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b. WHITE, Vice-Director and Chemist, J. M. KIMBROUGH, Agriculturist.
Ihcns, Gu. H. T. KING, Dairyman.
ORGIA EXPERIMENTAL STATION
EXfllESS AND FREIGHT OFFICE, GRIFFIN, GA.
Experiment, Ga., January 1-, 1896.
J. KING, Richmond. V».
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prepared for the printer,
k truly.
R. J. REDDING. Director.
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Peachtree St., ATLANTA, GA.
Georgia, Tuesday, March 23, 1897.
9
HIS LAST GAME.
[t Waa Death’* Flay, and the «<*» Waa
Never Made*
One winter’s day a pate® farm
gate man arrived in Tbcmisville,
an(1 aln;()g t the first man te ran
across was Uncle Brill, asevenbotly
gajigj hia- Uncle Brill wa the
1 champion checker player of that
coun try, and he had downed fvery
stranger or citizen, w* ocanie
iue y u was b ®methw-J g about
R Brill ... 8 suspect ran & i * that K ‘ be 111 w c a Uncle good
■
player. , So he doffed his hat and
.
j ••j hegs y OUr pardon, t>b- mebbe
you play a game of checkers now
and then to pass away the timet 1t
j body “Mebbe knows I do when the noble I kin gano,”re- fftd any
as
plied tho stranger,
u Didn't you ever hear o' Uncle
Brill of this town? 7 7
“No, I never did. Is he a jumper
or what? ' i
i “Ilis best bolt is checkers sir. lie
hasn’t lost a game in the last 20
years. 11
Mebbe yon might be tie critter
yourself ?” queried the stranger as
he looks the old man over.
ti Mebbe I ar’. Yes, sul, that’s
' my name, though I'm not generally
alluded to as a ‘critter, 1 if
“And you know how to play
checkers?’’
j “I reckon I dew. ff
j “That'sgood. I've got a veek off,
and I'm glad to find somebody to
amuse me. Come to the tavern after
supper. ?1
When Uncle Brill left home that
evening, he told his wife he might
begone two hours. The stranger
was waiting for him, a lot of idlers
had gathered, and the game began
I at once. After two or throe moves
j had been made each player saw that
he had an old hand to deal with and
began to hedge. There was no hurry
about playing. The stranger lay
back in his chair and tpld about the
celebrated games be had played with
celebrated people, and Uncle Brilt
; followed suit, and when mid
{ night bad been came made. only four A» the or five «pv*G.tnvs inove3
! ail departed the man said to Uncle
Brill:
“Mebbe your wife will bo anxious
about you, and mebbe you want to
go home and give this gamo to me?
“Mebbe I sot down here to sot fur
three days if necessary!” replied
the old man, and the game went on.
The pair were left alone in the
barroom, and at daylight neither of
them had a king. At 10 o’clock in
the forenoon the stranger got tho
first one. Neither had stopped for
breakfast, but after every move the
stranger would lie back and tell a
story which coiiEiimed the next
hour. At noon Uncle Brill got a
king, hut night had come before
each had a pair. The game went
right on through the evening up to
midnight, right on into another day,
and both wore as watchful and V J
ilant as ever. At noon word was
brought to Uncle Brill that bis cow
had died, but he would not abandon
the game. At night he got word
that bis old woman was very sick,
but he still stuck. At midnight,
when they were left alone again,
Abe stranger said:
“Old man, you’d better give it up
and go home. It’ll be ag in your
! reputation, of course, but you'll hev
, to make the best of it. ) i
1 I
“I’ve sot out to sot here till win
this game or die!” was the reply,
and the game went on.
An hour after daylight the first
ovCT^he° U cffieekeT board, with hit
hand ou a king as if preparing for a
move. The stranger was leaning
back in bis c h a ir and telling a story
0 f bow be once played a game whi® vis- 1 * ( ■
lasted seven straight davs. The
- old !
came &uA 6poke to the
chalupioI1 b ut he made ftot ^oul
TJUen iney mid a nanfl on
--- r 'v-jvrciifu “is patent
P te man ' “ Well > I’ve been vpnder
^ or Ike last hour why he didn’t
rnove ^i s king, but there vas no
burry °Fout it—no hurry. I (guretl
that d wouid tako tlj ree dayj more
to l )lay the g ame . and I’d Hov to
beu ^ b ^ m I° r eure 1”—PhilacMphia
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Nonammt* laOur Great CStilt.
