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MY TWO LOVES.
tlo*(wo««amn Mk« ^,. M|
A:v, 1.War,h.. ,h. .»..»< „a.„,
Full of wiso ! i' Yif
lml . Ioa r-Iik . to , all my w follies blind.
t he other, like a tender, blooming r®?o,
Sl.-ii.ing Its sw‘' f -!a upon the air,
Shnke* in my h^art love'* odors and doth
hear
Lite's w" (est pleasure* as she goes.
i love them fondly—unto f>oth I’m true—
Nay, !>lum« mo not' nor deem me free of
speech. %
1’or I am loya! still and just to eaoh !
fine Is my mother, and one, nvreot, is you.
—Uolan l Southern, in Home and Country.
THE LOST IDEAL.
e\ i r* I RANDA
l was a,
charming little
e °\ 0 girl of seventeen;
rd ’ she was also a
bundle of contra
'X diction s—cul¬
5 V tured and crude,
clever and fool¬
UK ish, sentimental
and very much
alive to tlio ri
diculous. H li '■
UHH also extremely pretty. Her
father, the rector, and all his family
were go ilia), cheery folk, who laughed
and grew fat. Miranda was rather
ashamed of her own keen sense of fun,
wliich belonged, she supposed, to her
“lower nature." She liked to pose to
herself ns Earnest, with lofty ideas of
'Ui°> love aud the dignity of woman
hood.
Imb ed, an ideal Ferdinand (she al
ways thought of him as “Ferdinand”)
already haunted her maiden raedita
tions—an adorable being, undreamed
of in niaturt r philosophy; a splendid
guest, to whom tho doors of her heart
Averr to fly open ; a Ferdinand^who
seemed, ala- ! very unlikely to be cast
on tho shores of lmr conventional aud
dreadfully comfortable little exist
dice.
One September the beaming rector,
whose beams hud never been obscured
except when his only child’s mother
died ten years before, called to Miran
da from his study Aviudow.
“Chick !” cried ho. He often called
her “Chick!” and sho did not mind
much, although tho dignity of
womanhood might boa little hurt.
Miranda, who was watching in the
garden with«rough -edged, parchment
bound poet, stopped and looked up.
“Cluck, would you like to come to
London with me for a week?”
“Yes, papa,” said she, in a little,
languid voice, and with a dreamy
gaze beyond him into infinity.
She had very nearly tUligLity jumped for
joy. but recollected of
,1,,,,,,I ,« I uuo. and waital until
ehogot.ntohero,,, ro„,, rheu.be
They Avent to the house of her
father s sister in Loudon. She was a
rich and lively old maid, then daily
curing a backache at some German
baths, and spending most of her
chin with much cheerfulness up toC. ^
in them.
The happy old parson, Avlicg did not
often give himself a li'. yAh jvV enjoyed
it thoroughly and* so md Miran’da.
JF 1 ' 1 5 I his chick to all the amusing
* things that wore to be had in Septem
ber, and that Avere respectable. Among
Mi!-* V 1 * Ml j°' s< D u '> where
H 1 I. '* ‘ 11 n ' r culture, dig
■j -
i 1 ?, H1 wT T (1 SCV0U ’
Li n laughed n 1 1 together till they 4 cried.
e moi mug ie rector had to go
u •' “ u 'UMiiess aud left
. uamhi all alone. Sho meant to re
Gim m uneasy chair _ and read Brown
ing; but mIio got rather strained over
“Hordello, Avhich many ivho can run
cannot read.
Now Miranda, reclining on her easy
chair, found it so much easier than
BioAvning that she fell asleop.
She avrs shocked at herself when she
ftAvoko and found the poet prone at
her feet. However, she got up,
stretched her arms and thought she
avouUI explore tho three drawing
rooms in search of new toys and
curiosities, of which her aunt was a
great collector.
She came to the smallest room at
the end, and oven as she crossed the
threshold her eyes fell on-a face !
She stopped short, thou went forward
Avith clasped hands and stood to gaze,
It was only the photograph of a verv
handsome young man stuck into the
hist, leaf of a photograph screen stand
ing on a little table, but in that mo
ment Miranda thought she foretasted
\ dXl
>tne% Tn ° i
Ksss genius and sw H L‘mT?o
fui iwtl out ? M tfi ! I'f Wlth f a e- *
out even a ima^ hi „ COmpamo n8
there -'.lw Tl e ; 5 1 u o supersenp- .
n n, ,, °T g f
!.n, Ttt ;r V s root
Tin, oulv added the fitting tonoh of
mystery.
Miranda could not ' •ring herself to
replace and resign Avhat seemed al
most sacredly her own, almost Heav
en-sent. } the .
F>r rduand lin.nl Ini mtoherpocket. and when
he rector and his daughter wont home
to the rectory Ferdinand went too.
thereafter Miranda.spent much time
in contemplation of that sun-pictured
faee. In point of fact it was a badly
executed photograph for there was a
harness in some ox the deta.K This
however, enhanced its significance m
Alirianda s eyes, and appeared to her
to imply a peculiar value in tho por
,r “" » » r»rtwit. imlepcnXeul of its
merits as a Avork of art.
lorhapsi’she ,, , , some .. trnes ioudlj . „ con
jccturedi the original was some young
poet huh.,g buns,If from fame,
lug huuselt a,oo, with nroud fastidp
ousness, tar from the madding crowd .
ignoble strife. rhe portrait had
probably boon obtained by stealth by
some worshiping amateur photo-
rapher.
