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VOLUME V.
SAMUEL .]. TILDEN DEAD.
A COLD CONTRACTED ON HIS
PORCH ENDS FATALLY.
A Brief Outline of tho Life of tho Great
Htatoaman—The Bhould-bo Ex-
Prosident of the U. 8. Joins
the Great Majority.
Yonkers, N. Y., Aug. 4. — Ex -Governor
Samuel J. Tilden died at Greystoue this
morning at ten minutes before nine o’clock.
He bad been enjoying bis usual good
healtli up to last Saturday evening. While
sitting on the stoop of bis rcwdence that
evening he was taken witli a slight chill,
which settled on bis stomacb.4l.ml bowel?,
producing inflammation, from he
suffered all night. On Sunday he was
slightly better and was able to ride out.
On Sunday evening lie felt much worse
and continued to grow weaker, but until
last night there were no fears of fatal con-
sequences. This morning it became ap
parent that the end was near. Dr. Chas.
lb Simmons and Miss Gould, a relative
of Mr. Tilden, were at liis bedside. A few
moments before Mr. Tilden died he tried
to speak, but only moved bis lips, failing
to make any sound, lie passed away
quietly and peacefully.
Samuel J. Tilden was born in New
Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y., Feb. 0,
1814, wfferekis grandfather, John Tilden,
settled in 1790; and where his father,
Elam Tilden, was a farmer and merchant.
Samuel entered Yale College in 1883, but
soon left that institution and graduated
at the University of New York, lie was
admitted to the bar in 1841, and began
practice in New York City. In 1844, the
Morning News, a daily paper, was estab
lished in New York to advocate the elcc
tion to the Presidency of James K. Polk.
Mr. Tilden invested capital in this enter
prise and became tho editor of the jour
nal, which position he held until alter the
election. 111 1845 he was elected to the
New York Assembly, and in 184 G was
chosen a member of the Constitutional
Convention, where lie was made a mem
ber of the Committee on Finance and
Canals. In 1805 he was defeated as the
“Sot Shell” Democratic candidate for
Attorney General of New York. Mr. i'il
den then devoted himself to liis profit s
sion. liis practice was very extensive,
and by it he amassed considerable wealth.
Besides other important eases, he was
cuusel in 1856 for Azariah C. Flagg in
the case growing out of the contested elec
tion for lire Comptrollerskip of New York
City; in 1857 for the relatives of Dr.
Burdell against the claims of Mrs. Cun
ningham; and for the Pennsylvania Coal
Company in the suit brought by the Del
aware and Hudson Canal Company.
Mr. Tilden became Chairman of the Dem
ocratic, State Committee in 1860, and was
a leading member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1867, serving with distinc
tion on the Finance Committee. He be
came an indefatigable laborer in the cause
ot judicial and political reform in the city
of New York, and in 1869-W was active
in the organization of tls Ikir Association.
When the contest was waged against
the members of ‘he “lammany Ling
holding city cilices, who were charged
with deluding the city treasury of
many-nillions of dollars, Mr. Tilden reli
eved invaluable services to the cause of
reform by his famous analysis of the ac
counts of the Broadway Bank, showing
conclusively how the alleged culprits had
shared their spoils, and furnishing legal
proof for their conviction, in 1818 he
was again elected to the General Assem
bly, where he continued his exertions in
the cause of reform. In 1871 he was
elected Governor of New York by a plu
rality of 50,317 votes over John A. Dix,
Republican, and Myron 11. Clark, Pro
hibitionist. lie was inaugurated Jan. 1,
1873, and soon after declared war against
the “Canal Ring,” which resulted in the
overthrow of that organization.
Tiio National Democratic Convention
assembled in St. Louis in June, ib/6.
Gov. Tildeu was the leading candidate
for the lirst place on tho ticket. On the
first ballot he received 403$- of the 113
votes east. When the vote for the
second ballot was finally announced Gov.
Tilden had G 35 in a whole vote of 738.
The nomination was made unanimous,
and he was declared the Democratic
candidate for tho Presidency. lie ac
cepted the nomination in a brief speech
cm July 11. His formal lettei of ac
ceptance Wile dated July 31.
