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1 3 j Through the G.,C.
If the rights, interests, or welfare of
the people are in any danger from the
railroads,' every right thinking man will
concede that it is the duty of the State
Government in all its branches to do all
that is lawful and proper to prevent the
■ MtAland " ron S- duty rests upon the Legis-
Fstmd Ttie Georgia Hiuiana Nture as much as, but no more than,
—- x- upon any one of the other departments
of the government. Before steps are
.. n apply to the Central as a
seller of its stock. But the Georgia,
Carolina and Northern did sell a majori
ty of its stock to the Seaboard & Roa
noke and the whole force of Mr. Olive’s
wild and destructive measure will fall
upon its head. It is not confined to a
direct sale,in its venomous plunges after
somebody’s vitals it declares that even
“indirect” transactions of this sort
shall be punished by death.
But, says Mr, Olive, the Constitution
must be carried out. Let Mr. Olive
MR. E. G. HARRIS, THE NEW MAN
AGER, ARRIVES IN ATHENS.
Life Is very sweet just now—
Pull of light and flowers;
Not a single cloud to mar
Or give a hint of showers.
He Is Interviewed by a Banner Man About
His Future Plans—The Electric
Kotor Seems to be the
Favored Plan.
Life Is very sweet and fair.
Rosy lined and smiling;
With the music of the birds
Happy hours beguiling.
. Creat Southwest With
“ v n C. 5b.
* " Scr:h Sa7 Can t* Built,
taken however, aimed at an anticipated first read the Constitution. The pnra-
et i , t\\ o t img.-, should concur, first it graph he relies upon cannot be violated
should appear with reasonable certainty by a corporation. It can only be viola-
•lie&a
,.,.,1 fever is Ust taking
■p,e n ,|,c ''
1 of Allies-
i tl* l " r ‘ ' .
' exciw»«»t
f |:f ■ plan to con-
in this line,
Midland
A«
;-ill IK :l
fl5 AV itlt if ie Georgia
,!i <;* and there wasmuch
vrterdiiy among pronu-
,it reii'r, t 1 .
. iii/eti- ='=o"t the scheme.
^'los-Hlp.lan isnotanewone.lt is
Ih “ P ,o-iiion made several
Midland
that there is a mischief to’be remedied;
second the
by a corpor
ted by a Legislature.
Its prohibition
remedy should be appro- is upon the Legislature. If any Legis -
priate and adequate. Taking the Olive
bill as a measure intended to protect the
people against such a wrong from the
latu :e should pass such a fill as is there
in prohibited, such a legislature will be
a violator, but the corporation would
railroads, let us examine for a moment not. The corporation would have the
tue nature of the evil it purports to act of the Legislature as its warrant.
remedy
remedy.
"and the character of
or>S
«-• flS d '
al
l.ile the Georgia
f construction,
<nr' but it
viniO.ll-
>tiih much more enthusiasm
the The Legislative sanction it would have,
1 would be just as high, and proceeding
It is aaid that the leadingUnes of rail-I from the same authority precisely as
roads in Georgia have almost all fallen I Mr. Olive’s bill itself. If Mr. Olive
into Uie control of one company. This I must be a reformer lethirn aim his bolts
is the evil, llie remedy proposed is to I at future Legislators if he thinks tlii
forfeit the charters of the Georgia com- or any other Legislature can bind op
filial'Gien. , *
rfif r.tMcl>owongfc is the teronnfts
, ,-..i-i Midland. It is orliy
(tilt* } O
; W y miles di^nt from Athens
, a |i lic beiween the two points oetild
madly built. Tht territory through
j f l lT j IC voiid would run is one •of the
i u .1 ia agrieultuiral resouroesififeat can
ffuiuul anywbe.t'e, and not that,
i!t thealaiulaut watercourses make it
i;ip lj fl l with woiierfull raanoicctnring
MVt* r *. There ss not a better section
[ country in Georgia than 'this, and
ie roa j n> proposed would develop
bevontl ill<v«H-eptio3.
I ho lino coukl be made ttoorun through
u.ver*aixi Monroe, two-ef the most
Janies engaged in tlfis scheme of com
bination. AVe have theb as a mischief
which needs correction a contract which
unites the control! of several roads; we
have as a remedy a bill which proposes
punish future ones.
