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Awake!
A^ak*. awike. th# 1 dreary night i* gone;
■K!»* with .
the day ; gird duty'* raiment on '
Awake, awake.
n b*t< >r In «iarkn' , u« tby affliction* arc,
J bey’ll vanish soon in light that rooe* from
far.
A wake, awake.
Peace, m- iirni hr heart, yield not toaorrow'a
away;
Death die* arid life’* dream end* when God
doth ** v—•
Awake, awake.
— (Adam O. Orr, in Inter-Ocean.
The Van Duzener Pride.
Bail ing an occasional hill or adver¬ j
tising circular, George Mortimer’s mail
had, na a rule, couaiated mainly of
certain darling little notes which
sweetly thanked him for flowers or
candy; or to d him that the writer
would he delighted to accept his invi¬
tation to tho theatre; or else, that ^he
had a cold and couldn’t go, so would
lie “come around,” instead. Fancy,
then, Ids di-may, one “misty, moisty
morning, ’ as the nursery rhyme goes,
upon boding beside his breakfast plate
in the shabby hoarding-house dining
.room a letter addressed, in a feminine
hand, to !>c sure, but not at nil tho
hand which had penned the darling
notes above mentioned. When Mr.
Mortimer had mastered its contents,
lie was so upset that he forgot to eat
Jiis breakfa«t, hut set forth down town
to the office where he enjoyed the
proud position and slender salary of
assistant bookkeeper, with a mind full
of conflicting emotions. The accounts
must have done themselves that day,
for Mr. Mortimer has no recollection
of rendering any assistance whatever.
And when night • arrived, ho got
through his dinner with a speed that
was simply frightful, and started for
ihe ubodc of his heart's treasure in a
violent hurry.
' In a short time, Mr. Mortimer was
seated in tho shabbiest, cosiest little
sitting-room in town, pouring into the
ear of the girl of his heart the most
crazy, incoherent account of the con
tents of the letter that could possibly
he imagined. Finally, he wound up
with:
“it’s insufferable, now, isn’t it,
Bella?”
Bella's pretty face looked anxious.
, “If one could read it for one’s self,
George?”
“Certainly.” And he produced the
letter with an air which pluinly said:
We are one.
After reading it carefully through,
Bella handed it back, saying:
“As I understand it, the position is
this: Your aunt, Mrs. Van Duzener,
who has been living abroad for three
years for the benefit, of her invalid
son, is about to re 1 urn homo on ac¬
count of her son’s death. She a»ks
you to have her fine houso put in
order, servants hired and so on, and,
furthermore, to relieve her loneliness,
she begs you to make your home with
her while she lives, and you shall re¬
ceive a just portion of her worldly
goods when sho dies. Now, I should
iliink that quite endurable.”
“Fine. Bella, ns far as it goes. Only,
you see,” said tho young man, with an
apologetic air, “this aunt of mine is
ns proud as Lucifer, Famous for
dragging iu the Van Duzener pride,
you know, on all occasions, and—”
4 4 In fact,’’ said Bella, trying to
laugh, “you think a humble person
like me would not l>e quite in touch
with the Van Duzener pride, elq
George?”
“Candidly,” said Mr. Mortimer. “1
don’t. 1 shall decline my aunt’s
idler immediately.”
“You won’t do any sueli thing,”
said Bella, promptly. “When you
are so lucky as to have any relations,
don't be so ungrateful ns to tfiru your
back on them. Your aunt is an old
lady, ami perhaps her heart is aching
with loneliness. If' your companion¬
ship will be any comfort to her, it is
your duty to give it. prcL., . anyway, ... ...
could,,-, marry at
Your salary is too small to take in
grandmother, too, comfortably, and 1
must stay and work for her. At all
event* ,S! Jo let al ns each 1 ,t do w ' hnr I f ...... , UnC
’
will smile upon u<''
AVii.vt, Mi- \.r i.. ^uimeon- i -
to his sweetheart, he wiu
vinccd that sho was little short of an
angel. J8lie had unselfishly insisted
upon his drill" his dutv bv hi* tluT^w •
lltlta, when sho •nnouncod
must go (o work lo maintain hl .,.
grandmother ami herself found that
the choice of an occupation, etupj to say
no....... of piocuring the
tnent, when the choice wa, made, was
no easy ma ter.
