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MICHAEL IJROS-
Atiien*. Ga.
THE MIGRATION OF COTTON
SPINNING,
A few figure* I'iven to The World
l>y the Governor of North Carolina
.illustrate the rapidity with which the
industry of cotton spinning and
wearing ia migrating from New
England to the South.
In 188(3 North Carolina had 80
cotton mills; in 1897 it had 1, 015.
In 1886 it had 4,071 lootru. In
1597 it had 24, 517 looms.
In 1886 it had 1"9, 433 spindles.
Now it has 1, 044, 385 spindles.
* North Carolina is the only one of
the ci tton-growiug States in which
the spinning and weaving industry is
increasing at this rate. The others
1 are not far behind, and some of them
ahow an even greater Increase.
With abundant water power, cheap
coal, with extraordinarily cheap laboI t
and with the cotton fields at their
very doors the S"tttberi< cotton mills
will -suit! . -i. I 1 ■ t us.ness ’
I>Ui lh‘*. 1 ‘av Hut • k• U. *nt.
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I ! HO gI 'd
iX*i- fill cm; •.i; t tRo meagre
w : ijhß ;i* N' w as il^
t snes there oonteml that it clots. —
The World.
One of tile New England nulls now
cloied by the strike has be.-n paying
a week wages and 16 per cent,
dividends Another pays 10 per
cent These are laots that bear upon
the situation. —The World*
Poor little King of Spain! At
twelve years of age, when a boy
ought to be playing marbles or spin
ning tops or roller rkating, he i;
blasphemously -‘betrothed” to n g’rl
three years bl.ier that, him.',elf, the
daughter ot a reprobaee an 4 p; >b bh
fctiicii'c! llof long art toe fiat. ,tn,
anil tbe Cl imes of royalty and ',’yn.a
t.es and all tG it sort'd tho.' to- -n
--dui ?in a easOif. M world?—The
World.
This is the Man j
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Banks County Journal.
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CRAPTE33*VI.
The attorney for tin republic colled
iii the examining magistrate. No'L.ng
hiore "ns .< bn and me. Tbo magistrate
had studiod the jositiou < f tbo corpse,
examined tlio wound, aud no.v, having
told M. Ginory 1 is i:n0r."..d00., he did
not hide from him Ins eli' f that rb
crime had been com m iltc 1 b, aprof:.,-
sional, as tho stroke of the knife across
the throat bud been given neatly, seien
tlfleally, according to all the establish
ed rules.
“Cue might well take it for the work
of a professional butcher. ”
“Yes, without doubt, M. Ginory, but
one does not know. Brute force—a
strong blow—can produce exactly what
science can.”
More agitated than ho wished to ap
pear by the strange conversation be
tween the.agent of Sureto aud himself,
th’e examining magistrate stood ut the
foot of the corpse and gized with: fix
ity almost fierce, not at tho gaping
Wound of which M. Jacquelin des Au
brays had spoken to him, but at those
eyes, those fixed eyes, those eyes wbioh
no opacity had yet invaded, which,
open, frightful, seemingly burning with
anger, menacing, full of accusations of
some sort and animated with icngeanco,
gave him a look, immovable, most pow
erful.
It is trie; it was true. They lived;
those eyes spoke. They cried to hit.-, for
justice. They retained tbo expression
of some atrocious vision, the expression
of violent rage. They menaced some
one. Whom? If tho picture of someone
was graven there, was it not the last
imago reflected on the little mirror of
the retina? What if a face was reflected
there? What if it was still retained in
the depths oft!. ;e wit’s oyan eyes?
That strange creator!, Sarnardet. half
cra.-.y. enthused with u r w idea* wi.h
the mysteries which traverse chimeric and:
brains, troubled him, Gmovy, a man of
Statistics and of facts.
Bnt truly those dead eyes seemed to
appeal, to speak, to designate someone.