Miranda passed the winter in trem
bliug expectation, half hoping, half
dreading that her aunt would iu some
of her letters allude t tae missing
treasure, and at the same time tear
the veil from its mystery ; but uo such
enlightenment came, and in Miy Mir
anda was to go and stay in London
with her father s ststev.
Meanwhile, only two tluugs hap
peued to her at the rectory. One wa>
her eiRUteentk birthday, the other an
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSYTH, v GA-. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1894.-EIGHT PAGES.
offer of marriage from her father’s
fh.^hetjh'ied'‘UStaSuL Lo.Llf icVea] 7 1“ ° MB “*
| ,o
I he curate was a good young man
— handsome, too, with good brains,
good heart and good expectations. He
waa devoted to Miranda, and his sober
faQ cy had never pictured anything eo
fair and sweet as this reality. She
i‘ke< him very much indeed, appre
ciated his pleasant talk, his pleasant
7;V ! * r was f i n ite impossible to
1 1Z ilJJ *
He poor young ecclesiastic was very
unhappy when she refused him. He
< r smi t-i again for at least a week,
!l \ \ *' u lis P » U ;,l K.ness - hlTnbelt manfully, together, and, went be
! ng <>h \ / a certain old versicle,
limn* . it to himself as he went:
Quit, quit for shame ! this will not move,
This cannot take her
.
If of herself she will not love,
Nothing will make her-—
l t r excellent
, young
' C ?r D D0Ver “ um ?\ ed the kst line
M li! d> , ' hS C ? C e ’ WhlcU 1 also carc '
‘
fn May Miranda fand Ferdinand)
went to London, where the pretty
country girl was a good deal admired,
nud enjoyed herself very much.
deed, she was pronounced bewitching ;
there was no monotony about her, and
there was a touch of innocent coquetry,
truth to say, Ferdinand failed a little
from her thoughts at this time, as
photographs are apt to fade. Still,
1J o gilded youth had pushed him from
displace.
Soon after she reached her aunt’s
house Miranda had gone into that
third room; but everything there was
differently arranged, and the pliolo
K x ’ a l>b screen had disappeared. She
dared ask no questions about it.
One day after breakfast her aunt
read a letter that seemed to give her
considerable pleasure.
“Mo dear,” said she, “Charlie’s
coming.”
“Who is Charlie?” asked Miranda,
who had never heard of him before.
“Me dear,” replied her aunt, rather
solemnly, “Charlio is the son of me
first and only love; tlio man I should
probably have married if ho hadn’t
preferred some one else. ”
“Oh, poor auntie!” said Miranda
with ready sympathy.
“Not at all, me dear ! I should have
been poor if I’d married him, for he
would have spent all me money. He
hers.” married a richer woman, and spint " all
“And lie is alive now?”
“No, mo dear—both dead lon« ti4r a*o Sut
Ho got himself killed by a
in India, and it killed hei too Not
tho tiger, but the loss of her husband
Indeed, then, sho avus far fonder ivelTofi of
him than I ever was. Some
»-l« looM after their W. an,I got
hnt, ,nto the R O. Ho been ntCau
writes me word W» coming borne,
S ve d«Wi'" wnTn i’« e| 0 H t l'“ ' a M U V «Text ^
mtmm 1 lut “« O ‘‘ ar!0e e e . “ ext
MHKdid JTfTjPFlteWix as she avus bidden in a
i agitation-- An oxquis
’ te possibility i, ad -occurred to her.
Could this be the original? Could
Charlio bo Ferdinand?
“Is—is ho nice, aunti j?” sho asked,
tremulously.
“Well, Oli, me dear, you’llseeforyour
self. yes 1 Charlie s nice enough,
nit not so nice or handsome as liis
ij°° r thcr ,’ m e brst ftud OQly loye -
However, that , s ancient history now ;
and there s no doubt I should have
been a tried ivoman. Goodness knows
I never grudged him to his wife, and
maybe if I d married him I mightn't
have grudged him to the tiger quite
as much'as sho did.”
Thursday came ; the guests came—
more than could ever get upstairs,
Charlie arrived early and didgetup
stairs. His hostess, glorious in green
velvet and diamonds, pounced on him,
took both his hands, and kissed him
before the assembled multitude,
Presently Miranda made her ap
penranee, and, beiug effusively intro
duoed to each other, they went off to
tho ball room little® together. Miranda’s
heart beat a faster when they
met; for one moment she had seemed
to recognize the beautiful dark eves
of Ferdinand. But ah, no, no !
round, foolish face, inclined to be
chubby, that nose, inclined to be
smibby, that, wide month, forever
widened by a schoolboy grin! Hy
perion to a satvr ! Aud as for those
eyes, there was no speculation in
them, and it would have been
“ u] ? ed tobua ^ iusaud S r
their shadows, 1 thought Miranda as
c, tris rt;,v„r s&
vagnolv disappointed aud ratappy.
and had a paudul dream of a distorted
£f ? barb dlRaud ® Cam Photographed ® to ™cheon on next a spoon. day.
Miranda was tired and a little cross;
UU : b0rnbly ^teresting.
