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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
The world’s coinage in 1890 showed a
falling oil of $10,000,000.
The freight movement in the Unite4
States may be simply expressed by say¬
ing it is equal to 200,000,000 tom
hauled one mile each day of the year.
Since 1880 the population of Vermont
has decreased two per cent., but, states
the New York Ueraid , membership in
the churches has in the meantime in¬
creased nearly five per cent.
In the last thirty years Canada
added 1,500,052 to her population. Ic
the samo length of time, significantly
compares the San Francisco Kcaminer,
the United States has added 31,443,227
to hers.
The returns show that there has been
an immense apparent decrease in crime
in Great Britain in the last quarter of a
century. In 1864 there were 2S00 con¬
victs in the various penal institutions.
In 1890 there were but 729. Since 1882
eight prisons have been diverted to other
uses.
Barillas has forgotten the late of his
predecessor of like name, Barrios, and is
playing dictator in Guatemala. If the
history of his own country affords him
no admonitions, remarks the PhiladeL
phia Record , he might observe current
events in Chili. This a bad season foi
tyrants.
The Danish Society for the cultivation
of heaths, with the support of the Gov¬
ernment, is rewooding one hundred
square miles of heath in Jutland, Tho
work was begun iu 1886 with one square
mile. The society now numbers 14,000
mombora and is enthusiastically supported
by communities and private individuals.
Last year it purchased plants to the value
of $16,000, and about $67,000 are an*
uually expended for planting and cultl-
vation of heaths.
Malarial iuvalids who consume great
quantities of quinine will be pained to
know, believes the New Orleans Picayune ,
that in tho manufacture ot this drug there
is quite as much misery a3 in the disease
which it alleviates. The making pro¬
duces cutaneous eruptions accompanied
by a fever, the vapor from boiling solu¬
tions being the chief cause. Sums can¬
not work in cinchona. About ninety
per cent, are more or less affected.
Blondes nro more susceptible that
brunettes.
So great is the demand for surburban
homos near New York, asserts the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, that almost any
sort ot a land speculation succeeds if
managed with any* degree of skill. Not
long ago a landowner inclosed a bare su¬
burban hill with a strong wall, pierced it
with pretentious gates, laid out the
ground with graveled drives, and gave
the place an attractive name ending in
“park.” The sale of lots came off re
ceutly, and much of the land sold at the
rate of $14,000 an acre.
The white population of Hawaii is de¬
creasing rapidly by emigration, and the
natives are diminishing iu numbers by
death. Yet the islands have now more
population than at any previous census.
The increase is mostly in Chinamen.
“The late Kingdom of Kalakaua is ap¬
parently more likely to become a prov¬
ince of the Chinese Empire,” solilo¬
quizes the Philadelphia Rscard, “than to
fill its manifest destiny of becoming that
outlying California County, of which the
San Francisco newspapers have long
been dreaming.”
The agricultural department at Wash¬
ington is doing a good work, asserts ths
Boston Cultivator , in propagating a kind
of bacteria that are exceedingly destruc¬
tive to the cabbage worm. As soon as
the bacteria fastens on a worm, it begins
to destroy it by sections, and continues
until nothing is left but a little spot.
The worm dies ei riost immediately after
its attack. The bacteria is preserved in
gelatiue and can be sent thus to any dis¬
tance. It propagates so rapidly that
when once introduced it soon spreads all
over the fields, and in a year or two
through an entire neighborhood.
That the army of the unemployed is a
growing one in this country, may be seen
from the following statement by the
Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States
Commissioner of Labor: “It is prob¬
ably true that the time has arrived when
every person in the United States who
desires remunerative employment cannot
find it. Five hundred thousand people
must compete for 460,000 places. Wnat
I am saying has nothing to do with the
great army of the unemployed, which
through all ages has huug upon the out¬
skirts of civilization. I am dealing sim
ply with currents in the way of oecupa
tion.” In face of the facts from a sta¬
tistician so careful and capable a? Mr.
Wright, asks tte Atlanta Constitution
what becomes of Mr. Atkinson’s cheer
ful assertions to the effect that employ
ment is to be had by every capable per
sou who wants it!
BETWEEN THE OATES.'
Between the gates of birth and death
An old and saintly pilgrim passed,
With look of one who witnesseth
The long-sought goal at last. »
“0 thou whose reverent feet have found
The Master's footprints in thy way,
And walked thereon as holy ground,
A boon of thee I pray.
“My lack would borrow thy excess.
My feeble faith the strength of thine;
1 need thy soul’s white saintliness
To hide the stains of mine.