Wliat more eloquent, what more terriblo
Witness, conld there be than the dead
man himself, if it was possible for his
eyes to speak? If that organ life should
contain, shut up within it, preserved,
the secret of death ! Bernardot, whoso
eyes neve- left tho magistrate’s face,
ought to have been content, for it plain
ly expressed donbt. a hesitation, and the
police officer heard him cursing under
his breath.
“Folly, stupidity! Bah, wo shall
seel”
Bernardet was filled with hope. M.
Ginory, the examining magistrate, was,
moreover, convinced that for tho pres
ent, aud tho sooner the better, the corpse
should he sent to the morgue. There
only could a thorough and scientific ex
amination be made. The reporter lis
tened intently to tho conversetiou, aud
Mae. Monicbe clapped her hands, moro
and more agonized by that word
morgue, which among the people .**o
dnees the same terror 11 r 'bat other
word —which .mram, i::,,.ever, carf'-l
attendance, s; ’ treatment ana
safety _p ; t.oes.
Noth;. ;' .a v wv iu lu done except
to (jUOStie. .- .are ■? toe lie ‘bora .mi
to t .'to a sKDtf hol the rJon. Jornar
det ; id to th r.iapisti.ue, “at; photo
grvpa will jri.e you that.” Wh.> cme
one went t o get a hearse ‘he ,gi.
trite* wwit j .‘ay. '.'he -lice 1 t
placed a gu- i. in fronr u' . u ho. .so.
Tin crowd was constantly increasin '
and lnec.r.ic; more and ir re envious,
violently excited i • : e ig< r to soj too
epev.:ucle—the luurderoii man Lome
from his home.
BeruardoC did not
to go away without ark in g respectfully
if he would bo allowed to photograph
the dead mail's eye. Without giving
him a formal answer M. Ginory simply
told him to be present at the autopsy at
the morgue. Evidently if the magis
trate had not been already lull of doubt
his reply would have been different.
Why did that inferior officer have tno
audacity to give his opinion on the sub
ject of conducting a judi *i..l investiga
tion? M. Ginory would long before this
have sent liim about his business if be
had not become suddenly interested ii)
him. In his quality of judge he bud
come to know Bernardct’s history and
his exploits in the service. No more ca
pable man in his line could be found.
He was perfectly and utterly devoted to
his profession. Some strange talcs were
told of his methods. It was he who once
passed, an entire night on a bench, pre
tending ii txic: tiou, in order to gam
sufficient information to enable him to
arrest a murderer in the morning in a
wretched hovel at La \ iletb—a mur
derer armed to the teeth. It was I3er
nardet who, without arms —as all those
agents—caught the famous bandit, the
noted Taurca*Vc la Giaciere, a foreign
Hercules who had strangled liis mis
tress. Boruardet uirested him by hold
ing to his temple the cold neck of a bot
tle aud sayiuc, “L *; or I lire!’’
Now what th bandit t*. for the cold
mczzleoi a pistol a vie! • o.’iodmug
tome medicine which Bcrnurdcv had
purchased of a pharmacist for his liver.
Deeds of valor ago: list ilne\cs. male
factors and insurrectionists abounded in
Boruardet’s life, and M. Ginory had
just discovered in this man, whom ho
Ix’ievod simply endowed with the rctiv
it\ Leanness of c hunting dog, an
inrc’iiy-uoo fciugi'.laily watchful, deep
and complicated. Bernardjt, who nad
more t. do til the b vdr should
HOMER. GA„ THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3 , 1898.
ee t; ach la Hie morgue, left the house
directly after tho magistrates.
“'A m-re are you goixg?” asked Paul
Roriier, the reporter.
‘‘Kc.ue—a few stops from here.”
•‘May I go along with you?"' asked
the journalist.
‘‘To find an occasion to make me
speak? But 1 know nothing, I suspect
nothing, I shall say nothing. ”
“Do you believe that it is the work
of a thief or revenge?”
“I am certain that it was no thief.
Nothing in the apartment was touched.
