Newspaper Page Text
[HE IMPS
FI3F * ran
Notable Events in 1897
it the World Over,
ip . -
THE CEASELESS REAPER
Destruction on Land
and Sea.
THE MENACE OF WAR.
Continued from last week
9. General Fuller, noted Venezuelan warrior
Etatcsmau and philanthropist, died at Ca
rneas.
10. Obituary: Thomas Whiffen, actor, in Hurt
ford, England.
I& The jury in the famous Mrs. Atkinson cast
in West Virginia failed to agree. Senoriti
Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, the (*ubat
girl who escaped from prison in Havana
arrived in New York.
14. T tobacco warehouses and 8 dwellings burn
cd at Durham, N. C.: loss, $250,000.
15. Disasters: The domo of Robinson’s Open
House in Cincinnati fell during a perform
ance; 5 persons killed, 60 injured.
i?. Fires: The town of Windsor, N. S., wipe*
out and 0,000 people homeless; loss, $3,U00,
UUO. A SOOO,OOO factory liro in New Yorl
city.
©bituary: (Tiarbs A. Dana, editor of tin
New York Sun, ut Glen Cove, N. Y.; age.
78.
Shipwreck: The coaster Triton wrecked oi
the Cuban coast; about 150 lives lost.
Obituary: Admiral John L. Worden, V. S
N-, retired, the Monitor hero, Washing
♦on; aged TO. John W. Hague, v.TI knowi
actor, in Boston; aged 58.
10. Obituary: George Mortimer Pullman, tin
palace car magnate, in Chicago; aged GO
O. T. Cay lor, well known writer on base
bull, died at Winona, Minn.
20 A SIOO,OOO fire at Osceola, Ark.
21. Miscellaneous; The hundredth anniversnrj
of the launching of the war frigate Old Iron
Fides celebrated in Boston.
22. Business troubles: W. G. Hitchcock & Cos.
importers, assigned in New York city; lia
bilities, $1,000,000. The Fowler Cycle Cos
of Chicago, assigned; liabilities, $500,000.
Obituary: Justin Winsor, historian and libra
rian of Harvard university, in Cambridge
aged CO.
Miscellaneous: Princeton university’s u>e
morial day commemorated. Uncle Chafllo
Decker, an Indiana pioneer and the oldest
survivor of the civil war, died at Valparai
so; aged 09.
23. Disaster: A Hudson River railroad express
plunged into the river near Garrisons, N.
Y.; 20 killed, many injured.
Convention: The biennial meeting of the
world’s W. C. T. U. opened in Toronto.
Shipwreck: Steam schooner Caspar wrecked
off Point Arena, Cal.; 13 sailors drowned.
24. Obituary: Prof. Francis Turner Palgravo
of Oxford university : aged 73.
25. Destructive storm on the Atlantic const
from Long Island to Hatteras.
Obituary: John Sartain, artist and engraver
of repute, in Philadelphia: aged t ; 9.
27. Fires: Offices of the Wabash railroad burn
ed in St. Louis; loss, SOOO,OOO. The Woelfel
Co.’s immense tannery at Morris, Ills., de
stroyed; loss. $225,000.
Obituary: The Duchess of Tock, Princess
Mary of Cambridge, at Richmond, Eng
land. Thomas G. Alvord, noted New York
politician, in Syracuse; aped 87.
Reunion: The twenty-ninth annual meeting
of the Society of the Army of the Ten
ncsstie begun in Milwaukee.
2S. Fire: Sturgis grain elcva*or burned at Buf
fnlo; loss over S2UU,OUO.
Conventions: The national convention of the
W. C. T. U. opened at Buffulo. Annual
meeting of the Association of Collegiate
Alumna; opened at Detroit.
20. Obituary: Henry George, social reformer,
in New York city; aged 58. Sir Hercules
Robinson, former chief commissioner of
Cape Colony, in London; aged 751.
30. Accident: fi miners suffocated in the Din
ixiond shaft at Scranton. Pa.
NOV KM BER.
I'. Union Pacific railroad sold at Omaha to re
organization committee for $57,504,9512.70.
Col. .L R. M. (’hard. V. t’., hero of Rorke's
Drift, died at Taunton, England.
8. Fire: Central hotel and Corry block burned
at Marlboro, Mass.; loss, SISU,IKJU.
Accident: 4 killed and 17 injured in the
wreck of a vestibule express on the Chesn
peake and Ohio railroad near Charlottes
ville, Ya.
Obituary: Gen. Thomas L. Clingham, noted
Confederate veteran, at Morgantown. N
C. Dr. y. R. Sheffield, inventor of the
tooth crown, died in New London, Conn.
6. Attempt to assassinate Dr Moraes, presi
dent of Brazil.
8. Fire; SIOO,OOO lire at Texarkana, Ark.
7. Obituary: Cornelius O'Connor, California
capitalist, in San Francisco; aged 00.
