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EVERLASTING NOW.
Everlasting Now,
How beautiful art thou 1
Through the ferny greenwood dells.
When the oaks were golden,
Hyaoinths rang their bonny bells,
A tune of musio olden t
! feorrdw and care hid Swept away
That melody so light iiiid gay;
tfhy did it wake bnce more that day?.
. i do not know: But 6nde again
1 Thoughts long dead add buried;
' Shook their wings, a sunny train;
And o’er my Spirit wearied
poured a fresh and childish songj
't)no I had fogotton long;
. Say; hot one; a hook; a thrdiig:
Everlasting Now; ,
■ HoW Wonderful art thou 1
In a dingy; noisy street;
A piito white lilac growing;
Showered doWn odors to my foci;
And mingled with their flowing;
Sounds and Bights of long ago;
Boses which have ceased to blow;
Winters of forgotten SnoW:
Stranger faces passing by
Saw I them no longer;
Visions Of the inner eye
Ever are the stronger j
Came a face quite close to me;
bne i here ho longer see,
Smiled; and vanished suddenly:
Everlasting Now,
How terrible art thou!
Wandering by the river’s side,
When the sun was setting,
Whispers came from far and wide,
“There is no forgetting,
, Past is present, Now is vast,
What is future will bo past,
A!1 will be but Now at last.”
Then there shot a keen regret
Eor a harsh word spoken,
Glistening still with tear-drop^ wet,
Love’s‘fair flowor broken,
Years long past had seen that wrong,
But ot bitter thoughts a throng
Sprang to life aU fresh and strong.
Everlasting Now,
How bitter-sweet art thou.
Soul! who never can forget,
Thou must live forever!
Eyes! with tears ot peoanco wet,
Ye must wake forever!
Canst thou face the Eternal Now?
Or, as mortal things laid low,
Dost thou crave an end? Not so 1
Thou! who wabest memory’s ear,
By such subtle blending
Of the present and the near,
With the life unending,
Tune us to that perfect key,
Giving life its unity,
Life, which hides itself in thee!
—Eels and Bayyet, Calcutta (India).
The Sentence of Mehemed.
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7HMANZADE ME-
liomecl, the Sirdar
of the auxiliary
troops of Tunisi,
was known on ac
count of the rigor
ous discipline that
he oxercised over
his soldiers. "It
is not the enemy
yon must fear, hut me,” he would of
ten remark to the young soldiers, who
came to increase the ranks. Thus his
nrmy was an army of heroes, who
no fear on the battle-field, but
’wno trembled in the presence of their
leader.
The first campaign in which they
fought was at Albania, in the battle
against the rebel Greeks, and on that
occasion Mehemed’s men proved them
selves efficient. It happened that
Mehemed one day ordered eight
soldiers to remain in ambush at the
"5vo fountains” of Arts, at which
point the Greeks were likely to open
their attack. They were to stop any
one who should try to pass by, and
they were strictly cautioned not to
dismount or fall asleep. The soldiers
executed with exactness all their in
structions.
’ A vehicle which attempted, toward
midnight, to cross the line unob
served, was discovered and stopped.
The man who had charge of the oxen
ran away, abandoning his wagon. On
this wagon was a barrel It was easy
to ascertain what the barrel contained,
even without dismounting and without
falling asleep. Xou only had to open
the bung-hole to smell the pleasant
odor of liquor escaping from it. And
it must have been an excellent liquor,
compounded largely of figs and dry
raisins. The Giaurri (Christians) un
doubtedly knew what was good.
The soldiers had not been forbidden,
if they seized liquor, to drink it. And
really they did not drink directly from
the barrel; they merely sunk bul
rushes in it, through which they
sipped the sweet and intoxicating
liquid. Was it not harmless to sip
with snch thin rushes? One could
scarcely call that drinking! But just
ly does the Fropbat remark that wine
is a deceitful beverageT^n which satan
has had his hand^ since this drink
brings men to every eviL
First, the soldiers asked each other
why they should sit in their hard sad
dles, when the grass made such a soft
bed on the ground. And if they lay
there for. only a short while, nobody
would know it: they could tie the
horses to the wagon, and those certain
ly could tell no tales. After they had
dismounted, the infernal drink per
suaded them that it was a useless task
for eight men to remain on guard;
four would suffice, and the rest could
sleep. To the four men who were to
keep awake, the waiting for their turn
seemed too long, and they agreed that
two might sleep, while the other two
remained true to the orders.
Maruf and Sefer were the two desig
nated to watch for the rest.
“Do yon know,” said Sefer to his
., friend, “do you know that one man is
'■ of the same value in this case as two?
