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She (Edartcwn <jK£, WASHTOCSEmEET, One Door north of Cotton "Wnrehouse. Advertisements inserted at the rate of £1 per square lor first insertion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion: The space,ofoneinch is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to run 'for a longer period than one month. d. b. Freeman. p^iMer. 1 taborun o for the 4^*:—; *- —i- trr . 1 COMMON WEAL. TERMS: $1 50 Per Annum, in Advance. OLD SERIES—YOL. X- NO. 28. CEDARTOWN. GA.. THURSI IAY, AUGUST 9. 1883. NEW SERIES-VOL. Y-NO. 35. Job Printing. THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press »nd Sew Material, „ EMBRACING Type, Bonier, Ornaments, &«., Of the very latest designs, and all orders for Job Work will be executed neatlv. cheaply and promptly. THE BITER OF TIME. Broad, and deep and swift the current Ortime*s rushing tide, Bearing on through sun and shadow, As the season’s glide, Face of friend and foe and lover, On its bosom wide. O the days when light was brightest, Dear, lost days of old! O the love that thrilled our pulses With a joy untold! How their saddened memories only In pur hearts we hold. Hearts that loved us, hopes that cheered us, Voices dear and sweet, Thoughts that perished like the flowers ’Neath our treading feet, • Through our tears we see them drifting With the river’s beat. O our Father, when the passion Of this life is o’er, When the river bears us onward To the farther shore, May we hear again the voices We have lqved of yore! May we find the flowers that withered At an earthly shnne, Blossoming aga n, O Father, At thy touch diviue, Where our lives meet full fruition In that home of thine! Where deep harmonies forever O’er the spirit roll, Where the mocking past shall never Vex the weary soul, And the tired ones loose their burdei.s At the heavenly goal. audibly remarked to her companion that “ something had put the old lady oyt!” Celandine Hall followed more quietly into the large, airy room which was dedicated to the use of the two factory- girls. “Goodness me I” cried Rosalie, with a start, “ what is that strange rustling noise overhead ? Is the house haunt ed Celandine smiled. “I suppose it nothing more serious than rats in the garret!” she said. “Do, Rosalie, hang your waterproof cloak up. instead of throwing it on the floor! There, the noise has ceased now I” Peaxts of the Catskills. A LEAK IN THE ROOF. Mrs. Drayton liad just put the tea kettle over the fire for tea. That bright, cheery New Hampshire kitchen—not even the driving north east rain, which poured in torren's out side, could put a damper on its merry aspect. Close to the window a bulfinch whistled meditatively Tin its cage ot woven wicker boughs^-ijjpomegranate- tree on the other side WM' all sprinkled with scarlet buds, and me very stripes of the rag carpet were suggestive of sunshine and cheerful thoughts. And Mrs.' Drayton herself, one of those plump, motherly, good-natured souls who are bom to make home happy was setting the table with white and blue- edggd cups and saucers that had be longed to her gTand mother before her. The bread was whiter than snow, the apple-sauce was pleasantly flavored with cinnamon, and a freshly baked loaf of “cup cake” occupied the center of the feast. She was reaching up for a little jar of home-made pickles, when a pair of strong arms encircled her wast, and a handsome bearded face appeared"on t 1 e level with her own. “ My goodness gracious 1” said Mrs, Drayton, “how you frightened me But I do think, Harry, you get more harum-scarum every day.” He lifted her lightly to the floor. “Do you want any more eggs, moth er ?” he asked, “there are plenty in the bam I” . “I’ve got enough for to-day,” said Mrs. Drayton, pouring the tiny pickled cucumbers into the,plate. “ Rosalie takes omelets, you know, mischievously suggested the young man. A frown darkened Mrs. Drayton’s face. “Harry,” she said, “you’ve made a mistake 1 ” “Have I, mother deal- ? But you’ll find that I’ve not! ” “ Rosalie Hartley is a selfish, heart less coquette!” cried M'S. Drayton, excitedly. “ Mother, hush 1” said the young man, tenderly putting his hand over her mouth. “She has promised to be my wife.” “Oh, Harry I Harry I”' "‘It is so, mother dear,—and you must learn to love her for my sake. You will soon find how completely you are mistaken in your estimate of her character, and she will be like a daught er to you I ” Mrs. Drayton sat down, still with the pickle-fork in her hard, aud began to cry. Now there was nothing in the wide world that made Harry Drayton feel so uncomfortable as tears. A whole dic tionary full of remonstrances would not have melted him like one of those crystal drops. “Didn’t you say there was a leaky spot over the kitchen chimney, moth er ?” said he. “ If I go up and look at it now I can perhaps see where the trouble is.” And, thus speaking, he hurried away. Mrs. Drayton looked after him with tearful eyes, as she shook her head doubtfully. “There never was a better son,” said she. “ If he had only selected Celandine Hall I” Poor Mrs. Drayton I When she took the tw T o pretty factory-girls to board, just to earn money enough for a new parlor carpet, she had not dreamed that she was setting a trap to catch Harry’s true and loyal heart. To be sure it had once or twice occurred to her mind that little Celandine Hall, with her soft voice and dove-like-eyes and the “handy ways” that she had about the house, would make a very acceptable daugh ter-in-law, but Rasalie Hartley,—the brilliant, saucy brunette with her loud, ringing laugh, her cheap jewelry, her abject following of the latest devices of thefashion-pleies, the subrosa flirtations which she conducted with the foreman of the factory’, the good-looking young miller down town the handsome car riage-maker who was building the big house under Ransom Rock, and her un tidy fashion of leaving Celandine to care for the room which they occupied in common,—all these things were an abomination to her mother-so jl. “ Why is it, she sa d to herself, in a sort of desperation, that sons always select the women for wives that their mothers most dislike ? I’m almost sure that Rosalie paints, although I never could detect her at it,—and there were only three button* on her