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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1897)
OUR HOMEMAKER. t .- ,,, • i .lnrirwnv And the plentiful table *p -» . w WatTi i ... <><1 «< welcome climb! our corning, * t weather that brought ns, time. Oh! many and many a Again is her doorway opened And the home is garnished and sweet, But she silently waits for our coming, And we enter with silent feet. And ahlymimher breast Her And bands the word a e Wded her together^ lips rest. on Btl t cannot think of her idle; She must be a homemaker still; Ond giveth that work to the angels Who fittest the task fulfill. And somewhere yet in the hilltop* Of the country that hath no pain, Slo- will watch in her beautiful door \v ft V To lii<l ii* » welcome again. A.Mi!..- I' T \A hmi.y, in t hr House wife. A WOMAN IN THE SADDLE . “Oh, v.-i. there Was good sport and !,- picul v of I. ... Australia in the early and hard lines for imped,.ion a.:„„,o-i *....• like myself, shipped oil li, neither trade, craft nor rummer ,.j„l knowledge I think 1 was born with a deep rooted aversion to any tbing that resembled work I had health and strength and a light heart, and 1 rubbed along for years, but lid nivaclf any good.* until one d„v nook girl to „ wooden church and married her. Him is ,„y wife to morning 1 touchetl the very mint it self. 1 fj,( i'i'.t' tafh toilit i.n 1 ,II daughter the *i<!e Of Millionaire dowering his and sou-in law with a fortune “’.fun Lay,........ lot said, ‘you’ve married untold wealth to-day; you’ve got my Carrie away from me, the smartest girl of my bunch. Hhe’s worth her weight in gold ingot*; she’ll pull you through; shell make a man of you she will’ ■•Ho was right. Carrie’s father was right Hl.e wasn’t 20, but she had the head for business of a Chancellor of the Kxcbcqncr.and a perseverance and *ejf confidence that were just amazing, In !♦•«« than no time we bad a place that developed into a general store, a go Hi trade and monevin haui I 1 ,1 again flu-door jmst.^smokc a cigar and fad big, while Carrie bossed the lot. We were tip Doctor’s Creek. I left the digging severely alone, pre furring to rely on Carrie, who sold yellow soap and shirts at a startling profit. There never was such an am liitious girl as Carrie. Hhe w as Aus tralian born; and it made me laugh to hear the way she talked about the visit wo wore would to i-ay to Europe, and what a dash we cut in London when w e had secured our pile. “One day a roguish sort of old fel Sac^uuZtion low t„-.m.o H o rn withhSS s k g Ha had a thoroughbred chestnut horse, hood ed and muzzled, and a ragged black boy „S groom and jockey- he horse was as fin- a type of the highest class racer a* ever stepped on Newmarket llcatl. and how old Charlie Hover got hold of him is a mystery to this S' s£r;»v zi l r,::z tll e Z n ...I, Kk- » l-iBliA* ««l l« manipulate his heds with such pre t .....*--.....«“ eg feat of kicking the eye of n gnat, He would rush at any stranger open mouthed, like a wiM boast; he was a dangerous man eater, and (lover own ed to hi* having killed at least two men. V 011 can imagine no one cared to go near nim. let alone attempt to mount him. With the lad only he was »S quiet as a sheep ami as playful it-, a kitten. He would snuffled in the lmv’s woollv hair, ml* his nose up and down his back, and purr like a cat. Martin Thomas was Nightjar’s one ah solute and only master, ami a clever. pain«Uk ing rider At eight Ktone. “Hover's idea in visiting Doctor's Creek was to utilize our spacious turf flats as a training ground, w ith a view to capturing the Tookooboola Cup two miles, value £2.000, the greaest racing event iu our district. “Nightjar was in at 8 stone9 pounds. and he became the idol of Doctor’s Creek. We bad some bits of blood among us that had the gift of going. and tl.ev w ere jumped in one after the other. U* persuade the mightv Night jar to gallop his best over our two miles. With Martin Thomas in the saddle he was docile and alwava did hi* best, but would allow no other man or woman to touch him at the peril of their lives. Carrie, of course, mauag ed everything. The boys got up a huge sweep first prize £1,000, and it did not surprise me in the least that Carrie drew Nightjar “As the eventful .lav approached. the perturbation became painful in its intensity, and the dweller* ,*ti IVetorN Creek