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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTE I
BX ELLEN J. DORTCH. VOL. XI. NO. 21
FRIGTENED ABOUT LEPROSY
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The Louisiana State Board of Health
Subdues a Panic.
A special from Now Orleans of a
recent date says: At the request of
the Mayor of St. Martinsville, a
committee fron the Louisiana State
Hoard of Health visited that town
last week to investigate a rumor of
the prevalence there of Asiatic lep¬
rosy, The rumor had caused a pan¬
ic through all the neighboring coun¬
try. It was said that there were
200,1500, and even 600 eases; and
that the disease was rapidly spread.
inf,. The farmers of the neighbor¬
hood feared to go to St. Martinville,
to buy aud sell, and the little towm
which called itself of old, the “Paris
of Acadia.” believed that its very,
existence was threatened. Within
the town itself there was the same*
panicky feeling in regard to the dis¬
ease. People refused to shake hands
with each other through the fear of
catching leprosy, and men would
not go,to t* e barbers,fearing that the
razor might communicate the loath¬
some malady. Every one suspected
liis neighbor. One family in par¬
ticular were subjected to complete
isolation, even relatives deserting
them aud pointing them out as
lepers. #
Sc. Martin ville is a sleepy town of
some 3000 people, thoroughly
French, that language being almost
unit*er*ally spoken, and tlie popula¬
tion consisting mainly of the de¬
scendants of those Acadians, immor¬
talized by Longfellow in “E van go
ins,” who wandered here from No
via Sco/ia something ever a century
ago. It has lived a quiet, unevent¬
ful life, until from this quiet of year#
the .eprosy panic and the visit of the
lie*ixl of /Aaltli aroused it. Under
the supervision of President Holt
and a council of fifteen doctors
thoroughly inspected each of the
cases brought before it. Every one
With a pimple hastened to make stue
of nimsolt. Ono of tlie worst cases,
which was supposed to be a very ag¬
gravating l«rn. ol Jeprosy, proved to
he uoUnug but incipient boils. Tue
result of «he examination showed
only three cases ol positive leprosy,
the tulititis Lemg two inmiieu siso
lem aud a-child ol one of them,
’little were ibieecoses supposed to
ne mcqneiii, and two others were iv
portcu as having heeu liauowd io
a UospLai a, Av.nOin.uis. in tho
a hole town, therefore, but eight oa¬
sis couid Lc lcuuu or Learn Uuu
U-.U any leoviuoiance whatever 1U «.p
r osy. An exauiiua.ion s bowed thui
ail tbs persons afflicted or suspected
are iff* ue*eviKiauls of a leper who
came io tlie pansn many . years
ago u-om idounugo. Tue Iaei
tu*t they navi uvea m close commu
ton vuiii iCtn nugbLais, and that
the nusbanub oi ihe wemail, who
bael b*»t*u luarrmel tor yea vs
tt*re lice iloin u.c ui-ease, gov* to
1 love it wts not contagious, hut
'iLe inmiiy, ovnctinuig
% l.e*e .tpiosy licbcoy enteiUuiieu
* v.oulw; j.icvcd le fct nUoxuci) me
‘■l iLt lauivj—1 ion. 1 be Now Yolk
!*ua.
A SIAM V MAN.
W bate* «r else s iruii may Le,
tsuuot adiuiie him if he l* not truly
“ud perfect iy umnly j and by thul
I uu not ui«an big anu branny
lti.uy With bi* Ukts, i have heard
that there are prize fighters who
have been si unmauly as to strike a
woman,
A manly man is never half so
ready to knock some one down as he
is to help some one up. Early in
life he is up and at inrk of some
sort, according to the position in
which he finds himself placed by
Providence He does not wait to be
dragged and pushed into his groove;
he tlnds it. He is not the sort of a
fellow to wait for old aunts and
uncles to leave something; nor does
he think much of his ancestors. Like
Napoleati . “he is ancestor himself.”
