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THE MONROE ! ADVERTISER.
VOL XXXIX.
HEATHER BELL.
Ifer eyed are like the heather oa the Norla
hill* a-blow,
ID>I her curving lip# ol laughter Jjk a lierrv
in the snow,
In a snood ol < •rimson gleaming
I <r loak i of amber dwell,
Audimdp min#,
Dreaming,
Dream in#,
Df my bonnic Heather-bell.
hitb foAfoll light as thistle-down she cony
**th ere I ken
Her smile Is llket ST akin# the moon
dawn iu the ■N m.
A myriad iftnoii teeming
Feed the llama I cannot iju*JI
I I'm dreaming,
Dre am in#.
Dreaming,
i > y bonnic Heather-boll,
.1 •. voice like the thrush lupin# carol#
in th corn
ll- tender celloi hmmt rno tht*< mioit
tide till th morn
D)>. > 1 . r <Uftiplc5 shyly |j. .uuiu#,
fhev hav ■lmnneil m*- with H
mining,
D: earning,
Dream In#,
n > bonni! HaaHier-b«U.
am .'-I. i’eck. (r Atlnutu Uonstltution.
Till-! MA8KFD ROlillEII.
l# vi!.I>A A. MJODOOi K,
EW YEAR EVE ha-I
again come, and miriv
v usual, a large
IP 1 J Wfi of us young people
1 were invited to
m i see
i N ' the old year out at
1 il m my uncle’s country
scat. Right jolly
m were the last, hum's
of the old year made
1111 ler that
r ble roof, mid the
arge rooms rang with merrv laughter
,vhcu one of the party was unwittingly
aught “beneath the
Having wearied of dancing
games, we gathered in the large, old
fashioned hull—another of our time
honored customs and then, in front
>f ihe great open fireplace, piled high
with blazing hickory logs, we passed the
Iiisi hours of the old year in story-tell
iug. One of the most remarkable of
these stories was told by my aunt, aud
• shall endeavor to repeat it as nearly
as possible in hev own words:
there is always one story which
conics to m?> on New Year five and
acetns peculiarly appropri, ♦. that
died, and soon after her death my
fathersold <>nr old borne, aud removed
to he a large farm, t had been born in
♦ city, and until that time had al
wavs lived (here. I keenly felt the
change from the gay metropolis to’ the
solitude of the country, but fortunate
i.v i w as fond of reading and w as also
a great lover of nature, so that in a
measure I w as compensated fo*- the
life which I had left. 1 saw little of
the outside world; therefore the most
trivial things became of interest to
me.
One afternoon iu June, when
had been living on the farm tw< * years
I Wtt.H sitting on the porch
reading a novel and crying
over the sad fate of the heroine
when suddenly my attention was
traded by the sound of wheels, j
looked up qniekL from my book anti
saw house. a buggy rapidly approaching nm
My ,curiosity was at once
nrou3ed. and my disappointment and
surprise were great when T found that
instead of a stranger driving behind
the thoroughbred little mare, Lake
one of our rough farmhands, held the
reins. Presently ho drew up beside
the porch, anti his errand was made
know n iu a few words. There hud
been « runaway about a mile from us,
and the gentleman w ho w as -driving
had been thrown from his carriage
and seriously injured. Lake saw the
man fall and went immediately to his
rescue. IIo managed to get him to a
barn nearby and. after capturing the
horse unharmed, and buggy, both of whiehWere
had driven over to see
what could be done. It would be se\
-
eral hours before a doctor could be
brought to him, and he was suft’eGne
SO much pain that Lake did not like
to leave him so long alone.
Just then my father came up. aud,
having heard Lake’s story, said that
the man should be brought at once to
XfA m'm to i • ni * \w rU mLrt " ^' ^
: ’ ; t:: \ tod - leaving
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t'-r tli-nini- , 1 j 0 ” lUin b' s ' n 1 ' ea ‘ ,ulev
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n b*"' ' 1 room, wit • ii ib
i V 1 '
tb ' u V 1 ' s < .<"71 ec eu for him. %vas It
thV1° Kl Und ' S O ° r ! and " xmbl
l lurtiort be more convenient than any
other. Our g . who gave his nam*
on John Graham. soou arrived and
was earrit d carefully to his chamber,
and betoro very long the doctor came,
Having set the broken limbs,—far one
of his legs and one o: his arms were
Uroken. ~ and applied some cooling
wash to the bruises, he left the patient
to our <*hr>.