££/ v S“no7“ ™ %eal -Te
chattered like an ape and was .puteas
ngl> » his t a es were not the least like
Ferdinana s. He was an imposter ; he
bored her; she wished he would go.
He and her aunt had all the talk to
themselves; ,, , Miranda sat by silent , and
glum, and said she had a headache.
bhe was only half conscious that
Charlie was babbling and bragging of
his exploits ontlie ice in Carnula; she
only half heard what he said when he
asked her aunt if she had ever got the
photos lie sent her a year before.
‘Nine ot our skating club aud the
do you call it ?-you Know
“Oh. ves, said her aunt; “f got
them, and put them all into a photo
graph sor«a. It ased to ataad ott »
table in the third room upstairs. I
dare sax it s somev. here up there,
Let us go and look for it
-rhotogtaph screen.- The wolds
. woke up Miranda like a pistol shot
At lnst-nt las ! And what was going
to happen? lb., her sm to find her
out? No. she would never confess,
| but she felt very guilty, and shook m
her shoes. However, she managed to
Avalk upstairs iu them behind her
aunt, Avith Charlie at her heels,
j In the third room her aunt pulled
' the drawer of cabinet. “Here it
a
is ’ said she, • folded up as flat as a
( pancake”—and she gave it to Charlie,
who folded it.
“Yes,” cried he, with his wide
lungh, “her. we all are! But I say,
where’s the—the—combination—com
posite —what’d you'd call it? Nine of
i us blended iuto one, you know—the
| new dodge. What’s beiom«ofit?
1 Sv J?”- 1 Whi‘, **"!* .ulT.'Ter? « ““’V-T fro
Jo
you ill? Here, sit down. Where's
j the eau-de-cologne?”
Miranda sat down. She did feel t
I little faint for an instant while she
realized the truth aud Ferdinand
j melted into space; but then the sup
pressed fun in her “lower nature"
jumped up like a Jack-in-the-box on
the phantom heels of the vanishing
rerdinand, and bhe went o'\ into peals
on peals of inextinguishable laughter.
They were ratbered frightened; her
aunt slapped her hands, Charlie
emptied the bottle of eau-de-cologne
over her, and I am afraid she slapped
him.
j J “she ‘‘Me hysterical poor elii’d, said her aunt,
s
"I m nothing of the sort," gaspe 1
Miranda, trying to stop laughing, go
ing off again and speaking in spasms,
“Oh, oh, oh ! it’s too, too. too funny!
Oh, oh, oh ! that I should fall in love
-with nine men-at one! No, no,
| no ! Avith nine—bits of men ! Oh, ob,
; oh! a thing—of shreds and—patches!
Ob, oh, oh, oh! shall I ever, ever,
| ever stop laughing?’’
i -
Miranda went homo in July, a mar
rier and a wiser girl. In October sIk
married her faithful curate, whose
only rival had been Ferdinand.—Lou
don Society.
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Napoleon’s Miraculous EscamJ
In T „ reply to *i the question *• m what , . en
ie consu erei ums_ i o
Z danger o ;
</. / IP ,,npnpim<MU U
*
/. mr ° / my tArn
n „<. •> t ,, r .
'+\ \ q, ^ la U 4 i ie ' !'
neLssa^v f ,,, , , . 0 ^
! toad ltha* dmmg th* the .eu
'“j 5 ° s f v ;l P° non, m a. ^
. • ,
l °i l li H Kl ' OUt -'' Vo,xni i ,J lIS
hacI i tbr ®f h °rses shot under him,
ew^dition f, P gyi ’ h 1o “° leAe '
, f . Tro *i
tl ' s u ;. rr ie
° ' ’.
. v i, 1 T Y> c r xsa PP om . tu eui .mi
work'It ; .n , is'sakHhat^hr^oin^of i hi!
•
f ''ILTfho 'in, °'” ^
1 111 1 ciy ° ' lytlt
' ’.,
tb ,, ®‘ 3 “ nonB P are * g
Napoleon v., fought f } un sixty P f battles, cai while , e .f
f fty * T ? 4 ? e !"?
part of Ins caieer r lie was utteily f leek
°/, dl angei while on the lattlefield,
ffq Sp jt ! ° feailessness cou *
* llbllt ® d i laigel , > f to the love and esteem
held by his armies.
^ n be y? wa ? a ?J Napoleon lrlo " s b f a luit time . that he
gliy, fraied \f not Tn a eoTarfiy manner, "
fron, . M ,o S in g bintoelf. Noth
ZtCZ h. se’veral
times severely wounded, but, as bo
behet that gmA tortnue never av
serted him, and that, like Achilles, he
was Avell nigh invulnerable, he always
made a secret of his many dangers,
Ho therefore enjoined, once for all,
upon the part of his immediate staff
the most absolute silenca regarding all
circumstances of this nature, for it is
almost impossible to calculate the con
fusion and disorder which would have
resulted from the slightest report or
the smallest doubt relative to his ex
istsnee. Upon the single thread of
this man’s life depended not only the
f ft te and government of a great em
ph-e, but the Avhole policyanddes
tiny*of * Europe as well. —Chicago,Her
aid. “
A Gun’s Jacket.
The experimental nickel steel gun
Avas partially jacketed at. the Wash¬
ington Navy Yard yesterday by the
use of the Sellers system of jacketing.
