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Newspaper Page TextSfcrCftfartm PUBLISHED EVEHY THURSDAY BY E>. B. FREEMAN, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.60 FEB YEAR Advertisements inserted at the rate of fl per square for first insertion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. The space of one inch is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to ran for a longer period than one month. The Cedartown i Advertiser. D. 8. FREEMAN, Publisher. LABORING FOR THE COMMONWEALTH. TERMS: $1.50 Per Annum, in Advance. OIJ) SERIES-VOL. X- NO 10. CEDARTOWN. GA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 5.1883. NEW SERIES—VOL. V-NO. 17. Job Printing. THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press and New Material, EMBRACING Type, Border,,. Ornaments, &e., Of the very late t designs, and all order* to' Job Work will be executed neatly, cheaply and promptly. W. M. PHILLIPS & CO., ARECMAHCFACTUEERS AGENTS FOB THE LATEST IMPROVED MACHINERY! STATIONARY AND PORTABLE Engines and Boilers, Compiiu Banging from $50 to $80 a Hone Power. SAW MILLS, COMPLETE, From $300 to $600. Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Brown 1 !, Gullet’s, and other leading makei SORGHUM MILLS AND EVAPORATORS, taaMj other like articles too tedious to mention, all of which we will sen as low aa any Agent, and hare them pot up and started free of expense to the pur- Cherokee Iron Works, using nothing but Yellow Heart * FINEST LUMBER IN THE ICOUNTRY. AH of which wa will sell as low the same grade can be bought for. Wealsokeep in (tack PLANTATION SUPPLIES, HARDWARE. FAMILY GROCERIES. DRY GOODS, &C. Always keeping in mind the needs of Farmers, and will sell cheap for cash, or on tune to prompt paying castomtn. Call and see us when In want of anything in our line. Very Respectfully, • W.°M. PHILLIPS &CO. TS SANCTUARY. While pale with rage me wua mrf springy Athwart the harbor bar, The safe ships fold their snowy wings Beneath the evening star. In this calm haven rocked to sleep All night they swing and sway. Till mantles o’er the morning deep The golden blush of day. Here, safe from all the storms of fate, From worldly rage and scorn, Thus let me fold my hand and wait The coming of the morn; When all night o’er moonlit turf, The wind brings in from far The moaning of the baffled surf Athwart the harbor bar. RUNNING THE TOLL. THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE. 1 fce Ladies’ Favorite BECAUSE IT IS The Lightest Running, The Most Quiet. Makes a Prettier Stitel and has more conveniences than any other Machine. Jt 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. I) & T. F. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Dealers, 59 Broad. Street. Atlanta. Ga. Tor sole by J. A. WYNN & BRO.. Cedartown. Ga. ATLANTA MARBLE WORKS! WALSH & PATTERSON BROS., Successors to WM. GRAY. Importers and Dealers in Foreign and American Marbles. MONUMENTS, TABLETS, HEADSTONES, Aid All Kinds of Cemetery Wort Done on Short Notice! We also have on hand all THAT BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY of STATUARY that was on exhibition at the 90TT0N EXPOSITION. Designs famished free on application. Office and Works No. 77 East Alabama Street, ATLANTA. GA J“_ IP. DTJFFEY, HAS THE BEST ASSORTED AMD Largest Stock of Leather Goods THAT HAS EVER BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE IN CEDARTOWN, CONSISTING OF Buggy and Wagon Harness, Both Single and Double, Wagon Breeching and Lines, Saddles, Bridles and Halt ers of All Styles and Prices. TEAM WHIPS, BUGGY WHIPS AND WHIP LASHES, CEDARTOWN HOTEL CEDARTOWN, GA. J. P. JOHNON, Proprietor. First class accommodations at reasonable rates. Passengers conveyed to and from depot free of charge. Sample rooms furnished commercial travelers. The public patronage •"United. janl-tf c. *1JANB8. - ARMSTEAD RICHARDSON JANES & RICHARDSON, Attorneys at Law, CEDARTOWN, - - - - GA. TURNER ft COLVILLE, Attorneys at Law, Cedartown, Ga. OFFICK OVER WTNN * BRO.-8 STORE. WU1 practlos m Polk and sunomullna oounttai aadtaall the none. Prompt enention to bail. j Mp7-tt BOOKS, STATIONERY, PIANOS, ORGANS, k SMITH'S BOOK i MUSIC STORE. No. 113 Broad Street. ROME, GA. Has been greatly enlarged, and is now one of the handsomest and most commodious Book Stores in the State. On hand and receiving every week, large supplies of School, Classical, Standard sad Miscellaneous Books, Photograph and Allograph Albania, Bibles, Hymn and Prayer Books, Blank Books. Stationery,Fancy Articles, School Supplies, etc. Also will be foand in the Music Department, a splendid assortment of Chickering, Mathoshek. Anon and Hale Pianos—both Square, Grand and Upright. Also Mason A Hamlin, Shoninger, Packard and Bay State Organs, at prices that will defy competition, either North or Sooth. Instru ments sold on instalments, or retailed at whole sale for Cash. Lndden A Bates prices at Savannah duplicated. Oct. lS-lj H. A. SMITH. BARBER SHOP! W«$t SIM* ef UmMm ■ treat. One door South of Barr A Liske’s, BY LEWIS BOND. HAnUHJTTTNG, SHAMPOOING, SHAVING, ■ad ,11 wort in my Hue done in s ssMrtsiQnry Don't fall to (It, m, a call. —■ “Just hint at ‘running the toll’ and grandma will tell yon a story,” said Lily Weatherbee, demure