“I can’t type write,” thought she,
‘disconsolately, one morning, soon
after Mr. Mortimer had taken up his
Rhode with his aunt; “and I hate
teaching, and T kuow I couldn’t sew
nil day long; and, as to cooking,
which seems to be quite the proper
art, nowadays, for nice but irnpecuni
ions young women like me, why tlia
uon’t do, because there is such an
awful uncertainty about my culinary
performance*. I never can tell until
>i dish is done whether it will be really
good or not. Well, I’ll take a peep at
the advertisements in this morning’s
paper, and perhaps I’ll find somebody
who stands in need of ju9t such a per¬
son as I am. “Let’s see now. •Cham¬
bermaids, waitresses, sewing, cooks.’
Clearly, those won’t do. But, all!
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 5 , 1891 . -EIGHT PAGES.
now I’ve got it, or my name isn’t
Bella. I’ll have to pnt my pride iu
my pocket this time, 1 guess.
n.c a,lrcr.i.«nen. read .o .he effect
that a lady wanted a person of refine
inent to do up laces and fine lawns
each week. The person of refinement
was to call at No 12 Periwinkle Place,
and ask for Mrs. Goodman, liousc
keeper
“And, as true as I live,” exclaimed
Bella, “I believe that’s where George’s
aunt lives. \\ ell, she can t eat me,
that’s certain, and 1 might as well do
up her laces as anybody clsc’s. Even
if she should happen to see me, she
wouldn’t know me. I suppose when
I go there that Mrs. Goodman, the
housckeepci', will go to the madam
and say, ‘If you please ’in, the wash
woman’s come.’ Well, I guess I can
stand iu 1 11 a.-k Mrs. Cordova and
the Montagues on the avenue if they
have any of that kind of work to give
tnc. And perhaps they may know of
others.”
And so, Bella, with a brave attempt
to make “her destiny, her choice,”
dressed logo to Periwinkle Place.
In ten minutes after she had rung
the door-bell, the interview was at an
end. She had been politely treated
by the housekeeper, who, after a close
scrutiny, asked what she could do, and
then her address, and finally gave her
quite a parcel of laces, fine handker¬
chiefs and some delicate silk under¬
wear to be done up. And the inter¬
view had passed and nothing had hap¬
pened. „
“And, pray, what did you expect?”
demanded Bella of herself, savagely.
“Did you think you would sec
George’s aunt, and that stunned by
your charms, she would immediately
exclaim: 'Come to my arms, j ou
poor, stricken dear!’ Don’t forget
the Van Duzener pride, Bella—nor
your own.”
And so six months passed. Bella
had all the work she could do, and,
consequently,was so busy that she bad
no time to waste in wishing that the
patron saint of lovers would turn his
attention to that little affair of hers,
lu fact, just about this time the
course of true love didn’t run at all;
it stood stock-still.
It happened that, during one of
those rare, brief visits which Bella
now permitted Mr. Mortimer to make
her, the subject of that young lady’s
employment was brought under dis¬
cussion. Bella, with a most becoming
flush on her cheeks, and an extra toss
of her curly head, explained the sort
of work she had found to do.
“For Heaven’s sake, Bella, couldn’t
you line anything in this big town to
do but that?” gasped Mr. Mortimer.
“What it that should come to my
aunt’s cars? Why, Bella, it would be
the death-blow to all our hopes.”
“Humph I” said Bella, coolly,
though her heart beat angrily. “As
for that, the mischief is done, if it
can be called mischief. I marched
right info the enemy’s country the
first thing. In fact, I’ve been doing
up (lie enemy’s laces and things right
along!”
Mr. Mortimer’s despair was too deep
for words. lie could only gttze blank¬
ly at his companion and wonder if
woman’s boasted tact wasn’t an un¬
known quantity, after all. Certainly,
Bella hadn’t any.
“1 haven’t seen Mrs.* Van Duzener
cweii once,” said Bella, after a while,
with a view to placating her lover.
