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SHUTTERS.
When you arc darkened, and your fate de¬
plore,
Rise— eeok lomakc the sum of sorrow less ;
And life’s true meaning, unpercelved before,
Will dawn from out the new unselfishness.
Hhutt«rs of *»lf close the com plainer’# view ;
But some Small action for another's weal
Will stir th"lr hiag 09 , and a ray brenk
through
Which shall a glimpse of Duty's taoe reveal.
Each earnest service for humanity
Will set seifs shutters more and more ajar ;
Flooded with Go l’s own light tho soul will
l»e,
When thrust wide open with good deods
they are.
-Charlotte Fisk Bates, In Harper’s Bazar.
THE HIDDEN TREASURE.
R. A’ A N D E R
V “I' veldt’s wife and
daughter had gone
to the theatre, and
the city man had
\\\f been dining alone,
N having arrived
home rather late,
with a beaming
i countenance and a
J>M bulged was lazily pocket. follow¬ Tic
ing with h a 1 f
closed eyes tho wreaths of cigar smoke
which floated out through tho open
French window, when a rap fell upon
the door of tho room.
“Come in,” said Mr. Vanderveldt,
still following the dissolving smoke
with his sleepy gaze.
A maid servant entered.
“If yon please, sir, there’s a person
out in the passage who would like to
speak to you in private; and, please,
sir, he says it’s very portic’ler.”
“.Show him in here,” said he.
“Never mind clearing away tho cloth.”
A moment later tho man entered.
He was a tall, scedy-looking individ¬
ual, with hollow cheeks, ill-kernpt
hair, dressed iu a rusty brown suit,
holding a battered beaver hat in one
hand and dangling a solitary glovo be
twoon tho finger and thumb of the
other.
“ion are tho ownor of this house,
sir, 1 believe?” said the seedy-lookiug
mun, stufliug his one glove into his
trousers pocket.
i “What right havo you to ask?”
! “And tho garden?”
“Ah! my garden! What do yon
want to know for?”
“You will very soon find out, sir,”
said the man, who was a very cool
kind of a customer, producing a piece
of paste-board as ho spoke, and thrust¬
ing it into tho city man’s hand.
“That is my name, sir,” and ho bowed
whilst Air. Vanderveldt gazed at tho
card.
“Mr. Stephen Priddy,” ho mut¬
tered.
“This house aud garden is your
property now,” cried Air. Priddy, with
a certain air of earnestness, “and,
ihereforo, any treasure—” he paused a
mornout, thou continued—“any treas¬
ure that might be hidden upon it must
ulsobe yours.”
For tho first time since the seedy
man’s entrance Air. Vanderveldt re¬
garded him with attention,
f “What do you mean ?”
Air. Priddy rose aud stepped to the
‘■"■‘window.
“That gardon,” said he, pointing;
“you have littlo idea what is concealed
beneath the surface of it, sir, in tho
particular spot upon which my oyo is
at this moment resting. Briefly, I
will tell you the story.
“Twenty bho years ago a lady lived
here. was a very nervous old
body, and there eame the news one
evening as I was sitting with her that
the house next, door had been robbed.
“That very day she had drawn a
largo sum of money out of tho bank,
and this report of burglars scared her
horribly.
“You know what old ladies are, sir.
Bho became so nervous that she de¬
clared t hat she could notgo to bed with
all that gold in the safe downstairs.
" “1 suggested burying the gold in
the garden for the night. She jumped
at the idea, aud begged me to carry it
out. Accordingly, I procured an
empty box, placed the bag of money
in it, dug a hole in the soil and hid it.
“The old lady then went calmly to
bed, but when next morning came sho
was discovered dead, stoue dead, sir.
Heart disease, tho doctors called it.
“Well, this was a pretty considera¬
ble shock to me, as you may suppose,
and drove all recollection of the buried
money clean out of my head for the
time being.
“Well, sir,” he continued, “it hap¬
pened, owing to circumstances which
I cannot very concisely recall now—it
being, as you say, twenty years ago
since the thing occurred—that I was
obliged to leave this house on the day
following the decease of my old lady
relative. I went away, still forgetting
all about tho money that I had buried"
“My motive in calling this evening
is just to inform you that the money
still lies hidden where I buried it with
my own hands twenty years ago. It
is yours now. sir, as, alas! this old
house is, too,” and the dirty-faced man
threw what was intended to be a pa
thetie glance around the room, his
eyes lingering especialiy long upon
the dinner table.
“But, saidMr. Vanderveldt, throw¬
ing the end of his cigar out through
the open window, “why did yon not
return yourself years and years ago to
dig up your buried treasure?”
“A month after I hid it I sailed for
Australia, and I only returned to Eng¬
land a few weeks ago,” promptly re¬
plied the seedy man.
“Then what makes vou come to me
now?’ continued the city gentleman,
“People are not usually so honest,
Why did you not come iu the
and dig up the money yourself, and
quietly carry it off ?
Because, sir, replied Air. Priddy,
with a proud smile, I am a gentle
man, despite my present humiliating
condition. I would scorn to take that
which no longer rightfully belongs to
me. To put the matter on a business
looting, what will you give me to show
you exactly the whereabouts of the
money ?
