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PFIN, GEORGIA, U.S. A.
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Bn fa the best a«d m«»t promwing
, the 8o“‘I»- Ite ree9rd M *he past
,*eade. H* many aasr enterprises iu
, boil'Iii'K aadcootsmplated, prove this
business statement and not a
I description. ■ ,
r that time It has built and put into
I operation a f100,000 cotton
and with this year started tho wheels
second of more than iwicethat twice that capital,
put Up a large iron and brass foundry,
liter factory, an immense ice and bot-
works, a sash anl Wind factory, a
factory, opened up the finest granite
w in the United States, and now ha*
large oil mills in more Or less advanced
construction, with an aggregate an-
capital of owr half a million dollars,
....
putting tip the finest system of electric
fag that can be procured, and has ap-
‘
l uliile jfifated on the greatest system in
, South, the Central, has secured connec-
iB with its important rival, the East Ter-
mee, Vixginja and Georgia. It has obtain-
direet independent connection with Chat¬
tooga and the West, and will break-ground
a* few days for a fourth road, connecting
|ith a fourth independent system.
With it# five white and four colored chnrch-
it has recently completed ipm-easwlfts a W0,000 new
ibyterian church. Ifchas fifth. cMracin pfc-
iom by nearly one It has
ad its borders fruit growers from nearly
every State in the Union, until it is now sur-
Jounded on nearly every side by orchards
Jj ipd vineyards. It has put up the largest
F fruit evaporators in the State. It is the home
(the grape i ity has
obit iy in-
with a
. I part HI t!|» re«»i of ali||f decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
f admirable city, with the natural advantages
i of having the finest climate, summer and
| | winter, Griffin iu Is.thwoounty, ttie world. scat of
healthy,fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above sea level. By the census o! 189j0j 000 i|
V will have at alow estimate between 6 i and
I 7,000 people, and they are all of the right
\> soft—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
|, welcome strangers and anxious to secure de-
. sirable eettlers, who will not be any less wel-
1§ used badly just now, and that ism big hotel.
\ We have several small ones, but their accom-
j§ modations are entirely too limited for our
and health seeking guests.
Jt gMPf Griffin is th# r place I- where the OuiFm *Nswa
§1 g published—doily and weekly—tho best news-
1 paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
y enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
r, R§ and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.)
* This brief sketch is written Apriil 2th, 1889,
end will have to he changed in a few months
o embrace new enterprises commenced and
depleted.
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENKY C. PEEPLE^
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
,
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joHMirsasuo
ATTORNEY AT LAW
^•4, 1 1
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over over J. J. H. I
White’s Clothing Store. marSihlkwly
THOS. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Wfil practio* in-iii 8tat* itof Hartnett
Courts. Office over George « novSti s
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* STEWART & DANIEL
ATTORNEY S ° AT LAW,
Over George ft Hartnett’s, Griffin, Qa.
Will practice in the State and Federal
ourto. julyl9dti
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CLEVELAND 4 GARLAND,
1 GEORGli- ’
GRIFFIN, • : : :
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORjI-EY AT LAW,
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‘ Pprompt attention given to all business*
Will practice in all the Courts, and where
ver business calls,
VlT CoHections a specialty.
The .’ij#Mok J A. Brooks . Farm
a*
55 ACRES near city limits, part wood¬
land openings, branches, *e. Fruit of all
kind. Large, beautiful dwelling and out¬
houses, fte. Also 1250 acres, good dwel-
Ttng, out-houses, mules, com, Fodder, Ac.
Gin bouse, com mill and present growing
crop 250 os said part place. inside city limits.
100 acres, ths woods,, 4 house, Ac.
acres fa room
53 acres tsfoAMhft!* inside city limits.
| 3 MPf
10 ** M ** “ u “ fraita
ill « **» rtkAitot* t« . *« it •<
Houses and tod mtiaeroosto
to sell will do well
G. A. CUNSINGHA^
1 Ot ABOUT BUTTONS.
INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING A
VERY USEFUL ARTICLE.
Greeks end Routine t»M Not Have
Them—Wo Ar* Indebted to the Prencti
for Their Invention—la the UIdei, Time*
When the Dade* Wore Damien.
