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SO GOES THE WOBlD.
The eagle plucks the raven,
And the raven plucks the jay,
To whose voracious craving
The cricket falls a prey.
The big fish dine at leisure,
Upon the smaller fry,
Ana the minnow eats with pleasure
The poor unoonscious fly.
The miser skins his neighbor,
The neighbor skins the poor,
And the. poor man doomed to labor
Spurns the beggar from his door.
And thus the world Is preying,
The strong upon the weak,
Despite the precious saying:
“The earth is for the meek.”
SECRET OF A LARCH-TREE.
A lady, young, beaut ful, blonde,
sparkled with diamonds as she danced,
herself the magnet of all eyes, amidst
the music, light, and revelry of the
August night at Silver Spring. Dia-
. monds twinkled in the fair hair, poised
there as a butterfly; diamonds trembled
like dewdrops about the snowy throat,
and formed a blazing pendant medallion
amidst the flowers of the satin corsage;
diamonds flashed in the tiny ears and
on pach dimpled wrist.
“Professor Horton, do you see the
lady with the diamonds?” inquired tne
' Colonel, with his soft, good-natured
laugh.
“Yes, I see her. What then?
torted the Professor, grimly.
“Oh, nothing at all, only the Silver
Spring will be regarded as a fashion
able resort, what with the new Belle
vue Hotel and such guests. Next
year we will he able to hold up our
heads with Saratoga and Newport, if
we can add a race-course and club
house, sir.” Here the Colonel rubbed
his bands together with a gesture which
has become traditional with the hotel
proprietor of all ages.
The face of Professor Horton was
lean, sallow and dolorous, on the con
trary, and was clouded by the discon
tent of one who lias a grievance to lay
at the door of circumstances.
He retorted, sharply, “Mrs. Delaunay
is the name, eh? Are the diamonds
real?”
“Beall They are of the purest
water, and cost seventy-five thousand
dollars, X am told. She was an heir
ess, you know, and when she married
last year, the accumulated interest of
her minority was invested in 'these
jewels.” Such was the Colonel’s glib
explanation.
“Who is her partner?” pursued the
Professor.
“Oh, the French Marquis de Ratti.
They say lie followed Mrs. Delaunay
here, after being all about in society
at New York and Washington last
winter. ”
“I do not believe in foreign noble
men,” grumbled the Professor, “They
prove to be valets and barbers more
often than not. He looks more like a
prize-fighter than a gentleman; but
perhaps the prize-fighting, element is
the highest element of bipod -among
the nobility,” mused the republican
spectator, “numplil I should not
care to meet him oii^ a dark night.
He might crack my slsull like an ei
sell betweer finger and thumb. Oh,
the customs of fashion. That young
husband, leaning against the wail,
permits the Marquis to waltz with his
wife, instead of knocking him down
for his impudence.”
At this moment a pretty girl ap
peared behind the professor and the
landlord, with round, fair face and
hair meekly brushed back from the
temples, and ingenious blue eyes. The
pretty girl smoothed her neat apron
and lowered her eyes demurely as she
demanded, in the softest of voices, “if
you please, sir, may I have my tea?
“Mrs. Delaunay’s English maid,
Alice,” explained the Colonel, when he
had granted the request.
Why did Professor Horton follow the
English maid, so young, so gentett, so
demure, with his eye? He could not
tell. He saw lier pause outside an
other window, where the Marquis de
Ratti was taking the air, the dance
being over, and it seemed to the ob
server that the two exchanged a glance,
a smile, a signal, before the girl dis
appeared around the comer of the
house.
“We only lack the gallantries of
noblemen anil ladles’-maids to complete
the ruin of our Silver Spring,” mut
tered this stern moralist, whose ideas
wese so old-fashioned. He sought his
own chamber gloomily, for in addition
to perturbation of mind, owing to hav
ing his sylvan retreat invaded by the
Philistines of fashion, he was literally
broken by bodily fatigue. He had
rambled many miles that day, botan
izing in the valleys, and seeking geo
logical specimens on adjacent hills.
His shoes wore dusty, liis raiment
brier-tom, his loose sack-coat freighted
with the “rubbish” precious to the sa
vant in the wide external pockets,
while rheumatic twinges in knee and
back reminded him that he was no
longer young, thereby increasing his
exasperation. Then to return to a
hotel where all the world whs dancing,
and one woman was decked like an
idol with seveuty-five thousand dollars’
worth of diamonds. The Professor’s
cup of bitterness brimmed over at
these reflections. The room was stif-
flingly hot, but he lighted his lamp,
and forced himself to read an extract
from Dr. Dollinger, while moths blun
dered about the flame, frying them
selves to a condition of unpleasant
crispness, and mosquitoes stung Lis
temples. His watch marked midnight,
and still the movement of the ball-room
and the twang of musical instruments
reached his ear, precluding the possi
bilities of sleep.
“Squeak, squeak, fiddles! Boom
away, bass viols! Keep it up till morn
ing, by all means. I wonder if that is
the music of the future? Ahl” Here
the listener clinched his teeth, with a
diabolical expression of countenance,
as the violins shudder over his nerv
ous system, snatched up his broad felt
bat, and strode out of doors, actuated
by the impule of escape.
"The night was sultry and oppressive.
The Professor breathed a sigh of re
lief as he quitted the vicinity of the
hotel, which sparkled with many lights
through the trees like an ogre’s eye.
Darkness and the obscurity of the
shrubbery welcomed him abroad at
this unusual hour. He strolled about
the gravel paths, farming himself with
his hat, and paused beneath the pro
jecting roof ot the ornamented kiosque
of the Silver Spring.
“There will be a thunder storm be
fore morning,” soliloquized the Fro-
feseor, replacing his hat.
