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THE OLD, ni t* S i on V.
BY ILBEOEBXU.
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Wfcy do you write of tho io old?u story,
One bo young and oiie fa’r;
Has tfey young h«arfe«een aught of glory
That tahou%d love bm brought?—tad the end despair I
Didst know that no eyes were true,
That all were faith’ese, even the gray,
And brown, and Wack, the tuwcle aud blue
Were never constant, and will wander away ?
v.
Let me tell you a etorv of a flower lair
That grew in the woodland quite alone,
A lily tali and fragrant ondrare,
A tropical beauty in a frigid zone.
Neath its stalk aud under the leaves
A vine grew up in slender tendrils fine,
And between the vine and ffly breathes
The story so olden and yet divine.
first in.
At they were, and looked askance.
And the lily w an pale in her haughty pride,
While the vine was firm as Knight'with lance,
Who cared for women only to deride.
They struggled with fate as many do.
Only to enhance with brighter smile,
And at last with twining arms they kissed, these two,
And eaw not, wondered not, all the while.
The lily, IV.
Gave so proud arul regaly tall.
up her heart, gave up her life,
And in the end this was not all,
A vow was given to be a Nvife.
Time went on; the vine rapidly outgrew
The stately lily who had begun to fade;
Forgotten was she, and only the dew
Was distilled from the eyes that God had made.
V.
Bra\e, And gene roue vine had began to stray.
While in a pretty fortnight cobea was reached at last,
a he was far away and"past. ;
His love was done, ’twas dead
The.lily Dismayed was at queenly the in her of power, the errant vine,
course
Threw smiles to Timothy in an hour,
And they were wed. Is this love divine ?
MORAL.
If two hearts stray and one is true,
Look for brown eyes and not for blue.
If brown eves falter and betray,
Seek consolation in those of gray.
The Arch-Duelist,
Old Jack Smith, of Missouri.
It was a beautiful morning in May,
nearly ble doings fifty in years ago, chief when diggings unmistaka- ”
the “ of
Missouri proclaimed one of those stormy
miners, holidays and then coming so common always among the
on the Chris
hu^g central 0 tm gb tic alT^ f
whether point, shouting as they went,
on toot or horseback, whether
brandishing miked knives, or dueling
pistols, or deadly rifles.
“ Huzza for Lebaum’fs old diggings!
Let’s have a greasy day of it—a real
soul-smelter!”
Before 10 o’clock the multitude at the
appointed rendezvous amounted to more
than 1,000* when a huge Ajax from “Old
Kaintuck,” ascending a huge block of
ore, cried out, in a voice of hoarse tliun
der, “ I, Big Pete Whetstone, what folks
calls ‘Bloody Pete’ for short, move
that this ere meetin’ comes to order
straight, to fix up a rule for the day’s
sport; and I moves furdermore that we
expense with our arms, and do all the
fightin’ with fists, feet and teeth. What
d’ye d ye say say to to it, it, boys boys? ?”
“Good as galena ! It will be glori
bunctious sport—Oh, won’t it, though ?”
yelled the crowd, drunk with the new
idea, as Emerson would word it.
“ Then ground all of your steel and
e-weepons, exclaimed the giant;
Davis guard em with his double wWija barrels.
joiced “Right!” screamed the throng, re
immeasurably with the unusual at the prospect of a
spree guarantee of
safety stacking to their brains and bowels, and
away tlieir murderous imple
where ments in one Bill colossal pile under a tree,
Devil Davis took his station,
swearing that be would blow to an un
mentionable place “ the first feller that
even looked hungry arter the guns! ”
None but the jienoil of an artist from
pandemonium could sketch a picture of
the scene which followed. Although
tlie present writer saw it all, and it was
my opening vision in Missouri, I would
as soon attempt to limn the likeness of
chaos. Let the reader imagine to him
self 1,000 drunken rowdies, vagabonds
and world, refugees in the maddest from every corner of the
state of iutoxica
tiou, suddenly cut loose from all re
straint and turned out on a plain to en
gage in mutual combat, and he will have
a dim conception of the spectacle.
But what seemed to xne the strangest
fact of the case, the belligerents for the
most part appeared to be doing battle in
fun though blood flowed in earnest,
and so They abundantly as to sicken my verv
soul. howled, wrestled, struggled
in the dust, tore each other's clothes till
hundreds were stark naked, struck,
kicked and gouged ; and yet, strange to
say, not one manifested the slightest
sign of anger. It was, a sort of grand
jubilee of physical animal force-fh? saturnalia
of soulless instinct
While the perilous sport was going on,
and waxing every moment wilder, a par
t,y arrived on the ground that instantly
arrested my attention. This was a small
man, with a small, honv face the color
of half-tanned leather, eyes small, black
and glittering, like red stars, with hands
•nd feet actually as little os those of a
10-year-old boy, and countenance cold
and expressionless as that of a corjise.
He held on his shoulder an enormous
rifle ; two long dueliug-pistols depended
from each side of his beaded belt, and a
silver-hilted knife was tied to the but
ton-hole of his left suspender. He was
followed by MX huge negroes, armed
veiy much after the same fashion.
Tlie sea of tumultuouK gladiators
swept round tla- stranger, and many olt
scowled cm him ferociously, but I
served that none ventured to offer lum
the least .personal violence, or even ip
suk; nor did the pn-m-uw of the Af
ncans call forth a single murmur.