Our great cities are not n<tw ex
ectly poor in statues, but tie ex
ceedingly accidental characbr of
these memorials, due to tin fact
that they are mainly the remit of
private subscription, is evidenced
by a glance at the public out cf door
statues and other memorials in New
v '■ or , * t C1 fy. _ To American literary
men, distinctly aa literary man, not j
one statue has been raised in that
city, but Walter there are statues of Shakes- Robert j
Scott and
One bust of an American !
— Washington Irving — is ;
and there are also busts of
Schiller and Thomas
0 ’ ** wou fd ke bard to object
these memorials of old world an
P rovldod f be ^ ar ® wor ^* oi *
but one w °nld like to see them
ocom P“ ued b F ^ !«•“* “ ffi «ny
K Chamberlin in
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MODERN WARSHIPS.
Probable Hr Holt of the 5 m» 1 BtttlM
of the Future. battles few ships |
In the old naval a
on bull sides were destroyed, but a
few of those of the vanquished were
captured by tho victor and could
ehortly afterward be used by him.
If two fleets, each of 20 sail, had a
«wL.]0st JL ships burned or
v
3 , the result was that for a fu
ture battle the victor had 20 ships
and . the .. vanquished ... only , 14 , „ The
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odds ., had , , , become such as to , , leave
the loser no reasonable chance in a
second action. In a modern sea fight
perhaps there will be no 6hips taken,
but there will be all tho more do
stroyed, and, as destruction or cap
ture begins to be one sided as soon
as the scale of victory has turned,
the beaten fleet will not be spared.
The difference between attack and
defense, due on land to the fact that
one side may lie down and wait for
the other to come up, does not exist
at sea, where neither side walks,
The sea is no help, as the land is, to
the weaker party, Thus a battle at
sea is in itself more destructive and
more decisive than one on land.
Moreover, the destruction cannot
so soon he made good. If 10,000 men
are lost in a battle, their places may
betaken in three months by 10,000
fresh men, who were recruits on the
day of the battle. But for an ironclad
lost no substitute can be found dur
ing the war. The eff ects of a naval
battle are increased by the swiftness
of movement at sea. An army goes
in an enemy’s territory about 15
miles a day; a fleet moves any where
over the sea at £0 times that rate,
This swiftness and the decisive na
lure of the battle at sea make it far
more imperative in naval than in
land war to have everything ready
in advance, and, above all, to have
the first moves thought out. Moltke's
t k plans of campaign” are merely
his efforts to think out clearly the
first moves, so as to be able to put
down his forces in the right groups
and to start them in the most toll
ing directions. These studies were
as thorough as could be and were
revised every year, V.hen they
were complete, they served as the
basis for working out all the neces¬
sary details, especially of railway
transport. If they had not been
completed beforehand, but delayed
until war was at hand, Prussia could
not have bad the advantages at the
opening of the campaign which she
had in 1866 and in 1870 .
If a modern navy should be caught
by the outbreak of war without its
first moves planned and every detail
of preparation, grouping of forces,
and starting to seek the enemy per¬
fectly arranged, it would in the first
battle be at a disadvantage that can
not be overestimated. Its parts
would be liable to encounter sepa
rately the whole of the enemy's
force. The loss of the first battle
between considerable forces will
have a terrible effect upon the na¬
tion which is defeated, and a heavy
loss in a first defeat may carry with
it cn unfavorable decision of the
whole conflict.—London Saturday
Review.
Tremendous Force In a Steam Poilor.
A writer in a populai journal, in
the course of an article showing the
great amount of force developed by
the steam generated in a boiler,
says: IV hat a tremendous force ia
struggling to tear a boiler to atoms 1
Take, for example, a horizontal
tubular boiler of ordinary propor¬
tions, CO inches in diameter by 16
feet long, containing 83 1 -inch tubes.
Such a boiler has a surfaco of 40,710
square inches. Suppose this boiler
is operated w ith a working pressure
of 100 pounds per square inch, which
is not at all uncommon. 1 he boiler,
therefore, sustains a total pressure
of 4, 071 COO pounds, or more than
,
ft Attt *-—* a- JXo-ive
granite 10 feet square and 254.5 feet
high, or, to put it another Way,
tlie boiler is holding up the equiva
lent weight of 22,620 persons, each
weighing 180 pounds. The best au
thorities agree that the ordinary
draft horse, working eight hours a
day, exerts an average force during
that time of 120 pounds. Now, this \
f longitudinally orce actin g to is disrupt 226,200 pounds, the toiler
so
that to produce an equivalent stress
would be necessary to hitch up to
end of the boiler a team of 1,885
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A Silkworm I?om*nce«
The king of Kkotan, in central
made overtures for the hand
the daughter of the exuperor of j
and hiH suit was favorably !