All was deliciously still here, and far
Jjelow, guarded by the encircling basin,
bubbled the Silver Spring, cool and
limpid source of health, as the Profes
sor firmly believed. Had not the
nymph of the fountain spread her
wings in startled flight in the disas
trous change from rural tranquility to
a fashionable resort? The Professor
leaned on the parapet, and peered into
the crystal depths of the spring, musing
in this vein. As he did so he perceived
two persons advancing from opposite
directions to meet a few yards distant
from himself. They proved to be a
man and a woman, and they scarcely
paused before separating again with
the same rapidity of movement as they
had met.
Wait for me.” said the woman. “I
shall have to manage, to get away at
all.”
I will wait till morning,” replied
the man.
“She is sure to dance tc the very
last, you know,” added the woman.
“Don’t lose, your head, that’s'all,”
admonished the man.
“I lose my head, indeed!” retorted
the woman, whose voice and hearing
were youthful.
The Professor moved slowly away,
scarcely heeding these words wafted to
his ear by a passing breeze. At an an
gle of the rath was a rustic bench be
neath a larch-tree, known as Professor
Horton’s favorite seat. Hither he
directed his steps in an irritated mood,
and sank down on it in sheer weari
ness. The scent of flowers reached
him, while the foliage seemed to spread
above him “fragrant robesof darkness. ”
Grateful repose succeeded noise and
light, lulling all his senses to soft obliv
ion; he fell asleep.
He was awakened by a terrific peal
of thunder, and opened his eyes with a
bewildering uncertainty as to surround
ing objects. The trees swayed wildly
in the rising wind; a few large drops of
rain fell heavily among the leaves;
lightning quivered on the horizon.
Suddenly a female form bent over him.
some small object was thrust into his
hand, and a voiee whispered in his ear:
“I am early. She had a headache.
QuickI take them, or I shall be missed.
The thunder rolled, the trees swayed,
the woman vanished. Professor Hor
ton winked several times, and opened
his mouth to speak, then closed his lips
without a sound. The object thus
unexpectedly consigned to his care was
a small leather bag, scarcely more
than a tobacco pouch, and heavy.
Mechanical!^ he thrust it into one of
the wide pockets of his loose coat.
Harkl A heavy footstep crushed the
gravel on the patcli to the right. The
professor rose to his own feet as if
moved by a spring, his knees shook,
his teeth chattered, a deadly fear
smote him.
Fear of what, evil? He did not know.
To shrink to the left, gam the next
clump of shrubbery, aud conceal him
self, was the work of a moment, and
accomplished with the more ease that
he knew every inch of ground from
long familiarity. Had he not planted
many of these trees which now proved
frjends? The hiding place gained was
a larch surrounded by stiff little Japa
nese cedars, and forming a sort of
labarynth. Scarcely had the Professor
glided into this shelter than a vivid
sheet of lightning illuminated the whole
country side. He saw himself seated
on the rustic bench beneath the larch-
treel He could not believe the evi
dence of his own senses; the breath
remained suspended on his lips. Had
he been a devout Catholic he would
have crossed himself, invoking the
protection of a calendar of saints; a
chill of superstitious dread certainly
stagnated his blood. Was he to be
lieve that liis hour had cornel There
sat his own image on the rustic bench,
the soft felt hat pulled down over the
brow, the broad shoulders, the slouch
ing nondescript attire; nothing was
lacking to complete the resemblance.
Was he still asleep, victim of . night
mare, or had he gone mad? He
pinched his flesh and rubbed his eyes
violently. The figure under the larch-
tree did not vanish. Swift realization
of the truth dawued on the drowsy
scholar. He was alone, at a distance
from the now silent hotel, and he had
in his pocket a bag which belonged to
the other. What if this unknown had
found him still on the bench? What if
he emerged now, accosted the stranger,
and gave him the bag?
‘I should be murdered as sure as
there is a heaven above us,” shuddered
the man of letters, with a conviction
for which he could give no reason.
At this junction the wind freshened,
and the rain fell in torrents, while the
lightning became less frequent. Pro
fessor Horton quitted the larch-tree,
reached the hotel with surprising agil
ity, found a window of the recent
ball-room unfastened, groped his way
through that deserted apartment and
gained his own chamber. The bag
was gone. He had lost it from the
wide pocket, probably in his fight. His
watch marked two o’clock. The Pro
fessor extinguished the candle, opened
the shutters of the window, aud seated
himstlf with his eyes fixed on the
eastern horizon. He was a prey to the
most exciting emotions.
Professor Horton was the first votary
of the Silver Spring, abroad next morn
ing. If he was feverish and haggard,
with a stealthy, even furtive aspect,
the boy at the fountain did not notice
the circumstance. Always an early
riser, the Professor sipped a glass of
the sparkling water, and then walked
along the upper paths of the grounds.
Cautiously he skirte < the rustic seat
beneath the larch-tree, and approached
the larch. A short, dry laugh of tri
umph escaped the lips of the usually
undemonstrative student. A leather
bag, half pouch, lay, concealed by the
long grass, beneath the spreading
boughs. The larch-tree had kept its
secret well. The bag remained where
it had fallen from the Professor’s wide
pocket. He clutched it, returned to
to his room, and proceeded to investi
gate the contents. The little hag held
the Delaunay diamonds. Necklace,
bracelet, butterfly ornament—nothing
was lacking in this precious heap swept
hastily from cumbersome case and
casket.
Five minutes later the rosy landlord
was seized by the collar, dragged into
his private office, and confronted by
Professor Horton, whose agitation
verged on sheer lunacy. The latter
took from his pocket a little bag, and
poured out the Delaunay diamonds,
telling a wild and incoherent tale,
meanwhile about a larch-tree and mid
night rambles.