•‘Who is .iccompamed that?” I inquired th« of the
friend I hail to mines.
“ Tliat is old JacfeSrnHh T.,” was the
careless answer.
At the sound of tliat <ln*dful name
I must have turned excessively pale,
for I felt my very knees shake beneath
vie. sukod
■What! I iu * wiurntr, “k
that the renowiicd duelist who nss slain
ten men in m-iwrate nfTnirz of honor?"
“Only ninv,” renliod my eomj»nion,
snd imu*e.U»toly inhh d, s» if have jnst |g-*rd then
of'him , t , 0 , Uiv ernotiofi, “you
Mor*/" the
Who, of M -tefcto west of Ail*
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
ghanies, T. ?” has not heard of old Jack Smith
I answered, shuddering at the bare
memory of many a bloody story connect¬
ed wjth the notorious name, many of
which had been told to frighten me into
good behavior true,” when a child.
“ That is said my friend; “ but
you will see some of his feats ere sunset,
or I am no veracious prophet,”
“God devout forbid!” was my involuntary
yet At length murmur. Big Pete Whetstone
the insane rioters, sep¬
arated from throng of
and, approaching old Jack, exclaimed,
“Gen. Smith. I don’t want to insult you,
But it’s the 'pinion of the crowd that you
and your niggers ort to stack your weep
ons like tho rest of us.”
“ If you want my arms, you command
take them!” replied and with Smith lurid in a voice
sharp as a dagger, a smile
that seemed to scorch the iip on which it
writhed.
“ Are you mad at me for telling you ?”
interrogated “ I get Big mad Pete, at apologetically. dogs but I
them when never ; kick
torted old Jack, they brutally. come in my way,” re¬
“Stand up to him, Bloody Pete!
You’re as dead a shot as he is !” roared
the crowd, thirsty for tho sight of a
duel betwixt two of the most redoubtable
champions in all Missouri.
“Let us fight this minute!” shouted
Bloody Pete, fairly beside himself with
rage from the cool, Satanic taunt of his
enemy. Very well.”
‘‘
“ What are your weapons ?”
“ Rifle pistols.”
In a very short time the two foes were
put in position by their seconds, twelve
steps apart, and stood waiting for the
word which should summon one or both
to judgment. 1 could hear tho miners
all of the around awful laying wagers on the result
issue.
“ I’ll bet you ten tons of lead on old
Jack- he shoots in the eye !” said one.
“I’ll go it on Bloody Pete!” cried
another. “ He pops them through the
heart!”
At last the order was given.
“Are you ready? Fire_one—two
three !”
With the first ringing tone of the word
“fire,” old Jack’s pistol exploded, and
fell dead without pulling a
Smith walked Jtomshmont, up to him and exclaimed,
in acceuis o£ “ Well, I
m£uJe a Warned bad shot! I aimed at
llia ri 8 , r i. t 7- ...
He had hit just one-quarter above tlie
eye-ball ! Iu all his other nine duels the
fi end had driven out the center of the
. and lie always fired soincred
e y es >
1 “v. 0 luc ^ tliat lie could scarcely be said
.
to risk any clanger, since his foes gener
, F dropped down corpses without tlie
chance of a shot.
It is easy to conceive what fear and
hatred such a man would necessarily in¬
spire by his numerous affrays, always
fatal to others, and his astonishing prow
ess, that had the appearance of some di
abolieal witchcraft. Accordingly, he was
his waylaid bed, and fired on, by his hearth, in
he at church—always escaped in peril, and.
yet ever without a scar !
JJo not dream, reader, tliat i am ro¬
mancing. and Ask any resident of Missouri
you will find my facts not «^h*b colored a
rav *&«.**«» beyond the strictest biographical
t ruble mail beneath **»,,»**. his shirt. Some,
whispered that he had bartered his soul
to the devil for a life insurance for aeer
tain number of years. But in truth he
owed his. safety to a spell more powerful
than any chain-mail ever forged of steel,
or than any charm ever brewed in the
hres of Tophet—the magical spell of
fear! Brave men trembled to behold
him, and tremulous hands commonly
miss the plainest mark.
“But why did not the community
arise en masse and annihilate such a
wretch from the realms of space ? ”
Listen, and hear another phase in that
extraordinary Smith character, immense
although possessed rich himself, he wealth, hated but,
aris
tocracy alone with an intensity to be accounted
for on the supposition of partial
derangement. All his burning sympa
thies were with the masses. He was the
benefactor of the poor, the friend of the
feeble, the protector of tho oppressed,
and the sworn enemy of tyrants tho
world over. Hence he was idolized by
the lower classes, who would go to any
lengths, even to the sacrifice of life, in
liisfavor. An anecdote, at once terrible
and ludicrous, may be set down here as
an illustration of his bias for the poor.
One day Smith saw Serf M., an opu
lent aud overbearing merchant of St.
Louis, insult a poor mechanic in the
streets of Herculaneum. The desperado
forthwith assumed the mechanic’s quar
rc l Gen. by challenging M. replied tho “I great merchant.
