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VOLUME VII.
. Professional dards.
robertTmasshT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett's Building.)
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglass county.
W. A. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
* Will practice in all the courts, Slate an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM. T. ROBERTS?
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All Itga,
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
T D> CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Civil Engineer and Surveyor,
DOUGLASVILLE, - - GEORGIA.
B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal,
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his care.
J.S.JAIVIES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton ami
adjoining counties. Prompt attention given
to all business.
JOHN V. EDGE.
attorney at law,
■ • DOUGLASVILLS, GA.
~ DB. T. R. WHITLEY,
Physician and Surgeon
DOUGLASVILE, GA,
Special attention to Surgery and Chromo Dis
eases in either sox.
Office Upstairs in Dorsett’s Brick Building.
pTs? verdery,
Physician and Surgeon
Offioe at HUDSON <t EDGE’S Drug Store,
where he can be found at all hours, except
when professionally engaged. Special atten- ,
tion given to Chronic cases, and especially
all canes that have been treated and are still
nnenred.
T RESPECTFULLY offer" my services an Phy. j
sician and Surgeon to the people of Doug
lassville and vicinity. All calls will be attended
promptly. Can be found at the Drug Store of
HUDSON A EDGE, during the day, an I a!
night at njy residence, at the house recent iv
occupied bv J. A. Pittman.
i J. B. EDGE.
DENTISTRY.
T. JRz. COOK,
DENTAL SUROEON,
Has located in Douglassville. Twenty years'
experience. Dentistry in all its branches don*
in the most approved style. Office over Post
office.
f. S. BUTLER,
HOUSE PAINTER,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will make old Furniture look as well as new
Gire him a trial in this line. Will also do
house carpentering work.
OHI
HALLOW!
DON’T YOU KNOW?
WELL, IT’S SO!
You can get your Lumber Dressed ; get
Moulding, Brackets, Banisters,
Pickets, Turned and Scroll
Work Cheaper at
JttjMli Plioag MB
Thau at any other mill in Georgia
C. T. PARKER
It has httukkto iubkx supposed that
the word lowa signified “Here I reed,"
but a writer tn trie Town Historical He
cord aaxerta that it means “The sleepy
people-’’
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A LITTLE CHILD.
“own from the hill, up from the glen,
V ith waving flags and warlike din,
They rushed—two troops of mounted men—
i The boys in blue, the boys in gray;
A nd'they had almost met that day,
When, lo! a child stood in the way. #
Its hands were filled with flow’rs; its
As clear and soft as summer skies,
Were opened wide in grave surprise.
Upon the pretty baby head
The sun a golden blessing shed.
“I want mamma,” the sweet voice said.
Both captains shouted, “Halt!” The men
Reined in their eager steeds, and then
. The blue leaped down, and up again,
And galloping like mad, he bore
The child he’d grasped a mile or mor* '
Back to its mother’s cottage door.
Loud rose the cheers from blue and gray
As smilingly they turned away:
There was no battle fought that day!
—Harper's Weekly.
Catching Crocodiles
The New Orleans Times-Dcmocrat
translates from a French journal the fol
lowing description of the singular man
ner in which crocodiles are captured in
Cambodia :
On the 10th of February, 1878, after a
Ions? voyage through Burmah, Tenasrim,’
and the kingdom of Siam, I reached
Pnom-Penh, capitol of the Kingdom of
Cambodia.
I bore with me a letter to King Noro
dom. I will spare you all descriptions
of Pnom-Penh, as well as of my recep- :
rion by h : s majesty. What 1 promised
you was the history of a crocodile hunt
—here it is:
I had been well received at court.
After having been kindly treated by the
king, all his ministers did their utmost
to give me a pleasant welcome. Several
servants had been placed at my disposal,
and also one of the court carriages with
a fine team of thoroughbred Birmanese :
horses.
I did not fail to inform my hosts of
my passion for the chase, and for three
months they had spoiled me like a child.
Every day some hunting party or other
had been arranged for my benefit. From
the nelicourvi—a peculiar sort®of little
crane which I never saw anywhere else
except among the lakes and shallow
streams of Siam or Cambodia—io the
royal tiger itself, I had hunted almost
every sort of creature. _
One morning on returning from my
early drive I found awaiting me the sais
of the prime minister, who said to me:
“Tabe, Thouann!” (Good day, my
lord).
“Tabe, Sais!” (Good day, servitor) I
replied. “Who sends you?”
“My master invites you to call upon
him forthwith, at his palace.”
“Forthwith—now?”
“Yes, my lord.”
