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VOL XL
(iroRt Britain fiponda $1,203,000
Ichh on her army than in 1891.
It in calculated that in large ocean
stearnor* more than .9,000 articles of
i;Ihhh and china are broken on every
voyage.
Belgium, with its water front and
with Antwerp, tho oldest harbor in
tho world, is the one European coun¬
try without n navy.
It is naid that AnthoiiH,Greece, sup
p >rts iimro daily papers than New
^ ork City nnd there arc many news
paper men of marked ability.
It in confidently predicted that tho
complete dumpp .-aranco of steam both j
HH a motive power and ns an agent in
• lie ind i triitl arts is a question of a
very short time.
It in estimated that in Oregon,
M a hingtou, Montana, Nevada and
Idaho t here are at present 2,000,000
of half-hri ed wild horses, for which
no market can now be found.
A “German Navy Union” lias b •on
organized at Baden-Baden, with tho
object of collecting funds for the in
crcaso of tho German navy. Tho
colonies, an well as tho Fatherland,
will be uttkod to subscribe.
England has plenty of money for
investments, note/: tlm Louisville,
< lourier Journal. Tenders of $5,000,
BOO, treasury bills ue re opened Tr¬
cently at tho Bank of England, and
the total amount applied for was not
far short of $93,000,000.
Tlm Manufacturers’ Gazette says
t mt over half tho sawmills of tho
country could make more money sell¬
ing their logs for wood-pulp than they
do by turning them into lumber, a
statement that illustrates the enormous
increase of tho circulation of uews
papers in tho United .States,
I hat blindness is on tho increase in
Hie United Slates is shown by statis¬
tics, maintains the New York Post. In
1850 tho population was on ivvn
t
■i^w^Tgs passoB
1H9.I, ?** lmt l««t ....... of
yoat » (h'olino
000,000 in receipts sent them below
tho lino. Expeiitv.'H wero reduced $82
1)00,000, lmt neTorthfjk’Ss tho net onrn
ings fell off' to the extent of $10,009,
000 . It is b oj>t d that (ho remainder
of tlio year will allow a docidod im
provem mt on those figures.
Some very interesting and instinct
jvo slat is! ics ns to real estate coiuli
tious in tho S mth are furnished by
the Southern States, published at B il
timoro. These statistics are based
upon reports of real estate agents in
different sections, m : le m reply to
,
inquiries addressed to th m by the
publication in question. Weekly' They show,
udmits Frank Leslie’s a most
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remarkable movement of agricultur¬
ists southward from tin Norlh.
Tims, one linn in Atlanta reports
having sold in ninety days an aggre¬
gate of two thousand seven linn tired
amt forty acres of farm property-, and
adits that it litis au order for a tract of
f> ' m ti ft v ih,mum.l ' ‘ lt ‘' i I
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thousand acres for colonies . of iLvedes, ;
nnd similar orders from Nebraska, i
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tember 1st some twouty-two thousand ;
ncrosof farm lands m Mississippi,
Arkansas nnd Louisiana have- been
sold bv a Memphis firm to purffiasera ’ : i
from . Iowa, ,, the 1 11 akot.as, : Nebraska, x- 1 ,
and Illinois, who bought for iiumc
di/ito occupancy and cultivation. A
Chattanooga dealer reports that
h« has received, in tho lust
t vvo months at lea t fifteen huu
dred inquiries from prospective emi
p .-runts ’ and bus made actual ‘ .....
thirty farms. Important sales are
also reported from western North Car
oliua and Virginia. In the latter
state several large tracts have b um
sold to Northern capitalists, and a
Richmond agent report a that he hivs
received in sixty davs twelve hundred
inquiries • r for farm , hands,coming , from .
every Northern aud Western state,and
from Canada, England and Sweden,
Tho Commissioner of Emigration lol for
Arkansas »t,.t,s that not than ono
hundred thousand emigrants have set
tied in that state within tho past year.
Sevoral sales of farming tracts nro
also reported from South Carolina
while in Georgia over two hundred
purchases have been made of small
tracts for orchards and vineyards. In
southern Texas sales of over four huu
dred farms have been made in the
last fifteen months.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1895.
to if nr WHO WAITS.