: um as brave a
man as ever breathed God’s air; but the
combat you propose is unequal, for I am
almost entirely ignorant of the use of
weapons, while you are a perfect master
of them all. It is not courage, but your
matchlcRs skill, that makes you rush
into so many like dangers. Jn your heart
you fear death the veriest coward,”
Smith retorted, with a scorching
smile: “You sav that I rely on my
skill, and that in reality I am not braver
than others. You say also that you are
brave. Now I offer a certain method of
settliug both the questions. of the I cliffhy challenge
you to go to top the
grand fu-i shot-tower, to have our whfch righthands
fast together, leap the farthest and see hill of „„
two cui down to
coward" wurd hell! What do you suy to tliat,
( p. D M uademd«l . U) . .
merit seemed ‘ but ^ ^ biindrwl
Q', lvWl !,orHe4ip raisell him ww
to strike if he
refused.
“ I acorpl." wm, the eh^Tl^the gusoing answer
Ihe x >w . i.7th‘. hjkA
and the parties pris-eed,.d grand
shot-tower, followed by Ui« w hols dopii
latjon of the ullugi wsli Tlie iiiM-iisaa- w-m
„ in perpendicular Old sbssf nnuiy hundred to t
height. Jiwk ,m the horri
bf,. verge, opunre*itiy Jiappv snd
whistling a merry ran*, Bot Gen. t«l m
was nervous and agitated and east
seeching •“ looks toward tlmerowd of smu.
friend', tolor„ if hoiniiM to some mutual
1 , forwm I to 1 * uuiinU ft .«
1 romiw it te. ibts\ ■, however movsdor
utter*.d w 3 r<l fo* #11 held their bre»tVi
WATR INSVn.I K, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 26 , 1880 .
in horror, and every head swam with
sudden dizziness at the dreadful pros
pect. consulted and
limiuaries, Having of arranged pulled pre*
one the seconds
from his pocket a strong silk handker¬
chief to tie the wrists of the two foes to¬
gether, and, advancing tow ard the fright¬
ful brink, exclaimed aloud i
“Now, I am,” gentlemen, shouted old are Jack, you in ready?” that
“ tones
rung among the hills till they all echoed
again, ing favorite and immediately ditty: commenced sing¬
a
Away down in the Cherokee nation*
With a pretty tittle wife and a bi« plantation.
Gen. M, shuddered convulsively, and,
looking as if he was about to swoon,
stammered out, " Why, gentlemen, this
—this—-this is no honorable duel, but
to downright bo killed suicide. 1 ” We are both certain
“ To be sure we will, and that’s the
fun of the thing,” replied Smith, And
he mode a movement ns if he Would Seize,
his adversary and drag him over the
precipice. dure But the General could en¬
the agony no longer. With the first
step of old Jack toward hifll ho took to
his heels, and ran away with the speed
oi a seared woit. While a roar ol laugh¬
ter followed on the wind behind him.
To enumerate all t he desperate achieve¬
ments of Jack Smith would fiil volumes.
He fought two land speculators at once
—rich men, who were buying up the
homes of the poor—and slew them both.
He was ever foremost in campaigns
against the Indians, Ho was a father to
the orphan ahd a husband to tho be¬
reaved widow. His own wife loved him
with a deep, devoted passion. His two
beautiful daughters worshiped him as a
being more than mortal, aud every one
of his fifty slaves was always ready to
lay down his life for his protection.
Marvelous phenomenon, truly 1 What •
the man of vengeance, so fierce and
fearful to his foes—whoso dwelling was
surrounded by tho hones of the dead,
and tho very lintels of whose doors were
stained with blood-spots—who was ugly
as a satyr, and hardly less hairy than u
black bear—to possess a heart within
his bosom notwithstanding, a heart to
love, and to be adored by those blessed
angels hearthstone of the altar whose heaven is the
of the beloved !
He has now been dead more than
twenty years, but his memory still
blooms green and fresh in the souls of
the poor, who, forgetting all the cruel¬
ties to others, feel only that their tender
est, truest friend has gone away from
the earth.
Yes, lie is gone—that most terrible
duelist that the old monster T ine ever
saw and conquered! He was buried, by
his own war-chief, previous order, with his like rifle some in wild, his
savage
hand, and his long knife naked on his
bosom 1
Let no oue gaze into the deep, dark
night, where tlie dead man vanished, or
gaze only with that eye of hoping, trust¬
ful love, which, self-luminous as a living
st ar, can irradiate with eternal brilliance
the moumfulest gloom—the blackness
of sin—and even the sunless sable of the
grave.
Vanilla.
stenrsft There was long a mystery 2 hanging
& 2 £
in Europe time sanctioned its use, and from
that vanilla has reigned supreme.
But what plant really produced it was
the question. The jealousy of the
Spaniards prevented much investigation,
but it is now known that the few species
of vanilla are all climbing orchids, so
that, as they never touch earth, their
substance and fragrance is all won from
the air and tho trees. The slender stems
as roots they run along the branches throw out
to support themselves in both
sense*, The obtaining firmness aud nourish
menl. leaves aro fleshy and heart
shaped, and, what will surprise our
readers, dull the flowers are thick, fleshy,
in color, aud utterly destitute of
fragrance, which know possessing well. none The of the fruit, aroma
wo so or
pod, winch is generally called the vanilla
bean, is three-earned, fleshy, plump,
and contains a number of minute seeds
embedded in an aromatic, pulp.
The drying of these pods is a long
process. They are exposed to heat,
sometimes wrapped carefully, in woolen
cloths, and at otlier times uncovered, and
from time to time they are oiled.