“Oh!” said Mr. Mortimer, brighten¬
ing. “In that case, perhaps we are
all right, yet- I dare sav she wouldn’t
know you from a hole in the ground,”
continued he, inelegantly, but hope
Lilly.
° f C ° UI8 r, U "T UP
n us «• new t inuiedia.cly. r something
moio suita soon ie am Lun mop, up, i. ^something
C ,' )lUS °’ 6 ha.l not do an> suc h
< . ) indignantly,
a nng, icp.ici ci a
Lilia ih.-t l'hue, gi andmothei has
r,'ml“r«!ikc”ny'>>-<•"k' home.' al mavnoi'bo
dune al And. i’ in the ,ccon,l
v ]- XC c this work that have chosen \>n<*
l o only kind that ‘ I can do well
h ”‘! >* , “ r . bC * Soodlanndreas than ,
au incompetent teaehei oi a pool seam
f ' t,eS8 ‘
loiU .' s fclood 1,1 Ella's eyes. She
! "h *°, b, ,° f *' S> e ™ * paU, ,. d £ ° h ^ ^ r tlut ,,,et ^
° U *' ’- COIH ^ cm,ia Lon. But she was
“ lhe Wa " ll,5h ;
*■>« coast mgs of her lover fmlied
'1 " Then they
J»nd^ of'^rarh"m , l ^ PW>P ZIZ' ^e who are ?L very
-Good evening Miss WakedeM
'
, , .
P Udll ' g
flourish of politeness, said:
“Good evening, Mr. Mortimer.”
And the door closed between them.
And so they parted with sore hearts
and the belief that each was respons¬
ible for tho unhappy ending of their
love.
Bella, however, kept right on in the
path which she had elected to follow.
But she was thankful that Mrs. Van
Duzener sent her things every week,
and also sent after them.
Among the many diversions which
Mrs. Van Duzeuer’s high station and
big bank account brought to her, she
found none so satisfying and enter
taining as watching from day to day
the changes in the ingenuous counte
nance j)t her nephew. That he was in
love she had long since guessed. As
he grew moody and quiet and left hi§
favorite dishes untested, she decided
that she must know what troubled him.
to one moraing, at th. brcd.rMt
table, she suddenly said, in her quick,
snappy way:
“Come, George, satisfy an old worn
an’s curiosity. Who is she?”
Mr. Mortimer was at first very much
confused. But being very young and
very unhappy, and noticing that his
aunt looked particularly amiable, he
soon unbosomc 1 himself of a few of
his woes.
“And why,” asked his aunt, “don’t
you marry her?”
“Why!” exclaimed Mr. Mortimer
who labored under the fond delusion
that he had explained every point in
the story. “Because she has a poor
grandmother that she would stay and
work for; and because she thought
you needed me; and because—well,
there’s the Van Duzener pride, you
know. Bella is a working-girl.”
“Bless tny heart!” exclaimed Aunt
Van Duzener, raising her hands im¬
patiently. What greater pride cau
anyone feel than in doing her whole
duty? And the more distasteful and
difficlult the duly the greater the
honor. That’s the sort of pride I be¬
lieve in.”
“But, aunt,” stammered her nephew,
deprecating!}*, feeling sure that he was
dealing the final blow to his newly
raised hopes, “Bella docs up laces and
things for a living. In fact, she—
washes, you know.”
“Well, nud what has that got to do
with it? If she is honest and brave
and pretty, did you say?”
“Be-au-tiful!” exclaimed George,
ecstatically.
“And will have you,” continued his
aunt. “I adviao you to lose ito time
lu securiug your treasure. In addition
to your salary at the office, I will pay
you well to look after my property, so
I think you can afford wife, grand¬
mother and all.”
Mr. Mortimer soon., made his peace
with Bella, and, of course, the wed¬
ding wasn’t long in coming off. In¬
credible though it may sound, the rich
au.it, the shabby grandmother and tlie
young couple all lived together as har¬
moniously as doves.
“And to think,” said Mrs. Van Du
zenor, “that George \vas so stupid as
not to know what my pride, about
.which I’ve talked si much, really con¬
sisted of. But perhaps it isn’t so odd
after all; there are so many shoddy
sorts of pride nowadays, that the real,
honest kind is apt. to be overlooked en¬
tirely.”— [New Y T ork Ledger.