The word button (preach bouton, from
bout, an sad or extremity, and bouter, to
push or place}, J» 1«* correctly applied to nn
appendage of dress thin to a tiny projection
or collet intended to be pressed by the thumb-
or finger for a specific purpose, of which the
aptest illustration is furnished by the ter¬
minal button of an electric bell. The Idea of
utilizing the bouton toy. hanging anything
thereby, or fastening anything thereto, is of
comparatively modem date; in short, neither
tile term nor the article was known to the
ancients. The dress of the Greeks and Rfa
man* deeded not the presence of buttons,
ample substitutes for whiqh this were found in
the clasp. As evidence of fact, it may
be cited that among all the paintings and
mosaics discovered in-the ruins of Pompeii,
no single illustration of the button baa ever
been brought to light Nor did the simple
costume of the Anglo-Saxons require those
accessories, which nowadays we could ill
afford to dispense with.
“BUTTONS ALL OVBB ’EM. 1 '
I Pi Previous, to the Norman conquest, then,
P>“« uttotH to this country were altogether un-
f^ of 0 our ; wm, historical so thatdkHMwe indebtedness have a to distinct the French proof
for all innovations of fashion in the matter
of costume. The people of Normandy must
certainly have been of an Inventive turn of
mind, or they would never have conceived
the utility of buttons in relation to dress.
of their <
ourselves how convenient it is to hang any!
article of dress upon a door or drawer handle,
or even on the collet of a bedpost, so there
|SESir^ exists no doubt that in this way- it was how
M M3fa5aTEfg
course of time they dispensed with the an-
[ cient clasp altogether.
introduced, buttons soon came to be
generally adopted by all classes, is though no in
actual reference to them to be traced
our literature prior to the early part of the
Fourteenth century. The reign of Edward I,
which ushered in tight fitting garments, and
possible, as may bo seen in illuminations and
upon effigies of this period. The writer of
“The Romance of Sir Degrevant,” for ex¬
ample, in describing the costume of an earl’s
vest “To tell her butenues
, hard—to count her bottoms
dt Eventhoservantfof the
> infected with the erase. The
habit of aping their masters in this particu¬
lar is thus satirized by an old author:
Now tho horse clawers, clothed in prid.
They busk them ip buttons as it were a bride
During tho reign of Edward III the but¬
tons were set close upon one another down
the front of the coat hardip (coat or tunic)
of males and the gown of females. In the
next century, however, they suffered a con¬
siderable decline, in consequence of the in¬
troduction of laces and points; but, by the
Sixteenth century, they recovered their as-
than before, but the material of which they
were composed included gold, silver and even
In in the ine twelfth twenui year of Charlft II buttons
he chief imports of the country,
j acted however, to a heavy duty. Soon
after this feign, Jgii, gold and
buttons degenerated into those of
which at the same time rivaled the br
cfthemoSt precious goras, while steol
of abnormal size, highly polished, became
distinctive mark of the dandies who freq
eftijie Mall and Birdcage walk of St Ji
pB-k in the days gono by. In proof 1777 of this, a
popular caricature of the year has wt
its subject one of these effeminate individuals
dazzling a lady by the brightness of his steel
‘buttons It Is, perhaps, well for that the prostio j '
• us
age in which we live affords little encourage^
meat for eccentricity fa regard to the wear-
aaitsKse certainly found 1 - revival between
middle ages a
the years 1373 and. 1881, during which period
toeDii-mingham button .manufacturers Well must
have made fneir fortunes. It was that
the buttons on ft lady’s costume resembled the
stars fa the heavens, for there existed no pos¬
sibility pf counting them. There were but¬
tons on tho back and buttons down the front;
buttons over the shoulders and buttons all
the way down and across the skirts; buttons
on the pockets and buttons everywhere; there
were even buttons round the hat.
In China the highest grade of literary
distinction is marked by a gpld button af*
noted by the color of the buttons which they
are privileged to wear. Sp, also, in Europe a
button on tho front of the cap formerly rep*
resented resented a a murk mart? of oi civil civu honor. nonoi Thus Shake-
spearcMnakee :<*> Guildenstern Guildenstern fa fa “Hamlet” say:
meax^3tth«ilostbag%f On foi|ak1§cap#e ,,l L aiftaot the th favored. very button; Again,
Gascoigne, v fa . ids . “Woodmanship,"
George courtly favor
OMkes a similar allusion to the
of one of his gallants:
His bonnet buttoned with grid,
The Greatest Smokers.