“I go.”
And ordering my coach* juii to follow
the Sais, who had started off at a run, I
soon found his excellency awaiting me i
at the threshold of his dwelling.
“ Excuse me,” he said, “if 1 have dis
turbed you; but I acted by the kings j
orders. His majesty invites you to a
crocodile hunt. We shall be absent at
least one week.”
I thanked his excellency and promised
to be at his house by 5 o’clock next
morning, whence we should go together
to the palace to join the caravan of
hunters.
At 4 :30 o’clock next morning we ar
rived in the courtyard of the palace. A
whole army of servants had already com
pleted all necessary preparations. The
horses, carriages, elephants, and palan
keen destined for the use of Norodom,
his guests, and his wives, were all then
near the palace froy. Further off was
a long train of wagons freighted with
provisions and supplies, as well as the
tents and planking required for our tern-
I porary quarters.
It did not really seem as though we
1 were going to hunt, but to war. The
I prime minister left me in the midst of
‘ the crowd and hastened to rejoin the
king.
j At precisely 5 o'clock Norodom ap
peared, surrounded by the high officials
, of his household. All those present
bowed down or prostrated themselves. I
took off nay hat.
Norodom, I must confess, descended
the palace steps with real majesty. Hss
I palankeen awaited he got into it,
f and his \ es got into other sim-
ilar conveyances prepared for them.
As soon as the king and his wives
were in their vehicles, the rest of those
entitled to the privilege of driving or
riding, mounted their horses or their
conveyances, and the whole royal suite,
conn rising more than three hundred per
sens, of which number about one hun
dred and fifty were footmen, and twenty
five were soldiers, armed in European
fashion, proceeded on ite way.
FAWNING TO NONE-CHARITY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 16. 1885.
At 8 o’clock we made the first halt; at
midnight another halt, followed, by din
ner and the inevitable siesta. At 4
o’clock we halted for the night. v Then
the king's men proceeded to erect the
edifice in which his -majesty was to re
pose for the night—a sort of immense
cage, elevated upon posts six feet above
the soil. Below this cage was another
structure for the king’s harem, t. The
twenty-five soldiers formed a circle
about this portable palace, and kept all
the rest of us at a distance from ’it.
Great fires were then lighted in a circle
around the whole encampment to keep
dangerous wild beasts at a distance. The
evening’s meal was prepared. At 8
o’clock the sentinels were posted, the
fires fed with plenty of wood, and we
lay down and slept without paying any
attention to the roaring of the*tigers.
Next day the same ceremonies wer
repeated. The day after, about 9 o’clock
in the morning, we arrived at the shores
of a little lake, about two and a half
miles in circumference, which had been
our point of destination, and which, we
were assured, was haunted’by innumer
able crocodiles.
Our camp was pitched on the western
shore of the lake, and preparations to
catch the great saurians were immedi
ately begun.
The minister, by order of Norodom,
placed the chief of the hunters “under
my orders. That signified that he was
to keep me perfectly well informed
about everything which might take
place.
j The chief conducted me some distance
to the right of the camp, and showed
me a company of some fifty Cambodians
busy binding together a number of
smooth planks by means of bamboo
ropes.
About twenty of these rafts (I cannot
tell them by any other name which ex
presses their form equally well) were soon
finished.
Near by a number of otb' r men were
engaged in preparing st -ng running
nooses, made also of bamboo filaments.
After inspecting these raft and noose
factories, the chief took forty .men with
him, and all of us skirting the lake,
made our way to its easterfi bank.
The most absolute silence was enjoined
upon all.
On reaching the south-western part of
the shore, the chief, whom I followed
closely, approached the bank. In an
swer to my question, he said:
“Thouann, I am looking for the slid
ing-paths of the crocodiles—the places
they choose for leaving the water and
climbing upon the shore. See!”heob
i served, suddenly pointing to a declivity
I trampled smooth—-as level as if heavy
cannon had been constantly rolled over
it, “there’s where they come out. If wc
can notice him, the one who comes here
will not. be easy to nail.
Nail? I only wondered in my mind,but
my eyes must have been like two points
of interrogation, for the chief of the
hunters added after looking at me a mo
ment: “Yes, nail! You are going to ;
I see something you never saw before in
j your life.”
He posted a aais at this path, and we
j cvutinued our inspection. Thirty points
were chosen, and thirty men were sta
-1 tioned at them.
Before turning back to camp I said to
the chief: .
j
i “But I have not noticed a single |
wrinkle on the water—are you sure there
are any crocodiles?”