A Mansion of Onyx.
One of the recent visitors to tho East
is William Cooper, who is called in
Mexico the Onyx King. lie said the
other day to a reporter: “There is
enough onyx in Mexico to last about
a decade, and then it will become an
extinct material, utilesss mines are dis¬
covered elsewhere. No man now
would think of erecting a fine house
without having the interior decora¬
tions largely composed of the finest
onyx. A certain millionaire who is
building a house on Fifth avenue in¬
tends to have a grand stairway of
onyx which will cost something like
$300,000. The famous stairway of
tlie famous “peacock” mansion of Mr.
I.eland, of London, will sink into in¬
significance beside this grand Corin¬
thian stairway of translucent onyx. I
expect to sec a solid edifice of onyx in
this city. It would stand longer than
the Coliseum. — [Philadelphia Press.
Sheep-Shearing,
Many advantages are claimed for
sheep-shearing by machinery. The
wo,k i3 P crfonnetl more tl‘°™ghly
than by hand, it being calculated that
on au average some ten additional
ounces of wool per merino sheep are
obtained by iis employment. The
operation, moreover, is carried out
j morc humanely, the cuts and stabs
' of,c ". i '' flic "- d in '■and-,hearing, more
! “T* W ° lk y b . "i C1U g entlrel c * ec “ twl v folded, »» “P>«»- to
’ -
etber w,th . . ,he , ^sequent ^damage and
?
deterioration to the pelts. It has been
estlraoto , that no less than one per
een t. of the animals perish from inju
: lies due principally to hand-shearing,
The labor entailed on the operator is
j also considerably reduced; and aching
! hands, swollen wrists and cuts or
S t a bs to the worker himself should be
: things of the past.— |TI,e Ledger.
----
FnylamT, Aged t ardina'.
cardinal Manning, he rg .1 prelate,
U82
G! “ d,,0 " c - 11,5 i»«hinand
bloodless, his eyes sunken and the
wrinkled skin colorless. His kindly
blue eyes twinkle merrily and a pleas¬
ant smile occasionally relieves the
ascetic look of his countenance. He
is more than ordinarily tall, and now
that his years are upon him hi* head
and shoulders stoop and he is some
what deaf. He receives visitors iu a
plain black silk cassock, with a red silk
cap on his venerable head. — [Pica
yune.
A $10,000 Belt.
A belt now being made for a
Louisiana electric light company will
** lhe largest in the world. It is to be
^ feet wide, 16. »feet long, and will
J take the skins of 175 animals to com*
j plete it. When finished ii will weigh
two tons and cost $10,(XK), or ab »ut
£10 a square foot.
Just a Plain Sailor.
A sea captain, who was going up to
Albany to see his friends, came out
with Q, on the train, Ml . Onego
broker wh. , Ant dUccmed ... hi. pr«
ence, gave the boys the wink, and fol¬
lowed it up by saying:
“If we work it right we can get
some awful lies out of him. Let some
one ask him about sharks and sea ser¬
pents.’'
Four of us crowded him into a
smoking compartment, and when we
had become slightly acquainted the
inquiry was made:
“Captain, you have doubtless seen
some very largo whales? How long
would you i?ay the largest was?’’
“Gentlemen, I never saw a whale
in my life.” he replied. “I have bean
at sea for 26 years, but I never hap¬
pened to see a whale.”
“Well, you have seen serpents in
the warm seas?”
“Never saw one there.”
“But you must have 6een some ex¬
tra large sharks?”
“Gentleman, I hope you will be
lieve me when I tell you that I never
saw a shark , except ... 1
in an aquarium.
“But you have been wrecked?’*
**
*
“Ever have a mutiny ?”
“No.”
“Fire at sea?”
“No.” !<
“Meet with pirate!” *
a
“No.”
“Tidal wave?”
“No.”
“Humph. What sort of a sailoi
are you, anyway?”
“I’m sorry foryou gentlemen, very
sorry, hut the fact is I am only a
plain, everyday sailor, and my mother
made me take a vow when I first went
to sea that I would always speak the
truth. Here are Some good nickel
cigars for you, hut as . for lying, I
can’t do it—not even about sea ser
pents.”—[New York Sun.