Fires: Hotel San Marco at St. Augusti
Fla., burned; loss, $1250,000 A SISO,(XX) blaze
in Louisville.
Shipwreck: Transit steamer Idaho foundered
on Lake Erie; It) sailors drowned.
8. Obituary: Gen. James C. Duane, C. S. A.,
retired, in Now York city. Rear Admiral
* Alexander Colder Rhind, l\ S. N., retired.
a noted war veteran, in New York city;
aged 70.
8. Convention: The annual general assembly
Knights of Labor, began at Louisville.
!b. Fire: Large machine works burned at Mid
dleboro, Ky; loss, $200,000.
Criminal: Mrs. Augusta Nack, companion
of the accused murderer Martin Thorn,
appeared as a witness against Thorn at hit
trial in Long Island City.
Vi. Fire: The “Lion" department store* burned
in Milwaukee; loss, S2UO,(XX).
Obituary: John Fog mi hi Hurgosa, distin
guished painter, in London; aged t'B.
lU. Sporting: The annual football game be
tween Harvard and Yale at Cambridge,
Mass., resulted in a tie; score, 0 to 0.
Obituary; Henry C. Dorr, brother of Thoma?
Wilson Dorr of "Dorr's rebellion" memory,
in New York <*iy; aged 77. Homer A.
Hibbard, a wealthy pioneer of Chicago, in
that city: aged 751. John M. Langston, fa
mous colored lawyer, congressman and
diplomat, fir<t American negro elected to
office, in Washington; aged (58.
14. Obituary : Dr. Thomas Wilson Evans, known
throughout the world ns “tin; American
dentist in Paris," friend of Napoleon 111
and Empress Eugenic, in Paris; aged 74.
Ifc. Obituary: Mnu. Verdi, for 50 years the
consort of the famous composer, died at
Rome.
18. Business troubles: The Delta County bank
of Delta, Colo., suspended.
Obituary: Robert M. Steele, capitalist and
railroad promoter, at Bt. John’s, Mich.;
aged 05.
Vi. Obituary: Rev. George Hendricks Hough
ton, rector of the Church of the Transfigu
ration (.the “Little Church Around the Cor
ner in Now York city; aged 77.
Miscellaneous; Terrific galesnnd shipwreck!
in the Mediterranean. German warship!
landed troops and guns in China with lies
t ilc intent.
18. Fire: Steamer Bluff City of St. Louif
burned at Chester, Ills. ; loss. slo>,ooo.
19. Fire: In the business portion of London;
loss, SL'o,OOO.UOO.
20. Obituary : Prof. Henry Calderwood of Ediu
burgh university in Edinburgh; aged >57.
Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at football
in New York: scoie. 6 to 0.
Cl. Obituary: Prof. William Seymour Tyler,
formerly of Amherst college, at Amherst,
Moss.; ageui 87. (.Jen. Albert Ordway, a not'
#*d Federal veteran, in New York; aged 00.
£>. Fire : iiO buildings burned at Pensacola,Fla.
loss, $150,000.
Sporting: Michael defeated Starbuck in a
mile cycle race at Madison Square Garden,
New York; time, sUia. '£) l-stf.
Obituary: Dr. Miner Raymond, the oldest
theological instructor in the United States
at Evanston, Ills.: aged 80.
jw. Puiitical a lot in Vienna.
' keK4:>AUi-v. raa?"-*
1. Personal: Justice Stephen Field retired
from the bench of the United States su
preiue court after 44 years’ service.
Accident: 87 coal miners killed In an expla
sion at Homburg, Bavaria.
2. Obituary : Judge I). i>. Bclden, one of Cola
rndo’s pioneers, ut Denver; aged 70.
8. Fire: The “Brick” Pomeroy block and ni
opera house burned at Lacrosse, Wis.; loss,
$200,000.
Sporting: Slosson won the final game in tH
billiard tournument in New York city ovei
Schaefer, Ives, Daly and Hutton.
4. Obituary: Adolph Neuendorf, well knowf
German musicul composer and director, ir
New York city ; aged 64.
Accident: 4 killed and 4 injured in a trollcj
collision at Birmingham, Mich.
6. Obituary : Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins,
well known writer, near Now York city,
aged 50.
6. Obituary: Loula Mayor, a notod mtuticai
nrtirit and coinpoaor. in Ht. Louis; ugrd 59
7. M. Do Fourtou, French s’ u teaman, died li
Paris.
8. Dr. (Campbell Morfltt, diatinKuishrsl Ameri
can chemist in London, died in that city.
9. Obituary: Willium Blakely, English coin it
actor, known in America, in Ixindon. Heal
Admiral Joseph F. Green, U. H. N., retired,
in Brookline, Mass; aged Ml.
