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Newspaper Page Text"mi- The Cedartown Advertiser Published every Thursday by D. B. P'REEMAN. OLD SERIES—VOL. 1X-N0 52. CEDARTOWN. GA.. JANUARY 25.18S3. Terms: S1.50 per annum, in advance. NEW SERIES-VOL. V-NO. 7. W. M. PHILLIPS & ABE HANUFACTUEERS’ AGENTS FOR THE LATEST IMPROVED MACHINERY! STATIONARY AND PORTABLE Engines and Boilers, Compsi.it Banging from 850 to $80 a Horse Tower. SAW MILLS, COMPLETE, Prom $300 to 8600. Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, BtowbX and other tending makes, 8CREWS and PRESSES. WHEAT THRESHERS an.1 SEPARATORS, SORGHUM MILLS AND EVAPORATORS, many otoer like articles too tedlons to mention, all of which we will eel! as low as ir?_,^ na ™ crorera or any Agent, and have them put np ami started free of expense to the pur- t C ! also sawing Lumber at the Cherokee Iron Works, using nothing but Yellow Heart Pina, which enables os to make * FINEST LUMBER IN THE [COUNTRY. AH of which we Win sell as low as the same grade can be bought for. We also Seep in stock PLANTATION SUPPLIES, HARDWARE, FAMILY GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, &C. Always keeping in mind the needs of Fanners, and will sell cheap for cash, or on tune to prompt paying customers. Call and see us when in want of anyi bing in our line. Very Respectfully, # _ W.°M. PHILLIPS & CO. 0 THE GREAT LONE LAND. I wandered alone and afar On the plains of the north, and mj eye Was caugnt by the blaze of a star That shot through the pitiless sky. The coldness of death was below. The stillness of death in the air. Save that over the wild wa-te of snow, The wolf poured his howl of despair. And stricken and weary I trod. Scarce daring to g ize into space. Till the p t ful mercy of God, Came fall.ng in tears on my face. But the meteor had passed and was gone! Ah, whither? in vain shall i seek? I stand iu the dread night alone. And the voice of my sonl strives to speak; But it falters, and falis back unspoken. And dies like the wolf howl afar. The God-lights of life are all broken, And l am a wreck like the star l Silence on Tap. became loud ard threatening,’ and at last 1 heard him say: “ ‘If you retuBe me, you seal me ruin and your own. I have no more gold— and I mnst have the diamonds to re trieve myself.” ‘ Hysterical sobs were the only an swer he received »nd he continued : "Something tells mo I shall win to night. and I mnst have the ring.’ “Never, Charles ! 1 cannot give it np. It is all I have left. It was my mother’s, and I wiH not iet it leave me.” , jm ^ the Evervthing was *Tiie man s voice was so choked with ! ° - ° . THE GAMRLFK’S WIFE. THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE. T he Ladies’ Fav ori te BECAUSE IT IS The Lightest Running, The Most Quiet. Makes a Prettier Stitch and has more conveniences than 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. Intending purchasers are solicited to examine it before buying. Responsible dealers wanted In all unoccupied territory. m9-ly J. D. & T. F. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Dealers, 59 Broad Street. Atlanta- On. . fifiTFor sale by J. A. WYNN & BRO., Cedabtown. Ga. ATLANTA MARBLE WORKS WALSH & PATTERSON BROS., Successors to WM. OR AY. Importers and Dealers in Foreign and American Marbles. MONUMENTS, TABLETS, HEADSTONES, And All Kinds of Cemetery fori Dene on Short Notice! We alao have on hand all THAT BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY of STATUARY that was on exhibition at the COTTON EXPOSITION. Designs furnished free on application. Office and Works No. 77 East Alabama Street. ATLANTA, GA CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, ■as charge of the Machine Shop of W. S. DAVIS & CO., and is now ready to tarnish the citizens ot Cedartown and surrounding country with anything that pertains to his line of business. He will dress and match your lumber, or sell it to you iu any shape you may want it. Will also do your turning, sawing of Bbaokets or Balusters, or make you a Sate, Desk or Book Case. Waoos 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, rr any part of one built, he will do it for you at rock bottom prices. So by •ailing on hini you will be sure to get the worth of your money when you out it tn a building, for he has the facilities for doing work cheap and he denes honest competition, Estimates made on Building and Plans furnished. Thanking the public for past favors lie only asks the public to consult their interest by seeing liim before contracting to have work done. jyl4-ly «. W. FEATHERSTON. W. S. FEATHERSTON. NEW FIRM! FEATHERSTON & BRO. Have on hand at their New Brick Store, on Main Street, A LARCER 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. Bs-e bargains. Come at once, and see the inducements they offer. We also keep First-Class Guanos and Phosphates. FEATHERSTON & BRO. BARBER SHOP! J (At CEDARTOWN HOTELJ BY LEWIS BONO. ^ HAIR-CUTTING, SHAMPOOING, SEATING, Mi an work tn my line done tea utiafftcftnrr man- aar> Don't tall to give me a ealL DR. G. W. STRICKLAND, DENTIST Can be found at the Cedartown Hotel, where he has secured permanent quarters, and la ready M give attention to