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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1889)
ON A BIG 'POSSUM FAIUI. THROCKMORTON HAS EIGHT HUN DRED OF THE FUNNY THINGS. His Farm Near Grtfhn, Giu, Presents a Most Singular Sight—An Immense Orchard of P«nlmuimi Trees—The Way the 'Possums Fight When Feeding Time Comes. A few miles west of Griffin is the home of Mr. William Throckmorton. Mr. Throckmorton is the proprietor of the most unique and remunerative farm in Georgia. It is the "Lime Creek Toeeuiu farm." On the very crest of a well wooded hill is a comfortable cottage surrounded by beautiful shade trees. At the foot of the lull is a pretty branch, running through the very center of a ten acre j>ersiiumon grove inclosed within a higli board fence. The persimmon trees are interspersed with a quantity of old hollow trees and hollow logs planted in the ground. WHAT AN KXPKltT SAW. It was in the early afternoon when we arrived, and to the uninitiated the farm appeared to be an immense fruit orchard bearing an oblong whitish sort of fruit hanging from the dead limbs of the trees by a long, black stem, But appearances were deceptive. It was not fruit, but between seven and eight hundred ’pos sums taking their afternoon siesta. Our party were somewhat unacquainted with the habits of the Georgia ’possum, and consequently plied question after ques tion to our highly amused hosts. I now consider myself an expert on the’possum, and here is what 1 learned and saw: The ’possum, when desiring to take a nap, simply climbs the most convenient ■tree, walks out on a limb, wraps his tail one and a half times around and swings his body out into space. Ilis legs and feet are drawn close into his body and his head drawn up between his shoulders until it forms an almost perfect ball and appears to be a great pear covered with white fur. The huh was slowly setting below the distant pine mountains and we were still gazing at the queer objects in amused wonder when a half dozen little 'possums emerged from thepocketof their mother, ran up her tail ;uul commenced playing on the limb above. In a few minutes this marsupial stretched her head and then her fore feet out. She swung her self once or twice, grablved her tail with her fore paws and climbed up it to the limb, which she caught with her claws, untwisted her tail and pulled it up. Hardly had she balanced herself when the half dozen young ones climbed into her pocket and were hid from view. She then climbed down the tree. While this was going on more than seven hundred others had awakened and were coming down from the trees. Reach ing the ground each one made for the creek, drank, and then ran up the hill to a pen in which they were to be fed. BAKED ’POSSUM AND ’TATEKS. They were of all sizes. Some would barely weigh a half pound, while others would tip the scales at thirty. The pos sum. when hungry, utters a sound which is a cross between a mew and a moan. Over seven hundred ’possums were to gether so thick that the ground could not be seen between them, and the small ones had been forced upon the backs of the larger. All were uttering this pe ctiiiar sound, reminding one of an urmv of soldiers moaning over tho death of their general, when through a gate a negro pushed a wheelbarrow, heaping full of all kinds of'trash and slops—con sisting of fruit pealings, vegetables, meats, bones and bread. As he hove in sight the scene among the ’possums re minded one of feeding time in a inenag orie. The little ugly ai.*:nals screamed and scratched and hit at one another until the negro had scattered the con tents of the wheelbarrow over the ground. Then, although it was well scattered, all wanted to eat in one place just like hogs, and there was considera bie more scratching and biting. But this did not last long, for the rations were soon consumed by the great drove Of ’possums, and they commenced to dis perse, seemingly contented, ami this finie climbed the persimmon tn>es. During the persimmon season the 'jhvs puma are not fed at all, for it is on this fruit they become rolling fat and ready for market. Mr. Throckmorton ships five hundred fo eastern points and the cities through out Georgia. They average him $1 each, and lie makes quite a go<xl tiling out of it, as they are practically no expense to him. In shipping to Atlanta and Geor gia points they are generally dressed, hut tba majority go to Washington and ore shipped there alive. The large sliije uients to Washington are perhaps due to the average southern congressman's fond ness for “baked’jiossuni and’taters.’’