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DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1891.
TERMS, $1.50 A YEAR.
POOR BLIND TOM
I .UP COLORED M
|TH e SINKING
musical
FAST.
PRODIGY
. I Hi . §500,000 He Coined Wealth,
I ‘ H8g vanished Mysteriously.
I r iu,»f a decade ago, Mdnvelmg
r ge iherem.W=g-»“ tlls ° f *" »™‘-
fc*>P riTa “ retreatill l
^Msteen for »Be time an idiot,
2off consumption has setits ““
I “* nnonUsonce tongil tome, and
KlSw numbered. “Blind Tom”
W%. hi, days something like
dolMM. To-day he is com.
|j tft«lvaP»“P« rll,,d ‘ he 7 0,lder j 9
\r* J become of the fortune he
I *£ M he was always in charge of a
Jrfa. and was never allowed to
Andrews, of the Supreme
l^jedcrdayconanned a report of
i Jerome Buck, allowing the es-
f of Daniel P- Holland 83,000 for
Urvices rendered and necessaries fur-
2,,,1 the mad musician during the
lifetime of Holland.
Mrs Elsie Bethune, the committee
Ikving charge of Tom, vigorously op-
L the confirmation of the report.
II Judge observed that it was sadly
LarenUhat there would be nothing
heft for the maintenance of the poor
after all claims were paid.
The mad musician’s real name is
I Thomas fe 113 ’ He waS born in TY'
La about forty-six years ago. His
'mother was a slave. From the time he
Las able to toddle around the negro
I d)in c on his master’s plantation Tom
I displayed wonderful powers as a musi
cian ‘He could play any Mnd of in
strument, and yet never had an in-
I gtructor. ■
| With the surrender of Lee at Appo-
; mattox, Tom became a free man, or
[rather a free boy.
An alert, enterprising southern gen
tleman, Colonel J. W. Bethune, saw
his pecuuiaryvalue and got an order
from a Virginia court appointing him a
committee for the maintenance and
[safety of Blind Tom.
Colonel Bethune turned Tom into
[the “black mint” he promised his
| Mends he would.
He took him out on the road and
'Vayed” him to every city, town and
| hamlet *«, m Boston to San Francisco.
Tom prove*- +i l0 Best card of his
In those days Tom earn., for h - s
fypm. §2,000 to §4,300
I thought that she ought to’ have a '
lof Tom’s earnings. Charity foughtTn
I'the courts for the possession of her son.
j There were speculative people behind
1 her who supplied her with' the needed
>garani bodily control of
Tom. v
Colcrel Bethune won in every fight.
The J urts decided I t hat old Charity
waset a proper peryon to have control
of rch an erratic genius as Tom
jong before Tom.was declared legally
pane he displaced evidences of being
off” in the upper story. When Moody
md Sankey Wd their series of famous
revivals some fifteen years ago, Tom
^ seized /ith a religious mania. He
mended X'cry meeting he could steal
to, and Minified his manager on one or
ocahsions by giving away the pro
ber/f his magnificent genius
■Mllng. He delighted the Moody and
toey people by reeling off religious
nine by tie hour upon the piano.
0 BCe ir St. Louis he escaped on
teeba ci from his custodians on a
am stormy night to go to a revi-
wmeting. He got on the wrong
I-~. He allowed his horse to pick his
*3j and the animal brought him out
Y? prairie, where he was captured
v, '"' !i Bethune died, a few
^ rs a a° ! he left Tom to the care of
L*T’ ^' 3 ’ e - She, in time, was ap-
. a comiri iftee by the court to
®^ nTom . She, too, had to fight
L, aiat ' ^ ‘ggins and other people
. ^control of Tom. Soon, however,
poke down in health, became dan-
i '- T ’ usaue , and was placed under
nt.
