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THE MONROE ADVEBTISER.
VOL XXXVI.
Higher,t of all in Leadening PoWtf.—-U» S. Gov’t Report; Aug. ifr 1889.
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SILENCE AND SOLITUDE.
Bode of the de-'-rt! Ye are they
We slum from childhood's earliest hreatb|
Our passing joy but your prey;
Yc wait the hours from birth to death.
Dv*»r Hoft lawns wli r • blossoms sleep,
Und.*r warm lre<*s whore love was born,
I per your haughty shadows creep,
Ami wait to meet yn there, forlorn.
Afar on ancient sands ye rest,
Car von in stone, whore ancient thought
IV rapt ye in terrors—shapes unblest,
Dreadful, by might of agas wrought.
But net alone on Kgypfs shores
Sleeps the great desert: everywhere
Where glad lie- live I and lives no more,
Thera is a desert of despair.
Strange me-wnger--! Your brows of gloom
Haunt every ( real ure born of earthy
Ye follow to the darkened room;
Ye watch the awful hour of birth.
Y« show the lovely way-side rose,
Whose antique grace is born anew,
r<>wyeaof grief, Grief only knows
How tender is the sunset's line.
Bods of the desert! By your hart «
Through the sad waters nr.' we brought
Into a high and peaceful land
To drink of fountains else unsought.
—Annie Fields, in Harper's Magazine -
HUMOR OF THE DA Y.
A seft snap—The baby’s bite.
A trunk line—“Handle with care.”
Hound to fill a drunkard's grave—The
Bexton.— Pack.
The man who deems his house his cas¬
tle has the moat in his eye.
One of the greatest of home comforts
Is the shirt which isu’t made at home.—
Puck.
If you want <0 flatter a man, tell him
ho can’t be flattered .—Philadelphia
Times.
A stroke of misfortune—Tho one we
have all along been using against Yale.”
—I Car card Lampoon.
Tho fact that riches have wings may
be the reason that they eirible a man to
“fly high .”—Washington Post.
The colleges are not quite gone daft
over athletics. They are still in posses¬
sion of their faculties.— -Puck.
There is not hing a man enjoys more
Ilian complaining of his great responsi¬
bilities. —Indian apolis Jo urnal.
“Is your teacher a big man?” “Stray.
pin’,” murmured Johnny, as lie uncon¬
sciously felt of the sore spot.— Harvard
Lampoon.
Judge—“What do you do during the
week?’, Tramp—“Nothing.” “And
on Sunday?” “Then 1 take a day off.”
•—Texas Fittings.
Teacher—“How would you describe
Henry \1IL of England?” Student—
“1 would describe him as a professional
widower.”— Harper's Hi: ir.
Before you start out to attain a seat on
the highest pinnacle of fame bear in
mind that it runs up to a pretty sharp
point .—Indianapolis Journal.
The men who do not agree on any pos¬
sible points of doubt are the ones that
seem to find ttc most pleasure iu each
other’s society.— Post.
Alone the shore the city girl
W ill soon bo oinking freckles,
And to tlie hotel her papa
Will ante up the shekels.
—Cloak He view.
“Some people, ” said a clever observer,
speaking of an oversensitive friend the
other day, “leave thoir fceliugs lying
around for other people to step ou.”—
Poston Traveller.
They were talking about trees, “My
favorite,” she said, “is the oak. It is
so noble, so magnificent in its strength.
But what is your favorite?” “Yew,” he
replied. — Pittsburg Dispatch.
There is a man in Atchison who is
always good and kind and thoughtful
of others, but he never gets auv credit
for it. lie is so homely that people scciu
to expect goodness of him.—.RcAisoa
(Kan.) Glebe.
How hard it is to believe a man after
we have been lying to him ohrselvei. It
has sometimes happened that, an habitu¬
ally untruthful man his kept up his
reputation after death by lying in state.
IS Fittings
Metamorphosis. An eminent surgeon
says that with four cuts and a few stitches
he eau alter a man’s face so his own
moth r would uot know him. Anv
paper can do that with only one
. ’ ? Plain *
(. , - Dealer.