THE G. C. & N.
to forfeit the <*»itersotthecontractinr I Ensin,,,, ' s »«*»» EnjMca PUntln,
* their Grading Stakes—The Work will
be Rapidly Pushed to Completion.
companies.
Is it not stoange that no complaint
comes from *?iy quarter of any increase
of rates? Is it not strange that some
advocate of Mr.Olive’s measure does not
point to some wrong that has been done
to some citizen of Georgia in conse
quence of this consolidation? Not a
word of rftis sort is heat'd. Not a com
plaint is made of extortion or discrimi
nation. We have then nothing bat the
bare fact of the eeutraet between these
companies as the cause of complaint.
A contract which «o far has injured no
body is set up as a reason for forfeiting
their ciia rter.
But they say tJicy will hurt some-
}?>ody. How? They cannot discrimi
prosperous littie cities in Georgia, anti 4 The. commission prevents that
infoiined that these-towns would They cannot increase the rates. IIow
Viir.inl from right lnanTully as soon jean this contract injure any citizen ?
die plans for building .tlie road as- j The ingenuity of the friends of the
Olive bill has been exerted in vain.
They cannot point out to the Legisla
ture a single {thing which this consoli
dation can do that is injurious to any
citizen of Georgia.
But look at the remedy. The charters
are to be forfeited. Does it not strike
ume 1
lr. IV
road
finite shape. W-e are told that
L.TVek, a prominent citizen of
iv01s is much interested in the
scheme of bnihling the .line, and that
mr double aid coukl be ob-
:ill
alon;
only
’siaining lb
In* material
jicoplc art-
will sub
the line,
in the matter
right of way, but also
l building of the road,
all anxious for the road
rihe liberally to its stock
IV ha
■r might he queued.”
would the road do for Ath-
On last Saturday, at Chester, S. C-,
the eoatracts for the grading of the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Rail
road (Groin Chester for fifty miles
were let.
The engineers are now bnsily engaged
planting out their grading'stakes along
tlie .line, and the work of grading will
be commenced at once. A large force
of hands will be put on the road, and
the grading will be pushed right
through £0 an early completion.
The next division .to be taken up is
between Athens and the river, and this
will be entered upon .as soon as the pres
ent work is finished. It is believed that
the same old survey will be followed.
A Painful Accident.
We are pained to chronicle a very
painful accidentjwhieh befell Mr. Harry
Norris [out at Princeton yesterday.
While at work in the picker rooms, lie
had his left hand caught in the maehiu-
the mind of the average citizen that 1 ery and badly cut. The accident is very
tiiis is a liai-h and violent treatment of painful and will disable Mr. Norris for
a corporation. It is the severest penalty several days from attending >0 his du
ly i
would connect the O., C. <fc
X. "till Columbus ami litere afford con-
c in w'itli ibt* shortest lines leading to
'.'great sent Invest via New Orleans.
wu.iKl connect Athens with the East
Gmu'S'i't*, Virginia and Georgia Rail-
• - at Mi Iloiu.ugli ami thus put 11s in
'd'i'i Miinluk* to Brunswick and the
' rigiii coast, opening up the great
Kinder ilistrii-tsio us and to the North
dirougU the C. A N. road.
1,10 Get is. this line extending
she Georgia Midland to Athens, aside
'mu being a splendid.local line, would
be the best connecting .line we know of
no ' v ! ' KU could be built to Athens,
liir people of Athens should interest
themselves in the building of this road.
l ,eo l'lc‘ all along the proposed route
5 eanxious to see the plans taken up,
i:i 'l" be heard from when the stocks
ir « called for. They are ready not
'*! " ith [their encouragement, but
"*‘ii their money, to aid in the work of
adding the road and all they want is
'■if called on.
, 1 Gunhy Jordan who has bad in
, IJn 'l ’be construction of the Georgia
Aidhinil should take
The
up the matter.
Ia ,-i n °t the remotest shadow of a
oubt but that he would with ali ease
b 41 ' 4 su, Hvient subscriptions at an ear-
y i.ue to begin the building of the line
* predict that Athens will do its jiart,
l stil Pl01n the way the matter
vyas being
-wii'sed yesterday on the streets, we
N'eve that
the stockholders
J^rgia Carolina and >
lsr gdy,
1 Jere can be 110 doubt but that the
can be built and built whenever
of the
Northern Railway
the matter quite
that can be inflicted. It is capital pun
ishment for it inflicts the death penalty
upon the corporation. And all this
simply because it has bought stock in
another company. This and this alone
is the sinew of the offense. Nobodj r has
ties.