“The grace and favor else denied
May well be granted for thy sake.”
So, tempted, doubting, sorely tried,
A younger pilgrim spake.
“Thy prayer, my son, transcends my gift;
No power is mine,” the sage replied,
“The burden of a soul to lift,
Or stain of sin to hide.
"Howe’er the outward life may seem.
For pardoning grace we all must pray;
No man his brother can redeem
Or a soul’s ransom pay,
“Not always age is growth of good;
Its years have losses with their gain;
Against some evil youth withstood
Its hands may strive in vain.
“With deeper voice than auy speech
Of mortal lips from man to man,
What earth’s unwisdom may not teach
The Spirit only can.
“Make thou that holy Guide thine owu,
And, following where it leads the way,
The known shall lapse in the unknown
As twilight into day.
“The best of earth shall still remain,
And Heaven’s eternal years shall prove
That life and death, and joy and pain
Are ministers of Love.”
—John O. Whittier , in the Independent.
AUNT MEHETABLE’S VISIT.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
“It’s all very well for them to invite
me to go and visit them down in York
State,” said old Miss Mehetable Bevis;
“but, of course, they know that I won’t
come.”
“Of course!” snarled Mr. Bevis, who
did not believe in anybody but himself.
“Why should they want you, Mehetty?
You ain’t very youug, nor yet you ain’t
very attractive.”
“In that case,” said Mehetable, not
without a lingering vestige of spirit,
“I’m surprised, Brother Reuben, that you
and Betsy tolerate me here. ”
“Wa’l,” said Farmer Bevis, slowly
taking the pipe out of his mouth, as if
this were a new and unconsidered ques¬
tion, “you’re my sister, Mehetty, and
you’ve a natural claim ou me. Of course
I ain’t goin’ to see none of my kith and
kin turned ou the poor-house. And I
don’t deny, mind, Mehetty,” he made
haste to add, as he saw the indignant
color mounting to her cheeks, “but that
you earn your victuals. You’re a smart
worker, Mehetty, and always was. And
Betsy is glad, with her big family, to
have some one to help around.”
“I should think so,” said Mehetable.
“"Why, Reubeu, you could not hire any-
body to come here and do the work I
accomplish for four dollars a week, let
alone the board and lodging!”
“What’s all this got to do with the
question? What I meant to say was that
Brother Ben’s fashmable city daughter
and her husband can’t care about plain
folks like us.”
“I am sure they enjoyed their visit
here,” observed Mehetable, knitting
away as if her needles were electric j
wires. “And nothing could be more
,
cordial than the invitation they gave me 1
to return it.” :
“City folks arc always smooth-
spoken,” said Mrs. Bevis, a lantern-
jawed, faded-eyed, blue-nosed woman,
with her face eternally tied up in a yellow
silk pocket-handkerchief, and a most
aggravating way of singing her sen-
tences through her nose. “I’m glad I
charged 'em a good high price for
granny's old spinning-wheel, since you
wouldn’t let me ask no board-money.”
“I should think not,” said Miss
Mehetable. “Reuben's own brother's
daughter! Board, indeed.”
“Of course, Mehetable will do as she
pleases about visitin’ ’em,’ said Mis.
Reubeu Bevis, working diligently away
at her “Fool’s Chase” quilt pattern.
“But it was very plain that they only
asked her because they thought it was a
duty. And if Mehetable goes off and leaves
us just now with the quilting and the
peach-butter aud the apple butter all at
once—”
“Well, what then?” said Mehetable,
knitting away faster than ever.
Mrs. Bevis tossed her bead.
“In that case,” said she, “you needn t
De surprised if we hire some one eise in
your place. And. of course, you won’t
expect to come back to free board and
iodging here.”
Miss Mehetable laid down her work.
“Before this morning.” said she,
crisply, “I hadn't made up my mind.
Now. I have. I shall go to Mrs. Walter
Cherryfields. If matters have come to
such a pass that I can't go and come
when I choose, but must drudge on day
by day like a slave, why, then, its time
I knew it.”
“You and Betsy never could agree,
groaned Reuben Bevis, with a lugubrious
countenance.
“Bam t my fault, snapped Mrs. Reu-
ben. “There am t no samt m the calen-
dar could stand what I’ve stood with
Mehetty’s temper.”
“Guess you’d better patch up a peace, ”
urged Mrs. Bevis. “Hired help is dread-
ful scarce, Betsy—and, as for you, Me¬
hetty, 'taint long one would put up with
your old-maidy ways as Betsy does.’’
