Newspaper Page Text
VOLUME 111.
For The A Mimic an.
DEAE OLD MOTHER.
14'V* you, vr old in oilier,
I love that wrinkled brow;
Von loved me in my infancy,
And I will love you now.
When hick, you nursed me, mother,
Relief you tried to give,
And 1 will love you, mother,
Long as we both shall live.
You arc old and feeble, mother,
You cannot hear nor 6C'*,
Hut you sh ill never sutler,
For you’ve been kind to me.
- I ofi look look at you, mother,
And to myself I say,
She once was young and ebcer/ul,
Hut now, she's old and gray.
Yen live for others, mother,
That you struggled hard to raise.
They should make you h i|>;>y, mother
hi your declining days.
And while; I live on c irih, mother,
This promise 1 will make,
That I’ll strive to make you happy,
And ne’ie will you forsake.
And may you, deat old mother,
In your List. days he blest,
And reach that Heavenly home,
Ami liave eternal rest.
J. Q. 11.
Cartersville, Ga.
BITS OF SCIENCE.
The Surinam toad has no tongue.
Kvnpp, the famous gun maker, cut
ploys 20,000 men.
In the spermncoti whale the teeth are
fixed to the gum.
There are now 117 cotton-seed oil mills
in the United States.
Dr. Flczko, of Vienna, lias suggested
the use of petroleum or parafliuo as a
powerful preventive of cholera.
Paper labels for acid bottles should ho
fastened on with strong glue and after
ward soaked with melted paraffine.
The camphor laurel, a native of China,
and the tree from which most of the cam
phor of commerce is obtained, has been
successfully introduced into California.
Cryolite, a mineral which is of great
value in the potash manufacture, has
been discovered in the Yellowstone Park.
Heretofore it 1 las been obtained only in
Greenland.
A chestnut tree at the foot of Mount
Etna is thought to be the oldest tree in
Europe, It is 92 feet in height and 212
feet in cireumfereuc. The trunk is hol
low and two carriages driving abreast can
pass through it.
The light emitted by insects, when ex
amined under the spectroscope, is very
beautiful, but is without bright or dark
bauds. When the intensity diminishes
tfte red and orange rays disappear, and
the spectrum is reduced to yellow and
green rays.
A meteor which was seen to fall near
Odessa was found by a peasant and
proved to boa shapeless mass of about
18 pounds. There is very little known
as to the nature or causes of meteors des
pite the annual recurrence and observa
tion of them in November.
At a meeting of the Academy of Sci
ences, Stockholm; Prof. Lunds tram ex
hibited a fossil scorpion reoontly found
near Wisby, in the Silurian formation of
Gotland, and remarkable as the most an
cient of an air-breathing laud animal at
present discovered.
The life of quadrupeds generally
reaches its extreme limit when the mo
lar teeth are worn down. Those of the
sheep last about 15 years, of the ox 20,
of the horse 40 ami of the elephant 100.
Many inferior species die as soon as they
have laid their eggs, just as herbs perish
as soon as they have flowered.
FASHION NOTES.
Handsome long wraps are of dolman
shape and made of blue, garnet or black
velvet, trimmed with lace and passamen
trie.
Fans may be of black or white lace or
match the color of the toilet. Feather fans
with goid or tortoise shell sticks, are
handsome.
Gold-wrought embroideries are used for
the vests of dinner dresses. Others are
covered with an embroidery of chenille or
beads.
Black silk hose and slippers are worn
with dinner and evening toilets, or the
hose may match the chief color used in
the costume.
Fish-wife pokes of white felt., worn by
little girls, have little trinnv'ngs beside
the huge bow on top of blue or scarlet
velvet ribbon.
Jackets or match suits are heavily trim
med with silver, gilt or bronze braid
around the cuffs, collars and down the
fronts to form a vest.
Millinet, horse hair, and wigan bustles
in two, three, or several rows of double
lox pleats, are next to the air cushion
bustles, most in favor.
Sapphire and bronze figures in velvet
are seen on garnet satin grounds, to be
made tip with plain garnet or bronze
velvet, for visiting costumes.
CITY OUI>IYAYCK.
I>e it enacted by the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Cartel svtllu.
