Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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-’’ -s a -A ' at @1 nlr 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 NUMBER 19. 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.