To him who waits amid the world's ap~
pi a use
Bis "hare of just ire, toiling day by day,
All thing* will come now dim and far
* away,
To him who waits.
To him who waits beyond the darkne
drear
The morning cometh with refulgent light,
Bringing assurance of a day more bright.
To him who waits.
To him who waits, though tears may often
fall,
And knees be bowed in sorrow and in
prayer,
All <rief will end, and everything be fair
To him who waits. i
To him who waits and reaches out his
bands
To aid a toiler up life’s beetling craus,
Surcease wilt come from every ill that
flags,
To him who wait*.
To him who waits and struggles not in
vain I
To overcome Hie toil that abound
” ithm his Breast, sweet will the victory
wn,m1,
To him who waits.
To him who waits there comes a wily
throng,
Who sneer and scoff, and look with bale
■
fnl eyes,
But what of them, they are but gnats and '
flies,
To liim who waits.
To him who waits there must be recoin
pease
For n -etui work, whatever may he hie,
A compensation reaching far and wide,
To him who waits.
To him who waits the star.; are always
friends. !
.... The rest less ocean nnd tlie azure shy, j
All tilings in nature speak and prophesy, ;
To him who waits.
To him who wait s true love will some day
come
And lay an offering at liis blameless
shrine,
Life will he love, and love will be divine,
To him who waits.
To him who waits the world will someday :
c‘ ecr j
And sing his praise; Fame’s mysterious
gates
Will open for him; heaven seems more
U(jar
To him whownils.
—MosesG. Miirlcy, in Boston Globe.
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WKt & lbp
|° „'h J-l i"|i|„
was „ w onf T i. hmi,, la 0
during (hat time which had a charm
for him. Every registered chatu'o of weather : |
»'"• «-n«.n lv„s there «
plainly as it he could see tho surface
of the world. In tho summer tho
slates seemed to have a great fire bo
noath them, for a quivering hot air !
rose up from them and tho pigeons
never alighted on them save in the i
early morning or in the evening.
Just over the peak of tho roof could
be seen tho topmost branch of an
oak, too slight to bear tlio woight of
tho pigeons, but tho eaves under the
projecting roof wero dark and cool,
and there his eyes rested when ho
tired of tlio hard blue sky r and the
glare of the roof, lie could also see
tho top of tlio hospital windows,
barred up and down, but never uny
thing within, for the windows were
ever dusty, and all was dark beyond.
But now and then he heard bitter
cries coinin'' through one onen
window in tlm summer time and he
listened to them grow fainter and
fainter, till they sunk to a low moan-]
ing, and then ceased altogether.
In winter the roof was covered for
months by a blanket of snow, which
looked like a shawl of impacted wool,
white and restful, and the hospital
windows wero spread with frost. But
the pigeons were the same—almost:
of the lead pipes. He studied them
mUcb but bc loved tbem |nore
prison was less a prison because of
them, and in the long live years of
expiation he found himself more in
t-oucli with them than with the ward
eng of the prison or any of his com
panious. IVitli the former he was
respectful, and he gave thenj no
trouble at all; with the latter herhad '
nothing in common, for they’ were
criminals, and lie_ho had blundered
vvluui wild and mad with drink, so
wild and mad that he had no remem
branee. absolutely none, of the inci
dent by which Jean Yb'ot lost his
life. He remembered that thev had
p i U y C d cards far into the night* that
thev had quarreled, then made their
peace again: that the others had left,
that thev had bcuin plavim' tbeifalfwas ca>M<
and drinkiiu' n-'ain, and
blurred, save for a vague recollection
that he had won all the money Vigot
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b ., i „ rd bad £ nocketp.l wa£l ti it
find two
officers of the law beside him and the
IkkIv of Jean Vi'ot stark ^ and dread- ^
fill a few feet offico’n awnv
Whon tho put (holt hands
u*v>n liim he shook a>'utn them off IN hen
thev d d it he would have
r,>V-ht them to the death h i l rot
been for his friend tall Medallion
who laid a strong hand on his arm
nnd f” said “Steady Conver-v
steady and lie had yielded to the
lirni friendly pressure.
