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VOLUME VII.
Professional Cards, *
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ROBERT A. MASSEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett’s Building.)
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglass county.
IlTjamesT
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in all the courts, Slate an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
~ ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
' DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All lega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
TD. CAMPr
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. £ JAMES, 7
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of Douglass,
bt'ainpbi 11, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
adjoining counties. Prompt attention given
to all business.
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JOHN V. EDGE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
DR. T. B. WHITLEY,
Physician and Surgeon
• DOUGLASVILE, GA.
Kpreial attention to Surgery and Chronic Dis
ease* in either sox.
Office Upstairs in Dorsett's Brick Building.
E S? VERDERY,.
Physician and Surgeon
Office at HUDSON A EDGE'S Drug Store,
where I>C can l>e found at all hours, except
when professionally engaged. Special atten
t lion given to Chronic eases, mid especially
f all eases that have been treated and are still
"nenred. __ _ | an 13’85-Q
I RESPECTFULLY offer my sen ices as Pby-
I sician and Surgeon to the people of Doug
iarevH)c and vicinity. All calls aill bo attended
promptly. Can bo found at the Drug Store ot
HUDSON A EDGE, during the day, ami at
night at my residence, at the house recently
occupied by J. A. Pittman.
J. B, EDQjE.
DENTISTRY.
DENTAL SURGEON,
Has located in Douglassville. Twenty years’
exp rh-m c. Dentistry in ail its branches’ dona
in the most approved style. Office over Post
nflleu. '
t7s. butler?
HOUSE PAINTER,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Wdl nitk* old Ftu-nitnrv look as well as new.
Give him a trial in thia hue. Will also do
honse l aqientcring work.
OH I
HALLOWI
DON’T YOU KNOW?
WELL, IT’S SO
You can get your Lumber Drm-w-d ,
Moulding, Bracket®, Ranwtes*,
Pickets, Turned and iScrvll
Work Cheaper at
hglrii biij IB
M any other mill in lGeorgia
a T. PxIRKER.
THE FOUNDRY FIRES.
See the foundry’ fires gleaming
With a strange and lurid light,
Listen to the anvjls ringing
Measured music on the night;
, Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Strike the iron, mold it Well;
On the progress of the nations
Each persistent stroke shall tell.
Showers of fiery sparks are falling
Thick about the workmen’s feet;
Some are carried by the night wind
Far along the winding street.
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Labor lifts her arms on high,
And the sparks fly from her anvils
Out upon the darkened sky.
In the lurid glow of feeling,
With the anvil strokes of thought,
Men are shaping creeds, and welding
Single truths the age has wrought.
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Strike the t ruth and mold it well;
On the progress of the nations
Each persistent stroke shall tell.
Let the sparks fly from your anvils
In the ways where thought is rife;
Each shall light some friendly fire
On the waiting forge of life;
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Work till stars fade, and the morn
Os a wider faith and knowledge
From the radiant East is born.
Crude the mass the sweating forgemen
At your eager feet have hurled;
Centuries of toil must follow
Ere ye shape a perfect world;
Yet with clanking, clanking, clinking,
Strike the iron, shape the truth,
Science is but now beginning.
Thought is in its early youth. V
Think each one his arm the strongest,
Each believe that God to him
Has revealed the fay'est treasures
Hidden in His storehouse dim;
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Ring your sharp strokes,age and youth
Each must hold himself the prophet
Os a perfect form of truth.
—Arthur W. Eaton, in Youth's Companion, .
ROMANCE OF ECUADOR.
TTIB WONDERS OK A STRANGE LAND.
The landlord at the hotel here says a
letter fromiQui to, the capital of Ecuador, i
to the New York 6'«n, requires you to •
pay your board in advance, because he :
has no money to buy food and no credit ’
with the market men; the muleteers ask i
for their fees before starting, because
their oxpcriancc teaches them wisdom; ■
and there ia scarcely a building in the :
whole republic in process cf construe- I
tion, or even undergoing repairs. Death
seems to have settled upon everything
artificial, but nature is in her grandest
glory.
The population of Ecuador is about a 1
million, and the nation owes twenty gold ,
dollars per capita for every one of the I
inhabitants. The.president is compelled
to live at Guayaquil so as to see that the ■
customs duties, the only’ source of reve- j
nuc, reach the government, and to quell
the revolutions that nrc constantly aris
ing. Three hundred thousand of the
population are of Spanish descent, 100,-
000 arc foreigners, and 600,000 native
Indians or persons of mixed blood. The
commerce is in the hands of the
foreigners entirely, and they have a
mortgage upon the entire country. The
Indians are the only people who work.