The election took place Nov. 7, and
resulted, accordingly to the Returning
Board count, in giving Mr. Tildeu a ma
jority oTpr all, however, was consider
ably larger than that, because the Re
turning Boards of South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiania threw out enough
Democratic votes to give those States to
Mr. llays. Tho Democrats disputed
the count in those States. The House
was Democratic and the Senate Repub
lican. .After a long discussion an electo
ral commission, composed of fifteen
members, was agreed to. This commis
sion, by a vote of Bto 7 —a strictly parti
san vote—-gave tire three disputed States
to Mr. Hayes, aud ho was inaugurated
President.
Mr. Tilden retired to private life, but
he never ceased to take an active iut?r
est iu public affairs. Ho was talked of
6 J’ r <Weaoj in 1880 and again in
1881. He was in fulling health, how
ever, and lie declined to permit himself
to be regarded as a candidate. Within
a few days articles have appeared in pub
lie prints urging the advisnUhty ~
nominating him for President i u i bßß<
A STItANGE DELUSION.
Ohio lunatics who Worship a Woman
as Christ. . i*
Cincinnati, aU*rust sth. —One of the
T j
most remarkable religious manias of
which there is any record has “broken olit
in a little circle in this city. of
thirty or forty people, most of tiiem gfiom
iuent and above the average in intelligence
j. believe that Mfs. John B. Martin of Wal
nut Hills, is Christ rnansifest in the flesh,
and that her sister, Mis. John F. Brooks,
is the Holy Ghost. The followers of these
tw* xvomen meet at Mrs. Brooks’ house
and worship them both. Mrs. Martin
has exerted some strange and ,wonderful
influence that has put them completely
in her power, and they are fanatics on
the subject. One of the followers of this
woman Christ is named Jerome, lie
was a bookkeeper here for tlia Cincinnati
agency ofD. Appleton & Cos., the New
York Publishers. lie gave up liis posi
tion of SI,BOO a year to serve the female
Savior of mankind. To au Enquirer re
porter ivho saw him to-day he said in an
earnest and eloquent conversation: “I
have seen 'God face to face in the last
half hour.”
A young man named Cook, who
works in the auditor’s oilice of the Adams
Express Company, has also been captured.
He resigned his position, and has attached
himself to the new caste. They believe
that all churches are frauds, and the
preachers a set of lbols. Accounting for
the fact that Christ should manifest him
self in a female they say that in heaven
there are no sexes and the Saviour is as
liable to appear in a woman as in a man.
Mrs. Martin, the “New Christ,” and Mrs.
Brook, the “Holy Ghost,” they say are
the only two perfect women on earth, and
that the millennium is at hand. This
movement has been going on quietly for
a year without becoming generally known,
The women seclude themselves, and will
not be seen by any one who is not a wor.
shipper, or vouched for by one of them.
Many have sold their homes and taken
houses near the woman on the Hill 1.
Those who have given their positions
say they do not work or money. All they
need is spiritual food, and this will be
lurnished by the Lord, just as it was i'ur
nishe l to the children in the wilderness.
A Miss Andrews, who lives with her
mother on Walnut Hill, is almost insane
from excitement, and passes her whole
time in weeping, singing and praying.
Her mother has tried to show her the
folly of her belief, but in vain.
In this list arc numbered some of the
best people in Cincinnati. Exposure to
public ridicule, it is thought, will bring
them to their senses.
HIS MUST EFFORT.
George is a bright boy. He hasn’t yet
sallied forth into this gre it big world of i
trials and tribulations to live up" l his
achievements in the “lost n j V but we be
lieve the day not t‘" r the future when
bis services ” fii be greatly needed by the
press ofthe country. This is the way lie
“sets’em up:”
Girls of a marriageable ago do not like
to tell how old they are ;but you can find
out by following the subjoined instructio
ns, the young lady doing the figuring. T
cll her to put down the number of the mo
nth in wjjich she was born; then to mult
iply it by 2: rlien to add 5; then to mnltip
lyit by 50; then otadd hengethen to sub
tract 305; then to add 116; then sk lie
to tell you the atnuont she has left. Ther
two figures to the right will denote her
age the and remainder the month of her
birth. For examble the amount is 822;
she is 22 years old, and was born in the
eiShth mouth )August). Try it.
