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,jY T. D. C KELLEY.
—bpcb Lomond to Melrose.
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LOCH LOMOND.
! ;•* W 3 a beautiful day, (that and the is,
wailful v for Scotland)
Hce of the lake puffing was little as quiet steam- as
Mh until the Behind
Uturbed its repose
the curving wake of the
«pas widened and
! that more
, e looked back.
^ L the farther we delightful
indeed a most
j The surrounding scenery
at first only moderately beau
l|il; but after we passed Luss,
Erased hills front, to the the left and
ja-Lomond in scenery
kasmagnificent. ! explanation
Bv way of we say
be that “ben” is equivalent to
fountain, “Ben Lomond” equals
Shunt Lomond. In the same
bv “Loch Lomond” equals Lake
lomond, and Inckmurrin equals
Stain Island. The names of
Bearly all the islands in Loch
lomond begins with “inch.”
Hie base of Ben Lomond ex¬
tols down to the water’s brink;
ud as we passed we saw the
booth of a cave called “Rob Roy’s
Cave,’from the fact that this out¬
law took shelter there after the
overthrow of the Macgregors.
Hubert Bruce many years before
W also taken shelter there.
1 is we approached the pier at
■ ksnaid the Inversnaid Water
■ Ms«e in view, which are per¬
il® as beautiful uoav as when the
belWonlsAvorth met his “High¬
ly Bal girl" there, though the much arti
surroundings Avero
ftspretentious than noAV. Then—
“the cabin small,
The lake, the buy, the waterfall”
|rie P up the scene which the poet
jrfthem was “made for her— the spirit
|®e all,” and by Avhose influ -
lie was himself led into a
pmentary I’Aepkercl,” yearning to become a
Avith the lassie, of
Itrose, a “shepherdess.”
THE MOUNTAIN RIDE
pa Inversnaid across the hills
IfcLoch Katrine was indeed de
ptful, I® 6 an( i and was made hours. in about
liost a quarter It was
of the way up grade and
petimes r-supposed rather from steep, the fact as might that
ph Mabove Loch sea-level, Lomond Loch is Katrine only 23
pW Ikl feet. We passed, on our
t^ e dreary little mountain
p 01 ^kkt, and also some val
L. e Uat beds with great quan
L® °f it Cl d up into pieces some
f*|pd , ® larger than bricks and
i n the sun to dry.
e came after 5 miles to
LOCH KATRINE
* j ronac lachar, which is hotel
the a
1 f °' J * : south miles side of the lake
from its western
ftere emitjr. How long we waited
Wf f 0r the steamer to start I
0 gotten, perhaps an hour
or at rate, it
Mr. any was long
a? ~ 01 ' Henderson and
to take a little stroll up a
nearby and examine that ’ pe
a r slnub called heather, so
^eristic 1C ^ oftScotc SeetebDaan h Highlands
a is al
jjj, as Saere d as the soil which
°K!5. on
® After awhile the steam
ran ? » signal bell, and there
Afe S‘Wbinndfora‘ * minuf d for ^tbedrossachs. t* ^ if
the Scotch lakeo
T
^:rfd gently winds its
PUrPU f hiUS ’
f-Mfe CT wtw «a pifeure enjoyed
upon its waters.
Mot! Uw feat Ben y enue
could be seen in
to the right while
- ,/r e towering hills all
0,1 ow left. Thl summit of
0 V%3>T§? •*-u ,/ J :=r-. *8 m
a,
i p m Si m n:
.
p -i r ifr- *
if, An,
CONYERS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1889.
Ben Lomond in the distance could
also be seen in a southwestern di¬
rection. In a few minutes after
our departure we passed on our
right the jetty of the Glasgow
Water Company, which can sup¬
ply, when necessary, the city with
50,000,000 gallous of water daily.
