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Philadelphia Item.
The item which was published in the
Loudon Times, and which was general
ly copied in this country, relative to the
elopement of the daughter of a noble
man iu which occurred the sentence:
" She can be ftilly identified by a cross
tattooed on the right leg just below the
knee," has served to call out in this
country, from the press, a geueral con
demnation of the practice, which is
known to be largely indulged in by
English and French women.
In order to learn whether the tattoo
ing was carried on to any extent in this
city, an Item reporter last week made a
tour of discovery, iu which he was very
successful. Among the first visited was
a young physician who said “ the leg
mark ’’ referred to in reference to the
eloping young damsel, would be a poor
means of identity iu this country, for I
know of young ladies in this city who
have their limbs decorated in a similar
manner. Duriug my brief time of prac
tice I can say that I have met with very
many cases. Two young wives whom I
visited recently have crosses tattooed on
their limbs, and one young lady whom
I know had the initials of her favorite
suitor pierced in the skin just above the
ankle. A younger practitioner said he
had met with numerous cases lately.
Among the most favorite devices are
serpents with their tails in their mouths,
forming a ring, which are tattooed in
just above the knee.
Among the demi-monde he had seen
just “any number of cases.” He said
that most of the female tattooing was
performed at the house of the patron,
by a woman whose name he did not
know. He was of the opinion that tat
tooing would spread like wildfire since
that paragraph about the English wo
man had appeared.
Being anxious to gain all the informa
tion possible relative to this barbaric
custom, an Item reporter started out in
search of the woman referred to, who
was finally found in an unpretentious
but neat house in the vicinity of Sixth
and Callowhill streets. A ring at the
bell brought a colored servant to the
door, and the scribe was invited to a
seat in the parlor, while his card was
sent up stairs.
Five minutes afterwards, a pleasant
faced lady attired iu black, unrelieved
by adornments of any kind, entered the
parlor and smilingly extended her hand,
the fingers of which were black with
India ink. After stating his business,
the lady, after some hesitation, consent
ed to talk on the subject, providing her
name and residence were not published.
“I have to maintain much secresy,”
said the lady, “ for many of my patrons
beloug to the best families.” In answer
to the query whether the business was
increasing the lady said: “ A year or
so ago business was dull, but now I have
more than I can attend to.”
“ I do not know how I shall describe
the operation,” said the lady, “ for I am
not very apt at such things. But if I
could arrange it so that you could see
the modus operandi yourself, will you
pledge me secresy in case you know or
recognize the patient?”
The scribe willingly gave his word to
be mum, and he was taken into a room
up stairs, which adjoined the operating
room, and where he could observe with
out being seen. The operating room
bore the appearance of a dentist’s office.
A large comfortable chair in which an
an aspirant for tattooing honors was
seated, stood by the only window in the
apartment. The patient’s leg was bare
and exposed nearly to the knee, and
from its appearance it was evident that
the operation had been suspended when
the lady came down to welcome the re
porter. Work upon it was resumed
without delay, and every time the nee
dle pierced the skin the young woman
winced perceptibly, and it was evident
that the operation was a painful one.
Several times the leg was jerked back
convulsively, which drew out an angry
demand to “ keep quiet.” At last the
work upon the cross was completed, and
the young woman departed.
The next patient was a well-known
leader of the demi-monde of this city,
who had come to have the finishing
touches placed on an elaborate design.
She laughed and chatted through the
operation, and before she left concluded
to have her other limb decorated at an
early day.
As soon as she had left, the India ink
artist joined the reporter, saying, “Well,
I am ready to continue our interview. - '
The Hartwell Sun.
By BENSON & McGILL.
VOl. IV—NO. 2.
Reporter—From what I have seen I
am led to believe the operation a painful
one. Ami correct?
Artist —To some it is; to others not.
I have known some to faint while un
der the tattooing, while others will joke
and laugh throughout the entire opera
tion, eviucing no uneasiness whatever.
Reporter—ls not the practice injuri
ous?
Artist—No. I have never heard of
it being so at least. I knew of one
young lady whose limb was inflamed
and swollen for two or three days so that
it was impossible for her to use it; but
the swelling went down, and since then
she lias experienced no trouble. But I
did not wonder at this case.
Reporter —Why?
Artist —She wanted too much. She
actually insisted on having tattooed on
her limb from the knee down no less
than eight devices, including monograms
crosses, half-moons, etc.
Reporter—Who are your best cus
tomers?