It mb' many weeks before he was
able to move from his bod, but b -
tween the doctor s ^ki 11 and our care
/ul nursing In slowly regained his
ntreugth. Hemember, my dear.>. in
those dsn s your white-headed old aunt
was young and romantic, and a man
far less fascinating and handsome than
ilonu Graham under sueu circum
sjauui- mi_ \t t\ ( turned my silly
u ai. . t >•: t v- to y on tiiat my head
was \\ iiollv turned, my heart entirely
g:\. 11 »*v. .i\ > t.n> stranger. For
attn., "Ha a.i.! 1 an*. *et*i to him.
e\«r a w>!- . '.. 1 - hu ie. *\ him that,
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' " ,cl -\ 1 Mf) d early
»v t r> morning would gaihti tht
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY SO, 1894.
choicest from our garden for John's
room. I was perfectly delighted when
lie one day told me that my “cheeks
put the rosea to shame.” It was the
firct compliment he had ever paid me,
and for days the thought of it mad
me absurdly happy.
At 1 list T fcdt that John loved me. 1
!>' Vor moved that his eyes did uot fol
low every motion, and how the light
cam • into his eyes when I returned to
him after some short absence! This
was my fir^t love, and by it my dull
moriotouoits life seemed Changed into
a Paradise,
the weeks glided l>v. John had rc
covered and would soon leave us, yet
he ha 1 not spoken of his love; but
after a whil< 1 the words came. We
light, were sitting on the porch in the moon
in ‘ho same place from which I
had .seen him carried in on that
<-v< ntful day when he was hurt,
My father’s consent to «mr engage
J a< n * Tvas 80011 gaiiii-d, an .John’s past
life, so far ns he could discover, vva~
irreproachable, an 1 lii worldly pros
pects were good. Everything went on
happily for the first few months, and
if seemed that in onr case love was to
run a smooth course 1 must not for
get to tell you about my engagement
ring. it was one which had been
handed down through several genera
turns to John. He had always worn
it on his little linger. It was a ser
pent of silver, its head being formed
of an enormous ruby and the tail of
small diamonds. (inside the ring was
written, “Time reveals all things. ’
<bl * b,! bl v ld ° ui ’ engagement John
.
took it from his linger and placed it
oM n ' 1Uf ' with these words“Should
au 8^t part us, love, though years roll
between, the sight of this ring will
bring me to l ,rotect Y ou -”
A< Iust my 0ll I', oJ ' happiness was
bill, but it . was destined to be emptied
bl tbe dro S 8 - b need not go
over tbo8e months of misery,
vbeu dcdin Graham came to
see my with his brain stupefied by
^‘l uor > aTld tt; b how I tried to bring
bim back ’ and bu ' v bo won bl try and
fail HS ' ftiu ’
At last, it came to my father’s knowl
edge, and in oue of his fits of fury at
the weakness and loathsomeness of mv
' lover, ho literally kicked John out of
the house. It is enough for me to say
that things went from bad to worse. I
could love John no longer, after he
bad sunk so low, and at last—it was
on a New Year Eve, like this—our eu
gag^ment was broken, t returned the
| ring, but John sent it back tome,
l ,ra y in S rnc to keep it, “as a symbol
of a love that had once been true.”
I Alter this, my health •^dually gave
| did. We travelled several years
1 everything was done to divert and
i amtlS0 me * At first, I prayed to die,
but I was young, very young, aud
the time passed by, life again became
aw eet t5 me. Another love came to
,ue » bir sweeter and stronger than that
J op E wild uncle, passion of dears, my girlhood, I found and the
in y°ur my
perfect love of womanhood.
! I had been married a number of
years and was the mother of three
children when vour undo was obliged
to go to California to look after some
in which he had a large inter
0Bt - As he expected to be there for a
considerable time, we all went with
bim, and decided to rent a furnished
house in the suburbs of L-.
one we fancied most Was large, and
only one story high. T( was hand
somoly furnished and liad a great
many acres of ground around it. At
hrst, 1 objected to taking it on account
the lonely location, but the nmner
0118 attractions which ii possessed soon
overcame this oue fault, and before
long we were comfortably settled i n
our new quarters. VVo had been liv
lu g there only a year, when one even
i 11 £—this also was on New Year Eve
—your uncle came home as usual, and
«Her he had been iu the house a few
odoutes-, ho received n dispatch which
necessitated his starting off inuuedi
fdtd v - be gone for two or
.
three days. lr was the first lime
since our marriage that we had been
s ‘T ara U’ d - and that night I did feel a
bttle nervous. I went to the nursery
and biokeil at my children, sleeping
peacefully, and then, taking a book. I
reft d until T was so weary that I went
to bed.