decided to suspend their oper- ations entirely over the race week. It was a four days’ journey to Tookoo boola. Evv-rv hale and hearty man , , betting, and another £1,000 on the sweep. representing I bad £120 in my pocket, all our ready behind us was the etore and its stock, balanced against liabilities to the merchants. “What guileless children of the desert we were! No sooner had our party arrived at the scene of action, than some of our ‘boys’ began bluffing ttb(mt the bars, boasting that Hoe tor’s Creek had the winner up its sleeve. There were many astute rac U ‘ K interested in one or other of the twenty-eight probabe starters. They must have carefully ascertained that Nightjar was acme boy horse, and that by extinguishing Martin Thomas they also extinguished any danger threatened by his mount. “ft was only two hours before the race that Martin Thomas developed alarming symptoms of colic or lead poisoning. To our agonized inquiries of the, indispensable jockey, we learned with Hume I,*«U g«B*i "P Abe town-’ “The boy grew rapidly worse and , *•»» >«i«J »“ « ^ » *»«» collapse. Cover and ourselves occupied one shanty, with Nightjar in a shed at the .car. ‘You can imugrne our consternation ‘ three looked at each o her and realized the situation Old Cover br,jlu ' down, and shed pitiable tears of rage and despair. At my feeble suggestion of fetching a doctor, Came Ib-w to the door and bolted it. Hoes any one know, she panted, that Mar tin I honms is poisoned—is nobbled "Martin Thomas, in the throes of violent . retching, assured missus he »«v«r said nothing to nobody bout . 7 , , %irrgw , f j .V" 1 ' ™"'<“ sight! Now, ™ en le I '!" 1 , h-Hhowyou .r I "" 1 °’ ,t (,f yonr 3 C 'Z Cover, "}>*' » you woman snivelling old .T^ fool, scrape “ soot out of that clnmney-caUh ^d of these scissors, Jim and cut off my hair, leaving it only an inch long 0 V «J‘ ftH ( - When I hesitated . to shear . off the tb beautiful black hair, she quickly or dered mo do what I was told or she would do it herself, (lover after gathering the soot, was instructed to beat two iron skewers. One by one her lovely dark tresses yielded to the aciHSors, and the fall 0 *■ floor was a stab to my vciy iea f Iff Her clever fingers twisted the short ends of hair into scrubby little curls Thomas “* Now > of T" all 1 ‘ bis “‘ en clothes, ’ atrl l’ put ^ artln the tlung* m that corner and clear out while I undress "Hhe plastered her ionny ace anil aad arma "MB h decoction of soot and grease W ith lnhnite eour age she even got into Martin honms s slnrt The cap and jacket, boots and breeches fitted to a nicety , and when ^ tapping *"-,.tted her boot with *'}\ her whip, f the w iiiolerful impersonation of be Afn TnJ^ 1 ■■"•Vve ^ ridden horses cross-legged „ lallv a tinM ... Hhe 8ai ,l. ‘j can scale , u> w ,. j |lt | ftm go ing to give the J # nin {nr thl . ir luoU ey, that’* r ,^ ; t o ,lo ' 1 .. lk him. Missy Layman, talk h()) . sp de time ,- nas Martin j ' ri ~' a fai -“ r 118 we '«-Zl “ a,’"!? f „..t ..I sight, don’t let , :Zd„..;,i:;..„:id.. - • hi-sed Carrie us we ap- 1 1 whinnied . , . , • a we tome as s ic opened , the tloor, n ni <• in uuu am , aN - ie ‘°wered 11 s * *-i *y UUI “ her. she shppei . snultlc at 1 on 1111 , all ihe while chattering in spent n imitation of the "O' - gu m.i I e appeared slightly perplexed and m resent advaiiees. but in a sec- | ond his hood and muzz e were on, a u F,| e let! him out, snoi ting suspicious y, and stamping his wicked feet. «over soon adjusted the saddle j “-Throw me up, Jnn.and don t ntaiid staring like a boo >y. My dear life, 1 said, ' 011 r '7 i >'' > ’ lr pretty self for winning a s a M hat do 1 care if our money is os . And, for heavens sake, if you wl " have your own way. keep those spurs cfl him. “Well, Nightjar . to our surprise perambulated tbe him paddock saucily quietly white enough. She sat h» "»* walking showing her white teeth, slanging the other jockeys, and grinning for all the world like Martin Thomas. Nightjar s splendid appear <*■"’* h,m ,UB,1 V I r ^ nds > aBl1 he - even touched 10 to 1. I “In the preliminary canter the; trouble began, (lover slipped the. hood and muzzle at the paddock gate, aud awav went Nightjar in front of the grand stand, bounding and bucking, and kicking flashes The missus's horsemanship was not promising, There was a grand panorama of the open country between the saddle aud the ride- end h.r arm- were mostly round Nightjar s neck. Never was there such a humiliating spectacle, Shrieks of la nghter and biting sarcasm filled the air. “’<?» .M ta*. Mr a safer. Af “ ‘Let go L his neck, you’ll choke him” and so and so on. “‘Here! Any price Nightjar—who wants to bartk Nightjar?’ yelled the delighted bookmakers. “In_ this stc rm of ridicule I tasted the bitterness of every heartrending emotion. Suddenly, however, .Night jar took it int<i his bead to cease nos tilities, and banter away to join hi? horses at the (post, his jockey riding very loose, arid still the butt of the merry multitude. “We had a goodyiew of he start They wen awdy at the first time of asking, all but one, Nightjar who re mained on his bind legs, the missus hanging on to him with outstretched arms, as if she were climbing a lek tree. “More ridicule, more laceration of , my tortured feelings. “A bookmaker from Melbourne yelled out, ‘A hundred to 1 against plunged jorwwl after the field, Carrie well on his neck as if whispering to him, but pulling himself together he be e ;ul “> f "de “ d eltend bimself would A, when . as he keeping over the flat* at In,me. My word, i thought; ‘'U, -< u*p keep ^ at pace he , A hundre. £ tnlon to 1 on Vhrhti«- Nightjar. It sounded *** ST Ike a mocking mo 1 g chal al lenge to my girls invincible pluck. It maddened me. In a ° l 01 slender bood.e, and shouted him loi del H«e, 111 Jake jonio lOffi K)0 ,, Right, 3 [ m and ’ d tte to £lg>.ght^r . 1 vi v ^., ino tnl l»nr 27 ” rr 1 r beat, I 1 ™-' the^ !| ha hoofs h "^ f “ rattled on the hard Se ttefavwte favArite makL th4 running oerteker and leading the, luId *L a a Nigh tar hod eaugh n then £ and ‘ passed hi«^ then ’ !^ b 8 J® action t inn telling tcllino its its Me tale Om One .by^one bv one they dropped away from the game T h ? gin^wf chine, ami increasing " ls 8 S ^ed P ®« 1 at a * con’d realLe what was hlonen ng, t only^two rn^it, and J • „ ><v0 The ^ were nleneed, and the nfler H .er of of ReddesdaU ReddesdaU was hard at Rlfl ^ ng B “ d , girths, i,u l ‘ Ld through b bis • bridle and spurting p. with td „m^btv ite . u nrl ' si 1 ' . o ! ‘The favor, ite * beat-the favonle s beat-Night- . Niebt gar wins. ig J * was m g g they flew past the judge and and above above all the rattle and racket I heard her ^ T? 1P .® ‘ g " ** no . o . ^ bt 3 ; ,,’ the.L lay into it! Nightjar, . bully , boy , sake solleezi h«S2 hG«J kST-* now-now' Won—won. by gum! “Ves, she pulled it off right on tb« post by a short bead, and passed th< scales all right. “We got her safeh back to the shanty, where for a long time 1 held her in my arms and kissed all the Iu, - k ° ffh,,r /*“♦*• rt r ,, :.rC!inSo”.,™5lot“"lt L and hu e.« .uipeeted he Lad a substitute at the great race for tha f Painted Black by Lightning. t , a viedlcr was killed j. btu j u T be Lick,” on Half jj iver twentv-two miles south of Louis V “‘ e ’ ^ :A one dav recently At about u 0 1 ‘ o ^ “ ‘ ^s . ^ h a vivid , lightning Tn which was noticed eo-ilc the neighborhood ^ A Afew "j minutes "ground later he found lv lu'l^'hut dead The body w2 one suleof it Booroheti black from the lightning and it was horriblv swollen. Beasley was V -eiirlit years of age had been a . ' widely [he and was [“ hiyZ-bJZ section in w Lich he met reirularlv accustomed to visit it rep . - Toueh 6 Turkish Soldiers. An English official who has com manded Turks says that the Turkish so ldu r has a wonderful faculty for mak mg himself at home anywhere and subsisting on scanty rations. Itasu due. be thinks, to the pomadic in stinct in them a heritage fr ° m flleu forefathers. Encamped anywhere neai a wood they will quickly make huts_ol branches, and if no cover is possible they will lie down contentedly _on the , bare grouud. They will endure all manner of rough treatment without complaining, and when thte time comes for fiebting show a lite'j Jat-Ut 'A their business. OUR MANY INVENTIONS. OVF n “ELF A MILLION PATENT 5 AL READY ISSUED. The United States Have Pm|i11m Cen.uses tffSo tc Spa , re -How the Different ndustr.es fAnk in the Way of Devices-Vehicles Take the Lead. An interesting story of the remark able industria! progress made by the i pie o{ tbe xjnited States may be f(m hd in the annual report of Mr. J&in geymo1lr Commissioner of Patents, wb ieh has just been issued from