Artist —The demi-monde. Lately they
have become almost crazy’ over it. Still
I have quite a practice among respecta
ble women. Speaking of the demi-mon
de’s craze over the matter recalls a lit
tle incident. Last week I was called
upon by one of them to tattoo the name
of a well-known politician on her limb,
which I did. The next day another wo
man of the same class called for the
same purpose. I remarked to her the
coincidence. Turniug around in the
chair she said, “If any other woman
bears his name, tattoo it on the bottom
of my foot, so that I may express my
contempt for him.”
Reporter —What arc your charges?
Artist —They range frum $5 to $25,
and more elaborote designs as high as
#SO. Most of my however,
are of the five-dollar class, for which
sum I will tattoo crosses, monograms
and circles.
After declining an offer to tattoo his
name on his arm the reporter withdrew,
thoroughly satisfied that the rumors oi l
the practice of this art were not without
foundation.
(JEN. FORREST’S GAME OF POKER.
A Thrilling Slory—Dll Hln Wife Frny
While lie km Flaying.
Nashville Banner.
Several years ago Gen. Forrest visit
ed the city and stopped at the Old City
Hotel. That night several gentlemen
called to sec him, among them a gen
tleman no w t connected with the Banner.
The room had been crowded during the
early part of the night, and Forrest had
received the usual attention bestowed
on him. Now, however, he was sitting
off by himself, and apparently worn
out. Our informant, wishing to have a
talk with him about himself, sought
him and entered into conversation with
him.
“ General,” said he, “ I’ve heard you
were a great polker player in your
time.”
“Yes,” says the General, “I’ve
played some,” and his eyes began to
sparkle with the memory of old times,
and he at once seemed interested in
the subject, for be it known that no one
was fonder than he of recounting his
wonderful exploits.
“ How much, General was the larg
est stake you ever played ?”
“ I once called $48,000 in New Or
leans.”
“ Did you win ?”
“ Oh, yes ! I won it.”
“ What was your hand, General ?”
“ It was three kings.”
“ But,” says he, “ the hardest game
I ever played was at Memphis. Just
after the war closed, me and my wife
went to Memphis, and we stopped at
the Worsham House. The next morn
ing we got our things together, and I
emptied all my paper out of my trunk
on the floor, and Mary (I’m not certain
his wife's name was Mary, but that will
do for the tale), went over and over
them, hunting for something to raise
money out of. I emptied my pockets
and Mary emptied her’n, and between
us we had $7.30. After hunting over
everything, we found that every man
who owed me was either dead or broke.
I hadn’t one single paper on which I
could raise a cent outen. After we got
through the pile, I looked at Mary and
HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1879.
Mary looked at me. * Now, what’s to
be done, Mary?’ says I. *1 don’t
know,’ says she, • but the Lord will
provide.’ You see, Mary was one of
the best women in the world, and she
hail a heap of faith in hor religion. I
looked at her right straight for a long
time, and at last says I: ‘ Mary, you
are a mighty good woman, and I’m
going to tell you something. There's
to be a big dinner at —•thlsevening,
and I’m invited. They always play
poker at that house, and you have al
ways been agin me playing, and I rec
kon you are right about it. But things
have become desperate with us, and
somehow I feel if you wouldn't be agin
me, but would pray for me, I could
make a raise to-night,’
“ Says she : ‘ Bedford, I can't do it.
It's wrong for you to do it, and I’d a
heap rather you wouldn’t.’
“ ‘ But, Mary,’ says I, * I never was
in such a fix before. Here we arc with
no money $7.30, and that won't pay
our tavern bill. I can't lose no more
than that, for I’ll swear that I won't
bet on a credit. If I loso that I'll
come home; and if I wiu, then we’ll
have something to start on.’ Well, I
argued and argued with her, and she
wouldn't say yes. But at last she says :
“ ‘ Bedford, I know your mind is set
on it, and I know you are going to bet,
whether lam willin' or not; so I won’t
say nothing more about it.’
“ But, somehow, 1 felt when I start
ed that she was for me, and I jist
knowed how 'twouhl he.
*• Well, I went some time before din
ner, and, sure enough, they were at it.
The}' had three tables—one had a
quarter ante, one a half, and one a dol
lar and a half. I wanted my seven
dollars to last as long as I could makp
1 set ilown to the quarter table.