“1 !ara became old almost in a moment
the other night.” “Nonsense 1” “Not
nt all. She was sitting in the parlor
W .1 u u • young man when her father en¬
tered. Her youth departed immedi¬
ately."—-Yete Yort Fun.
“Like a woman f" “Like a man"’
But discriminate, who can?
Let s to truth alt homage render.
Own, if we would be precise,
Every weakness, every vice—
All are of one common gender.
—r-eck.
* ‘lr> .... <U , ° Dwyer to
r> say you*
1 S 1 .,> r axe “ ( hd I know ;
“
t:u , : ’ " ls '-nough in me face to
1. , e a goov -,zcd kettle, and 1 told him,
share, tim t.ierewas sauce enough in
lus !orv;uc to fill it, the ould haytheu. ’
L ' ‘ '*
“For all we know there really may be
a man in the moon,” said the leather
drummer. “There is,” said the hard
ware drummer, who was still indignant
over having been sent to the top floor,
“1 leaned out of my windo and had
quite a talk with him last n ht.”— In
iiianapoUs Journal,
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 12 1891
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Metil ibiogles are here.
Copper is raeltcil by clectricily.
A railroad car registers the condition
of the road.
A saw has been designed for cutting
iron, mild steel or other metals of fairly
large sections.
All the bridges over the Eric Canal at
Rochester, N. Y., are to be operated
hereafter by electricity.
There are now 1031 compound loco¬
motives at work or building, 523 being
in England, 330 in Germany and eight
in North America.
The steam-hammer used in forging the
armor plates of Bethlehem, Pena., has u
plunge equal in weight to 125 tons. The
anvil that receives this blow weighs 1400
tons.
To prevent the evaporation of water iu
fire pails it has been suggested that fif¬
teen to twenty drops of oil will form a
coating sufficient to obviate the diffi¬
culty.
There has ueen invented a machine for
cutting Tho tubes of paper for pill boxes.
operations are all automatic and
the work U said to bo rapidly per¬
formed.
Proprietors of the Pullman car inven¬
tion report that paper car wheels have
run 400,000 miles under their cars, while
the averago running power of an iron
wheel is but 55,000 miles.
During magnetic storms earth currents
on the British lines of telegraph have
been known to attain the streugth of
forty milliampercs. This is stronger
than tho usual working currents.
American shoe machinery has been in¬
troduced into Leicester, England, and
has created considerable interest among
tho manufacturers. A writer in a Man¬
chester paper says that “Americans are
miles ahead” in shoe machinery.
Fish arc attracted by the electrie light
tho same as insects and birds, and it lias
been found that the placing of au electric
lamp of high power in the sea, even at 11
part not frequented by fish, causes mem¬
bers of the finny tribe to flock in great
numbers.
Lima (Ohio) oil is being U3ed success¬
fully in a number of Pittsburg mills and
factories. Rolling mill owners favor it
because it does not oxidize the iron, and
for that reason it is thought that natural
gas will soon be superseded by it. The
oil is shipped from the field in tank cars,
and a movement is on foot to build a
pipe line to that city.
Dr. Armand Jeaunoutot, a young phy¬
sician of Paris, is tho latest in the field
as a consuiu ptiou cure discoverer. His
cure is by inhalation. His apparatus
consists of a small tubular brass boiler,
connected with a brass pan with a lid.
Wheu in operation, from under the lid
escape vapors which spread about the
room, one of the parts of which is prus¬
sic acid.
An ingenious Frenchman has discov¬
ered a process of recovering the tin con¬
tained in the wash waters of silk which
have been weighted, and he has accord¬
ingly received fiom the French Society
for the Encouragement of Natural In
fiustry the prize allotted for the utilization
cif residual substances. It is estimated
.hat Lyons alone will effect au annual
economy of $60,000.