As for the rest, who knows?”
“M. Bernardet,” lrugliingly said the
reporter as he walked alotig by the
officer’s side, “you do not wish to
Bpeak.”
“ Whatgood will that do?” Bernardet
replied, also laughingly. “It will not
prevent you from publishing an inter
view. ' ‘
“You think so. An revcir! I mast
hurry and make my copy. And you?”
“I? A photograph.”
They separated, and Bernardet en
tered bis house. His daughters had
grieved over Ms sudden departure on
Sunday on his fete clay. They met him
With joyous shouts when he appeared
and threw themselves ufhu him. “Ta
pal Here is papa !”
Mme. Bernardet. wa3 also happy.
They could go ti . : to the garden and
finish the piotrr-j. But the* joy subsid
ed; night had alien, and Bernardet,
preoccupied, wished to shut himself uj)
so that he might reflect oU all that had
happened, ami perhaps to work a little,
even today.
"It >s thy fete day, Bernardet. Wilt
thou ni t rest today?'
“I can r-t at Binner, dear. Until
then I inns' 1s - tho time reading over a
mass of■, idene". ”
“Then thou wilt need a lamp?” asked
Mme. Bernardet.
“Yes, my dear. Light the lamp.”
lv:xt to th‘ ir bedchamber Id. Ber
naruct had fined up a little room for
his private me. It was a tiny den, in
which was a mahogany table loaded
with hooks and papers, and at which he
worked when he had time, reading, an
notating, copying from tfcn papers and
collecting extracts for hours at a time.
No one was allowed to enter this room,
filled with old papers. Mme. Bernardet
well called it “a nest of microbes.”
Bernardet found pleasure in this sporad
ic place, which in summer was sti
fling. In winter he worked without a
fire.
Mine. Bernardet was unhappy as she
saw that their holiday was spoiled. But
she very well knew that when her hus
band was devoured with curiosity, car
ried away by a des ; re to elucidate a
puzzle, there was nothing to to said.
He listened to no remonstrances, and
the darghte-s knew that when they ask
ed if their father was not coming to re
new his panics with t>e:n tiny wore
cMipt-d t" content ‘.Vi.'scl res with U.e
cr. u ■ which tfc' v luo.v v i.., f or:
having h- rd it to -/ 11. ‘ :> is
study inf ‘.-at a crime.’'
Herm.dec was 1 -ns to read o.
hm note", the vorif ;au..-, of a. i hopes,
of >1 oso civile certainf 'i t y
Th.it is why bo ’.•Sroed ro - alone As
soon as he bad 1 red the don* he at
I once, from among lac enormous piles of
dust laden books ta b files of oh. news
papers, with the i nerring it. hvt of
tbo habitual sca-ohcr v.ho rumma.ge3
through bookstalls, di vv fertu a gray
Covered pa r; Mi tin which be had read,
vv'th feverish r. tor in: me! re, the expo 1
ments and report of Dr Vcrnuis tpi a
the application if - hot irapliy ir vita
inal re-ear. has. He quick .y seated iiiin
self, and with trembling iii.pcrs eagerly
turned over the leaves of tho hook so
often read and studied aud came to the
report of the member of the Academy
of Medicine. He compared it with the
proof submitted by Dr. Bouriou of the
Medical society, in which it was stated
that the most learned savants had seen
nothing.
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‘'Seen nothing or wished to see noth
ing perhaps, ” he mnrmured.