But the “little rilt within the lute’’
once split apart, was past mortal power
to mend. Betsy took herself and her
neuralgia sulking out of the room. Me¬
hetable quietly but steadfastly adhered
to her resolution—and Mr. Reuben Bevis
at last lost his temper.
“Wa’l, Mehetty,” said he, “go your
own way. But you're as contrary a
piece as ever I sat eyes on, and I don’t
know how 1 and Betsy ever got along
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 24, 1891
with you all these years. P’r’aps
best we should pait now—but don’t you
come back to me for food and shelter—
that’s all!”
“I shan’t ask you for even that much,
Reuben,” said his sister, quietly rising
and putting up her work, “But we're
brother and sister after all, and after ten
years of steady work for you and yours,
I’d a little rather have parted in good
will and amity.”
“That’s bosh!” said Bevis, gruffly.
“You’ve had your own way, and I hope
you’ll find it pays best in the long run.”
Mehetty went slowly to her room,
packed her trunk and dressed herself in
an antique debeige dress, cut in the
fashion of full twenty years ago, with a
shirred poke bonnet, thick calf-skin
boots and pale-blue cotton gloves, while
under her arm she carried a green gin¬
gham umbrella, thriftily patched with
material of a darker emerald.
“I’ll settle the question at once,” she
murmured to herself, “whether or not
they are ashamed of their old Aunt Me-
hetable, from Deer-Horns, up in Maine!”
And then, wishing Reuben and Betsy a
pleasant good bye, which neither of them
saw fit to notice by word or look, she went
straight to the stage-office.
Lawyer Darkley rushed out of his office
as she stepped briskly by in her squeaking
new boots which, as the errand-boy re¬
marked, sotto voce, “was every bit as
good as a band of music,” and smilingly
accosted her:.
“Miss—ahem!—Miss Bevis, are you
leaving town without any more definite
instructions as to—”
“Hush l” said Mehetable, abruptly.
“Not a word! Yes. I will write in a
day or two. Remember, Mr. Darkley,
everything is confidential between us.”
The lawyer nodded, and retired once
more into his little den, and Miss Bevis
hurried on to catch the afternoon stage.
Mr. and Mm. Walter Cherry field were
having a little evening reception that
bleak November night. Miss Mehetable
Bevis had not been ignorant of this fact;
in truth, Mrs. Walter had mentioned it
incidentally in her last letter to Deer-
Horns; and she marched up the steps
looking curiously at the brilliantly lighted
windows.
“And now we shall decide this mat¬
ter,” she said to herself, “as to whether
my city cousins are glad to see me.”
Yes, Mrs. Cherryfield was at home.
The waiter looked dubiously at the
strange guest, so unlike the fancy figures
muffled in soft white garments that made
them seem like floating clouds, that came
and went from satin-lined carriages close
to the curbstone. He would call her,
he said, if the lady would step into a
side room and wait. It was Mrs. Cherry-
fie'd birth-night, and—
“No,” said Mehetable, “I will go in
to her. Stand aside, my good man, if
you please!”
Mrs. Cherryfield’s face flushed up with
unmistakable pleasure at this unexpected
apparition, as she hurried to meet the
visitor from Deer-Horns.
“Aunt Mehetty,” she cried. “Oh, this
is a surprise, indeed! I am so glad to
see you. Here's Walter, and here are
my girls! And now you must let me in¬
troduce you to my friends. This is Mr.
Warrenton, the artist; you know I told
you about him last summer—and Miss
Brigiuage, who wrote the volume of
poems you liked so much—and this is
Miss Stalieukamp and Miss De Vauren—
but what a thoughless cieature I am!
Let me take you up to my room to re-
move these heavy wraps!”
“No,” cried cheery Walter Cheeryfield.
“Up to your room, indeed! What for,
Alice? Aunt Mehetable shall take off
her things here, and then we won’t lose
a bit of the fun. It's like a whiff of the
fresh mountain breeze to see Aunt Mehet-
ty’s face again—and I’ii lead off the Vir-
ginia reel with her myself!”
While the girls clustered around her,
eager to introduce their friends, anxious
to make her wholly and entirely at home,
so cordial and sunny, that Miss Meheta-
bie scarcely knew whether to laugh or
cry.
“Reuben said your invitation was a
, ne re matter of form,” said she in a
choked voice. “That you didn’t want
to see ine! But I guess Reuben ain’t
such a good judge of character as he
thinks himself.”
