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®b IWelto VOLUME VII. Professional Cards, * 1 e--- .... 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. ———— » 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. ; * “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. *