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VOLUME IV.
A SOLDIER’S LIFE.
( , x nGUE, DISCOMFORTS and pri
vations ON THE FRONTIER.
Routine Work and Drill Only Relieved
by Occasional Pleasures-Some Dis
agreeable Variations—Overworked
Officers— Off Days and Hours. j
Wliut do we do from morniug nntl
every day in the army? Lots of j
tilings; and if you think it is dull and idle j
t,, hr at a frontier post, just come out
and lot me put you on duty for a day or ;
Ov',) Take a private soldier in the array,
Hiihjoct to all the rules and regulations
(; f ;l military post. Just at daybreak !
when he wants most to sleep the
ciii tli seems to be split open by a mighty
1 mi.mi from the great gun on the parade
ground, and the bugles call out merily*, j
“Get up, soldier; get up, soldier;” and
get up he must, and be lively about it,
t 00) or the f e geant will help him out of
bed.
It is not yet 6 o’clock, and to give j
liim a good apetite for his breakfast the j
M ;rgeant will drill him for an hour. At
5:30 comes the regular assembly, when j
you fall in and answer to your name at j
roll-call. At 6:35 sick call will go, and if ]
you. feel very bad and wish your self at
home with your mother yon can go up
to the hospital and the doctor will give
you a pill. After that you can get some
breakfast. At 7:45 fatigue-call will be,
and you will be turned out to work. At
8:50 there is a guard-mounting. If you
are not for guard you can keep on work
ing until 11:45, when recall will sound
and you can then come in to dinner.
One hour and fifteen minutes is allowed
for dinner and rest. At Ip. m. fatigue
call will be sounded again, and you will
go out for an afternoon s work, if you are
not for drills. At 9 recall will go, and if
you are a cavalry man you must go
do wn to the stables and feed your horse
for an hour. At 6 you will get your sup
per.
At sunset you will fall in for retreat
and answer roll-call again. You will
probably be drilled for half an hour at
the manual of arms or attend a dress pa
rade and be run about to try your wind.
After that you can attend school f >r half
an hour, and then reflect on home and
pleasures until 9. when tattoo will sound
and vou will be turned out for another
roll-call. At 9:30 taps will sound, and
you must then be in bed, whether you
are sleepy or not. Not a light is allowed
in quarters after taps, and no talking ox
moving about. If you are not sleepy
you can count over in your mind 1,000
two or three times until you fall asleep,
or you may reflect silently on the great
ness of your government. Next morn
ing you will again be awakened sudden
ly out of your sleep bv the great gnu, to
go through the same thing as the day
before.
DISAGREE ABLE VARIATIONS.
The variations in your life w-ill be
when you are detailed in the quarter
master's department to drive a team of
six unruly mules all day long and take
care of them after night. No matter if
you do not know anything about driving
teams; you must learn it. By-ancl-by
you will bo detailed as company cook
and made to cook for fifty or sixty men;
then you will be put in tho bake-house
and made to learn bread-making. If
you are handy with an axe you will be
sent out to cut, saw logs, or attend at the
saw-mill. Should you have an aptness
for .tools, the quartermaster will have
you detailed as a carpenter, and you
must build houses, stables, lay side? alks
mend wagons, and do whatever you
are told to do.
If you do not do it well, or grumble,
they ft ill arrest you, put you in the
guard-house, prefer charges against you
fur coduct to the prejudice of good order
mid military discipline, and a court
martial will sit on you, stop your pay
for a mouth, and order you to be worked
under guard for a month or two. If you
are very efficient, in a year or two you
may get to be a corporal, and the last
year of your live years’ enlistment a
sergeant but this will not ne'p you much,
for you will have all the more to do and
the captain will be after you constantly.
TilE OVERWORKED OFFICERS.
But the officers—l hear you say—they
have a good time of it, with nothing to
do but draw their pay. An officer is
constantly' ©n duty with liis men, and
that is sufficient answer. I have officers
who go out as soon as they eat their
breakfasts and are on thp gpall day long.
'They hare hardly time to eat their meals.
