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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
THE VALLEY OF SLEEP
It lies In the west when the sun goes down,
Cradled by shining mountains of gold.
And its gaudy forests are never brown,
Its nnadows gleam with a wealth untold,
'V atered by crimsoning rivers of light.
Those shining pools now a mystery
keep—
First, we must hope, then love, then
weep—
Morn cannot prize the pleasure deep
Of the beautiful distant valley of sleep.
At midday its streets look long and bright,
1 he shade of peace but a sigh awakes,
I or rest to gain in the morrow’s tight,
Tiie will and strength that victory takes;
Bathed in calm effulgent light,
The hush of the summer sweet rest may
keep—
First wo must clitnb ambition’s
steep—
Noon cannot prize the silence deep
Of the beautiful hazy valley of sleep.
The shadows of eve stretch far and wide,
Aud life bereft of its old desire
follows the wake of a purple tidj
Lit by u sun's innocuous tire.
Now when the ways are passed and to
fain would wo paddle these waters
deep,
loo tired to labor, or love, or weep;
Hvo would eternal slumber keep
In the beautiful silent vailoy of sleep.
■— Qract ; O'Hoyle in New Orleans Timcs-
Detnocrat.
The Privilege of the Limits.
BY E. W. THOMSON.
“Yes, indeed, my grandfather wass
once in jail,” said old Mrs. McTavish, of
the county of Glengarry, in Ontario,
Canada; “hut that wass lor debt, and he
he wass a ferry honest man whateffer, and
would not break his promise—no, not
for all the money in Canada. If you will
listen to me, I will tell chust exac tly the
true story about that debt, to show you
vvlmt mi honest man my grandfather
wass. One time Tougal Stewart, him
that wass the poy’s grandfather that
keeps the same store in Cornwall to this
day, sold a plow to my grandfather,
and my grandfather said he would pax
half the plow in October, and the
other half whateffer time he felt able to
pay the money. Yes, indeed, that wass
the very promise ray grandfather gave.
“So lie was at Tougal Stewart’s store
on the 1st of October early in the morn-
mg pefore he tlio shutters wass taken off,
and paid half chust exactly to keep
his word. Theu the crop was ferry pad
next year, and the year after that one of
his horses was killed py lightning, and
the next year his brother, that wass not
rich and had a big iamily, died, aud do
you think wass my grandfather to let the
family be disgraced without a good fu¬
neral, and there was at it plenty of meat
and drink for ellerybody, as wiss the
right. Ilielan’ custom those days, and af¬
ter the funeral my grandfather did not
led chust exactly able to pay the other
half lor the plow that year either.
“So Tougal Stewart met my grand¬
father in Cornwall next day, and asked
him if lie had sonic money to spare.
“ ‘Wass you in need of help, Mr.
Stewart?’ says my grandfather, kindly.
‘For if it’s in any want you are, Tougal,’
says off my grandfather, ‘I will sell the coat
my back, if there is no other way to
lend you a loan, for that was always
the way of my grandfather with his
friends, and a bigger hearted man there
never wass in all Glengarry, or in Stor¬
mont, or in Duudas, mirofer.
“‘In want!’ says Tougal.—‘in want,
Mr. McTavish!’ says he, very high.
•Would you wish to insult a gentleman,
and him of the name of Stewart, that’s
the name of princes of the world?’ lie
said, so he did.
“Seeing Tougal lmd his temper up,my
grandfather spoke softly, beiug a quiet,
peaceable man, and in woudor what he
hail saill to offend Tougal.
“ ‘Mr. Stewart,’ says my grandfather,
‘it wass not in my mind to anger you
whateffer. Only I thought, from your
asking me if I had some money, that you
might be looking for a wee bit of a loan,
as many a gentleman lms to do at times,
and no shame to him at all,’ said my
grandfather.
“ ‘A loan?’says Tougal, sneering. ‘A
loan, is it? Where's your memory, Mr.
Me lavish? Are you not owing me half
the price of the plow you’ve had this
three years?’
“ ‘And wass you asking me for money
for the other half of the plough?’ says my
grandfather, very astonished.
“ ‘Just that,’ says Tougal.
“ ‘Have you no shame or honor iu
you?’ says my grandfather, firing up.
‘How could I feel aide to pay that now,
aud me chust yesterday been giving my
poor brother a funeral fit for The Me-
'lVvishs* own B ramW,,l,cw, that «*. *
good gcotk'mnti’s plooU as any
in Glengarry. You saw the expense I
wass at, for there you wass, and 1 thauk
you for the politeness of coming, Mr.