10. Obituary: Hon. Charles Fleishman, noted
Ohio politician, capitalist and turf patron,
in Cincinnati; aged fill.
11. Orton Clemens, brother of Mark Twain,wht
was a “forty-niner" und a picturesque lit
erary character, dh*d at K okuk. Ja.
12. Obituary: Gardiner G. Hubbi:d, noted it
\Vushington public life, In that city; aged
65. Nancy Allison McXinloy, mother of XiU
president, at Canton, O.; aged Ni.
Lining: Clmrlcs W. Miller of Chicago ro t
♦’.c. \ day cycle race in New York, heating
Halt* s world’s record by scoiing L'.OMinilu
4 laps; I-iice came in second, Behinneer thirc'
and Hale fourth.
Fire; 4 firms burned out on Chestnut street.
Philadelphia ; loss, *750,000.
HJ. Obituary: Charles Butler, president of tin
Union Theological seminary und a notec
lawyer, financier and philanthropist, ii
New York city ; aged 95.
Gen. Justus McKinstry, n noted public mat
of St. Louis, in that city; agcnl
14. Shipwreck: Schooner Susan I\ Tlmrlow
wrecked on Cushing islnnd, off lho Maim
coast; 6 sailors drowned.
16. Fire: At Marsholtown, la. ; loss, *KtO,OOO.
Accident: 6 killed in a head on collision at
Fort Smith, Ark.
Obituary: Alphonse Daudet, the French au
thor, in Paris; aged 57.
17. Fire: Hotel ihikota and other proper! iff
burned at Gzand Forks, N D. ; loss, SSSO,
OUO.
Sporting: “Kid” McCoy defeated Dan <?rc*c
don, the Australian, for the middieweighi
championship in Long Island City.
Fear Publicity.
WATHINGTON, Jail, 4. Since the
agitation concerning the publication of
the list of pensioners has commenced, j
Commissioner Evans has received sev- |
eral letters from pensioners requesting ;
a cancelation of their pensions,
TilK GRANDEST
DISCOVER Y YE T.
W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, 111,
“Chief,” says: “we won’t keep house
without Dr. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs ami Colds.
Experimented with many others, but
never got the true remedy until we
used Dr. King’s New Discovery. No
otLer remedy can take its place in out
name, as in it we have a certaiu and
sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Whoop
ing Cough, etc.” It is idle to expert
ment with other rtmedies, even if they
are urged on you ns just as good as
Dr. King’s New Discovery. They are
not as good, because this remedy has
a record of cures and besides is guar
anteed. 11 never fails to satisfy. Trial
bottles free at L. G. Hardman fc Bro’s
and 1.. J. Sharp Jc Bro’s Drug Stores
HARMONY GROVE, GA.
NUBIAN TEA cures Dyspensia
$)) Constipation andlndigestxon
v Herniates the Elver. Price, 2?c
Deep- Water at Mississippi
Kiver's Mouth.
From the New Orleens Picayune.
Deep water at the mouth of the
Mississippi river is probably more val
uable to the world than deep water
anywhere else in America. Not only
is this this true, but the reason why
it is so is plain enough. In this Mi s
issippi valley is the world's grunaiy.
In this Missisippi valley if grown t 1 ~
world's cotton supply. Can there be
anything more important than bread
and clothes? This question answers
itself, for these are tho prime uecess—
aries of life.
MR. W. J. BRYAN’S GLANCE
AT HOO.
His proble Policy If Named To
Head The Ticket.
CHICAGO. Jan H.—W. J. Bryan, in
"oncluding a speech before the Bryan
league at the Tremont House, during
a banquet held after the Auditorium
meeting early this morningAmade some
remaiks which are interpreted as show
ing his intentions if he is nominated
for the presidency m 1900. In speaking
of the next presidential election, Mr,
Bryan said
“I may be we will be strong enough
to win without any outside help. But
i nevertheless. I prefer to win with the
| Populists on one side and the free r.il
; ver Ilopublicanr m tho other And
we must not forget, when the victory
jis won, that in the campaign of last
j year it took more courage on the part
of the free silver Republicans to desert
their old party, and more self-sacrifice
on the part of the Populist to go out
side of their organization for a presi
dential eanidate because he agreed
with them on the paramount issue,
than it did for the Democrats to support
the ticket which was nominated by
I their own national convention.” '
I Mr, Bryan left for Minneapolis to
I night.
Valuable to Women.
Especially valuable to women is Browns*
Iron Bitters. Btickociie vanishes, headache
disappears, strength takes the place of
weakness, and the glow of he alth readily
comes to the pallid cheek when this won
derful remedy is taken. For eick ly children
or overworked men it has no equal. No home
should he without this famous remedy.
■ Broups’lron Bitters ii sold hv all dealer?.