Take, for example, the target-iauge
officer. Shooting begins as soon as it
is light enough to see a bull’s-eye at one
hundred yards, and continues until
night shuts out the bull s-eyo from
The raßge officer is on duty all
day, and a company officer for each.com
pany. As there aro generally only two
officers, and often ouly one, for duty
with the company, you can readily see
they have no sinecure. They must at
tend all drills, scabies, roll-calls and pa
rades. Add to this boards of survey,
Court-martial, officer of the day, and
other duties, and they are kept constant
ly ou the go. All hay. wood, t and
stores are received at posts by boards of
officers.
I have been a school-teacher, farmer,
lawyer, editor, and various other things
in my time, and I can say sincerely I
never worked so hard as I have had to
in the army. When one gets up to a
field cflieer it is not so hard, but even
then there is a great deal to do, and for
the captains, lieutenant, and privates
the work if a soldier’s life is simply
prodigious. Promotion is very slow,
and of all the young men who enter the
army as officers only about one iu ten
ever become a field ( fficer. Of the en
listed men only one in seven or eight be
come a corporal or sergeant.
OFF DAYS AND HOURS.
When the days work is done and ti e
evening comes on, the men can gather
on the broad porches of their quarters
and laugh or chat or play games. They
can go, too, to the post-trader’s and
drink beer and play pool or billiards.
They have also their days of! duty, when
they can go ou pass to the neighboring
village and have a good time. They can
get hunting passes and go out hunting
aud fishing for a whole week if they
choose. They have base ball clubs aud
are allowed to play ball ou Sunday.
Saturday afternoon is given to the sol
dier’s to clean up for Sunday morning
inspection, and as the cleaning necessary
only takes au hour or so, they have most
of the afternoon to themselves. They
have theatrical troupes, balls aud parties,
aid are allowed to be out of quarters
until 12 at night eveuiugs when there
are plays, dances,etc., at the post.
The officer’s have their weekly hops
at the larger posts, dinner parties, social
games at cards, picnics, and private the
atricals. They spend a good deal of
their time evenings at tho officers’ club
room at the post trader’s establishment,
and play cards, billiards, or drink beer.
There used to be a great deal of gam
bling and drinking iu the army, but that
is now pretty much done away with,
aud it would be hard to find a steadier
or more quiet set of men than our army
officers at frontier posts.
LODGINGS IN NKW YORK.
The approach of winter brings a great in
crease in the straggling portion of New
York’s population, and this leads to a brief
notice of the accommodations which await
them. These are the lodging houses for
those who have money and the station
house for those who have none. Cheap
lodging houses abound in the vicinity of
the great arteries of life, such as Chatham
street and the Bowery, and in some in
stances they are very profitable. For a
dime bed may be obtained in a room with
others—often ten beds being in one room.
For a quarter you get a room by yourself
with a rear window, and for ten cents ad
ditional a iront room may be had. Of
course, guests at such places cannot ex
pect clean linen, or escape from the inev
itable vermin, but men who have no homes
must accept the alternative, and there are
many obliged to sleep at such places who
in education might be worthy of a far
higher lot, Hugh Miller refers to similar
scenes in Loudon in the following painful
manner:
“1 remember in crossing Westminster
bridge that the Poet Crabbe walked there
all night w'hen his last shilling w r as ex
pended, and these were the very streets
which Samuel Johnson had so often walk
ed from night till morning, having no root
in which to find shelter.”
A still lower depth is found in the five
cent lodging houses in which an army of
les miserables seeks shelter. They are
chiefly basements which are hired for S2OO
a year. The tenant fits them up with
benches and straw and a bit of carpet for
a covering, and this is much better than
“taking the plank” at the station house.
A dozen lodgers are enough to pay rent
and then the average crowd yeilds suffi
ciently to clear $3 or $4, which is really a
good business. The five cents lodgers
include the .wretched oi all classes except
newsboys,who have a lodging house of their
own at the same rate. This is a superior
institution, endowed in a permanent man
ner, but its advantages are limited to this
class..
BETTER ACCOMMODATIONS.