A Barbecue iu Madison.
On Tuesday last Mr. Bill Hardeman
gave a barbecue at his bar in Madison
county to a small party of friends,
several gentlemen from Athens being
been injured. No rate of fare or freight present. They report-a splendid time.
the
laoper leading spirits . take hold,
t() ^ “'hooves the citizens of Athens
, C an *”'*o the leaders in the enter-
Piiw. x 0
the leaders in
°ne can doubt the incalcula
ble ' :llltf *ges of this’ road to our eity,
Nort)' Tl * U tlie ® eor g* a > Carolina and
completed will
become ne-
L v : , 7^» has much faith in this
jilavi n<1 " e veri ?y believe that the
jlitieo «°^ far ^t»tant when with this
kith r nmg up great southwest;
L1.V N * "Peking «p the
hud 1 of the 2S"orth and East,
*illb ng 0n t0 th * West » A ^ ens
l**ctioi C °f le ^ le trun ^ u€ center of this
I,b e t,. 11 ,? tPle South and take the name
I Georgia deserve3 > “ Th e Gate City of
The *
Lert 01 ° U * nS la<Jieg of Athens will de-
entirely, if the ratio of de-
tw. c- ' COnti nue in the proportions
W? Ve l)egan during the past few
I
has been or can he issued. No discrim
ination has been or cau be practiced.
That is clear. All that has been done
to make a contract of sale or purchase
of stock,a harmless trade which is des
titute of every element of danger, and
yet the corporation must be killed dead.
The legislature of tills State will never
take that step. It is a wild, passionate,
dangerous movement, and has not a
feature of wisdom or statemenship.
Take the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern Railroad Company, as an ex
ample. It is chartered to enter Geor
gia on the line of Elbert county. It
traverses tho counties of Elbert, Ogle
thorpe, Madison, Clarke, Jackson,
Gwinnett, DeKalb and Fulton to At
lanta. It is about to be built. It will be
a great advantage to the people of those
counties to have it. The company has
sold a majority of its stock to another
company, the Seaboard aud Roanoke
Railroad Company, to a Virginia cor
poration. It had to do this to procure
means to build its road. For this con
tract the Olive bill forfeits its charter.
The company will be killed dead. It
has hurt nobody by this contract; on
the contrary the contract was necessary
to evoke the company to secure aid from
the Seaboard and Roanoke.
Yet Mr Olive and his supporters go
blindly forward striking down a great
enterprise and strangling a great public
improvement in wich the people of this
whole section of the State are vitally
interested.
The strangest feature in their whole
mad program is the cool assurance they
give that they intend to amend by say
ing that his bill shall not apply to con
tinuous lines. The trouble about this
is that when once it is shown that a buy
ing or selling of .stock has taken place,
courts, some of them at least, will hold
that the contract is committed. This
act alone is held to be prohibited. It is
not necessary to show that it effects
competition. These gentlemen are
playing very carelessly with the
sharpest edged tools and setting in mo
tion machinery they do not understand
and eannot control
The wicked injustice of the bill is no
where more glaringly shown than in
its cruel destruction of the Georgia
Carolina and Northern Railroad. That
campany stands alone as a seller of its
stock to another company. All the
stock in the other companies which is
owned by another company was bought
from individuals. The Central stock
for example owned by the Terminal Co.
by individual holders. This bill would
The ’cue was
Edge.
given in hour of Col. Zeke
Those chronic growlers, who are op
posed to a.iy progress or improvement
iin Athens.should exodust to some rur
One of the Mahoue Appointees Think
It Has Been Secured.
Special to the Banner.
Washington, T). C.,August 1.—State
Senator Gee, who represents the Peters
burg district in tlie Virginia legislature,
ind who has been appointed lumber
agent at Sitka, Alaska, was in Washing
ton yesterday.
‘General Malione,” he said to a re
porter, “will he the nominee of liis
party for governor, and those who have
been opposed to him will do as much to
elect him as anybody else. The state
is just ripe to fall into tlie hands of the
republican party, and if we are sue
cessful the state debt question will be
settled satisfactorily both to creditors
and the poeple.”