Stewart,’ says my grandfather, ending
mild, for tffe anger would never stay iu
more than a minute, so kind was the ua-
ture he had.
“ ‘If you can spend money on a fun-
eral like that you Cau pay me for my
plough.’ says Stewart, for with buying
aud selling he wass become a poor crea-
ture, aud the heart of a Ilielau’man wass
half goue out of him, for all he wass so
proud of his name of monarchs and
kings.
My grandfather had a imnd to strike
him down on the spot, so he often said;
but he thought of the time when lie hit
Ilamish Cochrane in anger, and lie miuded
the penances tbe priest put on him for
breaking the silly mail’s jaw with that
blow, so he smothered the heat that wass
. him, and turned in With
in away scoria
that Tougal Stewart went to the court,
and sued my grandfather, puir mean
creature!
“You might think that Judge Jones—
him that wass judge in Cornwall before
Judge Jarvis that’s dead—would do jus-
tice. But no, he made it the law that
my grandfather must pay at once, though
Tougal Stewart could not deny whftt the
bargain wass.
“ ‘Your Honor,’ says my grandfather,
‘I said I’d pay when I felt able, And
do I feel able now? No, I do not,’ says
he. ‘It’s a disgrace to Tougal Stewart
to ask me, and himself telling you what
the bargain was,’ said my grandfather
But Judge Jones said he must pay, for
all that he did not feel able.
“‘I will nefer pay one copper till I
feel able,’ says my grandfather, ‘out I’ll
keep my Ilielan’ promise to my dying
day, as I always done,’ says he.
“And with that the old judge laughed,
and said he would have to give judg¬
ment. And so he did; and after that
Tougal Stewart got out an execution.
But not the worth of a handful of oat¬
meal could the bailiff lay bands on, be¬
cause my grandfather had chust exactly
taken the precaution to give a bill of
sale on his gear to his neighbor, Alexan¬
der Frazer, that could be trusted to do
right after the law play was over.
“The whole settlement had great con¬
tempt for Tougal Stewart’s conduct; but
lie was a headstrong body, and once he
begun to do wrong against my grand¬
father, beheld on, for all that his trade
fell away; and finally he had my grand¬
father arrested for debt, though you’ll
understand, sir, that he was owing Stew¬
art nothing that he ought to pay when
he didn’t feel able.
“In those times prisoners for debt
was taken to jail in Cornwall, and if
they had friends to give bail that they
would not go beyond the posts that was
around the sixteen acres nearest the jail
walls, the prisoners could go where they
liked on that ground. This was railed
‘the privilege of the limits.’ The limits,
you’ll understand, was marked by cedar
posts painted white about the size of
hitching-posts.
“The whole settlement was ready to go
bail for my grandfather if he wanted it,
aud for the health of him he needed to
be in the open air, and so he gave
Tuncan Macdonell of the Greenfields,
and zEucas Macdonald of the Sandiiolds,
for his bail, and he promised, on his
Ilielan’ word of honor, not to go beyond
the posts. With that he went where lie
pleased, only taking great care that he
never put even the toe of his foot beyond
a post, for all that some would jump
over them and back again, or maybe
swing round them, holding by their
hands. Every day the neighbors would
go into Cornwall to give my grandfather
the good word, aud they would offer tc
pay Tougal Stewart for the other half of
the plow, only that vexed my graud-
fathcr, for he was too proud to borrow,
and, of course, every day he felt less
and iess able to pay on account of him
having to hire a man to be doing the
spring plowing and seeding and mak¬
ing the kale-yard.
“All this time, you’ll mind, Tougal
Stewart had to pay fivu shillings a week
for my grandfather’s keep, the law being
so that if the debtor swore that he had
not five pounds’ worth of property to
his name, then the creditor had to pay
the live shillings, and, of course, my
grandfather had nothing to his name
al ter he gave the bill of sale to Alexander
Frazer. A great diversion it was to my
grandfather to be reckoning up that if
he lived as long as his father, that was
hale and strong at ninety-six, Tougal
would need six hundred pounds for him.
and there was only two pound five shil¬
lings to be paid on the plow
“So it w T as like that all summer, my
grandfather keeping heartsomo, with the
neighbors coming in so steady to bring
him the news of the settlement. There
he would sit, just inside one of the posts,
for to pass his jokes, and tell what he
wished the family to be doing next. This
way it might have kept going on for forty
years, only it catne about that my grand¬
father’s youngest child—him that was
my father—fell sick, aud seemed like to
die.
