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YOL. 1. LARGEST I STORE * | IN KORTII GEORGIA kililUl. IM, A-tlu*'*.!* **■ M. I KMISH.; iili 88-. Sj I NOTI'J.V-i iliTX.j ■ Merchants will do well to Ret on 1 price* before buy in 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. "l , .f ! • p *l\ ' . • .• ..Hncs iH*t t i • f•:i• • r w'.rk inid ,• . v ... in li.-. ii- ir 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 #oS0 M E '' C>tt How ? ! jgJww* .*• am S™>sißi itn mi •gjsssw** ftitl <S 8t | SS||.!S s i Him r s 4issa M M ■ "III a l ini vo f *<>itllos> of wy.own, For gooliie* make dOn’t men iio • • . O a -h. < .. - . , .-. ' ' V’tl ' f ?• .f .N •. t i : • - 1 . . will rid your c f thus > + * 'j- ' • ’ i n •Gr • >•' • - >’,.t ;_ a. ... it crn h' pirocuroc :.t this '•{'. * i’oot tn "t.nv by ri.'.ii la: -c dimes, Banks County Journal. femC OF THET V.? BTi'JVRgf CLARETIE j ."y?IOhT,I 17 B*. *P. F 1•- - ■ ~ 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. THE M:\V YORK WORLD THRICE A WEEK EDITION. 18 Ptig< sii week. I">(i Pauers a Year. A pap r as '.refill to yon 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 e\ ery hody. Demoont’e and for the people against trust and .11 monopolies. Bril liant illustrat*’ :i. Stories by emit au thors in very iiumher. Splendid rend ing fni* women and other special depart men Is of unusual interest. It stands first among “weekly” papers in sire, frequency of publication and fm hnes. , variety and reliability of eon .n’ l. > prs-Heally a dally at the r ,ric , i ,a.ek!y; and lit vast list rise .belt, ,xt relink t every state mi t 't-riK ry of the Union and foreign eo.nuries, will vouch lor the accuracy and fairness of its news columns. \Ve offer this un equaled new, paper and The BANTS OOU CT\ JOURNAL tig ’heron er.r for $1.50. 'I he r'\-TP' subscription pr ce of the two paper S2. ( XI cash. I Tube continued next week. a ßust,” the dread of the cotton grower, can be prevented. Trials at Experiment Stations and the experience cf leading growers prove positively that Kainit is the only remedy. We will be glr.d to send, free of charge, Interesting anil useful pamphlets which treat *f the matter in detail. CKKMAN KALI WORKS. 93 Nww St., Nrw Yak ‘'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 Arc Yon Weak, Weakness manifests itself in the loss ot ambition and aching bones. The blood is mitery; tin* tissues are wasting—the door is 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 neys, , , , A_ (lIaHH, I'lUty, Paints, Oils. Vn rnislios. Brushes Spanges MUSIC A L INS Til UMEXT . And a lot of other thing too tedious to mention can be had at HARDMAN A BROS. Drugstore, Cheaper thar. •>■- 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 Coutiiiwd on fourth pa^ STfiONJ POINTS Durable Roller Chain. Less rFriction, Greater Speed, Light Weights, Great Strength And Durability IVlore Modern Practical Improvements Than can be found on anv other wheel ****# ******* DEALERS WANTED* V 1 I? WHEEL OMh’AXY. MIDDT/RTVIWX.. COSS. 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