There is an inner and an outer jacket,
and yesterday was devoted to shrink¬
ing on the inner jacket. The tub was
lowered iuto the jbt. Then the inner
l 5 p°itft - mnace and heated to
, ^ l^n ^
1) - \ botIH’oiote Unw-pUn 1
f Ue - tube s , B JJ ’ r AT t ^? “f’ P th aud ® ft* h ® ncere fr . ° m -
bU U _ n nsion
-
'\r Tev I Aleel c,nio ^ sn P erm . :
th . “w L ^!"T ^ a ^ a °
and 7 i acket ’, aad _* «* ^ ord °. f command r7
bttb " ue u0 " a tbreo feet a mm '
ute toivard the projecting end of the
tubei When withiu a short distance
{ the tube the speed of drop was in
— " ^ c e s r “ ,he
' „"coId h , stream‘of
M«u>*Mle
, vater was shoot i a g up the tube and
falli £ dofrn the sides on the interior.
The oket fell iuto plase all right and
thc work proved successful.
The advantage claimed by the Sel
l^ Z bTmide’Sd
finished in one piece and shrunk on.—
Washington ° Star,
A Foltleil Gold Y'eiu.
Harold W. Fairbanks describes in .
the Engineering and Mining Journal a
peculiar formation in the Julian and
j Banner gold districts of San Diego
County, Ualifornia:
The vein takes the form ox a eucces
! fion of rolls descending at a.somewhat
ess angle than the slate. Toe dip ot
the mica slate is seventy degrees to
the northeast, while the vein as a
i AA-hole has a dip of sixtv degrees.
Each roll or fold has the same dip as
he slates but the suceess.re folds fo -
low each other into the hanging wall,
Laen succeedmg fold is, as a rule,
- lower than the preceding; that is,
| each downward bend is longer than
the upward one. As far as has beet
observed m this mine the slates or.
not folded to correspond with tbs
vein.
_
How It Lost Its Name.
Botanists tell us that the piant whicli
everybody calls nasturtium is no:
really one at all. Nasturtium is the
botanical name for watercress, but be
cause this plant, with it; flat, circula;
leaves and beautiful red and yelio«
< blossom, happened to taste like water
cress it lost its own name, “tropoe
j olum,” and will probably never get it
, back again except iu books.—Next
, York Advertiser.
CORKWOOD.
-
GROVES IX SPAIN AN D PORTU
gal supply the world.
The l aiteil States t se an Enormous
Quantity -Promising Plantations
1 F,orida and ^allforaU
| f ,n a ^ ork *»etory.
-
A r iHEREisno country where so
I ^ much corkwood is used as in
I America. At u agh esti
mate it is probable that over
I 100,00f’ bales ere annually imported.
The ’eadiug purpose for which it is
used is 1 forming bungs and stoppers for
,
i bottles’and other vessels containing
-
ploye«fin liquids, but a great deal is also • m
' the manufacture of life pre
servers, cork jackets and belts and in
the construction of life boats.
count of its lightness it is often used
for the soles of shoes and for hat
linings. Artificial legs and arms are
made <*f it, bicycle handles aud pom
mels in leather dressing.
In the new invention of “maeko
life plaster boards” cork clipping plavs
an important part. Cork was not used
for stopping bottles until the end of
the seventeenth century, though
Horace speaks of the ancient Romans
using it as a stopper for their wine
vessels.
; All the corkwood imported into
America comes from Spain and Porta
g«! There are cork groves in South
America, culture but they have not been uu
der as long as the European
ones , and £ the wood is consequentlv 1
t . oar§e hJ| ld in{erior in qualif A f.
£’ ers fine corkwood, but the cost
of distanceii transporting it such a tremendous
l>r renders it practically uua
vailable the American market.
The c | of the United States is
perrect] | adapted to the growth of
corkw0( stated aud large plantations have
been in Florida and California,
be.t a tr ip i attains the age of twenty
b I re tbe first cutting takes
place, a then the yield is rough, uu
even, ai coarse m texture and called
“virgin vk." It can be used only for
rustic av k, or as a tanning substance.
Afc the s A|s | OU(1 stripping of the trees,
the bar still so coarse as to be onlv
for mBping floats, etc. As the
eration only on-In J )stripping the trees occurs
vi every ten years, it will
probabl be Lerican at least forty years be
iore praMcal tbe ; cork groves are of
axx y theReantime use.
in j the United States
wiU fiavt p depend on the cork groves
of Spai ®om \ and Portugal. Cork is
brought | Spain by vessels which
return aimmish] i; en , vith graiu? an(1 thus
the priee of transportation.
TJie cov ^ ood j s )nifc np in bales
1 to ™ ^
E&JSJ ,^Te X la'Sne^ efSe^iac^ ‘ The
T ~ m'odiaWy
above f louder i round and tbe other ini- '
media,eh Hi the spring of the
. lu a,-„ c hes. Then four
i na i inoigbns are made the utmost
care bei taken not to infnrp tn*
bark.
q< be co is afterward removed in
sorlmg^JL *},« o*«fi nn i ;«+« wedge-,bfped
it tho
handles of the instrument used in
ma kiug the incisions. After the outer
surface has been scraped and cleaned
the pieces are flattened by heating
them over a lire and submitting them
to pressure on a flat surface. In the
heating operation the surface is
charred and this closes up the pores
and what is called “nerve” is given to
the Avood.