“Why," said Mr. Vanderveldt, ^ an
expression of perplexity coming into
his stolid countenance, “I don’t know
what to say. How do I know you are
hot a swindler, for instance?" And
Mr. Vanderveldt tried to force » very
knowing “Ob; scowl.
m that,” replM Ml prid
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dr, with a superior smile, “give me
a shovel and I will reassure you at
once.”
“Good," replied the city gentleman,
rising. “There is still light to see
by. Lead the way, sir. ”
“Hold ! the bargain !” said the seedy
man, picking up his hat and halting
upon the threshold. “If the money
is there I take half. Is that fair?”
i I It will be quite fair if the money
is there,” said Mr. Vanderveldt.
Mr. Priddy took the shovel, and,
carrying it in his hand, walked
straight to the large oval plot in the
middle of the green, pausing to gaze
about him when he arrived on the
edge of it, as though to get his cor¬
rect bearings.
Mr. Priddy then fell to digging.
The earth was moist, and the large,
brown sods were easily turned.
Mr. Vanderveldt, regardless of the
flying mould, drew to the edge of the
plot and stood staring with expectant
: gaze down into the slowly deepening
j hole,
Suddenly the blade of the shovel
smote something hard, and there was
a slight sound of the splintering of
wood. Air. Priddy redoubled his
efforts without a word. Air. Vander¬
veldt gave vent to a deep “ah V 9
In another moment a small sqnare
box was disclosed to view, the wood of
it discolored almost to the hue of the
clay soil, which still adhered in lumps
to it.
“For heaven’s sake !” cried Mr. Van
derveldt, fairly overcome with excite¬
ment, “let us go in the house and di¬
vide the money, man—the money!”
The city man, with trembling hand,
lighted the gas. Mr. Priddy took up
the door mat and very carefully de
posited the befouled box upon it. The
shovel had scattered tho fragile lid,
and with the aid of a carving knife he
speedily pried open the splintered
fragments. Then, putting in his hand,
ho drew forth a small red canvas bag,
nearly round in shape, and tightly
bound with a cord at the mouth.
“Cut it!” cried the portly city gen
tleman, thrusting a knife into Mr.
Priddy’s hand, when that worthy had
been calmly trying to undo the knot
for about three minutes.
“I trust you are no longer inclined
to question the motive of my visit?”
said tho seedy man, passing the keen
blade through the string.
“Oh, hang it, no! There, open, do!
Ah!”
A largo heap of glittering gold rolled
out upon tho snowy tablecloth as Mr.
Priddy turned the canvas bag upside
down.
Both men stood regarding it for a
moment in silence; then Mr. Vender
veldt’s fat hand wandered mechanically
towards the little inle, and ho fell to
counting.
“Ah, that’s right!” saidMr. Priddy.
“See how much we have here.”
“Five hundred dollars,” announced
the city man, after a long interval of
silence.
“Good. I thought as much, Two
fifty each. A good night’s work, Mr.
Vanderveldt. ”
“My friend, you have behaved like
a gentleman. The money was all
within your grasp, yet you chose to
say : ‘No, it belongs to the owner of
the house!’ Give me vour hand, Mr.
Priddy!”
“And now let us divide!” continued
the city man.
“Stay!” One little favor, Mr. Van¬
derveldt. Two hundred and fifty dol¬
lars in gold is no light weight. Would
you give me paper for the amount,
your check or notes?”
“With pleasure,” replied Mr. Van¬
derveldt, and going to a desk he un¬
locked it, drew forth a cheek-book,
and filling iu a check for the amount
handed it to the seedy man, who, with
the greatest sang froid imaginable,
placed it in the breast-pocket of his
shabby jacket.
The two men sat awhile, smoking
and chatting, and then Mr. Priddy
took his leave and departed.
Again Air. Vanderveldt sat after
dinuer complacently surveying his
garden, this time in the company of
his wife and daughter. Again there
came a tap at the door, again the
servant maid announced a visitor, and
again she was directed to show him
iu.
A tall man in a frock coat entered,
bowing very politely to nobody in
particular, in a manner peculiar to
shop walkers.
Airs. Vanderveldt instantly recog¬
nized him as Air. Alercer, the silk
merchant, to whom sho was under
various pecuniary obligations.
“Very sorry to trouble you, sir, at
this unseemly hour,” said Air. Alercer,
with an apologetic glance at the table¬
cloth. “Do you remember settling
a little account of mine this morning,
sir?”
“I gave you eight eagles,” said Airs.
Airs. Vanderveldt.
The shopman put his hand into his
pocket and produced the eight pieces
of money which he laid upon the
table.
“You are a gentleman, sir,” said
he, bowing toward the fat city man,
“whose character stands too high to
leave room to doubt that what has oc¬
curred is more than a trifling and un¬
intentional mistake. But, sir, are
you aware that those eight eagles now
before you—the identical ones you
paid me, sir—are all of them counter¬
feit coins'?”
Mr. Vanderveldt turned pale. He
had taken the coins from the heap of
gold which the seedy man had dug
up the previous night.