I_ a h;t summer Tom had delighted
iii the house adjacent to his
Mark’s Place. He played
Manth upon the piano, guitar and
I > mc ‘l°dious instruments.
lle can play no more. His
L , as s hrunken to a mere shadow,
|;--,C 3 ' ers P a Lied, and he can not
u 6 t ' le s ' vee t strains which have
^thousands.
. e wonder is what has become of
''hich Colonel Bethune was
’ - v mandate of the court, to
, or Tom’s maintenance. It was
tn't to twenty-five per cent, of
^ oceec * s °f the entertainments
hiit would give Tom at least
his own right. There
' THE SOUTH.
It Contains the Most Distinctively Amer
ican Population.
From the New York Ledger.
There are two* cogent reasons why
all Americans should view with sym
pathy the striking outcome of the ef
forts of the south at self-regeneration,
One is the ethnological character of the
White inhabitants of the southern
states. The other is the unparalleled
difficulty of the social problem im
posed by the emancipation of the blacks
Nowhere else within the bounds of the
union are the white people so homege-
neous and so distinctively American as
they are in the states which were
formerly slave-holding.
This homogeneity and intense Amer
icanism was shared by New England
years ago, but since the sweeping eini-
gration of New Englanders to the west
and the occupation of the vacated
places by French Canadians, there is
large and growing admixture of alien
and unassimilated elements in the New
England population. South of the Poto
mac, on the other hand, the ethnologi
cal conditions remain substantiaHy
what they were at the beginning of
the century. If we except a few de
scendants of French Protestants
South Carolina and of French Catho
lics in Louisiana, aU of the white peo
ple of the south are of pure English
lineage, or else are offshoots of that
Scotch-Irish stock to which we owe
Patrick Henry, John C. Calhoun, An
drew Jackson, and, let us add, Henry
W. Grady. It should be remembered
that the English’and Scotdh-Irish emi
grants, from whom the southern whites
are descended, reached this country al
most to a man before the Revolution-
ary war, a very small fraction of the
flood of emigration having since that
period been directed south of Mason
and Dixon’s line. The result is that if
we would see the so-called native
American, the typical American, the
man who best represents the conjoint
effect of English or Scotch-Irish heredi
tary aptitudes and trans-Atlantic en
vironment, we are now most certain tp
find him in the south. Whatever
triumphs, therefore, in the evolution of
natural resources, or in the solution of
social problems, are achieyed by 'the
southern whites, have a peculiar inter
est and importance for genuine Amer
icans aH over this broad country.
It is too often overlooked that in the
black man problem, with which the
southern whites have to deal, there are
elexhents of difficulty unparalleled in
history. When the slaves were set free
of - GreatBrctaxnln
is
'T-;
... 18 aut horitatively stated, less
°i J 00inthe exchequer.
" tnt indications are
j — — that Blind
Y 0 ea rned over»half a million of
^ id die in the poor-house and
iu Potter’s Field.
Wed
Satitf action to Customers.
'on t? ° f anythin S & ivi ng satis- nets .
{ m y customers is a guarantee
cacy. Taylor’s Cherokee Rem-
sat’ WeC ^ ^ um an< i Mullein gives
^faction to those wanting a good
®edicin e than any other I sell,
• 0. Wood, of Monroe City, Mo.
the sum of §100,000,000 was voted by
parliament to compensate the planters
for the loss of their capital, which, in
reliance on existing laws, had been in
vested in negro labor. If the holding
of human beings in servitude was a sin
it was argued, then it was a sin in
which the British government had been
for centuries an accomplice, and it was
deemed unjust to make a single genera
tion of slave owners pay the whole
penalty for the accumulated wrongs of
ages.
Again, when many miHions of Rus
sian serfs were liberated by Alexander
II., they were not cast adrift upon the
world to prey upon society, hut were
provided with lands which were pur
chased from their former masters, with
funds advanced by the state. By this
equitable arrangement the ex-masters
were shielded from impoverishment,
and the ex-slaves from destitution. A
tremendous social revolution was thus
accomplished with scarcely any fric
tion.