A. D. Ruede, of Marietta, dream moil
dar night that his house had bee bhrglar
ized and that his pants had been carried
outdoors anp plundered . He awok next
morning and to his consternation found
that such was the fact. Ilis pants were
missing and the front door open. Near the
front gate he found his pants, rifted of
about $4 55ain silver, two prized ancient
coins being among the st den pieces. Ilis
pocket knife and store keys were not
molested. He investigatep the matter
Tuesday, and a small negro girl
Atho sleaps in the house confessed that she
openep thi dour and admitted another n
egro girl who carried the pants out doors
anp dividrd the money, as they wanted
to patronize the festival.
Now, is it strange that newspaper men’s
lives are short, after contending for months
and years with such as the above:
About one year and a half ago Sim
Johnson, a small farmer of Cut-land dis
trict, Bibb county, moved to Texas for
the purpose of engaging in farming. Mr
Johnson was comparatively engaging pong
man,having a wife and ouechild, Johnnie.
When they moved to Texas a year and
a half ago Johnnie was six and a half
years old. After moving there Mr. John
son settled down and commenced farming,
lie worked very hard, and with the as
sistance of his little boy they managed to
run a one horse farm. Wednesday his
wife’s family living in Rutland district
received a letter from Mrs. Johnson, st a _’
ting that while Mr. Johnson and the lit
tle boy were working in new ground last
week, Mr. Johnson was suddenly startled
by a scream from the little boy, who was
about fifty yards away, and leaving his
work; he ran in the direction of wher he
heard the screams and where he knew
the little boy was at work, but to his disap
pointment, when he reached the place he
could neither find his child nor see any
trace of him whatever, or hear anything
of him. lie searched dilligently for him
and two days later had heard nothing of
him. It is thought some wild beast must
have eaten the chid and then tied. It
was the only child.
CARTEKSVILLE. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1886.
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lti:i DEVIATION Ol A -COWIIDU. ’
* 1 . -Wa.H-ma Dim*? Novel U;IU-r, Who
* Tliotigiit Himself a*lta<l One.”
* Nn "fibre need hope for good results in
any, effort to deal with criminals, wlioth
er thdy be in prison or out of it, who
does fjit Relieve that in eve??.' man there
i! 'a of 'gf'uj ("tnossj, j Any man
who has dealt with eumiuals Swill- admit
that Ire has -ffequeutiy surprised
by thfc doyeifqttHeift of such possibilities
into the GTvGafisfivetory reality of honest
upright, self-respecting life.
t, . r -j * i
*lt 1 ken happens, too, f ind a person
criufiually incTinod only Tiyed-j to get a
right vittjv oflumsetf. to bring I about* his
reformation.* Here is a bfcry, 17 years of
age, who ht read so many ihijie novels*
so much of the fiction of the plains, that
his heated imagination has piade him
believe himself fitted with $Ji the violent
qualities that go to make a successful
cowboy arid Indian fighter. lie, iudeqd
has tried the experiment of boting a real
cowboy, ran away to the Southwest,
learned to drink whiskey, to herd c.dtle,
to make his talk a blaze of blasphemy,
to trottle all the tender emotions, and to
despise the decencies of polite- society.
But these accomplishments were not ac
cept ional enough among the cow'boys to
attract much attention, and not finding
the notoriety for which he craved, lie
came back to New York to be lire terror
of his widowed mother and the bane
of a peaceful boarding-house that she
kept. A cowboy in the southwest is one
thing; a swaggering braggadocio, armed
with bowie-knife and revolver and threat
ening murder in a New York boarding
house is quite another.
The youth became intolerable. Tim
poor mother’s life became a burden to
her. The safety of her household made
it necessary that she should call upon
the law for protection against her own
son. Ehe went to the police station to
make tho complaint. The boy was
very dear to her; he was her “baby,”
the youngest of the family; she was
crushed by the necessity that made her
the complainant against this boy. Iler
principles were, however, stronger than
her feelings; she made the compl dnt,
urnedaway from tfie station-house desk,
put her hand to her heart, gave a bitter
moan of agony, cried out: “My heart is
breaking,” and fell to the floor dead!
Her heart was, indeed, broken. And
when the news of his mother’s death
was carried to the young bravado he
said: “Now I suppose I will be my own
master,” This would seem a bad case;
one on which the better spLmonD
been crushed out < f existco.
This ias he appeared in our first
interview, was fair-haired and blue eyed,
with a pleasant expression of counte
nance, a muscular body, and a noßiowhat
slouehy, swaggering manner. We sat
facing each other for Iwo or three
minutes, mentally studying oacli other.