the wants of all in the line at dental work. Satisfaction given. Prioas Boder- “Wbat new beauty have we here, Carl?” 1 asked, taking a small coloied picture from among the mass of papers, pamphlets, wrapping-paper, etc., that covered the table and floor of the libra ry, and which would have told plainly enough to all acquaintances that Cari was at home once more, after this his longest ramble in foreign lands, with out the corroborating testimony of cigar smoke, or the lounging ligure in the old rocking-chair. For this brother of mine never spent over six mouths of the year iu the beau tiful country home of hiB childhood, giving the other six to whatever place or people promised moet entertainment on short notice. The last three months had been spent in Paris, so I conjectr ured the little gem of art I held in my hand was a French beauty; the pure outlines and exquisite complexion look ing most lifelike as they smiled np at me from the tinted card. But notwith standing the great beauty of contour and fea are, there was a iTightened, al most hunted li ok in the dark eyes that toM of tragedy, or-at least anticipated it. “Who is she, Carl? The eyes affect me strangeiv, with their wild, frighten ed look. There is a reign of tenor in them equal to the one her ancestors passed through. I almost tte the shadow of the guillotine in their velvety depths.” “Let me see ; ah, my little sister, may you never know so hard a fare as this poor girl encountered and succumbed No, she is not French—a Rus.-inu, but married to a Frenchman.” And Carl took rhe picture from my hand and placed u on a small easel above his desk. * ‘I will tell you about her, Louie, if you have an hour, and I will tell why i tola you. “It was while Tom Barnes was with me last Juae, and when we left Versail les for Paris, that I first saw Madam Litterre—though 1 think the name an as8omed one. We had to run to pre vent bcmgleft, Iremember, and Barnes, oat of humor because of it, plnngea his face into his book and left me to my own resources. 'As toon as I was comfortably set tled I, as usual, began scrutinizing my travelling companions, and trying to imagine who and w hat they were. There were four besides ourselves iu the car riage. One a quiet, middle-aged Eng lishman, who was soon asleep in his corntr. The two vvno sat next mysell were evidently husband and wife, though he paid her none of the atten tion and politeness usually accorded in public, even it dispensed with privately. He wus a pale, quiet mail of tweuty- hve, perhaps, richiv hat quietly dress ed, and seemingly taking no notice ot any one around him. The wife, too, was pale, and mnch as she looks there in that little picture. “She seen,eel to be suffering, and fre quently put her hand lo her lorehead; and I observed upon the delicately- formed, nugloved hand a costly uiamond, It was a . eauty ; and I enjoyed looking at the flashing gem as bUe caressed a small English dog that often looked up at her with affectionate recognition. “The other passenger 1 could not make out at ali. He was elderly, com monly dressed, and with scant gray hair and heavy whiskers. His pieremg eyes were frequently placed on the siieut young married couple, and then he seemed as utterly oblivious of them as they of him. What was his nationality? Wus he with them, er a stranger like myself? I could not tell. And Lhe more I looked the more uncertain I became. 1 thought, too, there seemed au effort at disguise. He kept his face averted ail he coidd, consistent with his watcli- 1 ulness of the quiet y ouug husband that he at tunes eyed so very persistently. ‘We sped along over the beautiiul road, eacu absorbed in his own reflec* lions, bioken only by an occasional low sigh from the lady, and soon arrived at our destination. The train stopped, and as none of my companions showed any disposition to move first, I aroused Barnes from the depths of his romance, and we left the carriage. Dinner over, we went to the theatre, and afterward, by the persuasion of a friend, to a private gambling-house. I was greatly surprised on entering to see my elderly tt availing companion seated at the table, his eyes and man ner seen as ever, and deep in a gaineol rouge-et-noir. It was early yut, and Very few people were present; but ev ery sound was hushed, and the game went on in dead silence, broken only by the voices of the dealers calling the re sult of the games, and the rauiiug ot tne gold us it was raked from one to an other. The old man seemed in luck for the time being, and won every game. I thought a gleam of salivation sUone over ins face us the door opened and our other travelling acquaintance from Versailles—the quiet, careless husband —entered and sat down to play. I did not play that flight, and my whole attention was given to those two. The young man lost from the first deal. Rouleau after rouleau was swept from the table by his watchlul old opponent; but still he played on. Tne large sums he lost, and lna pale, excited lace, dtep- ly interested me, and I stayed on and watched him until late at night, when he left, his last Napoleon gone, “After supping at a coffee-house, 1 went back to my room at tne hotel, but for some