Medallion had left no stone un
turned to clear him at the trial, had
himself played detective unceasingly,
but the hard facts remained there,
on n clmin of circumstantial
evidence Louis Converse, the young
Seigneur, Was sent to prison for ten
years for manslaughter, That was
the compromise effected. Lou.s
himself had said only that he didn’t
remember, but lie could not believe
he had committed the crime.
bery? He shrugged his shoulders at
that—he insisted that his lawyer
should not reply to the insulting and
foolish suggestion But the evidence
had shown that Yigot had all the
winnings when the other members
of 11,0 P iirt -V left the two, and this
very money had been found in Louis’
P ockl ’L There was only Louis’word
that they had played cards again.
An ” <>r? Possibly. Louis could not
remember, though he knew they had
quarreled. Tho judgo himself,
charging the jury, said that ho never
before saw a prisoner so frank and
outwardly honest, but warned them
that they must not lose sight of the
crime itself, the.taking of a human
life, whereby a woman was made a
widow and a child fatherless.
And so with the few remarks the
judge sentenced the young Seigneur
to ten y ears in prison, and then him
so lf, shaken and pale, left the court
room hurriedly, for Louis Converse’s
father had been his friend from boy¬
hood.
Louis took his sentenco calmly,
looki, ig the judge squarely in the
eye s, and when the judge stopped lie
l, owed to him, turned to the jury and
said: “Gentlemen, you have ruined
my life. You don’t know and I
don’t know who killed the man. You
have guessed, arid I take the penalty.
Suppose I’m innocent, how will you
feel when the truth comes out?
You've known mo more or less these
twenty years, and you've said with
no more knowledge than I’ve got that
I did this miserable tiling I don’t
know but that one of you did it, but
you are safe, and I* take my ten
years.”
He turned from them, nnd as he
did lie saw a woman looking at him
from a corner of the court room with
a strange, wild expression. At the
moment lie saw no more than an ex
cited, bewildered face, but afterward
this face caine and went before him,
,
flashing in and out of dark places in
a mocking sort of way. As he went
from the court room another woman
mado lier "’»y to bim in spite of the
guards. It was the little chemist’s !
" ife ' vll ° Y ( ’ ars beforo had been his !
father’s housekeeper, who had been j
present when he first opened his eyes j
on tho world. !
“My poor boy! My poor boy!” she '
said, clasping his manacled hands.
llo kissed her on the cheek, with
word, and hurried on into his
fb SC;
•n Medallion, the 1
Fs wj-fo, and tho good Fa
PTroro. Letters, too, ho refused to
accept and read. He had no contact,
..Ii£
by himself, silent, brooding, studi
oas ~ :for now books wero to him a
P* easuro - And bo wrote, too, but
“T",' »"»'■'« 0 *"K '«»<> s0 ",! ?"*!<*»,*''• "> ' lo "' th ‘ h «
world from winch he came, and , he
Bieant Hint it should not.
So perfect a prisoner was he that
the warders protected him from visi
tor8 » aml he wn8 nevcr but °, nc0 or
stared , at, and 1 then he saw
nothing heard nothing. Ho had en
tyl ' od his P ri80n a w,kl - excitable.
dissipated youth, anti he had become
a mature, quiet, cold, brooding man.
F’ive years had done the work of
twenty. He had lived the life of the
prison, yet he was not a part of it,
nor yet was he a part of the world
without. And the face of the woman
who looked at him so strangely in the
court room haunted him now and
then, so that at last it became a part
of his veal life, which was lived
standing by the window, where he
looked out at tho pigeons outlie
roof of the hospital.
‘‘She was sorry, for me,” he said
many a time to lomseif. He was
sorry for himself, and he was shaken
with misery often, so that lie rocked
to and fro as he sat on his bed, anda
warder heard him cry out even in
the last days of his imprisonment,
“Gh, God, canst Thou do everything
exchange for my ruined life!”