One mile from the outlet of the
lake, while “Ben A’an heaved
high his summit bare” in our left
front we turned sharply to the
right, passing “Ellen's Isle” on
the left, then Goblin’s Cave on the
right and then turning to the left,
the steamer stopped at a rustic
pier situated at the extremity of
a most beautiful little bay. It
was of this bay in its natural
beauty that Scott sang:
“A narrow inlet, still and deep,
Affording scarce such breadth of brim
As served the wild duck’s brood to swim.’
Ellen’s Isle is so called from the
heroine of Scott’s Lady of the
Lake, because it was from this
that gentle-hearted Ellen set out
in her skiff to render assistance to
the unfortunate Fitzjames, who,
though he had outstripped all his
companions, was left without his
steed, with only his hounds, and
altogether helpless. But this
lake and the Trossaclis country is
all the more interesting from the
fact that, at the time referred to
by Scott, they were a general re¬
fuge for the freebooters of the
country that gave Scotland great
annoyance at that time; when on
Ellen’s Isle they- divided theii
spoils, and there held their bach
analian revels, while Goblin’s cave
afforded them shelter from win
ter’s cold and rain.
THE TROSSACHS.
W r hen Ave stepped ashore on the
rustic pier, and walked a feAv
paces from that quiet little bay
whicli Avas all hedged in and dark¬
ened by the tall trees of its rug¬
ged banks, we found tAVO “stages’
in waiting for us. We entered or
rather climbed on top, and then
began onr ride through the Avild
Trossachs country.
Dr. Scomp, forgetting for the
time the loss of his valise, and
being absorbed by the encliant
mg scenes both real and imagi
nary associated Avitli the places
that noAV surrounded us in every
direction, described them to us as
they came into his mind, and as
his attention Avas called to them
by some jolly Catholic clergyman
who seemed to have traveled the
route several times before. He
told us that we Avere near the track
of the stag chase described in
Scott’s Lady of the Lake; that on
our left Avas Ben A an, that the
peak on our right Avas the summit
of Ben Venue, and that the “Brig
of Turk” Avas before us. W ewere
told that beyond the eastern
slopes of Ben Venue was Loch
Ard and the Pass of Aberfoil,
where “Helen Macgregor” quar¬
reled with her husband Rob Roy,
and “Bailie Nicol Jarvie fought
the quarrelsome Highlander Avith
a red-hot poker, and where the
wretched “Morris” was chucked
over a precipice into the lake at
the bidding of the cruel Helen.
In the midst of our meditations,
Ave came to the Trossachs Hotel,
where we took dinner, and then
paid well for all Ave got. Below
the hotel is Loch Achray, one of
‘ , h< ™° s f beautiful of all the
\ weVo^edthe , One mile from the
hotel famous “brig
—i- . { T rk » which Eitzjames
companions m E-sras the chase oemna.
" Zt ” Be”
-1 betweeiT this bold Vennachar mountain
left and Loeh
on om nghL
miles south ... of u across
A few beyond , the
Loeh Vennachar, and
Menteith Hills, was Lake Mm
teith, where Dr. Scomp to .
unfortunate Mary Stewart spent a
few months of her early child¬
hood with her four Marys in the
Priory of Inclimahone.
After leaving Loch Vennachar,
the country toSterling owes nearly
all its attractiveness to the faeina
ting pen of Sir Walter Scott.
We took the cars at Callander,
and were soon at the modern town
of Sterling, where we stopped two
hours for the sole purpose of vis¬
iting the old Sterling Castle to
which we at once hastened. We
found it occupied as a barracks
by a regiment of Scotch soldiers,
if I am not mistaken, the 92nd.
Highlanders. In these days of
firearms and modern civilization,
it seems to me that this is the
most appropriate use to which an
old castle of the middle ages
could be put. The dress worn by
these Highlanders was very
showy; but it seemed to us rather
airy for such a high place in win¬
ter, and that too, in such a cold
climate. Nothing covered their
hips and thighs, except the short
skirts of their kilts, which lacked
about 6 inches of meeting their
stockings at the knees.