And one trait is peculiar to him:
If you need him, thkue he is. That
is one attribute of mnnlinuss; he
never fails you in time of need. He
goes before von m the mud and gives
you his steady footprints to tread in
He climbs the steep path and gives
you his band to ding to. He pulls
stroke oar in any boat he enters on
the river of life.
I have seen geniuses who were not
manly--who fretted, and fumed,and
fidgetted, and talked bitterly of tlie
world and their wrongs, and were
too selfish to care for any else. I
have seen men six feet high who
made their wives miserable, after
vowing to love and protect them, aud
wlio really liked to box their chil¬
dren’s ears and send them to bed
without their supper. I have seen
your handsome men, with what is
called a fine oresence, who were
gossips of the meanest sort—who
would kiss and toll, ana who had no
friendship in their souls. And I
hare seen men with no special talent,
not large, not handsome—who were
so manly that it was good to look at
them.
Such men are good sons and good
brothers, and good husbands and
fathers and assurediy good friends,
for, if a man is manly, all other
things follow. True manliness is
one of the effects of a fine well-bal¬
anced muni. A manly man always
has good common sense, lie thinks
correctly, is'nol easy to humbug,
keeps his temper, is truthful and
honest, and never having done any¬
thing lo be ashamed of, he cringes
before no man. Ye* he norer as¬
sumes anyth mg. There are so
many faults which are impossible to
to the manly man. that having said
that one is maul), yom have almost
come to end of praise.—-of. K. D.
in A 1 Y Ledger.
A Gccrgia man refused to take
stoex m a new railroad because lit
was opposed to Sunday trains. The
laiLroiid w a.-, built through hi* laud
increasing its value om Lundrad
pjr cent- To ease his cons citnce he
has given the land to his son,with
the Understanding that it shall be
sold and the procee cis u 5 cd tor the
benefit ot the poor. His neighbors
arc willing tc beta year’s crop fholhe
considers biuiseli tlie only it-aily
yo or man in the woiid.
We will soil tlie trade coffee,sugar
nee, molasses ■ sy rap and Jiour at
tower prices than you pay else wb vie
ul MoCouue.i A Dro.
H you want a good oLtw of to
bacco caff on \v c. * J* B* McEii
tire lor Ben i raukliu.
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J^dn Merry man k Co Aui iuciid
dissolved bone is the most reliable
U( , ^ market, Fur sale at
Avuion and Martin by J4 B I'ow
d# Go.,
CARNESVILLE, GA.,TUESDAY MAY, 24, 1887.
CAN SIZE A MAN UP.
President Cleveland’s Method in
Making Appointments.
Appoiutment Clerk Hassler, ot
the Interior Department, talking
about the newspaper stories m regird
to President Cleveland’s desire for a
renomination, said to-day: There
is one thing that can bo set down a#
absolutely certain about the whole
business, and that is the fact that
Cleveland is not frying in the matter
of appointments to “fix” hims* If for
renomination in tlie political sense.
He does not appoint a man because
he is'a ward po/iiician, who can be
depended upon to vote for him at
I he next election in return for his
appointment. The main idea in all
the appointmsuts which Cleveland
has made has be in to secure
an honest man who
will be capable in the best sense of
the word to fill the position for which
he has been chosen. Cleveland is a
great man for seeing the men he
thinks of appointing before commit
ing himself, for he says he can
“size a man up” much letter by.
few minutes’ talk with him thai* he
eaii by a whole pile of recommend,•(>
lions. He, however, does not throw
aside die letters and indorsement*
which are filed with the papers of
applicants, but no matter /iow many
of them there are, he examines bach
caiotully, and somstunes spend* a
whole day in picking out the best.
Then be will go through the list of
indorsers and examine their etavac#
ter *j it is a matter of eossiderablo
time to decide upon every single
appointment. That he does not
shirk his work i* shown by a veiy
sign’fieaut fact. This administration
has been in office a little over two
years, and during all that time not
one of tho persons appointed by
the President has been found defi¬
cient, dishonest, or in any way has
brought scan dal upon the adminis¬
tration. That is a record which
caneot be beaten or even approached
by any previous administration.—
Fiom Wsshitgion Letter to the Bos¬
ton Post. 1
NEW ENGLAND INTOLER¬
ANCE.