Mr. Gee left for home yesterday. He
will, in a few days, send his resignation
as senator to Governor Lee, and depart
his new post of duty.
by individual holders.
illage. Ourcitv is outgrowing them.
HARMONY IN VIRGINIA.
A Mad Horse.
Special to the Banner.
Chicago, August 1.—Ole Erickson, a
butcher, made an attempt yesterday
afternoon to hitch his big rorrel horse to
a wagon. The animal bit him on the
leg and then dashed up the street. The
horse was foaming at the mouth and
evidently mad. It ran at every person
it met. It bit eight horses and ran over
and seriously injured a little ebild.
street car conductor sprang from bis
car and made a * grab at the horse
bridle. The animal sprang at him and
hit a piece from his right hand. The
horse was finally killed by a police
man.
No Fever in Brunswick.
Special to The Banner.
Savannah, Ga., August 1.—Tele
grams from Surgeon General Hamilton
and from Brunswick’s health authori
ties declare that there has not been
case of yellow fever and that the health
of the town is all right.
The steamer David Clark, from there
was detained only a few hours by the
Savannah authorities until the reports
which were being circulated could be
investigated.
Savannah hils not put on any quaran
tine and does not contemplate it.
Mr. E. G. Harris, the new manager
of tlie Classic City Street Railway, ar
rived in tlie city yesterday, from Ma- j,
con. A Banner reporter met him and
inquired about tlie plans of bis com
pany in the running of the line.
“I can only answer iu a general
way,” said he, “and say that wc ar®
ready for any emergency. We will
meet the demands of Athens in just
whatever shape the encouragement of
the people will justify. The object of
my trip to Athens now is to pay over to
the receiver of the road the six thous
and seven hundred dollars that we have
offered for it, and I shall do that
promptly to-morrow morning. I shall
also arrange to it run by horse power
until we have fairly settled here.”
“What will you do,* then?” we in
quired.
“The first thing to be done is-to tear
up the old track and lay down a new
one over the entire line. We will do
this at once after we have fairly gotten
started with the management. We will
put down a good substantial track that
will be suited to either the electric sys
tem or the dummy engine.”
“If you adopt either of these, which
do you thing now more probable?’
asked the reporter.
The company has been considering
both,” said Mr. Harris, “and have as
et come to no definite conclusion in the
matter. Tlie electric system, however,
is more favored at present, and I think
it w*ll be the decision to adopt it, when
ever the situation warrants it. We are
determined to furnish Athens with as
good a street'ear line as can be found in
the Sdffth, no matter what system we
ave t|> adopt. The people of Athens
can rest e'asy with the assurance that
they will be furnished with a thorough
line, a regular and quick schedule and
comfortable cars.”
“How do you stand in regard to the
city park?” we asked.""'
We must have it by all means,” he
eplied, “and I am authorized to say
that my company is in sympathy with
the move and will be heard from at the
proper time. Yes, we are in for the city
park.”
Will you extend your line to the
park?”
Most certainly. We will extend
the line wherever the park is established,
and will run a regular schedule to it all
through the summer months. We will
do our part in establishing it, and will
give the citizens a rapid transpotation
to it when it is finished.”
The Banner is glad to welcome Mr.
He i ris to our midst, and bespeaks all
manner of encouragement from the peo
ple of Athens to his company in what
ever enterprise they may enter here.
Life is very sweet. You askr
What can be the reason
(Looking blankly at the clouds)
Of the rainy season!
Life is eery sweet because—
Because—why not assist me?
Sweet in spite of rain or clouds
Just because you kissed me. ‘
-Abbie C. McKeever in Pittsburg Bulletin.
DOST.
Tt Was the year 8093. The Bt&nford uni
versity was holding its twelve hundredth an-
ni yersary. For thfse centuries 3hd more the
great stdtfe Wall and bridge across the bay at
Ravenswood had been completed, so that
most of the professors from the elder univer
sity at Berkeley came by this routo, looking
down on the upper bay, changed into fields,
with orchards of two hundred and fifty years
establishment growing where the Nineteenth
century sloops and oyster boats came to the
prehistoric embarcaderos of Mowry’s Land
ing and Alviso. A great industrial univer
sity. Workshops reaching for miles along
the beautiful slopes of San Mateo, training
schools, art schools, language schools, scien
tific schoels. Berkeley for the classic^ and
the humanities, Stanford university for an
unparalleled grouping of tho great industrial
and scientific activities of the race. For mile
beyond mile ran the gardens,the green houses,
the intensive horticulture which for more
than a thousand years had made the valley
regions of California the richest and most
thickly populated district in the world.