as a little Quaker and sweet as a wild rose, looking np from lier Kensington stitch. Grandma overheard her and answered with a smile that made her piercing black eyes sparkle like diamonds. “I don’t think yon will ever run the toll, Peace and Plenty,” she said. That was the name she had given Lily when she was a baby. “No, indeed; one in the family of that sort is quite enough,” laughed the girl ‘“but here is Hattie waiting to b< amused, and yon must tell her about it.” “Well, how shall I begin, chatter box?” “Why, tell her abont the old house with the gray moss clinging to the raf ters, and the haunted window and the great bam, first. “The haunting was easily enough ac counted for,” said grandma, rolling up the Btockings she had been mending and taking off her spectacles; “that was the tapping of the old horse-chestnut when the wind blew, bnt it was a long time before I found ont the meaning of the three mysterious knocks—always three—and when I did, what fun I had at the expense of Miss Silena Cross, our dress-maker, who had taken infinite pains to prove that 1 was favored with spiritual visits! Poor Miss Silena! never saw a creature more disappointed. As fur the bam, it had originally been bnilt for a meeting-house, bnt never haying been finished on account of lack of funds, my grandfather took it for debt and tnraedit to very good account. That old bam was a great institution, and was regularly farmed ont during winters for revival meetings, dances, hnsk ng frolics and sundry other things, Dne night we let a tramp sleep there, ind the consequence was that by noon text day there was nething left of the >am but smoke and ashes. Poor father! Tt had been a source of income, and nothing could take its place, Every* body mourned the destruction of ‘Uncle Hiram’s barn,’ but nobody offered to rebuilt it. “We were poor, not that we suffered for the necessaries of life. The farm kept our table, but my father worked too hard lor an old man, and his ‘boys Were all girls.’ The fact of our poverty never troubled me, however; I was too happy. Only give me plenty of fun, plenty of sunshine and nothing seemed hard to me. My genius at improvising all sorts of amusements made me general favorite in society. Nobcdy looked down upon me because 1 wore calico and worked from morning till night. In fact, ‘Jack’ was always in requisition; it was ‘Jack’ who took the lead at our merry gatherings, who filled the gap with some audacious gossip when nobody knew what to say, who was afraid of nothing—who was, I am rather sorry to add careless of conse quences, so that she had a good time. “But I was happy; nobody can ever take that consolation from me. I never sighed for what was unattainable. Fair weather or foul, washing or baking, at home or at the country-side parties, I was always at peace with the world, though my one best muslin gown had done duty for several years.” “Oh, grandma! what would you have thought then of a pink satin reception dress, and everything to match, Hire the one I am having made?” exclaimed i*y- "Shouldn’t a’ been a bit happier, my dear; couldn’t a’ been,” was the calm response. “Besides; young girls never wore satin in those days, bless yon!— plain white mull was considered dressy enough, with flowers, which, to my taste, are prettier than jewels and day. And now I am coining to how I ran the toll. Ned Hamilton « as considered one of the best young men in town. He would a’ been handsome bnt his nose was too thin and his eyes were too close together, though they were fine eyes. At all events, he was a great favorite, and the girl who secured him for a partner considered herself fortunate. Nobody treated him just exactly as I did, for I would tell him to his face that he was conceited, though secretly I did feel flattered by his attention. 1 sup pose tne great Eaeedale farm had some thing to do with it, and the two grays and the handsome carryall. Peril ps I was ambitions and didn’t exactly know it; for to tell the troth, when I did think of him at all seriously it was the big farm that loomed np, not my liking for him. To be Mis. Hamilton—the name good one—to step from our homely one-story-house into a grand old mansion, where the furniture had stood for a hundred years—that was some thing for a poor man’s child to achieve, I was very proud and happy when he showed me any unusual attention. It did stir what vanity I had to see his team at our cottage door, to pass our acquaintances seated beside him, to be singled ont at parties—me m my plain drees, with perhaps only a rose at my throat and another in my hair.” Now oonfess that you were hand some, grandma,” said Lily. “That’s not for me to say, my dear, though I believe they did call me rather pretty. One day Ned Hamilton invited me to go with him to Silver Spray, a beautiful water-fall, six miles away. 1 was particularly pleased with the invi tation just at that time, for matters at home were complicated, and the atmos phere was not agreeable. Father had been paying money on a mortgage, and that always made him cress—not cross exactly, but very, very miserable. The sight of his sorrowful face and the sound of his depressed voice caused ns all to feel more or less wretched. That night there was to be a party at the house of Judge Mills. They enly gave one a year, on the occasion of Meeny Mill’s birthday. Poor Meenyt A homelier girl never liven, bnt the judge was riob, and she wore all the latest fashions, so perhaps she never realized how plain she was. I had been busy over my only white dresa, taking a took ont here and adding a bit of lace j there, wishing, for a winder, that I could have something new to wear. At sight of Ned and the team, however, all my troubles vanished into air, and I ran down-stairs laughing. “i do wish yon’d be a little sober- minded,” said my father in his fretfnl way. ‘It seems kinder heartless to be laughing when there ain’t a cent in the- house, and robody, knows when there will be.’ “Why, father, there’s always potatoes and mead,” was my merry rejoinder. “Yes, and there’s always cares and troubles,” he answered lugubriously. ‘I don’t seem to git ahead like other folks, and I’ve pretty much abont given up faying. If yon girls was only boys now!” “Think what yon’d have to lay ont in boots alone,” I said, still laughing, at which he frowned and turned impatient ly away, while I ran ont to be helped into the handsome carnage. “What a glorious day it was! The vines lining each side af the read all seemed dripping with sunshine. The shaded valleys, the dancing brooks and the highways bordered with maples aad elms—and then my escort beguiled the boor with odd and merry fancies, talked abont his farm, his hopes, his aspira tions, and if I bad not willfully turned the subject once or twice,” said the pretty old lady, with a prim little ges ture, “I thick he might have proposed. Bnt I wasn’t ready for that yet. ‘In the quiet of the home-going, ‘I said to myself. ‘I will listen to him perhaps.’ “At last we reached the water-fail, which, with its accompanying heights and charming scenery, repaid ns for the long ride. It was hard to tear ourselves away, and when we did turn the heads of the spirited horses m the direction of home it was very late. "We shall never be In time for the party,” I said, as the twilight deepened into dusk. ‘Must yon pay at the toll- gate? The old man is half-blind, and it will take him an hour to hunt np change. Bon the toll, just for the fun of it—von can pay him afterward. ’ “That won’t do,” said Ned, ‘I’ll have to get a bill changed though. Jnst take the reins a second. By the way- never heard the end of the sentence. At that moment the spirit of mischief seized me. 1 snatched the whip and touched the near horse. Then I only heard the thunder of hoofs and the whirr of wheels, saw Ned’s eyes flash fire in the semi-darkness and his face grow pale. Before he could take the reins from my inexperienced hands, we had ‘run the toll’ in good earnest, and the horses were flying over the bridge as only faightened horses can. It was as much as Ned could do to guide them, an i twice we were in deadly peril. On they sped, yonng Hamilton stand ing without a hat, his teeth set, his lips white, his frame rigid, while the veins of his forehead stood ont like whip-cord. I just sat back and held my breath, too frightened to cry out, and catching whatever was nearest to steady myself as they raced down the long, hilly street to the village, at the foot of which they Blackened tlieir speed and were soon under control. “That was a mad freak of yours,” was all the young man said, as he helped me out at the door; and I knew by the expression of his countenance that I never should be asked to ride behind his grays again. “I went to the party, seemingly as gay and light-hearted as ever. If any feeling of regret forked under my care less speech and manner, Ned should never know it. In the midst of the fnn, when I was holding my little court, and the laugh and the jest were going round, who should appear upon the scene bnt my father, in his homely, patched clothes, quite regardless of the fig ore he cut in tne midst of that brilliant com pany. He walked straight np to me, his hair in disorder, his face as pale as death. ■Jack,” says Tie, ‘did yon run the toll to-day?’ “Thehorses ran,” I said, with a touch cf levity, though I trembled from head to oot. ‘What did they know abont toll?’ “Well, the bridge-keeper has been to the honse, Jack. He told me the yonng man was getting the money when yon caught np the whip and set the horses to running. Now, there’s a fine for that, an’ I've got to give him $5; he won’t let me off— and I ain't got five cents to my name.’ Tears stood in his poor, weak eyes, and, regardless of the surroundings, he took out liis handker chief and wiped them away. Imagine, if you can, how I felt, “Allow me to pay, sir,” said Ned, coming forward; and that capped the climax. I could have screamed with mortification. I jnst rah ont of that room, without waiting for wraps or any thing else, and Hew home so ashamed HasnMr-Mlndad. “Hem! hem!” congbed Chaa. Grafton as he limped out and toed the mark. “I want to know where I am,” “At the Central Station Court,” De troit, answered IBs Honor “Whatfoi?” “The charge is drunkenness.” “And who’s the Judge?” “I am.” i “Well. I have right 0 , and I am bound to maintain them. Before this trial goes any farther I want to go home and put on a clean shirt and get some chew ing tobacco. I Want to look half-way decent and