Continued from first page.
cross—mat is to say. that' fie cannot tie
pursued only after a decision of the
council of tho order. And then, yon un
derstand—if the Bank of Hauts-Pla
tcaux demands tho presence of its vico
president, the Baron of Cheyiard, para
lyzed, half dead”—
"It means that it has need of a thun
derbolt?”
“The grand cross, monsieur They
wonld hesitate to deliver up to us the
grand cross. ”
“You are right, Bernardet. The bank
umst bo in a bad fix, and yon aro a very
keen observer—the mind of a literary
uiuu, Bernardet. ”
"Oh, rather a photographic eye, M
Morel—the habit of using a kodak I”
Thus Bernardet passed his life in
Paris. Capable of amassing a fortune in
lame Tricoche agency if lie had wished
to exploit, for his own benefit, his keen
observing powers, lie thought only of
doing his duty, bringing up his little
girls and loving his wife. Mine. Beruar
det was amazed at the astonishing sto
ries which her husband often related to
her and very proud that he was such au
able man.
M. Bernardet hurried toward M. Ro
vere’s iodgiugs, aud Mouiche trotted
along beside hin. As they neared the
house they saw to s a crowd had begun
to collect.
“It is known already, ” Moniclie said.
“Since I left they have begun”—
“If I enter there,” interrupted tbo
officer, “it is all right. Yon have a
right to call any one you choose to your
aid, but I am not a magistrate. You
must go for a commissary of police. ”
“Ob, M. Bernardet!” Moniche ex
claimed. “You are worth more than all
the commissaries put together.”
‘‘That does not make it so. A eotnmis
sary is a commissary. Go aud hunt fot.
one. ”
“But sinco you are here”—
“But I am nothing. We mnst have a
magistrate. ”
“Y'ou are not a magistrate, then?”
“I am simply a police spy.”
Then he crossed the street.
- The neighbors bad gathered about the
door like a swarm of dies around a kou
fmL
“Tea,” added MnnirJie. "M. Bcmardct
needs a matjistrale.”
eycoinb. A rumor had spread about
which brought together a crowd ani
mated by the morbid curiosity which is
aroused in some minds at the hint of a
mystery and attracted by that strange
magnetism which that sinister thing,
“a crime,” arouses. The women talked
in shrill tones, inventing strange stories
and incredible theories. Some of the
common people hurried up to learn tho
news.
At the moment Bemardet came np,
followed by the concierge, a coupe
stopped at tho door and a tall man got
out, asking:
“Where is M. Morel? I wish to see
M. Morel.”
The chief had not yet been advised,
and he was not there. But the tall
young man suddenly recognized Bcr
nardet and laid hold of him, pulling
him after him through the half open
door, which Monicke hastened to shut
against the crowd.
“We must call somo officers,” Ber
uardet said to the concierge, “or tho
crowd will push in.”
Mine. Moniche was standing at the
foot of tho staircase, surrounded by tho
lodgers, men and women, to whom she
.was recounting for tho twentieth time
the story of how she had found M Bo
vere with bin throat cut.
“I was going in to road tho paper—
the story —it is very interesting, that
story The moment had come when the
baron had i: .'"d the American colo
nel. M. Rover.> said to me only yester
day, poor iron, "I *ni anxious to liud
out which one will be killed —the colo
nel or the baron. ’ Ho will never know
And it is he” —
" “Mine. Moniche, ” interrupted Ber
nardet, “have you any one whom you
can send for a commissary?”
“Any one?"
“Yes, ” added Moniche. “M. Bcr
aardet needs a magistrate. It is not dif
ficult to understand. ”
“x\ commissary?" repeated Mme.
Moniche. “That is so. A commissary,
and what if I go for the commissary
myself, M. Bernurdet?”
“All right, provided you do not let
the crowd take the house by assault
when you open the door.”
“Fear nothing,” the woman said,
happy in having something important
to do, in relating tho horrible news to
tho commissary how, when she was
about to enter the room for the purpose
cf reading, the—
While she was going toward the door
Bernardet slowly mounted the two
flights or s nirs, followed by Jloniehe
and tho tali young man who bail ar
rived in his coupe at a gallop in oner
to get the Ih'.-t news id : ur i iurder and
dake a “scoop” for bis paper.
The news had traveled fast, and his
paper bad sent him in baste to get all
the details of tho affair which could be
obtained.
Tho three men reached M. Rovere’s
door Atom'die unlocked it and stepped
back. Bernardet, with the reporter at
bis heels, notebook in baud, entered the
room.
CHAPTER 111.
Nothing in the antechamber indicat
ed that a tragedy had taken place there.
There were pictures on the walls, pieces
of faience, some arms of rare kinds,
Japanese swords and a Malay creese.
Beruardet glanced at them as he passed
by.
“He is in the salon, ” said the con
cierge in a low tone.