No such attempts to lighten the hard
ships of a social cataclysm were made
in the United States. Neither were
the masters partiaUy indemnified, as
they were in Jamaica, nor were the
slaves equipped with the means of
earning a livelihood. At one stroke
the masters were deprived of the labor
with which alone they could turn their
lands to account, while the slaves re
ceived only the liberty to starve.
We do not hesitate to say that if the
emancipation problem had been pre
sented in these terms to Russia, its solu
tion would have been impossible. No
other race but the Anglo-Saxon, as it
has been tempered and toughened on
this side of the Atlantic, could deal with
a problem of such stupendous difficulty
That the southern whites have grap
pled with it soberly yet fearlessly, with
a full appreciation of its magnitude,
yet with an unswerving resolve to solve
it, is a fact that reflects singular credit
on the American character, and of
which aH of us may weUbe proud.
Spiders as Large as Canary Birds.
• A short distance but from Buena
Yista, Cal., there is a cave literally
swarming with spiders of a curious
species of immense size, some of them
having legs four inches in length and a
body as large as that of a canary bird.
The cave was discovered in December,
1879, and was often resorted to by the
pioneers, who obtained the webs for
use in place of thread. Early and late
the cave constantly resounds with a
buzzing noise which is emitted by the
spiders while they are weaving their
“A blessing to, humanity is what Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup-can well he termed,
for it has done more good already thanany
other medicine. One trial will convince
any one of its efficacy. Price 25 cents.
GEORGIA GOSSIP.
A WEEK’S
DOINGS IN
' STATE.
THE EMPIRE
Cream of the News Carefully Collected and
Condensed Into Short' Paragraphs for
Cifizeii Readers. • •• -**
It is proposed to string a telephone
line between EHavflle and Americus-
The Americus gas and electric light
company is in the hands of a receiver.
Ten families have moved to Macon
from Nebraska within the last three
weeks.
J. H. Dabney has erected a large gu
ano factory at his place near Decatur.
He wiU make several thousand tons
this season.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
has on hand now, ready for distribution
among the farmers of the State, §600
worth of seed.
The city accounts of Americus are
said to be very badly mixed, and the
city council has appointed a commission
of business men to straighten them.
Mr. John S. Davis’ house was burned
at Covington, and John Y. Woodson,
an utterly helpless invalid and Confed
erate veteran, perished in the flames.
The application for the appointment
of a receiver fdr the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad was resisted by Savan
nah parties, who hold §500,000 of the
bonds.
It is rumored in Rome that there has
been a deal by which the Rome street
railroad is to pass into new hands, hut
the public has not yet been let into the
secret.
The West Point Manufacturing Com
pany is now receiving §50,000 worth of
additional machinery. This will enable
the mill to consume annually 12,000
bales of cotton.
On account of the crowded condition
of the asylum at Milledgeville, two
Clarke county lunatics are confined in
the jail at Athens, as they are consid
ered dangerous.
A negro woman at LaGrange, who
was subject to epileptic fits, met with a
horrible death last week. She was at
tacked with a fit, fell in the fire and
was burned to death.
The stockholders of the First Nation
al Bank of LaGrange have decided to
change during the year to a State bank,
when the institution wiH be known as
the Bank of LaGrange.
James Carter, of Hartwell, has ap
plied for a patent for a combination
cotton planter, cultivator and guano
----- emd to T>e the best device
or tne
Clem. P. Davis, of McHithum, had
some timber stolen, and sent Jeff
Spaulding, a weH known negro of Lum
ber City, in pursuit of*it. He was as
sassinated near Doctortown by a timber
bandit.
Considerable excitement has been
aroused in the moneyed circles by the
recent gold discoveries in -Lumpkin
county, the magnitude and the richness
of which are said, upon good authority,
to be almost fabulous.