“Nobody would believe it, you
know,” said the Colonel, coolly. The
hotel proprietor is never surprised in
this world.
“Take the trinkets, and restore them
in your own way. Do not mention me
in this transaction,” retorted the Pro
fessor. He stooped and plunged his
fingers once more in the rainbow of
precious stones with a sort of intoxica
tion; the starry rays of rose and blue
dazzled, blinded him. “Beautiful and
fatal gift to man!” he murmured, with
parched lips.
The Colonel closed one eye. with the
aspect of a sagacious bird.
Professor Horton sought his bed,,
and slept Heavily until 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. He was awakened by
voices, and peered through the shut
ters of his window. A carriage waited
to take the Delaunay party to the
steamboat on the lake. Mr. and Mrs.
Delaunay were already seated, while
Alice, the maid, had paused to reply
to the head waiter, after which she
re-entered the hotel. At this moment
Professor Horton’s door was opened,
and the Colonel entered with the
bouncing swiftness of moment peculiar
to fat men in haste. If the conduct of
the Professor had been extraordinary
in the morning when he had restored
the jewels, that of the Colonel was not
less so in the afternoon. He locked
the door, made a warning gesture to
the Professor, and stole on tiptoe to a
second door at the extremity of the
large room, wliere he lay down on the
floor and applied eye and ear to the
crack. Voices became audible in the
adjoming. chamber.
“I was there at one o’clock, and gave
it to you,” said a woman.
“A lie! I waited all night, and you
did not come,” said a man.
“I gave it to a person under the tree,
and he took it,” gasped the woman.
“Fool! Then the game is up. Get
yourself dismissed at Newport, and cut
to New York. If I believed you "were
tricky, my girl, it would be the worse
for you.”
“There was a sound of footsteps, and
immediately afterward the Delaunay
carriage rolled away.
The Colonel rose to his feet, chuck
ling at the success of his stratagem.
“Set a thief — ahem—I mean a
woman to catch a woman. My wife
thought of having the English maid
sent back in search of the missing bag,
in order to give her a chance to com
municate with her accomplice m the
hotel, if she had one. The bag was
dropped in the empty room next to
you, for the purpose, and a man joined
her there. Your story is amply cor
roborated, you see, by the few words
exchanged.”
I believe the Marquis de Ratti is
the accomplice, and no more a French
man than you are,” exclaimed the
Professor.
So do I; but how to prove it?” re
joined the Colonel.
“You should have them arrested,'”
urged tiie Professor.
What is the charge? Your advent
ures of the night? The noble Marquis
is caught whispering with a pretty girl?
No, no; I gave back the diamonds to
Mr. Delaunay—with a suitable expla
nation—and lie has carried them away
in a money belt. We alone know the
truth.”
“And the larch-treos,added 'Hie
Professor. “It was the noble larch-
tree that kept the secret, my friend.
Well, well, I hope you are pleased with
the fashionable elements attracted to
our Silver Spriug. Doubtless the Mar
quis de Ratti and the demure English
maid Alice belong to one of those hands
of English thieves who are said to keep
a map of country-seats with reference
to the plate chest, and are now trying
their fortune in America. How beau
tiful they were—those diamondsl”
The Marquis de Ratti departed by
the nine o’clock boat that same evening.
His foreign accent was never more
apparent than when he took leave of
Silver Spring.
Two Electric Freaks.
A most extraordinary instance of an
electrical fog is mentioned by Mr.
Crosse, of Bromfield, England. This
gentleman, for the purpose of studying
atmospheric electricity, liad a long wire
extending from tree to tree in his park.
The wire being perfectly insulated con
veyed the atmospheric electricity to the
room of the observer, where one end
terminated in an insulated brass ball,
near which was a second ball connected
with the ground. Mr. Crosse’s account
is as follows : “ On a dark November
day I was sitting in my electrical room,
during a very dense fog and rain which
had lasted many hours accompanied by
a strong south-west wind. I had at
this time 1,000 feet of insulated wire,
which crossing two small valleys
brought the electric fluid to my room.
From about 8 o’clock in the morning to
4 in the afternoon the wire gave no
sign of electricity. About 4 o’clock,
while reading, 1 suddenly beard a very
strong explosion between the two balls,
which was an inch apart. Shortly, the
explosion became more frequent, until
there was one uninterrupted stream of
discharges, which gradually died away
aud then recommenced with the opposite
electricity in equal violence. The
stream of fire waf too vivid to look upon
for any leugth of time, and the discharge
continued for five hours without any
intermission and then ceased entirely.
The least contact with the conductor
would have occasioned instant death ;
the stream of fluid far exceeding any
thing I have ever witnessed, except
during a thunderstorm.”
An extraordinary display of atmos-
pheriec electricity, in connection witli
telegraphic lines, which may fairly be
attributed to the prevalence of a snow
storm, was observed some years ago on
our western plains, and is thus told by
a writer in the Hartford Times: “ It
was first noticed on the telegraphic
wires in central Iowa. The lines, lead
ing west, were rendered useless for the
transmission of messages, owing to an
incessant discharge of electricity, in
creasing in intensity until it would leap
from one strap in a luminous stream to
the ground-plate of the lightning-ar
rester. At times the whole brass-work
of tlio switch-board would appear as a
mass of flame, illuminating the office
with a blinding glare. For several
hours previous, and for some time after
the electric discharges, a south-west
wind was blowing at the rate of thirty-
five miles an hour, accompanied by
light snow, with the thermometer at
5° F. This display took place within
the region having Minnesota on the
north, Detroit on the east, southern
Iowa on the south, and Omaha on the
west. It was observed by many tele
graph operators, who all united in say
ing that its effects were entirely dif
ferent from those experienced during
ordinary auroral storms. Where a
number of wires were on the same pole
one would be highly charged with
electricity and the others but slightly
or not at all. During the remarkable
electric phenomena that occurred on
Melons for Chills.
street Lite in Naples.