We bet on until dinner, and by that
time I had won enough to do better;
and after we had eat, I sat down to the
dollar and a half table. Sometimes I
won, and then again I’d lose on until
iiiight; about midnight, I had better
luck. I know’d Mary was setting up
and praying ; I felt like it, and it made
me cool. I set my hat down by my
side on the floor, and, every time I'd
wiu I’d drop the money in the hat.
We played on, and I didn’t know noth
ing about how much I’d won. I didn’t
keep any count, hut I know’d I was
winning. I thought may be I’d won a
hundred dollars, or may be two hun
dred, but I didn’t know. I set there
until day broke, and then went home.
I took my hat up in both hands and
smashed it on my head and went home
without taking it off. When I got to
my room there sat Mary in her gown,
and the bed wasn't mashed. She’d set
up all night waiting for me. She seem
ed tired and anxious, and though she
looked mighty hard at me she didn’t
say a word. I walked right up to her,
and, pulling off my hat with both of
my hands, I emptied it all right in the
lap of her gown. And then wc set
down and counted it.”
"llow much was there General ?”
“Just fifteen hundred dollars,even.”
“ And that,” said the General, as he
walked off, “ gave me a start.”
Something Worth Knowing.
Every little w hile we read in the pa.
pers of someone who has stuck a rusty
nail in his foot, or knee or hand, or
some other portion of his body, and
that lock-jaw resulted therefrom, of
which the patient died. If every per
son who was aware of a perfect remedy
for all such wounds, and would apply
it, then all such reports must cease.
But although we can give the remedy,
we cannot enforce its application. Some
will not employ it because they think it
too simple ; others will have no faith in
it when they read it; while others
think such a wound of small account,
and not worth fussing over, until it is
too late to do any good. Yet all such
wounds can be healed without the fatal
consequences which follow them. The
remedy is simple, almost always on
hand, and can be applied by any one,
and, what is better, it is infallible. It
is simply to smoke the wound, or any
braise or wound that is inflamed, with
burning wool or woollen cloth. Twen
ty minutes in the smoke of wool will
take the pain out of the worst wound ;
Devoted to Hart County.
Her sudden and mysterious disap
pearance, as above detailed, created the
biggest sensation ever known in Elber
ton and vicinity. It was at first thought
that she had been abducted from her
house under the cover of night and
murdered. Scores of citizens armed
with knives and sticks, and firearms,
scoured the country in all directions in
search of her abductors, and dragged
Beaver Dam creek, which runs near the
farm, for her body. This search contin
ued two or three days and was prosecut
ed with great vigor ami excitement, the
county being thoroughly stirred up to
detect the authors of the supposed vil
lainy, and) to recover, if possible, the
body. But not the slightest trace of the
missing widow was discovered until
nearly a week had passed, when a letter
purporting to have been written by Mrs.
Pulliam herself, from Toccoa City, fifty
miles away, was received by her rela
tives. She stated in this letter that four
men claiming to be revenue officials had
abducted her; that she was then in their
custody iu Toccoa City, that they at
first decided to take her to Atlanta, but
afterwards held an arbitration and had
concluded to take her to North Carolina
and make her work for three months un
less she paid them one hundred dollars at
once ; that she did not have the money
with her, and would be compelled to go.
She stated, further, that these four men
had been piloted to her house, on the
abduction, by a certain negro man whom
she knew well and to whom she had fre
quently sold whisky, but failed to give
his name. She also stated that she was
carried away by these four men in a two
horse wagon, they having arrested her
for illicit distilling.
Her eldest child, an eight-year-old
girl, says that she saw a man come in the
house on the night of her mother’s de
parture. She could not tell whether he
was white or black. He told her mother
that she must go with him on account of
repeated two or three times, it will al
lay the worst cases of inflammation
arising from a wound. People may
sneer at “ the old man's remedy ” as
much as they please, hut when they are
afflicted just let them try it. It has
saved many lives and much pain, and
is worthy of being printed in letters of
gold and put in every home.
THE ELBEBT COUNTY WIDOW.
The Deep M.'iihi.llu.i of Her First ltiap.
Pennine,. —A I.ctter from Hie I'iiklll ve
—Home Ocnlln lllnin to Her
I xorlnl Feellnir* nml Why Ml.e
In Mow A line nl.
