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LARGEST
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NORTH GEORGIA
AtliellH, Carat,.
mime m goiids
NOTIONS SINKS HITS.
Merchants will do well to get our
prices before buying
MICHAEL BROS.
Athens, Ga.
S4O 000 Worth of Cottou.
Perhaps the biggest cotton deal
that has been made in this section in
a long while was made Thursday af
ternoon at Iloscliton. Mr. C. S.
Webb bought of Dr. W. P. DeLappo
rriere 1625 dales of cotton for § 40.
000. Mr. Webb gave him a check on
the State Banking Company of Ca ue
sville for $30,000, a rather health)
check for these early days of 1898.
The remaining ten thousand dollars
was paid yesterday. Mr. Webb will
weigh and ship out the cotton next
week.
True Reform.
If the word of the New York Journal
is to be relied on, a young millionaire
of that city, a youth of the rich family
of Phelps-Stokes, is doing some uplift
ing of the masses in his owu way. Hu
will have the science of cookery and
housekeeping taught to wives and
daughters among tenement house dwell
ers. Mr. Phelps Stokes says he has dis
covered that bad cookery is the under
lying cause of nearly all tho domestio
rows in humble life. He will bring
peace am? good temper by the introduc
tion of the other kind.
Who shall say Mr. Phelps-Stokes is
wrong? In a building which was for
merly a saloon and daucehonse in a New
York tenement district tire young man
has initiated his practical philanthropy.
For the children there is a kindergarten.
For their mothers and older sisters there
are classes of cooking and housekeeping.
The cooking classes number ten, meet
ing at different hour.;. The cheapest,
plainest foods are selected, and their
proper preparation is earnestly drilled
into tho feminine tenement house mind.
Object lessons in cleanliness and every
detail of household work arc given.
The Phelps-Stokes theory is tbiu when
workingmen go home to palatable,
nourishing suppers in an inviting home
they will not want to go off and become
drunk. The idea is the same old one,
“feed the animals.” There is a reading
room too.
• What is called the Penny Provident
fund is connected with the establish
ment. It is of the nature of a savings
bank, and to this fund may be confided
riny sum, however small, for safe keep
ing. It is interesting to know that the
young philanthropist pays his own ex
penses as be goes.
• Don't Neglect Voar Diver.
£,;yer troubles quickly result in serious
complications, and the man who neglects his
];"er lias V' 1 regard for health. A bottle
of B'S' nV .r.-u llrtors taken now and then
will kef-D the live rin perfect order. If (he
di-n>e has developed, Browns’ Iron Hitters
w :t. cure :* pennanontly. gtreneth ami
v'i'o’.'.v 1 always ' "le v uso.
Browns’ Tr..' " r te-s Is arid by ali dealers.
Apparently Hawaii could have done
nothing inora favorable for her cause
than to tend her president, Mr. Dole, to
tut. die is a man of uncommonly fine
and imposing physical presence, being
fee! 2 inches tall and having a frank,
kindly and dignified manner. He has
made a most favorablo impression at
Washington.
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•‘Messieurs, does not the expression
of the open eye strike you?”
•’ Yes; they express admirably tho
most perfect agony,” M. Morin replied.
“And does it not seem,” asked tho
examining magistrate, “as if they were
fixed with that expression on tho mur
derer?”
“Without doubt. Tho month seems
to curse and tho eyes to menace. ”
“And wlint if tho last imago seen—
in fact, thut of tho murderer—still re
mains upon the retina of the eyes?”
M. Morin looked at tho magistrate in
astonishment. His nir was slightly
mocking and tho lips and eyes assumed u
quizzical expression. Hut Bernardet was
very much surprised when ho heard one
remark. Dr. Erwin raised his head, nud
while he seemed to approvo of that
which M. Ginory had advuuced he said,
"That imago must have disappeared
from the retina some time ago.”
“Who knows?” said M. Ginory.
Bernardet experienced a profound
emotion. He felt that this time the
problem would be officially settled. M.
Ginory had not feared ridicnle when lie
spoke, and a discussion arose there, in
that dissecting room, in the presence of
the corpse. What had existed only in a
dream in Bernardet’s little study be
came here, in the presence of tho exam
ining magistrate, a member of the in
stitute, and the young students, almost
full fledged doctors, a question frankly
discussed in all its bearings. And it
was be standing back, ho, a poor devil
of a police officer, who had urged this
examining magistrate to question this
savant.
“At the back of the eyes, ” said the
professor, touching tho eyes with his
scalpel, “there is nothing, believe me.
It is elsewhere that you must look for
your proof.''
“But”—and M. Ginory repeated his
"who knows?”—“what if we try it
this time? Will it inconvenience you,
my dear master?” M. Morin mado a
movement with his lips which meant
“Penh!” and his whole countenance ex
pressed his scorn. “Hut I see no incon
venience. ” At tho end of a moment he
said in a sharp tone, “It will be lost
time. ”
“A little more, a little less,” replied
M. Ginory. “The experiment is worth
the trouble to make it. ”
M. Ginory had proved without doubt
that he, like Bernardet, wished to satis
fy his curiosity, and in looking nt tho
open eyes of the corpse, although iu his
duties he never allowed himself to be
influenced by tho sentimental or tho
dramatic, yet it seemed to him that
those eyes urged him to insist—nay,
even supplicated him.
“I know, I know,” said M. Morin,
“what you dream of in your magis
trate’s brain is as amusing as a talo of
Edgar Poe’s. But to find in those eyes
tho image of tho murderer—come,
now, leave that to the inventive genius
of a Rudyard Kipling, but do not mix
the impossible with our researches in
medical jurisprudence. Let us not make
romance. Let us make, you the exam
inations and I the dissection. ”
The short time in which tho professor
had spoken did not exactly please M.