I found it necessary to take precedence
iu the conversation. “Well,” I said—
and I supposed I smiled—“you are a
fraud; you are no cowboy; you are no
Indian-ligliter; you are not ‘Bloody Bill
the Scout’; you’ve succeeded in impos
ing on vour poor mothnr, who never saw
an Indian in her life, and was always
afraid of a gun; you've made fools of a
lot of silly boarders; and after all you
are only a poor, simple, ignorant, silly
boy of 17, not even bad at heart, only
you’ve persuaded a ourself that you are
bad, and people have called you bad,
and you’ve come to believe you are.
You ought to be sent to an asylum for a
weak minded youth, or to a woman’s
school; you’re not lit for state prison.
You can never make a successful crimi
nal; you haven’t got it in you,”
The boy looked amazed. Ho had
evidently expected that I would tell
him what a desperate character he was.
His lip quivered, and the tears came in
to his eyes; being found out in his de
ception, he “put up his hands,” and
capitulated to his better nature. He
has concluded to be a farmer, and he
lias conducted himself very respectably
ever since that conversation. He had
chosen to play a part before the world
and the world had been foolish enough
to allow him to occupy the place he had
chosen. He had been fascinated by the
bravado of crime aud consumed with a
craving for a criminal notoriety, and
this craving was fed by the account of
every criminal exploit and sensational
trial that he had read in the newspapers,
aud by every recognition of the distinct
ion lie had attained. Having been con
vinced that his view of life was a false
one, it was only necessary to supply a
new set of interests to save the boy.
In our county jails liis criminal ten
dencies would have been further cultiva
ted and developed; in our prisons he
would have been still further stigma
tized as belonging to the dangerous
class. —W. R. Round in the Forum.
A Chicago boy of fourteen ye irs recently
riu away from home to becom; a pirate
king. II: was captured by a policeman
and returned to his parents. He didn’t
become that kind of a king, but after a
brief interview with his father he was
aking.
Twenty-three million eggs were lately
shipped at one time from St. Louis, and
on examinational their destination, New
York, only 900 were found broken. The
eg is were packed in borrels, eich holding
seventy-live dozen, and fillhd a train of
I & 0 cars.
A SOLDIER SPEAKS.
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Yaas! In tfie Union army
I fought in front of Lee,
And certain wounds debar me
From certain work you see;
The vet Tans that 1 know of,
Their doings in the warn
They never make a show of
Or bring -about their scars,
But Johnnie Rob’s attentions
Have not increased mv gall—
I don’t like bogus pensions—
No, thank you, not at njll!
U, Congress, tender bom tod!
tit pensions every coot;
Tup dead-bt at who deserted
(Got peppered in the boot,)
The sot ai>d bounty jumper,
The jail-bird just unloosed,
The thief that caught a thumper
While in a chicken roost,
The bruise - whose contentions
Involved him in a inn**;
Does Grover like these pensions!
Yes! Muchly! Just like us!
Though Congress may agreo to
Each bogus pension fraud,
O, Grover, sling your veto
And soldiers will applaud!
It stirs my blood and marrow
To read the record o’er;
“Drunk! injured by w’heelbarroW
in 1881.”
I flint a major-dumo
Who, at my countrys call,
Enlisted foi*a chroino!
No, thank you. not at all!
jL-— Washington Post.
SA N ITAK Y P RISC AUYI< )N S.
Hull's Journal of Jleallh.
The Fouadatitp pf three fourths of all
the cases of consumption is hud before
the age of twenty-live years; in women,
during their teens.
The hereditary element is not of
special account as u cause of con
sumption, as loss than 25 per cent, of
cases are clearly of consumptive parent
age.
One of the ruling causes of disease
and premature death in large c ises is
found in that exhausting strain of the
mental energies ia the struggle for sub
sistence—a death race for bread.
Insanity runs in families, but, as in
the case of family likeness, it sometimes
overlaps a generation or umre.
Personal resemblance entails like
c laracteristics of mind and disposition.
A current of the purest air from the
poles for half an hour oil a person sleep
ing, sitting still, or overheated, is a thou
sandfold more destructive to health and
fatal to life than the noisomoness of a
crowded room or vehicle, llie BLtsua ‘
of a pig-tray ha : fml °*
rjy, oxae in weariness, increased by
every step, is not only not beneficial, it
is useless and worse than useless; it is
positively destrucl ive.