Soon after we had entered a
guide offered his services which
we secured by promising him his
usual fee, perhaps G pence for
each of us. He showed us all the
apartments including the prison
cells. The only interesting ap art¬
ment is the Douglas Hall, which
contains some quaint old relics of
John Knox and the Stuart kings.
We were shown an oaken com¬
munion table and a pulpit used by
the stern old reformer, and a bat¬
tle axe found on the field of Ban¬
nockburn, We were slioAAm a
peep-hole from which two queens
Mary and Victoria, but under very
different circumstances, had look¬
ed out through the wall upon the
surrounding country.
The scenery from the castle is
not very good, except towards the
west, which the mountain peaks
in the “Bob Roy country” and tZie
serpentine wanderings of the river
Fort combine to make a very
beautiful view.
On our Avay back to tho rail
road station we passed near the
old “Greyfriars Church,” in which
both Mary and her son James VI.
were crowned. Near Sterling we
passed in sight of the field of the
battle of Bannockburn, whose
sight seemed to be marked by a
flagpole alone.
Late in the afternoon we arriv¬
ed in that city of which the
Scotch are so very proud, the
beautiful
Edinburgh.
The Scotch claim that this city
is more beautiful than Paris itself.
This may be claiming too much,
but it is undoubtedly a very beau
tiful city, and far excels the great
French capitol in natural beauty.
We lodged at the Old Waverly
hotel, and had a pleasant night’s
rest. The next day being Satur¬
day, we decided it Avould be better
to visit Melrose and Abbortsford
that day, and lie over in Edin¬
burgh Sunday, So about 10
o'clock a. in. Ave boarded the train
for Melrose. Arriving at the
station in something over a hour
we Avent direct to the only build
mg of much historical interest,
the old “Melrose Abbey,” around
which the modern toAvn has been
built.
(to be continued.)
Unless Goal Hill gets married
before 1892. he will stand no
chance of beating Mr. Cleveland
(or tho democratic nomination
Mr. Cleveland is a pretty
man to beat, and when Mrs.
Cleveland taken into consider- .,
is
ation the combination becomes
invincible. There is nothing in
the nature of a trust about it.
A BOX OX THE EAR.
One of Browing’s most beauti¬
ful and pathetic poems, and one
intelligible to whomsoever runs,
commemorates the act of an old
Earl of Arundel, who, having
struck his little child on the head,
had the picture of himself and
the child painted, the child, as he
became in after years, imbecile
from the effects of that blow. It
would be well, we think, for every
parent, and for all those having
children on their hands, to com¬
mit these verses to memory, and
to put the lesson in practice; for
the injury done to children by the
quick and careless box on tho ear
that is thought nothing of at the
time, is something incalculable.
It is impossible to hit a tender
child a blow T upon so delicate an
organ as the ear without doing an
evil and unseen work, even when
the blow is given with the flat and
open hand. The action, it has
been fully ascertained, has pro¬
duced violent inflammation in the
ear, and running discharges for
years; blood has been known to
follow it immediately, and when
this has not happened, partial,
and even total, deafness has been
the consequence in many instan
ces. Intercranial difficulties of a
dangerous type are not at all rare
either, as the result of these ad¬
monitions. Idiocy has
traced to them; and in more than
one case of those surgically ex¬
amined it has been found
fatal brain disease has followed
box on the ear.
BUCKLEN’S ARNICA
The Best Salve in the world
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers.
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Corns,
Chapped Hands, Chilblains
and all Skin Eruptions, and posi¬
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W. per
For sale by Dr. H. Lee & Son.
A sixteen-year-old girl has been
arrested in NeAV York for the
atrocious crime of stealing her
father’s trousers Avliile he slept and
paAvning them. Notwithstanding
she Avas young pretty
Avas sentenced to four months’ im
prisonment. Yes, and the “prom¬
inent official” who swindles the
public out of hundreds of thou¬
sands is released on bail and
ultimately goes scot free. Jus¬
tice is blind sure enough.
Lord Lonsdale AVas said to have
more daughters than any other
member of the British aristocracy.