One of the folding doors stood open,
and, stopping on the threshold in order
to take in the entire aspect of the place,
Beruardet saw in the center cf tho
room, lying on the floor in a pool of
hl.jiiii (be body of XI Rovcrc, clothed
In a long, 'bftA (ffessiug gown, bouiid at
the waist with a heavy cord, which lay
i in coil 9 on the floor, like a serpent. Tbs
j corpse was extended between tho two
j windows which opened on tho Boule
vard de Clichy, and Beruardet’s first
thought was that it was a miracle that
tho victim could havo met his death in
: such a horriblo manner two steps friwn
tho passersby on the street.
” Whoever struck the blow did it
[ quickly, ” thought tlie police officer.
He advaucod softly toward the body,
j casting his eye upon the inert mass aud
taking in at a glance the smallest ob
jects near it aud the most minute de
tails. He bent over and studied it thor
oughly.
M. Rovere seemed living in his tragic
pose. The pale face, with its pointed
and well trimmed gray beard, express
ed in its fierce immobility a sort of
menacing anger. This man of about 50
years had evidently died cursing some
one in his supreme agony. The fright
ful wound seemed ’iko a la-,go red cra
vat, which harmonized strangely with
tbo half whitened beard, the end of
which was wet with blood.
But what struck Bernardet above ev
erything else, arrested his attention and
glued him to tho spot was the look, the
extraordinary expression in the eyes.
The mouth was open, as if to cry out;
the eyes seemed to menace someone,
and the lips about to speak.
They were frightful. Those tragic
eyes were wide open, as if transfixed by
fear or fury.
They seemed fathomless, staring,
ready to start from their sockets. The
eyebrows abovo them were black aud
bristling. They seemed living eyes in
that dead faco. They told of a final
struggle, of somo atrocious duel of looks
and of words. They appeared, in their
ferocious immobility, as when they
gazed upon the murderer, eye to eye,
face to face.
Bernardet looked at the hands.
They were contracted and seemed, in
somo obstinate resistance, to havo clung
to the neck or the clothing of the assas
sin.
“There ought to ho blood under tho
nails, since ho made a struggle, ” said
Bernardet, thinking aloud.
And Paul Rodier, tho reporter, hur
riedly wrote, “There was blood under
the nails. ”
Bernardet returned again and again j
to the eyes—those wide open eyes,
frightful, terriblo eyes, which, in their
fierce depths, retained without doubt
the. image or phantom of some nightmare
of death.
He touched the dead man’s hand. The
flesh had become cold, and rigor mortis
was beginning to set in.
The reporter saw tho little man take
from bis pocket a sort of rusty silver
ribbon and unroll it and heard him ask
Moniche to take hold of one cud of it.
This ribbon er thread looked to Paul
Rodier like brass wire. Bcrnardet pre
pared his kodak.
“Above everything else,” murmured
Bemardet, “lot us preserve the expres
sion of those eyes.”
“Close the shutters. The darkness
will be more complete.”
The reporter assisted Moniche in order
to hasten the work. The shutters closed,
tho room was quite dark, Bemardet be
gan bis task. Counting off a few steps,
lie selected tho best placo from which
to tako the picture. "
“Be kind enough to light tho end of
tho magnesium wire, ” he said to tho
concierge. “Have you auy matches?”
“No, M. Bemardet.”
Tho police officer indicated by a sign
of the bead a match safo which he had
noticed on entering the room.
“There are some there.”
Bemardet had with one sweeping
glanco of the cyo taken iu everything
in tho room—the fauteuils, scarcely
moved from their places; the pictun s
hanging on tho walls, the mirrors, the
bookcases, the cabinets, etc.
Moniche went to the mantelpiece and
took a match from tho box. It was M.
Rovere liimsclf who furnished tho light
by which a picture of his own body
was taken.
“We could obtain no picture in this
room without tha magnesium wire,”
said the agent, as calm while taking a
photograph of the murdered man as he
had been a short time ago in his gar
den. "The light is insufficient. When
I. ray, ‘Go!’ Moniche, you must light
the wire, and I will tako three or four
negatives. Do you understand? Stand
there to my left. Now! Attention!”
Bemardet took his position, and the
porter stood ready, match and wire iu
hand, like a gunner who awaits the or
der to tiro.
“Go!” said tho agent.
A rapid, clear light shot up and sud
denly lighted the room. The pale face
seemed livid, the various objects in the
room took on a fantastic appearance in
this sort of tempestuous apotheosis, and
Paul Rodier hastily inscribed on his
writing pad, “Picturesque, bizarre, mar
velous, devilish, suggestive.”
“Let r.s try it again, ” said M. Bcr
nardet.