According to population, Americans eon-
sumo nearly twice the'lunount of tobacco
that is consumed byJEaropeans. Chis cornea
Jffithep-cat szaofaflt rigarw]|Btomng <■ tobacco in the form
barigalti tn there is only a
partial combustion of the tobacco. The to¬
bacco taiji cigar would load an ordinary pipe
four or five times There is another thing to
consider. Cigar smoking is very expensive
compared with indulgence fa the pipe. The
habitual smoker who bays the cheapest cigar*
could forth® same money provide himself
with the best and costliest pipe smoking to¬
bacco.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
A train to Arizona was boarded by robbers,
mer” from New York, who, wlieti hi* turn
a»r5iSiSs«&3^iB«as V, do
placed it hi his vest pocket. “ fait you
mean by tUatf faftpd jiic^tj-olibcr, as
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 20. 1889.
j" FA8HION A HARD MI8TRE88:
You Miut JO ways Be teaming Hew ffiai
«t»e vou it is a greatness which has its
most every moment of existence a la
mode.
‘"Dike the afternoon drive, for in¬
stance. Tito fashionable CuStom* girl conform*
exercise. constantly Having to accepted taken in such
her position
and is driven off. This attitude of
way dashing r your ■ < carriage would
a" look behind Stiffly
eiety oa wheels, and the fashionable
neu stgnmesner aesire
eupon the statue on the
musket AiNPw whip heels straight his up like about, a
horses
leveiin* the lash again when they
are headed homeward.
“And of course there isa fashionable
way io lean leave forward, the carriage. You must
out never first The proprly getting Sained your head
wo¬
man retains her seat till one foot is
curb.
“And besides the fixed laws," went
on the tailor made, “there are a thou¬
sand and one little ways to do things,
from glass at thrusting dinner your when gloves don't into want your
you
her gait You remember the Alex¬
andra limp of a few seasons ago) I
was not had out then, butl know my elder
sister one of her boot heels made
considerably higher than the other to
give There her the proper lop as distinct She stomped.
is a varying and fash-
able intonation to your voice, the way
you carry umbrella, your muff, your the pafhsol. head or
your the tilt of in
Recognizing believe there an is acquaintance—why, fashionable to I
a way
‘$©u wouldn’t believe it, but this,”
and one pretty plump hand crept a ht-
our laps a la Evangeline, and a little
before that it was swell to finger one
button of your corsage with the left
! “You would be surprised, too, at the
wav these little '
Not long a
bpera right, were , „ ______
up to their heads as if to shade
their eyes. That came about in this
wise. A rich girl and quite a. leader,
has a defective right hand. She—
den, pretty but look, rather and she heightens used to sit the in slim, her
box at the opera with her hand on ex¬
hibition up, lightly touching her fore¬
head. Other girls discovered land uni¬
tatedl ted her example; and soon it was a
dreadfully Widespread custom, Oh, we really are
absurd- but then we are
fashionabli
exhausting,^ how-
pnes, tbb, Fashionable knowledge is
gl quite unlike any other—don’t smile,
please—it r J is so spasmodic. Sometimes
F* Is art that you have to know all
iut, or enough sometimes about to it conceal is orchids; vour
torance; aetimes it is edd bronzes-
al IS
something .-.-.v different Yoti nav
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Skim through the last t novel; novel; be bei up in
A Sporting Club's Preserve*,
j of The Boston Megan has tic Fish bad and phenomenal Oau# blab
a
growth, and al the present time it
owns the most extensive fish and game
rve on the continent It has the
valuable tracts for moose, cari-
and deer-in Maine. For over a
• the club has been desirous of in¬
sing their preserve, and a few
nths ago they added a valuable flsh-
and game, tract to its lease in
no. chain The of new ponds territory and tributaries, comprise*
. is: Bog, Horse Shoe, and Otter, Lower Round,
sag, Beaver ponds
the upper portion of the
tch of the Dead riven ^even Big
Bock pond, of the
who w
se fromtSe
l The kfcjdSr* territory contains
AU Sorts Of I
: member
i nothing
neans the to young procure matron a had taken k^Jhi.
md ateo to comm Visits to
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NO l’AIN IN DEATH.