For a couple of minutes he sat in
silence, staring vacantly at tho shop
man before him. Suddenly there was
j another rap on the door, and almost
before he could reply, a stout little
man bounced into the room.
“I beg pardon for intruding,” cried
he, in a coarse, excited voice, “but
; are yen aware, Mr. Aanderveldt. sir,
that that there money you paid me in
discharge ot my account this afternoon
was all bad? And he threw down
five eagles close to the silk merchant's
tittle heap.
Ihe two tradesmen exchanged looks,
The confusion of Mr. A anderveldt’s
mind rendered his stolid countenance
^ miserable than
more ever.
A vague suspicion was slowly taking
form in his mind. He rose and went
to his desk, from which he laboriously
drew forth the red canvas bag contain
ing the residue of the previous night’s
windfall,
This he emptied upon the table, und
takinu coin* frem th« h^ap M raedfus
he sounded them"upon the table. They
all fell dead as lead.
“Ha!” whispered the stout little
man to the urbane silk merchant,
“looks rummy, don’t it?”
Mrs. Vanderveldt came to the rescue
magnificently. She took in with the
full grasp of her woman’s mind the
eiguificanoe of the mistake which had
occurred, and which, unless dextrouslv
explained, would ruin her husband’s
reputation.
“My goodness, Corner !” said she to
her stupefied husband, as she exam¬
ined the coins under the gaslight. “Do
you know what you have done? Yon
haTe been paying accounts with the
card counters?”
And she forced a spasmodic little
laugh. Then, turning to the two
trades people, she said calmly :
“Mv husband has been subject to
fits of absent-mindedness of late. He
has been working too hard. I must
ask you to excuse this stupid blunder,
and if you will send in your bills
afresh they shall be paid without de¬
lay.”
The people accepted the explanation
without a word, bowed one after an¬
other, and quitted the room. Mr.
Cornelius Vanderveldt, with a little
groan, sank back into his armchair.
Suddenly, however, he struck his
massive brow a prodigious slap, and
sprang erect.
“That scoundrel!” he roared, “ho
has got my check for $250.—London
Tid-Bits.
Sioux Etiquette in Frying-Pans.
“There is a very peculiar custom
among the Sioux Indians,” said Eman
uel French, of Bismarck, North Ba¬
kota, who was at the Lindell yester
day. “The Indians take kindly to
European cooking utensils and aids to
comfort, and it is quite common for
an exploring or picnic party to trade
off kettles, frying-pans and the like
for skins or curiosities. A cooking
utensil thus acquired becomes practi
cally tho common property of the
tiibe, on the general understanding,
however, that whoever borrows it
shall pay for its use by leaving in it a
portion of the food cooked. As the
Indians seldom waste any time in
washing or cleaning eating or cooking
vessels, this practice has some con
venienees from a red man’s point of
view, and often a saucepan is returned
with quite large quantity of meat or
potatoes clinging to the bottom, and
perhaps covering up some of the re
mains of a preceding and entirely dif
ferent preparation. It is not long
since that an exploring party I was out
with lost its kettle, which had evi
dently jolted out of the wagon on the
bad road. After considerable hesita
tion one was borrowed from a friendly
squaw, and, after water had been
boiled in it three or four time, and it
had been well scoured out with sand,
it answered its purpose admirably.
When we were through with the ket¬
tle we thoroughly cleaned it and re¬
turned it, and it was not until an In¬
dian guide explained the custom that
we understood the look of supreme
contempt which came over the red
lady’s face when, on looking into the
inside of the kettle, she saw that it
contained no relic whatever of our
evening feast.”—St. Louis Globe*
Democrat.
Alligators and Tlieir Bogs.
“There is a generally believed theory
in regard to alligators’ nests,” said T.
E. Simpson, of Ocala, Fla., “which is
entirely erroneous. The popular idea
is that the mother alligator never goes
out of sight of her eggs, and that if
any one disturbs the nest his life in¬
surance policy is worth par in a very
few minutes. I was not an alligator
expert when I went down on Indian
River for the first time and was ignor¬
ant of the dire consequence of touch
iug alligators when they were still
bottled up in a shell in a liqu-d state.
Seeing a nest and three eggs on tho
bank of tho river, I captured them,
without seeing any maternal saurian,
and took them homo with me. Here
I put the eggs under a stove, and in
tho course of a few days they hatched
out. The reptiles first broke through
the sides of the shell, which remained
fastened to them by umbilical cords,
and did not free themselves from their
late places of residence for several
days. They were fierce from the mo¬
ment of birth, and would strike at any
one who approached them. Running
around with the egg still attached to
them their mouths wide open, they
presented a strange spectacle. Since
then I have robbed several nests when
the parent alligator was out calling
upon the neighbors, and I have never
yet caught a glimpse of any enraged
saurian hastening to avenge the ab¬
duction of her embryo offspring. The
nests are not found very frequently,
but when they are and there are no
reptiles in sight they can be robbed
with perfect safety to the robber.”—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Do Minerals Grow?
The discussions at tho meetings oi
the National Academy of Science, held
in Washington last week, brought up
the very curious question whether
there was not some sort of life in min¬
eral substances. It was asserted that
crystals certainly have the power of
growth. If injured or broken they
can, under favorable circumstances,
redevelop their characteristic forms.