He did not answer; but takings piece
! of wood, he wrapped it in a bit of red |
cloth and flung it about twenty yards out
into the water.
Fifteen seconds passed—a few wave
-1 lets appeared on the still mirror of the
lake; there was a sort of dull sound,
■ followed by a great shock in the water.
I could not see anything distinctly; but
the wood wrapped in red cloth had dia- !
appeared. *».
We returned to the raftmaking estab- ,
lishment. Thirty rafts—fifteen feet long
by about four broad—were ready. A
hundred running nooses were also pre
pared for operations.
At a signal from the leader all the men
not on duty as soldiers followed him.
Each raft was carried by four men, while
about a dozen followed us with the
ropes. “To morrow morning the baits,”
said the chief, ‘‘will be attached to the i
rafts—about 3 o’clock—quarters of
meat. ”
We came to the first crocodile-bank, [
| and preparations were made to place the
first strap in position.
Four men laid the raft on the bank,
and then gently pushed it down the
slope till the further end was about two
feet under water. This bank—like all *
other spots chosen—was overshadowed
by a tree, in which one of the Cambod
ians will be stationed. On the lake-end
I of the raft a large running noose was
attached, intended to catch the croco- I
dile’s tail; on the upper end a second
noose was placed to seize the crocodile’s
head. The nooses are operated by long
strings, which were*so arrnged as to be
pulled at the proper moment by the man
perched in the tree.
These arrangements being completed,
preparations were made for the night.
Fires were lighted behind each trap
to keep the crocodiles in the water until
dawn, when the hunt was to begin.
At four in the morning, Norodom, his
ministers, the courtiers, and the invited
are all awakened. From his
elevated cabin the king can get a good
view of the capture of the crocodiles.
His guests, all armed with lances, take
their way to the western bank of the
lake.
All around the lake, the sais arc posted
in their respective trees; the rafts are
baited; the fires arc put out. —— >■
About six or seven paces from each
raft, a little to one side, crouches a sais
armed with a mallet, and great sharp
nails from eight to ten inches long.
Absolute calm everywhere. The day
breaks. The crocodiles; which have
been imprisoned in their slime for twen
ty-four hours, must want to breathe.
We wait.
About 5 o’clock little eminences push
themselves about the water. They re
main avzhile motionless, then they begin
to move altogether. In the middle of
the lake we behold a regular conciliabu
lum. Twenty, forty, a hundred croco
diles assemble, play about, dive and re
appear alternately.
Suddenly they all remain still. Have
they suspected something, or heard some
noise? No; the breeze has wafted to
them odors of flesh.
A long black mass detaches itself from
the assembly of saurians, and makes for
the great slope. Others betake them
selves to their favorite morning landing
places.
Norodom has seized his telescope, and
watches the progress of the drama with
intense interest. All the rest of us look
on breathlessly in silence.
The biggest crocodile has reached the
edge of his pathway. There he stops.
Perhaps he is wondering what that bait
is. A whole quarter of an hour passes
by. The snout of the alligator leayes
the water and now his fore-legs arc on
the raft.
Everybody holds his breath.
He keeps on climbing—slowly—very
»lowls. The bait is there, only twenty
inches from his nose. He seizes it. At
the very same instant the sais in the tree
above him pulls the strings which oper
ate the running nooses, and the reptile,
caught at once by head and tail begins to
struggle furiously. Immediately the
other sais leaps forward, his hammer in
one hand and a huge nail in the other;
and while the monster stretches his legs
in trying to reach the water, the sais
nails the right fore-foot to the rail. The
worst of the job is over. In the twink
ling of an eve, the right hind-foot is also
nailed down. Then, boldly stopping
over the alligator, the sais immediately
nails the two left-feet also to.the raft.
Thus crucified, the saurian is well
i muzzled, and his tail is fastened firmly
with bamboo ropes.
He is carried to Norodom and measured
—seven and a half feet long.
i We remained on the lake shore two
weeks, and during that time caught six
teen more crocodiles, which were brought
alive to Pnom-Penh, and then skillfully
butchered.
The Cambodians are very fond of cro
codile flesh, and I must confess that I ate
it myself withou' 1 the least repugnance.
Ordinarily it two cents a pound
in Cambodia—except when the animals
are caught during a royal hunt, and then
the “king’s crocodile meat” sells for four
cents. Just on the same principle that,
in France, President Grcvy’s rabbits sell
’ at four francs a pair, while yours or mine
are worth only forty sous. • •
• It is nearly seven years since I enjoyed
the hospitality of King Norodom, and I
would not have thought of publishing
this recite! of my hunting adventures had
not public attention been again called to
the good king of Cambodia—who was
so kind to me—by the action of Procon
sul Thompson in despoiling him of his
estates. _____________
A London firm of pencil makers man
ufactures its shavings and sawdust into
an article which they call the “dust of
Lebanon.” It is sprinkled upon the tire
to remove the unpleasant smell of cook
ing noticeable in a room after a meal.