L. H."'Pattillo, who kiUed Hudson,
has been discharged at Augusta. His
bond was fixed at §6,000, and upon it
being signed he was released. Patrick
Walsh is on the bond. The case will
be caHed next week in the superior
court! '
The cigarette law is being vigorously
enforced at Cartersville. Quite a num
ber of smaU hoys have been brought
up before the city council during the
week, and if it can be learned from
whom they bought their cigarettes the
merchants wiH he punished.
Atlanta is full of negroes who have
been deluded into the belief that they
can go to Africa for a doHar. An agent
is there who worked them up to this
belief, provided they could get to Sa
vannah to take a steamship. Fourteen
hundred of them have paid one dollar
each and secured a ticket,
Phil Armour, the Chicago meat man,
is going to make a fight on the recent
action of the Georgia legislature impos
ing a §500 tax on packing companies do
ing cold storage or refrigerator business
The farmers in the legislature secured
the passage of the tax on the “protec
tion to home industry” plea.
Sheffield can now boast of the prize
r-pTf of Georgia. It is a calf which is
far ahead of aH the snake stories of the
State—a calf that goes wild at the sight
of a rabbit. Recently it gave a rabbit
lively chase, makiiig it take shelterin
hoUow tree. The calf would then
bleat until some one would come and
catch the game.
Nehemiah Evitt, an old and respect
ed citizen of Cedar Grove, Walker coun
ty, a merchant of that place, was called
from his house to his store, one night
last week, and Lit in'the Lead with a
sledge hammer and killed, either on go
ing or returning from his store. There
no clue to the guilty party or parties,
but suspicion points to two negroes,
Rosco Marable and John Weaver, the
latter of whom has been arrested, the
other leaving the county the night of
the murder. _
‘There’s no terror, headache, in your
threats,”
For I am armed so strong with remedy
That I pass pain by, as an idle word.
Since the discovery of Salvation Oil.
PRESS OPINIONS.
Don’t Be Led by Cranks.
From the Darien Timber-Gazette.
The South and her people cannot ex
pect anything outside of the democratic
party. Don’t be led off by cranks.
Stand square for democratic principles
Plying a •‘Patriot” With Physic.
From the Chicago Maii.'
Gallinger, New Hampshire’s republi
can nominee for senator'is a homeo
pathic doctor. It looks as though
Chandler would have to take his medi
cine.
He Would Turn in His Grave.
From the Atlanta Journal.
If men ever turn in their graves -the
noble founder of Methodism might be
expected to do so since somebody has
had the hardihood to refer to the Doug :
lasviHe wrangler as “a second -John
Wesley.”
Good Advice.
From the Montgomery Evening Journal.
If the South wants to make marked
substantial progress, let it manufacture
its raw material into merchantable pro
ducts and become a seHer of all goods
made from material it produces instead
of a purchaser after the material has
been manufactured in other localities
Come Home, Gentlemen.
From the Savannah Times.
It would not be out of the way to re
call a few missionaries from China, or
somewhere else, and put them to work
among the Indian agents. There Is <3
big field there for reformatory work,
The man who succeeds in touqhin:
their consciences should be . honored
with a monument.
Hard-Hearted Little Brute.
From the Tribnne-of-Kome.
Col. I. W. Avery is of the opinion
that President Harrison is a hard-heart
ed brute, because the little fellow re
fuses to give an office to the distressed
widow of a union soldier. Whether he
be a hard-hearted brute or not, the lit
tle fellow knows that even the widow
of a union soldier cannot vote.
Bad Enough Without Her. '
From the Savannah News.
Eva Mann, who is contesting Ray
Hamilton’s will in New York, says she
wants to join the Methodist church
As the Newark chuches have shown
rather a demoralized tendency lately
they are undoubtedly quite bad enough
without her. Therefore it is to be hop
ed she wiU not attempt to convert any
of them into a business bureau. Such a
woman always proves to he a disturbing
element wherever she may go.
| !
A CLINCHER FOR BOJ^
Ingersoll Met His Match When Etc Talked
to Washington McLean.