boots yester day. A real womanly woman is as tidy with her shoes as with her gloves. And Mrs. Jessup told me yesterday that she was flirting disgracefully with Mr. Peckham, that Spaniard-faced foreman at the factoiy. What can Harry possi bly be thinkiug of to trust bis future to the care of such a frivolous creature as this ? ” Even as these reflections passed inco herently through her mind, Rosalie’s shallow laugh echoed in the hall—Miss Hartley had once beeu told that she had a musical laugh, and had ever after lost no opportunity of airing its sweetnessI “Is tea almost ready, Mrs. Drayton?” she asked, putting her. pretty blonde head into the room. “I’m to go out thiB evening,' and we are to be early ?” “It will be ready very boon,” said Mrs. Drayton, so coldly that Rosalie, springing up stairs two steps at a time. Nor was it all strange. For Mr. Harry Drayton, who had contrived to twist and writhe his six feet of humani ty into the merest cranny of space close under the eaves, in search of the leaky spot in the roof, was even then consid ering whether he had better twist him self back again,—an undertaking not quite so easy as it might at first appear, or keep quiet until the girls should have gone down stairs. “They’ll laugh at me,” he thought. “They are always laughing, bless their hearts. I think I’ll preserve my incog nito. It will be only a minute or two before they go down to tea. Rosalie gave a tremendous yawn as she twisted up the yelloW luxuriance of her hair, little recking that her affianc ed lover was seoarated from her only by a frail thickness of lathe and plas ter 1 “How is that Greek knot, Celan dine ?” she asked. “ I want particu larly to have it look nice to-night. Ru dolph likes my hair in the ancient clas sic style.” - “ Rosalie,” said Celandine Hall., gravely, “ does Harry know where you are going to night ? “ “No, you goose*” said Rosalie. “Why should lie ? I shall tell him I am going to a sacred conceit with Polly Wright and her sisters.” ‘But he will want to go with you.” • Then I shall find some pretext to put him off.” “Rosalie,” cried Celandine, “is it right for you to go to a party under Rudolph Feckham’s escort, when you are engaged to Harry Hartley? ” “ You don’t suppose I am going into a nunnery, just because I happen tQ.be engaged ? ” said Rosalie, pertly. 1 “ Rosalie ” began Celandine, in dignantly. “ Now don’t go on lecturing me, said Rosalie, waxing impatiant. “I have promised to marry Harry Drayton, not because I love him, but because I am tired and sick of the drudgery of this endless factory work. Harry Drayton is a country lout—not half so polished and charming as Mr. Peckham —but he’s better than no husband at all. Aud Rudolph will be my lover still, like those dear Platonic creatures in the French novels, because, you know ” At this mament, however, there was sudden crash from overhead. The plaster of the ceiling came down in a limey shower of pieces, Mirectly into Miss Hartley’s rouge-pots, and balm-of- beauty ; and Harry Drayton, who, in the agony of his mind, had writhed him self a little further than 1-e had intend ed, descended most unexpectedly into their midst. Rosalie screamed hysterically. Celan dine looked as if she did not know whether to laugh or cry. Harry Dray ton sat up and rubbed his elbow-joints. •‘I’m sorry to startle you, ladies,” said he ; “ but upon my word, I couldn’t help it.” And then he explained .to them the precise nature of the dilemma in which he had beeu placed. “ I couldn’t go torward on account of the kitchen chimney,” said he; “ and when I tried to hack myself gracefully out, the ceiling gave way arid down I came. And my collar is full of rain from the leak in the roof, and I think I’ve swallowed about a pint of lime- dust.” Rosalie turned first scarlet then white. “You were up theie over our heads,” she said, “ in the garret comer.” He nodded, calmly. “You heard all we said ?” “I am sorry to say—yes,” he answer ed. “ I regret to be considered a ‘country lout,’Miss Hartley, but as I don’t approve of the Platonic system of love and lovers, I must beg to ab dicate in favor of Mr. Peckham ! And now, if you will allow me to retire, I’ll send up little Tim, the cowboy; with a basket and a broom to remove some of this superfluous dust and lime from your floor.” Miss Hartley wept and bewailed her self stormily, but she went with Mr. Peckham to the party, nevertheless,— and Celandine stayed at home to sew buttons on the beauty’s boots. While Harry, as'he unfolded the newspaper which had come by the evening mail, remarked incidentally: “Oh, by the way, mother,—that engagement of mine with-Ttosalie is broken off 1” f Mrs. Drayton’s face lighted up. “Really and trully, Harry?” cried she. Yes, really and truly, mother. I don’t think we should have suited each other at all 1 But don’t you waut to hear how comically it happened ?” And he told her about the leak in the roof. Miss Hartley changed her boarding place the next week,—but little Celan dine remained. And Mrs. Drayton is already beginning to flatter herself that perhaps Celandine may be hei daugh ter-in-law after all. Who knows how love might weave his warp and woof ? Perfectly satisfied. The Catskill or Katzberg mountains, were so named by the Dutch on account of the catamounts with which they were infested. The Indians called them the Ontioras or Mountains of the Sky, by reason of their clond-like ap pearances. Their traditions held that among these peaks was kept the treasury of storms and sunshine for the Hudson valley, guarded by a powerful spirit, who kept day and night impris oned. letting them out one at a time. This spirit made new moons and cut up red ones into stars. These mountains with their dark and wide spreading forests (abounding in those days with a great variety of wild game) were doubt less grand hunting grounds for the In dians. Settlers of the upper Shandakeu valley in the neighborhood of Pine Hill often, while tilling the soil, found flint and arrow heads, etc., which assures us that they freqncnteri that part, and aside from thauTthe scenery aud inter est of the region to-day fully equals the quaintness of the old legion. The -mountains are rugged aud wild, many places of them never yet trodden by the foot of man, full of picturesque