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3 DANCED WHILE SATAN FIDDLED.
ays. In consequence on the Mon
and Tuesday preceding Lent
n as Shrovetide the people gorg
hemselves with viands and indulg
b the fullest extent in dancing and
ymaking. The rules of the church
s it de rigueur that the dancing
Id cease at the stroke of 12 o'clock
der not to infringe upon Ash
pesday.
¢ upon 4 time, tradition tells us,
ancient pious settlement on the
awrence there stood in the center
forest clearing a solitary dwell
p{ rather pretentious appearance.
ront of the building was of caen
imported, some say, from Nor
iy by a wealthy Calvinist seek
-8 quiet home in Canadian wilds
rom old world religious strife.
e Calvinist manor at the death of
woer went to decay. The roof
ed first. The walls exposed to
rly gales crumbled away, the feu
ower intended to repel Indian at-
B one night was struck by light
and in fact the manor was rapid
‘ foming uninhabitable. He had
lt_ was said, sheltered a friend
aqml Kenton, who had married
: dtive of Mme. de Champlain pre
: to the beautiful Helene Boule
: ing the creed of her husband, the
' er of Quebec. Successive au
: } gales had torn huge boughs
, the once graceful elms. Forlorn,
: el shunned, in fact, the Cal
-3 Manor was fast assuming the
v.: fowed, dreaded aspect of a haunt-
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:: ugh no clanking chains had yet
s bere at nightfall, there existed
$ ; Iz:x'lx' credited rumor that the
v :ffmlm s daughter, after meeting
f: lut ber cavalier in the meighbor
: 2 seex there by the light of
; 0 a headless specter on horse
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back. This had, however, excited lit
tle surprise, as it was on Halloween
that the apparition had been seen.
At the request of the maquignons
(the French word for horse jockeys)
of the neighboring settlement a grand
trotting match had been arranged teo
take place in that neighborhood om
Shrove Tuesday. An announcement
to that effect had been made by the
public crier at the church door after
high mass on the preceding Sunday.
The icy surface of an adjoining river
offered a splendid course, where the
farmers of the surrounding parishes
were to meet with their nimble trotters
and Norman amblers. The darkness,
however, of a short winter day inter
rupted the sport, and it was decided to
continue the races on the morrow.
An unknown maquignon (horse jock
ey), who said that he came from a back
concession, the owner of a fast coal
black trotter, proposed that they
should take possession for the night of
the deserted manor, tether their steeds
in the spacious outhouses, invite the
village maidens to come and dance
there, saying that he would borrow the
fiddle of the village fiddler and supply
the music. Some tried to frown down
the proposal, the house having such a
bad name, but eventually the strange
visitor carried his point.
The dance was finally organized. The
company, having assembled, chatted,
danced and drank sangree.
When 12 o’clock came, a gray haired
but spruce old habitant, pulling out his
watch, said it was time to end the en
tertainment and called for a round
dance, otherwise the company would
be sinfully. encroaching upon Ash
Wednesday.
The indefatigable fiddler objected
and struck up in his wildest mood a
poisterous jique simple. One and all
they joined in, chatted, danced and
irank sangree (mulled wine made from
sjpiced Bene Carlo wine). A cotillon
was then called for, and again they
shatted, danced and drank .sangree.
Presently the lights grew dim, but the
music was brisker than ever and never
reased until the whole company sank
put of sight and nothing remained visi
ble but their toques madly dancing in
the air.
The legend is known as “The Legend
of the Magic Fiddler,” and the magic
fiddler is supposed to have been the
devil.
PYTHON FORCED TO EAT.
It Took Twenty-Four T[len to
Make a Snake Eat a Rabbit.
“Long Tom,’ the 28-foot python ina
Boston museum, was given a forced
meal Thursday evening. Raymond L.
Ditmar and Charles Snyder of the New
York zoological park superintended
the task. A snake charmer grasped
the serpent by the neck, and as 1t was
pulled from its cage twenty-one men
}seized the reptile and held it while a
large rabbit was forced ten feet down
its throat with a pole. It had not had
‘4 meal before in six months.
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medicine.”” For sale by Farrar, Harrls]
& Marshall.
A Nervy Affair, l
China, it seems, has got to pay for
nerves racked, as well as for property
of foreigners damaged or destroyed.
One of the officiais who went through
the Pekin siege has put in a claim for
$lOO,OOO damages to the nerves of |
himse.t, his wife and daughter, upd it
is ~aid his government will back it up.
FELL DEAD IN THE FIELD.
Dougherty County Farmer Found
Lying on the Ground Dead.
The Albany Herald says that Mr.
Tim Tyner, a man well known through
out this section, died under peculiar
circumstances at his home near thas
place.
Mr. Tyner was in one of his fields
surperintending the plowing belng
done by several negro hands. He was
standing beside a fence at one end of
the field, and was apparently as well
as at any time in his life. He spoke to
the negroes as they started to follow
their plows to the other end of the
field, that being the last time he was
ever seen in life. When the laborers
returned to where they had left Mr.
'Tyner standing they discovered his
body lying on the ground. and an in
vestigation reavealed the fact that he
was dead.
The remains were carried to Lees
burg for interment.
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EVERYDAY LIFE IN GEORGIA. |
Editor’s Yams; Jeff's Toddy.
From the Lawrenceville Herald.