It will do just as well if only one of us
watches. Do you not agree?”
Marof assented,
“I propose,” continued Sefer, "that
we play a game of chess: the loser will
have to watch, and the winner may
' sleep!”
Maruf accepted the conditions.’
, The two Bedonins prepared the
ground in front of where they stood,
and with theft spears they traced a
square, dividing it into sixty-four
smaller squares.. Then they substitut
ed for the regular 'pawns the fruits of
the woods. The wild pears became
kings, the apples qneens, the castles
were represented by acorns, the bish
ops by rose-hips, the knights hy nnts
»andthepawnsby berries, The men
I thus provided, the game began by the
light of the camp fire.
At first, Sefer had the advantage,
''but that inebriating drink overcame
him, little by little, so that be was
not in condition to distinguish his
pawns. He' lost his queen, and was
very near being checkmated.
1 ‘Sefer;. ydii ar.e in A bad Mess;re
marked MArqf Wheii .he saw that the
game was id his hdiids:
. “Xou are fight. ’ I am as sleepy as
tiie BBri, when it is caini: 11
“Xou are Idsing the game,
ic l can see that; too 1”
f, Well; like down; in the- home of
Allah: I will watoh for yon.”
Sefer, shook his friend’s hand in
gfdtefnl Soknciwledgement of. the
Bacriijce; and he thought he .spoke td
hijri; ijht he drily, dreame'd it; for he
fell.asleep immediately;
Mamf; oh ,tbe contrary; kept his
eyes dpen. and leaning dh his gun; he
looked at his sleepihg companions.
But that terrible drink begaii io mur
mur sdftly: „ ,
“Why do you hot .pit dchra?'- Xou
co'tiid see just as well!” . .
As sdofi as he was. seated; Satan
again begad to tempt liini: - „ .
“Why dd yon tire your eyes? If
yog shut bne of. them; you. will see
with the hither just ad well iiS with
both.
Maruf reflected that, if his eyes were
closed, his ears were open, and that he
would he ready to start at the small
est danger that might threaten his
companions and himself. And with
the firm purpose of not falling asleep,
he slumbered as heavily as the rest.
In the meantime, the hidden Greeks
came all of a sudden upon the sleeping
men, untied the horses of the Turks
and would certainly have killed them,
had not Maruf’s horse, as though he
foresaw the danger, begun to neigh.
The first to awaken was Maruf, and in
a few moments the rest were ready.
They ran to get their arms and stood
on the defence, now fully awake and
sober.
They threw themselves on the enemy;
but it was of no avail The Greeks
had monnted the horses and laughed
at the Turks, who endeavored to over
come them on foot.
Maruf’s horse alone would not sub
mit to the Greek wbo had monnted
him, and began to rear and plunge
until he had succeeded in throwing
the rider. He then Kicked him and
returned to his owner.
Fight men had one horse left among
them. What was Mehemed going to
say? The Bedouins, yet young, were
cast down at the thought of death.
They knew their leader would have no
pity for them; and still sadder were
they at the loss of their beloved
horses. Of what use is a man without
a horse?
Mortally worried ot the punishment
they expected, they returned to head
quarters, and, brought face to face
with Ahmanzade, they narrated what
had happened; how they had dis
obeyed his orders, how they had fallen
asleep after drinking the liquor, how
the last two watchmen had played
chess, and finally how they had lost
their horses. Ahmanzade was not in
the habit of making a display of
passion when he had to pass sentence.
In his immovable face, no one conld
read whether he decreed life or death.
“As for eight men there remains
only one horse,” he remarked, “you
will agree with me, that there are seven
of you too many. I have never read
in the Koran nor in the Azorat that
eight men should ride one horse, and
as you are snch good players, sit down
and let skill decide which of you is. to
be the man who is to have the one
horse. All the others are sentenced to
die.”
Having said this, Ahmanzado had
four chess-boards brought in, for the
Turks ore in the habit of carrying
chess-boards with them, even in war.
As soon as the men were arranged, he
ordered the Bedonins to begin their-
play.
Twelve of the best marksmen were
ready with their rifles to shoot the
losers. Two or three gave in at once
to their stronger adversaries; in others,
despair battled with craftiness against
the advantage of their more skillful
opponents, and the former would win
when the latter had victory in their
hands.
The losers were immediately re
moved, and the noise of several shots
indicated that they had ceased to ex
ist.
The first tilt was over. Four had
lost, four were winners. These last
were paired. New hopes and new
fears. A danger would pass un
observed, and he who had made the
error would raise a cry which was his
death sentence.