Mv bedroom was large and had four
windows. Two of them opened on the
piazza, and two on a beautiful green
terrace. My dressing-table stood be
tween the piazza-windows, and on it
^ as irt - v je^d-casket. containing all my
“of Tewelrv^ t “
Ins locked in an iron saie. but tli#t
evening had taaen it out. in order to
g0tft f : lu V >r m T h " 6b f ljd to bave
’
memled in L .and had torgotten
Vi lt >aC 1'. Alter 8a Iely in
- ' - rememot red mi ea-set. aut eon
clud8dtbRt UO barm eomd possibly
come to it iu just that one night, and
thought I would put it away
m tne morning. I do not
know how long I had been asleep,
when i was awakened by hearing a
slight noise. Opening my eyes. 1 saw
by the light of a dark-lantern the fig
nre- of a tall mm standing by my
dressing-fable. My first impulse was
to scream, and then camethe thought.
“U l do that, he will kill me! Sud
denlv the man turned, and I could see
that he was masked. Then I shut
eyes aud feigned sleep. Stealthily he
walked to the bed where 1 was lying,
and, bending oyer, looked at me, for
what seemed, in my agony, tc be
hours.
'O, God! 1 tnought, ”11 .. he would
on!\ kill now ! but no! he
mo '^d soitlv irom my oed, and again
walked to the dressing-table. I could
* 1<?ar iuni la.ki my jextei-. one by one,
.r**m tue casket, and lay them gently
* >\\n. At '*a>t. the box vas emptied,
u yet he did not move, bnt stood e$
l '»»a! "y * -aped. 1 f* it rstner than
heard that he was once more coaling
toward me. Certainly this trtne he
would take my life, and I prayed God
it might be done quickly; but, no! I
must suffer still more. He knelt down
and put hie face so close to mine that
I could feel his hot breath. 1 was like
oue petrified. My* blood seemed
frozen in my veins, add had the cold
steel been pressed to my throat,I should
not have felt a single pang. My whole
being seemed held by some terrible
: power. At last, he arose from his
knees and, going to one of the win
! dows, blew a whistle three times. This
is rt n t liat I remember. My conscious¬
ness must have forsaken me.
When I again opened my eyes, the
bright light was streaming through
the blinds. At first, I had only a yu
gue remembrance of what seemed to
me a dreadful nightmare, but gradu
ally the whole scene of the night be
fore came clearly to mv mind and a
terror seized me. My children were
iny first, thought. T sprang quickly
from my bed, but fell heavily to the
i floor iu a dead faint-. The strain had
proved too much for me. For days 1
j lay unconscious, only feeling a burn
ing pain in my head : but through
! God’s mercy I was given back to my
husband and children—for not a hair
of my little bairns’ dear heads had
been tonched on that horrible night,
The subject of the masked robber
was never mentioned until my health
was fully restored. One day 1 was in
; my boudoir, idly lounging, when my
husband came in and, seating himself
j on the sofa bv my side, took a small
| piece of paper from his pocket-book,
It looked like the fly-leaf of a book,
and was covered with writing in lead
pencil. He handed it to me, saying,
“I think, little woman, you are strong
enough to read this,
lt was as folio ws :
“I have come here to-night with a
baud of robbers intending to steal and,
j the if necessary, jewels from to murder. casket, While I taking
your came
across a ring. That ring saved you.
j I looked upon your face and a flood
! of recollections came over me. *You
n eed uever fear - 1 love you still.
Bad , as I am, the thought of your pure
8011 1 has never-left me, and although I
j am R roober, the memory of you has
i ke Pt my hands clean from blood. I
s b R U always keep watch over yon,
H ball always protect you. J. G.
the mystery was solved, and the
robber, who had robbed me of nothing,
was m X ?^ d l° ver - Your uncle tried to
searcb blm ou t but in vain, and it v- %
n °t. until years after
having v ^ ed 8 P eil U
few days Kt >. 16 reia ^ lves
ibu8 V ft °!.. .®’j tka ^. e 3i e l n p ? rt °A‘ 'jMBB S.
^
J One morning, at my cousins sug-
1 gestion, r,e walked over to the
! picturesque old churchyard. We
. strolled in and out among the*graves;
8 topping now and then to read the
quaint inscriptions. A simple gray
| stone, on which was hanging a small
i wreath of immortelles, attracted my
! n °tice. I stopped to see what might
; might be written on it, and then I
| read the name “John Graham. Died
j on Beloved the Eve of the of New people. Year God Day, rest 18—. his
j BOul - ” T »sked my cousin if she knew
w-ho this , John Graham was? And she
| told m<! that some twenty years before
! a mau with a peddler’a pack had come
i 111 to the town. His wares were good,
. and he sold a great many. As he trav
’ ebid from house to house, staying, as
! w RS the custom in those times, first
with one family, then wirlBanother,
be became very popular, and was m
dueed to take his small capi
| a ‘ ld °P eu ft store. He
o ave his name as John Gray, and
! be was so sell-denying, and did so many
j deeds of charity, that the country folk
j almost canonized him as a saint,
j Their him shrewd minds peddler, soon discovered and when
in uo common
at his death au old envelope was found
nax ^ bis heart, with the name John
Granam in a woman s hand,and inside,
a ^ OCl *- y®Uow hair, carefully folded
in paper, on the outside of which is
j written, “My guiding- star, the curi
° 31 ty of the good people was at its
| height, lour uncle aud I could have
solved the problem, but we carefully
guarded the secret, and to this day
'dBage gossips wonder who ‘‘John
Graham could have been. I have
uevcr kuowit bow he happened to fall
1 J ato sneh a °* ** to
bec ?f e a ^ obbe r ; b «t I firmly believe
, f
' 16 a lie ^ e tUl
^ement , for . his , sins . A New v lear
| \ e P assefe 11 a 11,11
T a°fateful won
; der that it i s so< ior
time in hi« sad life. I felt as though
denee that it should have been also
^ time of his death—Romance.