That from and after the passage of this Ordi
nance, it shall not he lawful for any person or
persons to sell or furnish, either directly or
indirectly, any intoxicating, spirituous, vinous
or male ltquois in any quantity in said City of
CartOrsvilU*.
15c it mrther enacted, That any indirect or
evasive practice whereoyauid prohibited arti
cles are sold or furnished shall he held and
deemed a violation oi the provisions of this
Ordinance.
Be it further enacted, That the provisions of
this ijrdinance shall not be cotistiued to pro
hibit (he sidling or furnishing of alcohol as
regulated under the Local Option Act lor
bar tow county.
Be it further enacted, That any person vio
lating this Ordinance shall be subject to pay a
line oi not more than one hundred dollars, or
" inked in the chai n-gang not exceeding thirty
d.iys, or ljol 1 1 , in the discretion of tlie court.
Be it lurthcr enacted, That ail Ordinance*
and parts *f Ordinances in conflict with this
ttrdiuuucc be and the same are hereby repeal
ed.
A GENUINE BEDOUIN.
SOME TALK WITH HIM WHILE
GROOMING CAMELS.
A Gazelle Hunt and its Unfortunate Re
sults—Hints of Wild Life in
His Par Away Homo,
{Detroit Free Press.|
An attendant was feeding the camels
in the winter quarters cf an English cir
cus, one afternoon last December, and
after one of the animals had swallow
ed half a dozen pieces of wixxl as thick
as a broomstick and four or five inches
long, I called the man’s attention to sev
eral more pieces which were lying among
the hay.
“A few chips, they will never hurt
him’ ” lie said carelessly.
“He has a cast-iron stomach, perhaps?”
“No; not irbh, maybe leather. Ido
not know. You ought to see him browse j
on strides in his native desert. That is I
what he likes. Shockh we call it—cam-!
el’s thorn, as you say in English. He
leaves the best grass ever was for shockh,
with thorns on it.”
Here the fellow stretched out his long
forefinger, ornamented with a grizzly
bear’s claw of a nail.
“Thorns in it so long as my linger and
sharp like needles.”
“You have been in tiio desert, then ?”
“Me? I am horned there. lam a
Bedouin. No fellah, me; no farmer; no,
no. A Bedouin, with some sheep, some
camels, plenty kemeyeb, plenty gazelle;
but no fellah.”
He moved the muscles of his fuco so as
to express a lino disgust at the word fel
lah; and although I was somewhat in
credible as to his being a genuine son of
the desert, there was certainly a foreign
air about his swarthy face ami a strange
accent to his otherwise not very bad Eng
lish that gave some color of probability to
the claim.
“If you are a Bedouin, what are you*
doing here?”
He shrugged his shoulders and then
gave the air a significant forward kick
with his right foot.
“The sheikh does me so fashion,” he
said. “I have trouble; the sheikh takes
my wives and my sheep; he sets mo ou a
camel, leads me outside the camp, and
then ” An other expressive kick more
eloquent than words.
“Kicked you out of the camp, oh?”
“Yes, I live me on kemeyeh and liz
ards. I have no drink. My tongue gets
big like a bushel. lam lost. But at
last I find Bagdad, and so here. Beg
pardon, sir, but if you liave some chew
ing tobacco, I'could eat a small piece.”
I gave him the remains of my plug,
and a handful of smoking tobacco, in ex
change for which he told the following
story, which contains some glimpses of
life aud manners not essentially different
from those of many of the desert tribes
now under the banner of El Malidi, al
though, as I gathered from talk, his old
home had been in the Arabian Desert,
not far from the borders of Turkey, while
the lighting is going ou across the lied
Sea iu the Sahara.
“My wife,” he began, “my old wife,
she can cook me gazelle meat like what
you don’t have in this country. She say
to me one morning:
“Hamid, why we uot have gazelle
meat to-day, insliallas?’
“ ‘Because wo not got gazelle,’ I say.
“Then she take me by the turban—oh,
yes, we wear all our bodies and our heads
covered up in the desert; else the sun
burns us, beg pardon. She take me by
turban and she whisper to me: ‘The
sheikh has rode him with the party to
the wells for water. Why you not bor
row his grayhoiuid and his pistol, shoot
ns one gazelle, and the sheikh not know
nothing about it, iushallali?”