Again two lost, and again two were
shift. And now only two remained—
Maruf and Sefer. They found them
selves, as they had been before, in
front of the camp fire. They were the
best playera They began the game
with a good deal of caution, resting
their foreheads on the palms of their
'hands, thoughtfully calculating every
move, without hesitating but without
■hurrying.
For a long while neither of the two
succeeded in obtaining advantage;
for each gain there was an equal
sacrifice.
The spectators nod to each other
when either one makes a brilliant
move. Little by little, the number
of pawns on the chess-board diminishes;
the main figures lie scattered to the
right and to the left; the situation
becomes plainer; a few more moves,
and Sefer will lose bis castle!
Maruf has one more castle than his
adversary, and this means a good deal
at the-present stage, of the game. The
crowd believes that the game is in his
hands.
All of a sudden, great drops of sweat
cover the forehead of Maruf—a fear
overtakes him, he trembles through
all Mi body. He has noticed that, if
his adversary sacrifices his queen in
stead/ of the castle, he can checkmate
him (with the bishop. Would Sefer
t’aat move? On that depends life
'‘An excellent wife,’” awswers
with a sigh.
' Sefer passes a hand over his face,
and begins to murmur as thongh he
were praying.
Then he asks for water; he washes
his eyes, his hands—first the left, hand,
then the right hand.. Unseen, two
guardian angels Watch ever by those
wild pray; ...
1 ‘Yesterday pighi. ydti gave mo the
game sd. that I might sieep;” he says:
. .Maruf does hot answer; bill hows
His head id assent;
“Xou have always „beeri « good
friend of mine, Maruf.”
Maruf lets his head drop on his-
breast entirely overcome. Sefer then
slowly lifts .his hand to the chess
board findmakes a move, not with the
qtipen; but with tjie castle:
“Checkmated 1” ydn Hear murmured
od all sides. . .Mafnf Had. won; and
Sefer lost. Sefer rises quietly; offers
his hand for the iast time td his friend
Maruf; whd seems nailed td his place;
and signals td the soldiers td be ready
Two seconds iater a shot arinonneeS
that the tournament is over;—From
the Hungarian; in Romance:
‘ Thirty Years in a Hut;
The door of what has for ytears been
knowii in . Ashland;. OHio; as the log
Kut hermitage Was open the other day
for the first time in thirty years. It
was forced open under the suspicion
that the hermit was sick. The her
mit’s dog, by a peculiar instinctive
method of communication, led a neigh
bor to the hut. While no person had
been permitted to enter his hut for
thirty years, if any one approached it
the hermit would come out of his
dwelling, fasten the dog and talk with
the visitor.
On a recent morning the neighbor
could not call out “Uncle Fred,” so he
attempted to get in, bnt could not.
He then attempted to look in through
the window, which consisted of bul
one pane of glass six by eight inches
in size, bnt be could see nothing. H«
then called other neighbors, and aftei
breaking open the door by the aid of a
lantern they found the hermit dead in
front of his fireplace, on the ground,
for his hut had no floor and no bed.
He had slept on the ground for thirty
years.
His hermitage had bnt one room,
10x12 feet, which was filled with Books
of nnts and barrels of garden prodnets,
and was hung full from its low ceiling
with herbs gathered from the country
far and near. The floor was filled with
geological specimens. The hermit,
whose name was Matthews, died in the
room in which he was born. He bad
taught school in Holmes County,
studied medicine at Mansfield and bad
practiced as a physician among bis
neighbors, and was highly esteemed
professionally and as a teacher. He
married at about the age of forty a
young pupil in his school in Holmes
County, who on being taken to his
home, which he had told her -had four
sections of land with a mill on it, was
so enraged when she found that it had
bnt four-quarters of an acre of land
and a coffee mill that she left him. He
then vowed to be a hermit. He would
not permit anyone to enter his hut.
He was a man of strong mental powers,
strengthened by his hermit study and
inspiration. He came out of his hut
often to lecture on politics. He had
evolved free trade in his study and
other subjects of interest. The County
Infirmary directors have made him an
allowance for years. He had not had
his hair out or been shaved for years.
—Cleveland Leader.
Big Prehistoric Americans.
The American continent seems to
have been the place where big men
abounded, for here are found many
remains of human beings much larger
than any of its present inhabitants.