ESmmted fenon, tear Vomth teaat—Good
OhrUttaM Wins Ar* »• *» Hm-i? to
tern* Thl* World—Women Are Bt*w
Than Men In the test Moment*
Onaday a writer *M sitting fa tile office
in hi* last illness. The dentil *goniee of tint
tion writers came up to the Morse of cfat?
vimatfon. and the question, to death patotosal
naturally commanding suggested tisett prerenc*, ,»«•- of Bhrafty aggressive is 9
man of
■jfrrrffFtfi and poeitivo to hBtoaae.
agonytiv^ “Speaking g«*mtt7. attended n «U he, by “the pain, death be¬
rartiy prepared for death
cause the system i* always by the
L ------ *—toroe*,
blood through the Of
sg of the nerves.
e mom pain than
y determined by tom-
______ B robust health, because the
, sensibilities stronger, bat
nervous man's are
the pain of death is more to the anticipation
preached os much as formerly; 1* is an un-
people.” ' WANT TO DIB. "
DO NOT
“What people are the most afraid to dlo!”
“My own experience, strange as it may
Hem, has taught me that Christian people
are, a* alnile, the most afraid to die. My
profession has brought me into contact with
all sorts of men, and I have made a *tudy of
dentil from a psychological standpoint, and
I have found that the best Christian* are the
mate willing to *top out of heaven a* tonga*
possible. They all want to get there bat
they’re in no hurry. The scientific philoso¬
pher who weighs inevitable, the
that death is v
there is no way of escape;
tore him has had to meet visitor knows”
meets death as bravely as any,-
that the necmsity of dying ti the the penalty matter of
living. He regards It from a purely
of fact standpoint, and he is f ully , aware of
the fact that no argument or or theory theory will will
take off its edge.
*‘I*m talking doctor, like an agnostic, am I not!”
broke believer to the Christianity parenthetically, for all that, “but and I
am a to
what I have told you is the result of my ox-
-perieaco as a physician and quite apart from
my own preferences. generally," doc¬
“Speaking continued the
tor, “men of education face death with greater
fortitude than men who are not educated.
Fhtibsophy has a great deal todo with the
art of dying, although the Christian religion
has been a great comfort to the human race
to preparing the way for death, and to giv¬
ing hope of a life hereafter amounting fa
some cases almost to a realization of a better
country beyond the line of time.”
“Are men or women the braver in •facing
death P
“Women are almost always pluckier than
men. They endure pain much better. Have
you ever observed how irritable » man Is
who la suffering from toothache or neural¬
gia, but a woman will often suffer without a
murmur. All other things being equal a
woman will face death with more calmness
■Wi fortitude AUl tlkUUD than a «• man, which *****s-lA may be uo
partly accounted for from the fact that the
Instinct for life is stronger fa a man, and his
habits and indings have trained him
not to give in so easily.”
qfelCK DEATH tm EASIEST.
“Which fa the easiest kind of death?”
“The quickest death fa the easiest death.
In on* ol the prayers of the common prayer
book we pray to be delivered from' sudden
dteth, tat in reality it a man is prepared to
die, sudden death 1s the eastst. It fa abso¬
lutely painless, *nch death* as result from
apoplexy, a stroke of lightning or heart dis-
tit by electricity ctricity fa easy, much
people suppose. The i punishment
to hi* the criminal consists in the fa am itidpation displayed ■■■■ of in
approaching end, which
th« anxious eye, the trembling ga$, the
quivering lip, and depressed condition gen¬
erally. I most firmly believe that if a man
#*re placed on the scaffold, and kept to sus¬
pense forfive minutes he would have received
all the punishment he required, and if liber¬
ated would never again lift hi* hand against
his brother man as long as he lived. The
agony in hanging' occurs before death moribund and
not at death. In some diseases the
condition lasts for hours,and incases like
this, where there fa no hope for recovery,
death’s door is opened and the patient passes
sway as quietly as if going to sleep.' strangely Con¬
sumptives, for instance (who,
enough, have hope to the very last), very
often die fa this sleep, or if inclined to sleep,
|0* before death they will say, ‘Doctor,
Ptate raise the pillow a little,’mid as the
head fa being raised there fa a faint gargling
eonndin the throat mid death takes place ap¬
parently without pain.” •
“What death do you consider to be the
thfakdeath from suffocation is, because
the struggle for breath and the intense desire
to overcome the impediments to breathing is
something terrible to contemplate and still
more terrible to experience. When a student
Otooliege 1 was very nearly insensible, Browned. and I was I
taken oat of Uu> water so
can speak of this kind of death from experi¬
ence, because I was virtually dead; that fa to
my, if 1 had remained in the water a few
minutes longer the curtain that divides time
from eternity would have simply come down,
sod—well, tbe world would have been spared
another doctor, wbuldn’t itP said ha with a
“I had heard previous to this experience of
mine,” be went an, “that drowning was a
vary pleasant deathfand that drowning per¬
sons saw beautiful visions as tbe result of the
circulation of carbonisad blood, and I was
waiting for them to occur, but they did not
1 had read that it was a very pleasant sort
Of death, tat when I cam* to the scratch
«nd*r ths water I found it anything but
pleasant, and the remembrance of that terri¬
ble struggle for life in the water is, H you
may imagine, among kail my most vivid recolleo-
tioB*.*—New York and Expire*.