FOREST GIANTS.
Ca]if ; . ° Mdjeauo j, , t| Redwood ncumwu
Trees in Danger. °
Steps Taken to Preserve Them
From Utter Destruction.
It is gratifying to learn that the
Land Office at Washington is at last
taking steps to preserve the giant red
woods of California, which are fa
mous the world over as the greatest
trees in existence. These majestic
monuments of nature are in danger of
utter destruction, and it is high time
that something were done to save
them. In the first place, they are be
ing killed off by the mountain fires
which are very frequent on the slopes
of the Sierra Nevadas, and are due to
the carelessness of sheep herders who
who lead flocks far up the mountain’s
sides. In fact, there are few of the
giant trees of California which are
now wholly uninjured by fire. There
arc also sawmills building iu the
ueighborhood of some of these groves
of giant trees, and, strange as it may
seem, they have not the slightest com¬
punction about destroying them, al¬
though many of the larger trees are,
of course, difficult for them to handle,
and this fact has helped to keep them
from destruction.
In the Visalia district there are sev¬
eral groves of enormous trees, the
largest of which is 106 feet in circum¬
ference. These forests are very im¬
pressive on account of the grand trees
they contain, and, although the land
was withdrawn from public entry five
years ago, a colony of enthusiasts and
theorists, who were bent upon demon¬
strating tho practicability of Bellamy’s
ideas,have settled iu the neighborhood,
and it is said that they have destroyed
some of the trees.
There is a general feeling in Cali¬
fornia that all that region of forest
trees on the western slopes of the
Sierra Nevadas should be withdrawn
from settlement. The Government is
already taking steps to protect tho
redwoods by withdrawing from entry
the sections which contain groves of
these giant trees. During the past
two year* the General Land Office has
made a careful investigation of the
Stockton, Visalia, Mariposa and other
districts where the giant trees are
found, and reports have been sent to
Washington of the exact situation,
number and'size of these trees. This
was done in order that the Government
might have all the information needed
for carrying out measures to protect
the forests.
The trees are always found at an
elevation from 6000 to 7000 feet above
the sea. They are a little south of the
Y r osemite valley, and south of east of
San Francisco. The most famous of
these groves is the Mariposa, which
contains about 320 giant trees, and is
carefully guarded from forest fires by
a company which makes a business of
carrying excursionists to see the great
trees. The redwoods in this grove
cover about four square miles. With
proper protection the giant trees of the
Sierra Nevada slopes will, for many
years to come, be among the greatest
natural curiosities of California. The
General Land Office has entered thor¬
oughly upon the work of saving the
trees which still e*ist, and there is
every prospect that the various causes
which have been -depleting their num¬
ber will be removed and that the trees
will still be for many decades a
source of great interest to the tourist.
— [New Y'ork Sun.
An lQd , an ChalleIlge#
Two tribes of Indians in the upper
part of California had as boundary
between their districts, a low ridge
where the stYeam headed. If you
should go to where one of these
e:reams, Potter Kiver,rises, you would
aee still slanding a (all pile of atones
beside a never-failing spring; on one
side of this cairn was the territory
of the Porno Indians,and on the other
the land of the Chumaia. These tribes
rverc enemies and were often a. war.
When the Chumaia wished to challenge
the others to battle, they took three
little sticks, cut notches round their
ends and in the middle, tied them at
the ends into a faggot, and laid it on
the cairn. If the Pomos accepted the
challenge, they tied a string around
the middle of the three .lick, and left
them hi their place. Then agents of
both tribes met on neutral grounds
battle ™ which d took «« place ,ime accord.ngly.- ,?«“ ° f
A Chinese Panacea.
In the course of the last sixty years
the country store-keepers of the C'at
skills and Alleghenies have probably
\ bought up some ten million dollars’
worth of the vegetable product known
• as ginseng-wort—the root of the
panax quinquefoliuni. Very little of
that amount finds its way to North
American drug stores, but tons of the
sweetish aromatic are expoited to
China, where its curative properties
are supposed to be limited only by the
number of human ailments, though it
is principally prescribed for what doc¬
tors call asthenic disorders, the gener¬
al exhaustion of body* or mind. At
the beginning of the present century
small quantities of the precious spe¬
cific were sold In Peking for their
weight iu gold.—[New York Voice,
Clapping Hands as a Salute.