At Chancal, thirty miles north of Lima
(Peru), very large human skulls were
dug up only a few years ago by Doctor
Le Plongeon. Others have been un
earthed on the Island of Puna, in the
Gulf of Guayaquil, at the entrance oi
the Guayaquil Kiver. A Jesuit father
named Anilo Oliva wrote an ancient
history of Peru, dictated by an old
archive keeper, Quippu Camayoc, a
Peruvian. Oliva’s work exists only in
manuscript, and is in the British Mu
seum, London; but the writer has a
copy of it. Oliva says that Puna, as
well as the opposite coast, was former
ly peopled by giants who had come
from Central America. In the work
of Zarate we read that they were as
bad as they were big, so that they be
came a terror to all the other inhab
itants. Those tall fellows had their
strongholds particularly at the Island
Puna and at Point Santa Elena, Guay
aquil. Some of their works can yet be
seen in those places in the shape of
immense stone and adobe walls, and
more especially in the great wells
which they dug to supply themselves
with water. The career of those bad,
big people was probably brought to a
close by some electrical phenomena,
for tradition says that the gods de
stroyed them with fire from heaven.—
New Xork Tribune.
and death!
Safer looks at the chess-board for a
long while; his looks betray that he
has seen the move that will save him.
Bnt he does not touch the men and he
nq.to hesitate.
‘Maruf,” he asks all • of a . sndden,
‘hdw many children have you at
hoifce?” . '
'our,” is -the answer that comes
fre trembling lips.
' ?”
Tlie “Kitchen leaven” is "Working.
The “People’s Kitchen” recently es
tablished in Vienna is an amplification
or the “kitchens” already in success
ful operation in America, on the
model of the famous “New England
Kitchen” of Boston. The Viennese
have taken so kindly to the palatable
cooking and wholesome menus pro
vided for them that their kitchen is
providing 50,000 meals daily.
The prices, of course, are scaled
All Oyer tie State.
Atlanta’s celebration will occur on
the 20th of next December. The ex
ercises Krill begin at 1 o’clock in the
afiethooii and will be held at the state
capitol: That pi ogfanl Was decided at
a recehfc Meeting of the piofieefs.
»_« *
Tie Affgi'sia Eiif>osjtiofl directors
have appointed Colonel H. L Kimball
commissioner for the Augusta Exposi
tion at Chicago, and will give him au
thority to represent the interests of
dtir exposition at the "World’s Pair and
elsewhere;
i i i
Every year the Cfawfofd county
farmers swoOp down iipoii Miicoii ofid
day in October abdut 500 strong; each
farmer bringing a load of dottoU. The
procession is SoifietimeS two miles
long; Tho warehousemen alway give
them a banquet at night, when eating
dfid drinking and speech-making is
the bidet df tie evening;
i 4t i
, At a recent ffieetirig df the tbiard of
diteetpfs. 6'f tie Angii&ta exposition;
a resolution was ttnanimodsly adopted
that it is not the intention bt tie
company to interfere in any way with
the plans of the citizens of Birming
ham, Ala.,.in their desire to entertain
the confederate veterans at their pro
posed reunion. The Augusta Exposi
tion Company haB appointed Novem
ber the 21st and 22d as confederate
veterans’ day. All confederates, south
and north, are cordially invited to at
tend.
* * *
Captain J. B. James, manager of
the Albaugh-Georgia Fruit Company,
has an order for 100,000 peach trees
to go to Iowa. This company has one
million fruit trees to sell, and Captain
James says he will not be able to fill
all the orders be receives. There will
be fully four million fruit trees for
sale by nurserymen around Port Val
ley this fall. The fruit business is no
donbt the salvation of this section and
gives employment to a large number
of hands who spend their earnings
with the merchants of the town.
* * *
Editor T. R. Gibson, of the Augus
ta Evening News, has decided to accept
his appointment ns consul to Beirut,
Syria. He will lenve in about six
weeks for his new post. Mr. Gibson
is one of the most popnlnr young men
in the state, and liked by everybody,
and is a social leader. He is a gentle
man of refinement nnd fine intellect
and one of tho best writers on the
Georgia press. Ho is well equipped
for his new office and, ns a diplomat,
will grace his country with dignity in
foreign lands and will command re
spect always. Mr. Gibson has not yet
decided who be will appoint as his as
sistant.
* * *
Sewing machines are at the bottom
of a very interesting pieco of legisla
tion that has been occupying the at
tention of Judge Westmoreland’s court
in Atlanta for several days. The de
fendant in tho suit is Mr. W. J. Me-
easlin and the plaintiff is the Farmers’
Alliance exchange of Georgia. Col
onel W. L. Peek appeared as the busi
ness representative of tbo exchange.
Judge W. R. Hammond was attorney
for the exchange. Mr. Mecaslin is
charged with dereliction in that he
failed to deliver at the proper time
and according to the terms of the con
tract, 1,000 sewing machines, which
were bon:ht of him by Colonel Peek,
as manager of the alliance exchange.