the ! Govfcrnmfcnt printing office. P.epellant such 1 ftg the j tabular statements of , a work must be to the ordinary reader, 1 which tell the mad ' in brief the inventive of the improve-j genius! ments by contained. Of | o{ tbe worl(1 are therein the more important of these facts Mr. Seymour bus made a summary which is in a way a history of inventions for ^5 years, although written chiefly as a guide to save ambitions but uninform ec ] inventors the labor of reinventing i j ev i ce8 already in use. ^''"rarueVr.'adei i, the gr.ra th of the >V » willbeuoted, ilJstan( th at the number of pat ents issued in186.5 just after the Civil > ’ ’ the number is- I than’ Q; - 7 A e in _ ti fact this, however, is revealed by &. a little closer examination q{ ^ tab The number issued in 1885 was 24,233. The number issued t wa8 22,508, the next, ^ ap(l tbe next 20,508. That some sort of an incubus rested on the energies « of the inventors of the coun ring {our year8 se ems to be “ fairly well indicated bv these fig r aml the inferenee that this was RO J, grows stronger when it is seen by number iB9ned in 1D ^ still further into this matter, it " A ci’rious ehidy is o'ffer.ieil in the table whl( . h 8bow8t ], e classes of inven tions, with the total number of patents issued in each class during the exis tence of the bureau. Simple as are the ordinary carriages and wagons in t he details of their construction, more patents have been issued for devices connected with them than in any other clft88 of the burean . The whole mm ,( er issued in this class was 20,821. The second class in point of numbers includes stoves and ranges, and in this class no less than 18,972 patents have been Uaned . These numbers the Kore romaikabie wKen it is ob served that under the class entitled mills, ^ the number of patents was l.nt although both flour making an d lumber cutting mills with their great variety of machines are included in the class - Even the widespread uses of electricity-including conduc tors, trolley lines, motors, generators, lighting « B and tefepHony, signaling devices, y an(1 medical and chemical—had produced but 18,700 and patents, P or 272 less than the stove H owever , wbi le the separate class of carriages and wagons leads in the nan. her of ^ patents, > the combined classes th e r appliances patents are divided are found to out number those issued for the ancient ^ uu “ ber be ™« “ 5 >®- 6 ’ The kindred class of .... velocipedes which includes bicycles, 1ms 2,621 patents to its credit while the elevat- j ora c ass has issued 1,726. Other in Spte£T ”So£“l,X“ Tt l h.ee bee” the .nbieotef 7 68 TpM.nB 1 while clocks and watches have yielded ** v*s seem, have been patened 10,342 times, . while firearms, including ordnance, j with all the machinery needed for locks, Vireecbes, training, supporting, and what not, have produced but 5,466 patents. One might think that the number of patents depended in a way on the extent to which the class was used throughout the nation. Tbe number of patents issued for plows, for harness, for wagons, seem to show this to be so. The 12,177 patents issued for clasps, buckles and buttons seem to confirm this theory. But, , while nothing is more common than cut lery and jewelry of some kind is well nigh universally worn the number of cutlery patents has reached only 2,184, and in'jewelry the number is but that 1,118. Even the locks and latches are; used in every house have been tbe subject of only 6,102 patents. Last of all in a consideration of pat ents is an indication of the progress of a people. It appears that the whole nnmber of patents that had been ig8Qed throughout foreigu countries up to the date of the report was 981, qinit/d ^ bilp the number jssue a in the States alone was 562,458. As Ui tbe inventive faculty among the States it appears that Connecticut , akes the lea d. One patent was is- 81ieJ in 1895 {or everT 907 inhabitants, Nplt m order was t he District of Col umbia witb one to every 1,047; Mas ^achusetts was third with one to every Rhode Island got one to every j 50 $. New Jersey one to 1,694, every 1,619, New York one to every Mon- • tana one to every L915, Colorado one td every 1,917. At the end of the list appears South Carolina with one pa tenfto'every 28,076 people and Mis sissippi with one to every 41,854 per¬ sons.