TtovwiU* used in this country comes
from Vera Cruz and Tampico, and near
those cities the plant is raised for the
shoots of the vine “ to P^pagated the. trank by of
» sends J™q itsraot^and '«*«* J>efiiSs ^'« ft, draw :111 tm#e
na '. l< *‘:. U* e growth is then rapid.
of v ‘£ dJa 18 vel '- v « erwra) lu
n ;t y>rnig clioeol.ito, | icecream, candies,
«'ake substi utes are sought for the
*®' d 1 *«pe>»ive vanilla. Melilot,
, and the tonqua bean, have
_,, t jr approachin g it. Chemists have
^ uaineit vamlhn^^oni tlie sap of the
pme, and even from stalks of outs.
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How Texas Cattle AX 9 Utilized,
at There Rockport are beef-piiOTti^ and establishments
which Fulton, Texas, both of
places,are in ,fche Center of cattle
ranges, slaughtered jn which at tettAfttMiJitgi EvelFy beeves
are every year, iHn part
of the berf is utilized, to the tufts
of the tails, which are ituLen’ preserved and
sold for tin- making fiR'M^hd <4 frwizettos.
The Wood itm s is pressed,
and is sold m2 Mints a pound .-lor the
omkhig of iertilizws. anHnnn** lU*t tongues and
lean beef are U,fled The
hides are salted and b«kL, frife again. Tie
fatty matte r is extraeted goetoto tab
low. The Ixmo s an- boiled to a gulf, to
I'**™* fatty matter, and the dry
bones, ld mamlv phosphate of hme, are
!t° at 1 cent ent^TW » pound tor fertilizing,
are from tbs hoofs
aeate-fopt off is cxtntMe,! Thu h ofpj
,mrt of fl “ J ,0 “ *> tlw and
‘“'wWe-lxiiH*, atm sutel tut Ihq'juapti
,,u Uiw vf Ivory. Thu horns
P#* u l' Ul *til "iMod Uu> t/i pith fertiJizsrs, lieconu*
’* Wm
and wje horns are sold f«f bmnufiiotarc
Every atom of tlie animal is probably
usrd,
'
‘2? , “ l "‘ ' ... „ “ , *•>"»
‘'f.OwjftW /a sens of IJoveiniuent lifid
" ^ *'*1 Hieler the hoineriesd lawk - a
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J U tong Bari Si
D ^wA * 1 physician^ Tn‘the
N. J. the
State prison iu that city m 1874, is an
thority for the cterfeent that in that
year John Pftrviaues»a native of Finland
and then wconvict, Riding 38years*tinge, script- fast
ed ural for accounts forty .lays. of Savior’s the fast
our of
forty days, and of the fasting of Moses
ami Elijah, invited Parviancs to his fast.
Hr. throughout Phillips the period, ■hatched and tho the prisoner
ration at satisfied e*pi
of thirty-nine days was
tliat no nutriment, except what there is
in ico and water, was taken. Tho at
tendahtB offered tho pricotiot food every
day, But he persistently refuseclto take
it. After the fast he was deranged, and
now lie is an inmate of the New Jersey
asylum for the insane. During his fast
he had perfect quiet and all the fresh
air a man may have hi a prison. At the
end salmon, of forty boiled 'days lie called for boiled
a egg and .a (Link of
whisky, which he ate and drank with
a Phillips relish. tempted While he was with the fasting choicest Dr.
him
delicacies that could be found, but he
Would take nothing, The prisoner said
that eight he days had previously time. fasted He talked for twenty- ration
at a
ally until toward the end of his fast,
when ho was reduced almost to a skele
ton.
When the Rev. Jabez S. Swan, well
known in Connecticut os “ Elder Swan,”
ft revivalist of great pdWt!r, Was Conduct¬
ing a revival in Mystic, Bridge, Mr, Calvin Mor¬
gan, of PoquonUoe Was convert¬
ed. faith, Moved he determined to manifest his Unspeakable days
to fast forty
and forty nights, and ho sayi s that ho
did so, taking nothing into li is mouth
save a little salt aud water. He is now
hale and hearty at 78 years of age, To
a correspondent I entered of the Herald, lie said t
“ upon the task determined,
with the help of God, to perform it. I
was then a robust and ruddy-faced young
man, and after completing my fast
so had weak, haggard aud emaciated that I
to be moved on sheets for several
weeks. I don’t want to go through it
again. I think Dr. Tanner could hold
out if he bad true faith in God to sup¬
port him.” Mr, Morgan’s neighbors
speak of him as a rigidly-truthfvu man,
“ The Boston Girl/’
A lady, who is now visiting the city,
and whose eyes and ears aro always open
to new and strange sights and sounds,
thus records the impression made upon
her by the typical young woman of Bos¬
ton
life. The Boston devoted gill leads to a complicated
She is “ art. ” She is ft
all woman of “designs,” talks but she puts them
on canvas. Hhe to you about
“studies” aud shapes, and the new de¬
signs she is puttiug on the “biscuit.”