The quality of the eorkAvood im¬
proves Avith each successive stripping
and they live and thrive under the
operation for about 150 years. The
tree reaches an average of about thirty
feet.
In a cork factory the first uork that
. , -
done . assorting . the Avood
is is accord
mg to the diameter; the wood is then
taken to the boring machine, where
the lnstiument which bores the corks
revolves 120 times within a second,
The cutting of corks by machinery
be f E f° ur| d to be a matter of much
difficulty, owing to the cutting edges
becoming blunt and the necessity of
keeping them sharp. A great deal of
the work is still done by hand labor,
but a Scotch firm introduced a ma
ehine which cuts corks and bungs of
any diameter up to three and one-half
inches, either parallel or tapered, and
by the aid of which a mau can tuvu
off six gross of corks per hour.
The tapering machine is often ruQ
by little girls, as it is very easily
managed. A small spring forces the
corks up under a circular knife, Avhich
runs on a level, then drops them into
a basket below. The girls are em
ployed to feed the machines. In eight
hours sixty or seventy-five gross of
corks can be tapered.
They are then carried to the “sort¬
ing benches” and graded as to quality.
The best quality are used for “pre¬
scription corks.” A great deal
judgment is require! for “.offing,”
and girls are not generally put at this
work until they have had five years’
training at the tapering machines,
The corks are next put up in five
gross i packages for the tradeau.1 gro/s. range
n price from two cents to $5 a
The bags that the corks are put no in
are the generally made in the factory bein'- bv
girls, muslin and burlap bale‘for
purpose/ bought bv the case and that
The bags ° varv in size from
four 1IiC/3es to fou fee t square. 1
The j ° t cork fact orT ia the
United St tes is in Pittsburg; * the
i . - - - ■ T .
an<?as er,
p erm . f “theChi!
tensire concerns. In one of
factories from 4100 to 5000
gross a dev ' are turned out In the
eorting they an d in [eedi almost tb , machines
Forty employ menace girl, entirelr. factorV,
; at work in this
fifteen ‘
and aftT . a „ girIl .
Chicago has no ’factories for the
manufacture of cork soles. life-pre
servers or cork life-belts. These arti
eles are all manufactured in the East
ern cities and shipped to Chieago.
Admiral Ryder’s life-saving hammock
consists of a cork mattress rolled in a
hammock, which forms a life bnov
capable of supporting three men in an
upright position. Cork mattresses are
said to be cheaper and more comforta
ble than those staffed with hair.
Cork clippings are ehieflv used to
assist in the manufaetnre of linoleum,
an mite tion of oilcloth. All corks,
pickle, mustard ,md sane*
corks, are cut agross the grain of the
wood, so as to avoid the pores being
exposed to the air. Large corks, such
as pickle, mustard, etc., h»A-e to be
cut the other way bf the wood on ac
! count of their size, but wax is gener¬
ally used in fastening the corks in
these bottles.
A form of the cork industry more
prevalent in England than in America
is the making of cork mats for bath
room floors. A Scotch firm carries on
a large business ir this manufacture*
—Chicago Inter-Ocean,
Progress ol Dental Surgery.
The old and ofteu deceived cogno
men of “tooth carpenter,” as applied
to the dentist, will certainly not hold
in the present advanced stage of den¬
tal science. The old dread that would
suffYr agonies rather than submit the
^ ,. niolar . to the rusty iorceps and
a ,n o
^rong arm of the “tooth carpenter
j bas gl veQ wa -T to tbe knowledge that
dentfd , P ra ctico is not to destroy, but
. ' |° P reserve - The old clinic s forceps,
Jnrn-screw, chisels and hammer, are
number?, and the iearful torture
pt having atooth tilled is a memory.
dentistry has advanced to a profes
a *°. Q ' It is surgery. It is science.
t is artistic. the up-to-date den
! surgeon has nearly one thousand
j operating instruments, llis skill and
,1 s ex P exl ^ 11C9 xn anaesthesia enable
rum to per.oim the most difficult op
era T xons "ith but little, if nnv, pain;
uowada y s » the patient instead of
, hesitating terror at the dentist’s
in
door » tikes hia seat in the dental chair
with as much equanimity as he would
m an opera box. This dental chair is
a an oudertul piece of ingenuity opera
N v e ^ ect _ricity, finished with ball
searings and socket joints; it is nice
l * ad J U8ted to ever ^ of
operator, and , m every position is the
Owing P er f ec t to ,loa advanced °i comfort dentistry to the being patient,
“an
art preservative, ’ the proportion of
P«op le with artificial or “False’’ teetL,
18 8teftdl Y diminishing. Crowning
teet}l only requires the root to re
mRlu * ft nd the attacncd tooth is so
P er ectly fitted that even the owner
fcs nei ®f 1 *
b ’ el ^kerly sight or feeling. . I he
“ ost l doasi “S work of the dentist is tc
lin P rove nature. Understanding the
auatomy contour of the mouth
and jaws as thoroughly as the oculist
does th« eye, he removes the inter¬
feriug teeth, he hues them up he
clips off here, he fills in there, and he
I bring ! n f. the def cctive mouth to tho
J»ost fashionable standard; and if my
lat wi Jys insert cheeks invisible or lips plumbers, are shrunken, which, he
Wlt make £° l ) her fc P a al thing » cV; even of beauty inconvenience, and a joy
“ The artificial teeth of
American dentists are concededly the
best and finest made , even to manu¬
facturing the “black teeth” for the
Avives and widows of Japan, American
dentists are considered the most ex¬
pert in the world, and in almost every
foreign city where an American den¬
tist is located he takes the foremost
' rank , and . bas tbe most l«crativoprac
tice. —Atlanta Constitution,
The Weasel an Egg Stealer.