When you rise to f t per night a wid
range of accommodations is opened.
You can find thirty hotels on the Euro
pean plan, and then there are furnished
rooms to let in all parts of the city. There
are women who take a house and instead of
keeping boarders simply let rooms at from
$5 to $7 per week. Two young men can
occupy each room and they' can take their
meals at a restaurant. This mode of life
is rapidly on the increase, and the terms
advance as one seeks style, until it reaches
the elegant suites at from $25 to SSO per
week. All these things indicate that ten
dency to bachelor life which is so prominent
in the present day. The bachelor's rooms
may be lonely, but he spends so little time
there that he can put up with this. He
has a club and bis theatre and other re?
sorts, some of which aro much worse, and
thus be learns to live without a home and
becomes at last self ostracised from that
only true form of social life in which wo
man becomes the all-pervading power.
[Correspondence Rochester democrat-
Chronicle.
A detective hired to a man in LaFayette
county, Fla., to plow last week, by the
name of Williams. Williams had a wile
and six children. When the detective got
the right drop he arrested Wffiiams, and
carried him back to South Carotin ,
he murdered a lady twelve years ago
$15,000, and where he left a wife and two
children. .
CARTER SVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1885.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
OUR FATHERS KNEW LITTLE OF
TO-DAY’S CONVENIENCES.
Some Discoveries and Inventions WhicJx
Have Come to Modify Our Ways of
Working and Living Within, the
Last Half Century.
The change that the last half century
has brought to the commercial, social and
domestic life of the world are remarkable*
lt seems, indeed, in looking back over re
cent inventions and discoveries as though
mankind made no great stride in all the
400 years that succeed the invention of
printing. Fifty years ago there was not a
reaping or mowing machine to be beard irx
any field, nor was there a seed-planter to
be seen or any labor-saving apparatus for
doing farm work except such as had exist
ed for generations.
FIREARMS —PHOTOS —RUBBER.
In 1835 the farmers shot squirrels with
flint-lock fowling pieces, Springfield mus
kets, or some of the innumerable “queen’s
arms” that were said to have been picked
up on the field of Bunker Hill. Percus
sion-cap locks had not come into vogue,
and flint locks were retained in both the
militia and regular service for many years
thereafter. The first breech-loading needle
gun was made in 1836 and in the same
year Sdamuel Colt patented his revolving
pistol.
Fifty years ago such a thing as a pho.
tograph had never been imagined. Da
guerre’s process, long since abandoned,
was first announced tb the French Acade
my of Sciences by Arago fn 1839. Por
traits were painted in oil for those who
could afford them; miniatures were taken
in water colors upon ivory, and for the
rest there was nothing better than a sil
houette profile, cut in white paper with a
pair of scissors, and placed over a piece of
black silk.
It was in 1835 that Charles Goodyear
took out his first patent for an India rub
ber cement. Before that time the few
“gum” overshoes that were worn came
from the crude manufacture of the Indians
of B razil. Garden hose, waterproofs and
all the multifarious list of hard and soft
rubber goods belong to the last half cen
tury.
PINS, PENS, FUEL AND LIGHT.
In 1836 the first successful machines for
making pins were put into operation in
New Y’ork, but these were the kind with
wire or “spun heads” which had a way of
slipping down toward the point and leav
ing the upper end of the pin to go into the
thumb or finger. The process of making
pins with solid heads, such as are now in
universal use, was not patented until 1840.
People wrote their letters with quill
pens in 1835, and there was no note paper,
little ruled paper of and kind, no blotting
paper, no envelops and no stamps. Fine
sand was used to take up the surplus ink,
and only one sheet? or piece of paper being
allowed to go by mail at a single rate,
fools-cap was largely used for correspond
ence on account of its size, till it was re
placed by large, square sheets of letter
paper. Steel pens were not in common
use then, nor for a long time afterwards,
for they were neither cheap nor good.
The use of anajsthetics was practically
unknown till thq effect of ether in render
ing the patient insensible to pain in surgi
cal operations was" 1 announced in 1845.