Statistics from the census of the yearS09Q:
“Population of California, forly-levon mil
lions; population of the valleys which impinge
upon San Francisco, including the valleys
caused by the drainage of Suison bay, San
Pablo bay, and the upper half of San Fran
cisco bay, twenty-eight millions. One-half of
these are in the ^crauir +0 ^
Valley, the other half within fifty 0
San Francisco city."
The president of the university, Leland
Stanford Ainsworth, a descendant of ono of
the Oregon Ainsworths of the Nineteenth
century, delivered his address: “Science is
endless,” he said; “the race goes on, ever im
proving. Those were foolish fears of the
men of the dark ages, now almost prehistoric,
when this state was founded, this institution
established. The social order has changed.
What they called revolution, and vainly
fought, has proved evolution. We have
come together, on this twelve hundredth an
niversary, under these ancient stone arches,
less to celebrate the past than to plan for
the now conquests of nature. Whispers have
gone forth to the world that in our chemical
laboratory strange discoveries have been
made. These discoveries we give to you to
day, whether for human happiness or human
misery will depend upon yourselves.”
The audience listened with some bewilder
ment. In that great hall, with its arches of
weather beaten stone, more than 40,000 peo
ple were assembled, but delicate electrical
machinery made the speaker’s voice audible
and the speaker’s face clearly visible to every
one in the building, and even to the thou
sands who sat beneath the stately oaks outside.
What was this new discovery? Would it
make life better worth living? Would it give
a man longer life? At least it was evident
that the discovery was one of thrilling im-
cannot draw thorn from you.
so that humanity may put them in chains.
Help others to cast them out Help mein
my work. It is atom by atom that we re
build the human temple.”
Hie man and the woman sank back in their
places and a great pent up sigh swept over
the audience, but no one spoke again.
The professor went on: “All things tell
their secrets at last. Every mote of dust has ,
its story, from the pollen dust of the wild
rose on the slopes of Chimborazo to the star
dust left but yesterday In our aimospbere
by the great comet Hierophania. Hero, in
this room, there is dust from the ruins of an-
cleat London, earthquake-swallowed five cen
turies ago. Out of the caves of the giant
cave bejir of Europe, out pf the castles of
robber barons on the Rhine, out of tho
depths of tho ocean and tho heart of tho
earth, these dust motes come in our midst,
„ ™ 'myriad wanderings, and our science can
now reveal the story of each one of them alL ’
The professor bent, and looked through his
microscope, “There is a flake of dust here,
he said, ‘‘which we will examine. It floated
on the plate just now while I was speaking.’
He threw a magnified reflection on a screen,
till the flake of dust seemed a hundred feet
across; he dropped chemicals upon it and
winnowed everything from the center.
There was the atom at last; all the rest that
it had drawn to itself had disappeared.
Again the professor spoke; “It is evil, and
yet you shall see it” On the Screen feU the
reflection of a vast drop of blood, and in tho
heart of the drop was a picture of strife on a
desert edge, near a palm by an altar, and a
clock struck the ceut^jes backward, in the
ears of the audience, till they knew that thfl
blood Was the first drop of blood ever shed
in the world from man by his fellow man. *
“It is an atom,” said the professor, “that
makes disease wherevor it goes. Now it shall
wander forth no longer.” He put it into one
of his vials and fastened it up. Then he
went on with dust mote after dust mote from .
the air about him, and showed the audience
pictures of the heart atoms of each t which;
thrilled aud convince^ every man and woman
there. The assembly laughed and cried.
They yielded to his mighty spell; they ac
cepted the stupendous secret. The ultimate
atom was no more a profound mystery, but
a creature to be captured, uamed, analyzed
‘unco.
portance in the mind of tho president. He
spoke with the utmost earnestness. “For
and imprisoned by j
the profe
4.-.. * -ha
cast the
screen
TWO PETITIONS
One Asks for -Local Option While the
Other Appeals for the Present
Laws,
There are two petitions being circula
ted in tlie city bearing upon the situa
tion in Clarke county as regards the
question of prohibition. The first is a
petition which will be sent to Mr Tuck,
our representative, asking that he make
an effort to place Athens under the
original option law. It was reported on
the streets that Mr. Tuck had said that
if a petition to this effect was sent him,
signed by one hundred responsible vo
ters, he would procure the local option
law for Clarke.