For the third timo iu this weird
light the visage of tho dead man ap
peared whiter, more sinister, frightful,
the wound deeper, the gash redder, and
the eyes, those wide open, fixed, tragic,
menacing, speaking eyes—eyes filled
with scorn, with hate, with terror,
with the ferocious resistance of a last
struggle for life, immovable, eloquent
—seemed under tbo fantastic light to
glitter, to be alive, to menace somo one
“That is all," said Bemardet very
softly. “If with theso threo nega
tives”—
He stopped to look around toward the
door, which was closed. Home one was
raining ringing blows on tho door, loud
and imperative.
“It is the commissary. Open the
door, Mcuiehe. ”
The reporter was busy taking notes,
describing the salon, sketching it, draw
iug a plan for his journal.
It was, in fact, the commissary, who
was followed by Mme. Mouiclio and a
number of curious persons who had
forced their way in when the front door
was opened.
The commissary, before entering, took
a comprehensive survey of the room and
said in a short tone: “Every one must
go out. Madame, mako all these people
go out. No one must enter. ”
There aroce an uproar. Each one tried
to explain his right to bo there. They
I were all possessed with an irresistible
desire to assist at this sinister investiga
tion.
“But wo belong to the press. ”
“The reporters may enter when they
[have shown ttbeir cards,” the commis
sary replied. “The others—no.” There
Was a murmur from the crowd.
"The others —no,” repeated the cotn-
THE
NEW YORK W ORLD.
THUICE-A WEEK EDITION.
18 Pages a week. 156 Pauers a Year.
A paper as useful to you as a great
daily for only one dollar a year. Better
than ever. All the news of all the wrld
all the time. Accurate and fair to every
body. Democratic and for the people
against trust and all monopolies. Bril
liant illustrations. Stories by great au
thors in -. very number. Splendid rend
ing for women and other special depart
mentsof unusual interest,
It stands first among I*weekly” 1 *weekly” papers
In size, frequency of publication and
freshness, variety and reliability of con
tents. It is practically a daily at the
low price of a weekly; and its vast list
of snbscribers, extending to every state
and territory of the Union and foreign
countries, will vouch for the accuracy
and fairness of its news columns.
We offer this unequaled newspaper
and The BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
together one year for $1.50.
The regular subscription price of the
two paper $2.00 cash.
missary. Ho made a sign to two offioors
tv ho accompanied him, and they de
manded the reporters’ cards of identifica
tion. The concourse of curious ones re
belled, protested, growled and declaimed
against the representatives of the press,
who took precedence everywhere.
“The Fourth Estate!” shouted an old
man from the foot of the staircase. He
lived in the house and passed for a cor
respondent of tho institute. He shouted
furiously-, “When a crime is committed
under my very roof, I am not even al
lowed to write an account of it, and
strangers, because they are reporters,
can have the exclusive privilege of writ
ing it up. ”
The commissary did not listen to him,
but those who were his fellow sufferers
applauded him to the echo. The com
missary shrugged his shoulders at the
hand clappings.
“It is but right,” he said to tho re
porter, “that the agents of the press
should be admitted in preference to any
one else. Do you think that it is easy
to discover a criminal? I have been a
journalist, too—yes, at times. In the
Quartier occasionally. I have even writ
ten a piece for the theater. But we will
not talk of that. Enter, enter, I beg of
you, aud we shall sec. ” And elegant,
amiable, polished, smiling, he looked
toward M. Bernardet. and his eves asked
Planters
Ag3) j Female
Regulator
For all diseases peculiar to women and girls.
It Tones up the Nerves, Improves the Ap
petite, Enriches the Blood, and gives Life.
Health and Strength. It is the
QUEEN OF TONICS
MAKES THE COMPLEXION CLEAN.
rnrr I A bottle of •• Monthly ” Regulating
FREE l Pills with each bottle. For sale by
all dealers or sent direct upon receipt of price by
flew Spencer Med. Cos.. Chattanooga, Tenn.
LADIES' SPECIAL TREATMENT: in
cases requiring special treatment, address,
giving symptoms. Ladies’ fledical De
partment. Advice and book on Female
Diseases, with testimonials, free.
Foe Sals and Recommended by
R. 1. THOMPSON, Homer, Ga
the question. Where is it?
“Here! M. le Commissaire."
Bemardet stood respectfully in front
of his superior officer as a soldier carry
ing arms, and the commissary in his
turn approached the body, while the
curious ones, quietly kept back by Mo
uiche, formed a half circle around the
pale and bloody corpse. The commis
sary, like Bemardet, was struck by the
haughty expression of that livid face.
“Poor man,” ho said, shaking his
head. "He is superb, superb. He re
minds me of the dead Duke do Guise in
Paul Delaroche’s picture. I have seen it
also at Chantilly, iu Heroine's celebrat
ed picture of ‘The Duel du Pierot. ’ "
Possibly in speaking aloud his
thoughts the commissary was talking so
lie touched the dead man’s hand.
that the reporters might hear him.