One terribly snowy, sleety day in
Washington the late Washington Mc
Lean was sitting in the Riggs House
reading room, looking out upon the
dreary scene upon Pennsylvania ave
nue, says an exchange. Presently in
came Col. Boh IngersoU, the great ag
nostic. As he entered the apartment
he held out his hand, saying: “Hello,
Wash,-how do you do?”
Mr. McLean took his hand, and as
he did so, said: “Bob, I wish you could
have been here a little while ago. I
saw a scene out there that made me
wish I was twenty years younger. A
poor, old, crippled soldier was limping
across the avenue, when a young, lusty
fellow ran by him, and as he did so,
kicked the crutch from under him and
tumbled him down into the slush.”
“The villain,” said Ingersoll, “he
should have been sent to the peniten
tiary.”
“Do you really think so?” said Mc
Lean.
‘Why, certainly,” replied the colo
nel; “what else could I think?”
“And yet, Bob,” said McLean, “that
is what you are doing every week in the
year. Here are poor, old, infirm Chris
tians, with nothing to aid or support
them but their belief in religion; noth
ing to keep them out of the mire of de
spair hut faith; and yet you go about
kicking the crutch from under them
worse than ever this fictitious fellow
did this fictitious soldier.”
. Eapepsy.
This is what you ought to have, in fact
you must have it, to fully enjoy life.
Thousands are searching for it daily and
mourning because they find it
Thousands upon thousands of dollars
are spent annually by our people iu the
hope that they may attain this boon.
And yet it may be had by all. We guar
antee that Electric Bitters, if used accor
ding to directions and the use persisted in,
will bring you Good Digestion and oust
the demon Dyspepsia and install instead
Eupepsy. We recommend Electric Bit
ters for Dyspepsia and all diseases of
Liver, Stomach and Kidneys. Sold at
50c.and $1.00 per bottle by S. J. McKnjgbt,
Druggist. ~
Debarring Ministers from Toting.
Debarring a minister from voting, as
the Pennsylvania Presbyterians have
shown an inclination to do, has the ap
pearance of carrying religion too far.
Because a man is a Christian and a
minister that should not ’ constitute a
valid reason why he should not he a
o-ood and patriotic citizen.
FROZEN EUROPE.
PEOPLE FOUND DEAD IN THEIR
LODGINGS ANDELSEWHERF,
The Seine Jammed with Ice Ten Feet
Thick—Frozen Wine in Cellars—Des
perate Wild Animals—The Great Suffer
ing of the Poor in Various Sections.
Late advices from Europe in regard
to the extremely cold weather, continue
to come, and the reports of destitution
and suffering are terrible. Following
are some accounts:
The most intense cold of the winter
has been - experienced throughout
France. An aged man was found
frozen to death in his lodgings in Paris.
WeUs are frozen at Perpignan,
where a man was found frozen to death
in the street. A woman was found
frozen to death in” her bed at Epinal,
where the thermometer indicates 4 de
grees below zero.
The harbors of Toulon and Laseyne
are frozen over for the first time on rec
ord. The olive crop in the depart
ment of Card is fast being ruined.
Whole communes in the neighborhood
of Perpignan, in the Pyrenees, are cut
off from communication with the rest
of the world, and wayfarers in those
districts, who had set out for mountain
viUages, have been found frozen to
death.
The Algiers mail steamer arrived at
Port Yendres, on the Mediterranean,
covered from stern to stem with ice
and snow, like a ship in the' arctic
regions.
The Seine, at its confluence with the
Oise, is jammed with pack Ice ten feet
high.
At Nimes, wine has frozen in ceUars.
The Loire, at Neverse, is frozen over.
A large number of vessels are icebound
at Bordeaux, and many steamers, to
avoid being frozen in, have gone down
the river to anchor in the Yerdun
Roads.
Packs of wolves and numerous wild
hears are invading isolated districts in
France. The unusuaUy large fall of
snow and the terrible severity’ of the
weather have cut off their means of
subsistence, and the animals have be
come desperate through hunger, and
fearlessly prowl about the houses, to the
great consternation of the people.