As no good traveler, after having fed
his horse, renews his journey i:i a trofi
but with a slow walk, gradually i; creas
ing his pace, so in getting up to address
an assembly for a continued effort the
first two sentences should he uttered in
a slow, tone, gradually intensified,
otherwise the voice will break down in a
very few minutes with coughing or
hoarseness. *
A growing inability to sleep in sickness
is ominous of a fital result; i;i apparent
health it indicates the failure of the
mind and madness; so, on the other
hand, in disease or dementia, a very
slight improvement iu lhe sleeping
should be bailed *as the harbinger of
restoration.
No one can positively sink if the herd
is tlnust entirely under water, and in tl: s
position a novice can swim, ns easi y is
walk, and get to shore readily by lifting
the head at intervals for breath.
Intense thirst is satiated by wading in
water, or by keeping saturated with
water, even if it is taken from the sea.
Water cannot satisfy tho thirst which
attends cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea
and some other forms of disease; in f ict,
drinking cold water seems to increase
(he thirst aud induce other disagreeable
sensations; but this thirst will perfect
ly and pleasantly subdued by eating a
comparatively small amount of ice, swal
lowing it in as large pieces as practi’cble
and ns much as is wanted.
Inflammation is more safely and far
m ire agreeably subdued by the appli
cation of warm water than of cold.
Very excessive effort in a short space
of time, as in running or jumping a
rope, etc., lias repeatedly caused instant
death by apoplexy of the lungs, tho ex
ercise sending the blood there faster than
it can be forwarded jo the heart, aud
faster than it can be purified by the
more frequent breathing on such oc
casions.
No disease ever comes without a cause
or without a warning; hence endeavor
to think back for the cause, with a view
to avoid it in the future, and on tho iu
staut of any unpleasant bodily seusation
cease eating until it has disappeared, at
least for twenty-four hours; still remain
ing consult a physician.
The more clothes a man wears the
more bedclothes ho uses, the closer he
keeps his chamber the closer he confines
himself to In’s house, the more readily
he will take cold, as the more thriftless
youth is helped the less able does ho
become to help himself.
In the three adjoining north Georgia
senatorial districts, the 39th, 41st and
44th, three brothers are candidates. In
! the 39th, Rev. Thaddeus P ckett, in the
41st, D•. C. Picket*, aid iu the 44th,
Capt. Wm. Pickett.
GORDON KEPT TUB FARM.
Boston Traveller.
Tk prominent part Geu. J. B. Gordon
has lately played in the festivitea at Mont
gomery, Ala., brings to mind that his fath -
er became a millionaire solely through his
love for good spring water.
The elder Gordon, father •of General
and Walker Gordon, formerly resided in
what is now Marion county, Tenn. About
forty years ago he bought a strip of barren
mountain land for SSO. The land was
too poor t* be farmed, had no timber of
value on it, and Gordon bought it more t >
help its owner than because he wanted
the property. Soon after he moved to
Georgia ani almost forgot that he owned
the tract.
One .day an old Tennessee neighbor rode
up to his door and was received with
great cordiality. The Tennessean said ho
was in Georgia on business, and thought
hcwould see his old neighbor before return
ing home.
After conversing on different subjects
the Tennessean brought the conversation
around to real estate.
“By the way, Gordon,” said the Tenn
essean, casually, “you have a piece of land
near mine, would you like to sell it? It i?
not worth much,” he continued, “but it
will do far me to let the beavers run on.”
“Well,” replied Gordon, “I had almost
forgotton that strip what’ll you give
for it?”
“I don’t think it’s worth more than
$10,” said tlie Tennessean, carelessly.
“Oh! I reckon it’s worth more than that
I paid SSO lor it, but then I just lief get
shot of it, for it’s no use to me now.”
“I’ll give you S2O for it.”
“Go a little better,” said Gordon with a
smile.
“Well, I’ll give you SBO for it.”
Gordon thought there was a slight
eagerness in the Tennessean’s voice, and
so stood out for more.
The Tennessean raised to SSO, and
being refused, continued to raise until he
reached SIOOO. By. this time Gordon was
aroused, and informed the Tennessean
that he reckoned he’d take a trip to Ten
nessee and look at the land.