She walks Commonwealth avenue wrap¬
ped in visions. She is as inaccessible as
a mermaid. When you fondly imagine
her meditations are solely on the bril¬
liancy of the has last inspired remark with she which really her
presence you, is
occupied with her Secret cogitations upon
that lovely, iridescent pitcher, and won¬
dered if any potter would throw her that
particular The shape in native stately clay. mantels
Boston girl carves
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Fine Arts, and spends much time in the
Athenaeum, arid is a devotee of the loan
exhibitions. She is a bora transcondeu
tulist. Incongruous as it may seein, she is
also an energetic diffuser of useful know
ledge; a disciple humble of follower Herbert of Eastlalie; a
fervent Spencer, and
an eloquent advocate for woman’s suf
Rage With an air of resignation she
informs you that it is not that she partic
ularly cares conviction to vote, hut that sho lias a
solemn that it is her duty.
This fair Melusina never misses a lecture
upon art. Hhe revels in ancient auto
types and etchings; Michael’Angelo’s she talks learnedly
to you of “Fates,
and the different interpretation* of the
Transfiguration. tiou this fair And is the that latest iuriova
of saint she turns
her boudoir into an oratory, and before
an elegantly carved priedieu sho kneels
gracefully the faultless and presents modern her petitions in
most of classics.
Fora being of refined taste and elegant
eulture tjoslon w Transcript. she—the fair Boston girl'!"—
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The Old Red Cent.
How much is sublimated in the famil
refusal <«V«* rvnt ' \,it « tl.,i r
The old red cent is r J oiidl v passing * a wav &
out of thc Unite(1 m eH ,: nmtnoy aud
wiI1 not y. long before it willbe known
only in memory Tt« history and iu is numismatic matter of suf- col
a
fhrient interest for preservation The
cent was first proposed by Robert Mor
the great financier of the Revolution
an a{t( j wftB It named began by to make Jefferson its two years
. r appearance
f ro m the mint in 1792. IP bore the head
„f Washington on one side and thirteen
)jrjkfi on , the other. The French Revo
i ntiwu soon created a rage for French
ideas in America, which put on the cent,
instead of the head of Washington, the
head of the Goddestrof flowing Liberty-aFreneh
Liberty—with the replaced hicks. by The tho chain olive
011 reverse was
wreath of pern*. But the French Lib
erty was short-lived, conk and so washer por
trait on the The next head or fig
ure succeeding this—the staid. hair
dame, with a fillet round her opine
into fashion about thirty ehisele| or forty
ago, and her finely altlred Qniai
features have been but slightly by
the lapse of time.
„ (Jetting 41 ( liaraete-r. •. r
a
He wondrous wary gra-T of your first com
P«rtme„ts ; get alterward a name, M U
very tender of it ; for t is like
the Venice gliu«; qiiuhly i-tehed eracked, mie,
o he mended, though >t may
^ To this puqsise, take slang with
'ou tins fable. It happsw d tiiat t lie,
'Voter and rums wgid to travel togethei
Hist bis you if they are doing lost, nt»w); another, they how consulted they
hue
retrieved, and must again,
1' ire sail, “ Where you see smoke .there
you wiU find «*■." vtuter said, “ Where
you see. nmrHli and moorish low ground
Hieto you shall find rne. Hut I-tone
said, ,f Tuk>- Vis/*d how you lose 11 c for
If do ,
you y«U will run # great hazard
never to r - lost me Mgain (fieri ‘it no r*
1 ic>vins< ~ ure
BtO tXTEKMlSATORH.
V f A f ti Bt,,i8 AND BoAMrea-l Vigor
ous y force into every crack and cranny
“ d a,t ^bormjr
'V U B ’ *° 0 > n * on 8 * u ' edges , o. oil-cloth,
B,0 h, ; nms ”. ^“ocl-work, etc., belle .ore.
A . tcnimpfwlo well-brnised plaster of
«“» ™'“ d wdhdou *t th *,^ nU ^ ? l
" lM * add “. litBe W
.{^ ° 1 1 ' door 01 111 dlu c ^ lln ^ h
winch they freqllenti ,
To Exterminate Beetles. -4. Place
a frequent, f°' v lumps of Set nuslaked kisli lime where they
1 . it or trap, eon
tabling a little beer or sh up hi the bot
against t° n \, ahu its plneo a few sticks slanting
for sides, tlio so as to form a sort of
gangway beetles to climb up
by. when they will go headlong into the
bait sot for them. 3. Mix equal Weights
of red lend, sugar and flour, and place it
nightly upon their haunts. This mixt
ure, made into sheets, forms the beetle
wafers sold at tho oil shops,
To Destroy Ants.— Drop some quick
lime on their lies), and wash it iu with
boiling Water ; or dissolve some camphor
and in spirits of wine, tlion mi* With Water
pour into their haunts; or tobacco
water (strongly), which has been found
to be effectual. They ate averse to
strong scents. Camphor Hill prevent
their infesting a cupboard, or a sponge
saturated with creosote. To prevent
their tar about climbing the trunk, tip trees, place circle a ‘ring of of
or a rag
moistened occasionally with creosote.
To Remove Vi-,itMtN Thom
limns.—Put a piece, of cotton around
end of each perch at night, remove
ootton Put in hi the morning clean perches; (with the clean vermin).
new,
cage every day. in Give the bird a bath
every it morning a good bird large dish ; re¬
Scald move the as ends soon of as the lias finished;
tho perches every day
before putting them in tlio cage again :
renew the cotton around tho perches
until every the night, bird and free remove in the the morning
is from verfllitt.
