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" KELP GATHERERS.
THE IRISH PEOPLE WHO DWELL ON
THE ISLAND OF MYNISH.
Bude Cabin. Which a Rude and Uatutor
. ed Folk Call fiMM-Tteelr Vocation Ndt
Strong tedpaAvUen.
Right on the western borders of the
land, and upon the numerous islands
and peninsulas which are the common
natural features of this broken part of
the Irish coast, the kelp gatherers live.
In a certain sense they seem to be an
amphibious sort of folk and draw their
sustenance, apparently always more or
less scanty and precarious, from sea and
land alike. Let us picture their exist
ence for a moment, such aS we may see
it on the island of Mynish, not far from
Roundstone bay, off the Galway coast.
Imagine an island, about 12 miles in
circumference, connected with the main
land by a kind of viaduct recently con
structed by government, low lying and
wind swept by the numerous gales of
ocean, but crowded with a popnla
tion of several hundred human beings
Every little cove or bay will have its
cluster of cottages, with their fishing
boats anchored close by, ready to run
down the bay for mackerel or to fetch
a load of kelp from the neighboring
rocks when wind and weather permit.
The surface of the island itself,
which w shewn with huge granite
stones and bowlders, is parceled out
with the most, exact and scrutinizing
jealousy, and if you attempt a short cut
across country from one point to anoth
er your way is blocked by a continual
succession of loosely constructed stone
walls serving as partitions between an
innumerable series of diminutive plots.
So intricate and puzzling is the arrange
ment of these plots that you are not at
all surprised to hear that they are a
source of litigation between the owners
■iot the cottages, who are very fond of
invoking the law in spite of their pov
erty stricken condition.
' "Cottages” we call them, for the sake
of courtesy, but whereas the word “cot
tage” calls up in the English sense some
■bright and picturesque surroundings and
some appearance of comfort these cot
tages or cabins of the kelp gatherers
suggest every kind of discomfort. The
walls are built of the undressed granite
blocks picked up from the surface of
the island and loosely put together ac
cording to the rules of a very primitive
masonry But the roof is sometimes of
sod, and more often of reed. The absurd
contrast between the strength and sta
bility of the walls and the feeble char
acter of the roof strikes the eye immedi
ately The floors are of very unsatisfac
tory character, as they are simply un
even pavements with muddy interstices
and calculated to retain every kind of
filth and abomination. It would be al
most impossible to sweep these floors
clean even if there existed the will to
do it.
If there is any glass, it is simply mor
tised into some little chink, and win
dow frames are unknown—partly be
cause wood is scarce and expensive and
partly because the fisher folk do not de
sire a window that will open.
As far as accommodation is concerned,
there are only two rooms on the ground
floor —one to be used as a kitchen and
sitting room, the other to sleep in, no
matter the number of the family party.
Sometimes there is a kind of loft over
head on the kitchen, where some of the
occupants can sleep. Outside there is no
pigsty or cowshed or any other “office”
which we are accustomed to connect
with the ideas of comfort and decency.
In cold and rough weather the pig and
even the cow are admitted to the hospi
tality of the hearth, and this accounts
for their very friendly and sociable
character. As far as “rint” is con
cerned, the kelper cannot complain
greatly, as it is a judicial "rint” and he
cannot be ejected, no matter how he
liyes, as long as the rent is paid. .
CONDEMNED.
When an innocent man is condemned for
any crime he doesn’t lose hope. His law-
yers appeal from one
court to another.
They are bound to
save him, if he can >
be saved. It is the A
same way with a fJS
good doctor when
bis patient seems
condemned to death I
by disease. |
But doctors make Ji
mistakes some- /ff
times; they lose f' /j
heart too soon. / // /
After they have I ///
tried everything 11 >/s
they know and
the patient is . /s'
no better, they j
think there is /~~S
nothing more to /?
be done. They /
don’t always B
get at the root f
of the disease. / »
They frequently
give a patient
up to die of con-
sumption, and ”
are afterwards surprised to see him get
strong and well again.
Mrs. W. B. Duncan, of Arlington, Phelps Co.,
Mo., writes: “My husband took four bottles of
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery when he
was (as he thought) almost into consumption, and
we were very thankful that such a medicine could
be found. I wish all persons troubled with cough
would take it. Long may the • Golden Medical
Discovery ’ and * Favorite Prescription ’ be
made. I shall always recommend and praise
these medicines.”
All lung and bronchial diseases are cured
by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery,
because it supplies the system with healthy
blood. It puts the vital forces into action
and fills the circulation with the life-giving
red corpuncles which builds up solid, mus
cular flesh and healthy nerve-force.