“He have two grayhounds; but one is
the swiftest iu all the desert, and the
sheikh not sell him for 100 camels. I
crawled to his tout when no one looks,
and I borrowed that one and a pistol that
shoot six times which he bought for 400
piastres, aud away wo go, with the gray
hound tied tight to my wrist, after a ga
zelle. They are very plenty in my old
home; but so swift that no horse cau not
catch him; but grayhounds can; beg pal
don.”
He fired these two woifte into every
pause in his talk. They are the English
man’s shibboleth and, no doubt, in the
Bedouin’s* mind they took the placo of
his old “inbhallak”—“please God”—with
which in some shape almost all Orientals
pepper their speeches.
“Well, we have been out an hour,
when on a little hill I seo two—two ga
zelles. They not seo us, and I throw the
gray hound loose. Like the wind, pisli
h-k-li ke goes, and sudden tliey see liim
Like ike wind, pisli-k-k-li tkoy go, and
then suck a pretty race you not seo in
this country. Over the sand, over the
rocks, through the aglml bushes, the ga
zelles jumping and the grayhound near
laying his belly in the sand, so long he
makes his legs.
“Then is the time when I pull back
the cocker of the pistol. I see the sheikh
do it a plenty times, and I know how.
Suddenly the gazelle goes by mo like
the wind, and I point him, and bang it
goes. But not the gazelle is kill. Beg
pardon. The grayhound it is kill.
“I throw me sand on my head; I put
me face in the ground. But it is not
use—lire grayhoud it is kill.
“When tko sheikh comes back from
CARTERS'VILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1885.
the wells, he first not finds his grey
hound, and the infidel pig Mohammed
ibu Himhim tells he have seen me steal
it out of the sheikh’s tent, while he is
away.
“ ‘I have not do it I swear,” I said; ‘I
swear by Allah I have not do it;’ but
they find the pistol iu m> girdle, where
I forgot to put it back, and then the
sheikh gives my wives to Mohammed ibu
Ibrahim, the infidel pig; he keeps my
sheep and my two camels himself; he
sets rue on my oldest camel and leads me
out of the camp, and then ” again
the -expressive kick.
“That sand is good and warm—l am
not warm since I am in this country—
but all ! he is bare. Only kemeyeh; only
lizards; that is all I can find to eat, and
the lizards are bitter like green pome
granites. But for the kemeyeh—what is
it? It is the Bedouin’s bread. It grows
under the sand, white and big like mv
list. I walk along, and where I see the
sand up Lko a boil, I scoop out the
ground, aud there is a kemeyeh, white
aud soft like bread. We cut him up and
dry him iu the sun mul he keeps for a
long time. Sometimes wo sell him iu
Damascus and Palmyra for cloth and
spears; but without water or camel’s
milk I cannot live ou kemeyeh, aud my
camel have no milk; and my tongue gets
big like a bushel, aud sticks out of my
teeth so I cannot swallow. The so small
lizards that I catch have got some, not
much blood, and at Lust I must cut a lit
tle hole iu my camel and let the rod
drops go into my mouth until the dry is
swallowed a little. Ah, that is good; I
feel my lips soft again, and my tongue
goes part way back into my mouth, so I
cau make it shut.
“I stick my little spear so bit into my
camel and he goes on, but he is dry, too,
and only for the sharp spear he will lay
down and die where he is.
“Then when morning comes I see a
wady.
“ ‘Allah akhbar!’ I cry, and my camel
not needs the spear; he sees the wady—
what you call a valley—and walks for it so
fast like he can.
First we came to a little fringe of eshubb
green and sweet like grass—but my mouth
is sore so I can not bite it, but my camel
eats it like it was water. Then some aghul
bushes,then some shockh, then some tam
crisk and then a whole river of water. It
is El Dijeh, the Tigris.
“We never leave the river no more ; but
follow it, and I eat grass and kemeyeh, and
one time I kill a pigeon with my spear, till
we come to Bagdad. Then Isold my camel
for 500 piastres—what you call four pounds
—and hired with the English beg that
bought him to go along to England and
take care of his herd of camels.
“And I am here.
“But sometimes I want that I had not
borrowed the sheikh’s grayhound that day
and that I am back at my home, with my
old wife and my young wife, and my
camels, and my everything. Beg pardon.”