Ginory, who now, a little through self
conceit (since he had mndo the proposi
tion), a little through curiosity, decided
that ho would not beat a retreat. “Is
there anything to risk?” lie asked.
"And it might bo one chance in a
thousand.”
“Hut there is no chance,” quickly
answered M. Morin, “none, none.”
Then, relenting a little, ho entered
tho discussion, explaining why he had
no faith.
“It is not I, M. Ginory, who will de
ny the possibility of such a result. Bnt
it wonld be miraculous. Do you boliove
in miracles? The impressions of heat, oi
tho blood, of light, on our tissues arc
not cataloguablo, if 1 may to allowed
tho expression. Tho impression on the
retina is produced by the refraction
which is called ethereal, phosphores
cent, and which is almost as difficult to
seize as to weigh the imponderable. To
think to find on tho retina a luminous
impression nfttr a certain number of
heurs anil days would to, as Vcrnois
has very well said, to think ono can find
in the organs of hearing the last sound
which reverberated through them. Peuh!
Seize the airbubblo at the cud of a tube
and place it in a museum ns a curiosi
ty. Is there anything left of it but a
drop of water which is burst, while of
the fleeting vision or tho passing sound
nothing remains!"
The unfortunate Bernardet suffered
keenly when he heard this. Ho wished
to answer. The words came to his lips.
Ah, if he was only in M. Ginory's placet
The latter, with bowed head, listened
and seemed to weigh each word as it
dropped from M. Morin s lips.
“Let us reason it; bnt, " tho profess
or went on, “siuco tho ophthalmoscope
) dos not show to the oculist on the reti
j ua any of the objects or beings which a
sick man sees—you understand, not one
of them—how can yon think that pho
tography can find that object or beipg
on the retina of a dead man’s eye?”
He waited for objections from tho ex
amining magistrate, and Beruardot
hoped that M. Ginory would combat
some of tho professor’s arguments. He
had only to say; “What of it? Let u?
see. Let us experiment. ” And Bernar
ds bad longed fer just these words from
l him, but the magistrate remained si-
Idit Ills head still l.'-ct. The police
HOMER, GA., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10 t 1898.
agent'felt’with despair liis chance slip
ping, slipping away from him, and that
never, never again would ho find a like
opportunity to test the experiment.
Suddenly the strident tones of Ur. Er
ivin’s voice rang out sharply, libo an
electric boll, and Bernardet experienced
a sensation like that of a sudden unex
pected illumination.
“My dear master,” he respectfully
began, “I saw at home in Denmark a
poor devil picked up dying, half de
voured by a wolf, nnd who, when taken
from the very jaws of the beast, still re
tained in tho eye a very visible image
in which one could see tho nose and
teeth of the brute. A vision! Imagina
tion, perhaps! But tho fact struck me
at the time and we made a note of it ”
“And?” questioned M. Morin in a
tone of raillery.
Bernardet cocked liis ear as a dog
does when he hears an unusual boupJ.
“But there i* no chance," quietly an
ewered M. Morin.
M. Ginory looked nt this slender young
man with his long blond hair, his eyes
as bine as the waters of a lake, his face
palo and wearing the peculiar look com
mon to searchers after the mysterious.
Tho students and the others gathered
about their master, remained motionless
and listened intently as to a lecture.
“And,” Dr. Erwin went on frigidly,
“if wo had found absolutely nothing,
we would at least have kept silent about
nu unsuccessful research, it is useless to
say. Think, then, my dear master, the
exterior objects must have imprinted
themselves on the retina, did they not,
reduced in size, according to the size of
th placo wherein they were reflected?
They appeared there; they certainly ap
peared there. There is—l beg your par
don for referring to it, but it is to these
others (and Dr. Erwin designated M.
Ginory, his registrar, and Bernardet) —
there is in tho retina a substance of a
red color, the pourpre retinien, very
sensitive to the light. Upon the deep
red of this membrane objects arc seen
white, and one can fix the image. M.
Edmond Perrier, professor in the Muse
um of Natural History, reports (you
know it better than I, my dear master),
in a work on animal anatomy and phys
iology which our students are all fa
miliar with, that ho made an experi
ment. After removing a rabbit’s eye, a
living rabbit’s eye—yes. science is cruel
—lie placed it in a dark room, so that
lie could obtain upon tho retina tho im
age of some object, a window, for in
stance, and plunged it immediately into
a solntion of alum and prevented the
decomposition of the pourpre retinien,
and the window conld plainly be seen,
fixed on tho eye. In that black chamber
which we have under our eyebrows, in
the orbit, is a storehouse, a storehouse
cf images which are retained, like the
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ABOLISH THE SABBATII
The abolition of the Sabbath ’5 a
question that is being agitated through
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next Friday night Rabbi Marcuson
will discuss it from the pulpit at the
•yniigogue.
Dr. Maiouson’s lecture will bo on
the subject, “Shall Wo Abopsh the
Sabbath?” and he will make argu
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present the question in all of its
phases.
The question of the abolition of the
Sabbath means whether the Jews shall
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Thru and Now.
The half century anniversary of her
gold discoveries which California began
to celebrate Jan. 34 may well last for
weeks or evon months. The first great
historic event in connection with our
oountry was .he discovery of the conti
nent itself. The second was the war of
the Revolution. Third in importance as
to time was tha discovery of gold in
California.
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then! The uncovering of tho immense
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region west of the Mississippi to progresi
more rapidly in 60 years than the whole
country had done in two centuries pre
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Fifty years ago African slavery exist
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There was not a telephone, a bicycle, a
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