The same state of affairs are said to
exist in Spain, and from Cadiz come
reports of wolves being MHed in the
streets of the suburbs.
Advices have been received from Al
giers to the effect that the country is
ered with snow. A snow storm is
raging in Tunis, and the faU of snow
ready so heavy that traffic has boen
stopped.
The municipal authorities lighted
hundreds of fires in the streets of the
city, and large numbers of wretchedly
poor persons crowded around them
and in the warmth afforded fey the
blaze endeavored to obtain some relief
from the intense cold which prevailed,
Every effort is being made to relieve
the gx-eat distress which exists, and to
this end the Palais des Beaux Arts has
been converted into a night shelter for
the homeless, and is provided with
soup kitchen and a large number of
straw mattresses. The machinery gal
lery in the exhibition building is used
as a day shelter. Municipal buildings
elsewhere in the city are also used for a
similar purpose, and the protection
which they afford is eagerly taken ad
vantage of by a large number of the
suffering people.
A STRANGE STORY.
An Enigma for Some Speculative Brain to
Solve.
While a huge pine log was being
sawed into timber at a saw miU on a
small creek some two miles from Ath
ens, as the workmen were turning it
over preparatory to “squaring it,” what
was their astonishment to see the head
of a huge frog bob out, where he was
imbedded and barely escaped being cut
by the saw. How in the world his
toadship got there is a mystery, as he
was completely incased without any
possible means of ingress and egress.
As the log was the fourth or fifth from
the butt of the tree, the frog must have
had his apartment some fifty or sixty
feet from the ground.
We know of but one solution to give
to this phenomenon, and it is that the
animal must have, from life’s young
break-of-day, grown up with that tree
and he must have been a century old
when the saw first waked him from his
Rip-Yan-Winkle nap.
The tree was perfectly sound with
the exception of a decayed spot some
inches below the hermetically sealed
prison of the frog.
The animal was very fat and was
unable to move when-puffed out of his
den, and he was taken in hand by one
of the negroes who discovered him in
his singular domicile. This is one of
the most wonderful stories on record.
TENNESSEE TOPICS.
I. B. Merriam has been elected may
or of Chattanooga.
Boston capitalists are negotiating for
the purchase of more land about Chat
tanooga.
The Lookout Incline Railroad carried
150,329 passengers up the mountain
during 1890.
A bill has been introduced in the
Tennessee Legislature to amend the
charter of Chattanooga.
The gi-ading on the Chattanooga
Southern is now completed and track
laying is pushed as fast as the weather
wiH permit.
Johnson Scott, the noted moonshiner,
who has been holding fixH sway in the
Cumberland mountains, has been placed
in jail at Gainesboro.
Wm. Meacham, a prominent citizen
of Troy, Obion county, was caHed to
the door of his office and fatally shot
by an unknown person.
A big man named Morris tried to
cax*ve a little one named Kavanaugh
with a knife at Knoxville one night
A Curso on the Town.
Alexandria, Mo., is doomed to the
fate predicted for it in a linid way by a
man many years ago, says the New
Delta. He was caught in some crime
and lynched near there after he had
had a trial by a mob. He richly meri
ted his fate, but when asked if he de
sired to say anything, he turned upon
the mob with a scowling face and hissed
curse upon them and their people,
hoping that their disasters might never
cease. That year a fire swept the
greater part of the city, which then
was one of the most prosperous in
northeast Missouri on the Mississippi.
An attempt was made* to rebuild the
burnt disti-ict. Scarcely had the work
begun when a groat rise in the river
submerged the place and ruined the
crops in the sun-ouudiixg fields. Siuco
then off and on the place has been
visited by floods and fire till it has been
reduced to a mere settlement of ague-
raked backwoodsmen. Recently what
was left of the business portion of the
city was wiped out by fire with the loss
of over §2fr,000.