A grain of sand broken from the parent
rock ages ago, and worn and polished
by the restless waves to a round ball,
will, if placed under certain condi
tions, resume its normal chrystallins
shape, with polished faces of geomet
rical regularity. In order to do this
j the injured crystal must be placed in
some solution of its own elements. —
New Orleans Picayune.
---—
Secret Glass Processes,
Hundreds of mirrors have been
ruined by lamps being placed close to
i them to assist in toilet jmrposes, and
the average glass seems to be excep
• tionallv mean in respect of tempera
j ture. Of late vears lamj) glasses have
been made by a secret process which
j makes them so tough that, even touched
j with a red-hot iron they will seldom
crack. Now an inventor lias gone a
j step farther and has produced a with- glass
which will stand a greater heat,
out bending *>r breaking, than iron,
If this can be put on the market on a
, commercial basis it will promptly buildin'g
revolutionize our ideas of
and enable much larger pane* of glass
! j to be used than is practwabie no 1 *,-*
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES
Just So—An Interrogative NNilsAnce
—A Cold Doth Make Us AH
Akin—League Colors
All Business, Etc.
A crimson-rosebud into beauty breaking,
A hand outstretched to pluck it ereit falls
An hour of tdumph, and a sad forsaking
An ancient tom cat on th® back veranda.
A bootjack raised, a solemn caterwaul.
A moment's silence and a quick departure,
And then a wasted bootjack—that is all.,
—Imiladelphia Li f .e.
EXF.1V where to LOOK FOR THE 'fEV,'.
“From whom is that letter, Jerjore?”
“It is from Mary.”
“Isthere anything importan4in it?”
“I don’t know, but I will look at
the postscript and see--”—Aver/ York
Press.
A SYNONYM FOR TROT JR’ -E.
“It isn’t getting into trouble that’s
hard, ” said the philosoph ical young
man; “it’s getting out of i 6.”
“Yes,” replied Willie Afishington,
“I think of that evewy titrie I twv to
wepose in a hammock,”—I iostqn Jour¬
nal. ,
AN INTERROGATIVE Mt'JSi NCE.
Johnny—“Pop, may I ask you a
question in arithmetic?”
Happy Father (proud of his son's
love for study)—“Certainly, my boy,
certainly. ”
Johnny—“How many times what
makes seven?”—Life.
A COLD DOTH MAKE VS ALL AKIN.
Airs. Motter—“Didn’t "Mrs. “Smith
say she’d never speak to you again
after you scolded her Johnny?”
Airs. Potter—“Yes; but site heard I
had a cold, so she couldn’t throw off
the temptation to run over and tell
me her cure.”—Truth.
LEAGUE COLORS.
“What are the colors of our team?”
asked the man who has nnt been to a
game.
“Grayish suits, red stockings and
yellow ball playing,” answered the
other man, who never mysses a game.
—Indianapolis Jonrnal.
ALL BUSTNESS.
Helen—“Poor, dear George must
be devoting himself to business strict¬
ly.”
Florence—“What makes you think
so, dear?”
Helen-*-“Why, he only writes me
twice a d«y now. ”—Chicago Tribune.
A .POSSIBLE CONDITION.
Alaud—“Fj-ank Plutus has proposed
to Carrie, but she says he has more
money than brains. ”
Edith--“Came doesn’t seem to con¬
sider that if he had more brains than
money it is not likely that he would
ever have proposed to her. ”—Boston
Transcript.
PULVERIZING.
Teacher—“Pulverized sugar is so
called because it is powdered. Do you
understand?”
Little Girl—“Yes’m. ”
Teacher— ‘ ‘Now construct a sentence
with the word ‘pulverize’ in it. ”
Little Girl—“You pulverize your
face!”—Good News.
ENLIVENING BUSINESS.
First Boy—“Why did you throw
that dead cat into that yard for ?”
Second Boy—“Don’t say a word.
They’ll think the next door neighbors
threw it in.”
“S’pose they do?”
“My pop’s a lawyer, and I want a
bicycle.”—Good News.
A REAL UNCIVIL SUIT.
“So you were in the courtroom?”
said the hostess to the guest.
“Yes, I was; aud I never shall for
git it to my dying day.”
“There was a civil suit in progress,
I believe?”
“Indeed it wasn’t. You jist should
hev heard how them lawyers talked to
the witnesses !”—New York Mercury.
HOW TO FOIL HIM.
“How in the world,” asked a Har¬
lem lady of a neighbor, “can I pre¬
vent my boy from stealing sugar out
of the sugar bowl and swigging milk
out of the milk pitcher?”
“I know how you can stop him,”
was the replv.
“How?”
“By simply putting the milk in the
sugar bowl and the sugar in the milk
pitcher. ”—Texas Siftings.
AND THE FACTS WERE PRESENTED.
“As to the measure in which we
hope to have the co-operation of the
City Council,” said the agent and pro¬
moter of the scheme, “there are some
facts which I should like to present to
you”—
The Alderman from the ’Steenth
Ward hastily led the way to a private
room.