Over the doors of the residences or
the business houses, and both are usually
under the same roof, are signs reading.
“This is the property of au Englishman,”
“This Js the property of a citizen of
Germany,” and so on, a necessary warn
’ng to revolutionists, who are thus
notified to keep their hands off.
The Spaniards are the aristocracy,poor
but proud, very proud. The mixed race !
furnishes the mechanics and artisans, ■
while the Indians till the soil and do the
drudgery. A cook gets two dollars a ,
mouth in a depreciated currency, but the
employer is expected to board her entire
family. A laborer gets four or aix dol
lars a month and boards himself, except
when he is fortunate enough to have a
wife out at service. The Indians never
marry, because they cannot afford to. j
The law compels him to pay the priest a
fee of six dollars, more money than most
of them can ever accumulate. When a j
Spaniard marries, the fee is paid by con
tributions from bis relatives.
It is a peculiarity of the Indian that he
will sell nothing at wholesale, nor will j
he trade with you anywhere but in the
market place, on the spot where he and
his forefathers have sold garden truck
for three centuries. Although travelers
on the highways meet whole armies of In
dines, bearing upon their backs heavy
bunltes of vegetables and other sup
pHesJwhey can purchase nothing of
them, as the native will not sell his
goods until he gets to the place where
he is In the habit of selling them. H
wijl carry them ten miles and dispose
of them for less than he was offered for
them at home.
The same rule exists in Guatemala
A gentleman who lives some distance
from town said that for the
TO !VO]VE-Cna.AuJR,ITY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 21. 1885.
last four years he bad been
trying to get the Indians, who
passed every morning with packs of
alfalfa (the tropica] clover), to sell him
some at his gate, but they invariably
refused to do so; consequently he was
compelled to go into town to buy
what was carried by his own door.
Nor will the natives sell at wholesale.
They will give you a gourd full of pota
toes for a penny as often as you like,
but will not sell their stock in a lump.
They will give you a dozen eggs for a
real (ten cents), but will not sell you
five dozen for a dollar. This dogged
adherence to custom cannot be ac
counted for, except on the supposition
that their suspicions are excited by an
attempt to depart from it.
In Ecuador there are no smaller coins
than the quartillo, change is therefore
made by the use of bread. On his way
to market the purchaser stops at the
bakffry and gets a dozen or twenty
breakfast rolls, which cost about one
cent each, and the market women re
ceive them and give them as change for
small purchases. If you buy a cent’s
worth of anything and offer a quartil
lo in payment yo>' get a breakfast rol
for the balance clue you.
The Indians live in villages and com
munities, which are presided over by
an alcalde, or governor. The native
women all wear black. One never find
a glimpse of color upon a descendant o
the ancient race. They arc in perpetua !
mourning for Atahuallpa, the last of the
Incas, who was cruelly murdered by
Pizarro. Their costume is a short black i
skirt and a square robe or mantle of:
black, which they wear over their heads
and hold in place by a large pin or thorn
between the shoulders. They look like
nuns, and walk the streets with bur
dens upon their backs or heads in
processions as solemn as a funeral. They
never laugh, and scarcely ever smile;
they have no songs and no amusements.
Their only semblance to music is a
mournful chant which they give in uni
son nt the feasts which are intended to
keep alive the memories of the Inca°..
They cling to their traditions and the
customs of their ancestors. They
irmember the ■afitehmt glory
their race, and look to its restoration
as the Aztecs of Mexico look for the ;
coming of Montezuma. They have rel- {
ies which they guard with the most j
sacred care, and two great secrets no '
amount of torture at the hands of the :
Spaniards has been able to wring from ,
them. These are the art of tempering |
copper so as to give it as keen and en- '
during an edge as steel, and the burial j
place of the Incarial treasures.
It will be remembered that Pizarro of- i
sered to release Atahuallpa if the Indians
would fill with gold the room in which ,
he was kept a prisoner. They did it. i
Pizarro thought there must be more
where this camo from, and demanded !
that the ransom be doubled. Runners
were sent over the country to collect the
treasure of the kingdom, and were on
their way to Caxamarca, where the Inca
was a prisoner, loaded down with gold
to buy his freedom, when they heard .
that Pizarro had strangled him. This j
treasure was buried somewhere in the 'i
mountains of Llanganati, northwest of ■
Quito, and has been searched for ever j
since.