And then the umbrella, poke-bonnet
and clogs having been removed by the
trim little maid-servant with the blue
ribbons in her hair, Aunt Mehetty was
whirled down the center by Walter Cber-
ryfield in genuine country style,
Aunt Mehetable stayed a month with
the Cherryfields. She drove in Central
Pais, looked with awe-struck eyes at the
smoke-crowned serpents of the elevated
road gliding above her head, and wan-
dered through the aisles of the Metropol-
itan Museum. She went to see the
obelisk, was taken over Brooklyn Bridge
—and when she -went home to Deer-
Horns and tried to think of them ail.she
felt as if her brains had been chopped up
*
into very fine hash
“But if Id be the President’s lady
herself,” Miss Bevis always added, “the
Cherryfield’s couldn’t have made a greater
fuss over me!”
She had not been at the village hotel
more than two days before her brother
Reuben drove over in his funny little
one-horse buckboard.
“Hornin’,” said Reuben, succintly
“Heard ye had a nice time at Alice’s.”
“I neve r enjoyed myself so much m all
my life,’ Miss Mehetable answered, with
spirit, “nor never was treated better!”
“Humph!” said Reuben. “Wa l,
Betsy don’t seem to get along with the
hired help we've employed; and so, as
we concluded you’d be glad to get home
again, I’ve fetched the buckboard for
you.
“Mqch obliged,” said Mies Mehetable;
“but this is home.”
Reuben stared around the room.
“Why,” said he, with lobster eyes of
amazement, “this’ere must cost you a
dollar 3r day, at tiiG very least!
“About that,” said Miss Mehetable,
serenely. “But I calculate, Brother
Reuben, that I can afford it. I didn’t
tell you, did I, about those Lead ville
bop de I took just to accommodate Leaa-
Jareis-a widow, before she went
West. I held my toasr-ue about ’em. for
I wag afraid I had done a foolish thing,
but they’ve quadrupled in value, and
Lawyer Darkley haa just sold ’em out
and invested thirty thousand dollars for
me in government stock. So I can live
pretty much as I-please.”
Reuben involuntarily took off Lit
slouch hat—a sort of tribute to the heir¬
ess of all this wealth.
“Well, I do declare tor ’tl” said he,
“Some folks have all the luck. Why,
Miriam Jarvis wanted to sell me then-
bonds at par, and I told her I’d have
nothing to do with such wild-cat stud,
not at no price.”
“And,” added Miss Mehetable, with a
secret satisfaction in the too perceptible
changes of her brother's flint-like face,
“I’ve made my will, and I’ve left it tc
my niece Alice and her girls. I like tc
think that honest and friendly folks will
enjoy it when I am gone.”
Reuben Bevis'turned silently and went
out. And whtn he related the story to
hi3 wife, he added, with true matrimonial
courtesy:
“It’s all your fault, Betsy. You must
up and quarrel with her when there
wasn’t no occasion. Women is such
blamed fools!”
“Everything is always my fault,” an¬
swered the despondent Betsy, bursting
into tears. “There never was a woman
so tried as I be!”— New York Ledger.
The ,, Spread . of Consumption. .
Interesting investigations of the theory
that railroad cars aid in spreading pul-
raonary diseases by means of baccili com-
ing from consumptive passengers, which
lodge in the dust of cars, have been
made by Dr. W. Prausnitz, a German
physician.
A few months ago, the doctor, with
the aid of a patent instrument, collected
a large quantity of dust from the floors,
walls and cushions of cars which had
been used by consumptives on their jour-
ney from Berlin to Italy. This dust was
injected under the skins of seventeen
guinea pigs. The animals were killed
ten weeks later. Twelve of them, upon
examination,were found entirely healthy,
while only five showed slight symptoms
of tuberculosis.
As confinement undoubtedly affected
the lungs of the animals, the doctor
comes to the conclusion that railroad
railroad cars, if properly cleaned at the
end of each journey, will play no part in
spreading the disease of consumption.
Dr. Prausnitz will now conduct a
similar series of experiments with the
dust collected from the floors and walls
of street cars, and especially such the
floors of which are covered with hay or
straw in winter, a practice which still
largely obtains in many cities of the Em¬
pire.
In Berlin, the doctor thinks, new^con-
elusions will be reached, not so favorable
as those arrived at in the case of steam
passenger locomotion. Straw, as a com-
raunicator of diseases of the mucous
membrane, especially when such floor
covering is impregnated with the expec-
torations of passengers, is well known,
The doctor’s experiments on this point
will be watched with interest.— St. Louit
Star-Sayings.