But there was some- i !
from China which ho coveted
more than the fair princess ! ;
which he had failed to win by !
So he induced his bride elect
secrete in the long tresses of ^ her ^
a number of silkworm eggs and
of the mulberry plant when
came to bin3 > flnd in that ro- j
fashion was it that the cul
of the silkworm and the •
manu
of silk took their first step
York Telegram. •
STATE NEWS.
Up Here
There Over the State*
Mortgages have been foreclosed
the stock of C. H. McKinney,
furniture dealer of Atlanta.
William Brooks, while wrestling
a friend at Danielsviile Wed¬
in a test of strength and
broke his leg.
The grand Viaa been unable
to find ground for indicting the
Tate family at Elberton on the
of infanticide.
An oil mill, guano factory, and j
improved cotton gin all coni'
will be built at Harmony
during the coming summer.
The grand jury of Madison
has recommended the build- I
of a new jail, and condemned i
present court house as inade
The Lavonia Standard-Gauge
has suspended publication. An¬
other paper will soon take its place 1
upder the management of Capt. J. !
J. Hardy.
The town of Meigs has let a
contract for setting out 100 shade
trees on the streets, and it is pro¬
posed to set out 200 more when i
this contract is completed.
James McGuirt of Poulan has in¬
vented a corn planter that will
open the row, drop two grains in a
hill at any distance desired and
cover it up all at the same time.
The Cordele ice factory will be
ready to begin operations at an
early date. The machinery, which
has not been used for two years,
has been thoroughly overhauled.
A female chicken thief, of dusky
hue, has been found in Amerieus.
She claims that a fat hen belong¬
ing to a neighbor, tried to bite her,
and that she wrung its neck in
self-defense.
Bob Coppage, an escaped negro
convict, of Griffin, was captured at
West Point last Tuesday. Cop
page was one of three negroes who
escaped from the chain-gang at
Griffin about a month ago.
Charley Daniel, the negro who
shot and killed Jim Wallace, col¬
ored, at Union Point,on Feb. 20th,
was arrested by Sheriff Henry,
near Crawfordville Tuesday night
and carried to Greensboro.
The correspondent of a Georgia
weekly says he has a close friend
who bells bis cows every day to
make sure of finding them, and at
night removes the clappers to keep
them from wearing out the bells.
Harry Horne, a, 50-year-old jew¬
eler, has disappeared from Lithon
ia, and is thought to be in Atlanta.
L. P. Smith of Lithonia is anxious
to discover Horne’s whereabouts,
atld bas offered a reward of ?I2 5
for his arrest.
Washington, a carpenter liv
Ing R°“ e . lost on J of his fin K ers
^ ast ^ uesday. Yv hue sawing a
piece of W’ood the saw slipped and
comnl^ 1 '
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members. Y\ ashing , . on os an
in at i —ctdent not a great while
2 u.
- fa
less »-iic poor and help¬
by charging extortionate pric¬
es, and coming between your ten¬
ant and the merchant for a com¬
mission on all the goods bought by 1 I
helpless servant is short j
and ill gotten usury. You I |
see a day of want and 3 T our
may be somebody’s serv¬
to suffer under the heel of ty¬
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When lecturing in Kokomo,
the other evening, Gen. John
Gordon, of Georgia, was visi.ed
John Russell, an aged negro of
city named. The distinguish¬
southerner recognized his caller
once as one of the old slaves on
father’s plantation. Russell is
Gen. Gordon’s age, and they
together when children.
When the general asked him how
the old man was getting on his
eyes became lull of tears and said :
“I can never forget our happy boy¬
hood days of long ago, but now the
old man is getting old, and cannot
stay here much longer. 7 7 The
general was very much touched at
the oW man - s remark and cou ld
not help shedding a tear. General
Gordon, before parting from his
old colored friend and slave, slipped
a $ IO piece into his hand, and
feft ou the next train,
Eighty-six car loads of guano,
valued at $30,000, have been re¬
ceived at Unadilla since Jan. 1st.
J. M. Campbell, who murdered
his brother in Jasper county last
j ast y ear> was taken from Monti
ce jj 0 ^ as t Wednesday to serve a life
sentence in the penitentiary.
Thomas Riley, alias J. T. Mc
Neal, was tried at Preston Thurs¬
day before a jury for insanity. He
pleaded his own case and caused
the jury to make a mistrial.