A Spaniard named Valverde married |
an Inca girl, and from poverty became :
suddenly rich. To escajie persecution
from those who wished to know the se- I
crct of his sudden accumulation of gold
he fled to Spain, and upon his deathbed
made a confession to the effect that .
through his wife he had discovered the j
Inca treasures, and left a guide to the '
p’ace of their deposit as a legacy to his ■
king. This guide has been followed by I
the government and by private indi
viduals; fortunes have been wasted in j
the search, hundreds of men have per-1
i ished in the mountains while engaged in '
it, and, while the gold of the Incas will j
never cease to haunt the memories of the
avaricious, no man has been able to reach
the spot designated by the confession o
I Valverde.
The last to attempt it was an English
j botanist, who wrote a pamphlet giving
his experience. He says that no one
who was not familiar with every inch of
the Llanganati mountains could have
I written the Valverde document, for the
: land marks are all minutely described;
I but the path indicated leads to a ravine
: which is impassable, and in attempting
; to cross which so many people have lost
• their lives. It ia his opinion that the
1 condition of this gorge has been so
l changed by volcanic eruptions and earth
! quakes as to obliterate the landmarks
; which Valverde describes, and per
manently obstruct a path which he is said
I to have followed.
The capital and productive regions of
Ecuador are 160 miles from its only sea
port. Guayaquil, and are accessible only
by a mule path, which fe Impassable fo r
six months in the year, during the rainy
season, and in the dry season it reqbire s
eight or nine days to traverse it, with
no resting places where a man can find a
decent bed or food fit for human con
sumption. This is the only means of
communication between Quito and the
outside world, except along the moun
tains soutlr«ard into Bolivia and Peru,
where the Incas constructed beautiful
highways, which the Spaniards have per
mitted to decay, until they arc now
practically useless. They were so well
built, however, as to stand the wear and
tear cf three centuries, and the slightest
attempt-?.l repair would have kept them
in order.
Although the journey from Guayaquil
to Quito takes nine days, Garcia Moreno,
he former president of Ecuador, once
made it in thirty-six hours. He heard
of a revolution, and, springing upon his
horse, went to the capital, had twenty
two conspirators shot, and was back at
Guayaquil in less than a week. Moreno
was president for twelve years, and was
one of the fiercest and most cruel rulers
South America has ever seen. He shot
men who would not take off their hats to
him in the streets, and had a drunken
priest impaled in the principal plaza of
Quito as a warning to the clergy to ob
serve tabits of sobriety or conceal their
intemperance. There was nothing too
brutal for this man to do, and nothing
too sacred to escape his grasp. He died
in 1875 by assassination, and the country
has been iq a state of political eruption
ever since.
Although the road to Quito is over an
almost untrodden wilderness, it presents
the grandest scenic panoraipa in the
world. Directly beneath the equator,
surrounding the city whose origin is lost
in the mist of centuries, rise twenty vol
canoes, presided over by the princely
Chimborazo, the lowest being 15,-
922 feet in height, and the
highest reaching an altitude of
22,500 feet. Throe of. these volcanoes
are active, ftre dormant, and twelve
extinct. Nowhere else on the earth’s
surface is such a cluster of peaks, such
a grand assemblage of giants. Eighteen
of die ,u e an. i vG-wi th per pWn 1
snow, and the summits of eleven have
never been reached by a living creature
except the condor, whose flight surpasses
that of any other bird. At noon the
vertical sun throws a profusion of light
upon the snow-crowned summits, where
they appear like a group of pyramids
cut in spotless marble.
Cotopaxi is the loftiest of active vol
canoes, but it is slumbering now. The
only evidence of action is the frequent
rumblings which can be heard for a hun.
dred miles, and the cloud of smoke by
day and the pillar of fire by night which
constantly arises from a crater that is
more than three thousand feet- beyond
the reach of man. Many have attempted
to scale it, but the walls are so steep
and the snow is so deep that ascent is
impossible, even with scaling ladders.
On the south side of Cotopaxi is a great
rock, more sban 2,000 feet high, called
the “Inca’s Head.” Tradition says
that it was once the summit of the
volcano, and fell on the day
when Atahuallpa was strangled by
the Spaniards. Those who have seen
Vesuvius can judge of the grandeur of
Cotopaxi, if they can imagine a volcano
15,000 feet higher, shooting forth its
fire from a crest covered by 3,000 feet of
snow, with a voice that has been heard
six hundred miles. And one can judge
of the grandeur of the road to Quito if
he can imagine twenty of the highest
mountains in America, three of them
active volcanoes, standing along the
! road from Washington to New York.