^ Tjh'eToe" fm-r’iT!"
j sroTiTobjodL J ’ 1
feathered, who come behind man.
The feathered ones naturally have the
widest scops; for eggs, whether re¬
posing on the ground or in a Avell
built nest in a lofty tree, come quickly
within the range of sight and SAvcop.
The furred ones have to content them¬
selves Avitli the ground eggs, Avhich
are, of course, the best; perhaps,
therefore, they have tbe best of the
deal, though not so much variety.
And among them Ave rank facile
princeps the stealthy, sinuous, ubiquit¬
ous weasel. Stoat and polecat like
eggs, but they are rarer and more
sparsely distributed than the smaller,
j but much more effective weasel. This
w ilv creature is an egg-sucker of im
] ruense enthusiasm aud perseverance
Winding its way through the purple
' heather, the scrub
or and bracken
toward the nursery ot'the red or black
grouse, creeping amid grass or clover,
Q r scarcely rustling along the leaf
carpeted ditch toivard the simple nest
of the gallant hen partridge, a veritable
amazon in defence of her familv
poking its sleek head out of a disused
drain in the farm yard, reconnoiter
-; ng the hen houses, gliding through
! the long at the edges °
1 grass of the
riles, and amid the hazels and hollies
of the copses after the pheasant’s
costly eggs, the weasel is equally inde
fatigable.
It will banquet on every on°the it can
find till gorged like a trout mav
| fl y> and kill young birds till it desists
0 d.1v from sheer weariness. Like its
semi-tame relative, the ferret, it is in
; bloodthirstiness and its concomitants
I a four-footed Septembriseur.— New
i York Journal.
The Colors of Animals.
The colors Avhich adorn animals are
distributed in a very strange and ap
j i parently capricious way. These colors
are believed to depend in great part
on the minute sculpturing, reticula
tion aud scoring of the surface and not
i from definite coloring matter like
those present in plants. The metallic
colors of the humming bird and pea
cock are attributed, in the main to
what scientific observers call the “op
tical structure of the web of the
feathers.” These they describe as
“interference colors,” relieved owls against
a dark background, which its
blackness to a black or brown 1 pig- 5
ment
Instances, however, do occur in
-hich an actual pigment or coloring
matter exists in colored feathers, and
may be extracted from them. Atnonn
I the Touraeos or plantain eaters ot Af“
rice there are reported as mane a,
eleven species which owe their spleu
aid crimson colorations to a definite
| pigment, as discovered bv Professei
A. H. Church, of the Boyal Academy
of Arts, London, and author ol
1 “Colour, ” a manual for students,
This pigment, which is remarkable in
many ways, is found to contain as at
essential ingredient no less than ei^ht
j per cent, df metallic copper. Several
* other coloring matters, soluble in al
! cohol and soda solution, have been
j extracted from the plumage of other
birds. It is said that as a rale these
pigments are much more permanent
than those of flowers.—New York Ad
vertiser.
1
tai; r i;p i> t IVUTp iliv Vr\\V Hi
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
^IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
The Scotch coal owners held a meet¬
ing at Glasgow Wednesday afternoon
and resolved to evict from their houses
all miners who do not return to tvork.
A rumor that the Czar was dead
created a panic in financial circles in
A ienua Tuesday, but the excitement
was allayed Avhen it was learned that
the rumor Avas unfounded.
A rescript has been issued, envoking
an extra session of the Japanese par¬
liament at Hiroshima, October 15, for
seven days, in order to discuss matters
requiring the sanction of the parlia¬
ment.
Referee Edward Jacobs filed in the
superior court at New Y'ork Wednes¬
day morning a icport in which ho rec¬
ommends that Kuehne Beveridge Cogh
ian receive an absolute divorce from
Charles F. Coghlan, the actor.
At a small fire in Chicago Thursday
night one captain of tho tiro depart¬
ment was suffocated and four other
firemen Avere so overcome by smoke
that they were near losing their lives
and are uoav being attended by phy¬
sicians.
The executive committee of the
Spinners’ Union at Fall River, Mass.,
held a meeting Tuesday forenoon and
voted to make a second Aveek’s strike
payment at once. The committee also
decided to call a special general meet¬
ing of the union.
A special cable dispatch from Mon¬
tevideo says: The rebels in Brazil,
according to reports received at Ngav
York, have made a further advance.
Motto Groso, it is said, will soon be
in open revolt. Tho San Maeto gar¬
rison deserted the rebels after killing
the officers.
Commenting on a dispatch stating
that a fresh Japanese army 80,000
strong is ready to take the field, the
London Daily News expresses the
opinion that Corea is not-their desti¬
nation. If this is true, there can be
only one other objective point, and
that is a dash on Peking.
At NeAV Y'ork, Tuesday, A. H. Mil¬
ler & Son sold at auction for the re¬
ceiver of the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Railroad aud Ware¬
house Company a long list of stocks
and bonds held by the Terminal com¬
pany. The entire list was purchased
by the reorganization committee.