First American Water Works.
John Christopher Christensen, a Dan¬
ish Moravian, built the first water works
m the United States in 1762 at Bethle¬
hem, Penn. The machinery is thus de¬
scribed in an early print. It consisted
of three single-acting force-pumps, hav¬
ing a calibre of four inches and an
eighteen-inch stroke,which were worked
by a triple crank and geared to an un¬
dershot water wheel having a diameter
of eighteen feet, and two feet clear in
the buckets. The total head of water
was two feet. On the shaft of the wheel
was a wallower of thirty-three rounds
and gearing into a spur-wheel of fifty-
two cogs, attached to the crank, rhe
three piston rods were attached each to
a frame or cross-head working in
grooves to give them a parallel motion
with the pump. This cross-head was of
wood, as were also all the parts contain-
ing the grooves as guides.
At first these works were capable of
raising the water to a perpendicular
height of seventy feet, but afterward
were so arranged that the power was in-
creased to 114 feet.
As late as 1832 the primitive affair
continued in full operation. Gum wood
was used in the construction of tho first
rising mam, because it was strong
enough to resist the great, pressure at
that point, but the remainder was co n-
posed of pitch pine. Thirty-six years
after this main was laid lead pipes were
substituted, and in 1813 iron ones were
introduced and served the purpose until
the works were replaced by those ol
more modern pattern.— Detroit Fret
Press.
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rimiuTC I ottery. 44
The primitive potters kneaded clay Jjy
hand and baked the articles made from
and fragile. Then it ocuurrcd to th<
pottere to subject them to the action ol
the fire and thus increase their consist-
ency and resistance, but the wares still
remained porous, which led to the dis-
covery of making them impermeable by
covering them with a glaze. The early
glaze was, however, hardly more than s
varnish, and the white enamel glaze ol
the present day has been attained by a
long senes of expenments too intricate
to detail in this column.
Pottery which is coated with this ern
amel is by the French called faience. In
Italy it is known as majolica, because
the methods employed by the Italians
were imported from an island of thal
name .—Philadelphia Record.
Asiatic Pheasants In Oregon.
It is said that the Asiatic pheasant* P SNhl
wer ® imported and se, fee e
forests of Oregon some years ago, have
fully justified the hopes of their impor-
ters by the rapidity with “which they have
multiplied where they have not been mo-
lested by hunters. These birds are of
very gorgeous plumage, and are excellent
game fowls, being strong and hardy, of
Wge aiae and very good eating. Stria-
gent laws have been passed to protect
them from pot hunters. — Picayune,
FOUND. A NEW MINERAL
GREAT DISCOVERY BY A FISHER¬
MAN IN TEXAS.
A Vast Deposit of AVhat Has Been
Named Litho-Carbon in Texas—
Its Properties and. Uses.
Some years ago a sportsman with red
and line was fishing from the bank of a
particularly inviting stream just a little
south of the center of the State of Texas.
At the base of a long pool, a ledge,
standing edgewise, crossed the stream
from one bank to the other, forming
dam, over which the crystal liquid
flowed, breaking into foam as it fell be¬
low. The sportsman undertook to cross
on the crest of this natural dam where
the water was shallow. As he walked
through the thin stream, placing one
foot carefully before the other, he no¬
ticed that the ledge was yielding to the
touch, like an asphalt pavement baked
in the August suu. Reaching the other
shore, he observed that there was a
broad, high and clearly developed vein
of the same material as that of which
the ledge was formed, making into the
bank. It was of a dark brown color,and
contrasted sharply with the reddish earth
on either side.
With a stout pocket knife he cut out
a large lump of the clinging brown vein
and i 0O ked at it closely. It was a mass
of sea shells, held together by sand cov-
ered with a dark, intensely sticky film
of the color of dark brown sugar, and
possessing neither taste nor odor, The
presence of the shells, which lay thickly
in the whole vein, showed that where he
stood the ocean had once ebbed and
flowed. But what this deposit could be,
or by what action of nature's chemistry
it had been formed, was to him a com-
pleto mystery. From the top of the
bank his practiced eye could detect the
clear outcroppings of the vein, running
away to the east and west as far as he
could see. Whatever it was, he could
see that there lay before him an enor-
inous supply of this strange, clinging
staff, mixed with seasnelis.
Tying his large lump of new-found
mineral substance in his handkerchief
the prospector proceeded toward camp.