To Get Rid op Cockroacuies.—A cor¬
respondent forward writes as follows: clean, and “I beg
to you an easy, cer
tain method of eradicating these loath¬
some insects from dwelling houses. A
few years ago my house was infested
with cockroaches (or 1 clocks,’ as they
are called here), and 1 was recommend¬
ed to try cucumber peelings as a rem¬
edy. I accordingly, immediately be¬
fore bed-time, strewed the floor of those
parts of the house most infested with
the vermin with the green peel, cut not
very half thin from hour tho later cucumber, than usual and set
up an to
watch tho effect. Before the expiration
of that time, the floor where the peel luy
was covered with cockroaches; so much
so that tho vegetables could not bo seen,
so sucking voraciously tlie poisonous were they moisture engaged from it. in
I adopted tho same plan the following
night, but my visitors were not near so
numerous—I should think not more than
a third fourth night of the I did previous discover night. On the
anxious ascertain not whether the one. liouse but,
to
was quite clear of laid them, 1 examined the
peel hour, after I had it down about half
an aud perceived that it was cov¬
ered with myruulsof minute cockroaches,
about the size, of a flea. I therefore al¬
lowed the peel to lie till morning, and
from that moment I have not seen a
cockroach iu the house. It is a very old
building, and I can assure you the above
remedy only requires tube persevered in
for three or four nights to completely
eradicate the pest. Of course it should
be fresh cucumber peel every night,”
For Preserving Meat.
u Secretary Gold „ .. the , following ,
gave re
ceipts at tlie Williamantie meeting of the
State Boml of Agriculture: Beef should
not be allowed to freezo. Halting should
b< ! deferred until the meat is npe. I he
°* ,K “"'.V shoiilil be salted, the
, M . l0 ' ,. be used for sausage meat,
Back , pork . clean barrels the edge,
m on
first scattering on tlie bottom a few hand
fuls.of salt, then again 1 upon every layer,
packing very close, brime and made when by all dissolving is packed
ni, pour on a
8alt m m»t water. Be sure to cover the
. board it, and
weight P 0 ™/, upon 1 tlie a hoard, to upon keep all m a
wt,<,n a piece is removed be sure
“ iat th ® rt ‘ m,l ! mte r 18 “gqwy prosed
d*’ . tianm lie used gol
wn - ror curing six
0118 ^* ter » mm pounds of salt, two
pounds , of sugar, one quart of molases,
four ounces of saltpetre, two ounces ol
Jfirst’cov5ml 11 r »t covered til, the Klfwith hams with
0 *®!? kt t 1 * 6 ® | lc » ol
j t
thTbr Ll,H ne aUivc w«Iks do«Sd S For s afl
tl, r M! ikTi., to W enimnl X,
J? *“7 tl «_ hiiiu„, hut if 1 laq<e ones,
Hetieiitekes y' then takes theSftmTries them out, drus them them, Vmt but,
nroperlv P r f - m drained lra m 1 hiTthen he t hen smokes smokes them" them.
Our Bodies After Iteifh *
Withm . . a very nearapproaolito truth, , ..
*l»e human family lnhaluting the earth
has been estimated at 1.060,000,000; the
annual loss by death is 18,000,000. Now,
the weight of the animal matter of this
immenso liody imst mte) tne wave is no
less than M 4 , 00 U tons, aud ite docom
P OMlt,, ’ n produce M,0W <W cubic
*. of matter, the vegetable produe
the away from the
earth tin; gases thus giaierate-d, and de
‘^mposing and ammtdmg circle them ten
their own increase. Tills of changes
mis been going on em UMn man be
eatne an occupier ol tlie earth, HeleeOi
on tho lower arunmlsand on the sceilso
plants, whichindue time become apart,
of himself. 1 he 1 iwer animals teed iqsiii
j ” d *ff T
™ 1 1 L-n
,, .. ^^1 Lltokt S'
a ' ' V Jl .Vndnigwhere ||„. ,,,„th or bo......... isd’.
3,*.,“"’"' ir "
\ HKl KVr issue of a iiiissmu
contained nothing but advertise
m ,. n ts and the following: tlie “Through a
cause not our own, original articles
prepared lisiod, for this Usiui esnnot ls» pul>
therefore Is." we publish only aover
linemen >
ftiivtn making pay 11 when well man
aged. Mr, Hhamnltenl Mtsnvi, engaged
in find hasiues •, itesufly di**U in i'luJa
delfiltis, «nd 1* If ftfk) to hkhiinilj,
NUMHEK 34.
What a Itliml Man Did.
JNwseott, the historian, and Prof. Fa"
ce.tt, of England, illustrate the will
f stiver of those who, stricken blind by a
calamity, life. have yet achieved success in
Instead of mourning over the
precious have treasure of eyesight lost, they
gone to work. Adapting them
shown J? what Mflimng and persistent of
from his hirfch to his deatli—a neriisl of
ninety years. Yet what, he aid shows
that even this terrible misfortune i» not
an insuperable determined obstacle make in the the way of of a
m*n to most
himself.
In spite of his misfortune, he would
siring an ux with dexterity, accomplished and felled
trees: ho was nil grain
thresher, alone distance and Would of frequently miles thresh go
a two to
for the farmers, climbing the mows to
throw down the grain; ho could hoe
corn having of garden trouble stuffs as well distinguish as anybody, the
no to
weeds; ho would set a hundred than bean
polos people with Who more accuracy would load hay, most
can sec, and
was so good a mechanic and that ho manu¬
factured yokes other farm articles
With
Me had an excellent memory, and was
an could authority generally on tell facts tlie and time dates. of day Ho
or
night within a few minutes.
