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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTE I BX ELLEN J. DORTCH. VOL. XI. NO. 21 FRIGTENED ABOUT LEPROSY ■ 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. ■■ 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