A Banner representative has seen a
letter from Mr. Tuck, addressed to a
private party in which he denies this
statement. But he says that if he is
assured that a majority of the people of
the county are in favor of it he will ob
tain the local option.
We are informed that if Mr. Tuck re
fuses to obtain the local option privi
lege, that Mr. Clarke Howell, of Fulton
will he asked to lay the matter before
the Legislature.
The other petition is one asking that
the laws remain as they are, which is
to say that a majority of legal voters
be necessary to sign a petitioner an elec
tion on the prohibition question.
We do not know how many names
are signed to these petitions, nor can
we predict the outcome of them, hut
from what he can learn they are both
being widely circulated, and have a
great many names signed to them.
The G., C. & NT. Contracts.
Mr. A. L. Hull tells us that he has
not as yet learned whether the contracts
to grade a 50-mile section on the Geor
gia, Carolina & Northern road was let
on the 27th or not, but presumes that
they were.
Dr. Norvin Green, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
has written a letter to Postmas*er
General Wanamaker,in which he goes
into details regarding the expense of
transmitting messages, and says that
it will he impossible for the company
to accept Government messages at a
less rate than that now received.
more than 100 years this university has held
as a sacred trust a group of scientific discov
eries made by one of its students. He wrote
his formulas down and sealed them for this
twelve hundredth anniversary. Three days
before its celebration the faculty of this uni
versity was to assemble, break the seals, test
the formulas and decide whether to reveal
the secrets or to destroy them forever. We
r met; we have decided; we create a new pro
fessorship, more important, perhaps, than
any other in existence on the face of the
earth. We have chosen a lineal descendant
of the discoverer of this group of secrets, Pro
fessor Lemuel Jones Carey, and, going back
to one of the almost forgotten writers of the
Nineteenth century, we name his chair tho
chair of ‘The Ethics of Dust.’”
A ripplo of half annoyed amusement ran
over the audience. Was that all? Only an
other of those interminable modern subdivis
ions of biology, or psychology, or both?
But the president went on: “Professor
Carey was on the right track when this invent
occurred. It is remarkable that all his in
vestigations have fitted him to utilize and de
velop this group of new facts. Without him
the Ethics of Dust would have had to wait
fifty years for an interpreter. With him
you can catch a glimpse of its scope today. It
is nothing that you imagine. It is not long
life; it is not money, or happiness, except in
cidentally. But, perhaps it means all the
things which any of you, or all of yon, have
ever dreamed about.” And the president sat
down. The wall at the back of the stage
opened and revealed a laboratory, strange
even to the eyes of chemists there. Professor
Carey came foward, and set a curious micro
scope on the stand. Then he looked over the
audience and spoke of the great subject.
“What we have done is to conquer the ul
timate atom, and discover whether it is.
healthy or not. If it is diseased, it will pro
duce disease—mental, moral or physical, as
the case maybe. Every one of us has dis
eased atoms in his system. That is what
makes us die too soon; sometimes that is
what makes us do wrong. When we find the
diseased atom, we cannot destroy it. Noth
ing can. But we can now isolate it so that it
can do no harm—at least, not for ages to
come, perhaps never again. We can force
each atom—each dost mote which floats
about the world—to tell its story; can dis
cover where it has been, and what it has
done, and whether it is helpful or hurtful.
Since the number of atoms iu the atmosphere
of the earth is now definitely ascertained, it
only remains for the human race to isolate
from farther evil the diseased atoms as fast
as possible. Then, a few centuries from now,
only healthy atoms will remain. This, as I
need not explain to you, must mean perfect
health, and a great many other things which
the newspapers will tell you about.”
A great hush fell on the audience, as they
understood this stupendous claim. Then mur
murs and cries began to break forth, as peo
ple suddenly spoke to each other, forgetting
all else in the presence of the fact The ulti
mate atom had been conquered. That was
what science and theology for thousands of
years had said could never be done. Did it
mean wiping out the secret sins, taking away
the daily temptation from each one! A wo
man, rich, beautiful, fashionable, rose in the
audience and reached out her hands to Pro
fessor Carey. “Take away my selfishness 1”
she cried. A in the prime of life,
famous over the continent, rose and called
with deep voice of passion, “Take away that
which once made me false to my oath l” The
professor reached his hands out, and said in a
tone which stilled the tempest
jy“I cannot; No one can You live and die
was as
'action of an aton
magnified re- * *->» it lfimse!
without first examim..^
at tho audience again with w
sad expression.