— Griffin (Ga.) Cor. Atlanta Constitution. Dra\vtii|- tn SrhiiolH, There lias been considerable discus sion as to the benefits to be derived from drawing us taught in the .pplthc Schools. Free hand drawing as wj<ll as mechanical, where instruments uro used, is unquestionably advantageous, lor while the practictrl man may find but little use for that brunch of draw iim in active pursuits vet tint hand iile maid and tiie transition iron, free limnl nmdeSd'nmch to nieclmnicaJ iSTierof drawim* Soinplish is thus ment. Practice makes perfect, and I consider tluu the cout,nuance of free moo. -61 J/)Uta Globe-Democrat. CORSETS ARE CURSES. SOMETHING CONCERNING HOW AND WHEN THEY ORIGINATED. Ovid Puta Then, at the Head ef Remedies Against . , lev*—Oil* .... au« . .. I nruenU . In . Da . „ r tew Points Also About Foot Gear. The small accessories of toilets, wheth er they be necessities or only pretty ad juncts, have made industries which have employed many people in their manu facture, and have added largely to the growth of that passion for dress which has, in different centuries, broken out in both man and woman. Adoration for the human form 1ms covered the feet, bedecked the hands with jeweled trifles, and incased the body feminine in stiff whalebones until it has become of differ ent shape than nature intended. No art icle of apparel is so much discussed at this time as the corset; in truth, there it an absolute war over it. TO MARK THEM GRACEFUL. Still, this same corset has held sway Fong and firmly. Even in thedayswhen the Greek sculptors builded their ideal of iieauty on tho Venus do Milo writers in veighed against largo waists, Ovid put ting them at tho head of remedies against love. They were an undoubted out growth from the bandages worn by the Greeks to restrain a tendency to corpu lency, and were as much used by rpen as by women, if we are to believe Aristo phanes. History also relates that Marc Antony had need to resort to such means “to compress his swelling figure." The bands were three in number—the stro phiuni, a bandage wound round the bust; a zona, or the waist belt, and the tenta, wound round and round below the waist Nor were tiie bandages worn alone for compressing undue rotundity of form. They were made wider and longer and wrapped in large folds about slight fig ures to give them tho grace of un duiutinglines. From the latter use, more than the or.uer has descended the repre hensible habit of lacing, the cause of the outcry against the stiff, whaleboned cor set of today. ln the ancient days a very tliin. slender figure attained to a much admired posi tion by being enfolded in a large and voluminous strophium and tenta, and using only one thickness of bandage as the zona, producing the first effect of an unnaturally small waist. When this did not prove effectual in disguising the lack of cushioning to their lHines they resorted to oils uud unguents for bathing the body; goose fat mixed with warm milk and the egg of a partridge, the conglom eration being highly scented, was deemed the most productive of the desired em bonpoint. But great care was taken that not a drop should fall on the lnniy near the waist: in fact, while going through tiie fattening process the zona was worn day and night. Since the days of incense burning In the tuples, a record of which is found in the books of Moses, have perfumes been used, and from the Egyptians, through the Jewish people, has passed the art of making them, of burning aromatics and of carrying about richly wrought flacons of ' vh «ch have sometimes been Uuuit * •" ,l!! ‘ foru “>r smelling bottles and a £ ;lin Perfume sprinklers. The fash enable woman of today wears her an Hque silver vinaigrette suspended from ber chatelaine or carries her scent about *“ >l coatly tlacou, rich with chasings or carvings, filigree work or enamel of fragile Venetian glass, or of metal thick ^ studded with jewels, and none of a F |- eater size than can be readily carried *“ tbe band, which fashion Queen Eliza ‘’eth instituted in carrying about her pomander. By