It was claimed that Mr. Mecaslin de
livered only 360 machines according
to contract. The others were shipped
out of the appointed time. The ex
change was asked to pay the freight,
which should have been paid by Mr.
Mecaslin, and other things.
* * *
Sumter’s farmers will eat home-
raised hog and hominy under their
own vine and fig tree next year.
Never hns so much attention been giv
en to hog raising before, and as a re-,
suit nearly every farmer in the county
will save dinough meat this winter to
supply his family a portion of next
year, at least,while not a few will save
enongh to supply their family and la
borers, too, the entire year. One far
mer stated that in his immediate nigh-
borhood twenty-one farmers would
save enough meat to run them the en
tire year. This looks like prosperity
sure enough, for with their smoke
houses and corn cribs in Sumter
county, nnd homcraised horses and
mules in the stnble, onr farmers aro
upon a solid basis and will soon be
independent of the schemes and ma
chinations of Wall streetmoney sharks,
who seek to grind them beneath the
heel of oppression.
* » *
Turpentine Operators Meet.
The Cordelc Turpentine Operators’
Operative association met the past
week in regular monthly session. The
following delegates were elected to the
annual meeting in Savannah: A. Prid-.
gen, E. L. Vickers, W. B. Mathews,
J. A. Baldwin, W. H. Clements and
O. C. Green.. This meeting promises
to be quite interesting," as. some very
important measures will be discussed.
The rules will doubtless be amended
so as to put the association upon a-
more substantial and solid basis than
ever. Notwithstanding recent differ-
down to the minimum and permit a
person to dine comfortably for seven 1 encSs among some of the members,
cents. For this sum be may have soup, they are determined to make a success
meat, bread, vegetables, pudding, and of the association. The Cordele asso-
coffee, with frnit or cheese by way of
an appetizing finish. A supper of
cold meat, vegetables, pudding, with
tea or coffee, also costs-seven "cents,
bnt it is possible to breakfast on coffee,
soup, bread, ham and eggs for four,
cents.
Greater, even than the low prices, is
the advantage to the ignorant classes
of good food prepared in an appetiz
ing way. It is this enlightening which
it is hoped in'all such enterprises, will
prove the thin edge of the wedge that
shall drive asunder the rook of stn-
pidity upon which more- than the
ignorant classes have gone to pieces in
the cooking line. . Scientific cooking
is no'longer a name; it is a recognized
necessity, and its dyspeptic substitute
is not. to be much longer put up with.
-New Xork Tjtnes. _
ciation is jn favor of employing a man
who will devote his whole time to or
ganizing snb-associations and working
for the welfare of the order.
The “Tech” Opens.
One hundred -and fifty ,bright, and
active-young men, glowing with hiealth
and-full of ambition and energy, each
intent upon carving out a future for
himself, entered the big. stone arch
way of the state .’Technological school
at Atlanta last Wednesday morning
and became stndents of that institu
tion for the fall term. It was the fall
opening of the Bchool. One hundred
of the young men were old students ol
the school, having been present
ing of the Fchool was larger tha
wals last session,- and it was the lar|
opening the" school has" had since iio
years -ago; The. new- stfidehts cr %e
from every sectjdfi df the state; ■'d
. represented a lafger coUstiitieiicy { -
ever before. They came fforn f
mountains and from the low lands. -
The majority of the new students ace 1 And Presented in Pointed and Itendfl'
wiefc in One Day.
farmers’s sons, yonng men. with g it
and ambition, who have saved up w; i
strict economy, enongh money to
"tlm expenses of a course in tins insti
tution Numbers of them are browned
by toiling in the s\m, bnt tlipir faces
betoken the presence of Determined
chafacter.- It was an army of yonng
riieh -friio inll.be heard froin” in the
future.
Dr. Hopkins is much" eficOirfaged
over the outlook for the institution'.
The ^school has just entered the sev
enth :y oar of its . existence and the re-
sniis Of training in it are beginning
td sitOtir:
Biblical Law;
In the early days Of interior Mis*
souri the iate Jildge JE-— -■ out cord*
wood, tieafed iip Bis homestead farm,
and was employed upon 6ne" side of
nearly every ease that came np, being
for some years the only lawyer in the
bounty.
t He had hd books except an old
leather-covered. Bible and an old vol
ume of two of history; Similarly bound;
but bad read law a short time in Ken
tucky in his youth. He was very small
and insignificant in appearance," bnt
became before bis death a splendid
lawyer and an honored Judge.
A yonng attorney from the East
settled in the little country town, with
his library of about half a dozen new
and handsomely bound law books, and
on bis first appearance in a case be
brought most of his library to the Jus
tice’s office in a fine,- beautifully
flowered carpet bag, popular in that
day. E was engaged against him,
and, as usual, had not a book.