Coal was hardly known as a fuel in this
country fifty years ago. Everybody burn
ed wood. Lucifer matches were not often
seen or smelled in those days; fire was
kindled with the tinder-box, and candles
and pipss were usually lighted with live
coals from the fire-place. There was no
gas for lighting streets or houses in this
country. Whale oil lamps and tallow
“dips” were the universal reliance. Burn
ing fluid lard oil and camphenecame later,
and it was years before the dis<ffrery of
petroleum ftpfl the manufacture of kero
sene.
HOUSEKEEPER —CARPENTER.
The housekeeper had no canned fruits
whatever, and no preserved meats, soups
or vegetables. She could get no condensed
milk, no cocoa, and but little chocolate.
She would have I+ad to look long for a ba
nana, and all imported fruit was scarce.
She would as soon thought of putting a
raw squash on her table as a tomato in any
form. Ice did not rattle in her water-pit
cher, and she had no refrigerator. Soda
w ater and ice cream were not at hand to
cool the palate in the summer, and lager
beer was a fluid whose name was never
pronounced on the shores. The first really
practical sewing machine had not been in
vented, and the household linen was spun
and woven at home.
The carpenter prepared every piece of
woodwork that went into the construction
of a house. He hewed the sills, joists,
beams, posts, rafters and braces ; planed
and matched the boards, shaved the shin
gles ili the woods and made the sash apd
doors at his bench in winter. Women knit
their stockings, for the stores held no Bal
briggan hose, and the only elastics they
could buy were made of silk inclosing sev
eral small coils of brass wice.
ELECTRO PLATE AND STEREOTYPE.
The process of electro-plating was un
known in those days, ana consequently
the cheap plated ware of recent times
could not be had. Forks were made of
steel and with but two sprongs. Every
body put food to his mouth w’ith the knife,
and the bandana spread upon the knees
was the predecessor of the napkin. Indi
vidual butter plates had not appeared.
Stoves were by no means in universal use,
and the capacious brick ovens still did ser
vice on baking days.
In 1835 there were probably about 1,200
newspapers in the Unite!states; now’there
are five times as many. The paper mache
proces of stereotyping was first used on
New York newspapers in 1861 and elec
trotypiug dates back not more than thirty
jfive years ago.
BILL NYE MONKEYING WITH LILA
HURST.
Very soon now I shall be strong enough
on my cyclonic leg to resume my lessons
in waltzing. It is needless to say that I
look forward with great pleasure to that
moment. Nature intended that I should
glide into the mazy. Tall, lithe, bald
headed, genial, limber in the extreme,
suave, soulful, frolicsome at times, yet dig
nified and reserved towards stangers, irre
sistible as a tornado when insulted by a
smaller man, lam peculiarly fitted to
shine in society. Those who have observ
ed my polished brow under a strong elec
tric light say that they have never saw a
man shine so in society as I do.
I had just learned how to reel around a
ball-room to a little waltz music when I
was blown across the State of Mississippi
in September last by a high wind aud
broke one of my legs which I use iu waltz
ing. When this accident occurred I had
just got where I felt at liberty to choose a
glorious being with starry eyes and fluffy
hair and magnificently-moulded form to
steer me around the rink to the dreamy
music of Strauss. One young lady with
whom I had waltzed a good deal, when
she heard that my leg was broken began
to attend every dancing party she could
hear of, although she had declined a great
many previous to that. I asked her how
she could be so giddy and so gay while I
was suffering. She said she was doing it
to drown her sorrow, but her little brother
told me on the quiet that she was dancing
while I was sick because she felt perfectly
safe.
My wife taught me how to waltz. She
would teach me on Saturdays and repair
her skirts during the following week. I
told her once I thought I was too brainy
to dance. She said she hadn’t noticed
that, but she thought I seemed to run too
much to legs. My wife is not timid about
telling me anything that she thinks will
be for my good. When I make a mistake
she is perfectly frank with me and comes
right to me and tells me about it so that I
won’t do so again.