They stood, notebooks in hand, taking
notes, and Paul Rodier, catching the
names, wrote rapidly in his book: “M.
Desbriere, tlie learned commissary, so
artistic, so well disposed toward the
press, was at one time a journalist. He
noticed that the victim’s paleface, with
its strong personal characteristics, re
sembled the dead Duke de Guise iu
Gerome’s celebrated picture, which
hangs iu the galleries at Chantilly. ”
To be continued nexlwtek.
Call at The Journal Office
and SUBSCRIBE fOr It
OK
Have Your neighbor do so for you
WHILE IN HO.MFR; ONLY jil.oo
Or both the Hanks County
JOURNAL
And the Atlanta Journal for #I.2S
Peculiarities of Mrs. J. C. Ayer.
The most eccentric of Women
l>icd Worth about
$ 20. 000 000,
SPENT MONEY LAVISHLY
TRYING TO PRESERVE
HER YOUTHFUL
HEALTH AND
BEAUTY.
The cable dispatches announce the
death of Mrs. J. C‘ Ayer, widow of
tlie famous patent-medicine manu
facturer, and one of the most remark
able women in the world, says W K.
Curtis in the Chicago Record. She
was the richest woman in Pal is, had
• tie cosilitst diamonds, the largest
number of gowns, tho finest horses
and carriages and spent n.or money
than any woman in that city. Her
wealth was estimated at <>20;000,u00;
her income at $2,000,000 and she
spent every dollar of it. Although
she was a liberal contributor to ebar
itits and assisted many poor Ameri
can young men aud women who ap
pealed to her for aid, most of her ex
pendttures were for ihe gratification
of her love of display She pur—
chased one of the largest and most
magnificent private palaces in Paris
located in the aristocratic Saint Ger
main quarter, and furnished it at a
fabulons expense, and about ten
years ago, soon after she took pos
session, gave a series of entertain,
meats that astonished the most ex
travagant princes of Europe.
Of late years she has been in the
habit of giving her entertainm- nts
elsewhere for a peculiar re son. It
is said that she never apoeared m
public twice in the same gown; tha
she purchased from 203 to 30u
costly desses every year, an 1 that
she never gave one awav, but when
it was once worn it was placed upon
a wire dummy and set up in one of
the rooms of her house, where she
could look at it and enjoy its beau
ties herself- Her collection of gowns
increased so rapidly that it filled her
great house from cellar to gai ret.
Mrs, Ayer was the best k’ own
woman in tbe American colon-. h
was one of the best known women in
Paris. She was as familiar to tht
oublic as Sarah Bernhardt Her ap
pearance was as peculiar as her eccen
tricities. In hei desperate fight
against death and age she employed
a small army of attendants. She bad
a skillful physician employed, whom
she is said to have paid 25,0U0 francs
a year tor his exclusive services. He
examined her carefully every morn
ing and evening and gave her rente'
dies for the slightest symptoms of an
ailment that lie could perceive. She
ria l a niesseur from Sweden, said to
c the most skillful in Europe, who
rubbed her twice a day; site had a
maid who did nothing blit paint her
face and her eyebrows. Like the
wife of Nero she bathed m milk, nnc
mere was not a trtek known to the
art of beauty that she did not pra
ti:o in order to give ier a youiblui
ppenrnnce. Although she was over
70, at a distance sin- look- n like .
woman of 35, but when ine übsi l yed
her closely her face was so cou. pletaly
made up that she se.ined to wear a
mask.
So rich a woman could not, of
course escape adventurers, hut Mrs.
Ayer was a shrewd woman and w■ s
impervious to their blandishments.
At on- time it waa reported that die
was engaged to Dou Carlos, ihe prc.
tender to the Spadish throne’ and
intended to marry him and furnish
him the means to recover power. It
prob tie th it there were negotia
io'.H between his representatives and
the American millionairess, but how
fur they advanced will never be known
Mrs. Ayer was a geneine Yankee.
She was born and bred in Lowell
Mass., and married Dr. Aver while he
was a drug clerk in that c ity- She
came of a good family, and at one
lime was a scvool teacher Dr.
Ayci’sfii't medicine was cough rent
e v, which proved so profitable t..>
he abandoned tbe general drug bus
ness and went to compounping patent
medicines exc'usively until be become
the largest manufacturer in that line
in the world. Mrs. Ayer went to
Paris because she could not secure
the social position she sought in this
country. She tried Boston, New
York, and Washington, and built a
b-autiful palace at Newport, but
eighteen or tweniy years ago she
gave up ihe figbt and moved he.
household gooods to Paris, when her
wealth and her diamonds and her
dresses gave her all ihe •listin tion
she desired. Siie leaves three elm
dren, two sous and a widowed daugh
ter, wlio live In 57th street in New
York city.