“Well, when my grandfather heard
that bad news, be was in a terrible way,
to be sure, for ho would be longing to
hold the child in his arms, so that his
heart was sore and like to break. Eat
he could not, sleep he could not; all
uight lie would bo groaning, and all day
he would be walking around by the posts,
wishing that he had not passed his Hie-
lan’ word of honor not to go beyond a
post, for he thought how he could have
broken out like a gentleman, and gone to
see his sick child if he had staid inside
the jail wall. So it went on three days
and nights before the wise thought came
into my grandfather’s head to show him
how he need uot go beyond the posts to
see hie little sick boy. With that he
went straight to oue of the white cedar
posts and pulled it up out of the hole,
and started for home, taking great care
to carry it in liis hands before him, so he
would not be beyond it one bit.
“My grandfather was not half a mile
out ol Cornwall, which was only a little
place iu those days, when two of the
, " , b . '.“i
Stop, Mr. Mclavuh, , sayst.te ., turn-
keys.
“ ‘What for would I stop?’ says my
grandfather.
“ ‘You have broke your bail,’ says
they,
“ ‘It’s a lie lor you,’ says my grand¬
father, for his temper flared up for any-
body to say be would broke his bail,
^ beyond the postf says my graud-
hither,
“With that they run in on him, only
that he knocked the two of them over
with the post, and went on rejoicing,
like au honest man should, at keeping
his word aud overcoming them that
would slander his good name. The only
thing that pesides thoughts of the child
that troubled him was questioning
whether he had been strictly right in
turning round for to use the post to de-
fend himself iu such a way that it was
nearer the jail than what he was. But
when he remembered how the , jailer
never complained of prisoners of the
limits chutnping ofer the posts,if so they
chumped back again in a moment, the
trouble went out ol his mind.
“Pretty soon after that he met Tun-
can Macdonell of the Greenfields, conh
ing into Cornwall with the wagon,
“ ‘And how is this, Glengatchie?’ says
Tuucan. ‘For you were never the man
to proke your bail.’
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 5, 1891
“Glengatchie, you’ll undent an cl, sir,
is the name of my grandfather's farm.
(t • Never fear, Greenfields,’ says my
grandfather, ‘for I’m not beyond the
post.’
“ ‘Get in -with me, Glengatchie,’ says
Tuncan, and turned his team around.
“My grandfather did so, taking great
care to keep the post in front of him all
the time; and so he reached home. Out
comes my grandmother running to em-
brace him; but she had to throw her
arms around the post and my grand-
lather’s neck at the same time, he was
that strict to be within his promise.
Pefore going ben into the house, he
went to the back end of the kale-yard
which -was farthest from the jail, and
there he stuck the post; and then he
went back to see his sick child, while all
the neighbors that came round was glad
to see what a wise thought the saints had
put into his mind to save his bail and his
promise.
“So there he staid a w'eek till ray fath¬
er got well. Of course the constables
came after my grandfather, but the set¬
tlement would not let the creatures come
within a mile of Glengatchie. You
might think, sir, that my grandfather
would have staid with his wife and
weans, seeing the post was all the time iu
the kale-yard, and him careful not to go
beyond it, but he wa3 putting the settle¬
ment to a great deal of trouble day and
night, to keep the constables off, and he
was fearful that they might take away
the post if ever they got to Glengatchie,
and give him the name of false, that no
McTavish ever had. So Tunean Green-
fields and HSueas Sandfield drove my
grandfather back to the jail, him with
the post behind him in the wagon, so as
he would be between it and the jail. Of
course Tougal Stewart tried his best to
have the bail declared forfeited, but okl
Judge Jones only laughed, and said my
grandfather was a Ilielan’ gentleman,
with a very nice sense of honor, aud that
was chust exactly the truth.
“How did my grandfather get free in
the end? Oh, then, that was because of
Tougal Stewart being careless—him that
though he kuew so much of the law!
The law was, you will mind, that Tou¬
gal had to pay five shillings a week for
keeping my grandfather in the limits.
The money wass to be paid efery Mon¬
day, aud it wass to be paid in lawful
money of Canada, too. Well, would you
belief that Tougal paid in four shillings
in silver one Monday, and one shilling in
coppers, for he took up the collection in
church the day pefore, and it was not
till Tougal had gone away that the jailer
saw that one of the coppers wass a
Brock copper— a medal, you will under¬
stand, made at General Brock’s death,
and not lawful money of Canada at all.