That night he tried to melt the mass. It
would not yield in the least to any heat
he could produce. Weeks afterward, in
New York, he tried acids upon it with¬
out avail. He began to feel a deep
curiosity about this stubborn stuff that
held its secret so closely. He exhausted
all his knowledge of the art of reducing
minerals without producing a single
tangible result.
One day he received word to call on a
chemist to whom he had given a small
quantity of the matter some weeks pre¬
viously. He replied to the invitation in
person. In the labratory he was shown
a little heap of perfectly white sand and
sea shells lying on the table, while in
the bottom of a glass vessel near by was
a quantity of intensely, brilliantly black
stuff of about the density of molasses.
This matter, the chemist explained, had
been extracted from the combination of
sea shells and sand by the application
of a bath of common benzine. Where
all the scientific methods of reduction
had failed to make the slightest impres¬
sion, a benzine bath instantly dissolved
the sticky film and had completely sep¬
arated it from the particles of sand and
shell. The chemist had not yet deter¬
mined upon all of the possibilities of
usefulness for the newly found product,
but it was quite clear that, inasmuch as
it fully resisted water, heat, acids and
alkalis, there was a field ready for it to
occupy. Quantities of the material were
quietly brought to New York, and a
series of experiments followed, covering
a period of more than two years’ time.
The result of these experiments goe 3 to
prove beyond any question of doubt that
the State of Texas has produced an en-
tirely new mineral, which will exercise a
tremendous effect upon many of the
greatest industries at present in opera-
tion, not alone in this country, but in
various other portions of the world.
Dr. Frederick Salathe has a labora-
tory fitted up on the top floor of the
building at 19 Park place. It is here
that he has conducted the various ex-
aminations which have unsealed the se-
cret of the Texas mineral, to which he
has given, by reason of its various prop-
erties, the title Litho-Carbon. He has
discovered that it makes the most per-
feet insulator yet discovered; that it may
he used as a paint that will resist the
action of heat, salt air, salt or fresh water,
gases, or the other influences that de-
stoy the paints now in use; that it will
make a perfect varnish, which the am-
mon ia gases of the stable will not tarnish,
and that will remain undisturbed under
a ll atmospheric conditions; that it may
be lolled into a tissue that is entirely
free from odor and practically indestruct-
ab i e when employed in the-making of
mackintoshes, etc.,thatitpo3seiyespecu- canvas beltino- water-
roo f tents>
liar powers of penetration when applied
at b j ab temperatures enabling it to
entprand fill the nnres of iron and stppl
ous to acids, etc., and making common
leather entirely waterproof, and that it
may be app iied to wood pulp in such a
Wfty ag t 0 transform that material into
what looks and acts like ebony or horn.
It is possible to saturate a steamship
plate in hot litho-carbon and produce a
remarkable result. Thus prepared that
p ] ate will not be touched by barnacles,
can never rust and will not foul. "of Cov-
cre( j a i ayer Q f pai n t made this
matter a ship or seaside house will per-
rnanently resist the action of the atmos-
pheie or water. A portion of the smoke-
stack of the steamer Dean Richmond,
where the ^ at j >y the a ‘‘ bl 0wer '’
ft f ~
and remains undisturbed and unblistered,
w hile other parts of the vessel have neces-
g&rily been painted many times* A. shin»
f ,q e covered with litho-carbon paint has
a id for months in a tank of salt water
- t i t warehouse down-town
Q a g rea pa n
without showing “ a change, ' s while another
c07er d with , he , er ,
p r#v jomly known paint, haa necessarily
received coating after coating to preserve
its surface. A piece of sheet iron covered
with a coat of litho-carbon japan was, in
the presence of the writer, subjected to
an actual heat of 415 degrees Fahrenheit
without crack or blister, and remains so
tenacious that the iron may be bent at
any angle without in the least disturbing
the glossy surface.
A common paper bag, soaked in this
black liquid, may be filled with milk,
water, acid, alkali or any liquid, except¬
ing the petroleum series, ti«d up at the
month with a string, and carried any
distance without fear of leakage or injury
to its contents. It will be an odd de¬
velopment of household economy when
or milk, vinegar, liquors, etc., come
homo from the grocer’s in paper bags.