cause could not sleep. Tne heat was oppressive, and my room small; besides, the game I had been watching had excited me strangely, and 1 only fell into a troubled sleep near morning. “I was awakened about daylight by voices in the adjoining room—those of a man and woman, evidently. The man’s voice was low and pleading, and the wo man seemed to be crying. I could hear enough to understand tkat aha w as uloilig him in-nit rtrjnaat, for hi* tones The latest wonder of the world has been discovered in the Yellowstone Park, by a person named James Carroll, who is said to be a reputable citizen of Helena, Montana Carroll says that he was in a deep gorge. Around him was a scene of grandeur, towering cliff's and verdnnt vegetation. He sat down wait Tor his friend-, who were to follow Tlie Chestnut. ILoni* Napoleon’* Str ateej. # j It was one of the self-delusions of - A fine, stately tree Is the etes’nut, and Napoleon HI that he had inher-ted his j long-lived; but its wood, UDless it is cot in uncle's genius as a strategist, aud he had ! y°utb, is far inferior to oak. If it is cut . ... ... ’ . „ , I before it has reached 40 ur 50 years its been guilty of the extreme folly °fj timber is exceedingly sound, but after that drawing up at Paris a plan of the period its heart becomes deceitful and passion that his words wereinarticnlate, j Q n ' e t- The stillness was oppressive, but with a hurst of wild anger he left, j He determined to break the silence, bnt slamming the door after him. The woman’s sobs became lower, her crying ceased, and 1 felt into another nsp, not waking until near ten. “1 saw neitbqy of my gambling ac quaintances that day, and the night found me again in Monsieur Carlo’s rooms. The old man was agaii on hand—not satisfied, I thought, with his winnings of the nrglit before—and ogam I saw a gleam of satisfaction ersss his face as his victim of the previous even ing came in and got ready to play. Make your game—the game is he soon found that he could not make even a crack in it. He called on his friends. He called again, and nearly shouted the top of his head off, but ccu'd not hear the sound of his own voice. A panther was passing. Carroll seized his rifle, and fired at the animal. Smoke came out of the nfle, and the panther crawled away wounded and bleeding, but no report came from the rifle; no sound reached Carroll’s eapi, If Carrall’s statement was not snbstan- made npI’ cried the dealer, and was ^ the evideDce of others, we about to deal the cards, when the tduii" | , . / , „ . . * . man who had just entered called out, I wonla belleve that he was snffenng in a loud voice : from a temporary deafness, or whiskey, “ 'Fifty Napoleons npon the red!’ ! or that he had cotton in his ears, but “Seeing ho placed no moDey npox the; that hypothesis wou’t work, for his theifsafll*- cruU t > ’ er P anted a moaent, j fiends followed him into the gorge,- and “S^you mnst stake the moaey. ’! thcre they all stood and became red in The gambler started and turned j-aler! sore throats, in their than ever, a long, shuddering sigh ] efforts to have vocal communication broke from him as he felt first in cue 1 with each other. But not a sound could pocket then in another, and fimlly they hear The place was B0 packed grasped his hat and fled from the r«om. J. - .. .. , ., The nil.vine want, nr, far a white lnm«r ! fnU o£ Sll ™ Ce that tbe . v eould not hear The playing went on fer a while loader, aEd then one by one they went >at. leaving ouly the attendants, the old, keen eyed gambler and myself preasnt. Something—an indefinable feelinj of interest in the unhappy young nan who bad left the house in such desvair a short time before—held me there, 1 must see if he returned. “Suddenly the door opened, an! he ran in, as fleeing lor his life, 1 stall never forget that eight, Louie. His face was ghastly, his dress disordenjd, and he trembled as though with afire. As he rushed up to the table, in the strong glare of the lights, I saw gfeat drops of perspiration standing on! his brow. He thrust his hand in his poiket pin drop, and they had to use signs and the deaf and dumb alphabet to express their astonishment. They explain that somo peculiarity in the atmosphere there makes it a non-conductor of sound. If this is true, and we have no reason to doubt the statement of Carroll and his companions, a long-felt want will be supplied. Companies will be chartered to. .can this valuable atmosphere, or to saw it off in lengths, pack it in saw-dust and ship it to the busy haunts of men in the East. In families where there is baby, a barrel of it can be kept in the corner of the bed oom. By tnrningthe i^^ed a ring down before |°P‘ j faucet the wail of the infant will be “ ‘There ! it is worth ten thousand j beard no more. Think of the soothing francs. Now cover my stakes,’ he catd. effect of a keg of it turned loose in a “I instantly recognized the beautiful j ward meeting! A person might squirt diamond as the one his wile had vorn in the cars, and the conversation I had heard that morning came back to-my memory, and I knew my fellow-travel lers were the man and woman I lad heard disputing in the early morn ice boms. But he had