“Well, he said, “I am ready for
whatever—h’m—facts you may have
to offer.”—Chicago Tribune.
A GOOD REASON FOR IT.
“I just detest that Mr. Bloomfield,”
said Miss Bellevue to her particular
lriend.
t<w , 7 „„
<<T I overheard \ j ,, Mr. Hiland telling , him .
1 was to be married soon, and what do
you suppose the wretch replied?”
I suppose he said he envied the
indegroom-eleet
Indeed he didn t say anything of
v.
PiffS “Up 6 Who ls i h e Tlct * m? -
Pittsburg OK Chronicle 1 Telegraph. r 1
fraternity.
The moon was just rising from a
bank of dense clouds as the burglar
reached through the hole he had made
in the back door and raised the latch.
He had scarcely crossed the threshold
when he started violently. “Aha !”
he muttered. It was not so much his
words as his manner. For an instant
his eyes rested hungrily upon the glit
tering silverware. Then his glance j
wandered the plumbers' tuels that |
Wfy« MArtmd bfeoet th« fl§en
he muttered; “this is another man’s
his Job mouth. and I won’t Retracing take the bread out of
his steps he
was soon lost to view.—Detroit Tri¬
bune. -
•V PIT IT JOB.
“Girls," he said dejectedly, as ho
sat with his head resting on his hand,
“girls make me weary.
What s the matter now?” inquired
his mother.
“Weil, he went on spasmodically,
I wont tn gee that Linwood girl last
1
month; wanted me to pop, I’m _ sure;
pt hinting _ ^ t
" e every night I went there
that I was staying too late ; but I never
took the hint; girls have a way of shy¬
ing at a chap iu that style; they read
about it in the papers; last night 1
made up my mind to nail her to the
mast; talked right along for I don't
know how long ; girl yawned two or
three times, but I never let up ; finallv
I got where I thought was the place
to make the break, and was just on the
point of asking her when the clock
began to strike ; I counted up to twelve
and had no idea it was so late; clock
kept on striking and I kind of gagged
aud had to stop for it; it didn’t stop,
though ; girl begau to snigger ; clock
kept right on; then I began to get
warm ; when the old clock had struck
sixty-seven it laid down and quit; then
before I had a chance to get my sec
ond wind, the old man sung out from
the head of the stairs: ‘Sav, Lizzie,
if that fellow is going to remain much
louger after the clock has struck sixty
seven, he won’t get home till some
time next week, will he?’ and I got up
and loft. Now, what do you think of
that, mother?” and the mother got tlio
camphor bottle and gave it to her boy,
—Detroit Free Press.
FATE OF A PUBLIC SPIRITED MAX.
The man who delights to impart his
knowledge to strangers was riding in
a street car the other day, and directly
opposite to him sat a young fellow
plenteouslv endowed with ears.
The knowledgeous man surveyed the
other with deep interest for a while,
and at last managed to catch his eye,
when he said;
“I saw something in the paper the
other day which would interest you.”
4 4 Were you speaking to me?” asked
the young fellow.
4 4 Yes,” was the reply, as the speaker
leaned across the aisle to get nearer to
the man he was taking to. “I was say¬
ing that I saw something in the paper
the other day which ought to be inter¬
esting to you, and which really ought
to reconcile you to your lot in life.”
“What on earth do you mean?”
By this time the attention of every
one was directed to the conversation,
and the answer was perfectly audible
all over the car.
“Well, the paper said that large ears
were a sign of generosity, and I—”
“It did, did it?” said the young man,
as he rose and seized the knowledgeous
man by the nose. “Aluch obliged for
the information.”
The man with the ears kept hold of
the other’s nose as he led him to the
platform, and then, with a deft kick,
propelled him into the street.
As the latter picked himself out of
the dust, he said to himself:
“It isn’t any use trying to benefit
people. If you happen to get hold of
a particularly consoling fact, the peo
plesio whom it would do the most good
don't seem to want to hear it. Such
is life.”—Harper’s Bazar.
The Vanishing Woman.
A juggler stepped at Aiadras on to
the deck of a Peninsula and Oriental
Company’s steamer, and offered the
company assembled, who were loung¬
ing about highly bored by the old
method of coaling, if they would sub¬
scribe, to show them something better
than common juggling. The collec¬
tion, of course, was forthcoming at
once; he cleared a space on the deck,
and told his wife to lie down. Tho
young woman, who may have weighed
seven stone, but more probably six,
lay down, and her husband placed
over her a shallow, flat basket, with a
handle at the back, exactly resembling
the baskets used for vegetables in
East Anglia aud called a “itail.”
Then, with a light and graceful ges¬
ture, he took up the basket, and laid
it down two or three feet off.
The woman had vanished, and the
audible amazement seemed deeply to
gratify the juggler.
'Unfortunately, ' the writer, essen¬
tially an awkward man, in stepping
back stepped on to the edge of the
frail, and heard a little cry of pain.