With fhat tko jailer came out to my
“ ‘Mr. McTavish,’ say3 he, taking off
his hat, ‘you aie a free man, and I’m
glad of it.’ Then he told him what
Tougal had done. ‘I hope you will not
have any hard feelings toward me, Mr.
McTavish,’ said the jailer, and a decent
man he was for all that there was not a
drop of Ilielan’ blood in him. ‘I hope
you will not think hard of me for not
being hospitable to you sir,’ says he;
‘but it’s against the rules aud regulations
for the jailer to be offering the best he
can command to the prisoners. Now
that you are free, Mr. McTavish,’ says
the jailer, ‘I would be a proud man if
Mr. McTavish of Glengatchie would do
me the honor of taking supper with me
this night. I will bo asking your leave
to invite some of the gentlemen of the
place, if you will say the word, Mr.
McTavish,’ says he.
“Well, my grandfather could never
bear malice, the kind man he was, and
he seen how bad the jailer felt, so he
consented, and a great company came in,
to be sure, to celebrate the occasion.
“Did my grandfather pay the balance
on the plough? What for should you
suspicion, sir, that my grandfather would
refuse Ins honest debt? Of course he
paid for the plough, for the crop was
good that fall.
“ ‘I would be paying you the other
half of the plough now,Mr. Stewart,’says
my grandfather, coming in when the
store was full.
“ ‘Hoich, but you are the honest
McTavish,’ says Tougal, sneering.
“But my grandfather made no answer
to the creature, for he thought it would
be unkind to mention how Tougal had
paid out six pouuds, four shillings, and
eleven peace to keep hi n in on account
of a debt of two pound live that never
was due till it was paid.”— Harper's
Weekly.
How it Feels to be Insane.
“My wife . to me,” writes _
came see a
cured maniac, “but she did not try to
have uHfcleased. I demanded a trial,
but no lawyer would defend me. Then I
realized that the whole community was
against me. I became so wroth that my
anger seemed to hang over me like a dark
cloud. It pressed me to the floor and
held me there. Men came after a long
time and took me away, I thought, to
another prison. One day a cat came into
my cell, and I tried to bite her. She
made the hair fly, but I killed her.
“I don’t know how long I remained
here, but one morning the sun rose and
shone in at me through the window. It
seemed to be the first time that I had
seen the great luminary for months. A
mist cleared from before my eyes. My
brain began to work, and suddenly I
realized that I had been insane.
“I railed the keeper, and when he saw
me ] ie exclaimed ‘Thank heaven’’ and
grasped my hand. I was not lono' lmd in
putting on another suit of clothes
turning ’said mv face toward home. A phy-
sician that I was cured, and every-
body seemed bright and happy at my re-
covcry. I went home. My wife fainted
when she saw me and learned that I had
recovered my mind. I asked for my little
children, and two big boys and a youn^ °1
] a dy came forward and greeted me.
had been in the asylum twelve years.”—
Pearson's Weekly.
It is estimated that the number of
acres devoted to cotton raising this year
is 20,779,205, and that the produet will
reach 8,570,657 bales.
BUDGET OF FCJ •.f 4
HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
_ *' 6 /
Eternal Constancy—Expressive •'Brev¬
ity—A Wise Virgin—Must ShdlTt
tlie Weight—Nor, U ncom-. /
. mon—Etc., Eto.
I placed a golden linger ring fair; one night Jjr' ff v. jf
Upon her ribbon -/
She gave me the bright V f
That tied her silken hair.
We vowed eternal love—alack!
Estranged A simple little thing back^C
us—aud the maid took
Her ribbon, I my ring. if
Two weeks ago that was—I vow
\ Young love’s a curious thing;
* Another keeps the ribbon now—
Another wears the ring.
—New York ijucss.
* MOST SHIFT THE WEIGHT. „
She—-“The boat doesn’t seemvto trim.*
Am I sitfiing straight?”
He—“Yes, but your chatelaine isltoo
far to the^left.”
, • EXPRESSIVE BREVITY.
Mrs. Hennepek—“Doe3 your husband
mind well, Mvs. Hudelette?”
Mrs. D. (earnestly)—“He hasn’t any.)*
—Detroit Free fPress.
NOT UNCOMMON.
“Now that l have stated them, sir,
don’t you think my aims are lofty?”