succeeded in over coming her determination, for he hid the ring, and my heart ached for the poor wife as I wondered how he had obtained it. “ ’Red! I bet on the red!’ again shouted the young man; and in a mo ment the croupier called ‘Black wins T and the ring was no longer his. “With a wild cry the wretched loser fled Irom the house ; and, completely unmanned by what I had seen, I return ed to my hotel, hoping the young man would soon fullow me. ‘ ‘I found iliem all—travellers, pro prietor aud servants—wild with excite ment over the murder of the beautita) Russian lady. An hour before her maid had gone to her room, and icuad her deluged in blood from a wouudin her head, and dead. The husband Ind been in, snd left some few moments ke- roie. I went up to her apartment, sud to the bed where she lay. Her exqui site face was fairer than in lite, lor it had lost the unhappy look, and seemed at peace. As I turned to leave the room I saw this picture among a heap of things turned out of a man’a travel ling case, aud appropriated it. Proba bly the husband had tossed it there in his search for some valuables to risk at the gambling-table. 'The miserable man took his life be fore he was apprehended lor his crime, aud the old gambler who, first iu one disguise, then in another, had followed tne easily-duped victim from city to city and won many thousands from him, left Paris before the bus band and wife were earned to their last restiLg- place in the beautiful barymg-gronnd where his forefathers slept. “Lduie, this is why I refused to play, even witn Howard, fast evening. I nave never touched cards since, aud I Bever can again. ” a syringe full bf Yellowstone Park at mosphere on an organ-grinder, and all Lis soothing strains in a moment would he but “a melancholy condensed to air,” or some bold man might go to, say, Talmage’s church, with a can of silence, and a patent can-opener in his pocket, and the result would be that the sermon of the elegant contortionist would be a voiceless pantomime.,. JVe have ordered i, keg of it for cwn use, and it makes us smile to think of the embarrassment that will eletbe, as with a garment, the first man who comes into the office to read ns “a little thing he dashed off last night,” and finds himself surrounded by the silence ot the tomb as He claws around iu search of his voice. Crimean campaign, as imbecile in con ception as it was impossible of execu tion. When it reached General Cauro- bert he communicated it to LordRuglan, according to instructions received, and the disciple of Wellington found no difficulty in pointing out its defects for the reconsid ration of the Emperor. It was for the carrying out of this scheme that the concentration of the French troops were ordered. Thefamousscheme was that 60,000 troops, half of them French and half Turkish under the com mand of General Borquet and Omer Pasha, should blockade Sebastopol, without attempting to press the siege any further; that 55,000 troops half of them English and half Sardinian and Turkish, under the command of Lord Ragian, should cover the blockading force from the month of the Tehemaya to Balakiava, and that 40,000 French troops, reinforced by 25,000 more French troops, then at Constantinople, under the command of General Canro- bert, should' embark for Alutcha, and march to Simpheropcl, which town they could easily seize, by a coup de main, and hold as the French capital of the Crimea, whence the whole peainsnla would be gradually taken possession of. Lord Ragian curtly remarked, after a perusal of the paper, that the blockad ing force would be driven into the sea by the sorties of a garrison twice us trong as itself; that the covering force' could jiot hold a position whose flank was turned by the garrison ; and that tiro expeditionary force might take Simplicropol, but that a nearer base ot operations for Sebastopol would be formed at Baghtsheh Serai. He then politely handed back the precious docu ment to Genera! Canrobert, and never alluded to the matter again. The stars mnst nave erred in determining the lot of Napoleon III, who had in reality none of those qualities which are usually re garded as the conditions of either mili tary or imperial greatness. He jxjs- segsed a smattering of several branches ofieaming, and athoronghucqnaintan.ee with none, bnt he was so blinded by Conceit as to be incapable of ever per ceiving that he labored under an error, ana, even when his sagacity was most evidently at fault, his self-complacency remained unshaken. All that he looked lor in such a case was a convenient way out of the troubles which he had brought about for himself and others. In this instance the way out of them was found for him, A Caterer an Rent. “Sorry F’r Poor Polks.