Out* of the most affecting epitaphs
With which the edit .r has eeme in
contact is one engraved on a stone
which stauds in a small pi h ale burial
ground in a New Iluaipsbiie villag'’
iienealu lie the remains of a young
man who literally wore hiuself to
death by study aud by a bitter fight
for tolerance and what he believed
to be the truths of religion in the
midst of a community bard-h«ad«d,
tuiolle' ant, and not at all of his own
way of thinking. A few days before
his death the young man sent to »
college friend in a neighboring State
ilia couplet which he liad writecn for
bis uwu tombs vone, and requesting
hnu to see iliat it was inscribed tiiere
on.
The villagers so strongly objected
_ibis was two see re y*ars ago—to
U1C burial ot the lciuaius jf one they
regarded as an atheist in the village
graveyard that the grave wee made
hi a tli'oket of spruces belonging to
the dead man s persomat o*sute, and
j without name or late the stone
J bears tho w ord*: J fouglff
, ufa deftmler ol the truth
Phe truth is still tb« truth though
I am naught,”
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
“Do you tluuk I’d Jot my wife go
to the polls among a ’ot of disreput¬
able characters?” we hear men say
when (he question of woman’s voting
is broached. Oil, no; and if yon are
a right-minded man you would not
like to have your wife mingle tvilh
disreputable people on the street, in
the ball room, at the theatre, or any¬
where else: Your argument is a very
poor one, because it has not Aeon de¬
monstrated thaf a larger proportion
of the had classes congregate at the
polls than a< any other class of meet¬
ing. Di l it ever occur to you that
the cause of the present deplorable
state of society’ lies very near to your
own door, and that it can be readily
traced to the tact that men have
been voting wrong. That the drink
habit has produced vice aud enmesh*,
male aud female is an established
fact,and it ill becomes them who have
brought abouf this state of affairs by
a fats3, deprave 1 system of voting,
to say that their wives shall not ac¬
company fhem to the polls. You
ask your wife's opin-on on any mat¬
ter pertaining io the mmita! or moral
welfare of your family. As a general
ru | e you have found your boys’
mother to be an excellent judge ol
what is good or bad in his framing
She would give lief life, if by so do¬
ing her Lay might be saved. But
you gro thu j Qld of cmit ion, you ar
legate to yourself the right to regu
late by law a system by which your
family is ruined, and say to your
wife she has no right to interfere
with your lordly prerogative. Are
you as careful to save your wife the
heart throbs, the grief, the tears, the
agony of a ruined home, a blighted
life, as you are that she shall not be
contaminated by contact with the vi¬
cious of her own sex at the polls?
Bah! Yeu know that this is a con
temptibh* subterfuge! Your wife a*ks
not the ballot for herself. Siho i- the
most unselfish of human beings. Sbe
wants <his weapon to defend yon
*n<l her other loved ones from shame
and vice, and ruin. She wants it as
v pmllsdiiiru to shield her home and
fireside from the hand of the destroy¬
er. And you refuse it by the use
of an argument too shallow and too
puerile tor serious consideration
For shame! Ex.
One day you will be pleased with
a friend, and the next day disap¬
pointed in him. It will be so to the
end; and yon must make up your
mind to it, aud nut quarrel, unless
for very grave cause. Your friend,
you huf e found out, is not perfect.
Nor are you, and you cannot expect
to got much moie than you give.
You must look for weakness, foo.ish
ness, and vanity in human nature; it
is imhappy if you are too sharp in
seeing them
As a raindrop foretells a st- orm,so
so do pimple* upon the human body
indicate health destroying \i rus m
the blood, which can be neutralized
ami expelled only by Dr Harters’
Iron Tonic.
Go to MoCouneli & Bro* lor bar¬
gains in clothing, dress goods’ hats
shoes, tobacco or anything oisj that
you need.
If you want a good chew ot lubuo
eo call on Yv (J A J B McEuure lor
."ti
Ben Franklin,
New dress goods at ’A cOnnell &
iros. Nuns vei/mgs in Muck,, mu,
lue and pink colors.