I noticed that the man’s voice quivered
toward the last, and when I looked closely
at his face I saw that he was cryiug.
INTENSIVE FARMING.
The Southern Live Stock Journal, of
Starkvillc, Mississippi, gives the following
—showing the possibilities of Mississippi
farming. Can any planter who cultivates
the richest bottom lands in the South
show so grand results of agricultural skill
and persistent industry ? Such men as
Furman, of Georgia, and Capt. Stinson, of
Mississippi, like Moses and Joshua, by
their wisdon and valor lead the way to
the emancipation of Southern farmers
from crop mortgages, and liens on teams
and cattle, and 40 per cent, interest for
credit at the stores. Here is what the
Southern Live Stock Journal says;
Capt. John Stinson, of Meridian, had at
the recent fair one of the finest agricultu
ral displays we ever saw. We doubt if
one man ever brought out before such a
varied display of the droducts of his farm.
There is certainly no section of the coun
try outside of the Gulf States where so
many different things could bo raised.
We give a complete list of the articles on
exhibition: G’orn, 5 varieties; field pea, 9
varieties; sweet potatoes, 2 varieties; Irish
potatoes, sorghum, cane and seed-, ribbon
cane, milo maize; crab grass; oats, 2 varie
ties; barley, rye, German millet, sunflower;
chufa, peanut, ground pea; grasses—or
chard, meado-w fescue, meadow oat, Ken
tucky blue, red top, white clover, Burr
clover, Johnson and Bermuda; also seed
of six of these varieties; of nuts, black wal
nut, hickory, acorns; artichokes; apples,
C varieties; peaches. 2 varieties; quinces,
persimmons, wild grapes, May pops, toma
toes, radishes, egg plants, onions, peppers,
butter, tallow, soap, candles, sugar, molas
ses, vinegar, cotton, wool, yarn, canned
fruits, preserves, peaches in alcohol, jelly,
jam.
This was all produced on a farm of 120
acres, only 20 of which were worked. The
products w T crc all in good condition, not
withstanding the fact that the past season
has been unfavorable. In addition to the
above list, Capt. Stinson can show cattle,
sheep, poultry' and hogs of the best quality.
With such a list as this how r much will a
man have to buy for food? Whenever a
man makes such an exhibition as this, he
preaches a practical sermon on the gospel
agriculture. Would that there were more
men to take the stump in behalf of diversi
fied farming. This display ought to go to
New Orleans. Meridian is in the great pine
regions of Eastern Mississippi.
“What is nerve?” asks an exchange.
Nerve is where A steals a joke from B, and
then complains because G does not credit
the joke to A.
WEST INDIA BELLES.
NOT AS CHARMING AS THEIR SIS
TERS OF THE TEM PER ATE ZONE.
Pretty Girls Among tho Lower Classes—
Eyes Wondrous Black and Bewitch
ing—Plaster on tho Pace—No
Handsome Old Women.
[Porto KieoC’or. Inter Oceau.j
The upper classes are either Spanish
or creoles, or “Sambos.” The former
those who come from Spain— natur
alized citizens wo call them iu North
America; tho second are uativoa of the
island, of Spanish blood, more or less
mixed; the third arc remnants of the ne
gro race, reduced by contact with their
former masters to the shado of quadroons
or octoroons. The Spaniards are sup
ixised to be tho aristocracy, at least they
set up a claim to that distinction, which
the creoles earnestly dispuro. They are
carpet-baggers; they come from Spain
to fill tho offices and eat up tho taxes
which the creoles and others pav. They
live at government houses and put on
airs, but the gentlemen usually end by
marrying a creole or a Sambo aud set
tling down into permanent citizenship.
In the country the negroes are black,
but iu the cities the mulatto, quadroon,
and octcroon are more common, but the
social prejudice that exists iu tho state
does not embarrass society here. A
Spaniard can marry a “Sambo,” as all
who have negro blood in their veins are
seriously called, without losing caste,
just as an American can marry a German
or an Irish girl. The male “Sambos”
often find wives among the' creoles, but
seldom among the Spaniards. Some of
the best families in Cuba, as well as Por
to Rico, have “Sambo” blood in them.