feel half-way human. ” “Can’t let yon go.” “Then I won’t be tried!” “Bat you will! The law doesn’t care a copper what sort of a shirt a prisoner has on, and if you are dying for some thing to ohew on Bijaii always has chunk of shoe-makers’ wax lying around.” “Did you say I was drank?” “That’B the charge.” “Well. I won’t be tried on no Bach charge. The idea that a man of my years and dignity wonld get drank and be staggering around the streets is all nonsense.” Officer was this man the worse for drink?” “He was almost helpless, sir.” "I was, eh?” queried ihe prisoner. “Now, sir, do you make oath that I was drimk?” “I do.” “How did I act," “You cried, talked silly, and said you would like to adopt me for a son.” “Your Honor, I can’t stand this; I appeal this case, and want that man ar rested for perjury.” “I shall fine you ten dollars.” “I’llfrot in the hostile before Fll pay it. "Then you go up for sixty days.” “I never will.”' Bijah keeps an empty barrel in the corridor for jnst suoh occasions. When Mr. Grafton began prancing around, and declared that he wonld sell his life at the highest market price, he was picked np and doubled together in the center and crowded into the barrel, and six minutes had not passed away before he was as bumble-minded as a boy at the bottom of a well. that I think I hardly knew what 1 was | fn doing. As yon may suppose, I cried P B ‘ pretty much all night, and it was a long time before I recovered my spirits. “I have no donbt it lost me Ned Hamilton, too,” said the old lady, with a queer little toss of the head; “bnt that didn't matter much. He left and took Mary Bean, old Deacon Bean’s daughter —the pink of propriety, and who wonld no more have dared to say her soul was her own than she wonld have dared to ride wild horses. It was a little morti- fying at first, bnt after his marriage tolks said that he was miserly almost beyond belief, and I am positive Molly Hamilton only has one new bonnet a year, poor soul!—though by this time she may have gone where they don’t need bonnets, 'However, I was. cored from that time of my thoughtless pranks. I went work and soon paid back the $5, and more than that, 1 paid off the mortgage on our little home, in time.” “And then yon married grandpa?” ■aid Idly. “Yes, dear, he was worth a thousand Ned Hamiltons—but poor father! how often I have heard him say that I was jnst as good as a bov.” This delicious breakfast beverage, although almost entirely unknown in America and even in Entfipe, has a very distinguished origin. It was invented by the celebrated French Philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire hit noon this new and brilliant idea while he was guest at the Sans Souci. a favorite residence of Fredrick the Great of Germany. He partook of it constantly at breakfast Voltaire mode in one part of coffee and milk and the other part chocolate. He made the name by writing the first syl lable of chocolate—oho-and cafe-ca! these two first sylables made cho ca. Each beverage was in a boiling state when he united them. ‘He poured them into a common vessel slowly. He held both at an elevation of about eighteen inches. This he said made it extremely light and (iigestable. This drink be came a great favorite, also, with the great Napoleon. He need it constantly. It was freqnently remarked by those who attended his person that after the excitement and fatigue of a great battle two or three enps of this beverage seemed to restore all his wanted energy and strength; on ordinary occasions he used only one cup. The celebrated cnlinary artist, Soyer, admired this beverage exceedingly. In regard to it he wrote to his wife in the following enthusiastic manner: “Here, dear Eloise, is an entirely new aliment which has never yet been introduced into this country. A semi- epicure of our acquaintance, on return ing from our visit to the National Guard of France, presented me with a pound of it which he purchased in Paris. Bat even there, he raid, it is almost in its infancy, You may fancy if I were not anxions of making an immediate trial of it. I have fonnd it most delicious. Mr. has not yet tasted it, being for a week in iheconntry, bnt I am confident he will like it, especially for breakfast. As usual, dear Eloise, you will no donbt reproach me for having so such enthusiasm. I will now give you my formal recipe for making clio-ca. Make your best coffee; blend hot milk with this coffee, half and half; this makes cqfe-au tail, or half milk and half coffee; now, in your usual way, make your best choc olate; and these yon are supposed to have in separate vessels, boiling hot and duly sweetened; now hold both well up, say eighteen inches, and pour to gether into the same vessel; now say [grace in your devoutest maimer and Continuous Crakes. Somewhat over two years ago M. Herisson, the French Minister of Public Works, issued a circular enjoining all French railway companies to supply their passenger trains, running at the rate ot 37 miles per honr and upward, with continuous brakes within a space of two years, and altougli this time has now elapsed, no definite measures have yet been taken to carry out this plan. Various railway companies, it appears, are making extended experiments with different kinds of brakes, and according to accounts, the State railways were re cently trying the vacuum brake, the Westinghonse automatic anilthe Achard electric brake. Although the lists have been quite exhaustive, none of the com panies have adopted any of the different patents, and it has been fonnd necessary to put fresh pressure on the companies to indnee them to furnish the proper security for their passengers, and M. Herisson has now issued another circu lar, informing the companies that snffi dent time has been allowed for experi menting, and that it is necessary for them to make a definite choice.