** Gazing into ihe show-windows of a store recently was an individual who was considerably “corned,” and as he was attempting to balance on his heels and take in the show at the same time along came a woman aud child and hal ted beside him. Both were poorly dressed and evidently hard np, and the child’s exclamations of delight Boon at tracted the attention of the befuddled individual. “Sho you wan’ one ’er 'em dolls in yer Chrismns stocking, eh?” he queried as he patted the child on the head. "Oh, yes, sir, but we are poor,” she replied. Poor, he? Too baz— too baz. Sho you want doll, he?” “Yes, sir, but I can’t have one. Can I, ma? “No, indeed,” answered the woman. We have hard work even to getl bread.” is that so? Tlias too baz—too baz. Jus’ hoi’ on lizzie while,” He began feeling in his pockets for money, hut the search revealed only a pieoe of tobacco, a bottle with a little whisky in it, and a pawn ticket for a wateh. ‘Want’er doll, eh? Want it purzy bad ?” Yes, sir, bnt You nezzer mind ’bout that 1 Poor, eh? Sorry f’r poor folks. No Chris- mus presens, eh? Sorry ’bout that. Shay !” ‘•yes, sir.” ‘You waiz right here till I cum back.” He at once pushed his way into the store, was absent alront five minutes, and thee returned, carrying a doll by the leg. Handing it over to the girl he said : “Thas dolly Fr yon. Sorry f’r poor folks—very sorry. Tlias my Chrismns Jjre.-eii8. Run now, bard aa you can 1” The woman and child hurried away, and they were only well out of sight when the man was arrested and walked off for stealing the dolL He went will ingly, calling back to the crowd : "You bez rfl make somebody glad on Chrumua I Bony f’r poor folk*—vary aonrl” Fresh meat of every description should be hung np in a dry, cool place, and carefully wiped every day. It ought never to lay long iu a dish. The time it should be kept varies with the weather —iff cold, dry weather it will keep fresh mnch longer than in moist, warm weather. Game will keep longer than butcher meat—say, two weeks—birds being kept with the feathers on, bnt not drawn, and venison and rabbits pannehed, but not skinned. Beef will require from four to ten days’ keeping, or even longer in cold weather; and mutton, if well managed, will sometimes hang a fortnight or three weeks without spoiling—the longer the better. As joung meat, howerer—veal, lamb and mutton—spoils very quickly, one, two or three days at the utmost suffices for it. Fowls will keep for a week and^hi turkeys a fortnight, bnt a goose not shove nine or ten days. In plnckiDg birds which have been kept some time, care should be taken not to break the skin, which will have become rather tender. As ail animal food, however good the quality -and however well it may be rooked, is uneatable stale, and. except fish, will certainly prove tough if rooked too fresh, it becomes matter of consider able difficulty, particularly during summer, to fix upon the right day for cooking a pieoe of meat which has been kept It is only by daily examination and narrowly watching the change which meat undergoes that the house wife will be able to make use of it at that stage, just short of being tainted, which is the proper one at which to cook it. This is an art which can only be learned by experi nee and ita successful practice evinces considerable skill, in household management. Thus, should unlooked for cold weather have pre vented the meat reaching the proper cooking state npon the day calculated od, the prudent and active housewiie will have to provide some other drnner for that day and keep the meat till next day or the next again. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon housekeepers that even the best meat, if cooked too soon, will not be nearly so tender and palatable as meat much inferior which has been kept the prpper time. There are various ways of keeping meat sweet and of removing the bad smell after it has become slightly tainted, One mode is to rub it over with coarsely-pounded charcoal, which has the property of ab sorbing the putrescent gases, and thus prevents the bad smelL The charcoal must, of course, be washed off before cooking. Another way is to paint the meat all over with a solution of salicylic acid, or rubbing the meat with the dry acid is the simplest method, and will do for all household purposes. - The Viennese have a Kanins for tbk wait*. Hereatter the thougailu'-annded ciliz- view of a receDl occurrence, wiil give heed and ear to the merry, merry traurp who accosts him with the old story of Just a little assistance until I hear Irom home, where I have considerable money due me.” Some such yarn as this always accompanied the frequent demands a tramp named J -hn Whalen made upon Disiric Attorney-elect J. D. Sullivan, of San rancisco. Tramp Whalen generally “struck” for two bits at a time and was both consistent and persistent in his story which was this: He claimed to have a small fortune awaiting him in Eigland, which could be secured by any one know ing how to legally claim it for him. The tellow stuck lo it with such earnestness that Mr. Sullivan at last concluded thai was worth the time and postage of one letter to England. This he wioe. and while he waited an answer Tramp Wbaien met the tate common to city tramps—he was arrested as a vagrant. A letter was received by Mr. Sullivan containing the surprising information that the described ■ halen was entitled to £5,000, or, in the denomination Mr. Sullivan is accustomed iuchide in his own accounts, $25,COO. This, of course, p aced Tramp Whalen the light of a citizen whose whereabouts was desirable to leara. The letter con tained an earnest request