An Atlanta Constitution reporter took
a turn in Elbertou, Georgia, on Monduy
last and found out some interesting facts
concerning Mrs. Pulliam the widow, who
three week? ago, on a dark, rainy night,
suddenly disappeared from her farm sit
uated seven miles north of the town.
reportor, of his own knowledge,
knows nothing, but simply presents the
following details gleaned from reliable
persons who were in a position to learn
the true status of affairs. Mrs. Pulliam
lived on her farm seven miles iu the
country with her three children. She
was quite well to do, having from six to
seven hundred dollars ill money in the
hands of her cousin, Mr. J. S. Pulliam,
for which he had given her his note. In
addition to this she owned considerable
property, and at the time of her disap
pearance had every prospect of an ex
cellent crop. Some years since her hus
band, quite an old man, died. Mrs.
Pulliam was left with three children,
and is said to have been a mother be
fore she was a wife. She was rather il
literate, though a woman of great
shriaiflness and power of endurance. It
is -Sstoni to perform regular farm
it is said that no man iu the
settlement could surpass her in the use
of fhe axe, the hoe and the plow. She
was a fine looking womun with a stout
figure, below the medium, and had
brown hair and blue eyes. The neigh
bors, the reporter learned, regarded her
as a generous, neighborly pleasant sort
of woman who was unfortunately a trifle
loose in her morals. The fact, how
ever, that sho had plenty of money and
a handsome property, and was so very
hard working seems to have caused them
to overlook certain breaches of decorum,
and her standing was consequently fair
in the settlement.
$1.50 Per Annum.
WHOLE NO. 158.
distilling whisky, nud that the revenue
officers were waiting outside with a
wagon. The child said she saw only one
man. Mrs. Pulliam told the child that
she would be compelled to go with this
man, and asked her to tell her mint to
come over and stay at the house with
the children until her return. Mrs.
Pulliam then went ofl with the man.
Nothing except the owner was miss
ing from the house next morning, and no
sign of men or wagon were seen near
the house. A young man named Jour
dan says that ho saw Mrs. Pulliam the
next day going up the Elbertou Air-
Line, ten nflles from Klberton, by a sta
tion called Bowman’?. She was alone
anil had on a dress shawl and sun-bon
net, answering exactly to those which
were described by the child. This
young man knew her, but thought noth-
I ing of seeing her nt that time and place,
because the news of the alleged abduc
tion had not reached Bowman’s at that
| hour. Two negroes, who worked on her
place,, left about the same time that she
did, although they had been ordered by
her father to remain and pull fodder the
next day. They came back a day or
two after, but said they knew nothing
of her whereabouts.
From the same reliable souroe that
reporter is indebted for the foregoing
facts, he learned that some days after
her disappearance, when the fierce search
had been given over as fruitless, it leak
ed out through several of Mrs Pulliam’s
nearest neighbors that at the time of
that lady’s sudden taking ofl she was in
that interesting condition iu which it has
been stated by high authority thntladies
who love their lords are not adverse to
being, and your reporter has the audac
ity to add that the above can in no sense
be construed so as to apply to widows,
i Mrs. Pulliam’s father himself admitted
I that lie had sent her medicine, and an
old negro woman, well versed in the
mystery of signs, actually staled that
when Mrs. Pulliam left sho was ou the
point of being delivered.
The reporter cannot vouch for the
truth of the above. lie was not there,
but has good reason to believe that the
source of his information is perfectly
authentic. Of one thing there can be no
question. The people of Elbertou and
vicinity have abandoned the search, and
now laughingly repudiate the abduction
idea as a ridiculous blind. Mr. Dcad
wyler, United States marshall, at Elber
ton, says that although Mrs. Pulliam
may have been in the habit of distilling
whisky, none of his deputies have ever
molested her, and if parties pretending
to be revenue men had done so. they
would have been readily detected. The
reporter learned that the relatives of
Mrs. Pulliam also scouted the idea of ab
duction, and were coming over to the
plausible theory, now entertained almost
universally over there, that the lady had
left for parts unknown for a reason too
delicate to mention, and will come again
when the harvest is past.
“ Stranger, where inought you be
from?” “Madam, I reside in Shelby
county, Kentucky.” “ Wall, stranger,
hope no offense, but what mought you
be doin’ way up here?” “ Madam, J
am searching for the lost sheep of the
house of Isreal.” “ John, John !” shout
ed the old lady, “ come right here this
minit; here’s a stranger all the way
from Shelby county, Kentucky, a bunt
in’ stock, and I’ll jest bet my life that
that, tangle-haired old black ram that's
been in our lot last week is one of
bis'n!”
When you see a man on a moonlight
night trying to convince his shadow
that it is improper to follow a gentle
man, you may be sure that it is high
time for him to join a temperance so
ciety.