As a medical author, Dr. Pierce holds an
eminent place in his profession. His great
thousand-page illustrated book, “The Peo
ple’s Common Sense Medical Adviser” is
one of the standard medical works of the
English language. Nearly 700,000 copies
were sold at $1.50 each. A paper-bound
copy will be sent absolutely free foi the cost
of mailing only, ai one-cent stamps; or,
cloth-bound for 31 stamps. WorM’a Dis
pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y.
'Scmefimee a "kelper has a right to
a common adjoining and can run a few
black, faced sheep and some of the black
cattle of the country, and whenever be
is in a position to save money he prefers
to put it in stock rather than to commit it
to the keeping of a savings bank. Hera
and* there on the island you may chance
across a little Circle of stone in a retired
nook. Yon need not puzzle long over; it
as if it were sosoji archteological find,
for it is simply the foundation of a kelp
stack that has been piled up inside it,
and the calcined appearance of the
stones, together with the ashes around
them, will immediately reveal its use to
you. Far away along the windings of
some distant cove you will often see the
smoke of these kelp fires rolling heavily
out to sea, and the kelp stacks them
selves are among the common objects of
the seashore, with the long trailing kelp
weed drooping down their sides These
have been won with much labor from
the deep, and the yearly wage paid to
the Mynish islanders by the kelp com
pany is nearly £2,000
Kelp is, indeed, the main source of
their wealth, and many a voyage has to
be taken before a ton of kelp is procured.
The weed burns down to a viscous, ge
latinous mass under the actiou of the fire
and then cools down to hard and rugged
blocks The kelpers live on fish, milk,
tea, bread and eggs chiefly, but seldom
on butchers’ meat and bacon, for the
pig is really the “jintleman that pays
the rint ” Still, in spite of hardships,
the kelpers are strong and healthy men.
They would make splendid recruits for
the navy, but if they leave their native
rocks they find their way to the United
States or our colonies —St. James Ga
zette.
J. M. Thirawend, of Grosbeak,Texas
says that when he has a spell of indi
gestion. and feels sluggish he takes
two of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers at
night, and he is all right the next
morning. Many thousands of others
do the same thing. Do you? For
sale by Curry-Arrington C .
The “Gallery Goda.”
The frequenters of the lofty gallery
of any theater have a good deal to do
with the making or marring of any new
play Yet that is not how they acquire
their title of "gods. ” As a matter of
fact, the origin of the expression is this:
Years ago Drury Laue theater had its
ceiling painted to resemble a blue sky
with clouds, among which white Cupids
were flying in every direction. This
ceiling extended over the gallery, whose
occupants thus appeared to be very near
heaven. Hence the expression arose of
"gallery gods.”—London Answers.
WARNING:—Persons vho suffer
from coughs and colds should heed
the warnings of danger and save
themselves suffering snd fatal results
by using One Minute Cough Cure.
It is an infallible remedy for coughs,
colds, croup and all throat and lung
troubles. For sale by Curry-Arring
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CASTORIA
Tor Infants and Children.
A GREAT PROBLEM’.
The Missing Link -Between Inorganic and
Organic Life.
One great life problem remains which
the doctrine of evolution does not touch.
The origin of species, genera, orders
and classes of beings through endless
transmutations is in a sense explained,
but what of the first term of this long
series? Whence came that primordial
organism whose transmuted descendants
make up the existing faunas and floras
of the globe?
There was a time, soon after the doc
trine of evolution gained a hearing,
when the answer to that question seem
ed to some scientists of authority to
have been given by experiment. Recur
ring to a former belief and repeating
some earlier experiments, the director
of the museum of natural history at
Bonen, M. F A. Pouchet, reached the
conclusion that organic beings are spon
taneously generated about ns constantly
in the familiar processes of putrefac
tion, which were known to be due to
the agency of microscopic bacteria. But
in 1862 Louis Pasteur proved that this
seeming spontaneous generation is in
reality due to the existence oV germs in
the air Notwithstanding the conclu
siveness of these experiments, the claims
of Pouchet were revived in England
ten years later by Professor Bastian,
but then the experiments of John Tyn
dall, fully corroborating the results of
Pasteur, gave a final quietus to the claim
of “spontaneousgeneration” as hitherto
formulated.
There for the moment the matter
rests. But the end is not yet. Fauna
and flora are here, and, thanks to La
marck and Wallace and Darwin, their
development, through the operation of
those "secondary causes” which we
call laws of nature, has been proximal
ly explained. The lowest forms of life
have been linked with the highest in
unbroken chains of descent. Meantime,
through the efforts of chemists and
biologists, the gap between the inorganio
and the organic worlds, which once
seemed almost infinite, has been con
stantly narrowed. Already philosophy
can throw a bridge across that gap. But
inductive science, which builds its own
bridges, has not yet spanned the chasm,
small though it appear. Until it shall
have done so the bridge of organic evo
lution is not quite complete, yet even
as it stands today it is the most stupen
dous scientific structure of our century.