The Connecticutt democratic state
convention Wednesday afternoon nom¬
inated the folloAviug ticket: For gov¬
ernor, Earnest Cady, Hartford; lieut¬
enant-governor, Morris Z. Beardley,
Bridgeport; secretary of state, Edward
O. Kilduff, Waterbury; treasurer,
Stephen O. Bow r en, Easton; comptrol¬
ler, Nicholas Staub, Stamford.
One of the largest republican dem¬
onstrations in the history of Marion
county, Indiana, was signalized Tues¬
day at Indianapolis by the inaugura¬
tion by Governor McKinley of the
state campaign. Ex-President Harri¬
son presided at the meeting and in¬
troduced Governor McKinley in a feAV
felicitous remarks. Governor McKin¬
ley spoke over two hours.
It is uoav practically certain that
three men lost their lives in the eleva¬
tor fire at Portland, Ore., Sunday.
They Avere seen on top of the building
Avhile it Avas burning and are believed
to have perished in the flames. None
of these men have been seen since the
fire, and there is no doubt that their
remains will be found when the debris
has been cleared aAvay.
President F. T. Day, of the Plank
inton bank, at Milwaukee, Wis. Avas
arrested Tuesday afternoon on a
charge of receiving a deposit when he
knew the bank w r as insolvent. Mr.
Day furnished bail for .$10,000, and
AA-as released from custody. O. L.
Clason, one of the directors of the
bank, qualified in the sum of $5,000
and the bond Avas accepted on condi¬
tion that another surety would be se¬
cured for a like sum.
A London cable dispatch says: The
European bourses are affected by the
news of the czar’s health, as ho is now
recognized as one of the strongest sup¬
porters of peace and it is feared that
in the event of his death his successor
would seize the opportunity to secure
the naval ports on the Pacific and en¬
large his boundaries in tho direction
of the Pamirs at the expense of China,
either of which steps, it is believed,
would easily precipitate a war.
The Nevada state central committee
of the silver party through its chair¬
man, J. H. Kinkhead, has written a
complimentary letter to Senator John
P. Jones, commending his course in
leaving the republican party. The
letter assures the senator he need not
feel called upon to resign the senator
ship on the demand of the republican
party and declares that he owes his
position to the whole people of Nevada,
who, irrespective of party, wish him to
represent them in the senate.
The democratic congressional com¬
mittee of the seventh Kansas district
met at Great Bend Wednesday and en
dors.d Congressman Jerry Simpson
for re-election. The democrats at
Wichita say that the committee had no
authority to do this and that lhi Aus¬
tralian ballot law in vogue in Kansas
would forbid it, so that, as there is a
large element of democracy opposed to
any endorsement of populism, it is
pmobable that an injunction will be
asked, prohibiting the placing of
Simpson’s name on the ticket as a
democratic nominee.
The joint meeting of the Southern
General Passenger Agents and the
Central Traffic Association Avas Avell
attended at Cincinnati Tuesday. The
chief rate clerks in the territory of
both associations Avere also present and
will remain some days to prepare the
new schedules. The rates for winter
tourists were fixed the same as last
year from Chicago,- St. Louis, Kansas
City and Ohio valley gateway points.
From interior points round trip tickets
will be 80 per cent of double fare for one
'vay. These tickets will be on sale
from November 1st to April 30th.
Fill your body with beer enongt*
and your body will soon fill a bier.
n
FI I’Z WHIPS CREKDON.
And it Took Only Tavo Rounds To Do
It-Some Heavy Hitting.
A New Orleans special says: The
middle Aveight championship still stays
in America, and the long, lanky, lean
blacksmith wears the belt. In less
than two rounds he protected his claim
to it against Creedou, the Australian,
before 8,000 people, Wednesday night,
aud though short, the fight was a good
one.
It was apparent when the men en¬
tered tho ring that the crowd avrh
about equally divided between tho
two men, but before the first round
was over Fitz’s stock went aw ay up
and lie again became the favorito of
NeAv Orleans. It took him just four
minutes aud forty seconds of actu¬
al lighting to do the work. In
tho first round he had Creedou
down and the Australian remained on
his knee till Duffy Avas ready to count
him out. It Avas vicious Avork both
men did, aud when Fitz opened tho
second round he did it with a smile.
He rushed the work, aud the first pass
sent Creedou whirling, but Creedou
managed to recover and was aggress¬
ive. Then Fitz caught him squarely
on tho chin Avith his left just after
landing his right over the heart.
blow Avas ft fearful one and
Creedou fiat of his back. Tho blood
spurted from his nose and mouth, and
Duffy sprang forward and began his
count. Fitz waited till the count was
done, and then Avalked to his chair,
while Croedon’s friends carried him to
his corner. Among tho interested
spectators was Mrs. Fitzsimmons, avIio
Avatched the fight from tho club’s office
window, and immediately after tlio
award had been made Fitz walked
to the side of the ring upon which tho
window opened aud waved his hands
to her. She was in full vioAv of the
spectators, and when she was seen a
rousing yell went up. Fitz then walk¬
ed to Creedon’s corner and shook
hands with the mau he had defeated.
HE CIIAIjIjENO ES CORBETT.
Duffy secured tlio attention of the
house and stated that Fitz would chal¬
lenge Corbett for a finish for $10,000.