Among the Uriuza. “when tivo
‘grandees’ meet, the junior leans for¬
ward, bends his knees, and places the
palms of his hands on the ground on
each Side of his feet, while the senior
claps his own hands six or seven
times. They then change round, and
the junior slaps himself first under the
left armpit, and then under the right.
But, when a ‘swell’ meets an inferior
the superior only claps hia hands, and
does not fully return the salutation by
following the motions of the one who
first salutes. On two commoners
meeting, they pat their stomach, hen
clap hands at each other, and finally
shake (i.e., take) hands. These greet¬
ings are observed to* an unlimited
extent, and the sound of patting and
clapping is almost unceasing.” Serpa
Pinto found this ceremonial clapping
in violent exercise among the Ambue’
las. Paul du Chaillu reports the BaJute
of the Ishogos to be clapping the hands
together and stretching them ont alter¬
nately several times. Among the
Walunga, in the morning, on every
side a continuous clapping of hands
goes on, with the accompaniment of
“Kwi-tata, kwi-tata?” which is their
mode of saying, “How d’ye do?” If
a chief passes, they drop on their
knees, bow their heads to the ground,
clap vigorously, and humbly mutter,
“Kwi-tata, kwi-tata?” The clapping
distinguishes the ceremony from that
of mere prostration.— [Popular Science
Monthly.
A Famous Colored Chemist.
There died in Brooklyn recently
Phillip A. White, a millionaire colored
druggist and most accomplished and
cultured gentleman, who had the rep¬
utation of compounding a physician’s
prescription more skillfully than any
other man In New York city. Nearly
half a century ago, in 1845, he estab¬
lished a wholesale and retail drug
6tore in the “Swamp,”' and presently
built a large warehouse and store in
Gold street, where he achieved
riches and reputation. A vestryman
and warden of St. Philip’s Episco¬
pal Church for forty years, next
to the oldest member of the city phar¬
maceutical society, a member of the
Brooklyn Board of Education for the
last ten years, he was respected for
his extensive reading and learning,
and renowned for the liberality of his
charities. During the draft riots a
guard of poor people who looked up
to him as their benefactor, kept watch
over h„ P ,ace and armed t „e m .e,ves
for his peisotial piotection. It is said
that there are few private libraries in
Brooklyn which can compare with that
collected by Dr. White, as he was
alw T ays called. — [Philadelphia Record.
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Yot Needed.
“Do you keep burglar-alarms .here?’
she asked the owner of the shop.
“Yes’m.”
“Are they sure to go off?”
“They are.”
“Kill the burglar every time?”
“Why, no. A burglar-alarm is not
expected to kill a burglar.”
“W‘hat, then?”
“To alarm the household.”
“Oh! that’s it? Well, our house¬
hold has been alarmed every single
night for the last twenty-seven years,
and I can’t see that we really need a
burglar-a’arir. Sorry to have taken
up your time, but you really ought to
make them kill the burglar.”—[Da*
troit Free Press.
H I I
for Infants and Children*
“Caatorla is so well adapted to ctuklren that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me.” H. A. Abchxr, M. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
« The um of ' Castoria ’ is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Fewsre the
intelligentfamilies who do not keep Caatona
widiin easy reach.”
Late Pastor Woomimdale Reformed Church.
Th* Centaur Companta 77 Murray Street, New York.
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you tunv n«ii nmke m imi.h.lmt vc run
♦encli y»*n quick ty how to ram front #4 to
#10 u day ut the Mart, ami limit* as you go
on. lioth »' *m, ail age*. In un> part of
lAmeiit H. you ran commence at home, giv¬
ing all your time,or eparv Momenta onl\ to
>,4 the work. All i» new. Client SI HE for
ev#rr worker. We start von, I ftnniabiiig
everything. EASILY, St F.V.MLY V learned,
C I’AKTD I’l.A l.S FKliE. Addreaa u t om a,
htlAMJX •* U>., I CHI LAN JlALMk.