Here in these mountains, until the
Spaniards came in 1534, existed a civil
; ization that was old when Christ was
■ crucified; a’ civilization whose arts were
' equal to those of Egypt; which had
temples four times the size of the capitol
lat Washington, from a single one of
which the Spaniards drew out twenty
! two thousand ounces of solid silver
: nails; whose rulers had palaces
from which the Spaniards gathered
90,000 ounces of gold and an unmeas
| ured quanity of silver. Here was an em-
■ pire stretching from the equator to the
antarctic circle, walled in by the grandest
; group® of mountains in the world, whose
people knew all the arts of their time
but those of war, and were conquered by
■ 218 men under the leadership of a Span
ish swineherd who could neither read
i nor write.
i Mohammedan citizens of London are
making arrangements to build a mosque
|in that city. It will be the fist arnd onli
! edifice of the kind in Europe outside ol
the Sultan's dominions.
Machines capable of doing the workol
twenty men are being introduced in the
I Panhandle Penn.) min-.s.
PUTTING OFF OLD AGE.
Articles of Feod that Tend to Re- I
tard Physical Decay.
The possibility of prolonging life has
received the attention of thinkers
throughout all ages, and was considered
a reasonable subject for investigation by
Bacon, as, in earlier days, it had fascin
ated the alchemists and Rosicrucians. In
these days of wider and more accurate !
physiological investigations, the ques- ;
tion of suspending physical decay may
properly be considered as resting upon a
substantial basis of facts. The princi
ples derived from these are necessarily
imperfect as yet, but they are rational,
and afA not easy controverted. As such,
the}- are receiving attention.
One of the clearest statements of the
more obvious of the ideas involved in
the subject is presented in a recent arti
cle by Dr. 8. W. Caldwell, in the Mem
phis Medical Monthly. The principal
causes of old age, says the writer, i
are a deposition of fibrinous, gelatinous,' 1
and earthy material in the system, j
Every organ of the body during old age
is especially prone to ossific deposits, j
The earthy deposits consist primarily of i
phosphates and carbonates of lime com
bined with other calcareous salts. Man, ;
in fact, begins in a gelatinous and ends
in an osseous or bony condition. From
the cradle to the grave a gradual process
of ossification is present; but after mid
dle age the tendency becomes more
marked, and ends in senile decrepitude.
These earthy deposits interfere with the
due performance of function by the
organs, hence we find imperfect circula
tion in the aged; the heart gradually be
comes ossified, the large blood vessels
are blocked up with calcareous matter,
and nutrition is hindered. The majority
of all who pass sixty-five years suffer
from these deposits, the structure of
every organ is altered, and elasticity gives
way to senile rigidity. The blockage
of the organs has then commenced, and
sooner or later a vital part becomes in
volved. . ®
The idea that old age is brought by a
decline of the vital principle has long
since been discarded by scientists. The
true cause is found to be disintegration
of the tissues because of the inadequate
supply of blood. And ihis process is
believed to be of a chemical nature and
caused by the above stated accumula
tions. The origin of the deposits which,
if we understand Dr. Caldwell aright
arc primarily of a fibrinous and gelatin
ous nature and, proximately, calcareous,
is found in the destruction of atmos
pheric oxygen in the body. Life is a
process of constant waste through oxida
tion and reparation by food. Oxygen
converts albumen into fibrin and nour
ishes the organs but in the evening of
life it is accumulated more rapidly than
it can be eliminated, and becomes ob
structive. Water holds the saits in
solution, but the blood finally deposits
them through lack of the eliminative
power. In early life they had no tim e
to accumulate.
The doctor traces the origin of the
chemical changes and mechanical ob
structions to alimentary substances.
Food provides the requisite elements of
nutrition, but it contains the calcareous
salts, which upon being deposited in the
arteries, veins, and capillaries, become
the proximate cause of ossification and
old age. Lewis says, in the Physiology
of Common Life:
“Moreover, in food we are constantly in
troducing different isubstanoes, which pro
duce variations in the nutrition of the
parts. These different accumulations exert
their influence in the changes named age.
and they culminate in tha final change
named death.”
In considering the possibility of sus
pending the advent of old age, it is con
sequently a matter of the highest mo
ment to ascertain what foods contain
the smallest comparative quantity of
those salts which tend to accumulate in
j the system and obstruct the vital pro
cesses. The cereals are found to be
richest in them; bread, therefore, the
so-called staff of life, except when used
' in great moderation, favors the denosi
: tion of these salts io the system. The
more nitrogenious our food the greater
; its percentage of calcareous matter.
Hence, a diet composed principally of
fruit, from its lack of nitrogen, is best
adapted for preventing or suspending
ossification.