. The Effect of Sleeplngiin Cars
Is the contracting of cold, which
often results seriously to the lungs.
Never neglect a cold, but take, in time
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullein—nature’s great cough medi
cine.
Brought His Civilization from Ohio.
Says the Savannah News: While
Chattanooga is plunged in gloom over
the recent horrible tragedy in which
Judge Warder killed his son-in-law, It
is some cousolation to the natives to
reflect that the “judge” was a recon
struction missionary, and brought his
civilization and drunken habits with
him from Ohio. Many of the lionible
examples that rabidly partisan republi
can newspapers so frequently refer to
are similar specimens of acquired mor
ality. Enlightened remarks from hor
rified Puritan editors arc now in order.
They may prove edifying.
The people of the United States con
sume, it is said, 200,000,000 bottles of
pickles annually.
EDISON ON FLYING MACHINES.
The Great Inventor Discusses Their Fossi-
bility and Probable Shape.
From the New York Herald.
The bumblebee is a fine model to
study for a flying machine, and the
more I study that species of a high or
der of birds the more complex does the
flying machine problem appear. The
bumblebee flies by the aid of motor
power alone. It has no natural aid and
must depend on the rapid working of
its wings to fly. There is no wind and
no feathers to assist the bee; it has
small wings, entirely out of proportion
to its large, robust body, and when it
flies the wings, as any observer can see,
are worked so rapidly it is impossible
to calculate the number of flops to the
minute. But the little bird must, per
force, be the model to solve the flying
machine puzzle, because it is propelled
simply by native motive power. Could
this bumblebee carry the weight of
another bee on its back is a question
often asked? Well, it cannot, and even
if a flying machine were invented on its
model it would not be capable of carry
ing any weight save its own. Nature
has done so much and failed to go any
further.
You see, if wings were applied to
man they would have to be quite small
in order to be worked rapidly. Large
wings could, not be moved rapidly
enough, so the question of flying would
never be settled by large wings, even
if the motive propelling power were a
thousand times greater than any yet
conceived of. A man might have
wings constructed to carry his weight,
but that would be all. Like the bum
blebee, he would be unable to do any
thing save carry his own weight, and
that by sheer force of great power.
Now, sea gulls have large wings entire
ly out of proportion with their small
bodies. But they have little motive
power; and are simply kept up like a
kite by the wind. If you will notice a
gull you will rarely see it work its
wings, but it keeps them outstretched
and sails around the air in a beautiful
style. No flying machine could skim
about on the bosom of the wind like
the sea gull. All birds propel them
selves by flying and sailing. It is a
natural action, but man cannot acquire
it, at least not now in this day And gen
eration, when so many secrets of na
ture slumber before the servant’s eyes
for years. We can only go back to
nature and pause and wait for yearsrto
understand the phenomena that now
seem a mystery to our very finite
minds.
I’m not so sanguine about flying
last week; when he was felled like an
Ox by the~4atter-with a brick- and serf- machiix&s^t^fia^afi^patnre has her limi-
nnnln ~ ’ A TlTTTTTnTT - wtnnTr a-T X— -
ously injured.
Within his official tern* of two years,
Gov. Taylor of Tennessee has pardoned
801 convicts. That knocks the record
into fragments and gives the governor
very few off days when he didn’t par
don somebody who begged his pardon,
A Novel Courtship.
This is how the late John Ruszits,
the millionaire fur dealer of New York,
got married, says an exchange: "While
abroad on a business trip he visited a
friend in Sweden. White in his friend’s
house he heard some one in the next
room playing on a piano. The pianist
was a young lady from Bremen, who
was visiting there. Turning to his
friend, Mr. Ruszits said: “If I should
ever marry I would like to marry a wo
man like that.” The gentleman went
to the door and caHed the young lady
in. “What do you think Mr. Ruszits
just said?” Of course the young lady
didn’t know. Mr. Ruszits struck in and
said: “Well, I’m not afraid to repeat
it,” and he proceeded to do so. The
lady looked at him thoughtfuHy for a
moment or two and then said: “WeH,
I wiU accept.”