A nice line of ladies and gents
sinuiur shoes at W C ft i M Mu*
Entire#
A WAVE OF SOAP SUBS.
Strange Scenes on a Mysterious lake
in the Nevada Mounting,
Mono Lake is full of soda, borax
and other minerals in solution. The
watexs of both Owens and Mono is
a natural detergent. The dirtiest,
greasiest of clothing is made clean
in half x miu»te by sim¬
ply rinsing the article ill the lake.
It lathers naturally when agitated.
When there is a high wind a wall
of suds three or four feet in height
is seen along that shore on which
the waves beat. This quivering
wall—in which are seen all of rain¬
bow tints and as many beautiful as
are shown by flic kaleidos tope—
would grow to a b eight of ten feet
tefore toppling over, but that when
it attains a certain height the wind
catches it up and wafts great bails
far inland. Some of these float
mg balloons of lather are as big as
a flour barrel), As’ the prevailing
winds are from the west, all vege¬
tation on the eastern shore of the
lake is killed for many rods. When
there are unusually higU winds the
balls of suds aro blown so far in¬
land as to reach clumps of willows
and other bushes, thu leaves of
which are then seen to be sorcbed
as though by fira. The water just
as it comes from the lake, w’ou'd
make an excellent shatnpo'' for the
barbers, and the solid matter re
suiting from evaporation would
make a fine nowder for laundry
use.
THE UNIFORM ADVERTISING
RATES.
A few of oiu weekly contemporu
raries are agitating the question ol
the adopting of a uniform advertis¬
ing rates,and have suggested a meet¬
ing of tne weekly press for the pur.
Who is to he belief it ted ? Is it
the iargei sheets whose mechanical
get up and editorial management
commend them to a latg« list of
subscribers. and whose business
warrants tnem in establishing and
maintaining remunerative rat**? Or
is it the smaller and 1 *ms meritori¬
ous ‘? Long busmen experience has
taught that combinations which
embrace large number* are but hol¬
low mockeries, for the class of men
who are eut-throat* outside of *u
association, ar« cut.thrnats still
even und*r agreements which are
sOem ingly inviolable.
In our »h#rt experience in the
newspaper business we hare found
that straight lorward business priu
eiples have never inured to onr
mjury. Fossibly in * few instances
hav* failed to secure advertisements
because we would not vary from
our established prices, but these
were the exceptions. Tha merchant
and general advertiser appreciates
independence and self respect in
newspaper men a* mush a* in any
othei class ol men. "'Ihe man who*
secures patronage only by acceding
to the dictates ot hi* patrons taken
work at any price he can get it ant
licks the b*ud which giaeipusl/ ex¬
tends a mite furnishes by his very
fnw rt mg, priina J'uciu ev idence
he w paid twice a* much us he de¬
serves.
$ 1.00 ran vkak in advance
We may be tooyoutig in the cause
to form a coriect opinion m the
premises, but it occurred to us that
a first class lswspaper run upon
strict business principles cannot be
hurt by the cut throat gang, but. al¬
ways receive the measure of patron*
(tge it deserve* at fairly remunera¬
tive prices. It is to be presumed
that the sheets persuing the cat
tin oat business do not desire to do
otherwise, else they would assert
and maintain busiuess ftianhood; the
better class < f the weekly press do
not, need rt, the* why should there
be an attempt at uniformity of rates
under a set of resolutions and agrees
nients?—Sanders ville Progress.
-V newspaper once contained an
advertisement for a man to till a
position which concluded with: ’No
discouraged man need apply.” This
was worthy wisdomjfora discouraged
man counts for very little in this
world’s battles; ho is defeated in ad¬
vance, ho faints in the day of ad¬
versity; lie falters in the conflicts, he
halts in the race, he weakens be¬
neath the burdens and trials of ac¬
tive life. This woild can do very
little tor discouraged men. If calls
foi men of high liope;uen who have
not found out that all is vanity and
vexation of spirit; men who are not
weary chasing earth's mocking
phantoms, and who are ready for
new enterprises and new opportuni¬
ties..—Selected.