The president of Venezuela is a “Sam
bo,” as tho president of Mexico is an In
dian.
Aro tho ladies pretty? It is purely
a matter of taste. Those writers who
liave extolled the beauty of the Cuban
and other tropical belles have very little
knowledge of the girls of America. If
one is fond of dolls ho will admire the
tropical plant. There are many pretty
girls to be seen among the lower classes
—more iu Porto Rico than in Cuba—
bright-eyed, jolly, sylph-like beings; as
graceful aud suple as a panther, timid
and modest, but with all the coquettish
graces that budding womanhood is en
dowed with and always has been in all
■ages and in all latitudes. None of them
can road, none of them ever saw the in
side of a school-house aud do not know
the existence of books; they call you an
“Americano,” but have as little idea of
where an American came from as of the
composition of tho stars; they reply “Se
Seno” to everything you say to them,
and modestly droop their long, black
lashes over such eyes as is supposed were
the ruin of Antony.
The belles of the upper classes, those
whose languishing eyes and rich bloom
have been tho topics of so much litera
ture in prose and verse, may be beauti
ful aud natural, but with what they
choose to consider artificial adornment
they are not. Their eyes are wondrous
black and bewitching, and to bo able to
use them effectively is a matter of educa
tion. It is said that Cuban women—and
by that I mean tho whole West Indies—
can throw more expression into a glance
of the eye than any in existence, but the
people who say it have probably flirted
with them or seen the glowing of a heart
iu love. To me their eves all look alike,
beautifully black, sensuously languish
ing, and generally indicative of a bad
temper, but otherwise expression less.
They haven’t half the expression of the
eyes of a thoroughbred horse or dog,
and are simply evidences of passion, not
of intelligence.
And with the eyes ends the Cuban wo
man’s beauty. She would spoil them if
she could, but as she can’t she daubs
the plaster on her face all the thicker.
The chemists here sell a sort of paste
made of powdered egg-shells which the
women paint their faces with until they
have the appearance of plaster images.
They take tho stuff with them in the
cars, to church and to the opera and
when they think nobody is looking give
their faces a daub. There cannot exist
in the mind of any one of them a suppo
sition that this plaster of Paris complex
ion deceives people, but why they think
clmlf is beautiful is a mystery. The
neck and ears of a West India belle are
about ten shades darker "than her nose
aud cheeks.
Their mouths aro usually large, their
lips thicker than is consistent with clas
sic rules, but their teeth aro usually
white, oveu, pretty, and well preserved.
Although they make sweet meats or
“dulces” a great part of their diet for
breakfast as well as dinner, you seldom
see a woman or a man without good
teeth.
But the most disagreeable thing about
a Cuban woman is her voice—that low,
sweet, musical tone which is told about
as one of the attractions of Turkish beau
ties —is not hero, n©r is the bold accent
of the English girl noticed anywhere in
the West Indies. Tiio voice of the most
refined lady is usually as harsh and rasp
ing as theory of a parrot, aud she always
talks very loud aud in a high key.
They mature early aud fade early,
these tropical women. They either dry
up and wither, or else become very
obese. Tnere aro no beautiful old ladies
ta be seen, as iu all parts of the United
States. When they reach 40 years of
age they, are either gaunt aud sour, like
a crab apple, or else fat and greasy.
Their complexions are ruined by the use
of the plaster I have described, and the
lack of exercise shows iu their awkward
ness, as well as their physique. The on
ly exercise a West India woman ever
takes is iu a rocking-chair.
A PLEA FOR ‘NO FENCE."
[Gainesville Eagle.J
For the last three weeks, I have been
traveling through South Carolina, and, I
must say, it all the farmers of llall county
could visit South Carolina, and talk with
those people, who have tried the “No
Fence” system, they would say, “Away
with the fence! ”
1 traveled the past week, from Colum
bia, over the Greenville and Columbia
railroad, stopping at every station; and
the few days of pretty weather started the
plows on almost every farm. I know the
duties of a farmer, as I was raised on a
farm, but I did not see any rail splitting
and ;”no' cutting and burning
briers, and cleaning out fence corners ; no
repairing of fences. All a farmer has to
do is to clean up his creek and branch
lands, cut and burn his logs, if he has any,
and the farm is ready for the plow. Every
year, in Hall county, the farmers work
until late in tho spring, making rails, fix
ing fences and cleaning out fence corners;
when that all precious time should be put
in plowing.