It Hag Done too Much.
From the New York Herald.
People tell us that the republican par
ty has done nothing. That is a serious
mistake. It has done three things. It
has raised the price of every necessary
of life; it has lowered the wages of the
working classes; it has gagged the mi
nority in the* House, and is ready at
any moment to perforin the same ser
vice for the minority in the Senate.
We think the republican party has done
a good deal. It has done altogether
too much. Still, if the people like that
sort of thing, why, give them some
more.
The Lover’s Lamnet.
Your face i* like a drooping flower,
Sweetbcart I
X see you fading, hour by hour,
Swoelhoart!
Your rounded outlines waste away,
In vain l ween, iu vain I pray.
What power iVath’s eruel hand can stay?
Sweetheart, Sweetheart!
Why, notlnug but Dr. Pierce’s Favo
rite Prescription. It imjRWts strength to
the failing system, cures organic troubles,
and fpr debilitated and feeble worneu gen
erally, is unequaled. It dispells melan
choly and nervousness, and builds up
both flesh and strength. Guaranteed to
tations. Anyway, uxany of her secrets
lie hidden from, us and remain to en
rich and glorify some bright and won
derful era in the future. Perhaps a
centuiy or so from now the flying
principle in man will be invented or
discovered. Things unheard and un
dreamed of may come to light in the
future and place us in the catagory of
being too stupid to imagine nothing to *
do with the future. If there ever will
be a. flyihginachine capable of carry
ing not only man but other weight
with it, I, at present, cannot - conceive
it. There are certain fixed principles
in nature we cannot ignore. We can
not puU ourselves yet through spaoe
by our own boot straps, and we cannot
leap from the top of a house without
climbing on top first.
A Great Paper.
The National Democrat which was
established in Washington one year ago
by Edmund Hudson, with the indorse
ment of many of the great leaders of
the party, has entered upon its second
year with a circulation of 40,000 copies
each week. This is perhaps .the larg
est circulation ever attained by a weekly-
newspaper during the first year of its
existence. The National Democrat oc
cupies a field of its own, and one that
too long remained unfiUed. It gives a
complete record of political informa
tion, including the most important
speeches that are delivered by Demo
cratic leaders in Congress and -on the
stump. It is rendering the party an
important service, and should be read
by aH who wish to keep fully informed
in regard to public affairs and who
mean to defeat the wicked scheme of the
Republican leaders to secure perma
nent control of the Government, in
spite of the fact that they are, and
must remain, the minority party in this
country.
Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved.
From a tetter written by Mrs. Ada E.
Hurd or Groton, S. D., we quote: “Was
taken with a bad cold, which settled on
my Lungs, cough set in and finaly con
sumption. Four doctors gave me up
saying I could live but a short time. I
gave myself up to my Saviour, deter
mined if I couldn’t stay with my friends
on earth, I wonld meet my absent ones
above. My husband was advised to get.
Dr. King's New Discovery for ’consnmp-
give satisfaction in every case, or money tion, coughs and colds. I gave it a trial,
paid for it refunded.
Weatlier Prediction for February.
Professor Foster, the weather expert,
says that Fehruaxy wiH be the most re
markable month of the winter. It will
bring extremes of heat and cold and se
vere storms, The Mississippi valley
will be visited by a monster snowstorm
and blizzard in the first half of Februa
ry, and during the latter half of the
month a severe storm of the same na
ture wiH strike the eastern states.
took iu all eight bottles; it has cured me
and thank God I am now a well and
hearty woman.” Trial bottles free at S.
J. Me Knight’s Drugstore, regular sizes
50e, and $1.00.
The Governor of Texas cannot make
both ends meet on a salary of §4,000 a
year. Governor Ross during his term
of office had.to sell a farm to help pay
his Jiving expense. The Southern
States all pay their governors very small
salaries.