* He distinctly disallows the chain brakes as unsatisfactory for ordinary use, aud, judging from all appearances, desires to see the Westinghonse system gener ally adopted. A technical committee that was appointed to consider the sub ject reported against the adoption of a uniform system on all the lines as tend ing to discourage invention {ind hinder the introduction of improvements. M. Herrison, in setting forth pointedly the alleged merits of the Wenger brake concludes by leaving the companies entirely free to adopt any model which is both continuous, controlling all tne wheels of all the vehides and automatic, and capable of being worked by the en gineer or brakeman. Whatever type they adopt must be fnlly applied in the course of the pibsent year. It is thought rather singular by some that the Wenger brake, with which very little experience has been obtained, in meeting with so much approval by the Minister of Pub lic Works, who regards it apparently as an equivalent for the Westinghonse, the efficiency of which has been so exhaus tively tested in this and other countries and with snch excellent results. His Pugilistic Pa. 7b find how many square leet of heat ing surface ia necessary to warm a green house where hot water pipes are used: Where doable sashes are used, the heat ing surface tmsft'ied for an ordinary apartment will be sufficient; bnt for single sashes the heating suriac. a cau be made twice as great, to advantage. The sun looks red in a fog, because red rajs have a greater momentum of power of penetration than any other rays, thus enabling them to pqpetrate the dense at mosphere more readily than either blue or yellow rays, which are either absorbed or reflected by the tog. stale milk cannot be boiled without curdling it, because stale milk is in an in cipient state of fermentation, which the beat of the Ore greatly accellermlea, hence the lactic add which is formed during fer mentation, mixing with the caseine of the milk, coagulates it. Honor Bright. He was abont to take a Woodward avenne car in Detroit, when he changed his mind and waited for a man coming up the street He looked stern and solemn and unrelenting and there wap ice in his month as he replied: “Yes, fine day enough. Mr. Jones, do yon remember that you met me one day two years ago and asked for the loan of $10?” ‘•Two years ago—$10—asked for a loan? Let’s see. No, I do not remem ber, but 1 do not wish to dispute your word.” “Well, sir, yon asked for a loan.” “And did I get it?” “Of coarse yon did.” “Is that so? Well, if I did, it was the only time in my life, and I ought to remember it Did yon want to lend me ten more?” “No, sir! I want yon to return that loan!” “Sorry—very sorry, but I can’t do it thin month,” “I want that money before Saturday or I’ll take steps!” “Ah I” “Fll post you as the meanest man in Detrfc'!” “Honor bright?” “Yes, sir.” “Say,” said Jones, as he looked greatly relieved, “I wish you’d go ahead and do that I’ve no commercial rating no social standing, and am continually straggling in a half-way position be tween being able to get credit at d dodge old creditors. If you’ll only post me I’ll know just where I stand and what to look ont for, and it 11 save me work ing half an hour to get a peanut-vender good-natured enough to trust me fire cents’ worth. Ah! Smith, I knew you’d do me a good turn if it ever came handy!” Twxlt* hundred bead of sheep hold in England - lately for $16,860, the highret prioe on reoord at a large ale. “Where did your pa get the blaok eye?” asked the grocery man. “Did the minister hit him, or was it one of the sisters?’’ “O, he didn’t get his black eye at prayer meeting,” said the boy, as he took the mittens off the stove and rubbed them to take the stiffening ont. “It was from boxing. Pa told my clram and me that it was no harm to learn to box, cause we could defend ourselves, and he said he nsed to be a holy terror with the boxing-gloves when he was a bov, and he has been giving ns lessons. Well, he is no sloncb, now I tell you, and handles himself pretty well for a church member. I read in the paper how Dick Brace played it on a friend by getting Jem Mace, the prize fighter, to knock him silly, and I asked pa if he wouldn’t let me bring a poor boy, who had no father to teach him boxing, to our honse to learn to box, and pa said certainly, fetch him along. “He said he wonld be glad to do any thing for a poor orphan. So I went down in the Third Ward and got an Irish boj by the name of Duffy, who can knock the socks off of any hoy in the ward. He fit a prize-fight once, it wonld have made yon laugh to see pa tell him how to hold his hands and how to guard his face. He told Dnffy not to be afraid, but to strike right out and hit for keeps. Daily said he was afraid pa would get mad if he hit him, and pa said, ‘Nonsense, boy; knock me down if you cau, and I will laugh, ha! ha!’ Well, Dnffy hauled l ack' and gave pa one in the nose and another in both eyes, and enffed him in the ear and punched him m the stomach, and lammed him in the month and made his teeth bleed, and then he gave him a side-winder in both eyes, and pa polled off the boxing-gloves and grab bed a chair, and we adjourned and went down-stairs as though there was a panic. I haven’t seen pa since. Was his eye very black?” “Black, I should say so,’’ said the grocery man. “And his nose seemed to be trying to look in his left ear. He was at the market buying beefsteak to pnt upon it.” “O, beefsteak is no account. I most go anu see him and tell him that an oyster is the best thing for a black eye. Well, I must go. A boy has a pretty hard time miming a honse the way it should be ran,” and the boy went ont and hung np a sign iu front of the grocery: “Frowy bntter a speahulty. ” Drawbridge Signal*. An Eastern railway company has adopted a system of drawbridge signals which, it is claimed, will greatly reduce the danger of accidents. These signals are worked by a series of levers, five in number, the first two working sema phore signals at a distance of 1,900 feet and 800 feet, respectively, from a bridge. The other three work the switches of the siding and the lock of the bolt which holds the draw in place. Before the bridge can be unlocked that a ves sel may pass tl trough the draw, these levers mnst be worked in their order. It is impcssiole to work them in any other way, the interlocking preventing the draw-tender or signalman from mov ing the higher numbered lever until he has first moved the lower nmuber. He cannot, when the draw is closed, re place the levers except in the regular reverse order. It follows that a danger signal must first be shown at a distance of 1,900 feet from the draw, and if that warning to bring his train under control for a stop is neglected by the engineer, the signal is again given at 800 feet dis tant Should this warning be neglected, the engineer will find his train switched to a side track, and thus prevented from plunging into the open draw, for the draw cannot be open unless it h«« previously been ui locked ; it cannot be unlocked until the safety-switch has first been unbolted and set for the si ding ; the switch cannot be set until the home signal has been set for dan ger, and the home signal cannot be set for danger until the distance signal has been so set. These operations are re peated on the other side of the draw, which is fitted with a bolt at each end. Supplemental apparatus is provided so that the signalman may know at a dis tance of 1 j miles that a train is ap proaching, so that the draw may not be opened and trains delayed unneces sarily. Jt is farther claimed that when the draw, even if closed, should be un locked, the safety switch cannot be thrown on the main line either by acci dent or design, and therefore no train cau possibly ran into the draw. Tvpa sues. Originally there were bnt seven sizes, The first was called “Prima.” whence' the name Primer. It is now known as Two-Line English. The second was called “Secunda,”nowonr Double Pica —in France, Great Paragon. The third was “Tertia,” at present our Great Primer. Then there was the middle size, still being called in Ger man “Mittel,” bnt it is now our Eng lish. After these came the three sizes on the opposite side of the scale—Pica, Long Primer and Brevier. In Germany the names Secnnda, Tertia and Mittel are still retained. ‘Pica,” in France and Germany, is called Cicero, because the works of that author were originally printed in it. English printers so styled it from being the type in which the Ordinal or Service Book of the Roman Church was originally set. This Ordinal also at firet called “Pica.” “Bour geois” was so named because it was in troduced into the country from France, where it wa3 originally dedicated to “Bourgeois” or citizen printers of that capital. "Brevier obtained its name from having been first nsed for printing the Breviary or Roman Catholic abbre viated Church Service-Book. ‘Minion” is also of French origin, and was so termed owing to having rapidly become a special favorite on its introduction in that country. La Mtgane is “the darling.” ..“Nonpareil” was so named because at the time of its introduction it had “no equal,” being the smallest and finest type then produced. “Pearl is of English origin. The French have a type of the same size, which they call Parisienne. It ia a smaller type than Nonpareil, and was thought “the pearl of all type.” “Din- mood is another fancy name given to what was regarded at the time of its origin as the ultima thole of letter foandary achievement In an article in Knowledge on scien tific cookery, Mr. W. Williams called attention to the danger cf using drink ing-water full of organic imparities. Snch water, he says, supplies nutriment to those microscopic abominations, the micrococci, bacilli, bacUria, etc., which are now shown to be connected with blood-poisoning—possibly do the whole of the poisoning business These little pests