beauty. The forests abound in cold and spark ling springs, which wind their way through ravine and meadow toward the Hudson or Delaware, ferns and wild flowers grow on all sides, and the smell of the green moss and foliage, deepened by the dew and borne on the cool air, is delicious. The wildest and most unsettled part of the Catskills are in Ulster county, and in the towns of Shandaken, Uar- denburgh and Denning and surround ing the Slide Mountain, which is the highest of the Catskills. ’ The highest peaks were always said to be in Greene county until the past few years. Measurement has decided the matter differently, and it is now a well knowu fact that the old Slide is the highest peak in the Catskills (being 4,220 feet), and surrounding it the scenery is wild and romantic. Deer and bears are yet to be found in that part of the moun tains, For the past fifty years the eastern face of the Catskills in the neighborhood of the old mountain house and nearest to the Hudson has been a resort for people seeking rest from city cares. At that time the Southern or Shandaken Catskills wery a genuine wilderness, and very little was known of them. Occasionally an artest or sportsman followed up the deep defile of the Esopus Creek, through the Shandaken Valley, and crossed over Pine Hill to the headwaters of the Del aware. Shandaken is an Indian name, the definition being “Swift Water.” and it is quite probable that this valley derives its name from the swift flow of the Esopus. The scenery along its banks is enchanting and cannot be equalled in the Catskills. Trees, Logs and Lumber. Up the Saginaw in a wide region, reached either by the river or its tribu taries, the-great pine saw-log, often thre<} feet in diameter has its birth. Pinf» TlW mnimv thinninrr nut passfs to the furnaces to feed the fires of the engine. There is seen little or no sawdust around the Saginaw lumber mills for the reason that it is all used for the furnace flames; and, in general, the cycle of utilities by which one branch of the great industry is made to feed or supplement another seems as rounded as hnman ingenuity can make it. Sometimes, particularly in the more modern mills, the routine as described is varied by lifting the logs fronrthe river on an endless chain; and a num ber of minor mechanisms fill out the de vices by which the lumber is cut and distributed. One ingenious machine,- working double emery wheels, sharpens, the buzz saws on both sides of the teeth during' a single revolution, and re quires uo attention beyond simply the fastening of the saw upon it and thi unfastening after the work is done Another flattens out, by % clever me chanical expedient, the teeth of the! ... saw, so as to cut a wider rent and pre*‘ vent clogging as the cut becomes deep er ; fmaily, a system of elevated rail roads takes the lumber-ladeu trucks and distributes the boards at the points in the yard or on the wharf whence they are to be shipped. Some addition al conception of the size and importance of the industry may be derived from the fact that the Michigan Central Railroad Company takes away from one station here 100 carloads of lumber tor each day of the working season, to say nothing of the large quantities shipped from the river by the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad line, and even large shipments by the lake barges. Inland Wbalinir. When we made tne landing at the town of Waterproof, Li., the overflow had reacted the second-story windows of all the houses. On the roof of an abandoned grocery sat a ragged darkey in the meal complacent manner, and as the boat swung in a lady passenger, who had exhibited tne greatest curiosity about everything all the wgy down from Vick&knrg, caught the name of the town and hurried forward to the captain ami said: “Captain, they say this town is called Waterproof.” “Yea, ma’m.” “B-.-t the water is all over it, you see. The name is mconsiatert with facts.” ■Oh, they didn't have referenoe to the town itself in oiling it Waterproof,” chuckled the old man. “What they meant was that the water would never reach that nigger on the roof over there.'* ‘ Oh, that's it, eh? Well, that makes it plain, and I don’t believe it will eithetl" she aid as she retained to her chair. —There are 91 cities along ’the line of the Mexican Central haying an ag gregate population of 898,609. Pine forests, n6w rapidly thinning out, once covered several thousand square miles around the headwaters. Enter ing that lumber region in the late au tumn, the lumbermen establish camps, ’round which during the whole winter long the axes resound, the tail trunks fall, and in sections are rolled to the adjacent streams for the spring floods to bear away. Floating down to the main river, the boom men pick out out each owner’s logs as identified by the brand, and gather them inside the booms, which may be curtly described as long tree-trunks chained together at the ends, often inclosing a smooth wat er surface of several acres.. The coves of the Saginaw—called locally bayous, a term borrowed from the Lower Miss issippi—are especially adapted for the gathering and organization of these log armies. The military metaphor, in deed, has peculiar fitness here, for the logs are mustered side by side in com panies, held together by a rope fastened to each log by a device not unlike the domestic clothespin. As these logs down stream are wotked up by the tire less mills, these upper booms are drawn upon for more, until the freezing river finds them quite empty, and another winter comes on to yield its fresh sup ply. But the saw-log’s story becomes most dramatic as it nears the mill and, loos ed from the restraining rope, is steered into the glade of open water that leads up to the wooden slide. Enter now tlie great lumber mill, aud we shall be in at the saw-log’s death. Down the slide on a wooden railroad runs a heavy truck, fitted with two cross lines of heavy iron teeth. With a plunge it dashes below the water, still holding its place on the rails. Then three giant logs are floated above it. At a signal the steam is let on, the machinery re versed, the strong chain holding the trucK tightens, and the truck itself be gins to ascend. The sharp teeth catch the logs, which, in a trice, are lifted dripping from the water, whisked