Moderation in eating must ever be of
great value in retarding the event of
senile decay. Large eaters more rapidly
bring on osseous deposits by taking in
more food than is utilized or excreted,
thus blocking the vessels and impairing
their functions. The writer cites as what
seem to be the best articles of food for
delaying the deposits—fruit, fish, poul
ery, flesh of young mutton and beef.
Fluids, as a p>art of the diet, have a
Special importance. All well and spring
water contains considerable of the earthy
salts and should therefore ba avoided
NUMBER 24.
and replaced by cistern water. Water
clear of foreign matter is the better pre
pared to dissolve the earthy salts and
convey them out of the system. The
addition of fifteen or t wenty drops of di
lute phosphoric acid to a glass of water
and drunk three times a day will, in Dr.
Caldwellji opinion, add to the solubility
of these earthy salts, and thus tend to
suspend the advent of old age by assist
ing in the removal of those substances
which mark its chief physiological char
acteristic.—Now York Sun.
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“Notes and Queries.”
The following answers to correspond
ents, taken from the
give some useful"‘"and infor-
mation :
Neither alcohol nor giycercine freezes
except at very low temperatures.
Soap and water make about as good a
compound as can L? used to give the
skin a healthy clean color.
A pound of very fine steel wire to make
watch springs of, is worth about four
dollars; this will make 17,000 springs,
worth $7,000.
It has been suggested, though we be
lieve the matter is far from being satis
factorily settled, that exposure to light
niakes potatoes bitter.
Printer’s ink cannot be completely re
moved from cards. A solution of ben
zol or turpentine may sometimes remove
small spots, but the process is not « suc
cess.
D. D. asks whether it injures a shot
gun, by expansion or otherwise, to clean
it with boiling water. No; cleaning
guns with hot water is a common prac
tice. 1
The highest point reached by man was
by balloon 27,000 feet. Travelers have
rarely exceeded 20,000 feet, at which
point the air from its rarity is very debili"
taring. • '
United States government bonds arc
specially excepted by law from taxation,
but greenbacks in hand are taxable the
same as any other description of personal
property.
Meerschaum is the common name for
the mineral serpierite, and it is a hydrated
silicatp of magnesium. The word meer
schaum is the German equivalent of
loam.
E. F. 8. asks: “Has a rate of spv<M
equal to ninety miles an hour, ever been
attained by railroad locomotive? ” It is
extremely doubtful if any locomotive
ever made -o high a speed. A mile in
forty-eight seconds is the shortest time
we have heard of.
A. P. C. asks the weight and value of
a cubic foot of solid gold or silver. A.
A cubic foot of gold weighs about 19,300
ounces, and gold is worth $21.67 Jier
ounce. Silver is worth $1.29 per ounce,
and a cubic foot weight 10,500 ounces.
Consequently the cubic foot of gold
would be worth $398,931 and the silver
$13,545.
8. 11. G. writes: “Suppose a cannon
ball and a rifle bullet be fired at the same
instant toward each other and on the
same line, so that they collide, then when
the bullet strikes the cannon ball and is
carried along with it does the bullet stop
before taking the course of the ball?”
The shape of the bullet will be destroyed
by the contact, but every particle will
stop before reversal, although wc may
not be able to comprehend the shortness
of time.
A male catamount, ox has a
body four to four and one half feet long,
the female being somewhat smaller. It
is also known as the puma, American
lion, and catamount, and is as much
larger than the wild cat as the latter is
stronger and fiercer than the domestic
cat.
H. M. R. asks how *to remove ink
stains from linen. A. Wet the finger in
water, then dip into a powder consisting
of one part of finely powdered oxalic
acid mixed with four parts of cream tar
tar, and rub it on the spot gently, keep
ing it rather moist, and the stain will
disappear without injuring the fabric.
After the stain disappears, wash the linen
in pure water. ______
Treatment of Beggars in England.
For an able-bodied man to be caught a
third time begging was considered a
crime deserving death, according to an
old law in England, which remained in
force for sixty years. The poor man
might not change his master at his will
or wander from place to place. If out of
employment, preferring to be idle, he
might be demanded for work by any
master of the “craft ”to which he be
longed, and compelled to work whether
he would or no. If caught begging
once, being neither aged nor infirm, he
was whipped at the cart’s tail. If caught
a second time his ear was slit or bored
through with a hot iron. If caught a
third time, being thereby proved to be
of no use upon this earth, but to live
upon it only to his own hurt and to that
of others, he suffered death as a felon. *