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FRANKUN » 1 COUNTY REGISTER BY ELLEN J. DORTCH THE SPECTRE That Frightened one of our Citi zens at Indian Creek. The Baptiist church at Indian creek is situated on the public road six or seven miles west of Carnesviile Tbe church was established many years ago, the building is old, the graves hard by, appear to have been tenanted for centuries, and the place taken altogether, has an old and a long-timjBrago-look about it. It is suggestive of ghosts and gobbling and a timid man would hesitate to pass there after night fall. A num ber of stories have been told of strange sights seen and strange sounds heard there. It has the re¬ putation of being haunted. Most of the stories about haunts and ghosts, date far back in the past and are handed down traditionally, but the Story I am going to relate is of recent occurence, is told by a man who is well known to many of our readera, and whose character for Veracity and stron g common sense is unquestioned. The church stands some 60 yards south of the public road with the side of the building facing the road. Vhere is a door on the side #f the house next the road and a door at the east end of the building. One evening in June 1866 a little past the middle of the afternoon, N C. Gordon, his wife and two chil¬ dren passed the church on their way home, which was about a mile west of there. Mr. Gordon wa3 on foot, Mrs. Gordon was riding with one child behind, her, and carrying an iufant in her lap. A fearful looking cloud was rising in the west great balls of lightning shot across the clouds and sky, and peal after perl of deafening thunder shook the e*rth. They were hurrying rapidly home to escape the threatened storm About the time Mr. Gordon was oppos : tethe middle of the church building, Mrs. Gordon rode up to his and asked if he saw that men the east door. Upon being ans¬ wered in the negative she said it was the most awful sight she had evereeeu,and that she tried to attract attention before Iip had passed out of sight. Noticing a tremor in her voice, he looked up in her face and seeing that she was pale and trembling with terror, and not wishing that should be frightened without cause, and to cerrect the false impression under which he thought she was labormg, he said: “It is only some one stopring out of the storm, and to convince you, we will go back, and perhaps we had best stop ourselyes. until the cloud passes.” They turned back in a direction that brought the east door of the church in view when they were tw enty-five or thirty steps away There was a man sitting in the door with his feel resting on the steps. He was dressed in snow white gar¬ ments, bis feet encased in white stockings, and purple gloves were on hands which were folded in his lap Bis head was bare aud his short hair black as night, bis eyes were dosed, bis face clean shaved, there Was no tinge of blood in his cheek or lips, and his Jskin had the ghastly yellowish lode usually seen in the of the dead. Hr. Gordon ap¬ proached .slowly until near enough to have touched it with his walking tick. He looked at the man intently and was unable to detect any motion of the muscles or any imv e ment of the chest that would have given indication of breathing, jphile looking on undecided as to what he should do, the horse on which Mrs. Gordon and the children rode to show evidences of fright, and Mr. ■ Gordon led him away, and before passing out of sight he looked back and saw the man in the same posi¬ tion as when first seen. Just before reaching home they passed the resi¬ dence of Mr. T. C. LeCroy and he and Mr. Gordon hurried back to the church to make further investigation but the strange man was gone and bad left no trace of his visit. This is the exact story as tclu by Mr. Gordon and his wife :t was jroad day light and,there was nothing to deceive or uls’.ead them, and there is no question as to th e truth of the story. Mr. Gordon was raised in this couuty and was well acquainted with the people in the county and especially in that neighborhood, but the man in white was a stranger to lim. Who he was, where he came ;rom 4 why ha was there and in such a garb, why so ghostly and immova¬ ble, and What became of him, are questions we cannot answer; we only give the story as related by Mr, and lira. Gordon, who live near Carnes ville and will vouch for its truth. New Mode of Identifying Pris¬ oners. The latest method of identifying prisoners which has been introduced into France bv M. Alphonse Ber tillen, and which js now successfully practiced, not only in the chief French prisons, but in Russia and Japan as well, is the exact measure¬ ment of the prisoner on his arrival at the jail. His waist, the length and width of the head; the , left middle finger, the left foot, the ontstretched arms, the three other fingers of the left hand, the left arm from the el¬ bow to the