Tarpeattee Baths for R h euma ti c gain*.
u.t. * concentrated emulsion of black
rigorously until a beautiful creamy emulsion
fa obtained. For a bath take half of this
szz.szz£.?:
W0NDER8 OF THE HEAVENS.
gotuu Wonderful Estimate* of the Move-
meat* of the Various Planets.
Tho elder Strove made the movement of
the sun through space to be about five mile*
a second, but on tho supposition of the
brightest stars being between two and three
time* nearer to ns than they seem really to
be We can now see that the actual speed of
the solar system can scarcely fall short of
twelve or exceed twenty miles a second. By
a moderate estimate, then, our position in
space l* changing to the extent of .600,000,000
miles annually, and a collision between our
sun and the nearest fixed star would be in¬
evitable (were our course directed fa a
straight line toward it) after the lapse of
‘B0,000 years! . < move/
Tbeold problem of “how the heavens
(successfully attacked to the solar system, ha*
retreated to a strorighold among dislodge the-stars,
from which it will be difficult to it,
fa the stupendous mechanism of the sidereal
universe the acting forces can only betray
themselves to us by the varying time con¬
figurations of Ita parts. But as yet our knowl¬
edge of stellar movements is miserably scanty.
They are apparently so minute as to becomo
perceptible, fa general, only through obser¬
vation of great precision extending over, a
number of years. Even the quickest moving
star would spend 257 years fa crossing an arc
ot tho heavens equal to the disk of the full
moon. Yet all the time (owing to the incon¬
ceivable distances of the object* fa motion)
these almost evanescent displacements repre¬
sent velocities, fa many cases so enormous as
“to baffle every attempt to account for them.
“Runaway stars” arp no longer of extrema
rarity One in the Great Bear, known a*
“Groombridge, 1830," invisible to the naked
aye, but sweeping over at least 200 milts each
second, long led the van of stellar speed.
Professor Pritchard’s photographic Cassiopeia shows, deter¬
mination of the parallax ef
however, that inconspicuous object not only
to be a sun about forty times as luminous os
our own, Ate but to bo traveling at the prodig¬
ious of 100 miles—while Dr. Elkin’s result
for Arcturus gives it a velocity of little less
than 400 miles—a second 1 1
The “express” star of the southern hemi-
jphere, so far, is one of the fourth magnitude
situated fa Toucan. Its speed of about 200
miles a second may, however, soon turn out
to be surpassed by some of the rapidly mov¬
ing stars picked out for measurement at the
Cape. Among them are some pairs “driffc-
teg” together, and presumed therefore to bo
connected by a special distance physical bond and to
lie at nearly tho same as ourselves.
This presumption will now be brought to tbe
test—Contemporary Kefeord.
Women In Trousers. ,
An unusually targe number of cases of
women passing for men have recently been
discovered fa Great Britain and France. Tho
most remarkable for length of time during
which the deception was maintained was
that of a person who, during a voyage from
Franco to the island of Jersey, acted in a
strange manner and finally fell unconscious.
A doctor found that although dressed as a
man it was really a woman. told After being
sent to a hospital to Jeraey she her story,
which was that at the ago of 13 she had been
left an orphan and had then adopted mole
clothes, which she had ever since worn with¬
out discovery. She was 65 years old and had
therefore worn trousers for forty-two years.