At one time lie was at a German
Avatering place, and took a Avalk
m company Avith his six oldest
daughters, Some Germans, a
little behind him, presently gazed at the of
procession, and one
them remarked, in an undertone:
“Alas! poorman.” LordLousdale
caught tho words, and turned im¬
mediately. “O no, sir; not so poor
as you think. I have six other
daughters at home.
“I don’t think Jones has been
indulging too much, said his
kindly believing spouse: “but
still 1 thought it rather odd of him
that he should wrenak the knocker
off the front door and bring it up
to me as I sat in bed, saying that
he'd gathered another rose for
me out of the garden: poor, dear,
simple boy! He’s just as loving
and sentimental as ever he was.
“Excuse me miss,” said a smart
young man to a lady who effects
juvenility in head dress, “but
your hair is all doAvn. “Thank
you,” was the reply; possibly fact you in
have observed the same
connection with your mustache,
The President appointed A. E.
Buck to be United States Mar
^ g with both of u his .
thonia, is suffering both
The nails on are
com i n g off, the cause of which is
from picking cotton while
dew was on it.
SKIPPING THE HARD POINTS.
Boys, I want to ask you how
you think a conqueror would
make out who went through a
country he was trying to subdue,
and whenever he found a fort
hard to take, left it alone? Don't
you think the enemy would buzz
wild there, like bees in a hive, and
when he was into the heart of the
country, don't you fancy they
would swarm out and harass him
terribly?
Just so, I want you to remem
ber, will it bo with you; if you
skip over the hard places in your
lessons, and leave them unlearned
you have left an enemy in'the
rear that will not fail to harass
you and mortify you times with¬
out number.
“There was just a little bit of
my Latin I hadn’t read,” said a
student to me, “and it w'as just,
there the professor had to call
upon me at examination. There
were just two or three examples I
had passed over, and one of those
I was asked to do on the black¬
board.”
Tho student who is not thor¬
ough is never well at his ease; he
cannot forgot the skipped prob¬
lems; and the consciousness of
his deficiencies makes him ner¬
vous and anxious.
Never laugh at tho slow, plod¬
ding student; the time will surely
come when the laugh will be
turned. It takes time to be
thorough, but it more than pays.
Resolve, when you take up a new r
study, that you will go through
with it like a successful conqueror,
taking every strong point.
If the inaccurate scholar’s dif¬
ficulties closed with his school
life, it misrlit not be so great a
matter for his future career. But
he has chained to himself a habit
that will be like’an iron ball at
his heel all the rest of his life.
Whatever he does will be lacking
somewhere. He has learned to
shirk what is hard, and the habit
will grow with years.—Sunday
School Visitor.
HoorU T _ „ Sar«.par|ll» .... is a purely .
vegetable preparation, being Jt free is
from-injurious in its curative ingredients.
peculiar power,
The members of the Augusta
fire department have organized a
mutual benevolent association.
The members of the department
pay monthly dues, and in the
event of sickness or injury $10 a
week is received; in the event of
death $50 is paid to the family.
Captain E. C. Machen, of the
Covington and Macon railroad,
whicli Avas diverted to Madison,
informs the Star that he is coming
to Covington time. “by a large majority”
in a short
Atlanta is to have a chrysan
themum show, beginning Oct. 31.
It has been decided to teach .
music m the public schools at
Macon.
There is a probability of the es
tablishment of a canning factory
at LaGrange.
Albany has come to the conclu
sion that young men should have
charge of the city administration,
It is said that the citizens will
vote accordingly hereafter.
, Mclntosh r T i county it. ha* sent ; • its
m
exhibit to the State fair at Macon
thirteen different kinds of hay,
which are successfully grown in
that fane agricultural county.