that Mr. Sullivan should forward his peculiar cheat to Eog- land at once. The attorney set about unting up the peripatetic Whalen and was not much surprised to leern that he was id the gloomy shades of the Central Police Station, awaiting sentence as a vag.” The plot worked admirably. Just the 8ttomey, as he would in a play, was preparing to rush to his distressed client, with the $25,000 in formation, enter messenger with a prepaid cablegram transferring $500 for Whalen's expenses England. Armed with this, enter Sulli van in Police Court No. 2. Whalen, rugged, dirty, dejected, but calm, sat iu the prisoner’s d ck. Judge Rosenbaum had just fixed his judicial eye upon the ‘vag,” in mental debate whether lo give him twenty days in the County Jail, or three months in the House of Correction, where his abilities could be turned to tne making of country roads. The attorney, with proper dramatic effects, explained situation to the Court. The Court refiectea, and the poetry or dramatic unifies or something occurring to him, the Court ordered the “vag’a” discharge on condition that he leave the city and county San Francisco witnin 24 horns. Agreed. Exit attorney aud tramp. Whalen was fitted out with an entire suit of new clothes, gave himself a sur prise with a bath and a shave, and, as Mr. Sullivan rxpresses it, "He actually did not know himself.’’ He visited several of his old haunts, restaurants where be had begged meals, eta, and was looked upon St a thief in his new outfit. He lelt for England on the overland train via New York. brittle. ‘When it is let to stal’d beyond its lull growth.’ says a writer on trees, it is lhe worst of all timber, being apt to crack and flv into splinters.’ One.variety of the chestnut produces swee’ nuts: the French and Italians nwst and eat them, the tri es which produce this sort of food are called sweet chestnuts. They do not yield fine nuts except they are grown in a warmerclima’e than ours: they thrive best where grapes ripen ou’ of doors. The country of Devon, however, does p-oduce this fruit, fairly large in size and good in quality. The (toe-t chestnuts, it is said, are imported from Spain. One favored spot, where the chestnut grows to perfection, is-Va'ambrosa, in ibe Apennines. Ano:her spot where this tree flourishes is Etna: here is the world-famed •Chestnut of a Hundred C .valiers,’ so call ed, because that number of horsemen, who were escorting a high-born lady to Naples, took shelter UDder its canopy at one lime. Its girtn in 1770 was 2C4 feet, but it seemed as if it were a clump of five trees all in one. The chestnut seems to like a mountain side. Olympus was once nearly shaded by these trees. ‘It is a delicate tree, as was proved by the great frost of 1709. This severe weather following on heavy rains, destroyed whole groves of chestnut trees in France. We have already said the chestnut is most valuable for its timber in youth. ‘Let no one he afraid of cutting it too young,’ sat s a great authority on trees. Even at the age of 50 years it will he found ‘rmg- shaky’ within. Bat it Is a very valuable tree when lelied before its prime. It is much used for the manufacture of wme- casks. It is said that wine, iu these bar rels, ferments slowly, and has no unplea sant taste of wood, and the timber resists the dry rot so common in cellars. Chest nut wood is alto very useiul for posts and fencing. The foreigners use the leaves for stuffing their beds and for l’tlering cattle. We have no idea in our country of the great use of chestnuts to the pojr man in The Dead Horse Festival. the sou'll of Fiance aud the north of Italy. . The nuts are ground, and from the flour ab0,, ‘ tbe ^ ammal are made thick flat cakes, p rrige, and sweetmeats. Chestnut flour will keep good lor many years if put in sound air tight casks. Sugar, too, is made from the chesmul fruit. The ti ee is said to have come originally from Asia Minor, anil it? irult was well-known as the ‘Sardis nut. The oldest and largest chestnut in our country is that on Lord Ducie’s estate al Tortworth. It is supposed to have been planted by the Romans. It is cited as •the Old Chestnut’m writings made in the reign ot King John. This amusing ceremony ofien tak *s place on board of English ships sailing to Austr-lia. Unjoining a ship Ihetailo-s are advanced a month's wages, with whici they are supposed io have nought a horse, which dies at the end of four weeks. A dummy steed la prepared in the forecastle, the body being an old fl iur barrel, the neck and head of canvas, stuffed with si raw and painted. In place of a saddle, a ho!e is cut through the bo iv, large enough to admit the legs of the rider. About half past seven iu the evening-a small procession, headed by a man who carries a baton, furnished with a rude imi tation of a human face, issues Iro n the f, recustle. Following him is a sailor with long white whiskers, who holds a can for penny contributions. He is protected by a number of policemen, armed with canvas club3 like those used in pantomimes, with which they lay about them as freely ns a New York policeman, but whh no other effect than eliciting shouts of laugh ter. The procession.is closed iiv a nnuitcr of sailors