Pineapple Juice for DmlHWrln **
“Nature has her own remedy for dipji
Iberia, sajs a t hicago man. “It is
nothing inoie nor less than pineapple
juice. 1 declare that i have found it to
be a specific. It will cure the worst case
tbat ever mortal flesh was afflicted with,
I did not discover the remedy. The
colded people of the South did that,
Two years ago I was engaged in lumber
ing in Mississippi. One of my children
was down with diphtheria, and the ques
tion of his death was simply the problem
fora few hours to determine. An old col
ored man, to whom my wife had shown
some kindnesses, called at the house, and
toying he heard of my little one’s ill
ness, urged me to try pineapple juice,
The old fellow declared that in Louisiana,
where he came from, he had seen it tried
a million times, and that in each case it
had proved effective. So I secured a
pineapple and squeezed out the juice,
After a while wc got some of it down the
boy’s throat, and in a short time lie was
curc ^* The pineapple should be thor
oughly ripe. The juice is of so corrosive
a nature that it will cut out the diph
theric mucus. I tell you it is a sure
*
Cure.”
About Glaciers.
and ' Glasers are composed of clear of ice frozen is sno x
not masses as sup¬
posed by those who have never see a
them. On the surface there is fine,
powder-like snow, below that it i;
coarser, and beneath all is a thick
stratum crushtd and squeezed togethei
by the pressure of the mass above. The
contour of the mountains is well adapted
f or keeping the accumulations of snow
an d when the mass is coagulated suffi
ciently it begins to flow out in the form
0 f a tongue. At the surface the ice
m0 yes faster than below where friction
retards it. In Some cases glaciers move
a few inches in a day, but iu others they
move several feet in the same time,
Loose rock and debris of varying size
collect on the surface of the glaciers, and
thisiscarred down the mountain side
until a valley is reached, where the ice
melts, leaving the debris to cover the
surface of the land.— lknt<?n Transcript.
WILD PIGEONS.
HOW THEY ", .
ARE TRAPPED NEAR
A BREEDING PEACE.
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Characteristic Scenes Where .Migra¬
tory Rir<ls Enjoy Pennsylvania
State Protection—Slaughtered
X\ holesale While Breeding.
IIE arrival of
spring is nowhere
more anxiously
awaited than in
" VL&tZ' .Bradford, Penn.,
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it betokens the annual flight of the flocks
of wild pigeons that Come from the
South to settle on the State breeding
ground and there hatch out their young,
It is now nearly two centuries since
the State found that the pigeons which
had for centuries visited the same spot
each year for breeding purposes were
being attacked by sportsmen and slaugh¬
tered wholesale while breeding.
The State government determined to
prevent this wholesale extermination if
possible, and so designated n certaiu tract
of forest just outside of Bradford for a
breeding spot for the birds. Laws were
passed making $i(IO it an offence punishable
by a fine of to shoot a gun or set a
trap within a mile of this breeding place.
This law has been conscientiously en¬
forced, and the pige.>.. shooting and
trapping is now carried on outside of the
limit. It has, owing to the enormous
number of pigeons that visit the breed¬
ing ground each year, become a busi¬
ness, and a very profitable one, to many
of the residents of Bradford and its vicin
ity.
The custom of reserving a certain
tract of land for the use of birds during
breeding times is still recognized in
many other of the Eastern and Southern
States.
Many o-f the old sportsmen have al¬
ways on hand several live pigeons which
they have saved from the slaughter of
the preceding season and which they use
as decoys to tempt the flocks to their
traps. The work of preparation for the
annual hunt is begun early in the spring
and continues until after the young are
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torn and nurtured and able to fly with
Ri e parent birds to the south again.
The trappers locate on an open piece
°f in the direction of the south
from the breeding spot. Here they build
a house from the boughs of the neigh
boring trees. This is called the “bough
house,” and in it the trappers do all the
work of trapping the birds.
This house is about four or five feet
high mid ten or twelve feet square.
Openings are leit in the sides and on the '
top so that the men inside can follow
with their eyes a flock of birds and know
just when to spring the trap. A large
opening is left on one side for entrance
and egress. Two long, thin pieces of
hickory are taken to a neighboring
brook and left for days iu the water,
M hen they are in condition for bending
they are bent into hoops and fastened
securely from one end to the other,
forming a hoop the shape of a halt bar
rel hoop. Four of these pieces are needed
for the proper making of the trap. Two
are iaid upon the ground, forming a cir
These are fastened down and are j
us ed to support the other two
pieces. A straight piece of wood is then i
fastened to each of the other hoops from j
point to point. Lien these two hoops '
a ^ e upon the others and fastened by
hinges and powerful springs to each other,
The hoops are covered with a loosely
on pi ece 01 netting, which lays flat
on the ground until the trap is sprung,
wlien ic completely encloses everything
that is inside. A powerful spring which
closes the trap is connected with the
“bough house,” and the men can spring
it from the house.