wrist, and the length ami width of the ears are measured, and the color of the eyes, and any pecu¬ liarities are noted down. A photo¬ graph is also immediately taken, and by these means the many mistakes whicn have been made by trusting to a photographer only are avoided. The fact that during the two years since this mode has been m operation 826 habitual criminals, who presented themselves under an assumed name, have been identified in France, shows that M. Bertillon’s method is superior to any other. It is stated that habitual crimnals, particularly English pick-pockets, are so convinc¬ ed of the infallibility of the method, that they will on no account submit to the measurement, and offer violent resistance whenever the attempt is made to measure them. In such cases we are assured that it is nearly always sufficient to measure the in¬ side of the hat and boots.- -Amateur Photographer. "The Felt, Location of the Ego.” himself to be situated in himself. "When the finger is pinched, it is plainly enough not I that am pinched, but my finger; and the same is true of a hurt in any part of the body. Notwithstanding the KTlr^TT^e S felt been able to discover that a headache any nearer to me than a finger ache. Perhaps the nearest approach I have known to a sense of closeness, or to a veritable me-ache, has been a sharp pain 2Sk£f thatf^egLon°by a bat which slipped from the hand of a striker. But there is one point £« IPthSa brought out so deliciously by the dear little girl in Punch. “You ought to tie your own apron strings, Mabel!’’ sayB rm Maurier’af re ^How ) S”® 5 fa tbe reply. “I’m in front, you know?” —Atlantic Monthly. CARNESYILLE, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1887 TERRIBLE MELINITE An Explosive with ten times the Power of Nitro-Glicerinc. A special from Paris says: The subject of supreme interest in the military circles just now is the new explosive melinite, about which’ little is known except its terrible destructive power, and which is therefore, natuially a fruitful theme for discussion. The centre of Erench artillery operations now is at Bourgess, where the new explo¬ sive is being manufactured for ex¬ perimental purposes, Buorgess has taken the place of Metz and Stras burg. It is here that experiments are going on without ceasing and a corpse of distinguished officers are seeking a solution of the problom low to kill at a single stroke as many men as possible. It is a ‘rightful problem, which science should solve as soon as possible, for there is good reason to hope that the solution will prove the ending of all wars—wars which had some of the elements of chivalry a con, ;ury ago, but has become hideous since chemistry has taken a hand in them. The two men who discovered the principle of melinite are Capiains Locard and Hirondart, who are ab tached to the guff factory at Bourgess. As a reward for their in¬ vention, M Locard has been promo¬ ted to the ranks of Major, and M. Hirondart has been docorated. Major Locard is regarded as a sa¬ vant of the first .rank. Scarcely any of his time has been given to the routine of military service. He is more of chemist and an inventor than a soldier: His latest discovery in connection with Captain Hiron¬ dart, is this destructive powder, which lias been christened melinite, because in color it resembles honey. Following the first experiments with the substance, which were made at Le Fere, works for testing the invention havs been pushed ic tively at Bourges. Three small forts have been constructed to try the ef¬ fect of the new shells charged with melinite. The forts, which have *b(en finished seventy days, looks somewhat like turnated pyramids. Two are of concrete pebbles, and the thiid, which is the largest, is of f as¬ and silex. It is twelve meters, about 39 feet, square and base, three meters, about 10 feet higfc, and cost 37,000f., (about $7,400). The other two cost together, 45,000f., or about, 9,200. It is predicted that the me¬ linite will destroy these works .solid built as they are in less tirna than it takes te write it. Daily experi¬ ments have been made on a small scale, and their result has been so satisfactory that wagon loads of ma¬ terial for manufacturing the new explosive are arriving at Bourgess <j ai w Ether is one of the principal ingredients of the powder, and as the production of this is only about QQ 000 aljnual | f. y France, ’ Minister Boulanger has his agents out ether wherever they can find it, and some has been purchased in Germany for the manufacluae of shells which ar(J ex p K CC ted some day f. to be used the foices ot . that , . against empne. To launch the shells charged with melinite no special design of mortar is required. Gen Boulanger has de¬ on immediate manufacutore of 210,000 melinite projectile,, wdich w yj j,e r ady l’ by spring, but the , . to be mLadc at yons and , Kive are de *Geir instead #f Bourgess. When they J