But there wero times when ho was
very quiet and calm, and he spent
hours in watching the ways of the
piffeons. And he was doing this one
d*»y when the jailor came to him and
said: “Monsieur Converse, you are
free. The Governor lias cut off five
years from your sentence.
Then he was told that people were
waiting without Medallion, and the
little chemist and wife, and others
more more important. important. But But he he would would not not
go to meet them, and he stepped into
the old world alone at dawn the next
morning, and looked out upon a still,
sleeping town. And there was no
one stirring in the place, but sud
deniy there stood before him a worn
an. who had watched by the prison
gates all night, and she put out a
hand in entreaty, and said, with a
breaking voice, “You are free at
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lie remembered , her—the woman
who had looked at him so anxiously
and sorrowfully in the court room,
He looked at her kindly now, yet lie
was dazed, too, with liis new advent
to froedom and good earth.
“\\ hy did you come to meet me?
he asked.
“I was sorry for you,” she replied,
“But that is no reason.”
‘ l once committed a crime,” she
whispered, with shrinking bitterness,
‘ That’s bad,” he said. “Were
you punished?”
shook her head and answered
“No.”
“That’s worse,” he added.
“I let some one else take my crime
upon him and bo punished for it"
she said, an agony in her eyes.
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"I had a l.ttlo child, was her re
i pi}'.
“And the other? "
“He was alone in the world.” she
said,
A bitter smile erbpt to his lips and
his eyes were all afire, for a strango
thought came to him. Then he shut
; his eyes, and when he opened them
again discovery wns in them.
“I remember you nojv,” he said,
“I remember I waked and saw you
looking at me that night! Who was
: the father of your child?” lie asked
eagerly.
“Jean Vigot,” she replied, ‘Ho
left me to starve ” i
“I am innocent of his death ! ” he
said quietly and gladly.
Bhe nodded. Ho was silent for a
moment.
“The child still lives?” he asked.
She noided again. “Well, let it be
so,” lie added. “But you owe me five
years—and a lost reputation.”
“I wish to God I could give them
bac’, ” she cried, tears streaming
down her cheeks. “It was for my
child, lie was so young !”
“It can’t be helped now,” lie said,
and he turned away' from her.
“Won’t you forgive mo?” she
asked, bitterly'.
“Won’t you give me back those
five years?” he replied, meaningly.
“If the child did not need me I
would give my life,” she answered.
“I owe it to you.” Her haggard, hunt¬
ed face made him sorry, lie.too, hud
suffered.
“It’s all right,” he answered, gent¬
ly. “Take care of your child.”
And again he moved away from
her and wont down the little Hill
with a cloud gone from his face that
bad rested there five years. Once he
turned around. Tho woman was
gone, but over tho prison a flock of
pigeons were flying, i He took off his
hat to them. Then ho went through
right the town, left, looking#neither and his to the
nor came to own
house, where the*, summer morning
was dows, already though entering ho liud, the looked open win- find
to
the place closed and lark. Tho little
chemist’s wife met liim in the door
way. She could ifdt tfpeak, nor could
done he, but when lie he kissed went?,condemned for, as he had
to
prison. Then ho parsed on to his
own room, and, em,4r ing, sat down
before the the op'fi window' and
peacefully drank in/hb glory of a new'
world, But morn ihan once he
choked down a sob\ hat rose in his
throat, y
The Drak®v (
p^c-he pray'er book cross, or Drake
cross, as the cross in Golden Gate
Park is known, is by far the largest
cross . in the world . i and i - is m • many re
™ti
! nent. It is 57 feet high, standing
] 17 upon feet a G pedestal inches square of solid by stonowork 7 feet in
1, ei 8 l,fc T ! 1C c, ' 08s 18 “"“P 0804 f
. . , P' . e00, ,°! , stone fSgregat-
600,000 pounus weight. .' lhe
ing in
I arms are formed of eight pieces, each
weighing 24,000 pounds making a
total weight of 192,000 pounds,
| ? her0 are 10 " s \ one * ' n this cr °. s3
| larger than the largest stone f in . the 4
| famous pyramid of Cheops. l ie
stone used in tho construction of toe
cross is blue sandstone from quarries
in Colusa County, and it stands a
crushing test of from 9.000 to 12,000
pounds to the square inch. The
cross—erected to commemorate the
first use of tho book of common
prayer in this country, at a service
lie 1 cl on the shoro of Drake’s Bay
about St. John’s Day, 1379—was the
gift of the late George W. Childs, of
Philadelphia^ and was unvailed Jan
uary 1, 1895.—San Francisco Call.