—Chicago Times-Herald. Pangman’s Tree. Peter Pangman is set down in Cana¬ dian annals as being the first white man to reach the Rocky mountains, and also the first white man to ever see them from the east. While in the employ of fur traders he ascended the Saskatchewan, above its junction with the Clearwater, and, looking to the westward, he saw the white mass oi the Rocky mountains, to which he afterwards penetrated, but he marked this spot of his first vision by carving bis name on a pine, which from that day became known as “Pangman’s ~ Tree.” The great north country was fai enough off in 1790. Peter Pangman had no special cause for believing that any second person would pass the same way. It was more reasonable to suppose ihat time, or fire, or wind would detroy this one pine among & - million other pines, and his yet, rude 107year? inscrip after be had made after the Southwest Fnr Company ea tabliahed a post on the Saskatchewan in the vicinity, which came to be called “Ro<*y Mountain House.” But the post was described by its proximity tbe to the tree, and not vice versa. All travelers ond trappers apd traders of tbe early day apeak of this place as “three miles below Pangman’s Tree The Rocky mountain house took its name because it was so near this Rocky mountain tree. Tbe tree was a land mark before the trading post and con tinned to be after the post ha,l ceased, A transcontinental railroad passes not far away now, but it has not obhtera ted the memory of the post nor blot ted from the minds of men the living and leafy monument. A CHINESE EXECUTION. A Multi-Murderer Sliced Into Many Pieces. K’Ang, the Fra Diavolo of China, whose deeds of blood have kept tows and hamlet in a constant state ol terror for years, has at last paid the penalty of his crimes. It appears that, emboldenedby his long immunity Ian? from capture, K Ang visited and s leg e to the heart of the daughter of a high manchu official of the imperial court, whom he succeeded in inducing to elope with him early in January, There was great commotion following the flight of the pair, and influence sufficient to spur the Peking police to extraordinary efforts, resulting in the capture of the fugitive at New Chaunk later in the month, K’Ang was taken to Peking, where be was tried twice before a special tribunal, and, although cruel tortures, such as kneeling on heated iron chains, being pricked with red hot needles, etc., had been administerd to make him confess to the formidable list of some twenty-nine robberies, with murder in each case, of which he had been accused, be would divulge noth ing. Finding they could not elicit any thing from K’Ang by torturing him the judges, by a clever appeal to his vanity, trapped him into signing his own death warrant. He “ was there upon condemned to death by tbe o“ g tbe 0 day he w^Sd' out to die ^^ K 4no sane g songs “f a the keMtt wav to the execution ioa ground, „ rou ana an l kept it up up even even jvhen aev ® ral “ 8 A stab 8 with a fs“ h f diSo? he heart rest el the elieing ,„d the «»•! body weie tnen •< done tjj b m “tl silence, ‘J* ai p p sounded tne spot, Flogging an Elephant. Captain Martin, of the British army, stationed at Campbellpore, India, vouches for this story. Elephant Abdul (No 15) was on trial for killing his keeper, Syce Ramboucles, by pick ing him up by the legs and crushing his skull against a tree, The president of the court-martia, was Major Cameron, of the Thirty fourth Madras Native Infantry H, read the charge and then witnesses proved that Abdul was guilty as charged. Tbe president then sen fenced the culprit to fifty lashes and to two years’imprisonment, Abdul Two elephants led to an opes space and in the presence of the whole battery the punishment began. The culprit trumpeted in fear and made an unearthly noise. elephants There were fourteen oi one side and the officers and men cl the battery on the other three. In the centre of this hollow square stood Lalla (No. 1), the flogger, and the prisoner. The latter was chained by tbe four legs to as many heavy iron pegs, and could not move, Fastened to Lalla's trunk was as immense cable ohain. When all was ready, the Major gave the word, and down came the chain with a resound ing whack. Abdul roared for all he was worth. Fiftvtimeswastheoper ation repeated, and then Abdul WPS taken to a compound, where he re taained a prisoner for two years.