She had for tho greater part of her life pur¬
sued the calling of a courier, guiding parties
of travelers over all parts of Europe, under
the namo of Louis Kerman Tobush. She had
done .well at the business and had a balance
at her banker’s. When she was taken sick on
tho steamer she wore a fur waistcoat, a long
overcoat, a stiff hat, and a turned down col¬
lar,and smoked a pipe or a strong had cigar, as
she chanced to please. No one any sus¬
picion she was not a man
Among the witnesses in a suit at the Palace
of justice in Pam was , person, apparently
a young man, dressed like Ike a student, who
was accompanied by what iat seemed seemed to to be an
elderly gentleman of grave aspect- Whe$
the name of Mme. Libert Was (Med the
young man stepped forward. "I beg your
pardon," said the clerk, “I am asking for a
lady and not for a young man.” “But this
young man fa my daughter,” explained
the sedate gentleman, stepping forward.
(Hie clerk decided to let the judge The see the
witness and settle the matter. judge
told the young woman to go homo and put
on proper clothes before die Appeared to
testify. “Bat I have not a single dress to
my name,” she exclaimed. It torned out
that the old Mme. Libert runs a printing
office, and had for a long time worn male
clothing in order bringing to manage her her business daughter bet¬
ter. She was up to
the same custom.—Boston Herald.
A Queer Pocketboolc,
A bright, proud, of very bologna pretty young lady,
with a portion a sausage clasped
tightly in her gloved left hand, created some
quiet amusement to a Walnut Bill cor Thurs¬
day afternoon. She had run out of Oavagna’s
with several parcels to her hand just fa time
to catch a car. Panting, she acoepted a seat
tendered her by a great big fellow, piece who, hap¬
pening to look down, saw considerable the ot bologna
fa her hand, and had of a time
preventing an explosion. Then tbe conductor
passed through the car. When he approached
the young lady the packages'were dropped in
her lap and tbe right hand reached toward
the deep left, blush her eyes^unconsciously spread her following. face she A
oyer as
dropped the bologna. Springing np she asked
the conductor to stop the car, and she alighted
.The big fellow laughed heartier than ever.
In her hurry to catch the car, while in Ca-
vagna’s, after making some purchases, she
hari&y picked np what 1 She i thought was her
purse, It proved to be a piece of bologna
sausage^ > lying on the hurried counter, (fit. end, never tire
at it, she The
flashed out of her eyes when she returned to
Cavagna’s for her purse, tat not a word of
reproach was uttered The parse was there
awaiting her, and, taking it, she was soon
seated to another car, riding towfird her
borne.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Bitumen in Texas.
- Ths need of material for serviceable pave¬
ments is one brought very widely felt. In many titles
esphattum from the famous pitch
lake of Trinidad has been used, bring mixed
with a certain amount of calcareous matter
sand heated to each a point that it would
harden on cooling. The natural mixture of
limeatcce and bitumen found to the deposit
of Vsl-de-Travers, at which the French have
so freely and successfaHy availed thenwelve#
to til* construction of their pavements, fa
thus imitated. The result is a pavement that
resists tbe action of air and watte for a con¬
siderable length of tint*. A very important
dfaoovsry has been made to Texas, to Cel
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Tho First White Men to Visit Liverpool
lt»y—Unpleasant Ways of Testing Cour-
n c »^-Ttio Hankie Womcn—Fnet* Gleaned
Thiui Lord, Lonsdale** Note Book.
The reporter took tho note book uml
gleaned the following tacts: “On A«g. 2,”
writes Lord Lonsdale, “we determined to
make a triji to Liverpool bay. I persuaded
aHuskiotoput on civilized clothes and to
take out his ‘toberettes,’ with a view of dis¬
guising himself. (The toberettes are two
pieces of serpentine, shaped like buttons—
up to the mouth, and tho smaller one on the
other sklo. The Indians prim them very Tbe
highly and value them at |«0 each.)
clothes he put on I had given him before¬
hand as payment for gufcUngiteto the Huskio i
SSS?b4Ti JStL^SS,-
and my white ensign, and my man hoisted
fcb© HydfiOD Bay company’s flag, tuitl ihun bo*
decked we sailed around the print and into
full view of the Wooden and canvas town Of
tho Iluskiawaux, distant about five miles
a KOVAL WXU50SW.
“We no sooner hove to sight (him I saw
with the glasses all the Huskiee ooma flock¬
ing down to the beach. Four men put out to
kiacks to meet-u» as an advance guard.
Three of them were armed with bows and
arrows and knives, and the fourth carried a
fan. About 400 yards behind them came
fully 800 other*. Wo could see that there
was a great commotion among them. A* we
advanced so did the kiacks, but when wa
were 300 yards fram them they suddenly
stopped paddling and would not come any
nearer, I called and tailed, but all to fan
purpose. I saw they were distrustful, so I
told our Huskie to nail them.