It Is a Pity.
The labor war in Chicago promises
to suspend ad buil ling operations
in that city for an indefinite period
The contest, if long continued, can¬
not tail to be disastrous to all con¬
cerned. including not only workmen
and employers, but every business
man m the city. It is a groat pity
that so much time and money must
he thrown away nowadays in these
wasteful and destructive contest be¬
tween capital and labor.
It is said the Knights of Labor
will *sk Congicss to revise one of
the Ten Commandments so that it
will road: “Four days of six hours
each shall thou work and have
holidays a week without a reduction
of wage*.”
The Georgia farmer has got tho
“can bcfoie the horse.” He buys
everything lie uses and makes noth¬
ing but something lie can’t use. The
system is a failure, it’s been tried
thoroughly and failed in eyery in
slant. Raise what you use at home
and then y»u will be happy.
ladies of the white
HOUSE.
h ave found that their sometimes ex
cessive duties produce a low. weak
tired and tiemulous state of the sys
tom, and that iron mtores aiebues
and color to tlie blood, calisa* a bark
a natural healthful tone to the diges
five organ, and phosphorous mildly
stimulates the brain,—all. combined
Harter* siion Tonic.
It you want a good article of plug
tobacco ask yom* dealer for “OLD
iur.” -
CONCERNING TIIE SEX
SATAN.
There is a young woman teaching
in one of the city school who, if her
power if persuasion equals her zeal
will,work discord among the sexes*
annihilate matrimonial prospects and
produce a decidedly “bearish” effect
on the man market# If she won a
dominie at Andover she would be
in trial for neros r within a week. A
few days ago one of her pupils, a
shuffling and droning school boy, un¬
dertook t he heieuloan labor of pars¬
ing (his sentence: “And Hie el ,
shall he chained for a tboui .
years.” The outlook was that
sntanic majesty’s eutengle;
would begin before the parsing ended. .
Rut the boy finally got the devil
where no doubt all the listening class
anil the nervous teacher devout! 43
wished him. “Da-a-v’l,’ ’ heYlrawh If,;
“it i namtn; pro-o-per nuoun; thii
person; singTer nuittbc r; conml
gen--” “Stop!” scrvnmed the lit! .
schoohuniiiri, “Masculine!
masculine.”
Henry Ward Beecher’s body s' ill
lies in t/ie receiving vault at Green¬
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Kerent-
1 y the uuthovite* of the cemetery
were informed that an attempt won'ef
b 0 made to steal the body. Two
policemen wore at once detailed
a special guard at the rewiring vat
to assist the regular ,v a tollman
keep off vandals. In the next l
days tlie body will be interred in t
lieeeher lot, which is in the som
eastern part of the cemetery. Jp||
Whv get rid of the soeia fig
not
questions of race and labor by *lm
ply recognizing the fact tha
such thing social HP
is no as
Social privileges there are, but *h*J
are not controlled by law. 2'be lav
gives a man his civil right*, -v
gives him social privileges.
bittli surroundings, circumstances
sharacter and condition arc uof con¬
sidered by law. Society judge* him
by them all together.
A California .
temperate
pennies its members to
“depressed.’' As * gen
may be expected that the rna m
of this unique society are “
^
•d” about three times u d<*y,
question u, dee* the *oci ety
anything by teaching m en to
Out West tie women have organ
ized a society to stop the use »i t«<
b eco. Their motto i»: “We’fJ
■top it peacefully if w«
can, forcibly if we muiit.’vfff- i«
to be hoped that they will si
Afcl'onnell & Bro. hav# at (
gant line of gents and !adi*» i
•hoes.
W C & 3 B McEntire have <
baud a nice line of ladies dress go
tit
.
The stamps that we pay
'
cents a piece for costs the
ment 7c a thousand.
Go to W C & J B McEutii
rock hot*orn prices on goods.
Buuuful ap«r*t slippin n 1 Io
cut sir.!* at NI /Jjnn fit B.'j.
M
Fresh country corn meal
on h*nd at W . V. Hci