the way, it was in her reign that perl umes and scents began to be manufactured generally by Euro peatM. although as early as the Four h'entli century the \ enetiaus eomjieted with the dwellers in the tar east in the manufacture of sweet odors, Ingenuity today is not taxed to furnish designs lor scent bottles, as the 8°'fi Sl,, d silversmiths have only to copy ll ‘ L ‘ ri ' llcs uf «»her days preserved in families and museums, the demand be * n K on 'y antiques, and tiie supply is largely of imitations. Some beautiful patterns are devised in tin* form of tho most grotesque of goblins and dragons, wrought out in gold and precious stones, Others are chased with scrolls and sur mounted with coronets and coats of „„ arms, suggesting German ., workmanship; , , . others are curved of wood or some one of the semi-precious stones, as the onyx, the bloodstone, the carneiian and the like. These usually have a base or cup of gold or silver filigree work, and are usually of trench manufacture, although the carvings may be brought from India, Switzerland and Italy; yet another is of silver inlaid with arabesques of gold, and is evidently Moorish. Who would suppose that the common use of shoes and all kinds of foot cover lugs was of a much later date than the carrying of scent bottles? No one. I am sure; ami yet the people of certain Eu pean countries, long after they had lea rue 1 to clothe their bodies in an elab •»«“.» ra-hion. -v.ro u, U.. habit oi “going barefooted. This was the custom even so late as the Sixteenth flapped m full armor rode about with out M.uv'tho any covering kniH^ on either foot or legs This would seem still more strange than it docs did one »"’t recollect that even in this enlightened sr nudonpl dress, svdiioh loaves knee, wholly SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. uncovered, despite the cold climate. The earliest record* hear witness, however, that Moaes and Aaron were commanded to take the shoes from off their feet be fore entering tl* temple, and in Egypt at tluit time the rich and great wore san dals incrusted with precious stones, of whicL th « 9 ° ,e9 wer ® miwle of 8 old ' °" the bottom was engraved ? the names of auch m , people had . , 1mm conquered , , by as the owners, if they happened to be of the conquering eex. Sandals with points elongated and turned up were the ex clusive property of royalty.—Chicago Herald. TWO KINDS OF BOYS. On* Who la Always Up to Mlsehlaf, and Another Who “Didn’t Think." We have all met the malicious bov who is a nuisance to everybody with whom he cornea in contact. He is the boy who ties kettles or firecrackers to slings the dogs’ tails; breaks windows with and air guns; rings door bells, and in a hundred other ways commits mischief of the kind that shows plenty of malice and very little invention. Nobody his likes the malicious boy; not even comrades, who are in contin ual fear lest they be the next victimA Almost as great a nuisance is tho boy who “didn't think.” He throws a scends stone into over a neighbor's dwelling house; yard, it de a and strikes a child. There is a great up roar, and the boy excuses himself by saving The that he “didn’t think." shoots next day he explodes a torpedo or off a lire cracker in the animal street near a high spirited demolishes horse. The runs away, the ve hicle, and perhaps the occupants. But tho boy assures everybody ue was not to blame—he simply “didn't think.” It never is possible to punish this boy for Ills misdeeds, because he never means to do mischief. Ilis parents and his comrades will tell you that he is such a good natured lad and so kind that he would not harm a tty; yet he is continually harming somebody be cause he “didn’t think." As th j bov crows older he prows moreRnd .nore of a nuisance. If be inU) a 8t ore ag a pieman, he of fends the best customers because he "didn’t think” they would mind; if ho j s a c ] cr k, he is sure to do some thing which he “didn’t think" the firm would mind, and which the firms minds very much, So he goes through life, never stay ing in one place very long, making many friends, and losing them all, clined never getting imagine rich, and somewhat in to that the world is “down on him." He cannot under stand why his services are less in de mand every year, when he is sure that lie never meant to do harm to an llo one. costly blunders, S'S. an 5 injuring thinks it is innocent sufficient people, and he he excuse to say “didn’t think.” that Boys, is os why well they as men, given must think; There are brains. is not a single action in life that will not bear thinking about before the performance. Careless actions and careless words are alike reprehensible and bring their punishment in time, The boy who “thinks" is the boy who succeeds in life.