up like twigs 100 feet to the mill, and roll ed off opposite the first set of saws. These saws are two in number; one set below is of the buzz variety, perhaps siz feet in diameter, and cutting, there fore, through a three-foot log; but as this semi-diameter is often insufficient for a big log, a second and smaller buzz placed above and in front of the first, cuts the slice, which otherwise might still hold fast the slab. One of the largest logs weighs a number of tons, and human strength alone would never suffice to turn it after one of its sides has been slabbed. Just here comes in a beautiful piece of powerful mechanism. At the touch of the lever a stout beam, armed with iron teeth, rises by the forest Titan’s side. It snatches the wood, and in less time than words can tell it the log is tumbled over, and the framework, rushing back and forth with amazing speed, has driven the edges of the tree athwart the saws, until the once rough stick stands forth a symmetrical square. Then, in another instant it is shifted below the gang, a set of ordinary up right saws placed an inch apart, and of ten with thirty or even thirty-five blades. Below an ordinary circular planer revolves in front of the gang and smoothes the lower edges of the boards. The immense piece of timber is run through in a few moments, and What was five minutes before a rough tree trunk has .passed into the inch boards of commerce. Nor does the work end here; for the dabs are passed to a new machine, which grasps them On the lake front, Chicago, stands a blue-painted fiat car, on which is a huge skeleton with a ‘ ‘story. ” It is of inter est to all," for it is the skeleton of “the whale.” This was known from Maine to California, and there was some talk at one time of sending his lordship to Europe. Every one knew “the whale,” and it has been gazed upon by millions of people in its day. It belonged to Mr. Fred Englehart, and he organized what he called “the Inland Whaling Company.” This meant his employes, side showmen, ticket sellers, etc. They had another car built, somewhat like a freight caboose, and with bunks, tables, stove, and cooking-place, all in very comfortable shape. Tiiis car was also painted blue, and both had “Inland Whaling Company” on the sides. These two and a baggage and tent car com pleted the train. The whale was stretched out iu flabby shape upon this flat car, and great ropes and chains kept the ‘huge mass or flesh from roll ing off. The attendants had a mixture containing carbolic acid and other dis infectants to pour over his sluny hrown hide, and this operation was continu ally being done while on exhibition. The mass was therefore always moist. When the train struck Chicago, adds the News of that city, which was the headquarters, a side track was built on the hike front, the tent pitched, and the whale on his car was run under the canopy. A little box -office was opened, and that was all. But it was enough. Crowds poured in to see the monster of the deep, and when the deep-voiced talker explained the capture, weight, habits, etc., of the animal stood up like a pigmy beside the whale, every one was well satisfied that lie bad the worth of his quarter in seeing such a curiosity. It was the only one on ex hibition. Now they should visit him at the lake front. All that remains of him is a tew flapping pieces of canvas and rot ting hide, while the frame work, bones, and flesh are gone. In their place is a lot of shavings, old barrels, sticks, dirt, and the frame proves to be of stout hickory, bent into whale shape. These are the bones. The shavings were the flesh. Some quicklime has eaten up considerable hide or skin, but the tail, ah, the tail was genuine, though the rest was a delusion and snare. — - AHalMbcrsIltv.- The aland was given by horsemen galloping about and blowing shrill blasts on a bugle. Crowds pour out. Nobody knows where the fire is; there is no alarm-bell; and the diliberate way in which things go on is a curious contrast to the methods and ways of the Ameri can fireman. ■ ' “It was over half an hour before the crowd got on the right scent. Some one had discovered smoke slowly creep ing out of the upper windowd"and from the tiled roof of a three-story building on the -Hauptstrasse. in the centre of the city; and in due course of time the tidejpfTravel set in the.right direction. Whfn I arrived at the scene of conflag ration, or rather of smoke, I found crowds of spectators, but I could dis cover no signs of any firemen or fire en gines ; neither could I see tout any at tempt was Deing made to get the fire under control. Many of the men and vonicn lud wooden and leather bucte- ets and tin pails in their hands, which they had brought with them, but no one Seemed to know for what use they were intended. Among the few who had not deserted the premises when the smote was discovered, there was evi dently a great consternation. Win dows were thrown open or hurriedly smashed out, and-1 never witnessed be fore such a shower of worldly goods de scending from a burning building. It was the old story over again of people losing their heads, or rather their senses, at a tire. Looking glasses, wash bowls, and pitchers, all varieties of crockery, oil paintings, bric-a-brac, pieces of fur niture, mantel ornaments, etc., were raining down from above on to the pav ed street with as little ceremony or care as they would have been if thrown out of the crater of a volcano. At one of the second story windows, at least a hundred feet from the smoke, I saw two or three men and as many women struggling with an upright piano, which they were endeavoring to force out of a window, but, luckily for the piano and its owner, the opening was too small. Meantime the smoke increased, but no other evidence of flames appeared. Time passed. Mr. Buggies asked an American student if there was no fire organization, and was told there was. “ “ But where are tlie firemen ? Why aren’t they here to put out the fire ?’ “ ‘ Oh, they’ll be here by-and-by; they have gone home to put on their uniforms. They are as particular as if they were going to a dress parade, most of them stop to shave and have their boots blacked.’ “‘And the building on fire all tlie While?’ “‘ To be sure; but you can’t burry them ; they are not afraid of the fire’s spreading or the building’s burning up They are not so used to this kind of business as we are in America; they don’t have the practice.’ “More 'minutes went by, and there was a stir in the mass of beings who were quietly gazing at the smoke and The Yia di S. Ignazio is a short, nar row lane, which leads from the Collegio Romano to the tribune of S. Maria so- pra Minerva, crossing a portion of the ground iormerly occupied by the “Is- . o D eum et Serapeum” of the ninth region. still descending-shower of household I Every time excavations have been made goods from the windows. The crowd on either side of the lane, to build or to opened right and left, like the waters of restore the houses widely line it, -some like a mad bull, his big eyes standing out like those of the giant in the fairy tale.- He smashed out a window with a chair, and, thrusting out his head, screamed wildly to the people. ‘ Mein Gott 1 will neimand mich vetten ? Ich verbrenneheir—wosind meine Freunde? Koinmt doch schnelle!’—which in En glish would be, 1 Mr God ! will nobody save me ? I burn here f—where are my friends ? Come quick !’ Two or three rriends finally rushed up to the man’s chamber, and after a few minutes’ absence appeared with him on the street, all dressed except his hat and coat. I never saw a more happy man than tiiis big, burly German, He boiled over with gratitude to his rescuers, and fairly hugged and kissed them as they led him away to a beer- shop near by. “ By this time two fire-engines had arrived, each of which was securely tied with ropes on a large platform dra^, and drawn by two horses. They Were iidt over five or six feet lopg, and looked like the small machines’ we have in America for sprinkling our gardens and lawns. The chief of the fire de partment again made his appearance in his carriage, and it looked as if the warfare would soon commence against the smoke, which was gradually de creasing in density. "‘ A new difficulty here sprung up. Most of the firemen who first arrived had disappeared and were nowhere to be seen. The chief, however, seemed to comprehend the situation. He call ed two or thieepf his aiils. and gave them directions to go to all the beer shops in the neighborhood and summon the delinquent members of the fire corps to their duty. In due course of time they were mustered together, formed in line like a body of infantry, and their chief with a drawn sword marched up and down the ranks, aud gave each one a critical inspection througn his gold-bowed spectacles. “Apparently satisfied that their uni forms were in good order, and their boots well polished, lie made them a short speech, complimenting them on their fine appearance, and told them not to hesitate or falter in their combat with tlie devouring element of fire which they were expected, as patriots, to subdue. “Part of the speech, during the cheering, I could not understand, but presume he told tiiem that if any should fall while performing their duty, and were obliged to‘give up the ghost’— and their beer—a grateful country would give them a big funeral and see them handsomely buried. He then told them to break ranks aud proceed to business. ” Doc Middleton’s Doing*. Egyptian Discoveries in Rome. Caterpillars. with almost human intelligence, and ad to whatever part of them can be made so become laths. Other machines take the harder woods, ash, elm, or convert them with equal staves, barrel heads or si finally the otberwiasuaelMS The hairy caterpillars are now infest ing the trees, and an eminent entomo logist in New York was recently ask ed: “ Do not the birds eat these caterpil lars ? ” asked the reporter. "No. I know of no bird that will eat them. The sparrows did eat the measuring worms that were so plentiful here a few years ago, and that nuisance has now about disappeared. The pre sent nuisance is what is known as a hairy caterpillar. They multiply very rapidly. I have counted 234 eggs in a space about 11-10 by J inches. Each one of these eggs was capable of becom ing a caterpillar.” “Is there no other insect that preys upon these ? ” “ Yes; there is a sort -of fly, the tachina,.but there are not enough of them. I am satisfied that the only way to save our trees is for the authorities to employ some one to kill them off. Boys could do it. It would require some one to climb the trees and collect the worms and eggs and bum them. “ What is the course of propaga tion ? ” “ First you see this bundle of eggs I have spoken of. They are laid by the females on the cocoons. In about four teen days these eggs are hatched into caterpillars. The caterpillars live upon the soft part of the leaves of the trees. You may see plenty of trees now with out a whole leaf. Then the trees in time die of lung complaint, for the leaves are their lungs. Each caterpil lar will eat say twelve or fourteen times its weight of leaves, until it gets to be about an inch and a tenth long. Each caterpillar discharges its skin about four times before it gets its growth. It then weaves its cocoon of silk and the hair of its own body, and then under goes its change to the chrysalis state and becomes a moth. “ The species is well known to ento mologists,” continued Mr. Edwards. “It is indigenous to this country, and has been known ever since entomology was studied here. It was described by Abbott and Smith in 1892-4 among the lepidopterous insects of Georgia. You may imagine how rapid must, be their increase when one insect lays 234 eggs. Fortunately, the rain kills many, and other causes intervene to keep down the supply. I was glad to ype that the voraeioas insects spared the tnlip trees. “ The destruction of our city trees is pitiful, and some decisive action is need 8s further progress, gry these caterpillars and, apple trees, and the they may jet be numer- to get tote that sort of busi- be mlhcient to stir up some wtttrn to prevent it" the ffed Sea n a particular occasion, and iit'the open passage appeared a fine carriage drawn by two spirited horses. Lying back at his ease on the back seat was evidently a military officer of some high rank. He was in full uniform, even to his sword, spiked helmet cap, and-the inevitable goid-bowed specta cles. I sawS>y tlie sensation liis arrival had created that the was some distin guished