who slug jolly sea songs during the march. After the collection i:,ts been taken up, the party returns to tne fore castle. Shorlly afterward a larger procession issues from the forecastle, with a number of comic characters iu addition to those just mentioned, anong them the auc tioneer, in frock coat anil tall hat, with a roll of papers iu his hands, and atten ded by a clerk. Immediately after the , auctioneer comes lhe horse, ridden, or rather carried, by a sailor dressed as a jockey, anil led by a groom. The proces sion parades about tbe deck, the rider making tbe horse piance iu tue most lively and amusing manuer. The auctioneer then mount? a barrel on the quarter-deck, and after a long and laugha .le harangue on the merits of the hors;, puts up the animal tor sale. Pre vious to all this the hat has been passed round among the passengers and officers, and ten to fifteen pounds have been c >1- iected for tbe benefit of the sailors. The bidding is spirited and amusing, and ceases when it reaches the amouurcollec- ted, which is then handed to Lhe sailors by oue of the lady passengers. ~ After the auction, me leading charac ters move off to the lee side, near the mainsail, and a solemn dirge is cheated * about the poor ammal Lying suddenly, each verse ending with “Poor old Horael ’ t he horse aud rider are then hoisted :o the end of Ihe mainyard over tue ship’s side, hlue-lighls are let off, giving a ghastly as pect to lhe scene, and at a given signal the rope is cut, aud the horse falls into the sea, leaving tbe rider suspended' in the air, and floats astern in the darkness. The procession again forms and marches around the deck, the sailors singing "Rule Britannia.” Food and slielt,-: i rhe Kan-e There are in the far Western States and Territories wide areas with a pecu liarly mild c imate. For several years in succession, both cattle ujnl sheep are able to find their own food, aud are in A Tramn’a Fortune. fairly good cau-iition m Vspring. If the climate were ahmyo like this, nothing better could be wished. But there is occasionally a Fevere winter ; the snow covers the grass, aud the cold piercing winds drive the animals before them. Unfortunately there are no» belts o timber, or brash, or even ravines in which the animals may fiud shelter and rest and they,ofton become exhansted and perish. Provident shepherds aud herders flud that tliis is one of those cases in which it is best to not “take the Chances," but to provide a store of food each autuniD, as if they were sure that hard winter would follow. Iu supply ing food a shelter may be provided and a double object gamed. The natural grass of the ranges, though coarse, is sufficiently nutritions to keep the animals during tlio winter, even when allowed to die and dry where it stands. If it can be cut and cured while yet parf tially green, the hay is of fir better qualify. The simplest way to keep the hay is to set np a row of posts, about 12 feet apart; these are to be connected by other sticks ranniug along and spiked to tlnir tops. Lighter poles are then la'-d from the cross-beam to the ground, towards the north side, and near enough together to sustain the hay that may be piled npon them. This will make a lean-to shed, which, when thickly covered with hay, will afford abundant she'ter, and at t he same time food within reach. After a severe storm the hay may be re-adjusted, and more, if need be, added. A more complete shelter may be made by setting up two rows of uprights 12 or 14 feet apart, using the sloping poles as belore. The two towb of horiz mtal cross-beams, should be connected by light poles. Tliis will allow a larger amount of hay to be stored out of reach of the animals, and which may be used to keep the sloping portion of the shed iu repair. Shelter of this kind m .y be made of any needed length, and should always be so placed as to afford protection from the severest winds. Tlia Crown of Thoros. Tbe Lake Trade. While some steam cratl are yet m com mission, tbe carrying trade on the lakes ter 1882 is practically coded. . The num ber of lives lost and the list ot disas:ers, great and small, are less than in meat pre vious years. Single instances ot casualties attended with tbe loss of more than bal dozen lives have been rare. The notable exceptions are tbe burning of tbe steamer Mauitoulin and tbe foundtriog of tbe Asia betb of which occurred in Georgian Bay. By the former on May 18th between 30 and 40 lives were lost, while by tbe latter over 100 persons are supposed to have per ished. Lesser noteworthy casualties oc curred on Thanksgiving day, when eight men perished on tbe Canadian shore of Lake Ontario near Picion, and on Lake Michigan, when the burning of tbe steam barge Peters occurred, caused the lose of 13 lives. The total number of accidents and diaastera of all classes is about i 06 tor the season, with a lost of not far bom 170 Urea. A Carlo •» Calculation. Did yon ever think, asks a Paris paper, how many male and female ancestors were required to bring yon into the world? First, it was necessaiy that you suouiii have a father and morher—that m'akts two human beings. Each of them most also have had a father and mother—that