The light fell upon the photograph
which had been sent a long time before
to tho society, and Bernardet set him
self to study out the old crime with the
most careful attention, with (he passion
of a paleographer deciphering n palimp
sest. This poor devil of a police officer,
i in Ills ardent desire to solve the veiiug
! problem, brought to it tho same ardor
and the same faith as a bibliophile. He
went ovor and over with the method
of an examining magistrate all that old
forgotten affair, and in the solitude and
silence of his little room, the last reflec
tions of tho setting sun falling on kis
papers anil making pale tho light of his
| lamp, ho set himself the task of solving,
like a mathematical problem, that ques
tion which ho had studied, but which
ho wished to know from the very be
ginning, without any doubts, before
sting M. Ginory again at the mi If, no
beside the body of M. llovero. Ho took
then bis pamphlet aud read: “Tho pho
tograph sent to tho Society of Mcdieal
Jurisprudence by Dr. Bonrion, taken
upon the retina of tho eyo of a woman
who had been murdered the 14th of
June, 1868, represents tho moment
Studying turn by turn the, photograph
and the article which described it.
when the assassin, after having struck
the mother, kills tho infant, and the dog
belonging to the boose leaps toward the
unfortunate little victim to save it. ”
Then, studying turn by turn the pho
tograph yellowed by time and tbe article
which described it, Eernardet satisfied
himself and learned the history by
heart.
M Gallr.rd. general secretary of the
society, alter having carefully hidden
ihe ‘ .acli past of the photograph, had cir
culated it ..bout among tho menu/.is
wbh this note: "An enigma of medical
jurisprudence. ” And no one had soloed
the tragic enigma. Even when he had
explained'no one conld see in the photo
graph what Dr. Bourion saw there.
Borne were able on examining that
strange picture to see in the black aud
white bate some figures as singular and
dissimilar as thoso which the amiable
Polonins perceived in the clouds under
the suggestion of Hamlet.
Dr Yernois, appointed to write a re
port on Dr. Eourion’s communication,
asked him then how the operation hud
been conducted, aud Dr. Bouriou bad
ghen him these details which Ber
nardet was now reading aud studying:
The ase; ssiuatiou bad taken place on
Sunday between noon and 4 o'clock.
The extraction of the eyes from their
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Weakness manifests itself in the loss ot
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being opened fordisease. A bottleofßrowns*
iron Hitlers taken in time will restore your
rrtrcng'h, soothe your nerves, make your
blood rich and red. Po you more good
than an ex pensive special course of medicine.
Browns’lron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
Lamps, Lrmp Chim
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(lIaHH, I'lUty,
Paints, Oils.
Vn rnislios.
Brushes Spanges
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And a lot of other thing too tedious to
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wnere.
On or about the Ist of February
an old tr. tils’ convention will be held
in Rome. The proceeds will he devo
te cli... liable objeots. —Atl Journal.
orbits had not been made until the fol
lowing day at 6 o'clock in tho evening.
Tho experiment on the eye*, those
terribly accusing eyes of this dead man,
oould bo made 24 hour* earlier than
that other experiment. Tho image—if
there was any image—ought to be in
consequence more dearly defined than
in Dr. Bouriou‘s experiment.
“About 6 o’clock in tbo evening,”
thought Eernardet, “and the photo
graphic light was sufficient.”
Dr. Bourion had taken pictures of
both of child’s eyes as well as lioth
of Ut BKrtftw’* ova*. The child's eyas
showed Mhhiug l*t hazy cloud*, but
the mother's eyes wore different. Upon
the left eye, next to a circular section
back of the iris, a delicately marked
imago of a dog’s head appeared; on the
same section of the right eye another
picture—one could see the assassin rais
ing his arm to strike and the dog leap
ing to protect his little charge.
“With much good will, it must be
confessed,” thought Bernardet, looking
again and again at the photograph,
“and with much imagination too. Bnt
it was between GO and G 2 hours after
the murder that the proof was taken,
whilo this time it will be while tho
body iH still warm that ‘the experiment
will bo tried.”
Seventeen times already had Dr. Ver
nois experimented on animals—some
times just after bo bail strangled them,
again when they had died from prussic
acid. He had held in front of their eyes
a simple object which could bo easily
recognized. Ho bad taken ont the eyes
and hurried with them to the photog
rapher. Ho hail, in order to better ex
pose the retina to photographic action,
made a sort of Maltese cross by making
four incisions on the edge of the sclerot
ic. He removed the vitreous humor,
fixed it on a piece of card with four pins
and submitted the retina as quickly as
possible to the camera.