General. I asked a German near, me if it was the Crown Prince Bislbarck, or Von Moltke, but the man stared at me with astonishment through his spectacles, and .that it was neither; it was Herr IVeisengarten, or some sucli name, the Freiwillige Feuenvelier, which meant that he was the chief of lira department “ The great official slowly got out of his carriage, and, after carefully adjust ing his spectacles, took a long stare at the building from which the smoke was issuing. Then he approached a little nearer and took another stare. Evident ly not satisfied that it was smoke, he went over to the right of the bnilding, and gazed long and earnestly at tlie roof and windows; then he moved a distance to the left, for another view. The scene reminded me of the story of tlie bluejav in Mark Twain’s ‘ Tramp Abroad,’ where the inquisitive bird was so nonplussed at the disappearance of the acorns down the knot-hole. “As soon as the man became satis fied at •something or other he went back to his carriage and rode away. I inquired where he had gone, and was told that, having become convinced that there was actually a fire, he had started to order out the fire engines. The firemen now began to make their appearance in squads of twos and threes and half dozens. They were all in gay uniforms, similar to that .worn by their Chief, only not so rich. Handsome swords dangled by their sides, and their brass helmet caps glistened in the sun light No engines had yet arrived, nor 'was there any evidence that the fire buckets were to be brought into requi sition. - Several Amerlcanstudents were getting excited, or rather mad, over the .slowness with which everything is done. One of them proposed that they should run through the streets, giving the Alarm m American style, and see if it would not hurry up the engines. It was no soOner proposed than off they started on a run. At the end of two three blocks they commenced screaming at the top of their voices, feuer! feuer! which in English means fire, and pronounced the same. I heard the familiar alarm echoing through the streets for several minutes and then it stopped suddenly. There was an omi nous silence. I did not see the students again that day. I heard during the af ternoon that they hae been arrested by the police and locked up tor creat ing a disturbance in the streets. They won’t undertake again to give an alarm of fire in a foreign city. “While this little incident was trans piring, the attention of the crowd, who were still idly gazing at the building from a safe distance, was attracted bv a fresh horror, but one of a most ridi culous nature. An immense German, of Daniel Lambert proportions, sudden ly appeared in his night shirt at a bay window on the first floor—far removed from any possibility of Are, frantically screaming for lieH He had evidently over-slept himself from the effects of a keg of beer drank the previous evening, when the unusual noise in the street— it was about 11 o’clock in the forenoon —suddenly awoke him. With a clear head he would have quietly dressed himself and walked down one short flight of stairs into the street; but in bis sudden fright he imagined the buflfi- beautifui specimens of Egyptian work manship have been brought to light. Considering that no excavations have ever been made underneath the public ground, and considering there was no reason why, in the very centre of such promising land, other relics of the fa mous sanctuary should not exist, I asked the Archaeological Municipal Commission to try the experiment, and my proposal was accepted at once. The works began on Monday, tlie 11th of July—hard and difficult works, because we had to dig to a depth of twenty feet between houses of doubtful solidity, propping everything on ever}’ side! First to appear, at tlie end of the third day, was a magnificent sphinx, in black basalt, the portrait of King Amasis. It Is a chef d'oeuvre of the Saltic period, brought to perfection in tlie smallest details, and still more interesting for its lustorieal connection with tlie con quest of Egypt by Cambyses. The car- touches bearing tlie King’s name ap pear to have been hammered, although not so completely as to render it unin telligible. The nose, likewise, and the ureus, the symbol of royalty, were in jured at the same time. Tlie explana tion of such circumsiauces is given by Herodotus. When Cambyses occupied Sais, Amasis had just been buried. The conqueror caused tlie body to be removed from the tomb, to be flogged and otherwise insidted, and finally to be burned, the maximum of profanation from an Egyptian point of view. His name was erased from the monuments which bore it, a natural consequence of the “memorial daiuuatio.” This sphinx is the surviving testimonial of tnat eventful catastrophe. When, six or seven centuries later, a Roman Gov ernor of Egypt, or a Roman merchant from the same Province, singled out this work ot art to lie shipped over to Rome as a votive ode ring to the Iseum Campeuse, ignorant of the historic value of its mutiiatious, he had the nose and tlie ureus carefully restored. Now both are gone again; there is no danger of a second restoration, I may remark, as a curious coincidence, that, as the name of Amasis is erased from the sphinx, so the name of Hophries, his predecessor, is erased from the obe lisk of Minerva, found in the same Iseum. In these two monuments we possess a synopsis of Egyptian history between 595 and 520 B. C. The second work, discovered on June 17, is an obelisk of red granite, in scribed with hieroghyphics. The lower portion only appears on the side of the trench, and we are still anxious to ascertain whether it is broken or not. If the monolith is entire it will be of the same size as the one in tlie Piazza della Rotondo. Tlie cartouches show tlie name of Rainses II, the Sesostris of the Greeks. We thougilt at first that the obelisk, like that of the Pan theon, was a Roman imitation; but Professor Schiaparelli, the eminent Egyptologist, who came over from Florence at tlie first notice of these extraordinary findings, considers it to be an orignal work, which would be long accordingly to the fourteenth century before the Christian era. Doc Middleton, whose exploits as a highwayman, brigand and desperado are a part of the early history