The whole thing had been a piece of
superb acting. The young- woman
had learned to hook herself with her
fingers and prehensile toes into the
strong matwork forming the top of
the frail, and the husband, a slight
but powerful man. had learned to lift
her as if he were lifting nothing but
the basket. The writer, of course,
said nothing about his awkwardness;
the juggler, after one savage glance,
said nothing either, and only two
years ago the case was quoted as one
of those only seen inladia, and which,
owing to the total absence of raa
chinery, could not be explained away.
—The Spectator.
An Interesting Bridge,
A novel and ingenious use that was
made some time ago of a rapid river
current in India aptly illustrates the
fertility of resource of the average en¬
gineering contractor. At a certain
point along the river a temporary
bridge was urgently necessary for the
transport of materials to be used in
the building of an important nei^h
boring structure, but the only avail
a bl e material was a quantity of three
inch planking, about'ten feet long and
a little over three feet wide, and some '
ordinary round timber cut from a
neighboring forest. Pontoons were
made ° f tw0 fcin S Ie P^nks, placed
about fifteen feet apart, each plank be
mg held on edge at an angle of about
fifty degrees from the vertical, both
inclining up stream, and kept at their
proper distance by framing made from
the round timber already mentioned,
Both pontoons were moored to a chain,
The peculiarity^ of the bridge, of
course, was that the water pressure
upon the inclined surfaces of the plank 3
due to a swift current, permitted them
to carry a considerable load, and the
structure served its purpose admir
ably, accommodating a pretty perio^* lively
traffic for unexpectedly locg
fun
LATEST TELEGRAMS
CONDENSED INTO SHORT AND
BREEZY PARAGRAPHS,
Ami Giving the Gist of the News Up
to the Time of Going to Press.
Mrs. Halliday, on trial for the mur¬
der of her husband and two women
named Quinlan, was convicted of mur¬
der in tho first degree at Monticello,
¥•» Thursday. No plea has been
put forward in her behalf except in¬
sanity.
Sometime Wednesday night Dr.
Gustavus Drolshagen and wife, who
live about a mile east of Lawtev, Fla.,
were murdered. The assassin entered
their room while they were asleep and
crushed their skulls with an ax. Rob
berv is supposed to have been the
motive. There is no clue to the mur
derers.
The B. F. Johnson Publishing Com¬
pany was chartered at Richmond, Va..
Thursday. The minimum capital is to
be $50,000, and maximum, $‘200,000.
ibe object is to issue histories and
other educational works that will be
satisfactory in to southern schools. Stock
the company lias been taken by
many leading citizens.
The Rome, Ga., rolling mill and
cotton tie factory, recently purchased
by Air. Harper Hamilton, will resume
operation. It paid well before and
only stopped because of litigations.
I he property has been leased by Ore¬
gon hands capitalists and a large force of
will be put to work. The uum
of employes will probably be over 200.
Two life term murderers made their
escape from tho Tennessee state peni¬
tentiary Wednesday night and their
departure was not discovered until
after 6 o’clock Thursday morning;
then a rope«was found dangling from
a chimney on the east end of the pris¬
on. The men were West Alorris, from
Perry county, and Felix Etliingtou,
from Lake county.
Another lawsuit or series of suits
has sprung out of the defunct dispen¬
sary scheme at Columbia, S. C. Wil¬
liam E. Byrd, an ex-saloon keeper,
commenced a claim and delivery pro¬
ceedings in Trial Justice Stack’s court
against the keeper of the state dispen¬
sary, Traxler, for a barrel of whisky
seized and confiscated by dispensary
constables a few days before the law
was declared unconstitutional. If the
suit is successful it will be followed by
numerous others.
A Birmingham, Ala., special of
Thursday says: Tho fire in the Alary
Lee mines is still raging furiously.
Further developments show the disas¬
ter to have been worse than was at first
reported. Out of the 130 men in the
mines at the time the fire was discover¬
ed, fifty were overcome with smoke
and were dragged out. Four men are
dead, and two more, John White and
J. A. Barker, are expected to die at
any moment. Twenty more are still
under the treatment of physicians.
Captain E. P. Howell on his return
from New York says that there is lit¬
tle new to say with regard to the Cen¬
tral’s reorganization plan, but all par¬
ties interested are still working on it. He
said that Drexel, Alorgan & Co., have
refused to take charge of any plan that
does not receive the approval of Re¬
ceivers Comer and Hayes. The 42,000
shares will cut a big figure and the
holding of that stock by the terminal
Company, Captain Howell says, will
be the cause of saving tho stock held
down south.
Alarion Butler, president of the Na¬
tional Farmers’ Alliance, presided
at the meeting of the populists’ state
executive committee at Raleigh, N. C.
The plan of organization was revised.
A new feature is the system of election
of committees, each set of committee¬
men electing the one next higher. The
basis of representation of state con
ventions is made one to each fifty votes
cast two years ago, and two delegates
at large from each county. The com
mittee prescribed qualifications for
eligibility to primaries.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
south for the past week shows that there
is now a reasonable prospect of an early ter¬
mination of the miners’ strikes. The miners
themselves are realizing the hopelessness of
their expectations of higher wages, and that
the condition of business does not permit any
advances at present. Tho fact that the coal
output has steadily continued, although in de¬
creased proportions, lias done much to con¬
vince them that they will g'rve their best in¬
terest by resuming work. The iron producers
are preparing for increased business as soon as
fuel is to bo had in sufficient supply. Prices
continue to be irregular, with a larger demand
for some grades.