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Young Henry Miller, of New York, _
got a bonanza when he was paid off
the other day. His wages were given
to him in the shape of eight new $5
bills. He put them in his pocket, and
some time afterward, when he took
them out to examine them he dis
| covered that two of them were ex
actly alike. The numbers of both
were the same. This gives them great
value from a collector’s point of view,
The bills were printed by the Govern
• meat and issued by the Southern
National Bank of New Y’ork. The
Government number on each is R
476,321. The bank number is ,3359,
and the consecutive bank number
10,833. When the exact similarity of
the bills was noticed it was supposed
^ one was a counterfeit. Close
examination showed u was not. The
sigmitures on both bihs are genuine,
Plainly taere was au error. TJr.
Miller says that several banks
offered him a large sum of money for
the bills, and that the
National Bank told him he could fix
his own price and they would
chase. He says he will hold the biUs<
; —New Orleans Picayune,
‘OLD HICKORY^' COl’RAGE. r
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STOUT ATTEMPTED ,
05 AN ASSAS*
gg^^KlN OP JAC-eKSON.
They Couldn’t Could Make Shoot Hlmj aji Play Him, But
the Part
of a Coward— A Nurpow Escape.
T F ever a man bore a] charmed life T,
I that man was* vftkl Hickory.
That he should 1 i La to ripe old
% age and die drama!fc.*uot a mu, [t 1 death, do
tkgfe. spite his many to sav
Bnf orriHm General » . Lm*. remarkable.
„f all of „a . narrow
escapes tuere was one Union borders
on loaded the pistols supernatural. of pertncjlamstmetion. f :** bullet
which r • t at no other 1iB> ■
were, ever
known to miss lire, snaiB brl’u. d iu turn at
President Jackson's exploding.I the per
cession caps jldiat it the wean
ons refusing to shoot ! the old
hero met not the fate f I:w6 ot his il¬
lustrious successors was little short of
a miracle. As it was,the incident
caused an intense exeitcj| ?i .eui all over
the country.
“I am not afraid j cartof ,
They can’t kill me. I «. In I t Ae
mvself*’ ‘ 4
So exclaimed F esnl mul: Jackson one
memorable dav in *1 fcv v, fifty-nine
rears ago, as breaking from his
friends he rushed upon tf plus would-Va*
assassin. Tlris attempt murder Gen
eral Jackson was nntde i|u the 80th of
January* 1885, the si freviouslv. me month in
which, twenty years J lie
won his highest renow jiew by his defeat
of the British army at lire Orleans.
On the afternoon JackJn of dav named,
while President attendance! was at the
Capitol, in unon the fu
neral of Mr. Warren K rDavis, of South
Carolina, one Richar l| Lawrence, a
painter, residing in WWashington,
tempted to shoot himi This Individ
nal was seen to enter the hall of the
House of Representati es during the
"
delivery of the fur n-al sermon ;
before its close, ho on! v ever, he had
taken his stand the eastern
portico, near one n 1 the columns.
The President, with the Secretary
of the Treasury on : Is left arm, 011
retiring from the rotuj>d« to reach his
carriage at the steps Uf the portico,
advanced toward the where Law¬
rence stood—who Tagir is pistol con¬
cealed under his coo - and when he
approached within D yards and a
half of him, the atiil-m w fd-ba assassin
levelled the pistol President’s
fceast. The percuss cap exploded
t several wit
;i>l had, been
dropped ihe pistol pm*Lis right
hand, and taking- another ready
cocked from.his left, presented and
snapped it at the President, who at
the moment raised his cane aud made
for the assailant with iron-like energy.
He would have executed vengeance,
but Secretary Woodbury and Lieu¬
tenant Godney at the same time laid
hold of the man, who was knocked
down, the President pressing after
him until he was secured.