“As soon as he spoke they recognized hi*
voice, and I halloed; ‘To-go-to-chi-nack’ spelling (the the
nearest nearest approach approach I I can can readily get get to to spelling the
chief’s name), when they came up to
us, followed by tho others. We were now
about 100 yards from the shore, and to taka
time I lowered the sail and made the men
pull Our Huskie now told them who and
what I was, and made them a long speech, whidh
and sent them off to tell the others,
they Instantly We did, slowly apparently in great to
glee. went on purpose,
give them a good chance of having a
talk with their pals. There were about 178
men and 250 women and children now wait¬
ing for ns to land. We no sooner touched
tbe beach than I jumped out and shook hands,
having taken caro previously, however, to I
load my revolver and put it in my pocket
shook hands with all the men and the chief.
The thief was named Ta-wsh-taoek and hi*
sub Kagloy. Tho former was a well built
big man, with an active gait, ■<
countenance and fleshy eyelids, m
only tiny holes tbrodgh which his
tempered eyes peered. But he was
and said he was glad to see me. Tta mos¬
quitoes were so troublesome that I asked him
to conduct me to the ‘Kishawa,’ when he dish'
appeared, returning la two minutes arrayed
to hi* robe of state and accompanied by fat
three wives, in similar array. He then led
the way, and Kagley, BtUy and I followed
‘' hint it IBB Billy stayed _ only a few moments did fa
the • council council chamber, as tho atmosphere
not fc seom seem to to suit i J him. __ .... ..... ... 1.............. ....
“After waiting '“fagi tivi a few ‘ .....| minutes about seven¬
ty or eighty natives arrived, all fa their best
clothes and beads, Kagiey and our Wend
(whom I was. now told were tho i councilors,
and more respected than the pr resent chief)
then camo fain very smart clothes, has. When
the room was full the chief made a speech, to
which all listened with marked attention.
He told them (so I learned through our Inter¬
preter, himself a Huskie, triton from hi* tribe
when a boy by the Hudson Bay company)
that the chief told them to welcome us; that
we were tho first white men who had ever
Visited them. Ho had heard that white men
were brave, ‘but if they are so brave,’ con¬
tinued be, ‘how is it that they have not come
to us before! .Still,’said be,‘1 think they
must bo brave, and we will try them.’ They
then showed us how a man was killed by
them. Four men seized the victim. Two
held him by tho shoulders, another placed bis
hands against his back and the fourth pulled
his head hack, when another man would draw
a knife across his throat, and all was over.”
caiwcmkq Tbs vvhai.es.
The Huskies then tried to intimidate Lord
Lonsdale by rushing at him with their lcaives
and then putting thetr hands over his heart to
feel it beat “While fa the middle of this fa-
teresting performance,” said Lord Lonsdale,
“We heard a man calling ‘Hoo-roo-e-e-ooo!’
(or that is what it sounded like to me), which
immediately Everybody threw everybody into confusion.
rushed out, and tbe chief railed
upon mo to follow. The lnterpretcrttold me
wo were going to a whale hunt
“The cry still came at intervals, and
found out afterward It came from senti¬
nels who had been placed to watch for tbs
coming of too white whale. The Indians
until they come into the shallows, and then
attack them.
“The chief put his two y<m&g wtv«a n»l
ssaafrw.is&sii
rowed fa the direction of the cry. Tta wo¬
men are not allowed to put thtir foot into a
kfack, because of an Indian superstition which
says that the art of hunting leavm the man
who owns the kfack if such a thing should
“Wo all rounded the corner fa silence mid
there, moving up toward the shallow*, mere
same time keeping up a rolling sound with
their mouths and splashing the water.
“The whales were gradually driven Into
shoal water, and then began the attack.
First one man to bis kfack would make a
rush forward and drive fa bit harpoon, and
then another would follow suit Each har¬
poon has a bladder filled with air attached
to tho end, so it will float if-tt should fall out
of the fatale. The line and order kept by
tho Indians was something wonderful They
never got in each other’s way, and no two
men would ever make a rush for the same
whale. Each man carried but one harpoon,
and when these write t~
and then pulled out all the spears. Ase '
yycls pjpo
into the wound and the man blew
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