are ready J for charging ° ° they will be transported to Bourgess. and there the melinite will be infioduced. Boulanger explans his action by say¬ ing that the government lias work¬ shops at Lyons all ready for produc¬ ing the shells and that lie will save 800,000f, by having them made there The melinite is being manufac tured at BourgcSs : s fast* as possible un der the supervision *f its discoverers. The destructive power of the new explosive is reported to be 100 times greater fhan ordinaiy gunpower, or ten times greater than nitro-glycer ine. An ordinary shell, falling on tfhe roof of a building, bursts and shatters everything in its immediate vicinity. Tho melinite shell is in tended to strike the ground at the foundation of the building, an d once there it explode? and shoots every thing into the air, reducing beams joists t o an almost impalpable pow¬ der. In the meantime, while the man¬ ufacture of this terrible explosive is going on, its inventors are experi¬ menting with a new kind of rifle powder, which explodes without making any smoke; and which will enable a body of infantry to fire on the enemy from cover without be¬ traying their position by little clouds? of smoke. The chemists are devel¬ oping into wholesale slaughterers of men, and when the time comes, as it apparently will come, that a general by blowing can annihilate a hundred thousand of the enemy, covering a ling, of several leagues, the theory of universal peace, founded on whole ale massacre at a distance will be very near! y demonstrated. Among tul the stories that are amus¬ ing Parisians just now—and it is part of the duty of tho daily press to furnish amusing stories; even at the sacrifice of space needed for new s —is told of the frugality of tho fa¬ mous German general Yon Meltkc. The incident is placed at during the seige of Paris by the German forces. Yon Meltke used to soften the rig¬ ors of war by occasionally giving a little dinner party, and to one of these he had invited five gentlemen. The covers were laid for six but one of the expected was unable to appear and sent his regrets. Von Holtke it is related, upon receiving tbe note, hurried off in person to the pastry cook’s establishment and notified tho presiding genius of the place to send but five eclairs instead ol s ix as had been o-dered. This story of German economy is told with great gusto and laughed at heartily in the cafss and clubs. Tha readers of tbe Register will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh cure is the only positive cure now known in the medical fraternity Catarrh being a constitutional disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh cure is taken internal¬ ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the system 5 thereby destroying the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength, by building up the constitu¬ tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The Proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo’ O. jgfijpBold by Druggists, 75 cts. Cure for Typhoid Patient*. The best physicians now freely admit that typhoid patients, in tbe great ma ioritv of cases, would recover without a drop' of medicine; that they need medi ssss.w--.-h~. A SURVVAL OF TI1E UNFIT TEST. In his inaugural address before tho Sanitary Congress recently held in New Tork, Sir T. Spencer Wells, the president of the congress, touched upon a subject of great interest to the educators. He said, speaking as a sanitarian, so far as concerns the mental and physical training ot chil¬ dren and giving women the opinion of other occupations than those of domestic life, he saw no groat cause for alarm. It is an age in which edu¬ cation—at any rate, foi the middle classes—must be pushed far beyond the litmte which our fathers thought wide enough for us, Mere rule of thumb work is almost out of date; and there are so many industries in which scientific knowledge and ex¬ actness are requisite, that tho want of education cuts off a youug man’s chances of advancement. A work man must now be something more than a mere machine. He must have head as well as hands, brains as well as muscle; and as uneducated braius are not worth more in the labor mar¬ ket than untrained muscle, wo mast be content to make somo sacrifice in their culture. As for tho outcry about the dangers of women taking up men’s work, it is breath wasted. Many failures will out-weigh the few successes and bring the balance right. “For my own part,” continued the speaker, “I think woman capable ol a groat deal more than they have been accustomed to do in times past. If overwork sometimes leads to dis case, it is morally more wholesome te work into it than to lunge into it. And if some molical practitioners have observed ca-.es where mental overstrain has led to disease of mind and body, I cannot deny that 1 also have at longer intervals some such cases. But for every such example I feel quite sure that I have seen at least twenty where evils equally to be deplored arc caused in young wo men by want of mental occupation, by deficient exercise, too luxurious living and too much amusement or ex citoment.