Think what an amount of labor it would
save for the land owners aud renters to
have the care and expense of none but a
pasture fence! Every man who owns
land in Hall county, under the present
system, must have a fence; so it is an
useless expense to all. Let any man who
owns land, and wants good tenants, give
them good pastures, and do away with the
enormous expense of keeping up so much
fence. Then, every farmer can plow out
in the middle of the road and the edge of
the woods and have room to turn around
in without trampling down his growing
crops ; and make corn and cotton on all
that good land they give away to Madam
Fence; which, if-cultivated, would add
much to the corn cribs, cotton bales and
wheat boxes. I know, and every farmer of
Hall county knows, that to turn a horso
and plow around, at the end of a row, near
a fence, is almost imposible to do without
trampling on and breaking down the corn
or cotton for several feet from the fence;
and all of this space that is thus packed
down and trampled upon adds to the wide
strip of land that is already given up to
Madam Fence'; all of which is a dead loss
to the farmer.
The loss by fire burning fences, in South
Carolina, is almost nothing compared to
that of a country that has so much fence.
When a fire gets out here, and is not going
near a pasture, they just let it go. In Hall
county avc would work ourselves half to
death to stop a lire on a dry, windy day.
To always he uneasy about fire getting out
and burning up the fences, i3 felt and fear
ed no more in South Carolina. And when
a storm of wind comes, there is no fears
that a tree has blown across the fence and
knocked it down —not even pastures are
always in some old field, where there are
no tree 9.
And another reason which convinces me
that the No Fence plan is best; I see car
load after car-load of beef going to Charles
ton, Augusta and Savannah, from all over
South Carolina* and farmers tell me such
thing was never thought of until the No
Fence system came about. People take bet
ter care of their cattle, and grow cattle, and
the cattle do better, and grow hitter. And
it is quite a help to a man to have two or
three head of fat beef cattle to sell, for the
cash occasionally. These are blessings not
enjoyed by our famers ; who work one
fourth of their time on fence and fence cor
ners.
Let every farmer of Hall county take his
pencil and figure up the cost and expense
of his fencing, and I tell you it will surprise
the best of them. Bob.
AFFECTATION.
Affectation is an artificial garb assum
ed by those who make pretensions to
qualities which they do not possess.
This evil propensity,- for such we unhes
itatingly designate it, has, alas,' a deep
and wide-spreading influence. From the
sublime subject of religion down to the
slightest punctilio of deportment, what
is there in any way noble, “lovely, or of
good report,” that affectation is not im
pudent enough to counterfeit? But hap
pily for the interests of simplicity and
truth, the counterfeit is as different from
the reality as the paltry tinsel from the
pure aud solid gold, aud though the one
may glitter and dazzle for awhile, yet the
other will only stand the test of time and
trial. Tho triumph of liipocrisy is short,
aud even when at its highest glory the
flimsy disguise reveals more than it con
ceals. But this is a fact of which those
who wear the mask are probably not cog
nizant; for could they “see themselves
as others see them,*’ they would cast the
disguise aside. This idea is eminently
suggestive of the source from which af
fectation springs, namely, a heart that
has never been subjected t > the scruti
nizing process of self-examination.
Hence we shall find that an affected per
son is invariably a self-ignorant person,
and one who possesses a mean mind.
Until six months ago the navy was ob
liged to depend upon England for all
the gun-cotton used. Now the manufac
tory erected at the Torpedo Station,
Newport, produces all that is required
for seagoing men-of-war aud torpedoes.
CAPTURINC A STEAMER.
How Capt. Semmes Stopped Her Engines
by a Lucky Shot.
The history of the Confederate cruiser
Georgia, published in the New York
Graphic, recalls to the mind iff the “Cas
ual Observer,” of that paper, au incident
iu the cruise of the Alabama that may
uot he uninteresting at this time. The
Alabama was at one time laid up with a
broken screw among the West India Is
lands. There was a line of fine siile
wheel steamer’s running from Panama up
the coast somewhere—probably to Char
leston or Philadelphia—and Capt.