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Romanes of ths Billiard Ball.
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Interesting as is the natural
tory r of the billiard ball, its romance
is no less attractive. A product of
the most intelligent of animals,
grown in the wilds of a tropical for
est, taken by the wily devices of sav
age men, transported many him
battle and murder are done, carried
round the globe by sail and steam,
manufactured into proper shape by
the labor of skilled mechanics, the
means by which professional players
gain their livelihood, by which ama
tours pass a social hour in the bit
Jiard hall, on the private table, often
at some period of its career in the
pawn shop, finally, when its useful
ness as a billiard ball is ended, to be
cut up into toys, there are few arti
; ■ cles cles of of ordinary ordinary use, use, even even in in the the
midst of our extraordinary civiliza
tion, that can show a more varied
history.___
The Virtue in Oyster Shells.
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Ground oyster shells were pro
scribed by empirics in the olden time
for goitrous, ricketty and scrofulous
children. In a communication to
the Academy oi Medicine in 1 aris
Drs. Muntz and Chatin say they were
right. Oyster shells were long ago
known to contain lime, nitrogen,
iron and sulphur. Beside these
constituents they hold manganese,
magnesia lluor bromuro .mosphoric
acid and iodine—ail excellent for
feeble children. The bromure taken
from the oyster shell is a strong an
tiseptic. Teeth, they say, would be
much improved were pulverized oys
ter shells given in food to growing
children and to nurses.
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i n contradistinction to the bon
nets, hats’are which are small, the round
; larger thau ever and most
picturesque.
TIIF TA|ri<]lJa* RTTROET " *
«STS .NO YARNS .r rUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Hush Money--His Aunt’s Vis'tor-
Within Bounds--A Birthday Sur¬
prise, Etc., Etc.
HUSH MONEY.
“What is this hush money I’ve
heard so much about?”
“Fir-well, it’s the kind that speaks
for itself?”
his aunt’s visitor
Little boy—Mr. Baldie comes here
pretty often, doesn’t he? Docs he
come to see you?
Maiden aunt—Te-he! I suppose he
does.
Little boy Mebby he wants you to
adopt him.
within bounds.
Mother—So Mrs. Nexdoor treated
you to cookies? I hope y’ou did not
mako a pig of y'ourself.
Johnny'—No, indeed. A pig could
eat about a bushel. I didn't have
over a pock.
A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.
Little Fannie—Mamma, this is your
birthday, and I’m going to surprise
you with a bunch of (lowers.
“Where did you get them,Fannie?”
“Off your Fluster hat, mamma.”
FOREWARNED.
Dashway—Did y'ou toll the Brider
leys that I was going to call there
last night?
Cleverton—Yes. How did you
know?
Dash way—The wedding present 1
gave them was in the front parlor.
A SAFE RULE.
“I don’t know whether you'll like
this. It’s a peculiar mixture of
mine—half English breakfast and
half Oolong.”
“It certainly ought to be right.
One of the first rules I learned in
school was that we should always
cross our teas.”
1H3 PET GRIEVANCE.
“What makes you look so un¬
happy while y r oii are singing?” asked
a friend of the tenor of a prominent
church.
“Put y'ourself in my place,” said
the tenor, crossly. “As soon as I
reach my solo t he soprano begins to
flirt with the bass and tho members
of the congregation are so diverted
# they'
by them that pay no attention
to me. Is it any' wonder I look un
happy?” “No, ^® ;
>ES SJ$EM QUEER. xrfiral
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is inordinately vain, but when a fel¬
low' has a music box in his room ar
ranged to play ‘Hail to the Chief’ as
g 00tl as be opens the door, what is
-• *»« him -"
* reliable guest.