The President’s /friends then urged
him to go to the Capitol, which the
old hero did, with great firmness and
self-possession, though during the
eventful moment his commanding
voice was heard above all others, as
tearing himself from 111 s friends and
rushing for the assassin, the uttered
the words quoted. •
As soon as the act was known to (he
crowd thev wished to kill the assassin
on the spot. But this was promptly
prevented. Lawrence was forthwith
carried to jail, after a brief pre
iiminary examination l»efore Judge
Cranch. At this examination Mr.’
Randolph, Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House of Representatives, who
tended the Marshal to conduct the
prisoner to the City Hall, testified
that the prisoner when asked by
the Marshal what motive he* had
to make the attempt, stated that
the President had killed his father.
The assertion was, however, untrue,
as, upon investigation, it was found
that his father, an Englishman, had
died a natural death in Washington
. some years before, The son was ap
prentieed afterward to a Air. Clark,
with whom he lived three years. Air.
Clark, w hen called upon, said he was
a man of excellent habits, sober and
industrious; that he had seen him
very frequently, and was well ac
quainted with him since he had left
his familv, and had heard nothing to
his disadvantage until of late he Vas
informed of his being ° ouarreisome *
among his friends, and that he had
^^his ^r b «dly.
motive on the part of the prisoner to
commit the deed he attempted sug
gested the idea that he must be insane,
But his demeanor at the time he was
being examined bore not the slightest
appearance of frenzv or derangement
of any kind. Indeed, when a^ked bv
the Court if he wished to cross-exam
ine the witnesses or to make explana
tion, he answered in the negative, and
said that those who had semi the conclu-! act
could state the facts.' At the
sion of the trial when asked if he had
anythin" to offer he said that he could
not contradict the'midst what had b e -n given in
evidence. In of the excite
ruent and anxietv which prevailed
around him Lawrence appeared per- ■
feetIv calm and collected.
Jb e President, remarked’that in speaking of the
event, Lawrence!* man
ner from the moment his eve caught after
his was firm and resolved until
the failure of his last pistpl, when he
seemed to shrink rather than resist,
Lawrence was a handsome young man
of about thirty-five years, small in
stature, with pale complexion, black
hair, dark eyes, and genteel deport
ment, aud was well dressed. |
The keeper of the rotunda stated
that he had frequently observed the
man about the Capitol eo often that!
Re R a «_| tried to draw hin^ into conver- j '
aation, but had found him taoitiua
aud nnwi i liu ? to taIk -.. 0n tb0 da v in
*
he kept prowling about, . bat
question
did not come within the railing nen«
1 the member’s seats. His hand vr.»
held inside his vest, a» if grasping
something, and his lips were pale act
i quivering.
! On his pistols being taken from hin
after the affair they were found to be
a very elegant pair, in excellent order
and loaded with powder and ball al¬
most to the muzzle, the barrels being
about six inches long. It was a most
a8 , u j u ... 8 uu 8 circumstance, almost
«*?*“•* . ,h . ,hl
«* ' - “’‘'f™ X t ‘
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'Tt, ,, T » , »« • *»U«««y , , . ol ... hie an,
“ ,l "'T ,,er ,°, " * 0 "' 0rl “ ant
witii lus usual good luck, drew a prizi. 1
-
each time!
Uere >rob , , b , G 111 our n f 1
: Wfls l »
blst . . ° V mo * v ,lltor f tn! . * '*>?' ‘ d
firearms than that made unmednit )v
after the all air by District Attorney
Key and General Hunter, th* Marshal
of t_he district, on Lawrence s pistols,
This was done with some of the, re¬
maining powder, balls and caps of th :
prisoner, and the result showed that.
l oaded iu tbe ordi,, ’ u v manU( ' 1 -
-
(uscharge of tne , weapons toox 1 plac •
every time and their power w as such
tba he b I ld et I ,ass * h V m 2'"
' a ™ Wd at 4 « distance o! nine yard.
? ud n3 f rl A b ! u ’- v 1,1 a .^" n
uyard , at in *" inv dlstanc3 nbw;lt
j ** luau J > tndK * *
\ So grea^ wati tne exmteiueus pro
I ■ u,l0dd bl3 adau tlia ‘ 801110 tbo
inos{ eminent opponents of the T rcsi
! del Y’ lucludm 3 &ucb ^i »s Clay,
j Calbonn ’ Poinde ;V er White, were,
! 111 tll ° lreuz y ot tue monieuT, suspect
i ed ot bavl ^ conspired m « plot to ge„
i lud 01 B r c-.ideac.
j Latin this affair there wa- a Mu
niftn iU lbe case Jl a PP ear3 * b wa
! f 3ertftined . tbafc 60,03 time pr evious
| Lawrence had formed an attachment ,
* or a TOU °f bld r> aIld ^ e M u entlv told
; his sister .- J bat - b bl8 iudus
110 ? '
^ 800 « be enabled to buy a cornet
f he ot would audl f lld oil the a object good house,wher. ot Ins at¬
marry
tachment.