“Not yet; perhaps never," he said; “I see
more than I am able to tell you, more than
any man, with the heart of a man, could do-
scribe. 1 read your hearts, I know your
thoughts, I see tho record of your sins as I
look upon these atoms which float iu your
atmosphere. Now my only happiness is that
each one of the diseased atoms I can bind, by
so much I lessen the folly, the falsehood, the
evil of all sorts that fills every atmosphere,
even here, even now. It is our heritage^
the sad heritage of the whole humau race,
through ages of wretchedness and crime. I
will only show you what you can bear; the
rest I will carry alone.” He closed his labor
atory and left tho stage.
The audience rose with a great sigh and
went out; some few were rejoicing, but most
were oppressed with the vast and mysterious
forces thus newly given to the human race.
The professor, wrapped iu a profound sad
ness, sat alone in his study; and here the
president of the university found him some
hours later, with his head on his desk—dead.
He had written on a piece of paper:
“After all, I think we were too ambitious.
The atoms will make all of us enemies to each
other. My old heart disease is coming back,
but to-morrow I shall ask, the faculty to wait
another fifty years.”—Charles Howard Shinn
in Tho Argonaut.
Spoiling; Children.
The mother’s task of conquering the child
should begin at an early age, or in the end
the child will be the victor. A striking illus
tration of this was noticed on one of the busy
streets of a certain city, recently. Two ladies
whr* had evidently been shopping were push
ing in front of them a carriage in which sat a
bright eyed, laughing child of perhaps two
year’s. It soon discovered, however, that the
carriage was headed towards home and it at
once began to fuss to go back. Its mother
not complying, its face, a moment before all
sunshine, assumed a look of passion and its
cries could be heard far down the street.
After one or two trifling attempts to still its
cries, the mother laughingly remarked to her
companion that perhaps they had better go
where baby wanted to, which was done, and
smiles once more covered the little one’s face.
They were soon lost from sight in the mov
ing throng, but already the little child had
learned her power and will continue to use
it. One lady was heard to remark, “If that
mother can’t manage her child at two, how
can she expect to have any influence over her
at sixteen?”—Lewiston Journal
A Complicated Find.
The following account of the discovery of
a hidden treasure is somewhat curious from
the strange manner in which the veritable
owner recovered his property. In a field
near London, some laborers, digging up the
roots of a tree, found two jars containing
nearly four hundred sovereigns. They divid
ed the money among themselves, and were
then taken aback by the lord of the manor
claiming it. Before this claim could be in
vestigated a tradesman came forward and
stated that one night, under a temporary
delusion, he had gone out and buried the
money; but when he awoke, and for some
time afterward, he tried in vain to recollect
the locality he had selected. It was not until
he heard a rumor of the finding of 400 sover
eigns that he obtained a clew and the entire
transaction was recalled to his memory. He
was able to bring forward sufficient evidence
in support of his singular story, and, to his
great relief, the money was eventually ro
stered to him.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ^
A Disgusted Thief.
Among carious recoveries are many in
stances which are of interest on account of
the odd circumstances rather than of the
money value of the articles lost and found.
A few years ago a parcel of manuscript of
Poole’s great “Index to Periodicals," contain
ing the material for about twenty pages, was
stolen from the express on its way to the
printers. The state of mind of the editors
can well be imagined, for these twenty pages
represented the three years’ labor of some
fifty co-operators, and could not be replaced
without going through, from beginning to
end, over 4,000 volumes 1 The indexes of some
periodicals might, as far as they were con
cerned, furnish an imperfect substitute, but
while Hie editors were considering how they
could best make use of them, the manuscript
was found under a street counter, where it
had been thrown by the disappointed thief,
and a vexatious delay in the publication of a
most invaluable work was fortunately pre
vented.—fit. Louis Globe-Democrat.
An idea of the hardness of the time in Per
sia may be gained from the fact that men
who had a dozen wives' have had to reduce
the number to three or four.—New York
Tribune. _ i ~
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