It is a sad commentary upon tiie
course pursued in young ladies’ schools,
that the graduates seldom know how to
decline an offer of marriage.
A poet says: “Oh, she was fair, but
sorrow left her traces there.” What
became of the balance of the harness,
he don’t state.
A man is the healthiest and happiest
when he thinks the least of health and
happiness.
The people will worship a calf, if it
be a golden one.
TUBAL CAIN.
llubrtw Jarnd 'i’.
Upon reference to the hook of Gen
esis we find that Tubal Cam was the
son of Laraech and Zitlab, " wlki whs
'| jk
a innkcr of every cutting instruiDinit.
in brass and iron,” lie “ founded
smithcraft of gold, silver, copper, iron
and steel.”
With the assistance of his brothers,
he shaped and carved the famed two
pillars of stone and of brass, upon
which were inscribed tlie principles of
the sciences, in anticipation of the de
struction of tlio surface of the world
by either fire or flood.
A Masonic document of ancient date
says: “Before Noah’s flood there was
a mail called Lanicuh, as it is written
in the Bible, in the fourth chapter of
(Genesis; and this Lnmoch had two
wives, the one pained Adah and the
other named Zilla; by’ his first wife,
Adah, lie got two sons, the one .label,
and the other Jubal; and by the other
wile he got a son and a daughter. And
these four children founded the begin
ning of all the sciences in the world.
The elder son .label, found the science
of geometry, and lie carried docks of
sheep and lambs into the fields, and
first built houses of stone and wood, as
it is noted in the chapter above named.
And his brother Jubal fonnded the
science ot music and songs of the
tongue, the harp and organ. And the
third brother Tubal Cain, founded
smithcraft of gold, silver, copper, iron
and st eel, and the daughter founded the
art of weaving. And these children
knew well that God would take ven
genee for sin, either by fire or water,
wherefore they wrote the sciences that,
they had found, on two pillars that
they might be found after Nyalfs flood.
The one pillar was marble, for that
would not burn with fire ; and the other
was of brass, for that would not drown
in water.”
As germanlc to the above, we arc
told in a Rabbinical tradition, that Ju
bal was the inventor of writing as well
as of music, and inasmuch as it had been
said by Adam that the earth was twice
to bo destroyed, once by fire and once
by water, ho inquired which calamity
would first transpire, and finding no
positive response, he engraved the sys
tem of music upon two pillars of stone
and of brick. This tradition may have
Imd its roof in the construction of tlie
Rnochian pillars.
Josephus says, Tubal Cain exceeded
all men in strength and renown for
warlike achievments.
If we should give a mythological re
ference the name Tubal Cain trans
formed to Vulcan, we might quote
Bishop Stillingflect, who says: “That
Tubal Cain gave first occasion to the
name and worship of Vulcan, hath been
very probably conceived, isitli from the
great affinity of the names, and that
Tubal Cain is expressly mentioned to
be an instructor of every artificer in
brass and iron, and as near relation as
Appollo had to Vulcan, Jubal had to
Tubal Cain, who was the inventor of
music, or the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ, which the
Greeks attribute to Appollo.”
With us in America, ttie legitimate
symbolism of the inventor of smith
craft is lost, but it is time that it should
le recovered. Among the English and
French brethren, Tubal Cain is a well
known emblem of “worldly possess
ions.” This symbolical application of
his name, is deduced from its etymol
ogy iu the Hebrew language, where it
is derived from h-.hol oateh, two words
signifying “ the possessions of the
earth.” But Tubal Cain becomes still
more appropriately the symbol of
worldly possessions, by the result of
his invaluable discoveries upon the hu
man race. With a knowledge of the
power of fire, and the uses of the. met
als, man, heretofore living in a savage
and a solitary state, becomes civilized
and social. No longer dependent on
the spontaneous productions of the
earth, for a scanty and precarious sub
sistence, he. cultivates the land and re
ceives the ample reward of his labor.
Deserting the caverns and forest glades,
which were his primitive habitation, he
erects a substantial dwelling for his
residence. The land which he culti
vates and the house which he builds, he
appropriates to his own use, and thus
originates the first idea of property or
worldly possessions, the initial step iu
man’s progress from the savage to the
civilized life ; from ignorance to knowl
edge, from the law of nature to the law
of society. Tubal Cain, as the inventor
of those arts which induced this change
in human life, or at least advanced its
progress when once begun, was neces
sarily instrumental in extending the
rights of property, and lie has hence
been appropriately adopted by Masons
ns the symbol of worldly possessions.