The Chattahoochee river is to be
spanned at Roswell with a new
j ron bridge Q f the latest design,
The new bridge is to be construc
ted by the counties of Cobb and
Fulton.
Dr. Thompson, who is charged
with seducing Miss Stewart, a 14
year-old girl, in Upson county,
was given a preliminary trial Wed¬
nesday, and was bound over under
a bond of $200 to the next supe¬
rior court. He is still in jail, un
able to give the necessary bond.
The “survival of the fittest 1 1
does not mean the republican par¬
ty, which has gone back into pow¬
er, but that Cievelandism has
passed away.
The democrats are out and the
republicans are in. Now let them
trot out their promised prosper!
ty
A Strange Island.
Saghalien, on the eastern coast
of Siberia, presents a very curious
auo “aly of climate. The island
is bathed b F two coId ocean cur ‘
rents, and in winter nothing pro¬
tects it from the icy northwest
winds coming from Siberia. At
the sea level the snow falls contin¬
ually and stays on the ground till
the end of May, and the seashore
is very cold. Farther inland, how¬
ever, especially as we go higher
up, the climate is modified—just
the opposite to what is observed
elsewhere. It has often been ob
served in Siberia, and in central
Kurope t h e co id ; s greater in the
plains and in the valleys, and that
t j ie highlands have a sensibly mil
. er temnf rptnr „ t, : . -- - j j
.
denser cold air accumulated in the '
lowlands. This fact is very often
1
observed in our climate. There are
several very good examples of it.
A 11 * i__,/i.ca ana sbrubs of a val
ley have been known to be killed !
by irost, while above a certain lev
el, very clearly marked out, on the
hill or the mountain, the vegeta
tion has not suffered at all. The
cold air often flows from the suui
mits toward their bases. This is
what takes place at Saghalien.
The cold air accumulates in the
low regions of the island and ou
the coast. The higher regions
have a more elevated temperature.
So it happens that the lower parts
an arctic vegetation, while
intermediate altitudes hav e the
of a temperate zone,
sub-tropical. The birch,
pine, the ash, the fir abound in
low regions and form often im*
forests, but toward the
of the island appear bam¬
hydrangeas, aralias, and oth¬
plants that one is greatly sur¬
to meet and whose presence
be explained only by the alto¬
abnormal climate conditions
the island.—[Cosmos.
March winds are yet to come.
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Absolutely Pure.
Celebrated for its great leaven¬
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Assures the food against alum and
all forms of adulteration common
to the cheap brands. Royal Bak¬
ing Powder Co., New York.
Dr. Shrady, of New York, be¬
lieves the x-ray would have saved
the life of Garfield. AU of the de¬
vices at the time known to science
were employed in the effort to lo¬
cate the bullet, but to no purpose.
With the x-ray the bullet could
have been located in a few hours at
most, and the wounded president
would have had the advantage in
his struggle with death.
The blockade on the Northern
Pacific caused by snowstorms in
Dakota has been broken. The
overland trains due Sunday, Mon¬
day and Tuesday arrived late Tues¬
day night, bringing three days’
mail to Tacoma.
Cr '1
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DIDST
Weakened One Man’s Constitution
Until It Brought Him to
Death’s Door,
Mr. .Tames S. Harrison, a well-known
and highly respected citizen of Cleve¬
land, O., was for years a sufferer from
dyspepsia and general debility, and in
his weakened condition, resulting from
the above causes, he had the additional
ill-luck to fall a victim to malaria from,
this complication of disorders. Mr.
Harrison's condition was becoming very
serious, when he commenced to take P.
P. P., JLippinan’s Great Remedy. Its
effects were marked and immediate.
Read his letter to us. Its earnestness
is apparent:
Genti.sven: For the benefit of all
suffering from dyspepsia anil general
debility I beg to submit my testimonial
as to the efficacy of your P. P. P., Lipp
man’s Great Remedy,' as a positive
cure for all the distressing complaints
from which 1 snffered.
My system was also full of Malaria
and my condition was growing very
serious; I had no appetite, was losing
strength and was completely health broken
down in health, but now my ia
completely restored, and I can eatlika
a field laborer, without the slightest
fear of any serious results.
I take great pleasure in telling the
world that P. P. I*, did the grand work
of restoring me to my accustomed
JAMES Vj.li/-s HARRISON, truly.
S.
Cleveland, O.
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boils and blotches.
P. P. P. is the deadly foe and van¬
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Scrofula, which is hereditary and
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Sufferers from kidney troubles find
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P. as it cures all irregularities and re
stores to nature her proper functions.
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