Barbering at Home.
write, in relation to | The horrors of the st t
cmUs; Some years aeo I was in a mm- n f v-»nlp<* haw ?
ing town in California during the melon on b y DbilantliroDists ami
se^on. As melons and fruits gener- ZreVue“Sy a^aruK
ally had to be hauled m wagons a dist- »^ n pvnlpnt Italian nmfi aQ Ar
ance of some twenty miles, I could not his e^rieDc^ ^n^n T
procure them with the usual regularity. p resence . Amid the accumulate?mtoe!
I would have a chill. Sureenough, one w “mI'T"’ 3
dav while en<nuwl j n ■> mine r ™ - v antl a S IrI > sle I ,t m a damp and
- y with a ve^^-ere chill I spread no '*° me cella [’ *> mfested by rats that
the sun w th airthe coa J^at a . large Stone , had to 1x5 ke P fc reaeh at
« al1 a -S? 18 tna J night to repel their approaches. The
be gathered around piled on, but nrinciual sustenance of the fcimilv
taken with a very severe chill. I spread
out in"
of coarre coSd*not*keep U warm ° D Just I sust “ e <* family com
abor^s^a^yoTSdoi^-
rived and I at once began eating them sera™, their Hnthincr
seem, these two remedte combing ^ SltU T
without any medicine whatever, cured L° der.^TheVwere
the chills as thoroughly as could have L IS ' ' e "r irreclaimable,
been done by means of quinine or any Hviliydinn 4 >® restr<untaof
other remedy I had only one chill C1 - 2a ~? 1 h But IU mitigation of the
The philosophy of the matter appeara ?w < ?h POlltan rooke . rles > il must
to be this; The melons reopened the ^ re fnr^L^ are lalr3 , resort-
bowels which had nrnhahlV Wnnm . fo . r slee P aloue ? while the remain-
costive’ and the oysters, being a strong of g doonThi °«!« S mrKt S can i 1 f d ? ut
diet, strengthened nature, thus enat> the most equably benign
ling her to throw off the disease and aS^linl all?™ of stn **s
restore the system to its normal condi- °f N aples are the
tion. The fact that the chills were fht fi frL,. 1 * rpetual Picnic, recalling
completely eradicated while using me- ‘'Z Tu--h 8
Ions must be conclusive proof that they rarely lit within doors,
will not produce chills, if eaten regu- ^ th„ TJ? , are . carrled 011
larly. I afterwards spent much ofmv Se'ha^f’a warmif* 61 ? “
time during several melon seasons in coal p tlle c , hai I
Marysville, a city much addicted to g -T' 8 heat
chills, by reason ofadjacent swamps 'm e sul^tnre^'Li^T’ ^T 3 ""
and low lands. I ate melons regularly bello , W3 " , rhese
and had no chills while mam wl,.» movable hearths in winter become
were afraid of them had chills. I liave of “fraction to the passersby,
never been in any place where chills ap- flroaP 8 ot loungers gathered
peared to be so prevalent as in Mary£ oneaMuL^r^? ,CU0 ^ tea t tur !
viile and I will eive it as mv nnininn 0I , eapohtan outdoor lile. The street
that melons, regularly eaten, would do f 0 M^l h “ t f an8 ‘
more to eradicate them thau anv other Li„„f ml ° a , hall, where,
means that could be devised. " f^ n ut . th ® ^habitants may be
seen seated in front of their houses
eating boiled chestnuts or slabs of
yellow meal poleuta, macaroni, since
- . . . . the introduction of tne grist tax, hav-
t/vA nUnnSn ““P* 100 r Sf en . tl J mg become rather an article of festive
TJt ‘ uxu 7 t tlian of ( fa*ly diet. In the
streets, too, are performed all save the
A New York barber recently remarked
there are a great many families who dis
like to bring their children to the shop
to have their hair trimmed. They pre
fer naving it done at their homes. This
is a lucrative branch of the practice, as
the price charged is treble that which
rules in the shop. Already I have
twelve families on my list. I visit their
children once a month, and keep their
hair iD order. Next there are gehtle-
NEWS IN BRIEF
* Volcanic Eruption at Sea.
May 20 and 21 the ontbreak at Krakatan
Island, situated in the Strait of Sunda. most elementary operations of the
F ~ m toilet, and h^-drSg m al, to
** u “ported “there was a tre- phases invite the atteution ot the
r who are gratified with the
K 1 “ he \ °? * ke aight'of the long black tresses in every
? ° n h ^ 6 ^ J 0f the K'0 of dishevelment. The lava
following day it was distinctly seen pavement in front of the doors is fur-
’k? 01 ‘t. reaoiied Ba ! kffied in the afternoon as a salon
tavia on the 24Ui of July having passed with a due allowance of rush-bottomed
Krakatan Island on the north, met with chairs, whose weight-carrying power
a heavy ram of ashM, covering the decks would seem to be of a high order
with one and a half inches of volcanic judging from the ponderous^ rotundii
. J ies tdey occasionally sustain. These
While, this eruption seeme to have bulky matrons are generally engaged
been notably violent it is an agreeable like so many Parcae, plying distaff and
surprise that no fatal effects aooompany- spindle, while the girls seated beside
it reported* The great curve | tiiein ure more frequently intent on
made by the islands circling round | their hemming and stitching. The
the 17th of November, 1382, one source
pLvail^UrEi^nVTnd^riousTyin- 1 f rDe ° t ’ moluding java, deSneifan area I NeapofitoTiteet'^irehffi ^'STthe most
pea “ f 14 1 ™ of* 11 g a mins, surpassing even
Dress Reform.