One instance is given when he slept
over thinking one it day ami morning. awoke For at evening,
was once he
ate formed supper for his breakfast, mistake but when in¬
of slept another
twelve hours in order to get straight
again. familiar
He was with forest trees and
knew just where to go for any timber
desired. He could direct men ’where to
find a chestnut, a maple or ail oak, and
the children Where to go for berries.
He was a good mathematician, and
In could Olden Compute days he accurately quite and musically rapidly.
was
inclined, had and, like most direction, blind people, ho
a genius in Unit
He was at one time a loader of the
Presbyterian possessed choir, To crown all, he
one of the happiest of disposi¬
tions, and was ever genial and cheerful.
To this end Ins generally excellenthealth
largely contributed.
Tint S| liter.
The spider has never been to school a
day trade in his life. He has never learned a
or read a book, yet he can make tho
straightest lines, most perfect circles,
beautiful little bridges, and many of his
family cau spin and weave, some of them
can hunt mid swim aud dive and do mason
work almost 11 s well as if they had a trowel
and mortar. There is a, spider in my
garden that makes so many lines oiul cir¬
cles you'll think it had been all through
geometry, little larger It makes circles, every one a
than the other, about twelve
of them, and then from the smallest circle
begins and makes about twenty-eight
straight lines going to the outside circle,
like the whalebones in an umbrella. It
make* this web so perfect uiid regular
that it is called tlie geometric spider.
You’ll see late in summer clusters of its
eggs on bushes, and hedges. When
hatched little ball. the spiders all keep together iu
a You touch this ball and the
little spiders will scatter in all directions,
but as soon as they can they'll get to¬
gether again as before, I left my silk
dress last night hanging over a chair near
the wall and this morning I found that
Mrs. made Spider had been there in the night
and a beautiful little bridge of spider
silk between my dressand the wall. The
spider eight that made It this bridge for me hod
eyes. can’t move any of these
eyes; each* ye has but one lens, and can
only see what is just in front of it. Jthad
a pair of slump claws in tile forepart of its
head; with the little pinchers it catches
other smaller spiders. When the spider
is at rest it folds its little claws one over
the other like the parts of scissors. This
spider have has eight six. feet; most insects, foot you
know, At the end of each
is a moval >lc hook. It has five little spin¬
ners or Each spinnerets, with which itmakes its
web. of these spinners has an small open¬
ing which it can make large or as
it likes. There is a tube like a little
hall communicating into each of tlie
openings. which Iri this hold tube the are gluey four sub¬
reservoirs, “
stance of this which liquid the thread is the spun’. ” As
soon as conies to air it be¬
comes the a tough n id strong thread. I sup
pose air sets upon it in some way.
»»»*««.
Habit constantly strengthen* all our
active exertions. Whatever we do often
we become more and more apt to d». A
;(ml ff_taker begins with a pinch of snUff
,uid with * Bumd or two
,. v( . r U(njth Swearing begins in anger ;
ends by miugling itself with ordinary
,. onmBat j on Such like instances arc
of too common notoriety to need that
thr y be aihluced; hut, as I before oil¬
served, at the very tiling time that the ten
dency to do the is every day in
creasing, the pleasure resulting from it
j H , by the blunted sensibility of the bodi
ly orgaii, diminished, and the desire is
irresistible, though the gratification is
nothing. There isratheraneritertain
ing example of this in Fielding’s “ Life
„f youathan Wild,” in that scene where
j, e ^ represented as playing at cards
with the Count, a professional gambler.
“Such,” says Mr. Fielding, " was the
jjower of habit over the minds of these.
illustrious jktsoiih, that Mr. Wild could
not, kctei keep his hands out of the tte Count's
empty ,^ thongh Snild he hnew abstain y were
; nor the Count
from palming a curd, although ho was
«ell aware that Mr. Wild had no money
l ° W ,Um *
,1 Goartlaste. ... .
«ooil Uste is sometimes as useful as
motoey ; indeed it has « pecuniary value
of ils own. How often do we see 11
cheap iang«d Vmt tastefully planned attractive- mid nr
flu* <»>Hiigu SpiunAtA exceeding and costlytn»tWriton- in
iiesP
trivofl dwellings i Tho difference he.
fwewi tssto nad tlie wsllt of it, is strfk
ingly insntlssted iu Uie laying out ol
ground* sml I he planting nnimfest of trees in <dlit and
shrubs, And it is als*. r
why**. On<* tierson slwavs spfieftrs well
dr«me*l; unother never. Vel the one
fs ill-ilremM-d insy pay bis tailor twice un
tmirdi in th« veni ‘ns the other,
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mhe IMtinscwe
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MOKR IIa I 3VR *»% * ost 310UC XPAVE
PITH AN 0 POINT.
■SomethIno to lie about— A bed.
Heap clerks— Barbers' asskjgnts.
— A l’, Mm ally deaf man has tM “ Hey”
fever.
tie a noon the. w hisky indow—after sling—Sling it is the bot
out w empty.