-*-Science. NEGLECTED GRAVES. Washington, January 21.—Mr. Sheimau has offered in the senate an amendment to be proposed to the sundry civil bill to appropriate $8, 000 to put new fences around ceme* t.eries in which confederate deal are buried near Columbus, Ohio, and Johnson’s Island. Accompanying fc he amendment is an extract from the recent annual message of Gov. Foraker, in which he refers to the dilapidated condition of tbe fence and the neglected state of tho grounds, and adds: The hatred ani destination that all loyal people must and should evei entertain for the desti uctive political doctrines that these men fought for ought not to stand in (he way of, cithei a cordial feeling toward the living, who have abandoned such heresies, era proper regard or Chris¬ tian respect for the graves of the dead who although wrong, yet hero¬ ically and valorously contended for the convictions they enterta-ned. The bent Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salf rheum feavers, corns tetter, chaped hands, cuts biains and all Bkin E uption and positively euro piles, or no pay required. J.t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re¬ funded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by 11 . M. Freeman. Facing the World. One thing is certain, that a man who from his boyhood has been face the world to fight his own battles, ft> pay bis own bills, make his own^vay, Howard. * ;-;L - _ . V - VOL XI. NO 6 Past and Present. “The good old times” that are so much wanted might be restored, the Biidgeport (Conn.) Sentinel suggests, for the enjoyment of the existing generations. It asks: “Why not pass a law forbidding steam-beats from plowing the waters, railroads from running on land, tslegraphs from sending messages, telephones from being used, all furnaces, steam tieaters, etc., to bo taken out of houses and other buildings, all grates for burning coal to be taken out, all stoves to be melted foi old iron’ all waterworks in cities to be left empty, the use of all gas and other illumina¬ tors, except dipped tallow candles, to be disused, and really go back to the ‘good old times,’ say for five years. Then, if at midnight on a cold, stormy night, a doctor is want ed, he must ho sent for instead oj telephoning for him. If one wished to send a message to a distance, in¬ stead of telegraphing he must write a letter and send it by stages to its distant place, and waif patiently for days or weeks for the answer. When one goes homo on a freezing night he can sit by a wood fire, raasting on one side while freezmg on fhe other, and reading by the dim iight of a tal¬ low dip, instead of the blaze of a gaslight, or the more agreeable light of Arerosine. If ho undertakes a journey,instead of getting into the cam and going where lie wishes, the best ho can do is to take a stage at four times the costs and ten times the discomfort of tho cars. Let those and other modern improvements be forbidden, and ‘good old days’ be brought back; how long would it be before an extra session of the Legis lature would bo denfanded to knock the ‘good okl days’ into splinters, and to restore the much better days which wo now enjoy, and lor which we ought to bo most devoutly thankful.” The South is expected to strike out in new paths financially, socially, and industrially, but the same old ring is to rule things down here in Georgia. The p following oxtract ; ( from a Washington letter to the the New Fork Star will sho <v how things are to bo fixed. , “An elec¬ tion for Govcrno of Georgia means a re-election without opposition; so Governor Gordon will again be chosen in October, 1888. Next month SenatorJColquitfistob re-elec* ted for tbe term begining on Match 4th 1889. Governor Gordon will go oat of office in November, 1890, and will be elected as the successor to Senator Brown, whose term will expire on March 3,199L” The minister who preaches tbe best sermon, the lawyer who knows the mosf low apd how to apply it, the doctor who has the most skill his profession, the mechanic who understands his business, works hard and saves money, thd * storekeeper who g ive« full measure' and doet not put all the large apples on top, and so on down to Bridget in the kitchen who can keep the most tidy house—• »re “our best people,” • Sheriff* of England. The sheriffs of England are taken from gentlemen residing in a county who are supposed to be rich. The selection is arbitrary (although it sometimes happens that some wealthy snob" who had just set¬ tled in a county announces his readineM to serve), and the expense, which aver¬ ages about $2,500, is sometimes a heavy tax upon the unlucky geptlemen who are pushed into the honor.—The Argonaut.