For varnishing railway cars and pri¬
vate carriages, and painting iron bridges,
roofs, steamships, houses, etc., this nis-
terial acts as au insulator, and according
to the experts, will neither crack nor
blister under any known atmospheric
temperature. At great heat litho-carbon
will soften, but it cannot take fire at any
point. •
Careful and practical investigation
shows there are thousands upon thousands
of acres of raw material in the State of
Texas, the veins ranging in depth from
two to forty feet. How it got there is a
mystery. Whether it was left as it is in
the far-back ages when the ocean re-
ceded, or whether it w r as deposited among
the seashells and sauds at a later period,
no man knows. But, whatever its origin,
there it is, and its varied and wonderful
tific uses are attracting the attention of scien¬
and commercial men to a greater ex¬
tent than they been attracted by auy re¬
cent development of the natural products
of this great country.— New York Adoer -
titer
WISE WORDS.
It does not take so much to be con¬
tented.
A bore is a Damocletian sword to the
busy man.
Uncertainty is the keenest favor ol
existence.
No mortal’s bread is ever buttered on
both sides.
Tho successful rival is always a con-
temptible scamp.
Faith is the greatest builder, and envy
the greatest destroyer.
Confide your secrets to the wind, but
do not tell them to a woman.
Great works are performed, not by
strength, but perseverance.
A line art now means one by which a
person can make some money.
Pirates make you “walk the plank;”
society insists on your getting married*
The bufible society, blown from the
pipe of folly, is pricked by the pm of
cortmon sense.
Like a beautiful flower, full of color,
but without scent, are the fine but fruit¬
less words of him who does not act ac¬
cordingly.
Virtue consists for us in not falling
into even the slightest faults, because in
the case of sin, nothing can seem indif-
ferent to us.
The man who says he is going to get
there, and don't you forget it, makes
more noise about it than the man who is
actually there.
Those who are always making obser¬
vations upon the conduct of others are
like those who are always abroad at
other men’s houses, reforming every¬
thing there, while their own runs to
ruin.
A soul which eojoys the serenity of a
pure conscience preserves all its beauty,
all sensibility, all its freshness; it has
* n everything the clearest ideas, the most
exa lted views, and the most noble senti.
ments.
Tho Medicinal Sea Voyage.
When exhaustion hr gone so far as
to produce a condition of positive
breakdown without any special organic
lesion, a sea trip is in most cases to be
preferred to auy alternative. The patient
has the advantage of perpetual carriage
exercise without the irksomeness of — re-
strained posture, and without its limit--
ation to a few hours of sunshine. The
chilling effects of night air and alterations
of dryness and dampness of atmosphere
are almost unknown at sea; and a recovery
may in such cases usually be predicted
as following almost certainly a few weeks
on ship board. But it is to the middle-
aged man more than all others that a
holiday at sea is to be recommended.
In the great majority of cases a man who
leads an active business or professional
life selects his form ol holiday as much
for what he gets away from as for what
he gets to. The desire to get out of
harness and to escape from the weary
treadmill of the recurring care 3 from
which few active men are free is never
better met than by a voyage. To such
men exercise is a secondary consideration.
Fresh air and the incidents that vary the
monotony of sea life are sufficient to give
all the benefits that any change can give,
whilst the gentle exercise of walking the
deck is sufficient to stimulate the appetite
and promote digestion.—London Medical
Recorder.
Two Epitaphs.
The following epitaph is sent by a cor-
respondent who copied it the other day
from a tombstone in a graveyard near
the village of Pelham, Mass.:
Warren Gibbs,
Died by arsenic poison,
March 23, 1860.
“Think, my friends, when this you sea
How my wife has dealt by me;
She in some oysters did prepare
Some poison for my lot ana share.
SiTna'tm-e“SdifafitoftSf*
Erected by his brother, William Gibbs.”
“In the same graveyard,” says the
correspondent, ^thc following verse was
found on a tombstone erected to the
memory of the children:
Kef “ ‘They used tasted of life’s potion bitter cup,
to drink the up;
Too%weetfor teL’Srfdtod*’, for’hta
earth,bat not
NUMBER 42
COURT OF LAST RESORT.
Important Cases and the Time for
sideling Them.
The United States supreme court
the Monday, Virginia decided the tax motions to ll-ecqS advi/^J
coupon cases.
advanced and assigned f r argument
first the t Monday murderers in December be executed the case^^H iu I^B
o to
York by means ot elec ricity. The
lOlvine. men arc Nicoia The former Trez/.ia and seutencecr^H James^^M
was
the Salvaua, murder and of the a latter fellow for Italian the murdeijM nai^B
• Brooklyn grocer, namsd Lucca '!'*■
court also advanced the cases of the an-
archists, Fielder and Schwab, who ate
ow in the penitentiary in Illinois, for
complicity in the famous Haymarket anarchistg riot
iu Chicago. The cases of the
will after come the conclus up for hearing of the argument^! immedUt^B
on
the two New York electrocution cases^B
THE GOVERNOR RESIGNS/
Oklahoma’s Official Head Steps
and Out.