With tins view ho labored day and
night until he had about $800, Bub
he was disappointed and became ex¬
tremely pensive, quit all employment
aud would stand for hours gazing up¬
on the spot which he had selected for
his future residence. He became
hopelessly insane. This was shown al
his trial, when it was developed that
he had claime d his r ight to the crown
ident of England i-'T (^g||S&alled -HKioney, outlie threaten- Pres¬
an
ing de ath mK was n °I soon
4 itig.‘
The jury, after being out live miu
utes, rendered a verdict of “not
guilty, he having beeu under the in¬
fluence of insanity at the time of com¬
mitting the act. ”
But before the trial and its termina¬
tion the intense excitement produced
by the act throughout the country has
about wholly subsided. As for Law¬
rence, he was sent to a lunatic asylum,
where he remained an inmate the res i
of his life, nearly forty years.—Wash'
ington 8tar.
WISE >V01H)$.
Cupid dehumanized is an angei.
A wilite lie only hurts the liar,
, succeed . trea
150 18 HOCia 111
s °fi*. VVidows not J romantic _ thej
are as as
K ”® in -
Fbe law directs the head; the gospel
the_hearr. i
Hope is the gas in the balloon of
ambition.
It is the real, downright, incurable
fool who never knows it.
Wealth has never lost the slightest
occasion to show its stupidity,
We say on tombstones what wo
dared not say to the man’s face,
Respect is a safeguard which pro¬
tects both great arid small alike.
Perfect physical beauty is almost al¬
ways accompanied by a coldness 01
stupidity.
Intellect is the lever which moves
the world ; but the fulcrum of intel-
162 - ls money.
The sentiment which men find most
difficult to bear is pity, especially when
they deserve it.
We can cauterize a wound, but wt
kno , v uo remedv f or the hurt pro
due el bv words
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m T »« /"‘“A , ... \T'. , .... 1 ?‘ hou W
i’™ , 1 °, ,te ? th,t T thon u « 8 1 ‘ t on * to
the cost of living.
A wife is usually a powerful extin¬
guisher to the man who thinks he will
set the world on fire.
A guilty conscience is like a whirl
pool, drawing into itself all which
would otherwise pass bv.
There is nothing stranger us^ than how
small a cause suffices ol- to set man
a-ainst ° man life death
*
The beggar polishes his crutch for
the same reason the king gilds his
throne—it belongs to him.
Flattery never emanates from great
It is an attribute of small minds,
who thus still further belittle them
seizes to enter into the vital being of
the persons about whom they crawl,
Not to listen is not merely a lack of
politeness, it is a mark of contempt,
Though such impertinence is accepted
without protest from a noted man, it
P r °duees a leaven of hatred and mal
ice deep down in the heart; among
equals it often goes so far as to dis
solve friendship,
A Rice Elevator.
The National Rice Manufacturing
Company, of New Orlems, hascom
pleted the first rice elevator. The new
process of handling rice will greatly
redueetheexpen.se. The elevator is
fitted with delicate machinery, which
cleans, weighs and antomatieally sorts
the rice into six different grades —
Sow York Dwpatch, w
BALLOONS AS
AERONAUTICS AS A FEATURE Oi?
MILITARY WARFARE.
Te Drop Bombs From toe Sky on an
Army or Fleet—Balloons For Re
connoitrlng.
u NCLE tablishment to consider SAM will seriously adjunct of soon a be the balloon of forced es¬
corps as an
army. England, Germany, and es¬
pecially France have been giving much
attention to the subject, though their
experiments have been in secret.
Within a year the French have pro
duced a balloon that can be steered
and manoeuvred in the teeth of a w'nd
blowing twenty miles an hour.
Cigar-sliaped airships recently have
been run by propellers in France on
<*altn days at fourteen miles an hour,
and double this spee.l will be attained
before long. The Germans are said to
have produced a balloon that can be
steered and which carries great weights,
but little is known about it. A rudder
will operate to direct an aerial machine
if the latter can be driven fast enough
to give it steerage-wa v. The notion
that au airship sustained bv gases is
not to be relied on is another fallacy.
Within the last few years ballooning
has been revolutionized abroad and
reduced to a science. Experts now
anderstand how to make balloons
tight, so that leakage is reduced al
most to nothing. When one has a
gas-bag of gold-beater’s skin that will
stay afloat thirty days, he has some
thing to start' business with.