The neigbor now saw that, no had m ale
a mistake, so he tried to dissuade Gordon
from the trip, saying that the roads were
not only bad but dangerous to riders. Gor
don said he reckoned he had as good a
horse, pistol and rifle as anybody, and was
not afraid of a few hundred miles in the
saddle if it was through a wild mountain
country.
After some further talk the pair made
arrangements and started out.
The ride was through a wild though
beautiful country, and was accomplished
in safety. After a rest at the house of the
Tennessean the two gentlemen started
out to investigate the land.
It is a dreary looking place, a short dis
tauce south of the present Memphis &
Charleston railroad, and not far from the
Georgia line. The land lies on a moun
tain side, and is about as miserable a
a piece of land as can be tound. Old Gor
don gazed at it a few minutes and said:
“I reckon you were right, neigbor; the
land is not worth $5.”
They proceeded a short distance further,
and Gordon was congratulating liimsell
on the idear of getting $ 100 for land that
was no earthly use to him, when he spied
a trail winding to the right towards a cave
“Where does that trail lead to?” lie
asked.
“Oh, that leads to a spring,” said the
Tennesean hastily; “but come over this
way,” lie continued.
“Oh, if there is one thing above all oth
ers that I am fond of.” said Gordon, “it’s a
drink of Tennessee spring water. I have
not had a good drink since I’ve been in
Georgia. It makes my mouth water to
think of it.”
“I’ll take you to a better spring than
that,” said the Tennossean nervously.
“Come on - ”
“This one will suit me,” persisted Gor
don, starting down the trail. Finding
that Gordon was determined to follow the
trail, the Tennessean reluctantly follow
ed.
Gordon had scarcely gone 100 yaids be
fore he saw where the blacksmiths had
been digging coal from the mountain side.
The Tennessean’s object in wanting
the land immediately Hashed across his
mind. Turning to his companion with a
meaning smile he said; “Well, neighbor,
1 reckon I'll not sell.” The Tennessean
looked very uncomfortable, and Gordon's
good humor made him feel more so.
The mine was soon after promptly
opeued, and a short railroad was built
connecting it with the Memphis &
Charleston road. These mines, which
have now passed into other hands, Mr.
Gordon having sold them and moved to
Alabama, have, since their discovery,
been valued at $1,000,000. Old Gordon is
still alive, and is a hearty man at 80, while
his two sons, Walker and the General,
conduct the vast coal and land interests
owned by the family in Georgia, Tennes
see and Alabama.
At Barnesville, Wednesday, Albert Per
due purchased of J. W. Hightower an
ounce of laudanum, which he said to Mr.
Hightower he was getting to take out to
his father. He drank the poison, and ap
plied to his sister, Mrs. Whitaker, for a
room. The act was soon discovered, and
Drs. Perdue and Thurman called to see
him. At last accounts the indications
for his recovery were good. Defeat in
love was the cause of ill: rash act.
Every man who grows a horse for mar
-1 ket should know that the persistent and
1 thorough use of the brush and cui-y comb
I is a powerful help toward making money.
THE BARBER'S POLE.
TJSkStG U I
A CRAFT yVHICH KEQU I R ES SK ILL,
COURTESY AND INTELLIGENCE.
Tne Barber as a Philanthropist and
Apostle oi Cleanliness—Nonetbut tho
Shaved Can Woo the —
Changes in Style.
It used to bo the fashion to laugh at
barbers, because the barber’s shop was the
center of village gossip. The barber
heard everybody's business and* Imparted
it to everybody else, or got the reputation
of doing so. For my part, 1 regard the
barber as a practical philanthropist arul
view his calling with respect. When the
head is feverish and aching after a sleep
less night, he can relieve the dullness of
the brain and spirits by shampooing,
which has always been a part of his pro
fession, and charm away the headache
by skillful and gentle manipulation with
tonic or bay rum. Tho man who hat
down in the barber’s chair seedy and
feverish, gets out of it refreshed and ready,
like au ambrosial recruit, with aa eye like
Mars and the front of Jove himself, for
the business or pleasure of the hour.