In spite of tlieattack of “A Woman
on male dress, it is obvious that men on
the whole run little danger to health
from the caprices of the mode. Their
clothes are at all times so fashioned
that they can wear unknown any
quantity of inner clothing, and the
gayest dandy in evening dress may be
amply protected from sudden chills.
This is not the case as regards ladies
at halls, and herein men show more
sense than women. The open coat,
also, may always be buttoned across the
chest, and inner drawers may make up
for thin trousers. As to the latter gar
ment, which some women envy and
others attack, there is, if we may say so
and absurd fuss made about its advo
cacy and use. We believe it is an open
secret that “dual” garments have long
been worn by ladies of all ages, from
schoolgirls up to matrons, and that, as
they are not exhibited, they may be as
long or as short, as light or as warm, as
tight or as loose, as the wearer wills or
the seasons demand. Men show their
trousers, women conceal them; that is
all the difference. If a girl desires free
dom she has only to concentrate all the
comfort and warmth in these invisible
garments, and then with a light, loose
skirt she can walk as freely as any man
and yet look as feminine as any fashion
able lady. No public meetings, no
ostentatious exhibitions are required
for this reform. Any woman may dis
pense to-morrow with heavy skirts
without even the knowledge of her lord.
Perhaps a solution so simple derives the
improvement of its attractiveness, there
must be a cause and a crusade with
protagonists aud martjrs—speeches,
resolutions and leaders, committees,
councils, exhibitions and appeals—all to
compass a change that any girl can ac
complish by half an hour’s shopping
and a few minutes’ trouble and
thought.
Railway Exhibition.
The receipts of the Chicago Railway
Exhibition amounted to $86,000, bnt
the amount of I. as has not yet been as
certained. The electrical railway was
in operation 118 boors, and in that time
earned 26,805 passengers. The entire
distance ran was 466 miles. The report
of the electncian in charge of the road,
although it gives these and other par
ticulars, and says that the motor proved
the theoretical calculations made as to
the power developed, does not contain
cue word about the amount of power
aotoally required to operate it, the per
centage of loss in conversion, or any
thing that would indicate either its suc
cess or failure from a commercial stand
point. This omission is significant.
There has been no donbt, in reoent
years, that trains could ran by electri
city, but the question is, how much
does power thus applied cost? The en
gineer, instead of answering this ques
tion, repeats what was already known,
that trains can be ran by electricity.
—The Garfield monument fund-in
Cleveland now amounts to $130,000.
terfered with the transmission of tele-
praphic messages from that country,
and had also obstructed the land service
there.
He iseiicred In Temperance.
“Fact is,” said Mr. Swiller, sitting
down at the round table with his
friend. “Fact is—two beers, Tonyl—
there’s just as much intemperance in
eating as there is in drinking, and
that’s what puts me—by George, that’s
refreshing, isn’t it? Cold as ice. Fill
’em up again, Tony—out of patience
with these total abstinence fanatics.
A man can be temperate in liis eating
and he can he temperate in his drink
ing, and I go—light a cigar?—in for
temperance in all things. Now I like
to—thank you, yes, I believe I will re
peat—sit down with a friend and enjoy
a glass of beer in a quiet way, just as
we do now. It’s cool, refreshing,
mildly stimulant—have another with
me—and does me good. I know when
I have enough and—once more, Tony
—when I have enough I know enough
to quit. Now do I look—hello, there’s
Johnson; sit down here with us John
son; three beers, Tony—I was just
asking Blotter here if I looked like a
victim of dyspepsia. I don’t drink
much water this weather; I believe it’s
the worst—this time with me, fellows
—thing a man can put into his system
such weather as this. I believe beer is
tne best thing for any man, and I know
it’s the best thing for me. But I—
don’t hurry; have another before you
go; here, Tony!—don’t gorge myself
with it; I don’t sit around and get full
every time I take a drink. I like to—
tliree more Tony—sit down quietly
with a friend and enjoy a glass of bet r
and a bite of lunch, but I don’t like to
gorge myself. I don’t eat myself into
-fill these up again—dyspepsia,
either, and then claim to be a temper
ate man. Temperance in all things is
my mozzer-mozzo-motto. Ttiatsh me.
Now, I don-donk-donkall, I donkall
myself a drinking mail:—once more
wiz me, fellows—I like to sit down
quieshly wish few frens aud ’joy glash
beer—just becaush does me good; good.
But I don eat myself to death—oncesh
more all roun’—like these temperals
falatics—oncesh in while I like glash
of beer—jush m quiet way oncesh in
while I like glash of beer—but you
don’see—you donlsee me gettin’ full
ev’y time—” (Talks temperance in
all things and undue indulgence in
nothing over twelve more glasses and
succumbs.)
would have been nothing remarkable uis Parisian prototype in his owi° walk,
had the recent ontbreak been exceed
ingly destructive. In 1822 the eruption
ot Monnt Galung-gung on the main
island desolated over a hundred villages „ . ,
and destroyed four thousand persons. 0I1 ^ says Moncure Robin-
The eruption of Mount Guntur,^in 1843. ““h 1 PP** 1 P art of a a ‘ the
according to the estimate of Jonghalin, M’ reat c t* ess tournament. In a large
a writer on Java, threw ont thirty mil- u PP® r room of the Criterion, London,
lion tons of sand and ashes. That the I ant t roar of the four great
volcanoes of this island—the gem of the struts which converge at Regent Cir-
Indian Ooean-havenot exliaiLted tfieir fjf’ ‘h™ ^ ln a Sd P c . e almo ^ su ‘
enerirr hv these evniniti. in .i.owe tilime these warriors of the world en-
the fact that in 1872 the eruption of the 8384x1 }“ . d< ( ad ! y , strife : ground the
active volcano Merapi proved fata] to JPP c rd Li-., a<1 ln ° Ii p ll i eL J spectators
many inhabitants of Kadu, and the enll3t f d stnvers were
^ e fi“*T la°S°w®th r t r name s SpaT
i aV ,l 1D ‘r I On each table were two small che£
The June Crop.