—Golden Days. Th® Mil irk. The essential nature of every shirk, masculine, feminine, domestic, social or civil is selfish. The shirk thinks only of himself, his own ease, his own comfort, bis own indulgence, and this regard of self so fills his whole hori* zon that be cannot perceive anyone in the world who should be consulted, unsclf. io tear tins veil of selfish- 1 S s fr Tm th 1. e V eS 1 10 S llrk *? a task . * soi difficult that i it is often r easier t<> do bis work for bun than to make him do it for himself. But the willing worker should not be willing. imposed on simply because lie is If any man will not work, neither shall li-* eat. is a precept of di pled, vtno tbe authority. helpless The sick, the crip should be cared for but those who deliberately shirk the work they are well able to perform will be benefited bv being compelled to do it, or suffer from its being left | 0 .... n * rin 11 0 motlicr who . permits .. , her (laugh- , . U i-s toai ray themseh es in line clothes and sit tn the purloFat fancy work, while she drudges in the kitchen, docs them no less than herself an irrepir able injury, ami the daughters who permit themselves such indulgences are | incapable of making good wives aI1( mothers Lite is full of burdens , ... to bo borne, of drudgery to be done, of laborious tasks to be accomplished, and the earlier m life one begins to apnly sc or horse,f to the tasks to bo done, lie sooner does life become easy, does toil become p ensure, does achieve rjll^-TrjLV^ 1 * OXCOCdlng - Ti»« Devil Cast Out by Keirnre. Conscientious men still linger on who find comfort in holding fast to some shred of the old belief in diabolical possession. Tho sturdy do duration in the bust century bv 3ohn « W«U«y. that the Bible, U L . witchcmft feebly giving up Ls echoed Hi tho latter half of this ccn mi 'l llM 4,c ® ,a, T* lll » 1 o . possession by devils . to charge ts apostle will, imjmtura," ' ‘ l s N ‘ ,* i ow *testimony of snitds" , r s'aTllm , no^^rand^ who J this'consriontbu^ n a n But, d V spite CLAUDE DIXON EUGENE DIXOX DIXON £H0S. GeneraL IIYEex'cli.aia.'tS. AND WE KEEP EVERY THING USUALLY FOUND IN A COUNTRY STOKE, AND SEI.T AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. HIGHEST CASH PRICES ALLOWED FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE. WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE MURRAY $ —:Dealers in:— General Merchandise. PfTWEKEEP ON HAND ALMOST EVERY THING TO SUIT THE TRADE. RESIDES \ FULL LINK OF GROCERIES. WILL RE FOUND, HATS, SHOES, CLOTHING, COFFINS, CAS. KETS, FURNITURE. ETC., AND WILL SELL GOODS AS CHEAP AS ANY MERCHANT IN SOUTH A VEST GEORGIA. SOLICITING TRADE, IT IS OUR OBJECT TO PLEASE ALL, AND GIVE VALUE RECEIVED FOR YOUR MONEY. MURRAY – WILLIAMS, Ellaville, Ga. DR. C. H. SMITH, ELLAVILLE, GA. Dealer in ; ; Paints, Oil – Varnishes FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC. IW Also, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, School Books, and Stationery. opposition, days science has in these iatler with steadily Christian wrought charity in hand this in field, hand evolve to a better future for humanity. The thoughtful physician and the de voted clergyman are now constantly seen much working together; and it is not too to expect that Satan, having been cast out of tho insane asylums, will ere long disappear from monas teries and camp meeting, even in the most endom.—Dr. unenlightened region of Christ Andrew D. White in Popular Science Monthly. BOB YOUNGER’S PARDON. HIs Missouri Friend* Hard at Work. ■Sympathy fur Him Fxtentilns. dclegation, , f T ‘ A* AT fj ’ composed *^ u ^- v of B. C. Missouri Rogers ftIul W - C - Bronangh, who are interested in *« cunn K a pardon for Bob Younger, s pcnd Monday in the city, and in tho ev?umg went to meet an appointment at ^ d ‘ They ./°' will agniu return to 111 a v dav s ; . Missouri petition by the present in dorsements and letters secured from oomity, many prominent pe< g >le of Faribault and other parts of the state, whom they have visited for the pur pose, So far as the number and prominence of the the people whose influence has thus been secured here are concerned, documents are of an exceedingly formidable character. In a casual oon Y««*tion Col Rogers said that at one t“V el,0 -.