A dispatch of Monday from
Ind.', says: Governor George \V.
Oklahoma, who arrived here Saturday
look «f>er the location of Dr.
great factory, admitted that he had
signed the governorship on the 3d of the.
month, but had not yet been relieve
lie likes Oklahoma, and has great hopes
for its future, but his business interest*
demand his attention. It is suspected
however, that his resignation means ti J l
commissionert-hip of pinions, ehou. *
Commissioner ltaum also resign, as i
dicated.
HAPPY MAN.
“Ah, Jonesy, old man,’’ said Hicks, at
he and Jones walked home from th«
club; for “there’s a light in your window
you. You married men-”
Jones. “By George, “Let’s so there isl” returned
go baok to the olub.”—
[Puck.
_
RICHMOND* DANVILLER R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Diilslon.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect Aug. 2nd, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12.
KASTXBX TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 20 pm
Chamblee..... 7 59 pm
Norcross....... 8 11 pm
Duluth........ 8 24 pm
Suwanee....... 8 87 pm A
Buford........ 8 52 pm am
Flowery Oainebville..... Branch 9 07 pm
2 52 pm 9 24 pm ' am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 9 50 pm
Bell ion........ 9 56 pm !
Cornell 10 25 pm :
~ Mf. Airy....... To as pm”
Tocooa......... 4 02 pm 10 68 pm
Westminster... .... 11 39 pm -jo>o»os©o>ewo«©«>*.i*i».i*-c*oo*os-‘»-*
Seneca ........ .... 12 01 am
Central........ .... 12 40 am
Easleys........ Greenville..... 05’ .... 1 03 am
6 pm 1 33 am
Greers......... .... 1 59 am
Wellford....... ........ 2 16 am
S partanburg... 6 57 pm 2 36 am
Clifton........ ........ 2 55 am
Cowpens Gaffney....... ...... ........ 3 00 am
Blacksburg..... ........ 8 28 am
........ S 46 am
Grover...T..... ....... 3 56 am
King’s Mount’ll ........ 4 17 am
Gastonia....... ........ 4 50 am
Lowell........ ........ 500 am
Bellemont..... ........ 5 11 am
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 5 40 am
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... • 35 am 2 50 am
Bellemont..... 8 15 am
Lowell......... 3 26 am
Gastonia....... 3 43 am
King’s Mount’s 4 17 am
Grover......... 4 33 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg.... 4 43 am
5 02 am
Cowpens Clifton........ ...... 5 27 am
5 31 am
Spartanburg... 11 39 am 6 48 am
Wellford........ 6 10 am
Greers......... 6 28 am
Greenville...... 12 3C pm 7 00 am
Easleys......... Central........ 7 25 am
8 10 am
Seneca......... 8 38 am
Westminster.... 8 58 am
Tocooa........ 2 25 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... 10 10 am
Cornelia....... 10 15 am
Bellton........ 10 88 am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 11 11 am
Flowery Branch 11 31 am
Buford........ 11 46 am
Suwanee....... 11 59 am
Duluth........ 12 12 pm
Norcross...... m 12 24 pm
Chamblee...... 12 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T,)5 00 1 10 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 an l 18—Lola ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lnla 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a rn.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 Lula dailv, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave 10 05p
m, and 1140 a m, arrive Athens 12 05 am and
1 40 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, and 7 20 y> m
and 8 SO a m, arrive Lnla 9 20 p m 10 80
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai-
Iy; except Sundav, leave Returning, Toccoa 12 55 No. pm 60
arrive Elberton 4 45 p m.
daily, except Sunday, leave sElLertan 5 45 a m
andarrives Toccoa 9 15 am.
Nos. 11 an I 12 carry Pullman Bleepers be¬
tween Washington and Knoxvi le via. Salisbury,
and Nos. 9ani 10 Pullman Sleeper between At¬
lanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A* lanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged in connection with first-class tickets,
not exceeding $2.00 over and above usual Pull¬
man charges to arv point. local and
For detailed information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, L. L. McCLESKEY,
JAS. TAYLOR, L.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Washington, D, O. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN. SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Washington, D. O. Richmond, Va.
G. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the counti*» of Hhber-
eham and Rabun of the Northwea’eru
Circuit, and Frankbn and Banka of the
We-t r , Circuit. Prompt at eDti >n <*ti
be g von to all busii esaem