From the June crop report of the
Agricultural Department of Illinois, it
appears “that the estimated increase in
the com acreage over 1882 is three per
cent., making the corn area this year
over 7,500,000 acres. The condition in
dicate a yield three-fourths as large as
as the average, or 168.750,000 bnshels
less than the crop of 1882. The condi
tion of green corn and sugar cane is dis
couraging. Winter wheat prospects
are not as good as in May, and the pres
ent estimate is 16,000,000 bushels.^ Oats
are nearly up to the average condition,
and the prospective yield is 100,060,000
bushels. Rye, flax and barley have fal-
Itn off 10 per cent, in the acreage.
There will be 100,000 acres of Irish po
tatoes. Severe frosts have greatly in
jured the fruit crop.
—A monster loteter in the London
Fisheries Exhibition was sent over from
America. It measures three feet in
length, and one of its claws weighs eight
winds, the total weight being about
twenty-eight.
tics of Dr, Bergsma, there were sixteen
earthquakes registered throughout the
island.
As the scene of the leoent disturbance
lies on the West Java coast, and the
whole island is swept at this season by
the regular south-east trade winds, the
volcanic ashes must have fallen mostly
at sea and cannot have affected the
the growing coffee crops. It is to be
hoped that the recent eruption at Kra
katau, by relieving the earth of the in
ternal pressure, will be a safeguard
against further disturbances at present.
But as Java is the centre of the most
active volcanic region now known on
the globe, having standing on a single
plain twenty-eight distinct volcanic
cones, varying in height from five thou
sand to fourteen thousand feet, it must
be some time before a sense of security
returns to the Javanese.
Saved From Drowsing,
W. H. Pottiuger, of Hamilton, On
tario, Canada, an experienced swimmer,
furnishes the following few remarks
upon the vital importance of knowing
how to keep one’s self afloat when sud
denly immersed in deep water: “When
yon find yourself in deep water you will
sink first a few feet down, bnt if you do
not struggle yotfwill come quickly to
the surface again, which on reaching
immediately draw a full breath, throw
your head back, and this will have the
effect at placing you in a recumbent
position on the surface of the water.
Now, this is a moat critical time for
those who don’t know what to do next.
Extend your arms at once oo a level
with your shoulders, palms of hands
downward, so that the water cannot
penetrate them, and begin gently pad
dling the water with the movement ol
the hands from the wrist only, Extend
your legs quietly and slowly in a line
with your body. If you raise your
arms or your legs above the surface of
the water you will sink, but if you have
the presence of mmd not to do so, or
straggle about, you will never sink so
long is you keep paddling gently, with
out exertion, with your hands, and so
you may float on until you are picked
up or until you are numbed by oold.”
Willows of the Revolution.
The willow trees in the northeast cor
ner of Holmes’ field, st Cambridge,
Massachusetts, had a curious origin, not
generally known. During the Bevolu
tiocaiy war, while the American army
was encamped on the heights around
Boston, a fortification was thrown up,
extending from Somerville westward
through Cambridgei This fortification
ran directly through Holmes’ field. In
order to form a palisade, willow stakes
were driven into the top of the earthen
took root
table some shaking foot ticked the ner
vous process going on in the brain. The
smoke of the battle-field steadily arose
from many cigars, one in every mouth.
There was no word spoken, never a
smile; these grim, pale, intense faces
and eyes reminded me of the group of
German chieftains I once watched as
they were gazing on the slaughter at
Gravelotte. Here wasZukertort—Mo-
heke of the field—a thin little man,
blonde, penetrating, his coming victory
presaged in the peculiar placidity of
his brow, indicating the ease of his
mental movements. His hardly de
feated antagonist, Steinitz, has a better
brow for special efforts; his head is
massive, his expression that of a cul
tured man not absolutely absorbed in
chess. Some of the players have beau
tiful heads—young Mason, for instance,
and Rosenthal. But there was not one
of them whose face had the stamp of
genius that was ou the face of that vic
torious victim of the game, Paul Mor
phy. Well do 1 remember when, a
young aspirant of the clubs, I played
six games with that wonderful man at
the Brevoort House. He gave me a
rook and beat me five of the games.
Une only I won. From that hour my
chess enthusiasm was chilled. L could
spare no more time to a game which
left me so helpless before any man, with
such odds. Could I have read poor
Morphy’s face I would have seen, per
haps, tnat he envied me my incompe
tency. He vainly struggled to be some
thing else than a chess-player. Some
years after I well knew the late How
ard Staunton, who told me he regarded
Paul Morphy as the greatest chess
genius that had ever lived. After play
ing with Morphy Stauntou conceived a
strong dislike of the game. “I hate
chess,” he once said to me ; “It takes
the heart out ot people. Meu have
hated me, slandered me, injured me in
every way they could, simply and solely
because 1 heat them at chess.” Staun
ton devoted himself to Shakespearean
stud'es in h's later years and very
rarely played chess. Emerson shook
his head at the enthusiasm for this
game.
The Be« Waterfall of the World.
men who can afford the luxury of a pri
vate barber. The valet, as a rale, is a
bad workman, ontside of his natural
duties of brushing his master's clothes
and boots, answering the hell, reading
ail the notes he can, and drinking snch
wine as he can Btand without being
caught by his master I wait on about
twenty gentlemen now at their homes.