Proprietor—Seems to me you were
rather careless to give the best room
In tho house to on utter stranger
without baggage
1IoLel c i er k—Oh, lie’s all right,
He’s worth a million at least. He’s
here as defendant in a suit for
breach of promise—damages to the
phuntiff’s injured heart, $200,000.
A ^*
Miss Newgate—IVhat was done at
( bo New H oman International Pro
gressive Club to-day?
Bachelor girl—Nothing, you see,
Mrs. Sweetie happened to come in
with her baby, and before we all got
through kissing the little cherub it
was time to adjourn.
dangerous symptoms.
“I fear that Maud is developing
‘new woman’ tendencies,” said the
anxious mother.
“What has she been doing?” asked
the father, in genuine alarm. “Been
wanting bloomers? ’
n °t 80 ' ja o as that. But she
used a buttonhook instead of a hair
pin this morning to fasten her shoes.”
here’s talent.
Agnes—Great ... t.ie Fount,
mimic,
Gives wonuerful imitations.
r k
n J au -
,° nes Impossible. What was
It- '
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a ® k fio!. aDlUo . .
“ ” an imi *
iatlcn , a DU1
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after the circus '
“I d like,’. said the elephant, re
fleeti\e!y, to get hold of that idiot
5vlio fed me a fake macaroon with a
S ob f ar ! be middle of it. I d”
“But it was no doubt kindly
meant,” interrupted the laughing
Hyena. ‘ Tar is good to keep the
moths out of your trunk, you
know.
The laughing hyena knew that the
elephant was securely chained.
• the hi tt uf ue novft novel.
“Adolphus.” said the new girl, in
tones of strong, vibrant tenderness,
“ be not afraid, sweet one; lookup,
and teli me yon Will share my lot!
I cannot offer you fame or fortune^it
present, but the path to both is
opening before me. This very week
I have been made attorney for the
Maidens’ and Matrons’ Bank, the
Salesladies’ Trust Company (limited)
and the >hopper3 Railroad Associa
tion. Rely upon my strong heart
and willing hand, dearest, and be
mine!
Adolphus, trembling and blushing,
toyed w?th the flower in his button
j j hole. nearer It to him; was her their gift. eyos She met, drew and
1 with one yielding sigh he dropped
j his head upon her stalwart shoulder
and whispered ” YesHarper's
i Bazar.
NOT SURPRISED.
Bass—Do you know that Fender
k » ta £
! uoh from
,,-hat he »ia abont the woman in the
big hat just in front of him at the
theater the other night.
ENOUGH l'OU THE CEREMONY.
Sweet girl—Papa says you can’t af¬
ford to marry.
Ardent youth—Nonsense! I can
get a preacher to perform the cere¬
mony for $2.
Sweet girl—Can you? llow foolish
papa is! i
WILLING TO OBLGE.
Dick—1 have a dreadful cold.
Tom—Why don’t you take some
thing for it? J
Dick—I’d like to, but I can’t get
atl y offers. I'll let you have it away
below cost if you want it.
LOOKING FORWARD.
“I thought you were paying atten- | •
tions to II iliie Bright? ’
“I was, but he is too womanish in
j his ways for mo. He thinks ho ought
i to have a vote, same as a woman.”
CURE FOR LOCKJAW.
Dr. Paul Gibier Believes He Has a
Remedy.
Science may' have mastered flio
secret of coping with the terrible
disease known as lockjaw, death
from which is often said to bo more |
terrible than from tho worst form of j
hydrophobia. Before the Medico
Legal Society of New York a paper
was read by Dr Paul Gibier, director
of the New York Pasteur Institute,
in which he presented the interesting
facts of a discovery in which he
claimed that anti-toxine of tetanus
is a positive preventive, if nob an
absolute remedy' for lockjaw. He
entered at length into the details of
the preparation of the anti-toxine,
and cited numerous cases where the
introduction of the fluid into the
system both prevented lockjaw and
effected cures. Through a large
microscope, which Dr. Gibier had
his previously set up on the platform,
hearers were enabled to peep at
magnified “baccili” of tetanus, with
which lie had charged the glass.