“Yes, Mr. Hicks. Your aims are a)J
right, but you are. a very bad shot.”-.—
Puck.
XT’s DEATH TOC ONE TRADE.
Uncle Treetop—“I heard that your
son out West was coining money.”
lleigh Seed—“He was until the Gov¬
ernment competition got too strong for
him.”
GLAD TO FORiGET IT.
Parson—“Have yousoinetloing to send /
to the heathen, Mr. Trotter?”
Mr. Trotter (mopping lias brow)—
“Yes; I will send them my winter; over¬
coat.”— Epoch.
A WISE-VIRGIN. ,
“He’ll never get over my jiltin"
him?”
“Why, was he so inllove with you?”
“Oh, no. He was.so in love with
himself.”— Life.
.
IMPERTURBABLE.
Burglar—“What would you say if/l
were to blow your head off for not toll¬
ing me where your money is?”
Mr. Joker—“Not a word, sir, jnot a
word.”— Loicell Citizen.
NO USE TRYING.
Photographer—“Can’t you assume . a
more pleasant expression than that? Just
think of your best girl a fesw minutes.”
Young Man (sadly)—“It wouldn’t do
any good. She refused meta week ago.”
—Brooklyn Life.
THE UNGALLANT JUDGE.
Judge Duffy (to female
“What is your age, madam?”
Witness (hesitatingly)—“I have seen
sixteen summers.”
Judge Duffy—“How many y ears rwere
you blind?”— Texas Siftings. •
A LAUDABLE AMBITION.
Hotel Proprietor—“You say you want
a job as gaiter. Your face seems familiar
to me. Weren’t you a guest of this hotel
last year?”
Applicant—“Yes, sir . t I have come
around to get my money?back.”— Judge.
EARLY INTELElIiENCE.
Small Boy—“You’re in love with my
sister, aren’t you?”
Sappy—“How do you know that?”
Small Boy—“Because you’re always
sending her presents, just like Mr. Brown,
who’s goiDg to marry her.”— Munsey's
Weekly.
ON THE FREE‘BIST.
Travers—“You have actually sent a
bill with my clothes I What insult!
What infamy!”
Tailor—“It was all our new book¬
keeper’s fault, sir. He got you mixed up
with those people who pay!”— Chicago
Saturday Evening Herald.
ALMOST A niNT.
Mr. Goldbug—“What a beautiful lit¬
tle hand you have, Miss Gitthar.”
Miss Gitthar—“Yes, ma often says
that my engagement ring will hardly co 3 t
anvthing ' = at all.”
Impressive silence for several minutes,
—Chicago Saturday Evening Herald.
A NATURAL CONSEQUENCE.
Tom Barry—“Sorry, old man, but I
learned to-day that her mother objects
to you.”
Jack Dashing—“Good! From what
I know of human nature, tbat will prej¬
udice both the girl and her father in
my favor. I’m a lucky dog.”— Life.
A GOOD LITTLE BOY.
Woman—“Bobby, you never tied a
tin can to a dog’s tail, did you?”
Bobby—“No, ma’am.”
Woman—“I knew that a little boy
with as good a look as you have would
never do such a thing.”
Bobby—“No, ma’am; I jes gits the
can and the string for the boys.”—
Judge.
IRRESISTIBLE.
He—“Ethelinda, be mine. I am
young, well bom—”
She—“But, Mr. Samson, I do not—”
He (refusing to be interrupted)—“I
would care for you tenderly—”
She (hesitating)—“But—but—”
He—“And I have unlimited credit at
the principal dry goods stores.”
She—“Oh, Henry! I am yours!”—
Munsey's Weekly.
AFTER MINNOWS, NOT BIG FISH.
“Say, officer,” said a citizen in tones
of excitement, “I’ll take my oath that I
saw’ Bill Barkins, the famous bank bur¬
glar in a saloon around the corner.”
“Maybe ye did,” replied the police¬
man, suspiciously, “but how’ do I know
you ain’t tryin’ to distract my attention
from the boys that’s waitin’ for a chance
to play ball in the middle of the street?”
— Washington Star.
UNNECESSARY.
They had been talking about theu
neighbors all the evening, and, their be¬
ing a lull in the conversation, one of the
party said:
“Suppose we now talk about ourselves
/and rip up each other’s character a lit¬
tle?”
“That is unnecessary,” replied a thiu
faced, thin lipped lady; “our neighbors
are probably doing that for us.”— Nets
York Press.
THE HUCRSTEB’S REVENUE.