Semme3 concluded to capture one of
them. Ono fine morning in spring the
steamer was sighted, bowling along, with
only a light breeze fanning the sea.
When she got near the Alabama, with
the English or some other foreign flag
flying, crossed her bows to have a look
at her. She had on board several com
panies of Federal soldiers, whose bayo
nets could be seen glistening in the sun.
The baud was playing on the forward
deck, and the ladies and officers were
dancing. When the Alabama had cross
ed her bows she put about, hauled do\i n
the foreign flag and ran up in its stead
the stars and bars. Instantly the band
stopped ou the steamer, the people rush
ed into the cabins aud the pilot could be
heard to ring for full speed in the engine
room. The Alabama fired a shot across
her bows as a command to stop, but the
steamer seeing she had nothing to de
pend on but her sails, paid no attention
to this salute, and the wheels revolved as
never before, throwing up immense
mountains of white water and rapidly
pushing her away from the audacious
little privateer. This rather surprised
Capt. Semmes, who thought she would
surely stop. The steamer was half a
mile away, and he thought he would
take a parting shot at her “for luck.”
Au old gunner took careful aim with the
long rifled cannon at tlie bow, fired, aud
instantly the steamer stopped. The ball
had hit the walking beam. The Ala
bama sailed leisurely up, towed her into
Galveston harbor, and ransomed her for
SBOO,OOO, to he paid as usual to the Con
federate Government “six months after
it had beeu recognized ny the United
States,” and, of course it was never paid.
A Type of 1 Scanty.
Here
hang my bangs
o’er eyes that dream,
And nose and rose
bud lips for cream.
And here’s my
chin with dim
ples in.
This is my
neck with
out a speck
Which doth these snowy shoulders
deck; and here is—see, oh,
double T-O-N, which girls
all wear, like me; and here’s a
heart, from cupid’s dart, safe
shielded by this corset’s art.
This is my waist too tight
ly laced, on which
a bustle big,
is placed.
This is my
dress. It’s cost,
I guess, did my
poor papa much dis
tress, because he
sighed when mama
tried it on and scolded,
so I cried, but mama
said I soon would wed and
and buy pa’s clothes for him
instead. It’s trimmed with
lace just in this place, ’neath
which two ankles show, with
grace, in silken hose to catch
the beaux who think they’re lovely
I suppose. These are
my feet in slippers
neat, and now if we
should chance to meet, we’ll flirt
a little on the street. How s w e e t.
—II. C. Dodge.
Fruit Tree Culture.
1. lasted of ‘trimming’ up trees accor
ding to old fashion, trim them down,
so as to make them even, snug and sym
metrical.
2. Instead of manuring heavily in a
small circle at the foot of the tree, spread
the manure, if needed at all, broadcast
over the whole surface, especially- where
the onds of the roots can got it.
3. Instead of spading a small circle
about the stem, cultivate tho whole sur
face broadcast.
4. Prefer a well pulverized, clean sur
face in an orchard, with a moderately
rich soil, to heavy manuring and a sur
face covered with a hard crust and weeds
and grass.
5. Remember that it is better to set out
teu trees with all the necessary care to
make them live and flourish, than to set
out a hundred trees and have them all
die from carelessness.
6. Remember that tobacco is a poison,
and will kill insects rapidly if properly
applied to them, and is ono of the best
drugs for freeing fruit trees rapidly of
small vermiu.
7. Finally, do not neglect to set out as
many fruit trees of different varietis as
you possibly can. It will pay. If you
have but a small farm put out the fewer
trees, but put out as many as you can
find space for. Larger farm, more trees.
Fruit evaporators are camparatively in
expensive, they are Very easily operated,
and properly dried fruit is always sala
ble. If your farm is near a railroad, you
will be able to sell every bushel of fruit
for city consumption that you may hap
pen to raise, and you will realize satisfac
tory profits for it. By all means plant all
the fruit trees that you may lind room
for, and raise all the fruit that you can
coax your trees to bear.