“These are the germs which pro¬
duce the terriblo tetanus,” said Dr.
Gibier. “The baccili of tetanus
cover all sections of the earth in¬
habited by man or beast. The germs
are indigenous, I might sjvy, to tho
soil where n an or ani . Par
licularly myriads in|d§®jys| oiifU i ids (disease and
h
filth ... , circle th --ilT 1 * !> ‘ d ' tlu ' I
ot the s is conducive ,.
o the development of the tetanus
baccih than any other cond.tmn
The disease is not contracted by
inhalation. It is the result of the
germs being introduced into a wound
or opening of the slum Once in the
wound t ie genus of tetanus thine
wonderfully, and in a few days pro
duce that awful condition winch re
suits in the stiffening of the muscles
of A h ? ! a ' v ; terrible convulsions and
ng.dity of frame and ends in death.
Dr j. Gibier qiuited statistics show
ing - that sixty-five per cent of tlio
cases of tetanus resit ted fatally,
these figures including deaths on tho
battle fie d and in railroad accidents.
The development of tetanus among
victims of railroad disasters, he said,
was due to the introduction of tho
germ-charged rail into the wounds.
The Enormous Sun, Arcturus.
If the earth were situated midway
between the sun and Arcturus it
would receive 5,198 times as much
light from that star as it would from
the sun ! It is quite probable, more¬
over, that! the heat of Arcturus ex¬
ceeds the solar heat in the same
ratio, for the spectroscope shows
that although Arcturus is sur¬
rounded with a cloak of metallic
vapors proportionately far more ex¬
tensive than the sun’s, y'et, smother¬
ed as the great star seems in some
respects to be, it rivals Sirius itself
in the intensity of its radiant
the0(Ar *
! turns to be the same per unit of sur
f ace as tho sun’s, it follows that Arc
turns exceeds the sun about 975,000
times in volume, and that its diame
ter is no less than 02,950,000 miles!
Imagine the earth and the other
planets constituting the solar sys
tem removed to Arcturus and set re
volving around it in orbits of the
san ie forms and size 3 as those in
which they circle about the sun.
j i» oor Mercury! For that little
p i ane t it would indeed be a jump
j | because, f rom the frying it rushed pan to into perihelion, the fire,
as
Mercury would plunge more than
2,500,000 miles beneath the surface of
| the giant star. Venus and the earth
‘ would perhaps melt like snowflakes
at the mouth of a furnace. Even
far away Neptune, the remotest
; member of the system, would be
bathed in torrid beat,
Poison in Its Spur
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, the
unique Australian duck billed water
mole, has lost its character tor harm
lessness,but has an added peculiarity,
a sting like a bee. The male has on
its hind leg a powerful spur connect-
1 ed with a gland. When attacked it
does not scratch with the spur but
digs it in; and now an Australian
naturalist has discovered that a vir
ulent poison is ejected from the spur.
He has found two men who wort
poisoned in handling the animal, an i
1 a number of dogs, four of the latte
> dying
NO. 20.
SWEARING IN RECRUITS.
How it is Done Here anti How in Ger¬
many.
‘‘The unostentatious manner in
which our national affairs are admin¬
istered is well illustrated by the
striking contrast between the cere¬
mony of swearing in recruits in our
army and the same ceremony in Ger¬
many,’’ remarked an officer who is
stationed at Fort Wayne to a Detroit
Free Dress reporter. “Here the re¬
cruit after expressing his desire to
servo Uncle Sam is ushered into the
room, a bare, dingy, rented apart¬
ment, which serves as office for tho
enlisting officer of the army, and (hen
nnd there is called upon to repeat,
after the said officer, tho following
oath, its solemn import marked by
tho cursory upward tendency' of tho
irrespective right hand: ‘I do sol¬
emnly swear that 1 yill’benr true
faith and nlloginnco to the United
States of America and that I will
serve them honestly nnd faithfully
against all their enemies whomao
ever; and that I will obey the
orders of tho President of tho United
States, and tho orders of the officers
appointed over me, according to tho
rules and articles of war. So help
mo God.’ Signature to this oath
makes him, without more ado, a full
Hedged soldier.