are harmless, and probably nutritions, when cooked, bnt in their raw and wriggling state are horribly prolific in the blood of people who are in certain states of what is called “receptivity.” They (the bacte ria, etc.,) appear to be poisoned or somehow killed off by the digestive secretions of the blood of some people, and nourished luxuriantly in the blood of others. AS nobody can be quite bore to which class he belongs, or may pre sently belong, or whether the water supplied to bis household is free from blood-poisoning organisms, cooked water is a safer beverage than raw water. “Reflection on tliii subject,” says Mr. Williams, "I have been struck with a curious fact that has hitherto escaped notice, viz., that in the country which over all others combines a very large population with a very small allowance of cleanliness, the ordinary drink of the people is boiled water fla vored by an infnsion of leaves. These people, the Chinese, seem, in fact, to have been the inventors of boiled-water beverages. Judging from travellers' occonnts ot the state of the rivers, rivu lets, and general drainage and irriga tion arrangements of China, its popu lation could scarcely have reached its present density if Chinamen were drink ers of raw instead of cooked water. Bandar Service en aa English Man-Of-War. The weather not being propitious divine service was held on the main instead of the npper deck. In the lat ter case it is more impressive. Sur rounded by the wide waste ef water, the restless ocean, type at once of our lives and of eternity, the small distrac tions, trifles, and incidents of shore exist not. Nature is at her grandest and noblest; man cannot be irresponsive to the influence. The chnrch pennant was flying from every vessel, and for the time being all other consideration were lost sight of and pnt aside for th combined act of worship. To-day, on the main deck, all we could see of the water came through the portholes. Service was held iu the battery of the vessel, the guns pointing on each side. A reading deck was arranged, draped with a flag; the siDging was led by a harmonium. The bell tolled a few minutes before service began, bnt the Bingle stroke strnck at intervals had the melancholy sound of a ‘‘passing bell” rather than aught else. Being nothing bnt the ship’s bell, however, it was a very mild edition of a charch- peal. The men, row after row. were on benches in front of the chaplain, so that he had them well in hand. The captain and officers were at the side and behind the reading-desk. It was im possible to sail with the chaplain of the Defence without soon feeling for him a high esteem. Be was the type of what a parson slionld be in daily Ihe and in all manner of conversation. For tbe sailors he was especially the right man in the fight place. And a difficult and discouraging tusk often is that of chaplain to a man-of-war. Sunday after noon was always pleasant on board- There was a stillness and repose even in the very air we breathed. Sanskrit, whist, backgammon, arguments, every thing was put ont of sight for the aav; we enjoyed rest and leisure. Service was held twice every Sunday on board the Defence. The men were obliged to attend in the morning, but their pres ence in the evening was optional. The chaplain instituted his own form cf worship at night. A shoit prayer or two, then the sermon; after that a por tion of the evening liturgy. Always' plenty of singing, which the men liked, and occasionally would joiu in rather too heartily. On the main deck you have a low roof to contend with, a very different matter from the long drawn aisles and fretted vaults of a cathedral. It was more acceptable to sensitive care when service was held on the npper ’ deck. There the men’s voices rooled upon the air as they “the strain up raised.” But the blue sty, unlike the fretted vault, could send back no echo or make response. Yet it was the grandest of all domes; nature's own minister; pure and beautiful, far off aud eternal, Steam aa» Light Kefleutor. A Judge toolml, As illustrating some of the remarkable laws of Indiana on the suhiect of divorce, the Hon. Thaddeus P. Rollins yeiter- d ly related a story of a divorce which he procured in Cass county some years since before Jndge Chase. The allegations in the complaint were drunkenness and general worthlessness of the defendant. W hen the cose came on a witness was called to prove the character and habits of the defendant. Mr. Rollins asked him the question “Do you know Mr. , the defendant in this case, Mr. Baird?” The answer was in the affirmative. At this point Jndge Chase looked np and said: “Mr. Baird, tell me if that man is the same Mr, who was in Company K of the Indiana Regiment during the war." “The same man, Judge,” was the answer. “Yon need go no fnrther, Mr. Rollins,” said the Jndge, “the divorce is granted,’ and judgement was entered accordingly for the plaintiff. After Court adjourned the Jndge was joked abont the hasty entry of the judgement, referring to the fact that no evidence had been introduced into the case, “Why, gentlemen,” said his Honor, “J knsw that fellow. He was in my com pany during the war, and I will never let a woman live with bim if she asks me for a divorce. 