A friend of mine says I have a pro
nounced and distincly original manner of
waltzing and that he never saw anybody,
with one exception, who waltzed as I did,
and that was the recently-deceased Jum
bo. I could waltz more easily if the rules
did not require such a constant change of
position. lam sedentary in my nature,
slow to move about, so that it takes a lady
of great strength of purpose to pull me
around on time. I had a pardner once
who said I was very easy to waltz with.
She moved about with wonderful ease and
a poetic motion that made my legs stand
out at an angle of 450° when we turned
the corners. She told me to trust her im
plicitly and she would see that I got
around on time. My feet touched the
floor three times during the dance and
one arm has been a little longer than the
other ever since that time. Most of the
other dancers left the floor and watched
us with great interest. Finally I asked
her if she did not want to sit down and
fan herself till I could get her a glass of
water. She said no, she did not feel fa
tigued at all, and then proceeded to whirl
me around some more, It makes me
shudder to think of it. Every time the
old bass viol would go “zzzt, zzzt, zZzt”
she would scrunch my shoulder blades
together and swing me around like a wet
rag. I then asked her if she would not be
kind enough to take me home to my par
ents. I then looked her in the eye and
begge'd her to remember her father. He
too, was a man. “Ah !” said I, “do not’
take advantage of your great strength.
Perhaps you have a brother. How would
you like to have him fall into the hands ot
a strong woman and be kidnapped so that
you would never see his dear face again ?”
She then relented and led me to a seat.
I told her that my friend who had intro
duced us had not pronounced her name
distinctly. Might I ask her once more, so
that we could some day dance again ?
She smiled joyously- and gave me a large,
stiff, thick, blue card and left the room. It
read as follows :
* * *
: ; Sec •
I LULA HURST. : Row j
I : Seat ;
; Retain this check;
I Admit One. ;as it secures your;
1 seat. :
* ’. *
Bill Nye.
TJio Sort of Girl to Get.
[Selma Mail ]
Tho true girl has to be sought for. She
does not parade herself as show goods, she
is not fashionable, generally she is pot
rich, but a heart she has when you find
her. When you see it you wonder if those
showy things outside were women. If
you gain her love your $2,000 are millions.
She will not ask you for a carriage or a
fine house; she will wear sipiple dresses
and turn them when necessary, with no
vulgar magnificence to frown upon her
company. She’ll keep everything neat
and clean in your sky parlor, and give
you such & welcome when you come home
that you’ll think your parlor higher than
eyer. She’ll entertain true friends on a
dollar and astonish you with anew
thought of how little happiness depends
on money. She’ll make you love hope
and teach you how to pity, while you
scorn a poor fashionable society that
thinks itself rich, and vainly tries to think
itself happy,"
News comes from neighboring counties
that the negroes are holding meetings and
organizing with a view of moving out
West, and & number are preparing to quit
the red hills of Georgia.
Shoe dressing—the best—at Word’s.
ANECDOTES OF JOSH BILLINGS.
Before I left New York I called on Josh
Billings with an album and modestly so
licited his autograph. He took it on his
knees, gave his mouth a comical twist and
wrote :
“Thrice is he armed who hath bis quar
xel just.” —[The Bard of Avon.
“And four times he who gets his bkw
in fust.’' [J. Billings.
Josh was extremely fond of animals and
had a cat iu his house in Albany which
he gravely addressed as “William.” I
suggested that that was a dignified name
for puss, as cats were usually calltd
“Tom” or “Tip” ora quick, short cogno
men.
“But, that’s a special, swell, blue
blooded specimen oi the faline rase. I
wish you to know,” rojoiued the humor
ist. “Recently, poor fellow, he has had
tits aud since then I call liim ‘rit::-Wil
liam.’ ”
When Rubinstein was over here he
was presented to Josh, and the pianist
was careful to impress the American with
the accounts of the nobility of his ances
tors. “My family,” said he loftily, “goes
back to the time of the Crusaders-. My
researches in this direction enabled me to
discover that one of my ancestors accom
panied the Emperor Baibarossa. ” Josh
smiled, aud affecting to be immensely
impressed immediatly remarked : “On
the piano of course.”