NUMBER 45
How Sugar Was Invented,
The ex net date of the invention of su
gar is lost in the mist of fable. Howev
er, sugar is said to have been known to
the Chinese three thousand years *ago,
and there is not much doubt but that
the manufacture of the article was car
ried on under the Tsiu diuasty two hun
dred year's B. C. A strong claim for pri
ority has been made for India. Proba
bly the Hindoos learned the art from the
Chinese, and from India the knowledge
was carried West. Three hundred and
twenty years B. C. Alexander sent Near
elms with a large fleet down the Indus
to explore the adjacent countries. When
that officer returned from his expedition
brought to Greece an account of honey
(sugar)which the Asiatics made from
cane, without any assistance from bees.
This was the earliest idea the Western
nations had of sugar; the Jews, Egyp
tians, Babylonians and Greeks knowing
nothing of its use.’ As late as A. D. 150,
sugar was prescribed by Galen, the fa
mous physician, as a medicine. Before
the discovery of America, sugar was a
luxury, used only on rare occasion.
During the wars of Roses, about 1455,
Margaret Paston, wife of a wealthy coun
try gentlemen of Norfolk, wrote to her
husband, begging that he would “vouch
safe” to scud her a pound of sugar. As
late as the year 1700 all England com-
Bumed only twenty million pounds in the
course of the year, but since the corn
sumption lias greatly increased, twenty
million hundred weight now being used
by English people. The process of re-
lining was not known in England previ
ous to 1G59. That was probably an in
vention of the Arabs. A Venetian mer
chant learned the secret from the Sara
cens of Sicily, and sold the art for one
hundred crowns.—American Druggist.
LET THEM ROMP.
Has the child a right to run, jump,
yell at the top of its voice, blow penny
trumpets, and rampage generally if it
finds amusement in it? Generally these
are its only means of recreation. It can
not take part in the profound discourse
of its elders. The bang-whang and pen
ny trumpet only come within its pre.-eut
resojirses for mental and physiehil enjoy
ment. They tell us that it is healthy
for children to be allowed the full and
free expression of their bang-wliang pro
clivities, yet this is all suppressed in some
families. The comfort and convenience
<f the elders alone are studied. The
child is the weakest; the child is sup
pressed. The child must act foreign to
its nature. The child must not r ise its
voice aloud—must not iu the eldex*s’ pres
ence babble nonsence, save at intervals,
when nonsense, amuses the elders. It
must in the house be a ‘good child,*
which means a quiet child, a child wlycli
through fear stifles its nature. A child
in whom the inclination of youth to kick,
squeal and caper, as with kids, colts,
calves and the young of nearly every liv
ing creature, must be chained down, and
in this way youth is robbed of its only
sources of enjoyment.
Does Cotton Pay?
This important question was discussed
at the last meeting of the Decatur Agri
cultural Club.
Mr. Braswell, from the Lithonia club,
being present, was requested to open tho
discussion. He believed that less than
one-half bale per acre would uot pay, and
not then unless the farmer raises his own
supplies at homo. Dr. Goss said he had
made an estimate on cost of an acre of
cotton, and he believed that one half bale
per acre would give the farmer a uot
profit of about seven dollars and fifty
cents per aero. Dr. Jones believed that
less than one bale to the acre would not
pay and that above that amount net prof
it rapidly increased. He believed that
other crops were more profitable and
should engage our efforts.
JOCULAR CURRENCY.
A net that only big fish get into —The
Cabinet.
The early cat catches the contents of
your milk pitcher.
The baby can’t walk much himself, but
he likes to see other people walk.
Another old landmark gone ! Susan B.
Anthony has gone to Europe.
There is many a dynamiter who is afraid
to give his mother-in-law a blowing up.
You can’t pump a milkman. He knows
too much about it, and you’ll be up the
spout if you try it.
A thief, the son of a burglar, is a chip
off the old block when he is a copy on the
hook.
Hot cakes are more powerful at putting
down oleomargarine than the board of
Health.
Yes, son, we call that kind of a hat &
stove-pipe because it soots our clothes and
makes such a draft—on our pockets.
All animals have their good points, Lut
for abundance of the same none can com
pete w ith the porcupine.
Our young English friend excuses him
self for going on a spree by saying he w r as
getting up an “appy tight.”
“Who is that across the street?” “Oh,
that is a very close friend of mine.” “In
deed ?” “Yes; never lends me a cent.” '
“He that loves noise must buy a pig,’*
says a Spanish proverb. In most cassas
however, a baby will answer just as well.