Immediately after the fight Fitz hur¬
ried to the telegraph office and sent a
half dozen messages. Then he went
to a hearty dinner. At the dinner
table he said:
“I thought I avou Id win and I did.
I uoav want a chance at Corbett and am
ready with my $10,000. I have plenty
of money behind me, and I think I
can do him. Anyhow 1 am willing to
try.”
Creedou was taken to bis headquar¬
ters. He Avas badly bruised. One eye
was closed and his lips were terribly
cut. Ho took liis defeat philosophi¬
cally and said that he Avas sorry he
lost, more on account of his friends
than himself.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Tlie report on the industrial condition of tho
south for the past week shows that the demand
fur iron continues steady and large, and several
more furnaces are going into blast. Stocks do
not accumulate, but prices are not advancing
as yet. The coal mining industry is now in full
activity and is fairly prosperous. A marked
fmtvre of the business improvement is tlio con¬
siderable number of eniargiYneafr of icauuita
luring plants of all kinds. Tbe textile indus¬
try is active in all parts of the south, and if tho
plans now in the under number Avay are carried mills out the in¬
crease of new and of capi¬
tal therein invested will bo llie greatest for
many years. The cotton oil industry is now be¬
ginning operations as the new crop of seed
comes forward, but flic mill men are offering
much lower prices than Avero paid last, year.
Thirty-one new industries were established or
incorporated during the week, together with
eight enlargements of manufactories and twen¬
ty-four important new buildings. Prominent
among tli • new incoporations aro the Little
Rock Real Es'ate Go j., of Little Rock, Ark-,
capital f400,000; b. rn ilway supplies rnaiiufact
urmg company, at Meridian, Miss., with $100,
000 capital, mid the Ennis Cotton Oil Co., of
Ennis, Tex., with $50,000 capital. Tlio Geor¬
gia Ruff Erick Co., cap tal $50,000 has been
organ zed at Atlanta, Ga.; a Line and cement
company Va.; with Farmer’s $25,000 Basket capi al at Package Alexandria,
tho and Co.,
with the s tme capital, at Charleston, S. C.; a
$20,0C0 improvement company at Hillsboro,
Tex.; a $12,000lumber and cooperage lumber company
at Black Itock, Ark., and a $10,000 com¬
pany at Richmond, Va. reported Elkin
Flour and grist m ils arc at
aud Gibsonville, N. C., and D.dlas, Texas; iron
and Avire works at Little Rock, Ark.; a saw fac
tory, at New Alexandria, Va., and soap facto¬
ries at Augusta, Ga., and Knoxville, Term. A
shoe fiic ory is to lie bu It at E kin. N. C.; a
tobacco and snuff factory at Statesville, N. C.;
a twine factory at Fayettcvillo, N- C., and
woodworking plants at Stevenson, Ala., New¬
berry and Q lincv, FLi., Walt.erboro, S. C.,
Nashville, Term., Berkley and Mountain Lake,
Va.
Waterworks are reported at Columbus. Ga.,
Portland, Ky., and Oxford, include Miss. The enlarge¬
ments fur the week a flouring mill at
Elizabethtown. Ky., an electrical Lynchburg, plant at
Greenville, Al i., an ice factory at phos¬
Va., paint works at Wilmington, N. C.,
phate works at BartoAv, Fia., a tannery at Lu*
ray, Va., and a planing miil at Munroe, La.
business houses „
Among the now buildings are
at Demopolia, Ala., BeLand, Fla.. Augusta and
Dublin, Ga., Elkin, N. C., Clarksville, Tenu.,
aud Pocahontas, Va.: a $10,000 depot at Nor¬
folk, Va.; a $500,000 hotel at Birmingham,
Ala., and one at Huntingdon, Term-; a school
building at Camden, Ark.; warehouses at Sa¬
lem, N. C,, and Norfolk, Va.; twenty cottages at
Gaffney, S. C., and f <rty cottages at Burling¬
ton, N. C.—Tradesman, (Cha'tauooga. Teun.J
STEWART FILES AFFIDAVITS.
Says He’s Being .Made the Victim of
Conspiracy and Blackmail.
Senator William M. Stewart, of
Nevada, who is made a co-respondent
in a suit for divorce brought in the
courts of the District of Columbia by
a man named Glasscock, against his
wife, filed in court at Washington Sat¬
urday A’oluminous affidavits, setting
forth that the case is one of conspiracy
to blackmail and that the plaintiff and
respondent had continued to reside
together as husband aud Avife after
the suit was filed.
Bought by Englishmen.
1 he news has been gHen out by
representatives of the Farmers’ State
Alliance of Texas, which organization
is very strong and influential, that $3,
000,000 worth of the bonds of the pro¬
jected North and South railroad, from
the Manitoba line to the gulf, char¬
tered as the Interstate and Gulf, have
been sold to English capitalists and
that negotiations are nearly closed for
the sale of $3,000,000 worth more.
The scheme of the promoters is to have
state identity in the construction and
ownership of the line.
Abel Bigwen, of Carroll County,
Ohio, has a razor hog which ho has
trained to run under his buggy like
a coach dog. The animal has devel¬
oped considerable speed, and can uoav
hump himself along, and keeps up
witli the vehicle when the hor<e is
eoine at a 4.15 gait.