Against balloons’no armed force, on
land or water, can have any means of
defense or retaliation. No fort on
land or afloat can withstand higher
plosives dropped from aloft. An air
ship would be absolutely safe, because
no shot from a gun wdll do damage
bevond 6000 feet above the surface of
the earth. The gasbag is practically
secure from serious hurt at an eleva
tion of only 1500 feet. Besides, bul¬
lets discharged straight up in the air
might do harm in falling back, as they
would have the same velocity on
reaching the earth again as when dis¬
charged from the rifle or cannon.
However, when the balloon is passing
away the line of sight is changed so
slowly that sharpshooters could easily
pepper it with accuracy.
Even so, the balloon would
suffer importantly. A rifle bullet
puncturing a great’ gas-bag containing
40,000 or 60,000 cubic feet of hydro
gen makes only a little hole, which is
partly closed again by th e broken
edgek of tbe fabric^ Som^ ^H-aCi l pasi, -
but not enough to be of any conse
quence. But there is no reason for
passing over a hostile army or fleet at
so low au elevation, inasmuch as
bombs can be dropped just as well and
as accurately from a point high enough
to be out of reach.
Besides, the instant that a bomb is
thrown the balloon rises rapidly, be
ing relieved of that much weight. At
night, or in a fog, it would be entirely
safe from observation. Or it is easy
enough for the air-ship to come down
into the lower part of a cloud, whence
the crew can see the enemy below
while invisible to them. Thus the
latter are entirely helpless.
During the siege of Paris, in the
Franco-Prussian war, balloons were
sent up, passing over the besieging
armies. The aeronauts took with them
homing pigeons, which carried back
news to the beleagured metropolis.
These’ balloons were constantly fired
at, and Krupp, the gun-maker, at the
request of Von Moltke, designed a
“balloon musket” for the purpose of
attacking them. Nevertheless, this
sort of rifle practice proved wholly in
effective, and only tliose balloons were
captured which were low down through
expended If gas.
half a dozen aerial batteries
lour balloons each were stationed at
different points along the Atlantic
coast* no hostile fleet could come near
our sea-board cities. The hostile ves
sels could be sunk within a few min
utes by dropping nitre-glycerine . . cart
ndges upon their decks. This could
be accomplished with the utmost ac
curacy and precision.
-p. Dr. at Myers, xi the aeronautical *i eu
y tiL'" elevation srrr ™ ie
shot from an of lSOOfeet
upon the water below. Each splash
showed where the last shot fell,
the fifth or sixth shot hit the bird and
killed it. Falling from so great a
heighth the velocitv of the leaden oel
let was as great as if fired from a gun.
The air currents at a high elevation
are always moving from west to east. \
Accordingly, it would be particularly !
easy for such war balloons to ascend
on the coast and float seaward over an
enemy’s fleet, like birds 1
so many car
rying in their claws dynamite bombs
or torpedoes. Having wiped out the 1
ships, it would be necessary for the !
flving battery to return in the face of
ihe vind, but this could be accom
plished very easily by using the pro- j
pellers. At the same time it would be
comparatively difficult for balloons ’
sent up from hostile vessels to ad- !
vance towards the shore, inasmuch as j
they would have to encounter an un
favorable breeze.
Tbe idea on which the famous Mr.
Alaxim has been working for some
time past is a cylinder of aluminum,
containing a three-fourths vacuum, its
collapse being prevented by strong
ribs inside. Ihe machine is to be pro
pelled and steered by electric gear, j
while sustained and balanced by the
wings of a great aeroplane. The in
ventor expects to be able to fill his
aerial car with explosives and hover it
over a city, which must pay ransom or
be destoyed.
However, Professor H. A. Hazen, of
Washington, an accepted authority in
aeronautics, asserts that the aero
plane idea, of which Professor S. P. ,
Langley, of the Smithsonian Institute, i
NO. *
"I
iB cable. 1 tbe for His ! r “ ost . advocato that ; isim i irR must ^*
opinion is man
imitate the bird, if he is ever to fly at
ft H The “soaring” of the bird, by
which an animal many times
heavier than the air is enabled to sus
tain itself motionless in t ie latter
medium on extended pinions, is as yet
an unexplained phenomenon. If it
« onld bo acoo " nted ^ might,
be thrown on the. problem ol human
tiight. Wonderfully eleven* meohani
cal birds, by the way, which will ac¬
tually fly quite « distance, have been
1 made in France; but they are only
j toys.