When all is in readiness for the game
the men, generally two or three, retire to
the house to ■fcait for the appearance of
a flock. The men have already set
in the centre of the trap two small spools,
and have run a small twine from a ball
in the house over these spools. To the
end of this twine is fastened the decoy.
The twine is run through the eyelid of
the bird and it is allowed to rise a few
feet above the trap. Two birds are
generally used with each trap,
Perhaps the men wait for days, per
haps only a few hours, when in the dis
tance they see the black cloud which be
tokens the approach of the flock. Now,
it is important that the hunter, by means
of his decoy.attracts the attention of the
leader of the flock before he leads the i
lock to the breeding ground and the
afety to be found there; for if they once
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reach that haven of safety the trapper
oan As yrhistle th'V fly for his pigeon. and the beat
neater nearer
ing ^ of the hunter'« heart; sHcftfld htf hap
heard. Ptn to have He such slowly a thing; lets out f'ari ht’s JdaitAy 3cc>*y
strings that gave apparent freedonfto
the birds. Slowly they rise m the air,
giving at the same time their peculiar
on . Y Ii w n * tiev have reached a certain
L’ic’ it the trappef vHSds tip the string
anti thk birds commence to descent} tfp=
the trap. Should the flock be at all
inquisitive they are lost, for they slowly
wheel about and follow the descending
birds until they alight with them on the
trap. Now is the time, and as the birds
finally settle down on the trap one of the
trappers touches the spring and with a
pecUlmr, whirring Upright noise the two hoops
spridg into fill position and the
giiirtc is Caged t
the Then the is all work of killing "for and counting
game that is left the trap¬
pers to do. One steps dp to the trap and
with his hand forces a small opening in
the trap between the hoops. Inserting
his hauds he draws out a bird quickly,
twists its neck and goes after a second.
This is kept up until all the birds are
caught and killed and then the birds are
carried into the “bough house” to be
counted and strung; "The trap is Again
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set and the men withdraw to await the
next flock.
Receiving an invitation to partake of
the pleasures of a pigeon trap during a
visit to Bradford, I was conducted to the
open space outside the mile limit where
the trap had been set. Two men were in
the expedition against the birds, and
when everything was in readiness we en
tered the house.
“You watch the trap,” said the leader,
“and I will guide the decoys.”
Then he let fly the two birds which
were to bring to the net the first flock of
pigeons that should arrive in search of a
place to nurture their young.
“I captured these two old fellows five
years ago,” said he, “and have used them
ever since, and I have never lost a flock
of birds that they have been within hear
ing distance of.”"
After waiting five hours for the ap
proach of the expected flock the cry of
one of the decoys was heard and then,
as we looked out of the house, we could
see the flock approaching. The trapper
who had charge of the decoys let out the
string slowly at first, but faster and
faster as the birds rose in the air until
finally they were about as high as the
flock tfiey were to lead to destruction,
The flock passed over the trap and then
turned as the cry of the decoys reached
them and flew back again. Then, after
sailing back and forth for a few minutes,
they finally settled down right over the
trap. As the leaders alighted upon the
ground the trapper in charge of the decoy
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had been slowly winding up his ball of
tw ine and the dec ys were about the first
i 0 settle in the trap,
When most of the birds were safelv in
the trap I heard a sharp crack like the
report of a pistol shot and then a flutter
iag of wings as the poor birds, caught
last, tried to escave through 0 the net-
j ting. Then for a few ffiinufes all wa$?
activity. The two trappers left the
! bough house and opening the trap prd
ceeded to kill the pigeons. When dead
they were thrown in a pile to one side
trad Ifitcr were carried into the bough
■ Ivons- (S be cormted. There were jus*
226 birds,
Later I visited the State br&rditfg <po*
and foilbd it a peculiar spot. The trees
were literally covered with the birds,
every hc»li- brauch Tbs having as many as it would
tree# »r« fir and large and
strong. All along the limbs are nests
dn which the mother birds set find warm
the eggs' until the young are hatched
out. The Government does a large
business in guano, which is sold to
farmers in the neighborhood for l’ertiliz
ing purposes.—Acte York Herald.