of Colo rado, Wyoming and Nebraska, who has been serving a five years’ sentence in the penitentiary for stealing cattle m the North Park, was discharged from that institution lately, and imme diate boarded the east-bound train. He informed the prison officials that he was going to a new country where the name of Middleton was unknown, and where he would have an opportu nity of leading a new life among stran gers. During his long imprisonment he behaved himself like a man, and conformed himself to the rules of the prison to the letter, not receiving one black mark. A few days ago before his discharge, while at. work in one of the shops of the prison, and intently reflecting on the few days nure of prison life, he put his fingers too near tlie buzz saw. cutting it off. The prison physician attended to the finger, and the next day Middleton reported to the warden that he was ready for some light work. He was told that he might go into the hospital for repairs, if he chose; but he answered that his service belonged to the State and he was ready to put in the time faithfully. During tlie early days of the Black Hills excitement Doc and his gang operated on the road between Cheyenne aud Deadwood City, at times varying the business of robbing stage coaches by stealing cattle. Once .he was cap tured and tried by a crowd of cowboys and sentenced to be hanged. His arms and legs were bound, and he was mounted on a horse and driven under a limb of a large tree, from which a rope hung. A noose was made and tied under his neck and the horse driven away, leaving Middleton suspended in mid-air. Two of the members of his gang happened to be in the neighbor hood, and after the cowboys had ridden away they cut Doc down, and after two hours’ hard work resuscitated him. For several years after the occurrence it was claimed that Doc’s ghost haunted the territory, and innumerable stories were written of its exploits. One night the ghost attacked a stage coach, and one of tlie more courageous passengers shot at and wounded the ghost, which proved to be the veritable Middleton masquerading in the guise of a ghost and carrying on his usual avocations. During tlie early part of the year 1875 Middleton and a pal planned and exe cuted ahold bank robbery at Deadwood City, which was for a long time laid at tlie door of the James gang) and Pinkerton’s detectives spent thousands of dollars hunting them, while Middle- ton with his swag remained quietly Deadwood laughing in his sleeve. . NEWS IN BRIEF. —Even dynamite is adulterated. —Portions of Greenland are sinking. —Freight cars are now built to carry 40,000 pounds. —Detroit has a balance of $556,450.71 in her treasury. —The females outnumber the males in Alabama 17,247. —Dublin castle was built early in the thirteenth century. -—Coffee houses in Boston are prov ing very profitable. . —Si* thousand Americans are resid ing in Paris at present. —There are reported to be 70,000 lawyers in this country. —They swarm bees with a tin pan irf Lynchburg, Va., streets. —There are 23.000 acres of water melons in Burke county, Ga, —San Antonia, Texas, is to have a $16,000 -home for fallen women. —Mme. Gerster and her husband, Dr. Gardini, have sailed for Europe, —Tlie Palace hotel in San Francisco cost $4,250,000, including the ground. —Tlie California wheat crop for this year is estimated at 56,950,000 bushels. —Florida has 630 factories, employ ing 2749 hands and about $1,680,000 in capital. ot burning cinders “ His fright was terrible to behold, I could see him tearing around the room Southwest Savagos. Of the 40,000 Indians located on reset vatirras in the Southwest, the Navsjoes numbering 15,000, have become largely civilized. Their possessions in horses, cattle and sheep are great and valuable. lh;s tribe is nearly self-support ing, and a few years will be no burden to the Gov ernment. While still holding the tribal relation, their system Of internal govern ment is exact and^ust, and for the good of a'L Only occasfo-ially do the younger bucks ally themselves with the predatory Indians and go on the warpath. Essen tially the Navajoes are good Indians, how ever strange this anomaly may seem. The Zuus, a small hand of ancient stock, closely allied to the i ztces in many of their peculiarities, are found on a reserva tion in the middle western portion of New Mexico. They have many interesting characteristics ss a tribe, but some of their customs are even more barbarous than esthetic. Their moon dance, at which time the young men are received into the brother hood of warriors, is an orgie of a most heathenish nature. During the latter part of the month of March of each year all the tribe are assembled at once place, guards are thrown out on all sides, and no white man or Indian belonging to other tribes is admitted within the festive circle. Around a huge fire blazing high they dance and sing m unrestrained merriment under the mellow influence of mescal, a fiery whisky distilled trom the cams. At about mid night the young men who are to receive the honors of warriorhood, and thereafter to be be known as braves, if they success fully undergo the ordeal @f initiation,come into the circle dressed in the uniform of a Patsgoniaa chief, less the nose rirg and nbbon. With keen-edged knives they make two vertical slits in the flesh on cither breast, and having fastened there to a lariat of raw hide about thirty feet in length, which is held at the other end by a stake set firmly in the ground, they begin the wildest incantations, moving to and fro in skipping and dancing attitudes, while the warriors are indulging themselves in the innocent amusement of hurliDg the toma hawk, sharp pointed knives and other missiles of sporting barbaric ingenuity at the novitiates, who in the wild delirum of stolid heroism must endure their fiendish suffering until the flesh breaks away and releases them from the cruel thongs. Their ceremonies are now inaugurated for duration of seven days, when all the tribe ap|iear, from the oldest to the youngest, only dressed in nature’s primitive garb. Their practices in the succeeding festivi ties are so hideus it is revolting to think of them. And these Indians, too, are wards of the Government. Crops In the Went. The condition of wheat in Indiana on July 1, was 