The United States Signal Office has
already constructed balloons tor re
j <‘«nnoitnng. These are intended , . lor ,
ascents ol 1000 ieet or so, being nn
ehored to the ground by a wire rope,
wbl f b * wive runs,
1 ho latter affords telepho.m* com.mmi
j Wlth tbe aenal car. irom which
tho observer gives notification ot w,mt
be 1 desired, the telejmone <
so ^’ 1 w in
may eomnmmcate with the hoadnim
tef8 of tbc comniHiiding general mile,
ft " fl U hketcb maps eau bo ?cnt dowrx
j b Y 0 10 P^
^ bas ^ , !i
| >l, f n r ' ,lu " 10 'V ovei since
tb f eftrhest hlstari ° iime f Archytas,
j a famous geometrician of the Pytha
& ore » 11 «ehool, who llomushed 400 years
j b ^ ( *'‘ wooden bird, wdne l, a.
ft Ueged. flew by mecnamcal means,
I lts hnoyancy being affected giound by mag
j Ibd i t it tell to the i
coub ^ 11 itself again Under tho
i reign of Nero an inventor is Ran to
j b ® ,vo 111 ■***’ ue * ,u *’ 10 1,8 '!
bte in . coming dowui. It was Min
evil genius tackled him while aloft,
bba R dmadvantage.
dohu Muller is sa«i to mvc con
structed an artificial eagle at Nurem
berg, wlncu flew out, to meet tin 'ex¬
P eror Cbarles V - and accompamed him
back lo towu - Ab<mt ' f er ‘° <l
I R aion ^ t name.il , Idmeius . e\v auou n
f. ur ou & J rotn * be \ u *' a ' 111
S F aill ‘ By means of a pair of wmgs a
P er s° n named 1 ante, o enuise. was
enabled to fly, and, while ammsingtno
people of that city with h •'rial per¬
formances, he fell from tin lop of St.
Mary’s Church and broke his tiiign. "
New York World.
SELECT SIPTIMJS.
1 St. Gothard tunnel is 01, miles long.
j Petrifying human flesh is a lost art.
Coins were at one time made ol
! leather,
! The most frequent crime in Cahfor
; n i a j s burglary,
Iron and steel are made by native
| tribes --- in thftig^^prjMAfrica.* tci _ -
! d 1S eSlUI
cumbers , worth ,, $8,000,000 annually. ..
are
Real agate marbles are made from
agate found in Oberstein, near the
j Rhine.
l A cat with “eight well-formed legs’
' is owned by Edward Franklin, oi
I Athens, Ga.
The largest locomotive was built four
years ago for the Northern Pacific,
225,000 jiounds weight,
The Greeks consume annually to
each inhabitant five pounds of sugar
and one pound of coffee.
The highest natural bridge is at
Rockbridge, Yu., 200 feet from the
water to the bottom of the arch.
Engineers on the first locomotives
were equipped with tin horns, with
which they warned people from the
tracks.
If ancient history is to be taken as
an authority, Phayllus of Crotona
could clear fifty-six feet at one “stand-
1U . ^ broad , , J . um U ,,
At Cannae, where the Romans situ
tained the worst defeat they ever ex¬
perienced, there were 146,000 men on
Ike field, of whom 52,000 were killed,
A large elephant had to be killed at
Stuttgart, Germany, on account of his
temper. A single bullet from a small
bore rifle delivered in the forehead
dropped him dead. -
A remarkable archeological discov¬
ery is announced from Treves, France.
excavating the old Roman walls
(flose to the Moselle, a complete Roman
pottery establishment was discovered,
r r. . • , 1 P"?. ,l ... T t ' on of , AT
is . about 60,000, ,o while tne number of
* , , ,, _ ____ , .
** Irom
200 * 000 to 300 * 000 -
Application was made at the New
Aork Postoffice the other day for
mourning stamps, and the applicant
expressed great disappointment when
he wm toId that ^e Government did
no ^ kee P au .y 111 stock,
Revenue officers have captured, in
North Georgia, the smallest still on
record. It is complete, with cap, tubs,
and all appurtenances, and is not over
eight inches high. Strange to say, a
colored man weighing 225 pounds was
arrested for running it.
While making some excavations be
neath a church in the Prussian town
of Angerburg, the workmen made a
horrible discovery—a small walled-in
space in which thev found a human
skeleton, a broken chair, and the re¬
mains of a helmet and a pair of boots,
The walls bore marks as of finger-nail
scratches, and there was other evidence
that some person had been walled in
alive.
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A Two-Inch Hole Over a Mile Beep,
The deepest boring of which we have
any knowledge up to the present time,
says Revue Scientifique, is at Parv
schowitz, in the District of Ribnik, iu
YVestern Silesia. The depth attained
is 6568 feet, and the diameter of the
hole is only 2.75 inches. The work
has been temporarily stopped in order
to lower especial thermometers, which
have been made with great accuracy,
into the hole for the purpose of ob
taining the temperature at different
depths. The boring will tuen be re¬
sinned, and it is hoped that a depth of
8200 feet will be reached*