The progressive ladies of West
field, Ind. issued a “Woman’s K-ii
lion” of tiie Westfield News, bearing
date of April 3, 1806. The paper is
filled with matter of interest to wo
men, and we notice the following from |
a correspondent, which the ediora
pnnte and, realirirg that it treats upon
a matter of vital importance to tbair
sex; “The best remedy for aroup,
colds and bronchisis that I have been
able to find is Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy For family use It has no e
qual. I gladly recommend it.” 25cU
and 50cts bottles for stle by R. T
THOMPSON, Homer. Ga,
Gen. R. E. LEE,
Soldier.
CITIZEN ANDCIIKISTIAN PATRIOT.
\ Great Now Book for the People
LIVE AGENTS WANTED
Everywhere I o show sample and get up club
KX !RAO"IHN \ UY LIBERAL TERHs
Money can be mode rapidly, and a vast
amount of good done in circulating
one of the noblest historical works
published during the past quarter
of a century
ACTIVE AGENTS ARE NOW REAP
ING A RICH HARVEST.
Some of our best workers are selling
OVER ONE HUNDRED BOOSs A
WEEK.
Mr, A. G. Williams, Jackson comity, Mo.,
worked four days and a half and se
cured 51 orders. He sells the book to
almost every mun he meets. Dr. J. J.
Mason, Muscogee county, Ga„ sold
120 copies the first five days he can
vassed. H. C. Sheets, Palo Pinto coun
ty, Texas., worked a few hours and sold
16 copies, mostly morrocco binding.
J. H. Hanna Gaston county, N. 0.,
made a month’s wages in three days
canvassing for this book. S. M. White,
Callahan county, Tex., is selling books
at the rate of 144 copies a week
THE WORK CONTAINS BIOGRAPH
ICAL SKETCHES of all the Leading
Generals, a vast amount of Historical
matter, and a large number of Beauti
ful Pull-Page Illustrations. It is n
grand book, and ladies and gentlemen
who can give all or a part of their time
to the canvass are bound to make im
mense sums of money handling it.
AN ELEGANT PROSPECTUS,
showing the differeiis styles of binding
sample pages, and ail material neces
sary to work with, will be sent on re
ceipt of 50 cents Tha tantm.’fleert
gallery of port nets, a! •. in the pros
pectus is wort . double the money.
We furnish it at ar less than actual
cost of manufacture, and wo would ad
vise you to order quickly, and get ex
: "Y‘ ' ontrol of the best territory
mXL PUBLISHING GO .
< J *‘i itl Iti'ii * Cl 'Cii > V > FV
Heaso mention this Journal.
MOIVKY
TO LOAN.
Monevtoloan on real estate
for five vears at 6 per cent
interest Borrowers to pay ex
penses of obtaini? loan.
For full particulars call on or
address
CHAS. M, WALKER,
Harmony Grove, Ga,
Banks Count y Journal and Weekly
Constitution both one year for only
$1.50.
Anyone sending a sketch and description rosy
quickly ascertain onr opinion free whether an
Invention is probably patentable. Communica
tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents
sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents.
Patents taken fhrmich Munn A Cos. recelys
tpccial notice, without charge, in the
Scientific American.
A handsomely illustrated weekly. cir
culation of any scientific Journal. Terms. 98 a
yeA r; four months, fL Sold by all newsdealers.
MUNN & Cos. 36 ' 8 "-*"* New York
Branch Offlc, G 25 K Bt. WMblnflon, D. C.
Will Remain in tlie South.
Air. H. T- li.ake, who has anooun
ced the severance of his connection
with the Sweetwater Park hotel, at
Litbia Springs, Gr , hag reuson to
congratulate himself on the manage
ment of the hotel for several years
past. He lias made it very popular
and profitable. lie was the first one
to tnnka this great hotel clear a profit
th!'- investment. In selling out his
In- lease to another party, which he
'I b - ause lie was making money,
lie has annotneed his intention of re
maining in the soul h, and will soon
ake another place.
YELLOW FEVER
PRK' ENTED BY TAKING.
“Cur Native Herbs*’
the
BLOOD PURIFIER A!U LIVER REGULATOR.
200 DAYS’ Treatment #I.OO
Contain ing a Registered Guarantee .
v2page A >ok and Testimonials,FßEE
Sent by mail, postage paid. Sold only
by Agents for
THE ALONZO 0. BUSS CO.,
WASHINGTON, I). C.
“My daughter, when recovering
from an attack of fever, was a great
sufferer from pun in the hack and
hips,” wrilis Louden Gruvei, of Sar
dis, Ky. “Alter using quite a number
of remedies without any Benefit she
tiied one bottle of Chamberlains
Pain Malm, and it has given entire re
lief,” Chamberlain’s Pain Maim is also
a certain cure for rheumatism. Sold
by R. T. THOMPSON, HOMER.