_ The Philadelphia the v\ ashington Inquirer • colored u thinks • i
that
preachers advice to southern col
ored people to secure homes and
to defend them with Winchester
rifles was not intended to be mis
chievous but hat it will do harm
nevertheless. The laAv allows a
man to defend his home, even if
he has to resort to fire-arms, but
that Avas not what the Washington
preacher politician meant. There
are numerous agents of the Re¬
publican party who are seeking to in
cause trouble between the races
the south, and the Washington
preacher may be one of them;
WORDSTO FRIENDS:
Job work solicited and satisfac¬
tion gvaranteed.
Reliable attention given advertis¬
ing.
TERMS REASON A RLE.
No. 36
MAMMA'S HAND AND JESUS. HAND.
A child three years of age lay
dying. Father, mother, physician
friends, had done all in their pow¬
er to stay the hand of death, but
in vain. The mother bent over
him in speechless agony. How
could she give him up—her beau¬
tiful boy, her darling, her treas¬
ure? How lonely the house would
be without the little prattler !
But love could not keep him,
and the last moments of life were
ebbing away. All were watching,
in breathless suspense, for tho
silent messenger. Suddenly the
dear child gazed around him,
placed one little hand in bis moth
er’s and stretched the other out,
as if clasping another, his lips
moved, and tlieso are the HAveet,
precious words that he uttered:
“One hand is mamma’s, and one
hand is Jesus. ) ))
And thus, protected with tho
care of his two best friends, he
took the short step from one to
the other.
Queen Victoria has a remarka ¬
bly fine head of hair, for a lady of
her age 1 , but her son, the Prince
of Wales, is quite bald. Had ho
used Ayer’s Hair Vigor earlier in
life, his head might, to-day, have
been as well covered as that of his
royal mother. It’s not too late
yet.
Justice sometimes takes curious
freaks in New Jersey. In a court
of that state some days ago a man
was fined $25 for disorderly con¬
duct, and the same court, a few
days later, another man was fined
tho same amount for stealing $3,-
100. If this is Jersey justice, it is
to be hoped that it will bo confin¬
ed to that state.
If reports are true, Mrs. Har¬
rison and Mrs. Blaine are not on
good terms. The public knows
about the manner in which Mrs.
Blaine snubbed Mrs. Harrison
several years ago, when Mrs.
Harrison was only a senator’s
wife. When Mrs. Harrison de¬
clined to go to Bar Harbor last
summer Avith husband to see the
Blaines it began to be suspected
that Avas trying to get even.
W l,c„ Mrs. Blaine's son m mar
n °d U1U , ^ B*e ,, Harrisons Tr were not .
present, this suspicion Avas
strengthened, and when Mrs.
Blaine left Washington the other
w eek, avoiding assisting Mrs.
Harrison in receiving the Knights
Templar, the suspicion became a
conviction that a lively and acri
monious social conflict was on tho
boards.
The Forsyth Manufacturing
Company of I orsytn is uoav turn
Big out from their factory cotton
yarns. The company has a force
°f about thirty operatives at work,
Commissioner Henderson’s crop
report for the month ending Oct.
1 places the general the average at of
the corn crop in state 102,
$$7, rice 93 ; and sugar-cane 95,
sweet potatoes 90, tobacco 97.
Tlie pork supply is estimated to
be 8 per cent, better than at the
corresponding period of 1888, but
hog cholera is reported in some
su ^ The on barrel . S ' . factory , , at , Macon Ar has ,
begun , operations.
The bill to submit to the people
a constitutional amendment au
thorizing J the widow!S legislature of confederate to pen
sion tl
veteran g p asse d the state Senate
Wednesday by a|voteof37. There
was not a dissenting vote.
The ....... bill the salary .
to increase
of the state librarian from $1,500
^ $1,800 was passed by the state
Scna t e Wednesday by a vote of
23 tQ 15 At one time its friends
were abou t to table it, when it
discovered that they had a
consti t u tional majority,
A lady , , from , T Liberty ..
young the
county Avas among Atlanta spectators
at the cavalry tilt at Tues¬
day, and Avken one of Liberty’s
troopers made a fine score she
sprang up and gave a yell that
made the Comanche Indians
ashamed of themselves, Then
she blushed, sat doAvn and cried.