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Oct. 31,1878.
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BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1870.
The Village Stork.
BAIARU TATLOB'S LAST FORM.
The old Hercynian forest eent
His weather on the plain;
Wahl winkers orchard* writhed and bent
ln whirls of wind and rain.
Within her nest, upon the roof.
Far generations tempest-proof,
; Wahlwinkers stork with her young ones lay,
i When the hand of the hurricane tore away
The boose and the home that held them.
The storm passed by ; Ihe happy trees
Stood np and kis» <1 the sun;
And from the bird** *ew melodies *\
Came fluting one by one.
The stork, npon the paths below,
| Went sadly pacing to and fro,
: With dripping plumes and head depressed,
For the thonght of the spoiled ancestral nest,
And the old, inherited honer.
Behold htr now the throstle sang
From oat the liuden tree,
“ Who knows from what a line she sprang,
' Beyond the nnknown sea ?”
“If she could sing, perchance her tale
Might move ns." chirruped the nightingale.
“ Bong V She can only rattle and creak !"
Whistled the bullfinch, with silver beak,
Within the bars of his prison.
And all birds there, or lend or low,
Were one in scoff and scorn; J
Bnt still the stork paced to and fro,
As utterly forlorn.
Then suddenly, in turn of eye,
Bhe taw a poet passing by,
And the thought in his brain was an arrow of
That pierced her with passion and pride and
ire
And gave her a voice to answer.
Bhe raised her head and shook ber wings,
And faoed the piping crowd.
' « Beet service,” said she, “ never sings;
True honor is not loud.
My kindred carol not, nor boast;
Yet we are loved and welcomed most.
And onr ancient race is dearest and first,
And the hand that Lurts ns held accursed
In every home of Wablwinkel!
i “ Beneath a sky forever fair,
And with a summer sod,
The land 1 come from smiles—and there
My brother was a godi
My nest npon a temple stands
And sees the shine of desert lands;
And the pahn and the tamarisk cool my wings
When the blazing beam of the noonday stings,
And I drink from the holy river!
• C There I am sacred, even as here;
Yet dare I not be lost,
When meads are bright, hearts full of cheer,
At blithesome penteoost
Then from my obelisk I depart,
Guided by something in my heart,
gwoep in a line over Lybi&n sands
To 036 bloeeomwg olives of Grecian lands,
And rest on the Cretan Ida !
| " Parnassus sees me as I sail;
I cross the Adrian brine;
The distant summits fade and fall,
D&m<ian, Apennine;
, The Alpine snows beneath me gleam.
I see the yellow Danube stream!
Bnt I hasten on nntil my spent wings fall
Where I bring a blessing to each and all.
And babes to the wives of Wahlwinkel!”
She drooped her head and sprke no more-;
The birds on either band
Sang loader, lustier than before —
Tney oonld not a rider stand.
Thus mused the stork, with snap of beak :
“ Better be kiient than so speak !
Highest being can never be taught:
They have their voices, I my thought;
And they were never in Egypt
American Legation. Berlin. Germany, Novem¬
ber 12. 187&.
New York Street Tender*.
There are not less than four or five
thousand fruit and peanut venders in
Gotham, Of those, the greater part are
Ualians or Italian-French, for whom the
calling seems to possess unusual attrac
tion, although almost everv nationality
is included. The alleys of West Broad
way, Five Orosby street, the neighborhood of
tha Points, and in fact any place
where cheap tenement houses abound,
furnish homes for this class, who nsn
al y congregate in small colonies of
relatives or friends. Two or three
six rooms are generally occupied by five or
men ana women, and for these quar
te»s, dirty, ill-ventilated and dark as
they ot'teu are, a rent is paid varying
from $8 to $15 a month, according to
the avarice of the landlord and tl e
ability of the tenants to pay. In those
rooms thoy eat, sleep, and keep their
stock in trade, the only wonder being
that the stock dot's not retain the vile
odors of the room in which it is kept
over night. A license, where one is
obtained, costs the applicant $5 and an
annual fee of flity cents. This entitles
tern to go where he will throughout the
city, but does not his^iand, permit him to select
any cue spot as and he is often
ooni|>elled by some zealous policeman to
“move on.’* Sometimes, however, the
same stand is occupied by a vender for
many months without molestation, and
ho is enabled to build up a trade and
grin regular customers.
Bananas, oranges, grapes, melons and
pineapples constitute the prinoipal stock
in summer, and in winter these are snp
plemented chestnuts, or replaced by apples, pea
puts, filberts, dried figs, etc.
\„»rood days, dnrin? the summer sear
son, a peddler will often make $2 or
$3 clear profit, bnt in winter his daily
earnings when most successful seldom
exceed seventy-five cents. Most of the
venders are prudent enough to lay up
something in the summer to maintain
them during the winter; and it is not
unusnsl for a vender to expend from
$20 to $30 in buying a stock of grapes
or fine oranges. The finer fruit, in gen
eral, gives the best profit, since few will
purchase that which is poor or partially
decayed, even at a low price. A bunch
of bananas costs from seventy-five cents
to $2, according to the quality and nnm
ber on the Btem, and oranges vary from
fifty cents to $3 and $4 a hundred, and
on these the peddler expects to double
his investment. Peanuts cost from $1.05
to $1.35 a bushel, and sell at five cents
a quart, though lees money is made on
them at that price than when they were
bought at $3 a bushel and retailed at
fifteen cents a quart; the business being
now very much overdone. The “stock”
is picked up at the different down-town
markets, and, in fact, at any place where
it can be obtained cheapest. In sum
mer fresh fruit is bought principally on
the docks, direct from the Bchooners
and sloops which bring it to this city.