The huckster drove up to the door ol
a house and the cook met him at the
basement entrance.
“Want any strawberries to-day?” ho
asked, as pleasant as a basket of chips.
“No,” said the woman, sharply.
“Ner sparrow grass?”
“No.”
“Ner nice fresh fish?”
“No.”
“Ner fine, large raddishes?”
“No.”
“Ner new pertaters jest from the
Westlnjies, warranted to keep their eyes
shet when the polbemau comes in at the
back door?”
“No,” and the cook got red in the
face.
“Ner new turnip greens, ner peas,
ner spinnage, ner—?”
“No, we don’t want any of your
truck.”
“Bill,” he sung out to the boy, “drive
ahead thar—we’ve struck a boardin'
house. ’ ’— Chicago Tribune.
Curious Cacti in Washington.
Most strauge aud grotesque of the
plants at the Botauic Garden are the
cacti. They would seem to have been
created by nature iu a freakish and irre¬
sponsible mood. One might imagine
them to properly belong to some other
world than this, only half alive, as they
seem and assuming such extraordi¬
nary and absurd forms. Certain natu¬
ralists have imagined that they must be
relics of a vegetation beiougiug to a
period long prior to the development of
the plant life familiar to the present gen¬
eration. Their characteristic spines,
entitling them to the name of vegetable
hedgehogs, accentuate their impossibility
as contemporaneous species. The larger
forms, some towering to fifty feet in
height, the other individuals weighing a
ton or more, plentifully adorn the Mexi¬
can landscape, which in many parts
obtains au aspect extremely weird from
these astouishing*growths. That coun-
try, in fact, contains three-fourths of
the entire number of varieties known.
Nature provides the cacti with spines in
order to save them from being eaten by
animals. Horses are very fond of them,
and will frequently devour them, after
kicking off the prickly surface with their
hoofs.
There are few known plants which
afford such beautiful examples of sym¬
metrical structure as the “mammillaria”
group of cacti, many of which resemble
exquisite pieces of mechanism finished
with utmost minuteness and accuracy.
Others might be imagined to have un¬
dergone a kind of crvstalizatlon, their
whole surface being frosted over in geo¬
metrical patterns.
It is from a species of cactus that
cochineal is obtained, and for the pur¬
pose of gathering from it the insects so
valuable in commerce, great estates are
planted with it in the West Indies, Al¬
geria, the Canary Islands and India.
The plants are set out in rows, trimmed
to the height of four or five feet. In
August or September of each year is
the season for what is called the “sow¬
ing,” when the field hands attach to the
cacti, by means of thorns, leaves cov¬
ered with female bugs, which are thus
left, in order that they may produce
their young. The latter quickly swarm
over the plants, from which they are
removed four months later with blunt
knives. This process is a tedious one,
70,000 being required to make a pound.
Finally the insects are killed by immer¬
sion in boiling water and dried in the
sun, that being the condition in whidh
they are, exported.
One oi the most surprising curiosities
in this branch of the animal kingdom is
the “Old Man cactus,” which derives its
name from the silvery white hairs that
cover the upper part of the stem, giving
it a peculiar resemblance to the hoary
head of an aged man. The hairs are in
reality soft, weak spines. When the
plant is grown in the house it is best
accommodated in a glass case, inasmuch
as dust will otherwise reader the hair3
dingy, and impart to the old gentleman
a very disreputable appearance.— Globa
Democrat.
Head Flattening Among the Navajos.
Upon every occasion where I was per¬
mitted to do so, careful examinations
were made of the heads of these people,
both living and dead, as well as the
methods of strapping the infant Navajos
in their cradles, and indeed all else that
might tend to throw light upon the sub¬
ject.
Of some two or three dozen children
of all ages, from the infant upward, that
I have thus examined, I have yet to find
a case wherein the mother has not taken
the special precaution to place a soft and
ample pad in the cradle in such a man¬
ner as to fully protect the child’s head.
Moreover, I have yet to see a case, ex¬
cept for a few days or more in the very
youngest of babies, where the head is
strapped at all. On the other hand, this
part of the body is allowed all possible
freedom.— Popular Science Monthly.
Experiments upon the phosphorescence
of gems shows that it varies according to
the origin of the stone. Cape diamonds
show blue, Brazilian stones red, orange,
blue, or yellow, and those U’Qoa Australia
yellow, blue, or green.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
t“e° i S becoming
glutted.
batonan G ° S Q ° W pitcher ’ Nio01 ’ is quite a
Shannon has taken charge of the Wash¬
ington team.
been Bennett, catching of the Boston League Club, has
since 1876.