All of my clients art gentlemen of
wealth, and all of them are very partic
ular about the trimming of their heads
and hair, i have one exceedingly
liberal customer at the Palmer House.
He thinks that my manner of combing
his hair conceais his growing baldness
lrom a prying world—an important
matter to any man who finds himself
nearing the fortieth milestone, which,
is called the old age of youth. It is not
shaving and hair catting only that I do
among this class, I am provided with
materials to produce a delicate gloss ou
tne whiskers, also with an incomparable
mixture for restoring gray hair to its
youthful color. Do yon want a bottle?
No? Yon may, when yon grow older,
feel as many of my customers do—that
gray hairs are insulting. I have a
bachelor who entertains his friends, male
and female, in regal style in his apart
ments In the—well, m a fiat on Michi
gan avenno. His hair and beard daily
grow thinner. Why? Because every
morning he has me make a microscopic
examination for gray hairs in each. If
there are any, out they come with the
tweezers. I expostulate and cite my
restorer as the proper cure, but he in
sists. He'll be sorry when he has no
hair, which won’t be a very long time
from now if ne keeps np his present rate
ot polling it out. The pernicions prac
tice of men shaving themselves is the
worst opposition existing to the tonso-
riai trade. Bat, fortunately, every one
cannot learn to handle his own razor,
and as for cntting their own hair, none
of them can do tha‘.”
“Another very lucrative branch of
practice is among lady clients,” droned
the barber. “I attend a good many
ladies regularly once a week to shampoo
and dress their hair. The importance
of every art which tends to preserve and
beautify the hair is very highly re
garded, I am glad to say. When the
scalp is kept free of dandruff and is
over a certain fragrance. Ladies should
nse little oil. The hair brush is better
than sticky liquids, They should be
careful about keeping their hair
trimmed. It is liable to split at the ends
and grow harsh when not attended to.
I am; as I Bay, waiting on a great many
ladies at their residences, and, by the
way, it would surprise people -who have
no opportnniti s of seeing for them
selves to learn of the elegance and lux
ury of certain Chicago homes. I recall
the mistress’ dressing-room in a house
on Prairie avenne. Its walls are mostly
mirrors with silver frames, the spaces
between them filled in wi.h costly lace
adornments. The toilet set is silver
and gold, heavily studded with precious
stones. Every article in the room is of
the richest aud most expensive charac
ter, as,' indeed, it can afford to be, see
ing that the owner's hnsband makes
half a million a year.
.—Twice as many men as women die
of pneumonia.
—Amasa Stone’s estate proves to he
worth $6,000,000.
—There are 5,927 Americans residing
at the French capital.
There are twenty-five newspapers
published in Idaho.
—Tanner, the ex-faster, is now living
at Jamestown, N. Y.
A Modern Samwn.
A recent discover}' on the head of
Cowlitz river establishes the fact that
Washington Territory can now boast
of the grandest waterfall in the known
world, its height being 1,500 feet. The
Nooksack Indians assert positively that
waterfalls higher than the tallest fir,
pine or cedar trees are to be found on
the extreme headwaters of the Nook-
sack river, in this county. As that
section of the county has never yet been
explored by the white man, there is no
good reason for doubting the statement.
From the comparison given by the In
dians these falls must be at least 475
feet in height. g
Professor R. A. Proc'or has dis
covered in Nevada a being who claims
to be the strongest man in the world.
His name is Angela Cardelia. He is an
Italian, aged 38, and stands five feet ten
inches in height, weighing 138 pounds.
His strength was born with him, for he
has had no athletic training. He differs
from other men chiefly in his osseous
structure. Although no'of unusual size,
his spinal column is double the ordinary
width and his bones and joints are made
on a similar large and generous scale
He can lift a man of two hundred
pounds with the middle finger of his
right hand. The man stood with one
foot on the floor, his arms outstretched
and his hands grasped by two persons
to balance his body. Cardelia then
stooped down and placed the third
finger of his right hand under the man’s
feet, and, with scarcely any perceptible
effort, raised him to tue height of four
feet and deposited him on a table near
at hand. Once two powerful men way
laid Cardelia, withfintent to trash him,
but he seized one in each hand and
hammered them together till the life
was nearly out of them. He is of a quiet
and peaceable disposition, and his
strength is inherited, for he states his
father was more powerful than him
self.
Racing Upon Cratches.
There was a novel race from the custom
house to the Commercial office, in Louis
ville, Ky., the other morning between 12
and 1 o'clock, between a couple of one-
legged men Darned Cook and Rogers The
latter is s recent arrival from Memphis,
where he was considered the crack one-
legged runner of the country. Since his
arrival in Louisville he has been talking
pretty loud about his racing abilities, and
be met Cook, who claims the reputation of
being the fleetest one-legged ruDoer in
Louisville. Upon meeting both men
claimed to be able to “do” the other, and
a match was soon arranged between them.
They divested themselves of their coats,
vests and hats, and each with a single
crutch under hia right arm, got in position
for the i ace. At a given signal they star
ted and the Louisville man with three
tremendous hops sprang m the lead. But
Memphis was alongside ot him in a mo
ment, and then ensued one of the grandest
races ever witnessed. The men hopped
together ss though they were one man,
and the time made was wonderful. A race
horse could not have caught them, for
they made fully twelve feet at every stride.