68 per cent., in Ohio 68, and in Illinois 52. The area of corn in Indiana was 101 per cent., in Ohio 104, in Illinois 104. The condition of com in Indiana was 84, in Ohio 83, and in Illinois 85. There is a full acreage of oats. The condition of the crop in Indiana was 97 per cent., in Ohio 102, and in Illinois 99. Live stock is in —Ninety-three thousand acres of land were planted with timber in Kan sas last year. —The area of Russia in Europe is nearly 35 times that of the state of Pennsylvania. —Ninety-nine thousand shad were caught in the Delaware during the sea son just closed. —The silk product in the United States in 1880 amounted to more than $41,000,000. —The Indians of Alaska are sup posed to be an offshoot from the Japa nese or Coreans. —Mr. Froude lias written an article on Martin Luther for one of the Eng lish monthly reviews. Of the total fires in Michigan last year, more than one-fourth were caused by defective chimneys. —Vincennes, Indiana, has a batter dish factory which turns out 80,030 to 90,000 dishes per day. The graduating expenses of the last class at the Vassar College were about $400 for each girl. —Priests aud religious teachers hare been expelled from 136 schools at Paris ' during the last three years. —Nearly one-third of the population of the United States is foreign born, or foreign in the second degree. —With a bonded debt of over 1,000,000 Louisville has voted to ex pend $1,500^)00 on its streets. ■North Carolina has many tulip trees more than 100 feet high, and mea suring 30 feeriaround the base: —The orange business is in danger of being overdone. Trees are h«in<r planted all along the Mississippi coast. —George Washington’s grand nephew, Dr. Lawrence Washington, is railing a farm and orchard in Texas. —Oscar Wilde’s agent says that Os car is at least $30,000 richer than he was when he first landed in New York. The German army is at the present time distributed over 304 garrisons, 39 of which have an effective of over 2,000 —Tlie Suez Canal is to be enlarged and improved at an expense of $4,000,- 000. Tlie work will-, occupy several years. —Ex-Vice President Wheeler has offered to give $10,000 toward a new Congregational Church in Matone. N. Y. —Gounod, the composer, lives in a monastic-looking structure, in Paris, but the interior of his home is beauti ful in appointments, decorations, etc. —To her natural productions of or anges and aligators Florida is adding the cocanut, 50,000 trees of this species having been planted during the present ason. —Since its commencement the New York society for the prevention of cru elty to children lias entertained over 11,000 cases, involving over 100,000 children. A Yard of Beard. good condition. The hay and flax crops are above 90 per cent. The ing above and around him was a mass Parmer, on the basis of these and of scattering reports from other States, Is the wheat crop of 1883 at OOObus^tat Charles Peterman, a farmer living just outside the city, states the Kansas City Times, has probably the longest beard possessed by any man in that place or vicinity. He is rather a short man and the heard, which is over three feet in length, falls below his knees. But few people would notice anything peculiar about his appearance, because he keeps this hirsute appendage tied up in curl papers and hid away within his vest. In addition to its length, the beard, which covers almost the entire face, is very thick, and is surmounted by an immense mustache. “How long have you been growing that beard?” be was asked. “Oh, this is only a seven years’ jrowth. I have bad it nearly as long Wore, but it was so inconvenient that I cut it off. Its length now is dne to my friends, who insist upon seeing bow long it will grow. My wife puts it up in papers every morning as religiously as she puts up her own bair. ” “Any other members of the family affected in the same way ?” I have six brothers and nine sistere, all, except one brother, living in Ger many. All my brothers have extraor dinarily long hair. My .brother living in this country is in Vermillion County, Ill. His beard is a pure blonde, and is fully as long as mine, which, you see. is black. My brother’s head,” contin ued Mr. Peterman, “was as destitute of hair in manhood as a billiard boll.” •The largest city in the world is London. Its population numbers 3,- 020,871 souls. New York, withapopu- lation of about 1,250,000, comes fifth in the list of great cities. —The express trains between Paris and Constantinople, inaugurated on the 5th inst., consume about four days and four nights in the trip between the two points. The fare is $90. —The largest suspension bridge would- appear to be the one between New York and Brooklyn. The length of the main span is 1,595 ft. 6 in., tbs entire length of the bridge 8,989 feet. —Tlie largest island in the world, which is also regarded as a continent, is Australia. It is 2,500 miles in length from east to west, and measures 1,950 miles from north to south. Its area is 984,287 square miles. —During last year tlie number of persons killed by being run over or knocked down by vehicles in the streets of Paris was 103, besides whom there were 1084 who in their injuries required the aid of the Police. —Ex-Governor Leland Stanford has placed in his San Francisco home the art collections purchased by him in Europe last year, comprising 30 pieces of statuary and 181 oil paintings and water colors. —A marked increase in ‘the sale of etchings and a corresponding falling off in that of engravings is reported by dealers in prints. The visit of Seymour Haden to this country last winter, and the effect of his lectures and exhibi tions, brought this about, it is said. A mechanic of Paterson, N. J., is building an experimental 16-foot long propeller boat, with a new ale-cask for her boiler, the fire being placed on top instead of in the usual place. As the builder is employed in a Paterson loco motive works, and is not a “crank,” the result will be watched with inter est. —The British and Foreign Bible So ciety continues to be remarkably pros perous. Since its organization it has circulated 91,000,000 copies of the Scriptures in 248 languages and dia lects. The Earl iff Shaftesbury, who is in great demand as Chairman in May anniversaries, is President of the so ciety.