Jn other lines of industry there is no change
of importance. The texile mills are running on
full time, and the lumber manufacturers are
still selling their outputs at low prices.
Thiriy new industries were established or in¬
enlargements corporated during the week, together with ten
of manufactories, and eighteen
important new buildings- Among the ir.ora
prominent new industries of the week are: A
40,000 spindle cotton mill at Pelzer, 8. C.; the
Petit Jean Coal Company, of Magnolia, Ark.,
capital Huntington. $500,000; the Mingo Coal Company, of
W. Va-. capital $100,000; and the
Lampasas Water, Ice and Electric Company,
of 8 Lampasas, E Conn Texas, with £30,000 capital. The
Lumber Company, capital $25,000,
has been chartered at Louisville. Ky.; anelec¬
trical company wi h $20,000 capital at Pensa¬
cola, Fia., and the Spartanburg, 8. C., Hedge
Fence Company has been organized, capital
$15,000.
There is also reported canning factories at
Angleton, Texas, and Huguenot, Va; at $10,000
brick making plant at Glen Easton, Va., an
electrical power company at Scotland Neck,
N. C.; flour and grist mills at Seale, Ala., and
Almond, Va., and gas works at Helena, Aik.
An ice factoiy will be be built at Elizabetli
town, horse Ky.; a knitting mill at Winchester, Va.;
shoe works at Orland >, Fla.;coke ovens,
50 in number, at Big Stone Gap, Va., and
a tannery at New Decatur, Ala. Woodwork¬
ing plants are reported at Florence, Ala.,
It used ale and Rosetta, Miss-, Ashboro, N. C.,
Dyersburg, Tenn., and Lynchburg, Va.
Water works are to be built at E izabethtown
ported and Shelbyville, the Ky. The enlargements re¬
for week include b:ick works at Dan¬
ville, Va., chemical works at Itome, Ga-, iron
works at Bessemer, Ala., Lowrnoor and Rad¬
ford, Va., a cotton mill ftt Atlanta, Ga-, and
wood working plants at Bridgeport, Ala., and
Wilmington, N. C.
Among the new buildings of the week are
business houses at Jasper, Fla., Kershaw, 8- C
Fort Worth, Tex-, and Lynchburg, Va.;
churches at Jacksonville, Fia., and Weatbers
ford, Va.; a JOO-room hotel at Atlanta, Ga., and
$250,COO to cost office $25,000 at Charleston, 8. C.; a
and school buildings building at New Orleans, Da.,
ka, Texas.—Tradesman, at Midway, Ky., and Itas
(Chattanooga, Term j
The countries of the world where
have women already have some suffrage
an area of over 18,000,000 square
miles, and their population is ovei
850.000.000.
A wan i« usually toogt di*Un*'!ish-ff
•Hit he is 5*tinfui#fe«d
A BIG CONFERENCE
*
HELD IN NEW YORK IN THE IN¬
TEREST OF THE SOUTH.
A Large Attendance—Tho Proceed¬
ings In Brief.
Tho parlors of tho Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York City, were not largo
enough to accommodate tho southern
New Yorkers, and the delegates from
the south proper, who met there
Thursday to discuss and further ma¬
terial development in the southern
states. There were representatives pres¬
ent from every southern state, except
Mississippi. The meeting was called
to order by Mr. D. B. Dyer. Col.
Hugh lv. Garden, the distinguished
looking ex-president of the Southern
Society, was unanimously chosen
chairman and Air. J. C. Bayne was
made secretary. Mr. Garden made a
very patriotic, as well as practical,
speech of welcome aud closed by as¬
suring the heartiest co-operation of all
New Yorkers when the southern people
united on a sound business program.
Air. Garden, of Columbus, Cm., in
trodueed a resolution, which was
adopted, to appoint a committee eou
sisting of eight from New York and
nine from the south, to find the best
method of putting the resources of the
south before tho country. It was de¬
nominated the committee on plan and
scope.
MR. SMITH SPEAKS.
After the adoption of the resolution
there were loud calls for Secretary
Smith. He spoke in part as follows:
“If yon can place the resources of
the south before all other port ions of
the country and before the foreign
countries, great benefits must come to
all those w ho have interest in southern
investments.
4 4 I am one of those who believe that
there is to be found in tho south a
force w hich cannot fail to build up tho
section. But when the true condi¬
tions are appreciated hero and abroad,
then you will receive an impetus from
the outside which will place the south
in a few years in a position of greater
progress and development than w ill be
found in any other portion of the
Union. (Applause.)
“Today wo have no race problem in
the south, but the white man and the
negro work side by side in peace;
today the presence of the negro in the
south is no obstacle to immigration.
It should be understood that we have
millions of acres, but that only one
half of them are under cultivation.
“It should he known that tho bal¬
ance of these lands can be purchased
at low rates.
“What an opportunity is offered for
home seekers to find profitable invest¬
ments in the south? The mineral re¬
sources throughout the south are more
numerous than in any other part of
the country, but have hardly begun to
bo developed. They offer honest, sub¬
stantial returns, not speculative re¬
turns, for we don’t want speculation,
but good, honest industry.”