In rereading tlw .learned man’s report
Bernardet studied, pored over, carefully
scrutinized the text, investigated the
dozen proofs submitted to the Society
of Medical Jurisprudence by Dr. Veruois:
Retina of a cat's eyo killed by prussic
acid. Yernois hail held tbo animal in
front of the bars of tiie cage in which
it was confined. No ri -mlt.
Retina of a strangled dog’s eye. A
watch was held in front of its eyes. No
result.
tb tin* of • Sag killed by strangula
tion. A bunch of shining keys was held
in front of !.i* •>•■. No result
Retina of a .strangled flog An eye
glass held in front of i\s eyes Photo
graph made two hours after death
Nothing. In all Dr. Vernois’ experi
ments —nothing, nothing!
Bernardet repeated tho word angrily
Still he kept on. He read page after
paga But all this was 26 years ago—
photography has made great strides
since then. What wonderful results
have been obtained! The skeleton of the
human body seen through the tie b, the
instantaneous photograph, the kinoto
senpie views, man’s voice registered fee
eternity in the phonograph, the mysteri
ous dragged forth into tho light of day,
many hitherto unknown secrets become
common property, the invisible—even
the invisible —the occult, placed before
our eyes as it spectacle!
“One does net know all that may be
done with a kodak, ” murmured Eeruur
det.
As he ascertained in rereadiug.Dr
Vernois' report on "The Application of
Photography to Medical Jurispru
dence,” the savant himself, even while
denying the results of which Dr. Bou
rion spoke in his communication, devot
ed himself to the general consideration
up .. the role w hich photography ought
to play in medical jurisprudence. Vas,
in 18t)9 I*. risked that-in tiro researches
on pnii nious substances, where the mi
oruecop' alt**; had been need, photogra
phy should be applied. He advocated
what in our day k; :o common, the pbO‘
tographiug of the features of erintinals,
tbeir deformities, their scar’s, their tat
tooings. He demanded that pictures
shouhl be taken of an accused person in
many ways, without wigs and with
them, with and without beards, in di
vers costumes.
“These propositions,” thought Btr
nardet, “seem hardly new*. It is 90
years since they were discovered, and
now they seem us natural as that two
and two make four. In 90 years from
now who knows what science will h.'.e
done';
“Vernois demanded that wounds be
reproduced, their size, the instruments
with which the crime was committed,
the leaves ef plants in certain eases of
poisoning, the shape ef the victims'
garments, the prints of their hands and
feet, the interior view of their rooms,
the signature ef certain accused affected
with nervous disorders, parts of bodies
and of bones, anti, in fact, everything
in any way connected with the crime.
It was said that he asked too much.
Did ho expect judges to make photo
graphs? Today everything that Vernois
demanded in 1800 hus been done, and
in truth the instantaneous photograph
has nlmost superseded the minutes of
an investigation.
“We photograph a spurious bank
note. It is magnified, and by the ab
sence of a tiny dot the proof of the al
teration is found. Ou account of the
lack of a dot the forger is detected. The
savant Helmholtz was the discoverer of
this method of detecting these faults.
Two bank notes, one authentic, the oth
er a forgery, were placed side by side
in a stereoscope of strong magnifying
power, when the faults were at once de
tecttii KHmboltz's experiment proba
hly seemed fantastic to the forger con
demned bT ft stereoscope. Ob. well, to
day ought" not a like experiment on tha
tetiua of a dead mans eye give a like
result?
“Instruments hare teen highly per
fected since the time when Dr. Koanon
made bis experiments, nnd if the law
of human physiology has not changed
the seekers of invisiujeeauses must have
rapidly advanced in their mysterious
i pursuits. Who knows w hetb rat ike
j instant of the last agorv to'.i the dy-.ug
person does not put all th intensity of
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