“ How different is tho following
ceremony used in binding Germany’s
soldiers to their Kaisers. The young
conscript is conducted to the church
of tho parish in which ho enlists,
where ho is first addressed by the
pastor on the sacred character and
great import of the oath he is about
to take. Then the flag of his country
and that of his battalion being placed
on tho alter, tho embryo soldier is
required to place his left hand on
these flags, and, raising his right, to
repeat the following: ‘ I swear before
God, who is all powerful and who
knows all, that I will serve loyally
and faithfully my very gracious
sovereign At ndcr all circumstances.
On and lamljSl in adduces, sen, in I peace to and seek in only war,
swear
his good and to do everything to pre¬
vent injury to him, 1 swear to ob
sorve strictly the articles of war which
have just beers read to me I swear
to obey all orders and to conduct my¬
self ns every 'courageous, honest
soldier ought to do, delighting in ful¬
filling tho duties that honor imposes
upon me. As surely as God will aid
mo in gaining eternity through Jesus
Christ, amen.’
W'll
tent at ions ways, marked by want of
use ] eSH ceremony, and we, by our
example, daily administer rebuke to
tho old wor ,d for tho vanit y of it s
wayS) lmt let us not carry the foel
. too far . Human nature hero, as
c]scwherPi ia impressionable, and if
an obligat ion is rendered more bind
j n <r by impressiveness we should not
hesitato to employ its necessary Re¬
companimonU even to tho ‘fuss and
fealhers - omp i oyed b y our elders in
the sisterhood of nations,
«. The avera ge American, unversed
in patriotic lore, woefully ignorant
(){ pa t rlo(ic syin bo!s, is “constantly
accu8ed of want of dev0 tion to his
C0lln try, of too great individualism,
too mt i e nationalism. Let us hope
that this is not so, that our patriot
ism bufc lie8 dormant, awaiting the
oc , asion wbicb will < ;all it into play
and make Hs existent strength em¬
phatically evident to the world.
“In the meantime, let Hie soldier
swear by his country’s beautiful
emblem ; furthermore, lot the Stars
and Stripes be displayed more often
and with more reverenco before the
people at large. Nothing will con¬
tribute further to arouse our homo¬
geneous population, our loo large
disorderly element, the product of
tho sordid, selfish individualism, to
a realization of other more worthy
interests; of a duty paramount to all
others, yet so generally lost sight of,
to a country that exists, to a flag
that waves, on this side of the
ocean.”
New Palindromes.
Uncertainty about spelling words
is something that has not been cured
by typewriting machines Borne of
the machines spell worse than lead
pencils or pens in tho hands of re¬
porters not entirely great. For small
people, who arc backward about
spelling, a few words have keen con¬
structed that can be spelled back¬
ward or forward and an vver the same
purpose. They are Adda, Anna, bab,
bib, bob, bub, civic, dad, deed, dei¬
fied, devived, dewed, did, dood, ecce,
eve, ewe, eye, gog, gig, gag, level,
madam, Mararn, noon, non, Otto,
pap, peep, pip, pop, pup, redder,
refer, repaper, reviver, rotator, sees,
selles, sexes, shahs, sis, siris/semes,
stellets, tat, tenet, tit, toot, tot, tut,
wavv and welevv.
School Hygiene.
Dr. Chapin, of New York City, be¬
lieves that one of the most active
sources of spreading contagious dis¬
eases among public school children
is through their outer clothing. The
garments come from all sorts ot
homes,and are usually piled together,
whether wet or dry, in an un venti¬
lated place, that makes an excellent
incubator for disease germs,especially
those of diphtheria. In some cities,
where school buildings are crowded,
this same clothing is sometimes hung
in the schoolroom itself, or in tlie
wardrobe room, where it is placed, is
used for an extra recitation room.
There should be a room for wraps
that is thoroughly ventilated, and a
place where they can be driod in wet
weather