None but the shaved can woo the fair
acceptably. Unkempt and ragged hair
and a short, bristly beard are distasteful
to the sight of woman, and avert her sym
pathies. They lower the sentiment of
respect and esteem, moreover, in fellow-
men. There is, perhaps, no more humil
iating remark which one gentleman can
make to another than “Hadn't yon better
get shaved?” It is cquivolent to hinting
that one has not washed. The greatest
reproach that on adhere to genius is that
it goes unshuved and sloyenly. When
poor Hartley C >leridge obtained an Ox
ford fellowship lie was welcomed and ad
mired for his brilliant talents by all his
associates until lie disgusted them by ap
pearing often at the communion table
with uncombed li ir and a w’eek’s stubble
on his chin. 80 is it, as Homer said in the
Iliad, that “death or life stands on a razor’s
edge.”
It is the barber’s rather than nature’s
touch that makes the whole world kin.
was sometimes the emblem of
mourning among the ancients; at other
times, the neglect of it was a sign of grief.
Plutarch tells u* in his lives that when
the Macedonians invaded Greece it was
found that the soldiers’ long beards gave a
fine purchase to the enemy, and hence
perhaps the “clean shave” which after
ward became the fashion at Athens. St.
i aul snavoa kx., i, <!a and Cenchrea, for lie
had a vow.”
In oriental countries, as in China, the
shaving of the whole or part of the head
is the function of the barber; but in
Christendom the first barbers were the
monks. In recent years the clergy—those
of the Episcopal denomination particu
larly—seem to have adopted Eastern
rather than Western ideas as to the
decorum of a beard in clergymen. Quite
a number of the English, American and
Canadian Episcopal clergy wear beards.
In England, up to thirty years ago, a cler
gyman with a big board, unless he was a
missionary in foreign countries, W mid
have been stared at in the streets, and
still more in the pulpit. But about that
lime a late Bishop of Rochester, Dr.
Wigram, very foolishly delivered a charge
to 1 1 is clergy against the wearing of
beards. The result was not as the
bishop intended. Every curate began
cultivating his beard, if only to show his
independence of Episcopal impertinence.
The barber’s pole is a sign of humanity
and cleanliness, quite as hopeful as the
spire oforthod- xy. To succeed as a bar
ber requires patience, courtesy and good
temper as well as skill. Sometimes, like
a fisherman, the barber will wait for
hours without business. Then, when lie
wants to get his dinner or is short of hands,
there will be a rush of tonsorial candi
dates, all of them in a hurry. It takes
from seven to ten shaves to make a dollar,
according as the charge is ten or fifteen
cents. It is no wonder, therefore, that
the barber has to be an economist, choose
a growing or established neighborhood,
mind he has enough hands to help him,
but not too many, and be thoughtful as to
his rent.
One of the chief sources of income in
this business used to be the dyeing and
curling ol hair. But the hair is now worn
generally too short to need the curling
irons, and there is a growing idea that
dyeing the hair is apt to cause skin dis
ease or brain trouble. A. gentleman in
the real estate business is said to have lost
his eyesight through having his hair
dyed. Certainly there have been indis
putable cases in former times in which
cosmetics applied to the skin have caused
disease and at length mortification and
death.
There is no greater mistake than to
suppose that the trade of a barber is one
of indolence and non-employment of in
telligence. A barber, like anybody else,
may be stupid, but shaving and hair cut
ting will not make him so. Barbers have
better opportunities than most men for ob
serving and remembering faces. Their
evidence bus often turned the scale in
criminal trials. It was a barber at St.
Louis the other day who put the identity
.of the body found in the trunk with that of
Mr. 1 Teller, whom Maxwell had mur
dered for his money, beyond a possibility
of doubt.
What is the prevailing style of combing
the hair at present'd’
“You would hardly believe it, but the
fashion of combing the hair Changes con
stantly among a certain class of young
1 men known as ‘dudes.’ Bangs are no
,lo .ger popular with tbd gilded youth. It
NI MBI K Ift
is the proper ‘eapah* not to part hair. By
that I mean the hair slionkl be allowed to
fall about the head in careless profusion
without Uie slightest suspicion of a part.
Guriy hair is hotter adapted to careless
dressing. Some prefer to wear their hair
pompadour—that is, brushed back tronr
their foreheads. Soma years ago it was
Vpfite the rage fbr dressy men to part their
hair directly in the middle. This fashion
is now, however, but little affected. I
havo noticed a great falling offin the use
ol hair oil and cosmetics. A few years
ago some of my customers would insist on
having their hair plastered down over
their foreheads. Plain vasal ine has
wholly taken the place of the
highly scented cop metier formerly in use.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
TAINTHK S Ct K A ITIOPHONE.