▲ MARVELOUS OBJECT.
The Largest Hammer and Anvil in
the World.
The hammer shop, now in process of
construction at South Bethlehem, will
probably be regarded as more remarka
Die for evidence of power than any me¬
chanical contrivances yet constructed by
man. It is here that the plates are to be
prepared building includes for our growing navy. and" large This
furnaces a
tank for tempering the plates. They
will be lowered into it by traveling
cranes. The tank is divided into com¬
partments, treated enabling several plates to be
at once.
The hammer is, however, the most
marvelous object in tho hammer shop.
It was designed by Mr. John Fritz,
chief engineer and general superinten¬
dent, who has been connected with the
works from tho begioniutr, and has in¬
vented or improved many of the ap¬
pliances in use at South
In the designs for the hammes proper
Mr. Fritz consulted the plans of Le ;
Creuzof, following them as far as they !
met the conditions of construction al- |
ready adopted. The entire foundation
of the hammer-room is actually laid on
what two J years ago was the bed of the
Lehigh T i . i River, which x was deflected i , x from t
its course, and the anvil and hammer
frame rest on piles. Above these a mass
of cyclopean masonry has been built, and
upon that the anvil is superimposed,
consisting of a bed of solid iron capped
by a bed of steel. This anvil fepresents
the trifling amount of 1,400 tons of solid
metal. Over the anvil springs the colos- ! ,
Bal frame which supports the hammer.
This frame bears a certain resemblance j
in shape to a truncated tower of Eiffel. ;
It springs to a height of 90 feet from a !
spreading clamped base whose foundations are
deep in the earth. This huge
structure contains 475 tons of iron.
The tap of the hammer is a square
solid block of iron faced with steel. It
runs in a groove, like the hammer of a
spile-driver, is raised by steam, and has
a hoist of 18 feet. It weighs 125 tons.
The total weight of iron in this stupend¬
ous hammer, frame, and anvil reaches the
enormous sum of 2,000 tons. One can
perhaps more clearly realize what the
direct plunge of a weight of 125 tons
means if he considers that it is equal to
the weight of two regiments of soldiers,
or 1700 men, but having even more im¬
petus, because concentrated in a solid
mass of so many cubic feet. It is with
this mighty engine that the armor plates
of our ships of war are to be forged.—
(Harper’s Weekly.
The Sheep Herders of Au3tr lia
As you are aware Australia is a great
sheep-raising sands country, employing thou¬
of herders. For six months in the
year these poor live a life of complete
solitude away out on the sheep runs, far
removed from all civilization and the
sight of their fellow men. Their food is
often left in their huts while they aq: out
herding supplies in the bush, or else they take
from the main station that will
last during the season. After sheep
shearing and time they draw all their wages
start for the city to have a royal
spree. Perhaps the herder may have
$500 in hb pocket as the result of his
long exile in the bush. It is his custom
to reaching go to the a reputable innkeeper liis upon
all city and place in hands
his available funds. It is theu agreed
that the hotel man shall dole out to the
herder every day such sums as he may
require, reserving enough to pay for the
guest’s board and lodging and to buy
him a ticket back to his station in the
interior.
Then begins a debauch that is perhaps
unparalleled aDd in its deliberate the intensity, herder,
Days nights are alike to
wl10 plunges into the wildest kind of
knows that when his money is spent he
must go back to that same dismal
are prolonged on an average about two
weeks, when the landlord notifies him
that his money is exhausted and that he
must return to his station in the bush.
Then he departs, a total physical wreck,
to his life of solitary exile, where for six
months more be becomes dead to the
world and tries to recover from the
physical debilitation due to his excesses
in the city. At the end of the season he
repeats exactly the -same programme car¬
ried out on his previous visit, and so it
goes on year after year until he ends in
an asylum. I tell you as a fact of which
I am cognizant that fully five sixths of the
inmates of insane asylums in Australia
are Bheep herders.—[Chicago Herald.
A BREACH OF rBOMISE.
Loving letters,
Cupid's fetters,
Foolish youth—the tale is old.
Jilted! fury 1
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