A story is told of the humorist being
thrown on one occasion among a batch of
students in a country town near New
Haven. He was tramping along with a
rusty yellow dog, and entered the bai
room ot a hotel for refreshments. A group
of the l”ale lads chanced to ba there on a
frolic, aud immediatly interviewed Bil
lings, whom they evidently mistook for a
farmer. They asked with affected interest
after the health of bis wife aud ehrildren,
and Josh, with counterfeited simplicity,
gave them a graphic account of his fami
ly and farm.
“Of course you belong to tliechmch ?”
asked one of the boys.
“Yes, the Lord be praised and my
father and grandfather before me.”
“Now, 1 suppose you would not tell a
lie,” said one of the students.
“Not for the wond.”
“What will you take for that dog !”
pointing to josh’s cur, which was crouch
ing beneath his chair.
“I won’t take S2O for that dog.”
“Twenty dollars ! Why, lie’s not woitli
tweuty cents.”
“I assure you I would not take S2O for
him.”
“Gome, my friend,” said the student,
who with his companions were bent on
haviugsome fun with the old man. “Now,
you say you won’t tell a lie fur the world.
Let me see if you will not do it for S2O.
I’ll give you S2O for your dog.”
“I’ll not take it.”
“You will not ? Here ! let me see if
this will not tempt you to lie,” added the
student, producing a small bag of half
dollars which lie built up into small piles
on the table. Josh was sitting by the ta
ble with his hat in his hand, apparently
unconcerned. “There,” added the stu
dent, “there are twenty dollars, all in sil
ver ; I will give you that for the animal.”
Josh quietly raised his hat to the edge of
the table, and, as quick as thought,
scraped all the money into it exoept one
half dollar, and then exclaimed :
“I won’t take your tweuty dollars.
Nineteen and a half is as much as that
dog is worth ; he is your property !”
A tremendous shout from his fellow
students clearly showed the would-be
wag that he was completely sold aud that
he need not look for sympathy from that
quarter, so he good-naturedly acknow
ledged himself beaten. —IPiiiladelphia
Times.
Fifty Years Hence.
Wall Street News.
“Father,” he said, as he let go of the
cro3S-cut saw to straighten his aching
back, “they say that fish have begun to
bite.”
“Yes.”
“Tho Burns boys caught a big string
yesterday, and are going again this after
noon.”
“Yes,”
“And I thought—being as—l
thought—”
“Henry,” said the old man, as he spit
on his hands and reached for the saw,
“you just let the Burns boys go,and you
stay here and help me saw. Put the date
down on the barn door, and fifty years
hence see who is worth the most in clean
cash. Pull away on your end.”
Accounted For.
A prominent Methodist clergyman tells
the following story of an old Baptist minis
ter who always contrived to lug baptism
into sermons, whatever his text might be.
The old gentleman was asked one day if
he could possibly preach a sermon without
alluding to his favorite doctrine. He said
he could and would, if they would give
him a text without any baptism in it.
The first chapter of Ezra, ninth verse, was
selected, which reads as follows: “And
this is the number of them: thirty chargers
of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine
and twenty knives,” He entered the pul
pit, read his text, and said: “My brethren, I
don’t see wliat they wanted of so many
knifes unless it was to cut the ice in order
to baptize the people.”—[Franklin Spec
tator.
is sure to cure you. Try it, boys-
You can get it at Word’s.
LIFE IX ALASKA.
ITEMS FROM A GOVERNMENT EM
PLOYE’S NOTE-BOOK.
Belief in E7il Spirits-Courtship and
Marriage-Bathing the Babies—Care
of the Aged—Cremation—A
Good Custom.
[New York Tio*es.)