Professor Tainter, at the Bell Labora
tory, in Washington, 1). C., the other
day gave a private exhibition of his curi
ous invention, the graphophone. The
machine is an improvement on the Edi
son phonograph. It is of the simplest
construction, consisting, apparently, of a
small brass cylinder and a couple of
rubber-bound wheels connecting with
another smaller brass shaft and operated
by a small balance wheel, with a thumb
crank. On the larger cylinder or shaft is
placed a close-fitting tube, covered with
wax and paraffine. On the lawer shaft,
which is about four inches distant fronu
and parallel with the other, is cut a tiriP
screw thread. On this rests a gutta
percha tube, the lower end fastened to a
socket-piece, which fits to the threads, the
upper end resting lightly on the wax cyl
inder. Close inspection shows that the
upper end ol this gutta-percha tube has a
small lancet-like knife, and this connects
by fine silk thread with a vibrating dia
phragm. To this diaphragm, which cor
responds to the drum of the ear, is at
tached a speaking-tube about a foot long,
in the flaring end of which tho operator
talks.
As he speaks he turns the wheel, the
wax cylinder revolves and the threaded
shaft carries the gutta-percha lover aloDg,
the lancet cutting a fine thread. The
depth of the cutting is regulated by the
force of tiie sound waves on the dia
phragm through the thread connection.
As soon as the operator has concluded
speaking the tube or receiver is removed
and a sounding tube substituted. The
lancet tube is set back at the beginning,
the wheel turned and the knife running
through the same lines ol’ the wax gives
back the same sounds.
The pr<'fvw>* from a newsnnnpr in
a natural tone of voice, and the same tone
was repented loud enough to be heard by
everyone in the room. He then talked in
a rich Irish brogue, with the rising and
falling inflection; and the instrument re
peated it as many times as it was ground
over. Then Mr. Maguire, Prof. Bell’s
private secretary, sang “Annie Laurie” to
it, the sweet strains being given off after
wards at the will of the operator. The
voice of the singer and every peculiar into
nation would have been recognized by
those who had ever heard him sing. It is
proposed to run the machine by automatic
motions, though in this experiment it was
turned by hand, occasionally fast and
slow, and worked admirably.
The utility of the graphophone is its
use as an amanuensis, doing away with a
stenographic expert. I’lie receiver may
be a mere copyist. He or she sits in front
of the instrument and writes out from it
as fast or slow as the occasion or rapidity
of the writer may require. The wax
thread cut on the cylinder is a matrix,
from which the sound can be taken at
any time. The cylinder has a bais of
paper and can be mailed, and the talk
reproduced anywhere from a similar ma
chine. Newspaper dispatches may bo
dictated and taken from it by the tele
graph operator without going through a
stenographer and written out. The ma
chine is about as big as the early hand
sewing m'ichities that were fastened to a
table. —New York Times.
Sheriff Wortham, of Chattooga county,
passed through Rome Monday eu route
for Millcdgeville, having in charge James
Ratliff, a middle-aged white man. Ratliff
was so wild and unmanageable that it
was found necessary to handcuff him, and
as he passed down Broad street in a ve
hicle he attracted a good deal of attention
by his antics and noise. One of Ratliff’s
sons, who was along, said that his father
had been unsettled ever since Rev. Sam
Jones preached in Rome during the late
revival, and was made worse by going to
hear Joe Jones, a brother of Sam’s, who
recently preached in Chattooga county.
Two negroes were going down the rail
road track near Elberton at full speed on
Monday morning last on a hand car, and
some one having put a rock on the track*
the car was throw off and the two men
were seriously hurt. One of them was
thought to he dead for awhile.
Elberton Gazette: The meanest man
that we ever heard of in this county-left a
sickly wife with several little children
early in the spring to make their own liv-
ing on rented land, and now, after the
crop is made, he has returned and claims
it.
At Americus a negro bought a water
melon Tuesday, and while engaged in a
discussion over the candidates for I'nx
Collector laid it down. WFi -n he cooled
off and looked lor his melon it and disap
peared .
There is some talk of opening up a
trans Atlantic steam-hip line between
Brunswick and'England about Oct. 1 lor
the shipment of cotton. Steps are also
being taken to established a cotton com
press*