The standing armies of Europe aggre
gate 3.501,971 able-bodied men. The
taxes for their support aggregate $495,-
615,603.
Birmingham, England, has the most
extensive button rtrade of any city in the
world.
DOLPHIN FOR DINNER.
A Royal IMsli of the Olden Time Re
vived—Ho w Dolphins arc Caught*
In a cosy laboratory hie den away in
one of the corners of the national museum
building, crowded with skulls, bones,
stuffed skins, and various memorials of
the animal creation, a Washington Star
reporter came upon Mr. F. W. True, the
curator of the department of mammals,
just as he was reading a telegram from a
life-s?iving station-keeper on the New
Jersey coast announcing that a porpoise
had stranded there. “The men in the
life saving service are instructed,” said
Mr. True, “to notify ns of any strange
creature that may be stranded. If we
want it wc telegraph them to sew it up
in a canvas bag and ship it to the
museum by express, or send it any other
way that may be convenient.
“Speaking of porpoises,” continued
the curator, “here is something that will
interest you.” As he spoke he took from
a shelf behind his desk a black looking
object, tied at the ends like a large bo
logna sausage."’
“It is a sausage of porpoise,” he went.
on. “That one is one-third beef and |
two-thirds porpoise. I have another i
specimen here of smoked porpoise, which
you can try.”
The curator soon found the specimen '
he wanted. The meat was dark and the
fibers very coarse. It was very dry and
very hard—so hard that the curator had
to use a hatchet to chip off pieces of it.
“The oil has not been taken out,” he
said, as he handed a morsel to the re
porter to try, “and that gives it a strong
taste, which might be disagreeable to a
person with a sensitive palate.”
The reporter ate his piece of porpoise
with as much facial composure as possi
ble. It had a flavor something like a '
smoked herring nultiplied by a hundred.
After regaling himself in this manner, !
the reporter inquired for further particu- '
lars concerning porpoise meat.
“There is a company in Philadelphia,”
said Mr. True, “engaged in the business
of preparing the flesh o 3 f the porpoise for :
market. The experiment is interesting
in connection with the question of food
supply. There are great numbers of
porpoises on our coasts; the supply 1
seems to be inexhaustible. Porpoise
used to be considered one of the delica
cies of the king’s table. It is mentioned
in L’Estrange’s household book.”
“Has porpoise been sold in the Phila
delphia market as porpoise?”
“I think the flesh was introduced
under the name of buffalo. It is dark
like buffalo meat, and' has a gamy look
and flavor, but,” continued Mr. True |
with a smile, “during Lent it was intro
duced as porpoise. I received a letter '
from a gentleman interested in the trade
asking if it could not be. introduced as a
food which might be eaten in Lent.
Among scientific men the porpoise,is not,
of course, known as a fish, but the scien
tific and the ecclesiastical definitions
of a fish may not, of course, be based
I upon the same distinctions. There was
■ once, during the middle ages, a great !
controversy as to whether the otter could
|be eaten in Lent. It was held that
s creatures that swam in the w’ater were
fish, and it was decided, I believe, chat
the otter could be eaten without viola
tion of the rules of Lent.”
“What do you think of the quality of
the flesh.”
“The quality is as good as any in the ■
I market. It is not tender, of course, like
the meat of animals bred especially for
the market. The porpoises have to
tight for existence, and that makes them
tough. There is no reason why this
meat should not be cheap.”
“Porpoise is not a new dish?” sug
gested the reporter.
“No. It has always been considered
fit for food. The porpoise lives on fish,
and eats only live fish. In the Arctic
regions, you know, the natives live on
' white whales, eating fat and ail. The
Indians on the east coast of Maine have
i a fishery for porpoises, and eat their
j flesh. In [fact the Indians both on our
east and on our west coast hunt the por
poise for food. It is a matter of fashion
entirely. Three centuries ago when the
porpoise was in fashion in England and
graced the king's table, it commanded a
very high price. There is no reason why
it should not come into fashion again. I
think I am safe in prophesying that por
poise will again be generally eaten. I
drank some of the milk of the porpoise
at Cape May. It Is very thick, like
iream, and tasted very much like cocoa
nut milk. It is not unpleasant, but a
trifle sickish—a little of it at a time is
e nough.”
