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THE TATTOOED LEO. ASM Wrinklo Among the loir Vtn rlM of Fftahlou—liar Swoothonrt'a Nnma Imprinted on the Calf— Two Yanac WWaaaal Thrlr Fancy Marin, 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.