—Henry Smith Williams, M D., in
Harper’s Magazine.
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Tttl€ HOME TKIBUNE SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 14. Mart
ARMORED PLANTS.
Thorn, and flple. That Protect Plante
Proa. Their Knemiea.
"Plants and Their Enemies” is the
title of an article by Thomas H. Kear
ney. Jr., m St. Nicholas. Mr Kearney
says:
There sire a thousand things that
threaten the well, being and even the
life of every tree and shrub and lowly
herb. Too much heat or too little works
great harm to plauta Then there are
all manner of wasting diseases caused
by other tiny plants called fungi and
bacteria. Many large animals, as horses
and cows and sheep, live by grazing the
herbage and grass or browsing the foli
age of trees and shrubs. Os course they
greatly injure the plants they feed upon
and therefore many plants are in one
way or another protected against such
attacks
Did you ever stop to think why this
tles are so well armed with sharp prick
les or why the ugly roadside nettles are
furnished with stinging hairs? Notice
cattle grazing in a field where thistles
or nettles grow See how careful they
are to let those disagreeable plants
alone. That is the reason for the stings
and the spines See this honey locust
tree bristling with its horrid array of
three pointed thorns. What animal is
brave enough to try to rob it of its
leaves or great pods? Hawthorns, too,
and rosebushes and blackberry briers
all have their sharp little swords and
daggers to defend themselves against
browsing animals
Out on the wide, hot deserts of Ari
zona and New Mexico those odd plants,
the cactuses, grow in great numbers.
Some of them take strange shapes—tall,
fluted columns, branching candelabra or
mere round balls, like the melon cactus
They are almost the only plants that grow
in some parts of that country, and there is
always plenty of sap inside their tough
skins. To the hungry and thirsty crea
tures that roam those dreary wastes m
search of food and water they are very
tempting Were they not in some way
protected these cactuses would soon be
entirely destroyed, but nature has made
them to be like strong forts or great
armored battleships among plants. They
are guarded by all sorts of sharp spines
and prickles and tine hairs that burn
when they get into the flesh
Notice.
I want every man and woman in the
United States interested in the opium
end whisky habits to have one of my
books of these diseases. Address B. M.
Woolly, Atlanta, Ga., Box 362, undone
will be sent you free.
Copper Tempered by Mound Builder*.
Ed A. Schloth has received from a
friend in Savannah, Ills., a long and
small spearhead, a small knife, an awl
and a needle taken from one of the pre
historic mounds near that city. The tools
are all of tempered copper, and when
suspended by a thread ring like steel.
They have been hammered out and tem
pered, and after having been buried in
a mound for no one knows how long
still retain their temper. The mound
builders, who had disappeared from the
face of the earth before Columbus dis
covered this country, knew how to tem
per copper, an art which no man on
earth has now, although many have en
deavored for years to discover the proc
ess. Such specimens are found in but
few of the mounds opened, the imple
ments found being generally of stone
Mr Schloth has a tine collection of rel
ics of mound builders and of the aborig
ines of this coast and values these tem
pered copper articles above them all.—
Portland Oregonian.
J. C. Berry, one of the best known
citizens of Spencer, Mo., testifies that
he cured himself of the worst kind of
piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve. He had been troubled
with piles for over thirty years and had
used many different kinds of so called
curss; but DeWitt’s was the one that did
the work and he will verify this state
ment if any one wishes to write him. Cur
ry-Arrington & Co.
FORMING A Cl-ÜB.
They talked of travel art and books,
Gave politics soipe rubs,
Os music spoke and drifted last
To the theme of woman’s clubs.
‘l’ve joined my sixth,” she said, with
pride.
“Each seemed so a choice.”
And on the word he courage took
His treasured hope to voice.
■‘Oh, Phyllis, dear—forgive the name—
But will you make it seven
And join a club 1 know about?
Its charter corners from heaven,
Its fee is drafts on Cupid’s bank.
Its dues are kisses sweet,
Its membership is limited,
But not its times to meet.
•‘Already half the numlier’s got.
A single smile from you
Will fill the list and found for aye
This happy club of two
Nay, sweet, look up! You think you’ll joint
Oh, bliss that crowns my Life!
You shall be all the officers
And be. besides—my wife!’
Harper’s Bazar.
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tw driving through the proper channels
ill impurities.
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