"When his adversary carefully drew
his books from his pretty carpet bag
and laid them on the table, E
looked astonished, but quickly recov
ered his ready resources, and asked
the Justice to excuse him for a few
moments. He hurried to his home
stead, half a mile or so away,, and put
his old leather-bound Bible and his
tories into a grain sack and brought
them to court, imitating his opponent
in laying them before him on the
table.
The evidence Was introduced, and
the Eastern man, being for the plain
tiff, made biB opening argument and
read at length from bis text books.
E made his characteristic speech
in reply, closing by reading law from
his old Bible just the reverse of that
read by his opponent and took his
seat, putting Ms Bible on the table.
His adversary reached over and
picked it np, and seeing wbat it was
eagerly addressed, the Justice.:
‘Xour Honor,” said he, “this man
is a hnmbng and a pettifogger. Why,
sir, tMs is the Bible from which he
has pretended to read law.”
The old Justice looked indignant,
and interrupting the yonng attorney,
said:
“Set down! What better law can
we get than the Bible ?” He then de
cided the case in favor of the defend
ant.—Green Bag. . -.,
Where Pearls Are Found.
Pearls are found in the shells of
many kinds of mollusks. They occur
in the common edible oyster, but are
not of value. Very large wMte ones
are occasionally obtained from the
giant clam, wMchis the biggest known
bivalve, but they are not worth much.
They are always symmetrical and of
some beauty, having a faint but pleas
ing sheen when looked at sideways.
The sbeRs of the giant clam are occa
sionally used for baptismal fonts in
churches. The animal is found, buried
np to the lips. Mnge downward, in
coral reefs. Men have lost their lives
by stepping between the open valves,
which closed immediately upon the
foot, holding them until they drowned.
It is said that pearls of a yellowish
color are sometimes obtained from the
pearly nautilus. But the natives of
the Sooloo ArcMpelago throw them
away, considering them unlucky. They
declare that, if a man should fight
while wearing a ring with snch a pearl,
he would certainly be killed. Pearl
bearing mussels are found in the lakes
and streams of many parts of the
world, including the United States.
These mollusks have yielded great
numbers of valuable gems in tMs
country, so that attempts have been
made to establish pearl fishing on a
commercial basis in some rivers.
Tho cMef sonrees of supply of
mother-of-pearl shells axe the Torres
Straits and West Australian fisheries
and the trade centers of Singapore and
Macassar. Innumerable islands of tbe
Pacific contribute more or less of this
valuable product — notably TaMti.
Three varieties are recognized com
monly—the wMte, the black edged
and the golden edged. This statement
refers to the pearl oyster, wMch fur
nishes the finest mother-of-pearl. The
shells of a single oyster have been
known to weigh as much as fourteen
pounds. The utmost. economy and
skill are exercised in cutting up the
shells, each part being made - to serve
some particnlar.purpose. Thus, from
a Single one of good size will be ob--
tained a penholder, fa pistol butt, two
or three • knife handles, a poker chip
and a dozen.and a half buttons of difv
ferent sizes. -£Washinerton Star.
A Clever Irlsfi Girl.
Miss Mary O’Brien, a clever Irish girl,
has won the Scientific Research Scholar
ship (£150 per abnum for two years) at
the University: College of Walra," Abery
stwyth. Since the subject selected muBt
bear u pon an-industry, she proposes to
take up the question,' so important to
agricnltaristVof the nitrogen supply of
leguminous and other plants.. Only one
nf these scholarshi ps has previously been
awarded to a woman. " Miss O’Brien'was
educated at the Friends Schools, Ack-
worth and Xork, gaining an open
scholarship of £25 for Natural Science
at the Aberystwyth College in 1890".
After passing through an advance science
course, she took her B. So. degree last
year with second class honors in botany
and zoology. In the former subject she
..as third in order ofincrit and was alone
in her clsss; in the latter she was placed
fourth, and no candidate attained to the
ble Pnrdgfsplisv
. Whittenton mills at Taunton, Mass.,
staffed Ail departments on full time
Tuesday, giving employment to more
than 1,000 persons'.’
The large mercantile esfabiishment
of Wolf & Goldman, at Newport,Affe,,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday even-
in|-; Loss, $50,000; insurance about
A.. Cffichgo dispatch df Tuesday says:
Armed'men Tfill in the future accom
pany every train hasrfing express or
mail cars from CMcago td flay point
east or south.
Three millions in gold wa3 received
at the treasury in Washington Wed
nesday from the New Xork sub-treasn-
ty is an indication of a favorable turn
in the gold situation.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from
London announces that Benjamin
Whitworth, the great Manufacturer, of
Manchester, England, and fl vzet
known pMlanthropist, is dead.
