proceeding through
a few notes its voice broke and it lost the
tone. The mother immediately re
commenced where the young had failed,
and went very distinctly through with
the remainder. The yonng bird made
a second attempt, commencing where it
had oeased before and coonti.,ning tbe
song as it was able, and when the note
was again lost the mother began anew
where it stopped and completed it.
Then the young one resumed the tune
and finished it. This done, the mother
sang over the whole series of notes, a
se ond of the of the young attempted to
follow her. The wren pursued tbe same
course with this one as with the first,
and so with the third and fourth. This
was repeated day after day and several
times a day, nntil each of the birds be
come a perfect sengster.
The Golden Fleece.
One of the most notable decorations
worn at the recent christening of the
youngest heir to the German throne
was the Older of the Golden Fleece,
which gleamed upon the breast of
Prince Frederick Charles. There are
no new specimens of thi« decoration
made nowadays, the old ones being
handed down from knight to knight,
the name of each successive owner being
engraved an one of the links. So it
happens, by a strange freak of fate,
that Prince Frederick Charles, the Bed
Prince, a liberal-minded bnt earnest
Protestant, wears the very chain once
bestowed by Philip II upon that stem
and relentless persecutor of heretics,
the Duke of Alba.