Then ho referred to the southern
climate and to the fact that no indus¬
trial armies had appeared in the south.
He closed with an eloquent appeal for
all to get to work for the south, lie
was heartily applauded.
Ex-Congressman Hemphill made a
short talk and tho meeting took five
minutes recess. At this point Air.
Jack Spaulding introduced resolutions
endorsing the Atlanta exposition which
passed unanimously.
After several felicitous speeches in
regard to Atlanta’s prosperity, the
convention adjourned until Friday.
A HAPPY HOME NOW.
Mother—You say your husband no
longer spends his evenings at tho
el u b ?
Daughter—I soon broke him of
that.
“How did you manage?”
“Before going to bed I put two
easy chairs close together by the
parlor fire, arid then held a match to
a cigar until the room got a faint
Vlor of smoke.”—[New York Weekly,
TOO SUGGESTIVE.
Dedude—Well, a fool and his
money are soon parted!
Lister—How much have you lost
1 at el y ?—f Hal 1 o.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries,
Coffee— Roasted—Arbucklo’s 22 25 D 100 lb.
CRses, Levering’s 22.25c. Green—Extra
choice 20c; choice good HD; fair 18c; com¬
mon 17c. Kugar---Granulated ce;
powdered 5%c; cut loaf •X
white extra O 4c; New Orleans yellow clari¬
fied 4c; low extra C 3%e. Syrup—
New Orleans choice 45c; prime 35(®40c; common
20@30c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@38c; nn
Station 22^25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40@60c. Nutmegs 65@85c. innamon ]0@12H
Al spice 10<®Llc. Ginger 18c. Singapore pepper
11c, Mace $1. Rice, Head Re; good 53^;common
4%c-, imported Japan 5@5%e. Salt— H iwlev’s
da ry $1.40; Virginia 70c. Cheese-flats VZ(cb 12%;
White fish, half bbls. $4-00; pails" Ole;
Mackerel, Tallow, half barrels, $6.00@150. Heap.
100 bars, 75 lbs $8.00(83 75.
Caudles—rarafine turpentine, 00 bars, 60 lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
400s $4 11c; star 11c. Matches—
00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s
5gross $8 75. Soda-Kegs,hulk 4%c; do 1 lb pkgs
5%c; cases, 1 lb 5%c, do 1 and %lbs 8c, doj^lb
6j^c. Crackers—XXX soda 5>£c; XXX butter
6%c; 7c; XXX pearl oysters 63^c;shell and excelsior
lemon cream 9c; XXXginger snaps 9c; corn
hills 9c. Candy—Assorted stick 6c; French
mixed 12al2%. Canned goods-Condensed Milk,
$6 00a8 00; imitation mackerel$3 95a4 00. Sal¬
mon $5 25a5 50: F. W. oysters $175; L VV
*135; corn $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Bali potash $3 10. Starch—rear! 4c; Lump.
4>V ; nickel packages $3 10; celluloid $5.00,
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 00a! 40; quarts,
$1 50a 1 80. Powder—Rifle, kegs $3.25; VAegs,
$1 90; % kegs$l 10. Shot $1 35 per sack.
Flour, (.rain ami Meal.
Flour—First patent $4 25; second patent
53.75; extra fancy $3.15; fancy $3 00; family
42.75. Corn-No. 1 white 62 1 . No. 2
white, 61c. Mixed, 60c. Oats, Mixed
£0c: white 57c; Seed rye, Georgia,
75a80e- Hay—Choice timothy, lartro hales,
95c. No. 1 timothy, large bales, 95c; choice
timothy, small bales, 95c: No. i timothy, small
bales, 90c; No. 2 timothy, small hales, 82j^c.
Meal—Plain 60c: ; bolted 57c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks 90c, small sacks 95c. Cotton¬
seed meal—$1 3u per cwt. Steam feed—$1.10
per cwt. Stock peas $1.25al.30. Grits—
Pearl $3.20
C'ounrrv Produce.
Eggs 13j^c- Butter—Western creamery
22%a25c. l ancy Tennessee 15al7%c; choice,
10a 12%; other grades 6* 10c. Live poultry—
Turkeys Spring 7®8c per lb; hens 22^a25c.
Duck-i, 20a22%c. chickens, large 25 to 30c;
Dressed poultry—^Turkeys
Irish 12j^al5c; ducks, 12%al5c; chickens, 10al2>D
potatoes, 2.75 pel bbl. Fanov, per
bushel $1.10a$1.15. Sweet potatoes 90ca$l.
per K>al2 bu. y Honey—Strained, Onion* $1 8al0c : in the comb,
% c. 60a per bu. Hlf bbl. sacks
$2.00a2.25. Per bbl. $3'00a3.60. Cabbage, 2c,
Provision*.
Clear rib sides, boxed 7c, ice-cured bellies
9c. Sugar-cured hams I l%al3e, according
to brand and average) California, Ojtfo. break
test bacon 13c, Lafdj i«af Compound 6#
S&MUst 8 1*#$