‘n common !t’ had with many other f ^ P v° P t no but v' ho °,° has n ‘ ' nger ?’ been convinced • nw*, that they have , been ae cused of crimes of which they wero whoU y innocent, and with which they had not even remote connection, i Bean Hr.nm.ll »£rS uL e ™::r thelteau ionc f me„t, and was to send to Eton and Oxford. Of course the on, y profession he could enter was that mau millinery iiid ulFair the Tenth Hussars. So little lie know of the business of an officer that on parade he never could find his troop. For had tunately, there was a soldier in it who a great blue nose, which served as hi., beacon and his guide. One day the soldier was absent, ami Brummeli; 'at© as usual, was loolri’ig out for him. the old colonel tbundert'd: ’' V "-'’t. ^ 81 ^;’ A/ 9aid 01 ? ,lnd tlie y° ‘tn|>oi-turbable ur troop?” R * rtirnmeiI. q am looking for no ?°; my Al . ,ast . ho ff av « U P tho nnny. The regiment was ordered to Manchester, : >■“** >" <■«" tho lino at loughL 01,0 occasion Brummeli or pretended to think, him Stor one’s ' nirift ff*a V<Hl^n^I,“ lxlgmgthat n , he derata, was in } J S ll . ItW * ;,* ,, f ‘ 1 ac0 toWl -‘: '' who as j t u ._ 1 “ilanohes* ’ for stopping one nigh, in/’ -stits Geiufoman’s *iuguzimx CURES FOR INSOMNIA A I July T.ll» Hun She Helped Her Him bund to Hreok the Awful Spell. I was much interested in the notes from Dr. Ford's lecture in the Herald of Health, and wish that every woman as well as every nurse in the land could read them. Those of us who are at the heads of households may some time need all the knowledge we can get upon the subject of insomnia. The trouble grows more common every year, especially in America, where we are apt to live upon “nerve" in all times of trial or excite ment There is no doubt that personal mag netism is one of the best medicines for insomnia, the will of the nurse suhju gating and calming that of the patient. Two very unhappy cases have come un der my own personal supervision. One was my husband, who liecame so wretch ed that lie would sleep about two hours and then get up to walk all over the place, and often for miles into the coun try. One night l began talking to him when he awakened, and finding that my voice quieted him, kept on, repeating poetry, and finally mixing my sentences up in a dreadful way, I was so sleepy myself. But he went to sleep, too, and did not awaken until near morning It was remarkable, for he had not slept 80 much at night for two years. That day I learned to repeat Paris Bonn, knowing that my husband was very fond of it. So when he got wakeful the next night I had something to say over to him, and to my delight, he fell asleep before I was half through the poem. And so we kept up our midnight conversations for three months, I telling all the fairy stories,the gossipy incidents, and repeating all the ***""* \ k T eW ’ An ? little l >y t::. little 5 80 - '‘ v “ uU1 lumll >' u “' ak ™ W 7 “°™ I 1 ° t,Kr B nt cast ' W!lH of 1 a l »dy h, with **‘ “ - VWir ' ‘ r f° f try the Dalsarte movements of the body -'‘inhering lierself, and swinging about unl " riie l>cgan to feel drowsy. When B '“‘ wou ' d Krnw restless in the night, B ' u * would arise and trv tbe same exer ci *‘- finally cured her. after a year of faithful practice. Her trouble was more physical, while my husband’s was mental, lie grew to depend upon ni« like a child, and if I happened to i# away from tho house, he could not sleep So soon as a person so atHicted logins to sleep well, the general health improves and sleep is more easily induced As Dr. Ford savs. there is a'knack of' put ting one to .»,*£ sleep and "-p..-i,dly each Sta.™U» dauehter <>f famllj secret, if possible for so much of the comfort and well brine of hunnmitv de Ogilvie in Herald of He-ultlg The luminous power of the electric lights on top of the Eiffel to war is equal intensity to lO.fXX) carcels, and the total of thuir luminous ruys8,(M) f - 000 core el*.