WhaV did Mary say to her little lamb
whon she ^. nt it out to grass in thr
“ e ™8 ° to -p-
1
strike A .musician wants to know how to
a bee flat and at the same time
avoid ., , being stung , , by its .... dtmisemi
quaver,
Young man, don't try to forget your
identity the other aud chap become almost somebody else be ; for
is sure to an
inferior person.
“Is that a deer park over there?”
asked a gentleman of a laborer. ‘ ‘ Yes,”
he replied, “a very dear park. It al¬
most ruined the owner to fix it up 1 ”
A lady being asked how old she was
husband replied : “I was married at 18; my
was then 30. Now he is twice
as old- that makes mo twice 18. I’m
36.”
The young physician returns from his
vacation to find his patients lively as
crickets. homo’and He inwardly attend vows that business he will
stay hereafter. at to
An old angler says that a fish does not
suffer much from being hooked. Of
course woigiit, not. will It' he is lied the thought of how his
about that causes
anguish.
Lord Brougham once, when he was in
a facetious mood, lining asked to define
gentleman, a lawyer, said who : “A lawyer is a learned
rescues your estate
from your enemies and keeps it him¬
self.”
He went into a drug store and said to
the dentist: “ You pulls out mitout
pain?” cost?” “One "Certainly.” dollar.” “ “Pyshiminy! VVliat doesdat
Yon dinks dat don’t hurt none, pv gra¬
cious I”
A North Carolina man will work
four hours to chop down a tree that a
coon is in, but enough nothing wood would induce
him to split with. up The proceeding to cook the
HIl pper latter
isn’t sport.
The Prince of Wales’ two sons are
somewhat lively. While on a heard sea voy¬
age recently, the younger bub* was to
exclaim: “Come, tune up your
fiddle and give us, ‘ God save your old
grandmother. » »)
“Bur, you know, pa,” said the farm¬
er’s daughter, when he spoke to her
about know, the address of his neighbor’s son,
“you pa, that mo wants me to
marry a man of culture.” " 8 f do I,
my dear—so do I; and there’s uo’better
culture in the country than agriculture.”
“ Dimi-les, you know, soon dimpled turn to
wrinkles," said Swilton to a
darling. sir,” “That she replied. can’t possibly “Howto concern
you, turn
wrinkles into dim pies should would thiuk. be more, And, in¬
teresting to you, I
by the way, what a crop some persons
could raise, couldn’t they?”
“ Is rouit programme full, MissBeetle
crusher?" asked a young man of a West¬
ern damsel who had just struggled out
of a refreshment room with disappoint¬
ment in her eye and an ‘ ‘order of dances”
in her hand. “ Programme full ?’’ said
tha daughter of the setting sun. “ Waal,
I guess not 1 I hain’t had nothin’ but a
piece don’t of cake and an ice-cream, an’ they
go far toward tell filling my Com- pro¬
gramme, I can you. lloiion
merctal.
A Romantic Htory.
Loring, the Boston lwokseller, told «
very romantic story, as follows : “ At
oue time I luul prepared boxes of fancy
paper with a fancy initial or pet name
embossed in it, ami I put this up at $1 a
box and advertised it widely. One (lay
I had an order from California from a
Miss Husie - . The box was done up,
addressed to her and luy about here,
when a young Englishman came in and
wanted to write a tetter. I gave him the
material and a place, when his eyes
caught the address on this box.
“ ‘ Have you the order that came for
that box of >f paper ?’ he asked.
“ * Yes, ’ I replied, * ’tis about some
where.’
“ ‘ Would you m/rnl sending it up to
my hotel ? If it is what I think, I shall
leave for California to-night,’
“I found it aud scut it around and
heard no more about it for perhaps
three months, when one day (he young
man, with a lady on his arm, walked in.
‘ Mr. Boring, I want to present you to
my wife,’ he said. ‘ We could not leave
this country till wc had thanked you for
your part in bringing us together. ’ The
denouement was quite a romance. Tlie
young man was the son of an aris¬
tocratic family and the girl the daughter
of the gardener. But love levels all dis¬
tinctions, and the young man felt this
girl to be the chosen companion of his
life. To break off the attachment his
father had sent him to the Continent
and dispatched (laughter the gardener and the his
pretty to America, where
young man had followed them, ignorant
of their address, and at last finding it
through the chance of tlie box of paper.”
a Clergyman’s Suit,
A clergyman ,.itid in Homellsville N Y.
j “J* iaw ex ‘ much hostile “® criticism by ^
all Uft m) f offiektteg
a fawnd, and securing Uia amount. It
turns ™ out, ‘ however, that ' ; ^ ho had '^ pretty
di£l, mldtl.e , f fLily , wan^ A
thefunerd
to tako place on S»t% Humlay and also wanted
this particular to officiate. Ho
H*« «P appointments for the day to
oblige the family, lured a Carriage, and
went. He waited sometime for rcuumer
ution, and at last sent a hill for 8*25,
which was rafused, and so for the bill and
dunmges lie sued for ghfl pinj got it. The
dead man never hired a jh>w in tho church
nor paid for preaching, and the question
entitled natiiially Hrises, for Why aro not uiinistera
to pay extra lalgir ns well as
other men?
>'* , WJ Uohnu “(te health. * 1 Luerotift She Muttits h 87 years reported old.
ft»d until recently has been active snd
«eH. Hhe is uowc*mfliii'il to her room
in her son-in-law’s liimc near Fliila
deli Ida, but is still bright flli il cheerful.