“I haven’t been in Alaska since 1870,”
s lid a former government employe who
was stationed in that country for several
years, “but from all I can hear the occu
pation of the land by increasing numbers
of white people has not had the effect of
changing the customs of the country, in
some portions of it at least, to any great
extent. The Indians still believe in evil
spirits that inhabit the water, hold their
slaves secretly, practice polygamy and re
tain all their social and religious forms
and ceremonies. They have their sorcer
ers, repudiate all relationship on the fath
er’s side, and live generally as they did
under the rule of the Russian. There are
mussels and species of fish in Alaska wa
ters which have strong and sometimes fa
tal toxic qualities if eaten, which they fre
quently are. Sickness always follows
such indulgence, and it was no uncommon
thing, when I lived in Alaska, to see an
entire Kolosk village suffering from its et
fects. It is this tradition upon which the
belief in evil spirits who live in the water
and spread sickness and disease among
the people Lis founded. * They profess to
hold communication with these spirits
through their sorcerers, but they offer them
no sacrifices and use no means to propiti
ate them.
“Marriage among these Indians is a pe
culiar institution ; in fact, there is no mar
riage—simply the taking of wives. When
a young Indian wants a wife he goes to
his mother and tells her so. If she gives
her consent to where the lady of his heart
is cooped up in her father’s house, taking
his next best friend with him. Through
the latter he sends word to his inamorata
that he is near and would wed. If she
has a leaning toward the suitor she returns
word to him by the friend that she is in
clined to join her interests with his. He
then takes presents to her and her parents,
and having delivered them enters at once
into possession of his bride. There are no
further ceremonies, except that a day later ■
the couple must visit her relatives, and if
she then has no complaint to make to
them about her husband, they are given
presents and the wedding is over. This
may be repeated indefinitely, until an In
dian may become as well-to-do in wives
as a Mormon elder. Polygamy was prac
ticed even by the so-called Christian tribes
when I lived in the territory, and their ev
olution must have been rapid, from what I
remember of them, it they have abandoned
the practice.
Dried salmon is the luxury of the
Alaskan Indians, and the children begin
to nibble it before they think of walking
The way they bring up children out there
would hardly suit in this region. The
mother carries her child about from the
time it is born until it is able to creep, no
matter where she goes. Until that time
she keeps it wrapped in a sort of fur sack.
The moment the young one shows a dis
position to crawl she yanks the fur off of
it, and then begins the building up of its
constitution. This is done by giving it a
souse in the sea or river every morning
and the chorus of yells that greets every
village during this interesting ceremony
is something terrific. The cries of the
young ones are piteous, and, for fear that
their material breasts might not be proof
against these appeals for mercy, and thus
fail to do their duty by their off-spring,
the mothers do not peform the bathing
ri’e themselves, but delegate some brother
or sister to do the dousing. These con
scientious aunts and uncles vary the
switch with the bath, in vain attempts to
make the one overawe the noisy results of
the other.
There is one thing noticeable among
these half civilized tribes, and is creditable
■withal. Their old disabled members are
carefully attended to, and orphans become
a common charge and fare the same as the
most favored children with living parents.
These Indians are original cremationists.
Their dead are burned soon as death en
sues ; their ashes are interred on the spot
and a rude monument erected over them.
They have crude ideas of immortality, be
lieving that a man has a spirit that lives
forever, but they know nothing of future
rewards or punishments, Their heaven is
a place where the spirits of birds congre
gate in one place—the common people by
themselves, and slaves, if there are any,
have still another dwelling place, unless a
chief’s slave should die with him, and then
his spirit will he in eternal attendance on
his master. It was formerly the universal
custom to kill the slave when the master
died to insure the latter’s spirit proper at
tendance. That custom was abolished by
the Russian government, but it was kept
up in isolated places, and cases where it
has been followed were well known as late
as 7876,
“Some of the Indian tribes, notably the
Kanaitze, traveling from place to place
hunting or fishing, have the very excellent
habit of leaving behind them when they
break camp a quantity of kindling mater
ial at each fire place for the use of the next
travelers who come along, and who may
possibly not be oversupplied with this very
necessary item in their outfit. This kind
ling consists of some pitch pine and some
dry moss and sticks all wrapped up in a
curl of bitch bark. The trrveler who uses
this and doss not leave some for the next
one who comes along, is sadly deficient in
the etiquette of Alaskan travel.”
NUMBER 28
JEALOIST IN THE CHOIR.