With fifty men bidding for the same lot,
the competition grows brisk, and the
last bidder finds himself saddled with a 1
lot which he can sell again only at a I
sacrifice. The Irish women generally
incline to apple and candy stands, the
Italians to fruit and nuts. At best, the
the vender's life is hard, and like all
other occupations now, this is over- .
crowded; but it still seems an infinite
remove from the life of the mere tramp.
Diseases of Our Own Causing. ,
On an average one-half of the number
geon of out-patients suffer from treated diseases by due a hospital primarily sur- j
to a want of knowledge of the laws of
health and cleanliness. First, the ignor- ‘
ance of the hygienic laws which affects
so well disastrously the the health of the rich
as gard to as dress, poor, ablation exists and chiefly ventilation. in re- j
This statement may, at first, appear
diseases startling; but an enumeration of the
that can be traced to the above
causes will show upon how found a
basis this statement rests. The follow
ing are example# : Varicose ulcers from
NO. 49.
drew; skin diseases from want of clean*
liuess; chest diseases and fevers from
defective ventilation. The vast number
of ulcerated legs treated in the out-pa
tient department of hospitals, in work¬
house infirmaries. *ml in private prao
tice, arise from varicose veins. Now,
ft varicose ulcer is caused by a distended
condition of the veins of the legs, which
have to sustain thepressureof the blood
caused by gravitation. In varicose
veins, the valves which help to support
the column of blood are to a great ex*
tent iug destroyed, been through the veins hav
distended by mechanical
obstruction to the freo return of the
blood from the extremities, thereby dis
tending the the lower veins and separating
edges of the valves. Thus the
weight of an uninterrupted coitunu lias
tt> be borne by the veins. This, of
course, causes further distension, giviug
rise to congestion of the capillaries of
the skin aud causing swelling, eczema,
varicose autl.ultimately ulcer ulceration. This is the
to common in the labor
iug classes. It is always difficult to
heal, aud often impossible to heal, ex¬
cept by prolonged rest iu bed. Hence
if «« the dread of surgeons, and the
cause of misery to thousands. Yari<*ouc
nloera are seldom admitted iuto geueral
families hospitals, so that hundreds of poor
ore driven to the workhouse,
&ud *uoh cases form a majority in the
workhouse infirmary. The most tre
quent and tlagruut cause of obstruction
i» the ordinary elastic garter. Children
should never wear them at all, as the
stockings by can be perfectly well kept up
the attachmentof elastic strip* to the
waistband. If garters are worn, it is
wBli important the to risk kpow of how harm; If.The
least Wnd
of the knee the superficial veins of the
teg unite, and go deeply into the under
part of the thigh beneath the ham-string
tendons. Tlius a ligature below the
knee obstructs all the superficial veins;
but if the contraction is above, the hom
string tendons keep the pressure otl the
veins which return the blood from the
ignorance Unfortunately, of the most people, iu
above facts, apply the
garter below tho knee. Again, in nine
out of ten laboring men, we find a piece
of cord or a buckled strap tightly ap
pli«nl below the knee, for what reason I
oould never learn, F.'astic band* are
tbe most injurious They follow the
movements of the muscle*, and never
relax their pressure on the veins. Nou
elastic bands during muscular exertion
become considerably relaxed at inter
vals, and allow a freer circulation of the
blood. —Popular Science Monthly,
m -
■aiTied In the Rain,
A . which took place
, marriage in Poca
on , county, Iowa, several weeks ago,
am surr °ondings that might be nx
* ,ec , 6<1 to dampen even the ardor of
J onn 8 , *° ve *i"® 8 just been reported, and
K) £ ood The swain, a
. , ^ Pocahontas
1 A° UI 1? armer °f ooun
?. r ® u * ua * oonrse of smooth
, “*** P r ®vailed on the maiden
“** led na “® the day. She fixed an
on f* and * ie obtained a license in
o^the p Th ® girl & Bt
Wjj' Th *
0
dl "“ aJ;he ^nister arnwed
“ . b ” d P**
f 08 0 ™ were the ma<ie ee ^
wnen preliminary to the *
minister asked ceremony the
to see the license. When
it was shown there was trouble, the min
mt ® r refusing to proceed unless they
’” rent over into Pocahontas county. The
bouse was only a few rods from the line,
b ut ** was as dark as Egypt, and raining
“y the bucketfuls without. However,
everybody rai(1 was anxious and nobody
a ' » and out they went. The pig-pen
W8S °v*r the line and toward it the
P ar tj steered. The minister mounted
* ae fence to get out of the mud, and
w «nnd his legs among the boards to
brace himself up; the couple grabbed
hands, held and while the bride’s brother
a lantern to illuminate the job the
ceremony was performed.