Three deaths from smallpox were re
ported in New Xork Tuesday morning
from Riverside, North Brothers’
island; Only ofle new case was re
ported ot sanitary headquarters.
. A WasMngton dispatch of Wednes
day soys: Secretary Carlisle has called
for the resignation of J.- K.- Garrison,
deputy first comptroller of the treas
ury. Mr. Garrison has been more than
twenty years in the treasury depart
ment.
The Condition of the Weather Favors
the Spread of the Plague.
The navy department has advices of
the arrival of the United States cruiser
Charleston at Janeiro, Brazil, Wed
nesday. It is anticipated that some
authentic news of the progress of
of events' there will now reach the
United States through the navy de
partment.
Advices received by the Canadian
Pacific Kailway Company’s steamship
Empress of Lidia, which arrived at
Vancouver Tuesday from Hong Kong
and Xokohoma, is as follows: Reports
of the damage done by the flood at
Gife, Japan, state that 682' houses
were swept away; 14,025 houses flood
ed; 238 people killed and 30,205 ren
dered homeless.
A New Xork dispatch of Tuesday
says: The Morgan ®line steamship
Algiers which was loaned to Health
Officer Jenkins by C. P. Huntington
to carry food supplies to tho yellow
fever sufferers at Brunswick, -Ga.,
now lying in Erie basin in Brooklyn,
is being rapidly fitted np for her er
rand of mercy. Dr. Bell, the editor
ofTffiie Sanitarian and former quaran
tine commissioner, 'has volunteered
Ms services to . Health Officer - Jen
kins. He will accompany the expe
dition as the medical officer in charge,
The general assembly of democratic
societies of Pennsylv'aMa was called
to order in the fifth annual conven-j
tion, at Allentown, Tuesday morning.!
For half an hour before tbe time ihel
Academy qf Music rang with cheers|
for the democratic leaders and a tre
mendous ovation greeted Vice Presi
dent Stevenson when he entered the.
hall. Two thousand people .filled the
hall at the opening of the convention.
President Black immediately deliv
ered an admirable address, which was
punctuated with thundering applause..
A special of Tuesday from Guthrie,
O. T., says : The Cherokee strip has
been settled a week and things are
getting down to a basis. Of tbe 200,-
000 wbo entered the land on tho 16th,
over half have left. The population
of the new town is about as follows:
Pawnee; 1,000: Kirk, 3,000; Kildare
1,000; Ponca, 1,000; Enid, 1,000;
.Pond Creek, 1,000; Alva, 1,000;
Wooward, 1,000; Perry, 12,000. Perry
is destined to be the leading town of
the strip, and the governor has issued
his proclamation declaring it to be *
city of the first-class.
Surgeon General "Wyman, of the
marine hospital service, received a ca
blegram Wednesday from Consul
Rosenthal, at Leghorn, Italy, stating
that cholera was increasing at an
alarming rate there. Daring the post
twenty-fonr hours twenty-six new
cases’ developed, making a total. of
sixty-five cases now under treatment.
Dr. Wyman has ordered Dr. O. Irvin
Cross from Marseilles to Leghorn to
jlook after the interests of the service
at that place. A cablegram was also
received at tbo marine hospital do-
■partment from the consul at Strettin,
.Germany, announcing the presence of
cholera there.
Governor Carr of North Carolina,
on Wednesday, appointed J. S. Mann,
of Newbern, chief state commissioner
of shell fish for two years to sneoeed
W. H. Lucas. Bitter attacks have
been made on Lucas and the strict law
of the state wMcb has broken Up oyster
dredging. Last year there were sev
eral canneries operated by Baltimore"
'packers and these oysters were' simply
i canned and then shipped to Baltimore
where labels were placed on the cans
nnd they were Sold as Maryland oys
ters. h TMs year these canneries, will
not be -in operation, the mehinery
having all been removed. There is
opportunity for people'-of the state to
can and ship oysters. •
Will Not Strike,
erhood
receipt of a telegram from the fire-
man’s committee at Cincinnati, stat
ing that the vote .of the Big Pour
■ployes was adverse, to' a strike, am
that the trouble that, had been im
pending is now settled, No particu
lars of the settlement have been sent
to him further than that no strike has
been declared.
PearfnI Flood in Japan.
A San Francisco special says: The
steamsMp Pern, Monday evening from
China and Japan, brought tho news to
September 3d. The Japan Gazette,
dated August 26, gives an account of
a great flood in Fifu Ken. Three
hundred and four were drowned, and
30,000 are receiving relief. It says
also that 2,356 cases are reported sick
and 447 dead.