1 know him better than any witness that can be brought here.” Trepanning in Prehistoric Times. One of the most cartons traces of primitive belief which have come down to ns is fonnd iu the trepanned skulls which have been discovered in several caves and dolmens of France belonging to the earlier portion of the new stone age. Dr. Paul Broca has devoted a pamphlet to the description of these trepanned sknlls and the discussion cf their significance. The fact is certain that a great number of these skulls were trepanned during lifetime—proba bly in infancy and early youth—and that they healed up again, the subject of the operation surviving it for many years. M. Broca supposes this trepan ning to have constituted a sacred rite of some sort, for we find that the sknlls of these very persons who had under gone the operation in their lifetime were after death subjected again to the same operation. A number of small disks were cut from them in snoh a way that each disk contained a portion of the cicatrized edge made by the original tiepanning. These disk were used as amulets by living persons. Bat the skull thus treated was in its turn pro vided with one of these talismanic disks in place of those which had been cat from itself. From this custom M. Bro ca has argued a belief in the survival of the deed man, and supposed that the disk was placed with the skull to serve as a kind of viaticum into another world. As everything pertaining to the im provement of the methods and paraph ernalia of illumination is at the present time looked npon with special interest, we reproduce, for the benefit of our readers, an account of a recent patent granted in Germany to Herr L. Bran- dan, of Berlin, in which he proposes to utilize the emissive properties of steam for illuminating purposes. In describ ing his plan, the patentee refers to the fact that steam in condensing forms dense white vapors, which possess the property, when exposed to an intense source of light, of partly reflecting and partly absorbing and snbseqaently emit ting it, as the clouds behave toward the sunlight, diffusing a mild and uniform brightness. In adapting his system to overhead and side lights, Herr Brandau employs an apparatus consisting essen tially of a glass chamber into which steam is admitted, on passage way for its exit being also provided. This is then either illuminated directly, or with the aid of mirrors, by the source of light Novel as it may seem, the plan ap pears to us to have decided merit, aud it is not impossible tliat tbe idea of Herr Brandau may contain in it the ele ments necessary for the successful moderation and diffusion of the blind ing brilliancy of the electric light, which has in most situations proved to be a serious drawback to its usefulness. The high absorptive and emissive properties of water vapors, both for heat and light, are well known physical facts ; and the commonplace allusion to the sadden gleam of brightness that follows the es cape of ciouds of steam, especially no ticeable when the- sunlight is hidden, will serve as a familiar example of a principle that Herr Brandau proposes to turn to useful account Getting Taken. The following hints on photography were given to as recently by a renown artist: Too mnoh jewelery should be avoided. It imparls an air of vulgarity; and also a too elaborate arrangement of the hair, which makes the head appear to be all shapes and sizes. The comp lexion mnst be considered for a picture) Blondes can wear lighter colors than (brunettes. The latter will "take” best in dark colors, bnt neither blondes nor brunettes should wear positive white. Violet contrasts of oolorsspoil a picture" unless it is tinted. The best of all dress es for a blonde is black silk. Not cash- mere ot merino, or any mixture of ootton. A good effect is obtained from the shim mer of the silk, which is fall of sub dued yet reflected lights. A dead-black dress without gloss, appears like a blotch, and a dead-white is too flat, like a card-board. A combination of black lace over white is effective and uncom mon, Nothing is better for any type than sealskin or velvet. It gives soft ness and depth of color. ^Blondes suffer most in pictures. They should always powder their hair white. Freckles show more on a photograph than on the human face. They should be disguised for the occasion. In the dressing-rooms of the New York studios, a mixture is kept for this purpose. It is oomposaj of zinc and glycerine, thin ned with rose water to the consistency of cream and applied to the face with a sponge. It is poor taste to become the lay figure of a landscape. It is fatal to the portrait to stand against a back ground of pillars, balustrades, snow storms, woods, waters, or anything that tends to make the figure ridiculous— like those in swings or boats. People would look equally pretty In baby jum pers or balloons. A plain background is better, unless in the case of an actor, when lliusiona are sometimes necessary, A Msamnacai ia bronze ordered tot an English gentleman a -to-k The design represents a Christian ex- ' the gospel to t Saracen; this by two ° —- !

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Cedartown advertiser. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1878-1889, April 05, 1883, Image 1