Together they wen), and as th y reached
the string running from the Commercial
office to the Kentucky School of Medicine,
the belated pedestrians who witnessed the
race declared that it would be a dead
beat, when suddenly the Memphis man's
crutch struck a treacherous rock and away
he went head aver heels, first one end np
and then the other. The Louisville man
pat on an extra spurt to keep his adver
sary from rolling in under the string ahead
of him. -But when the Memphis man
struek the high street crossing he stopped
rolling, aSf! the Louisville man went under
the wire an easy winner by two lengths.
Hanlan is no num-scull; he has
made over $56,000 by rowing.
—The street cars run up and down
44 cities aud towns in Germany.
—There are 90,000 ministers in our
country and 540,000 bartenders.
—Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, for
Bedloe’s Island, will be complete iu
November.
It will cost $20,000 to feed the
Grand Army encampment at Denver
next month.
—Miss Frances Willard, the well-
known temperance advocate, has gone
to the Sandwich Islands.
Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia,
is to be paid $25,000 a year as president
of the Florida ship canal.
—There are about 5,000,000 trade
dollars in circulation, and over $33,000,-
000 on hand in the Treasury. ’
—Portland, Oregon, is to have this
year a $1,000,000 bridge, and railroad
workshops costing $5,000,000.
—A devil-fish, measuring eight feet
in circumference, was captured at Santa
Monica, California, a few days ago.
—Women, under the laws of the var
ious states, are gradually securing their
just rights in property aud children.
—New York letter carriers delivered
86,5< 1,667 letters, 14,391,452 postal
cards and 523,559 registered letters last
year.
—Teachers in the public schools of
Cashville raise silk cocoons, and m ike
money by selling them to Northern
buyers.
—Mme. Minnie Hauk has gone to
Marieubad, Bohemia, in company with
her mother, who intends taking baths
there.
—A census of Portland, Maine, has
just been taken, which shows a popu
lation of 35,890, an increase ot 2,000 m
three years.
—Laborers are scarce in Maine, and
there is a brisk demand for men iu the
bay field at $2.50 a day—so an Augusta
paper says.
A canvas of the American trades
shows that American apprentices only
predominate in machine shops and
printing offices.
—Three factories in the United States
consume nearly two million eggs a year
in making a peculiar kind of paper use-J
by photographers.
Mexico elects a president next year,
and there is abounding talk of candi
dates. Gen. Diaz seems to he the fa
vorite among liberals.
—Tiie quantity of wheat raised in
Maine last year was 695,714 bushels;
of oats, 2,265,575 bushels, and of pota
toes. 7,909,025 bushels.
—Lawn tennis is increasing rapidly
in popularity, and It is estimated that
80,000 racquets will be sold before the
close of the season.
— A pickle factory at Highland, Ill.,
has contracted for over 400 acres of cu
cumbers with farmers, and expects to
ship about 16,000 barrels.
—M. Abbadie has called the attention
of the Paris Academy to what he re
gards as proofs that sulphur destroys
the influence of malaria.
—The first American bishop was
Samuel Seabury, who was consecrated
bishop of Connecticut by four nonjur-
ing prelate at Aberdeen in 1784.
—The largest theatre is the New
Opera House in Paris. It covers nearly
three acres of ground. Its cubic mass
is 4,287,000 feet. It cost about 10J -
000,000 francs.
—The Bach Society was instituted in
London in 1849, but there was so little
musical enthusiasm in the capital at
that time that it was disbanded in
about twenty years.
—The watering places in Germany
are all well attended this season. Ba
den-Baden has nearly 14,000 visitors.
Carlsbad 10,000, and Ems, Teplitz, and
Marienbad about 3,000 each.
—Oxford university’s income for the
past year was £53,900, including £13,-
300 from estates, £4,000 from the press,
£24,700 from fees and dues, and £11,-
300 from miscellaneous sources. ’
—Than are 21 cities along 'the line
of UK Mexican Central having an ag
gregate population of 890,609.
—Tomatoes, not many generations
ago, were known as love apples and
considered poisonous. Last fall there
were 52,322,052 cans of tomatoes put
np by the canning establishments of
the United State.
—The bombardment of Fort Mc
Henry took place, Sept. 13,1814. The
place was defended by 1000 men under
Gen. Armstrong, and their loss and
that of the British fleet under Gen.
Ross was trifling.
■The Covenanters flag of Scotland
was first unfurled in 1638, and was dis
played at the battle of Drumclog, and
at Bothwell’s Bridge in 1679. It is
now in the keeping of the Edinburgh
Antiquarian Society.
—Sculptor Woods, of Hartford, has
just finished his statue of Nathan Hale,
the martyr spy, representing him as he
was about to step upon the gallows, his
arms pinioned, his head and neck bare
and wearing no coat or vest.
—Mayor Bulke’ef, of Hartford,
spends much more for the city every
year than his salary covers. Hisenter-
tainment of the Charleston, S. C., mili
tiamen cost him several thousand dol
lars, the expense of the little feast at
his own house being about $1,700.
—Senator O. H. Platt, of Connecti
cut, having been offered a large retain
ing fee to take hold of the forthcoming
parallel road litigation, declined, on the
ground that so long as he was a United
State Senator the duties of that office
would require his attention.
—Juh, the hostile Apache chief, who
escaped being captured by Crook in hia
recent campaign, is said to have afoot
a third larger than the ordinary Indian,
and now Chicago and St. Louis, insist
ing that he is no Indian at all, will try
to put him off on each other.
—The longest tunnel in the world is
that of St. Gothard on the line of rail
road between Lucerne and Milan. The
summit of the tunnel is 980 feet below
the surface at Andermatt, and 6,000
feet beneath the peak ot Castlehorn,
of the St. Gothard group. The tunnel
is 26£ feet wide, and 16 feet 10 im»t»«»a
from the floor to the crown of the arched
roof. It is 9} miles long, 7f miles
longer than the Mont Cenis tunnel.