Ai Brunswick special says: Prom
indications at the Wednesday noon
meeting yellow jack is preparing to
wreak its vengeance upon afl the peo-
people remaining in the city. Eighteen
cases are "reported, and it is thought
that more cases are in the city not re
ported, The weather is favorable for
the spread of the disease.
Twenty-five negroes were sworn in
by the police department, and are pa
trolling the city armed with Winches
ter rifles. TMs was done to cheek any
uprising of negroes.
The following are the cases reported
at the noon meeting: Jimmie l^atham,
wMte; Anna BeU Jones, colored;
Mueray Furlow, white; Jimmie Bai
ley, white; Bailey Everett, colored;
J. B. Mock, wMte; Arthur Koberts,
colored; Berry Everett, colored;
Alice Keely and her two children,
Willie and" Harry; Alfred Reynolds,
white; "Victoria Mills, Alfred Mills,
Oscar Lamkin, Willie Mills, two chil
dren of Mrs, Larentzon.
PREVIOUS MSPATCHES.
Two new cases of yellow fever de
veloped at-Brunswick Tuesday. Mrs.
Sleeper, and Mamie Nana, colored.
There was one death, that of Mrs.
Stokes. Sjx patients were discharged
Miss Theda BMnehardt, Mrs. Sleeper,
William Johnson’s wife and mother-in-
law, Myrick Baily and another color
ed woman, • erroneously reported of
ficially as sick. There are now under
treatment fourteen cases, the smallest
number at any one time since the epi
demic was declared, The outlook
is favorable for the continued
decrees of malignant cases and
la ow rate of mortality.
The report of Treasurer Dart shows
cash subscriptions received to date of
$5,429.62.- The report of Joseph W.
Smith, manager of the commissary,
shows liberal donations of provisions
from Atlanta, Valdosta, Montezuma,
Quitman and Dawson, Ga.
COLORED POLICEMEN.
Charles Clark, a reputable colored
citizen, has been appointed a special
government sanitary inspector. The
'Downing Company, under the man
agement of Alfred V. Wood, resnmed
the naval stores business Monday. This
encouraging move will employ fifty
people. Before completing arrange
ments with Mr. Wood, Mr. DowMng
intended moving his entire business,
amounting to several million dollars
annually, to Savannah.
Mayor Lamb and Chief Beach have
appointed . several repntable colored
citizens on the police force. Captain
Barney .Dart and Lieutenants Lee
Robinson andY.-Barknloo arrived
from St. Simon’s, and, after" consulta^
tion with, Mayor Lanjb and CMef
Beach, all the arms, accoutrements and
ammunition of the Brunswick Rifle
men were placed in the police bar
racks, subject to an emergency call.
Owing to the lack of a council quo
rum, and Brunswick now being un
der a provisional government and in
great need of an active city govern
ment, it was resolved, on motion of
Colonel Goodyear, by a joint meeting
of* the boards, to authorize Mayor
Lamb and the members of tbe council
present, to appoint a full body of Al
dermen, and hold regular meetings, to
seenre proper police protection for
Brunswick and enforce the mandates
of that body. The sanitary force was
increased to clean the city thorongly.
beady fob a riot.
Out of 600 wMte men, 500 can be
relied on. In addition, several hun-
dred good colored men, out of the
'1,700 in the city, will side with the
ood element of the wMtes. If cir-
umstances should arise demanding it,
jl50 men can be secured in an hour’s'
-time from St. Simon’s island. Snch
{preparations are only made to meet
g movement that may arise". At
nt the disturbing element is nn-
;ood control and, unless some-
unforeseen happens, can be
handled. If necessary volunteer imr
mnnes from Savannah and Jackson
ville will be asked for by special trains
until the militia arrives.
EIGHT NEW CASES THURSDAY.
1 The board of health of Brnnswiok
al the Thursday noon meeting an
nounced eight new cases and one dis-
charged._
CORBETT AND MITCHELL
Agree to light for a Purse of Forty
Thousand Dollars.
’A New Xork dispatch of Sunday
says: The international prize fight be-
‘-een “Jim” Corbett and “Charley”
_itohe]lfor the heavy-weight cham
pionship and a purse of $40,000 will
take place before the Coney Island
Athletic olub, if there is no interfer
ence from the authorities of Kings
county. Mitchell signed articles Sat
urday in the Hoffman house, bind
ing himself to fight the Californian in
the arena by the sea in December. The
" ’ *es were sent, to Corbett, who is
Jng at Look Arbor, Asbury Park,
he" signed them there Monday.
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