In Boston they think Strieker is the quick¬
est man now playing ball.
has Denny, been once the king of third basemen,
released by Cleveland.
It interferes with most baseball players’
good work to be captain of a team.
batters, Dalrymple, who once led the League
is hittiug harder than ever.
Hamilton, of Philadelphia, leads the
League in batting and base running.
Sutcliffe, of the Washingtons, leads
the country in batting. He has an average
of over .400.
Galvin, of Pittsburg, has been pitching
ball since 1874, and never knew what it was
to have a iaine arm.
Louis Bierbauer, Captain and second
baseman of the Pittsburgh League Club, has
asked for his release.
Baseball has taken a strong hold on the
Cuban ^ public. There are over seventy-five
clubs in that little island.
Tiif.re is trouble in the New York team
and Connor and Glasscock want their re¬
leases. They don’t like Ewing.
Anson, of Chicago, is generally very
lucky in his “finds.” His last, Vickery and
Shriver, apparently are one of his luckiest.
Despite the Rusie-worship of the New
the Yorkers, John Ewing, when in condition, is
most effective pitcher in the New York
team.
The New York Club has signed Pitcher
Arthur Clarkson, late of the New Haven
Club. He is a brother of the famous John
Clarkson.
out Browning, tbis of Cincinnati, has lined ’em .
year in great style, and now holds
third highest place in the batting list of the
National League.
The quickest game on record was played
at only Albany, N. Y., the other day. It took
played twenty-seven minutes. Five innings
were when rain interferred.
Two years ago, three pitchers did all the
twirling for the New York team, and did it
effectively, too; but now it has six pitchers
aud the management is groping after more.
W elch, of the Baltimores, still maintains
his reputation as one of the greatest centre-
fielders ever seen on a ball field. Some of the
catches made by him iu Boston were of a
phenomenal character.
Boston’s Association team have now a
string of heavy hitters in Brouthers, Duffy,
Farrell, Joyce, Richardson and Brown that
will compare favorably with that of any
seven men in any club of the League or As¬
sociation.
Harry Wright, of Philadelphia has some
unique ideas about handling his pitchers.
He makes all of them put the ball over the
plate and inveighs against bases on balls.
He insists upon speed aud makes a
particular point about watching base run¬
ners.
Freeman, the phenomenal left-hander re¬
cently signed by the Washingtons, is proba¬
bly the youngest pitcher in the professional
ranks to-day. Before he was signed by the
Washington team he had pitched but twenty-
four games, and had not yet reached his
twentieth year.
“Mike” Kelly of the Boston Association
team, Boston has signed a contract to play with the
League Club the remainder of this
and all of next season, This contract calls
fora salary of $5000 pe r annum and an addi -
tional 1 sum in case of t' the success of the club.
Kelly League. said he was to receive f 22,500 from the
Of all the players who have talked about
quitting only two have made their words
good by retiring from the diamond They when
there was an engagement in sight. are
McCormick and Sunday. The magnates that
drew them away from the diamond differ
widely. McCormick went to the race track
and Sunday .to the pulpit.
Studying the Blooming of Flowers.
Phenology is the term proposed for a
study of the periods of blooming in
flowers. In some parts of the world
flowers appear with tolorable regularity
—so much so Jhat floral calendars have
been based on the fact, and various
flowers have been dedicated to saints’
and church festival days because of
blooming at special jixed times. The
snowdrop Catholic for instance, is known in
countries as “Purification
flower,” from its blooming on the fourth
of February, the festival of the Purifica¬
tion. Our St. John’s-wort is so named
from its first opening on St. John's
day; aud so of other flowers. In our
climate, however, phenology will not
have much show as a science, except as it
may show the unreliability of these times
of flowering. There are, at times, a
month of difference between one season
and another, and sometimes a flower
that blooms the earliest of all one year,
will be far behind others in another year.
—(.New York Independent.
NUMBER 35
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 2nd, 1891.
NOR LTIBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12.
EASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 20 pm 9 10 am
Chamblee ..... 7 59 pm 9 43 am
Noreross....... 8 11 pm 9 55 am
Duluth........ 8 24 pm 10 06 am
Suwanee....... 8 37 pm 10 17 am
Buford........ 8 52 pm 10 33 am
Flowery Gainesville..... Branch 9 07 pm 10 48 am
2 52 pm 9 24 pm 11 11 am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 9 50 pm 11 36 am
Bell ton........ 9 56 pm 11 40 am
Cornelia....... 10 25 pm 12 04 pm
Mt. Airy....... 10 28 pm 12 09 pm
Toccoa......... 4 02 pm 10 58 pm 12 39 pm
Westminster ... 11 39 pm 1 20 pm
Seneca ........ 12 01 am 1 42 pm
Central....... 12 40 am 2 35 pm
Easleys........ 1 08 am 3 05 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 1 33 am 3 30 jim
Greers......... 1 59 am 4 01 pm
Weilford....... 2 16 am 4 19 pm
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm 2 36 am 4 43 pm
Clifton........ 2 55 am 4 57 pm
Cowpens ...... 3 00 am 5 01 pm
Blacksburg..... Gaffney....... 3 28 am 5 24 pm
3 46 am 5 42 pm
Grover....... 3 56 am 5 51 pm
King’s Meunt’n 4 17 am 6 08 pm
Gastonia....... 4 50 am 6 82 pm
Lowell........ 500 ain 6 43 pm
Bellemont..... 5 ll am 6 54pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 5 40am 7 20 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 87, No. :i. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 35 am 155 pm 2 50 am
Bellemont............. 2 18 pm 3 15 am
Lowell................. 2 28 pm 3 26 am
Gastonia............... 2 41 pm 3 43 am
King's Mount’n........ 3 06 pm 4 17 am
Gvovt r........;........ 3 20 pm 4 33 am
Gaffney............... Blacksburg............ 3 30 pm 4 43 am
3 49 pm 5 02 am
Clifton................ Cowpens.............. 1 1 11 pm 5 27 am
15 pm 5 31 am
Weilford................ Spartanburg... 11 39 am 4 32 pm 5 48 am
5 11pm 6 10 am
Greers................. 5 31 pm 6 28 am
Greenville...... 12 30 pm 6 05 pm 7 00 am
Easleys................. C 33 pm 7 25 am
Central................ 7 -5j>m 8 10 am
Seneca................. 7 53 pm 8 38 am
Westminster............ 8 12 pm 8 58 am
Toccoa........ 2 25 pm 8 50 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy............... 9 25 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia............... 9 30 pm 10 15 am
Bellton................ 9 56 jim 10 38 am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 10 02 pm 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 3 36 pm 10 28 pm j 11 11 am
Flowery Buford................II Branch........|l0 03 49pmll ll 46 31 am
Suwunco...............ll 17pmjll pm 59 am
am
Duluth...............j Noreross..............11 Ll 29 pm! pm! 12 12 pro
42 12 24 pm
Chamblee..............ll 54 30am| pm 12 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 00 pm 12 1 10 jim
Additional trains Nos. 17 an! 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, lanta daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
5 30 ji m, arrives Lnla 8 12 j> m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daiiy, leave Lula 10 05p
m, and 11 40 a m, arrive Athens 12 05 a m ami
1 40 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 7 20 ,»m
and 8 30 a m, arrive Lula 9 20 p m and 10 30
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elbert on—No. 61 dai-
lv; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 12 55 pm
arrive Elberton 4 4> p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leave »E1I erton 5 45 a m
and arrives Toccoa 9 15 a in.
Nos. 11 an 1 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Knoxvide via. Salisbury,
and Nos. 9 an l 10 Pullman Sleeper between At¬
lanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A'lanta.
Nos. 87 and 38, Washington and Soutbwesl-
ein Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged in connection with first-class tickets,
not excel ding $2.00 over and above usual Pull¬
man charges to any point.
For detailed information as to local and
through time tallies, rates and Pullman 81eej>-
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or arid ress,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, L. L. McCLE'tKEY,
Geu’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
W. H Washington, GREEN. D, C. Atlanta, Ga.
SOL. HASS,
Gcn’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Washington, D. C. Richmond, Va.
O. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
tTfORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will pra^.tic'-.- in the counties of H iber
<k*m and Rabun or tno Nonhwuft-cxn
Circuit, and Frank! m ami Banks of the
We-tern Circuit. Prompt attention will
->e given to all business entrusted^) him.
The collection of debt* will have sp» o
j'- litre Rora.
A tree near Manistee, Mich., thirty-six
feet in circumference, twelve feet in diame¬
ter and 175 feet high, will be blasted with
dynamite, as there is no saw that will cut it
And no mill that can cut it into boards,