makes four human beings Each of those font must have had a father and mother—that makes eight human beings, Aud so we must go back for forty-six generations, which brings us only to the time of Jesus Christ. The calculation tnus resulting shows that 139,245,017,489.534,976 births must have taken place in order to bring yon into the world—yon who read these lines. Bat remember we are only taking the case of yourself—one human being—and there are 1.000,000, 000 of human beings in the world with the same history, aiid we have only car ried back the calculation to the time of Clilist. How monstrous the calculation becomes if we carry it back 6,000 years! How ghastly it becomes if we push it back 250,OhO years, which De Morullct aud others give us the age of the human race! Just count tiiree gt nerattons to a century, or thirty to ever 1,000 years, aud reckon np the history of one iadiv- idoaL Imagine the number of births bring into existence one £00 th generation! At the harbor mouth of the little Nor man seanort stands a ioftly crucifix, high up against the sunrise and the sunset; the figure carved realistically cuougb, with eyes gazing over the sea, walchiug since time iinmeiacTia! the outgoing ships. It is the last pictme on-the eyes of the ttiher- iuen as they sail away to nirtheru lati tudes for their hard, cheeriest ia j jr of the Newloundlaud coast, an l the Urat higu landmark mat greets loose of them who return; for the iratl vessels that venture thither, sometimes no tidings come again, and ou those vessels sailing in, often some voice fails to auswer wiicn the women stream out to welcome them irom the pier head, h'jr here there :s a widow’s dress iu every young wile’s wedding- cuest. It was well moiighl to set i, tbete, lor who so mystically minded as the sail or, ever face to face with ihe myatery and majesty of nature? A good thonght for Lue?e simple minds to itcaoeiate with the naven of Linir home wfi'en they start, as oue of them finely expressed it, imo the great waters to see the glory of UoJ. So it siauds tuere, aud the rough set winds shake it, and the sea swallows rest on tun dins of the truss, aud at times the spray rains over tne three white figures at the base. A little while ago tuey baht a scaffolding around it, aud 1 saw that they were regudmg the crown ot tujras. To day there wo3 a great sur in the little town. From the old church, a mile up the in land valley, a loug procession pissed along the hillside road, and down the slop ing streets to the port. Many Children, ail m white, and music and many banners ot many colors, came winding on below the great gray cliffs; little hoys in sailors’ dress, Carrying a model snip;then the baa- ner of our Lady, borne by the virgins of tue town; some.hing pathetic there also— old wrinkled laces, two of them yet mossed in ihe virgin white among the young girls, and a coarse jest iu the crowd perhaps. lhe sea hud never brought their lovers home, yet they lollowed, though their yearly prayers had little availed. Then then tne choristers sing ing—an old brass trumpet to give volume to the sound; then the priests with cross and caudle; so along to the Calvary at the harbor myuth. Tuey are rauged round it now—the priests and choristers oeiow, the fishermen ana their banner iu front, the while clnldren m a wider ring, and ah the people of the little town around. On one mue me giant cl 3; on tne omer the calm sea, witn its hale sails drilling Uowu the lair horizon. Some one has crowned mo ruir Madonna with a crown ot white roses. A young pries is presetting at tne loot of the cross. Afewot' the hoys, in their f.-stive dress, have broken away, aud, climbing Uie steep grass bank that lean? against the cliffs, are runniag races down it; but the crowd is attentive, silent; a tew women crying. KnUi ciisp.1.; This edifice where worshipped Uie poet Wordsworth, is undergoing vari ous alterations, made necessary by the dry rot, which Lad eaten through every joist and platik, and the narrowness of the pews, which almost precluded the possibility of kueehug. Tue incumbent of the parish writes to one of the Lon don newspapers that it is hoped a suita ble chancel may be built in plane of the present recess which serves for one, and which “has often proved most in convenient when there has been more than one officiating clergyman.” He hopes that contributions iu aid of this object will be made by the public out side of Rydal. “Ou account of the celebrity of this little place,” he says, •■as being intimately connected with some of England's greatest men. I veuture to ask yon, by printing this letter, to give further publicity to our scheme than you have alreauy done, iu the hope that some of your readers may be induced to subscribe toward making ‘the worshipping place of Wordsworth and Arnold 'leas a contrast to the natural beauty of its surround- ings than it has hitherto been, ” It used to take nine toilers to make a man. Now oue good tailor, a shfia- maker and a barber can make what U •altea asoaisty man.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Cedartown advertiser. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1878-1889, January 25, 1883, Image 1