“Where are the porpoises captured?”
asked the reporter.
•‘There has been a colony along the
Hatteras reef, in North Carolina, from
the beginning of the century, one of
whose employments has been to catch
porpoises,” aaid Mr. True. “They cut
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I
them up and get the oil from them in U
rude way, and took the oil to Elizabeth
town, or some other town where they
could find a market. About a year ago
a company was formed at Cape May,
New Jersey, for the purpose of obtain
ing porpoise oil and leather. This com
pany, I believe, has not succeeded well.
One of the men interested in the com
pany went to Hatteras and leased thJ
fishery there for five years—leasing the
grounds, the fishermen and everything—•
payinsr at a certain rate for every por
poise caught. He has his tanners and
his apparatus for taking put the oil. He
saw that the flesh might*be of some use,
and has been successful in introducing it
in the Philadelphia market.”
“The porpoises are caught in nets.
Two high poles are erected on the beach,
about four miles apart. Men are sta
tioned at these poles on the lookout, and
when the porpoises pass into the fishing
ground, between these poles, the look
out shows a signal flag. Thera
are two boats some distance
out, which separate, giving out
nets as they proceed obliquely toward
other boats further inshore. These boats
I in turn move toward the shore, paying
out their nets, and the result is the por
' poises are soon surrounded, imprisoned
' in a huge pound of strong netting with
coarse meshes. These nets are not
drawn to the shore. Sometimes there
will be 300 or 400 in the en
closure. If they were stampeded, as
they might be by an attempt to draw the
net to the shore, they would make a
break altogether for one point in the
net and break through it. They are sim
j ply kept in the pound, and boats put out
from the shore with smaller nets, with
which they take out thirty or forty at a
' time. The method is very much lik l
that used in catching tunnies at fisheries
on the Mediterranean. This winter the
! man who has gone into the enterprise
expects to get 1,200 porpoises. They
are six, seven and eight feet long, and qf
the kind known as the bottle-nosed dol
phin. As soon as they are caught flayers •
take off their hides, which are sent to
•
Now Jersey and made into excellent
i leather.”
“Porpoise leather?” said the Star re
porter.
“Yes. Porpoise boots in London cost
three times as much as any other. The
leather is 'perfectly water proof. If the
flaying is done carefully a pretty big
piece of leather can be obtained from
each porpoise—enough to make several
pairs of boots. One great difficulty. I
believe, is to get a tanner who knows
! how to treat the hide properly. It has
\ to be tanned with some peculiar process.
From one porpoise thirty or forty pounds
of edible flesh can be obtained. I had a
steak cut from a porpoise which was re
ceived here, and it was cooked for me at
the restaurant. It was very dark in
color because I had not let the blood out,
but it was, nevertheless, quite palatable.
The flesh of that portion,” said the cu
rator, pointing out on a picture of a por
; poise the region near the tail, “is very
tough, on account of the ligaments that
run through it, the muscles that operate
the tail. It is proposed, I believe, to
utilize these ligaments in making glue.
Then every part of the porpoise will be
used for something, the hide, the oil and
the flesh. The skeletons are left now on
the beach, but they can be used for fer
tilizing purposes. Take some more,”
said the curator, again passing the
smoked porpoise, but the reporter, ex* *
cusing himsfff on a plea of business elB9-
wcre, took his leave.
The Earth’s Magnetic Force.
Says the Horological Neunn: Every
thing on the earth and in the air above
is permeated with the earth's magnetic
force—it goes through your clothes, it
jienetrates your bodies, it saturates your
brains, it is a part of life itself. Gaus,
the illustrious German astronomer, has
computed—taking as a unit of his meas
urement a magnet fourteen inches long,'
one inch wide, one-fourth inch thick,
weighing one pound, made of the hardest
steel and of the strongest magnetic force
; possible—the earth's magnetic force as
equal to 8,465,000,000,000,000,000,000
such magnets. The attiacting or lifting
power of such a magnet is about ten
pounds, which would make the attractive
power of the earth 42,.” 10,000,000,000,-
000,000 tons. If this magnetism were
equally distributed throughout the mass
of the earth, the magnetic intensity of
each cubic yard would be equal to six
of these magnets or about sixty pounds
attractive force. Professor Mayer his
shown that this magnetic influence, this
invisible force, is a power filling space
to an unknown distance, and radiating,
in the lines of magnetic force very much
as the rays of the sunlight, the lines of
the earth's magnetic force being from
south to north, as indicated by the com
pass needle.