Youngest Federal Soldier of the War.
There have been many claimants to
the honor of being t-ho youngest com¬
rade in the Grand Army, but now the
Press is enabled to definitely settle the
Vexed question. Every statement can
be proven by both documents and records.
The history is very ifitcrsstiUg.
James D. Campbell is a COnfrada' of
W inchester Post No. 107, of Brooklyn.
He was born July 8, 1851, and enlisted
as a drummer December 16, 1S61, iu
Company B, lOOtli Regiment, Penn¬
sylvania Volunteers, for a period of
three years. He was at the time ten
years, five months and eight days of age.
He was large for his age and very apt,
besides he could handle the drumsticks
to perfection, and this made him a desir¬
able recruit. The regiment was attached
to the Army of the Potomac, and young
.Campbell with it in every engage¬
ment from the South Mountain to
Gettysburg. For a time he acted as
mounted orderly for Colonel Staiurook,
who commanded the brigade up to the
battle of Chancellorsville, where he was
killed.
After the battle of Gettysburg the
Twelfth Army Corps, to which the regi¬
ment belonged, was consolidated with
the Eleventh Army Corp3, formerly the
Twentieth Corps, which was transferred
to the Army of the Cumberland before
Atlanta, Ga. After the famous battles
here, under General Sherman, the corps
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JAMES D. CAMPBELL.
marched to the sea with him, and young
Campbell reached Savannah a few days
after his term of service had expired.
He was thereupon honorably discharged.
During the entire march through Georgia
he kept up with the regiment and regu¬
larly took his rations of sweet potatoes,
bacon and Confederate poultry.
Having obtained a taste of a soldier’s
life and liking it he endeavored to rc
enlist as a private, but not being of age
the mustering officer refused to muster
him in. This was one of the greatest
disappointments of his life, as he had
tired of the drumsticks and wanted to
carry a musket, which lie claimed to be
as able to do as any man in the corps,
but the officer was immovable, and he
came home as he left—a drummer. Al¬
though so young the records of the regi¬
ment show that he kept up with it in all
its marches and was in nearly every battle.
When many a strong man was about
giving out the “kid” of a drummer was
about as lively as a cricket.
Since the war he has been a member
of the Grand Army, having joined
Lincoln Post No. 3, in Washington,
I D. C. In 1882 he removed to Brooklyn
and was transferred to Winchester Post.
For many years Campbell has watched
the controversy that has been going on
as to the youngest soldier of the war.
lie has kept notes and fiuding none to
match him, now comes to the front as
the youngest of the youngest, The
family Bible and also the town records
prove the age and the army record proves
the service, all of which appears to settle
the question. — A r ew York Press.
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Edward—“Yes, sir.”— Puck.
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LOOK OUT!
A STARTLING CALAMITY
EDGAR L ROGERS.
With my nefv cpring Stock I propose that competition sllfltt roalix#
"Wliat a Calamity
It is to them and their high prices; that I am in Business.
My most grateful thauks are hereby extended to my friends for their liberal
patronage. 1 have really done such enormous business in past years, that I am my¬
self really astonished mid pleased. Yet with the very laudable ambition to excel,
l must tell every body that this season and its purchases put me on top. Custom¬
ers of .-*'ue know me too well to even charge uie with boasting. Yet l kuow that
I am now fixtfi* tor competition in either town or city.
DRESS GOODS
To me have become so familiar that I provido the newest for my trade, and my sug¬
gestion, kb to style, is always adopted.
CLOTHING
Merchants at home and abroad arc always complaining, that I sell too cheap, and
they can't see how I can furnish the style and good tils at my prices. I make the
prices and other men can only wonder.
I keep everything and defy every otic ns to prices. For cash or credit, come to
see me. 1 know your interests and will serve them.
Yours truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga-, March 10 , 1891 .
B.—Messrs. L. A. Collier arid J. F. Howard are still at home with tiw.
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