Silvery noted,
Lilly throated,
Starry-yed and golden-haired,
Charming Anna,
The soprano
All the singers’ hearts ensnared.
Long the tenor
Sought to win her,
Sought to win her for his bride;
And the basso
Lovedsthe lass so,
Day and night for her he sighed.
The demeanor
Of the teuor
To the basso frigid grew ;
And the basso,
As lie was so
Mashed, of course, grew frigid too.
Anna smiled on
* Both which piled on
To their mutual hatred fuel;
So to win her,
Buss and tenor
Swore they’d fight a vocal duel.
Shrieked the tenor
Like a Yen nor
Cyclone howling o’er the plain ;
Saug so high
To outvie
The bass, he split his head in twain.
Growled the basso
Till he was so
Low, to hear him was a treat;
Lower still he
Went until he
Spilt the soles of both his feet.
Charming Anna
The soprano,
Mourned a week tor both the fellows ;
Then she wed the
Man who fed the
Wind into the organ bellows.
AN OII> SERMON.
Dr. Munhall Tells the Story of Zart lieus in
a Sycamore Tree.
|Savannah News.]
There has been no larger congregation
in the Independent Presbyterian Church
since Dr. Munhall began his meetings than
was present last night. Every pew down
stairs was crowded, the galleries were
thronged, the aisles were filled with chairs
and a great many stood up back by the
doors. Those who could not get in found
seats in the chapel and held an overflow
meeting.
Taking the story of the blind man of
Jericho, whom the Lord healed, as the
subject of his discourse, Dr. Munhall
drew a comparison between those who are
physically blind and those who are spirit
ually blind. The point that he brought
out was that worldly persons can be made
to see as Christians do by accepting God’s
teaching.
The story about Zaccheus was related
quite drolly, and about in this style: “Je
sus had passed through Jericho and wa*
going up towards Jerusalem with a large
crowd following, for they thought He was
going to be king. Iu the crowd was a ras
cally little short-legged revenue collector
named Zaccheus. He couldn’t
see over the heads of the oth
ers, so he ran ahead and climbed a syca
more tree. He thought there was about
to be a change in the administration and
he wanted to see what the new king look
ed like. The Lord saw Zaccheus in the
tree, and he said: ‘Come down.’ Zaccheus
was converted very suddenly, somewhere
between the limb and the ground, and I
don't think it took him very long to slide
down. That conversation was sudden
and it was certainly sincere, for Zaccheus
said : ‘lf I have stolen anything from any
man I will restore it to him four-fold.’
There were a lot of carping scribes in
the crowd just as there are here to-night.
They come to pick flaws in what the
preacher says ; children of the devil that
they are. They said he had gone to be
the guest of that sinner Zaccheus. No
doubt Zaccheus was not very popular in
that country anyhow, because he was a
tax collector and was appointed by the
government at Rome.’’
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TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE.
I will be at the following places on the
days stated below, for the purpose cf col
lecting the State and county taxes for the
year 1885. The rate per cent, is $8.70 on
the thousand dollars.
Cartersville District, Oct. 19, Nov. 3,14,
December 1,2, 3.
Allatoona Dit.,Oct. 21; Nov. 2, 19.
Stamp Creek Dist., Oct. 22; Nov, 4,18.
Wolf Pen Dist., Oct. 23 ; Noy. 5, 17.
Pine Log Dist, Oct. 24; Nov. 6, 16.
Sixth Dist., Oct. 26; Nov, 9, 23.
Adaiisville Dist., Oct. 27 ; Nov. 10, 24.
Kingston Dist., Oct. 28; Nov. 12,25.
Gassville Dist., Oct. 29; Nov. 13, 21.
Euharlee Dist., Oct. 20, 30 ; Nov. 20.
Stilesboro, November 28.
Taylorsville, November 27.
Ligon’s Chapel, November £G.
Hall’s Mill, November 11.
McCandless Mill, November 7.
Tax payers are earnestly requested to
make payments before this time expires,
as the law is very strict, and will be rig
idly enforced on me if I do not comply
with its requirements.
B A. BARTON,
tn 26 Tax Collector Bartow Cos., G&.