We are under obligations to Mr. Jef
ferson Davis Calhoun, of O’'Neal’s dis
| trict, for some choice yams,one of which
when baked would gratify the taste of
\tbe young Queen of Holland, though
she has recently married. Jefferson,
though a young man, is our tax collect
or, being perhaps the youngest official
to fill that place the county has ever
had. Furthermore, he is so good-hu
more 1 and obliging that even a small
toddy maketh his beart leap from side
to side like a scared kitten confined in
a small sack.
Mortgaged to the Deyvil.
From the Arlington Courier.
There was a small crowd in town on
the first Tuesday, though the day was
bright and the roads good. The only
excitement of the day was the attempt
ed runaway of a mortgaged mule,
hitched to a mortgaged wagon, loaded
with guano and driven by a bull-head
ed negro, upon whom the devil has a
mortgage, one in which there is no
clause for attorneys’ fees.
The Sparta Girls and Their Hair.
From the Sparta Ishmaelite. .
Some of the girls are making
great advances in the matter of over
doing-up their bair. They have now
reached what may be termed the Fiji
island stage of the art uputterable.
The head of a great North American
bison is not in it with that of one of
these disheyeled victims of the Poly
nesian hair craze. |
Uncle Johnny 0. K.
From the Blakely Reporter.
It was reported on the street yester
day vbat Uncle Jobony Miller was
dead. A telephone message from Mr.
R. C. Fryer, who went oyer to investi
-1 gate the rumor, is to the effect that
'Uncle Johnny is alive and as well as
usual. His many friends will be glad
to know that the report is not correct.
Perennial Cannibals.
From the Talbotton New Era.
The Johnson Perennial Draught
Club of Talbotton received last week
by mail from genial T. B. King, of Ens
ley, Ala., a unique draught board. ‘
The ‘“‘men’’ were of candy, however,
and were eaten before a game was,
played.
Prof. Ivison, of Lonaconing, Md.,
suffered terribly from neuralgia of the
stomach and indigestion for thirteen
vears and after the doctors failed to
cure him they fed him on morphine.
A friend advised the use of Kodol;
Dyspe) sia Cure and after taking a few
bottles of it he says, ‘lt has cured me
entirely. I can’t say too much for Ko
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you eat. DawsoN DruG Co.
'THE COTTON CENSUS.
Some Interesting Information
About the South’s
Great Crop.
The United States census taken last
year collected valuable statistics of all
l vhe material resources and produets of
the country.
| The first bulletin of agricultural pro
| ducts has been published and to the
| south it is the most interesting one
' that will appear in the entire series,
as it relates to cotton, the chizf crop
of this section.
The census figures are for the cotton
crop of the commercial vear 1899-1900.
The census bureau got its report, not
from producers, but from the ginners,
believing that this was the best method
of obtaining full and accurate informa
tion. All ginneries were required to
‘report the number of pounds and bales
‘of cotton they had ginned of the crop
raised in 1899.
- They gave figures which show that
9,644,852 commercial bales, or equiva
lent to 9,345,391 500 pound bales, of that
crop were . inned.
The figures account for 9,041,931
square bales averaging 498 pounds, and
504,641 round bales, averaging 250
pounds. It will be seen that the round
‘bales had not made much progress up
to June 1900. It was much more largely
used in baling th 2 crop of 1900-1901.
The bulletin reports 29,630 cotton
gins in operation in the south last
year, of which 6,468 are operated by '
the public only, 2,683 for the planta
tion only and 20,289 for both the public
and the plantation. The sea island
cotton crop of 1899-1900. of which
Georgia was one of the largest pro
ducers, amounted to 97,279 bales of
the average weight of 388 pounds. The
average cost of ginning the sea island
cotton was $4 a bale as compared to
$2.03 for ordinary cotton, though the
bales of the latter averaged 110 pounds
heavier.
The quantity of cotton in commer
cial bales ginned of the crop of 1899,
by bales, is as follows : |
Algbima ... asle B B
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GBOPEIR . o vcoiivoiiinioai B 50 B 0
Indian Territ0ry............. 180,324
TEBBARE « e oci i viosine od haens 121
RBROmy . s 84
TOMNIANG . ... .00 o demiis 0 TBROR
Mississippi........c.cvnivenn. 1,208,048
MEIRONDL . e iane il BT
North Carolina .............. 473,155 |
OEIBhOMB ... 00, o vveiis i = BRORO
South Carolina... ...... .... 876,645
Tennessee,...... v v 0000 215,119
TOXNE ..o, BB DS
Vlrma. L o it vainias v 9,300
VERDICT FOR CONGRESSMAN.
He Slapped Maine Man’s Face--Cause,
Spitting on Car Floor.
A Washington dispatch says: Geo.
G. Baker of Maine, several days ago,
instituted in the district criminal court
a suit for $lO,OOO damage against Con
gressman S. B. Cooper of Texas for an
alleged assault last summer, and to
day a verdict was rendered in favor of
the defendant. On May 31 last, while
‘both were journing from the south to
‘this city, Barker objected to Mr. Coop
er expectorating upon the fioor of the
car, and after considerable remon
strations, the Congressman slapped
Baker in the face. Thisaction brought
on the suit. |
Gare Vice President Teddy a Jar.
Senator Morgan took early occasion
to let Vice President Roosevelt know
that he is a mighty small part of the
senate. The other day when Mr.
Roosevelt put a motion that the senate
go into executive session he got rattled
and said the session was to consider
such business ‘‘as the president sees
fit.”’ Instantly Senator Morgan was
on his feet. ‘‘Such business as the
senate sees fit,”’ he corrected. Roose
velt bit his lip, looked foolish, blushed
‘under his sunburn, and repeated after
the Alabamian, ‘*As the senate sees
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